TLPodcast - E1 - What the heck is TLP!?

Summary

In the inaugural episode of the TLPodcast, hosts TLP Tater and TLP OG Hoppy introduce listeners to the vibrant world of TLP, or 'The Lid Poppers.' Known as an adult-only gaming community, TLP has evolved over more than a decade from a small group in World of Tanks to a multi-platform network of over a thousand members. This episode explores TLP's origins, values, and current initiatives like supporting the Wounded Warrior Project and fostering content creation. A testament to friendship and inclusivity, TLP continues to thrive by maintaining its core principles of honor, respect, loyalty, and fun, while welcoming all gamers into its diverse fold.

Highlights

• Hosts introduce the origins of TLP, starting from World of Tanks and evolving into a diverse gaming group 🏗️.
• They delve into the community values of honor, respect, loyalty, and fun that guide TLP's approach to gaming 🌟.
• TLP's involvement with the Wounded Warrior Project and their donation-driven tournaments highlight their charitable side 💖.
• There's a strong focus on content creation, aiming to build a platform for sharing and networking within the TLP community 🎥.
• Personal anecdotes from the hosts provide insight into the friendly and supportive nature of TLP members 👥.

Key Takeaways

• TLP, or 'The Lid Poppers,' is a thriving adult gaming community that started in World of Tanks 🎮.
• The community emphasizes being inclusive, prioritizing real-life commitments, and eschewing stringent activity requirements 🔑.
• TLP supports charitable causes like the Wounded Warrior Project, showcasing their community spirit and dedication to veterans 🪖.
• Content creation is a big focus, aiming to provide a platform for TLP members to share and grow their creative projects 📹.
• The podcast reveals personal stories and aspirations of the hosts, adding a personal touch to the community's narrative 🗨️.

Overview

In this kickoff episode of TLPodcast, the hosts embark on a nostalgic journey through the history and evolution of The Lid Poppers, a veteran gaming community originally formed around the game World of Tanks. Known for their teamwork and success in 'popping lids' off opposing tanks, TLP has expanded over the years into a vibrant, multi-platform haven for gamers who share a love for digital warfare.

The discussion delves into TLP's core values—honor, respect, loyalty, and fun—and how these principles have established a welcoming environment. Unlike many online groups, TLP does not impose strict gaming regimens, allowing members to balance community life with personal commitments. This flexibility has allowed TLP to build a thriving membership base that values both friendship and casual competition.

Beyond gaming, TLP is committed to supporting veterans through the Wounded Warrior Project, with proceeds from community events directed to charity. The podcast also illuminates TLP's dedication to fostering content creation, offering members a collaborative platform to explore and share their media projects, thus ensuring the community remains dynamic and engaging.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Welcome and Introduction to TLP The chapter introduces TLP Network, hosted by TLP Tater, also known as TLP OG Hoppy. The content focuses on providing information and insights about TLP, emphasized by the common inquiry, 'What is TLP?' TLP stands for 'The Lid Poppers,' and the chapter suggests that hoppy will provide further details on this origin.
• 00:30 - 01:00: What is TLP? The chapter titled 'What is TLP?' provides an overview of TLP, an 18+ gaming community that has been in existence for over a decade. The community comprises adults who play games together and exclude younger players, commonly referred to as 'squeakers.' It is a place for like-minded individuals to enjoy gaming in a mature environment.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Origin and Growth of TLP The chapter 'Origin and Growth of TLP' begins with the foundation of TP, initially centered around the video game 'World of Tanks.' This game is compared to 'Call of Duty's' Search and Destroy mode, but instead of soldiers, the game focuses on tanks with historical significance. Players aim to win either by completing objectives or eliminating the opposing team.
• 01:30 - 02:00: TLP in World of Tanks The chapter titled 'TLP in World of Tanks' describes how the group became skilled at playing World of Tanks, specifically highlighting their proficiency in 'popping' the lids off enemy tanks with significant shots. The team gained a reputation for this skill, leading to their name, 'The Lid Poppers', which was derived from their known ability to effectively 'pop lids' in the game. The chapter discusses the origins of their team name which was established solely within the context of this single game.
• 02:00 - 02:30: Multi-platform Expansion This chapter discusses the evolution from focusing solely on World of Tanks to expanding into multiple platforms and games, including console, PC, PlayStation, and even the Nintendo Switch. The group has grown significantly and the original name, 'the lid poppers,' no longer seems to fit the expanded scope and larger community, but it remains as a legacy.
• 02:30 - 03:00: Community Size and Dynamics The chapter discusses the concept of community size and dynamics using the analogy of sticking with a particular name or identity. The example given compares a gaming community to an NFL team, highlighting how identity and continuity are maintained even when locations or contexts change, such as when a team relocates but retains its name. The discussion underscores the importance of community identity and how it persists despite changes in circumstances.
• 03:00 - 03:30: TLP's Inclusive Culture The chapter explores TLP's inclusive culture, focusing on the continued popularity of World of Tanks among its members despite evolving interests. It describes past gatherings where multiple Xbox parties would engage in the game, fostering a sense of community and mingling among members. This illustrates the strong social fabric and shared interests in the community, even as members become less involved over time.
• 03:30 - 04:00: Personal Connections within TLP This chapter discusses the sense of community within a group called TLP, where members frequently switched between different platoons or groups, fostering a diverse and interconnected environment. In the past, players often mixed and collaborated more fluidly, frequently changing gameplay experiences depending on their preferences. Today, while the community has expanded to include a wide range of game enthusiasts including Rocket League and Call of Duty, the structure is more spread out and segmented compared to earlier times.
• 04:00 - 04:30: Hosts' Personal Histories In this chapter, the hosts discuss their personal involvement in various gaming communities. They talk about less popular games that they've played and how these games, despite having smaller followings, have contributed to the growth and expansion of their community. The hosts recall a time when their member count exceeded a thousand and how they eventually stopped keeping track as their community continued to thrive and expand beyond their initial expectations. The chapter emphasizes the dynamic nature of gaming communities and the satisfaction the hosts find in being part of them.
• 04:30 - 05:30: Hosts' Backgrounds and Careers This chapter provides background information on the hosts and their careers within the gaming community. It highlights the evolution and fluctuations of their organization, TLP, which serves as a safe haven for gamers. Although the organization has seen membership numbers rise and fall over time, it currently has over a thousand members. The chapter emphasizes the hosts' perspectives on TLP's unique identity, distinguishing it from typical gaming clans, as they do not identify themselves as a clan.
• 05:30 - 06:00: Connecting Through Gaming The chapter titled "Connecting Through Gaming" discusses the essence of forming connections through shared interests in gaming. The focus is on building a community that values like-minded individuals who enjoy spending time together, rather than emphasizing skill level. The core aim is to create a safe and welcoming environment for all members. The transcript highlights satisfaction with the current state of the community while acknowledging room for growth. The emphasis is on the importance of the people involved and the harmonious nature of the community dynamics.
• 06:00 - 06:30: Building Real-life Skills and Connections In this chapter, the speaker reflects on the deep connections and life skills gained from a long-term involvement in a community or scene. They describe many of the people in this community as more than just friends, considering them family due to the long time spent together, over a decade. The speaker emphasizes the mutual learning and support within the community, stating that members share life lessons and regional knowledge, which goes beyond merely playing games together.
• 06:30 - 07:30: Recruitment and Integration Process The chapter 'Recruitment and Integration Process' discusses the early days of online gaming and networking through Xbox Live. The narrator mentions joining a few years after the launch of what seems to be a game or community initiative referred to as 'TLP'. They reminisce about playing Ghost Recon on Xbox Live, specifically with a user named OG Junkie, and reflect on how these online interactions represented some of their first experiences with real-life-like social activities in a virtual setting.
