Crossover (Tues 8/11 - Seg 1)

Summary

Middays With Matt: "Crossover" (Tues 8/11 - Seg 1)

Host: Matt McMaster (with NRGMedia)
Date: August 11, 2026
Segment: Crossover
Podcast Summary by Segment with Timestamps

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of "Middays With Matt" features Matt McMaster and co-hosts (Jake, Happer, and others) engaging in their signature banter. The discussion crosses a range of topics from coworker dynamics and fantasy football dilemmas to office etiquette, calendar management, Nebraska football "schedule fear mongering," coffee science, and spontaneous movie commentary. The episode maintains an irreverent, conversational tone, heavy on inside jokes, friendly teasing, and quick pivots between sports talk and random daily gripes.

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Key Discussion Points & Timestamps

1. Coworker Dynamics and Power Rankings

[00:08–02:26]

• Friendly jabs about Josh Hodson being on vacation and the joys of coworkers taking time off.
• Teasing about ranking the coolness of 1620 The Zone staff, with Matt resisting outright rankings:
  • “What culture are you creating here if you're not willing to admit we're all a team?” (Matt, 01:22)
• Humorous talk about who annoys who and how red beards and skepticism become ranking factors.

2. Fantasy Football League Conflicts

[02:28–10:56]

• A major chunk focuses on a scheduling conflict between overlapping fantasy football drafts, with Matt considering draft proxies:
  • “I have two fantasy football leagues that are drafting at the same time that both require you to be there in person.” (A, 02:34)
• The hosts debate the reasonable maximum number of fantasy leagues and what it says about life balance.
  • “Three is not the perfect amount for me who has way too much free time and doesn't have a wife, doesn't have kids, doesn't have a household. Three is awesome.” (Matt, 03:49)
• Discussion about the responsibilities of being a draft proxy, and what perks or possible punishments are involved.
• Matt considers opening up draft proxy duty to listeners as a contest, including sharing potential winnings.

3. Calendar Chaos and Life Organization

[12:01–16:05]

• The trio mock Matt’s lack of digital calendar skills, as he tries to recall events by memory alone:
  • “I don't have an actual calendar marked down with all of my events. I just have to look at the days and remind myself.” (Matt, 12:24)
• Real-life organizing tips and gentle ribbing about adulthood, multitasking, and calendar invites ensue.

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4. Plug for 1620 The Zone Event & Prize Talk

[15:19–16:17]

• The hosts promote an upcoming golf tournament with "prize on every single hole," touting it as “better than the Godfather.”
• More humor about Matt’s supposed sex appeal helping event sign-ups, including banter about shirtless promotions.

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5. “Schedule Fear Mongering” and Nebraska Football

[16:17–19:14]

• Conversation shifts to accusations of Matt “fear mongering” about Nebraska’s upcoming football schedule:
  • “Apparently talking about the teams Nebraska is actually going to play in which they have to beat is fear mongering.” (Matt, 16:24)
• Matt explains his analytical approach (floor vs. ceiling for the team) but receives grief for perceived pessimism:
  • “I was floor and ceiling, if you will.” (Matt, 17:04)

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6. NFL Quarterback Debates & Super Bowl Stats

[19:01–20:17]

• Spirited debate over Joe Flacco, Nick Foles, and Aaron Rodgers having the same number of Super Bowl wins:
  • “You said me, Flacco, Fools and Rogers are all the same quarterback, which is not true right now in the slightest.” (C, 19:12)
• Side references to Drew Brees and surprise there wasn’t more Super Bowl success.

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7. Coffee Science and the Americano Debate

[20:21–22:48]

• Playful argument about whether you can burn a coffee bean in the process of making an Americano:
  • “Can you burn a bean on an Americano?” (C, 22:08)
  • They banter about what point the "bean" becomes "not a bean" and whether over-extraction equals burning.

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8. Office Cable Management & Workspace Routines

[22:49–26:31]

• Unexpected gratitude for whoever untangled a massive ethernet cable, a task previously deemed impossible:
  • “That cord is what I previously thought to be unwrappable…it was a big jumbled mess. And someone, a fairy, came along and wrapped it up all nice…” (B, 23:41)
• Ongoing tales about musical desks and who prefers chaos vs. order in their workspace.

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9. Random Life Details (Calendar, Cross, Pope Night, Sox Fans)

[26:31–28:59]

• Matt discusses his (unadorned) calendar, bar crawl plans, wearing a Celtic cross, and the upcoming “Pope Night” at a White Sox game.
  • “It's my Celtic cross.” (Matt, 26:45)
• Anecdotes about Chicago neighborhoods, fireworks, and the confusion of Sox fans living nearer to Wrigley.

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10. Heroin in Movies—A Sudden Pivot

[28:22–29:34]

• Out of left field, the group starts listing what movies feature heroin usage—Requiem for a Dream, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, The Basketball Diaries—mainly as a gag about what is and isn’t a “heroin movie.”
  • “What's Bill Simmons Top 6 Heroin Movies?” (C, 28:48)

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• On Work-Life Balance:
  “Three is not the perfect amount for me…Three is awesome. Three is great.” (Matt, 03:52)
• On Coworker Rankings:
  “People who slightly annoy me. That tier would be Happer and Schaefer.” (C, 01:55)
• On Calendar Organization:
  “I don’t have an actual calendar marked down…” (Matt, 12:24)
  “Look at all those colors. This is a calendar!” (A, 13:26)
• On Nebraska Football:
  “Apparently talking about the teams that Nebraska is actually going to play…is fear mongering.” (Matt, 16:24)
• On Draft Proxy Contest:
  “If you draft a team and it wins for me, I will give you a percentage of the money.” (A, 09:35)
• On Office Chores:
  “That cord…what I previously thought to be unwrappable, it was a big jumbled mess.” (B, 23:41)
• On Movie Drug Use:
  “What's Bill Simmons Top 6 Heroin Movies?” (C, 28:48)

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Overall Tone and Takeaways

The episode is a fast-paced, irreverent blend of office comedy, sports banter, and personal anecdotes. The core dynamic comes from the hosts’ willingness to needle each other about both trivial (fantasy football scheduling, calendar management) and weighty (Nebraska’s football future) topics. Running jokes about “fear mongering,” calendar color-coding, and cable management keep the vibe light and relatable, while occasional forays into random territory—like heroin in movies—showcase the show’s unpredictable, conversational style.

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Useful for Listeners Who Missed the Episode:

• If you’re in a fantasy league, enjoy sports radio comedy, or just want a look into how radio hosts organize their chaotic work/social lives, this is a goldmine.
• The show’s signature is the seamless shift between irreverent banter and practical topics (event promotions, work hacks), with Nebraska sports never far from the center.
• True to form, even the coffee debate contains a lesson in not sweating the small stuff—and always getting things onto your calendar.

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(End of Summary)

Transcript

[A]

Crossover. Oh, killer crossover. Just crossover. It just crossed him over.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

Another victim to the crossovers.

[B]

Cross him up and sit him down. Time for the crossover with Matt. And Jake is in yet again. Of course, we know that Josh Hodson is on vacation. We are very happy about that. We're happy that Josh is on vacation. And that's a great thing. Thank you, Josh, for being on vacation.

[A]

Good job.

[B]

Matt is here.

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And I love how you're making fun of me. Out of all the things to make fun of me, me being happy that my coworker, my happy producer is finally getting time off after working relentlessly for the last. Is why I make it seven months.

[A]

Because you always overdo it. You over.

[C]

I'm not overdoing it. He deserves it.

[A]

Before we go deeper into you overdoing it, Haber, is there a reason you didn't want to say Matt, Jake?

[B]

Oh, no. I. I don't know.

[C]

Great questions.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

How dare you disrespect Jake. You don't think Jake. Janice, That's a real producer.

[A]

I do seem like he's second fiddle.

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I.

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Because you didn't even do the. Matt, Josh.

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Yeah.

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You know, what culture are we building?

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Second fiddle.

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I mean, he is.

[C]

He is, but we don't have to

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really pointing it out.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, we can all. What culture are you creating here if you're not willing to admit we're all a team? You know, we all try.

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I mean, we're not all the same. Some people are cooler than others. Let's admit it.

[C]

A million percent without a doubt.

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Now we don't have to.

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That wasn't really. What was.

[C]

Oh, I can't say who's cool and who's not cool.

[B]

I mean, I don't know.

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Dang it.

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I mean, we all have Bishop up here.

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If you want to do your ranking for yourself, if you want to do your rankings, you can feel free.

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Do a power ranking.

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Do a power ranking with tears.

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People that work at 1620, the zone.

[C]

People who slightly annoy me. That tier would be Happer and Schaefer,

[B]

but still pretty cool.

[C]

You want to put that in parentheses

[B]

there also have red beards, people who

[C]

are always skeptical of me, or cola and grim. People with.

[B]

But are you ranking that? Are you ranked the power rankings with tears?

[C]

Oh, I have to rank them.

[A]

Yeah.

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You kind of all just on the same plane for me at this.

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We're all exactly the same.

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All exactly the same.

[A]

Well, that's a fun segment.

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Yeah.

[C]

I'm not willing. You know what? I'm not Willing to do this.

[A]

I have something for today that potentially Matt can help me out with.

[B]

Topic alert.

