Nash Bozard hosts What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?, an internet show which focuses on various news stories of human stupidity and general what-the-fuckery. It began as a spin-off of Nash's live internet radio show Radio Dead Air with the intention of joining That Guy with the Glasses.com, which succeeded after 17 episodes.The show follows a simple formula: The host introduces the episode's topic with a poorly drawn cartoon, then proceeds to lose his mind over the featured news stories and the episode ends with a sketch featuring some of the secondary characters.Nash's other shows include:
Doctor Who Classic Reviews: Nash reviews his least favorite Doctor Who serials (and some of the not-as-good new ones), as well as special videos about his favorite things about the series. After 26 episodes, Nash concluded Doctor Who Classic Reviews in October 2012.
Here There Be Dragons: Nash's latest series, in which he reviews fantasy films.
Radio Dead Air: The live internet radio show (it only made the transition to video in the last few years) that Nash has hosted every Monday since July 2000. Primarily a request-based music show, Nash also premieres his new episodes, and often shows the latest videos from several other producers note Nash himself, Obscurus Lupa, Jesu Otaku's Fruits Basket Radio Drama, and the non-TGWTG affiliated Derek the Bard are the only producers with semi-permanent slots on RDA. Other shows that will appear with intermittent frequency (especially in Nash's spot when he doesn't have a new video) are Todd In The Shadows, The Nostalgia Chick, Diamanda Hagan, Brows Held High and JewWario. RDA is live every Monday at 9PM US Eastern time on Nash's website. It is highly recommended that you read the FAQ before joining the chat and stream.
What the Fuck is Wrong With You: Live Version: A weekly live version of WTFIWWY which Nash hosts on Radio Dead Air, video recordings of which are also uploaded to TGWTG. His co-host (via Skype) is his friend Tara Deenihan. Jesu Otaku also occasionally makes appearances on the live show.
Nash also co-hosted "Tuesday Tech Talk" and "How To Do It" with Lord Kat and Maluku Saito, which were recorded live every Tuesday on Lord Kat's stream until Lord Kat ended both shows in January 2013.A list of things reviewed by Nash can be found here and the running gags of his show can be found here.
Action Girl: In Dumber Than Curling, a man heckling the 2012 Summer Olympic Men's 100m finals is tackled by Judo bronze medalist Edith Bosch when he starts throwing things.
Actually Pretty Funny: In his Castrovalva review, he has this reaction to Tegan's line comparing a Zero Room, "a neutral environment, an isolated space cut off from the rest of the universe" to Brisbane. He then asks, "What's a Brisbane?"
Adult Fear: A large number of stories fall under this category, especially those where children are endangered by friends or babysitters; home invasion stories where there's still someone in the house (especially a child, elderly person or disabled person); or any of the huge number of stories where someone goes batfuck insane and starts assaulting, harassing or scaring the shit out of random strangers.
A Good Name for a Rock Band: In the Live What The Fuck Is Wrong With You? of 06/21/11, after reading the headline Man allegedly wounded by two 'booty call ninjas', Tara says that she will create a white girl rap group called Booty Call Ninjas.
From WTFIWWY Live - Right Turn, Clyde - 5/7/12: 'Anthrax vagina attack, which is a great punk band name, by the way.'
After hearing a story about a woman with an unusual hiding place for a pistol, Tara wants to start an all-girl punk band called "Fully Automatic Vaginas".
Aluminum Christmas Trees: The Christmas 2012 live episode begins with showing a series of tweets expressing disbelief that reindeer exist.
Nash: Hmm...what's a good way to illustrate the point? [Thinks for a moment, then gets crushed by a falling caption reading "MESSAGE"] Yeah...that'll do it...
It returns during the Doctor's Kirk Summation to beat him repeatedly over the head.
In his "It's Stupid At The Top" video, "Sometimes you'll be saddled with a guy whose idea of leadership is invading Poland, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico without checking the failsafes, or giving Smallville ten goddamned seasons."
