Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
Everyone hates work, but almost all of us have to do it. Join Heavy D with a new guest each week, asking the dumbest questions about their job we can come up with.
Basically just people talking about how much they don't want to work. That's all.
We try to stay under your lunch time so you have time to cry before clocking back in. usually a guest stops by to tell us a story about their crappy job.
Remember that nobody is stopping you from quitting your job, But you.
Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
Busted Brackets, Doing Anything But My Work, And Getting Fired For It.
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Hey everyone, we're back, and true to form, we've spun a fresh yarn of workplace shenanigans and fantasy football follies. Grab your headphones as the OG Crew and I swap tales from under the fluorescent office lights, including my epic search for that elusive left-handed catcher's mitt and our collective marvel at the meteoric rise in sports gear prices. We're also diving into the deep end with discussions on the transformative journey of fantasy sports, from the days of paper-based tracking to the digital dominance of Dynasty leagues. It's a nostalgic ride through the analog past into the pixelated present, and we're here for every touchdown and fumble along the way.
Strap in for a detour into the addictive landscapes of Monopoly Go, where the OG Crew confesses to being hooked, line, and sinker. We juggle the joys and pitfalls of gaming obsessions with hot takes on the latest baseball season buzz, including the Trevor Bauer controversy – spoiler alert: it's a curveball. Then, we shift gears to the collegiate battlefield, dissecting the seismic impact of NIL agreements and the politics that shape athletes' careers. Hear our candid reflections on sports history's injustices and our predictions for future icons like Shohei Ohtani in this ever-evolving sports saga.
The final whistle hasn't blown yet – join us as we reminisce about the evolution of Battle Royale games and uncover a friend's surprising influence on Madden Ultimate Team's inception. We're pulling back the curtain on the art of game development, from designing a trading card game that spiraled into a Magic the Gathering-esque phenomenon to navigating the integrity of a burgeoning online player community. It's a celebration of the quirks, strategies, and brotherhood that gaming fosters. Don't miss the play-by-play of this wild ride through work, play, and the digital realms that captivate us all.
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On your break today. Unpaid Lunch. Og Crew is back in studio. Well, pretty much. Og Crew is here talking about things to do in the workplace other than work. All right Time to clock out for lunch. Welcome in to unpaid lunch. Thanks for spending your break with us, that's going to have to get cut.
Speaker 2:That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1:This is Heavy D Rhino Keys here. Monroe Fucking OG crew. Well, not. Og Andrew's not here. That's twice. We mentioned him twice in a row. I thought he was going to show up tonight. Really, yeah, I thought he might come by, but no, he's asleep. That happens a lot that does happen. So we've not been here in a while. We made some false promises before. If you don't know us by now, we lie about things we tell. I wouldn't call them lies, I'd call them more like gifts of fiction.
Speaker 2:Fabricated truths that I present Fabricated truths.
Speaker 1:That sounds good. Well, it doesn't sound as good as a gift of fiction. If I give you a gift, monroe, do you want a gift? Yes, it's a gift of fiction.
Speaker 2:If I tell you I fabricated something, it probably makes you think that I've been down in a garage doing a lot of work sweating tears for you.
Speaker 1:That's not how you pitched it to me. I would have agreed with that you would have sold me if you just said that. I said the word fabrication yeah, no, you didn't, you said fabricated, same fucking it's not fabrication sounds cool. You put in on the end of the word, that's right sounds very fallout for it.
Speaker 2:So you make a body kit for my dodge neon, that's.
Speaker 1:I'm there, or you could, or it's a lie. See round and round we go. Welcome back hustlers. Um sorry, my bad who? My bad?
Speaker 2:rhino's got heartburn no, it's not so much the heartburn, it's.
Speaker 1:Those didn't mix well together well, you know what they say yeah, for results, not for flavor oh that yeah do they say that?
Speaker 2:I say it um.
Speaker 1:Love to say we have a lot to talk about. Love to say we have a lot to talk about Everything.
Speaker 2:It's the same old shit. For me it's just a different sport.
Speaker 1:It is Complete transition straight back into it. You can't help it Covered up.
Speaker 2:I spent all day today going and buying a new baseball glove Because my son destroyed his other one last night, blew his out, yeah, blew it all to pieces. Yeah, same glove. It was actually already fairly broken in, so I mean it went out in the yard and through and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Shit's so expensive. Three times is what it used to be.
Speaker 2:Well, the glove that he got was $80 a year and a half ago and now it's $75 today, so win-win. Inflation didn't get that bitch.
Speaker 1:Clay had to have a first baseman's mitt.
Speaker 2:And they sent the wrong one. Specialized mitts are expensive.
Speaker 1:They sent right-handed.
Speaker 2:That's the problem. I went to two different places today just begging and pleading to see if anybody had a left-handed thrower's, catcher's mitt. Nope, nah, you gotta wear that shit from guam. Yeah, they don't exist, pretty much like I asked the guys like, do you ever get these in? He's like man, hardly ever. And as soon as I get them in, there's such an anomaly that people would get them just to resell them. So that sounds about right so sticking on sports.
Speaker 1:What's got me, um inspired about our uh drive on this episode? Things we do at work other than work. And it's because of March Madness going on that's what was in my head that this has to be the time of the year that people get the least work out of employees.
Speaker 2:It has to be. That's one of them. I'd say this week-long stretch is right there.
Speaker 1:It's like Thursday and Friday nobody was fucking working, Everybody was just watching college basketball.
Speaker 2:So you got that every year. I mean this is kind of more or less in like a two-month pocket, but whenever the whole entire job site starts doing fancy football drafts, oh yeah, that's another big one.
Speaker 1:Well, and now that everything's moved up, it's all the same. Now, yeah, because the drafts moved up, so everything's gonna be, everything's gonna happen faster what should but?
Speaker 2:it surprised me how much that people starting to really fade, uh, redraft format. People are really getting into Dynasty.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Dynasty is taking over the world. You guys are welcome.
Speaker 2:Dynasty is taking over the world.
Speaker 1:We've been rolling in that before it was cool right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that one we're what Year seven?
Speaker 1:eight, yes, I think year eight.
Speaker 2:I mean I know some people have been doing freaking Devi baseball since the 90s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's different. Baseball was fantasy. Baseball was around way before.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, way before anything else that's what it came from back when we first started fancy football. We done it from the sunday papers, dude. That's how we kept track of. We manually kept track of scores and stuff from sunday paper, because not everybody around here had the internet to build and set up rosters on y'all we literally live for it.
Speaker 1:Man, me and rhino ran a league. We still kind of have one. We count it as the same league whenever me and him are in one and we just add people to it. Yeah, but we had a league forever that was, um, me and him and uh uh, steve steve was in it. Steve baker was one of the was one of the main ones, larry, and then Wayne and then rest in peace. Charlie was in a little bit. He was in it a few times with us usually the rest of it was revolving door.