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Or if it's not going to be Matt, we can brainstorm something here. But I have two fantasy football leagues that are drafting at the same time that both require you to be there in person. I have often been able to weasel my way into forcing the league this always. They both try to pick the same Saturday every year, every single time this happens. Normally I'm successful in forcing us to change one of the two drafts to accommodate me, which I think everyone's main focus should be accommodating me because want me to be at the draft. I provide commentary fodder. Whatever.

[B]

They're not budging this year.

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No.

[C]

By the way, it sounds like you're making like a resume as to why people should ask you to be in your fantasy football.

[A]

Anyone else's league provides commentary. Great.

[C]

Fter often makes jokes about the 2009 Minnesota Vikings.

[A]

Three leagues. And I want it to be down, but I can't. I'm. I'm can't cut any further without offending future relationships or. And one of the leagues I actually want to be in, the three leagues can argue over which of it is.

[B]

Wait, wait, wait. You only want to be in one?

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There's one that I value more than the other.

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I think. I think three is the perfect amount. By the way.

[A]

Three is a lot.

[B]

Three is not the perfect amount for

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me who has way too much free time and doesn't have a wife, doesn't have kids, doesn't have a household. Three is awesome. Three is great.

[B]

You don't need three fantasy leagues.

[A]

These drafts are happening on the same day.

[B]

You know I do. That's a waste.

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No, it's not.

[A]

Also on this day, there's potentially other obligations that I have due to being married. So I don't think I can attend both drafts. And I'm now told that I need to have a proxy for the one of the drafts. Would you be interested in being the proxy?

[B]

There would be free beer, free food.

[A]

However, this league has now changed to where it wants to decide the draft order based on some sort of competitions that occur before the draft. We've now expanded this beyond just the draft. There's now like competitions. I. I'm told there's going to be like smoking of meat and other. Like this is. It's like a party of sorts. Like this goes beyond just okay, a fantasy football draft. But would you be interested in being my proxy? My options right now are Potentially you, my 13 year old nephew, my brother in law is in this league. It's his first year. But my nephew is really into football.

[B]

He's looking at his calendar like it has stuff on it.

[C]

No, I'm looking at my other fantasy football drafts that I would. What?

[A]

August 29th.

[C]

August 29th. That's a Saturday.

[A]

It is. It's a heavy draft weekend. Let's see.

[C]

I had to bet I'm golfing on the 22nd.

[B]

He's really considering the whole week before.

[C]

No, I know, but I gotta see what.

[A]

He's not sure how calendars work.

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Let's see. I think I'm Busy on the 14th and that's about it.

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Well, I'm also. I'm golfing on the 16th.

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Okay. Yeah. Relevant to the 22 weeks.

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Two weeks.

[C]

Let me look.

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I also want to be honest here. This is a total redraft.

[C]

So there are goalkeepers, the storm chasers are on the road.

[A]

The team however you want. I wouldn't even give you instruction on it.

[B]

He gets.

[A]

You wanted to give me the worst team of all time.

[B]

You get to unilaterally pick Mike Schaefer's fantasy team.

[C]

September 3rd is one draft date. I.

[A]

What.

[C]

What time?

[A]

It sounds like it would start at 3:30 in the afternoon.

[C]

Oh, that might be tough. I have hockey practice. I have hockey practice at one hockey practice. I'm a coach.

[A]

Okay. Are you looking at my game?

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I'm telling you right now, I'm legitimately

[A]

looking at like a three hour practice.

[C]

Well, where. Where would this draft take place?

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It's going to be over in the location of which I live. So not close to you, but I play.

[C]

Are you close to Moyland Stadium?

[B]

That is pretty close.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

You be in the vicinity.

[B]

It's not a stadium. Did they tell you that you're coaching in a stadium?

[C]

That's just what. I'm pretty sure that's just what it was called to me.

[A]

I don't think it's a stadium.

[C]

Is this the wrong email?

[A]

Seems like you want to do this.

[B]

What are you doing?

[A]

I'm looking at my confusing calendar I've ever seen.

[C]

Well, it's not an actual calendar.

[A]

I just have to get your phone.

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The 29th? Yeah, I practice at one. I should be done at like two. Okay, I'll think about it.

[A]

All right.

[B]

He.

[A]

He wants to do it.

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I don't know. Actually, I can't tell you.

[C]

I. I have no idea.

[B]

You might be one of those guys who's like actually, you know, immediately.

[A]

Listen, they. I said that right, right.

[B]

Away.

[A]

I was like, my proxy is going to be Matt McMahon.

[B]

My current read is this. He doesn't want to do it at all. He just doesn't want to say no.

[A]

Oh, okay. That's not the vibe I'm getting.

[C]

That' actually, honestly, honest to God, I don't really know. There's a part of me that definitely by the idea. I'm very intrigued by it.

[A]

Know anyone there?

[C]

I would. But that's never been a problem.

[A]

Right.

[C]

That's never been an issue.

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Free. Which he likes.

[C]

It's also one of those things where it's like, I like doing one thing in a day. And at this point, my one thing is hockey practice.

[B]

This would be two things, and this

[C]

would be two of them. And so then they'd be back to back.

[A]

Man, I'm going to tell you, I would ever become a dad, you're going to have to do more than one thing in a day.

[C]

I know.

[A]

You're ever in a relationship, you might have to do two things.

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You know, I'm fully aware of the fact that if I'm ever going to be like you guys, I'm going to have to change some things in my life.

[A]

Suggesting you aspire to be us.

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You'll figure it out.

[C]

I'm interested. I'm interested. I'm. I would say that I am 61.7% a yes.

[A]

So let's say that you're just a. You end up on the 38.3%. That's. No.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Should I then have a contest for a listener to then fill in for me as my proxy?

[C]

I think this would be a great

[A]

idea suggested by this group giveaway, which seems to be encouraging of the idea.

[C]

I actually think that you should just send random Mic. I think that would be probably the best proxy out of your customers. I think Random Mike would love to. I was gonna spread the word of Cam Coles.

[A]

So I was thinking about. Basically, people could submit their fantasy resume to me.

[C]

Yes. I think this is great.

[A]

Com. If you actually want to do this. And there would be. Because I didn't lose the league, I don't have to bring the beer or the pizza or the food that would all be provided. Sure. If you want to give me the worst team of all time, you can do that.

[C]

What if we flew out Potsy and we had Potsy be your box?

[A]

I'm willing to. If I end up. If I end up winning, if I win the league or win any of the money, I'm willing to split some of the money to whoever Drafts. Wow.

[C]

Really?

[A]

Yeah, I'll manage it, sure.

[C]

But they get to draft.

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But if you draft a team and it wins for me, I will give you a percentage of the money.

[B]

What happens if you lose?

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Nothing. I cover the cost.

[C]

What's the buy in?

[B]

What happens if you get last? Is there a punishment then?

[A]

I have to. Yeah, I have to cover the beer and pizza for the next year's draft, which make it where I'm not even there.

[C]

What's.

[A]

Yeah, the league wanted to do punishments, and I pushed it to a very simple. Like, I like that.

[B]

I don't like fantasy to leave this league because you're just trying to sabo it, basically.

[A]

I'm not trying to sabo the league.

[B]

You're. I mean, you clearly are doing stuff in the interest of only you.

[C]

You don't care. You know, you don't care. You don't care about college football. You don't care about this.

[A]

I'm worried about me.

[C]

You're having another person, a random. You're having a random person care about this league. I don't think you do.

[A]

I want draft this league. They aren't allowing me to.

[C]

Well, you could also. I mean, you're drafting for another league, though. So clearly you're stating that you care about the. The other league. You're drafting more.

[A]

The date first.

[C]

Is that your reasoning?

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It is.

[C]

That's your full reasoning.

[A]

So they're like, hey, we're. We want to do the draft on this day. Does anyone have any issues? It's like, yeah, I've already got a draft at this day. What time are you thinking about? We want to do this time. I'll have a draft going on at that time. I also think I have something in the evening. Can we look at one of the other 65 possible dates? No, we can't. All right.

[B]

It's time to leave.

[C]

I think it's time to leave. They clearly don't care about you.

[A]

They don't. They care.

[C]

They don't care about you. If they care, they would have. They would have changed the date.

[B]

Well, I think they do care about him. I don't think he cares about them.

[C]

I don't.

[A]

I close.

[C]

I think wherever you're measuring it, the care is not equal here. One of you don't care if I think you need to break up.

[A]

I would totally ignore everything. Not have a proxy. And then they would be screwed come draft time. You wouldn't be screwed.

[C]

You wouldn't be. You they want.

[A]

The league would be screwed.

[C]

Why would be screwed?

[A]

There would only be 11 people for kind of offline draft.

[B]

What kind of draft is. Is it offline?

[A]

Offline draft?

[C]

Oh, it's an offline draft.

[A]

There's. It used to be a no electronics, and then it got really hard to get everybody together for the same draft. And so then they allowed people to draft on ESPN or whatever, and then everyone hated that because less people showed up for the draft.

[B]

Right.

[A]

And so now we're back to doing an in person draft, which I'm in favor of. Sure. The draft is the best part of the league.

[C]

Do you then. Do you then go. But then do. Are all the leagues then. Then plugged in to an online database? Yeah.

[A]

So.

[C]

Okay, okay, okay.

[A]

But it's the idea of it is that you have to like, show up with some preparation. You're not just picking best player available or whatever.

[B]

Right. You could.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Sean goes. Does Matt not know how to look at date given to. To him instead of all other dates? It's. I don't have an actual Cal.