When noting strong catalysts for the Happy Flappy Equation, he lists off hallucinogens, being on fire and sitting through any movie starring Andy Dick. His low thresholds for resisting Happy Flappy time - idiots, crazy persons or actually being Andy Dick.
In the episode on alcohol, he notes that some causes for crazy are bad judgment, poorly planned choices and country music. Also, mentioning binge drinking, frat parties and The Pogues.
In his review of Terror of the Vervoids, he lists off some of the terrible dangers the Doctor has faced, including Sea Devils, robots, rival Time Lords, and the insidious evil that is... Russell T Davies.
Film Brain: So, in just under five minutes, this show has Wonder Woman violate the law, ignore basic rights, and the media aggrandizes her with references to the worst torture scandal in US history. Nash: And all without the slightest hint of irony or self awareness. Linkara: And they completely rip off Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated! ...What?
In a Live WTF from July 2011, "Furry Batmobile", featuring Obscurus Lupa, she and Nash are nearly broken by a story about patrons at a Colorado Burger King feeding fast food to bears in the parking lot.
Bestiality Is Depraved: Examples range from the women who died from having sex with a German Shepherd, to the man who argued it was his constitutional right to rape a donkey, to the man who wrote a book about his love affair with a dolphin, and the documentary aptly called Donkey Love about men who make love to donkeys.
Better by a Different Name: Nash insists on referring to the aliens in Terror of the Vervoids as "Daft-Punkians", and ends up setting part of the episode as a video for "Around the World".
Nash: Okay, what have we got here? Awful news, awful news, awful news, awf—how would that evenfitin there? Awful news...
Breaking the Fourth Wall: During a reader Q&A segment, Nash answers the question of "Why does Arlo look like Nash?" with "Because Arlo is a character. That I play." This happens shortly after Space Guy, who is also played by Nash, remains in-character to answer the question of "Why does Space Guy look like Nash?"
Disproportionate Retribution: Subtle case on "Weekend At Bernie's 3;" Nash segues to the "corpse abuse" case with a dissertation on mourning the dead. Tara was completely unaware as to where it was going, but dreading it just the same. She responds by using the story as a springboard to discuss her rather strange proposal for Nash's funeral. Later, during the "what have we learned" segment, she brings up an unrelated story involving public urinals. Nash is completely broken.
Nash: Imagine, if you will, attempting to shoot the broad side of a barn and not only missing, but somehow managing to set your own balls on fire in process...
Everything's Better with Monkeys: Nash admittedly has trouble discussing the topic of MONKEYS!!!! without exploding into childish outbursts. Naturally, he made an episode about them.
Maniac Monkeys: The monkeys not only decide to take over the world, but they beat up Nash and shove a banana in ... um, an orifice other than his mouth.
Face Doodling: Stick Boy does that to a drunken Nash.
Face Palm: Nash often does this in response to the rampant stupidity.
Failed a Spot Check: The only way to explain numerous examples of these stories. On both the perpetrators and bystanders.
Flat "What.": Nash's reaction to some of the tamer stories. Also, he reacted to Arlo's first appearance with a flat "the fuck".
Occurred in the 10/31/11 episode when Tara reveals she has hippos in costumes.
In the 2/11/12 episode, Tara could only respond to a story of a bank robber who wussed out when a teller didn't understand his demand of "give me what is 20s and 50s" with not one, but two utterances of "...what?".
In the 7/04/11 Live WTFIWWY, Nash realized he'll never run out of material and has excellent job security. This isn't a good thing.
Funny Background Event: After Jesu Otaku became a regular fixture on the show, she could be seen goofing around in all manner of strange fashion.
Genre Blindness: Some people to reality. Usually due to stupidity and/or drugs.
Genre Savvy: Tara says that in Florida you should always be expecting some naked guy to show up.
Groin Attack: The final two stories of "Tainted Love" both involve something bad happening to a man's equipment. You have been warned. Not to mention in "Land Of The Rising DUMB" when a rabid Domo-kun the internet sent after Nash for bad mouthing Japan chomped on Nash's man area and the only way Jesu Otaku could get it off was by kicking said area.
