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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 32 of this day and show the only gaming and he's worth podcast on the internet, posted by someone about a job in gaming, any sports? And who also had a job in podcasting when he's worth, like I've done it. I've crossed Channel. I've converted the streams

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Ghostbusters style. And now you have a comedy podcast that also, I guess no one needs gaming, any sports news. I was going to say solves your needs. Everyone's just sitting there. I'm imagining like a waspy family at the dinner table and the dad's like what you do at school today, the kids thinking, if only I had this gaming and he sports news. I could tell a riveting story about Jade off or Casper or excuse, he fighting the Olympics or any of the things that I've learned about understand show. But no iron. We learned maths. I only learn maths here. Let's get right

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into the show cuz we've got a

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beefy cheesy gordita crunch of an episode for you today. Started with the biggest the best news

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real change that Activision Blizzard. Can you believe it? Maybe you guys have heard

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but active job. Blizzard president, J. Allen Brack. J a b as he's known the former head of World of Warcraft, turned president of Blizzard Entertainment has stepped down this week. He asked down in light of the let's just call it. The, the pending legal case against Blizzard from the state of California in light of the tales of harassment of sexism racism to be coming

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down and in light of an earnings call

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shareholders called that is happening today. Blizzard saying, you know

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what, we need to do something big, we need to

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do something visible. We need to do something that's going to make. People think that we are changing it up and jaded folks in the audience might be out here. Thinking that, you know, what? This is nothing there. Just using him as a scapegoat, but as I dug more into it, I found out that a lot of the harassment, a lot of the illegal activity was happening on the World of Warcraft team and j a b here before being president of Blizzard was wrong.

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Head

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of the World of Warcraft team. Meaning that a lot of these things that happened 5432 and as recently as one year ago happened under his watchful eye, and the thought that someone that was letting these atrocities being committed in his team, could then be promoted to president of Blizzard Entertainment. Doesn't make a lot of sense. This is something that I don't think is just lip-service.

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I think this could be

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a not saying that it is the start of real change a blizzard, right? They found a bad egg and they have fired him. Now, he is going to be replaced by and this is where it starts getting a little bit weird. If he was being replaced by one person. They said you're now the CEO of Blizzard. This is all on your plate. I would think that. Okay, they've given someone agency, they have given someone power. Someone is going to come in and clean up the grime. That is Activision Blizzard Thursday. Instead. They have appointed Jen O'Neill, vice president development and Mike Ybarra, vice president and general manager of platform and Technology. Two

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co-leaders, two co-leaders of the company. And this is, I don't know if you

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guys know this about blizzard, another step down in the wrong of head of blizzard. And I don't know. I don't know why it's happening. It's Bobby

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Connie. It's Bobby fucking kadak at the top. Cuz before we had Mike morhaime, who was the CEO of Blizzard, he was the chief executive officer. He made all the decisions, the buck stopped with Mikey morhaime. And then, when my key was

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gone, they had J Allen

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Brack and J. Allen

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Brack wasn't the CEO. He was just the president. He's

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just the president in a blizzard. You know what? I mean? It's not quite as big. He doesn't make as many

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decisions, but he still got fired.

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And now we have not even a president, but co-leaders of the company, what absolute, baloney jobs. These people are really good Jen O'Neal and

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her job. And her last Studio. She was the head of the studio blizzard acquired them. They put out some really good products from what I've heard from the community and Destiny. They put out some really bad products as well. But most of that is being blamed on blizzard. Yep.

