Nadia insisted that this movie was good, Tony refused to believe her. In order to find out who was right, you’ll have to listen to this episode, where we watch She’s the Man and talk about how it’s being revisited and hailed as ahead of its time on gender and LGBTQ issues. Tony gets brutally owned by his dad. Channing Tatum is in this movie, so this is the thirstiest Nadia has ever been while we recorded.

In an exciting first for us, we watch our first standup special for the podcast! Unfortunately, the special is Spark of Insanity by the obscenely successful and definitely shitty Jeff Dunham, supported by his cadre of homophobic and Islamophic puppets. We talk about mean-spirited memes, comedy after 9/11, and which people and puppets we should be allowed to judge.

[A quick note on sources: Tony references passages from Amy Poehler’s memoir Yes Please and Chris Smith’s oral history of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, as well as interviews from Paul Provenza’s 2010 book Satiristas! He also incorrectly states that bin Laden died in 2010 and not 2011, please do not @ him]

In an exciting first for us, we watch our first standup special for the podcast! Unfortunately, the special is Spark of Insanity by the obscenely successful and definitely shitty Jeff Dunham, supported by his cadre of homophobic and Islamophic puppets. We talk about mean-spirited memes, comedy after 9/11, and which people and puppets we should be allowed to judge.

[A quick note on sources: Tony references passages from Amy Poehler’s memoir Yes Please and Chris Smith’s oral history of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, as well as interviews from Paul Provenza’s 2010 book Satiristas! He also incorrectly states that bin Laden died in 2010 and not 2011, please do not @ him]

[CONTENT WARNING: discussion of historical treatment and depiction of those with intellectual disabilities, including some slurs and offensive terms]

Tony and Nadia watch Garry Marshall’s emotional snuff film The Other Sister and out themselves as fervently committed to the destruction of capitalism. They review other Oscar-baity movies about adults with unspecified intellectual disabilities, and argue whether or not Sarah Paulson’s character in the film was queer. Tony gets his hands on a “comedy board game” that the Hollywood Improv Theatre put out in 1989 and it’s...pretty bad.

[CONTENT WARNING: discussion of historical treatment and depiction of those with intellectual disabilities, including some slurs and offensive terms]

Tony and Nadia watch Garry Marshall’s emotional snuff film The Other Sister and out themselves as fervently committed to the destruction of capitalism. They review other Oscar-baity movies about adults with unspecified intellectual disabilities, and argue whether or not Sarah Paulson’s character in the film was queer. Tony gets his hands on a “comedy board game” that the Hollywood Improv Theatre put out in 1989 and it’s...pretty bad.

(CONTENT WARNING: just a lot of racism and stereotypes, including some very uncomfortable lines of dialogue from the film, and discussion around one instance of assault)

Which was the bigger atrocity from March 2003: the invasion of Iraq or Bringing Down the House? Tony and Nadia investigate, and they both have Eugene Levy impressions ready to go for this episode. This movie was really terrible and we seriously reconsidered whether we should keep doing the podcast after this.

(CONTENT WARNING: just a lot of racism and stereotypes, including some very uncomfortable lines of dialogue from the film, and discussion around one instance of assault)

Which was the bigger atrocity from March 2003: the invasion of Iraq or Bringing Down the House? Tony and Nadia investigate, and they both have Eugene Levy impressions ready to go for this episode. This movie was really terrible and we seriously reconsidered whether we should keep doing the podcast after this.

(CONTENT WARNING: abusive behavior, sexual manipulation, professor/student relationship, assault, homophobia, incest)

Tony and Nadia spend some time reflecting on what a horrible friend and human being Ross Geller was, and trace his worst moments through all ten seasons of Friends. Tony reveals the gender of the podcast. There’s a five minute stretch near the end where both of us keep breaking, but we just left it in.

(CONTENT WARNING: abusive behavior, sexual manipulation, professor/student relationship, assault, homophobia, incest)

Tony and Nadia spend some time reflecting on what a horrible friend and human being Ross Geller was, and trace his worst moments through all ten seasons of Friends. Tony reveals the gender of the podcast. There’s a five minute stretch near the end where both of us keep breaking, but we just left it in.

We were recording today and we talked about Magic: The Gathering for like 30 minutes before starting the episode. We're releasing it as a bonus so you don't have to sit through it on a real episode, but there's some good stuff in there, we talk about Nadia learning to play for the first time, what the most Republican MTG color is, and also towards the end Nadia talks about Lonely Island.