This week on The Houli’s Hooley, it’s just Paddy and Bill with Clay being missed dearly. The boys head to their alma mater Mount Carmel High School for a nationally televised football game and discover that the old neighborhood stadium has become the Super Bowl. Jumbotrons, ESPN cameras, merch tents, tailgating campers, sponsorship activations and enough college recruits on the field to make you wonder if somebody accidentally scheduled the NFL Draft. Paddy starts talking to the production guys and suddenly finds himself standing in the middle of the High School NIL Industrial Complex. Sixteen-year-olds have agents. Kids are making serious endorsement money. Highlight-reel companies are turning linebackers into media properties. CAA is involved. Brands are involved. Everybody is involved. The only people who may not know what’s happening are the parents and the kids actually signing the contracts. So naturally, Paddy and Bill decide they should start a national Athlete Protection Association. Forget the NCAA. Forget the lawyers. The Houli bros. are coming. Contract reviews! Agent background checks! An athlete-safe business certification! A hotline for confused parents! Maybe a laminated wallet card! Before long, they’re basically running the AARP for teenage football players, except instead of Medicare it’s protecting your kid from signing a 47-page deal with Whammy Burger. From there, things get completely stupid. They get into Sox promotional disasters, high school football movies, Wrigleyville T-shirt hustlers, K-pop merchandise, Little League kids with their own camera crews, the Pet Shop Boys and why every new business venture apparently needs a theme song. Plus, a proper Labor Day salute to the unions while Paddy and Bill attempt to unionize children who still have homework. It’s high school football, NIL money, corporate America, teenage millionaires and two Houlihans trying to save the youth of America from bad contracts. What could possibly go wrong?
Sponsored By: Fox’s Pizza (Mokena and Orland Park), Flood Bros., Madden Funds and Local 150 Engineers

This week on The Houli’s Hooley, it’s just Paddy and Bill with Clay being missed dearly. The boys head to their alma mater Mount Carmel High School for a nationally televised football game and discover that the old neighborhood stadium has become the Super Bowl. Jumbotrons, ESPN cameras, merch tents, tailgating campers, sponsorship activations and enough college recruits on the field to make you wonder if somebody accidentally scheduled the NFL Draft. Paddy starts talking to the production guys and suddenly finds himself standing in the middle of the High School NIL Industrial Complex. Sixteen-year-olds have agents. Kids are making serious endorsement money. Highlight-reel companies are turning linebackers into media properties. CAA is involved. Brands are involved. Everybody is involved. The only people who may not know what’s happening are the parents and the kids actually signing the contracts. So naturally, Paddy and Bill decide they should start a national Athlete Protection Association. Forget the NCAA. Forget the lawyers. The Houli bros. are coming. Contract reviews! Agent background checks! An athlete-safe business certification! A hotline for confused parents! Maybe a laminated wallet card! Before long, they’re basically running the AARP for teenage football players, except instead of Medicare it’s protecting your kid from signing a 47-page deal with Whammy Burger. From there, things get completely stupid. They get into Sox promotional disasters, high school football movies, Wrigleyville T-shirt hustlers, K-pop merchandise, Little League kids with their own camera crews, the Pet Shop Boys and why every new business venture apparently needs a theme song. Plus, a proper Labor Day salute to the unions while Paddy and Bill attempt to unionize children who still have homework. It’s high school football, NIL money, corporate America, teenage millionaires and two Houlihans trying to save the youth of America from bad contracts. What could possibly go wrong? Sponsored By: Fox’s Pizza (Mokena and Orland Park), Flood Bros., Madden Funds and Local 150 Engineers

