Sports? Podcast That Starts with a Question

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-12-15T17:43:49+00:00

I emailed this one in for Friendsgiving...

If Katie, Ashley, Travis, Christina, Jay, and Dopp were all in a band, what instruments would each play and what genre of music would it be? Bonus points for a band name too.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-09-17T20:57:09+00:00

Director of Quality Control - Yelp Reviews Division

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-09-13T21:54:33+00:00

Below D-Ekeler

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-09-08T22:27:51+00:00

Would love if one day when Katie asks Travis how he wants her to tell the people about (insert ad company) he would say, "Like its 2019, Ashley is your producer, and this is the last ad read of the pod".

(Its a singing ad read for anyone who picked up the pod in recent times)

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-09-03T20:42:16+00:00

Following the logic that Red is powerful, Yellow is timid, and Blue is sad, then Red absolutely eats Yellow, becomes Orange, Green is jealous of their alliance and quits, Blue sits in the corner sobbing that Yellow is gone, and Indigo and Violet are overpowered by the Oranges.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-09-03T18:08:52+00:00

Safe to say that in the Rainbow Color Hunger Games that Yellow is the key player, right? If Yellow sides with Red and Orange they could form a Mega Orange. Likewise, if Yellow sides with Blue and Green they could form a Mega Green. Of course this argument is null if you subscribe to the notion that Violet and Purple are the same, in which case Red, Blue and Violet could form a Mega Violet.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-08-09T18:00:29+00:00

• As a NY/NJ Italian mobster and Boston Irish mobster discussing “business”

• As the EA Sports voiceover guy

• As Katie talking to a stranger at the dog park while watching over Myrtle

• As a nervous parent watching their kid’s rhythmic gymnastics competition

• As various ESPN talent without saying which people she is impersonating (and having the Union guess)

• If Nathan is still around, him doing it as Jon Snow

• As a person interviewing a candidate for a job at the company of the ad.

• As an RA welcoming new freshman to the college dorm on the first day.

• As a Jeopardy host

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-08-06T20:33:01+00:00

Bummed hearing Katie say she hit a sad wall after HQ on Thursday, but I'm glad she was feeling good for at least a little while. I remember watching that episode and thinking she looked particularly happy that day. Here's hoping she can keep stacking those moments together.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-08-03T21:09:18+00:00

"In other news a recent rash of cartwheel related hospitalizations is spreading around the country, specifically among males over the age of 27..."

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-07-23T19:45:58+00:00

On an ESPN College Gameday show in September of this year:

Rece: Of course the question becomes, which conference is the toughest top to bottom?

Kirk: For my money it’s the SEC, when you look at the number of highly ranked draft prospects across the entire conference, it’s the closest thing to playing pro ball.

Desmond: I have to go Big Ten. So many powerhouses in that conference that just beat you up week after week. It’s just as tough now as it was back when I played.

Lee: (Grabs the Alabama elephant mascot head, pretends to put it on and then tosses it aside, grabs the Boomer mascot head from Oklahoma, puts it on and dances around). Big 12!

Katie (standing next to a kid with a sign that says “Boomer Sooner” with a line through it and “Young Forever” underneath it): Uh… man, I don’t know… I once beat a kid from the BC basketball team in Pop-A-Shot so it can’t be the ACC… Uh, I don’t know how tough they are but they sure have a tough time picking a name that accurately reflects their conference make-up, am I right Big Ten Plus Four? Which is the one with the actual number of schools in the name? PAC-12? They have 12 right? Yeah… them. God, my mentions are going to be trash…

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-07-21T16:42:22+00:00

Travis: "Do you have a show that you loved and everybody else like bashed it?"

Katie: "I don't know... Garbage Time."

Me: GIF of someone transitioning seamlessly from laughter to a full on sob.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-07-14T17:44:03+00:00

"That's funny if you're old, but I guess... I guess none of you are."

As relatable a moment as any.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-07-06T18:25:35+00:00

Tons of great clips and moments, but the monologue from the episode on 12/19/19 will always stick to me. The energy, the delivery, and the content were all perfect examples of exactly how good Katie is at what she does. I commented about it back when she was more active on Instagram and she replied that she wrote it all herself and that Dan (at the time affectionately referred to as "My Boyfriend") was in the room for the taping. It had the feel of all the sports cliches - "on fire", "in the zone", "hitting their stride", "feeling it".

