My gratitude goes to the San Francisco Public Library and the committee that celebrates Effie Lee-Maurice's extraordinary life. I am the character in maybe something beautiful and I would like to explain to you why. Here we are in libraries, temples of ideas, vessels where the imagination travels free to new continents of discovery. I decided to take you today following the trail of my voice to Alicante, the place where I was born in a trip along time and space. I was born in the first half of the 20th century. I can't believe I'm saying that. Alicante was very different then. Our harbor was used by small fishing boats. Almost all were sailboats. Transportation was mainly done in tramways, like this one to Muchamiel. Muchamiel translates as a lot of honey and that is where my parents had their home. Traffic was minimal and life was peaceful. Many houses, however, showed the destruction caused by war.  Buildings have crowded the seashore all along the Mediterranean. This is Benidorm, 50 miles north of Alicante, our Manhattan by the beach. Horrible in summer, believe me. The privilege of sitting in the lap of a parent or grandparent wrapped by their arms, sharing the wonderfuls and wonders of imagination through a book was one I did not have as a child. The rhythm of family life in post-war Spain focused on imperatives. Adults spent long time in lines to buy coal to cook, to buy whatever was available to improvise a meal. Children concentrated in being minimally invasive in the adults' multiple tasks. This is very much my mother's kitchen and we used to cook in those squares. You would put the coal there. It was a 24-hour job to live life then. The Spanish Civil War initiated by Franco to depose a democratic elected government had ended a few years before I was born and I was only one when World War II ended. But the grip of the dictator Francisco Franco imposed in our country lasted until 1975 for a total of 40 years. I had already ended my degree at the university and my masters and he was still in power. International support was not provided by governments but by enlightened intellectuals and defenders of democracy. For example, the US Lincoln Brigade in which Ernest Hemingway came to fight the good fight in Spain or the Brigade of Mackenzie Papineau that I actually took this photograph last summer in Victoria, Canada.  The all efforts to reinstate the lawfully elected president of the República failed. Republicanos were elected to end the monarchy and dictatorships and republicanos and republicans do not translate the same spirit. Republicanos in Spain defended a democratic government full of efforts to install the open education and civil rights and social justice. Hitler helped Franco to win the Civil War and strengthen his power. There you have Franco, the second one on the left of this picture and Hitler and they were getting into an agreement that we saw happening a few days after this conversation. Also the Spanish Catholic Church helped tremendously to keep Franco in place. Franco approved the testing of German bombers in the north of Spain and the city of Guernica was destroyed in a few hours. Picasso reflected that massacre in this painting that remained outside of Spain first in Paris and later in New York until the dictator died in 1975. My privilege was the uniqueness of a family who valued education and was able to supplement with the stories the void of meaningful books in libraries and bookshops as well as contradicted home with meaningful conversation the Nazi propaganda of my textbooks. This is a page of my social studies book and it says first quote, Spaniards have the obligation to observe holy obedience. There is no room for backbiting reservations or discussion and who is capable to judge the high power only God and history. He will respond to them, the rest is nobody's business. Beautiful description also. The second quote says at home father rules at the school the teacher rules in the village the major rules in the province the governor rules in Spain the Caudillo rules. He rules because he's responsible for all. You must obey him so that he can make Spain happy again. The third quote is written by Primo de Rivera and I tell you this so that you understand why I wrote maybe something beautiful. I needed to make the world beautiful. Women never discover anything. They lack the creative talent that God has reserved for the intelligence of men. We can only interpret what men give us already done. And that was my everyday life in school. Repression, isolation and fear. But I had the privilege of my parents. Maria Coronado Guerrero and Juan Diego Campoy Coronado. What beautiful people. They knew what we were suffering. They knew what they needed to do and they did it. And there I am, you know. My childhood photos show a little girl that whenever she could took the reins of the moment. Do you see the photo? It is a merry-go-round but I have the reins of that little thingy. From my earliest year my father supported my determination. Who says I cannot do that? Who says I can't? Yes, I can. And as you can see my father is pushing me forward saying yes, yes, you can. Hidden smiles, hidden lives, hidden rebellions. This is a photo of my family in 1992. My parents had already had my oldest sister Pilar, my oldest brother Diego, me on the right, already wearing ties. I knew where power was. And my little brother Vincent. Only Vincent and I are alive today. I held alive in my heart that yes I can until I met Alma Florada. And then we started saying together yes we can. I would need hours to say thank you to Alma Florada, her help, her way of inspiring me to be the best that I can continues to be a solace to my soul. And so we started saying yes we can. And we wanted to give children the richness of our folklore, our music, our stories and challenge the status quo. The status quo was not publishing Spanish books. This happened over two decades ago. P.O. Peep and Mumu and Mamagu's are bilingual books that have all the wonderful playful nanas and the children finger plays. And they are still, after so many years, they are still in print. And it makes us very happy. We had publishers that understood that it was possible to publish for diverse readers and invested in wonderful illustrators. We have had the privilege of having over 200 of illustrators from all over the world. And we had music. We published these 10 books with 120 poems of Alma's poetry or my poetry or their folklore with music of Sunni. Sunni is an award-winning composer and has been recorded by the Esmitsonian. In this song, this poem that she put music to, I say don't forget. Don't ever forget to say family, to say friend, to speak in Spanish. Don't forget, don't. Because when you speak two languages, you are educated and rich and you are worth two people. This has become a song in many schools but I had an exception. I had Good Night Moon. Books were smuggled through the border with France or brought hidden in luggage from trips abroad. My father was a professor of English and he supplemented his meager salary translating for businessmen in meetings abroad. One day upon his return from France, he brought Good Night Moon. It was 1952. Father also told us that the author had just died there where he was dancing can can which I truly found terrifying. I couldn't imagine how a person would die dancing can can but the truth and the history of the issue is that Margaret Weiss-Brown, the author of Good Night Moon, while on a book tour in Nice, France, died of an embolism kicking up her leg to show her nurses how well she was feeling and that caused the blood clot to dislodge and travel to her heart. I promise I would never dance can can no matter how happy the occasion. The norm, however, were books with a moral ending and a version of history and literature that pleased the dictator. My secret pleasure was the National Geographic Magazine. My father had been a member of the National Geographic Magazine and he built a bookshelf that went along the corridor of the house and when that wasn't enough, then he built another one on top of that and there were hundreds of National Geographic Magazine and there I could see that the world was different to what I was reading in my books and I realized that history belongs to those who write it and that fake news are indeed the tools of dictatorships. I would like to say that one day my mother said there were so many magazines, the corridor was so crowded and my mother looked at my father and said, Diego, either the National Geographic Magazine or me. The next day my father took hundreds of National Geographics to the public library. We wrote about the rich culture and history of Latin America.  Sometimes I am in a school and I am presenting to children and I ask where are their pyramids? And the first that I hear is Egypt, which is true but sometimes I am in San Diego and those pyramids are a hundred miles away and they don't know, they have not been told that their culture is a beautiful reach and energetic culture they need to know. So we have written many books on that subject. I wish my father had lived long enough to see Alegria, our books of poetry published by the National Geographic Magazine. What a proud girl I was when I signed that contract with the National Geographic. This is a book with 400 poems written either by Alma or myself or from the folklore. So there are, should be 365 but there are more than 400 because in some days we have 200 illustrated with the magnificent photographs of the National Archives. Back to my history, I was 15 and I knew there were scholarships to the United States and I said, I am going. Yes, I can, I can do it. And you know, my mother said no way. That is an ocean away and it's impossible. You cannot do these. And then my father said the exams are so difficult just let her go. She will never pass the exams. It's very, very difficult. So my mother said, okay, if you say so, but I passed, I passed the exams and I obtained one of these scholarships and we received a letter with all the things that my mother needed to put in my luggage. And one of the things was a pair of pants. And my mother said, a pair of pants. Well, I'll take you to my dressmaker because there was no, no wear to buy a pair of pants in Alicante. Girls did not wear pants. We wore skirts and I remember my mother speaking with Donia Concha, trying to imagine in what situation but a girl wear pants.  