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SPEAKER_03:This is Melina. It is the biggest spider I've ever seen in my life.
SPEAKER_04:This is great.
SPEAKER_00:After this, I'm gonna get off here and I'm gonna drag it in the oh.
SPEAKER_01:This is the arrogant. At least I know two plus two is five. And this is the FJ Podcast.
SPEAKER_04:Are we ready? It is a great movie, not gonna lie. Not gonna lie, it's a great movie. Oh man. Okay, so if we're ready, we'll just dive right in here. Yeah?
SPEAKER_00:Let's get it. Let's get it.
SPEAKER_04:Welcome back to another beautiful episode of the FMJ podcast where we make all your wildest fantasies come true. I'm just kidding. We do not do that unless you slowly slip your finger into Grizz's left nostril and tickle his brain. He said, get in there.
SPEAKER_06:Get in there.
SPEAKER_04:Anyways, uh, no, don't do that. Don't tickle Grizz's brain. I mean, unless you really want to. Just make sure you use a feather. I hear you like it. Yes, please. I hear you like it like that. Yes, Daddy! Anyway, uh Zodia. So anyway, let's go around the room. Get everybody's pulse. We are we are missing Templeton. Uh he is out getting ready to camp or already camping. I'm not a hundred percent sure on that, so don't quote me. But he is going camping. Um, but I guess we can start with, you know what, Grizz, it's been a minute, bruh.
SPEAKER_00:It's clobbering time. Yeah, it's cla it's clobbering time. Yeah, it's been a minute. Um I'm trying to think. You know, today's been chill. I haven't done much. Good. I just been an ad I've just been an adult. Like I woke up kind of early, uh made breakfast. Actually, before I did any of that, I had to run to the store because I needed to get some groceries and stuff. So I hopped on my e-bike, e-bike, rode down to um a store that everyone hates right now. So I'm not gonna say it on air. But um Toys R Us? It it it rhymes with Margot. Um definitely Albertson's then, yeah. Exactly. Um but uh I just grabbed a few, I had to get a few ingredients uh for something, just for like food, and um that was the first time I went to go get groceries on my bike, and that was kind of fun. So that was fun. Um you have like a little basket on it, yeah. So I have a basket in the front and then a center console like in the middle, and uh that is like I forget how many liters, like I think 14 liters maybe. The center console. I don't know. It held a gallon of milk and a few other things.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, nice. I want a liter of cola. That's important. Anytime I hear a liter of something, where my brain goes to jump straight to that. Yep.
SPEAKER_00:Well, that's cool. So that was fun, and then I came back to the apartment, made some breakfast. I just made like bacon and eggs on toast. Ooh, that's like melted and cheddar cheese over top of it. That sounds good. Yeah, I miss eggs. So it was like it was like toast, it was toast and then bacon, and then the egg, like just fried, with uh smoked cheddar go or smoked gouda, I think, or smoked so gouda. It was either smoked gouda or smoked cheddar. I forget what I got.
SPEAKER_04:Either one is good.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I put that over top of the egg and like melted it over the egg, and then like built up this little like open sandwich. It was nice.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, talk talk foodie to me, bro.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no, talk talk foodie is that right exactly. Don't stop, don't stop. I like cooking food. I just don't take that good enough.
SPEAKER_04:Wait, what's what's our safe word deeper? Deeper. No, but that's cool. That sounds like uh sounds like a good breakfast. Sounds like you've had a pretty chill.
SPEAKER_00:Some drawing, drink some coffee. Put I put my magic mind in my coffee this morning. That was fun.
SPEAKER_04:How was that? How did it taste?
SPEAKER_00:Um, it tasted like magic mind flavored coffee. Hey, not gonna lie. Like it wasn't bad. It just like because I've I've seen people do that, and I was like, I've never thought to do that. So I tried it. It was alright.
SPEAKER_04:That I think I think they do recommend adding it to coffee because of the natural caffeine. Yep, because uh because of the natural caffeine that comes with the coffee, uh the L-theanine in that helps the absorption of the uh caffeine, all that kind of stuff. So makes the caffeine last longer, but it's like time released. So that's pretty dope. That's pretty dope. I like that you uh like that you had a chill day. That's good. Sometimes we need that, right? Like sometimes we need a day where we just kind of pump the brakes a little bit and and take in the scenery rather than you know keeping up with this fucking rat race that we call life, because yeah. Damn.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think it's just important to like take care of take care of yourself as much as you take care of others. A show. A show.
SPEAKER_02:What if you don't take care of other people?
SPEAKER_01:Then your cup runneth over.
SPEAKER_00:It's still important to take care of yourself though.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Okay, if you say so. And he does with his chest and his toes.
SPEAKER_00:All tan.
SPEAKER_04:All ten of all tan of well, that's cool. That's cool, bro. Um I'm I'm glad to hear it. Uh, keep that up. I know um know you've been doing a lot of skateboarding and stuff like that, so keep that up too, and um hopefully one day you'll be just as good as Tony Hawk.
SPEAKER_02:You know, is that your goal?
SPEAKER_00:To be as good as Tony Hawk? No.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:What? Actually, actually, you know, you know what a baby goal of mine has kind of been? What's that? I don't I don't know if I'm gonna actually do it, but because I have an autoimmune disease, I was thinking it would be kind of cool to like try to go pro at 35 with an autoimmune disease. Ooh, you should be able to do that. I mean, I mean that would be another story. Obviously, I'm not gonna try and go pro, but I think it's cool to like use whatever platforms we have to raise awareness for things that need to be uh aware, uh made aware of. Yeah, so um I am probably gonna, you know, like I'm not gonna like do much with skateboarding. I'm not gonna go around to skate parks and be like, hey, do you guys heard of yeah, but I think it'd just be cool to like make things like make maybe make my own board. That would be cool, and like the the design on the board has something to do with raising awareness of mixed connective tissue disease.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, that would that would be cool, that'd be dope, right?
SPEAKER_00:Like, that's what I was thinking of kind of working towards.
SPEAKER_04:You could do boards, you could do helmets, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Cause then it's like you can expand. Yeah, like I can just make like skateboard merch and memorabilia and shit. I I like the sport, you know. Um, it's a part of me, it's always been a part of me. I just haven't always had the strength to do it, so it's like I'm getting back to it. I've missed it, I've realized I've missed it by like having so much fun with it. It's so easy to want to go skate, yeah. You know, and it's such a brutal sport, yeah. For sure. I'd rather do that than go to the gym. Isn't that insane?
SPEAKER_02:No, like no, insane. It's it's like you're enjoying it, and to be fair, you're getting exercise.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say 100% am. I've lost weight. Like, I so back in February, I weighed almost 290. It was like 289. And I weighed myself like last week at the doctor, it was 124 kilos, which is like 271 pounds or something. Okay, and and then I weighed myself like a few like I think the week after that, and I'm like 269.
SPEAKER_04:Look at you.
SPEAKER_00:So like skating is like really helped me lose weight.
SPEAKER_04:It's physical. That's awesome. Yeah, it's physical. You're moving. It's like it's like doing any kind of activity like that skateboarding, rollerblading, biking, you name it. As long as you're active, you know, move move more. Like literally you name it. No, but it is literally that simple. Just move more, move, move your body more, and I promise you, yeah. Yeah, I promise you every single time you'll lose weight.
SPEAKER_02:So you're saying if I talk more shit, yes, you'll have the thinnest, the thinnest lips in the sea. Well, good. I mean guys will stop approaching me.
SPEAKER_04:Did I lose weight? Guys, did I lose weight? He'll start whistling when he talks.
SPEAKER_03:Exactly.
SPEAKER_04:God damn it.
SPEAKER_02:Oh god. Okay. That's the get for my lips.
SPEAKER_04:That that's that's that's nice. So keep uh keep talk keep talking your shit. Keep talking your shit, get your little bird lips. Get your little bird lips. Yep, right there, get your little bird lips. Anyway, uh, that's good to hear, Grizz. I'm proud, I'm proud of you. Keep it up. Um thank you, thank you. Yeti. Let's see if uh we're we're rooting for you again. Let's see if you can get this right. What does your pulse look a like? It'll look like a man. 1025. You said what?
SPEAKER_02:1025.
SPEAKER_04:1025. Yes. Like 1025? Yes. Like, like 1025. Is that one number or two numbers? Two numbers. So like October 25th?
SPEAKER_03:When versus returns, oh my god! Wait, wait, wait. Everybody's excited!
SPEAKER_04:Is that what you mean? You gotta get you gotta you gotta get your pulse right, man. One of these days you're gonna get it. I swear to God, but but today is obviously not that day. Um he'll have to try again, guys. So you you're gonna have to keep coming back every every single every single two weeks, so you can, you know, see if Yeti finally fucking gets it. But anyway, how you doing?
SPEAKER_02:I'm doing. I'm doing. Uh I'm I'm being a dad. Uh it's been it's been interesting, it's been fun. Um Zad. Yeah. I've been working a lot of overtime just to kind of offset the uh the daycare cost of But we got some good news this past week. Um the daycare center that we take our daughter to put up a position uh to basically greet parents and sign children in for two hours a day. Noise from 7 to 9 a.m. And she sent this email out saying, Hey, if anyone's interested, if any of the parents are interested, it would be beneficial for you to do it because your tuition would go from we pay 300 a week, would go to 115 a week.
SPEAKER_04:Oh damn.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so yeah. So the moment Emily texted me that, and I was like, I don't want her to do anything she doesn't want to do, you know. Like, and I don't want to be like, you have to work more. Low, that like that's why I'm working more, you know what I'm saying? That's why I'm trying to to pick up the slack or whatever. And she's like, I'm thinking about doing it. I'm like, well, what would be the biggest reason to do it? She's like, Well, I just don't want you to feel like you have to work every single Saturday and work all this overtime, you know, so we can make, you know, because I mean, basically,$300 a week is another fucking house payment. Yes, it is, you know, that that's$1,200 a month, and and that's outrageous. I mean, I understand it's daycare and it whatever, but it just to me that just seems like a high ass number.
SPEAKER_04:Agreed.
SPEAKER_02:So, um, but everything in life is high right now. So so she had a uh uh she told her that she's brother, right? So she fucking she said, Yeah, that sounds interesting. I might want to do this, and she's like, Well, talk to me tomorrow or whatever, and she's like, Okay. So she found out that she would get paid like 13, 14 bucks an hour. So on top of the discount, she'll get paid to you know the two hours that she's there, 10 hours a week, and it will come out to be about pretty much evens out, yeah. So she's gonna be doing two hours before work, before her actual job. And and really, like, she's gonna be up anyways. And that was kind of like I'm gonna be up anyway. Yeah, getting G ready, so I may as well just that's fair.
SPEAKER_04:That's fair. It makes sense.
SPEAKER_02:She's like, in two hours, ain't that bad by the time you get there?
SPEAKER_04:It's yeah, by the time you get there, day is almost over.
unknown:Right.
SPEAKER_04:Shift is almost over.
SPEAKER_03:Yay!
SPEAKER_04:Two hours ago.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, well, it's been nice to see you guys. And I'm sure with you walking around checking, you know, checking kids in, checking talking to parents. That'll go by quick. Yeah, you're just yeah quick. So pretty soaked about that. But I do have something to get off my chest.
SPEAKER_04:Is it hair? Wait, wait, wait. For the joke, is it a hairy chest like this? Like this?
SPEAKER_02:Okay. So do you guys know those black and brown caterpillars? What you call me? Black and brown. Black and brown. Damn. But the black and brown caterpillars are like the woolly mammoths or something like that.
SPEAKER_04:The little woolly mammoth? They're woolly mammoth caterpillars. I don't know what they're called, but they're something. Do they have tusks? Brother, I don't think they're woolly mammoths. I don't think they're woolly. I don't think there's a caterpillar that's got tusks. I'm just saying, are we talking about woolly worms?
SPEAKER_00:Woolly worm?
SPEAKER_02:Woolly worm. Yes, yes. Okay, whatever. That word is interchangeable.
SPEAKER_04:Also, also, aka the woolly caterpillar. It's a caterpillar. It's a caterpillar.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, okay. Well, that's what I said. It's a caterpillar. It's a caterpillar something. It's a caterpillar. Anyway, go ahead. What are you saying? So right now they're crossing the street like crazy.
SPEAKER_04:Wait, they're they're they're legitimately going like, hey guys, we are crossing.
SPEAKER_02:Bro, they're everywhere.
SPEAKER_04:Right now, as we speak.
SPEAKER_00:Stop. Stop.
SPEAKER_04:In the name of the before you Brigma. And they just line dance all the way across the street. That's it. Like, can y'all move, please? All the way across. We call that the worm.
SPEAKER_02:Anyways. Anyway.
SPEAKER_00:What are they doing? What are they up to?
SPEAKER_02:They're doing the worm across the street.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. And then what?
SPEAKER_04:They might be dead, Grizz.
SPEAKER_02:No, but listen, they're everywhere. And like they're so small that like you don't see them until like you're on them, and you can't like slightly go to the left or slightly go to the right. And dude, I've killed. I'm telling you, I hit at least 20 of them. And then I'd look at my back, I'd look at my side mirror, and like, because they're so small, like, and the tire is going so fast, it just launches them in the air. And it's cruelty.
SPEAKER_04:Cruel. Cruel and unusual punishment. That's all they're doing. All they're trying to do is just just create their little cocoon and and metamorphosize into a moth, and you're interrupting that life cycle, you fucking bastard.
SPEAKER_02:I am, I am.
SPEAKER_00:And I feel so bad though. Like you're a villain. I am. So what you're saying is those woolly caterpillars natural predator is a yeti. It's a yeti. Wait. In a car.
SPEAKER_02:For the joke. I just long story short, I just feel horrible. I feel like a murderer for murdering caterpillars, you should feel horrible.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I mean it could be worse. Could be running over cats and dogs and shit. Ooh, damn. Damn. Damn.
SPEAKER_04:That I was gonna say he basically did.
SPEAKER_03:So Chris. Funny story. It's not just caterpillars on the list, bro.
SPEAKER_02:Dogs can get it too. Okay, so you're getting another story. You're getting another story.
SPEAKER_05:What the yeti is cooking.
SPEAKER_02:I'm going in reverse down this driveway, and I see this dog. He's on a lead, and it's one of those wire, it's one of those wire leads. Not the chains, it's one of them real. You know what I'm talking? So I see it, and like whatever's whatever. So I back up in the and I see the car or I see the dog and he's to the to the right side of my truck. So I get out of the truck and I I have treats, and it's like it's like a 50-pound pit bull. Like it's a it's a it's just it's a decent sized dog. Like anyway, so I give him a treat, I give another dog a treat, I go deliver the package. Well, when I'm petting the dog originally, I'm petting him near the driver's side back tire. Okay. And remember, he was on the passenger side of my vehicle. I wasn't paying attention to how he got to my side of the vehicle. I just know that's that's where he was when I interacted with him. I go to the house, I give the tree, or I give the uh package to the lady, I go to leave, and I'm playing with the dog again, and he's still on the driver's side of the rear of the vehicle. So I'm like, all right, bud, gotta go. So I get my truck and I start slowly pulling off. And I mean, I'm talking three feet, bro. Like I did not go far. Like I never pushed the gas, it was straight idle. And I hear a thud. It was two thuds, like like it was like it was like thud, and I was like, what the fuck? And I looked, and then as I'm looking, I hear another third, and during that second thud, well, yeah, I see the dog, and I don't know if he went with the tire or if he was like responding to being underneath the car, and all I see is him, like I look in the side the side mirror, and I see him kind of like go up near the near the driver passenger body of the vehicle near the rear tire. And I'm like, what the fuck? I was like, fuck and I stopped real quick and I get out, and he's happy as fuck, he's wagging his tail, he's he's fucking he's fucking fine, he's fucking completely okay. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on right now? And I'm looking, and his lead is like he has he is literally, I'm gonna say he's pinned, but he's not underneath the tire. There's like maybe two inches of play between him and the tire, okay? So is the lead under the tire? So that's what I thought, and I'm like, what the fuck is going on? And I'm looking, I go to the like, I'm trying to find where the lead goes, and I see the lead on the passenger side rear tire, and I go to pull it and it doesn't fucking pull. It's like it's fucking tight. And I'm like, what is going on here? And this dog's like real hyper, and I don't want him to like bite me or something, even though he is friendly. Like, I didn't want to go to get the people, yeah. So I went in, I went and said, Hey, I don't know what happened, but this something's wrong here. And she comes out and she's like, What in the hell happened? I said, I have no idea, and then we're like, she unhooks them, and then we both get on the ground and we're looking. The lead got wrapped around the driver's side axle three times, and it got wrapped around the passenger side once. Damn, dude. I and the dog, there's no scratches, no broken bones, no nothing. So the dog's fine. The dog is perfectly fine. Okay, it's fucking fine.
