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Speaker 1: Okay, hello ladies and gentlemen. I am one of your

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geek Verst podcasts, host State of Field, and I am

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here because it has been ten years. Ten years of

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geek Ver's podcast. And I was telling Dylan this the

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other day. Some podcasts don't even make it to ten episodes.

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That is kind of where the threshold is. When I

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was doing a little bit podcast resource that a lot

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of shows don't make it to their tenth episode. And

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here we are at ten years, and so much of

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our lives have changed since we started this journey. It

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is quite something to think about and to see, of

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course my friends that I co host with to do

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this show with, to see how they've grown as people

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as well, like in life, jobs, careers, families, everything. It's

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just it's amazing how the things have changed, and we've

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kind of moved around, moved back and moved around again.

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Like it's just it's crazy to see that at the

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core we are all still good friends and we still

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get together multiple times a week to do this show

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and just have a good time doing it. And it's

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truly a passion project of ours, and it's it's not

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something that I take for granted and This is something

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I've mentioned before on previous anniversary streams too, But there's

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a quote from the Office, and I'm going to paraphrase

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because I'm going to butcher it if I try to

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quote quote it word for word. But it's Andy Bernard's

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talking about how how do you recognize the good times

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when you're in it? You know, you get to the

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point at the end when it's like you look back

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in retrospect and think, those were the good times, and

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I wish I knew that I was in those good times. Well,

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this show is those good times, and hopefully it never

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ends because it's full of laughs, full of new friendships

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and great conversations and thing to meet new people and

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just share good times with each other. And I don't

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take that for granted. And what we've been able to

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create and create because of everyone of you that's been

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listening to this show and supporting the show over the

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years to help us get to ten years. It has

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made an absolute fantastic foundation for what we can do

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here and help us do new content. Whether you're a

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patron subscriber and you get to submit requests for different

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retrospectives or submit your questions into the shows and all

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those different things and just different ways that we can

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interact with you guys and communicate with you guys and

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build friendships with each other and grow. It's just even

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if you just listen to the show, that is more

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than enough. You know, it goes a long way. We

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keep track of the stats, and we really appreciate anyone

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and everyone that tunes in and listens and interacts and

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all that. So you guys, you all mean so much

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to us when we do this show. So thank you

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for being there for this ten years decade, which is

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just it still is unbelievable to me. Yeah. I could

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go on and on and on, but I got some

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questions here that questions that need answering, Questions that need answering.

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As Gandalf says, I'm gonna start off with the favorite

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era of geek person Why. I was really trying to

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think about this and how I could break down eras

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of the podcast, And that's a tricky one. I really

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could actually just certain a proper way to break down

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the eras, maybe just when people were leaving at certain times,

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maybe just a year. I digress. If I had to

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pick a certain timeframe, I would say when it was

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all seven of us at one point in time throughout

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a couple of years just doing the show, and it

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was it was so much fun. There was Star Wars

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coming back and tons of other things popping off, and

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news was great, and we just, you know, we had

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our own lives. We're busy, but at the same time,

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we had a lot of time just to bullshit and

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kill and not you know, not care in the world.

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We had our jobs, sure, but you know, we were

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still podcasting until twelve at night. We'd get together at

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like six and we'd be going for hours and hours

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and hours. We do multiple shows back to back, or

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just three hour long news episodes, three hour long reviews

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of things like just going Crazy, and that era when

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all seven us we were present, I feel like we

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all were able to bring something to the show and

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we all just were able to ride that next high

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off of each other, if that makes sense. So I

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would say that that era of us all being present

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was definitely one of my favorite ones, and peggybacking on

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that too. There's a lot of really good standout episodes

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where just the ones where we were in person I

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think I missed the most well. We've adapted, and we've

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done a good job at adapting. And it's certainly easier

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because we live far away. So doing in person shows,

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especially with our families and whatnot, it's not easy. It's

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a lot of work and we can be a little

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rowdy sometimes, so us setting up our home offices and

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doing this remotely has been a huge asset and a

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huge benefits of the show. But those in person casts are

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some of my most favorite standing out episodes of all time.

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And you just get you just get certain interactions that

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you can't get online. And whether it's just us looking

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at each other a certain way, or it's the way

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we talk, or whether I'm like leaning in Travis's chair

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in his office and he tells me to stop doing

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it because I'm gonna fall and ignore him, and then

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I all almost eat shit and flip the chair back.

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you can't replicate that really in in the online format. Again,

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great for what we've grown into and evolved into for

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the for the show, but some of those those moments

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that were in person or my favorite. I remember after

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the pandemic we did our first stream back together and

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we were in person, Travis, Me and Kirkland, and it

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just it felt like magic just to be back together

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like that, Like I really really love that a lot.

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And I remember there was to do was it Black

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Panther Predictions? We were all gathered for that too. In

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person that was a lot of fun as well. Just

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you get together and immediately gets rowdy. And now, of

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course the only time we do get together is when

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we do the charity stream, and well, I'm not we

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time too. We're one of the movies together and whatnot.

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something in person. It's usually the charity stream, unless there's

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some specific event or something else that's pulling us in

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person to be together. Uh, it's just it's magic.

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it's gonna be a good hangout time, and just the

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the memes and the jokes start creeping in and it

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just starts to get rowdy. And so those are some

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of my favorite favorite sessions with with the Squad. If

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you know Netflix and Fail, I think that has a

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soft spot in my heart because I think that that

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was just it was It's a fun concept to just

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format and the idea behind it. And some of these

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just releases any movies, which I'm gonna have to watch

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some of those movies that the Squad did. But yeah,

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that's uh, that was that was That was a lot

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we had main Geek first, but then the idea and

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the concept of doing spin off shows was still very new.

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could do that. I'll try it, and so I started

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and Travis has stayed true to committing to you know,

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those those spin off shows well, again in their own right,

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most out of what they were trying to do with

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those shows, and of course life changes and then those

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shows evolve into different shows with different people, and you know,

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new adventures follow from that. So yeah, some of the

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other things too. I'd say, I'm not trying to pump

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up my own show, but Rod or Not was definitely

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such a fun is anything with Rubin and the shout

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outs to Rubiny because he could be hard to pin down,

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but when we get together and we some of the

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some of that stuff, it would be a lot of fun,

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a lot of zaniness, and the editing was just an

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absolute nightmare sometimes. But yeah, so a lot of that

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work was it was. It was quite fun, and I

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we have not done our final ruddering on episode. I'm

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hoping that we can. It's something that I am looking

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at doing and hey, if it's playing during this ten

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and anniversary stream, then lucky you. But until then, I

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will refrain from speaking further to it. But I also

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want to shout out Dylan. You know, side Quest has

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grown into our dedicated gaming podcast here at our sideshow

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and it you know, that's again commitment and work, and

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he does the time to do the research, finding the

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you know, guests for the show, and just really put

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a lot of passion into that and it shows. And

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so I'm really happy to see him just you know,

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running and spear spearheading that that show. That's fantastic And

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I mean that's been going on for a while now

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and he's always looking at ways to improve it by

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getting feedback from from the listeners and whatnot, and that's fantastic.

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you know, side gig podcast or Cryptic Clues just you

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know that that's the best way to grow. Just talk

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to the community, learn where you can improve and grow.

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playing all the all the video games so many more

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that I wish I could I could get into it

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and try. But he's saying on top of the news

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to staying on top of the games and providing an

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amazing outlet for for video gamers that want more information

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about certain titles to tune in and to learn a

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little bit more about what's going on in the gaming world,

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whether it's the reviews or news, and so kudos to him,

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kudos to him for doing that. And on top of

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the gaming, we had the Gauntlet, And this was something

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that I didn't understand the beginning. When Travis announced that

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we were doing the Gauntlet, I thought we were just

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getting together and actually playing games. I had no idea

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that he had this larger narrative set up for it.

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aggressive and negative personalities being emanated, I thought, wow, the

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fuck is this? I just want to play board games.

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realized like, oh, okay, okay, this is something else, and

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I realized, man, I'm just getting fucking decimated at some

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the Gauntlet, I really didn't like it. I'm I'm not

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saying I'm a sore loser, but just losing again and

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again and again to the point where holy shit, It's

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just like, man, I think this is like mentally taxing me,

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Like I'm just losing and losing and losing and losing,

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and it's like, oh my god, I'm just expecting myself

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to lose. Eventually, you just run with it because it's

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exaggerated personas that you're running with this narrative, and it

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just became this whole interwoven kind of thing. And that

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being said, I won some few games. I'm very proud

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of my Halo one v one v one where Kirklan

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and Jessica teamed up and they still couldn't take me down.

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I feel very proud about that. Remember winning Mario Party

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in the first tournament, our first season of the Gauntlet.

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That was, you know, that's my special claim to fame.

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But yeah, no, it grew on me. And there were

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some amazing bloopers too that were really really funny as well.

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I remember a lot of it being improv for Travis

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to just be like, okay, just pick say say something

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along the along these lines, using these words, just try

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your sentence. And so you just you run with it

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and you go super crazy, like when King Theoden learned

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it really again, like the spinoff shows, it grew into

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something and there's multiple seasons of this and it's a

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lot of mapping out and planning and I don't know

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how Travis did it, but he did it and everything.

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Basically it's a story that still kind of is going

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on today where you look at the wrestling matches that

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that unfold as well, and while the Gauntlet is like

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a point A to point B narrative, and if you

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stay tuned, you can see, Okay, there's champions, there's stories,

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rises and falls, and then you can see how that

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kind of transitions and evolves into the wrestling matches and

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how this ongoing story keeps on being told and told

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and even just reoccurring characters like Penn Solo whoever he is.

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It's it's again. It's just evolved like this show, and

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it just keeps growing and growing and changing with new things.

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So one of the things that grew because we did

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this on year two and this has been the most

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biggest growth event I've seen this show that we've done

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is extra life and I remember that first year we

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did it and how we got it all set up. Again,

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I wasn't one hundred percent sure how the setup was

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going to work out, but it worked out. And you know,

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we were changing locations every year sometimes because people move around,

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space changes, whatnot. And it just eventually got down to

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a science. We got it pretty well refined, where okay,

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we know that first weekend of November, we're gonna get

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together and we're going to set up the streams and

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everything like that. And of course we usually will sometimes

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get delayed by like forty minutes an hour sometimes because

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we got technical problems, as per the norm, but we

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got it down to a science. You know, we get

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our classics events that pop up. Travis lines up the trivia,

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which I absolutely love that some of my favorite things.

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And we have our usual rewards for hitting certain financial

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tiers where we get enough donations for Extra Life and

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that's basically all the earnings go to the BC Children's Hospital.

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And we usually we set a goal that started our

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first year was five hundred and then it kind of

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scales up and down a little bit. We've had some

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years where we hit multiple thousands of dollars and overall,

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we've hit over ten grand for the BC Children's Hospital

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and it's it's truly just my god, like, it's incredible

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and it's not something I'd take for granted. That's it's

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just me and a few other folks from this town

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in you know, British Columbia, Canada, and we get together

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and you know, we we have a lot of fun

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and we do this and other people tune in. They

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support the show and like again they listen to the

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main podcast, but they tune into this charity stream and

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they support not only us, but they support the kids

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too that we're doing this for. And it's just it's

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creating lots of memories, it's creating just so many laughs

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and just yeah, it's just something that I love to

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look back on and and just take, you know, take in.

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It just warms my heart, really really does. There's just

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so much good that has come out from from everything

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that we've done with this. And again, it's just major

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props to to Travis because he works so hard to

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plan this out, just like with the Gauntlet and mapping

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out those stories, but planning it out it takes a

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lot of work to be and online and connecting with

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the people like other podcasts hosts and bring them into

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like I said, do the trivia and be part of

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the events that we're doing and just to network like that.

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And you know, again kudos to Dylan, kudos to Kirkland,

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and we all just make time with our schedules. Kudos

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to our significant others. You know, they allow us to

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be gone for many hours a day, not just with podcasting,

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but to be a part of the Extra Life charity stream.

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And yeah, it's just it's become a part of life.

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Just we're going to be meeting at this point every

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year to do this. This this mission our goal and yeah,

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it's it's very very special and the events on it

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are are so much fun. And that's where I think

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that every podcast member has. Like I said at the beginning,

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we've really grown. And to see that growth with everyone

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over the years, it's it's it's something it's like when

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you're when you're a parent, you get to see your

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kid grow. Well, you know, it's the same thing like

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when you have you have friends, you see your friends grow.

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And you know, my friends, my podcast co hosts, they've

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been there through some of my biggest moments growing up,

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like when I first met them all back and when

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it's like twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen, around that time, back

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when we worked at Target and I was still very

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very young. Oh my gosh, like twenty early twenties must

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have been like super super young, and life was so

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different back then, and now here we are. I've got

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a kid, I've you know, I'm thirty, and I got

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I've gone to a post secondary school and you know,

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got a career, and all these different things, all these

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things change, these dynamics change, and at the we still

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get together and I think that, you know, I love

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these guys, and they work their butts off to do

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everything they do for this show, and we drive each

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other crazy sometimes, and I think that's one of the

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best things about our friendship is because through that craziness

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we get so many laughs, so many memories, And like

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I said, all of this warms my heart. It really, really,

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really really does. And I could not imagine a point

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in my life here where they weren't ever a part

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of it. It's hard to believe that there was a

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point in my life where they weren't actually a part

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of it, because it just feels like I've known them

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forever and they've always been there. So I think each

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one of them, including myself, like we make up the

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podcast brand. Like I would never say, like you can

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replace anyone, you can have new people join, and those

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new folks that join, they bring their own power and

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passion and that builds and that jives with us. But

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there's something special way and you get me, Dylan, Kirklin

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and Travis together and that that that four horsemen of

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the UH of the geek versus it's it just brings

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the magic and there's uh, there's nothing I would change,

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nothing I would change. I love it, I really do.

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And so again, thank you everyone for just being there

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and always just yeah, listening to the show and supporting us,

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like it means a lot. I'm trying not to get

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too teary eyed. It's just a lot, a lot to reminisce,

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a lot to think think about. And ten years ten

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years is a long time, a long time, and I'm

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excited to see where things go from here. How many

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more years of uh, you know, spinoff shows and podcasts

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we do and movies and all that kind of stuff.

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I hope it keeps going and I hope it won't

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won't end, because these are the good times, really really

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really really good times. But I'll stop being all sad

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sentimental here to highlight a little bit more here on

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a few things. So working with everyone, you know, you

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have your ups and your downs, and you get on

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each other's nerves, and you get on each other's hypes

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and and and whatnot. But at its core, you know,

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our our friendship that has grown into becoming business partners,

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running this podcast and working so hard. It's it's it's

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grown into something really really awesome and being able to

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see you know, your friends Kirkland, Travis, Dylan grow as

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unique individuals and really excel in different areas. And when

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you can kind of come together and bring your growth

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to that pile, it really really shows. And I mean

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Dylan's become a really really good host with with side Quest.

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He's grown that show, made it his own, created a formula,

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and I mean it's not easy to run a podcast

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on your own. I mean that was one of my

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surprises when I first started Cryptic Clues back in the day.

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Like it takes a lot of work, a lot of work,

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and Dylan has really dedicated a lot of time and

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really put himself out there to get that feedback and

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that information from the community and to you know, do

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the time with the video games, get the reviews out,

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and just be a really really informative powerhouse for the community.

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And I think, you know, it should be very very

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proud of that, all those times where we've played the

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Gauntlet matches and just everything that we've gotten to learn

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about each other over the years. It's just been a

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wonderful journey just to again see him grow and grow

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myself too by being able to you know, share laughs

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and enjoy all that time spent with him. Then that

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just that bleeds over with Kirkland as well. Everything that

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we've been able to accomplish together and just like with Dylan,

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learn more about each other. And Kirkland's become a really

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really awesome powerhouse and co hosts with everything that he

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does on the show, and he brings that level of

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energy to it and and just you know, you can

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you're always gonna jive, uh, you know, when get into

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you know, discussions and whatnot. And I wouldn't say hot takes,

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comedic takes. You know, he's he's new book, Goofen uh,

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and it's just it's always a good time, always a

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very very good time, and I look forward to getting

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you know, if we get back into some more stuff

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down the road, or even just for for fun. It's

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just it's always a lot of fun just being able

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to play video games with these guys and and get

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the more competitive edge, and the further we go along,

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the more I find these similarities with Kirkland, like, oh,

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like this game you know back in the day, or

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like this movie that we were a fan of, and

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just those kind of similarities that you learn when you

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get older. It's it's just a fun bonding experience. So again,

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seeing Kirkland grow and kind of becoming I don't want

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to say quiet at first, because I'm a quiet guy,

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but I feel like Kirklean maybe it was a little

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bit more quiet back in the day, and he's really

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grown into the role of being like a podcast host,

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and it's just it's, yeah, it's awesome. It's really really awesome.

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And him and Dylan both puts so much work, you

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know those late night uploads. Kirkland like he'll he'll be

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such a gentleman and be like, you know what, I

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got this, and I'll be like, I I'm going to

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bed and he'll just he'll take the he'll take the

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stick and he'll he'll dish it out, so he you know,

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we're all hard workers, and did I say the hardest

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worker of us all, mister Travis Snell. The things that

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he does, I mean, piecing together these events, working on

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this tenure has been just a lot, a lot of

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effort on his behalf. And he's got the biggest family

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of all of us, and he's got I don't know

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how how he's got the time to to be able

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to fork all this out, but he does it. And

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the man doesn't sleep. He sleeps once a year and

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that's usually about forty five minutes during the charity stream

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at three am. That's the only time he sleeps. You know,

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he doesn't sleep at any other point in the year.

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But yeah, he works really, really hard. And it's it's

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shown in the news that he gathers for our news episodes,

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our weekly geeks, mapping out our schedules. What would we

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do without that Google calendar is beyond me because he's

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always updating it and reorganizing it, and we're always just

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driving him absolutely insane by changing our schedules and whatnot.

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And this is the man who's already planned like six, seven,

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eight months down the road with this his Google calendar

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and whatnot. So it's absolutely stressful, but he handles it

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like a champ and he leads us forward into the

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white light. So I don't know what the show would

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be without him. I don't know what the show would

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be without all of us. You know, everyone, like I said,

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has a very unique and straw component to the show.

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And when you combine it all together, I feel like

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we dish out a really, really good time. And so

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kudos to everyone, all of you guys, and especially you

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Travis for everything that you do and just the time

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and the dedication that you invest, because heck, we're making

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movies and this man's you know, on top of doing

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all the podcast work, he's writing scripts, he's directing, he's filming,

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and he's doing the editing. The man's an absolute beast.

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So it's just it's it's crazy, and we're only at

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the start. You know, things are really you know, we're

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turning around right now. Turn around, not turn around. We're

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gaining speed. We're going full steam ahead. And on top

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of that, just you know, I know, this is like

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we're the core four here, but just everyone that's helped

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out with the show in the past, you know, things

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with Jessica, Kyle Amber. It's just there's been a whole

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collective group of us that have come together and really

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been able to build a strong foundation for what the

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show is today. And it's just it's truly truly wonderful.

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And I got to show out Rubin too, my co

476
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:09,480
host Rod or Not and Geek's Creed and Crypto Clues.

477
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,720
He's been able to help with so many different things

478
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:17,119
on the podcast and it's just been something that has

479
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,880
just grown massively. The friendships that have formed, the competitions

480
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,000
and the hard work, it's just it really really shows,

481
00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:26,960
and it's something that I'm proud of, and I'm proud

482
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,599
to see the growth of my co hosts and how

483
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,400
much work and time and effort that they put in it.

484
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,960
It is absolutely a team effort and they all make

485
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,920
for a very, very fantastic team. So here's to another

486
00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:44,920
ten years boys.

487
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Speaker 3: Hello Ron Dylan here, also known as the Adam Hart Caster,

488
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,680
And wouldn't you believe it, it is the tenth year of

489
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:59,160
Geek Verson. Absolutely insane sci fi number in terms of

490
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,039
how long this podcast has been occupying my life and

491
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,279
your life if you've been here for all those ten years.

492
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 4: Let's talk through. Let's reminisce, Let's.

493
00:27:08,519 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 3: Go back in the time machine and revisit the history

494
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,359
of geek Verse and how we got to where we

495
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,279
are today. First question, favorite era of geek Verse and

496
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,400
why this is a really tricky question. I think to

497
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,039
answer it, it kind of needed to define a little

498
00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:25,240
bit what are the eras? And this would be actually

499
00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:27,880
be a fun bread and butter topic really between the

500
00:27:28,319 --> 00:27:31,119
GV quads of us figure out what exactly are the

501
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,920
defined eras. For me, a really big part of it

502
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,240
comes down to like where we were when we were

503
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,319
recording it, which I know does not always translate to

504
00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:40,480
the viewer because if you are just a podcast listener,

505
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,880
you don't ever tune into the YouTube, you never really

506
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,880
see our backgrounds or where we are. But for me,

507
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,200
that's always kind of a big part of what the

508
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,039
eras feel like. So of course, it started way back

509
00:27:50,319 --> 00:27:53,839
in the you know, Jurassic era in my parents' basement,

510
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,920
the Dylan's basement era. That's where it all began, when

511
00:27:57,079 --> 00:27:59,960
before we had any video version, it was the original

512
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:06,920
five of us, myself Taylor, Kirkland, Travis, Jessica and yeah,

513
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,000
I mean that that was a wild era. We didn't

514
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,319
really know what we were doing. It was kind of

515
00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:11,920
the wild West. We were just talking about all sorts

516
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,880
of random stuff. We had very little structure, but it

517
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,880
was it was a fun, freeing time. We of course

518
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,279
all had one mic shared between the five of us,

519
00:28:19,279 --> 00:28:22,119
so the audio quality not great. That Mike sat upon

520
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,799
a we uh yeah, in my parents' basement. So that

521
00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:27,839
was a very fun era. I'll call that the classic

522
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:32,039
era of of geek first and then we kind of

523
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,640
scoot along and then this next era. I don't know,

524
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,319
there's kind of a lot of mini eras in it.

525
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,480
But for me, once again, I kind of defined a

526
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:40,880
little bit by like where I was and where we

527
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,200
were when we were recording these things. But you know,

528
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,160
we started recording at Travis's house, and He's had many

529
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,039
houses that we've recorded at over the years, but that

530
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,319
came with it, like these different vibes. Like for me,

531
00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:54,039
I think about this one room and one of Travis's

532
00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:57,000
houses where we did this where we kind of spawned

533
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,720
Netflix and fail. This is where like a lot of

534
00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:02,720
them rvill Netflix stuff happened, a lot of recording with

535
00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:05,839
like Emily and Kyle were on the podcast in those eras,

536
00:29:05,839 --> 00:29:07,880
and that was a really fun time. Hunka hunkah happened.

537
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,119
And then you know, if you watch those videos, I

538
00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:11,720
don't know what those crazy guys are doing, but that

539
00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:13,960
seemed to be the place that they congregated the most

540
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,319
for whatever reason. And then you know, Travis had like

541
00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:18,440
another house that we recorded in, the Custodome, one.

542
00:29:18,279 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 4: Of the houses that I have lived in.

543
00:29:20,279 --> 00:29:22,279
Speaker 3: And I feel like, you know, a little bit different

544
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,359
than that original classic era, the Dylan's Basement era. I

545
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,960
feel like we had a little bit more structure. We

546
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,839
started doing more than just like one episode a week.

547
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,559
We did like more dedicated episodes, more retrospectives, more spin

548
00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:34,799
off shows. And so I feel like, to use like

549
00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:36,960
a civilization term with the classic era, I feel like

550
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,720
this is like the exploration era. We were exploring around.

551
00:29:39,759 --> 00:29:42,720
We were trying a bunch of different ideas. Something stuck,

552
00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:45,279
somethings didn't. Some things we still kind of bring back

553
00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:47,240
every once in a while. But yeah, it was kind

554
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,240
of a time where we spread far and wide and

555
00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:51,839
tried to figure out what exactly we are as a

556
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,000
podcast and where we're gonna come, where we're going, that

557
00:29:54,039 --> 00:29:57,160
kind of stuff. And then I feel like, to me,

558
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,200
another era that you can kind of bulken bolted eros

559
00:29:59,279 --> 00:30:00,839
is like kind of the on line era. You know,

560
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,400
when Covid hit the world and we all went online.

561
00:30:04,519 --> 00:30:06,000
That was also a time when I moved to a

562
00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:08,720
new city. That was when I took my hiatus. I

563
00:30:08,759 --> 00:30:10,839
was gone for a bit, then I came back. We

564
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,799
kind of brought side Quest and Out of Men into

565
00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:14,839
the fold. So more of that gaming focus for me

566
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,599
in terms of what I was doing on the podcast,

567
00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:19,559
and you know, the online era meant that it was

568
00:30:19,599 --> 00:30:21,920
easier for us to record more things just because it

569
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:22,880
was more convenient for.

570
00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:23,359
Speaker 4: All of us.

571
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,559
Speaker 3: I also feel like with that era, a big change

572
00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:28,759
for me is like discord our discord becoming a much

573
00:30:28,759 --> 00:30:31,759
bigger thing. There a lot more discussions happening, more interaction

574
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,880
with patrons, whether that's just like after nine or like

575
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,440
bringing them into votes and like just figuring out what

576
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,880
like why our patreon should exist and justifying it. And

577
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,480
then also like a YouTube live chat and doing in

578
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,160
integrating more like live questions and things from the viewer.

579
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,039
So it just became a little bit more of like

580
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:51,400
a community and more conversation, and then just like you know,

581
00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:53,279
three to four to five of us sitting in a

582
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:57,400
bedroom or basement recording random thoughts. So I don't know,

583
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,640
it's really hard to pick between the favorites, but I'm

584
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,200
gonna go with that early Exploration era, and we had

585
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,079
like a little bit more structure, we were a little

586
00:31:04,079 --> 00:31:07,279
bit better at like doing podcast stuff, and we had like,

587
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,319
you know, a more exploration of the different shows and stuff.

588
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,440
I'll say that's my favorite because you know, honestly, as

589
00:31:12,519 --> 00:31:14,440
much as I think we've done great with the online

590
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,079
era and making it something special to me, there is

591
00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:19,559
still something super special about that in person conversation. I

592
00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:21,640
feel like that changes the dynamic, and so I think

593
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,279
that'll always be maybe my favorite, even if we have

594
00:31:24,359 --> 00:31:26,799
made the online I think work in a pretty reasonable way.

595
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,880
So I'm gonna go with that early I'm gonna call

596
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,880
it the Exploration era to use the civilization terms here. Yeah,

597
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,799
So there you go, there's my favorite era.

598
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,839
Speaker 4: Standout episodes.

599
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,799
Speaker 3: This is always a tricky question because I feel like

600
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,519
some of my favorite ones in the moment might just

601
00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:45,359
be what is essentially like a random newscast, and so

602
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,359
it's like, I couldn't tell you what number it was.

603
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,200
I probably should when I have those thoughts, I should

604
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,920
write down the number because we have it there. We

605
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,920
say at the top of every episode, I should write

606
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,279
it down so I can remember. But I feel like

607
00:31:54,519 --> 00:31:57,599
the newscast is kind of like where the show started,

608
00:31:58,279 --> 00:32:00,240
and so I feel like that there's something special about

609
00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:01,880
that one. It's just like a little bit less structure

610
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,680
in terms of one specific thing. But that's often where

611
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,599
we go off on these crazy tangents or end up

612
00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:09,839
sharing weird side stories. That's where some of the craziest,

613
00:32:09,839 --> 00:32:13,720
most hectic things happen a lot of laughter, So you know,

614
00:32:13,759 --> 00:32:15,720
that's not very specific that we are some specific things.

615
00:32:15,759 --> 00:32:16,759
Speaker 4: I think Weekly Geek has.

616
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,759
Speaker 3: Been a great addition to the series of shows that

617
00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:23,079
we do on Geek. First, whether that's like me having

618
00:32:23,079 --> 00:32:24,839
like a fun one on one conversation with someone, but

619
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,839
also for me as a listener, I love listening to

620
00:32:26,839 --> 00:32:29,680
Weekly Geek and getting like those intimate conversations between like

621
00:32:29,759 --> 00:32:32,480
just two of our members really discussing like certain topics.

622
00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:35,400
I think that's a really fun Golden Geeks is always

623
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,279
a hoot. I feel like everyone brings their a game.

624
00:32:37,319 --> 00:32:40,880
It's kind of like every year culminates toward this event,

625
00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:42,319
which is which is Golden Geeks.

626
00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:42,799
Speaker 2: We go all out.

627
00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:45,759
Speaker 3: It's always a big, juicy episode, always heated. Uh so

628
00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:49,839
that's always fun. The Arcane retrospective for me was, you know,

629
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:51,960
one of my big passion project things like just doing

630
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,920
a deep dive on every single game from my one

631
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:55,920
of my favorite video game studios. That was a really

632
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,720
great time. We've done so many retrospectives. They've all been

633
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:01,640
fun in some way or another. I think there's two

634
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,000
highlights for me would be the Saw retrospective. Becoming a

635
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,599
sawt freak through That retrospective was super fun. That was

636
00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:09,960
also one of our first ones, might be her first,

637
00:33:10,039 --> 00:33:11,599
maybe it was our second. It was a very early

638
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,960
on one, so that was a good time. And then

639
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,400
also the Lord of the Rings retrospective, just because that

640
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,640
was a long time coming. Those episodes, all of us

641
00:33:18,759 --> 00:33:21,920
really put in an extreme amount of effort, a lot

642
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,839
of planning, insane. I had like pages and pages of notes.

643
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,640
That was a super fun time, really great time to

644
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,279
have those conversations. Also kind of random, but like just

645
00:33:30,319 --> 00:33:33,319
the PS four era video games that were releasing a

646
00:33:33,359 --> 00:33:35,880
lot of those reviews, which mostly were me and Travis,

647
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,279
but sometimes you get someone else in there, like a

648
00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:40,720
Kirkland or something like those were We were also hyped

649
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,759
for all those games from the trailers at E three

650
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,039
to when we finally got the games, and I think

651
00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:48,359
those were always a really fun discussion, really in depth,

652
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,680
and usually there were multiple episodes long of like really

653
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,599
breaking down what all those games had to offer. But

654
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,039
those are really memorable. And then a recent one Kirkland

655
00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:58,519
September five review, we meet you on it these days

656
00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:01,359
because like its first big solo cast. I love that episode.

657
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,559
I think it's so fun. I think Kirklin's like earnest

658
00:34:05,039 --> 00:34:06,200
nature comes through.

659
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,359
Speaker 4: It in such a fun way.

660
00:34:07,839 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 3: So very happy that we finally got a solo episode

661
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,360
from kirkle Passer. And I want more, Kirklin, if you're

662
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:17,840
listening to this, I want more. Let's see favorite spin

663
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,559
off shows. So yeah, we've had a lot over the

664
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:22,960
year of over the years, of course out of Mana

665
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,079
in side Quest, so if anyone forgets out of Manna

666
00:34:25,119 --> 00:34:26,719
I kind of did, Like it was like between ten

667
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:27,599
and fifteen episodes of it.

668
00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:29,519
Speaker 4: It was a video game focused show, more.

669
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,599
Speaker 3: Deep dive on certain topics, had like a ranking side

670
00:34:31,599 --> 00:34:34,039
of it that kind of existed right before side Quest,

671
00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:36,000
and then kind of subsequently side Quest, and then it's

672
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:38,559
kind of just been side Quest. There's been less space

673
00:34:38,599 --> 00:34:40,000
for what Out of Mana is, but I still think

674
00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:41,920
it is a unique, interesting show. I'm really happy with

675
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,400
where those shows are at right now, and so that's

676
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,559
definitely reinvigorated me after a little hiatus the online era.

677
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,079
I think I needed a little zest to get me

678
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,840
hyped again on the podcast, and that those shows did

679
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,920
it for me, just because I'm a gamer.

680
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 4: What can I say? Other ones?

681
00:34:58,239 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 3: Netflix and Failed, It's been a long time since we've

682
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,360
done because Netflix changed their rating system and it made

683
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,719
less sense. But I always loved Netflix and Fail. That

684
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,719
was super fun after nine, you know, getting to know

685
00:35:08,159 --> 00:35:11,039
the people who are part of our community much deeper

686
00:35:11,079 --> 00:35:13,079
and laughing with them and sharing moments or are they

687
00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:14,519
doing watch along movies?

688
00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:15,199
Speaker 4: Whatever it is.

689
00:35:15,559 --> 00:35:18,559
Speaker 3: I always appreciate Afternoon. It's a super great time. The

690
00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:20,800
Retrospectives I kind of mentioned a couple of my highlights there,

691
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,119
but I love the Retrospectives. If you consider that a

692
00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:24,400
spin off show, I don't know if you do, but

693
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,400
I kind of do. The wrestling matches, I don't know

694
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,280
where you put those are not really like a spinoff show,

695
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,039
but they're a multi series thing that's happened. It's not

696
00:35:32,079 --> 00:35:35,159
quite the Gauntlet. It's like its own little thing. It's

697
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:37,880
been fun too, because, like you know, the first ones,

698
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,880
I was there in person, and then I've been not

699
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,320
in the same city as the rest of the boys,

700
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,960
and so I kind of see them from afar. But

701
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,159
then I have to do the commentary still with Connor,

702
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,400
and like that's always crazy because we don't know what

703
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,000
to expect. It's crazy and wild. And then you to

704
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,559
see the final product once it's been through Travis's editing

705
00:35:53,599 --> 00:35:55,639
sequence and get like that final thing. It's always a

706
00:35:55,639 --> 00:35:59,800
great time. And then a couple other ones here Travis

707
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,400
tole you, you know, shout us to Travis here of course, uh,

708
00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:05,440
great talker, a talker, a man of many words. And

709
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,400
I think, you know, for a lot of podcasts to

710
00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:10,159
be like, wait, there's a podcast now that's just like

711
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,199
only one of you, Like I think in in theory,

712
00:36:13,199 --> 00:36:14,719
for a lot of people to what that's you know,

713
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,119
I want I want the group here, But I think

714
00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:18,960
it just shows how good Travis is at what he does,

715
00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:20,800
and how many thoughts he has to share, and how

716
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,320
much restraint even though you might think he talks a lot,

717
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,840
but I feel like there's a lot of restraint in

718
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,000
what he does in a regular newscast or review whatever,

719
00:36:27,199 --> 00:36:28,760
because he could just keep going, but you know, he

720
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,960
has to allow space for the rest of us on here.

721
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,079
And I think that the fact that he took what

722
00:36:33,199 --> 00:36:35,880
is essentially just like, you know, one fourth of a

723
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,159
GV episode all about himself and then like blowed out

724
00:36:39,159 --> 00:36:40,920
into this huge thing that like people are hype for.

725
00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 4: I'm hyped for. I love listening to it.

726
00:36:43,079 --> 00:36:45,039
Speaker 3: You know, there's always so much live chat in questions

727
00:36:45,039 --> 00:36:47,239
that people have for it. I think it's like just

728
00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:50,639
a testingment to how good he is at being a brand,

729
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,079
like branding things and making things feel like events. And

730
00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:56,159
like somehow he did that with just like one guy

731
00:36:56,199 --> 00:36:57,599
talking to microphone, I think is amazing.

732
00:36:57,639 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 4: So I love Travis told you.

733
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,159
Speaker 3: And then also, you know, maybe don't consider there's a

734
00:37:01,159 --> 00:37:03,199
spinoff of GEK Verse, but I kind of do. Cryptid

735
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,280
Clues Taylor's solo podcas well mostly solo because Ruben. You know, Ruben,

736
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,480
what's going on. Taylor needs a hand here, Come on,

737
00:37:09,559 --> 00:37:12,079
jump in there, help him out. But either I love

738
00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:14,440
the Taylor solo episodes of Crypto Clues. I'm a patron

739
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,079
of Crypto Clues. I listened to almost every episode. I

740
00:37:18,119 --> 00:37:20,119
really love that show. I think it's so much fun.

741
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,519
So shout outs to that once again. It might not

742
00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:23,920
be a spinoff of geek Verse, but I kind of

743
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,840
consider it to be one. I don't know how I

744
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,159
should ask Taylor if he considers this spinoff. We'll see

745
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:29,719
what his answer to this question is when he gets

746
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:35,880
to it. All right, memories from the Gauntlet, favorite match

747
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,440
you competed in, a favorite match other people competed in.

748
00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:41,480
So the first one that came to mind when I

749
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,639
when this came up was the Super Smash Pros. I

750
00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:47,400
think it was a six way battle we did between

751
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:47,880
a variety.

752
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 4: I can't remember.

753
00:37:48,679 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 3: Who all the six people were, but I do remember

754
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,280
that specifically, me and Clinton were on the commentary side

755
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,400
of things, and that was just such a joy for me. Obviously,

756
00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:58,719
such a big Smash Pros fan, and I understand I'm

757
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,239
way better than the rest of them. They don't send

758
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,039
a chance, so I can't be in there with the

759
00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:04,599
match with them, but to commentate it and really break

760
00:38:04,599 --> 00:38:05,719
it down was a really good times.

761
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,079
Speaker 4: That was a super memorable one.

762
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,119
Speaker 3: I think the sports side of things, you know, we

763
00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:11,719
all kind of jumped in and out, but it was

764
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,679
mostly like Kyle, Travis and Kirkland doing in those sports matches.

765
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,639
I think those are always entertaining, even though I'm not

766
00:38:16,679 --> 00:38:19,440
really into like traditional sports games, but I think those

767
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,800
matches always produced really exciting results and really you know,

768
00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:27,880
just slobburr knockers, I guess to use that term, super

769
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,559
exciting stuff. One of the og ones Travis versus Emily

770
00:38:30,599 --> 00:38:33,800
and GoldenEye a classic. Go back and watch that if

771
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,360
you haven't seen it, if you just search Travis, Emily GoldenEye,

772
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,119
it should pop up on YouTube. Go back check that

773
00:38:39,159 --> 00:38:42,039
one out. Anytime Kirkland and Taylor to fight in cod

774
00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:44,760
That's always a classic. I think any Mario Sports game

775
00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:47,559
always created because of the randomness that a Mario Sports

776
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:49,119
game has creates the.

777
00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:50,199
Speaker 4: Just insane stuff.

778
00:38:50,599 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 3: And then you know, the personal high for me, of

779
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,159
course is the original gound that the original tournament when

780
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,719
spoiler alert for a ten year old thing when I

781
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,119
took it all, you know, that was crazy. That was

782
00:39:01,159 --> 00:39:04,199
a lot of matches. It was some games I'm familiar with,

783
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,320
some I'm not so familiar with. I felt like a legend.

