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Can't Read, Can't Write — 350 episodes

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1

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

2

The Battman is a Joker

3

Football Recruiting Quantification: is it Program Castration?

4

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

5

CRCW Constitutional Convention: Live!

6

Plum and Grooch Fun Fest!

7

No Longer a Tennis School

8

NCAA Tournament Expansion + More!

9

Bonk Me Baby One More Time

10

Whelmed & Concerned

11

Spring Showcase!

12

Izzo Hates April

13

Can't Have Shit at Michigan State

14

Sweet Sixteen Bound!

15

This Carr is Taking Us Dancing!

16

Jeremy Fears Truther Podcast

17

On My Child's Life

18

Toasters in the Cold Tub

19

Past the Hog Line

20

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

21

Cheers for Fears!

22

A Top 10 Tilt Against Michigan

23

#1 Kenpom Defense Going Hard at the Rim

24

Paul Davis Comes to Town

25

Corncobbed

26

F It! We'll Do It Live!

27

Izzo & Kampe Sitting in a Tree...

28

Road Conference Win & Moore!

29

$401,000,000 Poverty Program

30

G’bye Jonathan. H’llo Fat Patzgerick!

31

We're Not Mad, We're Just Disappointed

32

Misery Loves Company & Plum's Mustache

33

Izzo > Cal

34

Try Hard Awards

35

Good bye J-Smith

36

Forks Down (Our Throat)

37

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Stop Trying

38

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

39

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

40

Jimmy and Joe and Down They Go

41

X's and Oh No's with Dante Razzano

42

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

43

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

44

Hot and Ready (for Kickoff)!

45

MSU Hot Seats while UM Cheats

46

Hold on to Your Butts: An Offensive Preview

47

Will the Defense be Offensive? A 2025 Defensive Primer

48

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

49

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

50

Teenage Boys and Conference Noise

51

Allocating Resources

52

Sweet Tea AD

53

Jonesy Puts Izzy on a Pedestal

54

Matt Sheehan Joins for a Papal Blessing!

55

News! MSU is in the AD Market.

56

No News is Good News?

57

SD4L SZN

58

“Business is always personal,” with Graham Couch

59

Take a Trey, Leave a Tre

60

Trauma Bonding

61

It's Winning Time!

62

Hop in the Carr, We're Going Dancing!

63

Back.

64

Let the Good Times (please continue to) Roll!

65

Go Win This Thing

66

354 Reasons (But a Chair Ain't One)

67

Not Perfect, But a Lot of Fun

68

Nothing Gold Can Stay

69

The Best Week of the Year (so far?)

70

Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks

71

Officially Having Fun!

72

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

73

2-0 vs Western Michigan

74

Portalpolooza & Rising Hoops Expectations

75

Of Allyship & Sweater Gents

76

Stockholm Syndrome

77

Airing of Grievances

78

Pur'Don't You Wish You Felt Better?

79

Getting Wide Bodied (with Graham Couch)

80

Teen Wolf: Junior Year

81

Properly Forked

82

Boston College Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

83

More like Hawkbyes & Hate Week Aperitif

84

Bye-bye Bye Week?

85

Corkscrewed by the Ducks

86

No Such Thing as a Quality Loss

87

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

88

Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can't Lose.

89

Finding A Win (Some Type of Way)

90

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

91

Especially Defensive

92

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

93

Guarded Optimism with Matt Sheehan

94

(Talkin’ About) Football is Back!

95

"That’s Moneyballs with an S"

96

Media Days & Summer Recruiting Phase

97

Redshirts, Recruiting, and Restaurants

98

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

99

How to Parent by CRCW & Twitter Question Finale

100

Les Miles is a Goofus & Summer Twitter Competition Week 3

101

Big Happy; Big Mad & Twitter Questions Part Two

102

The Heat is On: Portal Rivalries & Twitter Question Competition

103

"Burning Down the House"

104

The One Where We Like the Portal

105

Portaling for Spite

106

A Diss Track for the Ages

107

Changing of the Hoggard Part Deux: Electric Boogaloo

108

"Looked Like Football Out There"

109

Commitment Issues

110

Not the Title We Want

111

Players & Portals & Pucks, Oh My!

112

Microcosms

113

Fast Friends with Matt Sheehan

114

Bet (You Wish You Won More Games)!

