The Group Chat - #159 - Catch The Rainbow

Episode Date: May 8, 2026

Isaac and Willy are scared of the hantavirus, Grunk just finished his semester so he's chilling, Tanner hasn't said a word in the last 2 podcasts (someone needs to check on him) and Larry still yaps way too much

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You, yeah, yeah. That's what I used. Ladies gentlemen. Welcome. Ladies gentlemen, welcome back to the Chick-Flei podcast. Welcome back to the Bears' cast. When did the Chick-Lae change their cup? Bear shit.

Let's get a cub like bears. Can we get an intro for this podcast? We literally do it every week. You just said that. You just said that off the camera. Fun fact, I've never watched an episode on YouTube ever of our podcast. You listen on Spotify? Not I even listen to our Spotify.

I'll look at the comments sometimes. One of those is a lie. Yo it up. I do watch the podcast. guess sometimes. Really? You ever look back way long ago and see how you've changed?

Yeah, dude. You've grown up a lot, bro. You see a shud. Dang. That's that boy. He was like, he looked like baby. Boy,

he was like the child on the cast. I was actually, there was a period of time where I was concerned for grunk, like actually. I was too. You know about this? Grunk like actually,

no. Well, when grunk was considering coming to be a YouTuber, I was like, nah, man, you need to, you need to grow up a bit.

You need to grow up a bit. go to college. I was like, actually. I couldn't even have that with me. Before we get to this juicy topic, gamers subs, thank you guys.

Go to group. Yeah, can't forget it. Make you use code group for 10% off with your gamer subs. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay.

Now continue on. Please. Yeah. Um, I feel like you were just, Grunk had like missed. I feel like a good part of growing up, Lokey.

That like, I feel like he needed. He needed a little bit more. And you know what? To be honest, grunk wanted grunk grunk grieved that social aspect larry you were like not really you were like grunk wasn't nepotine grunk was a nepotine yeah nepotine nepotine yeah that bear's standing that bear is standing right up how do you mean a nepotine what is that what you just got into

the the industry oh yeah yeah yeah you're like hanging with schlatt when you're like eight I'm completely stunted Yeah I'm just I'm glad that grunk went to College because He was able to find Yeah, that's what I was saying More about himself

Because if dude if grug you moved in with us back in 22 you or no wait no you've been too young 23 you've been fucked dude Yeah my I have been so turbo cooked I have a theory that you would have been like Overweight is hell and like really into like Tekken Like really super hot Teckin

Yeah Fighting games Because there's nothing else to do here but record and play 10. Yeah. When we first moved in, dude, we were grubbing so hard. And like that continued on to like the second house. We grubbed so, so hard.

Dude, you know what's funny? There's a video. It's not released at all. It's actually on the channel. But it's not, it's like private it. And it's a, it's a video of us trying to find the remote for the TV. And the whole time, you see me eating like a fucking whole pizza. And, and, uh, the remote was underneath the lid.

And it was like, oh. God. You actually turned the house upside down. We stole Yummy away from his stream to ask him where the remote was. We were really stressful. I remember watching that video. It was a funny-ass video, bro. Oh, my God.

You guys, did we talk about the gusher's incident when I was at your house? Yeah, we talked about it. Yeah, it's true. That's so funny. I want to talk about it again. Dude, imagine that. That would have been a lot. There would have been a lot of gushers incidents.

Yeah, there would have been. And I'm glad to be here. And I was glad to be here. Thanks for having me all. Yeah, yeah, no problem, man. I'm glad you had time to come on. But no, I was just thinking about, I'm right now the age that, that you guys were when we first met.

Isn't that interesting to think about? You're right now the age. Minus Larry, minus Larry, of course. But like, is that fascinating? Right? When we did meet, we met in 2020. And you were how old? I met Isaac 2019.

Well, it doesn't. But if you're talking when we first met for the first time in New Jersey, that was beginning of 2022. What? Am I tripping? That was January of 2022. I met Larry and Isaac back in 2021. And then we met Tanner in 2022.

No way. Because that was the same year, it was January, because that was the same year that we ended up moving in together. Because we did that gym stream. Oh my God. We did that gym. My phone was reminded me of like, my phone's reminded me of old photos. I found this one.

Remember that? Oh my God. Oh, wow. Halloween special. Classic. Dude. Oh my gosh. Remember we used to do fun stuff like that?

Remember we used to have fun? Yeah. Remember when we used to do fun stuff like that? I want to start bullshitting again. I miss bullshit a lot. Like a lot. We used to just argue a lot. Whoa.

You're getting like deja vu. Because that's what families do, bro. Families argue, bro. I do you guys keep, you keep. Why do you keep? Because I'm, because I've heard this conversation. I think it's in your head. But it's like, it's like, and I had deja vu yesterday.

Like I swear to God I had it yesterday. Dude, I'm tripping. I'm tripping big time. You want to get into it? We can get into it. Deja vu. You're like looking through your window. Yeah. Oh yeah.

So this bear in front of my fucking faces walking my site so I can't really dropped what's going on. I'm sorry, you guys. There's a big ass bear in front of- These bears are healthy. That bear got green screen. Um, no, I was just getting But yeah, dude.

I remember Nick, you were, Like, I was, I really was at a crossroads. Sorry if you can hear background noise. There's literally a tree being cut outside, right outside my window, I think. But, um, I remember I was at a crossroads of like, okay, do I move to Texas or do I go to, uh... Can you hear it? Or do I, uh, go to school? And, uh, you know, I'm glad I went to school overall because I get the best of the worlds.

And yes, it led to some, some hiccups because, like, scheduling as, as a college student, sorry, guys. Sorry for the hiccups there, but hey, bro, you're in college late. Most of us, I'd hope, knew damn well. We got ourselves into schedules. Yeah. You know, if you're doing like 12 credits, you're going to be busy. We adapt and overcome. Adapt and overcome.

What's Zah, I say. 80. I need to get some shit off my chest, enough fun and fucking games. You were just talking about Goof and a second ago. No, the world is ending. Oh, the world is ending. I think all of us have like a really tragic fucking story to tell. Right now we need to alert everyone you're struggling with depression click off now because just click off because it's only gonna get worse

Oh my god who wants to go first I could go first can I go first? I have nothing to say that's bad news Oh, I got it now. Yeah, I just woke up. I'll go first. Oh my god. No, no I'm going first what the fuck is the hantavirus? What's the hand to virus? Who is the virus? I think I have a handsome virus There's a pandemic another one. It's on a cruise ship off the coast of my thinking. I think it's a handsome virus. I think it's a handsome virus. I think. South Africa. It has a bunch of people on it. 40% mortality rate. And they're thinking of letting the fuckers dock. They already did. They already did.

No! It's already reached other countries. Oh my God. We're cook. We're trouble. The handsome virus. And all of us have caught it. The handsome. I don't even know what it is. I think it's respiratory. But I got the coronavirus. It's COVID but worse. That's what I've been told. Damn. Imagine having to reject the docking of an

infected ship. That's just crazy. Yeah, but they didn't. They just said, yeah, come on in. Yeah, everyone else just start kissing, too. No, they said. Where did you see that? Dude, it's all fake beer mongery and it's going to be gone in two days. Fear mongery?

Hmm. Beer mongery. He's probably right. I think it's going to be gone a few days, you know, just some new. Yeah, they said that shit about COVID, and then we spent eight years inside. Dude, no, we're just traumatized, bro. Yeah, I remember, you remember Omnicron or whatever? Yeah.

Wasn't that a type of COVID? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I just feel like there's been so many things lately. Damn, that are fear. Loud as hell. Sorry, everyone. Look at everyone now.

Look, this is what happens. They all, like, everyone's now in their own scared world. So it'll be. It'll be. I got on my thing, dude. We've got to prepare now for UFO disclosure to the only Bible changing revelations. Bible changing revelations. You can't change the Bible.

Just cater to, like, what we like. I'm trying to find Bible-changing revelations. My feed says the UFOs are on their way and the Bible times are here. I did my piece of bad news is I I just learned about today the like ghost marketing of of things of like for example the band geese they had instead of like traditional advertising what they their media team did or their advertising team did was get people to infiltrate like TikTok comment sections and post fake posts of like wow this band is fantastic and like did it to an extent until it caught on until okay hold so wait I need to hold all right you go Double hold. Double hold. You go. Because I was watching a lot of interviews.

It would be like Jack Black, right? Interviewing for whatever the fuck. And they'll ask him, what's your favorite band or who's your favorite artist right now? And they're either say geese or Cammer Winters. And I was like, and it happens so often that it just popped in my head. I'm like, why is it? Like, okay, I get it. Like I listen to Cameron Winters, right?

Right. Not so much geese. I've listened to geese, but like more so Cameron Winters. And I'm like, I get it. But it just felt odd. Like it fell a little on. Maybe I'm tripping. What industry plants are, I think.

It's just like they hire people to put in and in the comment. Like let me make its own fabricated community to push up an artist. And it's like, wow. So you can't trust anything at all. I thought about organically being able to industry plan an artist before. That's like contradicting. What? Organically implemented industry plan.

