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Times Before Can Be Forgotten
by Matthew Connery, Jeremy Sittnick, Corey Thistlewood
A group of non-aliens that love, inspire, are inspired, learn from, grow from, and can’t wait to meet each other. Plus a GenX digital cemetery, some neon poet laureate slacker art, and the ecstatic passions of Boston’s North Shore locals preserving the stories of our age.
Episodes
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October Baseball!* (In September)
It’s an emergency pod as three Connerys squeeze-in a gathering immediately before game one of Yanks and Sox in the Bronx. Predictions get made, paths to the title for Boston are outlined, and some of the best national storylines get compared. It’s October baseball, but only for those surviving…
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A Musical Retrospective of the Gold-Plated 80s
In a high-concept episode of Times Before Can Be Forgotten, three Connerys are joined by a 4th Connery for a journey through 80s music. The elder Connerys each prepared a list of 10 80s songs—one song per year—and the younger two Connerys listened to all 20 songs that explain the decade. Did they...
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Epilogue—Wizard of Abstinence
After the pod, the pod often continues.
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Wizard of Abstinence
TBCBF’s core lineup returns at summer’s end to do what they do best. What is that, you may ask? Tune in and hear for yourself.
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The Let’s Get Cancelled Episode
Three Connerys take inventory of the sports landscape on the last day of August. As Joe looks ahead to the upcoming Patriots season and hopes for October baseball at Fenway, Adam holds nothing back—from women’s sports to Little League, nobody’s safe. Thank you Joe for waving our disclaimer...
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Pump Up the Volume
In the anarchy of late-summer, one host couldn’t get organized and was thus cast to the wilderness where he must solo pod. Wandering about the marsh shirtless, wearing suit pants, looking insane to passersby, he musters the 2026 version of pirate radio, knowing not if anyone will hear him.
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The White Hen Pantry Deadbeat Dad Example
It’s July 33rd and the second TBCBF pod of the month made it just under the wire before August. Three Connerys litigate who’s worse: Jarren Duran or Coach from Survivor, before wrapping up the World Cup, talking up the MLB trade deadline, and waxing nostalgic about Honolulu bums.
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Times Before: Live from Japan!
Times Before Can Be Forgotten is live in the humid Tokyo afternoon. We’re talking Sesame Street, dinner at convenience stores, and the greatest hour of travelling in my life.
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World Cup Review/Preview!
The Group Stage is over and the Knockout Stage has begun. Three Connerys gather to discuss the evolution of soccer in their lifetimes, what they’ve enjoyed thus far in this Cup, and what they want to see as the World Cup moves closer each day to crowning a champ.
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Stealing a Clutch of Mallard Eggs
The original TBCBF line-up gathers on a Sunday morning in late June. In a brisk 30 minutes, they manage to celebrate the merits of boredom, be baffled by Oasis’ resurgence, and explore what iconic musicians of the past are worthy of still discovering.
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“I Have Hope.” —Josh Walker
No need to bury the lead—Josh Walker closes the G.O.V. circle for the first time since 2019 by joining the Times Before original lineup in their summer residency at Studio 48. If Times Before Can Be Forgotten had a mission statement, this episode would be it.
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Pardon The Copyright Infringement
Any similarities between this episode of Times Before Can Be Forgotten and ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption should be ignored on account of the fact that no one cares what these Three Connerys have to say. Well, maybe Joe…
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Better Now or Better Then?
Three Connerys gather to litigate an age-old topic: are things better now or back then? Specifically, Joe and Adam debate a number of topics from being a kid to television and more. Listen along! In fact, we dare you, you nerd!
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A Times Before Mailbag!
For reasons that remain unclear, Times Before Can Be Forgotten has, well, not exploded, but has found its way to listeners from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to Amman, Jordan. In fact, listeners on six continents have been all over the pod. As born panderers, the original TBCBF podcasting crew have...
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Desert Island Sports Draft
Ok, so it’s not quite a draft. Three Connerys gather to discuss what sports you would take to a desert island. If you only had access to one televised sport, which would it be? How about another sport, radio only? Each Connery makes seven picks in total while deriding one another’s selections.
