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Can't Read, Can't Write — 344 episodes

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No Longer a Tennis School

2

NCAA Tournament Expansion + More!

3

Bonk Me Baby One More Time

4

Whelmed & Concerned

5

Spring Showcase!

6

Izzo Hates April

7

Can't Have Shit at Michigan State

8

Sweet Sixteen Bound!

9

This Carr is Taking Us Dancing!

10

Jeremy Fears Truther Podcast

11

On My Child's Life

12

Toasters in the Cold Tub

13

Past the Hog Line

14

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

15

Cheers for Fears!

16

A Top 10 Tilt Against Michigan

17

#1 Kenpom Defense Going Hard at the Rim

18

Paul Davis Comes to Town

19

Corncobbed

20

F It! We'll Do It Live!

21

Izzo & Kampe Sitting in a Tree...

22

Road Conference Win & Moore!

23

$401,000,000 Poverty Program

24

G’bye Jonathan. H’llo Fat Patzgerick!

25

We're Not Mad, We're Just Disappointed

26

Misery Loves Company & Plum's Mustache

27

Izzo > Cal

28

Try Hard Awards

29

Good bye J-Smith

30

Forks Down (Our Throat)

31

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Stop Trying

32

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

33

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

34

Jimmy and Joe and Down They Go

35

X's and Oh No's with Dante Razzano

36

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

37

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

38

Hot and Ready (for Kickoff)!

39

MSU Hot Seats while UM Cheats

40

Hold on to Your Butts: An Offensive Preview

41

Will the Defense be Offensive? A 2025 Defensive Primer

42

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

43

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

44

Teenage Boys and Conference Noise

45

Allocating Resources

46

Sweet Tea AD

47

Jonesy Puts Izzy on a Pedestal

48

Matt Sheehan Joins for a Papal Blessing!

49

News! MSU is in the AD Market.

50

No News is Good News?

51

SD4L SZN

52

“Business is always personal,” with Graham Couch

53

Take a Trey, Leave a Tre

54

Trauma Bonding

55

It's Winning Time!

56

Hop in the Carr, We're Going Dancing!

57

Back.

58

Let the Good Times (please continue to) Roll!

59

Go Win This Thing

60

354 Reasons (But a Chair Ain't One)

61

Not Perfect, But a Lot of Fun

62

Nothing Gold Can Stay

63

The Best Week of the Year (so far?)

64

Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks

65

Officially Having Fun!

66

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

67

2-0 vs Western Michigan

68

Portalpolooza & Rising Hoops Expectations

69

Of Allyship & Sweater Gents

70

Stockholm Syndrome

71

Airing of Grievances

72

Pur'Don't You Wish You Felt Better?

73

Getting Wide Bodied (with Graham Couch)

74

Teen Wolf: Junior Year

75

Properly Forked

76

Boston College Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

77

More like Hawkbyes & Hate Week Aperitif

78

Bye-bye Bye Week?

79

Corkscrewed by the Ducks

80

No Such Thing as a Quality Loss

81

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

82

Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can't Lose.

83

Finding A Win (Some Type of Way)

84

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

85

Especially Defensive

86

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

87

Guarded Optimism with Matt Sheehan

88

(Talkin’ About) Football is Back!

89

"That’s Moneyballs with an S"

90

Media Days & Summer Recruiting Phase

91

Redshirts, Recruiting, and Restaurants

92

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

93

How to Parent by CRCW & Twitter Question Finale

94

Les Miles is a Goofus & Summer Twitter Competition Week 3

95

Big Happy; Big Mad & Twitter Questions Part Two

96

The Heat is On: Portal Rivalries & Twitter Question Competition

97

"Burning Down the House"

98

The One Where We Like the Portal

99

Portaling for Spite

100

A Diss Track for the Ages

101

Changing of the Hoggard Part Deux: Electric Boogaloo

102

"Looked Like Football Out There"

103

Commitment Issues

104

Not the Title We Want

105

Players & Portals & Pucks, Oh My!

106

Microcosms

107

Fast Friends with Matt Sheehan

108

Bet (You Wish You Won More Games)!

109

“If only we tried this hard all the time"

110

Past Tense Title: This is Terrible

111

A Good Week to be a Spartan

112

Izzo Goes Shopping for Adderall at Costco

113

1-800-700-CLUB

114

Live from Wisconsin: The Aristocrats!