SPEAKER_01:The lead with the dog is fine, but disclaimer, dog lived.
SPEAKER_02:I honestly do not know how the how the lead got wrapped around the axle so many times. Oh, my chest hurts. The only thing I can possibly think of is he was just running around underneath the car when I was like, because I I was at the when I gave the girl the packet when I delivered her her stuff, uh huh. I talked to her for like a couple seconds, like probably like a minute or two. When I gave her dogs and shit like that, and whatever. And I'm thinking why you changed how you said that. When am I giving her my when I gave her my package?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, when I gave her the packet.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, I gave her the package. We talked for about two minutes.
SPEAKER_04:It was wrapped in everything. Special delivery. I got it. For the joke.
SPEAKER_02:It's a joke. Get off. Get out of here. The only thing I could possibly think of though is is when I was talking to her, he was just under like going around my car, and probably and just getting a dog. Yes, and when I went off, it everything just got tightened, is what I'm thinking. Probably, but it's still Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So so you didn't take off out of there, right?
SPEAKER_02:Right, because that dog would have been in trouble. I'm telling you this right now. If I wasn't paying attention, yeah, dog would have been done. And didn't stop when I when I stopped, I would have 100% remote. Yeah, yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_04:That's why we do our circle of safety. Yep, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Like I said, I knew he was there. I I knew he was there, and that's why I went so slow because I knew there was a dog.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, makes sense, makes sense. So, yeah, needless to say, he's not just running over caterpillars, Grizz. It's dogs and cats too. So hodge kids, hodge wife. I hit a vulture and it got in my front wing shield. He had a big black cock. I remember he's hitting, he's hitting everything. Anything that's anything that's running around outside, he's aiming for it. So just just put them all inside. Keep them all inside. Keep them all inside. Yeti's on the streets, and he's like, anybody can get it. The glove fucking fits. Where are we at?
SPEAKER_03:If it fits in chips, bitch, let's go.
SPEAKER_02:All right, my stories are done.
SPEAKER_04:Anyway, Yeti, that's that's very good that you're uh that you know the the daycare thing worked out. That's good news. But the rest of it, stop hurting animals. Pete is gonna be so mad at us. Pete is gonna be so fucking mad. They're not gonna be mad, they're just gonna be disappointed, and they're gonna give us the look like I'll make a shirt that says save the puppies. Yes! Anyway, anyway, anyway. Um, no, good good to hear everybody's doing good though. Um but yeah, uh we have a lot to talk about. And I know and it's not just no, here's the thing, it's not just the main topic, right? So even entertainment news, I'm sure, is going to spark a whole conversation. And I don't want to get too far into the weeds, right? Like I don't want to make it a whole thing.
SPEAKER_02:We'll keep it a surface.
SPEAKER_04:But I don't know if you guys heard about this, but did you hear the EA news?
SPEAKER_02:It's in the game. Well, it's in Saudi Arabia now.
SPEAKER_04:Okay. So EA was bought for$55 billion. I sold so much money, man.$55 billion with a P.$55 billion, and there were three uh three entities involved. It was the Saudi Prince, it was uh third-party company, I don't remember what thirty third party company it was, it's a private company, and Donald Trump's son-in-law.
SPEAKER_02:I didn't know that I didn't know it was a three-headed horse.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Which son-in-law?
SPEAKER_04:Uh I don't I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Probably the gaming one, the gamer.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, uh whoever whoever it was. I don't remember. I don't remember who's who who hang on. I'll find it for you. I'll I will find it for you.
SPEAKER_00:Um but obviously I saw an article, but I didn't really read much of it. I just it said like Saudi Arabia Prince buys EA and no major changes. Just Jared Kushner. Oh, I remember that guy. Jared Kushner. No major changes should be in effect until after 2027. Right. Is the thing that I read.
SPEAKER_04:Yep.
SPEAKER_00:The agreement is like, I guess I don't care.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so so I what I want to bring up, because a lot of a lot of people are worried, right? Like, like, yeah, especially with um uh uh a lot of things being different from us to them, correct? So I want to pose I want to pose the question because EA, albeit they don't have a lot of games, right? They don't have like a a a whole library. They do make like a lot of games like over and over again. Like they make you're Madden, a lot of sports games, all the sports games, right? Mostly all the sports games, but but they also did um Need for Speed. And um and Dead Space, which I absolutely love Dead Space, love Dead Space. So Dead Space and Need for Speed. Dead Space has been dead for a while, so I'm like they just they did the remake a few years ago. It was really great. I don't think it got enough traction to warrant the remake of the second one. Um, but I think what the ki the gaming community is most concerned about is the Sims. Because the Sims is also an EA property.
SPEAKER_00:So are they concerned that like the Saudi Arabian Prince is gonna like censor Sims?
SPEAKER_04:Kind of. And and a lot of and a lot of communities that are represented in the Sims will be affected. That's that's the main concern.
SPEAKER_02:But here's the thing, though, it's a three-headed horse, so I don't think one party can make a decision without the agreement or the approval of other people.
SPEAKER_00:Correct. It depends on how much the other two parties care. And that would and that that was gonna be my other thing.
SPEAKER_04:It it it really depends on who's who's gonna give a shit.
SPEAKER_00:Did they evenly split?
SPEAKER_04:That I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, probably one of them has bigger I bet you the Saudis had had deeper pockets.
SPEAKER_04:I can almost guarantee you. Yeah. So so if they hold majority stock or share, it's possible they might have final say so. So I mean, there are some legitimate concerns there. I get it. You know, I get it because, you know, of of again, massive differences. I don't want to get too again, I don't want to get too far into it, but it's it's interesting, especially on the heels of um uh the uh oh my god, the uh the the comedy tour that just happened over there. Because a lot of people are pissed off about that.
SPEAKER_00:What happened with the comedy tour? I'm not gonna be to this.
SPEAKER_04:Well, um apparently uh the the Saudi Prince offered a lot of comedians a lot of money to go over there and perform for the Saudis. Like hit like the Prince and all that kind of stuff. And the names that were brought up people were shocked about because they were like no way they took they took that money from them, right? And again, I'm not trying to get too political. Take discuss it however you want to. I'm just I'm just delivering the news, right? But Dave Chappelle was one of them. A lot of people, a lot of people were shocked about that. Kevin Hart, he was one of the name he was one that got invited over there. Joe Coy, he got invited over there. Uh uh uh Gabriel uh Fluffy, um, he glacies.
SPEAKER_00:Yep, he went.
SPEAKER_04:He went. Um, and I think uh Pete Davidson, he went. Um and I but I think the one name that a lot of people were just entirely like taken aback by was Bilbert. Because he w he's been the loudest mouthpiece as far as like censorship, right? As far as censorship and and how stand-up comedy's dying. And literally, I shit you not, it's it's out there on the internet. They had a an entire uh like in this docket, whatever, whatever paper they signed, they had a whole list of things they couldn't talk about.
SPEAKER_00:Like literally talking about saying like have we seen the the content of the the comedy? I have not. I did I I I haven't I haven't I'd be curious on if Bill Burr abided by it.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Sure, but there's different rules, there's different laws there, and like I mean Yeah, but you're still protected as a U.S. citizen, especially an expensive US citizen, right? But but it's not like you and I go to Saudi Arabia and we make a joke at the prince and then we expect Donald Trump to save our lives, right? But one of those comedians, they're worth a lot of money.
SPEAKER_04:Again, I don't I I I I don't know. I didn't watch it. I I was just hearing things, and you know, like TikTok was a buzz, like just really every social media uh platform was just talking about you know, Bill Burr took blood money and blah blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, I don't I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know all money's blood money, right? Right. So I'm just what game are we playing? So I just take any money, it's blood money, right?
SPEAKER_04:So I just wanted to bring that up because a lot of people have been discussing it, especially during the in the within the gaming community. Does it affect me? No, because I don't play The Sims. Are there a few games I play for GA? Sure. Do I think it's gonna be affected? Probably not. Probably not. Yeah, I I I don't see it going that far. Could it? Sure, but I think we cross that bridge if we come to it, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I mean, the I think the problem that the internet seems to allow to fester is people in their goddamn hypotheticals. Oh my god. Like, don't worry about a problem unless it occurs. Right. Like, do like, yeah, sure, you can try to anticipate every total possible outcome if you'd like, but they have computers that do that shit now, so you don't have to stress out about it. Yeah, no shit. Like, just live your life and play your games. And if the Prince of Saudi Arabia decides to change Sims and make it more controlling, then the people can outlash and backlash and do whatever they need to do, and the property will suffer financially, and then they'll change their mind. Like it'll be fine.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:It happens all the time. People revolt, companies back off, and they go back. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04:Look at Sonic. Right? Right, right, right. That we literally bullied them into changing a character design. So it's like uh the I just I just wanted to bring it up because like I said, a lot of people were talking about it. It's it's been crazy, but one of my biggest things that I wanted to bring to entertainment news was all of the Xbox Game Pass cancellations. Yeah, I heard about that. In Matt, they crashed the website after they raised their prices.
SPEAKER_00:So they're weird that my grandma was saying that people were being grandfathered in if you didn't cancel.
SPEAKER_04:If you didn't cancel, you still keep the price you're paying, but if you cancel then try to you know get back to it, you're you're being charged what they're what they're charging now.
SPEAKER_00:So we'll see if that's true, because I've I didn't cancel. Neither did I. And I got that email that said it's gonna go up. And if it is true, how long will that last?
SPEAKER_02:You pay you pay for the game pass or just uh I pay for ultimate game pass.
SPEAKER_04:Which is which is right now, ultimate is going for nine nineteen ninety nine.
SPEAKER_02:See, I don't think I pay that. I don't that's a month, yes. Yeah, yeah, I don't pay that at all.
SPEAKER_04:And then Xbox Game Pass Essential is$9.99, and it's still going to be$9.99. So they kept that the same. And they also kept they also kept premium$14.99.
SPEAKER_00:If you play Xbox online, you pay for something. Yeah, you pay for something.
SPEAKER_04:I pay the 12-month membership.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I guess that would be your Xbox Live access.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that yeah, that's the Xbox Live access.
SPEAKER_00:That's all I pay for.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, game game pass game pass is. So you don't get any of the games. No, he doesn't get the game pass stuff, no.
SPEAKER_02:No, no need for it. Yeah, that that makes sense. I don't I don't have time, I don't play the any other games really.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so raising it to$29.99. That's$360 a year.
SPEAKER_02:It's to pay homage for three Xbox 360.
SPEAKER_04:That's what I'm thinking. I think Xbox was just like, let's just be funny and let's raise it ten dollars and be like 360. Like, fuck off. Yeah, controlling it. Like, bro, fuck off.
SPEAKER_00:It's just controlling.
SPEAKER_04:Right, right. So I cause because ultimately, from what I heard, from my understanding, they have lost what's up.
SPEAKER_00:Sorry, I just thought, is this their solution to firing all those people that they laid off from AI? Is they want to they want to make more money? Like not only did they they save money by firing people, they want to make more money. Yep, probably. Fuck you, Microsoft.
SPEAKER_04:It it it could very well be, but I I don't know. I I I I I don't know. I don't know. I mean, again, does it affect me? No, it does not affect me. I know there are a lot of gamers out there that it does affect. You know what I mean? Like, I I I hear you, and what does Xbox do at this point? Like, are they do they think they're gonna get some of those people back? Because from my understanding, they've lost a lot of revenue via the Game Pass because of the fact that they're not buying the game at you know, they're not physically buying the game. You're getting the game automatically, you know what I'm saying? So if you're paying$19.99 for a subscription a month and you're putting putting games on there that are$70,$80, yeah, you're missing out on a lot on a lot of fucking money if you're not just you know outright selling the game in a you know in a store somewhere or as a as a as a digital digital download. So it's like what what what do we think this is like what is what is Xbox Endgame here? Like why are they why would they anybody have any ideas, thoughts on why they would raise prices? 50%?
SPEAKER_00:100% Honestly, I don't know why they would do it.
SPEAKER_04:Uh other than they just could.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I mean maybe they're hemorrhaging money that much. Like maybe Microsoft's failing that bad that they had to raise their prices. Like like with console gaming, or like with maybe maybe that maybe that like maybe Xbox is suffering so terribly for that service to exist that they're like, in order for it to continue, we have to double its price.
SPEAKER_04:That very well, that very well could be, because again, we I know we talked about this on the show.
SPEAKER_00:Because it's not like they're just maintaining like the same library of games, like they're adding new games, so that they're constantly having some sort of like system being rewritten, which is not being humanly rewritten. Like it probably has AI writing it, but they have to have humans to track it to make sure it's doing fine, and that's probably not cheap. Right. Now it's probably all some tech bullshit that none of us really know about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Exactly.
SPEAKER_00:But I I will say annoying to the consumer.
SPEAKER_04:For sure, for sure. Especially, especially as somebody who's new um to to to Xbox or new to Game Pass. You know, maybe they've had Xbox like Yeti here. He just uses Xbox Live and he's good. And maybe there was, you know, maybe there was somebody that was sitting on the fence, like, do I do I pull the trigger? Do I get Game Pass? You know what I mean? Do I get ultimate so that way I can play all those uh big games day one and not have to worry about it?
SPEAKER_00:And now all of a sudden people will forget this though. People will forget. And people that were never Xbox users that are like looking to get into consoling for the first time, they'll be like, 30 bucks isn't that bad because the new world has ushered in, the prices are normalized, so people will eventually forget and it won't be a big deal. Nope. So they're just gonna have to white knuckle this this little like phase.
SPEAKER_04:So I I I do know that it's coming. It does they did add a lot of stuff with Game Pass Ultimate. Because if you get Game Pass Ultimate, obviously they're adding more day one games, you will also automatically get Fortnite Crew included with that. Um you'll also have Ubisoft Plus Classics, so a library of Ubisoft games um added to Game Pass Ultimate, and then of course enhanced cloud uh enhanced cloud gaming and and upgraded rewards program.
SPEAKER_02:So I mean there are there's to be fair, the the the because it went up like how much did it go up? Like 1299.
SPEAKER_04:10 bucks, 10 bucks. Because it was 1999, now it's 2099. 29.99.
SPEAKER_02:Xbox crew, how much is that? 1199?
SPEAKER_04:Fortnite crew is$11.99. So it's really covering Fortnite Crew. Yeah, you save a dollar.
SPEAKER_02:Save a dollar if you did get the if you get the Xbox pass. So people are gonna do it, but at the same time, especially if they play Fortnite.
SPEAKER_00:I think I think where they might uh they seem like they failed is a heads up. Oh yeah, like yeah, like they're they they like it's like from what you just said, Jay, it seems like there's a very logical and explainable reason why it gone up ten dollars. You're getting you're getting access to games day one, you don't have to wait. You're getting a an expanded library from like games that you didn't have access to before. Right, you're getting an updated cloud experience, so it's probably faster and more reliable. And like you right, like that's the expectation, at least. So there's like three things right there that is worth 10 extra dollars a month. I think where people have felt upset, maybe, or the people that like, I'm not well, you're raising it ten dollars. Is maybe they didn't do a good job of explaining to their their user base, hey, we're planning on doing these things, and in order for us to do it, we have to raise the price.
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Right. Um, because so far we've had this access, this service that we've been paying for that has given us this connection, and it's been a certain price, and everyone is expected. Well, it's just gonna be this price. Well, in order for us to do some improvements, we have to charge more for that. Is that right? I don't necessarily know, but I do know that me, if I was a business makes sense for the business owner, right? Like you understand, like nothing is free, right? So if you are making an improvement, it's an investment. Investments take resources, resources are translated into currency. So unfortunately, it just has to happen. But I feel I understand why people are upset because everything's fucking going up. So now people are like, really? Now my fucking hobby, the one thing that I like to do after I got off work is to sit at home for video games. That thing is now going up, you know. So like I get it, I understand.
