Obvious Brothers: Recent Episodes
Steve Hicks
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A block: golfB block: Cubs-Cards (no!), NBA...Game 4 hopesC block: Belmont losses (and John knows winners!)D block: Eric & Acolyte; Euros and beer consumptionLots of suggestions for how Sean loses money :)
A Block (w/0 John): jokes and golf holes...
B block: Brewers and Skenes
C Block: In defense of Tatum; Mavs hopes
D block: Belmont guesses
E block: Euros -- not England, but...not Scotland
Killer finish
A block: jokes and trip highlights;
B block: NHL and NBA finals;
C block: Women's open
D block: Leeds supporters & a little on Euros.
A block: Met List
B block: NBA ramblings
C block: Shrinking, Fall Guy, et al
D block: Braves & White Sox (opposite directions)
E block: golf joke, Carnoustie stories
A block: Joke, Masters review, Sheffler dominates
B block: NFL and the joke of thinking we know who's doing what in the draft; some review of picks
C block: Shogun, Guy Ritchie stuff
D block: NBA -- Nugs, Mavs, Sixers and why Celtics STB
Block A: jokes; Block B: Nebraska; Block C: Props and jokes; D block: bracket show weirdness. And a couple final jokes
A Block: KY coaching and all the jokes surrounding it
B block: Bracket winner (josh!) and UConn with Women's game...
C block: Portal
D block: Baseball's arm issues
E block: OJ jokes (face palm)
F block: Masters talk
G block: Best candy bar list
A block: Why not baseball? CBB games and calls
B block: Arkansas job; Storrs worth $1m? What?!!?
C block: Betting on F4
D block: Wicked Little Letters, what we're watching...
E block: Women's final talk
F block: drums or flats?
A Block: Moose joke (again?!), John's brilliant bracket, interpreter on Creighton :)
B Block: EPL games, matches while in London, England geography...
C Block: Tournament, games, picks (UConn looks great)...the Bama & Clemson wagons
D block: Transfer portal -- what are they doing??!!?!?
E block: MLB, including Cubs, weak divisions.
A Block: John's bracket and why there are brackets everywhere and nowhere
B Block: Games played
C Block: Vape shops, tattoos, and Ohtani?
D block: CBB coaching (May to Michigan)
End: hot takes for Sunday
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A block: a joke about a non-photocopier; bracket discussion, including some A10, some NC State, some ranting about Marquette final shot review
B block: bracket tips. John still Hou/UConn/Pur v field.
C block: IU and 3 point shooting.
D block: QB shuffle (Howell to SEA? Russ to PIT? Darnold (LOL) to MIN? pIck swaps and conjecture. Late joke (oh no, John!)
and nothing about Kate. Maybe next week :)
Block A: jokes, EPL wanderings; Block B: TV & Coug tix. Block C: CBB officiating and game picks; Block D: conf championship bets, more Creighton love.
A block: joke 1; Easter candy and GSC alt (ALDIs plug) B block: This week's CBB & this weekend'sC block: who you got in F4? D block: Drive-away Dolls, Yellowjackets, Shameless, & spousal co-viewing...joke 2. Timeless :)
Block A: jokes and CBB bracket reveal thoughts;
Block B: TV shows, Yellowjackets, Love something, Capote bitches & R Alien
Block C: some baseball, some football, and be careful with your eggs
A Block: Jokes & Rom com list
B block: SB recap, including coaching miscues, Jason Kelce's liver...K story #1
C block: what we've been watching (Yellow Jackets & Resident Alien)
D block: Committee's Sweet 16 and possible moves, geography, hopes...Purdue & K story #2 (Detroit!!! ???)
A block: jokes (arrr!) and SB foods
B block: SB..Taylor props, other props, picks incl O/U (we disagree)
C block: Mr & Mrs Smith and all...
D block: IU=Pur tomorrow and other CBB; some 'Cock MBB
A block: Jokes and patter
B block: NFL games, T Swift, Travis, lines...are Niners just not that good?
