We put a stack of questions on the table and shuffled the stupid ones in with the real ones. Nobody read ahead, nobody got to pass, and nobody knew which round they were in until it was already happening.

Good friends. Great conversations. Weekend stories.

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Three days before kickoff, the crew got together at the Grateful Garage for the first NFL show in the history of this podcast. Everybody brought two unpopular takes and four picks, and all of it went on the whiteboard in permanent marker. Nobody gets to change their mind in February.

We also spend the first stretch on the health episode — what landed, what didn't, and Norman answering for the whole thing.

🏈 First NFL episode we've ever done, recorded before Week 1
🩺 The crew reacts to the health episode — one appointment, this week
🔥 Ten unpopular takes, round the room, no rebuttals until everyone's finished
📋 AFC, NFC, Super Bowl, and MVP picks locked on the board
📰 Everybody calls the biggest headline of the season — we're reading these back in February
🍻 The story of what happened when we tried to record this at Main Street Tavern

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Five guys in a garage talk about the appointments they've been putting off.

Norm had a colonoscopy and walks through the whole thing — including the prep, in detail, which is the part nobody warns you about. They found one small polyp and removed it in the same appointment.

Then Jeffrey walks through four years of a PSA number that climbed from 2.5 to 4.8. No single reading was alarming enough to scare anybody. The trend was. Biopsy in June, PSMA PET in July, four specialists at Duke in one day in August, surgery this fall.

Two guys. Same avoidance. Different endings. Both of them made an appointment.

🧃 The jug, the clear liquid list, and sixteen hours of not leaving the house
✂️ The polyp they found and took out the same day
📈 Four years of a number nobody panicked about
🩺 What a 13-core biopsy actually involves
🚦 Green Light / Red Light — what to ignore, what to call somebody about
📞 One ask. One phone call. This week.

Nobody here is a doctor. Everybody here is over 45.

Don't wait until something's wrong.

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Thursday night. No plan, no format, no guardrails

Scottie Scheffler is roughly a million dollars from erasing a Tiger Woods record that's stood since February of 2000, and he can break it this weekend with a tie for third.

Then the Side Piece takes a hard left. One question to the room — what actually made you who you are as an adult? Turns out nobody could name a single moment. It wasn't one thing. It was all of it. Then each man gives up the one line he actually tries to live by.

Plus a first look at Episode 15.

⛳ Scheffler a million from Tiger's all-time earnings mark — and why he refuses to care
🐅 the money's different now, Tiger changed the culture, and it's not close
📉 The most dominant player since Tiger, and nobody's rearranging a Sunday for him
❤️ What actually makes a man — and why not one guy at the table could name just one thing
🗣️ The line each of them actually lives by
🏈 Episode 15 tease: NFL Preview, full crew, every pick on the record, nobody hedges
🏋️ Derek squats on Mondays. No further comment.

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📚 Reading rec from the garage: North Carolina coast author Harper Callahan writes atmospheric Southern mysteries — beach reads with shadows in them. Start with THE TIDE REMEMBERS, book one of the Lantern Bay Mysteries, out now. harpercallahanbooks.com

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Eight guys, three conferences, and a whiteboard full of picks made two days before the AP poll dropped.

College football is two weeks out and the garage couldn't wait. Campbell defends a Clemson program coming off its worst season since 2010 with a quarterback who has one career start — and a head coach who called his own roster "a bunch of nobodies." Craig's Virginia hosts NC State in Week 0, the game that was supposed to be played in Rio de Janeiro. Derek makes the case that Arizona State getting picked seventh is the best thing that could have happened to them. Norman explains, in his own words and uninterrupted, why he's sitting out the SEC this season — including his host's team. And the East Carolina conversation goes somewhere nobody in the room saw coming.

Then everybody puts eight rounds of picks on a whiteboard. In August. With no take-backs. We're reading it back in December.

[BRACKET: ONE LINE ON THE BEST UNPLANNED MOMENT]

In this episode:
🐊 Florida — Sumrall, an unsettled QB room, and a 4–8 team that beat Texas
🐅 Clemson — 26–14 since 2023 and a quarterback with one career start
🏈 Virginia vs. NC State — the Brazil game that became a Week 0 league game
😈 Arizona State — picked 7th, two years after winning the Big 12
🎙️ Norman's position on the SEC, in full
🏴‍☠️ East Carolina — nine wins, 21 starters gone, both coordinators poached
🏀 Fuhs adopts a football team live and is stuck with it
📼 On The Record — every pick, on the board, on tape

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Good friends. Great conversations. Weekend stories.

The crew finally settles it. In this evergreen Side Piece, the 15 Friends take on the movie questions every friend group fights about: the first movie that blew your mind, the five films you'd take to a deserted island (only five — forever), the most overrated and underrated movies of all time, and the ones you stop and watch every single time. There are bold picks, indefensible picks defended anyway, and at least one argument about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

🎙️ In this episode:

• 🤯 The first movie that blew each guy's mind
• 🏝️ Deserted Island Five — one movie per pick, no take-backs
• ⚖️ Overrated / Underrated — the fight segment
• 📺 Stop-and-watch-every-time movies
• 🎄 The Die Hard debate, settled (sort of)

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Thirteen episodes in and nobody's superstitious. Fuhs is back from a trip to the land of Dick Knotts with a full report — including the part he probably shouldn't have said out loud. Then we hand every guy at the table an imaginary lottery ticket and find out who's quitting Monday, who's telling their friends, and who's lying about both. And we set the table for Episode 14, because football is officially here and this crew is already picking fights about it.

🚗 Fuhs returns from Dick Knotts country — Barney Fife territory, apparently
🎰 The lottery question: what you'd buy, who you'd tell, and what you actually owe your friends
🏈 Football is officially back — Episode 14 preview and early trash talk
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Koli and Timby pop into the garage to talk about something most people never get: twenty-plus years of living right next door to your best friend. Cocktail creation, dinners that don't get served until ten at night, raising kids in each other's yards, and two decades of trying to scare each other into an early grave. Good food, good drinks, great friends.

🏡 Twenty-plus years as next-door neighbors — how it actually happened
🍸 Cocktail creation and the house drink
🍽️ The 10:00 PM dinner, explained
👨‍👩‍👧 Raising kids side by side
😱 The scare war — still ongoing, still undecided
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This one's a travel episode, sort of. Kyle went to Las Vegas and came back with the full report — where he stayed, what he lost, and the number he's willing to say out loud. Then Jeremy and Tommy Burns walk into the garage straight off their trip home to Michigan and give us the drive, the golf, and what it's like going home as a grown man.

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Jefé's back from the Dominican Republic, though he almost didn't get there. He hit the counter two minutes past the bag cutoff on a Sunday, the airline wouldn't check him in, and he drove home, slept in his own bed, and flew out the next day on the same flight — one vacation day gone before it started. The garage wants the whole report: the seaweed-covered beach nobody could use, the Queen cover band nobody expected, and the Thursday boat trip that saved the week.

Then the crew finally stops pretending it's still summer — football season is close enough to talk about, which means teams, takes, and at least one argument that goes nowhere.

And the Question of the Day gets real: are friendships hard? A room full of grown men turns out to have a lot to say about that one.

✈️ Two minutes late to the counter — and the trip hadn't even started
🏈 Football's officially on the table — everybody's team, one sentence, no hedging
🤝 "Are friendships hard?" — the question that quieted the garage

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