by CJ North
After what seems like an eternity.. football has returned and oh yeah WE HAVE RETURNED AS WELL! In our first official episode since May 6th, we are finally back to do a podcast together with just the two of us. And just in time for football as well. We do some quick glance overs of some other sports, but diving all the way into the upcoming season. We make season predictions, going over every division and making our picks all the way to the Super Bowl. Coming up soon, we will get back to the normal schedule of recording and get back to the Sports AND the Stuff.
Messi won Copa over the summer, and since, the entire soccer world is off it's axis. But we buried the lead, RONALDO IS BACK IN MANCHESTER!! Over the course of 24 hours, Dom (and every other United fan ever) went from wanting to throw Ronaldo off a cliff, to welcoming him back with open arms. An absolutely insane transfer window this summer. Oh yeah, we also talk about the Primer League. AND the international break upcoming.
We jump right into week 3 of the Primer League, that featured City returning to form, and United dipping out of it a bit. Dom gets out to a lead like he had all of last year, but this time it is closer, but then again, it is only the second week. Then we get into the nuts and bolts of the podcast. creating our ultimate high school class schedule, going from first period to ninth period. We also go over our favorite classes we had growing up, and our least favorite. It is definitely a trip down memory lane.
After a couple weeks off, we are back to our regularly scheduled program. And with that.... THE PRIMER LEAGUE is also BACK! Seems like just two months ago we were wrapping up the coverage of the previous season.. oh yeah that's because it was. But we are both more than happy to have Primer League soccer back in our life. We go over week one results and get ready for week two. We also go over our season long predictions, including awards and everything. We came prepared.. sort of. Then in the what's on our mind segment, we do a full NFL breakdown predictions and all. Welcome back to all.
The gang is all here this week! We finally have the return of a normal Sports N' Stuff episode, with Cj making his triumphant return to the microphone. We open up with some talk about Facebook marketplace, get into some rants about the Yankees, and finally break into some talk about the Olympics. We also talk about some other sports and some other stuff. This is the true definition of a Sports N' Stuff episode. Back to our roots.
What do we do now? There's no soccer. So what do we do? We ramble. And we ramble A LOT. Everything from the most liked social media post of all time, to crazy New York City drivers, to Dom traveling the globe. We even throw a little soccer in there. And because there's no soccer for a couple more weeks, we are officially turning into a Olympics podcast, as they start on Friday.
WE DID IT!! WE WON! And by "we" that means Dom and Elijah won. Not just the Argentina and Italy national teams, but Dom and Elijah also played a major part. All jokes aside, what a weekend it was for the both of us. Messi finally won his first major international trophy and Italy upset England to win the Euro Championship. It doesn't get much better than that. Then we get into some random thoughts, which include what dust is composed of (hint its 50% dead skin)
Both of our teams have made it to the finals of their respective international tournaments. Argentina in Copa versus Brazil and Italy in Euro versus England. So needless to say, the guys' nerves are shot and the stress levels couldn't be higher. But here we are. On one hand you are Messi going for his first major international trophy, and on the other hand, the young Italy team has beaten some of the best in the world and has a shot at winning their first major international trophy since 2006. Lots on the line, could be fantastic or could be the worst thing ever for us. We get into some random talk at the end, including playing basketball against our boss, climbing some mountains and coming up with a good name for the podcast.
Both major tournaments are in win or go home mode at this point. Italy faces off against number one ranked Belgium in the Euro quarterfinals, and Argentina prepares to take on Bolivia in the quarterfinals of Copa. We make our predictions for the next rounds of both tournaments and also go over the results thus far, which includes upsets like Switzerland beating France and the Czech Republic beating the Netherlands. After that Dom takes center stage as Elijah takes a phone call. My goodness does Dom have one the greatest monologues of all time, it's five minutes of pure entertainment. We then breifly go over what's on our minds, which is the heat. Too damn hot. Then we talk about our weekend hike that we went on. Which tried to kill us. It's a legendary episode from the 42nd minute on.
We do some quick updates of both Copa and Euro as we prepare for the knockouts stages on both competitions. But then we break into a full out NBA playoffs podcast. Like I'm not kidding. We spent about 20 minutes on soccer before going heavy into the basketball playoffs. We go over the 76ers collapse, the Nets and Bucks series, and a little bit of the Wester Conference as well but mostly Eastern Conference stuff. There's also a point in the podcast where each one of us takes a pee break. It's a good one.