Off Target Podcast

This week Mike, James and Andrew gather around the table to discuss revenge movies, why we love them, how they cross genres and why Denzel Washington is so damn good in them!

Main Topic Starts at 41:20

Highlights from the first half:

-James Talks Up Mr. Robot

-Breaking Bad vs. Better Call Saul

-Spoilers for Wolfenstein: The New Order

-Mike Makes A Terrible Moth Joke

-Andrew is Really Into Until Dawn

-Killing Of The Sacred Deer Is A Bit Disturbing

-We Workshop Some Podcast Tweaks Live On Air

-We Create A Penis Based Ratings System

-Mike Beat Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

-Mike Talks The Daddy's Home Duology

-We Discuss Jumanji And Our Fears About The Sequel

Main Topic Starts at 41:20

Break Music: Tear You Apart By She Wants Revenge

Just in time for Thanksgiving and the 50th anniversary of the song's release (though about a month late!) Mike sits down to talk about that Thanksgiving tradition, Alice's Restaurant!

Music: Alice's Restaurant intro by Arlo Guthrie

​​​​This week Mike, James, and Andrew talk about the most iconic cars in pop culture. Before our main topic, the crew catches up with a roundtable discussion about what we've played, watched, listened to and read during the week.

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT ROUGHLY 60 min.

This week we close out the Halloween season by recapping our week and then doing a deep dive movie club on It Follows.

As always, make sure you watch the movie or don't care about spoilers before listening!

It Follows discussion starts at about 55 min.

This Week:

Mike sits down to celebrate Friday The 13th by taking a look at all of the games starring Jason Vorhees.

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​​​​This week Mike, Erin, James and Andrew stumble into a main topic that we didn't plan on talking about! Some book talk leads us to dissect E-books and online shopping as a whole.

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT ROUGHLY 30 min.

Highlights from the opening:

- We have a bit of a false start

-We talk about The Tick and The Maxx

-Erin talks books with "One Damn Thing After Another"

-Erin, hilariously, does not realize the book takes place in England and spends 10 min confused as why the characters don't act more American

-Tea Vs. Coffee

-James talks about drawing

-Andrew has a terrible fake NY accent

-Andrew talks music with The Osees

-Andrew tlaks books with "Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"

-We talk the new Marc Maron special and then accidentally trip into our main topic

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT ROUGHLY 30 min

​​​​This week Mike, Erin, James and Andrew sit down to discuss our week in media and then lament over the absolute worst ways to die in a video game.

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT 41 min.

Highlights from the opening:

- Erin Continues his retro journey with Pillars of Eternity and Divinity: Original Sin

-We all discuss Old vs. Modern RPG design

-Minor Saints Row 4 Spoilers

-We Talk Wanted, both the terrible movie and the dark as hell comic

-We argue about D and D rules

-Andrew gets hostile

-Andrew sheds some light on the Darkest Dungeon DLC

-Andrew talks music with The Osees

-Mike briefly runs down the new Friday the 13th updates

-Mike discusses music from Maps and Atlases and we all discuss discovering music on youtube

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT 41 min

This week we sit down for another game club so that Mike can FINALLY play thumper after almost a year of urging from Andrew and James.

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT 63 min.

Highlights from the opening:

- James gives his final thoughts on Transistor

-More Tekken 7 Talk

-We argue about how much we collectively like Saints Row 4

-Triple H Gaming

-Digital > Physical

-Andrew talks about Michael Bluth's dark turn in Ozark

-Sonic Mania: great if you like Sonic

-Mike's hates Sonic and always has

-Andrew and James laugh at thier own jokes 

-Andrew schools us on Darkest Dungeon DLC

-Mike talks Final Fantasy 1

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT 63 min

This Week the gang hangs out and talks about Theme Parks!

While we do hit the big guns, we also spend a lot of time talking about local favorites.

Main Topic Starts at 59 min.

Highlights From The Show:

-James Gets salty with the crew

-we talk about a video that does not record

-we sing the HOTTEST summer jams of the early 2000's

-Andrew gets philosophical

-Erin talks about MLB the Show

-Mike Pitches a Money Ball game

-The crew talks UFC and boxing

-James and Andrew work out their relationship issues

-James talks chronicles of teddy

-We talk about Super Giant Games

-Andrew talks sundered

-We educate Erin on common video game terms

-Adventures of SlugCat with Andrew

-Mike Replays Wolfenstein: The New Order

-Mike talks Final Fantasy

-James is concerned for mike

Main Topic Starts at 59 min.

​​​​​​​This week we return to Mike's garage (minus James and Andrew) to talk about the show Community. We basically geek out and ramble on for about an hour and a half about how much we love the show

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT 30 min.

Highlights from the opening:

-More Manchester Orchestra talk

-Mike tries to paint a word picture

-We encourage bands to sell out

-Erin talks about the small details in movies that drive us nuts

-Mike is clearly insane and plans to play all of the Final Fantasy games ever made in order.

MAIN TOPIC STARTS AT 30min