Buckeye Dads Discuss

On this episode of Buckeye Dads Discuss, Andy and Josh are trying something different!  Your cohosts have read Kirk Herbstreit's new book, Out of the Pocket: Football, Fatherhood, and College GameDay Saturdays.  The guys give their review, discuss their favorite anecdotes from the book, and chat about their takes on subjects that are also near and dear to their hearts.  We highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about one of the most prominent faces of our mutual alma mater.  Enjoy!

Andy and Josh are back just in time for your Monday commute.  After another meandering introduction, which includes Andy's thoughts on seasons 2-4 of Game of Thrones, we dive into the recent COVID news (44:30).  What does it mean that the Pfizer vaccine is officially approved?  We discuss employer driven vaccine mandates, masking in schools, and joke about ivermectin.  We take a look at the week 0 AP and Coaches Polls, and are way too optimistic about the Ohio State football team's schedule (1:25:12).  We close out with an extended List of the Week - our Top 10 Favorite Video Games of All Time (1:36:35).  There were so many options we just couldn't keep it to five. NOTE: in an upcoming episode, we will be reviewing Kirk Herbstreit's new book, Out of the Pocket: Football, Fatherhood, and College GameDay Saturdays.  Read along with us, and enjoy this episode!

After an extended summer break, Andy and Josh are back and boy do they have a lot to say.  After taking some time to recap the dog days of summer, the guys jump into sports (33:40).  We aren't fans of Oklahoma and Texas joining the SEC.  After touching on the NFL, we discuss the summer Olympics.  Spoiler alert - one of the hosts craps all over gymnastics.  Josh provides a quick NBA finals epilogue, and Andy recaps some European soccer news.  Next we transition to COVID (1:11:30).  Honestly, this section is pretty ranty and outdated, and we will discuss all the big news in the next episode.  We wind down with some miscellaneous news nugget (1:39:46), before closing with our List of the Week - Andy's Top 5 Least Favorite Game of Thrones season 1 characters (2:12:00).  Yes, one of the hosts is a decade late to joining the zeitgeist, but he'll be recapping his series binge over the next couple of episodes.  We're happy to be back - enjoy!

The MCU has returned, and so have Josh and April to break down its latest additions.  The couple begin by giving their thoughts on Black Widow (3:00).  Did we enjoy the movie?  Did the delayed release impact our viewpoint?  Listen and find out.   We transition into a discussion of the exceptional Loki TV show (38:35).  We dissect the cast's amazing chemistry, how this show broke the mold compared to the previous two, and what it all means going forward.  We also update our top 10 MCU lists (1:06:30).  Finally, we close out the show with the List of the Week - a draft of our top 5 favorite new MCU characters (1:12:56).  Enjoy!

Hosts Andy and Josh are back in action, and we cover a lot of ground in this episode.  The guys take a while to catch up with some air travel stories and rantings about fireworks.  We switch over to cover the latest COVID updates (20:05), both in the country and the Buckeye State in particular.  It's all been leading up to this - Andy and Josh debate the pros and cons of Ohio's Vax-a-million lottery (35:42).  Next up is sports, where Andy gives us the latest news with the US men's national soccer team (1:00:52).  We discuss the latest goings on in college football and the NBA and NHL, before closing with a big picture look at what athletes do or do not owe the media and fans, in regards to the Naomi Osaka / French Open tennis story (1:16:41).  We dip our toes in the political waters (1:29:15) before closing with our List of the Week - our Top Five Favorite Father's Day gifts (1:37:30).  Enjoy!

We're back, and Andy and Josh are here to talk about sports.  After catching up, the guys jump into our first topic, the NFL draft (8:00).  We discuss the news that Aaron Rodgers wants out, Justin Fields to the Bears, and what Urban Meyer is doing in Jacksonville.  Josh and Andy trade updates on the NBA and NHL, respectively (33:45), before giving the first List of the Week, where we submit our NHL and NBA MVP ballots (45:35).  We switch gears to cover some soccer topics (57:55): European Super League, Champion's League, and the USMNT.  We take a brief detour into news (1:15:23), before closing out the show with our second List of the Week - our Top 5 Toledo Outdoor Activities (1:35:00).

