O The Anthem Podcast

This week on the podcast, Cory and Rob get back on the mics for the first time in a long time and catch up with what has been happening including Cory's wedding, the WGA and SAG strikes, and why did Rob leave California? We also talk about a Bobby Bonilla day for generations to come. Tune in! OTA Podcast Episode 400: OTA 400 Find more O The Anthem OTheAnthem.com facebook.com/OTheAnthem twitter.com/OTheAnthem instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, Thanksgiving is over but Cory's family was in town to meet the baby, and Rob got his own bundle of joy in the way of a PS5. On to the news, which is all bad news this week. The Omicron variant is raising levels of concern before we have the full picture. In the courts we have the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial and the verdict in the case of the murder of Ahmaud Arbury. Finally in Sportsball the Ravens are some how on top of the AFC and the city of St. Louis gets a big payday from the NFL.   Support Rob in No Shave November!  https://no-shave.org/member/robert-cheek  OTA Podcast Episode 399: Good News Bad News   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, It's Thanksgiving week which of course means the Christmas people are showing up early and trying to ruin it. In a follow up to last week, we talk about the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, as well as the near end of the Killing of Ahmaud Arbury and the Unite the Right civil trial. We close up with a talk about Covid Boosters and Carlos Correa being the worst person to bring up the deservedness of awards.   Support Rob in No Shave November!   https://no-shave.org/member/robert-cheek  OTA Podcast Episode 398: False Idols   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, Cory is home with his daughter, and explains the whole experience of her first week on earth. We then go straight to the courts where Kyle Rittinghouse, the Ahmaud Arbery murder case, and the civil case in Charlottesville are all over the news. In other stories, we discuss IATSE narrowly passing a new 3 year agreement, infrastructure is signed into law, Travis Scott picked an unbelievable person to be the public face of a crisis, and Britney is officially free.   Support Rob in No Shave November!   https://no-shave.org/member/robert-cheek  OTA Podcast Episode 397: Legal Beat   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Cover Art includes work originally captured by Richie Diesterheft on flickr.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/10058483@N00/2075144876/

This week on the podcast, Cory's daughter Casey was born this weekend, and in this special prerecorded episode the guys share their thoughts on her arrival. We talk about our childhoods, and what Cory hopes to do for his daughter. Think of it like a time capsule for his daughter to remember the time right before she joined him.   Support Rob in No Shave November!   https://no-shave.org/member/robert-cheek  OTA Podcast Episode 396: An Episode for my Daughter   Find more O The Anthem    OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, Rob is participating in No Shave November (link down below!). We also look at the state of Covid, with Jen Psaki testing positive and the death rates remaining high around the nation. In politics it looks like we could be getting closer to a vote on the Build Back Better agenda, while Biden meets with the Pope before going on to Scotland to discuss climate change, and how Gen Z is over it and how that may be a precursor for things to come. We close on Sportsball; Cory hasn't watched a minute of the World Series and he pisses off Astros fans with a heavy dose of the truth.   Support Rob in No Shave November!   https://no-shave.org/member/robert-cheek   OTA Podcast Episode 395: Build Back Slowly   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Cover image includes work originally attributed to Senator Joe Manchin on Flickr  https://www.flickr.com/p

This week on the podcast, we start with confirmation from last week that Brian Laundrie's body was found in Florida before talking about the tragic death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. Cory talks about his own experience with guns on set, before a broader conversation about crew safety, and how it might run along the current IATSE negotiations. In the latest Political news, Biden hits his lowest approval rating of his Presidency, Build Back Better is falling apart, and Members of Congress had dozens of meetings with Stop the Steal organizers prior to January 6th.   OTA Podcast Episode 394: Coup Command Center   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Cover image includes work originally attributed to Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK on Wikipedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Willard_Washington_(27728663921).jpg

This week on the podcast, we discuss the death of Colin Powell and the complicated legacy he had left behind. We also talk about the far-left swing from Pope Francis that is a refreshing change of pace from the Catholic Church of old. We also discuss the latest with IATSE and other related labor strikes from around the country. In Covid news, J&J expected to get a booster it probably needed from the beginning. Finally in politics we talk about the Supreme Court, Trump suing the National Archive like someone with nothing to hide would do, and the theater of sourcing in the age of cable news.   OTA Podcast Episode 393: Word from up high   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem  twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Cover image includes work originally attributed to the Republic of Korea on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/koreanet/14758513027/in/photostream/

This week on the podcast, we start in Sportsball where the Ravens have a huge comeback win over the Colts on Monday Night Football, and Jon Gruden e-mails leak which show a long history of racism, sexism, and homophobia. We ask when we can expect to see more e-mails from other higher ups in the league, and wonder if we will see Kyrie Irving at all this season after NYC keeps him from playing any home games until he gets vaccinated, at a cost to him of $380,000 a game. After that we get into the news of January 6th subpoenas, the cause of death is announced in the Gabby Petito case, and is Southwest Airlines going to the unvaccinated airline?   OTA Podcast Episode 392: Three Yards and a Cloud of Epithets   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Cover image includes work originally attributed to Travis AFB on Flickr  https://www.flickr.com/photos/99847360@N07/43899578092

