Let's Settle This

By Grant Denison and Jonathan LevyLeisure

Let's Settle This episodes

March 10 Let’s Fix the NBA: The Rule Changes That Could Save the League
Is the modern NBA actually getting harder to watch? In this episode of Let’s Settle This, Grant and Jonathan dive into the rule changes that could make the league better for fans.

We throw out a whole slate of ideas: pushing back the three-point line, introducing a four-point line, cracking down hard on flopping, and finding ways to stop the endless complaining at referees. We also debate whether failed challenges should carry bigger penalties, if teams should be allowed franchise player tags, and whether the 82-game season is simply too long.

Plus, we explore bigger structural ideas like division realignment and using Elam Ending–style play to eliminate the late-game free-throw parade.

Some of these ideas might be brilliant. Some might be chaos. But the real question is: which ones would actually make the NBA better to watch?

Let’s settle this.

🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer in TV, movies, or sports and they get to the bottom of it! Best TV shows? Movies you should see? Best dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.

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⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:30 Planet Money Messes Up
7:05 NBA Rule Changes
7:25 3 Point Line
11:57 4 Point Line
18:10 Flopping Suspensions
19:17 No More Complaining
23:03 Challenges
30:20 Defensive Play
38:22 Franchise Players
45:24 Shorten the Season
51:50 Realign Divisions
54:45 3 Point Fouls
57:07 End of Game
1:01:54 No More Fouling Out
1 hr 14 min
March 03 The Ultimate March Watchlist: What’s a Must & What’s a Pass?
New month, new overload of shows and movies. We’re drafting, debating, and calling our shots on Project Hail Mary, For All Mankind, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, Scarpetta, DTF St. Louis, The Gates, and more. What’s can’t-miss? What’s overhyped? Let’s settle it.

🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer in TV, movies, or sports and they get to the bottom of it! Best TV shows? Movies you should see? Best dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.

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⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:16 DTF St. Louis
2:32 Rooster
5:04 Scarpetta
7:19 The Gates
12:42 Imperfect Women
14:40 Project Hail Mary
21:27 Jury Duty: Company Retreat
26:17 Bait
30:48 For All Mankind, S5
34:32 Let's Settle This
36 min
February 24 One of the Best First Seasons Ever? | Let's Settle This
With the season finale in the books, we ask the big question: has Knight of the Seven Kingdoms already earned a place among the greatest first seasons of all time? Grant and Jonathan look at the characters, the risks, the payoff, and how it stacks up against the TV heavyweights.

🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer in TV, movies, or sports and they get to the bottom of it! Best TV shows? Movies you should see? Best dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.

👇 Watch, listen, and join the debate 👇
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🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-settle-this/id1845368464

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⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:57 The Final Episode
2:17 An All Time Show?
5:50 Shorter Show to Fill
10:20 Other Great First Seasons
10:42 The Pitt vs Ko7K?
10:53 Severance vs Ko7k?
12:38 The Bear vs Ko7K?
14:28 Last of Us vs Ko7K?
17:14 The Rehearsal vs Ko7K?
19:57 White Lotus? Ted Lasso? Andor?
26:46 Fleabag?
29:30 Game of Thrones S1 vs KO7K?
35:23 West Wing?
37:11 Breaking Bad?
41:05 Ozark?
43:00 Succession?
44:31 True Detective? Adolescence?
46:19 The Wire
47:30 Let's Settle This
49:11 Bonus Dispute
52 min
February 23 Let’s Fix NBA Tanking: 11 Wild Ideas, 1 Real Solution
NBA tanking is broken… so how do you actually solve it? We run through eleven possible fixes—from abolishing the lottery and the draft to relegation, fewer games, paying for wins, and fully randomizing the order—and argue our way toward the one that might really work.
Which idea saves the league, and which ones make everything worse?

🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer in TV, movies, or sports and they get to the bottom of it! Best TV shows? Movies you should see? Best dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.

👇 Watch, listen, and join the debate 👇
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⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:46 Abolish the Lottery?
3:16 Abolish the Draft?
7:53 Same Lottery Odds?
11:55 No Pick Protections?
17:08 Relegation?
21:59 Fewer Games?
24:21 Play for Picks?
29:29 Pay for Wins?
32:22 COLA Option?
39:17 Wins as Losses?
42:32 Randomize?
46:53 Let's Settle This!
50 min
February 16 Oscar Edition: So What's 2025's Best Film? | Let's Settle This Ep. 8
The Oscars are almost here, which means it’s time to argue about movies. We revisit 2025’s biggest contenders — including Train Dreams, Bugonia, and One Battle After Another — and try to settle once and for all which film stands above the rest.🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer in TV, movies, or sports and they get to the bottom of it! Best TV shows? Movies you should see? Best dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.

