{"podcast":{"title":"That Happens","slug":"that-happens-1577061","podcast_index_feed_id":1577061,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/that-happens","website_url":"http://www.thathappenspod.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/daae4c34-72d2-11eb-b9da-1f4539ca4708/image/129585024f5d67c6fa40cac8e44ef2f7.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Disastrophy Audio","episode_count":243,"summary":"“What am I?” The podcast trudges on through oblivion. Gone are the days of Jeff and Spencer’s asinine jokery, That Happens chronicles the slow deconstruction of the man Patton Oswalt once hailed as having “incredible comedic timing.” Ranting uninterrupted about daily political minutia or tiktok trends, Spencer occasionally breaks down and questions his life, podcast, and reality itself, as Kevin smiles, pained, trying to pull the show back onto the rails with a listener question or quick-fire rhetorical premise. What was is gone, and what’s left is bitter, battery acid-flavored reality. That Happens.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T14:20:37.743605+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-happens-1577061"},"episode":{"title":"Anime Binge Club: FLCL Episodes 1 & 2","slug":"anime-binge-club-flcl-episodes-1-2","published_at":"2026-05-21T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-happens-1577061/anime-binge-club-flcl-episodes-1-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-happens-1577061","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/DISAST6169432152.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/DISAST6169432152.mp3","summary":"Spencer opens with a string of expletives so dense it demonetized the video version on contact. Kevin, meanwhile, had to leave his own house and drive to a third location just to record an episode about cartoons. Anyway: FLCL, episodes one and two. The setup, as Spencer explains it to a bewildered Kevin: a 12-year-old kid named Naota gets run over by a pink-haired woman on a Vespa. Her name's Haruko. She gives him CPR, whacks him with a guitar, and then just sort of moves into his house. Later a robot bursts out of his head. Then a second robot also bursts out of his head. Spencer reads all of this as being about puberty, Naota's older brother being gone, and Mamimi, the girl who prays to a video game god while doing little fire rituals with lighters taped to her face. Kevin's contribution is that it all felt like a dream, which Spencer declares the correct take. Elsewhere: Spencer's latest Magic loss (great deck, politically knifed out of the game almost immediately), a bit on \"Classroom of the Elite\" and its protagonist who is apparently just the smartest student alive and fixes everything quietly forever, and a listener question about CPTSD and protective anger. Spencer gets unexpectedly real on that last one before concluding that, no, he mostly just accepts injustice rather than getting angry about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Spencer opens with a string of expletives so dense it demonetized the video version on contact. Kevin, meanwhile, had to leave his own house and drive to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4431,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/that-happens-1577061/episodes/anime-binge-club-flcl-episodes-1-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-happens-1577061/anime-binge-club-flcl-episodes-1-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}