Esports Legend NickMercs, Tennessee Wins The Natty, And Fyre Fest Of The Week

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Speaker 1 On today's Pardon My Take, we have a huge, huge interview. The number one Twitch streamer ever.

Speaker 1 Is that true? Ever?

Speaker 1 Our favorite

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Speaker 1 Nick Mercks, who it's his first podcast he's ever done.

Speaker 1 If you don't know who he is, give it a listen because he explains the Twitch universe, being a professional video game player, and he's just a fucking cool ass dude.

Speaker 1 So awesome interview coming up with Nick Mercks. We have Firefest of the Week.
We have Tennessee National Championship.

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Today is Friday, June 19th.

Speaker 1 And the Tennessee Volunteers are national champions. I'm losing my voice because I smoked a cigar and I should never smoke a cigar.
The haters say that it couldn't be done.

Speaker 1 The haters said, why are you going to the SEC? Look at Hank when you say that. The haters said that your thumbs weren't fast enough tonight.

Speaker 1 I'm happy for you. PFT and Billy, thank you so much.
You guys were integral parts of my coaching staff.

Speaker 1 You also kicked your heart out. I did.
You know what? A lot of people were saying it was the wrong call to go for two when you were up by seven points in the second quarter.

Speaker 1 As a player, you love to see that out of a couple of step on their necks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I like that because it showed me that you wanted to win the game and that you accurately knew that I was going to melt in a big moment.

Speaker 1 It was six years coming, six years of playing the game. Not six actual years, but six years in dynasty mode.
Started in Toledo, Florida State, USC, Texas Tech, Tennessee.

Speaker 1 It's been a hell of a run and finally climbed the mountain. 156,000 people were watching us tonight on the Pardon My Take Twitch channel.
That's more people than can fit in

Speaker 1 Tennessee Stadium, right? Yeah. That's more people than can fit in any stadium.
Yeah. Maybe there's like one of those soccer stadiums.
I don't know. Stadio, what, Azteca? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Next to the one that in Donovan pissed on. Yeah, the one that they build the chain link fence around to make no fans climb onto.
So it was fun. Thank you, everyone, for tuning in.
It's not over yet.

Speaker 1 I'm going to keep going until sports come back because there's nothing else going on. Well, Big Cat, as a member of the media, I feel obligated to ask you, are you going to be leaving Tennessee?

Speaker 1 Because I feel like your owner or your agent is the happiest guy in town right now. He's probably getting offers thrown at him left and right.
There are some, you know, you're a Wisconsin alum.

Speaker 1 A lot of people are saying that you would leave right now to Wisconsin. I'm the coach of the Tennessee Volunteers until Sunday night.
But we shall see.

Speaker 1 I went to Tennessee and I said, I'm going to win a national title. It took me two years.
It took embarrassment last year. But mission accomplished.

Speaker 1 So the question then comes, you know, have I done everything I need to do at Tennessee? Can I move on? Well, for the record, Peyton Manning national championships at Tennessee, zero, big cat, one.

Speaker 1 Right. And also, I beat Florida once.
There you go. He never beat Florida.
People forget,

Speaker 1 Peyton Manning never beat Florida. I'm starting to fall in love with Texas.
I don't want to do this, though, because this is Vol Nation is my people now.

Speaker 1 Like, I actually am going to start rooting for Tennessee in real life because their fans have been so fucking awesome. Feels like 98 was trending on Twitter.

Speaker 1 So I take back my Peyton Manning, never beat Florida, even though that's a fact. But it's a fact.
You can't take back a fact. Well, I did.
I took back a fact.

Speaker 1 I'm also starting to fall in love with the Tennessee Orange. Yes.
I used to say that the Tennessee Orange looked better on a girl and the burnt orange at Texas looked better on guys. Right now,

Speaker 1 the orange is popping. And Rocky Top is an unbelievable song.
Just Rocky Top is a cool place to like say. Like, yeah, let's go over to Rocky Top.
Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 That's like an old lore. A dusty book that you open and you're like, Rocky Top.
So how are you going to celebrate? The thing is. I smoked a cigar and I shouldn't have because cigars stink.

Speaker 1 I don't understand cigars. You don't even inhale them.
I inhale them just because if I'm smoking something, I might as well do it. Right.
It's hard for me not to.

Speaker 1 But every time I smoke a cigar, maybe I think it's just an acquired taste. I think some people just love cigars and I just am not one of those people.

Speaker 1 But every time I smoke one, I'm like, why did I just lick? the bottom of an ashtray. Yeah, it's a weird thing to enjoy since you can't actually pull the...

Speaker 1 It's like taking a spoonful of ice cream and not swallowing it. Do you think it's because we don't ever, we've never smoked good cigars?

Speaker 1 No, I've smoked good cigars before, and they still say good cigars are bad. Oh, they're even worse.
I like bad cigars better. I like black and mild more than I like a nice cute.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But yeah, it was fun.
It was a good time. How are you feeling, Billy? I'm feeling great.
I just wanted to comment. I bought you the special Winston Churchill cigar

Speaker 1 from the cigar shop. Oh, no, he's...
No, we don't. You know what?

Speaker 1 No, dude, come on. But Winston Churchill's not.
What?

Speaker 1 What do you covered up his statue? Oh, fuck. He did have a great quote, though, which you can steal.
They said... What did he do? The haters said.

Speaker 1 What didn't he do, Billy? The haters said that if Big Cat went to the SEC, he would get his neck rung like a chicken. Yeah.
Some chicken, some neck. Yeah.
Boom. Got him.
Goosebumps. Try again.

Speaker 1 I'm just really happy to be here. All right.
Cool.

Speaker 1 Hank, the number one hater. Hank, a.k.a.
Poopy Stinks. I'm a glass half-full, guys, so I'm happy for you.

Speaker 1 You're either going to be happy or I was going to be happy because you

Speaker 1 didn't have a national championship and people were going to be that much hungrier. So I'm happy for you.
Listen, the hunger will start anew somewhere else. Not saying I'm leaving Tennessee.

Speaker 1 It sounds like you've got one foot out the door. I'm not saying that.
It sounds like. Also, you haven't won a national championship by yourself.
I'm just going to say that. What? In Case Doug's.

Speaker 1 I have a fucking coaching staff. What coach has ever won a national championship without a coaching staff? I'm sure lots of Madden players.
We're talking video games here.

Speaker 1 Listen, Hank, this was a good time. I'm happy for you, though.
I'm happy for you.

Speaker 1 Tonight

Speaker 1 tonight was a coronation, not only of Big Cat as a coach, but of Big Cat as a delegate.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying there's room to grow. I was two and two, and I was a mess, and I brought someone in to help me.
I brought multiple people in to help me, and they did. They brought back Composure Cat.

Speaker 1 You know what else tonight showed me is how big of assholes Major League Baseball is. How badly they fucked this up.
I mean, to be fair, it was very entertaining watching you play these video games.

Speaker 1 It's an awesome, awesome event that people get around. But if there was any sort of baseball game going on, people would be tuning into that.
Like, it'd be the only game in town. that's top chef.

Speaker 1 When and where, when and where. That's what they're saying.

Speaker 1 The baseball players, I, it's ridiculous that we're still like doing this because I saw, I think it was Wednesday night, maybe, or Tuesday night, Buster Only was like, looks like there's a deal in place.

Speaker 1 And then the next day, like, nope, just kidding. It's still the same bullshit that the owners don't want to pay anyone until there's 50 games.
And credit to the players because they're genius.

Speaker 1 The players have played this so perfectly because because the when and where tag that they all were tweeting just puts it all on the owners. Like, they're ready.
They're ready to play.

Speaker 1 You cannot blame them. I think the only one who's blaming them is Mad Dog Russo.

Speaker 1 And that's it. Well, you have to have somebody on the contrarian.
So he said his job, he said he's, I think he said his job is harder than...

Speaker 1 No, he said his job is harder than Trevor Bowers. I can't remember.
He had an all-time rant.

Speaker 1 Yes, I actually agree with that take.

Speaker 1 Getting there. Well, no, getting on the air and talking.

Speaker 1 Well, getting on the air and talking about baseball when there's no baseball is harder than playing that's true but being a major league baseball pitcher is pretty damn hard it's yeah it's not easy to do but uh there was a there was a takeaway out there i wish i had in front of me but there was a writer who suggested that they bring george w bush back to be the commissioner of baseball which i think should have been his job from the get-go he should have never gotten into politics he should have just he would have dominated being a commissioner of baseball there would have been no fucking tie in an all-star game there would have been no lockout if george W.

Speaker 1 Bush was committed. But now that people are like going to that, I say just let Bob Costas put his money where his mouth is and become commissioner of baseball.
I love that. I love that.

Speaker 1 Just save baseball. Bob Costas and George Will.
Yeah. Together.
Co-commissioners. Yes, co-commissioners.
So yeah, baseball is still doing the thing. EPL is back.
I watched some EPL this week.

Speaker 1 Horse racing is back. I've been watching, I've been basically betting the ponies every single day.
So that's what we got for sports.

Speaker 1 And Fauci is back, the boogeyman in the closet, which I'm not saying he's wrong because I actually do think we're kind of screwed.

Speaker 1 But I also would wish...

Speaker 1 You know what we need? We need like

Speaker 1 the sensitive material warning you have on Instagram.

Speaker 1 When Fauci says there's not going to be football, there needs to be a sensitive material warning so I don't have to read those words. Yeah, it's just, it's spooky to hear.
And the U.S.

Speaker 1 has kind of shifted into fuck it mode recently. Yeah.
Or full sense.

Speaker 1 Which is just we've been abiding by these rules for a couple months now and so a lot of people are just like myself included i'm not washing my hands as much as i used to hand up on that one i probably should be touching my mustache right now we yeah we do we do need to take a step back because i think university of texas had like 13 football players test positive see sensitive warning material don't do that i didn't opt in um but in classic off-season on the field news you can set your watch this one jamal adams is upset with his contract yeah what is it a day that ends in why yes but um shh yeah, he's, I mean, maybe they should just figure out a way.

Speaker 1 They're the crazy couple that's like, okay, guys, every time we go to a bar, it ends in a fight. We need to sit down and let's just decide to split up.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a relationship that's lasted probably two years too long at this point. Right.
He just needs to find a new. He's Schrodinger's defensive back because he's a jet and not a jet.

Speaker 1 And he's been like that for the last couple of years. And the thing is, he's awesome.
I actually liked his

Speaker 1 list of acceptable teams that he would go to. It was the classic Pete Prisco, here are the teams that made the offseason last year, and I'm going to add one extra in.

Speaker 1 Those are my teams that I consider playing for. Right.
So this is sports. This is what we got.
Video games and not much else. Video games and Jamal Adams not playing.
And soccer. Yep.

Speaker 1 This is actually now that I'm thinking about it, like we're being tortured. Soccer is the only sport.
And you know what? How did that happen?

Speaker 1 And I don't hate soccer.

Speaker 1 Soccer's the only sport.

Speaker 1 Golf's back. Are they golfing today? Do they golf today?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Okay.
It's purgatory. Wait, is it? Did they go golfing or did they play golf today? There's a difference.
Ooh.

Speaker 1 I think next week is a major. No.
No.

Speaker 1 No chance.

Speaker 1 If next week's a major, I'm pumped. Oh, they golfing.
It's not the Masters. It's not the U.S.
Open. It's not the Australian.
It's not the British Open.

Speaker 1 It's not the French Open. All right, it's not a major.
It's a big one. It's not Wimbledon.

Speaker 1 Oh, what is it?

Speaker 1 The Buick 5000?

Speaker 1 What's that one tournament that Arnold Palmer played for the last time?

Speaker 1 The John Deere Open Invitational? What's going on? Waste Management. Yeah.
Waste Management's a cool one. But yeah.

Speaker 1 The Continental, the Marriott Hotel. The Travelers.
Oh, the Travelers.

Speaker 1 That is a big one. Oh, that is a big one.
Yeah, that is a big one. It's not a major, but it's big.

Speaker 1 You're thinking of the NBA playoffs. By the way, by the way, the big, big news, the big, big news is that we totally forgot to do it.
We're going to get to Firefest in a second.

Speaker 1 Nick Mercks, which is an awesome interview you should listen to.