SPEAKER_04:Can we be fair though, and say that gaming as a hobby has always been expensive?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think so. Yeah, like depending on it's never been cheap, right?
SPEAKER_02:But to a I mean, to a gr I mean, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:It it right it truly gaming has had like reusability, right? Right? You spend a lot of money on a console, yes, you spend a lot of money on a game, and then that game you can play for hours on end, right?
SPEAKER_04:Right, so it really cleansed.
SPEAKER_00:And you don't have to keep paying for that game, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:So and I think it ultimately comes down to how much you game because most people, I think the average person plays maybe two or three games a year because they find the games that keep them busy for a while, and then you know, say for like if they got big titles coming out and they're like, I want to play that. So they might they might purchase an extra game or two and it might sit on the shelf for a little bit, but yeah, I I for in my mind ultimately gaming has never been cheap. It's ne it's never been cheap. It's been it's always been expensive. Um, I mean I g I guess that's I guess that's subjective as far as what expensive is to you. Um yeah, you know, you you know what I mean? Because some people might say, you know, back in the day when the PS3 and the 360 were big, games were cheap. I mean, they were cheaper. I'm not gonna say they were cheap, they were definitely cheaper, but you know, I I I I I it's not like I could go off and buy every game I wanted.
SPEAKER_00:50 bucks is a lot for a game, right? It is at a time when like 50 bucks wasn't a like easy thing to get, right? You know, exactly when you're a kid and you're gaming and you gotta like work your ass off on the summer to get 50-60 bucks to buy the new version of that game that everyone's playing. So that's why that's why I'm kind of like dollars a month is kind of uh it's it's affordable, it is it it is affordable, you know, like it is like you don't have to buy games, you're spending 30 bucks and you get thousands of games, right? Right, right. I mean you can turn it off at any time. If you're not gaming right now, turn it off. Yep, you want to play that game again, fork up 30 bucks and get access for one month. Yep, and then when you're when you're when you get your fill, turn it off.
SPEAKER_04:It's that simple, follow it back on.
SPEAKER_00:You know what I mean? Yeah, just don't be lazy, quit bitching.
SPEAKER_04:Grow up. Thanks for coming to Grizz's TED Talk. Yeah, quit bitching, grow up. No, like I I do agree though, I do agree. Because again, for me as as a as a gamer, as a hop, like I've spent a lot of money in gaming. If I add that shit up over the years, bruh, like we don't add it up.
SPEAKER_00:No, we I don't want to.
SPEAKER_04:I don't want to. I don't. I don't want to add up how many consoles and and games and shit that I that I've spent money on.
SPEAKER_00:I mean it's a lot.
SPEAKER_04:No, because here's the thing, you also have accessories to worry about, your controllers, your headsets, all that shit. It's like there's so much that goes into gaming, and and I mean Yeti knows this. Turtle beaches are fucking expensive. Yeah, they are they're fucking expensive, but you have to buy that if you're gonna want to it well, you don't have to buy it, right? Like, it's if you want the best experience, right? If you want the best experience, though, what are you gonna get? You're gonna go for the more expensive headset, so you can hear the pitter-patter of feet running by you, right? Right, you can hear the ball, the the sweat dropping off their balls from the right side. You're like, ah, yeah, they're over here. You know what I'm saying? So it's like that's why I'm like, for me as a gamer, it's always been expensive. It has always been fucking expensive, and now, and now they're like, I am surprised that I now have to spend this money.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but those are those are the average users, right? Those are the people that don't realize those are the people that probably don't even have headphones. Yeah, probably not. Probably not, you know what I'm saying? Like they probably run in the stock controller, you know?
SPEAKER_04:It very well could, or what came with the controller, because I know, like I know with the PS5, I think it comes with like uh like earbuds to plug into the to the to the controller. So a lot of people might be running those. That they just might be, and it's like which there's nothing wrong with that.
SPEAKER_00:The point I'm making is those are your average Joes, and if those are the people complaining about the increase, it is probably not. It's probably uh everybody, it's probably it's probably it's a lot of people, just people, it's it's it's probably just people don't want to spend more money, and I get it. Like, it's hard to want to spend more money, especially when you feel like everything is increasing, exactly. Yeah, so how am I gonna spend$10 more dollars a month on Xbox when uh like eggs are expensive? Well, I get it, I totally get it, you know, like everything fucking sucks.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, it does.
SPEAKER_00:I was just at the grocery earlier and I was looking at the prices, and I haven't grocery shopped in a while because I've just been like eating out like a dumbass, but like to be grocery prices are crazy.
SPEAKER_04:So to be fair, like whenever whenever I do like I don't do like heavy grocery shopping anymore, but like I hate the fact that I can just buy like deodorant, body wash, and like some toothpaste and and and mouthwash, and I'm spending sixty dollars. And I'm like, why?
SPEAKER_06:Yep, yeah, yeah, why for these for these items?
SPEAKER_00:The deodorant I used to buy used to be like four dollars. Now it's almost eight dollars. Yes, for one, yes, almost all deodorant is the same. Yes, yeah, and I don't understand. Like, what the fuck happened? I know you ain't making it better. No shit. It's not made with it's not made with double the price ingredients, right? And it and again, you what's the reason for the increase? Couldn't tell that's where I think people get mad about this Xbox thing is they're like, well, why why the increase? But if they if if Microsoft would have explained, here's why the increase. Yeah, been a little bit more transparent about it. Maybe maybe people would have been less upset. Probably because I can tell you right now, my experience with when things get more expensive for no reason, I don't want to buy that thing anymore. Nope. Like, like I really, really have been trying to find a different deodorant brand, but I know like I have a really sensitive body to deodorant. And I'm like, It's hard. I tried like I tried another brand that's even more expensive than than Old Spice. Yeah, I'll call you out.
SPEAKER_03:You asked dude, no, I'm I'm not mad because I do Old Spice. Fuck that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, like I tried, I tried Dr. Squash, Squash, or whatever, and uh I liked it, but it's$12 or$13. Yep. And it kind of doesn't last any longer, or like I feel like it went by faster than the old spice. Like I feel like the the cake material was softer, so it like rubbed off me a lot easier.
SPEAKER_04:I gotcha.
SPEAKER_00:Um yeah, and uh I don't know what it's made with, but I did like the scent. I thought it like was a good product. I just wish it lasted longer for it being almost$13.
SPEAKER_04:That's fair. You know, no, I get it because it it it it is like you get what you pay for, and if you buy cheap deodorant, you know what I mean? You got deodorant that only lasts you like three hours.
SPEAKER_00:No disrespect for that shit's trash.
SPEAKER_04:I remember I used to buy speed stick, that's the funny one when I was 13.
SPEAKER_00:The green one what's this shit?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, speed stick used to be the shit.
SPEAKER_00:Is it speed stick PNG? Is it speed stick PNG PNG? You should fix that shit.
SPEAKER_04:Talk to your people, talk to your people.
SPEAKER_02:But no, I have a speed stick upstairs.
SPEAKER_03:Like, like I said, I knew everybody has one.
SPEAKER_04:I I think I think I might have one floating around. You know what I think speed stick has become? Like the emergency deodorant, like when you're broke, you're hurt. Yeah, you're broke, you're hurt, and you're like, fuck, I gotta, I gotta last at least a week.
SPEAKER_00:Owned by Colgate.
SPEAKER_04:Are they really a toothpaste company? Fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_00:Uh palm olive. Yeah, palm olive palm olive.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, palm olive. Uh I remember that shit. I remember that shit. I remember that shit.
SPEAKER_00:But that you remember the the like gel one with like the little holes? Yes, yes, that shit burned the fuck out of my skin.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, it did.
SPEAKER_00:Me too. That's when I switched to old spice. Yes. I've been with old spice since I was like 14, bro.
SPEAKER_04:Old spice, old spice is the way to go, bro. I was doing axe for the longest time, because you know I did, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I did like I did like I did, I never did axe exclusively. I did old spice for the pits, and then I would do like axe on my shirt.
SPEAKER_04:That's fair. For like a minute. I was doing it. That's good with a lot. Yeah, I was doing axe exclusively.
SPEAKER_00:Like, I've never done like deodorant spray on my skin.
SPEAKER_04:So I like I like their I like their deodorant spray. I I honestly do. Does it work well? Yes, it does. It lasts all fucking three fucking days, bro.
SPEAKER_03:I like like it's potent.
SPEAKER_04:It's potent. I don't know what they put in there, but that shit sticks around. Because I will I would literally just put it on, I'd put it on my skin for a night, and then like they clearly reach skunks.
SPEAKER_00:Swear.
SPEAKER_04:That shirt would smell like that for like the next week and a half, and I'm like, God damn.
SPEAKER_00:Whatever the compound is in skunk juice, that's what's in that sticks around. That's actually acting like that. They made that compound smell nice.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, they did. Yes, they did. They said, Ah, I know how to I know how to do it now, guys. I know what we're doing. I know what we're doing wrong. So that's the reason why I wanted to bring it up. Like I said, there was it was a it was a talk, it was the talking points that were that were gonna that were gonna nail it. Um, especially for Xbox uh uh players and and users. Because, you know, I mean you're listeners, you listening, tell us how you feel about it. You know, do you did did you cancel? Were you one of the were you one of the ones that canceled? Or were you like, fuck it, I'm sticking it out and seeing how this works? Were you excited when you heard you're getting grandfathered in? Are you concerned that the that the grandfather clause will not be permanent? You know, like there are some unanswered questions.
SPEAKER_00:Oh really? I mean So if you get grandfathered in, they might still raise your price.
SPEAKER_04:Well, here's that that's a question that I have for people that are using it. Because yeah, you get grandfathered in, but does that come with an expiration date? Exactly. Does that come with an expiration date? It shouldn't. It shouldn't, but there there have been times where companies that have done that.
SPEAKER_02:To be fair, this is how it should operate. If you bought something like, let's say Netflix, for example, I bought that motherfucker when it was like I think the lowest was like$7.99, I think, a month.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yep.
SPEAKER_02:And I think I may have bought when I was$9.99 a month. I think, but even then, I think I'm wrong there. I think because I remember it being like an indie hub, like it was strictly B fucking movies. Yep.
SPEAKER_00:That yeah, when they were doing DVDs and shit.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got it when it was like$7.99. But anyway, my price should never go up. It shouldn't. The moment you sign up, that should be your price forever. So you cancel. I don't care. The people who sign up now should be affected, and they're the ones that are gonna have to pay$16.99,$19.99. Let like let those people do it, but like don't punish the people who've been there since day one.
SPEAKER_00:I do think that if you had an account when they were shipping DVDs, that your account should be like 50% discounted.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, for sure.
SPEAKER_00:You're an OG, bro. Yeah, you helped build the company, right? Yeah, I I think that that would be reasonable.
SPEAKER_02:Right. And I think it should go, it should it should be that way for all companies. Like, hey, listen, you sign up right now, that's your price forever.
SPEAKER_00:But no, they do the opposite, man. They're like, they're like, hey, our service is like 300 bucks a month, but if you sign up right now, I can get you in the door for 65 for two years. And then after two years, it goes up to 300. How about that? You want to do it? You want to do it? Hey, you want to sign right here at the start of line? You want to sign? You want to sign?
SPEAKER_04:So annoying out. Come on, come on, bro. Sign. I'm gonna slap the shit out of you. You asked me to sign it again. So I don't know. It was just food for thought. There, like that, like I said, there was a lot to talk about because I was like, oh damn. I wonder, I wonder if I wonder if everybody heard about this, how they feeling about it. You know, are they cause are they worried? Like I said, with EA. Understandable if you're a Sims fan, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00:Like if you're concerned that the the community that I shouldn't laugh at that, but that's kind of funny.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, I mean, you know, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04:Like it's just it's just something that uh we're big pro we are big proponents of of representation matters on this show. You know, we've talked about it more often than not that you know you you should you should see somebody like you in any kind of media, right? So it's like I understand the concern that people have of well, you know, the Sims is where I go to disconnect from life, you know, to to to just kind of kind of hang out. That's their gaming, right? So it's like I get I get it, I get it, and and rightfully so. But at the same time, as we just said, let's not let's not panic just yet. Once once we once we get to that bridge, if we get to that bridge, if it if they do decide to be like, you know what? We don't like XYZ. We gotta get that out of here. I don't want to see that in the next Sims game. Okay, that's a problem.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I kind of want to pose this question for those that are concerned that Sims are gonna get affected. What does anyone gain from controlling like the the outlook of a of a game that like has so many users? Like they're gonna lose people. So why would they do that?
SPEAKER_04:So I think ultimately what people are worried about is like how you know how number one kids are impressionable. So if you have a lot of kids that are playing the Sims and they decide to play the Sims?
SPEAKER_00:Am I out of the loop? I'm not sure. Like, I don't know who play I don't know, I don't know like I understand if they want to control Roblox.
SPEAKER_04:Well, listen, I have my thoughts about Roblox. I honestly do, because I don't know if you heard. No, no, like I don't know if you heard about this, but there was a guy, I for I forget the guy's name, but he was he was on Roblox and he was busting um uh diddlers. He was he was busting predators, and the guy who made Roblox guys that there's yeah, the guy who made Roblox basically like banned him for doing so.
SPEAKER_00:Good. Wait, wait, wait. Did I just hear that? No, he banned it.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, he banned the guy that was busting predators on the game.
SPEAKER_00:I have a I have an issue for the people listening that are not watching this, my jaw was on the floor.
SPEAKER_04:What? Yeah, yeah. He he banned the guy that was busting predators on Roblox, and I have I have a problem. I have a problem with that.
SPEAKER_00:I'm like absolutely fucking why.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, exactly. That's the why why would you ban him and not the people and not the predators on the fucking game? Right. That's a problem for me.
SPEAKER_02:That's a problem for me. Why are you spending time why are you spending time focusing on banning someone like that? Yep. When you should be spending time on protecting banning the people who are playing, you're protecting the people on protecting the people that are playing your game.
SPEAKER_04:It gives you the ick. It honestly does. And and the moment I heard that, I was like, okay, well, if if because our nephew, he likes Roblox. Now, does he play it? I don't know. I know he watches it a lot on YouTube, but I'm kind of like, Yeah, you can we um I got because I tell him he's like, You like Roblox? And I tell him all the time, I have my thoughts about Roblox. Yeah, you're too young for that conversation, right?
SPEAKER_00:You've got to be people just gotta be careful. They do, yeah, dude. That's insane. It just goes to show that like literally nowhere is nowhere safe. Nowhere is safe. I understand like man, like people talk about how dangerous the world is all the time, and I think that I've kind of been living a little bit oblivious because like nothing is nothing too terrible has happened to me. Knock on wood, but like I mean, I've had my fair share of bullshit, right? Like, I've been in car accidents, shit like that, like whatever. But like you know, you hear some of these stories and you're like, there's no way the world the like that that's like that common, right? But then you hear shit like this uh where people are absolutely fucking doing shit they shouldn't be doing on a video game. On a video game, on a video game. That's crazy to me. For some reason, like I don't know why, but like a video game just feels like that to me, that's equivalent to like a church for a religious person. Yep. Like that's sacred ground. That's it. Yes, it's a playing field. Exactly. Like that's you shouldn't be there.
