How MCIHAD was born

I'm not entirely sure anyone reads this at all, but I figured I might as well just put some behind the scenes sort of stuff in here.

So when we started doing "Mom Can I Have Another Dollar?", Nick was originally living out in Florida in the same apartment complex as myself. We were eager to make some new sketch comedy as we used to years ago. When we originally started, we were incredibly ambitious with very little experience in what the hell we were doing, but we thought what we had was funny or at least entertaining so it seemed like it was always worth our time. However, what we have now, is education. Nick came out here to go to film school, and I came down similarly to go for a bachelors in audio engineering. So we should be able to make better videos right? Well we still had the same issues we always run into, no people to help us make anything. At least no one committed as we were.

So I had gotten all this arcade paraphernalia, and Nick would come over nearly every night where we would get drunk as lords and go through our favorite old arcade games, and even play new ones we'd discovered using Hyperspin. After a few days of this, Nick suggested, "You know, why don't we just record ourselves doing this? We're already gonna get drunk and play video games, why not make something of this?" I'd always hated the idea of making our channel about video games, because it seems like everyone does it. I actually like a lot of channels on YouTube that are focused on gaming, but it seemed, cheap and too easy to do. I didn't want to just do something everyone else was doing, and I only ever considered doing game related stuff if it was a unique angle. I don't think I'd ever run across a channel that specialized in playing specifically arcade games, so I thought, "Why not?"

Nick and I made a few "Proof of Concept" episodes for the show and were showing them around to other people, asking if they thought it would be funny or interesting. We got a few people saying they liked it, but then we showed it to our old cohort, Keith. He seemed to latch onto the idea and immediately wanted to insert himself into the equation. I really liked that idea, only one problem, Keith lived over 1,300 miles away. So how would we do this regularly? Well, Keith didn't seem to have an issue with coming all the way down Florida way just to do the show, so thus was born our "Seasons". We sit and play these games for about a week straight until we have something crazy like 50 episodes which give us a few months worth of content. We all have military background and are used to lack of sleep and being pushed past a point of comfort, but these sessions are literally some of the most exhausting things I've experienced. You can sometimes hear the fatigue in our voices, and when Nick isn't in an episode, you can bet it's because he needs a break from doing the show. Keith though, that guy is a monster when it comes to doing this thing. He's either completely on, or completely off, and it's a struggle to keep up with him on the days where we're all literally exhausted. Then much like the storm of humanity he is, he blows out of our lives for a few months until the next "session" is set to start.

And that's how your sausage is made folks.