Like. Because industry plan is not organic. So you're trying to do that organic. It's like saying, well, an industry plan is just somebody that is highly backed by the industry. That's not organic. That's not organic. But they're still able to organically grow that person.

They're just trying to push that person out there. Well, yeah, but they have endless money to do so. It's like you could pay for a bunch of shit that can't be. Summer adventures are better with Minky Couture. From road trips to ball games, beach nights to backyard movies, Minky has you covered. Don't miss the everywhere blanket, water resistant, ultra soft,

and made for life on the go. Wherever summer takes you, bring comfort along. Minky Couture.com, the original best blanket ever. Organic growth because it's paid sponsorship. Like, I'm an industry plan. Okay, so let's just say that you take somebody, like I find artist A.

I was just trying to say that if you had artist A and I wanted to see them grow, and become a part of the industry. I could take all of my resources and push that person with my resources. That person could be seen because the intention is to blow them up. Yeah, that's market.

You can market an artist, but that can't be organic growth. Organic growth would be purely just word of mouth. Like people saying, wow, I love this band without any incentive. I'm saying that I could, I've thought about it if it was even possible for me to do that,

like having an artist on a project. I like to see you with bento, like with the whiteboard. You're like, okay, so when we try this, no, no, no, and then Benny's like, meow, man, man, no, no, no, no, no, Betty. No, no, no, no, Benny. But he was such a fuck this morning, dude. He was such a little fuck. I don't know.

I'm destroying the couch, man. This morning. Hold on, wait, rewinding. Rewinding. Go ahead. Um, that's actually, it's a very popular form of, like, advertisement and, uh, and, uh, and marketing. It's mostly, mostly has to do with blue-collar jobs because what will happen is, like, like they'll be posting and be like someone will post uh like a picture and say i just started this job

and we're like oh i need this job i need a job with all these benefits but like how you do this how do i afford all blah blah blah and there are like 30 fucking comments and they're all liked by the creator which tells me immediately okay let's be fucking real um and it's all the same company saying i just joined this and they did this and it's like a whole fucking brief as a comment nobody gives that big of a shit yeah i'm telling you now no one it has to We're pretty deep in it, guys. We are. We're like guppies in the ocean.

Who, Nick? Yeah. What is your bad news? I only got to hear, I don't know. Was that your bad news, grunk? Yeah, that was my bad news. Okay. Nick, you said you had bad news.

What was yours? My bad news was I was going to steal your bad news. Bad news. That's a hant to virus because it did reach, it reached Switzerland. Is it bad? Like, how can it was confirmed? I mean, there was one person who went and is getting treated right now. now, but that person, that person, yeah, it's in Switzerland.

I'm over it. I'm not seeing anything about this guy. You know what? I'm with you, grunk. I'm over it too. I got more things to worry about like, uh, I got to go get groceries. Right. I need to get a kiddie litter.

No fuckers hear about this deadly virus and the first thing they think is hop on a plane, bro. Because you got to get out, man. They got to get out. They got to get out spread it, man. Got to get on spread it. I have two friends traveling abroad right now. They're not. They're fucked.

No. Oh, St. Nicholas. Oh, I'd be very careful. Amsterdam, Switzerland. I'd be very careful. Handsome virus. The handsome virus. Check it out.

I do want to talk about something that happened over the weekend. Nick, over the weekend. Oh, yeah. C-S-go, mate. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I forgot we did that. Come on, Mike. Come on.

It was fun. I wanted to talk about that. Larry and I went to, We went to a tournament in Dallas for CounterStrake. Got to meet a whole bunch of friends. The tournament itself was kind of lame and ass, but... There was one good match. There was one good match.

There was one good match. But you don't really go to those events for, like, the events themselves. You go for, like, the audience, like, the fans that are there that want to meet. And, like, you go to, like, socialize. So people are the stars. They had really good food. They had these cassidias with, um... What fuck?

What was it? Um... I think it was just like... I don't think it was pork. I think it was just no, no, no, no. It was a, oh my God, it was that shit we ate with Terry Blacks. It was the, um, oh, brisket. Yeah, it was Casey D with Briscuit.

Um, that shit was fire. My boys, come on. My boys. Doesn't that sound fire? My boys. Scary Tanner looks, bro. It was Tanner, what is going on with you, man? I'm reading about the.

Dude, this is what happens, you guys. This is what happens. You have to know. Where's the joy? Where's the excitement? Okay, well anyways. I'm also looking at it also. Oh, God.

Dude, no, Tanya just came out of a depression. Yeah, look at that. Well, yeah, I looked it up if it's happened before and it happened here in the U.S. in 1993. So I don't think anything else. And then we moved on from it. Yeah. Y'all remember when Ebola was a crazy scare? I remember Ebola because I remember that's when I got Vyard chat for the first time.

That's great. That's hell of early. I was in like, I feel like I was in him. You're like three years. What a crazy like correlation. Like, I remember because I had blank. Well, yeah. I don't even think I can.

I had a friend in school who was like, you need to get on VR chat. And then his skin was Knuckles. It was the, it was all that. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. I was too busy making memes on Instagram. I was like, dude, damn, I was like in middle school or some shit like that.

I can't remember. I was in either middle school or entering high school when that was all happening. Yeah. Remember when you hired me to like post memes on your account? And I was like, you're my boss. What? I had to run your meme page. This is?

This definitely happened. I'm pretty sure we're talking about this. Dude, I used to have, yeah, there used to be admins on my meme page all the time. They were like four different people. That's so scary because like all it tastes is like one person to be fucking stupid. And you're cooked. You're fucking cooked. Yeah, I think I do remember giving Tanner that login.

I think that was back during the S&P Earth era. The Golden Days. Big one. This is when I was working at the Y. It was like 2019. Part time me manager, part time instructor on his resume and everything. Part time streamer.

Wait, no, Titter, it haven't had to been 2020, man. I didn't know you in 2019. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry, 2020.

But you were still working at the YMCA in 2020. Yeah. Lurring out. Yeah. It is crazy. But yeah, no, sorry, I wanted the,

the, with the CSGO thing. Your webcam's blurry. I know. I'm trying. to fix it. I, my other camera is being used up right now, so I don't have, I know it's, after you spend like two minutes trying to fix it. It's pissing me. I'm trying to see by the way. Is my camera slanted? Oh, it worked. I think we talked about these runs.

Is my door like slanted as fuck? No, it's just the end of the room. Oh, kind of actually, yeah, a little bit. Here, stand up in T-posed and we'll use it as a level. Look at the wall. Stand up in T-posts. Don't worry, just T-post. Stand up in T-post. We'll be able to tell you. Please. Please. Please. Get a perfectly asymmetrical T-pose. Please.

Please, Willie. Please, Willie. Please, Willie. Can you say E? Come on, please. Yeah, it's lanted. Nice shirt. Wait, face us.

Thank you. Wait a minute. I've seen that shirt on someone else. Me. You saw it on me. Me. Me. You saw on me two weeks ago.

Yeah, that's true. He was wearing it two weeks ago. We're eating seats. We were. Mm-hmm. But, yeah, we were surrounded by a bunch of Euromen, a lot of lads. It was fun.

It was great. Dude, shout out Renion, Dima, shout out. All them fellas. Tweed A, all those people, bro. They were such good people. And dude, Renion gave us, oh, this chocolate is to fuck for, bro. Is that Chorball?

Is it tromb for? You smash. Smash. You smash it, yeah. I ate this whole thing in one sitting, bro. That's definitely not from the United States in there. Nope. I want to eat it.

No. Saw that in New York. It's Norwegian. Norwegian chocolate. It's so good. Norwegian chocolate. Yeah. So can you guys tell me the one word you came back with and won't stop saying?

Turbo cooked. Turbo cooked, bro. You're turbo cooked. Durbo cooked. Because like audiences are different, right? Like I think a lot of people listening to us don't know much about the CS. I mean, I don't even really, I wasn't even in the scene like that. I just know some of those folks.

But yeah, Dima is a really, really funny-ass dude who, talks in like this lingo that is this very special. It's like he's not like when he's like not streaming, he's still in this. He's Twitchrodded, bro. He's Twitch rodded. Yeah. You know, um, sweet guy, sweet guy, but he's Twitchrodded. It's really funny.

So he was like, he was like flicking a switch. So the house that they were staying in, it was a weird, interestingly weird house. And, uh, and he's like flipping the switch that was fucked up. And then he's like, bro, this shit is turbo cook. Dervilcooked, bro. And then he was talking about. He was talking about... This house is so terrible cook.

He was talking about a doorknob that was like messed up. And he was like, bro, the mechanics are bad, bro. Like talking about it like it's a fucking game. Like, you know, like a dev broke it or something. And that was the whole like, that's kind of like the gist of the trip for the most part part was just a lot of like really. Everyone's chill. So like there was nothing like crazy like stupid going on.