And the day before my departure, my father said, we are going to the cinema because they have just opened a movie that you should see and it's West Side Story. And it is American English pronunciation and this is going to be very good for you. We went and when I left the theater, I was terrified. I didn't understand a word of what they said and much less what was the complex situation of Puerto Ricans in New York. I had quite a landing the following day in La Guardia and I had all these preparation and workshops. And then to a very few of us, they took to Washington to be together with the group that was leaving after the year they had spent and it was a very special, very special opportunity. And they took us to the White House and we were introduced to John Fridgero Kennedy. I am one of those raising my hand in that picture, the third from the right. It was such, he was so handsome and he spoke in such a deep voice and he told us, open your hearts to the message of democracy we leave in this country and take this message back to your countries. It was very, very painful when three months later, the Trenton High School principal called us all to tell us through the microphones that John Fridgero Kennedy had been assassinated and it made me wonder the words that I had heard from him about democracy. So there I was, multiculturalism was a rarity in the 60s and I was news to be followed by the press, what I ate, how I dressed, my accent, my food, but it was an incredibly rich year. I am the third from the left on the second tier and I learned a lot and I appreciated very much every single minute of my life in Trenton, Michigan. Upon return, my years at both the University of Valencia and the Complutense University in Madrid were a constant challenge to authority with sad and frequent consequences for my freedom. Being arrested in a dictatorship is not fun and it was frequent, but I finished. I knew that I could and I finished there in the University Complutense of Madrid, my degree on philology and linguistics. Multicultural education grew out of the social ferment of the civil rights movement of the 60s. Scholars of critical pedagogy such as Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Sonia Nieto, James Bank, Alma Florada herself and many others have offered an emancipatory perspective on multicultural education and that is what we try to infuse in the books that we write. This theory concentrates on the need of including notions of race, class, and diversity while teaching and demanding social justice for them all. You must have seen this poster. I am sure that you are familiar with it, but for those that are not, I would like to call your attention to the size of the mirror that we hold in our hands. The first girl, an American Indian First Nations girl has a mirror in her hand that doesn't even cover her hand and that is the size of the number of books published for her minority, 0.9%. To the right are the Latinos with 2.4, a little bigger, but not much. To the right is a 3.3% of Asian and Pacific Americans. To the right is 7.6 of books published for African American. To the right is 12.5 of animals and trucks. Yes, we publish more books with main characters, truck or a car than for minorities. And to the right, you have mirrors everywhere, up and down and right and left, because 73.3% of the books published have a white person as a main character. I started publishing for our minority with a message of collaboration and community and recognition of the value of all is at the heart of all the good hands. This was the first book that I published with the same message of maybe something beautiful. The thing about this book is that it's the first book that Yuyi Morales published. She is an illustrator and Yuyi Morales illustrated my book and many years ago and now she is a fantastic author and a wonderful illustrator. I am so happy to have seen in these 25 years her success. 25 years. I kept in my heart the meaning of democracy and the strength of community that gave life to this book. If you remember, the beginning of the book is dark, like dark where the faces of the people and the streets where I lived as a child. In this photograph you can see Rafael and Teresa and in the back a mural that we helped paint in San Diego a couple of years ago. This book has given us tremendous pleasure. It has received the Mexican-American award of Tomás Rivera and it has passed the frontiers of languages now is Quizás Alguermoso, and I cannot pronounce it in Chinese, but I am very, very happy that it is also in Chinese. And I would like to talk about the influences that inform the writing. And as a linguist, I lived across from MIT and across from the Charles River and MIT and Noam Chomsky and my passion for linguistics as, you know, had a call in my heart. Chomsky had a class on Thursdays, not every day, not every year, but whenever he had, I would attend this class and I would, you know, it was open for anybody that could find a chair in the room, so I would get very early to get a chair. We never knew what Noam Chomsky was going to talk about, but I must say that not only his transformative generative grammar ideas influence my writing, but also his social and political ideas of the world. And so we wrote about grammar and we wrote about the pedagogy of poetry. Talabra Amiga is one of three books that we are publishing about grammar. Estalinda Lamar is a book about how to teach poetry in the classroom and then we have a series of little books for children. Actually, La Fascinante Historia de la Lengua Española, the fascinating history of the Spanish language has taken the last 10 years to write and is now in the hands of publishers and I hope that we will see it soon. You have already heard about the wonderful honor that the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, one of 23 academies of the Spanish language in the world has named their award for children's literature, el premio, Campoy, Ada. So, published 13 years ago, we published the tales and both in English and Spanish. And 15 years ago, we published authors in the classroom to recognize that all teachers, parents, children are the protagonists of their life and their life experiences deserve to be written always with a message that history belong to those who write it. The years passed and we all got old parents. We were celebrating their anniversary in these photograph, Pilar, Diego, myself and Vincent. And we also recovered the smiles and the glasses and married and husbands and wives and children were born into the family. Although I always leave the very far away. So, other influences for the books that I have published is that I have hobbies and art is in my heart. I enjoy clay and I do it very badly as you can see. My sculptures are not very good but I enjoy tremendously doing that or painting. And I love New Mexico so I have lots of paintings of New Mexico and those passions are at the heart of the books that we have published for the Latino children about the art of the Latino world. We have published Botero and Frida Kahlo and Picasso and Simone Silva who really has enlightened some of our work because again children need to know they come from a very rich background. So we began publishing for children about 1995 about painters and scientists and leaders and writers and dancers and actors and philosophers. We hear with pride others referring to us as the grandmothers of Latino literature and it is something that we take at heart. Our friend Claudia Hernandez has published a book and has called us the revolutionary women of color. So I know that still the icon is alive and well. And our friend Margarita Engel that is about to publish with a star in my hand, the biography of Ruben Dario has dedicated this book to us calling us the heroes of bilingual literature. This thing I think implies that we have been on this picture for very long. And I published Poesiatis II that you so nicely described and yes we are Latinos. And then I gave the children the possibility of changing reality. This is my Cinderella and my Cinderella is a Cinderella and it's a Chatsky that were the runners that took messages in the empire, in the Peruvian empire. And one day in one of his runs he loses a shoe and you will have to read the end of the book. But I love doing these with other folklore pieces of the folklore and change them. And definitely I wrote these for the new generations to see if this happens soon, that we have equal pay for equal work. I strongly believe in the need for translations and you have mentioned how I have translated, I don't know, maybe 50 or 60 authors and many, many books. But I love translating more Williams that is not at all easy. If you have read the books about Trixie and Canuffal Bunny it's not easy to translate it's not easy to create phonetic symbols in another language, but it is so much fun. I have also translated Alice Schertl in more than one way and with that had a difficulty that she loves, rhyme, and to rhyme in another language it is, but. And these books I have translated from English to Spanish, but there is a need to translate from Spanish to English and actually to translate from any language into English. The number of 1% of books published for children in this country being in translation is definitely insufficient. And I am coming to an end. I am an old tree. The branches of my life have reached far and plentiful. Now, as they bend towards earth where they belong, I want to leave you with thoughts of hope. Once you have seen beauty and experienced justice, you will not cease to reach for it. I will continue writing until diversity is the norm and the canon reflects the stories of all our children disabled and bilingual, immigrant, binary and non-binary of any race, class and faith. I will continue writing until history is written by all and for all. Let us fly. Thank you so very much. Thank you.


What's up chat? What's up YouTube? This is the needed podcast episode 78 Bad rooms, and we're gonna be talking about the LCQ tournament that just went down over the weekend. It was awesome a lot to talk about Everything involved in mad and involved in this involving that it was definitely well worth the show and before we start anything with the show man before we really talk about a chat seriously like We got to step back and say good job, man We'd be ready to kill EA all the time at every moment I feel like this was the the best effort they have ever put together Now I know it was only what six games and we'll see how much better We'll see how much better or how it's gonna go for the Madden Bowl. We shall see that I don't know if it's gonna be good. I don't know if it's gonna be great I don't really know How it's gonna continue but but out of six games how many games do we want six about six seven games, right? It was fabulous. It was well done all directed from these kids houses You know through all the different, you know analysts were at different spots all through one product Honestly, it really was awesome. It was really well done In a time where it's not the easiest thing to put on a tournament And you got to really just get them props for for being able to put this together And it pretty much went flawlessly I mean, I obviously I wasn't a part of it So I don't know if it was a easy on their end if you know how much effort it took and how many little problems They had to troubleshoot and everything. I know they did delay the tournament on Saturday it was delayed three hours and I feel like that's a good thing one We're not going anywhere, you know, make sure everything's right Make sure everything's ready to go make sure everything runs smoothly. I feel like boom. I feel like that's okay I mean, it's not the best thing But at the end of the day make sure everything's right and everything was right and really everything ran great It was a good watch all I mean, I feel like we've been saying it all year all the The talent all the broadcasting was a one from a mowing user and I think James was the like the studio host They were really good always between mowing user being a asshole. It's just really I really fun to watch as and I'm a person that Doesn't really I really don't care about what they got to say because they're not teaching me anything You know most of the time I tune out all the commentary because I they're really not teaching me anything the comments are for people that You know, don't really know what's going on. I don't know how to explain that but I mean, I really You know, but between Moe and user and even skimbo or T Davis. They all even teach me things and I all can really Really take things from them and I enjoyed they're all entertaining.  