Ever found yourself reminiscing about the good old days before your back started complaining and your teenager's phone became an extension of their hand? That's where we kick off our latest chat, reflecting on the double-edged sword of growing older and the constant tug-of-war with technology as a parent. I share my recent foray into laying down the law on phone usage at home, the helpful hand of Google Family, and the unexpected switch from a broken Pixel to an iPhone—cue the Apple vs. Samsung debate.
But it's not all cracked screens and parental control; we peel away the polished veneer of the influencer lifestyle, baring the reality of content creation—fake walls and all. Join us as I reveal the juggling act of balancing TikTok fame and family obligations, proving that taking a step back doesn't mean losing your audience. We also trade insights into the often-unspoken shift from creator to salesperson, navigating the tricky waters of sponsorships while staying true to our personal brand.
And for all the gamers out there, get ready for a no-holds-barred discussion on everything from the stunning visuals of Grey Zone Warfare to the latest Tarkov update that's got the community buzzing. We share our own gaming mishaps and victories, the highs and lows of in-game camaraderie, and even a little gamer wisdom. So, whether you're here for the daddy dilemmas, tech talk, or just to hear about our latest virtual battles, grab your headphones and join us for a ride full of anecdotes and laughs.
Josh akaBearded_Nova I'm from Australia and am what you would call a father who games. I have 5 kids so not as much time to game as I used to. But I still game and stream when I can. So come join me on Twitch in chat as we chill out.
Business Inquiries: Bearded-n0va@aussiebb.com.au
Josh aka Moorph I'm a US-based husband and father of two boys. I work full-time and have been a content creator since 2000. I'm a YouTube partner, Twitch and LiveSpace streamer who founded a content creation coaching company called Elev8d Media Group (elev8d.media). I'm a blogger, streamer, podcaster, and video-er(?).
Ever found yourself reminiscing about the good old days before your back started complaining and your teenager's phone became an extension of their hand? That's where we kick off our latest chat, reflecting on the double-edged sword of growing older and the constant tug-of-war with technology as a parent. I share my recent foray into laying down the law on phone usage at home, the helpful hand of Google Family, and the unexpected switch from a broken Pixel to an iPhone—cue the Apple vs. Samsung debate.
But it's not all cracked screens and parental control; we peel away the polished veneer of the influencer lifestyle, baring the reality of content creation—fake walls and all. Join us as I reveal the juggling act of balancing TikTok fame and family obligations, proving that taking a step back doesn't mean losing your audience. We also trade insights into the often-unspoken shift from creator to salesperson, navigating the tricky waters of sponsorships while staying true to our personal brand.
And for all the gamers out there, get ready for a no-holds-barred discussion on everything from the stunning visuals of Grey Zone Warfare to the latest Tarkov update that's got the community buzzing. We share our own gaming mishaps and victories, the highs and lows of in-game camaraderie, and even a little gamer wisdom. So, whether you're here for the daddy dilemmas, tech talk, or just to hear about our latest virtual battles, grab your headphones and join us for a ride full of anecdotes and laughs.
Josh akaBearded_Nova I'm from Australia and am what you would call a father who games. I have 5 kids so not as much time to game as I used to. But I still game and stream when I can. So come join me on Twitch in chat as we chill out.
Business Inquiries: Bearded-n0va@aussiebb.com.au
Josh aka Moorph I'm a US-based husband and father of two boys. I work full-time and have been a content creator since 2000. I'm a YouTube partner, Twitch and LiveSpace streamer who founded a content creation coaching company called Elev8d Media Group (elev8d.media). I'm a blogger, streamer, podcaster, and video-er(?).
Business Inquiries: josh@elev8d.media
Speaker 1:
Turning off normal human male mode. Switching to dad mode. Welcome in to dad mode With your hosts Bearded, Nova and Morph.
Speaker 2:
I have umbilical hernia. I got a torn labrum, two torn labrums. I got torn meniscus in my shoulder and a torn rotator cuff.
Speaker 3:
That's because you're working too hard, or because you're old.
Speaker 2:
A little bit of both, yeah, a little bit of both, I'm done.
Speaker 3:
Fuck myself up man, listen kids.
Speaker 2:
if you're watching this, don't be stupid. If it looks dangerous, then it is dangerous.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, do it. They're going to do the opposite of what you say, if anything, like Mike did.
Speaker 2:
You are absolutely 100% right. You are absolutely 100% right.
