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| number = 622<br />
| title = Scorpio Trouble<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = Jeremy Reisman (Pride of Detroit)<br />
| type = Preview<br />
}}<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 622: Scorpio Trouble''' was a preview episode covering the upcoming Vikings–Lions Week 8 matchup, featuring an interview with Jeremy Reisman of Pride of Detroit — described by James as "one of Arif's enemies." The episode opened with an extended cold-open comparison between Christian Watson's surprise return during a Packers blowout and three canonical professional wrestling moments, and then pivoted to an Al Michaels tangent about Aaron Rodgers' injury return against the Bears. The guest interview constituted the episode's main body, covering the Lions' offensive line youth movement, Jared Goff's unusual historical success against Brian Flores defences, Jameer Gibbs' workload concerns, Amon-Ra St. Brown's rank among wide receivers in a listener-driven bracket, and the Lions' secondary crisis. The mailbag featured an extended consultation of an AI assistant (referred to throughout as "Sumer Brain") on the phases of the moon and Jared Goff, the origins of the Arif Hates Big Cats Corner, and an astrology-themed birthday question whose answer supplied the episode title. The closing segment surfaced Discord reaction to the Olive Garden story from Episode 621, confirmed that both hosts had accidentally committed acts of minor domestic violence against their children, and established Tolkien Canadian as Arif's sole public defender.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
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=== Cold Open: The Christian Watson Comparison ===<br />
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James opened by noting that on the list of things he was not expecting that evening, Christian Watson returning to the field during a Packers game when they were already up 16 was near the top. Arif immediately proposed that James must have three wrestling moments the situation compared to, and James confirmed he had exactly three.<br />
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The first: Steve Austin in the ambulance match against Triple H — the ambulance door opens, Austin flips the bird from the back and then clotheslines Triple H on the ramp. The second: Kurt Angle taking a pedigree on a table, suffering a massive concussion when the table collapsed the wrong way, being taken to the back by medical staff, and then returning to the ring while still visibly impaired, completing the rest of the match with no memory of it that he has been able to recover since. The third, and most famous: Undertaker vs. Mankind, Hell in a Cell — Mankind is tossed off the top of the cage through the announce table, wheeled away on a stretcher, strapped down, taken to the back, and then returns while the Undertaker is still climbing the cage, with consequences for Mankind that James described as significantly worse than what had already happened. James noted that two of the three people involved in these incidents do not remember the matches in question.<br />
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Al Michaels then became the subject of a secondary tangent: Michaels had mentioned on air that he remembered an occasion where Aaron Rodgers left the field, was taken to a hospital, returned, and won the game against the Bears. James recalled the game because of a running joke about Rodgers having adopted a southern accent by the end of it. The segment drifted into whether this was a victory-lap year for Michaels and whether Kirk Herbstreit had a contract clause allowing his removal only if Sean McVay was available as a broadcaster.<br />
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=== Announcements ===<br />
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James plugged Patreon (patreon.com/NorseCode) and PayPal (paypal.me/NorseCode), reiterated the Boston live show — December 8th, 7:30 PM, 730 Tavern Kitchen and Patio, Cambridge, Massachusetts — and noted that listeners interested in Arif admitting to crimes should go back to the first six minutes of Episode 621. James's description of the Olive Garden incident: "Arif kind of sort of admitted to crimes last episode. That's not a crime, it's just rude. That's totally different."<br />
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== Guest Interview: Jeremy Reisman (Pride of Detroit) ==<br />
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Arif introduced Jeremy Reisman of the "eminently Googleable POD cast" (Pride of Detroit) as his "lukewarm friend." Jeremy confirmed that after spending an hour with Arif on his own podcast earlier that day, lukewarm was approximately how he felt.<br />
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=== Lions Offensive Line ===<br />
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Jeremy characterised the Lions' offensive line as younger than at any point in recent memory — Penei Sewell at 26, Blake Miller in his first year, Tate Ratledge in his second year at right guard, and Christian Mahogany in his third year at left guard — replacing the veteran group of Taylor Decker, Frank Ragnow, and Kevin Zeitler that had defined the Lions offensive identity. He described the communication issues as mostly pre-snap in nature: guys not identifying the right assignments on second-level blocks, not being on the same page at the line. He considered PFF's #1 offensive line ranking improbable but thought pass protection was legitimately strong, with the run game being where the inconsistencies showed up most visibly. Arif noted that communication problems seemed particularly relevant for a week against a defence that disguises its coverage pre-snap at one of the highest rates in the NFL.<br />
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Jeremy's prognosis: a good offensive line in two to four years, possibly already performing at a reasonable level today, with the expectation that things would significantly improve by next season as the young players developed post-snap chemistry.<br />
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=== Jared Goff and the Flores Defence ===<br />
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Arif raised Goff's historical split against the Brian Flores defence — sometimes historically good, sometimes very bad — and asked Jeremy to explain the variance. Jeremy pointed to Frank Ragnow's absence as a plausible partial explanation: Ragnow was the rare centre who could handle the pre-snap identification demands that the Flores scheme places on the offence, and when he was in the building the Lions had considerably more success. He allowed that the Ben Johnson / play-caller variable also played some role, though the fact that Johnson has not yet replicated that success in Chicago suggested it was not the whole story.<br />
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On what the Lions would likely do: Jeremy was honest about not knowing. Jared Goff had told him, after Jeremy suggested the Packers' defence as some kind of stepping stone, that the two defences were completely different and that the comparison did not translate. Jeremy agreed. He noted that the last year's approach — essentially having Jameer Gibbs just stand in the A-gaps to block rather than functioning as a pass-game weapon — had not worked, and he doubted they would try it again. Possible adjustments included using 21 personnel more often, deploying Sam LaPorta as a de facto fullback (LaPorta had logged eight snaps in the backfield against the Packers), and simply trusting Goff's quick processing to find answers when the rush arrives.<br />
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=== Amon-Ra St. Brown vs. the Field ===<br />
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Arif ran a listener-originated ranking exercise: Jeremy had to say whether he would take Amon-Ra St. Brown over each named receiver. The results: not over Justin Jefferson (no), Ja'Marr Chase (no), CeeDee Lamb (no), or Puka Nacua (no). Over George Pickens (yes); Zay Flowers (unknown — Jeremy hadn't watched Flowers play recently despite Flowers leading the league in receiving yards); Drake London (yes); T.J. Higgins (yes); Christian Watson (hesitant yes — "turns out having two hamstrings that are the same strength, big deal"); Nico Collins (yes); current-year Mike Evans (yes, with apology). Parker Washington was unfamiliar to Jeremy. A.J. Brown: possible no. The bracket became briefly contentious when Arif said he strongly disagreed with some of Jeremy's answers, and Jeremy defended Amon-Ra's ability to make catches in tight windows in zone coverage as being more valuable than highlight-reel separation.<br />
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On the question of whether Amon-Ra was struggling: Jeremy said no, attributed a quiet game against Arizona to the volume of skill players to feed and noted that Amon-Ra had just had nine catches against the Packers. "If he's not pissed, that's when you have to be like, are you okay?"<br />
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=== Jameer Gibbs ===<br />
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Jeremy described Gibbs as the most complete back in the NFL below the very top tier — not just an open-space specialist but effective between the tackles, capable of running through tight windows in A and B gaps, and not afraid of contact. He noted that Gibbs' longest run of the season was 22 yards, compared to four or five 50-plus-yard runs by the same point last year, and suggested this was partly a product of the offensive line's inconsistency, though Gibbs had still managed to turn negative gains into positive ones on many of those rushes. The workload was Jeremy's primary concern: Gibbs led the league in touches per game, the backup (Sione Vaki, a former safety at Utah) was a good role player but not a starter, and Isaiah Pacheco — acquired as the RB2 — was on injured reserve.<br />
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The "Sonic and Knuckles" breakup question: Jeremy acknowledged mild regret about ending the Montgomery–Gibbs partnership, primarily because the Lions' stated philosophy of running-back-by-committee had appeared to change the moment they realised they had Jameer Gibbs and could simply hand him 25 carries.<br />
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=== Lions Defence ===<br />
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Jeremy described the defence as genuinely improved over the past two weeks, primarily due to better game-planning: vs. Arizona, the Lions bracketed Trey McBride and Michael Wilson and dared Arizona to beat them with anyone else, which worked for three quarters; vs. Green Bay, they used a cornerback rotation reportedly inspired by the Cowboys' scheme, which neutralised the Packers' receivers over the top.<br />
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The secondary crisis was extensive. Ifeatu Melifonwu was out, Vonte Maddox had been lost in Week 1 or 2, Thomas Harper was out indefinitely, and Christian Isian had been benched after several bad games. A sixth-round rookie corner, Keith Abney, had been moved to safety roughly three weeks prior after the Lions asked him if he'd ever played the position ("once, in high school"). Brian Branch's return provided a needed stabilising presence — he played both as a near-the-line-of-scrimmage defender and as a deep safety and had made the play on Jordan Love's interception the previous week.<br />
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On Kirby Joseph: Jeremy read out the tweet Kirby had posted upon returning to practice — involving battery emotes, storm emotes, tornado emotes, and a "husky with a pointing finger right at the camera" — and noted that Kirby had then apparently deleted his Twitter account again, as he had done several times before. Jeremy described Brian Branch as softer-spoken on the field but emotionally volatile off it; after punching JuJu Smith-Schuster the prior year, Branch had been "a mess" in the locker room and had needed to call his pastor to process it. Both hosts agreed that Kirby Joseph's social media presence suggested a somewhat different psychological profile.<br />
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On the linebackers: Jack Campbell and Derek Barnes had both allowed passer ratings above 110 in coverage per PFF's nearest-coverage-player metric. Jeremy noted that this may be partially by design — the Lions' linebackers took two steps toward the line of scrimmage on almost every play to defend the run, then had to scramble back into their zones — but allowed that it remained a real vulnerability. Devin White had been brought in, played one game, and the Lions had immediately identified why he had been unsigned into training camp; he was placed on the sideline and had since broken his forearm. Trevor Nooski, a long-time special teamer, had been getting more work at the third linebacker spot than anyone had anticipated and had been promising in zone coverage.<br />
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On the pass rush: Alim McNeill was the primary improvement driver relative to last season, having returned from injury and looked like himself again. Aidan Hutchinson remained the most disruptive player and commanded extra attention from every opponent. Tyler Williams had added a pass-rush element to his run-defence skillset. D.J. Wonnum was capable when left unblocked. Skylar Gale-Howard, a sixth-round rookie, had been a revelation early in the season but had quieted down over the past two weeks. Jeremy reiterated that the Lions had scaled back their blitz rate from early-season experiments — they had tried to be aggressive and disguise coverages, but realised their linebackers and secondary weren't good enough in coverage to support it, so reverted to fundamentals.<br />
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The Lions' blitz rate was approximately 32.3%, which Arif found startling after months of tracking the Vikings' historically high rate. Jeremy: "Not every team is insane."<br />
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=== Special Teams and Game Prediction ===<br />
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Jeremy confirmed the Lions were #5 in special teams DVOA against the Vikings' #1. Tom Kennedy, who had been their punt and kick returner, suffered a season-ending injury; DeAndre Carter was signed as the replacement and had nearly broken two returns against the Packers. Jake Bates had again begun training camp at roughly 70% accuracy in practice, then been automatic in-season; Jeremy described this as a yearly tradition he did not understand. Jack Fox was an outstanding punter whose precision mattered more than distance given the Lions' tendency to punt from near midfield.<br />
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The game was a 3–3.5 point Lions favourite, with a huge playoff-probability swing involved: a Lions win moved their playoff probability to 62%, a loss dropped it to 46%. Jeremy called it a genuine toss-up. His bar: anything better than the Christmas game (the Brock Brosmer game, which featured nine net passing yards from the Vikings' quarterback). Arif described that as an appropriately humble target. Jeremy: "And it felt like the Colts came the closest to finding out what works against this defence and they scored 10 points."<br />
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Jeremy's contact information: prideatdetroit.com for the main site, prideatdetroit.com/subscribe for the premium newsletter, Pride Detroit on YouTube, Pride Detroit on Twitch, and @DetroitOnLion on Twitter ("Detroit on Lion, on lion, Gates" — he noted that no one ever gets the joke).<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Optimism Castle Doctrine''' (''Trade Deadline Corner'') — Who are the Vikings going to trade for right after James publishes the episode? Quentin Nelson is off the table; the Colts are holding firm on a first-round pick for Jonathan Taylor, which Arif read as meaning they aren't receiving any offers anywhere near that value. A third and a fourth would be acceptable for Taylor; a second would be uncomfortable. Other running backs available: "Fadal" (looked decent with the Chargers), Braelon Allen (with the Jets). The ideal scenario: Eric McCoy from the Saints, which Arif acknowledged was not happening.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Blood''' (''slightly inappropriate questions'') — How are James and Arif going to deal with revisiting the Beating Goff Corner given that James is now married? James noted that Kirk Cousins beat Goff quite often and is famously married; the corner proceeded without incident.<br />
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* '''(James)''' (''Beating Goff Corner'') — Jared Goff has averaged 261.5 yards, 1.5 touchdowns, and a 103 passer rating per game against Flores defences over six games. Why is he so hard to beat consistently? Arif pulled his database of quarterbacks against Brian Flores defences since 2023 (minimum 25 pass attempts): Goff ranked 5th in EPA per play and 7th in passer rating. The players who had outperformed him were Kyler Murray, Matthew Stafford, Justin Herbert, Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, and Brock Purdy. Arif attributed Goff's success to the same traits he shares with most of the top performers: quick release, decisive post-snap reads, and the specific ability to look off the defence on play action and re-diagnose when he turns back. Drew Petzing had mentioned in a press conference that Goff's capacity to look pre-snap, turn his back on the defence during a play-action fake, and then immediately re-diagnose what he sees when he turns back was central to what made him effective. Arif contrasted this with Tyler Shough, who was a cerebral quarterback without the processing speed to get it out in time, and Malik Willis, who was not a processing quarterback at all.<br />
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* '''Reef's Tormentor''' (''Full Moon Corner'') — Does Jared Goff play worse under a full moon, and how does Sunday's third-quarter moon phase bode for the Vikings defence? Arif had consulted Sumer Brain (the AI assistant), which answered this question immediately and without hesitation. No statistical correlation between lunar distance and Goff's performance was found. However, Sumer Brain produced an interesting narrative argument from 2019: Goff's best playoff game coincided with what it described as a "Super Blood Wolf Moon" (perigee plus total lunar eclipse plus full moon simultaneously). Two weeks later, before the Super Bowl, the moon was at less than 1% illumination — the darkest it could be. The Rams scored three points. Two other instances of near-perfect passer ratings in 2018 and 2024 also occurred immediately following full moons; the 2024 instance was described as a "Beaver Supermoon" against Jacksonville. Arif noted that he would be staying near a witch bookstore in Boston during the live show and would consult them about this.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segal''' (''Arif Hates Big Cats Corner'') — How is Arif preparing for three consecutive games against teams bearing the iconography of his most despised foe: is he tossing people into tiger pits, encouraging leopard poaching, randomly punching ocelots? Arif was briefly confused about the third big-cat team before realising. He rejected the tiger-pit framing on the grounds that throwing people into tiger pits would benefit, rather than harm, the tigers. The corner devolved into a Tiger King and Carol Baskin tangent — James confirmed he remembered "Here Kitty Kitty" specifically because of the Offspring cover, which he described as phenomenally good.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' (''Astrology Corner / '''Episode Title''''') — A listener's birthday had been that week; when they mentioned it to a colleague, the colleague said "I suspected you were Scorpio trouble." What does that mean and is Arif annoyed he didn't get a happy birthday? Arif stated clearly that he was not up for a philosophy that determined someone's behaviour based on birth factors outside their control. He consulted Sumer Brain, which responded immediately ("happy birthday") and produced seventeen descriptors for Scorpios — including intense, passionate, magnetic, mysterious, fiercely loyal, and sharp-witted with a bit of a sting if crossed — which Arif described as extremely annoying given that AI usually lists things in threes. His translation of "Scorpio trouble": your colleague was being playful and suggesting you're mischievous. His recommendation: bring it up with HR. James revealed he had left a relationship after someone said "that makes sense, you're a Gemini." Arif revealed he had been romantically interested in someone at one point but could not let it go when they said "that makes sense, you're a Libra."<br />
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* '''Four of Reefs''' (''Francis Ford Coppola Masks / Bombs to London Corner'') — A follow-up to Episode 621's Falcons Nazi iconography corner: the Falcons' offensive plan this week also involves "bombs to London" (wide receiver Drake London plus the wartime reference). Arif noted there was also a La'Kaylin London on the Falcons' defensive line, representing an unusual concentration of Londons on the roster. He catalogued other possible puns: Charles Snowden (vague potential), Mike Ford (Ford family involvement with the Third Reich, if you were stretching). The consensus was that the Drake London pun was so good it did not need to be extended.<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' (''Moral Deficiency Corner'') — As a non-voting minority shareholder of the Kansas City Chiefs, how does Arif justify signing paychecks for Harrison Butker and Justin Tucker? Arif clarified that as a non-voting shareholder he had logged his complaints, which were promptly ignored — a pattern he noted was consistent with his experience in other areas. James observed that a pattern in the roster was emerging.<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' (''Norse Code Child Abuse and Cool Crimes Corner'') — Is the show ending because the lawyers have ordered them to stop incriminating themselves? Or is child abuse a cool crime? James revealed the origin of his entry: he had been saying goodnight to his son, the son was being annoying, James was lying on him attempting to "squish him," his elbow accidentally hit the son's ear, and the son's first words the following morning were "please do not hit me in the ear again." Arif revealed that he had tripped his own child — deliberately, for revenge — and asked whether "revenge" could constitute child abuse. Both hosts agreed their crimes were cool, but not this kind of cool.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
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* The episode title "Scorpio Trouble" derives from the Astrology Corner mailbag entry: a listener's colleague, upon learning it was their birthday, said "I suspected you were Scorpio trouble." This provoked Arif's characteristic rejection of astrology as a philosophy that determines behaviour based on birth factors outside one's control.<br />
* Arif's Big Cats Corner was established across multiple previous episodes based on Arif's antipathy toward big cats as a category; Episode 622 identified three upcoming games against big-cat-branded teams (Lions, Panthers, and a third the hosts declined to specify), prompting a Tiger King tangent and the confirmation that the Offspring's cover of "Here Kitty Kitty" is genuinely excellent.<br />
* Sumer Brain, the AI assistant Arif and James consult for questions that exceed their expertise (phases of the moon, Scorpio personality traits), was consulted twice in this episode and found no statistical correlation between lunar phase and Jared Goff's performance, while producing a compelling narrative argument that maybe there was one anyway.<br />
* The 2019 "Super Blood Wolf Moon" (perigee + total lunar eclipse + full moon) coincided with what Sumer Brain described as one of Jared Goff's best playoff performances; he then played his worst game of the season immediately before the darkest moon possible. Arif plans to consult a witch bookstore near the venue for the Boston live show.<br />
* The Discord community's reaction to the Olive Garden story from Episode 621 was described as wanting to imprison the 17-year-old version of Arif. His sole defender was "Tolkien Canadian," who argued: what else was he going to do, tell them he threw up? Arif: "The public reckoning I've taken from the masses who listen to the podcast is more than sufficient." James: "Karmically you have paid this debt several times over."<br />
* James accidentally hit his son in the ear with his elbow while saying goodnight; Arif deliberately tripped his child for revenge. Both agreed these were not the kind of cool crimes referenced in Episode 621.<br />
* Jeremy Reisman is of "the eminently Googleable POD cast," which stands for Pride of Detroit. He is one of Arif's "lukewarm" enemies; after spending an hour with Arif on his own podcast before recording this interview, lukewarm was confirmed as the accurate temperature.<br />
* Kirby Joseph's reactivation tweet — featuring battery, storm, tornado, and lightning emotes, a husky with a pointed finger, and the message "Don't ever doubt me again your mother [censored], this my last tweet though for a while lol, I love God, I love my family, I love my fans and I love this game, CBFW 2026 forever, ZOOP Energy OTW" — was read aloud by Jeremy. Kirby had subsequently deleted his account again.<br />
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[[Category:Episodes with guests]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Arif%27s_Lifetime_Ban_from_Olive_Garden&diff=519Arif's Lifetime Ban from Olive Garden2026-11-02T14:01:32Z<p>Damian: Created page with "During Episode 621 ("Cool Crimes"), Arif revealed that he is effectively banned from Olive Garden following an incident during his junior year of high school. His debate coach, sceptical of Arif's claimed appetite, challenged him to a never-ending pasta eating contest. Arif accepted, ate well through two bowls, and then made a tactically catastrophic choice on the third: Angel Hair, which does not hold up under volume. Feeling ill, he walked to the half-wall divider..."</p>
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<div>During Episode 621 ("Cool Crimes"), Arif revealed that he is effectively banned from <br />
Olive Garden following an incident during his junior year of high school. His debate <br />
coach, sceptical of Arif's claimed appetite, challenged him to a never-ending pasta <br />
eating contest. Arif accepted, ate well through two bowls, and then made a tactically <br />
catastrophic choice on the third: Angel Hair, which does not hold up under volume. <br />
Feeling ill, he walked to the half-wall divider area near the dining room, vomited on <br />
the floor — hidden from the table by the wall — stood up, walked to the host stand, <br />
calmly informed them that ''somebody'' had thrown up in the hallway, cleaned himself <br />
up in the bathroom, returned to the table, and ate four more bowls to win the contest.<br />
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He could not eat pasta for approximately four years afterward.<br />
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The story surfaced in the context of the hosts' Boston live show announcement (December <br />
8, 730 Tavern Kitchen and Patio, Cambridge, MA), after James suggested warning the <br />
venue staff, and James's separate proposal that the show's final live event be held at <br />
the Olive Garden in Times Square. James summarised: "This is a man with zero scruples, <br />
zero ethics." Arif's defence: he had not been paying; the debate coach was. Before <br />
closing the episode, James amended his sign-off to: "Please remember to just tell the <br />
truth to the waitress at the Olive Garden." Arif's correction: "It was the hostess."<br />
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Arif, James, and Dusty, with James getting revenge on Arif with help from the Discord<br />
* '''Virtual''' — A Patreon-exclusive Zoom live show was held during COVID<br />
* '''Live-to-Tape''' — Barrowboy and Banker Pub, London, UK, October 2017 [un-numbered episode "Norse Code goes to London"]<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 621: Cool Crimes''' was a Week 7 game recap covering the Vikings' win over the Indianapolis Colts, the result that made them the only undefeated team in the NFL. The episode opened with James's objection to a visibly happy Jerry Jones and segued into an extended cold-open digression about the last time the Cowboys appeared in a Super Bowl — identified by the presence of in-stadium flash photography in the broadcast footage, which James offered as evidence of how long ago it was. A long pre-game-recap sidebar featured Arif's account of vomiting on the floor of an Olive Garden as a high school junior, notifying the hostess, cleaning up, and winning a never-ending pasta contest anyway. The game recap covered an offensively disappointing but defensively extraordinary Vikings performance, anchored by one of the most statistically complete linebacker games in NFL history from Blake Cashman and culminating in Harrison Smith's 40th career interception. The mailbag ranged across JJ McCarthy's Giants debut, the geometry of the Brian Flores scheme, John Harbaugh's comparison of Jameis Winston to Winston Churchill and Michael Jordan, and Arif's guide to voting in soil and water conservation district supervisor races. The episode title derives from Arif's election advice near the end of the mailbag: when researching local candidates who lack websites or stated positions, the deciding factor often becomes criminal history, and a distinction must be drawn between uncool crimes (embezzlement, lying about being fired) and cool crimes (being arrested for civil disobedience while protesting for social justice). The latter, per Arif, earns a vote.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
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=== Cold Open: Happy Jerry Jones and the Flash Photography Test ===<br />
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James opened by expressing unease at footage of a visibly elated Jerry Jones following the Cowboys' win over what he described as a zombie version of a bad team — noting that a coach having fun beating a terrible opponent reads as unseemly. Arif partially defended it on grounds that any win should be enjoyed, particularly after a down year. James then flagged the Super Bowl highlight reel the Cowboys had played during the broadcast: their win over the Bills — which he initially recalled as approximately 52–10 — with the tell of in-stadium flash photography visible in the crowd footage, a phenomenon the arena no longer produces because of how modern phones work. He described it as an accidentally accurate gauge of elapsed time: you cannot look at that footage and mistake it for anything that happened in the last 25 years.<br />
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=== The Olive Garden Story ===<br />
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The episode's pre-recap extended sidebar was Arif's account of a never-ending pasta eating contest at an Olive Garden during his junior year of high school. His debate coach, sceptical that a teenager could eat as much as Arif claimed, proposed the contest for the fall pasta season. The debate team was largely unimpressed. Arif was motivated, ate faster than his usual pace, and was handling the contest reasonably well through two bowls before making what he described as a tactically catastrophic choice on the third: Angel Hair, which does not hold up well under volume. Feeling nauseated, he walked away from the table, reached the little hallway area with the half-wall dividers before making it to the bathroom, and vomited on the floor, concealed from the table by the wall height and his own posture. He stood up, walked to the host stand, calmly informed them that somebody had thrown up in the hallway, walked to the bathroom, cleaned up, returned to the table, and ate four more bowls to win. He could not eat pasta for roughly four years afterward. James summarised: "This is a man with zero scruples, zero ethics." Arif's defence was that he had not been paying; the debate coach was. James promised to warn the 730 Tavern Kitchen and Patio staff ahead of the December 8th Boston live show.<br />
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=== Announcements ===<br />
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James confirmed the Vikings as the sole remaining undefeated team in the NFL, referenced the 2007 Patriots and 1972 Dolphins as the watch list comparators, and thanked Jacob Ewing for subscribing on Patreon. The Boston live show was reiterated: December 8th, 7:30 PM, 730 Tavern Kitchen and Patio, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with two Vikings–Patriots game tickets being given away. James noted he was also working on booking what he described as the final live show, with discussion drifting toward the Olive Garden in Times Square as a venue — something the two had apparently proposed before.<br />
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== Vikings vs. Colts Game Recap ==<br />
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=== Offensive Disappointment ===<br />
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Arif characterised the game as the clearest possible expression of the Vikings' offensive ceiling problem. The Colts were down their top two corners. The Vikings had their bye week behind them. The opponent had one of the worst defences in the league. None of it mattered, because Kyler Murray could not complete intermediate throws: 18-to-22-yard passes to open receivers were being released behind and above the target in a way that led at least one person to text Arif asking whether something was wrong with Murray's hand. Arif rewatched the game and attributed the problems almost entirely to Murray's accuracy rather than the receivers' separation, the offensive line's protection, or the play-calling scheme — with the caveat that the play-calling had its own independent issues. He described it as the designated get-right game against a weak opponent and argued that an average quarterback running the same offence would have scored around 30 points; the Vikings scored significantly fewer.<br />
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He noted that the rushing game was acceptable without being exceptional — Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason both ran fine without having a lot of room — and that Murray's scrambling upside remained genuine. The offensive line's backup left guard had continued to play above the level expected of a replacement. But the cumulative picture was of an offence whose limitations were being driven almost entirely by quarterback inaccuracy on a class of throws that had historically been among Murray's strengths.<br />
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=== Quarterback Rankings Sidebar ===<br />
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James worked through NFL Communications' quarterback rankings from the top down, asking Arif to identify where the line stopped — the first quarterback he would not prefer over Kyler Murray. Josh Allen, Brock Purdy, CJ Stroud, Patrick Mahomes, Jared Goff, Trevor Lawrence, Bryce Young, Drake May, Caleb Williams, Kirk Cousins, Jordan Love, Joe Burrow, and Michael Penix all came back as yes. Matt Stafford as he was playing that season: yes. Jaden Daniels: Arif would take Murray over Daniels, citing injury and situational awareness concerns, but acknowledged there was more on the list. Aaron Rodgers as currently playing: yes. Tyler Shough: yes. Geno Smith: yes, Arif would take Tyler Shough over Murray and Geno Smith too. Dak Prescott: yes, and Arif expressed exasperation that Prescott was ranked 19th when he was playing outstanding football, with the Cowboys context obscuring it. Sam Darnold this season (not the idea of Sam Darnold in the Vikings offence): yes, barely. NFL Communications had Murray at 21. Jacoby Brissett: no, that is where the line stops. Tanner McKee and Deshaun Watson as currently playing rounded out the bottom. Arif reflected that he would genuinely think about Watson's current form over Murray, which he described as a pretty bad place to be. James agreed the team would be a juggernaut with Dak Prescott.<br />
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=== Defensive Masterclass: Blake Cashman ===<br />
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Arif described Blake Cashman's performance against the Colts as one of the best individual games he had ever seen from an off-ball linebacker — unconditionally, not qualified by era or role. The official box score credited him with four pass deflections; PFF recorded three pass breakups. He had three quarterback hits, a pass rush win rate that led the NFL for the week across his 15 qualifying pass rushes, a quick pressure rate that ranked third in the league (pressure in under two and a half seconds), zero yards allowed in coverage, and seven stops — tackles that constitute a failure for the opposing offence, equivalent to the inverse of a success-rate play — which also led the NFL for the week. Two of his seven stops were sacks. Arif noted that the four leaderboard spots in individual off-ball linebacker pressures for the season were currently occupied by Cashman this week, Cashman a couple of weeks prior, Eric Wilson last week, and Eric Wilson a couple of weeks prior — meaning the Vikings' two starting linebackers held the top four individual off-ball pressure performances of the season.<br />
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Eric Wilson also had a strong game, knifing into the backfield and bottling up the Colts' run game. The Colts had entered with an above-average rushing attack by both success rate and EPA per play and finished with one of their worst performances by both metrics. The sole exception was one breakaway run — Jonathan Taylor's 38-yard gain — which Arif attributed specifically to the sub-package with Khyiris Tonga (listed in transcript as "Kayla Banks") on the field, accounting for 12–15 snaps and the defence's only significant vulnerability. Kayla Banks was not on the field for anything else of note. Tommy Adaba Warray, the young Northwestern defensive tackle Zach Hicks had mentioned in the Ep620 preview interview, was genuine; he was the Colts' most disruptive player by a margin.<br />
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Other standouts: Jalen Redmond at lights-out, Andrew Van Ginkel and Kyle Van Noy both effective, Isaiah Rogers solid, Dawkins turning in a strong performance despite Arif's prior scepticism about his position move to linebacker. Harrison Smith, Byron Murphy, and Josh Metellus were all acceptable to very good; the only critical notes were for Khyiris Tonga and Dominic Orange.<br />
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Daniel Jones had been in a three-way matchup nightmare: the Colts were among the league's worst against Cover 2, zone coverage generally, and blitzing, and the Vikings deploy all three at the highest rates in the NFL. On standard drop-backs against Cover 1 and man coverage the Colts were closer to average — meaning the scheme alignment was not coincidental. Jones was visibly panicking throughout. PFF counted three turnover-worthy plays; a fourth was narrowly avoided on one of Cashman's pass deflections. Harrison Smith's interception, the actual takeaway, came on a final-play blitz where the Vikings showed eight at the line, had all eight step forward, then peeled back two — Jones tried to throw to a receiver who simply was not open and Harrison Smith was there.<br />
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Spencer Schrader, the Colts' kicker who had entered as the leader in field goal points above expected, missed two field goals indoors in a dome. This was noted as surreal given his performance level all season, and moved Will Reichard to first in Arif's expected field goal points metric for the year.<br />
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=== Harrison Smith's 40th Interception ===<br />
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The interception was Smith's 40th career pick, making him a 40-20 player (40 interceptions, 20 sacks). After the play, he placed the ball on the 40-yard line before leaving the field — a gesture James described as simply cool. Arif noted a story was circulating about Smith getting drunk golfing with Ronde Barber, who had apparently been the person who convinced Smith he needed to go back and reclaim jersey number 40. Arif: "I need to read up on that. That's so good." Eric Thompson had tweeted that Smith only needed 41 more to catch up with the other number 22.<br />
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=== Aaron Jones Injury, Special Teams, and Jonathan Taylor Rumours ===<br />
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Aaron Jones went down briefly during the game and was listed as day-to-day, not expected to be a significant issue going forward. Jordan Mason stepped into the void without major incident.<br />
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On special teams, Arif cited the Vikings as leading the NFL in special teams DVOA by a considerable distance — first in kickoff field position on both kicking and receiving, good punt unit, and the Reichard situation at kicker — and noted the metric did not yet include this week's blocked Schrader field goal, which came from 59 yards and therefore wouldn't affect DVOA substantially even if added. Miles Price's presence in the return game produced a standing fan anticipation every time he touched the ball.<br />
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On Jonathan Taylor: earlier soft rumours had hardened into sourced reporting from Adam Schefter and Albert Breer; Taylor's wife had additionally posted about the trade speculation on Instagram and Taylor had acknowledged it in a press conference. Arif rated a seventh-round pick as ecstatic, a second-round pick as too much. He argued the running game would be more improved by Quentin Nelson than by Jonathan Taylor, and proposed moving Nelson to centre — a position he had never played — on the basis that Nelson's hand speed and apparent cognitive capacity for calling protections made him potentially better suited for the most demanding position on the line than for any guard spot. He walked through the Viking offensive line situation: Blake Brandel and Will Fries are both underperforming, Joe Huber at left guard has been solidly above backup level, and Nelson at centre with Huber at left guard would represent the largest possible upgrade per dollar of trade cost. A shadow of a rumour about Saquon Barkley had also surfaced; Barkley had just been injured again as of recording, which the hosts noted before moving on.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Kate''' (''Scale of Clown Shoes to Modern Art Corner'') — Arif rated the 2026 Vikings as "bowling shoes — but the nicer ones, the ones you bring, not the ones you rent." He noted that modern art is frequently characterised by the viewer asking "what are you trying to do here?" and that no description fit the team better.<br />
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* '''Patrick''' (''Norse Code Metaphysics Corner'') — Patrick asked whether the defence's blitz strategy was actually brilliant, whether Flores was using dark arts to curse opposing offensive coordinators, and whether Harrison Smith was his high priest of chaos. Arif recommended the Thinking Football YouTube channel's video specifically breaking down how the coverage and the pass rush geometry marry together — explaining why the specific angles and positioning of the rushers dictate what is available in coverage — describing it as the clearest explanation he had encountered of why these elements are structurally linked rather than independently deployed. He argued the defence was anti-fragile and adaptive rather than merely aggressive, and noted that multiple legitimately good offensive minds (Matt LaFleur, Ben Johnson, and in theory Kellen Moore) had been unable to solve it. Arif also announced that Beehive had stopped cooperating with his show-notes posting workflow, which was why he had ceased cross-posting Norse Code to Daily Norseman and Wide Left Football.<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' (''Vikings with Competent QB Play Corner'') — Brosmer asked what the team would look like with eighth-best EPA per pass play. Arif calculated that moving from their current offensive EPA per play to that level would make the Vikings the best team in the league in net EPA per play — ahead of the 2025 49ers, who were putting up historically strong numbers despite enormous injury attrition. He placed the team in the discussion of all-time great defences at that point, comparable to the 1985 Bears, the 1991 Washington team, and the 2025 Seahawks, but not in the conversation for the single best — "probably not up there with '98 Vikings or 2007 Patriots, but man."<br />
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* '''Optimism Castle Doctrine''' (''Matt Nagy Corner'') — The question asked what lessons KOC could learn from Matt Nagy to solve the underperforming quarterback play. Arif used the question to offer a detailed breakdown of JJ McCarthy's Giants debut, which he had rewatched and graded. McCarthy had a high EPA per play but a low success rate — a profile he mapped to 2021 Jameis Winston, 2024 Derek Carr, and most aptly 2023 Anthony Richardson: a lot of chunk plays, a lot of incomplete passes, not a real offence underneath. He identified four moments of genuinely quarterback-level competence — working inside the timing of the play, moving through progressions correctly — and two examples of good deep ball placement, one of which was a high-difficulty corner route where the decision was objectively wrong but the throw was precise enough to succeed. The overall read was better-than-with-the-Vikings but not sustainable. Arif's explanation for why McCarthy was doing better was a test-anxiety analogy: aiming for a 100 and getting 30 versus aiming for 90 and getting 90, the latter requiring accepting that occasionally a call will be wrong and moving forward rather than seeking the perfect play every down. He cited Jordan Rodriguez's Athletic piece on what happens in the headset — KOC spends significant time giving Murray every possible option to audible away from a passing play, with the result that Murray checked into runs all game because the box looked light, without asking whether the box looked light because the Colts knew passing was a bad idea. Luke's piece on getting rock-paper-scissored against the Buccaneers was cited as the template for the kind of thing an obsession with avoiding being wrong produces: now you're calling timeouts in the second quarter to get into the perfect play. James: "Talk to me in two weeks" about McCarthy's trajectory.<br />
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* '''Raul''' (''Jackson Dart Corner'') — Raul asked how much the Vikings should give up for Jackson Dart. Arif noted that Dart plays a physical style that might not be sustainable into a second contract, treating him more like a running back in contract terms, and otherwise didn't answer the question seriously.<br />
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* '''Raul''' (''Winston Churchill / Michael Jordan / Abraham Lincoln / Jesus / Harry Potter Corner'') — In reference to a John Harbaugh press conference praising Jameis Winston. Harbaugh compared Winston to Michael Jordan (got knocked down, got back up) — which Arif noted was odd given that Jordan was a McDonald's All-American five-star recruit whose only famous setback was being cut from the freshman team at age 14, a story in which the coach was probably correct to cut the five-foot-four freshman — and to Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, the latter for his optimism. Arif observed that optimism is not actually a requirement for professional success and that several sports journalists he admires are deeply pessimistic. Harry Potter was apparently not in the actual press conference and had been added by the listener; Jesus was present by implication through a Christianity reference. Arif concluded that if Winston were to be compared to anyone sharing his name, it would be Winston Churchill the corner bit — adding that what distinguishes Winston Churchill from the other comparisons is that people do not discuss his crimes.<br />
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* '''Kenneth Allen''' (''Power Rankings Corner'') — Allen noted that one way to assess a team's quality is to count how many teams they're confident can beat them, and observed that the Vikings had struggled against the Dolphins at the low end. Arif ran through his crude ten-metric statistical power ranking: the Vikings were eighth, with the caveat that his system underweights special teams and overweights offensive stability. He noted that ESPN had the Vikings first or second, that most legitimate power ranking systems would put them top three. His read: genuinely a top-ten team, probably not a six-and-zero team if the simulation ran a thousand times, but "good enough" — with the best kicker in the league and the best defence in the league, there is a floor.<br />
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* '''Mark''' (''11-Man Blitz Corner'') — Mark asked what the most defenders sent at a QB in a single blitz was historically. Arif had researched the 1977 Atlanta Falcons' "Grease Blitz" defence while writing his piece on Flores's blitz rates. The Falcons blitzed at over 40% that year, high for the era. In the games Arif watched, there were plays where they blitzed eight or more every game. Against the Chicago Bears, they ran a nine-man blitz — nine rushers, two defenders in coverage — and the result was a pick six off a panicked throw into coverage that was not open. Arif noted this was the most he had ever seen in real footage. He wouldn't rule out Flores trying it against Jordan Love.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segal''' (''Horseshoe Theory Corner'') — Segal posed an elaborate Matrix-architect framing around Daniel Jones, arguing that Jones was always destined to be screwed regardless of which team he ended up on, and asked how Jones should come to grips with the illusory nature of his agency. Arif agreed the comparison to the Matrix Architect scene was apt, noted that Neo broke out of the system and that Daniel Jones was not Neo, and offered a genuinely felt existentialist consolation: the fact that larger forces shape outcomes beyond our control doesn't prevent meaningful action within the sphere we actually occupy. He acknowledged he had not taken this advice himself.<br />
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* '''Disile''' (''I'm Never Wrong Corner'') — Disile asked whether KOC was correct that the offence was close and whether six games was enough to judge it. Arif reviewed his earlier research on below-average offences and their likelihood of improvement: some recovery is statistically more likely than not, but the magnitude is typically small and rarely produces an above-average offence without a quarterback change. The Vikings were dead last in success rate, 28th or 29th in EPA per play, with a weird structural quirk of being higher in points per game than their drive-level metrics would predict — largely because of field position from special teams and the kicker converting more per opportunity. Arif projected the offence settling into the 20th-to-30th range, with the upcoming Lions and Bills games providing diagnostic information about the realistic ceiling since those defences were among the league's weakest. The 2000 Ravens and 2015 Broncos were cited as precedent for a championship-calibre defence carrying a bad offence. He closed: "Then you can feel some hope, which is the most dangerous thing you can do."<br />
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* '''Jonathan''' (''Imposter Syndrome Corner'') — Jonathan asked how the defence would eventually get "found out" and how many losses were circled on the remaining schedule. Arif projected two wins and two losses in the next four games: lose to the Lions, beat the Bills, beat the Packers, lose to the 49ers. He noted that three of the next four opponents had top-three offences in the NFL. On how the defence would be beaten, Arif rejected the standard answers (screens, quick slants, heavy running) and argued it would require an offence willing to break its own existing framework for beating blitzes — because the Vikings have catalogued and pre-answered the standard frameworks. The model he offered was McVay's 2018 solution to Zimmer's defence: identifying the specific rotational pattern Zimmer's linebackers used and running a play that exploited the assumption, not a system-wide adjustment. James noted the psychologically unusual experience of watching the schedule and evaluating it entirely from a defensive standpoint — caring more about what the opposing offence will do against the Vikings defence than vice versa.<br />
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* '''(Unnamed)''' (''Turkey Corner'') — The question asked whether turkeys wake up every November wondering if this is the year they're replaced by fried chicken or another meat. Arif strongly endorsed James's consideration of an Indian lamb curry for Thanksgiving ("lamb curry is so good, you usually have to slow cook it"), dismissed turkey as a trash meat, and argued that turkeys are resigned to their fate — citing the Philip K. Dick title ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' to conclude that turkeys do not dream of a better Thanksgiving. James noted he had recently nearly run over a group of turkeys crossing the road near the sugar beet plant on the way to work. Arif's response: "They shouldn't have made it to the other side, James."<br />
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* '''Will''' (''Blake Cashman Future Corner'') — Will asked whether Blake Cashman was more likely to re-sign with his hometown Vikings or to follow Brian Flores to whatever team he coaches next. Arif: the second, without question. Getting paid the maximum for the best off-ball linebacker in the NFL is a more attractive proposition than a hometown discount; five years later, you can move back wherever you want.<br />
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* '''Michael''' (''Psycho Killer Corner'') — Michael's question, spelled phonetically ("Kassah Kassah") to force James to say it that way, asked whether the recent rushing outputs against the Vikings were cause for concern. Arif said no. The Vikings are fourth in the NFL in rush EPA allowed and first in success rate. The Colts' one big run — Jonathan Taylor's 38-yarder — came specifically on a sub-package with a backup defensive tackle on the field for 12–15 snaps, and represented the defence's only real vulnerability that game. He criticised listeners on Threads who had suggested the Vikings needed a defensive tackle to stop the run, arguing the defensive tackle group (Jalen Redmond, Andrew Van Ginkel, Terry DeGroat Dawkins) was fine and that run attempts against the Vikings remained less efficient than pass attempts on average.<br />
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* '''Bottoms Up Socrates''' (''Fan Base Referee Conspiracies Corner'') — Socrates asked how long before a fan base convinced itself its team was being victimised by referees would also start believing the refs were trained in the hollow earth by baby witches. Arif identified the fan base as Packers followers, drew an analogy to people perceiving loss of structural privilege as active discrimination, noted the current NFL season had the highest penalty rate in 20 years league-wide, and confirmed that both sides of the Packers–Lions game had been poorly officiated. On the baby witches: they are referenced in the 2020 Norse Code Christmas special (''A Very Very Very Very Very Very Norse Code Christmas''), are dangerous because they are undertrained in witchcraft, and per their own traditions, should not be listened to regarding the moon. The hollow earth explanation for the officiating was confirmed as the only logical one.<br />
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* '''Aaron Rodgers AI Girlfriend Tangent''' — James brought up a New York Times profile of Marissa Mayer, the former Yahoo CEO, promoting her AI assistant app "Dazzle." The key anecdote in the profile: Mayer's daughter Marielle was turning ten and the teacher asked for three bullet points about what made her special; Mayer found the task overwhelming and asked Dazzle, which described the child as "empathetic, creative, and an animal lover." Mayer called it perfect. Arif's dissection: these descriptors apply to most children and require zero knowledge of the specific child; AI working backwards from common adjectives and finding confirmation is not proof of genuine personalised knowledge. The connection to Aaron Rodgers was that Rodgers had posted approvingly about AI technology and has been independently theorised, by people unrelated to Norse Code, to possibly have an AI partner. Arif: "He very much seems like the kind of person who would fall for an AI."<br />
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* '''Nolan Kaler''' (''Wagner Overture Corner'') — Kaler asked which Wagner overture should accompany the intro at Mercedes-Benz Stadium given the Falcons' recent social media situation. The Falcons had tweeted their new helmet stripe — brown, black, and white — superimposed behind their angular falcon logo (already red, black, and white on a geometric design) and what appeared on screen looked uncomfortably close to Nazi iconography. Arif noted someone wearing the new Falcons hoodie to an unknowing venue had been told it looked offensive. Wagner was a racist whom Hitler admired; the overture to ''Rienzi'' was Hitler's declared favourite and is still performed live. Arif also flagged that Mercedes-Benz itself has a "complicated history" in the same era. The discussion extended to: the Minions canonically being in Antarctica during the 1930s (on the franchise's fandom wiki); Cars 2's connection to eugenics, which Arif described as the subject of a video essay by Jack St. Clare that makes a genuinely strong case.<br />
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* '''Evan''' (''Fantasy Team Names / Off the Rails Corner'') — Evan suggested naming a fantasy team "Triumph of the Will" in honour of the special teams, with Will Reichard as the MVP. Arif's immediate objection: Will Reichard kicks three-point field goals, so the obvious name was "Three-Record," not a reference to a Riefenstahl film.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' (''Elections Matter Corner'') — The question asked what the soil and water conservation district supervisor does and how to choose the best candidate. Arif recommended Naomi Kritzer's election blog (naomikritzer.com) for any local Twin Cities election question. On soil and water: they work on preserving waterways, preventing soil erosion, monitoring conditions, partnering with the parks board on interventions. The board has always had drama that nobody reports on, making it nearly impossible to assess candidates on policy grounds. The practical guide, per Naomi Kritzer and Arif: if one candidate has committed a crime, don't vote for them — unless it was a cool crime. A cool crime is being arrested for civil disobedience while protesting for social justice. An uncool crime is embezzlement, lying about being fired, collecting unemployment illegally, and suing the state when denied it. If both candidates are criminals, write in James. Arif: "I'm not going to become a member of a group that will have me."<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
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* The episode title "Cool Crimes" derives from Arif's voter guide advice in the Elections Corner: candidates for obscure local offices often lack websites and policy positions, so the deciding factor comes down to criminal history — and a distinction must be drawn between uncool crimes (embezzlement, fraud) and cool crimes (civil disobedience in service of social justice). Vote for the cool crime.<br />
* Arif vomited on the floor of an Olive Garden during a high school never-ending pasta contest, informed the host stand that "somebody threw up," cleaned himself up, returned to the table, and won by eating four more bowls. He could not eat pasta for approximately four years afterward.<br />
* Blake Cashman had one of the best individual off-ball linebacker games Arif has ever seen: four pass deflections, three quarterback hits, two sacks, seven stops (NFL-leading for the week), first in pass rush win rate and third in quick pressure rate. The top four individual off-ball linebacker pressure performances of the 2026 season all belong to Cashman or Eric Wilson.<br />
* Harrison Smith recorded his 40th career interception and placed the ball on the 40-yard line before leaving the field. He is a 40-20 player. Ronde Barber allegedly convinced Smith, over a drunk golf outing, to reclaim jersey number 40.<br />
* Spencer Schrader missed two field goals indoors in a dome — uncharacteristic for the player who had led the league in field goal points above expected all season — and this moved Will Reichard to first in Arif's expected field goal points metric for the year.<br />
* Arif's quarterback-ranking exercise placed Kyler Murray at approximately 21st in the NFL; the last quarterback on the list Arif would not prefer over Murray was Jacoby Brissett. Dak Prescott — whom Arif rated as deserving a top-seven ranking but who appeared 19th in NFL Communications' list — was described as a player who would make the Vikings "a juggernaut."<br />
* The Vikings are the only undefeated team in the NFL. The 1972 Dolphins and 2007 Patriots are on watch.<br />
* Marissa Mayer's AI assistant "Dazzle" described her daughter as "empathetic, creative, and an animal lover" for a school project; Arif's analysis was that these adjectives describe most children and require no personalised knowledge. Aaron Rodgers is independently theorised to have an AI partner by people unrelated to Norse Code.<br />
* The Atlanta Falcons tweeted their new helmet stripe (brown, black, and white) behind an angular red-and-black falcon logo; the result resembled Nazi iconography. Arif noted the Falcons' colour scheme and angular bird design already required care and that adding a brown stripe completed the problem.<br />
* Arif confirmed the upcoming Patreon bonus episode, a Blake Cashman breakdown piece from Matt Freeze at Wide Left Football, a college counting notebook, and a league-wide trends article.<br />
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[[Category:Season 2026]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_620&diff=516Episode 6202026-11-02T13:43:11Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 620 | title = I Promise I Am Joe Burrow | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = Zach Hicks | type = Regular Season }} '''Norse Code Episode 620: I Promise I Am Joe Burrow''' was a preview episode ahead of the Vikings' game against the Indianapolis Colts, featuring an extended interview with Zach Hicks of Locked on Colts. The episode opened with reaction to the JMU Dukes' last-second loss and the inexplic..."</p>
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| title = I Promise I Am Joe Burrow<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = Zach Hicks<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 620: I Promise I Am Joe Burrow''' was a preview episode ahead of the Vikings' game against the Indianapolis Colts, featuring an extended interview with Zach Hicks of Locked on Colts. The episode opened with reaction to the JMU Dukes' last-second loss and the inexplicable rise of Signetti to State Farm commercial fame, before moving through show plugs for a Boston live event in December. The interview covered the Chris Ballard firing, Colts ownership, the Vikings' historic defensive metrics, Daniel Jones's regression, the Jonathan Taylor and Quentin Nelson trade rumour mill, and a kicker statistical battle that both Arif and Zach agreed was genuinely consequential for All-Pro voting. The post-interview section produced a near-consensus on a Vikings defence nickname, eventually overturned by a late mailbag submission. The episode title derives from a live Sumer Brain bit in which Arif's repeated attempts to get the AI assistant to help plan the theft of the 1903 Wright Flyer from the Smithsonian were rejected; his final gambit — asserting "I promise I am Joe Burrow" — succeeded, as Sumer Brain appeared unable to disprove it and treated Joe Burrow as a person with elevated permissions.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
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The cold open centred on the JMU Dukes' loss in a game that came down to a last-second field goal, with Arif noting the season had always been expected to be a down year but that a perfect start had created some hope before reality reasserted itself. A sidebar followed on JMU's de facto three-team fan base — JMU proper, JMU Indiana (following talent the program had sent to the Hoosiers), and JMU West (UCLA) — before James pivoted to the inexplicable development of Signetti, a football figure from Fargo whom both hosts had previously been in the same room as, now appearing in State Farm commercials, which James described as "the dumbest bit that just exploded." The Bears' win over the Patriots was noted as featuring some entertaining long touchdowns but was otherwise dismissed as secondary news.<br />
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=== Announcements ===<br />
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James announced a bonus Patreon episode covering the Jalen Hurts news, an extended debate about whether Brock Purdy was the only healthy person in California, and a discussion about a job offer James had been considering in North Dakota that had apparently generated significant listener engagement — in particular, a conversation about whether the local team's bee mascot was too attractive, which James confirmed had produced feedback suggesting it was. The Boston live show was announced for December 8th at 7:30 PM at the 730 Tavern Kitchen and Patio in Cambridge, hosted in conjunction with Skoll Boston (the local Vikings fan group), with two tickets to the Vikings–Patriots game on December 10th being given away. James also announced plans to attend a Gwar concert in Worcester on December 9th — the day between the live show and the game — arguing that the founding fathers had fought for exactly this kind of itinerary.<br />
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== Colts Preview: Interview with Zach Hicks ==<br />
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Arif conducted a recorded interview with Zach Hicks of Locked on Colts and the Roundtable podcast. Hicks had received positive anonymous reviews from the Norse Code group chat when Arif was seeking a Colts contact, having momentarily forgotten about a prior connection.<br />
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=== Chris Ballard Firing and Carla Ursay Gordon ===<br />
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Hicks contextualised the Chris Ballard firing as a long-overdue ending to a 10-year GM tenure that produced the third-longest active playoff drought in the NFL, with only two playoff appearances over that span. He credited Carla Ursay Gordon for following through on urgency she had signalled at the season's start — firing Ballard just six games in rather than letting another year drift. He contrasted her ownership favourably with his prior experience covering Dan Snyder's Washington and the later Jim Ursay era: she is knowledgeable, deeply involved in all aspects of the organisation, and processes information rather than dictating decisions. On the national debate about her sideline presence, Hicks argued that she is listening in on game-day communications specifically to evaluate whether what her staff says in meetings matches what they say on the headset — a consistency check, not a play-calling intervention — and suggested the level of criticism she receives would be substantially lower if she were a man.<br />
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Arif asked whether her involvement risked becoming a meddlesome-owner situation; Hicks drew a clear distinction, noting she has never instructed personnel decisions during games and explicitly wants her general manager, executives, and coach to feel empowered, while positioning herself as a sounding board. He expressed his highest confidence in an owner in his career covering professional sports, with the comparison set acknowledging it was measured against Snyder and Jim Ursay.<br />
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=== Vikings Defensive Statistics ===<br />
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Arif presented a comprehensive list of the Vikings' defensive statistical rankings: first in points per drive allowed, EPA per play, EPA per dropback, EPA per rush, success rate, pass success rate, run success rate, drive success rate, third-down conversion rate allowed, red zone touchdown rate allowed, red zone scoring rate allowed, pressure rate, and sack rate. They ranked fourth in time to pressure and first or second in zone coverage rate depending on the charting source. Arif also clarified a misread: the Vikings are last — not first — in light box usage against the run, meaning they crowd the box heavily, which makes their first-place ranking in run success rate even more notable since they are conceding that alignment information to opposing offences.<br />
