The QQ Cast: Answers to geek culture's most superfluous questions.: Recent Episodes
Tom DuPont
Geeks sitting around, asking nerdy questions, and fabricating answers. We oft geek out about games, movies, and software development. Won’t you join us, dear listener?
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Less Batman and Robin, more Pumba and Timon. Less Kirk and Spock, more R2-D2 and C-3PO. Also, Ruly is getting a drone!
From Trek to Galactica, from DCF to JMS, from Sci-Fi to Syfy, one thing is always true: Rod Serling is awesome! Also, Tom Hardy is funny.
Why did Thomas Jefferson serve macaroni and cheese at State dinners? Which is the least safe seat on an airplane? Why does Count Von Count like to count? Is the Minecraft movie teaser trailer really that bad?
I like my storage prefixed like my space programs: with NAS. I like my Pi like my PopTarts: Raspberry flavored. I like my CPU threads like my personal trainer: Ripped.
Is Logitech logical? Is the Metaverse meta? Is cryptocurrency cryptographically secure? It doesn't matter so long as number go up and to the right!
There was giant computer outage, but who was responsible? Crowd flare? Cloud strike? Crowd strife? Cloud Strife: Stop meteors. Drive PlayStation sales.
In preparation for Alien Romulus, we discuss the franchise containing our now favorite Disney princess! GET AWAY FROM HER YOU... witch?
These Balatrones have put more than 600 hours into Balatro, and they're going to bleat about it! Does that make you want to ballare with excitement, or throw blateae with distain?
Will this be the last Nintendo Direct for the Switch? Did Samus just scan a pirate? Is Zelda gonna have to flip a table? Can an AI finally teach Tom the rules of Jeopardy?
What movies do you recommend to viewers who enjoy fantasy and westerns? What about science fiction and oatmeal cookies?
On this historic day we do everything right and yet are still found guilty on 34 counts of enjoying a perfect breakfast! Oh hush, dear listener!
Ruly and Tom form a support group to discuss their dirty dirty YouTube fetishes. Zach wisely sits this one out, but only because his terribly expensive computer died minutes before the cast. Is there a moral to these stories? Meh!
Trey drops to discuss great endings to movies, books, and games! Be warned, some spoilers beyond this point!
Ruly misses out as Zack and Tom commiserate over the cancellation of Star Trek: Lower Decks; and by commiserate, I mean recap every single episode in Season 4. Set course for excitement, maximum warp!
Whenever developers fuse card games with roguelikes, Tom is there to give them money! Also, Zach shoots chess pieces?
Raul loves scary things. Tom does not. So when, where, and why does horror work for them? Insert jump scare here!
Some of us have PCs, others laptops. Some of us use smart watches, others the sun. All of us are addicted to our Steam Decks!
Are you tired of traffic congestion? Conduct it with AI! Are you tired of low quality 90s TV shows? Upscale them with AI! Are you tired of AI? Fix it by... going outside?
These hypocrites are all for running private Plex servers, but they are against nefarious cargo acquisition practices on the high seas? This podcast is brought to you by: Cerveza Cristal!
Dear listener, it' s time to migrate off of Google and on to Proton! Also, off of Trello and on to Obsidian! Also, off of WordPad and on to... well, anything really.
How many directors cuts does Blade Runner have? Are they all worth watching? Can Deadpool save the MCU?
Ruly and Tom don their tinfoil hats, ready their anal probes, and turn on the Fox News; because it's time to discuss the greatest alien hoaxes! Did you just hear the X-Files theme song? Also, are Sonic and Knuckles aliens?
Us pals take a break from our world to talk with our pals about the pals worlds! Speaking of things, heavily inspired by other things, do you know that Akira Kurosawa was both the first and last original filmmaker? (Reupload)
Do we have to review Zack Snyder's 2023 epic franchise launching film Rebel Moon, Part 1: Child of Fire? Yes. Why? Fine. Okay, we'll give it this: it's terribly memorable, with an emphasis on terribly. (That last sentence was typed in slow motion.)
