Idiots On Parade, the Too Ugly for TV Podcast

00:00 Introductions 01:20 Surviving Ohio State 17:17 OceanGate 35:09 Cruz vs. Carlson 44:48 Trump Phone 45:21 Immigration & ICE 46:42 Mike Lindell —Introductions: A brief touch on the weather, because small talk is wonderful up front. —Surviving Ohio State: Wow, Jim Jordan is one of the worst people on the planet. It’s one thing to be mentally deranged, and therefore a pedo, but Jim Jordan is...

00:00 Introductions 01:45 Hulk Hogan 10:30 Military Parade 17:34 Poland Pulls Out 23:03 RFK  38:49 Haley Joel Osment —What’s better, driving during the day, or overnight? —Hulk Hogan is going to save America. He’s already put out a (probably) watered down version of “beer” (Germany would probably have something to say about it), and now that parent company wants to buy Hooters. Hooters! Misleading...

00:00 Introductions 01:10 Hooters  14:41 Operation Spiderweb 23:13 Donald Trump & Elon Musk 27:43 MAHA 34:18 AB Hernandez —nathan will be performing at a birthday party. Wish him luck. —Hooters is facing bankruptcy, and closing locations. A business built on lies and misdirection—the actual waitresses were never as pretty as advertised—can’t stay afloat. Good riddance to bad food. Side discuss...

00:00 Introductions 01:28 Sydney Sweeney 12:57 Private Function 20:18 Tesla 24:32 Mark Davis 28:44 Final Destination Bloodlines —nathan is injured. Again. —One of the most attractive women on the planet is cashing in on the stupidity of men, and we are here for it. We discuss everything from the HBO show Real Sex, to all the silly things men buy from OnlyFans models.  —Punk band Private Function i...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the [Insert Podcast Name], where your favorite comedy duo makes sense of the senseless—one sarcastic joke at a time. Here’s what we tackled: 1. Adriana Smith & Georgia’s Dystopian Abortion Laws The tragic story of Adriana Smith—a brain-dead woman being kept on life support against her family’s wishes—highlights just how extreme Georgia’s abortion restrictions...

00:00 Introductions 01:13  Trump Derangement Syndrome  10:15 Deportation  18:16 Trump Watch 26:18 DNC Leadership 38:43 David Hogg 44:49 South Africa —Once again, YouTube proves to be the worst platform for live streaming. When Jake and I were talking, we were both clear, and constant. Watching the playback?  We’re both glitchy. Jesus, get your technology together, YouTube.  WTF? —People were outra...

00:00 Introductions 01:54 Storytime 03:47 Sheduer Sanders 05:05 Pope Trump 09:01 Dave Portnoy 18:43 Shiloh Hendrix 27:35 Harvard 31:37 Raw Milk 35:01 South Carolina —nathan opens the show with a genuine foot-in-your-mouth moment. You have to hear it to believe it. —Yes, we’re talking about him again. Not only did no NFL team want him, the Cleveland Browns, the team that drafted him, didn’t want hi...

00:00 Introductions 00:34 The Cleveland Browns 12:53 Bill Belichick & Jordon Hudson 18:55 Michael Scheuer 27:13 Amazon 29:58 Heterosexual Awareness 34:32 Rothko Painting Damaged 38:05 Harvard —Oh, the hilarity…  The Cleveland Browns promised Myles Garrett they had their quarterback situation figured out. They promised him. Aaaaaand, now they have 5 quarterbacks on their roster. One they’re pay...

00:00 Introductions 01:49 Shedeur Sanders 06:37 Federal Disaster Relief Funds 12:50 Kanye West 20:29 George Santos 29:27 Rex Parris 36:36 Mike Lindell 41:41 Google Maps —nathan is in a low-quality hotel in Kentucky, and walks us through the surroundings.  —Shedder Sanders wasn’t a story nathan sent Jake, but it was all the rage while recording and a viewer threw it into the comments. Why did Sande...

00:00 Introductions 04:34 Holy Water Illness 10:26 Huffpost 12:45 RFK and Autism 19:43 China, Russia, & Ukraine 23:25 Trump Tariffs 25:07 Beyonce 33:18 Relationships —Easter is upon us! He is risen! nathan ain’t doing nothing; Jake is visiting family. —Oh, you silly, silly Christians. You travel to Ethiopia, think it’s a good idea to drink “holy water” from a fetid well, and wonder why you get...

00:00 Introductions 00:32 Anderson Cooper 11:30 Mahmoud Khalil 20:36 NYC Helicopter Accident 25:46 RFK Jr. 32:16 Gayle King —Anderson Cooper made a mistake, live on CNN, at the Bernie Sanders town hall meeting. He accidentally misgendered a woman. Or a non-binary person. Something like that. In reality, it was a big non-issue. The woman corrected Anderson, Anderson said, “Oh,” and everyone went ab...

00:00 Introductions 03:30 Morgan Wallen 06:27 Pete Hegseth 12:16 Tariffs! 17:53 Tush Push 29:00 Pat McAfee 37:06 Cory Booker 41:00 Quittin’ Time —Technical issues abound… YouTube says that if you tap “horizontal display” on your live cast, you’ll be able to broadcast in a way that befits the standard 16:9 ratio. Sadly, YouTube lies. For reasons no one understands, if you tap “horizontal display,”...

