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I Can't Believe Twitch's CEO Dan Clancy Interviewed Me
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About Dan Clancy
Dan Clancy, CEO of Twitch, has continued hosting the company's "Let's Chat" podcast, interviewing streamers including JaharaJayde, Emilycc, TheSushiDragon, and JellyYT. In these conversations, Clancy discussed topics such as the Twitch Ambassador program, the challenges of long-duration streaming, and the importance of collaboration among creators. He stated that "collaboration is so foundational" to streaming and that "streamers have a lot of talent that they can go beyond their video game." Clancy also spoke about the role of luck, hard work, and raw talent in a creator's success. In a June 2026 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Clancy described Twitch as fostering a sense of belonging and community, contrasting it with what he called "antisocial" short-form social media. He said that "people really build communities on Twitch" and described the platform's subscription model as "patronage" rather than a paywall for content. Clancy also addressed creator safety compliance, collaboration with Amazon, and the evolving demographics of Twitch's audience, noting that the largest age group is now 25 to 34. He acknowledged challenges related to AI's impact on artists and creatives within the Twitch ecosystem.
Transcript (150 segments)
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Emily CC0:00
And then, obviously, no one, not many people want to watch me sleep, so
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Dan Clancy0:04
I was watching you sleep this morning.
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Emily CC0:06
Oh.
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Dan Clancy0:08
Mhm.
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Emily CC0:08
I didn't know that. I would have got out of bed.
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Dan Clancy0:12
Hello and welcome to Let's Chat. I'm Dan Clancy, the CEO of Twitch. Joining me today is the wonderful Emily CC, live from Los Angeles. Welcome, Emily.
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Emily CC0:24
Thank you so much for inviting me, Dan.
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Dan Clancy0:26
Well, thank you for having me. For whatever reason, may not know you. What makes you stand out?
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Emily CC0:32
Uh, so, I've been live over 1,711 days.
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Dan Clancy0:37
Oh my god.
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Emily CC0:38
So, it's basically a continuous 24/7 stream. Like, sometimes I go to the bathroom, so I can't be there all the time. Like, I have to take a shower. I have showered on stream before, though. But, like, clothes.
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Dan Clancy0:48
We won't go into this.
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Emily CC0:50
Like, so, I would do a joke where people get five subs and I would add a lot of clothes on.
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Dan Clancy0:54
Ah.
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Emily CC0:54
Yeah, so it was fun. Um, but yeah, I just continuously live stream.
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Dan Clancy0:59
Let's go back to when you started streaming. Okay. So, um, what got you into streaming?
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Emily CC1:04
Yeah, so I started streaming 10 years ago. I was 19 years old. I was in college. I worked at CVS, and I only played World of Warcraft on my little MacBook. Um, and I had a small little setup, and someone had told me that I could stream on Twitch and find friends to play World of Warcraft with. I had no one to play World of Warcraft with. And I also was broke.
So, they were like, 'You could make money, and you could also make friends.' And I was like, 'Perfect, because I have neither of those things.' And the first month I got really lucky. Someone did send me like a computer, which I couldn't afford a computer.
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Dan Clancy1:43
Wow.
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Emily CC1:43
Yeah, I got, I genuinely, it was honestly luck. It was within like the 20 days.
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Dan Clancy1:49
And did you watch Twitch a lot before you started streaming? No?
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Emily CC1:52
No, I didn't know what it was until someone was like, 'This is where you can make friends.' And then someone gave me a dollar and I was like, wow, like...
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Dan Clancy2:00
A dollar.
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Emily CC2:00
Yeah, I remember my first dollar. It was just like, yeah, I'm doing this. As long as I can.
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Dan Clancy2:06
And then you had a, it was a subathon that started this, right? And so tell me that story about the subathon and then when did it flip over?
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Emily CC2:18
Yeah, the subathon that I'm doing now, it all started because of a sub goal.
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Dan Clancy2:22
You're still doing the subathon?
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Emily CC2:23
Still doing that from the one almost 5 years ago. It was a sub goal and I had saw like people like Ludwig and there was this girl I follow. She was doing like 36 days and I was like, wow, I want to do something like that. So I just basically was like pushing myself to go live as long as I can and I remember I hit 100 days live and I was like the longest one and I was like, wait, this is so cool.
