Debate This!

We're kicking off season 6 with a monumental task. Listen, we don't just say, "yes!" to everything that is asked of us here at ol' DT!HQ, but when your country comes a-callin', you must answer. IRL President Joey Bides dropped a line to the DT! Marketing Department to ask for help with the most patriotic of problems: The rebranding of America. That's right everyone. The Red, White, and Blue are so...

Happy New Year Nerds! As is tradition here at DT!HQ, we're taking this week off! The Season 6 premiere will drop next Tuesday, and BOY is it a doozy. In lieu of a full episode this week, here's a little taste of what we have planned for 2023 as well as a special treat in the last 60 seconds ;-) Have you seen our Patreon? patreon.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethisc...

Merry Chrysler and a Happy Honda Days! While the DT! crew takes some time this week to be with their families, this episode is a special preview of our Patreon-exclusive post show. Following our Pokemon battle royale discussion from "Episode 112: Are We Baddy Or Are We Daddy?" Todd birthed a new terrifying game based on Andrew's buff and horny bug-man. Enjoy this free preview of our post-show, whi...

Happy Winter Season of Non-Denominational Holiday Celebration™ to all of you who celebrate non-denominationaly! Happy Tuesday™ to those of you who don't! It's time for our final debate of the year and our annual shitty peripheral gift exchange! This year, the Execs™ asked us to pivot our goals a bit when they informed us they've cancelled all of our Holiday Bonuses™. So, instead of our standard gi...

In the earliest days of 2017, a new gaming style swept the nation as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds introduced the world to the Battle Royale. It wasn't long before every 10-year-old had downloaded PUBG on their parents' iPads and joined the hunt for that illusive winner winner chicken dinner. Battle Royale games pit 100 (or some other arbitrary number) players against each other to see who is the...

As children of the 90s and 2000s, Millenials are intimately familiar with the concept of "Edutainment." In an attempt to meet the kids where they were, educators tried their hardest to develop games where the real plot was the lessons we learned along the way. Weirdly, around the same time, video games got real gray and gritty. Wouldn't it be wild if you smashed those two concepts together? Wouldn...

"I think I can! I think I can! I think I can!" said the Spooktacular Express as we willed it deeper into November for one more stop! We're wrapping up our Halloween-themed journey with a fan-favorite tradition, Creepypasta Story Time. If this is your first time seeing one of our Creepypasta episodes in your feed, please allow me to explain. Creepypastas are spooky internet stories. Some are good,...

Happy Halloween if you're to the left of the Eastern Time Zone and happy November first to the rest of you! This is typically the last stop on the Spooktacular Express, but as you'll hear in this episode, we're exteding the spookems for a few extra weeks. Last Halloween we recorded a very special DnD one-shot episode that transported us to Minnesota to fight through a zombie apocalypse! That spook...

As the Spooktacular Express pulls out of its final Rainforest Cafe for the year, the DT! crew wanted to take time to reflect on the journeys we taken together and the friends we made along the way--exclusively related to our Patreon-exclusive D&D real-play podcast, The Office Drones! That's right, it's time for a clip show, baybee. Continuing the tradition of last year's supercut of the first five...

*Insert train whistle here* It's Spooktacular Express week 3 and we're getting High Concept . There aren't many better (betterier?) ways to celebrate spooky season than curling up with your boo for a scary slasher flick. We've produced plenty of movies here at DT!HQ but none of them have been slashers. Opportunity knocked and we answered with web-based, stick figure-centric, flash game-inspired pi...

In September 1998, the U.S. was introduced to the franchise that would soon become a worldwide phenomenon: Pokémon. After only 18 months, Pokémon was everywhere--on TV, in car CD players, in school cafeterias, and on kids' backpacks and bedsheets. You couldn't walk 5 feet inside a Kmart and not see something with Pikachu's likeness on it. How did this come about? Why, all of a sudden, was every ch...

*Insert train whistle here* It's Spooktacular Express time y'all! Gear up for our month-long, Halloween-themed content adventure as we bored the train for a mythical mall in Colorado. We may not have an almost-zombie daughter, a goblin mask, or a bunch of NPCs to escort to the safe room, but we're still talking Dead Rising. It's time to slay some zombies because this week we're trying to make the...

Picture this. You've dedicated hundreds of your limited hours of existence exclusively to The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild. You've cleaned out every one of the 120 shrines, you've maxed out your health and stamina, and you've found the most rare and powerful weapons. Moreover, you've explored every inch of the map and have literally overturned each and every stone in order to find all 9...

After nearly five full years, all four Debaters are actually in the same room for an episode! As a podcast that records almost exclusively remote, this was a lot of fun, but also we didn't have the best equipment for it! So with that in mind, please forgive us if the audio sounds a little different than normal. To distract you from any changes in audio quality, we decided to talk about Fortnite! J...

This season of Debate This! has braved the waters of some uncomfortable topics, but today we venture to truly uncharted seas. Lace up your shoes, strap on your pads, and do other sports related things because today we're talking IRL sports! Now we're not here for your Maddens or your 2s-K, we're here for Chaos and we want it in the Windy City. Today we embark on a journey which asks, "Which athlet...

WARNING: Hey, it's me again, telling you for now a third time this season that if this is your first time listening to Debate This!, maybe pick a different one! This episode is a bit. It is a joke. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, on our Earth or on 616 is purely coincidental. Join Yucker Carlson as he brings together a group of "influencers" from the across the...

Take one part Justice League, add in one part plucky youths, and you've got yourselves Young Justice. Aqualad, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, Superboy, and a plural number of Robins all come together in Young Justice to get down in the dirt with your favorite B- and C-list DC villains and today's FLAVOR TEXT is here to tell you all about it! Join us as we discuss the supporting cast and the plot of seas...

Is there a cultural touchstone that has been as wildly touched as MTV's "Making the Band?" Probably! But, to continue our season of ripping ideas straight from Music Television, we're pulling a Diddy and crafting the next musical supergroup. Plenty of characters have touched an instrument throughout the history of video games and that's the only requirement for them to be considered for our bands!...

Look I'm just going to be honest with you, we forgot to record an episode this week. We broke the "in case of emergency glass" and we've put together a clip show slash preview of some of our recently released premium episodes! If you're not a member of our Patreon, this is all brand spanking new content for you! In case you haven't heard, we've been running pilots of some new show formats all summ...

"Oh boy, here come those dang investors again. They just won't STOP asking us to pitch them new mashups of old videogames. And it's like their asks are getting more and more hacky and uninspired each time...like, this week they just screamed 'Make NPCs a protagonist!' and then sat there, nearly frozen in place." is what we wrote in our shownotes on May 4th of 2021. Well here we are fourteen months...