Ep 1 : Who are We?

SHOW NOTES: Streams Links Mad House Podcast Livestream (https://www.twitch.tv/themadhousepodcast) Joker (https://www.twitch.tv/nlmp) Owls (https://www.twitch.tv/owlsareahoot92) Twitter https://www.twitter.com/the_m_h_podcast Sponsor Warrior Axe Coffee (https://www.warrioraxecoffee.com) Bobby's Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/7q1NTDZE0B1I7Mp5UNRnmn?si=95b885194f894838) Discord to The Mad House Community https://discord.gg/gau9E5zYaf TRANSCRIPTION by app.getwelder.com/transcription: Intro: This episode is sponsored by my company, No Laughing Matter Productions. The company started as a photography and videography production group, which I still do. However, I have moved more into graphic design, making stream graphics and custom logos for streamers. In this episode, my cohost, Owls and I will be talking more about how we got our start into streaming, what got us into gaming, and we'll be interacting with chat as we do the live recordings on Twitch. Tv every Wednesday links to the podcast stream channel, and our personal stream channels will be in the Show notes. If you want to ask us any questions that we could utilize on our next recorded episode, please go on Twitter and use the #MHPGroupTherapy now let's get to the chaos. Hello for episode one. Episode one. I am Joker. I am the warden of the madhouse, and I'm Owls, a patient of the madhouse. No. Yes, I guess you are. What would I be? So there's warden, and then what are the people that take care of them? I'm not a therapist, but like, oh, there we go. Instead of orderly, we can make you therapist. Therapist? I didn't want to be a therapist. You didn't want to be? I mean, like, this is group therapy, but I don't give advice. Well, I think we do. You might not need to take it, though. Any, I was thinking more like orderly. Well, the orderlies are the bouncers, the mods. That's true. Anyway, this is the Madhouse Podcast, and we as the Madhouse present to you group therapy, where we talk about a lot of different things, mostly video game related to start, but we'll throw in some very odd topics later. One to include a very sneak peek at the end of the livestream that will be kind of giving you a hint or an idea of what we'll be talking about next week as well. We'll put a little Easter egg at the end giggity, but today being our first official episode, we do have a pilot episode getting started on Spotify, Google Podcast, and Radio Public, all available thanks to Red Circle. Red Circle being our free host for our podcast and the RSS that allows us to distribute to all the different platforms. Right now, we are not on iTunes or, yeah, the iTunes podcast like network yet. It takes a few extra steps to get that in, and I have to work on that after my work week is over Friday. So hopefully by next week we'll have iTunes accessibility as well. But again, right now we're just on Spotify, Radio Public and Google Podcast. If you want to look us up in any of those platforms, or you can look us up directly through the RSS feed and Red Circle and you can still subscribe to us there. You can subscribe to us on our Twitch channel, which we are currently live stream recording to, and allowing our audience to kind of interact with us more directly. We talk to our audience roughly about what we do 15 minutes at the beginning about. Yeah. After we got kind of situated. Yeah. And talk to the live audience roughly about 15 or so minutes before we do the official recording. Side during the recording, we will not necessarily be interacting with our Twitch chat just to kind of make it more even on par with the audio listeners out there. If we do reference something depending on the topic that has a visual portion to it, we'll try to describe it as best as possible for the audio. But if you want to be a part of the live recording, please join us on Twitch.tv/themadhousepodcast. Owls, do you get anything you want to say as far as introductions? Not really. I don't have much more to add to that. I would just clarify. Maybe not the Madhouse, because people might spell it thee and just say the Madhouse podcast. Then you're going to get someone that's going to say Tha, the no, it'd be like thuh like the like duh, but the like duh, but the one of those you never know. People might be a little bit too literal on that. Yeah, I know, right. But that is T-H-E-M-A-D-H-O-U-S-E. Oh, I'm sorry. P-O-D-C-A-S-T. You never know. I would like, can you do it? Use your military background? What is it? T for Tom. I know that's not it. You're talking about the phonetic Alphabet. Phonetic. That was the word I was thinking of. Yeah. I'm so bad at it. I remember when I was at work, I couldn't think of anything, and I kept naming foods and the person was like, you're probably hungry. Yeah. This is lunch time. Yeah. The phonetic Alphabet. That would take a few minutes because it's exactly a word per letter. So just D is Tango hotel Echo. Yeah, that's a lot. Yes. I'm not going to go through the phonetic Alphabet for how to spell the Twitch channel, but all links will be available in Show Notes as well as any of the platforms that I mentioned. They will show the show notes in the descriptions. And then obviously here on Twitch, we have our panels down below, but I think it's how would you do owl? Just a side note. Owl. Oh, and the phonetic Alphabet. That would be Oscar whiskey Lima. I kind of like that. If I ever made, like, a other channel, I might use that. Okay, here we go. All right, let's see. Everything looks good. So we have some mods in chat just to help alleviate any issues that trolls, because Twitch trolls are a thing. Still, for some odd reason, I want to thank everybody in our Twitch before we get into the actual question side again that following us. It definitely means a lot helping us grow this channel and the podcast itself on the Twitch side, but also going to the different platforms doing the downloads, that's where you'll be able to help us out a lot, especially the Red Circle either app or the Red Circle webpage download or listening. From there, it helps our analytics. That sounds like a right word. And the downloads are what give us a popular rating. Also on those particular platforms, if you could leave a review, if they have that available, that would be awesome as well because these are something that we're just both really diving into. And anything we can do to make this a better experience for both the audio only side and the visual audio switch side would be greatly appreciated. All right, last time, should we also mention the sponsorship? Oh, yes. Thank you. So currently we have one sponsor outside of my own graphic design photo business that I do, which is the NLMP name. But we have an outside sponsor. It is Warrior Axe Coffee, and you can find them. Of [email protected], we do not offer any discounts at the current moment, only because the owner, Bobby Allman, is local. He brews everything himself, roasts the beans, grinds them up and packages them himself with the family. They are veteran Leo or law enforcement owned great group of guys and girls. But they also take 10% of their profits to give to charity, the St Baldwick's charity, and then also the Gary Sunice Foundation. So for veteran side. And that's why we're not offering any discounts. But we do want to promote them because one is damn good coffee and hopefully we can get Owls her pound of coffee this coming up month. So that would be fun. Once we get you can taste how freaking awesome it is because I love coffee, as do I. And yeah. So that's our current sponsor and we want to thank them. Hopefully one day here soon I can talk to Bobby and get him on here and he can talk a little bit more about the details of his business and how he got started and all that good jazz as well. That would be awesome. Hallie, I'll have to be one of the times that I come out to visit so we can kind of do it together. Oh, yeah. All in one. That would be great because I'm going to try to get him on here. He also does a fitness and podcast himself. What I'll do is I'll link for the show notes today. I'll make sure I link his podcast information on the show notes for Spotify and all that. Let me make a note of this real quick. No, don't use that. Oh, my God. Take it all back. Take it back. It was all off key anyways. It's not really usable. Okay. Yeah. Now, as far as the contents, we had an idea of trying to help or add to the introduction side of this. And we want to start with letting you know everybody in Twitch or on the podcast who we are and how we got into this. Thankfully, the Madhouse has built a wonderful community of well over 100 members in the discord, but also our different Twitch streams are gaming streams on Twitch. The communities are vastly growing amongst each other and I could not be prouder as one of the original admins and the warden of the Madhouse community on Twitch. So I wanted to just kind of break down, got some questions for us that we can all answer, and hopefully give you a little bit more information in the audiences of who we are, how we got here, and hopefully where we want to go from here. Yes, definitely. Because some of you may have watched us, but I don't think we've really kind of gone over, like our actual backgrounds just kind of go straight into the gaming. Yeah, sorry, I vape, so there will be times that I am not audibly inclined, so I have to. It's a really good audio queue. I know, right? All right, so let's start with the questions. We'll direct them at Owls first. Let her do some talking here. Since I obviously command or I take over inadvertently and I don't want to do that all the time, I'm going to try my best not to do that as often. God, shut up, Joker. Jesus. I know, right? But let's start out with the question is, how did you get into video gaming? Okay, so I can go back as far as when I was, let's say, like, eight or nine, maybe elementary school at some point. I think my first interaction with gaming was an Xbox playing Fusion Frenzy. Do you remember that game? Oh, my God. Hold on. Xbox was middle school for you? I don't know. I said elementary school. Oh, element. Wow, that's even worse. It's probably worse, actually. Okay, let's start out with the reference of our own age. So I'm 36 years old. I'm 29. I'm not that much younger than you. That's seven years. That's really not that much. Okay, so there's your solid reference. I'm 36. She's 29. So that gives you we're more. I'm an elder millennial here, and she's like a middle aged millennial. Are you a Boomer? No, that's prior. And then before that is the Boomer age. Okay, just to get back to reference the slight age difference as we get older, it's not a big deal. Like maybe back then it was a little bit of a deal, but as you get older, seven years just becomes less and less. Yeah, it becomes less of a thing. All right, so you said elementary school and Xbox, the original Xbox. The big block. Yeah, the block with the big X on it. That thing. Okay. It was Fusion Frenzy. That was probably my first interaction. It would be when I would go over to my dad's friend's house and his friend had a bunch of kids and we would all play Fusion Frenzy. That's probably the first time that I really remember liking a game. And it's very much the same type of games that I like now. Co op, silly, easy games to play. As I got a little older, I probably PlayStation Two. I'm not going to reference a time because I have no idea, but I played a little bit of Simpsons Road Rage. I really enjoyed that one. But I never really got fully into gaming until about four or five years ago. God, my husband, big gamer, straight. Like Diablo Two, all of it. He played Overwatch. Okay. And I was like at the time because I didn't really game as much. It's like, oh, can you pause your game? Can you come play with me? Can you come hang out with me? He's like, you should try this game. You should try it. One day I finally decided to actually try it. And from then on, I've been hooked four or five years now. I've been getting really into gaming. Okay. So as far as the gamer idea or thought process, you didn't really dive into until just a few years ago. Correct. So it's been kind of a back burner. I've played things like, I wouldn't say mainstream, but more prominent, like Guitar Hero, rock band, Dabbled in gaming. But as far as really got into gaming, it was about four or five years ago when I actually got really addicted. Okay, so the game that did it for you that brought you into the gaming world was what exactly? Overwatch. Overwatch. Okay. And let's see, when did Overwatch come out originally? I have no idea. That would be something that I will reference. The Internet, the interwebs. Yeah. Overwatch release date, May 24, 2016. That doesn't feel right. It does feel right. It's 2022. Okay. And let's see, so roughly about two years, because you said four years ago. So about 2018 is when you initially dived hardcore? Well, I say hardcore, but let me see, I can tell you when I purchased the game. Okay, let me see if I can remember my login click. Just so you guys, let me see. Transaction history purchased Overwatch May 28, 2018. Oh, wow. And May 24, 2016 is the initial release date for Overwatch. So the game had been out for about two years before I played it? Yeah, just shy of exactly two years. You bought it? I played it maybe the day or two before on my husband's computer. He woke up to me. We went back and forth like, I play game. He'd play a game, I play a game. He played a game. And then we went to bed. I woke up before him because I'm not a morning person, but I'm definitely not a sleep until like 03:00 person. And he woke up to me in his gaming room playing Overwatch. He's like, what are you doing? I'm playing. And we very shortly after bought him a new gaming computer, upgraded mine and then we're both playing. So this is maybe about a week after. So I really started like mid to end May of 2018, but didn't have my own copy or computer until the 28. Alright, so as far as me how I got into video gaming, of course, me being an elder millennial born in the 80s, he's going to mention that every now and again. Yeah, I am ancient in the gaming world right now. I feel ancient. Like some of the other gamers that are on Twitch right now. Like Tim the Tatman YouTubers that apparently is forsaken to talk about. He who will not be named with glorious mustache that was now a YouTuber. He's a little older than I am, but Tim is about your age. He's my age. Yeah. Roughly one of the people I follow around my age. I think that's just because analytics. But there's a couple that are younger than me and I'm like, oh yeah, tell me about it. But I got my first console or gaming like experience was on an Atari. I think it was an 8500. I can't remember exactly what model it was, but it was an Atari playing Pong playing Gallagher Pacman, Mrs. Pacman. I started to actually get into video games directly. Was the original NES or Super Nintendo Nintendo Entertainment System and it was Mario Brothers Duck Hunt. Oh, I did forget Duck Hunt. I played that. Okay. But yeah, so those are the ones that I played very regularly and to the point where I had all of the different variations of the Super Mario Bros. Game. So I had the standalone cartridge, which was just Super Mario Brothers one by itself. Then I had the combo with Duck Hunt, which I also had two guns. These are the ones that you have to pull out and go before you put them back in. Yes. Even though it probably never actually worked, but never actually did anything. But it made us feel good in your mind. Yeah, it made us feel good. And then I had the third variation which had Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt and the marathon runner game with the little pad that you padded on, like with your feet to run. Familiar. Yeah, it was awesome. That was our first gaming hack. Was instead of doing it with our feet, we got down on our hands and knees and we fucking just jabbed it with our hands to get faster. That's like me with Dead by Daylight. I stopped doing the two fingers and I did my other hands. The wiggling. Oh yeah. I was like, forget this. Double tap that space bar. Yeah. So that was my intro into gaming. Of course. I grew up with the NES. I had a mother who in her later years worked as one of the floor managers for Toys R US. So I got a lot of new games that came out. I had probably I want to say almost $8,000 worth of Nintendo games. Holy Moly. Because I had the game gene then. 8000. Well, back then it was probably, well, if you bought those games today, I'd have over $100,000 worth of stuff. That's true. But yes, back then it was about $8,000. I had almost the entire collection of American and Asian Nintendo releases. But Battle Toads, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Earthworm Gym. Well, no. Mortal Kombat incoming. It was a different game. What was the NES fighter game? I can't even remember now. Terminator. Yes, Street Fighter Terminator. Total recall. But I also had the Game Genie. I had three books of game Genie. That one was like, I want to say, a quarter inch thick. It was the full release of all the games at that time in like 1990, because the NES came out when I was born, it came out, I'm like, just a few months older than the original NES. Just a few months older. Yeah. So I got into gaming back then. I'm a part of what I call the Nintendo generation. When