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Final Fanuary continues! All this month and the next we're exploring one of our favorite franchises, and this week we're doing things a little differently: welcome to our first episode of Source Found, Final Fantasy 101 edition! We're deep diving into the origins of the franchise and tracing the lineage of some of our favorite FF elements, as well as the creators behind them, from their original c...

Welcome to Final Fanuary! All this month (and the next, which will undoubtedly bring with it an even worse pun) we're exploring one of our favorite franchises, and are kicking things off with, truly, one of the worst versions of our favorite things: the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within! Join us as we follow the mystical eagle through one very expensive uncanny valley on a quest to find...

Looking to change up your holiday movie choices this year? Has your annual viewing of "A Christmas Prince" started to feel a little stale? Well then, have we got a show for you! This year, we're celebrating the holidays over on Patreon with a rundown of our favorite non-Christmas Christmas movies. Alongside our superheroes, action film stars and wizards, we've also got strategies for exploiting Sa...

With our final episode of 2024, we're once again closing things out with a roundup of our favorite things we sourced over the course of this past year. Join us as we gush about all the wonderful creators, characters, games, shows, game shows, and musical genres we enjoyed throughout 2024, and will continue to enjoy on through 2025. And from us on out to all of you, we hope you all have a wonderful...

The holiday season is upon us, and we're kicking things off by exploring one of the MANY adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: the 1988 film Scrooged, starring Bill Murray! Along the way we discuss the correlation between the sound of farts and tranquilizer darts, wonder about the taste of Tab, and outline the most efficient method for climbing the corporate ladder (mail room > dog...

Over on our Patreon, we're closing out NoVAMPber 2024 with Sports Not Found, a new series that combines Beau's minimal knowledge of sports with Brandon's zero knowledge of sports, and uses it to... staff a vampire baseball team. We may not be experts on the subject, but the team is really, really good looking and... sorry, what were we saying? We kinda got lost in Lestat's eyes. This teaser for ou...

NoVAMPber continues with our first foray into the World of Darkness as we discuss Choice of Games' 2020 interactive fiction game Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road! Will we betray our friend for the sake of rising up the ranks in vampiric society? Will we embrace our inner Anarch and tear it all down? Will we remember how to pronounce Camarilla, and will it even matter if no one can hear us over...

NoVAMPber is here! This year, we're kicking off the month-long celebration of our fanged friends with Dracula 2000: a thrilling tale of Mayo Van Helsing's quest to escape the sexy clutches of Olive Garden's newest spokesperson, Criss Angel. Or something like that. Beau has also issued his official rebuttal to londonguy_uk: Dominic Purcell in Blade Trinity is a worse Dracula than Gerard Butler. The...

Happy Halloween! As a special treat in celebration of our personal favorite holiday, we're joined this week by the amazingly talented and hilarious Adal Rifai to help us work through our thoughts on the recent Beetlejuice sequel. We've got games and trivia galore, but also make time along the way to talk teenage bedrooms, discuss our top picks for funeral music, and remind you of the truly horrifi...

For October this year, we thought we’d get REALLY spooky with it and turn to our Patrons for their very own Phobiagorias! Listen up for clowns in toilets (really), clowns in showers (yep), and the most unsettled you’ll ever hear Beau and Brandon because of an audio loop. Thanks, Patrons, for the continued nightmares! We love it! There's a lot more where this came from, so for more hop on over to o...

The spooky season ghostly shenanigans continue this week with Sweet Home, the 1989 Japan-only Capcom game for the NES that basically kicked off the survival horror genre and established many of the most-beloved elements of the original Resident Evil! We had veeeeerrrry different levels of enjoyment with this one, but between the frustrations and the praise we manage to find some common ground, as...

Spooky season has begun! This year we're sourcing ghosts, and kicking off the exploration is the 2001 film Thirteen Ghosts, a remake of the 1960 film of the (almost) same name. We talk satanic architecture, admire the lawyer-slicing doors, lament the lack of any Trunchbull to accompany Miss Honey, and share some (possibly better left unshared) lore about the ghosts Cyrus locked in his glass mansio...