Speaker 1 The big, big news is we have officially a bowl game for mayonnaise. Yes.
Did you see the Mayo Bowl? The Duke's Mayo Bowl. Duke's Mayo Bowl.
Formerly the Belk Bowl. Now the Duke's Mayo Bowl.

Speaker 1 I'm so excited. We should do a live watch party for this bowl game and

Speaker 1 see how many bottles of mayonnaise Billy can eat. You know what?

Speaker 1 As a Mayo Boy, as a self-admitted Mayo boy, I'm going to put my hand up. I love Mayo.
Yeah, I'm going to say that Luke Keekly caught a lot of undeserved flack for his tomato sandwich.

Speaker 1 A good tomato sandwich at the summertime with salt and pepper and mayonnaise.

Speaker 1 Put a little bacon on that. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't understand eating a sandwich that doesn't have meat in it. Mayo's got

Speaker 1 a beefsteak tomato. But I understand.
But that's like when they fucking give you a roasted carrot at one of those farm-to-table restaurants, which I'm still mad at that I went to like four years ago.

Speaker 1 If you are eating a meal, there has to be meat. Billy? Hey guys, I would love to eat stuff on camera for you guys, but there's too much soy and mayo.
Oh, you don't want to be a soy boy?

Speaker 1 No, I'm not eating mayo. There's too much

Speaker 1 soy boy. I don't want to be a soy boy.
Yeah, Billy. Well, your thoughts on Winston Churchill show that you're not a soy boy.
Nice.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 I just think you need to have meat. If you're eating a meal, there has to be meat.
Every now and then, maybe a little like,

Speaker 1 what do they call it? Cereal? Yeah, I was going to say breakfast. You can get bio Lucky Charles.
Still, breakfast is better with a couple sausage links.

Speaker 1 I'm also going to say, like, with breakfast cereal, you need a meat replacement, whether that's marshmallows. I consider marshmallows to be a meat equivalent when it's in a cereal bowl.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think of what meal I would eat without meat. Like maybe a pasta dish? Ooh, yeah, cachio pepe pasta.
Mac and cheese. But it still would be better with meat.

Speaker 1 Mac and cheese, I think, is better without meat. I like that.
Unless it looks like a good sausage

Speaker 1 crumble in there. There's every chorizo.
Every single meal is better with meat. I can't think of what meal would you eat.
There's got to be something, right? Ice cream. Yeah.
But that's not a meal.

Speaker 1 Dessert. I make it a meal on Saturday.
Has anybody ever made dessert meat? Donuts? Donuts? I eat donuts on Saturday, too. I know how people say in like at 7 a.m., do the donut tweet.

Speaker 1 And guess what? I like where I put myself. I boxed myself into a pretty nice corner that I have to eat donuts every time.
I could eat pork handy, pork belly. It would be really, really good.

Speaker 1 There's something. Come on.
Someone has something. It's dessert.
The answer is. Lasagna.
No. No, lasagna needs meat way better with meat.
Bad take, Hank.

Speaker 1 I hate lasagna. I'm just throwing stuff out there.
Honestly, dude,

Speaker 1 there's nothing.

Speaker 1 There are certain things that are better, like chips and queso. I like queso.
No, that's not a meal, though. That's not a meal.

Speaker 1 I'm not talking about like appetizers. Like a pretzel is great, but like a wrap.

Speaker 1 Meat? You eat a wrap without meat in it?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Peter is so mad at this segment.
Fucking.

Speaker 1 What is the best meal without meat? Are we just missing something obvious or is it obvious that everything is better with meat? Pizza. Pizza.
Pepperoni. No.
Juice. Cheese pizza.
Come on.

Speaker 1 But I think that might be the best.

Speaker 1 That is the best.

Speaker 1 It's either pizza or it's mac and cheese. Yeah.
Cheese pizza is the best. But I still would rather have pepperoni on it.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I just realized that cheese pizza and mac and cheese are essentially the exact same thing. Correct.
The dough is just given to you differently. Cooked harder.
Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Okay, Fire Fest of the week. Hank, you begin.
Billy. Okay, Billy, you begin.

Speaker 1 So, we were playing in the SEC championship game, and I was reaching for.

Speaker 1 No, he's on the coaching staff.

Speaker 1 You aren't, Hank. PFT is on the team and coaching staff.
Billy's on the coaching staff. Mooji's on the coaching staff.
I'm on the coaching staff to the coaching staff.

Speaker 1 Roan Brandon Walker on the coaching staff. Hank, you are a hater.

Speaker 1 So, Billy, wait. While you were in the SEC championship, we were playing.

Speaker 1 I was reaching for something on the floor, and then I was reaching for my spitter, and I ended up spilling dip spit all over myself on a live stream.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but then I poured water all over you later, so that was

Speaker 1 yeah, that was no, no, that was after I switched my shirt, and then you poured water on me, and then I had to get another shirt.

Speaker 1 Also, uh, my firefest that didn't happen was PFT was like, hey, Billy, go get some water to pour on Big Cat after he wins, and you went and got a bottle of pink Whitney, a bucket of pink Whitney, which makes no sense.

Speaker 1 You're just gonna pour a delicious, might I add, uh, liquor on me. Uh, Who's going to waste a bunch of pink waste? With a shit.

Speaker 1 Shots. Shots.
With a shitload of technology around me. My computer, my phone, my controller, like the cameras, everything.
You were just going to go full sentence.

Speaker 1 So your Fire Fest was two days ago, you spilled dipspit on yourself. Tough life.
I actually think that's... You're at the perfect age to be walking around with a few stray stains here and there.

Speaker 1 If you're 23 years old, I would expect that you would have some just random stains on you. Yeah, I'm not living if you're 23.
I'm 21. Yeah, but

Speaker 1 if you're 23, I would expect that too. It's like 21 through 26 is that's prime stain territory.
I think I'm back in stained territory, by the way. Once you become a dad,

Speaker 1 once you become a dad, you can have miscellaneous.

Speaker 1 Well, I would love to blame my son for it, but it is absolutely my fault because I just look down on my shirt and I'll just be like, whoa, where'd this come from?

Speaker 1 I would say the years that you should not have stains or where it's like socially unacceptable to have stains would be 28 through 34.

Speaker 1 Nice cut off. Yeah, and then again, 40 to 53.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And then 53 and up, it's like, who cares? Also, like 15 to 18, because then it's really embarrassing. Yeah, true.
You got to run a clean game. Yeah.
You can't talk to girls if you have those stains.

Speaker 1 You just, everyone's like, oh, they're a stained kid. They just assume it's jizz, which it probably is.
Most likely is.

Speaker 1 Hank, your fire fest. My fire fest, speaking of age, was my birthday on Saturday.
Oh, happy birthday, Hank.

Speaker 1 Crappy birthday, 27. You never really, I didn't really know what to do.
My girlfriend was like, what do you want to do? I was like, I really know.

Speaker 1 And I was like, let's go to a driving range, like, try to think of something for an activity.

Speaker 1 And I rented a car for the month. We drove all the way out to Long Island, went to a driving range, and then we walked

Speaker 1 on Long Island. And we walked up, and they're like, You idiot, we're not renting clubs because of Corona.
If you don't have your own clubs, you can't drive. Did you say it was your birthday?

Speaker 1 I didn't say it was my birthday. I was like, What? Did you play with my putt in my hand? So, did you say, Who do you know who I am? Yeah, I didn't.
I didn't do either. I was like,

Speaker 1 ever heard of it? I did one of those, like, that makes a lot of sense. I'm an idiot.
Let's turn around and go home. Ah, you should have dropped a birthday on him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was more like, I was so embarrassed in that moment of like, you know, when you're like, of course, like, duh. Why didn't I think of that?

Speaker 1 What did that conversation go like when you told Rhea that we were going to be? She was right next to me. Yeah.
That look that you. Well, she didn't want to go anyway.
So she was like, okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but if you're on a date and you get that look from the person that you're taking on the date of just like, I can't believe that I'm with somebody this incompetent.

Speaker 1 I've had that look many times before.

Speaker 1 Well, she was in a position where it was like, I'm going to a driving range and it's my birthday, so she can't say she wants nothing to do with going to a driving range.

Speaker 1 And then then she gives credit for it yes she got full credit for going even though yeah that's actually a huge win for her right um so yeah took a nice drive basically yeah yeah okay coronavirus was traffic too so it was not it wasn't even it was worse

Speaker 1 now that like new york city now that things are starting to open up on new york city too

Speaker 1 it's weird like i don't know if you guys have had the uh

Speaker 1 meeting someone yet like meeting someone new because i moved in a new building i'm meeting people and you can't shake hands so no matter what the conversation starts in an awkward spot you You know what?

Speaker 1 I actually don't mind this new normal because one, it eliminates the possibility of the awkward white guy dap, which is huge for me.

Speaker 1 And two,

Speaker 1 you don't have to worry about getting caught in between like a handshake and like a pat on the back, that whole thing. This, like...

Speaker 1 The idea of saying like, hey, I'm Dan. Like, hey, I'm this person.
And you're just standing like seven feet away from each other. And you're like, okay, cool.

Speaker 1 But in that moment, you're both sharing the idea of like, hey, look at us. We're in this together.
We're both in here to end it. You don't want to start it.
It just sucks.

Speaker 1 I'm actually in that situation in the office now. It's like, but I kind of find that.
Don't touch anyone. You don't have permission to touch anyone.

Speaker 1 Don't touch anybody, but I'm like, oh, are you like a handshake?

Speaker 1 I've seen you shake hands with multiple people. You can't.

Speaker 1 If coronavirus is cured tomorrow, you still can't touch people in the office. Okay.
Bill, your favorite emoji is the handshake emoji.

Speaker 1 You're going around just like pressing flesh with everything. So, I mean, are you a handshake? Like, are you down with handshakes? And then, like, whatever they say, like, oh, me too.

Speaker 1 And then it's like an agreement. It's like, it's a a thing.
It's a handshake, it's a real-life meme, handshake emoji. Oh, you a hand, you do handshakes now, and they're like, Yeah, I do a handshake.

Speaker 1 You know, cool. When you see someone, be like, I'm not allowed to touch you.
Just say that everyone else

Speaker 1 in the office, this is this goes for you guys. If Billy tries to shake your hand, notify us immediately.
Yes, notify your authority. See something, say something of Billy Football.

Speaker 1 We'll cut your hands off, Billy. Yeah, just say, too, even if you give me consent, I am not allowed to touch you.

Speaker 1 All right, PFT, what's yours? My Fire Fest of the Week is: I don't own an Aura titanium ring, and everybody in the NBA is getting one.

Speaker 1 And now I didn't know what this thing was until about, I don't know, 30 minutes ago.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 why the fuck don't I have my own Aura Titanium ring? Why doesn't everybody have a titanium ring that will tell you three days in advance if you're going to get the Rona? Wait, what is this? Okay, so

Speaker 1 it's a ring they're making everyone wear in the NBA bubble, and it tells you

Speaker 1 with 90% accuracy if you have symptoms of coronavirus three days before you'll start showing symptoms.

Speaker 1 It essentially confirms what we all knew but didn't fully know that rich people just have medicine and technology that the rest of us can't have access to that will keep them alive forever.

Speaker 1 What I think this ring is, is just somebody decided to make a wearable technology that didn't really have any sort of advanced ideas about how to detect coronavirus.

Speaker 1 It just probably senses whether or not you cough. And if it senses that you cough,

Speaker 1 you like upload the data onto your cell phone or whatever. It's like, oh shit, I'm going to get coronavirus.
But it's really just measuring if your body shakes. Who's going to have the first injury?

Speaker 1 Ring injury. Ooh, ring injury.
Like getting it caught on a rim, getting it caught on a ping-pong, something.

Speaker 1 This seems. Like, could you imagine if that is what...
No, I'm not saying. I'm not saying that.
I mean, I have to say that. I'm just saying,

Speaker 1 God forbid if LeBron broke his finger

Speaker 1 before the playoffs because of this coronaviring. God forbid.
It is 100% JaVail McGee. Yeah.
Without a doubt. Yeah, he probably already hurt himself.
He has a ring. He's trying to put it on.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 this ring is definitely one of those moments where you're like, God damn it. I knew it.
I knew it. These guys are just, they're taking drugs that we don't know about.

