Lica, Jesse and Nate go back and forth about the controversy on the making of the "Rings of Power" show coming to Amazon Prime and if they should have the freedom to produce a show based on a series that was a gift to the British people that steers away from the original concepts. Is that fraud and a disservice to Tolkien? Is boycotting the show enough to steer Amazon to next time produce a show more accurate to the original content? 

Lica, Jesse, and Nate discuss a new hot topic of former president Donald Trump home being raided for documents that are assumed to be taken upon leaving the White House; we are unsure if anything of substance was actually found. Then we discuss Gen Z and the idea of them already experiencing burnout, and possible reasons why. We discuss the desire for most is to be social media influencers, and how we see a lack of actual labor workers in our future. 

Nate & Jesse discuss their top 5 anime movies, which ones left the most impact and why? Then an interesting question came up for Nate & Jesse as they reflected on being Anime fans in the 90’s. Now that anime has transition to the mainstream, are we (those who were fans of Anime before it was cool) anime hipsters?

Lica, Jesse, and Nate talk about the TikTok Influencer, Wren Eleanor who is a young tiktok influencer with millions of followers and when does this exposure become exploitation? Should her mother be able to collect money from her social media revenues, and are their law for children influences? Then we talk about the principal of Robb Elementary who is on administrative leave not responding correct to a breach in security before the Texas School Shooting. Lastly, we walk about the importance of rough and tumble play for children and their development. We talk about the effects of not providing rough and tumble play for children and how this type of play is mislabeled as aggression. 

Lica, Jesse, and Nate come back from an almost, month-long hiatus due to getting COVID for the second time. We talk about new updated information that has surfaced from the Uvalde mass shooting. We talk about the lack of response of law enforcement and then we begin talking about a bunch of other stuff. We discuss family dynamics, and accountability. We discuss the thoughts on the importance of a father figure in the household, and our thoughts of marriage/having kids and which was more of a commitment. 

We continue our series “Escaping the vision” talking about our experiences while being a part of victory outreach ministries with three, yes three special guests. These are their stories.

Jesse and Nate give their first impressions on the new gameplay for sonic frontiers. Does it need more time in the oven? Then we take a moment to gush over the new trailer for Street fighter 6! lastly, we ask the question...who handled the multiverses better? The multiverse of madness? Or everything everywhere all at once?

Today we discuss the awful shooting that took place last week in Uvalde Texas when an 18-year-old first shot his grandmother than going to Robb Elementary and takes hostage two classrooms killing two teachers and nineteen students. We discuss our disappointment in the police who did not respond in a timely manner along with the mental health issues that adolescents must face with social media. Then after several week of the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard the verdict is finally in ... We talk about what that might mean for the #MeToo movement, future acting gigs, and the memorable quotes from the trial. 

We begin a series sharing our experiences we had while attending a religious organization and our realization of its cult like tendencies. We share stories of our time there and how our experiences still affect us daily in our workplaces, sexuality, and daily lives. We invited a guest that we've known for over 10 years who also attended the same organization and ask her to share her experiences, as well.

Lica joins us once again in this episode we talk about the new sonic movie “sonic the hedgehog 2” and how good it surprisingly was. Also, Sega finally gives Sonic origins a release date. Nate has already per-ordered it. We also talk about movie etiquette.