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This week over on Patreon , we bring Indiana June to a close with one final adventure alongside our favorite archaeologist. And by one, we actually mean two. We each chose an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series at random, so hop on and ride along on our Phantom Train of Doom as we discuss! We're making stops at all our favorite jazz clubs, and Beau even brought a game t...

We're back with more Indiana Jones, and we've traded in our White Witch for a Great Circle! This episode we talk MachineGames' 2024 action-adventure game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and it just might be the sequel we've always wanted. No, we can't wield Caliburn, and no "forest folk" make an appearance, but the zeppelin DOES make a return, and is better (and more dangerous) than ever? (We...

Star Wars month may be over, but we're still hanging out with George Lucas as we kick off Indiana Junes! All this month we're exploring alongside our favorite archaeologist and heading to wherever his latest adventure leads us. This week, that adventure is Martin Caidin's 1994 novel Indiana Jones and the White Witch, a riveting tale of magic, aviation, and... northern Florida civil war reenactors...

Star Wars month concludes with a roundup of some of our most memorable Star Wars gaming experiences! It's light side vs. dark side as we pit some of our favorite games of all time against a few experiences so miserable, they just might turn you into a Scorpion Vader. We've got bad kart racers and worse Game Boy games, but along the way we make time for sweet X-Wing action, Lego Grand Theft Auto an...

Welcome back to another episode of Phobiagoria, our recurring miniseries all about revisiting things that scared us as children! This time, Brandon discovers that the childhood trauma he associated with The Ewok Adventure's monstrous Gorax might've actually originated with the dead-eyed Ewoks themselves, and Beau? He's mostly just trying to stay conscious for all 97 minutes of this teddy bear fell...

May the Fourth be with you! (It's now May 8th). All this month we're hanging out in a galaxy far, far away, and kicking off our Star Wars celebration is a discussion of Episode VI- Return of the Jedi! We talk/dismantle negative fan reactions to the original trilogy's final installment while sharing our own negative reactions to much of the nonsense thrown into the remastered edition of the film. S...

Hey, remember that time we did two months of Final Fantasy stuff and planned to conclude with an episode on Rebirth? What young, naive podcasters we were back then... full of big, bold dreams and overambition. Now, on the other side of 100+ hours' worth of fighting, adventuring, laughing, crying, card collecting, Chocobo racing, and tediously throwing crates onto elevators, we're kind of amazed we...

Our Arthur season may be finished here on the main feed, but over on Patreon we're enjoying one final session at the round table as we turn it into a round tabletop! Join us as we leave the fate of Britain to the whims of the dice and roll to recast Arthur, Merlin, and other iconic characters from the legends with some thoroughly deranged replacements pulled from an even more deranged full list. W...

And so, The Once and Future podcast topic is now Once and Past as we close out our two month journey through various adaptations of King Arthur and his very, very handsome and spectacularly facial-haired knights (at least, in this particular iteration). In celebration of the game's recent ten-year anniversary, this week we take a look at The Order: 1886! This experience may be light on gameplay (u...

So we kinda forgot to drop teasers for our past two Patreon episodes, but, better late than never, right? ...right? Anyway, back in March we supplemented our adventures with various King Arthur adaptations by discussing some of our favorite weapons in media, or: our own personal Excaliburs, if you will. And while this teaser may sufficiently explain the decision to make Stanley Stupid our thumbnai...

So we kinda forgot to drop teasers for our past two Patreon episodes, but, better late than never, right? ...right? Anyway, back in February we played matchmakers and gave one another the lofty challenge of pairing up 3 random characters from some of the IPs we've covered on the show thus far. So grab your leisure suit, hug a vampire, and remember that Dizzy Flores deserves so much better- and als...

Month #2 of our King Arthur extravaganza finds us revisiting the 1998 TV miniseries Merlin, starring Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Martin Short, and a whole lot of makeup (3 or 4 out of 5 on the sexy scale, apparently). We're surprised by many things this week: inexplicable dubbing choices, the depth of emotion Frik pulled out of us, and just how bad that dragon looks (seriously, even worse tha...

