Movie Mastery – The Scorpion King 5: Book of Souls (2018)
Technically we randomly rolled The Scorpion King as our movie this week. However, after seeing that a Scorpion King 5 existed; we simply needed to know what was going on […]
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Expounded Universe 89 – Vacation All I Ever Wanted
It’s sort of nice to have all the boring main characters condensed into a single wish fulfillment narrative while the Vong go about the wet gooey business of murdering scientists, […]
D&Dizzle: Dragons in the Hood – System Mastery 151
In retrospect we probably should have saved this for episode 175. Anyhow this is a short comedy game mixing Dungeons and Dragons with hip-hop flavor pulled from the 80s and […]
In Theaters Now – Dark Phoenix
It’s time to review the final installment in the X-Men franchise under Fox. Is it going to be more of the same and end on a real wet fart of […]
Expounded Universe 88 – Party On, Garth
Uhhh, I guess the Vong continue to get real? Even though our main character gang has changed planets, it still feels like they’re in prep mode instead of getting on […]
Expounded Universe 87 – Hyperdriving Miss Daisy
The Vong plot gets real as their first ships enter the regular type galaxy and go all octopus ham on an ice planet. Meanwhile Anakin and Jacen have some serious […]
Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition – System Mastery 150
Happy episode 150! Still can’t believe it’s gone on this long. Here’s D&D 5e. It’s a game.
Movie Mastery – The Crow (1994)
Were you a little gothy kid in the 90s? Then you don’t need us to tell you about this movie. Or, actually, you probably do because this one gets some […]
Expounded Universe 86 – …Bolhpur Deez Nuts
Luke and Jacen march headlong into a council meeting and you know what that means… it’s time to learn a bunch of new Star Wars names! Yay, our favorite pastime! […]
Expounded Universe 85 – It’s Nom Anor
The time of the New Jedi Order is upon us as the Yuuzhan Vong set their wheels in motion! We finally meet Legends regular Mara Jade, plus newcomers like Wurth […]
Kobolds Ate My Baby – System Mastery 149
Every once in a while we’ve both got so much else going on that we have to rely on what we call “The Emergency Stack”, a collection of books short […]
In Theaters Now – Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
We went to go see Detective Pikachu after I messed up and only put 3 options on the available poll for the month. Oh well, now you can learn all […]
Expounded Universe 84 – Planet of Twilight: New Dawn
It’s the customary wrap up ep, yep! We talk the arching themes of the book, answer your questions, and finally, as always, announce the NEXT BOOK! Fire up your Amazon […]
Recon – System Mastery 148
Well, so we can probably do a whole hour of laughy laughs on the … wait, Vietnam War? Is that right? Okay then. Recon is from 1982, and it is […]
Movie Mastery – Gravy (2015)
Three cannibals take a small restaurant hostage for their annual Halloween feast. But don’t worry, it’s light hearted and jokey. But don’t worry, it’s also incredibly gory. But don’t worry, […]
Expounded Universe 83 – Tsil’ing Dzym Softly
The curtain drops. What has changed? What threats face us at the end of all chapters? What hath Hambly wrought? Does this book have the most hilariously unearned coincidence at […]
Expounded Universe 82 – Daala Daala Bills
A mysterious new player enters the book in the 11th hour! I don’t want to spoil it for you so I’ll just do that in the episode title. Also Luke […]
Fading Suns – System Mastery 147
Sorta 40k, sorta Vampire, maybe a little Dune in there? Anyway it’s a space RPG where there’s a church that’s basically Catholicism through a greasy mirror and a bunch of […]
In Theaters Now – Avengers: Endgame
It’s an extra long episode about an extra long movie. Over 20 movies in the making and now two idiots from the internet get to nitpick minor quibbles.
Expounded Universe 81 – Sweet Dreams are Made of Dzym
Luke and Leia both have dreams in this episode. If you were curious about what kind of book we’re reading, it’s the kind where both main characters have dreams during […]
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