784
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,559
And then me and everyone else were shocked, well except

785
00:39:09,559 --> 00:39:11,519
for Tracks, were shocked when I lost the belt after

786
00:39:11,559 --> 00:39:13,639
one match. I don't know how wrestling works, but I

787
00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:16,159
guess in the wrestling a guy could do all these tournaments,

788
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:17,679
win the belt, and then like all in one match

789
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,159
and you can lose the belt. So I feel like,

790
00:39:19,159 --> 00:39:21,760
in all that hype that I built up, all the

791
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,719
fight and I had to do, I lost like one

792
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,400
game and then and then it was taken away from me,

793
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,000
and I was forever heartbroken at that and I could

794
00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:29,960
never quite recapture that hype. But I was the original

795
00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:32,719
Gauntlet champion and that feels great. And that was That

796
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,440
was a great tournament. That was a super fun time.

797
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,480
I'm not salty. I've gotten over it. I have Yeah,

798
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:39,599
I'm okay, I'm.

799
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,199
Speaker 4: Okay, I've accepted it. I had.

800
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 3: I had a good run in Gauntlet. I had some

801
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:48,000
good w's in my Guntlet career. There extra life and

802
00:39:48,039 --> 00:39:49,480
the memories from it, you know, I think a lot

803
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,920
of geek first, what we do? You know, we're talking

804
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,480
about video games, talking about movies, talking about random stuff,

805
00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:57,039
and sometimes it feels like what we what are we

806
00:39:57,159 --> 00:39:59,360
doing in this world? We're spending all this time, hours

807
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,360
and hours and hours every week, every month, every year,

808
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:02,639
doing it for ten years.

809
00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 4: What do we what are we doing? Are we making

810
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:04,800
a difference?

811
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,039
Speaker 3: And I think hopefully for a lot of people who listen,

812
00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:09,280
who are still listening after all these years, I think

813
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,920
we probably do make a difference in your life. But

814
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,599
sometimes it's hard to conceptualize that as a human being,

815
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,920
you know. But I think Extra Life is a way

816
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,320
where we can really just be like, Wow, we're doing

817
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,000
something good for the world. We're raising a lot of

818
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,400
money for a super important cause, and that feels great

819
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,760
every single time, even if we don't always hit our

820
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,800
goal or a little under from the year before, whatever

821
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,159
it is some you know, some of them. It's hard

822
00:40:30,199 --> 00:40:33,599
to break those records every time, but it still just

823
00:40:33,599 --> 00:40:35,239
feels like if you look at the overall number that

824
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,079
we've raised, like it once again, in terms of you know,

825
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,239
helping out. I don't know, I don't know exactly what

826
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,280
my dollar has done, but it still feels great that

827
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,559
we've been able to do that something I'm always you know,

828
00:40:45,679 --> 00:40:47,719
grateful for the community for that they support us on,

829
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,480
and yeah, just something I'd want to do forever, even

830
00:40:50,519 --> 00:40:53,199
if you know, the twenty four hours is difficult, but

831
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,440
I think it's it's just great to see a difference.

832
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 4: I think the highlight is definitely.

833
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 3: Got to be those wee hours, those freaky hours like

834
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,760
three to four to five a people are weird. You

835
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,719
really see Kirkland's like high school sleepover vibes where he's

836
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,199
who even knows what he's saying anymore, He's just you know,

837
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,840
turned into a whole new person. It's hilarious to see

838
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,119
that kind of stuff. So yeah, I think those wee

839
00:41:14,159 --> 00:41:15,920
hours always highlights for me. Of course we always like

840
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,079
rolled gonded into there, so those are always a good

841
00:41:18,119 --> 00:41:20,000
way to like want it burned through a lot of

842
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
the hours and it felt like it went by really quick.

843
00:41:22,039 --> 00:41:25,760
But also it is like super intense, high octane matches

844
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,360
and then you know, a more recent edition of the

845
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,199
twenty four hour streams something just fell off my microphone

846
00:41:32,119 --> 00:41:35,679
is the Trivia Battles, which has been really fun because

847
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:37,639
through that I've got to meet a bunch of other

848
00:41:37,679 --> 00:41:40,400
podcasters that I would not have met otherwise. Thanks to

849
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,000
Travis for setting up that and making up all those connections.

850
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,480
But yeah, it's been fun. Like I've made questions for

851
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,360
the last couple of ones and I like doing that

852
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:47,920
kind of stuff.

853
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:48,599
Speaker 4: It's really fun.

854
00:41:49,519 --> 00:41:51,639
Speaker 3: So shouts to the trivia battles. Those are always super

855
00:41:51,639 --> 00:41:53,360
fun as well. You know, pretty complicated, a lot of

856
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,760
people got everything right. Things come through the stream in

857
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,880
the right way. It's a tech side of things. It's

858
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,119
hard to do, but it's always worth it for the

859
00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:05,119
final product in my opinion. All Right, some thoughts on

860
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,440
my co conspirators here.

861
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:09,119
Speaker 4: There's so many of them.

862
00:42:09,159 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 3: Of course, you know, you got, like me, Kirkland, Taylor,

863
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,400
Travis kind of the core for it now, but there's

864
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,519
been many people who have contributed to what makes geek

865
00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:18,400
versus what it is at this point in time. But

866
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,920
let's start with those boys. So Kirkland, you know, here's

867
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,360
the thing. When we're doing a podcasts, it's one take.

868
00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:28,519
We don't re record things, don't don't we don't practice,

869
00:42:28,519 --> 00:42:30,800
we don't have a script. You kind of just have

870
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,239
to go for it. And I know, for myself, I

871
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,079
feel like, you know, I try to always come as

872
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:38,039
prepared I as I possibly can. But some days you're

873
00:42:38,079 --> 00:42:40,400
just not feeling the best, or maybe you're just not

874
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,679
feeling particularly upbeat or funny on that given day, or

875
00:42:43,679 --> 00:42:45,119
maybe you just don't feel like you have a really

876
00:42:45,159 --> 00:42:47,440
interesting take on a movie, but you're still there and

877
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,920
you still got a review it, or maybe back in

878
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,480
the basement days when it's like, maybe I'm not feeling

879
00:42:51,519 --> 00:42:53,559
great on a day, but everyone records at my host

880
00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:55,159
so I have to be on every episode. I can't

881
00:42:55,159 --> 00:42:57,480
miss an episode, and you know, sometimes I just feel

882
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,920
like I haven't produced the best podcast ever.

883
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 4: It's just natural.

884
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 3: I'm a human being. We do want to take that's

885
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,639
how it goes. But I feel like Kirkland so consistent.

886
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,239
I can't think of a time where I've been like, oh,

887
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,599
Kirkling really dropped the ball in this episode, or why

888
00:43:12,679 --> 00:43:15,039
was he here? You know that maybe he sounds rude,

889
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,280
but no, he's always just so much crushes it. He's

890
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,119
super consistent. I think he brings one. He's super funny,

891
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,159
he brings like a type of optimism at times. I

892
00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:27,400
feel like he's really great at the counterpoints I feel

893
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,320
like I just feel he's never off his game. He's

894
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:34,079
always He's always a great addition to any podcast. So

895
00:43:34,639 --> 00:43:36,199
ches Kirkling for that, I think, I don't think that's

896
00:43:36,199 --> 00:43:38,679
easy to do. And once again, more solo stuff because

897
00:43:38,679 --> 00:43:40,079
I want to say, you know, I want a podcast

898
00:43:40,119 --> 00:43:42,280
with him, of course, but I also want to just

899
00:43:42,599 --> 00:43:44,760
ingest more Kirkland solo episodes because that was a very

900
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,400
fun energy to that. So go check out that September

901
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,719
five review, even if you haven't seen that movie. Taylor Field,

902
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:57,280
this guy's crazy. He's super creative. He always has wild takes.

903
00:43:57,679 --> 00:44:01,760
I think he's been very bold about creator shows, creating content.

904
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:04,639
He has a lot of ownership over that stuff as well.

905
00:44:06,199 --> 00:44:07,880
I think the optimism, it's funny. I feel like in

906
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,079
the first few years, my compliment to Taylor would always

907
00:44:10,119 --> 00:44:12,360
be he's always super optimistic, and that's a great thing

908
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:13,719
to have on an episode.

909
00:44:14,039 --> 00:44:15,079
Speaker 4: I feel like that's actually shifted.

910
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:17,599
Speaker 3: I don't think he's always just super optimistic about everything anymore,

911
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,679
but I still feel like he has a lot of that.

912
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,800
He is still usually like a very positive vibe. You

913
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,280
know you can you can still you can shoot on

914
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,960
a movie in a positive way at the same time,

915
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,199
and I feel like Taylor is really good at doing that.

916
00:44:30,039 --> 00:44:32,519
And I think, you know, this just happened. He and

917
00:44:32,519 --> 00:44:34,800
I just recorded a Sidequest episode right before I'm recording this.

918
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,079
And when when Taylor is like super passionate about something,

919
00:44:39,119 --> 00:44:41,119
I feel like he's better.

920
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:41,559
Speaker 4: Than all of us.

921
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 3: You know, he's super eloquent. He doesn't ramble on like

922
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,440
I'm doing now or like I often do. He's just

923
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,559
like really to the point. He was his big strong

924
00:44:49,679 --> 00:44:54,599
smart words. He sounds so smart, and I want I

925
00:44:54,679 --> 00:44:57,480
want that skill. Sometimes I feel like I really need

926
00:44:57,519 --> 00:44:59,039
some of that. And so I feel like when Taylor's

927
00:44:59,039 --> 00:45:01,840
really passionate about something, it's unlike anything else you forget.

928
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,639
So obviously if you put him in the in the

929
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,679
in the ring with like a Star Wars topic or

930
00:45:06,679 --> 00:45:08,960
something he's obviously passionate about, well obviously you're gonna get

931
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,199
like top notched tailor content. But then like it'll be

932
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,360
random stuff too, Like even if he's not necessarily passion

933
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,400
about the topic, but he's passionate about like the conversation

934
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,400
around it. I think you just get like this, I

935
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,519
don't know, super amazing creative takes. And of course you

936
00:45:20,599 --> 00:45:22,480
got it. He's like he's just a hot take machine

937
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,480
without trying to be like a hot take machine, which

938
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,079
a lot of podcasts are just people just trying to

939
00:45:27,079 --> 00:45:29,639
make hot takes. But he's just tailor and so no

940
00:45:29,639 --> 00:45:32,440
no other podcast has a tailor except for Cryptid Clues.

941
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 4: So go check out that Travis.

942
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,039
Speaker 3: What isn't there to say about this guy? He's he's

943
00:45:40,079 --> 00:45:44,679
the glue, He's the captain. Uh you know, he's I

944
00:45:44,679 --> 00:45:47,760
feel like you might think of Travis boisterous, maybe thinking

945
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,679
not so humble, but he's like the most humble guy

946
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,800
I know in a way because just ninety at least

947
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,599
ninety percent probably way more than that of percent of

948
00:45:55,599 --> 00:45:58,280
like geek first stuff where there's the shows, the ideas,

949
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,679
the planning, whatever is it's like all him.

950
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 4: He he drives this thing.

951
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:08,159
Speaker 3: It's like his dedication is has what made probably Geekers

952
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,800
last for ten years, honestly is just his drive, his dedication,

953
00:46:13,119 --> 00:46:15,880
his branding, as I mentioned, his like creative ideas, his

954
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,920
little ideas, his big ideas, and like so much credit

955
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,960
to him and a lot and I think he could

956
00:46:21,599 --> 00:46:24,119
brag about that stuff a lot more, but he doesn't

957
00:46:24,119 --> 00:46:26,079
because he has that like humble side to him, and

958
00:46:26,119 --> 00:46:27,800
you know, I just want to stomp on us and

959
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,840
make us look like a little weaklings don't do anything

960
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,199
on this podcast. But I think that's just I don't know.

961
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:35,559
Something I really appreciate about him. He's he's always thinking

962
00:46:35,599 --> 00:46:37,679
like I can think like two or three steps ahead,

963
00:46:37,679 --> 00:46:39,320
He's thinking like ten steps ahead.

964
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 4: All the time. I don't know. I don't know how

965
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,000
he does it. And even here's.

966
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 3: Another example what makes Travis so great. Travis is the guy.

967
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,840
He will be there if you know, this happened recently.

968
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,920
There was a you know, all out myself here. I

969
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:52,800
was supposed to appear on the last of his episode

970
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,480
with kirkl Patzer. Everyone else was busy that night, but

971
00:46:55,519 --> 00:46:57,079
then I became busy last minute, and you know who

972
00:46:57,079 --> 00:47:00,480
stepped up. Travis stepped up. He joined any Field Spot

973
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,760
and they released that episode. This also happened like last week.

974
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,239
You know, kirkla was sick, he couldn't do the episode.

975
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,360
It was kind of a last minute thing. Travis stepped

976
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,400
up and we did a weekly Geek that week. So

977
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,719
he just and those are two reason examples from like

978
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,320
two weeks ago, but this is constant. He's always doing this,

979
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,679
So shout outs to Travis for that.

980
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:20,079
Speaker 1: And somehow.

981
00:47:20,599 --> 00:47:21,639
Speaker 3: I don't know how he does it. I don't know

982
00:47:21,639 --> 00:47:23,960
if it's like he doesn't sleep. I don't know if

983
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,360
he's like got some time machine thing. But I feel

984
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,880
like Travis has unlocked thirty hours in a day. Everyone

985
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,440
else is twenty four. He has thirty and he uses

986
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,960
that to make Geek Versus what it is and also

987
00:47:34,039 --> 00:47:36,360
make movies and all the other stuff. You know, incredibly

988
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,800
a creative guy. So everyone, you should all be lucky

989
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,679
that somehow Travis has a super power. He has thirty

990
00:47:41,679 --> 00:47:43,800
hours in a day and he uses it to make

991
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,480
this amazing content for all of you. So you know,

992
00:47:46,639 --> 00:47:49,039
thank thank Trevis for that. If you haven't, go thank

993
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:51,800
him right now. Find him on Twitter. I don't think

994
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,320
he's on Blue Sky. I foud him on Facebook. Find

995
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,119
him on the YouTube section. Drop a five star review

996
00:47:56,599 --> 00:48:00,119
of how Great Geek Versus, but also how Great Travis.

997
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 4: Specifically.

998
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 3: Next up, Amber formally known as Tyler Brigs. She's changed

999
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:09,840
her name recently, so I miss having Amber on the

1000
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,000
podcast so much. I think Amber was always incredibly intelligent,

1001
00:48:13,159 --> 00:48:17,000
always nuanced takes, always kind of a different take, than

1002
00:48:17,039 --> 00:48:20,079
someone else, And so I think it added like just

1003
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:24,159
so much to conversations and reviews, and I think like,

1004
00:48:24,559 --> 00:48:26,280
to some I don't want to like down I don't

1005
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,000
want to make our content sound worse. But I feel

1006
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,320
like Amber made our content better in a lot of ways.

1007
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,400
There are a lot of our very specific reviews just

1008
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,679
because of the way she thinks about the world. And

1009
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,360
I feel like, sometimes you don't want to stomp on

1010
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,599
your podcasters toes. Maybe someone's having a big heated monologue.

1011
00:48:40,599 --> 00:48:43,159
You don't want to cut in and like ruin their point,

1012
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:44,360
or you don't want to, like if someone has some

1013
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:45,800
really good take, you don't want to like just downplay.

1014
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,719
It's like, oh, I disagree with that. It can be

1015
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,519
hard to come up with a good counter argument. I

1016
00:48:49,519 --> 00:48:51,719
feel like Amber was so good. I come up with

1017
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,400
counter arguments and just like, actually, I'm gonna challenge what

1018
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,159
you just said, and like here's the reasons why. Then

1019
00:48:56,159 --> 00:48:58,239
we'd end up having like a really good conversation. Sometimes

1020
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,760
it would turn heated, but that makes for good content,

1021
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,960
you know. And it wasn't her just forcing those interactions,

1022
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,679
it's just how she is. So I definitely desperately want

1023
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,760
her back. On the podcast more. I think, Yeah, I

1024
00:49:09,039 --> 00:49:11,920
really miss her her contribution. So hopefully someday, I'm sure

1025
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,559
the odd episodes will pop in, But yeah, she's gone

1026
00:49:14,559 --> 00:49:17,559
on quite the quite her journey since since being on

1027
00:49:17,599 --> 00:49:18,599
the podcast full time.

1028
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:20,119
Speaker 4: Jessica.

1029
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 3: Jessica is one super funny but I also think there's

1030
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,119
a certain I'm sure everyone has this in their life

1031
00:49:27,159 --> 00:49:28,800
where there's just certain people who are just like the

1032
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,320
best hype people, where like they'll always laugh at your

1033
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,719
jokes and not because they're trying to make them like

1034
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:37,920
you or something, they're just they're just naturally very goofy

1035
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:39,920
people or some people they like to laugh. And I

1036
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,599
feel like that's Jessica. She just is laughing all the time.

1037
00:49:42,639 --> 00:49:44,599
She has a great laugh making everyone just feel good

1038
00:49:44,599 --> 00:49:46,920
about themselves, whether it's their take or like a funny

1039
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,559
joke they made. And so I feel like that is

1040
00:49:49,599 --> 00:49:52,880
a really great energy to have on a podcast. And

1041
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,519
so yeah, I just think she like improves the energy

1042
00:49:55,559 --> 00:49:59,079
of an episode she's on, and so I definitely miss

1043
00:49:59,079 --> 00:50:01,119
having her on more of the these episodes. And I

1044
00:50:01,199 --> 00:50:05,400
also feel like she also has very like opposite tastes

1045
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,320
to a lot of us, and so offered like very

1046
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,760
different perspective on certain movies and maybe had like I

1047
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,719
don't know, maybe less critical of like certain like writing issues,

1048
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,559
but then like it brings the hype in like other

1049
00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:17,079
ways on certain things. So I feel like there was

1050
00:50:17,119 --> 00:50:20,719
a certain are certain whimsy to her review style that

1051
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,280
like brought something different to the podcast that is definitely

1052
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:24,000
sort ofly missed.

1053
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 4: So I don't know.

1054
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,159
Speaker 3: I'm definitely planning on bringing her back for a lot

1055
00:50:27,199 --> 00:50:29,000
more sidequest stuff in the near future. She just has

1056
00:50:29,079 --> 00:50:32,000
to figure out a microphone situation at internet thing, but

1057
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,800
I'm gonna be bringing her back a lot more so,

1058
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,880
you know, I look forward to some more Jessica on

1059
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,440
on geek Ferst content in particular. So obviously those are

1060
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,480
the kind of the main main crew members from over

1061
00:50:42,519 --> 00:50:45,480
the years, but some shows, some other people, Rubin. I

1062
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,320
have not really done a lot of podcasts with Ruben.

1063
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:49,400
It's more just like him and Taylor doing stuff together.

1064
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,880
But I feel like, if Taylor is like the angel

1065
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,480
on your shoulder, Ruben's like the devil on the other shoulder.

1066
00:50:54,519 --> 00:50:56,639
And I mean that in the most loving way possible.

1067
00:50:56,639 --> 00:51:01,159
But those two and they're dynamic together is incredibly bizarre

1068
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,719
and and wacky and super entertaining, and obviously that's why

1069
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,920
they've done multiple shows together, whether it's Geeks Creed or

1070
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,719
Road or Not, or Cryptid Clues and all these other things.

1071
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:12,840
They're just there's a great duo together. So shout outs

1072
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:14,639
to Rubin and his contribution. I also think he was

1073
00:51:14,639 --> 00:51:17,679
a good gauntlet a performer, whether it was the character

1074
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:19,880
stuff or just the gameplay side of things. I think

1075
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,800
he just he knew how to be a hype man.

1076
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,840
He knew how to be exciting on camera. So shout

1077
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:25,519
outs to Rubin.

1078
00:51:26,559 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 4: Kyle.

1079
00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:30,760
Speaker 3: Kyle is just such a funny guy, super duper kind,

1080
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,079
maybe the kindest out of all of us, So we

1081
00:51:33,159 --> 00:51:35,239
need more of him on the podcast. I missed doing

1082
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,639
a lot of the one There's the Spidy retrospective or

1083
00:51:37,639 --> 00:51:39,199
some of the Marvel Netflix things with him.

1084
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:40,679
Speaker 5: You know.

1085
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:41,519
Speaker 4: It's like usually like.

1086
00:51:41,559 --> 00:51:43,760
Speaker 3: Me and him, Travis, maybe Emily in there too, Like

1087
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,840
that was a really fun kind of group of people,

1088
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:47,440
and I think he just, yeah, he just he just

1089
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,480
brings like a good positive energy to it. So yeah,

1090
00:51:50,519 --> 00:51:53,719
I definitely miss having Kyle on more stuff. Quick show

1091
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,519
to Liam, because like I don't think I've only podcasted

1092
00:51:56,559 --> 00:51:58,000
with him maybe a couple of times, but he was

1093
00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,920
in a lot more things with with Kyle and Trav.

1094
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,280
Liam is a guy that will make you feel emotions

1095
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,360
to things because of how strongly he talked about something.

1096
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,119
Usually it was like hating on something, but sometimes it

1097
00:52:09,199 --> 00:52:12,079
was loving something too, and it was like, maybe he's

1098
00:52:12,079 --> 00:52:14,199
loving something I hate or he hates something that I love.

1099
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,599
But either way, he always made me feel, you know,

1100
00:52:16,599 --> 00:52:19,719
I would always be jitterating my seat, you know, seething

1101
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,519
or just praising whatever his take was. I just feel

1102
00:52:22,519 --> 00:52:25,119
like he's he's a very end of the spectrum kind

1103
00:52:25,119 --> 00:52:26,519
of guy in some of his takes, and I think

1104
00:52:26,519 --> 00:52:29,280
that was always very exciting. And then quick showed it

1105
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,119
to Clinton, Sarahs, and Connor who have not really been

1106
00:52:32,119 --> 00:52:34,280
on like geek first podcast episodes, but have always been

1107
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:35,880
there for like twenty four hour stream stuff or like

1108
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:39,440
I said, Connor with a commentary on the Gone not

1109
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:41,719
the Gone with the wrestling matches. I think those three

1110
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,119
guys always like their contribution, even if it was, you know,

1111
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,559
not really on the podcast side of things. Although Sarahs

1112
00:52:46,559 --> 00:52:49,119
has been on a couple of reviews, so shout outs

1113
00:52:49,159 --> 00:52:51,880
to him for that. For the Eldon Ring stuff in particular,

1114
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,760
and then you know, lastly, like the patrons because of

1115
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,639
course years and years ago now we started after night

1116
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,159
and so it's not just us on the podcast to

1117
00:53:00,159 --> 00:53:03,159
you the listener as well. So please, if you want

1118
00:53:03,199 --> 00:53:05,079
to join us, all you have to do is hit

1119
00:53:05,159 --> 00:53:07,239
up the Patreon. You can be part of those episodes,

1120
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:10,719
whether it's yeah, a crazy watch along or you know,

1121
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,639
just an episode talking about the things we've been watching,

1122
00:53:12,639 --> 00:53:15,239
a hot button issue. And then also you know, just

1123
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:18,000
whether your Patreon or not, but hopping into the YouTube

1124
00:53:18,039 --> 00:53:21,800
live chat like just answer, like bring up good questions

1125
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,920
that can lead to better podcast discussions, and you know,

1126
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,480
patreons obviously throwing in questions as well through the Patreon

1127
00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:28,960
side of thing that we bring into the episode. Like,

1128
00:53:29,519 --> 00:53:32,239
you guys make our episodes better, You make our discussions

1129
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,760
more nuanced. You offer takes that we don't have or

1130
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,280
perspectives that we maybe would have skipped otherwise on a review.

1131
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,159
And so yeah, like our episodes or reviews would not

1132
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,960
be at the quality that they are without all the

1133
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,320
contribution from the community stuff as well. So yeah, thank

1134
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,639
you all for you know, you're part of the team

1135
00:53:48,679 --> 00:53:51,679
as well. To some extent, so you know, lastly, just

1136
00:53:52,119 --> 00:53:55,440
continue that like a thank you to everyone for listening,

1137
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,920
whether you've been listening for ten years or seven days,

1138
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,960
I don't care, Like, thank you so much for all

1139
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,400
of this. You know, I was thinking about this too,

1140
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,360
like geek first ten years coming up. I'm also turning

1141
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,079
thirty this year, which means that I started doing Geek

1142
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:10,440
first when I was twenty.

1143
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 4: I guess.

1144
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:14,559
Speaker 3: And so you know, this podcasts like in a large

1145
00:54:14,599 --> 00:54:17,280
way to find my twenties in the last ten years

1146
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,480
of my life. And it's just such a different trajectory

1147
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,320
than I would have expected prior to that. But like

1148
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,360
it's been such a great thing to have in my life.

1149
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,719
I know it's made me a better person. I think

1150
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,519
it's made me a lot more confident or outgoing. It's

1151
00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:33,400
really defined who I am in a lot of ways.

1152
00:54:33,639 --> 00:54:36,079
And so that really just comes down to the fans.

1153
00:54:36,119 --> 00:54:38,239
And like, you know, if we had no fans, I'm

1154
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,679
sure we could have got a year worth of podcasting

1155
00:54:41,119 --> 00:54:43,320
just talking into the void, and then eventually like, okay,

1156
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:44,519
let's just kill the podcast.

1157
00:54:44,519 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 4: We'll just hang out and be friends. We don't need

1158
00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:46,599
a podcast.

1159
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,159
Speaker 3: But somehow it just kept growing and kept growing and

1160
00:54:49,199 --> 00:54:52,760
kept growing and continues to and that's just great to

1161
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,960
see and then obviously eventually integrating more with that community

1162
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,880
stuff that I've talked about already. So yeah, I mean,

1163
00:54:59,119 --> 00:55:02,039
a huge thank you to all of you for listening,

1164
00:55:02,639 --> 00:55:05,079
whether you are you know, leaving comments, whether you're just

1165
00:55:05,079 --> 00:55:06,440
at a lurker shows to lurkers.

1166
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 4: I'm a lurker too.

1167
00:55:07,159 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 3: When it comes to a podcast that I'm listening to,

1168
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,360
whether you're sending in questions, joining on after nine, uh,

1169
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,880
you know, supporting on Patreon, or just or just listening,

1170
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:17,599
or if you tell a friend whatever, it is, like,

1171
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,880
thank you so much because I can't imagine what my

1172
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,079
last my last ten years would have looke completely different

1173
00:55:23,119 --> 00:55:23,480
were it not.

1174
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,199
Speaker 4: For this podcast. And it's only because of you guys

1175
00:55:25,199 --> 00:55:26,599
that it has got to look like this.

1176
00:55:26,639 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 3: And I'm very happy with my life, and you know,

1177
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:31,840
it's just because because of the podcast in a big way.

1178
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,239
So thank you everyone for listening. I mean, it's it,

1179
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,079
we say it all the time, but it truly does

1180
00:55:36,199 --> 00:55:38,599
mean the world to us that you allow us to

1181
00:55:38,639 --> 00:55:40,719
do this. You know, obviously we're not like full time

1182
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,840
employees or anything like this, but we do you know,

1183
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,840
we do get to do this a lot, and that

1184
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:46,440
you know, it's a really fun.

1185
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 4: Thing to do and it's uh feel.

1186
00:55:48,199 --> 00:55:51,079
Speaker 3: A very privileged in a way. So yeah, thank you

1187
00:55:51,159 --> 00:55:54,920
so much for the first ten years. Will we make

1188
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,000
another ten years? Only one way to find out, and

1189
00:55:57,039 --> 00:56:00,519
that is to keep listening or ceter a. Google, remind

1190
00:56:00,519 --> 00:56:02,199
her whatever in your calendar for ten years and then

1191
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:03,840
I'll subscribe and come back in ten years and see

1192
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:05,719
what happens. But you know, we'd rather have you along

1193
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,159
on the journey with us. Thank you, thank you, thank

1194
00:56:09,199 --> 00:56:11,559
you for this. Thank you for Travis for once again

1195
00:56:11,599 --> 00:56:13,880
he's he drives the boat and he sent these questions

1196
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,400
and he's getting this video together.

1197
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 4: So thank you to Travis. That's I don't know to

1198
00:56:19,039 --> 00:56:20,880
end this. Am I the last one to speak? I

1199
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,039
don't know. We'll find out.

1200
00:56:22,559 --> 00:56:36,519
Speaker 6: Byebye, Hello, ladies and gentlemen, friends and family, sentient AI

1201
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,639
alien from another realm, whoever might be listening to this

1202
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:43,719
from the past, future present.

1203
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 5: Whenever we are here. By we, I mean me and

1204
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:49,840
maybe other people that are spliced in this video. I

1205
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,519
don't know how Travis is splicing this together, but anyways,

1206
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:55,960
it is the ten year anniversary of geek first podcast,

1207
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:58,599
which is kind of crazy. I feel like time has

1208
00:56:58,639 --> 00:57:01,840
just been like a big snowball. It's just it's just

1209
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:05,239
getting faster and faster as that snowball increases in size,

1210
00:57:05,519 --> 00:57:09,559
and like time, the just girth of content that I

1211
00:57:09,559 --> 00:57:12,239
feel like we've been dropping is just I don't even

1212
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,800
really process it anymore, Like how many episodes we're on,

1213
00:57:15,119 --> 00:57:15,639
it's just.

1214
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:16,679
Speaker 6: I don't know.

1215
00:57:16,679 --> 00:57:18,239
Speaker 5: I'm just too caught up in the day to day

1216
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:22,760
busy life. And then the schedule is just it's just

1217
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,000
it is what it is. And then next thing you know,

1218
00:57:25,039 --> 00:57:26,719
I blink and then here we are ten years later.

1219
00:57:28,239 --> 00:57:30,920
Definitely a lot of change has gone on in the

1220
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,239
ten years. I would like to think I've gotten better

1221
00:57:33,239 --> 00:57:33,519
at this.

1222
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 6: Many times I.

1223
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 5: Feel like like good days and bad days. I feel

1224
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,039
like I have good episodes, bad episodes. Not necessarily bad episodes,

1225
00:57:41,079 --> 00:57:44,119
but just like lesser, lesser performance episodes. Maybe I'm a

1226
00:57:44,159 --> 00:57:46,199
little bit tired from the day I don't have the

1227
00:57:46,199 --> 00:57:49,559
same pizaz. But no, for whatever reason, we are still

1228
00:57:50,079 --> 00:57:54,199
alive and kicking with the podcast. People keep listening, which

1229
00:57:54,239 --> 00:57:58,039
is something I don't know. I don't always think too

1230
00:57:58,719 --> 00:58:00,519
too much about I feel like I could get like

1231
00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:03,599
an analysis paralysis type of situation if I'm thinking about

1232
00:58:03,639 --> 00:58:05,559
every person that could be listening to my voice. So

1233
00:58:05,599 --> 00:58:08,800
I just try to ignore it. But uh no long

1234
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:13,400
winded intro. Uh yeah, here we are ten years my goodness,

1235
00:58:13,519 --> 00:58:16,800
I got some questions given to me by the higher

1236
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:22,599
ups that by contract means I have to read off

1237
00:58:22,599 --> 00:58:24,360
for you. So I'm gonna start at the top. Here

1238
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:30,159
we got our favorite era of GV and why this

1239
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,679
is an interesting question. I feel like it's tough for

1240
00:58:32,719 --> 00:58:38,039
me to think about the individual eras because like when

1241
00:58:38,079 --> 00:58:40,480
does one end? Is it like when we get introduced

1242
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,239
to a new member, or is it when we get

1243
00:58:44,239 --> 00:58:47,159
better equipment? Is it when we get our first Patreon? Like, like,

1244
00:58:47,199 --> 00:58:49,239
it's tough for me to kind of judge what is

1245
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,840
the the border of when those I'll call it an

1246
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,360
epoch when those are entering, because I love that word lately.

1247
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:00,559
But yeah, I mean, just just think of some of

1248
00:59:00,599 --> 00:59:05,199
the favorite sections in the past. I really can't pick

1249
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,639
any one, just because I feel like in every air

1250
00:59:08,719 --> 00:59:11,719
quote era of the podcast or epoch as I like

1251
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,800
to throw it in there, there's just great moments I

1252
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,480
can pull from kind of any period. Like of course,

1253
00:59:17,519 --> 00:59:22,440
the big one would probably be like around the end

1254
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,079
game time, just because that was like a big boost

1255
00:59:25,199 --> 00:59:28,639
in our overall just viewership of like people finding us

1256
00:59:28,679 --> 00:59:31,760
just because that, Like, I mean, everyone was interested in

1257
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:33,679
that movie at the time, so they're just looking for

1258
00:59:34,639 --> 00:59:36,880
nerds and geeks that are talking about this stuff. And

1259
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,880
of course the geek versus is the biggest g of

1260
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,159
all when it comes to that category, and at least

1261
00:59:43,159 --> 00:59:45,119
I'd like to think so. And yeah, that was just

1262
00:59:45,159 --> 00:59:46,480
like a big spike. I feel like that's when we

1263
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:51,400
got a big Patreon spike. And I can't remember exactly

1264
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:55,440
when the discord got created, but like that also just

1265
00:59:55,519 --> 00:59:58,639
kind of I don't want to say, like like was

1266
00:59:58,679 --> 01:00:02,920
a massive boost and just the overall success of the podcast,

1267
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,280
but it felt like just such a big jump because

1268
01:00:05,519 --> 01:00:09,159
we had the interaction or sorry, the easy means of

1269
01:00:09,199 --> 01:00:12,280
interacting with our fans and just like minded people that

1270
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:14,880
just are interested in the same stuff as us. And

1271
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,480
I mean now it's just like there's so many different

1272
01:00:17,519 --> 01:00:20,760
sub chats in there, which is just fantastic, whether it's uh,

1273
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:22,559
you know, we got our big football chat in there

1274
01:00:22,599 --> 01:00:26,440
for for the geeks that also like that, like the

1275
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:28,880
spoilers chats for each an individual show.

1276
01:00:29,519 --> 01:00:31,719
Speaker 6: There's the Pokemon chat. It's dead on.

1277
01:00:32,639 --> 01:00:34,119
Speaker 5: I guess it's not really a rival because it was

1278
01:00:34,159 --> 01:00:36,320
spiking there for a little bit, but yeah, that that

1279
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,239
chat's good as dead. I haven't seen that one in

1280
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,719
a little while. But no, I just feel like, especially

1281
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,800
like the discord being added, it just made it ease

1282
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:49,400
of use of interacting with our with our fans or or.

1283
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 6: Just people that wanted to chat.

1284
01:00:52,039 --> 01:00:54,239
Speaker 5: And yeah, that was just like a big step and

1285
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,280
I feel like that is around that endgame era. So

1286
01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:58,880
I'm just gonna I'm probably completely wrong about this. Travi's

1287
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,639
gonna message me afterwards, You're completely wrong about it, which

1288
01:01:01,679 --> 01:01:02,000
is okay.

1289
01:01:02,079 --> 01:01:04,159
Speaker 6: I'm okay with being wrong. I'm just a human. I'm

1290
01:01:04,159 --> 01:01:04,679
not perfect.

1291
01:01:04,679 --> 01:01:09,119
Speaker 5: But yeah, I would definitely say like the discord inclusion era,

1292
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:11,800
which I think is the same time as endgame. If

1293
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,559
it's not, then that's also a separate thing there. The

1294
01:01:14,599 --> 01:01:18,360
other big obvious one would be the Tragic time, which

1295
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:22,719
was COVID, which was horrible for many different reasons, and

1296
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:27,000
on you know, on ironically or ironically, that was also

1297
01:01:27,159 --> 01:01:30,960
like a major just boost I think for the podcast overall,

1298
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:34,119
because for you, for those of you that don't know this,

1299
01:01:35,199 --> 01:01:37,519
especially in the early days of the podcast, we all

1300
01:01:37,559 --> 01:01:40,039
lived in the same town, but I kind of live

1301
01:01:40,199 --> 01:01:42,760
across the pond from the other lads. I'm probably like

1302
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:47,400
a thirty minute drive to them. So for them is

1303
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:48,920
easy because it's like, yeah, we're just gonna meet at

1304
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:52,679
this person's house record around our one mic. And for me, luckily,

1305
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:55,400
I was working in town so after work I could

1306
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:57,719
just head over do a podcast and then head home.

1307
01:01:58,239 --> 01:02:01,119
But like just the extent of the amount of episodes

1308
01:02:01,159 --> 01:02:04,320
that we are doing now, but I feel like it's

1309
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:07,639
even yeah, no, it's actually still pretty on par with

1310
01:02:07,639 --> 01:02:09,559
with like our peak times of how many episodes we

1311
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:10,679
would be recording a week.

1312
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 6: It would just be so infeasible.

1313
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 5: I don't even think that's the right word, but that's

1314
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,320
the one I'm gonna use for me at least, especially

1315
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:21,000
now that I have a significant other, got a dog,

1316
01:02:21,119 --> 01:02:25,119
no kids, but like other responsibilities, working a lot more

1317
01:02:25,159 --> 01:02:26,840
than I used to, So it just I feel like

1318
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,320
all those factors would have really stunted my inclusion in

1319
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,559
the podcast. Maybe even just a hiatus altogether, you know,

1320
01:02:32,639 --> 01:02:36,239
God forbid it's scary thought to even have that. But yeah,

1321
01:02:36,239 --> 01:02:40,480
I know, like like the introduce the introducing, the introduction

1322
01:02:40,599 --> 01:02:44,159
of COVID, that's that sounds horrible just the effect of

1323
01:02:44,199 --> 01:02:46,840
what COVID was. It just forced us to pivot because

1324
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:48,920
we couldn't all see each other in person, so then

1325
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,760
we had to move to the remote side. And honestly,

1326
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:54,880
it's been just such a nice transition because for me

1327
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,760
that doesn't live close to them, Dylan now lives even

1328
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,519
further away, you know, a couple hours away, so we

1329
01:03:00,559 --> 01:03:03,400
can all just jump on wherever recording, whether it's stream

1330
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,440
yards or or whatnot. There's a couple of different I

1331
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,559
think we're doing skype for a little bit there zoom

1332
01:03:08,599 --> 01:03:09,599
and that that was horrible.

1333
01:03:09,639 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 6: So uh yeah, definitely.

