The penultimate podcast of our first season!

Our cover art is original work by Ashley Marko.

Unlike most episodes of our podcast, where we treat the show United States of Al as the almost afterthought of our podcast it deserves to be, we actually spend almost this entire podcast talking about episodes 8 and 9 of the sitcom. Mostly because episode 8 was *almost* a "Very Special Episode" about war. But in true United States of Al fashion the conflict and arguments are abandoned almost as soon as they are referenced. Also Norm sings the Picard Song as he ponders if Wesley Crusher really was a "Wesley". And we melt our brains after hearing one of the characters say their dream is to "take the principles of microfinance and apply them to scholarships for Afghan women." 

Our theme music is by the Interesting Times Gang.

Our cover art is original work by Ashley Marko.

We discuss many things on this episode including the eye care grift Life Strength Network, how Gwyneth Paltrow and Alex Jones are selling the same sawdust, the pressing global concerns we would love to shill products for, Paul McCartney's eye kegels, and Norm just cant help going on a tangent about youtube grifter Prince EA.

After some discussion of episode 7 of United States of Al we had to cut our recording so Sam could make his vaccine appointment. Somehow when we resumed recording a few days later, all audio heck had broken loose and took a lot of time to edit to this listenable state. Sam's computer had broken causing a bunch of audio issues on his end, for some reason Norm's usually clear audio sounds like he recorded it in shoebox, and Patrick's recording cut off earlier than the rest of us. It's okay tho because we salvage it with talk of UFOs, Bill Gates holding court at Jeffrey Epstein's, and how all the worst sexual predators have notably strange penises. Actually we call them d*cks, and frequently, so be warned. We do eventually get back to the United States of Al episode where we learn that being a true American means doing things just for yourself and not feeling bad about it.

Here is the link to the Prince EA video Norm rants about https://youtu.be/LrVNTZ6ORm8

Our theme music is by the Interesting Times Gang

Our cover art is original work by Ashley Marko

Sam explains how Metallica attained legendary irony. Norm references two of his favorite comedies from his youth. Elon Musk cauterizes Patrick's sense of humor.

We expand the This Is Bad Podcastematic Universe of characters by introducing you to youtube motivational grifter Dhar Mann. Before that special treat for dessert, we eat our greens by discussing episodes 4 and 5 of United States of Al.  We learn that the real stories of the war in Afghanistan and the opioid epidemic were the friends we made along the way.

War, Addiction, Sexism, Grief; all heavy topics which United States of Al makes some water cooler small talk with in episodes 2 and 3, before moving on to some more goat jokes! We discuss. Patrick keeps making analogies to The Sopranos until a hawk flies by his window, it's a whole vibe.  

Norm, Sam, and Patrick discuss the pilot episode of United States of Al.