[00:00:00] Speaker A: Oh, those are very good specs.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: Yeah, those claps sounded good on my end. All right, let's see.
We have any emails this week? We do.
[00:00:11] Speaker A: Hot damn.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: Oh, no, we don't. It's spam.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: God damn.
Okay.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: Fuck you, spammers.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Okay.
Is it a patch week?
[00:00:25] Speaker B: I don't know. Let's find out. I don't think so. I think that's next week. Yeah. Because we just covered a patch on the last episode.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Yeah, we did.
Damn it. Okay, let's see.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Are there questions in the discord?
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Don't.
[00:00:40] Speaker B: Nothing new.
We have no questions at all. Oh, boy.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Oh dear. What are we gonna do?
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Oh, boy. What the do we do for an episode then?
[00:00:52] Speaker A: Mm.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: What can we do that's scuffed but works?
We could play off of the discussion about Kai' sub Mid and talk about when it's right to play a champion off role.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah, we can definitely talk about off roll champions.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: We've done that.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: We could talk about finding your own counter picks.
No, that's. That's kind of actually difficult. It's definitely individually based, but I didn't take the Green Jungle. God damn you.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: What?
[00:01:29] Speaker A: That. Oh, okay, never mind. It's just yelling at the wrong thing.
I was looking at my match history, going through things and I stopped and I looked. I was like, why does that have the Green Jungle Monster? That's Nefari. I definitely didn't take the green one, but they're just defaults to the green.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: Also, the green one is like universally good, so.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: Yeah, but I. But I definitely didn't take it, but it just defaults to green color.
Crap.
This is gonna be a hard one to figure out, isn't it?
Okay, all my match history is 90% mayhem. So do we want to talk about how to pick up a new champion?
[00:02:11] Speaker B: Sure.
So my initial thoughts is first talk about figuring out who to pick.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I would say when is a good time to pick up a new champion, but I guess the answer is whenever the you feel like generally. Yeah, let's see.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: I hate two man shows. It's so hard.
[00:02:30] Speaker A: It's especially. Especially when we don't have any questions and we don't have.
What the hell is it?
We don't have a third person to bounce things off of and we don't have a fucking patch. We're. We're all.
Are there any other minor topics we can.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: I mean, we could also just skip this week.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: We could.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: I don't love that answer. But it's literally just the two of us and we don't have anything good to talk about.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: It's not the worst thing to do a skip week.
Would we, hey, there's not going to be an episode this week. We didn't have.
We didn't have anything to talk about and we don't have, etc. Or would this just be a quietly don't put an episode out and then put one on next week and then explain, hey, we took a week off. We didn't feel we had enough content to give you things.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: I was literally going to publish this pre show just as a sample of the pre show on the main channel and be like, we couldn't come up with enough to do an actual episode because y' all never sent in any fucking questions.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Yeah, a sample pre show is not a bad idea.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: Theforwards podcastmail.com a sample pre show is
[00:03:42] Speaker A: definitely not a bad idea.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: That's my best idea, is because even these two topics, we came up with a. We've literally done both of them this year. I think.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: I think you're right.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: And they're not going to fill a lot of time unless you got a better idea. I think that's what we do. And just publish it as a non episode and we'll do 549 next week.
[00:04:04] Speaker A: I think that works pretty well.
I mean, we've been going once a week pretty consistently without a break for a while. I think having a off week after what, two, three years minimum.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: We had off weeks during the holidays last year.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: Okay, so we had one or two off with holidays in the last couple of years.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Three. We had like three in 2025. I think it was literally like Christmas and New Year's. And then also there was one, like, I forget if it was the Halloween or if it was Thanksgiving, but one of those weeks we just couldn't get anyone because people were traveling.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
Probably would have been Thanksgiving and then something like that. So like, we've. We've rarely taken a time skip.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I think we just do that, honestly.
Yeah, I'll go back to playing Final Fantasy.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: Yeah, we can do something like that. The only, the only thing I think is not just questions. If anyone's listening to this, send the topic ideas.
You can put them on the same spot.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: We need questions and we need topic ideas. Send either one to theforwardspodcastmail.com or in the Discord question submission for questions and podcast. Topic suggestions is a channel. If you want a suggestion for us to talk about, we will do it. Help us because we're idiots. We can't come up with topics every week on our own.
And then I do want to, since this is going to be all we publish this week for the pod.
Shout out to Codex, Ninja Pillow, Pet Labana, Uncle ChrisCo, and Skippy's Esquire for supporting the podcast at the shoutouts here on Patreon. Thank you, guys.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: Emma, feel like. No, no, we can't do that. Nevermind. What? No, the idea was immediately false.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: We should have a pre recorded version of that. No, that can change at any time. Never mind.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: No, that is. That is a. We actually organically read it out every week. They're paying US$10 a month. The least we can do is actually read their names.
It's bad enough Pillow skips his own name on 8bit whenever he's hosting.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true.
[00:06:19] Speaker B: Oh, well, shall we call it there?
[00:06:21] Speaker A: I think. I think we're done here.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Okay. Sorry, listeners, just a preview of what you can get if you subscribe to the
[email protected] theforwordspodcast$5 a month gets you these every week. Usually there's more of us and there's more storytelling or discussion, but it's kind of an off week.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Yeah, you get a behind the scenes of how we create the podcast sometimes, and you've seen how sometimes we just don't.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: Sometimes it's literally just us off the rails bantering for 25 minutes and then we just do an episode. Often that happens with patch episodes. All right, that's going to be it. See you later.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Yeah, good night, everyone.
