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Two friends from back in the day, Kris Casey and Jeremy Kaplowitz, look for the most interesting topics they can possibly find and talk about them a little bit.
he'll steal your boat, he'll steal your booty, and he'll steal your heart. it's BLACKBEARD! the villain of One Piece, the villain of Spongebob, and the villain of 18th century colonists. it may be late March.... but it's still NAUTICAL NOVEMBER, BABY
Take a splash with two nauti boys for Maritime March's blockbuster installment of Deep Dive in the Shallow End.
Drowning is definitively the most fascinating way to die and we're here to tell you why.
From the invention of drowning to folks who drowned just yesterday, Kris and Jeremy will forcibly hold your head under this wave of wet podcast information.
NAUTICAL NOVEMBER isn't always smooth sailing... from boat crashes to float smashes, here's some ships that certainly weren't too big to fail
Her crew was the inspiration for 'Pirates of the Caribbean' (both the film and the ride) and she was one of the coolest pirates to grace the seven seas, so join Captain 'Capsized Kaplowitz' and his scurvy first mate 'Clamshells Casey' as they discuss this salty seaward C word. You know just from the title this one's lit — Nautical November, babyyyyyyyyyyyy
And the Academy Award for cutest little guy goes to.... Scruffles the Cat! Here's a list of the greatest animal actors to ever grace the silver screen
Avian expert Jeremy Kaplowitz and his bird-brained pal Kris Casey get together to rank the Earth's most powerful birds. Eagles, penguins, and everything in between. Who has the most delicious eggs? Who has the hottest chicks? Who has most detachable corkscrew dicks? Right wing or Left wing? Wingspan or Lifespan? What are Cockadoodledoos and don'ts? Flock around and find out
In June of 1962, inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island. The FBI tracked them down for years, but were never able to find the trio — stating, decades later, that the men must have drowned in the freezing waters of the San Francisco Bay. Two young podcasters by the name of Kris Casey and Jeremy Kaplowitz, however, do not believe this is the case. And in fact, they firmly believe that if one is able to escape from Alcatraz Island and swim their way to safety, they should have all crimes against them dropped by the United States government. This the story of those three men told by those two podcasters. This is....... ESCAPE from ALCATRAZ.
DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE
You don't need to watch the film to enjoy the podcast. Terrible comic book movie experts Kris Casey and Jeremy Kaplowitz will guide you through through the "plot"
In the thrilling conclusion to our two part Horrifying-tober ("the 'tober so horrifying it's in 'vember" -slogan pending-) special, our heroes discuss the devilish delicacy known as The Long Pig. You are what you eat, and I'm only human baby
People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World. Welcome to HORRIFYNGTOBER: the only time our podcast is BRAVE enough to dive deep into the shallow end of....CANNIBALISM! Tune in to our two part series about those who took part in taking parts of human bodies and eating the fuck out of em
"Nice." The number that fucks has arrived. The most sexy digits since third base. Join nymphomaniac Jeremy Kaplowitz and pokémaniac Kris Casey as they discuss the bizarre sexual practices of the animal kingdom, the macabre history of contraception, and freakin' fucking fun facts
you ever get a haircut and think, "damn this guy doesn't really know what he's doing"? well back in the old days it was BARBERS who were in charge of SURGERY! can you imagine? dive into the shallow end with Kris and Jeremy as they explore the weird and wild world of our own dang past, when barbers were the kings of cutting people up and messing with their insides
whoops - we are still recovering from our mishap at the fun factory after last week, and now we have no episode at all, not even one about berries. we apologize deeply for this error and working to get the factory up and running again. expert laborers in the area report that we're currently putting the "fun" in "nonfunctional" but we are doing our best to fix this. apologies again
whoops - we are still recovering from our mishap at the fun factory after last week, and now we have no episode at all, not even one about berries. we apologize deeply for this error and working to get the factory up and running again. expert laborers in the area report that we're currently putting the "fun" in "nonfunctional" but we are doing our best to fix this. apologies again
WHOOPS — we accidentally made a podcast exclusively about berries (textbook blunder, happens to the best of em) Every type of berry. We’ve got straw, we’ve got Halle, we’ve got an unpleasant amount of puns on the word “very.” From Blueberry to Booberry, we’ve got you covered. So join Cap’n Casey and Toucan Kaplowitz to have a laugh about plant ovaries
WHOOPS — we accidentally made a podcast exclusively about berries (textbook blunder, happens to the best of em) Every type of berry. We’ve got straw, we’ve got Halle, we’ve got an unpleasant amount of puns on the word “very.” From Blueberry to Booberry, we’ve got you covered. So join Cap’n Casey and Toucan Kaplowitz to have a laugh about plant ovaries
there's a lot of buried treasure - or booty, as the pirates say - that's still out there waiting to be discovered. well fear not, because the Shallow End Explorers Kris Casey and Jeremy Kaplowitz have drawnyou a treasure map to find that shit.... if we don't find it first!
