Category Archives: Talk Radio Meltdown

Talk Radio Meltdown: May 5th, 2017

Talk Radio Meltdown 5/5/17 – Episode Tree-Fiddy: Richard Horvitz

– As part of this program’s 350th mild-stone episode, enjoy an hour-long interview with voice actor Richard Horvitz (Invader Zim, Power Rangers, The Angry Beavers!)
– “Working with a One-Upper,” as read by celebrity guests
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– Catching up with “The King of CB Radio”
– Flashback to 2012, when Jack eloquently prank called “Can Man Radio”

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Talk Radio Meltdown: April 14th, 2017

– United Airlines’ PR nightmare (or, the saga of Dr. David Dao)
– Pepsi and Sean Spicer managed to piss off a lot of people, for their own respective reasons
– RIP J. Geils and Charlie Murphy
– Angry customer visitor posts on Walmart’s Facebook page, as read by Christopher Walken, Miley Cyrus, and other celebrity friends of the show

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Talk Radio Meltdown: March 17th, 2017

3/17/17 – Episode 345: Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down

– “St. Patty’s Day” vs. “St. Paddie’s Day”
– Winter Abomination Stella
– The ridiculous folk you encounter at restaurants
– The best types of Narragansett beer
– Jack, Kate, and a bunch of basic bitches
– When your family cares more about your dog than about you
– Internet weatherman Frankie McDonald warns everyone about Stella
– Guest co-host Abby started his own podcast
– Jack breaks the studio desk
– Target attempts to name Boston neighborhoods, fails miserably

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Talk Radio Meltdown: March 10th, 2017

3/10/17 – Episode 344: Shake Your Blood

– 15 seconds of fame: Guy’s kids crash his BBC interview
– Mike Tarara has split personality disorder
– British morning news break shows the chestburster scene from Alien, during a kid’s show
– Red highly recommends Get Out
– Marvel’s Iron Fist is getting horrific reviews across the board
– Disney needs to cut back on the live-action remakes
– Dave Grohl needs to resurrect Probot
– Whatever happened to Uwe Boll?
– We spoil ALL of Logan during this segment – if you want to see this movie, stop listening here
– Patrick Stewart is the shit. Literally.
– Glenn Howerton might be leaving It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia

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Talk Radio Meltdown: February 10th, 2017

– PUPPY (and Kate.)
– Kate finally reviews Resident Evil 7, and the PS VR version is terrifying
– Tricks for getting around pronouncing difficult names
– Portlandia is coming to an end, for better or for worse
– Red is still upset about the AMC Theaters app not working
– The 2017 Grammy’s are upon us
– Some massive sporting event happened and everyone loves New England for some reason

– Marvel announces filming of Infinity War has commenced
– Songs to listen to when you hate everything
– “All Star” mashups are now officially the best things on the internet
– Donald Trump has the diet of a 4-year old
– Sean Spicer don’t talk so good
– SNL’s rating renaissance
– RICKANDMORTYRICKANDMORTYRICKANDMORTY season 3

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Talk Radio Meltdown: February 3rd, 2017

Talk Radio Meltdown 2/3/17 – Episode 340: meow-182

– Big radio news: Entercom purchases CBS Radio
– Following his lavish work-trip to California, Jack has an unhealthy obsession with In-n-Out Burger
– 2017 just started and we already lost some great celebrities
– Ben Affleck drops out of directing “The Batman,” amid other failures

– Big Red has a big birthday
– Red vs. AMC Theaters
– M. Night Shamalamadingdong made a movie that doesn’t suck
– Will Smith wants to disown his spawn, Jaden
– Gauging the new Nickelback song, on a scale from Bad to Nickelback
– Of course, someone made a Smash Mouth/Nickelback mashup
– Danny Tramp vs. Arnie Schwarzenheimer vs. Robert de Niro
– SNL’s Pete Davidson and 9/11 humors
– Real estate guy shits all over Patton Oswalt’s dead wife using his professional Twitter account, immediately loses job
– South Park plans to avoid Trump jokes for the next season
– Red is cheating on TRM by listening to a new podcast

– Tom DeLonge is making a movie about UFOs and skateboarders
– Jack and Mike sing meow-182’s greatest hits
– Mike distracts Red with cat videos, causing his ADD to spiral out of control
– Jack was introduced to a poutine place in Los Angeles that delivers until 4am

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Talk Radio Meltdown: January 13th, 2017

