Play Games Heal Kids! Extra Life - (participating in Podcasthon 2025) - World Gone Geek

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We're all living in a worldgone Geek.
It's time to geek hard or go home.
The podcast is real.
Here's your host, Grounded Geek.
Welcome back to anotherepisode of World Gone Geek, where
we celebrate the passions thatbring us together.
I'm Jeff, AKA Grounded Geek,and today we're focusing on something

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truly special that embodiesour fandom for Good mission and that's
Extra Life.
We have a whole episodededicated to Extra Life.
We are participating this yearin event called Podcast On.
It's all about convincing asmany podcasts out there as possible
to dedicate one episode oftheir show to a charity of their
choice and to release thoseepisodes simultaneously.

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So in a coordinated effort.
This week, you are listeningto an episode of our podcast that
is part of Podcast on andwe're going to be talking about Extra
Life.
Before we jump into that, I dowant to introduce my co host, Utah,
who is with me here.
Greetings, programs.
We are partners in this ExtraLife thing and have been pretty much
from the start of us evendoing it, we've been playing this

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event together.
It's been what I think.
I think this is our 14th year.
Yes.
And that just blows my mindwhen you think about.
Also is the 14th year.
And since I want to make surethat we talk about this too, because
I did mention on the lastepisode I was shaving my head for
St.
Baldric.
Just, just.
There's official.
It's official.

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Utah was kind enough to pointout how much I look like my microphone
now when I'm wearing.
I don't know who's talkinginto who.
When I'm wearing my beanie.
But yeah, so we, I raised.
I hit my goal for that, whichwas fantastic.
That's fantastic.
So now my attention has turnedto Extra Life and we're going to
be raising money for that now.
And for those who don't know,Extra Life is an incredible chance

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charity program that turns ourlove of gaming into a real world
impact.
So participants play games for24 hours straight to raise money
for Children's Miracle Network hospitals.
And in our case, that's theamazing University Hospitals Rainbow
Babies and Children's Hospitalright here in Cleveland.
Utah and I both have Rainbowkids in our family and rainbow history.

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Everybody on our show tonighthas connections and a history with
Rainbow, and we're going totalk a little bit about that tonight.
But you can play for literallyany Children's Miracle Network hospital.
If you're listening to us outin California, there are hospitals
out there.
If you're listening to us InNew York.
There are hospitals therewhere we can connect you there.
So we want you to know moreabout this.
But you'll play a 24 hourvideo game marathon to raise money

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for your local children's hospital.
And today we've got threefantastic guests who are going to
share their extra lifeexperiences with us.
And first we have Sam Strozewski.
I wanted to say it before Iasked you how to say your name beforehand
and then I almost said it thewrong way immediately.
I would have gone with iteither way.

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Welcome to the show.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for having me.
Now, Sam, you before Iintroduce the other guys, you work
at Rainbow.
Tell us what you do there.
So I'm a development officerat University Hospitals and I primarily
work as the program directorfor All Things Children's Miracle
Network Hospitals, whichincludes Extra Life, which don't

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tell the other partners, butis one of my favorite, if not the
favorite partner that I get towork with.
So I've been doing that secretsafe with us.
Nobody listens to this podcastanyway, so.
That'S the two listeners willknow, but that's it.
I do.
I love you guys.
I've been doing this for 10 years.
This will be my 11th extralife this year.

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So real excited to be herewith you guys and talk all things
extra life.
Awesome.
And we'll get back to you in asecond because I do.
We want to know exactly howthe hospital benefits and what you
guys do there with the kids ininvolved there.
And I also want to bring ontothe show.
He's a friend of the showquite, quite basically he's one of
the family.
He's been on the show many times.

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He is the host of anotherpodcast called Promptly Written and
it's Matt Shierek.
Welcome.
Hey, thanks for having me, man.
He's a super friend of the show.
He certainly is.
And you also work at Rainbow.
Tell us what you do.
I do.
So official title is seniordigital content producer.
So 90% of that is photography.

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The other 10% is some likesmall video production for the.
All right.
And our third guest has beenon the show before.
We featured him a while backand we got to talk a little bit about
Extra Life, but we werefocused mostly on his.
His Twitch streaming careerand you can find him there on Twitch
streaming quite often.

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Please welcome to the show,Sean Gorey.
Hello.
Hello everybody in this panelthat we're talking to right now has
taken on the 24 hour gamingchallenge and lived to tell the tale.
Tonight we're going to talkabout those Tales.
But before we dive in, I wantto share a little bit about why this
matters so much to us atWorldGun Geek.
So we have a manifesto wherewe talk about harnessing our passions

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to make a positive impact.
And I've talked about ourmanifesto before.
Check it out on our website.
Go to about page.
We're all about trying tobring positivity back into fandoms.
We're trying to create a morepositive world to be a fan of things
tired of the gatekeeping, allthat kind of fun stuff.
And one tenet is using ourpowers, our superpowers, for good.
And so that's through doingevents like this.

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St.
Baldrick's Extra Life.
Anything that we can to try togive back.
So we geek out and we give back.
That's kind of our, our motto.
So we want to harness G O G B.
Yeah.
Geek out and give God.
There you go.
Rolls right off the top right now.

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But Extra Life is the perfect,perfect example of harnessing our
passions to make a positive impact.
So it's gamers of all typescoming together, from casual mobile
players to hardcore PCbuilders to console players, to Dungeons
and Dragons sessions, to board gamers.
Whatever it is, whatever gameyou're passionate about, you can
unite around a shared love ofgames to help kids in need.

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And it doesn't get any moreworld gone geek than that.
So we're going to get startedhere again, like I said, Sam, where
we'll start with you.
I talked a little bit abouthow the charity benefits the local
children's hospital.
And there at Rainbow.
Tell us exactly what is ExtraLife doing to help the kids at Rainbow?
Yeah, so at, uh, Rainbow, allof the funds raised through Extra

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Life go to, we call them,generally, areas of greatest need.
So what does that mean?
What might surprise folks isthat a lot of the things that happen
at a hospital, and especiallyat a children's hospital, aren't
covered by health insurance.
And that's where these fundsare going.
So things like making surethat patients have access to art

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therapy, to music therapy, to.
We have a horticulturaltherapist at, uh, we have a rooftop
garden.
And she actually brings thegarden to patients in their rooms
as well if they can't come up.
So ways to help kids not onlysurvive what they're going through,
but try to thrive and come outa little bit less scarred, if you

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will.
It definitely makes thehospital less scary for kids and
for their families byproviding them with some extra touches
throughout their stay with us.
One thing that we talk aboutquite a bit is trying to mitigate
the fear of having to go tothe doctor.

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So being in a hospital, it canbe extremely scary.
Both Jeff, Utah, you both knowquite well, I know everybody here
does.
It can be a very scary experience.
And having a child lifespecialist who can give you a tour
of the unit that you're goingto be admitted to, show you what

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your doctor is going to looklike when they're all in their scrubs
with the mask and a hat on and everything.
Healthy rooms on every floorhaving wet floor signs that are shaped
like banana peels.
Just those little things thatreally make it a child friendly and
honestly, kind of a happyplace, a joyful place, despite all

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of the scary things that arehappening there.
So it goes quite a long way.
Like you said, you can supportany of the Children's Miracle Network
hospitals.
There are 170 of us across theUS and Canada.
But right here in Cleveland,we're fortunate to have, uh, Rainbow,
um, and we welcome, you know,extra lifers from all over the world.

