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616: My Song is Better Than Your Song

Hardly Focused - December 14, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
101.7 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 ...

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615: Love is a Long Road

Hardly Focused - December 07, 2023 08:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Molly 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...

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614: Wrap Music

Hardly Focused - November 30, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Colgate 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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613: Gobble-Gobbledygook

Hardly Focused - November 23, 2023 20:50 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Growing up in the 90s with the "golden age" of Cartoon Network The Walking Dead: Destinies is a new contender for "Worst Game of 2023" Kellanova is releasing Thanksgiving-flavored Pop Tarts Frontier Airlines provides not one, but two airplane freakouts within days of each other! MrBeast buries hi...

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612: How to Play Chess with Your Butt

Hardly Focused - November 16, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Follow Hardly Focused on TikTok! Marvel films should not require watching several television shows to understand the story Retail giants are shifting away from self-checkout machines Can anal beads be used to cheat at chess? It's time for New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick to go An arrest ...

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611: History Books

Hardly Focused - November 09, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack Gill and Nicole Mossey discuss and review track-by-track The Gaslight Anthem's long-awaited reunion album History Books! FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to HARDLY FOCUSED! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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610: One More Time...

Hardly Focused - November 03, 2023 00:30 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack, Nate, and Becky review the new blink-182 album One More Time... track-by-track! There I Ruined It made a phenomenal AI-generated Johnny Cash-Taylor Swift cover The Beatles release their "final" song, "Now and Then" FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE! https://linktr.ee/hardlyfocused Learn more about your ...

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609: Gooflumps

Hardly Focused - October 26, 2023 22:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
DOTS, the most controversial candy of all time Jack is not heir to a massive pencil empire, it seems Personal experiences with the paranormal Becky is not a fan of Halloween fun Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark were the occasional stuff of nightmares McKamey Manor, a haunted house with a...

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608: Dark and/or Scary

Hardly Focused - October 19, 2023 19:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Elaine Chaney from the podcast Wait, Whaaat Are You Watching joins Jack and Zach! When he's not proving that UFOs exist, Tom DeLonge releases some of the best music of his career on blink-182's new album One More Time Horror films and television shows aimed at children are actually pretty terrify...

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607: 9 to 5

Hardly Focused - October 14, 2023 21:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Acc and Jack talk about quiet quitting, the next Speaker of the House, neo-retro video games, and more! "Girl dinner," or literally snacking at dinner time "Lazy girl jobs," and why "quiet quitting" is a load of malarkey Jack: "Girl dinner is a ridiculous concept." Also Jack: "Kix Cereal at 9pm i...

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606: Not in My House

Hardly Focused - October 12, 2023 07:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack Gill, Nate Fillers, and Molly McAleer (Trend Lightly, Mother, May I Sleep with Podcast?) discuss podcasting, Taylor Swift mania, and TikTok controversies. (0:00) Molly McAleer - the boss-lady of and host of several shows on the Solid Listen podcast network - joins Jack and Nate from the comf...

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605: Plunderin' for Jesus

Hardly Focused - October 05, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack, Mike, and Zach discuss the collective hatred for Curt Schilling, the (eventual) zombie apocalypse, rightful backlash over AI, and more! (0:00) Mike Tarara shouldn't have used Lifebuoy soap (10:33) Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is an absolute prick for revealing Tim Wakefield'...

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604: Emotional Truths

Hardly Focused - September 28, 2023 16:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack, Nate, and Zach discuss the end of the writers' strike, and the Hasan Minhaj controversy - plus, an interview with Spirit Diaries! (0:00) Actor and musician David McCallum - whose music was sampled by Dr. Dre and other hip-hop artists - has passed away at 90 years young. (13:28) The writers'...

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603: Grand Theft Auto: Veracity

Hardly Focused - September 21, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack and Becky talk about drunks and fraudsters! (0:00) Real Housewives of Orange County star Shannon Beador receives a DUI charge after driving her car into the side of a house. (42:32) Jack and Becky discuss Telemarketers on HBO, a 3-part documentary series that seeks to expose the true nature ...

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602: Starfield and Friends

Hardly Focused - September 14, 2023 16:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack Gill, Mike Tarara, and Nicole Mossey discuss and review Bethesda Game Studios' latest release, Starfield! (0:00) Before jaunting into virtual space, Mike recounts his survival of The Great Leominster Flood of 2023 (20:34) Warming up to discussing Starfield, Jack, Mike, and Nicole discuss the...

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601: Evacuation Situation

Hardly Focused - September 07, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack Gill, Nate Fillers, and Zach Ward chat about legacy music acts, the stuff that comes out of both ends, and festival fiascos! (0:00) Taylor Swift, coming to a theater near you! (7:00) Should a band still tour under their name if none of the original members remain? (57:38) An international fl...

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600, part two: MMXVI

Hardly Focused - August 31, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mike Tarara and Jack Gill celebrate the second part of the 600th episode of this podcast by partying like it's 2016! (0:00) 7 years went by fast, though the past 3 of them were a blur (7:11) Jack features for Mike audio from a 1979 newscast, interviewing parents took their kids to see the film Al...

