Humanity's worst decisions, retold loudly and without restraint.
Gus and Rigg trade stories of plans that went badly wrong, like the Brazilian supermarket staff who hid a dead colleague under umbrellas and beer boxes rather than close the store. The stories are the anchor, but the swearing, mock sponsorship pitches and schoolyard Ninja Turtle debates around them matter just as much.
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Gus and Rigg run a comedy show about best-laid plans that went off the rails, and politeness is not part of the arrangement. One cold open frames the show as a record of people who make history through their own stupidity. In practice that means bizarre news items, grim workplace stories and disasters from closer to home. Take the Brazilian supermarket where a salesman died during a shift. Instead of closing, his co-workers hid his body under market umbrellas surrounded by beer boxes so the shop could keep trading. The hosts wonder aloud how much his colleagues must have disliked him. Or take the woman paid by the kilo to gather used condoms from the street, part of a scheme that boiled them, reshaped them and sold them again. The telling is blunt and gleefully crude, and the gross-out details only get bigger as the pair riff. The stories are the anchor, not the whole show. A passing mention of Raphael becomes a ruling on Donatello, the purple turtle nobody picked in the schoolyard. In the 'Tokyo 2020+1 Olympics Special: Selling The Dream', a riff about ads escalates until individual employees walk into work sponsored by a dental practice. The rituals give the show its structure. Many episodes open on a spoof movie-trailer voiceover. A numbered run called Game of Rones, with entries like 'Game of Rones Ep XII: Return to Savage Beach', opens on a 2020 taken over by a virus. Titles are read aloud with every colon and bracket pronounced, then picked apart. The sign-offs follow a pattern as well, with the hosts announcing ridiculous errands borrowed from the episode, from buying golf umbrellas to strapping on cat paws. 'Homegrown Horrorshows - Hugh's European Backpacking Plague Tale' shows a different mode: the pair read out a written account of a trip gone badly wrong and heckle it as they go. Patreon plugs turn up often, and the hosts openly mock how few people have signed up. For a first listen, 'Game of Rones Ep XII: Return to Savage Beach' has both the supermarket story and the Donatello detour. Expect swearing throughout, plus plenty of sexual and toilet humor.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes true stories of spectacular stupidity told with nonstop crude banter, and who enjoys the detours as much as the story. Not a fit for anyone put off by constant swearing or sexual humor.
What sets it apart: The stories come wrapped in fixed rituals: spoof trailer cold opens, titles read aloud down to the brackets, and sign-offs where the hosts announce absurd errands drawn from the episode's worst detail. That scaffolding makes it feel like an ongoing double act rather than a straight retelling show.
From weird cults to insanely stupid inventions, musical festivals run by infants to philandering politicians, the history of man is littered with terrible decisions. This is the podcast that collects up all these delicious pieces of humour fruit, and serves them to you each week with segments such as “Trainwreck Trophy”, “One Star Reservoir”, “Poos in the News” and of course “Shitshow Shtorytime”.
A supermarket beer fort becomes Gus and Rigg's cue to ask how badly your coworkers like you.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
An Olympic-adjacent special turns workplace sponsorship into an escalating sales pitch, all the way to naming rights for a firstborn child.
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A beer-fort workplace death anchors a darkly comic pandemic-era ramble through bizarre news and loose detours.
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Gus and Rig spin masks, glory holes, Sandy jokes, and Patreon pressure into filthy 2020 banter.
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Weekly absurdity, counted down at full speed.
Messy pop-culture banter with friendly momentum.
Fast flatmate banter, games, and glorious nonsense.
Everyday detours, lightly overthought.
Tiny nonsense, treated with maximum urgency.
Messy media takes with sharp elbows.
ShitShow’s “Tokyo 2020+1 Olympics Special: Selling The Dream” follows Gus and Riggs as they try to finance Medallica and the Olympic trip after the AOC blocked accreditation.
Police in Vietnam allegedly seized 345,000 used condoms that had been cleaned and resold as new.
Would you spend one year in prison for $365 million?
Berlin’s hospital sends Alex to a second ward for a spreading infection and an upfront fee of “200 euros” or “300,” because he is a tourist.
ShitShow's "Game of Rones Ep XI: Debbie Does Wall Street" opens with Gus and Rig on Malcolm McDonald's arm-grown penis and a Halifax landlord stripping an apartment piece by piece.
A comedic podcast that humorously covers historical and contemporary blunders, stupid inventions, and terrible decisions.
The hosts introduce a compilation episode of humorous snippets about historical blunders and absurdities.
The hosts introduce a mini-episode format covering humorous historical failures and absurdities with rapid-fire stories.
A comedic podcast that humorously covers historical and current terrible decisions, from weird cults to stupid inventions.