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Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin’ Podcast! The Pod Boys are hungry. Marcus feels like he’s back in school with all of his training for the new job. Sefa had to deal with some idiot kids while on a walk with his girl. The Pod Boys have the cultural appropriation talk again as a Polynesian woman expressed her frustration about the possibility of our culture being ripped off. The Boy...

The Polytickin Network presents Way Back Whensday - Ch. 21 - The Rock Movie Draft WBW welcomes Polytickin Network co-founder OhHelloMarcus to help us three-way this big Johnson movie draft to see who can build the best group of blockbusters featuring The Rock. From The Scorpion King to The Rundown to the new Jumanjis, we'll speak on all of our favorite films from Uncle Dwayne and why our list...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin’ Podcast! The Pod Boys had nothing but hip-hop going on during their weekends. Marcus fell for the oldest trick in the book when he found a healthy cookie at his gym. Sefa is flabbergasted by Milf Manor and the chaos surrounding its premise. The Pod Boys then get into the biggest beef in hip-hop history between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. We all know...

The Polytickin Network presents: The Pasefika Movie Starter Kit tries to keep in step with Maka's marching band scam to get Rugby World Cup tickets. He's promised Wellington council members that he can provide professional entertainment worthy of hyping up the Tonga national team, their fans and the Kingdom. The problem is most of the group has never even played a musical instrument before...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast! The Pod Boys is here you nerds. Marcus had a successful first week off from work and he's been learning a lot of stuff. Sefa wonders if it's selfish for a 40-year-old man with kids to be rock climbing on dangerous mountains. There are more comfortable jobs. The Pod Boys then kick off Asian-American Pacific-Islander Native Hawa...

The Polytickin Network presents Way Back Whensday, a nostalgic podcast. The Draft Boys are here! With the NFL Draft happening this weekend, we decided to battle in a draft of Sports Movies. From Denzel Washington in Remember The Titans to Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights, we go back to talk through some of our favorite sports characters and movies ever. Pick which list you think is better in the c...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast! The Pod Boys just might start a mukbang OF if you're willing to pay for it. Marcus has left his former job and doesn't know what to do with his time until he starts his new one. Sefa doesn't enjoy the cartoonish violence in TV and movies because it can definitely still mess you up mentally. The Pod Boys talk about culture...

The Polytickin Network presents The Pasefika Movie Starter Kit travels back to American Samoa for Taika Waititi's colorful and sacrilegious film about the world's worst soccer team and their battle for World Cup qualification. Based upon the 2014 documentary of the same name, we are taken back to the Motherland to find her national soccer squad lacking in equipment, training and confidence...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast! The Pod Boys are out here looking for sponsors so if that's you? Let us know. Marcus had his first Zoom interview and now he appreciates in-person interviews a lot more. Sefa now has his 3-month evaluation at his job and it's terrible for an overthinker like himself. The Pod Boys then talk about the discourse surrounding actor...

The Polytickin Networks presents Way Back Whensday. New episodes every Saturday. In WBW's first compilation episode, we dive back into past chapters for conversations about beating the MySpace rating apps (Show Intro & MySpace), accidentally traumatizing our little cousins by showing them The Lion King (Disney Song Draft), how X-Men could really be about some gangbanging (X-Men), people th...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast! The Pod Boys are back in the swing of things. Marcus has been thinking a lot about his professional career and wants to make a change. Sefa has returned from his Grandma's funeral and has some things to say. The Pod Boys then weigh in on the whole Kendrick vs. J. Cole and Drake thing in light of Cole conceding defeat at Dreamville...

The Polytickin Network presents The Pasefika Movie Starter Kit has reviewed over 10 classic Islander films. This episode, we draft our favorite movies of the 11 we've reviewed so far. From Alamein to Moana, Johnny Lingo to Baron To'a, Once Were Warriors to Sione's Wedding, we revisit all the movies we've covered and discuss why we took them high or waited to draft a certain traumat...

Aye! Again! No new recording this week nerds. Sefa is still out handling family business and Marcus dropped the ball last week. Got another Patreon episode for you to listen to and you can see for yourself what you guys are missing over there. Enjoy the show! Follow The Polytickin' Network! http://linktr.ee/thepolytickinpodcast Follow The Pod Boys! Sefa M: http://instagram.com/sefam/ Marcus: h...

