Hopped-Up 64

With everyone either with family for the holidays, or slowly trying to dry themselves out after last week's VERY SUCCESSFUL Metal Gear Marathon, it's a bit of a slower two-man-jam this week, as Kelly and Norris break down last week's nightmare, and then just fancily sip some good good beer. Kelly also lets us know why Uncle Death is making him climb the tower, Norris cant wait to get back to Gears...

Why are you even listening to this when The Metal Gear Marathon is going on!? Go here to help support Child's Play and watch us play video games for six days straight! - https://www.twitch.tv/metalgearmarathon Are you still here? Alright fine, we also recorded a podcast for this week. Where we talked about favourite movies from this year, Metal Gear, Pokemon Sun, and more Metal Gear. Also this wee...

I mean, what *should* the minimum drone wage be, really? After discussing this important, soon-to-be topic of our generation, this week we talk about the worst prize giveaways during a video game marathon, our hypothetical Seinfeld episodes, and our agreement that Pacific Rim probably wouldn't have been better in black and white. We also talk more about the Death Stranding trailer, Dave lets us kn...

This week listen to a bunch of strangers discuss Burning Man and Pizzagate in your ear, because we totally forgot what our names were. But first, we have a stirring PSA about the dangers of huffing vodka. And then we learn about the hanky code! Last week was The Game Awards, with a bunch of announcements and trailers and such, most importantly the mind-worm trailer for Death Stranding. We also let...

Get your homies together, we've got another podcast episode going! This week we're dipping into some true crime, the career paths of police mediums, and give our elevator pitches for our not new screenplay: Air Bud: Most Valuable President. Dave and Norris also realize they have a super power, they both think Titanfall is pretty dope, and Norris discusses his war with Purolator before he gives the...

We write to our favourite dictators this week, in hopes of finding new penpals, before determining what truly does make up "the gamer lifestyle." It was also an Overwatch free weekend, which was getting us ready for some of these sweet sweet Black Friday deals. Mike also gives us the mystical lowdown on one Steven Strange, and Norris lets us know we should never swing our sword in anger, even if y...

Well, it's been a long week. We came together this week, and because it is difficult for anyone to be thinking about anything else, we start off by talking about the election. As a beer and video game podcast that's maybe a weird choice, but, meh. We do talk about beer, and Titanfall, Mass Effect, and Final Fantasy this week too. So it's not all doom and gloom. Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Mi...

The gang may have forgotten how to open a podcast this week, but they sure didn't forget how to love. Our beer review this episode turns into us discussing the pros and cons of the Vatican City and its basket-based economy, Norris and Dave lay some bets down on the upcoming Hearthstone championship, Dave argues all tax is theft, and Matt explains to us the differences between "Mech" and "Mecha." W...

The spice must flow with this season of the pumpkin, and from pumpkin spiced poutine to homemade PSL's the bois at Super Hopped-Up got your back! Mike also lets us know about his boots-on-the-ground experience from the latest Pokemon Sun/Moon demo, which turns into a horror story about Pokemon with human hair. Dave brings us back to the 80's with his Matrix of leadership, and Norris discusses how...

With all this talk on potential Blizzard announcements, we've got the scoop: Lost Vikings 3 confirmed! We talk up on Overwatch's upcoming character, get giddy on the Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement, and pour one out for Vancouver game studio United Front Games upon their recent closure. Then the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer gets brought up and everything turns into a sprawling, 40 minute d...

The guys shake off the Fall doldrums this week, by drinking some salty beer, getting to the bottom of the deep Transformers fictional universe, and doing their damndest to figure out what's up with Resident Evil 7's rolling demo. We also start getting into the holiday spirit, as we discuss our latest movies watched for "The Month of Horror." Norris is also a virtual hacker, and Kelly still loves S...

We go deep into the music this week. Really showcase our established musical critique chops. Lot of talk about favourite concerts, the definition of certain types of rap music, and just generally creeping up to that line of pretentious music dork. But that's basically because we don't have a damn thing to talk about with video games this week. Doesn't stop us from trying though! There's some Parag...

Hoo boy. Y'all watch that political debate last week? Well for some reason we did, and our seasoned video gamers/political pundits are more than willing to give you our informed opinion! First though, we lament pumpkin spicing, we lament Street Fighter trying to rootkit our PC's, and we lament 2016 in general. But there's some HAWT discourse on politics, and video-game people donating money to pol...

