Elias: "so you planned to leave" Tim: "yea, will you fire me" Elias: ".....you have balls, we need balls. You are getting a raise" Tim: "f*ck"

7:38 “...his face seemed pretty normal, even handsome, with the sort of cheekbones and jawline I’d kill for.” Hot Boy™️ Jared Hopworth confirmed

I know this is Silent Hill levels of body horror, yet imagining deformed arms and torsos rolling out of lockers happily offering gym tips while the ripped hot owner stands there shaking his head in disappointment is for me one of the funniest monster reveals so far.

"he told me to... he... he.. wishes no further contact with the Institute" lmaoo Martin you pure soul

Tim trying to get fired is alternately hilarious and terrifying

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

From butcher to gym owner, Jared is quite the versatile man

I know it's bad that Tim can't get out of the institute because of unknown "forces" (as of now) but the idea that he just hoped on a plane to Malaysia is just hilarious to me😂

The true horror here is body dysmorphia

This is real, i met J behind a denny's at 3 am and he gave me top-surgery

"I know we're not meant to speculate in these bits" Martin, are you new?

Honestly this is just a normal night at the YMCA

The way Tim is literally BEGGING to be fired and Elias is like 💁‍♂no💁‍♂

Jon: *Episode 90 ......* Jon: *B O D Y B U I L D E R* Me: jon, I swear to the unknowing, if you try to tell me this is a jared mf hoplite episode, I'm going t- Jon: *IT'S A JAROD HOPLITE EPISODEEE* me: sunuva bit-

Ok how did we go from: "my coworker was killed by a monster while trying to save us and I can't even remember what she looks like, I am also losing my trust and mind with every day" to "himbo doesn't even notice demon and witch laughs at demon. Lesbian becomes witch. (Probably) gay bodybuilder claims that Jared is damn hot "

"Who's real name, she claimed, was Jared" uh oh

i couldn't help but imagining the gymnastics-demon as having a goofy " :D " kind of smile just going "yippeee!" all by himself on the gymnastics equipment. good for you gymanstics demon.

tim, my man.... you currently have the institute's only braincell and these meanies aren't letting you use it to save yourself

I like how the shops connected to the Flesh never have names. The gym, the takeaway with a sign that just said FOOD, or Jared's butcher shop where he just put meat in front of the window so people knew what it was. The idea that names and ideas are pointless and all that matters is what's physically present. Also given Jared's mob ties, the mention of a big empty gym with almost no members makes me think of money laundering. I dunno if that was the intention, but it feels like a nice touch.

Nice to know that even eldritch gods have a concept of bureaucracy and corporate culture.

Ngl been listening tma for too long already. All of my dreams are in English accents including me.

ok elias definitely compelled tim in the beginning this was creepy as hell but the line "it wasn't marie. marie only had two arms" made me laugh so hard for some reason whoever chooses the episode titles deserves a pay raise because this and "personal space" are so fucking funny

i always get so concerned when martin reads the statements as opposed to jon like martin you're so sweet honey PLEASE let me make you some tea

Oh god Elias is such a jerk, charming and hateable jerk

I do like how practical Jared Hopworth is - always out to make a quid.

ah, geez. the self hate seeps out of this one. the guy's last line is really heartbreaking

This was another really sad one. A lonely man exercising late every night, trying to cope with the delusion that he's weak, too small. His only friend is consumed by the same body dysmorphia as him, so neither can provide the help the other needs. If you also know people like this, the real horror is not being able to do anything. You feel disgusted when one day you doubt if you should try. It really feels like some flesh-worshiping demon has your loved one in its grasp. This has been Top 10 Reasons The Flesh Is The Worst Entity.

Jared's awfully busy - a butcher shop, a gym, what next?

Demon gym concerned that members are cycling their PEDs safely. Respect Jared.

Okay, so I'm shooketh. Before listening to this episode, I imagined Jared, 19 as someone, well, not very attractive, considering BONES and LIMBS and everything. But now it turnes out he's... actually kinda hot? What????