That's what and then you know, oh, you can't do anything, right?  It really was a good job, man. And So Yeah, that's the first I want to do before we get into laughing at all these kids and their bedrooms and and you know we I mean if you guys checked out we did stream all weekend. So I Mean the one thing that sucks about when you get to a tournament man, and I've always said About you know streaming is about the chat room, you know and EA had EA the EA chat is point You can't use it, you know And I think I think EA should almost have separate chat rooms one for the OG's and one's for like the new guys It just wants your ops really Yes, J walls freeze frame was very good. I do want to talk about these these bedroom analysis, you know I I really didn't know what what what orders to go with all these Topics and really where to go with it, you know I as far as the games are concerned PS4 poppin pretty much just do what he wanted He really played very well, he was a higher class than the other two guys, you know and then radiant having to drop out Sucks, but it only three games only three people on that side So only what we can see we saw three games because probably the Glover twice But those games honestly were kind of boring so Sunday kind of put me to sleep just because poppin Just I mean kind of ran away with it, honestly And as far as Xbox will get into Xbox a little I thought Xbox was a lot a lot higher class a lot more entertaining for me when you have when you have guys that are all friends and play together all the time It's just a lot more Fun man to watch because you know, they know what their friends want to do and then what they're gonna Do to try to stop it and so on and so you get like the tenth level of adjustments. It's really fun to watch Get it how you do I should have a skimbo quote Aspect of the podcast we should have skimbo quotes. I'm saying as a part of the podcast Cuz he put some quotables out there, you know, he does a great job He's got some quotables and I know you guys watched it when he said you got to get it how you do that that That was a legendary quote from skimbo. He also said something. Oh my god. You guys know better than me. He'd like That one time and my man golden Glover My man golden Glover was down. No when he was like Skimbo said it went from 36 to 26. That's 10 seconds You know that no, that's it is funny Yeah, when he was like, you know golden Glover is down 17, but you know what he's got one thing going for him He gets the ball and it was a long awkward pause after that Like like you don't got nothing else for us. He can't try to fight like what are the other positives? Alright, that was funny. I said everybody did a Everybody did a great job From broadcasting to the people Yeah, that was rough But I do want to I do want to break down the bedroom analysis And see who you guys Think had the best room. Am I missing somebody?  We're gonna break that we're gonna talk about these these situations here these bedrooms So to say So we got the bedrooms here, this is the first one up is my man Golden Glover Not the best performance for him, but you know, I'm gonna be real. He's got he's got a very I don't know what the word his bed is It's it's fairly um This is a sturdy bed right here. You know, this is this is sturdy I gotta get I gotta give you a plus on the bed frame Gotta give it a plus on the bed frame chat.  He's been in lab. He's been labbed up He's been practicing, you know, he's got he doesn't have time for the goofy, you know Like his pillows like any man that has mismatched pillowcases.  I feel like I feel like a guy with mismatched pillowcases That's the guy you can trust.   I don't know where Golden Glover lives, but boy, it's a sunny day You know So the bed I give it a plus the pillowcase has got to trust the guy gaming chair I'm not really too much a fan of the green gaming chair Not too much a fan of it the pictures, you know, we got this I'm not really a man with a picture frame that sits on the desk You know, I'm not really that that's not really my style. I don't know how Jay my guy with the sub Yeah, you got it You got to calm down the light because if you calm down the light chat then the light on from the light of the I'm assuming they gave him some crazy light.  And if you put other light to compromise that light, it's not going to look as smooth The folding comforter with oh folding back may okay. He made the bed You know, but I said I'm not a picture frame Standing up on the desk type of guy. I'm you know, I and what is his light situation here? So we don't have a lamp other thing that's a little bit psycho for me Is this gap right here between the bed and the nightstand like this is a pretty vicious two-foot gap right here You know I'm saying I like my nightstand buzz right up against the bed now Let me know if I'm wrong or if I'm right chat. I feel like the nightstand should be boom Right up against the bed, you know, I don't really know about this gap right here I don't know what's going on here. I Just not comfortable with this gap right here You know Not comfortable with it But overall, I'm not I'm not mad at the room. It looks like it looks like a room of man that you know knows what he wants You know, I kind of I kind of get it. I kind of go six point five. I probably get this room a six five check What are we thinking 84 Danny? 84 is a little high six. I went six five.  I'm about a six five I I don't know what this is a picture of looks a little cycle. I like that I feel like the bed matches the nightstand though. That's a good touch No gaming chair. Like I said, I'm not really a fan of the jet green. Miss match pillowcase is always a W Okay, I like I like it. I like it. Oh You think that you do you think the bed should be pushed up a little bit more now, I mean, that's a good point I think it's childish To have your bed pushed all the way up against the wall because you never know man Obviously, he's probably lives with his parents So he's not gonna have that many escorts or anything happening here But you never know and you never want to have your bed pushed all the way up against the wall Because then a woman has to climb over the bed to get to you know So you you never know now I might not be likely, you know with the mister or missus living at home But you never know like these windows are accessible You see both sides double windows You got to have some gutters to climb down or something you never know what could happen So bumping your bed all the way up against the wall a little bit childish I'm just a little bit childish now me when I live with my parents in a row home You know, I had to bet all the way up against the wall, you know And it wasn't the best thing for the um it for the escorts and everything, you know You know, yeah So Obviously, but he's in between right here You know, he's in between like they do this gap is not big enough to walk through But he's not only pushed up against the wall So like what are we really doing here? It could be an outlet here He likes to plug up to and you know and be able to access right chat It could be it could be something he could do there to access the What's your my call it access the range? I should be on this one. I'm tripping. Oh, we're back. I Gotta lower this So you see the chat Almost there There it is Boom There it is So on all chat, I feel like I feel like this is a solid room really nothing a really rose tear Now we got to move on to my man yardstick Move on the yardstick now be real he did his hair for this I gotta appreciate a guy. They got the makeup and the hair done for this. I appreciate it. I appreciate it, you know Lot of lot of red theme here, obviously they have a red light Somebody didn't catch on to that all the way now.  I'm gonna be honest this chief lamp says we got to have better We got to have better chief lamp than this. This lamp is kind of weak. I This this lamp is a L. I mean Not feeling it This is not the main living room because like you're not gonna have there's just not the main living room because one it's kind of a small room because you see he's up against the wall and The other walls right behind them. So this is more of a den side room Maybe even addition to a house something like that the couch very Not feeling it. This is this is yards that like this is his couch when he was, you know, 19 to 24 I don't know how old he is doesn't look as young as the rest of the guys Probably one of the only competitors with real facial hair Um, so he's got to be you know, at least the youngest he's got to be 25, right? I don't yeah, I would some type of some type of dinner something, right? Yes, definitely guest house or pool house something like that where he doesn't oh, he's 29. Okay. That's a good guy I'm saying so. Yeah, this is the couch he had but before under 25 and he was like, let me just put that in here You know, my wife said I can't have it. I don't know if he's married or anything You guys know better than me, but yeah, this is like yeah, this is definitely this is definitely the The Brazzers couch right here. This is definitely a Brazzers couch right here right here, but as we move on We got to have We got to have some type of pictures up here though, man. We a little more decor You know, we got the chiefs blanket. He laid it out nice We could have laid out the blanket a little bit better. Honestly, you know You know what I'm saying chat like I Mean we got too slow. We can't even really see it So you got to have better like what I can see from the stream type of angles and stuff You know, you got to have that you got to be more aware of what your camera picks up But on like it's hard to really see this is a man with it with the you know With the side then, you know, it's hard to really cap the light is a little weak the couch obviously the Brazzers couch and The blanket could be laid out a little bit better, you know top quality hair though I'll be honest so no three five we get this a three five. That's a rough call The blanket is on the chair see that's a good I got fooled that's a good question red rescue The blanket is actually on the chair. That's that's see I didn't get hip to that Okay, so you add a little bit of stability a little bit of cushion to your chair I like that, you know, we go we go 67 over. I mean Listen and when you get into these gaming situations, too, like and like I said, these guys probably never Assumed that you know my gaming room or my bedroom is going to be on camera, right? But they're never assumed that Holes in the blinds you