[B]

Just staring dead.

[A]

It was incredible watching you go from app to app and it's like.

[B]

It's very funny.

[A]

It's going to be next.

[C]

Well, I don't have an actual calendar marked down with all of my events. I just have to look at the days and remind myself, like, does that number trigger something that I committed to?

[B]

Wait, so when you were looking at that calendar, it didn't actually say anything

[C]

for the day except for the days? Yeah, I don't have anything actually on the calendar.

[A]

Text messages.

[C]

It doesn't have any dots on it.

[A]

It has nothing on it.

[C]

It has not on it. Look, My calendar has zero. I just. I was like 22. What is that trigger? Did I commit to anything on the 22nd? 29. What did I. What did I. So the 22nd, I have a bar crawl with my friend Allison. I remember I committed to that.

[B]

Can you write that in there? Write that in there. Write that at. Bar crawl with Allison.

[C]

Bar crawl with Alice.

[B]

Which sounds like just a date, but. No, no, no.

[C]

It's. She. She's. No, absolutely not.

[B]

She's not.

[C]

We are not dating.

[B]

Well, I mean, I'm just saying, like bar crawl with Allison and other people and her friends. All right.

[C]

But they're her friends. They're not really my friend.

[A]

This is what a calendar looks like.

[C]

That has things.

[B]

Look at all those colors.

[A]

This is a cow.

[C]

Whoa. That's crazy. That's insane.

[A]

Very often there's not days where there's only one thing on there either.

[C]

Golf at Tiburon.

[B]

Okay, now you can make that, like, recurring week to week.

[C]

Yeah, you know, you could do that.

[B]

You could also. You should put in 1620, the scramble.

[C]

Oh, on the 21st. Yes. 1620, the scramble.

[B]

All this communication going on right now. It sounds like. Schaefer, you and I are maybe the MCs of the after party.

[A]

Yeah, I saw that.

[B]

Another gig for us.

[A]

I like it.

[B]

Exciting.

[A]

Second, you were making a face. Did you want to be there?

[C]

No, nothing. You're gonna be on the air middays with Matt at Werner park.

[B]

Okay. When's that?

[C]

September 2nd. Heck, yeah.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Please call this crossover.

[C]

Matt makes it 22.

[B]

That discovers calendar. Wow.

[C]

Crap. I have hockey and the bar crawl on the same day.

[B]

That's more than one thing. Shoot.

[A]

Are you gonna have time for a nap?

[C]

Hockey at Moylan? Well, this would be the time where I would ask Allison, what time does the bar crawl start? Correct. Is that would be the adult thing to do. What time does Baller crawl start?

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Okay, I'll kill the bit. I'll kill the bit. That was a great topic.

[A]

Valuable thing for you. In doctor's appointment places, they send you the text, like, the week in advance to remind you that you have something on the calendar. Yeah.

[C]

And I always. I typically always remember that because that's very important. Same thing with my flights. I know exactly when my flights are. It's always in my brain.

[B]

You can put those in your calendar, too.

[C]

But I don't need to. I don't need to put my flights in my calendar.

[A]

I know when I'm in my calendar.

[B]

It's awesome. I love all the things that do the calendar invite. So you could just. It just goes into your calendar. Those are great things. Yeah, we should do that. For the people who signed up for our golf tournaments.

[C]

We should do that.

[B]

We should put that into their calendars, by the way. It makes it feel real.

[C]

We got. We got more people to. More people signed up yesterday.

[B]

We're almost.

[C]

We are running out of spots. And the. One of the reasons why more people signed up yesterday is because I kept reading off of the insane prizes that we're giving away.

[A]

This is better than the Godfather, Let me tell you.

[C]

Like, I'm not. We're not. I'm not, like, being like, oh, a company, Matt, like, promoting this thing. We're giving away a prize on every single hole, and they're all very good prizes. It's insane.

[B]

I thought that more people signed up yesterday because you showed some skin.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

The. You know, I will say that this Crossover definitely has more sex appeal than the other crossover that we're in. And so I feel like I have to show off a little skin in order to up the sex appeal of the afternoon cross.

[A]

I was asking if Matt McMuffin top had become a name.

[C]

No, no. Matt McLove handles though, definitely has has surfaced as, as is up there.

[A]

I sent in a Matt McFermongering when I was listening yesterday.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. People were saying I was fear mongering Nebraska's football season.

[A]

You're talking schedules.

[C]

Yeah, apparently I'm not supposed to do that. Whoever made those rules, I don't know. But apparently, apparently talking about the teams that people that Nebraska is actually going to play in which they have to beat is fear mongering. Even though that's okay, guys. Cool, cool. I didn't know talking about the teams at Nebraska actually ask a defeat. That's. I'm putting fear into people.

