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Ep.001 - The Return

• Rob Marbury • Season 1 • Episode 1

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While battling COVID, I’m back on the Captain's Log Podcast and ready to share my journey, from starting the podcast during the height of the pandemic to taking a necessary break. Ever wondered why I stepped away? This episode reveals all, from the struggles with monetization and solo workload to the toll it took on my family. I'm deeply grateful for your support and excited to announce a renewed focus on audio content, making it easier for me to deliver the quality you deserve.

Get ready for some passionate football talk as I break down the latest NFL Week 1 games! I'll dive into the Ravens vs. Chiefs and Eagles vs. Packers matchups, spotlighting Saquon Barkley's stellar performance in Brazil. Plus, I’ll give you the lowdown on Tyreek Hill's recent controversy. With high expectations for the season, join me as I set a clear target for my team the Commanders and reflect on what needs to be done. Don’t forget to leave a review and stay connected for more engaging episodes!

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yummy. All right, folks, we're back in the lab, we're back in the studio. This is the captain's little podcast. I'm your host, rob marbury. Man, I'm so happy to be back. Oh man, I'm sorry, give me a second man, I got COVID y'all. So, if you can hear my voice, I'm a little stuffed up Just trying to make it through. But I said I was going to record on Tuesday. It is Tuesday, pre-post NFL week one, so I'm back.

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Just a quick announcements if you are new here, this is home for your NFL, nba recaps, other random stuff. You know, anything, viewed in my eye as a middle-aged African-American man residing in um husband, father, podcaster, photographer, gamer, um government employee, just a regular guy man. It just gets on here and just talk some shit. You know, I'm saying once a week. So if, if you know, you're looking for something, a raw perspective on anything, or especially sports, and and you know, no relationships, no politics, of course, um, I encourage you to go ahead and subscribe. Or you know, if you like the episode after, please leave a review. I'm only doing audio. I used to do audio and video, but, um, I'll get into why. Why I'm only doing audio now, um, but please, uh, you know. If you're feeling it, follow it. If you're really really feeling it, leave a review. You know, five stars, five stars are welcome. Um, it helps with discoverability, okay, so let's get into it, man. So let's just start by saying, uh, again, this is for the folks that I knew for, for my continuing community. I'm glad you guys have still been sticking with me. So originally I had 160 episodes that I did. The only reason why I don't have them now is because I formatted the damn SD card and the other external hard drive I have doesn't register, so those episodes are gone. I was super grateful for the folks that were on there with me. You know from interviews to my co-host, super, super grateful, and it was dope conversations on there. But if I lost it, you know, then I got to start over. I mean, it is what it is, nothing I can do about that. So why did I quit? So I started in 2020, during the pandemic. I was like you know what? I'm bored man, I like to talk. I like to talk shit.

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The Captain's Law podcast. The name came from pretty much me doing Instagram stories every morning on my way to work, complaining or just talking. You know, just talking regardless. It was kind of like my, my digital diary, you know. I mean kind of like the guy from Star Trek, it's always like Captain's Law, and then he just start talking, you know what I mean. So it kind of sprung from there and every time I, you know, I would do my Instagram story, I'd be like Captain's log and I would just start talking. So then I said, well, you know what podcasting is a thing. So I said I'm going to turn it into, I'm going to turn it into a fucking podcast.

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So I did that for a while. I did it, maybe probably about 15 or 20 episodes just audio and I was like you know what, man, let's try video, because you know YouTube is popping. So I went from there and I started adding video. And I won't lie to you that from the day I added video, it was a love hate relationship because it was just so much adding video to. You know, we're making a YouTube show or you know, a podcast show with video. Whatever you have you want to call it. You know, when you're doing that shit alone, bro, it really adds, it's a whole new layer of stress, because for me, I was a stickler for quality, I was a stickler for angles, you know, zooming in, adding graphics. I was a stickler for quality, I was a stickler for angles. Zooming in, adding graphics, I was a stickler for that shit. So I would spend so much time researching on that and I would put out the product and it just would do. The numbers would be mediocre.

