Speaker 1: Okay, hello ladies and gentlemen. I am one of your
geek Verst podcasts, host State of Field, and I am
here because it has been ten years. Ten years of
geek Ver's podcast. And I was telling Dylan this the
other day. Some podcasts don't even make it to ten episodes.
That is kind of where the threshold is. When I
was doing a little bit podcast resource that a lot
of shows don't make it to their tenth episode. And
here we are at ten years, and so much of
our lives have changed since we started this journey. It
is quite something to think about and to see, of
course my friends that I co host with to do
this show with, to see how they've grown as people
as well, like in life, jobs, careers, families, everything. It's
just it's amazing how the things have changed, and we've
kind of moved around, moved back and moved around again.
Like it's just it's crazy to see that at the
core we are all still good friends and we still
get together multiple times a week to do this show
and just have a good time doing it. And it's
truly a passion project of ours, and it's it's not
something that I take for granted and This is something
I've mentioned before on previous anniversary streams too, But there's
a quote from the Office, and I'm going to paraphrase
because I'm going to butcher it if I try to
quote quote it word for word. But it's Andy Bernard's
talking about how how do you recognize the good times
when you're in it? You know, you get to the
point at the end when it's like you look back
in retrospect and think, those were the good times, and
I wish I knew that I was in those good times. Well,
this show is those good times, and hopefully it never
ends because it's full of laughs, full of new friendships
and great conversations and thing to meet new people and
just share good times with each other. And I don't
take that for granted. And what we've been able to
create and create because of everyone of you that's been
listening to this show and supporting the show over the
years to help us get to ten years. It has
made an absolute fantastic foundation for what we can do
here and help us do new content. Whether you're a
patron subscriber and you get to submit requests for different
retrospectives or submit your questions into the shows and all
those different things and just different ways that we can
interact with you guys and communicate with you guys and
build friendships with each other and grow. It's just even
if you just listen to the show, that is more
than enough. You know, it goes a long way. We
keep track of the stats, and we really appreciate anyone
and everyone that tunes in and listens and interacts and
all that. So you guys, you all mean so much
to us when we do this show. So thank you
for being there for this ten years decade, which is
just it still is unbelievable to me. Yeah. I could
go on and on and on, but I got some
questions here that questions that need answering, Questions that need answering.
As Gandalf says, I'm gonna start off with the favorite
era of geek person Why. I was really trying to
think about this and how I could break down eras
of the podcast, And that's a tricky one. I really
could actually just certain a proper way to break down
the eras, maybe just when people were leaving at certain times,
But I don't know if that really would be an era,
maybe just a year. I digress. If I had to
pick a certain timeframe, I would say when it was
all seven of us at one point in time throughout
a couple of years just doing the show, and it
was it was so much fun. There was Star Wars
coming back and tons of other things popping off, and
news was great, and we just, you know, we had
our own lives. We're busy, but at the same time,
we had a lot of time just to bullshit and
kill and not you know, not care in the world.
We had our jobs, sure, but you know, we were
still podcasting until twelve at night. We'd get together at
like six and we'd be going for hours and hours
and hours. We do multiple shows back to back, or
just three hour long news episodes, three hour long reviews
of things like just going Crazy, and that era when
all seven us we were present, I feel like we
all were able to bring something to the show and
we all just were able to ride that next high
off of each other, if that makes sense. So I
would say that that era of us all being present
was definitely one of my favorite ones, and peggybacking on
that too. There's a lot of really good standout episodes
where just the ones where we were in person I
think I missed the most well. We've adapted, and we've
done a good job at adapting. And it's certainly easier
because we live far away. So doing in person shows,
especially with our families and whatnot, it's not easy. It's
a lot of work and we can be a little
rowdy sometimes, so us setting up our home offices and
doing this remotely has been a huge asset and a
huge benefits of the show. But those in person casts are
some of my most favorite standing out episodes of all time.
And you just get you just get certain interactions that
you can't get online. And whether it's just us looking
at each other a certain way, or it's the way
we talk, or whether I'm like leaning in Travis's chair
in his office and he tells me to stop doing
it because I'm gonna fall and ignore him, and then
I all almost eat shit and flip the chair back.
It's just it's stuff like that that's just you can't
you can't replicate that really in in the online format. Again,
I'm not crapping on the online format. I think it's
great for what we've grown into and evolved into for
the for the show, but some of those those moments
that were in person or my favorite. I remember after
the pandemic we did our first stream back together and
we were in person, Travis, Me and Kirkland, and it
just it felt like magic just to be back together
like that, Like I really really love that a lot.
And I remember there was to do was it Black
Panther Predictions? We were all gathered for that too. In
person that was a lot of fun as well. Just
you get together and immediately gets rowdy. And now, of
course the only time we do get together is when
we do the charity stream, and well, I'm not we
get together for other reasons, you know, in our personal
time too. We're one of the movies together and whatnot.
But like when we're actually like together to recre it's
something in person. It's usually the charity stream, unless there's
some specific event or something else that's pulling us in
person to be together. Uh, it's just it's magic.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: We're we're thinking about what the food we're gonna get later,
it's gonna be a good hangout time, and just the
the memes and the jokes start creeping in and it
just starts to get rowdy. And so those are some
of my favorite favorite sessions with with the Squad. If
I had to think about specific spin off shows, ooh,
you know Netflix and Fail, I think that has a
soft spot in my heart because I think that that
was just it was It's a fun concept to just
pick these certain movies that Netflix has and review them
and just you know, pass or fail kind of a
format and the idea behind it. And some of these
just releases any movies, which I'm gonna have to watch
some of those movies that the Squad did. But yeah,
that's uh, that was that was That was a lot
of fun and kudos you know, Travis putting that together.
That was an early time for the podcast, when you know,
we had main Geek first, but then the idea and
the concept of doing spin off shows was still very new.
It was like, oh okay, like Dynamic Duo. Travis popped
off with that, and the yeah, Netflix and Fail it
popped off with that too, and I thought, hey, I
could do that. I'll try it, and so I started
doing a few of my own spin off shows as well.
But you know, it's hard to commit to to all that,
and Travis has stayed true to committing to you know,
those those spin off shows well, again in their own right,
they evolved into other things as well, some of them concluded.
But I think that they, you know, they got the
most out of what they were trying to do with
those shows, and of course life changes and then those
shows evolve into different shows with different people, and you know,
new adventures follow from that. So yeah, some of the
other things too. I'd say, I'm not trying to pump
up my own show, but Rod or Not was definitely
such a fun is anything with Rubin and the shout
outs to Rubiny because he could be hard to pin down,
but when we get together and we some of the
some of that stuff, it would be a lot of fun,
a lot of zaniness, and the editing was just an
absolute nightmare sometimes. But yeah, so a lot of that
work was it was. It was quite fun, and I
hope to I mean, at the time I'm recording this,
we have not done our final ruddering on episode. I'm
hoping that we can. It's something that I am looking
at doing and hey, if it's playing during this ten
and anniversary stream, then lucky you. But until then, I
will refrain from speaking further to it. But I also
want to shout out Dylan. You know, side Quest has
grown into our dedicated gaming podcast here at our sideshow
and it you know, that's again commitment and work, and
he does the time to do the research, finding the
you know, guests for the show, and just really put
a lot of passion into that and it shows. And
so I'm really happy to see him just you know,
running and spear spearheading that that show. That's fantastic And
I mean that's been going on for a while now
and he's always looking at ways to improve it by
getting feedback from from the listeners and whatnot, and that's fantastic.
That's something that I've tried to incorporate into my own
you know, side gig podcast or Cryptic Clues just you
know that that's the best way to grow. Just talk
to the community, learn where you can improve and grow.
But he's he's dedicated to that that show, and he's
playing all the all the video games so many more
that I wish I could I could get into it
and try. But he's saying on top of the news
to staying on top of the games and providing an
amazing outlet for for video gamers that want more information
about certain titles to tune in and to learn a
little bit more about what's going on in the gaming world,
whether it's the reviews or news, and so kudos to him,
kudos to him for doing that. And on top of
the gaming, we had the Gauntlet, And this was something
that I didn't understand the beginning. When Travis announced that
we were doing the Gauntlet, I thought we were just
getting together and actually playing games. I had no idea
that he had this larger narrative set up for it.
And so when we're playing and there are these very flamboyant,
aggressive and negative personalities being emanated, I thought, wow, the
fuck is this? I just want to play board games.
So like that, it took me a bit and I
realized like, oh, okay, okay, this is something else, and
I realized, man, I'm just getting fucking decimated at some
of these games.
Speaker 2: Holy shit.
Speaker 1: And so for a lot of the times of doing
the Gauntlet, I really didn't like it. I'm I'm not
saying I'm a sore loser, but just losing again and
again and again to the point where holy shit, It's
just like, man, I think this is like mentally taxing me,
Like I'm just losing and losing and losing and losing,
and it's like, oh my god, I'm just expecting myself
to lose. Eventually, you just run with it because it's
exaggerated personas that you're running with this narrative, and it
just became this whole interwoven kind of thing. And that
being said, I won some few games. I'm very proud
of my Halo one v one v one where Kirklan
and Jessica teamed up and they still couldn't take me down.
I feel very proud about that. Remember winning Mario Party
in the first tournament, our first season of the Gauntlet.
That was, you know, that's my special claim to fame.
But yeah, no, it grew on me. And there were
some amazing bloopers too that were really really funny as well.
I remember a lot of it being improv for Travis
to just be like, okay, just pick say say something
along the along these lines, using these words, just try
to get to this end objective here in your in
your sentence. And so you just you run with it
and you go super crazy, like when King Theoden learned
how to grasp his sword again and stuff like that.
That's one of my favorite bloopers and just the costumes
and just the weird craziness with it all. It's just
it really again, like the spinoff shows, it grew into
something and there's multiple seasons of this and it's a
lot of mapping out and planning and I don't know
how Travis did it, but he did it and everything.
Basically it's a story that still kind of is going
on today where you look at the wrestling matches that
that unfold as well, and while the Gauntlet is like
a point A to point B narrative, and if you
stay tuned, you can see, Okay, there's champions, there's stories,
rises and falls, and then you can see how that
kind of transitions and evolves into the wrestling matches and
how this ongoing story keeps on being told and told
and even just reoccurring characters like Penn Solo whoever he is.
It's it's again. It's just evolved like this show, and
it just keeps growing and growing and changing with new things.
So one of the things that grew because we did
this on year two and this has been the most
biggest growth event I've seen this show that we've done
is extra life and I remember that first year we
did it and how we got it all set up. Again,
I wasn't one hundred percent sure how the setup was
going to work out, but it worked out. And you know,
we were changing locations every year sometimes because people move around,
space changes, whatnot. And it just eventually got down to
a science. We got it pretty well refined, where okay,
we know that first weekend of November, we're gonna get
together and we're going to set up the streams and
everything like that. And of course we usually will sometimes
get delayed by like forty minutes an hour sometimes because
we got technical problems, as per the norm, but we
got it down to a science. You know, we get
our classics events that pop up. Travis lines up the trivia,
which I absolutely love that some of my favorite things.
And we have our usual rewards for hitting certain financial
tiers where we get enough donations for Extra Life and
that's basically all the earnings go to the BC Children's Hospital.
And we usually we set a goal that started our
first year was five hundred and then it kind of
scales up and down a little bit. We've had some
years where we hit multiple thousands of dollars and overall,
we've hit over ten grand for the BC Children's Hospital
and it's it's truly just my god, like, it's incredible
and it's not something I'd take for granted. That's it's
just me and a few other folks from this town
in you know, British Columbia, Canada, and we get together
and you know, we we have a lot of fun
and we do this and other people tune in. They
support the show and like again they listen to the
main podcast, but they tune into this charity stream and
they support not only us, but they support the kids
too that we're doing this for. And it's just it's
creating lots of memories, it's creating just so many laughs
and just yeah, it's just something that I love to
look back on and and just take, you know, take in.
It just warms my heart, really really does. There's just
so much good that has come out from from everything
that we've done with this. And again, it's just major
props to to Travis because he works so hard to
plan this out, just like with the Gauntlet and mapping
out those stories, but planning it out it takes a
lot of work to be and online and connecting with
the people like other podcasts hosts and bring them into
like I said, do the trivia and be part of
the events that we're doing and just to network like that.
And you know, again kudos to Dylan, kudos to Kirkland,
and we all just make time with our schedules. Kudos
to our significant others. You know, they allow us to
be gone for many hours a day, not just with podcasting,
but to be a part of the Extra Life charity stream.
And yeah, it's just it's become a part of life.
Just we're going to be meeting at this point every
year to do this. This this mission our goal and yeah,
it's it's very very special and the events on it
are are so much fun. And that's where I think
that every podcast member has. Like I said at the beginning,
we've really grown. And to see that growth with everyone
over the years, it's it's it's something it's like when
you're when you're a parent, you get to see your
kid grow. Well, you know, it's the same thing like
when you have you have friends, you see your friends grow.
And you know, my friends, my podcast co hosts, they've
been there through some of my biggest moments growing up,
like when I first met them all back and when
it's like twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen, around that time, back
when we worked at Target and I was still very
very young. Oh my gosh, like twenty early twenties must
have been like super super young, and life was so
different back then, and now here we are. I've got
a kid, I've you know, I'm thirty, and I got
I've gone to a post secondary school and you know,
got a career, and all these different things, all these
things change, these dynamics change, and at the we still
get together and I think that, you know, I love
these guys, and they work their butts off to do
everything they do for this show, and we drive each
other crazy sometimes, and I think that's one of the
best things about our friendship is because through that craziness
we get so many laughs, so many memories, And like
I said, all of this warms my heart. It really, really,
really really does. And I could not imagine a point
in my life here where they weren't ever a part
of it. It's hard to believe that there was a
point in my life where they weren't actually a part
of it, because it just feels like I've known them
forever and they've always been there. So I think each
one of them, including myself, like we make up the
podcast brand. Like I would never say, like you can
replace anyone, you can have new people join, and those
new folks that join, they bring their own power and
passion and that builds and that jives with us. But
there's something special way and you get me, Dylan, Kirklin
and Travis together and that that that four horsemen of
the UH of the geek versus it's it just brings
the magic and there's uh, there's nothing I would change,
nothing I would change. I love it, I really do.
And so again, thank you everyone for just being there
and always just yeah, listening to the show and supporting us,
like it means a lot. I'm trying not to get
too teary eyed. It's just a lot, a lot to reminisce,
a lot to think think about. And ten years ten
years is a long time, a long time, and I'm
excited to see where things go from here. How many
more years of uh, you know, spinoff shows and podcasts
we do and movies and all that kind of stuff.
I hope it keeps going and I hope it won't
won't end, because these are the good times, really really
really really good times. But I'll stop being all sad
sentimental here to highlight a little bit more here on
a few things. So working with everyone, you know, you
have your ups and your downs, and you get on
each other's nerves, and you get on each other's hypes
and and and whatnot. But at its core, you know,
our our friendship that has grown into becoming business partners,
running this podcast and working so hard. It's it's it's
grown into something really really awesome and being able to
see you know, your friends Kirkland, Travis, Dylan grow as
unique individuals and really excel in different areas. And when
you can kind of come together and bring your growth
to that pile, it really really shows. And I mean
Dylan's become a really really good host with with side Quest.
He's grown that show, made it his own, created a formula,
and I mean it's not easy to run a podcast
on your own. I mean that was one of my
surprises when I first started Cryptic Clues back in the day.
Like it takes a lot of work, a lot of work,
and Dylan has really dedicated a lot of time and
really put himself out there to get that feedback and
that information from the community and to you know, do
the time with the video games, get the reviews out,
and just be a really really informative powerhouse for the community.
And I think, you know, it should be very very
proud of that, all those times where we've played the
Gauntlet matches and just everything that we've gotten to learn
about each other over the years. It's just been a
wonderful journey just to again see him grow and grow
myself too by being able to you know, share laughs
and enjoy all that time spent with him. Then that
just that bleeds over with Kirkland as well. Everything that
we've been able to accomplish together and just like with Dylan,
learn more about each other. And Kirkland's become a really
really awesome powerhouse and co hosts with everything that he
does on the show, and he brings that level of
energy to it and and just you know, you can
you're always gonna jive, uh, you know, when get into
you know, discussions and whatnot. And I wouldn't say hot takes,
comedic takes. You know, he's he's new book, Goofen uh,
and it's just it's always a good time, always a
very very good time, and I look forward to getting
you know, if we get back into some more stuff
down the road, or even just for for fun. It's
just it's always a lot of fun just being able
to play video games with these guys and and get
the more competitive edge, and the further we go along,
the more I find these similarities with Kirkland, like, oh,
like this game you know back in the day, or
like this movie that we were a fan of, and
just those kind of similarities that you learn when you
get older. It's it's just a fun bonding experience. So again,
seeing Kirkland grow and kind of becoming I don't want
to say quiet at first, because I'm a quiet guy,
but I feel like Kirklean maybe it was a little
bit more quiet back in the day, and he's really
grown into the role of being like a podcast host,
and it's just it's, yeah, it's awesome. It's really really awesome.
And him and Dylan both puts so much work, you
know those late night uploads. Kirkland like he'll he'll be
such a gentleman and be like, you know what, I
got this, and I'll be like, I I'm going to
bed and he'll just he'll take the he'll take the
stick and he'll he'll dish it out, so he you know,
we're all hard workers, and did I say the hardest
worker of us all, mister Travis Snell. The things that
he does, I mean, piecing together these events, working on
this tenure has been just a lot, a lot of
effort on his behalf. And he's got the biggest family
of all of us, and he's got I don't know
how how he's got the time to to be able
to fork all this out, but he does it. And
the man doesn't sleep. He sleeps once a year and
that's usually about forty five minutes during the charity stream
at three am. That's the only time he sleeps. You know,
he doesn't sleep at any other point in the year.
But yeah, he works really, really hard. And it's it's
shown in the news that he gathers for our news episodes,
our weekly geeks, mapping out our schedules. What would we
do without that Google calendar is beyond me because he's
always updating it and reorganizing it, and we're always just
driving him absolutely insane by changing our schedules and whatnot.
And this is the man who's already planned like six, seven,
eight months down the road with this his Google calendar
and whatnot. So it's absolutely stressful, but he handles it
like a champ and he leads us forward into the
white light. So I don't know what the show would
be without him. I don't know what the show would
be without all of us. You know, everyone, like I said,
has a very unique and straw component to the show.
And when you combine it all together, I feel like
we dish out a really, really good time. And so
kudos to everyone, all of you guys, and especially you
Travis for everything that you do and just the time
and the dedication that you invest, because heck, we're making
movies and this man's you know, on top of doing
all the podcast work, he's writing scripts, he's directing, he's filming,
and he's doing the editing. The man's an absolute beast.
So it's just it's it's crazy, and we're only at
the start. You know, things are really you know, we're
turning around right now. Turn around, not turn around. We're
gaining speed. We're going full steam ahead. And on top
of that, just you know, I know, this is like
we're the core four here, but just everyone that's helped
out with the show in the past, you know, things
with Jessica, Kyle Amber. It's just there's been a whole
collective group of us that have come together and really
been able to build a strong foundation for what the
show is today. And it's just it's truly truly wonderful.
And I got to show out Rubin too, my co
host Rod or Not and Geek's Creed and Crypto Clues.
He's been able to help with so many different things
on the podcast and it's just been something that has
just grown massively. The friendships that have formed, the competitions
and the hard work, it's just it really really shows,
and it's something that I'm proud of, and I'm proud
to see the growth of my co hosts and how
much work and time and effort that they put in it.
It is absolutely a team effort and they all make
for a very, very fantastic team. So here's to another
ten years boys.
Speaker 3: Hello Ron Dylan here, also known as the Adam Hart Caster,
And wouldn't you believe it, it is the tenth year of
Geek Verson. Absolutely insane sci fi number in terms of
how long this podcast has been occupying my life and
your life if you've been here for all those ten years.
Speaker 4: Let's talk through. Let's reminisce, Let's.
