Starting 5

The tournament is upon us! Dillon and Cohost Cody (along with our wonderful team of sideline reporters and statisticians) break down the first round's left side of the bracket. Matchups include:

A seemingly obvious 1 seed Luigi's Haunter's Mansion vs 16 seed MonStars.

A high-scoring 5 seed The Fellowship of the Court vs the beasts from the east(ern Europe) 12 seed The Bulgarian International Quidditch Team. 

A tricky game between 4 seed Thrash and 13 seed Strider.

And a gritty 8 vs 9 game that sees the Grrrrrreat Ones take on Wo-Hop's Chinese Takeout.

In the opening games of the postseason, Dillon and Cohost Cody dive objectively too deeply into the two play-in games. Four teams enter, two teams progress into the tournament. Equipped with arbitrary stats, ESPY-winning sideline reporting, and limitless wit, the boys trim the fat.

It's finally here! The regular season has wrapped up and it's time for Dillon and Cohost Cody to unveil the top 16 teams who made the Starting 5 Tournament. We discussed this for a mean three hours, but with ya'll in mind we condensed it to just a few minutes. 

No Tax Cody and My Lovely Girlfriend Zöe face off in an Actors Who Played The Avengers draft. Not the Avengers, but the actors themselves. Cody has met Dave Bautista and that's cool as shit. Zöe gets her heart broken by missing out on a certain actor whom she openly likes more than me. 

This episode is dedicated to Chadwick Boseman. May he get his much-deserved rest.

The pod welcomes my lovely girlfriend, Zöe Zander, for an episode that teeters on becoming rather esoteric. That's right, we're talking dead authors. From Roald Dahl's arial misfortunes to John Steinbeck's big, sensual hands, we leave no stone unturned. No Tax Cody steps into the moderator role to dish out his usual high level of wisdom.

It's vengeance time at Starting 5. No Tax Cody comes back to try and right some wrongs in this Prequel Trilogy Star Wars draft. Isaac tries out the moderator role for the first time. At one point I call Jimmy Butler Jimmy Buffett, and you know what? I'm okay with that.

Kindergarten Friend Isaac swings back by to talk NFL Hall of Famers. Dillon explains that if there's a single stat that translates directly from football to basketball, it's interceptions returned for touchdowns. No Tax Cody reveals his points-based system of moderating.

When I look at you,

Andrew steps into the lead role to fill us in on the tallest, meanest, flashiest, least-likely-to-play-basketball 80s singers while Vinny takes the moderator role and does nothing to stop bias from swaying his decision.

Fan Favorite Vinny returns to talk cinematic hoops. From Space Jam and Semi-Pro to He Got Game and Juwannamann, this draft of basketball movie characters dredges up all the favorites you never knew you had. Andrew "My Roommate" Berenfeld hops on to calm the nerves and deliver a verdict.

No Tax Cody and Jalen wake up early, race each other down the hall, jockey for position in the pantry, nearly spill the milk, push each other out of their respective chairs, and have a good old fashioned thumb war before sitting down and clearing up the greatest debate of all time: can Tony the Tiger dunk from the 3-point line? Dillon attempts to reign in a truly unhinged Cereal Mascots draft.