🧷 Topics Covered:

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  🎧 Listener PSA & Patreon Update

  
  
  
  
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    Brian confronts the Patreon complaints head-on (with appropriate venom and humor).

    
    
  
  
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    Private RSS feed finally fixed! Add bonus content to your Apple feed.

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  🧠 CTE, Pretentious Bands, and Words You Can’t Remember

  
  
  
  
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    Decembrists: literary band or just annoying?

    
    
  
  
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    Brian’s struggle to remember “pretentious” leads to a CTE digression.

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  ☀️ Summer is the Worst

  
  
  
  
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    Brian and Ed both rage against heat, humidity, and the false promise of summer.

    
    
  
  
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    The lingering effects of Brian’s shingles and how sweat triggers trauma.

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  👵🏻 Older Women, Younger Men

  
  
  
  
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    Dating app dynamics and Gen Z dudes chasing Gen X women.

    
    
  
  
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    A deep dive into missed opportunities and sexy older classmates.

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  🪦 RIP Roundup: Who Died This Week?

  
  
  
  
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    Luis Sharpe – Pro Bowl tackle and Arizona Cardinal OG.

    
    
  
  
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    Lee Elia – Legendary Cubs manager and king of the profanity-laced rant.

    
    
  
  
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    Frank Layden – Utah Jazz coach, 500 pounds of personality.

    
    
  
  
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    Pettis Norman – Cowboys tight end and civil rights trailblazer.

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  💀 Classic Rant Flashback: Lee Elia

  
  
  
  
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    Hear the unforgettable audio of Elia tearing Cubs fans a new one.

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  📣 Listener Feedback

  
  
  
  
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    Notes from Brian’s friend: show’s too long, voicemails are bad, ads too random.

    
    
  
  
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    Ed and Brian agree (and still do it anyway).

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  🖼️ Sports & Culture

  
  
  
  
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    Drake tattoos over LeBron with SGA ink – why?

    
    
  
  
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    Brian’s Jesus tattoo mistaken for Frida Kahlo.

    
    
  
  
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    Aaron Rodgers refuses autograph – and he’s 100% right.

    
    
  
  
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    Brady & Sofia Vergara: why this romance stings.

    
    
  
  
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    Fencer fails doping test – panel blames a “kiss.”

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  🤺 Performance Enhancers in Weird Places

  
  
  
  
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    Ostarine scandal: How a kiss can fail a drug test.

    
    
  
  
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    Brian's theory about “dumbwaiter” entrances…

    
    
  
  
  
  


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  ⚔️ Fight Night on the Golf Course

  
  
  
  
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    Telly gets decked by former NHL enforcer.

    
    
  
  
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    A Canadian classic: floral shirts, polite punches, and lake baptisms.

    
    
  
  
  
  

📞 Voicemails:

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  Steve in H-Town gloats over Astros demolishing the Dodgers.

  
  


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  Tribute to Michael Madsen – the king of subtle BDE.

  
  


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  Manuel in Gardenia… is still Manuel in Gardenia.

  
  

🎵 Outro Song:

"My Name Is Brian (The Other Guy Song)" – A loving nod to hetero life and cool rings.

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