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Nose and then Mike Ibarra who worked at Xbox and Microsoft for a long time. Did a lot of work

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on mixer. Very community-focused, very active on Twitter and on live streams talking about Xbox and things. He was doing. I think that these people could be good. But I think that they are essentially sending them to war with no armor with no sword with no musket. They are out here as co-leaders and they had to work

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with. A war crimes,

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girlboss. So here's the real deal. The real story. I

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don't think J. Allen Brack leaving was the best thing they could have done. I think that there's another person at blizzard who maybe was a big fan of waterboarding unironically. I'm talking about their CC. Oh Fran Townsend, she was hired by blizzard in January. We talked about it on the stage show and she

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was before this. What was she? It's so actually fucking insane. What her job was in the Bush Administration. I know that she was one of the big boosters behind raising the national Terror threat, during Bush's close. Mm, for re-election campaign. Here we go. She defended the bush administration's, use of torture, including waterboarding sleep, deprivation of forced nudity. And then she had this quote about the torturers wage regardless of what you think on the issue of whether or not waterboarding is torture. You should never start a sentence that way you should never start a sentence that way. But you know

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what? Let's see where it goes. After

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the, there were legal documents creativity. And replied upon by career intelligence officials who then implemented the program. She said during a 2009 interview with CNN after the Obama Administration, Declassified bush-era memos, making the legal case, for the cia's, use of them are there were very strict controls on the program. These people relied on them and now to release them and a subject. These

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people these career professionals who sort of public humiliation

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and the potential of a congressional investigation really will make our intelligence Community. Risk-averse.

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Stop torturing people. We shouldn't be waterboarding people. Are you kidding me? Why is this woman? Not only, why is this woman working for the government welcomes? A government likes to torture people. You know what I mean? The government is a big fan of torturing people. But why why? Oh, why in a million

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years did Activision Blizzard hire?

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This person? What are you doing? At blizzard? If I am a company who has known for a few years because this

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investigation by the state of California has been ongoing for a few years. If I had known that my name. Company was doing these things.

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I probably wouldn't hire a famous torture Enthusiast to come on board, my executive team, unless, and here's where we

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need Spirit, Oriole, insert. The picture of It's Always Sunny. He's fucking Titan. All the strings together in the mail room. You know what? I mean? I got Coke on my nose, unless she is here to truly be foiled, for

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Bobby. Kotick. You know what I mean? Bobby has gone out of the

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way. And so this person, this Fran woman

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the second, these allegations came to light tweeted wage

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retweeted this story on the Atlantic and it's called the problem with

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whistleblowing. The problem with whistleblowing and so I went on to read some of this article and it starts as such. This is the most bizarre. The most absurd article

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start. I have ever heard of a reason. It's in the Atlantic and not in like a reasonable institution. They're fucking Ivory Towers here. Every striper. Whoever slipped the rank of their birth to ascend to a

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higher. Or she has shared the capacity to

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ingratiate themselves with their betters. What the truly exceptional ones have in common is the ability to connect not only with their superiors office but also with their peers and

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inferiors. What the actual fuck. What case system bullshit is this, they're saying that our job is to grovel to our walk over Florence. So that me one day slip, past our station, Our Stars that is Bonkers. The thought that an executive would tweet out this story the day off. Their news leaks that someone killed themselves based on

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harassment from an Activision Blizzard employee

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after someone had said that they were treated

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in these ways that they weren't given opportunities to their white peers, have God.

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What why would you tweet this? And you want to know that even funnier thing?

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So, she tweeted this friend tweets, this, right? Cuz she's got an active Twitter, a very active Twitter, where she also tweets flowers, sometimes which is really

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funny to me. Activision, Blizzard employees replied to this and said, what the actual fuck?

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Fran. This is bulshit. Why are

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you Tweeting this? What happened to

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Blizzard was X? Y and Z, you know, what? Friend did as a true leader as a true girlboss, what would you do in the situation? If your employees were tweeting at you, saying this

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isn't cool. Block of block of day, one block him fast, block him, hard block him heavy, just immediately block him. Say not in my

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Twitter, and I kind of respect that to be perfectly honest. You

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can't really waterboard them. You can't torture

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them. The nudity, the playing loud rock and roll music, while they try and sleep the lights on 24/7. You can't do that as a manager in the United States, but you can block them Witter and continue posting articles about the new, moral code of America's Elite.

