As it is the festive season, we felt it only appropriate to give you our own (abbreviated) version of a classic holiday tune – don’t worry, we don’t actually sing on the pod, we’re not monsters. Cracks fingers…OK, here we go:

On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

12 Jeremy Joneses

11 Zykeras Riceing

10 More games with Heister

9 B-Mikes at halftime

8 Gaels a-tearing

7 Angry Chris texts

6 Vic-tries in the tourney

Perkins passing Stockton!

4 Trips to Cali

3 Bennett blow-bys

2 Limbs a-healing

And a brand new podcast from Free Ira Brown!

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, in our latest episode, our heroes glance forlornly back at the trip to Chapel Hill, Marty talks Chris off the ledge (well, kinda) and Marty makes a Grosse Pointe Blank(!) reference.

Those stories, plus the UT Arlington game happened (Ayayi actually got minutes!), Heister makes fun of Fox for saying something wrong, we get a final clarification on how to pronounce Filip Petrusev’s name and we look ahead at the murderer’s row of upcoming games.

All that and more on the Christmas episode of free Ira Brown, THE Gonzaga Hoops Podcast. Do join us in the festive period, won’t you? Merry Christmas, everybody.

As I left my house to go to work Wednesday morning, I discovered someone had broken into my car.

Nothing too significant or meaningful stolen -- an old pair of sunglasses, some blue-tooth head phones, etc. Obnoxious, not really life-altering (that I can tell).

As I was pilfering through the mess that was the interior of my car, I noticed there was no broken glass. I walked around the car and noticed the locks didn’t appear – to the naked eye, at least – to be damaged. Which likely means I simply forgot to lock the doors, and someone took advantage of my oversight.

As I sat half kicking myself, half angry at the perpetrator, I realized something: this was partially my own doing, partially someone else’s doing. It was at least somewhat my own mistake(s) leading to the frustrating result. I felt crummy because things went poorly but also a bit relieved things weren’t worse. Hey, this sounds exactly like Gonzaga’s last two games!

And frankly, dear FIBbers, this sounds exactly like most of the Free Ira Brown podcasts!

Such it is in our latest episode, where our heroes battle our own technological shortcomings to take you back to the way-too-close-for-comfort win over Washington and the woulda-shoulda-coulda loss to Tennessee.

Those stories, plus we check in with the news, Chris gets mad at his DVR and we take a look ahead to the biggest true-road game in quite some time, our trip ahead to Chapel Hill and Saturday’s matchup with North Carolina.

And finally, we decorate the tree that is the episode with some ornamental discussion.

All this and more on the latest episode of Free Ira Brown, THE Gonzaga Hoops Podcast. Do join us in making sure you hear the beep before assuming your car doors are locked, won’t you?

You ever get a feeling of déjà vu? Where things which just happened feel like they happened already?

How about you, Creighton? Ever get that feeling? You know the one: where Zach Norvell has a pretty pedestrian first half, you go into halftime with a seven-point lead, feeling pretty good about yourself. And then, out of nowhere, Norvell starts to eat…and eat…and eat…and eat. And suddenly you’re on the wrong side of a second-half explosion?

Well, just in case you forgot, Free Ira Brown is here to remind you. That’s right, dear FIBbers, our heroes are back, and in our latest episode we take a look at Gonzaga’s win over Creighton, from Zach’s second-half dominance, Clarke’s elite efficiency, Perk’s passing (Baby Daddy!) and Rui’s resplendence.

Those stories, plus we pop into the polls, prepare for a Wednesday with Washington, preview the tussle with Tennessee and celebrate a Stanford upset with the Gonzaga women.

And finally, we finish with a really fun interview with two of the authors of “We Are GU: The Origins, History, and Impact of Gonzaga University's Kennel Club” a new book about the origins of the Kennel Club. We go in depth on how everything started, the current state of the Kennel Club and student attendance, whether the Kennel Club ever came close to dying out and recount how many kegs the Kennel Club could go through in a weekend.

All this and more in the latest episode of Free Ira Brown, THE Gonzaga Hoops Podcast. Do put on your wrist band, don  your Kennel Club shirt and drink with us, won’t you?