Episodes
Monday Aug 13, 2018
S03 E16 – The Shit Show
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- What’s the weather like?
- What shirt are you wearing?
- Sponsor: Philz Coffee
Follow up Items
- San Francisco trip yields no mascot pictures: Lou Seal (Giants): Lou Seal San Francisco Giants - MLB.com and Stomper (A’s) Stomper: The Oakland A's Mascot | Oakland Athletics - MLB.com hang with the high rollers:
- Visit to Joliet Correctional Center where Jake of the Blues Brothers fame served a stretch: Inside an Abandoned Prison: Joliet Correctional Center
Sponsors (full read):
- The coffee where texture and flavor meet: Philz Coffee: Coffee Shops, Subscriptions, Customized Blends
Shit Show (anchor topic)
- Rectal cancer detection- Your doctor might not know shit
- Ileostomy- it’s in the bag.
- Close encounters of the Turd kind: Challenges after ileostomy reversal
Ancillary topics
- Vince’s groaners (3 of ‘em)
Photos
Friday Aug 03, 2018
S03 E15 – Fake News Survival Kit
Friday Aug 03, 2018
Friday Aug 03, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- What’s the weather like?
- What shirt are you wearing?
- Sponsor: Buona Beef - The Original Italian Beef
Follow up Items
- Watching your BB team when it sucks. Does it work?
- Nick Offerman & Amy Poehler- Making It
- Mascot Museum visit in 2 weeks.
Sponsors (full read):
- Buona Beef- The Race is on. Buona | The Original Italian Beef
Fake News Survival Kit (anchor topic)
- Bro’s have avoided but now have solution
- Nothing new- newspaper to electronic media
- Trump’s personality and background
- Trump’s vocation- Businessman or Entertainer?
- Trump’s work in Professional Wrestling
- Survival by viewing Fake News through the lens of Professional Wrestling
- Face vs. Heel
- Support players- mouthpiece, enforcer, carpenter
- Crowd- heat, mark, over (desired reaction), plants
- Story- book, skit, kayfabe, run-in’s, serves & turns and screwjob (unfair part to story)
- Organizing- Tag Teams to New World Order
Ancillary topics
- Vince’s groaner
Photos
Saturday Jul 28, 2018
S03 E14 – Jon’s Confession Part Deux
Saturday Jul 28, 2018
Saturday Jul 28, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- What’s the weather like?
- What shirt are you wearing?
- Sponsors: Gino’s East Pizza? To emphasize not a factor in my indiscretions.
Follow up Items
- Mascot Museum visit in 2 weeks.
- MLB update- Have’s (Cubs, Red Sox), Dark Horse (A’s) and Have Not’s (Royals, O’s & White Sox) as trade deadline approaches. How to enjoy baseball when your team really sucks - The Week
Sponsors (full read):
- Gino’s East Pizza Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizzas - Gino's East | Chicago Style Deep …
Jon’s Confession Part Deux (anchor topic)
- Subpar performance on last Bro Show- NO EXCUSES given but full confession of prior evening’s bad behavior must be made to Father Producer
- Confession 1- Millennium Park Presentation on Lakefront Park blows up
- Confession 2- Overdose on Gino’s East deep dish pizza.
- Confession 3- Stood up at Soldier Field International Soccer match between Manchester City vs BoRussia Dortmund featuring Christian Pulisic, US superstar.
- Confession 4- Poor late evening exchange of Cardinal-Cubs tickets at Clark Street with Brett-a- Pedia.
- Confession 5- Later evening viewing of Sumo Wrestling at Clark Street leads to sordid encounter with night nurse.
Ancillary topics
- Chicago Pigeon Ordinances fail to get to bottom of problem.
- Vince’s groaner + one
Photos
Monday Jul 23, 2018
S03 E13 – Secret in Their Eyes
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Show Notes
Spoiler alert: The weekend’s Bro Show will feature a review of Secret in Their Eyes (Current, Hollywood version) with SPOILERS. Recommend you watch the movie prior to listening to said podcast.
