The Worst of All Possible Worlds

Phoebe Roy (Masters of Our Domain, Ten Thousand Posts) and the lads hop in a car and head west, as they experience the trials and tribulations of Eugene Meltsner and Bernard Walton’s road trip to San Diego. Topics include the purpose of experience, the geography of the US, and the logistics of being handcuffed to a corpse. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Phoebe Roy Twitter // Substack Masters of Our Domain: A podcast about Seinfeld from Phoebe Roy (10k Posts), who has seen it, and Milo Edwards (Trashfuture, Тумач), who hasn’t. Podcast // Twitter // Patreon Ten Thousand Posts: A show about how everything is a form of posting, and how our lives are guided by the only dialectic that matters: good posts and bad posts. Podcast // Twitter // Patreon Media Referenced in this Episode: Adventures in Odyssey #274 First Hand Experience #275 Second Thoughts #276 Third Degree #277 It Happened at Four Corners The Shaggy D.A. Scene TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Commercial: “The Iowa State Fair!” 

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall Brian and A.J. slap on some red/green wristbands and summon a CGI penguin to help them solve the mystery of Kyle Killen’s cult TV one-season wonder: Awake. Topics include the absolutely wild premise, the advantages of casting two broadway legends as therapists, and the importance of taking big swings on network television. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to the rest of this episode, our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Media Referenced in this Episode: Awake (2011) Available on Prime Episode One: “Pilot” Episode Six: “That’s Not My Penguin” Episode Thirteen: “Turtles All The Way Down” “'Awake' finale questions answered by creator” by Mandi Bierly, Entertainment Weekly May 26th 2012 TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Commercial: “Boshes All the Way Down”

Alice Caldwell-Kelly (Trashfuture/Kill James Bond!/Well There’s Your Problem) recruits the lads into the International Organization of Bros (IOB) as they take on Iran, Russia, and the Mexican Cartel in Infinity Ward’s 2022 sequel/remake/propaganda fever dream Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Topics include the infamous Al Qaeda district of Amsterdam, the internet’s obsession with Valeria, and the dangerous messages at the core of one of the best-selling games of 2022. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Alice Caldwell-Kelly: Twitter / Instagram / Patreon Trashfuture is a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism. Website / Twitter / Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts Kill James Bond! is a comedy film review/pop culture commentary podcast about the eponymous English spy, James Bond. Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon watch a different Bond movie every fortnight in an attempt to give 007 the socialist, feminist comeuppance he so richly deserves. Free episodes are released every fortnight on all major podcast platforms and bonus episodes are released for supporters on Patreon on the interstitial weeks. Website / Twitter / Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts Well There’s Your Problem is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes. Youtube / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts Media Referenced in this Episode: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision, 2022) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision, 2019) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision, 2009) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision, 2007) TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Commercial: “Eagle McGee’s Male Murder Cream”

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall Hussein Kesvani (Trashfuture,Ten Thousand Posts) joins the lads in Odyssey for further adventures in pen pals, unemployment, and some good old fashioned lore spelunking. Topics include the allure of Lifetime movies, the death of Hal Smith, and the fascinating lore potential of a town with a weapons-grade nuclear device sitting in the back of an ice cream parlor. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to the rest of this episode, our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Hussein Kesvani Website // Twitter Trashfuture: a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism. Podcast // Website // Twitter // Patreon Ten Thousand Posts: A show about how everything is a form of posting, and how our lives are guided by the only dialectic that matters: good posts and bad posts. Podcast // Twitter // Patreon Media Referenced in this Episode: Adventures in Odyssey #206 Pen Pals #262 A Prayer for George Barclay #268 Pet Peeves #266 It Began With a Rabbit’s Foot #267 And Ended With a Handshake Something Awful’s Cyber Seduction Review by Andrew "Linguica" Stine TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

