Nugatory Quest

Taylor and Neil take a break from bring you non-stop yucks to deliver important messages regarding tolerance, violence and oppression. It's serious business and a responsibility that they do not weather lightly. Please join us for reductionary feminist theory, bear safety, matters both religious and political and all things worth discussing. We hope you'll join us.

Nugatory Shame:

Come for the shallow opinions. Stay for the bookcase with Hitler legs.

Course Materials: Pope-ing Dirty, The Friends Zone, The OTHER Kennedy, Gyrathos, The Winnipeg Unmaned Drones, Black Forest "Ham"

An elephant makes a big poop. A mouse makes a tiny poop. Fish poop. And So do birds. And Beyonce too! But her publicist doesn't want you to know about it.

Course Materials: Kublai Can't, Rick Monroe, Tender Loving Child, Alice Does Debbie, Monkey Police State, Straight Up Dick

A family of Emigre mice decide to move out to the west, unaware of the local customs, and unprepared for the debauchery that awaits them.

Course Materials: No one goes to Rochester, The Right Honourable Pamela Anderson, Billy Joel Can Do it Better, Watson - Played by Lucy Liu, Mushrooms are Weird, & You are Joking Me Right Now.

The harsh rays of the sun beat down upon your exposed neck. Toiling away in these terrible conditions, you reflect back upon the cruel twists of fate that led to your current lot in life. Your hands crack and blister as you work the hard ground – never forgetting the day you sold yourself into servitude to pay for your mother’s medical bills. Some nights, when the irradiated insects haven’t crawled under your skin, you still dream of one day working off your debts and leaving this place. But for now, you work. Day in; day out. Hoping – praying - you last long enough to see her one last time.

You are Brady. This is 1998. Welcome to your life.

Course Materials: Amazon Hotel, The Good Nazi, Daniel Day Kim, Hitler v. Einstein, Backwards Chair, Jon Hamm’s Hair

This is the true story

Of seven strangers

Picked to live in a loft

And have their lives taped

To find out what happens when they stop being polite

And start being dangerous substances that might kill you.

8 PM – MTV – KEEPING UP WITH THE CARCINOGENS

Cigarettes and asbestos get in a fight over an unwelcome house guest. Direct sunlight bonds with cadmium over some brews. An evicted houseguest returns to cause confusion and mayhem. Liquid Smoke guest stars. (Reality, TV-MA, 120 mins.)

Course Materials: Theatre of the Mind, Teen Wolf, Faith Baby, Quicker Licker, Jimmy Arm, Bosom’s Beezums

Have you always wanted to fly a plane? Drive a truck? Farm a farm? In this wondrous day and age, regardless of your experience or skill level, anyone can be or do anything they want!* Limited only by your imagination, drive to succeed and perseverance, you can reach the stars!* Episode 8 of Nugatory Quest is here to help you on this grand adventure of self-discovery, giving you the exclusive scoop on popular languages, super-old Olympic games and blood-sucking (drinking?) fiends. We’re here to help, and we know that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to.*

(*In video games.)

Course Materials: Much Good English, The Split Level, Portmanteau, Michael Jason Bateman, JimmiPods, Sweet Sweet Heinz

Like the majestic phoenix rising from ashes or like a stupid normal bird crazily flying off after slamming into a window, Nugatory Quest has returned after a short break to bring you all the news that’s fit to print. In audio form. So sit back, grab a warm drink, put your arms around a loved one and listen to us talk about peeing ALL OVER the bus.

Because, y’know, jokes.

Course Materials: Mr. Belvedere Station, Miss Wyoming’s Act, Llewellyn the Unprepared, Pew Pew, Chedd It Up, Elvis Costello

Promise never to settle unless it's into your favourite podcast-listening-seat with a Coke Zero. Do you have what it takes to live with inuit gnomes? Go toe-to-toe in the ring with Dwayne the Rockefeller Johnson? Take the Cosby kids to the pool? Battle your Pokemon to the death? Hope so! If not, you can always grab a Coke Zero to get you through it!

Course Materials:

No Malaska

Herstory

Dwayne the Rockefeller Johnson

At Some Point Everyone's Gonna Die

Catch the No Calorie Wave

Annie Get your Gund

Do you feel different or weird when compared to those around you? Do your peers and teachers subject you to cruel and unusual punishment? Have years of malevolent Sea World custody curled your dorsal fin? Growing up sure is tough, but you don’t have to go it alone. Your helpful friends at Nugatory Quest are here to guide you through the perils of flag-envy, mysterious racetracks and French advertisements. And remember: it gets better. Except for podcasts. This is the best one. Why? Who told you otherwise, dweeb?!

Course Materials: Spainish, Super Slow Motion Boy, George Washington: World’s Worst Serial Killer, Poster-Impressionism, Free Free Willy, Tap that Mana!

Do you find yourself stuck on the tarmac of life, waiting for the guys in the little buggy to come along and de-ice your heart? Well don’t worry friend. Like Oprah rising from the ashes of her daytime talk-show, Taylor and Neil are here to quell your greatest fears and warm them cockles good. With insightful wisdom, a smattering of laughs, surprising bouts of depression and maybe even a few special celebrity appearances, Episode 4 of Nugatory Quest has it all. And who knows? Maybe you’ll get something amazing for your troubles? Check under your seat…now!

You win a podcast! You win a podcast! Everybody wins a podcast!

Course Materials: Cyborg Romney 2160, Old Fashioned M*A*S*H, Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement, Get Thee to a Nunnery, The Internet: Do Not Ever, Ginned-Up Crazy Eights