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Persistence in the Face of Streaming Challenges [Guest: Mikeauxl]

• Jermaine Pulliam • Season 1 • Episode 65

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Imagine stumbling upon a whole new world while simply trying to watch Netflix on your PS4. That's exactly what happened to our guest, Mike, a 32-year-old gamer and former podcast host from Lottell, Louisiana. In this episode of "Uploaded and Unfiltered," Mike recalls his serendipitous entry into content creation back in 2015 after discovering Twitch.


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Speaker 1:

Welcome. Welcome back to another episode of uploaded and unfiltered, the podcast in which I, your host Jermaine, interviews another content creator in regards to their journey thus far. Today I have a special guest and before I get him on the mic and have this conversation, we're going to get a bit of information about him, just so y'all can know who he is before we get started talking. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Mike, a 32 year old lifelong gamer hailing from Lottell, louisiana, with over eight years of experience in streaming on and off and a background as a former podcast host. Mike brings a wealth of knowledge to the world of content creation. Beyond gaming, he's passionate about sports. He's a proud who that fan cooking and self wellness His ultimate goal to make a living by spreading joy and comfort to his audience through his content. And with that I'd like to introduce my guest for this show. Mike, welcome to the podcast. How are you doing today?

Speaker 2:

yes, sir, yes sir, it's a pleasure, my brother, it's a pleasure, man. I told you I, um, I'm I'm a big fan, bro, of of the pod. I've seen a lot of my people here, a lot of my peers, and I'm definitely excited to be here, brother, for sure I appreciate you doing it.

Speaker 1:

We had a little snafu yesterday with the timing but, like as always, I'm flexible as hell and I'm glad we was able to reschedule this and get this thing started for sure.

Speaker 2:

That was definitely on me, bro, and, and I want some once again. No, but for real shit, though, I commend your professionalism and, bro, listen, it might sound bad, but I wasn't expecting that level of like bro bad, but I wasn't expecting that level of like bro, you're really on your shit. I just want people to know like just just a little, just just a little bts. This man has this shit together, real shit. So I will say that for sure appreciate yo.

Speaker 1:

Thank you. I always like hearing that because I forget, like it's just me over here looking at it. But when other people say that, I'm like oh shit thank you, nah, nah, you're doing your thing, bro.

Speaker 2:

You're doing your thing for real. Thank you, nah, nah, nah, you're doing your thing, bro, you're doing your thing for real.

Speaker 1:

Thank you All right, we talked about enough about me, let's go ahead and get started. What is Mike's origin story? How did you get started in content creation?

Speaker 2:

Okay, getting started in content creation. This was around, let's say, because I'm a late bloomer, bro. I'm a late, I've been doing it for a while, but I'm a late bloomer in terms of when I came up. I didn't even know streaming twitch. All that was a thing until like 20, like late 2015, right. I remember that was during my destiny. One days and I was on my, I was on my ps4, and one night I went to sleep. I was going to sleep and I I went to like go to like streaming, like netflix or some shit, but I pressed the wrong button and it went to the live thing. So, if you remember I don't know if it still has that, but it has like a live tab where if you click it, it pulls up. It wasn't just twitch, though, it's just like everything that's live. So youtube twitch, and it was like some other little sites back in the day that, okay, whatever, whatever you're live on, it shows up on your place. I'm like, okay, what the hell is that? And I clicked a twitch stream and it was just fucking.

Speaker 2:

I woke up the next morning and it was this guy playing. It was a saturday morning. It was this guy who was on his couch, just shit. I didn't know nothing about streams, bro. Right, he was playing. He was playing mkx. Uh, popping a popping, popping bruise playing mkx. I'm like, bro, this is the dream, what the hell is this? Like? I could talk to this guy right now. He's just chilling, playing like it wasn't. It wasn't the bells and whistles of a typical stream that you would see these days. There's a guy he had he was playing on on a regular ass tv. He had he had the playstation camera on his tv, he was on his couch and shit. I'm like, bro, this is the fly shit ever. It blew my mind. I didn't know that was possible. Oh man, yeah, that same day I went by a playstation camera and that was. That was the origins, bro. I was like, wow, this is this, is it?

