Welcome. We're walking in to Fleming's. I'm like- He's not there. No, he's there. I was like, Jess, I need you to know that my expectations for this dinner are literally to the floor. I have no expectations. If we go in here and he wants to talk about feet picks for three hours, that'll be the conversation. I'm not going to ask about Twitch. I'm not going to ask about a deal. I'm not going to ask about multicasting because I just wanted this to... We were just curious as to why he wanted to have a dinner with us in the first place. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to thisepisode of Cribs. It's time for another Fire. Afk with Ninja, solo, dolo, episode solo dolo, blow blow. Hold on to your butts because today we'll chat about my recent adventures, the exciting news dropping at Twitchcon, the epic When We Were Young festival, what Flying Private is really like, and yes, the gut-wrenching flop. It was the Detroit Lions-Raven game. You had to put that in there, huh? You had to just... Dear God, here we go. Just jump right in. Just jump right in, dude. The gut right out there.

It wasn't a great game, so just have.

To talk about it. No, man. I was on Watch, bro. That was my 13th reason in Vegas. I was sitting there. For the first time, I put a lot of money down on the Lions to win. I put like 5,000 on the Lions to win. I put like 5,000 on the Lions to win. Yeah, dude.

You could never bet again.

I was like, Dude, let's just have a good game. Let's just have a good game. Let's make it close, and we just get slaughtered.

It's funny because I gauge if I text you on Sundays, it's either I have to or I just gauge on The Lion's Game. I'm like, If they had a bad game, there's no texting then you Yeah.

There's nothing. Yeah, dude, I was tuned out for like... Dude, it took some crazy proper meditation to get myself out of the whole mental hole that I was in after that abomination of a game.

Do you think that's how kickers feel after they miss a field goal?

I imagine it might feel worse than how I felt watching that.

Any meditation tips that you went through to help kickers in the future?

I just drank a little bit, dude. That's what helped me out. No, dude, just go see a monk, dude, right? I mean, we didn't lose because of kickers. We lost because our team was just... I mean, it literally just looked like we didn't even show up, man. It was egregious.

This podcast will release after you go to Detroit for the Monday Night Football, Raiders versus Lions at the forefield stadium. What is your prediction? Then we'll check in next week with how they did.

This is going to be a feel like a lot of people listening back to this.

You're going to be there. I'm guessing.

Live tweeting, live jerking. Yeah, I'm going to be there. I'm not going to get to here. I'm going to never get to here ever when I go to those games because I always want to remember everything and be coherent. Then also, now I don't know, now... I don't know what I want to say because the one time I bet on the lions to win, we got absolutely slammed. Let's just try to math this out. Let's try to NFL this out. Do I believe the Detroit Lions are better than the bears? I think that we're leaps and bounds ahead of the bears, right? Did the Detroit Lions just get slaughtered? Yes, we did. Did the bears just beat the Raiders with their backup quarterback, 30-14? Yes, they did. Quick maths, I'm going to say at home after that terrible loss, I think that we're going to come out disgustingly aggressive. I think that we're going to destroy the Raiders at home and go into the by week six and two. That's my prediction. No score prediction, nothing crazy. It's going to be a great game to be there at if you're a Lions fan. Go Lions.

Go Blue, baby.

Yeah. Is it the first game that you're going to with your dad and your brothers?

Yeah, I don't think I've ever been to a Lions game with my dad before. Not at Fort Field. We brought... I've brought my brothers and their families before several times, but I've never brought my dad. My dad's actually coming on the jet with us. It's going to be absolutely lit. First time all four Blovins boys are getting on a flight together.

It's funny. I laugh. I think you're like the child of the family and then JP takes care of everything. So even planning everything with the lions, it's like I'm just going to loop JP in with the lines because I know Tyler is not going to do anything. He just wants to show up, tell me where to go, and give me some drinks, bro.

Dude, bro, that's how... I've lived my life the last five years, dude, the last six years. Especially, as Jess, as my manager, it was so overwhelming to focus on streaming and focus on doing everything. So just having the schedule, having someone else run all that, it just makes it so much easier. Just tell me the point to where I need to show up and be and then I'll do my job.

