- [BernardLowe] You guys
are on the talk show.
We're wondering, "Are you
guys addicted to Fortnite?"
- [Male Guest] No, well, some, yes.
I will say yes.
- [Female Guest] I think I am.
- [Young Guest] No, I'm
not addicted to Fortnite.
I just play it when I
don't have anything to do.
- [Friend] Oh bro, I'm
addicted to Fortnite.
- Alright, welcome to Squad Up,
the first Fortnite talk show.
- We squad up with random
people across the world.
- [Male Guest] From Chicago.
- [Male Guest] Nebraska.
- [Male Guest] Lincoln.
- [Male Guest] Brazil. (laughing)
- We try to get that "W"
but more importantly,
we try to find the story
inside of everybody.
We're trying to get just
a little bit deeper.
What went wrong?
- She wouldn't get rid of her ex.
- [QueenJuice] Oh, that's
not a good situation, man.
- [BernardLowe] Yo, AoC, we
got a real question here.
- [AoCGuy87] Yo, what up?
- [BernardLowe] You wanna squad up?
- [AoCGuy87] Let's do it, yeah, I'm down.
(electronic music)
- [BernardLowe] What state are you in?
- [Male Guest] North Carolina.
- [BernardLowe] Both of you?
- [Both] Yeah.
- [Male Guest] Yeah I'm
from California, man,
I only been living here
about eight months.
- [BernardLowe] Where in California?
- [Male Guest] Modesto.
- [BernardLowe] Modesto, dude.
That's where my grandma's from.
That's where my mom's from.
- [Male Guest] Dude, Modesto.
Rep it, that's what's up.
- [BernardLowe] Rep it
dude, Downey High, baby.
- [Male Guest] Dude, no way!
That was my high school, man.
- [BernardLowe] You did not go to Downey!
That's where my mom went!
- [Male Guest] Thomas
Downey High School, bro.
Yes I did, George Lucas went there.
- [BernardLowe] George Lucas
did go there, that's correct!
So what was the three things
we need to know about Downey?
- [Male Guest] Dude, Downey had a lot
of really awkward and ugly people.
- True.
- Okay.
- [Male Guest] But they were usually cool.
- [QueenJuice] Ugly, but cool.
- [BernardLowe] What's the
second thing we need to know?
- [Male Guest] They were
pretty good at football,
but I never played.
I was always a basketball player,
and I'm probably the best.
- [QueenJuice] Oh right behind you, damn.
- [BernardLowe] Last thing about Downey.
- [Male Guest] We had a
security guard that was there
for 47 years and he didn't die.
He passed away.
- [BernardLowe] 47, what was his name?
I'll ask my mom.
- [Male Guest] Ah, it was
John, it was John something.
But he had one eye, bro.
One eye was blind.
- [QueenJuice] One-eyed John.
- [BernardLowe] I'm pretty
sure my mom was there
within the last 50 years,
so I will ask her about one-eyed John.
(electronic music)
- [QueenJuice] Man you really
like Ready Player One, huh?
- [Readyplayer1fan] Yeah, my
dad is friends with the writer.
- [QueenJuice] With
the writer of the book?
- [Readyplayer1fan] Yeah, Ernest Cline.
- [QueenJuice] Oh, that's amazing!
Have you met Ernest Cline?
- [Readyplayer1fan] I have.
I went to Austin to meet him.
- [QueenJuice] That's dope.
Yeah, what are the three things
we should know about Ernest Cline?
- [Readyplayer1fan] He's very modest,
and he's chill and he's a good guy.
- [Bernard Lowe] That's great, man.
- [QueenJuice] Modest, chill, good guy.
He sounds like someone
I wanna hang out with.
Where are we dropping?
Oh, Greasy Grove.
I am just so far away.
- [BernardLowe] Me too.
We were just so excited, Readyplayer1fan.
Sorry, we didn't even pay attention.
- [QueenJuice] Did you see the movie?
Did you see the Ready Player One movie?
- [Readyplayer1fan] Yeah, I saw it
before it even came out, my dude.
- Oh, whoa.
- Whoa, my dude.
- [QueenJuice] What did you think of it?
Did you like that better than the book
or did you like the book better?
- [Readyplayer1fan] I liked
it better than the book
because I'm not really a reader.
- [QueenJuice] I gotcha.
So you like the movie 'cause
it's got all the fancy colors
and it's got music and it's fun.
- [Readyplayer1fan]
Have you seen the movie?
- [QueenJuice] Oh I saw it
dude, I saw it opening night,
'cause I'm also a Ready Player One fan.
- [Readyplayer1fan] Nice.
I fell down on the rocks, I'm sorry.
