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Audrey and Korla (Data Transfer) take the lads on a trip to the post-cyberpocalypse as they cover Tales of Game’s infamous free-to-play sequel to a certain Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes mashup: Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Topics include the game’s overt racism, forum culture in the mid-2000s, and the lessons to be learned from a game where Charles Barkley destroys half of New York with a Chaos Dunk.

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Data Transfer: A watch-along series for the Digimon franchise, where two transfemme dorks make their way through every season of Digimon anime that exists. Hosts Audrey and Korla discuss each episode with an intensely queer lens and share their experiences with Digimon throughout their lives along the way.

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Post Ponies: Episode recaps of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, hoping to glean something about the rise of fascism in America and around the world. Somehow. Hosted by four trans girls who can not be trusted with the aux. It will not be safe for work.

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Radio Free Tote Bag: A weekly relationship advice podcast hosted by Audrey and Donovan.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

• Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Tales of Game’s. 2008.
• GZ Post on SA forums about the State of Barkley 2
• Shaq mocks Charles Barkley for his role in Space Jam - Inside the NBA
• Barkley 2 - an RPG Sequel to Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
• The future of Barkley 2
• Update 35: Information about Barkley 2 Updates - why you haven't heard from us and why the game isn't dead yet. · Barkley 2 - an RPG Sequel to Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden

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Tom and Joe (Anime Sickos) throw the lads in the Epoch and hop through time as they cover Square’s landmark 1995 RPG: Chrono Trigger. Topics include the thrill of flame tornados, the anxieties of action time battle, and the importance of camaraderie in the face of an apocalyptic DJ from space.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

• Chrono Trigger. Square, 1995.
• Chrono Trigger – 1995 Developer Interviews - shmuplations.com

Commercial: “A Message from the Nu”

• O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei (Remix in style of Sega Genesis 16 bit)

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The lads made this episode with their own hands! 😊 Why do episodes like this never get likes? 😢💔 AmenAmenAmen. 🙏🇺🇸 It is our birthday and nobody wished us one. So excited to begin our cake journey. 🎂 Did you notice when it left you? Why don’t you see these anymore? Gone too soon! ✝️ The joy, the bursts of pleasure, the camaraderie? She did good work, we’re so proud of her! 🤩 This is a place of ghosts. King Charles visited Sudan to feed the hungry children! 🫅🇸🇩 And soon you will join us in the mist. Wow, made it to 100, who else can relate? 💯 Amen.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

• Facebook blog posts
  • September 5, 2006 - Facebook deprecates the original Wall in favor of the News Feed. A post made to someone else’s profile can now show up on the home page of anyone who is friends with that person
  • September 5, 2006 - Mark Zuckerberg makes a highly defensive and condescending post responding to negative feedback about the shift to the news feed
  • September 8, 2006 - Zucc makes a considerably more measured follow-up post introducing new privacy settings but doubling down on his commitment to “free flow of information on the internet”
  • November 6, 2007 - Facebook introduces its new social ad platform in tandem with Pages, implementing the final piece of its core user monetization strategy
  • February 12, 2009 - Facebook introduces the Like button
  • February 24, 2016 - Facebook rolls out Reactions (love, haha, wow, sad, angery) globally

• News articles:
  • “Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users” by Harry Davies. The Guardian. December 11th, 2015.
  • “A timeline of Facebook's privacy issues — and its responses” by Alyssa Newcomb. NBC News. March 24, 2018
  • “Five Points for Anger, One for a ‘Like’: How Facebook’s Formula Fostered Rage and Misinformation” by Jeremy B. Merrill and Will Oremus. Washington Post. October 26th, 2021
  • How Spammers, Scammers and Creators Leverage AI-Generated Images on Facebook for Audience Growth by Renee DiResta and Josh A. Goldstein. Pre-print paper, Stanford University.
  • Facebook’s Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms by Jason Koebler. 404 Media, March 19, 2024
  • Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet by Jason Koebler. 404 Media, May 2, 2024

• Misc.
  • ”AI is Ruining the Internet” by Drew Gooden.

