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The Fired Up Podcast
by Justin, JD and Intern Eric
Three semi-normal guys - Justin, JD and intern Eric - get fired up about... anything, really. Everything from entertainment to sports to politics to random internet things is on the table.
Episodes
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Movies: The Oscars Episode
We are back with our 2021 Oscars pod! We tackle the ballot from top to bottom going over our likes, dislikes, favorites, underdogs (got a juicy +275 pod bet in there) and more. A rough estimate: 0:00 Intro 8:30 Best Picture 23:00 Best Director/Actor/Actress 40:00 Best Original Screenplay 45:00…
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Bracket: Drinking Games (+ Top Chef, Masters, Zags)
We are back with our biggest pod of the new year! A quick timeline of topics if you feel the need to jump around: Intro 0:00-5:00 - Zags 5:00-19:00 - Top Chef Bracket 19:00 - Beer Pong vs High Rolls Takes a Shot 26:00 - Beer Dice vs F*ck the Dealer 30:00 - Quarters vs Hammerschlagen 35:00 - Kings...
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March Madness Returns!
The boys are back in their respective studios to break down the 2021 March Madness Bracket! I can't believe it's been 2 years since we've had a March Madness and I hope we never have to skip a year again. Timestamps: West Bracket: 15:15ish East Bracket: 23:30ish South Bracket: 31:00ish Midwest...
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Bracket: Casual Dining
As promised during our first episode back, we have cobbled together 16 of the best casual dining restaurant chains for a bracket! No self-serve or buffets, they must have a wait staff, nothing 24-hour and the basic criteria: if it was late at night and you had to stop for food and these were the...
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The Super Bowl Props and NarrativE Pod
Hello, it's us. We are back for one of our favorite pods to do - the Super Bowl pod! As had been tradition in the past, we went over an hour so time breaks below if you want to jump around: 0:00-10:00ish - SB plans, favorite SB food, we shoot the shit. 10:00-32ish - Intern Eric drop his 3…
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Ep 58 The We. Are. Back. Pod
After a 2 year hiatus, the Fired Up pod is back! Using a similar structure to our most recent pods we broke down 8 different potential 'pod topics' and argued our way down to a single topic that will be the first full-length 16-team bracket for us to breakdown in February. Please excuse as we…
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Ep 57: The Christmas Movie Bracket
The boys are finally back in town and to celebrate December we talked our way through 8 of the best Christmas Movies out there and then cleaned up with a little NBA. We spent the first 10 minutes talking about movies that didn't make the cut before diving in.. First round: It's a Wonderful Life…
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Ep 56: The JD Is Getting Married Special
The boys are back with a few special guests joining throughout the hour to celebrate the one and only JD Vancho. We didn't even build a bracket. We prepared some questions and made him talk all about himself, which people know he doesn't like, and we made it all about him. It was glorious. A...
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Ep 55: The Fruit Bracket (And Some Football Things)
The boys are back and fired up about the fruit bracket! 18 of the best fruits objectified down to 1. It gets messy, but the juice is worth it. Ok that's enough of that... First Round Match-ups: Cherry vs Avocado (4:30) Watermelon vs Banana (11:00) Apple vs Plum (16:05) Mango vs…
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Ep 54: The Things We Can't Live Without Bracket (and a little NFL)
After our longest hiatus in a year we are back with another Fired Up bracket! This time we tackle the everyday things we take for granted in a special "things we can't live without" bracket. We dive into a little NFL at the end if you need those hawt takes. Timestamps below! First Round…
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Ep 53: The 2018 NFL Prep Pod
After a much needed 2 week break after the Interns' wedding JD and Justin are back with special guest Pouyan for our 2018 football pod! 90 minutes to learn all you'll need to know. We start with Hard Knocks, the rookie QBs and Saquon (3:20), and RotY bets (9:30). Next, we talked about the...
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Ep 52: The Intern Eric Gets Married Bracket
We are fired up that it is Intern Erics wedding week so we built an entire bracket around his wedding! We cover almost all aspects of the weekend and argued about his excitement and nerves among other things. Listen in as we celebrate Intern Eric and Lauren and stick around for a special Final...
