Helium Boys Podcast: USC gets it done in Nebraska win, Friday night date with Northwestern and secret movies

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are back behind the microphones for another edition of the Helium Boys Podcast to discuss USC's big 21-17 road win over Nebraska and the upcoming Northwestern game. Chris spends his 'Two-Minute Drill' discussing his interactions with USC fans in person after a long week with his lay off news. Shotgun takes the time to note the hospitality at Memorial Stadium with Husker fans, all the good and one sour interaction. The Helium Boys then dive into Stock Up, Stock Down from the road win, which includes Jayden Maiava's legs, Desman Stephens, Marcelles Williams, winning ugly and much more. The second half of the show revolves around the upcoming Friday matchup with Northwestern (5-3, 3-2), which is coming off a bye week. The Trojans will take their Friday night conference date against visiting Northwestern, their first meeting since the Rose Bowl in 1995. This is the first time these two teams have met in the Coliseum since 1969. USC is the second ranked opponent Northwestern has faced this season (then No. 4 Oregon) and first on the road. The Helium Boys takes some quick questions before telling each other some movie secrets. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Helium Boys podcast, a serious non-serious U.S.C. Football podcast.
0:19.4	I am your host this week's Shotgun Sproutling.
0:21.8	Hello, my co-host.
0:23.6	The, I don't know, what are you?
0:27.1	Are you still an employee of someone?
0:29.2	What are you?
0:29.7	You're just like a waffling ghost of journalism right now.
0:33.7	Chris Trevino joins us after being laid off last week, but we're keeping him around. He's too
0:40.3	good. He's too good to let him go. So, you know, he was laid off by the parent company. We said,
0:44.5	nah, nah, nah, nah, ain't happening. Chris, how are you surviving as a journalistic ghost?
0:50.5	Answer your first question. I like to be distinguished as a journalist pirate. I have no allegiances. I'm sort of
1:00.0	floating in the ether of the journalism universe right now. So no allegiances. I can do whatever I want,
1:10.1	including this podcast, which is a serious,
1:13.3	non-serious. I don't know if you said that, but I just want to clarify that because right now
1:17.5	I'm talking about being a pirate. So that is the vibe we're going with. So journalistic pirate.
1:23.1	And yes, I was laid off. I talked about that on the composite. I haven't really talked about it
1:28.6	anywhere else outside of my writing. So maybe I'll touch on it in my two-minute drill. Maybe I won't.
1:34.5	Fun fact, I will. But I'm doing okay, shotgun. I think the most important part you left out is what
1:39.7	time is it right now? It is 3.30 a.m. in the morning. I have full duties tomorrow that are not related
1:47.7	to my job. I have a dentist appointment in the morning. So yeah, we're going to have to make this
1:54.2	an expedited edition of the Healian Boys podcast. Chris doesn't believe it can happen, but we are not
1:59.8	going two hours because I won't fall
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