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RETROVAULTZPODCAST EPISODE 3. LEVEL UP WEEK!!!

IllMassacre & Alphaxanne

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This week we’re leveling ALL the way up! 🚀
We’re diving into what's going down at the Level Up Expo, breaking down the latest moves with GGL, and tapping into the future with TygerMedia.ai and also we hit the 1 v 1 off with Marvel Cosmic Invasion.

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What is good, everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Retro Vault's podcast, powered by the founding members of GGL, baby.

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Let's go alpha.

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I'm Il Massacre.

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I'm Alpha.

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And this is where you level up for gaming news, interviews, and everything coming soon. Listen, we got a crazy week coming up for us. We are very, very excited. Um, how you feel about what's about to pop up and go down this week?

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I'm excited. Um, this is gonna be my second time going.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

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So uh went last year, and this year is gonna I'm anticipating some really cool stuff to happen.

SPEAKER_00

See, now I'm excited because I've never been. Uh, you know, but we're talking about a Vegas native here, okay, born and raised. Born and uh been here for two and a half years, so I'm still learning things. Um we are talking about level up, baby. That's what we're talking about.

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Yep.

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Now, since you've been there, okay, we're about to break things down, whatever, but be you know, before we we really get heavy into this, I just want to get a quick description. What is level up all about?

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It's it's I don't I don't even know how to even answer that question just because of the fact of the the different all the different dynamic things that they have there. They don't just have gaming, they don't just have cosplay, they don't just have music, they it's like everything. They have voice actors, they have Pokemon trading card game tournaments.

SPEAKER_00

Like it's just so is it is like a like a little jam-packed Comic Con?

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Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, and it's just if there's something there for everybody, I would say. Absolutely, there's something there for everybody.

SPEAKER_00

Listen, man, I'm excited. Listen, we're about to get into that real quick, but for right now, let's just get to the gaming news of the week real quick, and we'll get back to that because I'm so excited. So here we go. So start us off with uh what we were talking about earlier before the show.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so we want to kind of start with this because it's almost um it's it's it's very s sad news. Um Star Fox 64, which was uh a video game that even I grew up playing. Um his name um was Jock Blaineley. I think I'm saying that right. Um he passed away. He was the fo voice actor of the Fox. Yeah, man. Rest in peace, you know. Rest in peace.

SPEAKER_00

Our condolence to the family. Um you know, this is this is the thing when it comes to these type of situations, man. You know, you uh uh I wouldn't say idolized because I don't idolize anyone, of course, but it's just you look up to these people who bring you these characters, these video games, these storylines, and you know, when you get heavily invested into uh the gaming world and stuff, you find out who created these things and and and you know uh you know, shout out to Hip Hop Gamer who took me to the Dice Awards and and big door opening for me for the gaming world, I got to meet a lot of creators for Borderlands and and Crash Bandicoot and Mortal Kombat and stuff like that. So to when you hear that, you know, someone has passed, yeah, you know, it kind of hits you hard. You know, you don't have to know them just like an actor or an artist, right? But their work, you know, made a big impact in in your life.

SPEAKER_02

So exactly. And I feel like now that when you if you do hear his voice, it it just hits different. You know, because it's like you hear it, but it's like that's no longer here anymore.

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Yeah, man.

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You know? So it's very sad. Um blessings to his family, giving him all family thoughts and love, because you know, he he did some really cool stuff, and he is also in the new Mario. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's it's man, listen. For those of you who have not seen the movie yet, I know it took me what a couple weeks until it came out. The movie is amazing. That you know, it's five stars, Brady. Five stars. The movie's crazy. Have you seen it?

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I actually have not. Listen, but now I I have to. Like it's gonna it's gonna hit different.

SPEAKER_00

Listen, take wifey.

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Okay, take wifey. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00

Um, it's it's pretty dope. Uh, and you know what? All I gotta say is I love how they did my boy Luigi in this one. That's all I gotta say.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_00

That's all I gotta say. Because you remember the first one, he was a bit of a bitch. But it was you know, Luigi's been my guy since I since I was little. Uh Love Mario, but I was always handed the second controller. Oh, I got you. So I got to bond with Luigi, you know. So that's my guy. So it's funny that green didn't become my color.

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Yeah.

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Um, but listen, moving on to uh uh number two on Gaming News of the Week, listen, I know I mentioned last week that uh Toy Story made it to Fortnite.

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Mm-hmm.

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But my big dog, my big guy is in Fortnite right now. And listen, CJ, get ready for this, baby, because I know you're watching. Listen, we got Stone Cold Steve Austin 316, baby. And to celebrate it, we're gonna do it big this time, baby. Hell yeah. Listen. Yeah, for those Steve Austin, baby.

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For those who can't see right now, what you got here?

SPEAKER_00

Listen, we got the championship belt, WWF, okay, before it was WWE or whatever. This is Stone Cold Steve Austin's belt that was custom made for him that pissed off Vince McMahon back in the Attitude Era. So listen, let me hold this up right here, baby.

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There you go.

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All right, look at that, look at that. All right, matter of fact, we're gonna set it right here between us for the rest of the show.

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Heck yeah. Let's stay. There we go. There we go.

