421 - How I Got Into Activision
Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 13 segments
Only got 20 dollars in my pocket. Discord: https://discord.gg/EHpsTkguxz
Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 13 segments
Only got 20 dollars in my pocket. Discord: https://discord.gg/EHpsTkguxz
Before we begin, though, I want to do a thought experiment with you.
Okay.
Okay? Is it too early in the day for a thought experiment?
It has been a weird week.
I want you to transport yourself back.
to 2014.
You're on the couch.
You're watching the Grammys.
You're watching the Grammys, and they open that envelope for Best Rap Album, and Kendrick Lamar wins for Good Kid, Mad City.
Do you think, in this world, Ed Sheeran still has a backup band?
What?
I am of the mind that Macklemore beating Kendrick gave him so much white guilt that we are on the trajectory we are today because the heist was the best rap album of yeah
Imagine putting out an album like The Heist, which is not a bad album, but it is a corny.
I've never listened to it.
It's very corny.
Imagine putting that album out and having it beat Good Kid, Mad City.
Good Kid, Mad City.
Imagine
in all of this? He probably is staying out of it.
Before we begin, though, I want to do a thought experiment with you.
Okay.
Okay? Is it too early in the day for a thought experiment?
It has been a weird week.
I want you to transport yourself back.
to 2014.
You're on the couch.
You're watching the Grammys.
You're watching the Grammys, and they open that envelope for Best Rap Album, and Kendrick Lamar wins for Good Kid, Mad City.
Do you think, in this world, Ed Sheeran still has a backup band?
What?
I am of the mind that Macklemore beating Kendrick gave him so much white guilt that we are on the trajectory we are today because the heist was the best rap album of yeah
Imagine putting out an album like The Heist, which is not a bad album, but it is a corny.
I've never listened to it.
It's very corny.
Imagine putting that album out and having it beat Good Kid, Mad City.
Good Kid, Mad City.
Imagine
in all of this? He probably is staying out of it.
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