Beard Stroking Bullsh*t

This episode covers a bit of ground regarding the season finale of Game Of Thrones, Jon catches up on Stranger Things, Mike discusses his time with the Raid: World War II beta and the two discuss Gamepire's upcoming game, SCUM, which seems to have some interesting premises to it. All this and a little discussion regarding an update on Jon's use of the Vive.

On this episode Mike and Jon discuss where Game Of Thrones is leading towards in the season finale and Mike's opinions on his binge of Agents of Shield...which leads into a conversation regarding back to the ultimate MCU vs DCEU topic and why Marvel has been the stand out in this. Also on this episode Jon and Mike delve into the world of YouTube/Streaming and if Stream Sniping...or Stream Honking, should be bannable offenses. Sega/Yu Suzuki released a new trailer for Shenmue 3 and lets just say Ryu looks like he hails from the Valley of the Dolls, and finally Mike and Jon talk about the clusterfuck that is the SNES Classic pre-order situation and what it will be like getting a system when it actually releases.

On this episode Mike and Jon are joined by the head of Alterna Comics, Peter Simeti, in which they discuss how this conversation came to be, Mike and Jon's impressions of issue number one of The Chair and whats next for the realm of Indie Comics. The guys also talk a bit about Peter/Alterna's recently launched Kickstarter for The Chair (DVD/Blu Ray Release). Mike, Jon, and Peter decide to reconvene in October when, as Peter says, The Chair really gets going.   

On this episode, Mike starts out covering the end of Peter Capaldi's reign as The Doctor and the coming arrival of Jodi Whittaker's 13th Doctor, which as usual when things change, people have issues and we discuss why those issues are wrong. Next Jon and Mike discuss all the information released from this years San Diego Comic-Con including but not limited to Stranger Things, Justice League, Ready Player One, and Marvel's Infinity War. To round out the episode Jon launches into our favorite topic as of late, PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds in which they announced they will be selling keys for their Gamescom Tournament at $2.50 a pop, which has irked many in the community, including Jon.

On this weeks epsiode, Mike and Jon take a SPOILER (So if you haven't seen it DON'T listen to the first 22 minutes!) filled look at the recently released Spider-Man Homecoming (and their love that Peter/Spider-Man has a home with the MCU). Mike and Jon discuss PlayerUnknown's latest info dump regarding next months update (including First Person Only servers) and the ban of DrDisrespect and the ensuing twitter beef regarding the Team Kill issue that lead to Doc's ban, which leads to Mike and Jon discussing the toxic community of H1Z1. Mike discusses how good Preacher's second season on AMC is, including Joe Gilgun as Cassidy the Irish Vampire. Rounding out the episode Mike and Jon discuss the return of Game of Thrones (SPOILERS) and the feelings they had to the first episode of the 7th season.  Mike hints at an upcoming guest that was born out of a twitter beef with an Bleeding Cool writer and a review that contained spoilers with no warning.

On this shorter episode Mike and Jon discuss their pick ups over the course of the Steam Summer Sale, what the are still playing including Mike's return to the Mojave Wastelands of Fallout New Vegas (slightly modded), Jon discusses his return to King of the Kill, and the guys wrap up with the discussion of Nintendo's latest throwback, the SNES Classic.

On this episode Mike and Jon discuss what they thought of this years E3, from Microsoft and Sony and their "newest" systems and the announcements behind the latest games from Ubisoft, EA, Bethesda, and then some. Mike and Jon also discuss what left them wanting more and the situations where E3 left them feel lacking.

Mike and Jon jump straight into speculating and predicting what might be announced at this years E3. On top of that they begin to discuss and decipher what each press conference will handle and what games will be talked about. Will there be any major surprises? Will Microsoft announce the Xbox Scorpio at a lower price point than the PS4 Pro to catch up to Sony? Who will become victorious at this years E3?

Mike and Jon discuss and grieve the loss of (SPOILER) in the Walking Dead #167, and while its been a while since we've lost anyone major, the sting is still there. Mike opted to catch the Fear the Walking Dead 2 hour premiere which is full of gore and surprises (Mike drops a spoiler regarding a main character death FYI). Jon gives a quick run down of everything he loved about Wonder Woman but refrains from going too indepth since Mike hasn't seen it yet. Jon takes a stab as a non-biased reviewer to the new Dispatch album, America Location 12, Mike still gives his biased thoughts on the album. Mike also quickly reviews the Maynard James Keenan Biography/Auto-biography "A Perfect Union of Contrary Things". The fellas end the episode talking about Nitendo's plan for online for the Switch.