Growing the Beard: Nash considers Episode 4 of What The Fuck Is Wrong With You? to be when he locked the show's formula and everything started to gel together. invoked
Guest Host: After Nash is assaulted by monkeys in one episode, Space Guy takes his place in the next episode while he recovers off-screen.
On live WTF, a guest co-host does the show whenever Tara is unavailable. Previous guest hosts include Oancitizen, Obscurus Lupa, Derek The Bard, JewWario, Todd In The Shadows, and Nash's producer, Mike Gearman. Doug Walker has co-hosted the show with Tara and Nash on one occasion, as did Linkara. Jesu Otaku appeared for 3-host Live WTFs whenever the show was broadcast from her old house, and intermittently since she moved to South Carolina.
there was a time when Tara hosted the live show (not WTFIWWY) when Nash had to pick up JO from the airport. That night the show was known as "Radio Red Hair" and inspired fans to encourage Tara to begin her own show, the results of which are pending. (as of 2013)
Head Desk: During 'This Is All Your Fault (The Return!)', Nash goes out to his garden shed, busts out some power tools, and builds a section of wall just so he can bash his head against it in protest of the stupid.
Hey, That's My Line!: Nash's reaction when Tara "steals" his "I have never been so drunk" line in the 6/4/12 Live episode.
One of his prerecorded episodes also features a story that uses the phrase "From the 'we-couldn't-make-this-up-if-we-tried' department..." Nash reacts appropriately.
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Tara, though it was mostly self-inflected. She and her sister got drunk at six because her parents left out a bottle of champagne. She burned off her fingertips by playing with an old lamp, also at six. She bit off her lip by falling down some stairs at age three. Her mother had to rotate Emergency Rooms for fear of being considered abusive.
Nash: This is our framing device for the show — a v-log. Some guy sitting in front of a camera, telling the Internet about the Doctor. Who could possibly think this was interesting, or compelling, or I'm suddenly talking about myself, aren't I?
I Call It Vera: Nash owns a custom Stratocaster he built himself, named Laura.
From his first episode, on a story about mysteriously appearing sex toys:
"'It's a real mystery; we have no idea where they came from,' Miss Bates said." Is there a Master Bates? *beat* Eh, f**k you. You were thinking the same thing!
Sometimes the featured articles have their fair share of puns, especially when they are about something really stupid, and Nash always comments on that.
Tara: I did it! I rendered [Nash] speechless! I've been working so hard.
Kick the Dog: Literally joked about in the 11/14/11 Live WTFIWWY: in response to Tara talking about how Ambien could make people do crazy things and not remember them the next day, Nash claimed he could use the same excuse to get away with punting his neighbor's chihuahua over a building.
Leitmotif: Douchequakes are always accompanied by Gunther's Ding Dong Song.
Arlo's appearances are always accompanied by a banjo riff.
Later appearances of the "time to do the math" gag are accompanied by the Chicken Dance song.
Long Runner: What The Fuck is Wrong with You? isn't one, but Nash's Radio Dead Air internet radio show (from which WTFIWWY spun off from) is. Radio Dead Air has been going since 2000, and he's only missed a handful of broadcasts due to illness or weather in all that time.
JesuOtaku: Do you mean "innovative" or "going to make me sad?" Nash: *beat* Yes.
And from the live show:
Tara: (regarding a hippo plushie that makes fart noises when squeezed) Is this better or worse than the orgasm hippo? Nash: (immediately) Yes.
Mirror Universe: In episode 30 it is revealed that a Mirror Universe exists. A pink Stickboy (or Stickman) and Mirror Nash live in a mansion. Subverted; as it turns out, 'our' Nash is the evil one; Mirror Nash had just completed a multi-episode special on Ghandi and refers to his Stickboy as "Stickman" because it's more dignified. Double subverted; our Nash shows Mirror Nash how being an ass sometimes can be both entertaining and therapeutic. This leads Mirror Nash to crack up into hysterics over his Stickboy being pink and deciding not to warn our Nash of an impending disaster, just because.
