Best Fooled By Randomness Podcasts (2025)

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LTO Movie Break Special - You Can Be My Huckleberry Anytime Batman 1:26:49

6d ago1:26:49

1:26:49

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! Leave us a message at voicecast.app/lto…

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Billions S1e1 - Sorry About the P Stuff 1:08:01

13d ago1:08:01

1:08:01

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! Leave us a message at voicecast.app/lto…

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LTO - Movie Break! MAX IN MEDIA GOON NOIR PANE 1:06:14

27d ago1:06:14

1:06:14

It is time for LAST TIME ON! So much pain and gooning this episode. MAXIMUM PAYNE! Leave us a voice memo at: voicecast.app/ltoBy What Happened Here Productions

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Betsy Lerner, "Shred Sisters" (Grove Press, 2024) 41:24

28d ago41:24

41:24

It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight until her stunning confidence becomes erratic and unpredictable, a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, believes in facts, proof, and the em…

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Colum McCann, "Twist" (Random House, 2025) 51:14

1M ago51:14

51:14

Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth. Fennell’s journey brings him to the we…

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LTO - Viper GoBack episode FireHawkTuah 1:16:08

1M ago1:16:08

1:16:08

It is time for LAST TIME ON! Bla bla bla loerm impsum noone ever reads this anyway im tired screwit imma upload this and go get me a steak & eggs. Leave us a voice memo at: voicecast.app/ltoBy What Happened Here Productions

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Lauren Elkin, "Scaffolding" (FSG, 2024) 58:13

1M ago58:13

58:13

Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, ﬁnds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor—a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective. Paris, 1972.…

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April Fools Episode 1 - Dr. Who is For the Children 1:05:38

1M ago1:05:38

1:05:38

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! April Fools! Glo and Xhafer discuss the heat death of the…

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Emma Pattee, "Tilt" (Marysue Rucci Books, 2025) 48:29

2M ago48:29

48:29

Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel from “a powerful new literary voice” (Vogue) following one woman’s journey across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and a fervent hope for the future. Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen. A…

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Viper Recap - Thank You for Tsssaning Me 56:56

2M ago56:56

56:56

We did it. We got through Viper, and now we find out what we missed and who won this season of LTO.By What Happened Here Productions

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Viper s4e22 - You Got Your Joe In My Mike, You Got Your Mike In My Joe! 51:31

2M ago51:31

51:31

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! Vic tries goes to the gas station, Ben takes us garage sa…

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Joseph Earl Thomas, "God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024) 49:26

2M ago49:26

49:26

After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, including contemporari…

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Viper s4e16 - RIP Burger Planet 1:05:46

2M ago1:05:46

1:05:46

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! Leave us a voice memo at: voicecast.app/lto…

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Nora Lange, "Us Fools" (Two Dollar Radio, 2024) 51:16

3M ago51:16

51:16

Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents' volatile relationship and mounting financial debt, haunted by the cursed history of the women in their family. Largely left to their own devices, the sisters educate themselves on Greek mythology, feminism, and Virginia Woolf, realizin…

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Viper s4e6 - Viper Jonas Has Some Moves 1:09:23

3M ago1:09:23

1:09:23

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! Vic tries to profit of of Monster Sex, Ben tries expandin…

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Cynthia Weiner, "A Gorgeous Excitement" (Crown, 2025) 39:05

3M ago39:05

39:05

There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossible—when her mother isn’t lying in bed for days, she’s lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly…

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Viper s3e19 - she didn't go to TV medical school for me to call her Pamela 59:13

3M ago59:13

59:13

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! Vic commits a Midwest war crime, Ben judges people for th…

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Viper s3e5 - The 7 Shirts of Frankie Waters 1:04:58

3M ago1:04:58

1:04:58

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Xhafer likes his hot wings hot, Victor counts …

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Adam Ross, "Playworld: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025) 1:12:33

3M ago1:12:33

1:12:33

“In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn’t seem strange at the time.” Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The …

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viper s2e11 - only a cheesemonger can say sample the goods 43:05

3M ago43:05

43:05

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Ben looks for karma while Xhafer really leans …

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Rufi Thorpe, "Margo's Got Money Troubles" (William Morrow, 2024) 1:01:04

3M ago1:01:04

1:01:04

As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief…

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VIPER s1e11 - John Woo Rocket Motorcycles 1:00:35

3M ago1:00:35

1:00:35

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Xhafer wonders if Viper is a Libertarian Utopi…

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"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature" 54:49

4M ago54:49

54:49

How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? In Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2025), Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the 20th and 21st centuries by examining Ishiguro…

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Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025) 42:13

4M ago42:13

42:13

Andrew’s debut novel Last Resort was published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK. You can hear our interview about that amazing literary hoax on burned by books at the website or anywhere you find your podcasts. His second novel The Vegan was published in July 2023. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife …

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VIPER s1e1 Part 2 - It's ROBOCAR! 39:53

4M ago39:53

39:53

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Xhafer wants a mayonnaise sandwich, Victor wan…

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Maria Zoccola, "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025) 39:04

4M ago39:04

39:04

In the hills of Sparta, Tennessee, during the early nineties, Helen decides to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage, motherhood, the monotonous duties of a Southern housewife. But leaving isn't the same thing as staying gone... Rooted in a lush natural landscape, this stunning poetry collection explores Helen's isolation and rebellio…

