We Had a Good Life
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAn irreverent and speculative look at the week’s news, emerging technologies, and the simulated world around us. Talk a little s#*t, it's good for you.
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EPISODE 264: GOING DONG-OUT AND ALL THE WAY IN
July 05, 2019 14:07 - 2 hours - 132 MBHere is the long-awaited last episode of 2018! Sorry for the delay, but it's probably well worth it! This week we're eating bad jelly beans, using math poorly while playing Russian roulette, reminiscing on hot but traumatic after school specials, curing our heart conditions with crack cocaine, sexually harassing lawyers, pitching a surefire hit film starring Viggo Mortensen and Christian Bale and guaranteeing both are going dong out in at least one fight scene, saying goodbye to K-Mart, gent...
EPISODE 263: LUMBERJACKS ALL THE WAY DOWN
April 11, 2019 02:01 - 2 hours - 115 MBCatch 22 on Christmas trees, why aren't we thinking about our lumberjacks? New philosophical ideas, cause and effect, phone down eyes up, anti-texting and driving ad campaign starring Lil' Jon, deciphering random text messages, serial hustlers ripping off IHOPs, fake football refs, bad sportsmanship, good Looking out, great parenting.
EPISODE 262: THE CRUX
March 20, 2019 02:06 - 1 hour - 109 MBDon't Flinch: Going ass-to-ass with an icy road in the winter, Email Chopped and Screwed Audiobooks Noise in the audio Today Was A Good Day Good Life Coaches on some cult shit It's hip to hate LOST The Mustachination of Fabe Lincoln The Goldberg's NYPD BLUE Saved by the Bell Zack Morris and the Time Wizard in the fifth dimension Rules of superpowers Sabrina Palabra del Dia
EPISODE 261: POTATO POTACO
February 06, 2019 19:44 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBOriginally recorded in June 2018, and released here on the internet for the first time, it's Episode 261! After a seven month hiatus, Matt and Dub are back!
EPISODE 260: IN THE FLOW
June 27, 2018 07:37 - 2 hours - 122 MBJoin us this week as we wrap up the end of the season with a free-flowing, non-structured rambling good time of an episode. We pull back the curtain and discuss mixing practices, whether we should commit to one original theme song, a new love for spicy foods, snack packs for adults, taking a bump of those sweet carbs, the flow, what makes one good or bad at their job, getting rid of a gallon of bad gasoline, making demands of your future self, how royal titles work, and more!
EPISODE 259: EARS WIDE CLOSED
June 13, 2018 08:45 - 2 hours - 156 MBThis week we're eating terrible last meals, cleaning our ears, livin' the bachelor life, volunteering and helping in Honduras, dealing vitamins in bulk, trying to name the new jingle segment, trying not to cry, and outlining a whole new movie. They don't make episodes of We Had a Good Life longer than Episode 259, so push some beds together and prepare yourself.
EPISODE 258: THE FAJITA KING COMETH HOME
May 15, 2018 19:58 - 2 hours - 103 MBThis week we're trying out commercial breaks, complaining about the older generation's music, dancing with the devil, planning another off-shoot cooking podcast, getting banned on Capitol Hill, repossessing cars and homes in the UK, analyzing how guns change a situation, writing jingles, stealing so much goddamn fajita meat, and giving up all of our private information.
EPISODE 257: LET'S CATCHIN' UP W/ MAX & DOUG
May 02, 2018 17:37 - 2 hours - 95.5 MBIn this FDIC insured episode we're trying to get a couple of stacks, catching up with old friends, avoiding so many assholes on the internet, reviving Palabra del Dia, shaving your head for St. Baldricks, building our brand, making fat kids fight for charity, pitching good marketing ideas for Pepsi, stealing technology, engaging local politicians, discussing the futile nature of legacy, kidnapping the elderly, and carefully researching why more old people aren't doing hard drugs.
