CROpod: The Other Rangers Podcast

Because the CROpod is a flat circle, Shane, David and Todd are back with a 2023 Hate Flags dot com update! Manflu continues to wreak havoc on the panel; the Confederacy continues to wreak havoc on the ignorant; Shane's working to have Rangers supporters wreak havoc on his town; and more!

After another banner away day to Aberdeen, Shane and Danny are back to break down a missed opportunity for Rangers to make up ground in the league. What went wrong at Pittodrie; why we're wasting time complaining about the players; what needs to happen at next week's AGM; and what we can do to replace NARSA 2024. All that and more in today's Don't Ask Me No Questions.

Yes, folks, Shane, David and Todd are back to celebrate one of the truly great achievements in human history: the CROpod has been here for yet another turn around the sun.

How the hell is this still a thing? Why is their AGM always so ridiculous? Who is David's new best friend? All that and more as we celebrate 11 years of the CROpod!

2014's MEGACROpod with a two-plus-hour marathon show that took nearly five hours to record. Among those three hours that didn't make the show was the tale of Crazy Daniel, plus a lot more nonsense that really typified the CROpod back in those days. For the CROpod's 11th birthday, enjoy it all over again or listen for the first time!

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The CROpod turns 11 this week; what better way to start the celebrations than with a highlight from our very first birthday show?

From November 2013, here's the original CROpod's discovery of the Neil Lennon dot com shop.

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Taking you into the hump weekend of the international break, Shane and Danny are back with a new Second Hand News. Other SPFL executives make ours look competent at times; the F1 is having problems in Vegas; inviting lawsuits into your organization; plus more on the accounts and where Rangers go in January.

The Canuck is home but now David is away. This is how the CROpod works, folks. But as we gear up for our 11th anniversary, Shane and Todd are here to discuss their recent ventures out in society. Plus, Todd ingratiates himself into Italian ultra culture; stop with this Ryan Kent stuff; don't spring for the really expensive UV lights for your next party; and more!

David and Todd are both away so Shane has pulled in his DAMN Questions counterpart Danny for this week's big CROpod. A lot more football than you're used to, as Big Phil's first month at Rangers comes to a close; Scottish football continues to eat itself; Chris Sutton does what he does; and we look at the accounts so Shane and Todd don't have to when the Canadian returns on Wednesday.

The football is good and Big Phil's Rangers are rolling. Plus, the rest of Scottish football is having any number of meltdowns. And yet, the people in charge at Ibrox still lack any sort of accountability, and the time to fix that is running out. Shane and Danny are back to run down that and more in a new episode of Don't Ask Me No Questions.

(Shane has been struck with man flu, so the planned Wednesday programming will have to wait until after we take on Sparta Prague. But here's some classic CROpod from Sept. 2022 to fill some time.)

American sports teams love to move house—they always have, and it's something almost wholly unique to the country's sports leagues. Colin wants to know why, and Shane is here to once again hurt his brain with the explanation.

The Canuck is still on his Roman Holiday and David has done his back again leaving Shane to carry the load for another CROpod. Thankfully, he's neither injured nor hungover.

The "fan" in "fan media"; a rip-roaring affair in London; managers being rewarded for lacking the common sense god gave them; loads of your questions; and more!

The football continues to be fun and Shane and Danny aren't quite sure how to handle it. Recapping the 3-1 win over Hearts; Korea invades Govan; Tavernier is the real Tav again; plus, 15 minutes of chat about our FM saves. All that and more in this edition of Don't Ask Me No Questions.

Football can be fun! Who knew?! Certainly not Shane and Danny, who are back in their respective seats for another episode of Don't Ask Me No Questions.

Rangers run rampant with an unlikely 12th man on the park; Big Phil can't quite believe how un-fit this squad is; Barry Ferguson can't shut up to save himself; and our campaign to bring Alfredo Morelos home continues.

The Canadian is in Italy. Again. But Shane and David are back for another full-90 of CROpod action! Superheroes on the pitch; when The Simpsons was good; it's snowing in Rockford; Florida Man is back; and more!

Rangers escaped Prague with a point Thursday but Philippe Clement was unable to escape Friday's presser without some questions about how he got the job. Souness speaks (for some reason); Roofe is not reappearing anytime soon; the SNP does SNP stuff; and some sports trivia to win a pint off your friends, all in today's Second Hand News.

The manager's first week in charge has presented some unique challenges, and Shane welcomes Danny to discuss Philippe Clement's responses on an all-new Don't Ask Me No Questions.

Rangers will cope without a left back; the positives we can take away from Hibs at Ibrox; managing expectations before the transfer window opens; and prepping for what will surely end up a racist reception in Prague. That and more!

Rangers won and so the panel is in a good mood for a brand new CROpod! Shane, David and Todd aren't the ones struggling for fitness as they again go deep into extra-time for the second week in a row. Remembering dictators at the sport; stop trying to do things in deserts; Scotland isn't the only place with bent referees; and more!

Philippe Clement's Rangers career begins with a bang as Rangers rolled out 4-nil winners over Don Robertson and Hibs at Ibrox. Shane's back with a new Second Hand News taking a look at some of the points of emphasis from the new boss. Plus, our former manager is having a hard time moving on; and Rangers prep their players for a return to Prague.

