917 - Touchdown Tim Chitters feat. D.J. Byrnes & Eephus (3/17/25)

Had to listen after the 2026 midterms. Good news from the future! DJ has multiple Pablo Torre episodes, Vivek has ascended to the highest level of humiliation, and all of the people who left Thom tillis voicemails just flipped R +14 districts.

Just saw Eephus. It was great!

Say what you want about NIMBY’s but at least they’re honest. They don’t want poor people ruining their property value. YIMBY’s are the most dishonest political movement in “progressive” politics. They pretend they’re doing a favor to poor people when their primary driver is for profit development. They don’t want to build low cost housing they want to build whatever they can to make cash in areas where HOA’s are shutting out their butt ugly dealerships and strip malls.

thanks for reminding me i have a ticket i need to pay

Meat raffles are actually really common across Australia, but the cuts are usually at least butcher quality or sometimes an entire butchered lamb or cow

I've lived near Detroit my whole life. Love you guys. Loved laughing at Clevelands civic squander. In Detroit we had Kwame Kilpatrick running things!!! Charlie Leduff would be an awesome interview for Chapo and our city. He's rough around the edges but No Bullshit podcast he does is pretty down to earth.....thanks. Big Fan of Cushvlogs

Buddy, I’m starting to think you don’t have any love in your heart for your old friend Tim Chitters.

Just saw eephus holly molly so funny then wreaked and embarrassed in front of my wife. So well done

Meat raffle already being a cornerstone of the Australian pub going experience, but New England? That's a new one

I do know what a meat raffle is, but I've never seen Uncut Gems. Thanks, Will!

lol I love it I used to eat at that one every week (I got a little fat living in cbus)

Lol. I learned about meat raffles when I moved up to northern Canada for my first nursing job out of school. They fucking ruled. Get hammered, win the meat raffle, live on stew for a week in -40 degree Celsius 😘👌

This episode got me through the workday

What’s the shrek dong meme he is referring to

Meat raffles are big at the Legions in Canada. Went once and won a pack of sausages

this is how i found out the mayor of my hometown is a swinger.

Loved the Matsui story. I work in Komatsu, Japan been living in the region about 7 years and the Hideki Matsui baseball museum is here. https://www.hideki.co.jp/

#PupSchumer siiit, stayyy, pass our bills.. GOOD BOY!!

Zack Grienke mentioned!!

Hahah the jobs all down to Pawtucket. Shout out Nate, congrats on the movie!

I really don't see how Dems could possibly tap into the angry resistance libs that wouldn't just dissipate immediately. Hard to see caring enough to try

Was that holy modal rounders I heard there for a second?

hot damn I want that fuckin book

Saying baseball has the weirdest guys when Felix literally made a seris on MMA is erasure of the CTE wing of this podcast

If you guys maybee start to feel serious about writing a 90s GN about the future we’re living in, I’d seriously like to draw it.

Felix’s reaction to “a certain lifestyle” was like watching a kid open a present on Christmas

Will, could you get the distributors to find another screen in Portland for Eephus other than Living Room Theaters? That place is not Movie Mindset approved.

as a PNW transplant to the midwest, the canes on olentangy at OSU was my introduction to the franchise. it is THAT good that vivek would attend, vegetarianism be damned

Meat raffles are a thing in a lot of pubs in working class areas in the UK as well, certainly not uncommon still

Virgil Trucks

Tim Chitters is a great guest

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Just wanted to chime in and say that “meat raffles” (we call ‘em “meat draws”) happen quite frequently at Legions (Canadian versions of VFWs) in even the biggest and densest Canadian cities 🥩

Those phone messages killed me. Reminded me of that tweet that compared twitter communists calling for dialogue with resist lib who wants Mitch McConnell executed.

Got a reply to my email to Rep Auchincloss re: Mahmoud Khalil. He describes Khalil as “an anti-Israel activist” who was arrested “for his own role in violent protests” and says his actions were “despicable”, but that he has the right to due process and that “US officials may have acted unprofessionally in their arrest”. Basically the Dem party line is treat Khalil the way they would an obviously guilty accused rapist or murderer who a judge had to let go due to police/prosecutorial fuckups. Absolute scum, I hate them so much.

I had a Swedish exchange student when I was in high school and he joined the baseball team with me on a whim. After he returned to Sweden, he played on a club baseball team circuit for a couple years before getting tired of it. They do have these little baseball leagues all over Europe, but they are typically peopled by expats from the Americas mostly from My experience.

Canes story is incredible Also something about someone who has so little respect for the public and general order to be getting that many tickets and not paying them wanting to be a public official for the “left” party is so on the nose for the moment

NC State legend DJ Burns?

