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Justin Slepicka
Justin and Nick discuss Nebraska football, weird stats, and much more on the JUSTIN the NICK of Time podcast! (The Name was Justin's Idea)
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Justin's the negative one and Nick's the positive one?? What's going on!
Also, the back nine of this episode takes a drastically different turn, so please stay tuned for that.
Nebrutgers, but also Ashton Jeanty vs. Travis Hunter, and the debut of the one-minute challenge.
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WE DID IT
WE REALLY DID IT
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LET US REVEL IN THE GLORY OF OUR VICTORY
EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOW
WE OWN YOU COLORADO
FOREVER
We have a lot of Happy Happy Fun Thoughts on Nebraska's dominant, normal season-opening vitory over UTEP and a bunh of anxious, spiteful thoughts on what ould be the final ollision between bitter histori rivals Nebraska and olorado.
WE ARE SO BACK
We discuss the many many ways this year can go both right and wrong, do a detailde roster breakdown, and of course, play the schedule game.
Detours include college football songs and the inner demons of one Nicholas Saban.
It's the Olympic Games! We are in favor of them! First proper Olympics in pod history and the start of our first proper Olympics coverage. It's Olympic overload baby.
There's also another game we've been obsessing over that got a shout at the end, so expect more from that.
Positive stuff first! The Euros are cool and fun and so is this summer of sport!
But more pressingly, the U.S. Men's National Team continues to be an absolute embarrassment, thanks in no small part to one Gregg Berhalter. He must go.
We had some technical difficulties halfway through the pod, so we had switch audio sources, but its well worth it for a LEGENDARY Nick rant in the final third. It's one of this pod's finest angry moments.
The Oakland A's are officially no more, bolting for the Westworld of Sacramento ahead of eventual Vegas gloom.
That's bad and sad and we tell you why.
Also, Nebraska's administration is scared of losing Big Ten membership. We should probably be scared too.
Our dear leader has left us for the great military cult in the sky.
Why'd he ruin us? We have a real deal intelligent discussion as to why.
(I'm tooting our horn here cause I think we nailed it and cause some people aren't on our wavelength like this and that's okay)
But on the way out he gifted us with two GLORIOUS REVENGE opportunities in the men's and women's tournaments.
We break those down here, and Justin lets people know why this has to be the Nebraska men's team that changes everything and foreshadows why every upset that can happen will happen (but more on that at sidecharacters.substack.com)
Also tried some new audio editing techniques out on this one where we both have shoddy internet so lmk if its not what you want it to sound like
I found the cake pic on Pinterest that's not an original btw
For the first time in show history, Nebraska men's basketball is the lead story! Is this what winning feels like?
From there, we go to the Husker football team's greatest win since we started the show, naturally coming off the field, and we get the long awaited return of Nick's Foreign Sports Corner to close it out!
s/o twitter user huskerfan4life9 for the image i'm using for episode art, love the Husker meme brigade
New 'puter so there may be some audio problems, but i think i know what's wrong if there is in fact something wrong
Nebraska had four chances to make a bowl game, and it lost every single one of them. Happy happy fun times are no more.
That is what we spend the first part of the episode talking about.
The second half is about possibly the most different thing from that we could be talking about.
As a taste, we reference the geographical visual aids from this Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
ENjoy! (lots of angry words in this one, you can understand why)
Nebraska is 5-3, far and away the best record it has had since we started this thing.
We're not entirely sure what to do with ourselves.
We did open with smack talking Iowa as well as every other volleyball program that isn't as good as ours (which is every other volleyball program in the country, especially Wisconsin) so at least tune in for that .
Well whaddaya know we finally got to the biggest news of the offseason right in the middle of the season
Stay for detours about deserts, books, state university system nomenclature and more!
Come for breaking down the B1G Westiest game to ever B1G West (image related) , stay for the best story in the HSTory of the MIST TWST rebrand.
First half: Colorado dismantled the Huskers. What does this mean? Does this mean anything?
Second half: What are the funniest possible NIL deals in the state of Nebraska?
Also: My new microphone does not let us interrupt each other as easily. This is a sad and unfortunate development and some interjections get lost. We will (maybe) try to do better. Maybe.
