Merry Christmas Podcast / Happy Holiday - 2018 podcast from the Filibuster Freestyle

New Podcast drinking game. Any time there’s a random “dog bark”, or police siren, or freight train horn, or most notably an uninvited guest offering peanut gallery comments, etc — the listeners drink. We’re calling it, “More inebriated than you want”

Fake band name - faux pax - “Jackie Onassis’ corpse” 

Fake band name of the week for realzzzzies: “Fat third basemen”

Patriots update week 16 - their D is good - but Brady and Gronk are backsliding hard and fast.

The 2018 Patriots team has three outcomes for the post season:

1) They’ll ride a “Solid D” and “Ball Control Offense” to a Super Bowl title like the 2001 Pats.

2) They’ll somehow make the Super Bowl and get routed by a superior opponent like the 1985 and 1997 Pats.

3) They’ll lose in the first round like the 2005 and 2010 Pats — signs point to Door Number 3.

Very outlandish Ravens / Eagles super bowl 53 prediction 

Is there a band that listens better while “partying”, but worse sober than Sublime? Maybe Pink Floyd?

Facebook is the worst rant = Mark Zuckerberg is Lex Author

Honestly - and we mentioned this on a pod post World Series... if Sox win every 5ish Years - that model works for me. They have the money to do that and unlike football (stud QB), basketball (two top 20 players) or hockey (great goalie and injury luck)... money and health are all that matter in baseball and while health is random only 4 teams have money in mlb 

Thirsty beaver pub hat story - next time

Westworld Season 2 Preview Podcast

Westworld Season 2 Preview - premiers on April 22nd on HBO

Westworld’s first season ended on Dec 4, 2016 - we’re going to look at the craziest things that have happened since then.

188 listens in Athens, GA this week, Alexandria Egypt #2, Ashburn, VA #3

Australia as a nation third place

UK, Brazil, Portugal, Ireland, Singapore & Poland listened as well.

Ashley Howard, new HC at LaSalle University!

Patrick Reed wins the Masters

Clearly Trump being elected 2 weeks prior to the end of season one, and everything associated with Trump since that time could take up spots 1-200 on this list — but let’s try and keep this as trump free as possible

The women’s march in Washington, which in some ways can be viewed as significant factor in the #MeToo movement

The Patriots have won a super bowl in Dramatic Fashion and Lost a Super Bow in Dramatic fashion - to the Eagles who’d never won one before

We had the Oscars’ best picture of 2017 mix-up with Moonlight belatedly winning after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunnaway messed up the announcement and said the wrong film first

United Airlines went viral for dragging a passenger off of a plane — somehow making every other airline look much better by comparison

We had a congressman - Steve Scalise - shot at a baseball practice for a congressional baseball game - which is very scary stuff

White Nationalism at Charlottesville ripped open longtime wounds and shined a spotlight on how emboldened racists and racist nationalism have become

Hurricane’s wreaked Havoc on Houston and in Florida but most notably destroying a modern day way of life in Puerto Rico - a way of life “electricity and fresh water” that is still not fully back on the island for its citizens

Floyd mayweather and Conor McGregor finally have a boxing match / 8 months later Conor gets arrested for crashing a ufc pay per view and assaulting fellow fighters and attacking a bus

The Las Vegas concert shooting - nuff said

Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and scores of others in Hollywood, business, etc - were all torn to bits by the #MeToo movement

Roy Moore almost wins a senate seat in Alabama despite overwhelming evidence they he is essentially a serial pedophile  

There was a total solar eclipse

Facebook is massively involved in the election tampering by Russia in 2016

The aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas School Shooting - winter 2018 — has been pretty significant

The Mueller investigation seems to be just getting started

Loyola Chicago went to the final four

Jennifer Aniston break up & Winter Olympics in Peoyong Chang hot takes

Places listening Philadelphia #1 Macungie PA #2 huntersville NC #3 Mountain View CA #4 Edmonton Alberta top international place listening

New places listening Kyrgyzstan, Haiti, Iran and the Netherlands

Just watched the third period of USA vs Canada Women’s Hockey from the winter olympics on Tape Delay — winter Olympics are tough to keep up with “out of time zone” cuz people are busier and the sports calendar is busier. Pyeongchang 2018 is 14 hours ahead of us - South Korea

Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston split up — you know what this means… Justin Theroux is BACK ON THE MARKET

Winter Olympics is home to sports that make you ask, “so how’d you get started doing that for a hobby?” 

They have danger (Ski Jumping, Luge, Skelton, Freestyle skiing)

They have misery (Cross Country skiing, biathlon) 

They have stuff that your grand parents could do (Curling) 

I get why Norway and Canada are better than the US in the winter Olympics — but Germany (good for those guys). 

Also, figure skating has judges (but why does ski jumping?) shouldn't it just be who stays in the air the furthest without crashing? 

Luge has single men, single women, but only pairs for men — i mean pairs luge seems like the most frivolous sport of all time — but to not offer it for women seems ridiculous

The Biathlon folks must have a heck of a time checking their bags (clearly not a “carry on” situation with the TSA

Key West Curling Academy = Million dollar idea of the month // is there a rant of the month for Andy Maslin? 

Should Ice Fishing be an olympic sport? How about ice fishing with dynamite?