Scott Sigler Slices

In this episode of SLICES, we’re talking about twenty-two-year-old French basketball superstar Victor Wembanyama.

And a decision he made that has absolutely nothing to do with scoring baskets.

Wembanyama recently told reporters he would never accept a sponsorship deal promoting a sports gambling company.

His exact words were: “Absolutely not. I will never do that.”

Let’s get into it.

— Slices is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs

— Produced by Steve Riekeberg

— Production Assistance by Allie Press

— Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment

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Manchester City Football Club is embroiled in a billion-dollar scandal.

A BILLION dollars in alleged financial manipulation, and now the British government is involved.

We’re talking about the big-money business drama that is the serious violations and financial mismanagement by Man City, and what the English Premier League (and possibly the UK government) is doing about it.

Scott & A aren’t British, or soccer experts, or even financial wizards. But they’ve got thoughts about this whole debacle.

— Slices is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs

— Produced by Steve Riekeberg

— Production Assistance by Allie Press

— Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment

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How common is CTE among NFL players overall?

We have never had a good answer.

A new study published this week in The BMJ gives us the best attempt yet.

Ninety-three percent of the former NFL players whose brains were examined in a major new study had CTE.

That means at least one in four players. At least.

Scott & A discuss.



— Slices is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs

— Produced by Steve Riekeberg

— Production Assistance by Allie Press

— Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment

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“Book Birthday” is a term authors use for the day their book is released. A rarified celebration took place on September 22, 2026, when Scott had two hardcover releases on the same day. This episode is a massive party for this double-ended birthday, recorded live during the Scott Sigler Slices livestream.

BIG BAD BOOK OF KAIJU

A hardcover anthology containing twenty-five original tales of city-smashing titans, and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage. Scott’s story, “Kaiju Poo-Poo,” is a dark (dark brown?) tale of post-apocalyptic giant monsters and the constipation that may exterminate all of humanity.

**“They’ll tell you a colonoscopy is no big deal…”**

BEASTS BEYOND THE RIVER

Released in hardcover, eBook, and audiobook—narrated by Ray Porter—this horror story, set amid the brutality of the French & Indian War, unleashes malevolent forces onto the frontier of Colonial America.

**Beware the Bear!**

— Slices is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs

— Produced by Steve Riekeberg

— Production Assistance by Allie Press

— Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment

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Chris Grall, author of TRIGGER GUARD, A WRITER’S GUIDE TO FIREARMS, just released his first fiction novel. He joins us to discuss his scifi-thriller SCHRÖDINGER’S GLASS.

— Slices is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs

— Produced by Steve Riekeberg

— Production Assistance by Allie Press

— Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment

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