The Mainstream with Jesse and Brian

Because what else would have us come back from hiatus than two gaming presentations? Not much, so get ready to hear us ramble about Sony's State of Play and Summer Games Fest! On this episode: - Our most extensive intro yet - A game is played (Not a video game mind you) - AHH!!! DIRT!!!! - Digimon rips off Mission Impossible - Brian needs to be left alone for a couple minutes - Ape Escape fans...

March Badness continues as Jesse and Brian continue counting down the best movie villains of all time! Who will come out victorious? Who, I ask you, WHO???? - An intro where Brian gets to speak a lot - Which Disney character is hotter than the Beast's human form? (Answer: most) - Should you fill out your March Madness bracket based on dad vibes? - Talking about the Joker for at least ten minut...

The Mainstream is back with the movie villain bracket to end all movie villain brackets! Jesse and Brian embark on a scientific journey to find the baddest baddie in movie history, complete with controversial seeding, tough first round matchups, and heated arguments. On this episode: - Jesse's Rotten Tomatoes philosophy - Please send all hate mail to @brianmc9891 on Twitter - Baron Zemo: just a li...

Hey remember Kang the Conqueror? The villain the MCU spent all of phase 4 building up to? Probably meant to be the villain of the Multiverse Saga? Remember how he was defeated by ants? Microscopic ants, no less! One of the most powerful villains in the MCU, defeated by one of the smallest animals on the planet. I'll give you a moment to laugh hysterically. Better? Good, cause we're talking...

Updates and recaps and trailers, oh my! Yes this episode is long, but the recording session for it was an hour longer. Think of the good jokes and goofs and bits that had to be cut in order to bring this down to a reasonable length. R.I.P. bits. We hardly knew ye. On this episode: - Creating the world's most Key West business - Update: someone save Cleatus the NFL Robot from Fox - Update: EA w...

I didn't plan on this show becoming a weekly rant about live services and debating on whether or not WB Games deserves to still exist. I also didn't plan on the neighbors having a party that ruins our audio. I did plan on releasing two episodes this week and the fact that we actually managed to is kind of impressive. I should get something nice for myself. Like a pint of ice cream. Or a Ma...

A bonus episode of our Grammy predictions, recorded around the time they came out in November! My only regret is that I had to cut out the part about Scrat from Ice Age being responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall. FOLLOW JESSE @jesseanoonan.bsky.social on Bluesky @jessenoonanmusic on Instagram FOLLOW BRIAN @brianmcm.bsky.social on Bluesky @brian__mcm on Instagram @brianmc9891 on Twitter

Yes, I'm aware that I said the 2016 Grammys instead of the 2016 Oscars. I apologize. Though, to be fair, the 2016 Grammys also said the wrong name for their biggest award, as album of the year clearly should have gone to E•MO•TION by Carly Rae Jepsen. On this episode: - Debating on whether or not Red One was written while drunk - Our pop culture podcast's very first Star Wars conversation - Ryan G...

Welcome to The Mainstream, a music podcast that talks about video games for an hour. In our defense, the Switch 2 was announced and that occupied a lot of our collective brainspace. On this episode: - The world's first Limewire-exclusive podcast - Please stop making Live Service games - Oh no, maybe Sony sucks a little - WB Games sucks a lot, no surprise there - HULU FUBO VENU SUE BRO - Sling...