TrapDraw Podcast – No Laying Up

Our sensei of schematics, Bob Sturm, returns to talk all things NFL with Tron and Randy. The first half of our chat covers various storylines from around the league before we look back at Bob’s career in Dallas and his arrival on the heels of the era of Cowboys football featured in the recent documentary. 

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TC and Cody chop it up on a robust agenda of topics from lawn care, current events, upcoming travels and a bevy of monitoring topics

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TC and Randy bring on a true friend of the pod in Bob Sturm for a team by team breakdown of what we’ve seen across the NFL through the first three weeks of the season, and we get an update on the standings in our teams draft.

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It’s TrapDraw Infrastructure Week as Randy and TC chat with former US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on a range of topics from his favorite airports and biggest travel frustrations to the air traffic controller shortages, airline industry trends, the emergence of EVs and high speed rail projects and a ton more.

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The Seamsters hold our final meeting of the 2025 regular season to look at the close division and wild card races. Then, Randy plays the role of game show host and asks DJ and Soly to guess five players based on their less than ideal second half stats and we close with some thoughts on MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year award candidates.

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DJ subs in for Randy on this week’s chop session with a robust agenda including our mea culpas and monitoring list, tennis, baseball, recent travels and - in a shocking turn of events - the potential return of The Commish.

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The NFL preseason has wrapped and we’re a little over a week away from the regular season opener.  Neil, TC, Randy and Poosh have convened the BallKnowers to preview the upcoming season and hold our annual teams draft as Poosh looks to defend his title from last season.

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We’re heading down the home stretch of the MLB regular season with DJ’s Brewers holding the best record in baseball. After a thorough discussion around the top three teams in the NL Central, we examine each of the other division races, provide a much anticipated update on our fantasy league, and offer some thoughts on recent news of potential MLB expansion and realignment.

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The Big Guy makes his return to the Trap Draw to chop with TC as we recap Randy’s travels in recent weeks, detail the controversy surrounding Neil and Randy’s Whoop strain challenge, clean out our monitoring list, and sneak in a little travel, football and baseball chatter as well.

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TC , Neil and DJ chop on some vacation based topics as the NLU crew is in the midst of Road Trip SZN. Plus some thoughts on music, world events, recent content shoots, our monitoring list and more.

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DJ and Jordan catch up with The Ringer's Alan Siegel to discuss his new book "Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How The Simpsons Changed Television - and America - Forever" as well as our personal favorite episodes, characters and the larger cultural impact the show has had over the course of its 36 seasons.

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DJ subs in for Randy on the latest Chop Session as the guys offer Mea Culpas for the group, recent life updates, some non-golf sports takes, thoughts on AI and more.

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We’ve reached the Midsummer Classic as the best in MLB convene in Atlanta for this year’s All-Star game.  The Seamsters are here to look ahead the game, the Home Run Derby and sneak in a little celebrity softball game talk as well. Then we discuss the surprises from across both leagues, assemble our all-first half team, and debut a new segment where we try to match a player blindly based only on his career stats.

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The Booth Boys are back to offer some mea culpas, recap their 4th of July, what we’re watching and reading, life and goals updates, and the debut of a new segment: The Egghead of the Week

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We're halfway through 2025 and it's time for mid-year progress check on our yearly goals from January's pod (TD Ep 322 - https://youtu.be/Ocd7hBwrB0I?si=oIlrqkt5xEXtNaEW).  

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On this week’s episode TC is joined by David Ruff of Washed Media to chop it up on a plethora of topics from current events, running a small business, aging with your audience and more.

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A second chop session in as many weeks! Randy and TC return for a robust agenda of topics: what we’re monitoring, some life updates, air travel and logistics talk and a few sports items as well.  

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The long wait for another chop session has ended. Randy and TC are back to offer some mea culpas and clear out our monitoring list from a wide range of global events.

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The Seamsters have gathered for an offering of mea culpas from our preseason predictions, a division by division look at the standings, who’s over/underperforming so far this year, a look at some of the worst contracts in baseball and a quick review of our trip to Milwaukee.