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You don't have to be here inCleveland to support us, too.
So.
Yeah, that's awesome.
And I'd like to use that tosegue a little bit into Utah real
quick to tell a little bitabout your story, because I know
child life was an importantpart of the stay when your son was
there.
Can you just.
Can you just kind of give us alittle recap of what you guys did

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and how child life made adifference for you?
Sure, sure.
So our Youngest Tyco, he's 14now, but about six or eight months
old.
We had him checked out acouple of different things.
A pediatrician noticed a heartmurmur, wanted to get that checked
out, realized that he hadwhat's called an atrial ventricular

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canal defect, Basically amalformed valve in the heart and
not completely formed wallbetween the two of the chambers in
the heart.
So his heart was workingovertime, maybe 2, 300% harder than
it needed to in order to keepthings flowing.
And so, unfortunately, thecardiologist said the only way to

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fix it was open heart surgery.
And so, you know, when we weretalking about a kid who's not even
one, you know, doesn't talk,was just starting to sit up on his
own.
You know, that's tough news toget, but, you know, thanks to the
wonderful people at Rainbow,the cardiologists, the cardiology

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team, the nurses, everybody weencountered there in our preparation
to the actual surgery forTycho, you know, they did so much
to reassure us and to, youknow, comfort us and let us know
that Tycho was in good handsand we got so much support from everybody

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there.
And when it came to the day itactually happened that his surgery
was on our 10th anniversary,10th wedding anniversary.
So July 7th every year wecelebrate our wedding anniversary
and we celebrate Tycho havinga successful surgery.
And that day was, it was oneof the longest days of our lives.

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You know, we got there superearly, had to hand him off to, he
had just turned one and we hadto hand him off to the OR nurse and
not see him for a few hours.
As stressful as it was, we gotupdates from the nurse every 45 minutes
to an hour.

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Child Life Services was aroundto kind of, you know, if we had any
questions to explain to us,let us know what resources we had.
Once we heard that the surgerywas done, we could visit and sit
with Tycho in the pediatric icu.
Again, Child Life Services wasthere explaining what everything

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did, what all the machines andthe tubes and the wires and the beeping
and the sounds were.
Because, you know, as aparent, when you see your, your one
year old lying in the bedunconscious and there are all these
wires and tubes and beepingmachines and everything else, you
know, it's a little, it's alittle off putting.
It's a little, you know,concerning, concerning.

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And even though we knew allthat stuff was to help Taiko heal
and get better, it's stilljust not something you, you get used
to seeing or want to see, youknow, as a parent.
But we stayed there and everyday, Child Life Services, every hour
or so, somebody would come in,check up not only on us, but on Tycho.

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The nurses were all wonderful.
Everybody treated us like family.
We felt very welcome and safethere and you know, it could have
been so much worse.
But having that compassionatecare, you know, it was, was key to
us.
Like you can get top notchmedical care, you know, you know

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that the cardiologists, thesurgeons, all that, they're going
to be great, you know,whatever hospital you go to.
We've got, we're lucky here inNortheast Ohio we've got at least
three, three plus incrediblemedical institutions.
But it was the mental andemotional support and care that we
got as family members.
Even when Tycho's brother orsister came to visit, they also got

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the same sort of treatmentthat support was.
I can't even, was immeasurablyhelpful to get us through what we
still consider the longest,you know, 12, 14 days of our lives.
And you know, 13 years later,he's Tycho's 14 now, he's almost

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as tall as I am.
And he's.
He's a nut.
He's a clown.
He's got lots of friends andhis school, and he's thriving.
And even during, you know, andeven after all these years, it says
a lot when I take him for a checkup.
We have to have checkups everycouple of years.

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You know, we go into theparking garage and there's that tunnel,
and you've got the mirrors and everything.
And Tycho recognizes where weare and that we're going to be there
for something that's medical.
And he's not concerned orworried at all.
In fact, he's kind of, youknow, kind of happy because he knows
that that place, even though,you know, it was.

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It might have been a veryscary place, that something very
serious had to happen or didhappen, that that place also was
where we all came out on theother side.
And we all came on the otherside happy and same, you know, and
that, like Sam said, it'sgreat when the hospital.

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The children's hospital is apositive place.
And so I think it speaksvolumes when you have children going
to the hospital for notnecessarily the best of reasons,
but they're not scared, youknow, they're.
They're okay to go there.
And I think that that speaksvolumes to the work that that's being
done there at Rainbow.

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And so that's the main reasonwhy I do extra life, because I feel
like, you know, without thatexperience, without those people
in that institution, Tycoonmay not be here.
And, you know, that'ssomething that I could never repay.
So I try.
I try what we can.
So.

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Yeah, that's awesome.
And this is how you've found away to give back.
And that's.
Yeah.
Because, you know, I'm notgoing to run a marathon, but I can
sit in the chair for 24 hoursand raise money, so any way I can.
And I think that's atestament, I think, also to Rainbow
and probably other children's hospitals.

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But I can only speak toRainbow because of my experience
there.
But, Utah, you'll remember thevery first year you and I did the
marathon at the hospital, wehad a young man on our team who was
a patient there named Javon.
Javon, yeah.
And Javon was.
He was 14 at the time.

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Yep.
And he was there for treatment.
He was in there for longperiods of time.
I spent a lot of time with.
He would come and help me dothe shows that we would do sometimes
there.
But that kid had been throughso much.
And when I Told him what Extralife was and the built video gaming
and what he could do.
You know what?
He wanted to be involved so bad.

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Like, he just.
And all of his nurses, all ofhis doctors donated.
He raised more money than anyof us.
But it was also because thekid had, like, this infectious smile.
And he was just this great kid.
Just really was fantastic.
Yeah, but he wanted to give back.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's like, I'm hereevery time I'm here.

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Like, I'm sick and I feel terrible.
But he still, like, loved thepeople in that hospital and wanted
to give back.
And so I think that's, youknow, as now.
I mean, I.
I'm now also a father of arainbow kid.
Right.
Came later in life when shewas a young adult, but.
And I wanted to give backbecause I worked there with these

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kids.
But now it's like, as aparent, it's like, that's much, much
more like we want to.
So the kids that come out ofthere want to give back too.
They love the experience thatthey went through.
And, Matt, you've done it withus there on.
On site as well.
Tell us a little bit about howyou first got involved in extra life
and what it means to you.
So, I mean, the first yearthat I guess that I was made aware

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of it was the year that youwere just speaking of the year with
Javon, when we did it for thefirst time at the hospital.
Except I wasn't a participant then.
I was, you know, I was on the team.
You were working there at the time.
And I was just kind of therefor, like, support.
I think I hung out for a fewhours, went home, went to bed, came
back.
But, you know, I'm just kidding.
It just.
When I came back to.

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To help, like, clean up thenext day, it's, it's.
It's.
It was patients like Javonthat really motivated me to want
to actually participate thisthe next year and treat it more like,
you know, the charity that itis instead of just, like, work.
And, you know, it was.
I forget what was the.
The other patient's name thatwas with us that following year?
Donnie.

