The Media Virus Podcast

We kick things off with the big mess: 🔥 Prosecutors want Diddy to sit for a decade (but his lawyers say he’s a changed man… right). 📼 Ray J claims the Kardashians are about to get hit with RICO charges. 🚌 Ice Cube’s tour bus gets firebombed because protesters can’t spell. 🏴 Philly raises the Chinese flag on City Hall. 👩‍❤️‍👨 Cousin marriage gets the NHS in hot water. 🤖 China’s $14,000 robot...

Title: Would You Rather, Bad Advice & Mad Libs Gone Wild Description: C Block takes flight with the Magic Feather crew — Greased Donkey Pete included. We torture each other with “Would You Rather,” dispense terrible advice to listeners (including a jealous teddy bear situation, a fish tank incident, and a moaning lawnmower neighbor), and close with Mad Libs that make even Rex Cootermore blush....

Title: Third Wheel: Trauma with Distribution Rights Description: Writer-director Blake Tamarkin joins TMVP to talk about Third Wheel , his brutally honest breakup film now streaming on Apple TV. From chaotic family inspiration to indie filmmaking survival, Blake unpacks creativity, anxiety, and what happens when emotional damage gets distribution rights. Tags: #TMVP #Podcast #BlakeTamarkin #ThirdW...

Title: Garlic Milk, Teflon Diets & Flare Gun Face-Offs Description: TMVP dives into the 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes — cows in zebra cosplay, garlic-flavored breast milk, pasta physics, and bats that can’t hold their booze. Then, we pivot to “Dumb Criminals”: a cruise ship debt diver, a senior citizen flare gun feud, Kevlar roulette, and California’s serial butt-sniffer. Science meets stupidity — and...

🎙️ C BLOCK — Manure Fondlers Unite Time to roll around in the dumpster fire: 🤡 This week’s Motherfuckin’ Replacement nominees: Muck Fumbler, Monkey Flute & Magic Feather 🔥 “Defend or Deny” roast lightning round — urinals, hot dogs & Goosebumps flexing ✉️ Dear Assholes : Chicken Man’s Zoom shame, a six-week towel war, and a cat with a vibrator heist problem 📺 Brian Kilmeade’s Fox News wa...

🎙️ B BLOCK — Submitted for Your Approval We cross dimensions with Nicholas Parisi , author, historian, and president of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation. 🌀 Rod Serling’s genius, legacy & smoking hot takes 📚 How The Twilight Zone still infects our imagination 🎤 Stories from SerlingFest, hidden biography gems, and who Serling would cast—or cancel—in 2025 #TMVP #TheMediaVirusPodcast #RodSer...

🎙️ A BLOCK — Free Speech, Nukes & Housewives This week TMVP dives into the deep end: 🔫 The Charlie Kirk shooting sparks a brutal free speech debate ⚖️ Menendez brothers denied retrial while Court TV turns into Netflix 💣 Putin & Kim Jong-Un flex nukes like toxic exes 🏚️ Minneapolis homeless encampment turns into a warzone 📺 Riki’s Reality Round-Up: Housewives family feuds, tax liens &amp...

Sorry it's late, kids, Prof. Mike fell asleep at the controls... Description: Welcome to the Musty Farting chaos pit: Defend or Deny takes aim at your worst habits, Will & Jada stage a reboot, surgeons self-amputate for fun and profit, and the internet discovers serial poopers and TikTok pissers. Civilization: circling the drain since forever. Hashtags: #TMVP #MustyFarts #DefendOrDeny #Wil...

Description: Artificial sweeteners frying your brain, your eco-bottle turning into a germ rave, and TikTok-happy clinic staff mocking pee samples—Health Watch proves once again that modern living is hazardous to your dignity. Hashtags: #TMVP #HealthWatch #Aspartame #BrainAging #ReusableBottles #TikTokFail #PointAndLaugh

Description: From Afghanistan’s deadly quake to Florida rolling the dice on kids’ immune systems, we’re serving a hot plate of chaos. Toss in a baby stealing the US Open spotlight, Rolling Ray’s farewell, and Julianne Hough embracing cringe—we’ve got a viral buffet of news that’ll hit harder than a shroom trip in the Catskills. Hashtags: #TMVP #Podcast #ViralNews #AfghanistanQuake #FloridaMan #Rol...

🎙️ C BLOCK — Off the Rails & Out of Pocket Title: Pete Fails to Join the Party: Names That Don’t Translate & Total Chaos Description: The C Block is where dignity dies — Pete fails to join the party, we butcher Mandarin with American names that sound filthy, dive into a bizarre Spotify rabbit hole, and let the train go gloriously off the tracks. This is the block your parents warned you ab...

🎙️ B BLOCK — Trauma, Healing & Quantum Weirdness Title: Kerry Blaser & the Quantum Soul-Sex Chronicles Description: Our guest Kerry Blaser, author of My Inner Heroine: Exploring Feminine Pain , takes us on a ride through childhood trauma, inherited wounds, shamanic awakenings, and why Andrew Tate somehow counts as one of her heroes. Strap in for physics, psychology, and a little soul-to-so...

🎙️ A BLOCK — Viral WTFs & Steak Infernos Title: From Pickpockets to Prime Rib: TikTok Lies & Missouri’s Meat Apocalypse Description: This week, TikTok turns a Venetian mom-brawl into a New York ghost story, Missouri highways double as a demolition derby, and 40,000 pounds of ribeye go up in smoke — handled by a vegan firefighter on her first day. Plus, Shein proves fast fashion can be kill...

C Block — Headlines, Pigs & Public Nudity Matty rewrites garbage clickbait into the truth, China tries pig lungs in humans, a JetBlue passenger moons the world, and somewhere in Scotland men climb a greasy pole. This is what happens when journalism gives up.

B Block — Rex the Fraudulent Guest A fake professor sneaks past the booker (again), Rex unveils his “genius” game show Wrong Answer Jeopard-ish , and the crew discovers that stupidity is now a currency. #TMVP #TheMediaVirusPodcast #MediaVirus #PointAndLaugh #ComedyPodcast #SatirePodcast #DarkHumor #IrreverentNews #PodcastLife #PodcastersOfInstagram #PodNation #MattyRockdef #RevProfMikeLitoris #The...

A Block — Death, Drama & Divas Mountains chew up climbers and helicopters alike, Taylor Swift scores a diamond ring, and Cardi B turns the courtroom into UFC. Oh—and Britney Spears is still dancing in poop. Welcome to the apocalypse, but make it glittery.#TheMediaVirusPodcast #VictoryPeak #TaylorAndTravis #CardiB #BritneySpears #CelebritySlime #TMVP #TheMediaVirusPodcast #MediaVirus #ComedyPod...

The Reverend, Professor Mike Litoris goes deep (too deep) into: 🥊 Vulvas under attack (rope climbs, bikes, tight underwear—oh my) 🇬🇧 Half of UK women not knowing how many holes they have (yikes) 🤯 ChatGPT almost convincing a man to jump off a roof 🧸 Pop Mart turning creepy toys into a billion-dollar empire ☀️ Triple H & Stephanie McMahon spotted soaking up sun in Mykonos before Clash in Par...

From combat zones to cop cars to page-turning thrillers—Jared Maxwell has done it all. He joins TMVP to talk about: 📚 Why book reviews are scarier than bullets 🎬 How Hollywood would inevitably screw up his story 🧠 Whether writing is therapy or just paid trauma dumping Grab his book The Last Gunfighter —before Hollywood casts Pete Davidson as the lead. #JaredMaxwell #TheLastGunfighter #AuthorLif...

TMVP kicks off with the apocalypse: 🌋 A volcano that could end humanity 🤖 Robots failing at the World Robot Games 🐰 Horny horned rabbits straight out of hell 👶 AI that quits mid-chat like your laziest intern Then Ricky’s Reality Round-Up dives into: ⚓ Below Deck scandals (did it happen or didn’t it?) 🍝 RHONJ drama (Joe Giudice never shuts up) 👛 Next Gen NYC —nepo-babies with allowances bigg...

C Block From a New Mexico teen murdering an Uber driver to “blow off steam” to a Delco Wawa fiasco that proves Pennsylvania never runs out of absurd headlines—C Block serves up the dark and the dumb with zero nutritional value but maximum flavor. C Block Hashtags: #TheMediaVirusPodcast #TrueCrime #UberNews #DelcoDrama #PAWeird #SatireNews #ComedyPodcast

B Block Mike Smith—host of The Gutter Gospel Podcast —shares his journey from homelessness, psych wards, and suicide attempts to faith, recovery, and purpose. This isn’t just an interview—it’s a lifeline for anyone who’s ever felt too far gone. B Block Hashtags: #TheMediaVirusPodcast #TheGutterGospel #MikeSmith #MentalHealthAwareness #AddictionRecovery #FaithAndRedemption #SuicidePrevention #Veter...

A Block From projectile penises in pro women’s basketball, to Florida’s animatronic bunny army luring invasive pythons, to a Texas man who thought “adult baby” was a valid life choice—Matty, Mike & Riki break down the week’s weirdest, wildest, and most WTF headlines with the only blend of satire and chaos that matters. A Block Hashtags: #TheMediaVirusPodcast #ProjectilePenises #CryptoClowns #W...

C Block — “Highs, Lows & Snack Cart Stunts” Delaware launches recreational cannabis sales, Talleyville spa bust makes headlines, a Microsoft engineer goes viral for snack breaks during layoffs, and pranksters turn a BART train into a budget airline. Four news stories, endless improv potential—from Commissioner Casey’s zoning meltdowns to Captain Pretzel’s in-train snack service. Hashtags: #Del...

B Block — “Click-Clack Boom: The AI Has Left the Building” From Shanghai robots staging an early walkout to AI models plotting cyberattacks without human input, it’s a roundup of artificial unintelligence with terrifyingly smart ideas. Rogue “agentic” AIs, GhostGPT crimeware, “vibe hacking” for lazy scammers, and bots refusing to shut down. The singularity’s here—and it’s demanding a smoke break....

A Block — “Tributes, Taglines & Total Trainwrecks” Rod Stewart’s AI “tribute” to Ozzy lands somewhere between a deepfake fever dream and a copyright crime scene. Gatorade tells the WNBA to “Let Her Cook,” and the internet serves them a roasting. Plus—happy ending spas, highway hot dog carnage, and a Danish zoo’s “donate your pet” program. If it’s weird, meat-related, or meme-worthy… we’ve got...