 Alright boys, it's time to show you my setup. I've been waiting to do this video because you never feel like your setup is perfect. That's one of the points I want to make to you guys. You will never have enough. There is no end. You always want something new, something better, improve it somehow. You never feel like you're done. So you know, that's just how it is. And another thing I want to show you guys about setups is that when I used to watch things like this, when I was first starting as a content creator, gamer, streamer, whatever it may be that you're thinking about, this stuff was overwhelming. It was. I did not start like this. This is not how you start as a streamer. It's not how you start as a content creator. You start gradually, slowly. So I just want to show you guys what my stream looked like. If you take a look over here, this is what my stream looked like when I started. Top left was Madden 6th, Madden 17th, I believe. And then you go on Madden 19, Madden 20 and so on and so forth. So this is not an overnight thing. You don't get these things overnight. You don't. It's just, that's just not how this process works, man. Yeah, I know you're going to watch this like, wow, this is intimidating. How do I get that much stuff? Or how do I get that much equipment? It's so much money, blah, blah, blah. It does not happen overnight. All right, this is, I've been partnering on Twitch for six years. I've been gaming for 36 years. That's how old I am. So this is stuff that, you know, I've gotten along the way. I moved on and continue to upgrade over and over. I also want to Man Championship help fund a lot of this stuff, you know. But at the end of the day, I always have an Xbox, always a PlayStation. A computer was something I did not have until I started streaming. I streamed directly off of the Xbox to start my career as a streamer. That's how I think everyone should start, you know, without buying equipment. Equipment should not be the first thing you get when it comes to streaming. But this is what I got. Let's get it. I want to show you guys, if you'd like to see a video of all my memorabilia and everything, we can do a separate one for that. I won't talk about that too much, but all my drawings, these are all my drawings. I am an artist. If you want to follow that, I'll put the link in below. Let's talk about this setup, how it started, what my ideas are, and how essentially it works. I need somewhere this most, almost the most paramount thing as far as buying a house was for me. This had a great basement. I'm going to show you guys, because I did have a Twitter thread of my setup, how I built everything. I'm a little bit handy. You know, I was a blue collar guy before video game. So I know how to turn a wrench and a drill. So I did do a lot of this myself. I will show you guys, the Twitter link is below for this whole thread. But let's take a look. Here I was, this one I first moved in. It was about a month before Madden 23 launched, I believe. And I put all my stuff in these bins and everything. And this is the desk I had right here, a little L desk, Ikea special, boys. That's what this was. An Ikea special, probably no more than $200, a great desk. Honestly, it held me down. Love the L shaped desk. Love having my arm over there kind of leaning. That was kind of what I had, right? So this is what the basement was before I started. Like it was just, it was a nice rustic, you know, woodsy type of thing. Got the yellow walls, got the wood floor, got this tile right here. It actually had a bar right here. You see these doors into the laundry room here and actually had a bar in here. If you guys see this, this was a bar right here and actually a sauna over here. So it was a lot of stuff I had to take out to do this. And that's what I eventually did as we go down here. I tore out all that bar. I tore out the sauna. There is a bathroom behind me, but then I came down with the floor. I had to redo the flooring. I had to fill that in. You guys, I had to do drywall, all this stuff I did to expand this space that I'm sitting in right now. Then I had an unfinished ceiling, painted all that because, you know, that was kind of the vibe was an industrial thing. And it would save me a lot of room. And I'll come to that a little bit later in that the unfinished ceiling allows me to put wires in the wall and everything like that. So this is how I was going. This house was set up was essentially just like that. And I painted it all black. Why? Because I was going to paint the ceiling. I decided, boom, we're going to paint the walls, too. Why not? Let's just keep going. Paint it all black. So I love how it got. Love how it went down, finished the painting, boom, just like that. Now, I'll be honest, one of the biggest things that happened to me is that after I did all this, I put my desk, that same desk I had. I was going to use this desk right here, but I put it in the middle of the setup and I was like, this just isn't. It doesn't have the girth that we need. So what I did is I went to Home Depot, bought two sheets of plywood, some four by four, some two by fours. And, you know, luckily, I have a drill and, you know, some screws. And we pretty much, you know, a circular saw and we made some cuts. We made some diagrams. We got it done. I made this whole desk right here. You know, I just drew some things out. Put some sealant on the desk, all these pieces we put together. So I made this, you know, and honestly, I would tell you guys, and I'll show you this desk in more detail, I would tell you guys, if you have the wherewithal to make a desk, it's really not that complicated. You know, I think it's definitely the way to go. And I'll show you guys later why that is. You know, but that's what I did pretty much, you know, we got it done, made the desk, all that stuff. So let's let's get into exactly how this works, too, because that's what we are. How does this work? If you guys don't know, I am a console streamer. I stream from the console, so I use the Xbox. I use a PlayStation. I only have one PC, a lot of streamers play on the PC. So they'll have a dual PC setup. I only have one. Now, like I said, this doesn't happen overnight. I first started plugging in just an Xbox to a TV. So so on and so forth. We move on. I'll show you guys how this works and everything real quick before I actually show you the breakdown or whatever. But I'll show you right now. This is my