Not Your Weekly Sports Pod

The boys discuss the monumental gold medal victory for Team USA hoops during the 2024 Paris Olympics! Join us as we take a quick stroll down memory lane discussing some of the greatest basketball ever televised!

This week we are joined by Mid Week Athletes founder Evan V to discuss a topic close to his heart - Mamba. We go down memory lane to try to come to a consensus of where Kobe Bryant stacks up against LeBron James. Stay tuned for some entertaining team up hypotheticals, projecting their games to the 80s/90s, and their own all time rankings among the Greats of the game.

We answer the question everyone has been asking: how likely is the combination of Jalen Green & Alperen Sengun to succeed in Houston? We dive deep into the circumstances around Jalen's recent ascent, as well as how we think Rockets front office views Sengun as a building block. We also ask a dozen questions relating to 2025 to Rockets GM Raphael Stone's AI counterpart.

Want to know more about the Lisan-Al-Gaib? The archetype of the white savior got you tired? Zendaya a little too broodish here? Speaking of which, Zendaya and Timotee, or Zendaya and Holland? All of the unanswerable questions and more get unpacked with our rewatchables series, covering the best movie since COVID, Dennis V's imagining of the second half of Frank Herbert's first Dune novel.

The boys are joined by a recurrent legendary guest who is on a mission to educate the simpletons. Houston Texas, congratulations! You are the host of a grade A NFL organization. Let's break down EVERYTHING that led to the state of Houston Texans football.

We give Houstonians what they want: an in depth analysis of the breakout season Alperen Sengun is having with the upstart Rockets. We discuss the future of the team, the Jalen Green dilemna, and what's next for Stone and this young core. Bonus minutes for Houston Astros offseason talks.

The time has come. The boys return before wrapping 2023 up with perhaps the greatest cinematic phenomenon since the COVID lockdown, Greta Gerwig's Barbie. Enjoy as we unpack all there is in Barbie world, from Greta Gerwig's influence on the film, Margot Robbie/Gosling's masterful renditions of Mattell's titular Barbie & Ken, and our world famous awards that we'll give out t...

The boys get down and dirty for a deep dive on OTE, the professional basketball league that produced the Thompson Twins and just signed the number one prospect of 2024, Nasir Thompson. We get into the cultural, financial, and basketball significance of the league, as well as their prospects for remaining relevant. The second half of the episode is all out Houston Rockets talk!

Are you tired of your team's narrative being that of the worst team in basketball for the last three years? Join the boys as they run through the most optimistic fan's outlook for your 2024 Houston Rockets play-in team.

100 episodes! From COVID 2020, the boys have worked at the bare minimum pace to continue to bring you premium content with last minute research. This time, we slap ourselves for waiting 100 episodes to do a Christopher Nolan movie rewatchables. Enjoy the greatness that the Kobe & Shaq-like pairing of McConaughey & Christopher Nolan.

We take a break from the weekly sports takes to bring you a eulogy of a legend in television culture- L to the OG. The legendary Shakespearian Brian Cox has done much to cement Succession's Logan Roy as one of the greatest characters we love to hate on television. The antagonist/protagonist/anti-hero/Fox News CEO portrayal that is Logan Roy has come to represent the best of HBO's Successio...

The boys take you on a journey as they preview every single NBA playoff team trying to make a name for themselves in the WIDE OPEN 2023 Playoff brackets out East & West! We go through first round matchups, projections for the deeper rounds, and briefly bring up a few non playoff teams (Namely YOUR Houston Rockets). Enjoy our nostradamus predictions once again.

The first season of the most watched TV show of 2022 gets a Rewatchables segment dedicated to it. Join the boys as we discuss the impact this series had on reviving the world of Westeros, and washing the bad taste of Game of Thrones out of our collective viewing mouthes.

You've heard us chronicle the absurd talent boom in the NBA, the repercussions for the viewing product, and what it means for the future of the game. Listen in to this week's take on the inevitability of NBA Expansion to accommodate this surplus of talent; we give you the obvious takers, and some interesting picks you won't see coming.

Your favorite NBA analysts have probably covered the absurd scoring outputs we have seen in the 2022-2023 season, but have you heard a couple thirty year olds give a controversial take on why this might be good/bad for the product that is basketball? We go through the historic context of what brought us here, and what to expect from the NBA and its stars going forward.  The second half of thi...

The year is 1999, and the box office is healthy. Go back and redraft the best movies in one of the best years for cinema. Your favorite movie might be on here.

Everyone is well aware of basketball's incredible growth and international spotlight that has really accelerated over the last decade, but will the sport ever reach the grand scale that FIFA has every four years? The boys discuss the circumstances that would have to prevail for this to become a reality... and what a fun reality it would be. Enjoy hoops fans!

Two hours of basketball jam packed into one of our most enjoyable episodes to record. Take a lesson from 3 men who know how to debate, as they tackle the polarizing James Harden and mesmerizing Luka Doncic debate. The second half of the episode is a deep dive into discussing who the top ten guys in the league are RIGHT NOW. Much disagreement was had... but civility was maintained.. kind of.  

The boys each go through ten of their favorite players from NBA History that would dominate the modern 2023 brand of basketball played in the NBA today. To spice things up, we each go with 5 superstars, as well as 5 non-superstar players and how they stack up in today's game. We conclude the episode by going through the top ten players in the NBA today, and how they'd look in the 90's. ENJOY!

The 2022 Houston Astros prove to the MLB that once again the road to the World Series goes through H-Town. Dive in with the boys as we break down the significance of this historic team's 4th pennant, matchups to look forward to in their matchup vs the Phillies, some what ifs during this dominant run, and other goodies as two die hard Houstonians feed you Astros content!

Remember when big studios would invest heavy dollar signs into true action adventure movies (Thanks Marvel)? Take a step back in the time machine to the 90s, where Universal studios pumped $80 million into a movie that Roger Ebert said wasn't a cinematic spectacle at any level, but simply a fun ride. Hop in and enjoy this retrospective look back at Brendan Fraser's 1999 The Mummy!

In anticipation of Netflix's Redeem Team Documentary produced by LeBron James & Dwayne Wade, the boys sit down and do a deep dive retrospective on the road that led Team USA Basketball to the Beijing Olympics. This one gets heated, as many remember their history differently. 

Is it safe to say that this year's 2022 EuroBasket has been some of the most entertaining offseason basketball we've seen since the 2011 NBA Lockout Drew League? NBA Allstars, former MVPs, and rotation guys have been duking it out under the banner of national pride to preview what seems to be an end to American dominance in the international scene. Listen to what your boys have to say about the st...

The return to Westeros has brought with it a purpose in life for all of us flea bottom peasants once again. This week, we continue our sports drought with a deep dive into one of televisions toughest tasks: keeping an audience interested after a pilot episode.  HBO's House of the Dragon not only manages to do that, but also manages to grows its audience size, add depth to all of the introduce...

Finally, the peasants have returned to Westeros. We do a deep dive on one of the most anticipated TV releases in the golden age of decadence, The House of the Dragon. We give our initial impressions, positives/negatives, character breakdowns, and comparisons to the original Game of Thrones series that captivated the world (until that debacle ending). So much Valyrian decadence to cover here.