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Ep. 218 - 1 click = 1 pill

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Ep. 218 - 1 click = 1 pill

The conversation is a humorous and introspective exploration of personal emotions, gaming culture, and human interactions. The speaker reflects on their journey from frustration to empathy in the context of playing League of Legends, noting how listening more and speaking less has improved their emotional well-being and relationships. They critique players’ behaviors—like crash outs and minimal chat input—while finding joy in the absurdity of gaming quirks, such as Oreo consumption or digital dice use. A central theme is mutual understanding: the speaker emphasizes how offering others the benefit of the doubt and validating emotions fosters connection. The dialogue also touches on deeper topics, including art ownership and cultural judgment, using lighthearted examples like a misused logo or a coffee shop dog incident. These moments highlight the tension between authenticity and judgment, often resolved with humor. The speaker concludes by celebrating the value of empathy, self-awareness, and playful storytelling in both gaming and real-life interactions, turning criticism into shared laughter and insight.

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You know, Kel, we said the nicest thing he ever said to me today. Yeah, what is that? He said, because he was talking about, I've been playing League Me and Nick, and we've been crashing out. I've been crashing out like fucking crazy. Nick has slight, slight crash outs, but they are crash outs. Yeah. Yeah. I go through his on band forms. I don't think he knows how to access them. I just like to look at them. I don't deny or accept. He didn't even know those forms. Yeah. But I look at them, and I can see what the person said. And it's literally just like L-O-L 2000 gold and no back, or something like that. It's very fun. It's like just, you know, being an asshole about how he's playing, and I'm like, "Oh, Nick, band that." I like that. I go through years, and it's like 10 people, and all they've typed is like, is a 07. Or any like, "What's your favorite song?" No. I explain myself now. I have this new air. Oh, my God. Okay. I'm going to talk about my personal journey of emotions through the lens of the video game without talking about the video game specifically. Are we okay with that audience? Okay. Check the box. Yes. If you say yes. All right. So I've been in a great mindset lately where I give people like Aiden does the benefit of the doubt. I swear to God. I'm looking at the world through like how like a fan would. I'm speaking less. I'm listening more. You know all the shit that's been happening in the world? I don't tweet anymore. I just type it out on my phone. Don't tweet it out. And I'm like, this is so much less stressful. I don't know, Maxine. I'm telling him. I'm telling him, Maxine. Yeah. Yeah. I walk on my toes. So what? And I'm like, this is such an interesting like new perspective for me that's being consistent. This is awesome. Someone because I was watching slime all day yesterday and someone I was watching both of you guys. But sometimes on the TV and someone goes and I get the TV I literally said I said that's a TV choice. I said that's the TV stream. Why is the cell phone in the pocket? You can listen to the audio. Someone pops in chat and they say, I love yard D and D. I listen to every episode. I just have a question. I wonder where you guys are rolling with digital dice instead of physical ones. Right. This is where you did chime in. I remember that. And and slime goes. Not the top. Appreciate it. Not the top. Just not going to answer that. No, here's what I said. And it's very similar. But I said, you have a large boogie. I have to point it out. Oh, thank you. Okay. Archie censor that. White boogie on the chair. Yeah, I almost did. I almost did. People would know. I get on the chair. I don't know my leg. Oh. It's just it's wet boogie. It's not. Yeah. That's grosser. Yeah. It makes me feel worse because he has like a fabric chair and not a metal wire. I didn't. I didn't do it. Sweet. I'm very sweet. I want to do it. But I'm trying to figure out what to do. See. I need nothing to do it. You have to pick other countries. Whoa. Brand to brand. Deodorant wipes. So yeah. So anyway, what I said was, hey man, that's really awesome. I'm having the worst day of league of all time that I could ever experience. I don't really want to talk about whether or not we do that. And if you come and find me and catch me on a day where I'm not feeling like this, I will sit and I will talk to you about D&D. Did you own this car? Okay. Okay. I got it. No problem. Yeah. And I was like, all you got to do is explain your thoughts. You explain your thoughts. Everything will be okay. You're such a sweet boy. And that's the part of me that is being more explicative of like, okay, maybe I'm pissy, but I'm going to sit with you and be like, you know what I say a lot? It's not your fault. It's not your fault. You don't know that. You don't know that I'm upset right now. And that's okay. It's not your fault. And then they just saved my bad. And I'm like, all right. I have been with you. I think it's funny though, is that the same way you remember your own highlights is like the same way you think like everyone in League is toxic because of the three guys in chat, because there is a mountain of crash outs under that one. I know. Under that one moment, I was clarity. But I just couldn't get to everyone. If everyone was there. I mean, this is a good question, right? If we fully explain the reasons behind our emotions, does it absolve us from displaying that? Oh my God. Can I do your own band forms today? I do them. I have dessert after the stream and I do them. What? I'm leaving them away. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I could. Just let dub and yeah. Oh, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, you could have dessert today. You could have dessert today. So you're going to play League today. And then I want to eat your dessert after. And then I get to choose. Dude, you're edging. So it's that most better when you beat off at night. Dude, I almost. He's like separating the Oreo. He's separating the Oreo. And then he just leaves a pile of cream. For the cream. For the cream. He just fuck the cream. Six is split. He goes. Just the cookie right now. And a bit. Some days he goes through more Oreos than he should because he's being bad because he's like, oh, I'll have more cream later. I don't mean. I had a salad yesterday. I do like the idea of being so upset, but you're banning people with the intention of giving yourself dessert. Because you get to ruin your. I don't think you're doing that. But the idea of. I'm going to ban this. I think you are. I think you slow-stroke it. Oh my god. When you read the apologies in the unbanned forms. Sometimes I tell them, if you clutch the unbanned form, welcome back. I literally say, this is your chance. And sometimes, like, you're real fucking mean. But sometimes they talk about the shit that they know about me and my personal life that like I'd rather not talk about as a way to hurt me. There was a guy. I don't remember what he said. Maybe you will. He said something on the lines of like, yo, bro, do you ever in your lane, homie? And then you banned him and you're like, you don't talk like that in real life. Whether you pause and you're like, maybe you do. No. That guy just. That was a guy. There was a guy who was just talking like, I know I was like, you don't talk like that real life. And then you can say, if someone is, it's mad, I love how this is so fun to talk about for you guys. I can talk about it. This is mine dessert. Because sometimes. I was desserting the morning. Dessert from breakfast. I kept it in the morning. We could dig through this psychology of Anthony Bruto. We are watching, like me and Yingo are not watching us on the TV necessarily for the top lane gameplay. I don't know if this is breaking news. I understand. Well, like I said, he said the, because he's like, okay, slime. So when you lose a fight in top lane and then you run right back to lane and fight again, are you tilted? Do you think that's good? And I'm like, okay, a rude question asked. I just woke up. He's like right before we do the part and he's like, but I told him, I was like, because sometimes man, my champ wins those fights. I'm not just. I am tilted, but it's like, I'm taking a calculated fucking coin flip that is weighted toward there. And I'm going for it. He's like, oh, so you're not just like running it down and it's like, no, I'm not running it down. It looks like that. But sometimes I win those. It's like calculating my coin flip. Damn, still 50/50. Let's run it. It's all the weighted coin flip and they're real. Anyway. So you know, like in the Phantom Menace, when Qui-Gon's like trying to move the dice with the forest, he's like, he thinks he's doing that. Yeah, it's just a guy doing this at fucking Vegas. No, you know what it is? It's Qui-Gon trying to do a mind trick on Wato who died, the Tridarian, who is, you cannot do Jedi mind tricks on a Tridarian. Yeah, you can't. And the top lane is Wato. And you keep thinking one time you Jedi mind trick will work because it's worked on so many. And he's a slave owner. So think about that. Yeah. So it was like. So it was a moral obligation to win the line. I guess they'd tell me within a five yard distance. Yeah. You mean he's too pale. It was slowed down. So he said to me, he's like, okay, well, I mean, when you get mad, it's very entertaining. And I was like, okay, good. I'm glad. I'm glad there's some value added. What do he message me yesterday, bro, because he messaged me, the whole gang was watching with me. Yeah, what he said was, and what I found very touching, because I guess I'm an insane Tylenol luncher, is that he said, you're, I was like, there's no, I'm not making it up. I'm not playing it up. I'm really that mad at a video game and that everyone's laughing at me. And he said, your natural state then is very entertaining. And that was the nice thing he ever said to me. He wrote to me, bro, the willpower. I'm exerting to not-slippin'-type-inslimesthat during any of these games. And I wrote, it's upsetting. And that was our conversation. Sheer willpower? I'm always nice to you. Huh? No, no, no. You know, Kelby thinks evil thoughts, Kelby wants to usually type the first thing it'll push your buttons. I know. But then usually gauges whether that will send you into a death spiral. You can get away with anything in that chat. I, well, sometimes you just get sad. So I don't want to make him sad. I do. But, bro. Well, sad, and you're a sad instrument package. I get it. I want to say everyone is vindicated for the years that they watched me and they said that I am like an Instagram ad that's bad on purpose to make people play the game. I get it because everything I am, my God. I see through you. Yeah. You are, we are the same. During your Mario speed honest today when chat was like, is this first time playthrough? That one, my God. Oh. Yeah. Is this a blind playthrough? I get zane. Yeah. I got fucking crushed by zane. You got crushed by zane? Zane hasn't been running for like a week. Yeah. Zane's been playing for five days and I boot up the game. It was cool. And I get shit on. He pee-bees in the race. Like he gets his best ever run in the race. How is that possible? You got 19 minute run. Pretty good. It was pretty good. It was 16. It was 16 star. Well, it's possible, Aiden, because he understands nothing about the game. He's a fucking idiot when it comes to this game. - Okay. - But there's one line that if he takes where, like, if he just perfectly fucking walks between these two buildings on this line, he's a god. - What's the line? - It's the 16 star line that he knows. It's the 16 stars. He doesn't know a 17th star. - Yeah. (laughing) - He couldn't tell you what. - That's so funny. - He did it while. - You're like 17 stars, Zayn. And he's like, "All right." - If I said go to Tall Tall Mountain for a billion dollars, and you can't have help, it would take him years. - Jumping into the painting that don't have stages. - You'd be guessing, is this Tall Tall Mountain? - This is cup, 'cause it's like getting mad at a competitive melee player for like not knowing all the trophies. - No, for not knowing all the characters. You didn't know that you could've locked Mew if you left your fucking console on. That's where he's at. - What? - What? - Not ours. - He has this one line where he's really good and he won, and now he made me, "All right, I have to write an essay now." - That was a mistake. - 200 words. - I have to write a five paragraph essay about how Zayn is the melee goat over a hungry box. - This is genius. - Don't even make sense. - This is a world, it's like, why would that be the cover? - Why would that be the cover? So where's Mango in this conversation? I don't know what the fucking-- - This is G.A.I. - Because I feel like it's so hard to find an amount of money that you could both do that would hurt you, but this uses your time. It's the best thing. - This is in your time. - It's also taking away from you, Dumbin. You don't like that. - It's so funny, 'cause Zayn was supposed to race Armada, who would have crushed Zayn. Yeah, I think they would have done some odds bit. - For sure. - It would have been like, "So he found a guy he can beat." - Bro, I thought I was gonna beat his ass. - Before the race, you're like, "First round, I'm gonna go for some dumb shit." I'm gonna go for dumb shit, the first race. - And then you were like three stars behind in the first four minutes. - Was it like a best of three? - It was a best of three, but I paid to be exonerated of two games, so it was basically a best of five. - Oh my God, wait, so it's when you lose the best of three and you're a best of five. - Yes, okay. - He hit him with, it wasn't even best of five, 'cause he hit him with all the marbles, one match. - Oh my God. - And then quit halfway through. - 'Cause I still got fucking cream. - Dude, dude, it was actually a day of L's. The between the streams. 