Anime Sickos
Episodes
148: Punk Rock is Anime
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After leaving the house for the first time in years to attend a punk concert, the Sickos reflect on their lifelong love of punk and discover it's anim...
147: The Barry Episode
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos go nuts over one of the few TV shows they've both seen, HBO's Barry. Turns out Bill Hader is really really good at making a TV show. Also T...
146: Oops! All Goofs 5
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's another grab bag of gags, goofs, and bits from your favorite Sickos. Joe recounts discovering a real life Easter Egg in Mexico. Tom shares a foun...
145: Mike Migdall Goes Guesto Mode
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Migdall, notable Online Guy, goes guesto mode! We discuss Dwarf Fortress, blaseball, TTRPGs, sports fandom, and more, all of which are engines fo...
144: The Sickos Ponder Total World Shittification
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos discuss shittification, a process by which the world is not only made worse, but the prospect of improving to the previous level is made im...
143: The Sickos Drink From the Toilet
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the time when the Sickos read dumb posts it is to mock and belittle them. No more. We now accept them as true and real. We accept that giants ...
142: The Sickos Talk Final Fantasy
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos discuss Final Fantasy, perhaps the most popular JRPG series of all time. Like all JRPGs, the Sickos love them but also they all suck ass an...
141: The Sickos Watch Avatar 2
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos head to da movie house to watch Avatar 2, a movie about being a blue guy and doing Tony Hawk stunts with your best whale friend and then yo...
140: The Mods-Mods Fruit
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder how the right, Elon Musk, QAnon et al always get special treatment? It's because they use the powers of the Mods-Mods Fruit, a real-life D...
139: The Sickos Media Recommendation Power Hour
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos spend a bunch of time recommending the games, manga, movies, and TV they've been into lately with their typical verve. Thrill as Tom actua...
138: The Sickos Experience Entropy
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos are suffering from entropy, that famous decay that happens when the Devil lays his wizened finger upon that which you love and it decays an...
137: The Sickos Travel to Florida and Die
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a mondo sized Cog Talk as Joe recounts his work trip to Florida where he ate at the Troop Restaurant, met a fan boat man named Captain Disco, and...
136: The Sickos Experience an Existential Threat
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Uh Oh! Twitter is getting fucked up by the world's dumbest man! We love posting and are addicted to the slop and half our episodes are about posts. Th...
135: The Sickos Expose Their Slop Weaknesses
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Like any hog, the Sickos enjoy da slop! We slurp down dire crap all the time, but certain flavors are laser-focused on the Sickos' dopamine centers. F...
134: MinovskyArticle Goes Guesto Mode
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos are amazed to find that MinovskyArticle, one of the posters of all time and our spiritual leader, has gone guesto mode! We talk about the p...
133: The Sickos Read Some Dumb Posts
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You hogs love it when we read posts to you. Some of these really suck! You know, I'd go so far as to say they're all quite bad! Well, rest assured: we...
132: The Dai Dark Episode
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos go on and on about one of their favorite ongoing manga, Dai Dark, a series where bone freaks travel space in a corpse ship doing hyperviole...
131: Gambling Sucks Ass
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos go puritan mode as they talk shit about gambling, the kind of gaming that sucks ass and steals from you. Dragon Quest always thinks you're ...
130: Mad God is Anime
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos watched Mad God, a stop motion horror film 30 years in the making, where a bunch of GI Joes walk around the blood machine we always talk ab...
129: The Sickos Return From Vacation
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After another two-week break, the Sickos are back and haven't lost a step. We recount a pair of hilarious posts, old and new, finally do another Cog T...
127: The Sickos Fill an Hour
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a grab bag of bits as the Sickos present one hour of recorded audio! We talk about noted idiot Malcolm Gladwell, Tom burns bridges in order to mo...
126: The Fruit Annihilation Tournament Ends!
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's taken two years, but we finally complete our bracket and determine the Ultimate Fruit Under the Heavens. Then, we revisit the Anbernickos segment...
125: The Sickos Read Even More Posts
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world never stops shoving terrible, dumb posts in our faces, so we decided to read some of them out loud. Posts truly are the worst thing on the p...
124: The Sickos Whine
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After our two-week break, we return to form by whining for an hour. There's a lot of evil and infuriating shit out there! Listen to us get mad at it!!...
123: RRR is Anime
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos watched the movie RRR and are now moving to India. We apply our perfect movie rating system to RRR determining its quality objectively (it'...