Something (well two things) big and important happened to Nebraska football, and its next opponent just shifted the entire future of the sport after one week.
Let's Start Here.
We play the schedule game for Nebraska!! Plus give a short requiem for the Big Ten West and Justin breaks down the most fascinating game of the year, New Mexico State vs. UMass.
Credit to whoever made the episode picture, I do not remember where I found it but I am eternally grateful.
Part Two! of our MLB Tier List Series, on this episode we rank every team's individual routine for the most electrifying two minutes in sports - the seventh-inning stretch.
In potentially a new format for this podcast, Justin and Nick take care of business in a tight 30 minutes, tiering off the MLB fanbases based on nothing but vibes.
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On this VERY SPECIAL EPISODE we take it waaaaay back with our dear friends Kaylee and Nathan, to reminisce on our shared childhood at good old St. Pete's and beyond. I promise we will make so much more sense as people after this episode.
We've been wanting to do this one for forever, and trust me it lived up to our expectations and then some. Also a big reason we did this when we did is PODCAST BUSINESS that you'll have to wait to hear.
Also, if you have kids listening just skip past the (56:40) to (1:07:00) please heed my words. Seriously. Things get safe again around (1:07:15)
Anyways I absolutely love these people and can honestly say this was the most fun I've ever had recording this show. Sorry for the inconsistent audio levels I tried to record four people at once with one microphone and this is what happened.
Enjoy.
- Justin
still here (with the ones that i came with)
NEBRASKA BEAT IOWA! WE HIRED JUSTINS NO. 1 COACHING CANDIDATE! HE DELIVERED THE GREATEST PRESS CONFERENCES OF ALL TIME! MATT RHULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME!
In the last episode of the Mickey Joseph interim era, Justin and Nick (and Nicki shoutout for the logo!) go over what is at the time the current hierarchy of the Husker coaching candidates, and who are the best names (both literally and figuratively) of the bunch. Buckle up, this ride's just beginning.
Does the rest of the season matter? Is Maine the most forgettable state in the nation? Will the US do anything in the World Cup? All this and more in this brand new episode of JUSTIN the NICK of Time.
We lead off this show with the back half of our conversation, which includes all of the wonderful takes about Mickey Joseph's head coaching possibilities and Nebraska's performances against Illinois and Purdue. Then we finish how we started with tangents about Car racing, why Iowa gets cool stuff and we don't, Shohei Ohtani's future, Nick's Savannah Banana's rant and Kirk Ferentz makes us question if football coaches are good dads.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers are remarkably tied for first in the Big Ten West division behind interim head coach Mickey Joseph, prompting an insane amount of hype to give the man a full time job. Will this last past this weekend? Is Mickey Joseph in any way the man long term? Did winning two games mean anything? Is the now-available Matt Rhule going to save us? Find out all this and more on the exquisite new episode.
It 'twas a bye week, so we look to national rankings and realized one thing- they're wrong. So we fixed it. You're welcome.
Nebraska at long last realized that the Scott Frost experiment wasn't working, and paid him millions to buzz off. Justin, Nick, and Gabe (everybody say hi Gabe he's new here) rejoice in the news, Justin has theories about who to get next, and we seriously hash out the very real possibility of Nebraska head coach Urban Meyer. Enjoy
In our first ever post-game instant reaction, we hash out whatever was on our minds after Nebraska lost to Georgia Southern. Audio issues might be present since we recorded this on a whim but I did my best I promise. Enjoy.
We try really hard not to talk about what Nick witnessed in Ireland for the first half hour, but eventually our lamentations on the current state of the Nebraska Cornhuskers make its way to the forefront in a dour, analytical and off-kilter episode of the pod.
Justin and Nick go through their thoughts before Nebraska touches down for the season opener in the Republic of Ireland. They go over vibes headed into the season, what Frost must do to satisfy expectations, and Justin drops a SPICY take on the game's result.
So the Big Ten recently went California Dreamin' on such a summer's day, adding UCLA and USC seemingly out of nowhere. With an endgame far away but certainly incoming, Justin the Nick of Time break down everything this move could mean for the past and present of college football.
