Podcasts

33 Don’t Give Up Pope

  • January 10, 2014
  • - Listening Time: 36 minutes

During an especially cynical holiday season, the boys turn to the Vatican for answers and maybe, just maybe, a successor to Tony Stark.

0:22 – An agnostic and an atheist walk into a conversation about the Pope

2:50 – Some love for An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

4:08 – Those dickbag atheists, you know the ones…

5:25 – Ryan secures his one way ticket to Hell

6:00 – Pope Francis: awesome or Hitler?

7:03 – The usury suspects

9:23 – Our first commandment is “be a good dude”

13:32 – Introducing the motorcycle-riding, kick-ass pope

15:42 – An aside about divine hats

16:55 – Bat-Pope for President

18:41 – The difference between income and wealth

23:00 – Not what a white Christmas means

23:51 – We’re sorry, Asian Spider-Man

25:00 – Hungry people are hungry, and other economic facts

25:16 – Cognitive dissonance: maybe good, maybe bad

26:58 – …Ryan brings up Rob Ford

28:34 – Where are all of the crack-smoking gentlemen?

30:16 – Jesus, Sherlock Holmes and Batman

31:59 – Initiate Vatican Party Protocol

32:56 – Seriously though, Joey doesn’t do drugs

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32 Feel Free to Fear the Reaper

  • January 6, 2014
  • - Listening Time: 29 minutes

Joey’s been stuck reading about the Industrial Revolution, which means that Ryan has to regale him with tales of eternal life, the universe and everything.

0:50 – Montreal, the city that always amazes Joey

1:37 – Kindle talk

6:45 – David Copperfield found the Fountain of Youth in his pants

11:45 – Ray Kurzweil, the guy who takes a lot of fucking vitamins

14:06 – Find what’s fascinating, and follow that

15:37 – Cryonics: not just for vegetables

18:08 – Who doesn’t love a hypothetical coupon?

20:08 – We are not your men of tomorrow

21:02 – That moment when you start to cry about the Spanish Inquisition while pooping

22:46 – Fear is only a good thing when you’re dealing with panthers

23:54 – The point in the conversation where Joey has to reference Kevin Smith

24:47 – The Science of Immortality

26:14 – Your life, as a book

27:13 – This closing still left Joey depressed

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Podcasts

31 To Meditate or Masturbate

  • December 25, 2013
  • - Listening Time: 38 minutes

The boys discuss the awesome spectacle that is GTA V, with a side of Saints Row 3.

1:25 – Grand Theft Auto 5… best game of 2013?

10:08 – More love for Red Dead

11:23 – Remembering GTA4

13:08 – Saints Row 3

15:24 – Walking around a digital world

20:18 – What about Trevor?

22:39 – Player agency… it’s a thing.

24:36 – We love the Awesome Button

26:58 – There’s a time and a place for serious things, and this is neither the time nor the place

30:12 – I play games to escape reality, not to have it waggled in my face

31:24 – Ryan’s not excited about the inevitable GTA6

34:09 – The acting’s amazing, but this isn’t me

36:00 – A weird, wonderful game that should probably get more shit

36:43 – An abrupt ending, because it’s been too long

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Podcasts

30 Never Fart in Public

  • April 4, 2013
  • - Listening Time: 58 minutes

In the last episode, the boys tried to make sense of creativity and art. It was… well… kind of an angry rant. But since then, their tempers have cooled and opinions have changed.

This time around, they talk about the “tumblr economy” and what it’s like to be creative in an age that only seems to be about quick pleasures and animated cats.

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