Tony Hawk's

YouTube and, you know, getting more outside of just the general dance music audience.

They like found their way into video games and Rocket League and, you know, really putting artists on like a spotlight in a different audience altogether that end up becoming dance music fans, you know? I know a lot of people that was like, oh, I only know that artist because it was on Rocket League or, you know, it's kind of like how we found bands back in like the Tony Hawk Pro Skater days, you know, like when those games came out or like NBA 2K or, you know, FIFA or like all those games, you know, like they have music in them or GTA, you know, a lot of people find music that way.

And Monster Cat really dove in on that side of things with Rocket League because it's still a massive game.

So, um, the fact that they were able to like give, you know, a spotlight to artists like that in that kind of audience, millions of players around the world, you know, that kind of helped shape them to be like so distinct and standalone from any other label, you know? And then they just know how to really collaborate correctly, you know, whether that be with Tomorrowland or festivals in Thailand or things in the States, you know, you can have a monster cat stage and it just be the craziest heavy hitters, you know, like they just have such a great history of artists that they gave their first shot to, you know? So I think over time, you know, that just started to compound and the success and the variety of that label just became its own beast, you know? so i think yeah i mean there's so many different things at play but i think that was definitely one of the main ones was like watching them jumping into the gaming space and youtube and working with artists off the ground you know marshmallow is one of them with alone you know we saw that they're like hey we want to see where it goes we're going to give you a music video budget have at it it's got like what 200 million plays or something stupid

definitely something about that era, though, as well.

Because I think it was the same with Tony Hawk games as well.

There's a certain number of tracks that even when I hear now, the first thing I associate it with...

It's like, oh, that was in Tony Hawk 1 or that was in Tony Hawk 2 or that was in Tony Hawk 3.

You even know which game it was.

And I don't know, I guess that era was kind of like the first time where licensed music and the PlayStation 1 era was when licensed music first started getting used in games.

No, it's true.

It's true, yeah.

Yeah.

We played Tony Hawk Pro Skater.

Question five: Pokémon is a portmanteau, which is a word created by placing two halves of two different words together.

What two words is Pokémon a portmanteau of?