What is the Pac-12? Is it full of the right kinds of cholesterol? What happens if you put the Pac-12 in water? Does the Pac-12 come in Portuguese? These are not the questions we asked Pacific Takes founder Avi Kunnath about his favored conference, because they do not make any sense. But we do talk about Seventh Heaven and puberty, so.

Baseball's trade deadline has passed, and - what? Of course we knew it was the trade deadline. Why would you even suggest otherwise? We looked it up and everything. Then we talked to Camden Chat's Stacey Folkemer and Grant Brisbee of McCovey Chronicles about the day's trades and what it means for the Orioles, Giants, and their division rivals.

Ryan also asks Jon questions about condiments.

True NBA fans know the purest basketball can only be found at the Vegas Summer League, where everyone shoots poorly and hardly anyone is paying attention. We talk to basketball fashionista Mike Prada about improving the Summer League trophies, Vegas nightlife, and why Tim Duncan should be destroying rookies for our amusement.

The Tour de France is one of the oldest and most elegant ways in which a person can nearly kill oneself for sport, and our guest Pete Holby helps us learn what makes it so appealing, whether it will ever appeal to a broader American audience, and why Lance Armstrong does not care what you think as long as he beats you.

NBA Free Agency is in full swing, so Jon and Ryan go all-out with a triple header episode featuring Seth Rosenthal on the New York Knicks, Rebecca Lawson on the Dallas Mavericks, and Ricky O'Donnell on the Chicago Bulls. They're all faced with the same tough question: who will win the heart of basketball's greatest free agent, Chris "Birdman" Andersen?

Ryan picks Jon's brain to understand how one man can spend so much time ruining the hard work of video game programmers. We also talk about which episode of Breaking Madden is Jon's favorite and decide that Paperboy IS a sports game. Though an extremely depressing one.

Jon has fled the United States for reasons we cannot disclose, so Ryan subs in Dan Rubenstein to talk with Spencer Hall about the most optimistic and realistic hopes for the USMNT in the World Cup, why Luis Suarez is the Jack Bauer of soccer, and the best national team nicknames. GO COPPER BULLETS!

Terrible impressions of Vin Scully calling a wrestling match, Jon's defense mechanisms as a Royals fan, and Paul Konerko the Teenage Witch. These are but a few of the distractions we sprinkle in around the knowledge and insight generously provided by baseball writer Cee Angi.

Jon and Ryan talk to basketball wonderwriter Paul Flannery about Games 1 and 2 of the 2014 Finals, including the 17th best player between the Spurs and Heat, why LeBron James is proof we can't have nice things, and the terrible version of basketball Gregg Popovich dreams of.