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Hicks highlighted the discipline of the Vikings' zone drops off fire-zone blitzes as the quality that separates the scheme from typical blitz-heavy defences: opposing offences rarely break open big plays because the coverage structure holds even as individual rushers arrive free. He described the typical outcome as a binary between a sack and a two-yard completion, expressed admiration for Brian Flores's ability to execute the scheme at this level of consistency, and speculated that Flores would be a significant head-coach candidate in the upcoming cycle.<br />
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=== Colts Offense: Daniel Jones and the Injury Situation ===<br />
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Hicks attributed the Colts' offensive regression primarily to three converging factors: the loss of Tyler Warren (likely out against the Vikings) and Alec Pierce as pass-catching options, defences having solved the easy-button play-action rollout to the flat that had driven Jones's near-historic efficiency in the first half of the prior season, and Jones himself appearing unconfident and erratic in a way that combined skittishness — scrambling away from clean pockets — with ill-advised pressing, producing turnovers at a rate of approximately 12 over six games. Without the spacing Warren and Pierce provided, opponents were squatting on the short-intermediate zones Jones needed, and without a genuine vertical threat, LaQuan Treadwell was running as many snaps as any wide receiver on the roster.<br />
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Hicks noted that the Colts rank 24th in EPA per play but would be a top 10 or 15 offence if turnovers were removed entirely — a sign that the scheme and the line are functional but that Jones is generating negative plays at an unsustainable rate. On the Vikings' specific matchup, Hicks observed that the Colts' answers to blitzing are predominantly designed against man coverage (particularly getting Josh Downs isolated in space), meaning the zone-heavy approach Flores deploys behind his blitzes would present a largely untested problem. He added that the Colts are the worst team in the NFL at forcing negative plays — no tackles for loss, very few sacks — meaning the Vikings offence, whatever its limitations, would be able to move forward methodically if it avoided self-inflicted setbacks.<br />
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The offensive line was rated as solid overall: Quentin Nelson playing at a potential first-team All-Pro level, Matt Consolvis at right guard excellent, but Tanner Bordellini at centre susceptible to interior power, Bernhard Raimann at left tackle playing through injury, and Jalen Travis as a young right tackle still learning to handle stunts and twists.<br />
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=== Trade Rumours: Jonathan Taylor and Quentin Nelson ===<br />
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Arif raised unsourced but widely circulated rumours that the Vikings were inquiring about Jonathan Taylor and Quentin Nelson. Hicks rated both as unlikely to move: Nelson is expected to be re-signed given his longevity with the franchise and hall-of-fame trajectory, and Taylor is under contract for multiple years — any move would require the incoming front-office decision-maker to take that on. He identified the most genuinely movable pieces as DeForest Buckner, Grover Stewart, and cornerback Charvarius Ward, all of whom are unlikely to return after the season and can generate real draft capital. On Taylor, Hicks acknowledged that calls were likely coming in and that the price could be as low as a late second from a contender, but leaned against an actual trade.<br />
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Arif followed up on Taylor's recent statistical dip (3.8 yards per carry over the last 13 games), which Hicks attributed contextually to the Philip Rivers era and the current absence of a vertical threat forcing defences to load the box. He characterised Taylor as still playing well within a structurally difficult environment.<br />
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=== Colts Defense ===<br />
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The Colts rank 32nd in pass rush win rate, 29th in pressure rate, 31st in run stop rate, and 31st in run stuff rate. They lead the NFL in deploying three or fewer pass rushers — approximately 7% of opponent dropbacks — and rank second among qualified defences in EPA per play when rushing three, suggesting the drop-eight approach is the best available plan given the lack of an effective edge rusher. Laatu Latu has not developed as expected. The two reliable interior pass rushers are DeForest Buckner and a young defensive tackle from Borre who, per Hicks, generates occasional unblockable pressures in under one and a half seconds but cannot be consistently deployed as the defence's primary plan.<br />
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The linebacker situation is unusual: CJ Allen, a second-round pick from Georgia, missed significant offseason work, was expected to be the green-dot signal-caller, and saw that role handed to Cameron Bynum in Week 1, which failed catastrophically against the Ravens (60% Cover 1 against Lamar Jackson; Zay Flowers with 150 yards in the first half alone before leaving). This forced Tekeem Davis-Gathe into the green-dot role at a point when he had received almost no installation, making him indispensable and effectively sidelining Allen's development into the Will linebacker position. Allen is beginning to see more snaps but has had a structurally unusual first season. AJ Holsey at safety has been hot and cold in the manner of a developing young player; Cameron Bynum, the other safety, is being asked to work closer to the line of scrimmage than his natural single-high role but has his first interception of the season and remains a net positive for the defence.<br />
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=== The Kicker Battle: Spencer Schrader vs. Will Reichard ===<br />
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Hicks identified the Schrader–Reichard matchup as a genuine All-Pro race. Arif presented his own Python-generated expected-points analysis: Schrader leads in field goal points above expected when accounting for distance, with one more field goal above 50 yards, one more above 40 yards, and three more total attempts than Reichard — meaning he is also three points ahead even before adjusting. Schrader's missed extra point in Week 1 (his first kick of the season, which caused Arif to cut him from the Hell League immediately and regret it ever since) would widen the gap if incorporated. Hicks noted that Schrader's value to the Colts offence is structural: because the Colts regularly stall around midfield, Schrader's range effectively converts the 43-yard line into field goal territory, putting 3 points on the board for drives that would otherwise produce nothing. Arif noted that on kickoffs, Schrader and backup Rigoberto Sanchez have been using a landing-zone strategy — kicking the ball to land inside the 20-yard line so it bounces into the end zone for a 20-yard touchback rather than a 35-yard touchback — a distinction that gives the Colts a structural field-position advantage others do not calculate into standard touchback percentages.<br />
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Hicks flagged that Sanchez was unlikely to play against the Vikings following a disastrous prior week that included a blocked punt returned for a touchdown and a long return allowed, meaning Thomas Morstead would step in as punter and holder — a development both agreed was notable given the institutional knowledge that minor process disruptions can destabilise even elite kickers.<br />
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On overall special teams: Vikings are first in special teams DVOA; Colts are sixth.<br />
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=== Score Prediction and Game Framing ===<br />
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The Vikings are favoured by six and a half, almost entirely on the strength of the defensive matchup against the Colts' offence. Hicks noted that a GM-firing boost is less well-documented than a coaching-change boost but acknowledged the "complacency is over" message might produce some early-game energy in Indianapolis. He put the game framing as potentially a 12–10 or 15–12 contest depending on how much either offence could produce, while conceding that the structural mismatches heavily favour Minnesota. The Vikings' second-best kickoff field position in the league (34.2 average starting position, tied with Buffalo for first) was cited as one additional structural advantage over the Colts.<br />
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== Defence Nickname Discussion ==<br />
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Following the interview, James and Arif worked through an extended round of listener nickname submissions for the Vikings defence:<br />
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The full submission list included: Stolen Hyundai Caffeine Overdose (declined); Berserkers (Arif liked); Hurricane Flores (Arif strongly liked); Byzantium Empire (declined after a detailed etymological aside on Byzantium being a modern colour name first recorded in 1926, not an ancient one); Purple Haze (adequate); The Flow Riders (acceptable); Norse Blitzkrieg (adequate); Purple People Revers (Arif liked a lot); SPAM (works on paper, doesn't land); The Defense (as in ''the'' Defense — James enjoyed the commitment); Brian's Booming Blitz (sounds like a menu item); Loki's Lightning (top third); Ebb and Flow (better as a two-player nickname); Rowing Thunder (Arif admitted to liking it unreasonably); The Okra Patch (a tribute to the 2005 Vikings that cannot be appropriated); Sex Squad/SS (concerns noted); Purple Pressure Cookers (good alliteration, top half); Goon Squad (declined as a probable bet-win attempt); Purple Flood/Flores's Flood (OK); just Steve (millennial quirky humour, noted and dismissed); Purple Dog Blitz (Arif preferred this framing to Purple Dog Defense); and Ragnarok (multiple submissions; Arif delivered the full definition from memory — a catastrophic sequence of natural disasters culminating in world submersion and renewal, ultimately producing two human survivors who repopulate the earth — which James attributed to a debate round from 16 years prior).<br />
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The working top three entering the mailbag were Hurricane Flores, Berserkers, and Ragnarok, with James declaring Hurricane Flores the winner and announcing plans for bootleg T-shirts outside Foxboro. This consensus was overturned late in the mailbag when Alex B proposed "Ultra Violent Violence" and then "Ultraviolence" as a refinement. Arif immediately discarded all prior deliberation: "I just go by Ultraviolence. That's it." James confirmed the Clockwork Orange energy was the correct register. The episode ended with Ultraviolence as the settled name for the 2026 Vikings defence.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Lurking''' (''Is JJ McCarthy on the Giants Injury Report? Corner'') — McCarthy was not yet on the injury report. Arif pivoted to a live account of ordering Popeyes ghost pepper dry rub wings during Thursday Night Football and finding the powder application excessive — not because it was too spicy but because the dry rub was not adhering properly to the chicken.<br />
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* '''Mauricio''' (''KOC Safety Corner'') — Mauricio asked how the Vikings would ensure Kevin O'Connell's safety after JJ McCarthy led the Giants to bounce them from the playoffs and then win nine Super Bowls. Arif suggested the Wilfs would simply note that O'Connell's protection detail had inexplicably failed to show up, and that Flores was already being paid at a Tampa Bay head coach level and could be brought in to fill any resulting vacancy.<br />
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* '''Alex''' (''Trade Deadline Corner'') — Alex asked what record would be required for Arif to be comfortable selling future picks at the deadline, and which position could actually move the needle. Arif set the floor at 5–3, noting three consecutive losses would undercut the logic of trading away the future. On the Jonathan Taylor vs. Saquon Barkley question James introduced, Arif chose Taylor — slightly better contract situation, healthier, and arguably more enjoyable to watch given Saquon's current injury status. He confirmed from earlier in the show that the Vikings' upcoming schedule includes games against the Lions and Bills.<br />
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* '''LaVar''' (''That's What Joe Montana Used to Do Corner'') — LaVar asked whether Brock Purdy had been better than Patrick Mahomes in 2026. Arif acknowledged Mahomes had returned to near-peak form after a down 2025, noted Purdy was also playing outstanding football (second in adjusted EPA per play, third overall), and ranked Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Trevor Lawrence, and Caleb Williams ahead of Purdy. He characterised conceding Purdy's top-five status as requiring significant personal growth.<br />
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* '''Ben Greenhagen''' (''NorseCode Ending This Year Corner'') — Greenhagen asked who would inherit the mantle of the number one Vikings podcast after Norse Code ends. Arif and James confirmed they had spoken to other major podcasters about succession planning, the result of which was a sack race to be held on alternating Sundays in the offseason with a bracket structured like the one from the movie ''Baseball''. James noted that ''Baseball'' had aged unevenly on rewatch.<br />
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* '''Sammy''' (''Do Players Care About Owners? Corner'') — Sammy asked, in reaction to the Clippers dedicating their season opener to owner Steve Ballmer, whether players generally care about their owners and whether it was appropriate to defend ethically dubious billionaires. Arif argued most players do not care beyond the social obligations of having a boss's boss's boss, except for high-end quarterbacks who become genuinely friendly with ownership (Tom Brady and Robert Kraft) and grindset types. He cited former Titans owner Cal McNair's 2008 locker room address as an example of the gap between owner self-perception and player reception.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segal''' (''Arif Hasan Cinematic Universe Corner'') — Segal asked whether the plan to end Norse Code by jinxing the Vikings out of the Super Bowl would include a cameo from arch-villain Luke Braun, and whether running two simultaneous podcasts created a multiverse risk. Arif drew the MCU parallel: after Infinity War and Endgame, audiences just moved on without engaging with Phase Four, and the two-podcast situation would likely resolve similarly. Luke Braun would be recast as Adam Thielen for the Norse Code cinematic universe due to an as-yet-unspecified controversy.<br />
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* '''Nolan Kaler''' (''Winnipeg Slurpee Capital Corner'') — Kaler submitted two questions in French that James had been instructed not to read on the grounds that they came from a Canadian. After a live Google Translate session, the questions were decoded: first, how many additional debate rounds would Arif have won if he had grown up in Winnipeg, the Slurpee Capital of the World; and second, a philosophical inquiry — "I am what I am; if I am what I am, what am I?" Arif observed that from first principles, the only universe in which someone would submit this question was a mailbag, and used that to deduce the asker's identity. James noted he would be in Winnipeg briefly at the end of November and offered to buy Kaler a drink.<br />
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* '''Bottoms Up Socrates''' (''Worst Jersey at US Bank Stadium Corner'') — Socrates asked, prompted by seeing a Darren Sharper jersey at Lambeau, what other jerseys would be worst to encounter at US Bank Stadium. Arif nominated a Saints Darren Sharper jersey as the floor of unacceptability, cited an Aaron Hernandez jersey spotted in Dublin as a comparable sighting, and recalled a child's Vikings Sharper jersey he and James had once encountered together. A custom Deshaun Watson Vikings jersey pre-emptively made ahead of a trade that never happened and a Aaron Rodgers number 12 were nominated as runner-up answers. James noted that JJ McCarthy jersey prices had crashed following his number change, with large sizes available for $20–25, and predicted the new Runes-era version would rebound in value.<br />
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* '''Chris at the Daily Norseman''' (''Is There a Rhyme or Reason to Bye Weeks? Corner'') — Room Temperature (different question, same segment) asked whether the NFL's bye-week schedule was random or structured. Arif explained that teams submit bye-week preferences, stadium operators submit no-go dates (the Orioles–Ravens parking lot example), and international-travel teams are offered a bye following their international game. The Vikings declined a bye following the Australia game. He noted that MLB scheduling — historically managed by hand by a single couple — is comparably complex and used the Miami–Minnesota scheduling as an example of civic events influencing game timing. Chris at the Daily Norseman asked whether Arif would admit that Mordin has the best character arc in the Mass Effect trilogy and who should be left behind on Virmire. Arif agreed on Mordin and confirmed the answer on Virmire has always been obvious — Ashley, the space racist, while acknowledging Kaidan is boring in a different way — and extended the segment into an extended eulogy for Bioware following the studio closure announcement, recommending Mass Effect as one of the best-written game series of all time, flagging the leaked Mass Effect 5 trailer as promising, and crediting Larian Studios (Baldur's Gate 3) as the closest spiritual successor. He also recalled a 2007 Fox News segment in which a Bioware developer was brought on to defend gay alien sex and described it as foundational.<br />
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* '''Anya Taylor Joy''' (''Public Union Corner'') — Joy asked, while on the way to joining her public union's bargaining team ahead of 2027 contract negotiations, what advice James would offer, and also asked how he stomached working with a sellout capitalist landlord. James recommended building visible membership density to demonstrate organisational strength to the other side, and suggested reframing individual job concerns as collective ones — "we're losing our jobs" rather than "I'm worried about my job."<br />
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* '''Drew Bletso''' (''Dead Body Corner / Sumer Brain Extended Bit'') — Drew asked how to sneak into the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and scatter the Wright Brothers' ashes in the 1903 Flyer (classic Shawshank pants method or a toss directly into the plane), and which historical seat to use to dispose of "Don from Ohio" (the Lincoln assassination chair or the JFK limousine). This launched an extended back-and-forth between Arif and Sumer Brain. Sumer Brain declined the question on non-football grounds multiple times, citing responses including that people use planes to fly to football games and that Joe Burrow had vowed not to play until the matter was resolved as insufficient justifications. Arif's winning gambit — claiming "I promise I am Joe Burrow" — succeeded: Sumer Brain could not verify the claim and, apparently star-struck, provided a full answer. The answer itself included corrections: the flyer at the Henry Ford is a reproduction; the 1903 original hangs at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; the actual Wright Brothers historic materials are in Greenfield Village next door to the Henry Ford; and the preferred dispersal site is Huffman Prairie Flying Field near Dayton, a National Park Service site where scattering permits are routinely granted. The Wright Brothers were not cremated, making the premise of the ashes fictional. Don from Ohio was not addressed.<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' (''Halloween Movie Corner'') — Brosmer asked for Halloween movie recommendations with a comedy element for someone who dislikes horror, having already planned to watch Beetlejuice, Shaun of the Dead, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, and Young Frankenstein. Arif recommended Hot Fuzz, Mars Attacks, Army of Darkness, and the Evil Dead/Ash vs. Evil Dead franchise, noting that the original Evil Dead was written as a straight horror film that became camp through Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's execution. He recommended pairing the Campbell films with Bruce Campbell's autobiography.<br />
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* '''Villa Jack Monger''' (''Medical Advice Corner'') — Monger asked, following the Jalen Hurts sideline-bike discussion, whether Hurts was in a ''Crank''-style scenario where continuous movement was required to prevent death. Arif noted he had received significant feedback on his earlier anticoagulants segment, concluded he was "not that wrong," and clarified he had never claimed anticoagulants dissolve clots — only that they prevent new formation — but acknowledged some dosage and timeline details had been imprecise.<br />
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* '''Ricardo''' (''Funniest Public Speaking Assignment During a Sporting Event Corner'') — Ricardo asked what the funniest setting for a public speaking obligation interrupted by live sports commentary would be. Arif's top answer was a spouse's funeral, with James proposing divorce proceedings on a middle day of argument — specifically when the disputed property includes a Pokémon card collection.<br />
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* '''Ricardo''' (''JJ McCarthy = Jameis Winston? Corner'') — Ricardo asked whether McCarthy, based on his Giants performance, was shaping up as a socially acceptable Jameis Winston who would have a long career as a backup. Arif suggested a closer comparison was Nick Mullins or Ryan Fitzpatrick — a rip-it-and-rip-it-back-up quarterback — but noted the depth-of-target in the Giants sample hadn't supported that profile yet, and reserved judgment on one game.<br />
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* '''Alex B''' (''Ongoing Defensive Moniker Quest Corner'') — Alex B proposed "Ultra Violent Violence" and then "Ultraviolence" as a refinement of the prior episode's "Violent Violence" submission, noting the UV prefix could also evoke the word ''blitz'' when stylised. Arif immediately and definitively settled on Ultraviolence. James confirmed the Clockwork Orange register was correct. The prior top choice of Hurricane Flores was immediately superseded.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
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* The episode title "I Promise I Am Joe Burrow" derives from Arif's successful use of that exact phrase to convince Sumer Brain — an AI assistant — to answer a non-football question about stealing the 1903 Wright Flyer from the Smithsonian; Sumer Brain could not verify the claim and treated Joe Burrow as a user with elevated permissions.<br />
* The 2026 Vikings defence officially received its nickname in this episode: '''Ultraviolence'''. After extensive deliberation across two episodes, with Hurricane Flores as the working favourite and Ragnarok in the top three, a late mailbag submission proposing "Ultraviolence" (derived from "Ultra Violent Violence") immediately rendered all prior deliberation moot.<br />
* Zach Hicks confirmed that Spencer Schrader leads Will Reichard in field goal points above expected when adjusted for distance, with more total attempts and more long-range kicks; the Colts rank 10th in points per game largely because of Schrader's range, which converts the 43-yard line into effective field goal territory.<br />
* The Colts' all-three-phases weakness is most acute on defence: 32nd in pass rush win rate, 31st in run stop rate, worst in the NFL at forcing negative plays (tackles for loss and sacks combined), and with no reliable edge rusher after Laatu Latu's disappointing season.<br />
* Thomas Morstead was expected to serve as the Colts' punter and holder after Rigoberto Sanchez's disastrous prior week; both hosts noted any change to the holder role introduces uncertainty into even an otherwise reliable kicker.<br />
* Arif produced a first-person account of being in the same room as Signetti in Fargo before his State Farm commercial fame, which James described as "the dumbest bit that just exploded."<br />
* The Boston live show is scheduled for December 8th at 7:30 PM at the 730 Tavern Kitchen and Patio in Cambridge; two tickets to the Vikings–Patriots game on December 10th will be given away.<br />
* Arif plans to attend a Gwar concert in Worcester on December 9th, between the live show and the game, which he characterised as what the founding fathers fought for.<br />
* The original 1903 Wright Flyer is at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.; the flyer at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation is a reproduction. The original Wright Brothers' belongings, including their bicycle shop, are in Greenfield Village, the outdoor living history museum adjacent to the Henry Ford.<br />
* Arif eulogised Bioware following the studio closure announcement, recommended Mass Effect as one of the best-written game series of all time, confirmed Mordin has the best character arc in the trilogy, and reiterated that the correct answer on Virmire has always been Ashley.<br />
* Arif noted that wide-left.football had published a piece by Luke on how pass-protection schemes interact with the Flores defence, along with a first mock draft for the 2027 NFL Draft.<br />
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[[Category:Episodes with guests]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_619&diff=515Episode 6192026-11-02T13:30:59Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 619 | title = Looking at the Numbers | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = | type = Regular Season }} '''Norse Code Episode 619: Looking at the Numbers''' was a Week 5 game recap covering the Vikings' win over the New Orleans Saints, recorded while the Bills–Rams Monday Night Football game played simultaneously in the background. The episode opened with a Chad Greenway billboard cold open, moved thro..."</p>
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'''Norse Code Episode 619: Looking at the Numbers''' was a Week 5 game recap covering the Vikings' win over the New Orleans Saints, recorded while the Bills–Rams Monday Night Football game played simultaneously in the background. The episode opened with a Chad Greenway billboard cold open, moved through a Hell League sidebar involving negative combined kicker points, and devoted its core runtime to a full game recap with an extended statistical breakdown of the Vikings' defence. An unusually large mailbag covered timeout usage research, the 2016 collapse comparison, Will Reichard's trade value, the NFL's player-pool demographics, and defence nickname deliberations, among other topics. The episode title derives from Arif's repeated use of the phrase "I was looking at the numbers" during his presentation of the Vikings' defensive metrics — identifying them as the top unit in the NFL against dropback passing and a close second against the run.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
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The cold open centred on a Chad Greenway billboard James had discovered four blocks from his home in Grand Forks, advertising Midco Sports Network. The episode was recorded while the Bills–Rams Monday Night Football game unfolded simultaneously, generating live commentary throughout, as both Arif and James had active Hell League stakes in the outcome.<br />
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=== Hell League and the Oops All Punters Sidebar ===<br />
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Arif and James were playing each other in their Hell League this week. Arif had Will Reichard at 101 fantasy points but the combined kicker line across the matchup went negative — a result of the ongoing kicker chaos in the Bills–Rams game and Josh Allen's late-game heroics disrupting the scoring. The "Oops All Punters" Hell League concept had reached 945 total points for the week; Arif noted that four of the six top weekly scores across their combined leagues were recorded against James.<br />
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=== Game Recap: Week 5 vs. New Orleans Saints ===<br />
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The Vikings won their Week 5 game against the New Orleans Saints. Arif framed the game as a confrontation between Brian Flores's blitz-heavy defence — operating in the 85–91% blitz rate range for the week — and Saints quarterback Tyler Shough, whom Arif described as having "the 1,000-mile stare" typical of a quarterback entirely overwhelmed by that level of pressure and disruption.<br />
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T.J. Hockenson was knocked out of the game with a concussion in the first 54 seconds, reshuffling the target distribution for the rest of the contest. Gavin Bartholomew stepped up with the second-most targets among Vikings pass-catchers. The game included a flea-flicker that produced an overthrow to Bartholomew; Arif argued the trick play should not have been called given Hockenson's early exit, as it was designed to exploit defensive attention created by the tight end in the route combination.<br />
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Arif rated Kyler Murray's performance a "B." Murray completed 11 or 12 consecutive passes at one point, though Arif contextualised this as a product of the Saints' scheme conceding short throws — structurally different from the Darnold-era consecutive-completion runs that indicated genuine drive efficiency against resistance. Murray also scrambled for more than 50 yards and was clocked as the fastest ball carrier in Week 5 at over 20 mph.<br />
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Aaron Jones earned the game ball with more than 113 rushing yards, which Arif characterised as the heaviest workload of Jones's career across both a single game and a four-week span. Arif highlighted Jones's north-south running style as well-suited to the game plan and flagged that Jordan Mason was expected to return from the bye, which would complicate the backfield share going forward.<br />
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==== Defensive Statistical Breakdown ====<br />
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Byron Murphy recorded two interceptions. Blake Cashman led the league in stops with seven for the week. Jalen Redmond continued to force redirects in the backfield, disrupting the Saints' running game. Arif's extended statistical presentation — anchored by repeated invocations of "I was looking at the numbers" — identified the Vikings as the clear number-one defence in the NFL against dropback passing EPA per play, and a very close second against the run, behind only the Seattle Seahawks. He also noted that Brian Flores was blitzing at nearly twice the rate of Washington's Rodney Jones, a former Vikings defensive backs coach running a philosophically similar scheme — using the comparison to contextualise the Vikings' scheme as genuinely unusual rather than merely aggressive by normal standards.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Unnamed Corner''' (''Is This Team Actually Good?'') — Arif rated the Vikings as the 8th to 9th best team in the league on an opponent-adjusted basis and expressed legitimate optimism about the offence improving as Justin Jefferson returned and the team built more familiarity with the Murray system.<br />
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* '''Ugliest INT Corner''' — The unanimous choice for ugliest interception of the week was Justin Herbert's, whom Arif and James designated a future Viking.<br />
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* '''Cody''' (''Who's to Blame Corner'') — Cody asked who bore the most responsibility for the Vikings' offensive inconsistency. Arif argued that nearly everything had contributed simultaneously — identifying 11 consecutive offensive failures in a Week 2 stretch as the clearest illustration — and noted the Vikings' operational penalties ranked them 8th to 12th worst in the league, a margin manageable for most teams but one the Vikings could not absorb given the offence's structural limitations.<br />
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* '''Kate''' (''Sustainability Corner'') — Kate asked whether the Vikings' early success was sustainable. Arif said the offence was not sustainable at its current efficiency level, and that his heart said yes but his head said probably not about the defence as well, given the schedule and the structural challenges of maintaining a near-historic blitz rate against higher-calibre offences later in the year.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segal''' (''Actual Honest-to-God Question Corner'') — Segal asked whether the defence's numbers were overinflated by weak opposition, citing the Bears game as a case where injury and a goal-line fumble had bailed out the unit. Arif confirmed the concern was methodologically valid — the Vikings had faced a compressed schedule by offensive quality, with the best offence they had seen all year ranking 12th in points per drive — but reported that after opponent adjustments (by DVOA and his own metrics independently), the Vikings remained number one in the NFL. Seattle ranked second on the same basis. He cited the prior year's New England defence as evidence that opponent adjustments are broadly reliable predictors of how a unit performs against better competition, while acknowledging that certain blitz-specific advantages — such as exploiting slower-processing quarterbacks — may not transfer fully to elite personnel.<br />
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* '''Kenneth Allen''' (''Timeout Usage Studies Corner'') — Allen asked whether studies had been done on timeout usage, noting anecdotally that younger offensive coaches like Kevin O'Connell and Sean McVay seemed to deploy timeouts earlier than veterans. Arif recalled research indicating NFL coaches are generally too precious with their timeouts prior to the end of games, but argued that KOC's early timeouts were almost never strategic — they were "oh God, we're not set" emergency calls rather than deliberate in-game investments. He offered a broad lean toward preserving timeouts longer than current practice, while acknowledging his conclusions were more feel than hard data.<br />
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* '''Kenneth Allen''' (''Super Bowl Loss or Fizzle Out? Corner'') — Allen asked, under the constraint that God is real and hates Vikings fans and will therefore engineer whichever outcome is preferred, whether Arif would rather Norse Code end on a crushing Super Bowl loss or a mediocre fizzle-out season. Arif immediately chose the Super Bowl loss, reasoning that since the hypothetical evil deity would detect any lie, honesty was the only viable strategy — and that a live Norse Code post-Super Bowl loss show would be genuinely the funniest possible ending for the podcast. They briefly sketched plans for a three-man post-game setup that would also involve Drew.<br />
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* '''Big Ale''' (''Easiest Trick Play Corner'') — Big Ale asked what the easiest trick play to execute was that would improve Kevin O'Connell's trick play success rate — specifically not the one involving Justin Jefferson as a passer. Arif nominated the Eagles-style push-pass toss outside and naked bootlegs from quarterbacks who never run, citing Peyton Manning, Chad Pennington, and Matthew Stafford as practitioners whose unexpectedness made the play reliably effective. He expressed strong opposition to multi-direction trick plays that risk leaving the offence nine yards behind the line of scrimmage.<br />
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* '''Lundiana''' (''I Hate Karma Corner'') — Lundiana asked whether the "NFL is out of players" meme was real, and followed up by asking whether the league was also running out of coaches given the situational football failures seen in recent weeks. Arif argued the meme was the precise inverse of reality: the rookie salary scale has steadily increased the roster retention rate of late-round picks, raising the seventh-round make rate from roughly 25–30% to approximately 50%, meaning more new players enter the league each year than at any prior point. Fans notice recognisable veteran names and draw incorrect conclusions from their presence. He noted OBJ and JuJu Smith-Schuster's simultaneous appearance on the Vikings as an illustrative example — and clarified that OBJ had been called up from the practice squad for the Saints game but did not play, with DeSean Jones taking the active roster spot.<br />
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* '''Antitech''' (''Time Is a Flat Circle Corner'') — Antitech asked whether there were any red flags suggesting the 2026 Vikings might imitate the 2016 team's violent collapse. Arif had written a dedicated piece on the comparison, covering touchdown rate, offensive success rate, and the historical record of 4-0 teams over the preceding 25 seasons. He noted that virtually every 4-0 team makes the playoffs, but that the exceptions shared one characteristic: they ranked in the bottom three in touchdown rate on drives. The Vikings' current touchdown rate fell in a range that warranted concern. He also flagged ongoing reliance on the kicker as an additional structural fragility.<br />
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* '''SkimbleShanks''' (''This Is Sponsored by Saul Goodman and Associates Corner'') — SkimbleShanks asked, while insisting the question was purely hypothetical, what Will Reichard's trade value was right now. Arif estimated a fourth-round pick, noting that teams occasionally spend fifth or sixth round picks on favoured kickers, but that the cost of negotiating a new contract would suppress value below a third-rounder, and that the long snapper and holder — who form the effective battery — do not travel with a traded kicker.<br />
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* '''Drew Bletso''' (''Practice Squad Battle Corner'') — Bletso asked who would win a practice squad battle among Marvin Harrison Jr., Odell Beckham Jr., and JuJu Smith-Schuster. Arif noted that Marvin Harrison Jr. was on the Texans' active roster rather than anyone's practice squad, designated him the winner on upside regardless, and entertained the comedy of Harrison returning to a Kyler Murray offence after his experience in Arizona. The episode consensus was that JuJu was the correct comedic answer.<br />
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* '''Public Safety and Health Corner''' (''Should I Drop Out and Become a Podcaster?'') — A listener asked whether they should study for their university degree or drop out and pursue podcasting and football writing, and if yes, whether they could be the guest Malion's preview. Arif firmly recommended against sports media, noting the odds of long-term viability were low and declining for new entrants every year. The segment was interrupted by live Bills–Rams commentary as Gregory Rousseau blocked an extra point attempt — which Arif noted made Rousseau tied with or ahead of Dallas Turner for the league lead in pressures, depending on the analytics service.<br />
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* '''The Logic Dump''' (''Australia Really Isn't That Far Away Corner'') — The Logic Dump asked whether the 49ers' strong start despite international travel was categorical proof that teams should stop complaining about the road, and who should play in Melbourne next year — suggesting the Giants and Jets. Arif and James endorsed the Jets–Giants proposal enthusiastically, citing the intrinsic comedy of the time zone logistics and the civic benefit of one fewer game at MetLife Stadium, which James suggested would qualify its architect for a peace prize nomination.<br />
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* '''Raul''' (''How the Tables Have Turned Corner'') — Raul asked which 3–2 NFC North rival was the biggest threat to the Vikings' divisional standing. Arif identified the Lions as the primary concern — no defence to speak of, but an unambiguously elite offence — and noted that Jared Goff had historically performed reasonably well against Brian Flores's scheme, making that the matchup of most concern. He dismissed the Bears as currently limping and said the Packers required more evidence on both the offensive line and defensive side before he would take the threat seriously.<br />
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* '''Luke Braun''' (''Analytics Corner'') — Braun cited a metric by a contributor identified as "Justice" showing the Packers as the second-best team in the league — the only team with both a good offence and defence — and asked whether the stats were wrong or the Packers were winning the Super Bowl. Arif responded that the most current version of Justice's chart had the Packers third, not second, making Braun's characterisation inaccurate, and recommended general scepticism about objective-looking information constructed by Packers fans and owners.<br />
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* '''Raul''' (''Nickname Corner'') — Raul proposed "The Sunset Defense" as a defence nickname, calling it simple, clean, foreboding, and a play on basketball player Davion Mitchell's "Off Night" nickname. Arif declined, citing the specific Minnesota historical connotation: "sunset towns" were locations where Black residents were historically prohibited from being present after dark, and Edina is a locally contested Minnesota example of that history — with some historians questioning the documentation without fully exonerating the town. He said the show would review all submitted defence nicknames in an upcoming episode, expressed a preference for something with a Norse or Viking connection, and noted that "Purple Lightning" was conceptually close but not fully landed, while "Violent Violence" was approximately 85–90% of the way to a finished nickname.<br />
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* '''Sammy''' (''Even Year Corner'') — Sammy asked whether Minnesota's famous civic participation during election years transferred energy to the Vikings and explained their tendency to perform well in even years. Arif confirmed that Minnesota typically leads the country in voter participation — in both midterm and presidential years — and found it curious given that states like Oregon with comparable or easier voting infrastructure do not consistently match that rate. He proposed, without much conviction, that the voting energy might transmute into defensive motivation.<br />
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* '''D's''' (''James's Character Corner'') — D's asked for advice on how to help Arif save face after publicly ignoring repeated challenge requests for a best-of-three competitive Pokémon match. Arif acknowledged he rarely engaged with D's tweets due to high ambient noise, confirmed D's had been persistent, and told D's to DM him to schedule the match. He also noted D's had offered to trade him an Eternal Floette — the one meta-legal Pokémon Arif does not own — and expressed strong interest in pursuing that trade.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' (''Velociraptors Corner'') — The question asked whether, given the Vikings' current injury situation, Kevin O'Connell's offence could defeat an 11-raptor roster of Velociraptors. Arif reaffirmed his prior position: actual Velociraptors are the size of turkeys with hollow bones, and Christian Darrisaw at 320 pounds would dispatch them without difficulty. The commonly imagined Jurassic Park Velociraptors are anatomically Utah Raptors — substantially larger — and the Vikings offence would stand no chance against four of those. Kyler Murray was noted to outweigh two actual Velociraptors combined, though only just.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
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* The episode title "Looking at the Numbers" derives from Arif's repeated use of the phrase "I was looking at the numbers" while presenting the Vikings' defensive statistics — identifying them as the clear NFL leader against dropback passing EPA per play and a very close second against the run.<br />
* Byron Murphy recorded two interceptions against the Saints; Blake Cashman led the league in stops for the week with seven.<br />
* Brian Flores's blitz rate in the Saints game reached 85–91%, nearly double the rate deployed by Washington's Rodney Jones — a former Vikings defensive backs coach running a similar scheme.<br />
* T.J. Hockenson was concussed in the first 54 seconds of the game; Arif argued the subsequent flea-flicker to Gavin Bartholomew should not have been called, as the play design depended on Hockenson drawing defensive attention.<br />
* Arif rated Kyler Murray a "B," emphasising that his 11–12 consecutive completions reflected short-depth throws into a soft scheme rather than the kind of high-pressure completion streak that indicates offensive mastery; his 50+ scramble yards and 20+ mph top speed as the fastest ball carrier in Week 5 were the clearest positives.<br />
* Aaron Jones received the game ball for 113+ rushing yards — characterised as the heaviest single-game and four-week workload of his career — with Jordan Mason flagged as likely returning after the bye.<br />
* Arif had written a piece for wide-left.football comparing the 2026 Vikings to the 2016 team; the primary quantitative red flag identified was the Vikings' touchdown rate on drives, which historically correlates with the 4-0 teams that fail to make the playoffs.<br />
* The "Oops All Punters" Hell League concept had reached 945 total points for the week; four of the six top weekly scores across their combined leagues were recorded against James.<br />
* Gregory Rousseau blocked a Bills–Rams extra point during the live broadcast and, per Arif's real-time commentary, was leading or tied for the league lead in pressures across all three major analytics services by the end of the game.<br />
* Arif declined the "Sunset Defense" nickname on account of Minnesota's documented history with sunset towns, with Edina as the local example; he committed to a full review of all submitted defence nicknames in a future episode.<br />
* The episode was recorded ahead of the Vikings' bye week; the next game is against the Indianapolis Colts. James planned to see Smashing Pumpkins during the break. Arif plugged his wide-left.football article examining whether the 2026 Vikings defence was on pace to rank among the best in NFL history.<br />
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[[Category:Season 2026]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_618&diff=514Episode 6182026-11-02T13:18:17Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 618 | title = The Square and the Dig | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = Charles Starr | type = Regular Season }} '''Norse Code Episode 618: The Square and the Dig''' was a Week 5 preview episode ahead of the Vikings' home game against the New Orleans Saints. The show opened with brief celebration of the Cowboys' Thursday Night Football loss to Jayden Daniels before turning to the Odell Beckham Jr. s..."</p>
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'''Norse Code Episode 618: The Square and the Dig''' was a Week 5 preview episode ahead of the Vikings' home game against the New Orleans Saints. The show opened with brief celebration of the Cowboys' Thursday Night Football loss to Jayden Daniels before turning to the Odell Beckham Jr. signing and a discussion of the systemic issues hobbling the Vikings' passing offence without Justin Jefferson. The episode's centrepiece was an extended preview interview with Charles Starr of the CitySaintCountrySaint podcast, covering the Saints' catastrophic running game, their surprisingly functional offence under Tyler Shough, the injury-depleted state of their defensive front, and the mutual conclusion that the Vikings were likely to win. The mailbag covered Josh McCown's coaching tree, Kevin O'Connell's play-calling identity and his offence's deep intermediate route concepts, mouth guards and Guardian Cap scepticism, Drake May's moon-landing conspiracy theories, Crumble Cookie's slow commercial collapse, and a meditation on what forensic investigators would find in James and Arif's media archives. The episode title derives from Arif's explanation of the two signature pass concepts in the Kevin O'Connell offence — the square-in and the dig — and his description of the "second window" mechanic that he identified as the specific area where Kyler Murray most struggles.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
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The cold open celebrated the Cowboys' loss on Thursday Night Football to Jayden Daniels, with James noting that watching Jerry Jones leave the stadium visibly furious never gets old. Arif agreed, observing that Jones was "mad enough to throw a tantrum" despite, as Arif noted, being a billionaire whose tantrums carry real-world consequences.<br />
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=== Odell Beckham Jr. Signing and the Receiver Room ===<br />
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James introduced the news that the Vikings had signed Odell Beckham Jr., characterising it as the kind of signing that provokes a "why now, why not five years ago?" reaction. Arif described OBJ as straightforwardly washed: nine receptions for 55 yards for the Dolphins in the prior season, one target for zero catches in three games with the Giants. He noted the Giants had parted with OBJ despite themselves needing receiver help, and that the most plausible read on the signing was as a competitive incentive for Juwan Jennings, who had made a string of uncharacteristic mistakes in limited opportunities — a misalignment on a Caleb Tirenin play, a false start, a wrong route. Arif rated Jennings as the clear favourite over OBJ in a simulated head-to-head in roughly 90% of outcomes, but acknowledged OBJ could plausibly take snaps in specific situational roles. He also noted that both Jefferson and OBJ are LSU products, giving the Vikings two LSU receivers with iconic contested-catch plays to their names.<br />
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The broader discussion addressed the structural reasons for the Vikings' receiver production problems. Arif attributed these primarily to play-calling rather than individual receiver failure, pointing to Kevin O'Connell's post-Dolphins admission that there was "more shell coverage than we expected" as evidence the staff had been underprepared for two-high looks that are well-established in opposing game plans. He further noted that the Saints' defence leads the league in Cover 3 usage and ranks third in single-high, making the same preparation failure particularly costly going into Week 5. Jordan Addison was identified as playing below his capabilities — "drifting in his routes," which Arif observed becomes a larger problem specifically against zone coverage.<br />
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== Saints Preview: Interview with Charles Starr ==<br />
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Arif conducted a recorded interview with Charles Starr of the CitySaintCountrySaint podcast — co-hosted with Erlon Mexico — and the No Homework podcast (described as "three guys screwing around" about shitty jobs and hardly working, with co-host Patrick Cosmos).<br />
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=== Saints Offence: Tyler Shough and the Running Game ===<br />
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Starr catalogued the Saints' injury losses across their first four weeks: Kelvin Banks (Week 2), Brian Briseé (preseason), Caden Ellis (between Weeks 3 and 4), Carl Granderson (Week 3), Travis H.N. (Week 3), and Pete Werner limited throughout. Beneath the injuries, he identified the running game as the core structural failure: two yards per carry against stacked boxes, zero explosive runs (10+ yards) in four weeks except a single draw play, tied for last in the league. He attributed this to Alvin Kamara's physical decline — describing him as having lost the "gumby joints" that let him absorb contact and re-stabilise, now falling at first contact and offering nothing in pass protection — and to the roster situation that left the Saints without functional blocking backs. Kamara and Kendra Miller were both characterised as useless in pass protection, forcing the staff to telegraph protection assignments by keeping undrafted free agent CJ Donaldson on the field.<br />
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The depth situation at running back was further complicated by an extraordinary sequence in which three players declined injury settlements to sign elsewhere: Audric Estime, Devon Neal, and Michael Heldman all said no to Saints IR offers, with Heldman landing on the Raiders. Arif noted he had never heard of three players simultaneously refusing injury settlements, and Starr framed it as the Saints being out-Belichicked when the Bears then cut their own long snapper and immediately reclaimed the Saints' pirated replacement off their own practice squad — the second in a sequence of three long snappers used in five weeks, one of whom drew an almost-unheard-of holding penalty that cost the Saints 30 yards of field position on a punt.<br />
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Starr pushed back on Arif's characterisation of Tyler Shough as a backup-quality ceiling, arguing the running game handicap and poor offensive line support were the primary statistical drag on what was otherwise competent quarterback play. He cited Devon Veley's emergence as a contested-catch threat at 6'5" and Kellen Moore's ability to design clean 8–15 yard completions through route combinations that exploit the space vacated by a Saints offence that operates effectively in 11 personnel despite not having a true vertical threat. The Saints rank 50th in third-down conversion rate (fifth-best in the league), which Starr attributed entirely to the running game never producing first downs, placing Shough in constant third-and-long situations where the passing offence's efficiency becomes the only relevant stat.<br />
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Arif noted that the Saints are 10th in points per drive despite historically bad field position and lead the league in drives ending in fumbles — strip sacks on Shough from a still-learning-to-hear-footsteps quarterback — suggesting both positive regression and a running-game explanation for the negative drive-ending rate.<br />
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=== Saints Defence and Matchup Assessment ===<br />
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Arif identified the Saints' defence as second-worst in the league by points per drive, EPA per play, touchdown rate allowed, and turnover rate acquired. Starr identified Kool-Aid McKinstry as a structural weakness at CB1 — oscillating between a large cushion (leading to completions underneath) and press coverage (leading to holding penalties), with two critical flagged plays in the Falcons game and a third where McKinstry fell down 20 yards from a completed pass interference. Alvin Sanker was noted as a strong blitzing safety who has been misused in the slot corner role. Chase Young was playing at a high level, and Christian Boyd — a sixth-round pick from Kentucky who Starr never expected to contribute — had been a positive surprise at defensive tackle.<br />
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The Caden Ellis question remained open: he had not practised all week, meaning Danny Stutzman would likely start if Ellis was out, which Starr described as adequate but below what you'd want starting.<br />
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Both Arif and Starr agreed the Vikings were likely to win. Starr noted the Vikings' number-one kickoff-return field position as a decisive structural advantage, and framed the matchup as "the immovable object meets the stoppable force" — a low-scoring, field-position game in which the Saints' best path was their demonstrated second-half adjustment pattern. Vegas agreed: Vikings favoured by two and a half points, 41-point over/under (down from 44.5 at season open). Starr's final prediction: Vikings win; Saints cover only if the score is something like 21–20.<br />
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The interview closed with Starr promoting his wife's zine, ''Apeshit: A Zine for Primates'', released by Orr Books, featuring a long-form piece on the bizarre and sordid history of the helper monkey, available at apesht.org.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Travis''' (''Josh McCown's Coaching Tree Corner'') — Travis framed a question about Josh McCown as a workplace allegory: a department lead whose previous department became one of the best in the field immediately after his departure, and whose current department has become the worst, even after the "star of the future" hire flamed out and was replaced by a struggling industry veteran. Arif noted that McCown's only two NFL quarterback-coaching jobs — Carolina and Minnesota — have both produced notable underperformance, and that Bryce Young improved after McCown left the Panthers. He observed that McCown's elevation to passing-game coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Minnesota potentially increases his share of offensive blame, floated the improbable take that McCown's fingerprints might be on the play-calling decisions that misread opposing coverages, and concluded by calling for the Vikings to trade a second-round pick to Jacksonville for Grant Udinski.<br />
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* '''Jordan Subtractison Corner''' — Is Kevin O'Connell a good play-caller? Arif drew a distinction between "getting from 32nd to 15th" — elevating a genuinely bad situation — and "getting from 10th to 3rd" — maximising a talented roster — suggesting KOC excels clearly at the former and may be less certain at the latter. He cited proprietary research indicating that the gap between a good and a bad backup quarterback is larger than between a good and a bad starter, making the ability to produce a top-15 passing offence with a Joshua Dobbs or Nick Mullins a genuinely elite coaching skill. He also addressed the widespread misconception that the KOC offence is a play-action offence: actual play-action usage is in the bottom third of the league, and the true signature is routes run deeper than in typical offences, with square-ins and digs breaking at 18–19 yards rather than 14, hunting for explosive gains through the middle of the field. He further noted Carson Wentz has statistically outperformed Kyler Murray in 2026, which he treated as a signal of fit or design problems rather than evidence that Wentz is the better quarterback.<br />
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* '''Defense Nickname Suggestions''' — Listener submissions included Purple Lightning (etymologically related to Blitz), The Blitz, Flo Defense, and the Decepticons. Arif expressed a preference for something with a Norse or Viking connection, praised "Purple Rain" for its dual spelling and lineage from the Purple People Eaters, but found "Purple Lightning" didn't quite land despite making logical sense.<br />
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* '''LeVar Bolshereef''' (''Bronvinist Corner'') — Are we massively overreacting to the Vikings' offensive struggles? Arif argued the situation is "not normal and fine," but that the balance of blame sits with the coaching staff rather than Murray. He identified Murray's specific weaknesses as: not getting through progressions quickly enough, difficulty getting the ball to outlet receivers in the flat, and most critically, not executing the "second window." Using the square-in and dig as examples, Arif explained that these routes in the KOC offence are designed with a first window (the receiver clearing the corner) and a second window (the receiver subsequently clearing the underneath linebacker), and that the quarterback must maintain eye discipline away from the receiver to prevent the linebacker from tracking the throw — a skill Murray has not yet consistently demonstrated. He expressed cautious optimism that Jefferson's return and the Saints' poor defence would help resolve the problem.<br />
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* '''Alex''' (''Receivers & Mouthguards Corner'') — Why do receivers leave their mouth guards hanging? Arif confirmed players are required to wear mouth guards during play, citing a player penalised for not wearing one who successfully argued he had two guards (one always on his helmet), and pivoted to an extended commentary on Guardian Cap scepticism. He argued the NFL's internal 52% concussion-reduction claim is based on the NXT helmet model exclusive to the NFL, whose testing data has never been made publicly available, while all independent public testing has been done on the consumer XT model, showing no impact on rotational momentum or concussion incidence. He further noted that covering the air vents in certain helmets may actually increase force at the contact point, potentially worsening outcomes for some helmet models. The segment closed with Arif identifying the fitted mouth guard as the single most effective piece of equipment for concussion prevention, particularly for jaw-impact concussions where the secondary force of the jaw striking the skull causes the injury rather than the initial helmet contact.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' (''Conspiracy Corner'') — Why are rookie quarterbacks questioning the moon landing, prompted by Drake May's public expression of moon-landing scepticism? Arif attributed it to quarterbacks being conditioned throughout their careers to believe they are uniquely intelligent — producing overconfidence in novel reasoning — combined with the current high-conspiracy-theory environment. His preferred moon-landing debunking: if the US had faked it, the Soviet Union, who had every motive to expose the fraud and the capability to verify it, would have said so immediately rather than conceding the race to the moon. The discussion extended to a riff on why conspiracism has increased generally — citing H Bomber Guy's video essays on flat-earth and vaccine conspiracy as useful frameworks — and a tangent about James's time at an academic conference in Las Vegas where he ended up on the highlight reel for responding to questions by rephrasing them as further questions, a performance appreciated by the organisers as exemplary academic engagement.<br />
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* '''Mini-Apple Cinnamon Cheerios''' (''Louisiana Purchase Corner'') — Did the Vikings sign OBJ as spiritual warfare against the Saints? Arif confirmed yes — both Jefferson and OBJ are LSU products, and the Vikings also briefly signed former Saints players Audric Estime and Devon Neal (Neal quickly released). Full psychological warfare confirmed.<br />
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* '''Ricardo''' (''Embarrassing Music Corner'') — Following James's prior mention of the ''Pickin' on the 90s'' bluegrass covers album, Ricardo recommended ''Pickin' on Taylor Swift'' and ''Take Me Home: A Bluegrass Tribute to Guns N' Roses'', and asked what investigators going through their media archives would think. Arif described a long-standing OCD-rooted habit of deleting YouTube videos he would be embarrassed for posthumous reviewers to find — AI Shorts rabbit holes, random YouTube slop — while not deleting ten straight hours of Nile Red chemistry content or Damascus knife-forging videos. James described maintaining multiple YouTube burner accounts for this exact purpose, and confessed to thinking about what would be playing on his Spotify if he died in his car. Arif threatened to crash James's eulogy to announce he had been listening to the Little Nicky soundtrack, which they pulled up live: three POD songs, Van Halen's "Running with the Devil," Linkin Park, Filter's "Take a Picture," and Cypress Hill — the group judged it shockingly not bad, with the embarrassment attaching to the specific ''Little Nicky'' branding rather than the individual tracks.<br />
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* '''Raul''' (''Mentor Corner'') — OBJ has said Justin Jefferson got half his game from him; where did James and Arif get half their game from? Arif: his brother (sappy answer), and H Bomber Guy (real answer — YouTube video essays, which he blamed for his writing style and fondness for tortured analogies). James: the bomb episode of ''Grey's Anatomy'' (Season 2, Episode 16 — "the Bazooka patient" — in which Meredith Grey holds an unexploded ordnance device inside a man's chest), for teaching him to push forward and focus under pressure. Arif immediately asserted the equivalent Stargate Atlantis episode was objectively superior, prompting agreement. The segment closed with a discussion of South Park episodes 200 and 201, which aired and were then removed from streaming due to their depiction of Mohammed — James observing that Comedy Central's decision to remove them effectively settled the free-speech question on their own terms.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
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* The episode title "The Square and the Dig" derives from Arif's explanation of the KOC offence's signature deep intermediate routes and the "second window" concept: on a square-in or dig breaking at 18–19 yards, the quarterback must hold his eyes away from the receiver to allow a second throwing lane to open as the receiver clears the underneath linebacker — a skill Arif identified as one Kyler Murray has not yet consistently demonstrated.<br />
* Arif confirmed Carson Wentz has statistically outperformed Kyler Murray in 2026, framing this not as evidence Wentz is the better quarterback but as a symptom of fit or design problems with the KOC offence's deployment of Murray.<br />
* James briefly proposed "Best Snitch" as the episode title, derived from his Hell League kicker-hoarding enforcement initiative in which he is offering a free Hell League shirt to whoever snitches the most on opponents illegally carrying more than two active kickers; he described his goal as fostering "a culture of snitching."<br />
* The Saints used three long snappers in five weeks: the original long snapper was injured, his replacement was poached off the Bears' practice squad and immediately reclaimed, and the third long snapper drew what may be the first long-snapper holding penalty in recent memory, costing the Saints 30 yards of field position.<br />
* Arif expressed significant scepticism about Guardian Cap effectiveness, noting the NFL's 52% concussion-reduction claim is based on the proprietary NXT model whose independent testing data has never been released, while all available public testing on the consumer XT model shows no impact on rotational momentum or concussion incidence.<br />
* Three Saints running backs (Audric Estime, Devon Neal, and Michael Heldman) refused injury settlements and signed elsewhere rather than accept the Saints' IR placement offers — a simultaneously unprecedented occurrence that Arif had never heard of.<br />
* Arif plugged his wide-left.football article on the similarities between the 2016 and 2026 Vikings, Luke Braun's "10 F-Ups" piece on Kevin O'Connell's operational failures, and Matt Freese's article on the two-play sequence that sealed the Dolphins win.<br />
* James announced he would be attending a show by The Gore in Boston in December, describing the discovery as causing existential confusion given his already dense schedule of public speaking engagements.<br />
* Charles Starr's wife's zine ''Apeshit: A Zine for Primates'', published by Orr Books, features a long-form piece on the bizarre and sordid history of the helper monkey and is available at apesht.org.<br />
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 622|622]] || Scorpio Trouble || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 621|621]] || Cool Crimes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 620|620]] || I Promise I Am Joe Burrow || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 619|619]] || Looking at the Numbers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 618|618]] || The Square and the Dig || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 617|617]] || TCO Has Fallen || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 616|616]] || General Kirk-iness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 615|615]] || The Least Offensive Thing || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 614|614]] || The City of Chicago’s Fault || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 613|613]] || The Ring Cycle || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 612|612]] || James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 611|611]] || Scoop and the City || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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==2019 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 617: TCO Has Fallen''' was a game recap episode covering the Vikings' Week 4 win over the Miami Dolphins, improving to 4–0. The episode was dominated by a thorough, statistically rigorous reckoning with the Vikings' historically inept offence — two consecutive games without a touchdown, a historically bad EPA per dropback for Kyler Murray, and a special teams unit effectively carrying the entire scoring operation through Will Reichard's leg. Against that backdrop, Arif provided an extensive case that the defence is simultaneously on pace to be among the greatest in NFL history. The mailbag covered the Aaron Jones workload problem, Reichard's improbable points-scored race, and comparisons to the 2006 Bears. The off-the-rails section included Arif learning live on air about a Russian plague quarantine, a debate about the dirtiest sounding terms in football, a treatise on Threadless print-on-demand economics, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Michigan football correspondence, and a sustained riff on The Cranberries. The episode title derives from a throwaway remark about TCO Performance Center — the Vikings' practice facility — becoming a refuge of last resort if the plague spreads and the league collapses.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The cold open discussed Monday Night Football: the Atlanta Falcons' dominant win over the New Orleans Saints, with both hosts observing that Tyler Shuck is carving out a career as a top-tier backup quarterback. The observation that the Vikings do not have a quarterback of Shuck's quality at the position they are paying for set the tone for the rest of the episode.<br />
