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Are you a crooked cop? Do you also have a conscience? Then we have the movie for you. In this episode, the Wise boys oil up their biceps and put on their fingerless gloves for a no-holds-barred takedown of the Dave Bautista classic, Wrong Side of Town. So gather your sparring partners and Navy Seal buddies and let's head on down to Baton Rouge for some good old fashioned street justice.

Welp, the Wise bros are still celebrating the start of baseball season. Did you expect any different? This week they're treating both of their listeners (and themselves) to a grab bag episode of their most pressing baseball topics, including the best baseball nicknames, the greatest play-by-play one-liners, and the game's most punchable faces. Plus, can the guys sneak in a Mr. Mime reference for the 4th episode in a row? Tune in to find out!

The guys had so much fun with their last draft they decided to do another one with their favorite cartoon characters! To celebrate the greatest week of the year, MLB Opening Day, the guys draft their starting nine. Who drafted the better lineup? Tune in the find out!

Celebrate St. Paddy's (or Patty's?) with the Wise guys as they honor the best green guys, gals, and amorphous blobs pop culture has ever produced. From monsters and Martians to Muppets and moppets, they cover them all. Tangents include trinket shelf weight limits, paternal phone paralysis, and Grinch fatigue.

This week, the Wise bros try to be the very best as they accidentally celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pokémon. So put on your fingerless gloves, turn your hats backwards, and join them as they decide the best of the first generation of pocket monsters. Side quests include Power Ranger pump-up jams, mandatory thank you cards, and the awesome toys the guys forgot they had.

They're a little late to the party, but the Wise guys are celebrating the end of 2025 by rounding up their 25 favorite movies of the past 25 years. Tune in to find out what Rambo and Toy Story have in common. Digressions include washing machine installation, nocturnal interior decorating, and a washed-up former rock star.

What do the Coca-Cola polar bear, a turkey baster, and Glenn Close have in common? They all fell out of Bran’s cranium to fill in the blanks of this Ultimate Showdown. In this potluck-style episode, Ty brought the stipulations, and Bran brought the competitors, so help yourself to some lukewarm, yet slightly overcooked matchups. Stick around for Pokémon impressions, deranged work behavior, and a four-legged defensive end.

Have you ever watched a movie and thought, "hey, this person is actually kind of the bad guy?" Well, we certainly have, so join us as we discuss our top "good guys" who are actually the villains in their movies.

It's the happiest time of the year -- well second, if you include Halloween. In this episode, the Wise guys get "passionate" about their all-time Kris Kringles. Tune it to find out which Santa claws his way to the top.

After a brief hiatus, the Wise guys are back! This week they honor the big three holidays & creating a bracket-style tournament to crown the ultimate holiday champion. Tune in to find out the chosen one!

Are you ready to rock 'em sock 'em? In this edition of the Ultimate Showdown, the Wise guys brush up on their sailing knots and try to stave off a mutiny, because they're exploring the globe...and beyond! So grab your compass and sextant and come along for the topsy turvy ride. Also featured are Iron Man sound effects, 25-year-old fad toys, and spider pilots.  

For our final Halloween episode of 2025, we determine the best villains from one of our childhood favorites, Scooby-Doo.  From the Spooky Space Kook to Brunch & Crunch, we don't leave a Scooby Snack unturned.

This week, the Wise guys try to pack in as much horror movie conversation they can muster into a single podcast. It's a horror mixed bag episode this week to celebrate their favorite season. Come for the fearsome flicks; stay for the adolescent trauma, bigfoot calls, and Principal Fonz.

Fresh off the heels of another Guardians playoff loss, we decided to keep the October baseball theme going by drafting our own baseball starting lineups consisting of your favorite lovable horror icons!

Excuse me, stewardess. I speak Wookiee. In this episode, the Wise bros step outside the squared circle to bring you some hypothetical competitions and tests of strength, patience, and intestinal fortitude. (An engineering degree wouldn't hurt, either.) Stay tuned for Agent Egypt, ice cream commercials, and Jon Taffer's blood pressure.  