It's entertaining also because we can just plan anything. You're like, I guess I'll just have to do it.

I don't know. Yeah, got to do it, bro.

But yeah, you also have sideline passes, so you'll get to re-meet some of the players and stuff like that, which will be fun.

Yeah, I got to make sure I don't say anything to them, dude, about the loss. I don't want to get in their own heads before the game. I'm just going to be like, I love you guys, man. Kill it. Have fun.

Moving forward to hopefully better news, I guess we'll just keep this vibe of not great things. When we were young festival, didn't we live up to the hype of last year?

Oh, man, dude, I hate tosay this, and I hate to say this. First off, every single band that was there, they did great. I did have fun with my brothers. I had fun being there. It was awesome. Compared to last year, it was not even close. First off, last year had three of my favorite bands, Taking Back to Sunday, All-American Rejects, and Alcline Trio. And that was just one of the reasons. But I think they didn't... I feel like their lineup wasn't as strong this year compared to last year. I think they oversold this year by a lot. There are videos going around from when Blink 182 was performing on Saturday night where... I mean, dude, it's just sardines, bro. It was just packed like sardines. We almost looked like a million people there. Truly, if I had to fathom what a million people looked like, it would look like that. That's how much people were just so close together. So... And I remember last year, I was able to go and bounce back from stage to stage to stage. There's different stage names like Pink and Blue and Green and Stripes and White, whatever.

And I remember I was bobbing and weaving in and out, bouncing from stage to stage pretty much with ease, obviously sifting through some people. We were able to move around pretty quickly. Everyone was. But this year, dude, it was packed the whole time. After noon, it started 11:30, and it was fine then. But once noon hit 12:30, you just almost couldn't move. We had a cabana that we rented, which was obviously expensive. We ended up just staying there for the majority of the time. Luckily, our bands were on the main stage, and that's where the cabanas are facing. Yeah, even the VIP section was oversold, was super freaking busy and crowded. General population, Gen Pop was freaking crazy, crowded. I'll say this, dude, it's called When We Were Young, dude. There are some bands. I do like Yellowcard. I love Yellow Card. They killed it. But they played new songs. They played some new songs. I'm sorry, I hate the idea of playing new music at a festival called When We Were Young, when literally the entire premise of this is to play music that everyone loves when we were young. Like, Hey, hear me out.

Not listen to the bands, play their new stuff. Even though it's like, Dude, talk about your new record, sure. If you have a new album coming out, sure. A new song or a new hit? Sure. Take a minute, then take 30 seconds after one of your hits, of your old hits and be like, Yo, we have new music. Give it a listen. But we know why you're here, so we're going to keep playing the old stuff that you guys love and know by heart. And a lot of bands, including last year too, a lot of bands just they just kept playing new music. And unless you're as big as Blink 182, where everyone literally learned your new music by heart in a week because you're so good, you can't do that. It. I wasn't going out of my way to memorize freaking Yellow Cards new album or new song that they were going to... And not know which song they were going to play. And there's a bunch of bands that did it. I'm not just singling about Yellow Card, but even last year, The Main was who is no longer... They were one of my favorite bands growing up in the world.

Now I refuse to listen to them because they played one of their songs from when we were young, essentially, and played only new music. Then hosted a private concert. This is last year. Then hosted a private concert, charging 1,500 a ticket. Then the lineup of the songs was like every one of the hits that we wanted to listen to to begin with. I'm a fan of bands making their money, but when you're literally disrespecting and kicking the tourist's purpose in the face, especially people spend good money to listen to. Some people, you know what I mean? Who you don't know. People might have went there just for that band, right? But they felt like maybe they.

Deserve- And expecting old music like that's the title of the...

It's the whole premise, dude.

-theme for the festival.

-whole premise, when we were young festival. That's my two cents on it. I think I would go next year still if they released, they announced... The bands there and if I knew a good lineup was going so I could plan that out. But if I go to the 30th, if I go next year and the same freaking thing happens, or everyone's just playing half old set with their set, just playing half old music, half new. I'm never going to go to that again. The first year, it was really super nostalgic. Then this year, it really wasn't that nostalgic, which again, it's a very powerful emotion to pull on and then not deliver. That's my summary of this year's When We Were Young Festival. At the end of the day, I was not overly impressed. However, again, I did love all the bands that I did go and see, but comparing it to the year before was just fell a little short.