Speaker 1:Robbie was in it once, I think. Robbie Ryan Maggard came in one time we did that forever and we did the drafts live. We did the drafts live on a board, no fucking computer. I don't mean like Copious amounts of alcohol.
Speaker 2:I don't mean like that would be fun. I think, oh dude, it's the best way to draft. I swear to.
Speaker 1:God, it was the best fantasy football experience. It got me hooked and I've been chasing that ever since. And the dynasty we do with Jody it gives me that feeling because we only use Sleeper as the source to hold our information. Yeah, we do pretty much everything outside of Sleeper.
Speaker 2:Shout out Sleeper sponsors.
Speaker 1:Yeah, shout out Sleeper. Hey, we've been on Sleeper. We were on Sleeper before everybody else was.
Speaker 2:We started porting over pretty quick.
Speaker 1:We were on it when it was beta.
Speaker 2:Now, one thing that they try to do all the time with jody and y'all's. It's usually, you know, predicated on weather and stuff like that, but jody lives a hop and a skip down that back yeah you know back row pass the football field. So they talk about doing like 40 yard dash and field goal kicking competition only did it once, since I've been there there's always food we have, we have a great time.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's not, we have a board, we do it on a board and it's the same thing. Yeah, but we did. That's what ryan was talking about, about doing it from the papers. We did literally, we did the scoring and everything on a whiteboard, like I did it myself, like we and ryan would split the teams and we do it. We did the scoring, we found the scores in the papers, the stats in the paper, and and like and done all the scoring and our scoring was outrageously insane because there was no guideline, because we didn't have any idea what everybody else was doing.
Speaker 2:Quarterbacks are scoring like 4,000 points a game yeah.
Speaker 1:The most obscure shit ever. But it doesn't matter, we were giving them like one point per passing yard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like insane.
Speaker 1:And when you look back on it, it doesn't matter, because numbers like if you just drop a decimal point off of it, it's the same thing anyway. If he got 40 instead of 400, you know it's like it doesn't matter. Um, especially when there was no status quo, there was nothing, we were the first ones doing it like nothing to go by not the first ones doing it, but you know we were together here and technology hadn't found its way to a humble mountain.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, to be.
Speaker 1:Kind of sucks, don't it that we like when we started doing it online.
Speaker 2:Oh God, no, no, like there's parts of this that sucks, yeah, but like those Sundays or those Mondays, sucked those Mondays yeah those. Mondays and Tuesdays were awful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because me and him grinded our asses off getting stats. Here's the thing. Yeah, because me and him grinded our asses off getting stats. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2:Here's what you've got to think about. There was not an online database to set your roster, so what everybody did we'd have like a group text going on and it's like all right, by Thursday there was no Thursday night football games. Really at that point in time, it was only like one Thursday a year, so by like Friday night, everyone had to text your starting lineups.
Speaker 2:Okay night everyone had to text your starting lineups. Okay, it was wild. And then you had, we put it on a board that he kept, and that was when he was living in whiteburg.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we literally had like one of your two bedrooms was literally just fantasy football shit and like literally you'd have to put it on the board if you done trades. It had to be manually calculated. Like we had one white board that was just people's rosters. It was awesome. Free agency was non, was non-existent. We didn't really do it. Yeah, like you drafted pretty much what you had, because there's no way to keep each other.
Speaker 1:You did free agency when there was injuries. It was the only time we even fucked with it. Really, Yep, If there was injuries, it's the only time you fucked with it. And now it's, like you know, constantly all the time football going on and we're fucking with the rosters right now.
Speaker 2:That's why I love my dynasty now.
Speaker 1:I like to get into a dynasty league if we have somebody drop out. I considered you because I think everybody knows you in that group. It's Puckett you're dependable too and it's Puckett yeah, it's Puckett and Jody, and you're a Steelers fan. So if you're losing, losing, you won't give up.
Speaker 2:That's true, it's pucker.
Speaker 1:Jody nate lies, yeah you literally know everybody but two people yeah, and we really don't know them. Two people danny, danny field danny filled in for somebody who never, never was involved in with it. Yeah, danny's never involved, literally.
Speaker 2:I forgot he was in it till just there's another one that you can send trades don't you forget he's in it, I know, I know danny's there, but there's another one you send trade offers to and he won't read them for like six months, and then, all of a sudden, you know like the only person that can reach out to them is Jody. Yeah, it's funny, it just feels kind of a little bit like a sham, yeah, it seems bad, but the thing is like on Dynasty.
Speaker 2:completely different than redraft is players that hold value on a year-to-year basis, like your Derrick Henrys and stuff like that in the world. In a redraft you're going to take them mid-first, late-first, early-second. Things change obviously year-to-year, but Dynasty you want to build for the long haul. Yeah start young. Yeah, you want to start young when you can. Or there's some people that's like hey, I know Everybody in this league If it's a buying league.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I know everybody in this league Is going to try to go young, go for low haul. So I'm going to go For that low hanging fruit and just try to Pounce on that. First championship Right off the bat.
Speaker 1:Because I've heard.
Speaker 2:About the trades. The rookie draft's the funnest part of it.
Speaker 1:So that's something during season at work. Man sleeper app is like a favorite on my browser. Yeah, sleeper app is constantly up just like rolling through shit, especially during free agency season or when we're coming up on the draft and doing mocks and shit, I got one right now.
Speaker 2:That's bad and I know Key will agree with this Monopoly go. Y'all are fucking dude she plays it there ain't no fucking way, you play as much as her.
Speaker 1:It's so bad.
Speaker 2:I started playing two and a half weeks ago. I'm on like board 96. It's a problem. It's such a problem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, y'all, I ain't playing it. It's not even a real game, right? You just fucking move around.
Speaker 2:It's literally just spamming. Dice rolls and listen. The only reason I attack you is because it always brings you up. It's you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're at the top.
Speaker 2:Samantha and Ron Fugate Bree. It's you, yeah, you're samantha. And ron fugate brie. Yeah, my wife, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law, my grandmother-in-law, and then, like two other people, james win. Shout out jimmy guilliam. Hey, holler at us.
Speaker 1:If you, if you play monopoly, go y'all fucking comment on it and and leave that shit so blow my shit up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they can add you. It's so much fun. I'm still not playing.
Speaker 1:There you go, they're showing, oh, they're doing.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, Flakes and.
Speaker 1:Look at this shit. Yeah, look what I caught. She fucking walked in today and was like I got my, Said it, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:She's got my net worth doubled.
Speaker 1:Doubled your net worth. Doubled Four dollars to eight Yep it's bad, you can play this album yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the about how you doing.
Speaker 1:How you doing Everything going all right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You quit your job, yet I wish as soon as. I get these bills paid off, though, as soon as they fucking go, and you had to have a side by side, didn't you? I had to.