You should listen to us; we're older and wiser. Well, that's half right. This time on Mediocre Movie Monday, the guys hunt down Dirt Jaws...I mean, Tremors. So gas up the 4x4, grab your elephant gun and your favorite red-haired country singer, and let's head on out to Perfection for Graboid season!

If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band, and if you're gonna play in the 70s, you gotta name that band after a geographical location. This week the Wisenheimers decide the five greatest bands named after locations and induct them into the CCW All-Timers Club. Tune in for plywood pontoon plunge prevention, a pumpkin party preview, and public pickleball perturbations.

This year the Wise guys +1 vacationed to Chicago & knocked something off their bucket list by taking in Wrigley Field as the Guardians took on the Cubs. Much like our Cleveland/Pittsburgh card, we decided to create another card this time Chicago-inspired. Enjoy!

The guys had to dig deep into the vault and dust it off for this episode.  Tune in as the guys present the first episode ever they ever recorded, Ultimate Showdown - Wrasslin'.

One year ago, in one of their favorite episodes so far, the Wise boys inducted the best Minor League Baseball team names into the All-Timers Club. Well, they decided to run it back. Only this time, they're lacing up their skates, taping up their glasses, and hitting the ice, even if they can't help but take the conversation back to the diamond. Join in for deep discussions of syllables, alliteration, and "pitter-patter."

It's time to slap on your favorite bracelet, crank up the Discman, and tune in as the guys dive headfirst into the gloriously awkward time period known as the 1990s to determine the best of the best of the decade's one hit wonders.

Happy Memorial Day! As a token of our appreciation to those we honor on this sacred holiday, the guys threw together a special armed forces edition of Ultimate Showdown!

Happy Mother's Day and happy birthday to us! This week, the Wise guys celebrate CCW's anniversary by running down their favorites of a multitude of categories, including their favorite villains, board games, and smells. Also featured are drop bears, Snakesgiving, and Pop-o-matic Trouble.

Sometimes we decide the best of the best of unimportant categories, and sometimes we don't. This episode is one of the latter. The Wise Bros took a little mental break this week to bring you a mixed bag of topics, tangents, and non sequiturs ranging from Wrestlemania to motorcycle sidecars to the VP of Thanksgiving. Stay Brolden!

It's America's greatest pastime! Or it was until the guys decided to put together the ultimate baseball-themed fight card. Grab your peanuts and cracker jacks, tune in, and enjoy the ride! 

Ever heard someone tell you something over and over again to where you believed it only to find out later in life it was all overblown? This week the Wise guys duke it out to determine the best of the best of those common misconceptions we're all familiar with.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the guys determine the best of the best of famous Patricks. Naturally, the conversations continuously turned into discussions of baseball and wrestling, of course. 

To paraphrase Brad Pitt in Moneyball: There are good movies, and there are poor movies. Then there's fifty feet of crap. And then there's 2011's New Year's Eve. This week, we decide the best Movies Named After Holidays, and we search the fifty feet of crap for anything worthy of the last spot in the All-Timers Club.

It's the holiday of love & love is indeed in the air, or is it? Tune in as the guys debate a match card involving horror icons, Sly Stallone love interests, & the legend Cupid himself in our Valentine's Day Ultimate Showdown.

"In this buddy cop movie starring Sylvester Stallone & Estelle Getty" is not a sentence you'd expect to hear, right? Neither did we didn't either upon discovery. Join us as we take a deep dive into the epic not-so-classic that Stallone wishes could be erased from existence. Come for the pineapple chunks & stay for the receding hairlines.

We've all fired up the ol' Game Show Network or Buzzr channel and thought "I wish this was still on TV." If that's you, then you're in luck! This week the guys bust out their extra long microphones and pick the best game shows no longer on the air.

It's camels, leopards, & Cheetahs, oh my!  Straight from the CounterClockWise vault, the guys prepare a fight card full of your favorite pop culture icons, mascots, and animals, of course. 

Who shall be deemed the official Santa and Mrs. Claus and sit atop the Jolly throne? How about a no-holds-barred match between a wrestler and a sentient machine? Plus, hear the thrilling conclusion of the Christmas lighting competition!

