In May of 2019, college friends and Maryland natives Nick and Harrison joked about starting their own hockey podcast. Fast-forward three months and they had already recorded and released their first episode. The show was dubbed "Empty Betters" as a play on words of an empty-net goal and their love for sports gambling. Since then the podcast has taken on a life of its own, with many members of the Maryland hockey community coming on the show. In June of 2020, the duo added Mac as the third member of the podcast. Nick said it best when he said "what started as a complete joke, now dominates my life at five-minute intervals".