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Join us as we kick off an extraordinary conversation with Johnny Stanton IV, the NFL athlete who's made an exciting shift from the football field to the realms of Dungeons & Dragons. Johnny's story is a compelling blend of sports and gaming, a journey of adaptability, and the breaking down of labels and binaries. Get ready to be inspired by his switch from college football to the NFL, and how he found his calling in D&D, leading to features on ESPN and Sports Illustrated.
Ever wondered about the complexities that lie behind sports team names? We're putting that curiosity to rest as we engage in a playful debate over 12 team names including the Dayton Dragons and Stony Brook Seawolves. Meanwhile, don't forget to pay attention to the unique intersection of sports, gaming, and cultural understanding that forms the backdrop of our conversation.
As we bid farewell to our treasured team member Diego, we also wrap up our conversation with Johnny, diving into his vision for the future of athletics, his charity and Twitch events, and his dream D&D playmates. From long snapping to the exploration of tabletop role-playing styles, Johnny's journey is bound to leave a lasting impression. Tune in and witness the captivating blend of sports, gaming, and cultural understanding. Don't miss out on this amazing journey, join us and be part of the conversation!
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An often belittling term, "ABCD (American Born Confused Desi)" is being redefined in new livestream/podcast series American Born Chatty Desis hosted by internet personalities Sandeep Parikh (The Guild, The Legend of Neil) and Omar Najam (Dimension 20). The two hosts (and a sometimes exciting guest) engage in front of a live chat, with a fast and loose format where they check in with their chakras and debate over their American roots v. Desi heritage! Come for the light hearted commentary, stay for the deep insights into life from the second generation point of view. We're here, we barely speak Hindi, get used to it.
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Join us as we kick off an extraordinary conversation with Johnny Stanton IV, the NFL athlete who's made an exciting shift from the football field to the realms of Dungeons & Dragons. Johnny's story is a compelling blend of sports and gaming, a journey of adaptability, and the breaking down of labels and binaries. Get ready to be inspired by his switch from college football to the NFL, and how he found his calling in D&D, leading to features on ESPN and Sports Illustrated.
Ever wondered about the complexities that lie behind sports team names? We're putting that curiosity to rest as we engage in a playful debate over 12 team names including the Dayton Dragons and Stony Brook Seawolves. Meanwhile, don't forget to pay attention to the unique intersection of sports, gaming, and cultural understanding that forms the backdrop of our conversation.
As we bid farewell to our treasured team member Diego, we also wrap up our conversation with Johnny, diving into his vision for the future of athletics, his charity and Twitch events, and his dream D&D playmates. From long snapping to the exploration of tabletop role-playing styles, Johnny's journey is bound to leave a lasting impression. Tune in and witness the captivating blend of sports, gaming, and cultural understanding. Don't miss out on this amazing journey, join us and be part of the conversation!
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An often belittling term, "ABCD (American Born Confused Desi)" is being redefined in new livestream/podcast series American Born Chatty Desis hosted by internet personalities Sandeep Parikh (The Guild, The Legend of Neil) and Omar Najam (Dimension 20). The two hosts (and a sometimes exciting guest) engage in front of a live chat, with a fast and loose format where they check in with their chakras and debate over their American roots v. Desi heritage! Come for the light hearted commentary, stay for the deep insights into life from the second generation point of view. We're here, we barely speak Hindi, get used to it.
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Speaker 2:Am like a. I'm like One of those ravens. Is it a raven? No, a falcon. You know, like I was asleep Until I hear that audience noise like I. You know, the hood was pulled off my head and now I'm awake like that just jolted me, that's amazing, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:It's splash of cold water. Yeah, we're that. One of those two things a splash of cold brew against your face, just waking you up folks right in the eyes. How's it going? I am gonna introduce your co-host today. He puts the end in end zone. It is Sandy party.
Speaker 2:And he puts the end in tight end. It's our host.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, I'm fired in the notes it was but banter, I feel like that covered it.
Speaker 2:I feel like I.
Speaker 1:Feel like us both being the individuals who put the end in two different terms.
Speaker 3:It's really what people come to the show for hello everyone.
Speaker 1:This is ABCD. American born chatty. They see this is a podcast within a live stream, within our lives is to American born they see it's a pod ducking. This is for anyone out there who, like us, is navigating your cultural identities, plural and you just want to chat about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know what we got on tap for you today, all right. So this is a special episode Because we're not doing the normal chakra check in and the level I mean that's gonna happen, but it's only gonna happen within the context of an interview with a lovely, lovely gentleman, but I go by the name of Johnny Stanton the fourth, and that fourth is gonna become that's very important that you know that and you will see why soon he is merging the worlds of D&D and professional athletes.
Speaker 2:He's a former or a and and hopefully current NFL player. He's still out there making it happen, but he was with the Cleveland Browns not long ago and he's a free agent right now getting back into it but also Follow pursuing his passions for D&D and he's an unbelievable DM. So we had him on this week, since it's, you know, the beginning of the football season.
Speaker 1:It is it's football season, baby, that the leaves are changing. Sundays Sundays back, mondays back. All the football days are back.
Speaker 3:Saturdays back if you're into college football.
Speaker 1:Thursdays back.
Speaker 2:Where are those days gone all this time?
Speaker 1:Friday. You had enough of a rain. You're done. We're pulling you back.
Speaker 2:I love your finger, wag it's very professionally busy.
Speaker 1:I can't.
Speaker 2:See what's happening.
Speaker 1:It's the finger wag and in the pointing with your middle finger. That's when you know you've really made it.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:Man, I never put that together. The pointy, the middle finger oh, that's great, then we'll have, we'll pick a day to the week. Yes, it's gonna be a special one as well. We have a really, really special one, we're excited.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited for for all of you to enjoy this interview because Johnny Stanton the fourth is so inspiring.
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Speaker 2:so we also because you know we need listen. We don't want to be studio run people at all. We see what's happening in the district with all these strikes. The studios, they're not nice people. No they're not good people. You're the good people, and so we. Our second sponsor is, of course, you and our, our patreon supporters here at effin. Funny Thank you. So if you want to join this illustrious list of do-gooders who Support winners of this entire team.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, and at the end of this episode we're gonna shout out the folks who support us, and we're gonna do it in a way that's decided by chat. It's not up to us, that's so we're gonna. We're gonna find out the last couple ones have been songs and we decided to Sing three names at a time, not four, not in the traditional Western way of filling a measure for Should we just, should we just say we're gonna do for each, so we make that no no let's just see what happens.
Speaker 2:Let's sabotage ourselves excellent.
Speaker 1:All right, so should we get to it? Should we hop into an interview? I?
Speaker 2:I Think, mm-hmm, that we yeah, you know what yeah yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1:Well, now I'm hesitant, now I'm thinking no.
Speaker 2:I thought I had something else to say and I'm like my brain didn't catch up to it. We did our sponsors, we did the show intro. Everybody knows what this is about. We're live right now.
Speaker 1:We're live right now.
Speaker 2:I'm right now, but we are gonna jump into a pre-recorded interview because, you know, john Johnny, busy guy, johnny's a busy guy. Okay, so he couldn't make it live today, but give us a great interview on Friday. Here it is right now Johnny Stanton. The fourth time, ladies and gentlemen, it's Johnny Stanton.
Speaker 5:All these people are clapping for me Invisible audience. Hey, thanks for having me, guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they are all invisible people.
Speaker 5:They've all been cursed and they're all just hanging out in Sunday's living room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they won't go to Omar's, isn't that?
Speaker 1:yeah, well, you know, it's not as facious.
Speaker 2:I guess. I guess I mean I'm in an attic right now, so I don't.
Speaker 1:I like, johnny, I don't just that they're invisible, not that they're trapped.
Speaker 2:They want to be there yeah they're free to go anyone they they chose to be in my house, you're attic. Yeah yeah, johnny. I don't know if you know this about yourself, but here's your bio, johnny, you're a professional football player. You were a full back.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 5:I'm unemployed right now, but yeah, you're full back for the University of Nevada, las Vegas. Oh my gosh, that's close. I was a quarterback for you and I'll be I.
Speaker 2:Played a little bit of linebacker, but that was it. We got the back part right. You were a couple there.
Speaker 5:I mean you could be quarterback, corner back and we could be on defense, but linebacker has back in as well. There's a lot of backs in.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of backs, so you're currently a free agent. So that part we got right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yep, you are a self-proclaimed D&D nerd. I think you are a proclaimed D&D nerd, frankly the public I have my proven myself yeah. I think you yeah, you can be on self.
Speaker 5:I got my stamp card last week. Oh, you got one of my wallet now.
