The DeadEndRoad Show

We have a weird definition of “fun.” Fun apparently for us means talking about an anime death cult and the omnipresence of a celebrity civil suit. Content warning: this episode features discussion of suicide, extreme racism, child grooming, domestic violence, and J*hnny D*pp. The heavy stuff is about the first portion of the show and […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Bill tries his hand at community outreach to spread the word about the show, to interesting results. Later, Ian imposes the sanctity of the JRPG Roulette wheel as Bill is having some issues with last week’s winner. That sure is a welcoming sentence for any potential listeners. And Beautiful Cinema has us look at some […] ★ Support this podcast ★

A fresh Dead Letter forces us to look inward at our moral and societal failings and introduces the podcast’s first true villain: Dale. Later Ian shows us a parallel dimension in which Michael Cera is Robert Pattinson in The Batman. It’s a Mad Watch, people. Lookout. We’re also discussing Censor, a horror film with the […] ★ Support this podcast ★

I’m going to say it. We’re too old. A mysterious Dead Letter sent us spiraling into a wormhole of eldritch research all in search of a simple query: “what is an e-girl?” We are unworthy to obtain the secret knowledge. We are shuffling off this mortal coil. In Beautiful Cinema, we discuss We’re All Going […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Bill logged into his Tumblr account for the first time since 2015, like many others, longing for a platform that actually allows for discoverability of created content. Because what we have now isn’t cutting it. Is the world ready for 2010s nostalgia? In Mad Watch, we may be able to early diagnose someone’s tummy troubles, […] ★ Support this podcast ★

It’s the start of Season 2 of The DeadEndRoad Show. What does that mean exactly? No idea, but we’re doing it. What we do know is that #51 features homicidal romance authors, losing your job over pizza, philosophical trashcans, and more. Beautiful Cinema has us wrap up The Souvenir duology. Could Bill follow the dialog […] ★ Support this podcast ★

50 whole episodes of weird web nonsense, weeb trash, passable criticism, and references to things from 20 years ago. Do we have another 50 in us? Who knows, let’s keep it rolling. Bill is proud of his meme exactly zero people understood, which you can view here: https://twitter.com/DeadEndRoad/status/1511216506968977410 Did It All For the Moogle also […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Oh no, now Bill’s watched an anime named after acidic fruit. Did It All For the Moogle brings us his report, plus miserably failing to explain Kingdom Hearts, the FFXIV raid team’s latest woes, and more. In other topics, a Dead Wrong reminds us of our blissful celebrity ignorance, Beautiful Cinema has us review 1917, […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Wouldn’t you believe it, but Bill’s having subtitle problems yet again. This time he’s struggling to watch the newest season of Higurashi, the long-running horror anime that might be more trouble than it’s worth. This, the issues with FFXIV’s patch cycle disappointing expansion, plus a game of JRPG roulette in the new and improved Did […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Without realizing it, we became backed up on Dead Letters. And honestly? These ones were really flirty. A Dating is Dead sees Bill try to grapple with OKCupid’s live-streaming video platform. Video speed dating while hundreds of strangers watch and comment. What could go wrong? Ian brings us an Oscars recap that is 99.9% “The […] ★ Support this podcast ★

People cope with stress in all sorts of different ways. Some take up new hobbies, others exercise. Those are probably much healthier options than what we do: take it out on phony Irish bands. We’ve got updates on Ian’s anime journey, Bono’s poetry stylings, a new segment listening to “the worst beats ever created,” Tunic, […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Podcast title or Elden Ring message? It’s all lost in the ether anyway. Try hole. Eat Arby’s. Ian is reaping what he sowed last week, the Citrus chickens have come home to roost, the metaphors are deeply mixed. What he thought was a normal coming of age show involving incest turned into something weird. Who […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Bill keeps having issues with subtitles, and he keeps finding ways to delude himself into thinking broken subtitles somehow enhance the movie-watching experience. It happened again with Drive My Car, the film for this week’s discussion. Later, Bill goes crazy jailbreaking every device he owns, all for marginal gain in a new Mountains of Madness. […] ★ Support this podcast ★

It could be argued that this podcast, as a project, is a public charting of Bill’s (rapid) descent into madness. What better way to formalize this downfall than with our updated segment Mountains of Madness. This week, Bill may have found a kindred spirit on Twitter, who is touting some strange philosophic claims about a […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Oscar contenders. Sketchy romance anime. The duality of humanity, or just this episode? Featuring: Bill losing his mind at the flagrant class warfare on display during the Super Bowl, Canadian truckers getting trolled by gay cowboys, celebrities drinking paint thinner, and more. In the back half we discuss Coda, to drastically differing opinions. And Bill […] ★ Support this podcast ★

We really weren’t going to do another No Fucking Thanks this week. But then the perpetrators of the world’s biggest money laundering ever operation were caught. And they rap. How can we not talk about this? Later in this supersized episode, we have a Dating is Dead where we need to use all our detective […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Dudes are trying to claim ownership over colors now. Remember what they took from you. Hold your hexcodes tight, the cryptobros are coming to commodify literally everything. Later, a Dating is Dead with some choice word choice and confusing decisions. And we discuss Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter. Bill compares it to Rachel […] ★ Support this podcast ★

A podcast is but a walking shadow, a poor playerthat struts and frets his hour and a half upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound a fury,Signifying nothing. We are reaching a singularity in the NFT space, an inflection point where these schemes are […] ★ Support this podcast ★

It hasn’t been a month into the new year. Crypto somehow finds a way, day by day, to get stupider and scammier. It boggles the mind. We’d like to tell you about some of them, as we dunk on these DOA “projects” in No Fucking Thanks. Voice actor AI grifts, Dune IP theft, Norton ethereum […] ★ Support this podcast ★

You’ve seen the ads on every billboard in town, in your favorite restaurant, but you still don’t know what it is. You might even know someone that has seen it, and they still don’t know what to make of it. It’s Shen Yun, a bizarre dance performance that promises a glimpse of “China before communism” […] ★ Support this podcast ★

New years bring new opportunities, right? What does the collective unconscious have in store? Is ruin imminent? We find out in the latest Not in The Cards. In a new segment, we cover the latest in celebrity bullshittery, crypto-bro nonsense, gaming scams and the like in No Fucking Thanks. This week: Al Borland NFTs and […] ★ Support this podcast ★

It’s rough out there to start 2022. Bill is coming in with a firsthand report of the crumbling status of our healthcare system. In the form of having a manic episode at an urgent care. Later, we discuss Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, and wonder if it’s attempt at unique structure helps or hinders the […] ★ Support this podcast ★

(Let’s all pretend this came out four days ago. Cool? Cool.) In our final show of 2021 we have Benedict Cumberbatch and his American accent from Power of the Dog, our favorite albums of the year, and some truly out-there conspiracies involving Antarctica and the Greek alphabet, as well as a group of conspiracy theorists […] ★ Support this podcast ★

Nic Cage is a busy guy. In between being crazy, he somehow finds the time to be a mountain man living it up with a piggie best friend. We watched Pig, and we’re going to tell you all about it. Also, Ian saw Spielberg’s West Side Story and gives his thoughts. Later we have a […] ★ Support this podcast ★

We’re baaaack. During our short hiatus the Dead Letters really started to pile up, so let’s sort through some spam and even some bad faith criticism. Elsewhere, we have updates to the JFKs (that’s plural now) conspiracy, which feels like it’s now moving at a rapid clip. Some new It Doesn’t Add Up Minis bring […] ★ Support this podcast ★