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Can't Read, Can't Write — 354 episodes

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1

Football is in the Air: Offensive Preview

2

Will Jax Be Back? (Update: No)

3

Football Ramp Up Season

4

A Kevin G Jubilee!

5

So What's the Delay, J? Kentucky Can't Pay?

6

The Battman is a Joker

7

Football Recruiting Quantification: is it Program Castration?

8

Organ Failure, Israel, & Kevin G’s $800k Bag-Fumbling

9

CRCW Constitutional Convention: Live!

10

Plum and Grooch Fun Fest!

11

No Longer a Tennis School

12

NCAA Tournament Expansion + More!

13

Bonk Me Baby One More Time

14

Whelmed & Concerned

15

Spring Showcase!

16

Izzo Hates April

17

Can't Have Shit at Michigan State

18

Sweet Sixteen Bound!

19

This Carr is Taking Us Dancing!

20

Jeremy Fears Truther Podcast

21

On My Child's Life

22

Toasters in the Cold Tub

23

Past the Hog Line

24

We Finally Address the Salacious Rumors & Sports are Fun Again!

25

Cheers for Fears!

26

A Top 10 Tilt Against Michigan

27

#1 Kenpom Defense Going Hard at the Rim

28

Paul Davis Comes to Town

29

Corncobbed

30

F It! We'll Do It Live!

31

Izzo & Kampe Sitting in a Tree...

32

Road Conference Win & Moore!

33

$401,000,000 Poverty Program

34

G’bye Jonathan. H’llo Fat Patzgerick!

35

We're Not Mad, We're Just Disappointed

36

Misery Loves Company & Plum's Mustache

37

Izzo > Cal

38

Try Hard Awards

39

Good bye J-Smith

40

Forks Down (Our Throat)

41

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Stop Trying

42

Overthrown and Overblown: A Breakdown-filled Break Down with Matt Sheehan

43

Can't Read, Can't Write, Can't Math: An Empirical Study of Victory/Loss Correlation Matrices Based on Three-Way Transitive Relationships in College Football

44

Jimmy and Joe and Down They Go

45

X's and Oh No's with Dante Razzano

46

Eckley! Eckley! Hey's our (Ray) Guy!

47

From Lean & Mean to Fat & Sassy:  a Tale of 2 Halves

48

Hot and Ready (for Kickoff)!

49

MSU Hot Seats while UM Cheats

50

Hold on to Your Butts: An Offensive Preview

51

Will the Defense be Offensive? A 2025 Defensive Primer

52

Kicking Off Football Previews (get it? it's a special teams joke)

53

It's a CRCW F, Mary, Kill Variety Show!

54

Teenage Boys and Conference Noise

55

Allocating Resources

56

Sweet Tea AD

57

Jonesy Puts Izzy on a Pedestal

58

Matt Sheehan Joins for a Papal Blessing!

59

News! MSU is in the AD Market.

60

No News is Good News?

61

SD4L SZN

62

“Business is always personal,” with Graham Couch

63

Take a Trey, Leave a Tre

64

Trauma Bonding

65

It's Winning Time!

66

Hop in the Carr, We're Going Dancing!

67

Back.

68

Let the Good Times (please continue to) Roll!

69

Go Win This Thing

70

354 Reasons (But a Chair Ain't One)

71

Not Perfect, But a Lot of Fun

72

Nothing Gold Can Stay

73

The Best Week of the Year (so far?)

74

Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks

75

Officially Having Fun!

76

Grit in the Post and on the Ice: Here Comes 2025

77

2-0 vs Western Michigan

78

Portalpolooza & Rising Hoops Expectations

79

Of Allyship & Sweater Gents

80

Stockholm Syndrome

81

Airing of Grievances

82

Pur'Don't You Wish You Felt Better?

83

Getting Wide Bodied (with Graham Couch)

84

Teen Wolf: Junior Year

85

Properly Forked

86

Boston College Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

87

More like Hawkbyes & Hate Week Aperitif

88

Bye-bye Bye Week?