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Dan Clancy2:48
Officially you're still on a subathon and if it went to zero then you would stop.
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Emily CC2:54
Bye.
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Dan Clancy2:55
No you wouldn't stop streaming.
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Emily CC2:56
No I would never
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Dan Clancy2:57
Off for a little while and you'd
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Emily CC2:59
I'd go on vacation.
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Dan Clancy3:01
You'd go on vacation but
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Emily CC3:02
But maybe I'd stream on vacation.
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Dan Clancy3:04
Yeah, but it's not, I don't think it's going to ever, with your community, at some point you're going to have to, it's interesting.
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Emily CC3:12
To say bye.
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Dan Clancy3:13
Right, at some point, and that it will be interesting, you'll, whenever that time comes, you're going to want, you're going to have to think about how do you make a moment of it?
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Emily CC3:23
Yeah, like what should be the ending? I mean I think either I throw a party or like it could be like the Sopranos ending, it just, you know, end and then there's some music and then like it's just a black screen.
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Dan Clancy3:35
Yes.
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Emily CC3:35
Or it could be like a big party or I could do, or I could like skydive.
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Dan Clancy3:38
Ooh, I just had an idea, whenever it comes
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Emily CC3:41
Oh.
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Dan Clancy3:41
Whenever it comes, you're going to spread it around Twitch about when it's going to happen and you spread the word for there to be a massive raid train.
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Emily CC3:49
Okay, that's fun.
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Dan Clancy3:50
People across Twitch
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Emily CC3:51
That's one of my most asked questions is like who am I going to raid? And I'm like, I don't know. One of my friends, one of my viewers, like someone just
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Dan Clancy3:58
Yeah, you've never raided anyone.
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Emily CC3:59
I haven't been able to.
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Dan Clancy4:00
Streamer U.
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Emily CC4:01
Mhm.
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Dan Clancy4:02
So, let's talk about that. You're in Streamer U last year and just talk about how that happened and what that was. And now, had you collaborated with Kai before then? So, don't just talk about Streamer U, but did Kai find you at one point?
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Emily CC4:16
Kai found me in November of 2024, which is like 6 months before Streamer U. Um, so, yeah, he found me basically it was him and Benny Blanco doing a stream. And Benny Blanco was like, 'Oh, who is the longest subathon?' And so, they were like, 'Let me Google like who has the longest one?' So, basically Benny Blanco kind of really helped. Yeah. Kai figure it out and everyone figured it out. And uh yeah, that night it was like 2:00 a.m. I was playing a random horror game. And like thousands of people flooded my chat only with like positive comments, too. It was like such a great experience. And uh we got on a call that night.
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Dan Clancy4:51
Before we get to Streamer U
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Emily CC4:52
Mhm.
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Dan Clancy4:53
Um, how do you think about your concurrent viewership?
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Emily CC4:58
I think it's hard because I'm always live. My CCV is low. I think uh it just sucks because there's so much downtime.
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Dan Clancy5:05
About it or do you just ignore it? Okay, you don't.
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Emily CC5:08
And it's like, you know, it's good for sponsors, obviously. You know, you have to tell the sponsors, 'Hey, like I'm always live. Like that's why it's so low.' Like uh there's times where I like I peak at viewership, but then I have to restart the stream.
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Dan Clancy5:20
Mhm.
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Emily CC5:20
It brings everyone back to zero because you know, you're restarting.
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Dan Clancy5:23
Right.
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Emily CC5:24
People haven't refreshed. You got to
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Dan Clancy5:26
Try to get some more.
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Emily CC5:27
You got to, yeah, you exactly. But um no, I'm pretty content. Even though I don't have that uh a lot of viewers as people
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Dan Clancy5:35
Well, you do have a lot. No, the interesting thing is the concurrent viewership metric
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Emily CC5:39
Mhm.
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Dan Clancy5:39
Is like if you did viewers, then it would be very large.
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Emily CC5:42
Mhm.