EPISODE 256: LOVE THE DEDICATION
April 04, 2018 20:27 - 2 hours - 98.5 MBThis week we're purposely collecting a bunch of money by mistake, finding our limit for how much an ass-beating is worth, getting addicted to the power, and taking a trip to SLC where we're dealing with terrible weather, staying in a suite with a complimentary rapper, getting a loan smelling like booze, buying a car from the Mailman, escaping rooms, and properly allocating our tax returns!
EPISODE 255: GOOD AND EVIL IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD
April 01, 2018 10:02 - 2 hours - 103 MBFinal thoughts on the Smooth Cool Walkings outline before we start the first draft, how to take advantage of your city's Winter Meltaway Program, frats continue to be the worst and so is everyone on Earth, human tribe mentality, broken windows, in-fighting, and societal gridlock.
EPISODE 254: ALL OF LIFE IS A GAME
March 08, 2018 14:20 - 2 hours - 93 MBSMOOTH COOL CONTEXT WARNING : DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE UNLESS YOU'VE LISTENED TO EPISODE 253! It's butter time, people! We're talking about the weird herd-mentality that happens in traffic when flashing lights are visible, being passive-aggressive in the most aggressive ways, a solution for casting our movie in a perfect world with Fake App, and then another full two-hour conversation further fleshing out the details of our new film, Smooth Cool Walkings!
EPISODE 253: SMOOTH COOL WALKINGS
February 15, 2018 07:02 - 2 hours - 94.1 MBThis week we're getting weird for weird's sake and showing appreciation for the art of the hustle behind the art, thinking about considering getting a massage, discussing handjob etiquette, creating awkward situations with the masseuse, exhibiting unprecedented professionalism, gaining job security through information obscurity, and brainstorming a dramatic and artistic sequel to 1993's Cool Runnings.
EPISODE 252: KINGMAKER MEETS THE LIZARD GOD
February 07, 2018 20:53 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBThis week we're discussing Kingmakers and Lizard Gods, the challenge of being a bad president nowadays, suffering a deep tissue shoulder injury, being judged by doctors, the capabilities of any given pilot, setting trends by parking illegally, getting revenge on tow truck drivers, the best way to suffer the least amount of aggression from police after a low-speed chase, gaining cool new abilities after waking up from a coma, using the elderly for sweet product placement hustles, the limits o...
EPISODE 251: PRIMAL JUSTICE BORN OF TRAGEDY
January 11, 2018 20:32 - 2 hours - 101 MBIn Episode 251 we're taking your foot off, over-analyzing the mythology of Jason Voorhees, taking a different approach to writing the next Friday the 13th film, revisiting many classic horror movies, eating dinner in a movie theater, comparing the old and new "IT", letting Stephen King's mystical magical elements stay on the written page, coin-flip betting, and getting real about out squat game.
EPISODE 250: A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
January 02, 2018 21:25 - 2 hours - 162 MBWe're bringing 2017 to a close by battling snow in Helena, surgically creating pockets for smuggling, finding cops on the take, refining plans for heisting ATM's, sharing our favorite hot cocoa recipes, becoming artisan wood-workers, accepting universal basic income, accidentally calling the cops, and refusing to stand in line.
EPISODE 249: DO NOT RESUSCITATE
December 13, 2017 23:55 - 1 hour - 135 MBThis week we're figuring out how windows work, looking for blueberry bagels, settling in to the new office space, comparing and contrasting Burger King's cheese to Wendy's' cheese, feeding the cat SpaghettiO's, equipping our desks with low rider hydraulics, getting ripped off on ergonomic tech, fighting carpal tunnel, getting a lifetime bus pass on our deathbeds, discussing the rise of bitcoin, predicting a bubble, buying new Dickies, and going back to court with a brand new old segment!
EPISODE 248: BETWEEN A STONE AND A HARD PLACE
November 24, 2017 23:10 - 1 hour - 126 MBStone's sitting in this week and we're talking about Cat/Griz football, the art of tailgating, retractions, a more in-depth Palabra del Dia, hiring strippers to harass our neighbors, hiring a hitman on the cheap in jail, getting tricked by people talking, satire and fake news, visiting a sex doll brothel with odd requests, setting Wal-Mart ablaze, Wal-Mart VS. Costco, Confessions of an Okay Life: Inside the Mind of a Stone, and more! Talk to your friends this week, people!