• 07:30 - 08:30: Community Activities and Charity The chapter titled 'Community Activities and Charity' describes a person's long-term involvement in playing games with friends, including a specific individual named Gro. The narrator reflects on playing with Gro and other local friends for over 15-16 years, highlighting their longstanding friendships formed through community gaming activities.
• 08:30 - 09:30: Past and Future Content Creation The chapter titled 'Past and Future Content Creation' delves into the speaker's experiences with gaming, specifically highlighting a moment when they reconnected with a friend through the game 'World of Tanks' on Xbox 360. The speaker had been disconnected from the friend for a while, but seeing them play the game prompted a desire to join in, marking a significant point in the speaker's gaming journey. TLP, presumably a gaming group or project, was already established at that time, and the speaker joined shortly thereafter. This period on the Xbox 360 signifies the beginnings of their involvement with TLP, which seemed to have a lasting impact on their content creation trajectory.
• 09:30 - 10:00: TLP's Network Goals The chapter discusses the speaker's extensive involvement with TLP, where they've contributed to various tasks such as managing the website, creating rosters, and organizing tournaments. They emphasize the joy in bringing people together and reflect on how the members, despite being largely unfamiliar to the speaker, hold significance beyond just being numbers or names on paper.
• 10:00 - 11:00: Encouraging Content Creators The narrator discusses the evolution of TLP (presumably a community or group) from a smaller, more intimate group where they knew everyone personally, to a much larger entity where maintaining personal connections with all members has become challenging. Initially, with around 50-60 members, personal interactions were possible as everyone was on each other’s friends list and played together frequently. However, as the community grew, it became difficult to maintain those personal connections, highlighting the natural formation of smaller, more personal sub-groups or niches within a large community.
• 11:00 - 12:00: Games within TLP Community The chapter discusses the importance of active participation within the TLP community. It emphasizes that members should put effort into engaging and meeting people to benefit from the community. It questions why someone extremely introverted, who finds it difficult to communicate even through a microphone, would want to be part of any community.
• 12:00 - 13:00: Creating a Central Platform for TLP Content The chapter discusses creating a central platform for TLP (The Learning Platform) content, emphasizing the community aspect of gaming. It highlights how people form groups or clans, often playing games like World of Tanks or Rocket League together. These groups aren't exclusive, as anyone can join by connecting with others through their friends list. Even those who play less frequently can engage easily by looking up friends who are online.
• 13:00 - 13:30: Conclusion and Future Plans The chapter discusses the dynamics and interactions within a large community, emphasizing the welcoming nature and interconnectedness of various sub-groups. Members often cross between different groups, resulting in a cohesive and inclusive environment that frequently culminates in large gatherings.

TLPodcast - E1 - What the heck is TLP!? Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 welcome to TLP Network my name is TLP Tater that's TLP OG hoppy where you can find anything and everything related to TLP all right well I guess we might as well start with uh what is TLP all right so what is TLP that is the number one question we get asked all the time and TP stands for the lid poppers now hoppy will tell you where that came
• 00:30 - 01:00 from in just a minute but I think first and foremost to tell you guys what it actually is is it is a 18 plus gaming Community uh it's been around for well over a decade and we have quite a few members within all adults we don't uh we don't allow squeakers in here and basically we just play games with like-minded individuals and if you want to explain what TLP means and go from there you go
• 01:00 - 01:30 right at it so when TP started it was originally based around a video game called World of Tanks and what World of Tanks is is it's kind of like a imagine imagine Call of Duty Search and Destroy but instead of having you know your soldier that carries a gun you have uh you know a sort of tank that has some sort of historical value to it and you just either try to win by objective or by wiping out the rest of the team
• 01:30 - 02:00 and when you got a really big shot on a tank you would blow its lid off and we eventually got really good at the game as a group and when we wanted to form something for the game it was well what we name ourselves well we were known for popping the other team Lids because we we had good players so we were just like well why don't we just call ourselves the lid poppers right there sorry when you're only based in one game
• 02:00 - 02:30 at the time right because we were only in the in World of Tanks so the name the lid poppers worked really well for us now we're more into multi-platforms multi multi-games multi-platforms console PC PlayStation I think a lot of the guys even play the switch and stuff like that so we do a lot of stuff now we're we're way bigger than we were then and a lot more people so the name doesn't really fit us anymore but because it's just Legacy
• 02:30 - 03:00 name we've stuck with it yeah and I mean that doesn't stop us from popping people's Lids in Call of Duty or or any other game it may be you know so it it still does apply in some sorts of H fashion but you know once you once you stick with something it's like when a NFL team moves to a different city just because the Rams are no longer in St Louis doesn't mean they're not the Rams anymore so uh it's just kind of just one of those deals exactly and it's
• 03:00 - 03:30 still you know like don't think that we don't still play World of Tanks I think World of Tanks is still one of our bigger games that we do play uh we have a lot of guys and they're not so much involved with the TLP stuff as they used to be used to be every Friday you could find um CU I think what Xbox parties back then could only hold what like 12 guys so you would see like two or three full parties of people playing tanks and just mingling together and then you you had fiveman platoon like back in the day before before that you had fours and
• 03:30 - 04:00 even threes but um those those guys were switching between you know platoon and platoon and Crossing things up like one guy is like hey I'm playing tier eights and somebody's like oh I'd rather play tier eights than these fives that we're playing here so you'd switch and it was always comingling like dozens of people together all the time back in those days whereas today it's everything's spread out more like we have a ton of Rocket league players we have a ton of you know Call of Duty players players ton of tank
• 04:00 - 04:30 players and lots of other games that uh a lot of people haven't heard of but also that have but maybe not quite as big a falling in them but uh we're all over the place compared to what we used to be but it's been good for us I mean we've done I think the last um time I tried to count members we were over a thousand and I just gave up counting so I don't know where we are now but um and I think we've actually grown since then to be honest with you I mean it's like with any Community you have
• 04:30 - 05:00 your ups and your downs and uh or any organization at all and I know at one point we're well over a thousand we've dropped down we've come back up I think we're well over a thousand again but that is like basically what TLP is right yeah and I mean it was just kind of a safe haven for everybody that was in you know the gaming scene for a long time cuz you know I'm sure there was a lot you heard of all the other gaming Clans we never really like to cons consider oursel a clan because it was never
• 05:00 - 05:30 really skill based it was always just based on if you're a like-minded person that enjoys playing with us and that's really what we modeled this whole thing after and I think it's done well um you know there's always room to grow but I think for the core of what we are it's perfect it fits exactly what we want which is just again a safe place to hang out and really I the people that are in this thing I never really considered
• 05:30 - 06:00 them just friends or they're really family to me I grew up around it you know I'm only 26 and it's been over a decade that this thing's been going so you know a lot of these people I consider my family in in this scene and um I've learned a lot from the folks here they have a lot to offer um you know not just playing the game with you but life skills showing you what you know their region is and and and meeting up with these people in
• 06:00 - 06:30 real life so yeah there's it been a lot of that stuff for me I mean I came in I did come in right when TLP started I came in probably a couple years later but uh I played with OG Junkie A Lot back in the day on Xbox 360 maybe like way back in the day and we used to play the original Ghost Recon that was the first one that was Xbox Live compatible is where I met him I think it was fighter yeah it might have been it
• 06:30 - 07:00 might have been I don't it might have been Gro yeah I think it was Gro or maybe one before I don't remember exactly cuz I played them all so much a lot with him and I came in with a you know I came in playing with him um afterwards but you know I played I I met him I don't know 15 16 years ago maybe longer than that now and we we played together along with a couple of his friends that were local to him that he knew from work and stuff um but we played that and we played a couple other