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He was the same.
I mean, he was a little morequiet and whatever, but the passion
was there.
And to see.
To see these kids that are.
That are patients of ahospital wanting to give back to
the hospital.
I mean, I just think it speaks volumes.
I mean, literally, whilethey're going through.
Treatment, I mean, it' I mean, the.
Worst times of their lives and just.
Wanting to give back I thinkit really is a testament to just

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how powerful of a place it is.
Yeah, it's pretty great.
And then you joined us the,the next.
I did.
I joined you the following.
So I'm a year behind you guys.
You guys are at 14, I'm at 13.
Yeah.
And you know, it's, we don'tdo it at the hospital anymore for
various reasons.
You know, there was so manycomplications just in getting that
done.
But, you know, my, my own sonhas been participating with for what

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I think maybe like the pastsix years or something like that.
Sounds right.
And you know, we have a littlespot that my in laws own up in Michigan
and we go up to there just toisolate ourselves to do this marathon.
And you know, he's becomepassionate about it.
He has his friends donatingjust because of the stories that
I, I come back with about thehospital and the good that they do.
And he's out fundraising me.

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And you know, I'm, I'm justkind of glad that he still wants
to do it with me.
And you know, he's, he's 20years old now and he can't wait to
go up to, you know, the, thestate of north with his dad to play
video games.
So I, I'm actually, I'mactually upset that, that I have
a red background right now.
Oh, come on.
I mean, but whatever.

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It's scarlet.
It's a scarlet background.
It's scarlet.
There you go.
But yeah, I mean, it's just,it's been a wonderful experience
and I, I just really do enjoydoing anything I can to, to help
give back.
Yeah.
And I'm glad you shared thatbecause that's what I was hoping
that you would, is like howyou have made it a family affair.
And that's another thing.
I want to encourage people whoare listening if you want to get

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involved in extra life.
It's like, well, I don't playvideo games.
My kid does.
And, and a lot of times whenI'm out recruiting at events and
things like that, people willsay that, they're like, well, I'll
have to tell my kid about it.
I'm like, well, did you notplay board games?
Have you never played Monopoly?
Have you never done.
You know, and it's like, itreally is for everybody.
And now I'm finding out thatfamilies are doing, instead of 24
hour marathons, they might dolike a 12 hour board game marathon

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where they just kind of gothrough all their favorite board
games in a day.
Every kid picks out adifferent game and then they just
play them all through the dayand they, as a family, they raise
money.
And so I, I love that you guysdo that together.
I think that's just thecoolest thing.
And I, I want to encouragepeople to consider that as well.
I love.
And so that brings me to Sean.
Oh, sorry, I was just gonnajump in real quick.

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I love that you brought upthat there are multiple ways to do
this because we don't requireyou to do a marathon.
We have people who will playgames once a.
Or once a week for the entire year.
We'll have people who will do,you know, a game night where they
have friends come over andit's only a few hours.
And then we have crazy folkslike you all who typically do the

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24, or if you do it on gameweekend 25, because it is when we
change the clocks.
Because it's a scam.
Yeah, they're sneaky is whatthey are.
So there's no requirement forhow you go about playing games to
give back.
You can do it however it makessense for you.
Your family, your friends.

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Mix and match.
I cannot survive a fullmarathon anymore, but I try.
I do a solid 12 hours.
But yeah, it's just you canreally make it your own and involve
everybody in your efforts.
And I've been involved in a 12hour Dungeons and Dragons.
Right.
RPG campaign and that was partof a fundraising effort for this

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as well.
So really, it's.
That's what's great aboutExtra Life is it's kind of a Do it
Yourself fundraiser.
You know, people have donedance marathons.
People have done.
There's, you know, at thecase, they do a.
Do they still do that?
The dance.
We were there and so lastmonth, a month ago today.
I think that's fantastic.
Fantastic.
Nice.
So there's lots of ways to do it.

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Extra life.
And, and the.
The website gives you a way toraise that money without having to
handle the money yourself.
If you want, like you can,people go right to the website and
donate and all that kind offun stuff.
You can fill it out yourself,decorate it with your own images
and different things likethat, and personalize it and do whatever
it is that you want to do toraise that money, and it's all going

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to a good cause.
One question I always get whenI do it in this perfect segue over
to Sean here is people alwaysask me, well, do I have to stream
it?
And I'm like, no, no, youdon't have to stream it.
A lot of people Think that,you know, well, how do you know if
I did it?
And I'm like, well, we don't,you know, but the only people you're

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beholden to are your donors, right?
So if you tell them you'regoing to do it, you better do it.
That's up to you.
But you know, the money's fora good cause, so just go and do whatever
it is that you can do for that.
But if you are gonna streamit, we've got someone who streams
on Twitch quite regularly.
Sean Gorey from the the Gory Details.
Gory Details, yeah, is in the house.

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So tell us.
Last time you're on the show,you told us kind of like your, your
how you got involved instreaming and all that kind of stuff.
So I'm not going to make yourecap all that, but I do want you
to recap, tell us a little bitabout how you got involved in extra
life.
Why, and kind of like how longyou've been doing this.
Sure.
So the, the answer to theextreme question that we're not getting

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to is actually because ofextra life.
I went to school for game artdesign at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
And just one day during themorning announcements, my professor
casually mentioned like, heyguys, there's this 24 hour charity
gaming marathon that's goingon this weekend.
It's totally free and helpsick kids.
I'm like, let me get the straight.

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I get to play games all dayand I'm going to help sick kids?
He's like, yes.
I'm like, sign me up twice.
So sure enough, that firstyear I signed up, I think I raised
like 25 bucks.
And it probably was probablyfrom my mom.
And then the following year I,I got like the email notification
saying like, hey, like it'shappening again.
I'm like, great.

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So I did it again.
I think that year I raised 50 bucks.
And then that was 15 years ago.
So here we are.
Yeah.
And you've, I mean, it'sexploded for you now because now
you've got like a Twitchfollowing and you, you, you, you,
you stream on a regular basis.
Like, how often do you, like,if we wanted to tune in, when could
we find you on Twitch?

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So when I first started with,actually if I wasn't streaming at
all, I didn't know streaming existed.
And like, you guys are saying,like, how will these people know
if I did it?
Well, to answer that question,if you were to run a 5k, you're not
live streaming that, you know.
No.
So there was several years.
Well, Maybe.
No, you're right.
If you got a GoPro.
And really, nowadays.
Nowadays, people probably are.

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Yeah, they got their whole.
Their cell phone the whole time.
But.
So, sure enough, there's acouple years.
Why?
I just did it totally off cam.
And then as time went on, XLFactually partnered with Twitch.
I was like, I don't know.
This is.
But I'm gonna sign up.
So Extra Life came first,Twitch came second.
And when I started.
Interesting.
And like, the very first timeI ever streamed, it was in prep,

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like, the week before game dayfor Extra Life.
And then after that, like, youknow what?
Like, I had fun.
Like, I was talking to people.
They would see me like, hey,good luck.
I'm gonna go to bed.
And then they'd wake up like,you're still streaming.
Like, sure I am.
And like, cool, I'm gonna goto work and, like, see you later.
And they come back, and I wasliterally like, you're still streaming?
Like, sure am.