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So let's get into some reasons why I quit, why I initially quit. So number one when I first started the podcast, I wanted to monetize. I felt, like you know, I knew enough, I followed sports enough and I and my voice was catchy and I said whatever I wanted, that people was really fooling, fooling with me, that I can get out here and I can monetize and make a few dollars. You know I'm saying so. I also quit because I was doing a lot of stuff by myself. A lot of things I should have been outsourcing. I should have been outsourcing the video portion, editing. I should have been outsourcing the social media. I should have just been outsourcing. I should have just came in, sat down, talked and got up and that was it.

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Um, I also quit because I felt like my podcast should have been bigger. I felt like my podcast should have been bigger. I felt like my community should have been 10 times larger for as much work as I was putting into In my mind. I didn't think other podcasts were putting in as much work as me, because I was looking at theirs their audio sounded like shit, their videos was blurry, but for some reason they was going up and I was like, why is my shit not going up? So, you know, I started, you know, boosting posts and paying for advertisers and all that, and none of that shit was working. So I was like, all right, whatever.

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Um, I also quit because my schedule was super tight with my family. So, like you know, I will be recording 10, 11 o'clock at night and I'll be editing videos to one, two in the morning. You know what I'm saying Just trying to be ahead of the game, all for, you know, little engagement. So then I was like, you know, as some time went by, I said, all right, I'm coming back, took a couple months off. So I stopped recording, I think probably a little bit after the NBA finals, and I was like, yeah, I'm done. I feel like I didn't have it in me, no more.

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So I came back because, number one, I missed it. I really, I really missed, you know being in front of the mic. I got a shit ton of equipment and I try, I sold a little bit of it, but not enough. I still got. I still got enough to goddamn hook the shit up and do it. So I missed it. I missed sitting, you know, on the mic just talking shit. You know what I'm saying, just listening to myself talk and just you know getting that audience reaction. Secondly, I got a new job, so now I got endless free time Like I'm at home. Right now it's Tuesday at 1041. I'm sitting in my basement in the studio and I'm talking and I got a computer over here on the floor, no emails popping up, so I can just talk some shit.

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Um, I also came back because I'm only doing audio. All right, to me, audio is the uh, it's the purest form of podcasting. You know I'm saying nothing against video and all of that, but I just feel like you. You know, with the video it's just easier. I can talk for 30 minutes, you know what I'm saying, and I can just boom, put it in adobe premiere and just turn it into a damn mp4 or or whatever file it is, and mp3, sorry, and I could just upload it and just put in my my, my details or whatever I'm gonna be talking about, and it's done, upload it. You know what I'm saying. That should take me 10 minutes and lastly, man, during that time when I wasn't podcasting, let me get a sip of coffee, thanks.

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Lastly, you know I was running into people, man, or like people, was commenting, you know, on stuff and was just like, you know, can't wait for the pod to come back. Man, you know how. You know people asking how was the pod doing? Like avid listeners, you know what I'm saying. People who you know I haven't seen in a long time or never even met, were like, yeah, you know what's going on with the pod. Like, man, you know, I'm listening, I was listening to every episode.

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So I really felt like you know, I, I, I took for granted the fact that I may have only had maybe 25 to 50 people that were avid listeners or viewers of the pod, but just, I look at it like this if 25 people would have walked up to me on the street saying hey, man, I love your podcast, your last episode was dope, blah, blah, blah, I probably dah, dah, dah. I'd probably break down in tears right then and there, because I'm like damn, 25 people, that's overwhelming. You ever had 25 people around you all congratulating you and telling you that your shit is dope, yeah. So I feel like I took that for granted. So I apologize to you guys for that and I promise to I think I promise this time To Like keep it fun, man.