The year of our lord 2023 was a great year for media, but is there a drought ahead? F*** it, let's just look forward to looking backward and cleaning out our backlogs! Also, Jason Statham is sexy.
While Zach continues his globetrotting adventures, Trey subs in to help Tom and Ruly cover the latest greatest most boring video game news! Also, Axel Foley is back and he looks more tired than ever!
Raul picks a topic about science fiction, for which Tom is uncharacteristically unprepared. However, with Zack MIA, Tom characteristically blames him!
In the year of our meme, 2023, we bid farewell to our favorite fedora wearing game critic whom we adored. Now, as we commit Zero Punctuation to the internet archive, we may take solace in knowing that Yahtzee shall return soon via Pateron for a Second Wind. Farewell, sweet prince.
Tom takes a break from talking about Star Trek to finally talk about the Simpsons! Ruly participates, and Zach attends. Happy (belated) Halloween, dear listener!
We review everything from Cyberpunk 2077 to Mario Kart to Outer Wilds! That's right, the QQ Cast is selling out again! Except that we aren't getting paid. We are so dumb. Go play the Outer Wilds!
Is it John Williams? It has to be John Williams! It's John Williams, right? Right? Also, Rick has a new voice.
Other nerds recreated classic spaceships in Starfield, and these nerds are going to talk about them!
Tom tests Zack and Raul's video game news knowledge by asking them riddles about the September Nintendo Direct and Sony State of Play! Do you know what's in your pockets?
Content warning, dear listener! Horrifying space deaths aside, the real terror is that we now have a soundboard. Will Tom completely and utterly abused that privilege? The answer, is yes. Insert Star Trek theme here.
Tom and Zach start reviewing Ant-Man Quantumania, and then promptly get bored and start reviewing Loki Season 1 instead.
Which games will make the cut? Baldur's Gate 3? Cyberpunk 2270? Baldur's Gate 3? Counter-Strike IV? Baldur's Gate 3?
Did you know that, in the world of Epileptic Trees, Fanon Welding is what happens when fans see Shared Universes and Stealth Sequels where there are non? Also, FLOATY ROCKS!!!
IGN calls for aid, and the QQ Cast shall answer! You will have Ruly's wit, Zack's absence, and Tom's bad puns! But in all seriousness, Donkey Kong Country is awesome.
Oppenheimer is coming out. Will it be good? Will it have half decent sound mixing? Will it be an atomic bomb at the box office? We don't discuss any of that!
Special guest and AI expert Mr. Matt joins us to discuss how soon this podcast will be made obsolete by our robot overlords! Some might say we are at the MID of our JOURNEY? Three hundred episodes, same bad puns!
What do you call it when a movie soundtrack is scored by a band? We don’t know either, but we try (and fail) to talk about it while killing time before the big 300!
Tom, Zack, and Raul log on to the podcast together to antagonistically talk about cooperative games! From Left 4 Dead 2 to Portal 2... Wait, they don’t talk about Portal 2? Worst podcast ever!
Raul wisely puts his children to bed while Tom and Zach stay up rambling about operating systems. Yes, it is exactly as boring as it sounds!
On this very special episode, we celebrate 10 YEARS of the QQ Cast! It's an army of special guests vs ChatGPT in a QQ Jeopardy showdown! Won't you celebrate with us, dear listener?
Happy Star Wars (a registered trademark) of the Lucas Film (a limited liability company) Day from our benevolent corporate overlords at the Mus Musculus (incorporated)!
Villains. Not monsters. Not economic systems. Not anti-heroes... well maybe the song...
Do you have Game Pass? Do you also not use it? Here are the best games that you are not playing!
Do you love bad video games? Did you play Jaws? Scribblenauts? Galactic Imperium? If so, I'm sorry. Let's reopen old wounds, together!
