Say It As It Is with Brandon and Tyler
Brandon Fischer and Tyler Sliwa have known each other since 2019 and were roommates at one point during their Undergrad at UW-Whitewater, but wanted to start a Variety Show podcast formerly called Let's Chat w/ Brandon and Tyler and now is called the current Title.Since Episode 12 of the first year/ season the amount of topics went down from essentially everything down to Current Events/ News/ Politics, Video Games, and Sports with occasionally doing a Special for a time of year or season or when feeling like doing a special, up until September of 2025. Most episodes will last somewhere between 13 minutes...
S2 #15: Games 2026
Brandon and Tyler talk about what Games they have been playing, Fromsoft's Parent Company's CEO in the hot seat.
Do note Brandon was ill-prepared for once due to Tom Grossi's 30 in 30 Part Deux.
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S2 #14: Catching Up on More Baseball
Brandon and Tyler recorded the episode, it didn't save properly and they lost the episode, so the next day Brandon did a solo recap on what they more or less discussed. We feel sorry for Angel Fans.
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Season 2: What's On Brandon's Mind June 2026
Not Much was on Brandon's Mind this month but he is going to 30 in 30, final day, in Green Bay on Saturday.
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S2 #13: Skubal, Judge, and MLB CBA Update
Brandon and Tyler discuss the Skubal and Judge injuries as well as the MLB CBA neogotiations.
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Season 2: What's on Brandon's Mind May 2026
Brandon goes over what's in his mind in May of 2026.
Judge Jim Troupis' Case and Website: https://judgetroupis.com/
S2 #12: The Chicago White Sox with Judge Jim Troupis
Brandon and Tyler bring on Retired Judge and Life Long White Sox Fan Jim Troupis to talk White Sox Baseball!
Before the 2026 season the White Sox have not been on Brandon's fun team radar, now they have. Tyler and Jim teach Brandon some things on White Sox Baseball.
Thank you for coming on Jim!
Learn About Judge Jim Troupis' Lawfare Case here: https://judgetroupis.com/
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S2 #11: What Is Next for Tom with Guest Tom Grossi
Packcast Host Tom Grossi joins Brandon and Tyler to share what is up next after 30 in 30, his life so far, sports in Wisconsin, the NFL, and more.
Thank You for coming on Tom!!!
Tom Grossi: https://www.youtube.com/@TomGrossiComedy
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S2 #10: Start of May MLB Update and VGC
Brandon and Tyler go over a start of May update before they head down to Chicago for a White Sox v Mariners baseball game. The Episode feels more filler as they go on a sidebar topic of Pokemon VGC/ Doubles before looping it back to baseball.
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S2 #9: End of Month 1 of the 2026 MLB Season
Brandon and Tyler Wrap up the first month of the 2026 MLB Season.
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S2 #8: MLB Teams in Disarray
It's been about a whole month into the 2026 MLB Season and several teams are in total disarray between coaches being fired, fights starting and ending win streaks, ect. Brandon goes Solo and discusses.
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Season 2: What's On Brandon's Mind - April 2026
Brandon goes over a newer, as in within the past couple of years newer, interest of his and the thoughts on individuals getting in their own way.
S2 #7: The First Two Weeks of the 2026 MLB Season
Brandon and Tyler talk about Baseball and some stuff that has happened over the first 2 weeks of the season.
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S2: #6 Pre-Opening Day Baseball
Brandon and Tyler go over their standings predictions, and Brandon goes over his trade Idea that he wrote on Substack, which he found errors in so he went back and fixed it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brandonfischer38/p/trade-idea-jasson-dominguez-to-the?r=77tio5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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What's On Brandon's Mind - March 2026
Brandon rambles a little bit on what is on his mind at the end of March of 2026
S2: #5 Find Your Healthy Place with Guest Tim O'Brien from The Healthy Place
Tim O'Brien from The Healthy Place joins Brandon to talk about The Healthy Place, The Healthy Place Holistic Clinic, and Supplements.
Tyler was ill at the time of recording and submitted some questions via email.
The Healthy Place:
https://findyourhealthyplace.com/
https://thehealthyplaceclinic.com/
Brandon's Substack and the Pod YouTube Channel:
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S2: #4 What in the Filler
After a last second change in plans or a change in the events, Brandon had to try to put together a filler episode.
S2: #3 The Producers' Room with Guest Host Katie Thompson
Katie fills in for Tyler triggering "The Producers' Room". Brandon and Katie talk about a variety of topics that include work, what it is like producing at WIBA, the pod, how people in media get money, trombones, and video games.
Note: The can being opened at the start is a sparking flavored water can
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S2: 2025-2026 MLB Hot Stove February
Brandon recaps the last month of the MLB Hot Stove/ Offseason transactions before spring training games start on 2-20-2026
Season 2: What's on Brandon's Mind: February
Brandon talks about what is on his mind as of 2/11/2026.
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S2 #2: MLB Offseason Opinions and Trade Ideas
Tyler wanted to do a MLB Hot Stove Opinion and a trade discussion. From a singlular team perspective, pretty quiet and slow. League wide as we have seen with the monthly recaps, a lot of action with a couple of guys still out there. Should the White Sox Trade Benintendi?
Season 2: Whats on Brandon's Mind: January
Brandon talks about what's on his mind, substack, the events in Minneapolis for January 2026, baseball, potential trades, opinions on some matters, ect.
S2: 2025-2026 MLB Hot Stove Tracker January
Brandon does a recap over the transactions done in baseball from Dec 26th 2025 to Jan 26 2026
S2 #1: Money in Sports with Guest Nick Bruesewitz
New Calendar Year, New Bumper music, might as well be a new season. Brandon and Tyler have Nick Bruesewitz on the show to talk about NIL and the transfer portal before moving to RSNs failing, and which teams are affected by it, and baseball.
