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Since 2009, the hosts of Hardly Focused have relentlessly made fun of pop culture, current events, and each other. Join them every Thursday as they pick apart the news and struggle to stay on-topic.
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Average audio length:
71 minutes
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English
United States
519 episodes
since March 8, 2020
episodic
explicit content
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It's a sad time for video games, for renowned developer BioWare is closing. Acc and Jack discuss the company's history of tentpole franchises, such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age, along with the troubled development of Anthem. With a fifth Mass Effect game having been in the works, could another dev…
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Blake Jennings and Heather Jones from the podcast KEEP ME YOUNG join Jack and Zach for this installment of Hardly Focused! Blake and Heather reminisce about how they met, and what lead them to start a successful show. They're also celebrating 50 episodes together!
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These are strange times indeed. Nidal Hasan, the gunman behind the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, is on death row and will be executed by firing squad. If that isn't extreme enough, "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth says Hasan's execution will be broadcast live. Jack and Mike discuss this bold move, and qu…
It's a mental health installment of Hardly Focused! Jack is an angry man, and is seeking help. A lifelong client himself, Nate educates Jack on cognitive behavioral therapy, and how he might benefit from it.
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Jack and Becky have an existential crisis over being elder millennials attending rock and/or roll concerts. As they observe, Olivia Rodrigo's crowd consists of the mothers chaperoning their kids while yearning to be at a Taking Back Sunday show, while Taking Back Sunday's audience should consider s…
Artificial intelligence continues to take over pretty much everything, but not without the occasional hiccup. Jack and Becky discuss the "actress" Tilly Norwood, an English AI model that glitches out mid-interview with Piers Morgan and begins to speak Chinese. Really though, is an AI glitch necessa…
Massachusetts is home to several high-profile court cases. From Karen Read, to Brian Walshe, and now Lindsay Clancy, the trial of whom has the attention of the Commonwealth and beyond. Jack and Mike are joined by a special guest - Mike's wife, Sara! - to discuss the Clancy case, with Jack getting i…
The "extended look" preview of Grand Theft Auto VI is here, and it's beautiful. Of course, this big reveal was not without portions of the game leaking over the past week. Jack and Nate geek out over how great GTA VI looks, and make a list of things to do across Vice City!
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Patricia Inga Bogart - AKA QueenPiB - joins Jack and Zach for this festive installment of Hardly Focused! Being a streamer herself, PiB talks with Jack and Zach about the controversy over Amazon using Twitch content to train AI models. Jack also shares PiB's frustration over Sonic the Hedgehog 2 fo…
Break out the tinfoil hats! Jack and Mike talk about the next entry in the Elder Scrolls series, for clues have been given about its subtitle and/or location. This is what happens when a game gets announced a decade too early!
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