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What the heck is going on everybody welcome back to another episode of the kind of funny ex cast your home for all things Xbox.

Here at kind of funny of course I'm one of your show host Snowbike Mike and I am back again with just one of my gaming dad's Mr. Gary with a Gary how are you today.

I'm very well. So this is I you told me right before we run it. This is the 150th show episode 150 Gary with a since the beginning.

I'm with a lot of in the beginning. Yeah, that's a man. You and I and a lot of we've had pairs. We've had a number of special guests many special and today we have a very special guest.

For episode 150 we have IGN's own Destin Ligeri of course you know him from podcast unlocked or maybe you know him as a small business owner of Ligeri bakery.

You can get some dope cookies over with Destin and of course he has a very successful personal YouTube channel that I know a bunch of Xbox users.

Have been watching and listening to because he's done a fantastic job curating the news and giving his perspective. So let's welcome in Destin Ligeri for episode 150 Destin what's up homie.

Hey, thanks for having me. I really appreciate the shout out and the invitation to come on the show. Yeah, of course Destin is that your own animated personal brand identity behind you there.

It is. Yeah, I had that made by get wrecked labs and I'm like I really like mass effect and spaceships. So they they designed that and I've had that for a few years now, but I really like it.

Yeah, is this your standard podcasting streaming because you're very well composed. I feel like room rated would would love what's going on behind you but the lighting you got the video game memorabilia you've got a YouTube. What is that for a hundred thousand?

What is that? That's just hit a hundred K on YouTube largely doing part because of me reading legal documents from the Activision Blizzard case and just giving my personal perspective like like the goal to YouTube channel was for me to have that outlet to have a direct conversation with the Xbox community about just my perspective on gaming.

One of the first videos I made was the day Xbox almost died talking about the moment when Phil Spencer and Sachin Adela sat down and had that conversation about where the Xbox brand was going to go going forward and it kind of blew up. So I just kept going from there.

Very look at that. Look at all you've come to lighting is so much better now. Yeah, yeah, well, I have a key light and a fill light over there, but like I'm constantly messing with the lighting, but it's set up right now to this channel's lighting when I do IGN stuff I'll switch out the lighting for like on locked or whatever.

I we moved from we were in San Francisco to where I live now. I had a plan to build this space so it was multifunctional right. So I get to be remote with the kids and my wife and still do the video game thing. It's great. I got to be nice. I want one of those YouTube play buttons.

Do you put in the work like this? Well, I mean, but you got to put in the work. Listen, all I did like I had to clean a Gomez on my talk show and it wasn't good enough. Did you put those on you?

When I hit no, I yeah, yes, I did. And here's the thing. So I'm on my YouTube channel is stalled out at 30,000 subscribers. Stalled out. If I can get 100 and the is the minimum, well, they'll send you one of those buttons. Yeah, I don't get there because like well, you can start here. What could I do? You tell the audience where to find you?

YouTube.com slash Gary Weta. There it is. Scribe. I mean, you told Xbox to send you a controller. Look what happened. If you want subscribers on YouTube, there she is. That's Selena. That's the real. Nobody believed that was the real Selena Gomez. That's crazy. But it really was. I was part of that. I saw that it was an incredible experience. One of my one of my proudest moments. I'm proud of you Gary on that. Let's talk Destin though because of course, Destin. Let's talk about me. Let's talk. You got a little bit of Gary. Yes. Of course, you are. I have a big segment for you in just a little bit. Let's focus on Destin because Destin, of course, I am a

massive fan of yours on podcast unlocked all the stuff you do at IGN. And I've loved that you've created your own YouTube channel. I listen and learn a lot from you and what you've covered with that Activision Blizzard King. Of course, acquisition. So great job on that. But I want to talk cookies because I got a sweet tooth. Okay, Destin. I want to talk about where the cookie idea came from because of course many people know you're the video game guys. So why did you want to become a baker all of a sudden? Okay, it's sort of the real reason is because I was curious.

What it took to start an LLC. So we started the Lagary Bakery LLC company. And my wife was like, you know, I, you know, we have we had one son at the time. Now we have two boys in the house. And my wife was kind of like, you know, I want something to do where I could also stay at home because I work from home, obviously, where I could, you know, just do something and still, you know, raise our kids together. So we started the cookie business and it like it did really well in the first

year. As you know, like a lot of food businesses don't do well in their first year. We were profitable. So that was great. Year two, it's a little slower. If I'm being totally honest, because like shipping charges went through the roof this year, because everybody raised their rates. But yeah, long, long story short, it was just a thing we thought we would try. And it was more successful than we could have imagined. So pretty happy with it. That's really red. And the cookies are good. Taylor over at IGN says, better than LaVayne

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