Speaker 3: Go back in the time machine and revisit the history
of geek Verse and how we got to where we
are today. First question, favorite era of geek Verse and
why this is a really tricky question. I think to
answer it, it kind of needed to define a little
bit what are the eras? And this would be actually
be a fun bread and butter topic really between the
GV quads of us figure out what exactly are the
defined eras. For me, a really big part of it
comes down to like where we were when we were
recording it, which I know does not always translate to
the viewer because if you are just a podcast listener,
you don't ever tune into the YouTube, you never really
see our backgrounds or where we are. But for me,
that's always kind of a big part of what the
eras feel like. So of course, it started way back
in the you know, Jurassic era in my parents' basement,
the Dylan's basement era. That's where it all began, when
before we had any video version, it was the original
five of us, myself Taylor, Kirkland, Travis, Jessica and yeah,
I mean that that was a wild era. We didn't
really know what we were doing. It was kind of
the wild West. We were just talking about all sorts
of random stuff. We had very little structure, but it
was it was a fun, freeing time. We of course
all had one mic shared between the five of us,
so the audio quality not great. That Mike sat upon
a we uh yeah, in my parents' basement. So that
was a very fun era. I'll call that the classic
era of of geek first and then we kind of
scoot along and then this next era. I don't know,
there's kind of a lot of mini eras in it.
But for me, once again, I kind of defined a
little bit by like where I was and where we
were when we were recording these things. But you know,
we started recording at Travis's house, and He's had many
houses that we've recorded at over the years, but that
came with it, like these different vibes. Like for me,
I think about this one room and one of Travis's
houses where we did this where we kind of spawned
Netflix and fail. This is where like a lot of
them rvill Netflix stuff happened, a lot of recording with
like Emily and Kyle were on the podcast in those eras,
and that was a really fun time. Hunka hunkah happened.
And then you know, if you watch those videos, I
don't know what those crazy guys are doing, but that
seemed to be the place that they congregated the most
for whatever reason. And then you know, Travis had like
another house that we recorded in, the Custodome, one.
Speaker 4: Of the houses that I have lived in.
Speaker 3: And I feel like, you know, a little bit different
than that original classic era, the Dylan's Basement era. I
feel like we had a little bit more structure. We
started doing more than just like one episode a week.
We did like more dedicated episodes, more retrospectives, more spin
off shows. And so I feel like, to use like
a civilization term with the classic era, I feel like
this is like the exploration era. We were exploring around.
We were trying a bunch of different ideas. Something stuck,
somethings didn't. Some things we still kind of bring back
every once in a while. But yeah, it was kind
of a time where we spread far and wide and
tried to figure out what exactly we are as a
podcast and where we're gonna come, where we're going, that
kind of stuff. And then I feel like, to me,
another era that you can kind of bulken bolted eros
is like kind of the on line era. You know,
when Covid hit the world and we all went online.
That was also a time when I moved to a
new city. That was when I took my hiatus. I
was gone for a bit, then I came back. We
kind of brought side Quest and Out of Men into
the fold. So more of that gaming focus for me
in terms of what I was doing on the podcast,
and you know, the online era meant that it was
easier for us to record more things just because it
was more convenient for.
Speaker 4: All of us.
Speaker 3: I also feel like with that era, a big change
for me is like discord our discord becoming a much
bigger thing. There a lot more discussions happening, more interaction
with patrons, whether that's just like after nine or like
bringing them into votes and like just figuring out what
like why our patreon should exist and justifying it. And
then also like a YouTube live chat and doing in
integrating more like live questions and things from the viewer.
So it just became a little bit more of like
a community and more conversation, and then just like you know,
three to four to five of us sitting in a
bedroom or basement recording random thoughts. So I don't know,
it's really hard to pick between the favorites, but I'm
gonna go with that early Exploration era, and we had
like a little bit more structure, we were a little
bit better at like doing podcast stuff, and we had like,
you know, a more exploration of the different shows and stuff.
I'll say that's my favorite because you know, honestly, as
much as I think we've done great with the online
era and making it something special to me, there is
still something super special about that in person conversation. I
feel like that changes the dynamic, and so I think
that'll always be maybe my favorite, even if we have
made the online I think work in a pretty reasonable way.
So I'm gonna go with that early I'm gonna call
it the Exploration era to use the civilization terms here. Yeah,
So there you go, there's my favorite era.
Speaker 4: Standout episodes.
Speaker 3: This is always a tricky question because I feel like
some of my favorite ones in the moment might just
be what is essentially like a random newscast, and so
it's like, I couldn't tell you what number it was.
I probably should when I have those thoughts, I should
write down the number because we have it there. We
say at the top of every episode, I should write
it down so I can remember. But I feel like
the newscast is kind of like where the show started,
and so I feel like that there's something special about
that one. It's just like a little bit less structure
in terms of one specific thing. But that's often where
we go off on these crazy tangents or end up
sharing weird side stories. That's where some of the craziest,
most hectic things happen a lot of laughter, So you know,
that's not very specific that we are some specific things.
Speaker 4: I think Weekly Geek has.
Speaker 3: Been a great addition to the series of shows that
we do on Geek. First, whether that's like me having
like a fun one on one conversation with someone, but
also for me as a listener, I love listening to
Weekly Geek and getting like those intimate conversations between like
just two of our members really discussing like certain topics.
I think that's a really fun Golden Geeks is always
a hoot. I feel like everyone brings their a game.
It's kind of like every year culminates toward this event,
which is which is Golden Geeks.
Speaker 2: We go all out.
Speaker 3: It's always a big, juicy episode, always heated. Uh so
that's always fun. The Arcane retrospective for me was, you know,
one of my big passion project things like just doing
a deep dive on every single game from my one
of my favorite video game studios. That was a really
great time. We've done so many retrospectives. They've all been
fun in some way or another. I think there's two
highlights for me would be the Saw retrospective. Becoming a
sawt freak through That retrospective was super fun. That was
also one of our first ones, might be her first,
maybe it was our second. It was a very early
on one, so that was a good time. And then
also the Lord of the Rings retrospective, just because that
was a long time coming. Those episodes, all of us
really put in an extreme amount of effort, a lot
of planning, insane. I had like pages and pages of notes.
That was a super fun time, really great time to
have those conversations. Also kind of random, but like just
the PS four era video games that were releasing a
lot of those reviews, which mostly were me and Travis,
but sometimes you get someone else in there, like a
Kirkland or something like those were We were also hyped
for all those games from the trailers at E three
to when we finally got the games, and I think
those were always a really fun discussion, really in depth,
and usually there were multiple episodes long of like really
breaking down what all those games had to offer. But
those are really memorable. And then a recent one Kirkland
September five review, we meet you on it these days
because like its first big solo cast. I love that episode.
I think it's so fun. I think Kirklin's like earnest
nature comes through.
Speaker 4: It in such a fun way.
Speaker 3: So very happy that we finally got a solo episode
from kirkle Passer. And I want more, Kirklin, if you're
listening to this, I want more. Let's see favorite spin
off shows. So yeah, we've had a lot over the
year of over the years, of course out of Mana
in side Quest, so if anyone forgets out of Manna
I kind of did, Like it was like between ten
and fifteen episodes of it.
Speaker 4: It was a video game focused show, more.
Speaker 3: Deep dive on certain topics, had like a ranking side
of it that kind of existed right before side Quest,
and then kind of subsequently side Quest, and then it's
kind of just been side Quest. There's been less space
for what Out of Mana is, but I still think
it is a unique, interesting show. I'm really happy with
where those shows are at right now, and so that's
definitely reinvigorated me after a little hiatus the online era.
I think I needed a little zest to get me
hyped again on the podcast, and that those shows did
it for me, just because I'm a gamer.
Speaker 4: What can I say? Other ones?
Speaker 3: Netflix and Failed, It's been a long time since we've
done because Netflix changed their rating system and it made
less sense. But I always loved Netflix and Fail. That
was super fun after nine, you know, getting to know
the people who are part of our community much deeper
and laughing with them and sharing moments or are they
doing watch along movies?
Speaker 4: Whatever it is.
Speaker 3: I always appreciate Afternoon. It's a super great time. The
Retrospectives I kind of mentioned a couple of my highlights there,
but I love the Retrospectives. If you consider that a
spin off show, I don't know if you do, but
I kind of do. The wrestling matches, I don't know
where you put those are not really like a spinoff show,
but they're a multi series thing that's happened. It's not
quite the Gauntlet. It's like its own little thing. It's
been fun too, because, like you know, the first ones,
I was there in person, and then I've been not
in the same city as the rest of the boys,
and so I kind of see them from afar. But
then I have to do the commentary still with Connor,
and like that's always crazy because we don't know what
to expect. It's crazy and wild. And then you to
see the final product once it's been through Travis's editing
sequence and get like that final thing. It's always a
great time. And then a couple other ones here Travis
tole you, you know, shout us to Travis here of course, uh,
great talker, a talker, a man of many words. And
I think, you know, for a lot of podcasts to
be like, wait, there's a podcast now that's just like
only one of you, Like I think in in theory,
for a lot of people to what that's you know,
I want I want the group here, But I think
it just shows how good Travis is at what he does,
and how many thoughts he has to share, and how
much restraint even though you might think he talks a lot,
but I feel like there's a lot of restraint in
what he does in a regular newscast or review whatever,
because he could just keep going, but you know, he
has to allow space for the rest of us on here.
And I think that the fact that he took what
is essentially just like, you know, one fourth of a
GV episode all about himself and then like blowed out
into this huge thing that like people are hype for.
Speaker 4: I'm hyped for. I love listening to it.
Speaker 3: You know, there's always so much live chat in questions
that people have for it. I think it's like just
a testingment to how good he is at being a brand,
like branding things and making things feel like events. And
like somehow he did that with just like one guy
talking to microphone, I think is amazing.
Speaker 4: So I love Travis told you.
Speaker 3: And then also, you know, maybe don't consider there's a
spinoff of GEK Verse, but I kind of do. Cryptid
Clues Taylor's solo podcas well mostly solo because Ruben. You know, Ruben,
what's going on. Taylor needs a hand here, Come on,
jump in there, help him out. But either I love
the Taylor solo episodes of Crypto Clues. I'm a patron
of Crypto Clues. I listened to almost every episode. I
really love that show. I think it's so much fun.
So shout outs to that once again. It might not
be a spinoff of geek Verse, but I kind of
consider it to be one. I don't know how I
should ask Taylor if he considers this spinoff. We'll see
what his answer to this question is when he gets
to it. All right, memories from the Gauntlet, favorite match
you competed in, a favorite match other people competed in.
So the first one that came to mind when I
when this came up was the Super Smash Pros. I
think it was a six way battle we did between
a variety.
Speaker 4: I can't remember.
Speaker 3: Who all the six people were, but I do remember
that specifically, me and Clinton were on the commentary side
of things, and that was just such a joy for me. Obviously,
such a big Smash Pros fan, and I understand I'm
way better than the rest of them. They don't send
a chance, so I can't be in there with the
match with them, but to commentate it and really break
it down was a really good times.
Speaker 4: That was a super memorable one.
Speaker 3: I think the sports side of things, you know, we
all kind of jumped in and out, but it was
mostly like Kyle, Travis and Kirkland doing in those sports matches.
I think those are always entertaining, even though I'm not
really into like traditional sports games, but I think those
matches always produced really exciting results and really you know,
just slobburr knockers, I guess to use that term, super
exciting stuff. One of the og ones Travis versus Emily
and GoldenEye a classic. Go back and watch that if
you haven't seen it, if you just search Travis, Emily GoldenEye,
it should pop up on YouTube. Go back check that
one out. Anytime Kirkland and Taylor to fight in cod
That's always a classic. I think any Mario Sports game
always created because of the randomness that a Mario Sports
game has creates the.
Speaker 4: Just insane stuff.
Speaker 3: And then you know, the personal high for me, of
course is the original gound that the original tournament when
spoiler alert for a ten year old thing when I
took it all, you know, that was crazy. That was
a lot of matches. It was some games I'm familiar with,
some I'm not so familiar with. I felt like a legend.
And then me and everyone else were shocked, well except
for Tracks, were shocked when I lost the belt after
one match. I don't know how wrestling works, but I
guess in the wrestling a guy could do all these tournaments,
win the belt, and then like all in one match
and you can lose the belt. So I feel like,
in all that hype that I built up, all the
fight and I had to do, I lost like one
game and then and then it was taken away from me,
and I was forever heartbroken at that and I could
never quite recapture that hype. But I was the original
Gauntlet champion and that feels great. And that was That
was a great tournament. That was a super fun time.
I'm not salty. I've gotten over it. I have Yeah,
I'm okay, I'm.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've accepted it. I had.
Speaker 3: I had a good run in Gauntlet. I had some
good w's in my Guntlet career. There extra life and
the memories from it, you know, I think a lot
of geek first, what we do? You know, we're talking
about video games, talking about movies, talking about random stuff,
and sometimes it feels like what we what are we
doing in this world? We're spending all this time, hours
and hours and hours every week, every month, every year,
doing it for ten years.
Speaker 4: What do we what are we doing? Are we making
a difference?
Speaker 3: And I think hopefully for a lot of people who listen,
who are still listening after all these years, I think
we probably do make a difference in your life. But
sometimes it's hard to conceptualize that as a human being,
you know. But I think Extra Life is a way
where we can really just be like, Wow, we're doing
something good for the world. We're raising a lot of
money for a super important cause, and that feels great
every single time, even if we don't always hit our
goal or a little under from the year before, whatever
it is some you know, some of them. It's hard
to break those records every time, but it still just
feels like if you look at the overall number that
we've raised, like it once again, in terms of you know,
helping out. I don't know, I don't know exactly what
my dollar has done, but it still feels great that
we've been able to do that something I'm always you know,
grateful for the community for that they support us on,
and yeah, just something I'd want to do forever, even
if you know, the twenty four hours is difficult, but
I think it's it's just great to see a difference.
Speaker 4: I think the highlight is definitely.
Speaker 3: Got to be those wee hours, those freaky hours like
three to four to five a people are weird. You
really see Kirkland's like high school sleepover vibes where he's
who even knows what he's saying anymore, He's just you know,
turned into a whole new person. It's hilarious to see
that kind of stuff. So yeah, I think those wee
hours always highlights for me. Of course we always like
rolled gonded into there, so those are always a good
way to like want it burned through a lot of
the hours and it felt like it went by really quick.
But also it is like super intense, high octane matches
and then you know, a more recent edition of the
twenty four hour streams something just fell off my microphone
is the Trivia Battles, which has been really fun because
through that I've got to meet a bunch of other
podcasters that I would not have met otherwise. Thanks to
Travis for setting up that and making up all those connections.
But yeah, it's been fun. Like I've made questions for
the last couple of ones and I like doing that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: It's really fun.
Speaker 3: So shouts to the trivia battles. Those are always super
fun as well. You know, pretty complicated, a lot of
people got everything right. Things come through the stream in
the right way. It's a tech side of things. It's
hard to do, but it's always worth it for the
final product in my opinion. All Right, some thoughts on
my co conspirators here.
Speaker 4: There's so many of them.
Speaker 3: Of course, you know, you got, like me, Kirkland, Taylor,
Travis kind of the core for it now, but there's
been many people who have contributed to what makes geek
versus what it is at this point in time. But
let's start with those boys. So Kirkland, you know, here's
the thing. When we're doing a podcasts, it's one take.
We don't re record things, don't don't we don't practice,
we don't have a script. You kind of just have
to go for it. And I know, for myself, I
feel like, you know, I try to always come as
prepared I as I possibly can. But some days you're
just not feeling the best, or maybe you're just not
feeling particularly upbeat or funny on that given day, or
maybe you just don't feel like you have a really
interesting take on a movie, but you're still there and
you still got a review it, or maybe back in
the basement days when it's like, maybe I'm not feeling
great on a day, but everyone records at my host
so I have to be on every episode. I can't
miss an episode, and you know, sometimes I just feel
like I haven't produced the best podcast ever.
Speaker 4: It's just natural.
Speaker 3: I'm a human being. We do want to take that's
how it goes. But I feel like Kirkland so consistent.
I can't think of a time where I've been like, oh,
Kirkling really dropped the ball in this episode, or why
was he here? You know that maybe he sounds rude,
but no, he's always just so much crushes it. He's
super consistent. I think he brings one. He's super funny,
he brings like a type of optimism at times. I
feel like he's really great at the counterpoints I feel
like I just feel he's never off his game. He's
always He's always a great addition to any podcast. So
ches Kirkling for that, I think, I don't think that's
easy to do. And once again, more solo stuff because
I want to say, you know, I want a podcast
with him, of course, but I also want to just
ingest more Kirkland solo episodes because that was a very
fun energy to that. So go check out that September
five review, even if you haven't seen that movie. Taylor Field,
this guy's crazy. He's super creative. He always has wild takes.
I think he's been very bold about creator shows, creating content.
He has a lot of ownership over that stuff as well.
I think the optimism, it's funny. I feel like in
the first few years, my compliment to Taylor would always
be he's always super optimistic, and that's a great thing
to have on an episode.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's actually shifted.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's always just super optimistic about everything anymore,
but I still feel like he has a lot of that.
He is still usually like a very positive vibe. You
know you can you can still you can shoot on
a movie in a positive way at the same time,
and I feel like Taylor is really good at doing that.
And I think, you know, this just happened. He and
I just recorded a Sidequest episode right before I'm recording this.
And when when Taylor is like super passionate about something,
I feel like he's better.
Speaker 4: Than all of us.
Speaker 3: You know, he's super eloquent. He doesn't ramble on like
I'm doing now or like I often do. He's just
like really to the point. He was his big strong
smart words. He sounds so smart, and I want I
want that skill. Sometimes I feel like I really need
some of that. And so I feel like when Taylor's
really passionate about something, it's unlike anything else you forget.
So obviously if you put him in the in the
in the ring with like a Star Wars topic or
something he's obviously passionate about, well obviously you're gonna get
like top notched tailor content. But then like it'll be
random stuff too, Like even if he's not necessarily passion
about the topic, but he's passionate about like the conversation
around it. I think you just get like this, I
don't know, super amazing creative takes. And of course you
got it. He's like he's just a hot take machine
without trying to be like a hot take machine, which
a lot of podcasts are just people just trying to
make hot takes. But he's just tailor and so no
no other podcast has a tailor except for Cryptid Clues.
Speaker 4: So go check out that Travis.
Speaker 3: What isn't there to say about this guy? He's he's
the glue, He's the captain. Uh you know, he's I
feel like you might think of Travis boisterous, maybe thinking
not so humble, but he's like the most humble guy
I know in a way because just ninety at least
ninety percent probably way more than that of percent of
like geek first stuff where there's the shows, the ideas,
the planning, whatever is it's like all him.
Speaker 4: He he drives this thing.
Speaker 3: It's like his dedication is has what made probably Geekers
last for ten years, honestly is just his drive, his dedication,
his branding, as I mentioned, his like creative ideas, his
little ideas, his big ideas, and like so much credit
to him and a lot and I think he could
brag about that stuff a lot more, but he doesn't
because he has that like humble side to him, and
you know, I just want to stomp on us and
make us look like a little weaklings don't do anything
on this podcast. But I think that's just I don't know.
Something I really appreciate about him. He's he's always thinking
like I can think like two or three steps ahead,
He's thinking like ten steps ahead.
Speaker 4: All the time. I don't know. I don't know how
he does it. And even here's.
Speaker 3: Another example what makes Travis so great. Travis is the guy.
He will be there if you know, this happened recently.
There was a you know, all out myself here. I
was supposed to appear on the last of his episode
with kirkl Patzer. Everyone else was busy that night, but
then I became busy last minute, and you know who
stepped up. Travis stepped up. He joined any Field Spot
and they released that episode. This also happened like last week.
You know, kirkla was sick, he couldn't do the episode.
It was kind of a last minute thing. Travis stepped
up and we did a weekly Geek that week. So
he just and those are two reason examples from like
two weeks ago, but this is constant. He's always doing this,
So shout outs to Travis for that.
Speaker 1: And somehow.
Speaker 3: I don't know how he does it. I don't know
if it's like he doesn't sleep. I don't know if
he's like got some time machine thing. But I feel
like Travis has unlocked thirty hours in a day. Everyone
else is twenty four. He has thirty and he uses
that to make Geek Versus what it is and also
make movies and all the other stuff. You know, incredibly
a creative guy. So everyone, you should all be lucky
that somehow Travis has a super power. He has thirty
hours in a day and he uses it to make
this amazing content for all of you. So you know,
thank thank Trevis for that. If you haven't, go thank
him right now. Find him on Twitter. I don't think
he's on Blue Sky. I foud him on Facebook. Find
him on the YouTube section. Drop a five star review
of how Great Geek Versus, but also how Great Travis.
