Host: Brian Beckner
Co-Host: Ed Daly
Special Guest: Jason Stewart (J-Stew, forehead warrior, beard connoisseur)
It’s a special Thanksgiving Week episode — the week nobody listens, but you'll come back and listen later anyway, so the guys go deep on everything from Movember beards to the physics of NFL field goals to the only Beverly Hills, 90210 Thanksgiving episode that truly matters: “Breast Side Up.”
Brian, Ed, and Jason break down one of the wildest mid-’90s holiday episodes ever recorded — complete with Steve Young, inexplicable timeline issues, bad acting, turkey-cooking disputes, homelessness arcs, and why Joe Bradley’s hair alone should’ve led him to reevaluate his life choices.
Brian’s Movember beard observations
Ed retiring the beard for the year
Jason and Ed having a “forehead-off”
Jason taking “incoming bullets” on Twitter (mostly from G-Fish)
Revisiting the legendary Blind Date episode
Bread ends discourse — sourdough exceptions only
Thanksgiving side rankings (lots of stuffing enthusiasm, lots of anti-white-meat energy)
Jason’s crusade against Kyle Shanahan and his injury-report “lies”
Fantasy football as a “tens of billions” industry (per ChatGPT stats, so must be true)
Why the NFL has suddenly become the Sixty-Yard Field Goal Era
Air Force vs. Montana fat-kicker appreciation
The trio’s proposal to end kicker specialization forever
Why dark meat turkey is undefeated
Ed’s elite, trash-sounding-but-actually-amazing cornbread casserole
(Season 6 Thanksgiving episode featuring Steve Young)
An extremely detailed, scene-by-scene, historically anchored breakdown including:
Why everyone is shopping together at Ralphs
The over-meddling homeless mom with turkey-based control issues
Valerie’s sociopathic need to “host Thanksgiving”
Brandon’s world-famous bourbon sweet potatoes
Academic-advisor nerd energy
Phi Beta Kappa stolen valor
Lee Steinberg’s absolutely unhinged acting
How the writers destroyed the career of the guy who sang “How Do You Talk to an Angel?”
The Steve Young guest-appearance timeline that makes zero sense
The infamous lawn football game (quarters??? Steve throwing to Sanders???)
Joe Bradley’s virginity revelation
Brandon and Kelly’s dangerously inevitable hookup
A stunning amount of talk about Donna Martin’s head shape
What ultimately happens to Joe Bradley on the series
And, of course… the breast side up vs. breast side down turkey controversy
(Ed tried it. It sucks.)
This is an all-timer television teardown.
“You look like Wolverine right now.”
“Nobody cares about Lee Steinberg’s scripts.”
“Donna Martin could see the pick route because she could see from the sides of her head.”
“Stolen valor Phi Beta Kappa.”
“Steve Young pulls up in a Crown Vic dressed like Jay Leno.”
“Turkey leftovers at 11 p.m. is a Walsh family tradition.”
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Occasional Bachelor coverage upcoming — including the new Mormon Bachelorette
As always, the TBLS theme reminds you:
“We’re not trying to talk politics a lot…
We’d much rather talk about dicks.”
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