Speaker 2:I still don't have one. Your online series, athletics check, teaches sports and football. Folks, nerds, all of them tabletop role-playing Yep, you teach all that to jocks. Basically, you're teaching nerdy tabletop nests joy to jocks.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and and the other way around. I'm teaching football joy to nerds. I'm trying to Seems like people are enjoying it. Yeah, I mean art, possibly the most famous one. I mean I'm surprised you knew what a fullback was before a quarterback, but yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:It's weird. I've only known what fullbacks and halfbacks are he's working.
Speaker 1:Wait, what is this?
Speaker 5:From the full to half yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm just like, I just wait till you find out about the eighth back. Yeah, that's a position I could play For me. Yeah, I'm just a huge James Devlin fan, all right?
Speaker 3:so, johnny, we're gonna jump into our, our interview format.
Speaker 2:Okay, this is the ABCD podcast. We mostly have South Asians on here, and so congratulations during honor a South Asian. I've always wanted that. Thank you, yeah.
Speaker 5:Welcome.
Speaker 2:Thanks.
Speaker 5:So, we.
Speaker 2:We often ask our guests this, and so I'm I'm excited to ask you this question what does your name mean? Yep, cuz you know we have a really interesting name.
Speaker 3:Meaning.
Speaker 5:Johnny, it's foreign, I know it's um, so I think, johnny, we you know, there's a lot, of, a lot of languages have like little or like, like loving, like they're, like you know, spanish as it or ita, right, I think, I think if you were to translate my name just a little bit, I think, I think if you were to translate my name to Spanish, v Juanito. So I think I'm like I'm little Johnny, because I'm the fourth, john Richard Stan.
Speaker 5:That's why the IV is at the end of my name. So I always get the question you know what? I have the fifth and I have no idea. I don't know if I'm gonna have a boy. You know, hopefully I will. But yeah, that's what my name is. I'm the fourth, I'm named. It's I'm named after my grandfather, who was the second junior, Mm-hmm, and through my life as a fourth I learned the difference between a junior and a second. Do you guys know what it is?
Speaker 2:No, there's a difference between. There's a difference. Yeah, so think about I like to think about it like mood situation family versus like a pope.
Speaker 5:So if you were, if you were, yeah, omar, if you were to like name your, your son, omar, you'll be an Omar junior, it could be Omar the second, like that's possible, if you want, if they want to go by that like every junior is a second, okay, well, not every, but second is a junior. Not every second is a junior, because if you think about it like popes, pope John Paul the second, he he's not a junior. Obviously he adopted the name, but it kind of works the same way. Whereas, say, omar, your great-grandfather was also Omar, then you and you would adopt his name as well, then you'd be Omar the second. No way, yeah. So then I guess, if you were to have, if you were Omar the second from like a previous, like two generations gap, and you had a son, you could, he could be Omar junior the third.
Speaker 1:So this is what a great question we asked to you.
Speaker 3:Well, first of all, you're also teaching us.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and I could be totally wrong. Don't take my word for this.
Speaker 2:It was confident enough that I'm gonna just believe every word.
Speaker 3:I'm updating Wikipedia. I'm updating Wikipedia. Source of Johnny Stanton.
Speaker 1:But like what I love about that like you have like a Lord the Rings answer like it's not oh my parents, like, decided this, that it was like oh, what a beautiful flower.
Speaker 5:I'm John of Stanton, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. Your name is like is, is, is your, uh, it's like it's your history.
Speaker 5:It was. It's funny because I um In high school you get the opportunity, like you know, choose what number you want to be on the football team, and I was. I was actually very lucky. I knew I wanted to be number four Because that's what my dad was in high school football. He was, and he was actually more of a swimmer. And it actually worked on another way, because he wanted to wear number four, not only because, well, for one reason, in swimming the people in the fourth lane is usually the highest ranked person, because they have the least amount of like a week.
Speaker 5:Right to the middle, you get you're supposed to have, like the biggest advantage.
Speaker 2:It's where Phelps was every time.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and then you fifth and then third and then six kind of go out from there. Um, but the main reason why he wanted to be number four was because my grandfather was a world war two pilot. He flew in the f4? U Corsair and when he would ask his father like hey, when you were flying, like what number plane did you fly? And it wasn't really like the only way the my grandfather knew how to answer it because he wouldn't fly the same plane over and over again Was, oh, we had four on it because it was an f4? U Corsair. So that's why he wore number four. That's why I didn't wear number four. Is kind of carry on that tradition. It just so happened that everybody thought that I wore number four because I was the fourth, right, right. So when I went, I went on to go to before unlv university in the battle Las Vegas, I went to university in Nebraska and four wasn't available. So I actually went with five. And I went with five because Johnny five is alive.
Speaker 2:That, that makes perfect sense totally, both equally valid, both equally as reverent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did people. Uh, did people have like radio shack banners and stuff when they were cheering you on as a johnny number?
Speaker 5:Nobody cheered me on when I was in Nebraska. I was a fourth string quarterback over there at best. So, no, nobody was cheering me on but that. That is when I started putting iv on the back of my jersey. Uh, well, for one at high school they didn't have names in the back of my jersey, but when I wasn't able to have four as my number, I started putting iv on the back. Uh, and then I kind of just carried on that tradition.
Speaker 5:Actually you know what I think that I'm trying to remember. I'd have to look at pictures from Nebraska, because the only time that I remember Specifically wearing iv on the back of my jersey now that I think about it, is that when I started with the vikings. Um, you know what I'm blanking on right now because I remember being really proud audience.
Speaker 2:The in studio audience will find out and they will post.
Speaker 4:Thank you, yeah, we got this from Nebraska right here, so that's what that memory is from.
Speaker 2:There's a reason you can't see delvin it's because he's also invisible and he's in the room. So they oh yeah, but not cursed.
Speaker 1:That was a weird quinketing.
Speaker 2:He just decided to join. Uh, so super cool. So look, um, we we often do this. Uh, what's called the chakra check-in. We check in with our. Are you familiar with the chakras?
Speaker 5:And with the, I'm familiar with the idea of them yeah the energy centers that reside within the body you want to get those in line.
Speaker 2:You know we're in order to reach a sort of samadhi state, a meditative state of pure blissful awareness.
Speaker 5:Okay, uh, yeah, I've never reached it, but I'm sure hashtag goals, yeah, so checking in with because right now you're a free agent, right.
Speaker 2:Uh, checking in with your sort of chakras, your, your. You know your current alignment. How are you feeling about the new football season coming out? Uh, you know where are you at with all that, you know? Are you trying to get back into the game, are you? Are you still trying out for teams like, like, what? What chakras do you think is uh Is being affected the most here?
Speaker 5:Um, I only know a hand for them, and I don't want to.
Speaker 3:I don't want to show my whole ass.
Speaker 5:No I.
Speaker 2:I'll quickly go through them. There's the crown chakra right, which is the top of the head. This is your knowledge Chakra uh, there's uh there's the third eye. You've heard of that one. That's the face one. Everybody knows the third eye.
Speaker 5:Okay now we have it. We have images on the um, on the feed, on the. The feed, yeah, boom, that's your like intuition, visuals, imagination.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the throat, yeah the throat. Yeah, one right here for communication, okay, expression, honesty. Then the heart chakra, which is love and acceptance and compassion. The solar plexus, which is like kind of the top of the gut, so we're talking like self-esteem, ego, strength, cool power.
Speaker 2:Then there's a sacral Okay, so you're going down to the sacrum Sensuality, you know, sexuality, pleasure, creativity, emotional center never sure that one's in line, but yeah and then I Furry all right, I guess worse as you get older and there's a root chakra which is like kind of located in the tape we call it the tape chakra here on the ABC nice.
Speaker 5:The podcast I was gonna say a lot of reverence.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's your stability, it's your survival, safety, comfort.
Speaker 5:Oh man, um, I'd say Top of the list probably. Oh man, I forgot like this was, it was a third eye. I think third eye is up there because I really I've really allowed myself to since not being on a team it's been a year now since I've been on a team I've really allowed myself to really dive into my creative outlets. I I really discovered TT, rpg and D&D as my my creative outlet and that's allowed myself to have a lot of growth, trying a lot of different ways of doing that. But I think it's never been healthier for me. Yeah, my, my root chakra is in a rough spot because I'm trying to figure out how I can, you know, make money, since being a free agent is tough and that's I think that you said survival and kind of that old thing.
Speaker 5:Survival is a top of my mind for sure.