think this is a hole and he cracked the blind right here. He got two Are these not like what the hell this is where this is weird because they kind of almost look purposely there And doesn't that look weird that this window sill is lower than this one? Is that my tripping for that? This is just the angle of the camera But windows this close normally had the same the same height off the ground Interesting dilemma were coming across here So it makes me think like this little hole in the blind is almost purposeful, but why would they have it? I don't know. I don't know if it's the camera angle, bro. I don't know 77 hair a plus quarantine hair a plus for sure Solid 71 we're rating rooms, man. He got a cat Oh man, all right, who we got next oh my man pavin Pavin Pavin is a man of many colors. We all know he has a blue room, right? Because we watch him stream regularly He has a blue room, right? He got he has the Aladdin magic carpet joint pop it He got the magic carpet comforter. That's gotta be a plus Yeah, the magic carpet comforter gotta be a plus bro Like you could just whip this joint out and travel like that's that's what's crazy Sand he's got I mean, I feel like he has five closets here You know and like I said a man with the closet with you have nothing on the shelf Like you don't own anything To put on the shelf like you got to have something a bowling ball You're saying a backpack You know if you're fancy you could put your shoes up here, you know, some people like their shoes at high level, you know I'm saying Now I will tell you I personally don't like You know the blanket with the blue room I feel like when you paint your room blue chat hear me on this I feel like when you paint your room blue the rest of your room kind of has to go with that color Do we agree or disagree? You know, you can't go all out and say I'm gonna make my room blue and then literally not have anything else blue in the room You know, I feel like you kind of got to keep a theme with the room after it goes blue I'm saying you kind of got to keep a theme Right, that's just how I feel but all in all I mean between the blanket the space of the room Honestly, probably the biggest room by far So poppin, you know, poppin won a hundred K last year. So he's living good, you know, so that's what I'm saying and There is a lack of decor in this room, you know Could be something else could get a little floor a floor rug or something like that Exactly. That's all I'm saying you can't go strong color and then have a red Do you think this is a red this blanket has some red in it, right? It's not all it's not just all from the light I Don't know. There's a picture over here. I can't really see that, you know that we have that, you know The dresses in the corner you can't open. I mean, I mean, you gotta be able to open it Maybe if you open the drawer, you can't open the closet that type of combo, but you know, the spacing isn't that great, you know Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah, it's a burgundy a darker red You know, it's a little weird to go with the blue walls, but you know The is this blanket from JC Penney, that's a good point this blanket could be from JC Penney the other thing I Will make a note of that we talked about over the weekend, bro The team polo shirts as I move on to the next guy the team polo shirts are glitched The team golf shirts are glitched. They're glitched. I I'm telling you whoever shows up and playing in man bowl with a team golf shirt is winning. Look at this I mean a team golf shirt a Team golf shirt both players buttoned to the neck Right both players all three buttons buttons Ready to go you can't like you can't make like I don't know how this wasn't talked about You know, honestly, and this is what else I'll tell you this is what else I will tell you guys about this, right? These guys went into the pro shop They saw the jerseys They saw the hoodies They saw the t-shirts.  It's a good look chat It's a good look and it's undefeated and lcq How can a man that's getting ready to play in the man bowl not take note of the undefeated golf shirts? Now I tell you of all the people That are playing in madam bowl who is most likely to copy the golf shirt swag That's what I'll ask you guys who was most likely to say you know what I'm gonna try to golf shirt I don't know what bugs rock the golf shirt With joko golf shirt. I don't think Clef would ever go golf shirt Vault in a golf shirt pretty crazy Wesley in a golf shirt. I Couldn't see I don't even think what's crazy is I don't even think Wesley has ever owned a golf shirt I don't think Wesley has a shirt with a collar Legitimately Wesley has no shirt with a collar Drini would definitely go golf shirt But and we go here as we as we we get off of the golf shirt and we talk more about The actual room of the crop is you know, he's up against the wall like myself Which is smart placement of the gaming?  You know 1,000 percent 1,000 percent this curtain is 10 pounds good curtain up against the wall really nothing to cap about You know, I can't really even give any comments Honestly, I give him 10 out of 10 for stream setup, you know Powers was good man. All right, so then we move on to the ball man. Oh man, oh Man, oh No, this is 1 million percent J walls guest suite is in his crib. This is a guest suite This is not J walls room roll 1 million percent. This is this is like his parents guest suite That will not be bluffed I will not be bluffed right here, man No, this is the guest suite. He won't sleep in here. This is the room. They have just foot now He might honestly he might play in the guest suite all the time though Right J wall has duct tape on a headset cuz I'm assuming this might be a hyper X headset And you can't put their logo on E on yeah, you can't show their logo That's why a lot of times you'll see people with like adidas blacked out on On the stage and stuff. He has this to black out the logo really Um Well, yeah, this is the guest room Yeah, this is grandma J wall room and 1000% dining that that's that's what this room is I don't know why he chose to set up in this room. Maybe this is where he plays the game all the time I doubt it.  They don't really want this lamp anymore You know, what is this a picture of it looks like a guy on a horse or another person to people?  I thought it was a horse at first now. It looks like two people and a blob of brown here You know and the pillowcases there's no person that has pillowcases The hair I decroft man.  Um, the wire situation.  This is Obviously a fire hazard on Jay. It looks like some of these wires that get going through the door Like he ran out of outlets like he might live in one of those old houses You know like when a when a house gets old, you know Like I can't let my girls like her townhouse is like super kind of new so even in this, you know My room this room. I'm in is like 12 by 12 square, right? But there's probably six outlets all like every four feet on the wall. There's a outlet. It's it's actually insane Right, but when you get to these older houses, you know before you need if needed 10 outlets per per room They only hit maybe only head of one outlet. You guys know what I'm talking about like If you get a house that was made, you know 40 years ago or something You're not gonna have that many outlets and maybe he got a jammed somebody's through the door and plug them up in the hallway or something Yeah One of room. Yeah, Cory. That's what I'm saying Yeah, he had no yeah, he really didn't care, you know, I don't know why they had to go to the J Ball freeze frame so much. I don't know if he was having technical difficulties with his With his setups or what with his camera? I don't know what was going on, but the freeze frame did pop up a lot You know Yeah, Nick. I don't know what it is. She has a lot I don't want to say there's one every four feet But say there's one right here to my left and there's one right here Like I can touch two outlets right now like look I can I can reach out like this and touch two outlets Like it's kind of nuts Yeah, the hoodie J wall freeze frame was pretty nuts And you know, but I this gotta be the biggest L on the on the rooms It's gotta be the biggest L chat.  It's not gonna happen for you with the lion and with the lions, you know Canadian room Yeah, it looks like Canadian room for sure But uh Get a bit I want to say the bed is kind of made. I don't really know what's going on with the bed, you know, I really don't know I Would say this is quarantine hair, but this is literally how Jay walls had his hair forever Yes, they did send a lot of equipment. That's all the wires cameras really want everything 20k is a lot I don't know where they came up with that but Shit, I need to I need to get some more 20k type of equipment Just Now mama Justin is a good person my man nipple clamps with the 10 gifted Put some Hennies in the chat for my man nipple claims a true demon Coming through with that 10 yifties That's 10 yifties and my man went all day with the tier one Hennies and demons in the chat boys You guys know the vibes appreciate nipple clamps. I mean now The wall decor is pretty crazy, you know, we got pictures hanging at equal at, you know, the same altitude You know when you got when you got all your pictures the same altitude, you know, you put a little thought into this, you know I'm more of a mismatch type of guy Like I feel like when you put everything on the same altitude he really this is a Justin silhouette Wow, he has a silhouette of himself mama Justin said I love you little Justin so much I'm gonna get a silhouette of you This is a Justin silhouette One million percent like that. That's actually kind of nuts when you think about it This is a Justin silhouette That's him one million percent Kind of nuts that you would have a silhouette of yourself in the house But that's him right chat, I don't think there's anything I need that's him right there Boom the deluxe package on picture day Oh Let me get all 12 in a silhouette. Oh the couch looking rough Wow, I mean got the deluxe pack. I mean yet a couch. I something something bad happens to the couch, bro I don't this this looking a little hurt right here still has DVDs got a respected man That still displays his DVDs got a respect that I still have DVDs I put them all in a box because I couldn't sell them and they weren't worth anything and I was I might as well keep them Right now. I don't know if you guys have DVDs, but um, you know, I feel like well some point we all had DVDs right and Kind of pointless now it still amazes me when I go to the store whether it be Walmart or Target or Best Buy anything They still sell DVDs, right? It's kind of wild But I still have some still displays them still displays them now I don't know what these are is this I don't know these are like back-to-back the same picture frame the same layout What could these pictures be now if this was in more of a man cave? I might think of like sports cards with the autograph picture Maybe but now this is in a family living room. What are we talking? What could these two things be, you know? I don't know You know, I'm not really that hip Okay, a 2014 a 2004 and 2005 red socks commemorative championship pictures Okay, okay Justin is here. Talk to us about the silhouette of yourself having a silhouette of yourself in the house is pretty nasty Justin that's that's what we went to like what where did this silhouette come from? You know, like What do we get going here? And is this the living room? Confirm is this a family living room because I'm getting family vibes School project from first grade this is first grade Justin right here is first grade Justin. Oh You got a whole man cave. Oh My bad. Okay Okay, now talk about the DVDs. What's in the collection of DVDs now?  