TLPodcast - E2 Origins - TLP Big Pump, the legend of TLP

Summary

In this episode of TLPodcast, the hosts dive into the origins and evolution of the TLP gaming community. They reminisce about the early days of playing Call of Duty, where the group dynamic and competitive spirit were fostered. The conversation reveals the challenges and successes of managing a large online gaming community, the friendships formed over the years, and the impact of online gaming on personal lives. Throughout the episode, anecdotes about memorable members, the community's growth, and its contributions to the Wounded Warrior Project are shared.

Highlights

• TLP started from a need for a stress-free, communal gaming experience during a discussion over drinks 🍻
• Transition from a small group of Call of Duty players to a massive international gaming community 🌐
• Memorable story of how the name 'The Lid Poppers' was coined from a unique gaming moment in World of Tanks 🚂
• Many founding members came from diverse backgrounds, creating a unique blend of skills and personalities 🧩
• Despite numerous internal challenges, TLP remains a cohesive and supportive community, highly involved in charity work 🎗️

Key Takeaways

• TLP started in a bar over a discussion between friends, seeking a like-minded gaming community free of strict rules 🎮
• The community emerged from a desire for competitive play in World of Tanks, branched out into other games, and developed a strong, family-like bond 🤝
• Over the years, TLP has faced challenges like handling member disputes, maintaining respect and friendliness, and dealing with organizational changes 🚀
• TLP is heavily involved in philanthropy, notably supporting the Wounded Warrior Project, signifying its commitment beyond gaming 🏆
• Growth of TLP into international territory, and despite the challenges of maintaining such a large group, the community spirit remains strong 🌍

Overview

The second episode of TLPodcast takes us on a journey through the inception and historical growth of the TLP gaming community. With its roots tracing back to a casual conversation in a bar between brothers, TLP was born out of a desire to create a gaming haven devoid of unnecessary restrictions and full of competitive spirit and camaraderie.

Listeners are taken through the fascinating transition from a group of like-minded Call of Duty players to a sprawling international community with profound connections and friendships. Alongside entertaining anecdotes and tales of quirky in-game events, there's an underlying message of perseverance through challenges and a focus on growing a positive community culture.

Moreover, the episode sheds light on TLP's commendable philanthropic efforts, particularly their support for the Wounded Warrior Project, illustrating their dedication to noble causes beyond gaming. TLP stands as a testament to how online communities can foster meaningful, lifelong friendships and impact both virtual and real worlds.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Guest Introduction The hosts of the show, TLP OG Hoppy and TLP Tater, introduce themselves and announce their special guest for the episode: TLP Big Pump. The atmosphere is lively and informal as they greet the guest with enthusiasm.
• 00:30 - 02:30: The Beginning of TLP The chapter titled 'The Beginning of TLP' recounts the origins of TLP as described by a speaker. The speaker reflects on their early days when they were part of a competitive Call of Duty team called UEA, which consisted of about 30 members. The narrative suggests that the formation of TLP was spurred by the speaker's dissatisfaction with their previous team dynamics or experiences.
• 02:30 - 07:00: History of TLP The chapter discusses a personal story involving the narrator's brother visiting Oklahoma. They were at a bar when they decided to try playing a game called 'World of Tanks'. They were joined by other players, which led to a pivotal moment for the narrator.
• 07:00 - 11:00: Changes Over Time The chapter titled "Changes Over Time" discusses the formation of a group where like-minded individuals could gather without strict rules or a dictatorial leadership. The narrator and another individual initiated the group with the idea of creating a space that values collective input and camaraderie. The group began to grow gradually, starting with one recruit and then two, with the help of the narrator's sister-in-law.
• 11:00 - 18:00: Current Practices and Community The chapter "Current Practices and Community" recounts the origin story of a group named TLP, short for 'The Lid Poppers'. The name was inspired by a humorous incident involving tank lids popping off, and the story has become part of the group's lore. The speaker, along with his wife, deliberated on the name and officially adopted it after the incident. The chapter reflects on the longevity and enduring nature of the group, with the speaker noting they've been part of TLP for approximately 14 or 15 years, highlighting a strong sense of community and shared history among the members.
• 18:00 - 25:00: Past Issues and Stories The chapter titled 'Past Issues and Stories' reflects on the early days of playing a game in its beta version, where players were limited to reaching level five using only two tanks. The discussion involves figuring out the timeline when the beta version was available and suggests that it was around 2011. The conversation reminisces about playing the beta for two years before the official game release, showcasing a shared history and nostalgia for those early gaming experiences.
• 25:00 - 31:00: TLP Policies and Community Impact The chapter titled 'TLP Policies and Community Impact' discusses the long-standing nature of certain policies and their evolution over the years. The conversation reflects on how things have changed significantly since around 2010 or 2011, highlighting the rapid development and impact on the community. The exchange between speakers indicates a reminiscing of past discussions and acknowledgment of key individuals involved in the journey.
• 31:00 - 41:00: Remembering Passed Members The chapter, titled "Remembering Passed Members," reflects on the past dynamics and challenges in the TLP community, specifically focusing on the competitive environment within the game 'World of Tanks.' It highlights the difficulty of joining battalions back in the day, indicating a highly competitive and prestigious setting compared to the current state.
• 41:00 - 51:00: Call of Duty and Gaming Trends This chapter discusses the gaming trends associated with the game 'Call of Duty,' emphasizing the need for consistency and winning strategies to succeed in the game. The narrator and their brother were particularly skilled players, and the narrative highlights the potency of a feature in the game referred to as 'Arty,' which was notably dangerous. 'Arty' represents artillery that could be strategically used to eliminate opponents across the map immediately upon spawning, underlining its significant place in gameplay at the time.
• 51:00 - 66:00: The Future of TLP and Content Creation The chapter explores the competitive aspects of gaming, specifically focusing on tank battles. There is a discussion about how players had to be strategic and sometimes had to operate with tanks that were not very mobile, which heightened the challenge. The chapter also references 'game battles' from Call of Duty, where players documented their courses as part of the competition. The overall theme highlights the evolving nature of gameplay and competitiveness in content creation.
• 66:00 - 72:00: Conclusion and Guest Farewell The chapter discusses complications in a situation that negatively affected many people. The narrator mentions how in the past, challenges or contests among teams would be put on hold for 60 days. This all happened before platforms like Discord, and was managed through unconventional websites, highlighting the complexity and inefficiency of the process.

