Any Given Sunday Podcast

The Any Given Sunday (AGS) Podcast was a weekly gaming podcast founded by Hard8Times with his four co-hosts: MelonMatt, Dru Gaming, Dark Cloud, and Lawd Wavish. The podcast ended on August 25, 2020 due to clashing between Hard8 and the other members of the podcast.

The ending of the podcast inspired Hard8 to create a live solo call-in show, called AGS Live, which began on August 29, 2020. The other members created the Corner Store Podcast, which began on September 8, 2020.

## The Last Of Us Part II Trophy Debacle

Wavish is known for a being a casual gamer who privates his trophies. At the end of June 2020, AGS podcast members (mainly Hard8 and Wavish) had a falling out due to Wavish's inability to show his The Last of Us Part II completion trophy. Hard8 wanted to have a spoilercast and wanted his fellow podcast members to show their trophies to prove they completed the game. However, Wavish felt this was a violation of his manhood and didn't want to "prove anything to any man over the internet." This led to Wavish exiting an AGS Podcast private group chat, which indicated he wanted to leave the podcast due to the perceived disrespect. Hard8 then held a solo livestream (AGS Debacle) discussing the situation that had unfolded. Wavish eventually joined the livestream to explain his side of the story. Wavish proceeded to accuse Dru and MelonMatt of not having his back. He stated that he and Dark Cloud were "replaced" by guests joining the spoilercast in their absence. He also stated he would have never been able to join the spoilercast because he was celebrating his grandmother's 97th birthday. After many unnecessary minutes circling around the same arguments, the podcast made up and continued on as if nothing had ever occurred.

## AGS Ending Debacle

The AGS Podcast met its demise on August 25, 2020. Hard8Times took issue with members of the group for not retweeting the AGS podcast episodes, while showing support for other podcasts, such as the Weapon Wheel Podcast. However, Hard8 named other reasons for his displeasure with his former members.

Dru Gaming mentioned that he would constantly attempt to grow the podcast with game and movie nights, while Hard8 never wanted to be associated with extra events outside of the usual podcast. Dru also stated that Hard8 was quick to point out he was not apart of the other members' Patreon, which was seen by many as an attempt to dissuade AGS supporters to not pledge to it. However, Hard8 stated he did this to not confuse supporters into believing he was apart of it. Lawd Wavish claimed Hard8 constantly mistreated his members and refused to block "super chatters" when they berated members. Hard8 claimed he did not block any viewers because he wanted to allow viewers to say whatever they wanted. Dark Cloud initially had issues with Mocha (only on for 3 episodes) being added to the podcast because he had a "sliding in the DM" incident with her and Hard8 did not speak with any members before adding her as a permanent member. Mocha had issues with the podcast because she believed she was being attacked by members, as well as viewers, when she stated her opinion on any topic. Hard8 stated he believed this occurred since she was the only female on a male-dominated podcast with many male viewers.

Hard8 took issue with members wanting to make money since he stated that they would not be paid before the podcast began. All members stated they were fine with not getting paid, but they may have changed their mindset throughout the years. All other members claimed that Hard8 was still not over being dropped by Weapon Wheel and would only attempt to grow the AGS podcast when WWP would do well. Hard8 effectively ended the podcast by declaring he would creating a solo show, while the other members decided to create a separate podcast together.