Speaker 1 They have technology we don't know about. They're all going to live to a billion years old.
This sucks.

Speaker 1 I saw the picture of the ring, and it looks sweet. Like, it's titanium on the outside.
It's got like infrared-looking stuff on the inside. It actually does look like Lord of the Rings ring.

Speaker 1 Can I pause for a second? I got to get to my firefest. But

Speaker 1 this app that's making everyone look female, it's funny for the coaches.

Speaker 1 A couple of our coworkers, like,

Speaker 1 Dana just tweeted a picture of himself, and he, and I want to fuck him. What is going on? Let me see.
That's weird. Like, this is.

Speaker 1 I was like, who is that? It's also like, it's a hot ass chick.

Speaker 1 You know, I feel like you can only say it so many times before people just have to figure it out themselves, but it's also, like, it's definitely not a good thing that people are outwardly putting out pictures of themselves looking like a girl.

Speaker 1 Like, that's going to end up, it's not going to end up in the right place. It's showing this straight

Speaker 1 technology app. Yeah, without a doubt.
We've learned this lesson. It basically is every six months we have to relearn this lesson.

Speaker 1 I've also noticed that most people who are uploading pictures of them looking like a woman are the same people that made fun of me for in a dress. Interesting.
Oh.

Speaker 1 But a lot of these pictures, people are posting it like it's their third day. Yeah, I mean, Billy wants to fuck Vibs.
Billy's showing us a picture of Vibs. Like, damn.
Like, Dana posted this picture

Speaker 1 to show people how hot he is as a girl. Yes.
This is not okay. As I got turned on by Dana right there.
And actually, you know what? I have no problem with it.

Speaker 1 All right. My Fire Fest is shoes.

Speaker 1 So I finally sprung and bought a pair of shoes that I had my eyes on for a very long time. Very expensive.
I texted Hank, who loves shoes.

Speaker 1 And I also knew that he would love these pair of shoes. And he just texted me back and he said, oh, yeah, Rhea got me those for Valentine's Day, and I just have been too scared to wear them.

Speaker 1 And then what did he do the next day? He wore them before I could get mine. So he just basically cucked me.
Well, that's a good play by Hank. Yeah, I know.
It is a good thing.

Speaker 1 I knew it was going to happen. I knew it was going to happen, but I'm just so frustrated because it's like, I was eyeing these shoes for so long.
I finally came in my size. I got buying them.

Speaker 1 I never would have bought them because they're expensive. I never would have bought them on my own.
Yeah, so it's kind of bullshit. I should actually just write scribble on them.

Speaker 1 bought with my own money. You know what you have to do next time?

Speaker 1 Just like tell Hank that you got a pair of shoes that you didn't and just he's going to go out and buy it before you well no but the worst part is big cat he did reach out he's like you're gonna love these shoes and i he does i kind of knew i was like i have a feeling he's gonna he's gonna be these shoes and if he just didn't do that he would have he would have worn them in the office before i did because they're so nice like you know when you have something so nice you're like i'm scared to wear this because i'm gonna ruin it or like whatever so i was waiting for the right moment big cat would have worn them to the office and got credit for having them

Speaker 1 here's what things are these here's the shoes you wore on ping pong hunt oh the shoes that got your ass beaten people yeah 4-0 here's the thing Hannah. You never wear them.

Speaker 1 I will outwear those. I will wear those all the time.
Yeah. I will outwear you.
That's fine.

Speaker 1 I'll wear you in the ground. I will flex harder when I do wear them.
Oh, really? Yeah. But everyone will be like, oh, those are big cat shoes.
Correct, because I wore them first.

Speaker 1 But I'm going to wear them so much that people will be like, that's synonymous. It's not about

Speaker 1 it. It's who says it louder.
No, I'm going to wear it. No, it is exactly.

Speaker 1 The annals of history will prove me right. The annals.

Speaker 1 Annals of history. Anals of history.

Speaker 1 Billy, okay?

Speaker 1 You got something stuck in your tooth? You do actually have something stuck in your tooth.

Speaker 1 It's anals. It's anals of history.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You can do an al tonight? That's why they call it going back through time. All right, let's get to our interview.
We have Nick Mercks on the podcast. Awesome, awesome interview.

Speaker 1 If you don't know who it is, it is probably one of the biggest Twitch streamers out there. Something a little different.

Speaker 1 Not our usual interview, but that's what we're trying to do right now because there's not a lot of sports going on. So we're trying to give you something different.
Uh, yeah, do that. Chuck it.

Speaker 1 No, I don't, I don't even know. There's so many loose bottles around here.
Shout out to TJ, by the way. Shout out to TJ.
TJ is the mission.

Speaker 1 Anytime you take a sip out of a mystery can and it's not dip spit, and there's some winter, that is a huge win. But yeah, shout out to TJ.
By the way, Piket, are you ever looking at it?

Speaker 1 Did you just look at that dip spit bottle over there? There's no dip on it. Oh, that bottom water bottle.
There's a top on it. That's been there for forever.
Yeah, there's a top on it.

Speaker 1 That's disgusting. Notice there's a top.
That is absolutely dipstick bottles with tops allowed. And it's no way it's going to spit Bark City.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's not overflowing.

Speaker 1 Who would do that?

Speaker 1 All right, let's get to Nick Mercks. Before we do that.
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Speaker 1 Okay, here he is, Nick Mercks.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest, legend of the game. It's Nick Mercks.

Speaker 1 If you are someone who has watched video games on Twitch, if you even know anything about video games or Twitch, you have heard of him. He's one of the biggest Twitch stars out there.

Speaker 1 One of the greatest video game players ever. Stop me when I'm not making any sense anymore.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 What? 3 million YouTube subscribers, over a million Twitch subscribers for people watching on Twitch.

Speaker 1 He's pretty much the biggest thing since sliced bread. And he's six feet tall.
Six feet tall.

Speaker 1 His only fault that I could find is that he roots for the Michigan Wolverines.

Speaker 1 But that's it. That was literally it.
So good to have you on, Nick. It's been a long time coming.
We're excited to talk to you and actually kind of understand how Twitch works.

Speaker 5 For sure. Happy to be here, man.
Awesome. This is lit.
I've never been on a podcast before.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, when you say that, how is that possible?

Speaker 1 Is the Twitch world and podcast world that separate? No.

Speaker 5 I mean, I don't think so. It's just we.

Speaker 5 It's like, I kind of feel like I'm already on a podcast.

Speaker 1 You know, if I'm streaming, you got the camera, you got the mic, you got the chat, you know they're always telling me to yeah they're telling me to jump on a podcast i just feel like i'm always on a podcast you know it just doesn't happen to be available on spotify or iTunes but it's out there you can find clips of Nick Mercks talking into a camera if you really want to uh you were just telling us before you joined it's um it's two o'clock in the afternoon you said you just woke up That's the gamer life schedule for you?

Speaker 1 You're waking up at like high noon.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you know, you just get into a rhythm, man.

Speaker 5 You start playing a video game and kind of like, you know, when I was a little kid, you just keep playing and playing and playing and then it's then it's one and then it's two and it's four and the birds are chirping you're just like ah shit dude i fucked up you know but but uh that's my life man i i play all night and i sleep all day you know so so uh talking about your childhood at what point were you like oh my god this is gonna be it like this is what i want to do because everyone played video games as a kid but what point

Speaker 5 this is it y'all want to get into this part yeah oh man well uh i mean i don't know uh

Speaker 5 at what point did you guys feel like you wanted to run a podcast?

Speaker 1 You know, not till once I got 30. Yeah, when I got fired from literally every other job available, then I was like, yeah, sure, I'll just keep talking.

Speaker 5 Oh, dude, same here, man. Like, the failures in life just kind of push you to where we are today.
I mean, me, I tried a lot of different things, but the one thing that was consistent.

Speaker 5 you know, alongside me trying all these different things was always gaming. I mean, I love gaming.
I always wanted to do it.

Speaker 5 But, you know, back when I started, nobody really knew that this was going to turn into this. So we were all just kind of winging it.
Kind of like we are today, man.

Speaker 5 I mean, it's pretty crazy what gaming has turned into. But like when I started streaming, there was no really, no real way to make any money.
We were just kind of doing it for fun,

Speaker 5 being able to talk to a chat box and be interactive with people and like kind of entertain, but from your home was super cool. But there's just no money.
I mean, we were doing college.

Speaker 5 We had a part-time job. You know, I mean, I knew I was good.
I was beating ass every fucking night, man. I mean, no matter what, no matter what game, Halo, COD, Gears of War, it was just beating ass.

Speaker 1 So I i knew i was good but i had no idea it would turn into this you know what i mean yeah what game was it like when you were growing up or just starting starting to uh to game competitively that you knew that okay if i can dominate at this game then i'm actually on a world-class basis shit i mean

Speaker 5 bro i i it's gonna be tough for me to hammer this point home because like it is

Speaker 5 y'all just don't don't know like i mean a lot of people like Like when I came up, nobody knew it was going to turn into this. I know I'm kind of

Speaker 5 saying the same things, but like ignorance is bliss.

Speaker 5 We were just beating the shit out of each other, having fun, going to play for little tiny tournaments, but it was never like a goal to do it for the rest of our lives because we didn't think we would ever be able to.

Speaker 5 And then when Justin TV turned into Twitch TV and kind of, you know, gaming just started excelling, man, more and more people got into gaming. More and more people were curious about gaming.

Speaker 5 I started seeing like the prize pools, these tournaments go from like five grand to a hundred grand. I was like, wait a second, you know, this is getting kind of weird.

Speaker 5 But I mean, you know, it's

Speaker 5 dude, this big, big, big boom of success. And then, and then now it is, you know,

Speaker 5 it's kind of where it is today. But, but, dude, when I first started, we just had no idea that it would be this.
You know what I'm saying? So, it was never a plan.

Speaker 1 I think that's the part that

Speaker 1 people can't wrap their head around, myself included. Like, before coronavirus and Hank being like, hey, you should start getting on Twitch.
I had no idea really what was going on.

Speaker 1 I'd pop on every now and then, watch something, but I never really understood how big of an audience there is. How many people watch your Twitch like on just a regular random night?

Speaker 1 Like, what's the average amount of people just to put it into context?

Speaker 5 We get like 40,000 people, man. That's in the stream every night.

Speaker 1 And then what's the peak that you've had?

Speaker 5 Dude, I've had like 180,000 viewers at one point.

Speaker 1 So that's the part that, like,

Speaker 1 yeah, people who don't watch this, who are listening right now and they're like, oh, it's just video games. I thought the same thing three months ago.

Speaker 5 Well, you were on stream the other night balling.

Speaker 5 You had like a hundred and uh you had a hundred hundred and something didn't you playing playing the nca joint yeah it was i mean when when we started doing it it was like holy shit there's 40 50 the national championship had 100 126 000 i was like this is that's crazy insane dude that's crazy no host no no raid nothing just just you and what are those explain those terms well i don't know i have no idea what you just said yeah yeah all right so so like a host on on twist tv is if someone has a lot of viewers or whatever and they and they want to host your channel they can send their stream and all their viewers to to your stream essentially.

Speaker 5 And then like a raid is kind of like another thing like that.

Speaker 5 Instead of hosting the channel so it brings like that streamer's picture on your picture, you can just go on a raid, you can send everybody over there and you don't bring up their picture on your picture.

Speaker 5 You know what I mean? But a hosting to raid is super cool and it's a great way to kind of like give back to like a smaller community and whatnot.

Speaker 5 I mean shit, you hosted me twice and you have more viewers than me both times, big cat.

Speaker 1 It's like a retweet. It's like a retweet.
No big deal.

Speaker 1 That's all love, baby. That is all love.
So, all right, so

Speaker 1 explain this to me. This is the part I can't understand with Twitch.
And maybe you have a different experience because you've been doing it for a very long time. And you also, I was reading up on you.

Speaker 1 You give back to your community. You do a lot of cool things.

Speaker 1 How do you get it so that you don't get bullied by all the chat? Like, I just get bullied.

Speaker 5 Yeah, dude. I mean, bro, like, I got a lot of friends like Losh.
Losh just gets bullied the whole time too, man. I mean,

Speaker 5 it's kind of like an energy, man. I don't know.
I get bullied too, bro. Like, they think I'm I'm 5'7 and shit.