King Arthur season continues with Mage: The Hero Discovered, the cult classic comic that updates the Arthur legend for 1980's America with baseball bats, badass cars, and one very, VERY unpleasant protagonist. We talk aging, art, and the writing process, all while Beau tries out every possible pronunciation of the author's name and Brandon accidentally reveals some of his confused feelings towards...

We're kicking off March by going waaay back and exploring the origin point of one of the most foundational legends (and also the topic of our show for the next two months): King Arthur! Join us as we do a mini-deep dive on The Once and Future King and discuss some of the background on the related lore, and how the archetypes his story established have manifested in myriad ways throughout literatur...

Our Final Fantasy exploration enters month two with the sequel film 1 out 3 IMDb reviewers hail as a 10/10 masterpiece: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children! It's the epic tale of Kadouche, Doozy and Kazoo and their quest to slap enough green goo on their chests to change their identities and fit their mother's head inside a container that's slightly too small. Alongside our film discussion we also...

We're closing out part one of our Final Fantasy exploration, bringing Final Fanuary to a close, and heading on into... FFII? Final February? FFFebruary? (we still haven't decided) To celebrate the completion of Disc 1 here, we've got a bonus episode over on the Patreon, and here's a teaser for the kinds of shenanigans we have on offer over that way! This month we talk our ideal FF party, with char...

Final Fanuary continues! All this month and the next we're exploring one of our favorite franchises, and this week we're doing things a little differently: welcome to our first episode of Source Found, Final Fantasy 101 edition! We're deep diving into the origins of the franchise and tracing the lineage of some of our favorite FF elements, as well as the creators behind them, from their original c...

Welcome to Final Fanuary! All this month (and the next, which will undoubtedly bring with it an even worse pun) we're exploring one of our favorite franchises, and are kicking things off with, truly, one of the worst versions of our favorite things: the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within! Join us as we follow the mystical eagle through one very expensive uncanny valley on a quest to find...

Looking to change up your holiday movie choices this year? Has your annual viewing of "A Christmas Prince" started to feel a little stale? Well then, have we got a show for you! This year, we're celebrating the holidays over on Patreon with a rundown of our favorite non-Christmas Christmas movies. Alongside our superheroes, action film stars and wizards, we've also got strategies for exploiting Sa...

With our final episode of 2024, we're once again closing things out with a roundup of our favorite things we sourced over the course of this past year. Join us as we gush about all the wonderful creators, characters, games, shows, game shows, and musical genres we enjoyed throughout 2024, and will continue to enjoy on through 2025. And from us on out to all of you, we hope you all have a wonderful...

The holiday season is upon us, and we're kicking things off by exploring one of the MANY adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: the 1988 film Scrooged, starring Bill Murray! Along the way we discuss the correlation between the sound of farts and tranquilizer darts, wonder about the taste of Tab, and outline the most efficient method for climbing the corporate ladder (mail room > dog...

Over on our Patreon, we're closing out NoVAMPber 2024 with Sports Not Found, a new series that combines Beau's minimal knowledge of sports with Brandon's zero knowledge of sports, and uses it to... staff a vampire baseball team. We may not be experts on the subject, but the team is really, really good looking and... sorry, what were we saying? We kinda got lost in Lestat's eyes. This teaser for ou...

NoVAMPber continues with our first foray into the World of Darkness as we discuss Choice of Games' 2020 interactive fiction game Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road! Will we betray our friend for the sake of rising up the ranks in vampiric society? Will we embrace our inner Anarch and tear it all down? Will we remember how to pronounce Camarilla, and will it even matter if no one can hear us over...

NoVAMPber is here! This year, we're kicking off the month-long celebration of our fanged friends with Dracula 2000: a thrilling tale of Mayo Van Helsing's quest to escape the sexy clutches of Olive Garden's newest spokesperson, Criss Angel. Or something like that. Beau has also issued his official rebuttal to londonguy_uk: Dominic Purcell in Blade Trinity is a worse Dracula than Gerard Butler. The...

Happy Halloween! As a special treat in celebration of our personal favorite holiday, we're joined this week by the amazingly talented and hilarious Adal Rifai to help us work through our thoughts on the recent Beetlejuice sequel. We've got games and trivia galore, but also make time along the way to talk teenage bedrooms, discuss our top picks for funeral music, and remind you of the truly horrifi...