Robert Margason and Zach Greene
57 episodes listed below
Cousin banter, dumb games, fast detours.
Fighting for Third runs on cousinly banter, quick games, and the confidence to follow any stray thought into a sillier place. Robbie and Zach bounce from race recaps to Disney brackets, hockey chatter, strange bird names, and fake-serious advice with very little ceremony.
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Fighting for Third is a conversational comedy show powered by Robbie and Zach, whose whole rhythm depends on sounding slightly underprepared and fully willing to follow the bit anyway. The setup is simple. Two cousins talk, play games, rank things, argue mildly, and let side comments multiply. The subjects are ordinary enough at first: a race recap, hockey playoffs, baseball season, Sonic movies, James Bond casting, Scrubs, Disney films, college names, weird foods, or a kid trying to run. Then the show starts adding bad logic. A tired child becomes a tiny endurance critic. A list of bird names becomes a contest in saying the dumbest possible phrase with a straight face. A baseball broadcast joke turns into a riff on networks, bowl games, and who should be allowed near a microphone. The show has recurring game energy, but the games are mostly permission slips for banter. Drug or Pokémon works because the names sound fake either way. March Sadness works because Disney movies are treated with tournament seriousness and very little actual dignity. Leanna joins those bracket episodes as producer, giving Robbie and Zach another person to bother, correct, and occasionally forget to introduce properly. Sports talk is frequent, especially hockey and baseball, but it rarely stays pure. Pop culture gets the same treatment, from video game movies to Bond casting to sitcom reboots. The humor can be crude, blunt, and playfully mean, though it usually lands as familiar ribbing rather than a polished attack. There are ads and intro bits, but the real show is the pileup after the formalities end. It favors callbacks, interruptions, minor factual uncertainty, and the pleasure of saying the obvious thing out loud. Fighting for Third is best for people who like low-structure comedy where the hosts are having the conversation first and shaping the episode second.
Made for: For comedy listeners who like casual riffing, sports-adjacent nonsense, pop culture tangents, and games that sound too dumb to work until they do.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by making its looseness the engine: rankings, brackets, quizzes, and recaps exist mainly to give Robbie and Zach something ridiculous to mishandle together.
Fighting for Third is two cousins, Robby and Zach, chatting about anything and everything under the sun. They will play some fun games, rank random items, and even give advice that you should, or more likely shouldn't, take! Join in and have a few laughs at their expense! New episodes every Wednesday!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Fighting for Third turns sports, pop culture, rankings, and odd discoveries into nimble riffs powered by Robby and Zach's easy rapport.
Robby and Zach turn loose conversation into a steady exchange of setups, objections, and escalating side comments. Sports and pop culture recur, from hockey management and baseball to movie casting, while games give their conversational comedy a little structure without making…
Drug or Pokemon? Robby and Zach make you second-guess both.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A running chat that keeps turning bird names and kid honesty into a long, dumb laugh.
The episode turns a running update into a loose comic drift. One host describes taking an eight-year-old through a mile, easing him through the first 52 seconds, and hearing the blunt verdict at the end: terrible.
A broadcast gripe turns into a brisk guessing game.
Fighting for Third starts with a broadcast gripe and quickly becomes a brisk guessing game. The opening stretch, with CW, college football, and the Snoop Dogg ball, sets a loose tone before Drug or Pokemon takes over, using names like Duoseon and Remeltion to keep the guesses…
A hockey-to-ballpark detour that works best when the hosts keep the nonsense moving.
Bazooka Granny settles into a loose sports-and-nonsense groove, drifting from hockey coaching turnover and an internal-audit joke into classroom gripes, Scientology, Tom Cruise, and a baseball-season run at absurd ballpark food.
A loose casting chat that keeps turning game movies into better jokes than the movies themselves.
Robbie and Z turn Fighting for Third into a running argument with receipts, opening by framing themselves as two guys from the public sector who saw their jobs come under attack and kept showing up anyway.
Cold-weather banter, curling talk, and sandwich rankings keep the episode moving.
Fighting for Third settles into a cold-day conversation that drifts from curling to sports detours to an offhand sandwich ranking, with Robbie and Zach keeping the tone loose and unforced.
Gaming talk with glorious derailments.
Nerd culture, badly steered and lovingly overcooked.
Neurotic errands, dry punchlines, real-life drift.
Music brackets, sincere chaos, recurring nonsense.
Horror recaps with panic, jokes, and heart.
The hosts start with a run recap.
It opens on a broadcasting blunder.
The episode opens with sponsor reads for Whoop and SettleMate.
This episode celebrates the one-year anniversary of the Fighting for Third podcast, hosted by Robbie and Zach, featuring comedic banter and a sponsorship for Mood.com's cannabis delivery service.
The hosts discuss the Scrubs reboot, comparing it to the original series and sharing their opinions on its quality.
This episode continues a March Sadness bracket competition where the hosts and producer discuss and eliminate Disney movies in a humorous, game-like format.
The hosts of the Fighting for Third podcast introduce their producer as a special guest in a comedic and chaotic episode filled with banter and sound effects.
Robbie and Z open by setting themselves up as two public-sector guys whose jobs were under attack.
Robbie and Zach open by bouncing off a song line and easing back into their familiar loose back-and-forth.
Hosts Robbie and Zach open Episode 46 of Fighting for Third with Robbie's pickle jar breaking and soaking him in juice, then move on to the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show and Green Day's opening.
This episode features a sponsor segment for Apollo Neuro, followed by the hosts introducing their podcast with humorous banter about quitting and dairy products.
The hosts of the Fighting for Third podcast, Robbie and Zach, discuss Eminem, referencing his song 'Mom's Spaghetti' from 8 Mile and connecting it to a listener from Detroit, while also touching on the Max Headroom incident and his track 'Rap God'.
Two former public sector workers, Robbie and Zach, host a comedy podcast where they share unsolicited advice, opinions, and games in their seventh episode titled 'School Lunch'.
This episode features a sponsor ad for Mood.com's cannabis delivery service followed by the hosts Robbie and Zach humorously discussing their podcast's survival past three episodes.
Two hosts, Robbie and Zach, humorously discuss their podcast's progress, add sound effects for comedic effect, and joke about their potential as stand-up comedians in a light-hearted episode.