Speaker 3:
I can say don't jump off that bridge, and they will. But if I go, jump off the bridge, they still will.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, they will, yeah, they will. Those are kids for you, those are our kids for you.
Speaker 4:
Yeah, mine irritated me with mobile phones at the moment, like majorly, because I pay for the phone, so they, they got their contract, or that, their phone, yeah, they've got, that doesn't change, but like their mobile phone contract, so they don't run out of credit or etc. That's under my name and the one thing all my kids do is switch it on. Do not disturb. Constantly. Yeah, yeah. And like we're out at the shopping center, the mall and the wife and I doing a thing walking around, it's like okay, we need to get the kids and you're sitting there calling, calling, calling, calling and they're not, they're not answering the phones because it's do not disturb now listen, I got a 15 year old.
Speaker 2:
I got a 15 year old and I had to drop the hammer down on him, dude, because I was like bro, you have a cell phone. It is not for you to watch videos okay. It's not for you to surf the internet. It's not for you to play with yourself at nighttime okay, verbatim, okay. Okay. It's for you to answer the phone when we need you to answer the phone. That's why I paid for it.
Speaker 4:
So, yeah, that's yeah, that's the conversation I have. I don't care if you do not disturb everyone else, but myself and your mother.
Speaker 3:
Do not go on a yeah so, yeah, we got our son a phone because he had after school sports and activities. We're like if we're gonna be late, you're gonna be early, whatever here it is. You know, I don't want to have to miss you, and so every now and then I'm like hey, can you call your mom or can you text your grandmother about something goes. I don't have any, I don't have any time left on the phone, can?
Speaker 3:
you set limits and I'm like why not? He's like well, I was watching YouTube for like three hours. That's not what I got to do. The phone for it's emergency.
Speaker 2:
You can do limits. Yeah, I don't have that.
Speaker 3:
We use Google Family. No, I'm joking.
Speaker 2:
Oh, that's why you have those cheap Android phones. Yeah, actually.
Speaker 4:
I'm going to show you this Just because, at the moment, I'm using an iPhone.
Speaker 2:
Welcome to the Welcome welcome.
Speaker 4:
Not out of choice.
Speaker 2:
I like that big body t-shirt.
Speaker 4:
Thank you. My Pixel is broken because my daughter went on a rampage and broke, like every phone in the house. But I don't have a broken screen, it just has a broken screen. It just has a broken touch, so three quarters of the screen up to here. So your digitizer is broken, yeah, but I got to wait, like another two, another month before I can get a new one.
Speaker 4:
So, the iPhone survived, but every other Android phone broke. The iPhone came out of hiding once that one went oh my gosh. You made the right choice, though.
Speaker 2:
Welcome to the family.
Speaker 3:
You know, did you know that, dan? That Apple has fallen the number two phone maker behind Samsung now?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, well, you know, Samsung's inflating their phone numbers.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, it might be because Apple's shit, Shit but no, apple's pricing is shit.
Speaker 2:
Their devices are good, it's their, okay, it's their pricing is ridiculous. I don't know about you, but I am not. I would. I'll wear these shitty ass oculus's for the rest of my life, okay, before I spend thirty five hundred dollars on a pair from apple. Yeah, you're out of your mind. You're out of your mind. You're out of your mind. I want to sit in their boardroom and I want to talk to the person who said hey, the prices should be within $3,000 to $4,000. Our consumers would pay that. I want to talk to somebody. I really want to talk to that person who came up with that idea. Smack the shit out of them.
Speaker 3:
Well, you know, the old men complain about prices.
Speaker 4:
That out of them.
Speaker 3:
You know, the old men complain about prices.
Speaker 1:
That's not what.
Speaker 4:
I'm saying, you know what I mean, I'm seeing the numbers. It's true, because it's an Apple thing and people rush to the market to buy it.
Speaker 2:
Actually they stopped production after six or seven months. They're done, they're not making them anymore.
Speaker 3:
They failed.
Speaker 2:
Because they were estimated to sell over 800,000. They sold half of that.
Speaker 3:
Really.
Speaker 4:
How can you compete with something that's what? $300?, $300? $500. $500 in Australia and $300 in the US?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, my boy was like I gotta go, I gotta get to a podcast. He goes oh yeah, where's my podcast. I'm like somewhere in Ireland, australia, one of those countries out there. He goes oh yeah, it was my. I'm like somewhere in Ireland, australia, one of those countries out there, it's like daytime. He's like what? I'm like yeah, yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah, it's like you know what time is it over there right now?
