Beyond the Stream
Howdy howdy, I'm Bullet. I've been streaming on Twitch since 2015 and have had a lot of ups and downs on this streaming journey. I took a step away from streaming in 2018 and recently got back into streaming late 2024. Since getting back into streaming, I have been all about supporting small streamers, and helping them grow their communities. I started a shoutout series on TikTok every Sunday called "streamer Sundays", where I shout out a small streamer and help get their names out into the world. And that dawned this podcast, I wanted to go further than a 2 minute video. I wanted to sit down and pick the mind of these small streamers and see what gets them to hit "go live". So join me as I sit down with small streamers every other week and get to know these streamers Beyond the Stream! Side note, all of the episodes are lived streamed to Twitch and Tiktok so there will be some interactions throughout the episode.
Beyond the Stream
Trash_Panda_B
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On this episode, we get to sit down with Trash_Panda_b and learn all about his streaming journey over the last 2 years on Twitch and TikTok.
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Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. How are we doing? Lady I see Crash, how are we doing? Welcome in, welcome in. And ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, Mr. Trash Panaby, welcome in, sir. Welcome in.
SPEAKER_04What's good? How are we doing? Glad to be here. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. Thank you, my good man. Dope intro. Well, I appreciate that, Scotch. Like I said, everything that you guys see on this podcast, um, the guests approve everything. I make multiple scenes and send them to them, and they say, don't like, don't like, like it. Alright, that's the one we're gonna go with. So everything you see, they have the final say on it, and that goes from the overlays to the songs to everything you see on here. So I made it and panda signed off on it.
SPEAKER_04So good work, solid work, solid work for sure.
SPEAKER_00Well, I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_04I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_00Um, so Mr. Panda, we won't waste no time. Go ahead, introduce yourself. Um, tell us who you are, tell us what you're about.
SPEAKER_04Alright. Well, uh, trash pen to be. Uh, real name is Brendan. I uh got a got a pretty decent sized family. Um I got a wife, two kids. Youngest kid is he just turned five months. Oldest kid is about to turn four, so we got uh we got us a handful going on over here. Um full-time job, uh I s I guess you could say full-time job, about ten days a month being a firefighter. Full enough, I guess. But uh firefighter paramedic, been doing that, paid for probably almost six years now, maybe just a little over six years. Um volunteered before that. And uh avid gamer, love to play golf. Um, just like to hang out with friends.
SPEAKER_00Nice, nice first responder. Much love, much love. I can attest to that as I am also working EMS full-time. So definitely uh uh interesting field for sure, because like you, I started out volunteering and went to the paid side of it, and definitely a uh great field to be in. So definitely tip my hat to you, sir.
SPEAKER_04That's uh it's uh it's got its ups and downs for sure. That is you can attest to uh that isn't it?
SPEAKER_00So where did you come up with your stream name Trash Panda B?
SPEAKER_04Okay. So I when I originally started streaming, I was B Man19 gaming, and I was like, that that just doesn't I don't like the way that flows, I don't like how that goes, and I don't like the way it looks. So at work, our station logo is a a raccoon, and we decided to call ourselves the Trash Pandas, and so I kind of uh it integrated that into uh into my streamer name, Trash Panda B, first name obviously being Brendan, so I had to throw that B in there. Um so that's kind of where it came from. It took me a while to actually come up with that. I've typed some stuff into Chat GBT and I was like, I man, I can't just I can't figure out like what I want to do. And I was like, oh man, we we just kind of redid our mascot at work. Let's see if I can do something with that. So that's kind of where we came up with that at.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I see it on your head. I now that you say that I could see it on your hat. So yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we got we got a bunch of new shirts and and uh hats and stuff that just my my crew, my station came up with and made. So we kind of we kind of represent the the trash pandas.
SPEAKER_00There you go, nothing wrong there. My um old volunteer department, we our logo was a dragon. So oh cool. Yep, it was a dragon with a uh axe. And oh yeah, it it was very outdated and it got a modern modern twist on it uh a couple years ago, so it's definitely unique for sure.
SPEAKER_04It's always good to uh get the updated logos to see how they look now.
SPEAKER_00Very, very true. So what got you into streaming?
SPEAKER_04Man, I was I was one day I was just kinda like uh I don't I don't know if you know, but I got a buddy named um Chris Pretty goes by its KP on Twitch and all that stuff. Me and him one day we were we gamed all the time together and we still game quite a bit. Um but as we were going, we were like, man, we like we kinda wanna we're kind of idiots and we kind of say some wild stuff like let's see uh let's see how this goes if we like start presenting it to people or like start streaming and and see how many followers and stuff we can get or see how it goes and just see what happens when we start it. So we both we both jumped in, bought PCs, um, stuff like that. That's when I really got into, I would say, really got into streaming, started, you know, leveling up my stuff and all that. When I originally started streaming, I was in my living room on my PlayStation 5 and it has like the broadcast setting. I was just broadcasting on like a probably 55-inch screen TV, could barely see like Battlefield or whatever I was playing, Fortnite maybe at the time. I was sitting like five feet back from the TV with with my my my oldest was uh newborn at the time, so I'm just trying to I was trying to battle with her crying during the stream, and I'm trying to like play Fortnite or Battlefield or whatever I was playing, and so um, but that's what it's just more of like, hey man, like I say some crazy stuff and I make people laugh. Let's see, let's see how many people I can make laugh and see what they think of it.
SPEAKER_00So well, you definitely get me laughing when I when I'm in your stream because you know it you you do like making a fool of yourself, and if that's not nothing, you know, not kind of rude or but yeah, we we enjoy making fools of ourselves and when you enjoy streaming, like you're gonna make a fool of yourself. And that's that's one of the many characteristics about you that I definitely enjoy. It's like you're you're not putting a cover on, like you are just you. And I know working in our field, you you gotta, you know, be a fool sometimes.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Luckily with with uh our field and especially at my station, we all we're all super close. Um and we make I know this is gonna sound bad. Don't go to HR or anything, but we we like to make fun of each other and and we'll call each other out on on stuff that they do wrong. Obviously, you gotta you still gotta have that, hey man, like you screwed up and this is how you need to fix it, stuff like that. But uh, but yeah, definitely make make fun of each other, build character, um, make fun of yourself every now and then if you got to, but uh you know, it uh it it all works out in the end and you become closer for it.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, for sure. It's and like you just said, you know, when you're with working long shifts like that, and you know you're home you're at work more than you're at your house, like that does become your second family. So yeah, you do gotta have the tough love moments and uh you know busting each other's chops. It's just a very dysfunctional functional family. That's that's how that's how we look at it in in the department is it's a very dysfunctional functional family. So how long have you streamed for?
SPEAKER_04So I would say like consistent streaming, probably about two years now. Unconsistently, probably about three, maybe four years. When I first started streaming, um I kind of I was going with it. I didn't have like a set schedule or anything like that. Um when I first started out. I was just kind of just whenever I got free time, I would stream. Um, which was hectic as heck because it would be either at two o'clock in the morning or eleven o'clock in the morning. It was whenever I would like just get up, take care of the baby when I was not on shift, obviously. Um, and my wife was working full time, she's still working full time as a teacher, so uh it was up to me to take care of the kiddo while she was at work and uh keep her alive, and so I did that um while also playing video games, and I will call that a win. But yeah, so consistently streaming about two years, unconsistently about four years. I was I was kind of streaming about one to two years, took a break for about six months, maybe a year, and then came back in, and I was like, you know what, I gotta be more consistent, have a better schedule, and and go that route. So consistently streaming about two years now.
SPEAKER_00I I like how you threw in there that it w it was your job to keep keep the kiddo alive while the wife was out. Oh yeah. Uh do you stream on any other platforms other than Twitch?
SPEAKER_04So I uh stream on TikTok as well. I do kind of like a multi-stream on uh Twitch and TikTok usually is when I go live.
SPEAKER_00Same username as as your Twitch handle. That's correct. Okay, and and for those that are listening, it's trash underscore panda underscore B. Someone's gotta keep the goblin alive, right? Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, now we got two of them, so So what kind of games do you stream or do you have a favorite type game that you enjoy streaming?
SPEAKER_04Okay. When I first started out streaming, gaming, whatever you want to call it. Um I was really into like battle royales. When I first started out, Fortnite was big, so I was playing Fortnite, I was also pa playing like Battlefield 2042, um, Call of Duty, um, all that stuff. Just battle royales mostly. Um there was a time I went through like a little um I guess streak of I wanted to play multiplayer like search and destroy, stuff like that with Call of Duty and stuff. Now, however, it's hard for me. I say it's hard for me to play those. I'll play Apex every now and then, which is a Battle Royale. Um it's hard for me to get back into those after playing like Arc Raiders, Escape from Tarkov, um, arena breakout, stuff like that, the extraction shooters where it's just a constant grind. I feel like I feel like playing the battle royale stuff, I don't get as much satisfaction when I live through a raid or or anything like that. So right now I'm hooked on uh the extraction shooters like um Park Raiders and Escape from Tark Odd and Arena Breakout and stuff.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, um yeah, I enjoy especially when you rage in those games, and it it it is quite hilarious watching you rage, especially in ARC. I I've never played ARK, and I'm not gonna say I'm never gonna play it because obviously never say never does not work for me. But um the the the few streams I have caught where you've been playing it, it definitely is is quite funny watching you rage, especially like when you're right there like heading towards extract or like right there at it and get killed. That's the worst.
SPEAKER_04Those rats, man, they will take your stuff so quick, and you don't even see them coming, that's a problem. Or even if you do see them coming, it's like okay, I'm gonna give it the best shot I can, and then I still usually lose. Sometimes you just gotta crash out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I had my favorite uh clip of Ark, um, I think it was the burnt peanut. He uh he was showing somebody like how to jump and like not take fall damage from the building and he missed the ledge and ended up you know getting killed right there on the ground or getting knocked right there. Oh yes, you know what I do remember that he was like, that is not how you do it.
SPEAKER_04Yes, man, the Burt Peanut, he's he's on a different level. He is always hyped.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, for sure indeed. Ark is your game. Look at that. You got other arc fellow fellow arcers in in the chat. See collab coming soon. Oh boy. Um, so on the opposite hand of that, what kind of games will you not play?
SPEAKER_04Okay. So like uh I know this might be controversial. I'm sorry. I know people like like Diablo, the Diablo games and stuff. I can't do it, man. I can't do it. I can't, or like World of Warcraft, I can't do that either. And I get it, it's very popular games. I get it, I just can't get into it. Because I gotta like click and like then the guy moves and stuff like that. I I can't do it.
SPEAKER_00He's about to start a riot. I know about to start a riot. I know, man. I can't I don't know what it is.
SPEAKER_04I I know it, dude. I know it. I can't I don't for I can't get it just not that I don't like like the the storyline behind it and like stuff like that. It's just I can't get into like how to play the game. I I can't do it.
SPEAKER_00So does that mean you don't like old school RuneScape?
SPEAKER_04Okay, listen. I played old school rune scape back in the day and I tried it here recently, and I was like, I I I might get slowly get into it, but it was it was rough when I first started getting back into it not too long ago. And it was like, um I I don't I played it for probably like maybe two weeks, and I was like, okay, I can get into this top tier. Hey, you know they have it on your phone too now to old school RuneScape. They have an app you can play on your phone.
SPEAKER_00The more you know. So you've touched that one with which you do for a living. Um are you a what uh if you're okay answering, what certification are you uh in the EMS world?
SPEAKER_04EMS world, I'm a paramedic.
SPEAKER_00Big baller over here. I'm just a little advanced.
SPEAKER_04Okay, I gotcha. I gotcha. Well, I mean, basically we're the we're the same. The only thing that I can do that you can't do, I guess, is push uh certain medications.
SPEAKER_00EMS, yeah. Uh Shorty right there in chat, she's one of my uh co-workers and my partners.
SPEAKER_04So you take care of Duncan, you do what you gotta do. Is she just a uh she just an emt or what?
SPEAKER_00There's no such thing as just an emt, sir. You of all people should know that. You of all people should know that. Listen to the medic say medic saves lives and basic save medics, okay?
SPEAKER_04Oh no, no, EMTs save lives more than medics, I can assure you. Most of the stuff that we do is just basic stuff. Like I I I uh it's just it's it's dumb. A lot of the stuff that we get put into is just dumb.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we're we could have a whole reality series on that. I've always said if somebody was to write Hollywood and just have a script of, you know, you got live PD and live, you know, rescue. No, let them do ride times with you know, like true true documentaries and everything of of EMS stories.
SPEAKER_04Yes, absolutely. No, for sure. EMTs save medics, no doubt. They save lives more than medics do, I can assure you that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I will definitely definitely attest to that for sure. Um, so and on the fire side, are you engineer ladder? I don't know the ranks and the the paid service.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, you're good, you're good. So um it and it kind of depends on the uh the city, really. Some some people call so I'm a tailboard or just like a basic firefighter empty. I don't I I do I do like step up drive every now and then. Um we are about to open up a process for drivers, so I'm gonna try to uh get in on that and hopefully make uh get a promotion and just be a driver from here on uh until the next promotion. Um but right now I'm just a tailboard, I ride the fire truck, and then uh also the medic depends on the shift. Um, so I'll go back and forth. So that that mindset's gonna swap back and forth every other shift or every shift. Um but yeah, so right now I'm just uh bottom of the bottom of the barrel uh guy just hanging around riding a fire truck every now and then.
SPEAKER_00Hey, sometimes it pays off being the bottom of the barrel, you know. No doubt about that. I'd rather be at the bottom of the barrel than the top, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_04No doubt, yeah. Less stuff you gotta worry about.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the amount of paperwork and headache that goes along with it, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Um, so you don't have to go into like PC specs or anything, but what's your current setup look like as far as like monitors, keyboards, just the the the which the eye candy. What's what's the eye candy?
SPEAKER_04I gotcha, I gotcha. Um good thing I won't be able to go into specs because I don't really know what's all in my PC. Um, but I do have a pre-built cyber power PC from the good old Best Buy. Um and then my monitors, the the one that I game on is a curved Samsung monitor. It's the like a 29-inch, maybe a 32 inch. And then my the one that I put up all my like um stream stuff, uh OS OBS and stuff like that. It's also a Samsung, but it's just a plain Jane like 29-inch uh monitor there. Keyboards, um I have two keyboards, but the one that I mostly use is a Logitech mouse. Came with the PC is the cyber cyber power mouse as well. Um, but I mean it all works well, so I can't complain that. I do like the feel of this mouse. I have a Logitech mouse as well, and I'm gonna be honest with you, I like this cyber power mouse way better than the the Logitech mouse.
SPEAKER_00So hey and mad respect, I run a I run a uh cyber power PC as well. Heck yeah. Crash in chat says he started with a they started with a cyber power pre build as well. So I'm I mean it works, it works, you know.
SPEAKER_04No, yeah, no doubt. And you know, you I didn't get like the bottom line PC and I didn't definitely didn't get the top of the line PC. I got like a mid range one and it's done me well so far. So yeah, it's about as long as it keeps on as long as it keeps on trucking, we'll We're gonna stay with it.
SPEAKER_00So if Bullet drives the Wee Wee vehicle, what does Trash Panda drive? He drives the vehicle.
SPEAKER_04I drive, I drive both of them.
SPEAKER_00He drives the big red shiny one.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, big red, shiny one, and also the medic depends on the shift.
SPEAKER_00Hearing cyber a lot, I keep perking up. Welcome in, Spicy. How are we doing, friend? So, what is your current stream schedule look like, or how often do you try to stream weekly?
SPEAKER_04Okay, so I just kind of redid my uh my schedule. Used to, and it was hectic, I would stream on my days off. So we work at 48.96, which is two days on, four days off. Those four days, I would try to stream all four days, and that kind of screwed me because streaming four days and then turning around and trying to push out TikToks and stuff like that. The the short form content, I was like, dude, I'm I can't get all this done in time. And then I started going through burnout, I was like, man, I'm not even gonna post a video, I'm just gonna stream today. Or sometimes I was like, I'm not even gonna stream because I got to work on this other stuff, and so um just redid my schedule to where now I'm streaming Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays. If I'm off, if I'm not off on a Friday, then obviously we won't have a stream on Friday or Wednesday or Monday. But right now, the schedule is I'm gonna stream on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and then on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'm editing videos, jumping into people's streams, uh posting um like TikToks and all that stuff on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And then Saturday to Sunday, that's for the family because that's when my wife is home with the kids, um, because they're out of school and stuff. So Saturday, Sunday's family time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we um we work a 2472 shift here where I'm at. And um it it's it's definitely hard to do a consistent schedule, especially like where um you hit you have those set days in the week to do it. So I try to put a schedule out like every Sunday with my off days because I work um a C squad. What we have ABCD shifts, so I work C squad and my wife works A squad. So I I I always try to stream on A squads because obviously she's you know not here, and once little one goes down, I'm just you know twiddling my thumbs. So I try to do that, and any other times it's it really just depends if what we got going on. So I'm trying to do better as far as putting uh um a schedule out every every Sunday to get you know more consistent, I guess you can say.
SPEAKER_04I gotcha.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm on C shift too, so C shift.
SPEAKER_04Let's go, C Squad, baby!
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Who do we got in here? Uh Alexis and Grind, welcome in, welcome in. How are y'all? That is good. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. I like that. Uh and also W, yeah, family time for sure. Family, family time definitely. IRL always comes above, you know, streaming for sure. So, what's some ground rules for your channel when you have somebody new come in? You know, you gotta hit the okay, I got it before you can chat into the into the stream. So, what's some ground rules that you have set for your channel?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so basically, don't be an idiot. Um don't don't come into my stream and just start I mean, listen, okay. This is gonna be controversial again. Sometimes making fun of people, I'm good with making fun of people. You can make fun of them, but don't get carried away to where it's not jokingly anymore. Don't start calling them names that you don't mean or um anything like that. No, um don't come in my stream calling out like people that you've never even talked to. Like if I have somebody in my stream and they uh they're like a reoccurring, let's let's give Cyber another shout out. Cyber, you're in my stream all the time. If somebody was to come, just some random person come in there and start talking crap to cyber, we're gonna have some issues because you're new here and you don't you don't have that privilege yet. Um so I'm I'm kind of protective over my people. If you come in and start talking crap about somebody that you just met or that you don't know and you're just starting to say stuff, you're gonna get you're gonna get banned. Um also if you're coming in my stream and you're and you're like, hey, you know what, I'm streaming right now, y'all come over here. Obviously, that's also a bad because that's just dumb. Basic rule, just don't come in to my don't come into my stream and be an idiot. That's the literally the only rule. You can say a bunch of wild stuff, because I'm also gonna say a bunch of wild stuff. So I'll let a lot of stuff slide, but if you come in and start bullying people, talking crap to people that you just met, that they've been in my stream for a while, you're you're gonna you're gonna get talking to.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you gotta have a badge of honor to to be able to you know talk talk junk to each other.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00I'm in a OG in chat, don't mess with me. That's right, so you get them.
SPEAKER_04Heck yeah, you know what's up.
SPEAKER_00And also don't be an idiot because we we make ourselves look like idiots without you know any extra help for sure.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and if if I'm saying don't be an idiot, and I if you're being an idiot to where I classify you as an idiot, that's saying a lot. Because I act like a fool all the time.
SPEAKER_00So this is probably gonna piggyback off of the answer that you just gave, but what's a big pet peeve of yours during stream? Pet peeve.
