Media Club Plus

Happy to have Ali Acampora back to complete her Talking About Kite trilogy!  Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Well it wouldn't be an episode of the Chimera Ant arc if it wasn't full of the weirdest, wildest shit yet. And that's certainly true for this one. The quick rundown: The king is alive, Pouf and Youpi become...

Hey everyone, sorry this one's a week late, but we'll be back on our regular schedule next week. By the way, yesterday Friends at the Table launched a new podcast, called Side Story, hosted by Austin with a rotating cast of FatT members. It's about videogames! The first episode has Jack and Janine, and they're also doing a patron-exclusive LP of Outward. Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Early in the episode Jack points out that this is a set of three duologues which is exactly true. The King and Netero, Ikalgo and Welfin, and Killua and Palm This week we cover episodes 122-124, titled Pose x and x Name, Centipede x and x Memory, and Breakdown x and x Awakening. Next...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. In this set of episodes, nearly everyone gets a shot at Youpi, with mixed results. This week we cover episodes 119-121, titled Strong x or x Weak, Fake x and x Real, and Defeat x and x Dignity. Next episode we'll be covering episodes 122-124, titled Pose x and x Name, Centipede x and...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This week we're starting off with maybe the most important episode of Hunter x Hunter to date: a bottle episode featuring Gon's emotional face-off with Pitou, and Killua's emotional face-back with Gon (because Gon never turns around in this scene). We'll get into it in depth but that...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. The King is already gone, but there's a castle full of ants desperate to find and protect him. Gon and Killua have a brief encounter with Netero and Zeno on their way to find Pitou. Killua especially is having some sort of crisis (crises?). Zeno almost has words of warning for the bo...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. It's been almost 20 episodes since the Extermination Team took a train to East Gorteau to prep for an attack on the castle and almost 40 since Gon and Killua warped to Kite, by chance, officially starting their journey to the most dangerous place on earth. What seemed like a simple p...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. We're finally, finally back with Gon and Killua for chunks of these episodes, but there's a ton of other business too. Of course, the King is playing Gungi (or Gungi is playing him?) Also, we start and easily conclude Morel's fight with Leol. Knov makes a sort of peace with his panic...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Gungi Gungi Gungi Gungi!!!! The King is playing Gungi!!!!! While that happens, for some weird reason the Hunters catch a break in their preparations to invade the castle. Why would what be? King's just in there playing gungi after all. This week we cover episodes 104-106, titled Doub...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. In these episodes we're getting 4 parallel stories: Gon forming a friendship with Melleoron, Killua surviving another harrowing long range attack, Morel patrolling Peijing and tying everything together is Meruem learning to play board games. In this episode we cover episodes 101-103,...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. In these episodes we follow Gon and Killua, who split up after their infiltration of East Gorteau while Knov and Morel convince a high ranking Gorteauian official to betray Diego in exchange for information. As always we are brought to you by Friends at the Table. This season, we're...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. We take a little vacation to Meteor City to see what's going on with the Phantom Troupe. Basically they're being local superheroes, saving their hometown from destruction. Also, Kalluto Zoldyck is there. He thinks becoming the Big Boss of the Spiders will help him get his brother bac...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. A show about two best friends (normal style) plus some other stuff.  As always we are brought to you by Friends at the Table. This season, we're watching 2011's Hunter x Hunter, based on the manga by Yoshihiro Togashi. In this episode we cover episodes 93-95, titled Date x With x Pal...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Now for our headliner this evening, you've seen him in clubs across the Mitene Union, please give a warm Chimera Ant welcome to Bronk Shiltins!!!! Ok here's a joke for you: what's the only thing worse than falling into a debt trap and being caught for 1 month in a state of enforced z...

Hey everyone, sorry for the delay but Media Club Plus 28 will be out next week, on 10/08/24. In lieu of proper ep I have in exchange this hearty Bonus. We've also got part 2 of our DBZ bonus coming on 10/15/24 In this episode we discuss 5 episodes: the first 3 episodes of the Tien Shinhan arc, as well episodes 11 and 12 of that arc. Some lists will call these episodes 83-85, 93, 94. I'm sorry that...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Sometimes a hunter has to kill. In Hunter x Hunter sometimes a hunter has to kill for love. Sometimes that's heroic, and sometimes that's scary. I guess it's more about who you kill, and how mean you seem while doing it. Luckily our friends Gon and Killua don't seem very mean at all....

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Kite, Gon and Killua are deep into the NGL now, and everything is going extremely well. So why does Kite feel sick? Why can't he stop worrying? It feels like there's something he's forgetting and while he does his best to care for his two new companions, it won't be long before he fi...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. In these episodes, Kite brings Gon and Killua deeper into the NGL, as the ants rapidly construct a very familiar kind of society. Schisms within the officer class of ants leave Colt, the senior Squadron Leader, to try and pick up the pieces. After one of Kite's worst case scenarios c...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Austin joins us for this episode where, at the same time as we learn what a Chimera Ant is, we learn about how devistating they can be if left unchecked. After meeting up with Kite, Gon and Killua are working with him and his team to track down the location of a new, potentially very...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This week we are ending Greed Island with a bang. Or a few bangs. Everything hinges on Gon's ability to follow a plan and trap Genthru, the Bomber, without dying. If he can do that, the non evil guys can focus on winning the game. As always we are brought to you by Friends at the Tab...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Razor, the Pirate King/Gym Teacher who runs a beachfront presidential fitness course, is ready to play a game of Dodgeball. And that's what we do. It's almost all that we do, for 3 episodes. But in a good way. As always we are brought to you by Friends at the Table. This season, we'r...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. Killua's gone off to do ther Hunter Exam again, but don't worry: he'll be back very, very shortly. The Game is truly happening in this one. We learn all about trading and we also learn that the teams who've been in Greed Island are total scrubs who literally don't know how to have fu...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. The magical girl we met turned out to be really mean, but it's OK(?) because she's really strong and she knows Netero and Gon's dad. It turns out the boys reaaally didn't know anything about nen, and they're getting a crash course (literally). And it's a good thing too because there'...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. We're finally entering Greed Island! It's been on the horizon for so long but we finally see the boys get zapped into the game world. The Phantom Troupe, too! Well, most of the anyway. We learn a lot about how the game works, about the social life of other players, and about the dast...

Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This episode we're doing a fun little Q+A. Thanks everyone for sending in their questions! As always we are brought to you by Friends at the Table. This season, we're watching 2011's Hunter x Hunter, based on the manga by Yoshihiro Togashi. Next episode we'll be covering episodes 59-...