millennials were trying to disband being a millennial, I was a Nintendo generation. Okay. But when I got into hardcore gaming, this is something I did. Every opportunity I could get on with friends was actually, it started out with the Xbox, of course, with Halo, where you had land parties, you brought everybody over, you brought your TVs, you literally brought shit to someone's house, sat down, plugged in a modem that didn't have any Internet because it was all dial up back then. Then you plugged in your Ethernet cords to that modem so you could all connect. And from there, we played multiplayer on the original Xbox. And I even remember learning about the first Internet hack where you can get online online and do an online land party. And that was a hack back then that wasn't available. You had to go in and change system settings and everything in the developer menu, but lots of ones and zeros somewhere. It was crazy, but that's where I got into it. As far as different parties, of course I did Yugioh. I did magic. I did all that stuff. As far as physical realms. But with the video gaming side, that was my start. Was Halo, Halo Two, Halo One playing, of course, just locally, and then moving into PlayStation. No, it wasn't even PlayStation yet. I didn't get a PlayStation until the four PlayStation. Well, I had PlayStation One. Of course, I had Sega Genesis, because I was an idiot when I was 13 years old and took all my games, Game Genie, controllers, everything, and allowed an older kid because my mom wouldn't let me trade it in for the new systems. It wasn't smart to do that. No, it definitely wasn't, because my mom itemized all my games, like, had a full fucking roster alphabetically before they had Excel. Yes, she did all that for me. And that's the only reason why I know the value of what I've had, because I found that sheet and I looked all the prices up and that's how I ended up with over $100,000. But I was an idiot. At 13 years old, I sat there and handed this kid everything in a duffel bag. He came back and said, well, all they gave me was Sega Genesis. One game, one controller. Oh, my goodness. I got ripped off and thought I'm, like, struck gold because I ended up with the Sega Genesis. You're like, this is what I wanted. Yeah, this is great. Everything's great until you got older and went, wow, that wasn't so great. No, he made out with probably because I think he went to a pawn shop, if I remember correctly. And he made out with probably in his pocket well over $700. And that was outside of purchasing or trading for what I got out of the deal. Got you. So that was additional. Yeah, additional to what he brought to me. He probably pocketed about $700. That's crazy. Yeah. Don't trade in your old systems. People keep them. I know. I regret I did trade in a PS two because I wanted the Xbox 360. I played a little bit of Black Ops and I thought that was great. I liked the zombies part of it. I don't really like the shooting people part of it. We'll pull up. As a matter of fact, let me make a note. Yeah, that's going to be another topic is the Call of Duty franchise. It deserves its own episode because there is so much shit that we can talk about with that. Oh, my God. Alright, let me get my hand. All about the zombies. Yeah, we'll definitely talk about the zombies because there's game lure in that as well. So that can be, excuse me, an additive to game lure. I'll put that in. The game lure section is Cod. I'm proud of you for saying lore. Right, zombies. Thank you. I appreciate you. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm remembering other games that I played. Fatal Frame. Do you remember that? I do. Oh, man, that was a good one. I think about that constantly. There's a new one out, by the way. Is there? It's a little bit pricey for me, but I definitely have thought about it every now and again because I do remember that being a really fun game. And Spooky, that's probably the first Spooky game I ever played. And like, I'm like, I really did like that game. Why didn't I realize that I liked Spooky games? I mean, look at you. One of your primary games that you play is technically a horror. No, not a horror. Horror. All right, so let's see. And then to finalize the game I started with that got me into competitive gaming would be Call of Duty. It was Modern Warfare, too. So Ghost, Captain Price, all of those. That's what got me into competitive online gaming and I even started or got with a clan. They wanted 52 back in the early 2000s, 2004, I believe, is when Modern Warfare Two originally released, not the remake of Modern Workers. The land name was. Yes. Okay. I just wanted to make sure I heard that right. Yeah. Like some of my Xbox tag still has the clan tag, the x52x on it. Was there a particular reason behind that clan tag. So in the clan, we were the one and 52. And each member of the clan represented a different deck or a card in a deck of cards. All the admins and like heads of different sections of the clan were like the top tier cards. So all the admins of each playing style or each suit was an ace. Okay. I wasn't sure if you were going to go with ace or King because ace could be high or low. Yeah. No, ace is where the highest as far as the suits or the playstyles, because each Joker. No. So the different play styles represented the different suits. So, like the stealthy sniper group was my group, the clubs, and I was the ace of clubs, hence my Xbox tag. X 52 X ace of clubs. Okay. I do remember seeing that when we played, I believe when we played Sea of Thieves. Yeah. So I was the ace of clubs. I was the leader of the snipers or stealthy group. Then you had, of course, the hearts, diamonds, and spades. And they all represented different play styles, like the shooters, like the running Gunners, the ones that are a little more cautious with bigger weapons, like the support elements, and then the healers. So obviously the hearts were the medics for the most part. Then you had the diamonds, which were your support element, and then the spades were your running guns. So we all represented we all represented different game styles in FPS games and shooter games. So that's how we split everybody up. And the ace was the top King, Queen, Jack, and then ten down, all the way to one or two. All the way down to two. Did you have 52 of you? Yes, actually, we did. Did you stop like other somebody had to leave? No. So they could have the X 52 X clan tag to them. They just didn't get the card, the permissions to use their card in their tag because they didn't have one. And we had two jokers. They were the type of people that are very ampedextrious when it comes to playstyles. Like they can do one or the other. And virtually, for lack of better words, Jack of all trades. Yes. So the little Joker or little Joker was the one that kind of switched between the support element and the medics element, and then the big Joker was the one that could switch between them all if we needed him. Got you. That's cool. Yeah. So we set up our teams. Like when Battlefield Bad Company came out, of course, Call of Duty. We had those types of people in each team when we played. And of course back then you didn't have discord like we do now. Some people did do Skype calls to each other but we just use the inherent in game chat function or the party functions to talk to each other and it was fun. Some nights we had custom games of almost 32 people in a Cod match. That's quite a few. Oh yeah, it was ridiculous what we were able to do. Let's see, I think we covered that. Next question before we take our first little admin break and talk to Chad again and catch up on that is what game can you currently play on repeat and almost never get bored of? Okay, so you're thinking me first? Yes. Gosh right now. Currently it's Dead by Daylight. I got really super hooked out of nowhere. I bought it like gosh like six. No, I'm trying to do math. Like four or five months ago I played it like I dabbled in it and then I recently in the last month or two really got into it. I've been trying to learn more of it and it's been really, it's been fun because it's been a change. I played a lot of Overwatch for a very, very, very long time, so it's been a good change of pace. It's quickly becoming my favorite. Definitely outside of the change of pace, what about the game to you makes it to where you don't get tired of it. I think that I'm an easily spooked person. So the aspect of getting scared by somebody coming for me and that the games are ever changing so they update things. They are constantly giving different Survivors and Killers and maps, but also because it's so heavily reliant on people playing that each game is different