Michael Felder, Stephen Hartzell, Michael Surber
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Football talk with dirt under its nails.
Hand In The Dirt treats football as the starting point, not the fence line. Michael Felder, Steven Hartzell, and Michael Serber move from college football irritation to thermostat settings, school delays, garden planning, beach mishaps, golf pools, and caller voicemails with fast, friendly disorder.
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Hand In The Dirt runs on a joke that keeps proving useful: it is a gardening podcast about football, except it is also obviously a lifestyle podcast. That looseness is the point. Michael Felder, Steven Hartzell, and Michael Serber treat the show like a standing conversation where sports talk is allowed to share space with every errand, irritation, and half-formed domestic crisis that happened before recording. A cold open might begin with the weather changing, a school schedule collapsing, or somebody admitting the intro went badly. Then the room starts moving. The talk jumps from college football coaches to Pepto runs, from AC settings to Coldplay, from snow days to whether guest bathroom lotion needs to be hidden before a party. It is messy in a specific way. The interruptions usually sharpen the joke instead of derailing it, and the detours often become the real episode. Gardening is not just a title gag either. Raised beds, production goals, drip irrigation, lawn care, and plant-zone timing show up as part of the same everyday world as football pools and school drop-off. The show is also comfortable with very ordinary bodily inconvenience, which it turns into comic logistics rather than polished storytelling. Felder can be indignant, Hartzell can poke the soft spot in the argument, and Serber often slides in with the practical or oddly specific angle. Callers add more texture, especially when a voicemail about horse adoption reels becomes a debate about responsibility, acreage, and guilt. Guests can fit the same friend-circle rhythm, as Mike Murphy does when old football memories and field damage stories take over. The show is best when it argues a position that barely needs arguing. It gives those tiny positions real heat. Shoes, school closures, bathroom counters, golf pools, and college football ethics all get treated as worthy of a few more minutes. The result is not clean sports radio. It is a warm, fast, blunt hangout where friendship is the format and football is one of the recurring excuses.
Made for: Best for listeners who like college football culture, friend-group comedy, gardening detours, and domestic stories told with blunt timing. It suits people who want sports conversation that feels lived-in rather than studio-polished.
What sets it apart: Most football-adjacent shows stay near games, rankings, and takes; Hand In The Dirt lets school delays, raised beds, horse reels, grocery runs, and bathroom-counter debates carry equal weight. Its charm is how naturally the ordinary stuff becomes the main event.
Hand in the Dirt: A Gardening Podcast About Football
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Football gains texture through gardening, household detail and the lively arguments of Michael Felder, Stephen Hartzell and Michael Serber.
Hand In The Dirt lets football share the conversation with gardens, family logistics, music and whatever domestic puzzle has seized Michael Felder, Stephen Hartzell and Michael Serber.
Football keeps getting interrupted by gardens and school volunteering, exactly where you wanted the conversation to wander.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose hangout where schedule chaos, school drop-off, errands, and Masters-week trash talk all get folded into the banter.
Hand In The Dirt works best as a loose hangout, with schedule chaos, school drop-off, Bingo Night, cap etiquette, grocery-store errands, and Masters-week trash talk all getting pulled into the same easy stream.
Loose, lively banter that turns everyday domestic mess into the point.
Hand In The Dirt moves with a messy, easy rhythm, folding gardening, football, and lifestyle talk into quick detours about bathroom habits, kid trust, counter clutter, movie quotes, bodily misery, and bounce house logistics.
A fast, messy football hang that keeps finding its way back to the good story.
Hand In The Dirt moves from a psychedelic album-cover idea to a long beach mishap and then into a Mike Murphy story about kicking, hedges, and the small on-field details that tend to stick. That looseness suits the show.
A rambling garden hangout that folds real life into the jokes.
Hand In The Dirt keeps a garden podcast loose and funny by drifting through football, lifestyle chatter, weather, thermostats, horses, raised beds, and the odd side road that pulls the room along.
Hand In The Dirt | Episode 336 combines football talk, listener voicemail, parenting stories, and a debate about fall weddings during college-football season.
Episode 335 of Hand In The Dirt opens with Michael Felder, Stephen Hartzell and Michael Cerber joking about Felder's contributions to the college football almanac The Turf, then moves into Florida iguana and gator hunting.
Michael Felder, Steven Hartzell, and Michael Serber discuss Hartzell's Final Four trip to Indianapolis, including a pickup game at Hinkle Field House and Terrence Oglesby's 28-foot transition jumper.
Hand In The Dirt | Episode 315 features Stephen Hartzell, Michael Serber, and Michael Felder discussing a shark-themed birthday party, bar culture, college sports, and listener gardening calls.
Stephen Hartzell is away at the SEC tournament, so Felder and Serber hold down the show, with Serber introduced as the special guest.
Hand In The Dirt opens with the hosts enjoying an 80-degree day, flipping the thermostat from heat to AC, and settling into warm-weather mode.
Hand In The Dirt | Episode 311 opens with Michael Felder framing the show as a “gardening podcast about football” before calling it a “lifestyle podcast” and introducing Steven Hartzell and Michael Serber.
The hosts discuss their week, tease upcoming voicemails, and debate a controversial comment from John Sumrall about college football players.
Two hosts joke about a botched intro and complain about their kids' school schedule.
Hosts discuss their week, including kids missing school due to snow, and banter about road conditions near a high school.
The hosts discuss college football, specifically the Indiana Hoosiers, mixed with personal anecdotes and humor.
This episode of Hand In The Dirt discusses gardening and yard maintenance differences, particularly focusing on grass care in varying climates like Michigan.
This episode of Hand in the Dirt is a lifestyle podcast that discusses gardening, football, and real-time updates, including a personal interaction in a parking lot after the SEC championship game.
The hosts discuss a disappointing UNC football loss to rival NC State, blending sports commentary with a gardening-themed framing.
The host rants humorously about an audio delay issue while introducing the show, blending gardening and football themes with absurdist comedy.
The host rants about being pissed off, shares a story about a fan at a concert, and sets up a comedic football and lifestyle discussion.
A football talk show disguised as a gardening podcast, featuring casual conversation and banter among hosts and guests.
A comedic podcast where hosts engage in lighthearted, off-topic banter about their daily lives.
Two hosts engage in casual banter about football, parenting, and lifestyle, framed as a gardening podcast.
The hosts discuss football and personal anecdotes in a casual roundtable format.
Two hosts engage in casual banter about football, their surroundings, and the show's unique gardening theme.
The hosts discuss their gardening and lifestyle podcast, promote an upcoming live show at Bond Brothers Eastside, and troubleshoot microphone issues.
Hosts Stephen Hartzell and Michael Serber kick off the football season with banter, voicemails, and announcements about a live show.
The hosts introduce the podcast as a gardening podcast about football, share personal anecdotes, and tease upcoming announcements.
Hosts discuss ACC Media Days, parenting challenges, and the Tour de France in a casual football podcast.
A casual football podcast that blends gardening metaphors with lifestyle talk and personal anecdotes.
The hosts discuss an upcoming concert by the Killer Ants in Tuscaloosa and other lifestyle topics.
The hosts discuss football scheduling, deer in the yard, and a limited run of Yeti Ramblers, blending gardening metaphors with football talk.
A football podcast with a gardening theme, featuring banter about a golf tournament and personal frustrations.
A humorous sports podcast blending football talk with lifestyle and gardening metaphors, opening with banter about the PGA Championship.
Hand In The Dirt | Episode 269 opens with Steven Hartzell returning, Michael Server introducing himself as l underscore serverino, and the hosts joking about Killer Ants, “zed” versus “z,” and Men in Black.