Hello, I’m Matt Baume, and welcome to the Sewers of Paris. My guest this week has been on a wild adventure since high school. Andre, also known online as Jygglypuffdaddy, grew up in a small German village and found queer friends online, eventually leaving home to move in with his internet-boyfriend in Berlin the day after he graduated from high school, eventually getting married. It was a risky move that paid off — and he’s hoping that his latest venture, dropping out of grad school to become a Twitch streamer — will pay off too.
We’ll have that conversation in a minute. First a quick thanks to everyone who supports the Sewers of Paris on Patreon.
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And I hope you’ll join me for regular videogame livestreams throughout the week — at a new time! I stream games and laid back chill chit-chat at Twitch.tv/mattbaume every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, now at 5pm pacific.
And over on YouTube, I do Saturday livestreams where we comb through old news archives, searching for weird fun artifacts. Last week we found evidence that the “in this economy” joke was invented by a lesbian in New York in 1970s. Come join me at youtube.com/mattbaume for those news archive hunts.