Speaker 1:

that is, that might be the most unique falling into content creator. You just saw, it was like yeah, accidental as hell, bro.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, and that it was that particular guy's vibe. He was cool, he was cool as hell and he was actually good at mk. But besides that point, it's like, bro, I didn't know this was. I could just chill and play the game and to this day, that's, that's the. That's the formula that I follow just chilling, doing my thing as if I was didn't even have the camera on. You know, doing my thing, playing the game and, yeah, chilling with my folks I love that.

Speaker 1:

That is dope. All right, I'm gonna spell this for the audience. And then audience, you tell me how to say. And then mike. I want you to get into it, but mike's screen name for the. I've known it. I don't know how long I met. I met mike through jedi, I believe either jedi or box, and I never knew. I just everybody called him Mike and I'm like bet I'm gonna call him Mike because I don't want to say this shit. All right, so that's how you spell it M I K E A U X L. I'm gonna say it one more time M I K E A U X L. All right, mike, how do you say that? Michael Right, okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 2:

Michael Right, okay, okay, okay, okay. No, I get it though, I get it, I get it, I get it.

Speaker 1:

But give me, give me the origin of this.

Speaker 2:

I got you, I got you, I got you. Okay, I'll say, I'll say the spelling thing and now I'll give you my mindset with it. Okay, I'm from Louisiana. E-a-u-x. Equals. Oh, that's what it is. If you ever, if you ever watch an lsu game, they have this sign g-e-u-a-g-e-a-u-x. Go go lsu or go tigers, okay, or go e-a-u-x is go, you have. You have the last name tibidow, it's not tibidow. Ox, it's not okay.

Speaker 2:

So my name and my twitter and my what's my twitch name? No, I think my first twitch name was michael, but anyway, my playstation name was lawtel boy. That's where I'm from. I'll tell boy like nah, I don't want to make that my twitch name. So I wanted some with one name and I wanted it to be some with michael.

Speaker 2:

So I went through a bunch of different iterations. They were taking up. You know how twitter was. I wanted to be my twitter and everything. So I'm like okay, oh, okay, I'm from. I thought I was doing some slick shit. Okay, bro, I'm from. I'm from louis. I'm from louisiana. It's about the same amount of uh letters as my normal name. It has the louisiana thing going on. I'm just slap a l at the end, put the e-a-u-x. Okay, michael, but if you're not from that air, some people get it. I'm gonna tell you, though, bro, more people like europeans, like my european viewers yeah, they get it right away. Boom, okay, michael. Yes, yeah, they get it right, because frank, france and mike, you know, yeah, they get it, they get it right away, they get it right away. It's mostly my american views. They be like mike also, and I get it. Mike's off my ox. I don't even take it personally, it is, I get it, yeah, I get it.

Speaker 1:

So I, I love this. Now I mean like I did not like it, but now that I yeah bro.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I try. Yeah, that's what I came up and it's available on everything, anything. I, anytime I need a a new, a new social, come out or whatever. I slap that in, I have no problems. Mike, mike, hey, mike, also I'll take it. Even people like Jedi. Jedi know my fucking name. But he'll come and say, yo, what up? Oxl, like that's just what they do, like it is what it is. At this point the nigga know like, hey, I'll take it, I'll be Oxl too. That'll be my second name. It's cool, I'll take it.

Speaker 1:

I love that.

Speaker 2:

Bro, for like years I'm just like I don't know why I didn't just ask you, but whatever we're here now, I get, I get. I get it though, bro, it's a regional thing, so if you're not, with that or from europe.

Speaker 1:

You won't get it, I get it, so it's all good perfect.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I also thought about changing it for a while. I'm like, bro, what the fuck? This shit don't make no sense.

Speaker 1:

But I'm like, yeah, nah, I'm gonna rock with it yeah, that's, that's clean, bro, like, and you can make it anyways. I damn, I like when the username is multi-leveled, you feel me it brings a story like european or people who know what it is, that's a connection to you and people who don't, that's a talking point like how do you say this? And then they hear and you're like oh, all right, my bad yep, so it's all good man.

Speaker 1:

That was dope. Let's go ahead and slide into our next section. This is a current mindset where we talk about how are you feeling about your content right now and where do you think you see your content going?