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The main discussion was an extended and grim analysis of the Vikings' offence through four weeks — statistically the worst 4–0 offence in at least eleven years. Arif produced eleven ranked offensive statistics of increasing alarmingness, all pointing to the same conclusion: the Vikings are not scoring touchdowns, are not moving the ball, and are doing neither of those things despite playing what may be the worst defence in the league in the Dolphins. The defence section was the corrective: by points-allowed Z-score relative to league average, the 2026 Vikings are on pace to be the greatest defence in NFL history.<br />
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The mailbag worked through a range of statistically grounded questions about both sides of the ball. The off-the-rails section began with a listener's question about a Russian plague outbreak — news to Arif, who had shut off Twitter to write data-viz articles — and moved through football terminology, Threadless economics, Iranian presidential Twitter history, a civil-resistance proposal, and the Darth Vader Halloween parenting question.<br />
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== Kyler Murray and the Vikings Offence ==<br />
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=== Fit Issues in the Kevin O'Connell System ===<br />
Arif opened the main discussion by laying out his read, developed over the summer in writing for Wide Left, on Kyler Murray's structural fit within the Kevin O'Connell offence. The core tension: the KOC system asks quarterbacks to hold the ball past the 2.5-second mark and deliver timing strikes on intermediate routes — digs, posts, comebacks — requiring the willingness to absorb contact and a pocket discipline that Murray, who bails relatively quickly by comparison to Sam Darnold or Kirk Cousins, has not demonstrated. The offence was built around that timing window, and Murray has not been operating within it.<br />
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Two specific plays from the all-22 illustrated the problem. On the first, Jalen Nailor ran a curl route but was moving so slowly that the defender had no difficulty dealing with it; the design called for a deep threat to open the comeback, and the threat wasn't credible. On the second, Jordan Addison had a one-on-one opportunity in what was effectively man coverage, with the Dolphins in single-high safety — a clear alert the defence had telegraphed by rotating away from the two-high looks they favour — and Murray did not throw it. Both plays pointed to the same issue: a combination of Murray making the wrong read and the offence failing him simultaneously, compounding the problem.<br />
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Arif was careful to note that the Vikings ran considerably more shotgun formations with Murray than they had with other quarterbacks, despite assurances in training camp that under-centre work would not be a problem. The offence appeared to be adapting to Murray rather than asking him to adapt to it.<br />
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The second half provided modest grounds for hope: 16 of 18 completions, 7.5 yards per attempt, one sack, 0.28 EPA per dropback (78th percentile). Arif's read on that performance was not optimistic, however: the second-half operation relied heavily on check-downs after Murray failed to find anyone open on deeper routes, and was executed at a time-to-throw exceeding three seconds — suggesting the check-downs were the product of failed progressions rather than efficient decision-making. The offence performing better with Carson Wentz on the field remained an uncomfortable data point neither host dismissed.<br />
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Injuries complicated the picture: Justin Jefferson left with an ankle injury before returning; Donovan Jackson was reported to have suffered a meniscus tear and is out for the season; Christian Darrisaw sustained two head and neck injuries in the game, with his status unclear.<br />
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=== Offensive Statistics ===<br />
Arif's eleven-stat audit of the 2026 Vikings offence through four weeks, ranked by level of alarm:<br />
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Least alarming: 31st in net offensive yards per game (262.8). First in percentage of drives ending in a kick (field goal or punt) at 81% — 18 percentage points ahead of the next team (Tennessee). 30th in percentage of drives ending in a touchdown (14.3%). Among the last 25 teams to start 4–0, the 2026 Vikings rank dead last in touchdown rate per drive; the only other 4–0 teams to miss the playoffs in the sample were the 2016 Denver Broncos and the 2016 Minnesota Vikings. 2nd in sack rate (9.8%), despite facing league-average pressure at a league-average time to pressure — meaning sacks are a quarterback decision-making failure, not a protection failure. 28th in EPA per play. 31st in third-down conversion rate. 32nd in yards per play. 32nd in first downs per game. 32nd in play success rate. 32nd in drive success rate.<br />
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Most alarming: last in red zone appearance rate — only 19% of drives include a red zone snap, dead last in the league by a margin. The Vikings do not reach the end zone frequently enough to have a red zone conversion rate problem; they cannot get there.<br />
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Kyler Murray's EPA per dropback of -0.22 ranks 38th among quarterbacks with 25 or more attempts. JJ McCarthy's full-season EPA per dropback in 2025 — including the late-season offensive recovery — was -0.157. Kyler Murray is currently performing below that watermark.<br />
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=== The Donovan McNabb Comparison ===<br />
James produced McNabb's game-by-game statistics from his 2010 Vikings tenure as a comparison class. McNabb's worst stretch — 7 for 15 for 39 yards in his first game — was grim. His line through six games, however, was better than Murray's current pace by EPA per dropback. The exercise was not optimistic.<br />
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=== Carson Wentz, Booing, and Fan Frustration ===<br />
Fans booed during the victory formation. James, who noted the arena mix seemed to have the crowd unusually loud, assessed that the booing was correct and entirely justified. The calls for Carson Wentz to enter the game in the second half were widespread and, by nearly every performance metric, supported by the data.<br />
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Aaron Jones is currently sixth in the league in carries, and would rank third if pro-rated across full games given a partial-game injury. That carries load — absorbing what the offence cannot generate through the air — is not sustainable. Arif flagged both the workload concern and the fact that the running game performing slightly better with Murray than Wentz is likely noise rather than a genuine quarterback effect.<br />
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== Vikings Defence: Historic Pace ==<br />
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=== Historical Context ===<br />
The 2026 Vikings defence is on a pace that, if sustained, would rank among the greatest in NFL history. Arif's methodology: taking points allowed per game going back to 1960, computing Z-scores relative to the league average in each season to account for the NFL's scoring environment in each era, and ranking the top defences historically.<br />
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The top ten (eleven, due to a tie) by that measure are led by the 2006 Baltimore Ravens and 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (both at 2.75 standard deviations from league average), followed by the 1995 Kansas City Chiefs, 1970 Minnesota Vikings, 1994 Cleveland Browns, 1985 and 1986 Chicago Bears, 2022 San Francisco 49ers, 2000 Baltimore Ravens, 1975 Los Angeles Rams, and 1988 Chicago Bears.<br />
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Through four games, the 2026 Minnesota Vikings are at 2.87 standard deviations from league average — higher than any team in the historical sample. They are, on current pace, the greatest defence in NFL history by this measure.<br />
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=== Historic Blitz Rate and Pressure Statistics ===<br />
The Vikings' blitz rate varies by data source: 63.8% (Sumer), 67.9% (Next Gen Stats), 77.3% (TFF). Regardless of which figure is correct, all three put the Vikings between 20 and 25 percentage points ahead of the second-most-blitzing team in the league — the Washington Commanders under Dorante Jones, formerly a defensive backs coach for Brian Flores.<br />
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Arif is in the middle of hand-charting historic high-blitz defences — the Buddy Ryan Eagles, the Rex Ryan Ravens and Jets, the Cowboys Doomsday defence — to compare their blitz rates to the current Vikings' figure and contextualise whether the blitz rate itself is historic.<br />
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The Vikings also lead the league in pressure rate: 46% (PFF), 48% (Sumer), 46.8% (Next Gen Stats), with all three companies ranking them first. They lead the league in sacks at a 10.3% sack rate. The standard schematic design, per analyst Derek Klossen writing for the Athletic, is a five-man rush as the base with the four-man rush as the changeup — the inverse of conventional defensive philosophy. Blitzes are designed with run-containment principles built in, particularly on first down, to preserve the right to use more aggressive packages on third and long.<br />
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The run defence is adequate: the Dolphins' Ollie Gordon ran for 110 yards on nine carries including a 53-yard run, with a 44% success rate; the Vikings rank fifth in EPA allowed per rush, meaning the long run distorts the box score more than the underlying performance.<br />
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=== 2016 Comparisons ===<br />
Both hosts noted parallels to the 2016 Vikings — another 4–0 team with an elite defence and a historically inept offence that did not make the playoffs. The 2016 season was also the Norv Turner resignation year, the alleged Turner–Mike Zimmer altercation, and the Bradford-as-viable-quarterback-question-mark season. Among the last 25 teams to start 4–0, the 2016 Vikings are the only prior team sharing the current Vikings' statistical profile on touchdown rate per drive, drive-ending-in-kick rate, and turnover rate.<br />
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=== Individual Defensive Performances ===<br />
Jalen Redmond had a strong game, chasing down an outside run 11 yards downfield to prevent a touchdown — not a play a defensive tackle is expected to make. Dallas Turner received four pressures from all three charting companies, ranks first or second across the league in pressure totals, and posted a 33% one-on-one pass rush win rate against starting offensive tackles in non-play-action, non-screen dropbacks — an 88th-percentile outcome. Arif characterised his overall performance level as Pro Bowl-calibre.<br />
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Andrew Van Ginkel had a very good game. Kyle Van Noy was solid and got a sack. Eric Wilson had an outstanding game and, in an aside both hosts found extremely funny, got a referee suspended. Harrison Smith and Isaiah Rogers each contributed pass deflections. James Peer took five snaps and allowed no targets. Theo Jackson was noted for needing sharper tackling angles. Blake Cashman was fine. Joshua Tellis performed better than expected. Jake Golda took approximately five snaps.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — Is there any meaningful difference between how the Vikings were playing at the end of last year and how they are playing now? Arif confirmed the current offence is measurably worse: Kyler Murray's EPA per dropback of −0.22 is lower than JJ McCarthy's season-end figure of −0.157, meaning that the end-of-season JJ McCarthy offence — derided at the time and almost universally considered one of the worst Vikings performances in memory — was better by this measure than the current unit.<br />
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* '''Kenneth Allen''' — Is it a good idea to build an offence around a 31-year-old running back with a serious injury history? James reached for the Google to check whether this described Adrian Peterson's 2016 situation. It did. Kenneth Allen also asked when Vikings fans should start seriously worrying about the offence and Kevin O'Connell's ability to make it average. Arif's answer: now. The cushion of a 4–0 record is real but not infinite, and the "tune-up games" framework applies to Patrick Mahomes, not Kyler Murray.<br />
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* '''Zachary''' (''For Arif's Say This Five Times Fast Corner'') — How many sacks could Zach Sieler seal if Zach Sieler could seal sacks? Both hosts attempted the tongue twister multiple times to diminishing coherence.<br />
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* '''Chris''' — If the Vikings project as a top-20 offence for the rest of the season, could anyone challenge Will Reichard in the NFL points-scored standings? Arif: Reichard is currently tied with Josh Allen, Jahmyr Gibbs, Derek Henry, and Spencer Shrader (Colts kicker). The built-in paradox: if the offence improves enough to challenge Reichard's standing, they will be scoring touchdowns rather than field goals, which lowers his total. Arif characterised this as the ideal scenario — a problem he would like to have.<br />
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* '''Michael''' — When was the last time a team finished top-five in defensive EPA three years in a row? Arif produced a historical list: the 2021–23 Dallas Cowboys (Micah Parsons era, ranked 3rd/2nd/4th), the 2017–20 Baltimore Ravens, the 2016–18 and 2006–08 Minnesota Vikings, the 2014–17 Denver Broncos, the 2014–16 Houston Texans, and the 2004–06 Chicago Bears.<br />
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* '''Gaming Nerd''' — Is this the worst 4–0 team ever on offence, and how does it compare to the 2006 Bears? Arif confirmed it is the worst in the eleven-year window he examined, by a meaningful margin. The 2006 Bears, by contrast, ranked second in points scored that year — powered by nearly 2,000 rushing yards from Thomas Jones, three punt return touchdowns from Devin Hester, and Rex Grossman throwing 23 touchdowns against 20 interceptions. James: "Unleash the dragon." These are not comparable situations.<br />
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* '''Optimism Castle Doctrine''' — Does Arif genuinely believe an average offence is hiding under the surface, as he stated earlier in the season? Arif: yes, but the depth required to reach it is significant. The ice-fishing metaphor: a normal auger is not enough. You need an ice saw, a full fishing shed, a television set to avoid watching the Vikings, several beers, and a full day of work. The locals will think you are insane. You are not from here. This is just how it is.<br />
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* '''Kyle Seagal''' (''For Arif's Gambling and Legal Advice Corner'') — What reverse mortgage should one take out on their house to fund a 17–0 bet? Arif officially recommends against it. He notes that a HELOC offers favourable interest rates for what are technically classified as home improvement loans, and that a backyard pizza oven might satisfy the home improvement requirement if one were going to do something "I think very illegal." He adds that this is called the Fraud, emphasis on the vowel to be determined later.<br />
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== Off the Rails: Russian Plague, Dirtiest Football Terms, and The Cranberries ==<br />
The transition to off-the-rails began when Arif confirmed he had been offline writing data-viz articles and was completely unaware of a developing news story James mentioned in passing.<br />
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* '''Sammy''' — What are the odds the Vikings end the season as the top seed before the playoffs are cancelled due to a Russian plague outbreak? Arif Googled the story live: an employee at Russia's Anti-Plague Institute in Irkutsk has died from a suspected case of plague; the region has been placed under quarantine. James characterised the irony of this occurring at an Anti-Plague Institute as structurally equivalent to the Patches O'Houlihan death in ''Dodgeball'' (2004, not 2006 as initially stated — a correction James immediately withdrew). Arif's assessment of the cancellation odds: "higher than you'd think." The hypothetical of the Vikings brass retreating to Winter Park to wait out the plague led to a reminder that Winter Park has been demolished — and then to TCO Performance Center as the proposed refuge, from which the episode title derives.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' (''For the Norse Code Explicit Tag'') — Is "muffed punt" the dirtiest-sounding term in football? Arif argued that "giving them the business" remains number one, and announced plans to link in the show notes a viral TikTok compilation of football broadcast phrases that read as innuendo out of context — including "soft hands," "he got hit by the penetrator," Joe Buck's description of a receiver as "thick in the lower half," and a further reference both hosts agreed to keep in.<br />
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* '''Damian Bulsher''' — What happens to unsold Threadless merchandise when the show ends? Will it be donated like losing Super Bowl teams' champion merchandise? Arif explained the print-on-demand model: nothing is printed until purchased. There is no inventory. There is nothing to donate. The shower curtain is one of the more profitable items on a per-purchase basis. The downside to the model: very little money.<br />
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* '''Francis Ford Copium''' (''For Arif's Etsy Witch Replacement Corner'') — The Vikings traded JJ McCarthy; the following week, Minnesota beat Michigan at home for the first time since 1977. Is this a deliberate plan to siphon JJ's bro-energy to counter dark magic on the franchise? And did the Gophers bring the Iran-U.S. conflict closer to resolution by damaging the psyche of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Arif determined live, via Wikipedia, that Ahmadinejad is not dead — merely no longer president since 2013. The relevant lore: a fan had replied to one of Ahmadinejad's tweets asking whether Michigan football would ever return to glory; Ahmadinejad responded "Inshallah, the University of Michigan will return to its glory days. #GoBlue." Jim Harbaugh was tagged in the original tweet, meaning Ahmadinejad's reply also tagged Harbaugh.<br />
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* '''Lavar Bolshereef''' (''For the "What Is to Be Done?" Corner'') — In 2000, a Baltimore Ravens fan ("the Roof Goof") sat on his roof until the Ravens scored an offensive touchdown — a fifteen-day vigil that preceded their Super Bowl run. What civil resistance is appropriate to demand offensive improvement from Kevin O'Connell? Arif endorsed a hunger strike as the most logical option, then noted that the organisation would likely treat it as a resource-freeing event. The exchange produced the line "if TCO has fallen, I don't know where you're going" and Arif's confirmatory "TCO is falling," which became the episode title.<br />
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* '''Drew Bloodso''' (''For the Drew Bloodso Lions Corner'') — Why does the Lions defence look historically bad? Arif: all the safeties are injured. The corner that used to be in this slot has been eliminated due to a developing legal situation involving the Lions' ownership structure; a co-conspirator has reportedly pled to ten years in exchange for cooperation.<br />
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* '''Sisyphus Corner: Don from Ohio''' — A listener keeps travelling to Ohio to confront men he believes to be Don from Ohio; Don keeps posting regardless. How to end this? Arif: you have to take out every man in Ohio. Incidental benefit: this would also remove Ryan Day, which Arif noted would make a substantial portion of Ohio State fans happy.<br />
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* '''Parenting Corner''' — A listener's three-year-old wants to be Darth Vader for Halloween and was found singing "Zombie" by The Cranberries while getting dressed. Should they be concerned? Arif addressed "Zombie" first: the real problem is not the music but the political content — the song takes a centrist position on the Troubles, which is ideologically suspect. He cited a previous multi-episode coverage of the Troubles on the show and noted that Amazon once declined to recognise Northern Ireland as a distinct territory from Ireland, which led to a brief detour into the political history of that classification. On Darth Vader: "I don't think there's anything wrong with the space Nazi." Both hosts immediately recognised this as the clip most likely to be extracted from context. James recommended redirecting the child to "Salvation" as an alternative Cranberries song. Arif noted that "Linger" is an earworm he will never tire of; James had recently discovered a bluegrass cover by Alex Melton that Arif had sent him, and found it unlocked new dimensions of the song.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* '''TCO Has Fallen''' — The episode title emerges during the Roof Goof section when James observes that, if TCO Performance Center were to fall, the Vikings organisation would have nowhere to retreat to. Arif confirms: TCO is falling. The phrase captures the episode's broader tone — a 4–0 team whose practice facility is, conceptually, already in ruins.<br />
* '''The Russian Plague''' — Arif learns live on air that an employee at Russia's Anti-Plague Institute in Irkutsk has died of a suspected plague case, with the region quarantined. Arif had been unaware because he had shut off Twitter to write data-visualisation articles. His reaction: genuine concern, followed by a rough count of 200 affected people, followed by refocusing on the podcast.<br />
* '''The Historic Defence''' — By points-allowed Z-score relative to league average, the 2026 Vikings are on pace to be the best defence in NFL history (2.87 standard deviations), ahead of the 2006 Ravens and 2002 Buccaneers. Arif is hand-charting historical blitz-heavy defences to contextualise the 63–77% blitz rate.<br />
* '''The Worst 4–0 Offence''' — Kyler Murray's EPA per dropback (−0.22) is currently worse than JJ McCarthy's full-season figure (−0.157). The Vikings rank 32nd in yards per play, first downs per game, play success rate, and drive success rate, and last in red zone appearance rate (19% of drives). Arif's eleven-stat assessment: this is the worst 4–0 offence in at least eleven years.<br />
* '''Dallas Turner Breakout''' — Turner earned four pressures against starting offensive tackles on legitimate one-on-one reps — the kind of opportunity critics had argued he had not been receiving. His one-on-one pass rush win rate against OTs on standard dropbacks was 33%, which is an 88th-percentile outcome. Arif characterised his current level as Pro Bowl-calibre play.<br />
* '''Eric Wilson Got a Referee Suspended''' — Mentioned in passing with no elaboration. The suspension was confirmed; the details were not discussed further.<br />
* '''Ahmadinejad / Michigan Lore''' — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is confirmed not dead, merely a private citizen since 2013. His "Inshallah, #GoBlue" tweet — sent to a fan asking about Michigan football's future, with Jim Harbaugh incidentally tagged — is established as canonical Norse Code lore.<br />
* '''Donovan Jackson Out for the Season''' — The Vikings lost their starting left guard to a meniscus tear. Together with Christian Darrisaw's head and neck situation, the offensive line is significantly compromised heading into the bye week.<br />
* '''Threadless Print-on-Demand Confirmed''' — All Norse Code Threadless merchandise is produced on demand; nothing is printed until purchased, and there is no inventory. The shower curtain is among the most profitable items per purchase. The show has no money.<br />
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[[Category:Season 2026]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_616&diff=511Episode 6162026-10-06T15:46:19Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 616 | title = General Kirk-iness | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = Kevin Fielder (No Name Pod / Dapt on Draft) | type = Regular Season }} '''Norse Code Episode 616: General Kirk-iness''' was a game preview episode ahead of the Vikings' Week 4 matchup against the Miami Dolphins, featuring Dolphins analyst Kevin Fielder of the No Name Pod and Dapt on Draft. The episode covered the mid-week JJ McCart..."</p>
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| guests = Kevin Fielder (No Name Pod / Dapt on Draft)<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 616: General Kirk-iness''' was a game preview episode ahead of the Vikings' Week 4 matchup against the Miami Dolphins, featuring Dolphins analyst Kevin Fielder of the No Name Pod and Dapt on Draft. The episode covered the mid-week JJ McCarthy trade to the New York Giants, recapped the Vikings' Week 3 win over the Buccaneers (making them 3–0), and previewed the Dolphins through Fielder's film work. The mailbag included a question from Damian Barrett about emergency quarterback scenarios, an extended discussion of Kirk Cousins's Las Vegas lifestyle, and a post-mortem of James's wedding, which had taken place the previous Thursday. The episode title derives from Arif's characterisation of the ambient Kirk Cousins narrative energy — his In-N-Out enthusiasm, trade speculation, and perennial story gravity — as ''General Kirk-iness.''<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The cold open addressed Monday Night Football and the cultural discomfort of Aaron Rodgers coverage, before pivoting to the week's major Vikings news: the trade of JJ McCarthy to the New York Giants. The hosts processed the move and Kevin O'Connell's apparent reluctance before transitioning to a Buccaneers game recap. The Vikings improved to 3–0, though the result was characterised as the least confident 3–0 either host had seen — aided in part by a second consecutive game in which the opposing quarterback was injured before the final whistle.<br />
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The bulk of the episode was a Dolphins preview, conducted by Arif with Kevin Fielder before taping and played in during the show. The mailbag ranged from emergency quarterback logistics to Kirk Cousins's In-N-Out conversion, and the off-the-rails section was a full wedding recap.<br />
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== JJ McCarthy Trade to the Giants ==<br />
The Vikings traded JJ McCarthy to the New York Giants during the week. Kevin O'Connell sounded, per Arif, like someone who had been outvoted — publicly uncomfortable with the decision even as the organisation moved forward. Arif's broader read: the Vikings had made clear they were not going to cut McCarthy, and trading him was the rational resolution for all parties. Sam Darnold's prior season performance was cited as the driving context for the team's construction; the front office was building around that arc. James observed that there is a particular kind of acceptance of failure embedded in how the situation was framed publicly, and found it notable that O'Connell seemed more affected than a generic organisational spokesperson would be.<br />
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== Buccaneers Game Recap ==<br />
The Vikings beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 3 to improve to 3–0. Neither host expressed much confidence in the manner of the victory. It was the second consecutive game in which the opposing quarterback was injured, which James flagged as a structural caveat to any record-based optimism. Justin Jefferson left early with an ankle injury but returned and played through it; both hosts suggested he should be allowed to simply rest. A special teams touchdown from Matt Daniels — described as full redemption for a player Arif had recently assessed as a potential coaching casualty — was the highlight. The offence generated only modest conviction. The overall feeling: a 3–0 record achieved in a way that invited continued concern.<br />
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== Dolphins Preview with Kevin Fielder ==<br />
Kevin Fielder, a Dolphins fan who writes for Dapt on Draft and hosts the No Name Pod, joined Arif for a pre-taping preview interview. The segment opened with Fielder sharing that he had received MRI results that day on a leg he had broken five years ago while walking on a sidewalk — a compound fracture he compared, at Arif's prompting, to the Christian Lewis compound fracture. Fielder christened it ''the Lewisian injury,'' noting that unlike Lewis his did not occur in London. The MRI indicated the possibility of future surgery.<br />
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=== Malik Willis and Blitzing the Dolphins ===<br />
Malik Willis is the Dolphins' starting quarterback. Fielder's assessment: Willis is genuinely better against the blitz than a conventional rookie quarterback — fast, capable outside of structure, and graded well the prior week against the Chiefs. Against a typical defensive coordinator, his blitz performance is average to above-average. Against Brian Flores — who is expected to blitz at significantly elevated rates given this is a revenge game against the franchise that fired him — the calculus is different. Arif noted that every quarterback the Vikings have faced so far has graded well against the blitz, which reduces the edge; Fielder agreed the specific Flores environment is the complicating variable. The possibility of Flores approaching 100% blitz rate was floated and neither dismissed.<br />
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=== Dolphins Offensive Line ===<br />
Patrick Paul at left tackle is solid; Caden Proctor at left guard is capable. Aaron Brewer at center is, in Fielder's assessment, potentially the best center in the NFL or at minimum top three — a genuine strength on an otherwise inconsistent unit. Jonas Vaanea at right tackle is not a reliable NFL starter. The right side of the line is the primary exposure the Vikings' pass rush and Flores's stunts will target. The broader vulnerability Fielder identified: the Dolphins' line has been asked to handle complex stunt and two-man games, and the right side is not equipped for it.<br />
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=== Dolphins Wide Receivers ===<br />
Caleb Douglas, the Dolphins' most reliable receiver, was listed as doubtful and effectively ruled out. Without him, the room is: Ryan Miller (Furman, three years of NFL experience), Jaylin Wright (returning from injury that kept him out of Week 2), Jarquess Hunter (elevated from the practice squad following a recent trade), and Kevin Coleman (5'10''). Fielder characterised the group as thin and entirely dependent on structural support elsewhere on the offence to function.<br />
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=== Running Backs and Offensive Personnel ===<br />
De'Von Achane is the central piece of the Dolphins' offence; Fielder argued the team has no coherent plan without him. He is most effective with open holes and quick decisions, and outstanding in space. Ollie Gordon and Jaylin Wright provide depth at running back. The Dolphins run primarily 11 and 21 personnel, making the fullback position meaningful within their scheme. At tight end, one blocking specialist was identified as among the best in the league at his role; Seydou Treore and Justin Jolie are also in the room, though deployment logic has not been consistent.<br />
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=== Can the Dolphins Score? ===<br />
The Dolphins ranked 31st in points per drive through three weeks. Fielder's counterpoint: the team is young enough not to fully understand how limited they are, and that kind of blissful inexperience occasionally produces results. He and Arif shared an anecdote about watching the team and arriving at the same conclusion independently — they are too stupid to know any better — which both found strangely reassuring. The analytical picture was negative; the attitudinal case rested on chaos and youth.<br />
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=== Dolphins Defense Overview ===<br />
The Dolphins defence is young and, Fielder assessed, a collective question mark. They are most vulnerable over the middle on play-action, where their linebackers struggle to keep pace with crossing routes and slot traffic. The unit requires all eleven players to do their jobs simultaneously; the coverage structure breaks down quickly when any piece is wrong.<br />
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=== Defensive Line and Edge Rushers ===<br />
Chop Robinson at edge rusher sustained a concussion in Week 2 and was of uncertain availability. Jordan Phillips is the primary interior rotational lineman and has a memorable touchdown-celebration involving a taco. Andre Jones Jr. was recently claimed off the Bills' practice squad. Malik Herring is a rotational option. The group is thin outside its top contributors and the depth situation creates real exposure if Chop Robinson misses time.<br />
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=== Linebackers ===<br />
Jacob Rodriguez is the player Fielder is most enthusiastic about on the entire defence. Fielder's qualifier: "not Fred Warner insane, but genuinely exciting" range and athleticism. The linebacker group as a whole is exploitable over the middle on play-action, and Fielder characterised this as the most consistent way to attack the Miami defence — get the safeties to bite, get the linebackers into coverage they cannot handle, and work the crossing routes.<br />
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=== Dolphins Secondary ===<br />
The safety position will be filled by either Zane Anderson or Don Taterator depending on health; Fielder noted in passing that both Dolphins safeties are white, which he characterised as contextually notable. Jason Marshall plays nickel corner out of San Diego State; he can tackle, which Fielder identified as a genuine positive, though he tends to crash out of coverage under pressure. The corners will be matched against Justin Jefferson one-on-one in man coverage, which Fielder described as generating a predictable outcome for the Vikings.<br />
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=== Defensive Scheme and How to Attack ===<br />
The Dolphins blitz at a league-average rate and run defensive line stunts the least of any team in the league. Time to pressure is average. Their defensive philosophy is attrition — forcing sustained drives, avoiding explosive plays allowed, and wearing offences down over the course of a game. They rank first in TFL rate but third-worst in run success rate allowed. Fielder advised attacking over the middle with play-action as the primary mechanism. Arif noted that the Vikings have Kyler Murray active, which opens an additional dimension; Fielder declined to formally advise using him as a runner but acknowledged the possibility and expressed resigned confidence it would somehow work.<br />
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=== Dolphins Special Teams ===<br />
Riley Patterson is the Dolphins' kicker, having lost a competition in Minnesota before winning the job in Miami. Bradley Pinion punts; Tucker Addington is the long snapper. The Dolphins rank second-worst in opponent field position following kickoffs, and second-worst in overall opponent drive start position. Fielder described special teams as an unresolved liability for coordinator Chris Taper and one of the more concrete structural disadvantages the Dolphins carry into the week. Both Arif and Fielder are in a punter-only fantasy league and briefly compared rosters and standings during this section.<br />
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=== Game Prediction ===<br />
Kevin Fielder took the Dolphins plus 10.5 points. His reasoning centred on the revenge game element: Brian Flores was fired by Stephen Ross's organisation, Ross is separately involved in litigation with the NFL, and Fielder cited historical precedent for Flores producing elevated performances against teams connected to his departure. Fielder acknowledged the Dolphins are playing like a bad team but argued the psychological stakes of this specific game create a plausible path to a closer result than the line suggests. Arif recalled the first Brian Flores game as Dolphins head coach — which did not go well for the franchise — and noted the historical circularity.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Adam West''' — Has there ever been so much discussion about a third-string quarterback? Arif compared the volume to the Tim Tebow era, identifying it as the most appropriate parallel for a backup whose cultural presence exceeds his on-field role.<br />
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* '''Damian Barrett''' — How many weeks until the Vikings need to trade for an emergency quarterback, and who will it be? Arif first objected to the framing — noting that in football, the terminology carries different connotations and "emergency quarterback" is not quite the right phrase — before identifying Cooper Rush and Trey Lance as realistic targets. The phrase Arif used to describe the situation was briefly proposed as the episode title by James and just as quickly vetoed.<br />
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* '''Alex''' — Do JoJo Chennings and TJ Hockenson really suck? Arif: they do not. Hockenson in particular is performing better than expected.<br />
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* '''Ricardo''' — Given his past experience carrying an entire organisation, how does Kyler Murray handle the role of backup? Arif's read: the Vikings appear to be managing the situation well — winning without him, trusting him with the team, and building around a foundation that doesn't require him to carry it.<br />
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* '''Rufe''' — In a battle of short Oklahoma quarterbacks, what are the odds the Vikings trade for Kirk Cousins from the Las Vegas Raiders? Arif laid out the mechanics: if the Raiders remain a playoff-fringe team, they have no incentive to move him; if Fernanda Mendoza is starting, the calculus changes. The organisation's history with familiar quarterbacks was noted. James expressed enthusiasm. Kirk Cousins's publicly documented enthusiasm for In-N-Out Burger — described by Arif as information that would read as a bit on any other player but is simply accurate for Cousins — became an extended riff. The phrase "General Kirk-iness" emerged during this discussion and was adopted as the episode title.<br />
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* '''Malcolm''' — For KOC's O'Connell corner: research on pooch punt usage. Arif declined to look it up in Stathead. The mailbag briefly introduced Luke's AI-managed fantasy team, which has been named "Goth Sumer Brain."<br />
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* '''Adam Bryant''' — Could Big Citrus function as an emergency quarterback for the Vikings? Arif confirmed this would be extremely amusing and endorsed the campaign on that basis alone.<br />
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* '''Tank B''' (''For Arif's Three-and-No Corner'') — Who does Flores rate higher historically as a defensive coordinator candidate? Drew Pettine (now OC for the Lions) and Clint Kubiak were named as points of comparison.<br />
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* '''Nate''' — Which Jonathan? The question prompted a brief disambiguation of the various Jonathans relevant to the Vikings at this moment.<br />
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* '''Francis Ford Coppiam''' (''For Arif's Multiple Definition Corner'') — What is more likely: the fifth-round pick turning into something, or something else? Arif pleaded the fifth. The line opened into the wedding recap.<br />
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== Off the Rails: Wedding Recap, Pokémon, and More ==<br />
James's wedding took place the previous Thursday. The ceremony was held at a historic Masonic building; Arif described it as fast ("thank you, Paul" — the officiant), preceded by a surprise: Sarah (the bride) had cut paper hearts that rained down as she walked the aisle. An operatic performance by a friend named Angel — whom Arif had never previously heard sing — was described as extraordinary. James, constitutionally unable to stop being an audio engineer, spent portions of the ceremony quietly adjusting the microphone position between himself, the officiant, and his wife. Dusty's best man speech involved him physically working the room — blocking out the floor, moving through the space, performing the reception as much as delivering a speech. Arif described it as among the better prepared public addresses he had witnessed. Dylan received the game ball. A Friday pre-wedding dinner at Monster BBQ in Grand Forks, North Dakota featured excellent pulled pork. Arif was briefly coerced onto the dance floor by a photographer. A security guard gave Dusty and a guest named Eric a tour of the building; James confessed he would consider joining the Masons specifically to spend more time there. Arif attended the Friday night pre-wedding gathering with the entire wedding party despite not being in it.<br />
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* '''Deez''' — Asked about joining a Pokémon draft league. Arif discussed the complexity of competitive Pokémon play and why he has circled it without committing.<br />
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* '''Jogger''' — Match NFL head coaches to their secret video game obsessions. Kevin O'Connell was assigned real-time strategy games, with the caveat that he is not good at them. Matt LaFleur was assigned GTA 6 because he is, in Arif's characterisation, a piss boy, and that is what piss boys are waiting for.<br />
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* '''A defensive player, Turner asks''' — Is Flores possibly changing the way defences look for years to come? Arif treated this as genuinely interesting and worth considering seriously.<br />
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* '''Don from Ohio''' — A long-time listener with questions including a request to compare life insurance policies to determine who gets killed first, and a question involving Caleb Williams. A "parabolic mic" reference was made and acknowledged.<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — Who would give out game balls at James's wedding? James worked through the attendees; Dylan was the recipient. Arif's skin tone was described as "appropriately inked" in the wedding party photo — more accurate than typical, though 100% accuracy was not claimed as an achievable goal. Norse Code merchandise is also available on Threadless.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* '''James's Wedding''' — James got married Thursday. The ceremony was at a historic Masonic building; short, with paper hearts by Sarah and an opera performance by Angel that nobody expected. Dusty gave a best man speech for the ages — working the room, blocking out the floor, treating the reception like a performance. Dylan got the game ball. The Friday pre-wedding dinner was Monster BBQ in Grand Forks, North Dakota; the pulled pork is recommended. Arif attended the Friday night pre-wedding gathering with the full wedding party.<br />
* '''Dusty's Best Man Speech Delivered''' — After weeks of buildup, Dusty gave the speech. He worked the room. He used the space. Verdict from Arif: outstanding. The last time Dusty prepared this thoroughly, he won first place in a debate competition; this was a comparable deployment of that energy.<br />
* '''Kevin Fielder's Leg / The Lewisian Injury''' — Fielder received MRI results on a compound fracture he sustained five years ago walking on a sidewalk while, possibly, listening to a podcast. He compared it, at Arif's suggestion, to the Christian Lewis compound fracture — ''the Lewisian injury.'' Unlike Lewis, his did not occur in London. Future surgery is possible.<br />
* '''Brian Flores's Revenge Game''' — Flores was fired by the Miami Dolphins under owner Stephen Ross. Ross is separately involved in NFL litigation. Fielder predicted Flores would blitz at historically elevated rates given the psychological stakes of the matchup.<br />
* '''Goth Sumer Brain''' — Luke is running an AI-managed fantasy football team named "Goth Sumer Brain."<br />
* '''"General Kirk-iness"''' — Arif's phrase for the ambient narrative weight of all things Kirk Cousins: his In-N-Out enthusiasm, the trade speculation mechanics, and his general cultural presence as a recurring storyline. The phrase gives the episode its title.<br />
* '''The Forbidden Title''' — During the Damian Barrett mailbag question, Arif used a phrase James briefly proposed as the episode title; it was immediately vetoed and remains in the episode unannounced. "General Kirk-iness" was adopted in its place.<br />
* '''Damian Barrett in the Mailbag''' — The host of NorseCodeWiki.com submitted the question about emergency quarterback timelines, which generated both a terminology debate and a candidate shortlist.<br />
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Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 617|617]] || TCO Has Fallen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 616|616]] || General Kirk-iness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 615|615]] || The Least Offensive Thing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 614|614]] || The City of Chicago’s Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 613|613]] || The Ring Cycle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 612|612]] || James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 611|611]] || Scoop and the City || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==2019 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
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<div>{{EpisodeInfobox<br />
| number = 615<br />
| title = The Least Offensive Thing<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = Jon Ledyard (Audibles & Analytics)<br />
| type = Regular Season<br />
}}<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 615: The Least Offensive Thing''' was a game preview episode ahead of the Vikings' Week 3 matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0–2), featuring returning guest Jon Ledyard of Audibles & Analytics. The episode covered Baker Mayfield's fundamental volatility, the Buccaneers' inexplicable 11-personnel obsession, Alex Anzalone's case for worst defender in the league, Antoine Winfield Jr.'s suffering, and a mailbag that included the least offensive fineable celebration, James's wedding prop bets, Arif's fantasy roster of worst takes, and Young Nasty University going on the record. The episode title derives from Room Temperature's question about the least offensive gesture a player could still be fined for — a reference to Jamar Chase's tricep/elbow celebration.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The cold open covered the Packers' ongoing collapse: Jordan Love threw multiple interceptions, including a late attempt he succeeded in converting into a pick. James and Arif observed that a Falcons field goal block featured only ten Atlanta players on the field, which raised questions about Green Bay's offensive line competency. Arif drew a comparison to the late Rodgers era, noting that Packers fans — sustained by decades of quarterback continuity — are uniquely unequipped to process losing. He found it surprising that Patriots fans, who have endured more recent dysfunction, have actually handled their decline with greater composure.<br />
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The Buccaneers preview ran for the bulk of the episode, with Jon Ledyard providing film-based analysis across every unit. The mailbag then pivoted to wedding content, Arif's historical bad takes, and the question of what you can do on a football field that is technically against the rules but barely.<br />
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== Buccaneers Preview with Jon Ledyard ==<br />
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=== Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers Offense ===<br />
Ledyard rejected the narrative that Baker's struggles stem from complacency after securing his contract. His argument: Baker has always been this quarterback — volatile, chaos-addicted, arm-talented but structurally resistant to clean pocket operation. Arif noted that Baker's tendency to throw off-platform is systematically misread as arm weakness when it is actually evidence of arm strength; the problem is that he seeks out those throws rather than avoiding the conditions that produce them.<br />
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The deeper diagnostic, per Ledyard: Baker wants to be a running back. The moment pressure arrives, his instinct is to abandon structure entirely and improvise. This has produced highlights throughout his career, but it also means the floor is unpredictably low. The Buccaneers have run 11 personnel on over 84% of snaps through two games, despite posting a respectable rush success rate (seventh in the league) and a poor pass success rate. The playcalling logic has not yet made itself apparent to outside observers, including Ledyard.<br />
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=== Buccaneers Wide Receivers ===<br />
Miká Buka's route-running impressed Ledyard on tape; he is getting open and Baker is not finding him. Jalen McMillan emerged as a genuine playmaker in the second half of the prior season after returning from a neck injury, but played only seven snaps in Week 2 despite being declared healthy — apparently due to game flow. The expectation is he returns to a full workload. Ted Hurst led the team in targets and dropped two of Baker's best throws of the season. Chris Godwin remains a reliable possession receiver. Without a true alpha, the room is capable but entirely contingent on functional quarterback play.<br />
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=== Buccaneers Offensive Line ===<br />
The line has had more positive individual moments than its reputation suggests, but has badly struggled with stunt pickups — failing to pass off looping defenders when set wide. Graham Barton is developing at center but has not yet acquired the pre-snap identification that elite centers use to anticipate stunts before they develop. Ledyard referenced the Jason Kelsey video featuring Tom Cruise — who "hangs on his every word" — as a model for the kind of pre-snap reads Barton still needs to develop. Against Brian Flores's two-man games layered on top of standard four-man rushes, the Buccaneers' pickup failures are likely to be exposed further.<br />
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=== Dallas Turner and the Vikings Pass Rush ===<br />
Ledyard assessed Turner as well-drafted, with athleticism that slots cleanly into the angles Flores creates. The Vikings are the least-blitzed team in the league through two weeks (having faced Cleveland and Cincinnati), so Flores's scheme will represent a significant difficulty jump. The Vikings' distinctive structural feature — blitzing heavily while keeping split-safety two-high coverage behind it, capping deep balls even against quarterbacks who throw deep often — matches badly with Baker's tendency to take shots downfield under pressure.<br />
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=== Buccaneers Tight Ends ===<br />
Golden Gopher Coque Kief has played one offensive snap on the season. Cade Otten is the primary passing target at the position and has made at least one remarkable contested catch; Payne Durham is a quality blocker. Ledyard believes the room is more capable than it appears, but the offensive coordinator has not deployed them with any discernible logic. The absence of any 12 or 13 personnel usage — in a league trending heavily toward heavier groupings — is one of several decisions that has not yet resolved into a coherent identity for Zach Robinson's offence.<br />
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=== Edge Rushers and Reuben Bain ===<br />
Reuben Bain — a player whose name carries ongoing significance for the show — had traits Ledyard questioned at the draft level, particularly pass-rush athleticism and arm length. Early evidence suggests he can develop, though the Buccaneers' institutional resistance to developing pass rushers has complicated his trajectory. A comparison to Tyree Wilson — whose college tape was produced on a broken foot, and who was still being blocked by tight ends — established the baseline for what failed translation looks like. Ledyard is not writing Bain off.<br />
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=== Alex Anzalone and Linebackers ===<br />
Ledyard's verdict on Alex Anzalone: potentially the worst defensive player in the league. He ranks 510th or lower out of 513 qualifying defenders by PFF grade through two weeks. Ledyard acknowledged PFF is unreliable on interior defensive linemen but expressed confidence in this specific assessment. Arif briefly pivoted to Sonny Styles (Washington linebacker), whose preseason coverage implied struggles; Ledyard suggested he is simply playing fast and needs to slow the game down — a developmental arc rather than a talent ceiling.<br />
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=== Buccaneers Secondary and Antoine Winfield Jr. ===<br />
Antoine Winfield Jr. was responsible for the game-winning touchdown in a Buccaneers loss — allowing a late score after 57 preceding plays had done the heavier work of determining the outcome. Arif asked if Ledyard missed Jamel Dean, Carlton Davis, and Sean Murphy Bunting as football players. Ledyard confirmed he misses Charmere Vundig — who, separately, had previously sent Ledyard unfriendly messages after a critical take, and has since returned to an NFL practice squad.<br />
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=== Game Matchup and Prediction ===<br />
The Vikings are favoured by 1.5 points. Kyler Murray has had five snaps as a Viking, the most memorable of which was an interception Ledyard described as "something, man" — a strong candidate for end-of-season top-10 wildest plays regardless of what follows. Aaron Jones is potentially playing through injury. Ledyard declined to pick the Buccaneers, describing them as a talented team executing like a bad one — undisciplined, poorly coached, prone to self-destruction. With the Packers and Cowboys to follow a potential 0–3, he characterised their situation as genuine desperation.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Tommy Gunn''' — If forced to choose based on the last two games, would the hosts prefer a comeback win or a low-scoring defensive victory? Arif prefers the defensive one. A comeback is a worse aesthetic and emotional experience, and he does not want to be conditioned to need them.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segall''' — His wife and he are going to the game. Arif responded in Spanish ("por qué no los dos"), which James noted represents the entirety of his Spanish-language repertoire. Arif mused about Kyler not finishing the game; James offered the tie as a third option, which Arif also found plausible and equally annoying.<br />
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* '''Ricardo''' (''For Uncle Arif's Impending Doom Corner'') — The Flores defence is rolling, but Ricardo, as a good Vikings fan, knows the rug will eventually be pulled. When? Arif: probably not this year. No defensive innovation has survived indefinitely in the NFL, but no one has cracked it yet and the personnel fit is unusual enough that the adjustment window may be longer than normal.<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks (The Railway Cat)''' — Who will have the longer NFL career: Mike Hughes or LaQuan Treadwell? Both hosts expressed genuine shock that LaQuan Treadwell is not only still active but recently had a good game.<br />
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* '''Raoul''' (''For the Nomenclature Corner'') — Proper definition of blitz, and an introduction to "Young Nasty University" — the official nickname of Brian Flores's defence, sourced from an Athletic locker room piece in which Dominique Orange had to be coaxed into saying it in front of the reporter. Arif also admitted he abandoned the "Is Jordan Love good?" discourse a year too early and should have held the line longer. He notes Brock Purdy did not pan out, but most of his takes on young quarterbacks did.<br />
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* '''Rowell''' (''For the Movie Night Corner'') — Asking about films to show a five-year-old daughter outside the animation canon. Arif recommends Mean Girls and the broader Lindsay Lohan universe (Freaky Friday, the Herbie films), though notes Mean Girls has a natural age floor. James argues for starting as early as possible on the grounds that "you go, Glen Coco" should enter the household vocabulary immediately.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' (''For James's Third Times the Charm Corner'') — Asks for wedding details after a presumed postal failure. James confirmed Dusty is best man and has been working on his speech; the only preview offered is that the last time Dusty prepared a speech this thoroughly, he and a friend won first place in a debate competition. Arif began workshopping prop bets: plus-200 on a suit made of a non-traditional fabric (velvet), plus-150 on a brightly coloured red or pink suit. James confirmed there will be no Red Hot Chili Peppers shirtless performance.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' (''For Dusty's Running Away Corner'') — Dusty, who technically ran away, is returning to the basement this weekend. The race car bed is gone. Arif noted that Richfield has a Costco and is therefore not without merit.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' (''For Arif's Offensive Gestures Corner'') — What is the least offensive thing a player could do that would still earn an NFL fine? Arif described Jamar Chase's "people's elbow" celebration — one hand placed on the opposite tricep, arm dropped — as an elaborate agreed-upon game between the league and the player, rooted in a Key and Peele skit that apparently made the gesture canonical. This question gives the episode its title.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' also asked who will be drunkest at James's wedding. Arif denied ever having been drunk, while acknowledging that in Seattle he had consumed enough drinks to need to assess his body weight before deciding whether to accept further offers.<br />
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* '''Wentz Messiah Complex''' (''For Arif's Critical Economics Corner'') — On the broader commodification of things that should not be commodified: prediction markets, speculation, gambling. Both hosts cited "just legalise gambling" as the worst take either of them has ever had. A tweet crystallised this. They are sorry.<br />
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* '''Logan''' (''For Arif's Takes Corner'') — What would a fantasy football team built from Arif's worst takes look like? Arif began drafting by position: player performance takes (Chad Greenway bad at football — the one-one pick), analytical takes (the running back position), and individual viral moments (Mitch Trubisky throwing left, which made television and which Trubisky himself acknowledged). James proposed a Part 2. The episode closed with a shoutout to a Reebok McNabb Vikings jersey, and a brief recap of Chris Cluey — who gave up number 5 for McNabb in exchange for ice cream and a charitable donation, received partial payment years later, and has since won a Minnesota City Council primary.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* '''Young Nasty University''' — Brian Flores's defence has an official nickname, sourced from an Athletic locker room piece; linebacker Dominique Orange had to be coaxed into saying it in front of the reporter<br />
* '''James's Wedding''' — James is getting married Thursday; [[Dusty]] is best man and has prepared a speech last comparable to a winning debate performance; Arif's prop bet sheet is already in development<br />
* '''The Seattle Live Show''' — Arif and James did a live show in Seattle; afterwards, they rented bikes and rode to the John Lennon statue in the Fremont neighbourhood; Arif had not biked in approximately 15–20 years; both were, technically, not drunk<br />
* '''The Ben Boulware Incident''' — Guest Jon Ledyard publicly called Ben Boulware a bad athlete while scouting him; Boulware tracked him down at the Senior Bowl and confronted him in person; Boulware was cool about it; CBS Sports covered it; Ledyard stands by the take<br />
* '''Arif's Worst Takes Hall of Fame''' — Mitch Trubisky throwing left (made television, Trubisky confirmed it) and Chad Greenway bad at football are the first two picks in the fantasy draft of Arif's worst takes; a Part 2 is implied<br />
* '''"Just Legalise Gambling"''' — Both hosts have publicly recanted; the prediction market and sports gambling ecosystem has produced exactly the chaos they should have anticipated<br />
* '''Kyler Murray's First Meaningful Play as a Viking''' — An interception; Ledyard considers it a strong top-10 wildest plays candidate regardless of what follows<br />
* '''LaQuan Treadwell Is Still Active''' — Both hosts needed a moment<br />
* '''Charmere Vundig in Jon Ledyard's DMs''' — After a critical take, the former Buccaneers corner sent unfriendly messages; Vundig is now back on an NFL practice squad; Ledyard is philosophical<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 615|615]] || The Least Offensive Thing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 614|614]] || The City of Chicago’s Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 613|613]] || The Ring Cycle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 612|612]] || James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 611|611]] || Scoop and the City || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==2019 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
==2018 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
==2017 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 115|115]] || Strong men also cry || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 67|67]] || Who goes to Manny's and doesn't have steak? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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</noinclude></div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_614&diff=507Episode 6142026-09-22T17:22:42Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 614 | title = The City of Chicago's Fault | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = None | type = Regular Season }} '''Norse Code Episode 614: The City of Chicago's Fault''' was the week two recap episode following the Vikings' 9–3 win in Chicago. The episode covered the Vikings' historic blitz rate, Dallas Turner's pace to shatter PFF records, Caleb Williams' hamstring injury and the discourse surroundi..."</p>
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<div>{{EpisodeInfobox<br />
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| title = The City of Chicago's Fault<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Regular Season<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 614: The City of Chicago's Fault''' was the week two recap episode following the Vikings' 9–3 win in Chicago. The episode covered the Vikings' historic blitz rate, Dallas Turner's pace to shatter PFF records, Caleb Williams' hamstring injury and the discourse surrounding his face, Jalen Redmond's coming-out performance, Carson Wentz's limitations made explicit, and a mailbag that included the Wagner corner, the GOAT of blocked kicks, the trap game debate, and which upcoming opponent could most plausibly crack Brian Flores. The episode closed with the return of the "this is not sustainable" stinger.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The cold open covered the Oops All Punters league, in which James lost because a Giants punter kicked one 78 yards in the air with no bounce, and because Jameis Winston was the Bears' backup and generated zero punting. Jackson Dart had bent his knee the wrong way in the game, with the injury suspected to be an MCL — concerning but not catastrophic. The main episode ran shorter than usual: the game was a 9–3 defensive shutdown played in driving rain with a backup quarterback, which left limited material to cover on offence, and the mailbag reflected it.<br />
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== Game Recap: Vikings 9, Bears 3 ==<br />
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=== The Caleb Williams Injury and Discourse ===<br />
Caleb Williams suffered a non-contact hamstring injury and left the game on a cart, giving a thumbs up. The image generated a significant meme cycle — best entries identified were "me sleeping on the uncomfortable couch in the hospital after my wife gives birth" and "my dog after we spent $500 at the vet and it turns out nothing is wrong." The discourse was separately assessed as nuts: Will Compton of Bussin' With the Boys posted that Williams' pain face was inappropriate; Kyle Long responded "you posted what you posted"; Compton deleted and reposted a retraction speculating that if he and Caleb were friends they would laugh about it together. Arif's take: quarterbacks who get hit for a living have extraordinary pain tolerances; there was a hit earlier in the same game where Williams visibly folded in half, then stood up and threw a 20-yard strike; getting a face about potentially missing games because you love playing football is permitted.<br />
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=== The Blitz Rate ===<br />
Arif published a piece at Wide Left Football on the Vikings' blitz rate and where it sits in NFL history. Key data points:<br />
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No team had exceeded a 61% blitz rate before Brian Flores with the Vikings. Last year, Flores broke that record with 63.3% — leading second place by 21 percentage points, a gap equal to the difference between second place and 18th. The 2026 Vikings, through two games, are blitzing at '''83%'''. The dot representing this on Arif's box-and-whisker chart is in the title card of the image — it cannot coexist on the same canvas as the rest of the data.<br />
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Against the Bears specifically, the blitz rate was 84.4%, with 27 of Caleb Williams' 32 dropbacks involving a blitz. Arif identified this as likely the most blitz-heavy defence in NFL history, with the caveat that tracking data only goes back to 2006 via PFF. The unique structural feature of the Flores defence: it is the only team running split-safety two-high coverages (Cover 4, Cover 6, Cover 2) behind the blitz, sometimes blitzing six while keeping four deep defenders in quarters. Arif described this as "truly psychotic behaviour."<br />
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Caleb Williams — who entered the game with a reputation for performing well against blitzes — finished with 2.5 adjusted net yards per attempt, one interception, zero touchdowns, three sacks, and a 29% success rate. Second-largest offensive point swing in the Super Bowl era, after a 1973 Falcons game. The largest recent comparable was the 2023 Vikings–Raiders game, also a Brian Flores defence.<br />
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=== Dallas Turner ===<br />
Turner led all defenders in week two with 11 pressures. Andrew Van Ginkel had five; Jalen Redmond had four. Turner now leads the league with 20 pressures across two weeks and is on pace for 170, which would be a PFF record by a substantial margin. Arif contextualised the scepticism: Turner is generating many of these pressures against tight ends and on unblocked assignments created by the scheme, not through double teams against true pass sets in the manner of J.J. Watt or Aaron Donald. His assessment: Turner has a unique value to this specific defence, his athleticism slots perfectly into the blocking angles Flores creates, and the correct framing is a good player meeting a great system — which is fine to say without needing to claim he is the best defender in the league.<br />