Apologies, but Zoom really screwed up. It recorded 5 seconds of our audio, so we had to yank it from YouTube. This week, we're talking Gene Simmons, Anthony Webster of Gel, Bryan Kohberger, corporations that won't shut up when they should, Justin Eichorn, and Elon Musk.

00:00 Introductions 05:16 Save the WNBA 12:36 Conservative Beer 20:15 Mike Lindell 27:43 No Other Land 34:48 Sarah Silverman —We talk energy drinks, travel, and Hawaii. Crossing multiple time zones when traveling is a pain in the tuckus, which Jake remembers from his military days. Also: nathan recommends people watch Beverly Hills Cop annually, because it’s such a solid movie. —Angel Reese said t...

00:00 Introductions 01:54 Gene Simmons 16:05 Stephen Pearcy 26:10 Angel Reese  33:01 Elon Musk —Jake has a sty, everyone.  His left eye is gross, funny, purple, ugly… So, hopefully you’re listening to this on Spotify, not watching us on YouTube. —You wanted the best, you got the best, the bass player from the hottest band in the mid-to-latter-half of the 1970s, Gene Simmons! I kid, I kid. I was a...

00:00 Introductions 00:56 The Death Penalty 15:06 Republican Town Hall Meetings 20:54 Tariffs! 25:55 TV Recommendations —Jake and nathan have always differed on the death penalty: nathan is for it, Jake is against it. Brad Sigmon became the first person since 2010 to be executed by firing squad. South Carolina did the honors, and Brad himself made the decision to forgo lethal injection, or old spa...

00:00 Introductions 02:05 IVF and Gender 08:13 Livechat Comments 11:04 iPhone Bug 13:27 Tulsi Gabbard 17:32 Dear Abby 23:41 Health —Here, we explain that Zoom is most likely at fault for our recent (and perpetual) audio issues. Did we try and fix things by jumping to Google Meet and/or Microsoft Teams?  Yes. Yes we did. Google said we can’t record conversations, and Teams said, “Here’s how you add...

00:00 Introductions 00:36 Kim Sae-ron 06:38 Gangnam Style singer, PSY 13:41 Social Security & COVID 19:30 Trump Lies 21:26 Hooters 28:39 Free Palestine 33:34 Pete Buttigieg —Kim was a beautiful South Korean actress who took her own life. Why?  Because she had a bit too much to drink one night, got behind the wheel of her car, hit a power station (or something like that), and was arrested for D...

00:00 Introductions 00:52 Dajua Blanding 06:31 Draft Kings 09:54 Tom Brady 11:21 Kayla Nicole 15:42 Bras 17:34 James Carville 23:21 Anna Paulina Luna 24:57 Drag Queen Story Hour 27:52 Shark Attack —Given the state of things since the inauguration, people have been down in the dumps. Well, we’re here to change that this week, with stories focused on hilarity.  —Morbidly obese rapper Dank Demoss ord...

00:00 Introductions 01:15 Tariff Followup 03:21 Plane Crash Followup 06:59 Kanye West 13:20 Trevor Noah 24:00 Oh, Canada 29:30 The Super Bowl —Trump was going to drop tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada.  Everyone (except his lapdog-sycophant Republican legislators) said it was a bad idea; he said, “It’s happening…” And the markets reacted by tanking. So, he called everything off, and declared vi...

00:00 Introductions 01:03  Plane Crash 03:42 DEI 09:39 Harvey Weinstein  11:03 Chinese Incels 16:01 Dank Demoss 19:15 Anti-Abortion States 21:12 Tariffs —The crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 is a tragedy. There’s no other way to describe it.  Families are devastated, and will forever be changed. So, naturally, the media is trying to cash in any way they can. Clickbait headlines are generally...

00:00 Introductions 01:00 Donald Trump 10:06 Elon Musk 18:36 Afghanistan 25:55 Winter Tips 32:35 Netflix —He’s back! Donald Trump is president again, and things are going just swimmingly.  Remember that whole, “I have no idea what Project 2025 is?” Lol, ah, good times. What lies. Well, the Project 2025 is in full effect, with Trump signing a slew of executive orders, all designed to lower the pric...

00:00 Introductions 00:18 The NFL 04:25 Ryan Caldwell 10:45 Caitlin Clark 17:19 Carrie Underwood 25:21 Starbucks 29:36 L.A. Landlords —What happened? Seriously, what happened? The Packers were never gonna go far in the playoffs, but the entire NFC North collapsed! The Vikings and Lions both went one-and-done. The Lions were supposed to dominate! Ugh. Side discussion: TikTok is gone! Banned! It’s…...

00:00 Introductions 01:36 Blake Lively 10:57 Drone vs. Plane Wing 20:22 Alec Baldwin 25:58 Donald Trump —How much is enough? You’re a rich movie star, so you need more? Blake Lively says that the slander campaign against her hurt sales of her hair and beverage products. Which, it might have done. Or, people just weren’t interested in her hair and beverage products. It’s a bit silly, but, so is lif...

00:00 Introductions 0:150  Shamsud-Din Jabbar 14:38 DEI in Universities 21:50 Brad Spafford 28:41 Alfred Rava —We begin with apologies.  We know we’ve mentioned this several times over the past several weeks, but Jake and his family (wife, two kids, two dogs, cat) are moving.  They just got to their new house, which means the first half of craziness has passed, but as we record, they’re in the sec...