For the ink and story and animation aficionados out there, Josh and Dweez welcome Benny Blanco blood-fam to the backyard to talk subjects so vast, obscure and scholarly that Slim would probably knock himself out with a Henny bottle if he didn't have to call in from his cruise ship. Come get lost in waters of the foreign, the film and the faith with us.

For the real heads and those with Los Angeles sympathies elsewhere...a stroke of fate from the football gods.

Coincidentally recorded 5 years to the day since the founding of the club, special guests Tue Nguyen, Thai Nguyen — two of the architects of LAFC's crest — and Rich Orosco stop by the backyard in Expo Park. The occasion: to talk an origin story unlike any you've ever heard it before — from Austin to Saigon to New York: we talk about the foundation of a club that was both global and local from the jump.

Come cry with us and marvel as we look back to the beginning.

Among the North End's tallest and loudest — Pierce Maher is an Irishman's Irishman and a youth football coach. We got him and his Tipperary-raised father to sit in the back yard and talk football, Roy Keane, player development, and more, despite car alarms and their efforts to derail our lives.

Join us as TVP visit the backyard this week! We take a look at how LAFC is providing a voice for women in supporter culture.

The voice of LAFC joins us in the backyard.

You live for crosspods. We live for what you live for. We recorded a crosspod with some of the zanniest characters ever to slip through the gate and enter the ether that is the backyard. The lot of us try new things. The None of Our Business Podcast boys — NOOB — seem to be naturally better than us at this and most other things. We try to learn from them & you can too!

No one in the backyard but Dweez, Slim and Josh this episode. It's a sober, tea-heavy, getting caught in our feelings pod. If you need recos on Nigerian pop, sad boi R&B or your favorite AYCE BBQ spot in K-Town, listen up.

This one's for you.

We welcome LAFC club photographer @imadshoots to the backyard to talk Turkish football, travel, what makes a good photo & favorite images of the Black & Gold universe thus far.

A treat for your ears about the feast your eyes continue to devour.

This week we step out of the backyard and onto the pitch for The Battle at The Banc. Live from center pitch, we got to watch both USC and UCLA's womens NCAA teams beat up on visitors from Florida as well as gage everyone from LAFC midfielder Mark-Anthony Kaye to USC Women's coach Kedane McAlpine to LAFC Rich to Amy from Center Mid Chicks hype for growing the women's game in Los Angeles. Call it an NWSL to LA encore.

From being involved in the 3252, to traveling for multiple Women's World Cups, and advocating for NWSL in LA -- Mark and Lindsay Rojas stop by the backyard to tell their story and hope for the future.