261: The The Wire Episode

The Sickos discuss various notable knobs, buttons, and switches. This is easily one of the best episodes we've ever done.

The Sickos talk shit on Ball 2, a ridiculous Shark Tank product that brings AI integration to a ball, finally allowing kids to spend tokens during playtime. Every time they try to advertise this AI shit it's always just "hello hog. You've been basically a slug in a jar your whole life right? We now finally have a product that will give you basic competence for the first time."  ALSO: We are doing a collaborative live comedy show with the No Homework Podcast! Come to Beermiscuous (2812 N Lincoln Ave) in Chicago on Saturday November 21st at 7pm! No ticket purchase required, but please bring a cash donation for us if you can swing it!  You will see live original comedy from me and Joe, and additionally from Patrick Cosmos, L. Ron Mexico, and Charles Star of No Homework. Kevin Johnson will host a Family Feud minigame that will determine the superior podcast forever unless we lose in which case we did it as a joke. Be there if you can!!

What to do with the Muppets? It's a question that has stumped Disney for the last ten years. The Sickos come to the rescue with a bunch of pitches, but honestly, it's shameful you even need a pitch. The Muppets are little guys made of felt and when they talk everyone goes, wow, that's real. That's a real person. That's your pitch. Anyway. Enjoy the episode.

The four pillars of modern misery: Anime, Gaming, Posting, and Jobs. They have long been "the premise" of Anime Sickos Podcast, and yet we never talk about them. This episode finally answers why. Turns out, pillars need to be on a foundation to stand up. If all of society erodes beneath them, they fall over! Uh oh! 

Whenever the Sickos go on vacation, the next episode is us yapping about going on vacation. Well this time Tom went to Banff in Canada and met a variety of kooky characters and saw any number of funny things. Plus, Joe shares what he's been doing with his new freedom from chronic arm pain: reading the whole fan wiki for FF6 Kefka.

Hello Sicko fans.  Tom was on vacation so we couldn't record a new episode. Instead, here is the first episode of Tom's side project podcast Did Dat Dude Describe Destroyer?  DDDDD is a show in the vein of U Talking U2 2 Me?, covering the discography of the criminally underappreciated band Destroyer album-by-album. Riley Hopkins (a frequent and beloved Sicko guest) serves as cohost. This episode covers Destroyer's debut album, 1996's We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge. It, uh, well...everyone has to start somewhere. If you like DDDDD, you can follow it with this RSS feed:  https://www.patreon.com/rss/animesickos?auth=w4Z2PFDVM3Ar2W9DvedvnIm7BeNiAB6_&show=2322848

Folks, we're not joking: You have to become a snob. People have gotten way too comfortable foisting awful bullshit on us, confident we are just gonna sit there and take it as every part of the world gets worse. We must become annoying, mean snobs! People need to be afraid of sucking ass and doing things that are awful! Change starts with you!

We had a topic ready to go after we ran through some quick bullet points, but uh oh! The bullet points took an hour! We discuss the awful manga Kengan Omega, sardines, bike helmets, and the incredible comic Swan Boy. If you like the two of us chattin' and jawin', this one is a classic!

We're back! Sorry for the delay, Joe was getting his arm put back on, a monumental occasion detailed in our new (hopefully) one-time-only segment "Arm Talk."  Thanks to the great Branson Reese for playing Johnny Appleseed in our cold open sketch!

The Anime Sickos go on and on about The Wire, a classic of the golden age of TV that still hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves. We rectify this injustice by designing what The Wire needed all along: an official Game Boy Advance tie-in game full of Wario Ware-style minigames.