Speaker 4:
11, 13.
Speaker 2:
In the morning, yeah 11, 13 in the morning. It's like nighttime here, daytime there.
Speaker 4:
If I open up that blind, the death of a thousand sons, the death of a thousand sons. Afternoon in summer I moved into the room from the garage. If I'm standing near this blind, I can feel the heat radiating through. I have to make sure that I drop the blind by three o'clock, or else this room turns into a sauna.
Speaker 2:
That's like blackout curtains, like level 10, dude.
Speaker 4:
They do a great job. Can you go?
Speaker 3:
outside without putting through a crisp, yeah, blackout curtains like level 10, dude, yeah, they do a great job. Yeah, I can tell, can you?
Speaker 4:
go outside without putting through a crisp. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna do it. My oldest daughter can't Yo where's my t-shirt, bro? He didn't show me this one.
Speaker 3:
himself, I'm in the house right now. Yeah, good.
Speaker 2:
No, no, I don't mean a damn Daniel t-shirt, I mean the t-shirt you're wearing. I want that exact same t-shirt you're wearing.
Speaker 3:
I just did the opening on the last episode. I just got this.
Speaker 2:
Well, I want that one. I want it to smell, just like you, alright.
Speaker 3:
I'll even come to New Jersey and hand deliver it to you?
Speaker 2:
That'd be awesome, dude. When are you going to be in New Jersey?
Speaker 3:
again. So actually I'm coming to Jersey in May. What day? On May 17th to the 21st, I'll be down there.
Speaker 2:
Great. Take a stop in Seawater, New Jersey. You're about an hour.
Speaker 3:
Okay, that's not bad. Maybe we'll hook up.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, let's go get drunk. Let's get drunk at the damn Daniel's studio.
Speaker 3:
I'll have to look out that window behind you.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, you'll find out. You'll find out quick. This is a ruse. The jig is up. Ladies and gentlemen, this is it.
Speaker 3:
I want to see you soon. I'm like alright, you just gotta go up that creepy-ass ladder into the dark attic, yeah you do?
Speaker 2:
You open up Nova's curtain and go blind Like ah.
Speaker 3:
Everything you guys see about streamers and creators, it's all fucking fake guys this is a lie it's all fake this is a lie okay this room is pretty nice.
Speaker 4:
That wasn't a garage. I'm in the room.
Speaker 3:
I got carpet I got a carpet the other day where she was talking about her room, people like I love your room and she zoomed the camera out. She she's like it's a fake wall. She's like I just used it so you guys can have something to look at. It's a fake wall, I followed to the abyss. Yes.
Speaker 2:
There's nothing here. There's nothing here, guys, I got a plastic bag.
Speaker 3:
Let me ask Dan How's the TikTok shit going?
Speaker 2:
It's not going anywhere because I stopped. Really Well, I didn't stop. Stop. I just don't have the time to commit 100% as a family man. The biggest issue that we're having is both of our kids are in sports now, and I'm coaching recreational baseball for the eight-year-old and I'm part of his travel team coaching staff, so he's on two teams. We just practice six days a week. So that, yeah, and content creating is is taking a backdoor. It's over in May, at the end of May, so I'll be back to it, but I'm at 26,000 followers, just, you know, by not really doing much. Yeah, so, and each one of my videos are still hitting, like you know, 13,000 views, 14,000 views, yeah, so, and I think I post every two weeks now okay, I'm finding, I'm posting sporadically on my whatever I feel like I buy, like you know what.
Speaker 4:
This is a good idea. I'm gonna make something.
Speaker 2:
I take it back the backdoor like approach and just take it easy from now on and and not stress to myself and I've noticed that one my content looks better than ever because I'm not stressing myself. Two people are still watching it, whether I post it or not. You know, whether I post it today or I wait two weeks, I'm still getting people to watch it and I'm still getting paid by tiktok full account and I'm still getting paid by Tic Tac for my content, so yeah for now at least, until they get banned, you know actually that reminds me I was scrolling Tic Tac today and um do you guys get the paid jobs over there?
Speaker 4:
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3:
Yep.
Speaker 4:
One of them popped up and it was like hey, can you just help this music, this audio, go viral? Just post a funny video, um, with this audio. And they gave suggestions like simple, I can make that type of contact all day, any day, so I'm on, I'm gonna be doing that, I'm, I'll make it.
Speaker 1:
I think it was like 500 bucks for 5k or something like that.
