Fight Me!

Episode 31! 

A couple episodes ago we tore apart fandoms, but now a champion has arisen to defend their honor! This week our guest Annabelle comes to fight for the good side of fandoms in response to Episode 29's topic. We cover the ins and outs of what fandoms are really all about. (Hint- it is not the Hokey Pokey (except for the Hokey Pokey fandom (in which case that very much IS what they are all about)))

Episode 30 (flirty and thriving) 

SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains heavy spoilers for what we think The Girl On The Train is probably about. 

This week Beau and Rob are joined by a couple of the hosts from Of Myths and Men, a podcast about mythology and menology (except not menology because apparently that's a real word that means something else). They came to find out once and for all which God of Thunder reigns supreme, Thor or Zeus? And along they way they all learn a thing or two about horse-beings, Daniel Radcliffe, terrible things happening to lettuce, and the extended Thomas-verse. 

Episode 29! This week we've got one of our fan-favorite guests back in the super fancy recording studio- Danni Hepp! She came to talk about how fandoms are awful and full of terrible people, and honestly, we barely fight her on it. Think of this one as more of a "us vs fans" instead of the usual host v guest set up. We rip apart fans of across all of nerd culture, in the hopes that people will just be a bit nicer to each other. 

28 episodes later....

This week Rob and Beau are joined by hosts of the movie podcast LoveWatch, Justin and Ricky, for a debate about one of the most polarizing directors in Hollywood. They try to determine what it means to be an artist, they address the complex relationship between artist and audience, and most importantly, they mourn the cinematic tragedy that was The Last Airbender (Beau is still hella bitter about that one). 

We now have as many episodes as there are dresses in the film 27 Dresses (I assume). 

This week Beau and Rob are joined by the hosts of The Untitled Gaming Podcast to argue about the immersiveness of media, then they keep up the gaming theme with a death match between two classic characters- Spyro the Dragon, and Mario the... not dragon. 

Episode 26 sees the return of the good old host fight. Back by popular demand, we go guestless this week and let Beau and Rob do their classic Beau and Rob thing (which in this case means bicker about the finer points of a zombie apocalypse.)
We fight about if it could happen, how it would happen, and how we could stop it, and Rob has to spend a concerning amount of time talking Beau down from nuclear destruction. 

Then in our death match of the week, we celebrate the upcoming release of M Knight Shyamalan's Avengers with a deathmatch between a couple of his creations. Things get real scrunty. 

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Kicking off the New Year with episode 25! 

We're back in action with our first ever double guest fight, Beau and Rob go toe to toe with hosts of the new podcast My Scientist Friend, Garrett Merz and Abby Lamb, on the portrayal of science culture in The Big Bang Theory. Then we have a hypothetical deathmatch inspired by a 6th graders English journal prompt- Teddy Bear v Unicorn. 

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Just like Jack Bauer. 

Episode 24 is our last episode of the year, and we wrap things up by rehashing some familiar arguments, and this trip down memory lane leads us straight to Whoville, where two notorious faux-Santa's face off. 

See you in the New Year! 

Episode 23 brings us another important discussion about equality and representation in the arts with special guest Nigel Barnes, then Beau and Rob blow off some steam with a hypothetical deathmatch between the world's toy favorite wild boys- Mowgli v Tarzan: Rumble in the Jungle. 

Also heavily featuring special guest Rob's Bad Christopher Walken Impression. 

Episode 22 seemed like the perfect time to streamline our format. 

From now on we're making these episodes more focused on the guests, so we can spend more time explaining to them why they're wrong about things. But don't worry, we still wrap things up some real weird death matches. This week we're joined by Danni Hepp, who has some OPINIONS about Batman. Then we double up on the hypothetical death matches with 2 of our more unusual pairings- Shark v Train, and Captain Planet v Litter.

Rock and Roll is here to stay, and it'll never die. 

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