Why I Yelled at AU
[AU ed. note: It's fine, all in the game. I'm annoying sometimes!]
I’d like to explain why I yelled at AU on the podcast the other night. I know sometimes people think I make the content of the podcast about the podcast too much. But I also know that so many of the true Ricky people both A) love this stuff but B) really don’t need another opinion from me about Jared McCain or how I don’t think the Sixers are going to win anything this year.
Mike and I really don’t argue anymore, so it’s probably been a while since the pod has had one of these moments. We disagree, but much like any two people who have managed to get along for this long, you figure out how to avoid serious conflict. We’re both also older and much more tired. We have our rhythm.
I know AU quite well (maybe not as well as you’d think I know him, but I know him well), but we don’t podcast together a lot, so I certainly wouldn’t be quite as apt as seeing the ship heading for the iceberg.
Ok, let’s pull back the curtain, why it happened. It wasn’t because I massively disagreed or cared very much that AU thought the Sixers win over the Bulls was the biggest win of the season. I didn’t disagree all that passionately (though he’s clearly wrong). I think it probably came off like I got mad because he thought the Sixers were great at that moment (they’re not) and I thought they weren’t. I wasn’t trying to like, crush his dreams.
I got mad at AU at the moment because I did not know how we were going to talk about the game and do the podcast. I know this seems like a way too Xs and Os way to think about things, but it’s very difficult to debate how you feel about something, and much easier to debate what you think is happening/should happen. So we were 5 minutes into a segment of the pod that should take 20-25 minutes, and the core disagreement is that AU thinks it was huge and I don’t.
So when I’m yelling “go ahead and talk about it Buddy Boy,” I’m frustrated because I’m trying to convey that it’s not really a topic we can discuss. It just is or isn’t. I’m sitting not knowing whether to keep talking about the game or move on and go to the next topic. And then his mic didn’t sound how we wanted it (it’s my fault for not supplying him with the right one), and I had already spent four hours arguing about sports at my day job.
So, Spike the Host Who Needs Everything to Be Right threw a temper tantrum, that in the end was sorta funny but probably uncalled for, and that’s why I said “sorry AU,” and we moved on.
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Team Ricky
Against all odds, Paul George is back and Joel Embiid is back at the same time. MOC wrote about both of their returns, and how he doesn’t generally trust PG and wonders why people get so mad discussing Joel Embiid. He also snuck in a Markelle Fultz segment, and I’m going to have to talk to him about that because we’re supposed to pretend like it never happened.
If you happen to be a fan of Alkaline Trio, me and Mutlu did a podcast about Matt Skiba’s old side project Heavens, and talked a little bit about the new song from Joji on the Carl Landry Record Club.
Wow, looks like Team Ricky has been mostly quiet this week. Maybe AU should be fighting with me less and getting on everyone’s ass a little more.
Non Team Ricky
Former Ricky guy Sixers Adam caught up with Zhaire Smith about his weird time with the Sixers.
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Spike, you did try muttering “Don’t do this” as AU was amping up, which seems to work de-escalating conflict with Mike. Plus it’s very funny. We all go a little mad sometimes.
Have you thought about starting a company where you just go into organizations and yell at people until they stop doing dumb things? A lot of companies would benefit from someone like that