Existential Shred

Part of me wants to write an episode description in the tone of a TikTok / Instagram reel where someone pops in with that influencer voice and is like “ALRIGHT GUYS TODAY WERE LISTING THE TOP 5 SPIDERS STARTING WITH THE DADDY LONGLEG…”, but I already used a spider joke to start the episode. I’m just going to fill up the description with some quick rambling as I listen to “LOADED” by HMLTD.  You kn...

On this episode of What’s Going On we decide to take a step away from examining some existential horrors and just talk about the existential horrors of our own lives. Topics include: Marvel Rivals, Pokemon Showdown, Captain America: Brave New World, will the MCU ever die, Companion, Stephen King’s The Monkey, Mickey 17, the nightmare of having to get up to use the bathroom in a movie theatre, the...

Well he's gone and done it again, Levi has picked another topic that has given us polarizing views, maybe he really does hate doing the cast, maybe he just enjoys making Jordan sit through things he won't like. Who are we to really say? Join us as we discuss Lynne Ramsay’s 2017 crime thriller “You Were Never Really Here” about a deeply disturbed veteran who saves girls from human trafficking rings...

On this week's episode, we talk about our Top 5 Favorite Albums of All-Time, which should come as no surprise since you saw the episode title. What should come as a surprise to you is that historians have almost unanimously agreed that the year 536 CE (or AD if you’re still into that) was the worst year in human history to be alive. Let’s start off with the big dawg in this whole conversation, the...

“A second New York is being built a little west of the old one. Why another, no one asks, just build it, and they do. The city is still closed off to all but the work crews who claim it’s a perfect mirror image. Truthfully, each man works on the replica of the apartment building he lives in, adding new touches, like cologne dispensers, rock gardens, and doorknobs marked for the grand hotels. Impro...

どれだけ頑張っても 君は僕を押しのけ続ける そして僕は突破できない 君と話すことはできない 君が去ってしまうのはとても悲しい それを信じるのに時間がかかる でも結局 君は孤独になるんだ、ああ 愛の後の人生を信じるか？ 僕の心の中で何かが言っているのを感じる 君は本当に強くないと思う、いや 愛の後の人生を信じるか？ 僕の心の中で何かが言っているのを感じる 君は本当に強くないと思う、いや 僕は何をすればいいの？ 座...

Today on “Ancient Aliens”, we discuss the curious case of Monterey Bay’s own Christo Roppolo and his extraordinary claims of mass Unidentified Flying Object activity in the idyllic California town.   You might be curious, what is it we’re dealing with here?  The Grays? The Mantis’? Surely it can’t be the Venusians, can it?!  Psh, what is this amateur hour… what we got is an outbreak of Stinkleberr...

Well, it’s been a fun ride.  After 5 Shred-pisode’s and 2 mini-shreds, our mighty media empire crumbles before our very eyes… and it’s all because we don’t enjoy Lizzy McAlpine’s “Older (and Wiser)” to the same magnitude.  Why would Levi sabotage us like this?  Did he want the cast to end?  Is it because he hasn’t emotionally recovered from watching “The Whale”?  I mean, if we don’t have the exact...

It’s that time of the year again where in order to safely complete the last leg of our rotation around the Sun, we must lull the Sun into a state of unassuming bliss by compiling lists of all of our favorite things that happened during this rotation. Which, of course, we know is what has kept it from initiating the “Red Giant Phase” of its life cycle and completely destroying every last trace that...

Strap in Ishmael, on today’s episode we talk about “The Whale or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bird” which is the latest entry in Darren Aronofsky’s long line of films that are known, for various reasons, to elicit extremely visceral reactions from the audience. Charlie, our main character and a recluse college writing instructor, is likely living the last week of his life. Before i...

Scene: It’s late November. Establishing Shot, Internal: A person walking into Target. Close Up Shot of protagonists: We see their eyes darting back and forth, pupils widening in what the audience understands as fear. Dutch Angle Shot: The Starbucks employee removing the sign for Pumpkin Spice Lattes to quickly replace it with a sign promoting the seasonal Peppermint Mocha. Our protagonist begins t...

Known largely for his contributions to the hit TV show “How I Met Your Mother” and comedies such as “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “I Love You Man”, Jason Segel sticks to his comfort zone on “The Discovery”.  As an audience, how long do we let Jason Segel get away with shoe horning questions like “what if we had some kind of proof of life after death and how dangerous would that knowledge be to t...

On today’s episode, straight from the heart of the Rust Belt it’s Danny Brown.  Hailing from Detroit, Michigan all Danny had his heart set on was making it as a rapper before he turned 30.  Be careful whatcha wish for though, because even as he’s in the lap of luxury and living out his dream he’s slowly destroying himself while crowds of adoring fans cheer him on.  Kinda messed up huh?  “Atrocity...

On today’s episode, we discuss a film by the man behind the voices of such beloved characters as Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Smokey the Bear… Jim Cumming’s “The Wolf of Snow Hollow.” Oh wait… wrong Jim Cummings… This Jim Cummings is the writer / director / actor triple threat who has a unique penchant for making his audience feel uncomfortable. In the tight knit, isolated community of Snow Hollow...

D-d-debut episode of Existential Shred, the new project brought to you by Beam Out of The Mainstream host Levi and his co-host Jordan. We’re here to discuss all of our favorite pieces of media that might end up making you feel sad, bad, or generally just not rad. We're starting strong with a double header where the idea of how these two pieces of media are connected is based off of a comment I onc...