Mismatched Eyes: A subtle example, but Space Guy has different coloured eyes, Nash explained why this is during an episode commentary.
Mushroom Samba: Nash tries (in-universe) bath salts. It doesn't seem to be working... until his friend next to him apparently turns into a werewolf and shouts I AM THE DEVIL I AM THE DEVIL!.
Once case with a guy doing Synthetic Marijuana wound up believing that he was dreaming reality.
Nerds Are Virgins: When correcting the 5th Doctor using the term "Brontosaurus", Nash then says "Yes, I've had sex. Shut up!"
From The Incredible Hulk Returns, after Nash has just finished explaining the backstory of Thor:
Film Brain: Nash, don't take this the wrong way, but have you ever touched a boob before?
Nash: Would punching you in the face count?
Film Brain: ...touche.
The Nicknamer: Nash often uses names like "Jackass McNutFuck" in lieu of the stupid person's actual name.
Noodle Incident: The time Nash tried to steal the Olympic torch. He tells the story once in a blue moon and it keeps being brought up by Tara, but there's many, particularly those who started watching RDA after Nash joined TGWTG who are completely clued out by the references.
Nash: You have no idea how much I wish I was kidding.
Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Tara takes this stance when talking about various weird fetishes, but emphasizes that unless previously specified, nobody else will want to see it.
Off the Rails: Since JO became a semi-permanent part of the live show, she and Tara have a tendency to take the stories into very, very strange places, while Nash can do nothing but sit and watch.
Oh My Gods!: "By the unwashed balls of Odin, man!"
Old Shame: The first-ever episode ("Nothing is Hawt in the Walmart").
Outside Context Villain: Most of the people who star in the stories come straight out of nowhere and assault/harass/pester random passersby with no warning whatsoever.
A Rare Sentence: Nash has to say these a lot. Examples include "Puppies do not make good ordnance!" and "While you can debate the right or wrong of the police seizing his penis..."
Usually followed by "I can't believe I had to say that!"
From "The Happiness Patrol":
"Meanwhile, Helen A uses the slot machine to execute Mister Grumpypants. Yes, I actually had to say those words. I'm sad, too."
"The Doctor and Harmonica Man escape into the candy pipes; Dear God, how insane do I sound right now?" (These weren't even the only times he had to invoke this.)
Also: "You are not discreet when your pants are full of chicken!"
"After you've got their money, you don't need to have 'em trim your pubic hair! [...] I can't believe I had to say that sentence out loud."
From "To Kill a Toilet":
Nash: Tara, I want you to stop real fast: Did you ever in your life think the words "stuffing your tits full of cocaine" would need to be said?
Tara: ... No.
Nash: And yet, here we are. We've come to this point.
The Musical Chair uses "My Guitar" by Jump, Little Children.
The song in the opening video for the Monday Radio Dead Air broadcast is "In Rock 8-Bit" by Bodenständig 2000. The end theme for RDA is the closing theme for Red Dwarf.
Reset Button: Nash attempted to invoke this when he was told that monkeys and apes were uprising by Space Guy. It worked in the sense that the rebellion was over by the next episode, but that didn't save Nash from a very painful hospital visit, during which Space Guy presented the video.
Sonic attacks being represented by teen pop, be it Katy Perry (in his Doctor Who reviews) or Taylor Swift (in the Trial of the Incredible Hulk review).
Self-Deprecation: In his commentaries of early episodes of the show, Nash will frequently make fun of how amateur he was back then.
Share the Male Pain: Lampshaded several times. Also inverted in one Live WTFIWWY, when Nash says "Ladies, brace yourselves" before talking about a woman who hid a knife in her lady parts.
Slasher Smile: Nash makes one every now and then on RDA live. It's scary. He's admitted that it's a way of stalling when he needs a few more seconds to think of what to say next, as well as explaining that it actually goes against a basic rule of radio for the presenter to completely stop talking.
Special Effects Failure: In-Universe. In "And Never Brought to Mind", Nash plays a clip of a news report on a bear sighting. They stage a reenactment, featuring... a cardboard cutout of a bear. The reporter actually says "This is what the bear probably looked like... except real."