I can't be the only person who pictures this man as the black and white image of a realistic Chad meme

I love the casual inclusion of queer people in this podcast, they can be main characters(like tim and I suspect bassira too) and they can be antagonists(like jude in the last episode) and they can be background characters just living their lives(like in this episode and others), also there isn't much depictions of homophobia... except the homophobic vase

this is your daily reminder that jared hopworth is one of a few canonically hot characters in tma

Martin being shy about saying a bad word is funny as hell Martin it's ok to say shove it

Jared is getting around

“I nearly jumped out of my skin” really poor choice of words right there...

If nothing else at least the Magnus institute has job security

Hah! The moment I heard giant lockers, I knew people were inside. Though, I suppose people is a loose term here.

I can’t explain WHY Elias acting like this is all ordinary office nonsense is so damn funny, but it is

Not going to lie when I heard about the animal mutilations from Marie I was like "Oh sh!t she wants to be a furry!" until the femur part and who would guess Machamp was part of a cult all along

Im gonna guess its either the bone-melder or the flesh cult. EDIT : BOTH

Y’all everyone is so traumatised and I want Jon back in the archives with everyone but dayum im enjoying hearing more of our sweet sweet boy Martin so much , even if he is being scarred by horrible statements

"It did have a smile tho, stitched in the center of it's torso" dream is that you? I've been ruined.

Jared is literally an alpha gym bro He’s just trying to give everyone the body they want

Every time I look at the credits in the description and I see Alexander J. Newell as both the director and as Martin I just can't help but imagine Martin wearing a french barrette, sitting in a directors chair with a plate of cookies beside him and he just offers the actors a cookie every time he has to make a comment

jared really living his best life

Elias gives me the biggest archangel Michel from good omens vibes

It's like a weird, fleshy counterpart to Transhumanism. Definitely not my thing, but this is probably one of the "best" ways to encounter a Power. Sure, you lose your humanity, but you get happiness and fellowship out of the bargain, and they seem pretty harmless, so... more power to them, I guess?

Okay it might be the fact that this is my fifth night of binging this show until all hours of the morning, but the comments on this episode? Fucking hilarious. Love you guys

I'm starting to think the theme of season 3 is callings / obsessions.

Looking back I’m like “oh god I’m glad nobody came in the room while Martin’s reading gay panic horror” BECAUSE YOU KNOW HES BLUSHING THIS FANFIC CRAP

frankenstein enters a body building contest to find that he has interpreted the goal entirely correctly!!

Kinda useless info ig but fun fact: muscle dysmorphia has its own name, "bigorexia". I just kept thinking of that whenever he said that his body was never enough for him.

The fact that Tim went to Malaysia made my Malaysian ass so happy

i want you all to know that the live captions said 'a pesto sauce' instead of 'asbestos' and well that is just great.

Having Martin read as a bodybuilder was actually the funniest part about this

Bodybuilding has a completely different context in this series lol

really big fan how this episode is bring all the transmascs together on this one

Its the guy checking out Jared for me

I know elias is shady af but he sounds like such a good boss in this episode. We love 1 murderous bureaucrat.

jared would be such a trans ally

ah yes, the true phobia: body dysmorphic disorder

"I think I prefer asbestos" Fair, that only gets you at old age

Tim: PLEASE FIRE ME!!! Please have mercy... ;-; Elias: Hmmmm... No. :)

"- You must know ! - About what ?" About the fact that this tape recoder is clearly reording eventhough no one turned it on

The fact that I listened to this episode while working out is extremely funny to me.

Huh I wonder what kind of innocent excercise themed episode this could be

You know what?? Good for them tbh hope they're doing well

oh hey idk how relevant this is to the episode, but I was watching a video that was something like "Watching a master chef from Fuchou make rou yan" and I thought a phrase that sounded like something like of tma: "It's skin made of meat. They pounded the meat into skin, and then stuffed it with meat."

