A bunch of millennials who met on the internet over a decade ago no meet every other week to discuss nerd culture, life and everything in between.
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Multi-show comedy/pop-culture podcast network ran by New England based artist HennyMilk featuring... The Pickle Jar Podcast hosted by Tom Dillion Internet Phantoms Podcast hosted by HennyMilk More coming soon!
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r/nosleep is the late night scary tales of the internet where one can share their most chilling of experiences. Here on Phantom Bites, our lovely vampiric host will read these sinister tales for your listening pleasure. Will you believe them or pretend to never have heard of the frights told here?
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The AVoCADo GamesCast is a (roughly) bimonthly gaming podcast hosted by Merve and edited by The Kappa, two people who love video games a little too much. Join them and their Internet friends as they gush about their favourite games, dissect current events, revisit gaming history, speculate about future events, and make a lot of really stupid jokes.
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"An Alan Smithee Podcast" is an ongoing series of spirited and rambling discussions about movies held between two internet film critics, Andrew Wickliffe of www.thestopbutton.com and Matthew Hurwitz of cinemachine.blogspot.com.
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MYSTICAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS SOCIETY: Sumo & Smokestack's worldview repair and support service. We discuss the blood n' guts of the dystopic modernist technocracy from a Christian perspective, and equip listeners in stripping away putrid layers of decades-old baloney draped over us all by government, academia, and big-tech. We're doing our part to restore the patrimony of medieval European culture, specifically a coherent and satisfying worldview which seamlessly unites the physical and metaph ...
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Jar Jar Binks became one of the most polarizing figures in cinematic history when he made his debut in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace in 1999. He was even named "the most annoying movie character of all time" by Complex Magazine. After the release, Ahmed Best, the man who played Jar Jar, was hit with the full force of the backlash — and it nearly destroyed him. The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks is a six-part journey through the early internet to understand how one of the first-ever on ...
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Walt Weathers was 35 years young when he was savagely killed while driving through the pines of Big Bear, CA. Along with his life being destroyed, so too were the 93 episodes of a podcast never aired, hosted by Walt and his brother Thread. In the wake of his brother's untimely death, host and activist, Thread "Scooch" Weathers, attempts to rebuild, taking an eye-opening look at the psyche of todays internet culture through the microscopic lens of 'cyber-discussion.' Join Thread and his myria ...
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Support us on patreon if you like what we do! https://www.patreon.com/AnimateysPodcast Hello all you lovely people out there in Internet land! Welcome to Animateys, a podcast hosted by two people (friends) who insist on taking beloved childhood cartoons and mercilessly evaluating them (i.e. over-complicating them)! As the name implies, our primary interest is in cartoons and animation, particularly those on networks like Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon, the likes of which we both watched as k ...
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Internet Friends Take on the Phantom Menace
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In this Episode Aaron, Brie and Seth talk about the 1999 "Classic" Star Wars the Phantom Menace, Take some time to talk about bad food cultures and discover there is no such think as a infinite money glitch.Oleh Aaron
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S3E057: Chiropractic Law and Bigfoot Induced Glossolalia with Special Guest Ruckus
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Mandolins and missing fingers, the human body has more healing power than we think. Alternative medicine, America is built on scams, Sumo’s acupuncture adventures. The history of chiropractic. Sumo’s law argument with William of Fenoli. Sumo is a chiropractor of law. Where does authority come from? Contracts with the government and sovereign immuni…
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Internet Friends 16: O Brother Where Art Thou, Algorithms Ruining Reviews and Disney Says You Can't Sue
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In this episode of internet friends Aaron, Brie and Seth talk about the 2000 Coen Brother Classic O Brother Where Art Thou, How Algorithms online have made it hard to have a productive discussion about media and how Disney's legal team only exist to make problems go away.Oleh Aaron
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S3E056: The Owl and UFO Connection with Special Guest Mike Clelland
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Scientific folklorism, the UFO phenomenon and the owl aspect of the greater mystery. Synchronicities, camping and owl stories. Psychic grizzly bears. Mike’s abductee experience story. Speculations about how owls are connected to UFOs, screened memories and spiritual transformations after UFO encounters. Owl patterns with UFOs, meditation, psychedel…
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BUSTED! We're back from summer break with a very summer show: Rocket Power! Put on your pads, get out your tiny shirts, big pants, crimped hair and a massive sense of abandon as we time travel back to the late 90's and its signature style.Oleh AniMateys Podcast
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Featuring: Merve ThoughtsThoughtsThoughts Wolfman Jew The Kappa Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:15 – Introduction 5:40 – Might & Magic Heroes VII and the State of Ubisoft 20:35 – Baldur’s Gate 3 38:35 – Borderlands 54:15 – Dungeons of Hinterberg 1:05:10 – “7/10” Games: Intro 1:07:20 – “7/10” Games: Resident Evil: Revelations 1:11:55 – “7/10” Games:…
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Internet Friends Disappear and Reappear Talking About The Prestige.