Speaker 2:

And let's say the next, like three to six months bro, in terms of where I'm at right now, I feel like when Kobe first changed his jersey to the 24, that's where I'm at right now. I feel like when kobe first changed his jersey to the 24, that's where I'm at right now, bro, like when he was like, okay, he already had a couple chips with the eight, but he was like, okay, nah, that was with what I was doing before, that's in the past, I had shack with me. I'm finna, go and get my own shit. And I'm finna, pop this shit off and get two more. That's how that's where I'm at with right now. I just I just put my 24 jersey on and, uh, it's just, bro, it's it's. That's a theme of all this shit for me, bro.

Speaker 2:

Consistency, bro, yeah, consistent, any any if, if I could ever maintain a few months of just straight up consistency. Is is up and I and I've always known that, I've always known that I've always felt like I had all the tools to really going in the way that I want to get it going, not in a not not in a cheap way, not in a way that, you know, copying anybody else in my own specific way, that's that's. That's original to me. I always felt like I could do that. It's just consistency, bro, that's all. But I feel like I'm, I'm, I'm in that.

Speaker 2:

Uh, that happened. I got a new computer and I've always had problems, bro, that's the thing I've always had. I've always had internet problems. I'm from the country, bro, when I'm at home, I work, I work, I work on the road right a lot. So for the most part, I'm actually I'll have to depend on hotel internet and when I'm at home, like I don't have any fiber or anything like that, I'm I'm, for for a long time I was depending on, like hot spots and shit like that. So it's always tough, bro, like I'll be having a good stream, this shit just drop out and there's always some shit for years. So so, yeah, now I think I'm in the driver's seat, finally, where I can control my own destiny and and get it popping, bro, and that's gonna happen, I believe exactly, and I just want to highlight this because some people be sleeping.

Speaker 1:

Uh, he had internet issues we've all had those and he still pushed through that shit like eight years of content creation. You'll feel me it's frustrating but, like sometimes, you just gotta push, and I applaud you for doing that.

Speaker 2:

That's dope and again, that's how I know. I love this shit, bro, like any other thing where it takes this long and there's so many setbacks and so many frustrations, uh, for for other things or for any other people that might be into this shit that wouldn't have loved it as much, I would have gave up, bro.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, like man fuck it bro, I don't really fuck with this shit, but I just just just just the amount of love that I still have for this stuff lets me know that. You know, I just this really what I'm supposed to be doing.

Speaker 1:

That is dope. I wanted to talk touch base on you posted. Well, this is like real life coming into podcasts. I commented on one of your keyboard videos you just posted recently. I was thinking like so for y'all, don't know Mike has been I don't know how many how many keyboards you have at this point?

Speaker 2:

freak bro, oh man, oh, probably probably like 20 plus bro, 20 plus at least. Yeah, yeah, 20 plus that's.

Speaker 2:

That's minimum, nah, nah. Nah, that's minimum, minimum, 20 minimum. I'll say 20 plus. Like I had to redecorate my whole room the other day and like clean out my closet in my game room and everything to like make room for the shits. So yeah, because it was getting crazy, like I was just putting them on the ground and like letting them go up the wall and it was getting crazy. So like it was looking funky in there, so I had to clean out the closet and make a room for there. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So yeah, all right so custom keyboards is something that I've always wanted to dabble in it. It's a fire hobby, like I have one it's. It's crazy, bro. There's so many like the things that you can do to a keyboard to customize it to your own taste and likes and feel amazing and I appreciate you putting that. Like five years ago, if you would've told me you would've been making keyboard content, I wouldn't.

Speaker 2:

It wouldn't have crossed mind you feel me, you feel me. Five years ago I didn't even have. Five years ago I got my first laptop. Well, pc, whatever laptop, so of course I would have never. I'm with, I'm right there with you, bro. Who would have thought I kind of I kind of just got into the keyboard side of it yeah, a couple years ago. But that's just a part of me. I've always been. I'm not the most like into fashion type of guy, but I've always been a guy with my own style. So I kind of have a niche, you know, a foot in the fashion thing and style that's with everything I do Like. If somebody sees me dressed, it's like, okay, that's a mic fit. So I kind of brought that to keyboards. Yes, you know the way I, yeah, man, so it's a super dope little hobby man. I fucks with it.

Speaker 1:

I like it. That's just another. I tell people all the time like I know a few folks other. I tell people all the time like I know a few folks. They're like oh, I just want to make content outside of gaming. I'm like, what else are you into? Like I love legos. You'll see me bust out exactly, but like what you like, what you enjoy.