Speaker 2:
Check this out, basically making other turkey tits I'm gonna go, I'm gonna lower the brightness so you guys can see it right. Okay, all right, and then I'm gonna show you what they're asking me to promote. Okay, hold on no no, not yet.
Speaker 3:
We didn't get here, yet this is a family-friendly podcast.
Speaker 2:
This is not a fucking family-friendly podcast. We're beyond family-friendly, okay. So here we go. I'll pull it up right now. I would be a great fit for blue-blocking glasses. I'm like I wear fucking glasses already. I'm not going to promote blue-blocking glasses because I can't use them. It's pointless because I wear reading glasses. Right, that's one. Let's get down to the nitty-gritty. Let's get to the good stuff, okay, sex toy. They probably sell it.
Speaker 4:
Martin's um Women's fragrances.
Speaker 2:
They want me to promote women's fragrances? Okay, yeah, sure, I'll promote women's fragrances right now. This promote women's fragrances right now. This smells like not my wife, so if you want to smell not like your wife, you should use this.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, it's getting like the stuff that they're asking me to promote.
Speaker 2:
It's just pointless and dumb.
Speaker 3:
It smells not like your wife, Also put a little glitter on you too. That'll like complete that look when you go home.
Speaker 2:
I can't wait to get like scolded by my wife because I am, you know, I smell like not my wife, you know. I just feel like they're pushing the promoting stuff too much and they're going to the content creators who have the higher numbers and they're like, yeah, well, promote anything. I feel like I'm no longer a creator, I'm a salesman and I am not a salesman.
Speaker 4:
I wanted to be a salesman. Why not? Why not being more like I've had xbox ones and a playstation one so far?
Speaker 3:
no, dude, I have what I think, that's what was always I'll send you a screenshot of what they said be content creation is people want to get to the point where they get sponsorship and like, where you all are working really hard to become sales people for companies. That's when people say my dream, your dream, is to sell for another company. Yeah, that's what it's all about. It's all advertising, it's all. That's what we do.
Speaker 2:
I can't find it now. Now, this is embarrassing, cause I have like a whole bunch of lists. Yeah, I have a whole list of shit that they've said.
Speaker 4:
One was purely just an audio thing. Mine was purely just an audio thing. It was like some music thing that's like make a funny video saying you know, glory Smile. No, mine was about lyrics and it was about a lyric in the song said something like why you'd leave your partner, what's the million dollar thing to make you leave your partner. I'm like, oh, I can turn that into something hilarious. You know, I have no problems doing that.
Speaker 2:
Glory Hole no, glory Smile, we're not turn that into something hilarious. You know I have no problems doing that. The thing no, glory smile, we're not. Okay, I think you will behave yourself a derma roller. What I, what I'm annoyed by is the fact that you're going to my tiktok channel. You're looking at my content. You say you'll be a great fit for this bitch. I do cyberpunk content. Okay, how am I a great fit for a derma roller for your face? I have a full beard. This naturally grows, you know.
Speaker 3:
We've been checking out your content and it'd be great. Just like you said, you look at what they're selling. I'm like what in the fuck does that have to do with what I do?
Speaker 4:
Did any of you guys get the Ralph Lauren email? No, Three months ago I was like, hey, we think you'd be a candidate for Red vs Blue Ralph Lauren. I'm like I don't even do content Right, it's the fact that I got that happy nuts shit.
Speaker 2:
I get that TikTok is making something and helping a lot of creators out, but they're doing what I feel is more of a wish and, to me, version of selling products. But now you have an ambassador for these cheap ass products that don't work. It's you know? It's like yeah, exactly that's why I feel like this is stupid, like I don't know, I'm just I'm, I'm not gonna do anything that I don't feel is gonna make it's gonna do anything for me right, yeah, right I got given all this, uh, body wash and powder for your balls nice stuff, yeah, for american company, american company called happy nuts.
Speaker 4:
So I reached out like, hey, would you be happy to do some essential products? I'm like, why not, let's go with it? This is, this sounds great, it's something. This is where we're starting this. Like you know, I'll put an ad into the podcast. Let's get the gear over here. Um, we'll talk about it once I've got the gear, like, yeah, no worries, a few weeks went by, it's finally showing up. I've reached out to him going hey, guys got all the stuff, let's talk. What do you want to? What do you want us to say? What's some key points? Yeah, if you're going to do a read on this, I need to know some of the things you really want me to emphasize. Yeah, nothing, they've just gone dead quiet.