'Cause after the stream, you were like, "Oh, I want to play this new game." And you're like, "Oh, where's my code?" For all the other shimmers have codes. Let me see the only one with that code. - Dude, everyone was doing it through his email on the stream. - Oh. - I thought the game was out. 'Cause I don't have to play the game. - He's tweeting at the vulver. - Dude. - Do I get a code? - It's a devolver game, and they didn't hit you up. - Then it fought, he made a new game. The guy made getting over. - Oh yeah. - First game in eight years. - And you didn't get one? - I didn't get a code. - That's actually kind of crazy. - I'm putting you in. - What fucking dick I've been putting you in there? - To be fair, you're, you're out of code. - I'm out of code. - That's what I'm saying. - Anyway, they got me a code, which is sick. I play it for an hour. As I'm playing it, I like trigger a cutscene. On my screen, it says, "Colonel error." And the whole fucking computer shuts down from the game. - Nice. - The whole fucking computer shut down. Yes, the whole fucking computer shut down. - The shit came with Vanguard. - And then I open it back up and they didn't save. - Oh. - And so I'm GG. They lost you. - They lost you on stream. - They lost me. - You know what, they shouldn't have given you a code. - They shouldn't have given me a code, bro. - Damn, yeah, that sucks. Is that the one where like you're moving your guy with every limb? - Yeah, that's all weird. - Yeah, it's all 3D-Quop. And he looks like fucking Doc-Ock. - Yeah. - But Fatter and he got a divorce. - The town on a lot. - He's sad. - He's kind of like a. - The town on a lot. - That was only baby. - The town chose that. I unfortunately think this has some legs. - Yeah, by the town. - I might be telling Tylenol jokes a year from now. - Go ahead, go ahead. - A controversial opinion. Trying to reverse autism. Kind of the dopest thing he's ever tried to do. - Go on against Big Pharma. - For once he has a girl. - Yeah, that isn't the worst thing in the world. - I like how he's sacking on Tylenol too. That's a big one. - Yeah, two, two. - That's clear. - He's not going for an e-show. - Dude, you know what? He's saying Tylenol because it's easier to say than to see the medicine. - Yeah. - That's why he keeps saying it. - Yeah. - So he's saying a brand which is crazy. It's like the fucking president go like, "Pep, he's bad." - Yeah. - And it's like, "What the fuck?" - No, no, no. - Because there's definitely some people who are, they're getting their, they're getting their generic a seat of medicine and they're like, "What, this is fine. This is fine. It's not Tylenol." - "Pep said Tylenol." - I thought my sister tonight, everything could be fine. - We're going against Big Pharma and everyone's like, "Okay, I like that." It's like Tylenol's first. We're like, "Yet, all right." - Yeah, it's best. - They all know that. - It's bad for you. - Dude, it's giving you autism. (laughing) - Hold on, back up. - Why? - It's also the rapture today. - Yeah. - So. - Yeah. - I'm afraid I'm afraid to play my league matches during the rapture. I don't feel like maybe I should skip a day. - Well, no, I think maybe it could be good because the last time when I hit play, it was also the raptures when California was on fire. So I think in a way, it makes the rift a safe place. - Wow. - A safe place, but all the righteous are pulled up. - Yeah, that's why the rift is a safe place 'cause there's no one righteous on the rift. - So everyone's the same? - Everyone's the same on the rift. - You're all evil once you go to Summoner's Rift. - When autism's finally gone, where did all the cinch players go? (laughing) - Why are they called out of Shaco players in the game anymore? - They're so weird. - I can't say it about any of that. - Yeah, every year. (laughing) - Why's everyone playing Vex now? (laughing) - And Ross is back on Twitch, too. - Yeah, and Ross is back. - Dude, I got my SEO. - It's crumpled. - Yeah, you are fucked. - Oh yeah. - Do you know for years when I would say, hey Siri, call Aiden, it would call Aiden Ross. - Just knew the more famous number. - It was just every time, call Aiden. - That's crazy 'cause surely we have called each other more. - I mean, yeah, but I don't think. - So why wouldn't a default do me? - I don't think she, I'm actually more surprised. - That for years, you've been calling Aiden. - Well, you called me in years. - I haven't got a phone call for in years. - We've called. - Oh yeah, we've called, right? What have you talked about? - What have you talked about? - One thing that you've talked about recently. - The recent conversation. - Okay. - In my defense? - You already, you're already on the, - Yeah, I'm on the back foot. - You're on the back foot. - I'm on the back foot. - Okay. - In my defense, he's a silent consensus. - He's usually not fun out of the blue calls to see what Aiden's up to. - This is usually for years is what you said? - Yes, Aiden's been working for years. - That is true. - I have been working for years. - We've been doing just merch. You were like, "Hey, Aiden, how's the merch going?" - I just wanna drop in on that one. Let's check out. - Let's check out. - Let me use some feedback. - Can I not be a CEO for a second? - One of my favorite things about Aiden and Ludwig's relationship is, is the picture, you know that picture of the drawn woman just begging a man, and she's like screaming like, "Babe, please." - Yes, yes, yes. - It's just Ludwig, please approve these designs. Please, God, he has to just look at the designs. And there's a lot of shit he doesn't do that he needs to do right away. But this is the particular one, 'cause it's like, I would consider it the more fun one. And he's like, "Please, just fucking approve "the fucking designs." And then Ludwig will go and be like, "I don't like any of these." And you see Aiden's like, his eye just twitches and he can't fucking do it. - I wasn't one of the choices. - It's a false dichotomy. - A false dichotomy, but yeah, yeah. No, but whatever you want, babe. - See, now he's Tyler, you turned him into Tyler. - Tyler. - Braden. - Tyler. - I'm like the Hulk. I can't do this. (laughing) - If you get too tilted, my love. - You wouldn't like me when I have a four-local. - Yes, it's Ludwig. Also, the merch will come out. For instance, these basketball shorts, which are very comfortable. - I love those basketball shorts. - Shut up, shut up, you could just be quiet and let him talk about it. (laughing) - I don't hear about you. - He'll come out and he'll be like, I don't really like that one. So he won't promote it out of like, not protest, but he just doesn't like it. He doesn't like a design that went from start to finish. - That's not true, you're motherfucking. - I think actually a better, I think the best example, because the best example we have is of the blue jacket we did for his bakery drop, which is actually really nice. I think it came out really well. - Love that jacket. - We had spent so long on that drop. We spent like nine months designing it. Ludwig has like a hand in like looking at things and improving things through the whole process. We've gotten the final version of the jacket and it has a blue stitching on top of a blue jacket, which depending on whether or not you want it to blend in. - Tonal. - Tonal, you know, you may or may not like that better than if the stitching was like white. - Right. - And Ludwig sees this like two weeks before it's going to go out and he's like, why do we do that? And I'm like, and I looked at him in the eye, my world's crumbling around me. I'm looking at him and I was like, you, you approved it. - You doing it, it's fine. - You said you like it, it's fine. - You're lovely. - You're lovely. - You're lovely. - You said I was okay. - I'm not responsible for my past decision. - I got an idea. - Who is? - I look at everything with fresh eyes. It's one of my greatest qualities. - Which unfortunately is a little true. And that's what I hate about that statement. - I have fresh eyes every time I look at something 'cause I forget everything I've done. It's true. - And in every drop, you need to embroider something onto the tag. Like I'm Ludwig and I'm a pedophile. - Yeah. - Or you know, I'm Ludwig and I'm a mass murderer. - Like a swastika, like a swastika. And every drop Ludwig must tell you to remove it. But he has to know what it is. In order to get it removed before it goes out. - You have to find it. He has to find and say remove the swats again. And you're like, of course, probably want that to go out. - He would just get really good at identifying shapes. (laughing) Like he would find a way to shortchange this and be like, yeah, there is, found it. Okay, get it out of there. And then two weeks before the drop. - Well, why is blue one blue? - Pretty soon when autism's gone, we're gonna need more people to be good at shapes. Love it, if you get-- - I'll walk that down for y'all. And I'll keep a secret bottle that shit on me at all times. (laughing) - Pop it out, I'll like it's the invincible pill. - Yeah, the pill I took an abyssa. (laughing) - How was the, I didn't watch a damn minute of the camp. - CP? - Yep. - You weren't watching any CP? - There's no way. - CP. - In it, yeah. - Camp peak, right. - Yep, I didn't know, I didn't tune into the CP. - So they shortened it. - Yeah. - To the letters that-- - And all the young phase guys were there. - Yeah. - Having a blast. - We had the phase boy, we had Nutt. - Right. - Nutt was a CP. - Yes sir. - A CP and Nutt collab. (laughing) - It was a collab. - So that was the Rosebud Thorn. - Rosebud Thorn? Honestly, Thorn was being 30. - Oh, they reminded you, huh? - And fat. - I said, extremely, guess my weight. She said, 250. - I said, I said, ah, down a little, she goes to 20. Like, she refuses to believe it's under two. - And I go, and I go, let's start with a different digit. She goes, no. (laughing) - Get her on here. - Luckily. - Get her on here. - Be serious now. - The neutral was when I was peeing in my own bedroom, sitting down in this weird fucked up bedroom, where the bathroom is like, it's like one of those glass walls where there's a shower, and you can just see it. It's not like blocked. - Yeah. - It's like a bathroom and a killer room and Tokyo. - Yeah, it's a real, but there's no block at all. It's not like a curtain you could draw. And the toilets in the shower. - So you couldn't do the bed for that? - Yes. There's a wall of every shower's a toilet. True, but there's a actual toilet with shit, shitter. And it's weird because the toilet paper just gets wet every time you shower. - It's not the greatest design. - It's crazy. - But I'm sitting there, but as naked peeing, they went kick the door down, and then I only had a chance to look at them for a fucking seconds, 'cause I was peeing and I turned back, 'cause