Hello and welcome to episode 640. Hello, 649 of the geek box. You're weekly podcasts for all the hot real world cyberpunk news and

all the cricket and you know everything you come to this podcast or this is the episode for the week of July 24th, 2023. I'm your host Ryan Scott and with me is Ryan Higgins. So when you say cricket, you mean just the silence, the noise. Yeah.

But you're talking and there's just silence and you hear the crickets. Is that the type of cricket you're talking about? That's the I wish I could use some of that silence. You guys. Okay, so look.

You're the only one with me because Adam think God Adam fell asleep or something because I didn't want to come on. I was talking about cricket for half hour. You and Adam, Adam Fitch have been going on and on for like the last.

Like it feels like weeks because they've launched an American cricket league. Yeah. And you guys have just well, he's been giving us play by plays of games.

For following San Francisco unicorns, baby, the San Francisco, you know, and I have learned the following about cricket. I know the following things about this sport.

Yeah, nobody understand. You got to know what a crumpet is. You want to understand. I was waiting for it. I have learned that the term sticky wickets, sticky wicket, right? That's that's like a cricket term.

That's where it originates. And there was an official cricket channel called willow. So my question for you is this Ryan.

Is there some reference to leprechauns and cricket? Because if there is, it's just it's just a slam dunk for work Davis is entire career right there.

Good wicket willow. We just need that.

And that that we got it. I don't believe so, but maybe.

No, I mean, I don't know, you know, fans of baseball, you know, the genre of them, of what they call the American cricket actually baseball cricket and yeah.

And yeah, that's something that I was like, holy shit, this is me like, okay, so rewind to the Xbox 360 myself and our friends Marshall and Jeff.

Back when I saw people in real life and we're hanging out with friends. Yeah, we would just hang out at the old apartment.

As you know, 20 year olds do. Uh huh. And we would hold on. What year do you think this was, right? 20s early 30s of our age.

Yeah, yeah, all right. I mean like 20. I meant, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, 360 was out.

And, uh, 2005, right? Yeah. So, yeah, that was like 20 years ago almost.

So, so, uh, we found one night that they were showing that there was a on Xbox, they're what on Xbox 360, there was a channel that there was like, you know, sports, like live video services on.

We found a cricket channel. There was a place that would show cricket games. And we're like, holy shit, let's watch this. Let's try to figure this out. So, we watched, you know, not in not small amount of cricket.

So, this is like 20 years ago and I've had a, I've had a, a fascination with the sport ever since it's just not in America.

It's not really an American thing. Yeah. And it's difficult to watch games. It's almost possible to watch games because they just, it just isn't on here, right?

Nobody understands cricket. Exactly. So, nobody, we don't know what a crumpet is. In the Bay area, there's actually like cricket leagues in there.

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