This week on the podcast, Facebook's outage is the least of their problems as a whistleblower has exposed internal conversations that detail facebook's knowledge of how troublesome their product is. We also get into the Pandora Papers, the IATSE strike authorization, the oil spill off the coast of Southern California, the Supreme Court heads into a new session, and when it comes to covid, Florida gonna Florida.   OTA Podcast Episode 391: Pandora Papers   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, Cory is back from up north after celebrating his brother's wedding. We talked about that and all the news from the week including R. Kelly being found guilty of racketeering. Washington will be busy avoiding a shutdown, raising the debt ceiling, and passing the infrastructure bills. In Arizona Biden actually gains votes in the sham recount effort, while we ask what it means to imeach. We finish with Gabby Petito case, the latest covid numbers, and the record setting accomplishments of Justin Tucker.   OTA Podcast Episode 390: Remix to Conviction   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Album art features a photograph originally taken by WBEZ on flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagopublicradio/9251021620/in/photostream/

This week on the podcast, we start in politics where Gavin Newsom escapes the recall effort and a Justice for January 6th rally is sparsely attended amongst insurrectionists. Then we take a page out of the Nancy Grace playbook and talk about the Murdaugh family saga, the disappearence of Gabby Petito, and finally we touch on the Robert Durst guilty verdict.   OTA Podcast Episode 389: Sagas from Coast to Coast   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, We open the show talking about performative politics, and Rob has an unexpected reaction to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Met Gala. After that we dive in deep on the California recall while Cory is trying to decide what to do with his ballot the hour before the deadline to turn it in. We also look back on the retrospectives of 9/11, the memorial events, and George W. Bush's comments from his speech. We close on Sportsball talking about the Ravens loss on Monday Night Football and why Derek Jeter would not be a hall of famer if he wasn't a Yankee.   OTA Podcast Episode 388: Newsom Lease on Life   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Album art includes works originally attributable to Gage Skidmore on flickr and used under creative commons. The original work can be found in the link below:   https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/47998162326

This week on the podcast, we discuss the end around of the Supreme Court that happened with the recent Texas abortion ban. We talk about how the court came to the ruling, and what it means long term for the future of abortion nationally. We then look back on the last couple of years of endless crisis and try and make sense of it all. Finally, we cleanse the palate with an NFL preview, including Cory's thoughts on the Ravens season.   OTA Podcast Episode 387: Endless Crisis's   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Album art includes works originally attributable to David Herrera on flickr and used under creative commons. The original work can be found in the link below:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/dph1110/3460882920

This week on the podcast, Hurricane Ida pounds New Orleans 16 years to the day that Katrina hit shore. We talk about how things have changed since then and how they have gotten worse. After that we turn our eyes to Afghanistan where suicide bombers attack the airport and the US responds with a drone strike, and with that officially ends the incursion into Afghanistan. We finish with Covid where people are turning to medicine for farm animals over the safe and available vaccine, and shortages on nurses and doctors has many hospitals feeling the squeeze.   OTA Podcast Episode 386: What's changed in 16 years?   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Album art includes works originally attributable to Ramsey Landry on wikipedia and used under creative commons. The original work can be found in the link below: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurricane_Ida.jpg

This week on the podcast, Cory found out that he is going to be a father, and Rob mocks him mercilessly for that. In the news, Afghanistan is still a mess, and we break down the latest in the California recall election of Gavin Newsom. In the latest Covid news, Pfizer's vaccine is fully approved by the FDA, and Trump goes for another super spreader event in lowly vaccinated Alabama. We finish in Sportsball where the Orioles can't win and the Ravens can't lose.   OTA Podcast Episode 385: Big Life Changes   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, Mike Lindell promised Trump would be re-instated on August 13 and clearly that didn't happen, troops are pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban take over the Presidential palace almost immediately, and Haiti is hit with a devastating earthquake. Locally, it might be time for the Los Angeles City Council to do some soul searching on the LAPD before things go over the edge for good, and in Sportsball we talk about the Field of Dreams game, the Orioles #2 ranked farm system, and we say farewell to Chris Davis.   OTA Podcast Episode 384: Things that didn't happen   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, we talk about how overwhelmingly successful vaccines have been with full FDA approval right around the corner. In places where Covid is at it's highest we discuss the approach of Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott, who may have been Nero in a past life. Next, we discuss Andrew Cuomo (recorded prior to his resignation), the job outlook for America, and we discuss the pullout in Afghanistan and what might come next.   OTA Podcast Episode 383: Emperor Nero in a past life   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Album art uses work through creative commons of user cjh1452000 on wikipedia  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nero_1.JPG

This week on the podcast, we talk about the jam-packed lollapalooza concert in Chicago, and why Delta variant concerns have the guys worried about events like that. In other covid news, Lindsey Graham tests positive, and the US finally passes 70% vaccinations, with increases coming from places that have the highest Covid rates. In other news, Trump tells things to the Attorney General that are truly breathtaking, give Rudy some rope and he will hang himself with it. We end with a little bit of Olympics talk as well as the MLB trade deadline.   OTA Podcast Episode 382: Why is this a good idea?   Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem

This week on the podcast, Republicans finally come around on the vaccine as cases continue to rise around the country. 50 days out from the California recall and Gavin Newsom orders all state employees to get vaccinated or show a negative test every week. We also discuss the start of the January 6 commission, and the first jail sentences are coming out for insurrectionists in the courts. Mike Lindell says he has bombshell evidence that would make Biden/Harris resign, but apparently hasn't read the part of the Constitution to see what happens next. Finally, in Sportsball we talk about the Cleveland Guardians and the Tokyo Olympics.   OTA Podcast Episode 381: Insurrection Commission    Find more O The Anthem     OTheAnthem.com   facebook.com/OTheAnthem   twitter.com/OTheAnthem   instagram.com/OTheAnthem   Album art includes work by user Blink O'fanaye on Flickr through creative commons  https://www.flickr.com/photos/blinkofanaye/50811723122/