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We begin to close in on the end of season 2. But first, Joe recounts his ski trips and Sarah updates us on her survivor re-watch progress. Then we talk about anime a little bit and how meaningful genre distinctions are in reality. Then in My Happy Marriage, Miyo gets put in the witness protection program and she must stay at the Royal Palace?? What?? That’s right, it’s two episodes of hanging out...

We hit the halfway point this week! And speaking of hits, Joe tells us about his new car problems and Sarah remembers her car trauma. Boo cars, we don’t like. In my happy marriage, we speedrun our way through the plot. We learn some troubling news about Miyo’s new bestie that caps off in some pretty cool fighting. The illusion guy does some illusions. As one does.

Happy new year everyone! IRL we go over our holiday events and plans as we round out 2025. Here’s to another year with the ShouJoe pod! In my happy marriage, we’ve got more parents. The B plot becomes the A plot and we get a new bi-specticaled baddy. Then Milo gets a new friend and we learn that being a woman in the army isn’t so great.

This week we prep for the holidays. We go over our Christmas prep plans and dicuss a bunch of other stuff that isn’t related to that. Also video games. In My Happy Marriage, we meet the parents! It’s season 2 and Miyo has a new problematic parent to deal with, while Kiyoka has a new forest adventure. The vibes are better and we’re ready to dig in.

Happy holidays everyone! Sarah and Joe decided to celebrate by watching the Star Wars Holiday Special. Days later, it’s still unclear to me why we did this to ourselves. Why did we watch Chewbacca’s dad imagine a sexy lady singing to him? Why did Princess Leia sing a song to the main theme tune? Why was GM running the equivalent of campaign ads in 1978? Absolutely nothing makes sense in this speci...

This week we finish My Happy Marriage Season 1. In our real lives, we adjust to getting back to weekly recordings by talking about what really matters, video games. We talk about some of the latest and somewhat off-putting game trailers from the video game awards and then we talk about what we’re currently watching and playing. We even talk a bit about anime. Imagine that! In My Happy Marriage, we...

We near the end of season one this week. But first, Joe is back and talks about his time in Japan. Joe and Sarah gab about that and many more things. Lots to catch up on! In my happy marriage, we meet the other half of Miyo’s family and they are…uh…not much better! Kiyoka gets baited into a gentleman’s duel, but as we learned from the Rose of Versailles, never do those. Next time it’s the end of s...

We pass the halfway point of season one. IRL Joe preps to leave on his trip to Japan (which he'll already be on when you're listening). In My Happy Marriage, we close the book on Miyo's family and open it on Kyouka's. Miyo gets some formal lady training from Kyoula's sister Hazuki and tries to move on with her live. Also evil ghosts get loose and start harassing the country side, what fun!

Since Joe is in Japan this week, here is a bonus ep for the very odd, but well costumed, live action 1979 movie Lady Oscar.

Content Warning for My Happy Marriage: Abuse, Violence We’re back for another helping of misery. But first, we get back into the swing of things and find out that actually our lives might be boring week to week. This was way easier where we had like three weeks of things to talk about. Oh well. We do the usual talking about games and stuff. In My Happy Marrage, we finish up the family arc with the...

Content Warning for My Happy Marriage: Abuse We begin a new show! We catch up after a long break that we had IRL and go over the big events like weddings and going to Houston! Hurray. Then we start a brand new show, My Happy Marriage, hurray! We met Miyo and her terrible awful no-good very bad family. Miyo has basically the worst life ever. Then she suddenly gets married to a mysterious, but kinda...

This week we finish Chihayafuru! Not much has happened since last recording in the real world. Joe finds out that he doesn’t need to upgrade his computer to windows 10 and Sarah stubs her toe real bad (and sends Joe a picture of it mid recording, look forward to that). In Chihayafuru, we end with two solid episodes and one out of place one. It’s character drama time and we take the last few moment...

Back from unexpected break - we're two busy bees over here, sorry about that folks! We finish the master and queen matches this week. IRL, Sarah waits her new car and Joe gets ready to play some new games. The anticipation is real. In Chihayafuru, we finish of the master and queen matches. We learn that the sexism in karuta is even worse than we thought. And everyone hates Suo even though he reall...

