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Ambushed for Content Pt 1 (w/ Johnjay Van Es)

EPISODE · Sep 6, 2025 · 32 MIN

Ambushed for Content Pt 1 (w/ Johnjay Van Es)

from Terrible Person · host Terrible Person

A loose, chaotic hang that starts with food talk and pop culture burnout before spiraling into celebrity obsession, oversaturation, and how fame rewires the way people talk about relationships. A surprise phone call turns into a long catch-up covering radio life, documentaries, true crime fixation, Amanda Knox, and the strange comfort of shared media memories. From there it veers into Vegas stories, haunted museums,Blue Man Group chaos, mushrooms, horror movies, and why certain attractions feel cursed on a spiritual level. Horror films, conspiracy curiosity, cult vibes, and morbid collectibles blur together with industry nostalgia, creative burnout, and the weird afterlife of public personas. By the end it’s movie recommendations, true crime spirals, celebrity fatigue, and the kind of conversations that feel half nostalgic, half unhinged, and completely unscripted.

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They Called This a Movie Anthony Del Vecchio Testing the strength of friendships one terrible movie at a time.NOW RELEASING ON FRIDAYS Explicit Why Are You Following Me? Nicole Michalik Have you ever wondered how your favorite person to follow on social media actually got to be your favorite person to follow on social media? How did they get the followers they have? What's their favorite platform? What do they do that makes you want to follow them? Nicole asks those questions, and more, as she tries to discover, "why are you following me?" Explicit The Most Important Question Important, Not Important You already know things are broken. You read the news, you listen to the analysis, you've got the outrage. What you don't have is a plan.The Most Important Question — 6x Webby-nominated, 2x Signal Award-nominated — is a weekly conversation with one person who stopped asking "what can I do?" and went and found out. Not pundits. Not commentators. The scientists, doctors, nurses, journalists, farmers, activists, and policymakers who are doing the actual work on the frontlines of climate, public health, democracy, AI, food, water, medicine, and justice.Host Quinn Emmett goes deep with each of them — the infectious disease doctor building new outbreak surveillance tools, the investigative journalist who traced how forever chemicals got into 97% of our blood, the economist building emergency lifeboats for foreign aid that got axed overnight, one of the greatest writers alive reckoning with the history we were never taught — and every conversation ends with something nobody else gives Explicit Retail Nightmares Alicia Tobin and Jessica Delisle Co-ghosts Alicia and Jessica plus very funny guests discuss terrible work experiences, adorable animals and a bunch of other weird segments! Explicit
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