Speaker 1 They really think I'm 5'7.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that sucks. How tall are you?

Speaker 5 Yeah, it sucks, man. People, I'm six feet, man.
People come up to me when they meet me in person. They're like, dude, I thought you were like 5'6, man.
I'm like, yo, fuck you, bro.

Speaker 1 It is kind of nice to hear that sometimes. Like, this dude came up to me on the street the other day.
He was like, PFT, you're a lot taller than I thought you'd be.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, how tall did you think I was? Like, if you think that 5'9 and a half, almost three or four quarters, right? Is tall.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But how do do you stop the the the like trolling do you just not read them like what what i have is a lot of times is people will just say like oh your mic is broken and it's not but they'll just keep it they'll spam it and i'm so stupid that i stop everything to check and like i just gets in my head how do you stop that i don't think you do i think you just embrace it like now you're the guy with the broken fucking mic you know what i mean yeah what this shit's working broken mic 120 000 viewers suck my ass

Speaker 1 What about a lag switch? They claim that I have a lag switch that I change the settings. I hit the lag switch, and then when the games lagged out, I change everything, cheat, and then come back.

Speaker 1 What's that?

Speaker 5 They're just messing with you, man.

Speaker 5 They know you're not like a

Speaker 5 gamer gamer.

Speaker 1 Right. I've never felt so old.

Speaker 1 I've never felt so old that I do on a chat, on a Twitch chat. Yeah, yeah.
Does anyone ever accuse you of pre-recording your stuff?

Speaker 5 Oh, a couple of times. But everything's, for me, I'm a really interactive streamer.
You know, I'm always, I'm always talking shit to the chat and having fun and reading stuff.

Speaker 5 So it's kind of hard to do that.

Speaker 1 But then they'll accuse you of pre-recording that to make it seem like that's a perfect way that it would seem like it's not pre-recorded. I flipped it on the chat.

Speaker 1 Now I think the chat's pre-recorded. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Oh, there you go.

Speaker 5 We think you're pre-recorded.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. It works.
It works.

Speaker 5 Do you have speaking of pre-recorded?

Speaker 5 Is this different? Is this kind of a different vibe?

Speaker 5 See,

Speaker 1 we're not live right now. Right.
Yeah. It's a little different, right? Yeah.
Say anything you want. Chop it all up.
Yeah. Bleep out whatever you need.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 You know, I used to do vlogging on YouTube.

Speaker 5 I did a few of them, and I never liked it.

Speaker 5 It was always weird to me that I was like talking to the camera, like, hey, what's up, guys? How you doing? Yeah. I just, there wasn't anybody.
I'm talking to myself, man. You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 At least I'm talking to you guys right now, which makes it a little bit.

Speaker 1 more comfortable.

Speaker 5 But imagine just talking to yourself, just vlogging. Isn't that kind of weird? It is.

Speaker 1 You're like talking to a future audience that you hope will show up and watch it at some point.

Speaker 5 yeah i never yeah i never liked it uh are your thumbs insured uh my dad was trying to get me to get this hands insurance

Speaker 5 i said no he said fuck it a lot of money man really a lot of money a lot of money in the street i probably should man it's getting to that point now where i should probably get my well my uncle has this hands insurance he's he's a he's a doctor oh i thought you were gonna say he's like a watch model or something no no i mean he's an orthopedic surgeon it's pretty important hands man he works at a lot of athletes and shit you know but but i said uh we were all at the fate we're at the family dinner you know having a good time and my dad made a joke about getting the hands and shirt my uncle was like no you really should you know I guess people do that so I don't know but it's a lot of money though man yeah what so you're I read as well that your your dad was initially like fuck this my son's not a video game player how was it trying to convince him and what was the moment where he was like you know what this actually is a great living and you're having fun yeah well i mean do you guys come from like sport families and i i would imagine you do man like you know your pastas and the the sports, brothers and sisters and stuff.

Speaker 5 Right. I mean, like, you know, my house growing up, we, like, my brothers and sisters, we all played sports.
My dad played college sports. My uncle played college sports.

Speaker 5 My grandpa played college sports.

Speaker 5 My dad coached college football who eventually for eight years. That's why we're GoBlue fans over here.
But, I mean, you know, the list goes on and on.

Speaker 5 I got a really, really crazy family when it comes to sports. So sports was the norm.
This gaming shit was like, nah.

Speaker 5 You know, my dad was the one dad that never, I mean, all my friends were cool with playing video games. My dad was never about it, man.
I mean, it was get the fuck outside, go get dirty, go do shit.

Speaker 5 I mean, just typical standard stuff. It really was like that in my house.
You know what I mean? Don't get up from the table until your plate's clean.

Speaker 5 Go outside, play basketball for 10 hours in the backyard, and then go have a fight. I mean, it was all we fucking did.
But, you know,

Speaker 5 I had a friend that was, it was just him. He had no brothers or sisters.
He was, you know, he was by himself.

Speaker 5 And he used to get all the systems, the halos, the Gears of Wars, the Call of Duties, everything right when it came out, man. And I would go sneak over to his house and play all the time.

Speaker 5 But I was better than all my friends that played over there, man. I mean, I was way better at him.
You know, so it just, it was a long process, man.

Speaker 5 My dad just had to learn that, like, there was actual, there was actual cash to be made, man. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Long time, though, man.

Speaker 5 A lot of fights. Me and my dad did not get along.
High school teachers

Speaker 5 used to call people on them and shit for the things he'd say in front of other people and do in front of other people. Me and my dad used to get in fights all the time.
I mean, it was not okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But it turned out great.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Now now my dad is my superhero. I mean,

Speaker 5 listen, man, I'm good at perspective type stuff.

Speaker 5 You know, if I was a college football coach type father and my son was just not doing the sport thing and he was being real combative, and I was also an asshole as a kid, man.

Speaker 5 I was a really tough kid to raise.

Speaker 5 Like a lot of attitude problems. But then again, bro, I had no fucking sleep.
I go to school all day and I play games all night.

Speaker 1 There's on no sleep. You were tired all the time.

Speaker 5 Imagine you being on no sleep. You're not going to be a very happy fucking thing.
So, you know, I mean, it's just a lot of problems, man.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? What's the longest longest you've ever slept?

Speaker 5 Oh my God, dude, I used to like hibernate.

Speaker 5 I used to like, dude, over the weekend, man, I pull like a 13-hour shift, man. La la lin.
I wake up, mouth glued together, can't even open my eyes. You know, it's like, damn.

Speaker 1 Well, on the other side, what's the longest stream that you've ever had? Or not even stream, what's the longest, even before the streaming days, that you've ever sat at a console and played?

Speaker 5 Oh, man. Well, before the stream, because the streaming, you know, like kind of how we're doing it, we're, you know, we're entertaining, we're, we're talking, and we're high energy and stuff.

Speaker 5 So that's a different type type of vibe but back when i was a kid when you weren't doing any of that you're just playing man i probably i've been on for like 40 hours and playing halo 2 shut up jesus 40 hours nasty yeah yeah we'd just eat pizza rolls and ranch and

Speaker 1 play halo man what's what's the fuel is that was it mountain dew keeping you up or did you dip in a jolt red bull red bull zero oh my god you remember you remember uh yeah of course we we did the uh what was the coca-cola the vanilla one oh man we used to dominate that vanilla coke

Speaker 1 oh yeah that's no not orange. It's just vanilla Coke, man.

Speaker 5 Incredible.

Speaker 1 Are you a controller player or a computer player?

Speaker 1 Hell yes. Controller is the answer.

Speaker 1 Explain that divide. Explain what the difference is between the two to people who probably don't really understand playing video games on a computer.
How does that make sense?

Speaker 5 Well, you got this.

Speaker 1 Controller. And then you got this.

Speaker 5 You got a mouse. Okay.
And I mean, you know, and keyboard, of course. But

Speaker 5 I mean, the difference is there i the the the the thing is is over the past couple years man uh controller players have been have been teeing up against keyboard mouse players which usually doesn't happen because when we were growing up computer games were computer games and console games were console games but now you're getting this blend like we're being put in the same area we're beating the shit out of each other so

Speaker 5 You know what comes with that, right? Like it's the shit talking and the

Speaker 1 battles.

Speaker 5 Totally, man. It's across the board, man, at the highest level, at the lowest level, level, in the middle, you know, and everybody's just teed up against each other.

Speaker 1 Is one easier than the other?

Speaker 5 No. I mean, I think that growing up,

Speaker 5 most people started on a controller. So it's what we did.
We all started on a controller.

Speaker 5 And then if you had a lot of money and you were doing well, then you could maybe afford a whole PC and a keyboard and a mouse. So they like to call it like

Speaker 5 and all that stuff. But the fact of the matter is, is that most people and a mouse.
Yeah, you know, I'm saying, like, they don't really get to,

Speaker 5 you know, they don't really get to buy a computer and a mouse, man. You know what I mean? So a lot of these motherfuckers that went to keyboard, you won't blurt this one out.

Speaker 5 A lot of these keyboard mouse players started on console and controller and they forgot where they came from.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but it's not sold out. So are you like a hero in the controller world?

Speaker 5 No, man, I'm just, I'm just.

Speaker 1 Okay, yes. Yes, you're a hero in the controller world.
That's that kind of answers.

Speaker 1 What about aimbots? Hank likes to accuse everybody that's better than him for using an aimbot. Yeah, that's the way, right? If they're any better, they're obviously cheating.

Speaker 1 If they're worse, you better be cheating. Has there ever been like a big AIM-bots scandal in professional esports?

Speaker 5 I think so. I'm not really in the drama side of things, man, which is kind of crazy because I know y'all heard about that other bullshit.

Speaker 5 But I mean, like, I'm not a real big drama guy, and I'm never really in it. I'm never in the fucking loop.
You know what I mean? I'm never in the loop.

Speaker 5 I don't know shit about nothing until, you know, until it's brought up to me. So as far as like drama type stuff and who she, I know it happens.

Speaker 1 I don't know where, though. What about your drama with 100 thieves?

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 That was really

Speaker 5 about that. Yeah, it was a little bit drama.
That's the only time I ever been in drama.

Speaker 1 But I actually liked reading up about it. I liked how you handled it.
You're just like, this wasn't what I was promised, and I'm out.

Speaker 5 Well, fuck, you know.

Speaker 1 So, how does it work up? How do video game teams work? Like, explain that to me.

Speaker 5 Like, a gaming team?

Speaker 1 Yeah, like you were on a team, now you're on a different team. Like, how does it, what are the benefits? What does it mean? I mean, exposure.

Speaker 5 You know, you're linked up with other big guys. You know, you might get a salary.
You might not. They take care of you.

Speaker 5 You know, there's all kinds of benefits on being a part of a a gaming organization you know I'm saying um

Speaker 5 phase is is dude they've been taking care of me like crazy man like they they gave me the hookup they they let me do my own thing but support everything that I do which is a rare thing by the way but they're awesome you know the hundred hundred thieves is also a great gaming organization too you know and I think it kind of got lost in the sauce when all that shit transpired you know I never meant to like drag hundred thieves because I got a lot of friends on that organization Like, it's kind of like,

Speaker 5 I don't know,

Speaker 5 two NFL teams, right? And you got a bunch of coaches, you got a bunch of players. Just because you have one, you know, dispute with a guy doesn't mean the whole fucking team's, you know, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. How does that work with coaches?

Speaker 1 Is it basically like a player-run organization, or do you actually have somebody that supervises and is like watching everybody and like giving them advice and being like, no, this guy's not as good.

Speaker 1 We need to replace him.

Speaker 5 You know, that's like, yeah, dude, you know, I really don't know.

Speaker 5 i mean i i when i was coming up in the esports scene as a as a player we didn't really have coaches but now it's like full-blown coaches and routines and they have like they have like a dietitian they got him they got them doing exercises i'm serious it's like full-blown you know what i mean what kind of exercises do you do me

Speaker 5 i just work out man i got a little home gym over here now i love it bro i i i did two or three months no gym i lost like 20 pounds i was getting a little bit frail starting to be a little worried about this smitty beef that he might be able to take me in the

Speaker 5 head-on head. But now that I'm back in the gym and shit, I'm working out again, I think I'll be all right, you know?

