Episodes

  • Episode 166 Sports Are More Fun When Digital Currency is Involved with Andrew “Mookie” Wybroski from Craft Brewed Sports
    Apr 29 2024

    Hey listener, grab your phones because this week Andrew “Mookie” Wybroski from Craft Brewed Sports is on the show to talk about Online Sports Betting. We journey into a world with offshore bank accounts, learning to bet in bulk, and using multiple betting apps. Topics this week include: Hosting an improv sports show that interacts with the comments. The Bo Jackson of animal athletes. 90s sports movies. Fantasy football the sports betting gateway drug. Go watch Phish live in the Sphere. Getting stuck in Las Vegas. Desktop Betting. Figuring out a system for how to bet on Iranian Soccer. Hi, would you like to gamble? The End of the War on Gambling. The problem of having a problem that involves your phone. The importance of being right. Betting makes sports more fun. Red flags. Betting on the T20. Betting on yourself. Betting the dogs. The future.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 165 Night of the Living Baseballheads with Scott Kyser
    Apr 22 2024

    Hey listener, we’re headed back to the ballpark this week as podcast host Scott Kyser from Craft Brewed Sports and Backwards K Baseball is on the show to talk about America's Passtime. Topics this week include: The Inception of Petty. Defining what style of country you’re talking about and going full old man about music. A kids movie about getting a DUI and coaching a jr high team. The power of Superstations and being able to follow a sport then and now. Following the entire league. What would managers wear if they didn’t wear an uniform? A shorter season. Defense is cool when it’s your team. Computer Umps. The Unwritten Rules of Baseball. Getting punched in the ribs for doing your job. If you’re going to clear the benches someone better be throwing punches. Getting worried when guys are wearing extra stuff. What age is the cut off for bringing a baseball glove to the game? The history of the game and will it ever go away? Things that make us sad about boxing.

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Episode 164 More HorrorHound Than HorrorHound with Allison Hibbard, Jaimie Filer, and Zach Bender aka Uncle_Analog
    Apr 15 2024

    Allison Hibbard, Jaimie Filer, and Zach Bender aka Uncle_Analog return to talk about HorrorHound. Topics this week include: You got to get naked at camp. The hot boy photo shoot. Jaimie reminds everyone that this is an audio only format. The Green Day of horror. If you quit watching after the first season, then everything is OK. Your host lost everyone’s names after 2020. Vending for Fangoria Magazine. Having a good booth buddy. The importance of bootlegged stuff. The Monroe Exit is wild. Do you have a Horrorhound shopping list? Don’t read the list until you’re into the line. The weirdness and levels of celebrity at Horrorhound. Cash is king at the Con. How to talk to celebrities and what not to do. The weird booths. People want to see Uncle_Analog’s gigantic naked lady tattoo. The people watching is top shelf. Bigfoot vs. Jason. Give me the illusion of safety. Flower planters are a good place to find knives. From the mouths of babes to horror actors’ ears. Having White Claws with Art the Clown and Horrorhound after parties. The fine line between horror and porn. “It’s smoothing”.

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    2 hrs and 7 mins
  • Episode 163 The Furious Fastcast with Giles Chickering
    Apr 9 2024

    Hey Listener, grab some NOS and leave your brain at the door because the host of Cool Show, Man/Stand Up Comedian Giles Chickering is here to talk about the Fast and the Furious franchise. Topics this week include: This is Giles’ Star Wars and the worst double date ever. The world before September 2001. The 25th anniversary of the Sopranos. Giles is in a hardcore band now. A movie franchise that begins with bandits robbing DVD players off of trucks. Is this woke or racist? Vin Diesel isn’t in the business of making sequels. Taking it to Miami. The power of nitrous in this universe. And now we’re in Japan? Giles pitches his the 4th Fast and the Furious movie should have been the actual third one to end the trilogy theory. Viagra at the box office always wears a tactical vest. Vin Diesel has a clause where he can never lose a fight in a movie. Its totally cool to drive a bank vault through Brazil. Ludacris went from small business owner in Miami to master level hacker. We’re now beyond drug cartels and into cyber terrorism. Your host likes movies where one big car fights a bunch of small cars. Jason Statham is here now. Paul Walker is alive in canon. We’re now parachuting cars out of planes. A white lady with cornrows. Punching torpedoes. The Rock and Diesel have beef? Idris Elba is a super human? Tyrese and Ludacris go to space. White dudes with muscles can be brothers. Two white guys argue about the new Roadhouse. A two part sequel Harry Potter style. Jason Momoa’s “overacting”. The Fast and the Furious universe.