C block: cost of KS-Hou tix; Wisconsin choking last night; four games this weekend...IU-PUR?
D block: Masters of the Air, Cursed and...another joke.
Block 1: Terrell, fantasy and tennis
Block 2: NFL
Block 3: Civil war
Block 4: CBB, including WCB SC-LSU
Block 5: Piscataway and a ways from Houston
Starts with Cowboys "shitting the bed"...near ending it's about IUBB "shitting the bed" with NFL breakdown in between. Hot takes on Wisconsin, punchable faces, and some TV shows.
What we've been watching, rabbit holes with Emily Blunt and Flo Pugh, BBB on CFB games with picks, and finally Ravens love, Purdy hate, and NFL picks
Starts with jokes...
then the FSU diss...
Then to Eagles=Cowboys, Bills chances, being obvious about the weather, NfL picks
Final jokes, reminder about CBB games and what we might watch
Approximate times: 10 minutes of chatter (with an early XXX joke); 10 minutes of IU football, NIL money, Matt Ruhle's comments; CFB picks (the Duck tears); 10 minutes on NFL QBs (Greg Norman surprisingly appears), NFL picks, J Dizzle's picks and a quick exit.
First 5 on John's meltdown over "experts" (he's now an expert); Fantasy football trades; 10:00 NFL BGOB Eagles-Boys; 1400 NFL Picks; 2000 Rangers wagon! 2400 USC-Wash breakdown; 2700 CFB picks; finish with J Dizzle 20 picks.
Jokes; 5:00 MLB; 10:30 Flower Moon; 14:00 word of the week (again) and BGOB OU-KS; 23:00 bad beats; 2430 bad calls in CFB; 29:00 CFB picks; 42:15 nfl picks— theme is hurt QBs; 49:15 cowboys.
Agreeance; 5:00 good NFL teams; 18:00 muffed punt rules; 20:45 NFL picks; 23:20 what to watch NFL; 25:45 Lions are a wagon; 27:10 Stros & Rangers; 33:45 SNL T Swift skit; 35:40 BGOB Ohio St-Penn St; 39:40 tip for Sean; 41:30 CFB picks; 5215 IU FB ($20 m & B10 West recruiting)
Open with Phillies, baseball; 1050 CFB Ore-Wash; 2400 ND-USC; 3315 CFB picks; 4145 Jemele Hill's takes on Brussel sprouts, candy corn & Travis and Taylor & our things; 5010 killer joke then NFL picks; 1:06;15 EPL chat (boo Chelsea)!
Opening jokes & Ahsoka; 830 Ryder Cup review; 16:30 NFL, Boys-Niners, picks; 3200 MLB (Stros-Braves?); 3600 Red River, picks, Final 4 picks
Jokes; Travis & Taylor; 700 podcast etiquette; 900 Ahsoka & TV; 1830 Ryder Cup; 3000 Cubs tears; 3600 NFL chat and picks; 50:00 CFB picks; 1:00:00 CFB big games.
Openers with a long joke, David Brooks's airport meal, flying Ryan Air. 8:00 CFB with best game, picks, then breakdown of big games; 30:00 Ahsoka & being blue, Rabbit Hole & Silo; 36:00 NFL (John off 3-0 week) with talk of Fields, others, Niners then picks. NSFW jokes at the end.
Opening joke and Ahsoka chat (what color are their light sabers now?); 630 NFL with Zach love, Josh hate and picks; 2415 TikTok highlight & pumpkin spice; 2845 CFB talk, Colorado wagon, picks, week 4 preev
1-8 jokes and KC Thurs, 8 CFB pix, 2430 playing NYT Connections, 3030 Ahsoka (no spoilers), 3830 NFL
Like this -- opening joke and discussion of sandwiches and guns in your belly fat :); 5 minutes on Ahsoka (aka "Osaka"); 15 minutes on CFB picks (go Gophers); 5 mins on Ryder Cup and JT pick ):; 5 minutes on NFL first game & wins and survivor picks; MLB on TX ALW race & Cubs and Angels mess.
