Our Streamers' Health - Is There Reason For Concern?

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Kickin' Chicken

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I am in a biz that has me tied to a desk much of the time though I do make reasonable attempts at getting away from time to time.

I find myself thinking about the guys who bring us our streams and how their profession may impacts on thier health.

Getting to the venues often requires lots of driving whick equals inactivity behind the wheel.

Then there's the events themselves where they spens much of their time commenting in the booth.

Both during traveling and while at the events, I know food choices can be limited and healthy options may be elusive.

So, with all of this, are there reasons for concern that our streamers are living dangerously with regard to their health?

Maybe they are eating healthy and getting good excercise and 8 hours sleep and I'm just unaware.

What do you guys think?

best,
brian <----- wishing our streamers well. :smile:
 
It is a tough job to do. I used to stream a couple times a week for a good while. It wears you out and is not really healthy sitting around for that many hours in front of a screen and commentating alot it tough too, you start to get brain dead, haha.
 
Depends on the venue and the streamer.... I know Ray gets hammered at some venues with late night match ups and having to be back early but that not the norm more the exception.... DCC comes to mind LOL... I'd say good night to Ray at between 3AM and 5am or so knowing he was up until 6or7 possibly and I would see him back some days early enough to know he slept maybe 6 hours..... With Accu-Stats we try and make sure the commentators and film crew get lots of rest but when you are doing all the jobs like Ray and Daniel you don't get the luxury....

I know at DCC this year the Horseshoe pulled some shenanigans on the internet bandwidth that has me averaging 4-5 hours sleep for the entire event but if that happened every event you can be sure we would pack it the heck in as much as we love it......

As far as the food.... That's the heart attack waiting to happen for streamers... It's non-stop whats fast and handy which means one more clogged artery per event...... I keep learning from Fleming... Cereal, Fruit, More Cereal... Milk DUDs... While I am scarfing down BBQ and burgers.......
 
and I forgot to add that I know some of the commentators leave the booth to get some fresh air and what they really mean is outside for a smoke break. :eek:

which actually may actually be preferable compared to the venues where the air is thick with smoking allowed.

best,
brian kc
 
The Renfro said:
Depends on the venue and the streamer.... I know Ray gets hammered at some venues with late night match ups and having to be back early but that not the norm more the exception.... DCC comes to mind LOL... I'd say good night to Ray at between 3AM and 5am or so knowing he was up until 6or7 possibly and I would see him back some days early enough to know he slept maybe 6 hours..... With Accu-Stats we try and make sure the commentators and film crew get lots of rest but when you are doing all the jobs like Ray and Daniel you don't get the luxury....

I know at DCC this year the Horseshoe pulled some shenanigans on the internet bandwidth that has me averaging 4-5 hours sleep for the entire event but if that happened every event you can be sure we would pack it the heck in as much as we love it......

As far as the food.... That's the heart attack waiting to happen for streamers... It's non-stop whats fast and handy which means one more clogged artery per event...... I keep learning from Fleming... Cereal, Fruit, More Cereal... Milk DUDs... While I am scarfing down BBQ and burgers.......
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Fwiw, your meat consumption is a 1000 times more healthful than cereal or sugar candy.

Jeff Livingston
 
Nobody talks about me.

I find it funny nobody even talks about me when I do BY FAR proven the most of any of the "streamers" if there really that many besides myself and ray that would even consider themselves full time streamers.

I've done over 120 shows since last November and currently been living on the road in my and out of my van. Out of those 120 shows many were 2,3,4 day enterprises.

I'm for the most part vegetarian, not a very good one but still that is a huge difference. On the road I eat veggie burgers at burger king, subway, taco bell bean burritos. Most of the time at venues I am fed. I do not drink much alcohol unless people are buying me shots. I drink ice teas, eat peanuts while driving. I used to take a complete vitamin supplement in water on a regular basis but I've gotta lazy with that. I need to workout more really, the past few weeks I went swimming twice lakes just on the road.

It doesn't bother me to sit here 16 hours a day because these are my friends. I share my entire life with everyone. What I would like to find is a number of women to spend time with while traveling to comfort and make me dinner and give me hugs and kisses. I would be able to do this forever. I am practically inhuman.

TvMike
 
No there is no reason for concern anymore than anyone else that travels for a living.
What they do is no different from people that have so called regular jobs and have to be on the road all the time. Besides truck drivers, tour bus drives, and jobs like that, you have people all over that live out of suitcases a big part of their year. Sure maybe most of them make more money than a streamer does but it is their choice to do what they do.
I have a friend that travels 3 weeks out of 4 for his job and has to search for health food options and all but it is his choice to have that job.

So while I'm thankful that we have all these streamers out there and try and support them when I can. It is their choice to do it for whatever reason they do.
 
TVmike said:
I find it funny nobody even talks about me when I do BY FAR proven the most of any of the "streamers" if there really that many besides myself and ray that would even consider themselves full time streamers.

I've done over 120 shows since last November and currently been living on the road in my and out of my van. Out of those 120 shows many were 2,3,4 day enterprises.

I'm for the most part vegetarian, not a very good one but still that is a huge difference. On the road I eat veggie burgers at burger king, subway, taco bell bean burritos. Most of the time at venues I am fed. I do not drink much alcohol unless people are buying me shots. I drink ice teas, eat peanuts while driving. I used to take a complete vitamin supplement in water on a regular basis but I've gotta lazy with that. I need to workout more really, the past few weeks I went swimming twice lakes just on the road.

It doesn't bother me to sit here 16 hours a day because these are my friends. I share my entire life with everyone. What I would like to find is a number of women to spend time with while traveling to comfort and make me dinner and give me hugs and kisses. I would be able to do this forever. I am practically inhuman.

TvMike
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No one is talking about anyone just streamers in general Mike. All of us who stream have ran for a couple of days, I have done ten day events for 12 hours or so a day. I once streamed for over 30 hours straight for a one pocket ahead set, haha. We all have paid our dues Mike which includes Upstate Al, Daniel with POV, Justin with TAR and of course the Godfather Pat Fleming. I am glad there are many part time streamers bringing us stuff and also its nice to see some making a living doing.

When Daniel got involved a couple years ago I gave him some advice on a few different things, he asked if there was money to be made doing what he loves and I said it wouldn't be much. I like seeing he still has the fire and desire to do it, with a good mixture of free streams and sometimes PPV. I wish more fans and sponsors would get behind it so it could always be free for viewers but until there are big numbers membership and PPV is the best way to make a buck apparently. Good luck out on the road and finding a women.
 
Question for folks that stream: Have you considered creating a network of streamers and maybe passionate volunteers to help with setup and running streams across the country? Is there enough interest in your experience? I have no idea, but seems like there are several or a handful of people out there travelling and doing it all themselves mostly. Is there not potential to collaborate and make the effort stronger and more manageable for growth as a whole?
 
It's so funny that someone brings this up. Zach and I already had this over a year ago, we built a network so streamers could use it, he built it really but nobody wanted in on it.

So I've got my own network now and anyone who wants to stream on it can and you can get paid doing it, but again oh well everything wants to do their own thing.
 
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