Listen. Sometimes you set out on a walk without a destination in mind. Sometimes, there are detours. Other times, there are distractions. But the important thing is that you took a walk.

We do talk about Persona in this episode.

Thanks to:- Out friend Peter for the gift of his New Game Plus, ~and~ for letting us play his copy of the game!- All the friends who talk to us and help us in different ways. Our social links are very important!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!

Three relatively uneventful days in Persona 4 and one extremely tiring one in the real world combine for a very goofy episode. Load this save file for our first Genuine Gay Moment, yet another impromptu cover of Somebody to Love, and Nick promising to literally eat an entire comic book!

Thanks to:- Out friend Peter for the gift of his New Game Plus, ~and~ for letting us play his copy of the game!- All the friends who talk to us and help us in different ways. Our social links are very important!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!

We accidentally watched the new Pokémon movie, which surprised us by also being a Persona movie! Get in the car with us after the cinematic event that changed us forever. Here comes trouble!

Thank you to everyone who has ever made or played a Pokémon.

The Trash Boys are back in town! In fact, most of them are loitering in the Junes lobby. In this new era of the show, we’re doing fewer days at a time, so we can really savor each moment. Unfortunately, Yosuke really makes us question that decision.

Thanks to:- Out friend Peter for the gift of his New Game Plus, ~and~ for lending us the game to get started!- All the friends who talk to us and help us in different ways. Our social links are very important!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!

Freshen up with a stick of Zebra Strip gum, because we’re about to hit The Club! We venture into Rise’s monotonously provocative dungeon, wrestle with Teddie’s Toy Story crisis, and put on new costumes so Kanji won’t recognize us.

Thanks to:- Out friend Peter for the gift of his New Game Plus, ~and~ for lending us the game to get started!- All the friends who talk to us and help us in different ways. Our social links are very important!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!

The only thing worse than sleeping in the woods is the way Yosuke acts when we camp with him! This was a tough week, folks; we got pretty frustrated but managed to have a productive conversation about the crimes committed by both Persona’s writers and their characters on the big school trip.

Let’s explore agency, fate, and the inevitability of video game friendship. We reject the GameFAQ approach to romance, and then our rivalmance with Persona deepens.

Thanks to:- Out friend Peter for the gift of his New Game Plus, ~and~ for lending us the game to get started!- All the friends who talk to us and help us in different ways. Our social links are very important!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!

Put on a single-color outfit and join us for this Special Friday Episode! Let’s explore what friendship even is, all the ways food can awkwardly express love, and our pitch for next season’s hottest retail experience.

Thanks to:- Out friend Peter for the gift of his New Game Plus, ~and~ for lending us the game to get started!- All the friends who talk to us and help us in various ways. Our social links are very important!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!

Which purse will YOU date? Shannon Strucci joins us on our summer break to talk about parasocial relationships and the therapeutic potential of gaming. Also, we watch the pilot of the Persona 4 Anime, which is a rough episode of television. Come on in!

You can find more of Shannon’s work at youtube.com/struccimovies and on Twitter @plentyofalcoves.

We recommend starting with “why you should care about VIDEO GAMES”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhWl_IwJrGwor “SO YOU WANNA BE A FILM NERD”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NsVB7zvPd8

Thanks to:- Our friend Shannon for joining us on this episode!- Out friend Peter for the gift of his New Game Plus, ~and~ for lending us the game to get started!- All the friends who talk to us and help us in various ways. Our social links are very important!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!

008: The B Team (Persona 4, June 3–June 9)

Special guest Peter Reitz from the Now Kiss podcast joins us to talk about Kanji's Dungeon and a series of terrible conversations between horrible boys. Sleepy boy, umbrella student, and list guy form another investigation team behind the scenes. We get a brand new desk directly from hell.

Now Kiss is a podcast about making fake people really kiss. It’s available on LibSyn: http://nowkisscast.libsyn.comAnd iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/now-kiss/id1247686852

Thanks to:- Our friend Peter for joining us on this episode, and for the gift of his New Game Plus, ~and~ for lending us the game to get started!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!

What is… “real”? Real love? Real family? Real… food? We’re becoming experts on all of these topics: we embrace the throes of romance, dig deep into a family’s dark past, and try to eat… whatever it is Yukiko put in this lunchbox. There’s may be no such thing as ethical friendship under capitalism, but we might as well try.

Also: Vampires!

Thanks to:- Our friend Peter for the gift of his New Game Plus, and for lending us the game to get started!- Atlus and the Persona team for making these great games, and Shoji Meguro for composing such awesome music!- You, for listening!