The Occasionalists Podcast

Best of the Best Week: Best Sports TV Show

We have reached the midpoint of our Best of the Best Week and we are hashing out what is the best sports television show of all time.
Here's a dirty little secret about fictional sports tv shows: they mostly suck.
Except for the one selected here. FX's The League is truly head and shoulders (and downstairs mouth) above the rest of the competition and thus, earns a lifetime Shiva award.
 

Best of the Best Week: Stadium Anthems

Our next episode for Best of the Best Week finds us examining the intersection of sports and music. Nothing hypes up a crowd, or a team for that matter, like a well-placed song drop. Player and team entrances, fan chants, and even some sing-alongs are top of mind with this episode.
We tackle a variety of songs and tell you when it is best to give these tracks a try.
Plus, we open up Pandora's Box and potentially commit some kind of blasphemy by suggesting that maybe, juuuust maybe, Queen does not have the top stadium anthem of all time.
I've said too much, strap in to find out more.

Best of the Best Week: The Best Sports Movie

We roll on with our Sports Bonanza and we're offering up a little curveball for your holiday week.
A new minisode every day this week presenting the Best of the Best. First up: The Best Sports Movie.
It's obviously the 1989 comedy classic, Major League. If you think it's something else, you're wrong. I think you'll see things, just give me like 5 minutes to convince you.
You still don't believe me? I guess there's only one thing left to do then...
Listen to the whole fucking thing.
 

Cleveland Sports Answers

We're jumping right back into another Sports Bonanza episode, this time with a few answers to our pressing Cleveland sports questions.*
Can the Guardians dream real big this offseason? How should we consider this wild, up-and-down Browns season? Will the Cavs have the first father-son duo in NBA history? Get answers to all that and more!
*Unfortunately, we didn't have time to provide any commentary or updates on the ever-growing steroid and cocaine scandal in the Greater Cleveland Interscholastic Bowling League. Check back in next week!
 

Cleveland Sports Questions

The November Sports Bonanza rolls on with (and you knew it was coming) a Cleveland-centric episode! 
We're asking questions about the Browns, Cavs, and Guardians, obviously.
But we're also dipping into the Cleveland Monsters, John Carroll Blue Streaks, Notre Dame College Falcons, Cleveland State Vikings, and Case Western Spartans. And naturally, we finished out with a deep talk about the hyper-competitive Greater Cleveland Interscholastic Bowling League and the ongoing steroids scandal.
Wait, I'm being told that part of the recording has been lost.
I guess we'll have to replace it with some talk about THE Ohio State University Buckeyes. You win some you lose some.
Tomorrow, we'll be answering a few questions posed in this episode. Stay tuned!
 

Sports Bonanza! Trivia Challenge

We are officially kicking of our monthlong focus on sports, Sports Bonanza!, with an always fun and engaging round of sports trivia. We're digging deep into all of the major sports, college and pro, with an interesting bonus question to boot.
And if you're into excessively long rants about big corporations stealing money, are you in for a real treat!
In the words of the late, great Oscar Gamble: They don't think it be like it is. But it do.

Fright Fest V Double Feature: Deathwatch & Day of the Dead

We wrap up Fright Fest V (almost!) with our final double feature on the enforcement branch of The Body Politic as we take on Deathwatch (2002) and Day of the Dead (1985).
On the menu for this review: Isolation, paranoia, distrust, zombies, barbed wire, inhuman experiments, giant rats, machine guns, inept leaders, the apocalypse, and vengeful German spirits. 
That sounds like a good meal to me, eat up!

Fright Fest V Minisode: Enforcement

We kick off the final week of our examination into the Body Politic with an introduction to the branch that represents the most immediate horror and threat to us: Enforcement. 
There isn't a situation the boys in blue or (green) can't make worse and way more violent than it needs to be. Whether it's zombies, primordial gods, ghosts, or regular people in extraordinary circumstances, they'll find a way to screw it up.