Across the Lake

You're a night watchmen at the Smithsonian. You spend your time in between rounds by watching season 2 of Togetherness. You dread finishing each episode as you know you are moving closer to the end. It's about time to make your rounds again. Everything seems business as usual until you get to That Room. You hate going in there. Even though the entire building is lit with minimal lighting this late, it seems darker in here. Colder too. You do the cursive glance you always do, enough to make out any shapes that shouldn't belong but not too much that you have to actually focus on any particular object. But this time you do. You have to. Something is off. A case in the center of the room is lit in a peculiar way. There's a violet glow. You're not sure if it's actually there or if you're imagining it, but you wouldn't be doing your job if you didn't check it out. You make your way to the case and the contents within start to form out of the darkness. A harpoon tip. A whale oil lamp. An assortment of doubloons. And a pipe. A scrimshaw pipe. You have forgotten why you even came over to the cabinet but now you can't look away. Something about the etchings in the pipe is familiar. No, not something. Someone. Someone you've been watching on your laptop all night. Startled, you move your head away from the case, only to see the same face in the reflection of the glass. Mark Duplass. \\

Things Discussed:

Room 104 (https://www.hbo.com/room-104)

Apple Arcade

Nintendo Online

Gato Roboto (https://www.gatoroboto.com/)

Heave Ho (https://www.heavehogame.com/) \\

Required Reading:

Aaron: Togetherness

Andrew: Over the Garden Wall \\

Huge thanks to friend-of-the-show Dillon Lee for doing our new intro sound. You can check out his music at https://deel.bandcamp.com/.

You can find the t-shirts for our other podcast, The Bargain Bin, here: https://teespring.com/stores/badgamespod

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at [email protected]. Lastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

After a long hiatus, your heroes return to talk about all the things you love to hear us talk about, like the VitaCoco piss-in-a-bottle thing and the films of Stuart Gordon. We also rank 5 different root beers in a blind taste test. What is this show about? It's good to be back.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast feed to bring you something new. Join hosts Andrew, PJ, and Aaron as they wade through video games forgotten to time to see if they deserve to be remembered. Welcome to The Bargain Bin: A Bad Videogame Podcast.

If you like what you hear, come on over to https://soundcloud.com/thebargainbin or bit.ly/videojames to subscribe to the show. Or search "The Bargain Bin" in whatever podcatcher you use.

Thank you to @RoccoW for the theme music.

You're in a theatre. Looking in your hands you find a bucket of popcorn you don't remember paying for. No one around you seems to be missing their movie-going concessions. The trailers start and you see a woman. Her cell begins to ring. Face white, she frantically searches for the source. Before she can silence its tone, she's gutted by the psychopath you paid admission to see. Did you turn your cell phone off? Realizing your hands are full of ill-gotten snacks, you come to a haunting conclusion: You must eat all of this popcorn before death come ringing for you. \\

Things Discussed:

The Haunting of Hill House: https://www.netflix.com/title/80189221 |

Halloween (1979): https://imdb.to/2ABKxQa |

Halloween (2018): https://imdb.to/2yEu6Rb \\

Required Reading:

Aaron: The Descent (2005): https://imdb.to/2PyGNHv |

Andrew: Train to Busan (2016): https://imdb.to/2Sxj7SD \\

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at acrossthelakeshow (at) gmail (dot) com. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. \\

Special thanks this week to friend of the show Deel for doing the spooky version of our theme this month. Find his music here: bit.ly/2CUmLkK.

And as usual thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art: twitter.com/georgemager?s=09.

And thank you to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme: captiveportalmusic.com/.

In this extra long special episode, the boys play Who's on First, except with who played Elsa from Frozen, Aaron hosts the podcast by himself for a bit, and Andrew survived a haunted mansion and all he got was this lousy t-shirt. Due to technical issues, this episode is two separate recording spliced together so brace yourself for some nonlinear storytelling. (We missed you). \\

Things Discussed:

Pulse (2006): https://imdb.to/2Ct7xSQ |

Frozen (2013): https://imdb.to/2R0Xs3A |

Frozen (2010): https://imdb.to/2q1R9S0 |

Spiders Responsible for Creepy Nursery Rhyme: https://bit.ly/2QCIHV5 |

Carrie (1976): https://imdb.to/2EuovD3 |

@dasharez0ne: https://bit.ly/2ypfvth |

Bowling |

Wii Bowling 100-Pin Challenge secret:

https://bit.ly/2RWa6SG |

Shudder |

Sadako Vs. Kayako (2016): https://imdb.to/2CShlXw |

House of the Devil (2009): https://imdb.to/2CqfXum |

Let the Right One In (2008): https://imdb.to/2QVzkPM |

Let Me In (2010): https://imdb.to/2CStVGh |

Andrew cancels his Broadway HD subscription |

Winchester Mystery House \\

Required Reading:

Aaron: The collective works of Stephen King |

Andrew: Too Many Cooks / Don't Hug Me I'm Scared \\

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at acrossthelakeshow (at) gmail (dot) com. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

Special thanks this week to friend of the show Deel for doing the spooky version of our theme this month. Find his music here: https://bit.ly/2CUmLkK.

And as usual thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art: https://twitter.com/georgemager?s=09.