Speaker 2:Had to have a fucking side by side. I wasn't working.
Speaker 1:Now you fucking, now you working all the time your I'm 80 years old Trapped in a 30 year old Party.
Speaker 2:Y'all just keep going. I got some, y'all just keep.
Speaker 1:Fucking rolling he's. You got some rumors. You need to take care of Some rolls. Oh, some rolls you gotta take care of. Fuck the rumors.
Speaker 2:Listen, your shields are all gone. No, my shields are intact. This is the best podcast. I'm number 11 right now On my tournament setting, so you know what's.
Speaker 1:I think we'll talk about our numbers on the show, because it's impressive that anybody listens to the show.
Speaker 2:It is my impression.
Speaker 1:Let's pull that up, let's see what that looks like the whole time you want me to pull the fucking numbers up. I got you boo you pulling them up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1:I looked at them a little bit the other day, but I'm more worried about trying to get people to listen to Wayne West and talk to me.
Speaker 2:Good luck with that.
Speaker 1:I had there. Did you listen to the rest of the recent episode? I can't. You need to because Wayne's trying to start a feud with you, with me, about turnbuckles or some shit. God damn it, I can't fight with stupidity.
Speaker 2:I ain't doing that. If you put me on that one episode, me and he'll be somebody will cry.
Speaker 1:I think it's what we need. Bro is a crossover episode. We get Wayne and Weston in here. I don't think you'd ever.
Speaker 2:There is a laugh button. You just try to generate that heat.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, there's not a laugh button. Sorry, We've been talking about doing it. You want me to add one right now 9000. Wow, I hope 15 people listen to this episode. We're going to download it 15 times.
Speaker 2:I'm going to download it 15 times, just so I can say bitches, we got there.
Speaker 1:Never downloaded it.
Speaker 2:We're going to do it.
Speaker 1:We're going to make shit happen Never even listened to an episode. I'm lying, but I never listened to it.
Speaker 2:Making fetch happen right now.
Speaker 1:I do listen to the other one because I'm confused about everyone's making Fitch happen right now.
Speaker 2:I do listen to the other one because I'm confused on it. Where did it go?
Speaker 1:Where did it be? I'm paid lunch. What cards? Mike's cards, mike's flashcards? Where are Mike Adams flashcards? Hold on, stand by. You guys got to talk. There's download.
Speaker 2:You guys got to talk. There's a download. Just throw up a sign that says out to lunch. We'll return in a moment.
Speaker 1:He said fucking nothing. I said you guys talk for a second.
Speaker 2:Let me grab these. I told you I'm downloading shit. I'm trying to get us to 9,000. Oh God.
Speaker 1:All right, the idea is downloading this all night long Fix fucking bot numbers. Yeah, since it's baseball season, oh God, all right Ideas down on this all night long, fix fucking bot numbers yeah, since it's baseball season, oh God, read one we're not even going to read them. Why is the shift the worst thing to ever happen in baseball. It sounds like she pops up when she. It sounds like she pops up. What was that shit it's like? Next question why is the shift the?
Speaker 2:worst thing to ever happen in baseball and then we start talking about it now you direct correlation, though you want to talk about things that distract you from work and shit not getting done. Man, opening day is coming up quick I'm pumped about it in japan.
Speaker 1:What's? Already happening it already happened in japan yeah, listen, tre Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 2:I want to hit a sensitive subject here. Have you followed the whole entire Trevor Bauer situation Not recently? Okay, so I'm a firm believer in if you do shady shit, you get shady repercussions right. So he got in trouble for some violent sex acts a few years back that he claimed the entire time were consensual and agreed upon by the receiving party. She said otherwise and went to court. I would not be making any type of Consideration saying, hey, everyone, look at Trevor Bauer. If everything came back and said this dude's a sex pervert. Yeah, you're not pro sexual assault, I am not pro sexual assault.
Speaker 1:For the record, not pro sexual assault.
Speaker 2:So Found not guilty, everything got dropped, or Nickelodeon.
Speaker 1:Have you seen all this shit? Shut up, vince McMahon.
Speaker 2:Wrong company. This one's just not got exposed. Nickelodeon have you seen all this?
Speaker 1:shit. I think Disney's been exposed a bunch of times. I think, yeah, you're right, this Nickelodeon stuff's crazy.
Speaker 2:That's what I earlier today. It was gas, but Trevor was completely found either not guilty or everything was dropped the whole way through. Just hardcore. He's in hardcore shit, whatever. So now he's being blackballed. He is hitting 99 mile an hour.
Speaker 1:I was going to say he's playing good baseball right Over his last four starts in Japan.
Speaker 2:He has thrown 30 innings. He has a 2.06 ERA. I think I'm autistic. I remember all this. Yeah, you remember those numbers this last start three hits, 12 Ks, nine innings shutout. No one will give the man a contract. Stay sad. Pr nightmare people are gonna p no matter where. Nah, but I also think.
Speaker 1:I also think uh, is it the colin?
Speaker 2:kaepernick treatment. Oh, are we kind of are we sure people care. Except he's white, that's true. Are we sure people care? I don't know. What do people care more about? Like kneeling for the national anthem. Does he win? People don't care. If you win, he wins. If you win, people don't know. What do people care more about? Like kneeling for the national anthem Does he win?
Speaker 1:People don't care if you win, he wins. If you win, people don't care, he wins.
Speaker 2:You know what Colin Kaepernick? He's a PR nightmare right now.
Speaker 1:If Colin Kaepernick was a Super Bowl winning quarterback, everything would probably have been okay. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:That last start. What was it? Four picks Kind of screwed him, yeah, Although I was kind of curious if my bolts would end up even looking at him, since we've got Harbaugh and Roman, so I mean there's that. I hope you all do something with Herbert.
Speaker 1:I really like him. Monroe wants a quarterback, Monroe wants another one. He just wants you to stack quarterbacks on top of each other.
Speaker 2:He's trying to make one good quarterback and they're trying to put all their quarterbacks. Three equals one. If you start stacking them on top of each other without consent, you end up in Japan.
Speaker 1:Hey, speaking of Japan, is Shohei Otani going to get a lifetime ban?
Speaker 2:I know there's a lot of free Pete Rose, because it's real sketchy free pete rose moving around right now real sketchy, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:And boy, right now there's the spotlight. He's the best player in baseball he might be the greatest player of all time. Are you gonna do it or not?
Speaker 2:700 million dollars. Man I know her million dollar man.
Speaker 1:So I don't know he could cut a baby's head off in the middle of the field and they couldn't suspend him probably not billy long post earlier.
