This! W/ Christian Hagen

Being married is weird. Being married to host Christian Hagen is especially weird. Ajia Hagen sits down to talk, as all married couples do, about romantic comedies, football, those clapper things they use in Hollywood, Bin Laden, blowing, and more!

WELCOME TO EPISODE 20!!!! After a long break, it seems fitting for our twentieth episode to feature a reunion of friends who haven't spoken in over two years. That's exactly what you get with this episode replete with references, reminiscences, and randomness featuring guests Tony Davis and Matt Bahn. As for the title, well, who could pass up a formal request? http://www.shiftybloke.net/gallery/Funny/lolcat/patrick_stewart.jpg

Host Christian Hagen stumbled across these two lovely folks at a wedding and knew he had to invite them onto his show. Enjoy a conversation that will birth entire new inside jokes to live on for all time in digital posterity, not to mention some truly fascinating and fun pitches!

Christian Hagen likes talking to his friends, obviously, and if you ever want to know just what a normal conversation is like between Christian and his good friend Matt Bahn, this is it. There's a lot of casually controversial assertions about movies, plenty of nostalgia, and even some fascinating backstory into Bahn's life growing up Mormon. It was so good, we simply didn't know what to cut from it, so we made it a whole new episode!

Host Christian Hagen spends some time with his good good good good good friend Matthew Bahn! The first hour is a witty deluge of comical conversation with two very worthwhile game-related pitches. But tune in for Part Two, because the conversation takes a surprising turn!

As promised, a little extra fun from the Verbal Hearables reunion between Christian Hagen and Brian Rosemeyer. If you want to know what it's like to sit in on a conversation with these two (you do, you know you do), this episode will give you the best example of every contentious, urinating (!), silly moment from a real life back-and-forth with two good friends who like to argue a lot.

THIS! returns from its hiatus with a massive, boner-inducing reunion between Christian Hagen and his former Verbal Hearables co-host Brian Rosemeyer! The two pitch great, under-appreciated music, catch up on their lives since they've been apart, and basically act totally flirty and shit for the whole episode. Just like old times. The conversation was so huge and monumental, it couldn't be contained in one episode! So enjoy Part One of the epic reunion of two lost loves, and be sure to tune in to Part Two, where secrets are revealed and loyalties are tested!

Host Christian Hagen and his wife Ajia Hagen (nee Collins) spent the holidays with their respective families in the Midwest. This episode is a recording of a dinner table conversation with Ajia's family. It's unfiltered, unedited, uncontrolled, and occasionally unlistenable, but the result is pure Christmas magic. Enjoy the wayward voices of Christian Hagen, Ajia Hagen, Anna Collins-Davis, Justin Davis, Mali Collins, Jack Stanley, Beny Collins, and Diane Collins, and bask in the holiday warmth.

We close our 2012 (we'll be back in January!) with a rundown of some of the best music that the year had to offer. And who better to talk about the year in music than critics, and friends of host Christian Hagen, Chris Polley and Chris Bosman! An extensive discussion of topics from genres and highlights culminates in three pitches for Album of the Year.

Comedy geeks Josh Erhardt and Alex Kerkman sit down with host Christian Hagen for long bouts of TV-related bulls**t followed by three great pitches, and then more nerdy bulls**t. For fans of Wilmer Valderama, well...sorry.

Movie geeks rejoice! An all-movie pitchcast with entertainment writers from the MSU Reporter, Andy Simon and James Schuyler Houtsma. Chock full of new movie talk, Oscar presumptions, and nerdy frustrations!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! All you happy, warm-bodied folks sitting down for your family feasts, hoping to spit in the face of diabetes for one more day should take a moment to consider those things you're thankful for. Host Christian Hagen did, and the result is this simple episode. Want to tell us what you're thankful for? Send a listener pitch to ThisThePodcast@Gmail.com! Details at ThisThePodcast.wordpress.com

Ten bucks says you wouldn't have guessed what the first pitch of this episode would be about without looking at the title. Such is the myriad of surprises that arose when host Christian Hagen sat down with his sister-in-law, Mali Collins, and her "friend," Jack Stanley.

Host Christian Hagen makes sure to let you know about all the best moments from this week's Saturday Night Live, featuring Jeremy Renner and Maroon 5.

A nearly forgotten anniversary brings host Christian Hagen to a realization about his life, his love of music, and the current struggles of one of his favorite musicians. Also, enjoy Christian's list of the Top Five Best Doomtree Records, for your listening pleasure. (Sorry, for your "Thistening" pleasure. My mistake).

After a couple weeks of technical terrors, THIS! is back with guests Katie Simon and Dinah Douglas (with a special appearance by Ajia Hagen), who join host Christian Hagen in his own living room. It's the first time an entire episode was recorded in one room! The togetherness creates a fresh dynamic, and livens up pitches for Stella, "The Lost Continent" by Bill Bryson, and Tig Notaro's recent cathartic stand-up album.

One of the most hotly anticipated hosts in recent memory took the SNL stage with plenty of surprises in store. Find out from hosts Christian and Ajia Hagen which Louis CK sketches might go down in Saturday Night Live infamy.

Bruno Mars? Bruno Mars. Did we mention Bruno Mars? Because he pulled double-duty on this week's Saturday Night Live, and it was thoroughly whelming. Hosts Christian Hagen and Ajia Hagen discuss.

The thrilling (and slightly erotic) return of two of THIS!'s previous best guests, Christopher McCarthy and Ajia Hagen! Childhood nostalgia and great stories from their past makes this a ball of an episode. What's your favorite Halloween candy? Let us know at thisthepodcast.wordpress.com!

A slightly late episode of ThiSNL, because of technical difficulties, but Ajia and Christian share their thoughts on the always-entertaining Christina Applegate and her stint hosting Saturday Night Live.