in its own way. Even the most frustrating games are unique in their own way, meaning that a killer because it's one before. So one killer for survivors and it's dependent on your whole team and the killer, a killer could be incredibly toxic or incredibly nice. So one game I could be running around with the killer farming points, meaning doing different little activities throughout the game. Or we could be just like meming each other like just crouching and teabagging each other or running around the killer or different things like that. I really like the ghost face when they do their little sneaky thing and when they peek from behind something, it really makes me laugh all the time. So I like to do the peaking with them. But then there's also the games where the killer is just so good and you're just like trying to fix the gens and you're just running around like crazy. So it's just like the concept that it's real life people making the game different every single time. It's not just we got to get to the point, we got to capture the point. There is obviously the goal of doing the generators and getting out, but it's so reliant on everybody interacting with each other properly. Yeah. I think it was like one of the first experiences I remember with the group. You were a part of the Survivor side and I was the killer for you all, because that game. I love that game too, but I just can't do Survivor. I love the killer side of DVD. And I think one of it was like, I didn't necessarily surprise you because I think you were watching me a couple of times when I was streaming regularly Dead by Daylight, but I pretty much wiped you all clean off of the first game. That wasn't fun for me. And it's not like that. I wasn't trying to be an asshole or toxic. I was just playing as a killer because I think we were. What was it like a training or something for someone? Participant #1: Yes. Kira. Kira was playing with us and he didn't play quite as much. So it was like, well, let's show you kind of how the game is, which is not a good representation because you're a much higher level killer than we are as survivors when you start a job and they're like, well, good luck. Here you go. Yeah. As a project manager, that's what they do. They're like, well, you're a project manager now. Here you go. Have fun. Yeah. Figure it out. What am I supposed to do? I don't know. Yeah, that's your job. Figure it out. Yeah. So that was one of the more memorable times for me, is seeing that murdering us all very easily. Yeah. So DBD is your never get tired of playing it kind of game at this point. Yeah. Because I did play Overwatch pretty primarily until the last year, I would say. Okay, so pretty joining in on the Madhouse community before that, you were strictly Overwatch. Pretty much Overwatch. Yeah. I played Overwatch at least the first two years. Like every single night I was on it. That's where I met Kyra, and that's how we became friends and we played it literally every single night for like two years. The first game that after that that I played that kind of brought in my Horizons and that I was really hooked on was Phasmophobia. And that's how you got introduced into the group, wasn't it? Yes. That's actually. Oh, I forgot to say the story of how I met Joker. Oh, God. Yeah. Because I definitely don't remember this. Okay. I hadn't met you yet. The first interaction was I started streaming and I was playing Phasma because I couldn't think of anything else to play. And Phasma was good. You can interact with people entertaining. I can do that. So I met Atari first through a game and I was like, oh, I'm going to add her or she added me. I can't remember how it happened, but I added her. I watched one of your guys'streams. Your coast stream was It Takes Two. That was the first time I ever heard your voice and heard about you. Oh, so your first interaction or introduction to me was when we were doing our indie game night with It Takes Two. So this isn't when I met you. So this is just my first interaction with you. And then I watched one of your streams because I was like, well, it's Atari's friend, so maybe I should support them as well. And you're playing the truck driving simulator. I need to get you. I love you, Joker. That's so boring to me. It's like, is this what he does? Yeah. It is definitely a niche game. You have to understand or enjoy driving simulators to really get into them. Yeah, I see is you with your hand on the wheel. Like you're literally driving. That's it right there. I'm doing my load. Yeah, that was basically what it was. So it's like, oh, my goodness, I don't know about this guy. Oh, Joy first impression. He liked his driving games. That's cool. But my actual first introduction was playing Phasmophobia with you. And I can't believe you don't remember this, because I feel like it's super memorable. So we're playing, and you're all super stoked about everything. You at some point go into the living room in the game, in this map, and you take the remote. So you're messing with the TV, and you have the remote. And then some point, you put the remote down and I take it from you, and you're running after me mad, like, give me my remote back. And I was like, no, I do now. And you were like, you're getting so irritated with me. I don't know if it was serious or not, but you're just like, Give me the remote, woman. And I'm like, no, I'm good. This is my remote now. And then you get killed. Yeah. And so you're laying on the ground, and I go, hey, Joker, here's a remote. And I dropped it on your dead body. Yeah, I definitely remember that, because that's the one house where it has the L shaped couch. And as you're coming into the house, you've got the two rooms in the bathroom on the left. Yes. You go up the Masters on the left, and then it's the living room, the L shaped couch, and the TVs on the wall kind of catty cornered towards the main hallway door. And then it's the basement door, kitchen, and dining room. Yeah, I remember that because I got stuck on the fucking couch. I don't remember how happened, but I just remember you dying, and I just thought it was so fucking hilarious. Here's your remote back, Joker. Fucking bitch. That's how we met. I remember that now because it was me. And then you got really quiet. I don't know what you were doing, but you got really super quiet. I was like, oh, shit, I'm a jerk, aren't I? And I think I was like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I was totally fucking around. You're like, no, you're fine. Yeah, you're probably just talking to your chat or something. Who knows? Honestly, you got really super quiet. So I was like, this did not go well. Yeah, I got to say that now I remember. Okay. Wow. I can't believe I forgot about that. There were so many Phasmophobia moments, like with the group and a lot of my clips. Some of my more viewed clips, of course, are me being scared shitless by chat. Oh, yeah. It's crazy. Okay. I can't believe you didn't remember that. There was so many memorable moments. It's like they all fade together. That's very memorable. Yeah. That was my first interaction with you. So that kind of set the tone, I think, for our friendship. Yeah, I think it did. And now look at us. Yeah. Doing a podcast and stuff. No. So my game on repeat. While you were talking about yours, I had to actually look at my desktop at all the different icons that I have and see which ones I actually play the most or regularly because I have so many. It's like there are still some games that I haven't even touched in months or at all. But I would have to say as far as the one game that I would probably never get tired of, would I can guess what. Destiny Two, actually. Yes, that's the one I was going to go with would be Destiny. Even though it does get monotonous and repetitive a lot of the times, it's still to me fun that grind for that. Prior to Destiny Two and even Destiny One, because when Destiny One was a thing, I was doing nothing else. One of the first games I ever streamed when I was trying to be a YouTube streamer back in the 2015 2016 was Battlefield in College Duty. Typical games, I know, but Battlefield to me is just the best first person like, military SIM shooter outside of Arma. And I want to get back into squads because I started playing that when I was first introduced to the mill SIM side of things. Squads. Yes. Squad. Squad is a mill SIM based off of Arma. Like, I don't even know what Arma is. Arma is a true MilSim. Like, you have Radio.com that you can't talk. There's no real VoIP except over a radio that you have to click into. It's a true push to talk. They're real style weapons, vehicles. The maps are absolutely enormous and it is a real