Speaker
Shawn Gardini
Appearances over time
2 episodes
Episodes
2
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Bill Belichick met his much-younger girlfriend in 2021 when she was reading a philosophy textbook on a plane; he chatted her up and signed it, writing 'Thanks for giving me a course in logic.'
The documentary about the Paradise scandal, 'Big Girls Wanted: Escaping Paradise,' aired on ABC, not Netflix.
Stephen Colbert averaged 2.5 million viewers per night before being cancelled, significantly more than the hosts expected.
Stephen Colbert's series finale set a show record with 6.74 million live plus same-day viewers.
Greg Gutfeld's show on Fox averages 3.3 million viewers, the highest of any late-night show, though it airs in an earlier time slot.
Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show averages just 1.3 million viewers, about a million less than Colbert and Gutfeld.
The reason heroin users can lean at extreme angles without falling is that their central nervous system is essentially in 'sleep mode,' still running but at minimal activity.
Paradise founder Stefan Wilhelmi is suing TikToker 'Piggy Stardust' for libel, slander, and defamation over her public allegations.
A Las Vegas man built an online body-positive paradise for plus-size women — and allegedly couldn't keep his hands to himself. The crew digs into the wild story of Stefan Wilhelmi's 'Paradise,' which became an ABC documentary called 'Big Girls Wanted: Escaping Paradise.'
Stephen Colbert averaged 2.5 million viewers a night — competitive with Gutfeld's 3.3 million — and still got fired. The crew alleges CBS canned him because he called out Skydance's alleged effort to bribe Trump officials for FCC clearance on the Paramount acquisition.
Byron Allen went from hosting Comics Unleashed to owning the Weather Channel — and now he's bought Stephen Colbert's 11 PM CBS slot. Viewership has cratered immediately because nobody wants to watch a stripped-down stand-up chat show.
Matt McCusker was falling asleep to what he thought were readings of St. Augustine's writings on YouTube, then discovered it was all AI-generated audio slop. The feeling wasn't moral outrage — it was profound loneliness, like playing a video game against the computer.
Gutfeld leads late-night at 3.3 million average viewers, Colbert and Kimmel trade at around 2.5 million, and Fallon trails badly at 1.3 million. The crew debates whether any of these numbers should be considered cancelable in 2025.
Great TV shows are defined partly by how they handle male nudity. The Sopranos got by on tits alone. Game of Thrones and Oz leaned into dong. Westworld overdid it with flaccid robot junk. Everyone fears and respects a dong.
Matt McCusker wants to run a Presidential Fitness-style challenge between Nate, Lemaire, and Shawn, with $1,000 on the line. Events would cover strength, speed, and endurance — Shawn thinks he has endurance locked up, Nate claims athletic supremacy, and nobody can do pull-ups.
Nate and Matt recapped a Midwest Safety video featuring a man with a Confederate flag calling his mother to the scene of his arrest, escalating to racial slurs while bleeding from a fight he started. The crew's diagnosis: when grown men get arrested, they regress instantly to childhood and call for mom.
Burning one pound of fat takes roughly 3,500 calories — about seven maximum-effort running sessions burning 500 calories each. Matt McCusker is 9 days into a month-long Apple Watch calorie challenge, already at 11,000 calories burned, on track for 37,000 in June, and still can't find the shred.
Matt McCusker delivered a detailed account of navigating dairy-induced flatulence during sex, the logistics of the post-coital bathroom fart release, and the general terror of farting during a hand job. The crew agreed that if Stefan Wilhelmi really did run Paradise for plus-size women, he was probably swimming in fat farts.
Spandex in the '80s meant you were a hooker. Butt cheeks in the '90s meant hooker. Now both are standard everyday fashion. Matt McCusker tracks the march of 'hooker technology' into mainstream women's clothing, while predicting see-through fabric is the next frontier.
Stefan Wilhelmi posted his entire legal defense — timeline, screenshots, and documentation — on the official Paradise website's 'Allegations' page. His accuser, a TikToker called Piggy Stardust, is being sued for libel, slander, and defamation.
Matt McCusker is so determined to pass his life insurance fitness test that he's training for a treadmill stress test with a breathing mask, quit all nicotine products (nicotine triggers a 50% premium hike), and is having stress dreams about his wife's financial incentive to let him die.
Nate has sequential murder dreams where last week's fictional crime haunts this week's dream. Matt used to have prison dreams and high-stress Apple Watch sleep heart rates from his illegal-activity days. Shawn once woke up convinced the Beirut explosion was a nuclear flash. The guys agree women's dreams are the most dangerous — because you have to deal with them in the morning.
The guys puzzle over how heroin users can stand bent at 90-degree angles on a slanted sidewalk without falling. The answer, loosely: their central nervous system is in sleep mode, still running but at minimum activity. The last firing neuron in a heroin-addled brain apparently says 'do not fall and embarrass yourself.'
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