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So you know, some things have changed. You know as far as life has changed For me in those few months. So New job promotion, a little bit more money. I'm not in it for the money now. Now, if some money happen to, you know, fall out the sky, you know what I'm saying. I ain't going, you know, I ain't gonna turn it down, but I'm just talking for fun, man. I'm talking for fun, trying to keep it a, keep it a bean. Just try to keep it, keep it fun. All right, all right, enough of that shit. Let's get into nfl week one. I still got the bell baby.

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So I'm gonna go through all the scores, team scores and a couple of games. I'm just going to give you a quick little you know recap on my analysis and things of that nature. So, thursday night football Ravens versus Chiefs. Chiefs win 27-20. I watched that game, ravens' offensive line looking crazy. I get it. You know you got like three new guys in there so they got to take time to gel but you know, as a result, a lot of scrambling from Lamar Jackson, a lot of short passes to Zay Flowers and Isaiah Likely, you know what I'm saying. What's the tight end, andrews? He couldn't even do nothing. All he had to do was play left tackle because they needed help. Yeah, they're going to have to get that together because what I saw there, that is not Super Bowl caliber football.

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Granted, you're playing the Chiefs. You know what I mean. Chiefs, best team in the league. You know, return as Super Bowl champions, whatever but the Chiefs were scoring very easily, except for in the red zone. Ravens were doing pretty good in the red zone, but had they not been standing tall in the red zone, ravens could have lost this during probably about two or three touchdowns. Chiefs probably could have had almost 40 points. So good, look on that. But I definitely did not like what I saw from the Ravens' offense. You know all of that. You know, zay Flowers, zay Flowers, zay Flowers, bro, somebody else got to get open. You know somebody got to get open and you know, as a result, we banking on Isaiah likely to get this catch in the end zone Very, very hard catch. But I mean you know he out, he was out, he was out of bounds, so they lost. You know what I mean. So he took that pretty hard. He said F you to some fans, but you know it is what it is. But again you playing the Chiefs. You know Patrick Mahomes, come on, man. It still was a good, good game, though, but we'll most likely see them again.

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Uh, next game I seen the friday game in brazil. Uh, eagles versus packers. Eagles won the game 34 to 29. Why the fuck are we in brazil? Like, can somebody explain to me what's the purpose of us going to these countries? Like, what's the purpose of us? I think we was in mexico city and london and why are we going to these? Are we about to put a team in brazil? I'm about to put a team in mexico city and london, and why are we going to these? Are we about to put a team in brazil? Are we about to put a team in mexico city? You know I'm saying I from what I saw, that, like the players wasn't, it was advised not to leave the damn hotel because it's dangerous, like what the fuck? And the field conditions sucked. So explain to me the purpose. You know I'm saying. I mean, you're just doing this for viewership. You're trying to do this to get more people from Brazil to watch football. Like, explain to me what is the purpose and if y'all know, let me know what's the purpose of the NFL playing these games in other countries.

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I don't know, but anyway, saquon, motherfucking Barkley, wow, giants, I know y'all going to be eating a Saquon shit sandwich all season. 24 carries, 109 yards, two touchdowns and one receiving touchdown. That boy was out there tearing their asses up. Man, that's all I just think. That's all Saquon needed. Man, that's all I just think. That's all Saquon needed.

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Saquon needed to be on a team where he don't have to be like the, the damn number one option workhorse. Because you got all you know, uh, eagles got. You know, you got a mobile quarterback, which honestly I ain't think Jalen Hurst played that good. But uh, you got a mobile quarterback, you got a bunch of receivers and then you got a vicious running. You got a seasoned veteran running back who still got plenty gas left in the tank. So, yeah, the eagles is the eagles looking real dangerous man? And then, you know man, uh, tough break for jordan love man. He got injured at the end of the game. I thought it was his ankle, but they saying that this is a knee injury. Uh, mcl injury, man. So he's expected to miss uh three to six weeks. But speedy recovery to him, man. He just got paid on the offseason man, so hopefully he can get back and do his thing.

