Anime Sickos

The Sickos reflect on board games, a hobby that's impossible to do but also tricked them into spending hundreds of dollars anyway. Then, Cog Talk discusses the "skills gap," the fun way companies blame the bad economy on the proletariat deciding to be too stupid to live, and NPR is like, that sounds right! Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on...

The Sickos damage their brains with exposure to terrible posts! First, we discuss Duchess Goldblatt, an inexplicable gimmick account that has never been funny yet which commands a cult following that'd kill for it. Then, we discuss two new incredible wife posts in a mini-Wife Addendum. Posting sucks ass you guys Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow...

The Sickos welcome Paul Starr, a professional Anime Sicko who makes a living translating manga and light novels! We discuss what it's like to infect your anime hobby with cog energy, how onomatopoeias do (or don't) work in Japanese, and the official style guidelines of the word "numby." Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on Twitter @TomHarriso...

The Sickos watched Tower of God, an anime that asks "what if Hunter x Hunter was shorter, but also way more complicated?" Well, the answer is that it would be a truly wild experience that turns your brain into goo (the good way). Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on Twitter @TomHarrison19

Homie and noted sicko Alex Borkowski goes guesto mode! We discuss Monster Hunter, a game that hates you and wants you to have as little fun as possible (while simultaneously being the best game in the world), plus a Cog Talk about how being a professional writer, like everything, sucks ass and is fake. Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on Twi...

Cogdom is over! The decaying world is falling apart and one of the four pillars just doesn't exist anymore! It's fucked! Plus, we catch up on the first 100%-posting-based rap beef, and Tom discusses how doing numbies is the worst thing that can happen to you.

The Sickos discuss the Fate series, an inscrutable ecosystem of games, visual novels, animes, and phone games that steal all your money. The lore of the Fate series is longer than the Bible and its purpose is to serve you stories where wizards kill each other with history ghosts in order to drink out of a nice cup. Also the history ghosts are hot babes with lots of different outfits so you'll pay...

The Sickos had a ton of ideas for dumb short segments that we could never find room for. So we decided to just do them all. Oops! All Goofs! Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on Twitter @TomHarrison19

We welcome our first repeat guesto, sicko scientist John Hasier along with his funnier wife Mike Hasier for our first-ever two person Guesto Mode episode! John once again uses facts and logic to prove anime is real, and Mike schools the sickos in the rich and bountiful sicko world of shojo anime. Follow us on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Tom @TomHarrison19 Follow Joe @ShariaUncle

Our listeners had questions—first anime? Favorite Western comics? Why won't you say "Luffy" right?—and your favorite Sickos have the answers in our Listener Mail Episode! Follow us on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Tom @TomHarrison19 Follow Joe @ShariaUncle

The Sickos welcome podcast-doer and major Sicko Quinn Welsh-Wilson to the show for a scintillating guesto episode. Quinn is cursed enough to share heretofore unrequited obsessions with each Sicko: like Tom, they love One Piece, and like Joe, they love the Yakuza games. In addition, we discuss how no one on the internet knows what themes are and how being a cog now is just listening to people chew...

In order to better understand why they are compelled to Game, the Sickos explore formative video games from adolescence that permanently cemented their addiction to the worst hobby on the planet. For Joe, it was endlessly grinding loot in Diablo 2. For Tom, it was barely retaining control of a frictionless car in F-Zero GX. Then, the boys do a deep dive on yet more variations of the Maddow-Maddow...

The Sickos welcome close personal friend Kevin Johnson to the show! We've known Kevin for years as both a homie and co-worker. On the longest Cog Talk yet, Tom and Kevin discuss their time working at a fake company doing no work as an insane man did shit that made no sense. Then, we interrogate Kevin's almost unfathomable commitment to extremely difficult competitive games like Counter-Strike and...

A lot of listeners have expressed that our show made them want to give anime a try. Now with quarantine in effect, they have more time than ever to watch anime. We Sickos do NOT endorse watching anime, but if you must, we offer this dope primer of great series to start with. Also, we revisit Cog Talk for the first time post-pandemic to discuss the weird impulse in the elite to make sure we're suff...

The Sickos put on full plate armor in a futile attempt to protect themselves from being Roasted, because on this episode, an ACTUAL TEEN goes guesto mode! Tom's niece Isa is a major Sicko who loves anime, gaming, D&D, comedy, performing, and general Sicko behavior while simultaneously being an actual child. We discuss what anime and games the kids like, whether the teen slang we know about is real...

It's Animal Crossing time! Joe takes Tom to task for being too neurotic to enjoy the chill game where you play with virtual dollies. In Tom's defense, games with limited inventory are cruel sadists who are doing violence to you for no reason. Follow us on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Tom @TomHarrison19 Follow Joe @ShariaUncle

Fellow Sicko Matthew Marquez (call him Marquez) goes guesto mode! We discuss Marquez's strange addiction to superhero comics, his burgeoning career as an anime boy, and the time a teen murdered him with the greatest roast of all time. Plus, a Cog Talk about staying home sick that hits super different now that we're post-The Event! Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Marquez @MarquezTh...

The Sickos discuss the greatest thing that can ever happen in fiction: tournaments. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follow Tom @TomHarrison19

Straight from their virus-proof podcast bunkers, the Sickos bring you a very special episode about the total collapse of society. Turns out, it's pretty dumb and bad! But your good sickos find out a way to talk about anime anyway. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follow Tom @TomHarrison19

The Sickos diagnose Media Brain, a mind-destroying affliction that affects every single person on TV who your dad trusts. Then, we talk about how open world games are class traitors designed to steal our souls. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follow Tom @TomHarrison19

Posting is an arcane and mystical art understood by few, but your good Sickos are here to break down the dark discipline into seven easily understood elements. Then, we talk about how the only good sport is sumo and that also it's anime. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follow Tom @TomHarrison19

Mega sicko and excellent human erica dreisbach joins your sickos for a scintillating bout of Guesto Mode! We discuss erica's taste in anime and gaming, her hard-fought freedom from cog hell, and her and Tom's artistic partnership! Then, we all become cancelled for agreeing that Infinite Jest is a good book that is fun to read. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follo...

The Sickos discuss Toriko, a terrible manga Tom just read about muscle guys who fight big monsters in order to eat weird gourmet food. It's extremely terrible but also sweet and thoughtful in a way very few things are. Then, we discuss how being a dumb goof with your buds is praxis.

Riley Hopkins, podcaster, game designer, and all-around sicko goes Guesto Mode! The boys talk about how designing a successful tabletop RPG makes you extremely rich (did not fact check this), Riley's truly staggering Naruto consumption habits, and more. Then, Riley and the Sickos face off to convince the other to give one of their favorite shows a try: Riley wants the Sickos to watch Power Rangers...

Inspired by the mind-bendingly terrible new satire from Dave Eggers, the Sickos review why comedy seems to suck so fucken hard in 2019. Then in Cog Talk, they moan about the indignity of having to use hyper-precise language in office environments, only to have your boss email you "diag convo?" Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follow Tom @TomHarrison19