This week on The Houli’s Hooley, it’s just Paddy and Bill with Clay being missed dearly. The boys head to their alma mater Mount Carmel High School for a nationally televised football game and discover that the old neighborhood stadium has become the Super Bowl. Jumbotrons, ESPN cameras, merch tents, tailgating campers, sponsorship activations and enough college recruits on the field to make you wonder if somebody accidentally scheduled the NFL Draft. Paddy starts talking to the production guys and suddenly finds himself standing in the middle of the High School NIL Industrial Complex. Sixteen-year-olds have agents. Kids are making serious endorsement money. Highlight-reel companies are turning linebackers into media properties. CAA is involved. Brands are involved. Everybody is involved. The only people who may not know what’s happening are the parents and the kids actually signing the contracts. So naturally, Paddy and Bill decide they should start a national Athlete Protection Association. Forget the NCAA. Forget the lawyers. The Houli bros. are coming. Contract reviews! Agent background checks! An athlete-safe business certification! A hotline for confused parents! Maybe a laminated wallet card! Before long, they’re basically running the AARP for teenage football players, except instead of Medicare it’s protecting your kid from signing a 47-page deal with Whammy Burger. From there, things get completely stupid. They get into Sox promotional disasters, high school football movies, Wrigleyville T-shirt hustlers, K-pop merchandise, Little League kids with their own camera crews, the Pet Shop Boys and why every new business venture apparently needs a theme song. Plus, a proper Labor Day salute to the unions while Paddy and Bill attempt to unionize children who still have homework. It’s high school football, NIL money, corporate America, teenage millionaires and two Houlihans trying to save the youth of America from bad contracts. What could possibly go wrong?
Sponsored By: Fox’s Pizza (Mokena and Orland Park), Flood Bros., Madden Funds and Local 150 Engineers

Houli’s Hooley Sat. Sept. 5, 2026

This Week on The Houli’s Hooley: Paddy, Bill, and Clay are back from the so called Irish Riviera, Long Beach / New Buffalo, where the Houlihans enjoyed the annual family beach getaway, while poor Charlotte spent much of it battling a summer cold. From there, the lads wander into a wild discussion about nicknames, small talk, old school Chicago etiquette, and the increasingly dangerous world of saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. Back in the real world, school is in session and the sixth graders at Paddy’s son’s school are already embroiled in a bullying text thread, which naturally inspires the birth of “Grade School Weekly,” an underground, Onion style gossip rag for grammar schools. Then it’s time for Illinois high school football. The guys break down Mount Carmel’s loss to East St. Louis, Nazareth getting knocked off by IC and the return of college football. Naturally, that leads to the inevitable discussion of gambling on high school sports. Chicago baseball gets its turn, with the White Sox somehow entering the conversation as a potential division contender, Cubs Diamondbacks sign stealing allegations, and the dream or nightmare of a Sox Cubs World Series. They also kick around the latest Bears stadium possibilities and wonder whether Hawthorne Race Course could become the next Arlington Heights. Throw in Tupac, grammar school bullying, tattoos on professional athletes, and a brief detour into whether grown men should take up gymnastics after 40, and you’ve got another gloriously unhinged hour of The Houli’s Hooley.

This Week on The Houli’s Hooley: Paddy, Bill, and Clay are back from the so called Irish Riviera, Long Beach / New Buffalo, where the Houlihans enjoyed the annual family beach getaway, while poor Charlotte spent much of it battling a summer cold. From there, the lads wander into a wild discussion about nicknames, small talk, old school Chicago etiquette, and the increasingly dangerous world of saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. Back in the real world, school is in session and the sixth graders at Paddy’s son’s school are already embroiled in a bullying text thread, which naturally inspires the birth of “Grade School Weekly,” an underground, Onion style gossip rag for grammar schools. Then it’s time for Illinois high school football. The guys break down Mount Carmel’s loss to East St. Louis, Nazareth getting knocked off by IC and the return of college football. Naturally, that leads to the inevitable discussion of gambling on high school sports. Chicago baseball gets its turn, with the White Sox somehow entering the conversation as a potential division contender, Cubs Diamondbacks sign stealing allegations, and the dream or nightmare of a Sox Cubs World Series. They also kick around the latest Bears stadium possibilities and wonder whether Hawthorne Race Course could become the next Arlington Heights. Throw in Tupac, grammar school bullying, tattoos on professional athletes, and a brief detour into whether grown men should take up gymnastics after 40, and you’ve got another gloriously unhinged hour of The Houli’s Hooley.