setup. Boom, we have a main monitor, a side monitor, and then we have our gaming monitor. I have our two systems here, PlayStation or my PC is right here. My PC specs. I'll put those below as well for the one PC that I'm running right now. I don't play games off it. I just stream off of it. But I said I also obviously have a camera, a lighting. I have stream decks, mouse, microphone, everything. So if you guys want to know more about that, just ask questions. I'll show you as much as I can. But this is how it works, right? So I have two systems I try. I mostly play play Xbox. So in a perfect world or in an easier world, I would just have an Xbox. But what we have to do here is we have to connect all these things. Now, what I'll do is I'll run. Obviously, I'll plug all these into the power supply. But then I'll run a place that this is HDMI cord here. HDMI and then the HDMI from the Xbox. This goes into what I call a switcher, right? So this is a switcher and I can press a button and change which HDMI it's using. And then this HDMI and then it has one output, right? So you press a button and switch which HDMI is currently being used right here on the Xbox and PlayStation. Boom. Now that goes to a splitter. So that splits that HDMI cord and one of them runs through my gaming monitor and one of them runs to my capture card on my PC. I have an internal quad capture card, HDMI capture card. So that's how that works. I turn on my Xbox and one I hit the switch. So make sure it's on Xbox and it goes right to my gaming monitor and to my PC and obviously my PC will then go to this monitor and that monitor. So that's kind of how I use my situation and everything like that. All right, boys, here we go. This is like I said, this is my gaming monitor, my main monitor, just like that. Second monitor, computer, keyboard, microphone, stream deck, my mouse, my controllers, everything into this custom desk that I have. You know, the paint's getting a little chipped. I might have to touch that up a little bit as you come over here. We've got the PC right here. We've got PlayStation Xbox. We have this is actually our modem right here. Got the speakers for the TV in here as well that go to the TV, the Bluetooth, soundbar speakers, all that good stuff. But the best thing about the actual building your own desk is you can put holes in the desk like grommets or whatever they may be. And here we go. I put giant cut giant holes with the jigsaw. So every single cord, all that how I broke it down, it all goes into the desk. Doesn't hang over the desk, doesn't hang behind the desk. I'm able to put everything to the middle of the desk here. Through those big holes, all the HDMI cords, all the USB cords go into that. So you hide it pretty well, you know, you don't really see any cords in my setup. One of my favorite things and I actually have cords that go into this floor jack right here that helps support the beam here. That's why I have this maddam totem here. It's just the kind of hide or decorate all these cords I have running up into our unfinished ceiling for different electricals, different cameras as I have a camera hanging over here as my second camera. It's all into the ceiling of the floor or a ceiling of the room. You see all these different cords I actually have an HDMI cord from the PC all the way to the TV. So if I wanted to put PC on my TV, pretty easily could do that, you know, so that's one of the benefits of having the open ceiling. And like I said, I have electric over here as well that I run my lights on and everything like this, so I have no cables going from, you know, just from the desk all the way to the ceiling. So that's a benefit of it. And I'll show you guys why I love having this hole in my desk and what I did to make it even better. Here I am, boys, underneath the desk. These are the holes you guys saw up top. I put every single one of my boxes, extension, power surge outlets, whatever power surgers, different power cords I could plug into. I actually glued them with industrial caulk to the bottom of my desk. So everything's plugged in and locked in, not on the ground. As you see, the ground is clear, but on the bottom of my desk, it's all glued up there. All the cables are just hit with staples. You know, I hammered staples in to just hold the cables up. And like I said, every single one of these boxes is glued in with industrial caulk. This is the switcher I talked about. You see my PlayStation, my Xbox. Then the outright here goes to the splitter, which is here. Then one of those goes to my gaming monitor. One goes to my PC. So this is the best benefit of getting this essentially custom desk that I built myself and I was able to put holes in, whether it be with the jigsaw or whether it be with the big hole saw, whatever it may be, we put holes in it to run our wires through the desk rather than under it around it. And I have a toddler son, so there's absolutely no cables on the floor. And I love that about it. So you can run under a desk. Our boys, there's my setup. There you see it. If you have any questions, please let me know. I'll try to answer as many questions as I can, maybe even with follow up videos going forward. But this is what I got. This is a lot of years of working at it. It's a lot of years of watching sports, being an Eagles fan as well. So just collected a lot of things throughout the years and really put my all into streaming the last five or six years. So this is what we have looking to improve at every single moment. Let me know what you're looking for. What's your next piece of equipment that you want for your gaming setup? What are you playing on now? Are you an Xbox guy? Xbox right to the TV was 20 years of my life at least. So there's nothing wrong with that. That's where I started, but this is where we're at now. Let me know how you guys are feeling. Did you like this video? Did you guys lock in on a setup? Do you love it? And like I said, you want to see it live every single night, twitch.tv slash dub dot. This is the other camera I showed you guys about right here. Boom, the one that's over in the wall, run through the cables, all that stuff like that. So I like to keep that view along with obviously the main webcam like this or my DSLR camera and things like that. So any equipment I'll try to put in the description. Make sure you guys check it out. Make sure you guys check out some streams. It is mad in season. Let's get it boys.