And so, our own journey to the west comes to a conclusion. This week we bid the Monkey King a heartfelt zài jiàn and finish our exploration of the character by way of a deep dive on Game Science's 2024 action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong! We've trekked through the New West, emerged from the Webbed Hollow, and are now deep in spoiler country- so for those who haven't finished the game, trea...

Turns out Black Myth: Wukong is kinda long, so we're pushing our conversation on the game to next week in order to give ourselves a few more days to finish monkeying around and collect our thoughts. But hey, this is actually good news! Because the Wukong episode is coming in a week late, we've decided to make it up to all you lovely listeners by releasing our latest Patreon-exclusive episode here...

We're still working our way through Black Myth: Wukong, but in between boss battles we're celebrating the game's release by continuing our exploration of various adaptations of its source material, the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West! In this third leg of our podcasting journey westward, we discuss the first six episodes of the original Dragon Ball series. That means a discussion about c...

Since August is spooky season in Japan, we thought we'd close out the month with a teaser for our next episode of Phobiagoria, the series all about revisiting shit that scared us as kids! This time: The Ring gets reevaluated by Beau (who's been so afraid of it since the first time he saw it that he hasn't rewatched it) and Brandon (who really doesn't get why people think this one is scary). We tal...

Black Myth: Wukong is out, and we're celebrating the game's release by continuing our exploration of various adaptations of its source material, the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West! In this second leg of our podcasting journey westward, we discuss the 2008 film The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jet Li and Jackie Chan! Surprising no one, we find a way to pivot back to toilet humor, but it's...

Black Myth: Wukong is almost here, and we're preparing for the game by kicking off a two-month exploration of various adaptations of its source material, the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West! In this first leg of our podcasting journey westward, we discuss Monkey, the abridged version of the novel. Along the way we get nerdy with history, linguistics, and translation differences between v...

Summer is in full swing, so what better time than now to fire up the grill, pack a few brewskis in the cooler, and... roll that d20? We're building a full range of barbecue options over on our Patreon bonus episode this month, and rolling the dice to see whether the cookout fates will be serving us up the good, the bad, the ugly, or... whatever word would sufficiently describe that Swedish salad m...

We interrupt your normal podcast feed to bring you some breaking DNN headlines. As a summation to our month exploring the idea of America, this episode is all about one of the most American games ever made: Metal Wolf Chaos! Join us on an odyssey across a greatest hits of locations around these United States (and also Houston) as we take on the role of President Michael Wilson and pilot his armore...

If you're looking for some novel vs. movie comparative analysis, then we have just the episode to stimulate your brain bugs! All through July we'll be looking at media that explores the idea of America, and first up this month is a discussion about the 1959 novel Starship Troopers and its 1997 film adaptation! Along the way we talk big, broad themes, explore what it means to successfully satirize...

Our Patreon bonus episode for June is the culmination of a month spent discussing dads, and in celebration we've created a new game we like to call Magic: The Daddering! Each of us has a deck of fictional fathers we've sourced from across the media landscape, and we'll deploying them in a contest to decide whose chosen dads can best answer pivotal life questions and offer the best dadvice for tric...

June has been a month for dads, and we're closing it out with a look at one very dad hobby by way of a not-so-dad method: the video game adaptation of the bird-themed engine-building board game Wingspan! This episode has definitely earned its explicit content warning, and all it took was saying a few bird names aloud- but in the midst of ornithological obscenity we've got considered insights, earn...

Hi, how are ya! June is a month for dads, so we're pulling on our best pair of jorts, easing back in the recliner, and lazing away the afternoon with the 2005 film adaptation of Clive Cussler's novel Sahara! This is an episode about confusion: are those pounds weight, or UK currency? How did that Confederate ironclad make it across the Atlantic? Why are these enemy soldiers so bad at... everything...

May was a month for magic, mothers, and military, and that last one is coming to you by way of MachineGames' 2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order! So grab your moon shoes and make sure your hands are free, because we've got a weapon wheel full of Nazi elimination devices- and when we go Nazi hunting, we go dual wielding. Want to support our show? Pay what you can at our Patreon Want to contact us? Emai...