PAFO which stands for Pond Around and Find Out is the most unfiltered corner of the Pondoff’s Anonymous network. If the main show is about recovery, honesty, and growth, PAFO is where all the side conversations finally get a microphone.
Formerly known as The F*ck Around Show, PAFO started the way a lot of good ideas do…by accident. It came out of moments before and after recording, when the pressure was off, the structure disappeared, and the conversations drifted into stories, arguments, jokes, half baked theories, cultural observations, and the kind of honesty that usually gets edited out. Eventually it became obvious that this wasn’t noise…it was the show.
PAFO isn’t built around guests, segments, or a tidy mission statement. Some episodes are funny, some get surprisingly reflective, some spiral into chaos, and some just hang out in the gray space between seriousness and nonsense. It’s a place where hosts can talk about life, relationships, mental health, pop culture, faith, doubt, recovery adjacent topics, or whatever else happens to land in the room that day. Sometimes it matters a lot. Sometimes it absolutely doesn’t. Both are kind of the point.
There’s no promise that PAFO will make you better, fix you, or teach you anything. What it does promise is honesty without polish and conversation without an agenda. It’s imperfect on purpose. It allows for humor without being cruel, vulnerability without forcing depth, and disagreement without turning into a fight. The tone can change mid sentence, and that’s not a bug…it’s the format.
Calling it PAFO was a way to grow up just enough without losing the spirit of what the show has always been. It’s still about f*cking around, just with a little more self awareness. You’re invited to listen in, laugh when it’s funny, sit quietly when it’s not, and maybe recognize yourself in the mess somewhere along the way.
PAFO lives under the Pondoff’s Anonymous network, but it stands on its own as the place where the rules loosen, the filters drop, and nobody pretends to have it all figured out. If you like your podcasts honest, occasionally reckless, and very human…you’re probably in the right place.