Speaker 1 You took some time off from streaming.

Speaker 1 Did you notice when you came back that it was like, oh, shit, like I'm way out of practice? Is it similar to sports in that respect?

Speaker 1 That if a baseball player doesn't pick up a bat for a month, their timing is all off. Was it like that for you?

Speaker 5 It totally can be, but it can also not be. Sometimes people get burnt out, man, and they do need a break.
Breaks are good.

Speaker 5 and i think even at the highest level of sports you know like maybe nba players nfl players a lot of those guys i bet you that they would say the same thing that taking a break every now and then is really good for their body and their mind you know just keep everything sharp and i think same thing can be said for gaming you know you you get you burn out if you don't take breaks and you you'll come back after a week and not playing sometimes and just fry everybody But then again, you can come back sometimes and be really washed up.

Speaker 5 You got to work on your game again, you know?

Speaker 1 What are you ranked overall in Call of Duty right now? Like, can you just beat everyone?

Speaker 5 No, no, I'm not that good, man. I mean, I'm good.
I think the thing about me, if I had to like grade myself, I don't really like talking about me and grading me.

Speaker 5 I let other people do that shit for me. But if you're going to make me do it, I think that if

Speaker 5 I had to carve it up for anybody, I'd say that

Speaker 5 no matter what game, no matter when, I always find a way to make some real fucking noise. And not a lot of people can say that.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 I can go from Fortnite to Call of Duty to Gears of War to Halo, and I will always make some noise. I can guarantee that.
Just give me some time. Let me work on my game, and I'm fucking in there.

Speaker 1 So are you saying noise in the game, or are you saying noise in terms of entertaining people? Yeah,

Speaker 5 like I'm going to rock some heads. I'm going to entertain some people on Twitch, and I'm going to do my thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 No, for sure.

Speaker 1 Do you ever go back and watch a film of yourself and be like, hey, here's where I can improve?

Speaker 5 Bro, I used to, man, but I'm just not a...

Speaker 5 100% comp player.

Speaker 5 But I think that if you are, you're not doing the Twitch streaming thing, you're not trying to entertain or make content, I think it's really important to go back and watch your stuff just so you can see the mistakes you make and even the things you do well and just study, study, study, study.

Speaker 5 I mean, that's all it is, right? It's just in your mind.

Speaker 1 I got a really dumb question. I probably should have asked this earlier, but uh,

Speaker 1 what does Merc mean?

Speaker 5 It's like a hired assassin.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay,

Speaker 1 I've heard it as a noun, like a mercenary. I've also heard it like, I just merced this dude, like a verb.

Speaker 5 You guys ever play a splinter cell or no?

Speaker 5 You play a game back? Oh, my God, man. It was, it was like spies versus mercs.

Speaker 5 It was 2v2 and the spies could go up behind the merc and grab his neck and crack it real quick wow it was a wild game bro that was when my attitude was the worst i was playing that what do you mean your attitude was the worst you just yelling at people oh dude when i was like 12 or 13 i'd grab that neck say get fuck motherfucker you know you know what i mean that's how i would come like yo what are you talking like that for dude dude my mom my mom heard me uh cussing one time on the on the xbox and she got so mad at me that she put my xbox in a in a trash bag you want to fucking cuss and she puts it it in the trash bag and runs out in the front yard.

Speaker 5 I'm like, what are you doing? I'm following her. What are you doing? What are you doing? And she smashes the Xbox on the ground like 10 times the whole time, like screaming, you want to cuss?

Speaker 5 You want to fucking cuss?

Speaker 1 I'm like, oh my God. Oh, my God.
That was the worst.

Speaker 1 When I was first trying to learn how to play Halo back in college, I was just getting killed every two seconds by an 11-year-old. And then that 11-year-old was just out of speed.
That was you.

Speaker 1 That was me. You probably killed me like 50 times.
Wiped the floor.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you made me quit video games.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I was such a nerd, man.

Speaker 1 Like, if I'm, oh my God, what I can go back. What, um, what's the reaction?

Speaker 1 I would say it's probably better now than it was five years ago, but what's the reaction when you are talking to a girl at a bar or meeting up, going on a date, and you're like, I'm a video game player?

Speaker 5 Oh, oh, boy. Well, I got a wife, you know.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? So I did. So you did that.
I had to shit no more. Thank God.
Yeah. Yep.
Congrats. Congrats.

Speaker 1 Way to go, Nick Mercks.

Speaker 5 GG, baby.

Speaker 1 We win.

Speaker 5 Dude, it was tough, man. I mean, dude, even,

Speaker 5 like, no matter how you cut it, if you're talking to somebody, anybody that doesn't know shit about gaming, and you tell them you're a gamer, dude, you, oh, man, it's just not a good vibe, bro. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Because you can say gamer, and they think you're a fucking little nerd loser, right? Or you could say that

Speaker 5 you're a live streamer, and then they think you're doing like fucking porn or something.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 5 you look cam boy or something, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Like, no matter what you do, how you cut, or you talk to an older guy, you say, you know,

Speaker 5 I'm a streamer on Twitch.

Speaker 5 Wait, wait, wait. So people just like, watch you play games?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm just like, oh, fuck off, man.
Here we go.

Speaker 5 And he's like, well, I've got to start gaming. I go, yeah, maybe you should.
And then it's just fucking.

Speaker 1 We deal with the same thing. There's no cool way to say I'm a podcaster.
Like when you say it, people are just like, oh, everyone's got a podcast now. It's like, well,

Speaker 1 it's actually our job.

Speaker 5 Me and Larry talk about shit all day in the barn, man. This shit would be a huge.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 So how do you explain it?

Speaker 1 Let's say you're at a wedding and you get sat at a table with some older people, but people that you want to get along well with. You want to make a good impression on them.
They ask you what you do.

Speaker 1 What's your line? No, no, no.

Speaker 5 No, no, no. See, you're bugging.
See, I stopped giving a fuck a long time ago, bro.

Speaker 1 That's sick. That's liberating.

Speaker 5 No, I don't give a fuck anymore.

Speaker 1 Is that weird? No. No.
No, that's good.

Speaker 5 I'm not sitting at a table. I don't give a fuck what they think.
I don't care. I don't want to explain it.
I don't want to talk to you about it.

Speaker 5 I just want to lay in bed with my dog and my cat and my girl. I want to stay outside by the pool.
I want to play my games. I want everybody to leave me the fuck alone.

Speaker 1 That's where I'm at.

Speaker 5 I've had so many of those conversations, bro, that I've realized it's a waste of energy.

Speaker 1 You're not going to get anywhere. So

Speaker 1 when did you hit that? When did you hit that point?

Speaker 1 Dude, years ago, man.

Speaker 5 Well, you know what? Spent a little time in LA, man. LA kind of rough.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 you moved out to LA. It's a lot of people.

Speaker 5 people acting like they give a shit, but really they're just trying to work an angle, you know. I don't know about LA, man.
LA a little, a little fast-paced for me, bro. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Yeah. So it was like somebody is always looking for a handout.

Speaker 1 Like someone's looking, if you can't do anything to advance their career, then they're like, okay, I'm going to move on and talk to somebody else.

Speaker 5 So I had a lot of those conversations because I'm this new guy. And so I'm trying to, you know, I'm just...
I'm talking to the neighbors. I'm talking to them, you know, just normal conversations.
And

Speaker 5 I used to enjoy talking to people a lot more than I do now. I mean, seriously, but it always gets to like the old Nick Mercks thing, you know?

Speaker 5 And then it just turns into like, yo, shit, like, man, I got this company, bro.

Speaker 1 Like, oh, shit.

Speaker 5 Dude, we put like reverse osmosis filters. And like, we could, we could maybe like, maybe you could put one on your stream.
I'm like, yeah, I don't know if you know how that shit works, man.

Speaker 5 Yeah, let's sell a reverse osmosis filter to the fucking kid in college. Like, what, like, no, that's just crazy, bro.

Speaker 1 Have you had a moment where you thought, like, what's the, how long can you game for? Because

Speaker 1 this is fascinating to me because gamers right now, you're first generation kind of gamers in terms of you just talked Justin TV to Twitch.

Speaker 1 You guys are the guinea pigs in a lot of ways of the first generation making a real true living. And at what point will you have to hang up the

Speaker 1 sticks? And like, have you talked about that at all? Not to be depressing, but it's just interesting. No, no.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 No, I don't, you know, I haven't thought about it too much.

Speaker 5 I guess maybe like if I was more like a Timid Tatman or like a Doctor of Disrespect or some shit, and I was getting on Twitch every day and just getting my ass kicked, then maybe,

Speaker 5 maybe it'd be time for me to hang it up or something, you know?

Speaker 1 But that hasn't happened.

Speaker 1 You're still merging.

Speaker 5 No, man, I'm beating ass, bro.

Speaker 1 Yeah, as long as I'm beating ass, I'm fine.

Speaker 5 But if I start getting on every day and I'm getting throttled, I'm going to take a look in the mirror, man. Say, hey, maybe we start doing some business or something, you know?

Speaker 1 Because this is a little crazy. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Speaker 1 How dumb does the NCAA feel not getting ahead of this and like not establishing college esports before people realize that they could make a shitload of money doing it on their own?

Speaker 5 Well, the NCAA is a tricky conversation. There's a lot going on there.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 I mean, we're getting to this weird point in time where college athletes are, there's talks about them getting paid and all this. It's just weird, man.

Speaker 5 And NCAA has always been hard to do anything with. I've come to understand.
You know?

Speaker 1 Anything. Yeah.
Like

Speaker 1 bring out a new game.

Speaker 5 No, like anything.

Speaker 5 It's wildly hard

Speaker 5 in the the NCAA. I like, you know, the NFL is real different with that, right? It's just the NCAA.
Just no matter, I think we've tried to do a few things with those guys, man. It's just,

Speaker 1 nah. Well, they got to always make sure they're getting their cut.
That's that's rule number one for the NCAA. That's why they exist.

Speaker 5 Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 We're going to get back to Nick Mercks in a second.

Speaker 6 Man, I'll tell you what. When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts.

Speaker 6 That's where Snickers comes in, man.

Speaker 6 that thing is packed roasted peanuts nugget caramel milk chocolate it's like the mvp of candy bars and when you bite into it boom it sorts you out gets your head back in the game of life satisfying your hunger remember this snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else snickers satisfies man that's a winning play

Speaker 1 How quickly, if I just gave you a game, a video game that you've never played before how quickly could you beat our ass in it? Oh dude, that's what I'm good at.

Speaker 5 That's my that's the only thing I'm good at in this world

Speaker 1 So if I gave you like do you play Madden at all or no?

Speaker 5 Well, I used to I went to the Madden challenge in Chicago when I was like 15 actually so yeah I made it to the top top eight. I made it to the top.
No, was it top eight or top 16?

Speaker 5 Well the final like four went on that bus. You guys remember that? They put them on the bus? Yes.

Speaker 5 You sure you remember that?

Speaker 1 Yes, I remember the bus.

Speaker 5 It kind of felt like a yes.

Speaker 1 No, it was on ESPN too or something. I remember a big deal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 It was a Madden bus. I almost fucking made it on when I was 15.
I stayed in a hostel in Chicago just to wake up the next day and almost make it.

Speaker 1 I almost made it. And your dad was actually proud of you that moment.

Speaker 5 No shot.

Speaker 1 He's mad that I wasn't home. It's kind of football.
He was like, yeah, it's football adjacent.

Speaker 1 No shot. Is there a game that you've picked up that you've just been like, I suck at this one.
I'm never playing this one again.

Speaker 5 Like any game that's not a shooter, I'm just not into them, bro. You know, if it's got a gun in in it, I'm, I'm, oh man, I'm there.

Speaker 1 Are you good at shooting in real life?

Speaker 1 Yeah, great.

Speaker 5 I went to the Navy. I got it.
Well, this is kind of like, bro, everybody that's in the military that like has been military for a while, they're all going to fucking laugh at this.

Speaker 5 But I got my expert pin

Speaker 5 in the pew pew.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 5 Hey, bro.

Speaker 5 I was one of like eight kids in my 200-person class that got an expert pin. And then when we actually started shooting big guns, man, I'm pretty straight shot, bro.

