Everything on Nothing

what movie uses its own name the most times?”

That’s the question Jacki brings to Mickey and Christian, kicking off a deep dive into movie title drops: those moments when a character says the name of the movie out loud. From setting the rules for what counts to sorting through questionable online lists, the search for the movie with the most title drops turns into a much bigger investigation than anyone might expect.

In this episode:

Slippery Stairs is a SPORT?!

What makes something a sport? A ball? A scoreboard? Or just a staircase covered in lube and someone brave enough to give it a go?

Mickey, Jacki, and Christian tumble down a rabbit hole of weird sports history, following a winding trail of oil tycoons, hockey legends, questionable business deals, and television executives that leads to ESPN, the X Games, and the gloriously bizarre world of obscure competitions. Along the way, they uncover the money, egos, and unexpected stories behind the sports we watch—and the ones that make us as...

What that cell do? 

A lot, actually. 

Mickey, Jacki, and Christian zoom way, way in to explore the tiny factories keeping us alive, the scientists who figured them out, and the very human drama behind some of science’s biggest discoveries.

In this episode:

How much do you miss looking through the TV Guide and reading it cover to cover and doing the puzzles and highlighting things? Is there anything comparable to that today?

We came here to talk about TV Guide. We left with newspaper gangsters, media empires, corporate monopolies, antisemitism, and something called ham water. So, a pretty normal episode.

This is Part Two of Two, featuring special guest Bossman Zach, host of Reasonably Afraid Podcast: a comedy-horror podcast exploring the strange, unsettling, and downright ridiculous corners of horror. Naturally, he fits right in as we trace t...

How much do you miss looking through the TV Guide and reading it cover to cover and doing the puzzles and highlighting things? Is there anything comparable to that today?

That’s the question.

And answering it obviously means we have to discuss Neanderthals, whistling, Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, electricity, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, telegraphs, Morse code, the Titanic, phonographs, radio, French potatoes, Star Trek, Riker’s beard, Rotten.com, AI, Wikipedia, Kevin Bacon, Eric Roberts, 30 Rock, and one extremely evil businessman named David Sarnoff.

We get into:

Who was Indigo’s PR agent?

That’s the question.

And answering it obviously means we have to discuss Isaac Newton, ancient Persia, India, British colonialism, Gandhi, Nazis, blue jeans, birds trying to get laid, Pluto, Prince, and some deeply cursed crayons.

We get into:

Is cheese political?

That’s the question.

And apparently, the answer requires Mickey, Christian, and Ian to discuss ancient Rome, government cheese, raw milk, war, capitalism, comedy, mold, Upton Sinclair, American food, and the horrifying process by which humanity apparently discovered what was safe to eat.

Also, Jacki isn’t here.

This is the first episode of Everything on Nothing without her, so obviously things go completely off the rails.

Mickey has a question about cheese, and because Mickey is Mickey, answering it means going all the way...

Are the Dutch evil sons of bitches?

That’s the question.

Mickey, Jacki, and Christian attempt to answer it, which obviously means we have to discuss swamp people, imperialism, weed, cheese, Civilization, Nazis, Taylor Swift, and approximately 2,000 years of Dutch history.

We get into:

In this Everything On Nothing episode, we tackle the question:

“Is Dropout TV the most ethical streaming service out there?”

We talk:

In this Everything On Nothing episode, we tackle the question:

“Why did Ske Lo want a ’64 Impala?”

We talk:

In this Everything On Nothing episode, we tackle the cursed Facebook classic:
“Why do women get so mad when they see a man relaxing?”

We talk:

In this Everything On Nothing episode, we ask the only real question about wrestling: “WWE … WHY?!” How did a grimy little carny hustle turn into the loudest, shiniest wrestling empire on Earth?

We talk:

“Was Woodrow Wilson a bad President?” 

In this Everything on Nothing episode, we drag Wilson off the dusty earnest progressive bookshelf and dump him out as a segregation-obsessed admin nerd who helped invent the modern presidency, the modern propaganda machine, and the modern who counts as a person problem, all while insisting he was saving the world.

We talk:

Esports has UNIFORMS?! In this Everything on Nothing field trip, Mickey chucks the teacher hat at Christian, who drags us from single‑celled organisms trying to win lunch all the way to five kids in matching jerseys, approved footwear, and sponsor logos beaming out on a jumbotron.

