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Who else is tired of New England in the SuperBowl? No disputing their accomplishments, but it's hard for us to get excited to see more of the same on the NFL's final weekend. We'll be watching more for the commercials and the prop bets. Bellator's heavyweight grand prix tournament ended just like Return of the Jedi. And who would have thought that a Netflix release about a cam girl who gets her identity stolen would be a far superior movie to a theatrical release loaded with stars like Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway?

We're back for our first show of 2019. Neal and Justin ponder who the best QB was who never reached the Superbowl. The UFC moved off FOX and onto ESPN with its first event on Saturday. On it, Henry Cejudo beat back superfight challenger TJ Dillashaw, Donald Cerrone punched his ticket to a possible money fight with McGregor, and former NFL'er Greg Hardy went and got himself disqualified in his debut. Justin wraps things up with reviews of the beautifully shot Roma, If Beale Street Could Talk, and M. Night Shyamalan's Glass.

After a brief hiatus due to the winter crud, we're back with a film review heavy episode. Justin catches us up on seven flicks he's seen since our last outing including Can You Ever Forgive Me, Support The Girls, Boy Erased, The Mule, The Favourite, Vox Lux, and Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. Minor spoilers ahead and a trigger warning for one film regarding school shootings. Also, quick takes on the top NFL and UFC stories this week.

The Redskins make a controversial personnel add. College football saw the offensive extravaganza from the previous week's MNF game between KC and LA and decided to up the ante with a 7 overtime affair from Texas A&M and LSU. Two fighters you remember from the UFC fifteen years ago fought over the weekend. Heavyweight boxing is giving us a matchup we can actually get excited about. Justin reviews Ralph Breaks the Internet, Wildlife, and Green Book.

In our second recording of the night, Justin pops in to talk about that crazy Monday Night Football game, Alex Smith's horrific injury on the 33rd anniversary of Joe Theisman's last game, and a pair of excellent films in Widows and Creed II.

Chris and Neal talk fights in the first of two recordings on the night. We recap the action from UFC Argentina that saw Santiago Ponzinibbio score a faceplant KO over Neil Magny and an emerging star in the debuting Johnny Walker. We then look ahead to the next card in Beijing featuring a surging Curtis Blaydes and a struggling Francis Ngannou. These two fought each other in their first UFC appearances with Ngannou grabbing the W. Fast forward to today and Blaydes hasn't lost since and Ngannou is on a two-fight losing streak.

The Patriots got trolled by some former teammates. Syracuse looking to spoil Notre Dame's playoff hopes. The Korean Zombie was on the wrong end of KO of the Year. Our favorite Stan Lee cameos.

It’s been a couple of weeks since Justin’s been able to join the regular tapings, but as they say in Jurassic Park, life finds a way. We sit down to catch up on seven films that he’s seen over the past few weeks, including Mid-Nineties, Overlord, Bohemian Rhapsody, and The Girl in the Spider’s Web.

Chris and Neal get down on the week's football and fight action. Florida $tate and Virginia Tech are in real danger of having their NCAA leading active bowl streaks snapped. While Patrick Mahomes has captured everyone's imagination, Phillip Rivers is quietly having another outstanding season. Daniel Cormier remained undefeated at heavyweight, soundly defeating the Black Beast in his first title defense. Cowboy Cerrone till take on Mike Perry at UFC Fight night in a battle of former teammates. And Floyd Mayweather pulls another troll job by teasing a fight with RIZIN's Tenshin Nasukawa and then walking it back.

Neal, Gilly and Chris come together this week to preview the upcoming NFL and college football games, hype up the fight between Derrick Lewis and Daniel Cormier, and cringe at the slimy villain of the horror movies 13 Cameras and its sequel, 14 Cameras.