The Back Wall

On the art, meaning, and potential doom of the great American organized religion. With audibles at the LOS from Chuck Klosterman's 2026 book Football and Camille Paglia's essay "Gridiron Feminism."

This is the final chapter of The Back Wall.

Thank you all for listening and supporting over the years. The catalog will remain here, but future collaborations with Alec and Glen will be on their flagship programs, Filthy Armenian Adventures and Rare Candy. We hope you've had fun with us.

We are back for an in-depth review of the kollege kiffin koaching karousel and an update on the meaning sports provides to our lives.

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On a very somber day, we distract ourselves with memories of what high school football used to mean, as depicted in the morally corrupt but pornographically joyous film VARSITY BLUES (1999)

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We are BACK to inaugurate the 2025 college football season with a review of the surprisingly good Netflix docu-series ANY GIVEN SATURDAY and analyze its rare insights into the coaching personalities of the SEC, which inspires us to brainstorm a genius plan for saving Hawaii football.

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We appreciate Oliver Stone's underrated high-speed NFL opera ANY GIVEN SUNDAY (1999), with its sneak preview of Diddy freak offs, starring Pacino Diaz Quaid and Jamie Foxx. We also cover the cuck scandal featuring Steve Smith Sr. and and a new confession that the Richie Icognito bullying scandal was fake.

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We ponder the eternal youth of new Raiders coach Pete Carroll and try to fix the dismal failing state of the NBA, MLB, and NHL.

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The ramifications of Bill Belichick seeking his thrill on Chapel Hill, another tired NFL zoomer, and thoughts on this year's coaching carousel and the NFL vs college debate.

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We make our endorsements for today's election, review the Dodgers World Series title, and check on the state of college football in the post-Saban era.

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Adam returns to review the new Netflix docu-series Mr. McMahon, talk our favorite wrestlers, and analyze how Vince McMahon merged soap opera with live sport to create a supremely American phenomenon. 

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Adam is the host of System of Systems and the author of Safety Propaganda

Before a heartfelt appreciation of the toxic masculinity cinema classic Major League (1989), we review the drags, intersex knockouts, and pole vault cockblocks of the Paris Olympics.

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