SPEAKER_04When a small I guess let's see, let's see how you how would you say this. When this uh okay, I'm trying not to start a fight with the people in chat. When the small content artists go into your chat and they're like, hey, let me send you my portfolio, it's like dude, get get out. Don't don't I'm in the middle of a stream, just like either DM me, and most of the time they're bots anyways, so it's like just stop coming in here and saying, Hey, um I'm an small artist um that's gonna be $500 for this overlay, and it's like, dude, I'm not paying $500 for an overlay, I can make it myself kind of thing. Um, mostly it's just the self-promo stuff, honestly. Um, it's like why go into somebody else's stream and self-promo and try to pull those people away from other people's stream. Like they worked hard to get those viewers, don't take that away from them.
SPEAKER_00Definitely agree with that. I definitely agree with that. $500 is insane for overlease. Yeah, like it's like if you're trying to come in and you know spam your your business, like come up with a better price at least. Make me a little interested in it.
SPEAKER_04Give me give me like a buy one, get one or something. Like, man.
SPEAKER_00Let's see here. Uh, do you remember the first game that you streamed?
SPEAKER_04The first game that I ever streamed was either Fortnite or Battlefield 2042. Maybe Call of Duty, like Warzone. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that was one of the one of the games that I streamed the first time. Dead Space? Don't know. Cyber, that game gave me night terrors.
SPEAKER_00Well, it has been brought up. Uh tell us about Dead Space. Man, okay.
SPEAKER_04So I've never I had never played a horror game um before. And I started watching I this is when I first started watching um like Cyber. I started I started I discovered Cyber. I started watching her, I started watching um Alex and and some other people. I started watching them, and I was like, man, you know, some of these some of these games look like pretty cool. Like I I might enjoy that. Like they're not that scary, like watching them and and stuff like that. Yeah, never played a horror game and chose Dead Space. I did, yeah, it was a mistake. It was a mistake. Um and so I was like, oh, you know, I'll I'll I'll give it a I'll give it a shot. And I remember back in the day Dead Space came out, my buddy played it, and I was like, man, that game looks terrifying. I don't think I'll ever play that. And so here we are, I downloaded it. Um and I started playing it, and I and I screamed more than I've ever screamed in my entire life. It was it was terrible. The game is great, don't get me wrong. The game, the storyline, all that is great. The jump scares, not great. And I recently started playing Resident Evil 2. Um there's a there's a video out there on TikTok. Pretty sure I posted it today, I can't remember. Um, and the jump scare that got me was just like this this guy was hanging uh like through the roof, and I walked by him, and I think I might have touched him, and he like fell down, and I like my screen goes crazy, I almost fall the chair. It's it's a whole thing, but um yeah, the the scary games I don't think they're for me. I'm gonna be honest with you. Um, if I do play any more scary games, uh it's gonna have to be with like people, like friends and stuff, like like the scary games that include friends because the the solo scary games, it's rough.
SPEAKER_00Uh I I I'd be careful using your choice words of friends and and scary games because I play scary games with friends, and my friends love killing me. Oh, awesome. So collab, you could have Boogle teach you Faz.
SPEAKER_04I mean, maybe I would be down to play Fazz if as long as I have people to play with.
SPEAKER_00You should play alien isolation. I promise it's not scary. Okay, play nuclear nightmare with me, says Cyber.
SPEAKER_04Nuclear nightmare. What is nuclear nightmare? I'm down to give anything a try, but I'm not playing by myself.
SPEAKER_00And uh going back to your Resident Evil thing, like as I was um getting ready to get everything set up, I was just scrolling through TikTok, and that was like the first clip that I saw on my TikTok. I was like, and I think your caption was like, I don't know why I do this to myself, or why did I choose a scary game or something?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, this is why I don't play scary games right here. There you go, there you go. I scream like every five minutes because something scares me.
SPEAKER_00You should try Mortuary Assistant.
SPEAKER_04Dude, okay, that's another game that seems super interesting until you play it and then you're you're can't sleep at night.
SPEAKER_00Well, the thing about that game is is um it it has like five different endings, so you have to keep playing it. Dude, I know, yeah. You gotta make sure you get the demon. Yeah. If there was a childhood game that you wish you could go back in time to play again for the first time, what game would that be? Halo. My man Halo. Hold on, which Halo? One or two or three.
SPEAKER_04Probably Halo 3.
SPEAKER_00Look at that. Boom, Cyber Halo 3. She called it right before you said it. Yep.
SPEAKER_04Yep. Halo 3 would probably be my my go-to.
SPEAKER_00Good, good. Good good. Yeah, so you um so fun fact, UPN actually came in my and my uh gamer tag came from a Halo clan that me and some of my friends had put together, and that was like our our call sign on Halo and Modern Warfare 3 was UPN.
SPEAKER_04Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_00Don't ask me what it stands for because I cannot for the life of me remember. So, but yeah, so I've been UPN Bullet since Halo 3 and the original Modern Warfare days.
SPEAKER_04Fair enough. Fair enough.
SPEAKER_00I was ready to oh the the shank dumpling came out. She was ready to shank you if it came out wrong.
SPEAKER_04Listen, listen, Linda.
SPEAKER_00Listen, Linda. The first time you see the flood in Halo 1 was pretty awesome. See, I never played Halo 1.
SPEAKER_04I played Halo 3 first because Yeah, the first, yeah, the first time you see the flood, it's it's something crazy.
SPEAKER_00So look, all right, I was PlayStation 2. Okay, I I was PlayStation, and then I got a 360, and at the time that was when the 360 with the Halo 360 was out, and Halo 3 came with it. So I got that, played Halo 3, my friends got me hooked on it even more. So then I went back and played Halo 1 and 2. So I did it kind of backwards, but in my defense, it came with the console, okay?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I I like Halo so much. I went ahead and uh saw on your your PC you got like the Xbox Game Past still or whatever. Yeah, I liked it so much I went ahead and downloaded all the games again and went ahead and ran through them.
SPEAKER_00So there you go. Have you played Cursed Halo Panda?
SPEAKER_04I have not played Cursed Halo. What it what is what is that?
SPEAKER_00Yes, Cyber Elaborate. Yeah, what is Cursed Halo Cyber?
SPEAKER_04I mean, I've heard of that. Yeah. See, everybody's asking what is cursed halo. You know something we don't cyber?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. Are you a are you a device? No one knows, obviously, Cyber. No one knows if we're asking. Nobody knows. The triple eyes. That's hilarious. Okay. Well, that's not telling us what it is. Yeah, what are we what are we doing here, Cyber? Yes. Come to the front of the classroom and you want to talk over the teacher here. Yeah, come put it on the chalkboard. Or whatever kind of board they use in schools nowadays, because I know it's not chalkboards. Well, while we wait for Cyber to explain, do you have a favorite game? All-time favorite game?
SPEAKER_04Probably all-time favorite game. Man. I would say it's probably between Man, that's a tough question. I would say all-time favorite game. It's gotta be Halo, right? It's gotta be Halo. I'm trying to think of another game that just stands out. Uh, it's gotta be Halo. We're gonna we're gonna go with Halo. I haven't also I haven't played Cyberpunk yet. Apparently, that's like the like top of the tier game that everybody's recommending to play. So I haven't played that yet, so it could change, it could change and after I played that. I'm gonna start playing that on Friday, so we're gonna see how that goes.
SPEAKER_00There we go. Uh let's see, she says Cyber says someone made some funny mods under the banner of Cursed Halo. Like, you can have a warthog that is a monster truck, you can use a finger gun to shoot, just look up some funny videos. I played it for my 400.
SPEAKER_04Oh.
SPEAKER_00Oh, don't get her started with cyberpunk.
SPEAKER_04I know. She I told her the other day I was streaming, and I said, Oh man, Cyberpunk's on sale. And she was like, You gotta buy it. You like, there's no question about it. And I was like, Okay, well, that's the next game we're playing is Cyberpunk. So I think we're gonna start that on Friday.
SPEAKER_00Did you uh get Faz? Because I know you asked my opinion on it the other day in your stream.
SPEAKER_04Um so the the the three games I'm gonna purchase on Thursday. Uh they're gonna be probably Faz, Cyberpunk, and then maybe Repo. I'm not sure. So I'm not sure about repo.
SPEAKER_00Sounds like we're about to have um some collabs coming up with Mr. Trash Panda B.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Did you did you ever see the game? Um, I don't are is it RV there yet?
SPEAKER_00Have you seen that game? I I've seen it, yes. I do not have it, but I've seen quite a few people collab one.
SPEAKER_04Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'd be down to play uh some games like that. Try to expand my um my games that I play. That'd be cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, repo, out of all those games that you uh said, probably repo is my favorite when it comes to collabing because you can have so many. I think it's six people, six or seven people in a lobby at a time.
SPEAKER_04Nice.
SPEAKER_00Uh let's see, what are we talking about here? It's not like mods you have to download, so it's like part of the game for cursed halo. Oh. My husband had so much fun working on that game. Hogwarts Legacy is my all-time favorite. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_04All right, that's a good one. I like that one. I like that one too. I'm a big Harry Potter fan.
SPEAKER_00So what is your house? This is good. This is what's going to oh man. I was gonna say this is what's gonna start the riot in chat right here. So my man said he's a gryndore. Yeah. I'm a Slytherin. Oh man. Yep, I said here you go. This this yep, I'm leaving. Look, see, I told you you're starting a riot.
SPEAKER_04Oh man. Yep, I'm a Gryffindor. No big deal. Just top the tier.
SPEAKER_00No big no. See, here we go. Up Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Slytherin, up. So far, Slytherin's winning three to three to two to one. Just saying, just saying. That's tough. And and she's not in here, but the wife is a Slytherin as well. So technically we're four up. So oh, we got another Ravenclaw. So Gryffindor and Ravenclaw are second and are tied for second. Oh, got another Ravenclaw. Oh, Ravenclaw's in the lead now. Well, inside I haven't seen one Hufflepuff. Well, nobody. Well, okay, we're just gonna not comment on Hufflepuff. My uh, well, he's not in here, but my partner at work is a Hufflepuff, so I guess we can count his one vote.