1334
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 5: Some some some shifting around of how we were doing it,

1335
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,280
but uh yeah, it just it just allowed, you know,

1336
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,000
ease of jumping into an episode. It could be eight

1337
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:25,039
o'clock in the morning, I wake up, twenty miss forecast,

1338
01:03:25,039 --> 01:03:27,159
I'm ready to go get my coffee, and me I

1339
01:03:27,199 --> 01:03:29,719
could be but ass naked bottoms down. You would have

1340
01:03:29,719 --> 01:03:31,519
no idea and I would just look as professional as

1341
01:03:31,559 --> 01:03:34,440
I do right now. So yeah, that that was a

1342
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:40,639
really nice shift in just the overall logistics of recording. Yeah,

1343
01:03:40,719 --> 01:03:43,280
like I said, like having responsibilities now, like there's no

1344
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:46,039
way I would just be and like Travis Taylor, they

1345
01:03:46,079 --> 01:03:48,400
have kids, like even for them like that that would

1346
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:49,119
make any sense.

1347
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,119
Speaker 6: So yeah, that was a big shift in the era

1348
01:03:54,199 --> 01:03:55,800
of the of the The Geek First.

1349
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 5: And but like in terms of my favorite, like, I

1350
01:03:59,519 --> 01:04:02,800
don't think I can really say there is a favorite

1351
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:07,239
because even in the early days, like basically day one,

1352
01:04:07,599 --> 01:04:09,920
well famously I wasn't there for the first ever recording

1353
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,320
of The Geek First podcast. But let's say the first

1354
01:04:12,719 --> 01:04:15,199
stint of the podcast, I had no idea what a

1355
01:04:15,199 --> 01:04:18,280
podcast even was. I felt like I was very soft spoken,

1356
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:22,800
very like introverted, not very like I don't think I'm

1357
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:25,400
that loud. Maybe I am, but like I just definitely

1358
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,079
wasn't as charismatic as I'd like to think I am now,

1359
01:04:28,679 --> 01:04:30,679
And I didn't really say a lot like we had

1360
01:04:30,679 --> 01:04:33,440
one mic it would go around. Travis was as loud

1361
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,159
and boisterous as he always is, so of course he

1362
01:04:36,199 --> 01:04:39,719
would just drown us all out. You know, say that

1363
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,599
with the best of intentions, Travis, I love you, But yeah,

1364
01:04:42,639 --> 01:04:44,840
he's he's a loud guy, so I feel like my

1365
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:48,599
little meek voice would would definitely be undershadow of him.

1366
01:04:48,639 --> 01:04:51,239
But like to me, it was just I was single.

1367
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,159
I was living at home probably at the time too,

1368
01:04:53,159 --> 01:04:54,519
when we started, Like I would just go over there

1369
01:04:54,559 --> 01:04:56,159
just to hang out with some friends and talk about

1370
01:04:56,159 --> 01:05:02,400
stuff that, yeah, we're just similarly interested in if I'm

1371
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:04,480
sure you know the true fans know this, but like

1372
01:05:04,519 --> 01:05:07,639
this just started because we had a group chat a

1373
01:05:07,639 --> 01:05:10,599
Facebook messenger talking about E three and that's all it was.

1374
01:05:10,559 --> 01:05:13,039
We were just giving our thoughts there. And then I

1375
01:05:13,079 --> 01:05:15,679
remember vividly being at my job at the time, and

1376
01:05:15,719 --> 01:05:17,480
I believe it was Travis that just threw in the

1377
01:05:17,519 --> 01:05:19,719
question of like we should start a podcast, and me

1378
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:20,760
being single.

1379
01:05:20,519 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 6: And no.

1380
01:05:22,679 --> 01:05:25,079
Speaker 5: Responsibility, I'm like, fuck, yeah, why not? That just seems

1381
01:05:25,079 --> 01:05:27,280
like something to do, so let's do it, And here

1382
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,400
we are ten years later. That was kind of like

1383
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,119
a political answer because I didn't answer the question properly,

1384
01:05:33,159 --> 01:05:34,760
but I just kind of set a lot of words

1385
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:38,000
in there to seem interesting. So yeah, there you go.

1386
01:05:38,079 --> 01:05:39,239
That's my answer to the question.

1387
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 6: My favorite part of me the Geekers podcast. Question two.

1388
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:49,079
Speaker 5: Here we go standout episodes. Okay, I'm gonna take the

1389
01:05:49,119 --> 01:05:52,239
same strategy I did on the last one, and I'm

1390
01:05:52,239 --> 01:05:54,800
not gonna answer this one correctly because I don't like,

1391
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:59,119
there's not one episode that is a specific favorite of mine,

1392
01:06:01,119 --> 01:06:03,159
like quickly off the Dome. Of course, I could just

1393
01:06:03,159 --> 01:06:05,239
throw out the endgame review. That's no slight to dealing

1394
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,400
at all, because he was in another continent. He wasn't

1395
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:09,880
a he wasn't able to be a part of the

1396
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:13,880
Infinity War Slash endgame reviews because he was traveling and

1397
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,079
seeing the world as one should in their life. So

1398
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,400
but no, that that was just that was just crazy

1399
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:21,679
because it was a movie that I had never seen

1400
01:06:21,679 --> 01:06:23,480
anything like it at the time, and there was just

1401
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:28,519
so much hype, the buzz around media, you know, social

1402
01:06:28,559 --> 01:06:31,440
media and just just people that aren't combook fans we're

1403
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,000
talking about that stuff. So it was just a really

1404
01:06:33,039 --> 01:06:35,840
fun time to be a fan of the content like that.

1405
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:38,239
And then of course when you're doing a podcast where

1406
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:42,039
you're literally sitting down for hours with friends talking about it,

1407
01:06:42,039 --> 01:06:43,760
it was it was just fun to be buzzing around it,

1408
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,320
and it just seemed like at that time in the MCU,

1409
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:50,000
it was like Kevin fig was unstoppable and nothing, nothing

1410
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:51,840
can go wrong with anything that he made. So it

1411
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:53,719
was just like how can they top his moving forward?

1412
01:06:53,719 --> 01:06:55,559
You know, it's we went through phase four and we

1413
01:06:55,639 --> 01:06:58,639
understood how they could follow up off of in pretty

1414
01:06:58,639 --> 01:07:01,320
war an endgame and it wasn't so hot, but yeah,

1415
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:04,239
that was just that was just a really fun time

1416
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:07,719
around that recording. And yeah, especially just seeing like our

1417
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:11,079
episode jump up on like the charts of Apple Music

1418
01:07:11,239 --> 01:07:16,599
or sorry Slash Podcast, like that was just crazy. I like, yeah,

1419
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:18,880
it was just crazy to see it on there, and

1420
01:07:19,639 --> 01:07:22,320
definitely like a I don't know, like I want to

1421
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,360
say it's like an imposter syndrome thing, but like I'm not,

1422
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,079
I'm not famous or anything. It was just like, wow, okay,

1423
01:07:27,119 --> 01:07:30,440
there it is. That's interesting. So yeah, that that of

1424
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:32,679
course would be a shout out. I would also want

1425
01:07:32,719 --> 01:07:35,239
to just like shout out like certain reviews that we did,

1426
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:40,280
like I feel like the first especially especially like the

1427
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:44,400
first season I think of like Wanda Vision, low Key Mando,

1428
01:07:44,559 --> 01:07:46,800
Like those were the midnight reviews and that was when

1429
01:07:47,119 --> 01:07:49,320
we were actually doing them right. We'd watch them and

1430
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:52,840
then review them at midnight. And of course it resulted

1431
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:56,199
in some some goofy next day, you know, like sleep

1432
01:07:56,239 --> 01:07:59,400
deprived work days. But most of the time I was

1433
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:02,199
just buzzin' because we would just have those shows were

1434
01:08:02,199 --> 01:08:07,039
really fantastic, so great content, great just discussion with again

1435
01:08:07,119 --> 01:08:11,519
some friends afterwards and then and so yeah, I would

1436
01:08:11,559 --> 01:08:13,280
just be riding high even if I had three hours

1437
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:14,320
of sleep, but it didn't matter.

1438
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 6: It also helped. It was like just a Friday, It's like, Okay,

1439
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:17,279
I can make it through this.

1440
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:24,039
Speaker 5: And then but yeah, no, those were really fun reviews.

1441
01:08:22,199 --> 01:08:24,560
Speaker 6: So I would shout out pretty much those whole series.

1442
01:08:27,159 --> 01:08:28,159
What else do I got?

1443
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 5: Like X Men rich or the animated series that was

1444
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:32,359
a really fun one to go through, just because I'd

1445
01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:36,560
never seen that all the way through. And then like

1446
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:40,199
beyond that, like there's just like really random newscasts that

1447
01:08:40,239 --> 01:08:43,680
are just for whatever reason, there's some thick something in

1448
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:47,159
the air, and it just like it's almost like like

1449
01:08:47,199 --> 01:08:51,239
a psychedelic experience where we're like, it's just goofy sometimes

1450
01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:54,600
And for I apologized to any audio listeners that listen

1451
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:56,479
to those, it's like these guys are just off their rockers,

1452
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:57,720
like these these jokes are not.

1453
01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:58,359
Speaker 6: Hitting for me.

1454
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:02,039
Speaker 5: A lot of them are probably the inside jokes that

1455
01:09:02,079 --> 01:09:04,520
we talked about in the past, so we apologize. Well,

1456
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,520
I'm gonna apologize for everyone else. I feel like I'm

1457
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,159
bad at this where I'll I'll really lean in heavily

1458
01:09:09,199 --> 01:09:11,319
on an inside joke that someone has no context for

1459
01:09:11,399 --> 01:09:14,520
and probably doesn't find funny at all. But you know,

1460
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:18,039
we always we always established that we're not like hired

1461
01:09:18,159 --> 01:09:20,399
by a media company to do this, Like this is

1462
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:23,520
just friends talking about this stuff that we find interesting.

1463
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:25,720
Speaker 6: So never come to us for like.

1464
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:32,159
Speaker 5: A professional objective take on like reviewing something, because like

1465
01:09:32,199 --> 01:09:34,479
we do reviews out there, it's our thoughts. It's all

1466
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:39,039
subjective this content. But yeah, no, like we're at the

1467
01:09:39,119 --> 01:09:40,439
end of the day, we're just here to have fun

1468
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,319
and talk about these things and hopefully out of that

1469
01:09:43,399 --> 01:09:46,760
the result is entertainment for the for the end user.

1470
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:51,000
And yeah, just just whether it's a weekly geek, I

1471
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,960
feel like I feel like a lot of the time, Travis,

1472
01:09:54,079 --> 01:09:55,960
he has this game that he'll just try and crack

1473
01:09:56,039 --> 01:09:59,319
me on cast and it works a lot of the time.

1474
01:09:59,359 --> 01:10:01,039
He knows my human bone and he knows how to

1475
01:10:01,039 --> 01:10:04,840
activate it, and uh yeah, I he gets me going

1476
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:08,720
and sometimes that just like compounds like the snowball, the

1477
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:12,359
snowball analogy I said earlier, Like it's just a lot

1478
01:10:12,359 --> 01:10:14,640
of like some random thing maybe if it seemed like

1479
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,520
beforecast that I'm just thinking it's funny, and then we

1480
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:19,319
just carry that throughout the whole two hour conversation whatever

1481
01:10:19,319 --> 01:10:22,119
it might be lengthwise, and it's just such a fun

1482
01:10:22,119 --> 01:10:25,039
time and I just have a great Yeah, just a

1483
01:10:25,039 --> 01:10:30,319
great time with it. So random goofy news casts like

1484
01:10:30,319 --> 01:10:32,880
like just the like Dan Lynn Big Dan Lynn shouts

1485
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,000
out to any listeners that remembers that, like that was

1486
01:10:35,039 --> 01:10:37,640
just a funny thing to be covering, And there's so

1487
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:41,520
many I like, I'm definitely forgetting about, but yeah, just

1488
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:43,479
just just those and like it's so great that I

1489
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:45,640
can say that that it's not just one episode was

1490
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:48,239
the great time of the podcast. It really is just

1491
01:10:50,399 --> 01:10:53,479
I don't know, random Wednesday news cast. Maybe I had

1492
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:55,479
a shitty day at work and it's just like, yeah, Okay,

1493
01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:56,640
that was my day. Then I come in here and

1494
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:59,760
just am able to unwind and talk about some things

1495
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:03,000
that are this Yeah, just just really fun to talk

1496
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:04,800
about with some friends that I really enjoy.

1497
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:09,079
Speaker 6: So yeah, again, taking the political route. I'm not answering

1498
01:11:09,079 --> 01:11:09,760
that question directly.

1499
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:11,399
Speaker 5: I'm gonna throw a lot of extra words out there

1500
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:16,159
to hopefully avoid answering it directly. But yeah, there's been

1501
01:11:16,199 --> 01:11:21,640
plenty of standout episodes. Yeah, I think think I'll leave

1502
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:23,560
her there for that one. Okay, we're gonna keep rolling here.

1503
01:11:25,319 --> 01:11:31,279
Question number three, favorite spin off shows? Favorite spin off shows?

1504
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 6: Hmmm, interesting. I feel like.

1505
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:40,359
Speaker 5: I feel like I don't have any favorite spin off shows,

1506
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:43,920
and I should admit I have pretty much just across

1507
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:46,880
the board. Have not been listening to podcasts lately. I

1508
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:48,640
used to be in a different working situation where I

1509
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:51,720
just had opportunity to listen to a lot of podcasts audiobooks,

1510
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,319
and I don't really have that anymore. I do miss

1511
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:56,680
that aspect of my previous job where I was able

1512
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:58,840
to do that. But like back then, like I was

1513
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:00,880
listening to DC a lot, I was listening to Star

1514
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:03,359
Wars Alliance, I was listening to Marvel Alliance, and I

1515
01:12:03,359 --> 01:12:05,520
think all those hosts do such a great job, and

1516
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:07,920
I mean, we're celebrating our ten year here, but like

1517
01:12:08,199 --> 01:12:10,520
I think they also deserve credit just like for how

1518
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,560
long they've been doing that and those shows, Although they're

1519
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:18,800
under our umbrella. They do like they are just very independent,

1520
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,359
like they have the creative freedom to do what they

1521
01:12:20,359 --> 01:12:22,079
want with the shows, and they're doing a really good

1522
01:12:22,119 --> 01:12:25,199
job with it. It's still going, which is a good sign.

1523
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:28,680
And Yeah, although I haven't had the chance to really

1524
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:33,319
absorb the content as much as I used to, I

1525
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:37,159
still think they're doing fantastic jobs with just the fact

1526
01:12:37,199 --> 01:12:42,279
it's still going. So yeah, shouts out to you know.

1527
01:12:42,359 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 6: Katie Clay. Who else do we got? We got Chris,

1528
01:12:47,319 --> 01:12:48,520
we got Brent.

1529
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:52,079
Speaker 5: Who I think is maybe step step down. It just

1530
01:12:52,079 --> 01:12:54,279
goes to show how disconnect I am that so I

1531
01:12:54,279 --> 01:12:56,760
apologize for that. But anyone that's been a part of

1532
01:12:56,800 --> 01:12:59,760
any of the geek verst umbrella shows, shouts out to you,

1533
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:03,760
because you are worthy of the geek fer's banner. I'll

1534
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:06,479
even shout out like I like Taylor does his his

1535
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:08,600
cryptid Clues. I don't even know if that's under our umbrella,

1536
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:10,239
but I'm just gonna shout him out because I love Taylor,

1537
01:13:10,239 --> 01:13:13,399
and I just love that he's been able to grab

1538
01:13:14,199 --> 01:13:16,800
something that he's truly passionate about, like he is, he

1539
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:20,039
is truly passionate about all of that stuff, and when

1540
01:13:20,079 --> 01:13:21,800
you listen to those episodes, you can really feel it

1541
01:13:22,279 --> 01:13:25,800
through his passion and yeah, no, he does such a

1542
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,720
great job with it. I'm not gonna synthing because I

1543
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:31,079
don't know what he's announced or not, but he for

1544
01:13:31,119 --> 01:13:32,880
the whole life of that show, he's done a great job.

1545
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:36,159
And Ruben's been fun when Taylor's able to wrangle him

1546
01:13:36,159 --> 01:13:39,079
into an episode for that as well. Of course, you

1547
01:13:39,119 --> 01:13:41,159
know the great and powerful Dylan Musk with his side

1548
01:13:41,239 --> 01:13:43,840
Quest that I've had the pleasure of being on many

1549
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:46,800
many times, and it's just really fun because the geek

1550
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,039
ferst started with just covering everything, and we used to

1551
01:13:49,119 --> 01:13:51,920
have like video game segments and a lot of the

1552
01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:53,520
times it would just kind of be like a small

1553
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:56,439
little chapter in the overall episode. But what Dylan's doing

1554
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,279
with the side Quest, it's just nice to have a

1555
01:13:58,279 --> 01:14:01,520
full sit down of only talking about that, like you're

1556
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:05,000
not getting it's not getting shuffled behind some Avengers delay

1557
01:14:05,079 --> 01:14:06,640
news or whatever it might be.

1558
01:14:08,119 --> 01:14:09,560
Speaker 6: Also shouts out to the true.

1559
01:14:09,319 --> 01:14:11,840
Speaker 5: Fans that remember Out of Mana because that was also

1560
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,079
a fun thing that Dylan was doing.

1561
01:14:14,119 --> 01:14:17,079
Speaker 6: There. Just a great name. I love that show.

1562
01:14:17,119 --> 01:14:20,159
Speaker 5: But side Quest is it's pretty good too, Dylan. But no,

1563
01:14:20,359 --> 01:14:22,279
he's doing such a great job with that show. He's

1564
01:14:22,359 --> 01:14:24,880
he's been able to keep it interesting. And I think

1565
01:14:25,039 --> 01:14:27,720
something that Dylan does so well with that is always

1566
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:30,760
trying to get better with the side quest, whether it's

1567
01:14:31,119 --> 01:14:34,960
getting feedback both positive and negative from us, you know,

1568
01:14:35,039 --> 01:14:37,800
the other hosts of the gig first, or just fans

1569
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:38,720
people in the discord.

1570
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 6: He's he is the most.

1571
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 5: Knowledgeable man I know about when when it comes to

1572
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:47,359
video games, and it shows he's he's so good. I

1573
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:50,800
feel bad sometimes because I maybe don't always have the

1574
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:53,880
best notes prepped for a specific topic. But I ask

1575
01:14:54,399 --> 01:14:56,279
something like, hey, Dylan, what was his video game from

1576
01:14:56,319 --> 01:14:58,399
nineteen eighty three? And like I swear to God, sometimes

1577
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,319
he just pulls out the top of his head. He's

1578
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:02,159
he's that good with this stuff. I know he loves

1579
01:15:02,199 --> 01:15:04,840
his cell spreadsheets. You know he probably has that on

1580
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:05,600
his second monitor.

1581
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:09,359
Speaker 6: But uh, I but yeah, I digress. He's he's phenomenal.

1582
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:11,560
Speaker 5: And then uh, and then another one I'll shout out,

1583
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,840
of course, is uh mister Travis now doing the gimmick

1584
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:19,039
with with our our I was gonna say our boy

1585
01:15:19,079 --> 01:15:20,439
in the chair and that sounds a little bit weird,

1586
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:22,000
but I'm gonna stick with it because I just feel

1587
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,479
like s Bubs is like twenty five years younger than me,

1588
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:27,520
and uh shout out to the young s Bubs uh

1589
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:30,399
and then David of course on there with with those

1590
01:15:30,399 --> 01:15:33,079
two guys, And as long as I've known Travis, I've

1591
01:15:33,119 --> 01:15:36,680
known him to be a WWE fan, and like there

1592
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,880
was an era when I was kind of getting uh

1593
01:15:39,239 --> 01:15:43,319
like interested in it. I participated my first WrestleMania. Uh

1594
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:46,319
I didn't participate, but by participated in viewing it even

1595
01:15:46,319 --> 01:15:48,560
person with some WWE merch. Shouts out to the Becky

1596
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:51,920
Lynch you know the man era that was awesome to

1597
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:54,439
be a part of. But uh yeah, no, it's just

1598
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:59,880
it's awesome for for those gentlemen, but like specifically Travis

1599
01:15:59,920 --> 01:16:02,720
just to like have an area to be.

1600
01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:05,319
Speaker 6: Talking about just something that he's super passion about.

1601
01:16:05,319 --> 01:16:09,960
Speaker 5: It's the same thing with crypto clues, side yeah, side quest

1602
01:16:10,039 --> 01:16:12,640
and just I mean everything, Like just it's so nice

1603
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:14,640
to have a specific.

1604
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:18,439
Speaker 6: What's the word I'm looking forward.

1605
01:16:18,199 --> 01:16:21,119
Speaker 5: Just a specific realm to be speaking about something that

1606
01:16:21,159 --> 01:16:24,600
you are so truly passionate about. And for the listeners,

1607
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:27,239
this is a little bit of little insider knowledge here.

1608
01:16:27,279 --> 01:16:29,239
There was actually I don't want to hint at this

1609
01:16:29,239 --> 01:16:31,560
too much because it might work out. Life has been

1610
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:35,800
so crazy for so many people around us, But there

1611
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:39,079
was potentially a side show that I.

1612
01:16:39,039 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 6: Was going to be starting. I'm not going to say

1613
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:43,119
anything more about it because I do.

1614
01:16:43,199 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 5: I want to believe that we will get there at

1615
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:46,399
some point where we can just get our ducks in

1616
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:49,840
order to release this into the public. But yeah, that's

1617
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:52,279
your little hit there. There might be something cooking in

1618
01:16:52,319 --> 01:16:54,119
the weeds. But I'll say for right now, it's like

1619
01:16:54,199 --> 01:16:57,239
Austin Powers and cry Out. There's no a meet there.

1620
01:16:57,279 --> 01:17:01,119
There's no like date that we will be ethowing whatever

1621
01:17:01,159 --> 01:17:03,319
that show might be. But I like to imagine we

1622
01:17:03,359 --> 01:17:06,479
will will open it up at some point, like like

1623
01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:10,560
Captain America and bring to the world to make great

1624
01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:15,119
change for the for the better good. But yeah, shouts

1625
01:17:15,119 --> 01:17:18,199
out to everyone that I mentioned and and everyone that

1626
01:17:18,239 --> 01:17:22,920
I forgot about. I apologize, but you're also in my hearts.

1627
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:26,359
Like who else can I think of? Travis Hines? It's

1628
01:17:26,359 --> 01:17:31,479
another name? Yeah, sorry that with names. Okay, let's keep

1629
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:31,960
rolling here.

1630
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 6: Next question, Memories from the Gauntlet yes, the Geek Versus Gauntlet.

1631
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:42,520
Speaker 5: This is I feel like this was the closest to

1632
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:46,560
semi professional wrestling I ever got or will get besides

1633
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:49,640
like certain wrestling matches that we filmed, but like, the

1634
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:52,760
Geek Versus Gauntlet was just I feel like as a kid,

1635
01:17:53,199 --> 01:17:57,319
especially like growing up being a video gamer, like you know,

1636
01:17:57,399 --> 01:17:59,159
when you're playing games, like you just want to believe

1637
01:17:59,159 --> 01:18:01,399
that you're the best that ever did it, and the

1638
01:18:01,399 --> 01:18:04,560
Geekers Goallet was an opportunity to really get in there

1639
01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:08,079
and prove it and win yourself a belt that will

1640
01:18:08,119 --> 01:18:12,399
be remaining in Travis's home because he does own those

1641
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,920
for sure, but yeah, no, you get a hold it

1642
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:19,039
and it's basically yours if you win the whole damn thing.

1643
01:18:19,039 --> 01:18:21,520
We got the geek Fers Gallet, we got the team's title,

1644
01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:25,960
and then we got the ever glorious Sports title, which

1645
01:18:26,119 --> 01:18:30,119
I am still a reigning member of as a weird

1646
01:18:30,119 --> 01:18:33,439
way said that it's still the champion of and I like,

1647
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:35,760
you know, you always want to win all the titles,

1648
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:39,479
all the belts. I felt like sports was always the

1649
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:41,800
one that I like felt the most like I have

1650
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:43,920
to win that just because the amount of sports games

1651
01:18:44,199 --> 01:18:47,680
that I that I played growing up. I always had

1652
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:50,640
the NHLs like Maddens, even back when I didn't even

1653
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,000
know anything about football. I just for some reason had

1654
01:18:53,079 --> 01:18:55,039
Maddens and would be playing those with my cousin, not

1655
01:18:55,079 --> 01:18:59,279
knowing anything about the rules, just just getting bopped constantly.

1656
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:03,199
But I I just always enjoyed sports growing up, and

1657
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:06,039
like video games, it was able. I was able to

1658
01:19:06,079 --> 01:19:09,319
do things my my physical liminters were preventing me from

1659
01:19:09,359 --> 01:19:13,920
doing uh from not being a physical physically gifted, uh

1660
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,000
you know, athletic god. But uh yeah, you know, I

1661
01:19:16,119 --> 01:19:20,399
I just always enjoyed sports games and for for Gauntlet, like.

1662
01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:27,279
Speaker 6: Just the just the like what am I trying to say, Like.

1663
01:19:27,199 --> 01:19:32,199
Speaker 5: The like the setup of the the thematic, the thematics

1664
01:19:32,239 --> 01:19:33,680
of it. That's the word I was looking for of

1665
01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:36,560
just choosing your walkout sign and thinking about like what

1666
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:38,600
you're gonna be wearing and the character that you're gonna

1667
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:41,439
be betraying, whether it's the bad guy the good guy,

1668
01:19:42,039 --> 01:19:46,119
you know, like like like on the sticks meaning the controllers,

1669
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:48,760
like that's where the game is played, but I feel

1670
01:19:48,760 --> 01:19:51,159
like the battle is outside of the video game, like

1671
01:19:51,159 --> 01:19:52,760
like that's when we're shit talking to each other, we're

1672
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:56,560
doing interviews, we're getting under each other's skin. There's betrayals,

1673
01:19:57,039 --> 01:20:01,199
Like honestly, that's probably more important to the Geek First

1674
01:20:01,199 --> 01:20:06,760
Gauntlet than the actual matches in hindsight, And like they're

1675
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:09,560
on YouTube, I highly recommend going check out a lot

1676
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:13,560
of those matches. They are just some really just competitive

1677
01:20:14,119 --> 01:20:18,279
games that were played. But just like what's not in

1678
01:20:18,319 --> 01:20:20,840
those videos is all the behind the scenes, whether it's

1679
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:23,319
just and like big shouts to Travis. He's been like

1680
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:27,960
the key organizer of all of that, and I don't

1681
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,600
know how that man's my mind works, but yeah, it's

1682
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:34,000
just it's just like a spider web of connective tissue

1683
01:20:34,079 --> 01:20:36,199
of thinking about how things are gonna be working together.

1684
01:20:36,239 --> 01:20:38,520
And that's like just for the Gauntlet, let alone everything

1685
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:40,760
else that he's done for the success of the podcast.

1686
01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:45,279
So yeah, I love the Gauntlet. I was talking about

1687
01:20:45,279 --> 01:20:49,279
how busy our lives are now, but so it makes

1688
01:20:49,319 --> 01:20:51,159
sense why we've had a bench that for a little bit.

1689
01:20:51,199 --> 01:20:54,840
But I mean, fuck with how quickly Travis's clan is growing,

1690
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:57,760
He's gonna have like every child of his competing in

1691
01:20:57,760 --> 01:20:59,279
the Geek Verst Gunlet, we might have to bring it

1692
01:20:59,319 --> 01:21:01,920
back decade or so, we'll we'll see. I'm not going

1693
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,960
to force any promises on the man, but yeah, no memories,

1694
01:21:07,359 --> 01:21:12,920
gosh like and then yeah, like specific matches and whatnot

1695
01:21:14,039 --> 01:21:17,560
for viewing. One of my favorite matches ever was in

1696
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:22,119
the Sports title. It was between Kyle Smid and Travis

1697
01:21:22,159 --> 01:21:26,560
Snell and they they played Rocket League was one of

1698
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:30,159
the games which was just one of the most infuriating

1699
01:21:30,239 --> 01:21:36,159
but yet entertaining thing to watch because of you know,

1700
01:21:36,720 --> 01:21:39,079
it's I feel like Rocket League is a type of

1701
01:21:39,079 --> 01:21:40,920
game that it's pretty easy to get into, but like

1702
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:44,119
there's the skill ceiling is just insane, so like mastering

1703
01:21:44,159 --> 01:21:47,079
the controls, like you need like thousands of hours in

1704
01:21:47,119 --> 01:21:50,199
that game. And uh, no slight to Kyle or Travis,

1705
01:21:50,199 --> 01:21:54,560
but they definitely probably were under probably under like two

1706
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:57,199
hours of total time playing Rocket League. So there was

1707
01:21:57,239 --> 01:21:59,920
a lot of goals that were just dirty and grease.

1708
01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:02,079
But because they were both at the same level, like,

1709
01:22:02,119 --> 01:22:04,239
it was such a competitive game and it was so

1710
01:22:04,479 --> 01:22:05,840
enticing to watch for that reason.

1711
01:22:06,279 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 2: Uh.

1712
01:22:06,479 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 5: And then and then the Madden game, especially being someone

1713
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:12,439
at that time that could never be Travis at Madden,

1714
01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:16,520
it was so glorious to see Kyle Smid pop off

1715
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:21,159
in there and and and beat Travis Snell. And god,

1716
01:22:21,199 --> 01:22:23,880
I hope I remember that correctly, because that is how

1717
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,880
that match goes in my mind. Maybe I completely misremember

1718
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:28,560
that and Travis ended up winning that game, but in

1719
01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:31,079
my mind, Kyle Smid was the winner there. Uh and

1720
01:22:31,199 --> 01:22:33,159
yeah it was. It was just it was nail bier.

1721
01:22:34,119 --> 01:22:37,439
I always love to see Travis lose in uh, in

1722
01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:39,880
video games because he is such a big talker, but

1723
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:43,119
like specifically Madden, just because he had caught like like

1724
01:22:43,159 --> 01:22:45,760
when when I played him, it was like embarrassing how

1725
01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:47,920
bad the games were. Like it's one of those when

1726
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:50,079
you're you're looking at the time second quarter, you're like

1727
01:22:50,279 --> 01:22:52,359
fox sakes, like I wish this game was only two

1728
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:53,319
quarters instead of four.

1729
01:22:53,399 --> 01:22:54,319
Speaker 6: But yeah, I know.

1730
01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:56,760
Speaker 5: I since then, I've been cooking up a storm on

1731
01:22:56,800 --> 01:23:00,199
college football twenty five so yeah, and then last time

1732
01:23:00,239 --> 01:23:02,439
we played, you know, I took a dub on college football.

1733
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:04,039
So I guess there's a little bit of asterisks there,

1734
01:23:04,039 --> 01:23:06,680
But we'll cross that bridge when we get there. We'll

1735
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:10,920
face off against each other in the future, and then yeah,

1736
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:14,199
the the other ones to shout out for all the

1737
01:23:14,239 --> 01:23:16,640
wrong reasons would have been probably.

1738
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 6: The title match between Amber and taylor.

1739
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 5: Field because that was the like I said, I got

1740
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:29,600
bobbed in Madden, it was nothing in comparison to the

1741
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:34,880
slapping that Amber threw onto taylor Field and Gears of War,

1742
01:23:35,399 --> 01:23:38,800
because as long as I've known Taylor, like like, he's

1743
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:42,880
been the Assassin's Creed guy, the Halo guy, the Gears guy,

1744
01:23:43,359 --> 01:23:45,119
the Call of Duty guy, and I'm probably missing some

1745
01:23:45,159 --> 01:23:47,600
other things in there, but just like Xbox games in

1746
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:50,840
general and Gears, it's like, Okay, Taylor's, Taylor's the Gears guy,

1747
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,159
and Amber's was always a super competitive gamer. Like you

1748
01:23:54,159 --> 01:23:58,760
could just tell they would just use any advantage, like

1749
01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:01,960
to her advantage to win, which I respect that that

1750
01:24:02,039 --> 01:24:07,439
was never my mindset when it comes to games, but

1751
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:10,800
I guess that just different differentiates, you know, the champions

1752
01:24:11,199 --> 01:24:14,840
and the gamers that are me. But yeah, that one

1753
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:17,079
was tough to watch, but also it was just fascinating

1754
01:24:17,119 --> 01:24:19,680
because it was just I couldn't believe what I was seeing,

1755
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:22,680
so so that one I would definitely shout out. And

1756
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:25,840
then of course was the ever indatorious first champion ever,

1757
01:24:26,399 --> 01:24:31,159
which there's some controversy around it, but when Travis beat Dylan,

1758
01:24:31,279 --> 01:24:34,079
and then again, just like everything around the Gauntlet, it

1759
01:24:34,119 --> 01:24:37,079
wasn't the game itself that caused the controversy. It was

1760
01:24:37,119 --> 01:24:39,880
the post game when he went for a handshake, didn't

1761
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,479
give him the handshake. And I feel like ever since then,

1762
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:45,439
Dylan probably won't ever admit this, but I feel like

1763
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:47,079
he's got something in the back of his mind that

1764
01:24:47,119 --> 01:24:50,159
he'll just never forget that. And you know, he'll probably

1765
01:24:50,239 --> 01:24:52,600
argue that I'm wrong with that, which is totally fair.

1766
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:54,640
He's entitled to his own opinion. But that's that's my

1767
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:58,239
take on it. So that's uh, yeah, it's there's been

1768
01:24:58,239 --> 01:25:01,359
some spice in the era of gig first Callet for sure,

1769
01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:04,640
a lot of Matt, a lot of like just upsets too.

1770
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:06,920
Like it's been pretty impressive. I think my favorite match

1771
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,319
I've better ever been in taylor Field, and I have

1772
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:12,880
this long reign of.

1773
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:15,159
Speaker 6: Competing.

1774
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:18,760
Speaker 5: As we were ready to say that just tight games

1775
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:22,920
of Call of Duty. We had the Ultimate Decider game

1776
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:24,439
which we played a bunch of different Call of Duty

1777
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:28,439
games and of course, again I'm gonna sound like a

1778
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:30,359
sour grape here, which is I don't even care.

1779
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:32,640
Speaker 6: This is my episode. I can say what I want.

1780
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:38,399
Speaker 5: But we did play them all on Xbox, so advantage

1781
01:25:38,399 --> 01:25:41,239
goes to Taylor because I've only played I've only owned

1782
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:43,880
one x or sorry, one Call of Duty game on

1783
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:45,359
Xbox and I was called four and I didn't even

1784
01:25:45,399 --> 01:25:47,359
have Xbox Live then, so I didn't even like get

1785
01:25:47,399 --> 01:25:50,760
to the full competitive gamer mode when it comes to that.

1786
01:25:50,880 --> 01:25:53,439
But so I've always been a PlayStation guy, you know,

1787
01:25:54,319 --> 01:25:57,960
So we're playing Xbox, obvious advantage goes to Taylor. I'll

1788
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:00,640
throw that out there. But anyways, regardless, just all of that,

1789
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:04,840
we've had some extremely nail biters. But yeah, as I

1790
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,600
was trying to say the ultimate, the ultimate Call Duty match,

1791
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:08,680
Taylor Field won.

1792
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:10,039
Speaker 6: He did win.

1793
01:26:10,239 --> 01:26:14,359
Speaker 5: It's all recorded. I shook his hand, and like, you know,

1794
01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:17,239
I'm bitter about it, obviously because I want to win

1795
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:22,119
at all times. But give credit where credits due. He

1796
01:26:22,159 --> 01:26:25,680
definitely prepared and had a strategy to it. The one

1797
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:29,720
big game, or sorry, the big one match that I

1798
01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:33,720
won was I don't remember all the maps that we played,

1799
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:36,600
but one of them was I think it was called

1800
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:38,800
Airfield or like Scrapyard or something like that.

1801
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:39,640
Speaker 6: It was just where they had it was.

1802
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:41,640
Speaker 5: It was a monitor for two map where they had

1803
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:44,159
a bunch of just broken planes. You know, if you

1804
01:26:44,159 --> 01:26:47,560
play color you know what I'm talking about. And I

1805
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:50,319
was like a hacker in that match. I was literally

1806
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:53,119
just mortar striking these frags across the map and like

1807
01:26:53,159 --> 01:26:56,039
cooking them perfect time. I've always thought I was like

1808
01:26:56,079 --> 01:26:58,680
a tremendous frag user.

1809
01:26:58,520 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 6: When it comes to Call of Duty.

1810
01:27:00,520 --> 01:27:03,760
Speaker 5: It's probably all my sports game you know, knowledge of

1811
01:27:04,039 --> 01:27:07,119
whether I'm tossing things in those games, tossing frag grenades

1812
01:27:07,159 --> 01:27:09,760
and Call of Duty. There was an era when I

1813
01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:13,199
popped off with snipers. But I feel like like the blanket,

1814
01:27:13,359 --> 01:27:17,880
like one bass key strat that I've always had in

1815
01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:19,680
Call of Duty games is I've always been a good

1816
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:22,239
cooker when it comes to frag grenades. Probably goes back

1817
01:27:22,239 --> 01:27:24,960
to my you know, my kitchen experience. First job I

1818
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,039
ever worked at White Spot shouts out to White Spot,

1819
01:27:28,279 --> 01:27:30,000
but yeah, I know I was. I was a god

1820
01:27:30,039 --> 01:27:32,520
when it was coming to cooking up grenades. And go

1821
01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:35,079
check out that one on YouTube. You know, I watched

1822
01:27:35,079 --> 01:27:37,199
it every once in a while just to boost my

1823
01:27:37,199 --> 01:27:39,359
own ego every once in a while. I definitely threw

1824
01:27:39,399 --> 01:27:41,560
it on after Taylor beat me in the ultimate match,

1825
01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:46,359
but no, so from that, I beat him in that game,

1826
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:49,640
and he evolved a strategy. He started carrying trophy systems,

1827
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:51,279
which is a part of the game. We didn't say

1828
01:27:51,319 --> 01:27:53,279
that you can't use certain equipments or anything like that,

1829
01:27:53,399 --> 01:27:56,279
so totally fine. Uh, And that that shook me because

1830
01:27:56,319 --> 01:27:57,760
that was like a big strategy I had going into it.

1831
01:27:57,800 --> 01:27:59,359
Speaker 6: I'm like, you know what you can.