For the last time, Justin and Nick are podding from the lovely podcast studio at the luxurious Andersen Hall. Due to Justin's impending graduation, the bois go over the highs and lows (and mostly lows) of the four preceding years of Husker football, with a healthy dose of Kool-Aid for the future.
After that, Justin shares the story Crazy Crab, the first and only anti-mascot.
this isn't the end, but thanks for rocking with us all along, it really means a lot.
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Boy howdy it sure has been a while hasn't it.
Justin and Nick return this week with all their thoughts on Nebraska's most achingly frustrating season in years, Justin dishes out #HOT takes on where the Huskers can go from here, the boys dish out some opinions on the state of sports media, and talk playoffs and why the Heisman is a total farce.
Justin and Nick talk about the sense of dread they're feeling as Nebraska faces the #3 team in the country, and theorize on how the Huskers could possibly win and what that would mean for the program. They also discuss what rivalries mean the most to Nebraska fans, and Nick rants about the 2018 Akron game cancellation's domino effect on the program.
Justin and Nick overreact to Nebraska/Fordham and all of college football's week 1 slate, trade blows dissing advertisements that have annoyed them greatly throughout college football and go over the strange history of going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
NOTE: This is the first explicit episode of the show. We were mad and it didn't hit right without them bad words. Do with that information what you will.
On this episode, Justin and Nick go over Nebraska's immensely disappointing loss to Illinois, and what that means for head coach Scott Frost and the sellout streak. On a lighter note, we also go over the origin of the backwards B in the ABBA logo by speedreading their wiki page and talk about the best fake high school in the country.
THE HUSKERS ARE BACK AND SO ARE WE! If you hadn't paid attention to any offseason coverage, I got you with everything you need to know about the season before the kickoff against Illinois.
On the triumphant return of JUSTIN the NICK of Time, the guys discuss Nebraseball's postseason run, the college football playoffs expansion plans, the randomness (with a catch) of the NBA playoffs, how pitchers in the MLB are all pompous cheaters and Justin gives a Falcons fan sendoff to Julio Jones.
In the second part of the episode, Nick gives a crash course on everything you need to know to be an F1 fan right in time for the season, and Justin gives his first-time watcher input on Drive To Survive.
Justin and Nick go over the past weekend's March Madness action, and go on tangents about the Masked Singer, Catholic School, the town name of Beatrice, the history of Oral Roberts and more!
Nick vowed to pay more attention to the NBA this season. Has he succeeded? Not really, so Justin gives him a lesson on everything that he missed, and they go on tangents about sports conspiracies which includes Justin disgracing a Nebraska legend.
Justin and Nick break down what Nebraska's new crop of important players transferring means for the team, how the local media in Nebraska can make press conferences better, and finally give a send-off to Justin's favorite television show ever, Highly Questionable.
Justin and Nick try hard to avoid talking about the Huskers' season, and instead go on tangents about the greater cfb landscape and mascots before giving their takes on the 2020 season Nebraska fought so hard to play. Later, they dish their takes on James Harden and get a much needed update to this summer's predictions episode.
Justin and Nick preview Nebraska's potentially final game vs. Rutgers, go over the two games they missed recap pods for, rant about the playoff committee and more!
Justin and Nick discuss Nebraska's 6th straight loss to rival Iowa, how college football can be fixed in just a few simple steps (26:46), The beauty of Steelers/Ravens getting moved because of the Rockefeller Tree Lighting (46:54), and closing off with Every awkward high school assembly we ever had (55:12)
Justin and Nick break down Nebraska's utter collapse vs Illinois and what it could potentially mean for Scott Frost, discuss why we hate Iowa, will the pandemic save Frost's job and more!
Justin and Nick break down our chaotic Northwestern loss, preview a mess of a Penn State game, debate saucy nugs, who will win the Masters and more!
In this (Spotify Exclusive oooh) episode, Justin and Nick take a look at the Chattanooga game that wasn't, preview this week's Northwetern game, and go on multiple tangents unrelated to the two at the end of the episode (with Bonus Coverage coming back to YouTube soon, so stay tuned for that !)
