This Podcast Is... Uncalled For

Week 1 is in the book! On to Week 2! Week 1 Results: St. Louis 31, Houston 6 Arlington 33, San Antonio 9 Michigan 26, Memphis 12 DC 18, Birmingham 11 Week 2 Friday, April 4 - Birmingham at Michigan Saturday, April 5 - Memphis at DC Sunday, April 6 - Houston at Arlington Sunday, April 6 - San Antonio at St. Louis

Welcome to our new series, Unofficial Fan Lounge! This is an unofficial podcast of the United Football League (UFL).

Throughout the 2025 UFL season, we will be previewing each week's games and giving our picks.

Week 1 Friday, March 28 - St. Louis at Houston Saturday, March 29 - San Antonio at Arlington Sunday, March 30 - Michigan at Memphis Sunday, March 30 - Birmingham at DC

It's Tournament Time again!! Mike has his picks ready!

Think you can beat Mike? Enter our Yahoo tournament pool and submit your picks before the first tip-off on Thursday, March 20, 2025. Winner will be invited to do an episode of the podcast! Click here to enter!

What would Taylor Swift's Fortnight Challenge look like in podcast form? That's what today's episode is all about - 14 different topics recorded at different times to form one long episode (likely our longest ever!). Part 1 - Challenge Intro and Spotify Stats

Part 2 - Addressing the LA Sports Idiots

Part 3 - Driving Through Slippery Winter Conditions

Part 4 - Dead Poets Society Article

Part 5 - UFL Fan Opinions

Part 6 - Heather's New Year's Card

Part 7 - 3,000 Hit Club Members Not in Cooperstown

Part 8 - Naturist Quiz

Part 9 - Kansas City Chess Scene Article

Part 10 - NASL v. USSF Lawsuit Verdict (It's Not Good)

Part 11 - James Woodrow In Memoriam

Part 12 - App Nebula Quiz and Results (That I'm Not Paying For)

Part 13 - Conference Alignments Among Kansas City Area High Schools (Is Blue Valley in the Sunflower League?)

Part 14 - Possible Future Streetcar/Rail Transit Routes in the Kansas City Metro Area

This episode is part of our Snowed In 2025 miniseries.

The long-awaited lawsuit filed by the North American Soccer League (NASL) against the US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer is about to go to trial (at least at the time this was recorded). Soccer Wars has reached the courtroom. (Update: This will be an early release episode for Season 9 because the lawsuit has reached a verdict. We will follow up as part of our upcoming Fortnight Challenge episode.)

Apologies to the rest of the world for our bad electoral decisions in 2024.

In light of the disaster that was the 2024 election cycle, Friend of the Podcast Andrew Rainey returns to discuss with Mike what happened.

Merry Christmas everyone from This Podcast Is... Uncalled For! We're working hard and trying to get to 25k downloads!

To end our eighth season, we found an article on Kansas City colloquialisms that you might enjoy: https://kctoday.6amcity.com/city-guide/live/kansas-city-unwritten-rules

On the week of September 8, our intrepid host got COVID - and he's going to tell you about it. If you haven't already done so, get your COVID shots. We're not kidding.

Today's guest is Kyle Ament, a local Kansas City actor with film credits in local productions, mostly horror and mostly authority figures including cops and the Pope.