Transcript of *THE* TWITCH BAN | OfflineTV Podcast #7

Do you guys need me to look at you for us to talk?

No. I'll just look over in your general direction.

You could be like my therapist.

I don't want to be that.

I'm listening.

But if we're in therapy, aren't you the one talking?

Welcome, everyone, to the Offline TV podcast, episode number 7. As you can see, Broden is now full Chinese. He's made it. What's it feel? What's it feel like?

What about Brodan? It was good to finally get rid of that white side inside of me.

I'm still waiting for my transition. It's taking a long time. Hey, what's with the side?

I was debating whether or not to make a... I'm not sure if it's any of those. When you say transition, it's like, usually transition is of the genders.

It just wasn't really... Well, I think transition has a wide range of... You can apply that to a lot of things. The transition from living in America to living in Europe. That's a transition. There could be some culture shock.

I can't wait till I'm Chinese.

I was going to make a trans race joke. You know how there's transgender people? I was going to say, Oh, yeah. I transitioned from half-white, half-Chinese to full-Chinese. I was just debating in my head, Okay, is this appropriate? It's a little edgy, but I might be able to get away with it.

If anyone can, it's you.

I also understand when you talk about transgender topics, it's really this It's a lot of nuance because there's a lot of political discourse around it.

I feel like the humor is growing, though. I feel like I've seen it was on an Andrew tape post. It's like, It's okay, you wouldn't be able to handle this, they, them, Like stuff like that. I'm like, That's a banger. That's a bar right there.

It remind me of a line recently from M&M. You guys remember him? Yeah. He dropped his return song, and one line My cat is trans. My Siamese cat is trans. Identify as black, but acts Chinese. What?

That's real?

Yeah. My trans cat is Siamese. Identifies as Black, but acts Chinese. That was the line. But I personally think M&M is washed. That's a big M&M fan. I'm not sure if you guys fuck with M&M.

Haven't heard the song. That line does not sound like it goes incredibly hard.

Hey, why don't we just put it on?

I honestly haven't heard an M&M song in a hot minute.

No, he's been AFK.

Yeah, as I said, I don't think he's He hasn't made music.

He has not been making music.

I keep seeing these YouTube shorts as if he is. I'm like, Oh, he's like so.

Maybe that's it. Maybe you're seeing the song that he just made.

M&m was the goat of rapping. You guys are familiar with his work.

Yeah. I am familiar. Hey, can you turn on closed captions just so I can know the lyrics? Thank you. Oh, I see. He's like, I'm back, bitches. Who is that?

Dr. Dre.

Oh, the person who said, Get your ass down here, whatever? Yeah. Okay.

Now, this is like a callback to one of his biggest hit, Without Me, where it's the same setup.

I don't know why he could be Adam Sandler's cousin with his current...

Does he look like what he looks like currently on the right? Yeah. He should really go back to what he looked like on the left.

This is very much like... When I see this, I'm thinking, Man, M&M is washed.

Yeah.

Because he's doing a rehash of his old thing from 20 years ago.

This is his intro back, right?

Yeah.

I see this as like, I don't know, I'm doing it for the fans type of thing. Like a throwback. Not like, I can't think of anything else. What is this for the fans?

Yeah. My opinion is, what made M&M cool back in the day was He was very edgy in a time where no one was edgy. But now, your average 12-year-old is edgier than M&M was 20 years ago.

I feel edgier nowadays has gotten tasteless. And low-hanging fruit edgy. His was more, if I imagine, was more impactful and, I don't know, had more meaning behind it.

Yeah. Now he just sounds like an old man laughing about like, Yeah, back in the day, I was that guy.

Yeah, that's how I feel about it. He's like, Guess who's back? Me. I'm old.

Whoa. Okay, hear me out. Well, I'm just saying from the video, I don't really know. You see, I'm a Gemini empath, okay? Right. He's 51. Oh, fuck.

Damn.

He's old, though. His daughter recently got married. And back when he was rapping a lot, it was like, Yeah, my daughter just got born. She's my whole world. Yeah. And now she's married.

Wow.

He has two daughters.

So is the song good? What's pop culture saying, Toast?

It's split. I don't think a lot of people love it, but it's still like a beat. The lyrics just don't hit as hard.

It's not any please, please, please or Espresso, as you would say.

No Sabrina Carpenter fans here? No, those two are in the same category. We're talking Espresso and M&M. In the He's claiming of it's an M&M cover, but with M&M covering his own song. But I hear that, I feel like if I launch that, I'm not going to be like, Oh, yeah, this is going to hit top records. Off the chart, Spotify number one.

But I feel like M&M, if he's going to come back, he probably wanted to do that, no?

I don't know. I don't know if this was a come back or this was just for the fan thing.

I guess we just have to get M&M on the podcast. I don't think. How's Donald Glover coming along.

What?

That was your job. Nobody ever reads what's going on here, man.

Tyler Gambino?

Yeah. That was your homework, remember?

That was my homework?

You failed.

I failed.

Yeah, that was your job.

He's He's doing really good. He's starring in a new TV show. What TV show? It's called Community. Okay. Can't wait for that to come out. What was your homework?

I'm a host. I don't have homework.

Wait, why do I get homework if I'm the guest?

Oh, yeah. Did we introduce the guest this week?

Oh, hey, guys. This is our guest, John.

What's up?

Also my boyfriend. What's up? That's him. Also known as Masayoshi.

Thank you, You're really welcome.

John, me, and Broden.2 just got back from Taiwan and Shanghai. Why'd we go, guys?

John went because he was invited to participate in the Valorant show match, and I'll be honest, I don't know why the rest of us went.

I also don't know why.

Because we said, Oh, this would be a good time to go because we can go watch the VCT games. Except we didn't. We were going to skip out on watching any Valorant. If it wasn't for this guy forcing us to go watch him, we were just not gone. Then the question was like, So why did we go?

Scarra seemed really excited about it.

I think Sydney really wanted to go.

I remember Sydney and Scarra being like, Dude, we could finally go to China I'm like, Oh, God, what's going to go on there? It's just really cool. I'm like, Okay. I got invited. I'm like, I'm going.