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The Sandro Tonali scandal makes one thing abundantly clear: governing bodies, leagues, and even Rangers are going to face a reckoning before too long.

Shane is back for a brand new edition of Second Hand News discussing the role of gambling in football and what sport should have learned from America's past-time... at least before everyone in seats of power conveniently forgot the lesson.

The CROpod return tour continues as the first new edition of Don't Ask Me No Questions hits your earholes! Shane is joined by CROpod-newcomer Danny to talk about a very busy past week at the club. How'd Clement do in his first appearances? What does imminent actually mean? And when does Todd Cantwell get his own television programme?

Sick of listening to interviews from the Blue Room? Us too. That's why Shane, David and Todd are back for another CROpod! Misplaced eyeballs; your capital isn't special; Kenny Miller ruins Taylor Swift; your questions and more!

It's another new dawn at Ibrox as Philippe Clement takes over the manager's seat. For some reason, we've coupled that with a steady stream of the usual corporate speak coming from the board. Welcoming the Belgian; success should be measured in trophies; and former managers fielding questions. That and more in this edition of Second Hand News.

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Shane and David are prepping for their new CROpod/H&H crossover following on from last year's Watergate series, a look at the triumphs and failures (let's be honest, mostly the failures) of the postwar era. But we've been doing these sorts of things for nearly three years now.

Here's our first effort in that vain: from early 2021, it's our look at the untimely end of four Americans owing to their rather prominent job. Join us to learn about the U.S. presidents who got shot and then died from it (except for one who was almost certainly killed by an inept "doctor").

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Because there can never be enough content on the internet, Second Hand News is back on the CROpod! Shane's here with a look at one of Scottish football's most consistent performers over the past decade. Plus, VAR continues to work exactly as expected; the endless search for Rangers next manager; let your CEO do what a CEO does, unless you think he can't; and some vintage U.S. sport media stupid to wrap it up.

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The day has finally arrived: CROpod is back for realsies. Shane is joined by David and Todd and thankfully everything is good and okay with the world and Rangers so there's nothing to do but 90 minutes of jokes. Avoiding the news of the day; shows we've seen recently; comics who deserve to stay in the dustbin of society; plus plenty of your questions are answered and more!

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Shane's back with actual good news, as long as you're a fan of the show. If not, tough luck.

Hawaii is on fire. Whatever is left of Twitter is on fire. Rangers season feels like it could descend into a burning hellscape. It's everything you could want from a CROpod, as Shane, David and Todd return to the airwaves.

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Shane is back! And so are those other two guys, David and Todd. It's a shorter CROpod but the whole gang is trying to get back in the mix as we start 2023 the same way we've started every other year of the show—talking absolute nonsense. 

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Shane and Todd decided to go ahead and shoot early Tuesday morning for both of them. You get what you get, but we'll be back with regular CROpod content here soon. Enjoy this bit of nonsense. 

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David's mic has a click; Todd still brought fascism back to Italy; and Shane is recording from his diner. But it's the 10th anniversary of the CROpod! And the big three are back together! 

How Shane dislocated his shoulder; how he's shoulder deep in the shit trying to save two different businesses; how Rangers are making us all absolutely furious; and some of your questions. It's 10 years of the CROpod in only the best way we could possibly do it.

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Shane's been gone! Find out why! And also hear about his latest bar fight! A quick update before we get back to CROpodding. 

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Baseball has long been the national pastime of the US, and because one has so much time to kill while it's being played, baseball is pretty damn weird. Colin doesn't get it and Shane is here to do his best in a new CROpod Explains America.

Pick off throws, anthem standoffs, fans interfering in the games, and why cheating is okay! Until it's not. The very nature of the sport lends itself to any number of ridiculous scenarios cropping up, and because it's been around for so long, almost all of them have at least once. 

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The Canadian has returned! And all he left behind is a newly-oldy-fascist Italy! Todd is back with Shane and David for a full 90 minutes of CROpod action filled with Rangers and coffee and dugs and everything else you expect.

Todd tells us about how horrible it was to be on holiday in paradise because it was slightly windy one day, and David has his regular list of complaints about Liverpool. Plus, Shane went for a walk and it lasted longer than he wanted; a bunch of your questions; and another round of I Dissent!

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Saturday was good; Tuesday not so much. But Tuesday's gone and Shane and Peter are back for a new edition of Don't Ask Me No Questions! When do we actually get a right-wing? Why do we like to throw young center-halves to the wolves? WTF was Robbie Neilson talking about? And when is UEFA finally going to murder a bunch of supporters outside a ground?

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Saturday's result has made the days off before Tuesday a little easier to get through, but Scottish referees have an answer to the good feelings: VAR! Shane's still not sure how that would fix the match official's performance we saw for Rangers' win at Hearts.

Robbie Neilson thinks the ref could've done more to make Cammy Devlin a better person; Ally McCoist couldn't be a better person; and our American players are better than anyone else's in Europe. All that and more on this edition of Second Hand News!