• 07:00 - 07:30 games together and then you know one day I'm playing World of Tanks on my Xbox 360 like I hadn't talked to him in a while and I see he's playing World of Tanks I'm like dude let's play some World of Tanks and and now I'm here U TLP was already a thing then um I like I said I came in slightly uh after it started like not long but um definitely on the 360 and definitely a long time ago and that's kind of where I started at from in TLP is just through him
• 07:30 - 08:00 and then um you know I did a lot of work in the background for TLP for a lot of years I did um all the website stuff I did um oh tons of stuff like rosters I did tournaments I did a ton of stuff just because it's fun for me to get people together and like you were saying these people they're not just people I mean yeah a lot of people are just a number on a piece of paper that you've like me personally never met the majority of members in t
• 08:00 - 08:30 because TLP is too big to do that anymore um at one time we weren't and I knew every single person in TLP I mean we had under a 100 people like well under 100 probably close 50 to 60 when I probably got in hot and heavy and I met all these guys I had every one of them on my friends list we always played together and then as things have grown it's become harder to do that with people but those certain people with any Community you get a click or a little niche going and you
• 08:30 - 09:00 stick with those people all the time and that's where I think TLP is great because uh I've always told people anytime we get some new person in and they're like well you know what do you what do I do now you know and it's like well I've always told them TLP is what you make of it if you don't put any effort into it at all you're not going to get anything from it like you got to you got to go out and meet these people if you're like super introverted to the point where you can't even talk to people on a microphone why do even want to be in a in a community at all or a
• 09:00 - 09:30 clan or anything you know so people step out meet people and then you'll find that these same people are always playing together there's tons of like like group over here and then a group over here and then there's this group up here and group down here that are always playing together all the time and it's not because it won't let people in because that's absolutely not true if you see somebody playing you know like World tanks and stuff or or if I want to play rocket League like I don't play rocket League that much anymore I used to play quite a bit but I can always look at my friends list which is
• 09:30 - 10:00 hundreds of members deep and say hey so and so is playing rocket League I'm jumping in and they're they're always welcoming all the time so yeah that's a cool thing well and there's a lot of there's also a lot of intertwine between our people so you you know you may have your group here your group here a group here group here but there's going to be one or two from that group that jump to this group every now and again and then that group goes to this group and then eventually we just all end up in a big giant 16-man party or something stupid like that that's just hard to keep track
• 10:00 - 10:30 of but it's always been a matter of TLP is definitely what you make it and you can either have five friends or you can have 500 friends I mean it really is that extensive and for the most part especially when I was growing up with it I've known a lot of people through this thing I it's definitely had its come and goes and of people and
• 10:30 - 11:00 that's just part of the gaming scene and just time in general you know people maybe put down the controller forever maybe people put down the controller for a few years but if you're still TLP in your name you're still TLP so it doesn't matter and that's another thing that I think we different differentiate on a lot of things from uh other groups organizations Clans communities whatever you want to call it once you get your jacket dude you only take it only comes off when you're willing to take it off or if you break our mandate that's it
• 11:00 - 11:30 exactly there's no real requirements that is a nice thing I think that draws a lot of people to us is people like well how much do I have to play to be a part of this you don't you don't have to play like very much at all like there's no like written requirement that says you have to be online a certain amount of time it's like oh I haven't seen so and so for six months but you know yeah I'm going to call his buddy and see if he's still alive you know and then he's like yeah I just been busy at work you know whatever and of the big things that
• 11:30 - 12:00 I really like about TP and tp's always been real life comes first 100% we never have pushed people to ever put us ahead of their real life because that just doesn't make sense and I know a lot of communities require you to be certain places certain times doing certain things and we just don't do that like if we're having a big tournament like and if you volunteer to show up to these events and then you don't there may be some repercussions but for the most part if if you're like Dam I can't make that
• 12:00 - 12:30 it's like yeah well I'll find somebody else you know it is what it is we have enough people we can it's always based off of your word right like if you say you're going to do something then you then you need to do it because then we're counting on you but if you say you can't make it then there's no there's no backlash for that I mean we get it we're adults this is an adult community we understand that life happens and you got to make some time for yourself or your family or whatever you may have going on because at the end of the day this is just our Gaming Community and you know
• 12:30 - 13:00 we don't want to put ourselves above what you really have going on in real life so yeah I think that is the biggest bonus to it that is very true um it's always like you said it's always been just your word your word is your word I mean we we do have a mandate um that we've lived by it used to be much longer and more complicated um nowadays it's just four simple words and those words are honor respect loyal and fun and we
• 13:00 - 13:30 just live by those all the time like you just don't want to go out and just you know it's just basic life stuff you know like you should do that in real life um and I think what gets a lot of people that do end up leaving TLP and I think it's that they seclude themselves I don't know about you but that's what I've noticed the most like I'll see somebody that's like they they don't have their t on it on in their gamertag anymore and I'm like why did you take that off and they like well I just haven't been playing with anybody like well did you try well no yeah no no I
• 13:30 - 14:00 didn't try aspect it's like come on man ratio yeah is like people that have been kicked out because they broke our mandate you know that usually means they did something heinous versus the people that have left it is it's a huge gap it's huge people usually just leave because of exactly what Tater said where you know they seclude themselves and I get it you want to you know do your own thing every now and again you don't have to always play with TLP no no 100% for
• 14:00 - 14:30 some reason a lot of folks think that they got to take the jacket off CU they're not playing with TLP as much anymore and that's just not the case I mean there's been plenty of times where I've played with you know my cousins and whatnot and I realized oh it's been you know week two weeks hell it it may even be a month before I go play with another TLP person I'm like dude I got to get back into the action and I'm instantly brought back in with no questions asked yeah and it's not like you took your gamer take off you know it's just or
• 14:30 - 15:00 changed your gamer take you're still a part of it it's just yeah yeah what have you been doing dude you know just my thing it's like okay uh yeah it's just you know I think you know we should definitely tell the folks here like some introductions about ourselves like I I kind of went through it you did a little bit but um let's still talk a little bit about personal stuff like um what what we do like I so me um when I joined TP I lived in Montana
• 15:00 - 15:30 and Montana is a cold ass place and in the middle of winter you got nothing to do besides watch TV or play Xbox or whatever involved being inside so that's kind of how I got started in the whole thing right is I was just like well it's so freaking cold I can't stand it anymore so I'm want to play Xbox and then you know I told the story about OG junky and stuff but um but personally I when I was in Montana I
• 15:30 - 16:00 did a couple different weird jobs but I I moved back to Idaho and Idaho North Idaho specifically is known for mining that is what we do up here mostly Mining and Timber is what North Idaho is was built upon so I went to work in one of the mines as an engineer and I hated it because engineering is not my thing but I uh I kind of did like a surveying engineering thing for a while and then I
• 16:00 - 16:30 switched to actually working underground laboring and when I talk about laboring I mean they literally put me into a Grizzly where they dumped giant rocks on and gave me a 10 PB hammer and said turn these big rocks into little rocks and I did that for months and then I moved on up in the mines and eventually became an actual um sto Miner or a drift Miner which means you're actually the guy who's Drilling and bolting and and blasting which is what I do now and I've
• 16:30 - 17:00 done that for I think TLP is a lot older than I just said because I've been doing that for over a decade and I wasn't doing that when I started in TLP so I think it's much older I think but I think it's close to 15 years yeah because I've been doing that for 14 years so I've been doing it a long time and at this point I have worked at a lot of places done a lot of different stuff at this point I am what is considered a contract minor which means I go to different minds and they contract the company that I work