But it was really funny house how the whole thing was set up. Because it was just like a creator house. it was like in this I don't know there was like there's a flying roach from what I remember there was like

this house this was like streamer house to the max it was nine bedrooms right holy shit wait is this where they lived or was it a B&B

this is a B&B for like three weeks so so there was a fuckload of bedrooms and so they're in this Airbnb they all have their PC setups in different places they're all doing streaming

and shit and Larry and I I'm on one couch. Larry's on another couch. Franz J is on another couch. Oh my God. I know where you're going. Sennie 4K4?

C4. He's on another couch. It's Sennie K4. Sennie? Yeah. Yeah. Do you place you just go? Yeah.

I guess. So we're just all over the place in this house. And Larry and I, they're like, hey, so we're going a bit early because I forget who it was. He has a gong. Oh, PSP. PSP 1G. Yeah. Okay, yeah, so he was in the morning, like,

he's like, hey, guys, I'm trying not to be too loud. I don't want to wake anyone up. Wait, yeah, no, hold on, I got to, because. Summer adventures are better with Minky Couture. From road trips to ball games, beach nights to backyard movies, Minky has you covered. Don't miss the everywhere blanket, water resistant, ultra soft, and made for life on the go.

Wherever summer takes you, bring comfort along. minky couture.com, the original best blanket ever. Dude, I woke up at 5 in the morning naturally. Like, I wasn't awoken by anything. I just woke up. I went to go get water. And he's already up. I hear him like on his computer.

And his room is right next to the kitchen, which is right next to the living room. Okay? It's like the dining room. And so his room is kind of like a bit in the center of the house. And I go to the kitchen. I see him. And I'm like, what's up, dude?

He's like, I'm going to go live. He's like, I'm trying to be quiet because like, Willie's like to sleep on the couch. I was like, oh, you're good, man. He's like, you're fine. Don't worry. And it's like, okay, you know, I'm trying to be quiet. So then I go back to the couch.

And then someone donates a hundred gifted subs to hit the gong really hard. He's like, yo, bro, thank you so much, bro. Boom! It's like, no one wakes up, though. No one who woke up, but it was so fucking loud. And Nick had both. He did it twice, right?

Yeah, he did it like, well, he was like kind of like kind of lightly hitting it. Like that like dong, dong, dog, do and then bong. And, uh, I was like, holy shit, that was loud. And I remember waking up to someone yelling like, it was him. He's in B, he's it. That was him. Okay. He was yelling B.

He's in B. He's not in B. He's in B. And I'm like, bro. I wake up. I'm like, all right. I'm turbo cooking. It was really funny.

Dude, there is this, there is this TikTok. I sent Isaac or I shot Isaac. a while back of this like like yo bro, so bro, look bro. The bro bro, bro, bro, and a dead boy, bro, bro, bro, bro. Like, every thing, every word finished off with bro. And it was really fast.

And they all talked like that in the whole house. So when there was like four or five people live all at the same time, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro. That's crazy. Like, it was super funny though. Yeah, it was so funny. I think that might just be like the best filler word for anyone from Europe. It is bro.

It is bro. It is bro. Like, if English is your second. language bro is going to be in a few oh bro bro bro bro you're not again and dude there was just there's this incredible thing I saw as well that just blew

my mind I'm still fascinated by it I'm still looking into it it was it was so we were on a live stream we were on Renyan and he was showing us his ban appeal uh like system which it took the game

papers please and they completely flipped it to be a ban appeal system. So like you call in the next person and it's like an emote and they in like the little papers come in and it's like their chat logs. It's their chat logs. And then it's like a message that's like handwritten or whatever. It looks handwritten. That says like please let me back in. I'm sorry I said what I said or whatever. And then it's like why the mod banned him. It's it's it is so cool. Like we'll show we'll show you guys like his vaude if he still has it. But he offered, Renion offered to get us in touch with the developer

so that we can get our own versions of it if we wanted to for stream. I'm trying to figure out how to do that, bro. It took ban appeals to a new level. Like it actually made it really fun and interesting. It actually made it really fucking fun. You're a YouTube title, bro. I can't believe.

This took ban appeals to the next level, baby. Next level. Next level. It's interesting. I'm sorry. I couldn't help it, like read that in a font of YouTube. YouTube font. Also, I am extremely energetic, and I'm not usually this energetic.

Dude, I have. Because yesterday, after we recorded the video, which we can and can't, we all, it depends if you guys want to get into that. I think it would be funny. But afterwards, I ordered. Oh, my God. Food is horrible. It was really, really late.

Yeah, he's eating a fish. He's in the house. He's done the hell out of them. What, you did this at sushi warriors two weeks ago. Nick just said that. We were not like this, bro. It makes a fish look so good, though. Like, I want to eat it like that.

Yeah. That's Larry and Tanner funny. That's true, yeah. It was 12.30. I forgot to order food, so I ordered Wendy's and I ate it. And I woke up with just the worst. No, I didn't, dude. I felt like complete dog shit this morning.

No, that's true. I came out of my room and I heard him go, that was it. It was horrible, dude. I just, ugh. I think this isn't like speaking when he gets like processed food. How did it feel? Can you describe it?

It was really awesome in the moment. And then afterwards it was like every, like my entire digestive track is like in pain right now. I did. You poop? You did? Yeah, I poop bad. Because of yesterday and the fact that I ate those Cheetos, I haven't ate Cheetos in a fucking

minute, bro. And my body was like, oh shit, you bringing this back? And now my body right now is like currently still, they're like, dude, why did you do? Like scraping it off the walls. They just finished cleaning up. Like, yeah, it's like, bro, they're vacuuming and shit. Like my stomach right now, I'm pretty sure after this podcast, I'm going to have to go take a dupe. And then I want to hit the gym because I was going to, I forgot it was Wednesday today.

But I wanted to go out for you. Oh, my God. I was in the days. Larry, you woke me up. Yeah. 20 minutes, 25 minutes ago. No, I know, because I heard you go. Oh, fuck.

Oh, you know it was Wednesday. I had the craziest dream. It's not a Wednesday vibe. What it was? It is not a one. A dream? No, dude. I was on

Me and Larry invented some kind of airplane. Oh shit, the right brother? It was like a paraglider. And we were like, dude, we got to go to Epstein's Island. And we went,

not like that. No, no, no, no. We went there to stop it. Was this a dream or did this happen last night? This was a dream. This was a full on dream. And long story short, we get there.

Our paraglider ends up breaking and we're like, dude, we got to get the fuck off this island. And then, like, the guards start, like, chasing us. And then I end up actually killing, like, three of them. And then, like, I'm like, am I going to get in trouble? And, like, no, we just got to get off this place. Oh, shit.

I'm on to it. I know what I do. And then we, like, paraglide all the way back to this, like, the States. And then I hear knock on my door. And then that's when I wake up. Tanner, we're back home. It's okay now. I'm like, we're back home.

That's how it. We made it. We made it. It was so weird. Y'all be real. I don't even know where to start with that, so I'm just going to switch this shit off. Damn, dude. Dream is so bad.

I, and I watched a video on these guys infiltrating Epstein's Island, but I think it was just completely fake. And it was like, I'm pretty sure it's fake, but if it was actually fake, then it was such a deeply elaborate,

faked video that was just like, what the hell? And I forget who it was even by, but it was such a stupid video. It's like that one video with the guy did a heist with a stranger and he made him do like a whole bank robbery with the cops chasing him and they're shooting at the cops and the cars are going to work i swear to god it's a it's a real video it's a real video it's like everyone in that moot whoa because they he was like i convinced the whole town to fool this one guy that it was like a bank robbery and he's doing all these crimes for real and all these things like it was like the whole thing oh benny god sorry i just had to crane lift him off i'm sorry He just, he just, he just, he just, he just, he's like, which one is that.

He gets in these weird positions where to grab me with two hands is like, genuinely not possible. So I have to like, like, lift my hand underneath him and like, try and hold him the best I can and just, there's so awkward. It feels like they're like, like their stomach's got to move to there. Dude, he, he's so persistent. Bro, I'm telling you. So I have to grab him.

What is he want, bro? Yesterday while we were recording, there was a topic that was brought up. Um, grunk you weren't there, but I want to pick your brain. What the hell is catnip? Oh my God. I don't know what it is. It's just like an herb that freaking triggers them. It's like it's like you just give them.

You're up. Isaac has never heard of catnip. Never my life until yesterday night. Until yesterday. I feel I had heard of it for a while, but dang. Like I never owned any cats, so I guess it just wasn't like common knowledge to me. But that's actually insane that you guys, it's like, it's just accepted. that you just drug a cat with mystery herbs.

It's not like an opioid or like heroin. It's in. You guys made it sound like yesterday. It's just, well, they literally call a cat we, like, how it was described to me,

it was like, yeah, well, when your cat's like, your cat's like, it's like, catnip, it like loves its life.

