Beard Stroking Bullsh*t

On this episode, Mike and Jon cover a hefty amount of subjects, Mike finishes his trial with the Solid State Drive, and through the horror and pains, this story has a happy ending, thankfully. Jon talks about his new venture into the world of streaming on Twitch and his investment in a 144hz monitor. We bring you the newest segment called "Mike takes forever to catch up on Game Of Thrones" and having finished season 1 he gives his thoughts on the series. The two then discuss the latest development and follow through on Blizzard's behalf of banning cheaters from Overwatch. Mike and Jon give their thoughts and reviews of "X-Men: Apocalypse" and its good, better than Batman v Superman, but its not without its faults. (CAUTION! Our review is spoiler filled!) Mike talks about the Archer season finale, which *GASP* killed a major characters, again spoilers. Finally Mike talks about his thoughts on the premier of AMC's Preacher and his experiences at Walker Stalker Con Chicago.

On this episode, Mike and Jon continue their discussion on Geoff John's DC Rebirth and having now read it give their review of what this could mean for continuity sake and more! The duo also rant and discuss the recent outburst from comic book fans regarding the new direction of Captain America and where his allegience lies, lets just say its not something you'd expect and its driven people to burning copies of the comic and sending hate mail and death threats to the current writer, Nick Spencer. They guys also discuss the finale of this seasons Flash and what it means now that Zoom has been defeated (and is now Black Flash...maybe?), The Man in the Mask, aka Jay Garrick, has been freed, and then Barry negates everything (maybe?) by going back in time...again. Mike rants about Fear the Walking Dead's finale and how not developing characters, especially main ones means four words: Who. The. Fuck. Cares? But is most likely going to continue watching it.

Big news abounds in this episode with Mike and Jon! The Duo discuss Geoff Johns new position that has been bestowed to him from Warner Bros for the DC Movie universe, the second to last episode of The Flash in which Barry Allen is a chipper bastard knowing he's being backed by the almighty Speed Force. They also discuss their love of Reddit user OnBench's amazing summaries of the Flash and Arrow (be sure to check it out!). Jon talks about what he's seen of the upcoming DC Rebirth and what will be happening to possible reset the New 52 Universe. Mike belay's his sad story of attempting to install his operating system to a solid state drive, what the two have been playing and the biggest gaming event of the year, or what used to be known as the biggest gaming event of the year, E3!

On this episode Mike and Jon discuss the most recent episode of the Flash directed by Kevin Smith and what has happened to everyones favorite speedster now that he's spent time with the, albeit, creepy Speed Force who I don't think understands the meaning of relaxing environments (FYI Talking to a person at the recreation of their mother's crime scene probably not so relaxing). The duo the discuss the recent out cropping of reviews from early screenings of X-Men Apocalypse, from what it sounds like, its all bad, very bad. And of course the Spring/Summer Seasons of some of our favorite shows are coming to a close and we are losing some major TV shows and gaining, well, nothing really important.

A bookend to our initial review and discussion of Captain America: Civil War, Jon  give's Mike his full review of the film after having seen it twice in 24 hours, the two then delve into this months issue of the Walking Dead and talk about the best day of the year, Free Comic Book Day that took place on May 7th. They then dive into the reveals from EA and Activison of their long running franchises, Battlefield and Call of Duty, for their latest iterations. Finally Mike and Jon disucss NVIDIA's big announcement of their newest graphics cards, the 1080 and the 1070, and the possible drive this will give them to build new PCs.

On this episode Mike is joined by Chris to discuss the most recent release, Captain America: Civil War and the discussion regarding its merit amongst the other MCU films and what the addition of Spider-Man did for the movie itself. Warning, if you have not seen Captain America: Civil War DO NOT listen to this episode as Mike and Chirs spoil a vast majority of the film. 

On this episode Mike and Jon dig into the the importance of having a solid family support system at a young age (or otherwise you may become a murderous speeder) and other philosophical quandaries that The Flash present us with. We also discuss the current state of the DC Extended Universe, Fear The Walking Dead's (numerous) failings, as well our current obsession with the Duck Game and Rocket League. Stay tuned till the end because we're giving stuff away! Yeah, STUFF! 

On this episode Mike and Jon welcome guest and possible new co-host Chris to the show and finally have a full discussion on Batman v Superman (Since Mike actually went to see it). The gang then discusses what went wrong and write with the Season 6 Walking Dead finale and how it effected the introduction to everyone's favorite barbed wire bat swinging lunatic, Negan. 

The fearless duo conquer a large amount of conversations in this long-ish epsiode. From Mike's 30th Birthday to Walking Dead and the Flash to discussing the latest DC jaunt into the Cinematic Universe. Just as a heads up if you have not seen Batman V Superman, Jon lays on some spoilers at the 48 minute mark!

On this episode of Beard Stroking BS: Mike and Jon talk about Rick and Co's attack on the outpost (RIP DJ Khaled and Glenn's innocence), Jon give Mike's a ton of crap regarding never having watched Game of Thrones, the duo discuss some comic books like Chew, Titan's Assassins Creed run of comics, and the fact that Mike hasn't finished Secret Wars (FOR SHAME!!!). Mike gives his first impressions on Ubisoft's The Division in which he discusses the pros: great loot system and the cons: playing with higher level friends will get you insta-killed. Jon and Mike talk about the March Madness update to Rocket League and their thoughts of potentially playing it.