The Worst of All Possible Worlds

THIS IS A PREVIEW. CHECK OUT THE FULL EPISODE AT Patreon.com/worstofall On the eve of the New Year, we wind back the clock to our favorite moments of 2022 with the help of friends old and new. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to the rest of this episode, our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! This episode contains audio from: 22 - Whit vs. the Fundies 24 - Richard Dichard Redemption 28 - Video Redeemed the Radio Star 29 - Alan Wake 30 - Whit Fucking Dies 34 - Kenneth Branagh’s William Shakespeare’s Hamlet 36 - Dear Evan Hansen 39 - The Screwtape Letters 42 - 1776 46 - Sid Meier’s Civilization 51 - Brevity is the Soul of Whit 52 - This Present Darkness 54 - Saturday’s Warrior 56 - Moulin Rouge 58 - Every Young Man’s Battle 59 - Chess the Musical 62 - Minions 64 - Pearl Harbor TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Alice Caldwell-Kelly (Trashfuture/Kill James Bond!/Well There’s Your Problem) inducts the lads into the World of Assassination as they do a suit-only, silent assassin run through IO Interactive’s pinnacle of video game design: Hitman. Topics include the richness of the game’s environmental storytelling, the tardiness of chandelier repairmen, and that beautiful, bald backstabber of the bourgeoisie: Agent 47.   Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall!   Alice Calwell-Kelly: Twitter / Instagram / Patreon   Trashfuture is a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism. Website / Twitter / Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts Kill James Bond! is a comedy film review/ pop culture commentary podcast about the eponymous English spy, James Bond. Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon watch a different Bond movie every fortnight in an attempt to give 007 the socialist, feminist comeuppance he so richly deserves. Free episodes are released every fortnight on all major podcast platforms and bonus episodes are released for supporters on Patreon on the interstitial weeks. Website / Twitter / Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts Well There’s Your Problem is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes. Youtube / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts Media Referenced in this Episode: Hitman: 1-3 by IO Interactive. Available on Steam / PS5/PS4 / XBOX “How the Simulation of a Hitman Level Works” by NoClip “Why Hitman is My Favorite Trans Game: A Comic” by Carta Monir, Polygon (November 16th, 2017) TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com   Featuring Eleanor Philips as Mortimer/Jacques/British Bobby/The Scotsman

LADS LADS LADS LADS LADS! As we get ready for the holiday season (or is it the arguing season?), we settle down with some treats, some drinks, and ChatGPT as we go over the events of the last month. There are laughs, there is anger, and there is absolutely no editing.   Check out Doors of Divergence, the immersive show Brian is in, here!    Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall!   TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

The lads hop into their fighter planes and get trapped in the world’s most boring love triangle as they are suddenly and deliberately attacked by Michael Bay’s much-maligned historical epic: Pearl Harbor. Topics include Bay’s deeply uncurious filmmaking, the interminable three-hour run time, and the responsibilities of artists when tackling historical fiction.   Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall!   Media Referenced in this Episode: Pearl Harbor (2001): TMDB / Amazon Prime / Disney+ / AppleTV “An Oral History of Michael Bay, the Most Explosive Director of All Time” by Sean Fennessey, GQ (June 27, 2011). “‘Pearl Harbor’ at 20: Kate Beckinsale says she didn’t make sense to Michael Bay ‘because I wasn’t blond and my boobs weren’t bigger than my head’”  by Kevin Polowy, Yahoo! Entertainment (May 22, 2021). “How Racism, Arrogance, and Incompetence Led to Pearl Harbor” by Simon Worrall, National Geographic (December 4, 2016). “Disney’s Pearl Harbor: National Memory at the Movies” by Geoffrey M. White,The Public Historian, Vol. 24, No.4, pp. 97-115. Accessed via JSTOR. TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton:  brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com Featuring Eleanor Philips as Michael Bay

THIS IS A PREVIEW. CHECK OUT THE FULL EPISODE AT Patreon.com/worstofall David Armstrong (Omni BiLateral PANic) sits the lads down to tell them the fraught and incredibly lengthy story of the hit CBS sitcom: How I Met Your Mother. Topics include the infamous ending, the deck shenanigans of Josh Radnor, and the slow death of the American multi-cam sitcom. And don't forget to read A.J.’s HIMYM Spec Script/Nightmare - “Have Ya Met Ted?” Want more TWOAPW? Get access to the rest of this episode, our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Omni BiLateral PANic is a podcast where three Bi-coastal, Bisexual+, Bi-products of the 90's ride the Highways and Bi-ways through some niche pop culture and take every detour possible! Listen on Apple Podcasts Website: omnibilateralpanic.com Media Referenced in this Episode: How I Met Your Mother (2005 - 2014): Available on Hulu / Amazon / Apple TVSeason One, Episode One: Pilot Season Two, Episode Nine: Slap Bet Season Eight, Episode Twenty: The Time-Travelers Season Nine, Episode Sixteen: How Your Mother Met Me Season Nine, Episode 23/24: Last Forever “TV Summer School: How to Create and Run a Successful Sitcom”, E! Online (August 6, 2007) How I Met Your Dad Pilot, 20th Century Fox Television (2004) How I Met Your Mother Alternate Ending, 20th Century Fox Television/CBS (2014) TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