Season 1: 2025-2026 MLB Hot Stove Tracker December
Brandon goes over the MLB trades and free agency signings for December.
This is a replace audio/ reupload due to a point brought up where I could be barely heard -Brandon
S1 #29: Holiday/ Christmas Special
We apologize for the less than good audio quality, especially with the mic Tyler was using, we were recording at home during a flash freeze and it always sounds better in studio
ANYWAYS, we go over our christmas traditions and a short history of Santa Claus/ St Nicholas, the Patron Saint of Children and Sailors.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
S1 #28: Hockey Time with Guest Brad Berg
Brandon and Tyler bring on fill in host Brad but this time as a guest to talk sports, mostly hockey, but some other sports too. It's Hockey Time!
At somepoint Tyler gets hungry and then a little hangry at the end to add an extra layer.
Season 1: 2025-2026 MLB Hot Stove Tracker for November
We start a hot stove tracker. This is the one that is for after the World Series up to November 25th 2025.
All uploads from 11-25 had a post edit addition where Brandon recorded a couple of lines from home while everything else was in studio.
S1 #27: Affordability
Tyler essentially does a solo episode on
affordability. Brandon just does the outro and adds on a little bit of info at the end. We did this one a little differently than how we usually do episodes.
Affordability is a big problem in the
US in 2025 with the three main factors of Envy, Inflation, and Greed.
All uploads from 11-25 had a post edit addition where Brandon recorded a couple of lines from home while everything else was in studio.
Here are some articles referenced and the Terrance Wall Segment (First about ha...
S1 #26: 2025 Baseball Season Postmortem
Tyler wanted to do a baseball season postmortem so we go over the baseball season in retrospect, the AL MVP Race Results and why the few of those in the Writers Association voted the way they did.
If you want to read the article yourself: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6796468/2025/11/13/al-mvp-voters-cal-raleigh-aaron-judge-decision/
The Writers who voted for AL MVP, a good portion of them put up their reasoning in articles and on Twitter/X.
Dr. Allsen's Book: https://allsenmusic.com/HISTORY/A_Century_of_the_MSO.html
https://littlecreekpress.com/product/a-century-of-the-madison-symphony-orchestra/
S1 #25: MLB Payrolls, Potential Salary Cap, Ect (2025)
Brandon goes solo after reading baseball online circles and wanted to go over MLB deferred money, payroll, salary cap idea, and go a little over the MLB 2025 Postseason
Note from Brandon: I rambled at somepoint but I forgot to turn my mic back on so I redid about 10 minutes worth to the best of my ability of what I said when the mic was off. Probably lost about 2 to 5 minutes of info from it.
S1 #24: Remembering Charlie Kirk
Tyler wanted to do a special rememberance for Charlie Kirk for his birthday 10/14.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated about a month ago and a month ago we had our inital shock reaction and this one is more of a postmortem kind of episode connecting to it.
S1 #23: MLB Postseason 2025 Bracket Breakdown
Brandon and Tyler break down their MLB playoff Brackets, well Brandon focus a bit more on his joke bracket as well as the post season matchups.
S1 #22: End of MLB Season
Brandon and Tyler go a little bit over what is going on for the end of the MLB season, series that matter, ect.
Warning The at home set up for mics was gone wonky and is being looked into.
S1 #21: Last 3 Series of the 2025 MLB Season
Brandon goes over what to watch and follow for the last 3 series of the regular season for the MLB 2025 year. Will Cal hit 60 homeruns, Will the Brewers have the number 1 seed, What is going on in the AL for playoff standings?
S1 #20: Sportsball Ticket Prices with Guest Fill In Host Brad Berg
This is an episode we were gonna do last week Saturday where Tyler was wanting a Sub and we got Brad.
Brandon and Brad discuss Baseball, sports ticket prices (Baseball perspective) and why they have gotten so expensive.
S1 #19: Our Thoughts on the Charlie Kirk Assassination
Brandon and Tyler are furious with the Charlie Kirk Assassination and wanted to share their thoughts on this MLK level of political assassinations.
No Intro nor Outro Music this time. We appologize for the audio, something was not co-operating but we had to get this out there.
Season 1: Shorty #4 Update: What Is Happening After the Baseball Regular Season of 2025
For the Last 6 Weeks of the Baseball Regular Season we are covering baseball
Starting October 2025 we move to twice a month uploads up till Baseball Opening Day where it turns into a weekly baseball podcast.
During the MLB Post Season, we will be bringing up baseball stuff occasionally otherwise we will be doing the Current Events/ News with commentary (abit on the political side of things), little sports here and there, and Video Game news as it comes up as a Twice a month new episodes, or typically one new episode every 2 weeks, Specials will also...
S1 #18: The Red Sox and Yankees Rivalry with Guest Will Galarza
Our Most Energized Episode Yet! (as of Upload)
We cover mostly baseball and the Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees Rivalry especially from the fan perspective with Red Sox (and all Boston/ New England Sports Fan) Will Galarza.
WARNING: This episode maybe considered offensive by some due to Will hating the New York Yankees as much as he does.
Message from Will: "May the blessings of Boston be upon you."
S1 #17: Uecker Celebration Game Day - On The Road (Car) Edition
Brandon and Tyler go to the Bob Uecker Celebration of Life game, the post game portion at the end we have a small guest appearance of Brandon's Dad who also wanted to attend the game.
Keep in mind more of the post game and more on the Celebration of Life event will be covered later on before the end of the season as the Roads were super busy leaving the game (It was a Sell Out Crowd)
S1 #16: Talking Baseball 2025
Tyler is out and Brandon goes solo and wanted to do a baseball only episode. Goes over Farm System Rankings, the upcoming 2027 MLB lockout, and a little more.