Nash: It takes a special kind of stupid to have all the resources of a TV station at your disposal, and yet somehow make my show look like it has the higher budget.
Special Guest: Every so often another Channel Awesome reviewer shows up to guest when Tara is unavailable. And sometimes when she is available.
Tara takes this idea and runs with it, providing lessons for would-be criminals.
Strange Minds Think Alike: Tara and Hope seem to have very similar thought processes about things like cat strip clubs. When Hope was something of a semi-permanent co-host, this often resulted in them driving Nash crazy.
Stuff Blowing Up: In the Valentine's Day episode, the following items explode in his face: a flashlight full of gunpowder, an electrified skull, and a hotdog.
Take That, Audience!: Especially on the live show, where he repeatedly compares the channel to the "winners."
Tempting Fate: Several items are introduced this way.
And even double-subverted once. He lists something even more ridiculous than the previous story. He looks around expectantly for a long beat. Then:
Nash: Ha! Got you, internet! That's too specific even for— *that exact story appears* oh good lord.
Also whenever something happens during the graveyard shift.
Nash: "You know there was some guy at checkout lane 3 wishing for something to happen."
Tomboy and Girly Girl: When JO joins the show, she's the Tomboy to Tara the self-described "Professional Girly Girl". Especially since Tara's day job is selling cosmetics.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: At the end of the WTFIWWY episode "Begging the Question", Space Guy delivered one of these to the Trousers Cosmic, which also doubled as a Logic Bomb.
Translation: Yes: One of Arlo's lines in "Bad Idea Bonanza", translated as "What he said."
Unusual Euphemism: Nash and Tara's euphemisms for genitalia include: 'Junk', 'Nooks and Crannies' and 'Fiddly bits'.
Viewers Like You: Where some of the stories covered come from, along with the hard (under credited) work of Kathryn. also played straight when Nash needs to pay for his licences, usually easily raising 600-2000 dollars in an hour.
Visible Boom Mic: Invoked. Nash records his videos at his radio station setup and uses the microphone to record sound. Not only does it establish his role as "the radio guy" on the site (as seen in To Boldly Flee), but it also makes the sound in his videos much clearer.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Tara and Nash mock and antagonize each other constantly, but they very clearly love each other dearly.
You Fool!: Arlo shouts this after Nash sets him on fire with the Bill Hicks Experience 2.0
Waking Non Sequitur: Nash is woken up by Nella in their "The Most WTF Moments of Classic Series History" Cross Over:
Nash: Whu-what? What? What is it? I'll kill you! I'LL KILL YOU ALL! ... Oh, hi, Nella. Nella: Yeaaah...I'm going to overlook that...
Also, in the "Wonder Woman (2011)" crossover...
Nash: Is it...no, Mommy, I don't wanna...feed my shoes...watermelon...
We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Any time WTFiWWY or the Doctor Who Classic Reviews push Nash a bit too far. Appears as a pale-blue title card with a hand-drawn chibi-version of Nash and the 'Technical Difficulties' bulletin. Usually, it's also accompanied by an additional message each time:
"Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up."
"Don't worry, we're pretty sure he won't find the gun this time."
Weirdness Magnet: Tara, to the point that "related" stories from her past are an item in the drinking game.
Nash: Whenever you tell childhood stories, it's like Rose from The Golden Girls meets Saw.
Would Hurt a Child: Sadly, in a recent episode, a man held up his one-year-old toddler as a meat shield against pepper spray. Nash and Tara are very understandably horrified by this, especially since it wouldn't have worked anyway.
Younger Than They Look: A lot of the people in the stories are this, mainly due to drug abuse.
with the intention of joining That Guy with the Glasses.com, which succeeded after 17 episodes.The show follows a simple formula: The host introduces the episode's topic with a poorly drawn cartoon, then proceeds to lose his mind over the featured news stories and the episode ends with a sketch featuring some of the secondary characters.Nash's other shows include:
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