Strange Times

Strange Times sounds like a group call that became a comedy format by accident and then stubbornly kept going. Its energy comes from the mess before the show, the missed buttons, the wrong camera angle, the volume check, the missing webcam, and the joke that arrives before anyone has agreed the episode has started. The result is loose, adult, and proudly untidy. One minute the conversation is about go-karting on a wet track. The next, it is about old club bathrooms, televisions, bargain phones, or whether the news is worth avoiding for sanity’s sake. The show does not build neat segments. It ricochets. Domestic errands sit beside bleak political asides, food cravings, radio-station work, old alternative comedy, bad streaming movies, AI social-media oddities, and low-level technical disasters. That lack of polish is central to its appeal. Strange Times is at its best when a small irritation becomes a shared improvisation, and when one throwaway line forces everyone else to either top it, reject it, or groan through it. The humor is often crude, but the structure is more conversational than shock-driven. It depends on timing, familiarity, and the pleasure of hearing people try to derail one another. Kat and Dom are part of the named recurring texture, while Tom appears through family stories about driving, equipment, and everyday life. The show also has a strong undercurrent of fatigue: work is annoying, the house needs fixing, the world is worse than expected, and the microphone still will not behave. Short bits bloom out of that frustration. Longer tangents follow whatever someone has recently watched, bought, broken, eaten, or remembered. The tone can be blunt and irreverent. It can also be oddly companionable, especially when the episode is simply tracking a weary catch-up between people who know each other’s rhythms. Strange Times suits listeners who prefer banter with rough edges, old comedy references, and no interest in behaving like a polished panel show. It is not clean or carefully produced. That is the point.