Episode Recap Posts

College was sold as the ticket to the middle class. Get the degree. Get the job. Buy the house. Start the family. Build the life. Retire someday before your knees file for divorce. That was the pitch. And to be fair, for a lot of people, college …

NFNP 2x26 — Mark Greaves Returns Pt. 2 There used to be a simple life path in America. Graduate school. Get a job. Meet someone. Buy a house. Mow the lawn. Complain about the water bill. Stand in the garage with your hands on your hips and say, “We…

NFNP 2x25 — Pt. 1 Every once in a while, the NFNP brings on a guest. This time, we brought back a founding artifact. Mark Greaves returned to the Posse for NFNP 2x25, and technically he was the guest, but it did not really feel like a guest episo…

There are episodes where the NFNP sits down with a plan. This was not one of those episodes. Bright opened the show in a classic late-July human fog: work, kids, routine, vague dread, and the creeping suspicion that maybe “blah” is not a mood but …

The first blog was supposed to be the whole story. A St. Louis CITY fan wears his CITY kit to Wrexham, eats fish and chips at The Fat Boar, visits the Racecourse, spends too much money in the Club Shop, grabs Wrexham Lager at The Turf, chats with We…

NFNP 2x22 — Part 1 America celebrated another Fourth of July the only way it knows how: by grilling meat, lighting money on fire, frightening every dog in the neighborhood and briefly wondering if the sound outside was fireworks or the beginning of…

The crowd was on demand, but the conversation definitely was not. Adam Swart, founder and CEO of Crowds on Demand, joined the Notorious Friday Night Posse to discuss paid protesters, political advocacy, manufactured attention, media narratives, the …

One of the richest places in human history somehow feels like the opening scene of a dystopian HBO series. That was the core takeaway from our recent NFNPPOD episode, where we dove headfirst into California’s fires, homelessness crisis, six-dollar g…

The Job Description Nobody Talks About Being President of the United States is sold as power, prestige, and Air Force One. What it actually includes, historically, is a non-zero chance someone is going to try to kill you. Not metaphorically. Not pol…

The Posse Returns, And Apparently So Does the Federal Government: We took one week off, came back with beer, and somehow the story we covered last episode had gone from “internet weirdos with red string and browser tabs” to “the FBI, NASA, Departmen…

Update: We recorded this episode at 8… it’s now up to 10. Totally normal. Nothing to see here. Please continue scrolling. Seriously though, since we hit record, the list of missing or dead scientists tied to NASA, Los Alamos, and high-level researc…

Let’s start with the obvious, this episode had big “two guys at the bar solve the universe” energy from the jump. Nilla was out dealing with an emergency vet situation, so it was just Bright and Duds holding down the fort, which somehow made the who…

The core problem is you are not the customer, you are the product. Social media platforms love to position themselves as connection tools, but let’s not kid ourselves, they are attention-harvesting machines. The algorithm does not care about truth, …

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 the rising …

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…

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. Half your diet was eng…

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 drink. …

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 Industries. This…

“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 function away from losing i…

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 a goat briefly became…

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 sweatpants and unpai…

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 thought, “Cool, I guess th…

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”), and talked …