Tribute To The Shield Month ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, just another daaaaaaaay of podcasting. "The Big Wheel" is about an OCD man who kills blondes and is definitely not just a ripoff of Peeping Tom, the Michael Powell classic. Did that have a blind kid who got around by clicking? Didn't think so. In other news, Jazz is back from the vacation he chronologically starts taking next episode. It's not as confusing as it sounds.

In this Tribute to The Shield episode, the boys welcome Ronnie Gardocki himself, David Rees Snell, to the show. Too bad he has a nothing role in a nothing episode ("Remembrance of Things Past"). Like, we're talking Season 6 nothing. There's so little to talk about the boys spend a digression on the NBC hit La Brea, that's how bad it gets. Otherwise it's a geezer on geezer showcase as Joe Mantegna fights an unsub with dementia. It really should not be this difficult.

This episode has it all: a digression about something President Trump said last year, a possibly good episode of Criminal Minds, and the guy who played Stathis Borans in The Fly and the quite possibly underrated The Fly II. There's so much incident it unfortunately overshadows our Shield alum this week, Catherine Dent. And she's doing things with her role. She's trying the Texan accent!

In "Tribute to The Shield" month, the boys take a look at episodes of Criminal Minds that featured cast members of The Shield in them. First is Season 4's "Demonology", in which a blast from Prentiss' past threatens to push the show into Touched by an Angel territory. Also starring: James Remar! It's a lot more boring than it sounds, but Ronnie and Jazz make some hay out of it.

Fresh off the victory lap that was completing Season 16/Evolution of Criminal Minds, Ronnie and Jazz use the momentous Episode 250 to discuss another serial killer thriller: FOX's 2013 magical mystery tour THE FOLLOWING. Starring Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy, THE FOLLOWING is about a drunk FBI agent trying in vain to stop a shitty English professor from amassing a cult of serial killers who more or less exist to help him write his sophomore novel. Natalie Zea and some secret not gay gay guys also star. It's classic Poe, dudes. Also: listener questions!