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Boom. Shout out to Steve Stone Cold Steve Austin. Um I downloaded it last night. Um I was playing while I had Tiger Media playing. Um, shout out to my son Ethan. He's on Tiger Media as well. That deserves a big yep. Yeah. Yep. Uh he plays one of the sound effects uh when I get an instant kill. So yeah, it's been fun. We got Stone Cold Steve Austin, and I think Liv Morgan is on there too. Um but yeah, man, you know, if you're a big Stone Cold fan, I'm just saying, download that. CJL, so you downloaded a baby, so we gotta run it up together, alright? Um, so yeah, Stone Cold is in Fortnite. Everybody, go cop that. The adults. Kids past the controller. Um, and uh last but not least, to be honest with you, man, I know we talked about Mortal Kombat last week, but Street Fighter trailer dropped this week. Not sure if you've seen it. Not sure how much of a fan you are of Street Fighter. Um, I love fighting games. Um, you know, but Mortal Kombat for Me takes the cake. That's always been my top game. Uh shout out to Ed Boone. Um, but yes, uh Street Fighter trailer looks crazy. Uh you get like a quick glimpse of 50 Cent. Um, but my favorite character is Blanca, uh played by Jason Mamore. Uh CGI, of course. Looks crazy. Looks like the Hulk with, you know, big orange hair, whatever. Um uh but Chun Lee. Oh man, she looks amazing. Yeah. Not as thick as the you know, the character, but you know, get it popping there. And Ryu, oh my god, he does the he does it at the end. Um, so yeah, you got gotta go check that out. Um and while we're at it right now, we're supposed to get a trailer for um Avengers Doomsday. There was a sneak peek from CinemaCon that dropped, that dropped. Looks crazy. For those who haven't seen it, I'm sorry, it's already out, it is what it is. But you get uh Captain America and Thor fighting against you know uh Dr. Doom. So let's see what happens there. Um other than that, that's the gaming news of the week, people. And we're about to get into uh 1v1, so stay tuned, we'll be right back.

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Let's do this. Let's let's go save the world.

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Let's go get it.

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Alright, we go to the spider sense to figure out those trouble downtown. Oh, the spot was my violence myself.

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Yeah, whoa, get out of the fucking garbage.

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Alright, now we got one ran.

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Oh low storm. Get him, get him, get him.

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Yeah, it is weird. Like if you're not on the right line with them, then it's like getting the airport.

SPEAKER_00

Feels weird, huh? Battling side by side versus bro 1v1.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I'm liking it though. Oh my hands are not as good.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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There's a whole gang of them.

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Fuck, we just kicked their asses off. That's right, baby. Level up.

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Let's go.

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Alright, alright, alright. We got my oh blue fucker. Let's go.

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Oh green.

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Green's not take that chip, man. Come on.

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Oh my face.

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Oh, almost got me with the green.

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Oh, oh, oh. Oh, sorry, I touched something.

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You trying to repair it?

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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More greens not more nuts.

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Okay, okay. Boom, boom, fuckers. Oh fuck, okay. This dormant is dead. That's right. Motherfuckers.

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That was an entrance.

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It's intense, right? Oh, they're hiding in the trash can. Oh.

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Take that. Something's tingling.

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And there they go. They get back to the tap. The other one. There you go. Oh you motherfuckers, bro.

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I'll get the ring, dude. There you go, there we go. Nice. Oh, that hurts. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

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It's hard to get them down from flying. You gotta like jump. Oh.

SPEAKER_00

Damn, bro.

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Jump and hit.

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I know. There you go. Go that fucking chill. Get him. Now we gotta get him. Knock him off the fucking ground. Yeah.

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Very nice.

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Alright, that was round one. A lot of fun. Now, I just want to get into uh more talk about level up. Let's get it popping. Like talk to me. Like like you say this is your second time going and what am I expecting to see?

SPEAKER_02

So three-day uh immersed gaming and pop culture convention is what really is level up is about. Okay. So it's not like I said, it's it's so much is there that I think you will find something for you there. Like there's art, there's gaming, there's the pop culture, there's tournaments. Um it's a really good place to just game and and network, I would say.

SPEAKER_00

Do they do like um announcements?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, there's a there's there's a stage, yeah. Yeah, and they and you walk around, they do have like free um um kind of like when you're at Costco, they have like samples and samples, yes.

SPEAKER_00

Samples of what? Talk to me now. Energy drinks. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02

You know, so anything when it related to like gaming and stuff like that, they'll they're gonna have those energy drinks and things like that. Um, but it's it's super fun. But wear some shoes that don't yes.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, for sure. Yeah, I'm wearing my Ill Massacres.

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Yeah.

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Il Massacre Athletics Baby, IlMassacamusic.com. All right, go cop that. 40 bucks, my bad. Um so when you went last year, like like what went down? Like what did you do? And and you know, like you dress up, what?

SPEAKER_02

No, but I would I kind of wouldn't mind doing that. I've actually never dressed up cosplay before. The only time I ever dress up is during Halloween.

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Okay.

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So that's that's my that's my shit.

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Holo Holocon Holocon. Is that even a thing?

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That should be.

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Hey.

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That would be phenomenal.

SPEAKER_00

To my wife, baby, we gotta talk. Maybe you could, you know, make some millions off of that. Holocon. Holocon. I'll just put it out there, everybody's gonna fucking figure it out. Um, no, uh, so okay, because I've been to a couple cons. I've been to WonderCon, which is big in in Cali. I don't know if they do anywhere else. My wife used to work um doing the makeup stuff, whatever. So she turned me into a couple characters one time, but one time she turned me into some kind of reptilian alien or whatever it is, you know, and then um they were walking around and interviewing people. And I interviewed her while she was uh doing my makeup. And then I think a year after that I I did Beast from Beating the Beast. And they did one hell of a job, got paid for it to be a model. Um I think I sat there for like two hours, you know. That's not too bad. Put the teeth in, put the prosthetics on my face, uh, airbrushed, the big ass fucking wig. And then they had the whole suit and everything, and the boots were tight as hell. But I put them on, we walked around, took pictures, and it felt great because you know when you when you walk around and you see people dress up like your favorite character or whatever, and you want to take a picture with them? That's how I felt when they came to me.