EPISODE 247: THE ROAD KNOWS
November 14, 2017 21:04 - 1 hour - 137 MBThis week we're taking local businesses to court for copping our style, revisiting best practices for winter driving, getting pretentious about drinking wine, facing a democratic recount over naming conference rooms, investing in new noodle bar fork tech, loving big silverware, spotting click-bait headlines, buying cheap chicken and selling it at a premium, reviewing Mindhunter on Netflix, robbing a lot of banks in different costumes, buying new winter tires, misreading the good intentions o...
EPISODE 246: IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME
October 22, 2017 22:17 - 1 hour - 118 MBThis week we're just catching up after three weeks off, and we're discussing why voicemail is now unnecessary, unlimited data packages that aren't actually unlimited, the S8 vs the Pixel, hindsight tech, lampshade monitors, Bixby hiccups, email, Bladerunner 2049, Dark City, how the pugs locked Dubs keys in his car, Matt introduces his idea for a revolutionary new tail light, Hungry Hustlers: paying it forward, real life fables on social media, revisiting the public library, sneaking Chinese ...
EPISODE 245: IN THE TRENCHES
September 24, 2017 09:33 - 1 hour - 127 MBHop in the trenches with us this week as we define the characteristics of a modern country song, finally get some justice for Stageline, raise awareness instead of actually doing something, call out wack-ass capitols, fly to ATX and get hassled by the TSA, fight the awkwardness of airplane seating and random traveling animals, take a less than super shuttle to a baller JW Marriot, pivot to a conversation about Texas SONS before grabbing a drink in one of the most gentrified house-bars downto...
EPISODE 244: DRUNKMENTO
September 17, 2017 09:54 - 2 hours - 141 MBThis is Drunkmento - grab a cold brew coffee because this week we've left ourselves a series of clues to figure out mysteries like: is that fountain for drinking or bathing, where is the bacon located in grocery stores, how to control and prevent rage from ruining family time, how to start embracing on-coming deafness and blindness, who is paying for religious billboards, why do people keep using terrible fonts, why's Google strong-arming small business owners, or are they, can we split a la...
EPISODE 243: CRIME SMARTER
August 27, 2017 22:07 - 1 hour - 115 MBWhy do people like La Croix?, email and shout outs, clarifying vice presidential succession, an update on Stageline Pizza, when real estate meets pizza, misjudging the lineup at the show on Friday, Mugen Hoso, Palabra del Dia (Bonus), finally cleaning out the fridge, Heavy Machinery Hustlers: Bank of America ATM robbery with a forklift, how do I crime smarter?, people are always leaving keys laying around, pros and cons of the FBI taking this case off our hands, law enforcement power struggl...
EPISODE 242: NONVIOLENT CIVIL RESISTANCE
August 21, 2017 02:30 - 2 hours - 160 MBThis week we're joined by our friend Aaron to discuss the strategy (or lack thereof) of Donald Trump and his administration, voter suppression and fraud, conservative complacency, changing minds with arguments, Nazis in the streets with torches, acknowledging absurd world-views, staffing the FCC to overturn net neutrality, Russia's involvement in the election, righteous violence, punching Nazis and running over protesters, trolling the left, training for non-violence, noob tactics of the alt...
EPISODE 241: FRIENDSHIP FINDS A WAY
August 15, 2017 04:19 - 1 hour - 111 MBHappy Birthday, WHGL! We're kicking off our sixth birthday with whole new outlook on life and we're talking about picking out whore-bots on facebook, slowing down for mountain bikers, better pizza intel than last week, awkwardly engaging strangers, abiding by the social contract of acting like everything's okay, Chef Anne Burrell's pop-up Cheetos restaurant in NYC, an UPDATE on an old Unsolved Mystery, re-examining our target demographic, other found notes on Rodney St., stealing from a car ...
