The Real Book Spy | Ryan Steck

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Jeff Apple

Education, Leisure, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0	T'was the holidays at Starbucks red aprons tied up, warm wishes and names written on festive red cups.
0:08.7	The chocolatey mousse latte is here to cozy things up, topped with mokker cream moose for a finishing touch.
0:16.1	Two lattes in hand, one for you and one for me, because together truly is the best place to be.
0:24.0	The holidays are served now at Starbucks.
0:27.5	Subject to availability while stocks last.
0:35.1	Today is author Ryan Steck.
0:37.8	Welcome to the podcast, my friend.
0:39.8	Man, thank you so much for having me.
0:41.7	Yeah, I was just commenting on your setup.
0:44.9	So you're doing a lot of,
0:46.1	you're doing a lot of stuff over on Twitch, huh?
0:49.2	Yeah, I have been, I think, for three years now, two, three years.
0:54.7	So it started with, I'm a gamer.
0:57.6	Yeah.
0:58.3	Started with a love of gaming during COVID.
1:01.8	Everything was locked down.
1:03.0	So I feel like it was the first time since, like, high school, college age, like, all my buddies were on.
1:08.4	We were playing, like, Call of Duty Warzone and having fun. And so I found out
1:13.1	that there was people that just like got on camera and played video games. And it just so happened to
1:18.5	be right at the time where I was looking to step out of the shadow as the real book spy and sort of
1:24.4	establish my own, not really brand, but relationship with, you know,
1:28.3	readers and people as, as Ryan, not the book spy. So I started playing Call-Duty Warzone on Twitch
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