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VIPER s1e1 - An Italian Stereotype Joe Pesci Would Find Offensive 38:50

4M ago38:50

38:50

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Victor vrooms, Ben brakes, and Xhafer Xcelerat…

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#055 - Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger 2:52:42

4M ago2:52:42

2:52:42

Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every podcast episode we explore a Timeless book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of disciplines to help us become better investors and operators. For the curious-minded seeki…

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Anna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024) 51:05

4M ago51:05

51:05

After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk on ground that is in constant motion. When her alluring younger housemate, Tala, disappears, what had begun as an obsession grows into an impulse to kill, forcing the narrator to confront the meaning o…

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Space Jam - Sportscenter in those Clockwork Orange Chairs 54:54

4M ago54:54

54:54

Ben is too busy being on a ship talking about the 100 Live of Blackjack Savage, so in an attempt to Rebuke Papa Mouse Drunkmaster Vic and Jeff-Air talk about Space Jam. Hey you, whatcha gonna do?By What Happened Here Productions

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The Expanse GO BACK EPISODE - S2e2 Doors and Corners 1:05:00

5M ago1:05:00

1:05:00

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! The lesson this week is: Never have a meeting in front of…

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Booksellers’ Best 2024 49:38

5M ago49:38

49:38

Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 7 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore’s new literary nonprofit in 2025. Lisa is on the board of directors of the American Booksellers Association and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance. Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo is the owner and co-founder of Gre…

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The Expanse Recap Part 2 - Pour one out for Tadeo 1:12:08

5M ago1:12:08

1:12:08

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Victor apologizes for procrastinating and wrap…

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Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023) 52:05

5M ago52:05

52:05

Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using The Met's strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. The result is this "jewel box of a novel" (Kirkus Reviews) t…

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The Expanse Recap Part 1 - Yelling at Someone Explaining Math 59:35

5M ago59:35

59:35

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Victor presents PART ONE of the great The Expa…

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The Expanse FINALE - 38 Minutes of Uranus Jokes 1:25:21

6M ago1:25:21

1:25:21

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Ben gives advice on parenting zombie children,…

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Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024) 48:36

6M ago48:36

48:36

Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of Yr Dead (McSweeney's Books, 2024), longlisted for The National Book Award and PIG named one of the best books of 2023 by New York Magazine and Electric Lit. They're also the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It winner of the James Laughlin Award fr…

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The Expanse s6e4 The One Where Vic Gets Flushed out the Airlock Again 1:03:24

6M ago1:03:24

1:03:24

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! Ben discusses zero g anatomy, Ben sings some sea shanties…

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The Expanse S5E6 - BattlestarShipTroopers Carter of Thrones 1:00:18

6M ago1:00:18

1:00:18

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Xhafer talks fatal peanuts, Ben questions Belt…

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LTO The Expanse s4e7 - F*** you Mary Anne, you've got algae in your eyes 54:28

6M ago54:28

54:28

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Xhafer visits does some (time)lines, Ben is af…

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LTO The Expanse s3e13 - Elevator to the Face 1:07:15

6M ago1:07:15

1:07:15

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Xhafer visits Uranus, Ben goes full space odys…

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Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024) 49:19

7M ago49:19

49:19

Kristopher grew up in Lincroft, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels, OUR NARROW HIDING PLACES (Ecco/2024) WHY WE CAME TO THE CITY (Viking/2016) and THE UNCHANGEABLE SPOTS OF LEOPARDS, (Viking/2013…

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LTO - The Predator Movie Mid Season Break 1:42:10

7M ago1:42:10

1:42:10

With Xhafer out of town, Ben & Victor have some fun on this SPECIAL EDITION episode of Last Time On!By What Happened Here Productions

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Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024) 56:35

7M ago56:35

56:35

In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker's midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker (Mariner Books, 2024…

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The Expanse S3E6 - Two Thousand Upvotes And I'll Set Off This Nuclear Reactor 1:10:30

7M ago1:10:30

1:10:30

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Ben finds a new reason to hate "That Guy", Xha…

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Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Like Happiness" (Celadon Books, 2024) 39:50

7M ago39:50

39:50

Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of Math for the Self-Crippling (2022), selected by Zinzi Clemmons as the Gold Line Press fiction contest winner, and Like Happiness (Celadon Books, 2024). A graduate of Middlebury College, she received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and was a VONA/Voices fellow. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appear…

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The Expanse S2E12 - The Mary Sue of Poisons 1:21:43

7M ago1:21:43

1:21:43

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Ben gets mentholated, Xhafer will not be made …

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Rory Sutherland | Talebian Thinking Applied To Marketing 57:12

7M ago57:12

57:12

The Curious Worldview Podcast Spotify The Curious Worldview Podcast Apple ✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... I am stoked to welcome back one of the most out there and interesting writers, thinkers and speakers, Rory Sutherland. He founded the behavioural science team at the Ogilvy group, he is one of Eu…

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LTO 58 The Expanse s1e10 That Blue Goo That You Do 1:13:21

8M ago1:13:21

1:13:21

It is time for LAST TIME ON! The podcast for everyone who wants to watch all those great television shows out there, but who has the time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened... Last Time On! This week: Victor has questions regarding space zombies, …

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S J. Naudé, "Fathers and Fugitives" (Europa, 2024) 44:56

8M ago44:56

44:56

Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay man with no relationships outside of sexual ones, he can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly, senile father, Daniel nonet…

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