Latest Boston talk show Podcast Episodes
641: This Tastes Like Grandma
Hardly Focused - May 23, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRemembering Steve Albini, a man arguably responsible for some of the greatest alternative music of the past 30+ years The ever-present controversies surrounding music streaming services Fiona Harvey - the purported basis for Martha on Baby Reindeer - stalked the UK Labour Party leader, leaving al...
640: The Super Secret Fallout (TV) Show
Hardly Focused - May 16, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBe warned - this entire episode of Hardly Focused spoils the first season of Fallout! As diehard fans of the video game series, Acc, Jack, and Mike each give their overall review of season 1 What's the best episode? Should episodes have been released weekly, instead of all at once? Who's the best...
639: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Hardly Focused - May 09, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRich Shertenlieb to host mornings on WZLX in Boston Panera Bread takes Charged Lemonade off their menu Microsoft shut down a lot of game studios this past week The saga of Helldivers 2, a controversial decision, and incredible fan backlash Nintendo will announce the Switch successor within the ne...
638: Did You Take Ozempic?
Hardly Focused - May 02, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJack, 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? ...
637: Sleep Now in the Fire
Hardly Focused - April 25, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe 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 yo...
636: (The Real) Sam Alkhatib
Hardly Focused - April 18, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsContent 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...
635: Shakin'
Hardly Focused - April 11, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPodcast 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 ...
634: 15 Step
Hardly Focused - April 04, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis 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 o...
(From the Vault) 461: I Wanna Get Better
Hardly Focused - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPart 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 ...
(From the Vault) 579: This is Fine
Hardly Focused - March 21, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhile 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)...
633: Scary Moms Scaring Moms
Hardly Focused - March 14, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJack 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 Spid...
632: Action Needs An Audience
Hardly Focused - March 07, 2024 20:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRecapping 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 ...
631: Shit-Mouth Willie
Hardly Focused - March 06, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMolly 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 gr...
630: Ledda'avit
Hardly Focused - March 05, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe 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...
629: Disenfranchised Youth
Hardly Focused - March 04, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFro 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 co...
628: Wonkidoodles
Hardly Focused - March 03, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe 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 FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to Hardly Focused! htt...
627: Fast Food Daddy Issues
Hardly Focused - February 29, 2024 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMolly 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 shelv...
626: The Tortured Rebeccas Department
Hardly Focused - February 22, 2024 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJack is still having a good time on Threads. Follow Hardly Focused there! 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 t...
625: See You in Hail
Hardly Focused - February 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOnly 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 Forgi...
624: Album of the Year
Hardly Focused - February 08, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"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 b...
623: Pass the Ball to Tucker
Hardly Focused - February 01, 2024 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings(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 Lindgr...
622: Fool's Gold
Hardly Focused - January 25, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"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 FOLLOW and S...
621: Shafted
Hardly Focused - January 18, 2024 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJack 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 win...
620: The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Hardly Focused - January 11, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMost of this episode is spent discussing the feud between Aaron Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel Jack finally owns a Hullabalooza shirt from The Simpsons Chris Christie drops out of the 2024 presidential race Acc and Jack check in on the live GOP debate between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley Blue checkmark...
619: Year of the Dragon
Hardly Focused - January 04, 2024 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this festive installment of Hardly Focused, Jack and Becky kick off 2024 with predictions, anticipations, rants and debates, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
618: Dots and Dashes
Hardly Focused - December 29, 2023 16:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt's the final episode of Hardly Focused for 2023! Jack, Zach, and Becky discuss side hustles, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and lots more. Kicking off this episode with some candy-flavored, and banana bread-flavored alcohol Jack embarrassed Becky at Buffalo Wild Wings Zach and Becky debate over several ...
617: Logan to Government Center
Hardly Focused - December 21, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAcc and Jack welcome back Fro, who's enjoying newfound parenthood Acc doesn't want to re-subscribe to World of Warcraft, but he's going to do it anyway Is The Day Before the biggest disaster in video game history? In honor of the 617th episode of this podcast, Jack discusses the legacy - and supp...
616: My Song is Better Than Your Song
Hardly Focused - December 14, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings101.7 WFNX was an independently-owned alternative rock radio station in Boston from 1983-2012. Chris "Charlie" Padgett hosted The Sandbox morning show on WFNX from 2007-2010. While working at rival station WAAF, Jack would listen to Chris' show while screening phone calls for their morning drive ...
615: Love is a Long Road
Hardly Focused - December 07, 2023 08:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMolly McAleer (Trend Lightly, Mother, May I Sleep with Podcast?) joins Jack and Becky for an all-nighter Becky is in full-blown "Jessica" mode Couples who pretend not to know each other in public Jack tells Molly about the Pokémon engagement ring he bought for his ex Discord isn't a fun place The...
614: Wrap Music
Hardly Focused - November 30, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsColgate Beef Lasagna is a lie?! Spotify Wrapped 2023 has everybody talking - and crying Henry Kissinger dies, the news of which breaks during this episode's recording Nickelodeon's Doug had quite the soundtrack Robert DeNiro gets angrily vocal at the Gotham Awards The Game Awards will tighten sec...
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