Weird America, loud table-talk edition.
Art and Jacob Do America runs on banter first and subject matter second, with big topics treated like fuel for a long, unruly conversation. Recent episodes move from a home run chase to Vatican mysteries, UFO schoolyard testimony, miracle claims, metal, and martial-arts cinema.
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Art and Jacob Do America is a sprawling, irreverent conversation show with a taste for strange stories and big cultural detours. It rarely walks straight to the point. Recent episodes move from the Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa home run chase to the Karen Read and John O'Keefe case, then over to Emanuela Orlandi, Lord Ganesha, Lamb of God, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Ariel School UFO incident. That mix is the show in miniature. Sports history, alleged miracles, true crime, Catholic intrigue, music memory, movie talk, and UFO testimony all get fed into the same conversational machine. The hosts favor energy over polish. A case detail can lead to a joke about food, a baseball stat can open into a family memory, and a supernatural claim can get tested against common sense, old media clips, and whatever analogy seems funniest in the moment. It is skeptical without becoming dry. It is sincere without getting solemn. The show’s best moments come when a serious story is allowed to stay weird while the room around it stays human. The Emanuela Orlandi episodes lean into Vatican secrecy, money, crime, and the frustration of a missing-person case that keeps widening. The Karen Read episode works through competing claims around John O'Keefe's death while still wandering into bar food, neighbors, and the ordinary mess around extraordinary allegations. The MLB episode has the pull of childhood baseball memory, especially once Sammy Sosa's surge turns the record chase into a three-man race. The Ganesha episode uses miracle footage and religious belief as a launchpad for jokes, skepticism, and comparisons to other mass-witness events. The UFO and film episodes lean heavily on source audio, which gives some installments a more clipped, archival feel. Across all of it, the show keeps the rough edges visible. It is not trying to sound like public radio. It sounds like two people pushing each other through stories they half-admire, half-doubt, and clearly enjoy arguing around.
Made for: Best for listeners who like paranormal cases, sports nostalgia, true crime, conspiracy threads, cult movies, and heavy music handled with blunt humor. It suits people who enjoy tangents as part of the ride rather than a distraction from it.
What sets it apart: The show treats odd history, fandom, and mystery as hangout material, not lecture material. Its loose chemistry makes Vatican scandals, MLB records, UFO testimony, and miracle claims feel like parts of the same messy American conversation.
Straight out of East Bakersfield. ”Art and Jacob Do America” is a never ending road trip conversation about an array of topics by 1 and a half Meixcans. We discuss every thing from Sports, Politics, Music, Movies, Conspiracies, and the Super natural. A podcast cornucopia, if you will.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jacob P. and Art Sherrill turn album history, sampling disputes and track-level enthusiasm into lively conversation about how a record's reputation changes.
Art and Jacob Do America runs on the chemistry between Jacob P. and Art Sherrill, pairing prepared subject histories with loose, funny conversation.
A home-run chase, Paul's Boutique, and Vatican intrigue meet when your curiosity refuses to choose a lane.
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Art and Jacob trade profane jokes over the day Ganesha idols appeared to drink milk around the world.
The 1995 Ganesha milk phenomenon is a natural fit for Art and Jacob. Millions watched idols appear to drink offered milk; scientists pointed to capillary action and porous stone, while believers wondered why the reports spread so widely on the same day and then stopped.
A loose, memory-driven look at the home run chase that made Sammy Sosa a name and pushed Mark McGuire past 61.
The 1998 home run chase plays here as a surge of attention, with Sammy Sosa's 20-homer June turning a Griffey-McGuire race into something less predictable.
A disputed death, a broken taillight, and a case still waiting for an answer.
The episode treats the Karen Redd and John O'Keefe case as a study in how evidence can split into competing stories. O'Keefe, a police officer, was found dead in the snow outside a Canton, Massachusetts, house owned by another cop.
Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance leads into Banco Ambrosiano, mob money, and Vatican financial scandal.