89

Corkscrewed by the Ducks

90

No Such Thing as a Quality Loss

91

"Give it Away, Give it Away, Give it Away Now"

92

Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can't Lose.

93

Finding A Win (Some Type of Way)

94

Were expectations askew? Talking FAU (with Graham Couch of The Lansing State Journal)

95

Especially Defensive

96

Will the Offense be Offensive? A Football Preview & More!

97

Guarded Optimism with Matt Sheehan

98

(Talkin’ About) Football is Back!

99

"That’s Moneyballs with an S"

100

Media Days & Summer Recruiting Phase

101

Redshirts, Recruiting, and Restaurants

102

Live! From Plum's Garage! It's Can't Read, Can't Write!

103

How to Parent by CRCW & Twitter Question Finale

104

Les Miles is a Goofus & Summer Twitter Competition Week 3

105

Big Happy; Big Mad & Twitter Questions Part Two

106

The Heat is On: Portal Rivalries & Twitter Question Competition

107

"Burning Down the House"

108

The One Where We Like the Portal

109

Portaling for Spite

110

A Diss Track for the Ages

111

Changing of the Hoggard Part Deux: Electric Boogaloo

112

"Looked Like Football Out There"

113

Commitment Issues

114

Not the Title We Want

115

Players & Portals & Pucks, Oh My!

116

Microcosms

117

Fast Friends with Matt Sheehan

118

Bet (You Wish You Won More Games)!

119

“If only we tried this hard all the time"

120

Past Tense Title: This is Terrible

121

A Good Week to be a Spartan

122

Izzo Goes Shopping for Adderall at Costco

123

1-800-700-CLUB

124

Live from Wisconsin: The Aristocrats!

125

Couched in Optimism - A Good Week for MSU

126

They Call Him Stevie Buckets

127

Northwestern Breaks Izzo: A CRCW Live Episode

128

A New Year & New Hoops Team?

129

An Old Dog Learns a NET Trick

130

Defend, Rebound, and Run

131

Maybe CRCW Should Hit the Transfer Protal?

132

It Pays to be Friends with Jonathan Smith (and his $10 Million+ Coaching Pool)

133

He Only Goes By Jonathan

134

A Weekend of Winning (Mostly)

135

The Buckeyes Ply Their Foul Wares on MSU

136

It's Not NOT an Emergency Episode

137

Winner, Winner, Husker Dinner!

138

Life is Pain

139

Austria

140

Hate (Ourselves) Week

141

Urban Meyer & The Blue Wall

142

Program Loss

143

B.D.E.

144

Is. This. Sparta?!

145

Mel Gets Taken to the Woodshed

146

This Game Against the Chips Got Us Fired Up

147

Hey, Y'all, it's Time for Football!

148

Graham Couch Said What?!

149

Hate in the Heart: Previewing MSU Football with @thiccstauskas

150

There Can Only Be One!

151

"They are Athletic. They are Young. They are Bigger. They are Longer."

152

They Drank Lagavulin Without Me (and other grievances and contrivances): The Alex Plum Story

153

Recruiting Rebounds & Off Grand River

154

Can't Read. Can't Write. Can't Believe it's Been 200!

155

Hold on to Your Butts.

156

The Stars Are Not Aligning

157

Protected Rivalries & Week 2 of Twitter Inquiries

158

The Washington Game gets P'cocked

159

Grooch's Wife's Boyfriend Loves the Ford Field Idea

160

Shemy Shemy fo Phlegmy

161

So, How 'Bout that Football Team?

162

Never Meet Your Heroes

163

Everybody Panic! Now! Post Haste!

164

"Michael is right, but only because he's losing the argument"

165

“We’re talking about practice! Not a game - practice!”

166

Tyson Walker is Back! Get 'cha MSU '24 National Champs Gear! 100% Guarantee!

167

Robi(y)ns Are Nesting in East Lansing!

168

Up Late Talking K State With Nothing Left To Do But Libate

169

The Green Machine to the Sweet Sixteen!