Originally, John and I were not going. We were like, No. Then it felt like the universe showed up on my friend the door and said, You should probably go. John gets invited to play in the show match. Myflight. Com. So I said, You know what? I'm in. Which was a great experience. I cried watching John play on stage. I literally bawled. That's not the video. Uncontrollable cheers. I could not stop because it was just surreal. How did it feel?

Dickhead. Oh, Monster's doing 200 IQ play in Valar's-Eish.

Would you say that was a 200 IQ play?

No, I would say that's a 50 IQ play because it's just high risk mid-reward.

All right. I'm going to ask a hard-hitted question. Did you take it easy on the Chinese team because you were in China?

No. No, no, no. There's actually like...

You were trying your best.

Yeah, I was just way too nervous. I have a new founder respect for the pros. Let's go back in time. I left Taiwan early because riot wanted They wanted to do tech check, and they also wanted to do scrims. In the scrims, we were stomping. We were going crazy. I even match-VPed in one. From my understanding, everyone's like, All right, let's just have a fun match. Make it quick, though. So we're like, Okay, we'll both do triple dualist. Come We had five days before the show match or four days before. We didn't know, but they were practicing. They were practicing in the five stack in. We're like, Oh, shit. We didn't know until the day of the show match. They were coming in, they're like, Uh-oh. We're all chilling, doing nightlife stuff. Then we didn't really have strats. I just tried approaching mix. I'm like, Okay, pistol run strat. What are we talking? We can do a good blind here and all this. In my head, I'm like, Wow, these plays sound really good. But then as soon as I had to… When I did the introduction of Team International and I'd walk on the stage and the music and the bass and everyone's screaming, I got really nervous and everything poofed.

It's what I imagine boxing. It was the same feeling what I boxing was like. You did all this training for how many months or years you had to practice. Come day of the match and you're just so nervous, everything's out the window and you're just a shaky state.

You can just tune out the stadium, then the crowd, then you just focus on your game.

No, I could not.

You're not going to focus?

The stage was rumbling. They make you put in these IEMs, which is earbud, with earbud attachments. It's really suctioned in your ear. Then the game just like, you can only hear the game and then team speak or whatever. I don't know what they use. You can hear the staff if they talk to you. Then they make you put on the headset, which plays white noise, but you don't hear as soon as you get into the game. Then you have the mic.

Damn.

I didn't even hear the stage. I only felt the rumbling. I would only hear the stage if someone was talking and then you're like,. Through their mic? For a split second, yeah.

What would it feel like, though? Do you think that it was like a bucket list of yours to go on stage?

Oh, yeah, that was for sure a bucket list. I imagine it was like the kid John. When it was like middle school, high school, John playing League, I'm like, Oh, my God. One day I'm going to go pro. I saw how many hours they put in. 12 to 16 hours, all the League of Legends pros put in. I'm like, Oh, content creation is pretty cool. Yeah.

We also go on stage.

It was definitely a bucket list. How do you think about it?

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How was your experience in China?

I had a lot of fun. I think that it was about what I expected, which is why I said no originally, because I figured that this trip was just going to be a lot of city. And and not a lot of nature. My body is just craving a nature getaway right now. But I couldn't pass up the opportunity to see John. I actually really- You see him every day, though. But see him on stage? That is rare. I had to see that. I think that for when I knew what I was getting in for, I had a lot of fun. But it wasn't what my body was craving or what trip I'm really looking forward to right now. But I think that it's crazy just how different it feels there.

A lot of Chinese people.

A lot of Chinese people. It's also just pretty packed. The population is dense.

Almost too much Chinese people.

Yeah, I'm picking up what you're putting down.

It's just a lot of people.

I don't, for the record. I don't think of anything.

A lot of people. There is a lot of people. But I think we filmed an OTV video while we were there, and that day I feel like I saw a lot of things in that video that I was like, Oh, yeah, this would just not exist anywhere else but in China. They just have the sheer land and someone has money. There's just a lot of money in China. So There's just some random guy who's like, Yeah, I'm just going to build that thing. I feel like I want to go back because I think there's a lot of just random shit that's only in China that I would like to see.

Very unique building.

Very, very unique. Unique experiences.

I I've just never seen.

The range of experiences you can get is crazy. You can get a really good meal for $0.10, or you can get a really good meal for $10,000.

We were in main town, Shanghai, I'm assuming, and we go 20 minutes out and just like, All right, everything is now 10 cents from $10, $5. Oh, everything feels like the same price as a city in, I guess, LA or SF. But 20 minutes out, very rural. Just Mom and Pop shop, just selling them for 10 cents. It's amazing. The quality is insane.

How about that Ali Pay, though?

I will say I do rather like that.

See, that's controversial. For the viewers at home, in China, everything is paid through an app. Everyone has a phone, there's an app, and that's your wallet. You buy anything taxi, pay for a hotel, get a massage. Even the Mom and Pop store with the little card selling Boba, all the same app. And menus are all QR codes. People in America hate QR code.

Oh, really?

I didn't know that. Because it's like, Oh, just give me a traditional menu. I came down to see, What if my phone's not working well, if I don't have servers, they make it, they whine about it. But in China, it's the only way to order. It is the only way. Sometimes you'll go up to the counter and order food, and they're like, No, I'm sorry, scan the QR code. Pay with Alipay. But it's so much simpler if everyone's on the same page.

I think the biggest hurdle is if my phone dies, but every block had 10 battery banks. Every little shop had battery banks to rent, and then you can walk with it. Then it felt like a bird scooter. The bird scooter is cool. It was just battery banks, so you can always keep your phone.

Then what? Every convenience store has a place to charge. It's like they have thought about it. But I was worrying. I remember my phone was close to dying and I didn't know about the convenience store charging things. I was just like, I can't go outside. I have to wait in my hotel room until my phone is charged. And Avon was like, Oh, you can just use my battery, my external battery. I'm like, Oh, okay, sweet. I'll come now. Because I was just actually waiting in my room to have at least 15%. But I guess I didn't know that you could just go outside and charge your phone.

It is a unique experience. It just felt like I was walking on Venmo. Yeah.

You have Venmo and everyone has Venmo.

Everyone's using Venmo or Hachab.

But what's crazy to me is that the apps are also so integrated with their services. If you want to call a car, it's in that app. But on top of that, it's everything. You could get a plane ticket, you could get hotel service, everything. I'm like, Really? I don't know. There's just not multiple companies.