SPEAKER_04There we go. Gotta get that one in there somewhere. All houses are great.
SPEAKER_00I'm technically a Slitherpuff.
SPEAKER_04Slitherpuff.
SPEAKER_00That's definitely a new one.
SPEAKER_04Nice.
SPEAKER_00How do you do that? Do you just have half your robe gold and half your robe green? Wait, how do I know what house I am? You are Slytherin. There you go. You're a Slytherin. There you go. That's all it is. You're Slytherin. You're you're how that works. Oh boy. Alright, moving on before we continue the riot. What game have you completed at 100% that you would recommend to a new gamer? Probably Halo. But it's on my questionnaire, so I'm gonna ask it.
SPEAKER_04Oh definitely, yeah, definitely Halo 100% though. Are we talking about just one single game or are we talking about like a series of games? Um either or single game. There was a game I played. Okay, listen, space sp uh Dead Space, I would recommend that game to people. If you're not afraid of all the jump scares, if you're if you're good with that stuff, Dead Space is is actually really good. Storyline's good. Um I haven't played Dead Space 2 or 3, I'm sure they're also amazing. Um but I would recommend getting off the Halo train. Dead Space was actually really, really fun. Um and I I would definitely I would definitely say if you haven't played that one, at least give it a try.
SPEAKER_00I think I played it back on the 360 back back in the day. W recommendation. Okay, okay, yes. I so so dead space, there we go. Dead space horror gamer approved. Alright, so Dead Space. That's the we'll lock in with Dead Space.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we'll do it.
SPEAKER_00So what gets you to stream on your bad days? If like you're just having a bad middle day, just you know, everything's getting to you, and you know you said that you were gonna stream today. Do you just take the day off or you push through and stream? What gets you to do the to stream on those bad days?
SPEAKER_04So on the bad days, um I would say knowing that so obviously some days you wake up and you're like, Man, I'm tired. I don't have the energy for this. I I don't I don't wanna I don't wanna go through all this setting everything up, getting it ready to go, and it's like I'm I'm just tired. But The days that I have felt like that, and I went live, just knowing that the community is going to be there for you, they're going to make you laugh. You're going to say some crazy stuff that's probably going to make them laugh. The conversations that y'all have in there, um, that's that's kind of what gets me going, pushes me through. And usually by the end of the day, I'm in a better mood, I'm more lively than obviously when you first start, because you're like, man, I just don't want to be here. But then after you get those, the the viewers start coming in, chatting with you, um, and you you start hanging out with them and and and uh conversating with them, then uh everything lightens up and and you end up having a good time. So if I would say if you got that that funk in your mind of you don't want to get in, get in and go stream, I would say at least try to do it for you know, at least go live. And I would say if you're if you're still not feeling it after like 30 minutes, maybe it's not your day. But if you do go live, give it at least 30 minutes, and I'm sure your mind is gonna change.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, for sure. I definitely love that. Community is always and you know, I've asked that question. You're the 11th time I've asked that, and every single answer has been the community. Because, like you said, like the community definitely can change your day, especially if they are, you know, OGs or been around for a while. Like they can definitely tell if your vibe is is off, and just by looking at you or like in the tone of your voice, and they just try it and you know it's yeah, it's the streamer to do the entertainment, but at the same time, there's a lot on the community to help get the streamer to get to that point, you know, with the entertainment. Like, because like you said, if you're just having that bad day, just do 30 minutes. And if you don't still ain't feeling it after 30 minutes, then yeah, just call it for the day. But a lot of times, nine times out of ten, you're gonna have those people come in and try to make you feel better about your day.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, for sure. And and without if you don't have any viewers, it you're you're trying to entertain yourself. Um, and that's hard to to do for most people, is just talking to yourself. But if you have that that community that comes in there and y'all start talking about crazy things or just even not crazy things, if y'all just start talking, you at least got other people to bounce stuff off of instead of just like staring at a screen emotionless, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00So, all right. So, back to the questionnaire here. Where were we? Uh, so yeah, W community indeed. Like I said, I I asked that question, and everybody has said um the community for sure. So what was the hardest thing you've had to overcome since you've started streaming?
SPEAKER_04Hardest thing to overcome. Not I would say one, uh being consistent with streaming. It was hard not to just like uh get on there. It was hard for me to, it's like I want to go live today, but it's like at the same time, it was like I need to just take a step back and make content and not just stream every single chance that I get. At some point, you gotta be like, hey, like I need I I gotta also spread the word that I'm streaming and not just get on there and stream every chance that you get. I know it's hard, but that was kind of the hardest thing is for me taking a step back and be like, okay, I'm not streaming today, I need to make short form content.
SPEAKER_00Makes sense, makes sense, definitely. Yeah, you definitely gotta take those days off for sure.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, because when I when I first started out, I was like I said, I was streaming four days, four days a week on my days off. So it was like if I worked Monday, Tuesday, I was streaming Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, maybe Saturday. I would stream four days that I was off for sure. Um, and it got to be too much. I was getting burnt out and not making the content that I needed to to spread the word and all that stuff. So now it's Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. I am making short form content, hanging out in people's streams, and and editing videos. Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, the stream days. Cyber asked, Do you play Helldivers? I used to. When that game first came out, I was that was my life basically. I played it non-stop. Um, and then I and I then another game came out. I don't even remember what it was. Maybe it was a new Call of Duty or something like that, and then I swapped from Helldivers into Call of Duty or whatever the other game was that came out.
SPEAKER_00Cyber says it's so much fun, a lot has been added to it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and I I can imagine because every time I scroll on like TikTok or or Instagram or something, it's always like, oh, this has been added to it. There's a new update. I'm like, holy crap, they're still they're still adding stuff to that game.
SPEAKER_00They are tanks. Oh my lord. Um, so you keep saying they the short content uh clips and stuff. Is that just for TikTok, or do you do YouTube as well, or just mainly?
SPEAKER_04So I I do TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
SPEAKER_00Same same name handle on all of them.
SPEAKER_04Same name on all of them, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay, okay. Kermit Halo, welcome in. Also, Halo ODST war bond. Let me go to YouTube BRB. Alright, we'll be here.
SPEAKER_04Yep. Not going anywhere. Yeah, I do uh most of the stuff I do on YouTube is just like the YouTube shorts. Um I used to I used to post so like when I got done streaming, I would post like the the the stream on YouTube just so like if people miss it on YouTube or on Twitch, they could go over to YouTube and watch the stream or whatever. Um I kind of got away from that and just started doing the YouTube shorts to draw people into my my TikTok and and into my uh my Twitch for now.
SPEAKER_00I understand, I understand. Yeah, I gotta get better at doing I I just don't know how to do YouTube like clips. It just I don't know. I I don't I really need to like sit sit down and just take the time to to go through it. I don't think it's that hard, is it?
SPEAKER_04No, no, it's dude, honestly. I'm gonna give you like a little insider scoop here. If you see so I don't like do anything special for for like YouTube really. So I'll post my TikTok and basically I'll take the same video that I post on TikTok, post on YouTube, same caption and everything, and then post it on YouTube.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So it's just pretty much copy and paste.
SPEAKER_04It's pretty much copy and paste, super simple. If you see it on TikTok, you would have the same video on Instagram and same video on YouTube.
SPEAKER_00I may have to start doing that, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. I I will say it, it uh it gets it it'll get you some followers. I don't know. I guess that obviously the algorithm is different for YouTube and and Instagram and TikTok and all that stuff. I feel like the I feel like the algorithm for YouTube is better than TikTok.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, I um and and it's definitely just another another platform to get more eyes on you, you know.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely. And I post I I mean, and if you post on Instagram, you have the dilts where it like links to threads. I don't know if anybody has threads or not. Um, but it also goes to threads too. So if you have threads, I'm also on threads. Same same thing. Trash underscore panda underscore B.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's I'm all over the place. He he's everywhere, you just can't get rid of him. Everywhere, yeah. Like a roach. I've been editing and have three videos done, but want to be consistent. I'm taking too long. Well, get to it, Cyber.
SPEAKER_04Come on, Cyber, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_00Oh, let's see. We do that as well. Works well because some videos do so bad on TikTok, and YouTube usually does great. Yeah, YouTube pushes your video out more and longer than TikTok. Yep, so I need to uh I need to get on YouTube then that's that's for sure.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00I'm working on it. Don't you holler at us, Cyber. You're the one that's been slacking. Absolutely. Oh, welcome in, uh Nikki after bedtime. Oh, appreciate that. What is good? Uh Lurky Turkey. Lurky Turkey. Ever since you started streaming, is there anything that you regret not taking advantage of?
SPEAKER_04Not taking advantage of. Um not that I can think of off the top of my head. Not take, I mean, I will say not taking advantage of like a consistent schedule uh would be one. Um definitely should have done that when I started out streaming and not just now, just now doing it. Um if you are just starting out streaming, get a good get make you a schedule now. Make you a schedule, don't make it too hectic. Start simple. Just you do you just make a schedule to where it's tolerable for you and you don't burn yourself out.
SPEAKER_00Yes, because burnout is real and it will get you faster than anything. Because one day you think, hey, I'm sitting here playing, talking to my community, and the next day it's like, bruh.
unknownI don't know.
SPEAKER_04Next day I'm just it's like I I think I'm just gonna watch TV today.
SPEAKER_00Yep, and then the next day, and then the next day, and then the next day. I have it on recording of you saying you have been burnt out. Caught in 4K, and I know it because I just re-listened to your episode yesterday, so I know caught it. Do you ever feel forced to go live sometimes?