170

For the 25th Consecutive year, It's Time to Dance!

171

Kiss Our S (Twice!)

172

So, how about that Iowa game?

173

Stepping Back Into It

174

Thy Shadows, MSU

175

Mid-ison Square Garden

176

Unpleasant: A Mackey Arena Story

177

Yelling at the TV While Tyson Needs an IV

178

The Loyer Family Have Their Revenge on East Lansing

179

UM Gets Broomed, But the Big 10 Looms

180

Bring on the Big Ten Basketball!

181

Get Deeper with a CRCW Christmas Show Spectacular!

182

High School Boys & Hunter Dickinson Noise

183

Hardwood Happiness & A Gridiron Autopsy

184

Having a Thinker / That all of these Stinkers / Driving us to be Drinkers

185

Football is Over: Taking Our Final Els?

186

Over Overtime (with Graham Couch)

187

Forks Down: No Time for Bacon

188

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

189

Accountability

190

The CRCW Hate Week Variety Hour

191

Program Win :-I

192

They Get Knocked Down, Do They Get Up Again (You're Never Gonna Keep Them Down)

193

A Program Adrift, will it be like Chryst?

194

Please Row Your Boat out of our Deep End

195

You Tell Me What You Think Scheme Means

196

Payton Thorne & Mourn the Corn (Huskers)

197

1-0 & Tom Izzo's Dough

198

Rec Spec Review & A Real Game to Preview

199

The B1G Bag & Getting Defensive

200

The Big Boys Are Thin: Previewing the ‘22 Offense

201

NFTuck & UofM in the Muck

202

Talking X’s and O…my god another Top 100 recruit

203

Football Recruiting & The Lessons of Jabari Parker

204

Couch & The Dudes (More like 'Guys,' though, really)

205

Eight Star Boys & an Eight Star Podcast

206

From Sea to Shining Sea

207

GOOP! for Spartans

208

Big Time Recruiting is Fun?

209

Bentleys & G Wagons & Ferraris, oh my!

210

Closure: Coaching Hires & May Twitter Competition

211

Izzo Keeping it in the Family & May Twitter Question Finality

212

Roster Talk & Penultimate Week of Twitter Questions

213

Izzo Haunts the Podcast & Week 3 of Twitter Question Power Rankings

214

Handwringing About Hoops & A Week 2 Twitter Question Banger!

215

Football Happenings & Week One of the May Twitter Competition

216

Tom, We Need to Talk

217

Sprung by Spring Football

218

Spring Is in the Air & It’s Football Time

219

Question Marks Surrounding Hoops & The Gridiron

220

Hoops Offseason in Full Swing & Football in the Spring

221

Extremely Explicit: Reacting to the Tournament Exit

222

Tournament Time: Let's Do Some Damage

223

Thank You Seniors & Who Among You is Coming Back?

224

Who is This Team? A Humiliating Loss & A Massive Win

225

This Episode Slaps

226

Redemption Arc: Forks Down After Loss to Wisconsin

227

MSU Basketball Gets Sick Visiting Jersey Mikes (Arena)

228

Big Win over UofM & Keon Coleman with a Vim!

229

Big W at UW!

230

Defend, Rebound & Run?

231

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's a massive covid outbreak(?)

232

Ringing in the New Year Right: Breaking Down Three Victories

233

The Basketball Team is Finding its Groove & Peach Bowl Preview

234

Tracking Recruits & Previewing Hoops

235

Kenneth "Doak" Walker & Two B10 Wins in the Coffer

236

MSU to the Peach Bowl & it's Gonna be a Duzzi

237

Paul Got Some Office Furniture: The Land Grant Enters the Trophy Case

238

Forget Me Now Because it's Land Grant Week

239

Bounce Back: Toppling Terps & Taming Broncos

240

Bent & Broke/So What, Now What?

241

Paul Bunyan Wants to Keep Choppin'!