115

Couched in Optimism - A Good Week for MSU

116

They Call Him Stevie Buckets

117

Northwestern Breaks Izzo: A CRCW Live Episode

118

A New Year & New Hoops Team?

119

An Old Dog Learns a NET Trick

120

Defend, Rebound, and Run

121

Maybe CRCW Should Hit the Transfer Protal?

122

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

123

He Only Goes By Jonathan

124

A Weekend of Winning (Mostly)

125

The Buckeyes Ply Their Foul Wares on MSU

126

It's Not NOT an Emergency Episode

127

Winner, Winner, Husker Dinner!

128

Life is Pain

129

Austria

130

Hate (Ourselves) Week

131

Urban Meyer & The Blue Wall

132

Program Loss

133

B.D.E.

134

Is. This. Sparta?!

135

Mel Gets Taken to the Woodshed

136

This Game Against the Chips Got Us Fired Up

137

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

138

Graham Couch Said What?!

139

Hate in the Heart: Previewing MSU Football with @thiccstauskas

140

There Can Only Be One!

141

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

142

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

143

Recruiting Rebounds & Off Grand River

144

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

145

Hold on to Your Butts.

146

The Stars Are Not Aligning

147

Protected Rivalries & Week 2 of Twitter Inquiries

148

The Washington Game gets P'cocked

149

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

150

Shemy Shemy fo Phlegmy

151

So, How 'Bout that Football Team?

152

Never Meet Your Heroes

153

Everybody Panic! Now! Post Haste!

154

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

155

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

156

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

157

Robi(y)ns Are Nesting in East Lansing!

158

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

159

The Green Machine to the Sweet Sixteen!

160

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

161

Kiss Our S (Twice!)

162

So, how about that Iowa game?

163

Stepping Back Into It

164

Thy Shadows, MSU

165

Mid-ison Square Garden

166

Unpleasant: A Mackey Arena Story

167

Yelling at the TV While Tyson Needs an IV

168

The Loyer Family Have Their Revenge on East Lansing

169

UM Gets Broomed, But the Big 10 Looms

170

Bring on the Big Ten Basketball!

171

Get Deeper with a CRCW Christmas Show Spectacular!

172

High School Boys & Hunter Dickinson Noise

173

Hardwood Happiness & A Gridiron Autopsy

174

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

175

Football is Over: Taking Our Final Els?

176

Over Overtime (with Graham Couch)

177

Forks Down: No Time for Bacon

178

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

179

Accountability

180

The CRCW Hate Week Variety Hour

181

Program Win :-I

182

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

183

A Program Adrift, will it be like Chryst?

184

Please Row Your Boat out of our Deep End

185

You Tell Me What You Think Scheme Means

186

Payton Thorne & Mourn the Corn (Huskers)

187

1-0 & Tom Izzo's Dough

188

Rec Spec Review & A Real Game to Preview

189

The B1G Bag & Getting Defensive

190

The Big Boys Are Thin: Previewing the ‘22 Offense

191

NFTuck & UofM in the Muck

192

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

193

Football Recruiting & The Lessons of Jabari Parker

194

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

195

Eight Star Boys & an Eight Star Podcast

196

From Sea to Shining Sea

197

GOOP! for Spartans

198

Big Time Recruiting is Fun?

199

Bentleys & G Wagons & Ferraris, oh my!

200

Closure: Coaching Hires & May Twitter Competition

201

Izzo Keeping it in the Family & May Twitter Question Finality

202

Roster Talk & Penultimate Week of Twitter Questions

203

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

204

Handwringing About Hoops & A Week 2 Twitter Question Banger!

205

Football Happenings & Week One of the May Twitter Competition

206

Tom, We Need to Talk

207

Sprung by Spring Football

208

Spring Is in the Air & It’s Football Time

209

Question Marks Surrounding Hoops & The Gridiron

210

Hoops Offseason in Full Swing & Football in the Spring

211

Extremely Explicit: Reacting to the Tournament Exit

212

Tournament Time: Let's Do Some Damage

213

Thank You Seniors & Who Among You is Coming Back?

214

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

215

This Episode Slaps

216

Redemption Arc: Forks Down After Loss to Wisconsin

217

MSU Basketball Gets Sick Visiting Jersey Mikes (Arena)

218

Big Win over UofM & Keon Coleman with a Vim!

219

Big W at UW!