Speaker 2:
I just got all this product for body wash and making sure I'm not chafing wearing my pants anymore, basically, and they've just gone dead quiet yeah, those are companies just trying to get their shit out to people and they're hoping you make something out of it, like I was supposed to do. I was supposed to finish doing stuff for fifa and mike. I made one video for them, which was great and you know it got good reviews, got, you know, people watching it. And then they sent me more stuff that I was supposed to finish doing but you know I didn't have time. I had, you know, some stuff, the family going on and every time like hey, listen, somebody died in my family. I understand you guys hit me up every other day, try to find out what to do, but that's gonna take me some time and I will send, I will create this stuff. You know when I'm ready to create this stuff for you. You know, if there was a time limit, you should have said, hey, there's a time limit.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, you know. So there's a sponsor I was working with when I was doing solo stuff that reached out and you know they wanted to work with you in that mode or whatever.
Speaker 3:
And they're offering decent money and I'm like I'll do it. They sent me the script and I just never made the videos because, like I don't, they sent you a script. Yeah, I don't want to Like. I really just don't Like I should. I could call them back and I could do it, because I watch their own videos. They post on TikTok and they get less than 100 views. I'm like when I did stuff with them, they would get 5,000 or so right, so I'm like I can still do it anytime.
Speaker 2:
Well, everybody wants blue chew, so I get it.
Speaker 3:
What's that?
Speaker 2:
Blue chew, you know.
Speaker 3:
What's that blue chew? Whatever, you know, men of a certain age, you know.
Speaker 2:
Guys, I'm going to be 42 in the eighth.
Speaker 3:
You're a baby.
Speaker 2:
I'll be 42 in the eighth. I can tell.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, older than me.
Speaker 2:
I don't look older than you, bro. This is not old. Let me see yours. Go ahead. I'm busy right now. That really hurt my shoulder. I'm more bruised. I am way more bruised, you know. I realized the older I began. I'm like you know, do I really want to go for a run? Like, is that like you know? Back in it, I'm like, yeah, I'm going for a run, I'm going to work out for like four hours, I'm going to be at the gym, I'm going to have a blast. And then now I'm like, do I want to do a half an hour at the gym? Like shit I woke up to. Seriously, yeah, yeah, he's like, yeah, that happened to me.
Speaker 4:
The other week I was at my friend's house. We were hanging out. We did something I haven't done in years. There's a group of us hanging out in the lounge room playing some Burnout Paradise Not Burnout, burnout 2. Just craft mode, like sharing a controller and I'm like I'm going to walk down the road to the 7-Eleven. I'm going to grab us some chips and some soft drink. I be back. You know some soda, I'll be back. And it's for about a quarter of a mile round trip, if that on flat surface, like on a flat surface. I was fucking buggered halfway there, like I got there, like I'm going to buy myself a glass of water. I didn't feel a lot of movement. I'm like what just happened?
Speaker 2:
That's crazy. Yeah yeah, I feel like my hmm, hmm, no, my camera man, my camera's messing with me. It's really annoying the hell out of me.
Speaker 3:
This topic is going to kill with the 18 to 25-year-olds, by the way.
Speaker 2:
Let's.
Speaker 1:
Give me some points.
Speaker 2:
Let's talk about something First and foremost. I had the opportunity to play Grey Zone Warfare. I had complete access to the game. I wasn't If I knew you guys would be interested in that game. I had the opportunity to play Grey Zone Warfare. I could complete access to the game If I knew you guys would be interested in that game, because no one talks to me anymore, only when you guys need me to be on your podcast. Nobody reaches out and says, hi, yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 2:
No, I'm joking. I'm joking, they sent me four keys so I would have sent you guys some. I'm a. Tarkov, fan that Tarkov fan 10 times better than Tarkov.
Speaker 4:
Yeah, that Tarkov just exploded in the last 48 hours.
Speaker 2:
Well they want to charge you $225 for a PVP mode. Are you kidding?
Speaker 4:
me when we get it for free.
Speaker 2:
When they said we'd get it for free. Yeah, well, I'm assuming you were one of the ones that paid like the $150 for all the extra shit, so you're supposed to get it for free.
