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In todays episode of SNP Andy and Ryan talk about Dexter, Death Note and Michale C Hall and their ideas for Death Note live action adaptations.

Episode 9 of Kingdom Hearts and Other Stuff brings forth my first guest who is completely new and unknown to me prior to recording! Liam Frady, also known as Byte Mapper, is a synthwave musician who wanted to come on to chat about Square's Golden Age of video games - from the 90s to the early 2000s.

You can find Liam's music at bytemapper.bandcamp.com, where he has just released a new EP, as well as on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, and Deezer! Just search for ByteMapper on any of those platforms and you'll find his smooth grooves. He's also on Twitter, @bytemappermusic.

This week, Stan and Ryan get together to talk Flamecon and BOOKS!

Yes, finally a majority of the episode is dedicated to the books we're reading now, and our favorite authors. Surprisingly(?) we tend to lean toward the horror genre.

It's also Stan's final (regular) episode of the show, so make sure you tune in!

Thanks for listening!

Kingdom Hearts II by Disney and Square Enix is a video game originally released for the PlayStation 2 in 2005.

Kingdom Hearts II by Alexa Ray Corriea is a book originally released in both paperback and e-book formats in 2017.

Both are excellent.

Alexa's book takes an in-depth look at the stellar game; the characters, the themes, the lessons to be learned, and a whole lot more. Unfortunately she's not my guest this week; in fact, I don't have a guest at all! So instead I shake things up by doing a kind of solo book club where I break down and analyze the book Kingdom Hearts II, which breaks down and analyzes the game Kingdom Hearts II. Fun, right?

I reviewed the book previously, on episode 120 of Super Nerd Pals. You can find that episode here: https://soundcloud.com/supernerdpals/snp-120-1198-xehanort-radio

You can also find (and purchase!) Alexa's book at Boss Fight Books, right here: https://bossfightbooks.com/products/kingdom-hearts-ii-by-alexa-ray-corriea

Welcome to episode 150 of SNP. In this episode Andy and Joe talk about most of the Evo announcements and tackle the topic of tech issues.

In episode 7 of Kingdom Hearts and Other Stuff I am joined by Norwegian video games journalist Espen Jansen, an avid KH fan who brings the broad topic of Disney to the plate. We discuss a variety of mini-topics such as our favorite Disney worlds and characters throughout the series and worlds and characters we'd like to see in Kingdom Hearts III (or future entries), culminating in a chat about Disney's waxing and waning importance in the series.

You can read Espen's works (if you're able to read Norwegian, that is) over at gamer.no, and you can follow him on Twitter, @EspenJanz.

KHAOS also has a Twitter of its own now, @KHAOScast!

Stan and Andy get together to discuss all things San Diego Comic Con 2018--their favorite and most hyped news, and lament the lack of Willem Dafoe in the latest Aquaman trailer.

Shazaam!

At the end of the day my goal with Kingdom Hearts and Other Stuff is to convince more people to play Kingdom Hearts, and in episode 6 I talk to my first official convert: my cousin Robert.

He's been listening to the show since it started in May and has since picked up a copy of Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX, and it readying himself to kick things off at the very beginning, so I give him some tips and pointers to start his journey.

Somewhere in the conversation he decides that since I have convinced him to play Kingdom Hearts, he wants to talk me into playing *his* favorite game - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Does he convince me? WHO KNOWS. Well, I know. And you can too, by listening to this episode!

Robert doesn't have an online presence to follow, but he'll be back in the future as he completes each game for the first time, to give us his thoughts and impressions. Man, I wish I could play these games for the first time again.

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Episode 5 of Kingdom Hearts and Other Stuff marks the first time a Super Nerd Pals host guests on MY show, instead of the other way around. SNP co-founder and fellow Kingdom Hearts aficionado Andy Carasquillo joins me this week, equipped with the topic of Xehanort. We talk about his plans, his motivations, his Organizations, his keyblade, and all of his different forms throughout the Kingdom Hearts series. We get sidetracked here and there, but it always comes back around to the big bad himself.

Note: I forgot to mention to Andy before recording that I want to keep KHAOS rated PG, so I had to censor a handful of his colorful comments. Don't worry though, I made them more fun!

Another note: I mention this in the show too, but we recorded before E3 and even the KH3 Premiere Event, so there's a bit of outdated information that we discuss. Rest assured that we're both up-to-date with the latest and greatest!

You can find Andy on Twitter, @SweetJusticeOne, and on the Super Nerd Pals podcast, right here on this website, where you're reading this!