After a bit of a hiatus, Buckeye Dads Discuss is back!  April returns to the show to share her thoughts on Marvel's Falcon and the Winter Soldier TV show.  We review the main characters' story arcs, we contextualize where this show fits in the larger MCU canon, and we look ahead to the upcoming Marvel TV and movie slate.  Max stops by to give his thoughts on the show (1:18:15), before we close out the show with our List of the Week - the top 5 movies we are anticipating seeing in the theater this year (1:20:25).  Enjoy!

Andy and Josh are back and it's time to get serious.  We take some time to catch up but then dive in to the Johnson and Johnson vaccine pause (8:54).  Surprise surprise, we have a lot of say, and by the time you hear this, the pause has ended.  We discuss public opinion on the news, alternative options, and vaccine hesitancy here and abroad.  We shift gears and dwell on all the awful news around the police shootings that occurred this month (42:46).  Andy leads us through the Chauvin trial, and we remember Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo.  This section is emotional.  We move on to discussing a recent Ezra Klein podcast on the societal impact of boomers on millennials and the forces that affect our generation (1:17:22).  We close the show out with the List of the Week - our top five favorite zoo animals (1:46:18).  Stay safe Ohio!

We are back and this episode is so random.  We open with vaccine news of a personal sort – Andy and Josh are on their way to being fully vaccinated.  We bask in the warm glow of science for a while, before moving on to a myriad of topics.  We start with the Grammys, of all things (19:00).  Andy does his best Ben Shapiro impression while Josh is left to defend the virtues of W.A.P.  Yes, that is a real sentence.  We do a 180 and transition to talking about the American Recovery Act, specifically the updates to the child tax credit (28:30).  Andy tells us what’s going on in hockey, Josh touches on basketball, but we spend a good chunk of time discussing what a return to normal looks like (41:50).  Josh seeks some advice on child punishment methods (58:00), before we bounce around to some miscellany: Biden’s solo press conference, abolishing day light savings time, and girl scout cookie power rankings (1:09:00).  We close with the List of the Week – Top 5 Columbus restaurants (1:24:00).  There are lots of stories.  Enjoy!

In this episode, Andy and Josh are back to discuss the omnipresence (and omnipotence?) of social media.  We start by giving a brief history on the emergence of big social media platforms, and our early experiences with them.  We move on to discuss how social media exacerbated a newsworthy incident at a local high school (15:00).  Around the 30 minute mark we step back to discuss social media as a whole, and it goes all over the place.  We try to answer some tough questions: how destructive is Facebook really?  Why do Republicans care so much about Dr. Seuss and the Potato Heads?  Why can't Josh stop dunking on people via social media?  Finally, we close with our List of the Week - our Top 5 Favorite Board Games (1:14:30).  We have runners up, stinging burns, and stories.  Have a great week!

April joins Josh to break down the hit Marvel TV show WandaVision.  Spoiler warning - go finish the show if you haven't already!  Two members of Gen Z join to discuss the show and their top 5 Marvel movies, respectively (40:00).  April and Josh reunite to enumerate the most exhaustive List of the Week yet (48:35).  We rank all 23 MCU flicks and discuss why we like (or don't!) these movies.  Check it out!

Andy and Josh are back to comfort you during this cold, awful winter.  We close out the football year by discussing the Super Bowl, the halftime show, and commercials.  Then we hit the news, hard.  We discuss fallout from January 6th (16:00), the Biden inauguration (31:00), and impeachment (39:33).  Josh gives an update on the J&J vaccine and how the country's vaccine rollout is going (52:34).  Finally, we indulge in America's favorite past time - talking about the weather and dunking on Ted Cruz (1:15:48).  In honor of Valentine's Day, we close out the show with our List of the Week - Top 5 Celebrity Crushes (1:25:20).

