Welcome to Episode 12 (yes, we went back to the old way of naming - we don't need no stinkin' seasons!) of the Gene Pool Variety Hour! We appreciate you jumping in with us!

In this episode, we get back to gaming. Sean is in his happy place after taking a month hiatus from gaming. Diving back into Borderlands 3, and delving into Destiny 2 after years of clean Destiny-free living. It's crack, and I have mixed feelings toward my friends/drug dealers who talked me back into it!

Next, we explore Blizzard's recent new game announcements - Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4! Needless to say, we're excited about both. Sean is particularly happy for the PvE focus on OW2. Finally, he and his old-gamer friends can play without being schooled by them young whippersnappers!

We end the night on our review of Antonio Bandera's 2014 Automata. What happens in a dystopian world where humans are on the decline, and robots were created to help humanity but start to rise up for themselves? Um, haven't we heard that storyline tons of times before? Yeah, well, we visit that trope again here. Join in to hear what we think of this thing. Let's just say we have seen this trope visited in other movies, and done much better too. Oh, and Sean goes off on plastic surgery during this segment as well. ;-)

And yes, several chickens were chased. No animals were harmed in this episode, however. 

Oh! And we have a new podcast logo design. Awesome work by Milton Camargo over at Fiverr.com! See his page here, and if you use him for any work, tell him the Gene Pool sent ya!

As always, thanks for listening, and hit us up on twitter for your thoughts on the episode! You can find us all over the place. We know all the Twitters! Gene Pool Variety Hour on Twitter at @GPVarietyHour...

Sean:

• Headgamer on XBox Live

Connor:

• QuillMiester on Xbox Live

Until next time... Stay nerdy my friends!

Welcome to Episode 4 of the second season on the Gene Pool Variety Hour! We appreciate you jumping in with us!

In this episode, Sean gets up on his high horse and gives the low down on Joaquin Phoenix's Joker. Yeah, I know it's late, but at least this is a review from a psychologist's point of view! Connor decides to mix it up and pushes us into Superfight for not one, but two epic battles! Attila the Hun, Lizzy Borden, and George S. Patton oh my! And we learn the Joan of Arc apparently hates puppies! Finally, we review - as best we can - the 1989 movie The Return of the Swamp Thing! Apparently Zac Snyder doesn't own the market on bad DC comics adaptation movies! And Heather Locklear, bad actress. Who knew?!  

There are also discussions of buying cars, Sportsball, Winona Ryder, and Deadpool's baby legs. And several other chickens. 

As always, thanks for listening, and hit us up on twitter for your thoughts on the episodes or winners of the Superfight battles! And if you want to fight us on Swamp Thing.... bring it!

You can find us all over the place. We know all the Twitters! Gene Pool Variety Hour on Twitter at @GPVarietyHour...

Sean:

• Headgamer on XBox Live

Connor:

• QuillMiester on Xbox Live

Welcome to Episode 3 of our second season on the Gene Pool Variety Hour! Thanks for taking the plunge!

In this episode, Connor drones on and on...um, I mean gives a very detailed synopsis... of the Anime movie Bleach The Movie: Fade to Black! Flying swords, demon caterpillar babies, and giant sperm snakes oh my! When he stops to take a breath, I jump in to give my two cents' worth on my opinion of the movie... from a completely uninformed, non-anime-fan point of view! Needless to say... I don't get it.

In a discussion about my developing patchy beard and the John Wick sized chicken we chased, Connor posed a potentially life altering question: Who would win in a fight - Chuck Norris or Keanu Reeves? Original internet badass vs. the new kid on the block internet badass? Oh, and discussions about the use of physics to analyze Monty Python and the Holy Grail fall in here somewhere as well!

We continue to bloody up the battle arena with a rousing round of Superfight! In this round, All the attendees of Burning man, armed with scissor hands and acid blood ... um, yeah... take on Keyser Soze armed with a barbed wire net and endless tear gas from his butt! Points are made, rationales are discussed, rebuttals are given! Ultimately the winner will be up to you! Winner will continue to battle on the next episode!

I'm sure there were other chickens we chased, but I can't remember them all. Thanks for listening and let us know your thoughts on who wins!

You can find us all over the place. We know all the Twitters! Gene Pool Variety Hour on Twitter at @GPVarietyHour...

Sean:

• Headgamer on XBox Live

Connor:

• QuillMiester on Xbox Live

Thanks for diving into the pool with us! Welcome to episode 2 of our second season!

In this episode, we get a little semi-serious about Connor's trip to Ohio to see his girlfriend and her family, and talk about some of the struggles in relationships for people on the autism spectrum. Then, we wax poetic about the next game in one of our favorite game series, Borderlands 3! Connor is decidedly more fanboyish than I am here. Finally, for our Rolling for Credits segment, we dive into Guy Ritchie's 1998 cult classic, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels! This movie has no redeeming qualities - nothing but British-style streams of cursing, criminals, potheads, weed, illegal card games, cheating, stolen goods, multiple competing gangs, and a deskful of, um, adult toys... and we mean that in the best possible way! So jump in, you wankers, and listen up!