Presented by The Polytickin Network The Pasefika Movie Starter Kit is guided past the reef by the light of a giant manta ray as we follow the voyage of Moana (voiced by Auli'i Cravalho), an adventurous teenage chief-in-training as she travels the great ocean to restore the heart of Te Fiti. After a darkness reaches her island, Moana must set out to find Maui, the forsaken demigod of the Wind a...

Aye! No weekly recording this week. Sefa has family business to handle. The Pod Boys got into a heated debate a couple months ago on the Patreon about Next Goal Wins so they thought they'd share it with you guys. Enjoy the show! Follow The Polytickin' Network! http://linktr.ee/thepolytickinpodcast Follow The Pod Boys! Sefa M: http://instagram.com/sefam/ Marcus: http://instagram.com/OhHello...

We are joined by anime expert Mikey Hodges to discuss all things Dragon Ball after a devastating loss in the anime community, the passing of manga legend and Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. Lance is clueless but Sefa and Mikey more than inform and educate while naming their favorite story arcs, most powerful moves, what made Goku worthy and their biggest takeaways from the franchise as a whole...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast! The Pod Boys had some stuff to get off their chest so you know. Do with that what you will. Marcus cannot get enough of Shogun. Maybe now he'll actually finish a show. Sefa's medication has given him a rumbly in his tumbly so I guess he has to die now. The Pod Boys then go in on the vitriol they seen on Facebook when a Samoan...

The Pasefika Movie Starter Kit takes the bridge back to Grey Lynn to reunite with the Duck Rockers in our first ever SEQUEL review. Set five years after the storybook ending to Sione's Wedding, Sione's 2 deals with friends growing up (and apart), navigating new and old relationships, and grieving/dealing with loss. We'll introduce you to the characters, break down each scene and give o...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast!  The Pod Boys are out here tipping when they can but they see ya'll trying to put the highest option first on the POS. Marcus was judged after hitting "skip" on the tip option thing at one of the restaurants he picked his food up from. Sefa and his girlfriend were sleepless in Seattle for their little getaway this past w...

The Polytickin Network presents Way Back Whensday | Ch. 17 - Nickelodeon SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Rugrats, all certified classics and all from a television channel made specifically for kids: Nickelodeon. We give a history of how it started as a commercial-free cable package add-on and needed a messy rebrand (SPLAT!) to jumpstart its build into a household mainstay that s...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast! The Pod Boys are still out here dawg. Marcus keeps seeing an ad for the Hallow app and he doesn't know what YouTube is trying to tell him. Sefa was challenged by his girl twice and his pride won out both times. The Pod Boys talk about the Library Guy, who resigned from his position to address his mental health. The internet sucks...

Programming Note: Listen to new #PasefikaMovieStarterKit episodes every other Friday on #ThePolytickinNetwork Feed, or watch on The Polytickin Network YouTube page. The Polytickin Network presents The Pasefika Movie Starter Kit The 'Kit heads to Samoa, to the back of a plantation to ask Saili why his parents are buried there, before being thrown into a chain of events we feel is both bizarre a...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast! The Pod Boys might start writing for the WWE. Marcus lets Sefa know who the people want to perform at next year's Super Bowl. Can I buy you a drank? Sefa wonders how The Walking Dead is still alive and well. The Pod Boys are reminded of Rachel Dolezal when she hit the news again for having an Onlyfans while being an elementary sch...

Programing Note : New Way Back Whensday episodes will release every other Friday here on The Polytickin Network beginning with this episode. Stay tuned for more details on what changes are coming for WBW and The Polytickin Network. The Polytickin Network Presents Way Back Whensday | Ch. 16 - Fighting Games -- Street Fighter. Mortal Kombat. Tekken. Franchises that have stood the test of time in the...

Welcome back to another episode of The Polytickin' Podcast! The Pod Boys have made it to 69 episodes. Nice. Marcus is a lazy bum as soon as his earbuds die in the gym. Sefa had a nightmare about the death of Hugh Laurie. The Pod Boys then get into Super Bowl LVIII and the heartbreaking loss the 49ers, and more importantly Sefa, went through. They then try to figure out who should perform at th...