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KVV, Tron and Poosh fire up an OTA edition of the BallKnowers to recap the draft, ask which coaches, players and teams are on the hot seat headed into the 2025 season, and catch up on recent news from around the league.

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Neil and Cody are back in the booth to debrief on our first NLU Live, provide some 2025 goals and life updates, answer some listener line questions, what we're watching and reading, and more.

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Randy is joined by veteran tennis journalist and author Christopher Clarey in advance of the release of his book “The Warrior: Rafael Nadal & His Kingdom of Clay”. 

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TC and Randy chop it up with some debriefs on vacation and work travels, NFL draft thoughts, the NBA playoffs, Conclave betting odds, the city of Charlotte officially on notice for next week's PGA Championship and more.

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The Seamsters are across the pond in Northern Ireland but found some time to talk baseball with a month of the 2025 MLB season in the books. For this episode, we're joined by Paddy Neill - one of our video editors, and a Northern Ireland resident - for his perspective on this distinctly American pastime.

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TC and Poosh are joined by Nate Tice of Yahoo Sports ahead of this week's NFL Draft. Nate is a true tape grinder and takes us through his process for draft prospect evaluation and details some current trends around the league before we break down this year's draft class by position groups..

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Another week, another Chop Session. TC & Randy unpack quite a bit of stories they're monitoring, plus cover ground in unexpected areas. Also, a bit of a throwback episode of sorts--Randy's audio was coming in through his air pods, unbeknownst to him. So a full mea culpa there. Enjoy!

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TC & Randy are back chopping it up this week! They issue mea culpas, catch up on recent life events, and then dive into some of the biggest news stories from around the world. Enjoy!

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The Booth Boys are back as Neil and Cody recap recent life events, travel logistics headaches, provide an in-progress report on some of our 2025 goals and more.

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Opening Day is almost here for the 2025 MLB season and the Seamsters Union has you covered with a team by team preview of all thirty big league clubs and a non-Dodgers World Series pick.

Division previews: AL East (7:30), NL East (31:00), AL Central (52:00), NL Central (1:09:00), AL West (1:39:45), and NL West (1:55:10).

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For our first airport focused episode of 2025 TC is joined by Windtalker - a friend of the program and current airline pilot who's also served as an air traffic controller.

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Tracing Woodgrains on FAA Hiring Scandal

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Two weeks in row for the Chop Session! TC & Randy are back and they have a whole long list of stories and topics to cover. Whereas last week was heavily into sports, this week is anything but. Get up to date and stay up to date with what's going on in the world around us. Enjoy!

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TC & Randy are chopping it up this week! They kick off the show discussing where and how to better find some joy in their personal day to days. They then hit on some recent travel, cooking items, and other life experiences. Finally, at the 1:10 mark, Bob Sturm (1310 The Ticket in Dallas) hops on to chat with Randy about the Luka trade and the fallout in the MetroPlex. Enjoy!

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DJ, Randy and Tim Simons are back for one of the best traditions going on the TrapDraw, the Oscars Extravaganza! Live from Los Angeles, the boys tackle a whole host of move-related topics upfront before turning their attention to the Best Pictures. Beginning at the 1:24:00 mark they reveal their consensus rankings of the ten Best Picture nominees, culminating with their choice for the industry's top honor. Enjoy, and please note, there will be spoilers!

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The Eagles are champs and the BallKnowers have convened to offer some Mea Culpas and have an open and honest discussion around Super Bowl LIX MVP Jalen Hurts. From there, we look ahead to the 2025 Regular Season and some early thoughts on the Eagles, Chiefs, AFC North and more. We close the pod with the BallKnowers Top 10 QB power rankings - a compilation of our own personal rankings - to see who we feel is the best signal caller in pro football.

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Neil and Cody return to the TrapDraw for our first Booth of 2025 with Randy joining as a special guest. We open with Mea Cuplas before offering a thorough review of the Super Bowl - the game itself, Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance, the Fox TV broadcast and more.

