The Sports Junkies

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For more than 25 years, The Junks have owned Washington D.C. sports radio, covering Commanders, Nationals, Capitals, Wizards, Hokies, Terrapins, and Hoyas news. Every weekday, childhood friends John-Paul “J.P.” Flaim, Eric “E.B.” Bickel, John “Cakes” Auville, and Jason “Bish” Bishop talk DMV sports, pop culture, life, and more. Plus, they regularly chat with guests like sportswriter John Feinstein, Nats GM Mike Rizzo, and Caps head coach Spencer Carberry.

Catch the Sports Junkies live Monday through Friday (5 a.m. - 10 a.m ET) on 106.7 The Fan, home of the Nationals, Capitals, and Hokies; Team 980, home of the Wizards, Terrapins, and Hoyas; or on the Audacy app. For more, follow the show on X @JunksRadio.

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Recent Reviews

spumoni25

Love & Hate

Please talk everything, not just WFT. Your best shows are absolutely in the football off-season. Also, can we please switch Feinstein with Mike Tirico or Bob Ryan?
Blind Mooky

Hey, K Reston

You’re a loser
Oscar Santana Lies

Excellent hosts

Junkies are the best in the business. Producers like to start podcast wars.
IFYTIT

Suggestions for improvement

JP and Feinstein should start a podcast together and call it The Insufferables.
SuperDuperMick18

Less sports more bits!!!!

Absolutely love the Junkies! But hate so much of the sports talk! Talk about pop culture and your home lives more please!!
rvhhfjkljluiuhjjmft

Fix the podcast uploads

Love the show, but the bean counter at Audacy who makes them upload episodes this way needs to chill!
BillBillGreen

The Junks

I’ve been listening since the HFS days. These guys are the best. Whatever.
Its F1 not McGlovin

Fix the freakn podcast!!!

Cmon enough already, someone there needs to man up and fix the podcast uploads!!
Hammspace

Naming conventions are unintelligible, repetitive

The new format for posting episodes with nonsense clever titles is dumb. Post the actual content please.
Hatc rules

P1

I’m loyal. They’re donks but I’m loyal.
Juanson Garcia

Love the show, BUT need to fix podcast uploading

Have been a listener for at least 15 years. However, can you please upload the hour long segments first. Thanks, your listeners
SunshineReader

So Unprofessional

Why can’t Jason stop coughing into the mic? Go to the doctor, Donk.
K Reston

4 middle aged white dudes talking about stuff

If you like listening to four middle aged suburban dudes, one that drones on and on about running errands and taking his kids to places, another that is clueless on all things outside his wheelhouse of low level college lacrosse and volleyball, a third host that is completely checked out on putting in any effort while being depressed all the time, and another host that is named Cakes, then brothers, this is the show for you. Target demo is men between 50-57 and live in Montgomery County, MD.
Thegoat56

P1 Punting

Been a P1 since the 90’s… it’s become cumbersome to listen ever day with how much the boys punt every day. I’d do it too, if the product didn’t matter & I still got paid, but I just can’t keep listening when it sounds like they just don’t care. Sincerely, Haven’t missed a segment since 2005, but punting from now on.
blacksox11

Best show on radio

The best show on radio. There is nothing like it.
QBRASWELL

Thank You!!!!

Love my Junks!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 thank you for the new way podcast are set up!
Sports pops

Dc sports talk

I’m happy to still keep up with WAS sports and the junkies while living out of the listening area.
Ctwitty

Downhill fast

This podcast is going downhill fast. They continuously change the format so the bean counter at Audacy can try to force you to listen to things you don’t want to. Then on top of the podcast you don’t want they forget to put whole hour segments from the show. I would pay a subscription just to not have the disorganization that we currently have with this podcast.
Ric felt

Lil ‘bit monnnnnnay

ROY JONES ROY JONES YA BIG FAT HURTTTTTING If you know the origin story you’re a true P1. Been listening since 1999. Greatest show ever.
Bobby123432

Can’t Listen Anymore

Finally punted on this show. Between the new 50 segment podcast format and Bickel eating the entire show, it’s just not worth the trouble. They obviously don’t care enough to put out a good product, why should the P1’s continue to support?
Sumdawg Jr

No more Feinstein

Over it
jeff133484848

Go back to the old format

This new podcast format is awful. Where are the full show segments and why does it take so long for them to be uploaded?
OttawaKS66067

Too much Commander!

Every show feels the same. 3/4 Commanders, and the rest is just filler such as the EP. I’ve been listening for 20 years. The new download format is driving people away. Today I unsubscribe. I’ll check back in February to see if anything has changed. Valdez, play the music.
Ryan & Jaxson

Jeez I’ve missed you guys

I moved away from the DMV eight years ago and thought my time listening was over. I’ve been a fan since 2000 and even sold young brother Bicks his first Honda. I only wish I’d gotten into podcasts sooner so I wouldn’t have missed so much. Love you guys. Keep it up.
APCOKE

Talent delusion

Please stop pushing tales from the foxy diner on us. Couldn’t imagine a worse podcast than bickel’s lacrosse podcast but he managed to be even more irritating and less entertaining with this snoozer.
Ynottosa

Idiots

Whomever decided on the new release format is a f$;)):$$ing idiot.
Nich0l0

FORMATTING ISSUES

STOP uploading the clips in reverse order. STOP with the clips. Go back to uploading 4 (1 Hour) segments in the correct order. I know people who have stopped listening because of it. I’m next
MaverickStar7

Love the Junks but hate this current podcast format.