• 17:00 - 17:30 for to do certain usually High um High skill level jobs that maybe they don't have the people for or they don't have um they might have people that can do it but those people are busy doing something else and they can't let that um their production you know diminish because they need to have this special project done or something so that's what I do now um my work is varied you know I'll work for sometimes two three months pretty much straight and then I might be off at home for two or 3 months which I really like that
• 17:30 - 18:00 part of it I like the working usually my jobs are 2 to three weeks and then I'm home for at least a week which I really like having that time off um mining in general is kind of like that you know get week on week off usually most places but um that's what I do now and so um when we're talking about like scheduling for these videos a lot of that revolves around our work schedules or my work schedule and um yeah so aside from that other things I like to do I like to hunt
• 18:00 - 18:30 fish because I live in that's what we do up here okay I got to take a quick break I'll be right back where was I oh oh Hobbies um yeah fishing hunting yeah so other things that I like to do hunting fishing because that's about the only thing to do up here um playing around in the woods um I have a boat I like to go out on the boat uh got a motorcycle once in a while I cruise around my dirt bike but um you know that's pretty much about it um side projects I do like in the winter
• 18:30 - 19:00 time here when there's not hunting or fishing to do is I make YouTube videos on my own personal channel so I do that and then um my daughter and I have started doing some model trains and and stuff like that just stuff to keep us busy when it's cold yeah yeah model trains are a lot of fun I like doing that stuff I like the hunting the fishing all that same thing um so for me um I was originally in California up until
• 19:00 - 19:30 well my whole life up until just a few months ago and over there there isn't a whole lot to do other than you know I was in the desert so if I wanted to really go out and do anything California uh I had to drive at least an hour and a half to go do something like go to the beach or any of those things but um I did grow up doing some hunting and fishing over there it was it was okay but uh it's definitely better here in
• 19:30 - 20:00 Texas for sure for that stuff but um but with TLP um so a little bit background on my TLP history is uh my father and my uncle actually made TLP uh way back in the day I want to say 2011 was the year that they made it um and I'm only 26 so I was just a little squeaker back then and you know when they made the rule of it being being uh
• 20:00 - 20:30 only an adult community obviously I didn't I was in TLP until I was 18 so but throughout the years I grew up knowing all the people um you know I I I I had an Xbox on my own um my dad was always a gamer ever since I was born so the gaming thing was just natural in my household and I grew up playing Xbox 360 and the GameCube and the PC and all that St stuff and you know I would still play
• 20:30 - 21:00 with these folks in TLP it's not like I was exiled but you know that when it came to business and things like that I just I wasn't an adult and I didn't need to be there um so up until I was 18 I wasn't in TLP but I knew everybody so um you know I I I fit in well I think but um yeah when I turned 18 I came in I think I believe you were the one who recruited me I am and uh yeah yeah most people I guess
• 21:00 - 21:30 don't know this but we actually have a um like a pretty good recruiting process right and yeah I made sure that you got more than your fair share of that because of just because it was fun but yeah I I got vetted pretty well I think I mean there was just because my dad and my uncle made this thing didn't mean I got any breaks hell no you got you got the opposite yeah that's how it works man um and I'm glad I did you know it uh made me tough yeah well so nobody can
• 21:30 - 22:00 say you didn't do your fair share right so no h yeah that was pretty much the whole point of of me doing that to you was to make sure that no one thought that you were getting a free ride so yeah I definitely didn't I can I can probably say I earned my jacket for sure yeah more than most but I mean the same happened for me too because I was so much so good of friends with your dad that um yeah I I was like four month retreating process where normally it's
• 22:00 - 22:30 30 days you know so they they drug me along forever and that's just excuse me that's just your dad too he if his head wasn't attached to his body he would probably forget to put it on but yeah well you know back in the day it was Hardcore it was it was difficult to get into TLP I mean you had to jump through a lot of Hoops yeah you had to really prove yourself it was I don't know a lot of people watching this may not have been gaming back then just because it wasn't as big and popular but
• 22:30 - 23:00 the gaming space back then was brutal and you really needed to be vetted to be a part of this thing because there was some real psychopaths out there mhm and you know I mean nobody wants to have a psychopath in their Community when we're just trying to be having fun and you know we were competitive to a degree but not to where that overshadowed what we really wanted you
• 23:00 - 23:30 know well we've always been we've always had a competitive side to TP but the thing about it is no one was ever forced to be competitive so it never really I don't know I guess it I guess I could say it's never really been like top priority I think it's the best way to put it um the competitive side even though it doesn't make sense the competitive side is just for fun so you're not required to do it if you're into Competitive Gaming and you your buddies get together as a group and say
• 23:30 - 24:00 we're going to go compete in this Call of Duty tournament it's it is what it is and a lot of guys practice whatever game they're playing it together so they can um move together we we did it in tanks a lot World of Tanks um we had a competition team and within that competition team we had I don't know 10 12 guys probably most of the time who I mean they didn't stay the same guys all the time uh and they did have playtime requirements ments and that wasn't to be into op that was to be um on that team
• 24:00 - 24:30 and they they would practice regularly and the point of that is that you you learn you know how everybody else plays so um for an example like hoppy and I will often times play rocket League together and we almost always play competitive and I pretty much know where he is all the time without looking which is exactly what you want to want to have in any competitive team um pretty and that's just through purely through time
• 24:30 - 25:00 and play time exactly and that's why we had those play requirements when we did competitive stuff is just so you could learn to do stuff like that um but that that's about all all we've really done competitive once in a while you know somebody will get a wild hair and it'll be like this big thing but um aside from that U the other things we've done competitively is we've hosted tournaments and these tournaments are donation driven and one other thing that most people probably if you're in TP you
• 25:00 - 25:30 know but if you don't we are partnered with well I shouldn't say partnered we support the Wounded Warrior Project quite a bit um and the reason we do that is we do have a lot of veterans in TLP like a lot a lot of veterans and yeah within the ranks of those veterans we have quite a few disabled veterans and we have quite a few guys who are Wounded Warriors so when we reached out out to our group of people and said hey we have
• 25:30 - 26:00 you know x amount of money um you know at the end of the year and like I said most of our stuff is donation driven what are we going to do with this money because we don't want to pay taxes on it let's get rid of it and we decided to give away all of our money to a charitable donation of some kind and we decided to go with Wounded Warriors and because we've been doing that we've actually had quite a few conversations with Wounded Warriors themselves and uh I hosted a tank
• 26:00 - 26:30 tournament a couple years back in fact I could put that on my screen um but it uh we generated quite a bit of income or quite a bit of donations for them just because we did that and it was actually it actually worked out really really well I'm pushing buttons because I have too many buttons on my computer but um I'm try to get that up but all every everybody who entered was required to give a donation and within that donation
• 26:30 - 27:00 or 100% proceeds from that went straight to um here's a here's the uh deal of it here went straight to Wounded Warriors went straight to Wounded Warriors TLP kept absolutely zero um and this was all uh tier eight Wounded Warrior and this is just one of the Flyers we had we had multiple Flyers going out um we made quite a quite a bit of change for the these guys over just doing that you know
• 27:00 - 27:30 and absolutely um and I intended on doing it in 24 as well but we had some scheduling conflicts with other tournaments and stuff that actually never came to fruition which is irritating because I wanted to do that but it is what it is um yeah it happens yeah so we do things like that I know that we have a couple schedules for 25 one I think is World tanks the other one maybe Call of Duty I think it's I don't think anybody knows really what
• 27:30 - 28:00 we're doing with that 100% yet but um yeah it may just end up being World of Tanks because Call of Duty in general right now it's just a hot mess and always has been always has been yeah but these last few years it's been bad so I don't think Call of Duty is necessarily the place to be hosting a tournament right now and yeah I think a lot of people could agree to that unfortunately because we love Call of Duty this a lot of this community has a lot of Call of Duty players and we would love to do