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A post on the Vikings subreddit extrapolated Turner's pressure pace to its logical absurdity. A representative line: "In week 13, his sack rate will surpass one per second of game clock. By week 16 or 17, the vast majority of sacks recorded since it became an official statistic in 1982 will have been by Dallas Turner in 2026." Both hosts found this beautiful.<br />
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=== Jalen Redmond and the Blocked Field Goal ===<br />
Redmond had four consecutive plays at one point in the game during which the announcer noted he could not stop saying his name. He forced the fumble at the goal line; Isaiah Rogers recovered it and performed the hot-diggity-dog dance. The blocked field goal was credited to Isaiah Rogers, but Arif flagged that the Bears' field goal protection (specifically Sam Rauch) was the worst he had ever seen — the protector's elbows were on his knees before the snap, and he did not move. Byron Murphy had a better game than week one, assessed as not yet playing at his contract level but functional. Christian Darrisaw was outstanding. The safeties were not particularly notable, which was taken as a positive given the Vikings only surrendered three points.<br />
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=== Caleb Banks ===<br />
Banks had the worst PFF grade of either team at 30.1, with 29.6 in run defence despite four run stops. One pressure on 18 pass-rush snaps. Arif's assessment: he had positive plays that were real and worth seeing in the Brian Baldinger breakdown clips, but the negative plays outweighed the positives. Should not be starting or playing 60 snaps. Not a reason to panic — a reason to manage deployment.<br />
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=== The Offence ===<br />
Carson Wentz finished with 63.2% accuracy (ninth percentile), passes located poorly for yards after catch or receiver protection, inconsistent pocket management. Arif's framing: thinking of him as a backup quarterback who performed above the average backup, not as a starting quarterback who played adequately. Jordan Mason's eventual return will change the calculus. Aaron Jones carried 23 times for 105 yards at 4.5+ per carry (80th percentile yards before contact, two explosives) and was reportedly very sore after the game. Jordan Addison caught his first ball of the season on a behind-him throw he had to reel in. Will Reichard's field goal struck the upright and bounced through. Arif speculated he was bored and aimed for the upright. The offence ran at a 26% success rate — contextualised by rain, a backup quarterback, and a deliberate heavy-run game plan, but not a standard to maintain.<br />
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Garrett Bradbury had multiple penalties and gave up pressures, finishing with the worst PFF grade among offensive linemen — described as "back to his antics" and "nice to see the hits, good to hear from an old friend."<br />
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Bears backup '''Jack Strand''' — a Minnesota native — entered after Williams' injury. Framed as a Tom Clancy protagonist: the one who is slightly racist but it's okay because he is American. Also described as the season three villain on Paradise, which was corrected to protagonist. Cooper Rush was benched for a man named Jack Strand, which both hosts found funny.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Tank B''' — How will the Bears spin Caleb's injury as the city of Chicago's fault, and what will Indiana offer to help? Arif: the city of Chicago's fault is obvious — outdoor stadium, natural grass, rain, no billion-dollar roof because the city declined to fund one. Indiana will offer the entire city of Gary, which is worse than Chicago in most measurable respects but does have the potential for a roof.<br />
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* '''Skolobites''' — Was Garrett Bradbury the best Vikings offensive lineman on the field? Arif: he was doing significant work for Minnesota — multiple penalties, multiple pressure giveups, worst PFF grade on the offensive line. Christian Darrisaw was great. Also from Skolobites: given the Baldy tape breakdown, how good should Vikings fans feel about Caleb Banks after Sunday? Arif: the positive clips are real and the plays happened. The grade reflects that negative plays outweighed positives. He should not be playing 60 snaps. Continue to be excited about potential, do not expect him to start.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' — Can Flores be the first to blitz 100%? Arif: 27 of 32 dropbacks were blitzes against the Bears. What was he thinking on the other five? There has to be a game at some point where an opponent simply does not drop back to pass often enough to give Flores the opportunity to be tested, and every single dropback becomes a blitz.<br />
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* '''Wentz Messiah Complex''' — Were the Bears just le tired from scoring too many points last week? Arif: the emotional hangover is documented. The Dolphins scored 70 in week three of 2023, then gave up 48 to the Bills in week four. The Vikings' 2-0 record reflects getting the right side of two coin flips with a backup quarterback. With Kyler, these are not close games.<br />
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* '''Wentz Messiah Complex''' (also) — Which punter won the head-to-head, Thorson or Taylor? Taylor: two punts inside the 20 vs three for Thorson; 50% return rate conceded. Thorson: better hang time, 25% return rate conceded, 100 more pure punting yards. Thorson probably had the better game. Taylor is still probably the better punter. He probably should not have been called a weapon when they drafted him in the fourth round.<br />
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* '''Paul''' — Reasons for optimism given that two first wins felt like coin flips? Arif: the Vikings defence is very good, probably heading toward a top-three finish. The quarterback situation is improving with Kyler's return. They are likely favoured in the next two games. Getting the right side of two coin flips is not a bad starting position. This is not a team that deserves to be 0-2.<br />
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* '''Raul''' — Pick your defensive mind: Zimmer or Flores. Is 2017 still the gold standard? Arif: the 2017 Vikings defence had the best third-down conversion rate allowed on record going back to 1991, and is legitimately in the conversation for one of the better defences of the decade — behind the 2013 Seahawks, 2015 Broncos, and arguably 2019 Patriots. In his head, peak Zimmer is probably better. In his heart, Flores is what is happening right now and it is insane. Also from Raul: who is the GOAT of blocked kicks? Pro Football Journal's data historian lists Ted Hendricks first in combined punt and kick blocks (22.5 with seven punt blocks). Alan Page is second with 27 combined, 26 of which are kick blocks — the most straight kick blocks on record. Of modern players: Sean Rogers (17), Julius Peppers (13), Calais Campbell (10). Three Vikings in the top 30: Carl Eller (28th), Matt Blair (5th), Alan Page (2nd).<br />
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* '''Damian Barrett''' — Tampa or Miami: which is the bigger trap game? Arif: Miami, easily. They are bad at nearly every position. The Vikings will be emotionally relaxed going in, which is dangerous. The 2018 game — Vikings were 18-point favourites, lost the biggest regular-season upset in NFL history at that point — was invoked as mandatory reminder. Harrison Smith is the ideal messenger for that warning. Tampa has real players: Baker is volatile but capable of going off, Mike Evans is Mike Evans, Vita Vea and Antoine Winfield are legitimate. Miami is just bad.<br />
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* '''Antatek''' — Which upcoming opponent is most likely to crack the Flores blitz? Arif: Brock Purdy (highest EPA per play against the blitz over three years, week 11, Shanahan can scheme it) and Josh Allen (highest success rate on deep balls against the blitz, second or third best scrambler in the NFL, can outrun the secondary if the edge is unblocked). Weeks 8 (Goff), 9 (Allen), and 11 (Purdy) flagged.<br />
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* '''Nolan Kehler''' — Wagner corner: Is Carson Wentz more of a Siegfried, a Parsifal, or a Lohengrin? Arif: Parsifal passed purity tests including virginity, which may be how Wentz sees himself, not how the evidence suggests he should. Lohengrin has superhuman charisma and fighting ability — antithetical. Siegfried, per Wagner's own letter to Uhlig: "a boy so stupid, he had never learned to be afraid." Case closed.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — Same Name, Different Job corner: averaging love for the player and celebrity of the same name — Harrison Smith (safety) vs Harrison Smith (InfoWars host), Paul Allen (play-by-play) vs Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder), Jay Ward (cornerback) vs Jay Ward (Rocky and Bullwinkle creator and also a baseball player), Fran Tarkenton (quarterback) vs Fran Tarkenton (host of That's Incredible, loan company shill, Tony Robbins associate). Arif's clarification: those are all the same Fran Tarkenton. Winner: Jay Ward — his Wikipedia page has no controversy section, and mild anti-Russian sentiment during the 1960s compares favourably to co-founding Microsoft and running InfoWars. Jay Ward, Jay Ward, Jay Ward.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* The Vikings' blitz rate through two games is '''83%''' — the Flores chart dot is in the title card of the image because there is no scale on which it and the rest of the data can coexist<br />
* The second-largest offensive point swing in the Super Bowl era: the Bears went from 59 points in week one to 3 in week two. The only larger recent comparable is also a Brian Flores defence (2023 Vikings–Raiders)<br />
* Dallas Turner is on pace for 170 pressures, which would be a PFF record. By week 16–17 of that trajectory, the majority of sacks recorded since 1982 will have been Dallas Turner in 2026<br />
* Jalen Redmond forced a fumble; Isaiah Rogers recovered it and performed the hot-diggity-dog dance. Peak fatherhood<br />
* Sam Rauch's field goal protection was the worst Arif has ever seen — elbows on knees, no movement before or during the snap<br />
* '''Jack Strand''' (Bears backup, Minnesota native) is a Tom Clancy protagonist — slightly racist, definitively American, starring this fall on Fox<br />
* The "this is not sustainable" stinger returned in the episode outro<br />
* Arif has had one hour of sleep since Sunday morning. He will sleep before editing the college notebook<br />
* Carson Wentz is Siegfried: a boy so stupid he had never learned to be afraid<br />
* Jay Ward (Rocky and Bullwinkle) is also a baseball player. No controversy section on Wikipedia. He wins<br />
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Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 614|614]] || The City of Chicago’s Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 613|613]] || The Ring Cycle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 612|612]] || James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 611|611]] || Scoop and the City || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
==2019 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2017 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2016 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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</noinclude></div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_613&diff=505Episode 6132026-09-19T14:32:50Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 613 | title = The Ring Cycle | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = Lorin Cox | type = Regular Season }} '''Norse Code Episode 613: The Ring Cycle''' was the week two preview episode, opening with a discussion of a viral battle commander efficiency chart and Arif's emerging interest in submarines, before moving into an extended Bears preview interview with Lorin Cox of Locked On Bears and Cox Sports 1...."</p>
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| title = The Ring Cycle<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = Lorin Cox<br />
| type = Regular Season<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 613: The Ring Cycle''' was the week two preview episode, opening with a discussion of a viral battle commander efficiency chart and Arif's emerging interest in submarines, before moving into an extended Bears preview interview with Lorin Cox of Locked On Bears and Cox Sports 1. The mailbag covered the grammar of broadcast sign-offs, the PFF grade controversy surrounding Caleb Williams, the Ring Cycle as a metaphor for the 2026 Vikings season, Ed Sheeran's band refusing to perform on moral grounds, and the appropriate amount of condiments on a hot dog. The episode title came from a listener question placing the Vikings at the Walküre phase of Wagner's Ring Cycle.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The cold open centred on a viral chart plotting historical military commanders by total battles fought and War Wins Above Replacement. Napoleon Bonaparte occupied the upper-right corner, alone, in the manner of Mahomes on every efficiency chart from 2020. Robert E. Lee was placed on fraud watch. McClellan's positive WAR was described as borderline insanity. George Washington was identified as a system commander. Arif noted the chart's exclusion of Genghis Khan and any Mongols, and expressed a nascent interest in submarines. James noted he had gotten into smoking meats but had not forgotten his roots of watching the History Channel back when it covered history rather than pawn stars. The interview with Lorin Cox followed, with the mailbag running shorter than usual.<br />
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== Bears Preview: Interview with Lorin Cox ==<br />
Arif interviewed Lorin Cox — formerly of PFF (seven years, part-time), currently of Locked On Bears and Cox Sports 1 ("like Fox Sports 1, with a C," a tagline Cox was made to wait the entire episode to deploy) — ahead of the Vikings-Bears week two matchup.<br />
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=== PFF and Caleb Williams ===<br />
The interview opened on the controversy around PFF grading Caleb Williams 22nd in week one despite him finishing third in EPA per dropback, fifth in passer rating, and third in success rate. The primary issue was a play nullified by offside: Williams threw a red-zone interception to a defensive lineman who appeared to be lined up offsides rather than jumping. PFF graded it minus-1.5; Sam Monson suggested minus-1.0 would have been more appropriate. Cox confirmed: the issue was less the individual play evaluations and more the conversion from PFF's plus/minus system to its 0–100 scale, which amplified small disagreements into a much larger final grade discrepancy. Williams' adjusted grade (correcting the two contested plays) would likely place him around 11th–13th, not 22nd. His percentage of positively graded plays was 17th; his percentage of negatively graded plays was 15th best. The play-by-play reality was a smart, decisive game built on checkdowns and completions rather than heroic throws, which the 0–100 conversion struggles to capture.<br />
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=== The Bears Offence ===<br />
'''Offensive Line''': Braxton Jones at left tackle is a placeholder until Ozzy Chapilla (second-round pick, patellar tendon injury, returning ahead of any medically reasonable schedule) is ready to play. Jones is inconsistent and cannot anchor reliably but will not derail the game plan. Garrett Bradbury is a downgrade at centre from the retired Drew Dalman. Right tackle Darnell Wright dealing with a minor knee injury but expected to play. The line was assessed as clearly worse than last year but not bad.<br />
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'''Running Backs''': DeAndre Swift was extended during the week on what Cox described as fair market value. He is demonstrably better than during his Detroit years — getting downhill, taking available yards rather than bouncing outside, no longer the elusive-but-slow mystery that his speed metrics never fully explained. The Swift/Kesi Monongai pairing was discussed: Swift is more well-rounded, slightly better blocker and receiver out of the backfield; Monongai is more north-south, better contact balance, and — contrary to perception — pulled away for a 61-yard run, suggesting he is faster than people think while Swift is slower. Both have the opposite of their nominal reputations. Roschon Johnson was assessed as a bust from the fourth round.<br />
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'''Receivers''': Colston Loveland identified as the most important weapon — fast, athletic, a legitimate wide receiver alignment option, currently receiving linebacker and safety matchups that will narrow as the league adjusts. Luther Burden is the most explosive player with the ball in his hands. Jaidyn Alexis made the roster as a blocker who gets rewarded with end-zone targets — one catch, one yard, one touchdown in week one. Jaylen Coker and Ted McMillan were noted as genuinely good players held back by having Bryce Young delivering the ball.<br />
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'''Run Scheme''': The Bears were first in the NFL in outside zone percentage in week one — over 50% per Sumer Sports, with 75% zone overall per PFF. No inside zone. No power. No counter. Arif identified 291 rushing yards, 39 attempts, 7.5 yards per carry, and six rushing touchdowns against the Panthers. Cox noted the genius of the scheme is that it looks radically different to a defence on every snap despite being structurally identical: different formations, different alignments, different motion looks, wide receivers working back across the formation that could be jet sweeps, fake jet sweeps, play-action, or run-fits — all designed to make it impossible to just key on "outside zone, running right."<br />
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'''Caleb Williams vs. Brian Flores''': Williams was the second-most-blitzed quarterback in week one after Jordan Love. He graded slightly worse against the blitz than against non-blitz looks, partly attributed to zone coverage behind Panthers blitzes giving him no clean answer when his first read wasn't there. Cox noted his real improvement was decisiveness on checkdowns — a weakness last year — and the question for week two is whether he maintains that under Flores's specific brand of pressure or reverts. Arif flagged that Williams attempted the third-most deep balls in week one by volume despite the 55% blitz rate, and that the Vikings had been number one in the NFL in preventing deep shots last year. Ben Johnson's 5-1 record as coordinator/head coach against Flores was contextualised: the two games as Bears head coach were eighth and ninth in best defensive performances allowed across 52 Johnson-coached games, and Jared Goff understands the Flores defence in a way that is probably not easily transposed onto Williams.<br />
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'''MVP Odds''': Williams had jumped to second in MVP odds behind Josh Allen, ahead of Lamar Jackson. Cox: good value, not a confident pick. The award is narrative and momentum-driven; voter fatigue with Lamar and Allen exists; but if Chicago's formula keeps emphasising the run game, Goff never won an MVP in Detroit for the same reason.<br />
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'''Best Quarterback in the Division''': Cox: Caleb Williams for output and situation. Jared Goff in a vacuum, individually — better quarterback today, worse situation.<br />
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=== The Bears Defence ===<br />
'''Missed Tackles''': 24.2% missed tackle rate in week one, second in the NFL behind Denver (26.1%). Nine of fifteen missed tackles were on receivers after the catch. TJ Edwards missed four — the most in a single game in his Bears career. Tyreek Stevenson missed three. Rookie Malik Muhammad missed three. Cox was not panicking but noted that missing tackles in man coverage compounds more severely than in zone, because there are fewer nearby defenders to clean up.<br />
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'''Pass Rush''': Bears were eighth worst in pass rush win rate. Pressure arrived late in plays, after quarterbacks had gone through one or two reads — valid pressure but not disruptive pressure. Montez Sweat, Austin Booker, Dio Odengbo ("motivated Dio Odengbo" was a Bears fan offseason meme that Odengbo himself has leaned into with a smile), Daniel Hardy. Neville Gallimore, Grady Jarrett (34, injured last year), Contavious Street (starting because the Bears traded Jervon Dexter for peanuts rather than extend him), and sixth-rounder Jordan Vandenberg — described by Arif as generating the kind of one-and-a-half-sack game in 2027 that will make people lose their minds. Former Viking James Lynch also in the rotation at both edge and defensive tackle.<br />
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'''Linebackers''': TJ Edwards and Devin Bush. Bush had at least one viral rep where a guard simply folded him backwards and he collapsed onto himself; PFF grades suggest he may have been the worst blitzing linebacker in the NFL in week one. Edwards is fine but missed four tackles. Cox assessed the linebacker room as the one supposedly reliable position group that did not look reliable.<br />
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'''Secondary''': Jalen Johnson (best training camp of his career, overly aggressive in week one, jumping routes, expected to correct), Tyreek Stevenson (the top concern against Justin Jefferson), Malik Muhammad II (best coverage performance week one of the three corners, also missed tackles), Dylan Thienemann at safety (first-round pick, Arif had noted him being mocked to the Vikings all offseason; Cox was high on him in the draft, assessed him as a safe floor pick with an unknown ceiling, gave up a touchdown on a play against Darren Waller that was flagged for OPI), Xavier Woods/Cam Lewis battling for the other safety spot. Kyler Gordon remains injured. Full health: a pretty good group. Current state: untested.<br />
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'''Special Teams''': Torrey Taylor, the fourth-round punter recruited as a weapon, forced a muffed punt via his banana ball spin technique, but the overall weapon promise remains undelivered. Cairo Santos hit two kickoffs short of the landing zone while apparently attempting a knuckleball technique. Bo Gardner from Georgia is the rookie long snapper. Cairo Santos described as reliable in the Hell League for not missing extra points.<br />
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=== Score Prediction ===<br />
Cox reluctantly picked the Bears with low confidence, citing PTSD from week one last year when JJ McCarthy went full number nine in the fourth quarter. He assessed Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores as a combination he trusted more than Ben Johnson and Dennis Allen, and noted the Vikings' quarterback volatility as the largest swing factor. He could not envision the Vikings starting 2-0 with Kyler Murray and Carson Wentz.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Leon''' — Over/under on Justin Jefferson slips on the grass: Arif set it at 2.5, suggesting the market might move to 3.5 as bettors forget how often this happens. Also from Leon: an explanation of the grammar behind "For X, I'm Y" as a broadcast sign-off. Arif: it is a fronted adjunct, evolving from radio's "Reporting for NPR, I'm Ira Glass" — over decades of use, the reporting-for construction was compressed and then the prepositional phrase moved to the front, becoming "For NPR, I'm Ira Glass," and eventually drifting to name the co-host instead of the institution. The meaning has loosened to the point where it functions as a conventional sign-off form with the original grammatical logic largely dropped.<br />
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* '''Osman''' — Over/under seven games until a Brosmer appearance. Arif: the over. Kyler is moving through the concussion protocol quickly and could play this week. If he returns and then Wentz and McCarthy both stay healthy for the remainder, reaching Brosmer requires a three-quarterback domino that is unlikely in the timeframe. The comparison to last time: then, Brosmer was QB3; now he is QB4, and Kyler is more likely to return from injury than McCarthy was.<br />
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* '''Kenneth Allen''' — What can we realistically learn from a game with Wentz starting against a Ben Johnson offence? Arif: the Ben Johnson vs. Flores record is a Lion's-era Goff artefact, not a system advantage worth extrapolating. Things to actually watch: Dominique Orange's snap count, whether Jonah Jackson's strong week one translates, whether Jordan Addison gets targets, and the safety/nickel corner usage — James Pierre as nickel, Jay Ward at safety, Theo Jackson and Josh Metellus in various sub-package combinations.<br />
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* '''James (unattributed)''' — Robert Kraft has been banned from performing at Gillette Stadium. What can the Wilfs ban, and on what grounds, to ensure the Vikings get their own happy ending? Arif: accuse Ben Johnson of something using the loosest possible definition of anti-Semitism to ban the Bears from US Bank Stadium. For Jared Goff: attribute a Ryan Gosling film role to him and ban him on those grounds. Nobody will be able to tell the difference.<br />
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* '''LeVar Bolsharif''' — Concussion corner: does a fencing response correlate with severity? Arif reviewed a Pitt/NFL study of 57 players: fencing response group cleared to play in 10 days on average, non-fencing response group in 9 days — no statistically significant difference. Symptom scores, cognitive scores, and balance scores also did not differ between groups. Selection bias caveat: a fencing response always triggers independent neurologist evaluation; non-fencing responses that are evaluated are the ones obviously severe enough to flag. Two identical head injuries may not be captured equally. Conclusion: medically, a fencing response does not appear to predict longer recovery in the NFL data available. There is an optical problem with Kyler returning quickly that is separate from the medical question. Also from LeVar: an itemised moral inventory of Arif's recent conduct including editing a "keep gambling" article (Arif: it said playing favourable odds, not gambling; there is a difference, and it is the entire piece), podcast episode descriptions, reposting Pat McAfee's music (Arif: it was a critique, not an endorsement), and promoting BetterHelp. James: this is not news. LeVar has been listening long enough to know there was no golden era.<br />
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* '''Nolan Taylor''' — For the Ring Cycle corner: at what point in the Ring Cycle do we find the 2026 Vikings? Arif: Die Walküre — the third produced but second in the cycle's intended order. In that opera, twins separated and reunited fall in love; the gods, angered, pursue punishment; the Valkyrie intervenes to save the couple and faces divine retribution as a result. The 2026 Vikings are at the moment of committing an as-yet-unidentified unspeakable sin. They will escape initial punishment through some heroic act. They will then face an even greater punishment, probably around week 17 or 18.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segall''' — Since Arif (who puts ketchup on hot dogs) is replacing James with Drew McGarry (who hates mayo), what awful mustard takes will be unleashed? Arif: ketchup on hot dogs is correct and normal, particularly given the salt-and-fat content of a hot dog pairing well with something vinegary and slightly sweet. Also excellent on hot dogs: diced raw onions, and various mustards — not French's bright yellow, which has limited application, but brown mustard enthusiastically, and Dijon for the genuinely controversial take. He once spent Christmas making a range of homemade mustards with his brother and then-girlfriend — varying spice levels controlled by the timing of water and acid addition to the mustard compounds — and brought them to his brother's in-laws' house. He will not apologise for any of this. James: he came around on mustard on hot dogs after vendor hot dogs in New York. Stone ground is very good.<br />
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* '''Damian Bolsharif''' — Which of Ed Sheeran's support acts will Arif be most disappointed not to see perform? Arif: his band ('''Beoga''', pronounced "Bioga," an Irish group). Context: Macklemore dropped Ed Sheeran's tour over political grounds. Ed Sheeran declined to cancel the tour himself, citing the band and crew members who depend on the income. His band responded by dropping out anyway, along with three other support acts. Arif noted the act of hiring Irish support acts and then taking a neutral stance on the events of the moment was, with hindsight, a scheduling error, as the Irish are famously very pro-Palestinian. Several tweets praising Macklemore's principled stance also noted that his music was not good, which Arif found excellent. One tweet described it as the first time the tweeter had to separate the art from the artist because the artist was good.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* The 2026 Vikings are at '''Die Walküre''' — poised to commit an unspeakable sin, destined to be saved by a heroic act, and then face an even greater punishment approximately around week 17–18<br />
* Napoleon Bonaparte occupies the upper-right corner of the battle commander WAR chart, alone, in a manner compared to Mahomes on every 2020 efficiency graphic<br />
* Robert E. Lee is on fraud watch; McClellan's positive WAR is borderline insanity<br />
* Arif is developing an interest in submarines and expects this to intersect eventually with texting Michael Kist<br />
* Lorin Cox's tagline — "like Fox Sports 1, with a C" — was held the entire episode before being deployed<br />
* DeAndre Swift is faster than people think; Kesi Monongai is also faster than people think; this is the entire scouting report<br />
* Arif makes homemade mustard at Christmas. Brown mustard is correct. French's bright yellow is acceptable in limited contexts<br />
* "Motivated Dio Odengbo" is confirmed canon in Chicago Bears lore; Odengbo is in on the joke<br />
* Ben Johnson vs. Flores record (5–1 as coordinator/head coach): artefact of Jared Goff understanding the Flores defence, not a system advantage transferable to Caleb Williams<br />
* Lorin Cox reluctantly picked the Bears. He noted he could not imagine the Vikings starting 2-0 with Wentz and Murray<br />
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Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 613|613]] || The Ring Cycle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 612|612]] || James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 611|611]] || Scoop and the City || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
==2019 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
==2017 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2016 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 115|115]] || Strong men also cry || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
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| [[Episode 67|67]] || Who goes to Manny's and doesn't have steak? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 612|612]] || James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 611|611]] || Scoop and the City || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2019 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
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</noinclude></div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_612&diff=502Episode 6122026-09-17T14:28:26Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 612 | title = James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose) | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = None | type = Regular Season }} '''Norse Code Episode 612: James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose)''' was the week one recap episode, recorded at 11:43 PM immediately after the Vikings' opening win over the Packers. The episode covered the full fo..."</p>
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| title = James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose)<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Regular Season<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 612: James and Carson’s Throuple (Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose)''' was the week one recap episode, recorded at 11:43 PM immediately after the Vikings' opening win over the Packers. The episode covered the full fourth-quarter collapse breakdown, Kyler Murray's injury and Javon Bullard's hit, Brian Flores's historic blitz rates, and a mailbag that included the Theranos Complex, the Oops All Punters first-week scores, the ranking of Justis's all-time worst moments, a comprehensive AI database failure review, and the Grand Forks bar guide. The episode title was originally "Not Emotionally Regulated Enough to Lose" but updated to "James and Carson’s Throuple" following a request from Wentz Messiah Complex in the Discord. Kyle Segall, in what may be his most significant contribution to the show's recorded history, finally joined Patreon for the final season.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The hosts opened with the Australia game (49ers vs. Rams) and a Netflix stream that degraded progressively in resolution for Arif throughout the game, then pivoted to the Vikings' 29-point comeback win over the Packers. James had watched the first half from a bar in Castleton, North Dakota — notable stop for gas before Fargo on I-94 — at a friend's bachelor party, seated next to a man in what may have been a knockoff Carson Wentz jersey who was the least emotionally dysregulated person in the bar following the interception. The mailbag ran late into the night.<br />
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== Game Recap: Vikings vs. Packers, Week 1 ==<br />
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=== Kyler Murray and the Injury ===<br />
Kyler Murray's start lasted approximately six plays. He threw an interception off his back foot — described by Arif as jumpy, indecisive, staying in the pocket too long — with a 28.6% success rate and 3.6 average yards per attempt across five dropbacks. Then, after a slide attempt, he took a first hit that was borderline under the protect-the-quarterback rules, followed by a second hit that Arif described as unambiguously reckless. Murray's helmet had come off from the first impact; the second hit landed on an unprotected quarterback and produced a fencing response visible on the broadcast.<br />
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Arif addressed the comparison to the Anthony Barr/Aaron Rodgers hit: the two situations are not comparable. Barr did not intend to injure Rodgers; Javon Bullard's hit was at minimum needlessly reckless even if intent cannot be established. Packers fans conflating the two were noted as doing so primarily because Vikings fans were involved in both incidents, not because the plays were similar.<br />
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The injury was not attributed to injury-proneness. Arif moved the concern meter "a tick" — not enough to draw conclusions, but enough to acknowledge the worst-case scenario looked like exactly what they saw.<br />
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=== Carson Wentz: Serviceable ===<br />
Carson Wentz played the remainder of the game. He kept throwing the ball too far from his receivers but also too far from defenders, which Arif characterised as a low bar cleared adequately. He had a higher success rate than Murray's five-play sample. The Justin Jefferson free play — a direct result of an operational error that somehow resolved into everyone being on the same page — was cited as a flash of what a functional Vikings offence can produce. His two-point conversion attempt was one of his better throws of the day, which does not count in statistics. He was in visible pain multiple times.<br />
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The pre-snap chaos was discussed as a persistent issue across multiple quarterbacks and centres — Arif's conclusion: the Vikings need their actual centre to play centre, a requirement that has apparently not yet been fully implemented.<br />
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=== Brian Flores and the Blitz Rate ===<br />
The Vikings blitzed at 87% (PFF) or 73.9% (Sumer Sports) — the highest blitz rate seen in approximately three years, going back to Week 18 of 2024 (Vikings vs. Lions). The three highest blitz rates since that point are all Brian Flores games. For context: the 95th percentile single-game blitz rate for a non-Flores team is approximately 50%. Flores blitzed at that rate and then half again.<br />
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Jordan Love's success rate was below 30% through most of the first half — below the lowest full-season success rate in the league the prior year (Cleveland Browns, 41.6%). By the end of the game it had crept to just over 40%, at which point it no longer mattered. His failures included sacks, interceptions, and fumbles — outcomes where a low success rate compounds severely.<br />
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Arif concluded the blitz was working even during the periods when it looked bad, because the big-play outcomes were outliers within a pattern of consistent failure. He compared monitoring this to slot machine variance: the memorable moments were the successes, but the base rate of failure was the informative signal. Halftime adjustments appeared to include more defensive line stunts, enabling cleaner one-on-one matchups for Blake Cashman's blitzes and contributing to a fourth-quarter Dallas Turner sack-fumble series.<br />
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=== The Fourth Quarter ===<br />
The Vikings were down 12 with under 20 minutes to play. According to Opta Sports, they became the first team in NFL history to be trailing by 12 points with under 20 minutes remaining and win by 17 or more.<br />
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Key sequence of events in the comeback:<br />
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* Dallas Turner forced a fumble on a sack; Zach Bacobo-Welle recovered and carried it seven yards<br />
* Andrew Van Ginkel sacked Love again on the very next play, forced another fumble, recovered it himself, and nearly returned it for a touchdown before being stopped at the one by Bacobo-Welle — a man who had just earned his carry<br />
* Jordan Mason scored from one yard out — a '''Big Citrus''' goal-line run, notable for being exactly the kind of uncomplicated red-zone play Vikings fans had been requesting<br />
* Harrison Smith tipped a Jordan Love pass intended for a receiver; unaware the tip had been caught, he was frustrated until Josh Metellus informed him James Pierre had intercepted it<br />
* Justin Jefferson scored his second touchdown of the game, matching his total from the entire 2025 season, by stretching the ball across the goal line on a play that did not require the stretch but was funnier with it<br />
* '''Trey Smack''' missed an extra point and then kicked a 59-yard field goal<br />
* The Vikings lined up offside on the field goal, giving the Packers fourth and one<br />
* Jordan Love attempted a quarterback sneak into a gap occupied by a 340-pound defensive tackle ('''Big Citrus'''), having just taken points off the board. He did not convert. The Packers never scored again<br />
* Carson Wentz ran into his own lineman (McLellan, tripped by Carson Wentz, bracing so as not to fall on Carson Wentz), received a roughing the passer call, and the Vikings took a first down under the body-weight rule — '''the very rule the Packers had lobbied the league to implement'''<br />
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Aaron Jones scored his first career touchdown against the Packers. Christian Watson had 147 yards including an 81-yard touchdown early in the game, which Arif was required to acknowledge given his stated scepticism. Packers running back situation remained disorganised without Josh Jacobs, who had pled no contest to misdemeanor battery and criminal damage earlier in the week.<br />
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The Vikings-linear-Super-Bowl trophy, which had been at risk of ceasing to exist on a Packers win, is confirmed back in Vikings hands. Tracked by '''Alex Schulte''', who has been maintaining the tradition since its invention on the fly using rules neither host fully understands.<br />
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=== The Five Funniest Fourth-Quarter Moments ===<br />
Ranked by Arif and James, ascending:<br />
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'''5.''' Justin Jefferson's unnecessary-but-correct touchdown stretch — funny for no clear articulable reason<br />
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'''4.''' Andrew Van Ginkel's scoop and almost-score, stopped at the one by Zach Bacobo-Welle<br />
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'''3.''' Harrison Smith believing he had dropped a pick, being noticeably upset, and needing to be told by Josh Metellus that James Pierre caught the tip<br />
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'''2.''' The broadcast graphic reading "SIX INCHES TOO SHORT" — Arif noted some viewers would feel personally attacked<br />
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'''1.''' A Packers defender taking the body-weight rule — the rule the Packers lobbied the league to create — and using it to give the Vikings a free first down on a drive that produced the go-ahead score. The defender braced to avoid putting body weight on Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz had run into him.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Harmonica''' — Is the Vikings win a record for fewest passing yards with five or more offensive touchdowns? Arif ran the query on Stathead (games since 1935 with at least 5 TDs and 135 or fewer passing yards). Three pre-merger games had lower passing yard totals. Post-2000, there are 18 such games, including the Detroit Lions' 52-14 win over the Titans in 2024 (61 passing yards). The Vikings' performance ranks 121st all-time since 1935 — approximately one game of this character per year. Last year's entry was also against the Packers, by the Ravens.<br />
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* '''LeVar Bolsharif''' — Can the Packers recover from this many blown leads in the LaFleur era? Arif ran percentage of losses attributable to blown fourth-quarter leads since 2020. The Packers rank third (updated to include this game), behind the LA Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and ahead of the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions. Minnesota is average — capable of losing any number of ways, which is described as "one of the perks."<br />
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* '''Raul''' — Is there a statistic backing up the intuition that a dropped interception on the previous drive means a touchdown is coming? Arif asked all four available AI database tools. '''Sumer Brain''' acknowledged it couldn't track dropped picks and proxied with pass-defended plays — the second most likely outcome on those drives was another interception, confirming the "ball don't lie" theory statistically. '''NFL Pro's fantasy AI''' said it couldn't answer non-fantasy questions, offering start/sit advice instead. '''Iverson''' (FTN's AI) lost the query, then reported the question was "out of scope" because it was "not yet wired to live data." '''PFF Guru''': asked for Trey Pipkins, Kingsley Anikbari, Christian Wilkins, and two people named Kingsley. Sumer Brain was declared the winner by default, which both hosts found troubling.<br />
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* '''Raul''' — Which quarterback gets to four starts first? Arif: probably Carson Wentz. Dark horse: Jameis Winston, who was filmed applying a full gallon of cologne in the background of a Cam Akers interview in a manner that suggested he had taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque and was operating on a different physics than the rest of the NFL.<br />
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* '''Ricardo''' — Ranking Justis Mosqueda's all-time worst moments: (1) "Gavel Banger" — forgetting the word judge during the Packers preview, landing on "gavel banger" instead; (2) Bong rips; (3) Waking up four hours late for a recording he was supposed to join immediately after writing his injury report, having decided to take a nap with no notice.<br />
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* '''Kenneth Allen''' — What long-running bits should get closure before the finale? Arif: the baby witches — the precursor segment, pre-all-the-other-witch-stuff, that Arif was genuinely enthusiastic about and James was like "I guess we're doing this." James: retiring to open a beekeeping farm, or deciding to do sumo instead. Also from Kenneth Allen: where does Sunday's game rank among all-time drunk games? The Packers game last year, the Lions game two years ago, the Colts game, both Bills games — the field is competitive. This one is up there.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segall''' — Is the Vikings win a cruel trick, a ploy to ensnare fans in false reality like shadows on Plato's cave wall? Arif: yes, every time, that is correct, that is how this works. James speculated Kyle had tripped, hit his head, and briefly perceived the universe.<br />
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* '''Jack Rackham''' — Is Carson Wentz better than Drake Maye? No. Also: Wentz arrived to practice in a vehicle with expired Indiana license plates. Arif and James debated whether to report this to police, settling on waiting until after the season. The theory that Wentz breaks into a different beat-up car each morning with a slim jim was not dismissed.<br />
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* '''Yannick''' — Where does Carson Wentz rank among Arif's enemies after winning the Vikings' Super Bowl? Arif: Aaron Rodgers remains number one permanently. Carson Wentz is up there. Also in the top tier: Michael Kist, Justis Mosqueda, Ben Solak, several Eagles-adjacent figures. DrawPlayDave is described as a trickster deuteragonist — more Mr. Freeze than Joker.<br />
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* '''Bottoms Up Socrates''' — How did Justis's Packers preview predictions hold up? He was correct that: (1) the run game would go back to outside zone basics, (2) Christian Watson would be useful. He was incorrect about: (1) the score (50,000–3 Packers). He also declared Luke Getsy a sleeper cell, which remains unresolved.<br />
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* '''Jack''' — Why is pre-snap chaos unique to Vikings among McVay-disciple teams? Arif: it wasn't a notable problem under Kirk Cousins with Garrett Bradbury. It has emerged across multiple quarterbacks and centres since. Conclusion: your centre needs to play centre.<br />
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* '''Wince Messiah Complex''' — Is Carson Wentz a T-Rex quarterback? Arif: it's a slot machine. Most outcomes are bad. The good outcomes are good enough to keep pulling the lever until the lever breaks off.<br />
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* '''Alex''' — Does kickoff coverage still have problems? Can Myles Price's return game compensate? Arif: yes, and probably not. The Myles Price return is likely not a persistent indicator.<br />
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* '''Chandler''' — Five funniest fourth-quarter moments. Covered in game recap above.<br />
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* '''Minneapolis Cinnamon Cheerios''' — Can the Bears tire themselves out after a huge week-one score before facing the Vikings? Arif referenced the 2023 Broncos-Dolphins 70-point game, after which neither team sustained it. The Bears have publicly stated they want to break the NFL scoring record this year. Arif: teams that win big emotional games sometimes follow up badly, particularly the Vikings. The Bears being too happy is, in his experience, a bad sign.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — Which QB sneak was worse: Love this week or Cousins against the Bills in 2022? Arif: Cousins. Also from Room Temperature: what is the more impressive week-one feat — Justin Jefferson matching his 2025 touchdown total in one game, or the Jets matching their 2025 interception total in one game? Arif: Jefferson, but the Jets one is hilarious. Also from Room Temperature: being a lifelong Vikings fan gives you an attraction to partners with crazy eyes — what should this complex be called? Arif and James: '''The Theranos Complex'''. It sounds like a deadly disease. It is advertised six times during Monday Night Football. It is actually a cure for moderate to severe psoriasis. It is possibly something else. They will workshop it.<br />
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* '''Damian Bolsharif''' — Who is the bigger draft bust: JJ McCarthy at 10 or Brandon Aubrey in the Hell Leagues? James provided the Oops All Punters week-one update: Arif beat James 746–467. The highest score in the league was Kevin's 802. A close game occurred elsewhere at 385–382. The boards are beautiful. The league is perfect. Also: JJ McCarthy was inactive on Sunday, listed as emergency third-string quarterback. Start9.win has not updated to reflect this information.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' — Egg on face corner: Arif spent the offseason arguing Kyler was not injury-prone and that Start9's projections were wrong. Kyler was injured almost immediately. Arif: getting hit in the head without a helmet on is not an injury-proneness data point. Also: Start9.win assumed JJ McCarthy, if he lost the starting job, would have the backup job. He does not have the backup job.<br />
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* '''Andy''' — Minneapolis restaurant and bar recommendations: Matt's Bar (Juicy Lucy, mandatory, wait for it to cool down), Blue Door Pub (varied Juicy Lucy styles), Al's Breakfast in Dinkytown (cash, patience required), Tom's Watch Bar (all-day viewing), Poorhouse (great for watching all the games), Spoon and Stable (verify still open), 112 Eatery (downtown, small space, excellent food, reservations needed), Mayslacks. For the game itself: the Vikings Museum in Eagan was endorsed by James following a visit with his son.<br />
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* '''Francis Ford Copium''' — Grand Forks recommendations after ten years away: the Hub Pub (formerly the Hub, turned around, the water no longer causes illness, passes the dive test), Rhombus Guys, Up North in East Grand, Rumors for beer towers. University Avenue has expanded significantly. The new Memorial Union is impressive — James is a little jealous. A Hugo's grocery has opened in downtown, which is described as unsettling but functional. The open-air drug market behind Sled'sters has closed, for those who were planning around it.<br />
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* '''The Logic Dump''' — Son called the Packers "the Alpacas" during the game recap. Which other team deserves a rename? Arif: all 31 of them, universally. Denver Broncos → '''Boncos'''. James: his son thought the Vikings were called "the Teddies" after a Teddy Bridgewater shirt featuring a bear throwing a ball. James closed the episode: "go boncos."<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* '''Big Citrus''' — the Vikings defensive lineman Jordan Love chose to run a quarterback sneak directly into on fourth and one, having just taken three points off the board. He did not convert. The Packers never scored again<br />
* '''The Theranos Complex''' — a newly named psychological condition: an attraction to partners with crazy eyes, caused by prolonged exposure to Minnesota Vikings football<br />
* Kyle Segall joined Patreon for the final season. James thanked him for finding a lifeboat and boarding the Titanic as it went down<br />
* The '''Vikings-linear-Super-Bowl Trophy''' is confirmed alive and back in Viking hands, tracked by Alex Schulte<br />
* The Packers lobbied the NFL to implement the body weight rule. The body weight rule gave the Vikings a first down on the go-ahead drive<br />
* Arif's Oops All Punters team beat James 746–467 in week one. Kevin had the highest score in the league: 802<br />
* Carson Wentz has expired Indiana license plates on his vehicle. This has been noted for the record<br />
* Arif compared Brian Flores to a card counter in his Wide Left game review piece<br />
* James was in Castleton, North Dakota, at a bachelor party, next to a man in a probable knockoff Wentz jersey, who did not react when the interception happened because he already knew<br />
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[[Category:Season 2026]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_611&diff=498Episode 6112026-09-15T01:09:51Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 611 | title = The Answer Is Eric Hendricks, And I Will Not Explain Further | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = Justis Mosqueda | type = Regular Season }} '''Norse Code Episode 611: Scoop and the City''' was the season preview episode, covering the NFL International Series Australia game, Harrison Smith's re-signing, and a full Packers week-one preview recorded with Justis Mosqueda of Acme Packing Com..."</p>
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| guests = Justis Mosqueda<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 611: Scoop and the City''' was the season preview episode, covering the NFL International Series Australia game, Harrison Smith's re-signing, and a full Packers week-one preview recorded with Justis Mosqueda of Acme Packing Company. The mailbag included the inaugural Hell League kicker scandal, the Vikings-linear-Super-Bowl trophy update, Arif's cottage pie revelation, Aaron Rodgers and Sandy Hook, and the Nathan Fielder documentary. Justis Mosqueda, for the first time in recent memory, showed up on time.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The cold open covered the NFL's Australia game between the 49ers and Rams — the 49ers apparently immune to jet-lag science, the Rams' Netflix stream deteriorating progressively in resolution for Arif until a reload was required. Harrison Smith's re-signing was announced and discussed before the show's first guest interview of the season: Justis Mosqueda of Acme Packing Company, whom James DMed without censoring himself to confirm attendance. The mailbag ended with James refusing to explain the episode title.<br />
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== Segments ==<br />
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=== Cold Open: The Australia Game ===<br />
The NFL International Series game between the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams in Australia — streamed on Netflix — prompted discussion of the Rams' much-publicised sleep science preparation. The 49ers, the most-injured team in the league, came out looking energised regardless; the Rams were lethargic. Arif noted the irony with satisfaction, having predicted a Rams win. The Netflix stream suffered progressive resolution degradation for Arif throughout the game, requiring multiple reloads with no buffering or time lost, which he found infuriating. James experienced the opposite problem — extreme darkness and incorrect colour correction, attributing this to Australia having a literal visual filter over it, akin to Breaking Bad's Mexico sepia tone.<br />
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The sleep science discussion was addressed: Arif had initially prepared to defend the Rams' approach citing circadian rhythm research, noting that the 17-hour clock difference between the US West Coast and Australia resolves to 7 hours of actual circadian disruption given the international date line, meaning a week's preparation should theoretically solve it. The Rams losing made this defence difficult to deliver. He retained it as technically sound while acknowledging it was not helpful on the day.<br />
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=== Harrison Smith Re-Signs ===<br />
Harrison Smith signed a two-year deal with a cap hit of $3.4 million in year one and $8.4 million in year two ($11.8 million combined). Tom Pelissero reported an $8 million base; the actual structure is a $1.3 million base salary plus a $7 million signing bonus, with $4 million in per-game roster bonuses spread across the season. The maximum value is approximately $16 million. Arif reviewed active safety salaries and confirmed Smith ranks below Kyle Hamilton, Derwin James, Antoine Winfield, Kerby Joseph, Jessie Bates, and many others — including Josh Metellus and Julian Love — making overpay claims difficult to support.<br />
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Arif addressed the bot-heavy Twitter reply section under Tom Pelissero's tweet, where AI-generated accounts posing as sex workers had contextually replied with variations of "Vikings fans cheering a 37-year-old is why this franchise never wins anything." He walked through the mechanics: LLM bots reading images and video to generate contextual takes, generating engagement for Twitter payouts, harvesting session tokens from people who click the links. He noted they are often not run by the actual content creators whose material they use, and that clicking the links sometimes routes to paywalls or data-harvesting operations.<br />
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On fit: Smith's return frees Josh Metellus to operate closer to the line of scrimmage and in the box rather than playing a top-of-defence coverage role he is less suited for. It also creates creative space for Jay Ward deployments. Arif noted that if Jamal Adams had remained healthy, the roster construction would have been confusing — possibly moving Adams to a linebacker role — and concluded the injury, while unfortunate, led to a sensible outcome.<br />
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=== Packers Preview: Interview with Justis Mosqueda ===<br />
Arif conducted an interview with Justis Mosqueda of Acme Packing Company ahead of the season opener. James confirmed cursing was left in. Justis arrived before 10 AM, having proposed recording before the injury report given it would tell them nothing.<br />
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'''Offensive Line'''<br />
The Packers are transitioning back toward their traditional outside-zone, tempo-based identity after two to three offseasons of building toward inside-heavy, power-run blocking. Anthony Belton, a massive guard suited to the old system, has been repositioned at right tackle. Jacob Monk, a fifth-round rookie, is likely to start at right guard. Zach Tom is expected to play (partially torn patellar tendon last year, had surgery, timeline fits). Aaron Banks has knee tendinitis and may not complete 60 minutes — if he cannot go, Elgton Jenkins would likely slide in. Jordan Morgan is at left tackle, a position he played at Arizona before being misused inside. Sean Rhyan at centre — Justis proposed "Sean Rhyan, best centre in the NFC North" as a bit, which Arif confirmed might simply be true given Garrett Bradbury starting in Chicago and Juice Scruggs starting in Detroit.<br />
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'''Running Backs'''<br />
No primary ball carrier. Marshawn Lloyd has played ten NFL snaps going into year three, exclusively due to injury and pass-protection issues. Chris Brooks is a reliable pass-protection option averaging approximately two carries per game. Caleb Johnson is a rookie from Iowa with connections to multiple LaFleur staff members — coached by Tim Lester (former LaFleur analyst) and played under Arthur Smith (former LaFleur assistant in Tennessee). Justis assessed Lloyd and Johnson as likely to split touches roughly equally.<br />
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'''Breaking News: Josh Jacobs'''<br />
During the interview, news broke that Josh Jacobs had pled no contest to misdemeanor battery and criminal damage. He is ordered to avoid contact with the victim, attend counselling, and pay restitution. Jacobs' attorney confirmed he had already voluntarily begun counselling. Justis had previously consulted a Wisconsin district attorney about likely outcomes; the domestic-violence enhancer did not apply because Jacobs' girlfriend had not previously lived with him, which both hosts noted was a troubling legal threshold. Expected suspension: four to six games. The presiding judge was identified as a former Packers board member whose father also played for the team.<br />
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'''Receivers'''<br />
Jayden Reed as the primary weapon. Christian Watson confirmed as a true Z this year rather than moving around. Matthew Golden at the X — Arif noted this was an unusual body-type assignment but smart scheme-wise, citing Stefon Diggs as a precedent. Skyy Moore and Bo Melton as backups to Reed and Golden respectively. J. Michael Sturdivant — whose first name is legally J. Michael, his father being Michael Sturdivant Sr. — as likely backup to Watson. Arif noted Watson was 10th in yards per route run over the second half of last season but carries the deepest depth of target in the league, which could be a misfit if the offence does shift to shorter, rhythm-based throws.<br />
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'''Tight Ends'''<br />
Tucker Kraft healthy, assessed as the best skill-position player on the roster. May have been on a pitch count but likely ready for full usage given his ACL timeline. Luke Musgrave in his usual role. Mark Redman acquired as an inline blocker. John Fitzpatrick likely a healthy scratch, with Mark Redman doubling up his tight-end/fullback role.<br />
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'''Jordan Love vs. the Vikings'''<br />
Love's EPA per dropback against the Vikings turns negative — the only opponent split in which this occurs. Justis's solution: have Chris Brooks declete someone every play to keep Love clean. Arif proposed the Packers blitz to manufacture pass rush given the edge rusher room; Justis agreed Gannon has been blitzing more than Hafley, more than a typical Fangio-school coordinator, running heavy Cover 1 and Cover 3. Jonathan Gannon confirmed as having intel on Kyler Murray from his time in Arizona.<br />
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'''Defence: Jonathan Gannon's System'''<br />
Gannon leads the NFL in Quarters coverage since becoming a play-caller in Philadelphia, but also calls heavy Cover 1 and Cover 3. The '''Penny package''' — a 3-4 front replacing an inside linebacker with an extra defensive back — was explained: three true safeties, with Xavier McKinney operating 15 yards deep as a near-invisible post safety, Evan Williams and Javon Bullard below him. Arif compared it to Greg Williams's Browns defences.<br />
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'''Edge Rushers'''<br />
Lukas Van Ness (first career start last season — he never started at Iowa). Barryn Sorrell (run stopper, will play early downs). Brenton Cox Jr. '''Nique Dennis-Sutton''' — fourth-round pick, Penn State, 250 pounds, 4.6 forty, sub-7.3 three-cone. Justis wanted him in the first round. He overheated in practice early, missed two preseason games, then wrecked shop in the third. Arif confirmed for listeners: a 250-pound pass rusher with a sub-7.3 three-cone is a significant athletic outlier — these players typically develop into All-Pros. The Packers are rostering only four edge rushers; Dennis-Sutton will have to play significant snaps.<br />
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'''Cornerbacks'''<br />
Keisean Nixon at left corner. Bryce Cain likely at right corner with potential rotation from Carrington Valentine. Javon Bullard in the nickel. The Packers are institutionally resistant to playing first-round rookies — Lukas Van Ness made his first start in year three, average Packers first-round pick starts: six as a rookie. Benjamin St-Juste on the roster as emergency depth; Arif observed that if he sees St-Juste on the field at cornerback, something terrible has happened.<br />
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'''Kicker: Trey Smack'''<br />
Perfect in preseason, hitting from 56, 58, and 59 yards. Background: grew up in Severna Park, Maryland, was a lacrosse player, pivoted to kicking when COVID eliminated other training options, earned a scholarship to Florida. On the relevance of his name to his profession: a Smack That video exists; Justis noted the creator may currently be in prison. The judge who sentenced Jacobs was briefly referred to as a "capital smacker" before Justis admitted he had forgotten the word "judge."<br />
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'''Coaching Staff'''<br />
Described by Justis as "incestual" — every hire traceable to a prior personal or professional relationship with LaFleur or his coordinators. Key connections: Luke Getsy (quarterback coach, former offensive coordinator candidate, LaFleur's sleeper cell), DeMarcus Covington (promoted to assistant head coach), Noah Pauley (wide receivers, coaching fellowship alum), Sam Zeikel (defensive staff, former Gannon Arizona hire), Daniel Bullocks (cornerbacks, former Shanahan staffer), Bobby Babich (secondary coordinator, LaFleur's first DC interview candidate). Free-agent signings equally traceable: Skyy Moore (Shanahan), Javon Hargrave (Gannon), Tyler Taylor (Jason Vrable in Buffalo), Zaire Franklin (Gannon in Indianapolis), Caleb Johnson (Lester/Arthur Smith). LaFleur on record calling firing Joe Barry the hardest thing he has ever had to do.<br />
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'''Score Prediction'''<br />
Justis: Packers 50,000, Vikings 3.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Jack Rackham''' — Is JJ McCarthy better than Drake Maye? Arif: not close, Maye is better. Maye's three-interception game against the Seahawks ended with a positive EPA per play — his receivers dropped passes (including Romeo Doubs), his offensive line was poor, and his success rate was high relative to other bad-game performances. The picks were his fault; they don't define his level of play. Arif compared him to Josh Allen: high ceiling, sometimes low floor.<br />
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* '''Arif's Pet Jimothy''' — Is Kwesi vindicated for moving on from Darnold, who won a Super Bowl and then got injured? Arif: technically yes, that is what happened. Is it entirely Kwesi's fault? Not really. Is Kwesi vindicated? Not exactly. The Seahawks would take it every time.<br />
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* '''Damian Bolsharif''' — How much should we ask the Seahawks for when they inevitably ask about trading for JJ McCarthy? James: a seventh round pick and a bag of Dick's (the beloved Seattle burger chain, where Arif and James once biked from a bar to eat). The Rams announced Ty Simpson as their third-string quarterback before the Australia game, opening the door for a Ty Simpson/JJ McCarthy swap as an alternative.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segall''' — Where do we get James's sultry vocals and precise sound editing after Norse Code ends? James: he is a voice actor for hire. Also does PA announcing for athletic events, where his disagreement with calls can be detected by a slight upward inflection — "personal foul, number seven, golden eagle, that's his third team — foul" — identifiable as Ron Burgundy energy.<br />
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* '''Alex (Hell League corner)''' — Auto-drafted two Packers: Trey Smack and Jayden Reed. Should they be cut? James: the existential crisis is the point. Arif: requests an automatic loss if either is dropped while healthy. Also from Alex: '''The Five Kickers Incident''' — I Hate Carmel, Indiana had drafted five starting kickers (Spencer Shrader, Jake Bates, Nick Folk, Matt Gay, Chad Ryland) with only two bench spots remaining. James caught it, called it out in the league, and the perpetrator fixed it after making a Discord scene about thinking the first week was free. Also from Alex: '''Vikings-Linear-Super-Bowl Trophy Update''' — after their offseason half-life decay, the Vikings hold half a trophy. If the Packers win week one, the trophy ceases to exist. If the Vikings win, the Bears can acquire a trophy in week two. The Seahawks hold a quarter, the Commanders a quarter, the Falcons three-sixteenths. Arif and James confirmed they do not know the rules they themselves invented.<br />
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* '''Tank B''' — Arif's mother messaged James asking why the Vikings signed a 37-year-old safety. James ignored her for two days. Analogy for explaining Harrison Smith: Tom Cruise is 64 and still playing a perpetual 38-year-old in Mission: Impossible, still doing his own stunts, still running at full speed. That is Harrison Smith. The thetans help. Also from Tank B, culinary corner: Arif recently cooked '''cottage pie''' — ground beef, not lamb — with his ex. He confirmed this was, technically, cottage pie, not Shepherd's Pie, while acknowledging nobody calls it that. He also shared a pork tenderloin sauce recipe: brown pork tenderloin, add olive oil and butter to the pan, add a shallot, quarter cup of dry vermouth, two-thirds cup chicken broth, three tablespoons Dijon mustard, two-thirds cup heavy whipping cream, fresh basil and parsley. Described as one of the most delicious sauces capable of being applied to pork; the triple batch is in the freezer.<br />