Talk Radio Meltdown 1/13/17 – Episode 339: This Is (Not) Us

– Fro has a divorce update!
– Jack is wearing a shirt with Chris Pratt on it, and Red is oddly interested in it
– Boston Calling 2017 lineup is revealed, and it’s all forms of epic
– La-La-Land won all the Golden Globe awards
– Meryl Streep vs. Mel Gibson vs. Vince Vaughn vs. Trump supporters vs. Elvis
– America prepares for the inauguration of President Danny Tramp

– Since when did “All Star” become a meme?
– Nintendo announces the release date of the Switch and the new Legend of Zelda
– Daniel Tromp gets uppity with a CNN reporter at his first press conference as President-somehow-elect
– Jack tried to leave his dog home alone for 2 hours, with messy results
– Jack and Red try to convince Fro to watch This Is Us
– William Hung should front all of the bands – all of them.
– Dead woman just chilled out in the kitchen of a Brookline home for over a year

– Liam Gallagher vs. Noel Gallagher – the never-ending battle
– Dear Red Cross: PLEASE STOP CALLING US
– Lucasfilms confirms Carrie Fisher will not get the Peter Cushing digital treatment
– Famous movies that turned into television shows

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Talk Radio Meltdown: January 6th, 2017

Talk Radio Meltdown 1/6/17 – Episode 338: TalkRadioMelt

– Our new fancy mixing console is put to the test
– Beginning the first show of the new year with a horrific joke by Red
– Join Red’s Clash Royale group, “TalkRadioMelt”
– Super Mario Run, or Nintendo’s attempt at entering the free-to-play games market
– Mariah Carey’s career, the final celebrity death of 2016
– Some doofus crashed his Lamborghini on I-93 in Quincy
– Video game rage: Kid gets flashbanged, flips his shit playing Call of Duty

– SPOILERS: The end of Star Wars: Rogue One is discussed
– Helen Mirren vs. Meryl Streep vs. Betty White
– Girl Meets World has been canceled

– Jimmy John’s has invaded Massachusetts
– Mike’s wife presents “Working with a One-Upper”
– Donald Trump vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Battle for the ratings!

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Talk Radio Meltdown : December 30th, 2016

Talk Radio Meltdown 12/30/16 – Episode 337: My Year In Lists

– Enjoy our final episode of the year; a year we would otherwise like to forget
– Acquiring the new board for the show has been nothing short of a nightmare for Jack
– The Great Celebrity Genocide of 2016 has hit it’s peak: RIP Carrie Fisher, – Debbie Reynolds, the actor who performed Alf, and the guy who invented the Red Solo cup
– Man creates a GoFundMe to protect Betty White from 2016
– Jack really dislikes country music

– Talk Radio Meltdown’s Top 10 songs of 2016, continued!
– Steve Martin and Cinnabon post tweets about Carrie Fisher that offend everyone (but probably would have made Carrie Fisher herself laugh)
– Rogue One is one of the best Star Wars movies in the franchise
– Jack watched the Eagles tribute on CBS
– Horrific names for your baby

– Battlefield 1 players attempt a Christmas truce and party like it’s 1914
– Buckcherry, not to be confused with Chuck Berry; one should be dead, and one is still very much alive

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Talk Radio Meltdown: December 23rd, 2016

Talk Radio Meltdown 12-23-16 – Episode 336: Does a Menu Count?

– The start of this episode was plagued with equipment malfunctions. Enjoy Jack’s silent rage!
– Carrie Fisher suffers a massive heart attack on a flight
– WAAF (formerly “The Place We Can’t Talk About”) rejiggers its on-air lineup
– Tiny Toon Adventures was an animated masterpiece

– Talk Radio Meltdown’s Top 10 songs of 2016
– The importance of audio quality
– Introducing Cooper, Jack and Kate’s new roommate

– blink-182 has a new album recorded
– Jack kept his promise from Episode 335 and edited Red saying “fuck you” six different ways
– Red has his own list of Top 10 things from 2016, neither of which are books

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Talk Radio Meltdown: December 16th, 2016

