Hostile Witness

More sad horns after the Saints fall to the Lions. Charles and L. Ron are joined by Defector's Blog Girl Lauren Theisen who is kinder than she needed to be about Getting Our Ass. Plus memories of Michigan. Plus, Skooks is back as the Man in the Dome.

Read Lauren at the wonderful Defector.com, home of all your faves.

Charles Star - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Lauren Theisen - https://bsky.app/profile/laurentheisen.bsky.social

Skooks - https://bsky.app/profile/skookses.bsky.social

Sound engineering by LunarSnow.

The Shutdown Fullcast's Jason Kirk joins Charles and L. Ron to bask in the Falcons' win over the Saints and he gets our ass (especially sartorially). We also talk about his soon-to-be-released novel Hell is a World Without You and growing up evangelical and growing out of it before getting down to football.

Charles Star - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Jason Kirk -https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkirk.fyi

Preorder Jason's novel at https://jasonkirk.fyi and listen to Shutdown Fullcast at https://www.bannersociety.com/pages/welcome-to-the-shutdown-fullcast and Fullcast After Dark which you can find on LinkedIn on Saturday nights.

Thanks to LunarSnow for the audio engineering.

It's the bye week so we don't have an opponent to talk to so instead Charles invited some friends to meet Ron and have him live through an episode of Soundtracker, with Soundtracker host (and victory-curious Browns fan) Eric Peacock and Charles' frequent podcast pal (and resigned Giants fan) David Roth. After Remembering Some Cleveland Guys, there's some good talk about the mediocre comedian-to-reactionary grifter pipeline and even some discussion of football.

Charles Star - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Eric Peacock - https://bsky.app/profile/uwebollocks.bsky.social

David Roth - https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social

Listen to Eric's podcast, Soundtracker, at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1840875

Listen to David's Defector podcast, The Distraction, at https://the-distraction-a-defector-podcast.simplecast.com/ and his Hallmark Christmas Movie podcast It's Christmastown at https://daveandjebarentmean.libsyn.com/ and read Defector.com.

Charles has all of his writing etc. at https://linktr.ee/ugarles

Thanks again to LunarSnow for cleaning up the sound, especially Charles since his good mic broke and he sounds like he's hiding in a bathroom from Oscar Pistorius.

Charles and Ron empathize with the Saints receivers and their unfortunate interactions with the police and also lament the Vikings game. Charles is also joined by Washington Improv Theater's Travis Ploeger, a lifelong Vikings fan, whose Minnesota Nice precluded him getting too mean.

Charles - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Travis - https://twitter.com/TravisPloeger

And if you're in DC, check out imusical at WIT: https://witdc.org/ensembles/imusical/

Sound engineering by LunarSnow.

A two-game win streak after beating the Bears 24-17 has Charles and Ron in a better mood. Replacing them in misery are Chicago's Patrick Cosmos and Andrew. Plus, Skooks is back as our Man in the Dome.

Charles Star - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Andrew - https://bsky.app/profile/torqpenderloin.bsky.social

Patrick Cosmos -https://bsky.app/profile/veryimportant.lawyer

Skooks - https://bsky.app/profile/skookses.bsky.social

Watch Andrew's wrestling Twitch stream at https://www.twitch.tv/wrestlingbrain

Buy/Listen to Patrick's music at https://veryimportant.lawyer/music

Thanks again to LunarSnow for sound engineering.

Charles and Ron go without a guest to talk about the Saints win over the Colts because nobody cares about the Colts and it's time for a midseason recap anyway. Fun times. Charles also calls an old friend from Indiana to Get Her Ass even though she doesn't care because nobody cares about the Colts.

Charles Star - bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico - bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Trisha - stays offline because she's not stupid

Sound engineering on everything but Get Her Ass and the interstitials by LunarSnow.

Another bummer of a week as the Saints drop a Thursday night game to the Jaguars at home but at least we're joined by tinybaby (Paul), a Saints fan by way of Jacksonville to commisserate.

Charles - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Paul - https://bsky.app/profile/tiny.baby

Sound engineering on everything but Man in the Dome and the interstitials by LunarSnow.

Charles and Ron are in the dumps again after another week of red zone disasters, this time against the Texans. Joining the guys to talk about it is Houston's Stephanie Stradley.

Charles https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Stephanie https://bsky.app/profile/stephstradley.bsky.social

Find Stephanie's writing at https://www.chron.com/author/stephanie-stradley/ or

https://www.stradleylaw.com/blog/

Charles Star and L. Ron Mexico welcome Boston's own Luke O'Neil, author of the Welcome to Hell World newsletter (and books) and the short fiction collection A Creature Wanting Form. Luke joins us to talk about the Saints evisceration of the Patriots. Because Hell World is heavy, we got into some heavier current events.

Charles Star - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social

Luke O'Neil - https://bsky.app/profile/lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Buy Luke's books and subscribe to his newsletter at https://www.welcometohellworld.com/

Thanks to LunarSnow for sound engineering.

Charles Star and L. Ron Mexico are joined by Tampa's Jeb "@mobute" Lund of the It's Christmastown podcast after the awful loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Additional sadness provided by our Man in the Dome, Ron's offline friend Chris.

Thanks to Dan Parshall for sound editing in a hurry. You can find his band, Candy Necklace, at https://candynecklacephl.bandcamp.com/album/no-life-low-life.