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So, like, it was like a party.
I'm like, I don't want to dothis once a year.
I'm going to do this once a week.
And then it.
It sprawled into four times a week.
And sometimes we sprinkle somemore in there too, depending on if
there's, like, actuallyrelated incentives.
So.
Yeah, so typically we're doinglike, a Monday through Thursday kind
of thing, but it's always,always in flux.
It's a moving goalpost.
Yeah, no, I.

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I get that.
And I know that you've beenhugely successful at raising money.
So tell it.
Give us.
Give us some hints, some advice.
Like, what, What, What, What.
What are you doing?
I'll tell you, because I.
I want to be as successful.
I'll tell you.
Sriracha.
Yes.
Yes.
So part of.

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I can't do it.
Go ahead, though.
Please, please tell us.
So part of the customization,Jeff, that you talked about was you
can add milestones.
So, like, hey, guys, we'veraised a hundred bucks.
If we.
If we can get to this goal orthis milestone, I'll do something
silly like, I'll shave my head.
You know, there's also incentives.
So, for example, like, hey,Anyone who donates $5, I'll write

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your name on a T shirt thatI'm going to wear on game day with,
like, a cloth Sharpie.
So I just kind of.
If you build it, they willcome kind of situation, and they
kind of shoot for the moon,and if you miss, you'll land in the
star situation.
I have created a lot ofmilestones and a lot of Incentives.
Things that like, no one'sgonna donate a thousand dollars to

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make me play Fortnite.
It's happened three times this year.
They did.
No kidding.
They would have to donate athousand because I do not like fort.
Same, Jeff.
Same.
Oh, come on.
It's not that bad.
I don't dislike it.
It's just not my.
It's my.
Like, no.
I can either shoot or build.
No, the key.
But there's zero.

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Build.
There is a zero.
There's a mode that you don'thave to build.
Okay.
Because building is nonsense.
Yes.
I'm just not.
Just not competitive.
Sure.
Like that anymore.
I'm a co op guy now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Much more co op now than Iused to.
I used to be supercompetitive, but not anymore.
Yeah.
Still can't.
That's awesome.
So tell us about some of theincentives that you have done though.

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So that's a.
I.
I've got a good old gambit.
Some from as little as adollar to again, some over a thousand
and shooting for the moon landin the stars gun situation.
Or if you build it, they'll come.
So I've got some where if Iswear on stream, I donate a dollar
extra life.
I've got Matt.
Matt.
Oh, my.

(28:05):
You could raise so much.
Is he a sailor over there?
If we just put a swear jar onyour extra live stream.
Dude, that is insane.
You would go broke.
I can't afford that.
Yeah.
Y.
Refinance the house at the endof the stream.
Matt.
Matt would be like, okay, Idon't have enough money to get back
home, so.
Right.

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He's stuck in the cabin.
I would be stuck in the cabin.
I've got some donationincentives where it's like, if you
donate like $10, I will likeUtah was saying, eat a tablespoon
of sriracha.
And of course that's crazy.
And I'll have.
I've seen you've done multipletablespoons at a time, and I don't
even.
Yeah, at a time.
Yes.
At a time.

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Yes.
Like $10.
Someone will donate 10 times.
Like, that was 100 bucks.
But enjoy that entire bottle, buddy.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
He does it on camera.
And I feel so bad for youevery time I watch.
That is wild.
What's funny?
Like, there's.
We were talking about, youknow, before we went live here.
There's those bean.
Boozled beans where that couldbe like really good or really gross.

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Like, is this raspberry PI oris this an old band aid?
You know they make spicyversions of those.
So we're just.
That's just wrong.
Wait, did you guys do thatlast year too?
So not last year.
We did it the year before.
The year before.
Yeah, it was.
We were miserable, but it was.
I mean, we raised money.
It was worth it.
People did it.
For sure.

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People were.
People were donating.
And by the end, by the end.
We should do it again.
I mean, it did work, but I wasso gross.
It is gross.
So bad.
It is gross.
But, yeah, I enjoyed it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would rather do the grossones over the spicy ones.
Cause like, the gross ones,like, oh, it's toothpaste.
No, thanks.
But the spicy ones, like,tears are running down my face.
Like, my stomach hurts later.

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And then step three is yougotta go to the bathroom.
Yeah, yeah.
That's not.
Let's not do that.
Not survive the spicy.
That's not for me.
I think one of the smartestones you do is during marathon, I
tuned in at the exact rightmoment where you were doing like
squats and pushups and.
And all sorts of things, whichsounds miserable, but I feel like

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if you're going to be sittingin a chair for 25 hours, having somebody
challenge you to do some isreally smart.
What's.
What's funny too is likealmost every game day, someone makes
me do that immediately when Igo live.
So it's like, cool.
I know.
You got 25 hours to go.
Let's knock this out.
Like, it's 8:00am, buddy.
Like, what's wrong with you?

(30:34):
And they're donating for youto do that.
They are.
I've even got incentives.
Yeah, I've got a donationincentive too that says I'll extend
my stream.
And I've had people donateduring the 25 hour stream.
And I know going for 27 hours.
Oh, yeah, Hashtag worth it, though.
That's nuts.
Yeah, yeah.

(30:54):
Hashtag worth it.
That's fantastic.
To let folks know how worth itit is just to give Sean a little
shout out here he is alreadyover the $12,000 mark.
It is the beginning.
That is 2000 over his $10,000goal for the year.
So just he's doing the most often.

(31:16):
I think we can all.
They just opened registrationlike last month, right?
January 1st, 2025.
Yep.
Oh, the first.
Okay.
I knew it was very recently.
So he's already going to getwhatever the in the big incentive
is.
They haven't announced.
They have.
They haven't announced it yet,but he'll get it.
They've done rugs,controllers, keyboards, let's talk.

(31:37):
About that for Lamp second.
I love lamp.
S.
Sam or Sean, which.
Whoever wants to take this,tell them a little bit.
I mean, I could do it too, butI don't want to always talk the.
That's why I have guests.
So that you can talk the.
The metals, the different incentives.
If you're a platinum, it onlycosts 19 to become a platinum.

(31:59):
And then you.
You can receive some swag, right?
Yeah.
So that's totally optional,too, which is awesome.
Yeah, you can buy itcompletely free.
Um, if you become a PlatinumParticipant 15, I think it's like
1973.
If you cover the cost of thecredit card processing, but you get
a T shirt if you hit.

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I think it's $200, right?
200.
And then you get medals forcertain milestones of how much you
raise.
And there's differentincentives throughout the course
of the year.
So, like, y'all were justtalking about, we had a.
Oh, there's your metals.
I was gonna say mine are.
Mine's in a closet that'scurrently behind a bunch of construction
things.

(32:39):
So I'm not going to be able toget out for y'all.
This is a 2021.
Yeah.
Silver one.
T shirts are always great.
Um, I wear them daily at this point.
I found them.
The neon light was really cool.
So there's a neon extra white.
That's my favorite.
I'm super jealous of those whogot that controller.