Speaker 1 Damn. All right, so I guess that actually makes me feel better.

Speaker 1 it's just a natural thing like that's the part of

Speaker 1 video games that i think people can't really understand is there is natural talent just like sports where i could play video games for a thousand hours the next straight a thousand hours if i could like figure out a potion and not sleep and i still would get my ass kicked by you because you naturally are just better you know what i mean People think video games are just like whoever plays the most.

Speaker 1 Yeah, nah.

Speaker 5 Well, you know, it's a blend, right? It's a blend.

Speaker 1 Right, but that's kind of like sports. Yeah, that's sports.

Speaker 5 Same dude, right?

Speaker 5 Right. You get some of these freakly genetic, you know, LeBron James dudes.
They're just wild. It's like, holy shit.

Speaker 5 You know, but then when that meets preparation and time and everything you put into it, it's like, holy shit, dude.

Speaker 1 Right. Right.

Speaker 1 Same thing with gaming. Yes.
Where do you fall? Just not

Speaker 1 on the big

Speaker 1 on the big rivalry between Billy Mitchell and Steve Weeby, King of Kongs, Fistful of Quarters.

Speaker 5 I don't even know what she's talking about right now, bro.

Speaker 1 Billy Mitchell. You want

Speaker 1 the GOAT, the GOAT gamer of all time. First person.
We're looking like Clues. Did you get a million points in Donkey Kong? No, we're looking like Clues.
Oh, damn. Damn.
Shit. We just lost him.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, it's Donkey Kong.

Speaker 5 It's Donkey Kong, though, bro.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? Yeah, we just lost him.

Speaker 5 No, no, I'm more like a golden eye.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you used to play the Call of Duty, the last Call of Duty, the World War II?

Speaker 5 Yeah, for like a week, and then I was depressed. I got fucking depressed.
You know that?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I just ran around with a shotgun and got killed like 40 times, but I got like 15 kills.

Speaker 5 Did you like the game?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I like the game. I like history.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 No? I felt like I was there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, there are some intense moments.

Speaker 5 When you're playing World War II Call of Duty and you're playing it for like eight, nine, 10 hours a day, like a lot of these kids were, right? And you're literally in a fucking trench

Speaker 1 with the old grenade

Speaker 5 yelling shit for 10 hours a day. When you're done,

Speaker 5 it's not like your mind just walks out of the trench. Yes.

Speaker 1 it's, I think, the part that always kind of not creeped me out, but like fucked me up a little when I was playing that game was when you'd hear like a German, a Nazi yell, and then a dog attack you, and you'd be like, whoa, this is a little too spot on.

Speaker 5 That's what I'm saying. Well, I mean, I don't know.
I wasn't there, but I mean, let me tell you, man,

Speaker 5 I was depressed playing that fucking game. And then I go over to Fortnite, and it's green, and there's a butterfly

Speaker 5 in a mountain with a with a cabin, you know, and so I'm fucking happy again, you know?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 So when you first started getting into Fortnite, you obviously like made some noise and made a name for yourself, but would you have considered yourself one of the best Fortnite players in the world?

Speaker 5 In the very beginning, yeah.

Speaker 5 So what people do on Battle Royale games, you guys, is they go for kill records. So

Speaker 5 they say, okay, it's a duo playlist or it's a trio playlist.

Speaker 5 Me and my two buddies and trios are going to try to get the most kills that, excuse me, any trios has ever gotten in the game, right? And those videos usually do really well on YouTube.

Speaker 5 It brings a lot of like you know awareness to to whoever gets it and you know there's a lot of eyeballs on that so what we did is we got the duo kill record and the in the squads kill record in fortnite really really early so yeah think about it all the people in the world playing the game

Speaker 5 and i have the duos and the squads kill records

Speaker 5 i mean it's got to say something it can't just be luck at that point yes That's definitely something.

Speaker 1 Who's the guy?

Speaker 5 Roger Stephen.

Speaker 1 Who's the guy that you can't beat?

Speaker 1 Or who's the guy that you know when you're playing against him, you're like, this is this, he is on my level.

Speaker 5 Oh, well, me, me and this guy, Aiden. You guys know Aiden?

Speaker 1 Hank knows him. Hank knows him.
Smitty. He's coming to the office.
The guy under me knows him. Okay, well,

Speaker 5 me and Aiden have been at it like a shit ton, bro. And that kid can play anything, man.
You know, he's really good at Call of Duty. He's really good at Fortnite.

Speaker 5 And every time we link up and play against each other, it's a fucking mission.

Speaker 1 It's a mission. That must be exciting.
Would you rather be?

Speaker 5 It's I'm U of M and he's Ohio State. Like, that's.

Speaker 1 Well, so then you lose every time. Well, okay, as of recently, you know, but there was a time where I was beat-ass, you know? Oh, yeah.
Like, when they know that

Speaker 1 when you were playing on Atari, right? Brady Hoke. Yeah.
Fuck me. Yeah.
Right. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 By the way, we're, we actually are friends with Coach Harbaugh, so we have his back. But are you,

Speaker 1 as a Michigan guy, do you have him on the hot seat? Or are you calling?

Speaker 5 I mean, I'm not a friend with Coach Harbaugh.

Speaker 1 Okay, but we are.

Speaker 5 But I don't want to shit on your friends.

Speaker 1 But shit away. We'll just defend them.
Yeah. Like, here's what you're going to experience.
Right now,

Speaker 5 I don't. Listen, listen.

Speaker 1 I, I, you know, who can you do better? You can't do any better.

Speaker 5 I have perspective. I have perspective.
My dad was a college football coach in that locker room.

Speaker 1 For who? Lloyd Carter? Ho, Shen Blecker, and

Speaker 5 Gary. Listen, listen, man.
Listen.

Speaker 5 This is a lot of these are his opinions, but I've listened and I've watched and I've applied what he said to me when I'm watching and when I'm there. And I've been there.

Speaker 5 I've met some of these players, and you know, Chase and all these guys, dude, the energy is just not there. It's not the same, but who is a different, it's a different energy.

Speaker 5 You got, you got coaches from that locker room leaving there and going to coach at Ohio State. I know.
Back in the day, that would have never fucking happened. It's like, it's like, uh, it's like

Speaker 5 it's the worst thing. It's like betrayal.
Like, but you know, so that obviously tells me it's like going from faves to 100 thieves.

Speaker 1 Oh, come on.

Speaker 5 Different, man, it's a rivalry. A hundred-year rivalry, man.
It's just just blood. Like, you know, there's so much that went into that, right?

Speaker 1 Do you remember back in the day?

Speaker 5 They used to say they'd, I'm sorry, crack up, but they used to say they'd rather lose every fucking game and then they'd win in November and they'd be happy with that, you know?

Speaker 5 I think that's out the fucking winner. They don't care about that shit no more.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Were you one of those guys that back in, was it 2017 when they had that spot? in the big game where you were like dissecting it by camera angle to see if he got the first down or not.

Speaker 5 I mean, I thought he got a first down.

Speaker 1 I think a lot lot of people did. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I would actually put myself in that camp as well. I mean,

Speaker 5 I'm not the guy that's like, oh, dude, we should be beating them, but the refs are. No, I'm not that guy.
I mean, we are getting beat.

Speaker 1 We're getting beat.

Speaker 5 I mean,

Speaker 5 because, dude, dude,

Speaker 5 they have better players. They have better coaches.
And they have a fucking attitude that you cannot

Speaker 5 compare with right now.

Speaker 5 Dude, they beat our ass. Like, it's like some, remember the Titans

Speaker 5 when the coach disrespected the other coach? That's what this is. That's what it is.
It's the same vibe. They're like, yo, fuck you, bro.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's got to be some of that. We need some of that again.

Speaker 1 I've heard. I heard of that.
I heard you care a lot about another huge rivalry out there in the animal kingdom, which is Grizzly Bear versus Gorilla.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 1 football is. I think you're right.
Is that that Pelly? From what I know, you say it's Grizzly Bear, and I would agree with it.

Speaker 1 Unless the gorilla is in an environment where he can learn to make weapons.

Speaker 5 Bro, what?

Speaker 1 I'm saying, like, if a gorilla, if you, if you have a gorilla and a a grizzly bear going head to head and the gorilla's got like some weapon that her wife instead, yeah, I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head.

Speaker 5 You, you're telling me the gorilla is going to be in an environment where he can make a weapon.

Speaker 5 Do you want to show me a video on the fucking internet that's not from King Kong or Planet of the Apes where a gorilla's making a fucking weapon?

Speaker 1 I mean, you could pick up a shovel. Yeah.
Or eat a banana and leave it on the ground. The grizzly bear slips.
Pick up a gun. Who would figure out how to shoot a gun first? A gorilla or a grizzly bear?

Speaker 1 A gorilla. Right.

Speaker 1 So we're going to be able to get away from it. Where's he going to fucking aim it?

Speaker 1 I'm going to leave the gun next to him right before the fight. This is crazy.
One in the chamber.

Speaker 5 See, you guys are the guys in the chat. This is the chamber.

Speaker 1 We've been come to chat. Well, how about this? This is the gorilla guys.
Who would win in Call of Duty? A gorilla or a grizzly bear? I think a gorilla would beat the grizzly.

Speaker 1 Easy. Opposable thumb.
Boom.

Speaker 5 Probably play a controller, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Billy, do you go ahead? Billy, our intern, who's an idiot, is going to talk about this.

Speaker 1 Well, I researched this very intensely, and a gorilla can only get up to like 300 or 400 pounds, whereas a grizzly bear can get up to 1500 pounds depending on the subspecies

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 but it's not true bill he just said you're you're factually incorrect which was incorrect

Speaker 5 i like where you're going i like where you're going i hate to interrupt you because you sounded fiery right there you sound like you were coming in with a crazy fact but just just so you know the the biggest gorillas can get like 500 600 pounds 500 so don't talk

Speaker 1 the biggest grizzly bears

Speaker 5 Yeah, but we're not going to fucking bring me to the fight to represent all humans. We're going to get in John Jones.
What the fuck? Get the big boy.

Speaker 5 So get the big gorilla and get the big fucking bear and put him in there. Big gorilla is 500.

Speaker 5 And the Kodiak bear can get up to 2,000 pounds.

Speaker 1 5 pounders, 2,000.

Speaker 5 Okay, so four fucking times its size.

Speaker 1 Go ahead. Continue.

Speaker 1 The only way the gorilla can win is using its opposable thumbs, which are very important if it's not in a enclosed area with no weapons, and it's mined.

Speaker 1 So those are its only assets against the bear's claws and teeth.

Speaker 1 Like, confuse it with a riddle or something. It could be that one.
Well, exactly.

Speaker 1 I mean, it could

Speaker 1 switch the bear.

Speaker 5 Why is the mind an asset?

Speaker 1 Why is the mind an asset, Billy? The mind's an asset because you're not. You're not implying that it's not.
Hypothetical. Let's say it's the Coliseum.

Speaker 1 Let's say we're sick like the Romans and we're like, okay, let's actually do this. Let's get a giant bear.
Let's get a gorilla. Coliseum.
Sand, walls. That's all it's got.

Speaker 1 Gorilla, throw the sand in his face, jump on the wall, grab a weapon, and then kill the bear. Wow.

Speaker 1 The gorilla has.

Speaker 1 I can't hear him.

Speaker 1 They don't give me a headphone.

Speaker 5 Not how they fight.

Speaker 1 Can you hear me? No, he can't hear you.

Speaker 1 We don't let him listen. We let him talk.
Billy's actually, he's talking me into the gorilla more and more. I mean, why did he say? Stand in the face is a wild gorilla.

Speaker 1 What's the top predator on planet Earth?

Speaker 5 Not a gorilla. Human.

Speaker 1 Human. Human being.

Speaker 1 So guess who's closer to a human? Gorilla. Oh, come on.
That's true.

Speaker 1 Uh-uh. Very compelling.
Yes.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Nick, I had a couple last questions. What does F's in the chat mean?

Speaker 5 Oh, to pay respect.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 5 Dude, I'm not the computer guy. I'm not the, like, the, you know.

Speaker 1 So explain some of these other lingos. Like, what are some other things that are said? Oh, shit.
I got to come on, man.