milsim. Well, from Arma is where you got the mod for Daisy, which was one of the first true battle Royale survival style games. And it actually started as a mod on armor. A mod turn to full game. Yeah, mod turned into a standalone game Got You Daisy was originally just a mod to another title and back then. So that's why PUBG is like the Stylization is based on armor, except it's more mainstream shooter versus MilSim. Hence why that's realistic. Yeah, as far as like there's the whole battle Royale side of it where you've got something, some entity closing in, killing you if you stay in that zone for too long. But then I got of course, like I said in The Call of Duty, it was for the longest time back during the original Modern Warfare, the original Modern Warfare Two and Black Ops series games. Zombies. Oh, I used to love the original Black Ops Zombies. Yeah, that was the one. I got black Ops Three or two and three from the original versions. Not this new one that came out with Modern Warfare 2019, but the original Zombies. I got stuck in the lure of it all, like the background, the story and I think it was Black Ops Two Zombies where I actually finally took the grind like in a serious note to finish everything about the zombie storyline. But Battlefield, of course I started playing Battlefield back during Bad Company era and Bad Company Two was my all time favorite Battlefield game. And then Battlefield 34 and now 2042 is fun. I just got stuck on a Destiny kick trying to get the fucking T shirt. The T shirt. When are you going to get that? I don't know. It's on order right now. I did order it come back order, I guess. Yeah. So I'm waiting for that to come in. Once that comes in, of course, then I'll definitely be doing another Destiny stream. Celebration. Yeah, celebration stream. Playing probably when the new season comes out with the Witch Queen is probably the next time I'll actually play play. Destiny Two for stream and hopefully by then play play and hopefully by play. By then I'll have the T shirt. But before that, of course I did the Trucker Sims. I did enjoy them. It was nice, relaxing, but it did after a while get monotonous. So I stopped playing that. I haven't actually driven in a couple of months now, but I do want to get back into. But yeah, overall Destiny Two is my play on repeat. Never get, never get dull of it outside of PokerStar's, VR PokerStar's, VR two of my biggest viewership streams came from that game. You just went like playing poker. Yeah, playing poker and a VR casino style Texas hold them. I can see that because it's playing a game, but it's also something that even people who don't game understand in theory. I can see that. And you can play with people technically cross platform as far as like the hard line in Rift S, which I have, and then the Quest or portable VR headsets as well. So you can play with both like hardlined in like the HTC different styles of VR headsets yeah. That's one game that is across all styles of VR. Yeah. Kind of like playing with console and PC. I didn't realize that, though, with VR, that because they're separate. They don't always. So it's like having different consoles in Oculus is going to be different than you just said all of them. You just said them all. So let's put it this way. The Oculus series of VR, you've got two versions of it. You've got the S model, and then you've got the Quest models. Quest model. Yeah, I know. The Quest is what I'm familiar with, I think. Okay, so the Quest is the portable. It's a standalone system, basically, except for battery power, but everything is through WiFi and everything along those lines. You don't need a computer to play VR on that headset. Whereas with the S model, kind of like a Game Boy Advance, kind of the best way to look at it is you've got your Quest model is like your Xbox or Xbox consoles, whereas the Rift S is a Windows PC. Okay. Because you have to have a PC for the Rift S to play the games, whereas with the Rift is more like an addition to the computer, but the other one is all in one. It's there. Yeah, got you. I didn't realize that I haven't really looked into too many VR headsets because I just haven't gotten to that point in my life. I'm not sure if I would be good at those because I might get, like, motion sickness. The older I get, the more I get that way. I'm definitely lucky in the aspect that I don't get motion sickness like that, so I don't have to worry about it. But like, Atari her, she said she has to take a pill, like an hour before she does it so that she doesn't like a motion sickness. Yeah. The last roller coaster I went on, I was like, wow, I don't think I can do this anymore. And that was like a good, like probably five years ago at least. And so I don't just have thought of it. I'm like, oh, I don't think I'm at that point in my life anymore that I can do that. Yeah. It's unfortunate because it's fun. Yeah, it is. It really is. I love amusement park teacups. No, though never. That's probably what did it. Tea cups. I remember as a kid, you know, you love it. Spaceship was mesh. Spaceship and fireball, but I ended up loving the fireball. But, yeah, spaceship the top basically where it sucks you against the wall. That was the one that first terrified me and kind of made me sick. Yeah, definitely, if that makes sense. Next question is, how did we get into streaming? Okay, so for me, it was of course, I played a lot of games for a very long time, and I would say it was probably, to be honest, the pandemic. I started watching games that I played, and one of the games I think I watched the most of that got me kind of starting to really watch Twitch. Streaming was Phasmo. So before I bought it, I didn't want to buy something that I wouldn't play. So I did a lot of let me watch somebody play it, see if it's interesting to me at all. And so I watched it. I kept looking, and I realized, this is not really like it's a scary game, of course, because that's the genre it is. But I liked the investigative aspect of the game. So I was like, you know what? I think I will get this game. And I ended up getting it and liking it. But through that, that was like my introduction to watching Twitch. And then I started I downloaded Tik Tok and found people on Tik Tok that I followed once again on streaming and just kept watching. I was like, that looks like a lot of fun just having a lot of people around to hang out with and to kind of game with, and they've met different friends through that. So I thought, you know what? I'm going to do it. Then six months later, I did it. So it took me a good amount. I'm the kind of person, most of the time that will be like, I'm going to do that. I think I'm going to do that for myself. And then I think about it a lot, and I try to plan a lot or I overthink it. And I'm like, oh, I should have all this prepared. So before I started streaming, I actually had most of my discord set up the way I liked it, based off of finding people. I liked seeing their discords, their layouts, little different things that I liked about theirs, and kind of made up my own. So I think that was, like, the number one important thing for me before I started streaming is I wanted to have a discord set up because my main goal was just hanging around with people and getting to know people. And the main way at this point in gaming is through discord. Yeah, absolutely. If you join the Madhouse Discord, for sure, it is 100 billion times better than my original discord that I had. But I set all that up and Holy shit, was it tough getting everything together for that? Yeah, it's a big thing to set up because there's so many different things to think about, and I'm constantly adjusting and adding and taking and changing things to taking away adjusting, you know, who can help me and who can't help me, and if I want to have a private channel or stuff like that. So it's constantly changing, but I wanted to have that base level at the very least. So it's not like, hey, thanks for hanging out. I'm still working on my discord, so that was really important because once people started to follow me I wanted them to have somewhere to go to interact with me more. Yeah. Where I got into streaming started like I said, way back when, about mid 20, 10, 20, 15, 20, 16, after I had already gotten back from Afghanistan, went to war, been homeless, got back on my feet, moved into my own apartment, and between job, like between the work time and sleep time, because that's all I did. I went to work, came home, got on the game, played games, went to sleep, got back up, went to work, so on and so forth. And most of it was me working nights. So during the day I would sleep like the early morning time. And in the afternoon