Speaker 4:
But I'll say, up until a couple of days ago, the $150 that I'd spent on the game, I had no problem spending it because I've put several days, a couple of thousand hours into the game. I think I'm up to like 8,000 hours. So obviously a dollar, you know, money to ratio, that's fantastic to spend $150 and get so many hours out of the game. But now that they've done this, I looked at the upgrade for myself. So it's an extra $100 US with the current conversion, $173 Australian for it. I can't justify that, not for that mode, not for my mode, and I said it to a couple of guys. If they just come back and said, because they're Russian and sometimes I'll admit the patch notes ain't the best transcribed, okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4:
There's things that are a little bit like missing out of context that you've kind of got to look at and go, oh, that doesn't sound right. That was a lot of yesterday, there was a lot of that doesn't sound right. And you a lot of yesterday, there was a lot of that doesn't sound right. You know, if it added these couple of words, it would be completely okay type of thing. Well, they've fixed that up overnight. They've come back and said, hey, this is what we're actually doing. Like that's kind of where I thought it was going. In a way, I was pissed off, yes, but not this time, going that way not this time.
Speaker 2:
And it's sad because he said guys, we don't care what you think, this is what it's going to be, and if you don't like it, too bad.
Speaker 3:
They're doubling down on it too.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4:
No, no, no, they backtracked a bit today.
Speaker 2:
If they want their demise to happen by all means. Grey Zone Warfare is stepping up to the plate. Okay yeah, unreal Engine 5, realistic graphics. The game looks amazing. I don't really talk about any other games besides Cyberpunk, and when I do, I talk about a game that seems fun. I got to play this. I had access to their meetings, I was invited to the one-on-ones. I'm talking to rick, who's, you know, part of the media department and all this stuff. He's pushing everything and I've never had access to any of this stuff. You know, I made one video. I do you want to touch it?
Speaker 2:
yeah so what on adult stuff? You wouldn't know, okay, so what's cool is that I made one video for free. I didn't ask for anything. I made the video because I liked their stuff and put it out there. I even put it on x, twitter, x, whatever you want to call it and he, they reached out to me like, hey, this is good stuff, this is great. I'm like so I had a one-on-one, we talked phone calls, everything, and I got to play the game. I got to tell you I hate it. Well, I hate the fact because I'm a Call of Duty player, I hate the fact that I die and I lose everything, and it's so realistic.
Speaker 4:
It's a first person dark show.
Speaker 2:
It is so realistic to the point where you have to move as a team to a crew of four there's open mics as well team to a crew of four there's open mics as well. There's a crew of four, but it's maybe like a hundred people to a team, to a faction, and you're out there, you're doing these missions, and the faction can shoot you by accident. You can get killed by your own faction, and then that's it.
Speaker 4:
You don't have a pretty name hanging above your head.
Speaker 2:
No, nothing, nothing. So I made some suggestions like listen, I understand if you're in the same fashion. It should be like some icon you know you're in the same faction because it's hard out there, uh, secondly, it should be an icon of where you died to try to retrieve your stuff. That's what I feel should be, especially the game. You want to make it as realistic as possible weapon building, the mechanics, everything tarkov to a t, but better everything Tarkov did. They took it and made it better.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
But they don't want to be compared to Tarkov, and I wouldn't compare them either.
Speaker 4:
I'd compare Grey's Island more to DMZ in a way, this is open world. Actually, cycle is a better one, that free-to-play game that was on the team. What Tarkov does just a bit different in its own sense altogether, but these games take ideas and inspiration from it. You would be perfect. Now I'm thinking about it because you said you don't like these things.
Speaker 4:
There's a contact around where we talked about him on the podcast, shed the Morph Pastilli. He's a master. He's one of the biggest Targoth players down here and I heard last year you did a thing from noob to something. It was where he got his neighbor and taught him the game and they played like it was an online youtube thing and built it up on that. This year he's actually grabbing another lower, not you know, you're not in your top 100 twitch people. Basically, he's reached out someone going, hey, I'm interested in someone who hasn't played this game that wants to learn it. I'm gonna do a whole web series like a tv youtube series with a content creator. I looked I'm like, oh man, that would be so good to do. That would be something like that with him, but I can't because I've got so many hours into the game. I can't play like a dumb ass thing that I don't know right I'm gonna keep my eye out for it.
Speaker 4:
Next time I do it, I'm going to be throwing your name in the mix. Here's the issue that I have. Oh, okay, why is that a problem? Because it's keyboard and mouse. All those games have way too many buttons to put on the controller.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's my biggest issue.
Speaker 3:
I want to talk about a different game.
Speaker 2:
All right.
Speaker 3:
Let's talk about a different game. I know Bearded is, at least somewhat, even though I was giving him some shit on Twitter for it. You playing Helldivers Me, yeah.