EPISODE 240: EIGHT THE HARD WAY
August 10, 2017 07:10 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBThis week we're chasing whiskey with coffee, going to Las Vegas, losing money, messing up names, figuring out street performers on Fremont St., visiting the Mob Museum, getting propositioned by who'res, playing digital craps, putting prisoners on display for money, pondering whether prostitutes are more people or sex toys, wiping feces on dealership vehicles, transporting drugs by way of dong, heisting condoms and vibrators, elaborately threatening our customers for not tipping, divulging lo...
EPISODE 239: A TITLE THAT POPS
July 23, 2017 22:44 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBOur friend Alex "Biggs" Small joins us for Episode 239 and we're discussing how to fly the Confederate flag behind your manly truck, recognizing the -isms in old beloved media, Palabra del Dia, speaking Spanish over the radio, killing your boyfriend to avoid reptilians, online cults, plural raptures, how author Chuck Tingle is like the Stephen King of alternative gay erotica, solving arguments with gasoline and alcohol, a Thai breast slapping technique to increase your bust size, the crazy l...
EPISODE 238: ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
July 19, 2017 04:56 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBWe're back in the Hutch this week and everything is going wrong. In Episode 238 we're doing our very best to: control the weather, track down missing cows, watch people talk to each other about cars, acknowledge other people in the community, get a radio station to play our song, rob a bank with a fake beard, bribe businesses into going cashless, figure out how wack Mexican food must be in Europe, shoot ourselves in the dick on accident, contemplate having a hand off while driving, look at c...
EPISODE 237: THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS
July 16, 2017 09:42 - 2 hours - 87 MBThis week we're falling down YouTube rabbit holes, podcasting on a full stomach, recognizing the visionary behind the Hawaiian pizza, eavesdropping on shady characters, rethinking TouchTunes' jukebox credit policy, re-examining why so many people still have all their fingers, reading way too far into Waylon Jennings' entire career, renting a VR room to escape the heat, talking to ghosts, firebombing people in traffic, calling out wack criminal monikers, purchasing shoes in 60 seconds or less...
EPISODE 236: AS GOOD AS 300 EPISODES
July 13, 2017 05:14 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBWell, it's about time! Episode 236 is a milestone for WHGL. We're discussing sleeper money in Lincoln, the Oak Ridge Boys break down in Bozeman, Palabra del Dia, Canadian snipers fighting ISIS, the effect of gravity on bullets, losing an arm in a lover's quarrel, using your car as a weapon, dropping dollops of coke in front of a cop, taking a family hostage and running errands, renewing your threats, and police reports!
EPISODE 235: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE DIVIDE
June 18, 2017 11:56 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBIn Episode 235, we're rediscovering DVD's, finding a breaking point with yard work, stealing old ATM's, killing the dreams of a young pizza delivery man, examining "Highwayman" by the Highwaymen, releasing bed bugs on city hall, tricking drug dogs, partying at Shoe Carnival, eating at the strip club buffet and much more!
EPISODE 234: LITTLE HOUSE ON THE COMPOUND
June 03, 2017 23:17 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBIn Episode 234 we're coming to you live from Lincoln, MT! We're talking about old tech, Palabra del Dia, buying property, wearing two different shoe sizes, encountering SONS at the top of the pass, how fake rings are sometimes real rings, a grocery store product mapping app, a Great Falls restaurant hosting an eating competition, a Tennessee man daring a judge, a breakdown of ingredients for the "prison baby", Deputy Captain Boobs, positive existentialism, kind of getting off the grid, and h...
EPISODE 233: IN FOR A POUND
June 02, 2017 04:36 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBIn the highly anticipated Episode 233, we're not just asking tough questions about whether or not to keep Palabra del Dia, we're also congratulating ourselves on becoming Top Chefs vicariously, cutting off heads and stabbing people, giving out tips and tricks for your feline friends, offering a better beard transplant service, and selling meat door to door.