This week the master and queen matches. But first, we discuss what's going on with us. Sarah has picked out a potential car for herself and Joe has picked KOTOR2 back up. Big stuff for the two of us. In Chihayafuru, we get a christmas episode unexpectely! Wow, then we get the master and queen matches that we've been waiting for? We get to hangoug with Shinobu again who we haven't seen in a while....

We finally get some romance this time! In our real lives, Sarah has been considering a car purchase while Joe made a big purchase, a Steam Deck. Then we talk about video games as one does. In Chihayafuru, we ramp up for the Arata v Harada match. Wow, what a mouth full. Then we get some quality time with Master Suo. Our opinion on him might change a bit. Then the boys get to make some romantic prog...

Our best boy is stuck on the sidelines this week. In our real lives, Sarah is deciding which car to buy so she can get back out on the open road, while Joe goes to a concert, a rare occurrence for him! In Chihayafuru, we see if any main character can make it to the challengers final. Which is to say, Arata needs to pull through or this season is a wash. Come on Arata! You’re finally in the show! M...

Welcome to our late night recording. We’re punchy this episode because we both recorded late and had to restart. So we’re in good spirits while we talk about our lives…but mostly we talk about movies and stuff like that. In Chihayafuru all our momentum comes to a screeching halt. It’s the Taichi misery hour and wow do we get to watch him go through it. Meanwhile, Chihaya is being a total brat on h...

We return once again, but this time Sarah is all (mostly) moved in to her new place! Elsewhere, Joe went to an anime convention and has picked up a mystery box. Ooo, what could be in it?? It’s been pretty exhausting few weeks, but nothing can stop us from watching Chihayafuru S3. In Chihayafuru, the tournament continues. Challengers come and go and we finally build up to a long awaited game? Who w...

We took a surprise week off due to Sarah’s big move! We recorded this episode before the move so we’ll be talking like it hasn’t happened yet, just FYI! We're back into Chihahayfuru with the final season. We start with a good OVA followed by a mostly karuta focused trio of episodes that lead us into, you guessed it, another tournament. Strap in for the final season!

This week we finish off a sign of affection. But first, we catch up on our real lives and talk about lounging by the pool, anime, and vocaloids. You know, normal stuff. In A Sign of Affection we say farewell to all our friends (and Oushi). As we close the book on probably our most straightforward romance series to date. It’s a good one! Next week we’re back in the Chihayafuru mines, digging into s...

We arrive at our second to last Sign of Affection episode. But first, we catch up, IRL Sarah is back from her vacation and managed not to get fried! Meanwhile Joe has watched some anime and done pretty much nothing else. In a sign of affection we get into our beloved side character drama. Hey, wouldn’t it suck if you liked your friend but they were into someone else? Well imagine that happened for...

Spoilers for Jurassic World Rebirth, We finish off the Jurassic Park movies. Mutants, Boats, video game objectives. This movie has a lot going on but also not much. For the first time we have slightly diverging opinions too! Join us for the final JP cinema episode!

We jump to three episodes this week! But first, Sarah and Joe had pretty mild weeks. Not much going on it seems so we talk about a bunch of random stuff. In A Sign of Affection, Yuki and Itsuomi take the plunge! Wow! So quick! And we get what seems like an end-of-show credit sequence on episode 6, so that’s pretty weird. There is more to this show for sure, we gotta learn like backstories and stuf...

We watch the sixth Jurassic Park movie. This movie boldly asks the question, what if Jurassic Park wasn't really about Dinosaurs at all? A question no one asked and doesn't need to be answered. But here we are. Almost at the end. Please be at the end.

We’re return this week for episodes 3 and 4. But first, Sarah and Joe catch up on the trials of social drinking as not so outgoing folks. In a sign of affection we go to Costo. Yuki and Itsuomi are hitting it off pretty well even though everyone thinks he’s weird and distant. It’s actually going fine. Don’t worry about it. Oushi is worried about it, but we don’t really like him so who cares. Surel...