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Dan Clancy5:43
Right? Because your viewers metric is going to be big because you're on for a long time. And so a lot of people
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Emily CC5:48
Have downtime because I have to go to sleep and then obviously no one, not many people want to watch me sleep, so
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Dan Clancy5:54
I was watching you sleep this morning.
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Emily CC5:57
Oh.
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Dan Clancy5:58
Mhm.
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Emily CC5:59
I didn't know that. I would have gotten out of bed.
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Dan Clancy6:01
I dropped in and I thought of talking with chat to get, you know, uh stuff for today's stream. I did not. I did not, but I dropped in this morning while uh in preparation for this.
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Emily CC6:13
I'm sorry, that was so funny.
I would have gotten out of bed faster if I would have known that. I just um
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Dan Clancy6:22
All right, so Streamer U, how is that? Um, talk a little bit about that experience last year.
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Emily CC6:27
Streamer University was my first experience where I've collabed with that many people ever in my whole life. Before Kai and Streamer University, I didn't collab I honestly didn't collab with anybody.
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Dan Clancy6:37
Right.
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Emily CC6:37
So I was kind of like thrown into like this whole um collaboration event that I I've never been through um cuz I always stream by myself.
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Dan Clancy6:47
Right.
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Emily CC6:48
But it was the best experience I've ever had. Like that's why I've been like oh, I want to go to the the next Streamer University cuz it genuinely was the most fun I've had with an event ever. Especially streaming. So it was a really good experience. I met so many people. I actually live with people that I met from Streamer University right now. We're roommates. Um So yeah.
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Dan Clancy7:10
But while you're streaming, do you have periods? I would think that sometimes you have to be because you just can't always be on.
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Emily CC7:16
Always be exciting. Yeah, that's that's something I struggle with is like oh, I don't want to be boring, but like I can't be like high energy all day. I would say.
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Dan Clancy7:23
Yeah. So now, um I did go to um your chat
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Emily CC7:30
Mhm.
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Dan Clancy7:30
And I asked them for some things to talk about in terms of things that happened on your stream that would be fun to ask about.
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Emily CC7:36
Oh.
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Dan Clancy7:37
Okay, so this is from your chat. Okay, the first one is an embarrassing mom stream.
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Emily CC7:43
In the chat right now.
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Dan Clancy7:43
Woohoo! What's your mom's name?
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Emily CC7:45
Ann.
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Dan Clancy7:46
Ann, good to see you, Ann.
All right, so let's can you tell the embarrassing mom stream with your mom listening?
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Emily CC7:52
Yeah, so I was having a good time on New Year's and I was, you know, gaming and maybe had some like wine. Um and I got really drunk that my mom, she came over and started streaming for me. So she would like wash the dishes and then sometimes I'd go near the computer and like look at chat and like attempt to stream for me. I just remember that was so embarrassing because like my own mom was streaming for me cuz I was just like having a good time. So
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Dan Clancy8:19
Well, that is that's a good mom.
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Emily CC8:21
Yeah, no, that was really really nice of her. Like she didn't have to do that.
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Dan Clancy8:25
Well, your mom needs to start streaming. Okay. Um so, some of the ones eating a scorpion.
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Emily CC8:31
Oh.
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Dan Clancy8:32
What happened there?
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Emily CC8:34
Yeah, so no, no, no.
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Dan Clancy8:36
I'll get the Did Did this happen? Did you actually eat a scorpion in the wild? What made you eat a scorpion? Were you super hungry?
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Emily CC8:42
Cuz like like we were talking about you feel like you need to have as much energy and do as much for the stream. So if someone gifted subs, so I ate a scorpion for that.
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Dan Clancy8:50
And what So and was it a If someone gifts this many, I will eat a scorpion? Did you set it out there or did you just decide after they gave you the
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Emily CC8:57
I had I had it, but someone was like, 'You know what? I really want you to eat that.'
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Dan Clancy9:02
Okay. And so you set a price.
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Emily CC9:04
Yeah.
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Dan Clancy9:05
Said if you get this, then I will eat the scorpion.
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Emily CC9:07
Didn't think anyone really would. It was a chocolate scorpion. It was like a chocolate covered one. It was like a normal
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Dan Clancy9:12
It wasn't alive.