And he's like smiling all the time. I couldn't help. It just gets really hype. You know, it just a man. I have a toy for them that's catnip infused. And when they get into it, brother.

like rolling around on the ground and like rubbing their face all over the toy it says the more as it talks about it in his perspective the boy i'm like damn yeah we're really dragging these cats or what are we doing here what's going i gave i gave my catniff i feel like at a really young age like uh oh my god i got them i got them bro it's so funny because toululu loved it but i'm pretty sure harvey got high and scared because he was just hiding under a table oh he had a bad catnip oh his whole high bro he was just hiding under his table I'll tell you what it does.

Oh, shit. See? So what it does, when a cat sniffs catnip, it acts as a stimulant, leading to hyperactive behavior like rolling, rubbing, and the zoomies. Zoomies. When a cat eats it, catnip usually acts as a sedative, making them calm or sleepy. It mimics feline pheromones, binding to receptors in the cat's nose and triggering their brain's pleasure and emotion sensors.

So you guys are dopamine crushing these animals. Something you eat that literally fucks with a cat's dopamine receptors? It's a drug. They don't even eat it. They don't even eat it. Bento literally will take his paw and put it in his mouth. That doesn't help the case. It means he's addicted to it.

I love it. Dude, dude, I have like a little jar. I'm going to grab it. Can I see? Yeah, bring it over. I want to see it.

Bring out the whole nip. It actually kind of does look weed. It does. Yeah. It looks like weed. Yeah. Because it's a herb. No,

it's like a syringe that you have to inject. It's like crushed herb. I don't know. Like the way that it was just being like brought up and disgust. Yeah, it was like, it sounded really like horrible. Summer adventures are better with Minky Couture. From road trips to ball games, beach nights to backyard movies,

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That's it Table food maybe That's like the best thing ever But cats have like a Yeah your cat dude Yeah Miawana Get that shit out of here

You're trying to tell me It wasn't a drug That shit says Miaoewana It's like it's cat weed We weren't never saying It wasn't cat weed Yeah

Yesterday everyone argued against me And said it wasn't weed It wasn't cat drum It just like makes them feel great Dude that's come on That's hilarious Come on hilarious.

What if you had some? Why does Raya want some? Give it to Raya. Let's see what happens. I'm pretty sure it puts dogs to like, they like get sleepy. So wait, what's in it? Like what herbs? Okay, so it is lavender, dandelion leaf, silver vine, passion flower, catnip, Valerian root, and lemon grass.

So we're just glossing over catnip? Is that like a compound we're not getting into? It's definitely late. Chemical. Low pH. Catnip. Catnip is, what do they call it? It's nepotalactone. Okay, that's the name.

You open to Google tab. Hold up. That's the name. Nepoelactone. What does it do? What is catnip? Oh, it's jamiely safe, non-toxic, and non-addictive for cats. He's asking the cats, though. Non-addictive.

I'm sorry, but this says sniffing versus eating it gets into it. Brain chemistry gets into it. whatever the hell. The high in quotation marks. That's like the third pinpoint, dude. I will let bent of sniff it. Okay. I do this. I pop it open like this. That's all I do. And then he literally goes like that he sticks his hand and he grabs. He reaches in with this ball. So much of it. Like yeah. Well, I only let him like really sniff it. You ho. Wait, can you see, leave it open. I've never seen that much in my life.

No, don't call him. Well, he's not going to see if he's like. Dude, he's not Or that one cat, dude. He's low-key kind of handicapped. I've got to grab him. Hold on. When a cat sniffs catnip, it acts as a stimulant leading to hyperactive behavior

like rolling, rubbing in, the zoomies. Wow, it's like verbatim what you said. Oh, here we go. Oh, he sees it. Nepotylactone mimics feline pheromones, binding to receptors in the cat's nose and triggering the brain's pleasure and emotion. I think.

Isaac. Oh. Oh, shit. Oh, he's rubbing. He's trying to put his entire face in it. He's rubbing on it. He's rubbing on it, he's trying to get into it. Now what happens to you open it.

Terrence is like a jar, delta nine. Just open a little bit, you come. Look at, look him. Ooh. Oh, his tail wagging. Get in it. Catch tail is wagging. That's crazy.

If I were to open it, no. Or to open it. You'll see what. Annie. Oh shit. He's trying to make sure the ops ain't around. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's the shit.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hey, I don't like when he eats it. Then you gotta be sure that the 12 is not around the corner. Huh. Yeah. So are they supposed to eat it or smell it? They can eat it, but I just don't like once, once or twice a week it says. Yeah, I don't want him to eat it.

Once or twice a week. You're a good dad, man. But it says not addictive, so it's fine, right? Yeah. You only don't you let you, like, I just take it to wind down. Yeah. I'm not addicted. I'm not addicted. I can stop whenever I want. Says Beto. Now he's rolling on my desk.

Oh, now you got him on that high, bro. They got on that meow. Yeah, like putting a little sprinkle on the floor and they just go... Yeah, I like that they roll on it. Like, they just like... Yeah. They bat their heads with it. They get so high. Someone said pheromones.

Fairmones. Who said pheromones? Oh, no, that was in the description, right? That's what's in it. Yeah, that's what that's what... It mimics it. A minute. Mimics.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. It's bent to a boy. Yeah. It mimics like... Bint of the boy. I think it mimics like a... Female pheromones.

I'm reading right here. A nut reaction? A nut action. I don't know. Oh shit. You're getting them all turn on, bro? What? I don't know.

Freaky cat. Dude, I don't know. Freaky. Here. Getting your cat all horny. Yeah. I had to take the freaking... I had to take the jar from him, bro.

because he was starting to get weird his tail's lagging yeah so wait is which one is Harvey is a male right here is watch this is him right now on my desk oh look at him he's in euphoria right now

he's betting he's like patting his own he's so happy is Tallulah girl yeah so wait which one didn't like it Harvey or the boy didn't like it he likes it now though Oh. There's that first one, that first instance.

Yeah. Well, too much. You know, try everything twice, right? Mm. Mm. To be sure. Maybe. To be sure. That's actually, that is very crazy to me.

I had not a single clue that this was a thing. That jar you showed me is. I thought you were playing a bit, man. I thought, like, no, I've heard it so many times, you know. I'm so serious. I remember when I got it. Okay, to be fair, like, I knew of the term catnip. I just didn't know catnip referred to, like,

Like, what is in Nick's hand right now? Dude, I thought Catniff was dead ass, just like food. He, like, that's what it was called. Oh, now he's cleaning himself. Whoa. Oh, shit. Oh, crap. But, uh, I, I really use this stuff sparingly.

Like, I only let him sniff it mainly because I don't know. Yeah, you still have a lot of it in that. Yeah. It does feel like you are giving your, like, kid drugs a little bit. I think, I think it's also, it is kind of like that. It's equivalent to giving a kid candy. It's like, you wouldn't just leave it lying around. Yeah.

I don't like the fact that, like, I gave it to him. and now he's like rubbing all on it and like it makes me feel weird like he's like trying to feel like a better cat it doesn't please me to do this to my cat but I really likes it and I only do it a little bit I really love to me

I kind of only do it to like showboat a little bit it's like a party trick right yeah want to see Benton roll around social you're all bored and check this shit out strictly social and so come get this doby

come here want to watch my cross-eyed cat do some freaking flips no he gets excited dude. I remember when he would kick off the wall. Check this shit out. You drug him. Dude, look at him. He's such a freakazoid, man. Where did my like go? He's awesome. He's being a cat, man.

Yeah, he's awesome. Oh, no, cats seem cool. I think with bento I really lucked out as like having like the upper echelon version of a cat. Very social, like friendly with everybody in the house. Like doesn't hide. Like, I hate cats that hide, bro. Has not that like... Has he ever hissed?

No. At Raya? Dude, not even at the vet. Wow. Raya, okay, yes, he has his at Raya when she was a puppy because she was new. Puppies are always the noosious. They don't learn until they get bit. Yeah.

Well, he never even bit her. He, I'm pretty sure he smacked her in the face when she was a puppy, but he didn't, like, do any claw. It was just like kind of like a bat. Yeah. Bam. Come on. And now they're best buds. My cats, they're the same way.

They don't get upset, really, but only at each other. Like, whenever Tallulah starts hissing, like, it's only Tolula. Harvey always pushes her way too far, bro. Oh. sitting there right there But it's like, okay, I have to step in It's time to break it up, you too You're separated.

Yeah. Oh, dude. I think I, like, you know how there's like, there's always like different personalities for cats and stuff? He doesn't like to snuggle at night. He likes to lay in a bed next to me. So like there's that. But he will sometimes get up and like make biscuits.

But it has to be like, it's one of those things. If you give him attention, he stops doing it. So you have to like ignore him essentially. If you say like, good boy, Bainty, then he'll like walk away. Get the fuck up and walk away. Yeah, you just ruined it. Yeah, it's basically like on his time.

Yeah, it's on his time. Okay. Right. So, but yeah, he's, he's awesome, man. I do want, like, a dream is to have a dog, like a big fluffy dog and I can sleep next to you. But also not people find it dirty. It's like, oh, you have a dog in your bed, bro.

It's dirty. I'm like, nah, I don't think it's not. Nah, man. I love my dream and shit are dumb, man. Who cares, man? It's just so cozy. It's such a good routine, too. Like, if you want a dog.