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On this episode of internet friends, Aaron, Seth and Brie sit down to talk about the Prestige focusing on what makes a good twist, if non linear story telling works and when a film should break with realism.Oleh Aaron
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S3E055: Solar Idealism with Special Guest Jack Donovan
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The Order of Fire and what Jack Donovan’s been up to. The manosphere before Jordan Peterson, the Alt Right before it became whatever it is now. The collapse of identities, “White” is an identity for people without an identity, if something’s everything then it’s nothing. California spirituality. Creating culture and why conservatives keep losing. H…
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S3E054: There's no Justice like Angry Mob Justice
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Everything’s a lie because words can’t capture reality. Orbits, launching rockets into “space,” weird trajectories, how orbits work doesn’t make sense. Trump’s ear healed awfully quick didn’t it? Shoe symbolism The riots in the U.K. The Olympics, everything is the culture war, optimizing the fun out of sports. Paris is gross, what did you expect fr…
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Internet Friends Talk Transistor and Future of Indie Games and Video Game Actors Striking over AI.
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Join Aaron, Brie and Seth discuss playing the indie hit Transistor, what we want to see from indie titles in the near future as well as other happenings in the world.Oleh Aaron
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Is Biden dead, alive fake, using body double, using A.I. or all the above? We haven’t had a good old-fashioned coup in a while. The CrowdStrike outage and why it may be linked to Biden’s sudden disappearance. The history of CrowdStrike, the 2016 election and the Russians. Shutting down the space station, new generational technology, re-writing the …
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Internet Friends Interview a Vampire, Furies Hack the System and Famous People Disappoint Us.. Again
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In this Episode of Internet Friends, Meg Returns for to talk about the 1994 Cult Classic Interview with a Vampire.Oleh Aaron
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The event, real or fake? World War Z, zombies, zombie movies, the Tenth Man Protocol. Questions about the security at the event, conspiracy candy, incompetence, women secret service officers and D.E.I. The photo, the collapse of various government institutions, scapegoats, hallmarks of shooting events, media discussion of the event. People died! It…
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Featuring: Merve QuinleyThorne The Kappa Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:35 – Introduction 4:15 – Summer Game Fest: General Thoughts 6:45 – PlayStation State of Play 30:05 – Guerrilla Collective 44:10 – Access-Ability Summer Showcase 52:40 – Summer Game Fest Live 1:11:50 – Day of the Devs 1:21:00 – Devolver Digital 1:22:45 – Atlus Exclusive Showcas…
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S3E051: The Apparition of Our Lady of Bad Internet
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Presidential diversity, don’t ask and don’t tell for mentally challenged presidential candidates. The debates! Bioethics, government budgets, the United States is still number one, U.S. bureaucracy can’t be topped. We have made America great again and it’ll be even greater in the future, and sillier. The transition to faker and gayer and maybe even…
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Internet Friends Take The Red Pill and Escape The Matrix
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In this Episode of Internet Friends we take the red pill and escape the Matrix, We discuss what video games we want to get remastered and find out fidgescaping is a thing.Oleh Aaron
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S3E050: Red Shifts and Realities
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Math in the universe, Christian Doppler, calculus, The Doppler Effect. What if narrative and reality itself has a red shift? Gobekli Tepe weirdness. The succession of popes in Catholicism. Does the number of observers affect the Narrative Doppler Effect? Dogma increases as population increases. The Doppler Effect is a shadow of fundamental truths a…
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S3E049: Building Resilient Infrastructure for Generations