TLPodcast - E2 Origins - TLP Big Pump, the legend of TLP Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 all right we're live not live but we're recording go ahead JB all right well as you know as you guys know I'm TLP OG hoppy this is TLP Tater and today we have a very special guest we have the man the myth the legend TLP big pump in the house what up PP what up what up what up
• 00:30 - 01:00 um so why don't you tell us a little something something about the beginning of TLP well it started I was in a back in my younger days in a competition team in Call of Duty called UEA and there was probably 30 of us that played competitively and I got sick of the
• 01:00 - 01:30 [ __ ] one day and my brother was coming to Oklahoma and I said man you know what I'm sick of this crap uh and he was we were sitting at the bar and he said well let's let's try this world of tanks it sounded fun and we tried it and couple guys kept jumping on our team jumping on our team and then I that that night I said scooter you know dude it'd be kind of
• 01:30 - 02:00 nice to have a a group people that were like-minded and there wasn't no you know [ __ ] rules and stuff um and we could just you know have have a group of people that that are kind of like-minded and and not have a dictatorship and and he was like yeah that'd be dope and then we started and we had one recruit and then two and my my sister-in-law his
• 02:00 - 02:30 wife we we we had to come up with a name and she kept seeing Lids pop off the tank and but Bing but boom we became TLP the lid poppers that night awesome and that's awesome the rest is history and a lot of it I I was we were trying to figure out yesterday how long TLP has been around and I know that I've been in TLP for like 14 or 15
• 02:30 - 03:00 years well we were playing a beta where you could only go to level five on two tanks right I don't know I have to look up and see when tanks actually drop beta but that's been a long time ago yeah we played that for what two years before it even became a game yeah yeah and yeah I want to say it was maybe 2011 I mean would you think that's kind of like a right area it was my brother's
• 03:00 - 03:30 birthday probably 2011 yeah that's what I thought maybe even 10 I don't know it's been so long ago it's been a long time been a long I mean gez dude and yeah it was a it just kind of started and boom here we are with people like you exactly uh so I I know like we talked about this in the last episode
• 03:30 - 04:00 but obviously you haven't seen that yet um of how things were back in the day versus how they are now why don't you give us your take on on how things were back in the day versus how they are now in TLP well our whole goal was to be competitive in World of Tanks and we started with battalions and and we had four or five I can't remember and it was rough to even get in one of those battalions uh you know you
• 04:00 - 04:30 had to show consistency and that you wanted to win and as we you know we were we were blowing the wigs off people in that game and my brother you know he was really really good and we we had some couple really good Arty players you remember Arty was dangerous back then boys yeah I remember he spawned already loaded already was loaded when it spawned into the game and you could just ye shells across the map and kill people right at the SP F so
• 04:30 - 05:00 much fun a lot yeah a lot of times you barely got 10 feet if you were in a tank that didn't move well and you were dead yeah yeah but but you know the the objective was to be competitive and they had kept promising they're going to bring out tank battles and and you know I don't remember the name of how we used to do it in Call of Duty but it was called game battles if you guys remember that yous you had to film your you had to take a picture of your course and it
• 05:00 - 05:30 it was a mess man I mean yeah it was it was actually like so much more complicated need to be it kind of ruined it for a lot of people yeah and then you could contest the other teams wi remember Y and it would be put on hold for 60 days and those that's all back in the day before like Discord and stuff so everybody was doing this through like if I remember right like weird websites and stuff right that's how it was all done those website is where it
• 05:30 - 06:00 all took place at and umg and it was crazy dude it was like the old west you know what I'm saying before yeah before now the game play was legit because there was no cheater I mean if you had a modded controller that was the biggest cheat you ever came up against you know drop drop some goofy [ __ ] like that but you know I look at our journey from start to where we are sitting today tat and you you know uh you know Caleb knows
• 06:00 - 06:30 too because he was just a little kid list I mean my brother cuss people out you know yep you guys remember he was the levelheaded guy when we first started and I was the hammer uh it's the way it had to be he wasn't any good at recruiting I that's you know and I had to go digging them holes and you know you got guys like Hunter Jack and TP rabbit and
• 06:30 - 07:00 you the list goes on and on and on Crash fire all those guys my God I mean half the UEA guys if you recall Tater and Caleb came to TLP and they're still here yes yeah I remember you running with those guys back in world of war and I mean from way back in the day people don't realize how much history we have even just before TLP itself yeah I think it's definitely something we touched on last time was like how far me and your
• 07:00 - 07:30 brother actually go back people don't no clue how long him and I have been playing video games together man I've never even met the guy in person you know but I consider him to be a pretty good friend and I think there's a lot of that here right we consider you part of our family tater I mean I think for hoppy I've been Uncle Tater for like 10 years at least longer than that dude I've known you since I was a squeaker man I mean I remember used to [ __ ] your pants while you're dad was playing Ghost Recon dude
• 07:30 - 08:00 yeah a he had to get that dub yeah yeah had to win but you guys I want you two to think about how many close friends we really have because of what we've done here oh so many so many and we're not even close to being finish we're not even close we're just really haven't even scraped the surface like we do so for people watching um pump big pump and
• 08:00 - 08:30 OG junkie are the two guys that actually threw the hammer on this and started it and then why don't you tell us how you came up with the founders PP well when we hit about 50 man um you know my brother was busy most of the time as you guys know he barely gets a chance to sit down um I got tired of you know kind of looking over everything so
• 08:30 - 09:00 I me and my brothers started handpicking guys that we thought like yourself Tater that could be a benefit and we knew we couldn't make the bag full of just hammers we had to have some smarter guys some guys that are a little more levelheaded than me and you Tater because back in the day dude you know how it was bro oh yeah we ran more guys off than we actually got I think back in the day yeah because you know we were so focused on where we were trying to get
• 09:00 - 09:30 yeah we made some mistakes and that's just a fact a fact I think I think in the history of TP there's been more mistakes made than there has been correct decisions made overall I'm the the big difference between us and other uh people that do this is we just stuck with it I remember having you know huge walk outs like 50 guys leave it's like well guess we're starting over again so you know me and Mark Jackson and had to go into Call of Duty and we
• 09:30 - 10:00 physically fired 80 people within 30 minutes me and Mark Jack if you recall that guys I do remember that and had ran Rod go restarted again and that was what the fourth or fifth restart on Call of Duty yeah and we talked about you know having branching out into Call of Duty in our last episode but you know when we first started it was just one game and it was a lot easier then because everybody who's kind of in charge was uh
• 10:00 - 10:30 you know like actually mingling with everyone and once we started branching into other games that's when it it became like the wild west bad it was we didn't know what was going on in the other games uh we had people doing weird [ __ ] that they shouldn't have been doing and and then uh you know recently what a year or two ago we had another pretty big blow up in TLP where we put some people in charge to kind of misled us and ended up doing some really
• 10:30 - 11:00 weird stuff behind our backs my opinion they tried to do a takeover Tater that's exactly what they were trying to do and but they did it so wrong that we actually just let them keep doing it and doing it and doing it until our members realized what was going on and then they just pretty much got run out by the members themselves we never actually had to fire anyone in that entire take takeover attempt because they made themselves look so stupid they ended up forcing themselves to quit which was actually hilarious like we all
• 11:00 - 11:30 sat down um we we were talking about the founders and the founders are our first rodeo no so what the founders are are the original people that helped start this thing right like the the handpicked group of people and the founders all got together when this [ __ ] was going on and said what are we going to do about this because we know what we need to do but what should we do and we all kind of just brainstormed and said let's just let it slide let's let it happen and play along and see what happens and you