Any dog anyone has left in them should be put into abandoning the Democratic Party and building something else

I maintain that reading old timey baseball biographies and nicknames will tell you more about America than reading any book on American history. Names like Pickles Dillhoefer and Brickyard Kennedy tells you 90% of the story about 19th century immigration patterns and political economy.

Zach Greinke rules

We have meat wheels at my gub club in northeastern PA. Buy a ticket, spin the wheel, maybe win some meat

Meat raffles are a big deal in Australia too, but it’s usually pretty good quality meat from local butchers.

love the ohio content <3 i live in a coastal elite city now but i truly do miss columbus

Good episode but whew DJ is an insufferable petty bourgeois social democrat.

I don't know man, I think the lady with 60 unpaid parking tickets driving on a suspended license sounds like a classic Chapo listener and I think we should be supporting her

the vivek cane’s story was so good. love DJ’s annual appearance!

'the weirdest guys ever' . then describes normal guys

You should see if reporter Erin Reed would talk to you about some of the crazy Republican bills getting voted down in Montana. It might be nice to have a win on the podcast while everything else is burning down?

Damn the movie tour was in my neck of the woods and I didn't even know it. Fuck.

I'm wishing so hard for something bad to happen to the baddies

another Great Lakes imperium shout-out

As an Ohioan I’m convinced you could immediately tank Viveks standing with Ohio dumbasses by pointing out he looks exactly like the “sketchy salesman” stock character from family guy

good show. everybody had funny stories

Is Ryan Ballsack sports? 🤔

Crazy Uncut Gems spoiler!!

Belfast Maine is so postcard perfect and white picket fence small town America that if it came out the whole place was a cannibalism cult I’d believe it in a second

I played a couple of seasons of amateur baseball bit in Austin. Really excited for Eephus, thanks for getting this together everyone.

As a lifelong resident of Erie, PA, I’m offended at the suggestion of renaming the lake. It’s the one nice thing we have. Would alienating PA be worth dick sucking Ohio?

I nominate another Canada episode. Alberta the 51st State- How Canada can Liberate America

Tim Chitters is the funniest made up Ohioan name 😭😭😭😭

I'm glad they interviewed a fellow bike user

I used to work at a public library and there was a little old man who lived in a nearby rooming house (he used a wheelchair as a walker) who'd come in and just ramble about things. He once old me that his sister used to be married to Blue Moon Odom. He also once brought in his TV remote and asked me to change the batteries for him.

This parking ticket story is wildly similar to something that happened in the Portland, OR mayoral race last year. A city councilors running for mayor who had dozens of unpaid tickets and multiple license suspensions and was just like "oh I had to work late so I ran out of meter time."

I don’t follow baseball at all but I just looked up Zack greinke and now I want to build a shrine around one of his baseball cards

This is so funny I pass by that canes all the time

A few stray thoughts on sports. Baseball is such a great communal activity. You just sit there, taking turns doing a pretty fun physical activity, and dick around and chat. It is like you are transported back to the kind of easy friendships that are the lifeblood of childhood but we feel lacking in adult life. A sport with that much downtime will never survive as a spectator sport but every American should be required to actually play it a few times a month. There would never be another school shooting. I mainly play basketball and it is interesting for a totally different reason as it is so intensely communal and cooperative/competitive that it precipitates a whole range of communal institution to manage these things. I feel like my regular basketball game has an entire constitution's worth of unwritten rules that allows us to cooperate, include everyone and manage everyone's egos. So it is cool but it is less social fun than baseball (but it is better exercise and I enjoy the actual act a bit more).

PLEASE watch undrafted directed by joe mazzello its not Good but it is an incredibly apt translation of a low stakes baseball game being played by adults to film i think abt it all the time

If you're looking for other local journalists covering smaller cities, I highly recommend Bill Shaner who writes about Worcester, MA over at Worcester Sucks https://x.com/bill_shaner

TOM AND BUNNY 2028

Trump is huge among swingers, journalist Bryan Qweeber found a bunch of posts in lifestyle forums about the scourge of people talking politics in the playroom and ruining the vibe

I grew up in Whitinsville (the decrepit mill town they stayed in) and I could not get the huge idiot grin off my face the whole time through Eephus.

Ok this guy rules

do a movie episode about www.RachelOrmont.com, screening april 4 at the roxy

Why have I never realized that the one thing Trump supporters have going for them ia that they know they're supposed to be angry.

Holy shit that Vivek story was incredible

There at the end of an long hallway is Vivek, the girl with the polka dotted dress,

guys is the new new yorker

Wait so if they rename it the acronym would be HOMOS for the lakes

I love that the Eephus guys were staying at the Spotlight safehouse.

I really expected this Chitters to have way more views. Criminally underrated.