This week, for our "Found Book Club", Dave busts off a couple verses from Hardcore Gamin's magnum opus on Tekken 3. Which he found in his apartment lobby. Mike also regales us with his story about being a space man, though it turns out that story's got some second act problems. Dave explains how he got run out of Paragon-town, and Norris tries to explain his dark obsession with Picross. Dave also...

It's all about hot summer jams this week with the gang, as we all get out of our Suicide Squad-themed purple lambo and talk about the hottest summer jams. Like Abba. The movie Baseketball is also brought up for some godforsaken reason, Kelly talks about losing his 'Game of Thrones' TV show virginity, Dave and Kelly hate on Lords of the Fallen, and from the 34:45 mark to 49:10 we talk super spoiler...

This week our entrenched fashion reporters go undercover to unmask the latest trends in University dork head wear. Then there's some talk on Mario's appearance at this week's Apple conference, the Playstation Pro's appearance at Sony's conference, Sony Hit Squads, and the ensuing console Apocalypse. We're also happy to tentatively announce that we're in the planning stages of the THIRD ANNUAL META...

This week on Shock Jock Academy the boys try to figure out how they're gonna prank that young upstart Ira Glass, discuss the Responsible Dad of beers, and make rampant food analogies. Norris also gives his in-progress review of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which turns into a discussion around what time should be considered too late to put pants on in a given day. Dave gives his monthly fight-game upd...

This week, Kelly doesn't like ginger, and that Norris may or may not have eaten soap as a child. After these shocking revelations we have our final discussion (I swear) on No Man's Sky, dish about our issues with Telltale video games, and admit that Bojack Horseman is a pretty great show. Norris also punches deck hard this week, discussing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Deus Ex: Go, and all things tech...

Because last week wasn't enough, *this* week we really dig down into Suicide Squad and No Man's Sky, giving you that truly nuanced attention to detail that can only be found by an additional week of painstaking labour. Or we just wanted to make fun of Suicide Squad some more. Which we do this week alongside our special guest Michael Carter, fresh from Bioware Edmonton's secret gaming mines. We tal...

The summer movie season's getting red-hot, and our man-on-the-street Matthew Emery is more than ready to get burned. He tells us all about his new favourite film, Suicide Squad, starring his new favourite actor, Jared Leto, detailing all of his favourite moments! Well, that's not actually true. Any of the last sentence, really. But we do talk the hell out of superhero movies, which is apparently t...

We toe the line of insufferable craft beer drinkers this week, discussing the ups and downs of what makes a beer snobby, and also whether or not we're beer snobs for talking about beer snobbery. Also our very first installment of Drake and/or Whiskey Watch, we use the term 'aimbot culture', and old man Mike yells about how he got tricked by a movie theatre's Barco Escape. Finally, with the year ge...

Holy hell there were games that came out this last week! And news! And even local events! It's a podcast full of things, including where Nathan Drake's long-lost brother's been all these years, whether Lara Croft feels like Drake's biting her style, and what Disney's destruction of its pretty plastic toys might mean for the other pretty plastic toys. Other topics of interest: Dave's humbling Stree...

It's too early to be drinking this much beer, you guys. We start this morning podcast by discussing the current state of Vancouver's 'AAA' craft beer scene, and then slide real smoothly into our (hopefully final) discussion of Dark Souls 3. Then there's much talk on how Nathan Drake is the Zodiac Killer, the merits of using poison damage to fight zombies, the latest Hearthstone meta, how virtual g...

This week, the boys childishly mispronounce the name of beers, discuss crossing the finish line on Dark Souls 3, Guile's entrance into the fray, and anime. Oh man, the anime. ...Did you know there are, like, *a dozen* different wrestling animes? And that all of them are probably the best way to make sure your significant other never wants to watch anime again. And then we talk about zombies, Zelda...

For real, you may think I'm kidding but I'm not: major Downton Abbey spoilers in the first two minutes. Seriously. You've been warned. Once we get past the important Downton Abbey updates, we discuss our thoughts on our good friend Crash Bandicoot's continued disappearance, Dave gives his latest update from the world of Dark Souls, and Mike updates us on the new comings and goings of Hearthstone....