The Twist Podcast

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we buckle in for years of MAGA madness, pray for Greenland (and Panama and Canada), offer up some good TV eats, and explain why Facebook is yesterday.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we celebrate the long-awaited finale of a seemingly endless year. Recommendations, fun facts, and our own Twisted salute to the year gone by.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we anticipate the fun new Pop Culture Jeopardy, get the skinny on Rick's kitchen gadget gets, and talk almost everything but politics!

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for our enthusiastic, two-brooms-up review of Wicked, a hearty welcome to fellow traveler Khalid, and some turkey talk after the pie's all gone.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for our first post-apocalyptic "Are you serious, America?" show where we shake off the sads, hold our heads high and keep going. To paraphrase Illinois Govern…

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for our last podcast before the most important election since humans came out of the trees! Top news, fun recommendations, and our very own End Times Dancers,…

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we podcast from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," sad-sigh at the meltdown of Gaga's Joker 2, and do a little weather control for the fun of it.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we welcome October with open arms and sweaters, consider the all-purpose pumpkin spice, and start the countdown to getting past this election.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we say a prayer for Springfield, Ohio, offer up some tasty Twist recommendations, and once again wade into the headline sludge.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as offer our post-debate analysis, marvel at another Taylor Swift takedown, and scan the week in headlines.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we welcome the cool temps of September, give our review of the Arlington film shoot, and bite our nails as we head toward November.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we run down some fun facts for Jersey, choose our outfits for the Harris inauguration, and breathe a sigh of relief at the return of Wisconsin.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we try on our Cat Ladies for Kamala T-shirts, salute President Biden and and his astonishing successes, and marvel at the continued temptations of clickbai…

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we practice saying 'President Kamala Harris,' salute Joe Biden, American giant, say no thanks to the Golden Temple of Trump, and have some fun.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take bets on the Bidenstakes, say good riddance to corporate America, and reject the politics of surrender.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as weigh in on the Biden boondoggle, consider our options under the coming monarchy, and dig an interview with 'Where Do Gay's Retire?' podcast host Mark Gold…

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we say goodbye to another June, wave our rainbow flags high, and stay the course.

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we talk cruise recollections, upside down Supreme Court justices, and remember the meaning of Memorial Day. 

Join special guest co-host Susie Hobson with Rick Rose as Mark takes off for a cruise. Susie and Rick share their thoughts on Jimmy Fallon's 10 years with the Tonight Show, dating after 50, and churr…

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we assail the myth of abortion tourism, consider the pros and cons of reverse aging, and recommend author John Connolly's newest Charlie Parker Thriller, '…