I went, what the fuck? And they went, oh my god, 'cause people like to cut through our bedroom, 'cause it's easier to walk to the backyard. So that's the only reason they were there. - Are you a butt ass naked? - I'm butt ass naked. - And they saw you butt ass, but they'll say down. - There's a wall position. So all they see is my bare shoulder in the back of my head and my turn body and the knowledge that I'm naked in this room. - That's paint, really. - And you know what they do? What would you do in this situation? - If I'm you or them. - Them. - Oh, I'm mad. - Wait, if I was, I mean, if it's you, if I was me in this, in their place of your them, I'd probably hear you, what do you do? Fucking pee on the floor. - What, no. I would, dude, I'd walk in and make fun of you and say, how's that piss going? - No problem. - Or something like that. - Are you seeing you naked? - I would undoubtedly approach you closer. - You are, you are fucking extra Emily. - What they do is they, instead of back and away, is they open it, they turn and they go, ah, we're hoping to cut through. Can we cut through and I'm still there? And I'm like, I guess, okay, we won't look. - I'm like, they do this. - I would hope. And then they just fucking walk on through. Like I'm fucking chopped huzz. - Wait, I feel like they kind of negotiated, right? I feel like I don't have a lot of negotiating power. They're negotiating with them. - You're definitely in the week. - They're negotiating with a weak man. - Yeah, yeah. I think what you're doing that spot is you say, sure you can cut through and then you just start taking a shit. - Yeah. - 'Cause you're already sitting there. - Yeah, I was gonna say, you start firing blanks in the toilet. - I don't have it. - If you're really putting like, like, airy parts into the toilet while they're walking by it, and they're like. (laughing) - I don't have that ready to go. - It's like dealing. - I should have only for a lot of others though. - Try it, try it Emily. - Try it. - Try it. - Let's just try it. - Enjoy it. - Try it. - Let's just try it. - Let me keep snogging over Jackie Chan's lack severed hand that is sitting on the set. And I remember why it's here. 'Cause his doctor, Noodle Slam, and my other friend, Ben, visited this past weekend. And we were, Ben's never seen the office before. So we were showing them around, like all the different parts. And Noodle Slam picked up this hand downstairs, put his drink in it, like, made the hand hold his drink, and then proceeded to spend the next 20, 30 minutes we were at the office drinking his drink with Jackie Chan's hand. - Yeah, right, yeah. - Which you kind of stopped noticing, but I realized that's how this migrated the whole way up. - Everything that guy does, you're just like, he's a real doctor. - He's a doctor. - And I always think. - This is like when Dennis knows, Mac is gonna chew on the pen. (laughing) - You placed it here for Sam. (laughing) - And yeah, you come in, I'm like, Sam was here? I bet he enjoyed that. - So yeah, I bet he loved the hand. - They had been hanging out the whole week with Sam's fiance. And Sam and Ben are both scuba certified. So they went to the channel islands to go scuba diving and, like, Catalina Island. And while they were here, they kept talking about how, oh, it's like cool. They're workshopping this in the car. It's cool that I have this anonymized nickname on the podcast, like, I'm Dr. Newslam. So, like, nobody really knows why. Even though we say, say, I'm half the time anyway. He's like, so Ben needs a name like that for the show. And they were like, so we came up with pedophile Ben. (laughing) - I'm not wrong with you guys, is it? - You guessed it. - That was my actual name. - No, I did not know this. - I'm the first thing I thought was pedophile Ben. You said pedophile Ben, so it's all so fast joined. - You guys literally got. - That's great. - 'Cause they were like, it's so fun. - It's like one of your friends. - We need an anonymized name so that nobody knows who Ben really is. - Yeah. - You know what I mean? And but he's easy with easily seducible for another character called Pedophile Ben. - Pedophile Ben, man. - They like, pitched this to me. - And so, what did pedophile Ben get down with? Did he play some mini golf? - Did he should have brought him to CP? He would have loved it then. (laughs) - Did he put him on bed with lips? - Did he put him on bed? - Did he crush us at mini golf? I had to get a lead on him. - Yeah, he's gonna challenge me. - I'm getting it. - I'm dead. - Did him on him regular golfers lost, but. - The children's version, he's good. - His back nine was incredible. (laughs) - Damn tree. - We're gonna be young forever, huh? - Dude, I was at a coffee shop. - Oh, was it this morning? - No, no, no. It was, wait, why are you saying that? - Oh, why are you couldn't resist? - Are you couldn't resist? - Are you just saying this to show me at 9-0-2? - Oh, I'm alive, dude. - I'm not allowed. - I'm not allowed. - You're a pathetic worm. (laughs) - I'm not a pathetic worm girl. - I'm not allowed to say that. - You're a small amount of sand you could hold onto. You pathetic worm, bro. - This is a version, a number of kids version. (laughs) - 9-0-2. - 'Cause I'm a Africa can the god enough eat on. (laughs) - This won't help this time. - This broke your rule, you broke it. - I didn't break a fucking rule. - Yes, you did. You were not allowed to fucking say shit about me being late until the end of the year. This is saying shit. - I know what! - Yes, it is. It literally is. - It literally is. - It literally is. - You said it, and then you immediately said, "I'm not allowed to say that." - What? - You said, "I did?" - You just did that. - You just did that. - I did that. - Yes. So you acknowledged that you broke the rule. - What's my punishment then? - Life for a level. - What is it? - You're calm, I guess. You want to blow you? - You're gonna blow you and swallow you fucking jazz in front of everyone including our friends and everyone in the show. Watch the show. - You're gonna be a fuck by on the show. You're gonna be a fucking swallow. Check it out. - Check it out. - Check it out. - Check it out, check it out. - You're gonna be a fucking swallow. - I guess if you want that, you're gonna be a fuck by on the camera. - The ring light, the ring light on the camera, you see it clearly. - I don't want a fuck you want. - What? - Why is your ring light? - I don't wanna lose you. - King James Biden. - I want you to on stream, watch one episode of One Piece. - Dude. - Wow, that's a great punishment. You get to watch it on stream. - You know I've been weaving out a little bit. I've been reading Trygun again. - Fucking 45 year old man. - It came out in the 90s, they cooked it up, they cooked it up different. - I mean we've been out, we've been fucking trying to go down. - I don't care, I'm dead. - That's how we've been out, but you're on get out. - I'm on get out, but I have to go on a bastard site to read Trygun. - What's like the movie comparison? - Dude, Trygun. - I download fucking malware. - It feels like it's, it's like, you know. - Like, two doesn't want a space Odyssey. - I was gonna say, it's like saying you're weaving out. I just watched Akira. Like that is, it's like that. - I think it's, I'm reading a manga. - I guess it's like reading, it's reading the book Jaws is based off of. - Okay. - Like Jaws is a book for movies, it's like I'm reading Jaws. - I'm filming out. - Yeah, I'm filming out. - I'm getting Jaws lately. - I'm reading the Jaws book. - That's what he said. - Okay. - I think there's no-- - I'm reading No Country. A little bit later. What's up, you're on your phone? - Can you get off your phone for me a second? Give me a second why I'm fine. I need a fucking get a flight to France, but I have to explain to England what international waters are 'cause he's not fucking booking it, right? - Oh, is he trying to go swimming when you see that? - He's doing a stop in every country along the way. - I feel like you're gonna-- - Yeah. - And I'm trying to explain to him, you can go-- - You can go asking. - You can go over the Atlantic. - You're not gonna guy who doesn't know shapes to book your flight. - Should we explain self-renity to him or is that too advanced? - I, there's a much easier than all this. You could just get Axel. All you have to do is message Axel on WhatsApp. And if he's already booked your flight, it'll literally check if there was a price drop and refund you the difference. - It's like a Nick England on my phone. - It's like a Nick England that we are all already have that you don't have. 'Cause you're gonna have a Nick England? - Yeah, we have it all. - 'Cause I mean, it's just in WhatsApp, right? You don't even need another app. - That's just doing the Europeans use. - Yeah. - Well, that's why it actually put me onto it 'cause it's all over Sweden too. - I'm not happy about it, but I still use it to go on my weed smoke world tour. And I know you've been complaining because you allow Nick England to sleep between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. You know, freshen up a little bit. But this guy's available 24/7. - It monitors price changes literally every hour of every single day. - Okay. - It'll refund you if you missed out on a better price. - Is Axel fun to hang out with and lights up a room like Nick England? - Yeah, sometimes I'm just like, what do you eat today? I don't really get a reply, but you can do it, you can try. - Okay. - He even has a setting to keep it 99, where he'll just lie to you if you want him to. - I like that. - Yeah. - Well, how do I swap out? - Most people wouldn't want that setting, just like you wouldn't want your friend to be like that. - Yeah, so if you want to fire your assistant like Nick England and stop overpaying for travel, go to HelloAxel.com/theard for your 14 day free trial. - Call Nick England. - After that, it's just $35 a year. After that, most users save double than that on their first booking alone. - Yep, sign up now and let Axel handle the deals while you enjoy the trip. What are you doing? You're calling over here? - Hey, you're fired, dude. (laughing) - Yeah, CG on that. - That was easy. - Back to the show now. - It's 'cause Axel. - I can't, I can't win. - I try. - No, I say I was reading among them. - You've been watching League. (laughing) - Sorry, sorry. - Wow, it's a lot of League. - See, if Kelby said that, he'd shoot him. - Love it, go ahead, give me a lap. Let's go ahead, give me a lap. (laughing) - Yeah, give me a lap. - I am not giving it in a lap. - Oh, you want me to fucking suck you dry? (laughing) - I want you fucking deep-throw you. You want me to fucking have your mushroom pop in the back of my throat? - No, shoot while me in the back, dude. I hate you. - You want me to fucking do it, so deep-throws your season out, your fucking saliva comes. - Oh, you made it, bro. - You made it, bro. - You made it, bro. - No, he went where you're supposed to go. - That's what he did, he went where the joke needed to go, and that's why he's getting what he did. - Oh, damn it. - I can't love when you're wearing that outfit. I can't take you seriously. - Why, 'cause I look like I can fucking break your ankles? - So I see the Shubi picture. (laughing) - The Shubi picture. - The Shubi picture. - You go to Shubi's Twitter. I think it's like his last media tweet. - Shubi art. - You guys know, a fucking, like top 100 highest earning basketball players all the time. - No, you're not. - That's not even true. - That's an investment. - You can do that. - I don't even remember the salaries that they made. - You just tried to pull it off the chest thing, but it doesn't work in a sport where people actually get paid. - Yeah, maybe it's top 100,000. - No, well, no, yeah, that's like 100,000. - How 100,000 even played in the NBA? - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not even close. - Yeah, top 100,000 maybe. - I think, what's the end of it? - I don't know. - 60,000, 70,000? - All time. - Ever? - I think it's like 70,000. - I feel like maybe-- - You have to be thinking about every person who's played professional basketball ever in like most leagues. - Yeah, it might broach a mill. - I'm gonna say 84,000 people. - I don't think there's like a findable number in the baseball and the MLB. - Yeah, obviously there's a findable number. - Well, MLB, you could have an MLB for sure. - You could definitely know. - NBA, but it wouldn't include professional basketball. How many people have played-- - Oh, you're