Speaker 4: Specifically.
Speaker 3: Next up, Amber formally known as Tyler Brigs. She's changed
her name recently, so I miss having Amber on the
podcast so much. I think Amber was always incredibly intelligent,
always nuanced takes, always kind of a different take, than
someone else, And so I think it added like just
so much to conversations and reviews, and I think like,
to some I don't want to like down I don't
want to make our content sound worse. But I feel
like Amber made our content better in a lot of ways.
There are a lot of our very specific reviews just
because of the way she thinks about the world. And
I feel like, sometimes you don't want to stomp on
your podcasters toes. Maybe someone's having a big heated monologue.
You don't want to cut in and like ruin their point,
or you don't want to, like if someone has some
really good take, you don't want to like just downplay.
It's like, oh, I disagree with that. It can be
hard to come up with a good counter argument. I
feel like Amber was so good. I come up with
counter arguments and just like, actually, I'm gonna challenge what
you just said, and like here's the reasons why. Then
we'd end up having like a really good conversation. Sometimes
it would turn heated, but that makes for good content,
you know. And it wasn't her just forcing those interactions,
it's just how she is. So I definitely desperately want
her back. On the podcast more. I think, Yeah, I
really miss her her contribution. So hopefully someday, I'm sure
the odd episodes will pop in, But yeah, she's gone
on quite the quite her journey since since being on
the podcast full time.
Speaker 4: Jessica.
Speaker 3: Jessica is one super funny but I also think there's
a certain I'm sure everyone has this in their life
where there's just certain people who are just like the
best hype people, where like they'll always laugh at your
jokes and not because they're trying to make them like
you or something, they're just they're just naturally very goofy
people or some people they like to laugh. And I
feel like that's Jessica. She just is laughing all the time.
She has a great laugh making everyone just feel good
about themselves, whether it's their take or like a funny
joke they made. And so I feel like that is
a really great energy to have on a podcast. And
so yeah, I just think she like improves the energy
of an episode she's on, and so I definitely miss
having her on more of the these episodes. And I
also feel like she also has very like opposite tastes
to a lot of us, and so offered like very
different perspective on certain movies and maybe had like I
don't know, maybe less critical of like certain like writing issues,
but then like it brings the hype in like other
ways on certain things. So I feel like there was
a certain are certain whimsy to her review style that
like brought something different to the podcast that is definitely
sort ofly missed.
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely planning on bringing her back for a lot
more sidequest stuff in the near future. She just has
to figure out a microphone situation at internet thing, but
I'm gonna be bringing her back a lot more so,
you know, I look forward to some more Jessica on
on geek Ferst content in particular. So obviously those are
the kind of the main main crew members from over
the years, but some shows, some other people, Rubin. I
have not really done a lot of podcasts with Ruben.
It's more just like him and Taylor doing stuff together.
But I feel like, if Taylor is like the angel
on your shoulder, Ruben's like the devil on the other shoulder.
And I mean that in the most loving way possible.
But those two and they're dynamic together is incredibly bizarre
and and wacky and super entertaining, and obviously that's why
they've done multiple shows together, whether it's Geeks Creed or
Road or Not, or Cryptid Clues and all these other things.
They're just there's a great duo together. So shout outs
to Rubin and his contribution. I also think he was
a good gauntlet a performer, whether it was the character
stuff or just the gameplay side of things. I think
he just he knew how to be a hype man.
He knew how to be exciting on camera. So shout
outs to Rubin.
Speaker 4: Kyle.
Speaker 3: Kyle is just such a funny guy, super duper kind,
maybe the kindest out of all of us, So we
need more of him on the podcast. I missed doing
a lot of the one There's the Spidy retrospective or
some of the Marvel Netflix things with him.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It's like usually like.
Speaker 3: Me and him, Travis, maybe Emily in there too, Like
that was a really fun kind of group of people,
and I think he just, yeah, he just he just
brings like a good positive energy to it. So yeah,
I definitely miss having Kyle on more stuff. Quick show
to Liam, because like I don't think I've only podcasted
with him maybe a couple of times, but he was
in a lot more things with with Kyle and Trav.
Liam is a guy that will make you feel emotions
to things because of how strongly he talked about something.
Usually it was like hating on something, but sometimes it
was loving something too, and it was like, maybe he's
loving something I hate or he hates something that I love.
But either way, he always made me feel, you know,
I would always be jitterating my seat, you know, seething
or just praising whatever his take was. I just feel
like he's he's a very end of the spectrum kind
of guy in some of his takes, and I think
that was always very exciting. And then quick showed it
to Clinton, Sarahs, and Connor who have not really been
on like geek first podcast episodes, but have always been
there for like twenty four hour stream stuff or like
I said, Connor with a commentary on the Gone not
the Gone with the wrestling matches. I think those three
guys always like their contribution, even if it was, you know,
not really on the podcast side of things. Although Sarahs
has been on a couple of reviews, so shout outs
to him for that. For the Eldon Ring stuff in particular,
and then you know, lastly, like the patrons because of
course years and years ago now we started after night
and so it's not just us on the podcast to
you the listener as well. So please, if you want
to join us, all you have to do is hit
up the Patreon. You can be part of those episodes,
whether it's yeah, a crazy watch along or you know,
just an episode talking about the things we've been watching,
a hot button issue. And then also you know, just
whether your Patreon or not, but hopping into the YouTube
live chat like just answer, like bring up good questions
that can lead to better podcast discussions, and you know,
patreons obviously throwing in questions as well through the Patreon
side of thing that we bring into the episode. Like,
you guys make our episodes better, You make our discussions
more nuanced. You offer takes that we don't have or
perspectives that we maybe would have skipped otherwise on a review.
And so yeah, like our episodes or reviews would not
be at the quality that they are without all the
contribution from the community stuff as well. So yeah, thank
you all for you know, you're part of the team
as well. To some extent, so you know, lastly, just
continue that like a thank you to everyone for listening,
whether you've been listening for ten years or seven days,
I don't care, Like, thank you so much for all
of this. You know, I was thinking about this too,
like geek first ten years coming up. I'm also turning
thirty this year, which means that I started doing Geek
first when I was twenty.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 3: And so you know, this podcasts like in a large
way to find my twenties in the last ten years
of my life. And it's just such a different trajectory
than I would have expected prior to that. But like
it's been such a great thing to have in my life.
I know it's made me a better person. I think
it's made me a lot more confident or outgoing. It's
really defined who I am in a lot of ways.
And so that really just comes down to the fans.
And like, you know, if we had no fans, I'm
sure we could have got a year worth of podcasting
just talking into the void, and then eventually like, okay,
let's just kill the podcast.
Speaker 4: We'll just hang out and be friends. We don't need
a podcast.
Speaker 3: But somehow it just kept growing and kept growing and
kept growing and continues to and that's just great to
see and then obviously eventually integrating more with that community
stuff that I've talked about already. So yeah, I mean,
a huge thank you to all of you for listening,
whether you are you know, leaving comments, whether you're just
at a lurker shows to lurkers.
Speaker 4: I'm a lurker too.
Speaker 3: When it comes to a podcast that I'm listening to,
whether you're sending in questions, joining on after nine, uh,
you know, supporting on Patreon, or just or just listening,
or if you tell a friend whatever, it is, like,
thank you so much because I can't imagine what my
last my last ten years would have looke completely different
were it not.
Speaker 4: For this podcast. And it's only because of you guys
that it has got to look like this.
Speaker 3: And I'm very happy with my life, and you know,
it's just because because of the podcast in a big way.
So thank you everyone for listening. I mean, it's it,
we say it all the time, but it truly does
mean the world to us that you allow us to
do this. You know, obviously we're not like full time
employees or anything like this, but we do you know,
we do get to do this a lot, and that
you know, it's a really fun.
Speaker 4: Thing to do and it's uh feel.
Speaker 3: A very privileged in a way. So yeah, thank you
so much for the first ten years. Will we make
another ten years? Only one way to find out, and
that is to keep listening or ceter a. Google, remind
her whatever in your calendar for ten years and then
I'll subscribe and come back in ten years and see
what happens. But you know, we'd rather have you along
on the journey with us. Thank you, thank you, thank
you for this. Thank you for Travis for once again
he's he drives the boat and he sent these questions
and he's getting this video together.
Speaker 4: So thank you to Travis. That's I don't know to
end this. Am I the last one to speak? I
don't know. We'll find out.
Speaker 6: Byebye, Hello, ladies and gentlemen, friends and family, sentient AI
alien from another realm, whoever might be listening to this
from the past, future present.
Speaker 5: Whenever we are here. By we, I mean me and
maybe other people that are spliced in this video. I
don't know how Travis is splicing this together, but anyways,
it is the ten year anniversary of geek first podcast,
which is kind of crazy. I feel like time has
just been like a big snowball. It's just it's just
getting faster and faster as that snowball increases in size,
and like time, the just girth of content that I
feel like we've been dropping is just I don't even
really process it anymore, Like how many episodes we're on,
it's just.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm just too caught up in the day to day
busy life. And then the schedule is just it's just
it is what it is. And then next thing you know,
I blink and then here we are ten years later.
Definitely a lot of change has gone on in the
ten years. I would like to think I've gotten better
at this.
Speaker 6: Many times I.
Speaker 5: Feel like like good days and bad days. I feel
like I have good episodes, bad episodes. Not necessarily bad episodes,
but just like lesser, lesser performance episodes. Maybe I'm a
little bit tired from the day I don't have the
same pizaz. But no, for whatever reason, we are still
alive and kicking with the podcast. People keep listening, which
is something I don't know. I don't always think too
too much about I feel like I could get like
an analysis paralysis type of situation if I'm thinking about
every person that could be listening to my voice. So
I just try to ignore it. But uh no long
winded intro. Uh yeah, here we are ten years my goodness,
I got some questions given to me by the higher
ups that by contract means I have to read off
for you. So I'm gonna start at the top. Here
we got our favorite era of GV and why this
is an interesting question. I feel like it's tough for
me to think about the individual eras because like when
does one end? Is it like when we get introduced
to a new member, or is it when we get
better equipment? Is it when we get our first Patreon? Like, like,
it's tough for me to kind of judge what is
the the border of when those I'll call it an
epoch when those are entering, because I love that word lately.
But yeah, I mean, just just think of some of
the favorite sections in the past. I really can't pick
any one, just because I feel like in every air
quote era of the podcast or epoch as I like
to throw it in there, there's just great moments I
can pull from kind of any period. Like of course,
the big one would probably be like around the end
game time, just because that was like a big boost
in our overall just viewership of like people finding us
just because that, Like, I mean, everyone was interested in
that movie at the time, so they're just looking for
nerds and geeks that are talking about this stuff. And
of course the geek versus is the biggest g of
all when it comes to that category, and at least
I'd like to think so. And yeah, that was just
like a big spike. I feel like that's when we
got a big Patreon spike. And I can't remember exactly
when the discord got created, but like that also just
kind of I don't want to say, like like was
a massive boost and just the overall success of the podcast,
but it felt like just such a big jump because
we had the interaction or sorry, the easy means of
interacting with our fans and just like minded people that
just are interested in the same stuff as us. And
I mean now it's just like there's so many different
sub chats in there, which is just fantastic, whether it's uh,
you know, we got our big football chat in there
for for the geeks that also like that, like the
spoilers chats for each an individual show.
Speaker 6: There's the Pokemon chat. It's dead on.
Speaker 5: I guess it's not really a rival because it was
spiking there for a little bit, but yeah, that that
chat's good as dead. I haven't seen that one in
a little while. But no, I just feel like, especially
like the discord being added, it just made it ease
of use of interacting with our with our fans or or.
Speaker 6: Just people that wanted to chat.
Speaker 5: And yeah, that was just like a big step and
I feel like that is around that endgame era. So
I'm just gonna I'm probably completely wrong about this. Travi's
gonna message me afterwards, You're completely wrong about it, which
is okay.
Speaker 6: I'm okay with being wrong. I'm just a human. I'm
not perfect.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I would definitely say like the discord inclusion era,
which I think is the same time as endgame. If
it's not, then that's also a separate thing there. The
other big obvious one would be the Tragic time, which
was COVID, which was horrible for many different reasons, and
on you know, on ironically or ironically, that was also
like a major just boost I think for the podcast overall,
because for you, for those of you that don't know this,
especially in the early days of the podcast, we all
lived in the same town, but I kind of live
across the pond from the other lads. I'm probably like
a thirty minute drive to them. So for them is
easy because it's like, yeah, we're just gonna meet at
this person's house record around our one mic. And for me, luckily,
I was working in town so after work I could
just head over do a podcast and then head home.
But like just the extent of the amount of episodes
that we are doing now, but I feel like it's
even yeah, no, it's actually still pretty on par with
with like our peak times of how many episodes we
would be recording a week.
Speaker 6: It would just be so infeasible.
Speaker 5: I don't even think that's the right word, but that's
the one I'm gonna use for me at least, especially
now that I have a significant other, got a dog,
no kids, but like other responsibilities, working a lot more
than I used to, So it just I feel like
all those factors would have really stunted my inclusion in
the podcast. Maybe even just a hiatus altogether, you know,
God forbid it's scary thought to even have that. But yeah,
I know, like like the introduce the introducing, the introduction
of COVID, that's that sounds horrible just the effect of
what COVID was. It just forced us to pivot because
we couldn't all see each other in person, so then
we had to move to the remote side. And honestly,
it's been just such a nice transition because for me
that doesn't live close to them, Dylan now lives even
further away, you know, a couple hours away, so we
can all just jump on wherever recording, whether it's stream
yards or or whatnot. There's a couple of different I
think we're doing skype for a little bit there zoom
and that that was horrible.
Speaker 6: So uh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5: Some some some shifting around of how we were doing it,
but uh yeah, it just it just allowed, you know,
ease of jumping into an episode. It could be eight
o'clock in the morning, I wake up, twenty miss forecast,
I'm ready to go get my coffee, and me I
could be but ass naked bottoms down. You would have
no idea and I would just look as professional as
I do right now. So yeah, that that was a
really nice shift in just the overall logistics of recording. Yeah,
like I said, like having responsibilities now, like there's no
way I would just be and like Travis Taylor, they
have kids, like even for them like that that would
make any sense.
Speaker 6: So yeah, that was a big shift in the era
of the of the The Geek First.
Speaker 5: And but like in terms of my favorite, like, I
don't think I can really say there is a favorite
because even in the early days, like basically day one,
well famously I wasn't there for the first ever recording
of The Geek First podcast. But let's say the first
stint of the podcast, I had no idea what a
podcast even was. I felt like I was very soft spoken,
very like introverted, not very like I don't think I'm
that loud. Maybe I am, but like I just definitely
wasn't as charismatic as I'd like to think I am now,
And I didn't really say a lot like we had
one mic it would go around. Travis was as loud
and boisterous as he always is, so of course he
would just drown us all out. You know, say that
with the best of intentions, Travis, I love you, But yeah,
he's he's a loud guy, so I feel like my
little meek voice would would definitely be undershadow of him.
But like to me, it was just I was single.
I was living at home probably at the time too,
when we started, Like I would just go over there
just to hang out with some friends and talk about
stuff that, yeah, we're just similarly interested in if I'm
sure you know the true fans know this, but like
this just started because we had a group chat a
Facebook messenger talking about E three and that's all it was.
We were just giving our thoughts there. And then I
remember vividly being at my job at the time, and
I believe it was Travis that just threw in the
question of like we should start a podcast, and me
being single.
Speaker 6: And no.
Speaker 5: Responsibility, I'm like, fuck, yeah, why not? That just seems
like something to do, so let's do it, And here
we are ten years later. That was kind of like
a political answer because I didn't answer the question properly,
but I just kind of set a lot of words
in there to seem interesting. So yeah, there you go.
That's my answer to the question.
Speaker 6: My favorite part of me the Geekers podcast. Question two.
Speaker 5: Here we go standout episodes. Okay, I'm gonna take the
same strategy I did on the last one, and I'm
not gonna answer this one correctly because I don't like,
there's not one episode that is a specific favorite of mine,
like quickly off the Dome. Of course, I could just
throw out the endgame review. That's no slight to dealing
at all, because he was in another continent. He wasn't
a he wasn't able to be a part of the
Infinity War Slash endgame reviews because he was traveling and
seeing the world as one should in their life. So
but no, that that was just that was just crazy
because it was a movie that I had never seen
anything like it at the time, and there was just
so much hype, the buzz around media, you know, social
media and just just people that aren't combook fans we're
talking about that stuff. So it was just a really
fun time to be a fan of the content like that.
And then of course when you're doing a podcast where
you're literally sitting down for hours with friends talking about it,
it was it was just fun to be buzzing around it,
and it just seemed like at that time in the MCU,
it was like Kevin fig was unstoppable and nothing, nothing
can go wrong with anything that he made. So it
was just like how can they top his moving forward?
You know, it's we went through phase four and we
understood how they could follow up off of in pretty
war an endgame and it wasn't so hot, but yeah,
that was just that was just a really fun time
around that recording. And yeah, especially just seeing like our
episode jump up on like the charts of Apple Music
or sorry Slash Podcast, like that was just crazy. I like, yeah,
it was just crazy to see it on there, and
definitely like a I don't know, like I want to
say it's like an imposter syndrome thing, but like I'm not,
I'm not famous or anything. It was just like, wow, okay,
there it is. That's interesting. So yeah, that that of
course would be a shout out. I would also want
to just like shout out like certain reviews that we did,
like I feel like the first especially especially like the
first season I think of like Wanda Vision, low Key Mando,
Like those were the midnight reviews and that was when
we were actually doing them right. We'd watch them and
then review them at midnight. And of course it resulted
in some some goofy next day, you know, like sleep
deprived work days. But most of the time I was
just buzzin' because we would just have those shows were
really fantastic, so great content, great just discussion with again
some friends afterwards and then and so yeah, I would
just be riding high even if I had three hours
of sleep, but it didn't matter.
Speaker 6: It also helped. It was like just a Friday, It's like, Okay,
I can make it through this.
Speaker 5: And then but yeah, no, those were really fun reviews.
Speaker 6: So I would shout out pretty much those whole series.
What else do I got?
Speaker 5: Like X Men rich or the animated series that was
a really fun one to go through, just because I'd
never seen that all the way through. And then like
beyond that, like there's just like really random newscasts that
are just for whatever reason, there's some thick something in
the air, and it just like it's almost like like
a psychedelic experience where we're like, it's just goofy sometimes
And for I apologized to any audio listeners that listen
to those, it's like these guys are just off their rockers,
like these these jokes are not.
Speaker 6: Hitting for me.
Speaker 5: A lot of them are probably the inside jokes that
we talked about in the past, so we apologize. Well,
I'm gonna apologize for everyone else. I feel like I'm
bad at this where I'll I'll really lean in heavily
on an inside joke that someone has no context for
and probably doesn't find funny at all. But you know,
we always we always established that we're not like hired
by a media company to do this, Like this is
just friends talking about this stuff that we find interesting.
Speaker 6: So never come to us for like.
Speaker 5: A professional objective take on like reviewing something, because like
we do reviews out there, it's our thoughts. It's all
subjective this content. But yeah, no, like we're at the
end of the day, we're just here to have fun
and talk about these things and hopefully out of that
the result is entertainment for the for the end user.
And yeah, just just whether it's a weekly geek, I
feel like I feel like a lot of the time, Travis,
he has this game that he'll just try and crack
me on cast and it works a lot of the time.
He knows my human bone and he knows how to
activate it, and uh yeah, I he gets me going
and sometimes that just like compounds like the snowball, the
snowball analogy I said earlier, Like it's just a lot
of like some random thing maybe if it seemed like
beforecast that I'm just thinking it's funny, and then we
just carry that throughout the whole two hour conversation whatever
it might be lengthwise, and it's just such a fun
time and I just have a great Yeah, just a
great time with it. So random goofy news casts like
like just the like Dan Lynn Big Dan Lynn shouts
out to any listeners that remembers that, like that was
just a funny thing to be covering, And there's so
many I like, I'm definitely forgetting about, but yeah, just
just just those and like it's so great that I
can say that that it's not just one episode was
the great time of the podcast. It really is just
I don't know, random Wednesday news cast. Maybe I had
a shitty day at work and it's just like, yeah, Okay,
that was my day. Then I come in here and
just am able to unwind and talk about some things
that are this Yeah, just just really fun to talk
about with some friends that I really enjoy.