122: The Eagleheart Episode
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos gush about the little-remembered early 2010s Adult Swim live action comedy Eagleheart. Turns out it's the funniest shit ever. Comedy sucks,...
121: Taylor Moore Goes Guesto Mode
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos welcome local genius Taylor Moore to the podcast. Taylor discusses the saga of his Kickstarter unionization effort, gushes about the anime ...
120: The Sickos Talk Manga Again
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos do another manga roundup of stuff they've been into lately, including Hell's Paradise, Blank Canvas, Kengan Omega (now good again), and Wit...
119: Corpse Brain
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos diagnose Corpse Brain, a mental affliction where your brain died a thousand years ago and now is unable to react to stimulus in any way. Ev...
118: The Food Episode Redux
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos once again discuss that famous goop, "food." We talk about the value of a well-written recipe, how dutch ovens rule, why it's crazy to thin...
117: Fandom Blows Ass
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It seems like being into a fandom is just opting in to horrible drama that makes everyone feel bad. The Sickos discuss how they will never join a fand...
116: The Sickos Perfect Film Criticism
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Become the coolest guy on Letterboxed by using the Sickos' brand new objectively perfect 19-point checklist that determines a movie's quality with sci...
115: The Sickos Become Institutionalized
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe spent a week in "da psych ward" in order to make his brain stop going nuts. The Sickos recount the ordeal which in retrospect had a lot more gags ...
114: Zac Gorman Goes Guesto Mode
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, artist, and generally cool guy Zac Gorman goes guesto mode! We discuss the harrowing emptiness of being an artist, how Chuck E. Cheese's has a...
113: Oops! All Goofs 4
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's another grab bag of goofs from the Sickos. We read a big long list of spooky skeletons, put the Fate wiki through Google Translate, and decide th...
112: The Sickos Talk Games Joe Won't Play
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tom wants to talk about Elden Ring and Inscryption so bad and Joe won't play them in order to prank Tom. The solution? Tom is just going to talk about...
111: The Devil is Real
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Devil is Real and posting is his sword. The Sickos articulate a long-held belief, that the Devil is a real red guy who does all the problems. We d...
110: Gwynn Fulcher Goes Guesto Mode
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, performer, actor, and singer Gwynn Fulcher--star of Shuffle Quest and The Tragical History of Modesty City--goes guesto mode! We discuss the u...
109: This One is Just a Gaming Episode
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos talk about a bunch of video games we've been playing. No big concept or overarching theme, sometimes we need an easy one just for us. We di...
108: The 86 and Ranking of Kings Episode
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos do the unthinkable: not only do we talk about anime (!!), we talk about two different anime (!!!). We discuss the comically bleak teens-in-...
107: Oops! All Sketches!
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oops! Someone spilled something on the machine that makes sketches down at Sickos HQ and now it won't turn off!! Enjoy 50 minutes of extremely stupid ...
106: Shin Sicko City Nights: An Anime Sickos Adventure
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Quinn Welsh-Wilson guest runs a one-shot game of the RPG Hard-Wired Island for the Sickos, as they take control of Tooltip and Paste Special, two aver...
105: Complaining Kicks Ass
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos identify what it is that makes people connect with the show: it's because we're always fuckin complaining and whining, the objectively most...
104: The Sickos Read a Bunch of Posts
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's back to the zoo as the Sickos recount some of the funniest, stupidest, and confusingest posts ever. Yes, social media is a nightmare, but when yo...
103: The Sickos Listen to Homework Podcasts for Business Freaks
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos run through a truly awful Twitter thread claiming to contain the 20 best podcast episodes ever. Every single one is 4 hours of business tip...
102: Evan Dahm Goes Guesto Mode
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professional comics-doer Evan Dahm (Rice Boy, Vattu, Island Book, etc) goes guesto mode! We discuss the transcendent perfection of the Dragonball mang...
101: Prestige TV is Anime
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos finally identify the Western version of anime: Prestige TV. Plus, we get a Kong Dog update, talk about the funniest parts of the 351Elec Di...
100: The Sickos Self-Congratulate
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos have been doing this for 100 episodes! We take a moment to reflect on how it's very hard to come up with episode ideas when you've already ...
99: The Sickos Present a Fresh-Brewed Slop Bonanza
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos present a finely-honed slop experience. We introduce a new segment, "Anbernickos," in which we discuss the ways our Chinese Gameboys are so...