What are you able to go outside and steps in his dog? don't poopy on your bed Oh, fuck it There's a lot of maintenance What I do the maintenance? I don't know, I've done it before It was scary Dude, I would go to sleep so stressed

I'm like, what if I needs to poop into my room And it just doesn't go anywhere And it poops I'm like, oh my God That would happen Dude, it's crazy Bentow's being He's starting to be a little weird

Like he has his litter box It's like automatic and stuff like that He goes in whatever But I noticed yesterday There was a towel that was in my laundry room on the ground and it was kind of like you know when you like pull up like a towel on the ground it starts to like have that like v shape yeah the wrinkle was pulling it from one point yeah so like it was aiming toward his litter box but it wasn't there and so then i was like that's so weird okay

and i forgot about it today i just walked over there was a towel shoved inside of his litter box he like pulled it inside of his litter box and i'll see yo what the fuck is going on What is this plan? This is the plan? This is the second time it happened, too. This is the second time it happened. Because the first time I saw it, I was like, how the fuck? Did I drop it in there or something?

Did I drop it and drag it? That's so funny. Oh my God. I thought it fell in his litter box. And it's enclosed. So this motherfucker pulled it inside. Like, what are you doing? Why?

I don't know. He just likes it that way. You come back and it's folded like a swarm. It's like origami It's a Yoda Cats are so funny, bro Does your cat have like a binky or like a Yeah

Attached to? No, no binky But Dude, I love I love when pets have a routine That's just so like Unpet-like Oh dude

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okay I'm not kidding you this was like all I watched with my own two eyes and this this dog was like barking and demanding that things were exactly a specific way and the owner knows because he's like he was taking care of him um but he would he was like laying down he's like you want to go watch some fish like springs up and he like goes and he sits on the bed to get dressed by the owner who puts a little thing on him a little hat and everything and then he gets down he goes over to the fish he sits down he's watching the fish he turns around like what the fuck is wrong what are you doing Like we've been over this a thousand times Boof Boof He's like okay I'm gonna get your music buddy He turns on music It's the wrong song

Keeps on barking Until the specific song is on And then the dog shuts the hell up locks in at this fish Just stares That's all he does He just watches It was incredible bro

I don't understand How do you find that out Conditioning How do you find that out Oh there you go That fucking drug addict Actually they're gonna show That's already over

He needs more Let my homie re-re Let me re-up. Open it. Let him re-up. He knocked it the fuck over, man. He wants that shit so bad, bro. That porn ass. I love, I love cat schools or, like, just pet schools where, like, they have a grade. And it's, and you get a paper, and it says, like, he did really well.

He's very good with all these animals. Like, he got checked on everything. Oh, yeah. It's an animal. He graduated. Yeah, he graduated. Like, puppy school. Like, imagine, puppy did it.

Puppie got an F on the final. Oh. What you do? Puppie bit. Puppie got in scruffle. Puppie's a bully. You got a hell back. We put Nana, my dog, into puppy school.

And she was supposed to go there for like five weeks. And she only went for three days. So she's still a piece of shit. Why only three days? Yeah. What happened? She got kicked out? Dude, maybe.

I can't remember why. I think, I don't know. But she's still like, she'll like look at you and bark. she'll like she's just crazy and then she'll like give up because we just ignore her if she's like just keeps barking and then like we let her outside but she just stares outside

and doesn't go outside make up your damn eye Nana what's going on she's spoiled as hell and then like she'll just be like oh yeah dude she's doing tricks for it bro like yeah I'm holding it like

you see his hand Oh, guys, I'm done as of yesterday. My semester is completed. Oh, fuck. Congratulations. My sixth college semester. Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow.

That's gross. You have two more, bro. Two more. And then you're turbo-cooked. You're cooking, bro. Damn, we're fucking cooked. How does it feel to be like this close? I don't know.

It's like, dude, like I was thinking about this a few days ago. It's like, bro, there's nothing waiting for me. Well, no, there's a lot waiting for you. Passimist. Holy crap. It's just, who knows what I'll be doing in five years. It's like for the first time ever, you're, the bumpers on the bowling lane are coming off. And you can honestly go wherever you want.

Yeah, and I think I will take a couple years off and do some bullshit. You want to try to lock in with us? That would be fun. to travel. We should travel. I do want to travel too. That trip, that trip to the CS event, I was like, dang, I want to travel like once a month somewhere on the weekend. Um, and then come back. Yeah. Yeah, domestic travel. I was telling Nick, there's some, there's some folk I want to visit that, uh, that I've talked to like on Instagram who do like their whole work is either photography in a certain field or music, um, where they go to school. But it's like they have like

their access to their whole thing. And, uh, there's some folks I want to meet overseas just like being that world for like just a weekend or just for a little bit you know and then come back and be like guys there's some shit that we could do i have an idea and then we put it all together and it's all that all that jazz oh damn that boy clinging onto it dude that's gonna that's he opens it and it all dumps out into the yeah i was gonna say that's really scary dude you got to be careful he just he just dumped he just dumps Starbucks on the ground oh shit dang it there you go fuck But yeah, I'm a burnt out at the end of this semester.

Pretty burnt out. Yeah. I hope they'll come back. I saw myself up for some crazy stuff this next semester. Okay. Trying to finish with like a bang. Or is that like? No, not really.

I don't know. I signed myself up for this like independent study that seems like it actually will be a lot of work to do. Okay. On top of. How many credits? Because I'm, I reckon you're at the tail end. of it shouldn't be yeah i think i'm at like 13 or something but adding this this

study is like another extra three so damn you're finishing off strong then huh yeah i guess so i guess so i saw jackson's list of things to do and holy moly well actually let me go look at that because i saw the notification while i was working out i want to go see what he's dealing with just uh like terrible it's so much All in one day.

He was supposed to do the gym today. And let me read you what he messaged me. All in one day, too. I didn't want to say, like, I don't know if that's like that people can look into and then be like, oh, I know we're, but. No, you can say that what the topic is. Oh, my God. He's doing a fucking case.

He said, hey, man, I have to break some bad news to you. Massive logistical oversight on my part when I said we could hit the gym after I'm home from work today. And they just hit a screenshot of over like 16 different assignments all due tonight. Like okay. That's all due tonight! Yeah. That's all due tonight.

Bro, I don't miss homework. I'm gonna fucking puke. I don't miss. Okay. I will say, I will say I do miss like being ahead of homework in that feeling. Yeah. Like you see everyone around you freak out,

but you have everything already ready. Okay, wait, hold on. Now just wait, hold on one fucking second. Why are there four quizzes due? Jackson. Yeah, he let it slip, bro. Oh,

That's the last minute. That's the procrastination in him. Dude, and he said he only slept from 9.30 to 11 p.m. last night. And he had to work, he had to work at 4 a.m. Oh, my God. Or 5 a year.

His life is kind of hell right now. Jesus Christ, dude. Everyone, that's crazy, man. He's almost done, though. Yeah. I mean, by the time, uh, by the time you're listening to this,

the storm will be over. Dude, I think their house has got egged. What? Just terrible. What? I think their house has got egged. Ooh, look at the group chat. Just posted on, uh, uh, sorry, we're getting like live updates right now on this group

chat that we have with, uh, Jackson and Nick, not this, Nick, the other Nick that you guys are Oh my God, they're filling, they're filling eggs. Yeah. So, okay, wow, wild world. Hey, that's the college world, bro. That's the college. That's college for you. That's college for you.

That's college for you. That's college for you getting egg, getting, uh, toilet paper to everything. Everyone loves to it. That seems more like high school, right? My trip. Yeah, that's probably. That's cool. I don't know. Yeah, regular show.

I don't know. I thought you talked about, like, right now. That's why he grung just, like, got up and left. Yeah, he has to go deal with them right now. Like, all right, I'm going. And get those eggs out of here. Come on now. Come on. Get those eggs out of here.

Oh, I wanted to ask him just what, uh, well, I guess he already said. He wants to go travel. Travel time, dude. Traveling's fun. You guys, did you guys ever have that period of, like, taking a year off? Trying to shit out? Um, mm-hmm. Yeah, I did.

That's when I got into streaming. Oh, my God. I took a year off school, and then I just started streaming and, like, doing random shit. Damn. I actually didn't. I went right from dual enrollment to college, and then YouTube started, and I just dropped a fuck out. First paycheck, bro. For anyone that says that they want to go and do a gap year, you're more than likely not going to go back.

Yeah. It is better. It is better to finish high school or straight to college, finish college. Or if you take a year, like you have to be, there has to be motivation to push you to want to go back. Because if there's exterior things that are going to keep you from going, you're just not going to go. I was one semester away from getting my associate's degree. I had fucking, I don't even know how many credits I had. I lost them all because I turned 25 and they all went away.

So all of those years of school. No, they disappeared. Here, 25. No, I heard it was a myth. I heard that was a myth. What? I think we, no, we, I did think that too. I think that too.