Opening
- What’s the weather like?
- What shirt are you wearing?
- Sponsors: B-Cycle Austin and Divvy of Chicago. Both great bike-sharing programs!
Follow up Items
- FIFA World Cup
- Geoffrey the Giraffe hits the Grunts and Groans Circuit Geoffrey the Giraffe from Toys-R-Us Joins Rumble Match (VIDEO)
- Kavanaugh document request could answer baseball addiction question as Kavanaugh trove sets up Senate fight - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Bill Browder offered up to Putin for questioning in Russia?
- Remember, if Maria Butina approaches you at a bar, she’s not that into you, actually. (Matt Miller on Morning Joe last Thursday)
Sponsors (full read):
Secret in Their Eyes (anchor topic)
- Book vs Original Movie vs Current Movie
- Which one do you watch/read first?
- Fresh grief and decaying grief
- Death of your lover and death of your blood
- Back-filling your losses
- The unique grief experienced by law enforcement
Ancillary topics
- Vince’s groaner
Photos
Saturday Jul 14, 2018
S03 E12 – Immortality? I Can Live without It.
Saturday Jul 14, 2018
Saturday Jul 14, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- What’s the weather like?
- Shirt?
- Sponsors (Pathways for Aging):
Follow up Items
- FIFA
- Mascot Follow up
- Five Baseball Parks in Five Days
- Supreme Court Nominee risks losing confirmation due to Baseball addiction Brett Kavanaugh Credit-Card Debt Due to Baseball, WH Says - NYMag
- UK Green Day “American Idiot” charts campaign
Sponsors (full read):
- Navigating the Challenges of Aging: Pathways for Aging
Immortality – I can live without it (anchor topic)
- Supplements vs Drugs
- Supplements market growth
- Longevity began with Ponce de Leon?
- Telomeres and NAD (separately)
- Telomeres and NAD (relationship)
- Up-and-coming: C60
- Products: Elysium’s Basis and CannaCarbon
Ancillary topics
- Vince’s groaner
Photos
Saturday Jul 07, 2018
S03 E11 – How DO Wolves Change Rivers?
Saturday Jul 07, 2018
Saturday Jul 07, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- What’s the weather like?
- Shirt?
- Sponsors (mention only):Superdawg (Chicago) & Frank (Austin)
- Vocal injunction in place (not court ordered)
Follow up Items
- Jerry’s lab results
- FIFA
- Geoffrey the Giraffe- Tough Time for Toys-R-Us mascot Photo of Geoffrey the Giraffe leaving an empty Toys "R" Us store goes …
Sponsors (full read):
- Superdawg (Chicago)Superdawg® drive-in
- Frank (Austin)
Humans and Nature (anchor topic)
- Poachers (lions 3; poachers 0) Rhino poachers killed by lions at Sibuya Game Reserve in South ...
- Yellowstone Wolves - Wolf Reintroduction Changes Ecosystem
- CHN President goes batty during Yellowstone vacation.
Ancillary topics
- Vince’s groaner
- Blondie’s Red Sox story
Shout-outs:
- The kind and beautiful Mary Jane Mara did the editing on the remote Austin segment at Frank. Thank you, my dear.
Photos
- Our Buddies
- Superdawg (Chicago)
- Frank (Austin)
Saturday Jun 30, 2018
S03 E10 – Twenty Questions for Jon
Saturday Jun 30, 2018
Saturday Jun 30, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- What’s the weather like?
- Shirt? Anja and the bro dilemma.
- Sponsor: Primanti Bros
- Have I got a bridge for you!? Chicago Avenue bridge(1)
Follow up Items
- Gutierrez and Puerto Rico
- Iceland loses (Bros pick); Germany loses (current champ)
- Mexico team logical favorite for Da Bros
- Animal interference(2)
Sponsor read: Primanti Bros – the Almost Famous Sandwich (Jon)
Jon takes the test (anchor topic)
Ancillary topics
- Vince’s groaners
Photos
- Chicago Avenue Bridge(1a/1b)
- Animal Interference(2)
- Cover art: Jon’s sandwich(3)
Saturday Jun 23, 2018
S03 E09 – I'm Missing You
Saturday Jun 23, 2018
Saturday Jun 23, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- What’s the weather like?
- Sponsor: Primantio Brothers – Almost Famous Sandwiches
- Sponsor: Bard Medical Supplies
- What are u doing this weekend? SABRE at Pittsburgh!
- What is “Chronic Production”?
Follow up Items
- Great JFK/RFK article. Especially the comparison of the two at end.
- FIFA/World Cup & the fate of Iceland
- Mascot Phillie Phanatic Injuries Fan with hot dog to face
- Dennis Rodman the Diplomat Recognized!
Missing body parts (anchor topic)
- Replacement parts
- Nail polish won’t replace your balls
- A bidet won’t replace your rectum
- Recent developments as a result of cancer treatment and missing parts
- PSA on the rise - Jerry
- Pulmonary embolism - Jon
- Blind man analogy (nature seems to abhor a vacuum)
Ancillary topics
- Vince’s groaners
- The Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman #MeToo (not on show)
Photos
- Jon eyes mascot with his iPhone in PNC Park, Pittsburgh.
- Jon gives textural approval to Pittsburgh’s Almost Famous Sandwich from Primanti Brothers.
- Jerry tries to explode his Bard Medical urine bag using only his catheterized bladder, thus enacting his version of chronic (urine) production.
Saturday Jun 16, 2018
S03 E08 – It’s Pronounced “FEE-fah”
Saturday Jun 16, 2018
Saturday Jun 16, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- What’s the weather like? HOT!
- Sponsor: Hisense
- What are u doing this weekend?
Follow-up items
- Milwaukee mascot decision (difficult for Jon)
- Congressional Baseball this week (Thursday night)
- Scalise on field (won’t fully recovery)
- Dems won (21 to 5)
- Jerry runs for office to get in game (since it’s softball)?
- Stormy Daniels - rough landing in Chicago
FIFA World Cup (anchor topic)
- FEE-fah (pronunciation)
- Football not soccer
- Ridiculous terms - Diving (flopping), Nutmeg, Knockout Round, Bicycle Kick, Cow Dribble
- Mascot - Zabivaka (wolf)
- Sponsorship
- LONG - one month 63 matches
Ancillary topics
- Vince’s groaners
- Thank you, Dennis!
As mentioned during the show, Jon went to Milwaukee this week...
Saturday Jun 09, 2018
S03 E07 – What Becomes of the Broken-hearted?
Saturday Jun 09, 2018
Saturday Jun 09, 2018
Show Notes
Opening
- Jon’s back in Chicago
- What’s the weather like?
- Sponsor: Catheter Panties at Bare Necessities
- What are u doing this weekend? Chicago Lit Fest
Follow-up items
- Jon is trying to get off the mascot stalker list.
- Mascot stalker to predator? NAH! Although...
- Jon worries he may be off the Pre-board List heading toward the No-fly List.
- Note: just because Jon’s paranoid doesn’t mean he’s schizophrenic.
RFK (anchor topic)
- The runt
- Clean up man
- Cuba missle crisis - “Thank God for Bobby Kennedy” (JFK quote)
- Meeting with Baldwin, Bellafonte, etc.
- NY Senator and Rats in the Ghetto
- The poverty tour for the Senate Nutrition Committee
- Apartheid speech in South Africa
- César Chavez
- A four point campaign
- The Ambassador & the busboy
Ancillary topics
- Ethel the real deal
- Kennedy Women – A remarkable story for another day.
- Joan Osborne – What Becomes of the Broken-hearted?