 Oh, right Put the business cards in here even though that nobody can actually see them You might want to Bring up something where we can see ourselves just to make sure that we're done Camera wise I'm trying to make it so we're not always like crammed the left side of their shirt right Yeah Hey everyone welcome to the Nintendo Prime podcast episode 64 and 64 and 64 wait And 64 episode because we are on our road to e3 week to oh, yeah I can't believe like I finally did the math on everything. There'll be six episodes of the road to e3 So six podcasts in a row We had our first one last week where was you me and Darren. We went over our Dream basically what what we want to be shown at the digital event for Nintendo And then what we expect and then we included the fans in that so that was kind of fun Yeah, this week we had to change our recording schedule around a little bit because you have something going on in our usual night Yes, we Darren said it was cool to change the day But he didn't show up and we're gonna roll with it because I actually wanted to do one of these anyway Because I didn't know when we were gonna do it But we might as well do it now because Eric and I are going to e3 Mm-hmm because you lovely people by the yes, thank you guys out there your support You helped us raise the grand total was 35 and the 3568 dollars all together that's crazy is how much money we raised to go to e3 We had a goal of 3500 and for people who are like man Sounds like a lot. It is a lot of money. It is a lot of money and we ended up I thought that was gonna be overshooting. I thought there'd be some extra money The budget's gone. Well, it didn't help. Well, here's why though. Yeah, well like right one thing We didn't get approved for media passes. So 250 bucks per ticket for us to get in So five hundred dollars of that gone that was never part of that original budget Because there's supposed to be 500 left over for extra fees food Whatever the case like we were gonna have a basically the whole trip taking care of if we hit that goal If we hit 3,000 we probably were gonna go anyways But now I'm not so sure if we would have a read through though. Well, what happened is we went to got the camera So what ended up happening is? We got that we got our tickets We're renting a car Renting a laptop which by the way the rent the laptop rental actually falls outside of the budget now I have to pay for it myself because the budget's gone and I still have paid for it yet so There was that plane tickets hotel We actually it would have been within the budget if I had stuck with the original hotel I booked but The site that I was booking from Apparently the hotel Went through and deleted reviews I didn't know you could do that on third-party sites, but they apparently can so they deleted all of the negative reviews So all that was left was probably reviews they paid for or reviews from when it first Wow, I did not know you should not be able to do reviews period I don't know. So I'm pretty sure that hotel is gonna end up getting kicked off at the site Yeah, I would say so because they won't they refuse a refund They wouldn't refund me and it's fine because it was my fault I chose the option to get it as cheap as possible on it was through orbits As cheap as possible, which means no refund, but the reviews were so good of this two-star hotel Then I'm like, you know what? Yeah, we blew ahead of a little budget on tickets. We're just gonna have to cut back on hotel Yeah, yeah, and nope. So after arguing with orbits a bit they agreed Because I basically I usually go through Expedia But what is the orbits had slightly cheaper prices and then I went checked in Expedia Sure enough that hotel has just absolute shit reviews like look really recent ones We're talking mold in the walls in the floor Wet floors over by the AC because it's just leaking all over and they don't do anything about it hence the mold Apparently when you look down in the air vents You can like see there's like giant chunks of like moss growing in there Fun wonders for my allergies. I love E3 But I don't want to die when you're right because like there are people that I spent the night and then I left I'm like, we're there a week. Yeah, right? Like, yeah, we could survive a night a week I'm gonna come home sick as hell. Well my allergy. I'm allergic to mold and dust Yeah, I know and I've kept thinking of Eric's I'm like, okay That's the one reason why I never want to say it two stars. I'm like, well He's allergic to that stuff. I'm not as allergic, but I also don't want to get sick All right, and if I don't get sick, I could bring crap back Not to mention not to mention depending on what type of mold that is that kid that could actually kill you Yeah, and so I just decided that they were not gonna do that after talking to orbits on the phone They went in touch a little town basically yell at them and I got a refund for it The problem with that refund is that originally the car rental was basically free But it was only free because it was all packaged together as soon as the hotel got unpackaged through the refund It cost $200 for the car Because you didn't get you know, they can refund the car because I didn't want to be able to refund the car So I don't have to spend 200 extra dollars for the car, which is fine. Whatever I'm not complaining about that, but then we all said to get a new hotel and I decided, you know What am I gonna fuck around with these lower ranked hotels that have bad ratings or So-so ratings because these so-so ratings are from last year who knows if they've even maintained how much worse it got So we're not saying like a five-star or anything But we chose a hotel that all of the recent reviews across four different websites of the past month I basically said it's like a brand new hotel. It's amazing. It's only a three star But apparently people people feel like it's like a five I never understood star ratings on hotels anyways. There is a huge difference Like American is usually considered a two to a two and a half. Yeah, okay. That's usually I That's how well that's good. You don't want to go below. Yeah, you don't want to go bachelor motel star No, yeah, one star one star. Yeah, or even if they have a two-star. It's from like ten years ago, right? You know, we're close to that today So there is a big difference because you have the American which is about as worst of a hotel is I'd be willing to Stay at for a week anyways Which well in America in the hotels usually not too bad. It's the ones around here I do know some across the country are maintained like shit. Well, that could be any hotels Well, because finally enough the initial hotel I went with that. We booked that was an American hotel Yeah, that has all these crap reviews. Oh, so Even though it's nicer around here. It depends on hotel management But the budgeting depends on how many guests they have the more guests you book out the more budget you have at that Specific hotel who owns them because I it's usually not one person who owns all of them It's a chain. So like it's just like dominoes like there's a national chain, but there's owners that own So, you know a lot of it has to do with ownership as well But so yeah, so we're just like, you know what we're gonna go with the one that everyone is saying is great And we're just gonna who cares it costs $400 more than what I wanted to spend But you know what whatever so that went the budget that was the last bit of the budget gone because before that had happened I'd already purchased the camera Speaking to the camera you guys have been seeing this camera in action on all of our recent prime news episodes And the one news video that I'm gonna it's gonna become a regular thing or I had like a face cam back towards my computer Is this Lumix G7 with the road mic? I Think this is a 14 millimeter lens if I remember right I also have a wide angle lens in case I want to share a wide angle depending on how Close I have to be when I'm recording footage at E3 Because if I have to be you know like this far away from the TV with the camera Well, I need a wide angle or it's not gonna all fit on the wall Plus you have to be on camera too. So I know so so I have the wide angle lens and what it is Everyone knows good for vlogging I'm I don't really care about vlogs as much, but I think it is kind of cool to vlog the E3 experience Yeah, so yeah, so the budget's gone and that's fine. Yeah, I'm That's completely fine. I'm not even complaining about that I mean we we were raising some extra money And we will be for live streams moving forward if you want to donate just to just to help out with the cost that We're unexpected. It feels like just like last time unexpected Just as long as when we get there, we don't have to pay extra money for the car extra money for anything That's the caveat as long as when we get there. I mean, there's always extra money like you like things that are things I didn't even count into the budget baggage fees for the point That's gonna be like an extra hundred bucks almost as every single time. Yeah You know, we have also the shuttle which looks like it's gonna be way the hell more expensive than we thought it was yeah God, you know, you know what I wonder I might I might talk to I'm I might talk to you about something Just an idea that I had okay, but that'll be that's for not on the No, no, bring it up the people want to know now. Okay, fine We could drive down like Hudson and maybe take up the shuttle from there So we park at their thing in Hudson and then it might not be as we're more of expensive of a ride Where does he have a question? So, you know, I think it stops in. Oh, no, where's the one stop that's my monomony? I don't know. I'm not sure because I know you can get them all America from that one Yeah, that one stop at the airport, too I don't know we should find out because that's like, isn't that I don't remember That's like well, honestly, that just runs back and forth. I was like, we don't even have to get to the airport If we can get them all of America we could take the light rail right over the moment. Oh, yeah, that's right We have to get one hour time we'll get there way early, but our flight isn't early in the morning Yeah, so we have actually yeah, we might want to look at her shuttles even if it's to Mall of America. Yeah, because we can get that's free parking. Yeah, absolutely free parking Yeah, and if the shuttle's cheap we don't get down the frickin rail is nothing. Oh, yeah No, that's like it's six dollars Six dollars because the place we did last time was like 20 bucks a person Per one way, which wasn't a big deal, but now it's like a hundred eighty five. Yeah, one way one way Yeah, so it's like oh, it's gonna be you know, 350 bucks for us to both. Yeah, like it's just ridiculous I don't know why the prices went up so much in two years gas prices haven't fluctuated that much I could tell you know, they really haven't but maybe they're not doing as good as business anymore So they got charged a lot more I beats me but Yeah, so I guess we're just gonna have to talk about because we are gonna try to do things as cheaply as we can where we can well Yeah, obviously But yeah, so like here's the thing. So people talked about in the last live streams of e-bagging or whatever. Yeah No one has to give us a dime. No, let me let me be clear about this Yeah, right for sure because we are only going because of your guys's generosity. Yep Never had to happen. I don't even want to raise money for it Yeah, I didn't you I didn't want to think about going to E3 this year because I have three kids You know leave them all with my fiance when she has depression I don't really want to stress her out too bad and you know, she wanted me to go She always wants me to go every year because ever since we went for Zelda informer She she's gone back and looked at our videos from E3 that year and she's like that's wow Yeah, look at the views look at the quality difference. Look at you know the podcast everyone like this is amazing I'm like, yeah, it is And that was for somebody else for the benefit of somebody else, right? So she's like yeah like going for the benefit of yourself and your own channel and doing your own thing She always encourages it because she knows it's a big deal. She may not understand everything in game But she knows like E3 is a big deal. Yeah, especially for content creators. So Yeah, so she wanted me to go what I kept saying no, I can't afford it because I literally I mean, you know I don't talk about it so often, but I've kind of sort of paycheck to paycheck most of the time So I you know, it's not something I can ever budget for right now. We're not big enough as a channel Yeah, I'm according to even E3. We're not big enough to go, right? Which again E3's but restrictions are that are ridiculous. It's a hundred thousand subs with fifty thousand average views for me People with a hundred K channels on average 50 K. Yeah, right doesn't happen. They get like twenty twenty five Yeah, I mean they'll have videos to get up there fifty a hundred six. I like like randomly I can't plan for honestly, that's half your viewers watching every single video you make. That's yeah YouTube does not sell out notifications to half your to yeah, right, so you gotta rely on organic growth Non-stop all the time in order to get that kind of viewership. Yeah at that level. Yeah anyways, so It's a little ridiculous now if I could ever get in the Nintendo ambassadors program They apparently invite you to events like this. Oh, so that's another thing. I'm gonna hope to get into for next year I've already applied twice. They've never gotten back to me. I'll play again after this E3. Oh, who knows? Maybe I'll meet someone on Nintendo's team at E3 this year and get contact and then I'll be able to get fast lane to the ambassadors program because They're a lot more restrictive with the ambassadors program now because of Pokemon moon basically when that leaked Because it came from the media it came Yeah, I know I understand. Yeah, I understand. Aka some youtuber or some son of a Skype owns a store somewhere. Yeah and That's not good that that look makes us look bad It makes me as a content creator look terrible when that happens Yep, even though I'm the one just guilty by association of you make YouTube videos Yep, you tuber leaked it. Yeah guilty by association So Nintendo has really cut back on who they let on the ambassador program since that leak And there's channels way bigger than mine. They can't get in right now There's and it's funny because there's channels that are like 3000 subs that are in they get they get review copies of games and blah blah They don't do anything with the review comes games like well post it on Twitter Hey, or they'll make a