Helium Boys Podcast: What went wrong at Illinois for USC, Makai Lemon and Disney+ logins

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are back behind the microphones to discuss the first loss of the season for the Trojans in Saturday's 34-31 loss to Illinois in the Top 25 matchup. USC staged a massive comeback in the fourth quarter with a go-ahead score with less than two minutes remaining in the game but allowed a game-winning 41-yard field goal as time expired. Shotgun uses his 'Two-Minute Drill' for his overall thoughts on USC's Saturday loss while Chris talks about his interaction with USC legend and Heisman-winning running back Marcus Allen. The Helium Boys then dive into Stock Up, Stock Down for the Trojans, which includes Makai Lemon's monster performance, Jaydan Maiava's improvements, the lack of impact from USC's defensive line, the tight end impact and Lincoln Riley's clock management in the end. 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	Welcome back to the Helium Boys podcast. I am your host, Chris Trevino. This is a serious, non-serious USC podcast. And today, we have to talk about a loss.
0:25.3	Yes, USC suffered their first loss of the season at Illinois, a heartbreaker, if you will,
0:32.5	3432. Shotgun was there. I was there. We were both burning our little butts at Geis Memorial Stadium.
0:40.7	Shotgun checking in with you.
0:42.4	How are you doing?
0:43.1	And what kind of hat are we rocking today?
0:45.7	We're going with the St. Mary's Gales, giving the WCC a little love here.
0:50.9	Been out there to Maraga a few times to watch some baseball.
0:53.7	I would like to go up there for a basketball game to see the atmosphere, you know, with a Gonzaga game or something. You know, it's not a huge gym, but the environment looks like it's pretty, pretty fun. So you need to get out there sometime for that. Yes, we do and maybe one day shotgun. But right now it is you and me in a Zoom room.
1:12.0	And we're going to talk some USC football.
1:14.4	Like I said, first loss of the season, a very frustrating one.
1:18.2	If you're a USC fan, defense, poop the bed, if you will.
1:23.4	I'm not trying to curse because I don't want any more angry emails.
1:25.9	Shotgun is allowed to curse all he wants on this podcast.
1:28.3	Obviously, still have not gotten one email about it, even though he cursed at least five times last week on the episode.
1:35.0	I don't know what's up.
1:36.3	So somebody, please, email in and give shotgun some hard time for doing that.
1:42.9	But shotgun, we are back. i'm a little tired you seem
1:46.7	like you're you're in a great great mood right now i don't know what's going on with you uh i need
1:51.3	your uh recovery regimen from getting back from uh any short of travel how how was it because you
1:58.7	guys flew out of midway i flew out of o'hare um so what no one texted me like i had it? Because you guys flew out of Midway. I flew out of O'Hare. So what
2:02.5	no one texted me. Like I had no idea if you guys ever made it. And also I had to return the rental
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