Speaker 5:Um, and yeah, it's. Uh, you know, moving away from the from the chakra centric side of things I I'm in a Obviously free agency is never a an easy thing, especially when you're been out of the year the league for a full year. That's not most people's experience, or at least that's not most people's experience of being able to get back into the league. And that's what I'm trying to beat the odds to do. So I I've shown on my social media, it's not a secret I've, I'm also trying to work at long snapping, which, if you're not familiar with football, that's the person who snaps the ball to both the punter and to the punter when he's holding for the kicker on for the place kicker on field goals. So that's what I've really been trying to focus in on to be able to extend my career, because you can play a lot longer as a Long snapper than a full back.
Speaker 5:Full backs Pull backs at a tough position, because not every team has a full back. So not only are there limited opportunities, but full back is the closest position that there is to running back, and running back has notoriously the shortest lifespan of any NFL player, lifespan being career spam. So so, yeah, my my attempt to switch to long snapping is to be able to have more opportunities and to be able to play for longer, but all these long snappers have been in the league for forever, like there's forever but, but they've been yeah, they've been, they've been along, they've been long snapping forever.
Speaker 5:They've been in that position for so long and I'm trying to come in as the new guy saying, okay, I can compete with these guys where they you know they've been doing it, so they can do it. So well, I don't think people who realize now I've seen those like it's seen those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was gonna say that I've seen those like long snapping competitions, like I don't use videos I saw online. But yeah, they can. Like you know, it's like William, william tell they can hit an apple off your head. Yeah, no, it's it's for real.
Speaker 5:And then not only to be able to do that, but also to be able to block a 290 pound man right in front of you trying to tear your head off, and then just stop doing that and go try to make a tackle Like that's. That's the difficult part of being a long snapper, and you're not trying to be well-rounded like a linebacker or a receiver might want to be, who can do a lot of different things. You have to do one thing and you have to do it Masterfully, because if you make one mistake, you can lose your job right.
Speaker 2:So yeah, there's only like 32 in the like. You know there's only two, 32 of those positions of nobody's. You know there's no backup long snappers problem. I mean, there's probably like another player that can mm-hmm.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean, if you make a mistake, if in and you know, snap over the punter's head, you're you're gonna lose your job and somebody else who's been fighting to get a job is gonna replace you right, yeah, like if you're the long snapper, you get maximum one opportunity on a drive exactly yeah and hopefully you make that one mistake like that was it for the drive like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, someone needs to make the like the the ace ventura for long now. Like the the way think for the long snapper.
Speaker 5:Well, I mean the laces out part when, when they're talking about an ace ventura like laces out Dan, like that's usually Long snappers fall, yeah, cuz they're supposed to be able to put it in a spot where the Holder doesn't have to twist, twist the ball.
Speaker 2:Oh really. So the long snapper knows like, come on, like they have to like spiral the ball so Perfectly when it's, when it's a deep snap, which is what we call pun snaps.
Speaker 5:When it's a deep snap you don't have to worry about the laces, but when it's a short snap, because it's only going eight yards, you have to do it the same way every single time.
Speaker 5:So when and you want it to show up where the laces are, like vertical, and so the all the all, the puncher, the holder has to do is just put it straight down so that it's facing towards the field goal. So it's just so the the kicker doesn't have to look at the laces. But that's if you do end up making a mistake and the rotation is a little bit faster, a little bit slower than normal. If it's pointing to, like that, a clock or three o'clock, it doesn't matter because the the holder can rotate it and it's fine, yeah. But if it's at six o'clock, which is backwards, that's the issue. That's when you run into, like, the kicker will get really pissed to you because you snapped it badly, even if it was pinpoint accurate. So, yeah, it can get really, really detailed. That's, I mean, their specialist the year. There's a lot of attention to detail there.
Speaker 2:Totally makes sense. Very cool that you're, like you know, finding ways to become more versatile and more about yeah, yeah, yeah and hopefully, even if it's, even if it never comes out to anything.
Speaker 5:You know I I started doing that when I was trying to join the league to just show my versatility, my ability to Possibly eke out another guy on the roster, because every team needs a backup snapper as well. So that's what I would do when I was in Cleveland is. One of my jobs, even though I was on practice squad, was to Snap for the show. It was called show punt, so the starting pun return team would have to go against the practice squad guys and Usually if your team doesn't have a good backup snapper, the starting snapper would have to work that as well. And if you know, you're an old, 35 year old dude and I say old football, if you're an old, 35 year old dude who is in his 10th year in the league.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you, you know every practice snap that you that you take takes it out of you and you know if you can have a backup guy and really it's really helpful. So that's that was one of my contributions into the Browns roster was being able to consistently be a backup snapper.
Speaker 1:So let me, because it sounds like you've been in, like you've known that you want to be a career Football player for a while.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean, and yeah.
Speaker 1:When did you start to realize you could adapt, because the way that you're talking about it isn't such a passionate and specific and nerdy way it's?
Speaker 4:pretty yeah right.
Speaker 1:You work is like I feel like a lot of people are just like, yeah, you do the thing and you have to be good enough, and you're like, here's the precision. Like like, listen to the wind, like you break off like a piece of wheat and just watch it go. Yeah, when did you realize that your Football brain was also like working towards your D&D brain? Because when you talk about TTRPG mechanics Whether it's just casually at a party or you're being Well, again like it's the most like, like the way I see you visualizing.
Speaker 1:Like a battlefield, you're doing it. It's so specific and tangible. And can you talk about football? It's the same way. When did you realize those were lining up?
Speaker 5:I don't know. I Think that there's a lot, of, a lot of ways that you can follow the D&D hobby and a lot of, a lot of different ways that you can find joy in it. I think people always talk about different play styles. For Alive people with maybe like a theater background or a comedy background, they're really looking to be able to get like the role play aspect whether that's getting something really serious or something really comedic value, where some people are going into it with yeah and that's me as well, and but I think everybody can also find both sides of it and finding the joy of my man it'd be.
Speaker 5:So it's so fun to be able to like really optimize my character and try to do like the most damage. Like nobody enjoys Now we can't say nobody, but a lot of people don't enjoy like missing in in battle and being able to Show like all the work that you put into it and give value to the rest of your party and kind of show off a little bit is what a lot of people find joy in in in D&D and being able to really think about it not only like Mathematically but also from a point of view of like how can I be the best teammate to other people?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love, I love that part of it. You know, that's like just the like, the creativity with like okay, they missed the shot, but you know, can I ask the question did at least distract the enemy yeah. I'm way and, like you know, get you know, give advantage to the next person, like, like, or come up with some Weird reason why your character specifically missing actually like, benefits your team or something like I. I Love that aspect of it because there is no. You know, you, it's another human being who's determining whether you know, whatever you're doing is effective, right.
Speaker 2:So ultimately, can you just be persuasive enough.
Speaker 5:Show your work, I think my favorite, my favorite players. And am I allowed to curse on the show Like just yeah, yeah, sweet, no, just like kind of not not to Omar you can't.
Speaker 1:Cover my headphones I.
Speaker 5:Think, yeah, like that, my favorite people to play with are the people who are just trying to. I'll be honest, I don't even know if I'm gonna swear in the sentence, we know, I just fucking love to play
Speaker 4:with people who.
Speaker 5:That's why I really love to play with people who just like Just just beg and plead for, like they try to talk themselves out of like scenarios and just trying to. I'm what, what's the like? There's a phrase that I'm trying to search for, but I can't exactly think of it. But one person that I really think he does a really good job of it is like Emily Axford at the table. I think she is Hilarious and just like is so charismatic at the table to be able to just get everybody on her side yeah, including the DM. Those are my favorite people who are just able to, like you said Sunday, but just be persuasive, but just being in a way that is just so Natural and not like you're trying to get something out of the person To answer your question, omar from earlier. Like where.
Speaker 5:I found like that, that connection between the D&D and football world was I don't know if I Can't exactly tell what it was about D&D that allowed me to Really dive headfirst into it. Like, like I said, I really found a huge creative outlet in D&D and I think that's the reason for it, like having staying power within my life. But I came at it from a Point in which I you know V I didn't have a ton of success. I didn't have the the college football career that would normally lead to an NFL career. I got to play my first four I Think four games, maybe three games even at UNLV as the starting quarterback before I got hurt, and they were only okay. My first game was great. My second game was okay. We had a close loss at UCLA and then my third game was was bad. I didn't play well and I got hurt and I didn't play again until the next year, which was gonna be my red shirt. Senior year is gonna be my fifth year. I've played four seasons and I Didn't end up winning the starting quarterback job and I was in a position where I'm I was pretty disappointed.
Speaker 5:My football career didn't go the way that I thought I was going to and I still wanted to find the field wherever I could. I asked to play special teams. I ended up at being asked to play linebacker on the defensive side. So I wanted to get on the field no matter where I could and I did end up getting to play some quarterback that year. But I was at a point where I was, I was kind of exploring what the rest of my personality was and I knew that I had this nerdy side to me. I was ever since I started college. I started becoming a regular at the comic book shop and I found, once I transferred to UNLV I ended up becoming a huge. It's true, I ended up becoming a regular at. This was one store called maximum comics and finally, Was there a comic that pulled you in?
