The Houli’s Hooley Show

Houli’s Hooley Sat. May 16, 2026

This week on The Houli’s Hooley, Paddy, Bill, and Clay return with another episode that somehow begins at White Sox Emo Night and ends in baseball-related bodily harm. Paddy takes Charlotte to Guaranteed Rate Field as her School of Rock crew performs a full emo set, while Grandpa Houli spends the evening looking like a man patiently waiting for The Rolling Stones to take the stage. The conversation quickly spirals into black hot dogs, Pete Wentz, and the very real possibility that the White Sox should stop fighting it and fully embrace a future “Dracula Night.”Things get stranger when Paddy becomes distracted by an Oak Park dad who spent an entire School of Rock performance slowly scratching his wife’s back in hypnotic circular motions. Not a quick scratch. Not an itch. A full commitment. Naturally, the lads launch a completely unnecessary investigation into whether this was affection, territorial behavior, or some advanced marital signaling system. Meanwhile, Bill checks in with stories from the world of brand activations and uncomfortable encounters with mustachioed weirdos, while the crew pays tribute to the late Donald Gibb of Revenge of the Nerds and Bloodsport fame. The show wraps with Paddy taking a vicious breaking ball directly off the knee while warming up a pitcher with no gear on, proving once again that Little League may actually be more dangerous for middle-aged coaches than the kids. Sponsored By: Fox’s Pizza of Mokena and Orland Park, Flood Bros., Madden Funds and Local 150 Engineers

Houli’s Hooley Sat. May 9, 2026

This week on The Houli’s Hooley, Paddy, Bill, and Clay are back at it as Paddy’s week immediately detonates into chaos after his son turns a Little League game into a minor insurance event by accidentally smashing a woman’s windshield, kicking off a full suburban courtroom drama involving park dads, negotiation tactics, and the eternal question of “who saw what and when did they stop seeing it.” That somehow gets outdone by Bill’s trip to the dentist, where a routine cleaning turns into a financial jump scare after discovering he’s out-of-network, mildly in need of reconstruction, and suddenly rethinking every decision he’s ever made involving floss. From there, things swing abruptly into celebration mode as Paddy’s daughter Charlotte lands a spot in NYU’s elite songwriting program, instantly turning the lads into reluctant fundraising consultants, event planners, and amateur music industry executives who definitely do not know what they’re doing. Clay keeps the chaos machine humming with AI-generated movie posters inspired by Hooley nonsense, while the group pitches increasingly unhinged sketches, including an overly Irish character named Brian who ruins every room he enters by asking where your people are from and refusing to leave. They wrap with plans for city meetings about foul balls destroying cars, breast cancer walks, weekend logistics, and the completely reasonable idea of sending a lawyer in a clown suit to make a formal presentation to the town. It’s suburban crisis management, accidental philanthropy, and pure Hooley logic from start to finish. Sponsored By: Fox’s Pizza (Orland Park and Mokena), Flood Brothers Disposal, Madden Funds and Local 150 Engineers

Houli’s Hooley Sat. May 2, 2026

This week on Houli’s Hooley Radio Hour, Paddy, Bill, and Clay are still buzzing from Mount Carmel Fight Night, where old-school gym chaos, balcony energy, and teenage boxing drama somehow made everyone feel like they were back in a more dangerous, less supervised version of high school. The conversation quickly locks onto Gladiator (1990) the forgotten boxing movie, not the Roman one. Paddy reveals he’s the one who actually rented the boxing ring from it for a past project, which immediately gets treated like both legendary and possibly made up. Clay insists this makes him “basically Hollywood,” while Bill just wants to know how a boxing ring has more screen credits than most actors. From there, things drift into full Hooley surrealism. Clay calls for a “Yanni wellness check,” sparking a passionate debate about whether Yanni is a composer, a lifestyle, or just “Greek Kenny G with better hair and emotional range.” Paddy fully supports Yanni’s legacy. Bill does not. Then the phrase of the week lands: “ham in your braces,” a dental horror story that instantly becomes both warning label and accidental life philosophy. Nobody fully explains it, but everyone agrees it should never happen again under any circumstances. The rest is classic derailment movie confusion, celebrity misfires, and the ongoing question of how so many 90s actors feel like they were all the same three guys in different wigs. Paddy tries to steer it back to boxing, Clay steers it into pop culture conspiracy territory, and Bill quietly monitors the situation like a man waiting for the brakes to fail. By the end, it’s clear the episode lives somewhere between sports nostalgia, accidental film studies, and a pub meeting on Mars. Sponsored by: Fox’s Pizza (Orland Park & Mokena), Flood Bros. Disposal, Madden Funds and Local 150 Engineers

Houli’s Hooley Sat. April 25, 2026

This week on the Houli’s Hooley, Paddy, Bill, and Clay once again prove that no topic is safe and no story is too small to spiral completely out of control. We kick off in full late-night radio mode before immediately detouring into Florida, where Bill’s friend survives a hawk attack, prompting questions about whether it was nature or just a harsh fashion review. Paddy leans briefly spiritual, beard philosophy enters the chat, and somehow we land on celebrity lookalikes and whether twins should just preemptively tattoo their initials on their foreheads. Pop culture chaos follows: Island Boys conspiracies, Eric Bogosian sightings, Boogie Nights references, and the unsettling realization that Axl Rose now looks like he might sell you a timeshare in Tinley Park. Then it’s into the heart of the episode — youth baseball madness. Paddy’s son continues dealing at a 0.00 ERA until the bullpen collapses, a ball leaves the zip code, and parents react like it’s Game 7 of the World Series. Mikey’s helmet-throwing strikeout meltdown becomes instant suburban folklore, and practice turns chaotic when two kids “Biff” each other on fly balls, sparking debate over what a Biff even is and how long those grudges last. The guys then accidentally pitch a Zucker brothers-style sports franchise featuring Rocket Arm Jeremy, Professor Beard Plucker, and a werewolf first-base coach who only communicates via howls. Clay continues his ongoing war with guardrails, and Bill maintains his lifelong feud with gravity. The episode closes with Fight Night at Mount Carmel, school boxing nostalgia, robot apocalypse jokes, and the comforting idea that if the machines ever rise, at least we’ll have had a slice, a pint, and an uppercut first. Sponsored By: Fox’s Pizza (Mokena and Orland Park), Flood Bros., Madden Funds and Local 150 Engineers

Houli’s Hooley Sat. April 18, 2026

This week on The Houli’s Hooley, Paddy and Billy are flying without Clay and things go off the rails almost immediately. Paddy opens with a near disaster involving a questionable supermarket wrap and a cup of chili that triggered a full blown sprint to the bathroom and nearly sidelined him from his kid’s baseball game. From there, the lads pivot to a story about a friend in Florida who was legitimately attacked by a hawk, launching a deep and highly unqualified discussion on bird law, self defense, and whether you’re allowed to throw hands with a federally protected predator. Naturally, things spiral. Paddy shares a recent LinkedIn scam that sent him into full password lockdown mode, leading to a broader conversation about cybersecurity, aging parents, and the terrifying reality that nobody knows their own passwords. Meanwhile, youth sports life creeps in, with talk of Little League coaching, background checks, and the slow realization that volunteering now comes with paperwork and liability. And then, just when you think it couldn’t get weirder, the Hooley dives headfirst into the world of soligamy, the trend of people marrying themselves. This includes a Brazilian influencer who not only tied the knot solo, but later divorced herself, proving that even in self love, things can fall apart. It’s absurd, it’s hilarious, and it’s exactly the kind of modern nonsense the Hooley was built for. Sponsored By: Fox’s Pizza (Mokena and Orland Park), Flood Bros., Madden Funds and Local 150 Engineers