[A]

I wasn't able to listen because I think I ducked in somewhere right after sending it. Did you, did, did this come up? Were you.

[C]

Another person tweeted at me that I was fear mongering.

[B]

I, I, I defin. Done a good job of cornering people in the schedule. Fear monger.

[A]

See?

[B]

Reschedule. Fear mongering.

[C]

No, I wasn't, I was floor ceiling. I was floor and ceiling, if you will.

[B]

It's worked.

[A]

It's, it's fear mongering.

[C]

I just, the whole idea of, like, tell me why Nebraska won't do this this year but you can't bring up the schedule is so, it's so dumb to me. It's like telling like a prosecutor, hey, you know, show this guy committed murder, but you can't bring up the fact that his alibi doesn't check out.

[B]

This means, like, you know, if you, if you're automatically chalking multiple losses due to the schedule, you're just so.

[A]

I think the reason I had sent it.

[B]

Stop.

[A]

Matt was on a, he was kind of on a rant of like, if you're telling me Nebraska is going 9 and 3 and only losing to, you

[C]

know, Indiana, it's a lot of steps. Yeah, it's a lot of steps to go.

[A]

So he's, he's, he's doing all of that and he's like, they would have to do something they've never done before.

[C]

They have to do two things they haven't done.

[A]

So he just keeps going. And it's more and more about how, like, they can't be a lot just be a lot.

[B]

They've got Nine and three before I remember Bo Pe.

[C]

I'm just talking more specifically Matt Rule. This is what I was talking about.

[A]

Remember Bo Palini. You can remember Mike Riley.

[C]

Well, the point. The point was like my. My floor and my ceiling are pretty close because I think you have a pretty good idea of what this team is going to be. I. A topic you two discussed today on your show when you brought up the fact that you could probably make a depth chart right now in terms of. And be fairly accurate when it comes to the Nebraska Corn Huskers, which shows that we have a pretty decent idea of what this team is already going to look like.

[B]

And yet your skills still schedule fear monger.

[C]

I'm not fear mongering. You're not?

[A]

I mean, it's effectively saying that they can't do this because they haven't done it in a while.

[C]

Well, if you.

[A]

We just saw a team go 160 that wasn't even a football school like 10 minutes ago.

[C]

If you don't like schedule fear mongering, I don't think you're gonna like today's Nebraska football.

[A]

There's a reason I sent in Matt McFermonger.

[C]

You also sent me this text, which is another topical.

[A]

Ooh, what text? Did I.

[C]

Did I.

[B]

You know.

[C]

You know what text you sent me? You said me, Flacco, Flacco, Fools and Rogers are all the same quarterback, which

[B]

is not true right now in the slightest.

[A]

You were talking about the hall of Fame and you were talking about how Breeze only made one.

[C]

Yeah, I'm just shocked that. I'm not shocked necessarily that he only won one Super Bowl. I am shocked. They only made one.

[B]

Okay, so whenever he talks about the packers, it's a. A bit.

[C]

Oh, yeah, this is a bit. He also knows that I think that Aaron Rodgers's prime is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.

[A]

Yeah. And he had the same amount of Super Bowls and wins as Joe Flacco and Nick Foles. That's all the Texans.

[C]

I'm surprised he didn't include Dilfer in there, too. You might as well have, right?

[A]

He was before your time.

[C]

I mean, Rex Grossman and Aaron Rodgers have been.

[A]

Trent Dilfer is.

[C]

What do you mean? I don't know who Trent Dilfer is. What are you talking about? He was the quarterback of the 2000 Baltimore Ravens.

[A]

He was negative.

[C]

He was the man that the Indianapolis Colts should have taken according to Mel Kuiper instead of Trev Alberts.

[A]

Imagine how that might have worked out for him. They may never end up With Peyton Manning. Have you ever considered that Trev Alberts led to Peyton Manning?

[B]

I.

[C]

Clearly I have him. But something you have probably.

[A]

I just said it out loud first time I thought of it.

[C]

I have another topic that we can hit very quickly before we let you two go.

[B]

I have another thing that I want to bring up too, so.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Oh, all right.

[C]

Are you willing.

[A]

So where do we land? Are you going to fill in or not? You're 61%.

[C]

61% that.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Can you be the bigger man here and. And admit that I was right about something?

[B]

Well, I don't know what it is.

[A]

I don't know if the answer is absolutely not.

[C]

You can burn the being on an Americana.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

And. And. And I. I looked it up and I researched it that you can over AI. But you know, I went to a. A kitch. Kitchtech.com.

[B]

yeah.

[C]

And you can over extract the espresso and burn the bean of the espresso and have a better thing.

[B]

But the. The. The shot, like is pulled from it. It's not a be like originally, way back in its first iteration, it was a bean.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

But it's not burned at that point. It's burned at the point after it stops becoming a bean. So you're not burning the bean.