Speaker 2:Was it? Was there a specific?
Speaker 5:So I I mean Batman is the easy answer. I really found my I Individuality in like the Aquaman comics, because that was like the beginning of the new 52 and the Jeff John series.
Speaker 1:Oh, really great when he the Triton's the truck right.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, the first first issue is so good. And then I think I found my True love for comics, not just like superhero comics in sex criminals by Matt Fraction and chips of Darcy.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, one of the best comic series of all time I have the whole. He's so good. This is a Darcy's, just a different person, different kind of person in the best way, but that's. That was my gateway drug into D&D and just finding my, because I wasn't a theater kid, I wasn't somebody who had this. You know Endless creative output. I don't keep using that phrase, but it's, it's true.
Speaker 5:I finally found this ability to Create something express myself create something that hadn't existed before, even if it was just in words and was completely ephemeral. I was something that I got to Affect other people in the time that we got to do it, and that's when I started getting into DMing, and that's why I started into writing my own stories, and that's when, yeah, go for it.
Speaker 2:No, just what. What was happening in the locker room at the same time? I'm just curious like how that translated. You know, like, were you like?
Speaker 5:oh, I introduced it to my teammates, or at least a handful of them.
Speaker 2:I know you did in when you were at the Browns. Was this also in college?
Speaker 5:you do the same thing at UNLV I introduced it to. So it's that's a similar story that I tell when, not only in Cleveland, but also in college, like I would just I I knew there a handful of of guys who who could hang, who were cool in terms of Getting to like talk about nerdy stuff with not everybody you can do that with right. So I found the nerdiest guys in the team and said, hey, do you want to play D&D? And they said, yeah, screw it, let's do it, and we had a great time of it. We only had like three or four sessions together but they really enjoyed you know the, the group that they had made and I had a fun time creating a story for them and was this your first time DMing?
Speaker 5:basically yeah, and thankfully it was for completely new players, because I had no idea what I was. They couldn't call you out on anything.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, that's, that's really wild. So what were you? Was it something I'm just curious like wait, was it something like you had to keep secretive or anything like would you, were you gonna get made fun of from other players? Or was it like yeah?
Speaker 5:it wasn't. I mean, it definitely wasn't to the point where it is now, where it's like a major part of, like my life which is yeah, yeah, I think it's it. It can feel silly to say outwardly, but I don't think anybody would would argue that it is a major point in my life. But at that point it wasn't necessarily. It was still something that I found a lot of joy in and was was learning that I was passionate about it. But it wasn't something that I even felt necessary to talk about, just except for with the guys that I played with right. And then, when I got to the point where we were in Cleveland and I did introduce it to Miles Garrett, who former number one overall draft pick and ended up being my D&D group Once people found out that we were playing, that we were playing together.
Speaker 5:It actually all kind of came out after I scored my touchdown in the 2021 season Because I wore a critical role shirt to the game.
Speaker 4:That was on critical roles campaign three like Not finale.
Speaker 5:What's the opposite of that premiere? That's when we decided, okay, you know, I asked the guys hey, it would be cool if you took a picture and, like I, posted about it. I think people would get a kick out of us playing together, because it was all secretive before that. Yeah, yeah. And then sports illustrated wanted to do a story on us.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:ESPN did a story on us and it just became a much bigger thing than just a little home game. So I'm curious about because the ESPN thing that was, that wasn't too long ago right that ESPN.
Speaker 2:No, that was like. That was like a couple months ago. I got featured last October 30th, I want to say our 29th. Okay, it does it does and it was supposed to come out earlier than that.
Speaker 5:If you, I'll keep the story short, but we recorded that last July during training camp and for those that don't know, like tell us what. What it was like, what the sure.
Speaker 2:So if you want to watch it, if I can play it, sure, so if you want to watch it, if I can plug my little dinky website, stanton IV comm.
Speaker 5:Is this is Stan Ivey or is it trying to stand? Ivey, I got a check.
Speaker 2:Ivey calm.
Speaker 5:Oh, you did, you lose me.
Speaker 1:Now I got you oh wait, okay cool.
Speaker 5:So if you go to say my V comm, you can see the story that ESPN did on us, and this was so. The Sports Illustrated story came out right after, I believe, the 2021 season. One of their writers came out to watch our penultimate session of the season to be able to kind of document it and be able to watch us play and kind of see what it was like watching these NFL players be nerdy around the table, and this was at Miles Garrett's house and they took a couple pictures on an iPhone and ended up getting published online and then in print on Sports Illustrated for Kids, which I thought was super cool.
Speaker 1:That's great.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So that story came out. A couple months later, during the spring, when I came back to Cleveland we were having practices, the ESPN beat writer for the Browns came up to me and says hey, read that Sports Illustrated article. I'm so bummed because we wanted to do a story about that and I'm like I mean, you still can.
Speaker 4:Like you guys didn't get like the jump on or anything.
Speaker 2:It's not over now.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's not exclusive. So he said, yeah, I want to get it on, like like Sports Center or something. I'm like, okay, well, you know, good luck with that. Like let me know and you know you get any headway with that. He comes back to me a month later says, hey, can we get a session going where we can record you guys and you know, get like these really high tech cameras in and get all lighting and stuff. I'm like sure, let's do it in the summer. Like let's make sure. Like you know I was.
Speaker 5:I was nervous about making the team and like I don't want to necessarily have to focus on on this. All the other games were happening during the season. So I said, sure, like let's, let's get something on the books. We ended up getting the Wizards of the Coast involved. They sent out a terrain designer, like somebody who had like this huge collection of pieces to create this really cool battlefield for us, and we ended up playing this awesome game in front of like two TV, like high quality cameras with crazy lighting and like really close in zoom ins on like these crazy minis, and it was really cool.
Speaker 5:That happened in July. We're trying to figure out when the turnaround for it was. I was hoping it would come out sometime during training camp and I don't know how how honest I can be to be completely honest on a podcast, but there were mitigating factors and stuff that came out during training camp. We had there might the Cleveland Browns were the focus of a lot of off season talk during that off season and it had to get pushed back because some news came out. So because it got pushed back, I started getting a little nervous. I'm like, ok, I can see the writing on the wall. Yeah, now you can. You can you understand what I'm talking about? Just without saying it, you can do some if you follow football
Speaker 4:you know I'm talking about the.
Speaker 5:I started getting nervous because I knew the position I was in and I. There was a chance that I wasn't going to be on the team and as time went on I could realize that was going to be more and more clear. And they said, ok, we're going to try to do it right for one.
Speaker 2:I'm just like it's more and more clear in that moment, because they're just like not you like, are they not using?
Speaker 3:the back as much and you just like clearly getting with my position, because about the fullback position right?
Speaker 2:Is that like, it's really something you have to like game plan in? It's not. It's not a given position, right?
Speaker 5:Like yeah, no, not every not every team has one, and the Browns were one of the teams under Kevin Stefansky to bring in back in the fullback after a couple years where they didn't have it. So I was looking forward to the 2022 season because I was told that this was going to be my year, but because we had we had a new quarterback, we decided to switch the offense and we weren't going to use the fullback as much and my my usefulness was starting to dwindle, despite trying to teach me tight end and running back in all these different positions.
Speaker 2:It's like in the moment, like you could see, like you saw the writing on the wall, I guess I mean, yeah, I could like hindsight.
Speaker 5:It was a lot more clear. But I was trying to keep a lot of hope and trying to count on myself. I don't know if you know I'm sure that if I had rocked the world as a tight end, I would have made the team, but I hadn't been learning that position. You know it's complete.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's so hard. Yeah, how can you expect it like just jump into right?
Speaker 5:So it was. It was, I was putting a tough position. I ended up getting cut. And then, when that, when that was realized, the ESPN reporter said hey, we're going to have to figure some things out. Espn producers Well, we're going to have to figure some things out because, you know, we still think that this is going to come out, but we're just going to have to time it correctly.
Speaker 1:Right, so some heat died down, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:So they made a new cut of it, just kind of adjusted my title really, and said, hey, we're going to show it this this day or something. And right before that, miles Garrett gets into a bad, bad car crash. He was okay, but he ended up missing a game and because that was in the news, they didn't want to have that, you know, on the same news cycle. Oh my God. And then finally they said, okay, we have good news, it's coming out. It's not going to be on the Monday night football intro, though. It was going to be on Monday night football leading up into the Monday night football game between the Browns and the Bengals, but that spot got taken and he got taken. He got cannibalized because Miles Garrett had this thing, his. His team decided to like, went to ESPN and said hey, we got the kid from Stranger Things, miles and I, miles and the kid are going to go trick or treating. Miles is going to be dressed up as Vecna.
