Robot & Frank

43 Costco Hot Dogs

Joey feels like he’s becoming too disconnected from the world, so the boys talk about the architects of fear, Robot and Frank, ghosts, incurable amnesia, Alzheimer’s disease, Twitter breakdowns, lying politicians and armpit-licking park-shitters.

Let's go exploring!

41 Wattersonesque

The boys try to talk about two comic strip documentaries, but instead spend the bulk of an episode talking about neoteny, pop culture references, animated pictures and one of Joey’s biggest fears.

0:00 – Scooters

2:05 – You know Joey Bags too?

3:22 – Two documentaries, only one we really care to remember

11:24 – Your own personal Hobbes (Reach out and touch faith)

13:37 – And then Joey decides he doesn’t want to stick to a topic ever again

14:37 – Ryan’s getting too old for this shit

17:09 – Modern society is a prolonged assault on the senses

20:02 – Barely an adult, but with one foot in the grave

24:09 – The Mason-Simpson Line

26:18 – The Internet was not created to be megaphone for our emotions

28:27 – An inevitable horrible accident, or that unlucky bonk on the head

32:49 – This weasel makes me wiggle

33:55 – Can you rebuild who you once were with nothing but social media?

37:54 – These are some of Joey’s favorite things

Death Bear waits for us all

40 One of Those Muppets That Sits in the Box Seats

This time around, the boys are joined by everyone’s favorite resident science consultant, Lauren. It’s an extended episode featuring extreme birding in Ecuador, flying drunk, culture shock, parasites, dating and typical banter punctuated with the occasional momentary existential crisis.

2:48 – Who is Lauren?

4:11 – A joke about Ecuador referencing Toto’s Africa

9:12 – Dressing like a cartoon character with severe OCD

12:37 – “Birding is not for the faint of heart”

17:12 – Culture shock strikes again!

23:25 – Like Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, but in first class

32:09 – And that’s why you fly drunk, with a posse

35:09 – Bring on the noise, bring on the Americans

40:43 – I love the smell of commerce in the morning!

42:52 – The Great Lauren War

49:54 – Dispatches from Real America

56:30 – If it’s on the Internet, you should have heard about it by now

1:03:09 – Beware, assholes are everywhere

1:08:18 – The Death of Calm

Strangebeard

39 Kickstarting Strangebeard

Special guest Kelly Tindall joins the boys to talk about his Kickstarter project, Strangebeard.

0:56 – What is Strangebeard?

1:46 – Explaining the magic and mystery that is Kelly Tindall

4:27 – There’s more to life than being a princess

6:01 – Much love for Aardman, that one guy in the background with the bongos

7:06 – When everyone discovered we needed an all-ages werewolf sex scene

9:42 – How not to run a Kickstarter campaign

14:37 – Have you heard about Sexcastle?

15:50 – Start on a Monday, end on Comic Book Day

17:09 – A reasonable guy with very few enemies walks into a room looking for love

19:36 – Bringing up the book that shall not be named

20:36 – Lessons from the world of children’s entertainment

23:01 – “99% is zero.”

25:31 – Good work first, Twitter fights never

29:20 – Talking shit will always be easier than doing shit

33:26 – From Azeroth to accomplishment

34:48 – To crush your self-esteem and to hear the lamentations of the women

36:15 – If you work in comics, learn how to live with Twitter

38:46 – What happens when it actually happens

41:12 – If you want diversity in comics, look to the web

43:37 – Media studies 101, or why we’ll never run out of white guys with chiseled jaws

46:03 – Kelly calls for fewer rapping grandmas

47:33 – And Joey seizes his chance to talk about Dan Harmon

48:14 – The rules in question, if you can ignore Joey’s need to point out that he’s been a Dan Harmon fan since way before you

49:16 – How not to be an insane person

51:30 – First you get the family. Then you get the X-Men. Then you get the power.

53:32 – “Being busy isn’t the same thing as being productive”

55:36 – Final announcements about the Strangebeard Kickstarter