SPEAKER_04Um, I wouldn't say forced to go live. I will yeah, I would no, I wouldn't say forced to go live. I will say that I the the like we talked about earlier, the bad days, you at least give it like a 30-minute deal. Like you might not want to, I guess you could call that forced. Like, I I need to go live. I force myself. I don't feel like the community is forcing me, but I feel like I force myself to go live for at least 30 minutes and kind of get a feel for like, okay, I'm gonna have a good day now that the community is here, or you know what? I'm still not feeling it. I got a funk in my head. Maybe I'm still thinking about, maybe I didn't get a lot of sleep last night because I just got off shift, or maybe I had some bad calls that's just running through my mind. Um, but for the I would say for the most part, I force myself, if I'm having a bad day, to at least go 30 minutes to see if it's gonna change or not.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and like you said, you know, sometimes that 30 mate, that 30 minutes is you know the make or break, like, all right, yep, I'm gonna continue doing it because people are here supporting and hanging out, or yeah, I think I'm just gonna go and you know, go take my nap or go figure find something else to do for the day. Yep. Uh I've hit my burnout trying to move past it. Yep, chef. And you know, chef, we are here to support you and be here for your ready to come back, friend. And that's what I love about this community, you know, because you cyber, we'll use her for an example because she's had an episode and she talked about it on her her her episode where you know she felt bad because she took a week off, and when she came back, she was so afraid that nobody was gonna show up and you know people were gonna forget about her, and then she goes live and there's 20 people in her chat within the first few seconds. So exactly. You know, that that's I can yeah, go ahead. Sorry.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no doubt. No, you're good. Um sorry to interrupt. I did I kind of did the same thing. I was I was kind of I feel where she's coming from because once I had my we had our our newborn in October of last year, and about from then till I guess it'd be January, February this year, I didn't really stream. I would play games offline all the time. Um, but I never I never streamed really. And so when I was like, okay, I gotta get back in, I gotta get back into it. Um I was like, man, I don't I don't know how this is gonna go. I don't know if I'm I'm if anybody's even gonna if anybody's gonna show up. I I felt like I was starting all over and I was like, man, this is going to suck. But that was not the case. People like like uh Cyber said, people showed up. I was very grateful for them to be there because I was like, man, I don't know what I'm getting myself into.
SPEAKER_00Cyber says she yelled at you when you came back.
SPEAKER_04She did. She that is can't confirm she did yell at me. She yells at me a lot, though.
SPEAKER_00So it's like a brother-sister relationship. No doubt. We love cyber. Yeah, we we do love cyber, that's for sure. Um, if you could collab with any streamer, whether it be a big streamer or a small streamer, or you can answer for both, who would it be?
SPEAKER_04Oh man. Big streamer, no doubt, the burnt peanut. No doubt the burnt peanut. That would be that would be awesome. We kind of have the same uh mindset on things. Um and he just he he's himself, he talks a lot of crap, which is awesome. We love that. Um so big streamer, I would say the burnt peanut. Small streamer, man, there's a there's a lot of them that I would want to do stuff with. Um so basically everybody's Discord that I'm in, like you, Cyber, um Stabby Gabby, like any like all those people, man, I would love to do some kind of collab with and do something with. And the best part is like we all kind of have the same like same humor, same like we just say crazy stuff. Yeah, I think it'd be a good time. No doubt.
SPEAKER_00All you need to do is just ask.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I will. Don't you worry. Now that I got now that I'm getting my my my schedule sorted out, um we'll we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna get in there. Don't you worry, don't you worry.
SPEAKER_00All right, y'all mark it right now. Somebody clip it. We we're gonna hold him to his word.
unknownYeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Also, don't you can also ask me if you want to collab. I know I'm kind of uh an idiot most of the time, so I get if you don't want me on your stream, however, um you could just tell me like tone it back a little bit and we we can also do that. So if if shout out just shout out to me if you want to collab with me as well, but I will start reaching out to people and uh we're gonna get some things rolling. Get it done. Let's go.
SPEAKER_00So, what would you say your favorite memory from a stream has been?
SPEAKER_04Favorite memory from a stream. Well, we'll go with uh a recent memory. Um, we hit 250 followers on Twitch, so that is probably right now my my favorite memory so far. We're we're still continuing to grow. So that that's a very good memory.
SPEAKER_00250. Let's go. Yeah, and I know you've gotten more. Yep, I know you've gotten a couple more since we've been on on here. Heck yeah. And you know, appreciate y'all. And that's what it's all about. You know, I don't I have no problem using my platform to help promote others for sure. W Growth Let's Go. Yep, yep, that's what it's all about. Steady grind, steady grind. So at 250, do you have like a are you one of those every 50 you look for like a uh uh achievement stream, or is it kind of like every hundred followers you do in like an achievement stream?
SPEAKER_04So I think um when I hit I'm gonna I I usually I wouldn't say usually because I don't know. Um so when I hit I think it was I hit either it was either at 150 or 200, I did a um what it was a deal. I added a channel point in there, and it was like for I was like for 200 channel points or something, you I had to take a shot and answer a question from the community. Um I figured out very quickly that I needed to up the channel points because I was pretty swasted at the end of that um end of that stream. And so next time we do that, um maybe we we we up the channel points or um like for my if I get to 500 500 um followers, I was thinking about maybe doing um some kind of uh either a special game and also doing uh maybe like a marbles tournament. Have you heard of the game marbles? Yes, marbles on streams or marble with friends, yeah. I was thinking about doing that and then the uh like we'll do a couple games or like however many games we want, and the winner gets uh maybe like Amazon gift card or or something something cool like that. Let's go. So we'll see. That that's gonna be at 500 followers though. So we'll we might do like a a marbles a marbles uh beginning of stream and the first we'll do like 10 games or something, and the the winner of each game gets gets something. Let's go. And I'm also working on merch, so maybe they'll they'll get some merch.
SPEAKER_00Well, you let me know when that merch goes live, then I'll get you, and I'll I'll put your coffee cup right up, you know, yes on on my uh my shelf for sure. Uh let's see, yeah. I uh I too did the the the shot redeem one night, and let me tell you Hunt and Ghost was pretty fun and funny.
SPEAKER_04I can imagine tips. Yeah, my Marvel, yes. I quickly learned to up those channel points because I had it like I don't know, like 200 channel points, and you would redeem it. And I was like, you know what? Probably need to make that like a thousand or something because a lot of these people in my Discord have thousands of channel points.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. He has some merch now.
SPEAKER_04Oh, you do? I do. It's a I do have some merch now, it's a little outdated. Um, that was when I first started streaming and stuff like that. Um, and I need to change the logos and stuff like that. I do have a sticker in the merch store that's called Stay Trashy. Um, but it's I I have not been I have not had a chance to order one to see how it actually looks. But I did order a um a sample for the t-shirt and the hoodie. Um, and I'm gonna redo those because the the logo that's on the back is not PG 13. It's a uh it's a raccoon with both middle fingers up. So we're gonna have to redo that. Um but I'll I'm in the process of redoing those new logo um and and new stuff like that. But so stay tuned for that. I do have a sticker in there. It is it that one is PG 13. It is it's stay trashy, but I have not had a chance to to order it and see how it actually looks in person yet. But we will get there.
SPEAKER_00Let's see. Uh my marble is bad looked though. Yeah, poor Chef. She oh her marble never finishes.
SPEAKER_04Mine doesn't either. Mine either falls off the side of the map or I get like 30th place.
SPEAKER_00Uh stay trashy is awesome. Love the hat. I think it was a trash pan. No, that's his fire department logo.
SPEAKER_04This is the this is the fire department one. I I think I did actually put two hats in the merch store as well, um, that have trash panners on them as well.
SPEAKER_00Nice, nice. Yep. Also, guys, his Lurk Command. I love what's your Lurk Command?
SPEAKER_04Oh so when somebody does exclamation mark lurk, it uh it says um the their handle name and it says they're going to find a trash can for us to raid.
SPEAKER_00Very nice.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, Matt Hat and his merch store. Oh, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I'm I think I have two hats in there that have two different logos on them. I can't remember. I haven't been in the merch store in a little bit. Um, but yeah, I I got two hats in there that have um different logos on them of trash pandas. Nice, nice.
SPEAKER_00May have to get one of them instead of a uh a coffee mode because I I do enjoy a hat for sure.
SPEAKER_04I I'm a big hat guy, big hat guy, big coffee. Cup got two though, so I got I have not I do have a coffee cup in there as well. Um so I I I gotta order one of those as well. I just the all the stuff that I want to order, I I would go broke.
SPEAKER_00Um did you or do you have a role model with streaming?
SPEAKER_04Role model for streaming. I know this is gonna sound very cliche, but the burnt peanuts. Big role model. I know he's a huge streamer and all. But the the I would say the biggest thing about me looking up to him is he he acts himself. He doesn't he he doesn't put on a front of like this nice guy. He he talks crap to everybody, says what's on his mind, um, doesn't change who he is in front of in front of people. And that's kind of my my thing too, is like I don't want to have to change who I am to for people to like me. You either like me or you don't like me, and that's kind of how he is as well. So that's kind of that's kind of where I'm at on that. I and I get there are instances where you you can't just like go into a crowd and f bomb people, obviously. Like I get that, but um, I don't want to have to put on a front when I go live on stream and um not be myself.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and that kind of goes back to that uh what I was saying earlier where you know you you your words are hard, I swear. I know what I'm saying. You don't put on that front, you don't put on that mask, like you know you are who you are, and you're not gonna come into your like I'm not gonna come into your stream and wonder, okay, what's he gonna be like today? You know, is he gonna you know be this way or be this way? No, you're just gonna be the same fool person, I guess you could say fool that that you are. Like you know you're gonna get a good laugh, you know you're gonna get a good chuckle. You know, if you're playing arc, you're gonna get a good rage moment in there. Like you are genuine, authentic, 100%. Like you never have to question it, like who we're gonna see when we come into your stream. It's always the same every single time.
SPEAKER_04What did she just say? I she's doing lunge and just fell into the washer. Hit my face on the middle spinny thing. You know what that middle spinny thing is called, Cyber? It's called an agitator. Are you agitated?