there's a lot of buried treasure - or booty, as the pirates say - that's still out there waiting to be discovered. well fear not, because the Shallow End Explorers Kris Casey and Jeremy Kaplowitz have drawnyou a treasure map to find that shit.... if we don't find it first!
Who keeps cutting these young girls' hair in the middle of the night?!?! Don't worry, the long-locked Kris Casey and the beautifully-balding Jeremy Kaplowitz are on the case!
Sure, all politicians are animals in their own right, but you would be shocked by how many American towns currently have a literal dog as an elected official. Don’t even get us started on turtle presidents and horse senators. Join mare whisperer Kris Casey and mayor whisperer Jeremy Kaplowitz to examine some truly uncanny candidates
When he wasn't taking elephants skiing, he was throwing venomous snakes at nude oarsmen. Hannibal was one wild son of a mother. If Italy was a boot, then Hanni slipped that bad boy on and shoved it up the Roman Senate's collective asshole. Good ol' H-Bomb didn't even speak the same language as his soldiers; he just grunted at his grunts and sent 'em to the front. And you already know Bal Bal the Baller's cavalry rode with grace enough to make a centaur blush. So join America's #1 Stannibal Kris Casey and historically buff history buff Jeremy Kaplowitz to discuss the Conque Shell's greatest achievements. Afterwards you'll totally see why Eric Andre's sidekick's mom thought it was a worthy namesake.
in response to Hard Drive's (on-going?) feud with Elon Musk, the Deep Dive Dudes delve into the life of the man who inspired the company that Elon purchased and declared himself founder of: Nikola Tesla
did you know a buncha animals that live in the Americas aren't even from here?! are you kidding me! i thought these guys were as American as APPLE PIE? what's that? apple trees are originally from Asia?? WHAT IS GOING ON
PLUS: can you guess the Smash Bros game by the negative review? if you guess them all right, you'll get a kiss from Kirby
we’ve got a sport where the ball is on fire, we’ve got a sport where the ball is a live animal, we’ve got a sport where the ball is a dead animal— we got one sport where the losers are killed and another sport where if you die, you automatically win. Join connoisseur of trivial bullshit Kris Casey and his faithful steed Jeremy Kaplowitz to investigate history’s most peculiar athletic events.
join super hero podcasting expert Kris Casey and master of the dark arts Jeremy Kaplowitz as they deconstruct the twisted cinematic vision of our dimension’s Sorcerer Supreme Sam Raimi [Evil Dead, Spider-man 3]
in the dusky death rattles of the Wild West, frontier family, the Allen Gang, rode into Carrol County to free their boss and patriarch, Mad Floyd Allen, from the grasp of the ever-encroaching judiciary. As was custom at the time, a bloodbath ensued. Join dutiful Deputy Jeremy and wanted outlaw Calamity Kris to hear just what in tarnation went down
animal podcasting experts Kris Casey and Jeremy Kaplowitz take you on a gnarly safari of the world's most radical rodents. We've got real-life hive-minded creatures, naked mole rats, and beavers. And, of course, the various vibrant vermin that have long dominated global media: mice— from Mickey to Pikachu, rats— from Remy to Tekashi69, and bats— from Bruce Wayne to the one used by famed St. Louis Cardinal slugger Mark McGwire to hit his record-shattering 62nd homerun of the 1998 season
Sony Pictures adds another poorly CGIed anti-hero to their roster of formulaic Marvel knock-offs. That’s right, it’s everybody’s favorite blood-drinking ghoul, Jared Leto, as the misunderstood yet brilliant Dr. Michael Morbius. Watch the emo doctor fight the eleventh doctor in a vampire v. vampire feud that seems like a contemporary of 2003’s Daredevil. Can you believe the bad guy gets the same powers as the good guy? This spring, Morbius is putting the “origin” in “originality.” If you want to understand Jared Leto’s cameo in the new Blade: listen to this podcast — DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM
choo choo motherfuckers, Reginald’s Boys are back in the building to discuss the most daring heist of the 20th century. Jessie James ain’t got nothing on Gordon Goodie. featuring a guest appearance by Hard Drive editor Kevin Flynn! to be clear, he's a guest on the podcast, he wasn't a guest on the train robbery
Jeremy's on assignment so Hard Drive editor Andy Holt steps in to discuss maybe the coolest Pokémon game ever???