1832
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:02,239
Speaker 5: You can maybe crouch shot me, get some nice head shots,

1833
01:28:02,239 --> 01:28:04,359
but I'm gonna find you with my frag grannades. But

1834
01:28:04,359 --> 01:28:06,880
I'm also gonna find his his trophy systems. And uh,

1835
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:09,439
you know, I might think it's a little bit of

1836
01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:11,239
a cheap strategy just hide bind your trophy in the

1837
01:28:11,279 --> 01:28:12,840
back of the map, forcing me to come to you.

1838
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:16,520
Speaker 6: It's a strategy I could have just waited on my own.

1839
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:18,720
So I will give him credit.

1840
01:28:18,800 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 5: He definitely outsmarted me in that match and those matches

1841
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:25,479
going forward, because of course he knew like that that

1842
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:28,119
was like a hard counter going forward for the rest

1843
01:28:28,159 --> 01:28:29,960
of our cod matches, and he always had those trophies

1844
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:33,479
on his kit, and I mean, like, credits to him.

1845
01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:37,960
He out he outwitted me, and rightfully, so one won

1846
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:42,279
the whole match. Again, we didn't play on PlayStation, so yeah,

1847
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:45,359
I'll leave it there. Again, maybe that's something else that

1848
01:28:45,359 --> 01:28:47,079
we did play on PlayStation. I'm just completely right that

1849
01:28:47,159 --> 01:28:48,960
up of my mind, so I apologize. Memory is not

1850
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:51,640
what it used to be. But uh yeah, a lot

1851
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:54,000
of and like again, at the end of the day,

1852
01:28:54,039 --> 01:28:55,760
I'm not losing sleep over that. Maybe a couple of

1853
01:28:55,880 --> 01:29:00,079
minutes at night, but just some great competitiveness. And I

1854
01:29:00,079 --> 01:29:01,920
love Tyler Field. He's a great guy. If I have

1855
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:03,399
to lose to anyone, I would love for it to

1856
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:05,239
be him. Where It's like if I lost to Travis

1857
01:29:05,239 --> 01:29:07,520
and Cod, like, he would never let me, you know,

1858
01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:10,640
forget about that. But Taylor Field he's a nice he's

1859
01:29:10,640 --> 01:29:15,119
a nice gentleman. And uh, since he won, I guess

1860
01:29:15,119 --> 01:29:16,960
we can say he's the best COD player when it

1861
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:20,279
comes to Geek first, but I would imagine he would

1862
01:29:20,319 --> 01:29:23,439
have to say I'm the number two all time of

1863
01:29:23,479 --> 01:29:26,159
the Geek first because you know, Dylan's not at all.

1864
01:29:26,199 --> 01:29:28,680
And then Travis is he's an objective guy. You know,

1865
01:29:29,079 --> 01:29:31,119
he's he's going for the objectives. He doesn't know how

1866
01:29:31,119 --> 01:29:33,239
to shoot a gun, but yeah, he's going for those objectives.

1867
01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:36,840
But yeah, yeah, shouts out tytor Field, he is the

1868
01:29:36,880 --> 01:29:38,920
best cod player I've ever had the pleasure of playing against.

1869
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:41,560
And thank you so much. Or for wiping my ass.

1870
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:47,600
That sounded weird, so I'm gonna move on from that, Okay.

1871
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:51,119
Thoughts on Extra Life Extra Life this has been something

1872
01:29:51,119 --> 01:29:54,319
where like the podcast is just a fun thing to do,

1873
01:29:54,439 --> 01:29:58,039
talk about, you know, interesting things with friends, like minded folks.

1874
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:01,600
Extra Life was like a big like shift though, where

1875
01:30:02,359 --> 01:30:04,800
that was the first time where it really felt like damn,

1876
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:08,319
like we're actually doing something positive and not just entertaining,

1877
01:30:08,359 --> 01:30:12,600
like actually raising money for like a super important cause.

1878
01:30:13,279 --> 01:30:16,119
For those of you that don't know, we're always all

1879
01:30:16,159 --> 01:30:17,399
of our donations through Extra Life.

1880
01:30:17,399 --> 01:30:19,079
Speaker 6: They just go to the BC Children's.

1881
01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 5: Hospital, which here in Canada, British Columbia, that is our

1882
01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:24,479
children's hospital for the province.

1883
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:29,600
Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean it's I mean, there's.

1884
01:30:29,439 --> 01:30:31,600
Speaker 5: Nothing else to say, Like I feel like that's just

1885
01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:35,000
like the one the one thing that everyone can agree

1886
01:30:35,079 --> 01:30:37,880
on is like children deserve like the best, Like they

1887
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:41,840
just have so much limited, limitless potential when they're born,

1888
01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:46,239
Like nobody's born an evil person. But so I think

1889
01:30:46,279 --> 01:30:49,079
sometimes people are just born with a shitty hand, and

1890
01:30:49,159 --> 01:30:52,359
sometimes they are forced to you know, go into life

1891
01:30:52,359 --> 01:30:55,800
saving surgeries and stuff like that, or even just just

1892
01:30:55,920 --> 01:30:59,880
families with complications that are are forced to go to

1893
01:30:59,880 --> 01:31:03,640
the children's hospitals. And I think that's like you don't

1894
01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:06,520
even have to explain how important that is. So we've

1895
01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:09,399
been felt just super super honored to be able to

1896
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:11,520
be a part of that every year. It has been

1897
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:14,439
every year of the podcast. I can't exactly remember our

1898
01:31:14,479 --> 01:31:16,399
inception year, but we've been doing it for a long

1899
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:19,920
time now and it's so rewarding, like being ten years

1900
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:22,000
in now for the whole life of the podcast and

1901
01:31:22,039 --> 01:31:25,199
looking back and Extra Life is just so fantastic obviously,

1902
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:29,159
like many other people do it, gameathons and stuff like that.

1903
01:31:29,399 --> 01:31:31,840
It's just such a great thing that Extra Life does.

1904
01:31:32,119 --> 01:31:36,800
And yeah, like just looking on our profile and just

1905
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:39,119
seeing like the total number amount of like that much

1906
01:31:39,159 --> 01:31:41,760
money that we've been able to donate to a tremendous cause,

1907
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:44,439
is it really like it like that's the one thing

1908
01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:46,520
where it's just like holy shit, like this is actually

1909
01:31:46,960 --> 01:31:50,079
significant and important and like you know, I'm like borderline

1910
01:31:50,119 --> 01:31:51,720
getting teared up right now just talking about it, because

1911
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:54,640
it is just so special and uh yeah, I definitely

1912
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:57,359
feel so honored to be a part of that. Shouts

1913
01:31:57,359 --> 01:31:59,840
out to everyone that's listening to this. That and people

1914
01:31:59,880 --> 01:32:02,359
that listening to this that just donated money or even

1915
01:32:02,399 --> 01:32:06,119
just spread links and just got the word out of there,

1916
01:32:06,119 --> 01:32:08,399
because in the Extra Life streams, we do twenty four

1917
01:32:08,439 --> 01:32:10,920
hour streams and they're filled with a lot of fun stuff.

1918
01:32:11,279 --> 01:32:13,479
In the wee hours, they get fucking ridiculous, and I

1919
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:18,640
apologize for random shit I probably just said on air through.

1920
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:20,560
Speaker 6: There, but it's all for a good cause.

1921
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 5: And yeah, I like it's just been It just bowled

1922
01:32:24,439 --> 01:32:26,279
in my mind every year how much money we actually make.

1923
01:32:26,279 --> 01:32:30,000
I think the first year was the biggest shocker, just

1924
01:32:30,039 --> 01:32:32,760
because the first dollar amount that we threw up there

1925
01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:36,600
was five hundred dollars and like, you know, five hundred dollars,

1926
01:32:36,640 --> 01:32:39,520
not five million dollars, but like to me, that's a

1927
01:32:39,680 --> 01:32:42,439
decent chunk of change. And at the time, like we're

1928
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:46,479
pretty small podcasts. I'mone's saying we're massive now, but like

1929
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:50,640
still it was very early stages and it's like, yeah,

1930
01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:52,199
whatever we're gonna do, do twenty four hours.

1931
01:32:52,239 --> 01:32:53,199
Speaker 6: Our goals five hundred.

1932
01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:56,640
Speaker 5: It's the old you know, if you shoot for the

1933
01:32:56,680 --> 01:32:59,000
moon and you'll land in the clouds or whatever the

1934
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:02,520
fuck the saying is. Like that was my mindset going

1935
01:33:02,560 --> 01:33:04,840
into It's like, hey, five hundred dollars goal, maybe we'll

1936
01:33:04,840 --> 01:33:07,159
make half of that, and still that's awesome. That's just

1937
01:33:07,279 --> 01:33:11,560
money going to a tremendous cause. But no, that first year,

1938
01:33:11,560 --> 01:33:15,199
we actually made our goal, and it was just I

1939
01:33:15,199 --> 01:33:16,640
felt like I was riding a high for like a

1940
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:19,680
week after that specific one. I still feel that way

1941
01:33:19,760 --> 01:33:22,039
now in the extra life, but just because we're doing

1942
01:33:22,079 --> 01:33:23,680
a lot more, like I'm just more used to it

1943
01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:26,479
and I now that I've seen us hit those big goals.

1944
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:28,760
And then yeah, after the five hundred dollar, we after

1945
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:31,560
like a thousand and like met that again fifteen hundred,

1946
01:33:31,600 --> 01:33:35,039
Like it just kept going up our goals and we

1947
01:33:35,039 --> 01:33:39,159
were making them. Last two years, I think we didn't

1948
01:33:39,279 --> 01:33:41,319
quite make the goal, but like still it's just it's

1949
01:33:41,319 --> 01:33:43,720
so much money that's going to a tremendous cause, and

1950
01:33:43,800 --> 01:33:47,199
it feels so awesome to be able to partake in

1951
01:33:47,239 --> 01:33:50,840
that one. So yeah, that's that's been super special. Of

1952
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:54,159
course we have our goals or sorry, our goal rewards.

1953
01:33:54,520 --> 01:34:00,319
First year, I believe it was Amber me and Dylans

1954
01:34:00,560 --> 01:34:04,319
that we're sacrificing our our lovely locks to the cause

1955
01:34:04,800 --> 01:34:08,319
of getting shaved. And I haven't gotten buzzed since then.

1956
01:34:10,159 --> 01:34:14,520
I just haven't really wanted to. Sorry if that sounds selfish,

1957
01:34:14,600 --> 01:34:18,960
but yeah, we still have rewards and stuff at all

1958
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:21,359
the different tiers. And something else that's been really fun

1959
01:34:21,399 --> 01:34:23,880
pairing up with the Extra Life is our themed shirts

1960
01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:25,199
and stuff that we've been doing. This is not a

1961
01:34:25,239 --> 01:34:27,399
theme shirt for people that are viewing this. There's a

1962
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:32,359
very black plain tea, but Dylan or Geez taylor Field

1963
01:34:32,359 --> 01:34:34,239
does such a great job with the designs of those

1964
01:34:34,319 --> 01:34:37,720
we usually theme them. Some standout ones of course the

1965
01:34:37,800 --> 01:34:39,800
Lord of the Lord of the Rings one that we

1966
01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:41,880
did which was around the time with the Rings of Power.

1967
01:34:42,319 --> 01:34:45,439
The Barbie one is definitely a favorite of mine, and

1968
01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:50,000
then most recently the X Men animated series Extra Life

1969
01:34:50,079 --> 01:34:51,800
Keepers one, like, he just does a great job with

1970
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:56,079
those designs and they're nice shirts, and again, money that

1971
01:34:56,119 --> 01:34:57,840
we get on the shirts it goes to the Extra Life,

1972
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:00,239
So it's just across the board, a great cause and

1973
01:35:00,600 --> 01:35:04,560
some yeah I I feel really proud about and yeah,

1974
01:35:04,640 --> 01:35:06,840
I will probably do that further as long as we

1975
01:35:07,560 --> 01:35:10,000
will be doing this podcast, I would imagine it's it's

1976
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:16,520
just it's something that we all enjoy. Yeah, Okay, I'm

1977
01:35:16,520 --> 01:35:18,079
gonna take a little sippy sip here because this is

1978
01:35:18,079 --> 01:35:21,039
going longer than I thought. But that's what I do.

1979
01:35:21,119 --> 01:35:23,239
I just ramble sometimes and we're just gonna keep going.

1980
01:35:26,880 --> 01:35:33,439
Have fun editing this one. Travis Snell give thoughts on

1981
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:35,880
each GV member and what they've meant to the brand.

1982
01:35:37,399 --> 01:35:41,640
Speaker 6: Okay, this is this is interesting because I've.

1983
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:44,680
Speaker 5: Kind of already talked about all my members, of course,

1984
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:49,720
except for like the early early days, the Target crew,

1985
01:35:50,319 --> 01:35:59,359
the original members that started the whole thing, Myself, Jessica, Dylan, Muss, Taylor, Travis.

1986
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:03,840
So yeah, like I've already said a lot about about

1987
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:06,560
the other ones, but like, uh, for for Jessica, she

1988
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:08,600
hasn't been with us for for the last couple of years,

1989
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:12,159
but I still think that she just brought a certain

1990
01:36:12,279 --> 01:36:17,079
energy to to those early years of the podcast. Of course,

1991
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:21,319
like five different members just having their own subjective thoughts

1992
01:36:21,319 --> 01:36:23,319
on things, it makes it enticing. You don't want to

1993
01:36:23,359 --> 01:36:25,359
just be an echo chamber. We all agree on the

1994
01:36:25,399 --> 01:36:28,960
same things, And I felt like specifically Jessica and Travis,

1995
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:33,319
they would just get going on on opposing thoughts and

1996
01:36:33,600 --> 01:36:36,000
as especially in that era where I just didn't talk much,

1997
01:36:36,039 --> 01:36:39,199
it was just so enticing to be uh so entertaining

1998
01:36:39,239 --> 01:36:41,520
maybe to be viewing those two going at it, but

1999
01:36:41,760 --> 01:36:44,600
uh and like not in a in a negative, hateful

2000
01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:48,039
way or anything like that. It was just just just

2001
01:36:48,079 --> 01:36:50,319
for the for the betterment of the conversation and then

2002
01:36:50,359 --> 01:36:55,880
a good discussion. So yeah, Jessica's definitely been missed since

2003
01:36:56,039 --> 01:36:59,520
since her departure there. But because yeah, that was that

2004
01:36:59,560 --> 01:37:02,279
was the person talk to anime about and and all

2005
01:37:02,359 --> 01:37:05,319
that and yeah, and then mentioned Amber a few times

2006
01:37:05,359 --> 01:37:05,840
as well.

2007
01:37:07,520 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

2008
01:37:07,800 --> 01:37:10,680
Speaker 6: No, she's just just just great, great member.

2009
01:37:12,640 --> 01:37:14,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, I it feels weird because like,

2010
01:37:15,079 --> 01:37:17,359
do I talk about myself here? I don't really want to.

2011
01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:19,520
The other guys I'm sure are in their videos. I'm

2012
01:37:19,520 --> 01:37:21,039
sure they have like a twenty minute segment of just

2013
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:24,479
talking about how awesome I am. So go listen to

2014
01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:26,079
their videos if they if you want to hear about

2015
01:37:26,119 --> 01:37:29,800
how awesome I am. But uh no, uh, Travis Snell,

2016
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:32,680
I mean, yeah, he's he's my master organizer. He keeps

2017
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:35,199
me on a on a straight narrow path. I'd be

2018
01:37:35,239 --> 01:37:37,520
lost without him and the organizing and the calendar and

2019
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:41,600
all that stuff that he manages. I feel like I

2020
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:46,520
always say how much he does on the the the

2021
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:51,119
organizing side and just just keeping us all. Yeah, just

2022
01:37:51,119 --> 01:37:54,479
just organized and structured. But like there's so much more

2023
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:56,520
that he does, like behind the scenes, whether it's just

2024
01:37:56,560 --> 01:38:02,239
like organizing, like producing other shows, just just getting notes

2025
01:38:02,279 --> 01:38:05,039
for shows that he's not even a part of when

2026
01:38:05,039 --> 01:38:07,399
he was on parental leave, like he's supposed to be

2027
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:10,000
not working, He's still working all the time because he's

2028
01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:13,359
just that's just who he is. And yeah, he's he's

2029
01:38:13,399 --> 01:38:17,359
just a big core pillar for honestly, like the whole

2030
01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:20,720
umbrella of what the gigk First Network is. So Travis Noll,

2031
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,960
I love you, buddy, You're awesome. And then Dylan Muss.

2032
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:27,119
I mean, come on, now, what can I say about

2033
01:38:27,159 --> 01:38:31,319
Dylan Musk? He's my video game savants, h Dylan Muss. Actually,

2034
01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:35,880
it's interesting with Dylan because I feel like we've had

2035
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:39,600
a lot of like mutual friends unknowingly just because we

2036
01:38:39,640 --> 01:38:41,640
are so close in I mean, all of us are

2037
01:38:41,640 --> 01:38:42,920
close in age, but for Dylan and I we went

2038
01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:44,880
to the same high school, but we weren't friends in

2039
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:47,079
high school. I just remember like seeing him and then

2040
01:38:47,119 --> 01:38:49,039
like interact with friends that I knew at the time.

2041
01:38:49,279 --> 01:38:50,359
So it's just kind of it was just kind of

2042
01:38:50,359 --> 01:38:53,119
funny how we ended up linking up through through Target,

2043
01:38:53,159 --> 01:38:54,880
and then of course here we are all these years later,

2044
01:38:54,920 --> 01:38:56,760
and he's one of my he's one of my best friends.

2045
01:38:56,800 --> 01:38:59,279
I see him, you know, I don't see him in person,

2046
01:38:59,319 --> 01:39:01,479
but just talking through podcast him every single week.

2047
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:02,119
Speaker 1: Uh.

2048
01:39:02,159 --> 01:39:04,239
Speaker 5: And then and then for Taylor Field, I feel like

2049
01:39:04,279 --> 01:39:07,279
he's just such a one of a kind individual, just

2050
01:39:07,319 --> 01:39:10,319
a heart of gold. He's he's honestly just such a

2051
01:39:10,399 --> 01:39:15,680
genuinely good person. And yeah, he's we we definitely bonded

2052
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:18,119
a lot, like through Target. I feel like my first

2053
01:39:18,239 --> 01:39:20,079
day at Target, I kind of got paired up with

2054
01:39:20,119 --> 01:39:22,720
him and he and he was showing me the ropes

2055
01:39:22,760 --> 01:39:25,199
and I was like, man, what an interesting cat this

2056
01:39:25,279 --> 01:39:27,680
guy is. And that just multiplied when I found out

2057
01:39:27,680 --> 01:39:31,000
his favorite movie at the time was Ghost, Ghost Writer,

2058
01:39:31,079 --> 01:39:34,359
Spirit a Vengeance. That was one I'll I'll never forget about.

2059
01:39:34,399 --> 01:39:36,560
I think me and Travis were stalking shelves.

2060
01:39:37,199 --> 01:39:37,760
Speaker 2: Uh.

2061
01:39:37,840 --> 01:39:39,560
Speaker 5: And then and then Taylor must have been with us,

2062
01:39:39,560 --> 01:39:42,079
and yeah, Travis must have asked him what his favorite movie,

2063
01:39:42,359 --> 01:39:44,880
not just favorite comic book movie or anything like that,

2064
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:49,399
just just favorite just favorite movie is Ghosts, ghost Writer,

2065
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:52,039
Spirit of Vengeance, and I think it shifted since it's

2066
01:39:52,079 --> 01:39:54,760
probably still up there for him. But yeah, we definitely

2067
01:39:54,800 --> 01:39:59,960
bonded over Sassin's Creed. Just just video games and every

2068
01:40:00,159 --> 01:40:03,600
I mean, that's that's how we all kind of uh

2069
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:08,600
uh bonded over with Jessica as well, of course, just

2070
01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:11,800
just big video game fans. But uh, yeah, No, there's

2071
01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:14,479
a certain wavelength, Like there's not much more that has

2072
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:16,159
to be said. There's just there's certain people you just

2073
01:40:16,279 --> 01:40:18,439
you just click with, you vibe with, and the fact

2074
01:40:18,439 --> 01:40:21,560
we've been able to do this for this long, I

2075
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:23,800
think that speaks volumes to just our chemistry and how

2076
01:40:23,880 --> 01:40:27,439
much we were you know, obviously every day they're not

2077
01:40:27,520 --> 01:40:29,479
every day. Everyone has little quirks that you might find

2078
01:40:29,479 --> 01:40:34,000
annoying after a while. But uh, I'm losing.

2079
01:40:34,039 --> 01:40:34,439
Speaker 6: I'm losing.

2080
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:36,359
Speaker 5: When here I apologize, I'm gonna get to my last

2081
01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:40,159
point here, which is about you, the listeners, the fans,

2082
01:40:41,079 --> 01:40:45,600
the people that have been supporting us, whether that's the Patreons,

2083
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:48,600
whether that's our family members or significant others that just

2084
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:53,880
allow us to do this by uh like just just yeah,

2085
01:40:54,039 --> 01:40:56,880
it's just just allowing me to go and talk about

2086
01:40:57,039 --> 01:40:59,479
nerdy stuff with my friends for a few hours. Like

2087
01:41:00,079 --> 01:41:03,079
our schedule has been crazy at times, and being so

2088
01:41:04,279 --> 01:41:08,600
supportive around it, whether it's filming movies, whether it's filming

2089
01:41:08,640 --> 01:41:13,680
Gauntlet stuff, Like I sometimes wonder what you know, Shalin

2090
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:16,640
my significant ever says to her friends when it's like, oh,

2091
01:41:16,720 --> 01:41:18,920
what's Kirkland doing today? Like, you know, if I'm at

2092
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:21,640
home on a Saturday, and like does she lie about

2093
01:41:21,640 --> 01:41:22,720
me making movies?

2094
01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:23,560
Speaker 6: Is she really proud?

2095
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:25,159
Speaker 5: And it's like, yeah, he's gonna go to Hollywood because

2096
01:41:25,199 --> 01:41:27,800
he's going to be making these big time movies. I

2097
01:41:29,039 --> 01:41:31,960
definitely don't think she was telling the truth on if

2098
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:34,600
I was recording Gauntlet stuff, because that's you know, I

2099
01:41:34,640 --> 01:41:38,239
think it's awesome, but so many different social realms. Maybe not,

2100
01:41:38,239 --> 01:41:41,319
maybe they think it's a little bit childish, but never

2101
01:41:41,359 --> 01:41:45,119
lose that childish spark myself that I'm telling to right

2102
01:41:45,119 --> 01:41:47,720
now and anyone else that might be listening to. But

2103
01:41:48,119 --> 01:41:51,920
no serious, big, big shouts out to anyone that supported

2104
01:41:51,920 --> 01:41:56,399
the podcast or shared it. Made a review, like subscribe,

2105
01:41:56,840 --> 01:41:59,760
like just anything, interact with us in the comments, even

2106
01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:04,119
if you, yeah, interacting the discord, like that really is what's.

2107
01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:04,680
Speaker 6: Kept this going.

2108
01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:07,720
Speaker 5: I think if we it's not even if I didn't think, like,

2109
01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:10,439
if we didn't have, you know, the patreons that we

2110
01:42:10,560 --> 01:42:14,199
do or the discord population that we do, there's people

2111
01:42:14,199 --> 01:42:17,359
interacting with us and the YouTube chats, there's no way

2112
01:42:17,399 --> 01:42:19,680
we would have been doing it doing this, Like we

2113
01:42:19,760 --> 01:42:21,800
might have still been doing the podcast, but nowhere near

2114
01:42:21,840 --> 01:42:23,560
the extent of what it is of actually making it

2115
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:30,000
into a business. Having a ridiculous schedule. I mean, it

2116
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:31,760
doesn't feel ridiculous because it's so fun to do, but

2117
01:42:31,800 --> 01:42:33,840
like still when you look at the calendar, it's like, Okay,

2118
01:42:34,039 --> 01:42:36,159
got a couple of days off this month, but a

2119
01:42:36,159 --> 01:42:40,560
lot of recording. So yeah, you are the reason why

2120
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:43,199
we're able to keep this going for these last ten years,

2121
01:42:43,199 --> 01:42:45,560
and there's no reason why we can't do another ten

2122
01:42:45,640 --> 01:42:47,640
years unless the Discord just dies and all of our

2123
01:42:47,640 --> 01:42:49,600
patreons some subscribe and hopefully.

2124
01:42:49,239 --> 01:42:50,079
Speaker 6: That day never comes.

2125
01:42:50,079 --> 01:42:53,880
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think I wanna call it here. This

2126
01:42:53,960 --> 01:42:55,880
has been a really long time. Forty six minutes I

2127
01:42:55,920 --> 01:42:57,359
did not think I was gonna be going this long.

2128
01:42:58,920 --> 01:43:01,439
I just like to talk, I guess, so, thank you

2129
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:05,000
so much for entertaining me here. And I'm very curious

2130
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:06,560
what the tour run time of my clip is going

2131
01:43:06,600 --> 01:43:06,760
to be.

2132
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:07,159
Speaker 6: For Travis.

2133
01:43:07,199 --> 01:43:08,439
Speaker 5: I think he's going to nrow this down in like

2134
01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:12,039
six minutes and just just throw in me praising him,

2135
01:43:12,159 --> 01:43:14,359
and cut everyone else out. I could definitely see him

2136
01:43:14,399 --> 01:43:17,880
doing that. But until then, I'll see you in another

2137
01:43:17,920 --> 01:43:18,800
ten years.

2138
01:43:18,479 --> 01:43:19,279
Speaker 6: But by I love you.

2139
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:29,439
Speaker 2: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the tenure. My goodness,

2140
01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:35,399
that's uh, that's crazy. I actually know, lie. I got

2141
01:43:35,439 --> 01:43:38,640
a little nervous recording this, don't know why, same as

2142
01:43:38,720 --> 01:43:42,399
usual camera microphone. You guys are listening later on. Just

2143
01:43:43,359 --> 01:43:46,399
to think about that. We have a lot of questions

2144
01:43:46,439 --> 01:43:48,239
to talk about, to think about making sure I say

2145
01:43:48,279 --> 01:43:53,800
everything as perfectly as well spoken as I can. You know,

2146
01:43:53,920 --> 01:43:56,399
me always got some problesome words, some English, so don't

2147
01:43:56,399 --> 01:43:59,199
want to botch or anything. But I have ideas about

2148
01:43:59,199 --> 01:44:01,800
what I might say, but nothing written down. I want

2149
01:44:01,840 --> 01:44:06,399
to try and make this go the most off the cuff,

2150
01:44:07,319 --> 01:44:10,600
pouring from the heart as I can. But yeah, it is.

2151
01:44:10,680 --> 01:44:13,800
It is surreal to think about ten years doing this.

2152
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:19,560
I it's not felt like that all. I think that

2153
01:44:19,760 --> 01:44:21,720
is a good sign at least, you know, as I

2154
01:44:21,760 --> 01:44:23,560
think it felt like, oh my god, ten years, It's

2155
01:44:23,600 --> 01:44:27,319
not like that. It's just there's been kids and big

2156
01:44:27,359 --> 01:44:31,640
life changes, career changes, milestems we've done, COVID happened, there's

2157
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:34,319
all this stuff. But really that's the best thing I

2158
01:44:34,319 --> 01:44:36,479
can say is it's not felt like ten years. It's

2159
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:39,319
just it's really blown by. It felt like just the

2160
01:44:39,399 --> 01:44:42,920
other day we're talking about in the Facebook group starting

2161
01:44:42,960 --> 01:44:46,359
this podcast, you know, watching E three talked about it,

2162
01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:52,479
and again kudos to Taylor. I think Kirkland said his part.

2163
01:44:52,520 --> 01:44:54,640
It was me. It was not me. Uh and it

2164
01:44:54,720 --> 01:44:56,239
always told me, oh you should do something, you should

2165
01:44:56,239 --> 01:44:59,359
do podcasts. I never did. But Taylor he was through

2166
01:44:59,399 --> 01:45:02,039
it out there and we all kind of spitball and

2167
01:45:02,079 --> 01:45:04,800
did some stuff and went from talking about that, talking

2168
01:45:04,800 --> 01:45:06,600
about the concept, talk about how we do it to

2169
01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:08,560
talk about a name, which took a very long time

2170
01:45:08,600 --> 01:45:11,680
and geek first eventually stuck did not like it at

2171
01:45:11,720 --> 01:45:15,239
the start, but grew on me and now I do

2172
01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:17,479
like it. It's weird when people first hear it and the

2173
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:20,399
geek first, but it grows on you and yes, we're

2174
01:45:20,399 --> 01:45:25,920
here at the ten year and it would not have

2175
01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:28,840
thought about this when we started, did not think about

2176
01:45:28,840 --> 01:45:30,359
it all really, just that was the start, right and

2177
01:45:30,359 --> 01:45:33,159
eventually build towards goals when you want to do but

2178
01:45:33,359 --> 01:45:37,159
a a decade, it's just it's very crazy to me.

2179
01:45:37,880 --> 01:45:41,039
I've not processed it yet. I think I've started to

2180
01:45:41,119 --> 01:45:44,760
a little bit as we've gone close to the day

2181
01:45:44,880 --> 01:45:46,399
and I've been doing a lot of editing and looking

2182
01:45:46,439 --> 01:45:50,079
at old videos to really just the scope of what

2183
01:45:50,119 --> 01:45:54,800
we've done and how long we've done it. That's it

2184
01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:58,279
started to settle in now and I'm trying my best

2185
01:45:58,319 --> 01:46:00,520
to appreciate it and take it all in because it's

2186
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:02,319
you know, I got one ten years and then we're

2187
01:46:02,319 --> 01:46:05,600
on to the next one. Who knows what, but yes,

2188
01:46:05,760 --> 01:46:12,000
ten years doing this is it's a lot to process.

2189
01:46:12,319 --> 01:46:16,000
But I am very lucky with the crew, you know,

2190
01:46:16,159 --> 01:46:18,920
the main four horse and the main GV four that

2191
01:46:19,000 --> 01:46:21,359
I've had, and then all the other people to talk

2192
01:46:21,399 --> 01:46:23,800
about a little bit today over time that we've had

2193
01:46:23,840 --> 01:46:28,800
as well. It's just it's become, aside from my family,

2194
01:46:29,159 --> 01:46:31,279
the biggest part of my life, which that same thing

2195
01:46:31,319 --> 01:46:34,800
would have not thought that, you know, And there is

2196
01:46:34,880 --> 01:46:37,520
just so many peaks and valleys and just so many

2197
01:46:37,520 --> 01:46:39,279
adventures and so many things that I would not have

2198
01:46:39,279 --> 01:46:45,199
thought of possible. And yeah, it's it's it's a weird feeling.

2199
01:46:45,520 --> 01:46:48,560
It's weird. It's good because there's many podcasts that don't

2200
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:50,680
make it that long. We're not world famous, we're not

2201
01:46:50,720 --> 01:46:52,880
doing this even full time, right, it's a part time gig.

2202
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:54,800
But there's a lot of people that don't get to

2203
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,119
where we are. And that's something you gotta appreciate too,

2204
01:46:57,119 --> 01:46:59,600
because I've always said this, you know, our twenty twenty

2205
01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:01,479
one in twenty two era where it's just like, oh,

2206
01:47:01,520 --> 01:47:04,479
every month was the biggest and when that doesn't happen,

2207
01:47:04,479 --> 01:47:06,319
you're like, oh man, you know that we're still good.

2208
01:47:06,319 --> 01:47:08,279
But it's like, you know, what do we do? How

2209
01:47:08,279 --> 01:47:11,279
do we do that? Is there anything we can change?

2210
01:47:11,359 --> 01:47:13,199
And I know I'm rambling a little bit, but that's

2211
01:47:13,239 --> 01:47:15,439
what I mean by peaks and valleys where you go

2212
01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:17,279
through stuff Like I'm like, when we got Endgame, that

2213
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:22,319
was something hard cool mind, that was something where uh,

2214
01:47:22,359 --> 01:47:24,319
it just hit so big and that was a big

2215
01:47:24,399 --> 01:47:26,359
change all right up front, right same thing. You can

2216
01:47:26,359 --> 01:47:30,640
become a small business. That's what we are learning things,

2217
01:47:30,960 --> 01:47:35,880
getting accounts, reading laws, stuff like that. So yeah, it

2218
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:39,560
ten years is hard to think of starting to grasp

2219
01:47:39,560 --> 01:47:42,279
it a little bit, but still it's it's been a wild,

2220
01:47:42,560 --> 01:47:45,520
wild ride. And yeah, let's let's get into some of

2221
01:47:45,560 --> 01:47:51,319
these questions. Uh, favorite era of GV and why it's

2222
01:47:51,359 --> 01:47:53,359
tough because we always talk about them. We said we

2223
01:47:53,399 --> 01:47:55,000
should do a cast. We probably should do a cast,

2224
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:57,439
but it's tough because we're always moving in evolving. Even

2225
01:47:57,479 --> 01:47:59,479
though I think this era, it's kind of fitting that

2226
01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:01,199
the last few years have been you know, i'd say

2227
01:48:01,239 --> 01:48:03,960
the digital age because I think for the most part,

2228
01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:06,239
we're gonna say that way, Like, even if this became

2229
01:48:06,239 --> 01:48:08,199
our full time jobs, there'd be no reason for Dylan

2230
01:48:08,239 --> 01:48:10,800
to you know, move to Cologna to be in the studio.

2231
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:12,680
There'd be no reason for curriculing to lead the West

2232
01:48:12,720 --> 01:48:14,840
Side to come to here unless someone's i guess, running

2233
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:19,199
a billion dollar checks or something. But the era is

2234
01:48:19,279 --> 01:48:22,119
to me, I think it's like the beginning years, which

2235
01:48:22,159 --> 01:48:26,159
is probably the first two years, and then I'd say

2236
01:48:26,199 --> 01:48:32,920
twenty seventeen to about twenty nineteen is we did go

2237
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:36,000
a lot of all over and it's funny because I

2238
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:39,239
think it's tough because almost twenty seventeen is its own

2239
01:48:39,279 --> 01:48:41,039
little era too, because it was a lot of spinoffs,

2240
01:48:41,079 --> 01:48:42,920
a lot of new hosts coming in. I think that's

2241
01:48:42,920 --> 01:48:45,760
when we're our full power of having seven people, which yes,

2242
01:48:45,920 --> 01:48:48,000
was way too much. I don't know how we did

2243
01:48:48,039 --> 01:48:51,159
not have h none of us had kids. We didn't

2244
01:48:51,159 --> 01:48:53,399
have we luckily had girlfriends or whatnot that we've been

2245
01:48:53,399 --> 01:48:56,199
together for a while or understanding. It used to be,

2246
01:48:56,359 --> 01:48:59,039
you know, every Friday, every once in a while during

2247
01:48:59,079 --> 01:49:01,560
the week first on shows we do you know, different days,

2248
01:49:01,560 --> 01:49:04,399
but every Friday we're Thursday after work ends and I

2249
01:49:04,439 --> 01:49:06,199
remember Emily like, it has to be every Friday. That's

2250
01:49:06,239 --> 01:49:08,479
the stari the weekend, but work good in we'd go there,

2251
01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:11,199
we all grab bike to eat and then we'd cast

2252
01:49:11,199 --> 01:49:12,880
a Dylan and throw that up, or cast at Dylan's

2253
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:15,079
place and throw it up. So there is many eras

2254
01:49:15,119 --> 01:49:16,800
and that's where it's been good looking back at all

2255
01:49:16,800 --> 01:49:19,880
this because I like to think of, you know, seventeen

2256
01:49:20,079 --> 01:49:22,319
to nineteen, it's like the Custard Dome era, right the

2257
01:49:22,319 --> 01:49:26,680
Custardome era is where Dylan Muss and a company live.