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Keep on rocking in the free world. The genius of Antony Blinken and the war in Ukraine. Why did we have to take out Libya? How do we start our own political movement? The Build a Bridge to Hawaii party. Building real bridges to construct metaphorical bridges. Building things instead of adding to the destruction of things. Racist native Hawaiians. A…
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Nimona is Chaotic Fun: Internet Friends 11
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On the this episode of Internet Friends, Brie sits Aaron and Seth down for a chaotic ride with the Netflix movie Nimona. We discuss how Arcane ending after 2 season's is the smart move and we will also discuss new game announcements and if E3 going away was a good thing. Check out Brie's other podcast Game Birds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Pz…
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Featuring: Merve The Kappa Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:10 – Introduction 0:50 – Fallout Series on Prime Video 25:15 – The Prytania Media Snafu 47:40 – Recent Industry Data 1:11:05 – Children of the Sun 1:17:50 – Princess Peach: Showtime! 1:32:25 – Dragon’s Dogma 2 1:45:45 – ReCore 1:57:05 – Conclusion Download Link: https://archive.org/details/…
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Breath Of The Wild Review: Internet Friends 10
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In this episode of Internet Friends, Aaron had Brie and Seth play The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and it was a lot for them to take in. We also talk about the state of the movie industry and how going to see movies on the weekend isn't how it used to be. Also Check out Brie's new podcast @gamebirdspod where she talks indie games. Their first…
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Episode 59: As Told By Ginger
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In an Animateys first, we sit down for the 2nd time to discuss a show that, on first pass almost got a shallow treatment from us, but on second pass was so much more than we remembered. As Told By Ginger will certainly be a different take on the shows we tend to see from Nickelodeon. Note, this episode is longer than our typical ones.…
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S3E048: Myths and Meteors
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Welcome to the new theater podcast, Sumo recites the play “An Iliad.” Discussing the Iliad, the Odyssey, poetry, and literature. Sumo thinks he’s like Achilles in many ways. The masses just can’t seem to handle waking up. Two excellent examples, Terrance Howard on the Joe Rogan Experience and Jonathan Pageau’s meteorite. You can’t tell people thing…
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Bioshock Infinite Possibilities: Internet Friends 9
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Brie, Seth, and Aaron talk Bioshock Infinite and how well it has held up for the past decade, Why you should not care about celebrities and why Yu-Gi-Oh still slaps.Oleh Aaron
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Featuring: Merve LittleMac Lovely Bones The Kappa Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:15 – Introduction 5:05 – The Closure of Rooster Teeth 17:10 – Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth 34:15 – NetHack 48:00 – Dragon Age II 1:04:15 – Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader 1:19:45 – 100th Episode Q&A: Arcades 1:30:10 – 100th Episode Q&A: gen:LOCK 1:32:30 – 100th Episo…
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This is an episode of The Moth, another podcast we think you'll enjoy. On this episode of The Moth Podcast, we visit a galaxy far far away, with three stories all about the impact of Star Wars. Plus, a discussion about why Star Wars has resonated for more than 50 years. Hosts: Brandon Grant-Walker and Edgar Ruiz, Jr. Storytellers: Dame Wilburn conf…
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Arcane is Better Than It Has Any Right To Be: Internet Friends
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On this episode of Internet Friends we get invaded by a Canadian who wants to talk about Arcane and how something based on League of Legends can be as good as it is. We also talk VR struggling to become the future and why Sony wants to ruin everyone playing Helldivers 2 fun.Oleh Aaron
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S3E047: Being Trad Before it was Cool
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Boning up on racism, spiritual blackness and how do we fix Africa? Anti-Semitism. The Bible is now illegal! Everyone panic! Politics is just professional wrestling, gay hammer fights, everyone remember how laws are made? How politics actually work. The online Trad community. Sumo is an intellectual creative on the front lines of several different i…
