Helium Boys Podcast: Stocks from USC spring camp, takeaways and sponsoring Bloom Center
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Despite corporate differences and new jobs, Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are reunited once again, returning to the microphones to talk about USC's recently completed spring camp and what they learned about the 2026 squad during the five-week period.
While they may no longer work for the same company, the podcasting duo aren't skipping any of the classics, opening up with the Two-Minute Drill where Shotgun talks baseball and Chris talks about the changes taking place in his job.
The boys of Helium then jump into prior comments and stocks talking about in depth...about depth...of the offensive line as well as discussing the coaching style and teaching of the Trojans' new defensive staff. They give their spring takeaways with highlights and concerns. Jayden Maiava's leadership and continued improvement is discussed as well as what to make of the freshman class that featured 31 incoming players for the spring.
The Helium Boys then dive into the second half of the show to get Shotgun's reaction to some post-spring camp themed Take It Or Leave It topics. The hosts also discuss naming rights as the show ends with the Overtime period where Shotgun has to blind rank the best naming opportunities in the Bloom Center.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Helium Boys podcast, a serious, non-serious U.S.C. podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | I am your host for this week, Chris Trevino, and I know it's been a while. |
| 0:25.3 | Some things have happened. It's a little bit strange, but that's okay. We're going to get through it. |
| 0:30.2 | This is the Helium Boys, but it should be called the haircut boys today because we're both |
| 0:34.8 | rocking the fresh cuts. Let me bring in my fellow helium boy and co-host shotguns. |
| 0:41.4 | Spratling. |
| 0:41.9 | It's so good to see you, Mr. Shoddy Shottington. |
| 0:45.4 | Am I a little to talk to you still? |
| 0:47.0 | I don't know what the rules are anymore. |
| 0:49.7 | You are actually not. |
| 0:50.7 | So we're going to get a mediator and we will tell that person and then they will relay it. |
| 0:55.3 | It's going to be the world's worst podcast of telephone back and forth. So a normal two hour |
| 1:02.1 | podcast for us becomes a four hour podcast. So it's basically just the composite two stars. So is |
| 1:08.2 | Gerard going to be the meteor meteor? Oh God. no, that would just that would that would triple the time. |
| 1:15.3 | So then it's going to now we're talking eight hour podcast. |
| 1:17.7 | So yeah, I don't I don't think that's the we need like a court ordered kind of person, |
| 1:22.5 | you know, a professional mediator. |
| 1:26.6 | Wedding Crashers style. Wedding Crashers style. |
| 1:28.7 | Wedding Crashers style, absolutely. |
| 1:30.7 | If you want to throw us some miles, |
| 1:32.2 | we'll get on that as well. |
| 1:34.4 | But we are here because literally been over a month |
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