2258
01:49:27,479 --> 01:49:30,119
Shout at Tyler, shout at Clinton. But the Custerdome era

2259
01:49:30,399 --> 01:49:33,760
is that's when he had moved out from his parents

2260
01:49:33,840 --> 01:49:35,960
and he was had a couple of roommates. And I

2261
01:49:36,079 --> 01:49:38,840
like to think even in the time when we were

2262
01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:41,840
at Dylan's parents' basement, I think there's still like a

2263
01:49:41,840 --> 01:49:44,000
couple of my place because obviously I did Dynamic Duo

2264
01:49:44,520 --> 01:49:48,159
and I did I ran repeating other stuff. Looking back,

2265
01:49:48,239 --> 01:49:51,319
I remember it as like, oh, it was Dylon's family's place,

2266
01:49:51,439 --> 01:49:53,640
the Custard home, then it was my house, a couple

2267
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:55,479
of tailors, and then the all mine age, right, But

2268
01:49:55,760 --> 01:49:57,319
that's not really how it went, and it was kind

2269
01:49:57,359 --> 01:49:58,920
of spread throughout all over, but still there was a

2270
01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:03,960
majority of times. And then i'd say nineteen to twenty,

2271
01:50:05,560 --> 01:50:08,359
I'd say nineteen to twenty is like I won't say

2272
01:50:08,399 --> 01:50:13,279
the bad era, but the the radical shift era. That's

2273
01:50:13,319 --> 01:50:15,279
when we're not in person. That's when we're trying to

2274
01:50:15,279 --> 01:50:17,319
find the right mics. That's when we're trying to find

2275
01:50:17,359 --> 01:50:21,439
the right service to host. Because you gotta remember when

2276
01:50:21,479 --> 01:50:25,439
we in twenty nineteen, endgame happened well, I guess it

2277
01:50:25,479 --> 01:50:27,000
was before I gave and lead up to endgame, but

2278
01:50:27,079 --> 01:50:29,000
still lead up we started to have ad revenue and

2279
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:30,600
we could buy O mikes, And a big shout out

2280
01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:34,159
to Jeff Larrymore. He's a patron that went on. I

2281
01:50:34,199 --> 01:50:36,279
know he's become Kunk fan. It's not around as much,

2282
01:50:36,319 --> 01:50:38,840
so he's not a patron anymore. But he was somebody

2283
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:41,880
that went above and beyond because he was like, Oh,

2284
01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:45,640
I'm gonna go and I'm gonna message or I'm gonna

2285
01:50:46,439 --> 01:50:48,399
you know, how much roughly do you need for mics

2286
01:50:48,439 --> 01:50:50,680
and stuff like that, and then we're like, oh, we're

2287
01:50:50,720 --> 01:50:52,159
hoping the game for this. He said, well, I'm giving

2288
01:50:52,159 --> 01:50:54,560
me all this and there you go, and legitimately a

2289
01:50:54,680 --> 01:50:56,800
very nice thing he did. And that was before the

2290
01:50:56,800 --> 01:50:58,800
ad revenue. You know, I wish the revenewe game in

2291
01:50:58,840 --> 01:51:00,479
so he didn't have to do that. But a big

2292
01:51:00,520 --> 01:51:02,199
shout of Jeff Larry Moore who got us the mics

2293
01:51:02,319 --> 01:51:08,119
on the way to endgame. But for me, the that

2294
01:51:08,439 --> 01:51:11,920
era of nineteen to twenty was just I guess we're

2295
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:14,199
so twenty twenty one. I guess because nineteen ended we

2296
01:51:14,199 --> 01:51:16,359
were still doing everything. It was COVID in twenty right,

2297
01:51:16,359 --> 01:51:19,960
so i'd say twenty beginning of twenty one it sucked

2298
01:51:19,960 --> 01:51:22,600
because we'd got all those mics, we'd got a camera,

2299
01:51:22,760 --> 01:51:25,560
we'd got a computer, we got you know cam like

2300
01:51:25,640 --> 01:51:27,359
all this stuff, and then we didn't get to use

2301
01:51:27,399 --> 01:51:29,199
it that much in person. Luckily, we've used it for

2302
01:51:29,239 --> 01:51:31,680
filming and use it for charity streams and everything. But

2303
01:51:32,359 --> 01:51:35,239
it's a whole era that was very small, the twenty

2304
01:51:35,319 --> 01:51:37,600
nineteen era, so that's a whole separate era. So it's

2305
01:51:37,600 --> 01:51:41,439
like to me, it's like twenty fifteen to sixteen is

2306
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:45,720
the is the fun but rough years, you know, the

2307
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:48,760
experimental just trying to figure it out, all shows everything

2308
01:51:48,800 --> 01:51:53,840
like that, Right, twenty seventeen to eighteen, I think of

2309
01:51:53,960 --> 01:51:56,560
the custard Home years, or I think of you know,

2310
01:51:56,720 --> 01:52:00,560
for me, you know, Myersport as the peak years. Twenty

2311
01:52:00,680 --> 01:52:04,479
nineteen is i'd say the new generation. Twenty twenty to

2312
01:52:04,479 --> 01:52:09,199
twenty one is the radical change, and then twenty twenty

2313
01:52:09,199 --> 01:52:11,520
two to now twenty twenty five is like the digital age,

2314
01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:13,479
or i'd say almost the norm right of what we

2315
01:52:13,520 --> 01:52:16,720
are going forward, And yes, the Custardome that is my

2316
01:52:16,920 --> 01:52:18,840
theory era. That's what they used to call where they lived,

2317
01:52:19,159 --> 01:52:22,800
and for me it was I don't know, there was

2318
01:52:22,840 --> 01:52:25,640
something magic about that place. I think there's something where

2319
01:52:26,239 --> 01:52:28,239
they were at the time at least, or you know,

2320
01:52:28,800 --> 01:52:30,960
here and there. But what doesn't matter the mindset of

2321
01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:34,039
Clinton and Tyler single guys or even though they weren't

2322
01:52:34,039 --> 01:52:36,239
living with their girlfriends. Dylan had moved up from his

2323
01:52:36,359 --> 01:52:38,920
parents and even us like Taya lived on his own.

2324
01:52:38,960 --> 01:52:41,199
I lived on my own before that, but still we

2325
01:52:41,359 --> 01:52:44,720
had significant others or you know, roommates or whatnot. And

2326
01:52:44,760 --> 01:52:46,119
that's the thing where it's like you didn't want to

2327
01:52:46,159 --> 01:52:49,399
be super rowty right like even Emily it's like she

2328
01:52:49,439 --> 01:52:51,640
puts up. She did put out with launch still does.

2329
01:52:51,680 --> 01:52:56,600
But the Custardome had a sort of it just had

2330
01:52:56,600 --> 01:53:00,159
a no like you could just be goofy. And that's

2331
01:53:00,199 --> 01:53:02,319
why for me, it's the peak years. You could be wild,

2332
01:53:02,479 --> 01:53:05,479
you could yell, and because Tyler and Clinton they're the

2333
01:53:05,520 --> 01:53:07,520
types that are just gonna laugh off even though sleeping,

2334
01:53:07,560 --> 01:53:09,119
they get they're having fun. And that thing where like

2335
01:53:09,279 --> 01:53:11,159
they would pop in to say something in an episode,

2336
01:53:11,159 --> 01:53:13,359
you never knew who's coming in because eventually, like many

2337
01:53:13,439 --> 01:53:15,760
times Dale with host parties there and we would become

2338
01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:18,279
friends with his friends, and it was a like a

2339
01:53:18,920 --> 01:53:21,399
just a kind of a sitcom comedy of like a

2340
01:53:21,600 --> 01:53:23,680
wild door sliding in and out. Like I remember we

2341
01:53:23,680 --> 01:53:25,680
were playing monoply one time, Tyler Kill with a bunch

2342
01:53:25,680 --> 01:53:27,680
of his friends and they sat with us and just

2343
01:53:27,680 --> 01:53:30,319
playing Monopoly for a little bit. Like it was always

2344
01:53:30,359 --> 01:53:32,000
like you never knew who's gonna come in. If it's

2345
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:34,000
something you knew for a while, it it was someone

2346
01:53:34,039 --> 01:53:37,119
that you didn't know, something like like Amber would walk

2347
01:53:37,159 --> 01:53:39,119
in like she's not even casting today, but she's just

2348
01:53:39,119 --> 01:53:41,279
here to hang out with somebody, right, And that's the

2349
01:53:41,319 --> 01:53:45,159
situation where for me those years, it was we were uncensored,

2350
01:53:45,159 --> 01:53:47,720
We're unlimited, and we could just be wild. Like even now,

2351
01:53:48,079 --> 01:53:51,119
I got the wife over there, I got kids downstairs,

2352
01:53:51,439 --> 01:53:53,960
so I couldn't have everyone over and be like we're

2353
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:57,720
gonna be rowdy. But that generation was rowdy. And that's

2354
01:53:57,720 --> 01:53:59,960
something where I will say for anybody walk of life,

2355
01:54:00,680 --> 01:54:04,079
appreciate what you have. I love everything we do right now.

2356
01:54:04,119 --> 01:54:06,119
And like we've said before, the amount of content we

2357
01:54:06,199 --> 01:54:08,319
do unless it was our daytime job, we could not

2358
01:54:08,399 --> 01:54:11,439
do if it wasn't for the you know, the norm

2359
01:54:11,560 --> 01:54:15,279
or the digital age or whatnot, right, And we did

2360
01:54:15,319 --> 01:54:17,079
a couple spit ons back in the Customer Don't era.

2361
01:54:17,239 --> 01:54:19,720
But for me, there is something special about the in

2362
01:54:19,840 --> 01:54:23,199
person cast. There is just a magic in the air.

2363
01:54:23,319 --> 01:54:25,119
We've all talked about, like we want to do more

2364
01:54:25,239 --> 01:54:27,119
in the futures, even though at least once a month

2365
01:54:27,199 --> 01:54:29,960
getting together and doing that, because especially watching these and

2366
01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:32,680
that's where appreciate what you have, because for me, it

2367
01:54:32,760 --> 01:54:37,279
was just that was the norm, right was Hey, from

2368
01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:41,399
twenty fifteen to about twenty nineteen, the majority of the

2369
01:54:41,680 --> 01:54:44,079
like all the podcast was somewhere in person, whether it's

2370
01:54:44,119 --> 01:54:47,720
my house, Taylor's house, Dale's house, et cetera. And that

2371
01:54:48,159 --> 01:54:51,319
it was just another day, another cast. Also, you had

2372
01:54:51,319 --> 01:54:53,640
your special ones, right, but it was just another time.

2373
01:54:54,159 --> 01:54:57,439
And now looking back on that, I really didn't appreciate

2374
01:54:58,199 --> 01:55:00,920
how fun those times were and how show those times work.

2375
01:55:00,960 --> 01:55:02,880
Especially sometimes it was just say we're gotta do this episode,

2376
01:55:02,880 --> 01:55:05,920
we gotta do this review. But really there are so

2377
01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:08,319
many times now wish and looking at all the footage

2378
01:55:08,319 --> 01:55:12,079
back then, I go, man, that the special sauce was there,

2379
01:55:12,159 --> 01:55:15,039
and I do think that special sauce still seeps in

2380
01:55:15,199 --> 01:55:17,880
it's grows that sounds to today's episodes, because I think

2381
01:55:17,920 --> 01:55:21,159
that forged us as friends. We've all had disagreements or

2382
01:55:21,279 --> 01:55:25,159
arguments or differences of opinions. Nothing luckily that's like driven

2383
01:55:25,199 --> 01:55:27,479
us go part completely. Sometimes you might need a break

2384
01:55:27,520 --> 01:55:30,960
from each other, but I think those years really cemented

2385
01:55:31,079 --> 01:55:34,359
us as close knit group of friends and people that

2386
01:55:34,399 --> 01:55:36,319
are gonna be in contact with each other the rest

2387
01:55:36,319 --> 01:55:39,159
of your life. Podcasts regarded or not, and there was

2388
01:55:39,239 --> 01:55:40,960
just something There's more I'll get into when we get

2389
01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:43,119
into the Gauntlet and stuff, but some about the Custardome

2390
01:55:43,479 --> 01:55:45,279
it just felt like when you walk in, it was

2391
01:55:45,319 --> 01:55:48,720
like a sitcom where always characters around and just had

2392
01:55:48,720 --> 01:55:51,720
a good vibe. And I think one thing that is

2393
01:55:52,199 --> 01:55:53,720
different as well too is if you had a bad

2394
01:55:53,760 --> 01:55:57,000
day at work, bad day at home, whatever differn for

2395
01:55:57,079 --> 01:55:59,359
Dylan because he lives there, but going to a different

2396
01:55:59,399 --> 01:56:02,359
location and just having like, Okay, I'm in the podcast

2397
01:56:02,359 --> 01:56:05,079
song where this is like I work at home now

2398
01:56:05,159 --> 01:56:07,000
and now it's here. It's like, so I don't leave,

2399
01:56:07,039 --> 01:56:08,680
you know. And even it's the same thing with the

2400
01:56:08,720 --> 01:56:12,319
digital like this the rough era that was like the

2401
01:56:12,399 --> 01:56:15,800
whole time was I miss as I remember, and luckily

2402
01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:17,399
don't had suggest that before because I think it was

2403
01:56:17,399 --> 01:56:20,239
about moving. It was hard for Kirkland. And I've always

2404
01:56:20,239 --> 01:56:23,199
said before I have no problemmitting when I'm wrong. I

2405
01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:25,199
might be hard because I might be like, no, I

2406
01:56:25,920 --> 01:56:27,600
believe in this, But you know, I think the two

2407
01:56:27,640 --> 01:56:29,840
biggest times I was wrong is one, we did that

2408
01:56:29,880 --> 01:56:31,479
after night where we let everyone had the link on

2409
01:56:31,479 --> 01:56:33,600
the online, very bad idea. I thought it was just

2410
01:56:33,640 --> 01:56:36,840
gonna be fun other podcaster friends jumping didn't happen. And two,

2411
01:56:37,000 --> 01:56:39,520
I was always against stand in person cast. And I

2412
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:42,439
remember probably the first six months, maybe even a year,

2413
01:56:42,720 --> 01:56:45,199
and Taya was with me. We hated it. Like we

2414
01:56:45,239 --> 01:56:46,880
still had fun, but we hate because we wanted to

2415
01:56:46,880 --> 01:56:48,920
get back. So I guess I did appreciate at the time.

2416
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:51,199
It's just now this has become the norm so much.

2417
01:56:51,279 --> 01:56:53,319
I did not appreciate that. And that's why for me

2418
01:56:53,880 --> 01:56:57,039
thinking back on it and looking at the and I

2419
01:56:57,199 --> 01:56:59,840
just listed as the Custard home. There's in many places.

2420
01:57:00,159 --> 01:57:02,279
Sometimes we go to Taylor, sometimes we go my dil's

2421
01:57:02,279 --> 01:57:04,840
dead town are busy, but to me, that is still

2422
01:57:04,880 --> 01:57:06,880
the custume area. The majority of the cast were there,

2423
01:57:06,920 --> 01:57:09,920
the gauntlet was there, the extra life was there. There

2424
01:57:10,000 --> 01:57:12,039
was just a magic in there. Like I said, people

2425
01:57:12,079 --> 01:57:15,800
were either single or like myself who didn't have children yet,

2426
01:57:15,800 --> 01:57:18,359
where it's like, okay, we're still you know, a lot

2427
01:57:18,399 --> 01:57:20,920
more freedom to do. You know. Eventually I did have

2428
01:57:20,960 --> 01:57:22,479
a kid in the custom Home era, but I mean,

2429
01:57:22,479 --> 01:57:26,000
like at the beginning, so that era was just it

2430
01:57:26,039 --> 01:57:27,880
was a It was a party all the time. And

2431
01:57:28,079 --> 01:57:31,159
that's why I say to anybody, whatever you're doing, in

2432
01:57:31,279 --> 01:57:33,199
any walk of life, whatever it is, just take a

2433
01:57:33,199 --> 01:57:36,239
second and appreciate everything. I did this last year too,

2434
01:57:36,279 --> 01:57:39,399
when you know, not to be morbid, but right now

2435
01:57:39,560 --> 01:57:42,439
when we do Christmas, it's like Emily's parents are alive

2436
01:57:42,439 --> 01:57:44,560
and my parents are alive, and all my kids had

2437
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:47,239
their grandparents and aunts and uncles everything, and you know,

2438
01:57:47,319 --> 01:57:49,119
of course I've lost some people, but luckily most of

2439
01:57:49,119 --> 01:57:51,800
the people of them my grandpa Bob All and I

2440
01:57:51,800 --> 01:57:53,880
guess my grandpa learned. But it was tougher because I

2441
01:57:53,880 --> 01:57:55,479
was younger than But I just mean, like most time

2442
01:57:55,760 --> 01:57:58,359
people have well then you go down that right and

2443
01:57:58,359 --> 01:58:00,600
my uncle Jerry, it was a big part of my

2444
01:58:00,680 --> 01:58:03,880
life that was younger. But everyone has those moments right

2445
01:58:03,920 --> 01:58:05,920
where you get that trauma and something bad happens. But

2446
01:58:06,920 --> 01:58:08,920
take a moment to appreciate what you have, even if

2447
01:58:08,920 --> 01:58:10,680
you think your life is shit right now, are tough,

2448
01:58:11,199 --> 01:58:13,359
you know, appreciate what you do have. That's why I

2449
01:58:13,359 --> 01:58:15,680
try to at Christmas, Like, man, there's gonna be an

2450
01:58:15,680 --> 01:58:17,840
era where in my life where we don't go to

2451
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:20,039
Emily's moments for Christmas. And I love doing that. I

2452
01:58:20,079 --> 01:58:22,359
love her family, I love you know, she's always baking

2453
01:58:22,399 --> 01:58:24,199
something good like I love that same thing. Come back here,

2454
01:58:24,239 --> 01:58:25,960
it's gonna be error on. My mom and dad and

2455
01:58:26,039 --> 01:58:28,640
my step mom are not around, my auntie, you know

2456
01:58:28,680 --> 01:58:30,680
people I love, and that's where it's I try to

2457
01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:31,880
do that a lot more now. I don't know if

2458
01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:34,479
it's because I'm older or having kids' help, but same

2459
01:58:34,520 --> 01:58:36,880
thing with that. That's something though. Now I wish I

2460
01:58:36,880 --> 01:58:39,359
could go back in time and say, hey, appreciate this

2461
01:58:39,439 --> 01:58:42,239
time because eventually Dylan's gonna move and you and Tay

2462
01:58:42,279 --> 01:58:44,479
are gonna have kids in Kirkland. You know, he did'

2463
01:58:44,479 --> 01:58:46,079
show up along the West Tip, but Kirklan's Kirkland. You

2464
01:58:46,079 --> 01:58:47,840
know he's gonna help his grandma move. You know he's

2465
01:58:47,840 --> 01:58:50,800
gonna make another clone shade whatever it is. I appreciate

2466
01:58:50,840 --> 01:58:53,079
this time, and I did, but like I don't think

2467
01:58:53,079 --> 01:58:55,199
I fully did. I never took a moment to think

2468
01:58:55,319 --> 01:58:57,439
and go oh, because I kind of just thought it's

2469
01:58:57,520 --> 01:58:59,239
always gonna be like that. So especially if you have

2470
01:58:59,319 --> 01:59:01,960
something really good life right now, going take a moment

2471
01:59:01,960 --> 01:59:03,800
and just appreciate that it could go away, you know,

2472
01:59:04,279 --> 01:59:06,439
not being dramatic, but just could could go away, could

2473
01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:09,439
change whatever it may be. So that is my fair era.

2474
01:59:10,640 --> 01:59:13,000
A big shout out to those guys were hosting, and

2475
01:59:13,039 --> 01:59:14,920
a big shout out to in the first few years,

2476
01:59:15,199 --> 01:59:17,680
I wanted to think them personally. At some point Dylan's

2477
01:59:17,680 --> 01:59:22,800
parents were hosting us because I don't know why, Like

2478
01:59:22,880 --> 01:59:26,279
Taylor's place was well, Kirkland was far on the west side.

2479
01:59:26,279 --> 01:59:28,239
I think Jessica lived in a smaller place. Taylor was

2480
01:59:28,279 --> 01:59:30,760
also out of the way, and then my place just

2481
01:59:30,800 --> 01:59:35,239
like I could host but I can't remember why. It

2482
01:59:35,319 --> 01:59:37,880
was just there's a partially see partly ship top Bols.

2483
01:59:38,000 --> 01:59:41,680
Before our first dog, Heisenberg, he had raged and rage

2484
01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:43,880
syndrome and a lot of other like mental issues when

2485
01:59:43,880 --> 01:59:45,239
we got an X rays and whatnot. So it was

2486
01:59:45,279 --> 01:59:47,479
always not the keenest of having people over because he's

2487
01:59:48,079 --> 01:59:51,239
very not keen on strangers and stuff like that. So

2488
01:59:51,439 --> 01:59:54,319
luckily Dylan hosts that for many years as his parents.

2489
01:59:54,359 --> 01:59:56,760
So shout out to his parents, who could have just

2490
01:59:56,800 --> 01:59:58,880
said no, like you already live here, Dylan, We're not

2491
01:59:58,920 --> 02:00:02,039
gonna host your podcasts with people that they didn't even

2492
02:00:02,119 --> 02:00:04,359
know that well. And they're very welcoming like Dylan's Like

2493
02:00:04,399 --> 02:00:08,199
I'm sure we first about Dylan's parents are all very nice.

2494
02:00:08,239 --> 02:00:10,600
Nothing against other geeks parents. I've met them a few times,

2495
02:00:10,600 --> 02:00:14,159
but for a couple of years, two to three years,

2496
02:00:14,399 --> 02:00:17,600
saw them almost every week, and they're always very nice,

2497
02:00:17,680 --> 02:00:20,279
very welcome, even times where we had to do something

2498
02:00:20,279 --> 02:00:24,760
in their kitchen, you know. They they helped facilitate a

2499
02:00:24,800 --> 02:00:26,840
really good environment for us to start off. But yeah,

2500
02:00:26,880 --> 02:00:29,479
the Custer Dome, that is my air a little long winded, maybe,

2501
02:00:29,720 --> 02:00:31,640
of course I'm trying to snell you know, those ten

2502
02:00:31,720 --> 02:00:33,359
years always gonna be a long wining. But this is

2503
02:00:33,359 --> 02:00:36,560
a fucking tenure, right, So Custer Dome lots of good eras.

2504
02:00:37,520 --> 02:00:39,239
I'd love to rank those with the boys and talk

2505
02:00:39,279 --> 02:00:41,800
about them, and we'll say maybe some won't change the future.

2506
02:00:41,800 --> 02:00:44,079
But I think now, like I said, it's the digital

2507
02:00:44,119 --> 02:00:47,399
slash the norm era, because they don't foresee anything changing,

2508
02:00:47,479 --> 02:00:49,359
especially if we want to do all this stuff makes

2509
02:00:49,399 --> 02:00:52,439
sense with kids. Maybe when we're older, like the sixty

2510
02:00:52,520 --> 02:00:54,680
year old men and we're still podcasting, or maybe we're

2511
02:00:54,720 --> 02:00:56,640
back together and our kids and people are doing all

2512
02:00:56,640 --> 02:01:01,039
their own stuff. You know. Standout episodes that's a tough one,

2513
02:01:01,119 --> 02:01:03,279
right because we've taught We've got that question many times

2514
02:01:03,319 --> 02:01:07,000
on the anniversary cast and just in general. So following

2515
02:01:07,039 --> 02:01:10,119
that theme, i'd say any episodes where we had to

2516
02:01:10,199 --> 02:01:13,920
be hunkered down, locked in a room together, I think

2517
02:01:14,159 --> 02:01:15,800
you can throw extra life in there a little bit.

2518
02:01:15,800 --> 02:01:17,800
But the ones that stand out to me were comic

2519
02:01:17,800 --> 02:01:22,560
con and specifically why we started this podcast was E three.

2520
02:01:23,319 --> 02:01:25,119
It was a busy day, and sometimes it would come

2521
02:01:25,119 --> 02:01:28,319
in a time where it's like, man, you know, especially summer,

2522
02:01:28,439 --> 02:01:30,479
it's gonna get hot and you just might want to

2523
02:01:30,479 --> 02:01:32,319
be out doing stuff. You have a family of friends, you're

2524
02:01:32,319 --> 02:01:34,439
stiff and together, and I want to do something. But

2525
02:01:34,600 --> 02:01:37,399
I still always fucking loved like looking at the E

2526
02:01:37,479 --> 02:01:40,239
three schedule and at all being clear and knowing like

2527
02:01:40,279 --> 02:01:41,600
all I'm gonna end up at I'm gonna be at

2528
02:01:41,640 --> 02:01:43,520
Dollans at like nine am, and I'm not gonna be

2529
02:01:43,520 --> 02:01:46,239
out there to eight pm because that's like luckily all

2530
02:01:46,279 --> 02:01:48,640
those days went well. There're gonna be tiresome stuff, but

2531
02:01:48,680 --> 02:01:51,079
even stuff where we'll be watching like a PC gaming

2532
02:01:51,079 --> 02:01:53,199
show and there's nothing going on, it's bad show, and

2533
02:01:53,239 --> 02:01:56,079
we're live streaming, like that's fun. Like, those are other

2534
02:01:56,119 --> 02:01:58,039
episodes that I do miss. We used to always do,

2535
02:01:58,239 --> 02:02:01,119
like the panels, like the res like a regular cast

2536
02:02:01,159 --> 02:02:03,560
that we'd throw on the geek First channel, but then

2537
02:02:03,600 --> 02:02:05,680
there'd be the reactions We're just sitting us there talking

2538
02:02:05,760 --> 02:02:08,079
like a calm caear track. Those I miss, you know,

2539
02:02:08,079 --> 02:02:10,039
because right now we just don't have enough time for those.

2540
02:02:10,079 --> 02:02:13,199
So any episode that, even though if it was just

2541
02:02:13,199 --> 02:02:17,399
like oh, the Xbox twenty twenty one or twenty seventeen

2542
02:02:17,439 --> 02:02:19,800
review and it's just fifty minutes the build up to that,

2543
02:02:19,880 --> 02:02:21,720
the after, we'd always go on and get some food.

2544
02:02:22,039 --> 02:02:24,399
Those were good, great times. That kind of in with

2545
02:02:24,439 --> 02:02:28,279
Gauntlet recordings too, but so anytime we had those marathon times,

2546
02:02:28,319 --> 02:02:30,960
those were really good times. Again, once I really miss

2547
02:02:32,039 --> 02:02:34,640
Golden Geeks. That's always a fun one for me because

2548
02:02:34,680 --> 02:02:36,479
even this year, like when you know, we had a

2549
02:02:36,479 --> 02:02:38,880
little spicy and debate, it's always fun. At the end

2550
02:02:38,880 --> 02:02:41,520
of the day. Do I care that Taylor and Dylan

2551
02:02:41,560 --> 02:02:43,600
didn't put doing there? No, But it's a fun like

2552
02:02:43,760 --> 02:02:46,159
back and forth that we can have and it's always

2553
02:02:46,279 --> 02:02:48,960
interesting to see people's takes. And even though it happens

2554
02:02:49,039 --> 02:02:51,640
the year after, it always feels like the cap off

2555
02:02:51,680 --> 02:02:54,279
of a year and into the other one. I always

2556
02:02:54,319 --> 02:02:56,039
wish that would be my full time goal, if we

2557
02:02:56,079 --> 02:02:57,640
ever did this full time, that we could do one

2558
02:02:57,640 --> 02:03:00,560
for video games, because I would love that TV. But

2559
02:03:00,600 --> 02:03:02,520
we're just not let's say we're movies a lot easier

2560
02:03:02,520 --> 02:03:07,520
to consume, right, So those are great episodes trying to

2561
02:03:07,560 --> 02:03:11,960
think any specific like like a Usually my favorite type

2562
02:03:11,960 --> 02:03:15,199
of episode is just like newscast right weekly Geek, the

2563
02:03:15,239 --> 02:03:18,479
regular GV episodes. There are some reviews, the big reviews.

2564
02:03:18,600 --> 02:03:20,640
I do love because that to me is like game time.

2565
02:03:20,680 --> 02:03:23,239
That is like, okay, lots of people could be listening

2566
02:03:23,319 --> 02:03:25,680
checking us out. That's a different I like that motivation

2567
02:03:25,720 --> 02:03:28,760
because I feel, okay, let's put on a good episode here,

2568
02:03:28,800 --> 02:03:32,039
you know, let's really be driving. But newscasts like just

2569
02:03:32,079 --> 02:03:34,560
fun and light and we can go on a tangent

2570
02:03:34,640 --> 02:03:36,279
and you don't got to worry where on a review

2571
02:03:36,399 --> 02:03:38,520
there might be a tangent could lead to something fun,

2572
02:03:38,920 --> 02:03:40,840
but you go, no, there could be new people listening

2573
02:03:40,840 --> 02:03:43,720
where the newscasts feel like that's for our core audience,

2574
02:03:43,720 --> 02:03:46,199
and I think it's a love hate thing for some people.

2575
02:03:46,239 --> 02:03:54,119
Maybe if they're new hmm, what else, let's see, it

2576
02:03:54,199 --> 02:03:56,920
might come off maybe a transition. I'm trying to think

2577
02:03:56,920 --> 02:03:59,920
there's any other just regular episodes, but now I think

2578
02:04:00,319 --> 02:04:03,920
would be the Ones newscasts, the Marathon Ones, Golden Geeks,

2579
02:04:04,960 --> 02:04:07,399
Heek Versus. Was tons of fun in the day, even

2580
02:04:07,399 --> 02:04:09,880
though those led to some heated argum, especially here on

2581
02:04:09,920 --> 02:04:12,960
that we've talked about before. I think it's video game

2582
02:04:13,000 --> 02:04:15,520
you can find it somewhere. I think it's Video Game

2583
02:04:15,640 --> 02:04:19,479
Characters Part two or something like that. And man, that

2584
02:04:19,640 --> 02:04:22,680
was a that was a heated conversation. That was what

2585
02:04:22,800 --> 02:04:24,199
I think. That was one of those where we're just

2586
02:04:24,279 --> 02:04:26,439
done at the end of the day and we've had

2587
02:04:26,560 --> 02:04:30,119
enough and hungry, and some of us wanted some of

2588
02:04:30,239 --> 02:04:33,239
us didn't, And that was one where uh yeah, I

2589
02:04:33,319 --> 02:04:35,159
got heated. We didn't release it for a while. Luckily

2590
02:04:35,239 --> 02:04:40,439
again still friends. But let's see. Oh man, I fucking

2591
02:04:41,000 --> 02:04:43,960
I brought my nice camera to like, you know, do

2592
02:04:44,079 --> 02:04:46,520
this for the occasion, just get all plury on me

2593
02:04:46,560 --> 02:04:50,319
and whatnot. You know, fucking come on technology, I'm trying

2594
02:04:50,359 --> 02:04:54,399
to make a ten year content episode video here. Oh

2595
02:04:54,439 --> 02:04:56,079
there it goes again. I don't know if it's my

2596
02:04:56,159 --> 02:04:59,439
microphone whatever. Maybe I'll be editing this part out, who knows,

2597
02:04:59,680 --> 02:05:01,560
especially because I'm supposed to be using some of this

2598
02:05:01,640 --> 02:05:03,760
video for my ten year statements. And like, if you're

2599
02:05:03,760 --> 02:05:06,359
looking at the video right now, I fucking look like

2600
02:05:06,600 --> 02:05:08,319
in the movies when they like when Tobe takes off

2601
02:05:08,359 --> 02:05:11,159
the glasses and it's not clear. My god, let me

2602
02:05:11,199 --> 02:05:14,439
fix this. But uh, let's see here. Okay, hopefully that'll

2603
02:05:14,479 --> 02:05:18,039
help it. But so this will kind of transition because

2604
02:05:18,079 --> 02:05:21,640
some of my favorite episodes are the spin offs after

2605
02:05:21,760 --> 02:05:24,359
nine that can sometimes kind of the keep first episode,

2606
02:05:24,399 --> 02:05:27,560
but after nine especially and that's where something that happened,

2607
02:05:27,640 --> 02:05:31,079
especially in the COVID era, those were great because there

2608
02:05:31,159 --> 02:05:33,399
was no content to talk about. News was very light,

2609
02:05:34,039 --> 02:05:37,680
and I think those were the fullest after nines, like

2610
02:05:37,680 --> 02:05:39,680
the one that happened in twenty twenty because there's a

2611
02:05:39,720 --> 02:05:42,840
bunch of other people, our listeners that are sitting around

2612
02:05:42,880 --> 02:05:45,239
doing nothing because COVID there's restrictions. They got to work.

2613
02:05:45,279 --> 02:05:48,560
So that's where it's like, it was a shitty situation.

2614
02:05:48,600 --> 02:05:51,439
Of course, would never want COVID happen, but in the

2615
02:05:51,600 --> 02:05:54,079
light of that, to bring some actual light to the

2616
02:05:54,119 --> 02:05:56,479
situation was after nine and I don't think that's when

2617
02:05:56,520 --> 02:05:59,279
we I can't remember if we started the call ins

2618
02:05:59,399 --> 02:06:03,159
during COVID, but I think it was before. Maybe it wasn't.

2619
02:06:03,279 --> 02:06:05,279
I don't know. I'd have to go look back. Actually,

2620
02:06:05,319 --> 02:06:07,119
that's something I haven't looked at my edding because we

2621
02:06:07,119 --> 02:06:09,079
always we did after dying for a while. But that

2622
02:06:09,159 --> 02:06:10,840
was just like a show like a bread and Butter

2623
02:06:10,840 --> 02:06:12,439
where we talk about anything, right. But then we thought, okay,

2624
02:06:12,479 --> 02:06:15,079
let's bring people on and that was great to actually

2625
02:06:15,119 --> 02:06:17,640
talk with people, people that have supported us because we

2626
02:06:17,640 --> 02:06:22,439
we one hundred percent know what everyone ever listens. Great patrons,

2627
02:06:22,439 --> 02:06:24,680
you go above and beyond. Because I've always said this before,

2628
02:06:24,720 --> 02:06:27,920
I understand it. That's your hard earned work. Dollars you

2629
02:06:28,000 --> 02:06:31,319
could buy a coffee, could buy lunch, and again we

2630
02:06:31,359 --> 02:06:33,119
work as hard as we can. When you give us

2631
02:06:33,119 --> 02:06:35,640
that money, we respect that and we're okay, we're gonna

2632
02:06:35,640 --> 02:06:38,600
do extra episodes, exclusive episodes. We know, work to the

2633
02:06:38,640 --> 02:06:41,159
bonus podcasters as much as we can. I've always said

2634
02:06:41,159 --> 02:06:43,239
that before. We put out sometimes way more content than

2635
02:06:43,239 --> 02:06:46,600
people doing this full time. You know, there's probably some

2636
02:06:46,640 --> 02:06:49,039
asses of Wall's quality is a quantity. Yeah, yeah, I

2637
02:06:49,079 --> 02:06:50,840
get it, but like I think, we're putting out the

2638
02:06:50,920 --> 02:06:53,039
quality and the quantity, and you know what, I'm very

2639
02:06:53,079 --> 02:06:55,800
happy where we are, but there are many things that

2640
02:06:56,000 --> 02:06:58,000
we could not do without the patrons. So that's the

2641
02:06:58,000 --> 02:06:59,359
thing we can give back, and you guys get it

2642
02:06:59,359 --> 02:07:01,840
back to us because that show is great. There was

2643
02:07:01,840 --> 02:07:03,600
a time in COVID we're doing it twice a month

2644
02:07:03,640 --> 02:07:06,479
that was tons of fun. Honestly busier now, but that

2645
02:07:06,680 --> 02:07:10,119
was something really good. And then other shows I've been

2646
02:07:10,119 --> 02:07:13,199
in part of, of course Ryant Ray repeating Dynamic Duo,

2647
02:07:13,680 --> 02:07:16,520
having Kyle liam on there because we had great conversations,

2648
02:07:16,560 --> 02:07:20,520
and like I've said before, Geefers did really eventually kind

2649
02:07:20,560 --> 02:07:23,359
of what comic book like Dynamic Duo was some of

2650
02:07:23,359 --> 02:07:26,239
those aspects going there. We got more Kumbo Keavy because

2651
02:07:26,520 --> 02:07:29,439
you know, just in general, our MCU content and that

2652
02:07:29,479 --> 02:07:31,479
type of stuff did really well, and that's where it's like, hey,

2653
02:07:31,479 --> 02:07:33,680
we did more of that, and a krudos to all

2654
02:07:33,720 --> 02:07:35,880
the geeks and whatnot like Kirklin and Dylan Taylor where

2655
02:07:35,920 --> 02:07:38,159
they got more affiliated with that stuff and researched it.

2656
02:07:38,439 --> 02:07:40,800
But it was taking over and we just talked about

2657
02:07:40,800 --> 02:07:42,880
on both casts. But at the beginning that has been

2658
02:07:42,920 --> 02:07:45,159
on a show and Kyle Lim had read calling, especially Liam,

2659
02:07:45,239 --> 02:07:48,039
so it was great to have those conversations and not

2660
02:07:48,159 --> 02:07:51,239
have to give a full breakdown. And those are two

2661
02:07:51,279 --> 02:07:54,239
of my bestest friends. Like Kyle I've known for a

2662
02:07:54,279 --> 02:07:57,039
long time now, met around the same time as Emily

2663
02:07:57,039 --> 02:07:59,680
and I started dating. And Liam, who you know, I

2664
02:07:59,680 --> 02:08:02,520
don't talk to as much as i'd like because he

2665
02:08:02,520 --> 02:08:05,520
he's moved multiple times, he lives in different time zone,

2666
02:08:05,520 --> 02:08:08,319
but he's a guy that I can talk to or

2667
02:08:08,399 --> 02:08:12,039
see and nothing's changed. We have a great camaraderie and

2668
02:08:12,079 --> 02:08:14,720
those those guys knew each other before me, and so

2669
02:08:14,800 --> 02:08:16,439
the three of us, I just always wanted to get

2670
02:08:16,479 --> 02:08:18,479
that on you know, camera at Mike and it was

2671
02:08:18,520 --> 02:08:21,920
a really good time. So I appreciate that. Trying to

2672
02:08:21,960 --> 02:08:24,239
think of stuff that maybe I wasn't on. I guess

2673
02:08:24,279 --> 02:08:27,199
it's a spin off. I just count as a regular show.

2674
02:08:27,199 --> 02:08:29,279
But it is a spin off because, like we said before,

2675
02:08:29,319 --> 02:08:32,279
you guys and guys are the ones that supported side Quest.

2676
02:08:32,359 --> 02:08:33,880
It's been great. I'll talk more about that when I

2677
02:08:33,880 --> 02:08:40,159
talk about Dylan. But with video games definitely sometime kind

2678
02:08:40,199 --> 02:08:42,239
of lost their place in Geek first because we just

2679
02:08:42,319 --> 02:08:45,159
chased what was hot, right and and well we've always said,

2680
02:08:45,159 --> 02:08:47,279
of course video games is the toughest thing for us

2681
02:08:47,359 --> 02:08:49,800
because you got to deat they hit the most time

2682
02:08:49,800 --> 02:08:51,079
of that and not all of us are playing the

2683
02:08:51,119 --> 02:08:53,560
same stuff. But then you have like a savant like Dylan,

2684
02:08:53,640 --> 02:08:57,039
who is one to me like doesn't matter. I know

2685
02:08:57,079 --> 02:08:58,960
there's people out there that have worked for an IG

2686
02:08:59,079 --> 02:09:00,840
and this and that, Like he can go tote with

2687
02:09:00,960 --> 02:09:02,840
many people he's gonna say, no, I couldn't. But like

2688
02:09:03,359 --> 02:09:07,119
Dev's information how games work, his recall on them. I

2689
02:09:07,119 --> 02:09:08,840
don't think he gets enough credit for that. I think

2690
02:09:08,920 --> 02:09:10,199
a lot of people talk about like how I do

2691
02:09:10,319 --> 02:09:12,720
with movies, but he does that with games twenty four

2692
02:09:12,760 --> 02:09:15,159
to seven. And that's why for me, when we talk

2693
02:09:15,199 --> 02:09:18,079
about him coming back, that was like an essential for

2694
02:09:18,159 --> 02:09:21,000
him but it was essential for me too, because if

2695
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:24,359
we're covering them, I always felt like no imposter syndrome.

2696
02:09:24,439 --> 02:09:27,319
But that's the most like I can really just talk

2697
02:09:27,319 --> 02:09:29,920
about we are still fans of everything we talk about.

2698
02:09:30,039 --> 02:09:32,640
I can never say we're critics, even pundits. Feels weird, right,

2699
02:09:32,680 --> 02:09:34,600
I just always said that we're friends talking and there's

2700
02:09:34,600 --> 02:09:37,000
a microphone there. But I still want to be educated

2701
02:09:37,000 --> 02:09:40,399
on some stuff. I can never feel completely educated on

2702
02:09:40,439 --> 02:09:42,640
the video game side, but Dylant helps me and the

2703
02:09:42,680 --> 02:09:46,359
others do that. And it's been great because we've done

2704
02:09:46,439 --> 02:09:50,079
focused episodes. Though what we've been playing bled into people

2705
02:09:50,159 --> 02:09:52,359
like that segment so much bled into the geek first

2706
02:09:52,359 --> 02:09:55,079
news of what we've been watching. People requested that. So

2707
02:09:55,239 --> 02:09:56,880
that is a show that I'll see him a part of.

