Welcome to the premiere episode of ThumbWar, the podcast where we dissect the blockbusters, roast the duds, and call out Hollywood’s BS—lovingly. In Episode 1, Rachel and JD suit up in double denim and archeologist cosplay to break down Jurassic World: Rebirth (spoilers ahead), argue about Glen Powell in The Running Man remake, mourn the downfall of horror fans who can’t handle feelings (28 Years Later), and celebrate Lindsay Lohan’s Freaky Friday comeback. Also: is Brad Pitt’s new movie secretl...
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 33 min
On the FINAL Is This Good? EVER... Matt, JD & Rachel say goodbye to three years of pristine podding with a stroll down memory lane. Biggest technical disasters, ordering food on-air, learning to be more of a dick, creating a persona, JD & Rachel’s new show, making fun of mistakes, fake redheads, Jehovah’s Witnesses online presence, new ways to disguise yourself, getting roasted by your doctor, the high price of stamps, worst movie theater experience of all-time, and finding out just how ...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Gen-Z says “no thanks” to bar tabs—but why? JD updates us on his deeply personal health matters and proves he’s still the coolest guy in the room (just ask him). Also on this week’s agenda: A man wears sunglasses at night (to keep track of visions in his eyes?) Matt meets the farmer’s daughter (uh-oh) Rachel eats the best beef of her life (but it might’ve been veal?)An Ikea dinner date… Is This Good? Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Is [This] G...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 3 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss getting test results from your doctor, ice cream places that refuse to add toppings, death by oyster, purse condiments, city planning once we all have flying cars, what’s more impressive: climbing Everest or seeing The Titanic, why people love talking about The Hindenburg, being obsessed with non-domestic animals, fake names that are real, when microplastics become macroplastics, and our favorite TV shows from every decade. 🐾 Listen to this episode...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 8 min
🐾 Enjoy the FULL episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss the many ways to screw up a hamburger, getting into the wrong Uber, no more movie dates, slang is moving faster than ever before, the bop-jam-groove-banger continuum, the poorest and richest we’ve ever felt, dining out is broken, deli counter measurements, things you never do any more once you have kids, ChatGPT wants you to flee the country, and we thank our GOA...
May 28, 2025•2 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss moms getting stoned, resting stank face, trouble at the ROLO factory, designing the suitcase of the future, do Stormtroopers take the whole outfit off in the bathroom, macho men stifle innovation, JD the sommelier, the link between fake meat and natural wine, why cops hang out with other cops, major neighbor drama, why revenge is best when it’s funny, tips for getting dogs to love fireworks, a list of natural remedies that don’t work, and we celebra...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 1 min
On this week’s show, we recap Matt and Jil’s wedding drama, mothers mothering, flaunting your jewelry, our weirdest bodily insecurities, losing company property, the awkward reality of open-concept hotel bathrooms, hotel room afterparties, the misery of celebrity, when a plus one asks for a plus one, getting high with a cop, the logic behind “Price Is Right” rules, and major Montreal deli drama. 🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 👕 Is [This] ...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 6 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss pre-wedding jitters, drinking around family, our truths are in our texts, doctors telling secrets, getting hugged by a strange child, a spoiler-free discussion of why fans are angry at HBO’s “The Last Of Us,” old people complaining about today’s youth, drinking from a garden hose, staying home alone when you’re a child, why it’s never been more dangerous to stay inside, remote control cars are always disappointing, taking perfume-wearers to task, re...
May 01, 2025•1 hr 7 min
🐾 To listen to the FULL EPISODE join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss passive-aggressive family group chats, pretentious illiterates, two salesmen fighting over a commission, black is out of style, Matt’s new gig, decoding laundry hieroglyphics, car seat warmers are dangerous, hand crank windows, why we fall in love, all teens overanalyze, Martha Stewart’s unique complaint about her ex, and we thank our GOATs with some Napoleonic inv...
Apr 24, 2025•2 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss needing a taste handler, forcing people to learn about news they’d rather avoid, Katy Perry song titles about her trip to space, an annoying TV show trope, making contact with indigenous tribes, a very incomplete understanding of the bird flu, where are we on the whole cloning thing, writing on bathroom walls, golf misconceptions, blind-ranking Adam Sandler comedies, and Rachel gets recognized in the wild. 🐾 Enjoy this episode AD-FREE! Join our Pat...