- [QueenJuice] Oh, I just got shot
as I was coming to save you.
Say hi to Ernest for us.
(electronic music)
- [QueenJuice] What gets you excited?
What gets you out of bed in
the morning besides Fortnite?
- [Bananabat12] (laughing)
Besides Fortnite?
Well, being a mother.
Have to take care of my daughter.
- [QueenJuice] How old is she?
- [Bananabat12] Three.
- [QueenJuice] She's three.
Well, that's amazing.
Does she like Fortnite?
- [Bananabat12] Yeah,
she always asks to play.
- [QueenJuice] Is she good at Fortnite?
She's probably better than me.
- [BernardLowe] What are the three things
three year olds are into?
- [Bananabat12] PJ Masks. (laughing)
- PJ Masks, we're on our way!
Into the night, to save the day!
- [Bananabat12] Candy, chocolate milk.
- Wow.
- Ooo.
You just listed three
things that I'm into.
Banana, say hi to your daughter for us,
let her know she's the future gamer
we're all looking forward to.
- [Bananabat12] (laughing) I will.
(electronic music)
- [QueenJuice] We are
playing with the one and only
Dank Memez today.
Hey Dank, how long you been playing?
Are you feeling good?
- [Dank] Maybe about, one
and a half hours roughly,
so I'm pretty warmed up.
- [QueenJuice] Dank, my first
question, and it's gotta be,
how did you come up with that dope name?
- [Dank] Well, I just
sort of thought of it.
But I'm not really good at naming things
and I was just looking at some good memes.
High quality, not those low
quality disgusting ones.
I'm like, "Oh, why don't
I just name myself this
as a joke to make my friends laugh,
and the name stuck around ever since.
They usually just call me
Dank, or just Dank Memez.
- [QueenJuice] Dank, okay.
Do you have a favorite kind of meme?
Like do you have a favorite format?
- [Dank] That's a good question.
Edgy or just dank.
Edgy memes, like, there's
some really screwed up stuff
on there sometimes that
I try to stay away from
but other times it's like real
quality, high, or dank memes.
Like it's sorta normie now,
but I mean, the best are deep fried.
Oh, check out deep fried memes
too, if you go on Reddit.
It's a pretty good place.
The formats are just
sort of, eh, right now.
A new format's going to
rise pretty soon, I bet.
- [QueenJuice] Dank, I understand
about half the things you're saying.
But it's amazing 'cause you're
like the expert on memes.
- [Dank] Okay, I've deleted
photos of family and friends
to save space on my phone for memes,
so I'm pretty big into them.
I know it sounds stupid, kind of.
- [QueenJuice] No, man, don't say that.
I mean, you're like an expert on this.
I mean, it's cool that you're
passionate about something.
That's not, there's
nothing stupid, oh okay.
- [Dank] Someone's shooting
from on top of a hill.
They're pretty far away.
There's two of them.
GG.
(electronic music)
- [QueenJuice] What is up, squad?
- [AoCGuy87] Ay, what up babies?
- [BernardLowe] Whoa,
hey welcome to Squad Up.
- [QueenJuice] Yeah, thanks for joining us
on the show today, guys.
- [AoCGuy87] Hey, you know,
really glad to be here.
- [QueenJuice] Hey, that's
what we like to hear.
Where are you calling in from?
Where are you located in the world?
- [AoCGuy87] First time caller,
long time listener, from Chicago.
- [QueenJuice] From Chicago.
Dude I literally was in
Chicago twelve hours ago.
- [AoCGuy87] Oh, really? (laughing)
- [QueenJuice] Is it still,
so frickin' hot there?
- [AoCGuy87] Dude, yesterday,
so I didn't leave my apartment all day
and then I left yesterday
to go out and it sucks.
And I'm a big boy, so.
You wanna go stadium?
- [BernardLowe] Yeah, let's do it!
- [QueenJuice] I want nothing more
than to go to the stadium.
- [AoCGuy87] Nice, awesome.
You guys, I like the
cut of your guys' jib.
I'm glad to be on your show.
- [QueenJuice] Hey, we're
glad to have you, man.
- [leverty7] Thank you.
- [BernardLowe] So how'd
you come up with your name?
- [AoCGuy87] When I was a little boy
I used to train with circus tigers.
And they would call me AC,
'cause I was so cool under pressure.
'Cause everyone else would just freak out.
I don't know, I just
added an O in the middle.
No, it's my initials.
- [QueenJuice] (laughing) Man,
I was rolling with it for a second.
- [AoCGuy87] I want you guys
to think I'm cool on my own, you know?
Ooo, purple duos.
- [QueenJuice] Hey, you know what?
What makes you cool is
what's in your heart,
not what's in your past, you know?