Speaker 4:And you guys are going to put this on Monday night intro before the the the game you got that.
Speaker 1:I got that, I got that, I got that, you got that.
Speaker 5:And then it was great, so that it got TV time and it went on. You know, went on Sunday, the day before the Monday night game on, like the four o'clock hour or something between games. So it was great, it was very cool to be able to have that happen. But it's just the story of it coming out. It was it was wild and long winded Sorry.
Speaker 1:I know, like, I think that like it's not only have you, because we met at last year's Comic Con. I think was the first time we met in person.
Speaker 5:I think so.
Speaker 1:And like to me it was like I was instantly struck by how good your presence is in the nerd space, because they feel like we're like. I'm like used to go to comic book shops when I was just like you know, in high school and stuff, and it was there were clicks Like, there were like as much as we want to be, like no, it was the cool accepting thing. It would be a thing where it's like you never played D&D before, then you will never play it ever, or whatever, and it was a lot of like. We were still kind of figuring out like the nerd space and you know, new Star Wars movies came out and I think that was very you know, you can go back and look at those comments to see how it was a couple of years ago and I feel like it is.
Speaker 5:I was still in that space. I think it's still worth definitely not a bit In a lot of worlds. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I love like the work you're doing, to be like hey, stop putting yourself in a square.
Speaker 1:Like stop putting yourself in, sticking to like a label and limiting yourself of what you can be into but also what you can do. Like you talking about this, I would have been so discouraged and I feel like you just bring an energy of like, let's go, let's just keep going, like, no matter what. And I feel like right now, with like the strike going on for us, with a lot of stuff going on in the world, that's such a good energy to sort of bring to everyone to be like hey, if something doesn't work out, shift two inches to the right, and you know, and go down until they stop you.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you know I my whole mindset going, going about this kind of new journey is don't allow, like you said, don't allow yourself to be put into a box and even if you fits nicely into that box, like don't feel like you only need to be in that.
Speaker 1:Like don't there is.
Speaker 5:There are so many like like, false labels that people put on you and you don't need to be limited by what those labels are. You can feel free to identify by it, but don't feel yourself limited to it, don't you know? There is, I'm trying to. My whole thing is I'm trying to break down the nerd jock binary like false binary because, there shouldn't be, you know, this rivalry or whatever, or you know it's an 80s stereotype.
Speaker 2:at this point, I think that really doesn't.
Speaker 5:I don't. I don't know. It's been a long time since I've been in high school, but I feel like it doesn't really exist anymore but because I feel like the kids are a lot more accepting than they used to be.
Speaker 2:They're very good, it seems like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, again.
Speaker 2:I hope so. It seems like for my nieces and nephews I'm not in high school, but that they don't it doesn't seem like the clicks. Yeah, I know, I don't know if you can see the gray in my hair, but definitely not, but it seems like the clicks have frayed a little bit, right, right, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5:There's always going to be clicks. I just think that the rivalry or like the, the forced rivalry amongst people and kind of like the hierarchy, I think, might not quite exist the same way it used to. But again, I have no idea.
Speaker 2:We're all too old for that. Yeah, To know firsthand but yeah no it's really cool. So tell I guess, tell us, bring us into athletics, check like what's where you're at with that now, what's going on with it?
Speaker 5:Well, there's, there's a lot that I want to do with it. There's a lot that I think there is. There are a lot of possibilities that I, that I that I have in my imagination of what combining the world of TTRPG and sports can mean. You know the people that can be involved, because I'm not the only person by any means that that has one foot in both those worlds.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 5:And I want to bring?
Speaker 2:Are there others that that we may have heard of Like? Who are the others that are like kind of Well, miles?
Speaker 5:Garrett, like my teammate Travis Fredericks, is a. He is the CTO at Demi Plain and he was an all pro lineman for the Cowboys for several years. Oh wild yeah. So then there is a lot of WWE wrestlers Zager Woods.
Speaker 2:Because they're already are peeing.
Speaker 5:I know exactly. That's all. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2:It's such to me.
Speaker 5:Tim Duncan reportedly. What's that? Yes, exactly Like really, really physical arping, and Tim Duncan reportedly was. If you know who that is, he's a Hall of Fame basketball player.
Speaker 2:Yeah, portedly was a player. Yeah, oh was he. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5:Reportedly. I don't, he's not the most talkative guy, so I so it could be could be a false story that was put out there, but that's what I've heard.
Speaker 2:And he'll neither confirm or deny.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because he doesn't talk. Okay, that would be dope to play D&D with Tim Duncan.
Speaker 5:I get. I get asked a lot like the number one person that I can play D&D with, and I think this is inside of the world of sports and outside. I don't think it has to be limited to that for this answer. Yeah, it's March on Lynch.
Speaker 4:I think if I had to get March on Lynch, at a table.
Speaker 5:it would be an epic moment, because I don't know if you guys saw him on murder murder Right, yeah, yeah. Hilarious.
Speaker 2:I did not see him, but have you had any interaction with him before?
Speaker 5:Like no, I'm only like two degrees of separation from him, as I am with, like pretty much anybody in the NFL.
Speaker 1:But if you approach from the football angle, we approach from the improv angle. I mean like we can get him yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I think we can, we can, we can get him. Um, he is notoriously hard to tackle, um, but I think yeah. No, there there is a lot of things that I think that I could. That athletics check can become. Right now it's and it's a TikTok and Instagram like series that I'm doing, yeah, introducing these two worlds to each other. But, you know, a podcast is a possibility, not to, you know, compete with you guys. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa Sunday nights.
Speaker 3:What are you talking about?
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean there's a lot of things that I think it can be and I'm just kind of testing the waters and seeing what the audience is, because I always say the Venn diagram between those two fandoms is a lot bigger than people think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's also. Just, it's such perception based right Cause like in a way you are like think about all the people playing fantasy football. Yeah like you're tracking stats and building your own team and like you're basically people don't know that they like both sides really.
Speaker 4:Yeah, there's a lot of people.
Speaker 5:A lot of people fought back as like, growing up as nerds and maybe me made fun of that. For that they they had this idea of what sports is and the pre-sports, and it's the same way the other way. Like you know, you grow up as a jock and you kind of feel like I. You know, I knew that. I felt, and one of the one of the things the reasons why I've really tried to spread the word of like being more than one thing is that within the NFL, you're, you're looking for just like I was trying to become a long snapper and become like a backup long snapper for for a team to just like barely make that cut. If that's what it comes down to, guys are afraid rightfully so to give the front office any reason to cut them, yeah, and anything can be perceived as a weakness.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:An interest in something outside of football?
Speaker 2:Yeah, consider the week I was exactly wondering that because I, you know I follow the Patriots a lot, so I read all the like Belichick lore about how he's. So you know everything football right Like it feels like any reason to cut you is a reason he'll, he'll basically take. So I was curious about that, like, how do you, how did you navigate that? I know you're not to say that anyway, but yeah.
Speaker 5:Well, I didn't end up being like a thing it wasn't anything to become navigable navigable Because I was able to handle the job outside of that.
Speaker 5:Like it's.
Speaker 5:As long as you can take care of your job, that's.
Speaker 5:That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 5:And on top of that, when it started becoming a thing where I was able to include my charity and raising money for for stuff like Red Nose Day, we had this live event that we ran at a organ cafe in Cleveland where we got my teammates Miles Garrett and Wyatt Sellard to play with If you Wadoway and Abrea Iyengar in front of a big audience of like a hundred people and bunch of people watching on Twitch, and we raised like nearly $20,000 for it. So when, when they got to attach their name to that anything to make the team's name look good then they're going to, they're going to help out on. So you know, when it came down to getting ready for last season, they decided to have me in on one of their social media things like hey, draw your D&D character that you used for that, they used for rolling for Red Nose Day, and I think they got a bunch of views on on social media. So when it started becoming valuable to them is when it like, and that's what that's what the NFL is like.
Speaker 5:They'll they'll do anything to make sure that that it's increasing their public value.
Speaker 1:And it's like reaching into, like. I mean we're.
Speaker 5:We're talking about the like, it's what's good for the world and good for society, but like, just in terms of a company, you're getting access to a whole new like realm a new culture, yeah, a new market, and that's what I'm trying to show, like the world of TTRPG and to the world of NFL, is like you have these huge populations of huge diehard fans that you can be, even if you just get a fraction of them, it's, it's better for the bottom line.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I was yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, my initial vector into football actually was my D&D DM inviting us to play fantasy. Like, hey, you like this game too, and like that's actually what.