SPEAKER_03

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00

It was dope. Little girls dress up as Belle. So, you know, I you know, I like like pose with them, and then this older lady dressed as Belle, so I just dance with her and shit. And the crew walk on me like, how do you how do you know how to do this stuff? I said, I grew up with sisters and cousins, and that's all we fucking wash in the house, you know. Um, so I pick up shit. Plus, my wife could tell you when you put me into some kind of makeup, I become that character.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

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Um, except when everything was coming off, time to leave, I look like fucking Teen Wolf. So I had like the fangs still going, uh, the hair was like rocking out. I'm gonna show you pictures later.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Um, but that type of shit I would love to do. Uh like I'm not gonna take the chance now to maybe go to level up and and and dress up. Yeah, you know.

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Maybe maybe next one.

SPEAKER_00

Maybe. You know, I want I want to get a feel for it first because uh I still haven't been to Comic-Con, you know. Yeah, me neither. You know, you know, hip hop, that was directed to you, bro. Maybe you can, you know, hook your brother up. You know what I mean? Um, he's been to Comic Con for years, so um I want to go to that. Uh, but yeah, I really I'm really excited to see what Level Up has to offer and show.

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Yeah.

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Um and speaking of that, you know, hey, GGL's gonna be there, baby.

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GGL, yeah.

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You know what I mean? They're gonna be there. Um, you know, uh just showing off some stuff and and you know, and and just basically uh just partnering with people, man, and just just showing you why GGL is is the biggest platform to be a part of. Um we're gonna be there, of course. You know what I mean? So Retro Walls will be there, we get some interviews and content. Um I'm just truly excited. I really want to see what this is about. I want to see who who we run into, who we talk to.

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Um there's so much to see. I'm telling you. I feel like mostly everyone that goes are are gonna be in cosplay.

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Okay.

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You you're gonna see I feel more people in cosplay than not.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. And it happens every year. Yes. Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay, cool. Well, listen, anybody that's out here in Vegas, you know what I mean, uh on the 25th and 26th, uh, if you haven't got your badges yet, please jump on that, level up. Um, it's gonna be fun. Alpha won't lie to me. You know what I mean? She's telling me that it's dope, so I can't wait to check it out. Um, yeah, hell yeah. So uh our boy Mike Srada will be there. Um, and um can't wait to see every other, you know, uh uh GGL founding member that'll be a part of it, you know what I mean? So that's cool. Yeah, it's really like a reunion again.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_00

Love you guys, man. I can't wait. I'm so so excited for that. Can't wait for that. Speaking of people going, uh CJ and Violet are gonna be there. Yeah, they're gonna be there, you know, our people's. I mean, uh, we love you guys, man. Any chance that we get to shout you out, you know, uh, you know, uh we did the post, right? And they saw and kind of hit them in the fields. And my boy, uh my brother, CJ sent me a very uh emotional text, you know, and and and and it hit me in the fields, bro. So you're my adopted brother, bro. Love you, love Violet. We're family, family here with Alpha. You guys are welcome to my crib anytime, baby. Now, listen, there's something big happening too, other than level up. I mean, the GGL championship episode is dropping on Friday.

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Friday.

SPEAKER_00

Now, listen, I already know what happens. You already know what happens. I know what happens. But but you know things are kind of like different and you forget certain things, like, oh shit, I remember that, you know, when you see it. Yeah. So a lot of good memories are gonna come back because it wasn't even that far away. Well, a couple weeks ago, two weeks ago, you would say. Um I'm just I'm man, I'm just excited for you guys who have not seen it. You know, I can keep a secret. But I know when to fuck with you. And I know when I know what's going down. Um, but yeah, like how how do you think people are gonna respond to what goes down? Cause most people think they know what was happening because they saw certain things. And we have a lot of content that we haven't dropped yet because we're you know, we're waiting.

SPEAKER_02

They gotta wait, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Um But like wha wh how do you think people are gonna react?

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I would say it's just a s a surprise after surprise after surprise. And if that's like one thing that the Global Gaming League does is that they do, they keep you on your toes. It is literally like it's a show.

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Suspense.

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It's a show and they put on one hell of a show. And I'm excited to see because you know you don't realize how much all goes into this either, and all the people that are there and who's actually working the whole time. And so when you are watching and you're like, oh, I didn't even see that.

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Right.

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Like Yeah, I didn't even catch that. Yeah, you know, and so like I'm excited to, like you said, to relive relive it and be there again. And yeah, I'm stoked. Absolutely stoked.

SPEAKER_00

It's it's cool because um again, like you said, GGO, you know, they keep everything in suspense, right? But again, I'm gonna say this one more time. You guys seen things, and I spoke to a lot of people this week who think they know what the fuck happened. Listen, it's not even about that. We're talking about what goes down, what was said, what happens. You're gonna be like, what?

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Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00

That's what's gonna fucking twist. That's the big twist right there.

SPEAKER_02

I mean because it had us like that. And we were there, and we were like, what?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so it's crazy. You know, again, I'm really excited for you guys who have not seen uh anything yet. Um, I'm I'm just oh my god.

SPEAKER_02

And we're just smiles right now.

SPEAKER_00

I can't, I mean, you know, we we'll we'll talk, you know, after the shit drops. Uh maybe the day of too. I'm sorry, if you missed the time that it drops and we happen to say something, you didn't see it, that's on you. Yeah. Um don't sleep on it. No, for real. I mean, this just shows you that anything can happen at GGL.

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Yeah.

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Anything.