I one day when I have Basement, you know, I'm gonna have all my DVD not all my DVDs, but probably like my top 10 DVDs up there, you know The couch has seen better days. This is a couch that Justin parents I will go this is how this is the life cycle of couches, right? They go from the main couch you buy to the second couch to the basement couch, right? Then eventually this one will get thrown out the one from upstairs will come down here and vice versa so on and so forth Yeah, the third exactly the third tier couch and once they get a new one in the main room They'll all move down the tier and this one will go out to Sanford and son. I know the cycle man. I'm saying But what like a man? Lot of lot of pictures going okay, so I'm not mad. We'll we went with the DX racer Okay, we got to give Justin the number one chair, right has to have the number one chair Yes, that the number one gaming chair J walls J wall looks like J walls in like a bro I don't even want to talk about his he might have the biggest L there is the craft of no DS race Okay, the black and white one not bad Pavin little office chair not not vibing We got the I don't know I don't know my man yardstick might have you beat with it with the blanket draped over the chair And we went over my man a golden Glover's chair not that tough And J walls is the worst DX racer, okay Tier one chair tier three couch, okay Oh, you do have the number one shot because you have good depth you have good depth Justin This is what you guys when you get into art and film like myself You know you have a lot of good depth You know the eye the eye you have a lot that the eye can Can take in you know what I'm saying like you have depth to where your face is very focused But then you have a backdrop that's off focus So a backdrop that's all folks one allows me to focus directly on you But then also my mind stays attached to the frame because I'm kind of looking at what's in the background A lot of interesting things a lot of things for me to really you know Comprehend with my visual mind. You know, that's why it's the best shot, you know So there it is. I mean and then we go with the fancy man Fancy um one still Asian can confirm part Asian still and They said part Asian Confirmed. He's got a little Korean or something something's going on Something's going on Korean something Now fancy one You know when I knew fancy wasn't gonna win, bro, you know when I knew fancy yes Yes, the craft that's when I knew when I came into because he played the first game.  He was he was doing too much. Oh, like he was taking it too far Bro, you don't need seven pillows. You don't sleep with seven pillows. It doesn't happen It's kind of nuts He watched a YouTube video on how to put the then There's no way to get into his bed like his bed isn't made. It's just a sheet It's just a sheet put on top of the bed. Like there's no fold in it You know, there's no way like this is let's look at this bed for a second chat How would you go? All right? It's bedtime. You just played eight hours of mad It's time to get in the bed. How would you go about getting into this bed? That's what I'm saying Like how would you go about getting into this bed? That's what I want to know You have to remove all seven pillows to get into the bed. You have to remove all seven pillows It's pretty nuts process to do that. Yeah, the sneakers on the dresser also a little bit psychotic Now I've been taught in my life not that I'm the cleanliness person in here Not that I'm shoes touch the ground. Therefore they stay on the ground Fancy said no My my shoes are going on my dresser kind of nuts You know kind of nuts Yeah, I don't know how you get into this bed. One person said that fancy irons his sheets.  He just I don't want to mess up the bed tonight. It looks too good Listen now we can clown We can clown glasses, but I've never seen glasses and said they're cool.  You can't make glasses cool. It can't happen chat Do you understand? It cannot happen You can make them less nerdy You can make them less like see I look at fancy and I don't really notice the glasses He's just a man that needs glasses a man that needs glasses needs glasses and you have to respect that like it's not that big a deal really You know, it's not that big deal now you can be super nerdy You can be super nerdy You know, but you keep them regular pretty good, you know Macy's bedroom collection that that's that he probably went there got it all laid out You know 81 overall. So that's what I'm saying one I think we can all agree J-Wall loses J-Wall loses bad Like J-Wall actually gets flooded in the bedroom rankings. I Think he's the only overall L right chat. He's got to be the only overall L of the bedroom rankings Only overall L He's the only one that failed the grade everybody else Acceptable. I mean I might have to put Justin in the number one spot Or I mean it's hard to put croff in the normal spot He don't really have nothing it might have to be Justin, you know, I don't know who's the number one spot Yeah, croff did play safe for number one, bro Who we got for number one man pot. We still got pop and he's fighting You know, we still got Glover. I don't think Glover can win number one. You're saying you are a stick I don't think that's number one right there. I mean a silhouette Hanging the silhouette is kind of nasty though. The silhouette got to be And Justin really gets the win Wow Justin gets the W. He gets the W He gets the W chat Wow nuts But I said nobody was really L and everything as far as cameras lighting everything was awesome all weekend Yeah, he did a great job with that.  Yeah, this entire tournament was great Silhouette and not that glitchy But now I do want to talk about do a ton I said ps4 the main thing we got to talk about ps4 Because I said the games were definitely um The games were boring. Poppin kind of just ran away with it the one thing the one thing we do have to talk about is um and Joke brought this up that uh The only blip in the radar chat was the little disconnection the lag out between poppin and My man Golden Glover the first one, right? My man Dini with the sub Put some pennies in the chat man My guy, I do want to talk about this I do want to talk about this as far as like where the game disconnected Because you're playing online shit's going to disconnect I personally feel like internet during a quarantine has internet was better before everybody was at home on the internet So you're gonna have some disconnections. We had this connection Pavin versus yardstick, okay, um Yardstick, I'm not yardstick was playing defense, you know, he's playing different different defense um And it was 3rd and 18 and this is the play as somebody posted it on 3rd and 18. I Don't even want to put it. You're not gonna see it If I put it that day, I don't know anyway, Pavin runs It is 3rd 18 runs and he tried and listen he tries to get away from this guy That's what he tries to do he tried on Michael Vick I can get away from him This the lag in this play affected it zero percent the lag that he would have got sacked if it was if he was playing Literally act the headquarters of his internet provider. He would have got sacked, right? So he gets sacked boom 1430 then it drops You know and you can tell this because during the play we got no reaction Pavin's just chilling while he's getting sacked. He's it's not lagging now But as soon as the lags then okay. Yeah, what happened is lagging out So to go back and give him this 3rd and 18 play over is pretty nuts You know, so I don't know what the the process was talking about this um and allow I don't know but um, you got to fight for yourself uh and One thing about you get to these tournaments one thing you get to these tournaments and sometimes you think man They're not going to they're not going to listen to me over, you know, such-and-such right chat You're not going to listen to me over Pavin. He's a club champion. He's got so much experience. I'm just a new guy, you know you know For me, uh, you got to stand up for yourself Seriously, and the one example I can give you guys this you guys have seen problem Who is the biggest name in madden? He's been told no on the stage like no we're not we We're not listening to you, you know, so when you get into these situations, there's no bias There's no anything man. If you're at that point of the tournament man, you're just as important as the next guy And I feel sometimes a lot of guys Uh, feel they don't have enough they don't have enough cloud or they don't have enough name to really stand up for themselves Like yo, no like bro. He's not getting that playback You know make them make a decision. Don't just agree to something. That's that's against that's that much against you You know what i'm saying now obviously you can feel during 18 I can get off the field again I can stop him or it's not that big a deal, but it is that big a deal and if you get put in these situations Uh, when you're at these events man, make sure you stand up for everything You believe make them make a decision and if the decision goes against you then you live with it And you move on to the next play, but you got you got to fight for yourself.  Yeah, but i'm saying like Yeah, that's what i'm saying like ever there's nobody that's Yeah, I I don't think there's anybody that's over and when it comes to stuff like that always fight for what you think happened to you and and and You know, so who knows who knows? I mean, I will tell you this that the um The pavin yardstick game was closer than the pavin and the the golden lover games Now I will tell you as we get back to that talking about the golden lover games as I go to that I just want it's just one thing I want to say man. It's like I watch golden lover now You guys probably didn't watch this game because it was on I like creep streamed it But I watched golden lover play skimbo And go and I don't think skimbo got a first down I think he had more intersections thrown than yards gained literally skimbo could not move Against golden lover, right? So i'm thinking man golden lover is going to have Some defense for pavin. I can't wait to watch this and he ran a completely different defense He ran a pg 146 and he never even tried to go to the nickel normal in two games In two games uh golden lover ran nickel normal against skimbo and against everybody else to get to where he was at right And his defense was really his defense won him the games the kid could really didn't play offense that good in any game I watched him play but his defense won him the games and he literally for two straight games Never ever went to nickel normal never thought about it. Uh, so it's another lesson man. Remember what brought you there You know remember what's right? Yeah, yes, you can assume fans.  