2708
02:09:56,960 --> 02:09:59,319
But and I know Dylan says, oh, it's our show.

2709
02:09:59,359 --> 02:10:02,800
It is It's like it's it's his show. Power by

2710
02:10:02,880 --> 02:10:05,840
Geek First. You know, like I maybe it would survive,

2711
02:10:05,960 --> 02:10:08,000
but for some reason of Dylan quit or you know,

2712
02:10:08,239 --> 02:10:10,279
just went off to the moon, never came back. A

2713
02:10:10,359 --> 02:10:12,960
side quest. It would be tough to imagine, you know,

2714
02:10:13,319 --> 02:10:15,439
there's an episode two without him. It'd be tough to

2715
02:10:15,439 --> 02:10:17,319
imagine with him not the helm, and it's great to

2716
02:10:17,319 --> 02:10:20,720
hear you know what the other guys might be playing,

2717
02:10:21,000 --> 02:10:23,720
and you know we might talk about, but we don't

2718
02:10:23,720 --> 02:10:25,520
talk about as much because sometimes we just get on

2719
02:10:25,560 --> 02:10:27,920
here and go and podcasting, right, So especially those hang

2720
02:10:27,960 --> 02:10:31,119
on episodes and some Folks episodes, those are really good.

2721
02:10:32,479 --> 02:10:35,039
Shout out canteining conversations with me and Taylor, those are

2722
02:10:35,079 --> 02:10:39,760
always good time just me and him debating stars because

2723
02:10:39,760 --> 02:10:41,520
we both love stars very much but love it very

2724
02:10:41,520 --> 02:10:44,239
differently and view it as different like having different rules

2725
02:10:44,239 --> 02:10:48,800
per se Netflix and fails, tons of fun. Like honestly,

2726
02:10:48,880 --> 02:10:51,640
most spinoffs that we did, they had their time in

2727
02:10:51,640 --> 02:10:54,680
the sun for whatever reason, whether it's scheduling or just

2728
02:10:54,680 --> 02:10:58,560
time or movements or it turned into something else. They

2729
02:10:58,600 --> 02:11:01,960
all changed and you know, mostly ended, but like I said,

2730
02:11:01,960 --> 02:11:05,079
they kind of evolved and I really liked them all,

2731
02:11:05,199 --> 02:11:08,079
like and only you could do them all today, but

2732
02:11:08,880 --> 02:11:11,520
you know I could do them more regularly. They all

2733
02:11:11,560 --> 02:11:14,079
have like a special place in my heart for s

2734
02:11:14,079 --> 02:11:16,800
except honk honka, fuck my brother, and fuck the man

2735
02:11:16,800 --> 02:11:19,039
with many names. You know, don't don't ask me how

2736
02:11:19,039 --> 02:11:21,840
I got there. Yeah, So now to talk about former

2737
02:11:21,880 --> 02:11:24,600
hosts or the spin off post and everything. I'll try

2738
02:11:24,640 --> 02:11:26,680
not to leave anybody else. I'll start with the easy

2739
02:11:26,680 --> 02:11:28,680
one with Connor. Only been on a couple episodes of

2740
02:11:28,720 --> 02:11:31,079
Geek First, he's usually on the commentary with Dylan, and

2741
02:11:31,159 --> 02:11:33,840
he's popped up in charity streams, so pop up on

2742
02:11:33,840 --> 02:11:37,399
in our movies. Very fun, energetic guy. I wish we

2743
02:11:37,439 --> 02:11:40,000
did more with him. He was someone always hard to

2744
02:11:40,079 --> 02:11:42,880
nail down and he would always been like, hey, I'm

2745
02:11:42,920 --> 02:11:45,279
a very general audience person, but shout to Connor, very

2746
02:11:45,279 --> 02:11:49,159
fun energy. Shout out to Clinton and Tyler Clinton, which

2747
02:11:49,199 --> 02:11:50,800
was and Tyler, we're talking about war in the Gauntlet.

2748
02:11:50,840 --> 02:11:53,800
But Clinton got like a short lived run because unfortunately

2749
02:11:53,800 --> 02:11:55,479
he came in when Gauntland was kind of the other

2750
02:11:55,640 --> 02:11:58,159
the tail end. But thank him for coming out. He

2751
02:11:58,239 --> 02:11:59,960
was I wish we got to see more of a

2752
02:12:00,159 --> 02:12:05,000
like it's kind of wild characteristic. But Tyler serris Man,

2753
02:12:05,399 --> 02:12:09,039
he's somebody I've always said I wish I met a

2754
02:12:09,119 --> 02:12:12,359
lot younger in life. He you know, that's the thing

2755
02:12:12,920 --> 02:12:15,199
us the first I'd say the core for the four

2756
02:12:15,239 --> 02:12:18,199
Horse with me, Dylan, Kirkland, Taylor have a lot of

2757
02:12:19,359 --> 02:12:22,680
very similarities but a lot of differences, right, A lot

2758
02:12:22,720 --> 02:12:25,800
of the stuff i'd say Nightlife Travis and Single Travis

2759
02:12:25,840 --> 02:12:28,640
is stuff that Tyler was also doing and Kyle's also doing,

2760
02:12:28,720 --> 02:12:30,760
and Liam as well. I think you'd go as much

2761
02:12:30,760 --> 02:12:32,520
as Liam as I would like back in the day

2762
02:12:32,520 --> 02:12:34,680
because when I met that's when I was with Emily.

2763
02:12:34,760 --> 02:12:37,960
But he's somebody that I wish I met in my

2764
02:12:38,000 --> 02:12:43,000
life a lot earlier. We bonded pretty pretty easily, like

2765
02:12:43,119 --> 02:12:46,079
and I'm friendly with majority of people. I guess I

2766
02:12:46,079 --> 02:12:49,439
shouldn't say that because like there's Amber and Connor. I'm

2767
02:12:49,439 --> 02:12:52,359
probably missing others, but there's there's a Jamie. There's a

2768
02:12:52,399 --> 02:12:54,680
couple other people that like became very friendly with the

2769
02:12:54,760 --> 02:12:58,399
Dylan's Friends group, but Tyler the most. We just get

2770
02:12:58,399 --> 02:13:01,399
it off very quickly. We have a good cadence with

2771
02:13:01,439 --> 02:13:04,600
one another. And he was somebody that I remember because

2772
02:13:04,600 --> 02:13:06,680
I've talked about movies and I've talked about Gauntlet, like

2773
02:13:07,479 --> 02:13:09,520
I you know, I don't act. I don't like doing

2774
02:13:09,520 --> 02:13:11,279
that because he had seen it, he'd seen the recording

2775
02:13:11,279 --> 02:13:13,920
and luckily he got in there. But still, I don't act.

2776
02:13:13,960 --> 02:13:17,479
Don't like that stuff, and he he played ball, he

2777
02:13:17,800 --> 02:13:19,079
did that. I don't know if he was ever on

2778
02:13:19,159 --> 02:13:21,840
like an official he was. We did elm Ring with him,

2779
02:13:21,840 --> 02:13:24,239
so there you go. He was on that. But he's

2780
02:13:24,279 --> 02:13:27,760
somebody that that was completely foreign to him, that type

2781
02:13:27,760 --> 02:13:29,479
of stuff, and most of it was for all of us, right,

2782
02:13:29,520 --> 02:13:31,119
but for him, he was like, I, this is not

2783
02:13:31,199 --> 02:13:32,840
my cup of tea. But he was there for the games.

2784
02:13:32,880 --> 02:13:34,439
But it did become a cup of tea. You got

2785
02:13:34,439 --> 02:13:37,039
to see him like kind of lean into it and

2786
02:13:37,079 --> 02:13:39,279
be a little bit of a character. And again he

2787
02:13:39,279 --> 02:13:42,520
helped host, so that was a big thing. Ruben shout Rubin.

2788
02:13:42,600 --> 02:13:45,239
Never never got to cast with him too many times.

2789
02:13:45,279 --> 02:13:47,880
I did episode there's a spin off show that I

2790
02:13:48,000 --> 02:13:50,439
was not a part of, but I was always anticipating

2791
02:13:50,600 --> 02:13:55,319
Rod or Not Man. Rod or Not was a fucking rye.

2792
02:13:55,359 --> 02:13:57,399
That's a show that they did like it was Kenny's Spenny.

2793
02:13:57,439 --> 02:13:59,920
They did like played video games, had challenges or competition,

2794
02:14:00,039 --> 02:14:04,319
and they did like punishments that were really gross and

2795
02:14:04,359 --> 02:14:05,880
stuff like I had to go on there once and

2796
02:14:05,960 --> 02:14:08,359
luckily I just got like some I didn't have to

2797
02:14:08,359 --> 02:14:10,680
eat anything, but I had some ice on my nipples

2798
02:14:10,720 --> 02:14:12,880
or so. I can't remember. They did some weird stuff,

2799
02:14:12,920 --> 02:14:16,880
but shout to Rubin for being bringing at least some

2800
02:14:16,920 --> 02:14:19,439
weird energy. And he was a very I think the

2801
02:14:19,439 --> 02:14:22,039
way Taylor and I are a foil, they were a

2802
02:14:22,079 --> 02:14:25,319
good foil for each other in a very completely different sense.

2803
02:14:25,800 --> 02:14:28,199
And yeah, I don't think I ever cast with him.

2804
02:14:28,239 --> 02:14:30,159
Shout to him coming saying thing he had a busy life.

2805
02:14:30,199 --> 02:14:32,239
Lot's changed his life. He end up moving, but he

2806
02:14:32,319 --> 02:14:34,039
was fun and gone and we had him as our

2807
02:14:34,039 --> 02:14:35,720
third member of the Wolf Forarder and it never really

2808
02:14:35,720 --> 02:14:37,840
worked out. We always wanted to do more with him,

2809
02:14:37,880 --> 02:14:40,319
and he always would not be available for recordings and whatnot.

2810
02:14:40,359 --> 02:14:42,560
So there's a whole litany of stuff that we didn't

2811
02:14:42,560 --> 02:14:44,159
get to do with him. But shout for a very

2812
02:14:44,239 --> 02:14:49,039
unique personality, Colin Liam, I don't need to blow those

2813
02:14:49,039 --> 02:14:52,600
guys anymore, you know, Like I said, with he we

2814
02:14:52,640 --> 02:14:55,199
had good chemistry. And I thanked them at early on

2815
02:14:55,359 --> 02:15:02,640
for being on so many episodes, and like it sounds

2816
02:15:02,760 --> 02:15:05,479
weird to call them like unsung heroes in a way,

2817
02:15:05,520 --> 02:15:08,239
but they are the sense of the rest of us

2818
02:15:08,239 --> 02:15:11,119
continued on and you know, did the small business stuff.

2819
02:15:11,159 --> 02:15:13,600
They just came for the shitts and gigles in free time,

2820
02:15:13,680 --> 02:15:16,880
Like they weren't. They were never a member, they never employed,

2821
02:15:16,920 --> 02:15:19,960
they were never you know, getting any paychecks from the company.

2822
02:15:20,159 --> 02:15:22,159
They would if they stayed on. But and they were

2823
02:15:23,359 --> 02:15:26,199
always cool, just like very happy for the success and

2824
02:15:26,319 --> 02:15:28,159
never like oh I'd come back or this is just

2825
02:15:28,199 --> 02:15:30,960
like anyone I had on. It's just it's been easy.

2826
02:15:31,000 --> 02:15:33,000
So they were some guys that like, they gave a

2827
02:15:33,000 --> 02:15:35,640
different side of Geek first and they asked nothing from it.

2828
02:15:35,680 --> 02:15:38,079
Of course it's just us again hang out with a microphone.

2829
02:15:38,119 --> 02:15:40,560
But you know, some people can get a little weird,

2830
02:15:40,600 --> 02:15:45,199
so you never know. Jessica obviously a very like a

2831
02:15:45,239 --> 02:15:48,800
founding member, right, she was there, a founding founding member

2832
02:15:48,840 --> 02:15:51,600
because technically it was five of us, but you know,

2833
02:15:51,720 --> 02:15:53,399
not to let them live down. Kirklam was not there

2834
02:15:53,439 --> 02:15:55,560
for the first episode of Geek Firs, of course, but

2835
02:15:56,279 --> 02:15:59,359
so she was a founding family member, a part of that.

2836
02:15:59,520 --> 02:16:04,359
She was somebody that gave my goodness, my camera. She

2837
02:16:04,600 --> 02:16:10,640
was somebody that geez, who knows there we go fixed

2838
02:16:10,640 --> 02:16:12,680
a little bit, who knows gonna get my helmets there?

2839
02:16:13,800 --> 02:16:16,920
So Jessica, yeah, she was somebody that she was a spitfire.

2840
02:16:17,000 --> 02:16:20,680
She gave always a different opinions and luckily it was

2841
02:16:20,720 --> 02:16:24,880
not just for different to be sake of different. There's

2842
02:16:24,920 --> 02:16:27,039
many podcasts out there that do that right, where there's

2843
02:16:27,079 --> 02:16:29,520
a person that's the just different opinion. I've gone that

2844
02:16:29,560 --> 02:16:32,479
accusation before. It's always from the part, but Jessica would

2845
02:16:32,479 --> 02:16:35,680
always have a very different view of things and that

2846
02:16:35,719 --> 02:16:37,600
would challenge us on some things, and it was good

2847
02:16:37,639 --> 02:16:40,680
to because of like, there's lots of areas that we

2848
02:16:40,760 --> 02:16:43,319
knew a lot of and she didn't, or vice versa,

2849
02:16:43,520 --> 02:16:46,000
so it could fill in whether it's it's more particularly

2850
02:16:46,040 --> 02:16:50,520
on the gaming side. But yeah, Jessica was there alaw

2851
02:16:50,559 --> 02:16:52,159
in the early days and then came back a little

2852
02:16:52,159 --> 02:16:54,239
bit for a while. But yeah, she put in a

2853
02:16:54,239 --> 02:16:56,319
lot of work and helped us out and was there

2854
02:16:56,360 --> 02:16:58,479
for a lot of those E threes and everything, and

2855
02:16:58,559 --> 02:17:01,799
it was fun having her around that time, you know.

2856
02:17:01,879 --> 02:17:04,920
And for Gauntlet, I think she's somebody that got it

2857
02:17:05,120 --> 02:17:09,000
right away. I think everybody when I kind of told

2858
02:17:09,079 --> 02:17:13,799
them what I was doing either didn't understand it, didn't

2859
02:17:13,799 --> 02:17:16,280
process it, or maybe didn't like it at first or

2860
02:17:16,399 --> 02:17:18,559
not like it, but just kind of like whatever, I'm

2861
02:17:18,559 --> 02:17:20,760
here to play video games. Where Jessica got all that

2862
02:17:21,280 --> 02:17:23,159
usually most of the time it would be hey, this

2863
02:17:23,200 --> 02:17:25,360
is a story, this is the interview, blah blah, and

2864
02:17:25,440 --> 02:17:27,520
there might be I think as went on, everyone got better,

2865
02:17:27,520 --> 02:17:29,399
but at the beginning it was a lot of maybe

2866
02:17:29,399 --> 02:17:32,200
hand holding and saying, hey, this is specifically what I want,

2867
02:17:32,440 --> 02:17:35,360
where Jessica I could give a few notes and she

2868
02:17:35,440 --> 02:17:39,719
would just go, you know so, and yeah, she would

2869
02:17:39,719 --> 02:17:42,440
have an infectious attitude where I think we all kind

2870
02:17:42,479 --> 02:17:44,319
of have those moments where we're laughing, have a good time,

2871
02:17:44,360 --> 02:17:46,559
but it'd be always fun to break her and kind

2872
02:17:46,559 --> 02:17:49,280
of get the room laughing and stuff. And yeah, very

2873
02:17:49,760 --> 02:17:53,840
very key to the early parts of Geek First and

2874
02:17:53,920 --> 02:17:56,159
actual life and just a whole bunch of the blueprints there.

2875
02:17:56,200 --> 02:17:58,399
So she did help us, you know, go on a

2876
02:17:58,479 --> 02:18:02,000
journey and set us up, and yeah, she she did

2877
02:18:02,040 --> 02:18:04,360
a lot, and it was it was fun having her

2878
02:18:04,399 --> 02:18:07,479
around at that time. But she was very important to

2879
02:18:07,600 --> 02:18:11,879
the early days of Geek First. And yeah, big shout

2880
02:18:11,879 --> 02:18:13,639
out to her for being on a lot of those

2881
02:18:14,159 --> 02:18:17,159
early episodes and starting off and lots of those reviews

2882
02:18:17,159 --> 02:18:19,440
and everything, and like I said, bring it, bringing a

2883
02:18:19,479 --> 02:18:23,200
different vibe to the room that was needed and challenged

2884
02:18:23,239 --> 02:18:25,840
at the time, which was good, and then he got Amber,

2885
02:18:25,920 --> 02:18:29,799
who was to me a very like that's somebody that

2886
02:18:30,120 --> 02:18:33,520
does not get enough credit because she left and really

2887
02:18:33,559 --> 02:18:35,879
never came back, Like there's multipeople left and then come back,

2888
02:18:35,879 --> 02:18:38,399
and then it kind of goes full circle, always welcome,

2889
02:18:38,440 --> 02:18:42,600
always like her back. But it's a situation where same

2890
02:18:42,639 --> 02:18:44,840
thing kind of left right before we got those mics,

2891
02:18:44,879 --> 02:18:48,520
but there's a big change and then and there's always

2892
02:18:48,520 --> 02:18:52,200
like a a different cross like there's groups of you know,

2893
02:18:52,239 --> 02:18:54,239
the geek first fandom, but now I feel like we've

2894
02:18:54,239 --> 02:18:56,479
had a similar one for quite a while. And lots

2895
02:18:56,479 --> 02:19:00,079
of people were around when she was on there, and

2896
02:19:00,680 --> 02:19:06,760
she just very articulate, great conversations. They would make points

2897
02:19:06,799 --> 02:19:09,239
that I wish I could or say it in that way,

2898
02:19:09,799 --> 02:19:12,319
and similar to Jessica, or Jessica would bring up things

2899
02:19:12,360 --> 02:19:13,760
in a different light, I think it would be in

2900
02:19:13,799 --> 02:19:17,440
a way we really thinking. Amber would bring up something

2901
02:19:17,440 --> 02:19:21,959
to make you completely rethink that situation from an angle

2902
02:19:22,000 --> 02:19:25,000
you didn't even think at all. Whether you agree that

2903
02:19:25,159 --> 02:19:28,399
or not, I created great debate. One of my favorite

2904
02:19:28,399 --> 02:19:30,760
reviews we did together was the Rival review, because that

2905
02:19:30,799 --> 02:19:35,079
it's a movie where it's very much what you take

2906
02:19:35,120 --> 02:19:38,159
from it and how you perceive things, and that was

2907
02:19:38,200 --> 02:19:41,799
a very good conversation. And then in the Gallant Great

2908
02:19:41,879 --> 02:19:46,000
Run they were like the you know, the stone cold

2909
02:19:46,000 --> 02:19:49,840
Steve Austin for quite a while and yeah, that's somebody

2910
02:19:49,840 --> 02:19:54,239
that I missed not having Iran especially inside another person

2911
02:19:54,280 --> 02:19:56,239
that miss side quests, you know, and they were a

2912
02:19:56,239 --> 02:19:59,479
big gamer. And Dylan started up that show that would

2913
02:19:59,479 --> 02:20:01,159
have been a person I would love to have on

2914
02:20:01,200 --> 02:20:07,760
that and yeah, I that was the first person we

2915
02:20:07,879 --> 02:20:11,000
brought on also as an additional member because it was her,

2916
02:20:11,479 --> 02:20:14,040
and then it was Kyle, but it was it brought

2917
02:20:14,079 --> 02:20:16,239
a lot and you never knew because it was Dylan's friend,

2918
02:20:16,360 --> 02:20:19,000
like okay, and then their kind of tryout was the

2919
02:20:19,040 --> 02:20:22,239
Force Awakens review and then from there it was great

2920
02:20:22,280 --> 02:20:24,840
because it was luckily geek first. Other than that, after

2921
02:20:24,920 --> 02:20:27,760
Night I talked about always a sigh of relief when

2922
02:20:27,799 --> 02:20:30,159
we bring on people to after nine people join Discord,

2923
02:20:30,280 --> 02:20:32,479
never once had to kick anybody off on either of those,

2924
02:20:32,559 --> 02:20:34,840
never to ban them, never had somebody like, oh, they

2925
02:20:34,840 --> 02:20:37,120
don't jive with us, or they're just like assholes or

2926
02:20:37,120 --> 02:20:39,319
bigas or whatever. Same thing with this, not that I

2927
02:20:39,319 --> 02:20:41,600
think dyn't wuld associate with anybody like that. But it's

2928
02:20:41,600 --> 02:20:43,280
just like, Okay, I'm sure they thought the same thing

2929
02:20:43,280 --> 02:20:45,600
when hey, I want kind of leaving the podcast, ky

2930
02:20:46,000 --> 02:20:49,360
like this is our thing, but let's we trust each other, right,

2931
02:20:49,600 --> 02:20:52,520
And same thing with Force awakens, like, Okay, she gets

2932
02:20:52,559 --> 02:20:55,639
completely what talking about. Very passionate, very funny, and a

2933
02:20:55,760 --> 02:21:00,959
very different dry sense of humor, something that was again

2934
02:21:01,120 --> 02:21:03,440
the you know, like aspects of Jessica prop missing from

2935
02:21:03,479 --> 02:21:09,280
the podcast. I think that they had something unique to

2936
02:21:09,360 --> 02:21:12,520
them that I think now there's a bit of us

2937
02:21:12,639 --> 02:21:14,760
four have like created a bit sometimes of a high

2938
02:21:14,799 --> 02:21:17,920
mind of what we find funny, and probably Amber and

2939
02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:19,479
Jessica the same thing would have done the same thing

2940
02:21:19,520 --> 02:21:21,079
if they were around longer. Right, they were in and

2941
02:21:21,079 --> 02:21:22,840
out and then they've been gone for a long time.

2942
02:21:23,239 --> 02:21:27,159
But yeah, I miss having Amber on all those I'm

2943
02:21:27,200 --> 02:21:28,959
always bummed that we didn't really get to do a

2944
02:21:29,000 --> 02:21:32,719
big gauntlet ending for her and that character, because that

2945
02:21:32,840 --> 02:21:37,200
was a very vital We built season two and a

2946
02:21:37,239 --> 02:21:39,920
little bit of season three around her, and even season one,

2947
02:21:40,000 --> 02:21:43,000
like and they were somebody that was around. She was

2948
02:21:43,040 --> 02:21:46,959
around a lot in the early days. So because there's

2949
02:21:46,959 --> 02:21:48,680
so many casts I went back and it's you know,

2950
02:21:48,920 --> 02:21:52,000
a lot of times it's me her and Olme. So yeah,

2951
02:21:52,040 --> 02:21:56,200
showed Amber a very key part to geek first in

2952
02:21:56,280 --> 02:22:02,159
just some different conversations. So I think I hit everybody

2953
02:22:02,639 --> 02:22:06,639
on our side. Of course the two other ones I

2954
02:22:06,639 --> 02:22:09,600
guess too, you know, they're a combo of that. But

2955
02:22:09,680 --> 02:22:13,120
a shout out to everyone in Guay years ago, met Greg,

2956
02:22:13,200 --> 02:22:18,520
that met them, like Katie and Chris and Clay and Joe,

2957
02:22:20,920 --> 02:22:24,520
you know other Travis. It's evolved a lot, and it's

2958
02:22:24,520 --> 02:22:26,159
something that you know, we don't talk about enough, but

2959
02:22:26,200 --> 02:22:29,200
it's kind of because they've they've done their own thing.

2960
02:22:29,200 --> 02:22:30,639
They went off on their own, they know what they're

2961
02:22:30,719 --> 02:22:32,559
kind of not know what they're kind of they do

2962
02:22:32,760 --> 02:22:34,319
know what they're doing it. It's been great to listen,

2963
02:22:34,440 --> 02:22:36,840
been great to do the crossovers at times. Want to

2964
02:22:36,879 --> 02:22:38,719
do more, our plans to do in the future. We're

2965
02:22:38,760 --> 02:22:40,879
gonna be obviously trying to do one for the tenure here.

2966
02:22:40,920 --> 02:22:45,719
But yeah, I missed talking with those people. I'll shout

2967
02:22:45,719 --> 02:22:48,920
out to Chris Balada because he's at times kind of taken,

2968
02:22:49,120 --> 02:22:52,239
you know, very busy man nowadays, but he's taken the

2969
02:22:52,639 --> 02:22:54,920
lead on a lot of times I couldn't and he,

2970
02:22:55,120 --> 02:22:57,879
you know, he's definitely like, you know, he's not been

2971
02:22:57,879 --> 02:22:59,559
annoying it, but he has annoyed it for me as

2972
02:22:59,639 --> 02:23:02,040
being like second a man. And obviously other people came

2973
02:23:02,120 --> 02:23:05,000
later shout to Brent who replaced me. But yeah, that

2974
02:23:05,120 --> 02:23:07,559
was a time where I kind of knew. I didn't

2975
02:23:07,559 --> 02:23:09,159
know how long it was gonna last. My work was

2976
02:23:09,159 --> 02:23:12,360
always changing. I do miss podcasting with Chris on on

2977
02:23:12,399 --> 02:23:16,719
a weekly basis. He's one of my better friends. That's

2978
02:23:16,760 --> 02:23:19,120
just i've never met in person. Hopefully that'll change at

2979
02:23:19,120 --> 02:23:21,440
some point in our lives. I very much at some

2980
02:23:21,520 --> 02:23:23,239
point want to just do a Vegas trip and meet

2981
02:23:23,280 --> 02:23:25,920
everybody or something. But yeah, and the shout of Brent,

2982
02:23:25,959 --> 02:23:28,120
who you know, covered me, and then shout for David,

2983
02:23:28,200 --> 02:23:30,879
and I transition that. So of course check out the

2984
02:23:30,920 --> 02:23:33,000
Geek Hole Alliance. A bunch of shows in there, but

2985
02:23:33,760 --> 02:23:36,000
David and sbubs and shouted Sbub's and guy in the

2986
02:23:36,079 --> 02:23:37,959
chair who's you know, still the guy in the chair,

2987
02:23:38,000 --> 02:23:39,479
but now he's part of geek First and he's a

2988
02:23:39,760 --> 02:23:43,200
you know, somewhat unemployee now. Always want to do wrestling

2989
02:23:43,200 --> 02:23:46,719
show I've done on Tress told you it was still good,

2990
02:23:46,760 --> 02:23:52,000
but I still, I don't know, just wanted I won

2991
02:23:52,079 --> 02:23:54,600
the camaraderie that I kind of had with those other shows,

2992
02:23:54,639 --> 02:23:56,520
Like there's only so many times like that's why I

2993
02:23:56,559 --> 02:23:59,680
can not talk alone all the time, right, And with

2994
02:23:59,760 --> 02:24:02,040
those two guys, it was a great dynamic of a

2995
02:24:02,079 --> 02:24:05,040
long term fan David New Family, Mass Pubs, people I liked,

2996
02:24:05,840 --> 02:24:09,319
you know outside of that stuff, trusted, and I've always said,

2997
02:24:09,360 --> 02:24:12,879
shout those two guys because they didn't know each other before.

2998
02:24:12,920 --> 02:24:15,559
It's not like Chris and Brent, who you know, listening

2999
02:24:15,600 --> 02:24:17,680
to each other's podcast and had a you know back

3000
02:24:17,680 --> 02:24:20,000
and forth, or Dave and Bran who worked together like

3001
02:24:20,040 --> 02:24:22,239
a me and Cot like they were thrown together and

3002
02:24:22,280 --> 02:24:23,959
there's a chance that could have been oil and water.

3003
02:24:24,000 --> 02:24:25,799
But episode I'm like, Okay, I think this is good.

3004
02:24:25,840 --> 02:24:29,680
And now it's like, oh, I can take a a

3005
02:24:29,879 --> 02:24:32,159
week off or whatever bi weekly off and the show

3006
02:24:32,200 --> 02:24:33,920
is still going and then I can jump back in.

3007
02:24:33,959 --> 02:24:35,440
So it's been great and it's been great to finally

3008
02:24:35,479 --> 02:24:38,600
have that show. I've always been one new wrestling show

3009
02:24:38,799 --> 02:24:41,360
and the audience has always been like divided. There's been

3010
02:24:42,200 --> 02:24:44,159
almost every time we've had it. On the survey when

3011
02:24:44,159 --> 02:24:46,520
we did our yearly ones, it's like fifty percent. Oh no,

3012
02:24:46,559 --> 02:24:49,239
we're not interested. Yeah, absolutely, so it's like, do I

3013
02:24:49,319 --> 02:24:51,360
do this to it? Not Luckily the numbers have been good,

3014
02:24:51,360 --> 02:24:54,000
but yes, a shout out to everybody that is on

3015
02:24:54,040 --> 02:24:57,000
that side. Appreciate because it's another part of geek for

3016
02:24:57,079 --> 02:24:58,440
us where we got to a point where we could

3017
02:24:58,440 --> 02:25:00,840
have a podcast network and that helped open doors and

3018
02:25:01,200 --> 02:25:05,360
meet a bunch of new people. So it was great. Yeah,

3019
02:25:05,360 --> 02:25:15,840
I think that think that's everything memories from the Gauntlet. Man.

3020
02:25:16,879 --> 02:25:21,440
When I other than the custard Own era, when I

3021
02:25:21,440 --> 02:25:23,719
think about the things that I missed the most of

3022
02:25:23,760 --> 02:25:31,360
geek First past, it's if it's not it's one of

3023
02:25:32,639 --> 02:25:36,360
let me let me reword this. When I think about

3024
02:25:36,399 --> 02:25:40,239
things from the past of geek First that no longer exists,

3025
02:25:40,879 --> 02:25:43,840
it's one of, if not, the thing I missed the most,

3026
02:25:44,079 --> 02:25:48,360
and that is the geek First Gauntlet. That was that's

3027
02:25:48,600 --> 02:25:50,879
my baby. I know some people might think like geek

3028
02:25:50,959 --> 02:25:53,440
versus my baby, or like the Geekers films, which which

3029
02:25:53,520 --> 02:25:55,920
you know kind of is now, but that was my

3030
02:25:56,040 --> 02:25:59,040
baby because I think that was my idea and that

3031
02:25:59,159 --> 02:26:02,360
was just something I wanted to do a lot, I

3032
02:26:02,559 --> 02:26:04,520
just because we had fun doing that type of stuff

3033
02:26:04,680 --> 02:26:09,200
outside of the podcasting. And I'll always say that, of course,

3034
02:26:09,239 --> 02:26:13,680
people tune into the podcast for our personalities and you know,

3035
02:26:13,840 --> 02:26:15,840
want to hear what we think about the news or movie,

3036
02:26:15,840 --> 02:26:19,280
which I appreciate, right, but the geekers gone. It was

3037
02:26:19,319 --> 02:26:22,879
the first time that people were tuning into content we

3038
02:26:22,879 --> 02:26:25,159
were doing that was just strictly Yeah, of course we're

3039
02:26:25,159 --> 02:26:29,360
playing video games that are Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, PlayStation, et cetera.

3040
02:26:29,719 --> 02:26:34,319
But it's content that's just us. It's our personality, it's

3041
02:26:34,399 --> 02:26:36,879
fun things. We're creating what we're doing. And it was

3042
02:26:36,920 --> 02:26:39,600
really stretching the bug of one creating because I had

3043
02:26:39,600 --> 02:26:42,719
many times try to do filming stuff and stop installs

3044
02:26:42,719 --> 02:26:44,799
of people moving or this didn't work out. So worked

3045
02:26:44,799 --> 02:26:47,840
that bug and I've always you know, before I linked

3046
02:26:47,879 --> 02:26:50,239
over Emily, my plan, I want to do wrestling, and

3047
02:26:50,280 --> 02:26:52,280
then I realized, no, don't want to be that person

3048
02:26:52,360 --> 02:26:54,079
that would be on the road all the time, miss

3049
02:26:54,079 --> 02:26:56,280
a bunch of stuff. No, Like I realized that when

3050
02:26:56,280 --> 02:26:57,680
I got my first dog, of like, oh, I don't

3051
02:26:57,680 --> 02:26:59,200
even want to miss the first puppy year. So it's

3052
02:26:59,239 --> 02:27:02,520
like I'm get home sick really easy. So like that's

3053
02:27:02,559 --> 02:27:04,239
not the job, but I still that passion. I love

3054
02:27:04,319 --> 02:27:08,799
that industry, right, So it was this concoction of Okay,

3055
02:27:09,200 --> 02:27:12,399
we're gonna take the esports element of playing video games,

3056
02:27:12,399 --> 02:27:15,120
having tournaments, win, loss record, et cetera. But then we're

3057
02:27:15,120 --> 02:27:18,680
gonna take the entertainment element from yeah, movies and TVs,

3058
02:27:18,719 --> 02:27:23,559
but full on wrestling, the storylines, the characters, all that

3059
02:27:23,680 --> 02:27:29,360
stuff that would make you invested. And that's how it started.

3060
02:27:29,440 --> 02:27:31,159
If you go and watch the first tournament's just like

3061
02:27:31,280 --> 02:27:33,559
us playing games. A little trash talk here and there,

3062
02:27:34,040 --> 02:27:37,840
but there is the infamous promo which I always apologize

3063
02:27:37,840 --> 02:27:39,360
to Dylan. He did not a lot of stuff. I

3064
02:27:39,399 --> 02:27:41,440
apologize to everybody that did the Gatlin because there's a

3065
02:27:41,440 --> 02:27:44,360
lot of stuff I did not tell them was gonna happen.

3066
02:27:44,479 --> 02:27:48,479
But it was the we want, like I wanted genuine reactions.

3067
02:27:48,479 --> 02:27:50,399
Because you can go back and we talked about we

3068
02:27:50,399 --> 02:27:52,120
did the gaunlt cast. You can see an episode where

3069
02:27:52,120 --> 02:27:55,479
we tell, oh, Taylor Kirkland's your surprise. Upon act surprise,

3070
02:27:55,559 --> 02:27:58,000
you watch Taylor, He's not surprised at all. It seems

3071
02:27:58,079 --> 02:28:01,000
like fake, very very fake, right, that's what it's like. Okay,

3072
02:28:01,040 --> 02:28:03,360
from now on, if we can pull this off, gonna

3073
02:28:03,399 --> 02:28:06,399
do that. And don't get me wrong, tensions would rise

3074
02:28:06,440 --> 02:28:08,559
sometimes in those tapings as well, because it would be

3075
02:28:08,639 --> 02:28:11,600
some stuff and it would always just be would for entertainment.

3076
02:28:11,920 --> 02:28:13,959
Same thing as you know, the moment where Dylan will

3077
02:28:14,000 --> 02:28:16,040
shake my hand, I don't shake it and I cut

3078
02:28:16,040 --> 02:28:21,079
this promo like bitching him out and the classic you know, god,

3079
02:28:21,120 --> 02:28:22,479
what do I say? Oh, think of the fans, but

3080
02:28:22,639 --> 02:28:26,239
fuck the fans, And that's what it pretty much changed.

3081
02:28:26,559 --> 02:28:27,959
But it felt like for a while it was just

3082
02:28:28,360 --> 02:28:31,280
me as his character and everyone's reacting to me. And

3083
02:28:31,319 --> 02:28:33,440
that's why for me, season two is my favorite season

3084
02:28:33,479 --> 02:28:36,399
because everybody's becoming a character, even though on commentary is

3085
02:28:36,399 --> 02:28:39,159
becoming a character. Like I said, Jesco's great, that stuff.

3086
02:28:39,600 --> 02:28:42,239
Amber was the champ, and like just having this great run,

3087
02:28:42,319 --> 02:28:44,879
Me and Taylor got together. You saw the emergence of Kirkland,

3088
02:28:45,079 --> 02:28:47,639
you got Sarah's in there, you got Reuben in there,

3089
02:28:47,680 --> 02:28:50,760
you got Kyle, Emily was in and out. At times

3090
02:28:50,879 --> 02:28:55,680
it was it was my baby because it's something where yeah,

3091
02:28:55,879 --> 02:29:00,520
it was just us playing video games, but man, at

3092
02:29:00,639 --> 02:29:03,120
times there's so much on the line and so much

3093
02:29:03,120 --> 02:29:05,719
trash talk and so much build up to those matches.

3094
02:29:06,319 --> 02:29:09,879
The winds or the losses would they would hurt, they

3095
02:29:09,879 --> 02:29:12,319
would stick with you for weeks, they would haunt you.

3096
02:29:12,879 --> 02:29:18,239
But then when you got the win, no better feeling,

3097
02:29:18,399 --> 02:29:22,639
no better feeling than seeing that screen light up. It's

3098
02:29:22,719 --> 02:29:25,680
your character, your team, whatever, you got the win, and

3099
02:29:25,719 --> 02:29:29,079
it's for someone against a rivalry, some for the championship.

3100
02:29:29,399 --> 02:29:33,559
For a second, you would just like be elevated, you

3101
02:29:33,799 --> 02:29:37,200
would be on cloud nine, you'd be the rock Chills.

3102
02:29:37,959 --> 02:29:40,120
You would get invested in that. We all did invest

3103
02:29:40,200 --> 02:29:43,959
at different times, right, whether it was good just being

3104
02:29:43,959 --> 02:29:45,879
on winning streak one Winter title, or badge just on

3105
02:29:45,959 --> 02:29:49,600
losing streak like Taylor was right, but it was something.

3106
02:29:49,639 --> 02:29:51,280
There was magic. And that's why I said the Custard

3107
02:29:51,319 --> 02:29:53,559
Dome's my fair era, because that was a time where

3108
02:29:53,559 --> 02:29:55,879
we would say, hey, we're gonna do We used to

3109
02:29:55,959 --> 02:29:59,200
do I think like three episodes a month for I

3110
02:29:59,239 --> 02:30:01,840
looked do eight month seasons and be threeps. So we

3111
02:30:01,840 --> 02:30:04,639
were pumping about a lot of content, a lot of stuff,

3112
02:30:04,959 --> 02:30:07,600
and those times where Buka, we're gonna pick a Friday

3113
02:30:07,680 --> 02:30:11,680
night a Saturday night, everybody would record, you know, sometimes

3114
02:30:11,719 --> 02:30:14,479
three to six matches whatever, and you would have everybody there.

