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Better Than Being Hopeless

25 Episodes

47 minutes | Dec 31, 2021
Merry Christmas, Let's Watch some TV and Chill Out
Myself and editor Ryan get together to watch some Christmas episodes of TV shows, just for your pleasure.
26 minutes | Oct 15, 2021
ALL NBA ANTIVAX TEAM: Man, some of these players are really REALLY good
Spoiler alert, this team is good. But also, any team with Kyrie Irving and Bradley Beal on it will be good.
61 minutes | Oct 1, 2021
Effys Big Gay Brunch: Wrestling and LTBTQ+ is Fun!
So this was recorded in June and I never got the chance to really post it, but here we are. We talk wrestling again with John Eldis, but this time we get into the history the LGBTQ+ people in wrestling, and we talk about everyones favorite wrestler, Effy (who is fine. But also gay so it works really well with the episode).
35 minutes | Sep 22, 2021
The Onlyfans (Almost) Incident
Basically, Onlyfans almost killed itself somehow, and we're going to talk about it with Onlyfans content creator Naomi Wildman.
39 minutes | Jul 8, 2021
Castro and Baseball: How America and Cuba are Forever Linked to the Same Game
Today Pat Kennedy (The Literate Nerds, Big Black Stand At Attica) and I talk about baseballs transition to Communist Cuba, and how that effected the county pre and post Revolution.
60 minutes | Jul 1, 2021
The Ben Simmons Reactionary Podcast
Today @than_being has Alex from @AtlanticFiles podcast on and we react wildly to Ben Simmons being the worst NBA player... ever? Side note: This is one of those rare episodes with no politics talk. So if you aren't into sports heavy episodes, feel free to skip!
35 minutes | Feb 16, 2021
NBA Covid Rules Are Dumb
Lets talk about the NBA during Covid. How did a league that did everything right turn into the league that does everything wrong?
40 minutes | Jan 25, 2021
Twitch and Vince McMahon Are Two Things That Don't Mix
We look at why Vince McMahon doesn't get Twitch and why he is demanding money from it. Basically, he's crazy and awful!
53 minutes | Jan 14, 2021
How I Met Your Mother is Bad and We Are Reliving It: Season 2 Episodes 5-8
OK we are into the teeth of season 2 and its not really bad anymore, just kind of nothing. We try to break down these episodes as best we can and see if there is any underlying themes, or if its just Ted being terrible.
37 minutes | Jan 8, 2021
1st Podcast of the Year and There was a Coup Attempt
So the first episode of the year is about a coup attempt. Great. I can't wait until I can just talk about sports again.
66 minutes | Dec 18, 2020
How I Met Your Mother is Bad and We Are Reliving It: Season 2 Episodes 1-4
We continue this and have some actual enjoyable episodes!
40 minutes | Dec 2, 2020
The Brooklyn Dodgers: Another Causality of Robert Moses
I have Pat Kennedy (The Literate Nerds) back on the podcast and we talk about the Brooklyn Dodgers, their history, and the reasons they left Brooklyn for Los Angeles.
34 minutes | Nov 16, 2020
E13: Andrew Yang Has A Good Opinion? Aka Vince McMahon is Really Easy to Hate
John Eldis and Matt Rak are on and we talk about Andrew Yang, Vince McMahon, and basically how awful Vince McMahon is to everyone.
56 minutes | Oct 30, 2020
How I Met Your Mother is Bad and We Are Reliving It: Episode 11-15
We continue our trek into the insane mind of Ted Mosby. Actually these episodes weren't... awful? A bit of a holding pattern since this is a chunk of episode right after they were picked up for a full season. We continue through though!
75 minutes | Oct 15, 2020
How I Met Your Mother is Bad and We Are Reliving It: Episode 6-10
We're still doing this and it's still bad. Rich Ryan Pat and Valentina and stillt alking about this garbage.
47 minutes | Oct 3, 2020
Oh Boy it's a Crossover Episode: The Live with the Literate Nerds
Well I did it, here's a crossover episode. The same crew that brings you the HIMYM rewatch did one of They Live, and its still so fucking good. SO GOOD. Listen with your ears, and watch this great movie.
69 minutes | Sep 22, 2020
How I Met Your Mother is Bad and We Are Reliving It
First its a little echoy to I'm sorry about that. I start a rewatch with Valentina (name redacted), Ryan Klaiss, and Patrick Kennedy. We discuss episodes 1-5 in season one, and holy shit are they not good. Please suffer with us.
66 minutes | Sep 5, 2020
College Football is Bad, Plus Other Thoughts
I have Jesse from Bacon Games Fantasy Sports on, and we talk about college football and the non payment of players, and look at what their labor may actually be worth. We also talk about baseball and other topics.
50 minutes | Aug 12, 2020
The PSL: Looking at the Marxist-Leninist party in America
Pumpkin Spice Lattesfor all under Communism! This episode we take a look at the PSL (the Party of Socialism and Liberation), a Marxist Leninist party in Amerca. They seem pretty cool, some come see what they are about
49 minutes | Jul 22, 2020
Stand at Attica, The Stupid Segregation of Long Island, and Tobias Harris is Cool
Patrick Kennedy (Stand at Attica, The Literate Nerds) comes by and takes over the podcast. Seriously, its 80/20 him to me and it's pretty cool. We talk about his graphic novel, but mostly the systemic racism on Long Island. It's good, in depth talk.
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