video. Oh my gosh, Nintendo send me this but they don't really make any content out of it Because there are 3000 sub high school kid Yeah, it's got wait no time on their hands or anything with it, right? Like and even the time they do have in their hands to make the videos that they do They're not reviewing games and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah So we're at a point where we're trying to do that and Nintendo won't you know won't won't oblige yet I've gotten review copies before that's the thing I I should have a reputation with them already from when I worked at Zelda informer We got Zelda games all the time and I was never the source of any leaks. So There should already be a trust built up But then all the people I got those review copies from no longer work at Nintendo, right? So the reputation isn't known by anyone that really works, right? But that's the thing like that's what's nice about going to a big event like this is not just The games are gonna play and the amazing experiences we're gonna have and the people were going to meet It's making connections to So like this has a long term benefit for the channel as well If we can get a connection with someone from Nintendo even if we can't if we can get connection with certain youtubers that have connections with Nintendo Because all of that all of that kind of works together works in sync works in tandem but So yeah, so as I was saying we were never planning to go right But basically our community said just nature's ask just yeah, right right? But like all of the people that were doing super chats and everything like the people that were lifting me up to do What I do as it was like Nate just do it. We want you to go right and we understand the cost We because I broke down the car. I just broke it out for you guys, right? You know, they understand the cost For us to come from Wisconsin especially for people who don't know anyone there can't stay with anyone So they understand all of that and They're like just ask and just make a caveat that if you you know if you don't hit the goal The money's gonna go towards equipment. So a whole time. I basically thought maybe we'll get this camera Yeah, maybe lucky and hit 800. Yeah or get close enough to that where I'll I'll put up the rest And we'll get we'll get the camera because we will record in everything with our phone or with a webcam Yeah, which is fine still kind of our right at times like like this podcast is technically recorded with a webcam Once I get along enough cord, I'll directly stream it off of the camera, but I just don't want to do that That's a future purchase that I'm sure it's like under 10 bucks. I feel sorry for these viewers that have to see me in HD Even more HD. I'm sorry guys even more HD Yeah, it'll be what 4k 30 FPS. Oh and true 4k like no fuzzy blurriness. No boy See my nostril hairs and they are there too They are I got the buzz on my three times a week and I can still see him in some videos of you If you pay close enough attention now that we have this new camera ten bucks says people go back go Why don't I think I don't do many close-ups on my face There is the one video from this past week though that I there is a close-up on my face So if you go to that, maybe you'll notice your hair or whatever So yeah, we we said okay fine. What's the harm if they really want to help help us out to go What's the heck of store out there? Mm-hmm fast forward like four months later. We have enough money to go Never expected we had we had the money. We didn't hit our goal We had enough money that we said that if we did hit that part we would go once we crossed 2,000 or it was 2,500 3,000 we were going for sure yeah once we basically I was already looking into equipment when we were at like 500 Yeah, we were two months in at 500 not even close to on pace to go be righteous came through big time oh, yeah, and Once he hit us with some huge donation look at it. We're like, okay him come out other people were like We're over two grand now We should probably go Even if we need to stay at a dive or sleep in the fucking car By the way, we're just going to have to try to make this happen Yeah, and then it just kept going to keep going and then we hit our goal and I'm like, okay Well, you know what? Awesome. Thank you guys so much right and again. Thank you even now So it's very humbling so like when you see me in the streams and I have like that little ticker up You know looking for I guess I'm calling it spending cash Although it might just go to pay for the laptop rental at this point, right? Actually, you might want to even just change it to laptop rental Well, whatever at this point, whatever. Yeah, it's it's it's money to use for E3 at my discretion Right, cuz I might have to rep the laptop before we hit the goal Right. I'm gonna use that money and then maybe I don't know what I'm gonna figure it out I think and thankfully I Had a little bit of a tax return so I got to head on some of my bills Which was a big thing to try to pass extra money I still don't have a lot because the money we have coming in June is actually below par but that's okay Then they got tax return. Let me plan ahead a little bit so I can get get through June at least So here's the deal Thank you guys so much It's hard to explain What this is gonna mean for us because I don't even know what it's gonna mean for us Mary in terms of we don't like we look at our last trip and we'd be like look at all the views We got on like that step talus video or whatever. Oh knows if we're gonna get views like that again, right? There's no guarantee, right? No, we were one of the first people in the world to have a video defeating that person up We might not even be close to the first to do anything, right? Passes that we're going in late even then like everyone else is gonna have an opportunity before us And get you know have opportunities to get hands on their games more often Like we played Breath of the Wild a zillion times now We might have you know two three dozen games to try to play right? We're not gonna get multiple playthroughs, right? So who knows what's gonna happen with that? And well what I will note is after day one I do plan to at least put up a question for people These are the games you know are playable, right? What are the games you want us to I was actually just gonna ask you Yeah, so we can make sure we hit those games For sure no matter what before we don't because if there's too many of them We might not be able to hit them all but all the last days usually not as hard to hit them Right, right? Especially if we're looking at the third party and not in the tentative right Because that's how the booth you kind of want to get that all the way before day three or do you want to save it for day? three But we'll see because obviously we want to get smashed footage and all this other stuff We want to be one of the first people with it. So we'll see what happens but like because Just like a fan topic question here Elizabeth Bollinger put up a question For that for this specific type of podcast about Like what happens if at E3? We don't hit her. We don't see a pump and viewership We don't see a bump and subs And nothing really changes What does that mean for the future of Nintendo Prime and I replied to her but I want I want to kind of make this public to you guys as well is The future of Nintendo Prime was never dependent upon E3 as I said We were never planning to like five months ago. It wasn't even a fleeting thought Someone just asked in a stream and I said well, this is what we paid. Well, what would it cost us both last time? You know, we're probably gonna need to get that kind of money again either one of us can really afford it and it just it just went from there and The thing is is well, I see potential that E3 could build a bigger audience for us You know, maybe we hit 40,000 subs in June. I don't know. Maybe we don't maybe we're only at 33 Maybe we're exactly where we're at right now, right? Because thank you. Thanks, YouTube We'll get into that. Yes, no, actually, you know, I'll probably save that for the yellow stream. Yeah, no, yeah, but What what I what I will say about it is I personally Never viewed E3 as the be all and all for this channel It's not if it's successful. We hit the ground running If it's not successful things hit the dirt and we're done That's not the way it works, man I'm doing this because I love to do it The only reality that could happen is because our revenue is lower right now The push does come to shove and eventually if I'm not making enough to support my family I do have to get a different job And that doesn't mean I'm gonna be done here What it means is that I'd be doing less content And E3 is not really going to change that Instantly because whatever money we end up making their ad revenue or what and this is assuming our videos Don't just all get claimed anyways. I mean any any ad rev like I made zero ad revenue of the step towels video two Three years ago, so who knows what's gonna happen now? But what I do know is If we don't make any money at the ad revenue. Oh, well, and if we do make a ton of money off ad revenue I'm not gonna see it for two months. So it does nothing for me in June does nothing for me in July And I have that money in June and July so My money for June's already set money for July isn't set yet because that's the money We make this month, but and it's not looking good this month either. We're even below where we were at at this point last month, but What's nice is and here's what really what's really nice for people who talk about the viewership in the subs our viewerships up This past week our viewership is way up our sub counts are way up We've gained something like 250 new subs over the past week Which is what we used to get in a month We have had we've been averaging over 10,000 views a day when we usually are around 6,000 Viewerships already up as we start hyping up and get closer to E3 some of that's because of the specific Rumor videos you guys know I'm talking about it's not just that all of my videos across the board are performing a little better except for The podcast so only the people that really care watching this one But I feel slighted I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I people hate me. I know it's all good No, they want to Eric only series. Oh, well, I don't know. Yeah, seriously. Yeah, why would you you know what I should do I should find a I should find a way to sub you in for individual news videos. All right. Yeah Yeah, it's a weekend. What are you doing? Come over here and record this? Yeah, Eric Let's get your personality in on this news. Oh god. I can't talk. What are you talking about? I'll be the guy that you hear yelling off at the back Holding up the cue cards Did you think about this whole whiteboard this way, right? Yeah, right? Um, yeah, so Yeah, like whatever happens happens E3 is gonna be a wonderful time. Mm-hmm. I hope anyways is gonna be amazing. Yeah, right Now I've been doing a lot of talking This podcast if you can't tell is basically about looking back at what we did saying thanks for for us being able to go and then talking about What our current situation current plans are and current experiences are and what we've learned from our The last time we went that we can apply to be better this time One thing that I could tell you right now is We both have business cards this time No, we both had well. No, you had business. I was the only one business cards last time right ahead Even though we were by each other side the entire time, which is another thing that might change What is gonna change this year for some things? Um The big thing is is I was super nervous. Mm-hmm. Eric was less nervous at times Especially driving. Yeah, well It doesn't mean I won't be times I do drive great, but when we go to the convention center It's probably gonna be Eric driving. He's a more aggressive driver and you need to be when we need when needed Well, and LA you know, if you're not aggressive you go for sure Or you just go in circles or you go to the back roads So you can't go back roads in the middle of downtown. Yeah, we did We went back to the hotel. Oh, yeah, that's true to get to the convention center. You have to yeah. Yeah, that's true That's true. Okay. Yeah, yeah So Yeah, so we go to business cards two reasons for that If I freeze up again on someone that he's not freezing up again, he'll hand them the card At least one of us has contact make it happen Another thing is because we're gonna be split up at times He got a brand new phone. I did specifically for this actually I mean he needed a new I did but he but he specifically got got a new phone for footage recording purposes So he can go on his own and record footage of Games because unlike last time where it was just one game We have a whole bunch of stuff the word. I mean come on is we you know one was supporting about Nintendo So it was just breath of the wild On switch there could be NBA 2k 19. Yeah, we could be talking about Wolfenstein 2 which releases in June That could probably be any three playable somewhere No, our heroes is probably playable somewhere You know after that travelers is gonna be there somewhere This is before we get into Nintendo's own offerings and before we get into any new announcements We don't even know about right there could be 2k could be bringing everything. Mm-hmm You could be GTA 5 in it up there. Okay, and the thing is to maximize our coverage We might have to split up So then we also have the business cards for anyone we meet along the way other youtubers Other You know influencers or heck maybe he bumps into me a moto trying out PlayStation VR or something Yeah, I'm a car. Yeah, hey contact us your models probably gonna throw it away But right why not if you can even get past the security here Just just what you do is he just You just what you do is you just take a whole handful of your business cards just throw it at him I didn't see me a motor last time. No was there. Yeah, he did we did see him on the stage at Treehouse. Yes Of course at the time that we couldn't go sit on the cushions right because there are times that anyone can sit on the cushions Yeah, even when tree else is doing anything and there's times I'm like Select people can send me a cushion when we have all those there. It's I don't even think what we didn't even attempt. I think they worry about like people rushing them Because there's not really there's like no security between. Oh, no not at all. Oh, yeah, we were there Yeah, there was like no it was just no you know the camera crew you run right past. Oh, yeah for sure easily The security is around it. Yeah, so it's like, yeah, they might get to you But you're gonna run. Oh, yeah, yeah for sure. So it