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It is so fucking

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bunkers that Activision, Blizzard hired. This person that the only way I can see it making sense is conspiratorial angle because she tweeted this and Bobby kotick. The big big boss tweeted. Hey, not cool. I don't like this, and I don't like the way you're handling this and it gives him a little bit of not only plausible, deniability about the whole story, but it makes him look like a hero because he's not literally torturing his employees. What a fucking bizarre story off. Maybe it's real change. Maybe it's not. I will keep you guys informed about blizzard, but I just thought this was so bizarre. I had to tell you guys, I had to give you guys the real scoop. I had to let you in behind the curtain. On this one. Please don't torture each other, please please. And if you're a video game company don't hire people from the Bush Administration.

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I'm sorry, if you worked at Bush Administration and are not a torturer, but we just have to keep

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our hands clean here. Gaming industry. Are you kidding

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me? The war was not right? We shouldn't have done it. I'm two-story number to. Where

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does FTX get the money? This is Bonkers. Maybe you guys heard of that? Riot games has partnered with notable cryptocurrency exchange ft x. Today on what is presumed to be a 7-year deal to sponsor the L. Yes. Now, this is really interesting because a month ago FTX partnered with TSM on a massive deal that we highlighted on the stand show to change their name from TSM to TSM ft box. And I thought holy shit. TSM is screw Googling ft x they are absolutely bending them over the barrel and they are getting the better side of this and then ft x went sponsored Riot games, and I said man, my name is a slightly better sponsorship, but where do they get all the money? And then I started digging. Did you know that before this? They also

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signed a massive deal with the MLB. Did you know, before that? They signed up something like a 19-year deal with the Miami Heat to be the naming rights partner of their Arena. Where's the money coming from ft? X? I am typically a

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cryptocurrency Believer more than other

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people. I think that there is a world where

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Banks and financial processes and wiring money is shity and they cryptocurrency could be a way to

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solve that. I'm not saying that

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any of the current cryptos or the answer, but a blockchain that everything is verified like, okay, kind of makes some sense to me. You can explain that to me like a five year old and I will think that maybe there's a world where this works. But I don't think there is a world where ft x can make enough money

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to give almost every Sports property in the world twenty-two. A hundred million dollars. What the actual fuck is going on. Where's the money coming from? And so I started

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watching videos about their

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CEO? He looks like me. He's just a jabroni. He's just a white. Curly haired motherfuker who's out of here, sponsoring all the teams. It feels like the emperor has no clothes and I'm the only one noticing it here. It's just real money. Is he paying in crypto Eddie Schrute bucks? I cannot figure it out, hundreds

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of millions of

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dollars, ten decades. These are decade-long Deals. They signed off most twenty here. Long deal with the Miami Heat. Are they going to go bankrupt or they just betting on the future of cryptocurrency? Are they going

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to default in year three of these campaigns? Absolutely. Yes. Is my answer. Hopefully the stage show exists in a few years, so we can look back on these crazy years of all these teams and sports properties, making millions of dollars. And then their partner defaulting. Hey, as long as TSM secured the bag in years one and two, as long as the LCS is getting paid appropriately for the first year, while they are big and bad and exciting, as long as the arena is only called that for, as long as they are paying as long as they sponsored, MLB before ethelbee dies, cuz I think MLB kind of sucks. I'm going to be honest with you guys. Who knows? But if you guys know anything, more about cryptocurrency exchanges or if you guys know how I can get my bag from ft x, I am willing to completely delete this segment from the internet. I will say all hail ft x. Coinbase sucks. What are the other ones? Binance fucking sucks. Ft x is the only one. I only put this in the video, if they give me the money, other than that, we love coinbase. They sponsored Mogul moves. Mogul money. They're doing all this stuff. I love coinbase. But if they don't do it, then back to know ft x at the greatest, all these other dog. Changes are terrible dogshit. You know what I mean? I don't get it. I don't get it. And I even have, you know, what's crazy chat podcasters, listeners audio. Folks. I have

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my own

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cryptocurrency and I don't get it and I do not get big cryptocurrency.