Speaker 2:He's like literally free pete rose into the hall of fame. Free reggie bush's um trophy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, reggie bush's heisman trophy is the most bullshit, it's more bullshit now with an aisle, it's more bullshit than pete rose because of an aisle. I was like hey, that shit that he didn't get that title for I mean so the other day at work, I'm gonna talk about rabbit hole derrick rose's is different, right, derrick rose's? Uh, derrick rose was cheating on a test yeah, right it's not, it wasn't money.
Speaker 2:No, his was eligibility. Now, this was someone. I can't remember exactly what it was bush but it was financial implication. Um, got down a rabbit hole at work the other day while I was processing payroll and it was the whole entire. Did you all see the? I can't remember I don't know if it was court proceeding or if it was some type of it was some type of shit that Nick Saban spoke out against the NIL on. Did you see it?
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't see that he spoke out against it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he said it was the driving factor for why he retired.
Speaker 1:I can see that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Started talking about how him and his wife had this. It was like a brunch kick-out type thing for all the recruits coming in.
Speaker 2:They'd invite their whole entire families. So he would go out and meet with the players, meet with the dads, and his wife would stay behind with the mothers and kind of talk about what him and her were going to do together as a family for their kids, how they were their extension of their family now and how they were going to turn them into young men and gentlemen. And this is, and this and I said over the last two years things that got a little bit weird. His wife pulled him to the side and said we're not doing that this year, right? He said what do you mean? She? She said there's no point in it anymore. She said we don't need to have the cookout. He's like why? And she's like because whenever I pull the parents aside and I'm telling them what I'm going to do and what we're going to do as a family for them, they're asking me how much money we're going to pay them. They don't care about it.
Speaker 1:They don't care about it, they don't want to do more, and that's why he doesn't want involved with it.
Speaker 2:Nope, and you know Like listen, I respect Saban to a degree right there, like the man was a trailblazer in recruiting. You see them old videos of him going out and dancing and stuff and acting like a damn fool and people hated it. But when you're winning, Well, you know the direction.
Speaker 1:You know the direction you're going down and you know what I'm going to talk about next.
Speaker 2:If you're recruiting and you're winning, it's not a problem.
Speaker 1:Right, but if you're recruiting and you're not winning, and you're losing the first round of the SEC tournament, who the fuck's going?
Speaker 2:to pay that $34 million buyout.
Speaker 1:Somebody's going to have to pay it.
Speaker 2:You have to pay that and the new coach, yeah, who's going to pay $34?
Speaker 1:million buyout. Here's what I think.
Speaker 2:Well, I think Mitch Barnhart's a fucking idiot for giving him that contract. Here's what I think.
Speaker 1:I think he's not going to lose his job this year. No, he can't. It's not financially, I think.
Speaker 2:if you lose him, you lose the recruits. Oh, you will. Whatever he does, At some point that's going to happen.
Speaker 1:Look answer me this, answer me this Name three coaches that you'd rather have than Calip right now, mark Few immediately right top of my list.
Speaker 2:I see a lot of people talking about Bruce Pearl. I mean I don't. I say no, we said that and I said, if you have to, get rid of Cal.
Speaker 1:You can't put somebody in place, that's Cal, right. You have to put somebody in place. That's a young dude who is gonna well, mark.
Speaker 2:Few's not that young, no, but it's gonna do something different.
Speaker 1:Shaka Smart kind of washed himself, I think, though, because he had a bad couple seasons somewhere.
Speaker 2:Well, he faded in security. But anyway I think I'll tell you, the one that most people want is Billy Donovan, but here's the problem Wherever Cal goes, that recruiting class goes too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's probably only we were talking about earlier. There's probably only four or five teams in the country that wouldn't fire their coach for Cal. Oh yeah, you know what I mean. So that's kind of the problem Immediately Almost everybody would just fire their coach.
Speaker 2:I was like the only ones that wouldn't are the people who are going to be in the Final Four this year.
Speaker 1:So I'll tell you where he ends up at Duke, would fire that dude and hire.
Speaker 2:Cal. I'll tell you where he ends up at right now. Call him a shot.
Speaker 1:University of Southern California. Oh really, Because LeBron, Because the connection LeBron just about came to the UK. Because the connection I know that's what I'm saying because the fucking connection, yeah.
Speaker 2:I can see that he takes an Italian mob with you to Southern California.
Speaker 1:He'll win a national championship with USC. We're talking about recruiting power and then all of a sudden, bronny comes back sophomore year.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you.
Speaker 1:USC I'm calling it that would be. So that's what my hot seat doing something other than work is on the hot seat, because all the Kentucky fans now we're just going to be doing work.
Speaker 2:I literally almost deleted Facebook for like three days. I haven't watched UK basketball in like two years.
Speaker 1:College basketball is dead to me.
Speaker 2:It's the same shit. Anybody that's said since like 2019 that something was going to change, you're delusional. Yeah, I've not been watching it. It's wild to me when I saw prognosticators the other day saying that Reed Shepard was going to be the number one pick in the NBA draft. I was like, damn, this is a down NBA draft If we're talking about Reed Shepard being the number one pick when he's not even a fucking starter on UK's team.
Speaker 1:Number one pick in the draft. It's crazy. They're talking about it and he don't start Six foot three Shooting guard. It's crazy, I think. If Cal, how about?
Speaker 2:Dynasty Sports. Let me trade All my first round Shares If Cal did come, if Cal did come back.
Speaker 1:How many of those boys he could get to stay Like Reed's gonna go.
Speaker 2:I still think Reed stays.
Speaker 1:Really I think he stays.
Speaker 2:Just for the name, cause his mom and dad, yeah, depends on the draft process, and I don't care who your mom and dad is. If someone tells you You're going to be the first pick In the draft and you're guaranteed A bag full of money, you're gone. That's true it is a big bag.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he don't need money. They don't need money that my family don't.
Speaker 2:But sure he's got infinite nil deals too well here's the thing though he's, if he's guaranteed to be a lock yeah, I agree, in this year's draft he's not gonna be next year no, no, no, he's not and he could get hurt.
Speaker 1:I mean, you have to go, you go, you have to go I mean nil is its own thing in and of itself.
Speaker 2:um, a lot of people say, hey, you know, if you're in football you don't leave after junior season Now, you stay for your senior year, et cetera, et cetera, because you're still making money. But if I'm a player, I want to get through that rookie contract as quick as I fucking can and get the big bag.
Speaker 1:I just don't know, because they're talking about players staying now because they can make more money If they're not going to be a top five pick they're going to make more money in college than they are in the NFL in pros.
Speaker 2:In the long run it's actually probably half.
Speaker 1:They said they can get a full education and make the money they were going to make as a pro.
Speaker 2:I ain't none of them going to school for a freaking education, ain't?
Speaker 1:none of them. Some of them yeah, but they will if they're going to stay four years and get paid for it.