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There's a rug last year.
I think there's a gaming chair.
Was that last year?
Yep.
Oh, there was a gaming chair.
There's a rug.
There's the rug.
Look at you.
Yeah.
So, you know, just fun incentives.
There are some that are timeconstraints, so if you raise X amount
during this month, you getthis incentive.
And some are based on thewhole year, how much you fundraise

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throughout the course of the year.
And they ship about prettyfast, and they're always really quality.
And we have, like, a message board.
One year.
During Tabletop AppreciationWeekend, I think they had die cast.
Oh, they had dice.
20S.
Yeah.
Did anybody get that 20s?
They.
They had, like, dice sets.
It was awesome.
Yeah.
This year, the dice set camein last year.

(33:43):
LED lights tower this year.
Oh, nice.
A dice tower.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
I saw that.
So that's.
That's for tabletop this year,which is April 11th to the 13th.
Yes.
I have the website up overhere because I.
The 11th to the 13th isTabletop Weekend, so we encourage
folks to do some tabletopfundraising throughout the course

(34:05):
of that weekend.
Or any time in April especially.
But there's some good exampleson the website of, you know, print
game night type themes youcould do.
There's some one shot D and Dgames that they, they provide too,
so you don't have to come upwith your own.
So there's a lot of goodresources which is nice.

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Even easier to raise money.
Yeah.
So there's, there's.
I mean technically there's twogame days if you think about it,
but because there's tabletopand then there's the regular game
day.
Regular game day this year is November.
The second has the websiteSaturday, November.
Whichever daylight saving is.
I want to say it's the eighthbecause I think the first is the,

(34:47):
the first Saturday.
I'm trying to scroll to my something.
I think you're right that it'sthe 8th.
Let me double check though,because that feels wrong.
So as she's checking on that,just to be clear, you don't have
to do it on the game day, correct?
No, we said Sean is doing ityear round.
Right.
Basically he's done and it'snever done.

(35:08):
That's right.
24 7, 100.
Sean, do you normally do thelike the official game day?
I do.
And what's nice, Jeff, you'retalking this earlier.
I've got friends who willintentionally not do the main game
day.
So that way they can supporttheir friends during game day and
then they'll do theirs like aweek later.
And it's like, you scratch myback, I scratch yours.

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There was a year that was likeout of the country.
My mom planned a trip and Iwas like, okay, well I can't say
no.
So when I got back like a weeklater, like guys, it's a game day
for me.
Let's go.
So it's totally customizable,does not have to be broadcast on
Twitch.
YouTube, does not have to bevideo games.
Could be card games.
Like it's so unique and so customizable.
Like I said diy.
It's perfect.

(35:48):
Yeah, we, we actually becameone of those that does it after game
day and then in the processended up watching Matt's stream some
of the time, even playing withhim a little bit when he does it
on game day.
And then Utah and I have beendoing it on Black Friday.
So we call it.
Thanks.
Gaming.
That's the game.
I was, I'm like, you guys gaveus clever title.

(36:10):
I can't remember what it was.
Yeah, we're, we're trying toget what my goal is to guilt people
who are out There spending allthis money.
On Black Friday TV they don'tneed and that they're trampling some
old lady in the way.
Give a.
To also give a little bit.
Right.
You know, if you're going to trample.
Some old lady, help some kids.
Exactly.
Did you.
Did you guys.

(36:30):
Did you guys entertain?
Games giving?
Yeah, that was on my emailsand streams.
I said games giving.
Thanksgaming.
I love it.
Yeah, I did.
I liked thanksgaming.
I was just curious.
That's what we went with.
I think they both work.
Yeah.
They do.
Turkey Gaming day.
No, that doesn't work.
No.
But yeah, so there's different opportunities.

(36:51):
I think that actually cameabout because that's similar to you,
Sean.
I think I was.
When I was.
We started doing it on adifferent day when I started going
overseas travel for a conference.
Then that conference everyyear was during.
Right.
On Extra Life.
And so I would have to eithercome back and do it the week after
or whatever.
So.
Yeah.

(37:11):
Same.
Same reason I was like, okay.
And then we just kind of likeit just became a thing that we just
did.
So.
Yeah.
Especially because I always.
It's always like that first weekend.
First weekend in November.
Exactly.
But that's what's fantasticabout Extra Life is that it does
not have to be.
You don't have to follow the rules.
You can make your own rules.
As long as it's for kids.

(37:32):
Right.
As long as we're raising moneyfor kids, then.
That's right.
There's no wrong answers.
Exactly that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Pretty fantastic.
Yeah.
I'm not gonna lie.
Actually thinking I'm changing.
We might be changing up thestrategy this year, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're making more of a.
A game week instead of a game day.
So again, it's all flux.
Okay.
Yeah.

(37:52):
Okay.
Yeah.
Well.
And they sent out a surveyasking about that kind of stuff.
So I wonder if that's.
Yes.
Helping them kind of narrowthat down a little bit.
I remember one of thequestions of the survey was like,
what incentives do you thinkwe should do?
And I don't think they'regoing to get any of my.
Any of my suggestions.
But you know, I had jumped gloves.

(38:15):
Mouse.
Gaming mouse.
Also pet rat.
But you know, we'll see.
I think the mouse is a potential.
I'd like to see like amechanical keyboard.
Gaming mouse seems to make sense.
Right.
Because they had thecontroller keyboard.
Yeah, right.
That seems to make sense.
I don't know.
I'm kind of pulling for thejumpsuit, but you know, whatever.
Windbreaker, 80s style.
Yeah.

(38:36):
Members Only.
Yeah.
So I put on there havingincentives that involve where we
can dupe where we get to acertain point and we can actually
duplicate the swag so that weget a T shirt and one of our donors
gets like a giveaway.
Oh, that's cool.
And then, you know, you canget a controller.
But if you raise this month,you can get a controller for the

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donor too.
I don't know.
You know, stuff like that.
Right.
Having some options or something.
I don't know.
I want a hooded robe becausethis is definitely a cult.
And I drank the Kool Aid.
Yeah, there we go.
Well, I.
I like the idea of being ableto give away some of the stuff that
I get to.
And I have before as incentives.
In fact, for several years ina row when I was still at Rainbow,

(39:17):
I would give my.
I don't have my medals fromthe first, like four or five years.
I give it to my patient.
So that was, you know, kind of like.
Because they're the realchampions, right?
Absolutely.
100 reason that we're doing this.
So, you know, and now that I'mnot at Rainbow, I don't have those
connections anymore.
So I don't do that.
But to be honest, like, thisis a 2021.

(39:39):
When I get one every year forat least a silver.
And this is the only onethat's nearby.
I don't know where the otherones are.
I just, you know, again, I'mso used to like, just not having
them.
So I would like stuff that wecould give away.
And then that makes sense.
A few things for ourselves too.
I love that idea.
Really great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because that.

(40:00):
Because that's what.
That's how we get people todonate is incentives like that.
And it's.
Incentives are big.
It's enough to say, oh, here'san incentive.
If you donate 200, I get a T shirt.
Right, Right.
It's just like, it's not as much.
They're like, well, whatever, dude.
That's a good feeling.
What do they get?
Yeah, right, right.
So I have been offering, like,some world Gone Geek T shirts and
stuff like that.
Apparently people don't want that.

(40:21):
So I gotta figure something else.
Did.
Did they ever start, like anextra life store so you could go
in and buy, like, other stores?
There is a merch store, theMiracle Store.
Okay, I can send you the link.
It's my miracle mall, Ibelieve is what it's called.
But it should be linked on theExtra Life site too.
There is a cape, not quite ahooded Robe, but it is.