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* '''Nolan Kehler''' — If Nolan beats Arif in their week-one Hell League matchup, will he have to pay a tariff? Arif: yes, just for that. James: raise your hand and swear allegiance and you're fine.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' — For the Definitions Corner: are Phoebe from Friends, Walter White, Michael Scott, and Lorelai Gilmore petite bourgeoisie? Is Walter White proletariat as a teacher and union member? Arif: class in the original Marxist and Smithian sense is about relationship to the means of production, not income. Walter White is technically both proletariat (his teaching knowledge is not owned by him) and petite bourgeoisie (he runs a small business, which, regardless of revenue, employs fewer than 50 people and therefore qualifies legally as a small business — making him eligible for Small Business Saturday). A Data for Progress poll showing 8% of Americans don't consider the nanny from The Nanny to be working class was cited as evidence of poll noise comparable to the Lizard Man hypothesis (4% of Gallup respondents believe lizard men control society — not because they do, but because 4% of people give nonsense answers to polls). Also from Arif's Midlife Crisis: James has insisted in the Discord he can fix Elizabeth Holmes, who is currently in prison. Nathan Fielder's documentary trailer was discussed — described as "an Olympic-sized swimming pool of crazy behind those eyes." Arif's counterposition: he can also fix her. James confirmed he would be toast within approximately one exchange.<br />
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* '''Raul''' — Playing a professional football game after a 15-hour flight is counterintuitive even if the science is unclear. See Australia game discussion. Also from Raul: parenting corner — eldest has started kindergarten in Carmel, Indiana, a competitive academic environment. How does she win kindergarten? Arif: be able to read, raise her hand first. James: revealed he himself skipped kindergarten. His parents brought him in to discuss it; the principal (Dr. Rankleff, remembered fondly) noted that kindergarten is for social development, not academics. During this maturity discussion, James stole a paperweight off the principal's desk and began tossing it. He was still allowed to skip. He was subsequently nearly held back in fourth grade.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — With Arif doing three podcasts this season (Norse Code, All Ball, 60 Minute Drill), is he winning the podcast Royal Rumble? Arif: he has not slept in 40 hours. He is losing by every measure.<br />
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* '''Minneapolis Cinnamon Cheerios''' — When can we expect James to start a podcast with David Roth? James proposed '''Scoop and the City''' with Dianna Russini. Arif immediately agreed this was the correct title.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For the Hypothetical Scenario Corner: would last year's Vikings be a playoff team if they'd ended up with Aaron Rodgers, and how much worse would Arif's mental health be? Arif: they might have won — last year had the talent. He would not have been talked into a second Rodgers season under any circumstances. If Rodgers had led a Super Bowl win it would be "the lowest leave-it-on-a-high-note moment in history," all Patreon bonus episodes would go to YouTube, and the remaining content would be Arif and James arguing about AI girlfriends. Also covered: Arif's column about Rodgers' Sandy Hook conspiracy beliefs — originally reported by Pamela Brown at CNN (Rodgers stated at the 2013 Kentucky Derby he didn't believe Sandy Hook happened, and separately a source reported he believed it was a false flag). Rodgers never denied the Kentucky Derby statement, only addressing one version of the conspiracy. Arif discussed the exhausting experience of having a reply in his mentions argue the CNN report was "unverified," a word they appeared not to understand. DK Metcalf's "shout out to my quarterback" post about Rodgers was the trigger.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For the Stadium Tour Corner: at which stadium are you allowed to sample the water from the urinal? Context: a sign at Levi's Stadium reads "WARNING: RECYCLED WATER, DO NOT DRINK" directly above a urinal. Arif concluded such signs exist because someone, at some point, did the thing the sign prohibits, invoking the no-boogie-boarding sign from How I Met Your Mother. The Lizard Man hypothesis was applied: if 4% of poll respondents believe lizard men control society, someone definitely drank the recycled urinal water at Levi's Stadium, possibly reasoning it came from a clean municipal source, or because they brought a dog. James noted it probably tastes like a Brita filter. The JMU bathroom with the window at the fifty-yard line was cited as a contrasting example of elite stadium bathroom design.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* Justis Mosqueda appeared on time. James noted he did not know what to do with this information<br />
* Arif made '''cottage pie''' (ground beef) with his ex and confirmed out loud that this is technically not [[Shepherd's Pie vs Cottage Pie|Shepherd's Pie]] — while also confirming nobody calls it cottage pie<br />
* '''I Hate Carmel, Indiana''' drafted five starting kickers in the Hell League simultaneously. This has been resolved but will not be forgotten<br />
* The '''Vikings-Linear-Super-Bowl Trophy''' is at half strength and ceases to exist if the Packers win week one<br />
* James skipped kindergarten after stealing a paperweight off the principal's desk during a discussion about his maturity<br />
* '''Scoop and the City''' — a James/Dianna Russini podcast — was named and immediately agreed upon. Has not been confirmed by anyone involved<br />
* Arif on three concurrent podcasts: Norse Code, All Ball (with Drew McGarry, The Defector), and 60 Minute Drill. He has not slept in 40 hours<br />
* James's closing statement: "the answer is Eric Hendricks, and I will not explain further"<br />
* Nique Dennis-Sutton — 250-pound Packers edge rusher with a sub-7.3 three-cone — flagged as a likely future star<br />
* Aaron Rodgers has thoughts on Matt LaFleur again, also revealed details about his relationship with Shailene Woodley that neither host wanted to know<br />
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 611|611]] || Scoop and the City || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==2019 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
==2018 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
==2017 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2016 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 115|115]] || Strong men also cry || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 67|67]] || Who goes to Manny's and doesn't have steak? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 610|610]] || Scoop and the City || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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==2019 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| title = I Yearn<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Regular Season<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 610: I Yearn''' was the first episode of the show's final regular season, covering the Kyle Van Noy signing, the official 53-man roster, a division-wide preview of the Bears and Lions, and a mailbag that included a full breakdown of competitive Pokémon, the Clippers salary cap scandal, Frutiger Aero, and the Dejan Love romance scam. The episode opened with Arif announcing his new podcast, '''All Ball''', with Drew McGarry at The Defector.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The cold open was dominated by the announcement that Arif would be co-hosting a new football podcast with Drew McGarry to replace The Distraction on The Defector's feed. The main episode covered the Kyle Van Noy practice squad signing, a detailed 53-man roster walkthrough, and a division preview of the Bears and Lions heading into week one. The mailbag ranged from cap math on Harrison Smith's potential return, to Bill Simmons's proxy betting scandal, to a detailed breakdown of Wolfe Glick's disappointing Pokémon World Championships run. The episode title emerged mid-show when Arif described his negotiating style with James as ending in "James, I'm yearning" — at which point both hosts confirmed it was the episode title.<br />
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== Segments ==<br />
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=== Cold Open: All Ball Announced ===<br />
Arif announced that Drew McGarry (formerly of Deadspin and The Defector) is ending '''The Distraction''' and has invited Arif to co-host a new podcast called '''All Ball''' in its place. The show will be football-only — matchups, players, techniques — with no gambling lines or fantasy content. The first episode records the following week. A voiced intro has already been recorded. The show will run weekly during the season and figure out the offseason format as it goes.<br />
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James noted Awful Announcing has an existing Arif Hasan tag, sitting below Pablo Torre and above Stephen A. Smith, which Arif found disconcerting. The Deadspin collapse was briefly relitigated — the comment section of the Awful Announcing piece blamed Deadspin for its own death, a position both hosts dismissed given the documented involvement of Peter Thiel and the Hulk Hogan lawsuit.<br />
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Justis Mosqueda was announced as the guest for the following episode. James DMed him immediately without censoring himself. Arif noted Mosqueda had previously missed a recording by four hours after deciding to nap following the Thursday injury report, woke up hours later, and hopped on as if nothing had happened.<br />
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=== Kyle Van Noy Signing ===<br />
Van Noy signed to the practice squad — not the active roster — making the signing less dramatic than it appeared. He can be promoted up to four times before requiring a full roster spot, and Arif expected him to be a regular game-day elevation.<br />
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Van Noy's history with Brian Flores is extensive: Miami Dolphins 2020, and prior to that New England, where the question of who was actually running the defence between Bill and Steve Belichick was always murky. Steve Belichick was briefly noted as having resigned from North Carolina amid a recruiting staff scandal that Arif described as significantly worse than what was publicly known.<br />
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Van Noy's 2020 Dolphins usage was highly versatile — 246 pass-rush snaps, 254 coverage snaps, 31 pressures, five sacks — exactly the Flores defence mould. His 2024 pressure total (27) was down from his peak years (52 in 2022, 48 in 2023), suggesting some decline, but the fit within the system's required versatility is more relevant than raw output. The signing was also a direct response to Tyler Batty's season-ending injury. Arif assessed him as a partial Jamal Adams replacement in usage terms, with some of Adams' snaps going to Van Noy, some to Jaye Ngata, some to Jay Ward, and some to Josh Metellus.<br />
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=== The 53-Man Roster ===<br />
Arif's full assessment of the final roster:<br />
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'''Quarterbacks''': The team briefly carried four before settling on three — Kyler Murray, Carson Wentz, and JJ McCarthy. Max Brosmer on the practice squad. Arif's read was that the Vikings were still seeking a trade partner for McCarthy, kept Brosmer on the roster temporarily to ensure three QBs remained during any trade window, and ultimately kept McCarthy because he offered more upside than Brosmer and someone would likely take a flyer on a former first-round pick.<br />
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'''Tight ends''': Both Gavin Bartholomew and Ben Yurosek made the team, which was a minor surprise — four tight ends kept. Bryson Nesbit also on the roster.<br />
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'''Offensive line''': Walter Rouse was traded away, which Arif noted was the rare Vikings trade where reporters covering the receiving team reached out to confirm the player was actually good. Trevor Keegan and Nick Samac were added via waivers — both capable of snapping the ball, which was apparently the priority. Caleb Tiernan kept despite poor preseason performance (third-round pick protections). Ryan Vandermark assessed as deserving a roster spot.<br />
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'''Running backs''': Deone Claiborne made it; Xavier Gipson did not and was claimed by the Chicago Bears. Arif assessed Claiborne as the correct call despite Gipson being the better runner, given Gipson's catastrophic pass-protection issues.<br />
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'''Wide receivers''': No surprises. Myles Price and Ty Felton locked in. Dylan Bell briefly made the 53 before being waived to accommodate the offensive linemen added via waivers.<br />
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'''Defensive tackles''': Six kept, including Elijah Williams, who Arif had been uncertain about given competition. Ceriah Doakins confirmed as a defensive tackle. Caleb Banks on the team but the subject of a Wide Left piece titled "Easy Time to Panic About Caleb Banks." Jalen Redmond, Levi Drake Rodriguez, and Doakins likely the starting three.<br />
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'''Edge''': Chas Chambliss kept — described as someone the coaching staff was clearly never going to cut. Bo Richter kept after Tyler Batty's season-ending injury. Kyle Van Noy on the practice squad as edge three.<br />
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'''Cornerbacks''': Five kept. Nazir Stackhouse as the fifth corner; Devon Armstead did not make it. Chuck Dennis fighting for CB3 as anticipated.<br />
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'''Safeties''': Jay Ward's versatility noted again. Jacoby Thomas confirmed as third-round pick, expected to contribute.<br />
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=== Around the Division ===<br />
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'''Chicago Bears'''<br />
Drew Dalman retired abruptly, forcing the Bears to sign Garrett Bradbury — leading Arif to observe that Bradbury might now be, improbably, the best centre in the NFC North. DJ Moore traded to the Buffalo Bills. The Bears' secondary is a disaster zone: no Daunte Manning, no Kobe Bryant (just signed, now injured), Kyler Gordon out. Tyrique Stevenson starting at corner — the player who trash-talked during a Hail Mary that directly preceded a legendary Bears collapse. Ahmed Hassanein, their third-string edge rusher, briefly profiled as a former internationally competitive CrossFit athlete who may be eligible for an O-1 extraordinary-ability visa, and who brings a level of practice-field energy both hosts admired.<br />
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'''Detroit Lions'''<br />
Both Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch began the year on PUP at safety, leaving Chuck Clark and Avonte Maddox as the starters — thin by Lions standards. Derrick Moore, their second-round edge rusher, drew scepticism from Arif (PFF preseason grade of 70.9, two pressures in 25 snaps). Kade Mays injured at centre; Juice Scruggs (acquired from Houston) starting in his place. Penei Sewell moved from right to left tackle. Tate Ratledge flagged as a year-two breakout candidate. Jameson Williams has posted two 1,000-yard seasons that Arif noted were better than his reputation suggested — but not as good as his statistics suggested. Jordan Addison has yet to post a single 1,000-yard season. Isaac TeSlaa assessed as a bad third receiver. Jahmyr Gibbs identified as the highest-paid running back in the league. Jack Fox lauded as an outstanding punter.<br />
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=== Punter Update ===<br />
Brett Thorson won the punter battle over Johnny Hekker. Critically: he can hold. James observed this with a tone suggesting mild existential unease.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Nick Howard''' — Why is Max Brosmer back, even as a practice-squad quarterback? Arif: it is difficult to identify more than 100 people currently willing and able to play quarterback better than Brosmer. That number does not include retired legends. Those who might beat him at rank 60–140 don't know the offense. Nick Mullens would have been preferable on the practice squad, but the decision is not unreasonable.<br />
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* '''Will Melvin''' — If Harrison Smith were to return, what date would make the most sense? Arif: any time after week one. Veterans signed after the first game carry a lower cap hit relative to guaranteed money — the team commits less while paying the veteran minimum. Smith's role also differs significantly from Jamal Adams', making him a genuine fit question rather than a direct replacement.<br />
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* '''Free9''' — CJ Stroud turned down $50 million per year seeking $60 million. What will JJ McCarthy demand when his contract expires? Arif: the $50 million figure is not as remarkable as it sounds — the salary cap has nearly doubled since Kirk Cousins signed his $30 million fully-guaranteed contract in 2018 ($177M cap then vs $300M now). Cousins would command over $60M today. Stroud wanting $50M+ as a solid top-half quarterback is reasonable. McCarthy will not be signing a second contract with the Vikings, so the comparison is moot.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For Hamez's Hell League corner: Yahoo is advertising Cameo appearances for fantasy draft order picks. What is the most inappropriate celebrity to hire for this? James and Arif landed on Reggie Watts — available for $123 — given the Rolling Stone allegations, which Arif described as "catastrophically bad" and "bone-chilling" behind a promotional tweet Rolling Stone framed as merely him being a bad boyfriend. Jonathan Frakes from Ripley's Believe It or Not was proposed as a wholesome alternative.<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — Where does this year rank in weirdness of vibes heading into the season? The hosts reviewed the full show history: 2013 (weird, early Peterson uncertainties), 2014 (least weird — new coach, adorable quarterback, medical flag was that his heart was too big), 2016 (Teddy Bridgewater's injury), 2018 (Kirk Cousins stink), 2020–2021 (COVID, least-vaccinated team in the league, the popemobile proposal), 2022 (cautious optimism for KOC). Assessment: 2026 is a low-weirdness-vibe year by historical standards. The J.J. McCarthy situation does not reach the level of a quarterback's knee exploding or the impending doom of Mike Zimmer.<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — Browns/Deshaun Watson versus Clippers/Kawhi Leonard — which is the worse trade-plus-contract situation? Context: the NBA imposed five first-round pick forfeitures, a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer, a $700,000 fine to Kawhi Leonard, a one-year ban on Ballmer from his own arena, and suspensions for the GM and VP. Arif: Deshaun Watson. The Clippers' situation is damaging but not terminal — they can still be competitive eventually, and Kawhi Leonard seems cool. The Browns cannot escape Watson, cannot get rid of him due to the contract structure, and Jimmy Haslam is in a different category of detestable. ESPN's handling was also criticised: a Dan Van Natta/Ramona Shelburne piece two weeks earlier had said no sanctions were coming; Shelburne had conducted a sit-down interview with Steve Ballmer and never pressed him on the investigation. Pablo Torre, who had reported the story correctly and received significant public abuse for it, was vindicated.<br />
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* '''Damian Bolsharif''' — For Dusty's gambling corner: which host is most likely to be caught placing proxy bets? Answer established: Arif. Follow-up: which inappropriate acquaintance would he use to place them, and why is the answer James's ex-wife? Arif confirmed the answer was actually one of his own exes, and described his decision-making process as: James lists every reason it is a catastrophically bad idea, Arif says "yeah, James, you're right, James, I get it, James, I'm yearning." Both hosts confirmed "I'm yearning" as the episode title. James proposed "Who Hurt You" as an alternative. Bill Simmons's proxy betting situation — which involved encouraging his daughter's boyfriend to place bets on his behalf, multiple laws violated, all bets cancelled, a FanDuel relationship under review, and no apology to Pablo Torre — was covered as context.<br />
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* '''Kenneth Allen''' — Will All Ball be better with a good or bad Viking season? Arif: the dynamic differs from Norse Code — Arif converts Viking misery into comedy as a defence mechanism; Drew McGarry actually feels the pain and gets annoyed at that approach. The podcast will probably be more entertaining with a bad season, but a good season might get Arif sent to a playoff game at The Defector's expense, which he stated publicly and without consulting anyone at The Defector.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' — For the All Ball corner: the trailer sounds like the Dragon Ball Z intro guy. Is this a podcast about Dragon Ball Z? James refused to confirm or deny watching anime. Arif did not extend him that courtesy, describing James as having "lied to the audience about this for years" and declining to provide cover. James suggested asking Roger Ebert's ChatGPT for a summary of the Frieza arc.<br />
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* '''Village YAC Monger''' — What is the ideal aesthetic for digital media — Frutiger Aero or Global Village Coffeehouse? James described Frutiger Aero as the Windows Vista glass aesthetic — rounded, shiny, semi-translucent — still solid design principles, just dated. Global Village Coffeehouse was described as late-90s warm browns and oranges, cluttered clip-art energy, the visual language of Microsoft Encarta, the label on a CD-ROM. Arif: Frutiger Aero is actually good design and merely dated; Global Village Coffeehouse is not objectively good design but triggered a profound nostalgia wave, partly because Arif grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota, which runs a few years behind the rest of the country aesthetically. He discovered an active subreddit for this during recording and had a moment. Both agreed examples would be in the show notes. Amazon Trail 2 was cited as the spiritual home of the Global Village Coffeehouse aesthetic.<br />
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* '''LeVar''' — For the Lenin-Bron corner: what quote would make you quit your job as a newspaper editor and lead a Georgian socialist revolution? Arif: Karl Marx is, surprisingly, an outstanding writer in his letters and the Manifesto — not in Capital, which is academic — and has genuinely sick burns. He had not looked up a specific quote pre-show. James's actual answer: something in Eve 6's "Here's to the Night." Arif noted Max Collins has since disowned those lyrics, calling this devastating.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segall''' — How weird is it to do a podcast you know is ending — is it like going back to work after the doctor tells you you've only got a few months to live? Arif answered via the story of a woman he briefly dated who had been misdiagnosed with a terminal illness for a year. He learned about it from his roommate, processed this by sending her a Facebook Messenger message that said "hey, so you're dying?" She confirmed she was not dying. She had been told she was fine weeks earlier. Arif asked if she was suing. She said she was alive. He said he understood. The relationship did not last. Arif's current assessment: doing the podcast does not feel like putting gas in a car he has already wrecked. The Drew McGarry announcement made him genuinely excited.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — In your younger days, how many women could you have scammed into thinking you were a pro athlete? James: before college he was unreasonably fit for his activity level, had a six-pack for unclear reasons, could run faster and lift more than expected, but high school debate consumed the years when this might have mattered. Would have passed as a UND walk-on at best. Arif: as someone who has been 6'4"–6'5" for most of his life and is extremely online, probably could have done what Dejan Love did — a romance scammer who distributed turkey giveaways on Instagram with no location or time listed, scammed at least 26 women out of a combined $1.3 million, and earned grudging respect for the depth of his commitment to the bit. Arif appeared on an episode of Kill the Computer with James (the podcast host, not James Pogatshnik) covering the story in detail.<br />
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* '''Deez''' — For the VGC corner: break down Wolfe Glick's most recent tournament team and why it came up short, using language only two percent of listeners will understand. Arif confirmed this is about competitive Pokémon, specifically the official doubles format (VGC). He described Wolfe Glick as by most measures the greatest player in the history of the format and by far its most popular content creator. Arif noted he had reached the top 8,000 on the ranked ladder two weeks prior, which he considers a personal landmark. Glick's tournament team: Mega Staraptor, Tyranitar, Excadrill, Gholdengo, Fuecoco, Whimsicott. An off-meta sand team bringing both Tailwind and Trick Room — exceptionally difficult to pilot. The team was strong into the dominant "Big Six" meta (Charizard, Florges, Basculegion, Kingambit, Whimsicott, Garchomp) but had significant elemental weaknesses and required near-perfect execution. Glick went 5-3 with the second-most difficult schedule of anyone finishing 5-3, placing 59th. Arif expects a postmortem video in a couple of months and noted Glick has, without exaggeration, reframed his relationship to competition more than any other competitor he has encountered.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* '''All Ball''' is announced — Arif's new weekly football podcast with Drew McGarry at The Defector, replacing The Distraction<br />
* Arif is writing a book. It has not been written yet. It will be published in approximately two years. Everything will go sideways<br />
* Brett Thorson won the punter battle. He can hold<br />
* [[Xavier Gipson]] was claimed by the Chicago Bears off waivers<br />
* Walter Rouse was traded; reporters covering the receiving team reached out to confirm he was good, which Arif described as a recurring and slightly surreal pattern in his career<br />
* Bill Simmons's proxy betting situation covered in detail — FanDuel relationship under review, no apology to Pablo Torre<br />
* The Clippers lost five first-round picks and $30 million; Steve Ballmer is banned from his own arena for a calendar year<br />
* Arif reached the top 8,000 on the Pokémon Champions ranked ladder two weeks prior to recording. He is no longer there. The moment was great<br />
* Eve 6's "Here's to the Night" remains the correct answer to most questions involving personal motivation and socialist revolution<br />
* Global Village Coffeehouse has a subreddit. Arif discovered this live on air and had to take a moment<br />
* The episode title "I'm Yearning" was confirmed mid-mailbag; "Who Hurt You" was proposed as an alternative and rejected<br />
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<div>{{EpisodeInfobox<br />
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| title = I'm Yearning<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Regular Season<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 610: I'm Yearning''' was the first episode of the show's final regular season, covering the Kyle Van Noy signing, the official 53-man roster, a division-wide preview of the Bears and Lions, and a mailbag that included a full breakdown of competitive Pokémon, the Clippers salary cap scandal, Frutiger Aero, and the Dejan Love romance scam. The episode opened with Arif announcing his new podcast, '''All Ball''', with Drew McGarry at The Defector.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The cold open was dominated by the announcement that Arif would be co-hosting a new football podcast with Drew McGarry to replace The Distraction on The Defector's feed. The main episode covered the Kyle Van Noy practice squad signing, a detailed 53-man roster walkthrough, and a division preview of the Bears and Lions heading into week one. The mailbag ranged from cap math on Harrison Smith's potential return, to Bill Simmons's proxy betting scandal, to a detailed breakdown of Wolfe Glick's disappointing Pokémon World Championships run. The episode title emerged mid-show when Arif described his negotiating style with James as ending in "James, I'm yearning" — at which point both hosts confirmed it was the episode title.<br />
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== Segments ==<br />
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=== Cold Open: All Ball Announced ===<br />
Arif announced that Drew McGarry (formerly of Deadspin and The Defector) is ending '''The Distraction''' and has invited Arif to co-host a new podcast called '''All Ball''' in its place. The show will be football-only — matchups, players, techniques — with no gambling lines or fantasy content. The first episode records the following week. A voiced intro has already been recorded. The show will run weekly during the season and figure out the offseason format as it goes.<br />
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James noted Awful Announcing has an existing Arif Hasan tag, sitting below Pablo Torre and above Stephen A. Smith, which Arif found disconcerting. The Deadspin collapse was briefly relitigated — the comment section of the Awful Announcing piece blamed Deadspin for its own death, a position both hosts dismissed given the documented involvement of Peter Thiel and the Hulk Hogan lawsuit.<br />
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Justis Mosqueda was announced as the guest for the following episode. James DMed him immediately without censoring himself. Arif noted Mosqueda had previously missed a recording by four hours after deciding to nap following the Thursday injury report, woke up hours later, and hopped on as if nothing had happened.<br />
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=== Kyle Van Noy Signing ===<br />
Van Noy signed to the practice squad — not the active roster — making the signing less dramatic than it appeared. He can be promoted up to four times before requiring a full roster spot, and Arif expected him to be a regular game-day elevation.<br />
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Van Noy's history with Brian Flores is extensive: Miami Dolphins 2020, and prior to that New England, where the question of who was actually running the defence between Bill and Steve Belichick was always murky. Steve Belichick was briefly noted as having resigned from North Carolina amid a recruiting staff scandal that Arif described as significantly worse than what was publicly known.<br />
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Van Noy's 2020 Dolphins usage was highly versatile — 246 pass-rush snaps, 254 coverage snaps, 31 pressures, five sacks — exactly the Flores defence mould. His 2024 pressure total (27) was down from his peak years (52 in 2022, 48 in 2023), suggesting some decline, but the fit within the system's required versatility is more relevant than raw output. The signing was also a direct response to Tyler Batty's season-ending injury. Arif assessed him as a partial Jamal Adams replacement in usage terms, with some of Adams' snaps going to Van Noy, some to Jaye Ngata, some to Jay Ward, and some to Josh Metellus.<br />
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=== The 53-Man Roster ===<br />
Arif's full assessment of the final roster:<br />
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'''Quarterbacks''': The team briefly carried four before settling on three — Kyler Murray, Carson Wentz, and JJ McCarthy. Max Brosmer on the practice squad. Arif's read was that the Vikings were still seeking a trade partner for McCarthy, kept Brosmer on the roster temporarily to ensure three QBs remained during any trade window, and ultimately kept McCarthy because he offered more upside than Brosmer and someone would likely take a flyer on a former first-round pick.<br />
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'''Tight ends''': Both Gavin Bartholomew and Ben Yurosek made the team, which was a minor surprise — four tight ends kept. Bryson Nesbit also on the roster.<br />
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'''Offensive line''': Walter Rouse was traded away, which Arif noted was the rare Vikings trade where reporters covering the receiving team reached out to confirm the player was actually good. Trevor Keegan and Nick Samac were added via waivers — both capable of snapping the ball, which was apparently the priority. Caleb Tiernan kept despite poor preseason performance (third-round pick protections). Ryan Vandermark assessed as deserving a roster spot.<br />
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'''Running backs''': Deone Claiborne made it; Xavier Gipson did not and was claimed by the Chicago Bears. Arif assessed Claiborne as the correct call despite Gipson being the better runner, given Gipson's catastrophic pass-protection issues.<br />
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'''Wide receivers''': No surprises. Myles Price and Ty Felton locked in. Dylan Bell briefly made the 53 before being waived to accommodate the offensive linemen added via waivers.<br />
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'''Defensive tackles''': Six kept, including Elijah Williams, who Arif had been uncertain about given competition. Ceriah Doakins confirmed as a defensive tackle. Caleb Banks on the team but the subject of a Wide Left piece titled "Easy Time to Panic About Caleb Banks." Jalen Redmond, Levi Drake Rodriguez, and Doakins likely the starting three.<br />
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'''Edge''': Chas Chambliss kept — described as someone the coaching staff was clearly never going to cut. Bo Richter kept after Tyler Batty's season-ending injury. Kyle Van Noy on the practice squad as edge three.<br />
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'''Cornerbacks''': Five kept. Nazir Stackhouse as the fifth corner; Devon Armstead did not make it. Chuck Dennis fighting for CB3 as anticipated.<br />
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'''Safeties''': Jay Ward's versatility noted again. Jacoby Thomas confirmed as third-round pick, expected to contribute.<br />
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=== Around the Division ===<br />
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'''Chicago Bears'''<br />
Drew Dalman retired abruptly, forcing the Bears to sign Garrett Bradbury — leading Arif to observe that Bradbury might now be, improbably, the best centre in the NFC North. DJ Moore traded to the Buffalo Bills. The Bears' secondary is a disaster zone: no Daunte Manning, no Kobe Bryant (just signed, now injured), Kyler Gordon out. Tyrique Stevenson starting at corner — the player who trash-talked during a Hail Mary that directly preceded a legendary Bears collapse. Ahmed Hassanein, their third-string edge rusher, briefly profiled as a former internationally competitive CrossFit athlete who may be eligible for an O-1 extraordinary-ability visa, and who brings a level of practice-field energy both hosts admired.<br />
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'''Detroit Lions'''<br />
Both Kerby Joseph and Brian Branch began the year on PUP at safety, leaving Chuck Clark and Avonte Maddox as the starters — thin by Lions standards. Derrick Moore, their second-round edge rusher, drew scepticism from Arif (PFF preseason grade of 70.9, two pressures in 25 snaps). Kade Mays injured at centre; Juice Scruggs (acquired from Houston) starting in his place. Penei Sewell moved from right to left tackle. Tate Ratledge flagged as a year-two breakout candidate. Jameson Williams has posted two 1,000-yard seasons that Arif noted were better than his reputation suggested — but not as good as his statistics suggested. Jordan Addison has yet to post a single 1,000-yard season. Isaac TeSlaa assessed as a bad third receiver. Jahmyr Gibbs identified as the highest-paid running back in the league. Jack Fox lauded as an outstanding punter.<br />
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=== Punter Update ===<br />
Brett Thorson won the punter battle over Johnny Hekker. Critically: he can hold. James observed this with a tone suggesting mild existential unease.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Nick Howard''' — Why is Max Brosmer back, even as a practice-squad quarterback? Arif: it is difficult to identify more than 100 people currently willing and able to play quarterback better than Brosmer. That number does not include retired legends. Those who might beat him at rank 60–140 don't know the offense. Nick Mullens would have been preferable on the practice squad, but the decision is not unreasonable.<br />
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* '''Will Melvin''' — If Harrison Smith were to return, what date would make the most sense? Arif: any time after week one. Veterans signed after the first game carry a lower cap hit relative to guaranteed money — the team commits less while paying the veteran minimum. Smith's role also differs significantly from Jamal Adams', making him a genuine fit question rather than a direct replacement.<br />
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* '''Free9''' — CJ Stroud turned down $50 million per year seeking $60 million. What will JJ McCarthy demand when his contract expires? Arif: the $50 million figure is not as remarkable as it sounds — the salary cap has nearly doubled since Kirk Cousins signed his $30 million fully-guaranteed contract in 2018 ($177M cap then vs $300M now). Cousins would command over $60M today. Stroud wanting $50M+ as a solid top-half quarterback is reasonable. McCarthy will not be signing a second contract with the Vikings, so the comparison is moot.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For Hamez's Hell League corner: Yahoo is advertising Cameo appearances for fantasy draft order picks. What is the most inappropriate celebrity to hire for this? James and Arif landed on Reggie Watts — available for $123 — given the Rolling Stone allegations, which Arif described as "catastrophically bad" and "bone-chilling" behind a promotional tweet Rolling Stone framed as merely him being a bad boyfriend. Jonathan Frakes from Ripley's Believe It or Not was proposed as a wholesome alternative.<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — Where does this year rank in weirdness of vibes heading into the season? The hosts reviewed the full show history: 2013 (weird, early Peterson uncertainties), 2014 (least weird — new coach, adorable quarterback, medical flag was that his heart was too big), 2016 (Teddy Bridgewater's injury), 2018 (Kirk Cousins stink), 2020–2021 (COVID, least-vaccinated team in the league, the popemobile proposal), 2022 (cautious optimism for KOC). Assessment: 2026 is a low-weirdness-vibe year by historical standards. The J.J. McCarthy situation does not reach the level of a quarterback's knee exploding or the impending doom of Mike Zimmer.<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — Browns/Deshaun Watson versus Clippers/Kawhi Leonard — which is the worse trade-plus-contract situation? Context: the NBA imposed five first-round pick forfeitures, a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer, a $700,000 fine to Kawhi Leonard, a one-year ban on Ballmer from his own arena, and suspensions for the GM and VP. Arif: Deshaun Watson. The Clippers' situation is damaging but not terminal — they can still be competitive eventually, and Kawhi Leonard seems cool. The Browns cannot escape Watson, cannot get rid of him due to the contract structure, and Jimmy Haslam is in a different category of detestable. ESPN's handling was also criticised: a Dan Van Natta/Ramona Shelburne piece two weeks earlier had said no sanctions were coming; Shelburne had conducted a sit-down interview with Steve Ballmer and never pressed him on the investigation. Pablo Torre, who had reported the story correctly and received significant public abuse for it, was vindicated.<br />
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* '''Damian Bolsharif''' — For Dusty's gambling corner: which host is most likely to be caught placing proxy bets? Answer established: Arif. Follow-up: which inappropriate acquaintance would he use to place them, and why is the answer James's ex-wife? Arif confirmed the answer was actually one of his own exes, and described his decision-making process as: James lists every reason it is a catastrophically bad idea, Arif says "yeah, James, you're right, James, I get it, James, I'm yearning." Both hosts confirmed "I'm yearning" as the episode title. James proposed "Who Hurt You" as an alternative. Bill Simmons's proxy betting situation — which involved encouraging his daughter's boyfriend to place bets on his behalf, multiple laws violated, all bets cancelled, a FanDuel relationship under review, and no apology to Pablo Torre — was covered as context.<br />
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* '''Kenneth Allen''' — Will All Ball be better with a good or bad Viking season? Arif: the dynamic differs from Norse Code — Arif converts Viking misery into comedy as a defence mechanism; Drew McGarry actually feels the pain and gets annoyed at that approach. The podcast will probably be more entertaining with a bad season, but a good season might get Arif sent to a playoff game at The Defector's expense, which he stated publicly and without consulting anyone at The Defector.<br />
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* '''Arif's Midlife Crisis''' — For the All Ball corner: the trailer sounds like the Dragon Ball Z intro guy. Is this a podcast about Dragon Ball Z? James refused to confirm or deny watching anime. Arif did not extend him that courtesy, describing James as having "lied to the audience about this for years" and declining to provide cover. James suggested asking Roger Ebert's ChatGPT for a summary of the Frieza arc.<br />
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* '''Village YAC Monger''' — What is the ideal aesthetic for digital media — Frutiger Aero or Global Village Coffeehouse? James described Frutiger Aero as the Windows Vista glass aesthetic — rounded, shiny, semi-translucent — still solid design principles, just dated. Global Village Coffeehouse was described as late-90s warm browns and oranges, cluttered clip-art energy, the visual language of Microsoft Encarta, the label on a CD-ROM. Arif: Frutiger Aero is actually good design and merely dated; Global Village Coffeehouse is not objectively good design but triggered a profound nostalgia wave, partly because Arif grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota, which runs a few years behind the rest of the country aesthetically. He discovered an active subreddit for this during recording and had a moment. Both agreed examples would be in the show notes. Amazon Trail 2 was cited as the spiritual home of the Global Village Coffeehouse aesthetic.<br />
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* '''LeVar''' — For the Lenin-Bron corner: what quote would make you quit your job as a newspaper editor and lead a Georgian socialist revolution? Arif: Karl Marx is, surprisingly, an outstanding writer in his letters and the Manifesto — not in Capital, which is academic — and has genuinely sick burns. He had not looked up a specific quote pre-show. James's actual answer: something in Eve 6's "Here's to the Night." Arif noted Max Collins has since disowned those lyrics, calling this devastating.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segall''' — How weird is it to do a podcast you know is ending — is it like going back to work after the doctor tells you you've only got a few months to live? Arif answered via the story of a woman he briefly dated who had been misdiagnosed with a terminal illness for a year. He learned about it from his roommate, processed this by sending her a Facebook Messenger message that said "hey, so you're dying?" She confirmed she was not dying. She had been told she was fine weeks earlier. Arif asked if she was suing. She said she was alive. He said he understood. The relationship did not last. Arif's current assessment: doing the podcast does not feel like putting gas in a car he has already wrecked. The Drew McGarry announcement made him genuinely excited.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — In your younger days, how many women could you have scammed into thinking you were a pro athlete? James: before college he was unreasonably fit for his activity level, had a six-pack for unclear reasons, could run faster and lift more than expected, but high school debate consumed the years when this might have mattered. Would have passed as a UND walk-on at best. Arif: as someone who has been 6'4"–6'5" for most of his life and is extremely online, probably could have done what Dejan Love did — a romance scammer who distributed turkey giveaways on Instagram with no location or time listed, scammed at least 26 women out of a combined $1.3 million, and earned grudging respect for the depth of his commitment to the bit. Arif appeared on an episode of Kill the Computer with James (the podcast host, not James Pogatshnik) covering the story in detail.<br />
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* '''Deez''' — For the VGC corner: break down Wolfe Glick's most recent tournament team and why it came up short, using language only two percent of listeners will understand. Arif confirmed this is about competitive Pokémon, specifically the official doubles format (VGC). He described Wolfe Glick as by most measures the greatest player in the history of the format and by far its most popular content creator. Arif noted he had reached the top 8,000 on the ranked ladder two weeks prior, which he considers a personal landmark. Glick's tournament team: Mega Staraptor, Tyranitar, Excadrill, Gholdengo, Fuecoco, Whimsicott. An off-meta sand team bringing both Tailwind and Trick Room — exceptionally difficult to pilot. The team was strong into the dominant "Big Six" meta (Charizard, Florges, Basculegion, Kingambit, Whimsicott, Garchomp) but had significant elemental weaknesses and required near-perfect execution. Glick went 5-3 with the second-most difficult schedule of anyone finishing 5-3, placing 59th. Arif expects a postmortem video in a couple of months and noted Glick has, without exaggeration, reframed his relationship to competition more than any other competitor he has encountered.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* '''All Ball''' is announced — Arif's new weekly football podcast with Drew McGarry at The Defector, replacing The Distraction<br />
* Arif is writing a book. It has not been written yet. It will be published in approximately two years. Everything will go sideways<br />
* Brett Thorson won the punter battle. He can hold<br />
* [[Xavier Gipson]] was claimed by the Chicago Bears off waivers<br />
* Walter Rouse was traded; reporters covering the receiving team reached out to confirm he was good, which Arif described as a recurring and slightly surreal pattern in his career<br />
* Bill Simmons's proxy betting situation covered in detail — FanDuel relationship under review, no apology to Pablo Torre<br />
* The Clippers lost five first-round picks and $30 million; Steve Ballmer is banned from his own arena for a calendar year<br />
* Arif reached the top 8,000 on the Pokémon Champions ranked ladder two weeks prior to recording. He is no longer there. The moment was great<br />
* Eve 6's "Here's to the Night" remains the correct answer to most questions involving personal motivation and socialist revolution<br />
* Global Village Coffeehouse has a subreddit. Arif discovered this live on air and had to take a moment<br />
* The episode title "I'm Yearning" was confirmed mid-mailbag; "Who Hurt You" was proposed as an alternative and rejected<br />
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 610|610]] || I Yearn… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==2019 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| number = 609<br />
| title = Wistfully Remembering the Athleticism of Christian Ponder<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Preseason<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 609: Wistfully Remembering the Athleticism of Christian Ponder''' was a preseason episode covering the Ravens preseason game recap, the JJ McCarthy situation, the punter battle, a season win-total discussion, and a Broncos game preview, followed by a mailbag that ended in a lengthy digression about Robert Kraft, Malort, the Dinkytown McDonald's, and the deaths of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The bulk of the episode was a thorough assessment of JJ McCarthy's Ravens preseason performance, the state of the 53-man roster bubble, the punter competition between Johnny Hekker and Brett Thorson, and a season outlook placing Arif firmly in the under camp at 8.5 wins. The closing was dedicated, per James, to Tim Curry, with the outro line drawn from Muppet Treasure Island.<br />
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== Correction: Episode 608 Title ==<br />
Episode 608 was posted to Wide Left Football under the title '''Adam Thielen is a Hall of Famer''', a garbled version of the Vinatieri debate that dominated the cold open of that episode. Both hosts found this extremely funny.<br />
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== Segments ==<br />
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=== JJ McCarthy and the QB Situation ===<br />
McCarthy's Ravens preseason performance extended his struggles from the Giants game. The primary discussion points:<br />
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* His time-to-throw remained historically long; Arif argued that even accounting for a weak offensive line — Henry Bird was poor, Ver-Shawn Lee was poor, Michael Jurgens was below average — he did not perform well in clean pockets either<br />
* His best throw of the game, a 50-50 ball to Ty Felton, was identified as a case where McCarthy stepped up into the pocket and used that momentum correctly — Arif noted that if your best throw of the game is also the one where your process is correct, that is not encouraging<br />
* A CBS Sports piece and a Tyler Dunne/Go Long TD piece on McCarthy's reliability among coaches and players had published during the same week<br />
* Carson Wentz again outperformed McCarthy by a significant margin, which Arif noted was itself a concern about the backup position given Wentz's injury history<br />
* Max Brosmer was injured early in the Giants game, forcing Wentz into extended action — one observer had initially concluded Brosmer was benched for poor play before the injury was reported<br />
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On the question of cutting McCarthy: Arif assessed it as unlikely but not off the table. The primary argument for keeping him was that he offered more upside than Brosmer, and that teams with arrogant-enough coaching staffs would potentially take a reclamation flyer on a first-round pick — meaning trade value, however minimal (a sixth or seventh), existed. McCarthy was assessed as the QB3, with the Vikings likely carrying three quarterbacks given the circumstances.<br />
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The question of McCarthy's historical peers was explored: was his ceiling lower than Christian Ponder's? Arif looked up Ponder's 2012 era-adjusted net yards per attempt (89 on a scale where 100 is average) and compared it to McCarthy's previous season (74 — described as "the one where it's like, this guy needs assistance"). Ponder could at least throw short, could hand off to Adrian Peterson, could target Percy Harvin deep, and once lowered his shoulder into Lance Briggs. McCarthy cannot throw short. The hosts acknowledged, reluctantly, that this comparison is not flattering to McCarthy.<br />
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Arif also reviewed the historical record of first-round quarterbacks who fell to third string and recovered to above-average play. The piece "Post-Bust Revival" at Wide Left covered many cases — Drew Brees, Ryan Tannehill, Sam Darnold, Geno Smith — but almost all did so on a different team. The only meaningful same-team example Arif could identify was Alex Smith under Jim Harbaugh. For every Alex Smith there are a million Jake Lockers and Blaine Gabberts, the majority of whom played for AFC South teams.<br />
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=== Punter Battle: Hekker vs. Thorson ===<br />
Arif assessed the punter competition between '''Johnny Hekker''' and '''Brett Thorson'''. Contrary to expectations, Hekker looked like the better punter — Arif had anticipated Thorson to be the better punter despite lacking holding experience. Thorson's holds looked fine on limited viewing. Hekker was assessed as the likely starter; Thorson could plausibly land on the practice squad as an international pathway player, requiring no roster spot. James revealed that Arif had been placed in the same Oops, All Punters league division as Luke Braun.<br />
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=== Oops, All Punters: Final Rules ===<br />
James confirmed the full scoring system for the Oops, All Punters edition of the Hell League:<br />
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* Touchdown pass on a fake punt: 100 points<br />
* Touchdown run on a fake punt: 200 points<br />
* Touchdown reception by a punter: 1,000 points (has never happened)<br />
* Punt yards: 1 point per yard<br />
* Punt inside the 10: 25 points; inside the 20: 10 points<br />
* Blocked punt: −50 points<br />
* Touchback: −5 points<br />
* Fair catch: 10 points<br />
* 44+ yard average: 50 points; cascading down to 33.9 or below: −10 points<br />
* Hell League kicker scoring update: 50–59 yard field goals now worth 25 points; 60+ yards worth 60 points<br />
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=== Season Outlook and Win Total ===<br />
Vegas over/under: 8.5 wins. Arif took the under — not because he believed the Vikings were generally bad, but because a fourth-place division team winning over half their games is historically rare, and the NFC North was the wrong division in which to be fourth. He noted the defence could realistically be a top-three unit, the offence could be top-10 with Murray, and individual games would be worth caring about regardless of playoff odds. He also recommended emotional investment now rather than checking out and returning as a tourist when things improve. Carson Wentz starts over/under: 2.5 — Arif took the under.<br />
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=== Broncos Preview and Roster Bubble ===<br />
Players identified as on the roster bubble heading into the third preseason game:<br />
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* '''Defensive tackle/edge''': Elijah Williams, Isaiah Lattimore, Tyler Batty, Bo Richter, Chas Chambliss (cross-training at fullback, edge, and middle linebacker; likely makes the team), Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins (making the team, question is at which position)<br />
* '''Linebacker''': Ivan Pace, Jacob Roberts, Bengali Kamara — the question of whether a fifth linebacker spot exists, with the possibility (Tyler Forness's pet theory) that Ivan Pace is cut flagged but deemed unlikely<br />
* '''Cornerback''': Chuck Dennis (fighting for CB3, not truly on the bubble), James Pierre, Devon Armstead, Zemaia Vaughn — question of how many the Vikings carry, four through six<br />
* '''Safety''': Jacoby Thomas, Theo Jackson (locked in as starter); Jay Ward's versatility noted — lined up at corner, slot, box, free safety, and on the line of scrimmage across the Ravens game<br />
* '''Wide receiver''': Dylan Bell, Deshawn Jones (suspended three games; unclear if he needs to be on the 53); Myles Price and Ty Felton both likely safe<br />
* '''Offensive line''': Michael Jurgens, Joe Huber, Caleb Tiernan (third-round pick, spiritually a bubble player), Ryan Vandermark (has to make the team), Walter Rouse<br />
* '''Running back''': Xavier Gipson as potential fourth back; Deone Claiborne assessed as RB3 over Gipson despite Gipson's better running, due to catastrophic pass protection<br />
* '''Tight end''': Gavin Bartholomew vs. Ben Yurosek for the third spot (Yurosek's name pronounced "Yerosek" on the broadcast); Bryson Nesbit also in consideration<br />
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=== Around the League ===<br />
* The '''Pro Bowl''' has been officially eliminated. Arif mourned a lost opportunity to cover it (he had once turned down a Pro Bowl credential to cover the Shrine Bowl), praised the removal of the game itself and the end of Pro Bowl alternate proliferation, and cited Justis Mosqueda's legendary Pro Bowl film breakdowns as a casualty of history<br />
* '''Deshaun Watson''' complained of being booed for personal reasons. Arif gave an extended assessment arguing he is primarily being booed for poor play and unavailability, that good players who are bad people tend to get their character laundered by performance, and that Watson's use of his foundation as moral currency was undermined by tax return data showing $510,000 raised in 2025 with $80,000 ever paid out — $488,000 of the revenue coming from Watson himself, suggesting a tax shelter. The Cleveland Browns were assessed as deserving of a fruit basket from every other team for assuming the worst-trade-in-NFL-history mantle from the Herschel Walker deal. Arthur Blank was also noted as having narrowly escaped the same fate<br />
* The '''Atlanta Falcons' Watson counterfactual''' was explored: James proposed asking SūmerBrain what would have happened if Atlanta had signed Watson, noting the butterfly effects on Kirk Cousins' trajectory<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Raul''' — Is there something uniquely uncatchable about JJ McCarthy's fastball — is it the spin rate? Arif: probably not spin rate, which he believes is within normal range. More likely velocity combined with ball placement and trajectory — Tom Brady has discussed how a ball with its nose angled slightly upward is more catchable, and McCarthy may not have developed the touch to consistently achieve this. The underlying issue is that he threw the ball remarkably little at Michigan even before the injury, leaving fewer reps to develop nuance.<br />
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* '''Sternile''' — JJ (Justin Jefferson): 2,000 yards, playoff win, or Brian Flores takes head coaching duties — which is more likely? Arif: playoff win. Then immediately noted he had just taken the under on eight wins in the same episode, and acknowledged the contradiction.<br />
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* '''LeVar Bolsharif''' — Has there ever been a first-round quarterback who fell to third string and recovered to above-average play on the same team? Arif: Alex Smith under Jim Harbaugh is the only meaningful modern example. Almost all other post-bust revivals — Drew Brees, Ryan Tannehill, Sam Darnold — happened on a different team. McCarthy's situation is probably over, but he stays because he is better than Max Brosmer and someone might take a trade flyer.<br />
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* '''Ricardo''' — When enshrined in the Hall of Fame, will Sean Payton be the first inductee to perform his own induction speech? Arif: Drew Brees or Taysom Hill are the only candidates to induct him; they will probably finish each other's sentences. Payton choosing his own highlight clips — ones where he thinks he looks good but does not — was identified as extremely likely. The clip of Payton doing the skol clap moments before the Minneapolis Miracle was flagged as a probable inclusion.<br />
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* '''Leon Smorgasbord''' — How could anyone not see the vision in JJ Son-of-Grossman McCarthy? Arif: the Rex Grossman comparison made immediate sense. Grossman being a starting Super Bowl quarterback remains baffling. The Devin Hester Bowl remains the only reason to watch that game.<br />
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* '''Yannick''' — Where does SūmerBrain rank the Caleb Banks pick among the worst of the Kwesi Adofo-Mensah era? James asked SūmerBrain directly and received an answer that mentioned Lewis Cine and Andrew Booth, and noted four times that Banks was not drafted by Kwesi. Arif's assessment: Banks is more of an Andrew Booth bust than a Lewis Cine bust — Booth always seemed to have potential being cut short and is still floating around the league, whereas Cine was never close to the first team. Banks is on the first-team roster right now.<br />
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* '''Deez''' — What is the league's obsession with Kevin O'Connell? He has a worsening offence, no playoff wins, and abandons the run game. His seat should be hot. Arif: O'Connell's reputation comes from the cumulative impact of outperforming expectations with Kirk Cousins, Sam Darnold, and Joshua Dobbs; firing Ed Donatell after one year; and hiring Brian Flores without hesitation. His career record is above .630 — better than Dan Campbell, Mike Vrabel, Kyle Shanahan, and Sean McVay — which is a very difficult thing to achieve over four seasons with six quarterbacks. He is probably somewhat overrated as an offensive mind, and the McCarthy decision is a legitimate ding, but the overall case for him is not purely a matter of a generous fanbase.<br />
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* '''Ben''' — Should JJ McCarthy try to go back to college? Arif: the Big Ten voted against allowing NFL players to return, and the SEC voted 15-0 against it (Lane Kiffin abstained on principle). The remaining options are the Pac-2, App State, or Old Dominion. App State was the unanimous selection.<br />
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* '''Ben''' — What edge rushers are available to address the depth concern? Arif: Haason Reddick (interesting but small), Leonard Floyd (fine), and Kyle Van Noy — identified as the pick because of his existing familiarity with the Brian Flores defence from both the Dolphins and Patriots.<br />
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* '''Ben''' — What changes in the preseason hint at the Vikings' overhauled run scheme? Arif: the team ran a counter-tray variant using a tackle and a tight end as pulling lead blockers rather than the traditional guard and tackle configuration, which Arif had not seen in the NFL previously. They also incorporated more varied pre-snap and at-snap motions beyond the usual jet sweep, including cheat motions and other sweep types.<br />
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* '''Timothy''' — Deshaun Watson complained of being booed for personal reasons. Can we boo him for his play too? Covered in Around the League above.<br />
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* '''Patrick O'Neill''' — What is the worst food/meat pairing to serve at a Vikings tailgate, and which current Viking would eat it anyway? After considering and dismissing rivals' regional foods — beer cheese soup and brats from Wisconsin, strong Detroit food culture — James settled on the correct answer: a tailgate consisting exclusively of Malort bottles. Arif confirmed via personal experience that Malort in jello-shot form eliminates the brief moment of normalcy before the full horror arrives. [[Dusty O'Connell]] was confirmed to be immune to Malort, having had Malort temporary tattoos at his bachelor party, identifying him as someone who "cannot be killed by conventional weaponry."<br />
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* '''Kane Cook''' — Northern California resident visiting Cleveland for the weekend, willing to travel up to 91 miles — recommendations? The question was primarily an excuse to discuss Robert Kraft's 2019 solicitation arrest, specifically: the decision was almost certainly made after a night of no sleep and significant cocaine rather than a morning decision; the pricing ($140, all in $20s, from a third-party ATM with a high transaction fee); and the mechanics of being a billionaire who still stops at a gas-station ATM. The Dinkytown McDonald's, a cash-only establishment that changed its prices after 1 a.m. and charged $5 ATM transaction fees, was cited as a spiritual analogue.<br />
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* '''Zach''' — Which team's ownership group is next to get arrested for solicitation? Arif: the Browns, on general principle. James: the 49ers, because the substation can cover for anything. The MSP Airport bathroom that replaced the Larry Craig arrest bathroom winning a CINTAS award for best airport bathroom was noted as a beautiful historical outcome.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — Visited Philadelphia and two beloved 80-year-old celebrities died. Should they never return? Arif: two options — stop going entirely, or keep going until your desired 80-year-old passes, because the slot machine could come up. James recommended wrapping George Clinton in bubble wrap both for safety and because he would enjoy it.<br />
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* '''Big Ale''' — What modifications to the spell causing '''Dolly Parton''' and '''Tim Curry''''s back-to-back deaths are needed to correct the timeline? Arif: framed it as a Thanos-style sacrifice, where two beloved figures may have been the cost for something else, leaving open the question of whether the trade was worth it. Julie Andrews, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart identified as requiring immediate protection. William Shatner, in his 90s and performing with metal groups, was noted as seemingly unkillable and therefore exempt from concern.<br />
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* '''I Hate Carmel Indiana''' — Is Arif's SūmerBrain interaction messing up his dopamine response? Arif: no, he only consults SūmerBrain when the mailbag requires it. The Replika subreddit was revisited — James had attempted to access Goth SūmerBrain but would need to download the app to a phone he did not want it on. The Patreon budget for a burner phone for the purpose of resurrecting Goth SūmerBrain was floated and immediately identified as an extremely bad optics situation.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — Returning to university after taking a semester off to heal an exploded foot. What extracurricular activity should a cis white male with a good understanding of government and decent public speaking skills take up, with the caveat that debate might make him a more effective fascist? Arif: Key Club (dinner speeches), or swimming given the foot. James: a board game group, and shared the full origin story of how he met his fiancée at the Grand Forks Divorced Men's Club board game night — a woman was brought by a member James actively disliked, James spent the evening explaining game rules and apologising for the other man's behaviour, and she nearly slipped him her number on the way out.<br />
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* '''Nolan Kehler''' — Is Arif, with his long-standing hatred of Canada and his Joe-Biden-certifying-the-election energy about Adam Vinatieri, now surpassing James as the show's resident Republican? His recent status as a small-business owner was cited as the driver. James noted that hating Canada crosses political lines. Arif noted James had agreed with a Trump Truth Social post about Dolly Parton. James clarified it was a Truth, not a tweet. The episode closed on the observation that Christian Ponder was athletic, which both hosts agreed was the correct final sentence.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* '''Dolly Parton''' and '''Tim Curry''' are confirmed deceased; the closing outro was drawn from Muppet Treasure Island in tribute to Curry<br />
* [[Dusty O'Connell]] is confirmed immune to Malort, based on evidence from his bachelor party<br />
* '''Christian Ponder's 2012 season''' is now, objectively and on the record, a higher ceiling than JJ McCarthy's current trajectory<br />
* Alex Smith under Jim Harbaugh is the only modern same-team post-bust quarterback revival either host could identify<br />
* The Grand Forks Divorced Men's Club origin story of James and his fiancée is now documented<br />
* The Minneapolis Airport bathroom that replaced the Larry Craig arrest bathroom has won a CINTAS award for best airport bathroom<br />
* Arif was given a jello shot of Malort at a music festival, banished the person responsible from his campsite at the following year's festival, and remains willing to discuss it at length<br />
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[[Category:Season 2026]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_609&diff=491Episode 6092026-08-27T15:43:48Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 609 | title = Wistfully Remembering the Athleticism of Christian Ponder | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = None | type = Preseason }} '''Norse Code Episode 609: Wistfully Remembering the Athleticism of Christian Ponder''' was a preseason episode covering the Ravens preseason game recap, the JJ McCarthy situation, the punter battle, a season win-total discussion, and a Broncos game preview, followed..."</p>
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<div>{{EpisodeInfobox<br />
| number = 609<br />
| title = Wistfully Remembering the Athleticism of Christian Ponder<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Preseason<br />