• 11:30 - 12:00 we learned real quick who our friends were and who they weren't and I think out of like I don't know the hundred people that left however many it was like two came back afterwards and said you know I've made a huge mistake we've had a lot of people try to come back but we made it real clear to that set of people because they were trying to throw a coup like just don't come back we don't want nothing to do with you anymore I think two people have proven that they uh jumped the gun made a
• 12:00 - 12:30 mistake came back but other than that it's pretty much just been you know let them let them do their thing and our numbers were so high then honestly we we lost 100 people and didn't really even notice other than we lost some really good officers but anyway let's kind of get back more towards the origins and uh tell us what happened next Punk well once we figured uh you know we have if you recall it was Big Country
• 12:30 - 13:00 um TLP cap Mojo um and we just started adding people that had leadership qualities one hammer one smart guy you know levelheaded blazing remember blazing had to do a presidency Tater of course Tater you you came right in we put our tool belts on if you think about it Ator we didn't
• 13:00 - 13:30 give a I don't know if I can say the f word but if they liked us or not because we weren't there to be liked we were there to get the boat rowing in the correct direction yeah and get get it flowing and that and we had seven original Founders um which I was not one of them originals but we we added Founders that had proven their their their worth and and made an
• 13:30 - 14:00 impact and um you know and it's been a great great thing great thing yeah our founder group is still really strong I know that um as far as active Founders really are there's about three that are consistently active me you and and uh Junie um there's other guys who do play but they kind of have stepped back from the roles but the thing about the founder group is if we've always been really close I I've got every one of their phone numbers I know where all of
• 14:00 - 14:30 them live I can call them on the phone and say hey we got [ __ ] going on man you need to you need to pop online and it's never really been a problem you know um other than a couple guys have kind of G on awall but for the most part the founder group's always been really tight I think um and I find it absolutely hilarious when someone tries to drive a wedge between us because we're like what what the what are you saying dude you're so stupid he didn't do that
• 14:30 - 15:00 and usually those people don't realize how much work you guys have put in together how much history you guys have I mean you can't you can't try to divide that group a lot of PE there's a lot of people that try but there's a lot of people that have zero idea of what you've been through and what you've done to get to where you are now oh 100 100% it's it's it actually like I said it it makes me laugh when people try to do it and we've had quite a few people try to break the founder group up you know they're like well we don't like the way you run TLP well the
• 15:00 - 15:30 correct answer to if you don't like how we run TLP is the [ __ ] doors over there by you know it's never been it's never been we're going to change to suit you um it's always just been the same type of people on repeat over and over again adding and adding and adding to get the people we like in here it's not we don't just we don't take any Joe blow off the street right you like you gotta kind of you got to come in you have minimum 30 days like we talked about
• 15:30 - 16:00 this you have to have a minimum of 30 days as trial period and if we don't like you and you don't like us then no hard feelings go on about your business right well it was always both sides of the fence Tater we made that clear they may not want to continue their 30 days and we've never had an isue with it that's always been a fair process and it's always been yeah if they decide at the end of 30 days it's not ready or they're not they not want to do this it's not like they're banned for life they can always come back later and say okay now I think I'm ready let's let's
• 16:00 - 16:30 give it a shot so just start over it's not a big deal and it's in the 30 days it's not like you have to show up to like 47 meetings you know it's just play with guys well not like back in the day Tater remember that meeting back in the day was tough dude I remember it was tough we talked about this in our last episode too man it was it was you know I had to I had to jump out my ass for like four months when I came in I made a hoppy do it but I was the one that brought him in and made him do a really
• 16:30 - 17:00 vigorous recruiting process and I threw a bunch of [ __ ] at him because of who he is I didn't want um anybody to think he didn't do his fair share but I just remember you know random guys their whole thing was they had to do they had to find the people and play with them to get the votes you know they had to track them down and it was just like okay you're a recruit you better have so many people to vote for you at the end of 30 days or you're gone so and you remember if they
• 17:00 - 17:30 couldn't find all the the the founders back in the day if you couldn't find them all we didn't B we didn't take yeah if you couldn't find the founders y that was they were exited they were exited immediately right on the spot take a hike and remember we had like a 12 12 thing mandate 12 topic mandate and if you didn't know all 12 onut we cut you because that was that was too bad man that was rough I kind of want to cover the the reason why it was that way too
• 17:30 - 18:00 because there's a lot of people today that are in the gaming scene that don't understand I mean how bro how many Psychopaths and nut job have you ran into back in the day that would have that that were dangerous people to be around man they were just back there on the wild west of 360 days well if you guys recall Caleb you may not have been on the mic in these days but Tater sure was how many suicides over the mic that we stopped there was was quite a few suicides and and I remember domestic
• 18:00 - 18:30 abuses and stuff like that like how many house how many remember we I don't remember who this dude was but we had to call the cops on one dude I don't remember who he was he was out of control but I remember being in that party and and making someone call the cops on him because it was like this dude's hurt himself yeah the gun click the mic you know it's like you know the reason it was so long is because we dealt with so many different problem people trying to hey look just
• 18:30 - 19:00 because me and tater and Caleb don't like somebody don't mean there's not a place for him in TLP that's never way yeah it's never ever been that way that's why it's never been a one or two man vote it's been a majority vote and I think if we would have had it our way back in the day nobody would have ever got in because we were that's correct why we had to trim it down remember Tater it was too rough you also remember too when we were just
• 19:00 - 19:30 in one game everybody was technically a candidate like that you came across because we were only in one game so if you found anybody they they pretty much filled the requirements so we had you know so many people just beating the door down nonstop so we could be picky and we were and that's why we had such a good strong core um to start to base everything on I mean we got I got members on my friends list that I don't talk to hardly anymore but every time I do like like you know they ask me how's
• 19:30 - 20:00 the wife and kids you know how's how's work they know what I do they they're my friends you know they know a lot about me um because I've been playing games with them forever and you know they like like PP said earlier a lot of people here are more family than than just friends um it's always been about that remember family first it's it's always been from day one exactly and you know my my my family knows what you had for dinner most days of the week just like you know what
• 20:00 - 20:30 we've had and that's not uncommon all throughout TP it's not just two or three people no it's hundreds of people like that and hundreds and there's lots of little groups and we talked about this in last episode too there's a lot of groups within TLP they're not official but you know they these just guys that play together or gals that play together and and they like playing the same games and they're friends with each other you know and and they've been friends for a decade or better because of T you know agree i' I'll say this on every single
• 20:30 - 21:00 episode TLP is what you make of it if you come in here and you can't find a friend in this place you you probably don't have any in real life either because and you know what's funny is we always get blamed for the people that doesn't that couldn't find their friend group remember oh yeah every no invites me nobody invites me no nobody nobody finally I me and Caleb was like well maybe this ain't the place for you remember kie you need yeah I mean if you're not willing to