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• Round Here Piano Cover by John Baumgardn

Alex Ptak (Quorators) and the lads check their power levels and slap each other silly as they cover the finale of the Frieza arc of Akira Toriyama’s seminal 90’s anime: Dragon Ball Z. Topics include the complex logistics of wishes, the gorgeous design of the characters, and the eternal popularity of a ripped protagonist who can eat and eat and eat and never, EVER get full.

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Quorators - Every Monday, comedians Jeremy Kaplowitz and Alex Ptak head to Quora dot com to find the stupidest questions they can and make fun of them.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

• Dragon Ball Z. Toei Animation. Created by Akira Toriyama.

• • S3, Ep 80: “Transformed at Last”
  • S3, Ep 81: “Explosion of Anger”
  • S3, Ep 82: “Namek’s Destruction?”
  • S3, Ep 83: “A Final Attack”
  • S3, Ep 84: “Approaching Destruction”
  • S3, Ep 85: “Gohan’s Return”
  • S3, Ep 86: “The Last Wish”
  • S3, Ep 87: “Duel on a Vanishing Planet”
  • S3, Ep 88: “Pathos of Frieza”
  • S3, Ep 89: “Frieza Defeated!!”
  • S3, Ep 90: “Mighty Blast of Rage”

• “Finding Ourselves in Dragon Ball” by Bradford William Davis. Slate. March 13th, 2024.
• “In Celebration of Goku, A Latino Icon” by JP Brammer. Los Angeles Times. August 10th, 2023.

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In preparation for their pilgrimage to Colorado Springs, Colorado, the lads take a gander at what the heck’s been going on in Odyssey in recent years and finally meet everybody’s favorite mail-delivering Odyssian: Wooton Bassett. Topics include the zombification of Odyssey, Focus on the Family’s financial troubles, and sheer terror of watching your childhood hero become a sentient garden gnome.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

• Adventures in Odyssey

• • #472 - “Welcoming Wooton”
  • #734 - “Life Expectancy, Part 1”
  • #735 - “Life Expectancy, Part 2"
  • #736 - “Life Expectancy, Part 3”
  • #750 - “All By Myself”
  • #807 - “Connie the Counselor”
• The Fanart Where Wooton Bassett Looks Exactly Like 16 Year Old A.J.

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Tall Bart (@verytallbart) joins the lads for another dip into the Prager Pool as they interrogate the painful sketch comedy and baby-brained moralizing of Dennis Prager’s educational video series: For Goodness Sake. Topics include Prager’s unique rhetorical style, the bafflingly high-profile cast, and how David Zucker, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone had their hand in helping Dennis Prager tell the world about just how much he hates babies.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

• The For Goodness Sake Playlist:

• • For Goodness Sake dir. David Zucker, 1993.
  • For Goodness Sake 2 dir. Trey Parker, 1996.
  • Character: Who Needs It (Training Version), 1996.
  • “Who is Dennis Prager?” by PragerU, 2019.
  • “Are People Born Good?” by PragerU, 2014.

• “Mixed Messages : Simpson Is Hastily Edited Out of Film on Values, but Some Prefer the Original” by Gordon Dillow. Los Angeles Times. June 22nd, 1994.
• “O.J. Simpson Has Cameo In Training Movie About Ethics, Morality With AM-Simpson-Abuse Laws” by Lynn Elber. Associated Press. June 22nd, 1994.

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Stephen Stout (Puffs) and the lads hop into their red, white, and blue helicopters and completely obliterate France as they cover Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 fraught satire of the War on Terror: Team America: World Police. Topics include Parker and Stone’s origins, the film’s overwhelming racism, and what a movie so steeped in the post-9/11 hysteria of the early 2000s means twenty years after its release.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

• Team America: World Police. Dir. Trey Parker and Matt Stone. 2004.
• “Launching a small-scale offensive” by John Horn. The Los Angeles Times. Sept. 12th, 2004.
• “Team America-World Police: Down-Home Theories of Power and Peace” by James Gow. Millenium: Journal of International Studies. Volume 34, Issue 2. February 2006.
• “Playboy Interview: Parker & Stone” by Playboy Staff. June 2000.
• “Puppet Masters - Interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker” by Heather Havrilesky. Salon. October 12th, 2004.

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