We're back and we are here to talk SPORTS. Andy and Josh open with our final thoughts on the Ohio State football season, including some highlights on who is coming back next year and who is leaving.  We review the NFL championship weekend games (22:00) and give our thoughts on the upcoming Super Bowl (spoiler alert - Andy nails it and Josh didn't).  The meat of our show is the List of the Week (32:25), where special guest Zach joins the guys to discuss the best sporting events we've seen in person.  This is one of our favorite segments to date, so check it out!

Two new movies came out over the holidays, and April joins Josh to discuss them.  We start out with a review of WW1984, and then step back to critique the larger DC cinematic universe as a whole.  Spoiler alert - we're not huge fans.  We move on to reviewing the newest Pixar film "Soul" (35:06), which was thoroughly enjoyable.  The show concludes with Josh inducting a fifth movie into his Disney movie pantheon, and April giving her top 5 favorite Disney movies as our List of the Week (41:33).  Stay safe Ohio!

Andy and Josh are back together for the first time in 2021, and wow has it been a crazy year already.  We can't help but jump right into the news -  we discuss Trump's call with the Georgia Secretary of State, the Georgia senate results (14:20), and whether Trump will run again in 2024.  Then we dive in to the events of January 6th (23:50), Trump’s insane response, 25th Amendment versus impeachment,  and our immediate reaction to Trump being deplatformed.  Note: we recorded this two days after the insurrection, and our opinions have evolved since then.  We put a bow on 2020, talking about what we learned both about society and ourselves (1:00:00).  We wind down with a quick recap of the Buckeyes win versus Clemson, a quick peak at the title game matchup, and Harbaugh’s extension (1:12:00).  We close out this episode with our List of the Week – the Top 10 most significant events of the 21st century (1:20:09).

We detour from our normal show to try something new in 2021.  Josh is flying solo in this episode to discuss one of his greatest passions: collectible card games.  After introducing the topic, his history with this genre of game, and how he's settled on Hearthstone as his game of choice, he interviews a pillar of the Hearthstone community, special guest Ridiculous Hat!  (13:50).  They discuss how they got into CCGs, review the Year of the Phoenix (31:48), and end with a lightning round (1:17:45).  Special thanks to Hat for coming on the show!  Check out his shows Coin Concede and the Vicious Syndicate Data Reaper podcast, they're great.  We'll be back in a few days with your normally scheduled programming!

The end of the year is rapidly approaching, and hosts Andy and Josh are back with another episode.  We start by going around the horn on a variety of news topics.  We open our sports segment by talking about soccer, and the Columbus Crew's big win (34:15).  We switch to football and Andy is MAD about the Big Ten and the College Football Playoff - we break it all down.  The List of the Week is our top 5 favorite Christmas movie characters, and yes, we go there (1:07:15).  Finally, we close out the show with a spoilerific review of Queen's Gambit, a Netflix show we loved (1:24:20).

Andy and Josh are back with another grab bag episode, and dare I say it's our best yet!  This is a double List of the Week episode, and we jump right into the first one, discussing the five items we want on our Thanksgiving day plates (2:35).  From there we move on to football (12:30), discussing the Thanksgiving games both played and unplayed and fantasy football woes.  The guys debate the merits of NFL schedule creep, before checking in with the Buckeyes and Jim Harbaugh's future (19:15). In news (35:00) we discuss an uninspired Trump, an unimpressed DeWine, and get mad about COVID, again.  Good news is on its way as Josh breaks down all the vaccine news (53:30).  Andy tells us why movies going to streaming is fine (1:08:00).  Our second List of the Week has the hosts fangirling over our top 5 favorite Taylor Swift songs (1:18:22).  Finally, we close out the show with a special guest - April joins Josh to dive deep into the HBO max movie news (1:33:00).  Enjoy!

We're back and so is COVID's grip on the state.  Andy and Josh review how Ohio is doing and discuss Governor DeWine's recent press conference.  How do we think he is doing?  We discuss Biden's COVID team, and Josh goes deeeeeeep on the Pfizer vaccine (29:00), before audible-ing to how coronavirus is ravaging college football (40:00).  We close out the show with our List of the Week - our Top 5 Favorite Podcasts (58:00).