We're going AFK with Ninja. What's he going to say?

So travel, as most people know, I think, you fly private and you've done it for a couple of years. When did the flip switch where you were like, commercial is just not convenient. And I'm getting too bombarded at airports for like, I just need my own space and time.

So there are so many different reasons to fly private. And Justin and I have conversations about like... Because it's very expensive. So Justin and I have conversations about it all the time. Extremely. Extremely expensive.

I see the numbers and.

It's extremely expensive. Yeah. So first off, we usually have a limit that we're going to fly throughout the year. The distances, we've never flown across seas that way. If we ever had any crazy flights like that, we would fly commercial and just get a first class experience. And there's also ways in first class as well, even when you're flying commercial, that you can still get a really dope treatment. I remember in Europe, I was able to... It's like they... It literally is like the first class experience where... I'm sorry, the private experience where you go into a back door in the airport. There's literally pretty much no one there besides a small TSA crew. They check your bag. You just chill out in a dope little environment. Again, almost no one there. You're just chilling on couches. It's super relaxing. And then they come and pick you up in the car and drive you basically onto the plane. It's that dope. But when we started, there's a lot of things that we think about before flying private. Number one, if we're going somewhere for an event, are we making that money back? It's number one, of course.

How much money are we making? Is it going to justify flying private? Number one. Number two, if it's not, is it still worth it, depending on the airports that we're going to be in, et cetera, and things like that and events we have surrounding it. For example, sometimes we have a streaming event or a new Fortnite season drop where my viewers and my numbers are really high and it's a high chance of getting great videos and great content for the next couple of days and you want to be there and not be late. Jess and I had this experiment one time where we're like, Okay, so we're 100 % not going to fly private if what we're going for doesn't make us that money back and more, of course. We're like, Okay, let's be smart with our money. Let's do this. We flew. It was when I flew out and did, and I filmed, and I think it was Boston, I'm not sure. But I filmed the free guy, the free guy filming. We flew there and we did it remote. I'm sorry, not remote. We did it there publicly. We flew first class, which is again, whatever.

We get there, it's dope, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We made pretty much pennies on it. We didn't make anything. That was, again, why we only flew first class.

Yeah, that was more of a pressed thing. It wasn't a pay thing.

Yeah, pretty much. We just wanted to be a part of something bigger. I wasn't going to ask a shitload of money. I wanted to do this because I wanted to be a part of it. Then it happened. The biggest fear for me of flying commercial, which is like, Dude, I don't have privacy. It's the internet, celebrity, whatever, 21st century, I get it. But there are moments where I can be left alone and it's great. For me, when I'm flying private, that's one of those things. That travel day is going to be so stress-free. The flight's at three o'clock, I leave at 2:30, I get there at three, I walk on the plane, I take off. That is the dream. That's what happens every time I do it. Worst-case scenarios, sometimes there's a minor plane complication, beforehand, it usually gets fixed in the next five minutes and you're good to go.

Yeah, or it's like, Oh, hey, we got to refuel real quick. Let's just refuel and go.

Yeah, we're refueling 20 minutes. It's like, Cool, dude. Again, I go on the little mini airport with five people or less, sometimes none, and you just get left alone and it's relaxing. But dude, we go home, we're checking in to the airport, we're getting our tickets, all this stuff. We get through and we're in the Platinum.

Oh, the.

Amex Platinum Lounge? Yeah, Amex Platinum Lounge, United, whatever.

Which is everybody's fucking there.

