It's the pre-blackout Wednesday podcast! Jake, Allen, and JD warm up with some cold ones and discuss the big fight everyone in the world apparently watched featuring a 27 year old beating up on a 58 year old. We didn't notice... What we DID find out was Allen has no idea how to make a Chicago Style dog! He also has an abnormal fear of Dana White eavesdropping on him....

"That guy almost killed that guy.... anyway, here's a shot."

Jake talks about his first bar gig as a door guy- bouncer, and how that culminated into a fanciful career as an old school bar keep.

Have you seen it? We talk about the out of control football fan that started fighting rival team patrons in the street following a game. Turns out, it wasn't a good idea to have his friend film him and post it online....

How much would you pay for JNCOS? The 90's are back, and man, style comes at a price! You won't believe how much JD paid to re-live his heavy metal high school glory days? Then Allen gives you the plug on hot fresh cookies.... They're apparently free too!

Drunk Dial Line: Vito Butkus, author of "The Book of Vito Butkus." dials into the drunk dial line and gives us his thoughts on pubic hair, squirrels, and the latest 2024 presidential election results.

From L.A., to Texas, to the Midwest, Trevor Keveloh has been doing his own thing for a long time. He's the founder of Korrupted Comedy and grabbed a stool with TFADB to talk about his brand and attaching it to an existing place in a world where comedy is, for the most part, discovered and consumed digitally . He handles multiple independently run comedy shows in numerous states across the U.S. and currently manages shows at Magoos here in the Chicagoland area. Tune in to hear his story.

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Eric excelled in hockey at a young age. It ended up becoming a key to a lot of opportunity, and a lock out of a lot of other things.... His father's passing at the age of 10, in a way, became a catalyst.

Years later, during an junior hockey tryout, Eric gets called out by the opposing team's goalie. A coach, "eggs him on" to meet the goalie center rink for a fight to prove his loyalty to the prospective team. Eric throws off his gloves, goes into the rink, and things get wild! Needless to say, a few coaches and programs take interest in Eric after that.

Following that fight, Eric decides he's done with high school and he's ready to go pro and hit the road..... But first, he needs to get expelled... Tune in to see what happens as he shares stories about his "Bull Durham-esk" hockey career which took him throughout the country landing him all the way into Toronto Canada...

Allen's Angry Sports

There's a few sports teams in Chicago that started their season and there's not a single channel you can watch it on! Allen unloads on these broadcast networks that can't seem to come to an agreement with these teams for the event broadcast rights. Then again, would you pay extra money to see a sub-par below 500 team? Most would agree that it's not worth it

Raven's Corner

It's October and we must tout The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe as read by recently deceased voiceover legend James Earl Jones and another version by Christopher Lee

From the ice rink to the dive bar

The podcast concludes with Eric talking about his life after hockey. Outside of fist fights at truck stops, he shows up to a bar to eat food and winds up getting a job... From there, the story continues...