before I went back to work that night, I'd get on in game and I was on a PlayStation Four. It was easy to just click Share and go live on YouTube. It was easier that way because for some reason I couldn't get the on console app connection to Twitch to work. So I just did it to YouTube and I started building a following between Destiny Ghost Recon, not the original Ghost Recon, but one of the newer open world versions. Okay? And I played that a lot. And I actually got into editing videos back then and started editing the videos, adding thumbnails and all this other good jazz because I also started photography. So I got Adobe Suite back then and started editing stuff, doing graphics, and that's when I got into it. I started to build a following in the YouTube universe back then where I was up to, I think, before I stopped about between 75 and 80 subscribers to my YouTube channel back then. And then, of course, I haven't really touched it since outside of just uploading clips, and it's pretty much stayed the same. It hasn't really grown or decreased, but Clutch NLMP Clutch, who is one of my followers on my personal Twitch channel, was actually one of my YouTube followers. Okay? So they transferred over and we didn't know it. How I realized who he was was listening to him when I was playing Call of Duty with him on stream. And I was like, Wait, you sound familiar, because I played Todd with him or one of the Fortnite back when I actually played Fortnite on my YouTube days, and I listened to that voice and I was like, Holy shit, you're one of my original followers on YouTube. He's like, what? Og? Og? Yeah, OG like the first follower I had consistently as a streamer on any platform, and he was one of my first followers here on Twitch as well. And yeah, so that's like how I got into streaming, of course, like everybody else, the pandemic hit and I started getting into streaming more regularly, especially on Twitch. Now that I had a computer, I still had the console, but I got a capture card so I could transfer from my PlayStation into the computer, and I started streaming. Cod building up a following with that. And then I got lucky within the first I want to say, two or three months back to streaming. So from December of 2019, when I got back into streaming and started streaming on Twitch to roughly about February, March of 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic is when I got my affiliate from there, of course, I was working from home, so I worked a few hours, did what I need to do, and then I got on and started streaming. And from there, it just blew up. And we got 1st, 100, 200, 300. Now we're so on and so forth. Now on my personal channel, we're almost at 800 followers. Followers. And I could not be happier with that. And I hope that we can get it to grow even more. Then I met Death during my affiliate 24 hours that I did. Oh, wow. You did a 24 hours for your affiliate? Yeah. That's rough. Go big or go home, baby. What? Oh, gosh, 24 hours. I can't imagine. But I met Death, Death Stewed. And then, of course, that led to me meeting Atari, not realizing that I followed her way back when when she was a fortnight streamer. And I was like, oh, she sounds cool, fun. She's all excitable and everything. So I followed her. She's excited. And that, of course, was a realization that I had playing with Death one day before I actually played with Atari and actually talk to her more. Well, playing with Death and all that stuff going through from there, of course, who is now UgaVidr. And then back then, he was fizzle. Oh, yeah. Okay, now it's all coming. Yeah. And then, of course, I met Vashil or Demi Vash and me, Demi Vash and Death were like, well, hey, why don't we start a gaming community? And then Atari kind of started weeding her way in and talking with us, hanging out. We were all playing games. So the four of us, or five of us were like, all right, let's start a group. A Madhouse group. And that's how the Madhouse was born over a year ago. Almost. Yeah, almost a year and a half now. Oh, wow. And from there, it's grown to the point where it's at now and got a lot of people in, and it's just booming. And we've got official members of the Madhouse, and it's great. Official. Official. So that's how I got into streaming. And then, of course, now we're here sitting at a podcast channel that's separate from both of our personal channels. Yes, that's definitely a new venture. Oh, boy. Is it? So now we'll move forward. What is your favorite part of streaming? So for me, it is definitely the getting to know people. I think that through streaming, I would not have met some of the people that I now call friends. Definitely. You're smiling over there because you're saying I'm your friend. I'll claim you okay for now. Sounds good. But through streaming, my biggest thing was I really just wanted to meet more people. And it seemed that when you stream, you get to meet more people. Some not the greatest. Some are great. So I would not have met. I don't think I would have met or really stayed consistent with Atari had I not streamed, because I probably would not have been playing Phasmo the night that I did. I was filling a stream time. I was coming up with a schedule, trying to figure out what was going to be good for me, what I could work with and be consistent on, because I wanted a consistent time. And it just so happened that she was on and she starts at the same time as me. And so I became friends with her through that, but I don't think that I would have had that not happened. And then it blew up into I met you, and I met the Madhouse, and it just kind of took off from there. So my favorite part has been that I have met a lot of good people, a lot of friends that I would not have had I not started. All right, now I have to pretty much Echo exactly what you just said. You have to say something completely new. No, I can't because it doesn't feel right, because when I started streaming, yeah, of course I wanted to make money. I wanted to live out my millennial dream of making money playing games. You didn't say elder millennials. Well, yeah, I've kind of accepted the fact that I am just a millennial, even though I consider myself an Elder. But I didn't think I was a millennial until I looked up the timeframes, and I was like, oh, damn it. That's me. Really. It ended up becoming that community as far as the stream because I was like, okay, yeah, I'm not growing as fast as I wanted to, but who does? And realizing that, I guess not necessarily the success, but the growth I do have came from, literally, that community standpoint. I met Griff through another streamer, and he's stuck around. I didn't even realize that other people that are on the list of the Madhouse I met through other streamers or other people in general, and it just blew up like that. And meeting all these people, not just like my audience or our audience, I say, is all over the world. We have people in Australia, of course, all over the United States, Canada, the UK, Europe. I'm trying to think of all the places. It's ridiculous where everybody's from and that sense of community and seeing people come back and talk and chat, hang out, even streamers that I just hung out with a couple of times and seeing them grow like, there's one guy, Ozzy is his name, but he's a Tarkov streamer. And I met him in Tarkov, like, killing each other. Of course, having the Twitch tag on my gamer tag, the TTB, that always helps. He came in, said, GG is all that good jazz. Or I went to his one or the other, and we became friends and we played a few games together back before he started to get real big. And of course, his times are a lot different because they're like 180 on our time zones or our timeframes. He's grown so much. Like, now he's averaging 2300 viewers per stream. That's awesome. And I couldn't be more ecstatic for him, but it doesn't matter what he's doing. I come in, put some emotes in and say, hey, he's almost immediately. As long as he's not in a firefight in the game, he's always saying, hey, how are you doing? And it's great. Another recent one that kind of added to the mix. It's been a regular viewer of mine, at least, was mBallistic. He's a DVD player. Met him familiar as I was his killer or their killer. And they came in and said, hey, I've been tagged as one of the nicest killers, and I don't know how still, because I'm very ruthless when I'm a killer until I see that you're like trying to just farm blood points. And as long as you're not an asshole in the game and throwing up flashlights every 30 seconds, then I'll hang out. But, yeah, he was one of the ones I met through DVD. Another streamer that is blown up a lot recently was redheaded, or