Long time listener of the Junkies. I’m probably always going to be listening until they retire. My rating and review here is based strictly on the podcast format. Please stop with all the extra segments in feed. Just stick to the 1 hour episodes. For everyone with auto downloads on, which is most people, we a basically downloading the whole show twice and having half a dozen or more extra entries that we have to now delete every day. Additionally, the order of release has changed. Full hour episodes used to come out as soon possible after airing, now they don’t come out until after the segments are added to the feed first.
allthepodcasts11

Why change the way you upload podcasts?

Been an avid P1 since 2006 and have carried it out to living in California - so podcasts are the only way I can listen. This new way of waiting to upload then uploading segments and reverse order just makes no sense for the listeners. Love the show. Love Bit Season. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Give both 5 stars. Giving the podcast a 1 ⭐️ as it’s my only way to show management how terrible this is.
Jpad18

Love the show, but these podcast snippets are awful

Hate downloading all these short clips - go back to posting each hour.
Muskycuke

Dumb

New segmented format is maddening and discourages listens.
Rick at podcast changes

Podcast experience is miserable now

Continuous listening is virtually impossible now which also means I listen to fewer ads. Stop cluttering the feed with shows we don’t care about. I’m now more likely to listen to music instead of the junks than ever, and I’m a longtime P1. Thanks a lot, Audacy Suits.
BDBigDave

Podcast upload issue

It’s obvious that they don’t care about listeners or user experience by uploading a bunch of clips then uploading hour segments in reverse order. It might help short term download metrics but they’ll lose listeners in the process.
Steve the Lame Reviewer

Terrible podcast

This podcast went from being awesome, to some terrible cut up version of the show. Instead of posting the four 1 hour segments of the show so that you could listen to them in order, they now post 10-12 minute clips in random order. AND the one hour segments are added later and are out of order. How do you screw up something so simple, so badly?
Bethesda G

New Podcast Download Format Blows

Loyal listener to the podcasts. New format is horrible. I’m out
kozai44

Kai in Cypress California

Long time listener been listening since 04 love the show
DC teams 4 life

EB cuts others off too much/ still a entertaining show.

Love the show and have been a loyal listener for your entire career. Congrats on your long career guys. Thanks for all the laughs.
Boldkey4

To chads#1

Jb is amazing and that’s why a guy asked you out than a girl
Johntheowner

Great show

Cakes is awesome, tell Valdez to stop attacking him every second. EB is a dumb conspiracy theorist, who hates all sports owners, weird. Lurch is a rich beggar, and JP is the unfunny annoying Junk that supports every liberal nutcase point of view… shut up about bad bunny, he stinks on ice. Why does this work, because they are us, a microcosm of society.
chads#1

Out of touch

JP is intolerable… no wonder his first wife left him. He is the reason I stopped listening.
Gibbsy316

GOATs

Been listening since I was in elementary school.
Tom37383628278

Great show - please stop repeating the ads

Been listening since the 90’s. Love the show. Advertisements are repeated 2-4 times in a row which is hard to listen to. And most days the audio mixing is off with one person much louder that the others and one much quieter. But keep up the great work overall.
PAyscue

Can't hear Bickel thru his hood

Giving an obvious racist 3 hours to spew his hate in the morning drive is a bold move The Fan. But at least Eric Bickel is a proud racist!
Kernel Panik

Great show despite no EB

I miss EB. No more vacations for you please. Though the Uunks continue to shine, I need a real Commanders fan on the show to hype us up.
Wizzlemane

EB is human scum

That’s it… that’s the review
CoS Fan

The problem is...

Eric is a conspiracy theory nut job who has ruined the show
brendanesteban

The. Best. Sports. Show. Ever.

See: Title Tell EB to turn down the political rhetoric though. He’s a “Covid expert” but backed a medication that actually does more harm than good and said people wanted it to fail cause they hate Trump? He’s just a conduit to Fox News and needs to put it on ice. It’s a sports show
StinkyJay

Love The Junks, Hate the Current Podcast Fornat

This goes out to whomever decided to change the format on how shows are segmented in the podcast list. These new one minute snippets is annoying to the point I’m listening less and less. The show and The Junks are amazing. I’ve been listening since their evening weekend shows, most of that time I have been living out of market and depending in the podcasts. And even EB’s lame conspiracy nonsense couldn’t push me away. But this is just becoming too difficult to navigate.
Bittie 1

Show is Amazing

Love the Junks. But please stop running the NOVEC add during the podcast. It is such an unprofessionally read spot that I have to fast forward or stop listening when it comes on.
Csingh00

Excellent

Best show on the radio! Don’t let the name fool you. Much more content that just sports.