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Ep 51: The Pet Peeves, Bad Habits and Annoying Behavior Bracket
We're back with another bracket and this week we got super fired up about bad habits, pet peeves and annoying behavior in general. We get started with the missed cut, which included not soaking dishes, not using your turn signal and some others (3:00). Then we get to the good stuff: the battle of...
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Ep 50: The Super Cereal Bracket
The boys are back for the 50th episode of The Fired Up Podcast! And we are FIRED. UP. A throwback for sure as we revisit some old breakfast favorites as well as some cereals new to me. And for the first time ever we had more than 16 entrants so we had to do some play-in games! We talk about the...
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Ep 49: French Fries and the NBA
After a short hiatus the boys are back in town for a lively discussion about french fries/potatoes and the many ways you can have them followed by a smidgen of NBA free agency. We talk about types not chosen (4:00) and our criteria for the pod (5:00) before diving in (8:30. First round match-ups:...
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Ep: 48 The Candy Bracket ft. Tyler Harbaugh
After taking 3 weeks to digest our cheese bracket we are back with the Candy Bracket! Pro-tip: FF to 16:00 to get straight to the candy. Unfortunately we were without JD so we brought in all-star guest Tyler Harbaugh to help us on our quest. Because we recorded after Game 3 of the NBA Finals…
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Ep 47: It Ain't Easy Being Cheesy
After a week off we are back with our cheesiest bracket yet! 16 of the best, and most easily accessible, cheeses in all the land. First, we did record this about an hour after Game 2 of the Dubs/Rockets so we start with 3 minutes of NBA (0:30) before we dive into the bracket discussion (3:42)....
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Ep 46: Cocktail Hour and the NBA/Kentucky Derby
Intern Eric came back alive and to celebrate we talked a bit about Coachella (1:00) and his top 3 acts (3:45). That seemed like enough so then in honor of it being the week of the Kentucky Derby at the time of this recording we decided to honor the mint julep and do a 16-cocktail bracket (6:30)....
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Ep 45: The Sitcom Bracket and NFL Draft Preview ft. Nate Purcell
Special guest Nate Purcell joins us for our latest bracket and an NFL Draft Preview! It's our longest one yet with the first hour being the bracket and the second hour being the draft preview. First, we took 16 of the best network sitcoms and randomized them into a bracket (4:45). Our Instagram…
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Ep 44: The Best Picture Bracket and the NBA Playoffs
Back on the grind as we start with a recap of the Masters (0:30), Patrick Reed (3:30) and a spoiler-free few minutes on A Quiet Place (8:00). Then, we dive into our latest bracket: The Best Picture Bracket (12:40). We took the last 16 Best Picture winners and randomized them into a bracket until...
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Ep 43: the NBA and our Fast Food Bracket and the Masters
The boys are back in town! We're back in the studio getting ready for the NBA playoffs, arguing about fast food restaurants bracket-style and eager for the Masters to start. We start with the NBA putting Intern Eric on the spot talking about potential Warriors first round opponents (3:30). We…
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Ep 42: The Worst Man in America Bracket and the Final Bachelor
It finally happened: The Bachelor ended! We're back for our final Bachelor recap (01:00) talking about Lauren/Arie (5:55), Arie's decisions (8:00), Arie never leaving (9:35) and the rest of the gossip/rumors/theories (12:27). Then, we're excited to announce our first ever "Worst Man in America...
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Ep 41: Fantasy Suites and Will Smith and the Oscars
Plenty to be fired up about this week! First, we talk the Bachelor (2:45). Then, our favorite Will Smith movies (21:00). And finally, some Oscars talk (37:14). For the Bachelor we talk Arie's tattoo (3:40), all 3 dates (Kendall - 5:45, Lauren - 11:30, Becca - 14:30) and of course we talk about...
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Ep 40: The Bachelor and Game Shows and the NBA
Our all-star break is officially over, which means that we are back in the studio! This week we get a little sidetracked talking spiders and bugs (1:07), but eventually got to The Bachelor and talked Jacqueline's exit (8:33), Tia (12:40), hometown dates (14:07), Lauren (18:12) and Kendall…
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Ep 39: The Bachelor and This is Us/SB52 and the NBA
They say 'two out of three ain't bad' so JD and Justin are back to talk about the usual suspects. Listen now as we discuss the latest episode of the Bachelor (2:45). We talk Krystal (7:25), Bekah (9:50), Jacqueline (11:30), all 4 dates from last week and some other good shit. We couldn't not talk...