a Star Wars show that never aired, a Rembrandt that was stolen by Nazis, that time Hemingway’s wife lost all his manuscripts— join the boys to discuss the best unwatched, unseen, unheard, unread, unbelievable content there is/was on the whole gosh darn planet
The Crack King of Columbia was truly on his super-villain shit. Mans had a secret lair complete with artificial rivers, armed guards, and deadly beasts imported from all over exotic lands. Join Jeremy Kaplowitz and Kris Casey to discuss the consequences of hippopotamus ownership
Legendary Hard Drive writer Mark Roebuck joins the podcast to discuss the life and times of legendary Chinese warrior Lü Bu! this guy was out there wrecking shit up in the late HUNDREDS. we're talking year 192. ever heard of the Dynasty Warriors games? that's him
you ever get hungry? well unless you're slurping down live snakes, there's no way you've ever been as hungry as Tarrare, the 18th century Frenchman who was so goddamn hungry, he would eat literally anything he saw. most of this episode is just us listing all the absolutely crazy shit this guy ate. think of a random thing right now in your head. you got something? ok well not that, but he ate a lot of stuff
did you know that the Mona Lisa was just some random ass Da Vinci painting until an Italian guy stole it in the early 1900s? you did? seriously? are you messing with us right now? because that was like what this whole episode was about... well, shit.
In 1932, Australians embarked on the first ever war that humans fought against animals, attacking local emu populations with military force. Who won what would be called the Great Emu War? Well that's a slightly complicated question to answer.
Kris and Jeremy finally sit down and watch Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage. Happy new year, wavy babies!!! Thank you for listening to our podcast, we appreciate you!!!!!
The No Way Homies reunite to discuss the Web Head’s latest cinematic outing. Can our hero Kris Casey (movie lover) defeat his arch-nemesis Jeremy Kaplowitz (movie hater and general fiend) in a furiously frenzied friend-on-friend feature film fight to the finish? Featuring Willem Dafoe as ‘The Grinch,’ Alfred Molina as Schenectady native ‘Doctor Octopus,’ Jaime Foxx as ‘Django Unplugged,’ a computer-generated nightmare as ‘Killer Croc,’ and Jon Favreau as himself. Are three Spider-Men enough to defeat the famous Sinister Five? You do the math, we’ll do the magic. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a bountiful solstice to all!
On a cold morning in the second week of September 2001, the world changed forever.... because Charles and Susan Ingram, along with their friend Tecwen Whittock, successfully cheated to win $1,000,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Wondering how they pulled it off?? Well listen to the podcast, because we tell you, dumb dumb. Jeez!
The most important soldier in World War II didn't even exist. Join Kris and J Kap as they learn how a British vagabond who died penniless in the streets became the wartime hero who fooled Hitler and secured the Allies' victory against the dastardly Axis of Evil with Operation Mincemeat. Forget the marine corps, this marine corpse won the gosh darn war for the good guys.
Jeremy haplessly wanders into Kris Casey’s Creepy Crawler Carnival of Carnage. It’s an absolute fucking bloodbath. Lose your free will. Indulge in psilocybin. Witness the horror as these six-legged fiends tear each other limb from limb. Happy Thanksgiving
Jeremy failed to complete his podcast duty (seeing Venom 2) and so our hosts take a trip to twee town and discuss Wes Anderson's anthology film The French Dispatch, a pretentious but visually stunning love letter to The New Yorker magazine, and complain that Carnage isn't in it enough
the most talented swordsman who ever lived could also paint pretty pictures and beat people with sticks—join our heroes as they recount the life and times of Japanese folk hero Miyamoto Musashi
This week Horton hears Kris & Jeremy discuss roughly 100% of the pertinent elephantine information currently available to the public. Dumbo?! …more like Smartbo. Yeah, back it up baby, cause we’ve got a lot of trunk in the junk. Please tune into this unforgettable episode, that a listener never forgets.