Speaker 2:They have to because they're going to stay four years and get paid for it.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah they have to because they're going to have to be eligible.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what I'm talking about. I mean, if you're going to be there, you have to do the schoolwork.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. They're all going to get a degree in. What's the degree you get for being an announcer?
Speaker 2:Oh good, no, it used to.
Speaker 1:The big one was God. What was it UK?
Speaker 2:Something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a. Or not physical science, but like science of Public relations was one of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, was a big one Science of broadcasting or something.
Speaker 2:That's the one that you like to get into the broadcasting field. And then there's another one. It was basically a humanities degree, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then, if I can, just to get a four year degree.
Speaker 2:It was a bachelor's of arts.
Speaker 1:Listen to me bit idiots bullshit what fucking idiots having a degree? That's what they get, but yeah, that's, we're not going to get to. I'm not going to get to watch any, because it's all dead to me. I don't know if I'm not going to watch any more college basketball, so instead I'm gonna um, you see, someone put a sixty thousand dollar bet on duquesne.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's a lot was duquesne hasn't won a game since 69. They put $60,000 on them to lose by five and they won by 12.
Speaker 1:Why would you bet $60,000 on something that they were probably?
Speaker 2:They were favored to lose by 10.
Speaker 1:Why would you put that money on them? I don't understand that. Something else to do instead of work. That's related to sports also is when all of us are going to be taking a week off work, the week that NCAA 24 comes out or NCAA 25 comes out.
Speaker 2:Listen, I've already got my whole entire freaking month lined up for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I really I'm going to delete myself from everybody.
Speaker 2:Talk about content creation, my God, so listen to this Monroe. I'll talk to him about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm pumped about it All right.
Speaker 2:Here's what we're going to do. We're going to make a YouTube channel. We are going to, depending on how many owners or coaches or whatever you want to call it, ads, whatever it is, you take that many people. Let's say it's 30 teams. You build out a 30-team league. I've already got the logo built. I've already showed it to Dustin, so you take the cover art of the game and replace it. Have you ever seen the movie the?
Speaker 1:Program Mm-mm.
Speaker 2:So it's about college football. Literally, I've taken the program like the actual dvd cover art and put it over top of ncaa 25. Okay, so basically what we're going to do is I'm going to treat it like espn. Every single coach that gets hired into the role, we're going to interview them about your recruiting. We're going to do interviews and segments about your games. There's going to be rules and stipulations in place. So you know, traditionally NCAA football does a scale of one to five in terms of how powerful your program is. You can't do anything above a three-star.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So you have to start at a three. Like Calgo Bears, Arizona Wildcats, something of that nature, Arizona will probably be banned. I won't let nobody use Arizona. Why? Because traditionally they will be a three-star platform school, but they've got one of the top five quarterbacks in the country this year and arguably the number one wide receiver.
Speaker 1:Arizona does.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Big Milan and Noah Fafita.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I think his name is Noah. I know his last name is Fafita, but he's probably top five quarterback and easily the number one or number two wide receiver. So it's a three-star team that you're just getting studs. Yeah, it's busted. So basically, you take the three-star platform school and you play through the first season. Ideally, what I would like to do is every person gets at least one user game. So when we go through building up schedules like, say, you're in what used to be the pack, whatever you're in the SEC or whatnot, normally you two wouldn't play. But I won't try to find some way to where everyone in the league plays at least one user game and then just progress along your recruiting strategies and things like that. You do a big special when all of a sudden someone gets a job interview and kind of interview them.
Speaker 2:See, how what their decision making process is for getting that job. I think it'd be fun as fuck I think it's awesome. I do full like. I've got people all the way over in brathen county that's interested in it already I think you get people all over the country doing it.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think you get people in different places doing it I think it'd be awesome so that's you know, I'm down dying to do.
Speaker 2:And that's the thing is there's other strategies coming to place, like I've done a 15 man before that. We ran it for actually probably six or seven seasons. It was a good time. Um, I was the first person to get a five-star, a five-star program, not because I was good, but because I was smarter than everybody else. Everybody went to the SEC. Everybody went to East Coast platforms, like somebody went to. We didn't do the three-star list in that one. No, yeah, we did, we did. But most people went ACC, sec, big 10, big 12. I went all the way out west. I took California.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm the only person Recruiting Fucking west of Texas, recruiting on that side of the country. Yeah, so I think that first season I went like 11 and 1. Because we didn't have mandatory user games. So all 12 of my games were against the computer. We were playing on Heisman.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think I lost to USC or no, it was Oregon when, oh yeah, and I think I lost to USC, or no, it was.
Speaker 1:Oregon, when Oregon was really good.
Speaker 2:They fucking dismantled me. I got offered Oregon. Oregon head coach got fired it would have been Chip Kelly. Then he got fired and I got the job. Everyone else is still fighting with each other, going fucking like eight and four and shit out on the East Coast. I'm like, eh, you coaching Oregon. I had Oregon with all nine fucking thousand jersey options. It was awesome. Oregon's the best team ever to have. They're hard to recruit on that game oh really nobody wants to go to oregon.
Speaker 2:You think they do like back in the mariotta days, but nobody wants to go up there in that fucking rain yeah, nobody so my goal was to try to have a couple seasons there and then come down to USC. That was my goal, my dream get down to LA, start recruiting there. I think I ended up at Texas, though, if I remember right, I ended up at Texas. I'm all about it.
Speaker 1:I think we can get people in on it. I mean people would do it for sure.
Speaker 2:Well, it's fun because you have the Heisman part right, so naturally. What's fun? Because you have the Heisman part right, so naturally, when you got a bunch of people playing user teams, all five Heisman hopefuls are from user teams.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they're trying to fucking, and then everybody's trying to just put up the most losing games astronomical, god-awful stats I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2:I had a guy. He's like man. The only thing Ron does throw the ball. He's gonna throw 25 fucking interceptions big. He's going to have 7,500 passing yards. I had 500 yards passing the game. It was like a Cliff Kingsbury offense. It was nuts.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:He said you can't even run the ball. I was like what the fuck? Next year I literally took and revamped my whole entire offense with my recruiting class. I was at Texas. At that point I had a six-foot-tall 225-run back come in with dreads. I put a visor on him and I changed his name to fucking Ricky Williams and I rushed for 2,500 fucking yards. I just fucking forged it down people's throats? I didn't. I was like who's running the ball now, bitch?
Speaker 1:I ran an offense that was literally just it was literally three yards in a cloud of dust, oh, and I ran the clock out, and I ran the clock out. I had the ball for a whole fucking quarter. I had the ball for a whole quarter and score, and then play solid defense and had the ball for another quarter. I ran 10-3.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's all the team was. I won a Heisman with a defensive player.
Speaker 1:Awesome, that's hard to do in that game.
Speaker 2:Back then they had a nickel 155 prowl blitz oh.