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Anything to anyone.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Oh yeah, for sure. Oh my God.

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I hope that doesn't say too much. No, no, no, no.

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But see, that's that's what we we if we are not fucking keeping this suspenseful for you and fucking with you and teasing you, we're not doing our job. And and we gotta keep it 100, keep it a buck, like we say. Uh it's it's um it's so much fun to do this and fuck with you because when you actually see what we're talking about, you're gonna be like, oh, that's one hell of a twist, you know. And and and there was a big twist in the last one, uh, before this one, when Travis joined uh Howie's team. Yep. You know? And um we all were like, what the fuck? Where's the rest of the the performance? Like, we want more Travis, right? You know, I wanted to hear fucking cookie jar. Like that's my favorite fucking track. Um, but no, it was it was cool. Again, GGL knows how to like take shit to the far left and and really keep you engaged. Um, so again, shout out to Clinton Sparks, everybody out there doing their shit with GGL. Um, and we appreciate it because the crowd was just eating it up. Yeah, throwing their hands up in the air and talking shit, and it that's what they wanted. Yeah, so shout out GGL, baby.

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Let's go. GGL

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And listen, speaking of GGL, these shirts, founding members, uh, we got the drippy remote with GGL right there on the screen. And in the back is all GGL. These shirts will be available pretty soon for every founding member of GGL. You know, everybody from DP Mothersucker to Tragedy to Lit Stevens to Commando to SoulKid, everybody's gonna have one because we truly love all of you guys and just know that this podcast retro vaults, when I say that it's powered by the founding members of GGL, it's not just us just because we're in the shirts. Yeah, it's all of you. So shout out to you guys.

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GGL fam go hard.

SPEAKER_00

Hell yeah. And like I said, a big adoptive family, you know? The gaming world is crazy, but when you have this amazing community with everybody who's willing to show up for you and offer something, and you're offering another, again, it's like a big dinner table and somebody just brings something to the potlock. Yeah. So uh and it's amazing, man. Uh I never knew how many people were actually paying attention to what I was doing. Yeah. You know? Um it makes you feel so humble when people come up to you and be like, yo, I've been following you on this and that, whatever. And I said, for real? Because I don't I don't pay attention to like my following numbers and stuff like that. You know, I'm not I don't need like 10,000 or 25,000 people and and just to have a good, you know, content page.

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_00

Um would that be dope? Of course. I'm not gonna say no. But the fact that they they follow my work, especially well the AI videos that I drop every used to be every track of the week. Shit's getting crazy and busy, so I'm dropping the track of the month now. It makes them even more special. Um while I'm on that, be sure to check out the last one. It's featuring your homie right here, Alpha, getting abducted by some aliens.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. That was a really cool video. Oh, of course. Like it was very awesome.

SPEAKER_00

I love I love to incorporate my people, you know what I mean? Um, soul made a cameo in the last one, you know.

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Um hip hop gamer.

SPEAKER_00

Hip hop gamer. I got it. Yeah, I got him um the very, very, very beginning. I was doing this stuff when AI is very tricky, okay? Uh you can give it something to like create for you, and you can drag images in there and like, yo, this is what I want exactly, and you end up getting something else. So you gotta work with what you can at the moment and make it work. Um, but I was trying to get your features down like that.

SPEAKER_02

Well, it's kind of hard, I feel too, because I've never met someone that looks like me. Like, I feel you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, and and I didn't and I wanted to surprise you. I didn't want to like, yo, Alpha, can I get a selfie of your face? And you're like, huh? You know? Like, so I I wanted to like do something special. Uh uh, because you love aliens, you love the whole, you know, the whole your intro and everything and stuff that you do. So I'm like, you know what, let me see what I could do. Um, I got Gerard, hip-hop gamer, uh, battle rapping on an old video I did. Um I'm in there as one of the DJs, so my face was perfect. But it just depends on how things change. Um to try to get like the actual good like image, the view of your face, and it just kind of changes it. But it worked out. She has short hair.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and I mean she's beautiful, so thank you. I mean, that's a compliment.

SPEAKER_00

There you go.

SPEAKER_02

She's still a beautiful character.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, and look, you ended up taking over uh at the end of the video. Yeah, you got them on their fucking knees on leashes and you're standing like a badass. You know what I mean? So, yeah, man. Um, you know, it's just it's it's a lot of fun to create these videos and drop them. And I started getting compliments from them, you know, and um when I met DP for the first time face to face, this out here in HyperX Arena in Vegas, uh, it was Neo and Payne's match. And he just walked up to me and he, this dude, yo, shout out to you, bro. He had the pack with him that one time and he was streaming like I think it was like 20-something hours straight. Quote me if I'm wrong, bro, but I know I know you would you would stream it for a while. But then after that, he just came to me and we were talking for a little bit and him just telling me like he follows my content and hip hop's content, and he's very uh grateful for what we do and it's inspiring. I'm like, bro, like I love to hear that. You know what I mean? So again, shout out to DP Mother Sucker, man. We love you, bro. And and the whole GGL community, man. You know, just keep following. We're following you right back. Again, this is why this podcast is made, because all of us are retrovolts, baby. This is what it is. Again, so we are powered by the founding members of GGL.

SPEAKER_03

Let's go.

SPEAKER_00

So it's funny because I was going through some stuff uh to segue to another uh conversation. I was going through some things, some some footage or whatever, right? And um I was uh I noticed that in the background there was uh a Sega Genesis picture. I was going through some old photos. Um I know we talked about this before, but like what was the main console that you ever got your hands on on the first time that you knew that you didn't want to like let go of this one? It doesn't have to be the first official one you ever played with. It's one console. Like for me, I've had Nintendo, right?