SPEAKER_04:That's where you go to that's where you go to escape from the world. You escape from those issues that you hear about. Don't bring the real world over here. Don't do it. Don't fucking do it. So I'm just so that's why I'm like, I have I have I have my thoughts about Roblox. I'm not a big fan of them. But um I want to wrap up what I what I'm saying because I know we gotta we have a whole fucking show to get to and we have beat this horse to death. But um ultimate ultimately because you asked why would why would that be in it? Why would they want to do that in The Sims?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I think the I think the problem that I think the concern is um pushing an agenda to certain people that are malleable, right? And doing the whole recruitment thing, right? Because you hear about people all the time getting on getting on strange websites, blogs, whatever, and wind up joining a group they probably shouldn't be joining. And then they wind up joining them and they're like, ah, this is not what I expected, and wind up in in a world full of trouble. So I think that's the concern. Um does that happen often? I I don't know how often it happens. I do know that it does happen. Because again, there are people that are malleable, there are people that are looking for connection, whatever, and they wind up radicalized people. Yes, they'll radicalize somebody with the basic of of propaganda. I don't want to use I don't want to use that word on the show because again, that gets us into the weeds. Um, but have that have that discussion. Um and and just just yeah, just let us know. He said that's a real word. That is a legitimate word. Yes, it is. I don't like using it though, because that crosses over into territory that I'm like, I don't want this show to turn into that. So just discuss it, have your discussion. Um we have a Reddit roulette to get to, and I bet Yeti is unprepared, even though he could have been using this time that I was running my shithole to find a good story.
SPEAKER_02:He's like, I'm all no, you don't do pick, we don't do fucking do a good story. You have to pick a number. I'm ready.
SPEAKER_04:I think jokes on you. He said I'm ready. Right. Well, you didn't give me a number to pick from. I haven't gotten that far yet. Well, give me a number.
SPEAKER_02:Two one through one through one point seven six. What what?
SPEAKER_04:Uh one point five three. How about that?
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:One? I can't wait to see the point five three.
SPEAKER_03:I don't even think it was half of a scroll. And it had to be a little over half. It was half, okay. And no, you're good, you're good. Just just what do we got?
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so it's kind of in the middle. It's split.
SPEAKER_04:Let's combine let's combine stories.
SPEAKER_02:Are you gonna be a top or bottom?
SPEAKER_04:Let's combine stories and see what we can get. Top or bottom, sir. I'm gonna be a bottom, a power bottom, by the way. Get there fast.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Am I the asshole for leaving a dance class my friend invited me to after he made fun of me in front of everyone?
SPEAKER_04:That might be a good one.
SPEAKER_02:This has potential to be a big good one.
SPEAKER_04:See, being a power bottom has its has its perfect.
SPEAKER_02:Do we have a conversation before we know the details, or should we just go into it?
SPEAKER_04:Um, so pre are they the asshole or not?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, pre-are the asshole. I kind of like that idea. Read that, read that, read that headline one more time. Okay. Am I the asshole for leaving a dance class my friend invited me to after he made fun of me in front of everyone?
SPEAKER_04:I'm gonna say no for the simple fact that the made fun of me part at the end there.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so you say not the asshole.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I'm gonna say not the asshole.
SPEAKER_00:So, like, I want to agree with you. And I do. However, for the sake of for the sake of excitement, I'm gonna say asshole. I'm gonna say they're the asshole.
SPEAKER_02:Alright.
SPEAKER_04:So I'm not gonna say because I already know I can't wait for it to be like, yeah, they call me fat, said I was stupid, stole my shoelace, punched me in the face. Okay, so I have enough questions. Yeah, definitely an asshole.
SPEAKER_02:How old do you think this? How old do you think these people are? Fucking 22.
SPEAKER_03:No, I'm gonna, I'm gonna listen.
SPEAKER_04:This is going to be my guess. I'm gonna say like 15-16, but I bet I bet you they're gonna be like 89. I'm saying 15-16. I'm I'm gonna say I'm sticking to 22.
SPEAKER_00:This sounds like 22-year-old behavior.
SPEAKER_01:What do you rap this?
SPEAKER_03:I can't wait for it to hear. It's 35. No, I'm telling you, it's gonna be like uh I'm I'm a female, 92, and we got okay.
SPEAKER_02:My 24 year old male friend. Oh, there you go. I feel validated a little bit. A little bit. Hold on, that doesn't make any sense. My 24 male 24M. Okay, so it says my parentheses 24M. 24 male. Yep, friend that's 24 years old and they're a male. Right. Then it goes, 31 male is very is a very gifted dancer. What? Right. Huh? I got two numbers, but only one subject.
SPEAKER_04:So maybe there's two people that that that they're talking about. Maybe one is 24 and one's 30. Yeah, can't continue on. Let's see if we can figure it out. See if we can network.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so my 24 m mm friend, 31m, is a very gifted dancer, especially with Bangra dancing, bangra dancing, and Bollywood dancing.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know what the fuck that okay, so Indian, Indian.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah. He invited me to join beginner's class with him, and while he was definitely not my usual with him, and while this was definitely not my usual thing, two left feet, I wanted to spend time with my friend and meet new people. It's fair to say that I did not have beginners' luck with the class, and I looked very clumsy. My friend then went went to the timeout slash rest area and began filming my disaster attack at dancing to make fun of me. I understood that it was just a joke, but when I asked him to delete it, he wouldn't and just made fun of me more. I felt very self-conscious and decided to leave the session and wait for him outside. Him not deleting the video after seeing that made things ten times worse. Apparently, I didn't do this in a very discreet manner, and people asked him why he left, and he said he found this embarrassing. After we got into an argument where he said that if I didn't appreciate a funny video being taken of me, then I must not have any friends. And he made further comments about how I think the argument had also been brewing on my end as my friends is very critical of my appearance being working class and how I dress. I think both of us could be the asshole, but I'm starting to doubt my feelings are about Okay, so there's really not much to fucking get on that.
SPEAKER_04:So what I'm what I'm gathering, if I'm piecing this story together, right, I think their friend is 24 and they are 31. I'm guessing that's how that's that's how that's going. And the 31 year old is like, I'm clumsy. I got two left feet. Which okay, fair. Like, not not everybody's a dancer, right? But that's why you're going to a dance class, I guess. Um how do I feel about somebody being recorded and then they're like, I don't want that out there. Okay, I'm still sticking with not the asshole because if they're having a vulnerable moment, if somebody's having a vulnerable moment and they're like, I don't want you spreading this to the world for your entertainment, I would I would I'd I'd say yeah, delete the video. You know what I'm saying? Just just out of respect for the other person. If if you have respect for me, um, and we're supposed to be friends, and I'm like, I don't want this out there. Now, if it's me doing something funny and I'm laughing with you, cool. Do it do with it what you will. But if I'm over here just being like, I'm out of breath, I'm heavy, I don't know what the body I mean, he mentioned something about body type, so I'm gonna assume he's a bigger guy, maybe. I don't know. I I don't I don't have all of the details. I'm just kind of filling in some holes here. Um, but if they were having a vulnerable moment in a dance class that they're not used to, and this is their first time ever like actually trying something and they're not confident enough in doing so, and they're not help because they're you're not helping at that point. Especially if that's that's what they're there you're there to have fun, number one, and if they're not having fun, now it's now it's turned into okay. Alright, don't be a dick. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00:Like that's my sense of it. I I agree. Um I 100% agree with everything you said. Uh I think that if they are like if we if they're not laughing with you, then it's not cool. Right. Uh especially if like like you it's tough because like each person is living this life differently, and one thing may affect me differently than it would affect you versus them. You know what I'm saying? So like if they were like you said, having a total vulnerable moment, and you know, we live in this day and age where everybody puts everything online that they think is funny, yeah, and they're like, I don't I really don't want you know people to laugh at me at my expense. Like I get that. Like, is it a little silly? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like if they if that's how that person's anxiety resides in them, then I think that out of like you said, out of the respect of the person, like if you respect me as a friend and I ask you to like delete that video that you took of me and you don't, then I don't think you respect me as a friend. Then like then from where I stand, we're not friends.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Right. I don't know if it boils down. I mean, like, yeah, the person's an asshole, but it's like bigger than that in my opinion.
SPEAKER_04:I agree. Can't hear you gr uh uh Yeti. You're gonna have to do the thing. Yeah, do the thing. But yeah, do the thing.
SPEAKER_05:Make it do what it do.
SPEAKER_04:But yeah, that's kinda that's kind of where I'm at with it. Um it does go a little bit deeper than than you know, just just the friendship thing.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Oh, I do agree with what you guys are saying. I I honestly but I also am gonna throw out this out. And it could be because I'm just I have toxic friendships, I don't know. But in my friends' groups, like we poke fun of each other. Yeah, we laugh, we cut up, like we do it, Jay. I know, I know, I know I we we all do it in the chat.
SPEAKER_06:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02:Like, we and then everyone dogpiles on everyone. And like, I don't I don't know, like maybe I see like and here's the thing how do we know that it didn't start off as a ha ha ha hee he? So it got to it got to a point, and and then maybe he wasn't vocal enough. I mean he says hey, delete it, but like I mean, there's something like hey dude, delete that dude, that's dumb, and then someone keeps and it's just like whatever.
SPEAKER_04:No, absolutely, absolutely. That that is that is a valid argument.
SPEAKER_00:I think if they're making a Reddit post, they probably truly probably wanted it deleted.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no, that's fair, that's fair. And like I said, I do agree with you guys because like there is a point where even though you pick poking fun at each other, cutting up, having jokes, laughing at each other, not with each other, there's still a there's still a line of respect.
SPEAKER_04:Correct.
SPEAKER_02:And I think I think we as a friend group, I think we have that line of respect for each of us very visible, and we know where that line's at for all of us, right? Right.
SPEAKER_00:So it's with you, it's three cowboys jokes. Exactly.
SPEAKER_04:Like once you hit one, you're done. Like once you hit three, okay, buddy. It's not funny anymore. Yeah, exactly, exactly. You know, so exactly. I guess so. We just burnt one. Yes, we did. Yes, you did.
SPEAKER_01:We got two. I think I think you think it was wasted. It was perfect.
SPEAKER_02:It was a perfect opportunity. That was that was perfect. That's actually funny as fun, dude. That was that was a sniper shot.
SPEAKER_03:Next one, he's gonna get a little bit closer. It's gonna be a little bit more personal.
SPEAKER_02:That's fun enough.
SPEAKER_04:But no, like Yeti, you do have a point because comedy's subjective, right? Like what's funny to me may not be funny to you, and what's funny to you may not be funny to me. So I might find it hilarious, but again, like you said, there there is a line. There, there's a line that that eventually at some point you're probably gonna cross it, especially in that situation. Because again, they don't obvious obviously they don't believe that they're a great dancer. Just from what what they wrote, I'm getting the I'm getting the idea that they probably do suffer from some pretty bad ex anxiety. They probably are not super confident in a lot of what they're doing. So them getting out of their comfort zone, especially with somebody that's supposed to be their friend, and they're like, look at this guy over here. Now, is that how that went down? I don't know. Like I said, we weren't like given a whole lot. I mean, we were given like, you know, the just the just the basics of of what happened. Hey, this is how it went down. Can we get can we use some more detail? Sure. Like, how did we get to that point? Were you were were you just minding your business, huffing and puffing in the corner, and you're like, God damn, I don't want to fucking be here, and you were really having a moment, and then they just came up in your face and was like, hey, dumbass, what are you doing over here? You know what I mean? Or was it like, man, I really can't fucking dance, and you're like making jokes back and forth, and then they start recording you, and they're like, Yeah, you really can't dance, bro. Look at you over there, huffing to puffing. You're like, ah, get get out of here. Get that camera out of my face. You know, it was it something like that, and they kept egging it on. Like, I don't know. I don't I don't have Probably right.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I feel like maybe it was playful turn sour, right? Trying to put money on it, right?
SPEAKER_04:And and that that could very well be. Maybe maybe that maybe he felt like he crossed the line, and maybe he did not communicate that well enough to your point, Yeti. Maybe he didn't come out and say, you know, hey, bro, seriously though, like I'm not okay with this video. Can you please delete it? I'm having a serious moment with you right now. Delete the video.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Doesn't need to punch him in the face one good time.
SPEAKER_04:You know, listen, crash the fuck out.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I feel like that goes that. The way I put it on the relationship. Say that again, Gris. I feel like it says a lot about a friend's relationship. Like being able to kind of not even run into those. Yeah. Right? Like if you know your friend well enough, you know their anxieties, you know what bothers them really. 100%. Or at least, at least you should. Yeah. Right. Or have or at least have an idea. Yep. An idea, right? Like, because I mean, like, especially in guys, like, I feel like we have the hardest time being vulnerable uh with anyone that's like not our like partner. And even then, I feel like guys have a hard time opening up to their woman or or man, you know, right, um, person. So like we just suck at communicating sometimes, like our feelings. So I understand like it's it's hard to fully understand what the boundary is, but I feel like if you know a friend well enough, you know, okay, let me not like, yeah, I'll throw a couple pebbles over there, right? Because like we I feel like we also like guys share a collective pain and sorrow scale of like we we all kind of hate ourselves, right? A little bit to a certain degree, to a to a degree, like we all kind of like like we all deal with similar struggles, so it's like and I feel like with us specifically, like we kind of have a very similar humor thought process.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, for sure.
SPEAKER_00:So like what I what I would find funny, I know you guys find funny. So if I am poking a fun at something that I'm finding funny, I know you guys are gonna find it funny too.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, join in, join in with me and laugh. Yes, right, right. Laugh.
SPEAKER_02:It's a hundred percent the truth because if you notice that like when we're in the chat, if someone says something, nine out of ten times it's a dog pile on the person that it was targeted to.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_02:And we all then we all laugh about it, and again, this is where I say I probably my friend groups are probably toxic anyways.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, I think I think it's like a healthy level of toxicity is important, right?
SPEAKER_04:Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01:Oh thank you for standing up for yourself.
SPEAKER_04:Honestly, to keep to keep you grounded and humble, absol fucking lutely, like you need you need that little bit of toxicity in your life to like really kind of keep you is that directed like 100% toward me, like because my personality? So just so like I was saying, if you just like a little bit of toxicity goes a long way because you can absolutely keep people died guy, you can absolutely keep people like it's not like writing a Reddit post right now.
SPEAKER_03:This motherfucker am I the asshole for for breaking up on the podcast anonymous burner account spell my name backwards? Who's it? Who's it?
SPEAKER_04:It's oh that's too funny. But no, like like for real, for real, if you think about it, like a little bit of toxicity does go does go a long way. Like, don't be the ultimate toxic toxic avenger, you know what I mean? But like a little bit of toxicity can go a long way. I know, and I heard I heard it was like just gruesome. I yeah, I heard it was fucking blood everywhere, everywhere, blood, body parts, you name it. But I I I feel like it does build a little bit of character for having a friend group that can uh poke a little bit of fun, but at the same time know when to stop. Like, know when know when enough is enough. Because at the same time, you don't want to get too big of a head, because next thing you know, you're Andrew Tate or something. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say that name? Fuck.
SPEAKER_00:Where's the bleeper?
SPEAKER_04:The bleeper. We'll do this. Next thing you know, you're it right it rhymes with Mandrew Yate. Um I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's hang on, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. For the joke, okay. Um I don't know. I I'm I'm gonna stick with not the asshole because you know I there's still not yeah, there's still some stuff there that we could we could use to uh you know some some variables that might be missing as far as what led to that. Especially in a dance class. Like I've never like I I do enjoy dancing. Do I think I'm the best dancer? No. Uh if I go to a dance class, I'm going to dance my heart out, and it's probably gonna look awful. Like if you've watched Bob Burgers, go to a dance class. Like, if you've watched Bob's burgers, I am absolutely fucking uh uh Jimmy. The girl with her back. Oh, uh uh Tina, just I'm gonna dance my little heart out. I don't give a fuck how bad I look. You know what I mean? You want to take a video? Take a video, but uh it's not gonna be pretty music and it moves the soul.
SPEAKER_00:Who gives a shit?
SPEAKER_04:Who gives a shit? But again, I understand that people are not me, right? Like, I don't I don't expect people to respond the way that I do. It's so it's like I got I have to respect that, you know. I got I gotta I gotta respect you as a human being in your in your space. So there you go.
SPEAKER_00:Um but yeah not the asshole.
SPEAKER_04:Probably not the asshole, but fire off in the comments, tell us how you feel. Are you are do you think they are an asshole? Are they overreacting? Possibly, maybe maybe they're like you know don't don't be such a baby back bitch. I can just imagine people would be saying that 31, you're fucking soft.
SPEAKER_03:Back in my day.
SPEAKER_00:Back in my day we take a walk up the hill both ways. Exactly, both ways in ten feet of snow.
