Help! The Christmas spirit is fading away! Puppies are being nabbed off the streets! Late-Playstation-era CGI is running rampant! Christopher Lloyd and Richard Kind need a paycheck! This sounds like a job for none other than our LSP favorites: The Buddies. The 2009 straigt-to-DVD “Santa Buddies,” to be precise. Get ready to JO w/ ur bros, Lonestarinos, it’s time for a children’s Christmas movie. Brought to you by your gin and egg nog addled Uncle Greg.
What’s garbage in real life, but music to your ears? What’s about Texas, but never really about Texas? Have you guessed it? It’s the Lone Star Podcast. Oy. Today, your Trash Captains take you on a deep dive into some of the worst riddles, puzzles, jokes, and puns on the internet. Careful, we might run into some suspishfish along the way. Brought to you by big pharma.
Your favorite Garbage Voyagers embark on a most daring journey into the depths of online, fan-made choose your own adventure games. They’re joined by Dumpster Dilettante John Zdrojeski as they brave the high seas, 19th century London, and a… beehive? Brought to you by socks and good music.
On today’s episode, your premier purveyors of garbage content are joined by in-house Lone Star Reality TV Consultant Maggie McCaffery to talk about “Age Gap Love,” a British reality show that’s about exactly what it sounds like. Love is blind. Sometimes really, really blind. Brought to you by hamburgers.
One year ago, Alex and Ben first ventured into the talking animal purgatory that is the “Buddies” series and promised they would return to it when the time was right. That day has come. In this episode, we take a closer look than anybody has probably ever taken at “Treasure Buddies,” the “Indiana Jones”-ish, straight-to-DVD “Air Bud” knock-off you never knew you needed to see.
Some are adorable. Some are mighty and fearsome. Some are… useless, racist, and/or look like Harvey Weinstein? This week, join Ben and special guest Harrison Bryan as they figure out which Pokemon you should not “travel across the land, searching far and wide” for. Brought to you by electric fly swatters. Shout outs to the “Who’s That Pokemon” podcast!
Horrifying portraits and misspelled words. Cat eyebrows and Hello Kitty foreheads. Drake-themed club promotions and Pokemon Go gyms. Join Alex and Ben this week as they dive into the most regrettable tattoo catastrophes as ranked by the internet. Brought to you by Flavor Town.
Chekhov. Shaw. Miller. Churchill. Stoppard. Nottage. Baker. Jeff from accounting. Join BFA-holding experts Alex and Ben as they explore the Lone Star world of youth audition monologues that are written by God-knows-who and posted on the internet. Trigger warning: episode contains dramatic readings of material that addresses what it’s like to be a “typical teen” who “doesn’t want to chill with [their] cousin anymore” and/or needs to be “fully committed to figure skating.”
Today, Ben and Alex are joined by special guest Maggie McCaffery as they venture into the Holy Grail genre of garbage content–reality television. On the menu: “Unveiled,” a makeover show about brides-to-be who undergo cosmetic surgery to look perfect for their wedding day, and “Canada’s Worst Driver,” a competition show that’s exactly what it sounds like.
We’re back at it again for our 2nd LSDFS special, where we talk about things that we love. Happy things like LeBron James, Moog, Hunter x Hunter, The Whole30, and the bodega on 74th and 1st, to name a few. Join Ben, Alex, Charmander, and Jennifer Jessica Jennifer this week for a barrel of laughs and an hour of joy.
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