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It all seems like such a

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sham right

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now and it people don't equate NF T's

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like they got a little too big for their britches, these cryptocurrency motherfukers

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because they tried to slide. They've already made all this

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money. Ft x is making all this money on these exchanges and they tried to go over the top and they tried to hit us with NF T's did you think for a second we were going to fall from the fifties. You sons of bitches? No

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shot and empties are so cringe and weird, the only

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n f t and I stand by this. Then I would like is a video game item that I can transfer between video games that I could sell that I could use the power of my characters. If I could surely pay to win like in Pokemon unite and take that to League of Legends. I would love it. Current nfts. Very weird. Very

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cringe and the thought that we ought

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Disavowing nfts, but not disavowing. All these other weird ass cryptocurrencies makes me. Feel a certain kind of way. I hope to look back because I have a lot of cryptocurrencies. Now, I bought as a shame because I don't want to be left behind

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if Bitcoin or ethereum or Stan's going ever go to the Moon. Any of those

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three. So rally technically I'll be a rich rich man, but they're probably going to zero and I'm just going to look like a fool that I didn't put that in real money in God damn ETFs, you know what I mean? Whatever. I don't get it. I

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don't get it. I don't like you. I don't like 2 ft x is

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sponsoring everything in the world. Excuse me. So after the X, get at me on the story. Number three, Oh, no. I'll fuck, I forgot about this. I actually feel so terrible because I have some friends involved with this. But I have to I must

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I need to get this off my

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chest. When is the clown of the week this week? And there

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are the cloud there.

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Actually, I had a cloud of the week or are they Heroes? Because I saw this headline, then he took accounting firm for Accelerated, acquisition process amid, pivoting Business Financial struggles. And I thought, yeah, when is the clown of the week, right? Because they are just not doing good. Stuff off. They are not getting viewers. They are not getting sponsors. People are not watching then content. They are the clown. But then I read the article and

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it is so often. See Ur. They didn't makes me feel really

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bad about it. The CEO REO

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horn is basically goes in this and says, hey, no one is watching our stuff. We are not getting sponsored wage. We spent way too much money. I made a

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fuck. You lucky. He literally halfway through the article. We doesn't say I made a fucking lucky. He says, I spent way too much money, and it's my fault. And now, we are just trying to sell wage. And so we've hired

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this company. So then is the cloud of the week, but REO horn is

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my flip. The script hero of the week for coming into this. E

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sports article and

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literally baring himself before the world. For those of you who don't know, don't feel bad because then was the biggest thing. A year ago when they

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got two rounds of funding, they

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got what somewhere around, fifty million dollars to create what they were calling the MTV of gaming, any sports. Oh, no, I think even with that tagline, you probably know that van is not going to make it through here. And so what they did was they built a big sexy Sound Stage and they hired some really cool talents and people, I like fired Dash. They hired Jimmy Wong. They hired other folks to come on. I think cutie did a show Once Ludwig went on into the show Once, right? And their goal was to create unique content and distribute it. Not only on kitchen YouTube, but on more o t t o t t o t. O TV not o t k o t? T e platforms? Someone correct me if I'm wrong. They wanted it on linear television baby. They were trying to get these creators who are famous in their own pockets of the universe, right? Austin show Ludwig and get them onto linear television. So that casual and he's would like them. And that they would make a lot of money on sponsorships for these events with these things that they are doing. Now. Here's the problem. No one watched any vendor shows and they lost money.

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People were excited about vent. I will tell you, I had a certain hand job. Marketing friend who was kind of kicking the

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tires on vents seeing like is this a place I would want to work then was really trying to recruit him because he is very good at what he does and I am so glad he did not go to vent. Could you imagine? Cuz this thing was a burning trash, can not get not because of the people involved. I think they all did a really great

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job and not even because of the

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content. I think the content is good, just because there is no product Market,

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people don't want this. They don't even want to stay in show. This is too produced. You know what I mean? They're people want Mogul money, which is the greatest which game show they want scuffed. They want me to cancel my thumb up my butt and watch Taskmaster without pausing, you know what I mean? It's just, there's not a world where people want

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vent and that is why they are the clown of the week this week. I hope that they find emergency funding and or sell their company to someone. So they get out of there because I like people in gaming people who are trying to create gaming content or cool. It's good that they are trying to raise the floor or build the birth. All of the gaming world, but this ain't it Chief. I'm sorry, then you're the clown of the week.

