
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…
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
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
BY THE WAY..........
Hidden gemThe 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
LIVE FROM MONTGOMERY NORTH
Hidden gemThe 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
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
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
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
B3 WON'T BACK DOWN
Hidden gemThe 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
WHEN YOU CALL ME, YOU CAN CALL ME DAL
Hidden gemThe 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
OUR SECTIONAL IS BETTER THAN YOUR SECTIONAL (and other obnoxious takes)
Hidden gemBar 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
ME, YOU & 62
Feb 26, 2026·1h 16m - 11
SW Indiana's Favorite Boy Band: TABLE 4 U
Feb 19, 2026·1h 29m - 12
FROM FAIR SHAKE w/ Brian Emmons : ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
Feb 16, 2026·27m - 13
DAL IS ALRIGHT, DECO'S ALRIGHT BUT TODD SEEMS A LITTLE WEIRD
Feb 13, 2026·1h 11m - 14
DECO TALKIN HOOPS
Feb 5, 2026·1h 2m - 15
ONCE UPON A TIME IN B3........
Jan 29, 2026·1h 29m - 16
BUGGY BOWL "B3 CAST" FROM THE BIG SHIP
Jan 25, 2026·1h 31m - 17
B-R VIKING LEGEND BRYAN HUGHES
Jan 22, 2026·1h 20m - 18
From Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons - "TWELVE TO FOREVER" an IU Retrospective
Jan 17, 2026·10m - 19
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE B3
Jan 15, 2026·1h 24m - 20
B3 AT THE VAULT
Dec 31, 2025·1h 53m - 21
MAYBE WE NEED A LITTLE PATIENCE
Dec 24, 2025·1h 19m - 22
OLD SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL DRAFT NIGHT
Dec 4, 2025·1h 30m - 23
WTWO's Rick Semmler
Nov 19, 2025·1h 28m - 24
Yes It's Free.....Free Podcast
Nov 13, 2025·1h 13m - 25
BO BURKHART! HEATH HOWINGTON! TYLER SCHULTHEIS!
Nov 6, 2025·1h 12m - 26
BONE SWEET BONE
Oct 30, 2025·1h 37m - 27
B3's Back. ALRIGHT!
Oct 23, 2025·1h 32m - 28
A PODCAST FOR YOUR PHONE
Aug 14, 2025·1h 11m - 29
TRANSFER TO THE B3 PORTAL
Apr 18, 2025·1h 16m - 30
BONUS POD: Rob Koontz, Head Professional - French Lick Resort
Apr 15, 2025·31m - 31
OH, YOU DIDN'T KNOW? YOU BETTER ASK SOMEBODY..............
Apr 4, 2025·1h 42m - 32
We Tell The Story of The Montreal Screwjob
Apr 2, 2025·36m - 33
B3 DAILY UPDATE - 4/1/25
Apr 1, 2025·7m - 34
PINFALL TALK 2
Mar 21, 2025·47m - 35
AS MY PODCAST GENTLY WEEPS
Mar 20, 2025·1h 54m - 36
Introducing....Pinfall Talk
Mar 18, 2025·36m - 37
DECO DIVES INTO THE NEW IHSAA TRANSFER RULES
Mar 17, 2025·1h 8m - 38
DECO AND THE SPOOKY KIDS
Feb 27, 2025·1h 23m - 39
*BONUS EPISODE* DECO TELLS THE STORY OF THE DELPHI MURDERS
Feb 24, 2025·52m - 40
LIVE FROM TABLE 4.......IT'S WEDNESDAY NIIIIIIGHT
Feb 20, 2025·1h 13m - 41
Bonus Episode: Route 50....Highway of Champions
Feb 17, 2025·17m - 42
A NICE CALM EVENING WITH THE BOYS
Hidden gemMike 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
BACK HOME AGAIN....AT TABLE FOOOOUR
Jan 16, 2025·1h 23m - 44
INTO THE VAULT
Jan 8, 2025·1h 28m - 45
A VERY B3 CHRISTMAS
Dec 23, 2024·2h 22m - 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
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
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
LET'S TRY AND START A NEW SEASON
Nov 27, 2024·1h 22m - 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