Bad Things - The Podcast

23/09/2022

To The Bad Things Universe,

As you probably heard at the backend of our last episode, the Bad Things Podcast is pausing. Whether this is permanent or temporary, only time will tell. What we can be certain of is how much your continued support has meant to us over the last 3 years ❤️

Here's a cute pic of us from a couple of years ago in Alexandra Park as a lovely sign off.

Stay BAD!

Love From,

Nath and Jacob xox

19/09/2022

TELL ME TO PRESS!

The boys fulfil a lifelong dream and review a Paul McCartney album 🤩

Will they be virulently defending their hero or accept the critics of Paul's 1986 effort, Press To Play?

Listen below...

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/press-to-play/id1496064063?i=1000579930985

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kbfKzP5TVMi3xIuDXZwLV?si=fdba5bfcc698479f

Acast - https://open.acast.com/shows/5dfbbea7aca15d9972cdd8c7/episodes/63286669be09a70013446343

12/08/2022

It's been a while, but Bad Things is back!

Please enjoy our long overdue Wilson Awards 2021 (recorded in March 2022) and help us celebrate the best of Bad Things last year!

The Wilson Awards Return!

23/03/2022

🚩🚩NEW BAD THINGS POLL 🚩🚩

The release of our Wilson Awards episode is delayed, so here's another poll to say sorry! Four "middle aged men in the 80s" to choose from....

👍 for Press To Play by Paul McCartney - A close runner-up returning to the poll... National treasure dives deep into synths and receives awful reviews. Nathan will be defending this to the death!

❤️ for Tonight by David Bowie - Featuring the same producer as the above McCartney album. Bowie fails to capitalise on the commercial success of Let's Dance and enters the weakest period of his career.

😄 for Saved by Bob Dylan - The 2nd in Dylan's Christian trilogy and the worst reviewed. Gospel abounds as Dylan doubles down on one of the most perplexing artistic decisions in music history.

😮 for August by Eric Clapton - Mixed reviews for this one, but we're throwing it in because the one song we've already heard from it was rough! Clapton not the most popular with us snowflakes as well...

GET VOTING! 😁😁😁

11/03/2022

🎧🎧 BAD THINGS NOW ON SPOTIFY! 🎧🎧

FINALLY, we've succumbed to Daniel Ek's plans for world domination and we are live on the world's largest audio streaming service! All episodes up to this point are now available...

Podcast · Bad Things Podcast · Nathan Packham and Jacob Simmons wade through the murky waters of some of the worst things ever created in the world of entertainment.Mind-numbing music, terrible TV, farcical films and more are fair game as the boys give their honest, unfiltered opinions on the abso...

14/02/2022

❤️❤️ HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ❤️❤️

Celebrate the loviest day of the year with our review of the 2010 ensemble rom-com, Valentine’s Day!

Directed by Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman, Princess Diaries) and starring LITERALLY EVERYONE, the film juggles a mess of plots, underdeveloped characters, and cheesy clichés.

Will the star-studded cast (including Taylor Swift's acting debut) be enough to make this film worthwhile? Let's find out.

Love Actually Eat Your Heart Out... Or Maybe Not.

31/01/2022

❗❗ NEW BAD THINGS ❗❗

Nathan and Jacob are back for 2022 and kick things off with Fergie's solo debut album, The Dutchess (with a T).

Samples aplenty, weird metaphors, geographical errors, The Duchess of York, Will.i.am, this album has it all! But is it actually bad?

https://shows.acast.com/bad-things-podcast/
the-dutchess

Watching and listening to the worst of the worst... so you don't have to

31/12/2021

😘😍BAD THINGS FEBRUARY POLL VOTE 😍😘

Worse than petrol station flowers, here's your 4 options for our Valentine's themed poll! 🌹🌹🌹

👍 for The Truth About Love - Drunk, Archie sends a valentine to his best friend's wife. She sends one to her husband. He hides it so she disguises herself as a sultry temptress. Will he cheat on his wife - with his wife?

❤️ for Mannequin - A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.

😄 for Playing for Keeps - A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's football team as a way to get his life together. His attempts to become an adult are met with challenges from the attractive football moms who pursue him at every turn.

😮 for Valentine's Day - Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day. One of those maddeningly large Hollywood casts - Think of it as an attempt at a "sexy" Movie 43.

Cast your votes now! 🍾🍾🍾

24/12/2021

🎄 🎄 CHRISTMAS EPISODE TIME 🎄 🎄

The Bad Things Christmas Special 2021 has dropped just in time for the big day!

In this holiday edition of the show, Nathan and Jacob put John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on the naughty list for their 2012 album, This Christmas. The album is stuffed with holiday standards and favourites alongside one original song that will blow your mind.

Merry Christmas indeed.

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John Get Back Together For A Christmas Album

17/12/2021

❗ ❗ NEW BAD THINGS ❗ ❗

It's a new (if slightly late) edition of Bad Things!

In this overdue episode, the Bad Things crew examine the posthumous album "Michael" from... well, Michael Jackson. Makes sense, right?

Or does it?! As you'll see, this album is dogged by claims that an MJ soundalike performed some of the vocals. The boys play a game of "Michael or Not Michael" to find out.

Listen to all that and more at the link below!

A Posthumous Album by Michael Jackson... Or Is It?

17/12/2021

🎧🎧 It's the Black Eyed Poll! 🎧🎧

4 BEP related albums for you to vote for as the first Bad Things episode of 2022 😁

👍 for Monkey Business - Gigantic singles on this one including the infamous "My Humps". Guest appearances from Justin Timberlake and JAMES BROWN!?

❤️ for The E.N.D - A garishly EDM outing from the BEP that was ubiquitous at the time of release. Feisty opinions on "I Gotta Feeling" guaranteed!

😄 for The Dutchess - Fergie's debut solo album which saw her briefly become just about the biggest female pop star on the planet. Big girls MAY cry if you pick this one.

😮 for - Returning to a Bad Things poll, it's another chance to vote for will.i.am's hashtag heavy abomination. Don't even get us started on ...

Cast your votes now! 🍾🍾🍾

21/11/2021

❗ ❗ NEW EPISODE ❗ ❗

After a long old wait, Bad Things is back with a brand new episode!

The 20th edition of the show (no, really) takes a look at a total trainwreck - or boatwreck, if you will - of a movie - TITANIC: THE LEGEND GOES ON!

This animated Titanic movie suffers from everything; bad dubbing, bad editing, bad acting, you name it, it's here.

A film that broke Nathan's concept of the English language, this movie is something else...

Check it out here - https://shows.acast.com/bad-things-podcast/titanic-the-legend-goes-on

Watching and listening to the worst of the worst... so you don't have to