Speaker 2:
I haven't. Oh, because none of my friends want to play with me. They're all too busy doing their own shit. You know, like you guys reaching out to me when you need somebody on your show.
Speaker 3:
I play a couple.
Speaker 2:
You know both of your faces, man. I watch both of your faces just like shit. I'm messing with you.
Speaker 3:
Two to three hours a day every day.
Speaker 2:
That's bullshit, because every time I get on you play Call of Duty.
Speaker 3:
I haven't played Call of Duty in three days. That's a lie. You were just on, not today, not yesterday. I do play a lot, a lot Like it's just a leaderboard for my friends.
Speaker 4:
I'm catching up with fucking everybody because they're playing so fucking much. Well, let me ask you a question, though.
Speaker 3:
Are you are you still trash? Yeah, I'm just answering that, without even knowing this is. I'm a co-host of this. This is my half my show. You can't come on and talk shit like that, no no one's talking listen.
Speaker 2:
I played with you. You were so bad that I left. I.
Speaker 3:
I was very like I seem to do really bad when I'm streaming it, like I think I get nervous.
Speaker 2:
You're too busy worrying about what the people are saying instead of worrying about the game, and that's why I can't play games like that. When I'm streaming, I'm playing.
Speaker 3:
People are like, oh, he's ignoring us. I'm like no, literally I have to pay attention every fucking second or I'm going to die. I can't talk. I have to look at the screen and I have to focus on what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:
Well, yeah, that's the thing. One of those things is that you got to focus on what you're doing, and you can't focus on what you're doing when you're playing a game like that, which makes sense, you can't you blink in that game?
Speaker 3:
Plus, you know I play small maps a lot right. Yeah, it's my favorite Small maps and small maps. You can't turn your head and you will be dead.
Speaker 2:
We'll play together again. I'll see how good you are. I'm going to fucking sweat.
Speaker 3:
I got my overall KD. It's not at your level, but it's up to .84, which, after playing for like three months, I think that's pretty decent. That's an improvement.
Speaker 2:
Don't ever say that to anybody out loud again. Why Don't ever do that again?
Speaker 4:
Just don't say it, don't embarrass yourself. Is that what you're trying to say? Yeah, don't bring it up again, okay.
Speaker 2:
Okay, once you hit the ones, talk about it. When you hit the ones, don't talk about it right now. Okay.
Speaker 3:
I'm groggy. I'm getting better. Someone out there I went out to listen to this Wants to talk shit Fucking 1v1. Damn Daniel, who will stand for me?
Speaker 2:
and fight my own battles. Who will stand for me? I'm going to get killed. No, so I've been really pushing the Rebirth Island and I'm having so much fun, but there's a meme. You've seen Transformers 2 when he's talking to this bad guy.
Speaker 1:
You asked for this, you wanted this right.
Speaker 2:
You're in this, now that's it. This, that's, that's, no matter what happens, you're in, yeah, yeah, that's that's exactly how everybody's like. We're all unbelievable sweats. Man, like that game. It's like you, you dude, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta come out of your comfort zone, man, you gotta put on your big boy pants, get in there and just you know I'm doing some kills.
Speaker 3:
I'm one of the crazy.
Speaker 4:
I still have not played Warzone it's actually enjoyable.
Speaker 2:
You know there might be still cheats. I haven't come across as many cheats as I have in Caldera.
Speaker 4:
I played DMZ for a little bit.
Speaker 2:
It's okay, it's zombies. Now you know.
Speaker 3:
So you know what I want, Dan? I want a map that is like the size of a dorm room where I get 47 kills and 46 deaths. That's what I want. I'm leaving, but you should play Helldivers because it's fun. As angry as I get in Modern Warfare. No game has made me as toxic, as quickly as Helldivers. 2. Because my teammates are trash. If you're listening to this and you play Helldivers and you've ever grouped with.
Speaker 4:
Every teammate is trash.
Speaker 3:
Fuck you because I hate you. You all suck.
Speaker 2:
Ouch, I just got here dude.
Speaker 4:
Yeah, you've just been running into people's stratagems, haven't you? I do that a lot. You know, it's all clear, and then you're seeing the peripheral room, your teammate running into a field.
Speaker 2:
I set up my stream deck for the stratagems, which was cool at first, but they nerfed that shit. It's not that fast anymore. Yeah, it's not fast like that anymore.
Speaker 4:
I haven't played it in a little bit. They changed a lot.
