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St. Louis City SC fans are running out of patience, and honestly, it’s hard to blame them. We’re writing this in the dying minutes of the match and the story has already been written. City is about to drop another one, and unless somethi…

Every once in a while the Notorious Friday Night Posse sets out to record a podcast about current events… and accidentally stumbles into something educational. This week was one of those times. What started as a casual discussion about…

First things first, a quick thank you to everyone who has been listening to City SC Posse these first few weeks. We’re only a handful of episodes in and already seeing people tuning in, sending messages, and even chirping us a bit online.…

St. Louis has developed one of the Midwest’s most varied independent podcast scenes, with shows covering local news, politics, hockey, soccer, baseball, food, business, history and culture. Some are produced by established media organizations…

There are losses. There are bad losses. And then there’s whatever that was. St. Louis City SC went west for Sunday Night Soccer and immediately decided to test a bold new defensive strategy called “let them score early and see what ha…

This week on NFNP, we reviewed the State of the Union the only way it should be reviewed: Like it was the Super Bowl. Pre-game coverage.Live reactions.Post-game breakdown.Stat sheet.And yes, we counted who stood up. Because if politics is going t…

STL Soccer First. Always. You asked for it. Well… some of you did. And the rest of you are about to find out. City SC Posse is officially launching under the NFNPPOD umbrella, and episodes are dropping soon. Before you panic, no — …

Welcome back to Notorious Friday Night Posse Rants, Raves & Real Talk, where we tackle the things Big Media pretends are “normal.” This week, we zero in on the one bill that sticks with you longer than high school debt, bad tatt…

Episode 2x08 – Property Taxes, Processed Food & Aliens (In That Order) This week on Notorious Friday Night Posse, we tackled three things that feel unrelated… until they don’t: You might not actually own your house. …

There are two types of people on Valentine’s Day: Candlelight dinner, soft music, discussing feelings. Screaming “Until the Day I Die” at full volume with your spouse. We chose correctly. On February 14th, Story of …

The Weekly News Roundup That Made Us Question Reality At some point, America stopped feeling like a country and started feeling like a Netflix series written by three interns and a conspiracy subreddit. Welcome to this week’s news. Grab a d…

At some point, America turned into House of Cards, except with worse writers and no plan past the next episode. Everyone’s mic’d up, everything’s being recorded, and somehow the plot holes keep getting bigger. Welcome to Kramerica…

“I Use Progressive. I Don’t Use American Family.” Episode 2x04 Recap: GDP Flexes, Families Collapse, Snow Panic Ensues This episode started the same way America feels right now: tired, annoyed, and one unexpected bodily func…

4 Monkeys & a Goat! The Fed Is “Independent,” CNN Is Math-Challenged, and St. Louis Is Living in a Simulation If you’re looking for a calm, measured explanation of the Federal Reserve, inflation, monkey ownership laws, or why…

There was a time when watching the St. Louis Cardinals was simple. You turned on the TV, found the channel, and let the game live in the background while you did something productive, like pretending to understand your retirement account. Now? Watc…

Starbucks Isn’t a Coffee Shop. It’s a Bank With a Siren Problem. Let’s get something straight right out of the gate: this is not an anti-coffee post. We love coffee. We need coffee. Half of America would collapse into a heap of sw…

This year’s holiday shopping feels like a gym treadmill set to “incline 12.” You are moving, sweating, and somehow not getting anywhere. We’ve all seen the headlines about record Cyber Week sales, then opened our cards and th…

The Nancy Brannon Case: What Still Keeps Me Up I can’t shake the story of Nancy Leah Brannon. She was 34, it was the week of Thanksgiving 1986, and she vanished between a south city night out and her apartment in Shrewsbury. Nearly four decad…

Unraveling the Epstein Files, With Jokes We Probably Should Not Tell Episode link: https://youtu.be/P-tusSM-bys?si=H6nGm4j0QCtJNbGC What this one’s about We fired up the mics, cracked a cold El Presidente (Dominican for “yes please&rd…

TL;DR: Smaller monthly, giant lifetime bill. Equity crawls, risk climbs. We like Trump, we don’t like this one. “Affordability you feel now, interest you pay forever.” What Even Is It? Stretch a standard loan from 30 to 50 y…