SPEAKER_04:No shoes on and no shoes on, no jacket, nothing. That's how that's how we became men. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:We had two sticks and a rock, and we had to care of the rock.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, Grandpa, calm down. We get it, we get it. You're old.
SPEAKER_00:Used to be able to buy a burger for 25 cents.
SPEAKER_04:I'm just envisioning the golden arches. Grandpa's standing there. I want I hey, I want a I want a burger and a and a and a milkshake there, son. Come on. Man's hungry. What do I gotta do here? Anyway, um why did why does everybody from like the 50s and 40s sound like a gangster? I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, who did that? Who's responsible for that? Was that real? Or is that new Hollywood?
SPEAKER_04:I think it's just I think it's just Hollywood.
SPEAKER_00:I think I think they've absolutely you imagine like anybody from that era that like saw a movie and was like, we don't fucking sound like that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we don't fucking say that.
SPEAKER_01:Who wrote one person did? Who fucking wrote this? Who are you watching?
SPEAKER_04:Nash, eh? Now, did we dress like that? Sure, but do we talk like that? No, not everybody.
SPEAKER_00:I do kind of wish that we as a society wore more suits. Oh my god, wouldn't that be beautiful?
SPEAKER_02:You know, it's too hot for that. Fuck that.
SPEAKER_00:I mean fair.
SPEAKER_02:You're telling me under summer months that your ass is gonna walk out there in a three-piece suit on a rag. You know what?
SPEAKER_00:If it's made out of the right material, it's tough again.
SPEAKER_04:If it's brought to you by Under Armour, yes, I'm wearing it.
SPEAKER_02:No, no, it has to be linen that fucking barely see-through linen shit.
SPEAKER_04:What do you mean? Like, I mean, I'm hot you can wear Ohio. I mean, it gets pretty good. Are you kidding me? Like this guy, like this. Exactly. He said Grizz Beastle, fuck it for real right now. Come on, man. I'm beating it for real right now. No, it's just now getting nice outside over here, bro. Like, literally, it's it's nice. When I woke up this morning, it was like 48 degrees outside. I was like, oh, it was it was it was hoodie.
SPEAKER_00:It was hoodie, it is hoodie but it I was like, oh, real flowing. It's 14 degrees outside right now. Really? Uh in freedom units, that is um in freedom units. That's roughly like 60 something degrees.
SPEAKER_04:It's it's 62 freedom units outside.
SPEAKER_02:64 right now with a low of 47. Let's go.
SPEAKER_04:Oh shit, that's too funny. Oh man. So anyway, um, see how we see how we just always get off on a tangent about something, anything.
SPEAKER_02:We still haven't even started the fucking show yet.
SPEAKER_04:No, but but I'll tell you what, you know what we're going now. Yeah, you know what we have. You know what we need? You know what we need? Magic mind. Oh like it was made for it was it was meant to be, yeah. It was made for this podcast, honestly, because 100% it was shit that we get into, like, we take the less the less traveled path all of the time. We take the scenic round for every conversation, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely, you know why? Because that is a better choice.
SPEAKER_04:It honestly is because there's there's more stuff to discover, right? There's more stuff to discover. It's like the Lewis and Clark, you know? Anybody can take the straightest, narrowest path.
SPEAKER_05:Boring. Boring.
SPEAKER_04:Fuck out of here. But see, they don't have magic mind to keep them focused, though, right? On on being scatterbrained. I'm just kidding. It uh magic mind is a wonderful little mental performance shot. Um, it will give you a shop of mind, lower stress, and calm energy. Uh, it's got these wonderful little nootropics in it uh to help you with that. Ashwaganda to calm your ass down, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. Lion's mane, uh, L-theanine helps with uh caffeine absorption. So it gives you that little wake up when you need it. Uh, you can drink it with your coffee, drink it alongside your coffee, add it to your coffee, see how it see how it tastes. Um, but it will absolutely help with that brain fog, get you into a flow state, and really get in the zone with whatever it is you need to focus on. And right now we have a topic to focus on. So if you just give me one moment.
SPEAKER_02:I feel like I can hear you power up.
SPEAKER_04:Smash! So now that I am all powered up, I just want to let you know if you would like to try Magic Mind, please stop by at www.magicmind.com and use our discount code FMJpod20. That is FMJ P-O-D 20 at checkout. That'll get you 48% off of uh uh uh subscriptions and or or let me say or 20% off uh one time purchase. So go stop by, use our code, buy some magic mine, and see how it works for you. I promise it'll work, and you'll you'll be able to get some sleep, some nice sleep. And yet he's laughing about something. I don't know what he's laughing about.
SPEAKER_02:But he's I went down a path on fucking Instagram wheel reels, and I can't divert from it.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, so he's building his algorithm brick by brick as we oh come on, dude. What is this? AI? Yeah, it is. It's definitely AI videos. It's AI videos, it's AI videos, that's all it is.
SPEAKER_00:Have you seen have you seen those AI videos with like the the fucking toddler in the yard? Yes. No, the toddler in the yard and the bear approaches and the cat saves it. Yes. Okay, yes. Anybody that's listening, if you've if if somebody sends me that again and they think it's real, I swear to fucking god.
SPEAKER_04:I'm gonna crash out.
SPEAKER_00:AI videos are going to be my 13th reason. Yeah, probably.
SPEAKER_05:Probably. They are everywhere.
SPEAKER_00:They're not even it's not even like they're bothering me. It's I'm bothered by the amount of people that don't know. That think it's real.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that think it's real. Yeah, that's that's listen, listen, I've been I've been I've been part of the problem because a lot of people have been using Sora too, and there's a bunch of like Tupac and Biggie in like WWF, like uh Bob Ross going crazy and fucking Yeah, some Bob Ross videos like that. Yes, yes, and Michael Jackson, dude. The Michael Jackson and the Michael Jackson videos are my favorite because there's he's always out there just stealing something.
SPEAKER_03:What?
SPEAKER_04:I swear to god, like like and and it's funny because he pops up and he my favorite one, he's in a KFC and he looks right in the camera and he's like, That bucket of chicken looks good.
SPEAKER_03:He just snatches it, and the guy's like, Hey, you stole my chicken, and he's singing as he runs off, and it's fucking hilarious. Jesus Christ. I'm like, what? What are we doing?
SPEAKER_04:Why are we doing this? So, anyway, see how we're getting off topic again? We have a topic to discuss. So, Yeti, if you could do me a favor and hold off on those AI videos for the moment, because we have a whole conversation about something. I would like to know though, what is it that we is talking about today?
SPEAKER_00:Foosball. Specifically American foosball.
SPEAKER_04:American foosball. Not not any other foosball, but American foosball. Which time who wants to play some basis ball? That's not what we're talking about, though. We're talking about the NFL. The NFL on ESPN and Amazon and Fox and Peacock. And should I keep going? Uh and Paramount Plus. And Hulu Plus.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, can't forget uh NFL Sunday Ticket. NFL Sunday Ticket.
SPEAKER_04:YouTube. And a and a and a uh the NFL app. NFL Plus. You can find us everywhere. It's like, can you just go back to one's fucking spot?
SPEAKER_00:Like, what would you like to watch the NFL in anime? You can also find us on Crunch and Roll. It's on Nickelodeon. Forgot Nickelodeon. Where they have AI technology seamlessly animating freaking can you can you imagine?
SPEAKER_04:Can you imagine, brother? I mean I'd I'd quit the NFL at that point. Would you watch the NFL in anime? Absolutely fucking not.
SPEAKER_00:Get the okay. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. No, I don't want to hear me out. No, no. Just listen for one second. Never have have you watched Blue Lock?
SPEAKER_04:Uh no, I have not. No, I've never heard of that.
SPEAKER_00:Have you tried to watch any like sports anime? No.
SPEAKER_04:No. I do have some of I think Blue Lock is in my list. I will say that.
SPEAKER_00:So I've been told the second season Loki sucks animation-wise.
SPEAKER_04:Yep.
SPEAKER_00:But um the animation in the first season is far superior. Is it? Um, yeah, I've only seen a few episodes, but they're like hand-drawn. Oh. And in the second season, they kind of shift into more like 3D computer generated stuff. Right. Um, so I've been told that I haven't seen any of that. So I've been told that it just doesn't look as good as the hand drawn.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But um I've watched a basketball anime, and I'm currently watching a boxing anime.
SPEAKER_02:God damn. Oh, I did. I did watch Epo something. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, yeah. So so like now, now, okay, Yeti.
SPEAKER_03:Now will you watch the NFL in anime?
SPEAKER_00:Picture it was like that, but it's like fictional in like NFL. You know, like like take a story and write it into NFL. Like, I don't need to watch the game in in manga, but it right, if it was like a story being told, right.
SPEAKER_02:Ups and downs of being in the city.
SPEAKER_00:You follow up one character on their NFL journey, like that would be fucking lit.
SPEAKER_04:And Dad Prescott is like Vegeta, right? Like he just takes L' all the time. I know. Is that my second joke?
SPEAKER_03:I thought it's gonna be a little bit more up close, a little bit more personal.
SPEAKER_04:That's number two. That's two motherfuckers.
SPEAKER_00:Brother, I didn't even see that one coming.
SPEAKER_02:What are you doing over there?
SPEAKER_00:He's dead, he's dead. He said you never won your enemy down. Exactly.
SPEAKER_04:Uh I learned, I learned, I learned so many things from Kendrick. By the way, since we're so off topic, um did you hear? Did you hear?
SPEAKER_00:Are you about to waste your third one?
SPEAKER_01:Drake's lawsuit got dismissed.
SPEAKER_04:Oh my god. Oh, my man lost lyrically and judiciously. Okay, football. NFL, NFL. We won't talk about Aubrey and Omo, because Aubrey's angels will come after us. Um, football. Football, football.
SPEAKER_00:Flew back up when he hits the Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_04:Exactly.
SPEAKER_00:If he hits the Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_02:I feel like every season, Brig. Brick. We say we always say, we always say this season's fucking crazy.
SPEAKER_00:Every season has been crazy. Honestly, it has been.
SPEAKER_04:It has been. I don't I don't know what's going on. Um especially with because like it like immediately, like five or six teams had their star quarter, their starting quarterback go down. And and and backup after backup after backup. And I'm like, what the fuck is happening right now? And then and then and then I don't know how fast I want to burn through this. I don't want to speedrun it. So let's let's just start there, okay? Let's start with the injuries that have happened already so soon. What the fuck, bro? Like, like, is it is it is it the fact that NFL is getting faster, hitting harder, all that kind of stuff, or is it the fact that they just can't get no goddamn protection on the fucking field?
SPEAKER_02:So what what I personally think it is, is I think it's just unfortunate mishaps. I think that plays a huge P key in some of these injuries. I mean you look at like let's take uh Tyree Kill's injury.
SPEAKER_04:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, he's running the play's done, bro. Like they're going out of bounds, like they're I I they're in the process of trying to slow down, and like he he does get tackled at the out of bounds a little bit, and it's just the way he landed. It's just the way he landed, the weight, the angle, and it just snapped him like a toothpick. And like here's the other thing, too. I also think that these athletes push their self tremendously. Yes, like they push themselves to the bidder, and so when something okay, I understand being flexible, staying strong, it protects you. I understand that I understand the concept of that. Trust me, I do, I get it. But at the same time, I think they push themselves so thin to being that peak athlete that the shit like their body is like even though it's strong, it's weak. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_00:I mean kind of. I I see what you're saying, yeah. You like they don't give themselves enough healing recovery time, I guess. Yeah, recovery. Recovery time, so their body is vulnerable. Yeah, yes, and then strong, but the defenses are low. Right.
SPEAKER_02:That that that's why I feel like that's interesting.
SPEAKER_00:That's an interesting take because I have the opposite thought. I feel that I agree, I do agree that I think that a lot of the athletes do push themselves too like to the edge, and they probably could back off a little bit. We saw it with Joe Burrow a couple seasons ago, like he pushed himself with the calf, and like things got worse. But I think that not all of the players are doing that, and I think that some of the players that get injured when it's a m mistaken like a mishap, like the going out of bounds thing, like the rules have gotten so spider webbed that these some of the some of the players like they see they see the quarterback starting to slow down, so then the defensive player will back off, and then you get that clip where Patrick Mahomes absolutely trucks a defensive player. Yep. And it's like, well, that defensive player wouldn't have relaxed had there been a scenario where like the quarterbacks are being super protected, yep, you know, with like certain rules. Like if he had hit him how he wanted to, there has been flags thrown of like roughing the passer or like just treating Patrick Mahomes with too much roughness.
SPEAKER_04:So it's like on the plane touching his pretty hair, reaching yards, don't hurt Kermit.
SPEAKER_00:Don't hurt him, you know, so like I don't know. I like I'm take I think that I think that some of the players are maybe I don't want to say lazy, but just like they're playing the game lazy sometimes with like the rules. And instead of instead of like playing the game to its truest state, they I think rely too much on the rules for like the loopholes.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, they I think they do. I think a lot of times, especially especially those quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes, not to pick on him or anything, but especially quarterbacks like that, like you said, that that are that are he's not the only one that does. No, he's not, he's not. But but but he's he's the he's the best example we could use because we see it often, right? Because the Chiefs, they're always winning. So um same for this year, same for this season.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, they're they're catching L's left and right.
SPEAKER_04:So so it's like I think they do exploit the rules a little bit. Um, espe, especially quarterbacks, they do exploit that okay. If I let up and act like I'm gonna slide, they're you the the di you know any any defensive back is gonna back off because they're like, Well, I don't want to draw the flag and get 15 yards.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so but if I'm being honest, I kind of don't hate it. It sucks when you see it because you're like, fuck. Yeah, yeah. I wish our quarterback did that. No shit. It's like there's there's nothing there's nothing wrong with exploiting the rules, like that's why they're there for a reasonable rules are there to exploit and play with.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, they're they're there, they they are there to protect you, but at the same time, yeah, utilize them, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, and like when you are at the highest level of your your game and you can't go anywhere else from there, you have to start playing with the boundaries. Right. So I I I respect it because like they're they're just being creative, yeah. Um with what they have. Yeah, but I don't I do I I my opinion on the matter is I don't like when it's used for a negative way reason, like like in the sense of like the player being lazy in a way. Yeah, because I've seen it happen with our own players, like like players giving up on a play.
SPEAKER_02:Yep, yes, and it's just like ah there was a perfect example of what game was it? Fuck. I just watched it the one where Chase didn't block. Is that what you're thinking of? Yo, yeah, that's why the highlights in the last game.
SPEAKER_00:That made me so mad.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, for the for the record, we're talking about the Bengals. We are talking about the Susanny Bengals at the moment.
SPEAKER_04:But there was there was one from the Kansas City Chiefs Jacksonville game. Yes. The one where Trevor Lawrence fell down, the the go ahead touchdowns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chris Jones just straight just stands up and is like there. Like, like well, okay, so like people are defending it because they're saying, okay, they he probably seen him fall down, right? And probably assume one of the four fucking players up there from Kansas City probably touched him. Right. Right? Either that or they're saying, okay, well, he's probably gonna go ahead and score. Let's let him score to give Patrick Mahomes as much time as he possibly can have with the football to drive us down the field and make a game-winning drive. Have we seen him do it before? Absolutely. Do we remember there were 13 seconds left on the clock between them and and and Buffalo that that many years ago? So it's like, can he do it? Sure. I it at the same time though, it does give that like it does give you're not playing to your full potential. Like, what could have happened if you have just played till the whistle blew and you actually made that stop? Guess what?
SPEAKER_00:Maybe he maybe he thought the whistle blew. Like you said, I mean maybe when I saw that clip, I didn't think the Chiefs didn't have effort.
SPEAKER_04:No, that just it was just one player, it was one player that they were solely highlighting.
SPEAKER_00:I guess I mean, yeah, I guess. Was he at the bottom of the screen? Yes when that happened, yeah. Well, and like at that point, if I remember correctly, because like Lawrence falls down, yep, but he had like he had really good protection.