Speaker 1:I love a nickel 155 prowl blitz. Oh, I love the nickel 155.
Speaker 2:If he was good with a free safety. Yeah, the only hole in the entire defense was the running back. If someone put the running back on a flat outside and just dumped it outside, or was able to get the option out quick, they were gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 75, 80 yards every time.
Speaker 2:So you had to be really good playing that free safety and matching and watching where the tailback goes. If that tailback sits in the backfield, the block, you blitz, yeah, you blitz with that free safety right up the gut, if not. Wherever they go. Screens hurt too, because it was a nasty blitz.
Speaker 1:It's worth it though.
Speaker 2:You bring it. So If you recruited press corners, I would recruit the slowest fucking corners in the world.
Speaker 1:I didn't care, but they beat the shit out of people.
Speaker 2:Listen. It was Yokozuna on the freaking line, Like Edmund Honda.
Speaker 1:Hands slapping people.
Speaker 2:I'm like you ain't fucking going nowhere. You gave me seven-tenths of a second that Blitz was getting home. I love that shit. I'd rather the 85 feet corners.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. That's got me excited. I'm saying my mom was talking about today.
Speaker 2:I could sit and talk about this all day long. I'm not even got the show yet this year because I'm so excited about the NCAA football yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to show anything, I'm not playing it, I ain't got time. That's what I didn't have time. But my mom was talking about and I was like well, I've got enough PTO for a vacation, but when college football comes out, I'm taking like 24 hours of it. I was like so I'm at least taking.
Speaker 2:I've got five days. Right now I'm bankrupt.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm off Saturday and Sunday so I was like I can take Monday and Tuesday. When's it come out? I think it comes out on a Thursday, so I can take like Thursdayursday, friday, saturday, sunday. Yeah, that'd be long enough for me and ryan to build well, I'm wanting to get to seven days that way.
Speaker 2:Well, right now I got five days, so that gets me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we can off consecutively yeah, and, and we could build the infrastructure for one and do a practice one oh god yeah and see if we could get.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna have six going at one time yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm excited about it Just take off work, quit your job, they're going to put me back on site.
Speaker 2:They will, because you have to play that fucking game.
Speaker 1:I'll have to go back on site. I'll do it to myself.
Speaker 2:I'll make myself go back on site. I will.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you do too much shit, I'll get fired. Played a lot of Apex March from home.
Speaker 2:Did, did a lot of that shit.
Speaker 1:I don't even now like I've been working at home now for about three months and I don't play any video. I know you don't do anything. That's what like what I did in.
Speaker 2:What I did instead of working um shop on ebay, uh, play video games, watch youtube I boost my uh battle pass on fortnight, every day so since they've added the guitar hero shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a festival main stage and there's a jam stage, like a side stage, and there's a four quests that you get every day. That attributes to daily, and then you get a weekly and it bumps your actual battle pass level up by like three every day you do it. So I'll pull up fortnight and I'm like, okay, I need to go and I need to play this song for three minutes on drums and I'll set the controller and I'll let the control down and I'll start working.
Speaker 1:It's like all right now I got to change it to bass guitar.
Speaker 2:I'm going to start working again. I got to get my like three or four day levels of my battle pass in every day, but that's about all I do. I don't fight with fucking sales all day long.
Speaker 1:This has nothing to do with anything we're really talking about, except for Chris at work. Shout out Chris, chris Hibbs, I guess Congratulations, you got applause.
Speaker 2:The yawns.
Speaker 1:Chris at work Wanted me to play Helldivers with him.
Speaker 2:I've heard good shit about Helldivers yeah.
Speaker 1:Helldivers is awesome. I started playing it.
Speaker 2:I've heard it's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So here's this thing I do. One of my friends that I want to hang out with more and want to play video games with will say, hey, would you like to play this game? And I'm like, yeah, I would like to play that game, but I don't have time to play that game, so I'm not even going to get it. And I'm like, all right, I'm not going to get it. And then I hang out with them a little bit more and they talk about the game. That's all I talk about is the game. I'm like, all right, man, I'll get it, but I'm not going to play it. I'm not going to. It was destiny and I played it and then I'll get it. Problems and I'll get it. And I played hell divers never with him. I played about four times. Sounds better, right? I played about four times when he was asleep. I played and then I got into it and never played it again.
Speaker 2:So I spent 40 dollars.
Speaker 1:Randoms, just cuban I played with randoms a little bit, man, but like, if I want to play with randoms, I'll just play something. I want to play randoms. Like if I'm gonna play randoms, I'll play another fucking game I can play with randoms. Yeah that I know how to play, I'll just go play. I'll just go play shipment on call of duty. Like I can fucking just run a shotgun around and throw grenades and blow a bunch of shit up. I don't care you're right take me back to warzone.
Speaker 1:When it was good, though, take me back to take me back to I enjoyed warzone first came out god it was so fun that's just well.
Speaker 2:I mean that br is dead. What was the first br?
Speaker 1:it came out they got pub g was it pub g pub g was the first one, because pub g was a mod right on. Pub g was a, a mod on a game and then Fortnite.
Speaker 2:Fortnite came thereafter. Call of Duty was the last. I think it was on the last.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Warzone was definitely later than everybody else's BR.
Speaker 2:What helped with Warzone is a lot of people didn't want to do the building aspect of Fortnite.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes, you shoot somebody in the fucking left butt, cheek, and all of a sudden they build the entire piece.
Speaker 1:The problem with Warzone was there was too many Call of Duty players. I know that sounds dumb, but it was too much Call of Duty.
Speaker 2:If you play, PUBG.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pubg is a totally different game, dude. It's slower, yeah, and if you get downed, it's so sweaty to kill downed people on PUBG Because PUBG is different than Warzone. That PUBG one-hit kill Like you're dead. If you get shot, you die. If you get shot, you die. It's realism. You have a little bit of armor, but you don't like run through a field and get hit four times, you're dead. And I think it was so sweaty to kill somebody that was down because if you reveal your position, you die. Like on the game.
Speaker 2:So, looking at it hindsight, there's some things that just don't make sense to me. You have battlefield that arguably really battled with call of duty. How could they never get a br?
Speaker 1:dude. The whole game is a fucking br why didn't they do it?
Speaker 2:I don't know why they never got that they could have just took the game and made it.
Speaker 1:You know that mode on the game, like the main mode you play on battle. Did you play battlefield by now? You put battlefield much. Do you play it? K, did you ever play it? So that mode on the game that's not just tdm, that mode where you have to take the, yeah, the, it's like conquest it's fucking br it's. It's a br like. That's what I was. It's crazy that it's not like the buildings never work for halo.
Speaker 1:I know halo was tailored, made to be a br you know, you know, like, oh man, halo would be such a good they could do it now.