Happy Holidays from the Wise guys! This week we dipped into the well once more & put together a Christmas-filled fight card so big it had to be split into 2 parts. You don't want to miss this one as we put together one of the wildest Wacky Races/Mario Kart matchups ever, a Scooby Doo villain fights a member of the Buffalo Bills, and much more!

We all had a vegetable or two growing up that made us a little queasy just by the look of it. Well, we had about seven each. Tune in as the Wise guys induct the most "ucky" vegetables into their All-Timers Club.

What exactly is a Bluewood Flaboobecker? Find out in the epic conclusion of our Thanksgiving Ultimate Showdown!

It's another holiday special! This week the Wise men create a Thanksgiving-themed fight card so complicated, it had to be broken up into two parts. Check out part 1 for one of the greatest battle royales in history.

It's time to bust out your choppers (motorcycles and helicopters), because the Wise Bros are celebrating Hollywood's most faithful soundtrack tunes. From Vietnam to...Vietnam again and every scene with a cool guy on a motorcycle, if you haven't heard these songs, you've probably never seen a movie. Digressions include Airplane!, Paddington, and the real-life Apocalypse Now - aka election day.

Happy Halloween! To celebrate their favorite time of the year, the Wise Bros decide the best tools of the horror movie trade (excluding the untouchable trio of Michael, Jason, and Freddy, of course). Tune in to see who can slash and bash their way into this week's All-Timer's Club. That is, if Brandon and Tyler can refrain from using these weapons on each other.

The guys decided to go off schedule and drop a bonus Halloween special. Tune in as a fight breaks out between a demon & a super fan, a director takes on a bird, & a former professional baseball player gets involved in his own way in this week's Ultimate Showdown.

What happens when a soaking wet hockey-masked serial killer roams the streets of Manhattan? Multiple innocent teenagers die on a cruise ship, of course. Sit back, relax, and let the Wise bros try to make sense of it all in, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.

Happy Oktöberfest! The Wise guys decided there was no better way to celebrate than to collect their favorite beer logos, narrow them down, & induct them into their All-Timers Club. So, sit back, grabst a Pabst, and enjoy the ride!

This week, the Wise guys took a trip up I-90 to take in the Cleveland Guardians vs. Pittsburgh Pirates series. What better way to celebrate this matchup than an ultimate Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh showdown featuring our very special guest, noted Pittsburgh Pirates fan, Sir Alex Schafer. Join us as we put together a lineup of Yinzers to take on The Land.

What defines a spy? What's the difference between a spy and a secret agent? The Wise bros try to answer these questions and more in their 007th episode, recorded before a live studio audience.

Whether they go by William or Will, Bill or Billy, Willie or Willem, we all want to collect them all like Pokemon. Yes, this week, the Wise bros tackle the ever-looming question of which Williams are best. Featuring guest appearances by Matt Foley, Build-a-Bear, and M&Ms holiday commercials.

When Bran asked Ty to compile this set of matchups, he requested there be no theme and that it be more random and "off the rails." Well, all abord Tyler's Train of Thought. Despite how frightening it sounds, join the Wise Bros as they chugga-chug through a mixed bag of silly stipulations and train puns. Cameos include beloved childhood characters, sports icons, and Tim Curry, obviously.

We all agree some letters deserve to be cut from the alphabet, right? Right? Well, it's time we finally figure out which letters are getting the boot. Join the Wise Bros for their most heated debate yet, in which Q gets some much-deserved slander and X has an unexpected redemption arc. Plus, can they successfully make the case that a vowel should be axed?

Happy birthday, America. We have an Independence Day-themed lineup of matches for your listening pleasure. Tune in for an action hero vs. an action figure, a collection of Captains, and two teams from a pair of patriotic movies.

If you like puns, alliteration, and wacky adjectives, this is the episode for you. The Wise Bros nail down the best MiLB team names. From local foods and obscure animals to whatever business happens to be next to the ballpark, the minor leagues love fun nicknames that make you scratch your head, but which five make the cut?

It's our CounterClockWise Father's Day special. Want to find out who wins the vigilante dad heavyweight title? Or which sci-fi sheriff dad takes home the belt? Join the Wise Bros for the ultimate fatherhood fisticuffs.