Speaker 1:

Just start making videos around, that it might pop off, it might not, but at least you're having fun doing it and like seeing that. I guess what I'm trying to say is seeing the site outside of the gamer is always appreciated, and I think that's a dope way to like grow your audience into something that you want your community.

Speaker 2:

So that should man listen, listen, that's definitely something that I have failed at in the past, to be quite honest with you. Uh, diversifying myself outside of just streaming, yes, um, especially especially at the times where my internet wasn't as good, I I definitely could have thought outside the box and been like, okay, since I can't, since I'm getting 0.5 upload speeds or whatever I can't stream right now, let me make some offline content, let me let me vlog. I definitely want to get into vlogging. I had I did the podcast for a while. It's so many things. Any interest you have, like me, with the keyboard thing, make a couple keyboard videos. It's so many things that you can do. Man, just think outside of the box. It's not even hard. The term think outside of the box, it implies like critical thinking. It's not Just think of simple things that you like, that you're passionate about.

Speaker 1:

Put a camera in front of your face, talk about it, do it whatever, put that shit out, man. It's simple, exactly, it's simple dope, dope. All right, sliding into lessons learned what's a lesson that you've learned? Because you started creating content I think it, bro.

Speaker 2:

I I hate to, I hate to have to repeat myself, bro, but it goes back to consistency, man, consistency is everything with this stuff. And perseverance, bro, but it's like I said, I really love this shit, so it's nothing. To persevere or a setback is frustrating, but it's nothing. Okay, get back on your horse and do that shit. If you really love some shit, man, keep going for it. What's for you is, it's frustrating, but it's nothing. Okay, get back on your hearts and and do that shit. If you really love some shit, man, keep going for it. What's for you, it's gonna be for you. Uh, see that shit, believe that shit and go for that shit, man, for real, and it's gonna happen. Believe it and also do your own thing, bro. Be yourself.

Speaker 2:

Originality is key in in anything you do, but especially content creation. Man, people want to see something new. Don't don't see what. Don't. Look out there at what's pop. Like a lot of the analytics guys, they'll tell you hey, look at what's popping, see what videos are popping, see what trends are popping, and do that. And you know no man, do what you do and be consistent in that. Back to the consistency. It's gonna do what you do, if, if, what you do, the first couple videos or the first couple, whatever you do, don't pop out, just keep doing that shit, man, it will catch on, I promise you. Yeah, but uh, originality and consistency for sure, that's what it's all about, yeah yeah, it took me a while to like.

Speaker 1:

When I first started streaming, it was definitely uh, oh, you can stream and I like talking to people, I like acting not acting crazy, but like being a personality in front of a camera. So for me at the beginning it was just that. But then I was, I looked into, I was trying to like not emulate other people, but I definitely felt myself not being me. And then I started to stream and I was like man, I'm not streaming at all anymore. Once you get back to that again being yourself and doing what you like, and those people will come like. And it's crazy, some of the people I talk to every day I found through streaming and it's because I was being myself, so like, just do that shit.

Speaker 2:

Oh, there's this old saying, bro, build it and they will come. Build it and they will come. Organically, man, shout out to Larry June, organically, they will come. Be you and keep being you consistently, they will come. And you don't have to take no shortcuts, you don't have to do none of that shit, man, it will happen. And that's not to say that you can't take inspiration from other places. That's awesome, that's what it's about. People do shit for other people to come behind them and build off of what they did. So inspiration is awesome, but at the end of the day, your main drip has to come from you, for sure yeah, you gotta put your little flavor spin on it and, yeah, feel me, comes naturally.

Speaker 1:

So I love that. I love that. Uh, we kind of we kind of did this already, but fuck it, we can always drop more advice. If somebody came to you was like mike, I just started streaming. What piece of advice? Because I definitely consistency and perseverance and I think, like you say, if you love something enough, if you're passionate about something enough, those will come automatically for you. But what's another piece of advice in the whole world of content creation that you would give somebody? Another piece of advice in the whole world of content creation that you would give somebody Another piece of advice, outside of consistency and originality.