Thanks for joining us at the Pool! And remember, no running and no swimming for 30 minutes after eating!

We're baaaack!

Gotta say that it was so fun to get back to the podcast! It has been almost two years. There have been a lot of reasons why it has been that long, so we spent time in the beginning just explaining our absence. We're going to try to clean the podcast episodes up a bit - straining against our combined ADHD to put a little structure on the episodes - and chat about that as well.

DragonCon 2019 had to be part of the discussion, since we have only recently returned from our Geek Mecca... Also, I spent most of my time in the Digital Media Track this year and it was there I got encouragement to pick the podcast back up! Thanks everyone!

So our "anchor" segment each week is going to be something called "Rolling for Credits" where we basically just roll for initiative suckas! Er, I mean we use our trusty dragon dice to find a random movie to watch and review.

This week, the movie is Radius, a 2017 movie currently streaming on Amazon Prime. I loved it! Connor thought it was just okay. He's just wrong. Anyway, there are some minor spoilers, but we made sure to ruin the HUGE TWIST that would otherwise ruin the ending of the movie for ya. I highly encourage you go check it out!

Since we're rusty and just getting our feet wet, this made for a pretty short episode for us. Also, I pretty much forgot how to structure my episode building in Audacity, so there's no intro in this episode LOL. It'll get better. I hope.

Wanted to throw our links to a couple of podcasts we mentioned in the episode and people that have been really encouraging of our efforts. So here ya go!

Stephen and Smashie @ Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

Dennis, Philip, Austin, Tristan, and Jon @ Botched Podcast

We've just started diving into Borderlands 3 and will be streaming this for the foreseeable future. Look for a full review next episode!

You can find us all over the place. We know all the Twitters! Gene Pool Variety Hour on Twitter at @GPVarietyHour...

Sean:

• Headgamer on XBox Live

Connor:

• QuillMiester on Xbox Live

Welcome to Episode 07, full of alliteration and stuff! We got Demons, Dragons, and Dracula! We got alchemists and arguments! We got #BOTWON and banality! 

Some of the highlights...

• Connor goes off on his latest obsessions, his collaborative writing exercise with one of his friends and his foray into writing and running his own D&D campaign.

For more about Kicks the Goblin (mentioned yet again in this episode), catch more of him at on Botched: A D&D Podcast!

Follow us on social media!

• GPVH on twitter: @GPVarietyHour

Thanks to PodBean for hosting services, and Free Play Music for the theme music!

Hey, we made it to episode 06!

Mic issues are slowly improving as we figure out what the heck we are doing (apologies in advance for the first 9 minutes or so...it gets better after that)! Join us as we talk some of our current TV obsessions, bad movies on Netflix, and cinematic childhood trauma!

Some of the highlights...

• Sean spends some time talking about his favorite Romanian communist propaganda buddy cop TV show... "You don't learn to be a good communist by going to meetings... you learn it on the streets.... you learn it with your fists!"

Catch some of our favorite podcasts mentioned in the episode:

• Divided by Werewolves

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Thanks to PodBean for hosting services, and Free Play Music for the theme music!

Welcome to the first episode of 2018! 

Connor got his own mic for Christmas so no more uncomfortably sharing a mic with my son! In this episode, we talk the Christmas holiday, play some Superfight!, and review Chappie as part of the next installment of the Best of the Worst on Netflix!

Join us as we talk flaming Willie Wonka's, kung fu dragons, floating sumo wrestlers, and Dominatrix Chuck Norris!

Connect with us on twitter (@GPVarietyHour, @headgamer) or G+ (C-Bomb The Goofball of the Pool), and don't forget to subscribe to the podcast!

Welcome to our special Christmas episode! In this episode, I ramble on about my love of The Punisher and Karen's fickle affections. Connor and I talk about Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I don't know if I would call it a review, though we definitely give our opinions on what we liked about it.... and what we didn't. Next up is a walk down Christmas memory lane, including snow days, worst Christmas family trip ever, discovering thr truth about Santa, and playtesting Christmas presents under the nose of the parents! Finally, we jump into the next installment of the best of the Worst on Netflix... A Christmas Horror Story! Listen as we talk about sexually assaulting ghosts, cringeworthy changeling/son/daughter relationships, Krampus Family Christmas, and foul-mouthed zombie elves! Oh, and an increasingly intoxicated William Shatner!

Thanks for listening, and please consider subscribing and sharing to all your friends!

In today's episode we try out a new segment: D20 Multiverse Mayhem! What happens when Genghis Khan and Felicity Smoak battle to the death Dungeons & Dragons style?! We jump into our next entry of the Best of the Worst of Netflix (#botwon) and look at Wesley Snipe's Western/Zombie flick, Gallowalkers! Finally, see what happens when Connor gets the giggles and can't stop!

• Sean on twitter: @headgamer

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