Polishing Turds: A Bad Music Podcast

About Polishing Turds: A Bad Music Podcast

We take the worst bands you remember and give them way more attention than they deserve. Equal parts comedy and storytelling, Polishing Turds will change the way you look at pop music. Behind every bad song there's a good story!

Publisher

Nick & Cal

Category

comedy · music · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jan 2021

Latest episode

17 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

81 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Aug 2026

   #71. The Finale

   Yes, it's true. After five incredible years Cal and Nick are retiring Polishing Turds as an audio podcast. To send ourselves off and thank all the loyal fans who've supported us for so long, we conducted an exclusive Ask Us Anything episode, fielding terrific, thought-provoking questions from turdlings around the world. What are our favorite and least favorite episodes? How has doing this podcast changed our perspective on music? What spicy takes can we drop that will alienate the few p...

2. 

   17 Feb 2026

   #70. KIDZ BOP

   Did your parents make you listen to Kidz Bop CDs back in the day? If so, we apologize for inadvertently triggering your childhood trauma. For everyone else, let's admire all the ways this seemingly innocent brand manages to embarrass itself over and over. From horrendous production to inexplicable lyric changes to a litany of ill-advised spinoffs and marketing gimmicks, Kidz Bop is living proof that sometimes the solution is worse than the original problem... NOTE: We recorded this episode ...

3. 

   23 Dec 2025

   #69. HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2025 Jingle Bell Slop: How AI is Coming for Christmas Music

   We're back for our 5th annual Polishing Turds Holiday special! This year we'll be covering the wacky and disturbing world of AI, perhaps the one instrument capable of making Christmas music even worse. We'll take you on a cringe-tastic sleigh ride through vast snowfields of slop; from carols of reindeer sacrifice to fake vulgar Motown hits through - and I swear to god this real - a veritable library of AI Eminem singing gospel music. Don't say you weren't warned.... Select sources for this ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,916

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

26 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

126 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

82

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