It's Halloween weekend, so prepare to get spooked by our coverage of the Ohio State opening beatdown and the potentially program-changing big picture discussion of what the Wisconsin game cancelling means for Husker football.
Justin and Nick finally ditch the at home label for a Husker football season preview, World Series riffing, and a heated debate about if sports are better when certain teams are better.
Justin tells his Heat-fan perspective on the Finals, and Nick shares his thoughts on the legitimacy of the league and how the Heat created the monster they face before them. Also, the NFL maybe, probably, definitely has a problem on it's hands.
Justin and Nick talk Nebraska's Schedule week-by-week, how this season is a farce just to get Ohio State in the playoff, the joys of American Sign Language and more!
Justin and Nick discuss the Big Ten's decision to play football this fall, the media's treatment of Nebraska's involvement, why the college football playoff really doesn't matter this year and more!
Justin and Nick try to not get distracted by F1 during their NBA playoff discussion, talk about the weirdness of Nikola Jokic, the strangeness of Lionel Messi's summer and more!
On their big return, Justin and Nick talk about the potential return of college football, what the MLB season has been like, NBA Bubble and more!
Justin and Nick discuss the time two Ferrari's crashed into each other last weekend, the weird wonderful world of the NBA Bubble, new soccer substitution rules, and the wonderful tale of Slippery Rock.
Justin and Nick discuss Liverpool's championship, the mess US sports are in right now, and the future of the shows content during the pandemic.
Justin and Nick make predictions about all the sports and what happens whenever they come back. It's gonna be hilariously outdated soon so you won't wanna miss it!
Justin and Nick discuss what JD Spielman's transfer means for the team and play the ancient game of Win-Loss. Also covered is transfer wafers (?), the soon to be life of the student-athlete-influencer and whether or not we should join the 24 Hours of Lemons rally.
New episode! We discuss our thoughts on the two big sports documentaries of the summer (The Last Dance and LANCE), the MLB Lockout, New F1 Regulations, trying to figure out the point of Arby's and MORE!
Fun one this week! We talk what the Husker football team coming back means for Scott Frost, the unholy beatdown of Nebraska/Creighton from 1905, what Disney characters think of the NBA, are sports the same without fans and more!
On this new episode, Justin and Nick discuss the possibility of this college football season being an absolute mess, Sebastian Vettel rocking the F1 world, the start of Bundesliga, World Cup songs and more!
Justin asked people all around the internet to contribute topics for this week's podcast. He had no idea what he was getting himself into.
The gang is back for another at home episode! We discuss the NFL Draft, how we're staying busy during quarantine, could you survive a game at right field in the majors, the guy we took golf lessons from getting arrested for fraud, Taiwan's robot fans and so much more!
Justin and Nick deliver their thoughts on the NFL Draft- and more importantly on Kevin Costner's Draft Day
Justin and Nick discuss all the impacts the COVID-19 pandemic will have on the sports world, and try to salvage as many silver linings as they can in this Season 1 Finale.
Justin and Nick discuss JD Spielman leaving for spring practice, the new NFL CBA, why useless conference basketball is amazing, and Nick ranks the fish fry's of Lincoln churches.
Justin and Nick talk about the return of spring training and if baseball matter more this year thanks to the Astros, discuss the best way to spend a sick day, and what the cancellation of High Noon means for the state of ESPN's programming.
Justin and Nick go all over the sports world in this new episode. The Husker hype train is starting to leave the station, and it's up to these two to stop it! Other stops include NBA All-Star Weekend, A Last Week Tonight look at the XFL, the fallout from the Miles Garrett situation and F1 Winter Testing.
Justin and Nick talk about the XFL, new MLB playoff format, college hoops, and much, much more on this new episode!
Justin and Nick give their brief, belated takes on Super Bowl LIV, talk about the NBA trade deadline, the Red Sox sending away Mookie Betts, and get hyped for the Formula 1 and Soccer season!
Nick Whyman of @Everything_XFL joins us to talk about all things XFL! Justin gives a monologue about Kobe, and the guys talk about the big football game this weekend.