Speaker 6: So yeah, again, taking the political route. I'm not answering
that question directly.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna throw a lot of extra words out there
to hopefully avoid answering it directly. But yeah, there's been
plenty of standout episodes. Yeah, I think think I'll leave
her there for that one. Okay, we're gonna keep rolling here.
Question number three, favorite spin off shows? Favorite spin off shows?
Speaker 6: Hmmm, interesting. I feel like.
Speaker 5: I feel like I don't have any favorite spin off shows,
and I should admit I have pretty much just across
the board. Have not been listening to podcasts lately. I
used to be in a different working situation where I
just had opportunity to listen to a lot of podcasts audiobooks,
and I don't really have that anymore. I do miss
that aspect of my previous job where I was able
to do that. But like back then, like I was
listening to DC a lot, I was listening to Star
Wars Alliance, I was listening to Marvel Alliance, and I
think all those hosts do such a great job, and
I mean, we're celebrating our ten year here, but like
I think they also deserve credit just like for how
long they've been doing that and those shows, Although they're
under our umbrella. They do like they are just very independent,
like they have the creative freedom to do what they
want with the shows, and they're doing a really good
job with it. It's still going, which is a good sign.
And Yeah, although I haven't had the chance to really
absorb the content as much as I used to, I
still think they're doing fantastic jobs with just the fact
it's still going. So yeah, shouts out to you know.
Speaker 6: Katie Clay. Who else do we got? We got Chris,
we got Brent.
Speaker 5: Who I think is maybe step step down. It just
goes to show how disconnect I am that so I
apologize for that. But anyone that's been a part of
any of the geek verst umbrella shows, shouts out to you,
because you are worthy of the geek fer's banner. I'll
even shout out like I like Taylor does his his
cryptid Clues. I don't even know if that's under our umbrella,
but I'm just gonna shout him out because I love Taylor,
and I just love that he's been able to grab
something that he's truly passionate about, like he is, he
is truly passionate about all of that stuff, and when
you listen to those episodes, you can really feel it
through his passion and yeah, no, he does such a
great job with it. I'm not gonna synthing because I
don't know what he's announced or not, but he for
the whole life of that show, he's done a great job.
And Ruben's been fun when Taylor's able to wrangle him
into an episode for that as well. Of course, you
know the great and powerful Dylan Musk with his side
Quest that I've had the pleasure of being on many
many times, and it's just really fun because the geek
ferst started with just covering everything, and we used to
have like video game segments and a lot of the
times it would just kind of be like a small
little chapter in the overall episode. But what Dylan's doing
with the side Quest, it's just nice to have a
full sit down of only talking about that, like you're
not getting it's not getting shuffled behind some Avengers delay
news or whatever it might be.
Speaker 6: Also shouts out to the true.
Speaker 5: Fans that remember Out of Mana because that was also
a fun thing that Dylan was doing.
Speaker 6: There. Just a great name. I love that show.
Speaker 5: But side Quest is it's pretty good too, Dylan. But no,
he's doing such a great job with that show. He's
he's been able to keep it interesting. And I think
something that Dylan does so well with that is always
trying to get better with the side quest, whether it's
getting feedback both positive and negative from us, you know,
the other hosts of the gig first, or just fans
people in the discord.
Speaker 6: He's he is the most.
Speaker 5: Knowledgeable man I know about when when it comes to
video games, and it shows he's he's so good. I
feel bad sometimes because I maybe don't always have the
best notes prepped for a specific topic. But I ask
something like, hey, Dylan, what was his video game from
nineteen eighty three? And like I swear to God, sometimes
he just pulls out the top of his head. He's
he's that good with this stuff. I know he loves
his cell spreadsheets. You know he probably has that on
his second monitor.
Speaker 6: But uh, I but yeah, I digress. He's he's phenomenal.
Speaker 5: And then uh, and then another one I'll shout out,
of course, is uh mister Travis now doing the gimmick
with with our our I was gonna say our boy
in the chair and that sounds a little bit weird,
but I'm gonna stick with it because I just feel
like s Bubs is like twenty five years younger than me,
and uh shout out to the young s Bubs uh
and then David of course on there with with those
two guys, And as long as I've known Travis, I've
known him to be a WWE fan, and like there
was an era when I was kind of getting uh
like interested in it. I participated my first WrestleMania. Uh
I didn't participate, but by participated in viewing it even
person with some WWE merch. Shouts out to the Becky
Lynch you know the man era that was awesome to
be a part of. But uh yeah, no, it's just
it's awesome for for those gentlemen, but like specifically Travis
just to like have an area to be.
Speaker 6: Talking about just something that he's super passion about.
Speaker 5: It's the same thing with crypto clues, side yeah, side quest
and just I mean everything, Like just it's so nice
to have a specific.
Speaker 6: What's the word I'm looking forward.
Speaker 5: Just a specific realm to be speaking about something that
you are so truly passionate about. And for the listeners,
this is a little bit of little insider knowledge here.
There was actually I don't want to hint at this
too much because it might work out. Life has been
so crazy for so many people around us, But there
was potentially a side show that I.
Speaker 6: Was going to be starting. I'm not going to say
anything more about it because I do.
Speaker 5: I want to believe that we will get there at
some point where we can just get our ducks in
order to release this into the public. But yeah, that's
your little hit there. There might be something cooking in
the weeds. But I'll say for right now, it's like
Austin Powers and cry Out. There's no a meet there.
There's no like date that we will be ethowing whatever
that show might be. But I like to imagine we
will will open it up at some point, like like
Captain America and bring to the world to make great
change for the for the better good. But yeah, shouts
out to everyone that I mentioned and and everyone that
I forgot about. I apologize, but you're also in my hearts.
Like who else can I think of? Travis Hines? It's
another name? Yeah, sorry that with names. Okay, let's keep
rolling here.
Speaker 6: Next question, Memories from the Gauntlet yes, the Geek Versus Gauntlet.
Speaker 5: This is I feel like this was the closest to
semi professional wrestling I ever got or will get besides
like certain wrestling matches that we filmed, but like, the
Geek Versus Gauntlet was just I feel like as a kid,
especially like growing up being a video gamer, like you know,
when you're playing games, like you just want to believe
that you're the best that ever did it, and the
Geekers Goallet was an opportunity to really get in there
and prove it and win yourself a belt that will
be remaining in Travis's home because he does own those
for sure, but yeah, no, you get a hold it
and it's basically yours if you win the whole damn thing.
We got the geek Fers Gallet, we got the team's title,
and then we got the ever glorious Sports title, which
I am still a reigning member of as a weird
way said that it's still the champion of and I like,
you know, you always want to win all the titles,
all the belts. I felt like sports was always the
one that I like felt the most like I have
to win that just because the amount of sports games
that I that I played growing up. I always had
the NHLs like Maddens, even back when I didn't even
know anything about football. I just for some reason had
Maddens and would be playing those with my cousin, not
knowing anything about the rules, just just getting bopped constantly.
But I I just always enjoyed sports growing up, and
like video games, it was able. I was able to
do things my my physical liminters were preventing me from
doing uh from not being a physical physically gifted, uh
you know, athletic god. But uh yeah, you know, I
I just always enjoyed sports games and for for Gauntlet, like.
Speaker 6: Just the just the like what am I trying to say, Like.
Speaker 5: The like the setup of the the thematic, the thematics
of it. That's the word I was looking for of
just choosing your walkout sign and thinking about like what
you're gonna be wearing and the character that you're gonna
be betraying, whether it's the bad guy the good guy,
you know, like like like on the sticks meaning the controllers,
like that's where the game is played, but I feel
like the battle is outside of the video game, like
like that's when we're shit talking to each other, we're
doing interviews, we're getting under each other's skin. There's betrayals,
Like honestly, that's probably more important to the Geek First
Gauntlet than the actual matches in hindsight, And like they're
on YouTube, I highly recommend going check out a lot
of those matches. They are just some really just competitive
games that were played. But just like what's not in
those videos is all the behind the scenes, whether it's
just and like big shouts to Travis. He's been like
the key organizer of all of that, and I don't
know how that man's my mind works, but yeah, it's
just it's just like a spider web of connective tissue
of thinking about how things are gonna be working together.
And that's like just for the Gauntlet, let alone everything
else that he's done for the success of the podcast.
So yeah, I love the Gauntlet. I was talking about
how busy our lives are now, but so it makes
sense why we've had a bench that for a little bit.
But I mean, fuck with how quickly Travis's clan is growing,
He's gonna have like every child of his competing in
the Geek Verst Gunlet, we might have to bring it
back decade or so, we'll we'll see. I'm not going
to force any promises on the man, but yeah, no memories,
gosh like and then yeah, like specific matches and whatnot
for viewing. One of my favorite matches ever was in
the Sports title. It was between Kyle Smid and Travis
Snell and they they played Rocket League was one of
the games which was just one of the most infuriating
but yet entertaining thing to watch because of you know,
it's I feel like Rocket League is a type of
game that it's pretty easy to get into, but like
there's the skill ceiling is just insane, so like mastering
the controls, like you need like thousands of hours in
that game. And uh, no slight to Kyle or Travis,
but they definitely probably were under probably under like two
hours of total time playing Rocket League. So there was
a lot of goals that were just dirty and grease.
But because they were both at the same level, like,
it was such a competitive game and it was so
enticing to watch for that reason.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then and then the Madden game, especially being someone
at that time that could never be Travis at Madden,
it was so glorious to see Kyle Smid pop off
in there and and and beat Travis Snell. And god,
I hope I remember that correctly, because that is how
that match goes in my mind. Maybe I completely misremember
that and Travis ended up winning that game, but in
my mind, Kyle Smid was the winner there. Uh and
yeah it was. It was just it was nail bier.
I always love to see Travis lose in uh, in
video games because he is such a big talker, but
like specifically Madden, just because he had caught like like
when when I played him, it was like embarrassing how
bad the games were. Like it's one of those when
you're you're looking at the time second quarter, you're like
fox sakes, like I wish this game was only two
quarters instead of four.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: I since then, I've been cooking up a storm on
college football twenty five so yeah, and then last time
we played, you know, I took a dub on college football.
So I guess there's a little bit of asterisks there,
But we'll cross that bridge when we get there. We'll
face off against each other in the future, and then yeah,
the the other ones to shout out for all the
wrong reasons would have been probably.
Speaker 6: The title match between Amber and taylor.
Speaker 5: Field because that was the like I said, I got
bobbed in Madden, it was nothing in comparison to the
slapping that Amber threw onto taylor Field and Gears of War,
because as long as I've known Taylor, like like, he's
been the Assassin's Creed guy, the Halo guy, the Gears guy,
the Call of Duty guy, and I'm probably missing some
other things in there, but just like Xbox games in
general and Gears, it's like, Okay, Taylor's, Taylor's the Gears guy,
and Amber's was always a super competitive gamer. Like you
could just tell they would just use any advantage, like
to her advantage to win, which I respect that that
was never my mindset when it comes to games, but
I guess that just different differentiates, you know, the champions
and the gamers that are me. But yeah, that one
was tough to watch, but also it was just fascinating
because it was just I couldn't believe what I was seeing,
so so that one I would definitely shout out. And
then of course was the ever indatorious first champion ever,
which there's some controversy around it, but when Travis beat Dylan,
and then again, just like everything around the Gauntlet, it
wasn't the game itself that caused the controversy. It was
the post game when he went for a handshake, didn't
give him the handshake. And I feel like ever since then,
Dylan probably won't ever admit this, but I feel like
he's got something in the back of his mind that
he'll just never forget that. And you know, he'll probably
argue that I'm wrong with that, which is totally fair.
He's entitled to his own opinion. But that's that's my
take on it. So that's uh, yeah, it's there's been
some spice in the era of gig first Callet for sure,
a lot of Matt, a lot of like just upsets too.
Like it's been pretty impressive. I think my favorite match
I've better ever been in taylor Field, and I have
this long reign of.
Speaker 6: Competing.
Speaker 5: As we were ready to say that just tight games
of Call of Duty. We had the Ultimate Decider game
which we played a bunch of different Call of Duty
games and of course, again I'm gonna sound like a
sour grape here, which is I don't even care.
Speaker 6: This is my episode. I can say what I want.
Speaker 5: But we did play them all on Xbox, so advantage
goes to Taylor because I've only played I've only owned
one x or sorry, one Call of Duty game on
Xbox and I was called four and I didn't even
have Xbox Live then, so I didn't even like get
to the full competitive gamer mode when it comes to that.
But so I've always been a PlayStation guy, you know,
So we're playing Xbox, obvious advantage goes to Taylor. I'll
throw that out there. But anyways, regardless, just all of that,
we've had some extremely nail biters. But yeah, as I
was trying to say the ultimate, the ultimate Call Duty match,
Taylor Field won.
Speaker 6: He did win.
Speaker 5: It's all recorded. I shook his hand, and like, you know,
I'm bitter about it, obviously because I want to win
at all times. But give credit where credits due. He
definitely prepared and had a strategy to it. The one
big game, or sorry, the big one match that I
won was I don't remember all the maps that we played,
but one of them was I think it was called
Airfield or like Scrapyard or something like that.
Speaker 6: It was just where they had it was.
Speaker 5: It was a monitor for two map where they had
a bunch of just broken planes. You know, if you
play color you know what I'm talking about. And I
was like a hacker in that match. I was literally
just mortar striking these frags across the map and like
cooking them perfect time. I've always thought I was like
a tremendous frag user.
Speaker 6: When it comes to Call of Duty.
Speaker 5: It's probably all my sports game you know, knowledge of
whether I'm tossing things in those games, tossing frag grenades
and Call of Duty. There was an era when I
popped off with snipers. But I feel like like the blanket,
like one bass key strat that I've always had in
Call of Duty games is I've always been a good
cooker when it comes to frag grenades. Probably goes back
to my you know, my kitchen experience. First job I
ever worked at White Spot shouts out to White Spot,
but yeah, I know I was. I was a god
when it was coming to cooking up grenades. And go
check out that one on YouTube. You know, I watched
it every once in a while just to boost my
own ego every once in a while. I definitely threw
it on after Taylor beat me in the ultimate match,
but no, so from that, I beat him in that game,
and he evolved a strategy. He started carrying trophy systems,
which is a part of the game. We didn't say
that you can't use certain equipments or anything like that,
so totally fine. Uh, And that that shook me because
that was like a big strategy I had going into it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, you know what you can.
Speaker 5: You can maybe crouch shot me, get some nice head shots,
but I'm gonna find you with my frag grannades. But
I'm also gonna find his his trophy systems. And uh,
you know, I might think it's a little bit of
a cheap strategy just hide bind your trophy in the
back of the map, forcing me to come to you.
Speaker 6: It's a strategy I could have just waited on my own.
So I will give him credit.
Speaker 5: He definitely outsmarted me in that match and those matches
going forward, because of course he knew like that that
was like a hard counter going forward for the rest
of our cod matches, and he always had those trophies
on his kit, and I mean, like, credits to him.
He out he outwitted me, and rightfully, so one won
the whole match. Again, we didn't play on PlayStation, so yeah,
I'll leave it there. Again, maybe that's something else that
we did play on PlayStation. I'm just completely right that
up of my mind, so I apologize. Memory is not
what it used to be. But uh yeah, a lot
of and like again, at the end of the day,
I'm not losing sleep over that. Maybe a couple of
minutes at night, but just some great competitiveness. And I
love Tyler Field. He's a great guy. If I have
to lose to anyone, I would love for it to
be him. Where It's like if I lost to Travis
and Cod, like, he would never let me, you know,
forget about that. But Taylor Field he's a nice he's
a nice gentleman. And uh, since he won, I guess
we can say he's the best COD player when it
comes to Geek first, but I would imagine he would
have to say I'm the number two all time of
the Geek first because you know, Dylan's not at all.
And then Travis is he's an objective guy. You know,
he's he's going for the objectives. He doesn't know how
to shoot a gun, but yeah, he's going for those objectives.
But yeah, yeah, shouts out tytor Field, he is the
best cod player I've ever had the pleasure of playing against.
And thank you so much. Or for wiping my ass.
That sounded weird, so I'm gonna move on from that, Okay.
Thoughts on Extra Life Extra Life this has been something
where like the podcast is just a fun thing to do,
talk about, you know, interesting things with friends, like minded folks.
Extra Life was like a big like shift though, where
that was the first time where it really felt like damn,
like we're actually doing something positive and not just entertaining,
like actually raising money for like a super important cause.
For those of you that don't know, we're always all
of our donations through Extra Life.
Speaker 6: They just go to the BC Children's.
Speaker 5: Hospital, which here in Canada, British Columbia, that is our
children's hospital for the province.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean it's I mean, there's.
Speaker 5: Nothing else to say, Like I feel like that's just
like the one the one thing that everyone can agree
on is like children deserve like the best, Like they
just have so much limited, limitless potential when they're born,
Like nobody's born an evil person. But so I think
sometimes people are just born with a shitty hand, and
sometimes they are forced to you know, go into life
saving surgeries and stuff like that, or even just just
families with complications that are are forced to go to
the children's hospitals. And I think that's like you don't
even have to explain how important that is. So we've
been felt just super super honored to be able to
be a part of that every year. It has been
every year of the podcast. I can't exactly remember our
inception year, but we've been doing it for a long
time now and it's so rewarding, like being ten years
in now for the whole life of the podcast and
looking back and Extra Life is just so fantastic obviously,
like many other people do it, gameathons and stuff like that.
It's just such a great thing that Extra Life does.
And yeah, like just looking on our profile and just
seeing like the total number amount of like that much
money that we've been able to donate to a tremendous cause,
is it really like it like that's the one thing
where it's just like holy shit, like this is actually
significant and important and like you know, I'm like borderline
getting teared up right now just talking about it, because
it is just so special and uh yeah, I definitely
feel so honored to be a part of that. Shouts
out to everyone that's listening to this. That and people
that listening to this that just donated money or even
just spread links and just got the word out of there,
because in the Extra Life streams, we do twenty four
hour streams and they're filled with a lot of fun stuff.
In the wee hours, they get fucking ridiculous, and I
apologize for random shit I probably just said on air through.
Speaker 6: There, but it's all for a good cause.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I like it's just been It just bowled
in my mind every year how much money we actually make.
I think the first year was the biggest shocker, just
because the first dollar amount that we threw up there
was five hundred dollars and like, you know, five hundred dollars,
not five million dollars, but like to me, that's a
decent chunk of change. And at the time, like we're
pretty small podcasts. I'mone's saying we're massive now, but like
still it was very early stages and it's like, yeah,
whatever we're gonna do, do twenty four hours.
Speaker 6: Our goals five hundred.
Speaker 5: It's the old you know, if you shoot for the
moon and you'll land in the clouds or whatever the
fuck the saying is. Like that was my mindset going
into It's like, hey, five hundred dollars goal, maybe we'll
make half of that, and still that's awesome. That's just
money going to a tremendous cause. But no, that first year,
we actually made our goal, and it was just I
felt like I was riding a high for like a
week after that specific one. I still feel that way
now in the extra life, but just because we're doing
a lot more, like I'm just more used to it
and I now that I've seen us hit those big goals.
And then yeah, after the five hundred dollar, we after
like a thousand and like met that again fifteen hundred,
Like it just kept going up our goals and we
were making them. Last two years, I think we didn't
quite make the goal, but like still it's just it's
so much money that's going to a tremendous cause, and
it feels so awesome to be able to partake in
that one. So yeah, that's that's been super special. Of
course we have our goals or sorry, our goal rewards.
First year, I believe it was Amber me and Dylans
that we're sacrificing our our lovely locks to the cause
of getting shaved. And I haven't gotten buzzed since then.
I just haven't really wanted to. Sorry if that sounds selfish,
but yeah, we still have rewards and stuff at all
the different tiers. And something else that's been really fun
pairing up with the Extra Life is our themed shirts
and stuff that we've been doing. This is not a
theme shirt for people that are viewing this. There's a
very black plain tea, but Dylan or Geez taylor Field
does such a great job with the designs of those
we usually theme them. Some standout ones of course the
Lord of the Lord of the Rings one that we
did which was around the time with the Rings of Power.