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It's time for my favorite segment of the show. The same. I get to talk to you in Q&A. If you don't know how it works, every

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episode I go through my YouTube comments. This show is posted on YouTube every day, every day, every episode, the day after it. Airs live on Twitch. So you're watching episode 32 right now Thousand watch 32 on YouTube with some minor

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editing. Some Cuts,

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they believe the parts where I say motherfuker a hundred thousand times and they probably take out that part where I say, it would bend over backwards, 4ft X and what you do is you go down in the comments, you leave a question. I look through all the questions. I pick my two favorites and I answer them

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every week. It's a fun time. Who ask questions this week. Let's find out. Oh Lord, get my

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glasses. I'll fuck this is going to be a tough one.

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Hay stands. What are your thoughts on people relocating for financial

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gain? Everyone knows Texas has become a hot spot to the money. You save on taxes for big

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businesses and for Content creators. I'm from Canada. So maybe my view is

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different, but I take pride in paying taxes, in order to humblebrag. I take pride in paying taxes, in order to better my community and help other people also does the influx of content creators geographically. Create an even bigger inside group. What an

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interesting question. This is a good question. I

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can't imagine being a content creator. Moving to Texas. How cringe, you know what I

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mean? It'd be so

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embarrassing to like, go to Texas and live with other content creator, friends and oceans. That Connor in the

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chat. Oopsies know. This is a really good question. I think that people not only content creator. So content creators are moving to

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Texas because there is no state income tax, right? And so you are just saving all the money that would pay. If you lived in California, like I do all on your Twitch money on your YouTube, money on your merch, money on all these things you're doing, it's not only twitch streamers. Businesses are moving to Texas, right? You had Elon Musk, talk about taking Tesla to Texas, Joe Rogan got a fat juicy big dumpy Spotify deal and moved to Texas. He built a new studio there. Lots of people are moving to Texas to save money and I think that is absolutely fine. The thing about it is used to live in Texas and I don't want to do that. What? I save a lot of money. If I move to Texas. Yes. Do I want to move to Texas? Fuk? No,

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it is so sick. Here. It is. So goddamn sick, I go to the beach. I eat, vegetarian food all the time. People are beautiful. My house is great. The weather's, perfect. Southern California is literally

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the go-to spot. And what is the price of admission? Paying my taxes baby song? I paid my taxes. I'll pay my taxes. I'm going to enjoy it. I take pride pay my taxes here. Sure. I don't give a shitt. I just want to live in the best place. It's the best and so I do it. That's it. Now. The second part of this question, is really interesting. Does this influx of content creators geographically create an even bigger inside group? Yes. Absolutely. Yes. Right. Now, the cool thing or an interesting thing is, we've seen this inside group form around cultural hubs in America, or even worldwide. And you talk about like Bollywood. I'm talking about specifically like Hollywood here or New York. You talk about people even San Francisco for startups, like people all come together and you create this like efficient world where you can jump between jobs or do new things, create more movies because all the movie stars live here. It has typically been down in Los Angeles for streamers, right? For Esports players as well because the LCS is here because blizzard is here because twitch has an office here, things like that. And so all of a sudden we are seeing streamers moved to Texas to get sleepy. A cheaper cost of living and save on taxes and they are creating content together and creating these in groups. Nowhere. Is this more evident than with O T K &. L s f o t k e e s f has the spice and controls the fucking world. You know what I

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mean? I feel like I need to pay

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homage to God damn, an empty or something to get on LSM. I have no idea how to do it. I'm

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proud of a trap for getting on, l a f