Speaker 1 This is my reason. What's the Tatman question? No, this is my reason.
F

Speaker 5 is to pay respect. So when you make a horrible play or you die or you you say something stupid, they all say F.
And they're like, oh, my God. Pay respects for this dead man.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Okay. Anything else? Because

Speaker 1 like I said, I never felt so old.

Speaker 5 Dude, we don't do this in my chat. Like, they do it, but I don't even pay attention.

Speaker 1 So you just don't listen to those to people who say that.

Speaker 5 Well, we don't really do it as much. Like, some chats are really meme-y, man.

Speaker 1 No, it's just, they're really meme.

Speaker 5 I'm kind of like an old dad, too. I'm with you.
You and me. Same thing.

Speaker 1 Okay. Now, do do you have specific haters that you call out? Like guys that you recognize? And you're like, you just know a little bit of respect.
No, no.

Speaker 5 We just... No.
We just ban and block them.

Speaker 1 Don't even look at them. Okay, because I got this guy named Poopy Stinks that just won't leave me alone.

Speaker 5 Yeah, just ban him and block him.

Speaker 1 Gone. But I kind of like, you know, I want him to.

Speaker 5 Well, have some fun with it. Yeah, fuck him up.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
I'm going to fuck him up.

Speaker 5 The problem is, is

Speaker 5 my haters don't have a face. They have the anime profile with the pink hair and the

Speaker 1 cartoon titties you know yeah yeah all right we got a band and block so you do ban and block that's not a shame well how am i gonna waste time with a fucking cartoon titty i know but it's it seems it there's a shame in blocking on twitter like oh they got you i got them triggered you're saying that doesn't exist in twitch not for me okay hell yes dude i'll block everybody on twitter okay nice what's nice what's the uh easiest surefire way to get a quick block from you on twitch on twitch yeah you shouldn't answer this oh dude yeah yeah

Speaker 1 what's the magic word

Speaker 5 what really makes you mad nick merx yeah what gets a what gets a rise out of you dude to be honest the majority of the time that we ban people we ban them for uh like maybe self-advertisement or being like you know scum just saying words they shouldn't be saying right

Speaker 1 you know the words you know so right um all right so so nick we're uh we're gonna announce this during the championship game tonight during the national championship game so i'm playing tennessee versus miami at 917 p.m We're going to announce that you're on.

Speaker 1 We've also, by the way, shout out you because we tried to get Ninja on for a while and he didn't come on. So we're down to kick his ass like you kicked his ass.

Speaker 5 I got him. No, I didn't get him.
I didn't get him.

Speaker 1 But you said you were going to kick his ass.

Speaker 5 I tried.

Speaker 1 You took the video game to real life. That's kind of badass.

Speaker 5 Well, dude, I was I was, you know, I was like the, I was boxing at the time, you know, so I was fucking feisty. But I was like the kid from the suburbs that goes to the ghetto.

Speaker 5 he thinks he's cool and shit you know what i mean i had like i had like 10 amateur boxing fights against all kids that were white and from the suburbs and you know i thought it was so fucking good i had my hundred dollar headgear and shit you know what i mean um but i i was really ready at that point and he was talking shit to me uh by the way you know like we're friends now yeah i think he's a nutcase You know, he probably thinks I'm a nutcase too, but you know, we're like, we're friends.

Speaker 5 And he, it's just, man, he was running his mouth this one night, man, just saying everything,

Speaker 5 yelling at me. And I kept telling him, I said, dude, I'm going to see you in a month.
And there's no way you're going to have this same energy. And he fucking didn't.

Speaker 1 You turned up a little bit. Love it.
A lot of it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. I had one.

Speaker 1 I had one last question. It's we always take a question

Speaker 1 from the users. So this isn't us asking.
We just are people ask this. How much money did you make after taxes?

Speaker 5 Not enough.

Speaker 1 It's a good answer. So a million, two million.
What's

Speaker 1 a lot? A little? How many

Speaker 1 cars? How many?

Speaker 1 What type of car do you drive?

Speaker 5 Shelby Raptor.

Speaker 1 Okay, that gives us a little bit of a narrows it down. That's like 100 Virgils.
Yeah, that narrows it down. That's a lot of pennies.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's not a... You're not driving a Honda Civic.

Speaker 5 Bro, we're doing well. We're doing well.
But you know what, man? I don't have to get all sappy and weird on you guys, man.

Speaker 5 But, you know, it's only because of just all these lunatics that fucking support me. And

Speaker 5 fucking turn on my stream. I get a hundred donations a night.
I get 2,000 people to sub to me tonight, and I never asked for it. I never even told them to do it.
They just do it.

Speaker 5 So, you know, shout out to all them, you know, and everybody that and you everybody that supports me, bro.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. And like I said, you do give back.
You do some great stuff with your

Speaker 1 community, which I love that aspect because I think that's the fun part about Twitch, at least I've found in the two months that I've done it, that it's fun to go back and forth.

Speaker 1 It's fun to talk shit, but at the end of the day, it's like, this is all for fun.

Speaker 1 And there's that little under, there's the underlying understanding between the chat and the person that like, this is for fun. We're having fun.
That I really enjoy that.

Speaker 5 No, I like what you said. I like that.
You know, I mean, the fun thing is important, but... you know, to kind of like piggyback off that, it's like, what the fuck are we here for, right? Right.

Speaker 1 You're here to have fun.

Speaker 5 I don't want to get too deep, man, but you know, the older you get, the more you realize that, you know, here today, gone tomorrow, you know, it's quick.

Speaker 5 And, you know, you want, like you said, you want to make it all about fun.

Speaker 5 And, you know, you want to, you want to do the best you can with the time that you have that's all i'm trying to do man i'm in a great spot to take care of my whole family but also a lot of people that have taken care of me yeah you know so you want to keep doing that you probably will live forever because you don't leave your house you fucking sit in a dark room low-key yeah so you're good wait do you have like

Speaker 1 you know how bad you know how unhealthy it is to stay up all night i'm gonna die when i'm 50 bro do you like that energy drinks and shit you rock a heart rate monitor or something to to see how much cardio you're getting in while you play video games nah nah i've seen people that do that before though do you guys ever do one on the podcast no we should

Speaker 1 we've talked about it you should do it you should do it for like 20 podcasts straight and see who gets you guys going yeah yeah that's a good idea yeah yeah i like that um well it's it's an idea i don't know if it's a good one no it's not bad i mean i any because you're gonna piss off 19 people but then like the 20th person you're like oh dude you really got us going you know yeah i'm always wondering like is there uh is there somebody that's coming up in video games that's gonna to turn it into something not fun?

Speaker 1 Like, somebody that breaks it down too much and almost gets into like the sabermetric side of the equation where they're over-analyzing everything too much?

Speaker 1 Kind of how they do sometimes with like baseball and to a certain extent football.

Speaker 5 Totally. I mean, it's like anything great.
There's always some fucking asshole that wants to come over and just

Speaker 5 pull it away from everything that it is, right? So

Speaker 5 I would imagine, yes. But you know what? If and when that day comes, your boy over here is going to be on his own little island, not worried about shit.
You feel me?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm not not dealing with that motherfucker i'm not speaking to him i don't give a shit don't care out of sight out of mind i'm gonna do my thing would you would you rather have twice as many viewers on your twitch stream as somebody or have them be twice as good as you

Speaker 5 oh fuck uh now probably twice as many viewers but before

Speaker 5 like when i was a little kid and i was as hungry as shit uh probably just twice as good yeah perspective all right well this has been awesome perspective baby yeah perspective this

Speaker 5 is a ton of fun i didn't know how this was gonna go but it went went great for me. I'm super comfortable.
I've never done a podcast before.

Speaker 1 I know. You were weirdly nervous.
We were always.

Speaker 5 I wasn't nervous. It's just there's a lot going on right now, man.
I don't know what the fuck we're talking about today, you know?

Speaker 5 And there's all kinds of these motherfuckers in the gaming scene that just have everything to say about shit they don't know nothing about, man. You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 It's just relentless. It's like, shut the fuck up, man.
So I didn't know if I was going to come on this podcast and I didn't know what the hell we were going to be talking about today, you know?

Speaker 5 But if it's just us three, if it's just us three and we're shooting the shit, I'm always down to come on the podcast.

Speaker 1 You guys, you know what I mean? Love it. You guys should be.
Yeah, Nick Merck stands right now. Would you have like a name for your fan base?

Speaker 5 Are they called like the community is called is called M Fam. So Merck's just the M and then FAM.

Speaker 5 I didn't know what to make. I was, you know, like 15 years ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. I like that, except for the whole like Michigan thing, and you guys never win any big game.
But that's what I'm talking about. What's up with you? What do you mean?

Speaker 1 I went to Wisconsin, so, and I just think you got Wisconsin and Michigan are the same school now in terms of football. And you guys won't beat it.
Not really. Yeah.
Well, actually, you're right.

Speaker 1 We've been to Indianapolis. You never have.

Speaker 5 Yeah, because you don't fucking play anybody over there.

Speaker 1 It's an easier ride, and you know it. Okay, okay.
I'm just saying. Wait, why is your logo Spartan if you're a Michigan, if you're a university mission? I'm not going to worry all the time.

Speaker 5 I know. Well, see, I'm a direct descendant of the king from Sparta, you know.

Speaker 1 So actually, Greek. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Ioannidis is like my great-great-great-grandfather.

Speaker 1 Hmm.

Speaker 1 Wait,

Speaker 1 that's weights. Are you serious? Great, great, great.

Speaker 5 Maybe like, wait, like 10, 10 grandpas or go.

Speaker 1 10 grandpas. Okay.

Speaker 1 Trying to remember the 300.

Speaker 1 Did he die in the 300?

Speaker 5 He fucking died, man. They got his ass.
But we got him back, though. Yeah.
Yeah, but we got him back, though.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 And he's a legend, you know? Fuck. Who gives a shit if you die? You're a legend now.

Speaker 1 Legend for life. Legend for life.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this has been awesome, man. You are a recurring guest, so you have to come back on whenever we ask.
I hope you know that.

Speaker 5 Dude, I'm so down. All right.

Speaker 1 So down. Perfect.
And yeah,

Speaker 1 we'll be announcing it during the national championship tonight.

Speaker 5 Are you on the stream tonight? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 When you announce it, do you push it on everything?

Speaker 5 Twitter.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, we'll push it on everything, but we'll tell everyone that you're the guest tomorrow.

Speaker 1 It's perfect. It lined up perfectly because the national championship stream, especially if I'm losing, will be over $100,000.
Do you have any words of advice for him going into this game?

Speaker 1 Like, what can he do to make sure that he's in a good mindset ahead of the biggest game of the season? He crumbled under pressure last game. Like, absolutely.

Speaker 1 What do you do in the big moments to focus? What do you do in the big moments to focus? The people got to me.

Speaker 5 I'm watching tonight.

Speaker 1 Okay. I'm watching.
All right. The people got to me, though.
That's the problem. I'm clearing my schedule and I'm going to watch 9.17 p.m.

Speaker 5 With your energy. I think, I think we're, I think, I don't know.
I think today's a good day. Okay.
It's energy, man. Just get it fucking done.

Speaker 1 All right. Let's go.
Let's go. I love it.

Speaker 5 By the way, guys, guys, congrats on everything, man.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 5 Making a podcast and getting out from that jungle of a competition. Man, it's got to be so hard, man.

Speaker 1 Same G.

Speaker 5 Good shit. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Absolutely, man. Yeah.
All right. Appreciate it, Nick.
We'll talk soon, man.

Speaker 5 Take care, guys. Peace.
See you, buddy.

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We have our documentary review. Next week, by the way, we have Rob Lowe coming on Monday.
Huge interview. Great recurring guest.

Speaker 1 And then just a reminder, the following week, we're going to be doing a little

Speaker 1 best of slash huge D ⁇ D on the Wednesday before July 4th. And then July 6th will be the takies.
So get ready for that.

Speaker 1 Okay. Documentary review.
Three identical strangers. Who boy?

Speaker 1 Was this one a good one? I loved the first hour of this documentary. Oh, it gets sad.
And then it gets really, the first hour was... I just thought it was going to be

Speaker 1 an hour and a half of just three bros meeting each other and having horseplay. It's so just the fact from the beginning,

Speaker 1 the idea that this guy,

Speaker 1 Bobby Schaefferin, goes to college and everyone thinks that he's another person is such a fucking mind fuck.