SPEAKER_00At least you didn't fall in. I mean, think about it. If if that was if the agitator wasn't there, you may have just fallen all the way in.
SPEAKER_04That's that I've seen that video. I've seen a video like that uh before. What was I think it has something to do with like a step ring or something?
SPEAKER_00Oh, here we go. Here we go. Markinator. Hello, friend, appreciate that.
SPEAKER_04Look, help me recon.
SPEAKER_03Oh no, still all right.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, so uh moving on. That's that's right on it, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And that's me.
SPEAKER_00That's for the after that's for the after podcast. Yeah, no doubt. What's the best positive impact streaming has given you?
SPEAKER_04Hmm. Um, I would say, okay, listen, I know this is crazy for me to say. I'm kind of a a shy person in real life. Um, like I if I see some like stranger, I'm not gonna go up to him and be like, hey man, what's what's good? How's your day going? You want it like three dollars for like a cup of coffee or something? I'm not gonna do that. In stream though, however, I'm pretty I'm pretty outgoing. I'll talk to people. I love seeing new people, I love meeting new people. Um, and I would say, um I do start going up to I don't go up to like like random homeless people and be like, how's your day going? But if like you know, I'll if I'm walking by somebody like, hey, how's it going? You know, uh let me get the door for you kind of thing. I've started branching out and actually like talking to people instead of just like walking by them with like a a resting a resting bitch face on. So I would say that's a positive. It's making you more bubbly. It is, it is for the most part. Um I still I still have um being in the job that I am, I still have like no emotions, basically. I'm just like a wall, basically. Um I'm not like the like a very like emotional person most of the time. Um but I feel like streaming has started making me more of a a caring person. We'll just say that. More of a caring person and not just like, oh, you broke your leg. That's that is unfortunate. Um sorry about your luck. Now I'm like, oh man, that actually sucks because like that is like a some and some people that doesn't let them work. And like I'm actually like being more considerate about people.
SPEAKER_00And that's good. That's good. Being very considerate and bubbly is definitely a good a good change. Yeah, no doubt. So on kind of the opposite on that, what's something small that still brings you joy in all of this when it comes to streaming?
SPEAKER_04Something small. Uh honestly, honestly, I could have one viewer in my stream, and I'm very grateful for that. Um like because like I said earlier, it's hard to entertain yourself for an extended period of time. But that one viewer, if you can entertain that one viewer to where they can chat with you, I would say you're winning. Um and cyber, cyber is, you know, I'm hitting. Yep, she's always there, she is always there. So I got cyber for sure. She I got her hooked, and I don't know how I did that, but I know for a fact that anytime I'm going live, it's usually during her lunch break. I'm her I'm her uh getaway for lunch. So I'm gonna cry. Oh lord. Yeah, yeah, it it's I I would say I would say that just having that that one stream or that one viewer um makes makes a huge difference.
SPEAKER_00And I would definitely agree with that for sure. Because yeah, I mean, yeah, you are sitting here when you're you're playing the game and nobody's there, like, yeah, you're you're talking to keep it entertaining, but yeah, I like I talked to myself in the car and he I bore myself, and that's just nothing going on.
SPEAKER_04Exactly. Yeah, and there's only so much you can say to yourself, too, right? Until you start getting like wild.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and then people can start, um, do we need to call somebody to yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, this dude's crazy. Absolutely. I did have a uh I I I'm pretty sure I still have it. Once once somebody reach uh reaches, I think it's um speaking of calling people, once they reach like 5,000 channel points, I think it is because I originally had it at 10,000 channel points, but I lowered it down. Once you reach like 5,000 channel points, I have a deal to where um they redeem it and I tell a war story from uh the fire department. Like whether it's so and I'll give them the option so I don't just like scare them to death. Um I give them the option of like, okay, you want like a funny story or like a scary, like a scary story, like where like some stuff went bad kind of thing, or what? So 5,000 channel points, you can get a war story.
SPEAKER_00That's pretty dope. That's pretty dope. Yeah. How have I never seen that channel point? Because I'm pretty sure I got 5,000 in your channel.
SPEAKER_04I'm pretty I I'm pretty sure it's in there. I don't think I've taken it away. I did lower it from 10,000 to 5,000 for sure. Um, but I don't think I'm pretty sure it's still in there. And if not, it'll it'll make its way back, don't you worry. Because I was looking at that earlier. I was uh looking at my to-do list, and I need to update some of those deals.
SPEAKER_00It's in there. Okay, Cyber says it's in there. Perfect. Do you have a special catchphrase or something special you do with your chat?
SPEAKER_04Hmm. Stay trashy for one. It's always a uh an ending quote of the night. Don't forget, stay trashy. Um, also, another deal that I like to do is when somebody does the the trash uh the trash palace or the dumpster palace check-in. I always do the little dance.
SPEAKER_00So the Pedro, Pedro, Pedro, he does the Pedro dance to the Macarena. Well, he does the Macarena to the Pedro dance, yeah, and then fist pumps. Yep. I look forward to it. He came he went online last week, I think it was like your first stream back in a while or whatever. And I did it. I said, that's all I came for. I missed the dance. That's all I missed.
SPEAKER_04I don't know, I don't know why I came up with the Macarena dance for that song. And it worked, it worked it works perfectly, yes. Like it is on beat. I don't dude, I don't know how I just came up with that. Just one day, I think somebody did, and I was like, ah, I'm gonna try it. And I did it and it nailed. And so now every time somebody does the dumpster pass check-in, that's what you get.
SPEAKER_00Well, you get a half a Macarena because once he gets to the head, he goes to the fist pumping while pointing at the camera. So but it's cool though, because that that's like your your thing. Like nobody else I know does something like that, so that's pretty dope.
SPEAKER_04Something different. It is, but it's catching 20,000 cyberdumpling. What are we doing over there?
SPEAKER_00What would you say is your biggest accomplishment during your stream journey so far?
SPEAKER_04Biggest accomplishment. Um well biggest accomplishment hitting affiliate with Twitch and having the the 250 followers for sure. Um no doubt. Uh it takes it you gotta grind to get affiliate, which sucks. And it it felt like it felt like an eternity when I got affiliate, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is impossible. And then I hit it and I was like, holy crap, I did it. And now I was like, okay, now what I do, like I did all those goals, and I was like, okay, now what? And now it's like okay, keep grinding, keep getting your followers, keep making that short form content, drawing people in, try to hit the 500 followers, just the small goals. But right now, I would say it was reaching affiliate and finally getting to 250 followers.
SPEAKER_00So on the opposite on that, what would you say your next goal is?
SPEAKER_04Next goal is to hit 500 followers um on Twitch at least. 500 followers on Twitch. Um, I don't really have any goals for like my TikTok, Instagram, and all that stuff. Right now, I'm focused on Twitch. 500 followers on Twitch is my next goal.
SPEAKER_00Let's get them there, guys. Uh, what would you say is your the most satisfying experience you've had when it comes to streaming?
SPEAKER_04Most satisfying experience. I will say, um it was very satisfying. I know this might not be the right answer, but when I I played against Tim the Tatman, I don't know if anybody knows who that is. Um I played against Tim the Tatman back in the day in Warzone, and I was streaming, and my team and his team are the last ones alive. We were playing on Ashika Island. I don't know if y'all know that is, but we were playing on Ashika Island in Warzone, and I downed Tim the Tatman, and he was playing with he was playing with Cloakesy, um Cloakesy Nick Merckx, and I can't remember who else he was playing with. There's a four-man squad. Anyways, I downed him and then a couple of other my teammates down two others of theirs, and then it was basically a 1v3, and whoever the last guy was that was on his team absolutely clapped our cheeks. However, it was satisfying that I did uh kill him, so that was a big achievement um for that, and then it ended up later on. I played against, I would say, in the new war zone, not this like recent one, but the one before that. Um, we played against him again and we destroyed his team. So that was also um satisfying.
SPEAKER_00Heck yeah, dude. That's cool. A well gopher apparently knows who that is.
SPEAKER_04When I saw his name pop up on the screen, I was like, there's no way I'm in the same lobby as this guy. Like that was I was that was a win in my book.
SPEAKER_00For those that don't know, Tim has been like a pro first-person shooter player in the past. Yep, I did not know who it is. Thank you, Gopher.
SPEAKER_04That yeah, he uh he's he's a big streamer like Peanut. Uh he plays he plays a lot of like Marvel Rivals, he plays a lot of um Warzone um stuff like that. He uh he he was gonna go pro in Counter-Strike before um, but he was like a couple games away from going pro in Counter-Strike, and then he was like, I'm just gonna, you know, stream. So but yeah, he's he's still really good at video games. Don't get me wrong. He's still uh still really good. He he is an OG, he's an OG streamer, and he's um he's kind of fat too. So let him know I said that.
SPEAKER_00I can only imagine your reaction if you were to ever down peanut. Oh my god, dude.
SPEAKER_04I I I pray that I I get in a an arc raiders game in the same lobby as him. I try sometimes sometimes when he goes live, I'll be waiting until he hits start, and I'm like, all right, start. I'm trying to get in the same lobby as him.
SPEAKER_00I can just see you now, you be streaming, and you just hear around the corner, prepare to meet your maker.
SPEAKER_04And like you'll just like, oh dude, absolutely. I would love that.
SPEAKER_00Have you had your I made it moment? And if so, what was it?
SPEAKER_04The I made it moment for me was hidden affiliate, I would say. It's like, holy crap. I actually I actually have people that like me on here. Like, I actually have people that want to tune in, and and I was at that moment, I was like, okay, well, you know, I gotta keep going. I can't just stop now. I gotta keep going. Uh so I would say when I hit the affiliate, um, that's when I was like, oh, okay, I'm I'm here, I'm good. Let's just keep grinding. Um, but when I hit the affiliate, that's when the that was the okay, I I got it.