• 21:00 - 21:30 show your face in any Xbox parties or Discord or wherever it may be the people are hanging out you're not obviously not going to get invited because no one knows who the hell you are well and they don't know who if you're if you're weird or you know they may think we're weird that's okay it's what I said you don't have to we me and tater figured out and Country because country could be a hammer and Roy too they don't have to just like us it ain't about us right
• 21:30 - 22:00 it's about everybody everybody you can find a hundred different groups of people in TLP so there's one out there for you it it it's a matter of are you looking you know what I mean you have to look that hard you just got to you know add like we used to tell people back in the day when you know when we were all pretty close all of us you know just get on my friends list and add everyone that has TLP in front of their name and then that used to work but now they'll spend weeks doing that yeah you can't do that
• 22:00 - 22:30 anymore but you know it's like okay what games do you like to play and the guys like well I play World of Tanks okay well PLP cisu is the man who's in charge of Tanks right now add him play with him and you will find the people to play with because he's always playing that game with other people so now it's kind of brought down into games and structured that way more than just everybody but um yeah it's definitely changed like big time over the years right like it used to just be a handful of us um shitfaced drunk playing
• 22:30 - 23:00 freaking tanks right I mean all the time shitfaced um out of control we had a lot of members coked out tweaked out just playing tanks just having a blast and puffing yeah you'll it'll spray paint in a bag trick you know there's a few guys you'd hear the this is back before mic monitoring stuff right so you hear the everything you're like okay dude like how much you gonna do that I've heard so many things remember wives
• 23:00 - 23:30 cussing out husbands you love TLP more than you love me remember those days old switchblade comes to mind you remember switchblade oh my God we had this we have this fell I'll tell his name his name was Falcon he's not with us anymore but I remember him buying when War Thunder dropped on Console right but it dropped on PlayStation and he bought PlayStation 5 when they first came out just to play War Thunder and not only that he spent a [ __ ] L of
• 23:30 - 24:00 money to get like the best version of the PlayStation 5 and all this other stuff to go with it um hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars right that dude could barely afford gas to get to work and I remember his wife finding out about that while we were on the mic and I thought for sure he was dead I mean there was crashing and banging and screaming and yelling and then it was just quiet and I'm like oh he's dead money she she cut him man I would have
• 24:00 - 24:30 bet money that was old switch blade Falcon's a funny one we we could talk about Falcon for a whole day right like he played Arc with us and you can do five more episodes on just him I got a good so we would jump on to play Arc because we were all hot and heavy into Arc and all of our dinosaurs would be dead every time and you go through the tribe log and the only guy that's online is Falcon and it's like dude what happened well I lost my dinosaur so I took this one to go get mine and then I
• 24:30 - 25:00 lost that one so I took this one to go get those two and then I lost that one and then he went through like a 100 dinosaurs in the course of a day and that was back on the official servers when days to tame a d real life days to tame one dinosaur like as you guys know my brother's not aggressive but that day yeah that was the day that I I I heard your brother cuss him out and that was pretty much the end of him I think at tlps think that kind of kind of broke him um but it's not the
• 25:00 - 25:30 first time he's been cussed out you know he's cussed out so many times for doing just absolute Bonkers things all the time like that Java Pete ripped him a few times I mean big and you all you all know how py boy is yeah off threw him out Hunter Jack custom threw him out of the party he just never if you we went we said let's go left he would be somewhere right you know I
• 25:30 - 26:00 remember um so something we've done kind of differently nowadays than what we did back in the day is remember the parties I wanted to say they were 12 Man parties back in the day but I think now I'm thinking about I think there were eight Man parties way back in the day and they we always left our parties open for for the most part right like anybody could jump in and play uh we still do that but um it always was whoever had the crown you know the party leader was in charge of that party and if you got kicked out
• 26:00 - 26:30 of that party which used to happen all the time then we'd always hear about it you know somebody come crying well you kicked me out of the party I'm like well were you being [ __ ] or stupid well yeah it's like okay come on dude like think about it you know and I remember Falcon being like the victim of that so much he just go around in a loop trying getting kicked out of parties man kicked out of parties left and right and those are the people that nowadays we kind of try to not bring into TLP anymore um people like that um he and he's a
• 26:30 - 27:00 nice guy he he's not a bad dude at all I like I like him but um he just he just made so many mistakes man all the time constantly messing up but you know you think about the days of lp6 Tater remember no I don't remember an lp6 what is lp6 yeah it was our we had to have like a Depp Depp and Java Pete because they're both law enforcement uh took over that department
• 27:00 - 27:30 way back in the day because like you said there was People on Coke some on prank and there' be some epic [ __ ] going on that had to have a grown man go in there and straighten it out you know what I mean yeah yeah it used to man they were called lp6 and they and me and my brother had empowered them that if it was too big of an offense to just kick them out of TLP and that's I've heard grown men crying over the mic because they've been removed
• 27:30 - 28:00 from TLP um and you know stuff like that the only thing that ever really get you kicked out TLP like big time is to break that mandate right and that mandate is so easy to break or I mean to not break so easy to follow um but I've seen guys I've kicked guys out personally for racism that's always been like a big one to me you know like like everybody you know a lot of people joke around about it but I've always kind of said you got to know your audience um you don't go in with to people who you
• 28:00 - 28:30 don't know and say something stupid like that because all they got to do is say something like hey man this guy called me this and he's like well I'm G to have a chat with that guy and usually it ends up being that guy's no longer in TMP just because of something stupid but like racism has always been one of the ones that we just do not tolerate at all especially when it's real you know if it's real racism you know there's there's joking around and there's slips and and obviously that stuff's kind of forgivable but there's always been like
• 28:30 - 29:00 the real racism part of things and that just we're not Toler tolerant of that at all here no that's a no fly zone for us man yeah we we do have a lot of brothers we do have a lot of brothers in here right like a lot a lot and and we have people of every of every descent you know like some of my best buddies are are Japanese you know I've got some a good Japanese friend in here shout out shower let's go showy Mango Steam you
• 29:00 - 29:30 know Mango Steam there's you think about our our Hispanic and R we've had Russians that barely you know could could speak English um yeah it's not about race or color it's about the Brotherhood and the family that's all what it's always been yeah so and it extends to literally at people all across the world I mean
• 29:30 - 30:00 people from all over Europe and Australia and all those places I mean we've we've had somebody from somewhere at some point I mean when we started you know TLP was mostly US and Canada just and it that was just mostly because people were playing in those time zones right like you know you got the afternoon crew in the US and you're picking up more guys playing after work in the afternoon crew in the US and Canada right so most for a long time it was just North America not so much um
• 30:00 - 30:30 Mexico because a lot of those don't guys don't speak you know English so you obviously don't can't communicate so um but then you know things started to grow and like in the last few years we've got a huge huge European base right now like massive a lot of people out of you know the out of Europe and we always have had uh we have a Founder out of Europe Mark Jackson he's been around a long time excuse me and uh and he he's always had some buddies over
• 30:30 - 31:00 there but he's always that like super late night guy so it worked for us because he he's playing at like two in the morning his time we're playing whatever time it is here's you know four or six o' in the evening so another Hammer founder Mark Jacks absolute Hammer guy does have a business brain too though I mean he he really does have the business brain as well um where a lot of the guys he really is the most awful nice guy too like he's he checks up he goes out of his way to check up on every and make sure everyone's doing