98: Josh McVety Goes Guesto Mode
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josh McVety is a goth king who makes music under the name Mellow Code. Josh discusses his origins as a doomed child born to a family of absolute anime...
97: The Sickos Get Bootleg Chinese Gameboys
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos finally address the burning topic that's been the talk of the gaming world for weeks: The Anbernic RG351V handheld retro emulation device. ...
96: The Internet Sucks
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Being online is terrible! The Sickos moan about how the very structure of the internet requires every action you do on it (talk to people, order food,...
95: The Detroiters Episode
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos discuss one of their favorite animes: Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson's Comedy Central sitcom Detroiters. Folks Detroiters is the funniest ...
94: The Sickos Get Fungible
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Didn't NFTs already flame out? How come we still have people making wife posts about spending $8,000 on a jpg of a horny lion? The Sickos discuss how ...
93: The Sickos Return to Work
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joe is being forced to return to the office, despite a big virus that I guess his work hasn't heard of yet. The Sickos discuss the perverse tendency f...
92: Rayne Klar Goes Guesto Mode
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The excellent Rayne Klar goes guesto mode! Rayne is a podcaster (shameful), witch (cool), and person who knows how printing works (except for the glue...
91: The Sickos Fight in the Battle Arena
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Posting is a horrible battle dome where everyone is forced to do bloodsport by Lord Bones. Anything anyone says is mere seconds away from igniting a d...
90: More Guy Per Guy
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While discussing how cool it is when bosses have phases, the Sickos stumble into one weird trick for making any game, comic, or show extremely better:...
89: Great Moments in Posting History
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos take you on a guided tour of some of history's best, worst, and most powerful posts. See posts both old and new, horny and stupid, funny an...
88: Light Guns Kick Ass
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You know how sometimes you play a video game where you hold a big fuckin plastic gun and it goes pow pow. That kicks ass to us. Guns are like the cool...
87: Whitney Reynolds Goes Guesto Mode
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whitney Reynolds goes guesto mode! We discuss their inexplicably verified Twitter account, the siren call of shitty mobile games, how they craft uniqu...
86: The Sickos Become Deckbuilder Snobs
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos discuss the roguelike deckbuilders they've been playing lately, Roguebook and Griftlands, and how their preponderance of ancillary game sys...
85: The Sickos Become Worried
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As though it weren't enough to live in a world so beset with catastrophe, people keep insisting you have to be worried about it all the time! The Sick...
84: Comedy Still Sucks Now
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is gone, but comedy still refuses to not suck! Since it's not allowed to talk about the Main Part (the imminent collapse of society), all that i...
83: The Making of Modesty City
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos indulge in frankly disgusting levels of self-congratulation as they go behind-the-scenes to relive the process of producing The Tragical Hi...
82: The Tragical History of Modesty City
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Anime Sickos present: The Tragical History of Modesty City, a Play in Five Acts Directed by Tom Harrison and Joe AndersonWritten by Tom Harrison f...
81: The Sickos Manga Roundup
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos share what manga/comics they've been reading lately, specifically: Kengan Omega, Shamo, Usogui, One Piece, Orc Stain, and The Marquis. If y...
80: The Sickos Present: A New Spoon of Slop
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos are back with a brand new slop experience that goes down smooth. We define "Dude Time," a horrible time late at night where you turn to slu...
79: The Sickos Work Retail
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Riley Hopkins (of The Podcast Mines and many others) steps in for Tom as the Sickos discuss the nightmare hell of working retail during the pandemic, ...
78: The Posting Wastes
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos look over the state of Posting and find a desolate waste devoid of life. Leaderless, the screaming hordes of fascist maniacs splinter into ...
77: Stephanie Mattos Goes Guesto Mode
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos welcome Stephanie Mattos, a certified fight coordinator, to confirm that anime is real and fighting kicks ass. We discuss how to plan, chor...
76: The Suffering-Suffering Fruit
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos discuss the Suffering-Suffering Fruit, a real life Devil Fruit that makes you think suffering is inherently noble and good. Every Democrat ...
75: The Sickos Design the Perfect RPG
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After hundreds of hours playing JRPGs, the video games where anime is spreadsheets, the Sickos compile the best parts of the genre that must be presen...
74: Oops! All Goofs 3
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's another batch of bite-sized goofs from the Sickos! Joe says goodbye to Hell Tower and hello to the cursed neighborhood of Little Shitaly, we read...