• 28:00 - 28:30 something with it but it it is what it is man rocket League always is always been a rock oh yeah always one of the other things you know rocket league has always been pretty solid for us the only problem with that is it's not really genre based anything with any type of veterans right it's just running around in race car smacking balls around so you know if you kind of want to play at least some type of a war game or combat game when you're doing Wounded Warrior stuff so that's where tanks comes in pretty good I think and the other thing
• 28:30 - 29:00 about tanks that a lot of the veterans like is that it's a little bit slower paced I'm not saying it's like slow paced but it's not near as fast as a shooter is you know so yeah you don't have to have some cracked out fortnite skills to play World of Tanks no you just need it's mostly tactics more than anything it is it's quite a bit of tactics and tanks but yeah so that's where we're at on on that stuff um what else do we got out here op that we want to talk I mean we can we can go
• 29:00 - 29:30 into what we want to do with TLP network is I think a good good reason why we wanted to do this whole thing in general so uh throughout the years with TLP um you can imagine that the things that we do and the people we have there's been a lot of people that have created content back in the day and it was always just a matter of well a lot of people some people knew how to do it and a lot of
• 29:30 - 30:00 people didn't and a lot some people understood it and a lot of people didn't which was okay we weren't requiring that of anybody but there were people you know out there that were wanting to put out uh YouTube videos and streaming and and you know Tik toks and Twitter videos my lighting is out of control dog sorry I'm over here having a freaking epileptic seizure and you're trying to talk sorry oh you're good um but no that there was
• 30:00 - 30:30 a lot of people that just wanted to be creators and you know this is kind of the this is going to be the base platform for all of it so where anybody that is a creator for anything and I I mean anything doesn't have to be gaming but we are a gaming centered Community um but anybody that wants to be Creator whether it's Tik Tok Instagram reals or twitch or YouTube you can find them here
• 30:30 - 31:00 and instead of just being like well who was it uh weasel weasel used to put out YouTube videos all the time yeah actually and you know he was kind of on his own if you want yeah and he was he was on his own and making his YouTube videos he was pioneering something for TLP really and um now we want to be able to put it in a nice neat where everybody can find it at once yeah and I actually
• 31:00 - 31:30 have a little stream this is six years ago he he did this one I'm going to go ahead and hit the play button on this and you guys can see kind of what he was doing and the only issue that I think we had with him not being super successful in this and he I'm not saying he wasn't successful but I think he could have went farther if we would had what we have right now going on where we could help him um Network and network back to
• 31:30 - 32:00 us and so forth and so on that's kind of the point of the channel right is to um help everyone Network and like you can see here this is quite professionally done he's done a very well job very good job and like I said this was six plus years ago he did this one and and he had uh multiple hosts they talked about um the game a lot of guys who were very veteran players back then that would come in and help him and they would they would uh just kind of talk through the matches and all that
• 32:00 - 32:30 stuff so I think I think that uh what're what we're going to do here is going to help those types of channels and those channels are for anybody basically who has TLP in front of their name will have the opportunity to be a part of this whole situation um and it doesn't have to be on YouTube I think um we're we're trying to Branch out you know I know Tik tok's kind of up in the air right now but you know we have twitch and you have other other lots of media you have you know your Facebook shorts and you have
• 32:30 - 33:00 YouTube shorts we have YouTube we have Twitter we have all kinds of things yeah and you know I mean like I have my own channel um I'm in the process of rebranding hopp has been doing twitch for quite a little while off and on yeah and you know the whole idea that we had is we've been doing this separate from each other even though we've been in each other's videos and been messing around over the over the year nothing over the years nothing's been official
• 33:00 - 33:30 so what we're trying to do now is get us together and bring the rest of the guys trying to do it from TLP into into us and help everybody out as a whole um that's kind of the general purpose I guess of what we're up to here I think that's yeah I mean we just we want to build this yeah absolutely I mean that's that is exactly what we're trying to do we're just trying to build a stage where we can showcase all the TLP creators in
• 33:30 - 34:00 one place so that way you know you uh you get real representation for what you create in TLP and that's kind of what the was the big Missing Link for all of this there's a lot of people that are real fired up about doing their thing and and wantan to do it for TLP and we just never had the means with the manpower to do it and now we kind of do and so you know we're really looking to build build this thing up and show you guys what TP is all about yeah and one
• 34:00 - 34:30 thing that we've done in the past that that was really a good idea is we did the stream to serve thing through Wounded Warriors and we had a handful of guys um Branch out to do that the problem was is they weren't already established streamers and they just are having a heck of a time getting any traction so the whole point here is that we could bring those streamers maybe onto this channel they can talk about their Channel um mhm and within their own streams they can talk about this Channel
• 34:30 - 35:00 and bring people to this channel where this channel will then kind of spread it out to all of the people within the community I mean this particular video is more about who we are what we're doing and and going forward the videos will be more like what is everyone else doing not us so yeah absolutely we got to take a break dude uh Zin bony time go ahead good I'm rocking two right now oh doubled up
• 35:00 - 35:30 I told you dude if you use the zins you got to double up told you yeah you have to um what else are we at on stuff here uh past creators like we have a lot of past creators right we could talk about we talked about weasel um we have a ton of other ones uh somebody else who has been creating cool videos for quite a while is is seu right he's kind of a
• 35:30 - 36:00 newer member he's not he hasn't been around all that long but he has been hitting it hard on tick talkk and unfortunately for him Tik tok's like who knows what's going to happen with that but um yeah he is uh he's been really pushing it hard and he does a lot of tank videos I know we have guys who really want to get into it um infamus is one of those guys I was talking to him the other day he is really into War Thunder and he wants to stream a bunch of War Thunder and and I think he wants
• 36:00 - 36:30 to do I think he may more want to do YouTube stuff I'm not sure exactly if he wanted to stream that or record it but regardless I mean those are the guys that's the type of thing we need to be trying to get people to see them you know like people can come to us um and we can put the people where they need to go to see what kind of content they're interested in seeing like I play I play stormworks games probably you've never heard of before hoppy and I have played imperian together in imp Peri and a lot of people haven't heard of that game that's a super fun game and other things
• 36:30 - 37:00 you know and he's been doing like I said twitch for ever off and on I streamed off and on for two or straight three yeah two or three straight years and and um you know doing it on my own and it was fun and it was you know a fun time I learned a lot for sure um but to be able to do it where we can really inter twine everything TLP wise and build this giant
• 37:00 - 37:30 spiderweb of media where you can end up on this part but you have a path to this part that somebody else is doing something right well that's why not you know what I mean so um it just makes perfect sense yeah and you know like you we talked about doing our own thing U but this this channel is not really about us it's more about everybody else and we have a couple other streamers who are really good you know and they're not getting the um recognition or or the
• 37:30 - 38:00 views that I think they deserve one of those guys is TLP alien he's done he's worked his butt off and he has issues with hardware and all kinds of things I think turn a lot of people off but his content is pretty darn good really it's just uh he struggles with hardware and connection issues so much but you know when you're when you're browsing like the twitch Channel twitch page main page and you type in whatever game you want to see you see let's say you type in
• 38:00 - 38:30 rocket League I mean how many people are on Rocket league right now thousands watching how many are streaming hundreds thousand streaming yeah how are you GNA find the one guy who's got one to two views down there if somebody isn't helping push people in that direction so that's kind of Our intention here is to push people um to our our own people right and and then in return it's favor for a favor deal right those people who are streaming push people back to us and get
• 38:30 - 39:00 you know it just kind of spiderwebs out in a in like a triangle of hate and discontent basically right so yeah pushing pushing imag you know you ever play If you ever played Skyrim or any other old video game that has the pole in the middle of the road that has a bunch of arrows going in a bunch of different directions that's us we're the pole with all the direction arrows on it yeah that's what we're trying to be for our community and you know it's right there in the center of the road where you you can't miss it and that's what we