• 31:00 - 31:30 good but most of the time when he comes into your party it's if it's after about 4:00 in the US you can't understand word he's saying because he's just smashed but let's talk about let's talk about TLP Depp for a minute my best buddy what do you guys Depp's been around a long time and probably yeah probably one of the nicest guys you could ever meet I mean I remember playing tanks with this dude back in the day like when you had like four Maps you know in the game and
• 31:30 - 32:00 he he he uh pulls his kid out of a dumpster the back back at himl dorf and that was old Truckin you remember turd duckin and this kid was like 14 years old right and he was Depp's like hanger forever and you're not even supposed to be under 18 in TLP and Depp's got this kid he's dragging around everywhere finally had to make the kid an honorary member because he just wouldn't leave but uh yeah he hung around for a long long time and and I we always made the joke that Depp found him
• 32:00 - 32:30 in the dumpster on himble dorf because uh that's that's a map on World of Tanks because that's the only place you could drag this kid out of I mean he was he he had a rough bringing up for sure you could tell talking to this kid he was super bashful um things weren't always good for him you know at home and Depp Depp's always been that soft-hearted guy right like pick pick a kid up when he's down pick him up yeah and I think that kid's doing pretty good and and I wouldn't be surprised if we interviewed him and he didn't say um yeah I think
• 32:30 - 33:00 you guys helped me out quite a bit you know being around some mature folks that um weren't always about just doing stupid stuff nonstop so I think he's doing pretty good life I know went to school after primary I know being a kid at that age I found a lot of guidance from a lot of the guys in TLP and you know if in a case like that where maybe you don't have a whole lot of guidance at home when you get on Xbox and you're playing with you know you guys and all those original Founders and
• 33:00 - 33:30 whatnot that's a good source of guidance that can really lead you back on track or uh into a better position than you really were in so I mean I think it it did help him oh yeah he was he's just a a shining example of of what TLP can do for an individual and Depp has always been that guy right Depp's always been that dude that always helped someone out man always like I talk to him you know I don't see him that much cuz I think he's
• 33:30 - 34:00 just kind of over the day-to-day crap that goes on but you ever once in a while he'll just invite me and he'll see me playing tanks invite me in dude and it's always like you know I was a wife and kids you know what'd you have for dinner last night just like we just like we were talking the day before you know even though I haven't seen him for six months you know and I'm I'm always like well how's the in-laws you know cuz he's always taking care of family at home and and doing that stuff and and Depp's never been the hand he just never had the hammer in him never one time and but
• 34:00 - 34:30 he's never had to he's always had us around to be the hammer and and I think bus balls for him I think about how we've we take a preacher like hillbilly and a and a chief of police like deputy and mix them up with a gang banger a real gang banger personally know him yeah and all play video games for hours with no problems yeah I mean let's talk about let's talk about one to
• 34:30 - 35:00 I mean one to he's he's a one center right played with uh played with Depp for years on Xbox right like you would never see them ever hang out in real life and they probably would now because they're such good buddies but you know I don't know I think I think he's kind of backed off the motorcycle club stuff a little bit but he he was pretty hardcore for a little while from my understanding we've I we had a lot the moral to the story is it's about the
• 35:00 - 35:30 people not what they do on their time what they do in their that's their business well I've always been you know you respect me I respect you I mean we've had a lot of guys come into parties and say something stupid and I I just give it to them right there in front of everybody I don't care man you say you say something disrespectful you're G to get it back but um but it doesn't matter who you are what color you are how old you are you know I I was in my 20s when I started playing in this stuff you know and I was playing with dudes in their 50s and 60s you know it's
• 35:30 - 36:00 like you know and then as you get older you realize that age is really just a number and the average male ends maturing around somewhere around 15 so it's all the same anyway so I just uh I've looked back at a lot of situations like the time someone was stealing someone's car and he was shooting a AK on the mic and he was mad because he missed the guy yeah you know yeah some wild stuff now I think about you know the preachers mixed up
• 36:00 - 36:30 with guys like with foul mouth like me and Caleb and you for examp Hillbilly has we've had a lot of priests Rabbi you know they they they don't we here for the same thing you know I used to tell hillbilly Don't Preach a sermon in a party you'll get removed yeah just just like we would tell you know don't sell your dope in our party you're G to get exactly how about the whole uh when we
• 36:30 - 37:00 had to stop the the guys from trying to to to get dates when we got started getting big you know oh man that was rough for a while man they were chasings all this place this isn't a dating site what are you are married you idiot yeah that was that's kind of been kind of known right I mean and our our vice president of TLP is a woman now and I think she drops the hammer pretty hard on guys doing that stuff um and I don't care if you all play matchmaker in here
• 37:00 - 37:30 but you don't need to be chasing around the married women and whatever you know it's you got to be more respectful than that we've had Mar got be common sense you know what I mean Common Sense isn't very common no more okay be know that we've had marriages we've had divorces we've had kids born into TP we've had a lot of deaths a lot of people that passed away with their jacket on that is something I didn't want to talk about in this one too if if you want to go ahead and share a couple stories on
• 37:30 - 38:00 that well you know first and foremost you know hun Jack that was our that was my guy I mean he faced Tommy crossing the Brooklyn Bridge every single day I knew I was helping him pick out his smoker because he wanted to smoke meat I know his wife and you all know Mikey his nephew Mike that way and Hunter Jack Hunter Jack died with his jacket on and you know there's a guy named Chef Cal
• 38:00 - 38:30 that just passed away you guys may not know him but he's a division player um a funny guy he was a professional chef he died with his jacket on to me that to me that if I die I want my jacket on you understand what I'm saying and we've had 20 deaths and I don't want to go over all of them because it makes me emotional because I I loved every single one of them personally I think the one that hit home
• 38:30 - 39:00 the hardest for everybody was Hunter Jack Hunter Jack was 100% really really ingrained here big time he was from the beginning he was all the way until he died they never never wavered from that ever you know and um Hunter Jack was a detective in New York City is what he was and he high priority exactly he was he was there boots on the ground 911 you know working as his butt off doing that stuff um and he uh when Co hit Jack you
• 39:00 - 39:30 know he he could have stayed home he didn't have to go out but he he did he went out and did his job and it got him Co got Jack so unfortunately um but you know he was middle-aged male probably not yeah never took care of himself you know like all of us did terrible and then you know how the co was back in those days that uh
• 39:30 - 40:00 they didn't really know what to do so it was Jack didn't make it he was one of the first guys to within the first wave when when it hit New York real hard there um but that was a tough one for all of us because he was a he was a really good friend to all of us and that was you know six years ago and it still bothers me that Jack is I guess five years ago still bothers me that Jack is gone chokes me up right now uh that's what I mean this isn't about video games it is but isn't if that makes sense to you right well Jack you know he would
• 40:00 - 40:30 come home from doing God knows what he had to do in the streets of Brooklyn and um he he he found solace in us because we could you know this was a place where he could let go of the God knows what he witnessed that day at work you know chasing a guy down for killing somebody one of my favorite things about about Jack is he could he could nose out someone in a Xbox party just talking to
• 40:30 - 41:00 them know exactly who they were and and as soon as they left the party or even if they were still in there I remember him calling them perss right to his face you know like straight up like dude you're a you're a per go away it's like okay like Jack don't like it you ain't in bud that's just how that works the funniest story about Jack he called me he said PP I'm getting too old to play with these young son of a [ __ ] I don't want to play with them no more so I'm only playing with you and Depp
• 41:00 - 41:30 and and your brother you know this the same I don't want them in my party no more not have to calm him down Jack calm down man settle down buddy he could he was one of them guys that he didn't like the younger guys at all he really didn't but I mean he said they were disrespectful man well and that's exactly what it was right they didn't respect him and he didn't respect them back so yeah um and and it's always I mean I'm that way you're that way we're all that way right Caleb's that way so poy you're that way um you know you