Starts with intros, then Week O picks, 30:00 John joins us 4600 Sean leaves with ND pick 😂 5500 What is that hat?!?!? 103 Just the Bros. 119 TX hate 12715 Dublin donuts (again) 131 US open men’s contest
Beginning -- dad jokes, then Citadel (how does that work?) and Nick Fury & who's hot; 15:00 golf talk, including why do they have to play in CT? 24:25.
NBA draft and why do they make the trades they do? How does this cap work? 34:15 MLB in London, why? and quick catchup with hot teams; 43:00 what not to say when you're caught fooling around and what not to do bc you want to see the Titanic up close.
First 8 jokes and Nuggets win and future; 8:-- NBA draft and the unknowns; 13:30 US Open highlights; 22:45 SoCal golfers and advantages; 27:45 Picks for the weekend and winners and Sean's start in pool; 32:20 TV and Indiana Jones preve, FUBAR with Arnold; 3600 Men vs Mexico in soccer.
Next year's trip & Bama; 8:15 NBA; 13:25 Edey, NBA draft, IUBB; 1820 LIV-PGA merger; 2240 the most obvious statement ever made on the podcast (laughing to cry emoji); 2300 US Open Golf and picks; 2900 EPL Sked; 31 Belmont talk; 3700 London show and movie references; 4000 the joke of the day (poor Christmas)
Weather and Jokes (related); 3:00 T Swift list; 4:30 Derby story :) :) ; 7:00 Ted Lasso & marriage stories; 11:30 NBA & how teams shit the bed, how Nuggets are favorites, how to play Jokic; 2800 Rory where's my $3M (and Venmo is probably out); 2945 Eagles & NFL Sked reveal; 3315 Guardians revue & spoiler about Rocket :)
First 11:00 on TV & That Last Thing He Said to Me; 11:00 NFL draft...how wrong can predictors be? 22:00 NBA series, is Chris Paul done? Is Giannis? Did Giannis say the right thing about failure? 36:00 crying about baseball (modest Pirate, Cub love, A's hate...don't listen Oakland), 39:30 Coronation takes
Ted Lasso & all; 1400 Rory burning millions and Spieth UA $ ; 1700 NBA recap; 2400 MLB in Vegas; 3300 Houston; 3900 Cheating at World
Wrexham, 1420 Rays, 1930 Masters plus Hilton Head, 2310 NBA & Kings & bad shooting jokes, 3630 NHL bad bets, 4100 NFL draft on cowboys, Lamar, 4800 how much is $6b?
0-800 TV & jokes; 800 Masters; 1650 worth betting? 2000 MLB; 2350 NFL draft; 3300 NBA takes; 3700 masters v field
420 joke; 650 John’s joke; 720 Shrinking; 1300 brackets; 1920 drunk on family feud; 2200 baseball talk; opening day schedules; 3945 Masters preview and picks; (4030 Sam Snead and 13th hole) 4800 trump indictment
Jokes; 400 tourney recap; 1420 Ted Lasso, then Mando, then appreciating Shrinking; 2200 Purdue’s woes; 2610 teams and ethics; 3130 IU woes; 3720 obvious brothers bracket; 3900 this weekend’s picks- Princeton love; 4620 golf talk
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Open with ND BB job; 7:-- TV, Shrinking, Mando, LoU; 1250 IU/Purdue game, then Tuesday; 1900 B10 teams you trust; 2330 Other teams you trust or not; 3200 5 game ML parlay; 3730 Duke's chances; 3950 Kansas in KC.