[C]

What are you doing then?

[B]

You're burning the co. You're. You're overshooting the coffee. Like you're overshooting the espresso. It's not burning it.

[C]

But when you overshoot the espresso, don't you have to overheat the bean?

[B]

There is no bean. It's. It's already unbeamed. It's been de. Bean.

[C]

There's no beans in espresso.

[B]

There was at the point. Not at the point at which you make it into an Americano.

[C]

Oh, you gotta grind it.

[B]

It's already. Yeah, yeah. That's what espresso is.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But if you. But if you. If you're burning the. The grind.

[B]

Look, I'm no coffee expert, but. So you're asking a lot of questions that I don't know exactly the process of, but I think you are not right on this.

[C]

50. 50 split. I say we call it a tie.

[B]

All right. All right.

[A]

That's all I wanted. 402-95-1620. Hit us up on the Prairie Flower Casino Zone hotline. If you're a barista and can answer these coffee.

[C]

Can you burn a brain bean on an Americano?

[A]

I like the idea of d beaning.

[B]

It's already been D.B.

[C]

yeah. Okay. They d. Bean the coffee. Yeah, coffee. I didn't know deep eating was a process. Yeah, they pack it.

[B]

You know, if you've seen those videos in the. I'm sure you've watched these on the Internet where they.

[C]

Where they pack it.

[B]

Not like that, but yeah, they. They have the little thing and they go.

[C]

And then they got air. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Espresso.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

But. But where did. Where do those grinds come from?

[B]

A bean a long time ago. Like. Okay. Yeah.

[C]

Like in a far away galaxy.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Right. Okay.

[B]

Exactly. Perfect. Exactly. I'll.

[C]

I'll 50, 50.

[B]

Here's my other thing. Sure. 50, 50. Who wrapped that cord at my desk? Who did this?

[A]

What?

[B]

Do you know that big 100 foot long ethernet cable.

[C]

Probably. Probably me at one point.

[B]

Okay. No, I. No, I gave you the 100 foot long ethernet cable to use at Werner Park.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Which I have 100 foot long ethernet cable. Thank you you. And I've used it for office use many, many times now. And it has just sat at my chair for a couple weeks since you were last at Warner park in a big jumbled mess. And someone, a fairy came along and wrapped it up all nice and a nice little thing really. So I wanted to thank them. Personally, I did not know.

[A]

I think it had to be Chris Prudhon.

[C]

Chris was doing stuff Prudon was in like has the last two days. Prudon has just been working.

[B]

That cord is what I previously thought to be unwrappable. It was a.

[A]

Do you wish that there was video so you could follow the exact nature of how it was wrapped?

[B]

I just wish somebody would identify themselves.

[C]

Me being slightly annoyed at Warner park when I broadcast from Warner park has a lot to do with the fact of me having to unwrap that cord and deal with that cord.

[B]

It's now and it's now in great condition.

[C]

It's okay. That is. I'm so happy to hear that.

[A]

Can't you just get like the double. The extension cord thing and then wrap

[B]

it around exactly what it is in right now?

[A]

Now? Oh, well, that. That makes perfect sense.

[B]

It used to not be though.

[A]

It used to be.

[B]

Oh yeah. I've thought about it.

[A]

You just did.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

It will. It was an absolute mess. It was the biggest pain in the butt at a certain.

[A]

Very weird for Happer though, because he loves order and cleanliness.

[C]

I do. This thing was kind of.

[A]

On the other hand, love chaos.

[C]

This was this. No, this was too far gone.

[B]

It got really off the rails.

[C]

It got really bad.

[B]

So I was just letting it go. Whoever wants to use this, you can figure it out.

[C]

To the point where both Josh and I were embarrassed of how tangled it still was even after it was supposed

[A]

to be to carry it in.

[B]

You could be embarrassed all you want. At least I have 100 foot long ethernet cable.

[C]

I know. I. I'm appreciative with the cable.

[B]

I could drive my cable home.

[C]

I'm appreciative.

[A]

Use your cable.

[B]

No, I do not. I do it out of the good will of my heart.

[A]

You could start a business where you just offer.

[C]

We did try bringing another ethernet cable to get Haper off the hook. And the ethernet cable that we had that was provided to us by the station was now big enough to do it. And so we did come to the fact, I mean, we were almost though late for our own broadcast at Warner park because it took so long to unwrap said cable to the point where we could use it. Yeah, that's how bad it was. So for you to tell me that somebody unwrapped that thing is one of the best pieces of news I've heard all week's.

[B]

Amazing.

[C]

That's incredible.

[B]

Now I can sit my desk chair again.

[C]

You couldn't sit in your desk chair before.

