Helium Boys Podcast: USC stumbles at Oregon, UCLA rivalry week and Thanksgiving tropes

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino return to podcast form to break down USC's disappointing 42-27 loss to Oregon on the road that leaves the Trojans still searching for their first win in Autzen Stadium since 2011. Shotgun takes on the 'Two-Minute Drill' first, discussing USC's growth as a program, but how it still measures up short to that national-title-contending tier. Chris spends his time talking about some Oregon experiences, including a disastrous La Quinta Inn stay. The HBs move into the 'Stock Up, Stock Down' segment, which features the Trojan special teams, freshman wide receiver Tanook Hines, safety Kennedy Urlacher, tackling on the road and much more. The Helium Boys then dive into the second half of the show to see if the Trojans can close out the year with nine wins in the regular season against crosstown rival UCLA, one of the worst teams in the Big Ten. Chris puts Shotgun through another edition of Take It or Leave It with takes on Lincoln Riley's hot seat for 2026, Makai Lemon's Biletnikoff race and tackles for a loss. The Overtime period features Thanksgiving themes from Turkey Bowls to cousins. 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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0:58.7	Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Welcome back to the Helium Boys podcast, a serious, non-serious U.S.C. podcast. I am your host for this week, Chris Trevino, and I'm just going to get it out of the way, the elephant in the room, although you don't know
1:27.7	that there's an elephant in the room.
1:29.5	This is going to be one of our weirdest episodes to date because we, the Helium Boys, shotgun,
1:37.3	my co-host, and I are both displaced to different ends of the spectrum in terms of being
1:43.5	displaced.
1:44.4	My mother is in town, so I don't have my room anymore.
1:47.8	I've given it up to her, and I have to do this podcast elsewhere.
1:51.5	So I'm in my living room.
1:52.9	I look weird with this background.
1:55.9	Doesn't matter.
1:56.3	You don't know that, but shotgun actually takes the cake because he is actually tuning in from the Seattle airport.
2:03.9	He is still in the northwest.
2:07.2	He is still there.
2:08.5	He's taking a red eye.
2:09.6	We are doing this podcast with him in the airport.
2:13.0	So you might hear some announcements, some TSA announcements, some stuff like that in the background.
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