I thunk that too, Willie, don't worry. But also, I have to somewhat disagree. Well, I thought I was going to go back to school, but then COVID actually happened. So I just, that completely derailed my brain about school and I forgot about school. That's real. I feel like taking a gap here in between college or high school and college could be one of the best ideas you could do as long as you're 100% in it and you're going to go back as long as that's a big as long as bro i'm not going to lie it's a big one amount of people who don't know is pretty i would much rather

somebody figure out like a trade that they can make money with or find out what they truthfully want to do yeah for the rest of their life then spend 60 to 80 000 obtaining a degree they don't want i don't think you will figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life by taking a gap if what if one if one One year you figure out your life, like you can't figure out your life. It's just a waste of time, bro. Like, that's on you. That's what you want to do.

I mean, some people, some people take that time to get money to like be able to go to afford college. That's true. So they can like hold themselves over while they study. There are some people that are responsible like that. But a lot of people are not responsible. And a lot of people are going to go and do dumb shit. And then they're not going to make as much as they thought they would.

And then that turns into another year and another year and another year. Yeah. And then you just end up going. On the contrary. Keep the momentum, bro. I had three jobs while in college. It is very doable. It just like, it takes a lot of discipline.

It takes a lot of time management. That's like the number one thing. And you can do anything I feel like in life if you have proper time management. I disagree. It's like good. I freaking, yeah, I had a job while in college. It was the one before being a fitness instructor. It was the lumber mill I worked, pulling green chain.

I was just pulling wood on the carts. Because I went to school at like 9 a.m. And I got off at 2 p.m. And I had an hour break. That's when I worked out. And then I started my job at 4 p.m. at the lumber mill. And I got off at midnight.

And I did that whole cycle. Dude. Oh my God. When I locked into school, like high school is when I really locked in. I liked in hard. Not my freshman year so much. I think first semester for my freshman year.

I was a bit of a class clown. Like too much of a class clown. And then I got to 12. I was too funny. I got like I got like pulled the side by my English teacher about it and I was like all right

I'll chill Um You need to stop being so Stop being so funny funny dude Knock it off You're making me laugh I can't Teach you for making me

laugh It's a good bit But knock it off Um But then I locked in really hard And I remember I got like super Super super super into like Everything about

like studying ahead of time and by ahead of time I mean like I finish the semester and then I'm like what classes am I taking next semester and I'll start learning I go to Con Academy and I'll go and look at like the like I'll look at what classes I'm going to take and then I'll try to pre-study those classes so that I walk in and like I'm pretty sure I did it

so that because I had so many experiences in school where I got pulled the side and I was being like I hate it. those, like I hated those experiences being pulled aside and being like told all these things. I was like, I don't want that no more. So I think I think my influence was more so on like trying not to, uh, trying to avoid all those experiences. And then I'll do the opposite and be extra good and extra on top of my shit.

Sure than what you can. However, that could only go so far because like then what it turned into like the time when I was really at my prime was when I found out that like when I, when I, when I had that architecture class, it was two years. And I was like, you know what? I wasn't planning on doing this,

but I actually really fuck with this. And so then that turned, like when you're interested in something like that, like that deep, or I started getting deep in it. And it's like, okay, I actually want to get up early

so I can get on this early so that I can figure this shit out and, you know, make the most of the day. So it's like, you have to be, yeah, I don't know,

you just have to be into it. It's really, hard to teach that like I wasn't taught that it's just something that like happens out of experience in some way I got some of my shit together because it's just like like

guilt of not having it together it's like okay I can do better than this you know let me uh let me just lock in for a second there's a lot of dude it's really crazy something that changed my mind said a lot is like you can say you don't have the time to do something but it's really

you're not making the time to do something that's like Oh my gosh. Wow. Dude, I hate playing Minecraft. I hate playing Minecraft for that reason. Oh yeah. No,

that makes, what the fuck? You guys like abhorrently addicted to it. Like, life ruining level. This is like, this is like peak of like making sure that the album was like getting ready to go.

Oh my God. Yeah. Everyone was like, do you guys want to play a Minecraft server? And I'm like, fuck. And like, I was like,

yeah, but I really shouldn't. And then I ended up dumping two months of my pathetic chud life into that shit. Well, that's where discipline comes in. That's what discipline. We're not even playing on it anymore for fucking memories.

Dude, like, you live far away from everyone. Like, what are you talking about? No, but, like, the point is, like, no one fucking plays on it, and I dumped all my stupid pathetic time into it for fuck. It was one. Emory. Objection. You guys were all the ones that hopped off before any of my crew hopped off.

Let's be real. Cap. Damn. It's not cap. That's Cap. It's not Cap. We were on there. That's Cap.

It started with Jackson. I stopped playing. Oh. I wish he were here because he'd be fucking losing his shit. He would be. He would be. Because you guys don't want to go out every fucking Friday and every weekend and start to go and fucking hang out and party and all do this shit. And all the older children are sitting here like, hey guys, when we play it.

When we're going on, this is what I look forward to after the 95. And we're like, ooh, I want to go play games. Okay. Why couldn't you just hop on when we hopped on? You're on there solo grinding match. It's so hard. Because I fucking... Because that's why.

You were on with no one else was fucking loser. Why did you? But I was a 26 year old loser going like this. I was like... The self-control... Building your house and your villager... Pinging... I'm typing in the Discord.

At Jack tonight. Do you want to get on? Sorry, man. I'm out right now. Okay, fuck you. You stay on for another three hours. Yeah. And then I do that stupid shit

where I'm jumping between blocks. To each blocks. Running in circles. And then I'm like, man, fuck this. I'm getting off. Are you serious? Why? You did it to yourself.

Why? No one. The last memorable thing I did was just do a fucking curse. When everyone gets on. That's all it is. The last memorable thing I did was placed a curse of binding pumpkin on Isaac's head. And then that was it. That was my final straw.

That's where I stopped playing. We played the shit all that server for a while. No, we did. We did. And this is why I'm making it public so none of you guys can back out. We are starting once a week. gaming streams on Twitch where we play Minecraft. Holy shit.

That was just like he just made that plan. That was a legal binding request and we are starting. Curse of binding. Because if we were to play any Minecraft game, it is for the public to enjoy now because there's no more wasting time. Holy shit. Corpo Willie over here. Corpoh.

No, because. Monotizing fun. Oh my God. Because when you guys are like, let's do a Minecraft episode, I'm like, you guys don't understand. Imagine watching your fucking, watching. a podcast of people you enjoy watching and they're showing a Minecraft server

that they didn't even show you any progress on. That's like a big fuck you in the audience. Are you like, were you guys pissed off whenever we did that Minecraft episode? Are you guys like, what's the hell happening? Maybe I'm parissocial. I would have been a little upset. If I understand where you're coming from.

16 year old me would have been like or 17 year old year, maybe even 18 year old me. I'd be like damn. I want to go watch the place of Minecraft. Maybe even 26 year old me. I get it, but you know, from that perspective of looking at yourself, I know myself, I would have been like,

Oh, that's cool. And then move on. Yeah. Like, maybe they're doing other things. But I get it. Like, I get it. And it's a good view to have. Like, it's not a bad thing. I just, I look at myself.

Stream Minecraft is fun. That's, that. What'd you say? Streaming Minecraft is fun, but what was it? Oh. Yeah, well, yeah, what was they were going to say? Yeah. Well, no, I was just saying like, I look at myself and that's my point of view.

It's just like, well, you know, it is what it is. It's, but at the same time, I don't know. Like, I get it though. better to look at it, I guess, from that perspective, because that's a perspective that I don't have. And I'd rather use that and not be blind to it than, I think, I think that having, having this be the career that we have is a very, it's an honor. It's a blessing. And I feel that pissing away the time privately playing when you could be sharing that memory with a- dude.

And that moment, I do think that there could be a balance of both where you can have your offline play and your online play. But when it was two months of offline play, dude, that became too much to shut. I started getting depressed. I was like, man, I smell like shit. Logged the fuck off, bro. Dude, you don't have to play every hour. Don't have to grind. That is where the self-control comes in because I did not feel like that a single bit.

I stopped going to the gym. I started eating such shit. Yon! It's fucking Minecraft, bro. It's Minecraft. Like, I never get that too deep. I moved under your mountain and I never did anything else. Don't play that deep into Minecraft.

Dude, he got into it. You let it control him, consume him. I did, and I felt like shit, and then I was like, I'll never see it. And then I played Minecraft again for fun on a private server, like a few months ago. And I was like, dude, I can't do it. I can't do it. I said, you're playing this game for two hours, and I feel like shit. I feel like such shit.

I feel like I hate my life right now. I need to get off. The creative. I need to go for a walk. You do all your tasks in the day, and then once it hits, like, one a.m., like, ooh, I I'm gonna spoil myself for a little Minecraft. But dude. But dude, one a.

A.m. Going to bed at 7 a.m. I try to go to bed by like 11. I clocking the whole shift on Minecraft, bro. That's what happens. If you, if we all wake up at like 8.30 in the morning, we can hop on early early.