You guys ever watch Summer Wars?

Mm-mm.

That was my biggest worry with something like this. Summer Wars is pretty much as if Google did what WeChat did. I haven't seen it. Imagine Google did what WeChat did. They have everything. They have Uber on Google, your ID's on Google, you pay with Google, your work ID number and everything is in Google, but then it gets hacked.

You lose everything.

Lose everything. Even the government, all their stuff's on Google. You check in with Google, you pay with Google.

I wonder if people get hacked in China. I don't know. Because every service, from what I've seen, is tied to a phone number, and that phone number is tied to your real ID. If we tried signing up for anything, Everything like their Uber service or food dealer, it's like, We need your phone number. We need your phone number. Every time you do that, they want to see, Oh, we need some ID, passport. I guess if you do that, they will know.

Yeah. I'm assuming people for sure get hacked. I don't know.

Maybe it's really scary to hack there. I feel like if you hack in China, I'd be so scared to be a hacker.

You do it here, it's like, cyber crimes, anonymity. China's like, Oh, we know who you are.

Death. That's why I'm like, Are you scared? I don't know. Are you scared to be a hacker in China. It was crazy because I was like, Oh, because John got behemoth bug bite.

Oh, yeah. I got eight up.

I counted 14.

That's the whole story in it. 14 bug bites total.

Would you like to take it away, John, or It's just an average mosquito bite on the ankle. I had bites on my elbow, my arm, my calves, my ankles, 14 in total, to be exact. But one of them just got really irritated. I must have just itched it really weird. But on that day is when we did the OTV shoot, which is I had to happen to walk around maybe 10,000 20,000, something around this.

Way more than 10,000 steps.

Something around there. Way more. Ballpark, 15K plus steps. I think it just pissed off the bite. I think it's in a very... It's an area where it's getting I was getting irritated. As we sat down in one of the metros and I stood up, I felt a heartbeat on my ankle. Or no, it was at the park. We went to get tea at the park. Then I noticed, I'm like, Wow, it's really red. What is that? I'm like, Oh, my God. A really A bad mosquito bite or something. Everyone's like, You okay? And I was like, Okay, whatever. Then we went to the Metro and I stood up and like, Oh, it has a heartbeat now. That's not good. Then we went to a hotel and when I stood up, I'm like, Oh, it hurts to walk now. As soon as I stand up, but after I start walking, it's fine, after the blood flow goes to it. But it just kept getting worse, I think, after that.

Yeah. John had Goliath bug bite, and then it hurt to walk, so then he couldn't walk. I was like, Okay, maybe we just get you some cruches. So that you can come and hang out on Sydney's birthday or whatever. Because I don't need to just sit in your hotel room when it's our last two days or something.

Sydney's morning birthday of her taking me to the Chinese hospital.

Okay, sorry. Rewind. I'm like, I'm going to get John crushes just in case. In case he wants to come out, hang out, eat dinner, whatever. The option is nice. And Scar has been telling me, Jody, you can just order online. It'll come in no time. Just whatever. I'm like, Okay, this The app is the UI, honestly, I don't understand it. I don't speak Chinese, but I go downstairs and the concierge is so helpful. The man is like, You need to buy crushes. Okay, here. Use my phone number. I'll order it for you. You can just pay me back, which is, of course, through the one app. I pay him. It ends up being $9. $9 USD, not only for 30 minutes delivery, but for really nice fucking crushes. They're nice quality. They are nice- They are nice- They are as if you would order them from Amazon now, and they would probably be like 50 bucks. They arrive, $30. They bring it up to our hotel room. John has crutch now. The reason... Anyways, let's go back to your story. We wake up on Sydney's birthday John's ankle, I drew a little circle around the redness because it was irritated.

We're like, Oh, my God. Is this guy going to have sepsis? Is he going to die? What do we need to go see him? Is he going to get an infection? The red did go out through the outline. We're like, Should we see a doctor? I I don't know. Because that was mild. That was mild to what it looks like.

That actually looks mild.

To what it ended up being.

This is when we got out of the Metro, and this is when I started having a heartbeat. I was chilling.

We got way worse. Then we're like, Okay, let's just go maybe see a doctor. Sydney, Toast, and John, I'm not ready yet. I'm getting ready, and they take John to the hospital, to the nearest one. It's closed, I think. It's for foreigners. It was like, Foreign friendly. It ends up being closed. So they go to another The other one, but this one's like, The Hub. This is the hub of hospitals. There's hundreds of people coming in and out. The way they described it was like, there's beepings happening, sirens, people are on journeys getting put in. There's Someone playing really happy music on the piano in the middle of it. There's a 30-minute queue to get in the elevator, so they take instead five flights upstairs.

It looked like they were going to go to a movie because they just had the the ropes for the line because it wrapped around the elevator, and then they wrapped it back. Oh my God. It looked like a ride. I'm like, Oh, my God, what's going over there? That elevator looks sick. Everyone's so excited for that. And there's two. It's not just one. There's two elevators back to back, and there's just double Wrapped lines for both. Yeah.

Just imagine what a general public hospital would look like in China. And that's exactly what you get. Jam-packed to the gills. Chaos. A lot lines. You line up one side, and then they tell you to go to another line. But eventually, you get to the third floor where the skin doctor could see John. The problem is, I think it was a three-hour wait.

I think it would have been more because I think... I don't know how many doctors there are, but I'm just thinking the average person, let's say they had one doctor, I'm imagining their checkup could be 5 minutes to 30 minutes per person. Why do you think it would have been a long time? We were in a queue of... We had to wait for 250 other patients for their checkups or for whatever they needed help with.

They gave us a really high number on our ticket. We were 200 something, and We looked at the queue number. The queue number was 31.

In the meanwhile, I finish getting ready and meet up with Yvonne, and I go up to the front desk, which our concierge hotel... Whoa, I just said this so Fast, fast, fast. The concierge at our hotel was 10 out of 10. I go up to them, and I'm like, Hey, my friend has a really bad bug bite, and they're currently at this hospital, but this hospital is packed. Do you know of a different hospital? The guy's like, Oh, yeah, don't go to the hospital. That hospital is packed. That one's God, go to this hospital. I'm like, Okay, it's walking distance. Me and Yvonne walk over there. We roll up, and it's the opposite of what you guys are experiencing. It's quiet. There's people sitting there watching a TV show. We get greeted. We get come in. It was just completely opposite. Me and Yvonne are like, Hey, my friend has a really bad bug bite. I'm showing them a picture, and they're like, What? We're like, Hey, what can we do about this? Eventually, we get sent upstairs because I think there's a language barrier. They're confused. We get sent up to cosmetic plastic surgery instead of dermatology.