• 39:00 - 39:30 want us to be so you can see the directions to every Creator we have yeah precisely precisely um you know the other thing I guess we haven't really talked about a whole lot is what games um do we think we'll see on this channel maybe what we play casually I mean there may be times when we're on here playing a game and talking about the game or maybe just playing and talking about other things at the same time and the games you probably will see
• 39:30 - 40:00 you know the most of well we're both pretty into War Thunder right now we were playing quite a bit of War um World of Tanks you know I put I put World of Tanks down all the time and I pick it right back up um yeah month or two down the road I I love that game League I can't get out of it rocket league is the same thing I'll set that down for six months and then get back in it and Go Stomp the guts out of everybody who's been playing regularly because it just makes me laugh but I like I like to ruffle people's feathers it's kind of like my thing but um other games I mean
• 40:00 - 40:30 some of the other games we played too I mean um I mean we have a huge community in Fallout 76 if there's any Fallout fans out there I'm sure you ran into somebody in TLP like we said dut6 Call of Duty's pretty big we'll probably do some Call of Duty stuff a big one um we actually for a very long time it's kind of it's kind of tamed down now we had a ton of guys doing um like the racing Sims like for and those other games like that as well as you know the like other
• 40:30 - 41:00 simulator type games as well uh but a lot of guys are doing we're doing car stuff you know we have a ton of guys that do Minecraft we have people doing Seven Days to Die another game that is huge in TLP is Ark Arc is massive in TLP um and I think almost everybody not everybody but I think probably half the people here at some point have played Arc and easily Arc has been a great we
• 41:00 - 41:30 actually have a it's been a great tool for us because we have actually have a really good partnership with another uh group of guys called Terminus and Terminus is a cluster if you're familiar with Arc um you can get all these servers together um like they're kind of just like this and then you can Bounce from server to server with all your stuff so they have all these different clusters with all the maps and tons of stuff going on in Arc they even ventured out
• 41:30 - 42:00 into Atlas and at one point I don't know if they're still doing Atlas but um they were doing Arc and they're kind of the same way we are they're like donation based and they their people keep everything running I think they are out of pocket quite a bit for quite a long time on that stuff and I think they finally come around to where at least the pl the thing is mostly paying for itself and one of the guys that was real big into Terminus actually because of our partnership between Terminus and TLP joined TLP later after we'd already done
• 42:00 - 42:30 all this stuff together but Terminus has been a great tool for us because we actually get a lot of of our members from Terminus that play Arc um because the TLP tribes on Arc in Terminus have been usually uh top tier stuff you know they we have a lot of really good Builders we have guys that really know their stuff in Arc uh that know how to do all the breeding really well and whatever goes into and uh all that stuff taming breeding
• 42:30 - 43:00 building I guess that's pretty much it right that's that's the main things but we have a lot of professional guys in there doing that stuff and then um and the tribes just grew so large they you couldn't ignore it any longer I mean everybody knew what TLP was in there because right you know they they would have the biggest tribe or the the most things like you said the best animals and things like that so we we you just couldn't ignore us anymore and nether con termine us and not to say they were ignoring us but but um becomes impossible not notice Us in there yeah
• 43:00 - 43:30 it it just made sense for them to become partners with TLP yeah you know another this is kind of a bragging right I've kept you know for years we played arc when Arc first dropped on Alpha and we had a pretty good siiz tribe and I remember the game being so bad man that you'd fly across the map and lag out and crash the game and lose your dinosaur every single time but uh we played on a public server a I don't remember if it was PVE or PVP it might have been PVP no I don't remember but I
• 43:30 - 44:00 remember being like the first tribe in Ark to tame a gig on a public server and I remember being like so we were so Community Based we had a huge tribe like we would we would pretty much Max the server out all the time but when when we weren't you know I think when we actually tamed that Giga we might have had eight or 10 guys online I think you could have 100 is that right you could have 100 people 99 guys in Arc maybe I don't remember on the Alpha Testing or
• 44:00 - 44:30 on the early days of Arc I don't remember what it was but I knew we were on official servers too they were official it was a real tame it was it was it took days to do it and I remember being in that part of that and we had a low number of people in TLP on at that time but because of who we were and what we had done on the server previously we actually had other tribes bringing us stuff to help us out because we we did not realize how big of an undertaking it was going to be to tame that Giga so we
• 44:30 - 45:00 it took us days to do it if I remember right and at that time too I don't even think people knew how to use like narcotics and and darts and we would literally just shoot them with bows and arrows that's that's what we did because that's all we knew how to do on Arc it was so early in the game and yeah people were bringing us just loads of stuff like they would they would empty their invent fill it completely with like the
• 45:00 - 45:30 tranquilizing arrows or narcotic arrows whatever they call them walk over to us and then kill themselves and just drop a bag of arrows like that's how that's how crazy it was they would bring us food to help us tame you know and it was just like these guys were so cool and we had the like a huge base and this is this is really cool cuz we actually left server that server that we were on for a long time and we had this huge base with a huge Mario like old school regular Nintendo Mario you know he's
• 45:30 - 46:00 holding the little thing up in the air the fireball painted on the side of that base it was huge and that base stood for months cu no one would touch it because of the TLP name on it even though it was completely destructible anybody there was no dinosaurs in it anymore they' all just starved and died but that base stood forever because of just who we were in that server and I think that's a pretty good um kind of a indication of character for the people we have in our Arc is huge so yeah and I mean I also
• 46:00 - 46:30 want to make something else clear is if we're in a different game if we're in a game like Ark right and you know we're the big TLP tribe or whatever you call it just because we're in TLP and somebody else isn't doesn't mean we don't interact with them this isn't like a oh we're too good for you no no no we we love making new friends we you don't have to be a part of TLP to come hang out with us um and you know we've made a lot of a lot of good friends through there and a lot of people that still come today and say hi and see how we're
• 46:30 - 47:00 doing just because you know we were a big group that didn't turn their nose up to just you know what if you were wandering around out in the woods and you need some help you know yeah in a game exactly we've had a lot of individuals come to us in a lot of games and say can can I be a part of whatever you're doing and like yeah why not like for example I was playing War Thunder the other day and I'm playing oh was some one who was it might have been Infamous we're running BV 238s
• 47:00 - 47:30 nobody runs BV 238s anymore hardly used to be the big thing in War Thunder but now it's not um we're running those just for fun and when you're flying tight formation in a BB 238 they're a pretty imposing vehicle in the game there's a lot of guns pointed at you if you're on the wrong side of that right so we're in there flying around and I'm just like yeah I'm going to go bomb this base uh I'll stick with you till we get close and I'll break off and go bomb um in the chat random War Thunder chat people are
• 47:30 - 48:00 like like they're typing like fast you could tell like can I fly BB 238 with you guys it's like yeah come on dude I don't care come on I don't know who you are but let's go let's do it so yeah I ended up like flying with random people you know it's like okay well yeah come on in let's do it I mean we're and we're like that in every game every game we play um you know I play stormworks a lot um I've got over 3,000 hours in that game now and uh mostly I just play by
• 48:00 - 48:30 myself cuz it's kind of more of a solo game but you know I have people come to me like because I don't hide who I am you know they can find me if they really look for me um and say hey uh can you look at this I can't get it to work right yeah sure I'll pop it in and then they'll I'll jump in a multiplayer server with them they'll pop in there whatever they're working on I'm like yeah this is what you did wrong right here boom fix it real quick you know and and they're like oh man thanks that's awesome and then you know I had a guy last night actually hit me up uh he's working on a big airplane for um if
• 48:30 - 49:00 you're not familiar with stormers you can build whatever you can think of that's the whole point of the game right and he's building there there's this tournament competition thing going on where they're building a cargo hauling plane where you have to pick up like a cargo box and I think it's really open-ended but the whole point of it is you got to get this box from point A to point B and he's like I'm working on the plane can you help me cuz I'm running out of time build a vehicle to help get the box to the plane so last night I'm