First 7:30 Jokes and TV; NCAA committee 16 team reveal review; 12:30 3 seeds likely out; 2250 spending cheese on 5 G ML parlay; 24:15 Brandon Miller; 36:00 IU-MSU, then IU-Purdue, then Johnson back and ???; 4230 Pac-12 speculation
5:00 Super Bowl preview; 12:55 NW and foul calls; 16:00 Derek Carr FA; 21:30 NW talk; 26:30 Sweet 16 talk; 33;30 ACC review; 37:00 ML parlay; 4400 Tiger Woods & golf betting
opening 10: Shrinking (Sean's hotness :)), then Kaleidoscope (some spoilers?); 10:00 SB breakdown; 2840 Rihanna; 30:20 IU recap; 33 Rutgers; 35 Saturday games and ML parlay; 41:10 2nd place in B10.
Jokes, 5:30 NFL last week and lines; 12:00 Pro Bowl, Peyton, and TB; 15:00 TV this week (Shrinking, Last of Us); 22:00 CBB today; 26:10 Purdue-IU breakdown; 34:00 Pebble Beach.
Opening jokes (some winners); 6:45 Chiefs and Mahomes ankle; 12:45 Eagles-Niners; 18:-- NFL CoY (Pederson v Grabell) & Siriano; 20:45 CBB ugly coaches, Francon v Izzo; 24:15 how our F4 teams have done ): ; 26 Purdue predictions and deep dive; 31:20 B12 prospects; 34:20 Shrinking on AppleTV.
Opening banter, the traditional snowman joke; 3:15 NFL recap; 4:30 Chargers and Herbert; 10:20 chip joke; 13:30 Chiefs preve; 17:00 Bills-Bengals; 26:00 CBB Final 4s; 37:45 TV watching -- Kaleidoscope (who knew?)
Opening jokes; 2:30 IU BB & B10; 7:30 Hamlin; 10:15 Harbaugh's words & troubles; CFP games; 17:15 CFP predictions; 19:30. Colts-Texans; 25:00 Sat NFL games; 42:00 Jack Ryan & other streaming.
Glass Onion review & Derek Carr; 11:30 Must See CFB, CFP picks; 20:00 NFL picks; 36:00 CFB today (for S Diddy); 42 CBB; 45:45 Greta & Romanian jail; Neb bb 😂
Christmas movies; 2:30 Menshew stache & Boys/Eggles; 10:10 NFL Xmas Sked; 13:15 Jets/Jags; 15:20 Picks; 24:40 Bears/Bills weather and tickets; 29:30 CBB/UConn; 34:20 World Cup
Begins with our weekend in Ft. Worth; 8:00 obviousness on Bills-Fins; 16:45 watching Army=Navy together; 21:00 Vikings; 24:15 TNF & Niners & "Jack" Johnson at QB; 29:15 Picks; 44:00 Wednesday on Netflix, Knives Out 2, others...
Opening tee time story; 3:20 Mayfield; 6:55 World Cup and hate watching; 10:00 John's schtick and joke; 11:20 Playoff scenarios...Lions, then AFC at 17:00, Jets, Chargers, Raiders, Steelers; 24:15 NFL picks; 27:30 Cowboys scenarios; 32:20 Purdue job better than...35:00 Penix love.
Opening: our critics and reviews and a couple bad jokes; 3:30 World Cup talk; 9:00 CFB from group chat, then 11:00 TCU love rolling into Conf Championship week leans and picks; 22:00 IU BB and anti-Josh on B10 BB; 31:30 NFL talk and picks.
TV: Peripheral, The English, the greatness of Andor; World Cup; 11:00 NFL last week; 1630 TG games; 1830 Vikings; 2025 NFL picks; 27:00 UCLA-USC +; 28:50 ND-USC! 31:35 Oh St-Mich; 34:15 TCU; 36:20 picks; 46:10 CBB, then back to PAC12 scenarios; 51:40 how to deep fry a turkey!
Opening banter; 6:30 USA team; 16:00 other brackets and breakdown; 22;00 finals picks; 29:00 NFL last week, Bills, Boys sh**ing the bed, picks; 41:00 CFB recap with ND, Oregon, TCU games; picks. A final joke.