The Barbie one is definitely a favorite of mine, and
then most recently the X Men animated series Extra Life
Keepers one, like, he just does a great job with
those designs and they're nice shirts, and again, money that
we get on the shirts it goes to the Extra Life,
So it's just across the board, a great cause and
some yeah I I feel really proud about and yeah,
I will probably do that further as long as we
will be doing this podcast, I would imagine it's it's
just it's something that we all enjoy. Yeah, Okay, I'm
gonna take a little sippy sip here because this is
going longer than I thought. But that's what I do.
I just ramble sometimes and we're just gonna keep going.
Have fun editing this one. Travis Snell give thoughts on
each GV member and what they've meant to the brand.
Speaker 6: Okay, this is this is interesting because I've.
Speaker 5: Kind of already talked about all my members, of course,
except for like the early early days, the Target crew,
the original members that started the whole thing, Myself, Jessica, Dylan, Muss, Taylor, Travis.
So yeah, like I've already said a lot about about
the other ones, but like, uh, for for Jessica, she
hasn't been with us for for the last couple of years,
but I still think that she just brought a certain
energy to to those early years of the podcast. Of course,
like five different members just having their own subjective thoughts
on things, it makes it enticing. You don't want to
just be an echo chamber. We all agree on the
same things, And I felt like specifically Jessica and Travis,
they would just get going on on opposing thoughts and
as especially in that era where I just didn't talk much,
it was just so enticing to be uh so entertaining
maybe to be viewing those two going at it, but
uh and like not in a in a negative, hateful
way or anything like that. It was just just just
for the for the betterment of the conversation and then
a good discussion. So yeah, Jessica's definitely been missed since
since her departure there. But because yeah, that was that
was the person talk to anime about and and all
that and yeah, and then mentioned Amber a few times
as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, she's just just just great, great member.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, I it feels weird because like,
do I talk about myself here? I don't really want to.
The other guys I'm sure are in their videos. I'm
sure they have like a twenty minute segment of just
talking about how awesome I am. So go listen to
their videos if they if you want to hear about
how awesome I am. But uh no, uh, Travis Snell,
I mean, yeah, he's he's my master organizer. He keeps
me on a on a straight narrow path. I'd be
lost without him and the organizing and the calendar and
all that stuff that he manages. I feel like I
always say how much he does on the the the
organizing side and just just keeping us all. Yeah, just
just organized and structured. But like there's so much more
that he does, like behind the scenes, whether it's just
like organizing, like producing other shows, just just getting notes
for shows that he's not even a part of when
he was on parental leave, like he's supposed to be
not working, He's still working all the time because he's
just that's just who he is. And yeah, he's he's
just a big core pillar for honestly, like the whole
umbrella of what the gigk First Network is. So Travis Noll,
I love you, buddy, You're awesome. And then Dylan Muss.
I mean, come on, now, what can I say about
Dylan Musk? He's my video game savants, h Dylan Muss. Actually,
it's interesting with Dylan because I feel like we've had
a lot of like mutual friends unknowingly just because we
are so close in I mean, all of us are
close in age, but for Dylan and I we went
to the same high school, but we weren't friends in
high school. I just remember like seeing him and then
like interact with friends that I knew at the time.
So it's just kind of it was just kind of
funny how we ended up linking up through through Target,
and then of course here we are all these years later,
and he's one of my he's one of my best friends.
I see him, you know, I don't see him in person,
but just talking through podcast him every single week.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then and then for Taylor Field, I feel like
he's just such a one of a kind individual, just
a heart of gold. He's he's honestly just such a
genuinely good person. And yeah, he's we we definitely bonded
a lot, like through Target. I feel like my first
day at Target, I kind of got paired up with
him and he and he was showing me the ropes
and I was like, man, what an interesting cat this
guy is. And that just multiplied when I found out
his favorite movie at the time was Ghost, Ghost Writer,
Spirit a Vengeance. That was one I'll I'll never forget about.
I think me and Travis were stalking shelves.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then and then Taylor must have been with us,
and yeah, Travis must have asked him what his favorite movie,
not just favorite comic book movie or anything like that,
just just favorite just favorite movie is Ghosts, ghost Writer,
Spirit of Vengeance, and I think it shifted since it's
probably still up there for him. But yeah, we definitely
bonded over Sassin's Creed. Just just video games and every
I mean, that's that's how we all kind of uh
uh bonded over with Jessica as well, of course, just
just big video game fans. But uh, yeah, No, there's
a certain wavelength, Like there's not much more that has
to be said. There's just there's certain people you just
you just click with, you vibe with, and the fact
we've been able to do this for this long, I
think that speaks volumes to just our chemistry and how
much we were you know, obviously every day they're not
every day. Everyone has little quirks that you might find
annoying after a while. But uh, I'm losing.
Speaker 6: I'm losing.
Speaker 5: When here I apologize, I'm gonna get to my last
point here, which is about you, the listeners, the fans,
the people that have been supporting us, whether that's the Patreons,
whether that's our family members or significant others that just
allow us to do this by uh like just just yeah,
it's just just allowing me to go and talk about
nerdy stuff with my friends for a few hours. Like
our schedule has been crazy at times, and being so
supportive around it, whether it's filming movies, whether it's filming
Gauntlet stuff, Like I sometimes wonder what you know, Shalin
my significant ever says to her friends when it's like, oh,
what's Kirkland doing today? Like, you know, if I'm at
home on a Saturday, and like does she lie about
me making movies?
Speaker 6: Is she really proud?
Speaker 5: And it's like, yeah, he's gonna go to Hollywood because
he's going to be making these big time movies. I
definitely don't think she was telling the truth on if
I was recording Gauntlet stuff, because that's you know, I
think it's awesome, but so many different social realms. Maybe not,
maybe they think it's a little bit childish, but never
lose that childish spark myself that I'm telling to right
now and anyone else that might be listening to. But
no serious, big, big shouts out to anyone that supported
the podcast or shared it. Made a review, like subscribe,
like just anything, interact with us in the comments, even
if you, yeah, interacting the discord, like that really is what's.
Speaker 6: Kept this going.
Speaker 5: I think if we it's not even if I didn't think, like,
if we didn't have, you know, the patreons that we
do or the discord population that we do, there's people
interacting with us and the YouTube chats, there's no way
we would have been doing it doing this, Like we
might have still been doing the podcast, but nowhere near
the extent of what it is of actually making it
into a business. Having a ridiculous schedule. I mean, it
doesn't feel ridiculous because it's so fun to do, but
like still when you look at the calendar, it's like, Okay,
got a couple of days off this month, but a
lot of recording. So yeah, you are the reason why
we're able to keep this going for these last ten years,
and there's no reason why we can't do another ten
years unless the Discord just dies and all of our
patreons some subscribe and hopefully.
Speaker 6: That day never comes.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think I wanna call it here. This
has been a really long time. Forty six minutes I
did not think I was gonna be going this long.
I just like to talk, I guess, so, thank you
so much for entertaining me here. And I'm very curious
what the tour run time of my clip is going
to be.
Speaker 6: For Travis.
Speaker 5: I think he's going to nrow this down in like
six minutes and just just throw in me praising him,
and cut everyone else out. I could definitely see him
doing that. But until then, I'll see you in another
ten years.
Speaker 6: But by I love you.
Speaker 2: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the tenure. My goodness,
that's uh, that's crazy. I actually know, lie. I got
a little nervous recording this, don't know why, same as
usual camera microphone. You guys are listening later on. Just
to think about that. We have a lot of questions
to talk about, to think about making sure I say
everything as perfectly as well spoken as I can. You know,
me always got some problesome words, some English, so don't
want to botch or anything. But I have ideas about
what I might say, but nothing written down. I want
to try and make this go the most off the cuff,
pouring from the heart as I can. But yeah, it is.
It is surreal to think about ten years doing this.
I it's not felt like that all. I think that
is a good sign at least, you know, as I
think it felt like, oh my god, ten years, It's
not like that. It's just there's been kids and big
life changes, career changes, milestems we've done, COVID happened, there's
all this stuff. But really that's the best thing I
can say is it's not felt like ten years. It's
just it's really blown by. It felt like just the
other day we're talking about in the Facebook group starting
this podcast, you know, watching E three talked about it,
and again kudos to Taylor. I think Kirkland said his part.
It was me. It was not me. Uh and it
always told me, oh you should do something, you should
do podcasts. I never did. But Taylor he was through
it out there and we all kind of spitball and
did some stuff and went from talking about that, talking
about the concept, talk about how we do it to
talk about a name, which took a very long time
and geek first eventually stuck did not like it at
the start, but grew on me and now I do
like it. It's weird when people first hear it and the
geek first, but it grows on you and yes, we're
here at the ten year and it would not have
thought about this when we started, did not think about
it all really, just that was the start, right and
eventually build towards goals when you want to do but
a a decade, it's just it's very crazy to me.
I've not processed it yet. I think I've started to
a little bit as we've gone close to the day
and I've been doing a lot of editing and looking
at old videos to really just the scope of what
we've done and how long we've done it. That's it
started to settle in now and I'm trying my best
to appreciate it and take it all in because it's
you know, I got one ten years and then we're
on to the next one. Who knows what, but yes,
ten years doing this is it's a lot to process.
But I am very lucky with the crew, you know,
the main four horse and the main GV four that
I've had, and then all the other people to talk
about a little bit today over time that we've had
as well. It's just it's become, aside from my family,
the biggest part of my life, which that same thing
would have not thought that, you know, And there is
just so many peaks and valleys and just so many
adventures and so many things that I would not have
thought of possible. And yeah, it's it's it's a weird feeling.
It's weird. It's good because there's many podcasts that don't
make it that long. We're not world famous, we're not
doing this even full time, right, it's a part time gig.
But there's a lot of people that don't get to
where we are. And that's something you gotta appreciate too,
because I've always said this, you know, our twenty twenty
one in twenty two era where it's just like, oh,
every month was the biggest and when that doesn't happen,
you're like, oh man, you know that we're still good.
But it's like, you know, what do we do? How
do we do that? Is there anything we can change?
And I know I'm rambling a little bit, but that's
what I mean by peaks and valleys where you go
through stuff Like I'm like, when we got Endgame, that
was something hard cool mind, that was something where uh,
it just hit so big and that was a big
change all right up front, right same thing. You can
become a small business. That's what we are learning things,
getting accounts, reading laws, stuff like that. So yeah, it
ten years is hard to think of starting to grasp
it a little bit, but still it's it's been a wild,
wild ride. And yeah, let's let's get into some of
these questions. Uh, favorite era of GV and why it's
tough because we always talk about them. We said we
should do a cast. We probably should do a cast,
but it's tough because we're always moving in evolving. Even
though I think this era, it's kind of fitting that
the last few years have been you know, i'd say
the digital age because I think for the most part,
we're gonna say that way, Like, even if this became
our full time jobs, there'd be no reason for Dylan
to you know, move to Cologna to be in the studio.
There'd be no reason for curriculing to lead the West
Side to come to here unless someone's i guess, running
a billion dollar checks or something. But the era is
to me, I think it's like the beginning years, which
is probably the first two years, and then I'd say
twenty seventeen to about twenty nineteen is we did go
a lot of all over and it's funny because I
think it's tough because almost twenty seventeen is its own
little era too, because it was a lot of spinoffs,
a lot of new hosts coming in. I think that's
when we're our full power of having seven people, which yes,
was way too much. I don't know how we did
not have h none of us had kids. We didn't
have we luckily had girlfriends or whatnot that we've been
together for a while or understanding. It used to be,
you know, every Friday, every once in a while during
the week first on shows we do you know, different days,
but every Friday we're Thursday after work ends and I
remember Emily like, it has to be every Friday. That's
the stari the weekend, but work good in we'd go there,
we all grab bike to eat and then we'd cast
a Dylan and throw that up, or cast at Dylan's
place and throw it up. So there is many eras
and that's where it's been good looking back at all
this because I like to think of, you know, seventeen
to nineteen, it's like the Custard Dome era, right the
Custardome era is where Dylan Muss and a company live.
Shout at Tyler, shout at Clinton. But the Custerdome era
is that's when he had moved out from his parents
and he was had a couple of roommates. And I
like to think even in the time when we were
at Dylan's parents' basement, I think there's still like a
couple of my place because obviously I did Dynamic Duo
and I did I ran repeating other stuff. Looking back,
I remember it as like, oh, it was Dylon's family's place,
the Custard home, then it was my house, a couple
of tailors, and then the all mine age, right, But
that's not really how it went, and it was kind
of spread throughout all over, but still there was a
majority of times. And then i'd say nineteen to twenty,
I'd say nineteen to twenty is like I won't say
the bad era, but the the radical shift era. That's
when we're not in person. That's when we're trying to
find the right mics. That's when we're trying to find
the right service to host. Because you gotta remember when
we in twenty nineteen, endgame happened well, I guess it
was before I gave and lead up to endgame, but
still lead up we started to have ad revenue and
we could buy O mikes, And a big shout out
to Jeff Larrymore. He's a patron that went on. I
know he's become Kunk fan. It's not around as much,
so he's not a patron anymore. But he was somebody
that went above and beyond because he was like, Oh,
I'm gonna go and I'm gonna message or I'm gonna
you know, how much roughly do you need for mics
and stuff like that, and then we're like, oh, we're
hoping the game for this. He said, well, I'm giving
me all this and there you go, and legitimately a
very nice thing he did. And that was before the
ad revenue. You know, I wish the revenewe game in
so he didn't have to do that. But a big
shout of Jeff Larry Moore who got us the mics
on the way to endgame. But for me, the that
era of nineteen to twenty was just I guess we're
so twenty twenty one. I guess because nineteen ended we
were still doing everything. It was COVID in twenty right,
so i'd say twenty beginning of twenty one it sucked
because we'd got all those mics, we'd got a camera,
we'd got a computer, we got you know cam like
all this stuff, and then we didn't get to use
it that much in person. Luckily, we've used it for
filming and use it for charity streams and everything. But
it's a whole era that was very small, the twenty
nineteen era, so that's a whole separate era. So it's
like to me, it's like twenty fifteen to sixteen is
the is the fun but rough years, you know, the
experimental just trying to figure it out, all shows everything
like that, Right, twenty seventeen to eighteen, I think of
the custard Home years, or I think of you know,
for me, you know, Myersport as the peak years. Twenty
nineteen is i'd say the new generation. Twenty twenty to
twenty one is the radical change, and then twenty twenty
two to now twenty twenty five is like the digital age,
or i'd say almost the norm right of what we
are going forward, And yes, the Custardome that is my
theory era. That's what they used to call where they lived,
and for me it was I don't know, there was
something magic about that place. I think there's something where
they were at the time at least, or you know,
here and there. But what doesn't matter the mindset of
Clinton and Tyler single guys or even though they weren't
living with their girlfriends. Dylan had moved up from his
parents and even us like Taya lived on his own.
I lived on my own before that, but still we
had significant others or you know, roommates or whatnot. And
that's the thing where it's like you didn't want to
be super rowty right like even Emily it's like she
puts up. She did put out with launch still does.
But the Custardome had a sort of it just had
a no like you could just be goofy. And that's
why for me, it's the peak years. You could be wild,
you could yell, and because Tyler and Clinton they're the
types that are just gonna laugh off even though sleeping,
they get they're having fun. And that thing where like
they would pop in to say something in an episode,
you never knew who's coming in because eventually, like many
times Dale with host parties there and we would become
friends with his friends, and it was a like a
just a kind of a sitcom comedy of like a
wild door sliding in and out. Like I remember we
were playing monoply one time, Tyler Kill with a bunch
of his friends and they sat with us and just
playing Monopoly for a little bit. Like it was always
like you never knew who's gonna come in. If it's
something you knew for a while, it it was someone
that you didn't know, something like like Amber would walk
in like she's not even casting today, but she's just
here to hang out with somebody, right, And that's the
situation where for me those years, it was we were uncensored,
We're unlimited, and we could just be wild. Like even now,
I got the wife over there, I got kids downstairs,
so I couldn't have everyone over and be like we're
gonna be rowdy. But that generation was rowdy. And that's
something where I will say for anybody walk of life,
appreciate what you have. I love everything we do right now.
And like we've said before, the amount of content we
do unless it was our daytime job, we could not
do if it wasn't for the you know, the norm
or the digital age or whatnot, right, And we did
a couple spit ons back in the Customer Don't era.
But for me, there is something special about the in
person cast. There is just a magic in the air.
We've all talked about, like we want to do more
in the futures, even though at least once a month
getting together and doing that, because especially watching these and
that's where appreciate what you have, because for me, it
was just that was the norm, right was Hey, from
twenty fifteen to about twenty nineteen, the majority of the
like all the podcast was somewhere in person, whether it's
my house, Taylor's house, Dale's house, et cetera. And that
it was just another day, another cast. Also, you had
your special ones, right, but it was just another time.
And now looking back on that, I really didn't appreciate
how fun those times were and how show those times work.
Especially sometimes it was just say we're gotta do this episode,
we gotta do this review. But really there are so
many times now wish and looking at all the footage
back then, I go, man, that the special sauce was there,
and I do think that special sauce still seeps in
it's grows that sounds to today's episodes, because I think
that forged us as friends. We've all had disagreements or
arguments or differences of opinions. Nothing luckily that's like driven
us go part completely. Sometimes you might need a break
from each other, but I think those years really cemented
us as close knit group of friends and people that
are gonna be in contact with each other the rest
of your life. Podcasts regarded or not, and there was
just something There's more I'll get into when we get
into the Gauntlet and stuff, but some about the Custardome
it just felt like when you walk in, it was
like a sitcom where always characters around and just had
a good vibe. And I think one thing that is
different as well too is if you had a bad
day at work, bad day at home, whatever differn for
Dylan because he lives there, but going to a different
location and just having like, Okay, I'm in the podcast
song where this is like I work at home now
and now it's here. It's like, so I don't leave,
you know. And even it's the same thing with the
digital like this the rough era that was like the
whole time was I miss as I remember, and luckily
don't had suggest that before because I think it was
about moving. It was hard for Kirkland. And I've always
said before I have no problemmitting when I'm wrong. I
might be hard because I might be like, no, I
believe in this, But you know, I think the two
biggest times I was wrong is one, we did that
after night where we let everyone had the link on
the online, very bad idea. I thought it was just
gonna be fun other podcaster friends jumping didn't happen. And two,
I was always against stand in person cast. And I
remember probably the first six months, maybe even a year,
and Taya was with me. We hated it. Like we
still had fun, but we hate because we wanted to
get back. So I guess I did appreciate at the time.
It's just now this has become the norm so much.
I did not appreciate that. And that's why for me
thinking back on it and looking at the and I
just listed as the Custard home. There's in many places.
Sometimes we go to Taylor, sometimes we go my dil's
dead town are busy, but to me, that is still
the custume area. The majority of the cast were there,
the gauntlet was there, the extra life was there. There
was just a magic in there. Like I said, people
were either single or like myself who didn't have children yet,
where it's like, okay, we're still you know, a lot
more freedom to do. You know. Eventually I did have
a kid in the custom Home era, but I mean,
like at the beginning, so that era was just it
was a It was a party all the time. And
that's why I say to anybody, whatever you're doing, in
any walk of life, whatever it is, just take a
second and appreciate everything. I did this last year too,
when you know, not to be morbid, but right now
when we do Christmas, it's like Emily's parents are alive
and my parents are alive, and all my kids had
their grandparents and aunts and uncles everything, and you know,
of course I've lost some people, but luckily most of
the people of them my grandpa Bob All and I
guess my grandpa learned. But it was tougher because I
was younger than But I just mean, like most time
people have well then you go down that right and
my uncle Jerry, it was a big part of my
life that was younger. But everyone has those moments right
where you get that trauma and something bad happens. But
take a moment to appreciate what you have, even if
you think your life is shit right now, are tough,
you know, appreciate what you do have. That's why I
try to at Christmas, Like, man, there's gonna be an
era where in my life where we don't go to
Emily's moments for Christmas. And I love doing that. I
love her family, I love you know, she's always baking
something good like I love that same thing. Come back here,
it's gonna be error on. My mom and dad and
my step mom are not around, my auntie, you know
people I love, and that's where it's I try to
do that a lot more now. I don't know if
it's because I'm older or having kids' help, but same
thing with that. That's something though. Now I wish I
could go back in time and say, hey, appreciate this
time because eventually Dylan's gonna move and you and Tay
are gonna have kids in Kirkland. You know, he did'
show up along the West Tip, but Kirklan's Kirkland. You
know he's gonna help his grandma move. You know he's
gonna make another clone shade whatever it is. I appreciate
this time, and I did, but like I don't think
I fully did. I never took a moment to think
and go oh, because I kind of just thought it's
always gonna be like that. So especially if you have
something really good life right now, going take a moment
and just appreciate that it could go away, you know,
not being dramatic, but just could could go away, could
change whatever it may be. So that is my fair era.