And thank you to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme: https://captiveportalmusic.com/.

Aaron interrogates Andrew about his new pets, through which they discover the star studded cast of G-Force 2(?!). Andrew talks a lot about the new Spider-Man game.

Things Discussed:

Andrew's new children |

G-Force (2009) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436339/) |

G-Force 2 (2019) (http://ideas.wikia.com/wiki/G-Force_2) |

Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) |

Various Spider-Man games |

Holedown (https://holedown.com/) \\

Required Reading:

Aaron: Teens of Denial by Car Seat Headrest. |

Andrew: Paper Girls. \\

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at [email protected]. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

As always, thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art (https://twitter.com/georgemager?s=09) and thanks to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme (https://captiveportalmusic.com/).

Longing. Rusted. Poopaye. Dawn. Gooba. Nine. Bum bum. Homecoming. Banana. Good morning, Soldier. You are ready to comply. Your targets are the hosts of the podcast Across the Lake. Aaron was last seen at an IKEA, browsing the store and praising it's cleanly capitalist design. Andrew has been home alone for the weekend, watching The Twilight Zone and listening to the Burger King Official Roleplaying Podcast. Actually, removing them from their pitiful existence would be a mercy we will not allow. Disregard. \\

Things Discussed:

Dynamic ad insertion and digitally-inserted ads: https://www.slashfilm.com/wtf-zookeeper-advertising-inserted-how-met-mother-reruns/ |

Aaron has a follow up to the previous IKEA discussion |

Tragedy Girls (2017): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3859272/ |

Burger King Official Role-Playing Podcast: https://t.co/jMAaAQcVgQ |

Burger King's Black Burger: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/08/why-black-whopper-turns-your-poop-green/73623596/ |

The Nasty Patty: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/101/745/c39 |

Bundyville: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville |

The Twilight Zone: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/ |

The Intruder (1962): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055019/ |

Justified: (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489428/) \\

Required Reading:

Aaron: Visiting your local library. |

Andrew: Becoming an expert on where you live. \\

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at [email protected] and check out our shiny new YouTube channel: bit.ly/2MtAMdL. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

As always, thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art (https://twitter.com/georgemager?s=09) and thanks to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme (https://captiveportalmusic.com/).

11: Michael Chiclets by Aaron Hillsamer & Andrew Darling

After a long, impromptu break, Aaron wrestles with the realization that even our heroes die, Andrew wonders if Nintendo is deliberately holding your nostalgia hostage, and both boys can't get enough Queer Eye (who can?). //

Things Discussed:

The Death of Luigi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV2T3B9yixw |

Nintendo of America on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2ncbcM9 |

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: https://bit.ly/2nB4dwc |

Nintendo's disinterest in preserving video game history: https://bit.ly/2KWykYr & https://bit.ly/2LvDMWs

Flappy Bird: https://bit.ly/2P6wmbe |

Queer Eye on Netflix: https://bit.ly/2JwT9J2 |

Holedown: A delightful spectacle of bouncing: https://bit.ly/2nAo66z |

Dark Tourist on Netflix: https://bit.ly/2KGaK21 //

Required Reading:

Aaron: Succession (2018): This is a new drama series on HBO that follows a very rich, very horrible family as they constantly screw each other over and ruin lives in the process. Also, it’s funny! |

Andrew: Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009): Andrew has been playing a lot of stealth games lately, and it’s making him reflect fondly upon one of the best stealth games of all time. It’s a fun game and a great way to get into Batman AND stealth games. //

Email us your questions, concerns, and SOE expertise! [email protected] and check out our shiny new YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2MtAMdL. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

As always, thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art: tinyurl.com/y9tkceno and thanks to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme: tinyurl.com/yamtgc6k.

The guys took a week off and are back! It feels like that phrase appears a lot, but alas, here we are. A lot of time is spent talking about horses in Breath of the Wild, but somehow, even more time is spent talking about IKEA. Podcasts, huh? //

Things Discussed:

Inexplicably, An Extremely Goofy Movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208185/) |

IKEA, IKEA Meatballs: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/world/europe/ikea-recalls-its-meatballs-horse-meat-is-detected.html, (This wan't talked about but Aaron thought it was worth sharing) a Song about IKEA by that guy that did the Portal song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUPu_ipbVB0, and this bench that Andrew likes from IKEA: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S69162599/ |

Breath of the Wild |

This website of Goth names that Andrew loves: https://blackrose.co.uk/blog/the-ultimate-a-z-of-gothic-names/ //

Require Reading:

Aaron: What We Do in the Shadows (2014) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/) |

Andrew: Breaking Bad (2008) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) //

Special thanks to this Bandcamp page(?) for the perfect How To Train Your Dragon Instructional Video music heard in this episode: https://underwaterinstrumental.bandcamp.com/track/underwater-instrumental //

You can contact us at [email protected] or on Twitter here: https://tinyurl.com/thelakepod. We also have a Discord where you can chat with us and read and watch the stuff that we're into each week @ https://discord.gg/GCec3Ga //

As always, thank you to George Mager (https://tinyurl.com/y9tkceno) for doing our wonderful show art. And thanks to Captive Portal (https://tinyurl.com/yamtgc6k) to for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme.