Strong Words with Ian Strong

Send us Fan Mail In this volume of "Shot Glass Diaries," Ian continues to the second stop a three-city road trip in which he saw his favorite baseball team, the Atlanta Braves in 2025. This stop goes to Kansas City, Missouri in which Ian saw a couple of Braves games, toured Kauffman Stadium, got a private barbecue food tour of the city, and more! Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter, and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, which is a continuation of the conversation from yesterday's episode, Brandon Youngblood, "Captain Awesome" Dan Freet, and Ian talk about the current WWE product: its over-commercialization since being bought by TKO, its reliance on celebrity and influencer appearances and their affect on the product, and more before previewing this weekend's W...

Send us Fan Mail With Wrestlemania 42 coming this weekend, Ian talks about the current professional wrestling product for the first time on the show. Joining him was supposed to be the former co-hosts of "Falls Count Anywhere With Youngblood and Manny," but instead, is going to feature the returning Brandon Youngblood, and "Captain Awesome" Dan Freet. In part one of the discuss...

Send us Fan Mail In this volume of "Shot Glass Diaries," Ian visits the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas to see his favorite baseball team, the Atlanta Braves take on the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field in Arlington. While there, Ian toured Globe Life Field and AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys), went on a walking food tour in Deep Ellum, saw the world's biggest eyeball,...

Send us Fan Mail With the Major League Baseball season kicking off this Wednesday night, Ian and Mark Shuey return to talk baseball in a segment now being dubbed, "Iantentional Talk." In this edition, Ian and Mark recap the 2026 World Baseball Classic as well as the biggest off-season news including free agent signings, trades, discuss next year's potential work stoppage, the hall o...

Send us Fan Mail For the first time since returning from hiatus, "Ranking Roundtable" is back to rank the albums by one of Ian's favorite bands, System of a Down. Joining him on the panel to discuss the compiled rankings of 8 die-hard fans are his co-worker Jared (who Ian saw SOAD with back in the summer) along with ranking roundtable staple, "Captain Awesome" Dan Freet. T...

Send us Fan Mail In this volume of "Shot Glass Diaries," Ian returns to Atlanta, Georgia to cross the number one item from his bucket list: see a World Series game in Atlanta. In this episode, Ian talks about the last minute trip (that he almost missed his flight for), the disgusting hotel room he booked, going to game 3 and hanging out outside the stadium and the game 4 experience in th...

Send us Fan Mail In this featured volume of "Shot Glass Diaries, recorded years ago and never released, Ian invites his sister Cortney and his brother-in-law Josh onto the show to recap when Ian came to visit them when they lived in Illinois. While there, Ian and Josh saw a ballgame between the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field and describe the sights, sounds, and tastes of the...

Send us Fan Mail JB, Dan, and Ian's brother-in-law Josh (filling in for Phil) return to go "Balls Deep Inside the NFL"  and talk about the '25-'26 season and preview this Sunday's Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. Together, they'll recap the biggest news stories of the season, talk about the 10 head coaches who lost their jobs,...

Send us Fan Mail In this volume of "Shot Glass Diaries," Ian returns to San Diego, California for the final leg of a 3-city trip to see the Braves play the Padres as he continues to cross stadiums off his list of the where he's seen Atlanta play. In this quick trip, Ian talks about some of the places he recommends getting food in the area (including a quirky breakfast spot), his exp...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, JB and Phil of the "Balls Deep Inside the NFL" episodes return to talk college football: a first for Strong Words With Ian Strong. Together, they and Ian recap the biggest on and off the field stories from the '25-'26 season before discussing this year's 12-team playoff, tonight's championship game between (1) Indiana and (10) Miami,...

Send us Fan Mail Veritas and Jonny Suicide, formerly of the band known as Suicide Puppets, have returned with new music, new band members, and a new band name: Horror Scene! Ian chats with the rhythm section of the band to discuss the changes in the band since they were last on the show, including why they decided to change their name, some of the personnel and management changes they've gone...

Send us Fan Mail In this volume of "Shot Glass Diaries," Ian recalls the 2nd stop of a three city trip in which he went to see the Braves play in Phoenix, Arizona as he works on crossing off more MLB stadiums from his list. Along with reviewing the game and some of the food he tried at the stadium, Ian also reviews seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time in person, going to the Musica...

