Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode number 127 of the Eavesdrop Podcast award winning Eavesdrop Podcast. We have legendary Z-Layner in the house. My brother. Thank you for stopping by. Thank you for coming to the major. Yes, sir. Are you excited? First one ever? Yeah, I do.

The energy last night, absolutely incredible. And it's not even like the pack night from what I've heard. It's Thursday. Like everything that you saw and I didn't want to be tweeting. I do.

One of the things that I started to do deck almost a decade ago is I never like overhyped something unless it's in the moment. You know what I mean? Like I, unless it's in the moment, unless there's competition happening, you can talk about all the good that optics doing. Like I don't do it. Like I won't do it on a Tuesday. You know what I mean? Like that's just not me. I'm just sounds too much. Of course, I'm going to love.

I'm biased. But if you're doing it in the term competition and it's happening, then it's acceptable. I've realized this episode is brought to you by honey Dordash surf shark and wealth fronts. And I'll tell you a little bit more about them later on in the podcast. Zach Z-Layner, honey.

How do you want me to address you? You can see whatever you want. Z. A lot of people call me Z. Yeah, a lot of people like Hitch calls you Z. He's like Z and I'm like Z.

Is it the later silent? Who are you today? Who am I? Wow. We're starting with like the good questions. Dude, I'm just.

I'm just a someone that loves to game and entertain people. Yeah. And I've somehow been able to make it a career. And I'm very fortunate about that. So for that, I guess. Yeah. And I love to do it.

What do you do on like, is there anything else that you do aside from from game? Like what are your other passions that you like hobbies?

Outside of game. I mean, I game quite quite often. So it doesn't leave too much time. But I mean, I've always loved music. I grew up doing a lot of music as well. And I think that's one of the things that actually helped me with getting into streaming even to begin with. I played like before I even started streaming.

I started streaming when I was maybe, I think I was like 19. Yeah, I'm 23 now. 24, I think. I didn't know my age. You're 19 or 24. That's like a big cat. No, no, no, I was 19 when I started. I'm 24 now. I think I was like 19, 20. And before that, I played music most of my life. I did like from when I was.

Yeah. For like, for like, watch bands. Yeah. Like lots of lots of across Canada, across the US. I was on a TV show for a little bit. Stuff like that. And I.

Which TV show? It was called the launch. And it was just like a Canadian version of like, like, always American idol, all kinds of stuff. Right. And what were do you play guitar?

Yeah. Yeah. Play guitar or sing. And I did that for quite some time. And I think it helped with a lot of the entertainment skills, just feeling good being outside of the bubble.

You know, I mean, like getting on a stage, being in front of people. And it definitely helped with like talking and getting used to that. And you know, I took that. And then my passion for gaming, which I've just always, always absolutely loved and started streaming.

Yeah. But you know, those those same artistic abilities or being able to be good in front of a crowd, being able to be, you know, do public speaking.

Those don't necessarily always come with the ability to have hand-eye coordination the way that you do. Like you're not just like you're not just playing like you're fucking like, you know, you have those talents.

Yeah. No, I appreciate it. I ever since I was a kid, when I was grinding music insanely, every time I come on from a show, every time, like in the background for what people didn't see, I was probably putting twice the amount of time through time into gaming.

And sometimes more than probably what you say gaming or something called duty or gaming gaming in general, man, I mean, growing up, I played called duty most of like I started with my dad got next box when I was like five. And me and my brother and my dad, we played Halo 2, Halo 3.

Those are the two games that got me into gaming. And then more so Halo 3. And then, you know, after that, it was caught for a world of war. Every caught up until every caught up until, man, when did I sort of slow down with that? I think maybe infinite.

I think I want to say maybe is when I slowed down with cod. And then I, you know, I was in high school at the time. So I was kind of like I still was gaming, but going out a little bit more again, a little more social. Yeah.

And then when I started gaming like hard again, I was a big fan of like League of Legends stuff like that for a bit. But when I started streaming, I started streaming Fortnite. And then when war zone came out, jump back to cod. And it's super crazy.

How everything's kind of come full circle because called duty is definitely the game that I have put the most hours into across all the titles, obviously, no, no question. Yeah. Which game did you start with?

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