This week we welcome Brock Badgers alum, Adam Cooke, to the pod as a guest. 

Off the top we get an impromptu podcast performance review from Adam, give a status update on Tom's NFL Sunday parlay and roast Cameron for some of his betting groupchat etiquette.

We then get into an all-2000's draft where we select actors, athletes, musicians, movies and tv shows that encapsulate the 2000's

Link to blog: https://benchlifesports.com/

Link to The Inclusion Initiative: https://theinclusion-initiative.square.site/

We pick up where we left off last week with a heated debate with Ben making his case for Sam Snead as golf's GOAT and Blake + Zach defending TIger's claim.

We then talk a bit about Nate Robinson vs. Jake Paul, the time Tom beat up Cam and debate which athletes we could take in a cage fight.

To close up the show Blake takes charge with some Rogers Center talk + Blue Jays hot stove

We kick off today's podcast with Ben's long-awaited hot-take: Tiger Woods is the most overrated athlete ever.

Tom then debates the idea of relocated teams using brands of their old cities (ie. Colorado "Nordiques" and the Carolina "Whalers")

We also cover some NBA free agency, basketball lay-up line songs, bash Cameron for missing another episode, Trevor Bauer, Vladdy's weight loss, the Bills and Blake slips back into the denial phase of the five stages of Cowboys grief.

With Zach and Cam out due to lack of electricity, Blake, Ben and Tom operate the three man weave and give a big ol' dose of sports talk.

Topics include:

Link to blog: https://benchlifesports.com/

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Tom, Cam and Ben throw the planned podcast out the window and just have a talk. Some of the topics covered:

We kick off this episode with a bit of Bills-Patriots trash-talk. Blake then gives his final thoughts on the World Series

Then we get down to the main event: Trivia Round 7. This week in order to negate any possible excuses, Cameron and Ben get to choose the categories:

This week we kick off with Blake's live-recorded Cowboys fan therapy session. Then Cameron and Ben address the 2-4 New England Patriots. 

Zach chimes in with some World Series talk which then devolves into Blake and Tom bashing the Tampa Bay Rays as an organization.

We wrap up the show with a four round fantasy draft of Halloween candy.

This week Tom, Cameron and Ben run the three man weave and just dive right into pure, unadulterated sports talk.

Link to blog: https://benchlifesports.com/

This week's episode kicks off with an update to the Bench Talk Playoff Bubble Draft Challenge that we issued months ago. We then talk about this week in football and then give a post-mortem on the 2020 Toronto Blue Jays.

In the second half of the episode we have Blake and Zach square off with Ben and Cameron for Round 6 of our trivia battle. This week's categories were:

Link to blog: https://benchlifesports.com/

Phil is called in from the bullpen to replace absentees Cam and Zach. The boys cover the day's slate of NFL games, talk about the Jays' upcoming playoff series and briefly touch on hockey and basketball.

In the second half we go back to the fantasy draft well and draft "underrated things" using the same categories from our overrated draft: