Ready To Unload: With Cal & Sanpete

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #165 - Streaming / Recording on 2/20/14 at 10P Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and catch them live Monday, March 11th at 7PM at WFUV's John Platt Presents: On Your Radar at Rockwood Music Hall Will be a quick show tonight as Cal talks Sanpete through the loss of John Tavares to an injury he suffeRED IN THE DAMN OLYMPICS AND NOT WHILE PLAYING FOR THE ISLANDERS AND WHY DOES EVERY ELITE PLAYER ON THE TEAMS WE ROOT FOR GET HURT I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE ARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Also maybe some Mets and stuff...

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #164 - Recorded on 2/13/14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and catch them live Monday, March 11th at 7PM at WFUV's John Platt Presents: On Your Radar at Rockwood Music Hall The We have a ton to talk about tonight, and we'll have our old friend, professional Bon Vivant Jay Linder to do it. This includes but is not limited to: Derek Jeter announcing his retirement after 2014, Michael Sam's historic announcement, the Winter Olympics happening, and where BBQ should be eaten. We'll fill Jay in on Neutral Milk Hotel at BAM, and talk a little about season 2 of House of Cards...

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #163 Part II - Recorded on 2.6.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and catch them live Monday, March 11th at 7PM at WFUV's John Platt Presents: On Your Radar at Rockwood Music Hall The boys said goodbye to a voice of their youth, HOF player and Met broadcaster Ralph Kiner, who passed away at age today at the age of 91. We then talked about the Mets and Cal's audience with Sandy Alderson, a Super Bowl recap with the conclusion of Elwood's three episode arc (spoiler: he mentions Andrew Luck) and we shared our Philip Seymour Hoffman rememberances.   

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #163 Part 1 - Streaming/Recording 2/6/14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and catch them live Monday, March 11th at 7PM at WFUV's John Platt Presents: On Your Radar at Rockwood Music Hall The boys said goodbye to a voice of their youth, HOF player and Met broadcaster Ralph Kiner, who passed away at age today at the age of 91. We then talked about the Mets and Cal's audience with Sandy Alderson, a Super Bowl recap with the conclusion of Elwood's three episode arc (spoiler: he mentions Andrew Luck) and we shared our Philip Seymour Hoffman rememberances.   

This episode of RTU is brought to you by The No Fuss & Feathers Roadshow! This episode really had it all... great sports talk, some busted chops, an old friend calling in to talk about the Super Bowl, and a Funload where we went down sports memory lane to figure out our top 2 moments we would relive in sports. We covered the Mets, the Islanders-Rangers and Sanpete's little TV deal, plus an in depth breakdown of Billy Ocean's two hit singles... Seriously.

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE Episode #161 - Sponsored by: The Wind Up Shop - Audio Recording | Mixing | Mastering Recorded on 1.23.14 Joe Caporoso, the founder & Head writer at www.TurnOnTheJets.com & Managing Editor & writer at www.TheWhistle.com, was again our guest and he again brought the football BS'ing goods... a solid hour 15 talking about all things NFL, and a discussion of Nicholas Dawidoff's fantastic book "Collision Low Crossers". Truly great stuff... Cal and I then got into the fascinating Yankee off-season, which we wish was a reality show that had Yankee brass living in a house with a confessional, and then had an Islanders getting national pub conversation, and then, the great Top 3 favorite snack cakes discussion. It had to happen.  

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ON STITCHER HERE Episode #160 - sponsored by: The Wind Up Shop - Audio Recording | Mixing | Mastering Recorded on 1/16/14 We were visited by our old friend in Indiana Elwood who talked Manning and Luck and Pacers and cajun cooks... we talked ARod, Rex Extension, and how no one told the NFL Draft was in May. We managed to discuss a Cal co-worker's butchering of cliches and sayings, Sanpete threw in several amalgamapressions, and Bishop blew our minds by asking the question: How do you do an impressino of Rich Little? Bishop PJ then told us about an award show called The Hall of Game, on the cartoon network, which, we're not entirely sure isn't completely made up.

  SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ON iTunes HERE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ON STITCHER HERE Episode #159 - Consider the Salad Recorded on 1/9/14 We got back after it after a month off, and it was an excellent 2 hours of sports and other stuff talk. The sports landscape here in NY, no matter who you root for, is pretty bleak. Cal has basically morphed into Debbie Downer, Sanpete hasn't bought his Mets hat for 2014 (a very, very bad sign). Add to that the current state of sports discourse here in the city is about as fun as a date with a rabid jackal and you can see we are facing our greatest challenge in four years of doing this show... can we make this sh*t fun again???!!!! Well, we did. We figured out that there's an oversaturation point with the negative narratives surrounding the teams in our town, so we started the ball rolling on tuning it out and just enjoying the damn games, both watching and talking about. Along the way we talked college sports fan allegiance, Rowdy Roddy Piper book titles, doing cel

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #158 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on Wednesday, December 11th 2013 After a discussion of how sports fans are conditioned to accept programming that emphasizes confrontational crap from its hosts, we got into Yankee and Mets hot stove... Ellsbury, Cano, Granderson, The Wilpons, Alderson, and payrolls. A great conversation about expectations both real and dashed. Closed up with a quick football conversation about the Jets and Giants. Great sports talk nice...