Apr 17, 2025•58 min
Matt and JD are back with tales from a “wild” weekend in Palm Springs — including just how close Matt came to going on a 10k hike while completely hungover. From bachelor party shenanigans to a surprise roast, the guys break down the comedy, the chill vibes, and the slightly questionable decisions. Also in this episode: 🎤 A spontaneous review of The Comedy Store on a random Thursday 🔥 The pros and cons of getting roasted by your friends 🎉 The moment you finally stop caring and embrace the “F-...
Apr 10, 2025•57 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss getting a medical diagnosis from a podcast, well-meaning insults, a bachelor party preview, rural flushing rules, what counts as a pizza topping, why sound guys are the worst kind of guys, doing unpaid labor, a stoned thought about the future of music, grooving to Brahm’s Lullaby, referring to your partner as “my beautiful wife,” objective standards of attractiveness, crying over clothes that don’t fit, Matt may be getting scammed again, and how muc...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 1 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss their failing sleep hygiene, bringing the siesta to North America, arguing with caterers, JD’s going on a Montreal bender, are there too many colors of wine, a hoarder intervention, physical media has its limits, a hierarchy of streaming services, literally wearing a hat on a hat, a proposal to drop Biscoff cookies from flights, regrets about leaving The Starters, being a bad delegator, maybe man is an island, and an important programming note that ...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 2 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel open the Is This Good? Mailbag to answer your burning questions about sponsoring a champagne room, buying a gym just so you can kick out its members, a Charlie Kaufman-themed amusement park, indoor waterslides, solving an urgent relationship problem, thanking people for holding the door open, signalling from a car with your hands, should we be inspired by Katy Perry going to space, seeing a band that’s past their prime, shoving as many men as possible in a ...
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 2 min
On today's Patreon-Exclusive episode, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss the latest you can celebrate St. Paddy's Day, becoming an American citizen, the weirdest interview ever, a very unfortunate translation error, JD & Rachel take an impromptu civics quiz, is holding hands PDA, things we've stolen, saving an orphanage from a fire, the best dish we cook, audio tropes we hate, we finally pick tattoos, and we dig deep to find the weirdest bible verses out there. 🐾 To listen to the FULL EPISODE jo...
Mar 20, 2025•2 min
On this episode of the Is This Bad? Movie Club, Matt, JD & Rachel re-watch Bohemian Rhapsody and discuss how the hell it won four Oscars, was Rami Malek deserving of Best Actor, Queen’s contribution to the Jock Jam genre, taking sex and drugs out of rock’n’roll, whether the film’s inaccuracies ruin it, bands who bombed at Live Aid, would this have been better as a musical, the Mike Myers cameo, was there too much focus on Freddie’s ex-wife, the worst way to introduce your new band, and our f...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 16 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss the key to good posture, the things in our home we’re most embarrassed for other people to see, can a regular adult man get a gaming chair, a hoarder intervention, turning your loved ones into stuffed animals, living on a dirt road, getting asked if you need help while exercising, bike shorts are not acceptable once you dismount your bike, Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame trivia, the Wedding Reception Hall of Fame, screaming dirty words to Billy Idol’s Mony...
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 3 min
On today’s show, Anna Seregina (After Midnight) joins Matt & JD to discuss the worst citizenship to have, annoyingly precocious kids, restroom performance art, how a fart held a friendship together, does absence make the heart grow a fonder, emailing while angry, landlord fights, promotion is the worst part of creation, bravely admitting you don’t know how to use Excel, the reasons we procrastinate, why every food influencer is the same, dumb ways to describe wine, wearing white to someone e...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 11 min
On today’s show, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss what they’d do if they were dictators, embarrassing new forms of exercise, there’s not enough TV shows about dogs, behind-the-scenes at NASA, the danger of laughing at a child’s joke, aliens love rock’n’roll, being a parent means constantly being embarrassed, energy drinks are a powerful drug, James Bond needs to die, should the Oscars play more to popular movies, Adrien Brody sets a dubious record, an incident at The Painted Pickle, new rules for s...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 4 min
On today’s show, Maddy Kelly (Just For Laughs) joins Matt & JD to discuss having a state of the union with your best friend, teenage standup material, having a sandwich named after you, planning a low effort birthday party, bikini styles, bowling on a first date, the best excuse for leaving a party, the worst kind of male rom-com character, the pressure of being a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, small talk may be more important than we thought, folding women’s underwear, the disrespect to our freckl...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 10 min
🐾 Listen to the FULL EPISODE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Patreon-Exclusive episode, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss hamster wheels, which animals are vermin, how sports lead to nationalism, couples that look like siblings, the biggest differences between Matt & JD, how rural you’d have to get before you’d own a gun, telling thiefs to eff off, the weirdest thing about The Terminator, the most re-watchable movies, the new version of flipping channels, funnie...