Why is a rabbits foot good luck? Why is breaking a mirror bad luck? Why do we knock on wood when we tempt fate? What’s really wrong with the number 13? Come find out, ya bitch
Julius Caesar once built a bridge and then immediately tore it down in a dick measuring contest with some barbarians
the last two years gave us all a crash course in isolation BUT WHAT DO Y’ALL REALLY KNOW BOUT SOLITUDE? there’s levels to this shit son… if you want to know what separates the lone wolf from the lone sheep, hop off the grid with Jeremy and Kris as they breakdown the pros, schmoes, and foes of the hermitting lifestyle
Kris & Jeremy return to the well for The Godfather: Part III of fish podcasts, the Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 of shooting shit bout squids, the Matrix Revolutions of inane conversation. Truly, the most heinous fish is the shark they jump in this installment of ‘Deep Dive in the Shallow End’. These fish are..... HEINOUS!
we always knew mommy nature was a bad bitch, but never quite how savage. Hard Drive editor Andy Holt [Professor Thunderbolt] stops by the studio to teach the boys about all the wild shit the Earth be getting up to
as lucky as a horse-shoe, but not quite as smart, Timothy Dexter, the befuddled 18th century businessman, bumbled his way to fortune and fame
The Winchester Mystery Mansion. An heiress gone mad. The restless eternal souls of a thousand mortals summarily executed by America’s most popular cartridge repeater rifle. Please listen to our podcast, it's hilarious
This week, our heroes venture back to the ocean floor for an encounter with Harrison Okene, the man who spent almost three days trapped in a sunken tugboat. You already know this ones wavy, baby
Normally all is fair in love and war, but this 14th century combat had a strict set of rules and regulations. It even had a crowd of peasants in attendance. At one point a gosh darn time-out was called! Shit was wild bro
Before Neil Armstrong, there was the fifteen kiloton nuclear warhead. That’s right, in 1958, after the Soviets took an early lead in the space race, the geniuses over at the pentagon decided it was time for something drastic: bombing the flipping moon
Kris and Jeremy run through a real life Ocean’s 11 event, the 2005 Banco Central Burglary at Fortaleza, Brazil. We’re talking a major bank heist filled with fake companies, big tunnels, cool aliases, and a ton of stolen money. It’s honestly just a pretty insane story
Our heroes give in to their nerd podcast inclinations and do a whole episode talking about Loki, the Black Widow movie, and the MCU as a whole. This may sound like a lot of other podcasts, but the difference here is that these opinions are objectively the correct ones and everyone else is a big dumb loser
Kris Casey and Jeremy Kaplowitz visit the world’s most interesting micronations, sovereign states that lack legal recognition from any government but their own. Plus they create their own micronation... so that’s pretty sweet. You can live there if you want, but please don’t make a big mess or let the dog out
We watched vehicular sci-fi fantasy epic F9: THE FAST SAGA. Be warned: this episode is filled with spoilers (and no we don’t mean like the things on that go on cars, although technically there might be some of those in this episode as well)
Did you know that over 35,000 dogs live in Moscow and learned how to read traffic lights and take the subway and other shit too? Kris and Jkap run down these ruskie ruffers that they’ve dubbed… the Moscow Metro Mutts! Also they discuss notorious 1970s serial killer Son of Sam
the deep dive dudes are out of their deep dive depth as they adventure to the Mariana Trench, a long hole in the ocean deeper than Mount Everest is tall!
Introducing the magnificent Jasper Maskelyne! Soon to be played by Benedict Cumberbatch in upcoming film ‘The War Magician,’ this magician turned soldier used his illusions to defeat the Nazis! But can the accounts of this charming charlatan be trusted or are his tales of valor merely smoke and mirrors?