talking about fucking minor league basketball. - Yeah, or Europe. - Or China. - Yeah, that's not bad. - People play with the Tigers. - Fuckin' play with that. - We should, we get fish in the net. - We can't talk about it too long 'cause I think it annoys people. - Is it pulled up? - What, yeah, please pull up the-- - The shoeie picture. - The shoeie picture. - I think you got to open up. - I think it's just a ploy to that. (laughs) - Then click into that. - So it's a picture of me when I was bald. - It's in this outfit. - And I look what I can only describe as like, I don't know. - Well, you look accurate. - I look for, I look like a test. I look like Java the Hut. - It's such a-- - I look like Baron Harkening. - He looks like a Joan and Vesquez character. So I actually paid shoeie to make this, you know that. - Yes, I forgot. I forgot that I had seen this before. - Am I a horrible friend? I got art made of my awesome friend. I have art evading in my house. - I'm gonna fucking commission somebody to just draw a picture of, like-- - Of what? - Do you have a volleyball stroke in each other off? - Oh no. - And I'm old. - And I'm dead as not gonna show anyone. (laughing) - I'm actually gonna fucking do that. I'm gonna get a picture of you and fucking volleyball. I'm not sure when you're stroking each other off. - Yeah, I'm just fooling around. - I'm just joking. - This is Redneck, a little bear dick. - Yeah, it's fucking cool. - You've got a tie in your eyes. - And she's just fucking like this. - You're going in the cuff chair. - And she's going stroke it. - Yeah, I'm gonna fucking commission it. - You're like, a little bridge boy. - This is so cool. I'm gonna fucking look at that. - I'm gonna use it for sexual pleasure. - I'm not gonna tell you when. - I'm not gonna tell you how often I do it. - I do it. Okay, while you're here, Zipper, can you go to the yard Twitter? There's a couple things I want to bring up. - Yeah, but you can. - One is, I think you lost, man. Jack Black is more famous than Shohei. - Oh, because the yard Twitter viewers. - Oh. - Well, there's that. So we'll pass that first one. Don't pass it and then just go to the poll, yeah. So the yard Twitter viewers, 17,000 people. Shohei, who's the small number of people? - It is, but I think it's also big enough to where it matters a little bit. - No, because all this data is from the US. - We can't. - We can't do this. - We can't do this in their time. - Let me just, is the only thing I want to say. - Everyone gets one statement. - I am going to China and I will interview the Chinese. I will determine. - We got some data on this too, by the way. - No, no, but I'm gonna actually go. - Yeah, some people who have actually gone, gave us the data. - People who have gone are giving anecdotal data about what they remember. I'm gonna go and I'm gonna do a fucking study 'cause I'm gonna ask 50 Chinese people. - Oh, so 50 is a number, and 17,000 is small. - Randomly dispersed across 2,500 kilometers. Yes, we would call that a significant data pool. - Oh, 50 people in one country, interesting. - Now what you wouldn't consider a significant data pool is fucking like white college guys in lesbians. - Like, what do we do with you? - That's it, that's the only people we've interviewed. - I love that, those are the two. - Like, the two people listening to the air. - And there's a lot of baseball viewers, not a lot of fucking baseball viewers in that 17,000. - Okay, well, there was also a post on the subreddit that I actually found really enlightening. And okay, as an Indian, it's Jack Black and it's not even close. He says, "My introduction to Jack Black was Kung Fu Panda and oh, wait." He said, "People, he does a lot of data." - It's actually-- - I'm just writing this like a fucking Me Too statement. - What's this? - Because what you said is so fucking outrageous. And what he said was, he's like, dude, Jumanji already cleared. - I'm going to India as well. - Great. - I'm going to India with Squeaks, and I'll interview 50 Indians. - You're going to be proven so wrong. - I will find out for real though. And it won't be some bullshit fucking yard. - Dude, it's people, but it's not people who are guessing. It's people who have been to India in China. - Now, from India in China. - I'm just saying like, if you are from China, but you're a yard listener, I don't think you're a good demo for the average Chinese-- - Oh, listen. - There is something that happened. The yard has been put into a legal battle. - Okay. - And I hate to be the one to tell you. But I got to bring this up. So Zipper, they say you two images, can you bring up the first one for me? - So this is called art in the yard. I think it's in North or South Carolina. - North Carolina? - North Carolina. - It's in North Carolina? - Yeah, and it's-- - I think Alex might have been the plug. - He might have. He might have put them on. And if you look, this is our logo. This is the yard logo. - The Island Arts Council. - The Island Arts Council took our logo. And I actually did some research. They've been using this since 2022. For art in the yard, for art in the yard. And so what I did is, I had a couple thoughts. I was like, you know what? This is like an art thing, an art thing. And then I looked on the Facebook page and they have t-shirts. Uh-oh. - Uh-oh. - No way. - Uh-oh. - No way. - Art in the yard. - Art in the yard. - And I'm usually, I'm like, who's fucking cares? Are they fucking, they typed in the yard. They saw the awesome logo that, you know, we selected out of a bunch of designs that we had commissioned. And we built as a logo. I mean, it might not seem like it, it's a little fence. And I was like, you know what, I really picked it. But then I thought, isn't it due diligence of an art festival to make their own logo? - You would hope. - You would hope. - You would hope. - And then do it for three years. - Now there's many legal courses of action here. There's a lot. And they would be simple routes. Might I propose something else? - Sure. - They're using what clearly seems to be like a downloaded version. That's kind of low res, it's overlapping. We reach out to them. We send them a high res version. - Hmm. - But what? - But watermarked. - Not even watermarked. - Really subtly. - Well, just like, barely. - I think you're thinking what I'm thinking. - Almost imperceptible. - You couldn't even notice it from afar. - Like so far what you would even twastika. - Ooh. (laughing) - It's just, swastika. - Hard in the yard. - It's door's care a lot of men. - I don't know. - They're like, "Why does logo look cool?" (laughing) - There's something up there. - It's like, I didn't like it before. - Yeah, it's the yard generalizes south again. - What happens is I think people go to Google and they type yard logo because they're a yard-themed thing. - Of course. - 'Cause this happens actually to some of the people's yard logo. - But that's my idea. - Still a slarsony. - We change the podcast name to McDonald's. (laughing) - So you're more stolen? - Nice guys, guys. - This is all fine and good, but I've already proposed and launched the solutions. - You've launched it. - I've launched the solution. So my terms to the Island Arts Council is one is two things. One, change it, make your own logo. You're an Arts Council, you can do it. Two, submit my art for your festival in perpetuity to be displayed at every Arts Council meeting. - Yes. - And if Zipper, you could show them the art piece that I made. - Wow, and it's a dribbling heart. - Not dribbling, not dribbling, arching. It's an arching. - There's no dribbling. - Why is the coxose. - So we're looking at it. - We're looking at it. - Why is it served? - Curved, hard, drawn, dick, shooting ropes. - And I wanna say it's pencil thing. - It's more like confetti than ropes. - It's not pencil thing. - It is pencil thing. - Why would you say pencil thing? - I mean, pencil thing. - Why are you getting offended? It's just the thing you're doing. - It's not girthy. - It's not based off anything. - It's not girthy. - Well, it's not girthy. - It's not girthy, but I wouldn't say pencil thing, but it's not pencil thing. I think I take artistic issue with that and well, look. - It doesn't seem inclusive. - The artist is the artist. If you wanted to draw one for the island arts council, actually, they should take all of our art. - There should be a center where there's four easels and those things on the ground. - Yeah, like a shrine. - I think we should make one of the island arts council members enter the race to gold. - Oh my god, they would never do it. - Some 45 year old woman. - And they're amazing. - A 39 year old son of a player. - Was this for art? - Susan. - Did you reach out to them? - I did. - I reached out. - I reached out on the Instagram and I said, here's your two options. - You said it like you said it like a fucking mafia member? - Yeah. - I said like level 99. - Three fucking options. - I was like, I was like, this is the show. For our web series, we can do a series where the art way. - That's so awesome. - They're making t-shirts with our damn logo on it. - Yeah. - Some of the t-shirts, and I was like, okay, hold on. - We should go. - I want to see the t-shirts. - I want to. - I can't hold on. - I can't hold on to the Heather Gray shirt. It's just literally just a logo as the whole art in the yard. It's like the colorful background and then the yard logo as Heather Gray shirt. - That is an ugly shirt. - It is an- - Wait, we should deal there. - We should. - We should just sell it. - We should just sell the shirt. - It's the best idea ever. - This is an eye like this. - They can't do literally anything. - I don't know how that works. - No, they stole our logo. - Yeah, but you enter, 'cause like, what's that guy's name? The guy who used to just steal shit all the time? - Pito Ben. - Pito Ben? - Is this not the art equivalent of when we stole your truck back? When we found it in the street, when slime found it in the street, when nobody in it, we just stole the truck back. - Street justice. - It's street justice. - No, no, it's street justice for sure. I'm just thinking of the, there's the fucking, there's a famous law case where it's the guy, fuck, what's his name? He like takes art and he like puts on logos. - Is it the Campbell's logo? - Banky? - Oh, oh, oh, no, no, he's talking at Warhol. - Warhol, Andrew Warhol. - Andrew Warhol had a court case 'cause he got sued for taking people's logos and won the court case because he had changed shit enough. - Transformative. - Transformative. - This is not the legal grounds art is in it all. - But no, no, I'm saying there, what if theirs is considered transformative 'cause they have an ugly background logo? - Is it the logo of the exact same though? - The Campbell's logo. Look at Andy Warhol. I'm saying this is tougher than it is. - It's highly different color scheme. - I think Ludwig as a, it's worth, you know, it's not as cut and dry as no, they didn't transform it. That's Prince. - There's seven Warhol Campbell's. Also, he used the can, not the logo in his art. - Is there no logo in the, 'cause the Campbell's logo is the Campbell's, the text. - He's your can of suit. - He knew that the colorful cans of suit. - I don't know shit about art. I'll say that much. I don't know a damn thing. - Damn, that was art back in the day, huh? - Yeah, he's like 1962. I just did ask that. - That is like the dumbest painting ever. - What's sick is that he did it again in '68, like he ran it back. - I know, I know of like the colorful one on the left side, their top left. Like, I know of that when I think of it. - But look at the one that's just actually did as like repeating logo. - Yeah, yeah. He has a lot of repeating stuff too. I don't know if any of these are original, which one's original or not? - Campbell said one. - I think the top left the MoMo one for sure. - Oh yeah, probably MoMo. - One time, Ludwig made fun of me when we first started hanging out, 'cause I said that like we were working on something. I was like, these are like dumb, like normy jokes. He's like, what are a Warhol? And I was like, all right, I think I understand this guy. - Hey, reference. This is, I'd never noticed till right now that it's all the flavors. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - This guy's just in the soup. - This guy's just really fucking hungry. I think he's hungry in the soup. - He's just writing down all of them. - That's what happens when you're really hungry. - Being, being soup. - It's the only one that's left. - Well, I'm not, let's fuck it. Let's make the fucking merch. I'm not gonna get into a lawsuit with him. That's where it goes. - We can make it, we can make it one-to-one and just sell it for, like, really all our life. - Can we just release it in this episode? What if we make it one-to-two? What if it, 'cause the Island Arts Council. What if we change one word? - Oh God. - They shouldn't, they shouldn't have been in Island. - Yeah. - Wow. - I'm just saying, what if it's the FCN Island Art Council? - Wow. (laughing) - We can't sell merch. - I guess we should. - We can sell it, sure. - And whatever we want to be, I don't want to sell merch. - We don't want to go. - Next to the FCN Island Arts Council. - It says to Island Arts Council, but Island is in quotes. - That's weird. It's more subtle. - Anyway, yeah, it sucks. It sucks to wake up to news like that. - So go ahead, click this link down below if you'd like to buy this shirt. - Buy our Island shirt. - Island Island. - And nope, don't, don't, don't. - It supports, no, don't buy it. - It supports the arts. - We're gonna change the mind. - We're gonna lose the world. - Huh? - So they're gonna see this part in the clip and we're gonna lose the lost. - Come at us North Carolina. I know Mr. Beast. - It wouldn't be really easy to make the art symbol a symbol of hate. And then their event would forcefully need to change. - That's like archer, the company's called ISIS and then they just haven't changed it. - Yeah. - It sucks the stuff. - Do you think maybe they got it from that? - From the, from the, - Like ISIS got it from archer. - Maybe. - No, it's an acronym. - They were watching and they're like, "Do the shit's awesome." - This is an archer. - It stood for like the Islamic state of whatever. That was the same. - Fans for. - ISIS fell off. - ISIS fell off. - ISIS fell off. - You don't hear about ISIS. - ISIS did not fell off. - I thought about pigs and blankets. - Do it their shit. - It was the last time you were at any sort of party and someone had made pigs and blankets. - I've had pigs and blankets within the last year. - No, you have not. - No last. - The cutie definitely makes pigs and blankets. - She's a pig in the blanket. - That's the shit that she'd be like. - She makes it at least once a year. - We had these at Easter. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I have, I haven't even pigs in a blanket in a long time. I haven't seen things. - They're not hang out with church goers. - They're not up right now. - Church goers are up right now. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah. - I feel like they're all bad inherently because of where they're from. - I think it's a good or bad way to stop where you're from. - You've even toyed around with these ideas. And we're so far from. - I think you're good or bad based of where you're from. And I'm down to go for country for country. - Yeah, I was gonna say, like, we can really test this one. - You're running through China. - You're also good people. - Yeah. - I love you. Shusha. (laughing) - About Algeria. How do you feel about Algeria, Frenchmen? - Not the hottest on it. - Wow. - It was back in town. - Love. - Love. - Love. - Love. - Love it. - Can it? - Can it? - Yeah. - Actually the worst. - Yeah. - The worst. - Yeah, I would call it the Epstein Nation. - Yeah. - My God. - Epstein Crowdy. - All right. - Speaking of Aiden, hating dogs and coffee shops. We were at a coffee shop, me and cutie. - Yeah. - And there was a lady in line. - Mm-hmm. - And her husband was looking for a seat. And he kind of reminded me of the guy who was really sad and pathetic from office space. - The staple guy. - Oh yeah. - He was like that guy and he was looking around. And he's like, there's no spots in the back, but maybe I'll look in the front. - And so he's doing that. - And he's wearing shorts. - And, huh? - He's wearing shorts. - He's wearing like cargo shorts, yeah. - Yep. - This is how every offline TV viewer looks in real life. - They're 50, and I risk my case. - Okay. - And he goes to the front of the cafe and a dog barks handle. There's like a dog, took it on his woman's leg. - How big? - And it's, it was like literally a cubby. It's maybe an Italian greyhound. - Okay. - A small dog. - Small dog in a park set 'em like a couple of times. And then he walks back to the line. And the lady who's ordering, here's this, right? His wife. And he goes, you allow dogs in here. And then the lady behind the counter goes, yeah, we allow dogs. - And she goes, hmm, let's see if the health code likes that. - Oh! - Aiden was there. - And then, and then the lady. lady kind of stomachs, she stops answering. And she goes, "Yeah, I think I'll call them up and we'll see about that." And then, and then, and then this whole interaction, I am looking at the calories of orange juice. I haven't noticed this. You're like, "That's a lot." And I'm literally thinking that. And cutie who only eavesdrops on conversations and ignores me to eavesdrop, fucking chimes in and goes, she goes, "You'll be all right." And then she chimes in, and she chimes in, "That's bad. You'll be all right." And then the lady goes, the lady goes, "Thank you." And she's like, "Yeah, you'll live." And she goes, and she goes, "Thank you." And then they have this little back and forth, they have a little tiff, they have a little tiff. And I only hear the tiff. I'm like, and I'm like, "You try my nasty tiff." Ladies, orange juice, it's like control these days. Maybe we just took this one. This one is going to go away. And then, and then the lady who was ordering, she goes, "You know what? You guys can go out of us." And I'm, and I'm the one who's going to fucking order. And I go, "No. Okay." And then, what is going on? And then, and then she just fucking, she goes, "You know what? Fine." And then she just leaves. And then she just leaves. No order. No order. No order. And then you enter. It has been a hundred percent follows. Yeah. You have the orange juice, huh? You have the orange juice. And then I get the orange juice. And I let her, I like you. You know, I'm like, "Well, it's got a lot of sugar. I'm going to eat this. I'll be hyper all day." That lady is a, but that's, but that's, that's one of your people. That's one of your people. That's the same. In the moment I realized, I was like, "Qudi is the defender against Aiden's around the world." Because as soon as you do, as soon as you do what that lady's doing, it's like you're doing the only thing worse than bringing your dog into that coffee shop. Making a stink. Making a fucking stink. So you, you're saying get rid of the dog quietly. Yeah. If I'm her, if I look the cashier in the eyes, I give her a flash, my minty fresh smile. And then I go, "Fuckin' choke the dog." No, no, no, no. You said, "Give me one second." He's like, "Yeah, can I get a nice latte?" And he's just unwrapping a Hershey's bar. Oh my god. I have to say that. I had almost the exact, I reaffirmed my belief in this this week because I've been walking around different neighborhoods in LA and the sidewalks are just, they're just covered in dog shit. Oh, that's your issue with the sidewalls. They're covered in dog shit. Really? What's your issue with the sidewalks? My issue with the sidewalks is twofold. One, they don't have them, like handicap accessible in many areas. That's true. In the sense that it doesn't go from like a raised sidewalk into like a slope. Do you use a wheelchair? I need to be disabled to be considered of them. Some sidewalks have jumps. That's bad. It's a high yellow fucking sidewalk. You just have to, it's just harder. I don't know what to tell you to do. All of your wheelchair up the gap. All of your wheelchair. It's fucking scapes. If you can't do, if you can't do four steps with your wheelchair. It's like, how long have you even been doing it? I think it's some fucking altering. My second issue is the trees that were planted. We're not planted with a consideration that they'll grow in the roots. Take over the sidewalk. Those are cool. I always like when it breaks out. It's like beautiful. Yeah. That's also cool. It's like by the sandwich shop. We go to where it's like all fucked up. It looks like a movie. Why is you guys are. I don't know. I think it's awesome. I don't know. You think it's awesome. It's cool because it's like, whoa. Fall guys. Again, bad people wheelchairs. Sure, but their life is bad. Right. They're always looking. There's always. That's why we have laws that are supposed to make it better. Sure, man. I think that's a great initiative. And you could talk to your city council about it, but you never will. It's already a law. Well, then you need to get there. Yeah, follow the court. I speed all the time. It's a law. Not to do that. You speed a whole time. Actually, I don't. I hate speeding. But I break a lot of laws. I have a gun. You know, my problem with sidewalk a lot of it is that the kids who do the hopscotch in my neighborhood, they make it too hard. It's like it's like really long, but they're going to like a hundred. They're not account for your needs. I walked by I have OCD. I got to do. I got to do the hopscotch. We walked by into the hopscotch. The kid put it on the fucking ground. I'm not going to the hopscotch. They're going to a hundred these days. Hundreds, really. And that's good. The circles are like this big. I think I like that the kids have enough concentration and well power to make it go to a lot of games. It's the same issue we have in video games where like the skill floor is so high that it's hard to enjoy hopscotch. We've been pushing. We've been silently pushing the skill floor of hopscotch all these. The hopscotch meta is going crazy now. My girlfriend does it. She's right. Again. I don't know. We can't go past this point. You fucked up 27 right? We're blessing your girlfriend. Yeah. No, not quite my tempo. She's like, I have a meeting. It doesn't matter. I have a call in like five minutes. And you're like, well, you shouldn't have lost on 27. Nick from the yard. Fucked me. What? How did you do that? Yes, you did. What do you mean? I fucked you. How? Why didn't he get the fuck out? I was doing a video where I watched different YouTubers and then I bought whatever ad they promoted. Yeah, I did this. I actually did this. Yeah. Adam Ragusia. Adam Ragusia. I love that guy. Lovely guy. Lovely man. Has a Helix sleep sponsorship. Oh, I have him. He looks at mattress actually. And I and I don't actually just have one and you know, funny enough. What are you saying? How many do you have? Three. Interesting. Yeah. Because what I need to do for a sponsor was try every product. So when I reach out to Helix Sleep, I said, could I be catching on one of the mattresses? Yeah. I reached out actually and said Ludwig would like one. And I put it in my guest room. Yeah. That's what they said. They said Ludwig, we've already sent you your mattress. I said Ludwig the YouTuber. So I had to I had to do the sleep quiz, which was enjoyable of process, to be honest. And I had to order my own mattress. Now the only fucking good news is that first off, the sleep quiz gave me the exact mattress I wanted. Because it's very comfortable. You get midnight looks. I got midnight looks. Not elite. That's what. No, midnight looks. That's what I ordered for you to my house. That's so funny. He's like, he's so thoughtful. Yeah. Well, it's not thoughtful because I want to stay in my you. Yeah. Why do you just go to his house? You could be cozy for my house. You don't go to next house very often. You're all about possessions. Like you possess, you know, memory foam cooling features. You possess sleep zones. Yes. Yeah. I want to possess a sleep zone that's different for me and my girlfriend because she likes his soft. He like it hard. I like it hard. And she likes it soft. What a flip on the classical dynamic. Well, anyway, if you like it soft, harder, anything in between. Here's what I want to say. Go to helooksleep.com slash Adam Ragusia. No, which is the code I use. That would be great. It would work great for him. That would work great. Even better though is the yard. He looks at the cost of the yard. 25% off site wide. And Adam Ragusia, I think he's actually 24%. Well, I actually was able to get a midnight lux mattress for 1,300 with free shipping using helix sleep.com slash Adam Ragusia. So they know the yard. I've never used the yards. Otherwise, don't think Adam Ragusia will lose the sponsor. I don't know if this looks like. Maybe he looks at the cost of the yard. 25% out for helix sleep. Maybe