• 49:00 - 49:30 just like yeah sure why not build a little you know vehicle for him and you know you know it's like you do things like that people and that guy you know I I just met him randomly and he's been like uh you know once in a while hit me up with something or I'll actually hit him up with something because he's got about the same amount of time in the game as I do so you know it's and that's how all of TLP is it really is that way it's like if you need help and you ask you'll probably get get it or if you you know are struggling with things like I
• 49:30 - 50:00 remember division being like a big one like I'm really struggling with this particular thing and you'd have like 12 people say I'll help you like just pop in when I'm home I mean how many people got how did how many people do you think our division guys taught how to make a god build for that game it had to have been hundreds oh yeah and the problem was is that the the guys in TLP started competing against each other at some point because you know just who could have the most minuscule yeah
• 50:00 - 50:30 they're like I've been grinding for four days to get a different pair of gloves I'm like I don't care but cool you know but that's also the fun of it too when you have a big group like this is like you get to compare what you do in the games and and you can learn from one another even a non-competitive game becomes competitive right like Diablo it's not a competitive game those guys are always like I think I built a build better than yours and I was like no you didn't and then they go out and see you know go try it but they're like how'd you do
• 50:30 - 51:00 that yeah and then suddenly there's five guys with that same build and we're just running the servers yeah we have a member um I'll plug his name TLP meta um really into Diablo like I was like I used to play Diablo 3 actually one two and three um and I just just having a hard time getting into four when four came out I'm like man it's just it's the same but it's so much different and more complicated and and met is like I help you out just do this this and this I'm like okay then all of a sudden it the
• 51:00 - 51:30 game actually became too easy for me and it was no fun anymore but you know he does the same for Arc yeah same for Arc too it's like okay he's just a brainiac when it comes to those games he nerds out big time on and the guy's not a nerd I mean he was a professional fisherman for years and I don't mean like crab boat fisherman like fishing tournaments you see on TV fing yeah sport fishing and then he's he's a firefighter I mean the dude's not a nerd but he definitely gets like deep he deep Dives like whatever he's into at the
• 51:30 - 52:00 time you know so if you see Meta playing G just jump in there like what do I do and he's like this is what you do then all of a sudden the game's over for you because it's way too easy now so I think that's also a really cool point about our community as well is like it's literally every Walk of Life you can think of is in here and you know you people that like you said you you would think met is a nerd just on how good he is in these games but you don't realize he's you know a professional sports
• 52:00 - 52:30 fisherman and and a firefighter there's many such cases like that and well myself included I yeah I mean you're a minor very blue collar physical job and here and [ __ ] so yeah and it's just amazing the the people you meet and and the connections you make and you you start to realize you have a lot more in common with these people than just what's on on the screen you know what I mean exactly um and I think
• 52:30 - 53:00 TLP has kind of broke the mold in a lot of ways on that particular subject um and you'll see like here comes Hank to say hi hi Hank but uh you know you get a lot of guys who are um you know they're gaming and but they're all adults and they all have their own jobs and then you like you go around and hear about it like what do you do for a living it's like well you know I was in the military for
• 53:00 - 53:30 years and got blown up and now I really don't can't do much because I'm disabled so I just play games because it's like I gotta have something to do and that's been like super helpful I think for those people because they find other likeminded people who are doing going through the same [ __ ] that they're going through and and that's the cool thing is there's just so many people here that no matter what you are um you're going to find somebody similar like we have another member yeah I mean he's into the whole furry thing right
• 53:30 - 54:00 like yeah not my deal and I don't understand it but he's into it so whatever man I mean he's got his own cck of people they're doing their thing I mean you know it's not like John to play rocket league with us and hang out and yeah yeah he's like a fairly normal dude other than he on his own time he's like doing weird furry videos but whatever you know it's not really he's not violating the Mandate so what do you do right know so but uh I
• 54:00 - 54:30 mean I think you're right though TLP is broke the mold on a lot of things and just the pure mix of people that is in here MH and nowadays you don't really see gaming communities unless I I think and not to you know um say anything negative about these professional organizations of gaming um you know they've obviously a lot of them have done it the old school way that we did it um but you know we're
• 54:30 - 55:00 still Community Based and we still have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of members and you can just be any old Joe Schmo off the street that just clicks with us and you can be a part of this fold and and I think that's kind of what a lot of these other organizations have kind of lost down the road and I think we pride on our pride ourselves on the fact that we still do it the old school way oh 100% um we
• 55:00 - 55:30 still do it that way and like like you just said the one thing that like everybody starts off with kind of like the same intention of having this community of people right that you can play a excuse me a certain game with you know it's just basically your buddies you know and you guys all play the same game and then you get another buddy who plays a game and then you you grow from there um but then a lot of places it changes like big time right like it goes to well you need to be on at least three days a week or you need to do this and
• 55:30 - 56:00 that we don't we don't do that man like it's never been a thing for us and I think another thing is too is when the communities start getting bigger um they really push more towards the competitive side of things and they're just like well if you're not any good at the game we're not going to take you and it's like that's not what we do we're just like if I like you I'm going to push for you to come and hang out with us more and if you if it's tp's a fit for you and you're a fit for it why not right
• 56:00 - 56:30 yeah that's been the whole thing about TLP over the years is just yep you know if Community First yep and if the person fits you know in within that Community like if you if you like we do a 30-day we call it a recruiting process but it's more like a trial period um you come in you don't have the TLP name because you're not required to change your name within that 30 days that is one ire me we do do have though is you change your Gamertag to include TLP in it but uh
• 56:30 - 57:00 during that 30 days or sometimes a little longer a little shorter just depends on schedul it but that is a whole like 30-day job interview right it's not really like a job but it's like a trial period like you get in um you're allowed to do everything you there's some things we keep recruits out of like um maybe they may not be allowed in a certain tournament because the tournament requires a tag or something like that but after 30 days we go to them we have a meeting with the people who brought them in um the people who were in charge of kind of keeping track
• 57:00 - 57:30 of that stuff and you know and officers within TLP and those people will look at that at all the I guess you want to call it data or or reviews of what this person was like playing with you know what it was like playing with this person for 30 days and everybody says yeah I like playing with him who seems like a decent guy he ain't very good at the game but I don't care you know whatever and they're like okay cool it's all about character it's there's nothing about skill level there nothing about I mean there's a little playtime requirement when you're in your recruiting period because if no one can
• 57:30 - 58:00 say I've played with this person then no one's going to vote for you to come in but um every single person a common sense thing right yeah if you want to be here you're going to take that time to go play with the folks that you want to be a part of exactly so if you're not taking that time to I guess say be a good recruit then we are going to assume you really don't want to be here and that could one of the things that means you don't make it which people don't make it we've had quite a few people not make it
• 58:00 - 58:30 actually and it's it's almost always because you get the group of guys who brought him in they're like yeah I was playing with him until until he recruited and then I I've never seen him since maybe once or twice and I like well maybe he's not ready you know maybe he or she I keep saying he but there's a lot of women in this in this uh there is this there is organization as well and I and over the years we've seen a lot of a lot more female gamers in the scene and a lot of them migrate this way so it's it's awesome to see um I mean we've even