(40:44):
Wait, there's a cape.
Yes.
I saw water bottles and hats.
Like, you name it, they got it.
I expect that stormtrooper tobe wearing a cape the next time I
see you on video.
Well, you know, Utah, I think we.
Get, we have to wear the capewhen we do the stream though.
I think it's like that's gotto be the.
I don't know, man.
I saw the Incredibles.
No capes.

(41:04):
No capes.
No capes.
No capes.
No capes.
My God, you've gotten fat.
Well, that was spot on.
That was pretty good.
Yeah, that was a very good.
Edna.
Yep.
Can you do the walk?
Have you seen the person onTikTok that does the walk?
Yeah, he's like not on his knees.
How does that basically do that?

(41:25):
Just glide crazy.
Yeah, I haven't but we said itout loud, so I'll see it later, I'm
sure.
Yep, There you go.
Algorithm.
That's right.
Yep.
It's popping, it's popping upon your, your thumbnail on my screen
already.
I, it's just, it's too good.
So we talked a little bitabout how different ways to do it.
Like I said, I've done 12 hourd d marathon before.
So if you're into D D, this isa great opportunity to do it.

(41:48):
Most of you I know, if you'reout there and you play D and D, 12
hours is nothing, right?
This is for.
Is probably yes.
So, or, or do a weekend.
Right.
Two 12 hour campaigns, gohome, I come back and finish the
campaign in the next 12 hours.
Whatever.
Again, do it yourself.
But since we're talking aboutgames, I'd love to ask you guys what.

(42:11):
So Sean, I know that you'redoing it like all the time, so it's
usually I would ask somebody,what's your go to game this year
for Extra life?
What.
What's on your list to playthis year?
But for you that could be any time.
So I guess tell us what's yourgo to game like right now?
What are you playing?

(42:31):
So right now I, I, at the, in2024, I set up a 10 game Nintendo
64 roadmap for myself to gothrough for the year.
It was the top 10 best selling games.
Further than 1064.
I know.
Banjo Kazooie, Star, Star Fox,you know, Goldeneye, Goldeneye, Smash
Bros.
Yeah.
Pokemon Stadium.

(42:52):
Yeah.
Super Mario 64, Mario Kart,you name it.
And so I worked through that.
But like I couldn't do Legendsof the Ocarina Time and then not
Do Majora's Mask.
So we kind of snuck in alittle bonus game in there and we
were in the middle of that.
But I do have a donation incentive.
Are a bunch of donationincentives where donors can squeeze
games into my schedules, mystream schedule, including like a

(43:16):
really frustrating games likegetting over at Bennett Foddy, which
is that bucket guy climbingthe mountain.
I haven't heard.
Oh, I haven't heard that namein like decades.
It's been a minute.
But.
But so sure enough, Fortnitewas one of those donation incentives
and someone donated to itthree times consecutively.
So I'm like, I guess I'm not.
I'm doing next week.
You have to do it.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Yeah, I have to do that.

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That's a moving target, Jeff,to say the least.
For sure.
For sure.
What about you, Sam?
Either what you're playing nowor what you're.
You're going to play when you.
When you do Extra Life.
So on Extra Life Day, Itypically am stream hopping and saying
hello to all of you.
So I'll join in on games everyonce in a while with you all.

(43:59):
But my spouse and our friendsoften host at my house.
So typically I'll jump induring Call of Duty.
That's like my go to Call ofDuty and Halo.
All right, fun fact.
Getting into.
I grew up playing video games.
Kind of grew out of it intoadulthood and then getting back into

(44:21):
it.
My.
My spouse got me to play propson Call of Duty and it is funniest
thing.
Insane.
Oh my God, the panic is so real.
I'm sorry.
Why is there a trash canrunning down the street?
Like, it's just so funny.
So I'm gonna whistling all of it.
I'll pop into those.

(44:42):
We just started Split Fiction,which is a couch co op.
Yeah.
Really enjoying that.
So we've only played a little bit.
My son and I are playing that.
That's.
That's the big one right now.
That aside from Call of Dutyand Hilo, which are my old standbys,
I.
Think I just read that SplitFiction sold like either 1 million
or like 10 million copieswithin like the first 48 hours.

(45:03):
That's.
Wow.
That's for.
It's.
It's really good.
I'm enjoying it a lot.
I mean, if you.
If you've played It Takes Two.
Yes, similar.
Right?
It Takes Two is.
Is now pretty much on one ofmy top 10 games of all time.
Like, I just was blown away byhow creative at the storytelling
and then how creative the gameplay.
So many different game Stylesin one game.

(45:25):
It was just.
It blew my mind.
I've heard I had to get split fiction.
I've heard a rumor thatcouples counselors are using It Takes
Two as like a tool.
Like, this is how you work together.
Wow.
Yeah.
Interesting.
No kidding.
Well, I.
And you know, I was sort ofawkward because I played it with
my son.
We.
We both played it and we'rejust like.
The whole like, you know, the,the relationship thing was still

(45:48):
a good story, but we're justkind of like, you know, okay, whatever.
Right.
Right now, now we're playingsplit fiction together.
So.
Yeah, it's.
It's a great co op stuff.
Again, like I said, that's mysimilar vibes.
We played Unraveled too.
Oh, yeah.
Really great.
Funny you mentioned couplescounselors because my husband is
a therapist, so I'm sittinghere getting all frustrated and he's

(46:14):
talking.
Yeah.
Professional.
Yeah, it's great.
So tell me how you're feeling.
Yeah, sure.
I was gonna say, is he.
Is he available on game daywhen we're playing to be able to
kind of talk?
Bring him on streams with me.
I'm gonna need that.
Yeah, we, we could, we couldhave used him when we were doing
back rooms last year.
That was for sure.

(46:34):
That's too funny.
For sure.
Yeah.
Matt, what's your go to right now?
Okay, so I mean, I usuallyhave like three.
Like I always play Fortnitewith Josh because he's really into
it.
I force him to do zero buildbecause I can't stand when like somebody
shoots him.
And then he's got a freakingsix story fortress around him and
I'm like down on the groundlike getting shot at because I don't

(46:55):
know how to get up in hisstupid building.
Y.
But instant cover, instant cover.
It's wild.
But I also, I always play deadby daylight for a crazy amount of
time.
Yeah.
And then we jump in on Call ofDuty and then when you guys join
me, it's kind of whatever coop adventure we're doing at the time.
I mean, it's been Evil Dead,the game, it's been Ghostbusters.
It's all over the place.
Phasmophobia, asmophobia.

(47:16):
See, I always look forward tosee what's going on.
Are you a survivor or are you a.
A killer when you play dead by daylight?
Survivor.
I'm no good first person.
Like, it's.
It's wild.
Ask these guys about how goodI am at first person games.
It's ridiculous.
He's great.
He's the best.
Amazing.
I.
I'm.
I'm as good as Jeff drives.
Oh, ding.

(47:38):
Yeah.
You don't want me to drive in.
In the co op games, I'm notthe driver.
I was talking about real lifeand he's like a real dig at you.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's bad.
But like, what's great is,like, they've never seen me drive
because I just refuse to do it.
So was wild when we were.
I think it was Borderlands 2.
Oh, yeah.
Was the first time Iexperienced your driving and I was.
It was awesome.