trusted people Well, I mean we never even attempted to go sit down. So I sat down once. Oh, did you? Oh You never know there was nothing there wasn't they were streaming. Oh, I was just resting. Oh, yeah Yeah, but yeah, right Well, I never coffee in what we don't know how the booth is gonna be set up this year last year Yeah, the tree else was outside. It was inside their their booth Because they had a stage and they were doing all those tournaments now the tournaments aren't happening at E3 this year So who knows how they decided up this year. Yeah No, they're happening at E3. Just not at the convention center. What are you? What they're happening at E3. Just not at the convention center, correct? What the tree? Oh, no, no, no the tournaments They're running at the same time as you just not at the no. Oh, no Oh, I thought they were no they're out of completely different building and from what I could tell from the times The preliminary rounds before the finals are on Monday, which have nothing to do with Nintendo anything Okay, I mean they might end up running here in someone else's press conference or something. Okay, the finals Right now the times are slated for after the show for closes. Basically, they're gonna go from tree house. It's live at E3 It's the same time frame. Oh, yeah, it's all connected right right just not at the convention center That's that's what I meant. Yeah. Yeah, not at the convention center It's a different place, which we will see when we're there if we want to get tickets or not Based on what we see in the past are never sold out. So Just because there's just so much other stuff going on But we you know, we'll see if we have time to squeeze in, you know Squeeze it in on that on that Tuesday When we might because we might end up going we might end up going in on Tuesday And the lines are so long that we end up getting no footage besides just general footage of you know B-roll B-roll footage of the booth or or maybe like all ready three like some vlog stuff But stuff that we don't need to do a lot of editing force. We're like, you know what? Let's do a day one vlog and let's let's hit up the tournament right now for 20 bucks or whatever was a ticket and then just Get something get something. All right. All right. Who knows? Well, maybe you'll see us on the live stream screaming in the crowd. Yeah, whoa, go mango We'll just get a giant Nintendo Prime banner. We'll just No, we're just gonna paint our chest We'll be tugging in the back Exactly um anyways if there uh, is there anything we did last time you went that you would do differently this time Hmm actually say hide angry Joe No, we literally were what like like you like I could just go like this. I'm gonna be touching. Yeah. Yeah, and I remember I encourage you I said it's funny. I'm encouraged you have the same time that I back down from everyone that I cared Yeah, I didn't I was so terrible. I was handing out business cards Yeah, the only one I even handed out to was when Eric nudged me to do it and I was the guy rolling Harris. Yeah It'll be different this year right now for sure. Plus I taught you a lot I'm a lot more sociable with the internet community now than I used to be. Yeah um Outside of that gosh Just trying to think I don't know Fat tomato pizza every night instead of just two nights. Oh, right. There is that Honestly It's I think it's gonna be so much different just now because the fact that isn't one game And yeah, we are gonna have to change it up quite a bit And this is that's gonna be the other thing too is we're gonna have to learn on the fly Yeah, because we've never been to any three where we had multiple games to play to write we went the one time ever It was just one game So it's a phenomenal game, but there's a lot to learn on the fly like like again splitting up Yeah, setting up the cameras or whatever, you know, I know so I mean last time that was the one thing I hope they're not as bad this time. Oh, I know if they need to fix this the the people they had at the At the booth said the Nintendo booth anyways for last time He went were well the thing was is some of them were really good And some of them were just terrible like I wanted to set up a camera or have them hold the camera And then like oh, I have to ask someone if that's okay I'm like am I the only person you're helping with the demo then it's fucking okay. Yeah, right Right, and then the water that turn around grass. I'm like, yeah, we do all the time. Yeah, I know you do it all How do you think people are getting footage? Yeah, right, and then and well, and then it's like the one time when you know They they record for just a little bit and then they decide that they want to stop it You didn't tell them to stop the recording and then they just decided to put your phone down You're like, wait, what you're not recording. Why? You see like I'm a member of the media. I need this for my job. Yeah, you are affecting my I know you're trying to do your job I do your job is to help me out with the demo that help I need is for you to hold the camera now That's one thing we obviously learned is don't rely on them holding cameras bring it on stand right? Yes, so even though it's a pain in the butt to bring an extra backpack or two backpacks This will have and have you know a little pole sticking out whatever you know what there's people like we're the only one No, I know It's it's not you have to you have to bring your own your own stuff for that Oh No one at least from one because we was Zion from Zell and former accent He was doing it with his camera. He was setting up everywhere. Yeah, and they were letting them do it Like it's not issues up your own stuff They do have that that rule that your face has to be in the shot No, you just have to be you don't have to have your face on it You just a part of you has to I wonder I was wondering what the purpose of them I should ask them why yeah Yeah, no, I know we never did figure that one out But we never I remember about that right we just went along with it It was a part of you had to be in the picture. It it wasn't like I mean it could just be your shoulder, so Pinky yes, just stand there playing like this the top right corner, and then when I post the footage I crap it up Right. Yeah, right. What are they gonna do? What are you gonna do if I crop out my pinky in the corner? I think the video I'm gonna think of is that they want to prove it's a human playing it I guess yeah, yeah But I mean if it's not a human, and I'm dying all the time. That's pretty pathetic for a computer It could be a learning computer You know that learns how to play the game. I mean we basically are computers because I get better the more I fail. Yeah Well, the one what the one Roll through is how many different ways can we kill link? So yeah, because we well because there's limited time on the demos like I realized at one point in the demo I'm like I'm not gonna get to what I want to do because I was trying to get to a certain shrine Mm-hmm, and I'm like well all right. How many weird ways can I kill link? Oh god That was fun just watching marold on the hill about four times No, I I mean I know for you guys today about the while it's like not shocking anymore But like back then when only the people that went to E3 and certain events got to play it It's like yeah, this is amazing because no one else could experience that but yeah, right right a select group of people So it's really cool Yeah, the video and stuff when we put it up, you know, so you're like well that wasn't that great I'm like you just don't understand you had to be their experience to understand it And then to understand that like because we had a bunch of Nintendo people standing around us I'm just like like when I when because that was when we got the good That's when we got our footage because we had a booth tour that's when we got our footage of stuff of the step talus kill that blew up on YouTube and That was cool because as we were fighting step talus now stone stone stone talus. It is the final Step talus then As I was as I was fighting it and it and it became pretty obvious I was gonna take them down People from other media and Nintendo people started gathering around to watch the kill because no one had been killing this thing And I'm like, this is my third kill honestly I'm a pro at killing the first time you did it was even screwing it up So I'm like now I'm nervous about watching the first time you actually went to go do it the lady's like no No, don't go over there. You're gonna die which Which I immediately went over there. That's what I'm talking about when I say Well, I've said this before one of the things I want to do is get that unique footage like that Get the things that when they tell you not to go somewhere because you're going to die They tell me and they tell me how to go somewhere. I go there and they kick me off the demo Well to me then they that shouldn't be in the demo, right exactly But if they tell me not to go somewhere because I don't think I'm ready as a player you fucking damn, right? That's the that's the footage you guys want to see because most people are gonna listen because they're really pushy about it Right, oh, yeah, they're very like cuz because these people they don't technically work for Nintendo all the time They were hired for these events and trained in a certain way like like the guy who taught me shield surfing not all the people They're new how to shield serve them doing the demos because most people aren't going to get that far Yeah, it was only after realized. Oh, you know what you're doing. Yeah, right? Yeah, well Let me teach you something. Yeah, it's like Right But uh, no, no the thing that I really wish that they would do with their their booth people is tell them To get their little spiel out of the way and then answer questions that we have do not just all of a sudden Interject every little thing It's it's but but from what I've been told because I have a menu a lot of these Yeah, a lot of other youtubers and media people told me that's the way it is everywhere They're always pushing you to do things the way they want them to yeah the way that they were taught to yeah Because the reality is they don't know what to do if you don't do what they're telling you right because they don't know That answers the questions that people don't work. Yeah, oh you're wrong. So, you know, that's true Like when you have a booth babe, that's like giving you I hate saying that but that's what they are I think they've who's who's giving you a walk through this demo to help you through it And you're like, but I don't want to do that. I'm gonna and the thing is is they won't Unless obviously there's something in the demo. You're just not supposed to see but then that's on them And I damn right I'm gonna have the fucking footage of it Even if they kick me off the demo guess what I'm gonna get there. Yeah, right before they kick me off Yeah, they're gonna have to bring in security and you know that security then they confiscate my camera and delete footage But what I what I would do is It won't what I found out is Just do it anyways all that happens is they'll keep telling you not to yeah If you die, you know, like see I told like like they get kind of full of themselves. Yeah a little bit But they think they're they're the kings of but in Queens of but you just you just push through and do it anyway Yeah, right because here's the thing even if you're doing what they don't want you to do Like they might even look around at the compadre say what do you want? It's his demo play. Yeah, right. He could do what he wants Yeah, I know we were taught this and that most people are gonna follow the beaten path But like the whole most people have waited seven times the whole point of rest of the wild was the path is yours to choose Right, exactly. Yeah, like we would heard that the whole time going through so you damn right. Oh, you told me I can't go over there All right, let's go see what's over there You're lucky I didn't try to figure out the glitch to get off the Great Plateau. Yeah, right because you could have got because in that demo You could have got off the Great Plateau. Yeah, there is a way to It's very because because there's a lot of videos of people trying to get off the Great Plateau We're like using using stasis on like doors and like flying off with the door and stuff like that and trying to land And just the right now granted when you get off in the demo when you get to a certain point and they'll respond And you back up to the top, but I Wanted to be a person that did that but I had to spend so much time with Stepped Alice Nobody that I am aware of took out the Guardian That was on the Great Plateau not even not even like Treehouse eventually took out Stepped Alice in the Great Plateau They were failing a bunch too, and then they finally took it all again the final day But man the uh-huh I Wish we would have got that very first footage. She didn't put the camera down because I freaking kicked his ass eventually It took me a little bit right there were a couple deaths And then I got it because he had to figure out the mechanics. It's all brand new It's like oh Jesus is like he is kind of powerful Andy but but it is a pattern, but I figured out how to avoid his attacks and I realized but I'm still doing damage to Mm-hmm, and he's not hitting me. I could take this motherfucker. I have unlimited bombs I could take this motherfucker. It might take me all goddamn David. I'll take him down or the whole demo So if I would have got that initial footage Then I would have did things like trying to take out the guard because I know especially today I know that it already can be taken out early in the game Yeah, yeah, this the one that's stuck in the ground you guys if you get play Breath of the Wild You know what I'm talking about on the Great Plateau So that would have been cool to get that footage that I never Chances to do because that would have been the only one on the internet But it's not just about getting that kind of content I just doing things differently this year splitting up Yeah, I mean that back then it mattered because we both could plan our own demo things But doing different things like like you like one thing I wish is Is that we would have got footage of all of your playthroughs as well? Yeah, because while you weren't necessarily doing I Was sniping you were doing the crazy things like I was doing a snipe You were showing up there like like I remember you get on top of the tower and you were just having a blast sniping Oh, yeah, like there wasn't a lot of videos of people doing that. No, no, so it's like yeah That would have been really cool to have some montage footage of boom headshot boom headshot Yeah, but I got really good