It's the big 5-0 and we're celebrating with golden snitch cookies, tequila, and absolutely zero composure. Grant and Mekaylay kick things off debating pre-gaming culture before diving into the legendary story of Sheldon — the most polite man on the phone who turned out to be a 6'5" Nigerian bodybuilder who benches 350 for fun. Mekaylay shares a dream he had about Grant showing up to the pod in full drag, Grant confesses to having two laundry baskets in his bedroom, and Mekaylay recounts the time his dad ripped a dab pen in a crowded restaurant and got thanked for his military service (he never served).

Then things get philosophical with a new segment: Masters of Craft. The boys debate who the true GOATs are across music, film, YouTube, and beyond — from Michael Jackson and Ozzy Osbourne to Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lady Gaga, Donald Glover, and MrBeast's terrifying thumbnail empire. Plus: Grant goes on an Arsenal rant, Danny Worsnop's screamo Grinch cover gets its flowers, and the episode somehow ends with a passionate case for orca conservation and Mexican gray wolf rehabilitation.

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Grant and Mekaylay are back with a sprawling episode that somehow connects Rascal Flatts Halloween costumes to the meaning of life. The duo debates the hierarchy of light beers (Miller Lite vs. Coors Banquet vs. Dos Equis), discovers that Harley has never had blood drawn, and Grant shares a traumatic childhood story about a Ciprodex allergy that turned his ear into a golf ball at Boys & Girls Club. Mekaylay reveals his own baby-era allergy to Augmentin before open-heart surgery — which Grant helpfully compares to a chemical from The Boys.

Grant pours an Emil Beyer Grand Cru Riesling from Alsace, France and gives full sommelier tasting notes (petrol, peach, gooseberry, limestone) while Mekaylay gives a beautiful break down of his Hawaiian Shaved Ice energy drink. The two then build increasingly unhinged "death row breakfast" orders — Grant's involves a bacon egg and cheese on a sesame bagel, three pancakes, home-style potatoes, and a side omelet — before spiraling into nostalgia over Toaster Scrambles, Jimmy Dean pancake-wrapped sausages, and the McDonald's Big Mac Bundle Box.

The conversation shifts to what they do to unwind: Grant drums to Tool and Sleep Token, sings full-throated in his car for two hours a day, plays Black Myth: Wukong, and rewatches the entire Harry Potter series every winter. Mekaylay recommends the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown and makes the case for Nintendo Switch immersion as therapy. A Wii Sports session leads Grant to the realization that he can look like 500 different archetypes of white dude — a claim backed up by comparisons to Adam Driver, Chris Evans, young Nic Cage, and "white Childish Gambino."

Things get real when the conversation turns to stress, mental health, and what it means to "lock in." Mekaylay and Harley describe a life of constant readiness shaped by family health crises and adult responsibilities, while Grant opens up about his own anxiety spiral, reading Taoism, and trying to move his emotional baseline from negative to neutral. The episode closes with potential new podcast taglines, a Patreon book club idea, a plea for listener scary stories, and the email: sobernotsober69@gmail.com.

Grant kicks things off with a controversial confession that rocks the anime world — Fullmetal Alchemist is officially a 10, not a 9.4. From there, the boys pour into a deep dive on New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc (Saint Clair, Marlborough, $20, way better than Kim Crawford), the difference between bourbon and whiskey, and why Grant's stomach can't handle corn-based spirits. Mekaylay brings his "movie of the summer" pick — Minions and Monsters — which turns out to be a plot-heavy gay love story between two minions named James and Henry, set in Hollywood, with zero comprehensible dialogue. It's somehow art.

Grant shares a wild encounter with a urologist at a wine tasting who casually mentions he's seen 50 you know what's a week, complains about getting picked up in a Cybertruck, and offers unsolicited opinions on yoga pants. Meanwhile, Grant's apartment hunt is humbling him in real time — $35/month parking, $50/month cat fees, and valet trash you didn't ask for. He's also doing laundry on a geological timescale and wearing his long gone grandma's... something.

The conversation gets real as the guys dig into healthy habits, screen time, and whether audiobooks count as reading (they don't, but they're fine). Grant rants about AI — the water waste, the slop albums (Tyga, we're looking at you), and why Auto-Tune comparisons don't hold up. Mekaylay opens up about his sobriety journey, his complicated relationship with AA, and why being told he's a piece of poo 24/7 might actually push him toward relapse rather than away from it.

Plus: five cavities and $1,300 at the dentist, the Chris Watts case and his new "wife," and a call to build something real. Like, comment, subscribe — Grant may or may not show his nips next week

Grant and Mekaylay are back with zero agenda again and its the last time. This one's a wild ride from start to finish — kicking off with a spirited (and slightly unhinged) review of the new Spider-Man movie that somehow devolves into a full-blown debate about Marvel's entire cinematic universe. Which movies actually matter? Should you skip the Thors? Is Civil War secretly the best one? Grant breaks it all down while Mekaylay plots his watchlist and Harley judges from behind the camera.