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X-Men 97 on 420: Internet Friends
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In this episode of Internet Friends, Brie cries over Gambit's death in X-Men 97. Seth takes 1 too many dabs for 420 and Aaron cautions Hollywood not to start a video game movie and tv show gold rush.Oleh Aaron
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S3E046: I Know What it is but if You Ask Me I Don’t
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Complaining about the Internet, Disney is the reason why children’s sports suck, the American scam. Sumo explains additional dimensions, physics, and String Theory. No one knows what time is. Dolores Cannon and past life regression, measuring time which doesn’t exist, Star Seeds and Einstein was an idiot. Adam Apollo is Sumo’s favorite guy on the I…
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Why doesn’t God answer prayers? The eclipse still doesn’t make sense and there’s way too many statistically impossible things about the moon. Is the moon a portal to “The Other Side?” The Cavendish Experiment revisited. Why things are the way the are and why our audience is enlightened. Links Watch Gravity Pull to Metal Balls Together More Links ww…
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S3E044: Legalism Gone Wild
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The eclipse is impossible, and no one uses the heliocentric model to predict anything. Eclipses are predicted using an ancient method called the Saros Cycle. Don’t be afraid about all the weird stuff happening during the eclipse. Red heifers, the shoe thing, Sumo’s anti-Semitic tirade. Earthquakes, as above so below as a cosmic principle, gambling …
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Episode 58: The Wild Thornberrys
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Animateys is on the trail of the illusive "Wild Thornberry" species. We have a smashing episode for you. For example, did you know that the adult caretakers of the Thornberry species almost entirely ignore their young? Or that they adopt all sorts of outsiders with no consideration of the consequences? Learn this and more on today's episode. Blalar…
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Internet Friends Go On A Galaxy Quest to Escape Late Stage Capitalism
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Aaron, Seth and Brie blast to the past to discuss Galaxy Quest and how it approaches Parody, Nostalgia and Para-Social Relationships. They also discuss how late stage capitalism is horrible and show off some the nerdy things they have laying around.Oleh Aaron
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For The Honor of Grayskull: Internet Friends
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Aaron, Brie and Seth talk She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, what makes a good adaptation and how the revelations from Quiet on Set have turned Nickelodeon into the creepy uncle.Oleh Aaron
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Episode 57: Codename Kids Next Door
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Operation A.N.I.M.A.T.E.Y.S.: Animation Nerds Intermittently Muse About Toons Excitedly Yet Sensually.This time we discuss Codename: Kids Next Door. However, do be warned, like any good spy movie or show, we take many twists and turns away from the show to discuss other clandestine topics.Oleh AniMateys Podcast
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The Clone Wars Begin: Internet Friends
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Aaron, Brie and Seth talk about how The Clone Wars saved Star Wars, the passing of Manga and Anime Legend Akira Toriyama and why legacy internet production companies like Rooster Teeth keep getting shut down.Oleh Aaron
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S3E043: On the Verge with Special Guest MyFitnessFeelings
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You only want things because other people want them, scapegoating, the coming pole shift, the Early Life section, giving up your authority and agency. Vaccination as a religious sacrifice, religious rituals, 2020-2022 was an apocalypse. René Girard, memetic desire, levels of conspiracy. Society has to be built on a lie, breaking the illusion. They …
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RoboCop Predicts the Future: Internet Friends
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In this episode we talk about Seth's favorite movie, RoboCop. We Discuss why Madam Web is such a bad movie and we discuss if Pedro Pascal is at risk of being the next Chris Pratt.Oleh Aaron
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S3E042: EnPIEronmentally Friendly
