Reasons For The Apocalypse

Organic introductions. What happened to sprees? Rereading old texts to yourself. A thorough exploration of revolving doors. If you could have one boy scout badge for your life, what would it be? Tiny 3D printer. At the 50 minute mark, "Nicky's Advice Corner:" We all get kleptomania. In "What's the Deal?" we review a very special celebrity auction with one of our favorites, Jay Leno. Sports Short:...

2025 pop culture predictions! (yes that's last year)! Then: When will we finally see a "Rizzler x Sizzler" collab? Checking in on Bill O'Reilly. Nicky's Advice Corner: being a narc on a school quiz and making the teacher change a quiz answer. Sports Short: Demise of the dominance of the SEC. 

We start with some video game talk, including the beauty of modern character creation options, then it's the main event: back to school shopping, RANKED. Will rulers "rule" over back to school clothes? Pencils or lunch boxes, who will be on top? Tune in to find out!

We're back in our traditional format with all 4 horsemen. In the intro, we discuss many things including the famous Jurassic Park Barbasol spray can, which has it's own entry in the Jurassic Park Wiki. Then, a topic: things that make you grumpy as you get older. In Nicky's Advice Corner, the boys learn about the art of "fridgescaping." In the Sports Short, we talk about the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

It's just Rod and Nick this time around, and they're talking video games. 

Much like the polar express this episode is off the rails. We discuss doing this episode as a time capsule, but then we don't commit to it at all. A bunch of topics we've already discussed are discussed yet again. Then: What was the deal with 1990's graphic design schools? What Christmas movie would make a good video game? We review a workplace White Elephant gift exchange on a scale of 1-7 ho ho...

Much like your delayed mail-order pecan pie, our slightly-late Thanksgiving special surprise is here but worth the wait! Is pumpkin fruit or is pumpkin vegetable?  What Pokemon would you eat? Gummy Monopoly pieces? In 5 years will jigs still exist? Leave a green porch light on for Hulk. Nicky's Advice Corner: Am I the jerk for not making vegan thanksgiving food? What's the Deal - Dealer's Choice E...

Ryan is back from his hiatus. Ailments talk. Topics: hyper-regional reasons for people to judge one another? And what was your intro to gambling? In a listener submitted Nicky's Advice Corner - "How do I get out of my book club?" Then some ending nonsense. Thank you for listening.  

We close out our love/hate deep dive into the Emo genre by powering through a Tiers (or 'tears' in this case?) list of as many relevant emo bands as we can think of. 

Special guest Kamal joins the boys in Part 1 of our Emo Episode Series. What's the deal with emo, anyway? We talk our personal emo origin stories, what songs we thought would magically make girls like us, emo as early-2000's fashion, emo gateway bands, burning mix CD's, and why the car sun visor CD case was designed to scratch CD's.  At the 55 minute mark, we shift into our first Nicky's Advice Co...

Friend (and sibling) of the show, Saraya, joins us to fill in for Ryan who is still on hiatus! We start with a topic: What's the best thing you can get from a quarter vending machine? Then, "Nicky's Advice Corner:" did she make too big of a scene when the server brought out an already-opened can of soda? At the 45 minute mark the theme continues with our Tiermaker segment "Tierdrop Saloon:" Soda!...

Rod, Brian and Nick take the reigns and shake up the format a little in this episode.  In Part 1: We start with an extended Video Game Tree House segment with our opinions on Final Fantasy Rebirth, Final Fantasy nostalgia in general, and some of our favorite games at the time of the recording. Then we haphazardly stumble into some great feuds: Canes vs. Walking Sticks. Bible vs. Marvel. Taking Bac...

We have no show outline for this one so we turn to an old form of entertainment: asking the Magic 8 Ball. Also: What modern TV show would make a good retro video game? Can we name all the Jersey Shore characters? And which one of them would you want to have at your sleep over? Can the Magic 8 ball predict death? No sports short in this one but a rare "Sports Q&A." It's all fitting nonsense for our...

Technical issues. MLB Pants Discussion. Nicky Reads our Horroscopes. Wacky Headlines From Around the Globe (Funeral Home Edition.) "What's the Deal:" McDonald's 80's "McRockin' Foods" Music Toys. Sports Short: A Timely Recap of Brian's Preview of the 2023-2024 NFL Season.  Thank you for listening!  Join our discord: https://discord.gg/6htfKGk8

It's a segment-free all nonsense bonanza to delite you as we enter year 5 of Reasons for the Apocalypse (wow.) Enjoy meandering yet delightful distractions including: weird sounds, what the T in T Pain is for, battle of the tiny influencers, being invisible, trying to recreate laughter, and then a sports short on too much darn money being in baseball. Thanks for listening! 

*Tim Allen as Santa Clause Voice*: Ho ho hoooooooo there! It's me. Tim Allen. As Santa. And boy oh boy do I ever have a treat for you. No, no, noooooooo. Not coal, silly! It's a podcast! It's a verrrrrrryyyyyy special Reasons for the Apocalypse!  (*makes his trademark grunt noises, but jollier*)  My friends and yours, the 4 Horsemen, came on up to my Binford Tools North Pole Workshop to record a f...

We're back! You have 3/4 Horsemen for this one as Ryan is on sabbatical. We start with a classic topic discussion: naked old guys in the locker room. Then we get deep into JNCO jean revival. Did you know JNCO stands for "Judge None Choose One?" Anyway. In a debut segment, we break Cereal Mascots into tiers. Who will win out in the battle of breakfast-based intellectual property? Finally, Brian's S...

After a little summer hiatus we are back with a new episode, and we are getting a little bit crazy with it by having the hosts swap their signature segments. (Oh, and there are some technical difficulties, sorry about that.) After some important roller skate talk and injury talk, Nick presents "HUNK!" and Rod attempts to share some Wacky News From Around the Globe. Then it's a special Ryan's Advic...

Water bottle chat and video games. Famous celebrities who used long cigarette holders.  Nicky's Advice Corner - Am I wrong for getting upset that my girlfriend didn't bake me the flavor of cake I wanted for my birthday... Or was she for not baking it? Ryan's Nighttime Championship - Ryan vs. the Art of Manliness. A timely Sports Short on the 2023 NFL season! See how accurate Brian's predictions we...

Hello hello! It's a whole dog themed episode! Full of dog hot takes and barktacular puns. We start with Brian's story corner, work through some technical issues, then get into it: a "HUNK!" segment decides who is the hunkiest actor from a dog movie, a dog-themed advice question from Reddit, a dog-themed "What's the Deal?" on Dog Wedding outfits, and finally, we even have a dog-pun-filled Sports Sh...

Pie talk. A new butter innovation. A failed edition of WikiRoulette. Rod presents "Emo Game" OR "The Real Title of This Segment is Tortuously Long." Nicky tells us his crazy Hungry Howie's stalker story. Sports Short: Running Backs. Jim Irsay talk and future emo billionaires. 

Topic: What's the worst taste in your mouth to have for rest of your life? Then - mayonnaise talk. Brian presents the HUNK game: Who's the hunkiest hunk from the Christopher Nolan-verse? City Mascot Game: Dayton, Ohio. Nicky's Advice Corner: I paid my friend to give me podcast advice, but now he stopped, can I ask for my money back? "What's the Deal": Our first IRL Deal! It's a Walker Texas Ranger...

IT'S EVERYONE'S FAVORITE INTERCALARY EVENT!!! 2024 Leap Day is HERE (or was recently!) and we have a packed show to celebrate. FEATURING: in-depth discussion of kangaroo pouches, an "Advice Corner" on whether someone is as an a-hole for just being born on Leap Day, a rediscovery of the Webby-award winning Hulu series Leap Year  (which you likely have never heard of even though it had a cameo by St...

We take a spin in WikiRoulette to see what random Wikipedia topics we land on to explore, which leads down a rabbit hole of some band dance-emo music. Nicky presents his long-awaited Animal Sounds album, and then a round of Invention Corner. Then we play "Quote or Die" to guess celebrity briliance and close out with a Sports Short on Shohei Ohtani. 

Intro topic: Doing Everything With Two Hands. Then it's "Ryan's Incomplete Headlines," guess along with us as we try to figure out what went down in a Canadian backyard. In Nicky's Advice Corner - "Am I a Grasshole?" and a first ever What's the Deal Update on the Long Island Haunted Arcade. We close with a Sports Short on meddlesome owners.  Link to the arcade featured in our What's the Deal origi...