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A Stack of Bananas
The founders of TBCBF are no Craig Breslows, but they do what they do best—talk baseball, movies, and nothing in particular. Enjoy.
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The Mediocrest Super Bowl Preview
Like Drake Maye, Three Connerys have endured rain and snow, only to arrive at Super Bowl weekend. Like Drake Maye, they’ve been thinking about nothing but Sunday’s game for two weeks. Like Drake Maye, they expect to win. Be like Drake Maye, and listen to Times Before Can Be Forgotten.
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Winter Olympics in Schadenfreude, Germany
Three Connerys gather to do two of their favorite things: podcast about upcoming sporting events and speed skate in Singapore. From Lake Placid to Sarajevo to wherever in hell the Winter Olympics are this year, the boys take stock of the action and savor all the broken bones, insurance premiums,...
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105 Movies in 45 Minutes
For their 2-year anniversary pod, the Times Before Can Be Forgotten founders are together again to talk about movies—105 of them to be precise. From Rowley to Singapore, Sweden to Australia, TBCBF continues to expand its global stranglehold on mediocre podcasting. Join us.
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The Road to Super Bowl LX, As Seen By Us III
This might not be the best NFL analysis out there, but it is the analysis you’re looking at right now! Join Three Connerys—two, really—on a prognosticative journey to Super Bowl 60 on February 8th 2026 (a totally unimportant day).
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A Break For (and from) Jake
The episode cover art tells the story. The fight is over. His jaw is broken. We’ve earned a long break from Jake Paul. Three Connerys stayed up late, watched the fight, and have scalpels in-hand now for the postmortem.
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Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul vs Manute Bol vs Screech
The Connery boys gather again on the eve of another boxing event. On their holiday wishlists this year is to watch Jake Paul get knocked out by Anthony Joshua like Ivan Drago KOing Apollo Creed. Can it happen? Will it happen? How much longer will we even care? Tune in for the answers to these...
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EPYX was Epic
On Times Before Can Be Forgotten, we’ve talked video games before. This time, Three Connerys will go much deeper than Lemonade Stand, Pitfall, and Golgo 13. Get ready for a multigenerational conversation about some 8-bit goodness!
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Flock of Seagulls
Don’t let the photo fool you, Corey, Sittnick and Dick Warlock are together again—out of Studio 48 and in the Mobile Podcast Unit. Topic: your guess is as good as ours. We dare you to listen and apologize in advance.
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A Gaze Back at Movie Opens
This is our magnum opus, for now. Whatever we’re good at here on Times Before Can Be Forgotten is on full display this episode as the original lineup is back together at Studio 48 with Sittnick and Corey to discuss some of the greatest opening scenes in cinema history.
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TBCBF XIII: Dead Air
While scary movies may not be a favorite musing for the pod, looking backwards always is. Solo-podding (monologuing in the marsh) again is our lonely host who can’t get out of his own way this month and get the real talent of the pod on-air. So he reminisces about 80s Halloween costumes, the...
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I Must Be in the Front Row…
Three Connerys gather together on the eve of the 2025 baseball playoffs. Twelve teams, one World Series winner. Wait, there are three wildcards now? Ok, lots to parse through—including three World Series matchup predictions and no consensus whatsoever between them.
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Prescription Corona Pirate Radio
The original TBCBF lineup is gathered at Studio 48, extolling the virtues of Miami Vice, free speech, and comparing the ‘25 Patriots to the ‘24 Red Sox. Join us before the FCC shuts us down!
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Decapitated Owl Mile
The original TBCBF lineup is together again at Studio 48, continuing their commitment to talking about nothing. The acting of John C. McGinley, the evolution of hat collections, transgressive memories of Garbage Pail Kids—all this and much more is celebrated in this latest episode of Times Before...
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The Naked Podcast
The Three Connerys made an experiment after surviving getting caught in the gears of a combine. Watch the original Naked Gun, go see the new one in theaters, and report their respective findings live on a pod. There was a 50/50 chance they’d do it, but only a 10% chance it would happen. The…
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Utah! Get Me Forty-Six!