Speaker 2:

that I would say is find your tribe for sure. Find your tribe, find people that okay, there's tribes within tribes. So let's say you're playing a certain game.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you feel me. So let's say you're playing a certain game or you have a certain niche. Go to that niche and show love to other people, not in a way that you're intruding and being like, hey, I do this too, I stream this too. Not like that. Just be cool and show genuine support and, within that niche, cut it down to people that you can see yourself kicking it with outside of. You know that particular niche. Oh, this person, you know your particular viewpoints and and you know you know what I'm saying and and follow those, follow those people, get cool those people and kind of create, try to create a certain ecosystem within those folks. To where? To where y'all, y'all start cooking together and y'all start cooking together and y'all start. That's what it's about, man.

Speaker 2:

People try to force themselves into situations that they don't quite fit in, or they try to put themselves into shit that's oversaturated and they're just another number within a crew or within an organization, whatever the fuck they got going on, and it's like okay, people are so quick to just jump into organizations and just be there, just because it's like nah, pop off some some organic shit with other like-minded folks who, who are also grinding, not people who they're there today and going like nah, other people that that have the same mission as you and the same viewpoints as you and are cool, you know, uh, yeah, there's, there's, there's plenty of folks out here that are grinding, grinding, grinding. But you know they, you know you could tell at the end of the day they're a piece of shit, like you could tell if somebody's a piece of shit or not. Yes, you know, they could have all the viewers in the world they could have like, would I really kick you with this person outside of this? No, I wouldn't, okay. Nah, you know, why would you want to build with them?

Speaker 2:

nah so yeah, find your tribe bro, that is so true.

Speaker 1:

Like you have no idea, I just came back from twitch con. Twitch con is dope. If I the past I was like. I don't know if it's for everybody, but if you go there with the intention of like networking and meeting people that you usually don't talk to, then TwitchCon is amazing, but to that point, of seeing somebody and knowing like I wouldn't fuck with that person in real life.

Speaker 2:

Like, I had that experience.

Speaker 1:

TwitchCon. I was like I thought it. And so when I saw them and I was like, oh yeah, I was, I was good in my assertion.

Speaker 2:

Like this is not a person, I would hang out with, and that's okay, that's okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's okay, that's okay, man, uh, but but find, find the people that you, that you will work well with, and it comes so much simpler. And it might not be that that goes back to the organic thing. It might not be right away, but if y'all are consistent together and y'all working off each other, okay, when I'm I'm done streaming, I raid this person that you know. When my viewers go over there, we're not missing a beat because they have the same type of vibes that I have. Or when they raid me, all my viewers not leaving because they have the same type of vibes as me. It creates a certain ecosystem within that and that community.

Speaker 2:

Right, that's community it's all about that, and that's what. That's what this is about creating community bro, I don't.

Speaker 1:

This is kind of sideways, it like, yes, community is good and this got me reminded me. I don't know why this reminded me of this, but tell me if I'm tripping, did you put out a video? It was like a. I felt like it was a vlog and you were like cooking or some shit yeah, bro, I was doing.

Speaker 2:

It was very short live, but I was doing, uh, food content, for that's what it was, maybe maybe two, maybe two months it was. It was short live, bro. Yeah, because I didn't realize, I didn't, I didn't realize how much, like, bro, food content is work, bro, I'm not going to lie, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, bro.

Speaker 2:

It's work, bro. You got to be like on top of that shit, like in a way that you know I'll say this In the way that I was trying to do it is work, but it's dope, though I definitely want to get back into it in a certain way, but I got to come up with a certain format that I could be more consistent in in doing a food. But it's such a passion of mine, like cooking and the down south louisiana food, that I do hell yeah and uh and the way that we do it, bro, every time we a lot of times that we cook it's a, it's a event exactly like that should be exciting to watch you feel me, bro, exactly.

Speaker 2:

So okay, we're doing this today. We're doing a certain thing. We. We cooking a deer, we're cooking a pig, we're doing whatever we're doing. Yo, everybody come. That's a vlog in itself. I was about to say you feel me, but yeah, so but, but that vlog also also, as it takes work. So, yeah, I hear you, I definitely want to get back in a space where I could get back into it, but that was some of the most fun I've had in consecration, as I lived as it was.

Speaker 1:

I remember I was me Jedi and Vox in a discord channel watching that shit Die and laugh and I'm like, oh, it was funny bro.

Speaker 2:

Because that's my people, that's my folks. It's like you get another. You get another view of Mike because you're seeing my people. No-transcript.

Speaker 1:

I love like the reason why I really wanted to have you on the cast is because, hey, I need more men on this podcast, so appreciate that.