3115
02:30:14,479 --> 02:30:17,399
You would have Jessica Amberg, Kirkland Tyler, and then like

3116
02:30:17,479 --> 02:30:19,360
I said, you'd have you know, Dylan because he's hosting it.

3117
02:30:19,360 --> 02:30:22,360
You'd have people that are not associated but they're watching.

3118
02:30:22,479 --> 02:30:25,440
So it would be you playing this game against somebody.

3119
02:30:25,719 --> 02:30:28,920
The stakes are high for whatever reason, storyline or real

3120
02:30:29,360 --> 02:30:31,639
and you have, you know something its close to a

3121
02:30:31,639 --> 02:30:36,000
dozen people watching you and a win, a score, crossing,

3122
02:30:36,000 --> 02:30:38,479
a finish line and the crowd erupting. That's why for

3123
02:30:38,760 --> 02:30:40,559
the galling, you know, kind of ended too because it's

3124
02:30:40,559 --> 02:30:42,360
like we did the online stuff and we did just

3125
02:30:42,399 --> 02:30:43,760
a couple of people, but it was never the same,

3126
02:30:43,799 --> 02:30:45,879
which is like, okay, we got two of us here

3127
02:30:46,079 --> 02:30:50,440
when you had the custardome filled with the podcasters, friends,

3128
02:30:50,600 --> 02:30:55,319
random people watching this go down, The antics, the laughter, man,

3129
02:30:55,399 --> 02:30:58,239
it was that's something where that I appreciated because I

3130
02:30:58,520 --> 02:31:00,760
could feel ending just because just and things people moving

3131
02:31:00,799 --> 02:31:04,680
and got harder. But I absolutely loved the gauntlet. That

3132
02:31:04,840 --> 02:31:12,120
was like I said, that was my baby. Yeah, I man,

3133
02:31:12,399 --> 02:31:18,600
there was a way to ever bring it back. Little

3134
02:31:18,600 --> 02:31:21,600
tease if you're this episode's coming out, the full episode's

3135
02:31:21,600 --> 02:31:24,479
coming out after the tenure, you know what's up? Uh,

3136
02:31:24,680 --> 02:31:27,520
you know, so tune into that. Some announcements that day

3137
02:31:27,920 --> 02:31:31,399
tons of fun. But yes, the Gauntlet was something special

3138
02:31:31,440 --> 02:31:35,280
and if you watch it, there's a full A to

3139
02:31:35,440 --> 02:31:37,799
B story. For the most part. We had to pivot

3140
02:31:37,879 --> 02:31:40,760
sometimes because people will move, people not be available. But

3141
02:31:40,959 --> 02:31:42,959
like with Me and Taylor's arc, Me and Dylan's ark,

3142
02:31:43,000 --> 02:31:47,120
Me and Kirkland's arc, Jessica and Kirkland's arc, Taylor and

3143
02:31:47,200 --> 02:31:49,600
Kirkland's arc, like well a couple. Like I said, we

3144
02:31:49,600 --> 02:31:51,840
didn't get to finish off stuff with Amber. That's it

3145
02:31:52,000 --> 02:31:53,479
was tough. We didn't get to finish off with stuff

3146
02:31:53,479 --> 02:31:58,600
with Taylor, Reuben me Uh, Taylor had an arc with

3147
02:31:58,719 --> 02:32:00,920
Kirkland and this tie for that last year when was

3148
02:32:00,959 --> 02:32:02,959
pretty much US four holding down the gult like, but

3149
02:32:03,040 --> 02:32:04,920
there was little story beats. And that's why I made

3150
02:32:04,920 --> 02:32:07,600
those hype videos where even if you're just watching the

3151
02:32:07,639 --> 02:32:09,680
back and you're watching stuff like, oh, in the middle

3152
02:32:09,719 --> 02:32:13,440
of Taylor and Kyle having a sports title match, I'm

3153
02:32:13,440 --> 02:32:16,280
on Taylor's team, but when Kyle's doing well, I'm cheer form.

3154
02:32:16,319 --> 02:32:19,559
But I go, oh, man, I shouldn't have cheered. There's

3155
02:32:19,639 --> 02:32:21,680
just little stuff you could watch. And that's some of

3156
02:32:21,879 --> 02:32:25,680
some of our best and I'll say my best storytelling

3157
02:32:25,719 --> 02:32:27,799
of just thinking of little stuff. And that's the fun

3158
02:32:27,799 --> 02:32:30,200
thing because we had to it was not scripted. You

3159
02:32:30,239 --> 02:32:32,719
had to change on the fly. And uh yeah. So

3160
02:32:33,600 --> 02:32:38,840
favorite matches that I competed in, Oh boy, I think

3161
02:32:38,920 --> 02:32:42,280
the most legendary one. And I you know, I'm not

3162
02:32:42,319 --> 02:32:44,799
gonna toot my I am gonna fucking toot my own horm.

3163
02:32:44,879 --> 02:32:46,559
You know, I hate to, but you know I love to.

3164
02:32:48,520 --> 02:32:51,680
There's many great matches. I will still go down and

3165
02:32:51,680 --> 02:32:54,079
say the greatest match of all time in the golf

3166
02:32:54,120 --> 02:32:57,239
that is myself versus Kyle Sports title Rocket League specifically

3167
02:32:57,319 --> 02:32:59,479
we had a best three or yeah, best of three.

3168
02:32:59,559 --> 02:33:01,799
So there's other games in there, but that because at

3169
02:33:01,840 --> 02:33:03,920
that point I'd only played Rocket League once in my life.

3170
02:33:03,920 --> 02:33:06,639
When Dylan kicked the shit at me, I think that

3171
02:33:06,760 --> 02:33:08,879
was Kyle's first time playing it too, so like and

3172
02:33:08,879 --> 02:33:12,000
when Dylan kicked the showy, it was not like close,

3173
02:33:12,079 --> 02:33:13,959
like it was like a very bad right. I think

3174
02:33:14,000 --> 02:33:15,559
I got like a scor He might let me get

3175
02:33:15,600 --> 02:33:20,159
another one, but we had very little experience after that.

3176
02:33:20,159 --> 02:33:23,559
I did play more, but that match is magic. I

3177
02:33:23,600 --> 02:33:25,680
have a big comeback. I think I'm down by three

3178
02:33:25,719 --> 02:33:29,040
in like the last few minutes. You watch that finale too,

3179
02:33:29,159 --> 02:33:32,200
of the way the ball bounces, the way Kyle hits

3180
02:33:32,239 --> 02:33:33,719
it in his head a little bit, and I helped

3181
02:33:33,760 --> 02:33:36,239
push it in. It's something same thing. That's a moment

3182
02:33:36,280 --> 02:33:39,799
where you can see Amber, Dylan Taylor in the bag

3183
02:33:39,920 --> 02:33:43,360
watching and they are ripped there like you know, Ei,

3184
02:33:43,399 --> 02:33:45,159
there's this great moment with like Kyle take to Sean

3185
02:33:45,159 --> 02:33:47,920
missing Dylan like just fucking stands and he's like watching

3186
02:33:48,000 --> 02:33:50,440
like and then I win, I run and I hug

3187
02:33:50,520 --> 02:33:52,399
Taylor in his arms and the whole place is going

3188
02:33:52,520 --> 02:33:56,959
crazy like everything. But that to me is like, if

3189
02:33:56,959 --> 02:33:58,520
you want to know what the geek for Scarlin is,

3190
02:33:58,559 --> 02:34:01,680
watch that match. It has story. It is drama. It

3191
02:34:01,680 --> 02:34:04,200
has the real stuff because that's something sometimes something where

3192
02:34:04,559 --> 02:34:07,040
I can make the best story and we can create

3193
02:34:07,079 --> 02:34:10,319
something all together because all of them, like you know, everybody,

3194
02:34:10,399 --> 02:34:12,239
I'd have this idea, but they brought stuff, whether it

3195
02:34:12,319 --> 02:34:14,879
was the interview, a story beat, a story idea, like

3196
02:34:15,000 --> 02:34:17,440
it was a collaborative effort where Okay, that's like I said,

3197
02:34:17,479 --> 02:34:19,239
some best storytelling I would have, but I would never

3198
02:34:19,239 --> 02:34:21,280
been able to do that without all of them. But

3199
02:34:21,319 --> 02:34:23,360
at the end of the day, sometimes those matches just

3200
02:34:23,440 --> 02:34:27,079
wouldn't deliver. If the squash, it's like, damn, that sucks.

3201
02:34:27,120 --> 02:34:30,559
Like story everything build up, but you know the actual

3202
02:34:30,600 --> 02:34:32,559
match sucked, so oh well, we move on. But that

3203
02:34:32,639 --> 02:34:39,239
had everything. Every match I had with Kirkland was something special.

3204
02:34:39,360 --> 02:34:43,079
I think specifically probably the last one we did for

3205
02:34:43,159 --> 02:34:46,040
like the last championship, because he had never won the championship,

3206
02:34:46,040 --> 02:34:47,479
but I had never been a double champion, so I

3207
02:34:47,520 --> 02:34:50,440
want to do that. He won, and you know, hopefully

3208
02:34:50,440 --> 02:34:53,559
it'll be one day. But he was my biggest rival. Somehow.

3209
02:34:53,600 --> 02:34:55,639
I had lots of rivals, but in that league, it

3210
02:34:55,719 --> 02:34:59,280
wasn't Taylor, it wasn't Kyle, wasn't Dylan, it was you know,

3211
02:34:59,520 --> 02:35:01,680
it was Klin and we pushed each other to the limit.

3212
02:35:02,360 --> 02:35:04,200
I beat him for that sports style the first time,

3213
02:35:04,559 --> 02:35:07,000
and if you watch all those other matches, they come

3214
02:35:07,120 --> 02:35:09,200
very close, and somehow I would just always lose them,

3215
02:35:09,280 --> 02:35:12,479
especially at last two with the fucking Mario sluggers. There's

3216
02:35:12,520 --> 02:35:16,079
even the fucking NBA fight or the Fight Night where

3217
02:35:16,120 --> 02:35:18,559
the game you know, does counting in a box and

3218
02:35:18,600 --> 02:35:21,319
we were down and even the referee had his fingers

3219
02:35:21,360 --> 02:35:23,280
up for ten and it should say damn, but no,

3220
02:35:23,399 --> 02:35:25,799
Kirkland gets up and it's like always something would happen

3221
02:35:25,840 --> 02:35:29,040
to me. I prepare for stuff, lose by a point.

3222
02:35:29,520 --> 02:35:31,680
Kirkland and I match each other very well. I'm not

3223
02:35:31,680 --> 02:35:33,479
sure how it would go now is he still plays a

3224
02:35:33,479 --> 02:35:36,079
lot more games than I think I do. But almost

3225
02:35:36,120 --> 02:35:40,399
all those buts say specifically the last one, trying to

3226
02:35:40,440 --> 02:35:43,319
think there's anything more that I was. And there was

3227
02:35:43,360 --> 02:35:46,479
a sports style contendership I had with Tyler where he

3228
02:35:46,559 --> 02:35:50,479
did we boxing very good, very close. That was tons

3229
02:35:50,520 --> 02:35:52,799
of fun. And then all the other ones too were

3230
02:35:53,120 --> 02:35:56,799
me and Taylor. We were the last team champions versus

3231
02:35:56,920 --> 02:35:59,760
Kirkland and Tyler because they had lots of good chemistry. Tyer,

3232
02:35:59,760 --> 02:36:03,319
Sarah and we had a very epic Mario party one

3233
02:36:03,520 --> 02:36:06,840
and it was great. Go it's on there. I think

3234
02:36:06,920 --> 02:36:08,399
there's two of them on there. We ran it back

3235
02:36:08,399 --> 02:36:10,799
because it was so good. But uh, those were probably

3236
02:36:11,200 --> 02:36:12,600
the ones, off the top of my head I can

3237
02:36:12,680 --> 02:36:15,920
think of that I was in that were the best ones.

3238
02:36:15,920 --> 02:36:18,639
And there was probably some other ones. But the matches

3239
02:36:18,680 --> 02:36:24,760
I watched that were great. Dylan Geek Mania one, Dylan

3240
02:36:24,799 --> 02:36:27,239
and Amber and Rock League that's a really good one.

3241
02:36:27,799 --> 02:36:30,120
They were very close, which was good because there are

3242
02:36:30,120 --> 02:36:32,079
other matches were good, but that was like the closest

3243
02:36:32,440 --> 02:36:34,079
and that led to Dylan retiring. That was a good

3244
02:36:34,120 --> 02:36:40,079
story beat there. Uh route, I've never been a Pokemon fan.

3245
02:36:40,120 --> 02:36:43,120
I don't play the games. Ruben versus Kirklam and Pokemon

3246
02:36:43,200 --> 02:36:46,440
Stadium and the first Geek for Wascotland Ladder very good,

3247
02:36:46,520 --> 02:36:49,399
very close. There's like a like a ten minute stretch

3248
02:36:49,959 --> 02:36:55,520
where it's very close and it's like any hit could win.

3249
02:36:56,159 --> 02:36:57,680
I guess a part of that too, I should talk

3250
02:36:57,680 --> 02:37:01,040
about for myself when I'm or Stanley and gold Mine.

3251
02:37:01,120 --> 02:37:03,959
That was tons of fun. My first match ever won that,

3252
02:37:04,079 --> 02:37:06,680
But that was a really good time. Trying to think

3253
02:37:06,799 --> 02:37:12,200
what other really good ones were for other people. I

3254
02:37:12,200 --> 02:37:15,760
talked about the Rock League one, talked about Oh well,

3255
02:37:16,520 --> 02:37:19,799
how could I not talk about Kirkland and Taylor the

3256
02:37:19,840 --> 02:37:22,680
cod series that that's those are the other ones. If

3257
02:37:22,719 --> 02:37:25,479
it's not me and Kyle, it's those two specifically, the

3258
02:37:25,559 --> 02:37:28,319
first two. It's Kirkland's surprise entrance and then won the

3259
02:37:28,319 --> 02:37:31,840
first Extual Life we did. They were very close and

3260
02:37:31,879 --> 02:37:33,959
we did some rematches and they're always close to We

3261
02:37:34,000 --> 02:37:36,360
did like that best series where they played multipes, but

3262
02:37:36,399 --> 02:37:39,440
those first two man, same thing came down to the wire,

3263
02:37:39,639 --> 02:37:43,639
last point, nitty gritty it was. It was a sight

3264
02:37:43,840 --> 02:37:47,399
to behold, and especially because Kirkling medium two times and

3265
02:37:47,479 --> 02:37:49,719
Terry's got soap pissed. But I've been there, You're you're

3266
02:37:49,799 --> 02:37:54,600
right there wanting to win and you just can't. And yeah,

3267
02:37:54,639 --> 02:37:58,639
that that those were really good ones, and that that's

3268
02:37:58,680 --> 02:38:01,319
a series that hopefully we can run back again one

3269
02:38:01,360 --> 02:38:02,959
day and see and see if they still got the magic,

3270
02:38:02,959 --> 02:38:06,079
because it was always could seeing them evolve and change up.

3271
02:38:06,120 --> 02:38:10,319
But yeah, that that's a really good one. I'm trying

3272
02:38:10,319 --> 02:38:17,000
to think there's anything else that I'm I'm missing here, No,

3273
02:38:17,079 --> 02:38:18,799
I think I think those are the best ones that

3274
02:38:18,959 --> 02:38:22,680
come to mind as far as like the tippy top

3275
02:38:22,760 --> 02:38:28,159
out of those people. Yeah, no, I'm but yeah, gall

3276
02:38:28,200 --> 02:38:30,760
it absolutely loved it. Can ever do that full time

3277
02:38:30,840 --> 02:38:34,280
again right now? But uh uh, yeah, there was a

3278
02:38:34,319 --> 02:38:43,120
magical time Extra life. Man, if there is nothing else

3279
02:38:43,159 --> 02:38:46,319
that comes from this podcast, if it were to end, tomorrow.

3280
02:38:47,280 --> 02:38:50,559
I'm very grateful because of what we've done for Extra

3281
02:38:50,600 --> 02:38:53,799
Life and the fundraising. We've at this point raised over

3282
02:38:53,879 --> 02:38:57,840
eleven thousand dollars for the BC Children's Hospital, which is

3283
02:38:58,000 --> 02:39:01,440
very to me impressive because we we're not like fucking

3284
02:39:01,520 --> 02:39:05,000
local celebrities. We start off with, you know, we're four now,

3285
02:39:05,040 --> 02:39:07,719
about four or five, six seven, a couple group of

3286
02:39:07,760 --> 02:39:13,000
people in Kelowna, with not a former fan base, not

3287
02:39:13,040 --> 02:39:16,040
coming from a different show. We just start off and yeah,

3288
02:39:16,120 --> 02:39:18,040
some that's friends and that's family, but that's a lot.

3289
02:39:18,120 --> 02:39:20,920
A lot of it is you guys that listen, and

3290
02:39:20,920 --> 02:39:22,760
then random people that come board me. I'm gonna help

3291
02:39:22,799 --> 02:39:26,159
this cause that's been the best thing. The events themselves

3292
02:39:26,159 --> 02:39:29,760
have always been fantastic. There's always times where you get

3293
02:39:29,760 --> 02:39:32,120
tired and noy with people. Crookland's always making some fucking

3294
02:39:32,120 --> 02:39:35,920
squawking sound or some sort of meme something. Dylan's kicking

3295
02:39:35,920 --> 02:39:37,879
my ass at fucking four am in some game, and

3296
02:39:37,920 --> 02:39:39,840
I'm just over it because I'm not in a competitive

3297
02:39:39,840 --> 02:39:42,360
mood anymore. But these guys still, I'm like, I'm tired,

3298
02:39:42,399 --> 02:39:44,959
I'm done, especially because I'm always promoting stuff, so I'm

3299
02:39:45,000 --> 02:39:48,600
like an extra level tired sometime, so that's where usually crash, right, Okay,

3300
02:39:48,600 --> 02:39:50,920
I just need a break for a second here. But

3301
02:39:51,559 --> 02:39:53,360
at the end I'm always like, man, I could keep

3302
02:39:53,399 --> 02:39:55,239
going and I can't wait for next year. Every time

3303
02:39:55,280 --> 02:39:58,159
it ends like I can't wait. So on the fun side,

3304
02:39:58,159 --> 02:40:03,360
it's that. But what we can do just by the

3305
02:40:03,399 --> 02:40:07,799
power of the podcast has been mind blowing to me,

3306
02:40:08,200 --> 02:40:09,959
Like I would have never thought we could have raised

3307
02:40:10,000 --> 02:40:12,319
those amounts sometimes just some of the single year's amounts.

3308
02:40:12,319 --> 02:40:14,399
Some years are higher than others, some years are lower,

3309
02:40:14,680 --> 02:40:16,520
but it doesn't matter because it all goes towards the

3310
02:40:16,559 --> 02:40:18,959
v C. Chrown's Hospital. And as somebody I didn't have,

3311
02:40:19,000 --> 02:40:21,200
like a you know, some people have a lot worse,

3312
02:40:21,239 --> 02:40:23,959
but spend time the nick you those things do help tremendously,

3313
02:40:24,000 --> 02:40:25,360
and you think about the people that need funding or

3314
02:40:25,399 --> 02:40:28,159
need the help, and getting letters from families that have

3315
02:40:28,479 --> 02:40:31,200
cite specifically, hey, your funds went to this or did this,

3316
02:40:31,280 --> 02:40:34,200
and you see a picture like, man, this this does

3317
02:40:34,200 --> 02:40:35,760
a lot. And I hope all of you that I

3318
02:40:35,760 --> 02:40:37,600
was listening to this and have ever donated or even

3319
02:40:37,600 --> 02:40:41,719
just shared a link also like that's a that's all

3320
02:40:41,760 --> 02:40:44,479
you too, like that that you have done that. We

3321
02:40:44,520 --> 02:40:47,239
couldn't have done that. Those funds, those money, and wherever

3322
02:40:47,280 --> 02:40:49,600
we do in the future alone, whether it's you know,

3323
02:40:49,639 --> 02:40:51,479
again sharing the links, buying the T shirt, or whatever

3324
02:40:51,520 --> 02:40:53,319
it may be, and it doesn't matter whatever amount is,

3325
02:40:53,360 --> 02:40:56,760
because it all goes there. That's your guys' success too.

3326
02:40:57,520 --> 02:41:00,280
That's a full that's our biggest group thing, and that's

3327
02:41:00,280 --> 02:41:03,559
the thing where that is our greatest achievement. It's not

3328
02:41:03,799 --> 02:41:06,840
the endgame numbers. It's not the you know, how many

3329
02:41:06,840 --> 02:41:09,159
gallon videos we did, how many downloads we have, how

3330
02:41:09,159 --> 02:41:11,399
many years we're going. It's the extra life stuff. That's

3331
02:41:11,440 --> 02:41:14,559
the stuff that you know, I want to be probably

3332
02:41:14,639 --> 02:41:20,920
remembered for as far as you know, trying our best,

3333
02:41:21,399 --> 02:41:23,639
you know, we don't hit our goal over year, but

3334
02:41:23,680 --> 02:41:26,799
if people can talk about one thing leaving geek first,

3335
02:41:26,840 --> 02:41:28,760
and and it's tough because those things aren't even on

3336
02:41:28,799 --> 02:41:32,159
the podcast feeds, right, It's like something that's almost separate.

3337
02:41:32,239 --> 02:41:36,200
But those have created some great memories for just myself

3338
02:41:36,239 --> 02:41:40,280
as a person, the head shavings multiple times, spending time

3339
02:41:40,280 --> 02:41:43,280
with all those people for literally a day. But is

3340
02:41:43,680 --> 02:41:47,760
all those funds going towards and we've done other stuff too,

3341
02:41:47,799 --> 02:41:49,719
as far as you know, Black Lives matter. In the past,

3342
02:41:49,799 --> 02:41:52,120
I won and the Extra Lives are main one. So

3343
02:41:52,200 --> 02:41:55,520
all those have been great. And that's where people steppedup

3344
02:41:55,520 --> 02:41:56,920
because we could have done the first year and like

3345
02:41:56,920 --> 02:41:58,520
barely hit our goal and be like, well, I guess

3346
02:41:58,600 --> 02:42:01,399
this is nothing right and and we very much appreciate

3347
02:42:01,440 --> 02:42:03,239
it because we know you already support us. We know

3348
02:42:03,319 --> 02:42:06,239
somebody already are on Patreon. That means the world, because

3349
02:42:06,239 --> 02:42:09,600
that is that is the most important thing. That's something

3350
02:42:09,639 --> 02:42:13,280
that I'll always be happy if, even for some reason

3351
02:42:13,360 --> 02:42:15,280
tomorrow all four of us hate each other and never

3352
02:42:15,319 --> 02:42:17,399
talk to each other again. What we did extra life,

3353
02:42:17,440 --> 02:42:20,079
we can always be proud about that, and it's it's

3354
02:42:20,120 --> 02:42:23,000
an event. It is our you know, there is Golden Geeks,

3355
02:42:23,000 --> 02:42:24,399
but that's where the our year and we used to

3356
02:42:24,399 --> 02:42:26,239
do like Gauntlet stuff. There is a year, and to me,

3357
02:42:26,319 --> 02:42:28,360
that's like the big finale that leads through everything. Now

3358
02:42:28,360 --> 02:42:30,719
we have our GV day, but that is for me

3359
02:42:30,799 --> 02:42:32,840
the cap or and that's honestly just that day is

3360
02:42:32,840 --> 02:42:37,719
another favorite thing. But yeah, I'm very proud of everybody

3361
02:42:37,719 --> 02:42:39,559
that's helped us. I'm very proud of every other GEK

3362
02:42:39,559 --> 02:42:42,000
first member that's another thing too. I'll the spin off

3363
02:42:42,000 --> 02:42:44,719
people peel past their families have helped us out. That

3364
02:42:44,840 --> 02:42:48,159
is a that is the best thing we've done as

3365
02:42:48,200 --> 02:42:50,959
a community, and I'm very appreciative of everybody that's helped us

3366
02:42:50,959 --> 02:42:54,719
with that. So again, thank you. Let's see give your

3367
02:42:54,760 --> 02:42:59,680
thoughts on each GV member. Oh boy, so Travis is great.

3368
02:43:00,280 --> 02:43:05,479
No do this here, I worry had our rant or

3369
02:43:05,520 --> 02:43:09,399
of course, where to start. Let's go off podical order.

3370
02:43:09,399 --> 02:43:11,520
That's ally. I always do alphibitical order because I don't

3371
02:43:11,520 --> 02:43:13,280
want to shake the boat everybody, you know, because all

3372
02:43:13,719 --> 02:43:17,159
of them twenty five points that shouldn't be my points

3373
02:43:17,159 --> 02:43:18,719
because there's three of them. But for me, I'm another

3374
02:43:18,760 --> 02:43:24,799
twenty five. I digress. Well, excuse me. So let's start

3375
02:43:24,799 --> 02:43:28,799
with Dylan mussh Man. I guess I met these guys

3376
02:43:28,840 --> 02:43:32,280
all at Target, but met him. He you know, the

3377
02:43:32,319 --> 02:43:37,319
stroke of a good person. I will likely never drive,

3378
02:43:37,399 --> 02:43:39,479
never a car. I always hit a bus. Everywhere a

3379
02:43:39,559 --> 02:43:43,040
person will offer hey, I'll drive you, because I don't

3380
02:43:43,040 --> 02:43:46,120
ever ask and offer me. Then and then we sometimes

3381
02:43:46,159 --> 02:43:48,120
had some of shifts once we started working early, but

3382
02:43:48,200 --> 02:43:50,399
since then we were friendly. He's like, okay, that's a

3383
02:43:50,399 --> 02:43:52,799
good person. And that's the first thing to start off

3384
02:43:52,840 --> 02:43:58,000
with is take the podcast upside because there's two you

3385
02:43:58,000 --> 02:43:59,639
guys see a lot of it, but there's still two

3386
02:43:59,680 --> 02:44:02,120
sides to the coins here where there's the podcast versions

3387
02:44:02,159 --> 02:44:03,840
of all these people and then there's the people people

3388
02:44:04,280 --> 02:44:07,399
version of these people a lot of people dropping. Dyl

3389
02:44:07,559 --> 02:44:10,959
Muss is one of the best people I've ever met

3390
02:44:11,000 --> 02:44:14,040
as far as kind hearted and just being a good person.

3391
02:44:14,600 --> 02:44:18,479
He's somebody that if you need to call and need something,

3392
02:44:18,600 --> 02:44:20,319
he will pick up the phone and be there. That's

3393
02:44:20,319 --> 02:44:23,440
happened multiple times in my lifetimes that have been not

3394
02:44:23,600 --> 02:44:26,280
great times. He has been there one specifically that he

3395
02:44:26,319 --> 02:44:32,680
knows about, which was very tough time for me. Yeah,

3396
02:44:33,159 --> 02:44:36,639
he's just a good person. He might be the best

3397
02:44:36,639 --> 02:44:40,639
person of the bunch here you know, sorry Kirk Day

3398
02:44:40,760 --> 02:44:43,559
and everybody else, but just he always means well. He's

3399
02:44:43,600 --> 02:44:46,159
always very caring to people that are either his long

3400
02:44:46,239 --> 02:44:49,040
term friends or even just people he's barely met or known.

3401
02:44:49,399 --> 02:44:52,239
Always very welcoming, like we talked about before Bringing People podcast,

3402
02:44:52,319 --> 02:44:56,200
but just even in general, bringing like someone like like

3403
02:44:56,239 --> 02:44:58,840
okay Geef for speaking stuff like hey, we're having a part,

3404
02:44:58,840 --> 02:45:01,799
Hey Kim bring my friend or I am absolutely welcomed

3405
02:45:01,840 --> 02:45:05,200
to his home, like very gives any everybody starts like

3406
02:45:05,200 --> 02:45:07,879
a clean slate with Dylan, gives them all shot and

3407
02:45:07,920 --> 02:45:11,159
then very welcoming, straight up conversation with anybody. So just

3408
02:45:11,200 --> 02:45:13,559
as a person, let you guys know, he's a great

3409
02:45:13,600 --> 02:45:15,399
man and I'm very happy to have him as one

3410
02:45:15,399 --> 02:45:18,559
of my long term friends. And yeah, like I feel

3411
02:45:18,559 --> 02:45:20,120
like I kind of met him first really out of

3412
02:45:20,120 --> 02:45:22,120
the whole bunch there because it targets a joke, but yeah,

3413
02:45:22,120 --> 02:45:23,760
I didn't talk to many people because I'm always like

3414
02:45:23,799 --> 02:45:26,479
I don't need any more friends, and here I am.

3415
02:45:26,520 --> 02:45:29,000
I got four and then I still count Amber and

3416
02:45:29,120 --> 02:45:32,040
Jessica and Ruben and another Tyler and Connor and stuff.

3417
02:45:33,239 --> 02:45:37,840
So yeah, great guy that we've bonded a lot over

3418
02:45:37,959 --> 02:45:40,840
many times, especially because like and to transition to podcast stuff,

3419
02:45:41,479 --> 02:45:46,440
he to me is like a huge piece of the growth,

3420
02:45:46,959 --> 02:45:50,479
especially early on because before there was a time where

3421
02:45:50,479 --> 02:45:52,840
I did trust hold you a lot of solo casts.

3422
02:45:53,239 --> 02:45:55,799
There was many times where it's like a comic con

3423
02:45:55,920 --> 02:45:57,879
or a big announcement or all a trailer drop in

3424
02:45:57,920 --> 02:46:00,639
this day and it's all Taylor's busy here and Jessica's

3425
02:46:00,639 --> 02:46:02,200
busy here and kirkling on the west side, so we

3426
02:46:02,200 --> 02:46:03,799
can't get here, and then you know, no slight to

3427
02:46:03,840 --> 02:46:05,760
them at times they're very busy. We all are, right,

3428
02:46:06,200 --> 02:46:08,520
but Dyale with something that was busy, but would make

3429
02:46:08,600 --> 02:46:10,879
sure to Okay, well, we should get this out, we

3430
02:46:10,879 --> 02:46:12,840
should do this and be there, you know, like even

3431
02:46:13,239 --> 02:46:16,600
like the Marvel com Connor Our Friend game, everyone was

3432
02:46:16,639 --> 02:46:18,200
not Availableen I could have done that, but like I

3433
02:46:18,360 --> 02:46:21,239
wanted somebody else there, like someone that is like, we're

3434
02:46:21,280 --> 02:46:23,719
the geek first, right. It's that quote down he says

3435
02:46:23,719 --> 02:46:26,920
about the Avengers, you know, faster alone, further together. And

3436
02:46:26,959 --> 02:46:30,159
I've learned that where sure he can spin off, you

3437
02:46:30,200 --> 02:46:32,000
can do, Trust told you, but it's like and then

3438
02:46:32,159 --> 02:46:34,200
they we started this together, and I still want to

3439
02:46:34,239 --> 02:46:36,360
do this together. Those are still If you say, hey,

3440
02:46:36,360 --> 02:46:39,200
you can never do a Soul cast again, that's fine

3441
02:46:39,200 --> 02:46:42,440
because I got the crew, but very early on that,

3442
02:46:42,639 --> 02:46:45,559
like the Spider Man retrospective with me and him and Kyle,

3443
02:46:45,639 --> 02:46:48,360
the Marvel Retrospect with me, him and Taylor, like a

3444
02:46:48,360 --> 02:46:50,799
lot of those spin off show Netflix have failed with

3445
02:46:50,840 --> 02:46:53,280
Emily and Jessica, myself and him, a lot of those

3446
02:46:53,280 --> 02:46:55,520
spin off shows that were not like Taylor and Rube

3447
02:46:55,520 --> 02:46:57,520
and Me and Kyle like that were just like hey,

3448
02:46:57,680 --> 02:47:00,479
heefs doing their own thing with a different dynamic. The

3449
02:47:00,520 --> 02:47:03,719
spinoff shows with Inky. First, he was on a lot,

3450
02:47:03,840 --> 02:47:05,879
if not all those, right, I'd say, like a good

3451
02:47:05,959 --> 02:47:08,200
seventy to eighty five percent, And that did help grow

3452
02:47:08,239 --> 02:47:09,799
the brand like that, even some of those shows ended,

3453
02:47:09,840 --> 02:47:12,760
those help grew the brand. So he was like a

3454
02:47:12,840 --> 02:47:15,520
very like gee versus not where it is at all

3455
02:47:15,559 --> 02:47:18,760
without him in those early years. And then he left

3456
02:47:18,760 --> 02:47:20,479
for a little bit. But really, when I looked at it,

3457
02:47:20,520 --> 02:47:23,159
because I always think that's the thing where other people

3458
02:47:23,159 --> 02:47:26,879
had left her taking breaks, Dylan was with myself consistently,

3459
02:47:26,959 --> 02:47:30,520
I'd say the first because what to twenty nine, So

3460
02:47:30,680 --> 02:47:34,399
first four years, i'd say, I'll see him, say five, yeah,

3461
02:47:34,440 --> 02:47:36,760
because COVID he was still there during that stuff. He

3462
02:47:36,920 --> 02:47:39,440
was on all those casts with me, like it was

3463
02:47:39,559 --> 02:47:41,719
rare for me to miss one, and wherever him to

3464
02:47:41,760 --> 02:47:44,760
miss one, whether it was like maybe sick underweather. So

3465
02:47:45,319 --> 02:47:47,000
I think when I looked at when I was editing

3466
02:47:47,040 --> 02:47:50,079
these videos, he was only gone for like six to

3467
02:47:50,159 --> 02:47:52,280
eight months something like that. But it fell like forever

3468
02:47:52,440 --> 02:47:54,520
because Dylan used to be on those all. Right, So

3469
02:47:54,559 --> 02:47:56,360
when we did become a small business and he stopped

3470
02:47:56,360 --> 02:47:58,239
both this before that, we that I went to him,

3471
02:47:58,280 --> 02:48:00,959
I went to Jessica and like which Essca was harder.

3472
02:48:00,959 --> 02:48:02,879
Didn't really work out for her to come back full

3473
02:48:02,920 --> 02:48:05,760
time and do everything and things. That just changed some

3474
02:48:05,799 --> 02:48:09,040
of the dynamic as far as the podcast and the

3475
02:48:09,200 --> 02:48:10,920
time of it and the date of it. It's like,

3476
02:48:10,959 --> 02:48:13,680
well we can't. Before it was you know, it sounds bad.

3477
02:48:13,680 --> 02:48:15,719
Before it's like, oh, well we can go all We'll

3478
02:48:15,719 --> 02:48:17,399
do a review this day that you know, do it

3479
02:48:17,440 --> 02:48:20,040
at different time, do this different times, Like, no, we can't.

3480
02:48:20,120 --> 02:48:22,239
We got to get this out as soon as possible

3481
02:48:22,280 --> 02:48:25,840
because you know podcast world, the longer a review episode

3482
02:48:25,840 --> 02:48:28,319
comes out sometimes can just lose money continually. Right, So

3483
02:48:28,719 --> 02:48:30,920
it just became more business structured and with her life

3484
02:48:30,959 --> 02:48:34,000
for their kids, it was just harder, right, So but

3485
02:48:34,040 --> 02:48:35,639
we went to them as far as you know, Jessica

3486
02:48:35,680 --> 02:48:38,399
and Dilan and with Dylan, it's like it's like a

3487
02:48:38,840 --> 02:48:40,159
when we were doing a small business. For me, it

3488
02:48:40,200 --> 02:48:42,559
was key off, like there's no way if you Hays

3489
02:48:42,600 --> 02:48:44,520
said no, I'm not coming back though, you know, that's

3490
02:48:44,559 --> 02:48:46,239
his choice. I would have not been happy with it

3491
02:48:46,319 --> 02:48:49,360
and with him selfishly, but that would have been his choice.

3492
02:48:49,360 --> 02:48:51,479
But I felt like it's neat like he to me.

3493
02:48:51,559 --> 02:48:54,120
It's like when we talk about, you know, Doom's Dancer

3494
02:48:54,159 --> 02:48:56,200
Wars come out, we tell about those core Avengers. There

3495
02:48:56,239 --> 02:48:59,520
are definitely Amber, Kyle and Jessica that were on them,

3496
02:48:59,520 --> 02:49:02,440
but it is the you know, the core for the Horseman,

3497
02:49:02,479 --> 02:49:04,200
just because it's the people. There's not a time and

3498
02:49:04,280 --> 02:49:06,440
Keik first were not any of us were on it.

3499
02:49:06,520 --> 02:49:08,360
You know, we're the ones that are on them the

3500
02:49:08,360 --> 02:49:12,319
most if you look at percentages wise right, and as

3501
02:49:12,319 --> 02:49:15,399
far as a podcaster, he's just like a I consider

3502
02:49:15,440 --> 02:49:18,040
him the Swiss Army. And if he first, especially early on,

3503
02:49:18,319 --> 02:49:20,399
I remember stuff like he had no idea what the

3504
02:49:20,479 --> 02:49:22,959
killing joke was, or that Mark Hamill voiced a joker,

3505
02:49:23,200 --> 02:49:24,959
any of that. But it's like a couple episodes in

3506
02:49:25,079 --> 02:49:27,479
I talk about that and he just engages with me

3507
02:49:27,799 --> 02:49:30,000
to the point where in the first six months there's

3508
02:49:30,040 --> 02:49:32,159
so much stuff that I talked about that I thought

3509
02:49:32,200 --> 02:49:34,799
he knew or was a fan of, but wasn't really.

