Hardly Focused

Podcast host David Baxter (Thank You, Five; Friends of the Countess; 12 Months of Christmas) joins Jack and Zach for this installment of Hardly Focused! Attention remote podcasters! Use Zoom. That is all. Adult nightmares about high school An earthquake occurred near New York City, and everybody felt it kind of Marc Summers stormed away from filming Quiet on Set David won't exist for about a month after the Elden Ring DLC releases Films with quick production turnaround FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused FOLLOW David's podcasts! Thank You, Five; Friends of the Countess; 12 Months of Christmas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode marks 15 years of this podcast, 4 of which under the name "Hardly Focused!" Jack features audio of Nate and Zach's respective first appearances on this show, both from September 2009 Jack, Nate, and Zach discuss their "small world" moments, such as running into a local acquaintance on the other side of the country Ohio maniac brandishes a gun on a Burger King employee after being offered a $3 discount Jack has been successfully trolling Nate and Zach with misleading audio clips for 15 years Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, and Dan Schneider's purported love of feet Nate and Zach debate the comedic elements of Saturday Night Live FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 – Did We Re-open Too Early? It’s another reunion of “The Acc and Jack Show!” Jack points out that he, Acc and Nate have not done a radio show together in upwards of a decade. To begin, Jack is trying hard not to hate the television ad for The Last of Us Part II. Acc points out that people are upset that main character Ellie is gay. Said people clearly never played the first game. Elsewhere, Jack ponders if Massachusetts and New Hampshire respectively re-opened too early. Massachusetts continues with its phased approach, while New Hampshire says “fuck it.” Part 2 – A Chat About Mental Health This segment and the remainder of this episode cover the subject of mental health. Acc, Jack, and Nate all suffer from their own, respective mental curiosities. Jack opens up about recent tribulations, and asks the room when they first chose to seek professional help. Part 3 – A Further Chat About Mental Health Continuing the mental health discussion, Jack questions Acc and Nate about what they do when they feel a panic attack coming on. To conclude this episode on a lighter note, Jack also asks what Acc and Nate consider to be their “perfect escape.” FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While fighting a migraine, Jack recaps his afternoon working live sound for, and hanging out with the band New Found Glory Acc and Jack exhibit weird ticks when interacting with celebrities Recapping the Webcomics on Ice convention in 2011, featuring encounters with a young Toby Fox (Undertale) and KC Green (the “This is fine” dog-and-fire cartoon) “Am I the Asshole?” Jack recounts two recent instances of road rage, both on the receiving and giving ends A history of The Acc and Jack Show, from 2006 through 2008, and again from 2020 and beyond The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles wants to bring back public executions FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack and Nate's foreign language teacher from middle school was a living nightmare Conspiracies and controversies surround a photo of Kate Middleton and her children Should Alabama senator and scary mom Katie Britt be the Republican pick for Vice President? A trailer exists for the cancelled Spider-Man multiplayer live-service game Rest in peace Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama Jack tries and reviews Campbell's ghost pepper chicken noodle soup FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recapping Show Week - 5 straight days of new Hardly Focused episodes "National" days, and the fact that March 6 has five of them Becky is heavily invested in the trials of both Michelle Troconis and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed A school principal in Japan is fired and loses his pension over $3 worth of coffee Buy a Toyota, get a free 100lb bag of rice! Becky and Jack discuss the passing of Sister Wives' Garrison Brown, and the impacts this will have on the family and show FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Molly McAleer gets exposed to The Acc and Jack Show! Acc and Jack were releasing podcast episodes well before podcasting was a thing Bad words that went from "you probably shouldn't say that" to "you definitely shouldn't say that" Acc recalls a lot of gas leaks when he and Jack were in the 4th grade Jack became a favorite among the local water treatment plant staff Jack's prediction from the previous episode about voting as a Pizza Party member came true McDonald's latest promotion is a shoutout to anime fans Molly schools Acc to Taylor Swift Molly learns that Twister is one of Jack's all-time favorite films Taylor Swift is seemingly related to Emily Dickinson This episode has a lot of show notes What is "Hollywood inversion therapy?" Molly is really excited about the new logo for her show Trend Lightly LISTEN to Molly's podcasts! Trend Lightly | Mother, May I Sleep with Podcast? FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The joy - and cringe - of low-budget commercials for local businesses Frankie and Johnny's Furniture of New Orleans, featuring the "Special Man" A movie is being made based on the "villain" from the Willy Wonka fiasco in Glasgow The Fallout series on Prime Video is essentially going to be Fallout 5 Becky has introduced Jack to gambling FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fro brought his daughter over for the show Jack urges Fro to keep his daughter away from the Rugrats CGI reboot Hot off the heels of the Nintendo Switch's 7th birthday, Jack and Fro discuss the Pokémon games, both new and old Jack used TouchTunes to disrupt a blue collar establishment's mix of country music with pop punk and Britpop jams Fro lost his wallet in an IMAX theater Using the restroom at Ralph's Diner in Worcester is a rite of passage Riff-raff break into the still-under-construction Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, and post their shenanigans on TikTok Students at an Oklahoma school licked each others toes for charity, because why not? FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The MySpace Top 8, or how to cause a rift amongst friends in 2006 Dissecting the "immersive"-turned-disastrous Willy Wonka event in Glasgow, from AI-generated scripts to meth-cooking Oompa Loompas Nate versus the self-checkout machine at the supermarket FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"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? FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(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? FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused FOLLOW TUCKER on TikTok and YouTube! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"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 FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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" FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this festive installment of Hardly Focused, Jack and Becky kick off 2024 with predictions, anticipations, rants and debates, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices