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This week the boys bring you back to the old west...kinda. This wek we do songs about cowboys, or at lease with cowboy in the title. Some songs bring you back to the old west, some talk about the new west and some just have cowboy in the title. What do you think of these songs. Write in and let us know! We are on Twitter, please follow us and get updates from Musically Challenged! @MCPodcast17 wil...

Al takes a look at Pandemonium, the Chaotic Neutral Evil realm in AD&D First Edition's Manual of the Planes.

Al takes a look at Acheron and how it was presented in AD&D First Edition's Manual of the Planes.

Lou and Chad take you on a journe to long ago...ok, maybe not that long ago, but, here we have a list from Listener Marshall Laww and he asked us to go back to the 80's. SO, come along to the world of Aqua-Net and spandex. Jarts and Atari. Listen carefully as the boyz parse out their ideas of the music that we were asked to listen to. Let's find out if you are musically challenged too! We are on T...

Lou and Chad talk mashups. You know, two songs in one. Listen, love, enjoy We are on Twitter, please follow us and get updates from Musically Challenged! @MCPodcast17 will find us. If you see the skeleton rock fingers, it's us! If you follow us, we follow you. Want to reach out to us? There are a few ways to do that. First send us an email at musicchallengepodcast@gmail.com or if your more into th...

This month Scott and Chad take you to kind of a dark place. We discuss the White Chapel Murders of 1888. We are talkign Jack the Ripper. Now, we love each and every one of our listeners, but, BE WARNED there is graphic detail of many of the murders that takeplace at the hands of Jack the Ripper. So if that makes you uncomfortable or you just don't like yucky things, we understand you not listening...

Al discusses Greek mythology, the Aztecs, Christian theology, Hinduism, golden ages, and what they have to do with the plane of Arcadia as presented in AD&D first edition's Manual of the Planes.

Take a second and listen to the sounds around you. Listen to the birds chirping, the bee upon the wing. Take this time to really feel everything around you. Now, close your eyes and think about where you were when some momentus occasion in our history happened. What is your "Where were you?" moment. This is America and this is the week in which we celebrate our independence day and what better way...

On October 26, 2014 I posted the first episode of Geekery in General on DrivethruRPG. Here we are, 200 episodes later (more if you count the quickies and occassional mini-episodes). What better time is there than to discuss a game we've talked about many times on this show: Dungeons and Dragons! To mark this momentous occassion Al talks with experienced co-host Chad Knight and special guest Alexis...

You might ask yourself, "Self, why is metal in quotations?" Well, that would be a good question to ask yourself. Perhaps the boys have an answer. Boys? "We do short script writing guy." Would you care to let us in on it? "Of course, it's because all the songs are about metal." Well, that does make sense, so it's an episode of heavy metal songs? "No, short script writing guy. Sheeze your dumb. It i...

Al discusses Tartarus in AD&D first edition's Manual of the Planes and its counterpart in Greek mythology.

Zombies are everywhere. They have appeared in countless movies, books, TV shows, and games. But why are these mindless masses so popular? Al and Chad attempt to answer that question as they take a look at the historical roots of zombies and how they have been portrayed in popular culture.

I'm back with a fun filled podcast. I sit down almost a year to the day with Jason Dean. He has spent the last year plus travelling the country, doing what he wants to do, when he wants to do it...except for work, that he still needs to do to. We talk places, food and beer and we find out what he's been doing the past year. Like the episode? Check Jason out here.  http://midwesternboy.com/   Now,...

Relax...Relax...take a deep breath...inhale...exhale...inhale...exhale... Sorry, focus, must focus to bring listener an episode of songs, that make you want to dream a dream. That's right, the boys are bringing you a series of songs that delve into your sub-concious. We know your dreams and we have dreams of our own. Grab those gummy melatonins you keep in the cupboard for those nights you just ca...

Here you are, one episode into the new format and they throw you a curve ball by having a special guest on the show. That's right the boys are joined by the one and only Scott Ahern.  The last time Scott joined the boys they talked about Weird Al Yankovich and some things never change. It's been about 30 or so episodes since they last talked about Al, so they are doing it again. Faced with the ime...

With the end of the school year upon us or behind us already, Scott and chad thought they would take a look at year round school. What are the pros and cons of it? Is it better or worse for you, your children, the teachers. The guys decided that there might be more to be learned if we were to bring on a couple of kids still in school and see what they think of the idea. The guys enlisted Chad's tw...

We are really going off the norm today and we are doing an episode of a different color. That’s right, we, Lou and Chad are doing an episode of Polka music. One of the things we wanted to do when we started this was to expand our horizons and we are going to do that with this episode. We are taking two rock and roll boys and putting them in a very interesting position. I bet everyone out there wou...

Like many long time Castlevania fans Al is looking forward to the upcoming Ritual of the Night from Koji Igarashi, the genius behind Symphony of the Night. In the meantime we have Curse of the Moon to whet our appetite. Correction: I mention in the description of one of the enemies that it was a solider who died in the demon castle war. This is incorrect. This is actually a description from one of...

Every long running video game series has that one game that stands out. Such a game is usually universally praised for its graphics, music, gameplay, and story. Al and Dan from the Radio Free Borderlands podcast discuss the crown jewel of the Castlevania series: Symphony of the Night!

You knew this would happen, you knew that eventually Lou and Chad would throw all precedent to the wind and just get naughty. Well here is the result an entire episode about song about sex. We pull no punches, if you are uncomfortable with discussion about sex, masterbation or any other form of naughtyness...skip this episode... Still here? Let's talk about sex...are you musically challenged? We a...

Lou and Chad give you some of their favorite covers. Buckle u we give you not only a clip of the original, but also a clip of the cover. And we chat about what we like and what we hate about each of them, Grab your favorite band T-Shirt and album and let's see if you are musically challenged too. We are on Twitter, please follow us and get updates from Musically Challenged! @MCPodcast17 will find...

This week,  Lou and Chad take you on a journey of days. Settle in while the guys talk about music related to the days of the week, Sunday through Saturday. We have hand picked the options best suited to such a podcast. Come along on our journey of the days of the week and find out if you too are Musically Challenged.  We are on Twitter, please follow us and get updates from Musically Challenged! @...

Movies based on video games. Some people love them, some people love to hate them, and some people hate to love them. Al and Chad discuss the 1995 movie based on the hit video game Mortal Kombat!

Lou and Chad once again take you to yesterdays. The guys talk about another soundtrack, this time from 1998's The Wedding Singer starring Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore and others. The music is silly, its good, its bad, its great. What happens when you put all that together? You get one darn good soundtrack. We enjoyed it mostly and we think you will as well. So grab your Dippity Do, get that hair u...

This month, Scott...a dad, Chad...a dad, and our special guest, Mike Loomis...a dad talk about what it's like to be a dad. We start off with information on books out there for parents, then we delve into how medical practices have changed over the years, finally the three dad's talk about life, kids and how these allcome together to form a symbiotic lifestyle. If you wnt us to research and talk ab...