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #157 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on 12/4/13 After a ton of chit chat, a lot of it pretty funny, we did the Big Unload, where we each got 2 NY Sports wishes granted... Then we went heavy Mets and Yankees Hot Stove, and finished with a Penalty Time discussion about Rex Ryan and his future with the Jets. An excellent sports and stuff conversation.

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #155 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on November 20th 2013 Our old friend and Uber-Giant fan Kmac called in to talk about the Giants season and their huge game against Dallas this weekend. We also came up with a solid slogan for the 2014 Mets...Another old friend of the show, and old friend of ours Dr. E Ray Stat called in to talk  Jets, A-Rod, Francesa, Cano and Aracde fire. Then PJ explains Bob Dylan and Sanpete and Cal have the last word on A-Rod...

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE And HEY! We're on STITCHER now too! Here! Episode #154 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on 11.13.13 After Sanpete did about 5 disparate British dialects in 8 minutes (annnnd not on purpose), after PJ revealed his most glorious pajama pants in a slow reveal, after we heard about Cal and PJ's children's problems with hygene, after Sanpete told of his "Mo"vember, which lasts 7 minutes, we got to... The Big Unload: We are in our 5th season of the show and for the 4th time at this time of the year, the Wilpons did/said something stupid that absolutely had to be talked about. This has become our Thanksgiving Special episode and this one was a classic, with special guest the Food Network's Guy Fieri! (Not really, but could have been!) Some seriously great conversation about Alderson, the Wilpons and the state of the Met fan psyche. And we talked some Yankees too. Robbie Cano don't you know? Don't you??? The Jets and the Giants... We wanted Ed Reed, and

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #153 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on 11.6.13 After discussing Sanpete's forced move to the kitchen to do the show and Italians hanging out in the kitchen, trips to Disney that are anything but vacations, and daylight savings time sucking when you have kids, we got to... The Big Unload: The Incognito/Martin/Dolphins situation from lots of angles. A really good discussion about both bullying in and out of sports, and what it means for the league. Great stuff. The MLB Hot Stove and the Mets... Cal is out. Sanpete is the show me state... The RTU: Funload: Sanpete introduces a game called "Would it surprise you more if..." which takes a turn towards the hilarious... Must listen to find out who Vincent Buono from Ridgewood is.  

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast  - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE And HEY! We're on STITCHER now too! Here! Episode #152 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on 10.30.13 After discussing a Styx Groupon and the History of The Eagles documentary that Sanpete couldn't put down, we got to the BIG UNLOAD: We discussed the statistical probability of crazy plays happening in the World Series, but without all that pesky math, and got into a yuge, enawmous convo about officiating in the major sports, with Cal giving out the grades. He was not grading on the CB Bucknor curve. We then brought Scott the Islander Fan in on that, which was fantastic, then proceeded to talk Geno Smith and being sold, the Islanders and their huge trade, and he stuck around for a Funload that included where we stood on the Eagles (again) and why ghosts sound the way they do. All in all, 2 hours of really fun conversation, with double the Van Damage! &nbsp

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #151 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on 10.23.13 WFAN Jets Reporter and Sports Anchor for WFAN & CBS Radio, Chris Lopresti joined us and gutted out a power outage to cover a lot of bases... the Jets, covering the team, getting his start, a changed Rex Ryan, differences in team this year, Geno Smith's development, and how he sees his job with social media. A really great conversation... A quick discussion of Twitter and the ramifications of making threats to ballplayers there, and then the Funload... Say what you want, but our idea for a restaurant based on the game Perfection is a good one.  

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #150 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded onWednesday, October 16th --Big Unload: Yasiel Puig's theatrics and the reaction to it... Me first vs. showing up an opponent. We talked about everything from unwritten rules to how teams should self police. Really great conversation. -- Jets against Pats, briefly and efficiently. -- A Jay Mafale Contributed FunloadLette: What is the oldest piece of clothing you own, and why do you still own it. It got all sorts of hysterical.

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #149 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on Wednesday, October 9th Joe Caporoso, Founder and Head Writer at www.TurnOnTheJets.com, and newly minted Editor at The Whistle joined us for an hour plus of fantastic Jets and football conversation. Really a great time... We then did a quick Instant Funload, where we answered the question if you could be part of a sitcom family for one season, which would it be? We also envisioned Christopher Walken as the Dad on Alf. It's magical.

RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #148 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on Wednesday, October 2nd -- Sanpete has found SNL on NetFlix. Down the rabbit hole, he has gone, he takes Cal and PJ with him. --Big Unload: Jets and Geno Smith... everyone just relax. Including us. -- "BishFest-i-Con" is coming to a convention center near you... get your PJ costumes out, prepare for Heroes Panel discussion. -- Patrick Flood, checked in to talk about this great post he penned for Narrative.ly (a very cool site worth checking out, too) about his 3 year experience as a Mets blogger. He was funny, self effacing and insightful again. He's good. The RTU: Funload: Top 3 favorite (not best) SNL cast members... Flood's list is excellent called.

Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes Season 5, Episode #147 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on Wednesday, Sept. 25th -- We're back! Here's why! -- Mets and Yankees... state of and stuff -- Twitter stinks... but maybe it doesn't...  -- Little Jets, little Giants -- RTU FUNLOAD: From Jay M. - Big wheels or tricycles?         

Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - HiatusWatch! Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on July 11th We'll do a quick check in on our hiatus(es) and then clips from 2 shows that show how smart we are. Because we mad insecure, yo. Also because it's pretty cool that we talked about something in December that was a lead Mets story in the WSJ Tuesday.  Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes