Hardly Focused

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  • 627: Fast Food Daddy Issues

    Molly McAleer (Trend Lightly, Mother, May I Sleep with Podcast?) joins Jack and Zach for this Leap Day installment of Hardly Focused!

    Coming soon! Jack and Molly's episode of MMISWP, where they and Becky discuss the Lifetime film Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos

    Warner Bros. is shelving potentially great, already-completed films like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme

    Wendy's angers everyone by announcing (then renouncing) AI-managed surge pricing on their menus

    Remember when people went ballistic over McDonald's Szechuan sauce, or Popeye's chicken sandwich?

    Amazon driver somehow escapes his van being sliced in half by an Amtrak train

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    2 hr 4 min
  • 626: The Tortured Rebeccas Department

    Jack is still having a good time on Threads. Follow Hardly Focused there!

    Becky feels bad for the lobsters in the tanks at the supermarket

    Taylor Swift is in Australia, or so her jet tracker claims

    Taylor felt "lonely" during the pandemic, despite being quarantined with Joe Alwyn

    Becky and Jack try to decipher the track list to The Tortured Poets Department

    Love is Blind contestant Chelsea Blackwell claims Megan Fox is her celebrity doppelgänger

    Bryce Hall versus Billie Eilish, or how to rile up a TikTok star

    Jack loves the concept of Pod Meets World and other such podcasts - but does he actually listen to them?

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    2 hr 27 min
  • 625: See You in Hail

    Only trust weather reports from Frankie MacDonald, from his own TV station

    Remember when Lunchables came with soda?

    Did The Simpsons really need to recast their minority characters?

    Super Bowl LVIII, from President Biden trolling everyone on social media to Travis Kelce yelling at Andy Reid

    Forgive Joe Biden; he's old and overcame a stutter

    New Hampshire resident Rick Hebbard fires a verbal salvo on a school board meeting

    "Acc's Adventures on the MBTA"

    It's an early Christmas for Jack, for a trailer for Twisters has been released

    Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is Acc's Twisters

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    1 hr 28 min
  • 624: Album of the Year

    "Sex before marriage? PREPARE TO DIE!"

    Recapping the 2024 Grammy Awards; from Tracy Chapman's mind-blowing performing with Luke Combs, to Annie Lennox's tribute to Sinead O'Connor, plus the difference between Record of the Year and Album of the Year.

    Killer Mike wins a bunch of Grammys, only to be arrested for misdemeanor battery.

    After being fired from the cast almost immediately upon being hired, Shane Gillis is hosting Saturday Night Live.

    A Chihuahua left a stinky mess on a United Airlines flight. Is that better or worse than a door blowing open mid-air?

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    1 hr 37 min
  • 623: Pass the Ball to Tucker

    (0:00) True to the name of this podcast, this episode is all over the place. ADHD is real, kids!

    (4:00) A "diaper spa" in Atkinson, New Hampshire catering to adult baby/diaper lovers is causing controversy among residents

    (35:00) Jack and Zach talk about anything and everything with Tucker Lindgren, including living in New England, cats, and Palworld

    (1:34:00) Joy Reid swears into a hot mic during an MSNBC segment

    (1:51:00) With David Letterman coming to her defense, Taylor Swift might be bigger than Super Bowl LVIII

    (2:15:00) Memes before memes existed - is there a name for that?

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    2 hr 26 min
  • 622: Fool's Gold

    "Do you like hot fudge sundaes?"

    Tay Zonday versus Rick Astley, or a case study in going viral

    In hindsight, Rockstar Games fumbled the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI

    Zach prefers unrealistic, cartoony video games

    A Colorado pastor launches a crypto scam because the Lord told him to

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    1 hr 15 min
  • 621: Shafted

    Jack Gill presents: "How to Pronounce 'Barry Keoghan'"

    Jack and Becky watched Saltburn, while Mike finally saw Barbie

    People - or rather, a certain type of people - really didn't like this podcast's latest TikTok video about Aaron Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel

    The 2024 Emmys, from Better Call Saul winning absolutely nothing to The Bear winning everything

    Lindsay Lohan and her father are upset about a "fire crotch" joke made in the Mean Girls musical film

    A mother with a screaming child goes viral after Panera Bread refused to take her drive-thru order

    Redditor questions if they're the jerk for eating a meal at a restaurant before their date arrived

    Becky and Jack reminisce about their first dinner together, and whether or not it was a "first date"

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    2 hr 9 min
  • 620: The Dunning-Kruger Effect

    Most of this episode is spent discussing the feud between Aaron Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel

    Jack finally owns a Hullabalooza shirt from The Simpsons

    Chris Christie drops out of the 2024 presidential race

    Acc and Jack check in on the live GOP debate between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley

    Blue checkmarks on social media mean absolutely nothing now

    Jo Koy's monologue at the Golden Globes was a disaster

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    1 hr 48 min
  • 619: Year of the Dragon

    In this festive installment of Hardly Focused, Jack and Becky kick off 2024 with predictions, anticipations, rants and debates, and more!

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    2 hr 9 min
  • 618: Dots and Dashes

    It's the final episode of Hardly Focused for 2023! Jack, Zach, and Becky discuss side hustles, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and lots more.

    Kicking off this episode with some candy-flavored, and banana bread-flavored alcohol

    Jack embarrassed Becky at Buffalo Wild Wings

    Zach and Becky debate over several things - Dots candy, Cheez-Its, the state of California, and more

    The University of Wisconsin chancellor has a sexy side hustle, one that cost him his job

    "Florida Joker" is really upset about being parodied in the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer

    After 7 years in prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is a free woman

    What's the first thing you're eating when you get out of prison? What's your last meal choice?

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    2 hr 21 min

About Hardly Focused

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Since 2009, the hosts of Hardly Focused have relentlessly made fun of pop culture, current events, and each other. Join them every Thursday as they pick apart the news and struggle to stay on-topic.

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