115

“If only we tried this hard all the time"

116

Past Tense Title: This is Terrible

117

A Good Week to be a Spartan

118

Izzo Goes Shopping for Adderall at Costco

119

1-800-700-CLUB

120

Live from Wisconsin: The Aristocrats!

121

Couched in Optimism - A Good Week for MSU

122

They Call Him Stevie Buckets

123

Northwestern Breaks Izzo: A CRCW Live Episode

124

A New Year & New Hoops Team?

125

An Old Dog Learns a NET Trick

126

Defend, Rebound, and Run

127

Maybe CRCW Should Hit the Transfer Protal?

128

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

129

He Only Goes By Jonathan

130

A Weekend of Winning (Mostly)

131

The Buckeyes Ply Their Foul Wares on MSU

132

It's Not NOT an Emergency Episode

133

Winner, Winner, Husker Dinner!

134

Life is Pain

135

Austria

136

Hate (Ourselves) Week

137

Urban Meyer & The Blue Wall

138

Program Loss

139

B.D.E.

140

Is. This. Sparta?!

141

Mel Gets Taken to the Woodshed

142

This Game Against the Chips Got Us Fired Up

143

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

144

Graham Couch Said What?!

145

Hate in the Heart: Previewing MSU Football with @thiccstauskas

146

There Can Only Be One!

147

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

148

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

149

Recruiting Rebounds & Off Grand River

150

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

151

Hold on to Your Butts.

152

The Stars Are Not Aligning

153

Protected Rivalries & Week 2 of Twitter Inquiries

154

The Washington Game gets P'cocked

155

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

156

Shemy Shemy fo Phlegmy

157

So, How 'Bout that Football Team?

158

Never Meet Your Heroes

159

Everybody Panic! Now! Post Haste!

160

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

161

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

162

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

163

Robi(y)ns Are Nesting in East Lansing!

164

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

165

The Green Machine to the Sweet Sixteen!

166

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

167

Kiss Our S (Twice!)

168

So, how about that Iowa game?

169

Stepping Back Into It

170

Thy Shadows, MSU

171

Mid-ison Square Garden

172

Unpleasant: A Mackey Arena Story

173

Yelling at the TV While Tyson Needs an IV

174

The Loyer Family Have Their Revenge on East Lansing

175

UM Gets Broomed, But the Big 10 Looms

176

Bring on the Big Ten Basketball!

177

Get Deeper with a CRCW Christmas Show Spectacular!

178

High School Boys & Hunter Dickinson Noise

179

Hardwood Happiness & A Gridiron Autopsy

180

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

181

Football is Over: Taking Our Final Els?

182

Over Overtime (with Graham Couch)

183

Forks Down: No Time for Bacon

184

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

185

Accountability

186

The CRCW Hate Week Variety Hour

187

Program Win :-I

188

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

189

A Program Adrift, will it be like Chryst?

190

Please Row Your Boat out of our Deep End

191

You Tell Me What You Think Scheme Means

192

Payton Thorne & Mourn the Corn (Huskers)

193

1-0 & Tom Izzo's Dough

194

Rec Spec Review & A Real Game to Preview

195

The B1G Bag & Getting Defensive

196

The Big Boys Are Thin: Previewing the ‘22 Offense

197

NFTuck & UofM in the Muck

198

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

199

Football Recruiting & The Lessons of Jabari Parker

200

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

201

Eight Star Boys & an Eight Star Podcast

202

From Sea to Shining Sea

203

GOOP! for Spartans

204

Big Time Recruiting is Fun?

205

Bentleys & G Wagons & Ferraris, oh my!

206

Closure: Coaching Hires & May Twitter Competition

207

Izzo Keeping it in the Family & May Twitter Question Finality

208

Roster Talk & Penultimate Week of Twitter Questions

209

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

210

Handwringing About Hoops & A Week 2 Twitter Question Banger!

211

Football Happenings & Week One of the May Twitter Competition

212

Tom, We Need to Talk

213

Sprung by Spring Football

214

Spring Is in the Air & It’s Football Time

215

Question Marks Surrounding Hoops & The Gridiron

216

Hoops Offseason in Full Swing & Football in the Spring

217

Extremely Explicit: Reacting to the Tournament Exit

218

Tournament Time: Let's Do Some Damage

219

Thank You Seniors & Who Among You is Coming Back?

220

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

221

This Episode Slaps

222

Redemption Arc: Forks Down After Loss to Wisconsin

223

MSU Basketball Gets Sick Visiting Jersey Mikes (Arena)

224

Big Win over UofM & Keon Coleman with a Vim!