From there, the guys ricochet through Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX, a hard pivot into true crime with the Bryan Kohberger case, a heated defense of "Bohemian Rhapsody" as the greatest song ever made, and a nostalgic spiral into Taio Cruz and Usher deep cuts. Things get weird when Mekaylay recounts spotting a couple in their mid-50s full-on making out on a park bench at 9 AM in 110-degree heat — leading to a surprisingly thoughtful tangent about public affection, sugar daddy dynamics, and whether love is love (in all forms, allegedly).

Then comes the real damage: a confessional segment where the guys own up to the worst things they did as teenagers. Grant steals a wheelchair from a thrift store and then fakes a disability at a grocery store — towel over the legs and all. Harley's church vandalism gets aired out. And Mekaylay drops the atomic bomb: he peed in a jug of bubbles at an elementary school playground and left it there in the Arizona heat for kids to find. They're not proud. They're not sorry enough. But they are honest.

The episode closes out with Danny DeVito worship, a deep dive into LeBron's wine palate vs. Grant's self-proclaimed sommelier credentials, a very serious claim that Grant could strike LeBron out in baseball, and a nostalgic trip back to Little League glory days — complete with lollipop pitching, black eyes, and one coach who ruined everything.

It's messy, it's honest, and it's exactly what happens when two high school friends put a microphone between them and hit record. Come for the Spider-Man goo talk, stay for the stolen valor.

This week, Grant and Mekaylay are back on the couch (a very expensive, very large, 14-foot couch, for the record) with Harley & Domino in the booth per usual.

We kick things off with Grant's ongoing war against people who cannot say his name correctly. One syllable. Four letters. G-R-A-N-T. Not Brandt. Not Brandt. Not Tyler. After a trip to Hawaiian Bros ended in a full-on identity crisis at the pickup counter, Grant has developed a very specific — and very controversial — theory about who in America is most likely to get his name right. Spoiler: it tracks.

Then we dive into the origin story nobody asked for: how Grant got his name. Hint — it has nothing to do with Ulysses S. Grant, and everything to do with Chamber of Commerce paperwork. His dad could've lied. He didn't. Respect the honesty, question the parenting.

From there, the crew gets into baby names — specifically Mekaylay and Harley's taste in baby names, which can only be described as "aggressively stripper-coded." Cherry Hill. Bambi Hill. These are real suggestions that were made out loud by adults. Grant holds it together. Barely.

The conversation naturally drifts into whether or not any of them even want kids, Harley's iconic quote about what a baby is going to do for her in the first five years, and a surprisingly wholesome detour about cats, boxes, and what it actually feels like to take care of something outside yourself. It gets deep. Then it gets weird again.

We run through everyone's Five Things Worth Spending the Money On — and Five Things That Are Not Worth It But We're Doing It Anyway. Grant's list includes range golf ball buckets, a Crunchyroll subscription, and a $120 bottle of Leonetti Merlot. Mekaylay brings an electric vehicle, Costco Parmesan, and caffeine in any form. Harley adds crystals, a Kindle, and a Roomba for the five-cat household. Grant's "not worth it" list includes water delivery, Titleist golf balls he absolutely does not need, and going out socially — which he does anyway if you twist his arm.

Then there's a full World Cup breakdown — Spain winning, Argentina's embarrassing final performance, zero shots on target in regulation, the post-match controversy, and Grant's very sincere plea for Nico Williams to join Arsenal. Mekaylay correctly identifies an anime battle from a passing window at 9 PM. Grant is watching That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and is not ashamed.

The back half of the episode goes fully off the rails with Line Reads and Act Outs,

including: Multiple emotional deliveries of "Oh, you misheard. I don't have an order for Brandt."

"Sell him for pennies. We'll make more." — in every conceivable tone, including Bruce Buffer and a tiny girl villain.

"Teacher, can I be next for popcorn reading?" — hot & bothered, British, exquisite, and armed. Luke Skywalker breaking some very unfortunate news to Darth Vader about Leia.

Two crane operators on 9/11 who are way too close to the towers but still have dirt to move.

A lot lizard at a truck stop with absolutely no moral compass.

Mekaylay confronting the ticket ripper who sent him the wrong direction at the theater.

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Mekaylay and Grant are back for their most vulnerable episode yet — and somehow also one of the most unhinged.

They kick things off by choosing THIS podcast over a presidential address (their words), before diving into real talk about the broken American healthcare system — specifically the infuriating red tape that disabled people face just to get the basic equipment they need to live.