Send us Fan Mail "Captain Awesome" Dan Freet, the other half of the musical-comedy duo Awesomely Strong and lead singer of Ian's band Dead Cowboy, is back to watch a movie with Ian for the first time in over 3 years. This time, they're watching a hidden gem, cult classic comedy of the 90's, "Airheads" starring Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler. Watc...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, Ian sits down with one of the friends he made doing some standup comedy in central Pennsylvania: Karen Kunick. In this episode, Karen talks balancing her two polar opposite career choices as a laywer and as a comedian, while being a mother of six, the process of taking the bar exam, working in the public defender's office, her first time doing standup...

Send us Fan Mail It'a Strong Words with Ian Strong's 100th episode and to celebrate, we are reintroducing "Shot Glass Diaries!" In this volume, Ian recalls returning to San Francisco, California as part of a 3-city road trip in which he was able to cross off three more stadiums in which he got to see the Atlanta Braves play. Along with reviewing the game, Ian also talks about g...

Send us Fan Mail Now that the 2025 MLB season has concluded and the Los Angeles Dodgers are back to back World Series champions of the 2021 MLB season, Ian is ready to talk baseball with Mark Shuey, the former sports broadcaster for WITF-TV, PCN, and WINK 104. In this episode, Ian and Mark will discuss and recall the biggest stories on and off the field and more before wrapping up by predicting wh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode recorded back in 2022 when The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson had just became available to stream, The Fab Three sat down to discuss and rank all of the solo Batman films outside the DCEU. "Demonrock" Dave Sharpe and "Captain Awesome" Dan Freet return to give their rankings of each movie and their takes on the portrayals or Batman, Bruce Wayn...

Send us Fan Mail It's been over three and a half years since the last episode of "Strong Words With Ian Strong" aired a new episode. Well, Ian is back and answering all the questions he's been asked since the spring of 2022: Why did the show stop airing new episodes? What has he been up to this whole time? Why bring the show back now and what can you expect going forward? Follo...

Send us Fan Mail In today's volume of "Shot Glass Diaries," Ian recalls the trip he took on his 35th birthday with his friend Lydia to see the Braves play the Yankees in Yankee Stadium while doing some other things in "The Big Apple:" including touring Yankee Stadium, visiting Madamme Tussaudo's in Times Square, attempting to re-visit the same fire house used in the &...

Send us Fan Mail As Ian announced on the last episode, he will be among the comics performing next Wednesday, April 20th at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone as part of their monthly "Sh*t in a Hat" show where the audience submits topic ideas for jokes that are pulled at random while the comics are on stage. Today, Ian chats with the host of the show :stand-up comedian and podcaster, Mike O&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Despite the very real threat to a 2022 Major League Baseball season, a new collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the players union was reached, ending a 99-day lockout and guaranteeing a full 162-game season. Ian welcomes back his good friend and former sports broadcaster for WINK-104, WITF-TV, and PCN: Mark Shuey to break down every facet of the new CBA that effects the...

Send us Fan Mail In this month's bonus episode, "Shot Glass Diaries" concludes last month's volume in which Ian spent a week in Iceland in 2018. In part two, Ian and his friend Lydia go on a walking food tour of the Icelandic capital city of Reykjavik, learning some of the culture and history of the island while sampling some amazing food, as well as visited a toy and arcade mu...

Send us Fan Mail With Wrestlemania season around the corner, one of the often debated topics surrounding the mega-wrestling event is the WWE's annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony and it's inductees. Today, Ian and his panel consisting of the co-hosts of the "Falls Count Anywhere with Youngblood and Manny" podcast, Brandon Youngblood and Manny Santiago, as well as one of Ian&...

Send us Fan Mail Last year, Ian was joined by his most knowledgeable friends when it came to football to recap the season before previewing Super Bowl 55. Now, JB, Phil, and Dan are back to recap this year's football season by talking about Super Bowl 56, the World Champion Los Angeles Rams and how their victory may or may not effect the legacy of quarterback Matt Stafford before discussing t...