that redheaded Stef. And she's a Cod player, and she's blown up between TikTok, Instagram and, of course, her streams. And she averages 2030 viewers. A stream, like, minimally. She'll go live within 30 seconds or ten minutes. She's got 2030 viewers in her stream and they stay that way. That's awesome. Yeah. And of course, Atari. She's grown a lot. I remember when she had less than 600 viewers or 600 followers, and now she's over 1200. You're starting to get regular viewership again. And that's awesome. And it makes me happy to see people I like to retire. Yeah. Even if it's Griff bullying me, saying that I bully him. Yeah, same thing here. But you're doing phenomenal, and it's awesome to see that. And then some other odd entities out there as I misfire calling people out. Dave, of course, met Dave through Atari. Let's see. St. Uther was another streamer that I met because I was just like, oh, he's playing a game that I like, here's a raid, and he comes around. It's like Austin dies a lot. Yeah. Atari and I were playing and randomly decided to read just a completely random plasma player. And he stuck around. And we played with him a few times, all sorts. One other one was Canadian lesbian of the LBGTQ community just came in. They were playing Devour, I believe. Oh, yeah. And that was the stint where we were all playing it. And I rated her and great person, wonderful individual. And I keep going back, checking on her. She's growing a lot. She's doing a lot of just chatting now, but yeah, awesome. You can do just chatting. I think that's amazing. Yeah. And it's awesome. I mean, I love it. Then, of course, meeting Code OT, not brother sisters. There Hell gamer who's coming up, and he introduced me into a group for another game that sadly didn't get their Kickstarter completed. But they've got a game in development that if they get back on track and get the funding they needed again, might even be able to voice line in a game. Like, put my voice in a game. So that'll be fun. Will it be like a dying sound if I had my way about it? Because they actually just lost their lead characters ability to do additional voice lines. So that's open now you're like, I'm here. I'm ready. Yeah. Let me know when who is. Let's see who else. Casey. Casey. Oh, my God. KaySea in Soulflex. Soul, my dude. I met him through Atari when we were playing Phasmo and growing from there. And then I met Casey from a raid somewhere. I can't even remember where. Like, I have so many stream children. It is ridiculous. They call me dad. Like, the proper way versus what most of the madhouse women say. Daddy, I don't know what you're talking about. But that sense of growth, even if I don't grow because I know my numbers personally on my personal channel suffer because I'm pushing everybody else. I want me to know that the ones that I helped grow succeed, that feeds how I feel. And that makes me feel great to see all of you grow. So I could be absolutely fine with not having 2300 viewer streams. Yes. Thanks, dad. Yeah. As long as the community is doing well and enjoying life, I don't care. It's almost a known thing. Now, if I show up with a madhouse name, we're breaking a streamer. Especially if it's someone new. Yeah, definitely between bits. Subs. I think I remember the first time you did it, and I just kept messaging Andrews like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Joker came in. He gifted a bunch of subs. Yeah, that's awesome. I don't know what to do. That is fun for me. Granted, I don't try to brag by putting all that money out there, but humble brag. Yeah, it's a humble brag. I mean, I do it. Yes, I'm pretty awesome. I know I have. I want to do it, but I also have. I have the availability, the disposable funds that I can just do that. And to me, it's not disposable because it's going to a good cause. And a lot of the time, those people, those streamers that we break on stream, come back and join the community and they help us then continue that. Continue that trend of breaking the small streamers and making them realize this is a real thing. This isn't just fantasy or a hopeless end. This is something that is worth it. Yes, definitely. I believe that. Okay. I probably would not have got an affiliate if I had not met Atari and joined the Madhouse. Oh God, I want to say people that are still associated. I think there's about six to ten that we helped get. Affiliate as a matte house. Yeah, I remember because I was talking to Atari and we were looking at follower lists and she's like you could see the influx as soon as you joined and the Madhouse just all the follows after that. So that was cool. I mean this actually ties into the next part is the goals for us as individual streamers and then we'll kind of double into what hopeful goal for this podcast is. But personally my goal as a streamer is yeah, I would like to get partner, but only just to be able to start an actual Twitch stream team. Have a team page on Twitch so that we can get those newer guys in those smaller streamers in to help grow the community, but help them grow as well. I don't give a rats ass about being able to live and do this as a nine to five because it's fun for me. This, regardless of how much time or effort I put into it, is fun for me and watching others grow, helping them. That's what I want to keep doing if I get on my personal page. Partner status. Okay, cool. We can start the Twitch team. That is the Madhouse versus just having a discord and a hashtag. But that's something that me and Atari has worked out too. It's like there's a little side bet that she still denies to this day, but she hasn't even put the terms up for if she gets it before I do. But if I get partner before she does, one of the things was she had to actually do a face Cam stream. Oh wow. And I put it. I can't imagine her doing that. Yeah, I can't either. But I put that bar what it would look like. I put that bar high to help motivate her to do more and she's doing great. I already know she's going to get partner before I ever do for multiple reasons, but that's where I kind of stand as far as a personal goals. Like I just want to get to a point where the Madhouse name is known across the gaming community. And when you see the Madhouse, when you see that little circle with Madhouse written in it, you know that shit's about to get real in your stream or in the game. So that's my personal individual goal as far as streaming. What about you? Well, not quite the same. I would definitely say that mine is not necessarily dealership or partner. It would just be maybe just more people. I'm at the point where I've got, I think 150. I think just at this point my goal is like 200. I don't really have high goals. I just want people to have fun. I want to be able to do more fun streams, like things that aren't necessarily gaming. So the goal is to get enough people in the stream that makes doing a non gaming stream fun. I want to be able to do a just chatting stream and not have a lot of lulls in the chat. I would rather be so lost in the amount of comments than have one comment every like 30 minutes because that's the most fun is the interaction. So my goal would be to get maybe to kind of sum it all up is more chat interaction, which would mean more people coming. Okay. All right, so we're pushing the two hour Mark now on the live stream side. So what I'm going to do is we're going to have one question left, and it's what our podcast goals are and our other question that we kind of had at the end. We can kind of what's the word where you take it and just kind of push it back, you roll it back. I don't know. Until next time, that kind of thing. Yeah, basically. So we'll do a part two to this where we kind of do more chat interaction individually once we have more viewers that are actively chatting and they want to like a Q and A session and then we'll add that one in there for that type of episode later on down the road. Or we may just do it as a question and answer. If we can get you on the Twitter or in the Discord for reply to the cast. That's where we allow for the discord members to just ask us things individually and we can pull them onto the episodes in the future. But anyway, the last question is, what are your goals for the podcast? So my goals I don't think I've really thought about this much, to be completely honest. I've just thought it'd be kind of cool for people to listen to it and just to know who we are in a way. So not necessarily know, like my real name and what I do and all that, but maybe just get a little bit more viewership and then maybe for that to pull into our individual kind of Twitch streams and our goals there. So this is just for fun for me as well as to