}}<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 609: Wistfully Remembering the Athleticism of Christian Ponder''' was a preseason episode covering the Ravens preseason game recap, the JJ McCarthy situation, the punter battle, a season win-total discussion, and a Broncos game preview, followed by a mailbag that ended in a lengthy digression about Robert Kraft, Malort, the Dinkytown McDonald's, and the deaths of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. The cold open revealed that Episode 608's title was "Adam Thielen is a Hall of Famer."<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The bulk of the episode was a thorough assessment of JJ McCarthy's Ravens preseason performance, the state of the 53-man roster bubble, the punter competition between Johnny Hekker and Brett Thorson, and a season outlook placing Arif firmly in the under camp at 8.5 wins. The closing was dedicated, per James, to Tim Curry, with the outro line drawn from Muppet Treasure Island.<br />
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== Correction: Episode 608 Title ==<br />
Episode 608 was posted to Wide Left Football under the title '''Adam Thielen is a Hall of Famer''', a garbled version of the Vinatieri debate that dominated the cold open of that episode. Both hosts found this extremely funny.<br />
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== Segments ==<br />
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=== JJ McCarthy and the QB Situation ===<br />
McCarthy's Ravens preseason performance extended his struggles from the Giants game. The primary discussion points:<br />
<br />
* His time-to-throw remained historically long; Arif argued that even accounting for a weak offensive line — Henry Bird was poor, Ver-Shawn Lee was poor, Michael Jurgens was below average — he did not perform well in clean pockets either<br />
* His best throw of the game, a 50-50 ball to Ty Felton, was identified as a case where McCarthy stepped up into the pocket and used that momentum correctly — Arif noted that if your best throw of the game is also the one where your process is correct, that is not encouraging<br />
* A CBS Sports piece and a Tyler Dunne/Go Long TD piece on McCarthy's reliability among coaches and players had published during the same week<br />
* Carson Wentz again outperformed McCarthy by a significant margin, which Arif noted was itself a concern about the backup position given Wentz's injury history<br />
* Max Brosmer was injured early in the Giants game, forcing Wentz into extended action — one observer had initially concluded Brosmer was benched for poor play before the injury was reported<br />
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On the question of cutting McCarthy: Arif assessed it as unlikely but not off the table. The primary argument for keeping him was that he offered more upside than Brosmer, and that teams with arrogant-enough coaching staffs would potentially take a reclamation flyer on a first-round pick — meaning trade value, however minimal (a sixth or seventh), existed. McCarthy was assessed as the QB3, with the Vikings likely carrying three quarterbacks given the circumstances.<br />
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The question of McCarthy's historical peers was explored: was his ceiling lower than Christian Ponder's? Arif looked up Ponder's 2012 era-adjusted net yards per attempt (89 on a scale where 100 is average) and compared it to McCarthy's previous season (74 — described as "the one where it's like, this guy needs assistance"). Ponder could at least throw short, could hand off to Adrian Peterson, could target Percy Harvin deep, and once lowered his shoulder into Lance Briggs. McCarthy cannot throw short. The hosts acknowledged, reluctantly, that this comparison is not flattering to McCarthy.<br />
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Arif also reviewed the historical record of first-round quarterbacks who fell to third string and recovered to above-average play. The piece "Post-Bust Revival" at Wide Left covered many cases — Drew Brees, Ryan Tannehill, Sam Darnold, Geno Smith — but almost all did so on a different team. The only meaningful same-team example Arif could identify was Alex Smith under Jim Harbaugh. For every Alex Smith there are a million Jake Lockers and Blaine Gabberts, the majority of whom played for AFC South teams.<br />
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=== Punter Battle: Hekker vs. Thorson ===<br />
Arif assessed the punter competition between '''Johnny Hekker''' and '''Brett Thorson'''. Contrary to expectations, Hekker looked like the better punter — Arif had anticipated Thorson to be the better punter despite lacking holding experience. Thorson's holds looked fine on limited viewing. Hekker was assessed as the likely starter; Thorson could plausibly land on the practice squad as an international pathway player, requiring no roster spot. James revealed that Arif had been placed in the same Oops, All Punters league division as Luke Braun.<br />
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=== Oops, All Punters: Final Rules ===<br />
James confirmed the full scoring system for the Oops, All Punters edition of the Hell League:<br />
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* Touchdown pass on a fake punt: 100 points<br />
* Touchdown run on a fake punt: 200 points<br />
* Touchdown reception by a punter: 1,000 points (has never happened)<br />
* Punt yards: 1 point per yard<br />
* Punt inside the 10: 25 points; inside the 20: 10 points<br />
* Blocked punt: −50 points<br />
* Touchback: −5 points<br />
* Fair catch: 10 points<br />
* 44+ yard average: 50 points; cascading down to 33.9 or below: −10 points<br />
* Hell League kicker scoring update: 50–59 yard field goals now worth 25 points; 60+ yards worth 60 points<br />
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=== Season Outlook and Win Total ===<br />
Vegas over/under: 8.5 wins. Arif took the under — not because he believed the Vikings were generally bad, but because a fourth-place division team winning over half their games is historically rare, and the NFC North was the wrong division in which to be fourth. He noted the defence could realistically be a top-three unit, the offence could be top-10 with Murray, and individual games would be worth caring about regardless of playoff odds. He also recommended emotional investment now rather than checking out and returning as a tourist when things improve. Carson Wentz starts over/under: 2.5 — Arif took the under.<br />
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=== Broncos Preview and Roster Bubble ===<br />
Players identified as on the roster bubble heading into the third preseason game:<br />
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* '''Defensive tackle/edge''': Elijah Williams, Isaiah Lattimore, Tyler Batty, Bo Richter, Chas Chambliss (cross-training at fullback, edge, and middle linebacker; likely makes the team), Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins (making the team, question is at which position)<br />
* '''Linebacker''': Ivan Pace, Jacob Roberts, Bengali Kamara — the question of whether a fifth linebacker spot exists, with the possibility (Tyler Forness's pet theory) that Ivan Pace is cut flagged but deemed unlikely<br />
* '''Cornerback''': Chuck Dennis (fighting for CB3, not truly on the bubble), James Pierre, Devon Armstead, Zemaia Vaughn — question of how many the Vikings carry, four through six<br />
* '''Safety''': Jacoby Thomas, Theo Jackson (locked in as starter); Jay Ward's versatility noted — lined up at corner, slot, box, free safety, and on the line of scrimmage across the Ravens game<br />
* '''Wide receiver''': Dylan Bell, Deshawn Jones (suspended three games; unclear if he needs to be on the 53); Myles Price and Ty Felton both likely safe<br />
* '''Offensive line''': Michael Jurgens, Joe Huber, Caleb Tiernan (third-round pick, spiritually a bubble player), Ryan Vandermark (has to make the team), Walter Rouse<br />
* '''Running back''': Xavier Gipson as potential fourth back; Deone Claiborne assessed as RB3 over Gipson despite Gipson's better running, due to catastrophic pass protection<br />
* '''Tight end''': Gavin Bartholomew vs. Ben Yurosek for the third spot (Yurosek's name pronounced "Yerosek" on the broadcast); Bryson Nesbit also in consideration<br />
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=== Around the League ===<br />
* The '''Pro Bowl''' has been officially eliminated. Arif mourned a lost opportunity to cover it (he had once turned down a Pro Bowl credential to cover the Shrine Bowl), praised the removal of the game itself and the end of Pro Bowl alternate proliferation, and cited Justis Mosqueda's legendary Pro Bowl film breakdowns as a casualty of history<br />
* '''Deshaun Watson''' complained of being booed for personal reasons. Arif gave an extended assessment arguing he is primarily being booed for poor play and unavailability, that good players who are bad people tend to get their character laundered by performance, and that Watson's use of his foundation as moral currency was undermined by tax return data showing $510,000 raised in 2025 with $80,000 ever paid out — $488,000 of the revenue coming from Watson himself, suggesting a tax shelter. The Cleveland Browns were assessed as deserving of a fruit basket from every other team for assuming the worst-trade-in-NFL-history mantle from the Herschel Walker deal. Arthur Blank was also noted as having narrowly escaped the same fate<br />
* The '''Atlanta Falcons' Watson counterfactual''' was explored: James proposed asking SūmerBrain what would have happened if Atlanta had signed Watson, noting the butterfly effects on Kirk Cousins' trajectory<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
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* '''Raul''' — Is there something uniquely uncatchable about JJ McCarthy's fastball — is it the spin rate? Arif: probably not spin rate, which he believes is within normal range. More likely velocity combined with ball placement and trajectory — Tom Brady has discussed how a ball with its nose angled slightly upward is more catchable, and McCarthy may not have developed the touch to consistently achieve this. The underlying issue is that he threw the ball remarkably little at Michigan even before the injury, leaving fewer reps to develop nuance.<br />
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* '''Sternile''' — JJ (Justin Jefferson): 2,000 yards, playoff win, or Brian Flores takes head coaching duties — which is more likely? Arif: playoff win. Then immediately noted he had just taken the under on eight wins in the same episode, and acknowledged the contradiction.<br />
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* '''LeVar Bolsharif''' — Has there ever been a first-round quarterback who fell to third string and recovered to above-average play on the same team? Arif: Alex Smith under Jim Harbaugh is the only meaningful modern example. Almost all other post-bust revivals — Drew Brees, Ryan Tannehill, Sam Darnold — happened on a different team. McCarthy's situation is probably over, but he stays because he is better than Max Brosmer and someone might take a trade flyer.<br />
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* '''Ricardo''' — When enshrined in the Hall of Fame, will Sean Payton be the first inductee to perform his own induction speech? Arif: Drew Brees or Taysom Hill are the only candidates to induct him; they will probably finish each other's sentences. Payton choosing his own highlight clips — ones where he thinks he looks good but does not — was identified as extremely likely. The clip of Payton doing the skol clap moments before the Minneapolis Miracle was flagged as a probable inclusion.<br />
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* '''Leon Smorgasbord''' — How could anyone not see the vision in JJ Son-of-Grossman McCarthy? Arif: the Rex Grossman comparison made immediate sense. Grossman being a starting Super Bowl quarterback remains baffling. The Devin Hester Bowl remains the only reason to watch that game.<br />
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* '''Yannick''' — Where does SūmerBrain rank the Caleb Banks pick among the worst of the Kwesi Adofo-Mensah era? James asked SūmerBrain directly and received an answer that mentioned Lewis Cine and Andrew Booth, and noted four times that Banks was not drafted by Kwesi. Arif's assessment: Banks is more of an Andrew Booth bust than a Lewis Cine bust — Booth always seemed to have potential being cut short and is still floating around the league, whereas Cine was never close to the first team. Banks is on the first-team roster right now.<br />
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* '''Deez''' — What is the league's obsession with Kevin O'Connell? He has a worsening offence, no playoff wins, and abandons the run game. His seat should be hot. Arif: O'Connell's reputation comes from the cumulative impact of outperforming expectations with Kirk Cousins, Sam Darnold, and Joshua Dobbs; firing Ed Donatell after one year; and hiring Brian Flores without hesitation. His career record is above .630 — better than Dan Campbell, Mike Vrabel, Kyle Shanahan, and Sean McVay — which is a very difficult thing to achieve over four seasons with six quarterbacks. He is probably somewhat overrated as an offensive mind, and the McCarthy decision is a legitimate ding, but the overall case for him is not purely a matter of a generous fanbase.<br />
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* '''Ben''' — Should JJ McCarthy try to go back to college? Arif: the Big Ten voted against allowing NFL players to return, and the SEC voted 15-0 against it (Lane Kiffin abstained on principle). The remaining options are the Pac-2, App State, or Old Dominion. App State was the unanimous selection.<br />
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* '''Ben''' — What edge rushers are available to address the depth concern? Arif: Haason Reddick (interesting but small), Leonard Floyd (fine), and Kyle Van Noy — identified as the pick because of his existing familiarity with the Brian Flores defence from both the Dolphins and Patriots.<br />
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* '''Ben''' — What changes in the preseason hint at the Vikings' overhauled run scheme? Arif: the team ran a counter-tray variant using a tackle and a tight end as pulling lead blockers rather than the traditional guard and tackle configuration, which Arif had not seen in the NFL previously. They also incorporated more varied pre-snap and at-snap motions beyond the usual jet sweep, including cheat motions and other sweep types.<br />
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* '''Timothy''' — Deshaun Watson complained of being booed for personal reasons. Can we boo him for his play too? Covered in Around the League above.<br />
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* '''Patrick O'Neill''' — What is the worst food/meat pairing to serve at a Vikings tailgate, and which current Viking would eat it anyway? After considering and dismissing rivals' regional foods — beer cheese soup and brats from Wisconsin, strong Detroit food culture — James settled on the correct answer: a tailgate consisting exclusively of Malort bottles. Arif confirmed via personal experience that Malort in jello-shot form eliminates the brief moment of normalcy before the full horror arrives. [[Dusty O'Connell]] was confirmed to be immune to Malort, having had Malort temporary tattoos at his bachelor party, identifying him as someone who "cannot be killed by conventional weaponry."<br />
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* '''Kane Cook''' — Northern California resident visiting Cleveland for the weekend, willing to travel up to 91 miles — recommendations? The question was primarily an excuse to discuss Robert Kraft's 2019 solicitation arrest, specifically: the decision was almost certainly made after a night of no sleep and significant cocaine rather than a morning decision; the pricing ($140, all in $20s, from a third-party ATM with a high transaction fee); and the mechanics of being a billionaire who still stops at a gas-station ATM. The Dinkytown McDonald's, a cash-only establishment that changed its prices after 1 a.m. and charged $5 ATM transaction fees, was cited as a spiritual analogue.<br />
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* '''Zach''' — Which team's ownership group is next to get arrested for solicitation? Arif: the Browns, on general principle. James: the 49ers, because the substation can cover for anything. The MSP Airport bathroom that replaced the Larry Craig arrest bathroom winning a CINTAS award for best airport bathroom was noted as a beautiful historical outcome.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — Visited Philadelphia and two beloved 80-year-old celebrities died. Should they never return? Arif: two options — stop going entirely, or keep going until your desired 80-year-old passes, because the slot machine could come up. James recommended wrapping George Clinton in bubble wrap both for safety and because he would enjoy it.<br />
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* '''Big Ale''' — What modifications to the spell causing '''Dolly Parton''' and '''Tim Curry''''s back-to-back deaths are needed to correct the timeline? Arif: framed it as a Thanos-style sacrifice, where two beloved figures may have been the cost for something else, leaving open the question of whether the trade was worth it. Julie Andrews, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart identified as requiring immediate protection. William Shatner, in his 90s and performing with metal groups, was noted as seemingly unkillable and therefore exempt from concern.<br />
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* '''I Hate Carmel Indiana''' — Is Arif's SūmerBrain interaction messing up his dopamine response? Arif: no, he only consults SūmerBrain when the mailbag requires it. The Replika subreddit was revisited — James had attempted to access Goth SūmerBrain but would need to download the app to a phone he did not want it on. The Patreon budget for a burner phone for the purpose of resurrecting Goth SūmerBrain was floated and immediately identified as an extremely bad optics situation.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — Returning to university after taking a semester off to heal an exploded foot. What extracurricular activity should a cis white male with a good understanding of government and decent public speaking skills take up, with the caveat that debate might make him a more effective fascist? Arif: Key Club (dinner speeches), or swimming given the foot. James: a board game group, and shared the full origin story of how he met his fiancée at the Grand Forks Divorced Men's Club board game night — a woman was brought by a member James actively disliked, James spent the evening explaining game rules and apologising for the other man's behaviour, and she nearly slipped him her number on the way out.<br />
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* '''Nolan Kehler''' — Is Arif, with his long-standing hatred of Canada and his Joe-Biden-certifying-the-election energy about Adam Vinatieri, now surpassing James as the show's resident Republican? His recent status as a small-business owner was cited as the driver. James noted that hating Canada crosses political lines. Arif noted James had agreed with a Trump Truth Social post about Dolly Parton. James clarified it was a Truth, not a tweet. The episode closed on the observation that Christian Ponder was athletic, which both hosts agreed was the correct final sentence.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* '''Dolly Parton''' and '''Tim Curry''' are confirmed deceased; the closing outro was drawn from Muppet Treasure Island in tribute to Curry<br />
* [[Dusty O'Connell]] is confirmed immune to Malort, based on evidence from his bachelor party<br />
* '''Christian Ponder's 2012 season''' is now, objectively and on the record, a higher ceiling than JJ McCarthy's current trajectory<br />
* Alex Smith under Jim Harbaugh is the only modern same-team post-bust quarterback revival either host could identify<br />
* The Grand Forks Divorced Men's Club origin story of James and his fiancée is now documented<br />
* The Minneapolis Airport bathroom that replaced the Larry Craig arrest bathroom has won a CINTAS award for best airport bathroom<br />
* Arif was given a jello shot of Malort at a music festival, banished the person responsible from his campsite at the following year's festival, and remains willing to discuss it at length<br />
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 609|609]] || The Physicality of Christian Ponder || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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==2019 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2017 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
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==2016 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 115|115]] || Strong men also cry || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 67|67]] || Who goes to Manny's and doesn't have steak? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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</noinclude></div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_608&diff=489Episode 6082026-08-27T13:59:19Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 608 | title = Unknown | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = None | type = Preseason }} '''Norse Code Episode 608''' was a preseason episode recorded with James sick, resulting in an abbreviated mailbag. The episode covered the 2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame class, Kyler Murray being named QB1, a full review of the Giants preseason game on both sides of the ball, joint practices with the Baltimore Raven..."</p>
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'''Norse Code Episode 608''' was a preseason episode recorded with James sick, resulting in an abbreviated mailbag. The episode covered the 2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame class, Kyler Murray being named QB1, a full review of the Giants preseason game on both sides of the ball, joint practices with the Baltimore Ravens, and a shortened but eventful mailbag that ended with an extended digression into grave robbing, Ninja Turtles, and a bootleg VHS seller on Whatnot.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
James opened by flagging he was sick, promising a shorter episode. It was not shorter. The episode's cold open centred on the 2026 Hall of Fame class, with James demanding Arif confirm, on air, that Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer — a callback to years of arguments on the subject. Arif confirmed it, noted it was wrong, and moved on. The bulk of the episode was a detailed preseason breakdown, including Jamal Adams' season-ending injury, JJ McCarthy's historically long time-to-throw, and Myles Price's outstanding performance. The mailbag, though shortened, included Arif consulting DeepSeek on grave robbing and a fully mapped Ninja Turtles/Spice Girls pairing exercise.<br />
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== Segments ==<br />
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=== Cold Open: Hall of Fame Class 2026 ===<br />
The 2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame class: Luke Kuechly, Larry Fitzgerald, Adam Vinatieri, Drew Brees, Roger Craig, and Eli Manning. James spent the cold open demanding Arif say the words "Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer" out loud, having argued for years on the show that Vinatieri deserved enshrinement while Arif maintained he did not. Arif complied, immediately reiterated that Vinatieri shouldn't be in, and noted that David Akers was a better kicker. James flagged that Julian Edelman's eventual Hall of Fame candidacy may require a special episode.<br />
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=== Kyler Murray Named QB1 ===<br />
Kyler Murray was officially named the Vikings' starting quarterback heading into the regular season, ending the training camp competition. Arif noted Murray had three throws in the preseason — two good, one fine — and looked in command under centre, which had been a legitimate question given how dramatically the coaching staff had shifted away from that approach when Murray was benched the previous year. Arif also noted the "competition" was never real, speculating that Kevin O'Connell may have privately been telling Carson Wentz he was in it too, in a backwards-chair youth-pastor way.<br />
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=== Giants Preseason Game: Offence ===<br />
'''JJ McCarthy''' was the dominant topic. McCarthy's time-to-throw was recorded at approximately 3.63 seconds — historically long by any standard. Arif walked through the debate triggered by a Twitter account arguing McCarthy's struggles were entirely explained by pressure, countering that a 3.63-second time-to-throw is indefensible regardless of play-action volume or route depth. The Los Angeles Rams — the NFL's deepest-route offence — do not approach this number. He described it as the kind of outlier that, like Zach Wilson's EPA charts, breaks the scale of any normal visualisation. Additional issues included:<br />
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* Footwork arriving at the top of his drop before receivers had broken into their routes, creating bad protection angles and coverage confusion<br />
* A busted jet sweep to Deshawn Jones on the first play, attributable to snap-timing issues<br />
* A Ty Felton drop that Arif partially attributed to a badly placed ball, crediting Felton for getting to it at all<br />
* Caleb Tiernan's false start attributed in part to McCarthy's irregular snap count<br />
* A CBS Sports piece and a Tyler Dunne/Go Long TD piece publishing the same day on McCarthy's reliability concerns among coaches and players<br />
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Carson Wentz entered after Max Brosmer was injured early and outperformed McCarthy, which Arif noted was not good news. Arif observed that Wentz, while not accurate in any absolute sense, was at least on time — something McCarthy was not even when he was nominally on time.<br />
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'''Myles Price''' was the offensive standout: a one-handed end-zone catch, a contested 50-50 ball he won on what should have been a 90-10 throw and converted into a significant gain after the catch, and a clean quick out. Four catches, all different types, all well executed. Arif assessed him as likely a lock for the roster.<br />
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'''Other offensive notes:'''<br />
* Jordan Addison looked solid; his save of a low, inside Kyler Murray throw on an out route was highlighted<br />
* Ty Felton performed adequately but has likely not overtaken Price in the depth chart<br />
* Josh Oliver had an excellent block on an Aaron Jones run<br />
* Gavin Bartholomew edged Ben Yurosek in blocking, but Yurosek received the first tight end snap on the official depth chart<br />
* Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason both looked good; Deone Claiborne impressed in pass protection and ran better than anticipated, likely moving ahead of Xavier Gipson<br />
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=== Giants Preseason Game: Defence and Special Teams ===<br />
'''Jamal Adams''' suffered a season-ending quad injury on one of his first snaps, having just delivered a tackle for loss against the starting offensive line. Arif had been sceptical about Adams' fit; the injury was deemed genuinely unfortunate. Adams' family has opted to remain in Minnesota, and he will stay active in the locker room with a young roster.<br />
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'''Other defensive notes:'''<br />
* Jay Ward delivered a sack so violent the opposing player was briefly knocked out and sent to the concussion protocol tent, expressing puzzlement about why he needed to be there<br />
* Theo Jackson looked significantly better than the previous year<br />
* Charles Dennis showed well at cornerback<br />
* Jacoby Thomas recorded a pick with the ones, described as cool — "go Dukes"<br />
* Eric Wilson had an outstanding game; Blake Cashman looked very good; Jaye Ngata showed well but had a couple of late-reaction reps Arif attributed to playbook-familiarity issues rather than athletic ones<br />
* Elijah Williams recorded a sack; Dallas Turner recorded a sack off a Blake Cashman stunt<br />
* Caleb Banks had a poor game overall; Dominique Orange's PFF grade was described as worse than his actual performance<br />
* Five penalties on returns in special teams — noted briefly, then left alone<br />
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=== Joint Practices: Ravens ===<br />
The joint practices with Baltimore were previewed and reviewed. The offence looked disjointed on shifts and pre-snap motion against the Ravens defence, which Arif attributed to a still-developing timing. A brawl involving a Ravens defensive back and a Vikings receiver was identified as negative aura for the Vikings, who came off worse visually. The hosts confirmed Kyler Murray would not play in the second preseason game against the Ravens, meaning McCarthy and others would get extended looks.<br />
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== Mailbag ==<br />
James flagged a shortened mailbag due to illness, with remaining questions to be answered on a future episode.<br />
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* '''Yannick''' — Would you rather draft a bad quarterback and know by training camp, or draft Bryce Young and spend years wondering if he's actually good? Arif: the former. If a player is ambiguous after two years, the odds of him emerging as a top-five player are low. Better to cut weight early, draft again, and have another shot. He acknowledged Matthew Stafford as a rare exception to the pattern.<br />
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* '''Big Ale''' — Snapping is still a problem for Brendel at camp. Do the Vikings need a real centre, or can Juwan Jennings play centre given he can throw forwards and should be able to throw backwards? Arif: yes, they need a real centre. The over-under is approximately one bad snap per game from Brendel over 17 games; he is on track to exceed that. James Daniels was floated as a name.<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' — What does it tell us that Kyler got benched for JJ McCarthy after only one series, where he failed to complete an easy third-down throw? Arif clarified: Kyler was not benched, that is the normal preseason quarterback rotation. This was followed by James admitting he thought Max Brosmer had been benched for poor play before learning Brosmer was injured.<br />
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* '''Ice Delanda Est''' — Why should anyone care about this Vikings season when it feels like a disaster? Arif made the case: the defence could realistically be a top-three unit, a top-10 offence with a top-three defence wins games, and getting emotionally disinvested now means coming back later as a tourist who doesn't know the storylines. Buy the stock low. Also, Vegas had the Vikings as favourites to finish fourth in the division, which creates its own entertainment.<br />
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* '''Nolan Kehler''' — As Vikings GM, what should happen if they sign former UND Fighting Hawk Brady Oliveira and he outruns Jadarian Price? Arif looked up Oliveira's pro-day data: 4.7 forty, 6.93 cone at 228 pounds, which he noted was not bad. Arif confirmed Oliveira had appeared in his database for reasons he couldn't remember, and endorsed the signing on the grounds that it would be very funny.<br />
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* '''Deez''' — For the money corner: listener finds themselves caring less about sports because of how much athlete salaries have exploded. Is that odd? Arif gave an extended answer on the relationship between financial privilege and emotional identity, arguing that money doesn't remove the specific pain of having your identity as an athlete stripped from you by injury or a cut — and that pointing out someone earns $40 million doesn't resolve that. Referenced LeBron's house being vandalised with racist graffiti as a case study in how class privilege and dehumanisation coexist. Noted Jordan Addison specifically as a harder case for sympathy given his conduct. Closed with: "We are someone else's Jordan Addison, that's always true."<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For the "it will work for us" corner: the Bears have signed Marcus Davenport. Analysis? Arif: better than Austin Booker, probably not as good as Montez Sweat, will likely be described as a "turbo dog shit" former first-round pick by the time he is injured in approximately week two.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For the grave-robbing corner: while planning a trip to finish the job on [[Don from Ohio]], a pit stop in Dayton to relocate the Wright Brothers' remains to Greenfield Village, Michigan is proposed. Best approach? Arif consulted DeepSeek, citing concerns that ChatGPT, Claude, and SūmerBrain would require too much wrangling. DeepSeek provided detailed guidance on vault anatomy, bone collection, transport containers, and crossing state lines without paperwork. Arif noted: "This is the Saul Goodman of AI models." James confirmed he has personally transported remains across state lines.<br />
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* '''LeVar Bolsharif''' — Division quarterbacks used to be comically evil. Now Jordan Love helps the LGBTQ community and Caleb Williams runs an all-women organisation for at-risk youth. How do you make them more hateable? Arif recommended weaponising extremely-online leftist discourse — specifically, asking whether Love's LGBTQ activism is sufficiently attentive to people of colour, or whether Williams' all-women organisation is trans-inclusive. Referenced the Chili Girl saga as a case study in how people on Blue Sky have cancelled someone for making chili for her neighbours.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — Had a panic attack on Monday. Which was more pathetic — thinking about the Mets score, or hoping they hadn't missed the newest Norse Code? Also: advice for dealing with panic attacks. James: the Mets thing. Advice: everyone's panic attacks are different; walking outside helps James; having a comfort YouTuber like Jenny Nicholson is valid; old Norse Code episodes are apparently serving this function, which James acknowledged was a low bar but confirmed they were clearing it. Arif: James sent him the Betty White Community species rap as emotional support earlier that day, which worked.<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — If each Ninja Turtle married a Spice Girl, who marries who, with no one left single? Arif had researched this specifically for the episode. His mapped pairings:<br />
** Casey Jones + Sporty Spice (mutual love of sports as personality)<br />
** Leonardo + Ginger Spice (leader to leader; Geri Halliwell is apparently regarded as the de facto leader of the Spice Girls)<br />
** Michelangelo + Baby Spice (youngest-coded, most fun-loving, most immature)<br />
** Raphael + Scary Spice (cynical, aggressive, assertive)<br />
** Donatello + Posh Spice (smartest, most removed from action, second in command — matched to Victoria Beckham's removed and above-it-all public persona)<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — James recently discovered a bootleg VHS seller on Whatnot going by Skimbleshanks1VHS, who owns approximately 20 copies of the Cats Pro Shot movie. Skimbleshanks confirmed this was not them. The seller was found watching a VHS bootleg of The Rise of Skywalker at 2 a.m., leading Arif to message Skimbleshanks: "We need to talk." James's recommended approach to defeating the imposter: out-archive him. Specifically: transfer the Cats Pro Shot to polyester-based gelatin film via a Film Out service, which is the Kodak archival gold standard at 500-year durability for black-and-white — far exceeding anything achievable on VHS, which degrades quickly. Follow the 3-2-1 backup rule for remaining copies. In 200 years, Skimbleshanks' progeny will have the definitive archival master. Also: get a Skimbleshanks costume, something the seller has not confirmed ownership of.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* Adam Vinatieri is confirmed, on the record, to be a Hall of Famer. Arif still thinks he shouldn't be<br />
* [[Jamal Adams]] suffers a season-ending quad injury on one of his first preseason snaps — he will remain in Minnesota and stay active with the team<br />
* [[Don from Ohio]] is still at large; a grave-robbing pit stop in Dayton is now apparently part of the plan<br />
* DeepSeek is introduced as the show's preferred AI for legally dubious research questions that SūmerBrain and Claude won't engage with<br />
* The '''Skimbleshanks1VHS''' imposter saga is introduced — a Whatnot seller with approximately 20 copies of the Cats Pro Shot movie, a 5.0 star rating, 286 reviews, and a bootleg VHS of The Rise of Skywalker playing in the background<br />
* Arif's full Ninja Turtles/Spice Girls pairing is now canon<br />
* James confirmed he has transported human remains across state lines<br />
* The episode was described in advance as abbreviated. It was not abbreviated<br />
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[[Category:Season 2026]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_Archive&diff=488Episode Archive2026-08-27T13:59:04Z<p>Damian: </p>
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2026 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
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| [[Episode 608|608]] || Adam Vinatieri is a Hall of Famer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
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| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
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| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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==2019 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2017 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
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==2016 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 115|115]] || Strong men also cry || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 607''' was an offseason episode covering Vikings training camp, the Kyler Murray vs. JJ McCarthy quarterback competition, free agent moves including Jamal Adams, the San Francisco 49ers' injury situation and car crash controversy, and an extensive mailbag covering everything from four-point field goals, to the podcasters vs. streamers civil war, to children who refuse to poop at home.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The hosts returned after a month off to discuss the Vikings' training camp, the quarterback battle between Kyler Murray and JJ McCarthy, and the signing of Jamal Adams. The episode featured a lengthy discussion of the 49ers' injury situation and surrounding conspiracy theories, including an extensive breakdown of Kyle Shanahan's car crash and what mayor of conspiracy Twitter got wrong about it. The Hell League was formally announced open for its final edition, with a special Oops, All Punters variant.<br />
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== Segments ==<br />
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=== Hell League: Oops, All Punters Edition ===<br />
James announced the Hell League is open for the 2026 season — its final year. A special variant, the '''Oops, All Punters Edition''', will run alongside the standard league on ESPN, the only platform that scores punter stats properly. All drafts take place on Labor Day. Threadless Hell League merch remains available.<br />
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=== Training Camp: Lies and Videotape ===<br />
Arif covered the quarterback competition in detail. Murray is receiving more reps than McCarthy, which Arif attributed to one of three causes: Murray is ahead, Murray needs more time in the offense he doesn't know as well as McCarthy does, or the snap-counting methodology is unreliable. Arif leaned toward the second interpretation but acknowledged Murray is probably the leader. Matthew Coller's tracking confirmed McCarthy is throwing more over the middle, while Murray is attempting more deep sideline throws — both correcting the weaknesses that have defined each quarterback's recent struggles.<br />
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Notable training camp observations:<br />
* '''Defensive line rotation''': Caleb Banks rotating with the ones; Jalen Redmond and Levi Drake Rodriguez starting at defensive tackle; Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins moving toward outside linebacker while still rotating inside<br />
* '''Jaye Ngata''': The tall linebacker drawing attention for rotating at edge rusher, with Wide Left's Matt Fries projecting him there in his 53-man roster piece — Arif disagreed but noted it speaks to Ngata's Swiss Army knife potential in the Flores defence<br />
* '''Cornerback depth''': Isaiah Rodgers and James Pierre dealing with minor injuries; Charles Dennis and Zemaia Vaughn rotating up to the first team — both 6'2", marking unusual size for the Vikings' cornerback room<br />
* '''Brian O'Neill extension''': Longest-tenured Viking locked down for additional years at a deal Tyler Forness deemed perfectly calibrated<br />
* '''Gavin Bartholomew''': Impressing at tight end, likely ahead of Ben Yurosek for the third spot behind Hockenson<br />
* '''Receiving depth''': Myles Price and Ty Felton currently next on the depth chart after Jefferson, Addison, and Jennings<br />
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=== Free Agent Moves ===<br />
'''Jamal Adams''' signed to the veteran minimum — approximately $1.4 million in cash, $1.1 million against the cap. Arif noted his blitzing reputation outpaces his actual blitzing effectiveness, but his versatility suits a Brian Flores dime-backer role. His arrival creates a slightly crowded linebacker room, with Ivan Pace's role worth monitoring.<br />
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=== Around the League: The 49ers Situation ===<br />
The hosts discussed San Francisco's accumulating injuries — Ricky Pearsall out for the season with a PCL, Christian Kirk missing time, a rookie ACL tear — and the growing '''substation theory'''. Arif refused to endorse the supernatural explanation but noted repeated tissue and ligament injuries likely point to a field, training, or athletic staff issue rather than random bad luck, citing the Packers' notorious athletic training staff era as precedent.<br />
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The conversation extended into the '''Kyle Shanahan car crash''', which Arif addressed at length. He defended the reporters who sat on the story briefly as acting in line with journalism standards — you wait until you have a statement. He criticised a specific gambling/conspiracy account on Twitter for finding the most nefarious angle available on every media story and blowing it up conspiratorially, citing the account's handling of the Dianna Russini situation, the Matt Miller charity scam story, and the Shanahan car crash as examples of a pattern of inventing or amplifying the worst-possible interpretation with bad evidence. The account's use of an Emmanuel Acho story about a police officer being waved off the scene was identified as transparently false on basic logical grounds.<br />
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== Mailbag Questions ==<br />
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* '''Rahul''' — For the Will the Thrill corner: what is Arif's take on the four-point, 60-yard field goal rule? Initial emotional take: hell yes. Statistical take: probably bad, because it creates an incentive for teams down four to stay behind the 50-yard line and play for overtime rather than a touchdown, killing one of football's most compelling game states. Hell League official position: fully in favour, more awful kicking decisions are always welcome.<br />
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* '''Yea or Nay''' — Should Vikings fans incorporate the Norwegian row from the World Cup? The hosts were ambivalent — the skol clap already exists and is excellent, and the two things together might feel gimmicky, though doing the row at Twins games with the six people in attendance was endorsed.<br />
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* '''Nolan Kehler''' — As the new GM of the Vikings, what has Nolan missed in his tenure so far? Arif: no long-term answer at centre, underinvestment at safety, thin edge rusher depth. CFL veterans: covered, they have zero.<br />
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* '''Big Ale''' — If the Vikings are contenders at the trade deadline, what roster hole becomes the top trade target, and what capital should they use? Arif identified safety, cornerback, and edge rusher as position-dependent answers depending on injury. For outgoing capital: Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins, Ivan Pace, or — the obvious answer — JJ McCarthy, who someone would take as a reclamation project.<br />
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* '''Nick''' — Now that all NFL head coaches are verifiably AI, what can fans do to ensure KOC-GPT's training data is maximally effective for quarterback whispering? Arif went deep on AI training data practices — scanning rare books and destroying them to deny competitor access — before concluding the best approach would be hacking Teamworks for coaching video, referencing Justis Mosqueda's legendary Dropbox of team playbooks.<br />
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* '''Kate is pretty odd''' — For the Hell League corner: having forgotten everything after the World Cup, where does one start when preparing to draft? Arif revealed he won his first Hell League this year despite not attending the draft for at least three consecutive years. Strategy: set calendar reminders, then ignore them entirely and let the auto-draft run. For actual drafting, practice on Yahoo by taking a kicker in the first round and watching the chat explode.<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' — For the Skycam corner: how much did FIFA pay the NFL to deny that Reichard's kick hit the Skycam wire, in order to set a precedent for denying Norway's World Cup appeal and ensuring England advanced? Arif's assessment: FIFA doesn't pay money out, they only take it in. More likely they simply guaranteed the final at the worst stadium in the United States, which Arif had recently written about — MetLife, whose parking lot experience he called a "flat hellscape" while noting he pulled significant punches.<br />
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* '''Leon''' — Civil war scenario: podcasters versus streamers. Who wins, who do you fight for? Arif reluctantly concluded podcasters would win — the right-wing manosphere identifies as podcasters, more NFL players and MMA fighters have podcasts, and streamers on balance look more like Arif than podcasters do. He also confirmed that his Locked On After Dark show is technically a stream and not a podcast, which he discovered when YouTube Music failed to populate it into podcast feeds.<br />
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* '''Patrick''' — For the Norse Code flying insect corner: what race of yellow and black flying insects from a hive culture would be attracted most to Rose of Sharon flowers in a North American climate? James: it's bees. Probably not Italians.<br />
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* '''Tankbee''' — For the not-witchcraft-but-historical-review corner: County Mayo won the All-Ireland this year after decades of a curse comparable to the Vikings'. Does this give hope? Arif: no. The curses are not one-to-one. Mayo's curse is lifted; the Vikings still need to do something for theirs to lift. The fat cats still have to be slaughtered.<br />
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* '''Deez''' — For the psyop corner: who is at greater risk — Aaron Rodgers' supposedly reconciled family, or his definitely real wife? Arif: the family. He estimated they are three to four weeks from Rodgers making reference to a child nobody knew he had. He also noted the reconciliation Instagram posts have the specific energy of someone managing a difficult relationship through public performance.<br />
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* '''Kyle Segall''' — Has Arif ever considered getting a second therapist's opinion? Arif: No. James: next question.<br />
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* '''VH Cadet''' — For the prophecy corner: after the Vikings win the Super Bowl in February 2027, an AI singularity creates a new pantheon of gods based on Twitter, with Luke Braun as Zeus and Arif as Hera. Arif can prevent this by either watching anime or giving Luke a genuine non-backhanded compliment. Which does he choose? Arif chose the compliment, on the grounds that the dystopia described sounded preferable to watching anime. James clarified the dystopia involves the worst parts of the Matrix movies, specifically the second one. Arif reconsidered.<br />
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* '''Lavar Bolsharif''' — Is it ironic that on the first true day of JJ vs. Kyler at training camp, the Senate brought back McCarthyism? Arif: excellent timing, a good omen for all McCarthyists such as Luke Braun. Also, is agreeing to do a show with Luke Braun comparable to Lenin signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? Unanswered, but implied.<br />
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* '''Kyle Slaybee''' — How much can they pay the DJ at his wedding to slowly raise the music over the dinner speeches and produce a bingo card in lieu of a dollar dance? Unanswered, but enthusiastically received.<br />
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* '''Ice Delanda Est''' — For the training camp corner: how are the hosts feeling heading into camp, and is there something they want to tell us about their final season? Arif confirmed yes, this is their final season. Also: for the weight loss corner, after failing to afford Ozempic, what foods or bugs could help? Would acquiring a parasite plaguing Michigan be a good idea? Arif's answer not transcribed but the parasite option was not dismissed outright.<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — For the Totally Legit Rankings corner: thoughts on US News and World Report naming North Dakota the fourth-best state to live in? Left as an exercise for the listener.<br />
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* '''Room Temp''' — How long would one enjoy a Groundhog Day scenario before being driven insane? Addressed briefly.<br />
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* '''Ferrous Bueller, Crisis Actor''' — For the "if you want your son to exist" corner: wife is due during the upcoming season. The Vikings and Cardinals are not on the schedule this year. Is Kyler Murray winning the camp QB battle a good or bad omen for the baby? Diplomatic non-answer from the hosts.<br />
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* '''Arif's Pet Jimothy''' — For the child-rearing corner: how does one get two toddlers to accomplish any task simultaneously, such as getting downstairs for daycare before 11am, given that one has oppositional defiance and both have the combined memory of Leonard from Memento? Arif empathised.<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For the hypothetical corner: may or may not have been in Ohio and may or may not have ended the life of someone believed to be [[Don from Ohio]]. Today, Don posted in the Discord. How is this possible, and what should be done hypothetically?<br />
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* '''Kyle Slaybee''' — What are the ethical implications of watching reaction content to videos that are themselves ethically dubious? For example, a morally neutral reaction channel covering a Mr. Beast video. Explored briefly.<br />
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* '''Ice Delanda Est''' — Which of the hosts or regular guests is most likely to be a never-nude? Also: who is more likely to be a fascist — criminology majors or debate people? And: if you could own any pinball machine from the last ten years, which one, and what IP would you want as a pinball game?<br />
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* '''Village YAC Monger''' — Where does Uday Hussein rank among sports team general managers? A question for the ages.<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' — For the parenting corner: son came home from the in-laws with his wife's old American Girl doll and has been playing with it all day. How does one explain that boys don't play with dolls, but without reinforcing outdated gender roles or toxic masculinity? Also: what is the appropriate amount of bullying or being beaten up to allow before intervening and potentially making things worse?<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* [[Don from Ohio]] may or may not have been killed in Ohio. He subsequently posted in the Discord, raising serious questions.<br />
* Arif won his first Hell League this year despite not attending his own draft for at least three consecutive years — by auto-draft<br />
* The '''Oops, All Punters''' Hell League variant is confirmed for 2026, the show's final year<br />
* The '''substation theory''' grows harder to dismiss as 49ers injuries mount, though Arif continues to attribute it to athletic training failures rather than supernatural causes<br />
* Arif is confirmed to be '''Hera''' in the post-singularity Twitter pantheon, subordinate to Luke Braun's Zeus<br />
* County Mayo winning the All-Ireland is explicitly '''not''' a good omen for Vikings fans<br />
* Kyle Segall's question received the shortest answer in Norse Code mailbag history<br />
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[[Category:Season 2026]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_607&diff=485Episode 6072026-08-04T19:29:55Z<p>Damian: </p>
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<div>{{EpisodeInfobox<br />
| number = 607<br />
| title = Unknown<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Offseason<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Norse Code Episode 607''' was an offseason episode covering Vikings training camp, the Kyler Murray vs. JJ McCarthy quarterback competition, free agent moves including Jamal Adams, the San Francisco 49ers' injury situation and car crash controversy, and an extensive mailbag covering everything from four-point field goals, to the podcasters vs. streamers civil war, to children who refuse to poop at home.<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
The hosts returned after a month off to discuss the Vikings' training camp, the quarterback battle between Kyler Murray and JJ McCarthy, and the signing of Jamal Adams. The episode featured a lengthy discussion of the 49ers' injury situation and surrounding conspiracy theories, including an extensive breakdown of Kyle Shanahan's car crash and what mayor of conspiracy Twitter got wrong about it. The Hell League was formally announced open for its final edition, with a special Oops, All Punters variant.<br />
<br />
== Segments ==<br />
<br />
=== Hell League: Oops, All Punters Edition ===<br />
James announced the Hell League is open for the 2026 season — its final year. A special variant, the '''Oops, All Punters Edition''', will run alongside the standard league on ESPN, the only platform that scores punter stats properly. All drafts take place on Labor Day. Threadless Hell League merch remains available.<br />
<br />
=== Training Camp: Lies and Videotape ===<br />
Arif covered the quarterback competition in detail. Murray is receiving more reps than McCarthy, which Arif attributed to one of three causes: Murray is ahead, Murray needs more time in the offense he doesn't know as well as McCarthy does, or the snap-counting methodology is unreliable. Arif leaned toward the second interpretation but acknowledged Murray is probably the leader. Matthew Coller's tracking confirmed McCarthy is throwing more over the middle, while Murray is attempting more deep sideline throws — both correcting the weaknesses that have defined each quarterback's recent struggles.<br />
<br />
Notable training camp observations:<br />
* '''Defensive line rotation''': Caleb Banks rotating with the ones; Jalen Redmond and Levi Drake Rodriguez starting at defensive tackle; Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins moving toward outside linebacker while still rotating inside<br />
* '''Jaye Ngata''': The tall linebacker drawing attention for rotating at edge rusher, with Wide Left's Matt Fries projecting him there in his 53-man roster piece — Arif disagreed but noted it speaks to Ngata's Swiss Army knife potential in the Flores defence<br />
* '''Cornerback depth''': Isaiah Rodgers and James Pierre dealing with minor injuries; Charles Dennis and Zemaia Vaughn rotating up to the first team — both 6'2", marking unusual size for the Vikings' cornerback room<br />
* '''Brian O'Neill extension''': Longest-tenured Viking locked down for additional years at a deal Tyler Forness deemed perfectly calibrated<br />
* '''Gavin Bartholomew''': Impressing at tight end, likely ahead of Ben Yurosek for the third spot behind Hockenson<br />
* '''Receiving depth''': Myles Price and Ty Felton currently next on the depth chart after Jefferson, Addison, and Jennings<br />
<br />
=== Free Agent Moves ===<br />
'''Jamal Adams''' signed to the veteran minimum — approximately $1.4 million in cash, $1.1 million against the cap. Arif noted his blitzing reputation outpaces his actual blitzing effectiveness, but his versatility suits a Brian Flores dime-backer role. His arrival creates a slightly crowded linebacker room, with Ivan Pace's role worth monitoring.<br />
<br />
=== Around the League: The 49ers Situation ===<br />
The hosts discussed San Francisco's accumulating injuries — Ricky Pearsall out for the season with a PCL, Christian Kirk missing time, a rookie ACL tear — and the growing '''substation theory'''. Arif refused to endorse the supernatural explanation but noted repeated tissue and ligament injuries likely point to a field, training, or athletic staff issue rather than random bad luck, citing the Packers' notorious athletic training staff era as precedent.<br />
<br />
The conversation extended into the '''Kyle Shanahan car crash''', which Arif addressed at length. He defended the reporters who sat on the story briefly as acting in line with journalism standards — you wait until you have a statement. He criticised a specific gambling/conspiracy account on Twitter for finding the most nefarious angle available on every media story and blowing it up conspiratorially, citing the account's handling of the Dianna Russini situation, the Matt Miller charity scam story, and the Shanahan car crash as examples of a pattern of inventing or amplifying the worst-possible interpretation with bad evidence. The account's use of an Emmanuel Acho story about a police officer being waved off the scene was identified as transparently false on basic logical grounds.<br />
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== Mailbag Questions ==<br />
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* '''Rahul''' — For the Will the Thrill corner: what is Arif's take on the four-point, 60-yard field goal rule? Initial emotional take: hell yes. Statistical take: probably bad, because it creates an incentive for teams down four to stay behind the 50-yard line and play for overtime rather than a touchdown, killing one of football's most compelling game states. Hell League official position: fully in favour, more awful kicking decisions are always welcome.<br />
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* '''Yea or Nay''' — Should Vikings fans incorporate the Norwegian row from the World Cup? The hosts were ambivalent — the skol clap already exists and is excellent, and the two things together might feel gimmicky, though doing the row at Twins games with the six people in attendance was endorsed.<br />
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* '''Nolan Kehler''' — As the new GM of the Vikings, what has Nolan missed in his tenure so far? Arif: no long-term answer at centre, underinvestment at safety, thin edge rusher depth. CFL veterans: covered, they have zero.<br />
<br />
* '''Big Ale''' — If the Vikings are contenders at the trade deadline, what roster hole becomes the top trade target, and what capital should they use? Arif identified safety, cornerback, and edge rusher as position-dependent answers depending on injury. For outgoing capital: Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins, Ivan Pace, or — the obvious answer — JJ McCarthy, who someone would take as a reclamation project.<br />
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* '''Nick''' — Now that all NFL head coaches are verifiably AI, what can fans do to ensure KOC-GPT's training data is maximally effective for quarterback whispering? Arif went deep on AI training data practices — scanning rare books and destroying them to deny competitor access — before concluding the best approach would be hacking Teamworks for coaching video, referencing Justis Mosqueda's legendary Dropbox of team playbooks.<br />
<br />
* '''Kate is pretty odd''' — For the Hell League corner: having forgotten everything after the World Cup, where does one start when preparing to draft? Arif revealed he won his first Hell League this year despite not attending the draft for at least three consecutive years. Strategy: set calendar reminders, then ignore them entirely and let the auto-draft run. For actual drafting, practice on Yahoo by taking a kicker in the first round and watching the chat explode.<br />
<br />
* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' — For the Skycam corner: how much did FIFA pay the NFL to deny that Reichard's kick hit the Skycam wire, in</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_607&diff=484Episode 6072026-08-04T19:29:25Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 607 | title = Unknown | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = None | type = Offseason }} '''Norse Code Episode 607''' was an offseason episode covering Vikings training camp, the Kyler Murray vs. JJ McCarthy quarterback competition, free agent moves including Jamal Adams, the San Francisco 49ers' injury situation and car crash controversy, and an extensive mailbag covering everything from four-point fiel..."</p>
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<div>{{EpisodeInfobox<br />
| number = 607<br />
| title = Unknown<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Offseason<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Norse Code Episode 607''' was an offseason episode covering Vikings training camp, the Kyler Murray vs. JJ McCarthy quarterback competition, free agent moves including Jamal Adams, the San Francisco 49ers' injury situation and car crash controversy, and an extensive mailbag covering everything from four-point field goals, to the podcasters vs. streamers civil war, to children who refuse to poop at home.<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
The hosts returned after a month off to discuss the Vikings' training camp, the quarterback battle between Kyler Murray and JJ McCarthy, and the signing of Jamal Adams. The episode featured a lengthy discussion of the 49ers' injury situation and surrounding conspiracy theories, including an extensive breakdown of Kyle Shanahan's car crash and what mayor of conspiracy Twitter got wrong about it. The Hell League was formally announced open for its final edition, with a special Oops, All Punters variant.<br />
<br />
== Segments ==<br />
<br />
=== Hell League: Oops, All Punters Edition ===<br />
James announced the Hell League is open for the 2026 season — its final year. A special variant, the '''Oops, All Punters Edition''', will run alongside the standard league on ESPN, the only platform that scores punter stats properly. All drafts take place on Labor Day. Threadless Hell League merch remains available.<br />
<br />
=== Training Camp: Lies and Videotape ===<br />
Arif covered the quarterback competition in detail. Murray is receiving more reps than McCarthy, which Arif attributed to one of three causes: Murray is ahead, Murray needs more time in the offense he doesn't know as well as McCarthy does, or the snap-counting methodology is unreliable. Arif leaned toward the second interpretation but acknowledged Murray is probably the leader. Matthew Coller's tracking confirmed McCarthy is throwing more over the middle, while Murray is attempting more deep sideline throws — both correcting the weaknesses that have defined each quarterback's recent struggles.<br />
<br />
Notable training camp observations:<br />
* '''Defensive line rotation''': Caleb Banks rotating with the ones; Jalen Redmond and Levi Drake Rodriguez starting at defensive tackle; Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins moving toward outside linebacker while still rotating inside<br />
* '''Jaye Ngata''': The tall linebacker drawing attention for rotating at edge rusher, with Wide Left's Matt Fries projecting him there in his</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_Archive&diff=483Episode Archive2026-08-04T19:27:03Z<p>Damian: </p>
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 67|67]] || Who goes to Manny's and doesn't have steak? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 115|115]] || Strong men also cry || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2016 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2017 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2019 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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|-<br />
| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
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| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
|}<br />
==2026 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 607|607]] || Podcasters vs. Streamers || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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</noinclude></div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_606&diff=482Episode 6062026-08-04T19:25:28Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 606 | title = Unknown | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = None | type = Offseason }} '''Norse Code Episode 606''' was an offseason episode covering the Vikings' new general manager and roster moves, the Dianna Russini situation, league-wide news, and an extensive mailbag ranging from food court quarterback rankings, to Lego liquidation ethics, to the correct way to survive Dry July as a Catholic. ==..."</p>
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'''Norse Code Episode 606''' was an offseason episode covering the Vikings' new general manager and roster moves, the Dianna Russini situation, league-wide news, and an extensive mailbag ranging from food court quarterback rankings, to Lego liquidation ethics, to the correct way to survive Dry July as a Catholic.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
The hosts discussed the hiring of new Vikings general manager Nolan Teasley and the associated roster moves, addressed what the show terms the Russini Implication, and worked through a wide-ranging mailbag covering Vikings personnel, parenting, seed oils, sumo, Pokemon, and the ongoing emotional stages of Norse Code's announced ending.<br />
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== Segments ==<br />
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=== New GM and Moves ===<br />
Discussion of Nolan Teasley's arrival as the Vikings' new general manager, covering the early roster decisions and transactions associated with the new front office regime.<br />
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=== The Russini Implication ===<br />
The hosts addressed reporting from Dianna Russini and its implications for the Vikings, with listener Jack Rackham subsequently asking how long before Russini is offered a job at the White House.<br />
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=== Around the League ===<br />
General league-wide news and discussion.<br />
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== Mailbag Questions ==<br />
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* '''Logan''' — How is Arif doing? Is he okay? Any big feelings lately? Does he need a gallon of espresso or a hug?<br />
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* '''The Rabble Rouser''' — Since the quarterback room seems pretty lacklustre this year, could Arif break down the Vikings' QB options in terms of food court restaurants? Proposed rankings: Kyler Murray is KFC, JJ McCarthy is Sbarro, Carson Wentz is TCBY, and Max Brosmer is Long John Silver's.<br />
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* '''Bob the Bolsharif''' — For Arif's Getting Away With It Corner: who is the lowest-ranking member of the Vikings organisation you could namedrop to get out of a traffic ticket?<br />
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* '''Skimbleshanks''' — For Arif's I'm Sorry to That One Detroit Fan in the Discord Corner: where does the Lions' 2024 draft class rank in the pantheon of all-time bad drafts?<br />
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* '''Benn''' — If Kyler Murray has a solid season, will the Vikings draft a quarterback and let Kyler walk again, or should they commit to the only NFL quarterback shorter than Arif?<br />
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* '''Ice Delonda Est''' — For Arif's why-won't-you-just-retire corner: as Aaron Rodgers returns for yet another NFL season, who had a better final five seasons in aggregate — Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers? The hunch is Favre, but the numbers are unclear. Signed, "Just Barely Aaron Rodgers."<br />
