238: The Sickos Become Poverty Chefs
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The Sickos have always been trendsetters, and as more and more people follow their lead into the ever-fashionable "unemployment," we share our tips for cooking yummy meals that kick ass on a tight budget. Plus, Joe shares an in-depth "Joe Update" on his physical and mental health, and we yap about games we're playing (He is Coming and Hades 2). Also there's a sketch.
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237: The One Piece Episode - Part 2
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It's been four years since the Sickos covered One Piece, and a lot has happened since then. Tom and Guest co-Sicko Marquez are current on One Piece and ready to yap about all the latest developments in this incredible comic book. A lot of it stupid. A lot of it is goofy. But mostly? It kick ass and make us cry. We know this may hold little appeal to non-One Piece fans, but for the fellow freaks this episode is a rip-roarin delight
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236: Ed Zitron Goes Guesto Mode
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Ed Zitron, the guy on the internet who is always saying that this AI shit is a stupid grift that makes no financial sense, goes guesto mode. Turns out this AI shit is a stupid grift that makes no financial sense! Plus, we talk about the fraught psychosexual politics of a world made up of living cars, and gasp over Ed's very passionate opinions about Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. It was a blast yapping with Ed, check it out!
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235: The Tatami Galaxy Episode
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Tom and guest co-Sicko MinovskyArticle sing the praises of the incredible 2010 anime The Tatami Galaxy. If you watch one anime in your life, I recommend this one. This is an anime that feels like a novel, that revels in the richness of language, that understands the abyss of anxiety, and that will make you a genius to watch. This is the kind of show that tricks you into thinking anime is good
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234: The Sickos Review Silksong Perfectly
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These days everyone has a hot take about Hollow Knight: Silksong. Folks get heated and tilted and let their feelings cloud their judgment. The world calls out for the Sickos to put the discourse to an end by doing the perfect, fully objective review of the game via the ultimate game design analysis technique: ranking mechanics on a tier list.
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233: Anime Health Nuts
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Tom and guest co-Sicko KC Green are tired of being "sickos" and wish instead to develop positive habits. Thus begins "Anime Health Nuts," the new long-term plan for the show and not just a bit we are doing for this episode only. We talk about doing little tasks, watching the incredible skateboarding obstacle course show KASSO, drinking little bottles of Fireball, and more. Check it out!!
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232: The Sickos Enter the Fourth Dimension
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Tom joins Casey Toney and Mike Migdall from GUTTER to experience a new dimension in stupid bullshit your chair can do at the movie theater: "4DX," an insane gimmick in which your seat violently jostles you and sprays water in your face. It is so, so stupid and distracting and is also the single best time you can have in a movie theater. Hear Casey and Mike on GUTTER:
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231: The Walk Hard Episode
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At the behest of guest co-Sicko Jeff Stormer, Tom finally watches the classic comedy Walk Hard. Turns out, this shit is incredibly good. Join us as we go nuts about all the gags and become baffled that the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic appears to be doing all the Walk Hard jokes again but this time not supposed to be funny. Find Jeff's excellent Party of One Podcast here:
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230: Anime 102
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Nani? The Sickos are talking about anime? Masaka! But I assure you: it's true! Quinn Welsh-Wilson joins as co-Sicko to get Tom back up to speed, discussing Twelve Kingdoms, Apothecary Diaries, Shangri-La Frontier, Log Horizon, Lazarus, and the first new anime Tom has watched in ages, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Turns out anime is the same as ever: it fucking sucks but also is so good. Confounding stuff.
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229: The Sickos Eat Eleven Insane Sandwiches
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The Sickos are tea sandwich guys now. We made, ate, and reviewed 11 insane sandwiches with such inexplicable ingredients as "onion, mayo, and parsley," "radish, butter, and parsley," and "salami, mayo, and grapefruit." It sounds like these would suck ass but tea sandwiches are bugged and somehow roll back around to being great. Listen to our sicko sandwich journey. Featuring Sicko homie Dylan filling in as the second Sicko See all eleven sandwiches and watch us try a particularly deranged one in this "teaser video"
info_outlineThe Sickos do a special unemployed version of Cog Talk where they do the unthinkable and wish they had an evil computer that took up half their time with awful job tasks. As bad as it is, just sitting around all day is worse! Plus, Tom yammers and yaps about The Bee Sting, a great novel by Paul Murray.