Episode 2

Episode 5 - Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Perseverance Right Over

Published on: 1st March, 2021

Ben gets his brains scrambled by covid test. Anthony moves his in-laws bed frame and destroys his back. Shout out purple mattress an amorphous blob! Ant wishes he got to teeter hangup. Quick nacho fries mention for last weeks episode. Fries don’t travel well and we need to figure out a better delivery method for them. Jack in the box gets an honorable mention. Ted Cruz hops on a plane to Mexico to escape the winter catastrophe for the sake of his children. Rover perseverance lands on Mars and we think the lasers they’re using to collect rock samples will trigger an alien invasion and we may not have Bill Pullman to save us! We should have better names for the ships we send up there. Ant channels Optimus Prime while looking for rock samples. Kim and Kanye get a divorce and Ben has been keeping up with the Kardashians the entire time! Kylie and Kevin Hart coming out with tequila. Enough with everyone making tequila. Young Rock and Keenan debuted. Shout out Kennan and Kel. Good Burger home of the good burger! Can NBC take your order? Steve pitches survivor series PPV idea. Anthony gets left out of another group chat. MIZ calls his shot in Real World. 3-2-1-Road Rules! Daft Punk calls it quits after 28 years and Ben deep dives into their long successful career. Can you listen to a soundtrack before seeing the movie? Spoiler-y track titles. Interstella 5555! MF Doom hired stand-ins. Allegedly. Steve talks about vinyl and his impromptu jam session that landed him tickets to the GRAMMYs. Ant goes stag to NYCC and whispers sweet nothings into Robert Kirkman’s ear. Patrice O’Neal doc was great. Guys talk about comedy on each coast and missing shows. Another WandaVision recap! Japanese Spider-Man. Steve buys a pair of Patagonia boxer briefs because of Ben’s sales pitch on the last episode. 25th anniversary of Happy Gilmore and Adam Sandler’s reign of comedic gold in the mid to late 90’s. Little Giants or Mighty Ducks? Steve practices karate on his mom in preparation of the apocalypse. Shout out Jackie Chan. Ben calmly asks Steve to take him to the hospital, but is talked out of the trip when Steve brings up the costs of going. Sarah Hyland plays Call of Duty. 

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Unofficial Intelligence
Internet news, pop-culture, and the quest to find the nuggets of truth you didn't know you needed.
Welcome to Unofficial Intelligence!

My name is Steve and each week my friends Ben and Anthony come by so that I can justify having more than one couch in my living room. We talk about the things that matter most in life, like who just got cast for a show based on a video game or why it’s better to order unsalted fries from McDonald's. Point is we hope all the random things we’ve learned through bizarre personal experiences or late night YouTube worm holes can help you in some way. Who knows maybe it’ll even give you something to talk about at parties whenever that’s a thing you can do again. We hope you enjoy our ramblings while you’re doing whatever it is that you’re doing. Honk twice if you’re in traffic! Let us hype you up while you bust out that last super set! You got it! Push! Believe!!!

About your hosts

Steve Ciccone

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Steve is one third of the bizarre comedy minds behind Unofficial Intelligence. He spent the last decade of his life living in sunny Los Angeles and is back to enduring actual weather again in New York. When he's not nerding out over fan theories about grown men and women in tights and capes, he's enjoying a nice single origin coffee. Once upon a time a gigging drummer with his SoCal reggae band and now a podcaster. Next thing you know he may try stand-up comedy and really make his parents proud.

Ben Armato

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Greatest accomplishments include: Platinum Trophies on Skyrim and Kingdom Hearts III, ruining a good 10 years of his life with student loan repayments, and being a go-to for fast food knowledge.

Loves spicy food and will make you try it by saying “it’s not that bad” just to get your reaction.

Avid New York Mets and Liverpool FC fan.

Anthony T

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Your friendly neighborhood Podcaster with too many hobbies and favorite things! I'm a Father, Husband and nerd with the desires for story telling and comedy.