Kris and Jkap explore the bizarre world of ultramarathons and the maniacs who run them. Some ultramarathons are through cities, some are through the wilderness, and some are simply thousands of loops around a 400 meter high school track. But at the end of the day, all ultramarathons have one thing in common: they’re really fucking long
It's no exaggeration to say that 9/11 was one of the most culture-defining moments in American history. In many ways, it has defined life in the United States since 2001. But what about the little changes? What about the reimagined movies, the scrapped sequences, and scenes lost to time? This week, the boys take a look at the most interesting pieces of media that were left on the cutting room floor in the wake of a great tragedy.
these episodes were too hot for TV... and by “hot” we mean seizure inducing. Buckle up bulbasaurs, cause we’re talking racist Pokémon, sexy Pokémon, racist Team Rocket, sexy Team Rocket, and much much more
Before being the GIF wonder of Tumblr… before being the old beau of ‘Oh Hello’… John Mulaney had a TV show called ‘Mulaney’ and people hated it. But did you know that, before his sitcom on Fox, Mulaney had a different pilot script? One that, legend has it, was ruined by the executives who worked on it? Hard Drive editor Andy Holt joins Kris and Jeremy to compare and contrast this “legendary” script with the pilot episode of the infamous ‘Mulaney’ TV show.
Everybody dies, but not everybody lives. But these people definitely died. Knives are swallowed, furniture is forged, and people drown in liquids that aren’t water.
sure, everybody loves a triathlon or a good ol’ fashioned curling contest. hell, we’ve even been known to enjoy an occasional shotput. but what about the olympic sports of old? what secrets lay beneath the ground holding high those iconic rings? this week, we count down the wackiest sports to ever grace the olympic stage
you must be “this tall” to join King Freddy I of Prussia’s army of exclusively tall men, aka The Potsdam Giants, aka the Long Guys Battalion, aka the Lange Kerle. Kris and Jeremy give the lowdown on these high-up dudes and the eccentric king who made them march around his bedroom
sunken cities lost to the waves of time, great civilizations rest upon the ocean floor, Jeremy’s grandpa died
Today we honor Matapacos, the badass Chilean protest dog who became a symbol against tyranny and may just be the world's #1 good boy. A mangy mutt made good! Take note, Balto: you're a fraud and everyone knows it! There’s a reason you're everyone’s 102nd favorite animated dog!!!!
It’s Kris “restore the Snyderverse” Casey and Jeremy “joss whedon is a loser creep” Kaplowitz in ‘Jkap v. Kasey: Dawn of Podcast’. Featuring America’s favorite team of murderers: edgy Wonder Woman, Clark Kent’s corpse, sad Ben Affleck, roboFrankenstein, the drunken strangler of Reykjavik, and fellow deep dive dude Aquaman. Listen as our heroes wallow in the visionary direction of Zack Snyder.
Kris and Jkap play second banana to the banana itself as they run through the craziest banana facts of all time. These facts are bananas. They're crazy! And they're about bananas.
Boiled alive? check. Sliced up? uh huh. Victim of irreparable psychological distress? you betcha. The boys are talking torture today
Kris and Jeremy recount the thrilling tale of the Super Smash Bros. Melee player who used a modded console to win actual tournament money playing with a hacked version of Pichu. Then they figure out which of the Smash Brothers they would chill with.
The coldest place on Earth just got a whole lot colder. The boys delve into illegal activity conducted at the most southern of the poles.
Kris and Jeremy countdown the most diabolically sinister fish in the ocean. These fish are out of control. They’re evil. Lock your doors (if your doors are under water). These are Earth’s most heinous fish.
Claude Frizzell Bloodgood III was a chess player and a villain. He murdered his own mother, escaped from prison, claimed to have been a literal Nazi spy, and worst of all, cheated the chess Elo rating system to become one of the highest ranked players of all time.
Kris and Jeremy discuss the largest beasts of the prehistoric era. These are some real big boys.
Kris and Jeremy watch the failed Geico TV show based on the “it’s so easy, a caveman can do it” commercials and HOLY SHIT is it bad. Like it’s fascinatingly bad. Like it’s a weird racist metaphor for black people and they make up a whole Caveman n-word and it’s starring Nick Kroll.
Kris and Jeremy decide what their Snapple Facts would be if they were Snapple tycoons and discuss the most infectious melody known to man (it’s a serious disease though, no jokes).
Holy shit, this roller coaster is LETHAL. It’s out there looking for blood. It’s out to kill. Beware of the Euthanasia Coaster, because when it knocks on your door, it will be the last ride you take.
Kris and Jeremy debate the validity of medical doctors while telling the story of Angus Wallace, whose Wikipedia page is split into three sections: Early life and career, In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware, and Later career.
Is cum funnier than jizz? Kris and Jeremy unveil a new podcast for people who want to learn about interesting things but not too much.