220

Defend, Rebound & Run?

221

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

222

Ringing in the New Year Right: Breaking Down Three Victories

223

The Basketball Team is Finding its Groove & Peach Bowl Preview

224

Tracking Recruits & Previewing Hoops

225

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

226

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

227

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

228

Forget Me Now Because it's Land Grant Week

229

Bounce Back: Toppling Terps & Taming Broncos

230

Bent & Broke/So What, Now What?

231

Paul Bunyan Wants to Keep Choppin'!

232

Hate Week 2021: Fear and Loathing in East Lansing

233

Don't Look a Gift Spittoon in the Mouth

234

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

235

Spartans Topping Hills with Big Play Thrills

236

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

237

Kenneth Walker Attacks & Miami Cracks

238

Toodaloo, YSU & Miami Hurricane Preview

239

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

240

Tuck Comin'

241

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

242

Hype Train Goes Choo Choo with the Football Offense Preview

243

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

244

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

245

Stars Begin to Align as we Count Down to Football

246

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

247

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

248

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

249

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

250

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

251

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

252

Coach Tuck's 2022 Spartans are Looking Peachy

253

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

254

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

255

A full Spartan Stadium & A Stately Landshark Re-Dedication

256

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

257

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

258

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

259

Blossom by Blossom the Spring Begins (ends?)

260

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

261

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

262

Launch Sequence Commenced: Rocket Blasts Off and Spring Ball Begins

263

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

264

Reflections of a Hoops Season, Chapter 1: The Aftermath

265

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

266

MSU Punches its Ticket to the Dance!

267

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

268

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

269

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

270

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

271

The State of Hoops: Not Hot, All Trots

272

Whitmer is become Death, the destroyer of UofM Athletics

273

"Play Freebird!" - A Week Without Sports

274

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

275

Changing of the Hoggard

276

Santa Wears Red, Not Green on Christmas Day

277

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

278

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

279

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

280

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

281

Three Game Previews & the Truth About Baby Blankets

282

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

283

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

284

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

285

Fumbling Our Way Into Hate Week

286

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

287

MSU Football Defense Preview & Foster Loyer, Scholarship Speculation Destroyer

288

Meet the Guys: Previewing MSU's Offense

289

MSU Got SWOLE & Everyone Gets A Bowl

290

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

291

Spartans will be Playing Good Ball this Fall!

292

Spit Kits, Dodging Bullets, & Participation Trophy Proposals

293

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

294

CRCW Ménage à trois: Boycotts, Bubbles, & OnlyFans

295

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

296

COVID (probably) Cancels College Football

297

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

298

Football Workouts are Sacked & We Get Hacked

299

2020 Hoops Rumors & Penultimate (July) Twitter Questions!

300

The Big Ten Football Fallacy

301

Basketball Recruits & Twitter Glory Pursuits

302

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

303

Southern Student-Athletes: Fighting Against Racism & Public Health

304

Grand River Quality Dairy: a Celebration of Life

305

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

306

Just Toss the Format & Let's Talk

307

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

308

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

309

Is there be football? We Phone a Friend

310

B10 Hogwarts Houses & Special Twitter Guest

311

Spartans are Going Pro & We Cap off April Twitter Questions

312

We Created a Monster.

313

MSU Commits & XFL Reminisce

314

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

315

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

316

Football Social Media & Twitter Questions Get Weird

317

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

318

It's Over & A Season Unfulfilled

319

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

320

Izzo Izzos Again: The Spartans Are Clicking In March

321

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

322

Basketball Aches & Mel Tucker Fever

323

Tuckered Out: The Search is Over

324

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

325

Mark Dantonio Steps Down: Loss is a Fickell Mistress

326

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

327

Legacy, Dinner Guests, & Perspective

328

Cassius Winston: Assist Artiste & Ranked Rutgers

329

MSU Gets Boilered Up & Football is Stuck in 2016

330

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

331

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

332

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

333

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

334

Pinstripes & Seersucker: The Legend of Joey Freshwater

335

Program Wins & Program Losses: The MSU Comedy

336

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

337

Hate Week Defeat & #SpartansWill (Defeat Pirate Mascots)

338

Heartbreak & Hate Week

339

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

340

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

341

Breslin is Booby Trapped & Penn State Preview

342

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

343

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

344

Ohio State Week and Big Ten Basketball Media Days