That was really, honestly, the whole... It's where the whole story goes. But then a doctor does come out to see us, and she looks at the photo. Meanwhile, again, she's just a plastic surgeon. But she's really willing to help. She sits us down and we're Google translating infection and animonics. She's like, Well, I can't prescribe anything. One, he's not here. Two, I don't know what bug bit this, but you probably should get seen. Hey, I'll call you a car, and I'll take you to the main office, the main dermatology office. We're like, Oh, okay. We get in the car. There's also a random woman in the car who just got plastic surgery or is on her way to get plastic surgery, who ended up in the same car because she's coming to the same building. They're like, All of us can just be in one car together. Don't worry. It's me, the girl at the front desk who's willing to chauffeur us, basically. Wow. Avonne, me, one mosquito in the car that was really freaking me out because I was like, Holy fuck, this is not going to happen to me. I just kept watching it.

I know. We're leaving this cosmetic plastic surgery office, and we get in a car crash. It was like- That was the car crash. Okay. We're leaving. It's China, so it's like, Stop and go. It's not a bad car crash at all. We're all fine. But just the day itself, it felt like a outcome because I'm like, Don't worry, guys. I'm going to head to this hospital. Meet us here. We think that someone's going to get you seen. They're really helpful. Hey, guys, I just got in a car crash. I'm going to be there soon.

Before that, too, I remember the order of the It was like, I think we just saw a dead guy in a stretcher get pulled because they just don't have space in the hallway. We don't know. It's like, It's so busy here and they're just having music. Then just followed up. I got in car crash. I'm like, What is happening? It was crazy.

Then everyone gets out of the car, the driver and then the person who hit the guy. All these people in front of the car screaming at each other. There's a police guy, a little guardman. I don't know. They're like, We're sitting there for, I don't know, 10 minutes. Eventually, the girl who was kind enough to be like, Hey, I'll just accompany you in the car, gets out of the car, and then she starts yelling. She's like, I'm assuming. It's like, Hey, can we leave? Hurry up. She gets back in the car. They get back in the car. We're on our dandy way. Cool. 15 minutes drive. We roll up at a nice-ass building. It has It's an archway. It has flowers everywhere. There's beautiful women on posters. We get out of the car. I'm greeted by seven beautiful Chinese women. I'm like, Where am I? I'm just trying to get my friends seen for a bug bite. We roll up. The girl is talking in the front desk. They put us in this back room. Really nice office. Then they give me tea, and they offered me little snacks.

You already know the tea's bomb.

I'm just like, Oh, my God, this has just gone way past. Eventually, this really handsome, older Chinese gentleman comes in, and he has beautiful skin because he's the plastic fucking surgeon of this office, comes in and is like, Show me the bug bite. What's happening? I'm like, I showed him a picture because you guys haven't arrived yet. I'm like, This is my friend. She's like, Okay, I need to see it in person. Meanwhile, Yvonne is translating all of this. I'm like, Okay, oh, great. They just came here. I pull up John. John comes in, and the guy's basically like, Cool. That's a bug fight. I think you're fine. But Tess can talk more on this because he actually talked to him.

Well, yeah. I think he was giving us the whole, Hey, I can't legally tell you what to do. I don't think you need to see anyone. But if you really want to go ahead. Was he right, John? Did you need to see someone?

I don't want to go to the hospital. In my mind, I'm like, Guys, you need to lie down. I think Jody, you were right on panicking because we did draw around the mosquito redness, and it expanded like crazy, wrapping around my ankle. I think normally here, I would have seen a doctor for sure on antibiotics. But the feeling of it, it was just like, Oh, guys, I just need to lie down. It's like, No, we should get checked out antibiotics. It could have been effective for sure. It was getting purple.

I don't know, guys, but he seems fine now. So I don't know.

For Citi's birthday, I just laid in bed for 8-10 hours and then had dinner in the room, slept. Probably laid down for 16 hours, and it just felt a lot better.

Yeah, and then he came out for Cydie's birthday, and then he couldn't walk the next day. So I don't know.

Oh, that's right. Yeah.

That's a It was a fun adventure.

It was an adventure.

I also forgot to mention, did I tell you guys how I got kicked out after the show match of the riot venue?

Oh, you didn't have your badge or something?

Yeah, I forgot to mention that. During the show, after the show match. What a transition. After the show match, we did the celebration with both teams. Pictures. I got a nice sparkling water. And then You had mentioned where you're sitting. I asked one of the guards where I could go. It was like row J50 or something. I thought I went to it, but they're all named like, Oh, yeah, this is Isle Phoenix. This is Isle Viper. Over there is Breach. I'm like, I don't know where any of that is. I just want to go to this one with J50. Then no one spoke English until someone overheard me and came over. He was like, I can walk you over. Oh, no. Sorry. That was after. Great story, don't it? That was after. Because before, I had another ride employee. I know where it is. I know where J50 is. I'll walk you over there. As I'm walking over there and we have to go through the door, they're like, Oh, badges. And then she shows her badge. She goes through, ride employee. I come in. I only have show match or I only have player badge, and I didn't have GA badge.

So the guy's like, Get out. You have to leave. And then the ride employee is like, No, no, He just played in the match. He's like, he's just meeting with people. And he's like, No, leave. And then he's inching me past the metal detector. I'm like, I don't know what's going on. It's okay. And I was like, Can I at least go in here to go, and I can go back to the backstage? He's like, No, you have to go in through the back. I'm like, Okay. I'm like, Okay, we'll be on our way now. So he forced us to go from the front and then go all the way to the back entrance and then wait and chill out a little bit. I'm trying to think of what I can say past that. Oh, I got a security guard. Great guy. I love security guards. I don't know what it is about him.

Is a security guard just fuck you over?

Well, that was a different guy.Different.