Speaker 2:They could do it now, yeah, but here's the one that will be.
Speaker 1:Ours are dead, so they couldn't do it now I wouldn't say they're dead, I don't know, because fortnight's like barely a br anymore.
Speaker 2:I mean the no bill mode really brought, brought it back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know some people play the game for a lot of different reasons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I play it for the guitar here that's what I'm saying. People play it's like roblox but the lego survival mode that they've added it's, it's, it's roblox, but it's kind of one of those things. Now it's a one-stop shop, you can do a little bit of everything. Fortnite was brilliant in changing that business.
Speaker 1:It's Roblox. Here's the one that I've been banging on the chalkboard for years now. Borderlands, dude, borderlands.
Speaker 2:Because it already feels like a BR Borderlands, Like it's the game that says that you basically have One trillion different Gun.
Speaker 1:Possibilities. So Apex, what's his name? Jetlegs, octane. Octane Is a Borderlands Character, bro. I mean Like His whole gimmick, his whole gimmick Is a bandit, right, his whole gimmick is that. And it shows you that that would be just it. You would just fall out of the sky as a bandit. You know what I mean, as, whatever you would fall, everybody could be a bandit. It'd be perfect.
Speaker 2:Well, you could set it up, even like with the four main classes. Yeah, oh yeah absolutely Like right now, like pretty much play apex. You have a scout. We should make video games. That's what I'm saying. You have a scout, you have hey, remember a guns archer remember when you ran, when you?
Speaker 1:this is let me tell you this, let me tell you this this is not anything you believe, right, because it sounds like bullshit. This is the most bullshit thing ever. That is real. That happened to me and ryan and it really it sounds like bullshit. Madden ultimate team. Do you know what we're talking about? Madden Ultimate Team? Right, ryan, me a little bit, but Ryan mainly Ryan had a huge part in the creation of Madden Ultimate Team, like of it, of it existing at all, and who was on it and what it did. The dude who created it talked to ryan on a daily basis about how it was working 9-11 and yeah and, and how it would, and how everybody was gonna like things. Ryan had complete hat. Ryan was like borderline game developer, oh yeah, and and if we knew things we knew now he probably would have used that as an end to get in with that guy, but we were I mean, you know, we were young dumb and broke.
Speaker 2:It was a beta launch that came well into the efforts of Madden.
Speaker 1:Madden had been out a while before they added it, I think it was.
Speaker 2:Madden Breeze was on the cover, yeah. So basically, madden came out and they were like we want to build out this card, like we want to build up this card structure, we want to build this out and see how people feel about it. I got involved, got invested in it, really got him twisted into it.
Speaker 2:Uh now through forums yeah, it was basically ran through the ea forums. Um, I'll never like guys like, uh, there's a mad labber. Never will forget him. Ej NFL has a bunch of us, but there was like seven of us that were main contributors to it. I swear to God that I was single, was working in the mind and you know mind and industry.
Speaker 2:At the time I bet you I spent no less than five grand on Madden ultimate when it was coming to life and if I got to the point where I wasn't spending any money on it, they was giving me coin basically saying go here, break this, do that. That was when I originated and me and three guys honed and built out the Nickel 155 Proud Blitz. Darren Sharper was your free safety. There were certain players that you build out. They were even asking us Like, what players should we build cards for? It's like we have the base models, but what do we do?
Speaker 1:They created the powder blue LaDainian Tomlinson For Ryan in the game.
Speaker 2:I built Tomlinson out. I built out a 99 overall. Jason Taylor, for the Dolphins you had CJ2K and that sounds like a made-up story, but but it really.
Speaker 1:It really was happening like real time. I was fucking helping write a game started out like we're out of mode.
Speaker 2:Let's do random drops. Let's say on tuesday, now it's all the way through the message boards that these three new cards are coming out they're added in there. These are chase label cards that you go through. Um then, once it progressed from that, we actually started suggesting well, what if we do one of like right now in a big thing in the uh, in the card industry now with autographs and stuff like that is a one of 100, one of 99 things like that.
Speaker 2:Uh, we started doing. Uh release cards like that on tuesdays. Remember deshaun jack your idea was the deshaun jackson jackson. There was a. He had a punt return. It was really big. One weekend dusty said, uh, push that. Uh, deshaun jackson, punt return from like week 12. We pushed it. That was the first one they built. They done 100 of them. But then they were like man, we can make a whole lot more money if we done more than 100 copies of copies of this card.
Speaker 1:Like what do we do?
Speaker 2:a thousand of them yeah, yeah, we're short changers. So was it a thousand? I can remember it was a hundred a thousand no hundred.
Speaker 1:It was a hundred to start out.
Speaker 2:So we started out. That was, I think, the only one that actually got a limited run, because we realized guys y'all ain't making money this way yeah, you gotta, you gotta get a steadier launch. Uh, back then there was no albums. Uh, there's no collection pieces.
Speaker 1:It was so basic.
Speaker 2:It was so basic, you capped out it was better you capped out at 99 999 coin, yeah it was, there was no trade auctions were real.
Speaker 1:There was auctions.
Speaker 2:But like, all of a sudden, everyone and that's what was crazy about it, is it developed its own secondary market. It became magic the gathering. Yeah, and it was not what we anticipated. Yeah, and it's what was crazy about it is. It developed its own secondary market.
Speaker 1:It became Magic, the Gathering yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was not what we anticipated.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And everyone's like well, this Adrian Peterson card is quite clearly the best running back card. It's worth more than $99,999. We're like, okay, cool, there's not a way to trade. So how do you do this? So then we started having to build out like secret handshake deals because you could go and search. The search parameters for auctions was skewered, um. But if you honed in on one specific price, it's like okay, monroe, I'm gonna sell you this adrian peterson, but here's how it's gonna work.
Speaker 2:I believe that this card's worth 350 000 gold. So I'm to sell you three cards, four cards at 99 full 99 cap, and it's gonna be bullshit silver cards. You're gonna give me the money. All right. Then at that point, once we get to the point where we've evened it up, we're gonna sit in an obscure price. It's gonna be like 34 568. That way you search for that exact amount. Yeah, we both get into an Xbox live party. We say one, two, three go. We search the same time together. You get your card. Then it developed a sniping market. People would learn what mine and your code is and what I would post shit for. And if I?
Speaker 1:posted. Hey, I want this CJ2K people were prowling the forums, people were getting $400,000 cards for five grand.
Speaker 2:Me and Dusty would broker a sale for a CJ2K, but I knew Dusty posted his shit for $34,568. Oh yeah, I'd watch y'all's interactions back and forth on that thread and then I'd sit and spam that fucking button for about the next six hours.