Oh, yo, chill. Chill. That sounds nice. Nah, because what ends up happening is, nah, because I got to go to my class, y'all. I got to go to my class. All right, I'm about to go to the gym. All right, I'll see y'all when you get back.

And my shut ass is to sit there and stay on. And I can't. Bro, that was my life back in the day. Who remembers? I remember. I remember. I remember. Hell annoying, bro.

Hell annoying. But it's like if there's, okay. Dude, my point or my, like, my thing is like, okay, let's say I wanted to play Minecraft, but everyone's doing something. Then it's like, instead of being like, fuck, it's just like, okay, shit, let me do something too. Let me go out and let me go to like, that's why that's when you explore. Let's go. Dude, there's somebody playing a lot of your infinite lava maker. Are you in a fucking, you're going to be.

What about your villager trader? You have your villagers. You have your... The point is you're doing it together and you're doing it. That improves a lot of gravity. You advance way too far in, Nick. You go way too far. Summer adventures are better with Minky Couture.

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Then you got netherite. And then you got nether right. And then everyone feels like they're way behind where it's like, dang. I can't even keep up with this. I remember the, I've been living in the city all my life, bro. Yeah, it was. What can I say? I had a fucking sniffer and a camel just walking around my.

A glass, like, ball. Glass dome. Glass beer terrarium. Like that is super cool Listen, the reason why I feel like A group gaming sesch Live stream for a few hours Would be fun once a week

We're able to progress in some fun way On the server You know what's gonna happen? Yeah What's gonna happen? You're gonna limit it to one time a week And then all of us are gonna get on And we're gonna just fucking

Pt-Doo! Alright, should we do some off-camera mining? What? I feel like I feel like I don't know You should stream I would stream.

I'd actually stream it. Dude, I know, let's not bend the rules for a second. Let's just, let's just stream together. Do we just stream together? Look, look, listen, listen, listen. I'm pretty sure.

I actually haven't looked into it, but I wanted to, I'm pretty sure you can all have it so that it's like, I'm live with X, Y, and Z and Z and Z and Z. That's what, yeah. And then I'm pretty sure we all do this. I think, this is a theory.

I still don't know it. I can just research it like looking up on Google right now, but I'm pretty sure We all share the same chat and everything. Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's like the ideal scenario because then it's like we don't have to worry about seeing and respond to different chats while we're also playing. It's like all one chat.

So we all see the same thing happening, right? And it's like all we all react to it at the same time. Dude, that's the most idea. You're like calling you right now, Tanner. Wow. Holy crap. So cold in your room. Grunk, I don't think you understand.

I'm so deathly afraid to feel so useless. by playing Minecraft again that I refuse to play privately. I think that feeling of like your hair being so greasy and like your butt smelling and like you have like really poor this homie. I'm gonna be real like this fucking Minecraft are we furious dude it's not like you're not like locked in you can't get it's a matter it's a matter of self-control it's the same control that like you would need it's a same self-control that you would need when you're playing it Overwatch and you don't need to

tell your teammates that they're fucking shit and balls and dick like and then you get banned and now you can't play the game it's just self-control it's all it is it's self-control maybe grunk was right that's the thing

the key to life is balanced and self-control and discipline maybe I am getting too old to be mad at games I knew that she was coming every time you say I think grunk is right you just say the same shit

from lastly VC4 that shit stuck me man because it made me realize I got three overwatch accounts fans like you'd like that's pretty crazy mad at my craft bro like I was just playing Rock League and I told a guy called the other team trash I said you have hate in your heart James boy he probably logged off like really I would make fun of you so much in game right but then you turn out the computer and I'm I'm bothered wet hair and your grease you're clammy hands and while grung my whole desk is covered in food bro it gets off

Chippole bag, chipte's like fitting his cats and he's walking outside. He's like, so it's like you got to love. Love always wins. Well, that's why. Love and happy. That's why I'm asking, if we can, if we can group stream Minecraft together and have fun. And for the sake of love and happiness, then yes, I am. What about my friends that want to be on it?

Are they allowed to be on the server? They can join too. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. They can join too. Now I'm hearing silence from two of you guys. You guys are not. Tanner, Isaac, what do you think of that?

Yeah, what are you guys sick? Yeah. I would have to, I'd have to arrange, I feel like it'd be unfair if I just, like, thawed a two-year, um,

dude, I'm actually sick of this. Like, there's no more of this. Like, just go. You're paralyzing yourself. It's because I keep on finding myself

in a dilemma of like, oh, man, I really have to, like, edit and really have to make, comeback stream or something. No, no, no. I just want to go live. I just want to go live on a weekend where I'm not fucking editing all the damn time because every time I don't do something that contributes to the longevity, the goal that I have in front of me on a timeline, I panic. That's why I don't go out to eat very much.

It's why I don't leave and do nothing very much. I just like schedule it like shifts. Yeah. Yeah, you need to organize your schedule. You need to work hard during the week and then you take your weekend. I've started to take weekends, man. Yeah, but if I work during the weekends, if I can work during the weekends, it saves me a week a month.

No, because you get back right into it. And now you're back onto it again. And you barely gave yourself like, no, you guys aren't here. You're not picking up when I'm putting them down. Listen, it goes like what,

two weekend days, right? Shut up little boy. Two weekend days? There's four weeks. There's four weekends in a month. You get two of those. That's six days.

That's an extra week per se, almost the week of work. Let me break it down for you. Two days of a weekend. But I feel like, four is eight, that's a weekend. A weekend. It's a week. But I think, I feel like, you know, yes, the week is good, but everyone else is pretty unanimous and mentally chilling on the weekend, you know. That's like you'd be able to chill with it. I know and I want to chill,

but my mind doesn't let me. It literally speaks to me if I'm not doing it. You need to, recognize that a group stream for two hours is not going to sit you back that far. I can't recognize that, though. That's the problem. My brain is actually like demented. Punch that shit in. Punch that shit in. You're watching Rocket League in the middle of the day? You're fucked. You're fucked, buddy.

Well, that's a waste of time because you're not actually working. If you were to stream and have a fun time with stream, that's contributing to the overall, like, fun. Dude, I have a really good Michael Jackson song playing my ear right now for this. This is crazy. Yeah. I mean, Isaac, let's just say that you go live.

You pull 2,000 viewers and someone donates a thousand million subs. I mean, that's great. But the motherfucker's on YouTube. YouTube's still hungry, boy. It doesn't change anything. Yeah, but two hours a weekend is really not setting you back at all. Oh, no. Two hours a weekend would be okay, but it's like, I can't, like, when you say it like that on paper, yeah, it sounds great. You know, two hours, that's all that is. But when we get to those two hours, I'm going to be like, well, I really have to get this done.

I need to do this. And like, there are other things that are a much higher priority in the moment. Because, look, I know I have an unhealthy relationship with gaming, but you have an. unhealthy relationship with work. I do. I'm a workaholic, bro. I'm gonna be a horrible fucking husband. I came to realization really early. Like I'm fucked guys. Like I'm a, yeah. Ladies

fucking take a you turn, bro. It's actually away. Like I'm actually going to ignore her and go to work all day. Like the worst. Daddy, daddy, I want to play. No. Look, I think I think you need to learn this lesson very quickly so you don't make the mistake that many working men do. I think you need to listen to young

thug. Because this horse cannot stop and it will keep going. Dude. But you know it's a problem. Yeah. So you're halfway there. You know it's a problem. So now you just got to put in the work. You literally,

you just, the way that I stopped doing it was realizing that the world is going to keep moving, whether I get to that thing that's been on my brain at one o'clock in the morning or not. One of the best ways I've been telling myself to get sleep is when I go to bed and I think about all this shit I didn't get done for today. I'm like, I'm already in fucking bed. Me doing anything right now doesn't matter.

I thought it was sick, by the way, that Virgo Abelow was where he was. and he was still replying to people and messages to them promptly and responding to fans and writing back emails and all these things because there are so many instances where he was still doing his shows

still doing everything that he was doing but he was still replying promptly and everyone when he had a pass was like damn that one fuck it was good at just like doing everything like that one fucking was on top of his game. And he comes down to time management bro and he did that because I think

well I don't know some people were talking about it like you know he kind of knew that his time was about a pass and so he just went all out was like, you know what, like, there's no, there's all pointing, holding back, respond to everyone and do everything. You should shoot every day like it's your last, man. Because if you don't.

It's going to happen. And that's one day soon. And that's why. Nothing matters. So I guess nothing actually matters. Yes, nothing matters. Isaac, you got caught at a train, a real train thing today, right? Crossroads.

Oh, trade truck, yeah. What if you were in front of the crossroads while, and then you didn't make it to the other side? That would really stink. What does I have to do with time management? Time management? It is important. It is. Because if you, it is, listen, if you don't. To offer insight on my mindset of why it's really hard for me to just like chill, there's a stigma attached to my name that has to do with like laziness and a lot of other bullshit because I, I work a lot. I edit a lot. But because I edit a lot, I really take pride in my craft. So I make shit really, really good. And it's great like that. But who attached that stigma? No, the stigma is that I take. so fucking long. I hardly upload.