possibly kind of pull some more people in to hang out. Okay. Because thanks to the pandemic, streaming has been, people that would have never got on Twitch are getting on Twitch now. People that would have never got into YouTubing live streams are now doing that. So with the podcast side, there's a lot more presence in the podcasting world that I've noticed over time. I kind of wanted to do something similar to this, but not this per se. And now, thanks to Owls joking around, at first I was like, yeah, let's do it. Fuck it, let's go. Probably a drunken night. I was like, yeah, let's fucking do this. And here we are, our first official episode and our second recording ever. But as far as the founders, by the way, I'm a little mad with Twitch because in 2015 a twelve year old boy or person started a Twitch with madhouse podcast. So I couldn't take that. That's why our Twitch is the Twitter. Yeah, Twitter. I mean, yeah, that's what I meant. The tweets, the tweeters tweeter. But that's why it's a name the way it is. Because some twelve year old boy from 2015 that hasn't tweeted since or shown activity since is taking up the name. But podcast wise, my personal goal is. Yeah, to grow a listenership, to add something to what we typically may not talk about or do on streams. Obviously just sitting here chatting, answering questions, helping out the communities one way or another, and hopefully giving information to somebody that didn't necessarily have the information. Maybe some I could come on here one day and do a talk about different types of tech or Q and A's that I'm aware of in my venture into streaming. Having a dual PC set up, five freaking monitors, cameras. And I'm about to add a new camera. Oh Jeez. To my setup. So I'll have a dual camera set up as well. He's got the amount of technology that I have in one room for two people for one person. Yeah. Probably more. To be completely honest, as far as between streaming and everything in this setup that you have seen here and what's right here for anybody on Twitch, but the game rig, which is in front of me, and the stream rig, which is what we're recording everything on, I have almost ten or $11,000 invested in stuff. That's a good chunk of change. Yeah. I mean, the camera that Twitch is currently watching me on, even being used in discord was $800 in itself. And it's not even a full DSLR or anything. It looks like a GoPro, but it's bigger and it's got interchangeable lenses on it. My goal in a nutshell, is to grow the community outside of just streaming games and hopefully helping anybody who needs it out there in listening land or just give someone something entertaining to listen to kind of thing. Yeah, that's definitely good. In the land of podcasts, so many people are listening to podcasts now. I personally started a podcast I didn't like, start my own podcast. Like started watching a podcast. Damn. Only this one for now. I can only focus on this, but definitely I started listening to more podcasts and doing more of that. Especially like when I was driving up to see you, I couldn't listen to music because that's definitely a long drive in music it's just too monotonous in a way. Like it was more like what is it stimulating to listen to a podcast? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. So that was definitely I've listened to more. And I know a lot of people do listen to podcasts, so there's a broader range of people that have been listening to podcasts. Yeah. So let me see if I can pull up some reference here as far as this is the live recording of our second official episode. So what Twitch is seeing right now away from our face is going to be the red circle who is our distributor, basically. And we have one episode up, which is, of course, the current one we're in. And the analytics for that episode is we already have nine total downloads for that first episode. Awesome. And it's only been out for less than a week since Sunday the 21st. What is today? Today is the 26th. Five days. Yeah. So in five days, we've already got nine downloads on that. And that is awesome to me. That makes me feel good already that people wanted to listen to our voices, even though I was just like, hey, go listen to it. Go follow it, blah, blah, blah. But listening to it, if they weren't a part of the live. And that makes me feel good that there are people out there for that, even if it is randoms out in the wilderness kind of random podcast listener. Yeah. If you are listening to the podcast, please feel free to go to our Twitter page. It is the underscore cast, so it's representative, the Madhouse podcast, but it is sadly broken up in a weird freaking way because other people have Madhouse podcast as their names. But the links will be in the show notes for the Twitter page, also the Twitch page if you ever want to join us during a live recording. And then, of course, the link to the Madhouse discord will be in the show notes as well. And if anybody here on Twitch, I think I added a chat command. I don't know. Probably not. I'll need to add a chat command to link to the discord for the Madhouse and Group Therapy podcast is listed in the Discord channel. And there is a text channel called Reply to the Cast, where you can talk to us, you can ask us questions, any of that good stuff down there, and we will get back to it or answer as best as we can, maybe even on the next episode. You can send ideas of things you may or may not want us to talk about. Yeah. Topics as well, because we're not going to just talk about gaming or tech, because Alice is expressively introduced me to the idea that she's not as vast, I'm elusively. Noob. Yeah. And then, of course, if there are days that either I or she don't feel really up to it, we may have individual episodes recorded. We'll just either I'll record without Alex if she's not feeling too well or gets too busy, or if I'm not feeling well or up to actually talking or anything. We'll just get it to where we record her doing an individual podcast because she's going to have everything. She has a login for this channel as well, so she can stream to the channel if she so desires. And we can record from there. Got a lot of faith in me. You think I can talk for an hour? It has to be an hour. It could be. I mean, at least 30 minutes. Make it more than ten minutes. I'll do. Eleven minutes. Eleven minutes. Okay, you got to turn it up to eleven. Turn it up to eleven. God, they don't even do that anymore. That's no longer a thing anymore. You know that. No, I was quoting another Fee. Yeah. All right. We haven't gotten any questions in chat, so that's fine. But we are going to end it here. Thank you again for joining, ladies and gents. We saw the viewership or I saw the viewership jumping up and down and it was nice to see you all come in and interact. Wastelander, Babymama, Drew even came in for a little bit. I'm guessing he's at work. Yes, definitely at work. Griff. Griff, for sure. And you the beginning. And me. Oh, me. I was here. Yeah. That's crazy. What was I doing? God only know. Oh, you added us to test it. Yes. It has definitely jumped up and down. I've seen it. Yeah. But if you want to support us, of course, other than subscribing here on the Twitch channel, you can go to Red Circle and look us up there. And you can also subscribe to us on Red Circle as well. That would be greatly appreciated. But also putting us out there giving distribution to anybody who may be interested, whether they just want to hear a lot of silliness, maybe they're semi interested in any type of random topics or what have you. I mean, hey, it is what it is, but we would greatly appreciate the distribution of the name and hopefully we can take this somewhere one day. Yes, definitely share like and subscribe on all platforms. All platforms that are available. Yeah. So thank you again, guys. And I know Bobby wasn't in here tonight, but I want to thank Bobby Allman, who is the CEO or creator of Warrior Axe. Coffee stuff is great. And again, they're local to me in South Carolina and they are veteran owned. He's a retired vet, but also retired Leo. So he's a retired cop and his wife is actually still active in the Air Force. It's awesome. Participant #1: Coffee. Coffee. Do you have anything to say? I don't think I have anything really to add to that. Just come and hang out, interact with us outside of the recording. Definitely through the reply. And if you want to hear our individual craziness. You can follow us also on Twitch. We've got Joker over here which is NLMP as well as myself. On Twitch. Alzar. 92 Participant #1: awesome. Thank you again everybody. And we'll see you hopefully next week. Or in our individual channels. Keep those smiles. Bye.