with that bow fairly quickly and and then I lost it I But when I got the game and I was like wait, where do I need to aim again? Yeah, this thing all this year is gonna be a lot of on the fly mm-hmm because we're splitting up for all You know certain chunks of it mm-hmm Maybe we'll meet back up for launch and stuff like that. Yeah, and see where we're at For sure because yeah, we'll be texting but you know, it's kind of sort of it's a it's a lot and you're standing in lines a long time Mm-hmm. I at least said the Nintendo booth What else would I do? Because they want I don't know if we'll split up they were right. Yeah Well, glad to see what it's like when we get there No, because we were even talking about maybe we'll skip the Nintendo's booth They want if the lines are not that bad at other places the other thing too which doesn't apply to us this year as the other ones did but That final day when we learned that we could have actually gotten early access to this show for Because we were just standing out Means is you're at the front of the line Before everyone else comes in. I mean we that last day we said and that's not possible day one But day two and three it is oh it is okay. So day one. It's not. Oh, you can't get an early day one But day two you could have gotten early. Okay, and a three. Well, I mean it was fantastic I mean we're gonna just sit in there and the guys are like the guys were talking to her like wait You guys are media you can go in now like wait we can and all of a sudden we're like, okay And we're like all look at it. He's like who's gonna go first who's gonna go first And they're like, what do we do do we ask them? I'm like just out like you belong Yeah, right see if they stop so you walk who walked in first was it you I think it was me because I'll say you do it You're like it's your work. Yeah, right? So I'm like like fine, you know what I'm just gonna walk in like I know what I'm just show your pass and if they stop me What's the worst so you want to stop me the oh, sorry I didn't realize it. Oh, sorry didn't realize I can come in Yeah, I don't know. Here's the weird thing like this is what I don't that information It's really available like when they send you your your stuff in your email about your e3 media bat Like that's in there. Yeah, no right now that it happened I looked and you can find this was a part of the site that talks about it But it's in really small print. Oh, obviously because they don't they want you to be not know about it Veterans yeah, they want doing it. It's not going to apply to us. No, cuz I don't really have I mean, okay, I won't play this we actually have limited access the first two days The first day is the worst. We can't get until two. I think it's a five. We'll be lucky to get one demo in But we can also get a bunch of b-roll that day along the way, right? We can try to get most of our view. I mean the last day is really good for b-roll Because on the last day the media a lot of the media is done So yeah, you're still dealing with a lot of the gamer past people but The lines usually aren't as bad and on the last day for gamer past people we get to be there all day Yeah from open to open to close Whereas that's not true Day two and three day two we get there for most of it. I think they too. We get there at noon I think it's hour after the media connected Which is also different than when we went because when we went I Would though we went for breath of the wild the very first year That's the first year they did the gamer pass and the gamers were allowed to get in at all right away I get well, so now it's like yeah media can get an early It's not just media gets an early the first two days like over they can just go get in line early No, they literally have access before the gamer pass right Which would have been really nice because that means the lines are way the hell shorter Oh, yeah a lot like especially day one if we had media passes day one We would have three hours without Like gamer and I love you guys. Oh, yeah, no for sure, but when you're trying to get work done like Reducing that crowd size is huge But you know and it might be naturally smaller this year anyways because Microsoft's there are whole things at the Microsoft Theater Which is like two blocks away. I literally it's like right next to where EA play does like we saw it on our way to EA play Like you just go yeah, they'll know probably more Hope of the signs are better than two years ago But with Microsoft doing a thing now, I'm sure they'll have signs and oh, yeah Yeah, play the Microsoft thing and Nintendo's tournament stuff with all of that going on I feel like the crowd is probably gonna be more dispersed So it might not be as bad because we went when the crowd was at the worst and we're gonna be in there again When the crowds of the worst this year because we are part of the worst crowd So I it might not be as bad the Nintendo moves always bad but You know Microsoft Microsoft's not in there. So your major boots are gonna be I mean PlayStation Well, the PlayStation lines never look too bad. I mean, it would be three and a half hours to get into the Nintendo booth and There would be a line forming behind where the line was cut off to get in when they said sorry No one else can get in line because there's a chance. Yeah, right that they might restart the line So you want to be in that line to have a chance and potentially four hours later Uh-huh back in line. Yeah, right and I mean we got it back in every time But I'm sure there's some people that were in the way back of that second line that nope never got a shot And it's a it's crazy. I mean the Nintendo line is always great But with more and more different games it might not be bad because now They might have separate lines for each game. Yeah, well, that's the way it usually works Is you get funneled to like this is the Odyssey line This is the or what like a what have a smash line. This is the and the smash line is gonna be big Of course. Yeah, obviously. I expect us to get one play session in on it That might be one that we go together and hopefully fight against each other. Maybe that would be kind of cool It would be but I had it So we can have a little throwdown Won't that be sweet that that should be on tiebreaker on the bedding special if we tie Which ever of us wins one-on-one smash five first-ever match against each other. No boy, which That would be insane. All right. Watch it never happens. Well, the chances You know what I shouldn't say the chance was needed a tiebreaker is not we have been so damn close to needing a tiebreaker We would have worked for you You want to work for me pub G? Thanks, pub G. Yeah, I still claim it's BS because it was Well, it was announced that day just nobody knew it wasn't announced on TV We couldn't find it anywhere on the Internet. I don't know the next day the next day So I I'm pretty sure they may have said Part of the event. It was part of the event. I'm still saying that they probably said that they announced it We never said it had to be shown on TV. We said it had to be from the award event Whether you could say the event was over or not They were given awards by the game or Yeah, but the event you got a word from the event Yeah, after the event ended the live event. There's after-parties Just saying you know, I won you're just mad. No, you thought no thought for a full 24 hours you because we both thought well What do we do? What do we do? Well, I mean if we don't if we don't get it I guess tiebreaker. Yeah, we don't get a tiebreaker and he won the tiebreaker. So it's like so you for 24 hours We both set their thinking that Eric won the bad news special yet. Yeah, I've won a bad news special I've won you something. Yeah a stream thing. Yeah Monopoly, yeah, something like that. Yeah, but you but I don't think you want to visit Oh, I think it was a no. Yeah, but two of them. I'm pretty sure I won on both Yeah, but but that last one was really intense. Yeah, both of us had a lot wrong Which is what made it really intense right because we both have like the same things, right? And then one different thing. Yeah But yeah, I What we're gonna next it was like 11 o'clock and I just remember getting a text for you fuck you Yeah, and I'm just like, I don't know. I'm taking a shower. I'm right for the day I already conceded my loss. I was preparing myself for this punishment that was gonna have to be on live stream. Yeah, and Uh Which ended up actually not being as bad as I thought it was for you. It might have been terrible for me That's the thing. Yeah, it could have been horror. I have no idea. I don't know how that pickle juice a male What is that with me? But yeah, but it was fun and As soon as then he called me after and he's like, oh, yeah, pull up g1. I'm like Are you serious right now? Yeah, we'll trip the site. Fuck you. Yeah, right? I'm like I Was so excited. Yeah. Yeah But yeah, so we have a betting special for this E3 as well You guys will know who won probably before we do Cuz yeah, well cuz like we're gonna be doing coverage. Here's the thing like our plan on that first day of E3 Well, here's some things we already learned Last time we went we packed everything in really tight We arrived we took the cheapest flight we could Mm-hmm. We got we paid for all this out of our own pocket We didn't yeah like masses back at Zeldin former didn't comp me for jack shit I get I get to write it off as a business expense because I'm a contract employee, but it's my money I need to survive. I was using anyways, so so we went and Got the cheapest thing we didn't we did go with slightly more expensive flights Overall because we had heard I had heard anyways good things about Delta No, no Southwest cuz we could have went on Southwest one way Delta another and Southwest isn't terrible No, no, but everyone can say Delta is worth the extra 10 bucks. I'm like, it's just 10 bucks Whatever and so we have the cheapest Delta flights, which meant we arrived at like midnight Yeah, midnight, which is the morning. We're talking the morning of the first day of E3, but we figure you know what? It's not really open till like noon So even if we arrive at midnight, we don't get no telltale one or two We had to pick up our rental car. We're getting a one or two. We're still gonna get at least probably six hours of sleep Well, and this is with us. Let's have any driving experience and realizing how long But So but we were both dead tired. Yeah, and what I didn't realize at the time Was walking not walking. I knew it was gonna be a lot of walking I figured it was gonna be like when I used to go to Mall of America with my mom to crank to 11 Mm-hmm cuz my mom just speeds all over them. We're there. Yeah 12 hours. Yeah when I was a kid Yeah, like open the clothes crazy, especially on Friday But uh So I figured it's gonna be like that. I knew if I flat feet I knew I was gonna be in a lot of pain But you know what whatever it you just put up with it cuz it's just part of what you need to get done Mm-hmm and man. Oh, man Was it a very interesting experience? Because We were dead tired we got back I we still had videos to make I think we did the pockets night to mm-hmm Yep, but At all I'm at our get home get to the hotel. I mean we ended up not getting back that first night wasn't as bad Well, no we hit no the first night was the worst because we hit the traffic because we didn't know any better I thought that was night two on the way back for the podcast. No, no remember we hit the highway We tried to take the highway then we did the podcast night one Because I was the one driving on podcast night was it? Oh Yeah, yeah, it's possible that we didn't know if we were going to design and yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah, wherever again So so yeah, so we did that and man That traffic is that traffic was insane I ended up going in a circle for a little bit which I don't know just know And when you don't know the area that does not like you're using your Google Maps and GPS like fastest route back road route This is like it's all confusing is construction. There's all this shit going on You're just like you and like you're on like eight lane or 16 lanes super fucking highway How to get to the right when it's bumper-to-bumper and you're used to Wisconsin where people are nice No You need to just start forcing it over to the point You're gonna cause an accident if they don't hit the rip up pretty much and I'm not used to that Oh, when I drive that way in Minnesota, it's not that bad Like I used to get mad about Minnesota drivers. I'm sorry LA is a whole new all I gotta say is I had plenty of room That one day oh my god coming back to the hotel after after that cuz He was more willing to be aggressive than me. I have a hard time breaking out of my habits cuz Everywhere I've been like I've been to Chicago. I've you've meant I haven't driven into New York City I've driven around New York City I've driven, you know all over the Twin Cities, none of it compared to LA. Yeah and The tree not just that the traffic and the traffic around New York was really terrible And the traffic you get really bad especially in rush hour over in the Twin Cities Mm-hmm, but people are friendly that are about it. Yeah, even when you have your dicks, but not everyone Yeah, right. Yeah, right. We're LA everyone's a day. Yeah, it seems like it's not a dick It's just this is how it is. This is normal. Oh, yeah, that was nothing They like you feel like a dick for cutting them off, but they're like, it's just how it is Yeah, right like and we're from Wisconsin. It's really just letting people come in Yeah, right. What are we doing? No, what are we doing? What would it would? That time we're done with people and we've built about 10 cars We're actually going to reverse because we're letting so many people in No, though What was it one of the days we were coming back from from the convention center and For some odd reason we always ended up having to turn left into our hotel and We're talking cutting across what three lanes traffic We kept talking about how could we end up going around and coming back, right? But because we were we were right by the Hollywood Walkway Yeah, so like we're like, okay There has to be a way to go literally around and come right. There's like no fucking way No, no the closest way was when you make like an illegal turn down some back alleyway motherfucking thing Yeah, right and do it and you're just like well, we don't want to keep we did that one time Yeah, right like last thing we need is gonna take it in LA Well, it's gonna be at the waste time Right right and the thing was it wasn't like it was a left turn across one lane of traffic No, we're talking left turn across three. Yes, three lanes and we're talking about when