Yeah, everyone's there. I go there. There's a bar in there. I sit down with Jess and we're sitting there and we're just chilling. Dude, within five minutes, I have parents coming up face-timing their kids without my permission and just shoving cameras in my face and stuff like that. Say hi to my kids, all this stuff. That happened for like 30, 45 minutes. I was already sweating at this point because I'm already uncomfortable in places like this. Airports just make me uncomfortable in general. I'm always just hot and bothered and sweaty. It's disgusting. Then the worst thing happens, which is we got a notification, Our flight's been delayed. Oh, shit. I'm now getting slammed and bombarded in a gross freaking airport. Our flight's delayed five hours, bro. Yikes. This is very important. Time is money. It, especially when you make a lot of it. I was making, and still am, but I was making incredible amounts of money when I'm streaming. Tens of thousands of subs a month, thousands of subs a day when I stream, and I remember there was a big Fortnite thing coming up, a new season or whatever, and the whole plan was to be in and out in a day.

Our flight's delayed five hours. So instead of leaving at 5:00, it leaves at 10:00. That's, of course, if it doesn't continue to get pushed back. So we ended up being stuck there for an hour and a half in this lounge, just being constantly... Again, guys, nowhere to go. Literally, there's nowhere to go. We're in the most private spot. Eventually, we ended up just like there's actually a jet that was there available to fly as home, which was like an hour and a half flight and it was pretty cheap. So we flew that and we got out of there. Then the flight ended up being delayed another full day. It wasn't even the weather. It was like plane issues and pilot issues or some garbage. Then that was the moment I told Jess, I was like, Dude, you know they say Hulu ruins live TV or whatever? Hulu ruins... Then you fly first class, it ruins commercial.

To flying first class for work for you, it just ruins everything because you're like, I'm like, I've got to go clean bathrooms back there now.

Yeah, dude, listen, bro, you take a shit with a bidet and it cleans your asshole for you. Bidets now ruin normal toilets. That's literally what flying like first class is like. It's one of those things that, again, we don't try to do it often because I understand the environment, man. I'm a huge Jess and I recycle. We do all those things. We donate to charities, etc, and also support companies that are all about that. I know it might sound counterproductive or whatever. No, unfortunately, we're not rich enough to freaking donate the fuel emissions to what Leonardo does because the guy is basically a freaking 100-billion mammalian, mammalian, millionaire.

But we try to- Yeah, but it's just like you guys are not on tour flying every two days.

Oh, yeah, dude. We fly truly to fly private. We try to do it four times a year. It's like usually we have a little bit more than that, but usually we have one Vegas trip a year, one, and we'll share an entire plane with me, Tim, and a bunch of us. So we all just do it once. We go there and back. Boom, we're done. And then after that, it's events that I go to, and it's only a handful of year. But yeah, it's a really cool experience. Listen, it is possible. It's not something like, Oh, I'll never be able to do it. Dude, there are ways to do it, man. You might look it up. There are ways you can actually share jets with people where it's like, there's an app. I don't know if it's an app or what, but you can basically, if it's a four-seater jet or a five-seater jet or a six-seater jet, you can basically just pay for your spot, your seat on the jet and you'll fly with strangers. It's the same principle. Again, it's a really cool experience.

Yeah, there's that. There's also empty legs. Sometimes a jet has to go somewhere and they will just give you a seat for a couple grand just so they can fill it up.

Just a couple.

Grand even. Just a few bones. Light work.

No, I know. It's cool, though, dude. It's cool. If you guys ever get the chance, man, I think it's worth to do it once. I don't know, figure it out, make it make sense. Again, Jess and I are super blessed that we were able to do that. When we do do it, we love it and we don't try to abuse it, of course, because we do love Mother Earth.

Yeah. Hey, Chad, just work for somebody who can fly private and then you just sneak in.

Here and there. Exactly, dude. That's what you got to do, bro. Just throw yourself at somebody who does it naturally and then eventually you'll be there.

Yeah, it was the weirdest experience doing the lions game private. I was like, Where am I?

Yeah, you should come again this year, dude. You should come next week, figure it out.

Should I?

I mean, dude, it's-.

I don't think there's enough tickets. I can ask, but-.

Figure it out, man. It's no stress. No stress off my back.

No, I know. I mean, I know that. Moving forward. Do you want to talk about Twitchcon? Anything that you didn't go, so there's not a ton from Twitchcon. We're going to jump into the meets of.

The announcement, but. Yeah, I mean, Twitchcon in general, for the first time in a very long time, I feel like it was generally positive, man. And it's funny that I mentioned this. I guess now I can talk about it. I knew that Dan was going to announce this. After our dinner, it was very, very, very hush, hush. But listen, this is probably going to happen soon. Basically, thank you for talking it out, et cetera. I feel like Twitch, for a very long time, dude, they really have been anything else. A lot of people can say this. I don't remember the last time Twitch felt like Twitch. An actual home, a community where a Twitch con happened where people were pissed and annoyed about the things that they were revealing or on rolling out, whatever. You're just a disconnect from Twitch and the viewers and Twitch and the audience. That's what literally it felt like basically since Amazon took over. I will say, and I think I said this on the last solo episode where I was talking about Dan, I was like, I think Dan is a massive benefit in W for Twitch. He's one of the first hires that I think they've made the right decision for a very long time.

This Twitch con, personally, was one of the very first Twitch cons in a very long time where generally it was very positive feedback from what was being announced and what was being talked about. I think that a lot of that has to deal with Dan. So congratulations on the first rare Twitch W in a very long time and hopefully the first of many. I know a lot of people that are really, not controversial, not stuff of the way, they're very harsh on Twitch, and they're very quick to just throw them under the bus. Judge? Yes, absolutely. Judge of rollout or something that they're talking about like, Oh, here we go. Twitch thinks this is going to work, blah, blah, blah. Even those people on social media, those people on social media were very excited and very happy. The multicasting dude, and that's just one of the things, great job, thumbs up in the air. In't know, I could just dive into multicasting if you want. Just keep going. Yeah, I mean, come on.

At dinner, did he bring up multicasting? How did that conversation come to fruition? When did you know that it was going to be announced at that point?

Yeah. I don't know. I like to be as cordial as possible in every aspect of my life and in everything that I do. I knew that Dan and his team reached out to have this dinner with Jess and I. I agreed to it. I went into it. I told Jess, I was like, Literally, we parked in the car. We're walking to the restaurant. I literally told Jess, Yeah, we parked. No, I think we drove. It was windy out and Jess looks really nice and she didn't want to...

Yeah.

The golf cart, unfortunately, is too windy. We're walking in to Fleming's. I'm like, He's not there. No, he's there. I was like, Jess, I need you to know that my expectations for this dinner are literally to the floor. I have no expectations. If we go in here and he wants to talk about feet picks for three hours, that'll be the conversation. I'm not going to ask about Twitch. I'm not going to ask about a deal. I'm not going to ask about multicasting because I just wanted this to... We were just curious as to why he wanted to have a dinner with us in the first place. I really wanted to keep it, not as professional, but almost as casual as possible. You know what I mean? Maybe he just wanted to get to know us as people and it had nothing to do with picking our brains. That's how I went into it. That's how the dinner started for the first 20-30 minutes. We were just getting to know one another a little bit. He was telling us about his wife and his kids.

Ordering apps?

Yeah, we were just ordering just a couple of apps here and there, figure out what we wanted. Then halfway through, right when our dinner gets there, we order a bunch of steaks, right when we get there, he goes... It was something like this, but I remembered him basically just saying, Let's cut the shit in a joking way. He goes, Let's talk multicosting. I was like, Damn. Okay, Dan. I was like, Okay, Dan, what a way to just jump in. I was like, Let's go. You want to talk about this? Let's talk about it. Then he's like, Let me go first. Then he just goes, Inherently, when it comes to the idea of it, I'm not against it at all. I was like, Oh, I like where this is going.

I'm like, I.

This already. I was like, Oh, my God. I don't have to say a word. This is just going to happen. Then he goes, The biggest issue with multicasting and our biggest fear is people pushing people off of the platform of Twitch and funnelling them into another one. Because inherently, that is the only way truly that Twitch loses viewers is just when things like that happen. Because at the end of the day, when it comes to their product, I don't think it's an opinion. I think it's very obvious that Twitch is a better way to consume live streaming.

It just is.

