Reliving the Lights: A Friday Night Lights Rewatch Podcast

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The last episode of FNL and the penultimate episode of RTL! HIO: "With the decision to close the East Dillon Football program speculation runs wild on two fronts. Will the Lions be able to win State and go out in a blaze of glory; and will Coach Taylor agree to return to coach the Dillion Panthers and a super team with the best of both schools? Tami's PA job offer adds conflict in the Taylor home as does a new development with Matt & Julie. Meanwhile Tim Riggins and Tyra talk seriously about their futures and Luke & Becky clear the air."

"The East Dillon Lion's march toward State continues amid Coach Taylor & Principal Burnwell's concerns about impending budget cuts. Tami gets an opportunity to interview with the admissions department of a prestigious Pennsylvania university. Tim Riggins finds acclimating to the busy Riggins' household difficult following his release on parole. Vince and his mom are worried as Vince's dad seems to be returning to his old ways." - Havan IronOak

Mr. IronOak says, "Following a contentious loss, Coach Taylor decides to bench Vince for a game and start Luke at QB. Becky and Luke try to start their relationship over but the Seniors recognition night scheduled for Friday's game makes that difficult. Julie continues her hiatus from school and visits Matt in Chicago. Epyck crosses a line during a tutoring session with Mrs. Taylor."

"It's cross-town rivalry week again in Dillon and things get heated when an anti-Lion website appears highlighting the boys' juvenile records. Coach Taylor is concerned when Vince's dad gets more involved in his college recruitment prospects. Billy Riggins works privately with Luke and gets him pumped up for the game but gives him one or two pieces of bad advice. Meanwhile Julie is still hiding out at home and Tami goes up to her school to collect her schoolwork." Thus says Havan IronOak

Mr. Havan IronOak says, "The East Dillon Lions face the South Kingdom Rangers, the team to whom they forfeited at the beginning of last season. Coach tries to steer the team away from talk of revenge but when the game gets rough and the officiating lopsided, coach reconsiders. Meanwhile Tami bonds with one of the East Dillon teachers in a girl's night in and Julie's relationship with her TA hits a snag. Following the game, Hasting finds an outlaw white-lightning party in the otherwise dry town and bolstered by hooch, talk of college recruitment, and brotherhood the Lions go a bit overboard with the male bonding." Just gonna tell you guys up front that we talk about Tinker screwing that pig quite a bit. We don't write the scripts, we just talk about what we're given to work with. Were we supposed to NOT talk about Tinker's sexual affair with a barnyard animal? This isn't the Billy and Mindy show. We HAVE to talk about it, or what are we even doing here?

Vince's dad gets out on parole. A video of Maura drunk at the party with several Lions team members gets posted on the Internet. Mrs Taylor tries to take corrective action during school hours and Coach Taylor tries to get the team members back on track. Meanwhile Julie's flirtation with her history TA gets more serious.

HI-O! "Julie Taylor prepares to go away to college. Mrs. Taylor digs into her new job as the guidance counselor at East Dillon and Coach Taylor poaches a basketball player for his team as the East Dillon Lions prepare for a pre-season game against the Croft Cowboys, last year's Texas State champs." It's the FINAL SEASON, so we brought on friend and RTL super-fan: JIMMY! Join Jimmy and the guys as they break new ground on the Alien Baby Gracie Theory (it involves Hulk Hogan), start a campaign to purchase a Buddy Garrity Cameo video, blow the lid off the Alamo Freeze/Dairy Queen facade, and wonder why the heck the writers would name a character Huckston Ruckleberry and cast somebody who can't even fake shooting a basketball. All that, plus all the weekly awards on this week's INSTANT CLASSIC episode of Reliving the Lights: a Friday Night Lights rewatch podcast! This episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Chris Deuel (@martinblank). Thanks for listening and for your support, Chris!

This was a BEAST of an episode. We'll let Havan Iron Oak fill you in on what's happening in Dillon and then I will ATTEMPT to sum up what we discussed besides that. HIO says, "The final game of the regular season has the East Dillon Lions slated to host the Dillon Panthers in what is sure to be the mother of all cross town rivalries. When the Panther boosters question the fitness of the East Dillon field it quickly escalates from toothpick pranks to torn up turf. Meanwhile the pro-life witch-hunt to get Tammy terminated for counseling the pregnant Becky escalates. Adding to the chaos, Mindy goes into labor, Billy goes on a caffeine bender, and soon after the boy is born, Uncle Tim gets arrested when the cops bust the chop shop. Meanwhile Vince is reeling from the shooting death of his childhood friend and the gang that he's been running with want him in on getting vengeance." Josh and Anthony talk about all that, plus... well, it might be easier to list what we DIDN'T talk about. We didn't talk about Bruce Springsteen. Or men's water polo. We discussed nothing about Pennsylvania or the Amish or railroads or genome sequencing. Other than that, we pretty much covered it all. We also do the Coach Taylor Inspo-rating, the DAMMIT LANDRY Hate-O-Meter, and all the other weekly awards on this week's INSTANT CLASSIC episode of Reliving the Lights: A Friday Night Lights Rewatch Podcast.