• 41:30 - 42:00 don't you don't get respect you don't get respect that's just it's always how it's good so well and I think about his wife Patricia you know Jack's nam's on the memorial there forever in New York and uh you know it isn't Just Jack I'm talking about right on down to Chef Cal we don't want to see anyone pass you know ever and to think that they died with their jacket on uh is a big deal to
• 42:00 - 42:30 me if that means anything it is to everybody I mean I think you know that you know you pretty much know that once they found here they never left you know correct that's that's kind of It kind of hits hard you know when when you think of that like well they wanted to hang out with us every day until the day they die so legitimately that's right well but uh but uh onto a I guess a
• 42:30 - 43:00 different subject um so now if you want to kind of speak more on what like what does it look like to you nowadays when you go from the old school days of Call of Duty and to what it is now and I kind of want to focus on Call of Duty cuz that we had a big footh there um I mean bro how many times me and you
• 43:00 - 43:30 been through it the last six years we get into a Lobby we we we smoke three guys on ranked and then there's just that one guy that somehow dust us all four of us and there we can't do nothing about it I mean I just I want to focus on that for a minute well like I I mentioned before you know back when back when we were playing competitive in UEA many many years ago the biggest cheat you would
• 43:30 - 44:00 come across was just a modded controller a drop shot yeah boy Caleb nowadays uh you got me you Sean and and crash uh you know there is no way one guy's beating all four of us and it's unplayable I can't I can't keep breaking controllers over it so I choose not yeah I mean it's it's sad because how many parties
• 44:00 - 44:30 at any given time could you find full snd teams that you could jump in with seriously I mean you think like at least three at any given time of the day I mean are we talking five six eight years ago yeah yeah uh you couldn't get in some of the parties uh it was it was a wait a wait time Randall had 132 Call of Duty players at one point if you guys remember yeah just call of D 132 was the
• 44:30 - 45:00 exact number um and you couldn't get into a Lobby you I mean you had to you had to play with people in TLP that you never met which was a good thing yeah but now there there is no Search and Destroy parties there's there's a few stragglers you know that play like country you know country mhm but the game for me personally is
• 45:00 - 45:30 unplayable Caleb because your your skill level's High come on Crash is high Sean's High yeah you got one guy on the other team that's unbeatable that four pieces us four in a row yeah I I do enjoy watching the Call of Duty cheating videos on YouTube it just makes me laugh so hard and I'm like why did people play this game anymore you gave up a long time ago on Call of Duty I don't blame you anymore but well I mean the thing about it dude is I a I'm not getting any younger dude my reaction time is so bad compared to
• 45:30 - 46:00 what it was even 10 years ago you know and and on top of that you got a 12y old kicking the [ __ ] out of you dude with his cheats on and he's talking [ __ ] the whole time drives me crazy man just telling me what what nice things he wants to do to my mother it's like come on dude like and if we're if think about it if our community is feeling it this heavily what does that say for the entire Cod fan base what is what's going on what's going on with that company man I mean I just I I
• 46:00 - 46:30 love the game like last year's Call of Duty what was NW3 yeah MW3 was a g great amazing Call of Duty I loved it personally unplayable unplayable in in in ranked matches or even Pub matches remember cayb yeah yeah it was the Cheaters man they they just let him run rampid in there and it's sad to see because there's so many people that Bond over Call of Duty being like yeah remember I aced on Search and Destroy the other night and we talk
• 46:30 - 47:00 about that for weeks and sometimes years because people just have a great time on there and now it's like we're losing a piece of our community unfortunately and I'm sure there's other communities out there that are feeling this it's like I wish we could go back to what we had I wish we could too but I don't I don't see that playing out that way because Call of Duty is not going to change their system they're not they want one thing that gun has done that
• 47:00 - 47:30 Call of Duty really needs to do is they just perab ban any cheaters 100% perab ban and anytime a new cheat comes out and everybody's using it they figure out a way to detect it and those accounts are gone and when you lose an account in in War Thunder you lose a lot so they're just n completely out of the game and and it makes it I I think it actually increases their player base because not everybody's leaving because of all the
• 47:30 - 48:00 cheating you know like you get you get like and the cool thing about that game too is like you can go back and replay uh missions you know and watch a replay of them and you can see every single person and every single vehicle on the battlefield and you can see where they were aiming you can see what they were doing you can see all kinds of things it actually draws lines from plane one to plane two like where the sights are and all this cool stuff so um you can really look at that stuff in depth and and prove that someone's cheating whereas
• 48:00 - 48:30 Call of Duty is just like yeah this dude I think he's cheating but you really don't have any way to prove it well back in the day they had that and then they took it away because I think there was too many people being proven to be cheaters yeah but I mean what's the fun in playing a game where if you're not cheating you can't compete you know what I mean yeah zero it costs you controllers it cost you more it cost you your sanity a lot of times too like I've I've raage out so hard in the game I'm just like oh my God then I'm crabby all day too you know like I'm out yeah I'm
• 48:30 - 49:00 pissed off I agree I agree I don't even play anymore for the day you know like I'm I'm just going to go I don't know stare out the window at the at the beautiful sunset and want to play it my life right now [Laughter] but throat punching the neighbor because of Call of Duty is not a good thing man yeah little lady next door brings me over her peach pie and I just throw it in her face you know like but yeah that's pretty much how how mad it's made me on multiple occasions you know I
• 49:00 - 49:30 could do that feel I feel like I could have done that um yeah Call of Duty it's sad to see oh dude and and Call of Duty was the biggest game on on any console or platform for years right I mean I think it was beat out by Halo but other than that it's pretty much been number one at least a couple times and number two most of the rest of the time and now it's like number ass you know like nobody wants to play that anymore and you know you could take a book from from uh The Fallout series and and say the
• 49:30 - 50:00 same thing whoever's developing those games can significantly make the difference like if you look at New Vegas New Vegas in my opinion was by far the best Fallout was not even made by the same people that made all the other ones you know and right and they really need to look into you know like you had so many different companies make Call of Duty because way I understood it is back in the day when the original Call of Duty came out the name was never trademarked so anybody could build a Call of Duty game and uh that's that's
• 50:00 - 50:30 why you see like modern warfare and Black Ops so much different throughout the years you know like you play one game and it's like oh this is cool I'm going to get the next one and then you get the next one you're like this ain't even the same game and and that's how that's how Fallout was with New Vegas like it was still the same game but the game play was in my opinion significantly better the story was really good and yeah and the other fallouts I I it's not that I don't like them but I don't like as much as I liked New Vegas and yeah you know Fallout I
• 50:30 - 51:00 can nerd out on some Fallout I mean you know vault tech coffee cup here but um I like I like the Fallout but it's just and you see people who don't play video games like Fallout right like you'll get like the old guy that lives down the street and I'm like what are you doing you know some old crusty guy out there mowing his yard I'm like what are you doing I've been playing this Fallout this is the best thing I've ever seen in my life you know and just like okay and I'm like have you tried New Vegas no I
• 51:00 - 51:30 never tried that I'm like try New Vegas and then like two weeks later he comes back that's the best game I've ever seen in my life you know like he's some crusty old guy with a cane down the street playing freaking Xbox you know like and that's that's where Fallout is fallout's awesome you know anybody can play Fallout and you can turn turn the settings into dum dum mode or you can make them super hard um well you don't have to PVP if you don't want to so that that's another big thing yeah and 76 was in my opinion complete AIDS but that's
