BEST ROOM EVER REUNION TOUUUR oh god this is a long one. This episode is nearly five hours long, and I hope you’re ready for that. Be ready. Be so ready. Have your body entirely too ready. So ready that your body actually starts to break down on a molecular level. Your body is slowly slipping through reality. You are now one with a cheeseburger in an alternate universe. You have arrived. None of this has anything to do with the episode in the least bit, just keep reading.

This week’s big topics include Mystery Skulls, Metal Gear Solid music, The Carpenters, Reign of Kindo, Steam Powered Giraffe, Paprika OST, Dancing with the Stars, Lilo & Stitch, Muppet Treasure Island, The Amazing Spider-Man, Batman (1989), Monsters University, Free!, Watamote, Attack on Titan, Hell’s Kitchen, Shinsekai, Breaking Bad, It’s Always Sunny in Philadephia, Pokemon, 101 Dalmations, Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, Last of Us, Shin Megami Tensei IV, Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, Toontown, Naya’s Quest, Chrono Trigger, Crash 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Pokemon White 2, Grand Theft Auto V, and the unfortunate death of Hiroshi Yamauchi.

GUEST APPEARANCES: Darkurai and Peofun1

ENDING SONG: Please Mr. Postman ~ The Carpenters

EASTER EGG(S): Fiction/Darkurai is obsessed/COOKING PAPA

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Now this is one we can get behind! Outside of a few bad choices this list isn’t all that terrible! … For IGN! We agree with a lot of it, but we also disagree with a lot of it. This week’s list is IGN’s Top 100 Animated Series of all time and as usual it includes a whole bunch of duds, a good amount of winners, and a lot Ben and Doba saying of “I’ve never seen this.” Oh IGN, your lists are wrong about 80% of the time, and yet if you didn’t keep on keeping on with them we’d be out of a job here.

The List In Question.

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LIVE FROM THE RAMADA INN is one of us. It’s noisy there, it’s weird that it’s noisy there but then again it is a hotel lobby. Which is where our guest is. At a hotel. Where his college put him. And has had him there for like a month apparently. Am I the only one that finds that weird? Yes? Okay.

This week’s big topics include the Mario Galaxy OST, Hyrule Symphony, 808 and the Heartbreaks, Disney Dudez, Hanni el Katib, Jake Bugg, Lumminers, The Impresario, FantomenK, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Bob’s Burgers, RIN, Trigun, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Despicable Me 2, Now You See Me, Neon Genesis Evangelion, End of Evangelion, The Muppet Movie, The Muppet Show, MS Igloo, Adventure Time, Sudden Death, Lionheart, One Piece, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Beautiful Katamari, LA Noire, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Batman: Arkham City, Bully, Saint’s Row IV, Chrono Trigger, Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Layton Bros: Mystery Room, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Paper Mario, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, SSX 3, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, Triple Town, Steambirds, A Hat In Time, and Bill Nye on Dancing With the Stars.

GUEST APPEARANCES: Marty

ENDING SONG: Disney Dudez ~ Todrick Hall & IM5

EASTER EGG(S): “You guys credited me in one of your videos…”

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Woah woah woah woah woah woah, what’s this? The second episode of Shoot the Shit and we blow our last episode out of the water big time? What is this an actual quality podcast all the sudden? Well, no this is basically a fluke but that’s not the point. The point is our guest this time is amazing and we were super fortunate to have him on.

Our guest for this episode of STS is none other than Matthew Taranto, who you might recognize as the artist and writer behind a small little webcomic called Brawl in the Family (maybe you’ve heard of it (of course you’ve heard of it)). He was super nice and more than willing to talk with us about Nintendo and comics and all sorts of other stuff. This is probably Doba’s new favorite thing that RTM has ever done in its near three years of runtime, so it is definitely worth a listen!

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Another List rears its ugly face as Ben and Doba prepare to take it by the horns! Except not really. Because it’s a list. This time it’s IGN’s list of the Top 100 PS2 Games, because we should all be in agreement that the PS2 is one of the best systems ever made. There are a lot of sports games on this list.

The List In Question.