Then things get personal. Mekaylay opens up about the night his dad had a massive stroke on his 60th birthday, the race to the hospital, being told by a nurse that he had "five strikes" and was basically already dead — and how he handled all of it the only way she knew how at 19: by drinking. Grant shares his own story of finding out he had schizoaffective disorder by accidentally seeing it on a computer screen at a mental health facility, and what it was like navigating that diagnosis as a kid who'd already lost his best friend to cancer and his grandfather in the same year.

In between the heavy stuff, they talk about: the "you're the screen, not the movie" philosophy they actually use to manage anxiety and depression, why they started this podcast in the first place, and why negative comments on the internet say more about the commenter than the creator.

Then somehow the episode pivots to even more traumatic life moments — Mekaylay watched a man die at the Grand Canyon (complete with a sudden hailstorm the moment he turned purple), and Grant rode along with his girlfriend's firefighter dad at age 12 to watch a guy get confirmed dead in a hospital elevator... and then come back.

They close it out with an Am I the A**hole about a woman unknowingly exposing her b***hole in a hot Pilates class, which leads to a surprisingly nuanced ethical debate and too many creative synonyms for the human rear end.

Real, raw, and ridiculous — exactly as intended.

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Grant and Mekaylay are back, and this one's got a little bit of everything. The episode kicks off with the boys trying — and immediately failing — a no-cussing challenge, which becomes a running gag throughout the entire show. From there, the conversation spirals into the 2026 World Cup. They both somehow end up rooting for Norway because of Erling Haaland. Along the way, Grant describes perhaps the most unhinged six-second commercial he's ever seen: Lowrider Lawyers — a genuine fever dream of an ad that aired during a Colombia vs. Switzerland match and cannot be explained, only experienced.

Things get weirder from there. The duo explores the rabbit hole of soccer players commenting on their own lookalike TikToks (shoutout Haaland and Declan "Jollof" Rice), and talk about why USA got embarrassed by Belgium's B-team, and debate the very real overlap between hockey and soccer when it comes to flopping. Grant shares his mom's accidental Threads debut — a mild political post that somehow attracted 187 comments of pure fury against her 18 likes — which leads to a genuine and surprisingly thoughtful conversation about political posting, cancel culture, and why nobody online has ever changed anyone's mind about anything except maybe the price of gas.

Then it gets creative: Grant introduces an improv game inspired by Dropout TV's Game Changers, and the two attempt several bits including a 1950s sports commentator calling Grant Gibson's catastrophic career-ending injury, a monster from Monsters Inc. who's way too familiar with the kid he's supposed to scare, and a very drunk man trying to turn away a Girl Scout. The bits are rough-draft gold.

The back half of the episode takes a personal turn — Mekaylay shares his four-year Prozac experience (and the unsolicited advice from rehab about what the medication can do to a man's ability to, uh, finish), and they celebrate Louis C.K.'s Netflix comeback. Grant predicted it episodes ago and is thrilled to be right.

And then, inevitably: poop. Mekaylay recounts a near-disaster emergency bathroom stop at a Jackson Hole fine dining establishment that turned out to have — inexplicably — a trough urinal. Grant confesses to intentionally blacking himself out to cure hiccups and cracking his head on a dresser. And finally, Harley witnesses a lone man doing what he absolutely had to do on the side of a desolate Idaho highway, prompting a lengthy and genuine debate about whether he's the a**hole. (He is not.) The hosts call out to the internet to help identify this roadside hero.

If you made it this far, we love you.

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Happy Father's Day (to the fathers AND non-fathers out there)! Grant and Mekaylay are back with a pre-recorded ep while Mekaylay and Harley hit Yellowstone — because consistency is the brand even on vacation. Weekly episodes, no matter what. This week the duo dives into Reddit's "Am I the A**hole?" including a mom outing her gay son by casually asking if his boyfriend was coming toa family vacation, a mother-in-law making a dead mom joke to a very pregnant woman, and the legendary workplace saga of Jean, Jorts, and a coworker named Pam who thinks calling an orange cat dumb is a racial microaggression. (It's not, Pam.) Plus: live NBA Finals commentary with the Knicks vs. Spurs series, a wild Karen encounter at Ace Hardware, a deep dive into a True Crime podcast called "Feed Me, F* Me, Kill Me," Grant's ongoing $120/month water delivery addiction, the hunt for Grant's new apartment (washer/dryer in-unit is non-negotiable), and a shoutout to The Escape Podcast and Professor Sendy. Like, comment, subscribe — so we can eventually rent out Madison Square Garden and scream about whatever we want. 📧 SoberNotSober69@gmail.com 📲 @SoberNotSober everywhere else