• 58:30 - 59:00 I guess we've even played matchmaking a couple times too right like you know they met through TP so yeah there's been a few of those another cool thing too though that TLP has provided for people is actual real life job experience we have two members that I know of that who have been officers in TLP who have gotten jobs because they've said hey I know it's not like official work but I have been like helping run this organization for like a year and this is my like tasks within
• 59:00 - 59:30 this organization and those employers have looked at that and said that's that's actually pretty good experience like you get the job so there's a lot there's a lot to be had here right and and I think we're kind of getting a little bit off track on what TP is but you know I we need to maybe think more about what the you know what our goals are here but I think we kind of covered most of that but like there's a lot of stuff that we could go on and on on I mean how long have we been R here forever but probably a while I mean I
• 59:30 - 60:00 think it's good yeah yeah um well we I mean we can end this off with uh what we kind of have plans for I mean I'm not going to go into huge detail with what I want to do just yet but I I I do want to kind of give a little brief description and maybe you you two on your own personal content Adventures yeah that's a good one to to do um yeah go ahead with that with what you
• 60:00 - 60:30 want to do with your personal stuff well I definitely do want to start streaming again sometime in the future I loved streaming it was great I had a a lot of fun doing it um I definitely have some ideas nailed down for what I want I think the biggest thing I learned was was when I did that streaming for you know 2 three years I didn't have any real Direction I was just trying to figure out what I wanted and now that we have TLP Network
• 60:30 - 61:00 and um you know more people that are interested in this thing I I kind of have a direction of where I want to take my streaming and and my and making a YouTube and producing content there as well um obviously mine is going to be revolved around gaming that's what I love to do so uh you're going to see all kinds of stuff like that but uh Tater what do you what do you plan on well in the past I've done quite a bit of streaming and actually believe it or not I I have a good enough following that when I do stream still I get enough
• 61:00 - 61:30 people to like do pretty decently on it even though it's not really like my thing I don't really I I wouldn't say I don't enjoy it but I much prefer like the recording and posting on YouTube platform over that so that's where I'm going with I'm still doing that with my other Channel that I do um and that's going to get rebranded um to my name because with this whole networking thing the names are going to end up up having to actually be probably your Gamertag I think is what we kind of decided um I
• 61:30 - 62:00 guess it's still kind of up in the air and how we're doing that but um my what I made a mistake a long time ago on YouTube and and I kind of pigeon hold myself to only one game because of my gamertag or my my YouTube name so I'm going to switch Rebrand all that and I'm just going to go to T Tater and then I'll be able to play more games I'll probably stick to the same genre I'm more into the creative building games and survival games on YouTube anyway so I'll probably stick to that genre um I
• 62:00 - 62:30 think imperion is probably in my future because that game is Hell fun to play so I'll probably go with imperion there's also that other one too what was that other game let me look on my steam real quick here I think it was no not that one um we played it briefly and it was like so it was so Alpha basically that it was it wasn't really that much fun but I've been look I've been kind of following it um Starship Evo is the name of it yes
• 62:30 - 63:00 there we go now and and they have been doing a ton of updates on it in fact I'll put a little video up here of latest update on the oh my God that's really loud of uh of what they what they're doing um let me turn the volume down on that thing because that was brutally loud um why why computer that's a new one your computer does your computer doesn't like Starship Evo it's the uh it's the uh player they
• 63:00 - 63:30 have on Steam doesn't like it um but I I'll pop that on real quick and you guys can kind of see like what that's about um here we go share my screen and let's go to screen number two here and I will get that playing um let me get into they got some some actual game footage going here this is their building yeah I mean look at this this looks pretty nice right like it doesn't look bad at all no I mean that looks
• 63:30 - 64:00 interesting for it's definitely let's just look at Starship Evo let me just pull this up and and this is kind of like I mean look at the stuff they're building on this yeah this looks nice I mean I I can see myself this is like a blend of space engineers and Stoneworks so I'm kind of like yeah it's kind of definitely peeking my and I know you and I played it like very briefly very very briefly back in the day it was so early
• 64:00 - 64:30 in Alpha Testing I don't think it was a lot to do on there it was pretty much like absolute trash and and it wasn't because the game was was bad it was just because there wasn't anything to do so yeah I'm probably going to look back at that game going forward in the future and then as well as like I said and and then the other one that's coming out very soon is space engineers 2 so I will be looking at that game when it comes out to you because I played the heck out of space engineers way back in the day
• 64:30 - 65:00 and I like Space Engineers it's it's hell of fun um but it's getting so dated that it's I'm just not really like madly into it anymore you know I've had games like that yeah um and that's kind of almost where I'm at with stormw works I still like stormw works but I have like so many hours into it that I'm kind of was like how much more yeah you can only do it for so long and that's kind of what I plan on for my content to was bouncing around from different games uh I've never been one that can stay on a
• 65:00 - 65:30 game for more than I mean oh you're like like a dude you're all over the place so which is good I mean for what you want to do I think it's going to be helpful I think like like I said I'm going to try to stay in the same genre of like the creative building survival aspect of things but um I guess with a little bit of engineering background that probably is why I'm drawn to that stuff but yeah yeah um well I think that's about all I
• 65:30 - 66:00 got for today what do you think anything else you want to go on ramble about no uh I mean I think we kind of covered everything we needed to but thank you guys for watching so much um if you have any questions on what we're doing further in the future you know put something in the comments ask some questions or um if you have any questions on any of the topics that we covered or if you're just interested in TLP I mean we can always answer those questions for you here on the TLP podcast so uh leave a question down in
• 66:00 - 66:30 the comments or just say hi or something um I guess we'll at some point we'll have an official Discord here going up soon so we'll put that link down below once that's up and um any other sources of media we'll be venturing on to probably just Discord I would think for now because most gamers are Discord oriented at this point right so yeah discord's going to be for sure our first project but we have plans for everything I mean it's it's just a matter of time
• 66:30 - 67:00 before we get our hands on everything so there's more things coming for sure yeah exactly and I think uh I think that pretty much covers up covers everything we we wanted to cover about what we're doing right like I think as far as the overall goals anybody that's made it this far in a video should at least understand what we're trying to do um been a been a long video but um um hopefully they won't be quite this long in the future but I think we do have a pretty good foundation and a pretty good
• 67:00 - 67:30 idea like like I said this whole thing is just mostly about networking other streamers who are part of TLP together um that's the biggest thing and and other people who who we uh like I plug Terminus you know because they're they've been great partners for years and we had we've had quite a few other Partnerships with other people who haven't worked out in the past but Terminus has been Rock Solid and if you're into Arc I highly recommend you check out the Terminus cluster in Arc because absolutely they treat people really well there too as long as you're
• 67:30 - 68:00 um essentially follow the TLP mandate just be respectful and and just don't be a dick about stuff they're pretty good about about taking care of people when things happen because Arcus is and I think always will be like the buggiest game ever built so um there's a lot of hardworking people over at Terminus to try to keep the game play as smooth as possible there are I got to give a hand on that we actually know quite a few like serous people who put a lot of time into admitting those servers um and they
• 68:00 - 68:30 have their own Discord too you can check them out on their Discord um yeah I think that's we also have a TLP Discord too right so I mean we could we definitely could uh you guys can definitely check out the TLP Discord as well put the links to that down there um One requirement of if you're interested in being part of the network you have to be a member of TLP so like we said not a lot of requirements other than you just don't be a freaking dummy and you're going to be fine so um yep
• 68:30 - 69:00 yeah yeah I think that pretty well covers thank you guys for watching yeah yeah thank you guys for watching we appreciate you if you made it to this far end of the video and uh please subscribe and like the video and let us know how you liked it likewise appreciate everyone tuning in like I if you made it this long we are an hour in over an hour hour and 9 minutes if you made it this far you are one committed son of a gun so we want to hear from you thanks everybody for watching yep thank you