they don't care. I've never used this link. It could work. It couldn't work. I do know Adams for sure works because I bought him my own money. It's all right. Like you are late to think they know that the yard. You put both links on the screen. Let them choose. I don't like that. But both. You could choose which one you use to the masses. Which is hard to smell. Oh, and the pillows are also great. All right. My beautiful girlfriend was she. She had deleted TikTok offer for her phone. Whoa. But she guiltily watches YouTube shorts. Oh, you're doing this, which is, you know, the same shit. That's not the same shit. She's the same quality. But it's. And so she doesn't like when I look over her shoulder to see what's on her feet. She's very sensitive about me back, saying whatever her algorithm is. So I take, I take a peek. What are you watching? And then zipper, can you pull it up in the chat? She's watching this video. And she's like crying laughing out of like the combined interest and shame she has. That I think she's engaged with this video. Ranking AI toast spreads. Oh my god. And it's an AI video where there's like aluminum balls being spread on a beautifully buttered piece of toast. And it's AI and it looks great. Like I got a complaint. It's got sound too. It looks really good. Am I am I wrong about this? Yeah, it looks good. It looks good. Wait, what's that? I don't like this one. I don't like the clouds one. Oh, you don't like the clouds. I don't like the noise they make. I don't like that. I like the diamonds. I like the diamonds. Oh my god. You know how usually in these AI video? Oh, the galaxy galaxy. Yo, that actually is fire. Wow. Dude AI videos are fucked. Love it. Love it. It's red bone. It's red bone. AI toast spreads in bed next to me. You know how you know how the people those like men go insane and talk to chat you put you like it's going to kill their whole family. She's just going to do that to you. I know, which is like makes it way more cool. She had this up. She's scrolled to the next video is something like this. And then she just deleted the app. You shamed her. You too. She deleted you too. I do think YouTube is deleteable now. I think shorts is made it deleteable. No shit. The look man. There's a lot of fucking YouTube is the worst right now. Michael was going. Michael's solution was crazy because he was I think he was coding. He was making something for his phone. Yeah, he was trying to code something that would block YouTube shorts from a period. That only blocked shorts. So he could still boot up YouTube because he needs to see it for like. to work, but he couldn't open or view shorts. Maybe it's the siren call, like it just doesn't work on my ears. Maybe it's like when Fry has the, he's his own grandfather, so he doesn't have the brain wave in Futurama. - Yeah. - So he's not affected by it. But I, I watch YouTube every single day on my phone. He's lunch with YouTube, sleep with a video going, and I've never, shorts do not enter my world. - You never crap. Well, you know, this is a real test, is when you open the app, and you're at the top of the recommended sheets, is it shorts first or long form videos first? - Here's the problem. I'll watch a short, like once every couple of weeks, like a fighting game, short. It's like how to do a leverless input with Ryu, and then they'll keep feeding, they really push it. - It makes me mad, because they switched it over, and it's like, I didn't want it to become like that. - Yeah. - I like to try my beautiful long form videos. - They're like, right away, you want the shorts, right? And I'm like, and if you do it on browser, it does the same thing, and I just scroll past them, and the algorithm takes the hint, stop 35. - Do you watch Tung, Tung, Tung, Sahur? - What is that, my goat? - Anyone? - My fork going down the garbage disposal. - Zipper, do you look up Tung, Tung, Tung, Sahur? - Zipper, Zipper's making grown noises. - Zipper's making grown. Just look up Tung, Tung, Tung, Tung, Tung. - On YouTube shorts. - Yeah, sure. - Click any short, click any short. - Wait, is this like, is this like Binos? - It's like literally any short. - He looks, he's, he's. - Oh, we got a short, I don't know short. - Dude, this is a political ad. - It's just, I don't know where I can't be real, man. - And it's embedded into Google. - I don't like this. - What was the name of that guy, who lied? - Gavin Gillesus, Nero's. - Gillesus, Nero's. - Dude, those AI figures are all deformed. - It's so gross. - They're all facing away from the DJ. - Wait, wait, pause. This is not the one I was thinking of. This is the guy though. This is what the youth is consuming. I look up the Rizzler Italian brain rot. - We're just, we're revisiting brain rot quiz. - This is kind of making me realize like kids just like repetitive dumb shit. Like, this is what cartoons were to like, you know, boomers. - Yeah, this video, this video blew my mind. This made me realize, 'cause this is the brightest of the youngest generation, right? - You can get all 10 right, you win, okay? - No, who is this? - That's two for two. - Three. (laughing) - And six. - They're all AI? Yes. - Oh. - Yeah, get the fuck out of here, bro. - You just dabbed the 10-year-old. - Yeah. - What the fuck is going on? - It's not a 10-year-old, it's the Rizzler. - It's the Rizzler. He's the brightest of the youngest generation and he's naming Italian AI brain rot characters. Like, you would, you know, starters on a basketball team. (laughing) - And he's dressed like 2010 tower of the crater. (laughing) - Yeah. - Kets on everything. Kets on everything. - Kets on everything. - Anyway, that's the YouTube short side. I feel like YouTube short is what creates that shit. That shit does not exist on Reels in TikTok to the same degree. - You're saying YouTube short is worse than TikTok? - It's the worst, yeah. - Wait, how? - I don't understand how. - Because it encourages that. - No, that shit's not on TikTok. - It is. - TikTok is like, TikTok is the one that starts the raptures today. That's TikTok. - I think is it human input? Like is it like TikTok is people talking to their phones and uploading videos? - TikTok is like people doing shit and like TikTokers. And then Reels is like random people capturing a video of some crazy shit happening and maybe people dying and then like slurs in the comments. And then YouTube short is like AI curated videos from anonymous fucking channels to get your attention. - YouTube short has the most AI. - Yes, I think so. - I think so. - I don't know how to describe it. There's the one male AI voice that's really popular for narration right now. - Brian. - And maybe. And as soon as I hear that guy's voice, no matter what the content is, I click out. I'm like, I can't. I don't want to listen to this. - The nasty stuff. - You just gotta fucking take, 'cause it's always like a 15 or a minute long video. How about you just fucking narrate it? Like, just grow up and narrate it. - Well, the reason is 'cause it SM7B costs money. - You don't even need that. You don't even need the shit. Fucking. - They'll take it off, man. You're not gonna put it back on. - After the test, actually. - Oh, it was. - Next, right. I've discovered, like I've been doing this video where I do different YouTuber sponsors. And Eric was sponsored, maybe he owns it, but there's some company called Clipper. And you use it either as an individual to pay for people to clip your content or if you want to clip other people's content to make money. And it's basically like, - It's a fiber, but just for Clips. - Yes, kind of. And it's like it, but it's an automated process where you submit your Clip if it gets approved. - It's just your shit to do what Ryan is using. - Basically, yeah. And if, you know, that's where you like see the stake logo. It's kind of like that, you know, but done through a more official process. So I tried using it, but as the Clipper, except the issue is when you're new, they don't give you a lot of opportunities. So the only one was for like the founder of the company and the only YouTube videos he had are on his like 2000 subscriber channel about how it works. So I just made a video and I submitted it. And it was, it was just footage of him and then spliced with the jail footage of Epstein. And you did this in your free time? - Yeah, I did this in my free time. And I haven't made a dime yet off of it. It has zero views on TikTok. - Dude, it's like when, it was like the CEO of Ford has a podcast and he had like, to be swinging on there. It's shit like that. It is, it would be like having to clip from that. And it's so much harder than clipping from stable run all though. - You know, well, Ron generates timeless moments. - They call him the clip. (laughing) - He's fun for the whole family. - Is he? - For half your family. - He's fun for a quarter. He's fun. If you have one person in your family, maybe who likes it. - He's fun for one person in your family. It doesn't hang out at Thanksgiving. - Yeah. - And who you want for real screenator. - For real screenator. - You say, who? - Wow, you came out of the game. Where is, what, where do you think Ron will be when he's 35? - That's a great question. - I think about it. - I think he'll be off the internet. - What? - I think he'll be off the internet 'cause he'll have made enough money. - I think he'll be. - I think you're wrong. - No, I think he'll be like a fucking off the internet real estate guy. - You're wrong. - Real, no. - He'll own a bunch of property. - Oh, okay, okay. - He'll be, oh, on a bunch of property. He'll have eight figures. He'll have a fucking wife and kid. And he'll be living in Florida. All these people yearn for the minds, bro. That's what I'm realizing as we get further along into this is that that never, it feels like most of the time that doesn't happen. Like if you have a young career of some kind and you forfeit kind of that time period in your life where you would have a more traditional social experience. Like maybe you would have gone to college and you wouldn't have been like rich and famous yet. It like, as soon as you forfeit that, I feel like when the steam starts running out, you try to go do something else, but they just fall back to something that's adjacent or it's something to do with outputting entertainment again, because they don't really know where else to go. In his case, he might always have enough money that it literally doesn't matter. - Or the Mario Lopez. - He's just on a random fucking hotel-only TV shows. - Well, he's a hotel-only TV show. Yeah, like the 2B of like closed circuits. - It'll be like America's best biker. But it's just like, I'm hosting it. - There it is, there's a bunch of bikers. - That's just a guy who works though. - I guess. - That's just work. - But he's saying like, he's, what's Ryan C. Crest doing? - Working. - He's still doing the same shit. - Does he still do the radio? - Yeah, he's still doing the radio. - Yeah, that's like his been his main shit for so long. - Oh, I remember, there was that quote from Brennan Frazier. Did I say something Yard or just with Nick? But it was like, he was saying someone asked him after the whale came out 'cause he's like kind of back in action. And he's like, they were like, would you ever be in an Avengers movie? Would you ever be a superhero? You're like, yes, I'm an actor. I want to work. And it's like that simple. - Yeah. - I want to work. This is my job. It's kind of funny 'cause it's like. - But I think it's different when you self-publish. I guess like when you're like a streamer or YouTuber. - Maybe, I mean, maybe you're right in the sense that they don't care about the success it comes with it. They just really love creating. But I think with Ron, he's just fucking care about the mullah. - I think it's falling back on like familiarity. That's what I have. - But I think when people still need like a work or like a routine, right? So the people I imagine in my head, right? There's a, I know this seems like a silly example, but take hugs from melee, right? - Yeah. - He, by the time he became like a professional gamer, he had like, he, I think he had like a CPA. He had like, worked a normal job for a long time. And then he makes this like conscious decision that he's gonna go be professional gamer, try content and do this for like years and years, years, right? But when the steam out of EA Sports runs out, you know. - When the voodoo ranger. - When the voodoo ranger might say that. I will say, he did a good job. - Yes. - Number one ambassador for