The lads throw on their Throx and scrub their daddies as they dive headlong into the nightmares of capitalism in the hit reality TV show Shark Tank. Topics include what makes a good pitch, the number of socks in a Throx, and the odious core at the heart of American mythmaking. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Media Referenced in this Episode: Shark Tank Available on Hulu Playlist for this episode of the podcast can be found here “Ex-NFL player thought ‘Shark Tank’ would launch his barbecue empire. It became a nightmare, he says” by Stacey Perman, LA Times. May 18th, 2023. Lori Cheek’s TEDxFultonStreet talk Maneesh Sethi's TEDxWindsor talk Senate Banking Committee Examines FTX Collapse by C-SPAN. Senate Banking hearing on the downfall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX — 12/14/22 TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Featuring David Armstrong as “Mark Cuban” and Eleanor Philips as “Barbara Corcoran”. 

~~PRESALE FOR TWOAPW T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE UNTIL MAY 22ND HERE~~ THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall The lads head on down to Xanadu and throw themselves into the fire of the largest fireplace imaginable as they cover what is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made: Citizen Kane. Topics include the magnetism of Orson Welles, the revolutionary cinematography, and the enduring historical archetype of Charles Foster Kane. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to the rest of this episode, our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Media Referenced in this Episode: Citizen Kane: Available on Apple TV AT&T Operators Recall War of the Worlds Broadcast Orson Welles Shakespeare Collection The Battle Over Citizen Kane The Citizen Kane of Fan-Fiction TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Featuring David Armstrong as “Orson Welles”.

~~PRESALE FOR TWOAPW T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE UNTIL MAY 22ND HERE~~ Milo Edwards (Trashfuture, Masters of Our Domain) and the lads take a deep dive into the creepy, crawly mind of the worst horror writer to never exist as they fight the evil one-eyed aliens and menacing Scotsmen of the hit cult comedy series Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Topics include the origins of the Garth Marenghi character, the significance of Scottish shortbread, and the delirious joys of watching Richard Ayoade shooting a shotgun at flying cutlery. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Milo Edwards: Twitter // Website // Standup Special Trashfuture: a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism. Podcast // Website // Twitter // Patreon Masters of Our Domain: A podcast about Seinfeld from Phoebe Roy (10k Posts), who has seen it, and Milo Edwards (Trashfuture, Тумач), who hasn’t. Podcast // Twitter // Patreon Media Referenced In this Episode: Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace Available to Stream On Peacock // Amazon // Youtube “Garth Marenghi: how the Edinburgh award winner found his Darkplace” by Rachael Healy. The Guardian, February 24th, 2021. TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall   Josh, Brian, and A.J. celebrate 500 patrons on Patreon by baring their legs at Caveat NYC, then sit down with Michael Kupperman to discuss two evangelical children's shows from the 80s and 90s: McGee and Me and the animated version of Adventures in Odyssey.   Michael Kupperman's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MichaelKupperman/   Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall!   TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Tonight at midnight, all union contracts governing how screenplays are written and paid for will expire unless a deal is reached between Hollywood and the Writers Guild of America. To find out what's been happening and what the implications of a writers' strike would be on the entertainment industry, Josh sat down and talked with WGA screenwriter Colby Day, whose upcoming film Spaceman, starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, and Paul Dano, is scheduled to be released by Netflix this fall. Follow the WGA on social media: WGA West on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook  WGA East on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook 

~~TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW ON THURSDAY 4/27 IN NYC ARE AVAILABLE NOW! Get your tickets right now at this link.~~ Josiah Sutton (Mammonburg) trades the lads’ souls for pogs as they return once again to Odyssey to cover the trials and tribulations of making assumptions and the love life of Eugene Meltsner. Topics include homeschooling, total depravity, and whether or not everything is, in fact, coming up Milhouse. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Josiah Sutton: Twitter // Substack // Instagram Mammonburg is a podcast about the terrible dystopia we’ve found ourselves in, and what four very online leftist Christians think we should do about it. Usually, the answer is just a depressed shrug and something about praying, but sometimes we have some insight. Website Twitter Josh’s Episode Media Referenced in this Episode: Episode #112: Curious, Isn’t It? Episode #169: Hold Up! Episode #254: Truth, Trivia, and ’Trina Episode #260: Naturally, I Assumed TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.co