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We really are selling dresses now . And they do have pockets. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willetspen.substack.com

Willets Pen has a merchandise store with all kinds of weird and comfortable stuff, and new designs arriving all the time. This month, use the code SEPTEMBERCALLUP for $10 off any order (limit 1 per customer). That’s enough for a month of premium access here , and you’ll still have a dollar left to bet against UConn. Hi, Jesse here. I’m thrilled to be able to talk football with my friends Britt Hub...

Check out all the stuff for sale at willetspen.com and support this nonsense and all the other fun stuff we’re doing here. LFGM! Here is the CBS Sports piece referenced about Mrs. Met’s ass . And Todd Radom’s history of Reds mascots . And here’s a horrifying image based on the hilarious discussion in this episode. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers o...

This is a podcast that starts weird and gets weirder, and that’s just how we like it. We had a bunch of fun. Meanwhile, a whole new array of BUTTS stuff is on the website, along with other weird new designs, and the Queens Collection and BOOKS collection , which are far less weird, but also comfy and, if we may say so, super stylish. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with...

Yankee Stadium was a billion-dollar dump before the Yankees swept the Mets the last two days, and to prove it, we’ve got audio talking about what a lousy fan experience the place is, from last week , with Rich O’Malley, the full title of whose book is “One Lucky Fan: From Bleachers To Box Seats, Chasing the Ultimate Dream to Visit All 123 MLB, NBA, NFL & NHL Teams, If Both ‘Utilities’ are Owned Re...

Don’t worry. We still talked about butts. And we’re thrilled to welcome Keelin and Britt, who are going to be part of our football team in football season, talking about football, and football accessories. And butts. And not just the t-shirts that we’re now selling . There’s some “site news” kind of talk pretty early on in the episode, so check that out. But if you’re not a podcast thing, you’ve m...

A thing that needs to be noted here is that this episode was recorded before the death of Olivia Newton-John, whose mention amid our non-sighting of Livvy Dunne also came amid a lot of murder and heist talk, and also the Yankees scoring runs, a thing that they did in the heady days of early August. We had no idea how much things would change, or, really, who Livvy Dunne was, or is. She does seem t...

Jesse here… the “show notes” (I need to take better show notes) kind of became a personal news/site update kind of thing at the end of my first week at a new job and the dawn of a new era for Willets Pen. First, we lost Allison right before we sat down to record, because of thunderstorms wreaking havoc with her internet access. Then, we did half a show where it turned out you couldn’t actually hea...

Hello! Here are your handy links to our Discord, merch store (check out the Pride collection!), and Twitter. This is a bonus episode of the podcast for paid subscribers, but on the back end of our Grand Opening Spectacular, we’ll have a free newsletter coming later today. We’re back for our second episode of Willets Pod At The Park, and so far, it’s been a real boon to the New York baseball teams...

There’s actually another Pod At The Park that was recorded before this episode, a night at Yankee Stadium with writer and actor Sarah Sweeney . But since the Mets-Atlanta series over the weekend was a seismic event for the Queens franchise, it feels right to skip ahead and bring you this episode now. It was 8-0 in the blink of an eye on Friday night, so any plans to really concentrate on a game wi...

Editor’s note: During the episode, we talked about Chrystal’s ode to dad bods post, which had yet to run at the time of recording. We decided to just put it here instead of as a separate post, because why make things more complicated than they need to be? We already have an entire podcast devoted to doing that. Also, here’s the time Creed played Thanksgiving for some reason. You wouldn’t see Nicke...

Jesse here… and, yes, I am an idiot. In fact, I tweeted this just yesterday… It turns out, there was an issue with the storage on our Google Drive, namely that I needed to delete previous podcast files. Again, I’m an idiot. I’m not an idiot for the referenced update to the deGrom stat not happening yet. That’s more a result of being under the weather and that we’re gonna have pieces from Roger Cor...

Allison never does make it onto this episode, recorded one million years ago after the Mets swept the Subway Series, just to answer that question from the first seconds of the show. Janice Scurio makes her WP debut and gets to immerse herself in the stunning stability of Metsdom, which is really some kind of thing to say, but here we are in 2022, where up is down, down is up, Max Scherzer is a Met...