73: The Sickos Become JRPG Snobs
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos expound upon Earthbound and Mother 3, uniquely quirky JRPGs that no one played. Turns out when you put jokes into a Dragon Quest clone, it'...
72: Tom McHenry Goes Guesto Mode
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sicko homie Tom McHenry finally goes guesto mode! Tom shares his truly nightmarish work stories on one of the greatest Cog Talks of all time, then we ...
71: The One Piece Episode
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos set sail for One Piece, the pirate comic about a rubber boy that is longer than the Bible. We discuss how the comic's ingenious structure a...
70: The Life Removal Machine
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We thought it was gone forever, but Cog Talk makes its triumphant return! Joe and Tom both recently took time off work and were amazed at the immediat...
69: The Horny Episode
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's come to this: the Horny episode. The Sickos discuss what Horny means, why they've never been Horny, how Horny makes your posts bad, and more Horn...
68: Oh No—Poster's Ear is Permanent Now
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's about time for a posting episode but there have been no interesting posts made for months now. Turns out we're forever stuck in an awful time loo...
67: The Food Episode
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos talk about that famous goop, "food." First we highlight Golden Kamuy and Delicious in Dungeon, two amazing manga that spend half their page...
66: Casey Toney Goes Guesto Mode
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Casey Toney, cast member on and audio sicko for the Neoscum podcast (among others), goes guesto mode! We praise the ending of Chainsaw Man as the mast...
65: The Sickos Fix College
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
College is a big grift that is dumb as shit. The Sickos reflect on how deeply they were failed by their education, and propose a new pedagogy that wou...
64: The Sickos Present: An Enjoyable Slop Experience
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Curl up around the fire as the Sickos spoon you up a fresh batch of slop. First we review a ridiculous anime trivia book from 2000 generously donated ...
63: The Sickos Hoot Over Yakuza 7
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Sickos reflect on how a year of quarantine has changed how the four pillars of modern misery shape our lives (spoiler: they all just got worse). ...
62: Em Haverty Goes Guesto Mode
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Southwest suburb homie Em Haverty goes guesto mode! We discuss her love/hate relationship with sketch comedy and the peculiar Chicago SW suburb rot th...
61: The Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Episode
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos finally give you a guided tour to the world of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, a daunting and inscrutable anime juggernaut that is less a show/co...
60: Aaron & Vince Go Guesto Mode
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron J. Shelton and Vince White from the Kame House Party podcast go guesto mode! We discuss Aaron and Vince's cog woes, the fever dream of trying to...
59: The Sickos Become Stupid Babies
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the endemic feeling of being a Dumb Baby Bitch, in which the world treats you as a contemptible idiot for trying to do literally any of the...
58: The Listener Mail Q&A Episode - Round 2
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos have tricked you into providing content for us so we don't have to come up with it ourselves! We answer our listeners' burning questions wi...
57: Oops! All Goofs 2
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos clean out their Trello with a collection of 11 extremely goofy segments too small to carry episodes on their own. Folks it's a grab bag of ...
56: The Deca-Dence Episode
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's an actual anime episode! The Sickos warm up by reading some shit from the Fate wiki before diving into Deca-Dence, one of the best anime series i...
55: KC Green Goes Guesto Mode
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos welcome cartoonist and internet hero KC Green! We discuss his childhood spent tormented by the promise of an animated episode of The Nanny,...
54: The Machine Will Have Blood
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
imo the machine's gonna have blood.
53: The Sickos Do A Gaming Episode
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This time we do a gaming episode and talk about Monster Train, Atomicrops, and Bloodborne. Turns out they all suck ass but we love to play them. Folks...
52: Toobin' It!
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're all laughing at how Jeffrey Toobin got caught masturbating (or "Toobin' it") on Zoom, but soon we'll forget and he'll be back. The Sickos discus...
51: Angela Quinton Goes Guesto Mode
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sicko homie Angela Quinton goes guesto mode! The Sickos interrogate why Angela enjoys the frankly insanely difficult hobby of ultra marathons and rece...
50: The Rules-Rules Fruit
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos identify another real life Devil Fruit that causes people to form psychosexual religious obsessions with The Rules, a framework of systems ...
49: Dylan Goes Guesto Mode
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Sickos welcome Dylan, a true homie and big time sicko. We discuss Dylan's inexplicable love of fighting games, his incredible cog stories of havin...
48: The Sickos Perfect Games Criticism
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For years, games criticism has been lambasted as a wasteland with no structure or discipline, little more than a PR arm of the studios. No more--the S...