242

Hate Week 2021: Fear and Loathing in East Lansing

243

Don't Look a Gift Spittoon in the Mouth

244

MSU Offense Keeps Chopping & The Team on the Banks is 6-0

245

Spartans Topping Hills with Big Play Thrills

246

Lil' Red waddled to the Woodshed and now he's Dead

247

Kenneth Walker Attacks & Miami Cracks

248

Toodaloo, YSU & Miami Hurricane Preview

249

We Did it Live: a Youngstown State Post Game Reaction Episode

250

Tuck Comin'

251

Football is here! (and Scott Frost hates it...)

252

Hype Train Goes Choo Choo with the Football Offense Preview

253

Golf U & Defense Preview (Less Than Three Weeks 'till Kick!)

254

The Hundredth CRCW with Listener Guest Alex Plum (and loads of sports)

255

Stars Begin to Align as we Count Down to Football

256

Tucker Talks at B1G Media Days & Speculating on the Big 12 Swan Song

257

What You Should Know About Plum as a Host (Other podcasts can't believe it!)

258

A Little Newsing & a Little Musing (Just roll with it)

259

Elite MSU QB's Impress & a Crowned Twitter Question Marquis

260

A Five Star Man, an Elite 11 QB, & a Twitter Competition Finale!

261

'Cruits Become Commits & Herm Edwards' Dance with the (Sun)Devil

262

Coach Tuck's 2022 Spartans are Looking Peachy

263

Mel Tucker Throws a Rager: The Recruiting Dead Period is Over

264

Number of Wins this Football Season vs. Number of Shots Done Live on the Pod, O/U: 4

265

A full Spartan Stadium & A Stately Landshark Re-Dedication

266

Twitter Question Summer Spectacular & Two Empty Seats at the End of the Bench?

267

Welcome to the Offseason, Where the Topics are Ranging, and the Runtimes Don't Matter

268

Words that Probably Start with L: Emoni, Draft, & (Late Dantonio) Recruiting

269

Blossom by Blossom the Spring Begins (ends?)

270

Emoni's Scholarship Opens Up (LOLOL) & Spring Football Fever is Superspreading

271

Traitors and Tryouts: Dane Fife Heads Home & Spring Ball is in the Air

272

Launch Sequence Commenced: Rocket Blasts Off and Spring Ball Begins

273

A True Point Guard Enters the Chat - Tyson Walker Commits to MSU

274

Reflections of a Hoops Season, Chapter 1: The Aftermath

275

Cut Down the NETs - It's Time for the Dance!

276

MSU Punches its Ticket to the Dance!

277

We projected wins against Illinois and OSU. Honestly! (Don't listen to last week...)

278

Did the Spartans Crack the Code or is this Fool's Gold?

279

Iowa Immolates Izzo at Breslin & Plum Gets HOT (a Valentine's Day Special)

280

Let's Play all of our Games Against Nebraska, Please.

281

The State of Hoops: Not Hot, All Trots

282

Whitmer is become Death, the destroyer of UofM Athletics

283

"Play Freebird!" - A Week Without Sports

284

MSU Basketball 202: Application of Egalitarian Playtime Theory (Spring Semester)

285

Changing of the Hoggard

286

Santa Wears Red, Not Green on Christmas Day

287

If You Don't Love Izzo in December, You Don't Deserve Him in March & 21 Built Strong

288

Optimism? Thorne Might Be A Guy & Izzo Has The Marianas Trench For A Bench

289

A Taxonomy of Dudes & Guys: Izzo Over Duke and a Rocky Road Against OSU

290

Foster Loyer, MAC Destroyer & Top 10 Northwestern Gets Tuckered Out

291

Three Game Previews & the Truth About Baby Blankets

292

Mourning the Old Brass Spittoon, Hockey Talk, & Looking Forward to Basketball(?)

293

Iowa Something or Other & HOOSIER HATE WEEK, FORKS DOWN!!

294

Pauly B’s in the House, Watch’Ya Mouth & Wil Hunter Pays a Visit

295

Fumbling Our Way Into Hate Week

296

Bask, Ye, in the Aurorean Light of B10 Football! / For, the Mel Tucker Era has Arrived! / Rejoice!