Security guard.

It's when they're on my side.

Yeah, then we fuck with them.

When they're on my side or I can see through it, I feel like security guards are always the scary big guy. But then as soon as you talk to them, they're just Teddy bears. The nicest guys I've ever met. I feel like it's an ongoing theme I've just seen.

You talk to a lot of security guys, John?

Yeah. Every time I see a security guy. I'm like, Hey, how's your day going? How long is your shift?

Oh, my God. You're turning into your dad.Oh, God, I am.You are.

Anyways, yeah. A really cool security guy. He was like, He's isolating me. They're trying to get my badge. They're like, Badge, badge. No, he needs to go. He needs to go. He needs to go. Damn. I'm reaching for my badge because he's asking for it and he's like, No. He's like, No. He's telling me. They're like, Badge, My badge. I'm like,. Two different security cards telling me to show my badge. I'm being told not to show my badge. I'm being told to show my badge. Anyways, with him inching me towards me and I don't know. I forgot his name. Anyways, they inched me towards the door. I just see Broden, the totem of the group. I see Broden's head, and that was the light. That was my adventure getting over to you guys. Sweating like crazy because it's 85, 90 degrees out, really sunny. I had to walk around the whole convention center. Massive convention, by the way. That was my adventure to see you guys. When you saw me come over, I'm like, Hey.

Then we only sat and watched for 10 minutes. How's it going?

Yeah. Then we just left. Not because we don't like Valor Man if Riott's watching.

But you know. I mean, it was general seating. We're I'm watching the game and I just hear behind me, Toast. And I hear... I just see people taking pictures of you. It's a good, different experience.

It low-key hurts my neck when I have to watch because the screen is so high from my chair. Not to complain or anything.

But hey, we showed up.

No, I actually really enjoy watching Valorant in the stadium. It's just so long that I'm slightly dying because I'm a little uncomfortable.

There are stadiums like the Japan one. The Japan seats are really high. Yeah. But that's because we got the box off of seats. You know what I mean? Well, no. Even the GA. Ga front row was a little bit lower, and you had to look up. But even further seating, I guess, I have people They're like, it was good. It's nice. But then, yeah, I feel like even the LA Convention Center, you have to look up to those at the screens. It's for four hours.

Yeah. Okay. That's how I feel. When it goes best to five. I'm down to watch a couple of games, but because I'm in a foreign country and I'm like, When the hell am I going to go back to Shanghai? It's like, I want to make the most of the trip, and I can always watch Valent when I'm at home.

What did we end up doing that night? Was it the bund?

I left. That was the warm day. That was the day I said it was perfect. You guys went to eat. I don't remember.

Was it the bund?

Was it the bund?

There was multiple bunds.

No, I don't think it was the bund day.

The bund day was the day-It was the day we met up with the staff.

My memory is not good. I don't know. I'd have to look at my photos.

I think it was the Bund day.

I think it was the Bund day?

Because the next day, I remember-I don't think it was the Bund day. Well, we said, Oh, why should we go to the Bund? Because tomorrow we're going to end up at the Bund anyway. And then we ended up going to the Bund.

We were always at the Bund. I remember. I remember.

Yeah, we just walked along the river, the big old river.

Oh, yeah. I remember. We just did a walk along, and then we saw- It was filled with people with- Doing photos?

Yeah, photos, freelance Cameraman.

Let me take your picture. I was watching one of those 4K walking videos. Not in Shanghai. It's in the city that's known to be really futuristic. Starts at the C. Can't remember right now. But there's those people doing the same thing. They must be everywhere. Where basically, they just have tripods, really giant lights, and they're trying to take your photo, which I'm assuming they cost.

Then you just ask for their Alipay in them there. But they're everywhere.

Also, hella people posing for Instagram, even in the 4K videos.

What is their social media apps called?

No.

Billy Billy's their YouTube.

Billy Billy. Billy Billy.

Billy Billy Oh, so they don't even use YouTube?

No, YouTube is banned.

Well, also, WeChat has social media in it.

I couldn't tell because it's like, How many followers your WeChat has? I'm like, Why would I need followers in my WeChat? It's my contact. But is it an Instagram feed?

Yeah. Apparently, it's supposed to be an Instagram feed type thing. I don't know anything about it.

I can get behind China's way of doing things. Everything is so consolidated. The only downside is you can't criticize the government, which I don't do anyway.

Yeah.

It's so interesting that they combine so many things. I'm imagining like, damn. Okay, so they have WeChat, and It's like if we combine a Discord and Instagram into one, and then we put Venmo, and then we grab Venmo and Cash App, and we also stick them all together.

Okay. Again, I guess, how does nobody get hacked? How does shit down, get stolen.

I just imagine everything is tied to a social account, a human social insurance number. If you're going to hack someone, you need internet, which is tied to you as a human being.

I see what you're saying.

I don't think there's a lot of anonymity in China.

You can't get away with it.

Yeah. Which, again, I'm on board with because I don't do crime.

I feel you. I do think freedom of speech is a little important.

I mean, they don't restrict freedom of speech except against the government. Yeah. You can say to someone else, Oh, you suck. Don't say that about the government. And you shouldn't be doing that anyway. I think the idea of I feel like freedom of speech is overrated. But it's so ingrained into American culture. Yeah, freedom of speech, my rights deal.

I also feel like freedom of speech is changing a lot, too, because our freedom of speech is now on platforms, but those platforms are restricting the freedom of speech.

I feel like freedom of speech has been altered because of that. That is true. How was taking us all to Taiwan?

You guys tell me. You guys enjoy your time there?

It was just very chill. It was just very just...

It's a very laidback country. A lot of green.

I wish I saw more nature. I could spend less time there. I think one week was maybe a little too long.

Well, we could have gone to nature stuff, but people wanted to do other shit all the time.

That's crazy. I'm going to be honest. I was waiting for you to take the lead because I've never been there, but you grew up there. I was waiting for you to be like, Yeah, guys, I know it's a cool spot. But he didn't really take us to the cool spot.

One makes you think I grew up there?

Okay, I'm sorry. Born there.

I was born there, and I'm left at one year old.

You had a whole year to figure out where to go, dude. You had a whole year to figure out the spots.

