The Al and Josh Show: Recent Episodes
The Al and Josh Show
Al and Josh overcome a failing microphone cable as they recap calling the Christmas tournament and cover some of the other weekend activities. Josh’s mic gets quiet but luckily they catch it and replace it midway through the show. One more ref sponsor added recently but can still use more!
Al and Josh cover some recent college and high school action and then dive in to a Christmas Tournament preview!
Al and Josh cover a ton of action including several high school tournaments, the Gophers great start to the season and both Augustana and Augsburg updates! We’re on the hunt for more sponsors for our 3rd year of “Sponsor a Ref,” let us know if you’re able to help out
Al and Josh clarify the new tech fall rule in high school and discuss the big news at HWT U and some other lineup news. They go over Josh’s first couple of college open experiences and talk a bit about the Yellowjacket open at RCTC and the DWU in South Dakota.
Al and Josh welcome long time ref Rod Frost to discuss the many high school rule changes this year and talk about the upcoming wrestling season!
Al and Josh get together and talk about the DI, DII and DIII national tournaments to wrap up the 2023-2024 folkstyle season. They cover the actual wrestling, host cities, academic awards and more and as always they wander off on tangents including discussing a prestigious award they recently received!
Al and Josh welcome Mack Reiter in studio to go over all of the upcoming action in Kansas City when they cover brackets and story lines at the D1 National Tournament this weekend!
Al and Josh go through the D2 brackets and talk a bit about some local connections and then a D3 expert pops in to go over brackets, matchups and story lines for all the tournament action this weekend in Lacrosse!
Al and Josh recap the Minnesota state tournament and cover all sorts of topics along with actual results!
Al and Josh dig in to what exactly happened with the true second matches at sections and then dive in to their individual state tournament preview show!
Josh covers all sorts of cool dual tournament history and explains why Minnesota is the oldest and greatest team tournament in the country and then we move on to previewing this year’s dual brackets!
Al and Josh talk briefly about the battle of the Auggies/Augies last week and then jump right in to recapping girls sections and previewing team sections!
Al and Josh cover a bunch of college results and debates about everything from reaction time rules to neck brace safety and beyond and then dive in to some girls post season talk! Josh answers a call on speakerphone during recording that turned out to be entertaining and insightful
Al and Josh cover the Battle of the Burgs and then Josh avoids Al’s question about a big wrestling dual last Thursday for as long as he can before we finally get to it, covering lots of high school wrestling in the mean time!
Al and Josh call the creator of “The Destroyer” and chat with him before moving on to college and high school results from the past week, another fun episode!
Al and Josh talk a bit about Augsburg’s great regional tournament and then get in to sections recaps and state previews for team, individuals and girls!
In this episode Al and Josh recap the super tri and discuss changes for this years state tournament, weight class changes next year, interesting tidbits from the rankings and ask for help tracking down whether or not an incredible feat has been done before!
Al and Josh have a fun one and give a sneak peak at the first ever MSHSL girls team rankings and cover everything from college National Duals, the Clash and the upcoming youth Brawl as well the Rumble, the Cheesehead and the upcoming super quad/tri!
Al and Josh talk both Clash and Cheesehead, 2 fairly unique bracket styles coming up soon and finally get it published after a slight technical delay!
There’s a lot going on this time of year, in this episode Al and Josh cover some recaps including the Christmas Tournament as well as preview some upcoming events!
Al and Josh give an update on our sponsoraref program and touch on a little college and World Cup along the way to our Xmas Tourney preview show covering some history of the tournament before diving in to the action.
It’s time for our annual episode with long time official Rod Frost, Rod goes over new rules including something a little different Minnesota is doing from other states. As usual we wander off on some other topics and have a good time getting ready for competition to start!
Al and Josh get back in studio 2 and talk about some summer wrestling including Super 32, Fargo, age level duals, international wrestling, PNL and more including some roster and coaching changes!
NCAA expert Mack Reiter joins Al and Josh to discuss the upcoming NCAA D1 tournament in Detroit. We talk team race, brackets, seeding, MFFs and more!
NCAA expert Mack Reiter joins Al and Josh to discuss the upcoming NCAA D1 tournament in Detroit. We talk team race, brackets, seeding, MFFs and more!
Al and Josh get back together again to recap the state tournament including new changes, possible improvements and of course the wrestling!
Al and Josh get together and discuss state tournament brackets as well as talk about the schedule, Xcel bag and mask policies and more!
In this episode Al and Josh talk about team section results as well as the state brackets for all three classes. We also discuss the weigh in controversy at TRF
When Al and Josh finally get back together they talk a bunch of college and high school wrestling and have to pause for an incident during recording
Al and Josh do their Xmas tourney preview show but also talk about some college results from CKLV and a couple other events. Also an update on the new ref sponsor program!
We once again have long time official Rod Frost on the show to talk about rules changes and points of emphasis this year. We also talk a little college wrestling including discussing the argument going on among Hawkeye fans as Rod and Al were both on site when the issue went down.
In our first episode back before the season gets in full swing we have an interview with RCTC coach Andy Hackenmueller and then go over MN results from the toughest folkstyle tournament in the country along with some random tangents
We go over some results from age level worlds along with the Olympics and Fargo and then jump in to some MN#1 background and details and go through all of the matchups
In this episode we cover duals results for schoolboy, cadet, junior and girls and then dive in with new Augsburg women’s head coach Jake Short. Jake takes us back through his youth, high school and college careers openly discussing some of his challenges and explains why that has helped prepare him to be successful as a coach, one of our favorite interviews ever!
A lot has happened since our last episode and we try to touch on a bunch of it. Cadet & U15 World Team Trials, a little college post season talk, tons of high school post season action, section realignment, rules and weight changes and some MN#1 information.
Rocky, Yeti and Dexter get involved in this episode and distract Josh as we just talk wrestling for an hour hitting on a bunch of random topics including some interesting results, the MNUSA training facility and a quick recap of some D2 Super Region V results
In Episode 38 Al and Josh share all of the current information about how the post season is going to happen and go over some interesting results and under the radar wrestlers and teams. We share how we are handling the scoring overlays for live streaming and Josh drops another “Josh” idea on Al at the end of the show