NPR. Indicator producer Angel Carreras.

Indicator host Adrian Ma.

Question for you.

Do you like playing video games competitively?

I usually get destroyed by what sounds like 8 year olds in any game that requires more than one person, so no, not really, more of a solo guy.

That's a little bit of a shame, Angel, because you could really make some good cash if you got good at your Sonic Booms instead of just talking about

economic booms. Yeah, Sonic Boombe you're making a pun you're talking about the

Sonic boom move from the popular game Street Fighter. Street Fighter that's right.

I mean think about it.

If you brush up on your fighting game moves, you know, you get overhears and your yoga fires, it could change your life

if you got the skills.

Yeah, sure, I could become a professional well-paid gamer like Dominic McLean or as many people

know them, Sonic Fox.

Imagine like being like a 13-14 year old and like bringing it back home like 2k like that was that's pretty exciting right

2k as a 13 14 year old yes that's that's a lot of money for video games no less I I

wonder what Sonic Fox's parents thought about this my mom the, no one is playing video games all the time,

but then when she saw like,

I was bringing her money from these kind of things,

she was like, no, go do more events, right?

Like, like, it was a complete tunnel shift. It was pretty cute.

And that was like the start I was like, oh, e-sports is ascending right now.

Oh man, a teenager's dream.

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