Sun, 27 December 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in reviewing Star Wars VII: The New One. Listen in to find out what we thought of the movie. Did we like it? Did we hate it? (Spoiler alert: We liked it.) |
Sun, 27 December 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in Special Episode #18, as we discuss the Star Wars Franchise. We praise the originals movies, complain about the prequels, and briefly talk about the expanded universe (which we know very little about…). |
Sun, 20 December 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about Insignia, a young adult book definitely not inspired by Ender's Game. At all. Not even a little. |
Sun, 13 December 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the digital card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. We generally like it, even though it's basically Magic: The Gathering: The Video Game. |
Sun, 6 December 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about Inception, possibly their favorite movie of all time. We discuss how neat the plots are, the pacing, the reveals, everything. Seriously, this movie is neat, guys. |
Sun, 29 November 2015
Special Episode #17, wherein we discuss all manner of gaming platforms. We look at them from all angles, from graphics and sound, to controllers and buttons. And seriously, what is it with Nintendo and spaceship controllers? |
Sun, 22 November 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in discussing The Blues Brothers, the classic comedy movie from 1980. We argue about just how good this movie is, wonder how many cars were destroyed, and praise practically every single scene. |
Sun, 15 November 2015
Join Henry and Samuel as they talk about The Hunger Games, a rather popular young adult trilogy. We recap the plot, question why the second and third books kinda sucked, and wonder why Gale exists. |
Sun, 8 November 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about New Super Mario Bros., the DS game that rebooted 2D Mario platformers. The single player is fine and dandy, but what we had the most fun with was all the great multiplayer components of the game. |
Sun, 1 November 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in Special Episode #16 as Samuel plays through the text adventure game Action Castle. He gets stuck at almost every problem, and exhausts every option but the actual solution. So pretty much what you'd expect. |
Sun, 25 October 2015
Join Henry and Samuel as they talk about Nintendo Land, the quintessential party game for the Wii U. We go over every mini-game, call it the "Wii Sports of the Wii U," and wonder why all Nintendo help characters are super annoying. |
Sun, 18 October 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about The Name of This Book Is Secret. We make obvious comparisons to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and crown Max-Ernest's parents as the best characters in the series by far. And who is Pseudonymous Bosch?
Direct download: Ep._74_The_Name_of_This_Book_Is_Secret.mp3
Category:Comedy -- posted at: 10:34am CDT |
Sun, 11 October 2015
Join Henry and Samuel as they talk about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In addition to being one of the best action-adventure movies ever, it's also the best Indiana Jones movie. Don't let anyone tell you different. They're wrong.
Direct download: Ep._73_Indiana_Jones_and_the_Last_Crusade.mp3
Category:Comedy -- posted at: 10:25am CDT |
Sun, 4 October 2015
In this special episode, Henry and Samuel discuss all manner of sports. Baseball, football, basketball, tennis, eSports, bowling, soccer, all the great sports. We've got opinions on them all. |
Sun, 27 September 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in reminiscing about the popular video game Minecraft, which we played before it was cool. We discuss the games mechanics, complain about how complicated it became, and share some of our favorite personal memories with the game. |
Sun, 20 September 2015
Join Henry and Samuel this week as we talk about the Percy Jackson movies. We talk about the two movies, and also pro on tons of tangents about midnight releases and crying at movies and stuff. We were tired. |
Sun, 13 September 2015
Join Henry and Samuel as they talk about the young adult book series, Percy Jackson. We sort of remember the plot, figure out the order of books from best to worst, and make fun of the characters, and characters in general. |
Sun, 6 September 2015
Happy Rant Day to all. In this Special Episode, we're just doing a large series of random rants, 16 of them to be exact. So join us as we discuss friends stepping on bees, the appeal of different types of rodents, and how great miniature golf could be. |
Sun, 30 August 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the bizarre young adult book known as Everlost. We recap the plot, ask about 35 questions, and just generally complain about all the (ever)lost potential in this book. |
Sun, 23 August 2015
Join Henry and Samuel as we discuss the popular MOBA game League of Legends. We explain the basic mechanics, get confused by the fiction, and praise the eSports scene surrounding this game. |
Sun, 16 August 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about perhaps the world's most confusing film, Primer. We try to dissect the plot, explain the last third of the movie, and debate it's re-watchability. |
Sun, 9 August 2015
SPECIAL EPISODE #13. This time, we've decided to devote an entire episode to board games. We discuss the two main types of board games, Samuel shares his custom chess game that involves four chess boards, then we spend far too long actually talking about individual board games. |
Sun, 2 August 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the classic western novel, True Grit. We recap the plot, praise the main character, and notice there's a lot of western "stereotypes" going on here. |
Sun, 26 July 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about Jurassic World, the latest film in the Jurassic Park franchise. We complain about the wasted potential, make fun of the lack of character development, and question why the violence was so gratuitous. |
Sun, 19 July 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the charming and unique RPG. We enjoyed the gameplay and the characters, but we found some of the smaller things to be annoying.