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_00

But when PlayStation came out, I fell in love. When Sega was out before that, I didn't want to let it go. But PlayStation has my baby.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Right? You listen, man, I don't get the floor, right? You know what I mean? And the four right there. So, um, but but which is the console that you you did not want to let go of?

SPEAKER_02

I would probably say it would be PlayStation 1. For sure. I because I I don't know, and I kinda wish that Nintendo 64 would have done maybe like Nintendo 65 or something. You know, like they keep it going? Yeah, they kind of stopped. Yeah, yeah. And I think it would have been cool if they would have kept growing just like PlayStation did, just like Xbox did with all the different consoles that they came out.

SPEAKER_00

Right. I don't know, Nintendo, maybe that could be they you know, uh, and it's cool because I I feel like every company has found like their own niche or lane. Like PlayStation, they become like like the ones and twos and threes, like you know, we got PlayStation 5. Yep, PS6 coming out pretty soon, got permitted, right? Um Nintendo has done this thing where okay, well we're gonna be Nintendo. Let's put another console out, let's call it this. Oh, and we got this, but let's it's gonna be a handheld, whatever, let's just call it this. And PlayStation has done the same thing, but PlayStation goes one, two, they just keep it going. And then we get the handhelds, you know. Xbox like they're not so much with the name, with the numbers, but um, except for Xbox One and 360, which kind of threw me off. Because I'm like Xbox One The Fuck, bro, just Xbox, you know? That should be the Xbox One, right? Uh the 360, which was cool for what it was. You you saw Def Jam 1. Um, and then uh yeah, uh Xbox One. I'm like, that's kind of backwards. Right. But then they had a few, or maybe one handheld uh thing, whatever, and uh yeah, and then Xbox what series they came out. So it's kind of weird with the names that they come up with with these fucking consoles. Like, you know, if you had a console, what would you name it?

SPEAKER_02

Oh I have no.

SPEAKER_00

I know Alpha's gotta be in there somewhere.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, of course. It probably yeah. Alpha 93.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, what uh I see what you I bet. I don't know, man. Um How about you?

SPEAKER_02

What was what was your console?

SPEAKER_00

Mine, of course, uh again, I I was I was in love with uh Sega Genesis for a long time. You know, um Nintendo, again, I I grew up with it. Atari was in in in the house, but not used, broken down, right? Um I still I I wish I had it to this day, because then that way I could just have it as, you know, like a prop, right? Um Nintendo, we always had uh Sega Genesis, my uncle uh put me onto it and I fell in love with Sonic. But then when PlayStation came out, I mean N64's got my heart, but it's just PlayStation, man. I guess it's something that uh like I tell my kids, when a certain song is playing, I don't just think about the song, I think about where I was at that time when that song came out, right? So I just think about the same thing with the consoles, like what was I doing? Right, what was going on? And that has some dope ass memories, man. You know, so and plus the games as well, like you can't top, man, like Spyro, Toomba, um, uh Jersey Devil, um uh Crash Bandicoot, SmackDown 1 and 2, Warzone, Attitude, like bro, should I go on? You know, uh uh Tony Hawk.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Like, yeah, the we had so many dope ass games, and this is why I just I fall in love. Oh, Road Rash.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my, my god. I holy you know. Shout out to Road Rash, man.

SPEAKER_00

That's one of the best games ever fucking made. And it's the thing, this is what I love about these conversations, is and that's I try to talk to to like my kids and stuff like that, is graphics are dope. Don't get me wrong. Graphics are fucking amazing, right? It's cool, yeah. But there was just something about shitty graphics, better gameplay.

SPEAKER_02

Right, which at the time you didn't think was shitty.

SPEAKER_00

No.

SPEAKER_02

You know?

SPEAKER_00

And that's what the exact thing is.

SPEAKER_02

You know, like, whoa, this is cool.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you see it now, and you're like, Yes, wow, this was Yeah, and that's why I try to tell my kids, especially my little man, is like you gotta appreciate where these these games started and where they came from. Same thing with music, right? Same thing with movies, because now what the fuck is Hollywood doing? Remake, remake, remake, remake. And I'm like, yo, just some movies you do not fucking touch. Leave them alone. Um but when uh they started making um, for example, superhero movies. Always been around, but now like this, right? We're talking about from 2001 all the way to like 2026, and they're still fucking knocking them out. Yeah, knocking them out. Keep doing it, please. Yeah, I promise I'll let them 95 or 100. I want to see more of these fucking superhero movies.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, right to to the side of me, you guys can't see it, but I have a fucking hell of a comic collection. If they could make at least a half of the shit I got in there, I'll be happy.

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_00

You know, so the same thing with video games. When they start making video game, you know, movies again, 80s and 90s had, you know, well, we had uh uh Super Mario Brothers with John Liguazamo, and I forgot the actor's name from uh Roger Rabbit. Please tell me you've seen Roger Rabbit.

SPEAKER_03

Please, eh?

SPEAKER_00

Please, please. That's a good one. That's a lot right there. Um I forgot his name. But anyway, you see it now, you're like, oh my god, this is uh nostalgia at his best, but it's like fuck, it could have been a little better, you know? Um, but I'll still watch it, of course. Uh it they had to do what they had to do for that time. But now you got, you know, uh um the animation studios making these these fucking Mario movies and shit. And you know, Sonic for me, they're they're about to release part four. Um which I'm excited for, but uh most people wanted more gaming in it, like Mario, right?