Speaker 1:I should get into it.
Speaker 5:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:In many ways football.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, football, right, I think. I think football is like the nerd, it's kind of the nerdiest sport right, In a way baseball is the nerdiest sport.
Speaker 1:You think?
Speaker 5:I'm not stats. The stats I mean football is getting there with the stats.
Speaker 2:No, but I think that, like I don't know, I feel, like you know, with the, what are they called? The A64s or whatever. It is like the, the, the play breakdowns that you could that that they're doing now.
Speaker 5:There's the all 22, all 22s, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2:It's like you know it's, you know, it's like a physical, live version of chess, in a way. That's what they say right, like, like each team is sort of positioning their players and then, like, they hit, play essentially, and then you watch your.
Speaker 5:I mean, football is chess, baseball is straight math, like you. There are so many decisions that are purely mathematical decisions. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:Okay, interesting, I also feel like the turn base in baseball is really easy for people you know you're going to get where you're like well, what's initiative? This one's actually really straightforward Someone's going to step up and then you're going to make this and it's going to be in a post check, Like the pitch versus the batter, and then once you get you rolled a hit, and if you hit, then we can figure out two more steps of like the tough ones basketball to relate to it, because that's just like nonstop and soccer.
Speaker 2:I just think oh, yeah, see, I think I'm going to argue back for football, because I feel like it's like okay, like you know, there's clear offense and defense, so you know that there's like all right. How many mobs are you know how many, how many bad guys are there?
Speaker 4:that I got to fight Like okay, there's 11.
Speaker 2:How many are my party 11. Okay, so where am I going to place everybody, like you? Know like physically on the on in this space. How far am I away from the? How far is the cornerback, you know, guarding me on this play? So I should do a, I should do a stop and go, or you know, I think that there's that you're all protecting, which is you know it's the.
Speaker 5:it is the ultimate sports. Macguffin, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And you get the two territories on either side. Yeah, as the end sounds.
Speaker 5:It is. I mean it is just an active, it's large wargaming yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, in terms of the like you're saying, the Venn diagram is closer to a full circle than people you know will admit. I believe we have a little game to kind of bring both worlds together to show us just how alike these two are.
Speaker 2:Now, now, usually, usually, Omar and I, either Omar and I and I or Delvin run the game. But we figure, look, johnny is a DM, a GM, you're coming into my world. Yeah, and we want to sort of experience, athletics check, you know, in our own way. So Johnny is going to be running the game and we are going to be competing, me and Omar, against each other.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so, um, what we're going to do and I'm still working on a name for it. I have a working title and if you'll allow, me. I'm calling this mascot or mascot. It's a bad name to be completely fair.
Speaker 2:It's a really bad name or mascot. Is that what you said? Yeah, no, the second part doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5:Um the uh. So what I'm going to give you is a list of 12, 12 team names. Okay, Some of them might be real professional, semi-professional, college sports teams.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay.
Speaker 5:Some of them might be made up. Okay, there are a lot of sports teams that use fantasy naming conventions, right, and your job is to figure out if I made it up or if it's been. It was every. Every team name is made up at some point. If this is an actual team name, got it?
Speaker 1:So if it's a mascot or a mascot, you say mask off.
Speaker 2:Is that what you said?
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Mask off, Like yeah.
Speaker 2:Like face off, mask off, yeah, oh no.
Speaker 3:I think it's the perfect name I thought you said a mask goth and I was like I don't like that idea, mass Jerry, the first team is the cure.
Speaker 4:Uh, I'm going to go in.
Speaker 1:Mass goth.
Speaker 5:All right, all right, team one All right, it's a little bit progressively harder. Oh okay, Team one Orlando magic, oh team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's, that's a real team. I know that.
Speaker 5:That is a real team, correct. Good job yeah.
Speaker 1:But but sounds fantasy.
Speaker 5:It's exactly that's why I put it on the name, put it on the list. So the Orlando magic hey, we got an active, active list here, awesome. Obviously it alludes to Disney World being in Orlando. Right, this was part of the NBA expansion in the late 1980s, along with the Miami Heat. Other team names that Orlando considered were the Orlando tropics and the Orlando juice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm the juice. And then there was a whole bunch of jokes about OJ and like yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying that I was around for the expansion.
Speaker 1:I'm old, I got to be honest. I think that there's a lot of territory you run into by calling your team the juice, the juice there's.
Speaker 5:I think that's a great Jersey, personally, although the magic do have, I think, one of the best jerseys. I think one of the best jerseys in the NBA depends. Right, you can't be Yep, sorry, okay.
Speaker 1:It's tricky.
Speaker 3:Whoever pitched that in Florida was really like okay, well, no bad ideas, but no bad ideas, no bad ideas.
Speaker 2:No, but no bad ideas. Team two All right here we go.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the sleepy hollow shadows, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So okay, are we like playing on a team together, omar, or?
Speaker 1:are we playing against or against? I'm saying it's not real.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, there is so there.
Speaker 2:I know that sleepy hollow is a real place. I visited sleepy hollow Okay, and I feel like I'm a brag. It's not as cool as you think. It was fine. There was a bridge there. It's problematic. Here's the bridge, but it looks like a regular bridge.
Speaker 1:It was a bridge.
Speaker 2:Like awesome. So I figured that they're going to have to name their team. Something Like if there is a team there like wouldn't they want to play into something scary, or you know whatever. Okay, so you're going team because it's a real. Yeah, like exactly. So I'm going to go like okay.
Speaker 1:I assume maybe are there high school teams on this list.
Speaker 2:No, high school teams no high school teams. No high school teams, no high school teams.
Speaker 3:So these are semi pro.
Speaker 2:See, that's where I think it's faked it's college to professional I don't think there's any. Yeah, okay, I'm going to say also say fake Sorry, because I don't think that's correct.
Speaker 5:There is no sleepy hollow shabbos that I could find on the internet. There is us to sleepy hollows that I could find of in the US, the one I believe that you're familiar with, sunday New York. Yeah, it's just north of Yonkers, and there's actually a second one here in Southern California. It's an unincorporated town between Chino and Yorba Linda, up in the hills.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Should we all go?
Speaker 2:That's amazing.
Speaker 3:I started a team called the shadows there.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 5:Team number three, the Salem University Specters.
Speaker 1:That's good, mm-mm-mm.
Speaker 2:Okay so.
Speaker 3:I'm going to say Specters are a ghost.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, they're ghosts.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say it's I'm voting real, just because I've been to Salem Massachusetts and they're all about it. It's the only town in America that's themed.
Speaker 2:It's their identity, I mean I've been to Salem a bunch, so I'm from New Hampshire. So, like all of our high school we had so many.
Speaker 5:So I'm going to say it's a classic Halloween trip for the New England area.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh, we did it all the time. I did it like three times. I saw the seven gables like a million times in my life. So, yes, I'm going to go real as well.
Speaker 5:They're super into witches, let's go, got both the on that one. That is a fake team name. Yep, yep, yeah. So that one is obviously. Salem has a long history with the witch trials and I think it's a good one. I think it's a good one. I'm going to say it's the only town in the United States that's had a lot of that. But both of you coming up, coming up, no, on that one. But you sell plenty of more opportunities to score here.
Speaker 2:We have a lot of game left. Number four Okay, here we go. The Seattle Kraken. Okay, that is real.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I mean no, it's. I don't know, I'm not sure. Are you guess first?
Speaker 2:No, no, what does that have to do with? How does how, can it be a hockey team? It's a. It's a water based creature.
Speaker 1:That's a really good point.
Speaker 2:Frozen underneath the ice, that's a really good point yeah, who knows about the Miami Dolphins?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the Marlins. Really, we started as a swim team, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a real team.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say real.
Speaker 5:It is correct, that is a real team, the newest NHL expansion team. Their first year was in 2021. And they named themselves that because In the Puget Sound, that is the that is a native area for the giant Pacific octopus. Oh yeah, even though I feel like the Kraken is more of like a giant squid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:And then also a mythical creature Like the pirate movie.
Speaker 1:I think it's the only time that that I've seen one in real life.
Speaker 2:Also, I'm from San.
Speaker 1:Jose, why did I get stumped on that for a second, when you're like but, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a problem with team names that don't have a plural. It really, it really goes the wrong way.
Speaker 5:Oh sure, well, I mean, the Orlando Magic is there, miami Heat is there.
Speaker 2:Miami Heat, orlando Magic, it's just it's hard.
Speaker 5:It's hard to because then you're like are you a Kraken? Cornell, big Red, alabama, crimson, tide, yeah, the individual player Is that person is like?