The lads grab their fart guns and lose their minds as they do battle against the highest grossing movie in the highest grossing animated film franchise of all time: Minions. Topics include Minion physiology, the horrific world of Minion memes, and the value of children’s entertainment in a world trapped in a neverending cycle of nostalgia. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Media Referenced In This Episode: Minions (2015) - IMDB / letterboxd / Available on Peacock Peter Traver’s Rolling Stone Review of Despicable Me Christy Lemire’s AP Review of Despicable Me Plugged in Review of Minions Story About Google’s 2016 Minions April Fools’ Prank Guillermo Del Toro TikTok TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO  Patreon.com/worstofall The lads throw on their finest alligator shoes and slap The Expression on their faces as they take to the mean streets of Martinaise for ZA/UM’s political and existential triumph: Disco Elysium. Topics include the dense and fascinating history of the game world, the perfection of Kim Kitsuragi, and finding glimmers of disco in a world on the brink of annihilation. **Spoiler Warning** If you want to experience every surprise Disco Elysium has to offer, you may want to play the game first. Trust us, your ancient reptilian brain will thank you. Well, first it will probably insult you, THEN it will thank you. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to the rest of this episode, our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month atPatreon.com/worstofall! Media Referenced in this Episode: Disco Elysium by ZA/UM, Available on Steam, PS5/PS4/XBOX Game Pass/Nintendo Switch “Disco Elysium Writer Alleges Fraud While Studio Accuses Him Of Toxic Management” by Ethan Gach, Kotaku.com “TO FANS OF DISCO ELYSIUM, CONCERNING THE SITUATION AT ZA/UM” by Aleksander Rostov, Medium.com. “Disco Elysium Studio ZA/UM Confirms Former Employees Were Fired for Misconduct” by Danielle Partis, gamesindustry.biz TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

April Ajoy (Evangelicalish) joins the lads as they return to Odyssey for three deeply disturbing episodes that dive deep into the heart of evangelical purity culture. Topics include the cringe of adolescence, the horrors of beauty pageants, and the nightmare of having puberty explained to you by John Avery Whittaker. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! April Ajoy Tiktok: @aprilajoy Instagram: @aprilajoy Twitter: @aprilajoyr Evangelicalish: Discussing the good, the bad and the ugly of the American Evangelical Church, deconstruction, faith and God’s love through it all. Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts Website: evangelicalish.podia.com Twitter: @evangelicalish Youtube: youtube.com/c/Evangelicalish Media Referenced in this Episode: 154 - Coming of Age 163 - A Model Child 192 - Modesty is the Best Policy April Ajoy’s Performance of “America Say Jesus” Growing Up Christian Podcast, Episode 49: “Jimmy Barclay‘s Misadventures in Odyssey w/ Actor & Activist David Griffin” TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall Jake Beckhard (Blue Balls NYCFC) challenges the lads to the match of the century as they try to outmaneuver the bopping songs and confounding political intrigue of the infamous Tim Rice/Benny Andersson/Björn Ulvaeus flop musical: Chess. Topics include the many different versions of the show, the innate appeal of a broken musical, and the ever increasing eccentricities of one Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to the rest of this episode, our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Jake Beckhard Website: jake-beck.com Twitter: @jakebeckhard Instagram: @jakebeckhard Blue Balls NYCFC: You’ve got Blue Balls! How lucky for you. Check in every week for rapturous pod talk on all things NYCFC. With NYC Hosts Jake Beckhard and Trey Fillmore. Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Podomatic The Fled is an artist Collective providing a radically equitable, anti-racist, anti-oppressive platform for theater artists — to build community, expand their artistry, and make theatre that is actively engaged in our collective liberation and the dismantling of colonialist practices and white ideals. With artists at the helm, particularly our global-majority and historically marginalized artists, we lead our community with curiosity, empathy, and celebration. Patreon: patreon.com/serials Instagram: @thefledcollective Twitter: @fledcollective Website: thefled.com Media Referenced in this Episode: Get Onto My Cloud: The Tim Rice Podcast: Spotify / Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts “Chess Seeks to Shed Its Checkered Past” by Stephen Holden, NYTimes Chess (1986 London Concept Cast): Spotify / Apple Music / Amazon Chess In Concert (2008): AppleTV / YouTube / Letterboxd TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Laura Ramadei from the Girls On Porn podcast stops by to help Brian and Josh block, tackle, and blast their way through the anti-porn manifesto for evangelical Christian teenage boys terrified of their own sex drives: Every Young Man’s Battle. You’ll never look at a jogger the same way, and for that we apologize. Sort of. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium and bonus episodes, plus add your name to the masthead of our website, by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Girls On Porn is a porn review podcast hosted by two erotic enthusiasts and all around horny gals, Laura and Rachel. Committed to helping you find hot + ethical porn, each week the girls research and review porn based on popular search terms. Website: girlsonporn.com Patreon: patreon.com/girlsonporn Twitter: @GoPthepodcast Instagram: @girlsonprn TikTok: @girlsonprn Listen on Spotify / Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts Media referenced in this episode Every Young Man’s Battle (documentary, 2003): YouTube / Letterboxd / TMDB Every Young Man’s Battle by Stephen Arterburn & Fred Stoeker (WaterBrook Press, 2004): Goodreads / Google Books Lecture by Shannon Ethridge (author of Every Young Woman’s Battle): YouTube TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: www.brendan-dalton.com / https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com