Trump gets indicted, and Woody and I do a special same-day reaction podcast.

We ended up recording for much longer than this, and discussing a whole bunch of other things as well.  But I trimmed it down in order to focus more on all our commentary specifically related to the indictment... and in order to get the episode up sooner rather than later.  I may or may not use the rest for a separate episode later on.

It's been a slow couple months in political news, but Woody and I are back to cover the little bits and pieces.

In this episode, we touch on:
The revelations about Fox News from the Dominion Voting Machines trial, Classified documents, Speaker votes, Trump potential indictments, Approval ratings and polling errors, Biden's age, Who'd be President now if Hillary had won in 2016, Playing it safe in Presidential elections in general and in 2024, The main thing you really need to be a good President, Student loans and vocational schools, The need to get people learning more, Public schools and people's disrespect of expertise, The book-banning of both sides and how the issue should be handled instead, Covid lockdowns and misinformation, China and India populations and Covid, Indian doctors educated in the US, Asian culture and stereotypes, Maternity leave and relative benefits, Political control of DC (the district itself), How a "National Divorce" would go, How Joe Manchin politically exists, Some local Maryland politics, Trump's popularity going back up, and Who Trump's running mate would be in 2024.

And we wrap up with some closing thoughts on a possible upcoming Trump indictment, and which type of government official fortunately never seems to have any big scandals.

In this episode, I sit down with fellow Elden Lord and/or Ranni Consort Joe Comberiate and we talk Elden Ring.

Part three goes into all the little things that annoyed us about the game, then touches on some of the key points of the lore.

The game is absolutely massive, with all sorts of different facets to it, so it's impossible to cover everything.

Theoretically, this discussion contains spoilers for the whole game... but, in reality, this isn't the type of game with massive revelations and surprise plot twists, so you'll still really enjoy the game a ton regardless of what you hear about it.

Here's a link to MissMikkaa's video where she simultaneously defeats one Malenia with a PS5 controller and another one with a Dance Pad-- thus ensuring that Malenia knows "the feet":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjdK44BXHD4

In this episode, I sit down with fellow Elden Lord and/or Ranni Consort Joe Comberiate and we talk Elden Ring.

Part two picks up with some of the other specific things we really enjoyed about the game.

The game is absolutely massive, with all sorts of different facets to it, so it's impossible to cover everything.

Theoretically, this discussion contains spoilers for the whole game... but, in reality, this isn't the type of game with massive revelations and surprise plot twists, so you'll still really enjoy the game a ton regardless of what you hear about it.

In this episode, I sit down with fellow Elden Lord and/or Ranni Consort Joe Comberiate and we talk Elden Ring.

Part one starts us off with general thoughts, comparisons to other great games, and some of the specific things that we really enjoyed about the game.

Elden Ring is absolutely massive, with all sorts of different facets to it, so it's virtually impossible to cover everything.  So we ended up giving it about three hours and touched on what we could in that time.

Theoretically, this discussion contains spoilers for the whole game... but, in reality, this isn't the type of game with massive revelations and surprise plot twists, so you'll still really enjoy the game a ton regardless of what you hear about it ahead of time.

In this episode, I take advantage of being in Florida to find out more about this Ron DeSantis guy, who is quite likely to be a major factor in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election... perhaps even the Republican nominee.

Dave Comberiate and I also discuss the election for Mayor of Jacksonville which is being held on March 21st.  It's a more moderate city than most in this country, so the results will give us a useful data point on what the political climate in Florida is _really_ like now, without all the money that was dumped into DeSantis's re-election campaign in 2022.

In this episode, I sit down with long-time Super Nintendo Entertainment System aficionado, Dave Comberiate!

This is a tie-in with my Metroidvania episodes, so-- after discussing the Super Nintendo in general-- we start off with the Mother (Brain?) of all Metroidvania games, Super Metroid itself.  Then we go into a bunch of other SNES games.  I give a quick overview of each first, then we discuss Dave's memories and impressions of the game from back in the day, other things we remember about it, and whether or not Dave has played the game again relatively recently.

Here's the full list of games we cover, in order:

Super Metroid
SimCity
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Mega Man X3
7th Saga
The Donkey Kong Country series
Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
Super Mario Kart
Tecmo Super Bowl
Super Mario RPG
Super Punch-Out!!
Contra III: The Alien Wars

So, take a trip down memory lane and feel some nostalgia... and, while you're at it, you may even hear about some hidden gems that you've never played before!

This may be our most controversial episode yet.

Along with addressing various recent news events, Woody and I discuss college educations, expertise, learning, and readjusting today's world... then we get into the good and bad sides of religion, compared with morality in general.

We wrap up with carefully treading the line of cancellation by saying some things that really need to be said.

And, just in case it's not controversial enough already, the ambient noise in the background includes some incidental copyrighted music that couldn't be edited out.

Better download and share now while you still can!

In this episode, I talk with renowned family Daredevil expert Amy Comberiate, as well as renowned assistant family Daredevil expert, Joe Comberiate.  Major topic covered include:

-Catholicism and its depictions in Daredevil and otherwise.

-Daredevil's relationships with the other major characters from the 2015 series-- Foggy, Karen, Claire Temple, Stick, The Punisher, Elektra, Dex (Bullseye), and, of course, Kingpin.

-Thoughts on adapting the character to the MCU, what they've started with and where they may be going from here.

Finally, Joe and Amy's one-year-old son Joseph weighs in a little too!  (Plus, there's an outtake at the very end.)

This is that "Christmas Special" Woody was talking about.  Well, kind of.  It's a potpourri of all sorts of topics as they stand within the context of recent news.  We even branch out into some whole new topics like modern artificial intelligence with self-driving cars, and radio transmission.  And we discuss valuing American culture, valuing expertise, and valuing learning in general.