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600, part one: MMVI

Hardly Focused - August 31, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Commemorating the 600th episode of this podcast, Chris Acciardi and Jack Gill travel back in time to the year 2006! (0:00) Before jumping in the time machine, Jack features for Acc audio of Vivek Ramaswamy attempting to rap to Eminem's "Lose Yourself" (22:19) To celebrate the 600th episode of thi...

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(From the Vault) 500: A Long Strange Trip

Hardly Focused - August 24, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Recorded in May, 2021. Welcome to the 500th episode of this podcast! It’s a full house for this one – Acc, Jack, Kate, Mike, and Nate! As Jack notes, approximately 450 episodes of this show have been released under the name “Talk Radio Meltdown,” while the last 49 have been released as both “Hard...

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599: Boom, Blast and Ruin

Hardly Focused - August 17, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack Gill and Mike Tarara chat about home explosions, conspiracy theories, and Darwinism! RIP Johnny Hardwick - Dale Gribble from King of the Hill A house in Pennsylvania randomly blows up. Mike thinks more than a faulty water tank is to blame Starfield releases September 6! Jack will take one...

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598: Go(mas) Insane

Hardly Focused - August 10, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Chris Acciardi, Jack Gill, and Nate Fillers discuss their nether regions, awkward corporate training videos, airplane freak outs, video games, and more! (0:00) How often should one trim their pubes? Inquiring Acc's want to know! (19:27) "Have you tried the lasagna?" The crew watches an awkward ...

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597: I Remember the Alamo

Hardly Focused - August 03, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack, Mike, and Becky mourn recently-passed celebrities, and discuss Mr. Beast and social media meltdowns. Also, a conversation with Molly Johannes from HuggingTheCactus.com! (0:00) Wild weather in New England means rare, lush yards mid-summer for both Jack and Mike (8:45) Remembering Paul "Pee...

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596: Holiday in Pyongyang

Hardly Focused - July 20, 2023 19:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this installment of The Acc and Jack Show, Chris Acciardi and Jack Gill discuss James Cameron's thoughts on AI, Travis King's trip into North Korea, Yeonmi Park's alternative facts, and more! Acc reminds Jack of the Amy's Baking Company debacle from 2013. Remember that? It's 2023 and bad AAA...

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595: Recapping RHONY S14E1

Hardly Focused - July 20, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack Gill and David Baxter (host of Friends of the Countess, and 12 Months of Christmas on the Solid Listen podcast network) recap the first episode of the Real Housewives of New York City reboot. David is versed in the Real Housewives franchise, while Jack has never watched a single episode. Des...

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594: Remember ALF? He's Back... in Pog Form!

Hardly Focused - July 13, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Hardly Focused interviews science communicator and zoologist Lindsay Nikole! Elsewhere in this episode, Mike, Nate, and Jack discuss Barbie, Oppenheimer, the new social media outlets, and maroons gone viral. (0:00) AMC has booked 20,000 double-feature tickets for Barbie and Oppenheimer (24:17) ...

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593: Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down

Hardly Focused - June 29, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jack Gill and Zach Ward interview author Daniel Vitale, plus a grab bag of consciousness streams! (0:00) Food stalls in mall food courts - are they fronts for something else? (11:00) Becky stayed in an Airbnb featured on the show Designing Miami! (32:45) Jack and Zach, along with Nate Fillers,...

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592: March of the Huffman's

Hardly Focused - June 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mike Tarara and Jack Gill talk live music, Fallout, and the downfall of reddit! (0:00) Jack, who once promised to never again attend a concert at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, MA, attends a concert at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, MA (23:46) Back on that Fallout 76 train! Jack also procur...

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591: The AI Take Over, the Break's Over

Hardly Focused - June 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
The Acc and Jack Show discusses AI radio DJs, sophisticated scams, the Great Reddit Blackout of 2023, and more! A radio station in Portland, OR is testing an AI version of a human on-air personality, and the response is expectedly negative. AOL Instant Messenger - remember that? What to look f...

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590: Light Up the Sky

Hardly Focused - June 08, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
It’s a packed episode with Jack Gill, Nate Fillers, and Zach Ward, featuring chats about the Canadian wildfires, Chris Licht’s exit from CNN, and more! New York City-based comedian Kim Dinaro joins Jack and Zach to discuss her 2022 appearance on The Tonight Show, performing comedy on Zoom by nec...

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589: Steel, Wood, Whiskey, and Kobolds

Hardly Focused - June 01, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Bill "The Whiskey Dic" Eburn from The Whiskey Dictionary and Dungeons and Drams joins Jack Gill and Zach Ward to talk whiskey, Dungeons and Dragons, and more! (0:00) Bill Eburn hosts The Whiskey Dictionary on YouTube, where he reviews and discusses different types of whiskey. Bill talks with Jac...