Art and Jacob Do America approaches Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance as a mystery that keeps shifting shape. It starts with kidnappers demanding a swap for Aja, the man who shot the Pope, then moves toward the possibility that terrorism was only a cover for something buried…
A Vatican girl's disappearance begins at a bus stop, while a dismissed family's questions soon reach far beyond the initial timeline.
Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance starts with her journey home, then grows more troubling because she is a Vatican girl. The hosts stay close to the family's first alarm: Emanuela mentions an Avon offer involving two female students, is left at a bus stop, and is later seen there…
A loose, funny revisit of the McGuire-Sosa chase, driven by home run math and Jacob P.'s Cubs memory.
Art and Jacob Do America's 463rd episode revisits the 1998 home run chase through the numbers that made it feel briefly unreal: Mark McGuire clearing Roger Marris' 61-homer mark with number 62 on September 8, Sammy Sosa pushing to 66, and McGuire ending at 70.
A loose Beastie Boys episode lands best when Eggman, sampling battles, and Paul's Boutique's long climb take center stage.
Paul's Boutique comes through as a Beastie Boys album that stumbled commercially before settling into its later reputation as a hip-hop landmark.
Daily Blue Jays therapy after every swing.
Mets panic, patience, and prospects.
Tech news with the patience removed.
Mets anxiety, translated into roster logic.
NHL chaos, argued quickly.
Fort Myers to Fenway, one swing at a time.
A deep dive into the psychological thriller anime Perfect Blue, exploring its themes of identity and reality.
A group of conspirators plan to assassinate Hitler and execute Operation Valkyrie to save Europe from destruction.
Mark McGwire's shortest home run of the season, just 341 feet, broke Roger Maris's 37-year record on September 8, 1998.
How did Paul's Boutique, a commercial flop in 1989, become the 'Sergeant Pepper of hip-hop'?
Art Trail and Jacob P revisit Ryan Coogler's 2025 film Sinners, praising its cinematography and American South setting.
Art and Jacob Do America episode 464 centers on the 1995 Ganesha milk miracle, when idols in India were reported to drink milk.
Jacob P and Art Sherrill use episode 463 of Art and Jacob Do America to revisit the 1998 Mark McGuire-Sammy Sosa chase for Roger Maris's 61-home-run record.
["Art and Jacob Do America episode 462 tracks the Karen Read case, centered on John O'Keefe's death in Canton, Massachusetts on January 29, 2022.", "The hosts describe O'Keefe found face down in the snow outside a house owned by another cop, with a broken taillight at the scene and a defense theory that the evidence was planted.", "They note that Read's first trial ended in a 2024 mistrial and that, at the time of the discussion, no one had been convicted.", "Most of the episode is a back-and-forth about missing Ring-camera footage, a house that was not searched, and injuries on O'Keefe that the hosts say do not fit a simple car impact."]
A podcast episode intro featuring Lamb of God's album 'Ashes of the Wake' and the hosts' banter.
This is a promotional trailer for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, highlighting its romantic adventure and legendary story.
A Harvard psychiatrist investigates a 1994 UFO sighting by schoolchildren in Zimbabwe, exploring the credibility of their accounts and the societal stigma around alien encounters.
Art and Jacob continue the Emanuela Orlandi story in Part 2, covering the decade of confusion and conflicting theories from 1983 to the early 1990s, a 2005 anonymous TV call claiming Emanuela is buried with Italian mob boss Enrico de Pettis in a Vatican church, and the Banco Ambrosiano scandal in which Vatican Bank money was laundered through Bahamas accounts to fund Pope John Paul II's illegal anti-communist campaign in Poland.
Art and Jacob, the hosts of Art and Jacob Do America, cover Part 1 of the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old girl who grew up inside Vatican City as the daughter of a Vatican employee.
Terry Bradshaw and Homer Simpson banter about football and a wager before the 2025 NFL season preview.
A trailer for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, featuring iconic characters and scenes from the film.