Don't meet (or learn about) your heroes. This week, Cas takes Teese on a tour through rainbow history, discussing the origins of Lisa Frank, her rise to 90's aesthetic stardom, and the vicious collapse of it all. Don't turn off the episode early, we might chain your headphones on with a padlock.

If you caught our one note preview from last episode, you'll know this week we're talking about Toby Fox's Megalovania. Most of us know the song from indie-hit Undertale, but the song started long before. Teese is here to take us through the evolution of the song, from ROM hack origins to symphonic presentation.

In the past weeks, there's been an unprecedented hemorrhaging of World of Warcraft players, and an equally unprecedented surge of FFXIV players. Cas is telling Teese all about the potential causes for this, the way it's affected the Final Fantasy online community, and they even talk about how to be a good newbie player. You know, a sprout!

In this bonus episode made possible by our patrons, Teese examines all the little places in Neopets where religion has made it through and permeated the lore of the site. Cas talks about the importance of worldbuilding. They both have too much fun saying BONUS!

After watching Monster Hunter (2020), Cas and Teese are sitting down to talk about Hollywood's relationship with the United States Department of Defense, and how the military uses media in its soft wars and enlistment strategies.

Teese leads us from the path of fandom this week to air some frustrations on the nature of Superhero blockbusters and how Birds of Prey was poised to fail despite its quality. We examine the ruins of Suicide Squad 2016 and the zombie-like reanimation of it released last month.

Contestant No. 1 come on down! What's your name, sailor? It's Nica!

Teese is off this week so Cas has brought on friend-of-the-show Nica to be subjected to a game of Guess That Voice Actor! We're enjoying goofy clips, sharing fun memories, and sharing what it is we love about the work VAs do.

It's TiK ToK time! But no, not that one - This week, Teese takes us back to the old days of Ke$haStuck and walks us forward through a discussion of revising, revisiting, and growing.

On the birthday of the podcast, our patrons have brought us together to talk about the appeal of Drift Compatible AUs. We chat about the appeal of Pacific Rim, the intimacy of mind melding, and we've got TWO new segments (One's tiny and it's at the very end but it's great. You'll love it. We promise). And hey! Thank you. You've kept us going.

We're back from Summer Vacation! Now with chilly cold opens.

This week, we're talking about the calamity that was the ending of the Mass Effect trilogy, and figuring out what such a seemingly small moment in history has meant for us as viewers and enjoyers of all kinds of media since then. It's a frustrating, complicated topic, but hey! You can kiss the aliens!