This Week on The Houli’s Hooley: Paddy, Bill, and Clay are back from the so called Irish Riviera, Long Beach / New Buffalo, where the Houlihans enjoyed the annual family beach getaway, while poor Charlotte spent much of it battling a summer cold. From there, the lads wander into a wild discussion about nicknames, small talk, old school Chicago etiquette, and the increasingly dangerous world of saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. Back in the real world, school is in session and the sixth graders at Paddy’s son’s school are already embroiled in a bullying text thread, which naturally inspires the birth of “Grade School Weekly,” an underground, Onion style gossip rag for grammar schools. Then it’s time for Illinois high school football. The guys break down Mount Carmel’s loss to East St. Louis, Nazareth getting knocked off by IC and the return of college football. Naturally, that leads to the inevitable discussion of gambling on high school sports. Chicago baseball gets its turn, with the White Sox somehow entering the conversation as a potential division contender, Cubs Diamondbacks sign stealing allegations, and the dream or nightmare of a Sox Cubs World Series. They also kick around the latest Bears stadium possibilities and wonder whether Hawthorne Race Course could become the next Arlington Heights. Throw in Tupac, grammar school bullying, tattoos on professional athletes, and a brief detour into whether grown men should take up gymnastics after 40, and you’ve got another gloriously unhinged hour of The Houli’s Hooley.

Houli’s Hooley Sat. August 29, 2026

McCann’s Irish Oatmeal presents The Houli’s Hooley and our terrible trio begin this week’s show by looking back over their past week’s adventures including Clay’s trip to LA and Bill’s new car. In sports this week, the guys focus on the success of The Cubs and their nationwide fans but Clay is standing strong with […]

Podcast: October 15, 2016

McCann’s Irish Oatmeal presents The Houli’s Hooley and this week, we have a very special guest on the show. Our old pal, Steve Fleming, joins us on the phone all the way from LA. Steve and our hosts go way back and he tells us about how he met the guys and about his time […]

Podcast: October 8, 2016

McCann’s Irish Oatmeal presents The Houli’s Hooley and this week we have three very special guests joining us in the studio. FND films is run by Aaron Fronk, Vinny DeGaetano and Paddy’s brother in law, Cooper Johnson and they joined us on the phone to discuss their new movie, ‘It’s All Good‘. The guys tell us […]

McCann’s Irish Oatmeal presents The Houli’s Hooley and this week we have three very special guests joining us in the studio. FND films is run by Aaron Fronk, Vinny DeGaetano and Paddy’s brother in law, Cooper Johnson and they joined us on the phone to discuss their new movie, ‘It’s All Good‘. The guys tell us […]

McCann’s Irish Oatmeal presents The Houli’s Hooley and this week we have three very special guests joining us in the studio. FND films&nbsp;is run by Aaron Fronk, Vinny DeGaetano and Paddy’s brother in law, Cooper Johnson and they joined us on the phone to discuss their new movie, ‘It’s All Good‘. The guys tell us […]

Podcast: October 1, 2016

McCann’s Irish Oatmeal presents The Houli’s Hooley and this week, we have a very special guest on the show. Chicago Legend and former Teamster Local 714 Union leader, William Hogan Jr.  joins us this week to tell us about his new documentary film, ‘A Battle for Free Speech‘. It tells the story of the Government […]

McCann’s Irish Oatmeal presents The Houli’s Hooley and this week, we have a very special guest on the show. Chicago Legend and former Teamster Local 714 Union leader, William Hogan Jr. joins us this week to tell us about his new documentary film, ‘A Battle for Free Speech‘. It tells the story of the Government […]

McCann’s Irish Oatmeal presents The Houli’s Hooley and this week, we have a very special guest on the show. Chicago Legend and former Teamster Local 714 Union leader, William Hogan Jr. &nbsp;joins us this week to tell us about his new documentary film, ‘A Battle for Free Speech‘. It tells the story of the Government […]

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