• 51:30 - 52:00 just my personal opinion on the game I know a lot of people have come back to it there's been a lot of fixes uh but like I I got that game when I first dropped and and the first thing that happened to me is I got shot in the face by someone who was 800 levels higher than me and I was like why am have I even seen this person you know and uh I just you know like you say break your controller in half and call it a day delete the game but um I feel like 76 has redeemed itself in a way though um it's I think it's kind of old The
• 52:00 - 52:30 Fallout fan base back in thankfully which is hard for a lot of games to do 76 is always it like I think it was so bad that if they would have just deleted the game it would have been better you know when it first dropped they would have just nuked the game and returned everybody's money everybody would have been happy but I I hopefully like I haven't played it but hopefully and I've heard hope hopefully it is significantly better than what it was at one time because it it like I said at
• 52:30 - 53:00 the beginning it was so bad um they've added a lot of like things that you can do with your squad and your friends and your friend group and it it made it feel like you can you know enjoy that Fallout experience with a large group of people again and uh I think that's a big plus I came back what a week and a half ago and there's six recruits ready to go I mean yeah yeah that's awesome it's crazy it's
• 53:00 - 53:30 like okay I my word is I'm not going to give you I'm not going to round your vouchers up that's up to you people you know don't bother me with and I love that I I there I'm not babysitting no more if these people want to be here they'll do what they're supposed to do if not oh yeah yeah and it's not and there's people showing that they want to be here there's a lot of people mean like to I like to pick on seu because he was one of those guys that um I
• 53:30 - 54:00 personally chucked into the [ __ ] and I love that and uh he's done amazingly well you know like I I was running World of Tanks Friday night tanks every Friday which I got to run tonight too by the way but uh he uh I was like dude I can't be here can you do this and he's he's no no nothing no officer position at all I'm like can you run Friday night tanks or something because I I gota I got to be gone he's like yeah I think I can do it and he's ran with that you know he's had a good time and uh love that kid man
• 54:00 - 54:30 yeah he's done very very very well and he hasn't been in all that long but I think he gets it and he's got a good head on his shoulders I think Caleb's got to teach him how to be a little more of a hammer he's a little this way yeah he's starting to get it slowly but surely you know yeah he overhammer he's still a young guy he overhammered a couple times and I actually had to re back in a little bit but some of them need overhammer you know what I'm saying they do they need they need yeah that
• 54:30 - 55:00 and that and the person that got the hammer deserved it but it was just you know and cisu has learned like I told him you know I think you learned from this and I think that person learned from this and so I think it's a success both ways um but in the future this is how I probably would have hand and he's like H makes sense why why you would have done it like that and I'm like I'm only telling you that because I've messed it up myself more times in the ever even tried so you know and we all have I mean how many times have you
• 55:00 - 55:30 actually said something to a guy pump over the years and been like ah that was thinking back I probably shouldn't have did that yeah about 500,000 yes yeah about where I'm at to you know and and it's not like that anymore I mean we've all grown up we're no longer 20s and 30s you know most of us and and uh we don't jump to conclusions and tear people's heads off like we used to I think that's a great Tater because now they get the benefit from what we've all done right they get to see from our
• 55:30 - 56:00 mistakes and what we've what we've done and accomplished correct we did all the crazy stuff many years ago yeah you know and I think our future is bright with Caleb and Miss Vegas and it could only go up right Caleb knows where the knows what the roots are Miss Vegas is as friendly as she can be until until you cross the line and that's the way she's a hamburger I've ever seen one man I like her cross the
• 56:00 - 56:30 line yeah not a good idea you do not want to do that but you gotta have you got to give her pretty good reasoning to drop that hammer I it's very rare that I've ever seen Miss Vegas drop the hammer and been like ah he could have went a little bit softer on that one but no it's usually the other way around it's like yeah you you fully deserved that complete Nutter ass chewing you just got well and and if you cross the line and get it from you or you know Caleb you're
• 56:30 - 57:00 not out looking you don't wake up and go let's see fighting chew 50 people out today that's not what it's about no it ain't worth getting my blood pressure up people out man and that's what I used to tell good people that got their ass kicked do you think I woke up this morning and wanted to to do this dude it's not the way it is bro you're wrong straighten the [ __ ] up or get the [ __ ] out y pretty
• 57:00 - 57:30 much 100% 100% And it it's never been you know like you say we've never gone out looking for a fight not one time but they've they've come to us quite a few times in the past and uh never ends well for him does it Tater no not usually I mean I think I've been proven wrong on on a lot of those things you know and a few times but the you know the fact is is um generally speaking especially now as I've gotten older I definitely look try to look at both sides of most stories and I and I definitely try to
• 57:30 - 58:00 pull the facts in and kind of figure out what has happened because you know when you're dealing with people you're dealing with the he said she said crap and it's always been difficult to deal with that stuff but um as you get older and more experienced in that and you calm down um I think that really helps um kind of govern things and slow down um just dropping the hammer on people but like I said we can't really do that anymore we don't have you know 100 people a week saying can I join because
• 58:00 - 58:30 we're so spread now we still have quite a few but at one point it was so overwhelming that it was like okay well this guy I don't really care if this guy stays or leaves because I have a hundred other people that would love to take his place so you know and and it's I wouldn't say that it's any less now but it's just spread out like you can't like kick out all your tank guys and expect to have more W the tank players to replace them tomorrow you know like it used to be it's more of a referral thing now don't you agree there's no 100% yeah
• 58:30 - 59:00 nobody's looking anymore it's just friends of friends at this point it's it's gotten big enough now where um we're not out looking for people like we used to be we used to be you know if we were playing a game and you didn't have a clan tag on you probably got a hit up and at least brought into a party and just talk to not necessarily about even joining but just kind of to fuel out who these people were and if they we thought they might be a good fit you know like I've been I'm still I still pull people in on War Thunder if I'm playing War Thunder and I I get a guy who's willing
• 59:00 - 59:30 to communicate and play um more team or Squad based then I'll definitely hit them up you know like hey man you want to come play so you're just one party party invite away from another great TP member man oh yeah 100% And and most of our members are pretty good because like I said our vetting process we we rarely get people anymore who are paid in the ass we used to get a lot but like I said I think was more along the lines of the wild west of the internet back in the day and and most of those people I think
• 59:30 - 60:00 have kind of moved on from doing this type of thing in general so we don't really see him that much anymore you know yeah well I think we've we've learned a lot from we've tried a lot of different recruiting Styles throughout the years um where we've maybe opened the doors more more and where we've um closed them a little bit more um at this point you
• 60:00 - 60:30 know it only makes sense to just if you want to be here you'll make it happen and it's not like you got to jump through a billion hoops right you know you just you just got to prove that hey you you really actually want to be here we we'll give you that opportunity for sure right you just you just got to take advantage of that opportunity so that that's what it it boils down to these days and I think it works
• 60:30 - 61:00 well you know one other thing I think we should definitely touch on here before we call it a day is um pump what is your take on the guys who are doing uh media like streaming and YouTube and stuff like that where are you at on those guys and gals well are you talking about the TLP guys or just in the TLP folk I I liked a couple of them a lot uh it's like Caleb said they kind of just lost their their
• 61:00 - 61:30 steam a little or or you know um I think I think the door is wide open for smart people like you and Caleb to make this part of us where it's supposed to be I mean I I've secured our our contract with Wounded Warrior heed every single year as Caleb knows and you know uh we have benefits for those streamers a lot of them it's just we