Absolutely. Youtube, in my opinion, and this is something else that he said too, when you're watching YouTube streams, bro, there's a bunch of shiny objects on the side of your screen the entire time. You might not even notice it, but it's what happens. Those shiny objects are recommended videos, up-next videos. Unless you're watching full-screen, there's always some candy on the right side of your screen that is encouraging you to click off of the live streams. Youtube really is their number one competitor when it comes to enjoying the actual streaming experience. That being said, he was basically just like, Yeah, we're not worried about people leaving Twitch for other platforms. Then again, I also felt like I proved that, streaming, multicasting for a year, if anything, I was pulling people from TikTok and other platforms and bringing them onto Twitch because it was a better viewing experience. All in all, the issue was on-screen, crazy ads, shoving and funneling people into other platforms. That was basically the issue with multicasting. And then making money while you're doing it, right? Yeah, truly. Imagine me multicasting the entire time to my 10,000-plus viewers every day at Twitch for four-plus hours, and every single day I'm just like, Hey, guys, go here.

Go to KIC. Go to YouTube. Go to KIC. Go to YouTube. You guys should all be watching here. Donate and support here. Go here. Go here. Go here. Eventually, people are going to be... If my fans are diehard enough, and a lot of fans are for other streamers, they'll do that. Then boom, now they're losing leadership. Then this is happening, of course, by the millions because multiple people will be doing it potentially.

Which we were doing a little bit in the sense of like- We were. -you were pushing people to YouTube to subscribe if they wanted to support.

Not at a high level. There were multiple times where I wasn't even... I would say there were more days out of the week more often than not where I wasn't doing that. But of course, I still to this day have questions and people are asking and they're like, Yo, man, how do I support? How do I sub on Twitch? I go, Well, you can't. You have to go to YouTube if you want to actually subscribe and be a part of that. Now I don't have to do that. He was like, This is basically what you have to agree to if we're going to do this. To me, again, it was like it's a no-brainer. It's what I wanted all along. It's what I wanted when I first invoked on this venture about making zero dollars streaming for a year straight.

Twitch is your humble home.

I love Switch, dude. I always will, bro. Honestly, forever and ever, man. I've been here since the beginning, since the inception. Justin. Tv was a part of the partnership beta, where people finally started to make money by getting subs and ads. I've been here through it all and not going anywhere. I'm excited that I can now hopefully, maybe even by the time this releases, I'll have a sub button back and we'll be streaming, making that guap, bro.

Listen, I'm trying to get you that sub before next Friday.

Oh, absolutely. Listen, I'm going to tell you right now, we're just going to sign it before that happens. I don't care.

Weird question. Did you ever get an offer back in the day from MLG or was that fully a call-duty thing?

No, that was a COD thing, bro. I never got... Unless I erased it from my memory, I don't think I ever got an MLG offer.

Because in my head, that was the first mixer thing. It was like Nate and Scumpy and all those other stuff.

Yeah, Nate regrets that. Nate regrets that immensely. I think he got a million dollars for it, if I recall, which a million dollars to Nate at the time was like, Oh, my God. But here's the thing, though, dude, is he was pulling 20,000-plus viewers on Twitch.

Gold, about the cost.

Yeah, if he would have stayed on Twitch, bro, because for the hours he was streaming, he would have made infinitely more money and stayed more relevant from a live streaming perspective. Because Matt was always, I felt like... Before YouTube, I'm sorry, before he started streaming, he was a YouTuber. Nate shot the YouTuber, bro. Him and the entire Optic content house, it was YouTube. They were great at it. They knew what they were doing. Nate shot was one of the best at it. Early on, I don't think he realized how much money he could make from streaming yet. So when MLG flexed that million dollar deal for him to stream there exclusively, he was all, Oh, Google ad.

It was also so early in streaming days where no one really had a contract or knew what it was.

Oh, yeah, bro. People are so lost. You're walking the path that has never existed, right? So you're going to see people make incredible decisions. And more often than a lot, people just absolutely fail and make terrible mistakes. Literally, right now, I can't even think of something that is comparing to that at all.

Doing Mixer and.

All that. No, I mean, like a profession, right?

Oh, yeah.

In the last 10 years, StreamY's been around for 12, 13, maybe even a little bit more on the low end. But name a profession or a job that has allowed people to make millions of dollars that has been born or created. Can I stop stuck? Yeah, dude, there it is. I don't know, maybe in the comments, dude, if you guys can think of something, let me know because I really feel like Twitches and just streaming and streamers, yeah, it's the newest thing. So a lot of people were going to make mistakes.