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Well, that certainly made the weekend seem a lot better, didn't it? Rangers rolled out comfortable winners at Tynecastle Saturday with a 4-nil victory to maybe take some momentum into Anfield for Tuesday's Champions League tie. Antonio Colak keeps banging them in; Alfredo Morelos never lost it; and Ryan Kent nearly equals his goal tally from last season. Plus, Steven McLean had a bad one but even he couldn't get the one big decision wrong, and Liverpool struggle at home with Brighton. It's Second Hand News on the CROpod!

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The international break is over and we've got to get ready for the return of Gio's Rangers at the weekend and the bomb scare of Anfield next week. But Peter is back for his last shift filling in for Todd, and Shane and David are happy to fill him in on the past 30-plus years of culture.

The economy is in the bin and the UK is seeking out the techniques of a guy who destroyed the US equivalent fully four decades ago; The Wall is a terrible movie with a very good soundtrack; the club just keeps making us all mad every single day; after conquering Andy and Rob like Donetsk, Shane sets his sights on the rest of Heart & Hand; and bad opinions about dugs from a listener. All that and more on this week's CROpod!

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American sports teams love to move house—they always have, and it's something almost wholly unique to the country's sports leagues. Colin wants to know why, and Shane is here to once again hurt his brain with the explanation.

Fans hear all the time about the true "stakeholders" in football whether it be from Rangers or the governing bodies of the game. But who are the stakeholders those voices are actually beholden to? The new SPFL television deal shows once again that, when it comes to what supporters want, those in charge of the sport simply do not care beyond paying lip service to the people who keep them in their jobs.

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First, no one knew how to actually go about removing a president from office. Then, no one knew what to do when the president had left the office. In Episode 9 of the Watergate at 50 series, Shane and David are back to recount the tumultuous first few weeks of the new administration, one failed from the start by the one it had just succeeded.

An unelected Gerald Ford is suddenly thrust into the biggest job in the world and struggles with what to do with the lingering question of the legal ramifications for Richard Nixon. He settles on a "full, free and absolute pardon" of the former president, but that decision raises questions that the House Judiciary Committee calls on Ford to answer. Plus, Nixon struggles for answers in his own interview with a British journalist hanging onto his career, and the 37th president has to pave a new path post-White House that no one before him had ever gone down.

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Despite (or perhaps owing to) the best efforts of its biggest proponents, the proposed contract extension between the SPFL and Sky for broadcast rights continues to look worse. One club chairman came out over the weekend saying analysis of the deal had lacked facts and context—and then flat out lied about the facts of the deal while providing the kind of context one expects from the diddy clubs. At the end of the day, they're going to find a way to force this thing through and then tell us all that they listened to our concerns. 

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The international break drags on, but on the plus side, there's no Rangers to talk about for Shane, David and Peter on this week's CROpod. At least no football; you can't get through an international break anymore without Rangers coming along to really annoy you about something.

Crossover-content as Richard Nixon made some headlines this week, plus we say goodbye to Lewis Macleod in a manner about as brief as his shining moments for the club. Most of the second half is spent tackling listener questions, which means of course that we begin to answer questions and then reminisce about World Cups of yore. All that and more on this week's CROpod.

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Day Two of the Rangers Directors Providing Absolutely No Tangible Information But Talking A Lot series continues as Stewart Robertson follows John Bennett's word salad starter with a main course. The managing director, in typical fashion, contradicted many things he's said before, continuing the trend of board members telling us how communication to fans needs to be improved while apparently rewriting the very definition of improved. No PhDs on offer but some actual questions that still haven't been answered on this edition of Second Hand News.

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International breaks are terrible. Thankfully, Rangers are committed to making sure we always have something to talk about instead of simply enjoying a couple weeks off. In this episode of Second Hand News, Shane's back to listen to what Brian Laudrup says because it echoes what a lot of people have been saying. Plus, John Bennett wants a half hour of your time to explain why he wants a half hour of your time; and former potential Rangers investor Robert Sarver is actually a racist POS, according to the NBA.

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Rangers barely get past Dundee United (yeah, that Dundee United) at home in a 2-1 win and, boy, things just keep going from weakness to weakness with this squad. But Shane's here to at least point out how bad the SPFL is at managing its broadcast rights before getting to how bad this Rangers team has become. Thank god for Antonio Colak's goals and Kevin Clancy deciding today wasn't going to be one of those days.

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Ever think a 100 million-year-old coastline couldn't have an impact on global politics? Man, are you wrong! And Shane and Colin are back to explain why in this edition of CROpod Explains America.

Find out how an inland sea during dinosaur times shapes American and, quite frankly, all of western politics. What the hell does an ancient seabed have to do with modern politics? Is John Roberts actually a lizard person from the late Cretaceous? How racist do you have to be to hate the area where a beach was millions and millions of years ago? All this and more in this episode!

Shane's back for another Second Hand News after Rangers' third loss on the bounce following Wednesday's Champions League matchup with Napoli. Problems: we got 'em, we knew we had 'em, we didn't do anything about 'em. And now we get to deal with 'em. It's a shame such a great moment pre-match was undone by months and months of poor planning.

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