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It is Wednesday, June 1st, 2020.

Welcome to the NFL fantasy football podcast,

but we're trying to find a Wednesday alternative to Thursday. It's me, your man, M.st, 2022. Welcome to the NFL fantasy football podcast, but we're trying to find a

Wednesday alternative to Thursday. It's me and your man, M.G. Marcus Grant, alongside Michael F. Florea. We have producer Randy At the Controls. And we have a special guest because this is what we do this time of year. We bring on other folks, our friends from around the industry, folks that maybe we know from the social media and the interwebs. This is a guy that I've been following his work for a number of years now. We have sort of become internet friends. We've never met face to face. Hopefully we can remedy that sometime soon. But we have become internet friends. We even did a couple of one-offs of some nerdy comic book podcasts too. Maybe we can reboot that at some point in the future but anyway you

can find him at yahoo you can find him writing at football guys you can find him on the internet

at t king mode uh you can especially find him on thursdays when he uh revives his weekly thirsty

thursday bit it is troy king troy it is nice to have you man what's going on bu on, Bub? Well, man, thank you so much for the intro. I'm so excited to be here. You know, probably with you guys on this, you know, platform. Look, it's not Thursdays, but it's a good alternative. I'm ready to kick things off. When we talked about having you on, Florio suggested maybe we push from our recording to third.

We normally do Wednesdays.

Maybe we record on Thursdays instead because it just seems perfect to get him in.

Could I had a drink each or something like that just to fit the occasion.

You had a beverage?

Next time.

Next time.

So I do have to ask though.

I mean, obviously you didn't create the idea of Thirsty Thursday,

but like what made you just sort of adopt this as your thing?

It's funny. So me and my friend Linda, I got a, you know, shout out to her because she hates it, right?

So we had to pull, right? Because we had a pull because, you know, there's an alternative phrase to thirsty, right?

Either you're thirsty for alcohol, you're thirsty, the different version. So I put a poll on Twitter and I was like, when you think of the word like, thirsty, Thursday is what you think of. The poll for like alcohol won by a landslide, but there's like 18% of people that thought the other thing or voted for the other thing. And it created all this discourse on Twitter. And I decided, hey, I didn't expect that kind of reaction. And I'm like, you know what? Every Thursday, I'm just going to make this a bit, right? And I didn't think it would last. I started as like 2021 January. And then every Thursday, it's been a thing. I think I skipped one Thursday and people were mad. I'm like, I just got to make this a thing. So every Thursday, I'm like, you know, guess what day it is? Thursdays with the hot emoji. And then it's just a thing now. They're like, again, no one, I can't like not do it because people get mad at me. I mean, it's awesome. It's hilarious. You even created a theme song for it. I know like, you know, like you drop beats.

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