A big shout out to those guys were hosting, and
a big shout out to in the first few years,
I wanted to think them personally. At some point Dylan's
parents were hosting us because I don't know why, Like
Taylor's place was well, Kirkland was far on the west side.
I think Jessica lived in a smaller place. Taylor was
also out of the way, and then my place just
like I could host but I can't remember why. It
was just there's a partially see partly ship top Bols.
Before our first dog, Heisenberg, he had raged and rage
syndrome and a lot of other like mental issues when
we got an X rays and whatnot. So it was
always not the keenest of having people over because he's
very not keen on strangers and stuff like that. So
luckily Dylan hosts that for many years as his parents.
So shout out to his parents, who could have just
said no, like you already live here, Dylan, We're not
gonna host your podcasts with people that they didn't even
know that well. And they're very welcoming like Dylan's Like
I'm sure we first about Dylan's parents are all very nice.
Nothing against other geeks parents. I've met them a few times,
but for a couple of years, two to three years,
saw them almost every week, and they're always very nice,
very welcome, even times where we had to do something
in their kitchen, you know. They they helped facilitate a
really good environment for us to start off. But yeah,
the Custer Dome, that is my air a little long winded, maybe,
of course I'm trying to snell you know, those ten
years always gonna be a long wining. But this is
a fucking tenure, right, So Custer Dome lots of good eras.
I'd love to rank those with the boys and talk
about them, and we'll say maybe some won't change the future.
But I think now, like I said, it's the digital
slash the norm era, because they don't foresee anything changing,
especially if we want to do all this stuff makes
sense with kids. Maybe when we're older, like the sixty
year old men and we're still podcasting, or maybe we're
back together and our kids and people are doing all
their own stuff. You know. Standout episodes that's a tough one,
right because we've taught We've got that question many times
on the anniversary cast and just in general. So following
that theme, i'd say any episodes where we had to
be hunkered down, locked in a room together, I think
you can throw extra life in there a little bit.
But the ones that stand out to me were comic
con and specifically why we started this podcast was E three.
It was a busy day, and sometimes it would come
in a time where it's like, man, you know, especially summer,
it's gonna get hot and you just might want to
be out doing stuff. You have a family of friends, you're
stiff and together, and I want to do something. But
I still always fucking loved like looking at the E
three schedule and at all being clear and knowing like
all I'm gonna end up at I'm gonna be at
Dollans at like nine am, and I'm not gonna be
out there to eight pm because that's like luckily all
those days went well. There're gonna be tiresome stuff, but
even stuff where we'll be watching like a PC gaming
show and there's nothing going on, it's bad show, and
we're live streaming, like that's fun. Like, those are other
episodes that I do miss. We used to always do,
like the panels, like the res like a regular cast
that we'd throw on the geek First channel, but then
there'd be the reactions We're just sitting us there talking
like a calm caear track. Those I miss, you know,
because right now we just don't have enough time for those.
So any episode that, even though if it was just
like oh, the Xbox twenty twenty one or twenty seventeen
review and it's just fifty minutes the build up to that,
the after, we'd always go on and get some food.
Those were good, great times. That kind of in with
Gauntlet recordings too, but so anytime we had those marathon times,
those were really good times. Again, once I really miss
Golden Geeks. That's always a fun one for me because
even this year, like when you know, we had a
little spicy and debate, it's always fun. At the end
of the day. Do I care that Taylor and Dylan
didn't put doing there? No, But it's a fun like
back and forth that we can have and it's always
interesting to see people's takes. And even though it happens
the year after, it always feels like the cap off
of a year and into the other one. I always
wish that would be my full time goal, if we
ever did this full time, that we could do one
for video games, because I would love that TV. But
we're just not let's say we're movies a lot easier
to consume, right, So those are great episodes trying to
think any specific like like a Usually my favorite type
of episode is just like newscast right weekly Geek, the
regular GV episodes. There are some reviews, the big reviews.
I do love because that to me is like game time.
That is like, okay, lots of people could be listening
checking us out. That's a different I like that motivation
because I feel, okay, let's put on a good episode here,
you know, let's really be driving. But newscasts like just
fun and light and we can go on a tangent
and you don't got to worry where on a review
there might be a tangent could lead to something fun,
but you go, no, there could be new people listening
where the newscasts feel like that's for our core audience,
and I think it's a love hate thing for some people.
Maybe if they're new hmm, what else, let's see, it
might come off maybe a transition. I'm trying to think
there's any other just regular episodes, but now I think
would be the Ones newscasts, the Marathon Ones, Golden Geeks,
Heek Versus. Was tons of fun in the day, even
though those led to some heated argum, especially here on
that we've talked about before. I think it's video game
you can find it somewhere. I think it's Video Game
Characters Part two or something like that. And man, that
was a that was a heated conversation. That was what
I think. That was one of those where we're just
done at the end of the day and we've had
enough and hungry, and some of us wanted some of
us didn't, And that was one where uh yeah, I
got heated. We didn't release it for a while. Luckily
again still friends. But let's see. Oh man, I fucking
I brought my nice camera to like, you know, do
this for the occasion, just get all plury on me
and whatnot. You know, fucking come on technology, I'm trying
to make a ten year content episode video here. Oh
there it goes again. I don't know if it's my
microphone whatever. Maybe I'll be editing this part out, who knows,
especially because I'm supposed to be using some of this
video for my ten year statements. And like, if you're
looking at the video right now, I fucking look like
in the movies when they like when Tobe takes off
the glasses and it's not clear. My god, let me
fix this. But uh, let's see here. Okay, hopefully that'll
help it. But so this will kind of transition because
some of my favorite episodes are the spin offs after
nine that can sometimes kind of the keep first episode,
but after nine especially and that's where something that happened,
especially in the COVID era, those were great because there
was no content to talk about. News was very light,
and I think those were the fullest after nines, like
the one that happened in twenty twenty because there's a
bunch of other people, our listeners that are sitting around
doing nothing because COVID there's restrictions. They got to work.
So that's where it's like, it was a shitty situation.
Of course, would never want COVID happen, but in the
light of that, to bring some actual light to the
situation was after nine and I don't think that's when
we I can't remember if we started the call ins
during COVID, but I think it was before. Maybe it wasn't.
I don't know. I'd have to go look back. Actually,
that's something I haven't looked at my edding because we
always we did after dying for a while. But that
was just like a show like a bread and Butter
where we talk about anything, right. But then we thought, okay,
let's bring people on and that was great to actually
talk with people, people that have supported us because we
we one hundred percent know what everyone ever listens. Great patrons,
you go above and beyond. Because I've always said this before,
I understand it. That's your hard earned work. Dollars you
could buy a coffee, could buy lunch, and again we
work as hard as we can. When you give us
that money, we respect that and we're okay, we're gonna
do extra episodes, exclusive episodes. We know, work to the
bonus podcasters as much as we can. I've always said
that before. We put out sometimes way more content than
people doing this full time. You know, there's probably some
asses of Wall's quality is a quantity. Yeah, yeah, I
get it, but like I think, we're putting out the
quality and the quantity, and you know what, I'm very
happy where we are, but there are many things that
we could not do without the patrons. So that's the
thing we can give back, and you guys get it
back to us because that show is great. There was
a time in COVID we're doing it twice a month
that was tons of fun. Honestly busier now, but that
was something really good. And then other shows I've been
in part of, of course Ryant Ray repeating Dynamic Duo,
having Kyle liam on there because we had great conversations,
and like I've said before, Geefers did really eventually kind
of what comic book like Dynamic Duo was some of
those aspects going there. We got more Kumbo Keavy because
you know, just in general, our MCU content and that
type of stuff did really well, and that's where it's like, hey,
we did more of that, and a krudos to all
the geeks and whatnot like Kirklin and Dylan Taylor where
they got more affiliated with that stuff and researched it.
But it was taking over and we just talked about
on both casts. But at the beginning that has been
on a show and Kyle Lim had read calling, especially Liam,
so it was great to have those conversations and not
have to give a full breakdown. And those are two
of my bestest friends. Like Kyle I've known for a
long time now, met around the same time as Emily
and I started dating. And Liam, who you know, I
don't talk to as much as i'd like because he
he's moved multiple times, he lives in different time zone,
but he's a guy that I can talk to or
see and nothing's changed. We have a great camaraderie and
those those guys knew each other before me, and so
the three of us, I just always wanted to get
that on you know, camera at Mike and it was
a really good time. So I appreciate that. Trying to
think of stuff that maybe I wasn't on. I guess
it's a spin off. I just count as a regular show.
But it is a spin off because, like we said before,
you guys and guys are the ones that supported side Quest.
It's been great. I'll talk more about that when I
talk about Dylan. But with video games definitely sometime kind
of lost their place in Geek first because we just
chased what was hot, right and and well we've always said,
of course video games is the toughest thing for us
because you got to deat they hit the most time
of that and not all of us are playing the
same stuff. But then you have like a savant like Dylan,
who is one to me like doesn't matter. I know
there's people out there that have worked for an IG
and this and that, Like he can go tote with
many people he's gonna say, no, I couldn't. But like
Dev's information how games work, his recall on them. I
don't think he gets enough credit for that. I think
a lot of people talk about like how I do
with movies, but he does that with games twenty four
to seven. And that's why for me, when we talk
about him coming back, that was like an essential for
him but it was essential for me too, because if
we're covering them, I always felt like no imposter syndrome.
But that's the most like I can really just talk
about we are still fans of everything we talk about.
I can never say we're critics, even pundits. Feels weird, right,
I just always said that we're friends talking and there's
a microphone there. But I still want to be educated
on some stuff. I can never feel completely educated on
the video game side, but Dylant helps me and the
others do that. And it's been great because we've done
focused episodes. Though what we've been playing bled into people
like that segment so much bled into the geek first
news of what we've been watching. People requested that. So
that is a show that I'll see him a part of.
But and I know Dylan says, oh, it's our show.
It is It's like it's it's his show. Power by
Geek First. You know, like I maybe it would survive,
but for some reason of Dylan quit or you know,
just went off to the moon, never came back. A
side quest. It would be tough to imagine, you know,
there's an episode two without him. It'd be tough to
imagine with him not the helm, and it's great to
hear you know what the other guys might be playing,
and you know we might talk about, but we don't
talk about as much because sometimes we just get on
here and go and podcasting, right, So especially those hang
on episodes and some Folks episodes, those are really good.
Shout out canteining conversations with me and Taylor, those are
always good time just me and him debating stars because
we both love stars very much but love it very
differently and view it as different like having different rules
per se Netflix and fails, tons of fun. Like honestly,
most spinoffs that we did, they had their time in
the sun for whatever reason, whether it's scheduling or just
time or movements or it turned into something else. They
all changed and you know, mostly ended, but like I said,
they kind of evolved and I really liked them all,
like and only you could do them all today, but
you know I could do them more regularly. They all
have like a special place in my heart for s
except honk honka, fuck my brother, and fuck the man
with many names. You know, don't don't ask me how
I got there. Yeah, So now to talk about former
hosts or the spin off post and everything. I'll try
not to leave anybody else. I'll start with the easy
one with Connor. Only been on a couple episodes of
Geek First, he's usually on the commentary with Dylan, and
he's popped up in charity streams, so pop up on
in our movies. Very fun, energetic guy. I wish we
did more with him. He was someone always hard to
nail down and he would always been like, hey, I'm
a very general audience person, but shout to Connor, very
fun energy. Shout out to Clinton and Tyler Clinton, which
was and Tyler, we're talking about war in the Gauntlet.
But Clinton got like a short lived run because unfortunately
he came in when Gauntland was kind of the other
the tail end. But thank him for coming out. He
was I wish we got to see more of a
like it's kind of wild characteristic. But Tyler serris Man,
he's somebody I've always said I wish I met a
lot younger in life. He you know, that's the thing
us the first I'd say the core for the four
Horse with me, Dylan, Kirkland, Taylor have a lot of
very similarities but a lot of differences, right, A lot
of the stuff i'd say Nightlife Travis and Single Travis
is stuff that Tyler was also doing and Kyle's also doing,
and Liam as well. I think you'd go as much
as Liam as I would like back in the day
because when I met that's when I was with Emily.
But he's somebody that I wish I met in my
life a lot earlier. We bonded pretty pretty easily, like
and I'm friendly with majority of people. I guess I
shouldn't say that because like there's Amber and Connor. I'm
probably missing others, but there's there's a Jamie. There's a
couple other people that like became very friendly with the
Dylan's Friends group, but Tyler the most. We just get
it off very quickly. We have a good cadence with
one another. And he was somebody that I remember because
I've talked about movies and I've talked about Gauntlet, like
I you know, I don't act. I don't like doing
that because he had seen it, he'd seen the recording
and luckily he got in there. But still, I don't act.
Don't like that stuff, and he he played ball, he
did that. I don't know if he was ever on
like an official he was. We did elm Ring with him,
so there you go. He was on that. But he's
somebody that that was completely foreign to him, that type
of stuff, and most of it was for all of us, right,
but for him, he was like, I, this is not
my cup of tea. But he was there for the games.
But it did become a cup of tea. You got
to see him like kind of lean into it and
be a little bit of a character. And again he
helped host, so that was a big thing. Ruben shout Rubin.
Never never got to cast with him too many times.
I did episode there's a spin off show that I
was not a part of, but I was always anticipating
Rod or Not Man. Rod or Not was a fucking rye.
That's a show that they did like it was Kenny's Spenny.
They did like played video games, had challenges or competition,
and they did like punishments that were really gross and
stuff like I had to go on there once and
luckily I just got like some I didn't have to
eat anything, but I had some ice on my nipples
or so. I can't remember. They did some weird stuff,
but shout to Rubin for being bringing at least some
weird energy. And he was a very I think the
way Taylor and I are a foil, they were a
good foil for each other in a very completely different sense.
And yeah, I don't think I ever cast with him.
Shout to him coming saying thing he had a busy life.
Lot's changed his life. He end up moving, but he
was fun and gone and we had him as our
third member of the Wolf Forarder and it never really
worked out. We always wanted to do more with him,
and he always would not be available for recordings and whatnot.
So there's a whole litany of stuff that we didn't
get to do with him. But shout for a very
unique personality, Colin Liam, I don't need to blow those
guys anymore, you know, Like I said, with he we
had good chemistry. And I thanked them at early on
for being on so many episodes, and like it sounds
weird to call them like unsung heroes in a way,
but they are the sense of the rest of us
continued on and you know, did the small business stuff.
They just came for the shitts and gigles in free time,
Like they weren't. They were never a member, they never employed,
they were never you know, getting any paychecks from the company.
They would if they stayed on. But and they were
always cool, just like very happy for the success and
never like oh I'd come back or this is just
like anyone I had on. It's just it's been easy.
So they were some guys that like, they gave a
different side of Geek first and they asked nothing from it.
Of course it's just us again hang out with a microphone.
But you know, some people can get a little weird,
so you never know. Jessica obviously a very like a
founding member, right, she was there, a founding founding member
because technically it was five of us, but you know,
not to let them live down. Kirklam was not there
for the first episode of Geek Firs, of course, but
so she was a founding family member, a part of that.
She was somebody that gave my goodness, my camera. She
was somebody that geez, who knows there we go fixed
a little bit, who knows gonna get my helmets there?
So Jessica, yeah, she was somebody that she was a spitfire.
She gave always a different opinions and luckily it was
not just for different to be sake of different. There's
many podcasts out there that do that right, where there's
a person that's the just different opinion. I've gone that
accusation before. It's always from the part, but Jessica would
always have a very different view of things and that
would challenge us on some things, and it was good
to because of like, there's lots of areas that we
knew a lot of and she didn't, or vice versa,
so it could fill in whether it's it's more particularly
on the gaming side. But yeah, Jessica was there alaw
in the early days and then came back a little
bit for a while. But yeah, she put in a
lot of work and helped us out and was there
for a lot of those E threes and everything, and
it was fun having her around that time, you know.
And for Gauntlet, I think she's somebody that got it
right away. I think everybody when I kind of told
them what I was doing either didn't understand it, didn't
process it, or maybe didn't like it at first or
not like it, but just kind of like whatever, I'm
here to play video games. Where Jessica got all that
usually most of the time it would be hey, this
is a story, this is the interview, blah blah, and
there might be I think as went on, everyone got better,
but at the beginning it was a lot of maybe
hand holding and saying, hey, this is specifically what I want,
where Jessica I could give a few notes and she
would just go, you know so, and yeah, she would
have an infectious attitude where I think we all kind
of have those moments where we're laughing, have a good time,
but it'd be always fun to break her and kind
of get the room laughing and stuff. And yeah, very
very key to the early parts of Geek First and
actual life and just a whole bunch of the blueprints there.
So she did help us, you know, go on a
journey and set us up, and yeah, she she did
a lot, and it was it was fun having her
around at that time. But she was very important to
the early days of Geek First. And yeah, big shout
out to her for being on a lot of those
early episodes and starting off and lots of those reviews
and everything, and like I said, bring it, bringing a
different vibe to the room that was needed and challenged
at the time, which was good, and then he got Amber,
who was to me a very like that's somebody that
does not get enough credit because she left and really
never came back, Like there's multipeople left and then come back,
and then it kind of goes full circle, always welcome,
always like her back. But it's a situation where same
thing kind of left right before we got those mics,
but there's a big change and then and there's always
like a a different cross like there's groups of you know,
the geek first fandom, but now I feel like we've
had a similar one for quite a while. And lots
of people were around when she was on there, and
she just very articulate, great conversations. They would make points
that I wish I could or say it in that way,
and similar to Jessica, or Jessica would bring up things
in a different light, I think it would be in
a way we really thinking. Amber would bring up something
to make you completely rethink that situation from an angle
you didn't even think at all. Whether you agree that
or not, I created great debate. One of my favorite
reviews we did together was the Rival review, because that
it's a movie where it's very much what you take
from it and how you perceive things, and that was
a very good conversation. And then in the Gallant Great
Run they were like the you know, the stone cold
Steve Austin for quite a while and yeah, that's somebody
that I missed not having Iran especially inside another person
that miss side quests, you know, and they were a
big gamer. And Dylan started up that show that would
have been a person I would love to have on
that and yeah, I that was the first person we
brought on also as an additional member because it was her,
and then it was Kyle, but it was it brought
a lot and you never knew because it was Dylan's friend,
like okay, and then their kind of tryout was the
Force Awakens review and then from there it was great
because it was luckily geek first. Other than that, after
Night I talked about always a sigh of relief when
we bring on people to after nine people join Discord,
never once had to kick anybody off on either of those,
never to ban them, never had somebody like, oh, they
don't jive with us, or they're just like assholes or
bigas or whatever. Same thing with this, not that I
think dyn't wuld associate with anybody like that. But it's
just like, Okay, I'm sure they thought the same thing
when hey, I want kind of leaving the podcast, ky
like this is our thing, but let's we trust each other, right,
And same thing with Force awakens, like, Okay, she gets
completely what talking about. Very passionate, very funny, and a
very different dry sense of humor, something that was again
the you know, like aspects of Jessica prop missing from
the podcast. I think that they had something unique to
them that I think now there's a bit of us
four have like created a bit sometimes of a high
mind of what we find funny, and probably Amber and
Jessica the same thing would have done the same thing
if they were around longer. Right, they were in and
out and then they've been gone for a long time.
But yeah, I miss having Amber on all those I'm
always bummed that we didn't really get to do a
big gauntlet ending for her and that character, because that
was a very vital We built season two and a
little bit of season three around her, and even season one,
like and they were somebody that was around. She was
around a lot in the early days. So because there's
so many casts I went back and it's you know,
a lot of times it's me her and Olme. So yeah,
showed Amber a very key part to geek first in
just some different conversations. So I think I hit everybody
on our side. Of course the two other ones I
guess too, you know, they're a combo of that. But
a shout out to everyone in Guay years ago, met Greg,
that met them, like Katie and Chris and Clay and Joe,
you know other Travis. It's evolved a lot, and it's
something that you know, we don't talk about enough, but
it's kind of because they've they've done their own thing.
They went off on their own, they know what they're
kind of not know what they're kind of they do
know what they're doing it. It's been great to listen,
been great to do the crossovers at times. Want to
do more, our plans to do in the future. We're
gonna be obviously trying to do one for the tenure here.
But yeah, I missed talking with those people. I'll shout
out to Chris Balada because he's at times kind of taken,
you know, very busy man nowadays, but he's taken the
lead on a lot of times I couldn't and he,
you know, he's definitely like, you know, he's not been
annoying it, but he has annoyed it for me as
being like second a man. And obviously other people came
later shout to Brent who replaced me. But yeah, that
was a time where I kind of knew. I didn't
know how long it was gonna last. My work was
always changing. I do miss podcasting with Chris on on
a weekly basis. He's one of my better friends. That's
just i've never met in person. Hopefully that'll change at
some point in our lives. I very much at some
point want to just do a Vegas trip and meet
everybody or something. But yeah, and the shout of Brent,
who you know, covered me, and then shout for David,
and I transition that. So of course check out the
Geek Hole Alliance. A bunch of shows in there, but
David and sbubs and shouted Sbub's and guy in the
chair who's you know, still the guy in the chair,
but now he's part of geek First and he's a
you know, somewhat unemployee now. Always want to do wrestling
show I've done on Tress told you it was still good,
but I still, I don't know, just wanted I won
the camaraderie that I kind of had with those other shows,
Like there's only so many times like that's why I
can not talk alone all the time, right, And with
those two guys, it was a great dynamic of a
long term fan David New Family, Mass Pubs, people I liked,
you know outside of that stuff, trusted, and I've always said,
shout those two guys because they didn't know each other before.
It's not like Chris and Brent, who you know, listening
to each other's podcast and had a you know back
and forth, or Dave and Bran who worked together like
a me and Cot like they were thrown together and
there's a chance that could have been oil and water.
But episode I'm like, Okay, I think this is good.
And now it's like, oh, I can take a a
week off or whatever bi weekly off and the show
is still going and then I can jump back in.
So it's been great and it's been great to finally
have that show. I've always been one new wrestling show
and the audience has always been like divided. There's been
almost every time we've had it. On the survey when
we did our yearly ones, it's like fifty percent. Oh no,
we're not interested. Yeah, absolutely, so it's like, do I
do this to it? Not Luckily the numbers have been good,
but yes, a shout out to everybody that is on
that side. Appreciate because it's another part of geek for
us where we got to a point where we could
have a podcast network and that helped open doors and
meet a bunch of new people. So it was great. Yeah,
I think that think that's everything memories from the Gauntlet. Man.
When I other than the custard Own era, when I
think about the things that I missed the most of
geek First past, it's if it's not it's one of
let me let me reword this. When I think about
things from the past of geek First that no longer exists,
it's one of, if not, the thing I missed the most,
and that is the geek First Gauntlet. That was that's
my baby. I know some people might think like geek
versus my baby, or like the Geekers films, which which
you know kind of is now, but that was my
baby because I think that was my idea and that
was just something I wanted to do a lot, I
just because we had fun doing that type of stuff
outside of the podcasting. And I'll always say that, of course,
people tune into the podcast for our personalities and you know,
want to hear what we think about the news or movie,
which I appreciate, right, but the geekers gone. It was
the first time that people were tuning into content we
were doing that was just strictly Yeah, of course we're
playing video games that are Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, PlayStation, et cetera.
But it's content that's just us. It's our personality, it's
fun things. We're creating what we're doing. And it was
really stretching the bug of one creating because I had
many times try to do filming stuff and stop installs
of people moving or this didn't work out. So worked
that bug and I've always you know, before I linked
over Emily, my plan, I want to do wrestling, and
then I realized, no, don't want to be that person
that would be on the road all the time, miss
a bunch of stuff. No, Like I realized that when
I got my first dog, of like, oh, I don't
even want to miss the first puppy year. So it's
like I'm get home sick really easy. So like that's
not the job, but I still that passion. I love
that industry, right, So it was this concoction of Okay,
we're gonna take the esports element of playing video games,
having tournaments, win, loss record, et cetera. But then we're
gonna take the entertainment element from yeah, movies and TVs,
but full on wrestling, the storylines, the characters, all that
stuff that would make you invested. And that's how it started.
If you go and watch the first tournament's just like
us playing games. A little trash talk here and there,
but there is the infamous promo which I always apologize
to Dylan. He did not a lot of stuff. I
apologize to everybody that did the Gatlin because there's a
lot of stuff I did not tell them was gonna happen.
But it was the we want, like I wanted genuine reactions.
Because you can go back and we talked about we
did the gaunlt cast. You can see an episode where
we tell, oh, Taylor Kirkland's your surprise. Upon act surprise,
you watch Taylor, He's not surprised at all. It seems
like fake, very very fake, right, that's what it's like. Okay,
from now on, if we can pull this off, gonna
do that. And don't get me wrong, tensions would rise
sometimes in those tapings as well, because it would be
some stuff and it would always just be would for entertainment.
Same thing as you know, the moment where Dylan will
shake my hand, I don't shake it and I cut
this promo like bitching him out and the classic you know, god,
what do I say? Oh, think of the fans, but
fuck the fans, And that's what it pretty much changed.
But it felt like for a while it was just
me as his character and everyone's reacting to me. And
that's why for me, season two is my favorite season
because everybody's becoming a character, even though on commentary is
becoming a character. Like I said, Jesco's great, that stuff.
Amber was the champ, and like just having this great run,
Me and Taylor got together. You saw the emergence of Kirkland,
you got Sarah's in there, you got Reuben in there,
you got Kyle, Emily was in and out. At times
it was it was my baby because it's something where yeah,
it was just us playing video games, but man, at
times there's so much on the line and so much
trash talk and so much build up to those matches.
The winds or the losses would they would hurt, they
would stick with you for weeks, they would haunt you.
But then when you got the win, no better feeling,
no better feeling than seeing that screen light up. It's
your character, your team, whatever, you got the win, and
it's for someone against a rivalry, some for the championship.
For a second, you would just like be elevated, you
would be on cloud nine, you'd be the rock Chills.
You would get invested in that. We all did invest
at different times, right, whether it was good just being
on winning streak one Winter title, or badge just on
losing streak like Taylor was right, but it was something.
There was magic. And that's why I said the Custard
Dome's my fair era, because that was a time where
we would say, hey, we're gonna do We used to
do I think like three episodes a month for I
looked do eight month seasons and be threeps. So we
were pumping about a lot of content, a lot of stuff,
and those times where Buka, we're gonna pick a Friday
night a Saturday night, everybody would record, you know, sometimes
three to six matches whatever, and you would have everybody there.
You would have Jessica Amberg, Kirkland Tyler, and then like
I said, you'd have you know, Dylan because he's hosting it.
You'd have people that are not associated but they're watching.
So it would be you playing this game against somebody.
The stakes are high for whatever reason, storyline or real
and you have, you know something its close to a
dozen people watching you and a win, a score, crossing,
a finish line and the crowd erupting. That's why for
the galling, you know, kind of ended too because it's
like we did the online stuff and we did just
a couple of people, but it was never the same,
which is like, okay, we got two of us here
when you had the custardome filled with the podcasters, friends,
random people watching this go down, The antics, the laughter, man,
it was that's something where that I appreciated because I
could feel ending just because just and things people moving
and got harder. But I absolutely loved the gauntlet. That
was like I said, that was my baby. Yeah, I man,
there was a way to ever bring it back. Little
tease if you're this episode's coming out, the full episode's
coming out after the tenure, you know what's up? Uh,
you know, so tune into that. Some announcements that day
tons of fun. But yes, the Gauntlet was something special
and if you watch it, there's a full A to
B story. For the most part. We had to pivot
sometimes because people will move, people not be available. But
like with Me and Taylor's arc, Me and Dylan's ark,
Me and Kirkland's arc, Jessica and Kirkland's arc, Taylor and
Kirkland's arc, like well a couple. Like I said, we
didn't get to finish off stuff with Amber. That's it
was tough. We didn't get to finish off with stuff
with Taylor, Reuben me Uh, Taylor had an arc with
Kirkland and this tie for that last year when was
pretty much US four holding down the gult like, but
there was little story beats. And that's why I made
those hype videos where even if you're just watching the
back and you're watching stuff like, oh, in the middle
of Taylor and Kyle having a sports title match, I'm
on Taylor's team, but when Kyle's doing well, I'm cheer form.
But I go, oh, man, I shouldn't have cheered. There's
just little stuff you could watch. And that's some of
some of our best and I'll say my best storytelling
of just thinking of little stuff. And that's the fun
thing because we had to it was not scripted. You
had to change on the fly. And uh yeah. So
favorite matches that I competed in, Oh boy, I think
the most legendary one. And I you know, I'm not
gonna toot my I am gonna fucking toot my own horm.
You know, I hate to, but you know I love to.
There's many great matches. I will still go down and
say the greatest match of all time in the golf
that is myself versus Kyle Sports title Rocket League specifically
we had a best three or yeah, best of three.
So there's other games in there, but that because at
that point I'd only played Rocket League once in my life.
When Dylan kicked the shit at me, I think that
was Kyle's first time playing it too, so like and
when Dylan kicked the showy, it was not like close,
like it was like a very bad right. I think
I got like a scor He might let me get
another one, but we had very little experience after that.
I did play more, but that match is magic. I
have a big comeback. I think I'm down by three
in like the last few minutes. You watch that finale too,
of the way the ball bounces, the way Kyle hits
it in his head a little bit, and I helped
push it in. It's something same thing. That's a moment
where you can see Amber, Dylan Taylor in the bag
watching and they are ripped there like you know, Ei,
there's this great moment with like Kyle take to Sean
missing Dylan like just fucking stands and he's like watching
like and then I win, I run and I hug
Taylor in his arms and the whole place is going
crazy like everything. But that to me is like, if
you want to know what the geek for Scarlin is,
watch that match. It has story. It is drama. It
has the real stuff because that's something sometimes something where
I can make the best story and we can create
something all together because all of them, like you know, everybody,
I'd have this idea, but they brought stuff, whether it
was the interview, a story beat, a story idea, like
it was a collaborative effort where Okay, that's like I said,
some best storytelling I would have, but I would never
been able to do that without all of them. But
at the end of the day, sometimes those matches just
wouldn't deliver. If the squash, it's like, damn, that sucks.
Like story everything build up, but you know the actual
match sucked, so oh well, we move on. But that
had everything. Every match I had with Kirkland was something special.
I think specifically probably the last one we did for
like the last championship, because he had never won the championship,
but I had never been a double champion, so I
want to do that. He won, and you know, hopefully
it'll be one day. But he was my biggest rival. Somehow.
I had lots of rivals, but in that league, it
wasn't Taylor, it wasn't Kyle, wasn't Dylan, it was you know,
it was Klin and we pushed each other to the limit.
I beat him for that sports style the first time,
and if you watch all those other matches, they come
very close, and somehow I would just always lose them,
especially at last two with the fucking Mario sluggers. There's
even the fucking NBA fight or the Fight Night where
the game you know, does counting in a box and
we were down and even the referee had his fingers
up for ten and it should say damn, but no,
Kirkland gets up and it's like always something would happen
to me. I prepare for stuff, lose by a point.
Kirkland and I match each other very well. I'm not
sure how it would go now is he still plays a
lot more games than I think I do. But almost
all those buts say specifically the last one, trying to
think there's anything more that I was. And there was
a sports style contendership I had with Tyler where he
did we boxing very good, very close. That was tons
of fun. And then all the other ones too were
me and Taylor. We were the last team champions versus
Kirkland and Tyler because they had lots of good chemistry. Tyer,
Sarah and we had a very epic Mario party one
and it was great. Go it's on there. I think
there's two of them on there. We ran it back
because it was so good. But uh, those were probably
the ones, off the top of my head I can
think of that I was in that were the best ones.
And there was probably some other ones. But the matches
I watched that were great. Dylan Geek Mania one, Dylan
and Amber and Rock League that's a really good one.
They were very close, which was good because there are
other matches were good, but that was like the closest
and that led to Dylan retiring. That was a good
story beat there. Uh route, I've never been a Pokemon fan.
I don't play the games. Ruben versus Kirklam and Pokemon
Stadium and the first Geek for Wascotland Ladder very good,
very close. There's like a like a ten minute stretch
where it's very close and it's like any hit could win.
I guess a part of that too, I should talk
about for myself when I'm or Stanley and gold Mine.
That was tons of fun. My first match ever won that,
But that was a really good time. Trying to think
what other really good ones were for other people. I
talked about the Rock League one, talked about Oh well,
how could I not talk about Kirkland and Taylor the
cod series that that's those are the other ones. If
it's not me and Kyle, it's those two specifically, the
first two. It's Kirkland's surprise entrance and then won the
first Extual Life we did. They were very close and
we did some rematches and they're always close to We
did like that best series where they played multipes, but
those first two man, same thing came down to the wire,
last point, nitty gritty it was. It was a sight
to behold, and especially because Kirkling medium two times and
Terry's got soap pissed. But I've been there, You're you're
right there wanting to win and you just can't. And yeah,
that that those were really good ones, and that that's
a series that hopefully we can run back again one
day and see and see if they still got the magic,
because it was always could seeing them evolve and change up.
But yeah, that that's a really good one. I'm trying
to think there's anything else that I'm I'm missing here, No,
I think I think those are the best ones that
come to mind as far as like the tippy top
out of those people. Yeah, no, I'm but yeah, gall
it absolutely loved it. Can ever do that full time
again right now? But uh uh, yeah, there was a
magical time Extra life. Man, if there is nothing else
that comes from this podcast, if it were to end, tomorrow.
I'm very grateful because of what we've done for Extra
Life and the fundraising. We've at this point raised over
eleven thousand dollars for the BC Children's Hospital, which is
very to me impressive because we we're not like fucking
local celebrities. We start off with, you know, we're four now,
about four or five, six seven, a couple group of
people in Kelowna, with not a former fan base, not
coming from a different show. We just start off and yeah,
some that's friends and that's family, but that's a lot.
A lot of it is you guys that listen, and
then random people that come board me. I'm gonna help
this cause that's been the best thing. The events themselves
have always been fantastic. There's always times where you get
tired and noy with people. Crookland's always making some fucking
squawking sound or some sort of meme something. Dylan's kicking
my ass at fucking four am in some game, and
I'm just over it because I'm not in a competitive
mood anymore. But these guys still, I'm like, I'm tired,
I'm done, especially because I'm always promoting stuff, so I'm
like an extra level tired sometime, so that's where usually crash, right, Okay,
I just need a break for a second here. But
at the end I'm always like, man, I could keep
going and I can't wait for next year. Every time
it ends like I can't wait. So on the fun side,
it's that. But what we can do just by the
power of the podcast has been mind blowing to me,
Like I would have never thought we could have raised
those amounts sometimes just some of the single year's amounts.
Some years are higher than others, some years are lower,
but it doesn't matter because it all goes towards the
v C. Chrown's Hospital. And as somebody I didn't have,
like a you know, some people have a lot worse,
but spend time the nick you those things do help tremendously,
and you think about the people that need funding or
need the help, and getting letters from families that have
cite specifically, hey, your funds went to this or did this,
and you see a picture like, man, this this does
a lot. And I hope all of you that I
was listening to this and have ever donated or even
just shared a link also like that's a that's all
you too, like that that you have done that. We
couldn't have done that. Those funds, those money, and wherever
we do in the future alone, whether it's you know,
again sharing the links, buying the T shirt, or whatever
it may be, and it doesn't matter whatever amount is,
because it all goes there. That's your guys' success too.
That's a full that's our biggest group thing, and that's
the thing where that is our greatest achievement. It's not
the endgame numbers. It's not the you know, how many
gallon videos we did, how many downloads we have, how
many years we're going. It's the extra life stuff. That's
the stuff that you know, I want to be probably
remembered for as far as you know, trying our best,
you know, we don't hit our goal over year, but
if people can talk about one thing leaving geek first,
and and it's tough because those things aren't even on
the podcast feeds, right, It's like something that's almost separate.
But those have created some great memories for just myself
as a person, the head shavings multiple times, spending time
with all those people for literally a day. But is
all those funds going towards and we've done other stuff too,
as far as you know, Black Lives matter. In the past,
I won and the Extra Lives are main one. So
all those have been great. And that's where people steppedup
because we could have done the first year and like
barely hit our goal and be like, well, I guess
this is nothing right and and we very much appreciate
it because we know you already support us. We know
somebody already are on Patreon. That means the world, because
that is that is the most important thing. That's something
that I'll always be happy if, even for some reason
tomorrow all four of us hate each other and never
talk to each other again. What we did extra life,
we can always be proud about that, and it's it's
an event. It is our you know, there is Golden Geeks,
but that's where the our year and we used to
do like Gauntlet stuff. There is a year, and to me,
that's like the big finale that leads through everything. Now
we have our GV day, but that is for me
the cap or and that's honestly just that day is
another favorite thing. But yeah, I'm very proud of everybody
that's helped us. I'm very proud of every other GEK
first member that's another thing too. I'll the spin off
people peel past their families have helped us out. That
is a that is the best thing we've done as
a community, and I'm very appreciative of everybody that's helped us
with that. So again, thank you. Let's see give your
thoughts on each GV member. Oh boy, so Travis is great.
No do this here, I worry had our rant or
of course, where to start. Let's go off podical order.
That's ally. I always do alphibitical order because I don't
want to shake the boat everybody, you know, because all
of them twenty five points that shouldn't be my points
because there's three of them. But for me, I'm another
twenty five. I digress. Well, excuse me. So let's start
with Dylan mussh Man. I guess I met these guys
all at Target, but met him. He you know, the
stroke of a good person. I will likely never drive,
never a car. I always hit a bus. Everywhere a
person will offer hey, I'll drive you, because I don't
ever ask and offer me. Then and then we sometimes
had some of shifts once we started working early, but
since then we were friendly. He's like, okay, that's a
good person. And that's the first thing to start off
with is take the podcast upside because there's two you
guys see a lot of it, but there's still two
sides to the coins here where there's the podcast versions
of all these people and then there's the people people
version of these people a lot of people dropping. Dyl
Muss is one of the best people I've ever met
as far as kind hearted and just being a good person.
He's somebody that if you need to call and need something,
he will pick up the phone and be there. That's
happened multiple times in my lifetimes that have been not
great times. He has been there one specifically that he
knows about, which was very tough time for me. Yeah,
he's just a good person. He might be the best
person of the bunch here you know, sorry Kirk Day
and everybody else, but just he always means well. He's
always very caring to people that are either his long
term friends or even just people he's barely met or known.
Always very welcoming, like we talked about before Bringing People podcast,
but just even in general, bringing like someone like like
okay Geef for speaking stuff like hey, we're having a part,
Hey Kim bring my friend or I am absolutely welcomed
to his home, like very gives any everybody starts like
a clean slate with Dylan, gives them all shot and
then very welcoming, straight up conversation with anybody. So just
as a person, let you guys know, he's a great
man and I'm very happy to have him as one
of my long term friends. And yeah, like I feel
like I kind of met him first really out of
the whole bunch there because it targets a joke, but yeah,
I didn't talk to many people because I'm always like
I don't need any more friends, and here I am.
I got four and then I still count Amber and
Jessica and Ruben and another Tyler and Connor and stuff.
So yeah, great guy that we've bonded a lot over
many times, especially because like and to transition to podcast stuff,
he to me is like a huge piece of the growth,
especially early on because before there was a time where
I did trust hold you a lot of solo casts.