Direct download: Ep._61_Mario__Luigi-_Bowsers_Inside_Story.mp3
Category:Comedy -- posted at: 10:46am CDT |
Sun, 12 July 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in Special Episode #12 as we talk about this year's E3. We go over all the big press conferences, discuss what games we're both personally excited to play, and probably get a lot of facts wrong. |
Sun, 5 July 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about The Great Gatsby, a classic American novel. We praise the writing style, debate how interesting the book would be without it, and then we went to a party. |
Sun, 28 June 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about Back to the Future, the critically acclaimed film trilogy from the 80s. We have an incredibly difficult time recapping the plot, but we're pretty sure it makes sense when you actually watch the movies. |
Sun, 21 June 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about Batman: Arkham Asylum, the first video game in the acclaimed Arkham series developed by Rocksteady. We both generally enjoyed the game, but it's pretty clear that Arkham City was far superior. |
Sun, 14 June 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in Special Episode #11 as we play a game of sorts. We both went back to listen to the Green Day rock opera American Idiot, and we both came up with our best guesses for what we think the plot is. Then, we read a synopsis online of the official American Idiot musical to see how close we would be. (Spoiler alert: We were very wrong.) |
Sun, 7 June 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the classic sci-fi novel, Ender's Game. We make fun of political signs, question the name Valentine, debate how many kids Ender has killed, and come up with a brilliant addition to all books. |
Sun, 31 May 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the underrated puzzle game, The Swapper. We decided to be crazy and create three levels of "spoilers ahead!" so here's the three time stamps for that: |
Sun, 24 May 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the latest Marvel summer blockbuster, Avengers: Age of Ultron. We were both rather impressed by just how much crap they could pack into this movie. |
Sun, 17 May 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in Special Episode #10 (And our one-year anniversary of this podcast) to talk about Arrested Development, which is Henry's favorite TV show of all-time and Samuel's second favorite. Needless do say, we like it a lot. |
Sun, 10 May 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the young adult book series Gregor the Overlander, written by Suzanne Collins. Suzanne Collins is best known for writing the Hunger Games, except this series is actually better. |
Sun, 3 May 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the sort of one-hit wonder, Rock Band. We were both big fans of the series in general, and it seems like a good time to talk about it given the recent announcement of Rock Band 4. |
Sun, 26 April 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about last year's great film, Whiplash. It was actually Samuel's favorite movie of 2014, which seems like high praise until you realize he hasn't seen any movies. |
Sun, 19 April 2015
SPECIAL EPISODE #9. It's another music episode, where we each force the other to listen to an album of our choice. Samuel has chosen "The Grand Illusion" by Styx, and Henry has chosen "Beat the Champ" by The Mountain Goats. |
Sun, 12 April 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the award-winning film, Birdman. Henry loved it for it's unique takes on filmmaking, and, of course, Samuel thought it was "too artsy". |
Sun, 5 April 2015
Join Henry and Samuel to talk about one of Henry's all-time favorite games, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. We discuss the beautiful visuals, the similarities to other Zelda games, and go on far too many tangents. And apparently Samuel hates auto-jumping.
Direct download: Ep._46_The_Legend_of_Zelda-_Wind_Waker.mp3
Category:Comedy -- posted at: 10:22am CDT |
Sun, 29 March 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the popular fantasy series Inheritance (Eragon). We were both pretty big fans of this series… until the final book. |
Sun, 22 March 2015
For Special Episode #8, Henry and Samuel decided to talk about all types of entertainment. We discuss what all of them do really well, and what all of them don't do well. |
Sun, 15 March 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the latest installment in the Mario Kart franchise, Mario Kart 8. We discuss the lameness of the new features, the horrible way they redesign old tracks, and try to figure out Samuel's deep, deep love for Mario Kart DS. |
Sun, 8 March 2015
Join Henry in Samuel in part two of our Hobbit episodes, this time talking about the movie adaptions, and what they did right and what they did wrong (mostly what they did wrong). |
Sun, 1 March 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about one of the most classic children's books of all time, The Hobbit. |
Sun, 22 February 2015
Special Episode #7! This episode really isn't that special, in that it's basically just us talking about how much we love the TV show, Firefly. |
Sun, 15 February 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about After the Bomb, one of the worst books we've ever read. |
Sun, 8 February 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about Edge of Tomorrow, a simultaneous rip-off of Groundhog Day, Starcraft, and War of the Worlds. (But it's still rather good.) |
Sun, 1 February 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about one of the greatest handheld games in recent memory, Fire Emblem: Awakening. |
Sun, 25 January 2015
SPECIAL EPISODE #6. Henry and Samuel have both prepared lists of their top five characters from popular media. So join us as we go through that list, argue a bunch, then spend far too long talking about some honorable mentions. |
Sun, 18 January 2015
Join Henry in Samuel in critiquing and over thinking Christopher Nolan's latest (but not greatest), Interstellar. |
Sun, 11 January 2015
Henry and Samuel were both big fans of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Does the new one for the Wii U live up to their lofty expectations? |
Sun, 4 January 2015
Join Henry and Samuel in talking about the young-adult survival book, Lost in the River of Grass. |