
Nick, Nico, Zakk and Adam are on a mission to watch the most crazy, bizarre and unapologetically horrible content ever produced. Each week, the four friends check out a movie or TV show you’ve probably never heard of and talk about it in intense, thought-provoking detail. Sometimes it’s weird. Sometimes it’s philosophical. But it’s always hilarious as they try to answer the question: “Why is This ... more
| Publishes | Infrequently | Episodes | 67 | Founded | 11 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TV & FilmComedy | |||

On the landmark 400th(!) episode of WiTaT, Nick, Nico and Adam make their annual yuletide trip to the Netflix Christmas Universe and watch the Alicia Silverstone vehicle A Merry Little Ex-Mas.
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IT’S YOU! IT’S YOU! Yes, indeed. With the release of a new contender for Worst Movie of All Time, Nick, Nico and Adam were forced to declare DEFCON1 and reconvene Why is This a Thing. Ice Cube stars in a screenlife adaptation of H.G. Wells’s War of t... more
Nick, Nico and new father Adam return to the airwaves to catch up on their movie watching and resurrect the Dave Draft from a three-year hiatus. Then, they stumble into a review of the confounding pseudo-rom-com Materialists, directed by Celine Song.... more
The guys pay tribute to the life and career of David Lynch with the film he described as his “most experimental.” It’s the G-rated Disney classic The Straight Story, starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton.
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Great, combo, podcast. Some of the stuff these guys talk about flys over my head, but listening to them laugh, makes me smile.
These guys are boneheads. I listened to two episodes and it’s like they watched totally different movies from what I had. They got tons of information wrong and they misinterpreted a lot of very obvious things. Also, the audio is terrible. You can barely hear them one moment and then they blast your ears out the next. The worst is when they all start laughing after speaking quietly ouch! With all that said, get some better equipment and watch the movies more closely and this show could be decent... more
Do another episode on Neil Breen's filmography, both Double Down and I am here...Now are classics.
I have been going through the other episdoes and the other podcasts. Enjoy them all.
This podcast is awful and not even a little bit funny.
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