Speaker 2:is Dwayne Wade a heat Singularity?
Speaker 1:How do you feel about the band trap, or is he a unit?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't love it.
Speaker 5:Are you, hello? I am a member of train. I am a train.
Speaker 1:I am train.
Speaker 5:Okay, team number five the New Orleans Night Stalkers.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:Sounds racy right, which I guess New Orleans is. It's like what if they just took the night out of their name? I'm going to go the opposite of whatever you say, sonny. That's enough for me.
Speaker 1:I was going to say that In that case I'm saying it's real.
Speaker 4:Okay, I'll say it's not real.
Speaker 2:Because I want to see.
Speaker 1:That is fake.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was hoping you would go real, yes.
Speaker 5:Yeah, no the.
Speaker 2:Okay, so Delvin made an image of the Night Stalker. It's cold.
Speaker 1:Check the Night Stalker. She has a lot of time.
Speaker 4:And.
Speaker 1:I think I feel like the D&D side of the more, like that I know there's a Night Walker.
Speaker 5:I don't know if there's Night Stalker, I forget whatever. Team number six. We have the Washington Mystics. This is my chance to come back.
Speaker 1:I'm saying it's real. The Washington Mystics, the Washington Mystics, they're up in. Olympia Is the capital of Washington. Oh, oh, it's so Washington state.
Speaker 2:See, I immediately went DC. Wow In my brain, the Mystics, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll say fake, then you said, it's a real DC team, though that's a secret society. It's the Illuminati.
Speaker 5:Are we going Omar?
Speaker 1:What are you getting? I'm saying real, I'm saying Washington state.
Speaker 5:I'm saying deep.
Speaker 2:You're saying fake.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'll say fake. That is a real team. That is a WMBA team Owned by the same owner as the Washington Wizards. That is a Washington DC team.
Speaker 1:Now, I just feel.
Speaker 5:Has a tight. I do enjoy that because a lot of the WMBA teams have the same owner in the same city, so the LA sparks are also owned by the bus family, I believe, and they it's. The Lakers Sparks aren't necessarily similar, but they have a similar logo.
Speaker 1:Yeah right.
Speaker 5:Phoenix has the sons and they have the WMBA team, the Mercury, so there's a lot of ones that are around the you know kind of complimentary team names.
Speaker 2:Even though I didn't ask I'll, I'm okay with it. That's true.
Speaker 5:Yeah, team number seven, we have the Hartford Hydra Fake.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go fake.
Speaker 2:Connecticut right.
Speaker 1:I'm saying real because that's great, you like it.
Speaker 5:You do like Hydra, I love it but, I think, it's also no iteration.
Speaker 1:I feel like that puts us in a lot of cities, a lot of cities do.
Speaker 2:I sure do.
Speaker 5:The Hydra, unfortunately, is fake. No, yeah, so the there are so many minor league team names that are just absolutely buck wild, and one of them is my favorite. The Hartford yard goats Is a double A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. Hartford, connecticut, does have a baseball team. They have a professional team, but it is not the Hydra.
Speaker 1:Well, I feel a little bit like we could combine those Multi-head of goat.
Speaker 5:Oh sure, yeah, I mean the goat is usually part of a hydra, two of two.
Speaker 3:Oh no, that's a chimera.
Speaker 5:Chimera's had the goat head.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Goat draws. I like it, the goat draws.
Speaker 1:Okay, so sound deep, you're squeaking ahead. You want a head? Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak.
Speaker 5:Yeah, Delvin, what's the scoreboard looking like?
Speaker 1:Anyone's game currently.
Speaker 5:And how many are left? We have five left.
Speaker 1:Okay, if you guys want to go this far.
Speaker 5:Feel free to shut it down. All right, we have Dayton Dragons.
Speaker 1:Real.
Speaker 2:Dayton Dragons. I feel like you should tell us what type of team like what sport it is.
Speaker 5:Yeah but that's too easy, Okay fine.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I know I want to be able to poke holes. All right, dayton Dragons, dayton Ohio, dayton Ohio. Why would they have a semi-pro team in any way, shape or form is what I'm trying to wonder. No offense, it's a semi-pro NASCAR team, I don't know what's confusing about that. Oh yeah, I guess that's right. They have the NASCAR stuff. Okay, I'm going to go real. I'll go real.
Speaker 5:NASCAR Is everything of Daytona.
Speaker 2:Oh, I am, I'm going to go fake. What did you say? You said real. I said real I'll go, fake I was saying of Daytona.
Speaker 5:That one is real. The Dayton Dragons are a high A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds and they actually have the. They broke the record for most consecutive sold out games in 2011, with 815 games in a row. They had 815 games in a row that they sold out their professional stadium.
Speaker 2:Who's their affiliate? The Reds, the Reds, the Reds? I don't know if they were, then because they shuffle all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which I don't.
Speaker 5:I don't know how that works, oh yes that's true, funny enough, I was actually at the college team. I was on the college team that had the longest consecutive sell out record, which is the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. Their record is 389 games in a row that they have sold out.
Speaker 2:Wow, so this was 815.
Speaker 5:815. I can imagine that Nebraska's football stadium is probably a good amount bigger. Yeah, because they hold like 90,000.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's like 90. It's like it fits 90.
Speaker 1:Yeah, our podcast is sold out.
Speaker 5:Thanks to the invisible friends in Sandy's house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all seats.
Speaker 4:Well, there are you know that many games in a given football season, whereas in our games. That's one season.
Speaker 5:Next team we have the Stony Brook Seawolves.
Speaker 1:God, that's good.
Speaker 2:A Seawolf is like a wet dog.
Speaker 1:That's really good.
Speaker 2:It's just a wet dog.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say fake, as much as I want it to be real. I feel like the alliteration game is burned out. I'm going fake.
Speaker 2:Stony Brook. I don't even know where Stony Brook is. Is that what you said, stony Brook?
Speaker 5:Stony Brook is in New York. These are all real places.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to say the place. I'm saying the place is fake.
Speaker 3:The.
Speaker 1:Seawolves are real, but they're just. They're just. Springfield Illinois.
Speaker 2:Stony Brook Seawolves. I'm going to say. I'm going to say fake as well.
Speaker 5:They are a real team. They're a real school, stony Brook, I think, university located in Stony Brook, new York. It is named after the Lincoln myth, which is a native people in the Pacific Northwest of the Gona Cadet I think I'm pronouncing that right A human turned sea monster that brings good luck to you if you see or hear it.
Speaker 1:That's rad.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and I think that there's also the University of. Alaska and Anchorage is also the Seawolves. I think I saw that when I was looking yeah, there's a few Seawolves.
Speaker 2:Listen, I'm sorry, but that mascot does not look very wet.
Speaker 5:It could have made a little wet underwater.
Speaker 1:Didn't you want anything from the Aquaman movie the latest Avatar?
Speaker 5:All right, next one we have Trinity Christian College. Trolls, no way. No, you can't the Trinity trolls I can't be right.
Speaker 1:I'm going. Yes, you're going. Yes, I'm gambling.
Speaker 2:What a Christian college. Call themselves trolls, when, like no trifectas right there, or something.
Speaker 3:Jesus is right there.
Speaker 2:In Jesus. Yeah, the Jesus is the Trinity. The prayers. Wait, did you say the school's name was Trinity?
Speaker 5:Trinity Christian College trolls.
Speaker 1:I'm going.
Speaker 2:They can't call themselves a Trinity. Trinity, yeah, the fight in Christians. I'm going to go fake.
Speaker 5:That is a real school, real team name in Palace Heights, Illinois, right outside of Chicago. Look at that logo.
Speaker 1:Wow, yes.
Speaker 5:That's a real logo. I love it. I think that they recently redesigned it based on their website. Originated the team name originated from a troll that guarded the entrance of the golf course upon which the campus now sits.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 5:I assume it was a some kind of like garden troll, like a garden gnome, not like a real troll that guarded the entrance no.
Speaker 1:Why would it be a?
Speaker 2:real troll.
Speaker 1:Also shout out to the university for replacing a golf course just because encounter a lot of water problems that I feel.
Speaker 5:I believe that it was a similar, similar naming convention. As you know, there's, you see, santa Cruz here in California. They're the banana selects, but they named them that kind of jokingly and then it became serious and they became proud of it. Same thing, I think, with the university of Irvine anteaters, your university of California, irvine anteaters.
Speaker 2:It was a joke. It started as a meme, basically.
Speaker 5:It started off as a meme and then, like, voted on by students and then became serious and they have a full, full-fledged sports program.
Speaker 1:They could have the trolls because everything there is themed after Lord of the Rings and it's a ring campus and stuff but anteater.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it still works.
