New Calendar Year, New Bumper music, might as well be a new season. Brandon and Tyler have Nick Bruesewitz on the show to talk about NIL and the transfer portal before moving to RSNs failing, and which teams are affected by it, and baseball.

Brandon goes over the MLB trades and free agency signings for December.





This is a replace audio/ reupload due to a point brought up where I could be barely heard -Brandon

We apologize for the less than good audio quality, especially with the mic Tyler was using, we were recording at home during a flash freeze and it always sounds better in studio

ANYWAYS, we go over our christmas traditions and a short history of Santa Claus/ St Nicholas, the Patron Saint of Children and Sailors.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Brandon and Tyler bring on fill in host Brad but this time as a guest to talk sports, mostly hockey, but some other sports too. It's Hockey Time!


At somepoint Tyler gets hungry and then a little hangry at the end to add an extra layer.

We start a hot stove tracker. This is the one that is for after the World Series up to November 25th 2025.

All uploads from 11-25 had a post edit addition where Brandon recorded a couple of lines from home while everything else was in studio.

Tyler essentially does a solo episode on
affordability. Brandon just does the outro and adds on a little bit of info at the end. We did this one a little differently than how we usually do episodes.

Affordability is a big problem in the
 US in 2025 with the three main factors of Envy, Inflation, and Greed. 

All uploads from 11-25 had a post edit addition where Brandon recorded a couple of lines from home while everything else was in studio.

Here are some articles referenced and the Terrance Wall Segment (First about half hour-ish of the last link sent):

https://substack.com/@toddsheets/note/p-178973797?r=5xf2aus.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/media/james-carville-warns-dems-to-address-affordability-crisis-or-this-thing-could-break/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/affordability-2025-inflation-food-prices-housing-child-care-health-costs/

https://wiba.iheart.com/featured/vicki-mckenna/content/2025-11-25-426-the-vicki-mckenna-show-vicki-mckenna-show-affordable-housing/

Tyler wanted to do a baseball season postmortem so we go over the baseball season in retrospect, the  AL MVP Race Results and why the few of those in the Writers Association voted the way they did.

If you want to read the article yourself: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6796468/2025/11/13/al-mvp-voters-cal-raleigh-aaron-judge-decision/
The Writers who voted for AL MVP, a good portion of them put up their reasoning in articles and on Twitter/X.

Dr. Allsen's Book: https://allsenmusic.com/HISTORY/A_Century_of_the_MSO.html
https://littlecreekpress.com/product/a-century-of-the-madison-symphony-orchestra/

Brandon goes solo after reading baseball online circles and wanted to go over MLB deferred money, payroll, salary cap idea, and go a little over the MLB 2025 Postseason


Note from Brandon: I rambled at somepoint but I forgot to turn my mic back on so I redid about 10 minutes worth to the best of my ability of what I said when the mic was off. Probably lost about 2 to 5 minutes of info from it.

Tyler wanted to do a special rememberance for Charlie Kirk for his birthday 10/14.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated about a month ago and a month ago we had our inital shock reaction and this one is more of a postmortem kind of episode connecting to it.

Brandon and Tyler break down their MLB playoff Brackets, well Brandon focus a bit more on his joke bracket as well as the post season matchups.