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Real Life Podcast: Jay’s trip to London, Oilers season opener, and beef of the week

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Oct 9, 2025, 08:00 EDTUpdated: Oct 9, 2025, 19:19 EDT
Thursday afternoon means a fresh episode of Real Life was recorded, edited, and is ready to help you wrap up the week. On today’s podcast, the guys discussed Jay’s trip to London, the Oilers’ season opener loss, the Blue Jays beating the Yankees, beefs of the week, and much more.
The guys kicked off the Thursday episode of Real Life with a quick recap of Jay’s trip to the UK for the Browns game, covering what he got up to despite being away for only 96 hours. From trying haggis for the first time to dabbling with local beers to watching the NFL in a soccer stadium, Jay got a lot of life done in a very short amount of time.
From there, the discussion shifted to the Oilers’ season opener, which was an incredibly frustrating result given how well the boys started the game. Starting with a look at the new guys, Chalmers admitted that he didn’t know who some of the new guys were, which led to the boys dunking on him repeatedly. Despite hearing many of these names multiple times,
Finally, the guys walked through a new segment called Beef of the Week where the boys vented their frustrations with some news stories from the past week. Whether it’s pop culture, the Oilers not acknowledging the Western Conference Champions banner, to the Blue Jays beating the Yankees in their first-ever playoff matchup, the end of this week’s podcast was all over the map.
Listen to the Thursday episode of Real Life below:
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