NLSS History

Pre-History
Michaelalfox, Northernlion, JSmithOTI, and Mike Ireland started a gaming podcast.

Apr 30, 2011 - Saving Progress starts.

December 22, 2012 - Saving Progress ends.

Early Days
Ryan/Northernlion, Nick/Rockleesmile, and Josh/JSmithOTI host. OhmWrecker, RedPandaGamer, Green9090 used to appear frequently. Rob/apacapatrol and MALF/Michaelalfox guest, Kate, Mathas, and even Austin/DumbDog show up occasionally. Docket structure varied wildly but trivia and giveaways were the norm. Dark Souls, DOTA, and AMAs often appear.

Feb 25, 2013 - first (solo) NLSS.

Feb 27, 2013 - first K8 appearance

Feb 28, 2013 - first NLSS with NL, RLS, and JS.

Mar 11, 2013 - first Ohm appearance (stops around Sep 4, 2013).

Mar 14, 2013 - first MALF appearance.

Apr 4, 2013 - first Green9090 appearance (stops around Jun 17, 2013 except for NoNLSSes)

Apr 8, 2013 - first RPG appearance (stops around Oct 10, 2013)

Apr 11, 2013 - first rob appearance

Apr 15, 2013 - first Mathas appearance

Apr 26-28 2013ish - The 52 Hour Stream

Jun 13, 2013 - first Austin appearance (but he pretty much disappears except for several NoNLSSes in 2015)

Classic Era
Circa July 2013 - April 2014.
NL, RLS, JS host. Rob and MALF guest. Classic 3 segment docket with a trivia break.

Aug 2013 - Dark Souls invasions stop.

Oct 2013 - NLSS Videogame Olympics.

Oct 10 2013 - Guess Who segment starts - ends Mar 3, 2014.

Mar 5 2014 - Twitch terms of service end giveaways.

News and Fanmail and Webcams
Circa Apr 21 2014 - Jun 14 2014

May 2014 - NL & K8 got married.

The Dark Ages
Circa Jun 2014 - Jun 2015.
NL & RLS host, rob guests, occasionally Baer and MALF show up. First segment is typically Isaac.

Jun 16, 2014 - Josh gets a real job is fired and dies.

Jun 18, 2014 - Baer joins!

Jun 2014 - trivia (mostly) dies off.

July 10 2014 - midroll hell ends! (Machinima puts hella midrolls on NLSSes before this point).

Dec 2014 - Jackbox Party Packs starts being a common segment.

Feb 2015 - Roundtable Podcast starts.

The Renaissance
Circa June 2015 - February 2016.
First segment is typically Isaac.

Jun 15, 2015 - Josh returns as regular Monday Cohost.

Jun 2015 - NL stops Sunday substreams with subscribers, starts Fallout: New Vegas.

Jun 24, 2015 - CobaltStreak joins as Wednesday Cohost (later changes to Thursdays).

Oct 1, 2015 - Dan Gheesling starts corrupting us all.

Boston Rob Era
Circa May 2016 - May 2017.
First segment is typically Isaac.

Mar 3, 2016 - Austin starts joining as a regular guest.

Apr 20, 2016 - Sinvicta joins as an occasional guest.

July 2016 - Nick's infamous Pokemon Apex stream, grounded in reality and full of real-world problems

Dec 2, 2016 - First Champions of Fire.

The New Deal
Circa Jun 2017 - Dec 2017.

Jul 31, 2017 - TB joins as a rare guest.

Aug 2, 2017 - Kory joins as an occasional guest.

Aug 14, 2017 - HCJustin joins as an occasional guest.

Oct 3, 2017 - Squares starts.

Dec 2017 - Second (and last?) Champions of Fire.

NL starts regular Tuesday streams

Hafu Era
Circa Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Jan 29, 2018 - Hafu joins as Monday Cohost.

Feb 6, 2018 - Squares ends.

May 24, 2018 - TB passes away.

Jul 13, 2018 - Roundtable ends.

Aug 20, 2018 - Dan Gheesling podcast starts.