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being a northern California and E. I have no idea how I'm supposed to get on, lsf, because all of these streamers are not only the soup du jour of lsf, but they are also going to create content together. Right? Sodapoppin can walk into enemy stream and say something funny or they can stream in the kitchen and do these things. Otk can have people group up in this gifts room and have fun, you know, Maya goes in there or slick goes in there. I thought I had slipped through their cooking show. Collaborative content is the future of twitch, and YouTube and it is the way that you grow, your social channels, the way you grow your streams. It's the way we grew our last podcast, H recognize a sportsman, like conduct wage. What we did is we got guests from other Esports, from different gaming Realms and we talked to them. We got Conor a spade. I don't know if Connor his pants actually was friends with us. When you do Sportsman like conduct. We got people like acts and wizzrobe and mango. We got home. Mostly Super Smash Bros players, the dime to come on and talk to us about their thing and then Their audience would watch us a little bit right now. Austin streamers have created this amplification machine to where they can bring people in the same way that he did it in Los Angeles and get them. Yeah. We got JWittz and Ludwig. We

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started Lutz career.

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Exactly a trucks in the check getting really mad about it. Ludwig the first time for time guests on the show. Mom actually running home to be on a sportsman like condo and they are able to bring these people up. And once those people are up there, they develop a slightly different audience. We are pushing. It's almost like that. You guys have seen that graphic of people getting phds pushing the like the whole encapsulation of human knowledge. What they are doing is doing that with streamers and it makes it really hard to break in, Georgia. I mean, I live in Los Angeles. So it's easy for me. I can go to Ludwig's house and like, you know scratches head or something on stream. But if I live in Montana or North Dakota or New Jersey, there's just so few streamers especially. So if she big streamers, I think it will be challenging for these people. And what you're going to need are more inside groups that band together in their regions so that they can combat this so that they can share fans across them. And so that they can continue to grow

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things like that. Great

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question. I love that question. I like paying my taxes and living in California too, though. Question number two. Hey stands. I was watching one of your videos and someone asked about if the population size in Australia, would always keep the scene, small. Do you think that o c teams and whatever sport could benefit from being grouped in with some of the age minute? He's like Korea, Japan or China. So this is something that any sports has happened. A lot where oce will include Australia, New Zealand and things like that. So these players can play Riot games and did something different, where they said Australian and New Zealand, our players can go to the LCS, can go to North America, and not take and imports. Lot. As a way to try and drive excitement, and get more playing and competing in these regions. I will say that it's not population size necessarily, although I do agree that population size will be The Great Dictator. It's the same reason that China will be better than us in every we do because there's a billion jillion people there, you know what I mean, but I do think that paying to these regions is going to be the biggest limiter, the problem with Australia is they have a smaller population and they can only play a game. Just each other, right? Iron sharpens iron is something that we talked about a lot in this chat. And right now, you just have a bunch of Aussies playing against a bunch of Ozzy's the ones that have made it out of there region. Our teams like Renegade csgo who moved to Detroit, right? And then competed against North American teams played in ESL. North America played in Flashpoint, North America and things like that. I think they can do that by competing with other oce regions and they should do that. But the real big prize will be when we can get legless communication between these things and we just immediately eliminate ping issues. I don't know if it's possible. I'm stupid as shit. I don't know if the speed of light a limiting factor here, but if we could just lay some Fiber Optic, Cables to Australia and play them really quickly. There's no reason to say that they wouldn't be as good as our players. The only problem goes back to the beginning, where I said that they have less people have less great people, less great. People means like less generational talents, right? Eventually. You're just going to need the more you feel the top of the funnel, the better players. You have things

Speaker 1 (54:30)
like that. Great question and thank you for listening to episode 31 of

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the stands show. What a great episode. It was good. Getting back to it. We talked about

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our dog

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j a b getting fired. We

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talked about long tortured, the Bush Administration. We talked about ft x,

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hopefully sponsoring this podcast cuz they're sponsoring everything else. And we had our clown of the week then and our hero of the week Ariel horn trying to make some money for his dog before they get out of the

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ecosystem. I will be back next week with a new episode. Maybe we'll have a guest, maybe we won't. That's how it goes. Welcome to Stan. Shobitch is the fucking jungle out here.

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I gotta watch Taskmaster. Now, it's the only way views. Fuck you guys. Thanks for watching.