You can go into the first game, right? Like okay, he probably knows how to beat this. Let me not run it, right? But once he starts frying you you gotta try it, right?  He lost two games. Is that a fold is losing two games a fold like Is that a fold is that considered a fold to lose two games to somebody like pop and is that considered a fold is that uh What you guys can say I fold I had two chances to win. Do is it a fold? I'm saying just awful Yeah, Glover been fighting he's been playing he's been playing mad and uh, he's definitely been playing in a lot of different tournaments I've seen him in a lot of rags things a lot of Anything gets hands on he so he's right there So he's one of those guys that's right there Just gotta take the next step in his madden game next year. Hopefully, you know, and this was a good experience, honestly Uh, but I said xbox was good Uh xbox was good Um, probably probably some of the more entertaining games Um, I said when you have all friends playing each other, it's definitely um It's going to be entertaining. It's going to be fun to watch and it was I hope you guys watched it. Um, I will tell you Justin one thing about these three tight ends and in Doos close or whatever it is like or I close or whatever Running offense you're in, right? I've always felt like this if you're in a running offense, right? I feel like you have to run the ball More, you know, I think the run has to be your biggest threat You know, like and I feel like Justin just kind of gave up on the run completely Although it's boxed.  I just I just don't feel that Especially with three four tight ends Uh, also, uh, if you're a runner to begin with the way you run, uh, you run to keep the game closed Keep the game shorter and don't turn the ball over You know, that's pretty much a runners game You know, you get into if you're a runner and you get into passing 30 40 times a game It's not going to end well for you. And that's pretty much what happened to Justin in his game Uh, he pretty much lost on offense. You lose games on offense I feel like every game I've lost this year has been on offense.  It's hard to give away possessions. It's hard to Uh, not score yourself. So that definitely where he lost. I think Uh Then we go to what was the next game it was fancy versus jay wall good game, um Fancy just couldn't get wasn't grooving. You know, I don't know if it was the bright lights I don't know what it was but that wasn't the fancy that we saw we've seen for the last Two months. Honestly, it really just it really wasn't uh between friday football between weekend league between games between all that that wasn't the fancy we saw, uh Wasn't the uh fancy we've seen all year Also, and then fancy left left aggressive pass blocking on from the the end of This the first half, you know So, uh, yeah, it just wasn't the sharpest fancy we've seen Jay wall won and that brought us to jay wall vs. D cross which for me I don't want to say it was the most it was the most game we could talk about honestly Well, that's the one game I would like to talk about more Is d cross vs. j wall because there were so many situations and they're like d cross like stopping a bitch Right. I wanted to go d cross pissed me off this game, man You know and and it worked I feel like he had so many opportunities to win the game Uh, and Yeah, it's like He punted on fourth and we'll look at let's look at it chat But he punted so many times and this is the first one. This one's not that wild chat Like this first punt as we look at and as we see the jay wall freeze frame The glitch the jay wall freeze frame Somehow i'm still behind You know, so this was one was not wild Fourth and three. I believe we're looking at right here fourth and three And we're talking about we are on We're on midfield, right? Yeah, he just wanted to play defense. So this one I did not think was super wild I still think you could go for this You know, but I did not think this punt This punt was that wild chat I think this one was definitely um What's the word i'm looking for definitely I I guess we can agree with this But one thing about man is this when he dots him to jesus See that's and when you're hype over a punt you don't want to play anybody that gets that hype over a punt chat That was a super dot And we get to he actually lasers him gets out of there Now we got to add And then i'm like damn you could go get you could you could you could have went for that fourth down And you could have got yourself a field goal if you get yourself a field goal you definitely win And that's why I swear a nickel normal is just nickel normals a bitch. It really is He has no abilities on his wide receivers. What are you talking about? Decrof has no abilities My man ish with the sub my guy. I appreciate you Your heaven lurker is pretty nuts.  You get a third and 32 right if if you're j wall, you know you get third and 32 What's crazy about third and 32 as we sit here and talk about it like you're probably punting chat, right? right Let's just agree. You're probably punting the ball right And I feel like sometimes you have to go into those You have to go into these situations knowing that you're probably punting the ball And it's like with the time on the clock A third down a third down and you could punt on third down would be a better call than what he did right here, right chat You could really punt on third down Because you're not getting this shit. You would have to get two 15 yard plays Right seriously I don't tell you this now.  My point is that I would not try I would not punt but punting on third down Is better than running the ball, right? That's what I'm saying you could spike the ball You could throw it away But running the ball on third and 32 with three minutes and 39 seconds left is the worst thing you could do the worst thing you could do Because you're just going to get the clock running and I'll show you guys what happens Is that he runs the ball runs his little toss and just gets boxed right so he gets boxed So now the clock is running.  You're like you're like we're going to run the ball I have to punt as soon as possible. I have to put no honestly if I don't think an nfl team would run the ball there I think running the ball there is just obnoxiously bad. It's obnoxious So you're going to punt them you're going to punt you're going to get a little bit of a runoff 334 Even if you would have spiked the ball, you would have saved yourself 15 seconds And on top of that as we watch jay wall punt right here. He knows he has to get rid of the ball He's already 20 seconds down. So he just punts fast as hell And I don't know who his punter is But not the best effort on the punt I mean you punt the ball third 40 yards most So now de croft is in decent field not not good field but not bad field position right Yeah, he lost 30 seconds of gameplay, which is essentially another play you know Then I I mean I when you're playing defense as good as um as good as de croft is I guess you can waste plays with the runs like this You know, but I would like him to come out aggressive on first down But he does laser him right there. That's a good throw. That's a good throw And I take why I like this throw is because most of times some people will wait for this post route to get all the way over here He saw it open up before it got to this vert hook and just boom just fit it in there Good throw now you're at midfield worth a two minute warning, right?  This game is cooked for me, right chat No, the jaywalk picture is nice how my man said it been deadly with the twitch prime my guy Is this the full bag dive defense? Just no spread. No, what are we doing here? Okay got bagged Now you're looking like I don't know that's why I say brand kicker to the party kicker wins you this game Another run right there. Uh, I feel like mr. Run stick got it. I feel like mr. Run stick de croft Got to get this first down right here. I don't know his full his full back got blown or his pulling guard got blown up Let me get to a fourth down now for me check 100 times out of 100 times. I'm going for this I'm going for this Because Right if I can't get to feel well, obviously But I'm going for this and why am I going for this as we pause the game here? He has no timeouts. It's fourth and two Now you have a great chance punting the ball and stopping him. The runoff is crazy He has to get seven anyway, right? So you're just right with risk and reward here, right? The risk worst case scenario is you turn the ball over. He has it on his own 41 Needs to go 59 yards with no timeouts to tie the game up, right? That's the worst case scenario Best case scenario is the game's over Right if you go for this here You give yourself two chances of winning the game Right, you have a chance for winning the game by stopping him on defense. That's a big chance you've got right That's a big chance by stopping him just giving him the ball and stopping them But you also have a chance one play for two yards and the game's over Right Now I think this decision. I think this decision I think this decision Changes if there's a minute left for me a minute 48. Although it's not a lot of time. It's still it's still It's still a little hunk right there. Honestly Uh, so for me, uh, I would go for this because when the way I think about it is it gives you two chances To win the game not only do you have your chance on defense? If you don't get the first down, but you get one chance to get one one play for three yards You know, but obviously it worked out.  I think He could have fake punted with most there Yeah, he didn't dot him crazy right here. It was a good punt. It wasn't a great punt But again, I'm at the 12th. That's a good point. Honestly With a minute. Yes, I agree. So punning would a minute is way different than a minute and 40 our two minutes pretty much left but At the same time That was a missile right there. I can't believe kribs held on to that pass great timing when that passed by jay wall. Honestly I like to spike Because I like the spikes in these because the time is more valuable than the downs really I I feel like and if you know huddle, you're taking time with the line You're audible and you're wasting more time if you spike now you can do this this audible and you can do this Motion hot routes everything else that you want to do You know They all pro I wish everything was all mad in at some point. I don't know if that was a little bit of palms or what that was That was just the the edge threats getting edgy See, I think being up three I might I might be more likely to punt it if I was up three because if I turn it over he's pretty much in field will arrange there I didn't see up three. I'm probably definitely punting Yeah, that's what I feel fancy like up three. I'm scared You gotta get out once he cut blocks, bro Once I get that couple in SGG is pretty much once these dudes just yeah But once I get this cut block, this was good pocket stepping left once I get that I'm out to the right right away, bro We're out to the right Just to get out of that shit because I there's no spy here. I know I'm getting out to the right and either throw the ball away or make a play with vik, you know But that goes to jay wall not having escape artists Like he's good at left triggering But bro, like is that not but I didn't even remember that until this point.  