Welcome, y’all! We hope you’re enjoying the holidays. This week, we’re welcoming in Kata’s old friend Tony Macht to talk about his work as an actor (At Home with Amy Sedaris, After Class, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), going back to school, roommates, and the COVID vaccine. We also talk about his lifelong relationship with the Ravens, and whether or not Lamar was pooping.

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Happy Hanukkah to all! Let there be light! Kata slacked this week and actively did not even try to book a guest, so she did what she does best—farm out the content duties to everyone she knows.

This week, our topic of discussion is journeymen players' potential to invade the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and boy is it a biggie. Mike sits idly, like that meme with the dog sipping his coffee as the house burns down around him, while Kata scrolls through her phone book and invites the opinions of people who are smarter than she to opine on who’s in, and who’s out. What qualifies a HOFer?

Some voices are new, some are old friends, and there’s a substantial variety: a baseball columnist, a college football reporter, a breaking news sports editor, a part-time board op, a composer, a former host of this podcast, a professional memer, and an esteemed veteran radio voice. And then, there’s us. We’re not gonna give away names that easy. (Okay, the board op is obviously Mikey C).

Welcome to the jungle.

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TWO EPISODES in ONE WEEK?!?! Sounds like Thanksgiving to us! We hope you all are having healthy, happy, and safe holidays within your respective bubbles, and we hope this show brings you some joy as you all get coronavirus on your commutes.

To begin, Kata has a mental breakdown and calls out a LOT of people as she mourns her holiday plans. She and Mike discuss their new holiday traditions and what the next month of celebrating looks like in their homes, and then sing the high praises [13:00] that our special guest deserves!

Lauren Gambino joins us this week [19:02], and if you don’t know who she is, there’s something wrong with you. Host of HQ Sports and guest host of HQ Trivia, Lauren is a Jackie of all trades. You can also find her on QVC, performing with her improv troupe, and hosting travel shows! She joined us this week to talk holiday traditions, football traditions, and the NFC East.

We hope you enjoy this conversation, as always, and that good tidings find all of you, even those of you assholes who are ruining everything for the rest of us. Someday soon, we all will be together…

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Good Monday, orangutans! We hope you all had sunshiney weekends and are staying safe out there as the holidays are approaching. Wear a mask. Stay at home. If you’re in Georgia, do your civic duty. We’ll keep reminding you. We promise.

This week’s episode is centered around our greatest joys and comforts—our dogs. Mike and Kata discuss their weeks with their dogs, and then, we are thrilled to welcome in scientist, professor, and New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Horowitz [14:09] to teach us more about what our dogs are thinking and feeling, and discuss the way they infuse our culture.

Alexandra Horowitz is a writer, an educator, a pet parent, a researcher, an expert on the mind of the dog, and our inspiration. Do yourselves a favor and check out her bestselling work on her website!

We hope you enjoy our chat with the smartest human being we have ever had on this podcast, and that it makes you, like us, just want to go snuggle your furbabies. If it doesn’t, we don’t want you at this party.

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Hi, string beans! Everything is hard, so we figured we should talk about WHY with someone who is smarter than us! After we do our own little recap on the election in sports, we welcome Jackie Hajdenberg to the show [09:00]. Jackie is an investigative journalist who has spent the last several months looking into voter access. We spoke with her the Thursday after Election Day about how votes are counted, claims of fraud, how to commit fraud, who is and is not a fraud, among other fraud-related things.

Additionally, we got a little insight into her participation in an early COVID vaccine trial, which she details further in this article from Vox, and goof around about some good memes.

So… sports? Nah, not really this week. But damn, has this TIME felt like a sport. What is a sport? Is voting a sport? Is waking up a sport? Is breathing a sport? Shoot us a message through our social links and let us know your thoughts. Be safe out there, y’all!

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Hi oh gorgeous ones. You know we like to bring the tea and get down and dirty with y’all, and this week felt like a good one to do that. So we didn’t.

We took a break from politics, sports, and the usual gabbing and sat down with our buddy Mikey C from ESPN (Weekend Observations), and took your questions and advice requests on our social and via email [10:00]. We talk about beards (obviously), being attracted to television characters, dick pics, D-ing-T-R, and romantic date ideas.

Mikey C dated a witch. That’s all you really need to know to get into this episode.

Please see this as a little gift if you need a break from the world this week. It was certainly a joy for us to record. We hope you’re all taking care of yourselves, and we’ll be back later this week with more!

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Good day, sweet potatoes! We have a super-fun new guest to introduce you to today! But first, Mike Rose shares an adventure in dog training, and then, Kata grapples with the new season of The Bachelorette (11:00).

Finally, we’re so excited this week to bring a new friend of the pod to you—the mastermind behind the legendary @artbutmakeitsports Instagram/Twitter account! We had a great conversation with LJ Rader about his job in sports and analytics, the inspiration behind this popular meme brand (hint: it began with weed), our mutual loves of Sarah Spain as a bringer of all good things, and the New York Giants in all their pain and glory.

We hope you’re all having a great end to your week! Enjoy!

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Happy Friday, y’all! We appreciate your patience with us as we recover from some blunders these past few weeks, but are so excited to welcome a very special guest to the show today! First, a little housekeeping: Mike and Kata address the elephant in the room—last week’s deleted episode. We’ll let that segment speak for itself, as we put that mess to bed, hopefully, for a long, long time.

Then, we welcome in Amanda Christovich of Front Office Sports (12:47), to talk about her experiences reporting on college football during these past few wild months. With Amanda, we discuss the implications of COVID on the landscape, the new NIL proposals on the table, and student-athletes speaking out on issues of racial injustice. With the news of Nick Saban’s positive COVID test this week, we also discuss a recent story she published on how the pandemic is being handled at the University of Alabama. We love her, and we think you will, too.

Finally, we discuss some more random business (59:59), including the premiere of The Bachelorette, a fantasy football-related ethical dilemma, and the Seattle Seahawks, before Mike decides to grace us with a definitive ranking of the top five quarterbacks that he would like to hurt his feelings. We hope you all have a spectacular weekend!

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Hello everyone! After a much needed week off, we’re compensating with a nice long, controversial talk with one of the more infamous stars of Cycle 15 of The Bachelorette, Garrett Powell! This week, we spoke openly with Garrett about his time on The Bachelorette (lots of great behind-the-scenes stories in here!), his love of sports as a golf pro and a Mississippi State alum (maybe competitive dating and golf have something in common?), and the internet machine’s manifestation of his deep-seeded conservative values as a public figure (but in a productive, educational way). We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did, and look forward to continuing the conversation next week!

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UNDER FURTHER REVIEW: We are extremely interested in "shadow banning," and would love to hear from you all about your experiences with the concept, which is highly debated in the current landscape of fact-checking/censorship. We discuss the concept in this episode, admittedly, without much personal experience with it as journalists. We'll continue to review this conversation, but welcome any input via DM on our social media platforms, or email. 

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Welcome to the party, y’all! We’re thrilled to welcome in our friend Jack Rossiter-Munley this week. Jack is a journalist and audio producer (cardboardboxproductionsinc.com), and a recent graduate of Columbia Journalism School’s M.S. program. Today, we’re picking his brain about tennis and the sport’s uplifting history and shortcomings presently regarding social justice, through such topics as the activism of Naomi Osaka, the lack of activism at large from male players, and the sport’s coronavirus ridiculousness. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did!

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