Once again, and for the last time, the boys got together in person to record our favorite style of episode, The Megasode. In this bittersweet edition, we tackle the same categories for the year of 2024, knowing that it will be our final time getting together for this purpose.

As always, thank you to everyone who stuck around the past 8 or so years. We had a fun time doing this, and given the state of our current lives decided it was probably time to hang it up.

Stay tuned on our website (thetalkshoppe.com) for a more permanent archival solution. We'll keep this podcast available for as long as we can!

Thank you all once again, and thank you to my dear friends and co-hosts for 8 great years of goofing around.

Well, we're back to where it all started. Pushing ten years of doing this thing. What a wild ride it has been.

Thanks to all of you out there who have been loyal listeners (for some reason) for all these years. We still have one last ride in us, and we'll be doing it in style with the final MEGASODE of all time.

For now, please find enclosed a regurgitated theme from 9+ years ago, for your listening pleasure.

Thanks!

Welcome back everybody! On today's episode, the boys chat about Tom's recent trip to Northern Europe. As is tradition, there are a myriad of rabbit trails, non sequitur, and general tomfoolery as well.

Note from the editor: "I forgot to mention that apparently everyone in Northern Europe has a sever allergic reaction whenever a fan or AC unit is around, so they were, at least in the places we stayed, nowhere to be found. Also Stockholm was having a RECORD heatwave. And we all had traveler's colds. It was quite miserable." ~Tom

Oh and here's the blog if you are interested: https://krownbakeryandeatery.com/nordic-trip-2024

Hey y'all, we're still alive! Not for long though. You may have noticed that our release schedule is non-existent. It has become increasingly difficult to find time to do these episodes, and a lot of the time, we all kind of wish we were just hanging out, not recording. So, with that in mind, we will officially be ending this podcast by this next February. It's been real, but it's time to move on to greener pastures. At any rate, here's another episode, and there are more to come before we're done.

Cheers,

The Talk Shoppe Gang

Just when you thought we were gone...

We are BACK with a much delayed Megasode to summarize the year of 2023. You all know the drill: we meander through music, television, movies, video games, and disappointments in typical scatterbrained and raucous fashion. If it can be a joke, it will be a joke. So join us, if you will, in our continuing journey to bring laughter and entertainment to up to 10 people! WE'RE NOT DONE YET!

Timestamps:

Music - 00:36:08

Television - 02:13:51

Movies - 02:50:44

Video Games - 03:30:07

Disappointments - 04:37:10

Welcome back everybody, lobster-back jerks, Hitler is funny (he just is), state of our jobs address, Cory's car update and US Customs shenanigans, Cory's done getting out of the way, Sam's going to Dizz Knee World, Five Guys is out of control, the truth about the Kaiju, Mexican alien, Sam's workin' on the night shift, getting loaded on caffeine, Baldur's Gate 3 is a horny game, some Starfield chatter, revisiting Game of Thrones, somehow talking about Breaking Bad again, Jesse Plemons is an enigma, reviewing The Eminem Show by Eminem, light discussion of The Forever War, fantasy novel recommendations, what did we learn today?

Welcome back everybody, the podcast is an animated corpse, IGN's 10 out of 10 list, Baldur's Gate 3, DJ Khaled, Sam's jet ski adventure, Sam's DMV experience, Sam's daughter drops the F-Bomb and talks Koreans, Amy Klobuchar sends glass to Tom's bakery, and aliens. What did we learn today?

Welcome back everybody, it's been a while, podcast reflection, repeating jokes, streamers kinda suck, new content, getting older, Cory moved, Cory's new desk chair destroyed his back, Sam's bowling shoes, what's better about the Twin Cities (compared to Superior), revisiting ghost kitchens, library anime, anime is cool and kids hang out in minecraft and roblox, internet culture bleeding into reality, Diablo IV, Jury Duty, tell us about the aliens already, reviewing Forget and Not Slow Down by Relient K, Owl City, what did we learn today?

Cold open featuring the Bible by Seinfeld, Welcome Back Everybody, ghosts are old Jewish men, Tom's absolute circus show of buying a house, old houses and housing for workers, a tangent about Netflix and legacy media, SEALs are roidin', doing roids, Chinese propaganda regarding the US, more gym talk, Venmo is really weird, the origin of pimps, the Superior UPS store, The Beautiful Letdown by Switchfoot review, what did we learn today?

Welcome back everybody, The World Baseball Classic, Xi loves KFC, talkin' baseball, old guys talking about video games, Sam's nemesis professor, staring at strangers, Tom rambles about INDYCAR and getting into motorsports, Superior people, AFI - Sing The Sorrow review, most disappointing shows, talkin' Taylor Swift, ChatGPT vs. Limp Bizkit, Spotify keeps getting worse, 311: are they good?, Mr. Beast, Mint Mobile, Sam's addicted to social media, what did we learn today?