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Ep 38: The Super Bowl episode ft. Tahoe/Bachelor/NBA
The 3 heads of the dragon are back and ready for Super Bowl 52! First we give a quick Tahoe recap (1:35)and discuss The Bachelor (7:23), the bowling date (12:00), Krystal (14:47), and the rest of the girls (18:45). We talk a little NBA: the Blake Griffin trade (21:30), the Omer trade (28:15) and...
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Ep 37: Chicken Feet and The Bachelor and a Mock NBA All-Star Draft
Your 3 favorite hosts are back in studio to talk about the status of our pod resolutions (:34) including Eric (2:45) and JDs (5:18) current reading material. We get way more into chicken feet than we had planned (8:38) and discuss some gambling strategy with 2/3s of the pod heading to Tahoe...
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Ep 36: Arcade Games and The Bachelor and the NBA/NFL
How is January half over? This week we dive right in with a discussion about arcade games (1:05) including a new favorite (4:45), old favorites (6:00), tables games (7:20) and then somehow a quick chat about Shake Shack (10:15). Then, we get a nice surprise during The Bachelor segment (13:45) as…
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Ep 35: The Bachelor and Trump and the Divisional Round
The band is back together for the first time in the new year! First, we welcome back Intern Eric (0:40), discuss and revisit our pod resolutions (1:20) and shoot the shit (6:00). Then, as promised, we discuss all things The Bachelor (11:00) going over the girls and all 3 dates from the second...
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Ep 34: NYE and Pod Resolutions and Playoff Football
JD and Justin are back for the first pod of 2018 for The Fired Up Podcast! Listen as we talk about our New Years Eve plans (3:30), which includes JD and Steph cooking lobster (4:30) and Justin at a wedding (6:00); Pod Resolutions (13:30), which includes talk about Ready Player One (15:15) and...
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Ep 33: 2017 Year Review ft Tyler Harbaugh
Special guest Tyler Harbaugh joins us to talk 2017/2018. We get into some of our favorite trips (2:30), Japan (7:30), Tyler's favorite music of 2017 (12:13), JD at OSL (15:35), concerts (20:15), Justin's Xmas Movie Extravaganza (26:00), Star Wars - no spoilers (29:00), JD's 2017 movies (32:35),...
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Ep 32: Christmas and Doug Jones and Football
The 3 amigos are back for their first December pod and are fired up about the holidays! Listen as we discuss people watching at the mall, Christmas, the NBA on Christmas, Doug Jones and Roy Moore, a little Trump, a little more politics, and of course our 5 picks of the week including our PLOW. As...
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Ep 31: Triathlons and Donuts and Project Veritas (and Football)!
Intern Eric is back from his hiatus and fired up as he joins JD and Justin for episode #31. This episode we get fired up about a late November birthday (0:30), Ironman races and how far JD could make it (2:20), and some Thanksgiving recaps (10:00). We also got fired up about donuts (13:20),...
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Pool Tables and Data and Politicians... (and Football!)
JD and Justin are ready for thanksgiving and fired up about pool tables (03:00), Charlie Rose (10:00), Net Neutrality (15:25) and JD when he has no data (20:00). We talk books for a bit (21:15), Al Franken (27:15), Roy Moore (29:30), Trump and Lavar (34:20) and finally, our week 12 NFL picks...
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Thanksgiving and Superheroes and Football
The band is back together as JD, Justin and Intern Eric return fired up about Thanksgiving, Superhero movies and Week 11 in the NFL. We talk Thanksgiving with the future in-laws and our own family traditions (01:00), Black Friday (10:30), the Vancho family Thanksgiving story featuring JD (14:00),...
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The Early November (not the band) Round-table
JD and Justin are back and fired up about Game 7 of the World Series (0:15 and 9:10), JDs funny excuse for missing Game 7 (2:05), the reason for Intern Eric's absence and we discuss his divisive betting quirk(15:05), TNF and MIN/WAS (19:30), SNF and a little collusion talk (27:50), our PLOW - Pod...
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Baseball/Mindhunter/NFL Week 8 Round-table
We are back and Justin is fired up to talk a little baseball plus JD and Intern Eric share their own playoff baseball experiences: the Bartman game and Pablo's 3-homer game (0:45). Then, Netflix somehow came up and we started talking Narcos/Mindhunters/American Vandal (12:40), which led to JD...
