This Week on Talkin' TV, Jackie and MJ almost derail everything by tryin' to talk books, including the book on which Six Schizophrenic Brothers was based, but Holden brings it back to the screen with his review of Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving" and then it comes back to the 1993 Pauly Shore classic "Son In Law" as all paths in life do. Jackie makes a plea to the ... Show More
Mar 20
Second Helpings - Ranch Imperialism
This week on Second Helpings, Jackie and MJ are joined by Ed Larson, and there's an announcement about Brighter Side future, Ed and Jackie convinced MJ to watch the "Inside the Manosphere" doc by Louis Theroux and it's a beautiful view into the toxicity of the culture, and HBO Ma ... Show More
1h 13m
Jul 2020
Episode 98: The evolution of celeb culture
A-listers are treating podcasts as confessionals: We’ll dive into why celebs are using them to spill the tea. Editor-in-chief of Avenue magazine, Ben Widdicombe, chats about celebrity gossip reporting's heyday, which he chronicles in his new book, “Gatecrasher”. And celebrity ps ... Show More
29m 23s
Nov 2024
#491 Talking Smack on Comedy, Oopsy Doggy & An Eastern Medicine Haul
Nikki and Brian have been talking smack all morning, so of course, it spills over into the pod. Brian gives his somewhat controversial take on the latest in entertainment, and Nikki’s here for it. Nikki’s been obsessed with English Teacher and is dying for more shows like it. She ... Show More
1h 3m
Sep 2024
Ep550 - Howard Stern is Back
Howard Stern is back from his summer vacation and boy is he excited to get back on the air. Oh wait, nope, he immediately starts complaining about having to work. But he has a lot to talk about, right? Nope, he wants to berate Gary Dell’Abate (Baba Booey) over a very trivial conc ... Show More
2h 50m
Mar 2025
Reality TV Sociology (‘TRASH’ TV) with Danielle Lindemann
<p>Nude strangers. Icy roads. Brain rot. True love. Class warfare. Queer visibility. Scripted ad libs. Sociologist, professor, author of the book “True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us,” and straight up Reality TV Sociologist, Dr. Danielle Lindemann studies human behavior thr ... Show More
1h 14m
May 2025
100: Mailbag: An Embarrassment of Riches
<p>Abby, Patrick, and Dan mark one hundred episodes of Ordinary Unhappiness! They start by looking back on the show’s run so far, and what they’ve gotten from engaging with psychoanalysis as a living body of knowledge, as a corpus of classic texts, as a way of seeing the world, a ... Show More
1h 30m