We talk:

Is The Warriors just a grimy ’79 gang flick with face paint and leather vests… or a neon‑lit Greek epic about outcasts, cops, capitalism, and who actually runs New York after dark? We start with the question, “Is The Warriors a popular movie?” and immediately end up asking, “Then why does everybody know the quotes but not the film?”

In this episode of Everything on Nothing, Mickey, Christian, and I track The Warriors from its chaotic theatrical release (with real gangs showing up to screenings and studio execs yanking the ads) to its second life as a cult classic...

Is punk rock just loud, fast music for pissed‑off teenagers… or was it the first time a bunch of weird kids collectively realized, “Oh, the system is bullshit, actually”? We start with the question, “Is punk political?” and very quickly end up asking, “How could it not be?”

In this episode of Everything on Nothing, Mickey, Christian, and I pull at the loose threads of punk until the whole sweater comes apart. We go from postwar anxiety and bored suburban kids to basement shows, zines run off on stolen office copiers, and that moment when three chords and a hal...

Is Yahoo where the internet goes to die… or is it the awkward grandparent that accidentally invented half of the modern web and then tripped over its own shoelaces for 30 years?

In this episode of Everything on Nothing, Mickey, Jacki, and Christian crack open the purple time capsule and dig through Yahoo’s weird, winding legacy: from two nerds in a dorm listing every website on Earth, to the exclamation point that dodged a barbecue sauce lawsuit, to the empire that bought RocketMail, GeoCities, AltaVista, Broadcast.com, and somehow still managed to lose the plot.

This whole episode exists because Mickey tried to answer his kid's very simple question:

"So... what do you actually believe?"

Or in Mickey's own words: the question in front of us today is, "what my religious thought was."

Cut to one dad, one atheist son, and a lifetime of half formed theology crashing into Douglas Adams, CCD worksheets, and way too much late night cosmology:

"Is there a God, or are we just really bad at explaining physics?"

From there, Mickey, Christian, and Jacki slide into a sprawling conversation...

This whole episode exists because we were watching South Park, met the character Wing, and had the same chaotic thought at the same time:

“Wait… is she real?”

Cut to: three adults, multiple tabs, and a full spiral into the world of outsider music, asking out loud:

“Is outsider music exploitative?”

Not “haha funny bad singing” exploitative. The real kind. The kind with power imbalances, mental illness, and people who never meant to be content.

From there, Mickey, Christian, and Jacki trip into a whole off‑kilter corner of music...

One day, we heard someone say autistic people are “more Neanderthal,” and our brains would not let it go. Not a meme, not a throwaway tweet.... a full-on, late-night, Google-tab-rabbit-hole of a thought:

“I am autistic. Am I derived from Neanderthals?”

This episode starts with that question and then refuses to stay simple.

From there, Mickey, Christian, and Jacki tumble down a Neanderthal‑shaped rabbit hole involving:

One day, you realized Steve Buscemi was in every weird movie that got stuck in your brain. The VHS your older cousin wouldn’t rewind. The cable re-run you caught at midnight. The indie DVD your film-major roommate wouldn’t shut up about.

This episode starts with one question:

How did Steve Buscemi become the backbone of modern pop culture?

From there, Mickey, Christian, and Jacki slide down a Buscemi-shaped rabbit hole involving:

You never planned to watch USA Network, did you? You just ended up there... Like the mall food court, Blockbuster on a Friday night, or your friend's house with the mysteriously free cable.

This episode starts with one question:

How did the USA Network get started?

Which sends Mickey, Christian, and Jacki into a rabbit hole involving:

And not to mention, the things USA Network was always showing:

Why are so many people obsessed with the Roman Empire?

In the debut episode of Everything on Nothing, Mickey, Christian, and producer Jacki start with a simple question and somehow end up wandering through wolf-raised twins, political assassinations, slave revolts, Christianity, Napoleon, modern corporations, artificial intelligence, and the uncomfortable realization that Rome may never have actually gone away.

What begins with Romulus and Remus quickly spirals into a conversation about propaganda, power, rebellion, and how one ancient civilization became the blueprint for countless empires, governments, and institutions that followed. Along the way, the hosts explore...