643: This Balloon Boy is Full of Hot Air! with Andy Levy (Patreon)

Today we welcome a very special guest, formerly TV’s Andy Levy, currently Andy Levy of As the World Churns. You may remember him from such cable news shows as “The Scenario Annex” and “Fisticuffs!”. We start our movie podcast by discussing Andy’s hockey team, the New York Islanders. That’s right, we get into the nitty gritty of hockey strategy and deliver some “hard-hitting” (hockey pun) analysis. JK, we talk about the time they changed the uniforms to look like the Gorton’s Fisherman.

Next, we dive into the rich text which is Chris Cuomo falling for truly one of the shittiest deepfakes we’ve ever encountered, which naturally segues into a discussion of the Types Of Guy (gender neutral) who love to deploy the “How can you [engage in literally any other activity besides my pet cause] when [my pet cause]?” mad lib for people with severe lead and/or internet poisoning. As Cuomo sweatily doubles down, we are able to draw only one conclusion, that he is having a severe stroke. If you are near Chris Cuomo and are reading this, please close the tab and dial 911!

Finally, we all watched the Balloon Boy Netflix doc, aka Trainwreck: Balloon Boy. Actually, not all of us. But Brendan has seen enough of these that he knows the broad strokes (shots of computer screens googling things, local newscasts gradually layering on top of each other until they all say the name of the subject, recreated text message exchanges and social media posts, etc). Spoiler zone: the family that [ALLEGEDLY -ed.] used their young child for a cynical media hoax might be kinda shady!

Find Andy Levy anywhere you get information online, honestly whatever you creeps are up to when you’re not listening to us is none of our business.