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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The military has a history of using video games to recruit. So why was there a backlash when its soldier-gamers started playing online? Featuring Matthew Gault (@mjgault) Corey Mead (@coreydmead) Links The Pentagon Wasn’t Ready for Gamers to Push Back America's Digital Army: Games at Work and War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.7	professional and semi-professional video gamers
0:46.7	post live videos of their gameplay.
0:49.4	Because gaming is a spectator sport,
0:52.0	and the biggest platform where this sport gets watched
0:55.8	is Twitch.
0:57.8	Oh my God!
1:01.4	Twitch is huge. In July, viewers from around the world watch one and a half billion
1:06.7	hours of content there. And a couple months ago, a new group of streamers
1:10.7	became really active on the platform.
1:14.2	Oh no, I had to reload.
1:15.2	They're employed by the US military.
1:18.1	These are people that have been assessed by the military to be good at video games and they are playing
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