It's the Olympic Games! We are in favor of them! First proper Olympics in pod history and the start of our first proper Olympics coverage. It's Olympic overload baby.

There's also another game we've been obsessing over that got a shout at the end, so expect more from that.

Positive stuff first! The Euros are cool and fun and so is this summer of sport!

But more pressingly, the U.S. Men's National Team continues to be an absolute embarrassment, thanks in no small part to one Gregg Berhalter. He must go.

We had some technical difficulties halfway through the pod, so we had switch audio sources, but its well worth it for a LEGENDARY Nick rant in the final third. It's one of this pod's finest angry moments.

I finally done did it! Here every detail of our Golden State escapades here!

The Oakland A's are officially no more, bolting for the Westworld of Sacramento ahead of eventual Vegas gloom.

That's bad and sad and we tell you why.

Also, Nebraska's administration is scared of losing Big Ten membership. We should probably be scared too.

Our dear leader has left us for the great military cult in the sky.

Why'd he ruin us? We have a real deal intelligent discussion as to why.

(I'm tooting our horn here cause I think we nailed it and cause some people aren't on our wavelength like this and that's okay)

But on the way out he gifted us with two GLORIOUS REVENGE opportunities in the men's and women's tournaments.

We break those down here, and Justin lets people know why this has to be the Nebraska men's team that changes everything and foreshadows why every upset that can happen will happen (but more on that at sidecharacters.substack.com)

Also tried some new audio editing techniques out on this one where we both have shoddy internet so lmk if its not what you want it to sound like

I found the cake pic on Pinterest that's not an original btw

For the first time in show history, Nebraska men's basketball is the lead story! Is this what winning feels like?

From there, we go to the Husker football team's greatest win since we started the show, naturally coming off the field, and we get the long awaited return of Nick's Foreign Sports Corner to close it out!

s/o twitter user huskerfan4life9 for the image i'm using for episode art, love the Husker meme brigade

New 'puter so there may be some audio problems, but i think i know what's wrong if there is in fact something wrong

Nebraska had four chances to make a bowl game, and it lost every single one of them. Happy happy fun times are no more.

That is what we spend the first part of the episode talking about.

The second half is about possibly the most different thing from that we could be talking about.

As a taste, we reference the geographical visual aids from this Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area

ENjoy! (lots of angry words in this one, you can understand why)

Nebraska is 5-3, far and away the best record it has had since we started this thing.

We're not entirely sure what to do with ourselves.

We did open with smack talking Iowa as well as every other volleyball program that isn't as good as ours (which is every other volleyball program in the country, especially Wisconsin) so at least tune in for that .

Well whaddaya know we finally got to the biggest news of the offseason right in the middle of the season

Stay for detours about deserts, books, state university system nomenclature and more!

Come for breaking down the B1G Westiest game to ever B1G West (image related) , stay for the best story in the HSTory of the MIST TWST rebrand.