that show. - He, he, he has like a background and an understanding that, okay, I need to go pursues some sort of like new education or like go back to regular work. And I know what that's like, and I'm gonna go do that. Whereas I think if you spend, you know, age 16 to like 25, you know, popping off on TikTok and skipping like school and like kind of that period of time where you might be introduced to your first real job, and then the steam runs out. Even if you have a bunch of money, it's hard to imagine what you would even turn to. So you just kind of settle and like go back to something familiar, even if it's publishing YouTube videos to people that only 10,000 or 5,000 people watch it. - Like rice gum. - I don't think he's doing that. - Well, he's making videos. - Is he? - Every now and then. - Oh. - He had a kid though. - He had a kid. Well, okay, there's an inherent shame and not from my perspective, but I think from the world's perspective of like the young streamer, right? And it's like everyone kind of knows this is like this thing that shouldn't last forever in the idea that if stable and all though, I love how he's example here, is doing this when he turns 30, is being stable and although it hasn't sort of changed to do like different content or be a different type of person, there will be, he will get clowned in a way that is like, what are you doing? - Yeah. - And that's interesting. - But I also think, there's also a side of this that in his case, right? If he makes a bunch of money and saves some of it, and he's in that spot and, you know, he's 35 still publishing the YouTube videos to know viewers, but he has a, you know, he's totally secure in his future. You know, who gives a shit if you want to keep making, if you want to keep making the videos for 5,000 people, like you might as well just, that's the, you might as well just be like, woodworking in your garage at that point. 'Cause it's just like. - But this is your word-working. - Sure, exactly. - Yeah, and it could be. It could be. - But I think it's, but there's also, there's also scene anters. - Yeah. - People who just fucking get up and damn leave. - I think there's a big part of this that's attention though. Like, you spend a lot of your life having a fuck ton of attention. Like, every time you look at your phone, if you turn it away and turn it back, you have more notifications. And then one day, let's just say that stops or it's slower. I think that, you don't just go great. Like, I think you're like, oh shit. No one cares about me anymore. And like, you seek the attention more. - Yeah, do you do that? - I think that's probably fine for you when I'm saying. - What I'm saying about Ron, and I think some people is that they fucking, they turn it, and they go, okay. And they move on to this one. - Yeah, that's bullshit. - I think that's awesome. Anyone who can do that. - I think, I'm just struggling to think of any examples I can think of. People who have picked up, walked away, given it all up, that weren't older when they started, that weren't already like in their mid 20s when they started. And I think the scene anters was, wasn't he? Am I wrong? - Yeah, yeah. He started, I mean, for us, I guess he seemed, 'cause he's older than us. - I guess, 'cause he's always been older. - But he started to have been in his mid 20s when he started. - I think he was in his very low 20s. - How old is he now? How old is he now? He's got to be like 30. - Is it where you look at the scene? - He's in 38. - He's in his age. - I'm saying he's 41. But he started in like fucking 2000, 2009. So I don't know the math. I'm not smart enough, 16 years ago. So he was 25. - Yeah, that's kind of what I'm saying. There might be good answers to this, by the way. But I'm just trying, I can't think of anybody who became like a gigantic streamer between the ages of 16 and 20, who like, - Well, you got a ton of time, man, I don't have time. - Shut up. Don't make good points. - You're basically saying, like they're, - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - No one's there yet. - No, but a lot of people used to be, you know, you could be 16 to 20, like starting 10. - Well, here in 15 years ago. - Here in 15 years ago. - Guys, look, one day all these guys will either turn 35 or they won't. They'll die. And what happens to everybody? - It does, it does. - It does, everybody don't. - Everybody either dies or makes it to 35. - If you die specifically, one of them won't make it. And we can't tell. - We can't tell you who it is. - It's a dark secret. - We can't tell it's a secret. - But it's funny, 'cause people in chat will say that, like, dude, you're 35 LOL and I'm like, either you're gonna get here one day or you won't. So I don't know what to tell you. Anyway, like when you, in those 10, 15 years or whatever, they're gonna look back on Northern lion and be like, he figured it out. It's a schedule. It's easy. It's entertaining. It's influential. And it's conducive to a real life. And I think the Northern lion, what do you call it? Structure or like format, is kind of like the holy grail of all of this. - Yeah, I think some people will be like that. - I think that'll do that. - Those are the most interesting people to me are the people that do figure it out, right? Like the dubbins and the Hank greens and the Philip DeFrancoes, they like, they kind of-- - Whoa, sorry. - You definitely loved it. - All the fucking people on YouTube, that's so funny. - No, no, I think it's crazy for a different reason. - Hank Green and Philip DeFranco. - What? - Older YouTubers? - Well, we've had long story careers. - And they've managed through thick and thin. They've managed to maintain-- - Some of them still fit. - Some of them still fit. - They've stayed thick through most of it. - My career is like half as long as all of them. - They've been on the same store. - I think the difference, I was blown away for a different reason is because I don't see Hank Green going up to Jason the Wien and then started to talk like a 20-year-old zoomer. - Yeah, but that's different. - And that's 'cause you don't hang out with Hank Greenoff's line. (laughing) - Yeah. - Yeah, man. - He's like, "Hank, what do you think about robots?" He's like, "Nah, oh, you know." - Oh, he's glad, man. (laughing) - That's how Hank Green talks on line. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - He listens to steel pulse in the car. - He's like, "Galaxy is expanding." - What do you say, probably? - He says that shit. - That, he loves, he has this thing where, if I like, lose and lane, I think he really tries to what I'm streaming. He really, really tries to like, salvage it. And which, which I would argue, I'm just bad. I'm not necessarily as tilted as he might think. I'm just going to do the same decision, no matter what. But I'll like, die. And then he'll be like, "I just want to fucking let you know, in chat. I want to fucking let you know. I fucking love you like a brother. I love you in ways that I don't love anybody else." He'll say like, really meaningful shit. And I'll just read it and I'll just roll my eyes. In any other context, I'd be like, "This is really special." And then he's tried to do other, he's tried to gift subs. - Yeah. - I'll die in lane and I'll see five bomb come through and I'm like, "Don't fucking do that." - I do it to both of you guys. I'm a big supporter. - You are a big supporter. It makes me, it feels good to know that my friends watch. - Oh, I'm watching. I'm not driving five bombs. - We need some YouTube shorts on your games. - Hey, please. If someone wants to make it. - We need the show, no one's talking to chat. - Of course, that's the most interesting part. - I listen to the, the son of files. - Oh, you like that? - I wanted to talk about that so bad. I was actually saving it for the pre-night. - Yeah, that guy's great. Me and Shake play normals every night. It's our little routine. It will message us there, they're gonna go husband. And then he just runs it down. It's fucking miserable. - Oh my god, we did Votreview the other day. 'Cause I got pissed at him. 'Cause he was drunk on Saturday night. He comes home. He's like, "You want to play a game or two?" - My drunk husband comes home. - My drunk husband and he's like feeling frisky. And I'm like, "Okay." And if we play a game and he fucks up this moment in the game. And I'm like, "You fucking suck, Shake. "I don't want to play with you anymore. "You come home drunk." And I was like, "You hit it belly to belly. "No motion." And he was like, "Stay with drunk." But he's still playing well because he's good at the game. And he's like, "Oh, and that is a 50/50. "That is a 50/50. "And you're stupid." Shake holds his ground pretty well. And I'm like, "That's not a 50/50. "You're an asshole. "So we go a night Vot." And we start watching the replay. He's like, "Oh my god, I'm so vindicated. "You're so stupid." And I'm like losing. I'm mad. But he doesn't care. Shake will just tell me how it is. He's like, "I'm vindicated. "This is how it is. "You're fucking stupid." And Mike is just sitting there in the call. Just like, "Did I do something wrong?" Mike is. He's arguing. This is fuck. And he doesn't have to care, right? Because he's master. No, he's a master. He's a master. I was diamond too. I was getting there. I thought he was in it. I said, I was like, "I always defend you on this podcast "because he keeps sending me updates." He's like, "I was like, when it comes to burgers, "I'm your nemesis. "But on legal, I always defend how good you are." And he's like, "I think it's funny." He's like, "I always defend you on this podcast." And it's only in the context of legal legends. But every other mention of shake is like how you punch a picture of his face in your backyard on the punching bag. Because it's objective truth. It's objective truth. Anyway, we're playing these games, and but yeah, we get into a game with this guy, and he plays soda, and he shakes bottling, and he's just like, "This is the worst player I've ever played with." And I'm like, "Oh, whatever, it's a normal." And then the guy is just really chatty, and we're just talking. It's back of it. It's not flaming at all. But he's so interesting in the game. I'm like, "Can I interview you?" After this, he's like, "Everyone always says that, "and they never take me up on it." And I was like, "Of course he says that." I promise, I will take you up on it. Yeah, we pulled a new allowbie, and I talked to this guy, and he was, it's on my YouTube channel here. Dude, it's sad, it's a sad video. I don't, I think it's a sad as people think. It's a sad video, not because of his life. It's sad because the fucking comment he left, it's like a. He found it, 12 minute video. He finds this video, yeah, because Slime told him about his channel. I asked him if I could post it. And it's just 39-year-old guy, and he called himself the Sona guy, and he talks about like, he talks about League very poetically. He's like, he only plays Sona, which is not a very good character. Yeah, a very popular character. But she used to be good, and he goes, he goes, "I went through war with her." "I went through war with her." "Would you leave your car rad if you went through?" war with your com red season five and six weed soft shit. I've never seen like I do like talking about season because that's a little outlaw. I feel when I watch you guys play league. It's like baggage season three was different. We never have all these new fatal tools like and I like I literally like I see a scary future because he talks about it and he's and he's like you know you guys are like what's your peak rank and he's silver now and and he's playing the game like fucking ten years a lot of games based off his his mastery and he and you're like what does the peak rank and he's like I was going for gold promos and I in my friends that's the play with me. So what do I say? Yes, I'm a good friend and they're bad and I can't carry them but then I get to the final game and he's like recalling this game from almost ten years ago. Like it happened yesterday and basically the end result is he choked a baron call and didn't win his gold promo and he has never hit gold and and he talks about that moment like it broke him and now he said he had a mental breakdown and now and and now he refuses to try to rank up but he said he was like I tutor master players. He does say that which is crazy. And shake shake is so funny because his volume is really low in the void for some reason and he's just laughing because he's like I'm