The B3 Podcast

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Sports-bar comedy with a hometown scoreboard.

The gist

The B3 Podcast sounds like a crowded table after a game, where basketball talk keeps veering into jokes, rumors, old stories, and sponsor reads. Its recent run centers on Bar Reeve, Fair Shake, state-title coverage, and playful sports-bar debates that never stay on one track for long.

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About The B3 Podcast

The B3 Podcast is a local sports-comedy hang built around table talk, parody songs, and the kind of arguments that start with a game and end somewhere completely different. Its stated frame is simple: three guys in a sports bar. The recent episodes make that feel accurate, with sponsor reads, running gags, nickname-heavy banter, and a rhythm that sounds more like friends circling a table than a polished studio segment. Basketball is the gravitational center. Bar Reeve’s road to the state title gives the show its strongest recent through-line, from Fair Shake bonus pieces to championship-week coverage, road-to-Indy storytelling, moms’ roundtable promotion, and live Montgomery energy. The show treats local sports as community infrastructure, not just entertainment. A game becomes a town waking up early, people driving together, radio stations changing their morning, and former players, coaches, families, and fans all pulled into the same story. It also wanders, happily. One stretch can jump from LeBron’s flopping and Jordan baseball theories to softball, opening day, WWE viewing frustrations, old matchups, and a betting aside about Roman Anthony. Another can settle into the harder parts of coaching: moving families, starting over, losing friends, handling parents, and learning who can be trusted inside a program. The tone is blunt, teasing, and affectionate. The humor can be rowdy, but the recurring function is connection: the jokes keep the room loose while the show documents a very specific sports community in motion. For local listeners, it is likely full of names, places, and histories they already know. For everyone else, it works as an unvarnished slice of sports fandom, where Red Bones, Table 4, Fair Shake, Montgomery, and Bar Reeve all become part of the same ongoing conversation. The B3 Podcast is not trying to sound national. That is the point. It is most alive when the table is crowded, the agenda is thin, and the next tangent turns into the best part of the episode.

Made for: Best for listeners who enjoy loose sports talk, basketball culture, local radio energy, parody songs, and friends giving each other a hard time. It especially suits Bar Reeve and Montgomery followers who want the stories around the games, not just the scores.

What sets it apart: The show blends casual sports-bar comedy with deeply local championship-week documentation, making community context as important as the games themselves. Its parody-song openings and Fair Shake material give it a texture that feels closer to a town’s running conversation than a standard sports podcast.

In their own words

You walk up on 3 guys in a sports bar..........this is what you hear.

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Local basketball gets detailed, spirited treatment that connects sectional games and coaching decisions to the communities living with their consequences.

The B3 Podcast turns local Indiana basketball into a lively group conversation about games, coaching and the communities invested in both. Sectional matchups receive close attention, with discussion moving through school classifications, team size, recent form and the pressure…

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Why you'd press play

Table four turns sectional picks into community theater, and you get the best seat.

Press play if you want

  • sectional predictions with enough conviction to make your bracket feel personally challenged
  • coaching talk that lets you hear the pressure behind the playbook
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Episodes

  1. 1

    B3 SPICE

    A promotional segment for the B3 podcast featuring a parody of the Spice Girls' song 'Wannabe' to advertise the show.

    Apr 17, 2026·1h 34m·2 clips
  2. 2

    BY THE WAY..........

    Hidden gem

    The B3 Podcast episode "BY THE WAY.........." moves from a 44-day run of major 1991 album releases to local basketball, health scares, road rescues, and COVID memories.

    Apr 9, 2026·1h 40m·5 clips
  3. 3

    LIVE FROM MONTGOMERY NORTH

    Hidden gem

    The B3 Podcast records from a Marriott in North Indianapolis as Bar E prepares to play for a state basketball championship, with host Brian Emmons joined by Ryan Wirtz, school resource officer Chris Myers, coach Heath Howington, and broadcaster Jeff Doyle.

    Mar 28, 2026·2h·5 clips
  4. 4

    B3 BONUS: From Fair Shake - "YOU PLAY THE WHOLE TOWN

    A nostalgic preview of a small Indiana town's state championship basketball game, emphasizing the community's deep involvement.

    Mar 28, 2026·11m
  5. 5

    B3 BONUS: THE ROAD TO STATE - "LET'S GO FIND OUT"

    A special B3 podcast episode previewing the Bar Reef Vikings' state championship game, featuring a narrative by Mike DeCourcy about the team's unexpected season.

    Mar 28, 2026·25m
  6. 6

    B3 BONUS: From Fair Shake: VIKING MOM'S ROUNDTABLE

    Promotional segment for a sports radio show covering the Barre Vikings basketball game and the Sportsman's Expo.

    Mar 28, 2026·27m
  7. 7

    B3 WON'T BACK DOWN

    Hidden gem

    The B3 Podcast episode "B3 WON'T BACK DOWN" centers on Bar-Reeve's state-tournament basketball run and the way the show frames it as a local storyline.

    Mar 26, 2026·1h 41m·5 clips
  8. 8

    WHEN YOU CALL ME, YOU CAN CALL ME DAL

    Hidden gem

    The B3 Podcast episode titled "WHEN YOU CALL ME, YOU CAN CALL ME DAL" opens with a parody countdown song built around Brent Dalrymple and the line "when you call me, you can call me Dow." The first stretch turns into a local concession-stand tour, with Red Bones in Montgomery, the "B3 dog," Tecumseh hand-cut fries, West Washington pork chops, Princeton fried bologna, Skyline Chili, and Odin Locker all getting named.