Speaker 2:

But you've been giving the women some love.

Speaker 1:

I feel like when.

Speaker 2:

I there's more yeah.

Speaker 1:

There's more of them than there's. Us doing it at the level that I want people to see. You know what?

Speaker 2:

I'm saying, bro, you know what you probably. I never thought about that. You know what you probably. You probably I never thought about that, you probably right.

Speaker 1:

And I. I think it's just a. We just need to get on our game, like and it's not an us versus them thing. But I definitely think there are a lot of us men out there who are making dope content and I think I don't know what that. We just need to. I think you know what it is. It Like if we were. When we are more consistent, like that shit is going to pop, because these one-off things that we're doing are hilarious, like I'm telling you bro that cooking thing had us dying Absolutely, bro.

Speaker 2:

Consistency I remember Vox had a vlog going where he was going and looking at retro shit and, fucking bro, that shit was fire as fuck. I'm like Vox, what happened to this? Like yeah, that's what I know. Like yeah, so I know what you mean. Consistency and diversity of content, which some guys do have, but it comes out as consistency. You see, it's a one-off. You see it one time with the me's, with the, with the vox and, you know, with the cooking shit, with the. Yeah, man. So you're right, absolutely. And within the, women are much more organized and much more they're much more for sure.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely, yeah and I think, uh, I'm about to say I think one of my goals, um, with this cast, not only to bring all of us as black people together, but I definitely want to carve out some type of support for us men, because, like every time I think about, and anybody thinks about, support for men, it's like toxic, I'm like it don't always gotta be about that shit. And like having these conversations and talking to other people like we see what we know, like when your mind's clear and your goal is to succeed, like none of that bullshit surrounds you with that.

Speaker 2:

Ain't nothing wrong with a little brotherhood, man, ain't nothing wrong with a little brotherhood man, I'm gonna spend something up, cause like.

Speaker 1:

I feel like it's needed, if anything, just to we can bounce off our ideas of each other. Make sure that we're staying consistent, just to be like you know what we're not in this bar.

Speaker 2:

So you know what we need more than anything, to get straight to the meat and gravy of the shit, we need an accountability group did you upload today?

Speaker 1:

did you put?

Speaker 2:

out today? Are you streaming today? Exactly, yes, all right, accountability. That's what we need, not, not none of this, not none of this little tat tat shit where we rubbing each other head. It's gonna be okay. Nah, fuck that account. What did you do today? What we doing today? Do we need to get, do we need to get into discord and edit this video, these videos together? I'll edit my video. Okay, we're not getting out of here till we finish what?

Speaker 1:

we're doing. That's smart. You feel me I'm gonna have to. Yeah, that's the type of shit we need right now. I'm not even joking, where my damn yeah, accountability, bro. Accountability like a, like a workout group, but with content yeah, because, like once you understand and I think this will be like before you get in this is a mentality. This is not coming from a place of anger or it's all love.

Speaker 2:

We're coming from a place of we want to see each other grow and, like, I think, when you have that in your head and somebody's coming at you that you post today, then I think it would be taken a little better, but I like that that's why the last couple years of this shit sucked man, like I'm such I'm not just saying this, bro, I really mean I am a community guy, bro, and even though I was much smaller back then, I feel like when I first started, so many, so many more of like my true friends were streaming to where at any point in the time, if I hopped on twitch, I see somebody that I really really really fuck with streaming. It's like okay, I never had to worry about no rain if I was hopping off. Oh, my guy right here is streaming. Yeah, like not, not that I don't mind bringing new people or whatever, but it's just, it's different, man, it's different.

Speaker 2:

When you just got folks at at at different times of the day, they just own that bitch, it's you know. That's why, anytime jedi come back, I'm like my nigga, I am happy to see you. Like what the fuck you know he'd be like, yeah, whatever, but I'm serious, like dog, I need this. Or whenever stay I don't know if y'all know dollar sign whenever stay streams or whenever you know like I'm like bro, wait, come on, man, let's do it. And it's hard. I've I've made connections with other people, but it's just, it's different, bro, yeah no, that's funny.

Speaker 1:

You bring that up because I I was thinking about that last week, like I I luckily I mean I in jedi's dms all day in discord and we probably will play some, but like seeing him stream is different than like just hanging out with him, and I told him that I like dude, you're fucking hilarious, I don't want to play in.

