Hello, it's us. We are back for one of our favorite pods to do - the Super Bowl pod! As had been tradition in the past, we went over an hour so time breaks below if you want to jump around: 0:00-10:00ish - SB plans, favorite SB food, we shoot the shit. 10:00-32ish - Intern Eric drop his 3 favorite NarrativEs going into the Super Bowl, do yourself a favor and listen to some RayJ songs first 32:00-58ish - We each break down our 3 favorite props for the game handing out bronze/silver/golds in order of confidence. 58-The End - who doesn't love a good outro. Thanks for listening, or just clicking the Play button and letting it run, and we'll see you soon for our fast-casual restaurant bracket!

After a 2 year hiatus, the Fired Up pod is back! Using a similar structure to our most recent pods we broke down 8 different potential 'pod topics' and argued our way down to a single topic that will be the first full-length 16-team bracket for us to breakdown in February. Please excuse as we dust off the rust. First round matchups: Fast Casual Restaurants vs Serial Killers (10:00ish - no idea) Theme Park Things vs Cartoons (16:50 maybe?) TV Game Shows vs Cults (23:00 or thereabouts) Big Mouth Characters vs Drinking Games (27:00) Excited to be back and next up is our Fired Up Super Bowl pod next week!

The boys are finally back in town and to celebrate December we talked our way through 8 of the best Christmas Movies out there and then cleaned up with a little NBA. We spent the first 10 minutes talking about movies that didn't make the cut before diving in.. First round: It's a Wonderful Life vs Love Actually (10:30ish) Elf vs The Santa Clause (17:00ish maybe) Home Alone vs A Christmas Story (23:00?!) Christmas Vacation vs Jingle All The Way (31:00) Then, we battled through the Final Four until we had a winner. Finally, we discussed the NBA (42:00 or so) including the LeBron/Wade tribute, the Warriors, and the NBA Christmas Day Slate.

The boys are back with a few special guests joining throughout the hour to celebrate the one and only JD Vancho. We didn't even build a bracket. We prepared some questions and made him talk all about himself, which people know he doesn't like, and we made it all about him. It was glorious. A wonderful surprise at (42:30) as we surprised him with a Final Four of whiskeys and toasted to his pending nuptials. This episode was definitely a circle jerk for JD, but that's just how it goes sometimes. Well deserved, my friend! As always, thank for listening.

The boys are back and fired up about the fruit bracket! 18 of the best fruits objectified down to 1. It gets messy, but the juice is worth it. Ok that's enough of that... First Round Match-ups: Cherry vs Avocado (4:30) Watermelon vs Banana (11:00) Apple vs Plum (16:05) Mango vs Blueberry/Raspberry (22:10) Strawberry vs Pineapple (25:00) Kiwi vs Grape (28:00) Cantaloupe vs Peach/Nectarine (32:00) Pear vs Orange (35:33) We argue our way through the Elite 8 and the Final Four, down to a Champion (40:00). Then, we end with the NFL (47:56). We talk about Jimmy G, and some Buy/Sell candidates. As always, thanks for listening!

After our longest hiatus in a year we are back with another Fired Up bracket! This time we tackle the everyday things we take for granted in a special "things we can't live without" bracket. We dive into a little NFL at the end if you need those hawt takes. Timestamps below! First Round Match-ups: DVR vs iPhone (2:30) Food Delivery vs Spotify (6:15) Modern Transportation vs Credit (10:30) Porn vs Exercise (13:20) Dogs vs Netflix (19:00) Friends vs Alcohol (21:50) Sportsbook vs Sugar (24:30) Sunshine vs Shelter (26:50) We break down the Elite 8 (31:00) into the Final Four (34:00) and crown a Champion. At the end, we talk about the NFL including some Flex positions, RB choices, WR pick-ups, buy-sell options and more (40:00). Thanks for listening!

After a much needed 2 week break after the Interns' wedding JD and Justin are back with special guest Pouyan for our 2018 football pod! 90 minutes to learn all you'll need to know. We start with Hard Knocks, the rookie QBs and Saquon (3:20), and RotY bets (9:30). Next, we talked about the superstars as we mocked the first round of a 12-team draft (12:20) and each chose 2 top-30 players we're staying away from this fantasy season (26:00). For some reason we also talked TEs here (36:45). Then, for each division, we discussed win totals, division winners, story-lines and more: NFC West (39:30) AFC West (47:00) NFC South (50:20) AFC South (54:36) NFC North (58:45) AFC North (1:03:20) NFC East (1:07:15) AFC East (1:11:45) Finally, since we did have our football expert in studio we went over some sleeper/breakout targets among the QBs (1:16:15), RBs (1:19:40) and WRs (1:25:19). Thanks for listening!

We are fired up that it is Intern Erics wedding week so we built an entire bracket around his wedding! We cover almost all aspects of the weekend and argued about his excitement and nerves among other things. Listen in as we celebrate Intern Eric and Lauren and stick around for a special Final Four! First Round: Planning Honeymoon vs Picking Guests (4:15) Picking Music vs Picking Venue (11:15) Color Scheme vs Flowers (15:45) Dessert vs Dinner (18:45) Parents vs Sister (24:15) Donily vs Harbaugh (27:15) Writing Vows vs Asking Mr. Denault (31:15) Day Of vs Day Before (35:25) The Second Round was quick (36:20) because we wanted to get to our special, surprise Final Four (39:30) that included a nice, light champagne tasting. Congrats, Eric and Lauren! As always, thanks for listening.

We're back with another bracket and this week we got super fired up about bad habits, pet peeves and annoying behavior in general. We get started with the missed cut, which included not soaking dishes, not using your turn signal and some others (3:00). Then we get to the good stuff: the battle of 16 annoying things that people do. First Round: Backpack in the Crowd vs Chew w/Mouth Open (9:07) Speakerphone in Public vs Mid-song Aux Change (15:00) Not Replacing TP vs Shopping Carts in Parking Spots (19:10) Not Washing Hands vs Not Picking Up Dog Doo-Doo (24:15) Fingernail Biting vs Gum Smacking (30:45) Airplane Etiquette vs Movie Theater Phone Checker (36:00) Knee Bouncing vs Close Talkers (45:00) Sidewalk Hoggers vs Sniffles, but No Sneeze (50:15) We argued down to the Final 8 (57:10) and we became disgusted by our fellow humans, but were able to determine our Final Four and a champion (1:02:20)! As always, thanks for listening!

The boys are back for the 50th episode of The Fired Up Podcast! And we are FIRED. UP. A throwback for sure as we revisit some old breakfast favorites as well as some cereals new to me. And for the first time ever we had more than 16 entrants so we had to do some play-in games! We talk about the right way to eat cereal, those that missed the cut and more before diving into the play-in games... Play-in games: Cheerios vs Basic 4 (7:40) Raisin Bran vs Cinnamon Life (10:50) First Round: Cinnamon Toast Crunch vs Apple Jacks (14:00) Play-in Winner 1 vs Trix (17:45) Lucky Charms vs Honey Nut Cheerios (22:00) Honey Bunches of Oats vs Frosted Flakes (26:00) Golden Grahams vs Fruit Loops (29:00) Cocoa Puffs vs Frosted Mini Wheats (31:15) Play-in Winner 2 vs Captain Crunch (35:45) Cocoa Krispies vs Pops (40:15) We were able to get it down to the Final 8 (44:45) and we fought through the haze of sugar to determine our Final Four and a champion (48:00)! As always, thanks for listening!