Speaker 2:
So I'm at level 20. Okay, I haven't made it past. I haven't made it past the uh, no, I think a little higher. Well, yeah, I haven't made it past the update of the mechs. Like I gained after that one or twice, but it's just. I am so engulfed into call of duty shit right now, which is ridiculous, because I fucking hated that game, dude. I hated that game of the passion and it's like. It's like a girlfriend and I keep using this analogy. Right, it's like a really hot girl who cheats on you all the time but she buys you whatever you want, you know? You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, yeah, except in your analogy she's not that hot and she makes you buy shit all the time, like Activision does.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, well, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that, I like it, I like the abuse. I I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that, I like it, I like the abuse, I like the abuse, so let's. So why'd you bring up the Helldivers thing?
Speaker 3:
Because I like the game and I want to talk about it.
Speaker 4:
This is coming from a couple weeks ago, when he got Helldivered and he never played it and I was playing it and I messaged him he's playing Helldivers. Get over that Call of Duty shit, play Helldivers. And now every time I look on Steam, he's playing Helldivers. I'm like good.
Speaker 2:
Well, nobody invites me to anything. I don't know why.
Speaker 3:
I thought we were all friends, all right, all right. What's your fucking? No, no.
Speaker 2:
We're not doing this right now. No, I am done with you. I am done with you. We'll talk when you show up. I am done with you. I am done with you. We'll talk when you show up. We'll talk when you show up in Cape May.
Speaker 3:
All right, all right.
Speaker 2:
All right, that's when we'll have a sit down.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, we're going to have a sit down. Well, this is like golfing and shit.
Speaker 2:
I hope you drown.
Speaker 3:
We're going to have a sit down in Jersey.
Speaker 2:
Are we going to the summer? I'm going to talk to you like a Jersey person. Alright, get ready for this. Okay, you're going to the shore. Alright, you're going to the shore. You're going to get yourself some sausage sandwiches. Alright, once you're there, hit up the pizzeria spot and then walk the ball walk. After you check out the ball walk, go, find yourself a little cabana, hang out and have some drinks. How Jersey was that?
Speaker 3:
I don't even know that's Jersey for you. That's not English.
Speaker 4:
That's Jersey. I'm going to bring it up on a podcast at one stage where I'm going to bring up pictures of different things with names I know they have different names over there Just to fucking query you guys how this shit works, you know.
Speaker 2:
You want us to read?
Speaker 4:
our words out loud. No, no, no. I'm going to hang out pictures and stuff, because you guys say biscuit and I'm saying a fucking bun.
Speaker 2:
Like what the fuck A biscuit is a biscuit A bun is soft and squishy. A biscuit is like hard A scone the fuck's a scone, it's an English thing right. It's a donut right A scone is a donut.
Speaker 3:
A scone is a donut, a scone's not a donut.
Speaker 4:
No, is it a muffin. And then the other one why is it a chicken sandwich when it's on a fucking burger bun?
Speaker 2:
It's a chicken sandwich.
Speaker 4:
But why is it a burger if it's beef? Because it is, yeah, because it is. Why can't it just be a fucking beef burger or a chicken burger?
Speaker 3:
I don't know, but what do you call this is the shit that I don't get people. What do you call the? Thing where you push your baby in A stroller. No, you had another word for it A carriage, a tram, a trolley, I would have said tram.
Speaker 4:
You should have been a little bit more prepared for this, because I'm ready to go for this.
Speaker 3:
You should have fucking flashcards more prepared for this Because I'm ready to go for this.
Speaker 4:
You should have fucking flashcards.
Speaker 3:
Can I get some flashcards?
Speaker 4:
No, I'm going to make some though. Yeah, let's do it. I'm down for that. It's a huge one. I'll go to the printing shop and print out flashcards. What is this?
Speaker 2:
Remember the old Looney Tunes cartoons when Bugs Bunny would hold a sign Like a ball and a screw. Yeah, you know, like yeah yeah you are.
Speaker 3:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you are Okay.
Speaker 3:
You guys remember Columbia, like maybe you didn't have this in Australia, but Columbia Music Record thing deal, yeah man of?
Speaker 2:
I don't think so yeah how far was it.
Speaker 3:
It was a fucking rip-off, I don't know. Everything died. You get like 10 for like a penny and then you have to buy 17 for like $35 each or something crazy like that, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, you do Fuck you.
Speaker 2:
Yes, you do. Listen to me okay, listen to me okay.
Speaker 1:
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