This Is Bad

Return of the Macks! Well...return of the podcasters at least. In this episode Norm explains why we've been gone so long. Then, at long last, hear our analysis of the final two episodes of the awful sitcom United States of Al. The show runners made our jobs easy by making these two of the worst episodes to date. One of which even solidifies that they have no interest whatsoever in broadening the public understanding and acceptance of the people of Afghanistan. Who cares about Afghanistan anyhoo tho amirite? Our theme music is by the Interesting Times Gang Our cover art is original work by Ashley Marko --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisisbad/message

The penultimate podcast of our first season! We talk about how all Big Brother really wants to know is when you went to Chili's. Is toxoplasmosis what is keeping Jair Bolsonaro alive? Norm cannot hold himself back from ranting about the worst dating advice YouTuber he has stumbled across. We discuss episodes 10 and 11 of United States of Al where our heroes make binders full of women, we learn of heavenly hall passes, Californians spare no expense in keeping their butts clean, we get SO EXCITED to discuss heavy topics in sitcoms past, and contemplate if Obama would be a fan of the show as we attempt to do some impressions of him. Leave us a voice mail to let us know what awful, cringeworthy or otherwise awesomely bad movies, shows or other media we should discuss in season 2: https://anchor.fm/thisisbad/message Link to the awful dating advice video Norm referenced: https://youtu.be/wio1yGlHSfE Our theme music is by the Interesting Times Gang. Our cover art is original work by Ashley Marko. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisisbad/message

Unlike most episodes of our podcast, where we treat the show United States of Al as the almost afterthought of our podcast it deserves to be, we actually spend almost this entire podcast talking about episodes 8 and 9 of the sitcom. Mostly because episode 8 was *almost* a "Very Special Episode" about war. But in true United States of Al fashion the conflict and arguments are abandoned almost as soon as they are referenced. Also Norm sings the Picard Song as he ponders if Wesley Crusher really was a "Wesley". And we melt our brains after hearing one of the characters say their dream is to "take the principles of microfinance and apply them to scholarships for Afghan women." Our theme music is by the Interesting Times Gang. Our cover art is original work by Ashley Marko. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisisbad/message

We discuss many things on this episode including the eye care grift Life Strength Network, how Gwyneth Paltrow and Alex Jones are selling the same sawdust, the pressing global concerns we would love to shill products for, Paul McCartney's eye kegels, and Norm just cant help going on a tangent about youtube grifter Prince EA. After some discussion of episode 7 of United States of Al we had to cut our recording so Sam could make his vaccine appointment. Somehow when we resumed recording a few days later, all audio heck had broken loose and took a lot of time to edit to this listenable state. Sam's computer had broken causing a bunch of audio issues on his end, for some reason Norm's usually clear audio sounds like he recorded it in shoebox, and Patrick's recording cut off earlier than the rest of us. It's okay tho because we salvage it with talk of UFOs, Bill Gates holding court at Jeffrey Epstein's, and how all the worst sexual predators have notably strange penises. Actually we call them d*cks, and frequently, so be warned. We do eventually get back to the United States of Al episode where we learn that being a true American means doing things just for yourself and not feeling bad about it. Here is the link to the Prince EA video Norm rants about https://youtu.be/LrVNTZ6ORm8 Our theme music is by the Interesting Times Gang Our cover art is original work by Ashley Marko --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisisbad/message

Sam explains how Metallica attained legendary irony. Norm references two of his favorite comedies from his youth. Elon Musk cauterizes Patrick's sense of humor. Eventually we do get to discussing the overachieving if mediocre Episode 6 of United States of Al. We meet the consensus new favorite character of the pod with a Catalan flare. And Parker/Riley wont tell us why he's mad. Later, in wanting to revisit inspirational youtube grifter Dhar Mann, we end up instead introducing you to inspirational youtube grifter Prince EA. Are all these grifters modern day televangelists draped in bling bling and rentals? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisisbad/message

We expand the This Is Bad Podcastematic Universe of characters by introducing you to youtube motivational grifter Dhar Mann. Before that special treat for dessert, we eat our greens by discussing episodes 4 and 5 of United States of Al. We learn that the real stories of the war in Afghanistan and the opioid epidemic were the friends we made along the way. We know it's a strange format to hear us talk about a show you hopefully haven't subjected yourselves to watching, and we would love to hear feedback on how we are doing. Please let us know by leaving us a voicemail here https://anchor.fm/thisisbad/message or email ThisIsBadPod@gmail.com Check out one of Dhar's absurd videos we reference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJalA3jEdu0 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisisbad/message

War, Addiction, Sexism, Grief; all heavy topics which United States of Al makes some water cooler small talk with in episodes 2 and 3, before moving on to some more goat jokes! We discuss. Patrick keeps making analogies to The Sopranos until a hawk flies by his window, it's a whole vibe. Please give us feedback. Does this podcast make sense? Does it make you laugh? What is wrong with you/us? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisisbad/message

Norm, Sam, and Patrick discuss the pilot episode of United States of Al. The dreadful new sitcom about an Afghan interpreter who escapes to Ohio to join his American veteran friend for hijinks and jokes that punch down. After talking about the show and episode, we make prop bets about what will happen in the future, who will be shipped, who will be My Fair Lady-ed, are the characters the same as those on Frasier, and whether the Iraq War will be mentioned at all? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisisbad/message