we're coming back, especially yeah Every time you get out of the convention center, it's rush hour time Yeah, so even when you get back even if you take you two hours to get back to your hotel You can actually sit you can actually sit to turn left I think we waited like 20 minutes to half hour the one time just sitting there waiting to turn left Like cuz no one lets you in yeah, no And the thing is is they block the driveway. They don't care. That's not like yeah, I don't know It might not be against the law in California I don't know it's it's one of those things that like there's a stoplight not too far down the road from the hotel We stayed at it You figure you would stop to give access to the driveway. No, I didn't care. They yeah, cuz in Wisconsin It is law that Especially when a light is red you're not supposed to block a driveway a driveway or a Especially a road or a driveway into a business or You know if you are blocking a driveway like someone else like someone's personal driveway You're supposed to as soon as you can Right, right because you know, they don't obviously like when you're in a rural area It's driving you right Right, exactly. That's the thing in Wisconsin. I don't know if that's a law in California And if it is no one here's to it so but but long story short I Eventually was like, you know what screw this they stopped at a light and I just saw it just enough room in the first lane I got through the first lane just fine got through the second lane just fine and then the third lane came and I was probably Three inches from the guy's bumper. Yeah, I mean plenty of probably wasn't even here much distance And you gotta remember the bumper was on my side of the car And I'm sitting there looking and he's just like an Eric's not just like doing this slow shit Oh You were slowed a little bit because you're just like this might be an accident right now. Yeah, but at least let's not make it worse Yeah, make it a fender bender on a rental car a little bump instead of or maybe no one even gets damaged or not worry about it, right? but He just he's just like fuck it. Yeah, and then he just goes and I'm just like oh My god, I'm like I was funny to me to me watching it. It wasn't three inches I don't even put a piece of paper you might even nick them on the way no no I did not touch him. We didn't actually go out to check to see if we did not touch him that you're aware of I Was the one with the best angle to see it motherfucker We didn't touch him. You have no idea. We had plenty of plenty of anyways, but yeah, that was that was that was a My Eric lived that down for a while. That was like I'm just like dude I saw my life. What are you talking about? I saw my life flash before my eyes and everyone's moving to my hour Let me let me live it down. I was proud of it. I don't know what you're talking about living a plenty room But yeah, so one we're not staying at a hotel that's left turn only We're not NASCAR. We're not NASCAR in this. We're not Valley Parking That that's a little bit easier like the Valley Parking night I don't know Valley Parking is cool in that. Yeah, you never have to park your car Yeah, you just get in him the keys. They take care of everything. They bring it out to you I the tip is built into your bills. You don't have to tip them extra. We did we did so not every time Yeah, especially when they're being really nice. Yeah, I got one of us water. Yeah, and then it charges for it. I'm like, yeah All right, here you go. You don't have to do it. Yeah. Yeah, right. I was only offered one time He said like there you thirsty. I'm like, yeah, I'm a little bit thirsty You want a water? I'm like, oh sure and I was thinking he just had one on. Yeah, right. Yeah But I was just thinking oh, he must have like one of those little complimentary water. Yeah, I didn't think I didn't know He's gonna go in size Sprinting yeah into the store area grab some water bottles and come back 20 ounce bottle But here's the thing yeah from what I have heard And pretty much every place that has ballet. That's how they are. Well, the thing is is it's kind of almost I wonder if it's kind of almost like a cruise line where they have so many people lined up for jobs That if the person that has the job doesn't provide the most absolute best service possible They'll just be gone and they can replace Zillion people right because that's what it is with with like cruise lines and stuff There's so many people because you see like around here You'll see service like that when it's a waitress or a waiter at a restaurant that really is working it to try to get Mm-hmm a bigger tip So like you'll see that And and you know, you usually don't get free things every now and then yeah I've had I've had a restaurant waitress gave me a free appetizer once And I'm like what you're getting in trouble for that. Don't worry about it. I'm like, well, it's your job I mean one of them. Yeah, well, whatever like they make you and all and all of it was because I Accidentally, you know my damn fucking elbows get my water and I spilled like a little puddle that I was that I was wiping up with Oh napkin. She's like, oh sir. Don't you worry about that. Here's here's some free cheese sticks. I'm like, all right That's my meal for free Thank you, she got a pretty big tip obviously, right I basically ended up paying for that Yeah, well, I also wonder like if she's copying us for it. Is she actually paying for because that sometimes happens that Bars you'll see like where a bartender will say well, this one's on me They literally mean they're taking it out of their tips and being for your shot Like they're actually paying for it. Yeah, and if you don't know them and you feel bad about it It's like you better tip them good on your next thing. Yeah, cuz that's just the way it is Well, yeah, like like every person that was the only one I think that asked us specifically for water But we had some that said is there anything you need. Yeah, and it's just like what's anything? Yeah, right? Yeah Are you offering escort service? Wait How you doing? Well, the only problem is most of those work guys and yeah, I don't really I don't really one female. Yes But yeah, it you know the things I'd want to do differently, I guess Be more aggressive when meeting people. Yes, it's easier for me now back then The thing that you have to understand about my job back then is I Wasn't really a public face. You weren't you know, you were more behind the scenes Like people people knew who I was within the Zelda community Some people but they knew me because of my work. They didn't know me And that was kind of the way it was back then because I had worked at basically a traditional media publication I wrote editorials. I wrote text news pieces. I wasn't recording videos and stuff that much like those Zeldin former podcast that was it. Yeah, right? I didn't really do I mean the antenna prime podcast to eventually But I really wasn't an on-camera guy. Mm-hmm. I didn't do live streams. I didn't talk to people Mm-hmm. I was always a kind of work on my own set in my office work by myself eight hours a day Get all these posts out get all the social media stuff done be done with it at the end and go to bed And there's some things that are nice about that with a more traditional job like that We're where you go to bed and you don't have to worry about it Yeah, you always have to worry about new Zelda news, but it was just Zelda. Mm-hmm soon I'm worried about that all year long every year and Going from that now I'm at E3 in front of all these people I watch in my spare time. Yeah, right? And it's like Yeah, right. We were we were like a foot-and-a-half way from Reggie. I mean we could probably shake in his hand Probably could have shook his hand because he gave high-fives. Yeah, you're walking by Could have shook his hand could have gave him a high-five could have tried to slip in my business car Hey, Reggie, how you doing? Hey, Reggie, this one's on me. Yeah, right? Slapped his ass and stuck it business But I probably would have Like I probably I probably if I wasn't so nervous sort of I'm like, oh Reggie can you sign this or something? Yeah, right like bust out my 3ds or whatever head with you just have him sign it Yeah, I'm like I'm gonna have my switch with me this time. I have a white back on my switch for those who know Perfect sign and you best believe I'm gonna have a permanent marker on me that is not dried out I hope Oh my god Lost the cap. Whoops. Yeah But that's it. It's not just even like those people because those are the rare like it's rare You're gonna bump into him. You might see them But they're like off in a distance a little bit, right? You're not gonna just like be lying to him because that You want it to be a weird hit right, but You like it. You could try to stage it. It's an example like if I see Bob Wolf there. Yeah, dude. He's been on a podcast I'm yeah, right. I'd love to go meet him. Yeah, right. Sure. Let's see what's up And what is that going on what he's planning to do things or his his his opinions on stuff. He's experienced You know, I wouldn't be afraid to approach someone like angry Joe this time Yeah, right. I wasn't even afraid last time it just a well, it was kind of an awkward It was awkward at the time because there was a Yeah, there wasn't actually like an emergency that was happening like right down the escalator But we were by and we're kind of like man Is it a pro and then we heard and we heard was because I overheard him say something about it And I'm like, okay, there's a serious thing going on. This is appropriate Well, no, it was it was more of a it was it was the emergency was down the stairs that we were gonna go around and then They Diverted everybody around and when we came around he was coming up the escalator as we were Opposite directions. There's one of those things that should I turn around and say hi or just let it go And it just ended up being one of those things. It's like, yeah No, I'm like this time around like I'm gonna be I want to be creepy about it But but if I happen to be you know in line at least just say hey Joe spots will want to be like, hey Hey this hey that, you know Like I know you I know we're youtubers by the way like that's the thing I know more of them now, too But yeah So that's what they'll be a more aggressive about that not being so shy better camera setups Better camera in general actually your phones are gonna even better or we can do back then. Oh, yeah So we'll just have better footage in general more footage. Oh Let me see we're not gonna eat at Hooters this time Right the thing is I've ate at Hooters like yeah, probably a dozen times in my life, you know, it wasn't and Every time I know every time I've ate at Hooters. It's been good. Yeah, it's been good It's not not special not in the right home about what it's like, you know You get the Hooters experience with that with the big boob women and then usually you get decent wings Yeah, or decent burger. Yeah, and we went there and it was just kind of me I don't even know if it was good to be honest. I mean it wasn't bad. It was just meh It felt like what I make at home. Yeah, which don't me wrong homemade meals can be great But I'm talking about like I took it out of a bag and put it in the oven I didn't really make it right now like well last time when I made the whole wings that were freaking fantastic Oh, yeah, shout out to great Greg from a kind of funny man Your recipe on those wings are insane. They take forever, but God is it good. Yeah They were fantastic We need to do that again. Yeah, I know I almost almost did it Yeah, I almost bought the stuff. Yeah, well, I have all the stuff to do some wings But man, that was really good. Plus I had the awesome wing sauces, too. I think three different ones but Yeah, it you know, I'm not gonna eat it to eat there again because that at least the one time we went That's not indicative of what it's like for sure for sure, but it's kind of like I knew what Hooters was like And that was below. I think it was more of a we were just looking for a restaurant to go to We knew what to get because most of our lunches. Yeah, we were eating basically the pizza at the cafeteria Yeah, but she actually was terrible actually is it's fine. That's good But like we end up in eating so much pizza We're like, you know, I want something different. Yeah, and it wasn't until day three that they really had a variety of food trucks around Or actually that we really noticed the well the one right hidden. Yeah, right, but there was like no one there There's like 10 people out there. There's like four food trucks. Yeah I know I got the Speaking of food trucks the the one meal that they're like just giving out meals for like posting stuff on Facebook and stuff like I love Gator, but I was it was for putting something on social media about mafia, too Yeah, because you got you got free Gator Gator bites or whatever Yeah, and then so I posted it then got my free Gator bites and immediately walked away and deleted the post Yeah And here's a thing. I'm sure they knew that I probably would have did that too even now Not because I want to feel like a douchebag Even though you can argue it's a douchebag move, but because I don't believe it should even be legal to buy Social media tweets with food at an event when you know everyone's hungry because you have been frickin in line for pages Sweatin, yeah, it's really hot in there. Like really I'm honestly okay with that It's one of those things it takes me to a second I'm not saying it's an anti-consumer or anything. It takes me to it takes me two seconds to jump on Facebook type in a hashtag I know I know I said I would have did what you did. Yeah, but it's like I Mean, I feel I felt a little bad for deleting it, but at the same point Whatever it feels bad for it. Yeah, like they're handing it off for free. They're trying to buy They're taking advantage of the head to go to buy Advertising all right, and they had to know that I'm sorry I'm a youtuber. Yeah, you cannot buy advertising from me for fucking Gator bites. Yeah, a hundred bucks a month on page Advertising to your patron that that that that that's where that's where the negotiations started right, right? Gator bites. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm hungry. I am I'll do what you want me to do if it's something I know I can immediately get rid of I think is I actually have a little bit of a social media following now So yeah, someone might see the tweet somewhere. Yeah, I did it for free Openly admit it. Hashtag. Hashtag free food. Hashtag this hashtag free food Hashtag mafia 3 hashtag free food go and delete Hashtag going to leave you're all put up a new tweet hashtag free food. Fuck Mafia Whoops Successful picture of me deleting. Yeah, right? Oh good. Yeah. What else would I see what else I do different? Well, okay, so we start about time they're different about how we were running right up with the schedule So we arrived at like midnight. Oh, yeah And then we well we left the final day of E3. Yeah and That ended up not being as bad leaving the final day of E3 Almost because we had a late flight. So with a late flight because we knew that you know, you know six You know, so I'm gonna take a strap of the car. We knew we wanted to at least maybe check out the beach before we leave So one thing we learned is that Give yourself more time. Yeah, especially if you're not used to ever being in LA Like if you're never there you shouldn't just like come in for three days and leave It's very very difficult. Yes try to build a schedule. Yes. So that's why I like this year. We're flying out on Sunday Yeah, fucking Sunday before any press conferences have even happened. We're flying out We should be there before our press conference even happens. I think there's a press conference on Sunday We're gonna be there before we should be checking in our hotel before it even happens That's gonna be fantastic. Like like we're not getting in our hotel at 2 a.m. We're getting in at like 2 p.m. Oh Like holy shit, what's that gonna be like? Like what I mean assuming that we get to it But do we have to pick up a car? It might end up being three or four. Well, who cares? It's still better than doing a decent time time for us to have a nice dinner hot time for us to relax Settle in hot tub it maybe hot tub it maybe maybe go do something. Maybe see a show Yeah, there's a baseball game with the brewers again. No, there's not there's not I already looked well Whatever just something you know that was that was pure luck that we happened And we decided to go say hi. Yes, that would be fantastic But like yeah, like it, you know, just be able to relax a little bit Obviously, I plan to watch press whichever press conference it is I usually like to watch all of them and Monday and that's the thing we arrive You know basically a day and a half before so then we have all day Monday Where technically there's not a Nintendo thing I'm gonna be watching press conferences to help to coverage because I'll probably still make videos if there are things happening Man, if I can get a live stream to work of the conference as I'm doing it I don't know if I can pull it off, but if I can I want to do that as well you know and There's just a lot a lot of things but like that's the thing I don't have to do it in panic like it's like oh man If I end up just after doing two press conferences in a row. I just don't want to do this third one I'm like, you know what? I'm just not gonna do it. Mm-hmm. Oh, it's EA so low notes FIFA and what Then I'll be pissed because all those fucking Madden But a madden for switch, by the way, obviously they're gonna know it's a madden but madden for switch. Yeah, right But yeah, my thing is that Either way, I'm not in a rush. I can eat breakfast have a nice breakfast I can I can relax even on that for like to understand how important it is to have that relax and that rest Oh, we know Tuesday hits it's fucking over There's no rest to the whole it's balls of the walls going Because this is what what I didn't estimate as much editing till 2 or 3 a.m. Yeah You are editing and uploading till 2 3 4 a.m. Sometimes you're not you just got done rendering at 4 a.m. And you need to wait because you need to hit that fucking upload button So you can get it uploaded to a YouTube before you have to leave to go to E3 the next day Yeah that's the other thing too is I gotta get my P my laptop upgraded to a 64-bit operating system before we leave for you for E3 Sure, just because a lot of things don't work with 32 bit anymore Yeah, really really well a lot of my like video drivers and stuff like I can't I can't hook up HDMI cable up and Cheer screen. Yeah. No the HDMI drivers don't work with 64 bit or don't work with 32 It's okay. It can get you a Windows 10 64 bit for like 12 bucks. Oh, no, don't even need to I Can update it for free. So just do it. I just haven't had the time Yeah, stop hanging over me. I know all right. Yeah, stop doing this. Oh wait Oh, or do it while you're hanging out. No, I know. No, that's I have my thumb drive That's actually why I had my thumb drive and then Let me see what oh and then we're not flying out the day. We're done. We're flying out the next day So we're flying out on the Friday and we're doing it I think the flight's like 530 or whatever. So we don't have to be to the airport till around 3 So then like we don't have to rush out of the hotel We could still have one last lunch maybe meet up with some people or some friends or whoever we met That might still be in town after E3 go to the beach Or to the beach maybe even you know go to the Hollywood walk We didn't actually get a time to do that last time. I mean there was some time for Eric to possibly do it But I just I feel like I would have been kind of a yeah Well, I mean it's fine as long as I like I mean my own fucking world right not that I was hoping a whole lot anyways And that was one thing I should talk to Yuli. I was like man I should figure out a way to teach Eric some basic editing Yeah for even for like the gameplay clip videos. There's not a ton of editing Just certain things you have to watch for and I'm just like I know I only have the one editing computer But what if I really just need to fucking take a nap? Like if I if Eric can know how to finish this that would be awesome And maybe I'll show you some of the things a lot of it from what I've watched it doesn't look it's like it's I mean it Oh, it depends on the type of video. I mean, right On camera videos like podcast that takes a hell of a lot more editing all right But like when you're doing three stuff a lot of this just we're just getting the footage out as fast as we can It's like here's our intro. Here's the footage right done, right? Yeah, but yeah intro footage out row done Do you want to include you know now what gets weird is if we get the direct feed audio? So we're gonna try to pull that off this year bring extra because now that we have this camera that we can feed in the audio to We're gonna bring our audio cable with that long enough for us to you know plug it into the switch or whatever I know I can't plug into the fucking controller, but If we get if an intended will allow us to do that we'll do that But yeah, I is there anything Because we learned to give ourselves a little more time so we can rest before and get a good night's sleep before we go back Especially for me because I found out when I now when I go on airplanes my knee pain just Skyrocket, so it's very uncomfortable. Yeah, I can deal with it. It's not like oh my gosh We might need to and on the ground do we know I was I was great until I took an arrow to me. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's Peter. Yeah, um But it's bothersome. Do we know if we have an I'll see the movies that were on there because I do have an I'll see Do you know if not, well, you know, you'll take it, but I'll give you an I'll see You can at least stretch your foot out leg out. Yeah Everything Yeah, hey, well, hey, there's our free flight No, because then they'll say, oh, did you read the safety manual in front of you? It says you can't put your feet on the island. Well, then so then it's why is it possible for me to do it? Why is it possible to go off-road in the middle? Doesn't mean you're supposed to do it Yeah, but yeah, um as for anything else Here's what I can kind of tell you In terms of the kind of coverage we're hoping to get because this is hope. Yeah, things change on the fly split-second decisions We're hoping that No matter what games we play, we're looking to only play games on switch Mm-hmm If we well happened to be able to play games on other platforms because we had we're satisfied With the footage we have and the games we played and the impressions. I know we're playing at least one round of Madden on switch Hopefully we'll see yes might not have time. Yes And because it's more more thing we don't know how many games are gonna be play starters That's very true. We might be able to go through the tunnel with one time and get everything done. I have no idea Yeah, so it'll be learning on the fly, but what I do know is that We are going to be trying to get as much gameplay footage as we can Whether or not we end up getting into unique footage or not I don't know, but we still want to bring us playing it and you guys know I'm bad at video games That's good. That's always fun to watch fun to watch a guy Spill to this guy's place with two three without motion controls. What's the fuck man? Yeah Whatever, I'll put up the one video. I have rather pro pro with little sticks The one video that people are always like every time they see it pop up in one of my videos They're like, why can't you be this good when you live stream? Pressure's on I'm not drunk enough Another thing is we are gonna have an in-person podcast I haven't locked down who else is going to be on it yet I do know that we're gonna be meeting up a game over Jesse and Daniel who technically works for Nintendo Prime and actually did release a video like a week ago I don't know. I might be the only might be the only video. He puts up this year. Oh, I use the one who did the Shovel night video. Oh, I have to go back and watch it. I don't know So there's that Those those guys might just end up being the podcast people. I don't know yet And I'm you know, so there's that I plan to if I bump into any YouTubers I vaguely know or they vaguely know of me and there's a moment first to grab a bite or whatever Maybe have like a little on camera discussion. Yeah, um initial impressions with them or stuff like oh Even if I like maybe I have questions for them Like hey, so this never happens because youtubers never talked to each other What's your advice for YouTubers are even like me or smaller For dealing with this crap with you to this crap with you to deal with this or deal with that Thanks, you do a lot of people might just say I just don't do you do That seems to be the general response at this point is like like a lot of big youtubers at this point I just like my advice to people just starting out on YouTube is don't do it. Yeah is don't But but again, it's also also advice is also never never try to do for the money, of course Because money is not guaranteed success isn't guaranteed But if you're still passionate about making videos and you got a little spare time to do it then sure It's like any other hobby. It's like video games, right? You got spare time to do it then do it you got the spare time to go skydiving and you want to do that Go do it like you want to go for a run or a bike ride like anything that you enjoy doing it Maybe it's knitting or whatever. Hey, what's wrong with that? No, like any hobbies that you have, you know It's if you have the time and time of the passion then do it and that's kind of the way videos should be And that's why I say the E3 trip was never essential. Yeah for Nintendo Prime Oh for sure because I'm passionate about what I do regardless if I have to go get another job And I have to slow down my content in the Thunder Prime. There's still gonna be content in Thunder Prime every week This podcast is still gonna be every week Especially since it's somebody else edits edits it for me. So that's already a time-saver. Thanks Martin awesome Martin And I'm still gonna have other videos. They're just not gonna be as frequent. I don't know what my schedule will look like Then I don't know if I'm still gonna have live streams or not. I'll probably still have at least a stream a week But it's one of those things where I don't want to worry about that reality because I'm not there yet Mm-hmm. I don't have to worry about it yet We'll see if I have to worry about it then but what I will say is that yeah, obviously if E3 blows up and Everything's going great. That's great for me. I mean, it's great for you guys too because it affords me more time to do things Like as an example my fiance will take my job ten times more seriously if I'm making the kind of revenue from doing it That makes her able to live comfortably as a not paycheck to paycheck Without her making money So it gets to that point should be like, okay. Yeah, like when you say you need to do this I need to make sure you do this right now. It's like Mmm Even though technically I can argue it's more important because I'm living Patriots to Patriots when I say I need to do this I need to fucking do this or we don't pay our bills that's why but But you know, it's one of those things when you're just getting by Some people have a hard time rapping in my like like I'm a weird position because I turn 32 this year There's not a single person in my family that is supportive of what I do My fiance is supportive because she knows why I do it Because I love it We love you. I am fortunate enough to be doing this job for even like those past six months that I've made money doing it I've been fortunate enough to do this as a job to take my passion and Do something special with it And make a living doing it. It's been Great, and I don't think this journey is gonna end even if E3 blows up in her face I don't do these journeys gonna end even if I have to go get a different work It just means for a while. I won't be able to do this for a job But doesn't mean it can't become one someday down the road either I can't get back to it because what I like about doing it for a job is I am doing what I love for a living. Mm-hmm You know how few people get to do that like you might go out and get a degree in something and then realize you fucking hate it Yeah, but you're good at it. You have a degree you spend all this money to get it You might as well do it And people just go through life like that people don't get degrees and they work shitty jobs Yeah, and the thing is I might even say like McDonald's is a shitty job or something like that like it is in certain areas But it's still one of those where doesn't mean you like your job. You you could have a good paying job and hate your job So she knows that to me what matters more than money is happiness and If you are and this is my advice to anyone forget if you want to be a youtuber or whatever you want to do Find what you love to do and If you are fortunate enough to happen to an opportunity where you could do that for your job for a living hold on to it chase that dream because you only live once and So many people go through life just hating themselves for what they do for a living just Barely skating by now I'm not talking about just financially barely skating by where they drag going to work and then