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_00

I think it's kind of cool that they got, you know, like a Roger Rabbit feel, you know. You got the animation and you got the real people, Space Jamish. Yeah. You know? Another great classic. Yeah. The first one. Um, even though Ethan likes the second one. Um, but no, uh I just that's that's how I am with with with shit. When I see I love to collect uh um nostalgia and and all that crazy old shit. I love to collect comics. Comics. I still got DVDs, I collect DVDs. I mean, I'm keeping it a hundred retro vault with you, baby. I collect a lot of shit. I mean, look to the left of you.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah. It there's a lot of stuff in here, guys. You can't see.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but there's a lot of stuff going on. And this was a he a big gift from my little man, Ethan, uh, for um my father's day last year. Uh-huh. He got it for me, you know. Cause I got him into the wrestling thing, man. Like, I'm not a big fan of how it is is going now, you know. It's it's different. I'm big attitude era kind of guy. Have you ever been into wrestling? Because WrestleMania's coming.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so mum I was into wrestling because my father was into wrestling. And that was his and we grew up, we didn't have cable. So when certain shows came on, we were all wanting to be in the living room to watch it, and his thing was WWE SmackDown. Oh. And he would be like, WWE SmackDown. Like he would he just he ate it up. He loved it so much.

SPEAKER_00

Who was his favorite wrestler of all time?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, probably Hulk.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, Hulk Owen?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, probably because I think that was my mom's favorite, you know, and anything that mom.

SPEAKER_00

So that's what's up. Yeah. That's dope. Who's your your person? Like your if you had to pick a top three.

SPEAKER_02

Man, I don't even know. I don't even think I have a top three because I only like I only watched it because of him. Because of him. Because of him. Um, but I mean The Rock, he's classic.

SPEAKER_00

Of course, that's my guy.

SPEAKER_02

Um, John Cena.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, can't see me.

SPEAKER_02

You know, like all the yeah, the the so that was like that era of okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

He looked like him with the hat and everything. You can't see me. My time is now. Um, let me see. Uh yeah, The Rock has always been my favorite. Yeah. Um, Stone Cold, Steve Austin. Yeah. Um, Undertaker. Those are my three guys.

SPEAKER_02

Undertaker.

SPEAKER_00

Um, but then outside of that, like I got a whole group. You got tag team, you know, uh the the Hardy Boys were my guy, the Dudley boys. Um again, that was the attitude era leaking into. I mean, I'm just going with the attitude era until it changed to like I think the 2000s because or or early 2000s because it started to, you know, get cleaner. You know, you had like chicks coming out half naked and kids are being there, but that it's what molded us, you know. It molded us to be tougher today, you know. Gen Z, you know, no disrespect to you little fuckers. But it's just, you know, it's just everything is soft right now, you know. And I just love that when I turn on the old WWF, not E. It was just you turn it on to like a widescreen TV now, but then you get like a little box because it was on the box television, you know. I mean, we had the tube TVs, kids. It had an ass.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

A box.

SPEAKER_02

It wasn't flat.

SPEAKER_00

No, exactly. So you're hanging on a wall. For real. Hell no.

SPEAKER_02

Could never.

SPEAKER_00

You can mount it though on a fucking little mount like a hospital TV.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, but now hospitals got flat TVs too. So um, but yeah, man, I remember watching that in my my grandmother's house all the time, you know. Um, and and seeing this, you know, it just my my son knows how to how to get me here. Yeah, so you know, yeah, I know, man. And and and and again, thank you for doing what you did for him, you know, for his little late birthday gift. Well, it's not even late. That one was late. You got him something else before that, you know. So you know he deserves it.

SPEAKER_02

He's he's a good kid.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Ethan, man.

SPEAKER_02

He loves you, Ethan.

SPEAKER_00

You're the shit, dude. You deserve a level off. That's my boy right there. Well, listen, man. Uh, we're about to get into round two of 1v1 off, so we'll be right back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Hell yeah. Oh, it's a hot dog.

SPEAKER_00

Hot diggity dog.

SPEAKER_01

Hot dog.

SPEAKER_00

Kind of look good though. I ain't gonna lie.

SPEAKER_02

It did. That makes me want a hot dog. Real bad.

SPEAKER_00

You sound like a homegirl.

SPEAKER_01

I want a hot dog.

SPEAKER_00

That wasn't gonna run. Oh no, it's a fucking thing, yeah. Oh, I kicked it my ass over here. Gotta get I gotta get there we go. There we go. Boom, boom, boom. Take that motherfucker. That's right. Fork his ass up. It's funny because sometimes you're swinging it and you're swinging in fucking air.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Cool. Nice. Alright, we are back. I love the movie one-offs, man. Like I said, I always love playing with you. I think it's dope. Yeah. You know.

SPEAKER_02

And it's always fun. It's always fun. Yeah, yeah. You know, you don't beat each other up. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00

You know, in case you see me throw a chair at you, but you know, other than that, it's still love. So listen, so uh, I want to, you know, again, uh give a big shout out to Target Media, you know. They are really making it uh as easy as they can, bro, for artists, you know, to get their music on Fortnite, uh, Valorant, Halo Infinite, League of Legends, Apex Legends. I mean, the list goes on and on, bro. Just artists, please sign up. You know, I'll even put it in the link uh with the notes. Like you guys have to check this out. Uh, you know, get your music on there, baby. You know, AI gameplay. You know, you adjust your levels and your music on how you want with your gameplay, sound effects, and everything. My son, my son is in Fortnite. How crazy is that? You know? So um, with that being said, I want to, you know, play a quick track, uh, exclusive track that's on Tiger Media. Uh, the EP will be available soon on there uh for gameplay. But for now, I just want to play a quick track of what I have on there, and you guys could just vibe out to it. So here we go.