    Mar 19, 2026·1h 46m·5 clips
  9. 9

    OUR SECTIONAL IS BETTER THAN YOUR SECTIONAL (and other obnoxious takes)

    Hidden gem

    Bar Reeve's sectional run at the Hatchet House is the loudest story here, with the hosts saying the Vikings found 'another gear' and won every game by double digits.

    Mar 12, 2026·1h 42m·5 clips
  10. 10

    ME, YOU & 62

    Feb 26, 2026·1h 16m
  11. 11

    SW Indiana's Favorite Boy Band: TABLE 4 U

    Feb 19, 2026·1h 29m
  12. 12

    FROM FAIR SHAKE w/ Brian Emmons : ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

    Feb 16, 2026·27m
  13. 13

    DAL IS ALRIGHT, DECO'S ALRIGHT BUT TODD SEEMS A LITTLE WEIRD

    Feb 13, 2026·1h 11m
  14. 14

    DECO TALKIN HOOPS

    Feb 5, 2026·1h 2m
  15. 15

    ONCE UPON A TIME IN B3........

    Jan 29, 2026·1h 29m
  16. 16

    BUGGY BOWL "B3 CAST" FROM THE BIG SHIP

    Jan 25, 2026·1h 31m
  17. 17

    B-R VIKING LEGEND BRYAN HUGHES

    Jan 22, 2026·1h 20m
  18. 18

    From Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons - "TWELVE TO FOREVER" an IU Retrospective

    Jan 17, 2026·10m
  19. 19

    EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE B3

    Jan 15, 2026·1h 24m
  20. 20

    B3 AT THE VAULT

    Dec 31, 2025·1h 53m
  21. 21

    MAYBE WE NEED A LITTLE PATIENCE

    Dec 24, 2025·1h 19m
  22. 22

    OLD SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL DRAFT NIGHT

    Dec 4, 2025·1h 30m
  23. 23

    WTWO's Rick Semmler

    Nov 19, 2025·1h 28m
  24. 24

    Yes It's Free.....Free Podcast

    Nov 13, 2025·1h 13m
  25. 25

    BO BURKHART! HEATH HOWINGTON! TYLER SCHULTHEIS!

    Nov 6, 2025·1h 12m
  26. 26

    BONE SWEET BONE

    Oct 30, 2025·1h 37m
  27. 27

    B3's Back. ALRIGHT!

    Oct 23, 2025·1h 32m
  28. 28

    A PODCAST FOR YOUR PHONE

    Aug 14, 2025·1h 11m
  29. 29

    TRANSFER TO THE B3 PORTAL

    Apr 18, 2025·1h 16m
  30. 30

    BONUS POD: Rob Koontz, Head Professional - French Lick Resort

    Apr 15, 2025·31m
  31. 31

    OH, YOU DIDN'T KNOW? YOU BETTER ASK SOMEBODY..............

    Apr 4, 2025·1h 42m
  32. 32

    We Tell The Story of The Montreal Screwjob

    Apr 2, 2025·36m
  33. 33

    B3 DAILY UPDATE - 4/1/25

    Apr 1, 2025·7m
  34. 34

    PINFALL TALK 2

    Mar 21, 2025·47m
  35. 35

    AS MY PODCAST GENTLY WEEPS

    Mar 20, 2025·1h 54m
  36. 36

    Introducing....Pinfall Talk

    Mar 18, 2025·36m
  37. 37

    DECO DIVES INTO THE NEW IHSAA TRANSFER RULES

    Mar 17, 2025·1h 8m
  38. 38

    DECO AND THE SPOOKY KIDS

    Feb 27, 2025·1h 23m
  39. 39

    *BONUS EPISODE* DECO TELLS THE STORY OF THE DELPHI MURDERS

    Feb 24, 2025·52m
  40. 40

    LIVE FROM TABLE 4.......IT'S WEDNESDAY NIIIIIIGHT

    Feb 20, 2025·1h 13m
  41. 41

    Bonus Episode: Route 50....Highway of Champions

    Feb 17, 2025·17m
  42. 42

    A NICE CALM EVENING WITH THE BOYS

    Hidden gem

    Mike DeCoursey and Blake Burkhart spend the opening minutes of The B3 Podcast swapping late-night chaos, from Winnie the puppy in suburban Ligoti to missing Kia Telluride key fobs and a dog puking in the truck.

    Feb 13, 2025·1h 32m·5 clips
  43. 43

    BACK HOME AGAIN....AT TABLE FOOOOUR

    Jan 16, 2025·1h 23m
  44. 44

    INTO THE VAULT

    Jan 8, 2025·1h 28m
  45. 45

    A VERY B3 CHRISTMAS

    Dec 23, 2024·2h 22m
  46. 46

    A SHOW EVEN RIP WOULD LIKE

    The hosts of the B3 Podcast introduce the show, mention sponsors, and discuss the absence of co-host Brian Emmons who is in Venice Beach.

    Dec 19, 2024·57m
  47. 47

    OVERHEARD AT TABLE 4

    The hosts of the B3 podcast banter about rewriting song lyrics as a hobby before introducing themselves.

    Dec 12, 2024·1h 10m
  48. 48

    THE RETURN OF THE TODDFATHER

    The B3 podcast returns for another season, with the hosts joking about Todd's obsession with turning the show into a hockey podcast.

    Dec 5, 2024·1h 9m
  49. 49

    LET'S TRY AND START A NEW SEASON

    Nov 27, 2024·1h 22m
  50. 50

    BELIEVE IT OR NOT IT'S ........B3

    The hosts of the B3 Podcast banter about their intro, sponsors, and a debate over the Jacksons versus the Osmonds.

    Jun 27, 2024·1h 14m