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From the people who brought you Shrek the Third and the Madagascar sequels comes a new terrifying experience of audionotvisual unentertainment the likes of which the world has never seen before and will never see again! You’ll cry, you’ll get angry, you might laugh if you feel like giving it some pity! ….. Also PsychoWing’s in this one. So that’s pretty cool.

This week’s big topics include Brawl in the Family podcast, Maria Bamford, Seussical, Pokemon: The Eevee EP, Sonata Arctica, Asdfgfa, Statovarius, Raise Your Fist (Doro), Final Fantasy VI: Balance & Ruin, Kick-Ass, Paprika, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jobs, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, Vegan Black Metal Chef, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Daria, Sailor Moon, Moon Prism Power Hour, The Quiet Man, North By Northwest, Psycho, Soylent Green, Everything Will Be Okay, Dial M for Murder, Pikmin 3, Half-Life 2, Pokemon Showdown, Rugrats: All Grown Up, The Last of Us, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Gone Home, The Sims 3, Final Fantasy VI, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Duck Tales Remastered, Super Meat Boy, Bloons Tower Defense 4, Pom Gets Wifi, Mortal Kombat, Mario Party 2, Saint’s Row 4, Kiss buying a football team, the Earthbound writer feeling content now, and Ben Affleck as Batman.

GUEST APPEARANCES: PsychoWingX9

ENDING SONG: Having A Hunch  ~ Seussical

EASTER EGG(S): Moon Prism Power Hour extras

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Yet another installment of The List, this time with GamesRadar’s list of the top 100 villains in the video game world. It’s a long one to go through and shortly after Ben and Doba sort of realize that they still have a lot more games to experience if they want to be able to recognize all 100.

The List In Question

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THEY USE THEIR FUCKING NECKS AS WHIPS.

This week’s big topics include the Radiata Stories soundtrack, Brawl in the Family’s podcast, Ivor Cutler, Charles Trenet, Devo, Secret of Mana, Neon Genesis Evanelion, Aint No Rest for the Wicked, Pacific Rim, Old Boy, Evangelion 3.33, Game of Thrones, Archer, Other Places, Two Best Friends Play Deadly Premonition, Boardwalk Empire, Bit.Trip Runner, Final Fantasy VI, A League of Their Own, Kamen Rider W, Friendship is Witchcraft, The Nutty Professor, Bee & Puppycat, Snowdrop, Red Letter Media, Drake & Josh, Borderlands, The Last of Us, Kirby games, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, giraffes fighting, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Gunpoint, System Shock II, Mafia II, Paper Mario, Star Wars Battlefront II, Epic Mafia, Hitman: Blood Money, and the mystery behind PronunciationBook.

GUEST APPEARANCE(S): TonyTH

ENDING SONG: ポニーリミックス ~ oodorato2 (I don’t know either)

EASTER EGG(S): Animal Crossing, Dream Team, and Super Mario Bros. Z

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And our second side show rears its head with Shoot the Shit! In this show Ben and I hope to find guests more important than ourselves in the grand internet scheme (aka people with more fans than us (aka everyone)) and embarrass ourselves whilst simultaneously just striking some casual conversation with them. Unlike The List which will have a set release schedule, this show will simply happen when it happens or when we can get guests. Got somebody you want us to try and get? Let us know!

This episode we have Steve, Saul, and Travis of Pokemon Podcast on the show. We talk about everything from pokeships, trainer names, non-Pokemon games we enjoy, to board games. It was a pretty good session that ended in a mutual hatred of Monopoly from all but one of us, and is definitely worth a listen.

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Pokemon Podcast– Twitter, Tumblr

Steve- Twitter

Saul- Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube

Travis- Twitter, This Is My Jam, The Reel House

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Welcome to RTM’s The List, a new side show to hopefully be released on weekends opposite regular RTM episodes. In this series Doba and Ben will search the internet for lists that people or sites have compiled about nerd stuff. Because if there’s one thing nerds love it’s lists.

This week’s list is a list from IMDB of the Top 50 Nerd Movies of the Past 10 Years. Boy oh boy did this one have some… interesting choices.

The List In Question

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