EPISODE 232: IN FOR A PENNY
May 14, 2017 11:17 - 57 minutes - 40.3 MBIn Episode 232, we're falling apart after 30, introducing a new segment called Power Moves, celebrating Mother's Day at KFC, hustling up food and tools at Target, faking our son's death for money, and preying on anonymous generosity. It's time to go all in this week, tell your friends!
EPISODE 231: PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS
May 01, 2017 04:17 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBCody joins us for Episode 231! We discuss good BBQ, banana pudding, Michael Shannon and Mike Rowe, Cody's upcoming move to Washington D.C., finding a job across the country, how obsessions turn into die hard conspiracy theories, Pizzagate, Alex Jones, and what happens when method acting becomes real life.
EPISODE 230: TRANSCENDING THE TWILIGHT HUSTLE
May 01, 2017 03:59 - 1 hour - 57 MBIn Episode 230 we're taking a more realistic look at Earth Day, injecting our balls with scrotox and our asses with cement, finding legal loopholes to keep bars open in India, faking a pregnancy to get adoption money, getting into specialized tricking, pulling teeth whilst hoverboarding, gassing people for their valuables, and formulating the ultimate reality TV show.
EPISODE 229: A DELICIOUS ACT OF TREASON
April 18, 2017 03:42 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBEpisode 229 is long overdue, but well worth the wait! We're talking about shopping carts, the security at Chuck E. Cheese, beating kids up for the greater good, stupid ways to die, that time Mars Inc and Hershey's joined delicious forces, choking to death on donuts and pancakes, and how Elon Musk is beyond your Earthly squabbles! One day we'll all be reading each other's minds on the internet, but until then, tell your friends!
EPISODE 228: BACK TO THE BUCKETS
April 02, 2017 12:30 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBIn Episode 228 we're trying our best to sell you this tie-dyed t-shirt, get inside the mind of a gacked-out trucker, eavesdrop on a wedding and talk to strangers, lie to police to spur results, lose our internet rights and more!
EPISODE 227: BECOMING ONE BIG HUMAN
March 22, 2017 01:17 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBEpisode 227 teaches you how to avoid St. Paddy's like a pro, use a pacemaker to catch an arsonist, smoke mushrooms and kiss and fight your brother, bleed about the brain for up to 36 hours, properly order meat while dining out, and then start your pants on fire in defense of a client.
EPISODE 226: SYMPATHY FOR THIS ANIMAL CALLED "WOMAN"
March 07, 2017 01:27 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBIn Episode 226 you'll learn what it truly means to be a professional imposter, whether you're looking for a new job, dining and dashing, dressing like a cop to pull a heist, using a time machine to invest in stocks, tricking people into renting their own pets, or serving pop-up advertisements directly into people eyeballs. Don't fall behind the times! Listen to this episode now and tell your friends later!
EPISODE 225: KEEP IT SIMPLE DUMMY
February 28, 2017 01:18 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBFUN FACT: Episode 225 was recorded on 2/25! Neat! we're taking you on a journey where you'll discover new and exciting ways to creep out your co-workers, trust the freshness of McDonald's eggs, avoid awkward situations in public bathrooms, wear all denim, glue your vagina shut, use a pressure cooker, add another level of danger to your B&E's, create a glitch that releases 30,000 volatile prison inmates by mistake, build bigger jails, play with legos, and volunteer to go to SXSW!
EPISODE 224: PUT IT ON THE TABLE
February 16, 2017 01:36 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBIn Episode 224 we're investigating fast food breakfast tech, learning Spanish, figuring out where to fit an 18" dong, using obnoxious American traits to get deeply discounted admission fees to parks in Japan, looking for arson suspects after firehouse budget cuts, robbing armored cars, pouring over police reports, and ice skating!
EPISODE 223: DONUT SHOP BLEND
February 05, 2017 18:04 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBLook, listen: it's time to finally relax and focus on you for once. Episode 223 picks you up gently, and takes all of the guesswork out of blending coffee, which cows to eat and which to milk, getting your cow a cool Neo-Nazi haircut, where to take a date on Valentine's Day, getting dizzy for fun, allowing children to do dangerous things, selling drugs efficiently, convincing people to give you sea food, paying your debts with kielbasa, liking your job, having sex with animals, using fingerp...