Well, I mean, when I travel with people, I ask them, Hey, what do you want to do? Sometimes they give me a... Sometimes they're like, I don't know. I will make five suggestions. They're like, I don't know. Okay? If you want me to lead, you got to tell me things. It's like, I want X, I want Y. I'm really, Okay, I can take the lead on that. But most times it's seven people going all the time.

Yeah, mine was... I definitely didn't do any homework on Taiwan because I didn't know I was going to find it until a month prior. Then I was like, Okay, I'm also just doing a Taiwan trip, but I also was just playing Valor the whole month, so I didn't look up a single thing about Taiwan. I had no The Studio Gibly thing, that was pretty cool. Was it?

That was too touristy. Was it cool?

I think you're lying. No, I just like the night market, the vibes. I didn't like the tofu smell, but I like the... We're drinking tea on a cliff. That's sick. Yeah. We're getting like...

That felt like a tourist trap.

I think they lied for sure on the buildings or the... What were the ad photos we saw? So Bird and I were looking at the photos of the Studio Gibly city, the Studio Ghibli-inspired. It's all lit up, and it's Super bright. Then we're looking at the buildings, and it looked like they photoshopped a building in.

Oh, I remember this. It feels like Coachella's rainbow tower, where it looks really pretty from the outside. It was not It was not that bad. Then you go on the inside, and you're like, they lied to me.

But it is a tourist trap for sure. But I think it was a cool experience being able to drink tea on this side of the corner.

I'm honestly always down to just do anything with friends. I don't care what it is. It's like I'm down to I'm going to remember that for the rest of my life rather than sitting inside. That's always a net positive.

Do you have any spots? Let's say the viewers want to go to Taiwan. Would you recommend anything?

There's some great mountains to climb.

You've climbed them?

I've hiked them, yes. Very pretty. The water's very clear.

Why didn't we do that?

Because we went to that tourist place.

Yeah, it was the only option we got. That was a good one. I'm glad we went. We had tea in a really cool spot.

I went on a hiking mountain. That tree placement is insane, though, no?

I, too, didn't put any research, so I can't complain. I'm glad at least we went to the cat town, too. That was fun.

There was a lot of cats, yeah. That was cute.

Not as many cats as I thought there would be. There I have a lot of cats, but I thought there would be more cats.

I thought there would be- Overrun with cats.

I thought it'd be an annoying amount, where it's sketchy to drive through.

I probably saw a total of 10.

Yeah, there's 10 cats just chilling around. I like that they had little homes, though.

Oh, they did have little homes.

They had little homes in a gazebo. Yeah, they made like little-The other river.

I don't know, miniature homes, and they had beds in them. Very cute.

That was really cute. Then you can buy like little... What did you buy? Was it like a cat gogurt thing? Yeah. Or like a popp.

Yeah, but they're not interested.

But they don't want it because they get overfed by everyone visiting.

What else is new, guys? I saw that your DSG team won with your coach.

Oh, well, they lost with the coach. But he stalled long enough so that we didn't get disqualified so our actual player could run to his friend's house.

Oh, I didn't get to see the full story. That's crazy.

I swear they won that one game, at least.Icebox.I.

Was over time, but they lost.

That's insane, though.

His final score was 1 kill, 30 deaths. You're literally a walking turd. Because the problem isn't that he's a coach. He's playing from Germany to Singapore.

He had like 400, 500 ping.

His was insane. Literally just watching him play. I was like, Oh, dear God.

They spectated him like, Dude, just get off. Just get off. Because it was just like...

The one kill he got was popping a Killjoy Molly and hitting someone for five health.

At least he got one.

The fact that they got OT. Over time was crazy.

The OT is crazy.

Oh, Dr. Disrespect. Okay.

Damn. Yeah. All right. Ripped the bandit off.

I don't know much about this.

I don't know much about this From what my understanding is, some guy at Twitch quit. I don't know. Left Twitch. I don't know. Like an ex-Twitch employee. Ex-twitch employee comes out, tweets, Dr. Disrespect got banned X amount of years ago because he was trying to meet up with a minor at TwitchCon, and he was messaging them through the Twitch Whispers on the website. Yeah. Allegedly.

Allegedly. Everything we say are allegedly.

It's all alleged, but it's from a well He was a ex-Twitch employee.

Is it?

Mm-mm. We must go back in time. Four years ago. Dr. Disrespect. Top of the food chain at Twitch.

Was it actually four years ago?

It was four years ago. He got banned four years ago? Four years ago. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay.

But we all knew Dr. Dyrs is back.

Yeah, I killed him in pubg ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like a Twitch Rival? Yeah. But he was a Trailblazer. His production level was really high back Man, he's got great personality, high energy, select Daddy Club. He took a hit with the whole cheating on wife scandal, but he came back.

Yeah, he's part of the... Never mind. Anyways, yeah.

But suddenly, one day, Twitch just banned him. No explanation. Just banned. Everyone was like, What's going on? Why? Why would Twitch do this? But no one said anything. Doctor Disrespect didn't say anything. Twitch didn't say anything.

It was the best kept secret. No one has It has been on locked for four years.

Which is crazy.

The most prevailing theory back then was, Oh, they must have had a disagreement over his contract. He must have talked to YouTube, and it got leaked, and then Twitch banned him because it's a violation of his contract. That's the rumor that people ran with. Fast forward four years to today, ex Twitch employee that was on a pretty high level on the partnership team said, Yeah, he was trying to link up with miners, apparently, at TwitchCon. Twitch found out and had to cut him loose. But Doc is saying, Well, there was a settlement because Doc, to this Dysrespect sued Twitch, and then Twitch counter-sued. The result was that both parties had met to no wrongdoing and just leaves it at that. Then everything blew up a couple of days ago. This guy just fucking dropped this nuke out of nowhere. A lot of people who worked at Twitch with sub tweets. It's like, Yeah, it's true. Yeah, I heard about that. I'm not surprised. It finally came out. Stuff like that. Then all of Dr. Disrespect fans are like, Hey, if he actually did something like that, prove it. You have no evidence. You're just trying to ruin this guy's life.

You got nothing. This society where you're guilty until proven innocent is fucked up. You woke Snowflake. Nick Merckx released a video. It's like, Man, all these she, they, he. Fuck him, man. They're trying to cancel Dr. Disrespect. I'm just going to stick by my boy until I see evidence. Just throws the LGBT in there for no reason.

He really does it all the time, doesn't it? You just can't shout out about him.

This is a topic about pedophilia. For some reason, he brings up trans people. But that's besides the point. But now, today, Dr. Disrespect announced he's going to take a semi-retirement. He's going to take a step back. His game company that he co-found and released a pretty incriminating statement saying, We're going to stand by Dr. Disrespect until he was proven guilty. But after speaking to all parties, we feel like we now have to take action.

Wait, that's crazy. That's pretty serious. That's pretty serious.Yeah..

Then And today, he announced his indefinite break. Yeah.

What? Wait. Game developer Midnight Society is terminating their relationship with co founder, Guy Beam, a. K. A. That's his name?

I knew it was Guy, but I didn't know what-What the fuck?

The direct words is, We assumed his innocence and began speaking with parties involved. Now, in order to maintain our principles, we needed to act. So we are terminating our relationship with Guy Beam, which is his real name, immediately.

Wait, that's so incriminating.

To be fair, I'm going to say this game was NFT bullshit. I feel bad. Okay. Oh, man. I'm going to get it heated. Content creators that leverage their platform to sell pipe dreams and NFT and crypto to the audience are just scum. And these people, his fans just blindly following him, defending him by, Oh, yeah, I'm going to invest in this game. Dr. Dishaspect is going to be big. He's my goat. I love the Slick Daddy Club giving their money away to this guy pedaling NFTs to you. Now he has pedo allegations, and they're still defending him to the death. At some point, it's like, Okay, Why am I worshiping this dude? He's just a guy online playing video games. You can like him, you can appreciate him, but to this degree, it's crazy. I've never had close sources to what happened, but the whole involving a minor stuff was something I've personally heard from three different sources, but they were all friends of friends two years ago, three years ago. A lot of people will say, Why didn't you say something? This is the defense a lot of Dr. Disrespect fans are throwing out, which is like, Why didn't you say something?

Or to people who said, Oh, I knew about it. If you have the proof, where's the police report? Why isn't he arrested? You guys hiding this makes you just as bad as what he's alleged of doing, which is not true. But it's like, no one really knows. Ultimately, it's just Dr. Disrespect and Twitch's legal team. And what can you do? Do you say, Oh, yeah, now I heard Dr. Disrespect was trying to hit up a minor. You can't prove that. No one can prove that. But the people involved in the legal proceedings, and it sounded like there was a lot of ways to keep things shut. If you said anything, you get super sued. So when this came out, it was like, Oh, I guess that rumor was true. The whole YouTube contract bullshit, that was never... Twitch is not going to ban you just because you talk to YouTube. That was the dumbest theory I've ever heard. But yeah, there are some people that have heard about it, but you can't really prove it. Even if you knew the truth, where you can't really say it either. Because I think a big part of it is a lot of his fans would then say, Wow, who's this girl?

Why doesn't she come on and say? And remember, if she is a minor, she's not really capable of defending herself. Because I think a lot of people would just blame her for ruining Dr. Disrespect Life. How dare you make up these allegations. Very spicy stuff, though.

I'm surprised, one, that it can not be said. I wonder what his legal team did to basically protect him and how that was possible. Let's say, again, allegedly, that he did all this. Let's say that he is messaging a minor. What power does he possibly have to protect himself in that moment?

Because I've never seen something like this well-kept and contained for four years.

That's crazy to me that you technically can get away with that.

I think that a lot the idea is that he never crossed the line. Let's say the message was like, Hey, you want to hang out at Togek on? Like, Well, you can't really catch him for that, right? I mean, Drake was messaging Millie Bobby Brown at 15th And then he gets a whole...

I mean... Well, we know how that ends. I think he just didn't do anything that was crossing the legal line. But to be banned on Twitch?

To be banned is... I think it's like that line between the law can't get you, but as a company, you do not want to be associated with that. I think Twitch is also protecting themselves. It's like, oh, yeah, now the biggest platform on our streamer is trying to be...

And use our direct messaging.

Yeah, use our platform to do it. I think Twitch is also covering their own ass with that one. So it was in both of their best interests. Okay, you don't say anything, we don't say anything. You don't get out of it, and we don't get known as the platform that had one of our biggest streamer messaging wires.

That's a bummer all around. There's a lot of A pedophile's in the world that confuses me. I didn't know it. I didn't know it, and I feel like I hear about a pedophile coming out all the time now.

I guess that's also... It feels like people are having a voice, though, on this, at least, and be able to get it out there because I feel like back in the day, we only had... Hey, have a seat. Why don't you take a seat right there? What was his name? Chris Hanson. Chris Hanson. We only had Chris Hanson back then. But now we have Kendrick.

Okay, I'm going to talk about my experiences. So when I was in high school, I was... Or no, I'm in eighth grade. And at this point, it's like seven, eighth, and then you go to high school at 9:00 to 12:00. So I had friends in the seventh grade. How old are you in seventh grade? What? Twelve?

Holy fuck, this is going to sound terrible. Seventh grade. We're 12. Oh, my God. No, 11?

Either way. 11 or 12. Oh, my God. We're 12 years old. Okay. I had two friends who everyone was like, Oh, my God. They're so cool because they were dating high school seniors. Oh, hell no. And now As I'm older, I'm like, Jesus fucking Christ. Oh, my God.

Wait, I did have an eighth grader that was dating a senior.

No one bats an eye, I guess, as a kid.

Everyone is going to look her for wisdom because Yes. Because she's so grown up.

For the girls, everyone was like, Oh, my God, they're so cool. I'm sure everybody at his school is being like, You fucking freak. They're probably thinking he's wiggedy-whack, both of them. But yeah, I would see them with their boyfriend after school because I got off at the same bus stop as them. I just remember thinking like, Oh, my God. One day I'm going to have an older boyfriend. I didn't know any better. Now I feel like it's a double-edged sword because I think it's really, really, weirdly common. But at the same time with social media, because it's so common, people talk about it way more and understand age differences a lot more now and how much the power dynamic is not okay. But I don't think people knew that before talking about it.