Sept 19, 2018 - Three Guys (and a Baer) Talk About Football with Crendor, Sinvicta, rob/alpacapatrol, and sometimes BaerTaffy starts.

Nov 26, 2018 - Hafu's disappearance (except for the April 29, 2019 show)

Dec 12, 2018 - Austin and Justin win a PUBG Twitch Rivals tournament.

Dec 17, 2018 - Nick takes a break from the NLSS, does more solo streams.

NLSS Crew Reduction
No Nek, no Hafu, no Cobalt. Malf and Josh on Mondays. Rob on Wednesdays. Typically solo Thursday shows.

March 2019 - Squad Streaming starts.

April 4, 2019 - Josh gets married.

April 5, 2019 - Austin rebrands from LastGreyWolf to DumbDog.

April 7, 2019 - MALF announces he is going to stream full time.

April 24, 2019 - Kory passed his Canadian citizenship test.

July 2, 2019 - Return of Egg Cam.

August 15, 2019 - Hafu joins the esports team G2.

August 24, 2019 - Baer no longer sponsored by Madrinas.

September, 2019 - NL rebrands on Twitch and Cobalt vanishes.

September 12, 2019 - Super Animal Royale adds NLSS skins and items.

September 25, 2019 - HCJustin gets a shirt in PUBG.

October 17, 2019 - K8 and NL move to a new house and NL gets a new office.

October 23, 2019 - Dan gets his first Tetris 99 win

November 14, 2019 - First stream from NL's new office

November-December 2019 - Champions of Salt

November 2019 - Hafu gets a 30 under 30 gaming award

Dec 7, 2019 - DumbDog starts going by Apollo.

Jan 9, 2020 - NL is in a Twitch Rivals Uno tournament.

Feb 18, 2020 - NL and Dan start the Check the Wire podcast on insider baseball about Twitch/YouTube content creation

Mar-May 2020 - Apollo's Checkpoint League, a Super Mario Maker 2 tournament with NL, Baer, HCJustin, Jaaski, Dan, and Mathas

Mar 12, 2020 - Ultimate Chicken Horse (UCH) Tournament starring rob/Alpacapatrol BaerTaffy Coestar Kory/Flackblag HCJustin Jaaski MALF/Michaelalfox and UnrulyBabs

Mar 23, 2020 - Kate announces she is pregnant!

April 2020 - HCJustin starts podcast called 4 Non Daves with some former bandmembers.

Apri1 14, 2020 - MALF/Michaelalfox, Apollo/DumbDog, and Dan/Gheesling participate in an Escape From Tarkov Twitch Rivals Bingo Tournament

April 22, 2020 - NL beats the Nameless King

May 13, 2020 - Team Unity plays in Florida Mutineers Wrecked Royale Call of Duty Warzone Tournament for Charity or something idk

June 6, 2020 - rob, Jess, Baer, Justin, Babs, MALF, TanumB, FlackBlag and Xinixia raise $76000 for The Bail Project during their BLM stream

July 16, 2020 - K8 and NL voice act in Cook Serve Delicious 3's Iron Cook Speedway Update

September 3, 2020 - NL and Baer help co-host the Twitch Chat Awards

September 6, 2020 - Hafu wins a Pogchamps chess tournament

September 15, 2020 - NL, MALF, Baer, RedPandaGamer, and MANvsGAME get a reference in Spelunky 2.

September 11, 2020 - Team Unity (with HCJustin subbing for Apollo) participates in a Fall Guys Twitch Rivals. Baer is in it too!

September 25, 2020 - Apollo, his name escapes me HCJustin, Dangers, and LiBrizzi participate in a Fall Guys Twitch Rivals and get second.

September 28, 2020 - NL and K8's daughter Luna is born, on the 9th year anniversary of vanilla Isaac and NL's first Isaac episode.

October 9, 2020 - Apollo, HCJustin, Dangers, and LiBrizzi participate in a Fall Guys Twitch Rivals and tie for fifth.