He might he might be the favorite He might be one of the favorites going into Maddenbow. Honestly Yeah, the edge threats eight the edge starts definitely eight That's why he doesn't have any abilities on the On the wire receivers Because we got edge threats and we got centers. Hey, you put together a good team Let me be honest on that. He definitely put together a good team and it worked out for him really You know Yeah And that's why I said and that's why I said uh said I always thought The the easiest thing to do this year is make abilities and no cap early Yeah, I always feel like I always feel like bro like the people that are playing the best right now are really You know, they definitely got to be some type of a favorite going into it because they're playing Like and we'll look at as we go on to the let's let's go on to the actual talk about manbow a little bit Obviously when we talk about manbow manbow starts May 6th, which is what like a week from now right or two weeks I don't know. So it's coming up real soon Is it this weekend are we is it manbow this weekend chat? I'm not I'm not up on my calendar I'm not up on let's take a look at my calendar here Google calendar got it Google calendar Dude never mind. I never won. So it is two weeks now. It's two weeks Uh, oh actually starts on wednesday. Okay, so it's a week away. So we'll have a huge A huge podcast next week really talking about predictions and everything like that Uh, so I'm excited about that. So let's take a look at these groups real quick um Let's take a look at these groups, uh, and just who we like and just take a look at how they are Put together boom There's your groups Pretty cool. Damn graphic. I I mean be honest this graphic is is fire I will be honest and telling you guys that this graphic is fire and Justin's graphic not that fire I just want to get rid of this. It's pissing me off this, uh How can I do this effectively here chat? I'll have to work. I was getting tired of that white background there All right, so graphics pretty cool Betting odds we will have that next week. I mean we could probably do that this week No, next week we'll have betting odds and I'll have official predictions So each day is a group day, um Uh, yeah may 7th is going to be good journey kid mo mills I mean rage looks like he's 49 and 15 at the same time I didn't know it was possible for rage to look 49 and 15 at the same time didn't know that was possible Wesley in this picture looks kind of like a boss. I'll be honest Wesley looks kind of bossed up. I might like him I might like Wesley His hair actually looks a1 You know I'm saying I don't like how they did my man D croff picture though. I guess he never he never had another live event picture D croff looked like he took a picture at home and sent it to him, bro. I don't like this, bro Yeah, I don't like this fancy that that's gotta be this one. I feel disrespected if if I'm TNC. I feel disrespected Flip phone D croff. I feel a little disrespected Yeah, Wesley looks kind of this is this is the most gooned up Wesley has ever looked bro This might be Wesley's tournament.  I mean paving joke and vote and bugs. I mean We rooting for bugs, but he gotta be the underdog in that group, huh? And we got clef and Noah rematch Uh scheming and little man. I that's that's a tricky little group Then Wesley and Henry and D croft and rage I mean rage is bro rage is the man, bro Like he that's a face of a man that just got off tender with some good news right chat That's the face of a man that just got off tender with some good news Like daniel definitely hit him back with the hay He definitely got hit with a hay from daniel right there, bro Yeah, may 7th the 7th 9th 7th 9th even 6. I mean this one's saying No, Wesley. I mean Wesley was kind of hell right there Rage I raised it good in DC. Then he made the live event DC No golf shirt. No win fun. That's what I'm saying. Who of these 16 people is going golf shirt You know D croft is going golf shirt Who else would go golf shirt povin's going golf shirt? I might have to hit cleffa. We might have to get a needed gaming golf shirt Now cleffa is going needed gaming golf shirt, bro. It's going down. It is going down Vaughn goes golf shirt Does vaughn go cardinals golf shirt? Or does vaughn go like I see vaughn like a tommy hill figure striped golf shirt Dugati Bro, can we drop the dugati, bro?  My man is reggie. All right refer to him as reggie from here on out I told you once once bugs lost the race battle versus versus civil the dugati Shit gotta get thrown out, bro His name is reggie. No, we can't do all bugs bugs is still there But the dugati shit don't know after he lost after he lost the civil bro. That shit took a bad Yeah, that's she got a bad That's she gotta go We're not we're not getting rid of bugs.  He's ready to pop. So he's still bugs, but we not want dugati. That's she gotta go Yeah, I believe three people advance, you know, but I said I'll talk more about Essentially who I like who I'm picking we'll get betting odds to win Madden Bowl. We we should do that um I mean This is a little weird. I guess Now I guess you got every three belt winners and you got the other group is the highest point people, henry I guess I don't know Yeah, bugs has been my buzz has been consistently good. That makes sense never great Never his time yet, but he's been consistently good and that's I'd sign up for consistently good. Honestly Mills gets flooded Uh, I don't know if we can go that far bro. I think you're tripping on that one. I think kiv is the only person uh I think kiv is the only person that could flood I don't think journey in mills is a flood either way no matter how good and moe I just they not they all did this all defensive players other honestly kids and the kiv kids defenses I don't think we'll talk about it enough I I think you could say those are three like Of all the best defensive players that those are four really good defensive players in this group right there really I mean the only other person that I would like Obviously joke joke would be up there as best but the other like Clebs defense is solid know his defense was good in dc. We'll see what he does in salary cat Uh, but dude drinny and moe And mills is just sending nine at you Um, and kiv is always probably the most underrated defensive player like ever honestly For real And it's about like like this The more we talk about it the more this group is helling itself because it's such good defensive players really all of them Really No, kiv not gonna talk passing is passing is good, dude passing is it's not good, but it's not bad It's not impossible and the way honestly three three five odd has really nerfed Um nerfed the straight run game. So i'm really interested in uh, what vault does on offense Interested on what joke does on offense because the one thing about joke and joke will tell you man Like as far as being having the hottest offense before everybody Dude joke has been there for two tournaments so far Two maybe even three if we want to talk about strong close in dc I don't think it's as good, but to have lane johnson nasty streak in the classic and not win the tournament And gotta be disappointed and to have the blast And bro joke was blasting it as before it was Popped it up out of nowhere, you know, so to have those two offenses before everybody, you know So i'm really interested in whatever offense joke runs right now. I want to see what offense vote runs right now Um, I have some kind of no books paving kid probably bunching, you know, so it's like Yeah, that's what i'm saying joke. I wanted that that's that's what i'm most excited about between jokes offense votes offense See how no was playing What scheming going to do, you know little man is going to be the pg version of joke Um, so it's really exciting things to look forward to next week. You know what i'm saying that's that's really uh Going to be dope honestly for the different things.  We're closing on 2100 subs That's fucking nuts right now chat nuts So this is what i'm saying is this um No, but so They put that they put the blast in the game after I get popped They put it in game But then they got this this 245 defense that super bags the blast right 245 bags the blast right What did they do to the 245 the instant lcq the instant amount of lcq what happened past 245 So now blast is tough again. I swear to god, bro now joke I No, that dude. I wasn't good enough at it. Honestly. I didn't play against it enough because I didn't know I was Wanted to be in the tournament honestly No, that dude came right in I knew I honestly wasn't good enough at motion and just didn't I didn't play the game enough Dude was like, yep, you're back in the tournament. I was like, all right, let's get it Definitely pad they definitely passed me bro. They passed me all year Uh, I don't know what time it starts will definitely be live for all of these games for sure So think twice bro if you have your notifications on dub dub dubby stream or my twitter or my instagram or my tiktok Or my facebook and saying you could check that out. You know what i'm saying You know You think bam got another defense. I honestly from what I see From what I see in the game now, obviously i'm not playing at the highest level of these guys But I said I feel like 335 really stops The run, you know, and I feel like it's going to be hard to be just running the ball You know, I feel like I tight is super dead. Um, I feel You know, I 335 wide is really tough against the run you know You know, so for me, uh What's I'm really interested on see how see how everybody plays. I think it's going to be a past heavy tournament um Interesting on what mills does on offense Interesting seeing what mo does on offense. What is mo going to run on offense? I think mo one of the most biggest problems is that He went away from the run run run Like like he said before like he didn't think it was good and he was the best at it at first like You know I think Henry will have well Henry's not really a runner junior jansen Henry The one thing about Henry if he did so good in the classic because he's still passed with, you know West coast and everything but he used the cowboys. So he still ran sweep with zeke. He's still mixed in some runs And that's why he has some of success. So I wouldn't call Henry a runner at all You know Yeah, let's see what mo does really Yeah, we'll see I'm I'm super interested in I'm super ready to watch it. Um All the success they've had with the um With the lcq I think else I think lcq worked out perfectly for them I don't know what was the initial plan of the lcq was the initial plan to fly those guys out for a live event Or was the initial plan to always have that at home, you know, I'm not really sure I'm assuming it was flying them out. I don't know what the plan was Um, but I it's good that it worked out like lcq was kind of a warm up You know, they kind of warmed up like this is how we're going to do it So they got a little bit of experience under the belt. So man bowl should be honestly, I'm looking forward I think it's probably going to be one of the best events they've ever done honestly How many vicks kiv Wesley Clef gonna be a dickhead, bro I'm gonna try to tell clef to get vick get on the vic train But kiv and Wesley for sure Huh, I don't know what you're gonna do. That's what I'm saying.  