No. Because back then, it was like, so at my school, we didn't know it was weird because we're looking at our parents. We're like, Oh, your parents are six years difference in age. Oh, your parents are 8 years different in age. Oh, maybe that's a normal thing. But then you learn like, Well, that's weird. Yeah.

You grow up and you're like, That's weird. I was also thinking about this because a TikTok was talking about it. It was like, When's the last time you got cat called? I'm like, Oh, my God. I used to get cat called so much when I was really young. Really, really young. 12, 13, 14. When I'm walking to the grocery store for my house or whatever.

By other middle schoolers?

No. By grown of us men who would honk their horn and stop at the red light and roll down the window and talk to me. Now, I have to be like, Oh, ha ha, hee, okay, bye. A lot. But that is not an uncommon experience. I feel like most girls have experienced that. That was just a norm to me that I didn't even think about until I saw that TikTok and it unlocked and I was like, Oh, my God. Yeah. Wait a damn second. And that doesn't happen to me anymore, guys. I do not get cat calls on the side of the street. No one's talking to me. Maybe times have changed in that regard. People are more stand-offish.

Or maybe you're grown up now and they don't want you. Exactly.

They want the young kid. Yeah, I think it's like, if they were to come up to me and cat call me now, I'm going to say, Fuck off, and I'm going to bite their head off type thing. When you're young, you don't know what… You're just like, Okay.

I didn't have cat calling in my area. I'm trying to think of I just didn't notice it as a kid.

Well, you probably wouldn't notice it because if a girl is getting cat called, it's not generally when guys around.

No, I've seen cat calling in Tom and Jerry or Looney Toons.

Okay. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah, I do know.

Yeah. Yeah, and their eyes turned too harsh.

Yeah. I know.

I know what you're going to say. I grew up with cat calling and looking at it.

You just don't know or realize how weird it is until you grow up because it's so normalized. One time, I was working as a hostess, and I was a hostess for a bar/restaurant. It's literally divided in half. I used to have this customer who would come and bother me at my hostess stand. I'm 17 max. I think I'm 16, 17. He's probably my dad's age. He's 50-something. He's definitely older. He's gray hair. He would just nonstop chat me. One day, he comes and smacks my ass while he's leaving the restaurant. I'm just like, I just don't know what to do. I literally'm just like, I I remember just doing nothing. I just remember being there like, Okay, okay. And I just go on with my day. But I'm just like, I'm 16. I'm 16, for one. Not only is he a weirdo pedophile. Two, why are we smacking random women's asses in the workplace where I can't do anything about it type of thing? I don't know. I can't cause an... Or I could. At that time, I didn't think I could.

What's the legal ramification for doing that?

Can you do something? I'm sure I could do... I could have. He assaulted me. I'm sure if I really pursued it, but I don't think we have cameras, or I don't think we did have cameras. So it would have been my word versus his word. But to be fair, he was creeped and everyone knew it. He'd walk in the store and I was like, he's here again. Who wants to see them?

It's crazy that when I just expected to put up with it. You called it making it seen. But it's like, now you're just...

He's the one starting it.

He assaulted with you. It wouldn't be making a scene.

I've definitely changed. Now I'm 26. It's been 10 years. I would be making a scene. But that's because now I'm more confident in that. But I think girls are taught to be quiet, don't make a scene, don't take up space.

I'm even wondering if someone is back in my eyes at 16, I'm not thinking of legal ramifications as well.

No, God, no. I just remember thinking, I'm really, really, really uncomfortable. Yeah.

Well, I hope he's dead.

Me too. Hope you joke.

Ciao, that guy.

Cool. Let's talk about something positive.

I loved my-I got to think about something good. I loved my teammates at the Shanghai.

Oh, I like that. I'm trying to think of something positive involving older men.

Our Japanese player, Michi, his first introduction to us is because he didn't speak a lot of English, and we were trying to talk about Valarant. But his was like, Hi, Chou? You want a Hi, Chou? And we're like, Hi, Chou? Yeah, we know that candy. We love that candy. And then he just offered it all of us. And there was a crunchy center. Oh, yeah. Really happy dude. All my teammates from different areas. We had one from Singapore, one from Korea, one from Spain, one from Japan, and I'm the American. American. Masayoshi, the American.

The German, Italian, Japanese person?

They don't need to know that. Our Korean teammate, Do Hyon didn't know a lot of English as well. He knew. Honestly, he was fluent. Just didn't understand some words, but really cool. I learned Spicey, our Singapore before her teammate. She used to play Wildrift before Valorant. She went from Wildrift mobile mobile gaming to FPS content creation.

Love that.

Then Mixle was just a God at FPS.

Actually God. I was so impressed with him as he came playing.

He got a god from CS and now a God in Valorant. There's me and a Bucky on a rope. So it was just good vibes. Really good people.

What's your positive?

Story, news.

Way of thinking.

Are you looking for something specific?

No, not at all.

Is there anything positive in my life? Yeah. You're asking for a lot.

Okay.

Toast and I went to Hell and Back together.

They're back again. Like, Frodo Backet.

Oh, there's this new TV show called Smiling Friends.

Wait. Okay, yeah.

If you guys haven't seen it, definitely check. It's the new Rick and Morty. I'm going to be honest.

I like the animation.

It's going to start exactly the same where it's like... Right now, we're going between slightly underground and mainstream, and it's froqueting to mainstream. Give it six months, it's going to be annoying Rick and Morty fandom.

Wait, let's start wearing T-shirts now. We'll know it before it becomes too famous.

I think we have about a month before it becomes mainstream famous. It's They're already taking over social media, on TikTok, short form Twitter. You'll see clips from it. It's a great show.

It is.

Definitely check it out. They do the humor, which I really like, where they depict real-life conversations, but they animate it. The awkwardness of a phone call where you're like, Yeah, no. Yeah, that's fine. They take real conversations like that and turn it into animation. It's really funny.

What's the tiny little green guy? Glep. I like Glep a lot. Yeah. He's cute. His name's Glep.

Glep.

Ten out of ten. I can't think of any positives, guys.

You can think of one in the bonus episode.

You're so right, King. I thought you were going to say, maybe you could think of something negative. Well, that's episode seven. Thanks, guys. Thanks for watching. You go to our Patreon for the bonus episode where I talk about something positive. Maybe, if I can think of something.

We'll see you all Bye. See you. Thanks for watching.