First minutes: elections, Fetterman's clothes, Twitter, Andor as greatest show ever; 9:45 NFL mid-season. Packers, Bucs hate. Seahawks love. Picks. 25:15 segue into Bama motivation. 28:15 S**t the bed 1st use :) Oregon-Wash, Texas-TCU, UCLA, Baylor, Purdue. 40:00 picks; 47:00 IU basketball. Light joke :)
Philly fans then Dragon; 1000 GB baking show debacle; 1445 CFP comm and TCU; 2100 TN-GA & B12 odd lines; 2940 picks, esp John hating ND; 3320 NFL picks and why Cowboys-Packers. 45 WS picks
Opening on Tickets to Paradise; 7:45 CFB last week; 10:30 Ok St game of the week; 17:15 John on ND for Sean :) 21:30 Neb-Ill discussion; 24:15 NFL & sucking incl TB12; 32:45 Steve's NFL pix; 36:50 World Series chat. Stros in 4 or Phils in 7.
700 Bet padres? Houston blue? 1600 CFB window by window 27:00 NFL last week and titans-colts, giants-jags 40:00 NBA doncic Robin? draymond, Mets? 45:00 jokes
Best guess time stamps: opening MLB talk & Josh at games; 13:00 CFB picks of games in viewing windows; 17:20 PUR-Neb; 20:30 AL-TN; 26:15 Mich-Penn St; 33:00 Ok St-TCU; 41:00 USC and Pac 12; 49:00 Clemson?; 53:00 Matt Ruhle & what we'd do with $42m; 1:00 Chiefs-Bills; 1:06 Eagles; 1:11 Our Pigskin Picks (locks?); 1:20 EPL & Man City-Liverpool interest, Arsenal foreseen collapse.
000 Pop Culture; 600 Oz, RA & Dragons (incl Matt Smith); 1740 TNF; 2235 new SB pix; 2805 Vikings love; 3410 NFL pix; 4040 MLB preview and picks; 4720 Fear the Turtle & superstitions; 5100 college picks
Open with Kim K & "fame," Dragons, then ~16:00 CFP 1/3 season review; 21:20 picks starting with Clemson, then Ok St, then ALA, UCLA & Party; 38:30 NFL picks with Tua, then who do we trust, and picks.
Starts with TV (Dragons & Andor) ~1830 Presidents Cup ~2430 PUR-SYR, best games & picks ~4200 cowboys-bengals, colts, then best games and picks.
NFL draft, Cowboy fans, MLB & Mets, cardinals fans, NBA playoffs, Sean’s teams, & tv/movie watching
New rules for podcasting; John watched movies 😱; Bracket and game analysis; Knight stories & some classic obviousness
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Starts with baseball, goes to NFL, finishes with movies. Disses of Champaign and Cleveland.
Tv review, CFP picture, IU & B10fb (iu the football school), Steelers breakdown, NFL picks, shoutout for Alex Smith
IU-mich, Clemson-ND, John's golf, masters, some electoral math, survivor picks, close NFL games, cowboys in wins pool 😂😥
Everything from college football, weakest link, Dodgers and covid, Eagles pump up & NFL picks
GA-ALA breakdown, pick, weakest link analysis, baseball, NFL picks (go Giants?!) & potpourri
Preview weekends live golf, horse racing, recap earl Thomas situation, then talk Millionaire, Last Kingdom and Upload.
NFL draft, NBA practicing, reprint Texas, MJ & breaking up 5-time champions & how to lose money Saturday on the ponies 😃
Anyone wants. Bubble talk. March madness winners. Wisconsin hatin'. F4 teams & B10 this week and next
With cuts from John from Rionegro, Colombia, it's mostly college basketball. Not even a mention of the NFL combine!
Who should watch Marriage Story or not, John tries to talk abt xfl, Zags unloved but Terps loved.