It’s Chrystal O’Keefe, Allison Robicelli, and Jesse Spector on this episode. However, if you have any pants-pooping stories, from sports or otherwise, please do drop them on the Discord . Was “drop” the best choice of words there? Perhaps not. Enjoy! And now that our episode title has kept the robots from looking at this, a word from our sponsor: This is a public episode. If you would like to disc...

Sophie Ross has a newsletter , Sophie’s Substack. She has a podcast, So True with Sophie Ross . She has a bunch of work as a copywriter. What she does not have is an autographed Joe Burrow jersey… and she still does not have one after a trip to Yankee Stadium before the All-Star break. Even though there was an autographed Joe Burrow jersey for sale, at Yankee Stadium of all places, before the All-...

The other working title was “If a snake had a butt.” Welcome home, Allison, we missed you. Addy and Jesse are also present for this, largely marveling at both the Mets not falling apart at the end of the first half, and their co-host’s adventures around her new neighborhood. And now, we present the horrors of Baltimore, straight from Allison’s camera. This is a public episode. If you would like to...

We’re back! Sort of! It’s been a few weeks since we’ve gotten together to do a “studio” recording, and with Allison still finishing up her move and Colleen’s computer borked, it was just Addy and Jesse left to bask in the Mets’ sudden return to their early-season magic with their comeback in Cincinnati and Thursday night pounding of the Marlins. We didn’t get back to it, but if you catch the “Fren...

We will not make any apologies to Chuck Chodson, because he doesn’t exist, and even though he doesn’t exist, he’s a lousy comedian who doesn’t deserve the promotion. We will, however, continue to profusely apologize to the woman who got a drink spilled at her feet because even cupholders cannot stop Jesse Spector from being a klutz. Stacy Cay is a comedian from Kansas City who’s touring this summe...

From HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, we’re lucky to bring another Emmy winner to the Willets Pen family, Kavitha Davidson, who joined Jesse Spector at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night to watch the Yankees take on the Astros, fresh off of Houston’s two-game sweep of the Mets and ahead of another Astros-Mets series next week. That’s a lot of Astros. Podcast guests are family , right? From ogli...

Yesterday saw the arrival of Brittany Huber to Willets Pen, as she wrote about Adley Rutschman, Buster Posey, and growing up with a franchise catcher, as part of our latest newsletter . Today, we’re continuing to get ahead of the NHL, whose free agency is still more than a week away. Chrystal O’Keefe is on this episode of Willets Pod, joining us from South Side Sox and the Estrogen Power Hour podc...

Look at these handsome fellas. Don’t you want to hear them talk through a bit of the Mets’ comeback win over the Brewers? Of course you do. The odds that you arrived here accidentally, to the third episode of a podcast series — and ninth episode of the podcast overall — are infinitessimal. But, hey, you’re reading this, and we should shout out Mark Canha, who not only hit the game-tying homer last...

We’re on Apple Podcasts now, and this episode went off without a hitch, so we’re immediately getting cocky. With Friday night’s Mets-Angels game on AppleTV+, we’ll be missing our beloved GKR, so the Willets Pod crew is going to do a Twitch stream. Is that a good idea? Will we continue this run of technical competence? Have we even signed up for Twitch yet, to be able to put a link here? No, no, an...

Welcome to Willets Pod At The Park, or Pod At The Park, or PATP, or maybe Willets Park? Willets Park sounds good, goes with the whole Willets “P” deal we’ve got going here. If you remember the Tampa Bay Lightning Power Play Radio hit of the late 2010s, “ Jesse Spector Is… ” (it goes without saying that of course you do, duh ) then the format should be pretty familiar — it’s Jesse and a guest, oste...

The Mets are having what can only be described as a bonkers trip to San Francisco, which you can catch up on with Roger Cormier’s tweet threads from Monday night’s rout and Tuesday night’s ridiculous 13-12 affair. Our latest podcast episode recorded just as the series opener was about to begin out West, and it begins with Jesse hitting record to start the show, then somehow not thinking the show h...

We’re still working on getting Willets Pod onto all the podcast apps. By the time you read this, we might have made it, but probably not until Episode 5… and that’s all Wright with us (haha -JS). To subscribe, you can use this RSS feed , or, you know, just listen right here, since all you have to do now is click that “play” button up above this paragraph. How do you write up a podcast episode? Sur...