The HIO Synopsis: Riggins takes Becky to Mrs. Taylor for advice about her unwanted pregnancy. Vince must get his mom into rehab after she OD's. Julie invites Habitat Ryan over for dinner with her folks. Tim pressures Billy to get out of the chop shop business. Luke tells his parents that he's gotten Becky pregnant. Jess confronts her dad about his supporting her and her brothers in football related activities. Josh and Anthony discuss Anthony's crippling fear of divorce and having children, drinking beer from cans vs. bottles, what words they've muted on Twitter, the worst scene in the history of Friday Night Lights so far, the weirdness of playing football in the rain (it can get pretty weird), Anthony's crippling fear of the mail, drinking bottomless mimosas at 50 years old, and auctioning off Anthony's authentic show notes from Reliving the Lights (make an offer!) All that, plus the Coach Taylor Inspo-Rating (it's not good), the Big Rigg Beer Tally, and all the other weekly awards on this week's INSTANT CLASSIC episode of Reliving the Lights: A Friday Night Lights Rewatch Podcast!

Episode 408! Lots going on in Dillon, and Havan IronOak tries to relay it all to you, as you can see here: "When East Dillon and the only other winless team in the district face off, locals term it the "Toilet Bowl." This conflicts with Coach's and Buddy's attempts to get play-by-play coverage from a local radio station. Meanwhile, Julie & Mrs. Taylor visit her old alma mater. Landry tries to convince Jess that he's completely over Tryra and that they should date. Vince's mom invites Jess to dinner with her and her son. Tim Riggins helps Luke get pain meds following an injury on the ranch without letting Coach Taylor know. Riggins also discovers that his brother Billy has been running a chop shop operation on the side to make extra money and when Tim's more legitimate attempts at landing a job fall through he considers joining him." Josh and Anthony talk about all of that, PLUS Baby Gracie Alien Conspiracy Theories, Indian Americans trying to find love, vacations in Mexico, Landry being awful, being from a small town, and ANTHONY GETS POLITICAL (but actually in a really nice way). They give out all the weekly awards including the Coach Taylor Inspo-Rating, the Tim Riggins Big Rigg Beer Tally, the Julie Taylor Hate-O-Meter, and more on this weeks INSTANT CLASSIC episode of Reliving the Lights: A Friday Night Lights rewatch podcast!

Another GREAT episode of FNL this week. Here's the IronOak summary: "Craziness comes to East Dillon when their scheduled football game against the undefeated McNulty team means that the game will be televised. Meanwhile Lyla remains in Dillon after the funeral and she and Tim reconnect. Julie goes AWOL to a music festival in Austin in hopes of cheering Matt up. Following their first kiss, Landry confesses to Jess that he may still not be completely over Tyra." Anthony and Josh talk about all that PLUS Kesha, online shopping, Baby Gracie's ugliness, the Heartless Bastards, Civet Cat Poop Coffee, traveling by train and bus, and the childhood friends' phone numbers still lodged in their brains. As always, they give out the Coach Taylor Inspo-Rating, the Julie Taylor Hate-O-Meter, the Tim Riggins Big Rigg Beer Tally, and all the other weekly awards on this week's INSTANT CLASSIC episode of Reliving the Lights: A Friday Night Lights Rewatch Podcast!

Here we go. Havan IronOak's summary of the episode: "Coach Taylor tries to foster community interest in the East Dillon Lions by staging a pep-rally while dealing with the increasing friction between Vince and Luke, his two star players. Tammy is still suffering the repercussions of making Luke Cafferty attend East Dillon. Riggins finds himself pageant dress shopping with his landlady's daughter and hunting with a trigger happy Matt Saracen. Meanwhile Julie accompanies Devin to a gay bar and runs into someone unexpected." Josh and Anthony conduct a scientific experiment as well as discuss how Matt killed a guy, Scrabble and the evolution of language, marathon mimosa drinking, and Anthony's absolute MASTERPIECE of a MoviedudeTwo summary. All that, plus all the weekly awards on this week's CLASSIC episode of Reliving the Lights: A Friday Night Lights Rewatch Podcast.