Feb 27, 2025•1 min
On this meeting of the Is This Bad? Movie Club, Matt, JD & Rachel re-watch The Goonies and discuss why this is an entire generation’s favorite film, what’s behind Sloth’s makeup, how the film predicted Sean Astin’s career, is this just Indiana Jones for kids, sequel speculation, being tricked by a movie’s poster, elementary school archetypes, The Gremlins exist in The Goonies universe, which character should be eliminated, the secret to directing rowdy children, an important scoop about Mari...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss phantom vaccines, going crusty mode, JD has no sense of taste, stoner recipe corner, rice may be killing us, an earnest conversation about the NBA All-Star game that I’m still surprised we had, a detailed review of SNL 50, Paul McCartney vs. Paul Simon, our weakness for musicals, Tom Hanks confusion, Eddie Murphy’s bang-on impressions, Adam Sandler wins the night, Lorne Michaels is sad, and this podcast finally does something useful for Ma...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 4 min
On today's show, Kyle Ayers (Conan) joins Matt & JD to discuss waiters getting to murder one customer per year, pretending you've seen movies you definitely haven't, wringing laughs out of a chronic pain disorder, why old men buy sports cars, the best midlife crisis purchases, telling your friend you suspect their wife is cheating, getting cut off at a wedding, it's hard to give someone a compliment about their mouth, monks love latte art, kids shouldn't be punished for cheating on tests, an...
Feb 17, 2025•57 min
🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss being told to shut your yap trap, salt water: the miracle drug, a sunglass monopoly, talking about the Super Bowl while insisting we’re not talking about the Super Bowl, Tim Robinson’s pizza commercial, ads that tell you not to watch the ad, a review of Kendrick’s performance, they weren’t kidding when they called that movie A Complete Unknown, the upsi...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 4 min
🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood In honor of Valentine’s Day, Matt & JD are joined by their better halves, Jil & Rachel to discuss sleeping in separate beds, couple’s activities that aren’t watching TV, breaking up over text, how many dates you can go on without having sex before it gets weird, lying to your partner for their benefit, why Happy Wife Happy Life is bad advice, a heated round of the Newlywed Game, most likely reasons we...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 2 min
🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD, & Rachel discuss a failed Is This Good? reunion, the Four Horsemen of “I’m definitely skipping that movie,” Adrien Brody in dreadlocks, actors with the most impressive filmographies, falling in a toilet, the hilarity of almost dying, meeting a colonial war reenactor, the hardest times we’ve ever laughed, the correct amount of napkins to use at dinner, extreme restauran...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 4 min
🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD, & Rachel discuss being chased by the spotlight, casually leaving your wife and kids behind, fun ways to weaken your immune system, British women love JD, infecting an entire plane, a Celebrity Jeopardy shocker, astronomers get tummy aches too, when a muppet isn’t a Muppet, what fans of the Black Eyed Peas are called, a contentious Is This Good? production meeting, digg...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 16 min
🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On this meeting of the Is This Bad? Movie Club, Matt, JD & Rachel re-watch Interstellar and discuss Hans Zimmer getting burned at The Oscars, IMAX screens that are too small, why this is the most Reddited movie of all-time, Neil deGrasse Tyson loves ruining your fun, when a movie becomes a meme, Coop definitely had a favorite child, people in the future are very bad at setting people up on dates, who fert...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 25 min
🐾 To listen to the FULL EPISODE join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Patreon-Exclusive show, the ITG crew discuss the embarrassing moments that keep us up at night, weirdest superstitions, the Top 5 unusual skills we wish we had, whether you’d like you if you met yourself, animal hybrids we thought were real, favorite songs to dance to, the best synonyms for throwing up, sports terms that sound sexy, getting terrorized by mean girls, re-naming things we have a bad ass...
Jan 23, 2025•2 min