SPEAKER_03

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_00

Let me see. There we go. Get your game on, get your game on, get your game on.

unknown

I like this.

SPEAKER_00

And there you go. It's a preview, right? It's crazy, right?

SPEAKER_02

And so you can set that to like if you want to jump out, like if you want that song to be playing while you're in the bus, say before you're jumping.

SPEAKER_00

The beautiful thing about that is they got they got the menu page where you can take the drums out, leave the bass, you know, leave the synth um while you're jumping out the bus. You can play the whole track while you're on the bus. When you land, it could play another part of the beat. Um, and then you got sound effects you can add. You know, if you're picking up uh uh weapons from the ground. I got a cartoon running sound effect that came with uh Tiger Media, so I use that. Uh for my killing effects, I got Ill Massacre sound effect on there, and then I got my son saying, Yo, bro, that was ill. So he's on there as well. Um hold on, let me see if I can get that part right there. Because you guys gotta hear my son. And this kid is crazy. Here we go.

SPEAKER_02

Yo, bro, that was ill.

SPEAKER_00

That literally, look, gave me goosebumps.

SPEAKER_02

It's so cool.

SPEAKER_00

That's my son Ethan. Um, when I get an instant kill, that's what you hear. Um and if you get a quick kill within the five to ten seconds, that's a double kill. So then double kill sound effect pops up. But yeah, man, those that's 30 seconds of the preview of one of the tracks um on there. Um, and uh, yeah, you you you guys just gotta sign up to Tiger Media. Artist or not, artist or not, there you go. Get on there, sign up. Um, you know, you wanna get Ill Massacre's playlist, just you know, hook your boy up with a little gameplay, you know what I mean? You get paid per second. Um, but it's a lot of fun. And and and you know, shout out to Soul Soul Kids on there now. And I'm working with a lot of artists trying to get their music on there as well, you know, uh power with Tiger Media. So, you know, and and and we're in to get an exclusive alpha track on there. Yeah, you know, it's in the works. So uh, yeah, man, Tiger Media.ai, look it up. It'll be in the show notes. Just just guys, link up. Yeah. Um on another note, uh, I see that you have some news that you want to share with us.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, yes, I'm so excited because this this happened last night. Uh Mike Shroudow um reached out to a lot of the global gaming family. We all jumped into a voice call and Bella Renee herself showed up.

SPEAKER_00

Shout out to Bella Renee.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Love her. Super cool artist, super cool person. She's part of the Global Uh Gaming League um music group. Um, and there is a tournament happening now. If you join the Global Gaming League Discord, enter it into the tournament, it's going to be um a music video involving your own gameplay to Where's My Mind by Bella Renee. And she herself is going to pick the winner.

SPEAKER_00

Yo, that's crazy. Yes. And it might put that out last night.

SPEAKER_02

He did. Yep. So make sure you um it's in the GGL primes. So make sure that you join the Global Gaming Link Discord, sign up. I mean, take your shot. I mean, why not? If you're if you're playing games and you love music and you love Belle Renee's song, please like that's dope. Sign up, do it.

SPEAKER_00

Sure, I might do some shit. Like that. Like I mean, you know what? It's crazy. Like, like what would you do? Like what gameplay or what game would you choose? I mean, I already could say split gate, right?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But that track is hard. The track that she has. Yes. You know, um, like what what gameplay like would you use for that? Because it's gotta it's gotta kinda match, no?

SPEAKER_02

Like, yeah, I mean you it depends. I feel like if you're gonna be doing fast gameplay, if you're good with editing, slowing slowing some things down, some slow-mo action, I think would be a good idea. Yeah. Um if you're into uh Rocket League when you're driving, okay, that might be kind of cool. Um, I mean, any I think it's anyone's game. Any anyone can can pull through with this because it's a great song. So as long as you got good great great gameplay, put it together.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. What when's the the deadline?

SPEAKER_01

That's a good question, El Massacre. Let me let me check this out real quick.

SPEAKER_02

May 17th at 2 a.m.

SPEAKER_00

Oh wow, damn. Okay. That's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_02

We have April 17th to May 17th.

SPEAKER_00

That's dope. You guys got a whole fucking month. Well, less one day is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Get to that shit. Yes. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02

And I just want to double check, and I and I know that Mike Strado did that for a reason, just because he didn't want anyone to feel rushed. Yeah. You absolutely have time.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um, but I mean time. Yeah. Time also flies by. So don't sleep on it. I would say if you're serious about it, I would start cooking.

SPEAKER_00

Hey man, shout out to Mike. I I can't, I can't uh I can't stress it enough, man. I love this guy.

SPEAKER_02

He's literally the best.

SPEAKER_00

Fucking love you.

SPEAKER_02

He's a he's a good dude.

SPEAKER_00

Um that's amazing. That's dope. Every time that I I would see him pop up on the Discord, I just immediately have to go. I don't give a shit what it is. I don't care if he takes a picture of himself as a selfie. I gotta see it. You know? Um, but that's cool though, that um they're putting out that that that contest. Um, did they say it's gonna be like a first place, second place, third place, or just one winner?

SPEAKER_02

I think Bella Renee is just gonna pick the winner. She's gonna pick the winner. She's gonna pick the winner.

SPEAKER_00

And and and and what happens after that when she picks the winner? Like, do they go have like dinner? She's gonna flat them out somewhere, it'll be in the music video in the future, like what's what's popping?

SPEAKER_02

I don't I I don't I D all the above, I hope. I I'm not really too sure. I think I think it's just it's it's it's all about trying to get everyone collabed with her, which I think I think is awesome what they're doing.