Spaceman Lee bb

When I was 13 or 14 my family got to go to a pre-game meet and greet with the players at Fenway. Me and my bro got a picture with virtually every player, including one with Manny Ramirez giving Pedro Martinez a piggyback ride behind us. At some point when my parents moved they misplaced/lost the pics and have been agonizing over it for years

Columbus ohio, city of sin, gambling, swinging and violence gangs

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Will, if you’re not following Pitching Ninja on Twitter you’re missing out on some sweet and insane pitching clips.

Will got me sucked into the movie and baseball mindset. Moxie Cinema Springfield mo this weekend, I’ll be there

Criterion half off sale starting at noon today

I’ve done contract work in Douglas. If I had to live there i would probably kill myself

"think i heard of that guy" will lmao

another ohio ep, never kill yourself

Meat raffles are definitely still a thing in the less gentrified parts of the UK too, there's even a band named after them

Will is right about swingers being Republicans. Please have Bryan and Chris from Guys on to talk about Republican swingers.

So happy to hear Bryan Quinby name checked when discussing the pineapple lifestyle in Columbus, Ohio.

Anyone else still waiting on the book or just me?

Changing Lake Eerie to Ohio is dumb boo wait that would change HOMES to HOMOS nvm do it

My dad used to say "Eephus pitch," but I never knew how it was spelled and I didn't realize that's what the name of the movie was until today.

DJ Byrnes feature just in time for march madness

Would love if you guys did Pennsylvania solely so I could get an hour of Felix doing his incredibly accurate Josh Shapiro impression

Eephus uses squibs instead of CGI blood

There was someone running for city commissioner in portland that had a ton of tickets and a suspended license, but it wasn’t until she hit a Tesla while parking and it was caught on the Tesla camera that she just left that it all came out. lol I think I’d almost accept any politician ignoring parking tickets except city candidates. It’s literally shirking the laws of the city you claim you respect and want to serve.

Bill Shaner’s reporting on Worcester, MA politics is amazing. The substack is Worcester Sucks and I Love It

Those phone messages make me miss the Jerky Boys

Spare us the Chitter

Got my tickets to see Eephus in Cleveland. I hope all the crazies show up.

For that second half they had mike recine pretend to be a movie maker. That's crazy

Those baseball player writeups had me howling

Watched Eephus in LA with Amber moderating the q&a. What a picture! Such a great experience

Somebody's gotta sample those phone calls for the hardest breakdown calls of all time

at last chapo pays tribute to pedro

There's nothing quite like the combination of lead poisoning and aspartame to really make the 60-80 year old brain angry on a molecular level.

Based boomer libs are back baby. Lord how I've missed them in the discourse

Wow short episode this week. Show ends at an hour

meet vivek halfway on the lake ohio renaming with a smaller body of water. little dix bay can be vivek's little dix bay.

unc wild as shit

Ohio Excellence

Meat raffles are big in Australia

DJ is BA (badass)

Meat raffles are reasonably common in the UK as well!

I used to cyber with a lady named tim chitters.

Ohio used to be where decades of handsome general presidents came from, and now it's the "basketball shorts walking on the side of the highway" state.

FFS Will, it's "intrepid reporting," not "interpretative reporting"!

"The very tippy tippy top" of the party in this case meaning literally every single actual Democrat elected official, staffer, or guy who makes coffee in the fucking office. Like, Democrats are *worse* than Republicans because the latter at least don't have a legion of shills who think if they lie hard enough about how the problems are just Chuck and Hillary and AOC next week or whoever else is gonna play heel next then Bernie will give them a spot on his campaign. No, Republicans do what they were elected to do: fascism. And Democrats also do what Republicans were elected to do. And Berniecrats do what they always do: "we'll fix it this time guys just vote harder." Same bullshit you were selling in 2017. All you ever offer is more apologia for the Dems. Fuck off libs.

From Baseball crank to Baseball bank wank? 🤑😉🤔 jk For real tho, I got no beefus with Eephus... We are one step closer to SODAS: The Movie 🥤

Felix begins speaking at 50 seconds!

We need a follow up to the miller investigation with queeber

Please please please rename it lake Ohio. That makes the acronym HOMOS.

Ooo, good call from Felix, can we get Jerry Schmutz on the pod next week?

I'll be honest, I don't give a single fuck about parking tickets. Little concerned about her possibly being a drunk. So far she just seems weird? Like Veep weird.

What's the word this guy is trying to say at 20:15? He's like, "An-ta-zhag? I don't know how to say it!"

Saw Eephus this weekend with some friends. Thought it was great. The movie really captures the feel of a baseball game. The best metaphor for the times would have been if they were building a prison on the field, rather than a school. But maybe this is just undue pessimism of the present-era speaking.

Why the hell isn't Eephus playing in more theaters? I'm not gonna cross a fucking river just to see a movie

Hey gang. Who else is a maga leftist?

What’s the connection between Eephus and Chapo? Did Will contribute to it or something?

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