• 61:30 - 62:00 can't we there's there we're it's like we're one click away from turning the nozzle all the way on and I I I'm not bright enough to figure that out as my nephew knows that's not my gig well I think that this is kind of a step in that direction what we're doing right now is is getting these people you know trying to get them a little bit of publicity so the whole plan behind the TP network is to network all of the um content creators together um we're we're
• 62:00 - 62:30 getting started on that uh we kind of just doing the history of TP the first couple episodes here and what and what we stand for what we're doing as TLP Gaming Community and then going forward we're going to start on more of the TLP networking stuff and that is going to be basically bringing in our content creators just like we've brought you in today and we're going to talk with them and and they can tell us like what they're doing right now like what they're planning is we can link to their stuff and they can and the whole to be a
• 62:30 - 63:00 part of the TLP Network there's a few requirements number one is you have to be part of TP Gaming Community to be any part of the TLP Network excuse me and then you have to you also have to send that information and that plug back to this particular channel that we're going to be on today the TLP gaming or TLP Network channel and the whole point of that is to kind of get a spiderweb going right where you have your streamers here and then figuring out to every single or every
• 63:00 - 63:30 single streamer with TLP Network as the main Hub right and so they're sending views back to this channel this channel sending views out to all the content creators streamers whatever and and back and forth and the whole point there is to try to get these people um a little more help and a little more publicity and just push them to the next level to where they start to gain their own traction instead of you know cuz we talked about this yesterday if you jump on Twitch right now and you look
• 63:30 - 64:00 up uh let's say rocket League rocket league is a huge game that's always streamed um how many people do you think are watching Rocket league right now just you know tens or thousands maybe 10 thousand plus you know like a lot I don't I don't have any idea I'll top of my head but either how many people do you think are streaming that game probably like a shitload right so how do you weed through and find the guy that's got or three views in the bottom of the list when there's no you know you're never going to get much more than
• 64:00 - 64:30 some random guy that happens to jump in and happens to like that person um and this that's where this can help right like so if you got let's just say you have eight streamers and they all have one viewer each and that one viewer gets told about the TLP Network that they go check out TLP Network that TLP Network then plugs every single one of those eight streamers and now everybody has eight viewers you know maybe not all at the same time because
• 64:30 - 65:00 they streaming different times but at least they they know about them so that's kind of the plan right if even half of those people show up to this channel then it's going to boost um like if you had eight streamers doing it it's was going to boost everybody 400% so you really it makes sense right right and that's we're just trying to push the our content creators up and lift them up and raise them to the next level we can set up an interview with
• 65:00 - 65:30 Dan from wound Warrior too when you guys are ready oh that that be awesome yeah and Dan is the man when it comes to our wounded he's our Wounded Warrior guy um we've talked about wound Warriors in the last video and how we donate money every year to the Wounded Warriors through TLP all donation based and Dan is the man who um he's are liaison in Wounded Warriors for TLP along with along with a lot of other um people doing the same things that we do or similar things but
• 65:30 - 66:00 but Dan's cool guy he uh he uh would' be cool to have him on here and talk about where we're going what he what he wants to see and and uh the possible we talked about having some tournaments with you know with their name attached to them in the future which will happen this year I'm pretty certain at least for sure one in world of tanks and we're not sure on the second one I don't think anybody really knows on that one yet but um for sure going to do that um and then if if
• 66:00 - 66:30 anything changes like the dates on those I still have uh every intention of doing the in-house tournament again like I did a couple years ago where we actually made quite a bit of money to give to Wounded Warriors and that was 100% donation we didn't take any cut off of anything that in that tournament at all that was 100% sent to Wed Warriors and I don't think we've ever took a cut uh tater no no not on a donation like so what we've done in the past is we have guys
• 66:30 - 67:00 who will donate to TLP and and we use that money to um basically give it out to our members right like if we don't give them money but if let's say we have a member who's hard up and their their controller breaks you know we buy him a we might buy him a new controller or something like that or headset you know they're not getting top of the line El leades by any means but they're getting you know base model stuff that does function so they can at least continue to play and be part of the part of the community and then anything that's left over the end of the year just goes
• 67:00 - 67:30 Wounded Warriors gone 100 a percent so our our income goes to Wounded Warriors as well we have we have we make no money as as a whole or as a group here Zer zero zero nothing and it's always kind of been that way for us um yeah that's a good one for sure well do you have any anything to uh end that the viewers may want to know about you or anything that you have you
• 67:30 - 68:00 want to say to them I just say the future's bright here in TLP it was time for a younger generation to take over and uh let some of us older guys relax and and now it's just time to sit back and watch and and and let her eat uh uh to me there's nothing like TLP you'll never find nothing like our group ever what uh what games are you playing right now Fallout 76 what
• 68:00 - 68:30 else that's it if you were to turn fall off Fallout off today what would you go play I probably could I I'll probably wouldn't play I told Caleb I was just kind of burnt you know on the game but there's a brand new raid on Fallout 76 uh and it's fun it's it's a lot of fun and those people all you know they they were glad to see me come back and of course with with when I come back the
• 68:30 - 69:00 recruits are starting to line up so you know how it goes Tater it's just the way it is man how many top tier tanks do you have little tanks how many world of top top tier top tier I don't [ __ ] 30 something 40 something yeah quite a few you got some hours in that game yeah and pump's not the wallet Warrior like a lot of people are no um gr guy City man he's the grind
• 69:00 - 69:30 guy uh but yeah I can't keep up with him if we start a tank line he's always beating me um to the end of it every time I'm like uh come on dude you're four tanks ahead of me hell he's already tell you about a new line that he's starting before you finished your first one yeah so we'll start at the same level right like cruising along and then all of a sudden he's here he drops down to another line and I'm still going and he catches back up I'm I'm about tier seven and back around because I got three tanks and
• 69:30 - 70:00 he's still on the same one we started oh yeah three weeks ago Dude oh yeah cold war has been fun right like the like cers came out I hated it man it I just thought it was trash and I just I love the Cold War stuff man like I still I have tons and tons of top 10 top tier tier 10 tanks you know they're maxed out in World War II tanks but warm when I get burned on this raid I'll be back in there splitting wigs with you guys man oh yeah yeah tanks is
• 70:00 - 70:30 fun tanks it's always my go to like you know my game that's like a I'm tired of this game I'm going back to tanks you know back to tanks playing um yep like I said I gotta Play tanks tonight it's uh Friday night tanks and see who's out for tonight I think he's doing something I don't know what he's doing about time make an appearance I'm always busy man you know I got I got stuff to do man we got stuff to do Arizona oh yeah all over the place
• 70:30 - 71:00 Mr traveling man going to Alaska next week youka what you what are you getting on a boat you gonna do what is that baring Sea Gold what what are you gonna do over there I wish man I wish I'm actually gonna work underground in a for okay couple weeks I fig I figur you were king crab fishing or something on the Cornelia Cornelia Marie or some [ __ ] like yeah I wish wish I was doing that again but nope not doing that just going out to turn some big rocks into little
• 71:00 - 71:30 rocks like I usually do so well guys thanks for watching if you made it this far Please Subscribe like leave a comment let us know that what you want to see in the future let us know what you liked about this podcast and if you have any questions please leave it in the comment section and uh I think that's it s thanks for being with this pump all right man see you guys later yep yep
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