It's a new show with a new President-Elect!  Hosts Andy and Josh discuss their election week - how they watched, how it shook out, and what we think it means for America.  There was a lot of good, bad, and ugly this week, and we break it all down.  Josh takes on the Big Fry industry in our List of the Week -  our Top 5 Least Favorite Chain Restaurants (1:10:00).

Episode 8 concludes our mega fatherhood podcast.  We wrap up with some topical issues families are dealing with in 2020.  Finally, we finish with our List of the Week (35:10).  We snake draft our top 5 classic rock bands, and it gets feisty.  Enjoy this podcast, and go vote if you haven't already!

2020 is Year of the Dad!  In part 1 of our mega fatherhood podcast, hosts Andy and Josh reflect on what being a dad means to them.  They discuss their earliest recollections, generational differences in fatherhood, what some of their biggest challenges are, and some major hurdles their children will face.  Later this week we finish this conversation and conclude with a new twist on the List of the Week.  

We're back with another grab bag episode!  We open by going around the horn on the four good sports.  We argue about LeBron versus Jordan (9:18), and wonder why ratings have been down across multiple sports during the pandemic (26:58).  In news, we briefly recap Trump having COVID and the VP debate (48:55), before moving on to the absolutely insane plot to kidnap the Michigan governor (1:01:19).  We close out the show with The List of the Week - Top 5 Favorite TV characters (1:07:12).

Andy and Josh are back for a serious discussion on the issues facing America today.  After presenting our general backgrounds and histories on politics, we give our personal perspectives on a host of issues: healthcare and how it may be impacted by the Supreme Court (26:40), climate change (47:41), guns (53:21), racial inequality and policing (1:03:59), abortion (1:33:40), and a few quick hits on other topics.  This episode gets heavy, but we hope you found it to be a worthwhile conversation.  We close the show out with a light-hearted List of the Week: Top 5 favorite Toledo food spots (1:59:51).

Andy and Josh watched every second of the first presidential debate, so you don't have to.  We begin with a brief precap the hosts had before Tuesday's debate, before breaking down all of the debate insanity (10:13).  Is listening to the nation's top scientists a good idea? (36:08).  Why didn't Biden hit Trump harder on the economy? (54:00).  Why is denouncing white supremacists so hard for Trump? (1:04:07).  Should Biden debate Trump again?(1:21:38).  We cut loose in this episode, enjoy.

Hosts Andy and Josh are jacks-of-all-trades in this episode!  We open with a quick update on hockey and basketball before covering the return of Big 10 football in detail.  Which four teams did we kick out of the B1G?  In news (26:40), POTUS is coming to NW Ohio, and Andy tells you everything you need to know about the Toledo airport.  Josh discusses the CDC director's comments about vaccines and masks, and we dip our toes into COVID conspiracies.  We move on to how we've managed stress and the silver linings of the pandemic (46:50), before closing with our List of the Week - Four Movies We Like More Than You (1:05:00).

After a wide-ranging intro, hosts Andy and Josh delve into their love of football, including the best stories from their time at Ohio State (6:15).  They discuss their Top 5 OSU football moments of the last 15 years (46:00), provide an update on how the college offseason has progressed so far (1:06:00), and close with some brief NFL takes (1:32:00).  Buckeye fans, you won't want to miss the bonus List of the Week (1:18:00).

After a brief introduction (check out Episode 0!), hosts Andy and Josh dive deep into how COVID19 has affected the state of Ohio (1:55), before showcasing how the pandemic has impacted our children's schooling situations (32:39).  Here's a hint - it hasn't gone well!

On the very first episode of Buckeye Dads Discuss, hosts Andy and Josh set the stage for what we'll be discussing on the podcast.  We give a cliff notes summary of our friendship, the topics we'll be discussing on the show, and we close with our Disney Movie Mount Rushmores (26:00).