Speaker 1:

It doesn't matter what time of day. It is like. You have the skill to make anything entertaining simple as that. Yeah, so whenever you get back to it, yeah, I'm always in there, just like. Yes, you know what?

Speaker 2:

I think it is, bro. You know what I think it is, bro, life happens and I get it. For sure, life happens and I get it. But at the same time, I really don't think niggas understand how dope they are, bro, like I don't, I don't, I don't know things, understand how entertaining they are, how, like, outside of being my friend and my comfort level with you, I don't think you understand how, how, how entertaining you are and how dope you are as a, as a creator. I don't think they'd be understanding that, bro.

Speaker 1:

They'd be like, okay, you know, like, nah, you got it, bro, that's three of my people that I'm like shocked that I get to hang out with them because they're so talented at what they do, and like I don't tell them this to blow them up. I'm telling them like, hey, man, you need to be a little more cocky, you got it dog.

Speaker 2:

You got it, bro, and that's my thing. That's one thing. That's one thing I've never liked. I've never liked that. That's one thing I've never liked. I've never liked that. That's one thing I will say. That's one thing I've never liked and I try to like, pour that into other people and pour that into my friends, and you know it's just like it might come off as a persona, but I really feel like that about myself and and if, if I fuck with you, I feel like that about you also. Let's get it, let's do it like. I really feel like we could be the best at this shit exactly, and that's man.

Speaker 1:

I love that mentality, that's why we that's everybody that I run across and like that I've linked into or locked into, even if we don't talk all the time. Like there's that, always, that that piece. Like I know, if I put my shit together, like nobody can stop me.

Speaker 2:

Like absolutely that, absolutely. That's how you should, that's how you should feel. But at the end of the day, eventually, you got to put it together and that's that's where I'm at right now with it yeah.

Speaker 1:

Same Well, I 100% confidence in you, bro.

Speaker 2:

Like I know, whatever you decide to yeah, we is going up. I done seen it, bro. I've seen a shout out to MLK. I've seen a mountaintop brother. I know what it look like. Yeah, for sure, it's coming. It's coming, you feel me All right.

Speaker 1:

Mike Yo, this was a dope ass conversation Before we get off the pod for the day. Where can the people check out your content?

Speaker 2:

pretty much. Uh, michael, everywhere, m-i-k-e-a-u-x-l again. Yeah, uh, on on everything. Tiktok, I got the same. Like I said, can't nobody get my name, it's unique, okay. So, uh, yeah, tiktok. Twitter, uh, twitch. I'm always. That's my main thing. Right now, I'm always on Twitch. Ig I don't really post on there, but, yeah, anywhere you're looking for me, man, m-i-k-e-a-u-x-l Michael, not Mike Oxel, even though, hey, I'm Oxel these days. You know what I'm saying. Yep, I'll take it.

Speaker 1:

You can check out all his content at those locations. His links will be in the show description and, if you haven't already subscribed to the podcast uploaded and unfiltered, we are in your podcast catcher of choice. Upload every week since we started this thing. We haven't missed a week yet. Consistency is key, I can tell you right now, looking at my analytics, the crazy shit is like if you're consistent, consistent, consistent, somebody might come in on episode like 50 and then go listen to the back catalog because those numbers are moving too. So be consistent, like I promise you, in the long run it's gonna pay off and you're gonna love yourself for it. So, other than that, real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick bro, I wanna, I wanna, give you your flowers, bro, like once again.

Speaker 2:

Hey, man, I know, I know what it takes to do this podcast, bro, and the level at what you're doing, bro, is outstanding. The consistency to do this shit every week, hey man, listen, bro, kudos to you and the professionalism at which you do it, bro, I've seen it, I've seen the BTS, so I'm a witness. So, bro, kudos to you. Bro, keep doing your thing, bro, I'm proud of you, and it's nowhere but up from here, my brother hell yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1:

I appreciate that and, like I said earlier, like hearing that just reinforces that we are moving in the right direction. So I appreciate the kind words and I'm taking that. I'm this is not getting cut. This is staying in the podcast and I'm to cut it so I can listen to it later. No, I'm just playing. It is staying in the podcast though. But, as always, appreciate y'all for listening, protect your mental, keep creating content and I will talk to y'all in the next one. Peace.