(47:59):
I was like, this is wild, butyou're so much better than me.
We'd be going in circles.
Like, I'm always wedgedbetween two trees doing the whole
like, Austin Powers thing,trying to get out, you know, like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You tell.
What's.
What's your.
What's your current.
So I, I realized that I asked what.
What are we going to play forgame day?
And.
And you probably can't answerbecause neither can I.

(48:19):
It always depends on what'scoming out in November.
If there's something new.
I'll usually try to get thatin time.
But what do you plan right now?
So right now, what am I doingright now?
Dragon Age Vale Guard was justpart of the PlayStation plus extra
monthly games.
So I downloaded that because.
Because for someone like mewho wanted to buy it when it first

(48:41):
came out, I decided not tobecause I have a backlog, as everybody
does.
Every gamer has a backlog.
And I decided to hold off and I'll.
Maybe I'll do a mat and waittill it goes on sale and then pick
it up later.
That's the way to go.
And it just so happened thatit dropped on PlayStation Plus Extra,
which granted is a monthlysubscription, but it feels free and

(49:02):
so it sure does.
So I went ahead and got that,but I haven't started playing that
yet.
I started playing the Call ofduty Black Ops 6 campaign because
I planned on doing some ofthat for.
For extra Life last year andnever got around to it because you
got sucked into bathrooms.
Sucked in.
Literally.
Oh my.
Oh, lit list.
Literally got sucked in theback rooms.

(49:24):
And so I'm starting thatbecause I find that the Call of Duty
campaigns actually have decentwriting and a pretty good story.
So.
But yeah, Dragon Age Valgard.
I'm tempted to go back into Taipan.
Just started playing MassEffect because he has a legendary
collection.
So he's starting.
He's starting playing MassEffect 1, which got me all nostalgic.

(49:46):
I'm like, oh, actually missthose games.
Yeah.
So I'm thinking of it up MassEffect again and playing along.
I'm enjoying watching your.
Jeff, your.
Your alien isolation stream.
So scary.
I can't handle it.
I can't.
I.

(50:06):
Matt, if anything, Matt, ifanything, the best, the best way
to kind of dip your toe in isto watch Jeff.
See, I don't see.
I do not do good with thosegames, man.
I still.
Evil within still haunts me, man.
Nightmare feels.
Well, that's.
That.
That was the point of thatgame for sure.
I know, but I was 23 hours inon the marathon when I was playing

(50:26):
that.
Oh, so you're alreadydelusional anyway.
Oh, it was rich.
Nope.
Thanks though.
I choose well.
That's a good segue though,into what I'm playing.
But I.
First, I.
I don't have as positive astory about valeguard as you did.
Yeah, right.
So I.
I bought Vale Guard and thepotential that we might play it an
extra life.

(50:47):
Like I paid for it back then,thinking I'm gonna finally play this.
Have not played it yet, neverdid it.
Now it's free.
Oh, so messy.
It had been one thing if I'dplayed it for a few months and then
it went free, whatever, youknow what I mean?
That stuff happens.
But no, I.
I bought it and then never gotaround to playing it because of other

(51:07):
games or whatever.
And there it is.
So that's my beef.
I'm like, whatever.
So here's the question.
So we're.
We're on opposite ends of thespectrum there.
Yes.
Did you buy it digitally ordid you buy it like a physical copy
that can collect us digitally?
Okay, digitally.
So you can't even return it?
No, no, no.
It's PlayStation, right?
Xbox, I believe.
Okay.
Can you return digital on orare they kind of like PlayStation

(51:28):
where.
This is not this late for sure.
So if Steam like looks at likeyour play time like you got 800 hours,
you're not getting if like youhave zero hours, like, yeah, here
you go.
Yeah.
Steve is much awesome.
Yeah, no, I have a PlayStationis like I bought.
I pre ordered a game that Idecided I didn't want anymore and
they wouldn't even fund that.
The game wasn't even comingout for three more months.

(51:50):
Right.
And they still wouldn't refund it.
I'm like, I clearly havesimilar issues.
Same thing happened to me preorder anymore.
And I was arguing with thembecause I found a website where it
was like, it says that you'lldo this for me.
And they were like, oh, that'sthe EU website.
Yes.
So they'll refund them in Europe.
I had that.
But not in the conversation.
That's because the governmentforces it.

(52:11):
That's a.
That's a law.
That's a consumer protection.
That's a consumer protection protection.
That's a government over.
We need that in America.
We certainly do.
I don't care who's the president.
I will vote for them if theyfix that.
No, I'm.
That's the deal breaker right there.
That is it.
You make PlayStation, refundthat game, and.
I.

(52:31):
Oh, my God.
I'm voting for you, sir.
I so want the next presidentto be able to say, well, you know,
I won the election on refundson digital downloads.
All right, I found my runningplatform right now.
Thank you, Jeff.
There you go.
You got my vote.
Sean, you got my vote.
I'll be your running mate.
Because I can't vote.
I can't run for president.
Perfect.
See, we got a team.

(52:51):
We got a team.
Yes.
We're done.
I need.
I need somebody to startplaying Veil Guard for me, though,
and make sure that within thefirst four hours, there's not going
to be like a herding cattlemoment for me because I'm just going
to skip.
I'm just going to skip.
Different kind.
That's not.
They don't have that kind of stuff.
But there's going to besomething stupid.
There's going to be something stupid.
Dragon Age is not like that.
No, those RPGs, man, they get you.

(53:13):
It's like, you got to go tothis woman in this hut because she's
going to make the potion for you.
And you're like, okay, I'mgoing to go to the potion lady and
get my potion.
And then the potion lady'slike, by the way, you need to go
find all the ingredients.
And I'm like, why don't you have.
The ingredients, potion lady?
But that's.
That's different than hurting.
That's different than what you just.
But there's all.
It's all.
Every episode of the Mandalorian.
It's the exact madness Mandalorian.

(53:36):
It's all about quest.
I just want a game where if.
I just want a game where ifsomebody's being called the potion
lady, I go to the potion ladyand get my damn potions.
You know what, Matt?
How dare you.
I'm gonna go.
So reasonable.
I'm gonna go find the herdingsimulation game and buy it for you.
Yeah, there's a hurtingsimulation game.
That sounds like one of MySeven Circles of Hell.

(54:00):
And if there's not, I'm gonnamake one for you.
Yes.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
So the game that I am planningright now is.
Is Alien Isolation.
So I started a new series on.
I'm trying to stream on aweekly basis now.
And so every week I'm.
I'm going through my backlogof games in a series I'm calling

(54:21):
Grounded Geek is late to the Game.
And I've got a theme song andeverything, so you can check it out.
That's a great theme song, bythe way.
Two episodes on YouTube rightnow and, and then they're on Twitch
and I'm streaming on bothTwitch and YouTube simultaneously
with those.
So check those out.
Trying to do those on Mondays.
So, yeah, except this Monday Ithink I'm actually playing some games

(54:42):
with the kids for, for one oftheir birthdays.
So I won't be able to do itthis Monday, but on a regular basis.
You see that.
But yeah, Alien Isolation, itis freaking me out.
And if you want to see a guy,a 52 year old man scared of his own
drawers.
Yeah.
Feel free to join.
My favorite part.
Everything.
It's so.
Because I assume everything is bad.
But yeah, it's.