SPEAKER_00Thank you for that clip, Cyber. Oh man, what'd she clip? Uh I think uh you you saying you when you hit affiliate that people liked you, but I mean you're a likable person. I mean, everybody likes you, my guy. Nice, I appreciate that. I mean, you have 200 and I haven't checked it. I I'm gonna just say 252 people. I know you've gotten at least two followers since we've been live, so perfect. 252 people that like you, and I mean we're just gonna keep growing and grinding and get more people to like you. Absolutely. Uh, let's see. What is one thing you want to add to your setup to make it feel more complete? Oh, another PC. I want to run a dual PC setup.
SPEAKER_04Fancy.
SPEAKER_00How does that even work?
SPEAKER_04You know, I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't really know, but I know I want it. Um, and I'll figure it out when I get it.
SPEAKER_00Don't say that. I'm pretty sure when I clip it.
SPEAKER_04I'm pretty sure you run your game off one and your stream off the other. I'm pretty sure how that how that works. Um, I gotta do some more research on it, but that is the end, I wouldn't say the end goal. The next goal is to get another another PC and run a dual PC setup.
SPEAKER_00Don't know how it works, but it sounds pretty cool when people, hey, what are you doing? I run a dual setup.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no big deal.
SPEAKER_00No big deal. I got two PCs. Yeah, yeah, yeah no big deal.
SPEAKER_04I will say, if I get another PC in in here, I'm gonna have to get more fans um because it is hot. It the one PC will heat up the room very quickly.
SPEAKER_00Ask Grind360, he does a dual setup. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Sheesh, big money.
SPEAKER_00What do you think is your biggest strength when it comes to streaming?
SPEAKER_04Talking to people, being myself, um just kind of making them feel making them feel welcomed and involved in the stream, I would say. Because usually anytime somebody comes in the chat and says something, I'm gonna take time and answer back. I'm not just gonna just ignore it and scroll over it.
SPEAKER_00And on the opposite hand of that, what would you say is one of your weaknesses when it comes to streaming?
SPEAKER_04One of my weaknesses when it comes to streaming is I would say not knowing how to do certain things with the streaming stuff. Like, it took me forever to figure out how to do some of the stuff, like my like my overlays and and like my BRB screens and stuff like that. That would be one of my downfalls. It's like I'm not very tech savvy with things, so that like sometimes I've had people come in my stream and it's like I the game is so loud I can't even hear you. And it's like I don't know how to fix that. Um, so we're just gonna have to figure that out here in a little bit. But uh yeah, I would say one of the downfalls is is not being super knowledgeable in what I'm doing.
SPEAKER_00Uh OMG, I know trash panda be in real life.
SPEAKER_04Oh my god, Amber, what are you doing? She's at my house right now. She's watching you're supposed to be watching my kids. What you're supposed to be doing.
SPEAKER_00You run a dual PC setup panel, wants to know something, wants to do something like that, but doesn't have to be. Yeah, well, delete it.
SPEAKER_04Why is that it sucks bad? Why does it sucks so bad?
SPEAKER_00Well, the all wisdom of grind says don't do it. I mean, grind maybe I won't be doing that. Grind has the beard of wisdom, so oh right.
SPEAKER_04Well, maybe maybe I just upgrade my one PC.
SPEAKER_00Good thing we asked him, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no doubt. Let's see.
SPEAKER_00What other than gaming, uh, what kind of hobbies do you have?
SPEAKER_04Uh I love to play golf. Um mostly um other hobbies that I do, I don't really um well, I don't really do anymore. I used to play softball. Uh well, I played baseball in high school and college, and then once I graduated college, I got on like a uh just like a drunk league softball team, which was awesome, by the way. Highly recommend it if y'all have never done that. Um, so I mean, pretty much like rec sports now, basically rec sports or even um just playing golf.
SPEAKER_00All right, so let's see. Grind says a lot more can go wrong. Windows updates destroyed almost every time. Awesome.
SPEAKER_04Well, that's enough for me to uh not do it. I'll just get a better single PC.
SPEAKER_00I have to spend an hour so every update to put everything back right.
SPEAKER_04Oh Lord, I'm out. I will not be doing a dual PC um setup then. I will just upgrade my one PC. Thank you for the wisdom grind.
SPEAKER_00Yes, thank you very much.
SPEAKER_04I'll just give my other PC to my wife.
SPEAKER_00There you go. Hey, and then you can still technically dual stream. Yeah, it's true. It's true, and then and then I can get you and the wife back on here as a couple streamer.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we do couple episodes. Yes, I did watch that one, that was awesome. I uh my wife recently was like, hey, because I I only play my PlayStation at work now, which is okay, listen, before y'all go to HR, yes, I play games at work when I'm not running calls. However, my wife did hear recently say that she wanted to start playing games and stuff, so I gotta start doing some research for her to play games on the PlayStation. So if you have any recommendations um on what to what for her to play, I'll take them. She's not like a she's more of like a uh like a spyro, spyro, you know the game Spyro with the little dragon. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's more of like that kind of uh level. She's not like a Call of Duty kind of girl, you know what I'm saying? And she's definitely not a scary game girl cyber, so don't even don't even get that in your mind.
SPEAKER_00I mean Spyro is on the PlayStation, so could you start getting Spyro?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I'll I'll I'll start. I'm gonna get her Spyro. She also likes the Hogwar Hogwarts uh game, which I already have that. Um, but she's she's wanting to get some other games as well.
SPEAKER_00So well, if she does like cozy games, you get games like The Sims and Stardew Valley and um what's another? One uh paleo, I think. Is Paleo on console? I think Palea's on console. You got Disney Dreamlight Valleys.
SPEAKER_04Oh, the Disney one she might like. I didn't think about that one. Yeah, so I I didn't know that one on his console. Okay, yeah, yeah. I don't know if it is or not.
SPEAKER_00I'm just I'm just throwing games out there.
SPEAKER_04Okay, well, I'll check those out for sure. And first of all, Cyber, there's no such thing as a cozy horror game. What are we doing?
SPEAKER_00I mean, I think Faz is pretty cozy. Man, dude, dude, Faz is my comfort game.
SPEAKER_03That's wild. That's wild to say.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I suck at it, but it's still my cozy game.
SPEAKER_04That's that's insane. I would I would be I would be down to play that just to see how it is. You will hear me screaming, no doubt about it. Alright, Cyber, you heard it. I'm down. Let's do it. Let's run it.
SPEAKER_00Uh let's see here. Uh what is your go-to on making people feel welcomed and comfortable when they come into your stream for the first time? Talking to them.
SPEAKER_04You got to. I'm pretty sure she likes Mario more than Harry Potter. Mario? What? Alright, Amber. We'll get Mario done. We can do that. Um, yeah, so when people come into stream, definitely talk like like I said earlier, don't don't just like look at the comment and not talk to them. You gotta talk to them, make them feel welcome. Um and definitely still be yourself, but be like, hey, like for the record, I'm kind of an idiot and say some crazy shit or stuff. Sorry, sorry, PG, um, say some crazy stuff. So um you you because they need you don't you need to put on a front for them because if you put on a front for them and then the next time you don't and you're just yourself and they don't like you, then they're gonna leave. But just make sure you at least talk to them and be like, hey, for the record, I'm kind of an idiot and say some crazy stuff. So if you like that, stick around.
SPEAKER_00There's gonna be more, I promise. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_04It's only gonna go downhill from here.
SPEAKER_00Uh so Cyber got that clip for the records. Nice. Uh let's see.
SPEAKER_04The Raging Texan, I see you in here. What's good, bro?
SPEAKER_00What's going on? Thank you for that follow. Thank you. And grind, thank you for those kind words, my friend. Yes, that's why I do it, because everybody's everybody's journey is different, and it's it's a fun to sit down and and hear these journeys. And chat, like I said, if you guys have any questions, feel free to chime in and ask away. We're starting to dwindle down on a list here. Uh, we only got a handful more. Uh let's see here. Do you have any pre-stream rituals before you go live? Like, do you have a drink of water or do you have a snack? Or like what what's something that you do before you go live?
SPEAKER_04I try to get an energy drink. Um trash pan is looking like a snack, this boy. Um, I try to get at least I try to get an energy drink. I know that sounds crazy, um, but usually it's an Alani or a monster. Um, and if I'm feeling real crazy, um I'll get uh like a margarita or something. Um but yeah, usually it's it's most of the time it's an energy energy drink though.
SPEAKER_00What is your go-to flavor?
SPEAKER_04Ooh, the Alani's, it's either between like the the pink or blue slush.
SPEAKER_00I've never had an Alani, but my my co-worker has one every morning. When we're checking off the ambulance, she she cracks it open.
SPEAKER_04Oh man, that's crazy. In the mornings I have to have coffee. Black coffee, I have to have it.
SPEAKER_00I only do coffee in the winter months when it's nice and cold, but when it's you know 80 degrees outside at 7 o'clock in the morning, yeah, it's it's a little too much. Yes, we did cyber, we did. Um if you'd like to refresh that for cyber, we that you're more than welcome to, friend. Or if you just want to stick a tour and tell her to go back and listen to it again.
SPEAKER_04Alani. Amber said Alani's a curl drink. Okay, listen here, Amber. I'm gonna come out I'm gonna come out of this room and we're gonna have a talk. Red Bulls. I okay, I do like Red Bulls too. It's gotta be the sugar-free Red Bulls, though. They taste way better way better than the actual sugar ones.
SPEAKER_00Cyber uh missed asking where how we came how you came up with your your stream name. Cyber, where have you been? What are you doing?
SPEAKER_04You just gotta rewind the stream. You gotta go check it out. No, no, no, no. But so for the the the trash panda the trash panda name. So we we uh I came up with it kind of at not at work, but our work our our mascot is a raccoon at my station. And we started calling ourselves the trash pandas. So I uh incorporated my name with that and came up with trash panda bee.