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    2 hrs
  • Episode 162 ...And Football For All with Corey King
    Apr 1 2024

    Hey Listener, grab your penalty flags because this week Corey King is on the show to talk about reffing high school football. It’s a fun look behind the curtain for any football fan. Topics this week include: Bottle artwork. A modern beer baron/smuggler. The joys and pains of living in Chicago. Finding your way into the music industry in the late 90s and trying to figure out how to counter Napster. The balance between a job and something you love. The impact of venues taking merch money from bands. Of course they’re putting the Grateful Dead in the Sphere. If you do something positive like giving an underage kid your ID, it will comeback to you. Tightend talk. The game needs linebackers. Rugby dudes are on a whole different level. The insanity of the hours you work as a coach. I can’t cause a problem if I don’t throw my flag. Who gets to make the call? Making the right call no matter what the crowd is chanting. How do you regulate the emotion of a game? What is the atmosphere in the refs’ locker room? How do you get assigned games? All business on game day. Put on your knee pads! Working with the medical staff. Trying not to laugh at trash talk. Hey ref, let’s keep it clean. The Corey King rule. A violent game. Giving to others.

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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Episode 161 Are You Lost or Are You Finding Something with Lee Laney
    Mar 25 2024

    Hey Listener, grab your armor plated leather jacket because Lee Laney is back on the show to talk about riding motorcycles. You can follow his band on IG at The Everyday People Band and check them out whenever they are playing near you. Topics this week include: Losing and finding new hobbies during 2020. How did you find the roller derby circus and trying to make new friends after 30. Captain Overzealous. Why roller derby after parties so chill now? How did you get into motorcycles and how did you learn to ride one? “On a bike, you’re completely exposed”. If you wreck, you don’t want your shoes to fly off. “It’s your head, do whatcha want”. Never a Master, but always trying to upgrade. Riding in the rain. Gas station Walmart. Sometimes a road isn’t a road. Finding weird stuff in the middle of nowhere to pee beside. Riding playlists. Dead animal proof. The aging out of a demographic. Collecting Harley shirts. Filming as an extra in The Bikeriders movie. Opening up a community motorcycle garage and the return of Captain Overzealous.

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Episode 160 All Hail the Mighty Mastodon with Paul Gonzalez
    Mar 18 2024

    Hey Listener, grab your favorite black t-shirt and get ready to dive head first into the world of Mastodon! For the second time in WYI?’s history we’re dedicating an entire episode to a band and Paul Gonzalez is here to go on this journey. Topics this week include: PAWL is here so of course we have to talk movies. The modern evolution of Metal. Meeting Mastodon. Are the first four albums about the elements? The worst day of Mr. Ed’s life and the art of Mastodon. A weird Playboy sidequest. Jurassic Park trivia. The greatest metal album of the century? Let’s get a bunch of cool musicians to make guest appearances on our third album. Can I sing along and strip to it? Creating a perfect album. Finally making an album that isn’t a concept album. Sometimes you leave before the headliner. Our least favorite Mastodon album. The album that your host kept in his car for a half decade. Separating the art from the artist. The sad adult album. Seeing Mastodon live and band mascots. Seeing shows in the basement of the Taft. No one in the audience has a beard. Getting fooled by Ghost. The Ashes of Leviathan tour.

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    2 hrs and 18 mins
  • Episode 159 Cages and Cards with Michael Williams of Smiling Demon Games and Jaimie Filer
    Mar 12 2024

    Hey Listener, you're going to need your headgear and some dice this week because Michael Williams from Smiling Demon Games is on the show to talk about creating his own martial arts trading card game: Warrior Within Underground. WYI?’s resident martial artist/nerd Jaimie Filer is the perfect co-host for this episode. This week’s topics include: The spreading of Warhammer 40K to new media. Why are they doing this to the Crow? Playing Magic the Gathering during wrestling tournaments. The journey into no holds barred fighting. Don’t use the time machine. Picking a good walkout song. Looking at fighting like a computer. How do you beat up your friend in a deathmatch? Planning how to fight a guy who knows Kung Fu. Sometimes you learn with a concussion. An oil check leads to a full special meter. Being dudes is making fun of things your friends like. I’m not a mad dawg psychopath. Men that create their fantasyland of toughness. What was the first fight like? Conan. No one wants to fight you so lets get you a pro fight on a card where Royce Gracie and Don Vito will be in attendance. Defeating racism and then getting a weird pep talk from Royce Gracie. Gravity works. Going solo, creating, and pitching the game. The intimidation of MTG. Drawing inspiration from Street Fighter II. Being able to move your character into all of the different worlds of fighting. Creating a system. The importance of creating cool looking stuff.

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    1 hr and 49 mins