225

Big W at UW!

226

Defend, Rebound & Run?

227

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

228

Ringing in the New Year Right: Breaking Down Three Victories

229

The Basketball Team is Finding its Groove & Peach Bowl Preview

230

Tracking Recruits & Previewing Hoops

231

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

232

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

233

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

234

Forget Me Now Because it's Land Grant Week

235

Bounce Back: Toppling Terps & Taming Broncos

236

Bent & Broke/So What, Now What?

237

Paul Bunyan Wants to Keep Choppin'!

238

Hate Week 2021: Fear and Loathing in East Lansing

239

Don't Look a Gift Spittoon in the Mouth

240

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

241

Spartans Topping Hills with Big Play Thrills

242

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

243

Kenneth Walker Attacks & Miami Cracks

244

Toodaloo, YSU & Miami Hurricane Preview

245

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

246

Tuck Comin'

247

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

248

Hype Train Goes Choo Choo with the Football Offense Preview

249

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

250

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

251

Stars Begin to Align as we Count Down to Football

252

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

253

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

254

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

255

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

256

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

257

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

258

Coach Tuck's 2022 Spartans are Looking Peachy

259

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

260

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

261

A full Spartan Stadium & A Stately Landshark Re-Dedication

262

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

263

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

264

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

265

Blossom by Blossom the Spring Begins (ends?)

266

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

267

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

268

Launch Sequence Commenced: Rocket Blasts Off and Spring Ball Begins

269

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

270

Reflections of a Hoops Season, Chapter 1: The Aftermath

271

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

272

MSU Punches its Ticket to the Dance!

273

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

274

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

275

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

276

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

277

The State of Hoops: Not Hot, All Trots

278

Whitmer is become Death, the destroyer of UofM Athletics

279

"Play Freebird!" - A Week Without Sports

280

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

281

Changing of the Hoggard

282

Santa Wears Red, Not Green on Christmas Day

283

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

284

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

285

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

286

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

287

Three Game Previews & the Truth About Baby Blankets

288

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

289

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

290

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

291

Fumbling Our Way Into Hate Week

292

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

293

MSU Football Defense Preview & Foster Loyer, Scholarship Speculation Destroyer

294

Meet the Guys: Previewing MSU's Offense

295

MSU Got SWOLE & Everyone Gets A Bowl

296

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

297

Spartans will be Playing Good Ball this Fall!

298

Spit Kits, Dodging Bullets, & Participation Trophy Proposals

299

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

300

CRCW Ménage à trois: Boycotts, Bubbles, & OnlyFans

301

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

302

COVID (probably) Cancels College Football

303

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

304

Football Workouts are Sacked & We Get Hacked

305

2020 Hoops Rumors & Penultimate (July) Twitter Questions!

306

The Big Ten Football Fallacy

307

Basketball Recruits & Twitter Glory Pursuits

308

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

309

Southern Student-Athletes: Fighting Against Racism & Public Health

310

Grand River Quality Dairy: a Celebration of Life

311

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

312

Just Toss the Format & Let's Talk

313

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

314

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

315

Is there be football? We Phone a Friend

316

B10 Hogwarts Houses & Special Twitter Guest

317

Spartans are Going Pro & We Cap off April Twitter Questions

318

We Created a Monster.

319

MSU Commits & XFL Reminisce

320

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

321

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

322

Football Social Media & Twitter Questions Get Weird

323

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

324

It's Over & A Season Unfulfilled

325

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

326

Izzo Izzos Again: The Spartans Are Clicking In March

327

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

328

Basketball Aches & Mel Tucker Fever

329

Tuckered Out: The Search is Over

330

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

331

Mark Dantonio Steps Down: Loss is a Fickell Mistress

332

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

333

Legacy, Dinner Guests, & Perspective

334

Cassius Winston: Assist Artiste & Ranked Rutgers

335

MSU Gets Boilered Up & Football is Stuck in 2016

336

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

337

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

338

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

339

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

340

Pinstripes & Seersucker: The Legend of Joey Freshwater

341

Program Wins & Program Losses: The MSU Comedy

342

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

343

Hate Week Defeat & #SpartansWill (Defeat Pirate Mascots)

344

Heartbreak & Hate Week

345

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

346

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

347

Breslin is Booby Trapped & Penn State Preview

348

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

349

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

350

Ohio State Week and Big Ten Basketball Media Days