they also the paycheck to paycheck and They don't enjoy what they do and they hate themselves for doing it But they keep doing it because they don't know how to get out of that rut Because they don't know what they love or they think what they love can't be anything Anything so and you know, sometimes that's the case like if you have a love of knitting Yeah, maybe you can make some money on the side. You probably wouldn't have been doing it for a career You maybe you get lucky, I don't know but I don't know anyone personally that that has been able to do that That kind of thing for a living, but you can still make some money off your hobby There you know, you can make things and sell it on Etsy as an example You can make gamer related things. You can make whatever, you know, intro interweave different passions You like sports make sports knitting stuff and But beyond all of that it's just I Am extremely blessed we are extremely blessed because we're going to an event. We have no business going to Thanks to the generosity of the generosity of Like a dozen people Well, and even then it's literally like a dozen people are sending us to you three, right? You but did you understand like how amazing? Oh, no for sure I mean, it's amazing with we have hundreds of people or if it's just like the dozen But it's like a dozen people around 12 people Said you know what we love what you do so much. We're gonna make sure you Know like It makes me want to cry some days because I didn't know people cared about me or cared about my work enough to ever do it Like I've made a lot of mistakes in my life There's a lot of things that you can find out about me that might make you hate me and Oh, yeah, never did tell you that And I publicly talked about this stuff before I'm not gonna keep bringing it up You know to keep talking about it But it's one of those things that like I there's demons in my closet and that those demons have been because of a public figure they're completely out in the open if you want to do enough digging and I you know, I've accepted it. I've accepted. I've made mistakes I've accepted that I've may I've changed from from a lot of it doesn't help that you have a very very very unique name So yeah, but some of the stuff isn't under that name. It's under the name Right, that's true, but still but still but yeah, it's just like I don't care What I care is I love what I do and that you guys apparently love what I do as well And I want to keep doing it for as long as I can You know, I had this question asked me for my fiance. She's like, I know you love what you do But have you thought about? You know when you're in your 50s and 60s like are you still gonna be doing it? Are people still gonna care about some 50 or 60 year old talking about video games? You never know and I'm just like I hope so if my audience grows up with me and they don't believe me Then they'll be there too. Yeah Never know. I don't know. I I can't tell you guess you find out when you get there when I get there And if it I mean, I don't I what do you want me to tell you if you get there? Well, I live once I'd rather get I'd rather get to that point loving what I do and then I have to figure out that I need to do something else Rather than not get to that point I'd rather enjoy what I do than You'd rather you'd rather spend the 20 years doing something you love and then spend maybe five years to ten years Hating what you do then The opposite way around where you've worked the job to get the paycheck and then all of a sudden turn around to Do something you love. Yeah, where it's you do something you love until you don't do it That's one of the things that I never wanted to be that kind of person that you work a job Or you find a career like I'm good at the thing is I'm actually really good at a lot of different things Doesn't mean I enjoy doing those things that's kind of the curse of my gene pool, I guess is I Am more intelligent than I have any right to be I pick up things really really easy and a lot of things come extremely easy to me The problem is I don't enjoy most of those things that come easy to me because it because they're easy That's part of the reason like it's just easy like oh geez astrophysics. That's a joke But I don't want to do it like oh the doctor stuff. It's a joke. I I could study and learn all learn not everything in a night I'm not trying to Downplay how hard it is to become a doctor. So but I'm just saying that it's not that hard for me Where it's hard for other people. It's not it's just don't enjoy that stuff. I enjoy this And I'm fortunate to do what I do and I want to thank you guys from the bottom of my heart for sending us to e3 Oh, no This is our road to e3 week two week two got four more to come betting special is is gonna be week six Betting special is literally landing the day before Nintendo's conference. Oh Boy, it's gonna be insane. I know actually gonna be at the place to get it uploaded. Oh I don't have to panic. Oh my gosh Martin got me the episode on Tuesday. What am I gonna do? No, he's getting me to a Monday It'll be all good. Yeah, maybe sweet I might even edit it myself just to make sure it goes up because I might want to try might want to get it Uploaded before we leave. Mm-hmm. So that might be the one episode. I'm like, you know what Martin? I'm gonna take care of it. Take a week off. Just enjoy yourself. Enjoy e3 and Right now you're listening like do take the week off that week enjoy e3 I'm gonna make sure it gets up on it gets uploaded because I want to basically we're gonna record it that Thursday I'm gonna edit it on Friday and it's gonna get up on Saturday So it's up and ready to go so when I'm in LA. I just said literally have to send it live Yeah, it's it's yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so it so I apologize the betting special is not it's high quality Cuz he's a better editor than me, but but it'll be a lot of fun and It's some crazy stuff planned for that Beyond that I can tell you that Every week moving forward now because now that we had this podcast There's gonna be one. We're gonna talk about everything else going on So we have it. Have we talk about our expectations our hopes and our dreams For things like the Microsoft press conference the Sony press conference that would be soft press conference What yes, we're actually talking about other things For one week only as a special road to e3 because yes, believe it or not. We actually pay attention to what's happening beyond Nintendo So we're gonna talk about that Original game plan for this podcast wasn't a gaming general gaming podcast before it became what it is today, right? and then One of our weeks we're gonna be talking about I think it's actually be next week. We'll be talking about third parties and Our hopes and expectations For their games and which ones we want coming to switch specifically So we know like some games might not be coming to switch You know like probably not Kingdom Hearts 3 or something like that But there might be games we do expect to come NBA 2k19 is an example and what we expect from that and then Yeah, there's still a week in there. It's a blank right now. It's a mystery. I'm still toiling with some ideas, but We'll make it happen. Thank you guys so much for tuning in I hope you guys weren't too bored of this particular So a lot of it was a little weird reminiscing talking about things that might happen because we don't really know So you get there there were changes on a whim. There were a lot of squirrel moments But I wanted to have that have one podcast. Yeah in this road to e3 or it's just you and I Just talking about e3 the whole experience because the people at home don't get the experience. Yeah, right The people at home see all this person got all the swag Person that was kind of cool. I mean, I knew that was a thing right you get all this way Wild t-shirts and coins My zipper broke I'm fairly certain that it didn't break but hey at least I have one in my Dodger I had two in my Dodger pen. So Yep No, I have all mine. Yeah, nobody cares because mine was my carry-on. Yeah, I know Well, you should know that I don't know that you didn't know that I'm flights on flights You know, you definitely never want to lose you put in your why do you think my laptop and like everything? Yeah, no I know my carry-on was like proof. He was like, I don't even know how we fit it on the plane Yeah, I think it barely fit Punching it to get it in. I'm like, you know what doesn't matter. Yeah, cuz I'm not gonna lose anything that matters to me For sure. I'll lose my clothes It sucks, but I'll have more clothes. We could shop and he is shopping only I had to buy a new suit a new travel case and then suitcase that immediately got destroyed on the flight back And then they got destroyed on the flight back It seems like a nice cuz yeah the zipper broke on the way on the one for the way out I mean, I didn't lose anything but it seemed like a nice bag, but I can't use it I still haven't and then well, I don't know what I'm gonna use this year because So that the zipper broke after we got to the hotel the very first night, I remember you opening your your thing and it all seems like Yeah, and like and we're not I'm not just talking about like it it was bent off like it snapped. Yeah And then I found a really good deal on some luggage that looked Yeah, well as good a quality is what I had of course looks can be deceiving. Yes, and obviously with the price you're paying them But if everything was fine got back that's like dead didn't the wheels broke like the wheels bent. Yeah It's like what do these guys do to it Yeah, well, yeah Now they gets whipped around and it's in a cargo bay on a plane any sort of turbulence your luggage That's not strapped down. Yeah, it's just chucked in the bottom of the plane. So No, that's the thing. That's why anything valuable you keep. Yeah And it's gonna be very difficult this year because I have a camera and then I'll have the rental laptop. I'll have I Just have more stuff this time Some of the lenses I'll probably put in there like I'm not not the expense like this 14 millimeter This is this is that's coming with me because if that gets wrecked I fucked because that's like a $200 lens, but There's other like little Little other lenses that they can cut down on glare and all stuff like I might just throw those in there Those are cheap. I can replace those easily if I lose them but like the actual camera the road Mike and that will come with me and then Obviously my phone will be with me the switch will be with me the laptop will be with me I could fit all that in in a backpack, but I'm there's always other that camera There's there's things like even some of the souvenirs you get The coins like hey at the time I even think today I can get like 50 bucks a pop for those coins Yeah They're just they become more and more valuable over time as well, especially the ones that have stayed sealed Because that all a minor seal. That's just what happened. Some of them came well one I opened on purpose The rest of you know, we had what six of them a piece something like that And I still Looked like I just got them Because you haven't worn them actually Okay, well then I don't know we're just a little wrinkly but like you get rid of the wrinkles and it looks brand new It's like yeah, actually the one that I have I've worn them a shitload that a couple that I have so last better than my shirt I know right like I have other like Zelda fan made shirts or like Nintendo Prime shirts No, those fucking ones Nintendo gave me They're fantastic Yeah, Nintendo man. Yeah quality on the shirts What's your what's your what's your provider? Let us know. I know because on the tags it says Nintendo So you can't find because I kept checking the thing like all right, where's this from? Yeah Okay, you didn't actually make him yourself. What company did you hire? Yeah? Maybe they did maybe they have their own project impressive. You never know You never know all right folks, so thanks for tuning in for episode 64 the end 64 It's been amazing I can't wait to get to eat three we can't tell we're pretty excited I Can't wait for the zillions of stories. We're gonna have after this trip Mm-hmm. There's always something new something fresh happening every single day Hopefully nothing bad like the one like when we briefly talked about that serious accident Yeah, right Bob, and that's when we still don't even know what happened I know that someone got carted off. Yeah There was like they had a full back brace and neck brace on. Oh, no, they were they were full backboard Yeah, I don't know they were fully backboarded. I don't Obviously because it happened happened just before we got to there. Yeah, so Hopefully nothing bad like that happens anytime. You're in a huge crowd people push things happen. No, yeah, we know that Actually and hopefully yeah, that's one story. I'll tell you what we'll end on one on one story very first day. Yep We're waiting because we're just and we weren't we weren't the only ones like none of the media could get early access to one And I know that and we still didn't know that we were in a group with a zillion and we still didn't know that I saw the folks from easy allies there who have been to like a zillion E3s and they were in the same group waiting to get it as we were We got in and It's like a stampede though. They'll tell you don't run And they won't Going to the door once they get past the security Dead sprints. I watched people wipe out like we were actually towards the front because we were one of the first people there so we were actually did not to worry necessarily about Being in the back of the line right away. Well, we ended up but we ended up there. Yeah, because oh, that's right because Even when you're in the front, it's almost more dangerous because the stampede's coming behind and they ain't stopping for anything new and I ended up I think going through the razor booth just to avoid people and Somewhere in the commotion because I was getting drilled like for it felt like I was getting beat like out like I'm Playing football and someone's trying to take me out and I'm just trying to stay on my ground We got to the line For Zelda and all of a sudden we look down and my E3 badge were gone and you get one E3 badge. Yep. That's it Mm-hmm one. They will not replace it under any circumstance. No matter how much you prove who you are. Mm-hmm There is no replacement. Mm-hmm. Oh by a gamer And it's by media badge, so I'm like no fuck. No, yeah And I was scared to leave because I had I knew I had it when I came through the door And what happened was the E3 badges on a Wanyard, it's not a lanyard. That's not the issue. I have a hanging it was in a plastic sheet thing And what happened is I think