Speaker 1 And of course, this probably wouldn't happen today's day because of like social media and stuff. But could you imagine walking into a room and having everyone tell you you're a different person?

Speaker 1 I would go insane. You'd go insane.
You'd lose your mind. It's a great prank to play on somebody.
It's a great prank to play.

Speaker 1 And it also makes me think, these guys all lived in Long Island, in the surrounding area. I think one of them lived in Westchester, maybe.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, I don't know how.
But

Speaker 1 there was a chance if he doesn't go to this college, this specific college, both of them will go to the specific college that they just never would have met. And that's fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 You would think that the adoption agency would have like taken that into account and be like hey maybe we should adopt these babies to different states right or give them like spreading what they need to keep to study so so we'll spend an extra 50 on gas each month so yeah the the the start of it's fun they find each other they find the third like that the scenes where they're basically like yeah we all live together and we just fucking go out and fuck like that was pretty cool they were living the dream yeah in new york city in the 80s at studio 54 minor minor celebrities you don't even studio 54 sounds like the greatest place of all time.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. I'm sure if you ever went there, it wouldn't be that fun.
But write that down. We need to find someone.
We need to interview someone who was there during the heyday. Uh-huh.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Why don't we just open a bar called Studio 54? That works too. But I need to interview someone who is like, I party at Studio 54 on the reg during the heyday.

Speaker 1 That's such a classic, like, 30-year-old bro move to just team up with your best friends and be like, we're going to open our own bar because we like to party so much. Right.

Speaker 1 So why don't we just reinvest that and do it ourselves? And then they were like so famous.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it worked out for them because they had the ultimate gimmick going, which is we're triplets that like to get after it and fuck. Right.

Speaker 1 And then, what do you got, Billy? Speak. Do you think they were at a four-way? Absolutely.

Speaker 1 100%.

Speaker 1 They might have had a four-way. That might have been the first thing that they did.
Did you see when they got interviewed right afterwards?

Speaker 1 Actually, no, the first thing they did, they get in the same room and they just immediately start wrestling. Yes.

Speaker 1 Which is awesome. That's probably what I would do, too.
But then they went out that night and they definitely looked at each other with a a knowing glance and a giggle.

Speaker 1 And they're like, Yeah, we're gonna have a force of yeah, and they so you're right, PFD. The beginning of the uh documentary was like, Oh, this is fun.
This is cool.

Speaker 1 These guys find each other, and then it gets so fucking dark because they find out the details of the adoption, the fact that they were basically a human study.

Speaker 1 They weren't basically, they were a human study.

Speaker 1 Weird shit with the fact that one of them gets adopted by a poor, middle-class, and wealthy family, and what happens with them, and then finding out that their biological mother has all kinds of mental issues that have been obviously passed down to them.

Speaker 1 It's fucking crazy, man. This whole story is crazy.
The lady that was the assistant at the doctor's office, she was delightful. Yes, yes, yes.
But the.

Speaker 1 It's one of those things where I like, I don't know if you guys watch the Americans, but like the 60s and like the early, like the powerhouses before technology, like these big, rich,

Speaker 1 like social things in New York City are just like the craziest things in the world. What part of the Americans are you talking about? Well, even just like how like the

Speaker 1 when they 69 each other sideways? No, like Al Pacino, in Al Pacino's character in the Americans, and like remember he talked about the children. You're talking about hunters.
Hunters. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay, got it. Yeah.
I'm talking about hunters. I'm with you now.

Speaker 1 You know the lady and hunters, the adoption lady, that's who I was thinking of when they explained the adoption of this Jewish adoption agency. Yeah, it was fucked up.

Speaker 1 And I I can't imagine what it would do to your brain if you, like, you had two identical brothers, you become their best friend after not knowing them for, what, 19, 20 years, and then one of them slowly goes crazy and kills himself.

Speaker 1 Like, you're definitely thinking in your head, whatever was in his brain is in my brain, too. Am I ticking time off at this point? It also,

Speaker 1 it wasn't funny, but it is kind of slightly amusing that I feel like most stories that take a turn start with the sentence, and then we opened a bar together.

Speaker 1 It's like, and then we opened a bar together and everything in our life, like as friends, as brothers, went downhill. I mean,

Speaker 1 if you want to hate your best friend, open a bar with them. If you want to hate your brother, open a bar with them.
Yeah, Billy?

Speaker 1 I think the thing, the reason they didn't open up the study and everything is that I think they realized that by tearing triples and twins apart actually made them crazy.

Speaker 1 Because remember when they said they had

Speaker 1 separation anxiety?

Speaker 1 I think that's what they found out and they're like oh like the only thing we found out is that no there's nate not nature nurture like you tear apart two twins they get fucked up from it i think that's what they discovered right yeah it was yeah

Speaker 1 the experiment was actually a very sad thing to approve can you imagine like sitting down and having this conversation amongst i would imagine that they're all like fellow scientists and being like hey so we've got these three babies it would be it would be real a real crime against science to not split them up right and then having everybody vote yes for it right Like, that's so fucked up.

Speaker 1 It's so fucked up. And I think, I mean, I would assume that.
And have you published the results? And they had the published results. Yeah, they haven't published the results.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know what the result of the study is? People that run this type of studies are assholes. Yes.
Yes. That's what they're playing with human lives.
Yes.

Speaker 1 That was the hypothesis going into it, and they confirmed it. Yeah.
But they have the money and power to cover it up. And

Speaker 1 you guys probably all had the same feeling watching this where you're like, and they say it at the end, like, what if you just bump into your twin? Like,

Speaker 1 What's stopping anyone from having a twin that they don't know about? Well, if you, if I was adopted, I would think it a lot more. Yeah,

Speaker 1 yeah, absolutely. Of course.
I would just know it if I had, if I was adopted. Adopted, but even still, like, this is kind of like when you watch the Truman show back when it's kind of bothered me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, no, he was, it wasn't it.
They, didn't they, didn't they? They were like, we got pregnant at like high school. Yeah.
Yeah. But

Speaker 1 your dad's your dad still. Like, yeah.
You'd think, it was weird they didn't mention it.

Speaker 1 They're like, yeah, you know, they got meant, they, they got knocked up at prom type of thing, yeah, but the dad still exists. It was like they blame the mom for a lot of stuff, right?

Speaker 1 But they didn't talk about the dad, who is entirely non-existent. It was also really creepy when they started like doing the like walking hand in hand and like crossing their legs together.

Speaker 1 That's just

Speaker 1 yeah, and the murder thing, yeah. The murder thing was so casual! Like, oh, so one of you have been uh accused of murder.
He's like, Well, I'll take this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, it's big of you to admit that it was no, it wasn't me, and then his brother's like, Yeah, good answer, yeah, by the way, what a perfect crime to get away with.

Speaker 1 If you have two identical brothers, you could always claim that it wasn't you. Yes, absolutely.
And they couldn't be like, well, if it's not you, then it's you.

Speaker 1 The appendix thing they did that with the appendix. That was funny.
Yeah. Wait, really quick, was the murder suspect guy the same one who killed himself?

Speaker 1 No, I don't think so. I don't.
I get them all confused.

Speaker 1 At what point in the documentary did you guys realize that the triplet, the third guy that's no longer there, was not going to be alive anymore? Yeah, that was a tough one to be like.

Speaker 1 Wait, why isn't this other guy talking about about it? About 12 to 15 minutes into the documentary.

Speaker 1 Once they showed his wife before they showed him, yeah, you're like, uh-oh, this is not going in the right direction.

Speaker 1 I would love to put those three twins or triplets through the combine when they met each other and just see, like, just how similar are you? What's your three-cone drill like?

Speaker 1 I'm going to be honest. I watched it and I was like trying to figure it out.
The heavier set one and the one that looked a little more like wider shoulders was from the blue collar family.

Speaker 1 Like, he was the bad. Do you think that's something going to do with it? I don't know.
Maybe he was just worked harder.

Speaker 1 I think he was just worked harder. Yeah, now he's got

Speaker 1 it. It's perfect that that was your takeaway.

Speaker 1 The poor one was.

Speaker 1 The skinny one was the dark. Look at this guy's traps.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the rich one was probably vegan. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just string bean muscles. I do want to give a lot of respect to their hands.
That was an all-time hands family. Like those big meaty paws.
Huge paws.

Speaker 1 They all looked like they got caught stuck their hands into a beehive to pull out honeycomb. Just got stopped.
Huge, huge pause.

Speaker 1 It was a great, it was a great documentary, though. We're back on track.
That was a great watch. If you haven't watched it, watch it.
Three identical strangers.

Speaker 1 It's one of those documentaries that you come away from being like, whoa. God, Belichick would have a field day if he had triplets on his team.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just all kinds of. He's got the Cordys.
That's what I'm saying. Like, if he had triplets on his team, imagine the endless possibilities.
Ernie Adams just nutted somewhere. So, what are we doing next?

Speaker 1 Ooh, next documentary? Billy Peck. Billy Peck.

Speaker 1 no. Wait, wait, wait.
We'll think about it. Real sucks.

Speaker 1 Bill,

Speaker 1 you pick five and come to me, and then we will decide on Monday. And Hank will whittle it down to three, and then you tell us.
Oh, yeah, there's this really cool documentary. We're not watching Lucy.

Speaker 1 No, no, let's hear it. Let's hear it.

Speaker 1 It's about if dinosaurs, if dragons were real.

Speaker 1 I think it's called either dragonology.

Speaker 1 No, it's called Dragonology Watch. It's called Dragon Quest.
Yeah. It's actually really cool.

Speaker 1 Dracaris. Science and if Dragons were real.

Speaker 1 If Melted the Throne at the end is a stage. I

Speaker 1 There's this other documentary, Icarus, I think we should really watch, but that's another like Lance.

Speaker 1 Oh, oh, why don't we watch a bodybuilding documentary? Yeah, we should do that. Yeti Coleman.
We did that, Billy, before you. Remember when you were just, when you listened to the show all the time?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then there's another one we could watch.

Speaker 1 The Yeti documentary.

Speaker 1 Crypto. Rulers? No, no, the Yeti, Yeti, like with Jeff Corwin.
It was on Animal Planet. I'm trying to think of other documentaries.
Make a list of five. Come to me.
We'll whim it down to three.

Speaker 1 No, on the other hand. I love the documentaries Billy has seen are bodybuilding and fucking like giant animals.
Yeah, animals are.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just the biggest humans and the biggest animals. Size matters to Billy.
He won't watch any fucking documentary with beanie-ass bitches.

Speaker 1 Is there like a 30 for 30 that's really good that maybe we all missed?

Speaker 1 I never saw the Bo Jackson one. Was that one any good? It was pretty good.
It was pretty good. The Bruce Lee one was good.
Oh, we never watched Bruce one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll figure it out.

Speaker 1 out we'll tell everyone on Monday what we're gonna watch again we have Roblox coming up on Monday so get excited for that it's gonna be great and uh everyone have a great weekend oh no I actually know exactly what we're the seven five it's like about the love of New York okay

Speaker 1 yes yes I've seen that one too yeah it's good what why give me that look because I I thought I mentioned that a few weeks ago oh wait maybe I haven't there's another one yeah the we used to watch that one yeah watch Billy why why don't you make a documentary I would love to know your documentary you should make a documentary, Billy.

Speaker 1 The 7-5? Yeah,

Speaker 1 we're still recording. The 7-5.
That was Monch and Glennie recommended that to me, too. It's sick.
Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Yeah, we'll watch the 7-5.
Yeah. All right.
Let's watch the 7-5. Boom.
Still love you guys. All right.
Love you. Love you guys.
Love you more. Love you guys.
Whoa. Love you the most.

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Are we going to love you off?

Speaker 1 I'm talking away.

Speaker 1 I'm the one to say I'll fade anyway.

Speaker 1 Today is another thing that could fight.

Speaker 1 I won't say

Speaker 1 it's about me, so let's way.

Speaker 1 Slowly learning that life is okay.

Speaker 1 Say

Speaker 1 you know I thought just a way that we're away

Speaker 1 things I've got to remember

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