[A]

Where was he gonna put the tangle of cord?

[C]

Yeah, I'm. I'm now currently doing work at Josh Dodson's desk area. And I kind of. I kind of like it.

[A]

Set up a fence around his desk. So you can't use it?

[C]

No, but I now make sure that if there's any condensation that's on the desk, I wipe it off as best as I can so I don't end up on Twitter.

[A]

I just took Joey's desk for at the moment.

[B]

Wow. Yeah, a lot of moving of the depth desks.

[A]

I think what a big deal it was for you to get that desk.

[C]

Yes, I know you're gonna remind me every single time how I threw a big hissy fit about it and that's what I wanted. But since then, some circumstances have changed to which I no longer want to be over there. And I would much rather be in the office that we're in because Josh is actually quiet and doesn't say anything. And it's great. I just get work done. I just want to get work done from when I get here at 8:48 to 9:48. Hey, I do work.

[B]

What's on your neck?

[C]

I have no idea what this.

[B]

Oh. Oh, okay. You as you have a necklace.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

I thought it was like A. Some sort of a tag for your shirt or something like that.

[C]

I got. This is my.

[B]

I didn't know you had a neck. I didn't know you were a chain guy.

[C]

It's my Celtic cross.

[A]

Are you wearing this because it's Pope night?

[C]

I. No, I did not think of Pope night before I put this on.

[A]

Do you have any friends that are gonna get Pope hats?

[C]

I did actually ask the group chat.

[B]

Can you give me one?

[C]

Is anybody gonna be there? Why is this recording?

[A]

That's dumb.

[C]

My texted, is anybody gonna be there for Pope night? At the cell, and nobody has responded, so I don't think anybody's going.

[B]

And nobody.

[C]

Yeah, nobody responded. Yeah, nobody. I don't think anybody.

[A]

They all live.

[C]

All these Sox fans in my life now live closer to Wrigleyville than they do White Sox mark.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

So it's like, I wouldn't want to live close to White Sox.

[C]

Well, yeah, I mean, you're. It's not a great area at all. It used to be way better. I. I told the story. My cousin used to live down there, and he was.

[B]

Your cousin named Joey Johnny.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It was right there, though.

[B]

Everybody's got a cousin. And so Chicago cousin Johnny.

[C]

Johnny was living, like, right next to the stadium. And all of a sudden, here's boom, boom, boom, boom. And the.

[B]

The Costco guys were there.

[C]

And. No, there weren't double. There wasn't.

[A]

Until you do a two show callback.

[C]

No, no, there wasn't a double chunk chocolate cookie around. Chocolate White Sox party. And he goes, oh, cool. Socks one. Great. Awesome. And he goes. And he looks at his phone and he goes, oh, no, they're in Boston right now.

[B]

And it was just the Red Sox

[C]

people were just shooting up fireworks. Nope, nope. Sure. He was sure when he turned on the channel and he saw the. The police report.

[A]

When you say people are shooting up, there's really only three things.

[C]

Fireworks, heroin, and guns.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

This was the third.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Confirmed.

[A]

I don't think it usually doesn't have boom, boom, boom.

[B]

You wouldn't hear a person shooting.

[A]

Now, I can't speak from experience on that, but I feel that's how it's

[B]

been depicted in movies.

[A]

Right.

[B]

It's usually not very loud.

[C]

I've never really watched a heroin movie before.

[B]

You've never seen a person do heroin on screen?

[C]

No.

[B]

Oh, man.

[A]

Let's see. Really search for heroin.

[C]

What's Bill Simmons Top 6 Heroin Movies I like.

[B]

I guarantee you Bill Simmons could come up with a list of the top seven times in which people did heroin in the movies.

[C]

Yeah, that'd be a complete Bill Simmons summer segment.

[A]

Yes. The first one I thought of was Requiem for a Dream, which is a hugely depressing movie.

[B]

Definitely happened in Pulp Fiction, didn't it?

[A]

Yeah, there's some.

[B]

I mean, there's a lot of, like, a lot of other drugs in that movie, too, but I think that was one of them.

[C]

Never, never seen it.

[A]

Train spotting, which was I hated so much. Like 20 minutes in, I quit, which I almost never do.

[C]

Train spots.

[A]

Yeah, it's like a movie for movie

[B]

they were doing in Breaking Bad.

[C]

Yeah, I never watched that. Okay. They were doing meth in that, though.

[A]

What about the Basketball Diaries? There's apparently some heroin in the Basketball Diaries.

[C]

Really?

[A]

That's what the Internet says.

[C]

I did not know that. I don't remember that part of the Basketball Diaries. Anyway. All right. Not a heroin guy. Mike Schaefer. Great to know. That's the crossover middays with Matt. Yep. Coming up next year on 1620, the zone.