BHGPodcast 47

Back in 1839, the then-Iowa territory and Missouri fought a war over the boundary between the two states, a war won by Iowa when their steely glares and modern weaponry ("In the Iowans' ranks were to be found men armed with blunderbusses, flintlocks, and quaint old ancestral swords that had probably adorned the walls for many generations. One private carried a plough coulter over his shoulder by means of a log chain, another had an old-fashioned sausage stuffer for a weapon, while a third shouldered a sheet iron sword about six feet long") scared the Missourians into submission.

A mere 161 years later, we're playing football. Bill Connelly of Rock M Nation and Football Outsiders joins us to preview the Insight Bowl and wave the white flag of surrender once again.

BHGPodcast 46

In the end, it really wasn't that complicated. Simple, even obvious, like spending an hour on a Rubik's cube that's one rotation from completion. He loved her, that he knew to be true. And that feeling beamed out from his pores, and it reflected off of her and back at him, but at what felt like a 5% discount, like there was a half-life. And it was then and there, on a bench outside the hospital where he had just found out he had inoperable scurvy, which was an especially bad problem because he'd only gone to the doctor because he'd been drafted into the Navy, and having scurvy probably wouldn't disqualify him from joining the Navy because c'mon it's the Navy they all have scurvy eventually, two blocks from the office building where he'd first heard of the alien invaders who were ravaging the countryside, which was fine by him because he would be in the ocean on a Navy ship suffering from scurvy while fighting the smaller alien boats, it was here where he realized that his love was radioactive.

Kinda like the bombs they had to use on the aliens that were conquering the world.

It's sad like that.