3:35 WCPSS Updates- The Bros discuss the School Board decision for high school to stay online for the duration of the first semester as well as the somewhat surprising vote to send 4-8th graders back to school in-person.

12:15 Interview- Sydney Howard & Ellie McIntyre. High School sports in Wake County are back! We celebrate their return by talking to to Cross Country athletes about how much they’ve missed their team and why they love running. We also talk about online school and their thoughts on where they want to learn the rest of the year, DECA, being a RAKtivist, Rhodes tells two weird cat stories, and we open up the mailbag for a tough question about plagiarism.

45:30 Game- 20 Questions! We bring back Will’s least favorite games, as he and our two guests compete in two rounds. In Round 1, they try to guess a person who is a member of the Holly Springs community, and in Round 2 they are guessing a celebrity.

1:05:00 Draft- Best Debates. We aren’t going to talk about the Presidential debate, but we will draft some of the greatest and age-old debates or questions people around the world have been wondering for generations! At the very end, Rhodes shares some controversial thoughts on Santa.

5:20- We talk about what we think should happen and what we think the School Board will vote to do in regards to a possible return to in-person school.

14:00- Interview with HSHS sophomores Sarah Manasier & Hannah Lowe. They talk about the transition from middle school to high school and their advice to someone starting high school, their thoughts on online learning, take a driving safety quiz, and talk Tik Tok, Outer Banks, and the smells of fall.

49:30 Game- Catchphrase. We split up teams as Rhodes and Sarah challenge Will and Hannah in catchphrase supremacy as they also try to beat the clock and finish recording before everyone has to go to their 4th period class.

56:30 Draft- Dinosaurs. Rhodes and Will take a leisurely stroll through Jurassic Park and choose their favorites dinosaurs. You will learn so many fun dino facts during this segment.

0:00- We talk National Pet Bird Day, the joy you’ll receive from sending in a mailbag question, and the biggest draft voting travesty in podcast history.

7:30- We touch on the news from this week’s school board meeting that WCPSS will be permitting athletic teams to work out as well as our thoughts on the state playoff format for this weird high school sports year—which we desperately hope ends up happening.

15:00 Interview with HSHS Assistant Principal, Mr. Baughan- We talk to him about what his job looks like during online school, how he decided to become an AP, some qualities of an effective AP, the best and most powerful responsibility that he has, what makes Holly Springs such a great place, and he has to make a couple of tough choices between Will and Rhodes.

28:30 “Baughan-ding Time”- We play some classic First Day of School get to know you games with Mr. Baughan including talking about what animal we are most like, what we are the best at, something on our bucket list, something about us that would surprise people, and who our favorite high school teachers were.

50:50 Draft- Best TV Stations. Forget Netflix and Hulu, we are never cutting the cord as we draft our favorite tv stations.

5:00 Interview- Jake Blendermann. He talks about how he ended up at UCF, applying for scholarships (with our first ever Real Bros live poetry reading), and joins the Bros in talking about how things went with their freshman roommates as well as whether or not people in college should get pets. With this week being National Suicide Awareness Week, they also talk about mental health and how exercise and physical activity can help in that area.

34:00 Holly Springs Soccer Trivia- Jake and Will try to answer some questions to see who knows the the team Jake played on (and Will coached) best.

44:30 Game- Riddles. We see how crafty Jake and Will are, as they try (and in large part fail) to answer some riddles.

55:00 Draft- Disney/Pixar Characters. In honor of Jake’s Orlando-based college, we drafted our favorite Disney/Pixar characters. And it gets very contentious. Never during a draft has there been more hate thrown at other people for their picks.

3:30 Cooking Corner- The Bros bring some back to school recipes with a ramen pasta salad and a super easy to make kind of bootleg Chinese food dish.

8:20 Mailbag! The Bros open up the mailbag to answer some questions about their biggest mistakes so far in online teaching, give advice to a kid fired from a fast food job, and give some dating advice to a girl who may be talking to a guy trying to pull some shady stuff.

24:00 Interview- Jake Winston. We talk to 2020 HSHS grad Jake about his freshman year at Washington & Lee University, where students are still living in dorms and attending in-person classes. He tells us how the school has made that possible as well as some of the biggest adjustments to college for him. He also addresses attending a school named for Robert E. Lee and what he believes the school should handle that history.

51:50 Game- Who Am I? Jake and Will battle each other to see if they can guess the famous person from the clues provided to them. After last week’s 20 Questions Mayor Dick Sears debacle, we see if Will can redeem himself with another question about a political figure.

