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Jack, Mike, and Becky talk about parenthood, Taylor Swift on Bandcamp, Britney Spears' downward spiral, celebrities on Ozempic, and much more!
Mike Tarara is a dad for the third time!
Jack finally procured a bell and a megaphone for the studio
Taylor Swift is finally on Bandcamp... or is she?
Mike and Jack are obviously into the Fallout show; Becky isn't
Mike is finally playing Fallout 76
Britney Spears is on the verge of going broke
Do you live IN Hawaii, or ON Hawaii?
Barbra Streisand asks Melissa McCarthy point blank if she's on Ozempic
Jack's random celebrity encounters, featuring Ann Wilson and Coleman Williams
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The Acc and Jack Show, fueled by copious amounts of caffeine since 2006
The Simpsons killed off a character that even diehard viewers forgot about
A blue checkmark on social media means nothing
The latest in the criminal trial of Ronald Thump
"When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire."
Dr. Louis Kwong presents "Genitalia of the Day"
Acc and Jack highly recommend the Fallout series on Prime Video
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Content creator and teacher Sam Alkhatib joins Jack, Nate, and Zach for this very insightful installment of Hardly Focused! Hailing from Staten Island in New York, Sam explains why he began making videos on YouTube and TikTok; it all started with Zany Trains! Sam also talks about his tattoos, his favorite music, and the origin of his catchphrase, "Everything's gonna be alright, pal."
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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"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?
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(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?
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"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
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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"
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