Justin and Nick discuss the new OC hire, give the Kansas/Kansas State brawl a deep rewind, and review Nick's first few weeks as an NBA fan.
Justin and Nick discuss the newly proposed Nebraska legislation to allow college athletes to earn profits, Maurice Washington's entry into the transfer portal, break down the ethics of the Astros cheating scandal and more in this new episode!
*Note: Zion Williamson's debut will happen on the 22nd, not the 16th. JUSTIN the NICK of Time apologizes for the error.
Justin and Nick go over the highs and lows from the 10's in Husker football, and Nick exacts his revenge on Justin's quiz games before they each share their favorite sports moments of the decade. Ring in 2020 the right way, and listen to JUSTIN the NICK of Time!
On the 15th episode of JUSTIN the NICK of time, Nick airs out his frustrations about the hype surrounding recruiting, Justin gets Nick to join the Official JUSTIN the NICK of Time bowl mania group, and they discuss weird hockey traditions and Christmas movies!
Justin and Nick talk about the volleyball team movin' on in the tourney and the Final 4 coming to Omaha next year. Also, Capital One Bowl Mania is here! So is a special playoff preview and Bowl Game Names Quiz! Finally, Justin and Nick delve into the weird world of sports video game story modes by discussing the weird world of Spike Lee's NBA 2k16 Livin Da Dream mode.
Justin and Nick share their hot takes about the Iowa game, and the now-finished Husker football season, as well as look forward to the volleyball tourney.
Also, Nick made Justin watch an episode of Love Island. His thoughts are here.
Note: At one point Justin says "Maryland" when he means to say "Minnesota". Nick asks him about this and he gets confused and convinces Nick he was just hearing things. Justin was wrong all along.
Everything you need to hear about the Maryland game, the Iowa rivalry (or lack thereof) and whatever other detours we decide to go on. But seriously, is Iowa a rival?
On today's JUSTIN the NICK of Time, Justin and Nick go tangent for tangent breaking down Nebraska's performance vs. Wisconsin, Scott Frost's new extension and go over the grand scheme of the Browns/Steelers brawl before finally discussing when it's cool to "place drop"
Justin and Nick get off-topic in record time when discussing Nebraska's upcoming contest against Wisconsin, and the playoff picture after Alabama/LSU. Detours include: country music, the Badger song, and designing the perfect rivalry trophy for Nebraska/Wisconsin.
Nebraska just lost to a previously 2-6 Purdue team. Here's what we had to say about that.
Justin and Nick talk about Nebraska's letdown against Indiana, the college football playoff picture, the new NCAA proposal, and most importantly, discuss the true start of the Christmas season.
With no football at large to talk about, Nick introduces Justin to Formula 1 Racing and they preview a new segment about what athletes would do without sports.
Justin and Nick mope over the Minnesota meltdown, learn about the Huskers in Ireland and give their takes on the recent developments between the NBA and China.
On this special 5th episode of JUSTIN the NICK of Time. Justin and Nick breakdown the B1G slugfest that was Nebraska vs. Northwestern, preview the Minnesota game and the season's second half. Justin also rants about how college football's lackluster year thus far, before Nick and Justin finish with a good-old-fashioned debate about the College Football Playoff.
Justin and Nick got the once in a lifetime opportunity to attend ESPN's College GameDay on UNL's Campus. Did it live up to the hype? Find out about this, California's new amateurism law, and why the 0-0 soccer game is actually good on this brand new episode.
Justin and Nick try to make sense of what happened vs. Illinois, get hyped for College GameDay, and discuss how to staple komodo dragons inside of a woolly mammoth costume.
In the second episode of JUSTIN the NICK of Time, Justin describes the NIU game to Nick (who has not seen it) and they discuss the art of the Wave, preview Illinois* and revel in the beauty of the Takeaway Pencil
*The Illinois preview consists of talking about Sufjan Stevens and Polish people
Justin and Nick force themselves to relive the Nebraska Vs. Colorado game, as well as discuss the questionable origins behind Georgia Tech's fight song and delve into the dark art of Scorigami.
Detours include World War I, Brexit and being fashionably late to the Popeye's Chicken sandwich debate.