Starts with CFP final 4 guess, then Yahoo breakdown, 4 big games, then NFL playoff guesses, breakdown Boys-Pats, Eagles-Wentz.
We open with college picks, then NFL, then back to playoffs with scenarios -- like 3 1-loss SEC teams, & Pac-12 love.
UGA-FL, Left Coast Love, but concern; IU too big fav; will Rondale play? Browns wins (or not), Patriots-Ravens and Pats and Bills forward. Nats amazing win. But they'll be done...right?
Kid Genius joins as John’s gone fishing. Pros then college picks — w a little Nats love in the middle
Playoff excitement. Is kershaw overrated. Batwoman & Nancy drew; skins firing and cowboy angst. Red river rivalry & got no gator love (again)
Housed v double housed; J loves New Amsterdam (hi NBC!); UTx’s Chances; Too much Giants-Skins, some Pats-Bills. Hating Mlb Monday playoff games
FedEx playoffs (obscure watch, Brooks has this), Cubs whiff week, zeke sighting, run differential (again!)
Beer buying results, Calvin & Hobbs r furious, Tiger sucking, IU CFB o/u, let's goes (mets) & NFL news (AB frostbite??? -- Dr John informs)
Revive of last night's episode of HM, whether Leo is too nuanced & Sharon Tate alive, NFL, & Greinke win & cubs cards moans
Reese talks too much, John's neither woke not cool, pirates favorite actor, NHL line changes
Back home in Indiana, Arsenal goes to where to play who? Who stabs who & does dragon survive in GoT; Bruins! Sixers? Who wins w no KD? Derby money
John crying at Avengers, the dark brilliance of GoT ep. 3 (& 5 day rule on spoilers), goalies are important in NHL, Rockets doomed, disagree on MIL-BOS, Derby. advice & epiglottises. & Tiger’s yacht, OC
Starting with Opening Day comments, World Series picks, then talk of CBB coaching openings (is Chris Beard moving?), and then our brackets, chalk, tonight's games, tomorrow's games, and last week's, last night's tight ones -- Duke! Purdue!
Turn up the volume -- hotel "studio" has problems on my end (you can hear John better)...John worries about every game. :)
We give you the tips on how to pick your March Madness brackets, from unis to coach names to seedings & KenPom numbers, but start with our usual banter, this about Fleetwood Mac, then Brie Larsen (aka Capt. Marvel).
We update you on This Is Us & Furman, talk IU's bubble renewed bubble chances, and guess on NC-Duke, KS Or Tech, MSU-Michigan. With a Fleetwood Mac reference to end :)
We pick our F4 with Bracketville's Feb 21 bracket, talk games to watch this week in CBB, then some Machado & MLB.
Discussion of the Committee's top 16 & this coming week's big games (see MD, K-State, TN-KY, Duke-NC) & why Phil is playing well and the 2nd most talked about 40-something golfer.
SB (ok, kinda), Brady, Foles, IU , End of KU rule, Hanes to watch & is UNC good enough?
Sponsored by the San Diego Tourism Bureau, we talk about how to deal with golf first tee starters, our fantasy playoff failures, then SB picks (shhhh Rams -2.5), Big East basketball "down year," B12 race, and Porzingis to Mavs trade.
We discuss latest plot line on our favorite show to hate, TIU, then discuss Black Panther, Oscars and those Oscar-worthy, then B10, B12 & B12-SEC challenge (and IU woes) in CBB & finish with brief discussion of GOAT, bad calls, and why Tiger isn't worth watching (yet).
We sip coffee while talking the high expectations of IU basketball fans, IU's current drought & Sked, then UVA-Duke; our NFL playoff confidence picks - J's up 10 to 9 so far and finish discussing our fantasy league and how John gets to the money. :)
Aquaman, Jason Mamoa (?!), Mary Poppins, Wild card conf pix, SB pix, tips on PO fantasy, CFP & CBB 2 Watch