We should change that banner to say the voice of four billion quarters.

Yeah.

But there was one weird article.

It was talking about how many generations of families and their kids and their families to keep counting those four billion quarters.

Well, so

remember, the interesting thing is that the Midway Games was not making all those quarters.

They didn't make the billion because they just sold the hard drive, the cabinets out the door for, I want to say, two or three thousand dollars back in the day.

So like kind of being on like the performance side and the writing side, how do you find those roles kind of intersect for you? Well,

They were absolutely loving NBA Jam.

And that was like, you know, this moment where I went, "Wow, this is something.

This is..." Like, you know, maybe the, the equivalent of being, you know, uh, someone from like, you know, a, a group that hears their song on the radio for the first time.

It's like, "This is a hit!" And, (laughs) and I got kind of charged, but I couldn't resist sometimes just by accident.

Didn't think about it, but I'm watching, and I would start to say like, "Rejected! Ugly shot! Get that stuff out of here! Boom shaka laka..." You know, someone turned around.

"Hey man, you sound like the dude in the game." I go, "Dude, I am the dude." Another one, "It is! It is you!" (laughs)

In its first year, NBA Jam made $1 billion in revenue, one quarter at a time.

I was out at Midway in their lunchroom-And there was an article on the board, uh, you know, uh, just like a Xeroxed article that said, "NBA Jam surpasses, breaks all records, makes a billion dollars in quarters first year." And I just said, "Who wrote this? This is funny." (laughs) I just absolutely convinced it was someone just having, you know, some fun, just to kind of like prop up the team and, you know, give them some confidence, like, yeah, NBA Jam's a great game, but had no idea in reality the game made a billion dollars.