The Say Report

Fueled by the Taco Bell dish we worship here at the Say Report, we embark on a journey exploring the special edition fast food stuffs that are available each Autumn and share our trials and tribulations in trying to acquire them for this week.  Then we take a glimpse as the strange week relating to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and what happened when a few different talk show hosts decided...

This week's episode sees the Say Reporters sharing lamentations about the raising cost of streaming and gaming subscriptions despite the offerings not really offering anything new or inventive to their value.  From there Devon shares his experiences with 8bitdo and how his views of the company have changed and grown as they have perfected their offerings, up to and including their latest offering,...

We kick off this episode with a discussion on SAG-AFTRA’s decision to authorize a strike again the video game studios that spirals into definitive proof that each one of the Say Reporters represent one end of the scale for video game enthusiasts.  Then Devon’s misunderstanding of this weeks assignment is still able to bear fruit when it serves to prove that Artificial Intelligence is nowhere near...

This month’s Very Special Episode sees your host companions discussing one of their absolutely favorite topics… NOTHING! Listen as they discuss all of the other topics that could have been the focus on this episode if they hadn’t continued to hold out hope that the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes would have been resolved before this recording session. Meaning they could have continued with their regular...

This week’s episode we discuss the deeper meanings going on behind the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and why they are trying their best to future proof these contracts to hopefully avoid a similar striking happening in the near future,  Then Devon was able to get some hands on time with the sequel to a game he had a bit of an antagonistic relationship with, “Blasphemous 2” and his finding may surprise...

This week we look into the wild and wacky world of creators be they YouTube content creators who are in some hot water after questionable decisions or ones that just record their own narration over footage of various products being made.  Then we switch our focus to creators who recreate their work in the music industry as we discuss our homework assignment this week that had Devon and Sejohn look...

We start the episode off with some discussion about the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike and how the former is about to surpass the length of the one we experienced back in 2007 and what 100 days of the writers on strike might mean for both unions going forward.  Then, Devon admits he only was able to read about an hour of “John Dies at the End” but how in that hour he has become hooked and intends to fin...

We kick off this week’s episode discussing the Legend of Zelda Oracle games being added to Nintendo Switch Online and our complicated histories with that pair of games.  Then we leap into our first discussion topic: The Nintendo Switch release of “Brotato” and how the reductive tones that game and similar are discussed in relationship to larger focal points in the genre could lead to a lack of inn...

This episode we go through the FAQs for Podcasters presented by SAG-AFTRA (https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/podcaster-faqs) and how their guidelines will be addressed and supported by our show while the strike continues.  Then we turn our attention to the video games that released this weekend and how we ultimately felt about our time with them, before finally returning to our Say Report roots and g...

In our latest Very Special Episode and just in time for the 20th Anniversary of its premiere,we present to you a reexamination of 2003’s “Gigli”  What works, what doesn’t work, and our feelings about the film from then and now are on full display as we watch real life couple at that time and current husband and wife Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez play two contracted thugs tasked with abducting and...

Forced to find a new topic this week after Devon discovered the hideous creature lurking behind the mask that was the marketing machines of “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” your Say Reporters deliver an episode that seeks to solve the mysteries of current entertainment trends and their direct connection to the current moods of society after spending the last three years in a global pandemic. 

After sharing some of our meatball mistakes and briefly addressing SAG-AFTRA going on strike along with the WGA, we present without any further ado our spoiler filled, no holds barred, final review of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. 

This week’s episode is just what it says on the tin as the first hour or so is dedicated to Sejohn’s desire to finally immerse himself in the world of Street Fighter with Capcom’s latest release “Street Fighter 6” and how preexisting relationships with the series impacted and influenced Devon’s time spend with the world tour mode after borrowing a copy of the game from a friend. After that we turn...

This Say Report starts in a bit of a weird place because one of your host companions is also in a weird place. Luckily shining the light on some of the darker things that happened over the last week is enough to stave off a discussion on their feelings and more importantly a full on Melissa Etheridge Karaoke meltdown.  Bonus after discussing all of those depressing things like the degenerative sta...

In this very special episode of The Say Report, your host companions join together to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the film that proved that comic book films had franchise viability in the new millennium…  “X2.”

In this “super-sized” episode of The Say Report we touch on the continuing developments from the ongoing writer’s strike, the exciting news that Nintendo shared with us regarding the release of future Mario games, Disney’s poorly timed use of AI generated artwork, and celebrate Grimace’s birthday!  It’s an episode that looks at both the highs and lows of not only our own lives but the world at lar...

After watching “Anger Management” for our other podcast (The Adam Sandler Cinematic Universe). Devon became obsessed with solving the mystery of screenwriter David Dorfman and in this Time Capsule episode of The Say Report that is exactly what your host-companions set out to do... DaVinci Code style. 

This week’s episode we need to talk about some serious things that are happening in both the virtual world of the Internet that we as podcasters and content creators occupy but also the real world as we are seeing some of the real world complications the Canadian wildfires are having on the East Coast. Its not all gloom and doom though, once we get through as a method of cleansing our palates we j...

This episode we cover those events that occured in May 2023 while we were busy celebrating Brendan Fraser which primarily includes the Writers Strike and the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.  It’s a lovely return to form for Devon and Sejohn and from your Say Reporters while it might not all be good news it certainly feels good to be back to the usual discussions about everyth...

We could think of no better way to end 2023’s celebration of Brendan Fraser History Month than with an examination of some recent history and his Oscar winning turn in “The Whale” Along the way we discuss our relationships to the stageplay the film is based on, director Darren Aronofsky’s earlier works, and our own feelings about some of the controversies that have been surround the film and its c...

This month things get very special while we’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of a film that has undeniably had a lasting effect on the medium of cinema… Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused”  Whether that means your host companions think that the film should be revered or reviled is a whole other story and a mystery we hope to be able to solve by the end of the episode.  Episode Artwork by D...

After his performance in “The Whale” Brendan Fraser now breathes the rarified air of an Oscar winner, but in 1996 he was in a film where he was already sharing air with future Oscar winners like himself when he briefly appeared in Rich Wilkes “Glory Daze.” Not only does this tie nicely into our sister podcast exploring the Rich Wilkes penned “Airheads,” but it also explores the effects a middling...

Continuing our celebration of Brendan Fraser History Month we take a look at the 1994 film “With Honors” the tale of a Harvard Senior who thinks he knows everything and the bum that is able to teach him how wrong he is in that line of thinking.  Then we rejoin our Quizmaster General to discuss the second episode in the Brendan Fraser Scrubs Trilogy: “My Hero” and then try to prove to Will that we...

This week in our continued celebration of Brendan Fraser we discuss the 2013 film “Hair Brained” where he portrays late bloomer Leo Searly a 41-year-old college student who befriends and guides 13-year-old genius prodigy Eli Pettifore on his quest for vengeance against Harvard after their rejection, Before that though we have a discussion about new flavors and varietals of Mountain Dew and address...

It’s Brendan Fraser History Month again and we are starting the festivities with the first film he appeared in to not only receive multiple Oscar nominations but also win one of the awards as well… “Gods and Monsters” Then once that discussion has finished and Devon has introduced his new "Two Brendan's Theory" we commence The Brendan Fraser Quiz of Brendan Fraser 2 where Quizmaster General Will F...