(55:02):
It's so funny.
Like, literally like some,like a radio, somebody will start
talking and I'm like.
I actually have a heartmonitor that actually off my watch
that like displays while I'm playing.
And surprisingly, even thoughI have been felt pretty anxious.
No, it's been pretty steady.
I've been pretty steady.
We're gonna need to talk about that.
Yeah, it's cool.

(55:23):
That's awesome.
Yeah.
So.
But addition, for sure, I'vebeen key.
I've been only hitting about70 and now I am on medication to
keep my heart rate.
There it is.
Yeah, too high.
But, but in my average is, you.
Know, that's a secret beforehe plays.
And then it's like, it's, youknow, I've gotten up to 75.
That's not too bad.
I thought I was gonna be inthe hundreds and worrying about a

(55:44):
heart attack.
I hit 136 last week.
Oh my gosh.
Playing a game.
Yeah.
And also like Chat was makingme like do bicep curls and like push
ups and like.
You guys actually doing physical.
You were doing physical activity?
Hot sauce.
Like, like I'm red in the face.
Like they just, they punishme, man.
But like I said, worth it.

(56:08):
That's fantastic.
All right, before we go, Sean,tell everybody where they can find
you and follow you and allthat fun stuff.
Sure.
If you just do a quick Googlesearch for the gory details.
That's G O R E Y.
Or go on Instagram or Twitch tv.
The gory details.
All my links are there,including links to our actual Life
page, where you can donate orsign up or look for more information

(56:30):
about this great cause.
You can join a team, createyour own team.
It's pretty incredible.
So, yeah, it's all.
It's all there.
Awesome.
And if they want to know moreabout Extra Life, Sam, tell them
where they can go.
The easiest place to go is theExtra Life website, extra-life.org.

(56:51):
There's a floof.
Sorry, I got distracted.
The floof took over.
What happened?
The cat attacked your phone.
That's hilarious.
Sorry, my computer just froze because.
Oh, we can still hear.

(57:11):
Floof attack.
Floof attack.
Yeah, we can still hear andsee you, so.
And there's no way in heck I'mediting that out.
Right?
The cat leave that in there?
Yeah.
What's the cat's name?
Storm.
That's.
That's Storm.
Storm.
Storm.
Nice.
Nice.

(57:32):
Storm is now a guest on the show.
We have a Storm.
We have a guest.
We have a guest host, Kat,when Ali is on the show Genesis.
So now Storm is another.
Yes, yes.
Well, before Storm so rudelyjumped in, I was saying extra-life.org
best place to get all theinformation about Extra Life.

(57:53):
When you sign up, just makesure to select a Children's Miracle
Network hospital.
Preferably, you know, you'refeeling near and dear to Cleveland
or to this group.
Select, uh, Rainbow as your.
Your children's hospital.
Um, but like we talked aboutthe beginning of the show, you can
select any hospital that is amember and is close to your heart

(58:14):
and sign up there.
And lots of resources, lots offun suggestions and.
And things that you can add toyour stream or do to host game nights.
All of that.
It's all on that website.
Lots of resources on there.
Yeah.
Cool.
Yeah.
And, Matt, I mentioned at thebeginning you're the host of.
Of our, you know, a familypodcast, someone that we consider

(58:38):
very close because we've beenon your show and you've been on our
show.
Sure.
So we're all part of this onebig happy family here.
Tell them where they can findPromptly Written.
Okay.
So Promptly Written is goingto be any podcast app that you have.
We're currently on a bit of ahiatus where my.
My normal recording area iskind of under renovation, so we're

(59:00):
taking a quick break.
We should be back within thenext month or so.
But just Search Promptly written.
Promptly written Podcast.
Com.
And then when I do stream,which is very rare, but, you know,
it's kind of excusable becauseI haven't reached affiliate status.
So it's not like I reachedaffiliate status and then stopped
streaming out of nowhere.
It's just like, you know, I'venever just been.
I've.
I've just never been thatdedicated to it.

(59:22):
But anyways, I'll get thereone day.
But that's directed at both of them.
I'm Suge Knight on Twitch, butsome jerk took the the actual spelling
of Suge Knight, and I don'tbelieve it's the actual Suge Knight,
but it's S U G E N I T E.
I couldn't get the cool K.
I dig it.
But.
But yeah, that's where I'm aton Twitch usually these days.

(59:43):
I'm really just streaming forExtra Life, though.
Yeah, can't imagine.
I'm so glad that you guys cameto be a part of this.
It's just been a great conversation.
I want to thank Sam and Seanand Matt for shar and insights with
us today.
As always, Utah, thank you forbeing here and being my brother in
arms here doing this podcast together.
As we heard, Extra Life isn'tjust about playing games for 24 hours.

(01:00:05):
It's about creating hope,bringing communities together, and
making a real difference inthe lives of children facing medical
challenges.
So here's our call to actionfor all of you amazing people out
there, whether you're ahardcore gamer or casual gamer, we
want you.
So we actually have a team.
World Gone Geek has a team.
You're welcome to join that.
If you want to be part of thegroup, we'd love to have you join

(01:00:27):
us.
You can create your own teamand gather your friends together
to join that team.
You can sponsor, like I said,any of the children's Miracle Network
hospitals that are out there.
And again, do something goodwith that passion that you have for
gaming.
So visit extra extra-life.orgsearch for WorldGungeek.
If you want to find our team,we're in there.

(01:00:48):
You'll see.
Utah and I.
Matt, you're on the team againthis year, right?
All right.
You just haven't joined yet, so.
I have not.
I'm late to register, but I'llget there.
Slacker.
You'll set up.
You'll set up your personalfundraising page.
Even a small go goal makes abig difference.
So just make sure that youparticipate in some way.
Spread the word to yourfriends, family and fellow gamers.

(01:01:09):
And start playing, planningyour game lineup for the big day.
So literally Someone mentioneda 5k earlier.
This is a 5k that you can dofrom your couch.
This is what I love about it.
Unless you're Sean and then itstill ends up being exercised.
Guilty.
He brings it on.
He brings that on himself.
Yeah, that's all.
That's all.
Guilty.

(01:01:29):
And remember, if the 24 hourmarathon seems intimidating, you
can always break it up.
Whatever works for you.
Play for a few hours overseveral days.
Team up, take shifts, or justsupport others with donations and
encouragement.
Jump on the streams, make surewe're still awake.
That's, that's my biggest thing.
If you just showed up on thestream at 3am, it would just make
my day.

(01:01:50):
100%.
Yeah.
So every dollar raised goesdirectly to helping kids at these
hospitals.
In our case, Rainbow Babiesand Children's Hospital.
Every game played, everystream shared, every donation made.
It all adds up to somethingtruly amazing.
So we're going to be sharingupdates about our team and plans
on all of our social channels.
Make sure you're following us.
World gone Geek pretty much everywhere.

(01:02:11):
We'll also have resources andtips for first time participants
on our website.
Working on that now.
So from many fandoms, onecommunity, let's show the world what
gamers can do when we unitefor good.
Join us for extra life becausewhen we play this game together,
everybody wins.
So thanks again guys.
We'll see you guys next time.
For Worldgone Geek, thepodcast is real.

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