3510
02:49:35,200 --> 02:49:37,440
But he was just good at talking about that and

3511
02:49:37,479 --> 02:49:39,840
he's better than anybody. Same thing. It was a couple

3512
02:49:39,840 --> 02:49:42,360
of months ago where it was very Star Wars heavy show,

3513
02:49:42,719 --> 02:49:44,639
and he's admitted like he's not that in the Star

3514
02:49:44,680 --> 02:49:47,200
Wars because on the choice they made the brands, like

3515
02:49:48,040 --> 02:49:51,040
the quality kind of dip not my stuff, right, And

3516
02:49:51,120 --> 02:49:53,159
I just remember listen to the episode of Taylor's hitting

3517
02:49:53,159 --> 02:49:55,360
it with Star Wars stuff and they're like, what are

3518
02:49:55,399 --> 02:49:57,760
you doing? He's not seeing this. That's a tough thing,

3519
02:49:57,799 --> 02:49:59,600
but he rolls with the punches and he might ask

3520
02:49:59,639 --> 02:50:02,319
a question two to clarify, but then he's gonna give

3521
02:50:02,360 --> 02:50:04,680
you a great episode and a great conversation. Like Dylan

3522
02:50:04,799 --> 02:50:07,760
is the I think I have anybody you can put down,

3523
02:50:07,920 --> 02:50:10,000
probably even more than me because there's tons of stuff

3524
02:50:10,079 --> 02:50:12,479
Like you can't put me on a fucking Pokemon cast,

3525
02:50:12,840 --> 02:50:15,239
but you can put Dylan on a resting stream and

3526
02:50:15,280 --> 02:50:17,120
he's gonna adapt and have some questions or have some

3527
02:50:17,159 --> 02:50:19,040
fun with it. You know, where you put me on

3528
02:50:19,040 --> 02:50:21,760
Pokemon stream, I'm gonna be fucking bitter. I'm gonna be

3529
02:50:21,840 --> 02:50:23,760
poop poo face, like I'm not gonna be happy about it.

3530
02:50:23,760 --> 02:50:26,680
But Dylan, you know, I said, it's the Swiss arm

3531
02:50:26,680 --> 02:50:28,879
and I freaking get anything and already talked about a

3532
02:50:28,879 --> 02:50:33,639
little bit side quest, but you know that he headlines

3533
02:50:33,680 --> 02:50:35,959
that show, he brings it, he does law the leg

3534
02:50:36,000 --> 02:50:37,639
work there, and there'll be no side quest with him

3535
02:50:37,639 --> 02:50:40,000
because I just don't feel the quality that show would

3536
02:50:40,040 --> 02:50:42,920
be up to snuff. Right even if even if Dylan said, Hey,

3537
02:50:42,920 --> 02:50:44,360
from now on, I just want that show just be

3538
02:50:44,399 --> 02:50:45,840
me and you guys aren't on it, he never would,

3539
02:50:45,920 --> 02:50:47,920
but I go, well, I trust that show still because

3540
02:50:47,920 --> 02:50:50,360
it's Dylan hosting it, right, and he's a just a

3541
02:50:50,360 --> 02:50:52,200
bevy of knowledge when it comes to the video game

3542
02:50:52,239 --> 02:50:54,879
stuff in that world, and you know, the guys made

3543
02:50:54,879 --> 02:50:56,680
his own game. Now he's working on other stuff like

3544
02:50:56,719 --> 02:51:03,200
he's he's ends the fun game too, Like he's tremendous

3545
02:51:03,239 --> 02:51:06,600
at that area to the point where it's it's you

3546
02:51:06,639 --> 02:51:09,079
can't replace, which is like another person you need to find,

3547
02:51:09,079 --> 02:51:11,959
a very specific, you know, one million type of person

3548
02:51:12,000 --> 02:51:14,079
that not like going to do that stuff more than us,

3549
02:51:14,079 --> 02:51:16,600
but all the other stuff. And then we're still friends

3550
02:51:16,639 --> 02:51:21,120
and he still got his life. So yeah, having Dylan,

3551
02:51:21,360 --> 02:51:23,920
like he's been to say back, but he's been back

3552
02:51:23,959 --> 02:51:26,680
for like a long time. But there's no geek First

3553
02:51:26,760 --> 02:51:29,040
without Dylan especially, I think a lot of those episodes

3554
02:51:29,079 --> 02:51:32,639
early on the growth, the seasons, i'll say, the years,

3555
02:51:33,120 --> 02:51:37,559
and again hosting it of course that too. Dylan is

3556
02:51:37,600 --> 02:51:42,120
a building block for Geek First, so much needed there.

3557
02:51:42,280 --> 02:51:44,840
And yeah, I think I said, great man, love the guy.

3558
02:51:46,440 --> 02:51:52,559
Have you known mister pats or Kirkland and his time

3559
02:51:52,600 --> 02:51:55,799
at geek First is the biggest example I think I've

3560
02:51:55,840 --> 02:51:59,680
seen probably in my life, to be honest, of seeing

3561
02:51:59,680 --> 02:52:04,040
someone evolve and seeing how much of a better person

3562
02:52:04,079 --> 02:52:06,079
they can be at everything. And I'm not talking about

3563
02:52:06,079 --> 02:52:08,000
his personality as far as all being a good guy.

3564
02:52:08,079 --> 02:52:09,840
So no, no, Kirkland has always been a nice guy. He's

3565
02:52:09,840 --> 02:52:13,600
always been a good guy. But you can literally see

3566
02:52:13,639 --> 02:52:16,079
that first year where yeah, he's on the podcast, I

3567
02:52:16,120 --> 02:52:18,440
gotta throw to him for him to talk, but he's

3568
02:52:18,520 --> 02:52:20,719
very quiet, you know, keeps himself most time, has an

3569
02:52:20,719 --> 02:52:24,840
opinion and will talk, but it's it's a bit more guarded.

3570
02:52:24,920 --> 02:52:27,440
It's not as confident right where you use the Kirkland

3571
02:52:28,159 --> 02:52:33,600
of GV fifteen sixteen to now is a completely fucking

3572
02:52:34,000 --> 02:52:36,559
different person. And like you know, we all evolve, but

3573
02:52:36,600 --> 02:52:38,239
I still feel like you look at all of us

3574
02:52:38,600 --> 02:52:42,120
there's general like, Okay, I've seen her Dylan travesty of change,

3575
02:52:42,159 --> 02:52:46,520
but you know, particularly same personalities, right, I've tried to

3576
02:52:46,520 --> 02:52:49,399
do things real my personality in you know, I still

3577
02:52:49,479 --> 02:52:51,799
talk over people. Sorry to everybody on the geek fors

3578
02:52:51,879 --> 02:52:55,200
try not to try to remind myself very bad, try

3579
02:52:55,239 --> 02:52:58,079
to say not like as much as well. But with Kirkland,

3580
02:52:59,079 --> 02:53:02,959
everything from the podcasts at the beginning to the end,

3581
02:53:03,440 --> 02:53:07,680
he just as much more expressions. He's so he's so charismatic,

3582
02:53:07,719 --> 02:53:10,120
and he's good at weaving things in. Me and him

3583
02:53:10,120 --> 02:53:12,159
both do this to each other. One of my favorite

3584
02:53:12,159 --> 02:53:14,879
things on a podcast is trying to make that man break,

3585
02:53:15,040 --> 02:53:17,840
whether it's here, whether it's if we go camping or

3586
02:53:17,879 --> 02:53:20,399
they're hanging out. I guess I just love the sound

3587
02:53:20,440 --> 02:53:23,559
of Kirkland's laughter, and I think it's the same thing

3588
02:53:23,600 --> 02:53:25,319
for him for me because he'll try and break me

3589
02:53:25,799 --> 02:53:28,239
and we just feed off each other. And that's where

3590
02:53:28,360 --> 02:53:30,360
for me as far as kirking with the podcasting too,

3591
02:53:30,440 --> 02:53:33,559
like we can just get going. That's where it probably

3592
02:53:33,719 --> 02:53:36,040
sometimes good to have Taylor dealing with us. But if

3593
02:53:36,079 --> 02:53:37,840
there's a funk in the air and we're laughing, we

3594
02:53:37,920 --> 02:53:41,840
can It is just like tas Manian devil together. And

3595
02:53:42,239 --> 02:53:44,479
that's one thing I love about our friendship is we

3596
02:53:44,520 --> 02:53:47,479
can just we can have a good time. You know.

3597
02:53:49,360 --> 02:53:52,559
I'm happy for him and Shay happy for my sister

3598
02:53:52,600 --> 02:53:55,600
and that there's one time my sister had a crush

3599
02:53:56,159 --> 02:53:58,719
on him a long time ago. Nothing ever happened, you know,

3600
02:53:58,760 --> 02:54:01,639
because he was with somebody and shoes and old enough.

3601
02:54:01,639 --> 02:54:05,559
But there's a multiverse where Shae hate you because I

3602
02:54:05,600 --> 02:54:08,120
wish this man was my brother in law. I wish

3603
02:54:08,120 --> 02:54:11,159
I could be having the Christmas with him, the Thanksgivings,

3604
02:54:11,200 --> 02:54:14,479
because we just have Kirkland has that innate energy to

3605
02:54:14,639 --> 02:54:18,000
make me have a better day, and we just get

3606
02:54:18,000 --> 02:54:20,719
each other's humor and put it back to him evolving.

3607
02:54:21,959 --> 02:54:24,120
And that's all jokes. We love Shae and my sister,

3608
02:54:24,440 --> 02:54:31,639
we love you know, her boyfriend. He's a good guy. Gauntlet,

3609
02:54:31,719 --> 02:54:34,280
same thing. You watch his first entrance very you know

3610
02:54:35,360 --> 02:54:37,639
me say yeah, I'm here whatever, Like you can tell

3611
02:54:37,719 --> 02:54:39,879
he's going to the motions near the end when he's

3612
02:54:39,920 --> 02:54:42,879
the champ sports Champion's going for the main title. He's

3613
02:54:42,920 --> 02:54:45,639
fucking arrogant in the best way. He's cocky. He has

3614
02:54:45,680 --> 02:54:48,920
such a big personality. The best thing I can say

3615
02:54:48,959 --> 02:54:54,120
about Kirkland as far as the geek first era and

3616
02:54:54,280 --> 02:54:58,600
that time is and Kirkland, if you know he hears anybody,

3617
02:54:59,280 --> 02:55:02,239
there's no offense when Kirkling is around the first time

3618
02:55:02,319 --> 02:55:05,479
when he left, it did suck and it's like, oh, man,

3619
02:55:05,479 --> 02:55:07,399
we got to get a new replacement for him, or

3620
02:55:07,440 --> 02:55:09,319
oh we're down a person and we missed him because

3621
02:55:09,319 --> 02:55:11,399
we missed our friend. But it was like, Okay, well we're

3622
02:55:11,399 --> 02:55:14,280
gonna carry on as a podcast in those early years

3623
02:55:14,719 --> 02:55:16,719
now once Kirkling because he moved away for a little

3624
02:55:16,719 --> 02:55:19,280
bit and came back to this context when he came back,

3625
02:55:19,319 --> 02:55:21,920
and the more he evolved and grown. Now, if you

3626
02:55:21,959 --> 02:55:24,719
were to leave the podcast, it would be like detrimental.

3627
02:55:24,879 --> 02:55:28,200
It would hurt the podcast significantly. Where it's still hurt

3628
02:55:28,239 --> 02:55:30,360
the podcast at the beginning, but because he was quieter

3629
02:55:30,680 --> 02:55:33,120
and his person actually hadn't developed or just wasn't out

3630
02:55:33,120 --> 02:55:35,840
there yet. Now you know he's got all the way

3631
02:55:35,840 --> 02:55:40,399
to hosting solo cast stuff like that. It would we

3632
02:55:40,399 --> 02:55:43,159
would lose viewers from that, we would lose money from that,

3633
02:55:43,559 --> 02:55:46,959
we would lose people's attention for that, and the quality

3634
02:55:46,959 --> 02:55:51,920
of the show would go down. Yeah, it's one of

3635
02:55:51,959 --> 02:55:58,920
those things that he now he is completely irreplaceable, whether

3636
02:55:58,959 --> 02:56:01,200
he to leave or die, don't die kurkly because they

3637
02:56:01,239 --> 02:56:02,920
need to still break you a couple more times in

3638
02:56:02,959 --> 02:56:04,319
the cast. You know, I'm not done with it yet,

3639
02:56:04,319 --> 02:56:08,200
but it would Geek First would never be the same.

3640
02:56:08,280 --> 02:56:10,280
He is a vital part where I talk about those

3641
02:56:10,280 --> 02:56:13,000
core Avenger characters like he is one of those where

3642
02:56:13,399 --> 02:56:16,159
it would be completely changed. You'd almost would rather go

3643
02:56:16,239 --> 02:56:17,879
start a new podcasts and be like, oh, Kirk is

3644
02:56:17,920 --> 02:56:19,639
not here, and we would try, but there would be

3645
02:56:19,719 --> 02:56:22,760
a hole missing in the Geek First round, where of

3646
02:56:22,799 --> 02:56:25,280
course other people dipped in and out, but we've carried

3647
02:56:25,319 --> 02:56:28,120
on and adapted and found a groove. I think that

3648
02:56:28,200 --> 02:56:29,920
with them all, But I'm just saying the difference of

3649
02:56:30,000 --> 02:56:32,159
the beginning. He was one of those that left and Okay,

3650
02:56:32,559 --> 02:56:34,399
this sucks. He's one of our friends, but we're gonna

3651
02:56:34,399 --> 02:56:36,479
figure it out. Change the podcasts where now it's like, okay,

3652
02:56:36,920 --> 02:56:41,680
that's that's losing a limb and yeah, and he's he's

3653
02:56:41,719 --> 02:56:46,079
someone that's very positive. I'm somebody that there was a

3654
02:56:46,120 --> 02:56:48,079
situe and I talked to shape out sometime we're camping

3655
02:56:48,079 --> 02:56:50,239
the situation in my life that something's going on, and

3656
02:56:50,319 --> 02:56:54,639
I'm very pessimistic, very cynical, and all it might work out,

3657
02:56:54,879 --> 02:56:56,639
you know this guy this, and no it's not gonna happen.

3658
02:56:56,799 --> 02:56:58,520
And it did work out. It was all for the best.

3659
02:56:58,600 --> 02:57:01,479
And now I know that if life gods me down,

3660
02:57:01,520 --> 02:57:03,879
if I talk to Kirkland, it's not just bullshit like

3661
02:57:03,920 --> 02:57:06,440
he you know, obviously can't predict predict everything, but he's

3662
02:57:06,440 --> 02:57:09,760
a very positive force. You know, even though he's always

3663
02:57:09,959 --> 02:57:12,319
beaking up me, he's always he's probably just still bitter

3664
02:57:12,399 --> 02:57:15,200
I beat him. He's not the first sports champion, Kirkland.

3665
02:57:15,239 --> 02:57:17,680
I know you're the last sports champion. That's great, whatever,

3666
02:57:17,760 --> 02:57:20,680
But whenever they look at that title lineage and that's first,

3667
02:57:20,680 --> 02:57:22,879
it's me kicking your ass. First ever knockout too with

3668
02:57:22,920 --> 02:57:25,159
the givers Collein. Just want to let you know. Ah,

3669
02:57:25,319 --> 02:57:27,959
but that's the thing. I can shoot the shit with him,

3670
02:57:28,280 --> 02:57:31,440
but he's a very positive, upliving person that will care

3671
02:57:31,600 --> 02:57:34,399
and you know, talk to your saying your others, your children,

3672
02:57:34,520 --> 02:57:37,200
et cetera, not saying the others don't, but makes a

3673
02:57:37,239 --> 02:57:41,680
good effort and uh, yes, I appreciate Kirkland. Love that guy,

3674
02:57:41,719 --> 02:57:43,440
and I'll look forward to next time to trying to

3675
02:57:43,520 --> 02:57:46,040
crack him on air and see what happens. But yes,

3676
02:57:46,239 --> 02:57:49,239
just again the evolution of someone on there. He is

3677
02:57:49,799 --> 02:57:52,639
very key to the success now of geek First, and

3678
02:57:53,000 --> 02:57:56,600
he hosts single cast all that stuff. Yeah, he's just

3679
02:57:56,639 --> 02:57:57,399
a man now.

3680
02:57:57,239 --> 02:57:57,399
Speaker 1: You know.

3681
02:57:58,399 --> 02:58:00,559
Speaker 2: Uh, he was a boy, he grew into oh man.

3682
02:58:02,040 --> 02:58:09,319
Finally mister taylor Field somehow, not by design, you know,

3683
02:58:09,920 --> 02:58:12,799
start talking again. I feel like I met Dylan first,

3684
02:58:13,399 --> 02:58:15,559
and then I met Kirkland, was friendly with him, and

3685
02:58:15,600 --> 02:58:18,280
then Taylor just came in on a carnation and met

3686
02:58:18,639 --> 02:58:22,559
Kirkla were having about Marvel, and you know, describes our relationship.

3687
02:58:22,600 --> 02:58:26,399
But that's where I say we are a union, all

3688
02:58:26,399 --> 02:58:30,159
of us, but especially him and I because in whenever

3689
02:58:30,200 --> 02:58:35,440
Geekers ends, you can't talk about taylor Field without trump

3690
02:58:36,239 --> 02:58:38,639
let me not screw up. You can't talk about taylor

3691
02:58:38,680 --> 02:58:41,440
Field without talking about trust now, and you can't talk

3692
02:58:41,440 --> 02:58:45,159
about trust now without talking about taylor Field. We are

3693
02:58:45,520 --> 02:58:53,360
linked together for eternity, uh everything. We've become this little

3694
02:58:53,479 --> 02:58:57,239
duo that you know, it was not planned, and I

3695
02:58:57,239 --> 02:59:00,719
think it's just I have to give him credit. He's

3696
02:59:00,799 --> 02:59:03,719
the guy that, you know, maybe he's getting a little older,

3697
02:59:03,760 --> 02:59:06,319
a little wiser, but he's the guy that would always

3698
02:59:06,319 --> 02:59:09,920
go with my silly, stupid ideas, even stuff I can gauntlet.

3699
02:59:10,000 --> 02:59:11,719
If it's like, oh, we're doing this, this and this.

3700
02:59:12,200 --> 02:59:14,040
I know I feel, but I'm gonna do it. Oh well,

3701
02:59:14,079 --> 02:59:15,760
let's do this wrestling match. Well I don't know I

3702
02:59:15,799 --> 02:59:18,239
feel with this, but let's do it. Okay, same thing

3703
02:59:18,280 --> 02:59:20,639
anything geek first. Most of the time, it's no offense

3704
02:59:20,680 --> 02:59:22,799
to the other guys. It's just because there's been so

3705
02:59:22,840 --> 02:59:24,879
many times that we've had ideas and conversations. When I

3706
02:59:24,920 --> 02:59:26,280
have an idea, you should go to him first. We

3707
02:59:26,360 --> 02:59:29,239
bounce each other, stuff off each other, right, And that's

3708
02:59:29,239 --> 02:59:31,399
why even then I know if Taylor saying no, they'm like, Okay,

3709
02:59:31,440 --> 02:59:34,360
I gotta rework this idea or think about something. Same

3710
02:59:34,360 --> 02:59:38,000
thing with filmmaking stuff, right. We just we somehow talk

3711
02:59:38,079 --> 02:59:43,680
a lot. We talk daily. You know, some somehow we

3712
02:59:43,719 --> 02:59:48,399
are gonna be linked forever, which is just it's funny

3713
02:59:48,440 --> 02:59:50,879
to think about when that was not planned. But he

3714
02:59:51,120 --> 02:59:53,520
is the guy that if I'm going to war, I

3715
02:59:53,559 --> 02:59:55,879
want him on the front lines with me. It's the

3716
02:59:56,239 --> 02:59:58,159
Steve and Bucky. We're with each other till the end

3717
02:59:58,159 --> 02:59:59,920
of the line, even if we're gonna argue and fight.

3718
03:00:00,079 --> 03:00:02,879
And again, there's a time when we almost quit doing

3719
03:00:02,920 --> 03:00:04,840
the podcast very earlier on because we're gonna arguing about

3720
03:00:04,920 --> 03:00:07,280
Jurassic World. I'm very grateful to all the geek first

3721
03:00:07,280 --> 03:00:10,200
guys and him and I because that's the true sign

3722
03:00:10,239 --> 03:00:11,920
of a friendship is you can always have just And

3723
03:00:11,959 --> 03:00:14,559
I know this sounds trivial. It was trivial, but it

3724
03:00:14,559 --> 03:00:17,040
was very early on and we didn't fully understand each other.

3725
03:00:17,079 --> 03:00:20,719
But right now I fully understand taylor Field. Taylor Field,

3726
03:00:20,920 --> 03:00:22,479
he's a good friend, he's a good man, he's a

3727
03:00:22,479 --> 03:00:24,760
good husband, good father. I've seen that in full effect

3728
03:00:24,799 --> 03:00:27,479
because now we're at that point where, you know, it's

3729
03:00:27,479 --> 03:00:29,639
weird where now our kids play again. My kids love

3730
03:00:29,680 --> 03:00:32,840
his kid, you know too much, but our children play together,

3731
03:00:32,879 --> 03:00:35,079
and it's gone to that point where it's evolved to

3732
03:00:35,319 --> 03:00:38,600
generations and even Madison. We love mass and one nicest

3733
03:00:38,639 --> 03:00:42,159
people in the world, right And I say right, like

3734
03:00:42,319 --> 03:00:44,760
you guys might know the like you guys know that,

3735
03:00:44,799 --> 03:00:47,639
but trust me, she is probably the nicest person I've met.

3736
03:00:47,760 --> 03:00:51,879
But that's also Taylor, and that's Taylor is forever gonna

3737
03:00:51,920 --> 03:00:56,680
go down to me as the heart and soul of Geek. First.

3738
03:00:57,200 --> 03:00:59,479
There was a time I can't remember when he's tried

3739
03:00:59,520 --> 03:01:01,600
this to try us with Galllet. He tried this with

3740
03:01:01,600 --> 03:01:03,799
Geek first. He's like, oh, maybe I'll just step back

3741
03:01:03,840 --> 03:01:06,239
and do the editing side and the thumbnails, and you can

3742
03:01:06,280 --> 03:01:10,200
do that. And I just said, there's no podcast without you.

3743
03:01:10,319 --> 03:01:13,200
Most you know, most people, I feel like tune in

3744
03:01:13,239 --> 03:01:16,840
for him because he is the light. Even after all

3745
03:01:16,959 --> 03:01:20,760
these years we've tried to work him down and make

3746
03:01:20,799 --> 03:01:23,520
him a little more pessimistic, little more cynical, which we

3747
03:01:23,520 --> 03:01:25,760
have a little bit, but he's still just like I'll

3748
03:01:25,760 --> 03:01:29,200
beacon of hope. He's still just that guy that when

3749
03:01:29,239 --> 03:01:31,879
you see how he consumes content, talks about content, we

3750
03:01:31,920 --> 03:01:33,479
want to be that guy. How he can still be

3751
03:01:33,600 --> 03:01:36,280
fully in love with a brand, with a franchise, with

3752
03:01:36,319 --> 03:01:40,319
an ip with something after it's wronged him, giving him

3753
03:01:40,319 --> 03:01:43,479
bad content whatever. He is the most positive person I

3754
03:01:43,520 --> 03:01:46,399
know about this stuff. And that's something I wish I

3755
03:01:46,479 --> 03:01:49,280
was able to do more. Is just lead with my heart.

3756
03:01:49,399 --> 03:01:51,600
You know, I always usually think up here first, you

3757
03:01:51,600 --> 03:01:54,840
know which, And sometimes that's good. But with Taylor Field,

3758
03:01:54,840 --> 03:01:58,840
that is his biggest asset. Where he he you know,

3759
03:01:59,200 --> 03:02:02,719
heart is on a slip for podcast for life. He's

3760
03:02:02,719 --> 03:02:04,760
a great man, he's a great friend. He is somehow,

3761
03:02:04,760 --> 03:02:07,440
like I said, we're linked together. I always want a brother.

3762
03:02:07,520 --> 03:02:10,719
He has somehow turned into like the little brother I

3763
03:02:10,840 --> 03:02:13,040
never had. You know, I don't ever said him said

3764
03:02:13,040 --> 03:02:15,280
that to him. So he's here and here first, but

3765
03:02:15,799 --> 03:02:19,920
it it just kind of fell and happened that way.

3766
03:02:19,959 --> 03:02:22,639
I was luckily best man at his wedding. Don't know

3767
03:02:22,639 --> 03:02:24,440
if I'm ever gonna have a wedding, but he'll be

3768
03:02:24,520 --> 03:02:26,520
up there with me when it happens. I've already told

3769
03:02:26,559 --> 03:02:27,840
him and Kyle they have to share it because him

3770
03:02:27,840 --> 03:02:30,399
and Kyle are like they're two separate eras of my life.

3771
03:02:30,440 --> 03:02:33,520
As far as the you know, a best friend I've had,

3772
03:02:33,559 --> 03:02:39,840
and it's yeah, it's I'm very like I could go

3773
03:02:39,920 --> 03:02:41,760
down the ship and I hoped he was with me

3774
03:02:41,879 --> 03:02:45,360
and I could I hope in forty years or whatnot,

3775
03:02:45,479 --> 03:02:49,319
when we're doing something about Star Wars and we're arguing,

3776
03:02:49,920 --> 03:02:52,319
I need that dynamic there, you know. And like I said,

3777
03:02:52,319 --> 03:02:55,399
we are eternally bound now. And he I guess that

3778
03:02:55,879 --> 03:02:59,559
the le passion, as Batista says in Dexter, that's what

3779
03:02:59,600 --> 03:03:02,959
he brings to Geek first, and that's not a dispute.

3780
03:03:03,120 --> 03:03:06,600
He can put things in an articulate way, he can stress,

3781
03:03:06,600 --> 03:03:10,520
but things he can actually have some great constructive criticism

3782
03:03:10,600 --> 03:03:13,040
on brands and stuff that are because he loves them

3783
03:03:13,079 --> 03:03:15,399
so much. It's not like hate driven first. It's really

3784
03:03:15,440 --> 03:03:17,799
thinking about, Okay, what would change, and not just like

3785
03:03:17,840 --> 03:03:19,680
in a fan perspective, do this. Don't be me wrong.

3786
03:03:19,760 --> 03:03:22,600
Sometimes it's just like, hey, where's throng? But most of

3787
03:03:22,600 --> 03:03:25,239
the time when it's a critique because he loves that stuff,

3788
03:03:25,239 --> 03:03:30,959
it's really coming from Okay, what specifically is an issue here?

3789
03:03:31,159 --> 03:03:33,479
Not just they didn't do this or that didn't happen

3790
03:03:33,600 --> 03:03:36,479
or this shot was bad, but like, what is the

3791
03:03:36,520 --> 03:03:38,719
core of the issue and why do we have an

3792
03:03:38,760 --> 03:03:40,959
issue with it? And he's a very thoughtful guy in

3793
03:03:41,000 --> 03:03:44,680
those times. And yeah, like I said, there's no there's

3794
03:03:44,719 --> 03:03:46,680
literally no Geek for some them because it was his idea,

3795
03:03:46,879 --> 03:03:50,000
he came up with the name, he helped get that going.

3796
03:03:50,120 --> 03:03:52,360
He kind of put us all together in a sense.

3797
03:03:54,879 --> 03:03:59,360
And yeah, I think that people they tune in to

3798
03:03:59,639 --> 03:04:02,840
hear what antics and again he's probably the all of us.

3799
03:04:02,920 --> 03:04:07,600
Try me, Dylan Kirkland. We will make jokes, string things together,

3800
03:04:08,200 --> 03:04:11,840
have a little bits. You know. Taylor's the funniest as

3801
03:04:11,879 --> 03:04:16,600
a person. Taylor is unpredictable. You cannot predict what he

3802
03:04:16,719 --> 03:04:19,280
is going to do. He's going to say something, reveal something,

3803
03:04:19,319 --> 03:04:21,280
and just getting knock you on your feet. So, like

3804
03:04:21,319 --> 03:04:23,479
I said, there there's no Geek for us without that man.

3805
03:04:25,000 --> 03:04:30,799
And then hmm, finally, but I'm saying this part for

3806
03:04:30,879 --> 03:04:32,799
the video that we're gonna show first because when we

3807
03:04:32,799 --> 03:04:36,000
play first, we're gonna thank the fans first in the

3808
03:04:36,040 --> 03:04:38,000
video because you guys are the most important. Because yes,

3809
03:04:38,959 --> 03:04:42,559
usually we always save you for the end like we're

3810
03:04:42,600 --> 03:04:45,079
doing now. We usually save you for the end, and

3811
03:04:45,600 --> 03:04:49,120
lots of other stuff happens, but we need to start

3812
03:04:49,159 --> 03:04:54,680
off this video. This ten years, this conversation with each

3813
03:04:54,719 --> 03:04:57,200
and every one of you that have gone us to

3814
03:04:57,239 --> 03:05:02,280
this point ten years is crazy. We got to see

3815
03:05:02,600 --> 03:05:06,159
you know, the downloads go from three digits to four digits,

3816
03:05:06,239 --> 03:05:13,239
to five digits to six digits. We definitely would not

3817
03:05:13,360 --> 03:05:16,079
be here without all of you. In mouth ways, it's

3818
03:05:16,120 --> 03:05:21,159
just the podcast, our gear, our technology, this podcast network,

3819
03:05:21,280 --> 03:05:26,879
everything is because of all you. We have never had

3820
03:05:26,920 --> 03:05:30,360
to ban a fan from Alfter nine from Discord, and

3821
03:05:30,399 --> 03:05:35,959
I take that is that we just attract like minded,

3822
03:05:36,000 --> 03:05:38,120
good people and that's been the best thing is it's

3823
03:05:38,159 --> 03:05:42,479
a nice little community that's turned into like a small family.

3824
03:05:42,520 --> 03:05:44,319
It's all we're a bunch of cousins. You know, we're

3825
03:05:44,319 --> 03:05:47,920
not first family, got our parents, our boyfriend's girlfriends, sisters, brothers, whatever.

3826
03:05:48,399 --> 03:05:50,719
But the family barbecue, the reunion, we'll all get together.

3827
03:05:51,360 --> 03:05:54,040
And you guys have just made it such a good community.

3828
03:05:54,280 --> 03:05:56,559
And you guys are so positive on the things we do,

3829
03:05:57,319 --> 03:05:59,959
whether it's our content, whether it's extra life, whether it's whatever.

3830
03:06:00,079 --> 03:06:01,840
So if you guys support us so much more than

3831
03:06:02,479 --> 03:06:04,319
you know we deserve because we're just a couple of

3832
03:06:04,360 --> 03:06:07,319
people in Colonna, small Colonna, working the best we can.

3833
03:06:07,399 --> 03:06:12,360
But this ten years is because of you. We're here

3834
03:06:12,399 --> 03:06:14,799
in these chairs, but you guys are the ones that

3835
03:06:14,840 --> 03:06:17,280
created the possibility for the chairs to be here, for

3836
03:06:17,399 --> 03:06:19,399
the streaming on the camera to be here, for the

3837
03:06:19,399 --> 03:06:23,680
mics to be here. You're the lifeblood of all this.

3838
03:06:24,360 --> 03:06:27,840
You contribute to this, you build this. We're just the

3839
03:06:27,879 --> 03:06:30,520
people that are enacting the plans. You know, We're just

3840
03:06:30,559 --> 03:06:33,360
the people that are trying our best to make you happy.

3841
03:06:33,520 --> 03:06:36,239
And we hope, you know, we do hope. I hope

3842
03:06:36,239 --> 03:06:38,760
that we have made you happy. We try our best.

3843
03:06:38,799 --> 03:06:42,239
Don't get me wrong. We will work hard and be tired,

3844
03:06:42,280 --> 03:06:48,559
but we're never phoning in. We're never taking anything for

3845
03:06:48,639 --> 03:06:52,639
granted because we know that there are thousands, now maybe

3846
03:06:52,639 --> 03:06:55,520
there's millions, but thousands of podcasts out there, and the

3847
03:06:55,520 --> 03:06:57,600
fact that you've chosen us for these past ten years,

3848
03:06:57,600 --> 03:07:00,239
whether it's for a day, a month, a year, the

3849
03:07:00,280 --> 03:07:02,600
whole time, whatever it may be, even if you hit

3850
03:07:02,639 --> 03:07:04,879
download once, we very much appreciate it. It's meant the

3851
03:07:04,920 --> 03:07:07,680
world to us. As I said, we've just started this

3852
03:07:07,719 --> 03:07:11,360
podcast in a basement, and here it is, thousands of

3853
03:07:11,440 --> 03:07:15,079
episodes made downloads, a bunch of great people, we've met,

3854
03:07:15,559 --> 03:07:19,799
thousands of dollars towards charity, multiple projects created, all because

3855
03:07:19,840 --> 03:07:24,000
of you, guys. I can't I've said this before, but

3856
03:07:24,120 --> 03:07:30,600
just to stress it again, You've literally changed my life.

3857
03:07:30,799 --> 03:07:33,719
You've changed my family's life, all in a positive way.

3858
03:07:34,920 --> 03:07:37,600
More than you know, more than I can express some words,

3859
03:07:38,200 --> 03:07:40,600
You've brought a happiness to my life that I didn't

3860
03:07:40,600 --> 03:07:44,120
know could be possible because of just the support that

3861
03:07:45,239 --> 03:07:51,239
we've gotten for a hobby. And we are forever in

3862
03:07:51,280 --> 03:07:56,360
a debt of gratitude you or forever your servants. Like

3863
03:07:56,399 --> 03:07:58,760
I said, there's no words that can really put a

3864
03:07:58,760 --> 03:08:01,760
perfect ball on it other than just saying thank you. Uh,

3865
03:08:01,799 --> 03:08:05,959
and we we very much appreciate this. You're you're the

3866
03:08:06,280 --> 03:08:12,000
heartbeat of this thing. Yeah, it's crazy. We've met so

3867
03:08:12,040 --> 03:08:14,000
many good people over the years, people that are still around,

3868
03:08:14,079 --> 03:08:16,239
people that have you know, gone on the wayside and

3869
03:08:16,559 --> 03:08:18,879
who knows they're around for a little bit, but now

3870
03:08:18,920 --> 03:08:23,000
they're gone. But we've appreciated all of the instances, all

3871
03:08:23,040 --> 03:08:27,440
the interactions, all the after nines, and yeah, you've, like

3872
03:08:27,479 --> 03:08:31,360
I said, you've literally made my dreams come true. We

3873
03:08:31,719 --> 03:08:34,799
don't start making films and those type of things without

3874
03:08:34,879 --> 03:08:37,040
you guys supporting us. There's no way that happens. There

3875
03:08:37,079 --> 03:08:39,479
knows way we can fund that. So literally, things that

3876
03:08:39,520 --> 03:08:41,079
I've been dream about my whole life, like oh, I

3877
03:08:41,079 --> 03:08:42,840
really want to make a film and do that stuff.

3878
03:08:43,239 --> 03:08:46,799
You've facilitated me building relationship with my friends to continue

3879
03:08:46,840 --> 03:08:48,920
to become a small business and has to do that

3880
03:08:49,360 --> 03:08:53,399
you facilitate us to get that gear that time, those softwares,

3881
03:08:53,440 --> 03:08:56,200
everything for us to go into film festivals. Those were

3882
03:08:56,280 --> 03:08:58,639
dreams of mine that at times that you know that's

3883
03:08:58,680 --> 03:09:01,040
never gonna happen, and you made them happen. So I

3884
03:09:01,079 --> 03:09:03,079
will always be in debt to each and everyone of you,

3885
03:09:03,159 --> 03:09:05,600
and I very much thank you for what you've done

3886
03:09:05,719 --> 03:09:08,639
for myself. I guess my family, my friends here at

3887
03:09:08,639 --> 03:09:13,799
Geek first. Yeah, just love you, all of you. I

3888
03:09:13,840 --> 03:09:17,760
love you so much. You crazy bastards keep me going

3889
03:09:17,799 --> 03:09:22,120
every day, the discord, the comments, everything, I thank you.

3890
03:09:22,239 --> 03:09:24,680
And I don't know if we go do this for

3891
03:09:24,680 --> 03:09:27,319
another ten years, twenty, another couple of years, whatever it

3892
03:09:27,360 --> 03:09:33,000
may be. But I thank you for being here at

3893
03:09:33,040 --> 03:09:37,040
any point in the journey. And yeah, I love y'all.

3894
03:09:37,479 --> 03:09:39,799
And this is it. There's a tenure. There's our conversation

3895
03:09:39,840 --> 03:09:41,760
one an hour and a half. The other guys were like, oh,

3896
03:09:41,760 --> 03:09:43,639
I went forty minutes, I went thirty minutes. Too long,

3897
03:09:43,840 --> 03:09:48,520
fucking me blabber but it was worth it. And yeah,

3898
03:09:48,559 --> 03:09:53,719
I yeah, it's it's it's it's still weird coming to

3899
03:09:53,799 --> 03:09:56,319
the end of all this. And yeah, I hope there's

3900
03:09:56,360 --> 03:09:58,479
a twenty I hope there's a thirty, but even if

3901
03:09:58,520 --> 03:10:03,719
there's not, it's been one hell of a ride. Would

3902
03:10:03,760 --> 03:10:07,680
have never predicted meeting these four guys and then Jessica

3903
03:10:08,000 --> 03:10:09,920
and others along the way, but meeting these people at

3904
03:10:09,959 --> 03:10:13,280
Target and where life would take us, where we go,

3905
03:10:13,319 --> 03:10:16,920
what we do, and it's it's been a ride, and

3906
03:10:16,959 --> 03:10:19,959
it's been one of the greatest joys of my life.

3907
03:10:20,079 --> 03:10:24,319
Like I said, aside from my family, this is this

3908
03:10:24,360 --> 03:10:28,239
is ten years and I've never really thought about it

3909
03:10:28,239 --> 03:10:30,879
in the moment, but it is the best ten years

3910
03:10:30,879 --> 03:10:32,639
of my life. It is the portion that I'm going

3911
03:10:32,680 --> 03:10:34,239
to look back and the most fond of. And this

3912
03:10:34,319 --> 03:10:38,440
is one of the main reasons. And yeah, like I

3913
03:10:38,479 --> 03:10:39,879
said in the video a couple of months ago and

3914
03:10:39,879 --> 03:10:45,280
I came back, I bleed green, I'm gonna be going

3915
03:10:45,280 --> 03:10:47,479
to the wheels fall off till the ship goes down,

3916
03:10:47,920 --> 03:10:51,360
whatever it may be. And I hope you're along for

3917
03:10:51,399 --> 03:10:54,000
the ride, and we appreciate it and love you and kin.

3918
03:10:54,159 --> 03:10:56,959
Thank you very much. Happy GV ten day for all

3919
03:10:57,000 --> 03:10:58,799
of you. Thank you for getting us to this point,

3920
03:10:58,840 --> 03:11:00,639
thank you for everything. Thank you of the guys, thinking

3921
03:11:00,680 --> 03:11:05,159
everyone that's been on this episode before it's a podcast before. Yeah,

3922
03:11:06,440 --> 03:11:08,520
and it won't be boring h

3923
03:11:10,360 --> 03:11:10,639
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