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But uh, on to the next. You got uh, steelers versus the falcons. Steelers won 18 to 10. Cardinals versus the Bills the Bills won 34-28. Titans versus Bears Bears won 24-17. First win for Caleb Williams, good job, sir. Patriots beat the Bengals 16-10. Jamar Chase has still not got paid. I bet, tighten up before you lose him. Texans won Against the Colts 29-27. The Colts are looking legit. Then you got Jaguars and Dolphins. The Dolphins won 20-17.

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So of course I already covered this, but I just got to put my two cents in on the Tyreek Hill thing. So Tyreek Hill gets pulled over. You know what I'm saying. On the way to the Sunday game looked like he was in the black. I'm gonna say it was a McLaren.

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So before all of this I didn't want to say anything because I was like well, I need to see what the video looked like. So I see the video, I watch it, watching it from both angles of the police. I'm just gonna say this man, I'm neutral on this situation. I'm not picking those sides, I only go by what the facts are and what I see, like, bro, a lot of times when we have these incidents with the police is because we be doing too much, bro. So if the police come up to your window like you know what I'm saying trying to see what's up, and your response is, don't walk up to my window like that, you already asking for trouble. You know what I'm saying.

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We don't know the reason why he got pulled over. I mean, you know, I don't know the reason. I mean I can say, okay, maybe he was speeding or something. I don't know. I'm not gonna make assumptions on what he got pulled over, but what I am gonna say is if I'm in my car and I'm driving and the police walk up to me and I say, man, don't walk up to my window like that, and then I roll my window up, I can almost guarantee I'm probably going to get yanked out the fucking car. You know what I mean. So whether it was excessive force or not, whatever they want to deem that shit Like. Let's not sit here and act like like you, like you was, you was being an upstanding citizen. You know I'm saying and let, unless it's more video that we ain't seen, from what I've seen on tv or instagram, from what I saw what, from what we all saw.

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I'm going based off what he said. Don't skip past, don't skip past him getting yanked out the car. Start from the beginning, when you rolled your window up on the police and you got tinted fucking windows. They don't know what's going on. He knocking on the window and then you're like, why you knocking on my? Why you banging on my window like that, bro, you shouldn't have rolled that shit up. So, regardless if you, you got away with it and you scored and you ran like an 80-yard bomb and then you did a celebration of you getting handcuffed, bro, like miss me with that shit, man, I go by the facts, bro. I'm not the type of person that be like hold on. I'm not the type of person that's going to be like, oh, because you know the police got a bad rep out here in in the in the united states, that every time they pull over a black man, regardless of he a football player, that that that we, that we can just do what the fuck ever and act any way we want, because we football players, or because we feel like, or since the last couple people got pulled over, got killed that we should get a pass to act the ass Like, just do what you need to do, bro, and you could have slid. But then you telling you know, call your agent or whoever the fuck the guy you telling everybody to call, like, come on, bro, like tell them niggas that when he came to the car you told them niggas to back up and roll your window up on them. Tell them that too. That's all I'm saying anyway.

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Panthers played the Saints uh. Saints busted that ass 47 to 10, oh, wow, uh. Vikings beat the Giants 28 to 6,. Daniel Jones is fucking terrible. I'm just going to leave that there. Raiders played the Chargers. Chargers won 22-10. Broncos played the Seahawks. Seahawks won 26-20. Cowboys beat the Browns 33-17.

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Dak got fucking paid 240 mil, I think. That's four or five years 60 mil a year, making them highest fucking nfl player ever, which means that you best bring your fucking franchise a super bowl. It's gonna be this, gonna be the most pressure ever for doc that if he don't bring his team a super bowl between this year and next year, like at this point, if he got paid that money and cd lamb got paid, they're gonna be expecting him to at least uh go to like the nfc championship or the super bowl and you know, win or lose or at the least go to the super bowl next year and win that shit. So you're on the clock, sir, because if not, I mean I think they already been giving that shit. They was giving that shit before he even got paid. You know I'm saying so, we'll see, uh, commanders. Uh lost to the bucks 37 to 20. I'm gonna get to that last because that's my team.