Talk Radio Meltdown 12/16/16

– This is a live radio show once again! Listen to Talk Radio Meltdown on More Like Radio every Friday 8-10pm ET
– “Jack was right.” – James “Big Red” Park II
– Prior to the show, there was a heated debate over Johnny Galecki
– Recapping the Celebrity Genocide of 2016, because more of them died
– Spoiling the big cliffhanger on This Is Us
– Donald Trump has a slight disdain towards SNL
– What might Arnold Schwarzenegger’s catchphrase be on “The New Celebrity Apprentice?”
– MSN has a long-ass list for “In Memoriam 2016”
– How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and why you’re probably not thinking about it
– Christopher Walken reviews “Hacksaw Ridge”
– What even is the point of the “The Fast and the Furious” franchise?
– Mike Epps: Once funny, now not
– The iPhone 6s is evidently doing its best impression of the Samsung Galaxy Note

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Talk Radio Melt Down: November 5th, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
There are no show notes for this episode, but we had a good time recording it. This is our final show for More Like Radio, a fantastic internet radio platform that has hosted our show for the past year. Our thanks to them for giving us a time slot and a chance. This will be our last show overall for a while; we could be back in a few weeks or a few months. We hope to talk at you again soon, and if not… ‪#‎YourMomsBox‬

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Talk Radio Meltdown: October 15th, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
– Foo Fighters are spending an entire week on Letterman’s show
– Ebola and ISIS
– Hey Dude
– Jack doesn’t listen to Kate
– The Walking Dead is back
– Kate has a beautiful supervisor
– Colleen defends her love for Nickleback
– Seth Rogen found the guy that canceled Freaks and Geeks
– Siri is a creep

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Talk Radio Meltdown: October 8th, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
– Red is kicking Jack’s ass in the TRM Fantasy Football league
– Boots by Kate
– Mike talks about his broken toes
– Jennifer Lawrence speaks out on her nude photo leak
Stephen Collins is a child molester
– Morrissey has cancer, and only Jack cares
– Nick Cannon vs. Mariah Carey
– Jack accidentally calls Colleen out on being a Nickleback fan
– Kate has a recommendation against a local tattoo shop

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Talk Radio Meltdown: October 1st, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
– Warren Noel is co-hosting for the last time, before he moves to Los Santos
– Mike isn’t here because he broke his toes
– Awkward sex stories
– “Tusk” came out and nobody saw it
– Warren’s awkward move-in experience
– Jack plays a clip from Episode 58 when he and Warren got tanked and did a show together
– Samy from Amy’s Baking Company threatened a guy with a knife
– Malcolm Young has dementia

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Talk Radio Meltdown: September 24th, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS: 
– KTVA anchor says “fuck it, I quit” on live TV
– TRM Fantasy Football update
– Jack finally did a good impression
– The leaves are changing and Jack is mad

– Kate’s dad is the epitome of first-world problems
– iPhone 6 Plus is bending in peoples pockets
– Jasmine Tridevil and her three boobs

– Man orgasms 100 times per day
– What happened to the berries and cream guy?
– First person in Australia to buy an iPhone 6 drops it

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Talk Radio Meltdown: September 17th, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
– The Acc and Jack Show, featuring Chris Acciardi, Jack Gill, and Zach Ward
– Destiny was released, and it’s bleh
– Jack is replaying Half-Life 2
– Zach is excited for Silent Hills
– Stereotyping female video game protagonists
– Acc enjoys a good MMORPG
– U2 forced their new alb

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Talk Radio Meltdown: August 29th, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
– It’s the 250th episode
– The fart remix of Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda”
– Jack gets his angst out against old internet radio station owners
– Kate is high on cough syrup and nail polish remover
– Kate and Jack broke up for a day
– Market Basket is back in Arthur T. Demoulas’ control
– Reviewing the Simpsons marathon on FXX
– Red reads an email from Seth Green’s publicist
– Jack lashes out against Seth Green’s publicist
– Red discovered Jessica Nigri

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Talk Radio Meltdown: August 15th, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
– We spend an hour discussing Robin Williams and his legacy
– Tarara wanted us to play Spandau Ballet for some reason
– Dog the Bounty Hunter vs. War Machine
– Kid lives in a Wal-Mart and almost gets away with it
– Jack doesn’t get 24-hour Subways
– Recapping the More Like Radio live event in New Jersey
– The most pirated video games by state
– The never-ending Market Basket saga

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Talk Radio Meltdown: August 8th, 2014

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

– Meet Colleen, our resident show doctor
– Sharknado 2 shouldn’t be a thing, but it is
– Colleen and Jack share similar spinal cords
– The great Ebola outbreak of aught-14
– The ice bucket challenge to raise ALS awareness
– The “Apparently Kid”
– The non-career of Jonathan Taylor Thomas
– The art of chainsaw decapitation
– Steve Harvey is an angry black man

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