SPEAKER_00

That's dope, man. Yeah, yeah. That's pretty cool. See, GGL is always coming up with the dopest shit. Yeah, always. And again, there's different, you know, uh departments and and and different lanes that things just pop up, but all from the same bubble. You know, so that's cool, man. I mean, me, if I think about it, what song would I use? I mean, what song? What game would I use? Shit. I don't fucking know, man, to be honest. Uh oh my god. Because the the song alone, it takes me to like some future.

SPEAKER_02

I think you just answered your own question.

SPEAKER_00

Cyberpunk.

SPEAKER_02

There you go.

SPEAKER_00

Cyberpunk. It just hit me because I just had to see her run. I had to see her run in my head.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I think that was dope. No, yeah. And you know, shout out to her, man. She killed it in that performance. Um uh for the pre-show, the pre-game before the actual, you know, GGL event. Uh, she performed what, three or four songs?

SPEAKER_02

She performed, yeah, yeah, a few, yeah. And she actually did play Where's My Mind there before it was even released. And so I I was already in love with the song before.

SPEAKER_00

Again, shout out to her and her mom's, you know, her sweethearts, amazing people, genuine people, humble people. And I just can't wait to kick it with them again because it's it's gonna be dope. It is. We're gonna get some shit going, you know what I mean? Um um, but yeah, man, it's it's amazing. Oh, and it's funny because her and uh Mike were matching, they didn't even mean to.

SPEAKER_02

They were wearing the same clothing line.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, yeah, clothing line, not clothes. I'm gonna say I didn't see Mike in the skirt.

SPEAKER_02

I don't know how I don't know I don't know how that would look.

SPEAKER_00

But um but no, but it it looked like they were about to fight crime, and it started giving me ideas when I first saw them, and then I I I got to understand the type of music that she makes and and the genre and stuff like that. And I just got thinking about Matrix. That's how my brain works. Yeah, you know, and I'm a big cinematic suspense type of guy. So when I see that shit, I I definitely started to, you know, cook in my head. And by the time we came back here, I just started like you know, whipping some stuff up. But uh I can't wait to show Mike what what I got. You know. I can't wait to see.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god, it's I'm working. I'm working.

SPEAKER_00

You know, uh there's a lot of things I want to say right now that I really can't yet, uh, just because I'm trying to keep it on the right timeline. Um, but it is it's gonna this year, 2026, is gonna be a very, very busy year for all of us. You know, um it's already busy as it is, and we're only in the fourth month.

SPEAKER_01

I know.

SPEAKER_00

So, like again, God bless everybody that we're working with. Shout out to everybody we're working with. Uh, you know, we're killing it, baby, and we're gonna continue to keep doing this shit till the wheels fall off. That's what CJ told me yesterday. Yeah, so I'm backing that up, brother, because it's true.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's pretty dope, man. I can't wait to see how many people are gonna start to uh drop shit if they already started.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I mean, I think I'm gonna hop on it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I think I'm gonna hop on it. I gotta I gotta I gotta see what you're gonna do. Yeah, I mean, because I feel like too, I wanna I wanna support, you know, you know, and by you know it participating, right? You're supporting.

SPEAKER_00

Right, right, yeah, of course. Yeah, and it's always like that because they see that they love it, they just wanna do it back, you know? Absolutely. Um man, that's that's pretty that's pretty dope. So my question is, is it gonna be dropped into Discord?

SPEAKER_02

Or is it like an email that they get that they get specific with it or um I think there are like I'm not sure if there's a rules.

SPEAKER_00

Um because that'll be dope. Like, you know, I I know flooding, you know, one page is gonna be crazy. But um, if they got a specific spot where they could drop that stuff at, um, we'll go ahead and put it here in the show notes too, and then they can start to get the information from us and then go follow that. Yeah, you know. Um, nah man, that's dope, man. Everybody just go follow Bella Renee. She's amazing. Fucking music is dope. Uh, can't wait to work with her. Um, it's gonna happen. We're working with her. Uh uh shout out to GGLMG, uh, GGL, everybody, man. Like, we are killing it this year, and we are not stopping.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So listen, man. Uh, we're about to head out right now, but uh, real quick, just want to get a shout-out to everyone I just said, of course, and the GG uh GGL community, uh, you alpha, uh, love having you here, of course. This show wouldn't be what it is now without you. Appreciate it. Okay. Because I could do this shit all day, but I think two people make it better, you know, and we feed off each other. And uh I think that it's it's pretty dope the shit that we deliver to you know our listeners. Yeah, brother. Oh, of course. Just right there. Oh love. Um, thank you for everybody, Julie, from the bottom of our hearts. Uh, you know, tuning in every week, uh, watching the clips on the IG, watching the videos on YouTube. We got more coming, baby. Like I said, we got some future merch coming along the way. Um, and to our supporters, we love you, you know. Um, and again, GGL all day, baby, hip hop gamer, GGL, uh, Mike Strado, Nick Dietrich, Clinton Sparks, Jack Sparks, everybody at the GGL. Yeah, baby, follow members. Exactly. Founding members is coming soon too. Uh, anybody you want to give a shout out to?

SPEAKER_02

Shout out you.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02

Seriously, thank you for everything. This is liter this is literally like more than anything that I could expect coming from this. Like, really awesome what we're doing here. And I'm just so thankful. Thank you to all that are watching, that are tuning in, that are downloading, they're downloading the podcast. That means so much. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00

Big shout out. You guys are really we're delivering, but you guys are delivering right back, and we appreciate you and we love you all. So, from the bottom of all hearts here at Retro Vaults Podcast, to you guys at home in the car, anywhere you're listening, peace out, and we will see you next week. Later.