Forty-six minutes of Point Break material, that is. With Corey on the DL, Sittnick is doing the work, crushing tape, and ready to show everyone why he just might like Point Break more than anyone. Join him (and Connery) for an all-time breakdown of one of the best cinema scenes of all time.
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Ten Things I Like More Than You Do
“You think you’re better than me, Connery?!” Definitely not. But I’m solo-podding in the marsh again and controversially brooding over ten things that I like more than you like them. Listen along, then prove me wrong.
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Three Beers & A Podcast
As promised, Sittnick, Corey, and Connery made it to Studio 48 before the end of June to talk about turning 50–and whatever else they want.
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The Only Cliff’s Notes You’ll Ever Need
Not thinking for yourself has never been easier. Connery’s solo-podding in the marsh again, doing the reading so you don’t have to. Later today, he’ll be back at Studio 48 with real starpower. Til then, we’re talking about books in a way that’s not normal.
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Studio 48
This is our best work—simple pleasures, weekend plans, self-improvement, friendship, and Joe-tani.
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Somewhere Between Garbage and Nostalgia
The Connerys Three are together again for 50 movies in 40 minutes. Adam is on the hot seat fielding a long list of 80s and 90s films to decide if they are hall of famers or garbage, nostalgia or—God forbid—something he’s never seen. They litigate, argue, and name which of the 50 comprise their...
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Verse 9
Through gambling, I learned I was just smart enough to know how dumb I probably am.
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Verse 8
Even in 2009, social media was deeply tiresome.
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Verse 7
The apex and decline of American dissent in novels with a nod towards 21st Century film franchises.
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Verse 6
A romantic and unreasonable glimpse of going off-grid, circa 2009.
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Verse 5
What to watch: a man getting hit in the crotch with a football or a beheading in the Middle East.
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Verse 4
A 2009 piece as to whether or not the UFC would transcend marginalized status—with some help from the kids from Stand By Me.
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Verse 3
A never-ending spring rendered in the summer of 2009.
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Verse 2
Sixteen years ago—new grad and no hope.
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Verse 1
Deciding to begin a blog in 2009: Vonnegut and TV Guide movie descriptions.
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The Verses—An Introduction
Back when the podcast was a blog, we’re traveling 15 years and more than 500 spoken-word essays—all 1,000 words—about processing the age we live in through movies, sports, pop culture, literature, ideas, Boston, nostalgia, travel, and free fucking speech.
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Scholastic Book Fair: Revisited
Corey, Sittnick, and Connery journey back to a time when books were the most important thing there was (if you were alone and bored with nothing on TV and before you owned any kind of a video game system).
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Is Al Kaprielian Still Alive?
When Caldor wanted a new look, they called Times Before Can Be Forgotten. Before the fucking Internet, the Wild West of Content was the UHF band. The Brothers Connery fight Terry O’Reilly, run through a haunted house with Moe, Larry, and Shemp, and put the Fabulous Moolah in a Camel Clutch to...
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The Dead Draft
We’re not even going to try and explain it. Join Corey, Sittnick, and Connery for The Dead Draft. We apologize in advance.
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March Dadness
One day you’re shooting hoops outside the garage and transcribing the March Madness bracket onto poster board—the next day you’re lamenting how the University of Puerto Rico ended up in the PAC-10 and listening to the tourney on Westwood One AM radio for the sake of nostalgia. Join Joe, Adam, and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A group of non-aliens that love, inspire, are inspired, learn from, grow from, and can’t wait to meet each other. Plus a GenX digital cemetery, some neon poet laureate slacker art, and the ecstatic passions of Boston’s North Shore locals preserving the stories of our age.
HOSTED BY
Matthew Connery, Jeremy Sittnick, Corey Thistlewood
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A group of non-aliens that love, inspire, are inspired, learn from, grow from, and can’t wait to meet each other. Plus a GenX digital cemetery, some neon poet laureate slacker art, and the ecstatic passions of Boston’s North Shore locals preserving the stories of our age.
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Times Before Can Be Forgotten is created and hosted by Matthew Connery, Jeremy Sittnick, Corey Thistlewood.
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