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Oh Canada | Patreon Exclusive! Feb 27, 2025

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On today’s Patreon-Exclusive episode, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss hamster wheels, which animals are vermin, how sports lead to nationalism, couples that look like siblings, the biggest differences between Matt & JD, how rural you’d have to get before you’d own a gun, telling thiefs to eff off, the weirdest thing about The Terminator, the most re-watchable movies, the new version of flipping channels, funniest teacher names, the hobbies you can’t do if you have bad motor skills, getting into jazz, small moments that spark joy, swapping abilities with a musician, and we thank our GOATs by putting them into classic bands.

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The Goonies | Is This Bad? Feb 24, 2025

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On this meeting of the Is This Bad? Movie Club, Matt, JD & Rachel re-watch The Goonies and discuss why this is an entire generation’s favorite film, what’s behind Sloth’s makeup, how the film predicted Sean Astin’s career, is this just Indiana Jones for kids, sequel speculation, being tricked by a movie’s poster, elementary school archetypes, The Gremlins exist in The Goonies universe, which character should be eliminated, the secret to directing rowdy children, an important scoop about Marisa Tomei’s brother, who’s the real villain here, the deleted octopus scene, why are they so mean to the housekeeper, and how piano lessons could save your life.

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We Rank Every SNL50 Sketch! Plus, NBA All-Star is in BIG Trouble! Feb 20, 2025

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Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss phantom vaccines, going crusty mode, JD has no sense of taste, stoner recipe corner, rice may be killing us, an earnest conversation about the NBA All-Star game that I’m still surprised we had, a detailed review of SNL 50, Paul McCartney vs. Paul Simon, our weakness for musicals, Tom Hanks confusion, Eddie Murphy’s bang-on impressions, Adam Sandler wins the night, Lorne Michaels is sad, and this podcast finally does something useful for Matt!

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Waiters Can Murder One Customer a Year? | Kyle Ayers on Cheating, Compliments, and Chronic Pain Feb 17, 2025

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On today's show, Kyle Ayers (Conan) joins Matt & JD to discuss waiters getting to murder one customer per year, pretending you've seen movies you definitely haven't, wringing laughs out of a chronic pain disorder, why old men buy sports cars, the best midlife crisis purchases, telling your friend you suspect their wife is cheating, getting cut off at a wedding, it's hard to give someone a compliment about their mouth, monks love latte art, kids shouldn't be punished for cheating on tests, and judging Oscar contenders based on title alone.

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Super Bowl Ads, A Restaurant That Can’t Take The Heat & Are Escalators Safe? Feb 13, 2025

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Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss being told to shut your yap trap, salt water: the miracle drug, a sunglass monopoly, talking about the Super Bowl while insisting we’re not talking about the Super Bowl, Tim Robinson’s pizza commercial, ads that tell you not to watch the ad, a review of Kendrick’s performance, they weren’t kidding when they called that movie A Complete Unknown, the upsides of living in a retirement community, is anyone checking the credentials of airplane doctors, a horrific escalator pile-up, people picking your fruit for you at the grocery store, and JD tells off a stranger.

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Valentine's Day Special Feb 10, 2025

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In honor of Valentine’s Day, Matt & JD are joined by their better halves, Jil & Rachel to discuss sleeping in separate beds, couple’s activities that aren’t watching TV, breaking up over text, how many dates you can go on without having sex before it gets weird, lying to your partner for their benefit, why Happy Wife Happy Life is bad advice, a heated round of the Newlywed Game, most likely reasons we’d be sent to jail, the weird habits you pick up from your partner, and the worst food-related pet names.

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Matt & JD | Four Horsemen Feb 06, 2025

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Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD, & Rachel discuss a failed Is This Good? reunion, the Four Horsemen of “I’m definitely skipping that movie,” Adrien Brody in dreadlocks, actors with the most impressive filmographies, falling in a toilet, the hilarity of almost dying, meeting a colonial war reenactor, the hardest times we’ve ever laughed, the correct amount of napkins to use at dinner, extreme restaurant concepts, cloth diapers, and why February’s the best month to go on a bender.

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Matt & JD | No. 1 Hater Jan 31, 2025

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Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD, & Rachel discuss being chased by the spotlight, casually leaving your wife and kids behind, fun ways to weaken your immune system, British women love JD, infecting an entire plane, a Celebrity Jeopardy shocker, astronomers get tummy aches too, when a muppet isn’t a Muppet, what fans of the Black Eyed Peas are called, a contentious Is This Good? production meeting, digging through Bob Dylan’s trash, why Rachel hates Ben Affleck, what are the Kardashians doing with all that water, new rules for watching a movie at home, and women filming other women in a gym locker room.

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Is This Bad? | Interstellar Jan 27, 2025

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On this meeting of the Is This Bad? Movie Club, Matt, JD & Rachel re-watch Interstellar and discuss Hans Zimmer getting burned at The Oscars, IMAX screens that are too small, why this is the most Reddited movie of all-time, Neil deGrasse Tyson loves ruining your fun, when a movie becomes a meme, Coop definitely had a favorite child, people in the future are very bad at setting people up on dates, who fertilized the Plan B embryos, there’s no sound in space except when it’s convenient, unexpected cameos, we were into Tesseracts before they were cool, time travel paradoxes, why explaining astrophysics is like taking mushrooms, Murph’s kids don’t care about their grandpa, and some more scientific analogies to further confuse you.

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PREVIEW: Our Most Embarrassing Moments [Patreon Exclusive] Jan 23, 2025

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On today’s Patreon-Exclusive show, the ITG crew discuss the embarrassing moments that keep us up at night, weirdest superstitions, the Top 5 unusual skills we wish we had, whether you’d like you if you met yourself, animal hybrids we thought were real, favorite songs to dance to, the best synonyms for throwing up, sports terms that sound sexy, getting terrorized by mean girls, re-naming things we have a bad association with, JD’s upcoming trip to Paris, why sleeping with animals is bad but not for the reason you think, the link between rating AirBnBs and rating podcasts, and we thank our GOATs using the dark art of ventriloquism.

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