EPISODE 222: THE SPECULATIVE PAYOFF
February 02, 2017 02:28 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBIn Episode 222 we'll teach you how to: commit cow genocide to dominate the dairy industry, party like a teenager, smooth over one fireable offense with another and take a rookie down with you, smoke crack in the ICU, find that winning lottery ticket in your desk at work, spend a half-million dollars, and drink and drive legally.
EPISODE 221: THE FINAL CHAPTER OF YOUR LIVES
January 15, 2017 11:10 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBIn Episode 221 you'll be abducted and forced to entertain bored billionaires, re-live fifth grade drama, drug race horses, pocket-dial 911 from your meth lab, eat a fried chicken taco and a free continental breakfast, and more!
EPISODE 220: FILLING IN THE BLANKS
January 08, 2017 10:06 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBWe're kicking in the door on 2017 a day late and a dollar short. In Episode 220, you'll learn incredible new skills like solving Young Jeezy's riddles, giving up on Spotify, getting weird and sad on your birthday, catching up on old emails and retractions, forgetting the awful previous year, how to best steal lottery tickets in bulk, how lottery tech probably works, how to exchange Christmas gifts for Whoppers at Burger King if you have a time machine, how to better understand and deal with ...
EPISODE 219: MAKE AMERICA FLAMMABLE AGAIN
December 13, 2016 02:56 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBIn Episode 219, you'll discover new ways to: handle the Governor and his entourage showing up to the bar, explain to your children why robots are writing Christmas songs, buy your dog a new wardrobe with the county's credit card, use fire and Axe body spray to dodge arrest, mistakenly refer to CFC's as CDC's, use a gun to get the price you want on coffee, deal with fantasies of being taken hostage, use a city bus to make your point, smoke in public, get around loss-prevention officers in box...
EPISODE 218: MAKE IT RAIN IN THE GRAVEYARD
December 04, 2016 17:37 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBThe power of Louis Prima, feeling confident about 218, starting the day early, techniques for finding lost diamonds, wedding ring warranties, buying jewelry locally, Email, a Squatty Potty in real life, Word of the Day, accidentally enabling alcoholism, TFBOTG: Fiat heir kidnaps himself over Thanksgiving, discovering Bread Face Blog, a gang of dudes are heisting guns in Florida, Deep Discounts: red barns and dying stars, HAW: woman burns a strip mall because of poor customer service, shoppin...
EPISODE 217: THE HIGHEST FORM OF EVOLUTION
November 30, 2016 05:05 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBIn Episode 217 you'll learn the subtle art of: buying a truck, citing your sources, blatant plagiarism, doing second and third Thanksgiving, performing security sweeps at Wal-Mart when you don't work there, burning things down for social media attention, being a rock star back in the day, stealing other people's music, wiping your ass as a caveman, getting higher than you've ever been and shooting at police, outsourcing your work to China, and the best way to apologize for tasing a woman.
EPISODE 215: THESE CRIMES INSIDE ME
November 17, 2016 02:44 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBIn Episode 216 you'll discover new and exciting ways to: cook with white pepper, consider other perspectives on Christmas, slash up your neighbor's above-ground pools, forge a Banksy, spy on Mike Rowe with secret drone tech, punch a lawyer out and bounce, better identify characteristics of an arsonist, set your patient's farts on fire, rob a bank with no weapon, and catch up on local police reports!
EPISODE 215: HEISTING OUTSIDE THE BOX
November 06, 2016 10:02 - 1 hour - 61 MBIn Episode 215 we're embracing Christmas, dipping back into good music, boiling life down to dank memes, contemplating the economical butterfly effect of selling sex and coffee, delivering babies on the cheap, beating little kids at football, getting around the security of self-driving trucks, feeding homeless people shit sandwiches, and catching up on police reports!