the in the plastic sheet thing that this big anime advertisement I think I got caught on something. I think it was a sign. I know I was pretty sure we remember you But I'm pretty sure you got pushed into a sign whatever it was And what happened is it ripped the plastic that caused my badge to fall out And obviously I didn't notice it until Eric pointed out. What's your badge? And I'm like, what do you mean what's a badge? Okay Yeah, well All right, I guess I'm back in that line right now. Go we all went back and I found my little I found my little anime thing But I didn't find my badge and I'm just panicking because I figured someone might have stole it So they can just get in Because all you need is a lanyard thing and there's a hundred million of them Steal from somebody else and I know it's someone who's already in here where they have a gamer pass And they and the media pass. Yeah, and the thing was is it's they say don't trade passes, but Well thing is we're not people that do that. No, but it's one of those they thought they check your ID, right? Exactly. It's not like they stop you every time. They don't check your ID now They might if somebody complains like if I if because I complain to customer service Happening is that someone did turn in it was actually one of the guys who work was working a booth Yeah, yeah, so what I got lucky is it was someone working there not like a media member or a fan Yeah, my whole worry was a fan grabbed it and I'm fucked Instead thankfully it was someone who was working there. They grabbed it and they're obviously the ones are they they know How big a deal it is so they got it turned in and my and I was definitely afraid to go ask customer service Because you have to leave leave the show floor show floor to do that and if I leave the show floor, and they don't have it I can't get back in So that first like my first few hours there. I was panicking. I'm like, well, I guess I could stay in line and plays all love but then But what's the what's the thing though is if somebody notices you don't have a pass Even though you have the land your dinner in well, they the people and I weren't they weren't really checking down Right, but but that's not that's that's a plus remember what happened was I had the anime thing So and then I just like I just flip my thing backwards like my past is Yeah, they know I would ask any questions But I don't think they would anyways because you couldn't get through the door without the past because they did check to make sure you had a Pass right right so It was one of those things that like but they were very clear about the rules like if you lose your path like I even Talked to some security guys. They're like If you lost your pass in here as soon as you leave we can't let you back in Because like I you know I told security because I want to know if they knew if someone handed it to them or something And security is just like no, but I mean you're fine. You're already in because we already checked your pass So you're fine, but you know if you leave you can't come back Mm-hmm, and I'm like so I was all panicking that we just invested all this money and all of a sudden I am just fucked mm-hmm So I never next to 250 fucking dollars to get back in or whatever it cost actually I think it was more expensive. Yeah, I think it was it more expensive that first year, and I'm like I'm I'm screwed Thankfully someone did turn it in and I know being kind of cool. It wasn't worth my panic But it'll be cool because I got an extra land. Yeah, because they were not giving out extra landers We even asked so maybe on the last day and they didn't have any extra last day So I ended up getting two landiards because that what they did is they put my pass in a new land You're that wasn't wrapped mm-hmm, and then I took the anime thing out of it They're right away Make sure I think that after that well I think after the very first time when we all took her anime stuff out of it I mean I kept the anime thing of course as a Memory thing but and I think even the three the three lander have this still has the plastic attached it is ripped now But yeah, I think I think I got ripped in the last day, and I'm like I still have my pass. Yeah But yeah, that's kind of a Kind of a scary story that kind of ruined my entire first day because well It was cool to get a second lander because it was a Zelda lander. Yes It man, my you guys have no idea like I was I was crying I Thought I thought I spent all this money And I'm not even gonna get to enjoy like I'd never been to you three But yeah I mean to like it was almost like my swan song exit from Zelda informer Yeah, right cuz one of the my number one goals when we had Zelda form of going back when we only get 200 hits a day Well, but was we wanted to be able to E3 and I've been editor in chief forever and never gone We had sent other people and so it was this huge deal for me to go like this site was just sold I knew my time might be limited and I'm like, you know, and that was one of the decisions to go It was like yeah masses doesn't give a shit if we go right now like he doesn't care But it's like a personal thing one Zelda a little bit through when I run a cell right exactly Yeah, either I'm the editor-in-chief. I've sent all these other people. I've never gone myself. Yeah, I need to go while I still have access Little did I know to E3's later Literally my second E3 as a youtuber You got first as a youtuber No, I mean, I was technically youtuber last E3 to Not anyone here is much. I started doing daily videos right after right after E3 But I was doing I was doing weekly two or three videos a week Which is that that your youtuber is funny you two are way bigger than me. I do two or three great But I became a daily youtuber shortly after that But it was just one of those things where I didn't think I was ever gonna last year I didn't even come to like E3 I wasn't even thinking about it this year till people started asking and I just sincerely from Bob and heart thank you because I don't know You know, even if we blow up from this and things are going well It doesn't mean that we have enough viewership stuff for media credentials next year Although we do have a plan for that And there's no guarantee that I'm gonna be making enough money to go next year And there's no guarantee that we can raise money to go again Am I comfortable asking for $3,500 again next year probably not It's amazing. We got it once I don't want to push my luck But again, it's one of those things that you can put it out there and we might not need 35 The thing is if the channel is doing better, and I'm doing better I'm gonna need that right right and it's one of those things that again as long as they know It's gonna go to bettering the site if we don't go well, and I think what's what what's what helps for us to maybe go again next year is The fact that we might might Have An even more loyal following if we nail this e3. I don't know if we will we're gonna try our best Use my experience from last e3 editing stuff and just get my mind around it No matter what I'm gonna be up late editing. That's just how it is But if we nail this e3 my god Well people probably want us to go back again no matter what it takes Because they're gonna be like we loved you with the best e3 coverage on you. My goal is that somebody out there I don't know who it is One of you will look at our e3 coverage and be like holy shit That's some of the best e3 like those are people that care those really give a fuck about what they're doing They're there to do a goddamn job, and they fucking did it Because here's here's one thing that did piss me off a little bit about the e3 attitude Even among certain media members they weren't there to do a job They were there for fun, and you know what it is fine to be there for something wrong with that Especially on like the last day if you've done your work the first two days have fun, but I Was there for a fucking job. I had a job to do at least a job. I felt like I needed to do and If you thought I was dedicated back then to needing to do a job when I was working for somebody else imagine when I Look at myself and like dude. This is an opportunity. This is for me. This is for us This is this isn't everybody out there. I mean it's for you guys Yeah, but it's not I'm not doing this for another man or I'm not making money for somebody else We're doing whatever or growing someone else's following. This is my own my own thing. So like I'm there for a job first and foremost. I plan to have fun It should be a little bit easier that you know, so it's not just funneled into one game, but I'm there to do a job and I hope when we're all all sudden done. I can say not only did I have fun You guys took a look at our coverage. It's like goddamn They are dedicated as hell, how did they how did they get more footage of this or more variety of switch footage of games and IGN fucking pulled off when I was their own goddamn booth and doesn't have to wait in line Yeah, great. How did they do that? How did they discover something that no one else did? How did How did Nintendo Prime of all people get Reggie fees me's business card Hey, why not? Piper, how did you know? Like how did you you know do this? How did you do that? How did you get all these various people's opinions like right on like I can do hot shoot right on the show floor? Because I have the robe mic. That's why I wanted the robe. I give it hey Like like different people like you played this. What do you think about this? Well, I can get opinions of fans. I can get opinions of other youtubers like on the fly this time I want you guys to come away not thinking that we're the most professional Production ever because we're not going to be but you know, we can't compete with the game explains of the world and stuff like that We don't want to be them. We don't have to well plus we don't have to we don't have the editing equipment And the editors yeah, right like I'm not no game explains not a big team either But they have multiple people that can video edit right whereas it's basically me And maybe some light stuff I could teach Eric, but we still have one computer and Martin We only for the podcast, but one computer to edit from so either way we're limited Even if we alternate sleep schedule, you're still limited I Someone who dissected your computer to install SSD. I know your computer can't do it my PC may not your PC We're bringing a PC now if we're doing that and bringing this one. No, I said my PC may not my laptop that doesn't mean Mike The heck is it my Mac can't We'd have to test that because I have never used Final Cut, so I don't know I mean I heard it's easy to use, but I don't know how I'm obviously works well with Apple hardware, but you know because I know it's an older older Mac mini But yeah, that doesn't mean that it doesn't mean that I can't I haven't had it with it Right, we know we know we probably so we should test it. Yes, it is small enough to throw it out That is because we don't know if we'll hook it up to the TV. You don't always get access to the ports on TV True, but but I mean Hook it up to our phone wait Yeah, I'm not bringing a monitor. Yeah, well obviously that that'd be ready. That'd be ridiculous. I would have to stop at a stop at a pawn shop and get like a freaking Perfect for a dollar monitor. Yeah, it's one of the big old-school boob monitors, but you know what? Why not exactly right? It will just go wondered on that one street that we phoned everything for cheap as heck and we'll try to see if we can find a I would prefer 4k For 99.9% color. Yeah. Yeah, right accuracy. Nice. Oh, gosh. I want by the way 144 Hertz widescreen if possible I want 144 for 20 bucks. I want a 43 inch monitor. I don't want I don't need your old boob TV's monitor curved Yeah, I want I want basically a 7,000 monitor Let's go with this go 600 and make it a plasma What for an extra editing computer I actually debated my how much would it cost to ship my computer and my monitor to my hotel and Honestly, it probably wouldn't be that much. I mean I had to pack it really well That's fine. Oh, I understand that but if I ship it if I ship it as a fragile package please through UPS You want it packaged? We can bring it to my work and I'll package it up. We got we got stuff to ship PCs well the thing is is Yeah, because I still have the case box So literally I could fit it perfectly in the case box with all the stuff I mean I had to I have to put something and I'll probably just unplug the GPU and stuff All right, right, right But You know, you know, it would be something to look into look into I'm gonna I'm gonna run the editing laptop anyways, but if I know really but if but if it's actually cheaper to ship it Why wouldn't why would you it's a hassle? It is a hassle. It's a take down obviously But what we have the time why would you why would you still rent a laptop if you had your rig? Why because I can't I can only render one video at a time. Oh, yeah I suppose so what I could do is and sometimes the videos to can take 20 30 minutes in that time I can have another video done in rendering on another great and and you know, well upload wise I think we have I think we have some testing to do. We might be away might if we can if we can test with Getting check on your PC shipping price check my Mac mini Whether or not can actually do that if we can ship Your PC out and a monitor out or a couple a couple monitors out. I Honestly, no, we would need to For my honestly I Don't worry about it. I got it. You got what I got I don't worry about I got it. You got what I got the monitors Don't worry about it. I got it. Well, why don't you yet? We got old ones at work. So that I could just I don't even know but well because I say because the footage is gonna be 60 FPS So it has to be six shirts. I don't know what they are, but they're not terrible They're not terrible. I'm just saying because I had that Ben Q one in there. That's actually a really nice one Right. Yes. I have a Ben Q gaming monitor. I don't even We can ship that and I recording for oh, we can ship that then But honestly, yeah, it's amazing. See what's happening. This is what we had a discussion. We come up with more ideas Yeah, but I suppose we can let these people go and it's cool and we can we can discuss some of this afterwards Thanks for thanks for coming in guys. We'll catch you next week for whatever we decide It's gonna be a topic on our road to three week three. This is road to E3 week two. Yeah, peace out. Yeah Don't stop recording it. I have an idea Then I'm gonna do let's get Picture of our business card tomorrow. Well, actually you can stuff recording We can just get a picture of our business cards to Martin that you can just throw up on We have business cards You