Fill Me In

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Fill Me In #557: The Rizzo count is currently at 4. Oct 20, 2026

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This week, Ryan explain how teams lose baseball games, how correspondants pronounce their names, and how time travel works. Remember: a drought is this year minus the other year minus one.

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Fill Me In #556: If you hit the mute button on the radio, how do you know when it's done? That's one of those Plato-Socrates questions. Oct 13, 2026

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This week, Ryan and Brian fumble more name pronunciations [insert deep apologies], mourn over baseball and a lack of Cheez-Its, and marvel-slash-worry about the unmotivated free food on one particular airplane. What about the Spanish?!

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Fill Me In #555: There's a lot of should in this world. Oct 06, 2026

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This week, Ryan shocks Brian with hitherto unknown animal basics, and Brian stirs and agitates Ryan with his least favorite podcast segment ever. There's another indie game that may or may not be good, a bit of off-season Learned League discussion, and tangible (or whatever the aural version of "tangible" is) evidence of Antipodean pronunciations.

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Fill Me In #554: The second ring of adjacency. Sep 29, 2026

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This week, Ryan and Brian reminisce jumping the shark, lie about the plot of Les Misérables, and revisit the undesirable debate of which actors are or are not Australian. All that plus a new segment about an old friend.

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Fill Me In #553: Everything is words. Sep 22, 2026

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This week, Ryan and Brian tackle the solstice, Australian accents, more Hemsworths than you even knew existed, and two more new online puzzle games that may or may not be worth playing [1|2]. And it all happens with barely a mention of baseball (hello, Claire).

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Fill Me In #552: They should call it Small-ta. Sep 15, 2026

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This week, Ryan and Brian try a few new games, learn (and don't learn) some pronunciation, and the biggest cliffhanger of the season so far will have been resolved before this show even airs. The (De)morest DeForrest, demerrier.

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Fill Me In #551: Never try. Sep 08, 2026

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This week, Ryan and Brian's notabilia includes calendrical math, added NYT puzzles, a book too prestigious for this program's hosts, and a week of crosswords worth discussing and then forgetting. All this attempted in good faith while Ryan is away from home with an uncooperative computer. If you don't have patience for Zoom lag and mediocre audio quality (from Ryan), we urge you to skip this week.

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Fill Me In #550: Four out of three, or four to seven. Sep 01, 2026

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At the dawn of Season 12, Ryan and Brian discuss Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Shohei Ohtani, Alex Verdugo, Paul McCartney, Ava DuVernay, and Ana de Armas. This may or may not include crosswords, the MCU, and a fresh round of Kealoa. (Actually, it includes all three of those things.)

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Fill Me In #549: We've been on as long as "Cheers." Aug 25, 2026

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This week on the Season 11 finale (why? we don't know why), Ryan and Brian explore the nuances of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, compare the legacy of Fill Me In to that of classic 1980s television, and mention a few places for puzzles, including Lollapuzzoola, Scott Weiss's Squonkland (plus the results of his latest Anti-Match Quiz), and a new game called Long Story Short.

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Fill Me In #548: You've unlocked the key of your hand. Aug 11, 2026

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This week, Ryan and Brian count down the days to Lollapuzzoola! Although the NYC venue is sold out, there's both a waiting list and a way to just order the puzzles for home solving. What else? The science of finger-snapping, left-handed brass instruments, minor league baseball, a cranky rant about the NYT Games site, and a threat of further ice cream in Pleasantville.

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