SPEAKER_00So well, chat GPT came up with trash panda being.
SPEAKER_04Well, chat chat, yeah. I couldn't figure out how to how to put it all together, and I was like, ChatGPT knows how to do it, they're pretty much a genius. So I sent it in there and it came up with a whole bunch of names, and I was like, Trash Panda B stuck out the most, and it just kind of like stuck.
SPEAKER_00Red Will Juneberry is my fave. See, y'all, none of y'all have mentioned mine, which is the greatest of all time, but ghost is the best.
SPEAKER_04Oh, ghost, okay. I will say ghost is good. So are the c4s, the c4s are really good too. If you don't mind being itchy for like 30 minutes after you drink it, go uh the c4s are also good.
SPEAKER_00So on the opposite of the pre-stream rituals, what's your pre uh your afterstream ritual like?
SPEAKER_04After stream ritual usually is get off and then go lay down in bed and watch peanut. Watch the rent peanut.
SPEAKER_00To see what you can get better at. See what I can get better at.
SPEAKER_04Usually he's playing sometimes he'll here lately he's been playing uh the game called the Isle where he's a dinosaur. So that's that's exciting to see.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I saw he uh just did a YouTube video um the other day where he did like his first playthrough of Physophobia. That was pretty interesting to watch.
SPEAKER_04Yes, yeah. He the the jump scare that he clipped is hilarious.
SPEAKER_00If you haven't seen it, go check it out. Is there a game at that has not come out yet that you're excited for?
SPEAKER_04GTA 6.
SPEAKER_00It'll come out in about six years, it's fine.
SPEAKER_04When it does, I'll be there.
SPEAKER_00I think I saw something on Facebook said that November, I think, is they said is the expected release time.
SPEAKER_04Apparently so, but we you know they said that to a year ago, too, so word on the street is trash panda bee cries in the shower.
SPEAKER_00No judgment, no judgment at all. I mean, we all gotta have a good cry every once in a while in the shower.
SPEAKER_04Uh Raging Texan is also a uh EMT as well. So he knows he knows the strong he knows all your dirty little secrets, huh?
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. And we went to we went to high school together too. So yeah, he really knows your dirty little secrets.
SPEAKER_04Oh, he yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh what would you say is your top three funniest moments, whether been playing a game or in stream that you've had.
SPEAKER_04Top three funniest moments. All the he knows all the secrets. Um, top three funniest moments. Man, that's a tough one. One, obviously, the jump scare. Um, it wasn't funny at the time when I was scared, but looking back on it, it was pretty funny watching me um freak out. Um, Dead Space obviously had a bunch of funny moments. Um well, also the jump. I guess most of the time it's jump scares that make me laugh after the fact. Right? Then and there it's terrifying. But after I go back and watch like the clips and stuff, it's hilarious seeing how I react. Oh, when the thing grabs me, when the little like lizard, no, the lizard thing, the uh snake-looking thing grabs me. Yeah, by far one of the funniest clips. Yeah, see, Cyber even those.
SPEAKER_00It wasn't funny at the time, but now that it's dude, now that my adrenaline's come down and I've changed my underwear. Yeah, it was pretty funny.
SPEAKER_04Dude, I jumped so hard, my mouse, I had my hand on my mouse, my mouse flipped over, and I was trying to scroll with my mouse while it was upside down. It was not working.
unknownI was terrified.
SPEAKER_00He didn't know how to react.
SPEAKER_04Dude, I was I was speechless, it was wild.
SPEAKER_00Oh, what's a risk you took with your content that ended up paying off?
SPEAKER_04Um, just posting on like TikTok, YouTube, and uh and Instagram and stuff. At first I was like, man, I don't even know if I want to post on all these. I don't know if I'm just gonna post on TikTok. Um, but posting on all those actually grew my channel pretty quickly after I after I hit affiliate. I was kind of I plateaued there for a little bit and wouldn't gain any followers or anything like that, or or people wouldn't come in chat. Once I started posting in Instagram, TikTok, and um YouTube, the shorts and YouTube and stuff, my my channel started like rapidly, and I wouldn't say rapidly, but it was gaining followers pretty constantly, and I was like, holy crap, like obviously that's working out, so let's you know, let's keep putting some attention to that.
SPEAKER_00There you go. If it ain't broke, don't if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? Just keep doing it out.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00So we kind of hit the goal or milestone. I know you said 500 on Twitch, but is there any other I know you said you want to focus more on Twitch, but is there like a goal for your TikTok or your Instagram or YouTube?
SPEAKER_04Not at the moment. Right now, like I said, hitting the 500 on um on Twitch. I mean, ideally, obviously, I would like to be partnered on Twitch. Um, we got a long way to go to get there. So, right now, baby steps, we're gonna hit the 500 on Twitch and then work our way up to partner.
SPEAKER_00I mean, that's only gonna take you know a couple months. And I mean, I I give you to the end of the next month, and and you're that'd be awesome. 9,000, so it'll be fine.
SPEAKER_04Next step after that, working on working on partnerships.
SPEAKER_00We're working on sponsors. There you go. Do you have any sponsorships that you have in mind that you want to go for?
SPEAKER_04Uh man, any of them, honestly. I would really like I know not a lot of people, um, I haven't seen anybody sponsored by these people. Topo Chico, dude. I would love to get sponsored by Topo Chico. I love Topo Chico. Could you imagine? That'd be awesome. Obviously, like monster and stuff like that would be cool too, but Topo Chico, I drink those things religiously. I've never heard of it. You've never heard of Topo? It's like the sparkling water, like the um, you know, like the mineral water, dude. Uh, maybe, maybe. I'll have to look next time I go to the store. Uh dude wipes for jump scares, that would be a good one too.
SPEAKER_00Hey, dude wipes, let me let me come talk to you for a minute. I got this these these people in my chat.
SPEAKER_04That would be awesome.
SPEAKER_00Uh where do you see yourself in five years?
SPEAKER_04Five years? Hopefully, either still a driver, hopefully a driver at work, or maybe even a captain at work.
SPEAKER_00With my kids.
SPEAKER_04Working the way up.
SPEAKER_00We need an Alani sponsorship.
SPEAKER_04Dude, I would be I would be good with that too. If Drake said retired, I wish I could retire in five years.
SPEAKER_00Well, Mr. Panda, one more question for you, sir.
SPEAKER_04All right.
SPEAKER_00Hardest question of the night. Everybody gets asked this, but Trash Panda B at 252 followers on Twitch and your multiple platforms on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads. What would be the best piece of advice you'd give somebody starting out tonight? They just come into chat, said, Hey, I wanna get started, but I don't know what to do or what to look up. What would be your best piece of advice you'd give them?
SPEAKER_04The best thing I could best advice I could give somebody that's just starting out um would be stay consistent, don't overwhelm yourself with stuff and uh make a schedule. Stick to your schedule. Like I said, don't don't pile it up so much to where you get burnt out. Don't don't get so wrapped up in and everything and lose track of yourself. Um also don't be afraid to reach out to people to be like, hey, I don't really know what I'm doing, and I need help setting something up. Always reach out. You can reach out to me. Um you can I'll you can reach out to me anytime. If you need help, I will do the best I can. I've learned a lot uh when I first started streaming. I learned a lot of how to set stuff up. I make all my BRB screens and cutscenes and stuff like that. Um but I would say stay consistent, reach out to people if you have any questions. They're more than likely they're happy to help with whatever they can. Um, and then also the more people you reach out to, you're gonna get different um different views of how they do it and what they did different than somebody else. It's working better for them than the other guy, or maybe you you like one way that somebody else does it. Um, but yeah, definitely reach out to people if you don't know what you're doing. Um, they're more than glad to help you. I can guarantee you.
SPEAKER_00For sure, for sure. And great, great advice, my friend. Couldn't have said it better myself. And on I'm I I'll add to that, but when you do reach out to people, you're reaching out and becoming part of other communities, which especially starting out, that's what you want. You want communities to be a part of that's gonna help show up and help you grow and get your name out there because everybody that like like you said, you you won't find very rarely you won't find somebody that's not willing to help you out because you know we all have the same goal, we're all small streamers here, and you know, we're all willing to help each other out. So definitely feel free to reach out. And I'm I'm not the best when it comes to tech savviness and everything, but like he said, I will definitely try to get an answer for you or try to help you, and if I can't, I will direct you to somebody that that knows what to do or that could help you better. So definitely good advice, great advice, sir. Couldn't have said it better myself. But Mr. Panda, that's all the questions I have for you tonight. I want to thank you so much for coming and being a part of this. And I've learned a lot about you. I hope chat has learned a lot about you, and we've gotten some new eyes and follows for you because like I said, that's that's what this is all about is getting you know eyes on you to help your community and help you grow.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely. Well, I appreciate you having me here. I was looking forward to it for quite a while now. When you tell me, hey, you want to be on the stream? I was like, absolutely. Um and uh I've been super excited about it. As soon as you told me the date, I was like, I'm writing that on the calendar. That way everybody knows. Like that way, my wife doesn't make any plans. Like, I got I gotta be there, like I'm not gonna miss it. So um, but yeah, I was I was super excited to be uh invited. I I was telling like I was telling Cyber earlier, like wasn't nervous, I'm just suit I was super excited to be on here. So um thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure talking and uh can't wait to see uh see who your next person is that you got on here.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, it's definitely it's definitely fun to get you know everybody up here and like I have a list of people like I can I'm probably book I could probably book all the way out to the end of the year. So and like I said, guys, if y'all want to follow him panda, why not? Like I said, tonight has been about him to get eyes on him and his community. So be sure to go check him out. And trash panda bee, thank you so much again, friend, for coming on here and taking the time to chat with us. You're amazing, keep grinding, and I cannot wait to see what the future holds for you, my friend.
SPEAKER_04Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Everybody have a good night. Tootles, everyone. Bye.