You Activated My Podcast!

Coming to you live from a six-year-old’s bedroom, we finally found an appropriate setting to talk about this children’s card game TV show. Listen in as we read messages from our listeners, discuss another duel-heavy (but blessfully Pegasus-centric) episode, and introduce our new favorite characters: Funny Bunny and Ruff Gruff McDogg!

Join us on our journey into Toon World, where we discover both kinds of puns, and confront the reality that Pegasus does what he wants. Blue Eyes White Dragon’s pride is stolen! Tyler discusses tattoo ideas! Then, Kaiba proves that he can look equally moody no matter what dimension is soul is trapped in.

Will Jimmy be judged for his Starbucks order? Will the Kaiba brothers be okay, or will Pegasus use them in his next tournament deck? Will Yugi’s friends EVER accept that magic exists???

Join us as we embark on a Pegasus-fueled journey of friendship and magic! Listen to us spend far too much time trying to remember the word “Artificer”, constantly get Pegasus and Kaiba’s names mixed up, and marvel at precisely how on-brand Pegasus’s decor really is.

Later, we talk about what the opposite of a bottomless pit is, Pegasus’s staff naming scheme, and what kind of gimmick…

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gimmick puppet

puppet egg

egg head

gimmick puppet egg head

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Finally! Amidst a sea of multi-part, plot-laden episodes, our hard work and perseverance is rewarded with a duel-heavy episode in which not much happens. Listen in as Jimmy recaps our first all-female duel, Tyler forgets what jokes are, we do some live foley work, and learn the hard way that the rules of Duel Monsters really are just made up on the spot.

Apologies for the delay leading up to this episode! As we talk about at the beginning, with life events happening all at once lately, it's sometimes tough to set aside time to watch Yu-Gi-Oh. If that's not proof of being an adult, I don't know what is. You're the real Shining Friendship, and look forward to watching what is sure to be a great rest of the season with you. <3 

Could Shining Friendship have shot that bow and arrow? Is there a Duel Monsters rule book somewhere that no one's talked about yet? Is Grandpa going to be okay?!?!

In preparation for our half-way-through-the-first-season celebration, we're taking a week off to bring you this bonus episode. Join us as we go back to our Yu-Gi-Roots, reveal the secrets of Tyler's dark past as a shitty teen, and discuss how great anime music is.

*slaps top of duel* This bad boy can fit so many Kuribohs in it.

This week, Jimmy talks about his side-gig! Tyler talks about something boring! Then, we get into discussing the final part of the duel between Kaiba and Yugi. Things get... surprisingly metal, and emotional? We talk mammoth chest-bursters, fusing zombies to non-zombies, infinite versions of tiny creatures, and brand new strategies that we're convinced Yugi pulled out of his ass.

Later, we wax poetic about Link, the Hero of Time, and remind you all to please please please stop touching Millennium Items. They WILL possess you.

Does anyone actually know how Polymerization works? Did Kaiba get his evil groove back? Would Big Yugi duel a man in Reno, just to watch him die?

Well, they can't all be winners. Six months into making a show about a show about a card game, we discover that the worst part about the show actually is the card game. 

Join us as we dissect an episode so boring, even its official synopsis is only two sentences. We talk about winning at Stardew Valley, good anime, more things to do with a library card, and the extra-terrestrial origins of our card of the week. Then, much like the animators of this episode, we try desperately to stall for time. 

Will Kaiba ever find a different dueling strategy? Is Mokuba tournament-legal? Can we please, please, please get back to the interesting episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh again?

Hot on the heels of a terrible three-parter, we endeavor into the gaping maw of yet another three-parter! Sadly, this one stars neither John Travolta nor Nicholas Cage, but we'll muddle through somehow. Join us in media res as we talk about Tyler's weird mouth sounds, our favorite non-Yu-Gi-Oh pastimes, Jimmy's new podcast, and an actually decent episode.

Have we uncovered further proof that Mokuba is color-blind? Has Kaiba actually just been making really big Beyblades? Can anything defeat the sheer naming power of our card of the week?

Well, we did it. We finally got through this three-parter, and by golly, we got through it together. Join us for a wine-fueled roller coaster ride through the final chapter in "Double Trouble Duel". Listen as Pepper licks everything, Jimmy takes a phone call, and Tyler questions the logic of... well, everything. 

Did any of the Paradox Brothers' riddles even matter? Is Kaiba the world's best cat burglar, or the world's worst cat burglar? Does anyone actually know the rules for Duel Monsters?

The Gate Guardian's lasers somehow pierced the dimensional barrier, messing up our schedules and preventing a full episode from being recorded this week! Never fear, Jimmy showed Tyler the first episode of the original 1998 run of Yu-Gi-Oh! and we're here to talk about it. And boy do we have feelings. 

Listen in as we discuss the origin of Shadow Games, Yugi's even weirder voice-acting choices, and imagine a world in which Yugi never played Duel Monsters. 

We'll be back next week with our regularly-scheduled content! Somebody's got to finish that god-awful three-parter, and it might as well be us.

They prepared for trouble, and made it double! And, against all odds, they also ended it on a cliffhanger! Listen in as Jimmy and Tyler get to the brink of throwing in the towel on this monotonous slog of a three-parter. We also discuss video games, Tyler and Lauren and Pepper's Big Move, LEGO sex acts (yep, that happened), and a narrative structure that will have you reaching for "Memento" in search of something more straightforward. 

Did we discover the identity of Dox? Is everyone finally done with being mean to Joey? Will Croquet ever be the first to learn anything?