Anyone who's struggled with Dysphoria, Dysmorphia, etc felt this episode. Source: In 2 days I will be 1 year on HRT

What an odd episode to listen to during my daily workout

I'm reading a lot of comments like "good for them" and y'know? Yeah, good for them. Good for them.

HIMBO JARED WHAT THE FUCK-

prediction: this is some frankenstein business edit: Sort Off. But Worse.

Wow, I was drawing a character with four arms when he said "It wasn't Marie. Marie only had two arms" XD I paused and was like, 👀wat???

this might seem weird but i really wanna start working out all of a sudden

Tim: fuck this institute, I'm leaving! Tim but like two weeks later: I got the flu I guess I'll fucking stay >:((

Episode title: Bodybuilding Me: hm. Not typical. I wonder where this one is going Ross Davenport: I really love bodybuilding its just a fantastic thing for me Me: _ah,_ here we go

J is like what’s up bruh here let’s work out bro super muscle macho bro lemme grab that rib bro!

british be like "ashumed"

Jared is a Barbie, he can be anything

Marie the swole woman 😍😍 I hoped nothing will happen to her, but, uh

So... Is Marie also connected to the thing Jared's attached to? Or did he just actively sculpt her, and that's why she kinda hated the body she was in?

"But it wasn't Marie. She only had two arms." NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

Gigachad: the episode

I think these entities may be preying on people's desires. Jane Prentiss wanted to be loved, Jude Perry wanted to cause destruction to both herself and others, while this person wanted the perfect body. It's a bit sad, I think. I feel like each of them have mental illnesses or complexes, and the entities are taking advantage of them.

13 mins in AND OH MY GOD JARED HOPWORTH AGAIN??? This man will not let me SLEEP. Sort of fitting though, seeing as John is trying to find Mike

Nooooo poor Tim, baby angel, please hug

Day 4 of binging this series and I have to say I love this so much!!!

geodude?

When you accidentally walked in on a group of Tzimisce flesh ghouls warming up to raid the Nosferatu warrens:

I was 5 minutes into this epsiode before I realized he was saying "gyms" and not "jims"

My theory from this episode and what we know so far: So, Jared again. We are now sure that the entity about bones is the same one about flesh and meat as well, so an entity has at least one manifestation with meat and bones. I don't know yet if this entity has other manifestations besides those two. But, to be honest, up until now, Jared doesn't seem like he's working for the entity like Michael does for the spiral or Jane was for the hive, it's more like he's using his powers for his own personal reasons each time. The first time we hear about him in the Boneturner's tale, he's using the newfound powers to hurt his parents and hurt people he doesn't like, while also changing his appearance to what he wants to at that moment, in the butcher's widow (I think that's how it was called) he would work with others to get rid of bodies for them and he would keep what he wanted while the rest he would throw to that hole in the floor with the teeth, aka feeding the rest to a meat/bone creature. And here, he's using his powers to help people who have body issues to deal with them and become whatever they wanted to become. Like, the creature in the parallel bars was probably someone who was doing gymnastics in the parallel bars and didn't like their legs and head, how they would affect them from their work out in the parallel bars, so they got rid of the head and legs (and probably put more arms where their legs used to be) in order for them to be able to do a routine in the parallel bars without making any mistakes or falling. Weird, I know, but if that's what these people all wanted to do with their bodies, then Jared wasn't doing them harm on purpose and against their will, he was only helping them. As for Tim, I like how he tried to get away from the job without resigning, but the eye doesn't let people leave it that easily unfortunately..

:( tim

I miss happy Tim😭😭

Once I heard the title I knew exactly who would appear in this story. Jared does it again!

"I prefer asbestos" 😂

I was wondering when Tim would try to take advantage of the whole "can't quit, can't be fired" thing, lol

Sheeps missing femurs… wait, didn’t Jared keep the femur from the guy in that other episode about the private detective???

It was somewhat funny how Tim just... tried to get on a plane and leave.