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Week 7 Round-table
Intern Eric is back and joins JD and Justin to discuss (01:00)Gordon Hayward and the Celts, (06:00)KD's contract and the Warriors, (08:30)parity in the NBA and the schedule, (12:00) Draymond,(14:10) the Bulls being in disarray, and (17:15) every NFL game, which includes our (25:00) Pod Lock Of…
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Week 6 NFL Round-table
Week 6 is here and even though Intern Eric took the week off the show must go on! JD and Justin are here to talk (2:10) Jerry Jones and his new policy, (6:00) what we may see/would like to see moving forward, (9:30) Nixon and Ava Duvarney's 13TH, (12:30) every NFL game this week and (54:00) a few...
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NBA Season Preview
Oh, boy, we are FIRED UP that the NBA season is a week away! Listen as we discuss (00:45) Melo joining PG13 and Russ in OKC (06:45) KD and his fake twitter stuff (11:18) D-Wade and the Bulls (16:15) the Warriors with a little Spurs/Celtics (20:50) the Bucks (25:05) the Clippers (31:00) ROY...
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Week 5 NFL Round-table
How is it already a quarter of the way through the NFL season!? Listen as JD, Justin and Intern Eric talk (01:30) kneeling/sitting/making a statement during the national anthem and what it means vs what people think it means, (10:00)some tidbits about Goodell and his awfulness, (13:00) every NFL...
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Week 4 NFL Round-table
Week 4 of the NFL season is right around the corner and we have a full slate of game for the last time until Week 12. Listen in as we (01:45) play another round of "Cash 'em, Trash 'em or Stash 'em - this time with TEs", go over each game on the schedule and (46:45) pick our pod lock of the week...
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Week 3 NFL Round-table
JD returns and brings with him a game of "Cash 'em, Stash 'em or Trash 'em" as we discuss a few top-tier running backs struggling out of the gate, TNF, Deshone and his migraines, the London game, AJ Green, every single game and so much more in preparation for Week 3. As always, thanks for listening.
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The LA vs SF Episode
Intern Eric and I, hailing from opposite sides of the state but having each spent 4+ years in enemy territory, get together to discuss all things Southern California vs Northern California. We cover the basics like growing up there but also: (12:30) driving vs not driving as a teenager and the...
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Week 2 NFL Round-table
Intern Eric and I man the mics as we talk DJ and the no-good Colts, Thursday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Goff and his first 300-yard game, Young Tom Brady, Matt Ryan coming home and every other game on the schedule during week 2! Skip to 57:00 to hear our 5 picks of the week, Thanks…
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NBA Offseason Trade Talk
We've had a lot of football pods recently, but we are just as amped that basketball is around the corner so we decided to talk about some of the more exciting trades that have happened so far this year. We won't get into each teams' offseason or anything like that, but listen as we discuss the...
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Week 1 NFL Round-table
Aside from the fact that it's impossible that it's September already we are fired up for the new NFL season! 1:12 A round-table discussion of all 16 NFL games this weekend. 43:52 Our 5 favorite picks against the spread. Thanks for listening!
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AFC South Preview
The AFC South is here! We break down how we think the teams, and players, will fare during the regular season and the fantasy season. A breakdown of the teams covered here: 1:00 - Tennessee Titans 12:50 - Houston Texans 24:40 - Indianapolis Colts 37:00 - Jacksonville Jaguars 50:00 - Division talk...
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AFC North Preview
Our preview of the AFC North is finally here! We break down how we think the teams, and players, will fare during the regular season and the fantasy season. A breakdown of the teams covered here: 0:35 - Cleveland Browns 16:00 - Cincinnati Bengals 28:00 - Baltimore Ravens 36:15 - Pittsburgh…
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NFC West Preview
The NFC West is on tap today! We break it down as the teams get ready for the 2017 season and how we think the teams, and players, will fare during the regular season and the fantasy season. A breakdown of the teams covered here: 0:35 - Seattle Seahawls 14:35 - Arizona Cardinals 25:42 - Los…
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Three semi-normal guys - Justin, JD and intern Eric - get fired up about... anything, really. Everything from entertainment to sports to politics to random internet things is on the table.
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