- [AoCGuy87] Yo, respect.
- [BernardLowe] So there are no tigers?
- [QueenJuice] But yeah,
just to be clear, there are no tigers.
What was middle school like for you?
- [AoCGuy87] I lived in
a janitor closet, um, I--
- [BernardLowe] Yo, we're about the real
and you're giving me plot
points from Riverdale.
(laughing)
- [Archie Voiceover] Or, maybe
it's just a forgotten closet
under a well-trod staircase,
where it's just you, and
the mice, and the spiders.
- [AoCGuy87] I do consider
myself a modern-day Veronica,
so that's a compliment.
- Oh, wow.
- Oh, okay.
- I like where this is going.
- Explain that.
- [AoCGuy87] No, I knew
you guys were like,
"He's gonna say Archie or Jughead."
I was like, "No, man. Veronica."
- [BernardLowe] So how are you Veronica?
- [AoCGuy87] Veronica when I'm bad.
Betty when I'm sad.
Next question.
- Okay, cool.
- Got it.
BernardLowe used to host
a Riverdale podcast,
so he's actually the one to
talk to about this stuff.
I don't know what you guys
are talking about at all,
but I'm into it.
- [AoCGuy87] Yeah, that
show kind of sucks.
It's like if I wanted to
watch something like that,
I would watch Degrassi.
You know Drake was on that
and he got shot in the back?
- [QueenJuice] He was the wheelchair boy.
What's his name, Wheelchair Jimmy?
- [AoCGuy87] Yeah I think
it was Wheelchair Boy,
I think you were right the first time.
- [QueenJuice] Yeah, even
his teachers called him that.
"Hey, Wheelchair Boy!"
- [AoCGuy87] "Hey wheels!" (laughing)
- [BernardLowe] Well okay,
have you heard Scorpion?
- [AoCGuy87] No, but everyone
won't shut the hell up
about it so I guess I should
give it a listen, yeah.
- [BernardLowe] What are you
on, Apple Music or Spotify?
- [AoCGuy87] No, I fuck with Spotify.
- [QueenJuice] I'm like
the only Apple Music user
that I know.
Oh, I see somebody south, southeast-ish.
Like, 160-ish.
- [AoCGuy87] Cool, I got a sniper.
Is he on the hill?
- [QueenJuice] He's like down this hill.
Oh, he's right here, oh god.
He's building, he's building.
- [AoCGuy87] Oh fuck, sorry,
lemme come to you guys.
- [BernardLowe] Then, I
gotta ask, what's your dream?
- [QueenJuice] Yeah,
what's your dream, AoC?
- [AoCGuy87] Geez, put me in the hot seat.
I wanna write for TV & movies.
- [QueenJuice] That's amazing!
What are your influences?
What is something where you're like,
"Oh man, if I could have
written that, I'd be so happy."
- [AoCGuy87] Damn, if I had a list, fuck.
Fargo, I wish I wrote for that.
That would be fucking sweet.
- [QueenJuice] Oh, like the TV show?
- [AoCGuy87] Yeah, the
movie's good too but the show,
I really like the show a lot, too.
Third season was alright.
But, Atlanta, I think that show's sweet.
Wet Hot American Summer.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.
- [BernardLowe] There's a
couple guys east farther back.
Yeah, they're building up right there.
- [QueenJuice] Oh, I see 'em, yeah.
- [AoCGuy87] Oh shit, okay.
- [QueenJuice] We gotta
take down his walls.
All right, I'm throwing some plungers!
- [AoCGuy87] Mister Nixon,
tear down your wall!
He's got no shield.
- [BernardLowe] Oh, so
you like Simpsons too?
- [AoCGuy87] Oh, of course.
Up until the early 2000's.
- [BernardLowe] So you
sound like a walking
suggested things to watch on Netflix.
Like, you have all the tools.
- [AoCGuy87] Well, I am part robot!
- Oh guys, I got.
- I got you, Queen.
- [QueenJuice] I got spiked.
- [AoCGuy87] Well I'm pretty sure
I have borderline Asperger's,
so you're not far off.
Fucking A!
I was trying to use my
shotgun, dude, I'm sorry.
- [QueenJuice] No dude, you're good.
I walked in, I didn't
even check for traps.
Amateur move.
- [AoCGuy87] Dude, I'm sorry.
- [BernardLowe] Why didn't you tell me?
- [QueenJuice] I told
you I got hit by spikes!
- [BernardLowe] Yo, AC. We
got a real question here.
- [AoCGuy87] Yo, what up?
- [BernardLowe] You wanna squad up?
- [AoCGuy87] Let's do it, yeah, I'm down.
- [BernardLowe] We're
dropping at Lonely Lodge?
