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208: Cohen Edenfield Goes Guesto Mode

Games writer and Skulltenders DM Cohen Edenfield goes guesto mode and the chilling is simply off the charts! We jaw about Deadwood again (to the delight of all),…

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207: The Deadwood Episode

The Sickos go nuts over HBO's Deadwood, a show in a league of its own. You have to watch Deadwood--this is not a request.

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206: It Happened Again!

Folks, uh oh!! Once again we have experienced a mondo catastrophe! Trump won big time! The Sickos discuss their feelings (bad), criticize the Democrats (morons), and reminisce on…

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205: Maslow's Hierarchy of Posting Needs

It seems like every posting platform sucks. But what does it take for one to not suck? The Sickos answer by creating the Poster's Hierarchy of Needs, a…

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204: The Sickos Rank Some More Game Mechanics on a Tier List

The Sickos give the final word on a variety of classic game mechanics that all gamers know and love, such as "roll," "homing attack," "homing attack (Sonic version),"…

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203: The Sickos Complain About that One Photo of John Lennon Where He's Walking Like an Idiot

The Sickos briefly discuss a number of topics: meeting a guy in the West Loop who talked like a bugged NPC, how the Cybertruck is basically this decade's…

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202: The Sickos Go To Gay Paris

Tom went to Gay Paris, got Covid (no longer eligible for heaven), and got laid off! We yammer about my dumbass travel anecdotes. It's fun to listen to…

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201: The 201st Episode Spectacular!

OK, this time we're celebrating 200 episodes for real. We reflect on five years in Sicko Mode and bask in the praise and congratulations of our fans and…

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200: The 200th Episode Spectacular!

Incredible! We've been in Sicko Mode for 200 episodes! What better way to celebrate this incredible achievement than to discuss our favorite dusts and goops! What, you thought…

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199: Danette Chavez Goes Guesto Mode

Danette Chavez goes guesto mode! Danette is the new editor-in-chief of the AV Club, an icon of internet culture writing recently freed from a grim period of ownership…

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198: More Podcasts About Buildings and Food

The Sickos yammer. No topic! All minutia! We yap about eating burgers under the L tracks, Home Depot hot dogs, Joe's son getting spooked by the Roomba, Monster…

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197: The Severance Episode

Unbelieveable! The Sickos discuss an actual anime: the 2022 Apple TV+ live action thriller Severance starring Adam Scott. This shit is so good. We basically just go nutty…

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196: The Sickos Get Laid Off

The Sickos discuss Joe's recent layoff, and how getting laid off is fine, and it's easy to get a new job, and there WILL be a future, and…

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195: A.J. Ditty Goes Guesto Mode

A.J. Ditty from the Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast goes guesto mode! We learn how to act, why seeing your parents shot in the face would make…

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194: The Sickos Examine the Perfect Pilot

Sitcom pilots tend to suck ass. They have to do boring exposition and the characters haven't settled into a rhythm yet. Well what if we told you there…

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193: Best in Slot Jokes

Comedy is an endless playground of creativity and innovation, but some jokes are so good that nothing could ever be better in its niche. We call these "Best…

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192: Remy Siu Goes Guesto Mode

Remy Siu, creative director of the excellent narrative game 1000xResist, goes guesto mode! We discuss how he & the game's writing staff put together a frankly staggering work…

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191: The Sickos Read Cog Tales

The Sickos remembered that we have a form we shared a long time ago where people can submit horror stories from their workplaces, and we finally read some…

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190: The Sickos Shoot Da Breeze

We've had too many high-concept episodes lately that require lots of thought and prep, so we just turned the mic on and had an hour of organic jawing.…

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189: The Sickos Complain About AI

This AI shit sucks so bad folks. We expand on what we found so distasteful about generative AI art and how much it would suck ass to see…

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188: Oops! All Sketches 2

The Sickos come bearing eleven killer sketches that will make you hoot and laugh and go nuts. Join us as we travel through time, meet god, become Michelin…

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187: The Sickos Do A Classic Posting Episode

Are you freaks happy? We come from the toilet battered and bloody bearing armfuls of insane and stupid posts that are very funny to think about. Come listen…

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186: Crawfish Comic Goes Guesto Mode

Shevvy from the incredible comedy sensation Crawfish Comic goes guesto mode! We go nuts over how much we like Shevvy's work, and they explain the ethos and philosophy…

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185: Long Live Akira Toriyama

The Sickos eulogize the best cartoonist to ever live, Akira Toriyama. Rest in peace king. Your art will live forever, and future generations will understand that it's cool…

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184: Josh Boerman Goes Guesto Mode

We welcome Josh Boerman from the Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast. We discuss immersive sims, the value of good criticism, trying to make a living off creative…

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183: The Sickos Do Two Segments

The Sickos do a classic two-segment episode. First, we return to our tier list of Every Game Mechanic and rank a bunch of these suckers. Then, we return…

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182: The Sickos Become Literature Geniuses

Turns out books are not homework, but instead stuff a weirdo wrote down for fun. We go nuts about Moby Dick, Don Quixote, and the works of Don…

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181: Guys Who Fell Off

The Sickos moan about guys who have fallen off. Some fear to do this. We have the courage to do what they won't.