Speaker 5:Yeah, all right we got two, left we have Omar up by one.
Speaker 1:Anyone's game, but if I get this next one, that's. It Sound deep.
Speaker 5:Number 11. Yeah, the Boca Raton Community College basketball Bass lists. Oh my god, I'll say that one more time because I flubbed over it. Boca Raton Community College.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say fake only based on the flub.
Speaker 1:I'm going real because of the flub, because you were so scared at the sight of the basketball.
Speaker 2:Yeah, horrified, I turned a stone you guys, I'm saying real, I'm going fake, here we go.
Speaker 5:It is fake. The Boca Raton Bass lists are not a real team. However, the Florida launch, which is a professional lacrosse team, is located in Boca Raton.
Speaker 2:That's a great name. Yeah, launch, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's a great like a symbol they're selling me.
Speaker 2:They're selling me on these, no.
Speaker 1:Get some more lies names.
Speaker 5:I'm getting like let's get the podcast to just, you know, throw some money towards the sponsors, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, launch, I love so many of these. I get the feeling of like looking at like a Pixar, like movie, like concept art book where. I'm just like yeah, that's really cool. That's someone's best work. That's pretty rad.
Speaker 5:Although have you seen? Like so okay. So I was at UNLV when they decided to re redo the logo of the rebels. And you know, the rebels are a little bit of a problematic name. They are red and gray. It's not technically supposed to be the Civil War South, but they are. They are supposed to look like a old timey soldier and their colors are red and gray. It's not a hard logic yeah.
Speaker 5:So they're they're having talks with them possibly changing their logo. But they did try to re or change their team name. They did try to redo the logo and they did it pretty badly, Like I was at the school at the time. It was not a very clear looking logo. It was. They actually read condos. So that it's not that. It's not that new logo anymore, it's back to the original one with the man with the big mustache. But there are bad logos. I think the LA Chargers, when they first moved up from from San Diego, tried this one logo where the L and the A are like the lightning bolt symbols and everybody ragged on them and they're like oh, that was just like a concept. We're not actually doing that.
Speaker 2:One Right All the helmets.
Speaker 5:Exactly, so there are bad logos that come out all the time, but the Florida launch nailed it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 5:Last team were tied up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:This is it, guys. Six to six.
Speaker 1:We choose what. One chooses real, one chooses fake. This is how it happens.
Speaker 5:I mean, if that's the way you guys want to go, team number 12. And you guys might already be familiar with this one the Albuquerque isotopes.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to say I think it's real. I'm going to say it's real, there's a good chance of it's real.
Speaker 1:The thing is and here's where I'm like interesting, are you playing 40 chests with us, sir? The isotopes are the Springfield isotopes in the Simpsons.
Speaker 2:Oh shit, Well, okay, I'm going to say real. So I'm locked in.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm saying fake it's, it's Simpsons, it should be Simpsons, okay.
Speaker 5:While inspired by the Springfield isotopes, the Albuquerque isotopes is a real team name, the AAA affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies you have all the cool names. Sondee wins by one Albuquerque they were. They were inspired by the Springfield isotopes from the Dancing Homer episode of the Simpsons.
Speaker 2:Man, I feel like you should get an extra point for that.
Speaker 1:Honestly, what is this goof troop like for knowing the?
Speaker 2:logo that that font is something else I mean they probably, you know, again inspired by the Simpsons, like something cartoony, right yeah?
Speaker 5:Minor League Baseball has the best names and isotopes were kind of the start of that trend towards, like, having goofier names. Apparently their first year of being a minor league team, they, they, like, had the most most merchandise sold throughout like the Bullmeyer leagues.
Speaker 2:That's it. It's all about the merch. Yeah, what a perfect team.
Speaker 1:I'm upset that I lost but I'm glad that we went out on the isotopes because in the thesis of there is more in like, more in common with athleticism and like D&D and nerdiness, a team that was like someone went. Hey, what if we named ourselves after you know the Simpsons? And everyone went that's pretty good, sounds pretty good.
Speaker 2:It'll sell some merch, it'll sell some uniforms, I mean, because that's the thing is like I was a Red Sox fan. So if I go to a Pawtucket Red Sox game I'm not going to buy the Pawtucket Red Sox jersey.
Speaker 5:Yeah, oklahoma City Dodgers, yeah Red.
Speaker 2:Sox jersey.
Speaker 3:Amazing.
Speaker 2:Dude. Thank you for bringing the game, johnny thank you for playing. For being on the pod. It was wonderful. Where can folks remind them once again where they can find you and what you're up to next?
Speaker 5:Well, I'm doing weekly episodes of Athletic Shrek on my TikTok and Instagram account you can find me there at Johnny Stanton IV, as well as all social media you can find me there. But thanks so much for having me guys, and hopefully I'll have a podcast that I can have you guys on at some point.
Speaker 2:Oh, great, and as you shout out yourself, is there someone else you want to shout out Like we, like sort of like passing the torch kind of thing, is there?
Speaker 3:another.
Speaker 2:D&D athlete or nerdy athlete or whatever. Sure Go go for Jamal.
Speaker 5:Williams, the running back right now starting going to probably end up back up for the starter over there in New Orleans Saints. He is a huge anime nerd and is like loud and proud about it.
Speaker 4:Right, right.
Speaker 5:Right, right. So yeah, go give him a follow. He's a good follow on social media and just an overall entertaining guy.
Speaker 2:Amazing and draft him on your fantasy team.
Speaker 5:Yeah, he's a good pick, to be honest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sweet, all right, thank you so much, man, and we hope that, of course, you know. If you make it back in, you know that that'll be my again second favorite team. Sorry, I'm a Pats fan. Unless you end up in the Pats, and then my life is complete.
Speaker 5:So, if you could do that for me that'd be really great. Yeah, I'll make sure to put that on the list.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're always rooting for you, man.
Speaker 5:Thanks guys, you guys are awesome. I really appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1:Right back at you. What a great interview, what a great gentleman.
Speaker 2:Gentlemen, indeed, I just love, like you know, you have a preconceived notion of what you think like a professional football player, you know what might be, but you know, if you you know in terms of stereotypes and he belies it, he betrays all those stereotypes, right, he's like, he's so vulnerable, he's not, yeah, he's like humble, he's kind, he's like. You know. Just, it was a great interview. It's a super interesting point of view and yeah, yeah, I just really enjoyed that interview.
Speaker 1:What a good dude. Well, we could go on and on about it, but we do have one last segment in our show which is the Day C of the Week.
Speaker 2:Noises. Indeed. Indeed, Our Day C of the Week is another honorary Day C, Because our producer, the guy who launched our show with us, Diego Lanau, is moving on. He's leaving the show. We love the guy, we wish him the best and wanted to shout him out. I think it's. You know, I don't know if this is an unofficial rule or not, but if you do 27 episodes of of an all Day C podcast, that officially makes you you know, I think so You're in. Yeah, you're in.
Speaker 1:I think you're absolutely in. Diego is one of the nicest people I've ever had a chance to work with. He is so complimentary, takes time out of his day to acknowledge what everyone else is doing really well, and then also when we were applauding him on our last meeting, he he pushed away. He's the most like humble guy.
Speaker 2:He's not here to like he couldn't take any praise. He couldn't handle it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he could not handle it at all.
Speaker 2:You can feel him blush. You can feel him blush through the, through the internet. Yeah yes, talented, smart dude, great writer, and really helped us up at the show together. So we wish Diego nothing but the absolute best on the next leg of his journey.
Speaker 1:And on the on to wish him well and to send him out. I want to remind everyone of the joke that he was the most proud of.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was on our pride episode.
Speaker 1:He came up with this segment named let's Get Proud, and he was so proud, so getting about it.
Speaker 4:So proud of that.
Speaker 1:He never flaunts his own stuff at Ever After that segment, Like when we were talking about he was like I really I like that title.
Speaker 2:I really nailed that one. Well, let's get proud indeed that. Oh, this is your line because you're the host. Sorry, I won't say it, please.
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Speaker 1:Well, that's right, folks. You heard it here first. The show is produced by Katelyn Mahoney. The show's technical director and sound designer is Delvin Neville. The show's executive producers are Sandeep Parikh and Anand Shah. This is edited by Sean Mayher. The music is by Harshal Sasodi and Jasper Singh. This has been folks and effing funny production. What do you think is being worse? Every time it's so funny to me because I got only good.
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Speaker 4:Oh wait, because I'm the host. That's right, I forgot. I thought it was.
Speaker 1:I keep defaulting to you On behalf of Sandeep Parikh, your co-host this week, but your host next week. I'm Anand Shah. May your checkers be aligned and smothered in chutney.