👇 Watch, listen, and join the debate 👇
🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2a1xfqpzroUz84HbyglomX
🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-settle-this/id1845368464

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⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:27 2025 a Good Year?
7:40 Sinners
10:55 Marty Supreme
14:07 Train Dreams
19:33 Mountainhead
20:21 Bugonia
30:28 One Battle After Another
45:20 Best Actor & Actress
49:26 Other Movies to Note
52:08 Knight of the 7 Kingdoms Still Killing It
54 min
February 03 Let’s Settle This, Ep. 7: Is Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Already Show of the Year?
It’s only February, but Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has us wondering if we’re already watching one of the best shows of the year. In this episode, we break down the first three episodes—why the pacing works, why we keep watching even when “nothing” is happening, and whether this story would be just as compelling without the Game of Thrones name attached.
🎯 Welcome to Let’s Settle This, the show where we look at TV, movies, sports, and special events and turn them into full-contact conversations. Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into topical debates and try to get to the bottom of it. Best show on TV? Movies worth seeing? Dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.👇 Watch, listen, and join the debate 👇🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2a1xfqpzroUz84HbyglomX🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-settle-this/id1845368464📱 Follow @LSTTheShowTwitter → https://twitter.com/LSTTheShowInstagram → https://instagram.com/LSTTheShowYouTube → https://youtube.com/@LSTTheShow📩 Got a hot take or debate to settle? Email us: [email protected]⏱️ Timestamps:0:00 Spoiler Alert0:14 Monster Hog1:23 Episodes 2 & 33:37 Where Does It Rank?4:10 Tom Cruise Cakes6:05 Grant's Take12:00 Sold on Dunk12:50 Dunk and Egg15:10 Is it THAT Baelor?16:54 Lack of Fan Service17:48 Yes, Starfleet Academy Still Sucks19:31 Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is Awesome
25 min
January 27 Let’s Settle This: What’s Actually Worth Watching in February 2026?
February always looks stacked—but not everything deserves your time.

In this episode of Let’s Settle This, we run through what’s hitting screens, stadiums, and streaming queues in February 2026 and try to separate the real must-watches from the stuff that just looks good on paper.

We dig into the big cultural moments—the Winter Olympics, the Super Bowl, and the NBA All-Star Game—alongside a packed slate of movies and TV, including Burbs, Crime 101, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Wuthering Heights, How to Make a Killing, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, Paradise Season 2, Scrubs, and Monarch Season 2.

As always, this isn’t just a list—it’s a debate. What’s overhyped? What might sneak up on us? And what are we genuinely excited (or deeply skeptical) about heading into February?

🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer in TV, movies, or sports and they get to the bottom of it! Best TV shows? Movies you should see? Best dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.

👇 Watch, listen, and join the debate 👇
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📩 Got a hot take or debate to settle? Email us: [email protected]

⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Olympics
9:55 Super Bowl
12:28 The Burbs
15:46 Crime 101
18:29 Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
24:23 Wuthering Heights
28:06 NBA All Star Game
34:22 How to Make a Killing
40:21 Paradise
43:47 Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
48:08 Scrubs
51:17 Monarch
54:08 Let's Settle This!
57 min
January 26 Two New Pilots, Two Completely Different Outcomes—Here's Why
Back in January, we talked about the shows we were most excited to see in 2026. Now the pilots are here—and we went back to see how that anticipation held up.

This week, we revisit Starfleet Academy and A Knight of the 7 Kingdoms, digging into first impressions, tone, expectations, and what makes a pilot actually work. One show surprised us. One didn’t land the way we hoped. And both sparked bigger questions about franchises, storytelling scale, and what we really want from these worlds right now.

No spoilers—just honest reactions. Let’s settle this.

🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer in TV, movies, or sports and they get to the bottom of it! Best TV shows? Movies you should see? Best dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.

👇 Watch, listen, and join the debate 👇
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🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-settle-this/id1845368464

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⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:53 Starfleet Academy
1:37 Paul Giamatti
4:20 This Show is Bad
5:39 Holly Hunter
6:20 Boring Plot
7:50 Lead Role
8:50 Bad Writing
9:34 Not Because "Woke"
12:14 Just Really Bad
22:10 Knight of the 7 Kingdoms
23:42 No Geopolitics
27:00 Dunk as Lead
32:50 Defending Giamatti
35:02 Psst, Ponies is Good
37 min
January 13 Let's Settle This (Sports): We Power Ranked the Remaining NFL Playoff Teams — Who’s #1?
Only the best teams are left — and we’re ranking them.
In this episode of Let’s Settle This, we power rank the remaining NFL playoff teams after Wild Card Weekend and argue over who deserves the top spot heading into the Divisional Round.

Agree? Disagree? That’s the point.

🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer in TV, movies, or sports and they get to the bottom of it! Best TV shows? Movies you should see? Best dunk of the year? Yeah — we’re settling that.

👇 Watch, listen, and join the debate 👇
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🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-settle-this/id1845368464

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⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:09 Bills
3:11 Broncos
6:35 Texans
9:04 Steelers
12:10 Patriots
17:07 49ers
18:45 Seahawks
27:30 Rams
32:04 Bears
40:05 Super Bowl Predictions
44 min
January 06 January 2026 TV Power Rankings: What to Watch First (and Skip) | Let's Settle This Ep 3
In this week’s Let’s Settle This, we rank January 2026’s most and least anticipated TV shows and argue what belongs at the top of your watchlist.
Shows discussed: The Pitt, The Night Manager, Hijack, Ponies, Starfleet Academy, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Beauty, Wonder Man, Shrinking, and Bridgerton.
Comment on the episode with your own rankings and hottest takes.

🎯 Let’s Settle This turns hypotheticals into full-contact conversation.
Every week, Grant and Jonathan dive into something that needs a definitive answer and they get to the bottom of it! Deadly game shows? Thanksgiving sides? Shows to watch? Yeah — we’re settling all that.

👇 Watch, listen, and join the debate 👇
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2a1xfqpzroUz84HbyglomX
🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-settle-this/id1845368464

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⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:39 The Pitt
10:24 Night Manager
14:24 HiJack
18:43 Ponies
25:58 Starfleet Academy
32:09 Knight of 7 Kingdoms
38:10 The Beauty
43:32 Wonder Man
47:24 Shrinking
52:46 Bridgerton
58:45 Let's Settle This!
1 hr 3 min