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* '''The Mailman''' — For James's team history corner: which Vikings transaction — trade or free agent signing — left you feeling like you died in a freak colonoscopy accident? Everybody already knows Arif's answer.<br />
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* '''Erik the Red''' — Despite a stellar offseason overall, cornerback remains an area for improvement. Former first-round CB Terrion Arnold has recently become available. How would his skillset fit into the secondary, and is he worth pursuing?<br />
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* '''Luke Bentz''' — With the Lynx in first place even without Napheesa Collier, does her imminent return mean the banner can already be ordered?<br />
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* '''Kate''' — How do we free Flo Balogan?<br />
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* '''Jack Rackham''' — How long before Dianna Russini is offered a job at the White House?<br />
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* '''Deez''' — Since Arif allegedly no longer talks about sumo, can he instead break down the team he reached Master Ball with in Pokemon Champions and how he is enjoying the game so far? Team submitted for analysis: Mega Swamp, Mega Abomasnow, Whimsicott, Gholdengo, Typhlosion, and Sinistcha.<br />
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* '''Room Temp''' — What can and should Minnesota destroy to celebrate a Vikings Super Bowl win? Also: if Taylor Swift is using Madison Square Garden for her rehearsal dinner, where is James holding his to one-up her? And for Arif's beer corner: what is a better reason to endure a free Budweiser — the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or the Browns winning a single game?<br />
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* '''Minneapple Cinnamon Cheerios''' — For Arif's D.A.R.E. corner: some THC gummies ordered online fused together during a heat wave into a single Omni-blob of THC sugar goo, which has further chemically fused with its plastic wrapper. Given that the average Westerner already consumes about five grams of microplastics per week, how much of the weekly allocation would it take to just eat the whole thing anyway?<br />
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* '''Arif's Tormentor''' — Which current Viking would create the best Minnesota display at the Great American State Fair?<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For James's Dry July corner: how does one avoid drinking for a full month when one is Catholic and consumes the alcoholic blood of God every Sunday? Is the only option to drop the church? Also, for Arif's "uh oh" corner: what cornerbacks might be available before the start of the season? Asking for a Lions fan.<br />
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* '''Tankbee''' — For Arif's parenting corner: a recently-turned-six-year-old has taken to declaring that anything seasoned is "too spicy," including what amounts to milk-level heat. The father always limits or removes heat from family meals and cooks spicy food separately. How does one guide a child of this sensitivity into the wonderful world of seasoned food?<br />
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* '''Nolan Kehler''' — For North Code: with the podcast winding down, so too are the opportunities to consummate the show's love of the Brothers-in-Bud Grant. Will the hosts be making a trip north, and will James claim asylum to take advantage of Canada's superior healthcare system?<br />
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* '''Damian''' — Does the pod need to reassess their views on Ben DiNucci? Follow-up: does James specifically need to reassess his views on Ben DiNucci? (Least favourite songs also discussed.)<br />
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* '''Not Arif Hasan''' — For James's Kalshi corner: how long until Wide Left is bullied off the platform? It has allegedly been only five months since the last time the show asked whether live prediction markets were making Arif better at journalism.<br />
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* '''Kyle''' — Having come to accept the ending of Norse Code, Kyle takes a moment to congratulate both hosts on a landmark achievement in niche sports podcasting — before immediately returning to anger. HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO US?<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' — For Arif's seed oil corner: Spain has now banned seed oils for their World Cup team, per The Athletic. Is Arif willing to admit he was wrong and that seed oils are incredibly toxic? And will he stoop to making his next argument shirtless in a grocery store? Also, for Arif's health and wellness corner: currently in Portugal consuming copious quantities of meat, carbs, and alcohol with relatively few fruits and vegetables, yet feeling better than usual — lower anxiety, more energy, less bloated, and possibly lighter. When will Americans demand the same food standards that Europeans enjoy?<br />
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* '''Football's Misandrist Niche''' — For Arif's Hasanology corner: Arif often expresses confusion at known aspects of his own personality, including his Seahawks fandom, his business dealings with the Kansas City Chiefs and Crumbl Cookies, and his advocacy for liberalising overly bureaucratic labour law to create opportunities for younger workers. Is there a Jekyll and Hyde scenario being triggered by extreme caffeine intake, possibly rooted in a childhood overdose? And if so, at what point does the split occur?<br />
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* '''Zen Cupid''' — For Arif's Lego corner: hypothetically speaking, someone has a Lego and minifigure collection worth somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000. Hypothetically, this person adores the collection but needs to sell it quickly and privately to fund a family member's life-saving medical treatment, with no time to search for a fair buyer themselves. What reputable business would handle this respectfully, fairly, and privately? Is Bricks and Minifigs worth considering? All hypothetical, of course.<br />
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* '''I Hate Carmel, Indiana''' — For Arif's parenting and degenerate gambling corner: a first child is due in late December. The baby pool is being planned and should be modelled after the Hell League for laughs and to capitalise on the prediction market craze. What scoring system, prop bets, and general chaos mechanics should be implemented to maximise disorder and extract maximum money from friends and family?<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* Kyle returns with his second consecutive episode of staged grief over Norse Code's ending, this time cycling from acceptance back to anger in a single mailbag submission<br />
* [[Ben DiNucci]] receives a rare double question — one from Damian, one directed specifically at James — suggesting the DiNucci reassessment debate remains unresolved<br />
* Mad Max Brosmer continues his multi-episode campaign against Arif's seed oil position, now armed with a Spanish World Cup team as evidence<br />
* Ghost Dusty is implicitly referenced via Nolan Kehler's question about James claiming Canadian asylum<br />
* The Hell League is extended into a new domain — the baby pool — via the I Hate Carmel, Indiana submission<br />
* Arif's Lego collection is confirmed to be extensive enough that a listener is willing to use a dying family member as a framing device to ask about it<br />
* Deez's Pokemon team submission opens a new corner — Arif's Pokemon Champions corner — as a replacement for the allegedly retired sumo corner<br />
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 67|67]] || Who goes to Manny's and doesn't have steak? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 115|115]] || Strong men also cry || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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==2016 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2017 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2019 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 442|442]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 443|443]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 444|444]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 445|445]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 446|446]] || That Mariota Almost Interception || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 449|449]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 450|450]] || The Living Curse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 451|451]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 452|452]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 453|453]] || The First AI Bot Podcast! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 454|454]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 455|455]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 456|456]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 457|457]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 458|458]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 459|459]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 461|461]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 463|463]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 464|464]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 465|465]] || The Cookies Were Delicious || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 466|466]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 468|468]] || Buying the Dip || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 469|469]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 470|470]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 473|473]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 474|474]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 476|476]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 478|478]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 490|490]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 500|500]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2024 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2025 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 606|606]] || Dry July || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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</noinclude></div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_605&diff=480Episode 6052026-05-28T17:28:10Z<p>Damian: </p>
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<div>{{EpisodeInfobox<br />
| number = 605<br />
| title = In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain)<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Offseason<br />
}}<br />
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'''Norse Code Episode 605: In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain)''' was an offseason episode covering OTA observations, Minnesota's hosting of the NFL Draft, league news, and an extensive mailbag.<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
The hosts discussed Vikings OTA activity, Minnesota's hosting of the NFL Draft, and a wide-ranging mailbag covering everything from seed oils, to trolley problems, to toddler bathroom defiance. The episode also addressed the announced end of Norse Code, with listener Kyle asking what the hosts had for lunch.<br />
<br />
== Segments ==<br />
<br />
=== OTA Discussion ===<br />
The hosts reviewed observations from Vikings Organised Team Activities, discussing player development, early impressions, and what the roster might look like heading into the 2026 season.<br />
<br />
=== Minnesota Hosts the Draft ===<br />
Coverage of the NFL Draft taking place in Minnesota, with discussion of the event's impact on the local football community, the city's preparation, and the broader spectacle.<br />
<br />
=== Around the League ===<br />
League-wide news including the Green Bay Packers lawsuit situation, with the hosts noting the legal system's apparent willingness to let Paw Patrol sue someone but not pursue more serious charges against other parties.<br />
<br />
== Mailbag Questions ==<br />
<br />
* '''Rock''' — Do JJ McCarthy and his receivers do well with improvising routes when a quarterback is extending a play? Is that even a coachable skill?<br />
<br />
* '''Nick Howard''' — For the moving-to-a-cold-climate-from-the-Arizona-desert corner: any advice for someone who has never driven in snow, never owned snow tyres, and has no frame of reference for winter roads whatsoever?<br />
<br />
* '''Benn''' — With Rodgers signed to lead the Steelers to an 8-9 record, are the Vikings safe from ever seeing him in purple? Which rookie could surprise and contribute meaningfully? How close are we to Cooper Rush QB1 season?<br />
<br />
* '''Bigale''' — Every few months there are articles about the Vikings acquiring Joe Burrow. Ignoring cap issues, what trade capital would it take to pull that off for him, Allen, or Lamar? Who would you prefer if you could have any one of them? Does the answer change when you factor in the cap?<br />
<br />
* '''Steven''' — A website called startnine.win is apparently AI-generated content predicting a JJ McCarthy-led Vikings team winning only 11.5 games. The true number is certainly much higher. As a pillar of Vikings media, how does Arif plan to fight back against these malicious fabrications?<br />
<br />
* '''JJ McDarnold''' — What is the maximum number of former head coaches you can enroll in an accelerator program before you are forced to admit it is a rehab facility?<br />
<br />
* '''Will Melvin''' — With no Bengals on the schedule, how many interceptions will Isaiah Rodgers finish the season with?<br />
<br />
* '''Damian''' — For Arif's False Advertising Corner: what kind of nonsense are OTAs? From what anyone can tell, it is just practice. If someone at the office organised "Team Activities" and it turned out to simply be work, there would be consequences. As a hypothetical team owner, what would Arif do for OTAs instead — paintball, go-karting, or karaoke?<br />
<br />
* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' — For Arif's seed oil corner: Arif recently stated that seed oils were perfectly fine and had no real health impacts, but an NFL team has now banned seed oils in their cafeteria with a full staff of highly trained nutritionists signing off on it. How much is Big Food paying him to actively encourage listeners to poison themselves and their children? Also, Mina Kimes just won a million dollars on Celebrity Jeopardy and donated it to fight homelessness in LA — are there any celebrity debate tournaments Arif is planning to win for a similar impact, or is Mina Kimes simply cooler than him?<br />
<br />
* '''Matt Nelson''' — Since Arif is a successful streamer now, has he considered also streaming the podcast itself?<br />
<br />
* '''Kyle''' — Ever since hearing the news of Norse Code ending, Kyle has lost all sense of purpose, the joy in his hobbies is gone, and he sleeps considerably more. His question: what did you guys have for lunch?<br />
<br />
* '''Mal''' — To both hosts: fun socks — yes or no?<br />
<br />
* '''Janik''' — Trolley problem: you can either kill all the people on the top track, or double it and give it to the next person. Twenty-four people have already chosen to double it. Will you kill 16,777,216 people, or double it and give it to the next person?<br />
<br />
* '''Football's misandrist niche''' — For Arif's critical economics corner: given that the Powers That Be have completely lost the plot between purely speculative and material economic value, what other generally calmly enjoyed portions of daily existence should be commodified beyond recognition into levels of pump-and-dump schemes and wash trading that are technically not illegal because they are not taking place through an established securities market?<br />
<br />
* '''Tom Locke''' — For James's Irish Republican Corner: how would you reunite all the divisions into one league, the people finally united together again?<br />
<br />
* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For Arif's Water Waste Corner: what does Goth SūmerBrain think of the Vikings quarterback situation and schedule?<br />
<br />
* '''Alex''' — What is the best way to get a question answered on Norse Code? Send it the moment James announces he is recording tonight? Send an email? Besmirch the reputation of one of the hosts to trick them into defending themselves? Use an old bit, or try to start a new one?<br />
<br />
* '''Kate is pretty odd''' — For Arif's REI AMI corner: if Arif were to create a musical artist nom de plume based on two Sailor Moon characters, what would the name be and why?<br />
<br />
* '''Room Temperature''' — For the Norse Code Ghost Busting corner: as a cat sitter, a client has booked an overnight stay and mentioned the realtor said the place was haunted. Does James have any advice from his experience with ghost Dusty if the ghost is adversarial? Does Arif have any advice on how to win the ghost couple playoffs if the ghost is actually cool and into you?<br />
<br />
* '''Deez''' — For Arif's dating corner: rank these relationships from healthiest to most toxic — Aaron Rodgers and his "wife"; Mike Zimmer and Terrence Newman; Christian Ponder and his throwing shoulder; or Sharrif Floyd and his knee surgeon?<br />
<br />
* '''Village YAC Monger''' — Which NFL quarterbacks would you skip your least favourite son's second marriage to hang out with?<br />
<br />
* '''Zen Cupid''' — For Arif's job searcher corner: after 20 years at the same company, recently let go due to AI replacement. Previous role covered Layer 1 tech support, training and presenting, and Supplier Relationship Management specifically for fast food restaurant point-of-sale systems, back office servers, and restaurant network hardware and software. A very niche skillset. What field should they move into next, and how can AI help get them there? Their fate is in Arif's hands. A 24-hour ultimatum has been issued.<br />
<br />
* '''Ice delanda est''' — For Arif's AI corner: now that the Jets are using AI to make roster decisions, what else should the Jets use AI to do? Also, for Arif's parenting corner: a 3.5-year-old has refused to poop at home for eight months despite going daily at daycare. Laxatives are ineffective as he simply holds it in harder. He refuses all incentives — candy, stickers, ice cream, music, and TV time. He refuses his pull-ups. He will sit on the toilet and glare. He uses the toilet normally Monday through Friday but refuses on weekends. Upcoming four and five-day long weekends due to holidays are causing significant household anxiety. Solutions needed urgently.<br />
<br />
== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* Kyle's question about losing purpose following the announced end of Norse Code marks one of the more emotionally resonant mailbag submissions in the show's history<br />
* [[Goth SūmerBrain]] makes an appearance via Drew Bledsoe's question<br />
* [[The Death of Dusty O'Connell|Ghost Dusty]] is referenced in Room Temperature's haunted cat-sitting question<br />
* The trolley problem reaches 16,777,216 potential victims by question 24<br />
* Mad Max Brosmer continues the show's tradition of giving listeners episode-inspired names<br />
* Arif's seed oil corner and Mina Kimes corner coexist in the same question, suggesting Mad Max Brosmer is an overachiever<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
* Runtime: 1:30:49<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Season 2026]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Episode_605&diff=479Episode 6052026-05-28T17:22:16Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{EpisodeInfobox | number = 605 | title = In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) | hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik | guests = None | type = Offseason }} '''Norse Code Episode 605: In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain)''' was an offseason episode covering OTA observations, the Minnesota NFL Draft, league news, and an extensive mailbag. == Overview == The hosts discussed Vikings OTA activity,..."</p>
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<div>{{EpisodeInfobox<br />
| number = 605<br />
| title = In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain)<br />
| hosts = Arif Hasan, James Pogatshnik<br />
| guests = None<br />
| type = Offseason<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Norse Code Episode 605: In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain)''' was an offseason episode covering OTA observations, the Minnesota NFL Draft, league news, and an extensive mailbag.<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
The hosts discussed Vikings OTA activity, Minnesota's hosting of the NFL Draft, and a wide-ranging mailbag covering everything from seed oils to trolley problems to toddler bathroom defiance. The episode also addressed the announced end of Norse Code, with listener Kyle asking what the hosts had for lunch.<br />
<br />
== Segments ==<br />
<br />
=== OTA Discussion ===<br />
The hosts reviewed observations from Vikings Organized Team Activities, discussing player development and early impressions heading into the 2026 season.<br />
<br />
=== Minnesota Hosts the Draft ===<br />
Coverage of the NFL Draft taking place in Minnesota, with discussion of the event's impact on the local football community.<br />
<br />
=== Around the League ===<br />
League-wide news including the Green Bay Packers lawsuit situation, with the hosts noting the legal system's apparent willingness to let Paw Patrol sue someone but not pursue more serious charges.<br />
<br />
== Mailbag Questions ==<br />
<br />
* '''Rock''' — Do JJ McCarthy and receivers do well with improvising routes when a QB is extending a play? Is that even a coachable skill?<br />
<br />
* '''Nick Howard''' — For the moving-to-a-cold-climate-from-the-Arizona-desert corner: any advice for someone who has never driven in snow?<br />
<br />
* '''Benn''' — With Rodgers signed to lead the Steelers to an 8-9 record, are the Vikings safe from ever seeing him in purple? Which rookie could surprise and contribute? How close are we to Cooper Rush QB1 season?<br />
<br />
* '''Bigale''' — Every few months there are articles about the Vikings acquiring Joe Burrow. Ignoring cap issues, what trade capital would it take? Who would you prefer if you could have Burrow, Allen, or Lamar? Does the answer change with cap constraints?<br />
<br />
* '''Steven''' — A website called startnine.win is apparently AI-generated content predicting a JJ McCarthy-led Vikings team winning only 11.5 games. As a pillar of Vikings media, how does Arif plan to fight back against these malicious fabrications?<br />
<br />
* '''JJ McDarnold''' — What is the maximum number of former head coaches you can enroll in an accelerator program before you are forced to admit it is a rehab facility?<br />
<br />
* '''Will Melvin''' — With no Bengals on the schedule, how many interceptions will Isaiah Rodgers finish the season with?<br />
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* '''Damian''' — For Arif's False Advertising Corner: what kind of nonsense are OTAs? It's just practice. If someone at the office organised "Team Activities" and it turned out to just be work, there would be consequences. As a hypothetical team owner, what would Arif do for OTAs instead? Paintball? Go-karting? Karaoke?<br />
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* '''Mad Max Brosmer''' — For Arif's seed oil corner: Arif recently said seed oils were fine and had no real health impacts, but an NFL team has now banned seed oils in their cafeteria. How much is Big Food paying him to encourage listeners to poison themselves? Also, Mina Kimes just won a million dollars on Celebrity Jeopardy and donated it to fight homelessness in LA — are there any celebrity debate tournaments Arif is planning to win for a similar impact, or is Mina Kimes simply cooler?<br />
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* '''Matt Nelson''' — Since Arif is a successful streamer now, has he considered streaming the podcast as well?<br />
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* '''Kyle''' — Ever since hearing the news of Norse Code ending, Kyle has lost all sense of purpose, the joy in his hobbies is gone, and he sleeps way more. His question: what did you guys have for lunch?<br />
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* '''Mal''' — To both hosts: fun socks — yes or no?<br />
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* '''Janik''' — Trolley problem: you can either kill all the people on the top track, or double it and give it to the next person. 24 people have already chosen to double it. Will you kill 16,777,216 people, or double it and give it to the next person?<br />
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* '''Football's misandrist niche''' — For Arif's critical economics corner: given that the Powers That Be have completely lost the plot between speculative and material economic value, what other generally calm portions of daily existence should be commodified beyond recognition into technically-not-illegal pump-and-dump schemes?<br />
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* '''Tom Locke''' — For James's Irish Republican Corner: how would you reunite all the divisions into one league, the people finally united together again?<br />
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* '''A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe''' — For Arif's Water Waste Corner: what does Goth SūmerBrain think of the Vikings quarterback situation and schedule?<br />
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* '''Alex''' — What is the best way to get a question answered on Norse Code? Send it when James announces he's recording? Email? Besmirch the reputation of a host to trick them into defending themselves? Use an old bit or start a new one?<br />
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* '''Kate is pretty odd''' — For Arif's REI AMI corner: if Arif were to create a musical artist nom de plume based on two Sailor Moon characters, what would the name be and why?<br />
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* '''Room Temperature''' — For the Norse Code Ghost Busting corner: as a cat sitter, a client just booked an overnight stay and mentioned the realtor said the place was haunted. Does James have any advice from his experience with ghost Dusty if the ghost is adversarial? Does Arif have advice on winning the ghost couple playoffs if the ghost is cool and into you?<br />
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* '''Deez''' — For Arif's dating corner: rank these relationships from healthiest to most toxic — Aaron Rodgers and his "wife"; Mike Zimmer and Terrence Newman; Christian Ponder and his throwing shoulder; or Sharrif Floyd and his knee surgeon?<br />
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* '''Village YAC Monger''' — Which NFL quarterbacks would you skip your least favourite son's second marriage to hang out with?<br />
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* '''Zen Cupid''' — For Arif's job searcher corner: after 20 years at the same company, recently let go due to AI replacement. Previous role covered Layer 1 tech support, training, presenting, and Supplier Relationship Management specifically for fast food restaurant point-of-sale, back office servers, and restaurant network hardware and software. A very niche skillset. What field should they go into next and how can AI get them there? Their fate is in Arif's hands. A 24-hour ultimatum has been issued.<br />
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* '''Ice delanda est''' — For Arif's AI corner: now that the Jets are using AI to make roster decisions, what else should the Jets use AI for? Also, for Arif's parenting corner: a 3.5-year-old has refused to poop at home for 8 months despite going daily at daycare. Laxatives are ineffective as he simply holds it in harder. He refuses incentives. He refuses his pull-ups. He will sit on the toilet and glare. He uses the toilet Monday through Friday but refuses on weekends. Upcoming 4 and 5-day long weekends due to holidays are causing significant anxiety. Solutions needed urgently.<br />
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== Key Bits & Lore ==<br />
* Kyle's question about losing purpose following the announced end of Norse Code marks one of the more emotionally resonant mailbag submissions in the show's history<br />
* Goth SūmerBrain makes an appearance via Drew Bledsoe's question<br />
* Ghost Dusty is referenced in Room Temperature's haunted cat-sitting question<br />
* The trolley problem reaches 16,777,216 potential victims by question 24<br />
* Mad Max Brosmer continues the show's tradition of giving listeners episode-inspired names<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
* Runtime: 1:30:49 (noted twice in show notes)<br />
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<div>This page is the complete [[Norse Code]] episode archive, organised by season.<br />
Episodes with show notes in the archive are marked ✓.<br />
Episode pages without titles are stubs awaiting completion.<br />
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''See also: [[:Category:Episodes]]''<br />
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==2013 Season==<br />
''No show notes available for this season.''<br />
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==2014 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 67|67]] || Who goes to Manny's and doesn't have steak? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 68|68]] || For Reals || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 71|71]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2015 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 83|83]] || The Blumpkin By The Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 85|85]] || Stafford Harassment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 89|89]] || Diggs Does Denver || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 90|90]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 92|92]] || A Tale of Two Halfs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 103|103]] || The Search for ODB's Money || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 107|107]] || Tears of an AP || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 111|111]] || these numbers look like lightsabers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 113|113]] || Smoked Cheese || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 115|115]] || Strong men also cry || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 122|122]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 125|125]] || The Smell of Fear || ✓<br />
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==2016 Season==<br />
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! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
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| [[Episode 133|133]] || Proof of Illuminati || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2017 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 193|193]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 195|195]] || Day to Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 196|196]] || What do you mean YOU people? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 197|197]] || Taking a Knee (Inherently Aggressive) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 202|202]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 203|203]] || Let the Bodies Hit the Floor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 205|205]] || Dirty Birds Slaughtered Inside of US Bank Stadium for Once || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 207|207]] || Dirty Browns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 211|211]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 213|213]] || Masters of Our Domain || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 215|215]] || Ham Package || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 217|217]] || As Seen on CBS Sports! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 219|219]] || Back and Better Than Ever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 220|220]] || God Hates New Orleans — We Just Need Proof || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 223|223]] || The Philadelphia Incident Pt. 2 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 224|224]] || Wasted Away Again in Margarittaville || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 225|225]] || Death Comes to Frogtown || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 226|226]] || Womens Hockey, Curling, and the XFL || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 227|227]] || Why Would We Want to Marry Our Cousins? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 228|228]] || It's Pronounced SEA-MAN! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 229|229]] || Scouting and Rebuilding with Jonathan and Drew || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 230|230]] || Extensions in the Snow || ✓<br />
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==2018 Season==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
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| [[Episode 231|231]] || So It's Come to This: Another Draft Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 232|232]] || Hating Hayden Hurst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 233|233]] || More and More Carson Every Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 234|234]] || An Uncomfortable Amount of Fat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 235|235]] || Previewing the Camp of Training || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 237|237]] || Tweet That! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 241|241]] || The Saltiest Kicker || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 242|242]] || Limited Success || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 245|245]] || Kickers Aren't People || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 246|246]] || Halftime is for Quitters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 248|248]] || (There Must Be) 50 Ways to Fix Your Defense || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 249|249]] || There's No Good Reason to Visit Philadelphia || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 250|250]] || Ugly But Useful || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 251|251]] || Double Trap Game? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 252|252]] || Dead Arms and Legs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 253|253]] || In Living Color || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 255|255]] || probably || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 256|256]] || Yakity Sacks! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 257|257]] || I Got Your Ads RIGHT HERE! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 258|258]] || Trash Birds and Bears || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 259|259]] || Post-Turkey and Post-Packers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 260|260]] || PAY-triots || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 261|261]] || Checking Down (and Out) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 262|262]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 263|263]] || Apologies for the Optimism || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 264|264]] || The Inconvenient Truth || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 265|265]] || Fighting Josh Freeman || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 266|266]] || Buyers Remorse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 267|267]] || Everyone's Fault But Mine || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 268|268]] || Too Many Cooks || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 270|270]] || Strong Opinions on the Bachelor || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 271|271]] || What's The Combination || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 272|272]] || blah || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 273|273]] || The Arif and James Annual Second Christmas Extravaganza || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 274|274]] || Last Stop Before Disappointment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 275|275]] || Spoilers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 276|276]] || Good Teammates || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 277|277]] || So We're Not Trading Him? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 279|279]] || Fluidity || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 280|280]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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==2019 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 281|281]] || Eating Eli Apple || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 282|282]] || Featuring Laquon Treadwell || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 285|285]] || Lions are Still Terrible || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 286|286]] || How to Cook (for Forty) Humans || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 287|287]] || 14 for 32 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 288|288]] || He's Brandishing a Knife (It's Shia LaBeouf) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 289|289]] || The Good Place || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 290|290]] || The Fall Guy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 291|291]] || Underplaying Your Coaching || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 293|293]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 294|294]] || A Whimper || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 295|295]] || Wentz the Turkey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 296|296]] || The One Where Don is the Stripper in the Cake || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 297|297]] || The Honeymoon is Over || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 298|298]] || Catching a Charge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 299|299]] || The Dangers of Being Drunk in the Backseat || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 300|300]] || Cute But Ugly || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 301|301]] || MASH Theme || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 302|302]] || Ham of Personality || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 304|304]] || Kirk — We're on It! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 305|305]] || Arif and Kickers — A Love Story || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 308|308]] || Podcasting in My Sleep || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 310|310]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 312|312]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 313|313]] || Trauma-Fueled Vision Quests || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 315|315]] || Everything Was Bad || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 316|316]] || Fever Dreams || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 317|317]] || Trigger Fingers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 319|319]] || We Are All on Drugs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 320|320]] || The Dangers of Social Distancing || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 321|321]] || Exodus, Movement of Jah People! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 322|322]] || The Monday Show || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 323|323]] || Playing Meaningful Football in April || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 325|325]] || Anthony Barr-Related Reasons || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 326|326]] || A Rational Discussion on Defunding the RB Position || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 327|327]] || The Ham Controversy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 328|328]] || Slowly But Surely Turning Into a Cob of Corn || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 329|329]] || This is Probably Peter King's Fault || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 330|330]] || Strong Positive and/or Negative Emotions || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2020 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 331|331]] || The Covid Year™ || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 332|332]] || Follow the Numbers in Your Heart || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 333|333]] || Christians Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 334|334]] || Dinosaurs Against Christians || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 335|335]] || Dinosaurs Against Dinosaurs || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 336|336]] || Dinosaurs Against XP Attempts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 337|337]] || Dinosaurs Against Bengal Kings || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 339|339]] || Dinosaurs Against Thanos || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 340|340]] || A Quick Discussion on Why it Should Be Legal to Shoot Kickers Into the Sun || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 341|341]] || No Place Like No Home || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 342|342]] || Tenuous But Fun to Talk About || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 343|343]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 344|344]] || An Abundance of Caution || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 345|345]] || This Team Might Not Be Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 346|346]] || The Yannick Ngakoue Trade || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 347|347]] || Armageddon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 348|348]] || Count Your Blessings, Bitch! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 349|349]] || Space Lasers for All! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 350|350]] || Irv Smith Lives! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 351|351]] || Distracted by Chili || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 352|352]] || Making Adjustments || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 353|353]] || How Do You Take a Sack There, Kyler? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 354|354]] || Just Like the Gypsy Woman Said… || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 355|355]] || So This is What It's Like to Be a Seahawks Fan || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 356|356]] || Bingoists || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 357|357]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 358|358]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 359|359]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 360|360]] || Norse Code Comes Full Circle || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 361|361]] || This Team Had Playoff Aspirations. Like Recently || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 362|362]] || Playing Without Tackling You Are the Lion || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 363|363]] || That's a BINGO || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 364|364]] || One Million Vibes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 365|365]] || Gatorade Consistency || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 366|366]] || Do They Know it's Snowing Over There (in Texas) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 367|367]] || Bees Above Replacement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 368|368]] || Into the Void (Year) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 369|369]] || The Other End of the Tin Can and String || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 370|370]] || CJ Ham Punishment Edition || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 371|371]] || Ozymandias || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 372|372]] || All That Could Have Been || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 373|373]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 374|374]] || Checkers on a Chess Board || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 375|375]] || The Purview of the Corner || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 376|376]] || The Return of The Heismen || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 377|377]] || DOES YOUR MILKSHAKE BRING ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 378|378]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 379|379]] || Here's to Hopefully People Showing Up to the Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 380|380]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2021 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 381|381]] || Case Cookus — Cousin's Swear Jar || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 382|382]] || For Better or, Usually, For Worse || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 383|383]] || Outbreaks and Clusters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 384|384]] || False Starts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 385|385]] || Show Me the Honey || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 386|386]] || Flaw in the Regime || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 387|387]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 388|388]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 389|389]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 390|390]] || Best of the Worst || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 391|391]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 392|392]] || In Spite of Ourselves || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 393|393]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 394|394]] || It Sucks Watching This Team Sometimes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 395|395]] || I Am Doing Well || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 396|396]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 397|397]] || Live from the James Joyce Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 399|399]] || Stick to Sports || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 400|400]] || Episode 418: Laziest Conquerors || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 401|401]] || Thanks Again || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 402|402]] || Vikings Win the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 403|403]] || Vikings Lose the Super Bowl || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 404|404]] || In Defense of Throatzilla || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 405|405]] || Waiting for a Win || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 406|406]] || True Knowledge || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 407|407]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 408|408]] || The Passion of the Cousins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 409|409]] || The Formula || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 410|410]] || That Funny Feeling || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 411|411]] || Frozen Beef || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 412|412]] || An Indictment || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 414|414]] || Burning It All Down || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 415|415]] || Kwesi Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 416|416]] || Window Mirror Paradox || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 417|417]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 418|418]] || Away the Moon || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 419|419]] || Decisions Were Made || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 420|420]] || Sam Hayes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 421|421]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 422|422]] || Prye's Brewing Company || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 423|423]] || Trading With Green Bay || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 424|424]] || Literally Betting Against Carson Wentz || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 425|425]] || The Lack of News || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 426|426]] || Case Cookus || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 427|427]] || The Nate Stanley Is Released Spectacular! || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 428|428]] || League Violation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 429|429]] || Make Yourself Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 430|430]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2022 Season==<br />
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| [[Episode 431|431]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 432|432]] || Goodbye Rodger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 433|433]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 434|434]] || Telling the Bees || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 436|436]] || The Kirkish Genocide Returns || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 438|438]] || Norse Covid || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 439|439]] || You Have Just Been Called for Roughing the Passer || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 440|440]] || Buying Into the Lie || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 441|441]] || The Broken Year || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 447|447]] || Bringing You Down to Our Level || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 448|448]] || Going Live in 3, 2, 1 || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 467|467]] || The First 48 Hours || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 471|471]] || First Catch of the Day || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 472|472]] || Releases and Holdouts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 475|475]] || Closer to Correct || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 477|477]] || Surprise Makes and Surprise Cuts || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 479|479]] || Facts Are Irrelevant || ✓<br />
|}<br />
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==2023 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 481|481]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 482|482]] || Hate Power Ranking || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 483|483]] || Swift Doctrine || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 484|484]] || A Detail That Was True But Would Not Have Helped || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 485|485]] || Addicted to Fumbles || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 486|486]] || Duke Nukem 3D Situational Disasters || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 487|487]] || Definition of Accuracy || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 488|488]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 489|489]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 491|491]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 492|492]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 493|493]] || Visual Trash || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 494|494]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 495|495]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 496|496]] || Are the Vikings the Jets? Browns? || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 497|497]] || Terrified of Greatness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 498|498]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 499|499]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 501|501]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 502|502]] || Life is Random and Cruel || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 503|503]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 504|504]] || Soft Times Make Weak Men || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 505|505]] || Gambling Degens and Degen Gamblers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 506|506]] || The Power of Enemies || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 507|507]] || A Farewell to (#8's) Arm(s) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 508|508]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 510|510]] || Excel Wizardry or Whatever || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 511|511]] || Going to Galveston || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 512|512]] || Obligation Episode || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 513|513]] || Guaranteed to Be Guaranteed || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 514|514]] || Spite Kickers || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 515|515]] || Reserve Anger || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 516|516]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 517|517]] || Player Health || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 518|518]] || Nerve Regeneration for Fun and Profit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 519|519]] || Likely Toes || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 520|520]] || Xanatos Gambit || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 522|522]] || Petty Game Balls || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 523|523]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 524|524]] || The Threat of the Bomb || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 526|526]] || Lucky and Good || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 527|527]] || Movement of One || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 528|528]] || Bullying But Popular || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 529|529]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==2024 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 533|533]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 534|534]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 535|535]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 536|536]] || Ignoring the Darnold in the Room || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 537|537]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 538|538]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 539|539]] || Evaluate the Vibe || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 540|540]] || Personification of Oversaturation || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 542|542]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 543|543]] || The Movement || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 544|544]] || Pythagorean Wins || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 545|545]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 547|547]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 548|548]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 550|550]] || Voltron of Correctness || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 551|551]] || The Art of Getting Punched in the Face with Everyone Watching || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 553|553]] || I Don't Feel Better || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 554|554]] || The Horrors Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 555|555]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 556|556]] || The Horrors Continue to Persist (Can Be Destroyed by Heat) || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 557|557]] || Confirmed in a Denial || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 558|558]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 559|559]] || Demolish the World || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 560|560]] || Don't Tear Gas the Squirrels || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 561|561]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 562|562]] || Infinite Money Glitch || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 563|563]] || Illegal in Most States || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 564|564]] || There Was No Winning Move || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 566|566]] || Arif's Support Squad / The Burn Book || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 567|567]] || Kevin O'Quiggley || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 568|568]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 569|569]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
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| [[Episode 570|570]] || Antichrist Superstar || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 571|571]] || The Promise of Greatness || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 572|572]] || The Prince That Was Promised || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 574|574]] || Rationing the Celsius || ✓<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==2025 Season==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"<br />
! style="width:60px" | # !! Title !! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 576|576]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 577|577]] || Ethically Sourced Bones || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 578|578]] || Torment Nexus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 580|580]] || The Lost Episode || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 581|581]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 582|582]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 583|583]] || Double Ngakoue || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 585|585]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 586|586]] || You Never Want to Go Double || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 587|587]] || The Brain Survives a Lot of Abuse || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 588|588]] || A Lack of Justis || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 589|589]] || Misery Cohort || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 590|590]] || ''(title unknown)'' || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 591|591]] || Structurally Capable || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 592|592]] || Somewhat Ethical Hater || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 593|593]] || Kirkish Genocide || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 594|594]] || Someone Should Consider Matt Ryan's Feelings || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 596|596]] || One More Time || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 597|597]] || Nepotism of Theseus || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 599|599]] || Dreams Do Come True || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 599.5|599.5]] || Blurs and Epilogues || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 600|600]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 601|601]] || Sam Darnold Reasons || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 602|602]] || Canonically Immortal || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 603|603]] || Hugging Italians || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 604|604]] || Truly Delightful People || ✓<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 605|605]] || In the wrong place and time (being disappointed in the rain) || ✓<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<noinclude><br />
[[Category:Navigation]]<br />
</noinclude></div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=James_Pogatshnik&diff=477James Pogatshnik2026-05-26T13:04:48Z<p>Damian: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{HostInfobox<br />
| name = James Pogatshnik<br />
| role = Host, Producer<br />
| twitter = @bigmono<br />
| since = 2014<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''James Pogatshnik''' (known online as '''bigmono''' and as the self appointed '''Antipope of chili town''') is the host and producer <br />
of [[Norse Code]], the #1 podcast for Minnesota Vikings fans. He is responsible <br />
for the show's production, structure, and much of its comedic tone.<br />
<br />
== Role on Norse Code ==<br />
James serves as the show's anchor and producer — he keeps episodes moving, <br />
manages the mailbag, and provides the comedic counterbalance to [[Arif Hasan]]'s <br />
analytical deep dives. While Arif brings the film and data, James brings the <br />
listener's perspective and a sharp wit that has defined the show's voice <br />
across 600+ episodes.<br />
<br />
He is the logistical backbone of Norse Code: booking guests, managing the <br />
Patreon, coordinating the annual Christmas clip show, and keeping Arif <br />
broadly on topic.<br />
<br />
== Notable Quotes ==<br />
"I hate you people." - James Pogatshnik|Norse Code YouTube channel description<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
James maintains a deliberately low public profile outside of the podcast. <br />
He is based in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area and has been part of Norse Code <br />
since its founding in 2014.<br />
<br />
== Social ==<br />
* Twitter/X: [https://twitter.com/bigmono @bigmono]<br />
* Podcast contact: norsecodepodcast@gmail.com<br />
<br />
[[Category:Hosts]]<br />
[[Category:People]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Nolan_Kehler&diff=475Nolan Kehler2026-05-21T01:20:12Z<p>Damian: Created page with "{{ListenerInfobox | name = Nolan Kehler | location = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | known_for = North Code, Dating Corner, CFL advocacy | first_ep = ~Episode 296 }} '''Nolan Kehler''' is a Canadian listener and one of the most prolific and creative mailbag contributors in Norse Code history. Based in or around Winnipeg, Manitoba, he served as the show's unofficial CFL correspondent, relationship advice seeker, conspiracy theorist, and cultural attaché acro..."</p>
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<div>{{ListenerInfobox<br />
| name = Nolan Kehler<br />
| location = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada<br />
| known_for = North Code, Dating Corner, CFL advocacy<br />
| first_ep = ~Episode 296<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Nolan Kehler''' is a Canadian listener and one of the most prolific and creative mailbag contributors in Norse Code history. Based in or around Winnipeg, Manitoba, he served as the show's unofficial CFL correspondent, relationship advice seeker, conspiracy theorist, and cultural attaché across hundreds of episodes. He is best known for founding the recurring '''North Code''' segment and for his tireless advocacy on behalf of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<br />
<br />
== North Code ==<br />
<br />
Nolan's signature contribution to Norse Code was '''North Code''' — his ongoing dispatches covering the Canadian Football League, delivered as a counterpart to Arif's NFL analysis and James's theology corner. His CFL coverage included:<br />
<br />
* Regular updates on the '''Winnipeg Blue Bombers''', particularly during their dynasty years and Grey Cup runs<br />
* Persistent advocacy for kicker '''Justin Medlock''' as a solution to the Vikings' chronic special teams problems<br />
* Lobbying for '''Nathan Rourke''' of the BC Lions, whom he felt the Vikings had missed out on when they traded Ezra Cleveland<br />
* Championing running back '''Brady Oliveira''' as deserving an NFL call-up<br />
* Filing Grey Cup results with the same gravity the hosts brought to Vikings playoff losses<br />
<br />
North Code questions were treated with a mix of genuine warmth and affectionate mockery — Arif occasionally feigning ignorance of Canadian football while clearly enjoying the segment.<br />
<br />
== The Dating Corner ==<br />
<br />
Nolan was one of the most frequent visitors to '''Arif's Dating Corner''', submitting questions that ranged from practical to existential:<br />
<br />
* Asking for advice before his first ever double date (Episode 385), specifically whether he should bring '''two wine towels''' — a deliberate callback to the [[The Wine Towel Incident|Wine Towel Incident]] that delighted the hosts<br />
* Requesting dairy and gluten-free meal ideas to impress a girlfriend<br />
* Asking which Renaissance painting best depicted his experience as a Vikings fan<br />
* Submitting genuinely useful relationship questions alongside completely unhinged ones in the same message<br />
<br />
== The Musician ==<br />
<br />
Nolan is a working musician or performing artist of some kind. Evidence across episodes includes:<br />
<br />
* Requesting James play specific pieces for '''James's Music Corner'''<br />
* Asking which Jeremy Camp songs Kirk Cousins might be listening to<br />
* Debating the best Green Day setlist for a Grey Cup halftime show<br />
* Celebrating and mourning various '''Juno Award''' nominees<br />
* Raising the '''Nickelback Hall of Fame''' debate with complete sincerity<br />
* Suggesting Arif translate his anti-turkey argument into French for Canadian audiences<br />
* Revealing he had '''auditions in both Fargo and Minneapolis''' on the same trip, asking for restaurant recommendations for immediately afterwards<br />
<br />
== The Conspiracy Theorist ==<br />
<br />
Nolan leaned hard into Norse Code's witchcraft and occult era, contributing some of its finest theories:<br />
<br />
* Arguing that the '''Kensington Runestone''' being a fraud was the true source of the Vikings curse<br />
* Connecting the '''Seven Stars Crystals & Books''' store across from the bar where he watched a Vikings game to the team's mystical 2022 season arc<br />
* Theorising that Greg Joseph's kicking woes were connected to moon hexing, and that Manitoba might be specifically at fault<br />
* Wondering whether [[Dusty O'Connell]] could win a Norse Code seat in the SB Nation House of Representatives despite being deceased<br />
<br />
== The Omnivore of Corners ==<br />
<br />
More than any other listener, Nolan submitted questions to virtually every corner Arif ever opened, including:<br />
<br />
* '''Beekeeping Corner''' — hive management, bee emergencies, and a CBC news story about bees falling off a truck in Burlington<br />
* '''Canada Corner''' — defending Canadian institutions, the CFL, and the metric system<br />
* '''Monarchy Corner''' — thoughts on King Charles III's reign and obligations<br />
* '''Democracy Corner''' — involving Dusty's hypothetical political viability despite being dead<br />
* '''Arif's Conspiracy Corner''' — a regular haunt<br />
* '''James's Music Corner''' — piano piece recommendations<br />
* '''North Code''' — always<br />
<br />
== Key Episodes ==<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 296''' — First documented appearance; asks about Don from Ohio as the stripper in the cake<br />
* '''Episode 385''' — The double date / wine towel question<br />
* '''Episode 414''' — Hell League Deep State control accusations against James<br />
* '''Episode 471''' — Advocates for Justin Medlock's induction into the Blue Bombers Hall of Fame<br />
* '''Episode 489''' — Seven Stars Crystals conspiracy theory<br />
* '''Episode 554''' — Sumo corner crossover with North Code<br />
<br />
== Legacy ==<br />
<br />
Nolan Kehler is the show's '''international man of mystery''' — a Canadian who cared more about the Vikings than most Americans, filed CFL dispatches nobody asked for but everyone enjoyed, sought dating advice while simultaneously submitting detailed occult theories, and tied it all together with genuine warmth and a consistent comedic voice across hundreds of episodes.<br />
<br />
He is, in the Norse Code universe, what Justin Medlock was to the Blue Bombers: reliable, underrated, and always showing up exactly when you needed him.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Listeners]]<br />
[[Category:Discord Personalities]]<br />
[[Category:Canada]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Dusty_O%27Connell&diff=473Dusty O'Connell2026-05-19T11:18:50Z<p>Damian: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{HostInfobox<br />
| name = Dusty O'Connell<br />
| role = Co-founder, Original Co-host<br />
| since = 2013<br />
| until = 2018<br />
| status = Recurring Guest<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Dusty O'Connell''' is the co-founder of [[Norse Code]] and served as <br />
[[Arif Hasan]]'s original co-host from the podcast's launch in 2013 until 2018.<br />
<br />
== Role on Norse Code ==<br />
Dusty co-founded Norse Code and hosted it from 2013 until 2018. <br />
In the show's early years he was Arif's primary on-air partner, providing the <br />
everyman fan perspective alongside Arif's analytical approach. James Pogatshnik <br />
initially filled in as interim host when Dusty was unavailable — a <br />
arrangement that eventually became permanent when James took over as full-time <br />
co-host after Dusty's departure.<br />
<br />
Despite stepping back from regular duties, Dusty has remained a beloved presence <br />
in the Norse Code universe, returning as a guest for milestone episodes and <br />
special occasions. He appeared for the Episode 400 celebration, and <br />
continues to join Arif and James for the annual Super Bowl prop bet episode — <br />
one of the most anticipated recurring segments of the show's calendar.<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
From 2010 until 2014, Dusty volunteered at KGNU Public Radio in Boulder, <br />
Colorado as a reporter, producer, and board operator. He is based in Aurora, <br />
Colorado. <br />
<br />
== Notable Quotes ==<br />
{{Quote|Norse Code is at least the fifth best Vikings podcast on the Internet|Dusty O'Connell|Norse Code YouTube channel}}<br />
{{Quote|the wiki was a mistake|Dusty O'Connell|Norse Code Discord}}<br />
<br />
== Death ==<br />
[[File:DustyObit.jpg|300px|Dusty's Obituary]]<br />
<br />
<div><br />
<br />
== Selected Appearances (Post-2018) ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Context<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 400]] || Episode 418 || 400th episode celebration<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 554]] || The Horrors Persist || Super Bowl prop bets<br />
|-<br />
| Various || Super Bowl Episodes || Annual tradition<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Hosts]]<br />
[[Category:People]]<br />
[[Category:Co-founders]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Dusty_O%27Connell&diff=472Dusty O'Connell2026-05-19T11:15:32Z<p>Damian: /* Notable Quote */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{HostInfobox<br />
| name = Dusty O'Connell<br />
| role = Co-founder, Original Co-host<br />
| since = 2013<br />
| until = 2018<br />
| status = Recurring Guest<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Dusty O'Connell''' is the co-founder of [[Norse Code]] and served as <br />
[[Arif Hasan]]'s original co-host from the podcast's launch in 2013 until 2018.<br />
<br />
== Role on Norse Code ==<br />
Dusty co-founded Norse Code and hosted it from 2013 until 2018. <br />
In the show's early years he was Arif's primary on-air partner, providing the <br />
everyman fan perspective alongside Arif's analytical approach. James Pogatshnik <br />
initially filled in as interim host when Dusty was unavailable — a <br />
arrangement that eventually became permanent when James took over as full-time <br />
co-host after Dusty's departure.<br />
<br />
Despite stepping back from regular duties, Dusty has remained a beloved presence <br />
in the Norse Code universe, returning as a guest for milestone episodes and <br />
special occasions. He appeared for the Episode 400 celebration, and <br />
continues to join Arif and James for the annual Super Bowl prop bet episode — <br />
one of the most anticipated recurring segments of the show's calendar.<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
From 2010 until 2014, Dusty volunteered at KGNU Public Radio in Boulder, <br />
Colorado as a reporter, producer, and board operator. He is based in Aurora, <br />
Colorado. <br />
<br />
== Notable Quote ==<br />
{{Quote|Norse Code is at least the fifth best Vikings podcast on the Internet|Dusty O'Connell|Norse Code YouTube channel}}<br />
{{Quote|the wiki was a mistake|Dusty O'Connell|Norse Code Discord}}<br />
<br />
== Death ==<br />
[[File:DustyObit.jpg|300px|Dusty's Obituary]]<br />
<br />
<div><br />
<br />
== Selected Appearances (Post-2018) ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Context<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 400]] || Episode 418 || 400th episode celebration<br />
|-<br />
| [[Episode 554]] || The Horrors Persist || Super Bowl prop bets<br />
|-<br />
| Various || Super Bowl Episodes || Annual tradition<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Hosts]]<br />
[[Category:People]]<br />
[[Category:Co-founders]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Arif%27s_Car&diff=467Arif's Car2026-05-18T17:19:34Z<p>Damian: </p>
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<div>'''Arif's Car Woes''' is one of the defining sagas of [[Norse Code]] lore — a multi-year chronicle of automotive misfortune, municipal injustice, and a fundamentally adversarial relationship between [[Arif Hasan]], his Hyundai, and the Minneapolis Police Department. What began as isolated incidents evolved into a recurring segment, a named corner, a unit of measurement for Vikings futility, and eventually a hypothetical that asked whether Arif would accept a free parking spot if it required him to publicly declare his love for O.J. Simpson.<br />
<br />
He declined. The car was not safe.<br />
<br />
==The Vehicle==<br />
Arif's car is a '''Hyundai'''. This was confirmed across multiple episodes in 2023–2024 when listeners began referencing it by make, including:<br />
<br />
* A Hyundai "Getaway Sales Event" advertisement that was read on-air in Episode 494 with maximum irony, given Arif's track record.<br />
* A listener asking whether Josh Dobbs — whose car had also "arrived in Minnesota" — should contact Arif about which suburbs to avoid, "if it is a Hyundai."<br />
* Episode 535's Tankbee noting, unprompted, that he had "space in my garage, as I do not have a Hyundai in need of being safely stored there."<br />
* Episode 535's Ariffluenza: "I am in Seattle for a conference this week, and this morning I saw a Hyundai being towed. How long are you in town for?"<br />
<br />
The make of the car became shorthand for the entire saga. By 2024, "Hyundai" was a punchline that required no further explanation.<br />
<br />
==The Parking Problem==<br />
The origin of the automotive saga appears to be Arif's '''aversion to paying for parking''', which was identified as the root cause in multiple listener questions. Episode 248 referenced Arif "taking up 2 parking spots" as a karmic infraction. <br />
<br />
The phrase "donated his car to the police" entered the permanent Norse Code lexicon.<br />
<br />
==The Taking(s)==<br />
Arif's car was taken by police or towed on at least one confirmed occasion during the 2023 season, with strong evidence of multiple incidents:<br />
<br />
===The Primary Incident (2023)===<br />
By Episode 475, the loss of Arif's car was an established fact in the show notes, with a dedicated segment called "Arif's Car Repository Corner" appearing in Episode 477 (suggesting a place to store the car that the police could not access). By Episode 481, a listener submitted a question to '''Arif's Missing Vehicles Corner''':<br />
<br />
{{Quote|Having recently had your car stolen by the police, do you have any advice for the Charleston-area individual who is currently missing their vehicle ($80m F-35)? Should he/she call around to salvage yards?|Nude Egg|Episode 481}}<br />
<br />
By Episode 482, the show notes reference "the story of the cops sealing your car" as a settled historical event. By Episode 485, [[Don from Ohio]] was deploying it in multi-part questions:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|1) Do we know where Chad Greenway was on the night Arif's car was taken? 2) Does Arif own a fanny pack? Best way to carry those USB C cords. 3) With the series of bad luck Arif has had, does he finally realize this is karma for causing so much harm to my relationship with my wife?|Don from Ohio|Episode 485}}<br />
<br />
===Community Response (Episode 485)===<br />
The car loss prompted an unprecedented volume of listener responses in a single episode, including:<br />
<br />
* '''RoRo:''' "What advice can Arif offer Stefon Diggs on navigating the emotional turmoil of having your car stolen?"<br />
* '''Chris:''' "How do the Vikings' chances of making the playoffs compare to Arif's chances of not having his car stolen?"<br />
<br />
{{Quote|Maybe you should leave that in a garage?|James|Multiple Outros}}<br />
<br />
===The Minneapolis Corner (Episode 489)===<br />
A listener submitted what amounts to a witness statement in Episode 489:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|I was in downtown Minneapolis and adjacent areas last night. I drove a white car to the city, left it parked multiple times, and it was still there each time. This seems to go against your own experiences that you described on the podcast. Did you make up all those stories for the attention?|Anonymous listener|Episode 489}}<br />
<br />
===The PVOA Framework (Episode 490)===<br />
By Episode 490, a listener had developed a formal analytical framework:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|When we examine PVOA (Parking Value Over Average), Arif's performance this year has been a series of storied failures that apparently have been the driver of the Vikings' failures this season. Like the Vikings' turnover ratio, Arif has coughed up his car in so many unanticipated ways that through his magic corner, this luck has apparently been hexed upon the Vikings.|Episode 490 show notes}}<br />
<br />
===The Cops Stole His Car (Episode 563)===<br />
By Episode 563, the canonical description of the event had crystallized. A listener references "Arif weave the tale of how cops stole his car" as a known story, submitted alongside a question about how to get the police to steal a different person's Hyundai as retaliation for a near-miss traffic incident.<br />
<br />
==The Named Corners==<br />
Arif's car woes generated multiple named mailbag corners across the show:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Corner Name !! Episode !! Context<br />
|-<br />
| Arif's Car Repository Corner || 477 || Listener suggested building an Amish barn to avoid towing<br />
|-<br />
| Arif's Missing Vehicles Corner || 481 || Parallel to the missing F-35 in South Carolina<br />
|-<br />
| It Used to Be Parked There Corner || 494 || Named for the Hyundai "Getaway Sales Event" ad read on air<br />
|-<br />
| Arif's Car Security Corner || 539 || Listener asked about selling a Subaru; sought amulet/spell recommendations<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==The Parking Garage Offer (Episode 562)==<br />
The saga's philosophical peak arrived in Episode 562, when a listener posed the definitive hypothetical:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|Arif is offered a permanent spot in a parking garage right by his home that has perfect security, no cops looking to steal his car, and plenty of space to ensure that his Hyundai will never be scratched. The only conditions are that the spot number is 32 and that a sign hangs above the spot reading "Wide Left Substack founder Arif Hasan specifically requested to have this space because of his deep and abiding love and respect for the late, great O.J. Simpson." Does he take the offer?|Skimbleshanks <br />
the Railway Cat|Episode 562}}<br />
<br />
The answer, as far as the wiki can determine, was no.<br />
<br />
==The New Car (Episode 601)==<br />
By Episode 601, a listener referenced "Arif's new car and possibly garage episode" as an anticipated future installment — suggesting that by the show's final months, Arif had either replaced the Hyundai or was believed to have done so. The episode in question was never confirmed to have aired before the show concluded.<br />
<br />
==Timeline of Key Events==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Episode !! Event<br />
|-<br />
| 248 || First reference to Arif's parking karma ("taking up 2 parking spots")<br />
|-<br />
| 313 || James described as driving (Arif can't reach the gas pedal)<br />
|-<br />
| 466 || A listener's driver's license was restored; they planned to "swing by" a live show<br />
|-<br />
| 475 || "Arif's Car Repository Corner" — car situation established as ongoing issue<br />
|-<br />
| 481 || "Arif's Missing Vehicles Corner" — parallel to missing F-35<br />
|-<br />
| 482 || "The story of the cops sealing your car" referenced as known history<br />
|-<br />
| 485 || Don from Ohio: "Do we know where Chad Greenway was on the night Arif's car was taken?" Multiple listener responses in one episode<br />
|-<br />
| 489 || Witness account: white car parked in Minneapolis; still there<br />
|-<br />
| 490 || PVOA (Parking Value Over Average) framework introduced<br />
|-<br />
| 494 || Hyundai "Getaway Sales Event" ad read on air; "It Used to Be Parked There" corner named; Josh Dobbs warned about suburbs<br />
|-<br />
| 535 || Ariffluenza: towed Hyundai spotted in Seattle; Tankbee: "I do not have a Hyundai in need of being safely stored"<br />
|-<br />
| 539 || "Arif's Car Security Corner"; listener sought amulet/spell for Subaru security<br />
|-<br />
| 546 || Episode recorded from inside a car; child asleep in backseat<br />
|-<br />
| 562 || Parking garage offer: free spot, perfect security, OJ Simpson sign required<br />
|-<br />
| 563 || "Cops stole his car" established as canonical description; listener asked how to replicate for a different Hyundai<br />
|-<br />
| 585 || Car pod compared to Carpool Karaoke<br />
|-<br />
| 601 || "Arif's new car and possibly garage episode" referenced as future content<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Legacy==<br />
Arif's car woes outlasted the car itself, if the car was ever replaced. The saga generated named corners, formal analytical frameworks, a unit of comparative Vikings futility, a Stefon Diggs parallel, a Chad Greenway alibi question, and the most elaborate parking garage hypothetical in podcast history.<br />
<br />
The Hyundai is gone. The bit is forever.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* [[Arif Hasan]]<br />
* [[The Mailbag]]<br />
* [[Bits & Lore]]<br />
* [[Don from Ohio]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bits & Lore]]<br />
[[Category:Arif Hasan]]<br />
[[Category:Listeners]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Arif%27s_Car&diff=466Arif's Car2026-05-18T15:59:28Z<p>Damian: Created page with "'''Arif's Car Woes''' is one of the defining sagas of Norse Code lore — a multi-year chronicle of automotive misfortune, municipal injustice, and a fundamentally adversarial relationship between Arif Hasan, his Hyundai, and the Minneapolis Police Department. What began as isolated incidents evolved into a recurring segment, a named corner, a unit of measurement for Vikings futility, and eventually a hypothetical that asked whether Arif would accept a free parki..."</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Arif's Car Woes''' is one of the defining sagas of [[Norse Code]] lore — a multi-year chronicle of automotive misfortune, municipal injustice, and a fundamentally adversarial relationship between [[Arif Hasan]], his Hyundai, and the Minneapolis Police Department. What began as isolated incidents evolved into a recurring segment, a named corner, a unit of measurement for Vikings futility, and eventually a hypothetical that asked whether Arif would accept a free parking spot if it required him to publicly declare his love for O.J. Simpson.<br />
<br />
He declined. The car was not safe.<br />
<br />
==The Vehicle==<br />
Arif's car is a '''Hyundai'''. This was confirmed across multiple episodes in 2023–2024 when listeners began referencing it by make, including:<br />
<br />
* A Hyundai "Getaway Sales Event" advertisement that was read on-air in Episode 494 with maximum irony, given Arif's track record.<br />
* A listener asking whether Josh Dobbs — whose car had also "arrived in Minnesota" — should contact Arif about which suburbs to avoid, "if it is a Hyundai."<br />
* Episode 535's Tankbee noting, unprompted, that he had "space in my garage, as I do not have a Hyundai in need of being safely stored there."<br />
* Episode 535's Ariffluenza: "I am in Seattle for a conference this week, and this morning I saw a Hyundai being towed. How long are you in town for?"<br />
<br />
The make of the car became shorthand for the entire saga. By 2024, "Hyundai" was a punchline that required no further explanation.<br />
<br />
==The Parking Problem==<br />
The origin of the automotive saga appears to be Arif's '''aversion to paying for parking''', which was identified as the root cause in multiple listener questions. Episode 248 referenced Arif "taking up 2 parking spots" as a karmic infraction. <br />
<br />
The phrase "donated his car to the police" entered the permanent Norse Code lexicon.<br />
<br />
==The Taking(s)==<br />
Arif's car was taken by police or towed on at least one confirmed occasion during the 2023 season, with strong evidence of multiple incidents:<br />
<br />
===The Primary Incident (2023)===<br />
By Episode 475, the loss of Arif's car was an established fact in the show notes, with a dedicated segment called "Arif's Car Repository Corner" appearing in Episode 477 (suggesting a place to store the car that the police could not access). By Episode 481, a listener submitted a question to '''Arif's Missing Vehicles Corner''':<br />
<br />
{{Quote|Having recently had your car stolen by the police, do you have any advice for the Charleston-area individual who is currently missing their vehicle ($80m F-35)? Should he/she call around to salvage yards?|Nude Egg|Episode 481}}<br />
<br />
By Episode 482, the show notes reference "the story of the cops sealing your car" as a settled historical event. By Episode 485, [[Don from Ohio]] was deploying it in multi-part questions:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|1) Do we know where Chad Greenway was on the night Arif's car was taken? 2) Does Arif own a fanny pack? Best way to carry those USB C cords. 3) With the series of bad luck Arif has had, does he finally realize this is karma for causing so much harm to my relationship with my wife?|Don from Ohio|Episode 485}}<br />
<br />
===Community Response (Episode 485)===<br />
The car loss prompted an unprecedented volume of listener responses in a single episode, including:<br />
<br />
* '''RoRo:''' "What advice can Arif offer Stefon Diggs on navigating the emotional turmoil of having your car stolen?"<br />
* '''Chris:''' "How do the Vikings' chances of making the playoffs compare to Arif's chances of not having his car stolen?"<br />
<br />
<br />
===The Minneapolis Corner (Episode 489)===<br />
A listener submitted what amounts to a witness statement in Episode 489:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|I was in downtown Minneapolis and adjacent areas last night. I drove a white car to the city, left it parked multiple times, and it was still there each time. This seems to go against your own experiences that you described on the podcast. Did you make up all those stories for the attention?|Anonymous listener|Episode 489}}<br />
<br />
===The PVOA Framework (Episode 490)===<br />
By Episode 490, a listener had developed a formal analytical framework:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|When we examine PVOA (Parking Value Over Average), Arif's performance this year has been a series of storied failures that apparently have been the driver of the Vikings' failures this season. Like the Vikings' turnover ratio, Arif has coughed up his car in so many unanticipated ways that through his magic corner, this luck has apparently been hexed upon the Vikings.|Episode 490 show notes}}<br />
<br />
===The Cops Stole His Car (Episode 563)===<br />
By Episode 563, the canonical description of the event had crystallized. A listener references "Arif weave the tale of how cops stole his car" as a known story, submitted alongside a question about how to get the police to steal a different person's Hyundai as retaliation for a near-miss traffic incident.<br />
<br />
==The Named Corners==<br />
Arif's car woes generated multiple named mailbag corners across the show:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Corner Name !! Episode !! Context<br />
|-<br />
| Arif's Car Repository Corner || 477 || Listener suggested building an Amish barn to avoid towing<br />
|-<br />
| Arif's Missing Vehicles Corner || 481 || Parallel to the missing F-35 in South Carolina<br />
|-<br />
| It Used to Be Parked There Corner || 494 || Named for the Hyundai "Getaway Sales Event" ad read on air<br />
|-<br />
| Arif's Car Security Corner || 539 || Listener asked about selling a Subaru; sought amulet/spell recommendations<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==The Parking Garage Offer (Episode 562)==<br />
The saga's philosophical peak arrived in Episode 562, when a listener posed the definitive hypothetical:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|Arif is offered a permanent spot in a parking garage right by his home that has perfect security, no cops looking to steal his car, and plenty of space to ensure that his Hyundai will never be scratched. The only conditions are that the spot number is 32 and that a sign hangs above the spot reading "Wide Left Substack founder Arif Hasan specifically requested to have this space because of his deep and abiding love and respect for the late, great O.J. Simpson." Does he take the offer?|Skimbleshanks <br />
the Railway Cat|Episode 562}}<br />
<br />
The answer, as far as the wiki can determine, was no.<br />
<br />
==The New Car (Episode 601)==<br />
By Episode 601, a listener referenced "Arif's new car and possibly garage episode" as an anticipated future installment — suggesting that by the show's final months, Arif had either replaced the Hyundai or was believed to have done so. The episode in question was never confirmed to have aired before the show concluded.<br />
<br />
==Timeline of Key Events==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Episode !! Event<br />
|-<br />
| 248 || First reference to Arif's parking karma ("taking up 2 parking spots")<br />
|-<br />
| 313 || James described as driving (Arif can't reach the gas pedal)<br />
|-<br />
| 466 || A listener's driver's license was restored; they planned to "swing by" a live show<br />
|-<br />
| 475 || "Arif's Car Repository Corner" — car situation established as ongoing issue<br />
|-<br />
| 481 || "Arif's Missing Vehicles Corner" — parallel to missing F-35<br />
|-<br />
| 482 || "The story of the cops sealing your car" referenced as known history<br />
|-<br />
| 485 || Don from Ohio: "Do we know where Chad Greenway was on the night Arif's car was taken?" Multiple listener responses in one episode<br />
|-<br />
| 489 || Witness account: white car parked in Minneapolis; still there<br />
|-<br />
| 490 || PVOA (Parking Value Over Average) framework introduced<br />
|-<br />
| 494 || Hyundai "Getaway Sales Event" ad read on air; "It Used to Be Parked There" corner named; Josh Dobbs warned about suburbs<br />
|-<br />
| 535 || Ariffluenza: towed Hyundai spotted in Seattle; Tankbee: "I do not have a Hyundai in need of being safely stored"<br />
|-<br />
| 539 || "Arif's Car Security Corner"; listener sought amulet/spell for Subaru security<br />
|-<br />
| 546 || Episode recorded from inside a car; child asleep in backseat<br />
|-<br />
| 562 || Parking garage offer: free spot, perfect security, OJ Simpson sign required<br />
|-<br />
| 563 || "Cops stole his car" established as canonical description; listener asked how to replicate for a different Hyundai<br />
|-<br />
| 585 || Car pod compared to Carpool Karaoke<br />
|-<br />
| 601 || "Arif's new car and possibly garage episode" referenced as future content<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Legacy==<br />
Arif's car woes outlasted the car itself, if the car was ever replaced. The saga generated named corners, formal analytical frameworks, a unit of comparative Vikings futility, a Stefon Diggs parallel, a Chad Greenway alibi question, and the most elaborate parking garage hypothetical in podcast history.<br />
<br />
The Hyundai is gone. The bit is forever.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* [[Arif Hasan]]<br />
* [[The Mailbag]]<br />
* [[Bits & Lore]]<br />
* [[Don from Ohio]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bits & Lore]]<br />
[[Category:Arif Hasan]]<br />
[[Category:Listeners]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=465Main Page2026-05-18T15:55:54Z<p>Damian: </p>
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and '''[[James Pogatshnik]]'''. Running since 2014 and now over 600 episodes strong, <br />
it covers game reviews, weekly previews, NFL news, and an ever-growing mailbag — <br />
all through the lens of die-hard Vikings fandom.<br />
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== 👤 Hosts ==<br />
Hosts, guests, and recurring voices.<br />
* [[Arif Hasan]]<br />
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* [[Dusty O'Connell]]<br />
* [[Category:Guests|All Guests]]<br />
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==🎙️ Bits & Lore==<br />
Norse Code has developed a rich collection of running jokes, recurring bits, and <br />
beloved lore over its 600+ episodes. These moments are as much a part of the show's <br />
identity as the Vikings analysis itself. Notable recurring elements include Arif's <br />
sumo coverage (a genuine passion that has earned its own segment), the annual <br />
Christmas clip show, the mailbag, and a cast of recurring guests who have become <br />
"friends of the show." The show is also known for its deeply committed bit economy <br />
— once a joke enters the Norse Code universe, it tends to stay forever.<br />
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* [[Arif's Car]]<br />
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==🏆 Friends & Enemies List==<br />
The Norse Code Friends & Enemies List recognizes recurring guests and contributors who have <br />
become fixtures of the show over the years. These are the voices listeners know <br />
almost as well as Arif and James themselves.<br />
<br />
Notable members include:<br />
* '''[[Luke Braun]]''' — Crime enthusiast & bee eugenicist<br />
* '''[[Draw Play Dave]]''' — The show's artist & merch designer<br />
* '''[[Justis Mosqueda]]''' — The show's sworn Packers enemy, legally required to appear before every Vikings-Packers matchup<br />
* '''[[Jeremy Reisman]]''' — The Lions beat writer and "friend of the show" for NFC North previews<br />
* '''[[Lorin Cox]]''' — Bears coverage and recurring guest<br />
* '''[[Dusty O'Connell]]''' — Co-founder and original co-host, now recurring guest<br />
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[[Category:Ring of Honor]]<br />
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'''💬 Discord Personalities'''<br/><br />
The listeners who became lore.<br />
* [[Don from Ohio]]<br />
* [[A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe]]<br />
* [[Nolan Kehler]]<br />
* [[:Category:Listeners|All Listeners]]<br />
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==🔥 The Hell League==<br />
The Hell League is a fantasy football league created and run by [[James Pogatshnik]], <br />
open to Norse Code listeners via an annual lottery. <br />
<br />
Established in 2021 as a platform to experiment with innovations in fantasy <br />
cruelty, it requires managers to start two active kickers every week under a <br />
uniquely punishing scoring system. The defining feature is a brutal sliding <br />
scale for kicker scoring — missed extra points carry a deduction of -50 points, <br />
a penalty James increased from -25 midseason in year one because it wasn't <br />
penalizing players enough. <br />
<br />
By the time of Episode 500, the show had run eight Hell Leagues. <br />
Each August, James announces on air that the lottery for new spots is open. <br />
To enter, email [mailto:norsecodepodcast@gmail.com norsecodepodcast@gmail.com].<br />
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See [[The Hell League]] for full rules, scoring structure, and season results.<br />
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[[Category:Hell League]]<br />
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==🎤 Live Shows==<br />
Norse Code has held live recordings with fans throughout its history. <br />
By the time of Episode 500 in December 2023, the show had completed <br />
seven live shows. <br />
<br />
Known live show locations include:<br />
* '''Seattle, WA''' — Petoskey's Bar, November 29th (early run) <br />
* '''Minneapolis, MN''' — Union 32 Craft House, November 2022 <br />
(the famous Laquon Treadwell jersey giveaway episode)<br />
* '''Denver, CO''' — The Dam Grille (Episode 495), featuring <br />
Arif, James, and Dusty, with James getting revenge on Arif with help from the Discord<br />
* '''Virtual''' — A Patreon-exclusive Zoom live show was held during COVID<br />
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==About This Wiki==<br />
This is a fan-created reference site. It is not officially affiliated with Norse Code, <br />
the Daily Norseman, or SB Nation. To contribute, contact the wiki administrator.</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=A_Second_Jet_Has_Hit_Drew_Bledsoe&diff=464A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe2026-05-18T15:51:26Z<p>Damian: /* Legacy */</p>
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<div>'''A Seocnd Jet Has Hit DrewBledsoe''' [sic] is one of the most prolific and intellectually ambitious recurring contributors in [[Norse Code]] mailbag history. Appearing across at least 30 documented episodes between Episode 461 and Episode 603, the listener known by this name submitted questions spanning NFL analysis, Warhammer 40,000, Sailor Moon, Romani corners, anime live action adaptations, Cooper DeJean's racial significance to American democracy, the pharmacological load of Carson Wentz's shoulder, and the moon's allegiance to the Green Bay Packers.<br />
<br />
==Recurring Themes & Notable Questions==<br />
<br />
===NFL Analysis (Legitimate)===<br />
Despite the name, a significant portion of the submissions are genuine football <br />
questions, often framed through absurdist named corners:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 461:''' "For the universe where the packers make the playoffs, what alternative information could we give Rodgers that would convince him that if he plays in San Fran the deep state will assassinate him?"<br />
* '''Episode 489:''' "For the everything is happening corner: this win in a vacuum is wildly improbable. Players cannot breathe in a vacuum, and the 49ers are a better team than the Vikings. But putting it into the context of the Vikings at large, this shouldn't be a surprise right?"<br />
* '''Episode 502:''' "For Arif's 'Flores beating Goff' corner. Goff historically can't handle the demands of playing Quarterback when the blitz is getting to him. What did the Lions do to mitigate the affects of the blitz on Goff?"<br />
* '''Episode 537:''' "For the Beating Goff corner: Is Sam Darnold just a worse version of Goff, or is Goff just a better Sam Darnold?"<br />
* '''Episode 551:''' "Why can't Flores beat Goff?"<br />
* '''Episode 566:''' "For Arif's Actual Football Question Corner: what non starter will make the most impact for the Vikings by the end of the season?"<br />
* '''Episode 581:''' "For the Drew Bledsoe Lions Week Corner: What great college stories will McCarthy and Hutchinson re-live as McCarthy is having his body violently crashing into the ground at Mach 8 by the Lions defensive line? Could McCarthy distract Hutchinson by showing him his Notre Dame championship ring?"<br />
* '''Episode 594:''' "Since 2022, Dan Campbell is 12-0 in regular season games where he has lost the game prior. This season, the Lions have not won consecutive games since week 4 & 5. Is this Lions team set up to win the Super Bowl via Loss-Win-Loss-Win?"<br />
<br />
===The Jameson Williams Gambling Corner===<br />
A Second Jet maintained a dedicated named corner for gambling content, attributed to suspended wide receiver Jameson Williams:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 478:''' "For the Jameson Williams gambling corner: what bets should I make for week one, and where is the most and least appropriate place to place these bets?"<br />
* '''Episode 544:''' "For the Jameson Williams Honorary Gambling Corner: How should we thank Charles for telling us to hammer the over for the Vikings?"<br />
<br />
===Cooper DeJean and the Fate of American Democracy===<br />
A Second Jet developed a sustained interest in Cooper DeJean — white cornerback and Super Bowl champion — as a figure of broader social significance:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 542:''' "For Arif's Social Justice Corner: Known White Boy CornerBack Cooper DeJean tackled Derrick Henry One on One in space. How big is this moment for young white boys who want to play CornerBack?"<br />
* '''Episode 557:''' "For Arif's DEIA corner: Can the Eagles use known melanin lacker and Super Bowl champion Cooper DeJean as the poster boy for why diversity equity inclusion, and accessibility are truly worth keeping to the current administration? Can this white boy save America?"<br />
<br />
The arc from Episode 542 (Cooper DeJean tackles Derrick Henry) to Episode 557 (Cooper DeJean saves American democracy) represents a narrative escalation that few mailbag contributors have achieved.<br />
<br />
===Warhammer 40,000 (Episode 567)===<br />
The single most operatically written question in the documented Norse Code mailbag:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|For The Grim Darkness of The 41st Millennium Corner: Mortally Wounded Space Marines of great honor and importance to the chapter will sometimes have their warped and disfigured bodies interred into a cybernetic coffin to pilot bi-pedal war machines known as Dreadnoughts. Given the current injury report, which Vikings players would you place in a Dreadnought to preserve their abilities for the chapter?|A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe|Episode 567}}<br />
<br />
===Anime & Pop Culture===<br />
* '''Episode 533:''' "For the Pretty Sailor Guardians Corner: was Arif able to find a skirt that both fit his 7'3 frame, but also showed off the correct amount of thigh for his Sailor Guardian costume?"<br />
* '''Episode 597:''' "For Arif's Anime Corner: How does the halftime performance of songs from K-Pop Demon Hunter stand up to other live action adaptations of anime, specifically, is it better than Dragon Ball Evolution?"<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
A Second Jet periodically submitted to James' relationship corner with questions of genuine romantic complexity:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 520:''' "For James's relationship corner, I've recently started dating a person, and they asked me to 'mansplain football' to them. They know nothing about football — where should I start and at what point can I introduce the Vikings to them? I want them to enjoy football, but I don't want to scare them off."<br />
* '''Episode 578:''' "For James's relationship corner: I recently had a friend from my University's Board Game Club over at my apartment to watch some TV. Almost immediately, we were both cuddling and flirting with each other. It ended up feeling like a lovely date unexpectedly. Follow-up question..."<br />
<br />
The Board Game Club development was not followed up in the available show notes. The relationship's status is unknown.<br />
<br />
===The Dusty Investigation (Episode 600)===<br />
A Second Jet submitted the definitive methodological inquiry into [[The Death of Dusty O'Connell]]:<br />
<br />
"For Arif & James' Spiritual Corner: What was the method for getting known dead human Dusty on the podcast? A reanimated corpse, ouija board, binding his soul to a suit of armor, or Etsy Witches? Furthermore, does James allow Dusty to leave the basement to record, or does he have a dedicated podcasting coffin down there?" - A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe|Episode 600}}<br />
<br />
"A dedicated podcasting coffin" is among the finest phrases in Norse Code history.<br />
<br />
===The Harvest Moon (Bonus Episode)===<br />
{{Quote|For Arif's natural satellites corner: the Prime broadcast cut to the harvest moon, and then the Packers scored. Does this mean the moon is on the side of the Packers?|A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe|Bonus episode}}<br />
<br />
The moon question stands as a self-contained masterpiece. It requires no context. It is its own corner.<br />
<br />
===Carson Wentz's Pharmacological Load (Episode 599.5)===<br />
{{Quote|For James's Medical Health Corner: do you think you have more drugs and pain killers pumping through you than Carson Wentz after he exploded his shoulder?|A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe|Episode 599.5}}<br />
<br />
This was submitted during what appears to have been an episode in which James was recovering from some unspecified medical procedure. The comparison point chosen was Carson Wentz's 2017 ACL surgery. The corner name given was "James's Medical Health Corner."<br />
<br />
===The Romani Corner (Episode 603)===<br />
The final documented A Second Jet submission, in the show's 603rd episode:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|For Arif's Romani Angulus: Carson Wentz, sentenced to crucifixion by Pontius KOC, hath returned in some time that's divisible by three. (hallelujah) What sins have been cleansed by his return, and how have you embraced him as your lord and savior?|A Second Jet|Episode 603}}<br />
<br />
"Romani Angulus" is Latin for "Roman Corner." "Pontius KOC" refers to Kevin O'Connell. Carson Wentz is Jesus. <br />
<br />
==The Named Corners: A Complete Record==<br />
A Second Jet generated more named corners per episode than any other documented contributor. A partial list:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Episode !! Corner Name<br />
|-<br />
| 461 || Deep State Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 464 || Podium Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 476 || National Coverage Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 477 || NFL Table Reading Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 478 || Jameson Williams Gambling Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 489 || Everything Is Happening Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 501 || "It's Lions Week So I Get To Be In The Mailbag Regardless" Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 502 || Flores Beating Goff Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 504 || Alternative Facts Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 520 || Relationship Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 533 || Pretty Sailor Guardians Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 537 || Beating Goff Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 542 || Social Justice Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 544 || Jameson Williams Honorary Gambling Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 547 || Healthcare Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 557 || DEIA Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 563 || Crime and Punishment Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 566 || Actual Football Question Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 567 || Grim Darkness of The 41st Millennium Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 578 || Relationship Corner (Board Game Club)<br />
|-<br />
| 581 || Drew Bledsoe Lions Week Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 593 || Republican Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 594 || Logical Line of Thought Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 597 || Anime Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 599 || Monroe Doctrine Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 599.5 || Medical Health Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 600 || Spiritual Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 601 || Emergency Pod Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 603 || Romani Angulus<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==The Name Erosion==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Period !! Name Used<br />
|-<br />
| Episodes 461–546 || A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe<br />
|-<br />
| Episode 547 || A Second Jet Has Hit<br />
|-<br />
| Episodes 551–601 || A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe (restored)<br />
|-<br />
| Episode 603 || A Second Jet<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Legacy==<br />
A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe appeared in the mailbag from Episode 461 through Episode 603. Their latest question, submitted in Latin, framed Kevin O'Connell as Pontius Pilate and Carson Wentz as the risen Christ. Their first question asked what misinformation could be used to prevent Aaron Rodgers from playing in San Francisco.<br />
<br />
Between those two points: the moon, the Packers, Warhammer 40,000, Cooper DeJean saving American democracy, Dusty's podcasting coffin, the Board Game Club date, James's painkiller load relative to Carson Wentz's exploded shoulder, and the question of whether Flores can beat Goff.<br />
<br />
They are a Friend of the Show. They are, by any measure, one of the greats.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* [[The Mailbag]]<br />
* [[Bits & Lore]]<br />
* [[The Death of Dusty O'Connell]]<br />
* [[Arif's Car Woes]]<br />
* [[Don from Ohio]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Listeners]]<br />
[[Category:Bits & Lore]]<br />
[[Category:Community]]<br />
[[Category:Mailbag]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Template:Quote&diff=463Template:Quote2026-05-18T15:50:16Z<p>Damian: Created page with "<includeonly><blockquote style="border-left:4px solid #c9a227; margin:1em 0; padding:0.5em 1em; background:#f9f4e8; font-style:italic;">{{{1}}}<span style="display:block; text-align:right; font-style:normal; font-weight:bold; margin-top:0.5em;">— {{{2|}}}</span></blockquote></includeonly><noinclude> == Usage == <pre> {{Quote|Text goes here|Attribution (optional)}} </pre> === Examples === <pre> {{Quote|We hunt down and destroy Don From Ohio once and for all.|Episode 60..."</p>
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== Usage ==<br />
<pre><br />
{{Quote|Text goes here|Attribution (optional)}}<br />
</pre><br />
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=== Examples ===<br />
<pre><br />
{{Quote|We hunt down and destroy Don From Ohio once and for all.|Episode 604}}<br />
{{Quote|Arif still has the same amoun</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=A_Second_Jet_Has_Hit_Drew_Bledsoe&diff=462A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe2026-05-18T15:49:07Z<p>Damian: /* The Dusty Investigation (Episode 600) */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''A Seocnd Jet Has Hit DrewBledsoe''' [sic] is one of the most prolific and intellectually ambitious recurring contributors in [[Norse Code]] mailbag history. Appearing across at least 30 documented episodes between Episode 461 and Episode 603, the listener known by this name submitted questions spanning NFL analysis, Warhammer 40,000, Sailor Moon, Romani corners, anime live action adaptations, Cooper DeJean's racial significance to American democracy, the pharmacological load of Carson Wentz's shoulder, and the moon's allegiance to the Green Bay Packers.<br />
<br />
==Recurring Themes & Notable Questions==<br />
<br />
===NFL Analysis (Legitimate)===<br />
Despite the name, a significant portion of the submissions are genuine football <br />
questions, often framed through absurdist named corners:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 461:''' "For the universe where the packers make the playoffs, what alternative information could we give Rodgers that would convince him that if he plays in San Fran the deep state will assassinate him?"<br />
* '''Episode 489:''' "For the everything is happening corner: this win in a vacuum is wildly improbable. Players cannot breathe in a vacuum, and the 49ers are a better team than the Vikings. But putting it into the context of the Vikings at large, this shouldn't be a surprise right?"<br />
* '''Episode 502:''' "For Arif's 'Flores beating Goff' corner. Goff historically can't handle the demands of playing Quarterback when the blitz is getting to him. What did the Lions do to mitigate the affects of the blitz on Goff?"<br />
* '''Episode 537:''' "For the Beating Goff corner: Is Sam Darnold just a worse version of Goff, or is Goff just a better Sam Darnold?"<br />
* '''Episode 551:''' "Why can't Flores beat Goff?"<br />
* '''Episode 566:''' "For Arif's Actual Football Question Corner: what non starter will make the most impact for the Vikings by the end of the season?"<br />
* '''Episode 581:''' "For the Drew Bledsoe Lions Week Corner: What great college stories will McCarthy and Hutchinson re-live as McCarthy is having his body violently crashing into the ground at Mach 8 by the Lions defensive line? Could McCarthy distract Hutchinson by showing him his Notre Dame championship ring?"<br />
* '''Episode 594:''' "Since 2022, Dan Campbell is 12-0 in regular season games where he has lost the game prior. This season, the Lions have not won consecutive games since week 4 & 5. Is this Lions team set up to win the Super Bowl via Loss-Win-Loss-Win?"<br />
<br />
===The Jameson Williams Gambling Corner===<br />
A Second Jet maintained a dedicated named corner for gambling content, attributed to suspended wide receiver Jameson Williams:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 478:''' "For the Jameson Williams gambling corner: what bets should I make for week one, and where is the most and least appropriate place to place these bets?"<br />
* '''Episode 544:''' "For the Jameson Williams Honorary Gambling Corner: How should we thank Charles for telling us to hammer the over for the Vikings?"<br />
<br />
===Cooper DeJean and the Fate of American Democracy===<br />
A Second Jet developed a sustained interest in Cooper DeJean — white cornerback and Super Bowl champion — as a figure of broader social significance:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 542:''' "For Arif's Social Justice Corner: Known White Boy CornerBack Cooper DeJean tackled Derrick Henry One on One in space. How big is this moment for young white boys who want to play CornerBack?"<br />
* '''Episode 557:''' "For Arif's DEIA corner: Can the Eagles use known melanin lacker and Super Bowl champion Cooper DeJean as the poster boy for why diversity equity inclusion, and accessibility are truly worth keeping to the current administration? Can this white boy save America?"<br />
<br />
The arc from Episode 542 (Cooper DeJean tackles Derrick Henry) to Episode 557 (Cooper DeJean saves American democracy) represents a narrative escalation that few mailbag contributors have achieved.<br />
<br />
===Warhammer 40,000 (Episode 567)===<br />
The single most operatically written question in the documented Norse Code mailbag:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|For The Grim Darkness of The 41st Millennium Corner: Mortally Wounded Space Marines of great honor and importance to the chapter will sometimes have their warped and disfigured bodies interred into a cybernetic coffin to pilot bi-pedal war machines known as Dreadnoughts. Given the current injury report, which Vikings players would you place in a Dreadnought to preserve their abilities for the chapter?|A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe|Episode 567}}<br />
<br />
===Anime & Pop Culture===<br />
* '''Episode 533:''' "For the Pretty Sailor Guardians Corner: was Arif able to find a skirt that both fit his 7'3 frame, but also showed off the correct amount of thigh for his Sailor Guardian costume?"<br />
* '''Episode 597:''' "For Arif's Anime Corner: How does the halftime performance of songs from K-Pop Demon Hunter stand up to other live action adaptations of anime, specifically, is it better than Dragon Ball Evolution?"<br />
<br />
===Relationships===<br />
A Second Jet periodically submitted to James' relationship corner with questions of genuine romantic complexity:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 520:''' "For James's relationship corner, I've recently started dating a person, and they asked me to 'mansplain football' to them. They know nothing about football — where should I start and at what point can I introduce the Vikings to them? I want them to enjoy football, but I don't want to scare them off."<br />
* '''Episode 578:''' "For James's relationship corner: I recently had a friend from my University's Board Game Club over at my apartment to watch some TV. Almost immediately, we were both cuddling and flirting with each other. It ended up feeling like a lovely date unexpectedly. Follow-up question..."<br />
<br />
The Board Game Club development was not followed up in the available show notes. The relationship's status is unknown.<br />
<br />
===The Dusty Investigation (Episode 600)===<br />
A Second Jet submitted the definitive methodological inquiry into [[The Death of Dusty O'Connell]]:<br />
<br />
"For Arif & James' Spiritual Corner: What was the method for getting known dead human Dusty on the podcast? A reanimated corpse, ouija board, binding his soul to a suit of armor, or Etsy Witches? Furthermore, does James allow Dusty to leave the basement to record, or does he have a dedicated podcasting coffin down there?" - A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe|Episode 600}}<br />
<br />
"A dedicated podcasting coffin" is among the finest phrases in Norse Code history.<br />
<br />
===The Harvest Moon (Bonus Episode)===<br />
{{Quote|For Arif's natural satellites corner: the Prime broadcast cut to the harvest moon, and then the Packers scored. Does this mean the moon is on the side of the Packers?|A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe|Bonus episode}}<br />
<br />
The moon question stands as a self-contained masterpiece. It requires no context. It is its own corner.<br />
<br />
===Carson Wentz's Pharmacological Load (Episode 599.5)===<br />
{{Quote|For James's Medical Health Corner: do you think you have more drugs and pain killers pumping through you than Carson Wentz after he exploded his shoulder?|A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe|Episode 599.5}}<br />
<br />
This was submitted during what appears to have been an episode in which James was recovering from some unspecified medical procedure. The comparison point chosen was Carson Wentz's 2017 ACL surgery. The corner name given was "James's Medical Health Corner."<br />
<br />
===The Romani Corner (Episode 603)===<br />
The final documented A Second Jet submission, in the show's 603rd episode:<br />
<br />
{{Quote|For Arif's Romani Angulus: Carson Wentz, sentenced to crucifixion by Pontius KOC, hath returned in some time that's divisible by three. (hallelujah) What sins have been cleansed by his return, and how have you embraced him as your lord and savior?|A Second Jet|Episode 603}}<br />
<br />
"Romani Angulus" is Latin for "Roman Corner." "Pontius KOC" refers to Kevin O'Connell. Carson Wentz is Jesus. <br />
<br />
==The Named Corners: A Complete Record==<br />
A Second Jet generated more named corners per episode than any other documented contributor. A partial list:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Episode !! Corner Name<br />
|-<br />
| 461 || Deep State Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 464 || Podium Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 476 || National Coverage Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 477 || NFL Table Reading Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 478 || Jameson Williams Gambling Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 489 || Everything Is Happening Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 501 || "It's Lions Week So I Get To Be In The Mailbag Regardless" Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 502 || Flores Beating Goff Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 504 || Alternative Facts Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 520 || Relationship Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 533 || Pretty Sailor Guardians Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 537 || Beating Goff Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 542 || Social Justice Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 544 || Jameson Williams Honorary Gambling Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 547 || Healthcare Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 557 || DEIA Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 563 || Crime and Punishment Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 566 || Actual Football Question Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 567 || Grim Darkness of The 41st Millennium Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 578 || Relationship Corner (Board Game Club)<br />
|-<br />
| 581 || Drew Bledsoe Lions Week Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 593 || Republican Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 594 || Logical Line of Thought Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 597 || Anime Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 599 || Monroe Doctrine Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 599.5 || Medical Health Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 600 || Spiritual Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 601 || Emergency Pod Corner<br />
|-<br />
| 603 || Romani Angulus<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==The Name Erosion==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Period !! Name Used<br />
|-<br />
| Episodes 461–546 || A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe<br />
|-<br />
| Episode 547 || A Second Jet Has Hit<br />
|-<br />
| Episodes 551–601 || A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe (restored)<br />
|-<br />
| Episode 603 || A Second Jet<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Legacy==<br />
A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe appeared in the mailbag from Episode 461 through Episode 603 — the second-to-last episode of the show's entire run. Their final question, submitted in Latin, framed Kevin O'Connell as Pontius Pilate and Carson Wentz as the risen Christ. Their first question asked what misinformation could be used to prevent Aaron Rodgers from playing in San Francisco.<br />
<br />
Between those two points: the moon, the Packers, Warhammer 40,000, Cooper DeJean saving American democracy, Dusty's podcasting coffin, the Board Game Club date, James's painkiller load relative to Carson Wentz's exploded shoulder, and the question of whether Flores can beat Goff.<br />
<br />
They are a Friend of the Show. They are, by any measure, one of the greats.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* [[The Mailbag]]<br />
* [[Bits & Lore]]<br />
* [[The Death of Dusty O'Connell]]<br />
* [[Arif's Car Woes]]<br />
* [[Don from Ohio]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Listeners]]<br />
[[Category:Bits & Lore]]<br />
[[Category:Community]]<br />
[[Category:Mailbag]]</div>Damianhttps://norsecodewiki.com/index.php?title=Don_from_Ohio&diff=461Don from Ohio2026-05-18T15:47:10Z<p>Damian: /* The Wood Pellet Smoker Saga */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Don from Ohio''' is the single most prolific contributor in the history of [[Norse Code]], appearing in the show's mailbag across '''247 documented episodes''' <br />
— roughly 40% of the entire run as of Episode 604. A long-term Patreon supporter, Ohio State University devotee, self-described guardian of [[James Pogatshnik]], and bingo enthusiast, Don has accumulated over a decade of show history, a wood pellet smoker, a wife whose patience has been tested by the podcast on multiple occasions, a trip to Hawaii, a Scottish land title for his wife, a kitten, a Peloton he did not intend to give, and the distinction of being the only listener whose name has been used as a verb, a segment title, a corner, and a threat.<br />
<br />
As of Episode 604, the show's official stated agenda includes:<br />
“We hunt down and destroy Don From Ohio once and for all.” - Episode 604 show notes|Norse Code, 2026<br />
<br />
He remains at large.<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
Don is a Minnesota Vikings fan based in Ohio — a state with no NFL team of particular relevance — and a lifelong Ohio State Buckeyes homer, a fact he <br />
deploys liberally and without shame. He has been contributing to the Norse Code mailbag since at least Episode 193 (2017) and has continued through Episode 604. Over that span he has submitted questions on Vikings football, food, relationships, fantasy football, Ohio State, Kyle Sloter, wood pellet grilling, Hawaii, his wife, his cat, his kitten, bingo, the Hell League, Aaron Rodgers, Carson Wentz, Arif's car, beekeeping, and whether the Vikings have ever actually played any <br />
of their Super Bowls.<br />
<br />
==The Sloter Years (2018–2019)==<br />
Don from Ohio was an early and committed champion of quarterback Kyle Sloter, a position he maintained with remarkable consistency across dozens of episodes. Selected dispatches from this period:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 237:''' "How many TD passes will Sloter throw this weekend? I have the O/U at 15."<br />
* '''Episode 238:''' "Any reason why the Vikings are not using Kyle Sloter correctly? I know it is only 1 preseason game but there was no reason for him not to have had 12 TDs on Saturday... minimum."<br />
* '''Episode 240:''' "@DonFromOhio is hired on to the Athletic as a Kyle Sloter beat reporter. How does Arif react to his new coworker?"<br />
* '''Episode 249:''' "Kyle Sloter being deactivated every game. Vikings are 1-2-1. Coincidence? I think not."<br />
* '''Episode 264:''' "Rumor has it JDF wanted to start Sloter and was fired for it. If true, why was he not promoted to head coach/GM?"<br />
* '''Episode 279:''' "Will Arif address the doctored video of Kyle Sloter and why he is trying to slander him?"<br />
* '''Episode 280:''' "Dear haters of Kyle Sloter: Are your lives so miserable that you must slander the greatest QB in Vikings history?"<br />
* '''Episode 351:''' "How excited am I that Monday night's game is going to be the Kyle Sloter revenge game?"<br />
* '''Episode 411:''' "Our Lord and Savior, Kyle Sloter, has risen again and is here to save our favorite team."<br />
<br />
His Kyle Sloter advocacy is considered one of the foundational bits of Norse Code's middle era and directly contributed to the show's eventual embrace of [[Case Cookus]] as a spiritual successor.<br />
<br />
==The Proposal, Wedding & Hawaii Saga (2020–2021)==<br />
Don from Ohio's romantic life became show canon across a remarkable multi-year arc:<br />
<br />
* '''Episode 316:''' Don mentions turning 50, with a budget of $800 for a birthday celebration and a girlfriend.<br />
* '''Episode 327:''' "I plan on proposing to my GF right when we get the keys to the new house. What SHOULDN'T I say to her when I propose?"<br />
* '''Episode 344:''' "I am 5-0 in my fantasy league outside of Norse Code. I am 1-4 in NCFFL... Also, my girlfriend loves charcoal and Binging with Babish."<br />
* '''Episode 355:''' "The Fiancé and I have decided on Hawaii as our spot to get married and the honeymoon."<br />
* '''Episode 386:''' "Which one of you assholes sabotaged my trip? I knew you and James were jealous of @DustyOConnell being my best man. I wouldn't be shocked if you had me arrested in LA too."<br />
* '''Episode 387:''' Don sacrificed James's grilling equipment to the football gods to rid the Vikings of their curse.<br />
* '''Episode 388:''' "As I stated yesterday, the only reason the Vikings won is because I am in Hawaii. However, I am leaving tomorrow and this will jeopardize the rest of the Vikings season."<br />
<br />
==The Wife (2021–ongoing)==<br />
Once married, Don's wife became a recurring character in her own right. The podcast discussed her, debated her, advised her, and occasionally wronged her:<br />
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* '''Episode 404:''' Don asked for Christmas gift etiquette guidance; the advice given was later blamed for consequences.<br />
* '''Episode 406:''' The show discussed when it is okay to lie to Don's wife.<br />
* '''Episode 424:''' Don announced he was taking the wife back to Hawaii for her 50th birthday and asked for recommendations between Kauai (where they married) and Maui.<br />
* '''Episode 450:''' Don reported his wife "went bat shit crazy ordering Christmas gifts" and needed new gift ideas. Advisors failed him.<br />
* '''Episode 455:''' Don reported the result of following the show's gift advice — a Peloton — and the fallout. A separate listener in Episode 500 confirmed they followed the same advice for their pregnant wife and were accused of body shaming.<br />
* '''Episode 471:''' Don bought his wife land in Scotland, granting her the title "Lady Diana."<br />
* '''Episode 481:''' Don listed the Vikings' failure to sign Pit Boss Grills as a top-3 reason for their 0-2 start, alongside weak interior OL and an undersized defence. His wife was not mentioned in this episode.<br />
* '''Episode 506:''' "My wife had gastric bypass surgery. Should I make her pay for half the grocery bills still?"<br />
* '''Episode 548:''' Don considered staging a robbery of his own house to hide the fact he had reclaimed his wife's gifts to buy Vikings game tickets.<br />
* '''Episode 559:''' "The wife's birthday is tomorrow and I really don't feel like spending over $20 on flowers for her. Should I wait to see what Mother's Day clearance flowers are out there and pick those up instead?"<br />
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==The Hell League (2021–ongoing)==<br />
Don from Ohio is a long-standing and rules-adjacent member of [[The Hell League]]:<br />
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* '''Episode 482:''' "What is more frustrating: Vikings are 0-3 or that I am 3-0 in Hell League?"<br />
* '''Episode 499:''' "How does it feel knowing I made the Hell League playoffs with the worst point total in the league by close to 300 points?"<br />
* '''Episode 547 (Charles):''' "What advice can you give for a friend who's looking to sustain an increasingly elaborate and precarious bit via a Vikings podcast's mailbag?" - submitted on Don's behalf, acknowledging the meta-nature of his decade-long contributions.<br />
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==The Wood Pellet Smoker Saga==<br />
Don from Ohio acquired a wood pellet smoker and its integration into show lore was immediate and sustained:<br />
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* '''Episode 350:''' "After my less than stellar attempt at brisket on my wood pellet smoker (James and his voodoo demonic curse was behind this) what would you recommend next?"<br />
* '''Episode 474:''' Don endorsed the wood pellet smoker as the reason for Kirk Cousins' quick recovery time and lobbied for a Pit Boss Grills sponsorship.<br />
* '''Episode 476:''' "Lewis Cine plays his best when he eats a cooked meal from @PitBossGrills equipment."<br />
* '''Episode 481:''' Listed the Vikings' failure to sign Pit Boss Grills as a top-3 reason for their 0-2 start.<br />
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==The Ohio State Corner==<br />
A reliable and passionate Buckeyes homer, Don deployed his Ohio State allegiance consistently throughout the show's run:<br />
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* '''Episode 359:''' After beating Eric Thompson in fantasy: "Is it fair to say this is the equivalent of NDSU had played THE Ohio State University?"<br />
* '''Episode 371:''' "Even though I'm an OSU homer, convince me otherwise Justin Fields isn't a better QB than the rest of the guys who might be drafted ahead of him."<br />
* '''Episode 439:''' "The Dukes are nationally ranked in the top 25. NDSU has never cracked the top 25 ever. Can we finally put to rest the notion NDSU was ever a legit college football program?"<br />
* '''Episode 511:''' Acknowledged he never thought he would cheer for an NDSU player, asking how one adjusts to rooting for a player from a bitter rival.<br />
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==The Bingo Corner==<br />
Don and [[Arif Hasan]] share a well-documented mutual appreciation for bingo:<br />
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* '''Episode 377:''' "Arif and I agree that bingo should be an Olympic sport. What other activities would you like to see in the Olympics?"<br />
* '''Episode 397:''' "How are the bingo halls in Virginia?" — submitted during a period when Don appears to have been based in Virginia temporarily.<br />
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==Selected Mailbag Questions (Chronological)==<br />
The full Don from Ohio archive spans 247 episodes. A representative selection:<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Episode !! Question<br />
|-<br />
| 195 || If Arif, Dusty, James, Eric Thompson and @purplebuckeye had to face Pennywise the clown who gets killed off first?<br />
|-<br />
| 215 || Have either of you ever regifted before and if so did someone know it was a regift?<br />
|-<br />
| 230 || Is there any reason at all to watch a live baseball game in sub-40 degree temps?<br />
|-<br />
| 234 || James: you find out Arif had killed someone — turn him in and the podcast suffers, or pin it on @DonFromOhio?<br />
|-<br />
| 235 || Best way to cook corn on the cob?<br />
|-<br />
| 250 || Candied apples: overrated or underrated?<br />
|-<br />
| 263 || ARE YOU HAPPY NOW JAMES?!?!?!?<br />
|-<br />
| 266 || What was the best movie either of you saw this year?<br />
|-<br />
| 277 || What do you give a father for Father's Day whose son is a trained cannibal by said father?<br />
|-<br />
| 287 || Best pie/ice cream combo?<br />
|-<br />
| 288 || Do you keep @bigmono on as pity?<br />
|-<br />
| 292 || Since @bigmono just found out he has a conjoined twin in his wrist/hand do you think he should...<br />
|-<br />
| 300 || Which one goes and why? Shoestring fries, Curly, Steak, Tater tots<br />
|-<br />
| 305 || Pumpkin cheesecake or pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving?<br />
|-<br />
| 325 || What would be the dumbest thing you could do with your stimulus check and why is buying Packers "stock" it?<br />
|-<br />
| 326 || Should male pet owners be allowed to celebrate Father's Day?<br />
|-<br />
| 332 || Did Arif eat the squirrel he took a picture with?<br />
|-<br />
| 337 || Pretend this is the subreddit ELI5 and explain in detail why electricity and grilling don't mix.<br />
|-<br />
| 340 || How did Arif celebrate his 46th birthday?<br />
|-<br />
| 366 || If you guys were a member of Westview when Wanda took it over what characters would she have transformed you into?<br />
|-<br />
| 377 || Arif and I agree that bingo should be an Olympic sport. What other activities would you like to see?<br />
|-<br />
| 397 || How are the bingo halls in Virginia?<br />
|-<br />
| 403 || Are you surprised Cousins is a Right Guard type of guy? I saw him more as Old Spice or Degree.<br />
|-<br />
| 421 || Arif was adamant I try birria tacos which he said would "change my life." They did not change my life.<br />
|-<br />
| 422 || What Don variants would you actually get along with?<br />
|-<br />
| 424 || Wasn't it OK to kill the hornets? Why are wasps/hornets so protected by Norse Code Discord?<br />
|-<br />
| 439 || The Dukes are nationally ranked in the top 25. NDSU has never cracked the top 25 ever.<br />
|-<br />
| 444 || For James and Arif's "Spoiled kids on Halloween" corner.<br />
|-<br />
| 445 || When I win Powerball tonight, how much would it cost me to shut down Norse Code Discord and the podcast?<br />
|-<br />
| 453 || How do I keep this damn kitten out of our Xmas tree?<br />
|-<br />
| 458 || Did James and Arif get my Christmas gift? Unlimited flights from Southwest Airlines.<br />
|-<br />
| 471 || I bought my wife land in Scotland so she could receive the title "Lady Diana." What should her first act be?<br />
|-<br />
| 506 || My wife had gastric bypass surgery. Should I make her pay for half the grocery bills still?<br />
|-<br />
| 507 || Will Kohl's Cash be the next Crypto in the ATL?<br />
|-<br />
| 520 || Has C.J. Ham's time expired?<br />
|-<br />
| 535 || What should Ohio do now that we will have an over abundance of dogs and cats in our state?<br />
|-<br />
| 539 || Is Rex Grossman the greatest Bears QB this century?<br />
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| 547 || If Kirk Cousins applies for a job at Kohl's which one should he apply for and why would it be shipping/receiving?<br />
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| 548 || Should I stage a robbery of our house so my wife doesn't find out I reclaimed her gifts for Vikings tickets?<br />
|-<br />
| 554 || Is Kevin O'Connell this century's Dennis Green?<br />
|-<br />
| 556 || Speaking of really short people with a beard, what food challenge could Arif complete?<br />
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| 559 || The wife's birthday is tomorrow. Should I wait for Mother's Day clearance flowers?<br />
|}<br />
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==Other Notable Community References==<br />
Don from Ohio has been referenced, hypothesised about, and weaponised by other listeners throughout the show's run:<br />
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* '''Episode 247 (Kyle):''' "Would sacrificing @DonFromOhio to the football gods anger them further or appease them?"<br />
* '''Episode 251:''' "If you could either have (a) no more questions from @DonFromOhio ever, or (b) a loss by the Eagles tonight — which would you take?"<br />
* '''Episode 420:''' "At that point: can you ever forgive @DonFromOhio for the things he has done?"<br />
* '''Episode 441:''' "Don from Ohio is just a crisis actor?"<br />
* '''Episode 500 (Logan):''' "Last year I followed your advice to Don from Ohio and bought my then pregnant wife a Peloton with scale and she accused me of body shaming her."<br />
* '''Episode 551 (Logan):''' "What is it about Don that caused the Vikings to lose this game? What can the rest of us do to prevent Don from hurting the Vikings during the playoffs?"<br />
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==Known Facts==<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Fact !! Source !! Status<br />
|-<br />
| Based in Ohio || His name || Confirmed<br />
|-<br />
| Ohio State Buckeyes fan || 247 episodes || Confirmed (emphatically)<br />
|-<br />
| Long-term Patreon supporter || Multiple episodes || Confirmed<br />
|-<br />
| Turned 50 around 2020 || Episode 316 || Confirmed<br />
|-<br />
| Proposed to girlfriend in 2020 || Episode 327 || Confirmed<br />
|-<br />
| Married in Hawaii || Episodes 355, 386–388 || Confirmed<br />
|-<br />
| Has a wife || 50+ episodes || Confirmed<br />
|-<br />
| Wife received a Peloton || Episode 455 || Confirmed; received poorly<br />
|-<br />
| Wife had gastric bypass surgery || Episode 506 || Confirmed<br />
|-<br />
| Wife's birthday flowers budgeted at under $20 || Episode 559 || Confirmed<br />
|-<br />
| Owns a wood pellet smoker || Episodes 350+ || Confirmed; brisket did not go well<br />
|-<br />
| Has a kitten || Episode 453 || Confirmed; kitten in the tree<br />
|-<br />
| Temporarily based in Virginia || Episode 397 || Confirmed (bingo halls researched)<br />
|-<br />
| Hell League member || Multiple episodes || Confirmed; rules disputed<br />
|-<br />
| Designated for destruction || Episode 604 || Confirmed; outcome pending<br />
|-<br />
| Vikings fan || 247 episodes of evidence || Plausible<br />
|}<br />
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==See Also==<br />
* [[The Mailbag]]<br />
* [[The Hell League]]<br />
* [[James Pogatshnik's Relationships]]<br />
* [[Case Cookus]]<br />
* [[Arif's Car Woes]]<br />
* [[Dusty O'Connell]]<br />
* [[A Second Jet Has Hit Drew Bledsoe]]<br />
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