SPEAKER_04:He did, so honestly, that pocket really didn't collapse.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he just tripped, yeah, and then was able to get back up because he had protection. And see what if he had a different offensive line, like our offensive line, he would have got he'd have got demolished.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, I'm sorry, yeah. I'm sorry, too close to home. Um, but what I I I I want to bring it up because Yeti, I know you were you played football for a very long time growing up. We're gonna we're gonna reach into your archives for a second. Um yeah, you ready for this? No, I just I just want to talk about how it is different, especially well, especially in the NFL, because from Pee-Wee to Lil League to high school, they teach you how to tackle, right? They teach you they teach you exactly how to tackle the fundamentals of tackling. I I'm going to assume this is what they tell you is to you you run through the person, right? Like you tackle through them, and you shouldn't have that injury. The I think the problem now with the NFL is there are there are a lot of rules as far as where you can hit somebody, how hard you can hit them, and now it kind of creates it creates them to now start thinking about where they're gonna hit somebody. And now instead of just hitting them, right, and now they're forgetting the fundamentals of football. So Yeti, I want to know like say you were like GoPro, whatever, would that kind of piss you off as a player to like I now have to consider how I'm tackling, even though how many years have I done this and I've done it one way?
SPEAKER_02:You also gotta keep in mind. I mean, when you're playing football at an earlier age, like yeah, the rules are there, but like I feel like they get more fine-tuned as you get older. For sure. As as the different stages you get into. Um, now I've never played college ball. I mean, whatever. Um, but I will say, like, just seeing what happened, like when they started introducing all these rules and stuff, you could hear defensive coordinators in the NFL moaning and complaining. Well, what if our defense players? How are they gonna tackle then? If we can't do this, if we can't do this, we can't do that, we can't hit here, we can't hit here, can't do that. You're hitting too low, hitting too high, you can't have helmet to helmet. Um it does make it challenging as a defensive player. Like, if I can't hit these certain areas and the and my parti the angle that I'm at, the only okay, I know it's gonna sound terrible, but like if I go to make a tackle, the I feel like I'm going to hit them in the head. That could make you second guess or slow down what you're doing in the process of doing it.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_02:Even though it's you're even though you're talking milliseconds of a second, that could still be enough time to probably potentially hurt yourself or the other person, in my in my opinion.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Because you are second guessing yourself where if you had just gone through the motion, it may have been okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Cause a lot of the times it's almost like, and I and I understand that, you know, a lot of the times blind side tackles. I mean, I don't I don't know, I don't know how that the the NFL be changing rules all the fucking time, so I don't know exactly how they feel about them. But it's like for me as somebody that's like just your average Joe, typically if I don't see something coming, like I feel like there's less pain involved, right? Because my body doesn't tense up, I'm relaxed. So a lot of that is just kind of impacted, like my body absorbs a lot of it because I'm chill, right? Like that a lot of the times that's how they say it's how you avoid injury by not tensing up. Once you tense up, that's when injuries happen, right?
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_04:So if I'm if I'm doing the fundamentals and I'm hitting them, you know, like I'm supposed to, and everybody's chill, relaxed, why is it, you know what I mean? Like I understand protecting players' heads, right? Concussions, all that kind of stuff. They're still learning a lot about the effects of like CTE and everything like that. So it's like, I get that. I'm with that. I'm down with you on that one, right? And what when you want to protect when you want to protect the players, yes, it's a violent sport. But at the same time, it is a violent sport. So why are we taking that away? Why are you why are you now taking that? I understand you want to protect them, I'm all for that, but why are you now taking away what made the sport?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I agree.
SPEAKER_02:Which is why it's just a safety thing. That's what it comes down to. It's just a safety thing.
SPEAKER_04:It is, but at the same time, like yes, you you play as safe as possible, but at the same time, you know you're on that field and it's not safe. Anytime you're on an NFL field uh on a football field, regardless, it's not safe. Why? Because you got people running into people. Yes, you got people.
SPEAKER_02:I will tell you this. If you compared like the great like the greatest hits of like a 1990 season, buddy, or an 80s season to this way 2025, way different, completely fucking different.
SPEAKER_04:Way different. Because how many times have you seen um I forget who it is, it might it might be um from the Steelers, where dude just like just puts his head down and buries it into somebody, dude? Yeah, what the hell is that? Oh, Troy Palomalo? He was nuts, he was nuts. He was he couldn't play today. Yeah, no, he couldn't. He'd he'd he'd pull the flag every time.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I just want to say, did y'all watch the Giants game last night?
SPEAKER_00:I did not watch the highlights before the show.
SPEAKER_02:I'm secret I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan, as you guys know, but boy, what Dart and Skittles is doing. His name's not Skittles, but it's like Skittles, Skidaddle, Skidoodles. We get it, we get it. Yeah, what those two dudes are doing, I'm here for it.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, yeah, and that that running back, number 44 for them. I don't know how they were one and four going into that game. Because they played like they were four and one. They played like they were undefeated.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. So I mean, I mean, obviously, you've seen what happened, right? The result of when you stop Saquon Barkley. Somehow, somehow, the Giants figured out how to shut down Saquon Barkley because he literally did he was he was a he was a non-issue that entire year.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they shut down the pass too. I watched the highlights. There wasn't a lot of like Eagles pass plays.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, again, I didn't watch really made a difference. I don't know how many, I don't know how many yards um um um Hertz wound up with. I do know that Goddard had a hell of a had a hell of a night. He didn't unfortunately he was on my bench in fantasy. He wound up, he wound up with 26 points. He looked right, he looks great on my bench. I love it. Um so it's like uh I don't know, good good on the Giants, but uh obviously you see the result of if you stop Saquon Barkley. If you can stop Saquon Barkley and make Hertz pass the entire game, you might you might squeak out with a W. So take note, NFL.
SPEAKER_00:I think the key was they they just was able to get that pressure at the line. Yeah. Which was able to clog up the holes, which stopped Saquon from getting a lot of yards. I mean, he still got through. I watched the highlights, like he got through a lot. So I don't know what was going on. Couldn't tell what the actual like tempo of the game was because the highlights don't really get to show that. But no, they don't, they don't.
SPEAKER_02:It was it was it was a fun game. I won't I had fun watching it. I had a lot of fun watching it.
SPEAKER_00:I meant to turn it on, and I ended up falling asleep last night.
SPEAKER_02:So the one thing that I've noticed that I find myself doing this season is watching games of teams that I have no interest in.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Because you can enjoy it, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you're not stressed, you're not stressed, you're not like yeah, you're like you're gonna be.
SPEAKER_02:I turn it on, and I'm like, I find myself cheering for both teams. Yeah, that was pretty dope. That was cool.
SPEAKER_04:I appreciate the really awesome plays that that's the teams dial up, and and how prepared are you, or how unprepared are you? I'm like, oh my god, you're getting your ass beat up.
SPEAKER_00:Right, right, right, right. Literally how I watch every football game except the Bengals. When I'm watching the Bengals, I'm like, you motherfucking.
SPEAKER_04:You motherfucking Yo, like, like, uh, and and I know we got a lot to talk about there as well. Again, I don't I don't want I don't want to speed run it because you know we I'm not gonna lie, I'm low-key excited about someday. Like, okay, all right, let's just fucking talk about it because Joe fucking Flacco. This man This man has has almost collected all the AFC AFC fucking North teams like he's fucking Thanos. The guy is has been passed around the AFC North like a like a goddamn joint. All he has to do is go play for Pittsburgh, and he's got it. He's got it on lock. But this Sunday he has the opportunity to do the funniest fucking thing in all of history, and that is beat Green Bay twice on two different teams.
SPEAKER_05:Oh shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Cleveland beat Green Bay like week one or week two or something like that. And now he's kind of crazy. Kind of crazy.
SPEAKER_00:So hold on, let's talk about that for a second. How does Green Bay plan for that?
SPEAKER_04:It's a good question. That is a good question.
SPEAKER_00:Because they're not like they have to they don't know how he's gonna utilize Cincinnati's weapon.
SPEAKER_04:Nobody does that, dude.
SPEAKER_00:This could potentially like like after I watched the Detroit game, I was like, great, we're gonna lose three fucking games before we get our first win. But no disrespect against Jake, because actually, before finding out about the Flacco trade, what I saw last week at the end, I was like, okay, what it looks like he's finally gaining some confidence. I don't know what happened. I mean, part of it could be like coming into the season cold, you know, like Burrow started the first two games, but like I don't know. I I really don't know why he he was so like cold.
SPEAKER_04:But I'm gonna be real with you. Yeah, I'm gonna be real with you. I think I think what affected his confidence was all those drops that the receivers were having. On the we did talk about a little bit. Yeah, I think I think we were hitting them. Yeah, he was hitting them during during the Minnesota game. He was hitting them right in the fucking hands, putting it right where it needed to be, and for whatever reason, everybody forgot I'm playing fucking football. They were like, I don't want this. Why the fuck do I want to win? Drop that bitch.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, why I mean that is crazy how they were dropping all those balls.
SPEAKER_04:It was nuts. It was it was absolutely crazy, and I think that impacted Jake's gameplay because he he started losing confidence in himself because he's like, Fuck, am I throwing the ball wrong? Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And like to be fair, like he's a good he's a good quarterback. He wasn't making the best decisions, but he was trying to win. Right. And and his risks didn't pay off. No, you know, like he threw through three interceptions, he got three touchdowns at least, but like if those three interceptions were incomplete passes or just sacks, then that could have been three less opportunities that the other offense got on, right? You know, with like good yardage. So here's the thing the O-line's trash.
SPEAKER_02:Hell yeah! The O-line is straight.
SPEAKER_04:And that Broncos game proved it because they were rushing three like all game and still getting to Jake Browning.
SPEAKER_00:And there's high levels. How much of that do you guys think is the players? And how much of the game is? How much of that do you think is the coaching and the or the scheming for protection?
SPEAKER_02:I think I think it's I think it's the scheming. I think I I think it's the scheming.
SPEAKER_00:It's gotta be, right?
SPEAKER_02:Like, do we? Because there's no because like you want to tell yourself it's you're at a professional level, you're in the NFL. There's no way five four-grown men are missing three people.
SPEAKER_04:I'm about to fuck your whole life up right now because remember when everybody said Lou Anaruma was the problem, and then he went to Indianapolis, and now Indianapolis is like top of their game on defense.
SPEAKER_00:I knew he wasn't the problem.
SPEAKER_04:He's not the problem. Wait, is Lou Anaruma the defense? He was the defensive coordinator.
SPEAKER_00:Um actually, dude, our defense looks decent this year. They they look better than they did last year. Yeah, they look better than they did last year. That was so bizarre last year. Like I don't even want to talk about last year, but like I don't want to talk. I don't want to talk about it. No, for real, because it's like, what the fuck happened? Like that's atrocious.
SPEAKER_04:I I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:We should we should have been I think it's a culture thing a little bit. I don't I think that that defense is still not clicking together.
SPEAKER_04:I don't think so.
SPEAKER_00:What's up?
SPEAKER_02:What's up? I'm gonna say people shouldn't have been fucking greedy. Okay, that's all I'm gonna say.
SPEAKER_04:Do we wanna do we want do we wanna do we wanna do we wanna tug on that string a little bit? Do we wanna talk on that string a little bit?
SPEAKER_02:I tugged on I already fucking tell you it's unraveled. So here's the thing. I'm sorry, but this is okay. Again, the more and more I hear from fucking Tom Brady, the more and more I like the fucker. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that motherfucker's like I never wanted the most because if I took the most, that means every everybody else about around me would have been fucking derated. Let me take a little bit less, and I'll get fucking some C's and a couple more B's.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I need to understood the business. Exactly. He uh he uh he was here's here's here's how here's the difference between Tom Brady and the rest of the league. He had a winner's mindset. He wanted to win, he wanted as many Super Bowls as fucking possible. That's that's why he got all them fucking Super Bowls because he took team-friendly deals. And the moment, the moment I heard that at the time only three of our players were taking up like 80% of the salary cap. That's outrageous. Who in the fuck are they gonna hold on to? Who are they gonna hold on to?
SPEAKER_02:They're gonna hold in on anybody, nobody. You already know. That's why Trey, that's why Trey's on the fence right now, because there's not enough money in the for Ken to get a piece of it.
SPEAKER_04:Like, like you knew well, he got his money. That's why I said three at the time, because Trey did get his money. He won they they wound up striking a deal with him.
SPEAKER_00:So only for one more year, right? That's only for one year.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, but no, that's not get. I'm sure, I'm sure when they come back, I'm sure when they come back to the table with that.
SPEAKER_02:They better. They fucking better. No. I bet you, I bet you he's on a different team next year.
SPEAKER_04:He's not. He'll he'll he'll return. He'll return. He will return to Cincinnati. Um okay, mark my work, go return to Cincinnati. But but everybody kept saying there were no egos in that locker room.
SPEAKER_02:Bullshit.
SPEAKER_04:Thank you. Because because no fucking shot did your e you can't tell me that your egos is.
SPEAKER_00:There's at least two egos in that locker room.
SPEAKER_04:At least two. At least, at least two, at the very least two, because no shot are you telling me that oh my ego doesn't get in the way, but then you're gonna hold out for a larger payday. Buddy, if you want to win.
SPEAKER_02:Here's an example you had a fucking rookie calling shots. Yep. Because a contract that's been written the same way for the past multiple years for every rookie. He did his ground and said no, I want my guaranteed money. Agreed. You're a rookie, dog.
SPEAKER_04:Listen, he made all that fucking noise just to get the five hundred thousand dollars up front rather than at the end. That's literally all it was. That's literally all I was like, you did all that for for half a mil? Really?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but here's the thing though, because he did it, the contracts are now gonna be changed because they're other people do not want to go through the same shit. It's stupid. That's a trendsetter, it's stupid, and now people are gonna get their bags earlier on.
SPEAKER_00:It's fucking um, so this is whatever whatever happened to okay. I understand both sides of what I'm about to say, and I struggle with this as well. But whatever happened to doing the work first and then getting paid for it, huh? But that right now people want to get paid because they get the work comes.
SPEAKER_02:Because they're afraid of injury, and I get that. This is when I get the double edged sword because you got people breaking their legs in half, wiggling on the sideline, and they're and they could have career ending injuries, and they're not protected because. The contract didn't say guaranteed X dollar. And I get that.
SPEAKER_00:If I'm out there putting my contract, the contract should say guaranteed. Like, let's be honest.
SPEAKER_02:So the contract should say guaranteed. Here's what I think. I think all contracts should have a little asterisk. It's like, yo, if you get injured legitimately, you should contract should be covered. Yeah. Regardless. Then that would then that would prevent these holdouts, these crazy ass dollar amounts and stuff like that. That's where that would prevent.
SPEAKER_00:They want the crazy large dollar amounts in case they get hurt, like in Joe Burrow's case. Yes. Boys made of glass, apparently. But it sucks that he's so fucking talented and made of glass.
SPEAKER_04:Here's my thing. I can't, I can't. Okay, like I go both I go both ways with that. Like I keep going back and forth because I'm like, is he made of glass or is he like you know six years into his fucking career and he keeps getting hit? He keeps getting hit at the professional level. When we went to the Super Bowl, when we went to the Super Bowl, I know, but when we went to the Super Bowl, he was setting a record for how many sacks he took. That's not a good record. That's I'm sorry, that's not a flex. But to to get hit that many times and then to continue to get hit that many times, are you made of glass? Or are you just getting hit? Or is he just getting brutally damned?
SPEAKER_02:So here's the thing. Why do you think running backs don't last that long? Because they take a lot of hits.
SPEAKER_04:Tight ends are the same way because they're because they're the ones that are supposed to take the big hits. They're the bigger bodies, they're the bigger bodies for a reason.
SPEAKER_02:So here's the thing. So if you've got that on a quarterback whose frame is not designed to take a hit, he's gonna get hurt. One hit is probably equivalent to ten hits.
SPEAKER_04:He's gonna get hurt.
SPEAKER_02:He's gonna get hurt.
