Fast banter for a world without sense.
Adventures in Irrationality turns casual conversation into a fast-moving contest of dumb premises, callbacks, and half-defended opinions. Eric and Jeremy steer the show through office awkwardness, old movies, art books, travel stories, weather, and whatever joke derails the room next.
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Adventures in Irrationality is built around the feeling of arriving mid-conversation and realizing nobody intends to slow down. Eric and Jeremy anchor a long-running comedy hangout where casual life details keep mutating into strange little arguments. The show does not treat nonsense as filler. It treats nonsense as the main road. A simple check-in can lead to a date story that mostly exists because someone refuses to tell it. A hotel becomes a plan for pretending to be a ghost in the halls. A question about reading before bed turns into art books, artists, and the complicated shadow around Jackson Pollock. Even the geography bits work by failure, with hills, not-quite-mountains, and disappointment becoming part of the rhythm. The show’s best moments come from overconfidence colliding with uncertainty. Someone insists on a premise. Someone else pokes at it. Then everyone follows the broken premise farther than needed. That looseness is the design. It sounds like friends who only need one weekly prompt before the bits start spilling out again. Ted and Nate appear in the recent material as familiar voices around the edges, adding to the sense of a private joke becoming public record. The conversation can be crude, blunt, and proudly unserious, especially when it wanders through strip-club anecdotes, sexual humor, restaurant speculation, or old movie riffs. Still, the appeal is not shock alone. The show has a real ear for the dumb precision of how friends actually talk: the repeated correction, the delayed callback, the pause where nobody knows whether the thought has ended. It is chaotic without feeling random. Topics return late, phrases become little rituals, and closings lean into the same deliberately broken ceremonial language. Adventures in Irrationality works for listeners who want comedy with scuffed edges, not polished monologues. It is a show about the pleasure of saying the wrong thing with enough confidence that the room has to deal with it.
Made for: For listeners who like rough-edged hangout comedy, inside jokes, crude digressions, and friends arguing nonsense into shape. It fits people who prefer loose conversation over scripted bits or tidy storytelling.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its willingness to let tiny, dumb prompts run until they become whole scenes. It feels less like a produced comedy program than a weekly pressure valve for jokes, corrections, and affectionate verbal mess.
A weekly podcast in which Jeremy Tobin and Eric Young explore a world devoid of sense.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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