In the first ever episode of the "Pod of Rosedale" Ben (a Hawkeye fan) and Eric (a Gopher fan) break down their earliest memories of the Hawkeyes and Gophers, then discuss their expectations for this year's teams, and make some sure-to-be-hilariously-wrong win-loss projections.
Hey all you cool cats and kittens out there in GIA-land. It's me, the guy that wrote the "Aftermath" articles last fall. Welcome to the inaugural episode of "The Pod of Rosedale!" The podcast all about your beloved Iowa Hawkeye football team........ and also the Minnesota Golden Gophers. When an editor of this site was soliciting ideas for a GIA podcast, here was my absolute gangbuster pitch:
"Hey Pat"
"Yeah Ben?"
"uh, how about we do a podcast where we talk about Iowa football every week?"
"That is what I am asking about. Are you just repeating my idea back to me as though it is an original thought?"
"Right, uh, well, here is what makes it different. I invite my Gopher friend on the podcast and we also talk about the Gopher football team, and uh, we put the podcast on a Hawkeye fan website..."
The truth is, chemistry is hard to replicate. Despite what I would consider a healthy bevy of friends in real life, none of them care about the Hawkeyes nearly enough to do a weekly podcast with me about them. Rather than hope a couple of strangers jive well enough to float such a podcast, a couple of honest-to-goodness pals are going to attempt to turn their weekly arguments about their college teams over their work lunch into a podcast.
The conceit is simple enough: We release a podcast in the middle of each week. Half the podcast will be devoted to the previous week's Gopher and Hawkeye games and the other half to previewing the next week's games. This frees us up from having to fill too much time on any one topic and provides some flexibility with where we spend our discussion time. (Case-in-point: Week 2 features Iowa-Iowa State while the Gophers play Miami of Ohio. We will probably spend just a bit more time on that Hawkeye matchup during that particular podcast.)
I look forward to you folks meeting Eric, a proud son of St. Paul and begrudging Gopher fan, as he and I bicker through this college football season. Please keep in mind that we are two middle-aged dudes bumbling through this. Listens and downloads matter to the success of the podcast, but the most important thing is that we want this to actually be fun to listen to. So please, please, please give us some feedback. Good, bad, or telling us to shut up or whatever. Just give it to us straight, Doc.
11 days and counting, or I suppose nine if you are a Gopher fan...