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Big tech companies are not profitable, how it actually works, lots of money from the CIA, NSA and government. Censorship on the Internet isn’t as bad as you think. Leftists and Right-Wingers both have persecution complexes. Gab’s charging money and people are freaking out. Ads on the Internet don’t pay for anything. State-enforced homosexuality. El…
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S3E041: A Gas Station for Your Soul
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Rebranding the show. Spiritual swingers, living in unprecedented times and discussing the Owen Cyclops interview from the previous episode. Leaving the consensus reality, what’s our new operating system? Trying to find all the answers. Christianity in today’s day and age with the Internet. Trying on ideas like you’d try on clothes. Politics, the le…
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S3E040: Interview with Special Guest Owen Cyclops
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Religion, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Cryptids and more! Links Owen Cyclops’ Link Tree Own Cyclops on Twitter/X www.owencyclops.com www.owencomics.com Channel One: The First Collection of Comics Babyology: Volume One More Links www.MAPSOC.org Follow Sumo on Twitter Alternate Current Radio Support the Show! Subscribe to the Podcast on Gumroad Subscribe…
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Just a Bunch of Hazbins. Internet Friends Episode 2
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In this episode we review Hazbin Hotel, Discuss Celebrity Deaths and decide if Xbox is doomed to be the next Sega.Oleh Aaron
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Featuring: Merve Captain Blasto The Kappa Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:15 – Introduction 2:00 – Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 7:35 – Regiments 14:25 – Puzzmo and Social Puzzle Solving 24:30 – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 39:10 – Reviewing Our 2023 Predictions 55:20 – Our 2024 Predictions 1:46:35 – The Delay Prediction Game: Last Year’s Results, …
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The Toxicity Of Couples on Valentine's Day Needs to End
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》》✒️Author WeirdBryceGuy Readings for the series Phantom Bites come from r/nosleep, the late night scary tales of the internet where one can share their most chilling of experiences. Will you believe them or pretend to never have heard of the frights told here? 》》✅ Join the Patreon for 2 Days early access and more! 》》🎶 Music and sound effects: Epid…
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Internet Friends Episode 1: Still Weird
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In the first episode of Internet Friends Aaron, Brie and Seth discuss the origins of their internet friendship, the rise and fall of geek culture and what it's like to have grown up in the internet age.Oleh Aaron
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Call us, beep us, if you wanna reach us! We're back with Kim Possible, an early 2000's romp that asks the question: What if the average high school girl was anything but average?Oleh AniMateys Podcast
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S3E039: Celestial Mafia Godfathers with Special Guest Gary Wayne
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About Gary Wayne’s book The Genesis 6 Conspiracy and it’s upcoming sequel. Two Genesis creation stories and pre-Adamic humans? Was Adam created after Day 7? Giants, Goliath, King Og, Gilgamesh, how big were they? Two different lines of humans and how does that affect us today? The Nachash, a serpentine race, Seraphim are dragons and angels don’t te…
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S3E038: A Voice in the Apocalypse
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This episode is about a week late because Kavi didn’t know Sumo sent this to him. Right vs Left, switching the poles and charging the battery. The Davos crowd changing sides? Trump getting re-elected. Everything is based on consent. Don’t get fooled. More Links www.MAPSOC.org Follow Sumo on Twitter Alternate Current Radio Support the Show! Subscrib…
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Featuring: Merve Science is Bad Wolfman Jew The Kappa LittleMac Bloomed Wings 3rdstringhero Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:15 – Introduction 3:05 – The Game Awards 2023: Discourse 32:25 – The Game Awards 2023: Announcements 1:02:20 – Layoffs and the State of the Games Industry 1:30:25 – LittleMac’s Top 3 1:38:05 – Bloomed Wings’s Top 3 1:40:35 – 3…
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