There was many times where it's like a comic con
or a big announcement or all a trailer drop in
this day and it's all Taylor's busy here and Jessica's
busy here and kirkling on the west side, so we
can't get here, and then you know, no slight to
them at times they're very busy. We all are, right,
but Dyale with something that was busy, but would make
sure to Okay, well, we should get this out, we
should do this and be there, you know, like even
like the Marvel com Connor Our Friend game, everyone was
not Availableen I could have done that, but like I
wanted somebody else there, like someone that is like, we're
the geek first, right. It's that quote down he says
about the Avengers, you know, faster alone, further together. And
I've learned that where sure he can spin off, you
can do, Trust told you, but it's like and then
they we started this together, and I still want to
do this together. Those are still If you say, hey,
you can never do a Soul cast again, that's fine
because I got the crew, but very early on that,
like the Spider Man retrospective with me and him and Kyle,
the Marvel Retrospect with me, him and Taylor, like a
lot of those spin off show Netflix have failed with
Emily and Jessica, myself and him, a lot of those
spin off shows that were not like Taylor and Rube
and Me and Kyle like that were just like hey,
heefs doing their own thing with a different dynamic. The
spinoff shows with Inky. First, he was on a lot,
if not all those, right, I'd say, like a good
seventy to eighty five percent, And that did help grow
the brand like that, even some of those shows ended,
those help grew the brand. So he was like a
very like gee versus not where it is at all
without him in those early years. And then he left
for a little bit. But really, when I looked at it,
because I always think that's the thing where other people
had left her taking breaks, Dylan was with myself consistently,
I'd say the first because what to twenty nine, So
first four years, i'd say, I'll see him, say five, yeah,
because COVID he was still there during that stuff. He
was on all those casts with me, like it was
rare for me to miss one, and wherever him to
miss one, whether it was like maybe sick underweather. So
I think when I looked at when I was editing
these videos, he was only gone for like six to
eight months something like that. But it fell like forever
because Dylan used to be on those all. Right, So
when we did become a small business and he stopped
both this before that, we that I went to him,
I went to Jessica and like which Essca was harder.
Didn't really work out for her to come back full
time and do everything and things. That just changed some
of the dynamic as far as the podcast and the
time of it and the date of it. It's like,
well we can't. Before it was you know, it sounds bad.
Before it's like, oh, well we can go all We'll
do a review this day that you know, do it
at different time, do this different times, Like, no, we can't.
We got to get this out as soon as possible
because you know podcast world, the longer a review episode
comes out sometimes can just lose money continually. Right, So
it just became more business structured and with her life
for their kids, it was just harder, right, So but
we went to them as far as you know, Jessica
and Dilan and with Dylan, it's like it's like a
when we were doing a small business. For me, it
was key off, like there's no way if you Hays
said no, I'm not coming back though, you know, that's
his choice. I would have not been happy with it
and with him selfishly, but that would have been his choice.
But I felt like it's neat like he to me.
It's like when we talk about, you know, Doom's Dancer
Wars come out, we tell about those core Avengers. There
are definitely Amber, Kyle and Jessica that were on them,
but it is the you know, the core for the Horseman,
just because it's the people. There's not a time and
Keik first were not any of us were on it.
You know, we're the ones that are on them the
most if you look at percentages wise right, and as
far as a podcaster, he's just like a I consider
him the Swiss Army. And if he first, especially early on,
I remember stuff like he had no idea what the
killing joke was, or that Mark Hamill voiced a joker,
any of that. But it's like a couple episodes in
I talk about that and he just engages with me
to the point where in the first six months there's
so much stuff that I talked about that I thought
he knew or was a fan of, but wasn't really.
But he was just good at talking about that and
he's better than anybody. Same thing. It was a couple
of months ago where it was very Star Wars heavy show,
and he's admitted like he's not that in the Star
Wars because on the choice they made the brands, like
the quality kind of dip not my stuff, right, And
I just remember listen to the episode of Taylor's hitting
it with Star Wars stuff and they're like, what are
you doing? He's not seeing this. That's a tough thing,
but he rolls with the punches and he might ask
a question two to clarify, but then he's gonna give
you a great episode and a great conversation. Like Dylan
is the I think I have anybody you can put down,
probably even more than me because there's tons of stuff
Like you can't put me on a fucking Pokemon cast,
but you can put Dylan on a resting stream and
he's gonna adapt and have some questions or have some
fun with it. You know, where you put me on
Pokemon stream, I'm gonna be fucking bitter. I'm gonna be
poop poo face, like I'm not gonna be happy about it.
But Dylan, you know, I said, it's the Swiss arm
and I freaking get anything and already talked about a
little bit side quest, but you know that he headlines
that show, he brings it, he does law the leg
work there, and there'll be no side quest with him
because I just don't feel the quality that show would
be up to snuff. Right even if even if Dylan said, Hey,
from now on, I just want that show just be
me and you guys aren't on it, he never would,
but I go, well, I trust that show still because
it's Dylan hosting it, right, and he's a just a
bevy of knowledge when it comes to the video game
stuff in that world, and you know, the guys made
his own game. Now he's working on other stuff like
he's he's ends the fun game too, Like he's tremendous
at that area to the point where it's it's you
can't replace, which is like another person you need to find,
a very specific, you know, one million type of person
that not like going to do that stuff more than us,
but all the other stuff. And then we're still friends
and he still got his life. So yeah, having Dylan,
like he's been to say back, but he's been back
for like a long time. But there's no geek First
without Dylan especially, I think a lot of those episodes
early on the growth, the seasons, i'll say, the years,
and again hosting it of course that too. Dylan is
a building block for Geek First, so much needed there.
And yeah, I think I said, great man, love the guy.
Have you known mister pats or Kirkland and his time
at geek First is the biggest example I think I've
seen probably in my life, to be honest, of seeing
someone evolve and seeing how much of a better person
they can be at everything. And I'm not talking about
his personality as far as all being a good guy.
So no, no, Kirkland has always been a nice guy. He's
always been a good guy. But you can literally see
that first year where yeah, he's on the podcast, I
gotta throw to him for him to talk, but he's
very quiet, you know, keeps himself most time, has an
opinion and will talk, but it's it's a bit more guarded.
It's not as confident right where you use the Kirkland
of GV fifteen sixteen to now is a completely fucking
different person. And like you know, we all evolve, but
I still feel like you look at all of us
there's general like, Okay, I've seen her Dylan travesty of change,
but you know, particularly same personalities, right, I've tried to
do things real my personality in you know, I still
talk over people. Sorry to everybody on the geek fors
try not to try to remind myself very bad, try
to say not like as much as well. But with Kirkland,
everything from the podcasts at the beginning to the end,
he just as much more expressions. He's so he's so charismatic,
and he's good at weaving things in. Me and him
both do this to each other. One of my favorite
things on a podcast is trying to make that man break,
whether it's here, whether it's if we go camping or
they're hanging out. I guess I just love the sound
of Kirkland's laughter, and I think it's the same thing
for him for me because he'll try and break me
and we just feed off each other. And that's where
for me as far as kirking with the podcasting too,
like we can just get going. That's where it probably
sometimes good to have Taylor dealing with us. But if
there's a funk in the air and we're laughing, we
can It is just like tas Manian devil together. And
that's one thing I love about our friendship is we
can just we can have a good time. You know.
I'm happy for him and Shay happy for my sister
and that there's one time my sister had a crush
on him a long time ago. Nothing ever happened, you know,
because he was with somebody and shoes and old enough.
But there's a multiverse where Shae hate you because I
wish this man was my brother in law. I wish
I could be having the Christmas with him, the Thanksgivings,
because we just have Kirkland has that innate energy to
make me have a better day, and we just get
each other's humor and put it back to him evolving.
And that's all jokes. We love Shae and my sister,
we love you know, her boyfriend. He's a good guy. Gauntlet,
same thing. You watch his first entrance very you know
me say yeah, I'm here whatever, Like you can tell
he's going to the motions near the end when he's
the champ sports Champion's going for the main title. He's
fucking arrogant in the best way. He's cocky. He has
such a big personality. The best thing I can say
about Kirkland as far as the geek first era and
that time is and Kirkland, if you know he hears anybody,
there's no offense when Kirkling is around the first time
when he left, it did suck and it's like, oh, man,
we got to get a new replacement for him, or
oh we're down a person and we missed him because
we missed our friend. But it was like, Okay, well we're
gonna carry on as a podcast in those early years
now once Kirkling because he moved away for a little
bit and came back to this context when he came back,
and the more he evolved and grown. Now, if you
were to leave the podcast, it would be like detrimental.
It would hurt the podcast significantly. Where it's still hurt
the podcast at the beginning, but because he was quieter
and his person actually hadn't developed or just wasn't out
there yet. Now you know he's got all the way
to hosting solo cast stuff like that. It would we
would lose viewers from that, we would lose money from that,
we would lose people's attention for that, and the quality
of the show would go down. Yeah, it's one of
those things that he now he is completely irreplaceable, whether
he to leave or die, don't die kurkly because they
need to still break you a couple more times in
the cast. You know, I'm not done with it yet,
but it would Geek First would never be the same.
He is a vital part where I talk about those
core Avenger characters like he is one of those where
it would be completely changed. You'd almost would rather go
start a new podcasts and be like, oh, Kirk is
not here, and we would try, but there would be
a hole missing in the Geek First round, where of
course other people dipped in and out, but we've carried
on and adapted and found a groove. I think that
with them all, But I'm just saying the difference of
the beginning. He was one of those that left and Okay,
this sucks. He's one of our friends, but we're gonna
figure it out. Change the podcasts where now it's like, okay,
that's that's losing a limb and yeah, and he's he's
someone that's very positive. I'm somebody that there was a
situe and I talked to shape out sometime we're camping
the situation in my life that something's going on, and
I'm very pessimistic, very cynical, and all it might work out,
you know this guy this, and no it's not gonna happen.
And it did work out. It was all for the best.
And now I know that if life gods me down,
if I talk to Kirkland, it's not just bullshit like
he you know, obviously can't predict predict everything, but he's
a very positive force. You know, even though he's always
beaking up me, he's always he's probably just still bitter
I beat him. He's not the first sports champion, Kirkland.
I know you're the last sports champion. That's great, whatever,
But whenever they look at that title lineage and that's first,
it's me kicking your ass. First ever knockout too with
the givers Collein. Just want to let you know. Ah,
but that's the thing. I can shoot the shit with him,
but he's a very positive, upliving person that will care
and you know, talk to your saying your others, your children,
et cetera, not saying the others don't, but makes a
good effort and uh, yes, I appreciate Kirkland. Love that guy,
and I'll look forward to next time to trying to
crack him on air and see what happens. But yes,
just again the evolution of someone on there. He is
very key to the success now of geek First, and
he hosts single cast all that stuff. Yeah, he's just
a man now.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Uh, he was a boy, he grew into oh man.
Finally mister taylor Field somehow, not by design, you know,
start talking again. I feel like I met Dylan first,
and then I met Kirkland, was friendly with him, and
then Taylor just came in on a carnation and met
Kirkla were having about Marvel, and you know, describes our relationship.
But that's where I say we are a union, all
of us, but especially him and I because in whenever
Geekers ends, you can't talk about taylor Field without trump
let me not screw up. You can't talk about taylor
Field without talking about trust now, and you can't talk
about trust now without talking about taylor Field. We are
linked together for eternity, uh everything. We've become this little
duo that you know, it was not planned, and I
think it's just I have to give him credit. He's
the guy that, you know, maybe he's getting a little older,
a little wiser, but he's the guy that would always
go with my silly, stupid ideas, even stuff I can gauntlet.
If it's like, oh, we're doing this, this and this.
I know I feel, but I'm gonna do it. Oh well,
let's do this wrestling match. Well I don't know I
feel with this, but let's do it. Okay, same thing
anything geek first. Most of the time, it's no offense
to the other guys. It's just because there's been so
many times that we've had ideas and conversations. When I
have an idea, you should go to him first. We
bounce each other, stuff off each other, right, And that's
why even then I know if Taylor saying no, they'm like, Okay,
I gotta rework this idea or think about something. Same
thing with filmmaking stuff, right. We just we somehow talk
a lot. We talk daily. You know, some somehow we
are gonna be linked forever, which is just it's funny
to think about when that was not planned. But he
is the guy that if I'm going to war, I
want him on the front lines with me. It's the
Steve and Bucky. We're with each other till the end
of the line, even if we're gonna argue and fight.
And again, there's a time when we almost quit doing
the podcast very earlier on because we're gonna arguing about
Jurassic World. I'm very grateful to all the geek first
guys and him and I because that's the true sign
of a friendship is you can always have just And
I know this sounds trivial. It was trivial, but it
was very early on and we didn't fully understand each other.
But right now I fully understand taylor Field. Taylor Field,
he's a good friend, he's a good man, he's a
good husband, good father. I've seen that in full effect
because now we're at that point where, you know, it's
weird where now our kids play again. My kids love
his kid, you know too much, but our children play together,
and it's gone to that point where it's evolved to
generations and even Madison. We love mass and one nicest
people in the world, right And I say right, like
you guys might know the like you guys know that,
but trust me, she is probably the nicest person I've met.
But that's also Taylor, and that's Taylor is forever gonna
go down to me as the heart and soul of Geek. First.
There was a time I can't remember when he's tried
this to try us with Galllet. He tried this with
Geek first. He's like, oh, maybe I'll just step back
and do the editing side and the thumbnails, and you can
do that. And I just said, there's no podcast without you.
Most you know, most people, I feel like tune in
for him because he is the light. Even after all
these years we've tried to work him down and make
him a little more pessimistic, little more cynical, which we
have a little bit, but he's still just like I'll
beacon of hope. He's still just that guy that when
you see how he consumes content, talks about content, we
want to be that guy. How he can still be
fully in love with a brand, with a franchise, with
an ip with something after it's wronged him, giving him
bad content whatever. He is the most positive person I
know about this stuff. And that's something I wish I
was able to do more. Is just lead with my heart.
You know, I always usually think up here first, you
know which, And sometimes that's good. But with Taylor Field,
that is his biggest asset. Where he he you know,
heart is on a slip for podcast for life. He's
a great man, he's a great friend. He is somehow,
like I said, we're linked together. I always want a brother.
He has somehow turned into like the little brother I
never had. You know, I don't ever said him said
that to him. So he's here and here first, but
it it just kind of fell and happened that way.
I was luckily best man at his wedding. Don't know
if I'm ever gonna have a wedding, but he'll be
up there with me when it happens. I've already told
him and Kyle they have to share it because him
and Kyle are like they're two separate eras of my life.
As far as the you know, a best friend I've had,
and it's yeah, it's I'm very like I could go
down the ship and I hoped he was with me
and I could I hope in forty years or whatnot,
when we're doing something about Star Wars and we're arguing,
I need that dynamic there, you know. And like I said,
we are eternally bound now. And he I guess that
the le passion, as Batista says in Dexter, that's what
he brings to Geek first, and that's not a dispute.
He can put things in an articulate way, he can stress,
but things he can actually have some great constructive criticism
on brands and stuff that are because he loves them
so much. It's not like hate driven first. It's really
thinking about, Okay, what would change, and not just like
in a fan perspective, do this. Don't be me wrong.
Sometimes it's just like, hey, where's throng? But most of
the time when it's a critique because he loves that stuff,
it's really coming from Okay, what specifically is an issue here?
Not just they didn't do this or that didn't happen
or this shot was bad, but like, what is the
core of the issue and why do we have an
issue with it? And he's a very thoughtful guy in
those times. And yeah, like I said, there's no there's
literally no Geek for some them because it was his idea,
he came up with the name, he helped get that going.
He kind of put us all together in a sense.
And yeah, I think that people they tune in to
hear what antics and again he's probably the all of us.
Try me, Dylan Kirkland. We will make jokes, string things together,
have a little bits. You know. Taylor's the funniest as
a person. Taylor is unpredictable. You cannot predict what he
is going to do. He's going to say something, reveal something,
and just getting knock you on your feet. So, like
I said, there there's no Geek for us without that man.
And then hmm, finally, but I'm saying this part for
the video that we're gonna show first because when we
play first, we're gonna thank the fans first in the
video because you guys are the most important. Because yes,
usually we always save you for the end like we're
doing now. We usually save you for the end, and
lots of other stuff happens, but we need to start
off this video. This ten years, this conversation with each
and every one of you that have gone us to
this point ten years is crazy. We got to see
you know, the downloads go from three digits to four digits,
to five digits to six digits. We definitely would not
be here without all of you. In mouth ways, it's
just the podcast, our gear, our technology, this podcast network,
everything is because of all you. We have never had
to ban a fan from Alfter nine from Discord, and
I take that is that we just attract like minded,
good people and that's been the best thing is it's
a nice little community that's turned into like a small family.
It's all we're a bunch of cousins. You know, we're
not first family, got our parents, our boyfriend's girlfriends, sisters, brothers, whatever.
But the family barbecue, the reunion, we'll all get together.
And you guys have just made it such a good community.
And you guys are so positive on the things we do,
whether it's our content, whether it's extra life, whether it's whatever.
So if you guys support us so much more than
you know we deserve because we're just a couple of
people in Colonna, small Colonna, working the best we can.
But this ten years is because of you. We're here
in these chairs, but you guys are the ones that
created the possibility for the chairs to be here, for
the streaming on the camera to be here, for the
mics to be here. You're the lifeblood of all this.
You contribute to this, you build this. We're just the
people that are enacting the plans. You know, We're just
the people that are trying our best to make you happy.
And we hope, you know, we do hope. I hope
that we have made you happy. We try our best.
Don't get me wrong. We will work hard and be tired,
but we're never phoning in. We're never taking anything for
granted because we know that there are thousands, now maybe
there's millions, but thousands of podcasts out there, and the
fact that you've chosen us for these past ten years,
whether it's for a day, a month, a year, the
whole time, whatever it may be, even if you hit
download once, we very much appreciate it. It's meant the
world to us. As I said, we've just started this
podcast in a basement, and here it is, thousands of
episodes made downloads, a bunch of great people, we've met,
thousands of dollars towards charity, multiple projects created, all because
of you, guys. I can't I've said this before, but
just to stress it again, You've literally changed my life.
You've changed my family's life, all in a positive way.
More than you know, more than I can express some words,
You've brought a happiness to my life that I didn't
know could be possible because of just the support that
we've gotten for a hobby. And we are forever in
a debt of gratitude you or forever your servants. Like
I said, there's no words that can really put a
perfect ball on it other than just saying thank you. Uh,
and we we very much appreciate this. You're you're the
heartbeat of this thing. Yeah, it's crazy. We've met so
many good people over the years, people that are still around,
people that have you know, gone on the wayside and
who knows they're around for a little bit, but now
they're gone. But we've appreciated all of the instances, all
the interactions, all the after nines, and yeah, you've, like
I said, you've literally made my dreams come true. We
don't start making films and those type of things without
you guys supporting us. There's no way that happens. There
knows way we can fund that. So literally, things that
I've been dream about my whole life, like oh, I
really want to make a film and do that stuff.
You've facilitated me building relationship with my friends to continue
to become a small business and has to do that
you facilitate us to get that gear that time, those softwares,
everything for us to go into film festivals. Those were
dreams of mine that at times that you know that's
never gonna happen, and you made them happen. So I
will always be in debt to each and everyone of you,
and I very much thank you for what you've done
for myself. I guess my family, my friends here at
Geek first. Yeah, just love you, all of you. I
love you so much. You crazy bastards keep me going
every day, the discord, the comments, everything, I thank you.
And I don't know if we go do this for
another ten years, twenty, another couple of years, whatever it
may be. But I thank you for being here at
any point in the journey. And yeah, I love y'all.
And this is it. There's a tenure. There's our conversation
one an hour and a half. The other guys were like, oh,
I went forty minutes, I went thirty minutes. Too long,
fucking me blabber but it was worth it. And yeah,
I yeah, it's it's it's it's still weird coming to
the end of all this. And yeah, I hope there's
a twenty I hope there's a thirty, but even if
there's not, it's been one hell of a ride. Would
have never predicted meeting these four guys and then Jessica
and others along the way, but meeting these people at
Target and where life would take us, where we go,
what we do, and it's it's been a ride, and
it's been one of the greatest joys of my life.
Like I said, aside from my family, this is this
is ten years and I've never really thought about it
in the moment, but it is the best ten years
of my life. It is the portion that I'm going
to look back and the most fond of. And this
is one of the main reasons. And yeah, like I
said in the video a couple of months ago and
I came back, I bleed green, I'm gonna be going
to the wheels fall off till the ship goes down,
whatever it may be. And I hope you're along for
the ride, and we appreciate it and love you and kin.
Thank you very much. Happy GV ten day for all
of you. Thank you for getting us to this point,
thank you for everything. Thank you of the guys, thinking
everyone that's been on this episode before it's a podcast before. Yeah,
and it won't be boring h
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