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Emily CC9:13
It wasn't. No. I would do a like a Fear Factor stream. If anyone ever does a Fear Factor stream, I want to do it.
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Dan Clancy9:19
All right. Um uh Your hot dog costume, do you still have it and how often do you wear your hot dog costume?
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Emily CC9:26
Yeah, I brought it to I brought it to Streamer University last year.
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Dan Clancy9:29
Okay.
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Emily CC9:29
And then I was selling it to people for subs. Like the big streamers cuz they have a lot of money.
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Dan Clancy9:34
Oh.
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Emily CC9:34
So I was like, yeah. Yeah, someone bought
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Dan Clancy9:36
Well, you were rent Oh, someone bought it?
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Emily CC9:38
Yeah, they bought it for the night.
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Dan Clancy9:40
Oh, they just You rented it. You were renting it.
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Emily CC9:42
Yeah, kind of. I have multiple hot dog
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Dan Clancy9:44
You have multiple hot dog costumes.
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Emily CC9:45
Yeah, it just became a thing.
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Dan Clancy9:46
Ah. So, you can tell me where I can get a hot dog costume?
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Emily CC9:51
Mhm.
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Dan Clancy9:51
Okay, maybe I need to get a hot
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Emily CC9:52
A guy.
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Dan Clancy9:53
Okay, maybe I need to get a hot dog costume, but I need to have your name on it if I get a hot dog costume.
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Emily CC9:58
Okay.
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Dan Clancy9:58
Okay, so your chat was saying at the end of Streamer University, you have a story about getting home with COVID.
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Emily CC10:03
Yeah, actually um the last day of Streamer University, I had COVID and I actually had pneumonia. So, I was I had to go to the hospital. I had to go to the ER. Um but I didn't get to stream. I I had to stream myself in bed for like 10 days cuz I had
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Dan Clancy10:17
Oh my gosh.
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Emily CC10:18
so It was the saddest thing cuz you know, Streamer University, biggest event biggest event in my career.
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Dan Clancy10:24
Right.
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Emily CC10:25
And I didn't get to, you know, collab with people. I didn't get to stream. I I just streamed myself laying in bed gaming occasionally. So, that was unfortunate.
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Dan Clancy10:33
Let's talk about a dream. Suppose I had a sponsor that was willing to sponsor it. What's your dream stream? You know what I mean? Like the thing Oh, I'd love to be able to do this. What's your Think of a dream stream. If you're not worried about the, you know,
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Emily CC10:50
The money and the cost and everything.
Well, I've always loved movies. I feel like I never see anyone stream like anything like behind the scenes type stuff and I'm into that. I'm really into that. So, maybe something within like movies and film.
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Dan Clancy11:03
Like while they're like behind You'd love to get invited to a sound stage.
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Emily CC11:07
Yeah, like I love stuff like that.
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Dan Clancy11:09
As you You've gone through a lot over the last few years and if somebody's like, 'Ooh, like I want to do that.' What would you say to them?
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Emily CC11:19
Being live this long, I'd say I don't know if I would recommend it cuz I just I know how hard it is like mentally. But I would say honestly set a schedule. Get at least like 7 hours of sleep at night. Like make sure you're on top of your mental health cuz it does take a lot of Say if you don't have a community and you're just live to a couple people all day like that would really be hard mentally. You know, cuz there's only so much interaction you'll get. So I would say really take care of yourself. Always make sure you're taking care of your mental health cuz streaming for long periods of time isn't like feasible for the average person most of the time. So yeah, just really
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Dan Clancy11:58
It's one of these things that has happened for you and you don't regret it, but it doesn't mean you'd recommend it.
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Emily CC12:04
Yeah, I think it worked out for me and it's my niche and I think it it's also luck too cuz I you know, when it was popular I started it and I happened to be the longest one, you know, it's just it's all luck and I would really just say to anyone just you know, be careful and always watch your mental health.
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Dan Clancy12:22
Well, let's go ahead and thank y'all for being here. Although again, we're just rating and you're just switching over.
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Emily CC12:26
Be with me.
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Dan Clancy12:27
So nothing changes. So you will be with Emily.