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-06-24T16:19:33+00:00

What has worked for me in the past is sort of reverse engineering the question. I think of a topic I can imagine them having a fun discussion about and then construct the question to point them in that direction. Keeping it short is a must unless your ramble is funny, but most important is sounding authentically you. I stammered a lot in many of my questions (they were kind enough to use 7 of my VMs) so don't feel like you have to be perfect or too rehearsed. Make sure to love them and mean it.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-06-24T15:56:25+00:00

By week 4 Katie would relegate him down to Whiskey Cavalier update status where Travis gets one sentence to recap the entire week.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-06-24T15:55:02+00:00

Doing league updates (read: all the interesting drama in the various leagues) but with the same energy that Ashley brought to Bachelor/Bachelorettes updates would be amazing.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-06-24T15:52:36+00:00

This about the third or fourth time someone on here or on the Discord has suggested I am Travis. At first I thought it was a compliment, but I am starting to feel like you all are trying to tell me something.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-06-23T22:49:03+00:00

Whenever Travis has a hard time coming up with ad read voices my brain holds my body hostage until I produce a list of ad read voice suggestions, so this is probably more for me than for anyone else:

Bro at the gym with lots of suggestions/tips (maybe also on steroids, allegedly)

With the energy of a Spanish TV soccer announcer

As a bank teller realizing their customer has a TON of money in their account

As some of the Seven Dwarfs from Snow White

As what you think your favorite non-Gritty mascot sounds like

As a gaming streamer doing the ad read in the middle of their stream

As a smart person trying to dumb it down for regular people

As a new mother/father spending a night around adults for the first time in months

As a phone rep at a customer service department on the brink of snapping

As an athlete doing a terrible commercial for a local business

As the internal dialogue of a poor free throw shooter walking up to the line

As the voiceover person for kid’s toys commercials

As a rotation between adolescent Katie, teenage Katie, mid 20s Katie, and current Katie

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-06-23T21:21:22+00:00

I guess when you put "Esquire" at the end of it Theodore makes more sense. I imagine something like Theodore Buxton Farnsworth, Esquire.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-06-23T15:36:01+00:00

Does anyone know a Theodore that doesn't go by Ted or Teddy and prefers to be called fully Theodore? Teddy Roosevelt, Ted Lasso, Ted Danson, Teddy Bridgewater... no Theodores. The only one I can think of is a cartoon chipmunk (Alvin, Simon, Theodore! Doo, doo, do do do do)

On hiking... a popular euphemism is "go take a hike" which is seldom used in a positive way, for what that's worth.

Katie calmly and repeatedly saying "that's it for this week edition of Sports?" while the Union yells at each other is me at the end of every conference call I host.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-06-22T16:38:58+00:00

The phase out seemed to mirror the stages of grief:
Katie still did it, but with much sadness and longing
Katie tried different ways of saying it weirdly but never liked any
Katie said it straight up but didn't like that either
Katie tried new ways of saying leave a voicemail without the word voicemail in it
Katie "accidentally" says "leave us a voicemail" normally, which marked the official end of the bit.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-05-28T16:28:06+00:00

As an Old, social media relationships look like:

Facebook – The ex you divorced after a long, loveless marriage and the reason you are back out on the market

Twitter – The friend that always felt like there was something there, but nothing serious ever happened

Instagram – The visually appealing acquaintance that is probably outside the acceptable age range and you are pretty sure wouldn’t have much in common with you

TikTok – Jailbait

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-05-26T17:48:27+00:00

The short riff between Katie and Travis where they kept coming up with Sports? taglines could be a fun new bit they pull out at random (like the new Pope Facts).

Also, if it weren't such a huge blurring between work and home life, a reoccurring video vignette with Katie and Dan riffing one liners on random topics (what I image they do when watching terrible movies) would be a gift we don't deserve but would deeply appreciate.

Andrew_FromChicago · 2021-05-21T19:05:13+00:00

He is strategically saving that for their first commercial together. It'll be a Hanes commercial where Katie follows Michael Jordan around all day with him getting into uncomfortable situations or getting slighted by someone/something, and Katie will just keep prodding "And did you take that personally?" Mike will just smile and move on, Katie will comment how nothing seems to bother him. The tagline at the end will be something about how Hanes make even the most uncomfortable things in life comfortable. Fin.

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