A Lady & Some Dudes Podcast

A Lady & Some Dudes Podcast is sports talk that makes room for the people doing the talking. Each recent episode opens with a round the crew calls its 'grateful moment', and it is rarely a throwaway. Answers run from the Knicks making the playoffs to a birthday, an aunt's 70th and a mother paying off the rest of a student loan. In one turn, Phil remembers Vigilante High Power, the set he DJ'd with as a teenager, after an old cassette clash showed up on YouTube. Then the basketball starts, with plenty of cross-talk. The playoff previews take one series at a time, including a Cavs and Raptors matchup the crew says is getting little attention. Their predictions come with a hedge they keep repeating. Best case, the Timberwolves reach the conference finals. Worst case, they go out in the second round, because everything is matchup. In the episode titled 'AL&SD Podcast Ep 406/ NBA Expansion: Worth it or Not?', they argue about Vegas getting a team and whether moving a Western star East would give that conference the charisma it lacks. College basketball gets its turn too, with Arizona, Duke and Arkansas weighed up ahead of the tournament. They also page through old single-game scoring records and argue that coaches should let a hot player keep playing. The humor is quick and comes from whatever just happened. When a stream goes dark in the final seconds of a game, Amazon gets a long scolding and a half-serious threat to cancel a credit card. Philadelphia gets sarcastic thanks for helping the Knicks clinch a playoff spot. What separates this show from a standard hoops roundtable is Callie. Phil's daughter comes up again and again in his updates, from a banquet award she did not get to her long recruiting process. In 'AL&SD Podcast Ep 405/From Offers to Decision', she joins to tell the story herself. She talks about going from carrying a weaker team against tough North Carolina opponents to organized team play at Lake Norman Charter. Her father's question draws out how not playing on Friday nights, for religious reasons, affected her AAU options. The crew has done the podcast together for more than five years, and it shows. Episodes end with a quick promise of the next one and a sign-off. The result is a sports show where a daughter's college commitment sits comfortably next to a playoff preview.