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Uh rams played the lions. The lions won 26 to 20 in an overtime win. Ran that shit up the gut for the win. I'm really fucking with the lions. Lions might be my second favorite team. And uh, 49ers played the jets. Monday night football 49ers won 32 19. Aaron rogers just made him his face a new meme.

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But let's get back on the commanders. Listen, I know that. Uh, you know we got a lot of new pieces. You know I'm saying we got new quarterback, new new owner, coach, coaches, all that shit. We got a lot of new shit, but I did not expect fucking baker mayfield to fucking ram that fucking football up our ass like that. Baker mayfield 24 for 30, 289 yards, four touchdowns.

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We out here playing against these 92-year-old fucking receivers and Emmanuel trash-ass Forbes getting exposed all game. This boy is so bad bro they talking about, oh, emmanuel Forbes. He beefed up over the summer he ain't been practicing. That boy getting exposed all game. The majority of these catches that was getting made they was wide open. That boy was beat every time and I'm like why y'all keep putting him in the game, bro? He not good. Who is next man up? Put the next man up, man, get him off the team. And the kicker too. They got rid of the kicker. That motherfucker missed two field goals. His ass was gone by Monday morning. Why is Emmanuel Forbes still in the fucking game, bro? And another thing, bro, baker Mayfield could have been sacked like God. He could have been sacked like seven or eight times bro. He just somehow some way was just slithering his ass through these potential tackles, bro, and was just getting the ball off, was getting the fucking ball off. And the tackling was looking crazy too, bro. It was like the running back was averaging like seven yards of fucking carry just from missed tackles. Man, like the whole defense just looked like dis discombobulated man.

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Offense too. You had Jaden Downs. You know what I'm saying? You had 184 yards. You ain't had no interceptions. You know what I'm saying? You had two touchdowns, but like we was only throwing short passes and a couple of them short passes you was fucking. You was throwing the shit before the nigga even turned around. Only one target Terry McLaurin.

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Oh nah, man, y'all better listen. I'll tell you right now. Y'all better stop fucking playing with Scary Terry, because he gonna go to another fucking team and he gonna show y'all what the fuck y'all been missing. You pay him this money. You know what I'm saying? He done had over a thousand fucking yards the last five years on the fucking team. You done paid him this money.

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Don't wait until the season over or we to the point where we officially out of the, we officially out of the goddamn playoffs and want to start throwing him the ball. Get him the ball, bruh. Y'all ain't about to sit here and tell me that that the offensive line was so bad that you couldn't throw the ball to nobody down the field. It was literally all short passes, bro, and and and more. Austin eckler too. Hey, brian robertson, you know he was running the ball pretty good. We needed austin eckler. Get him some more touches, because when he was getting in the game shit was getting done. Um, get, get him in the game, bro.

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We got the, got the Giants. This week we got a team that's worse than us on paper. Well, no, because we had the worst fucking defense last year. So technically they're better than us. But they busted our fucking ass last year, and that was because of Saquon goddamn Barkley.

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I was actually at that game. We left in the beginning of the third quarter because the shit was ugly. So unacceptable performance, man, I ain't, I ain't see. No, no adjustments bro. I just seen y'all out there just playing and I seen, I just saw a team just fucking scoring at will. We gotta tighten up, bro. Like I need nine or ten wins, bro.

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I don't feel like I'm asking for a lot. I'm asking for nine or ten wins with a team that got the damn number two fucking pick quarterback and it got all these players who's supposed to be good, got rid of motherfuckers who we needed, gone like got all these coaches and consultants. I feel like we got enough shit that we should be able to win nine or ten games, bro, I don't know. Let me know, man. What's your thoughts on this shit, man, because that's all I got. I'm gonna get up off this bitch. I'm gonna take me some fucking mucinex. Give me a nap. If you was fucking with this episode, man, hey, leave me a review. You know, I'm saying spotify, apple music, wherever the fuck you listen to your shit. Leave me a review, follow me, catch me on the next episode. Man cap'n out.