Funny Bad

GLoP Culture

Ricochet

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

What starts as a polite podcast immediately face-plants into profanity, pop-culture archaeology, and three grown men asking the most important question of our time: What would TJ Hooker do? From ventriloquists on the radio to Emmy-night humiliation rituals, from ICE raids and clerical angst to Scooby-Doo’s latent homicidal potential. Along the way, our hosts lovingly argue about bad uniforms, worse TV, feral cats, frozen smiles, Hollywood’s slow collapse, and why every great American moral crisis can (and should) be resolved by referencing Columbo, All in the Family, or a half-remembered episode of Different Strokes.

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0:00.0	Bro, I like the glasses.
0:01.8	That's a fucking minute.
0:03.4	I like the glasses, I said.
0:05.5	Jesus fucking Christ, give him a fucking second.
0:08.6	You can really tell he's going to seminary.
0:15.7	Where does that place, Henry Jefferson?
0:18.1	He's number two.
0:19.9	Why is he number two? Because me, they can only be one number one and one number two. And life made Jefferson number two long before I come along.
0:28.2	I suppose that the Puerto Ricans are number three then, hmm? Well, no, not necessarily there, little girl. Your Puerto Ricans could be four. Your jobs and your chains could be three. Welcome to the first glob culture of 2026.
0:53.1	I am John Pudd or it's in New York in Washington, D.C., Jonah Goldberg.
0:58.3	Hi, Jonah. Hi, John. Hello, John. Jonah, I just want to introduce everybody to your new angle.
1:04.5	The new Jonah Goldberg, Glop angle, you are used to having a little window over Jonah's shoulder,
1:10.0	his basement window, and now
1:12.5	he's just turned the camera around and we have this beautiful bookcase very much mirroring my
1:18.5	bookcase behind me. So Jonah and your bookcase, welcome to 2026. Thank you. I was not aware
1:25.8	that any glop, there were glop viewers. Do we actually put this video out anywhere?
1:29.6	I don't know. Now that I think about it, no. So you guys don't know what a thrilling change this is.
1:37.7	This is like Charlie, this is like the fact that one of the biggest stars in radio was a ventriloquist.
1:43.6	Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. He was a ventriloquist. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,
1:45.7	he was a ventriloquist on the radio.
1:48.8	That's how good his material was, John.
1:50.6	And by the way, it really was good material.
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