1:10:50 Draft- Tom Hanks Movies. This week, we draft movies from the other movie star Tom. We’ll see whose draft is in a league of their own, and which one has problems right after takeoff.

0:00 Rhodes and Will share their thoughts on the online school schedule as well as some of their takeaways, positives, and worries after the first few days of school. They also celebrate Will finally winning a draft.

11:30 Interview- Mary Greer. We talk to 2020 HSHS grad Mary about her experience living in Granville Towers at UNC, site of the biggest COVID-19 outbreak on UNC’s campus, as well what it has been like since she tested positive for the virus, as well as some of her other opinions about the feasibility of attempting in-person college during the pandemic. Rhodes also shares the story of his major illness during the fall semester of his freshman year at UNC.

40:45 Game- 20 Questions. Will and Mary play the childhood classic game to see how many yes/no questions it takes them to guess the person, place, or thing that Rhodes is thinking of.

51:20 Draft- Tom Cruise movies. It’s a risky business, but we’ll see who has all the right moves and pulls off mission impossible by winning this draft.

0:00 We go over our new weekly schedule, marvel at how much our listeners hated our Big Brother Segment, we get some updates on Rhodes’ Fremantle Dockers love and Will’s trip to Asheville, and Will complains some more and offers up more excuses about how and why he loses every single draft that we do.

15:40 We bring on McConnell (and his 5-year old daughter Kennedy) to talk about the first day of school, some of the positives we have seen so far and some of the challenges we are a little bit worried about for the semester. We also touch on the new NCSHAA calendar released for this year and our thoughts on the mess that is going on at college campuses around NC currently.

53:30 Draft- Best Movies Somewhat About School. We draft movies that are at least K-12 school adjacent after opening up the mailbag for a question from a student about themselves.

2:30 The Real Bros on Big Bros (Big Brother)- We talk about the first two episodes of Big Brother All Stars, touching on who we hope and who we think wins the season and what we think might happen the rest of the week.

19:15 Interview- Mrs. Patchett. We talk all things HSHS Chorus, including how exactly you teach chorus via distance learning, the Colla Voce trip to London, Rhodes’ brief high school choir career, how there is no such thing as someone who can’t sing, and a little UNC basketball.

41:40 Over/Under- Mrs. Patchett and The Bros play a little over/under about a variety of topics including the ideal room temperature, the best planning period, how long it takes to learn students’ names, and how many Kesha songs Patchett knows. We also ask a few more Chorus questions and get to the bottom of how Patchett knows if kids are just lip synching and what her favorite musical is.

1:02:00 Draft- Best TV Theme Songs. In a draft with a lot of great possible options, see what Will and Rhodes choose as their favorite tv theme songs of all time.

0:00 We kick off Back to School Week by discussing how prepared (or unprepared) we are for the start of the school year and Rhodes also gives his impressions of his first visit to Wegmans.

7:00 Interview- Alex Karlos. We bring on 2016 Holly Springs grad and first year elementary school teacher Alex Karlos to talk about what it’s like to start off teaching in the midst of a global pandemic. She talks about what it is that 2nd graders actually learn, speaks in depth to the impact that Noz had on her, and discusses how she will try to make her classroom inclusive for a diverse student population.

40:05- Will and Rhodes test Alex’s readiness to be a teacher by seeing how she might handle some tough hypothetical situations that may come up in a classroom.

55:50 Game- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Alex and Will compete to see if they are smarter than a 5th grader, or at least who is smarter between the two of them.

1:07:30 Draft- Most Important Things For a Teacher to Have in Their Classroom. Tis the season for going back to school, and The Bros draft what their must-haves are in their classrooms.

5:00- Interview with ’17 Holly Springs alums Olivia Flanagan and Sydney Sizemore as they relive some fun high school memories and talk in depth about how their K-12 public education could have been improved.

30:15- Olivia and Sydney give some good tips about college life, how to pick the right 2 or 4-year school for you, and Rhodes and Will also talk about how they chose the colleges they attended.

LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED 48:45- Our guests join us for a really great discussion about mental health, both in how to be an ally for those going through problems as well as some tips for those going through issues of their own.

1:19:15 Game- Name the Artist! Our very enthusiastic guests try to destroy Will in guessing the singer after hearing brief song clips.

1:35:25 Draft- Best Grocery Stores