This is the FK Chai Rule. Fk Chai Rule. Fkchance is their first one.

That's it. We can wrap with fan questions. Lavi Clair said, I would love to hear how you chose your dog names as well as their age and breed.

Why did we give? Honestly, I don't think we knew what to name Chance off the bat. I think we got him. We just got Chance. Chance was the first one. Chance was our first one. Actually, I have... I'd have to fully talk with Jess. This is how I remember this story. I remember we didn't have a full name for him yet. He just turned eight yesterday. We brought him home to our Illinois house and there was a gas leak, but we didn't smell it. He did. He was barking constantly that he wanted to go outside. Right when we got home and we lived on the first floor, so we were like, Okay, we opened up the sliding door and we just got this massive whiff of gasoline, severe. Then we come to find out there's a huge gas leak in our apartment that was being concealed in our closet or something like that. We wouldn't have known about it if we didn't let Chance out before we went to bed by opening the sliding door. That's crazy. Jess, we always have to say that he gave us a second chance. That's when we decided on his name.

Then again, he was a Yorkie, a Chocolate party Yorkie, which is just the coloring. We got him from the same breeder that Jess' mom got him from. Fast forward a couple of years later, Jess and I wanted another one. We wanted a girl, and we just come across this beautiful dog. We just had seen Avatar. Not a Jess. I think we just saw it again. We were trying to think of a name. I was like, Well, I love video games and you love that movie. I was like, What do you think about Navi? The Navi people and then Navi, the fairy from Link? I was like, Huh, muscle. It was a double entanglement. We're like, Yeah, we love that. Then we named Navi Navi.

The Queen.

The Queen, Navi. The Queen. She's the Queen. She is, dude. If you guys ever get the honor of being in her presence, please come up and ask for little pets because she's super friendly.

Loves belly rubs.

Yeah, dude, big belly rubber and just the softest fur. Then, of course, we have our third, which he's a mixed. We thought he was just a Chawini, which is half Chawawa, half wiener dog. Coming to find out, we did a DNA test. He's got five different breeds. He's a little mutt. We absolutely love him. He's my favorite. Jess just gave me full naming rights for him pretty much. I said, let's name him Cloud from Cloud Stripe, from Final Fantasy 7. She loved it. He's our little boy.

The little troublemaker.

He's the troublemaker. He's our COVID baby. We got him peak COVID, so he didn't see another human being besides Jess and I for a year and didn't know that they existed, and then also is very not friendly with other dogs. He's pretty much scared. He's not angry. He's more nervous.

He's gotten better with people.

He's gotten much better in our house. But all in all, it would take a lot of rehab, essentially, and positive reinforcement. It starts with getting a really, really confident dog to have around, and we don't really have those around us at our disposal. So unless we hire Susan Relan himself to come out and or send someone to help with that. We're happy with the way he is. He doesn't dart out the door. He likes to stay inside and bark, which is perfect. So we're good. We're good. We're good.

Oh, Snizzy Fresh says, Hey, Ninja. Do you ever plan on doing Ninja Vegas again?

Yo, Snizzy. Dowe appreciate that you love The First Ninja Vegas so much. As of right now, no, I think we actually had plans coming up. Yeah. I mean, it's something that I have interest doing again, but need the right people and the right time, the right opportunity to present itself in order to do it again. So I'll leave it at that.

Noah says, for you and Jess, what's your ideal number of kids? And do you have any names yet?

I think that Jess and I would be okay with just one. I also think it's one of those where... Do right now, we've been battling back and forth about what we truly want. We're both on the same page every single time we have this conversation, which is all that matters to us. If we fell in love with one, I wouldn't see us stopping there. That's what I would say about the number. Really? Absolutely, dude. Then because I just know Jess and I were both very emotional. If we could handle the first one, well, I think that we would probably go back for more. Double dip. Double dip. Go back for seconds. Unless you get twins. Also, we might... I was going to say also we might not even have to because Jess is... Every generation, Jess has twins in her family. So she's prone for that. So we might, you know what I mean? Imagine triplets, dude. Three little ninshas just running around.