Speaker 2:I would sit there and just spam it and I'd sit and spam that fucking button for the next six hours. I would sit there and just spam it and I'd snipe your car. Oh yeah, then both y'all be messaging me saying, man, it's bullshit, we agreed on a deal. This is bull. I'm like sorry, man, I bought a card. I found an auction. That's the thing. That's where me and mad lab and ej got really involved as we became forum police. It's like, basically, we built out a trusted, non-trusted list.
Speaker 2:This is people that's done five-star reviews on their trades that make the list that you should sail with God. If I could have made that into a career.
Speaker 1:Well, almost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd be like Ronnie fucking 2K.
Speaker 1:But you wouldn't have this podcast.
Speaker 2:Fuck, I'd be like ronnie fucking 2k but you wouldn't have this podcast. Fuck, I'd be building madden cards that I'm. In terms of video game.
Speaker 1:It's the most fun I've ever had yeah, you'd have been a good game developer that was the most fun that I ever had in my life with a video game outside of maybe I don't know. We had a lot of good times with Madden Madden in college.
Speaker 2:Listen Destiny was really big With Charlie. We played with Destiny's. I mean I built a lot of friends.
Speaker 1:You played with Charlie. Did you play with us and Charlie A little bit? Yeah, yeah, we played with Charlie, fucking, we probably had. We had hours and hours, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2:I spent more time with Drew and Tybo.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, Drew and Tybo.
Speaker 2:Drew and Tybo, so I spent a lot of time, but Destiny had a lot of hours involved. It was the RNG on that. Once they took away the RNG and made everything quest-driven, the game lost its luster. For me it was like you had people. Obviously they were pissed because they'd been playing the game for freaking eight months and never pulled a call.
Speaker 1:That's something I do instead of work was play on that fucking Destiny app and customize my dude on that fucking Destiny app the whole time. Fuck with that.
Speaker 2:The whole time. I'm telling you right now if at some point this is going to be a career, that means you're going to start. We're going to make an app where, literally, you just get that dopamine rush for opening shit. Yeah, they'll just literally just offer people five bucks just open random shit. Yeah, I mean, that's all it is. It's a fucking, it's a neurotoxin pretty much, because it's.
Speaker 1:It's not crates, baby, it's nuts. You think you just pay. Give me a dollar and you open a. Look great but that's.
Speaker 2:That's why I love the ultimate team.
Speaker 1:I know, dude, god, it's like I would sit and just fucking open.
Speaker 2:Ultimate team packs all day long Magic Arena. And all of a sudden when that freaking graphic dance on the screen, you're like, oh, there's that. Nnamdi Awesome Wad. Baby, nobody talks about Nnamdi Awesome Wad, nnamdi.
Speaker 1:Awesome. He was the best fucking corner on the game. Get fucked that guy. For about four years that guy was berserk.
Speaker 2:He was nuts.
Speaker 1:Berserk, he was nuts, honestly dude, you could not throw on his side of the field.
Speaker 2:Listen, in closing I'm going to stop after this. But in closing, defense Jason Taylor at right end. Okay, warren Sapp. At middle. There was a mean Joe Green. No, mean Joe Green wasn't there yet. What was the other D tackle? It was a Will Fork.
Speaker 2:The other rush defensive end was Derek Brooks. He was supposed to be a linebacker but we played him there. You didn't play any linebackers other than a middle linebacker. That was Ray Lewis, because he was running a 155, so you ran a shit ton of corners, but your main corners was Darrell Revis, revis Island, essentially, and your Nnamdi Asamoah that was your press guys. It was Revis Island essentially and your Nnamdi Asomwa. That was your press guys. Strong Safety was Ed Reed that came up and played man, and then you ran the Darren Sharper.
Speaker 2:It was the only 99 that wasn't on the team, but the 98. It was nuts.
Speaker 1:Remember there was a night train lane that was busted forever. Not on that game Not on that one, but a lot of retro.
Speaker 2:retro didn't come out until later. Yeah, During the beta you still had to be an active.
Speaker 1:Couldn't throw over top of that train. He was seven foot tall. Yeah, he was stupid, couldn't throw over top of him, but you still had to be active NFL PA to make that beta list.
Speaker 2:So like Jason Tyler was like on his last legs with the Jets there, so that's how he was able to get some of those.
Speaker 1:So that's kind of what we need to let our employers know is that if we are required to work on the week that the college football game comes out, I'm not working, I'm not working, I will not be working.
Speaker 2:I ain't doing it, nope check out Unpaid Lunch.
Speaker 1:We're on everything. We want you guys to comment and message us, interact with us. Um, we get bored at work and want to read your shit, so send us some stuff. Rhino, do you have mailbag stuff do?
Speaker 2:you want to save for next week? I think we'll save for next week okay, we're gonna do mailbags. We'll bring back mailbags next week I got a couple that we can link.
Speaker 1:Okay for next week yeah, I've got some exciting guests coming up. Hopefully. Hopefully we'll get those on. Check us out on Instagram. Go on there and share some shit there. You can check us out on Patreon too. We're going to share those. You can share those links. You can find them at the bottom of the damn page whenever we go through, whenever you read our descriptions I don't actually think anybody reads those. I think I could put stuff in the middle of it like given codes, I'm going to start putting code words in them and if you put the puzzle together, you're going to get um a free t-shirt a free t-shirt, a virtual high five?
Speaker 1:It's not? Yeah, you get a microphone, high five. Um, I'm going gonna put the all the patrons in the descriptions as well this time around, so instead of shouting them out, um, we'll do it that way. But, yeah, check us out everywhere there. Check out the show and color podcast also rhino hates that one, but we have a good time wrestling podcast. We're gonna get him on there eventually. We'll get him on there eventually. He's gonna have a good time talking about wrestling. Um, yeah, you guys got anything else?
Speaker 2:um, you're gonna roll this d8, this d6. Listen, we're at nearly 9 000 it's a five-year-old. It's been a fun year I feel, like there's been a lot of things that we've had a lot of impact on, but the one thing that I feel like we've had the greatest impact on, more than anything else, is I like to think we had successfully had the hand in the name changing of a restaurant in Letcher County. I really do think we had a part in that.
Speaker 1:I feel like it has a little.
Speaker 2:I saw that the other day and I was like God damn, that was us boys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was thinking that was us, their date.
Speaker 2:I was like, god damn, that was us boys. Yeah, I was thinking that was the new shop that's opening in cumberland. No, there's one open that's owned by him.
Speaker 1:So we were um, we don't mention any names, but I think we did have any that impact. I do think we got that name changed. I think maybe the heat we brought some heat yeah um, but it was you know, they earned that heat.
Speaker 2:We helped them quit their job.
Speaker 1:We helped them quit their fucking job. Um, all right, boys, you got monroe, you got anything key, you got anything. I'm good, all right, y'all remember, ain't nobody stopped if you're quitting your job. But you pretty good show it's really fast, really fast, maaaaaa. Thank you.