Is it from jc pennies, bro? That's all we asked. Did you get this is what where we're at and we'll show right now pavin Did we get the blanket from jc pennies, bro? That's all that's all the people want to ask bro. Is this blanket from jc pennies, bro. That's all All all confirmation we need, bro Is this jc pennie blanket because jc pennie be having blankets on the low on the low they be having some blankets All right from india.  You know what i thought About the wish list chat. Yeah, you're nail on wish list. Y'all want to talk more wish list tj max is the glitch i'm telling you That my chat am i lying about that back left corner of jc pennies or marshals Yo, that back left corner is fire bro Trying to tell y'all All right, I did what I was gonna say is once we go to wish list is going to start. Yeah, it's going I'm gonna Let's open it though wish list boom Let's get it boys. Let's talk. We can add two more things to the wish list Add two more things here boys. Okay We got our pipe dream wish list and we got our realistic Any ideas Early are there any ideas you guys got we got we got save audible's custom playbook? No, that will never be on my list front.  I did dirt Okay, not only sending a spy And a salicat realistic wish list Uh practice mode. I think that's a good one to add this week You guys agree. I think that's a pretty good one to add this week practice mode historic teams Adjust abilities in game adjust abilities in game buck net like All right, let's talk about this. All right that buck net comes up with a good point Just an interesting topic to talk about adjust abilities in game Let's talk about adjust abilities in game like what? What could that be like? Okay, I I think I don't think you could do that because essentially you would have every ability like, okay It's time to pass now. Let me put on my gunslinger and my escape artist, right? sc sc. We can we's not gonna have you happen Oh, that's why we got save audible's like like, you know leather leather tenders, bro I'd like for you guys to read the screen just a little bit before we just type. Okay I'm not you don't got to read everything on the screen, but you know, we read a little bit chat. Okay Just a little bit of reading. Okay Feel the punch. I'm telling you. I think practice mode's a good one to add to the wish list I think that's a good. I think that's a realistic one Now let's talk about all right Resetting settings. That's it. That's in here. See do you not see this?  There's four words on the screen and you guys aren't reading them I will tell you this. I will tell you this about training. This is my official ruling on training chat This is my from the bottom of my heart, right? From I was about from the bottom of my heart training is cool, right? The only way to make training not a scam refund 100 percent Refund 100 percent that that's it and I think it I think it changes everything I think one you still need training Right, but two it's not a super scam Do you guys agree with making that? I feel like that balances out the fact that we still need training But it's not the most buku biggest scam ever We just refund the 100 percent. I think that will really Uh calm down How big a scam training is right now? You know Sprinter needs to go sprinter needs to Sprinter needs to just all the way go honestly, but I don't really want to get into I don't like I said I want to do a little bit each week. So this was so by the time we get to june Uh, this is a a huge wish list. That's good. I don't want to get away I think the realistic which wish this week might practice mode Is super realistic. Uh, I think that's a good ad No, I just really think McNasty yes, it should definitely speed should definitely go over 100, but let's talk about Relax relax relax relax Relax relax relax. You guys are really passionate about this. I like it. Let's talk about a pipe dream wish list Look, give me a pipe dream Something that you guys is probably unrealistic, but we want and mad Let's talk about that. Let's not talk about realistic things or obvious things. Let's talk about Seven on seven. I say I feel like that's realistic An open bed. I feel like that's kind of realistic too. I think seven on seven is realistic Well, if they don't add seven on seven they're tripping Custom I know custom playbook is bad Let me tell you guys man Because because I feel like there's people in here that believe in custom playbooks I really think there's people in here that believe in custom playbooks I really do You know, and I want to just before you guys keep talking man listen What I want to tell you guys custom playbooks is bad for men part of a skill of a madden player one is knowing the playbooks to Deciding on what playbook you're going to run because you have to decide what your strengths are What you run the best and what you will sacrifice Not having because you want to run your strongest formation You know also just the knowledge of scrolling through formations knowing the formations that are in your playbook Knowing how many audibles you how many all say bunch is five audibles left from trey white flecks Knowing that stuff and always having that stuff and being better than it than the next guy is a huge skill in madden 1 million percent Now this year has been kind of shitty because oakland has everything and uh, it's just it's just a shitty playbook. Uh It's just kind of ruined the game. Also. I feel like um The defensive playbooks are there's too much going on in defensive playbooks. I don't know but Custom playbooks are bad period. It really it removes a big aspect of being a good man player if that makes sense Really? So custom so custom playbooks for me will never be something I ever want in the game You know, and it's hard. It's hard to go to the point to where it's like, man, uh At the end of the day you should be able to run any play you want I mean it's football you should be able to run any play you want But I mean at the end of the day it's madden and picking a playbook and uh, Justifying which playbook you pick is a big part of the game. Honestly All right, but let's think about a pipe dream. We got out. We got our realistic wish list Yeah, custom jerseys. That's kind of realistic um Get rid of nano detection. I 1 million percent. I feel like that's a great one nano detection sucks It sucks it was cool before they had doubling before they had idea in the mic. I understand nano detection But I this is what nano detection had like I'm putting that in pipe dream nano detection I'm putting that that's going to be my one. I don't care what else you guys say We're going to talk to the rest the next couple minutes about nano detection I I like That's that's a great one. I'll then I'll tell you guys why I was thinking honestly, what's crazy about that? I was thinking about this today, right?   It's boring The only blitzes that work are just off the edge. That's it You can't try to trick our offensive linemen You can't try to get them to slide one way and you'll get an agap because they think this edge pressure There was no Creativity and blitzing the quarterback none whatsoever. There was zero creativity There's just not there's no creativity on defense none Defense definitely is brain dead. Seriously. It's either rush for with a spy or send everybody, you know Whereas if there was no nano detections you guys see where if you overload one side Maybe your opponent will slide and then maybe your d tackle shoots right in or if they double team the wrong guy You can bluff something And find the way to get an agap find the way to get your dn shooting right in This is what makes people spend hours in the lab This is what had lab rats being tough because they could find these angles and find these glitchy blitzes You know and now that's completely dead because the only blitzes that really work are just edge blitzes off the edge Here we go off the edge You know and it's just boring is shit. There is no creativity in attacking the quarterback You know and that is 1000 percent because of nano detection you know No, and also nano detection is the reason why I can say I go play freaking If I play johnny down the street I can't beat him 100 to zero back when it was nanos you can beat us somebody 100 to zero You know, it's it's a super skill gap knowing good pass protection Setting up good defenses to attack the quarterback nano detection 1000 percent is terrible For the skill gap in man. It really is and it just makes defense boring You know, I don't think they'll ever get rid of it because what was Told to me on this podcast by rex who was the person there who they when they installed nano detection It was that it was just having clowny running in sack the quarterback every time Just looked really shitty when he sat there with nfl people You know and that's pretty much what made them decide this looks shitty for madden It looks shitty for football. We're going to get rid of this You know, but to come in with with features like double team features like id the mic Those are good things You know to get to stop these a gaps to stop these nanos, but they're also Weapons for the defense if you understand what i'm saying if i'm a defensive coordinator That's my weapon. I have to make them afraid of said player over here So they double team him id him Bang now we get an agate from the middle linebacker or bam now We get an agate from the detackle because he's worried about clowny on the left side You know, that's part of defense. That's part of being created creative on defense That's what made mike scrape so good Now it was dumber then because you really couldn't do anything about this shit You know, but now with all these features for pass blocking and stuff you should I mean we should try getting rid of narrow detection to see what it's like I think it would help the creativity behind defense. I really do Yeah So I do believe that's a good That's a good one for the pipe job. I feel like those are good additions. I feel like we added two good additions today Uh, damn, this should off the screen. Am I that acid? Damn. Was that off the screen?  I feel like these were w's I feel like our list I feel like our list is good right now, man Yeah, I I agree with that steve. I mean If you're on competitive get rid of nano detection But then then here we go with this thing competitive. What is weekend league on beyond? What is the main? This is be real. What is simulation? What who plays that shit? Seriously, who plays that mode? So as you have this arcade mode and you have this simulation mode who plays them shits Those two modes who plays that shit?   Oh, there's a competitive side.   It's lit Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. Um, this was the needed podcast episodes 78 78 closing on 80 episodes Closing in on 80 episodes. Are we glitchy? 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