Happy birthday my GOAT.

In collaboration with with @warriorsworld… Memorial Legends Vol.2 is here. AVAILABLE STARTING NOON PT AT WARRIORSWORLD ON WEDNESDAY

Cal may suck at football this year, but this is my dinner view, so everything’s ok I guess.

Clocking in for my second quarter shift

For fifty eight years, my boss in Tokyo believed that beef should be sliced as thin as paper. In Japan, we cook thin meat for four seconds in boiling broth. That is our way. Then last month, the YouTube algorithm showed Director Sato a video of a man in Texas smoking a brisket. It changed his life. On Monday morning, he called me to his desk. His eyes were bloodshot. "Have you seen this?" he whispered, turning his monitor toward me. "The American pitmaster does not sleep for sixteen hours. He sits by the fire in the dark. He guards the meat like a castle." I said, "Sir, it is just a barbecue." He slammed his hand on the desk. "This is not cooking," he said. "This is a vigil." Last Saturday was our annual company picnic by the river in Kanagawa. Normally, we grill thin meat and yakisoba for two hours and go home at 2:00 PM. I arrived at 9:30 AM to help set up. Director Sato was already there. I want to be accurate here: he had been sitting in a folding chair since 10:00 PM on Friday night. He was wearing a towel around his head and staring at a massive black barrel smoker he had imported from Oklahoma. Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS ABANDONED CORPORATE LIFE FOR THE SMOKE. When we tried to help him, he held up a pair of metal tongs and clicked them twice. "Step back," he said calmly. "The stall has begun. Nobody opens the lid." Twelve Japanese accountants stood in complete silence around a barrel for four more hours. Nobody dared to eat a single noodle until he gave the signal. At 1:45 PM, he sliced the meat. It fell apart on the cutting board. My boss looked at the pink smoke ring, nodded once, and wiped a single tear from his cheek. He has already submitted an official budget request for a trailer smoker for next fiscal year.

Congrats to the @Brewers and @CalBaseball alum Andrew Vaughn (@avaughn403) for winning the #WorldSeries2026. Here's a piece I wrote about Andrew last week, heading into the Series. @ACCBaseball calbears.com/news/2026/10/22…

No OPP song of week. Despite making contact with the NC State director and explaining what I do, I never heard back so maybe he doesn’t want a Caltendo’d version of the tune to “The Caissons Go Rolling Along”. Here’s “California Drinking Song” instead.

Mass w/ Nam: SMU Recap + NC State Preview nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/2brnzNoWJ…

MASS(ish) TONIGHT! Normal time, abnormal co-host (@TechnoloJai). See you then and there.

You know you're in Minnesota D3 football when your schedule looks like a Medieval Times roster.

i am so tired i nearly forgot about KNOW THE DIFFERENCE join us as we learn about NC State and dear god we need a win badly. Please rt and share to help everyone learn! @CK65375 @PhilipRivers @DangeRussWilson @PackFootball @MrWuf @MrWuf_NCSU @mswuf @MissWuf @MrsWuff @MissusWuf @NCState @PackMensBball @BringBackDaveDoeren @StateCoachD #1Pack1Goal

alright vibe shift time. If you’re heading to NC State find @kinkuma_burner and get your Oski Halloween sticker!

and then cal won 20-17 on a walk off field goal from towns mcgough, and the referees decided JKS played so well that no second half was needed

Figure of a Child Seated atop a Pig, 2nd–1st B.C, 📸 by @tomnweston

BERKELEY RUNS THE BAY

Game won job done 👏 #BuiltInBerkeley | #GoBears

Randy and Drew read the Brady Tkachuk chants on air 😭

20 years ago today, Marshawn Lynch took the injury cart for a joyride 😂