October 19, 2020 - Dan becomes a Twitch ambassador

October 2020 - Many NLSS crew members nuke their clips and highlights because Twitch's failure to create a DMCA system.

November 2020 - Check the Wire is retired. Team Unity Tuesday and Golden Goblet go on "a long hiatus". Dan and NL announce a new "Golden Egg Challenge Series" on Tuesdays.

November 13, 2020 - the day the music VODs died

November 17, 2020 - NL makes his own Fall Guys playlist

November 27, 2020 - After cold tweeting Jagmeet Singh, NL play Among Us with him, AOC, Hasanabi, Disguised Toast, JackSepticEye, Natalie/Contrapoints, TSM Myth, TheSerfsTV, Alanah/Charalanahzard, Victoria/TheVTran, adeptthebest and XQC.

December 4, 2020 - NL, MALF, Dan and The Happy Hob compete in the Plunder in the Sky, a Call of Duty Warzone tournament for charity.

December 11, 2020 - NL tweets chess.com and they let him be a GM for a day.

December 14, 2020 - DumbDog wins a Doritos-sponsored Among Us Twitch Rivals hosted by Hafu

December 18, 2020 - NL, Dan, SmallAnt, Sips, GothamChess, and others compete in an Among Us Twich Rivals

December 27, 2020 - Hafu boils water for the first time? (Although she has previously made a delicious pizza)

The Post-NLSS Era
5 hour streams on weekdays.

March 2, 2021 - Twitch Rivals Hand-and-Brain Chess with Maurice Ashley Andrea Botez

March 23, 2021 - Twitch Rivals Fall Guys with HCJustin

April 16, 2021 - Twitch Rivals Pummel Party with MALF/Michaelalfox, HCJustin, Chiblee, Jay/WolvesAtMyDoor, PauseUnpause, McLaffyTaffy, and Danotage.

April 21, 2021 - NL guests on Dropped Frames and NL finally gets @nothernlion on Twitter - rip Danny Richardson and @northernlionlp


May 2, 2021 - NL starts streaming Mondays - Fridays.

May 5, 2021 - NL plays in a Bullet Chess Arena hosted by the Sisters Botez

June 14, 2021 - NL wins a round of OTK Schooled hosted by Mizkif vs. Pokimane, Jerma, Ronaldo, Austinshow, Ludwig, ConnorEatsPants and Dream.

June 21, 2021 - NL comes in second in the finale of OTK Schooled hosted by Mizkif vs. Alinity, Andrea Botez, Connoreatspants, Asmongold, Destity, Emiru, and Hungrybox.

June 22, 2021 - Apollo gets verified on Twitter, much to NL's chagrin.


July 25, 2021 - NL guests on an episode of the DLC Video Game Podcast with Christian Spicer and Jeff Cannata.

July 29, 2021 - NL is in a Battleship competion with Ludwig.

August 26, 2021 - NL is in a Twitch Rivals Hand and Brain Chess tournament with Andrea Botez.

August 28, 2021 - NL is on an episode of Levi's Gotham City Podcast.

September 13, 2021 - Apollo hits 10,000 (mostly gifted) subs during Subtember and has to order a fursuit.

September 15, 2021 - Ryan plays Gartic Phone with MALF, Jagmeet Singh, Hasan, the Serfs, Andrea Botez, Missharvey, Fivebyfive, Nickool, PointCrow, HighKlassified

October 5, 2021 - Ryan plays Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl for charity in Panda's All-Star Nickvitational with ConnorEatsPants, Elspeth, Ludwig, Ovilee, SmallAnt, trihex, and others.

October 27, 2021 - Ryan competes in a Fall Guys Rivals with Apollo/Dumbdog, HCJustin, and Steve Suptic (subbed by Ellum).

November 3, 2021 - Ryan competes in Bros vs. Bros against Ludwig.

April 4, 2022 - Ryan finally hits 1 million subscribers on Youtube, he is understandably excited.
March 14-April 18, 2022 - Apollo has a massive subathon.

Sepember 4, 2022 - NL is on a GothamChess podcast.

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