SPEAKER_00:He's gonna be a big boy, though. He is okay, he is. Yeah. I feel like this toe injury. So turf too. I didn't do a lot of I didn't do a lot of digging, but I think I saw this one segment where they were talking about it, and I think I think he was encouraged to get the surgery because of a potential risk down the road. Yeah. But he could have healed up. Did he got the surgery over there? Yeah, he did. Yes, he did. He got it immediately, and that's why he's out. Had he not got the surgery and just let it like naturally heal, he'd be out for a while. He'd be out for a while, but he'd probably be out, he'd probably be able to play sooner, I think. Probably, probably. But it but but there'd be the risk that it would get damaged more and blah blah blah. Like he did with his cat. Right, and then if he gets hurt again, then like the surgery is gonna be so they made a business decision to take him out. And I do I agree with it? I don't know yet. We'll see. At the end of the season, I'll I'll have a better idea. I see because a part of me wonders had he just healed naturally and just been out for like two months, three months. Well, three months is what he's supposed to be out anyway.
SPEAKER_06:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:So if he's out if he's out two months instead of three and healed just fine because he's what 26 years old or whatever, like he probably would have like with the amount of like nutrition and like sports science that they have at this point, I think he would have healed up just fine. But I'm also not a doctor and I'm not looking at the numbers. He very clearly has somebody looking at the numbers, right? That is like this is the best decision, right? But I don't know. I do I love it, I don't know. We'll find out.
SPEAKER_02:I seen a meme. I seen a meme, and it was it was it had the look had a picture of uh Robocop and from the from the reboot, and he's like completely in pieces, and the only thing that's like left is his head and like like his maybe his heart, I don't fucking or a lung or something, and everything else is just scattered around him, and it said Joe Joe Burrow 2035 Joe Burrow.
SPEAKER_04:No, I I I want to touch on what you what you said, Grizz. You said he was he's a big boy, right? So so like you're not wrong, he's a big guy, but but the way he worked out and the way he's conditioned, well sorry, I don't mean to Well, I wanna I want to point out that there's also a reason why Big Ben, Big Ben Ralphesberger, lost a lot of weight. Like he dropped weight because he said he got tired of getting hit. And Ben was not a small guy. He said he said he said these defensive backs, they are getting faster and they hit harder, and I'm tired of getting hit. So even big guys have their limit. You know what I'm saying? So it's like and Joe is not as big as Ben Rothesberger was. He's a big guy, but he's not that big. Yeah, so that's what I'm saying. Like, is he made of glass or is he just constantly getting his ass beat?
SPEAKER_00:He is getting you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04:He's always on the run, dude.
SPEAKER_02:I don't care who you are, bro. If you're getting tackled by a 350 pounder, I don't want to be. Yeah, like I'm good. I don't think sometimes, and sometimes it's two 350 pounders. Or three? That's equivalent. That's like equivalent to a fucking grizzly bear just coming straight at you and just coming at you.
SPEAKER_04:I'm good.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, minus the mulling. It's like a grizzly bear just coming straight bulldozing your ass. Yeah, and you're not it's a lot of it's a lot of it's a fucking three 700 pounds, 800 pounds, 100 pounds. That's a fucking small sedan fucking running you over.
SPEAKER_04:I'm going back to you know what I never understood.
SPEAKER_00:What's up with uh so like on the defensive side, we have people like Max Crosby or uh you know Trey Hendrickson. Um I'm trying to think uh the other Watt.
SPEAKER_03:Uh oh uh uh TJ Watt.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, TJ Watt. TJ Watt, uh Miles Garrett. We got these guys that are like like aggressively lean, yep, you know, like but also like huge, like just like super muscular. Trey Hendrickson's probably the smaller of all of them, but he gets there. Yes, he does. He fucking gets there, and like like these guys are big, but then like the offensive line are just like pudgy, and I'm like, what what if we had like equivalent fucking monsters on the offensive side? Like, that's why I like uh uh what's his name? Mims. Like Mims is a fast big guy, yes, he is, you know. Yes, like and and like why can't we have four more of him? I understand like certain positions require a straight wall of like sumo wrestlers. I mean that yeah, that would be nice, but they don't have to be like that, but like just a super wrestler would be legit because they're quick with their hands and their feet, yeah, and their feet. That's what we need. I think hand work, man. I think these guys just like are they're when you're like hey, right? Well, why I mean there's a lot of like Pacific Islanders that become for cheap too.
SPEAKER_05:Whoa, that's crazy. Chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill.
SPEAKER_04:Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_02:I'm just saying that they're not gonna ask for these large ass contracts that these people are asking here. Y'all know that's pretty cheap.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, no shit. No shit. Jesus Christ, Yeti. Relax. We get it!
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god, that's so funny.
SPEAKER_04:No, but uh, but I will say, I I think I think because you asked, you're like, why don't we have guys like Aaron Donald and TJ Watt and and all of them on the on the offensive line? I think a lot of it does come down to um like just plugging holes, right? Like just making sure that that nobody gets through to the quarterback and and being able to create holes, but I don't know how that would work though.
SPEAKER_00:Pseudo classes that just get those assholes on the ground.
SPEAKER_04:It's that simple. It's that simple.
SPEAKER_00:Pancake them bitches use it, use their momentum against them, right? They're pushing at you. That's get them on the ground. Yes, that that that I think that's I guess I would like to know the rules better for like offensive line defending. Cause like I know you can't hold, but like no hand to the face. Okay, no hands to the face. But can I like now can I like because like they're pushing on me, right? So like and you're pushing against them. So can you use their momentum against them? Yes, pushing them. Yes, you can. Yes, you can.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, you can. So that's so that's those pancake tackles that you'll see a lot of those, uh lot of those players will do. But from my understanding, I think you are allowed to grab them up in the collar, but the moment they go to move from you, you cannot continue to hold. You have to let them go because if you hold them, you're preventing their progress to get however that works. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00:So that's that's so when they when they start to uh evade and swim like like do like a move, swim moves, swim moves, yeah. Yeah, why can't I just like push into their chest now and knock them off balance? You can and they're able to, yes, I don't think it doesn't seem like they're fucking doing that. Well, it's like they do a swim move and then it's like it's like they're they're blocking, right? And then they do a swim move and then they're like, How did you get that? Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
SPEAKER_02:They've never been trained ever to ever encounter a swim or something.
SPEAKER_00:So again, is it so then I'm like, is it coaching and scheming?
SPEAKER_04:Well, here's the thing, right? Are they well, are they coached to do that and they just don't do it?
SPEAKER_02:That's what it is.
SPEAKER_04:Why would they not do that? So okay, hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I don't know if you guys heard this because um I I had a discussion with dad not too long ago, and he talked about because Andrew Whitworth actually had something to say about the Cincinnati Bengals offensive line. And apparently, apparently, supposedly, um they don't um like draft well for offensive line. I don't think they really draft at all. Like they can't, and clearly like legitimately, legitimately, I think like every year, offensive line, save for like a few, always rookies. He's Andrew Whitworth said they never sign really anybody, they never really hold on to anybody on the offensive line. So it's almost like you're playing with a whole new line every single season.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, they're always new, right?
SPEAKER_04:For cheap, right? Yes, because and I and I did ask, I was like, You can't go to Japan and get some cheap help.
unknown:Hey!
SPEAKER_04:What do we what do we just say? What did we just say? Anyway, but I did ask that question, I was like, why is that? And he said, because Mike Brown is fucking cheap. I was like, oh, that does explain a lot. That a lot of people do complain that Mike Brown is is cheap as fuck. So it's like, is it coach?
SPEAKER_00:Which I'm surprised surprised at like the retaining of like players like Ted, yeah, who is like a Super Bowl caliber snapper.
SPEAKER_04:He he does he does well. The problem is you gotta get him help. You can't you can't he can't do everything, right?
SPEAKER_00:Like we just got Mims, who's a rookie, right? Yes, yeah. Like what happens when he shows that he's way too good? Somebody else is gonna take him.
SPEAKER_02:And they're gonna because we're not gonna want to pay uh we're not gonna want to pay five years because we don't have enough money in the bank to pay anybody because four people on on offense are whole restructured.
SPEAKER_00:Now, what if what if what if I got a couple Hondas you can sign? Okay, so what if this me being crazy? What if they said he honest decided?
SPEAKER_03:He said he honest plural.
SPEAKER_00:That's crazy. I'm sorry for Street Fighters.
SPEAKER_03:I'm sorry, continue with your thought.
SPEAKER_00:I I I found it funny. I'm hoping I'm hoping that they these four players are like, what if we just hold the money? And then when when they need to negotiate, they're like, Alright, we'll restructure so we can keep this player. Like, this guy wants to be here. What if it's like the players are trying to control the team? It could be a possibility.
SPEAKER_04:Uh I don't know if that's that I mean that's just that'd be crazy talk, but I I I I just I just strongly believe, especially after seeing like how how Chase has reacted a few times, like they caught him on the sideline, you know, getting showing his emotion. Let me say, let me not say getting fresh. Yeah, he's showing his emotion with Zach Taylor, right? And he he keeps coming game after game, coming to the to the to these uh uh uh uh interviews and shit, saying, I'm frustrated, I'm frustrated, I'm frustrated. That's fair, you can be frustrated, but at the same time, are you not part of the problem as to why you don't have the help you need? Are you are you not a part of that problem? Yeah, so I mean why are we frustrated?
SPEAKER_00:I wanted I wanted them to retain Chase and Higgins and Burrow. Yes, that's what I want. That's our that's our like core offense. Couldn't they figure out a way because like Higgins seemed to be the most flexible out of the three, yes, like willing to take the least amount. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I also think because he knew okay, this might sound bad, but he probably out of the three, he probably knew he was third on totem pole, to be fair.
SPEAKER_00:Well, yeah, yeah, and he just wants to he just clearly wants to play.
SPEAKER_02:Right, right.
SPEAKER_00:Like he puts playing the game with people that he wants to play with more at a higher priority than the money is correct.
SPEAKER_02:What's his contract even look like? I don't even remember.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you'd have you'd have to you'd have to look up the details for that. But I I don't I don't know. For me, I'm just kind of like I feel like those three could come up off of some money and be like, hey, yo, let's get let's get first and foremost, let's get Burrow, let's get our guy that needs to get me the ball some protection. Because if he's one of the if he can't, if he's on his back, he can't throw from his back. So let's get him some protection. I will restructure whatever. Go find some people, find an offensive line that's fucking decent. That can give him the time to set that shit up.
SPEAKER_00:Or are we not talking about that?
SPEAKER_04:Who do we think the what?
SPEAKER_00:The culprits are on the line. Like, who would we replace? Who would we upgrade?
unknown:Who?
SPEAKER_04:I'm holding on to Ted Karas, obviously. I'm holding on to Karas.
SPEAKER_00:Um Bro, I They just got that new guard. What's his name? He's like, he's on the right side. I guess he's a right guard.
SPEAKER_04:I think I think he is a right guard.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm I what's the what's what's Nim's position? Is that also a right guard? You will you will have to far right.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you'll have you'll have to you'll have to look that up.
SPEAKER_00:Um because they have what five guys? They have two outsides and then one middle.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Who would I replace? Oh my god. I don't know who the who's the interior of the left guard. Oh tackle, is that what that's called? So I mean I'll tell I'll do that right now. I'll say it. Go ahead. I'll say it. Go ahead, say it. I I I think I think that Orlando Brown could play better. I've seen him play better for Kansas. Yes, and I think I think that he could play better, and I don't think he's playing best. To his potential. And and if he's not going to, then I would replace him.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's fair. That's it's hard to say, but it's the reality. And like I'm sure he's having a good time, but I just I I know he could play better. I know they all could play better. Yes, they could they can all play better. Like I think we have a good offensive line that is not being fucking helmed correctly.
SPEAKER_02:What if they all know they're not gonna they're not gonna get paid because there's not enough money in the pool anymore? Because 80% of you can't get the biggest thing.
SPEAKER_00:I think that that's part of it. Something like that.
SPEAKER_02:And they're just like, you know what, fuck it.
SPEAKER_00:I'll I'll play half ass, go somewhere else. So here's here's my take on that though. Why play half ass and go somewhere else? Like, so if you know that the bangos aren't gonna pay for you and you're just running your rookie contract, ball out. Ball out so hard that other team like if the bangos refuse to pay you, other teams are gonna be like, damn, this kid fucking balled out. Like he had the crazy stats. Do that and then and then you might get an amazing contract with another team.
SPEAKER_04:I hear you. I I I like that I like that idea because um who was I saying that about? Um uh Trey Hendrickson when he was talking about you know, I'm gonna leave. It's like, dude, you're still in number one, you're still in a contract, so you have to play. There's yeah, no if, ands, or buts. Unless you want to go out there and be like, oh, I'm sick every single week. Um, if you want to play that game, right? For me, yeah, especially for Trey, I was saying the same thing. I was like, dude, go out there and have the best defensive year you could possibly have. Just go out there and yeah, just like do better. Do better than last season. Go out there and get fucking fucking 18, 19 fucking tackles, right? Like just just just get out there and be a fucking nasty fucking machine. So that way your stock in yourself goes up for whoever is paying attention to you and is like, I want Trey Hendrickson. He is an absolute fucking animal, and I will pay the money to get him to my fucking team. My problem with rookies, especially the way fucking Shamar Stewart acted, the problem is they're young, and they want, you know, if they know they're not gonna get paid, they're gonna have that chip on their shoulder, and they're gonna and they're gonna go out there and they're gonna play half-ass. Even though, even though the smart move is to like what you just said, my rookie contract, I'm gonna I'm gonna show you why I deserve the money I'm asking for. I'm gonna show you why. So when somebody does come to me and says, I will pay you the money you're looking for, deuces, bitch. You have now just lost a very key uh uh position, especially with me, because you've seen how well I did. Now I'm gonna go over here and and be appreciated with the money that I'm getting paid, and I'm gonna show you exactly why you should have paid me all that fucking money. That makes the most sense. That to me makes the most sense. The problem is, especially now with we can now go into college ball, right? Especially now with college uh uh players getting paid millions of dollars.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. I th a part of me but says wants to say, I don't think they should get paid.
SPEAKER_04:Again, I am here's here's my thing. I am again I'm back and forth with it because I'm like, I'm with you. They're a student, I don't think they should get paid, right? Like I I feel like you are you're playing that game for the love of the game at that point, right? Especially in college.
SPEAKER_00:Right, and and because you're playing that game, here's why I think they shouldn't get paid. They get a free education, yes. They get a free education in exchange, they go and perform on that field. Yep, if they go out and get hurt and that takes them out of the game and whatever, whatever. Now you get to I think they should get to keep their scholarship so they can finish school, yes, and then and then get to have the career their backup career, which is why you're in school in the first place.
SPEAKER_02:Yep, right, right.
SPEAKER_00:Just in case you get into it. I think I think that people have lost sight of that and because of money. There's too much money in these fucking sports. Yep, there's way too much money in these sports, way too much, and that's why that's why everything is probably why right. I think that that's why uh the NFL is yeah. Listen, I I get it, I understand. He's upset. No, I'm being serious.
SPEAKER_03:WWE being serious, continue, Grizz. No, I get it. I get Arabia. Hey, we get it, we hear you. It's all money.
SPEAKER_00:It is it is. I think that the money is obviously the reason why I'm these dumb problems that we're dealing with. Let me just get a dollar from somebody, please, for the love of God.
SPEAKER_04:It's hard, it's hard to even get that. But no, Grizz, you you got you got a fantastic point. Like, uh again, that's why I go back and forth with it. Because I'm like, you're absolutely right. They're getting the scholarship, they're getting free education, all because they are so talented at whatever sport they're playing. So, you know, and and at the end of the day, yeah, if you do get injured to where you can't play football again during your college career, absolutely, you get to hold on to this scholarship because you know that's no fault, yeah. That's no fault of yours. Yeah, okay, you're playing a violent sport, but nobody goes out playing football expecting to get a you know career-ending injury. So we hit the as as a as a as a as our appreciation for you coming here and and playing ball for us, you get you get your free education. You continue to get your free education, not an issue. Right. You you will you will be rewarded no matter what.
SPEAKER_00:And as a reward, you get the best facilities known to fucking Georgia. Right, right, right. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03:Or Alabama, whatever.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, right, or or Louisiana. The reason why Alabama is so fucking poor is because we're putting all the money in the state into this one column. There it is. There it is, there it is, there it is.