like we're we're not laughing at this guy. We're just talking to him and shakes just like what do you tell them? Yeah, what do you tell him? And it's such an interesting response from shake who is very good and he's just listening to a guy who's been silver for 10 years be like no you guys play completely wrong. You should you should do that guy to gold. That'd be great. What did that guy? Yeah, getting the after this is over. Getting him to gold. Saving that soda guy. Saving private soda guy. By any way, the thing that sad is I don't know if you can pull up slimes YouTube. Well, I can read the comment. Oh yeah, do you have it? He said so he he he goes a video and I pinned it. He said hello everyone smiley face. Bracket reads the comments. Oh, oh dear. Well, it ended the way I figured by the way, in this video I am not blaming the guy. You're not. You're not. I was interesting and I said I appreciate him and I was like relating to him because I'm old too. And he's like, well, it ended the way I figured colon and then just a line. Yeah. And then he said at least some of them were dot dot dot close to being nice. The internet really is what it is, which is fine. Though I wish I had more time in the interview, I could probably explain things in greater context more time. And here it is. And it's a lot of people just being really nice to him. I think over applying to him. Yeah, I think most like there's a lot of comments. Okay, so sad. Can I maybe actually, you know what? I'm saving it for the pre-mail. If you want to hear my thoughts, just say, okay, I save it. Huh? Because we don't have much time left. We got damned like 15 minutes. That true. Yes. No, we don't. We said no. Do you have five minutes worth of stuff for the pre-mail? You know what? We could leak. I realized I realized that my life, my life starts to crumble when you guys get it to leak them is yeah, because it's instead of leak week with you, which we know is bad. It's legal. We have it doesn't it. And it doesn't happen responding. No, about the about the trip. We haven't talked about it at all. Look, like, like we asked all day, I'm reading this chat. We're eight and it's like, hey guys, we just love to just carve it tight. So sometimes we don't do the pot today to talk about. I already said, I already said, hey, I'm down for whatever we want to do. No, it's all good. It's all good. You I'm waiting for the chancellors. He asked to meet in person will meet in person, but I understand that it's a big chunk of our time. And I myself am pretty burnt out. I remember yesterday, I understand you're in the war because I get it. I'm going to war with volleyball. But and I know he's one. You know what? What are you talking? You're in a war with yourself, brother. Shut the fuck up. No, I think it's not a part of this war. I feel like I feel like a like a dog who just like takes the little bits of food he could get right out because it's like a it's it's actually in this order in terms of a little bits of available time that that puppy gets while his papa is league. And it's with you, it was virtually none. Even through even through a crisis week. Yeah. Yeah. And then with you, it's it's slightly more than Ludwig gave during that time. And then with you, it's the most out of the three. So it's like a papa is like papa is like it's better than it was in December. Yeah. Well, Ludwig, I you could tell how broken I am in general because Ludwig didn't respond to us about like the time. He was even okay about it. But they're like streamed a bunch. And then you tagged me and Ludwig because we didn't reply. It's like what are we doing in the podcast? And I've replied is like I don't like jumble English. I don't care. I saw whatever I looked at I opened it up because I went to the I went to the magic castle where you can't use your phone in LA, which is like this. I don't know. This mansion of magic. It's basically magic. So I can't you can't shut your phone. What a fucking magic. You've been to magic. No, I haven't. You have almost magic thing. I was really not all the what the guy does is you bring it up on sage. Oh, you guys is this your phone? I thought you were wrong. I see that. The first act actually did do that was like a whole like integrated phone thing. He did. Oh my god. That was the one I liked the least because of my QR code. Anyway, I opened this up in the evening to see like just to make sure we're on for this morning. And if 553 p.m. which is like 45 minutes after your stream it ended. And it's like a broken I don't care like all spaced out and spelt wrong. And then just whatever Ludwig wants. I'm not kidding. After that session, I just went I just laid in my bed. Not even my floor because it's a sacred place. I just laid in my bed and just stared at the ceiling. I'm so sad that you laid in this bed. It sounds like this is like what I feel like when I lose money in Vegas. Dude, it affects my real movies. This is my real life. Yeah. Genuinely because this does happen to a degree with like, especially when I was pushing for a mortal in Valorant. But with this is why I stopped playing melee at the end of last year. Really? Yeah. I realized that when I started doing the Ludwig, the new Ludwig job. And I was like, I'd work. And especially during that time last year, I was really stressed. And then I'm playing melee and I'm trying the hardest ever tried. I play every day. I get coaching. I'm going to tournaments. I'm very emotionally invested. And I realized that, oh, I'm stressed all day doing like my job. And then I go do my like fun hobby. Which is like maybe even more stressful for an emotional. It's a harder than your job. It's a harder than your job, maybe psychologically, psychologically, and I would like, so I'd spend all week like practicing against Martha, right? I'd practice Shake Martha all the time. And I'd get like seeing all these like results and like things come together in practice. And then they'd be like week straight. I'm on review. And I'm doing all this shit. And then I go to fucking Verdugo. And then I lose to White Hat. Here comes White Hat. Like last stock game game five. I'm losing a White Hat in Danny, Danny SF. And then I go home to my girlfriend. And I just walk in the room with silent like a ghost. And I lay down in bed. And she's like, did you have fun? And I just like, yeah, yes. Do you? My girlfriend will message me. She'll be like, how is the rift today? And all of you know, I just met I'm like, I'm just a big fucking low-cow. Aren't you? I'm your big fucking low-cow boyfriend who sucks and fucking is and sucks and is a dumb bastard. And she's like, you're my low-cow. And I'm like, that's so sweet. But I'm a fucking low. Like, it doesn't help. It doesn't help. I think that's the hard thing is I realized that that the problem is what she asked me if I had fun or like, how did I do? Like, there's no, we had reached a point in our relationship where she realized that when I'm in that, when I'm feeling that there's nothing she can say. There's zero things that can be said. Actually, the nothing is the only thing that could be said. Nothing hits pretty good. Nothing gets amazing. I deadass think. I deadass think one day with me I could fix you. You cannot play a lane, bro. Bro, you are a child. It's not about that. It's not about that. I am like the son of a guy. I can train master players. I'm not master. I can just do it because I know. I know. I don't move like I used to, but I know whatever. Well, I made games down as of talking about this on today. Who knows what will happen today? Maybe I can see it. Maybe Nick flies. It games down like eight games behind. Yes. I made games down. Wait, it's gotta be more than that. Damn. No, it's not here. It's a four per. What are you at? What are you at right now? What's the check? I'm 10 games down. Podcast update. I'm at silver 248. 10 that's 10 games. I'm at silver 40. Dude, I can fix you. I don't think it's there's no time to fix me. Yes, there is. What time? What has to happen right now for you to go to bronze? Do you have to lose one game? Just one. I hit my thresholds. You know how it doesn't let you go to bronze? Protect you only get one buffer game. Yeah. Yeah. You used to get two. I don't think it's a random amount. It doesn't tell you. Anyway, we all just send it down amid who knows. I mean, the thing is so volatile, like if I go one and fucking six and he goes six and one, it's a swing. We're back. Like I think he's actually above me in that world. Guys, we'll see what happens as of recording this. I may already be dead or raptured, but we'll see you on the podcast primo where agent will give us thoughts on that son of guy. Patreon.com for the Patreon episode. You're probably already in the Patreon. Stop it. Hey, belly. How'd you get out there? Okay, we'll see you there.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The speaker reflects on their emotional journey in League of Legends, shifting from frustration to empathy by listening more and speaking less.
  2. They observe players’ behavior, including crash outs and poorly filled forms, and humorously critique the lack of effort in gameplay and communication.
  3. A key personal insight is that giving others the benefit of the doubt and acknowledging emotional states can create connection and reduce conflict.
  4. The conversation touches on absurd and playful moments, like taking creative liberties with game mechanics, such as using digital dice or misplacing Oreos.
  5. There’s a recurring theme of humor around misjudgments, such as confusing players’ skill levels or misinterpreting their intentions in chat.
  6. The speaker shares a meaningful moment when a friend acknowledges their emotional pain, highlighting the value of mutual understanding.
  7. A deeper discussion emerges about artistic and legal issues, like someone using a branded logo without permission, sparking debates on creativity and ownership.
  8. The group jokes about cultural stereotypes and personal quirks, using lighthearted commentary to explore identity, judgment, and humor in everyday interactions.

Summary:

The conversation is a humorous and introspective exploration of personal emotions, gaming culture, and human interactions. The speaker reflects on their journey from frustration to empathy in the context of playing League of Legends, noting how listening more and speaking less has improved their emotional well-being and relationships. They critique players’ behaviors—like crash outs and minimal chat input—while finding joy in the absurdity of gaming quirks, such as Oreo consumption or digital dice use.

A central theme is mutual understanding: the speaker emphasizes how offering others the benefit of the doubt and validating emotions fosters connection. The dialogue also touches on deeper topics, including art ownership and cultural judgment, using lighthearted examples like a misused logo or a coffee shop dog incident. These moments highlight the tension between authenticity and judgment, often resolved with humor.

The speaker concludes by celebrating the value of empathy, self-awareness, and playful storytelling in both gaming and real-life interactions, turning criticism into shared laughter and insight.

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Kelby said that the nicest thing someone ever said to him was that he was exerting willpower to not type insults during games, and that his natural state when angry is entertaining.

The speaker describes their mindset as more empathetic and patient, choosing to listen more than speak, and giving others the benefit of the doubt, especially in emotionally charged situations.

The speaker reflects that their emotional state during games is real and visible, and that people often misinterpret their frustration as being toxic, when it's actually a natural reaction to stress and competition.

The speaker acknowledges such comments and responds with empathy, saying it's not their fault they're upset, and that they're trying to be understanding and supportive rather than defensive.

The speaker reviews band forms to observe how players communicate, noting that many entries are minimal or humorous, like 'L-O-L 2000 gold and no back,' which reflects a lighthearted and sometimes sarcastic tone in gameplay.

They joke about switching to digital dice, but the conversation focuses more on the absurdity of players making strategic decisions based on limited or incorrect information, like not knowing the game mechanics properly.

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