297

MSU Football Defense Preview & Foster Loyer, Scholarship Speculation Destroyer

298

Meet the Guys: Previewing MSU's Offense

299

MSU Got SWOLE & Everyone Gets A Bowl

300

Gearing up for a B10 Football Season, the CRCW way!

301

Spartans will be Playing Good Ball this Fall!

302

Spit Kits, Dodging Bullets, & Participation Trophy Proposals

303

Bubble Up 'Cause There's Going to be Basketball!

304

CRCW Ménage à trois: Boycotts, Bubbles, & OnlyFans

305

The Show Must Go On: Langford, Recruits, & Power 5 Insanity

306

COVID (probably) Cancels College Football

307

Tillman Goes Pro & Henry Says "Let's Go"

308

Football Workouts are Sacked & We Get Hacked

309

2020 Hoops Rumors & Penultimate (July) Twitter Questions!

310

The Big Ten Football Fallacy

311

Basketball Recruits & Twitter Glory Pursuits

312

Emoni Bates Commits to MSU & Other Things (I guess?)

313

Southern Student-Athletes: Fighting Against Racism & Public Health

314

Grand River Quality Dairy: a Celebration of Life

315

The Beekman Cometh (with a nasal swab, twice a week)

316

Just Toss the Format & Let's Talk

317

Hoping for the Best & Preparing for the Worst: Spartans are Coming Back?

318

Xavier Tillman is 50/50 & Jonesy has trouble with the lights!

319

Is there be football? We Phone a Friend

320

B10 Hogwarts Houses & Special Twitter Guest

321

Spartans are Going Pro & We Cap off April Twitter Questions

322

We Created a Monster.

323

MSU Commits & XFL Reminisce

324

Dantonio's Attorneys cut an Invoice & Twitter Power Rankings: Week 3

325

Mel Tucker Reaches Out & Twitter Questions Power Rankings: Part Deux

326

Football Social Media & Twitter Questions Get Weird

327

Quarantine Crazies: THE Sports Pod for a Sports-less World.

328

It's Over & A Season Unfulfilled

329

Gettin' Balls and Coronavirus: It's a March Thing.

330

Izzo Izzos Again: The Spartans Are Clicking In March

331

Jack Hoiberg is the future & Mel Tucker finds his guy(s)

332

Basketball Aches & Mel Tucker Fever

333

Tuckered Out: The Search is Over

334

"Hey MSU, hold this L" - Luke Fickell & Jeff Jackson (probably)

335

Mark Dantonio Steps Down: Loss is a Fickell Mistress

336

A Tale of Two Teams & Cross-examining The Detroit News

337

Legacy, Dinner Guests, & Perspective

338

Cassius Winston: Assist Artiste & Ranked Rutgers

339

MSU Gets Boilered Up & Football is Stuck in 2016

340

Cassius Winston in God Mode & Mark Dantonio - Very Stable Genius

341

Two Spartan Wins & a U of M Loss: Ringing in 2020 Right!

342

EMU Deletes its Account, Terrible Takes, & Previewing the Pinstripe

343

Breslin Built of Bricks, Kids Sign Things & We Get the Schemmys (eww)

344

Pinstripes & Seersucker: The Legend of Joey Freshwater

345

Program Wins & Program Losses: The MSU Comedy

346

Thanksgiving: Thankful for Rutgers, Arguing about Bill Walton, and Coming Together with Dan Hodgman

347

Hate Week Defeat & #SpartansWill (Defeat Pirate Mascots)

348

Heartbreak & Hate Week

349

Revenge of the Bye-Week & Keeping up with the Kentuckians

350

Stevie Izzo Hits the Stat Line & The Land Grant is Gone!

351

Breslin is Booby Trapped & Penn State Preview

352

Bye-Week Basketball Preview & Mark Dantonio's Crimes Against Humanity

353

Brian Lewerke Is The Wildcat and What It Means To Be A Spartan

354

Ohio State Week and Big Ten Basketball Media Days