We then open up the TrapDraw listener line for some long neglected voicemails from our beloved Trapezoids.

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Tron and Randy are back chopping it up this week. There's an extended mea culpa section, a girthy selection of news stories to monitor, and then some sports and travel talk. Enjoy!

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The BallKnowers (minus Poosh) all in the same room together! Join KVV and special guest Neil as they try to hold TC and Randy accountable for a season's worth of takes. Plus, we break down Conference Championship weekend and make final picks for the Super Bowl.

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Randy is back from honeymoon and chopping it up with TC! They unpack recent travels, offer mea culpas, hot on some sports topics, and go through their monitoring list. Enjoy!

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TC goes to the bullpen for this chop session as Neil and D.J. step in for Big Randy for the latest mea culpas, a healthy list of items we're monitoring, and some air travel talk as well.

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With Big Randy away on his honeymoon, the rest of the BallKnowers gather to recap our preseason teams draft standings, atone for our bad takes, rank MVP candidates, play some rapid-fire buy/sell with some miscellaneous NFL topics and make some predictions for the upcoming playoffs.

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A No Laying Up tradition returns with our annual Goals podcast. We begin with the christening of 2025 as "The Year of the ______", get a report card for how we did with our 2024 goals and then set out our personal goals for 2025.

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What better way to wrap 2024 than a Chop Session to get people through the holidays? TC & Randy cover *a lot* of ground in this one. They unpack Randy's wedding, they offer up a bunch of mea culpas, they discuss the biggest news stories, and get into some sports. Enjoy!

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The stove is hot! Baseball's winter meetings have come and gone and we've got plenty of new faces in new places. Randy and DJ talk ball in the first half of the episode, including their reaction to the biggest moves of the offseason thus far. In the second half of the show (at the 1:00:18 mark), Keith O'Brien stops by to discuss his new book, "Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball." Keith has written the definitive biography of the late Hit King, Pete Rose. Whatever your opinion of Pete we think you'll learn something about him and hopefully grab the book, either for yourself or the baseball fan in your life. It's the perfect read while biding time until pitchers and catchers report. Enjoy!

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For this Owners pod we head to Duuuuval and profile the ownership history of the Jacksonville Jaguars. We begin with the franchise's beginnings in the mid 90s NFL expansion and the original owner, Wayne Weaver. From there it's on to the Shahid Kahn ownership tenure, highlighted by the infamous Urban Meyer era, the flirtation with a potential move to London, stadium renovation plans in Jacksonville, and a ton more.

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Neil and Cody are back for a wide-ranging Booth episode of the TrapDraw as we look back at the college football games over Thanksgiving, deal with the breaking news of the South Korean president declaring martial law and other global conflicts, reflections on the NLU Census, audio and video podcast strategies, updates on what we're watching and reading and some merch updates as well.

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The long wait for another college football-focused Trap Draw episode is over as Ryan Nanni returns to the pod to discuss his latest content series - Who Killed College Football. Ryan partnered with Steven Godfrey for an all-encompassing look at the current state of college football and the impacts of various stakeholders in the game including TV Networks, conference offices and commissioners, the NCAA, the NFL and more.

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Tron and Randy are back to chop it up about all the most important current events going on across the world. Enjoy!

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The BallKnowers have reconvened as we head into the second half of the NFL's regular season. We talk through some contenders, pretenders and frauds, MVP candidates, quarterback play and our favorite uniforms.

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We've reached a tenth installment of our Owners Series pods as we look to the shores of Lake Erie and the Buffalo Bills.

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Tron and Randy are back to chop it up this week. They offer a few mea culpas to begin before turning their attention to life, sports, and news stories from around the world. Then, at the 41:25 mark, they welcome Matt Stoller on the show to examine the current state of antitrust. He talks about the Google case specifically, the monopolistic behavior of pharmacy benefit managers, whether the Krogers/Albertsons merger will go through, and a lot more. Enjoy!

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