Oh, man. You could go look at the fucking comments right now. Top comment on the most recent video is give it up. One and only I's why video of the year. Give it up. 2026 baby. Yeah, but they're going to say that shit. They're going to say that shit.

So I'm not going to let them see that shit. I'm going to do what I got to do. I'm going to do my job and I'm going to deliver my shit. I'm going to get my shit done. I'm going to work through that. But what I'm trying to say is, is this is how you cause burnout. right is by feeling like you can't do anything but what you're doing it's like a mental trap so the way you

you the way you go about it is and you honestly follow the method that i talked with larry about you set timers like i know you have timers i know you have a fuckload of timers they were going off when we were in the room that's only yeah that's only for uh but but you're supposed this is why scheduling is important because we know that at 1230 every wednesday we have podcast for about an hour to an hour and 15 minutes we know every wednesday at eight o'clock p.m we record group games You section out those times. So in this case where you know on a Wednesday you have an expectation, it could leave the same thing of 2 o'clock PM on a Saturday every single Saturday.

Right. But that doesn't change the fact that there is still anvil being held over my head of you have to get this done. My leg is bouncing under my desk right now because we're at 112 and not 110. We usually end. It's a poised mindset, bro. I really wish I could like share more about it. Well, I've been there too. It's just because you're so deep in your work.

But the way that you get out of it is by accepting the fact that it doesn't matter if it's two hours that's setting you back. It's not even setting you back. It's just two hours of your attention going to another part of a business, another part of having fun while also like, it's just another avenue. Mental matters. Like you're not you're not pissing away time playing a video game at 2 p.m. on a group stream. You're literally live streaming, which you then can take that full. footage and then you can repurpose it for something else. You're building another angle.

You're helping cultivate and bring in more of an environment. I know, but I don't upload any Twitch Vods. I don't stream. That's not my job. Okay. That's a side thing. That's why it kicked the bucket all those years ago. It's because it was not important enough to me to keep on dedicating my time to.

So then what you do is you make it worth your time. And then you start to do that on side channels. Just so just if that makes it seem like it makes you feel a little bit more worth it, but that is the only way, I guess, in your mind to make it seem worth it. Because live streamers, all they do is triple dip. Double dip, triple dip. They go live and they put a VOD up and then they put Vod highlights up. And then they make shorts of that Vod highlight.

Like, I get that. But that's not what I do. I record my friends in a Discord video making funny faces. I understand that. But if we want to play video games together and also not, want to feel like shit about playing them, then we, I don't know,

it's just an idea. No one's ever forcing it, but like you are aware that the mindset you have is not very healthy. And then also you're not really helping aid the unhealthy. Well,

it's unhealthy, but it's working. That's what sucks. But think about the long run. We're in the long run right now. I've been doing this for five years. I haven't changed much about my work routine and everything like that.

And it's bang. And that's the problem. Well, I feel growth is important, though. I feel like you've started to put more, way more effort into your videos, which makes them take longer to put out. Yeah, I want to set a standard. And if people catch up to that standard, I'll set a new one. But, yeah, it's, I don't know, guys, it's really hard to explain. And I, you know, if this conversation was at 40 minutes, I'd love to keep talking about it.

We can wrap up here, you know. I'm not opposed to streaming. Like, trust me, I'm not. I'm not. But, like, deep down in my brain, it's going to be a little. little bit chaotic to to arrange everything in my in my head. Because like, you know, I have people emailing me, hit me up about like tax forms and shit.

Like I'm in some deep fucking IRS doo-du, bro. Like deep doo-doo. Not like evasion or fraud or anything like that, but a lot of paperwork, man. Like that's what I'm doing the second I'm done here. I gotta go like gather up a shit ton of all these bowls. I'm on my health here. So after this, I got to go to the gym. Hey.

Continue that. I got to use the bathroom and then come back, make some food for my belly, my body to come, you know, function and then, you know, put a ball with what I got to do for the day. Yeah, Minecraft is coming back

and a big way. Yeah, again. Again. Oh, man, you can't say that if you don't have a plan. You got to have a plan to save them. I think moral of the story from my angle,

considering the audience watch that conversation happen. And I can kind of like put myself in their shoes I think that no matter how long you take to post video within reason, they're still going to watch it because they just enjoy your content and they enjoy the quality that you put out. Hey man,

we all know how much effort you put into. I don't know you put a lot of love into the motherfucking, the motherfucking videos. And it's going to be really, really sweet when we look back, like I say this all the time, but when we look back when we're older, it's like,

you know all the mowers you put into it. You know all that time you put into it. And it's like, yeah, that's going to be nice. That's going to be really, really sweet. I think,

yeah, I think it comes down to like you have a mindset that is very competitive with yourself and with and that's great. But it also like putting only your foot on the gas and not like stopping or taking your foot off is like it creates burnout and it just makes you like want more and then not really appreciate what you have in the current moment because you're always just craving more and doing more and like doing things that you're not. I don't know. I would much rather appreciate it in a moment. I've secured a future for myself and I've put in the work, you know. Like, I'm in my 20s.

I'm in a prime age where I could just piss away shit and I can do what I'm doing unhealthfully and not suffer any major repercussion because I'm in my 20s. I have a question. I have a question. Now, do you think that two hours on one Saturday every weekend is going to hinder that bigger picture?

No, but my brain will not be able to, like I could say no with my mouth and I can stick here with my brain, but in that moment when it comes, I realize I didn't do as much or I could be doing more or I could be somewhere else doing this instead of that. It's what my brain does to me. It's why a lot of the times when I'm like just having a leisure shit, like a leisure time, I find myself thinking like, oh man, what are you doing?

Like you're letting go. Like all this for what? That's literally what my brain will tell me. You're watching a movie. Yeah, your brain is like afraid of you falling into complacency. Yes. That's my biggest fucking fear is complacency. I hate it.

But the only rebuttal I have is that that two hours being spent live streaming is work. It's still work. I mean, I can, yeah, I get it, but it's still remaining in a presence. It's still remaining for the bigger picture. You're still potentially able to earn revenue from doing it. So if anything, it should be seen as a different side of work that is fun. I get what you're saying. I do.

Those small things, I've never, albeit still work, prevent burnout. Yeah, no, I, with,

you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Streaming to me was never a job. It was never work. It was what I did when I didn't have to work. That's what streaming was to me. That's why it was fun.

But if I treat it as a job, it could complicate a lot more. Whereas if I treat it as a leisurely bypass time, you know, like the two hours on a weekend. The same shit will happen regardless in my brain, but it could be, received more or received better in my mental i don't know again my brain is just it's a mess

bro it's a mess but we can wrap this shit here because we have 120 now i know i don't know if anyone has other shit to do but i grunks grunks though with the semester you don't got no uh dude i'm freaking free agent oh shit okay i want to make sure i mean i don't know if we're like now three minutes late to like what you had to do all right but yeah but yeah i'm done to whack it up i'm wrap it up wrap it up wrap it up up yeah man the day but you know what isaac i can understand the other side of you that is wanted to work on in it at the same time i don't want to did did on you and not have any like yeah i mean if no one if no one did there's no i'd have no one in my life that would push in that that same way so i appreciate all of like the

you know the pushes that's why you all you know i need i need to hear that sure sometimes hey man listen bro it's always a constant uh a tug of war of balance, you know, and I tell everyone like, you've got to fight the fight still. Like, there have been times where it may feel like it's over. And then I hear people who are like in their fucking 40s that were like, man, I wish I was in my 30s, like early 30s because that was when I really needed to get my shit together. And then it's like, dang, I look at all the ones. I'm like, dang, we're so ahead of that.

So it's always like right now, I always feel like we're always in a good position, regardless of whatever happened before or whatever is going to happen afterwards because the end of the day, it's our actions right now. Like, I can go right now and then get hit by a car and then win the settlement and then get a bunch of money. It's like, damn, we have a lot of money to work with.

All right, let's try to make this and that and that and that. Yeah, right. It could happen. It could. And the trajectory can just change just like that. But either way, like, I want to end on a note

that is like, because I'm looking at all right now. Look at us. We look at us guys. Look at us. Tenors, rooms blue as fuck. In the black. You're distraught. My camera's weird. I don't know what's going on with it. It's going on. On my eye, like, what is this?

It's okay, Tanner. It's okay. It's okay. I was going to end on like, what's the fuck? Everything's dark. What is that? What is that? What is it? All I know is, is that you fight to fight, you keep trying to do good

within yourself and others and you'll be okay. You'll be good. Yeah, for show. It's true. That's for show. Fuck, yes. All right.

Well, that was fun. Thanks, guys. Yeah. Later. I'll walk in the room. Thank you guys so much for watching. Yeah. Appreciate it.

Thank you for listening. We will be back next week. Like every week. Hey. Like every week. Yes. Don't miss us. Too much.

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Good luck on them. Oh, yeah, yeah. And don't go too crazy. Don't lose your brain. Live long and prosper. I never watch. Too crazy. Yeah, all you did the three.

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