SPEAKER_04:So but at the same time, you don't need to get paid, you let you get the best fucking everything. But at the same time, it does help with the transition going into the NFL, getting all that money. Because you don't go into the into the league, right, broke, right? And then all of a sudden, here's all these millions of dollars, and now you lose your fucking mind as a rookie in the NFL.
SPEAKER_00:I can solve that instead of paying people inappropriately at 18 when they're in college, we can just have fucking the education system teach us about money from an early age. That's that's a thought, but elevate our education system, but we're not gonna talk about that then. This is a football episode.
SPEAKER_04:I was gonna say that's that's a whole different episode. It's a whole different episode.
SPEAKER_00:No, like I almost I almost flipped off the trail.
SPEAKER_02:You almost joined you almost joined me, dog.
SPEAKER_01:That's a rabbit hole weed on.
SPEAKER_03:I got Yeti over here like Saudi Arabia and Grizz over here like education, and I'm like football. You're right, you're right. Football Honda.
SPEAKER_04:No, I Hondas. You added an S at the end of that. That was plural. So but but but that's why I can that's why I constantly go back and forth because I do feel like it is a good stepping stone for these kids to, but at the same time, that is a double-edged sword because yes, you don't go in there and and the moment you see all that money, you're like, oh, I'm gonna go out here and do something fucking stupid, right? Because at least the NFL you need to you need to play, you need to at least make it to your junior year before you can even get into the draft. So it's like at least they're you know, they have that. You know, they have that. But now it's like it's a double-edged sword because yes, you now see all that money, you know what you should do and should you know know how to handle learn how to handle that money, but at the same time, you now kind of become a little spoiled, right? Because I've got all these I got all these millions of dollars. I think I now deserve more coming into the NFL. And then you get like what Shamar fucking Stewart did. Well, I'm gonna hold out until I get my half a million up front and not at the end. Buddy, you gotta prove yourself first. Like you haven't even played a fucking single down in the NFL. We need to see what the fuck you're capable of, right? Like that's that's why I appreciated the XFL and how they pay their players, right? Like you have everybody has like a base salary of like 180,000, something like that, and then you have incentives. You get an extra three grand if you win the game, you get an extra, you know, X amount of dollars with so many catches and and so many yards. It's how it should be. Because switch that shit up to that and watch how hard these motherfuckers play, because now you're playing for a paycheck. Now you're playing for a paycheck.
SPEAKER_00:Instead of that's honestly, that is how it should be. You you uh everyone, everyone basically everyone's paid the same. We'll do it in scales. So, like if you're a quarterback, your range is this, if you're a wide receiver, your range is that. Like it could be different levels, and then if you go out there, you ball, you you're a running back, and you run a you you do a hundred yards in a game, like you get a bonus. You get a bonus. Everything should be incentives, absolutely incentives. And that would make the game so much better.
SPEAKER_04:Watch these motherfuckers suddenly become the best players you've ever seen.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, because I'll tell you what, there'll never be a bad offensive line ever again.
SPEAKER_04:No, no, because I'll tell you, I'll tell you what, you allow X amount of sacks. Guess what? You ain't getting paid, you're getting this flap rate that's that that you know, now you a brokey, now you gotta go buy your Hyundai, right?
SPEAKER_02:While everybody else is but apparently back in the day, NFL players had a second job during the offseason.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, yes, that's how that's how it would work, and they got a lot of their money from uh uh uh uh like in endorsements and shit. And that's how they would make their money. Now it's like, nah, I want uh 300 million.
SPEAKER_00:Now they now the endorsements go to the team or like one player.
SPEAKER_04:Cleveland pissed me off with their bullshit. Cleveland ruined it the moment they gave fucking Deshaun Watson all that guaranteed money, and he was in prison. He was in fucking prison.
SPEAKER_03:Cleveland, what were you thinking, Cleveland? Fuck, bro. You wasn't even that good. He wasn't, he wasn't like what's Deshaun Watson doing that. He wasn't that good.
SPEAKER_01:He wasn't. Where is he now though? He's still on a team, isn't he?
SPEAKER_04:I think he's still he's somewhere. I think he's still in Cleveland. He's still in Cleveland, but I don't think he's starting. I don't think he's starting.
SPEAKER_00:No, he's he I think he I think he's went out with a back injury, and that's how we got Flacco.
SPEAKER_04:I think he's taking up space. I think I think that's all it is.
SPEAKER_00:I think yeah, he's bullshit at this point. That's it.
SPEAKER_04:He's just bullshitting. He just yeah, yeah, I'm just here so I don't get fined. He's literally pulling a marsh. Yeah, literally. I'm just here so I don't get fined. So but but I blame Cleveland because of really you're gonna give this man that much guaranteed money and he hasn't even touched the field. That blew my mind. Blew my fucking mind, and it pissed me off because Cleveland, you fucked up the whole market now. Because now everybody's gonna want the same fucking thing. Or more. Or more because they're gonna be like, I'm way better than that guy. Yep, and and and like when Jamar Chase was like, uh uh, ain't no way Justin Jefferson is gonna make more money than me, so I need to make more money than him. And I'm like, what the fuck is this? That's ego. And they said ego is one of the easy. That's ego. Exactly. That's fucking ego. Like, bro, let it go. Get out there and show him why you're the better wide receiver, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Like, go be the triple crown. Don't worry about money.
SPEAKER_04:That's what I'm saying. How the and how the fuck did he wind up getting the triple crown, not even make the playoffs? I don't want to talk about it.
SPEAKER_00:I don't want to talk about it. But brother, we got so robbed by having the best offense in the league with the worst defense in the league at the same time.
SPEAKER_04:It was uh it was absolutely terrible.
SPEAKER_00:Who what? Never mind. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Listen, we're we are way over time and we do have to wrap this up. So um, the NFL, it's back, baby. It's NFL season. We have we are at we got foo, we got foo's ball on the televisions. Um, root for your favorite team, you know what I'm saying? Uh, if you believe in the theory in the theories that it's rigged and and Vegas says all the makes all the calls, all that kind of shit. Have at it.
SPEAKER_00:Bro, it feels like it sometimes.
SPEAKER_04:It's uh honestly, it does. Honestly, it does. It does. So just just you know, fire off in the comments. Tell us what tell us what you think. Everything we've covered today, let us know. Let us know how you feel about any of it. Again, we had a lot to talk about this fucking episode.
SPEAKER_00:All I know is I cannot wait to see what Joe Flacco does with this Cincinnati offense. Buddy, buddy, and I swear to god, if these coaches that make these goddamn play calls don't fuck it up. Don't fuck it up. You have one job. We have too much talent on this motherfucking team to be having this bad of a time right now.
SPEAKER_04:It's it's not fun to be a Cincinnati fan whatsoever. It really isn't. Ever it isn't for any sport. Nope. Even as a like, I was so happy that the Reds made it to the postseason, but then they were just like just kicked out so fast. I was like, really?
SPEAKER_00:I know it's LA Dodgers, but come on. I mean that's that's why salary caps are important.
SPEAKER_04:But again, that's for another episode. That's another show. As for now. What the fuck?
SPEAKER_00:That'll be our World Series uh episode. We'll do it Hondas.
SPEAKER_04:Anyway, um the uh again, fire off in the comments about everything we talked about. Uh let it let us know your thoughts and all that kind of stuff. Um, but we'll continue on. Who wants some fun and games?
SPEAKER_02:Let's do it real quick. We gotta make it quick.
SPEAKER_04:Yep, yep, yep, yep. Let me let me get what I need. Let me get what I need. Hold on, hold up, hold up, hold up. Because I do have a lot of things. Is it gonna be one of the pictures I sent? Nope, it is not. I gotta find it first. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, brother.
SPEAKER_02:Do you want me to I formally request now that one of the one of the pictures I sent in that one one of those be the funny games at some point?
SPEAKER_04:Okay, that's fine. Um, so this is this is what I'm going to ask you. Okay, this is this is gonna be your option. This is options. Options. I want you to choose a video game universe to be transported to with real life stakes. You can obtain power-ups the same as the main character. However, you do not have unlimited lives.
SPEAKER_02:Is the main character with us in helping us defeat other people?
SPEAKER_04:I think you are the main character. You are just transported to the to the universe, and you are essentially the the you get the same power-ups as that main character. So you'll basically be the main character, but in real life.
SPEAKER_02:If I'm hearing correctly, X-Men Legends, or not X-Men Legends, uh, Mega Man Legends.
SPEAKER_04:So Mega Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, or Mario. It's Mega Man all day. That's an option. You can get you can get the power-ups as it's say the same as the main character, but you do not have unlimited lives. Mega Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, or Mario.
SPEAKER_00:I'm gonna go with Sonic because I am adrenaline junkie and I like going fast.
SPEAKER_04:And you can literally fast. I mean, as an adrenaline junkie, you could literally do everything as Sonic the Hedgehog.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, like you honestly can't. It's my playstyle.
SPEAKER_04:Like, that's honestly because let me tell you something. You collect all those uh chaos emeralds and go supersonic. You're going places, dude. Buddy. Do we do we not watch the do we not watch the same Sonic movie? Dude was flying in space like deuces.
SPEAKER_02:I'm still thinking of Mega Man. Mega Man's dope. Mega Man for me is where it's at.
SPEAKER_04:Listen, don't get me wrong. I love Misa Mega Man. I honestly do, especially Mega Man X. Now it doesn't specify because Mega Man and Mega Man X are two different Mega Mans. So it is, it is even Mega Man Legends, yeah. But but if we're just talking straight up, Mega Man, mmm like Mario would be fun, right? Yeah, yeah, with star power. It it honestly would, but at the same time, like who wouldn't want to jump on turtles?
SPEAKER_02:Wait, but the timeout. So what about the end result? Because like you're trying to get the princess back.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and Bowser keeps snatching her up. Right, but what happens when you get her back? Do you uh do you get to bang? Probably.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, I retract.
SPEAKER_01:Mario. Mario Mario. Mario.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I get I get a smash peach all the time, bet say less. So I I don't know. I would on it honestly, I'd probably have to go Sonic. I I honestly wouldn't. I would have to go Sonic.
SPEAKER_02:I'm I'm still picking Mega Megaman Mega Meg Mega Man.
SPEAKER_04:Mega Meg Mega Man, Mega Man, Mega Man, Mega Man. Like again, don't get me wrong, love Mega Man, and I would love to be a part of that universe. Because especially with the power-ups, that would be absolutely fucking that'd be crazy. That'd be crazy work. That would be. But but Sonic, my dude, Sonic is just that's nuts. That's nuts. Like, I want to see what it's like to go super fucking fast. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, seriously, gotta go fast. So anyway, uh, fire off in the comments. Choose which game universe you would want to be transported to. And how you would like how would you live your life? You know, as basically as that main character. Real life stakes. Real life stakes. Remember that. So you're probably gonna inherit all the enemies and the big badge.
SPEAKER_05:I love stakes.
SPEAKER_04:Me too. Did you say stakes? Um who's ready for a fun fact?
SPEAKER_02:Let's go. Let's do it later.
SPEAKER_04:I think Yeti is ready for his nap. Um D you No. That in the deep sea, male anglerfish don't just mate, they fuse.
SPEAKER_02:Like welding? Like they become one, like like you.
SPEAKER_04:So hang on, I'm pulling it up right now.
SPEAKER_02:And aren't anglo anglerfish like really ugly ass fucking fish?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, with the light on their head, yes. So, this is the weirdest mating ritual in the animal kingdom. Note to self. Never know, humans do some weird shit, bro. Uh well. You're not wrong. Note to self, never date an anglerfish. So, deep sea anglerfish have a very weird way of mating. Tiny males, because the males are smaller than the females, the males are actually only about yay big, they fit in the palm of your hand. Tiny males bite into the much bigger females, and in some species, his body tissues fuse with hers. The male effectively turns into a sack of sperm hanging onto the female, ready for her to use whenever she needs to fertilize her eggs. Female anglerfish even switch off parts of their immune systems so their bodies won't reject their male hitchhikers. The strategy works in the vast dark space of the deep sea, where if you encounter a suitable male, it pays to hang on tight and never let them go.
SPEAKER_02:That's crazy. So the body turns into fucking sperm?
SPEAKER_04:The body fuses and they turn into sperm. Literally, male anglerfish just turn into sperm.
SPEAKER_02:Remind me not to die and become a fucking anglerfish.
SPEAKER_00:Well, no, you're looking at this all wrong, Yeti. Oh my god. The the the the male ends up not doing anything, yeah, he just gets to exist.
SPEAKER_02:No way melts away, bro. No, like what could you imagine? Like right now, I mean, yeah, what happens melt away, you become a puddle of sperm. Yeah, dude. And a woman comes by and goes, Ooh, what's this? And then she gets pregnant because she put her finger in you.
SPEAKER_00:No, no, no, no. That's not not that's not what's happening. He fuses to her, he like bites to her.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, he got oh he he just gets and then so you're a predator, so you're a predator like a female as she walks by or like you, and they're like, melt.
SPEAKER_00:Hold up, hold up. Most of the animal kingdom gets comes off as like predatory. I mean, but you know what I'm saying? Like, like when they go to when they have their mating ritual, like how much of that uh is consensual in the animal kingdom? We don't talk about that. We really consensual, if it wasn't consensual, the woman wouldn't let it happen.
SPEAKER_01:Brother, you think that's not necessarily true? We just watched two elephants go up there. The woman elphin didn't go nowhere.
SPEAKER_04:That's not necessarily true, especially especially like lions. Like a lot of the times the male will just be they just let it happen. They just breed the bitch. They're just like, ah, don't move. I'm not done yet.
SPEAKER_00:I think he didn't talk about that.
SPEAKER_04:No, they didn't. They didn't. That's the part they wanted to keep in the dark, so but no, like if you it like anglerfish, uh, they do weird shit. I mean, I would expect that from a very weird-looking fish, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Like, but he doesn't have to do anything, he just laughs, he finds a suitable partner, and just and then she's like, Don't worry, boo, I'll take care of you.
SPEAKER_04:I got you, I got you, baby. I got you, baby.
SPEAKER_00:Just cover my eggs. He's like, I could cover them eggs.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, I'll cover them eggs.
SPEAKER_00:That's such an easy life. That's an easy life, brother. I will pepper them eggs. He delivers zero.
SPEAKER_04:Zero packages. None, none whatsoever. All right, so there you go. There's your fun fact. Uh, I don't know if that weird you out. I I hope it does, because that's very strange. That's strange as hell. Can you imagine just turning into a puddle of sperm? That's crazy work.
SPEAKER_02:Um, no, I can't, and apparently one of us wants to.
SPEAKER_04:I think that's you, Grizz. So anyway.
SPEAKER_00:Apparently, I'm because I'm cool with being lazy and just away.
SPEAKER_04:Become a deck of yo. Can you imagine? Can you imagine that as an as an insult? You lazy puddle of sperm.
SPEAKER_03:That's crazy work. Hey, hey, that's a diabolical fucking put down. Like, that's a that's diabolical.
SPEAKER_04:If somebody looked swear to god, if somebody looked me dead in my face and said, you lazy puddle of sperm, I'd be like, oh my god, you are pissed. Like, you are pissed. That's a level of passivity I've never I've never encountered.
SPEAKER_02:Because technically speaking, the late a puddle of sperm ain't doing shit. It ain't doing shit. It ain't doing that.
SPEAKER_01:You lazy puddle of sperm. I beg your pardon. I bet your fucking I beg your finest part. What did you just call me?
SPEAKER_04:You lazy puddle of sperm. My bad. I I immediately am apologizing. He's big mad. Seriously, I'm like, I'm gonna leave. I'm going to remove myself from this situation because you do not like me. So anyway, um, we're gonna wrap this up pretty pretty little bow on it, because I know Yeti probably has stuff to do. He's got a he's he's got a baby to take care of. Um we join us in really one week as as at the time of this recording, where um no, it will be two weeks. I'm just kidding. I'm Joshin. Our next episode will be on Halloween, let's put it that way. Um, where we will have our Halloween episode. Uh, we will dress up as whatever we're going out as, and we'll do a review of candy. Candy that we thought maybe possibly doesn't exist anymore, but it really does, and we'll give a review on how it tastes. So do not forget to find the candy. That's right. Don't forget to find the candy. The the little butterscotch candies that every that like every old lady had in their purse.
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