Three little nins. Oh, the same thing.

Oh, my God, bro, it would be crazy. And then as for names, we have a bunch of names probably that we aren't going to use because there are a lot of people that were mean to Jess in her life. So if female names, if we had a little girl, I could list off a bunch of names that we're not going to call them. But no, we don't have any names yet. I liked Kyla a lot for a girl's name.

K-y-l-a. Is it Kyla or Kayla?

Kyla. Kyla.

Yeah, you could not have a boy because that boy will be bullied to a boy.

By you. I would be.

Scared to be that kid.

Oh, absolutely. I'd fucking make him the best gamer in the world, I'll tell you that right now. That's number one.

Or kicker.

I already told everyone, bro. The first thing I'm doing, I'm just juicing up his leg. I'm going to make him righty and lefty. He's going to be training with the Monks at the age of three.

Cool. Moving forward, two more. The Westo says, How did you find out you love golf?

How did I find out I love golf? I hated golf. One of those guys where you don't knock until you try it. I think that that's one of the most important sayings in the world. It's something that you should tell your kids all the time and almost just prove it. Food for me growing up, don't knock until you try it. There was some food that I loved that either it smelled weird or it looked weird. I didn't want to eat it or drink it or try it and ended up loving it. It's the same thing with golf, dude. I fell asleep to it as a kid a lot all the time because my dad liked watching it. To me, it was just boredom. That's literally what I was just like, Wow, this just looks so boring. Then I just went out. Tim and Dennis were like, Well, rent you clubs, dude. Just come out with us. I went out with them one time. I hit one drive and I was like, Oh, my God.

This is it. I'm going to come.

I'm going to come, though. This is it. I had a blast, and then it was over from there.

And he still asked, Clancy world says, What's.

Any- I'm still dog shit.

Yeah. What's any advice for somebody balancing a full-time job, streaming, posting content, and trying to stay healthy and have a social life? You can't do it all.

No, you can't do it all. Hey, cut the social life off, bro. That's the number one thing that is disposable. Your health is huge, important. Eating well, healthy diet, walking around, getting exercise. You can easily squeeze in a 45-minute power exercise. You got eight hours to say you worked eight hours, or you got 16 more hours, bro. Meal prep. You could always also meal prep one week, right? And meal prep for the rest of the week, you can do that to save time there for food, obviously make it healthy. For me, my biggest thing that I cut off... Yeah, I cut off all basically friendships, relationships, and things like that. I was a terrible boyfriend when I was early on in my streaming career, especially even to Jess for the first year. Not knowing it, by the way, I wasn't a piece of shit. I would just fucking stream instead of hanging out. Things like that. If you aren't in a relationship, you're solid then just stop fucking getting wasted and going out on the weekends and maybe go out once every two weeks or some shit like that. Or if you perfect your content creation and you get really good at it, then you'll have the time to go hang out with your friends.

But for me, for the 10 years straight, bro, I almost never went out. I'm not trying to flex and say, Oh, it's easy to do that either, and, Oh, I thought it was the right thing to do, or, It was cool that I did that. It may sound like I'm saying like that, but I just didn't. It was easy for me. Stay at home, stream and play video games, which I absolutely loved more than anything in the world, or go out and fucking party and drink with people who aren't even my closest friends. A lot of my best friends were... I was playing video games. I was playing with them. I would say try to find somebody who shares that same passion with you and do it with them because that's pretty much what I did. I was just playing Halo with my boys, competing for 10 years straight.

Just get drunk on Twitch and say such shit if you're of age.

Exactly, dude. There you go, bro.

That's your knee going out. It's just kicking it with the boys saying gun shit and building a good old-.

Little drinking among us stream, dude. A little drinking among us Friday night freak outs. Okay.

I'm going to do this for the fans. Can we just request another UNO stream?

Get me in there, bro.

Yeah, you say that.

Get me in there. I'm just waiting for the boys, dude. I'm just waiting for the boys, dude. Let's do it at New Year's. That's it.

All right, cool.

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