And we're back. Welcome back to another practice makes perfect podcast. It's your favorite fortnight commentator here of monster D

Facebook. You guys another episode this week we are covering all things not only in the title, but much more as we do week to week

covering just in general esports and hot topics around the gaming communities before we jump into the deeper things we want to thank you,

of course, for tuning in with us, checking in with us, vibing with these episodes, downloading and of course sharing on all social platforms. We

appreciate you guys. It would not be possible. Of course, without that community. So let's go ahead and jump into things. Man, we got the returning. I feel like, you know, we have to take a couple of weeks off. We are doing more of the regular fortnight podcasts, my schedule, John schedule wasn't quite

lining up. But this week, when you put it on the calendar, we move some things around recording on a Friday, nice and early, baby, we got John rush for some brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean,

Prax doing big things, we're all doing big things. Talk about at the end of the program, little dream hack, BTS here, how the prac boys really do it here, maybe some tea on your favorite pro player, just kidding, we don't we don't vent like that. But yeah, we, we've been busy, but we've been thinking about y'all, and we appreciate you guys were glad to be back. Certainly a backlog of topics. It's been busy in the esports reporting world. And so lots to talk about though. Yeah, 100% and the word BTS behind those scenes. That's right. You want to know a little bit about that.

Behind the scenes, or I will give you the business perspective, introspective, what went down, how we were approached, maybe, and then kind of walk you guys through that conversation should be really fun to just listen to what went through sealing that deal. It was a big one for us. Definitely one of the bigger that we've executed on the 2023. So happy to be able to celebrate that. It's very rare that we get to actually celebrate some of the stuff we work on.

And talking about celebrations, Connor was very much a part of that conversation and celebration front man for practice server. What's up, Connor? What's up, everyone? Yeah, a bit of minutes as we did this, but we're back in action, maybe been busy lately with dream hack and much other events we've been doing. So it's fun to get back here on the pod and kick it with the boys.

Connor is an interesting one because I swear he just ducks episodes and he only shows up when he really, really wants to. So we're lucky guys. We got Connor this week.

That's right here. It just got a little recap. Connor would have you been up to it. It's just been a little minute. Let's just get some casual talk on the on the top line.

Yeah, I think the biggest thing was full focusing on dream hack, though, we just had about a week ago or week two ago, whenever you're listening. Dream hack happened in San Diego. It was awesome. We were a part of it. Super thankful to Dream hack for it. It was sick.

We're going on some other stuff. Game and of course, you know, Russ life. John knows it is rust open right now as we're recording.

It may be while we're afk might be happening while we're recording, but we're here doing the podcast still.

Just make it sure. Make sure the rush players. Yeah, they sleep. You've seen this obvious. You've seen Russ videos on YouTube. They sleep with exterior speakers on at night. So they can hear footsteps or do that.

They get rated. See? No, that that's actually insane. That's actually insane. That's hilarious.

But I don't keep the game open. I stay in a discord call. And if we start getting rated, my friend join us are screaming. So I wake up. It's happened a couple of times already. So, you know,

amazing. The hard core life of Russ player. We need a 24 seven live stream channel dedicated to Connor sleep schedule around his rust weekend. So only on the weekend. So Thursday to Sunday's live.

All that good stuff. John, what have you been up to, man? Obviously, we've been talking shop. Just kind of working on some things looking to the future. But the size that what's going on in the world of John rush. Yeah, man.

Yeah, we talked about it. The program launched a YouTube channel finally took me years of counseling and to get over my posture syndrome.

To just do it. And I feel like I found a topic. Honestly, this podcast being a huge inspiration. My YouTube channel is kind of like, I just take one topic that we might discuss on a podcast like this and just try to like inform people and make them think and bring people together through conversation in less than 10 minutes. That's normally my goal.

We're doing that. Yeah, two kids here in Charlotte, but I put it on the practice. The practice would have put out something about like, Hey, you know, best place to work with that. I'm like, I put there on the replies. I'm like, yeah, man, I'm working on like multiple events with with what we're building here. So excited about it. We have some cool things in the works that they all come together.

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