Why?
- [QueenJuice] Dude, we're
going to the lodge, man.
- [AoCGuy87] I like it.
Lonely Lodge, no one ever comes here.
I mean sometimes it
sucks when you come here
and there's no loot, but
let's cross our fingers
and cross that bridge
when we come to it, yeah?
I had to go back east for a little bit.
- [QueenJuice] East, where to?
- [AoCGuy87] Boston.
Well I'm not from Boston.
- [BernardLowe] So you never
mentioned Good Will Hunting,
you didn't like that movie?
- [AoCGuy87] Nah dude, it's
like that and Departed.
Like I hate when, like,
it's like the go to.
Everyone's like, "Yo, Departed!"
And I'm like, "Yo, Boston's
not that hardcore guys."
It was for like, maybe 15, 20 years.
But once Whitey Bulger left it,
I'm gonna be ripping on Whitey Bulger
and then they're gonna be like, "Yo!"
He's gonna be listening to Squad Up.
He's gonna send the
Bunker Hill Gang after me.
- [BernardLowe] You grew
up outside of Boston.
- [AoCGuy87] Yeah.
- [BernardLowe] Then
how'd you get to Chicago?
- [AoCGuy87] 'Cause I was taking classes
at Second City in Chicago.
- [QueenJuice] Awesome.
- [BernardLowe] So what was
your experience in Second City?
- [AoCGuy87] Not bad, man.
I met some really cool people.
I did the writing program
there so I learned a lot
in regards to like, not just
like writing scripts and stuff
but how to like develop
characters, like plot.
- [BernardLowe] What's the
best sketch you've written?
- [QueenJuice] Yeah, give
us the TV Guide synopsis
of one of your favorite sketches.
- [AoCGuy87] Oh damn,
I'm trying to think of a good one I did.
There one I did and it
was like Old Lady Nascar.
And it was like this pit crew
and there was this really old woman,
and she was like slowing
down the race and shit.
But by the end of it there
was like this huge pile-up
so the old lady ended up
saving the driver and shit.
- [QueenJuice] Oh, okay.
We got a whole arc in that one.
- [AoCGuy87] It's not all about the jokes,
I like tugging at people's
heartstrings, you know?
- [QueenJuice] That's beautiful.
It's like a Boy Meets
World episode, you know?
- Oh.
- Wow yeah,
that's what we're talking about.
- [AoCGuy87] But more Mr. Turner.
- Okay, great.
- Okay.
So AC, dude, what's stopping
you from following your dreams?
- [AoCGuy87] Nothing's really stopping me.
It's more just kind of being lazy.
- [BernardLowe] Sounds like
something's stopping you.
- [AoCGuy87] For example, this. (laughing)
It's like, yeah I should
write for a few hours,
then I'm like, but.
- [QueenJuice] Do you think
you're addicted to Fortnite?
- [AoCGuy87] No, I just got
it like a month or two ago
so it's like with all games.
You play it for like
a few weeks or a month
and you're kinda like, eh, okay.
- [QueenJuice] It sounds
like it's having at least
some mild real life impacts
on your life, you know?
Like you could be writing right now
but you're playing Fortnite
with some jabronis on the internet.
- [AoCGuy87] Give you guys some credit.
You guys are some cool jabronis at least.
- [BernardLowe] I feel
like there is something
stopping you from achieving your dreams.
- [AoCGuy87] I mean yeah, definitely.
Money.
Chicago's getting to,
I think that's gonna be
the third hub in like the next
like 10 or 15 years or so.
I can see people flocking
out to Chicago to get in.
Yo, we got people building.
I got out of that shopping cart.
We gotta be serious.
- [BernardLowe] You're right.
Got him for 29.
Got him for 30.
- [QueenJuice] I am so
far away from you guys.
Goddamn it.
Someone save Bernard!
Oh, what a hero.
- [AoCGuy87] Sorry, I got him.
I didn't wanna steal your kill but,
oh Bernard, you died?
My bad.
- Yeah, dog.
Oh shit.
Oh, you're kidding me!
AC, dude.
- [AoCGuy87] I got eight health left.
I got four health left,
I got two health left.
(laughing)
Oh, I'm dead.
- Ah!
(laughing)
- Okay, it's over, it's over.
(laughing)
- That's been Squad
Up, Fortnite talk show.
We talked to some people.
- Yeah.
Had some good conversations
with some people.
Also, some bad ones.
- Very bad.
- That's what I love,
when people open up to us.
Yeah, some people, you gotta
crack 'em open a little bit
but when they open up, mm.
Juicy.
QueenJuicy.
Thanks for squadding up with us everybody!
- [BernardLowe] We'll see you next time.