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180: Goblin Punks with Grant Howitt - An Anime Sickos Adventure

Grant Howitt, a game designer who rules, joins the Sickos (plus Gwynn and Allie from Modesty City, Sicko Shock 2, and Shuffle Quest) for a one-shot game of…

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179: The Sickos Ponder Da Sludge

Everywhere you look someone's trying to sell you da sludge, and they usually succeed! AI? That's da sludge. Layoffs? Sludge. Airplanes where the walls fall off? Sludge. Some…

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178: The Sickos Begin to Rank Every Game Mechanic

We unveil a classic new recurring segment in which the Sickos sort every single game mechanic into a tier list. This will definitely not take a long time…

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177: The Sickos are Out of Touch, and Right

Folks, your Sickos are old and dumb and don't know what's hip now. When we watched the Game Awards it was like we got clockwork oranged. Music is…

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176: Joe Has a Baby Now

We're back from our break. Joe had a baby, did you hear about that? That's part of why there was a break. Anyway, we talk about the baby…

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175: The Sickos Enter the Void

Guest hosts Sara & Tom McHenry watched the big plagiarism YouTube video and now we are harrowed by the nightmarish threat of "void people," empty automatons who eerily…

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174: The Sickos Defeat Death

Guest host erica dreisbach fills in for Joe and reveals how to defeat aging and live forever by buying pills from the store that a disgraced charlatan told…

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173: The Sickos Design Final Fantasy 17

Square Enix is fucked because no one liked Final Fantasy 16. They need the next mainline entry to be a rock-solid crowdpleaser that's cheap and fast to develop.…

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172: The Sickos Rank the Monsters

It's our spookiest episode yet as the Sickos rank the Halloween monsters in a bone-chilling tournament! This one's pretty dumb (non-derogatory)

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171: Sean Rose Goes Guesto Mode

Sean Rose goes guesto mode! We discuss Sean's comic Red Ring of Death, a parody of inescapable mid-2000s gaming webcomics, his podcast The Hornet's Nest, in which reformed…

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170: Obama is Gay With Tucker's Friend

The Sickos discuss the story of the millenium: Obama is allegedly gay with Tucker's buddy. This is sure to really move the needle. Plus, numerous goofy segments and…

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169: The Sickos Create the Perfect Parenting Guide

With Joe's baby on the way, the Sickos use their genius minds to solve the age old question of how to be a perfect parent who raises a…

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168: Dan Sheehan Goes Guesto Mode

Writer and comedian Dan Sheehan goes guesto mode! We discuss how creating a massive Twitter sensation gives you zero (0) rewards, why it whips ass to write the…

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167: The Sickos Steal the Chrono Trigger - An Anime Sickos Adventure

Jeff Stormer of the Party of One Podcast joins us for an Anime Sickos RPG adventure as we play TIME HEIST! The Sickos infiltrate Science Island on a…

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166: The Sickos Buy Property and Become Evil

Many people want to own a house or condo, but uh oh! If you do that you touch the Trump Orb and become an evil guy! The Sickos…

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165: The Sickos Log On to X, The Everything App

The Sickos mourn the diseased and rapidly dying website Twitter, now renamed X: The Everything App by its foolish owner, a weird man who posts tongue emojis that…

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164: The Sickos Go Back to Basics

It's been forever since we've done a Normal one. We go back to basics, discussing Chrono Cross and doing Cog Talk. Baby, we still got it!

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163: The Making of Sicko Shock 2

The Sickos spent 15 months producing an audio drama miniseries and now are tired. Allow us the indulgence of reminiscing on the incredible experience of writing, casting, recording,…

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Sicko Shock 2: Episode 6 - Sherry and the Ganja Gang

The Anime Sickos present: Sicko Shock 2 - A Miniseries in Six Episodes. EPISODE 6: SHERRY AND THE GANJA GANG In the year 42069, humanity survives…

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Sicko Shock 2: Episode 5 - Tor Client

The Anime Sickos present: Sicko Shock 2 - A Miniseries in Six Episodes. EPISODE 5: TOR CLIENT In the year 42069, humanity survives in the last…

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Sicko Shock 2: Episode 4 - Dr. Fiona Firewire

The Anime Sickos present: Sicko Shock 2 - A Miniseries in Six Episodes. EPISODE 4: DR. FIONA FIREWIRE In the year 42069, humanity survives in the…

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Sicko Shock 2: Episode 3 - Stack Overflow

The Anime Sickos present: Sicko Shock 2 - A Miniseries in Six Episodes. EPISODE 3: STACK OVERFLOW In the year 42069, humanity survives in the last…

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