Tom and Ruly take a trip down memory lane and try to convince each other to watch films that are not Mad Max: Fury Road.
What are not just bad movies, but horrendously terrible wrecks of movies that you can't look away from?
Tom and Ruly are supposed to talk about movies, but instead they spend half the time debate the difference between iconic and epic!
Toss a coin to your Gaben, oh Steam sale of plenty! Toss a coin to your Gaben, a friend of humanity! ...also, can we (pun intended) kick start a HBO Mario Kart series where Grogu plays Lakitu?
Did you know that the Power Ranges teamed up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? We should do a stream of us just reacting to that episode...
Spoilers: because he's James Cameron! The QQ Cast discuss Mr. Cameron's ENTIRE filmography, and then talk about AI for some reason.
Spoiler: It was the late, great, Kevin Conroy; but what about the live action bat men? Who are you voting for at the game awards? Does Mario sound Italian? We answer all... well, some... okay fine, none of these questions!
Tom and Ruly read Reddit, shake their fists, and yell at clouds like old men! Also, they watched Black Panther 2!
Spoiler: Ready Player One is not number one of the list! Ruly goes on vacation, Tom and Zach fail to answer their own question, and the John Wick 4 trailer looks great!
A QQ Special Presentation: The Quest 279 Special: What do Call of Duty, Metroid, and Donkey Kong all have in common? It's gonna be special!
Ruly is on a boat! Zach and Tom review Sandman, The Orville, Dr. Strange, and then stop mid podcast to buy Steam Deck Docks. Also, NASA rammed a satellite into an asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour… because science!
The cast try to talk about new toys that bring them joy, but instead lament their hair turning hoary, Oh boy, oh boy.
Shows and games and movie trailers, oh my! We literally just sit around and watch YouTube on the podcast, and it is almost as boring as it sounds!
Tom, Zach, and Ruly all finally watched the same movie! Now they are role playing Predators, Indians, and Frenchmen! Clicking Intensifies
Tom and Ruly slack off and watch YouTube... for the entire podcast? Worst. Content. Ever.
Listening late into the twilight, dear listener? Join us, the oracles of podcasting, and we will be your wakers as we mask the ages by making a legendary link between breaths into an ocarina of worlds past!
It's a QQ Review speed round spectacular! Minions! Fifth Element! Event Horizon? The Black Phone! Thor! Also, giant space telescopes!
We talk about the Steam Deck! Raul's crashed a few times. And Tom's battery might be bad. But otherwise we really like it! Also, it's pizza time!
The QQ Cast takes an evening to discuss the very serious subject of mental health. Warning: this episode gets real.
Did you know that it's actually really hard to calculate a box office bomb? What was the real budget? What was the marketing budget? Did all countries report gross accurately? Did you adjust for inflation?
What has been seen cannot be unseen, but can it be soothed? The QQ cast share the internet content they use to try and clear their minds!
The QQ Cast hates three hour movies like The Batman... but not Hateful Eight.... or Lord of the Rings... or Endgame... but specifically The Batman!
Ruly reminisces about the Playstation, Tom rambles about FPGA cores, and Zach is a little Spanish flea, a podcast star he thought he'd be...
Did you like and subscribe? Well did you click the button? No, not that button; the other button. Why did you click there? No, go back. No, not that far back!
The Valve Steam. Not a steam valve. Or a steam punk. Or a Steam Deck. Oh, wait, no, yes, that last one!
Tom and Zach take a break from dark depressing reality to dress up and play pirates. No, not the Sid Meier game.
JJ Abrams seems to think that everything is better when we yell! Tom is so angry! Zach is so emotional! Raul just can't believe we are making him listen to Star Trek clips again... LOUD NOISES!
The years is 2022, and Hollywood has found a way to cheat death. Why is Tom so upset by this? Will Nintendo Direct news put Raul and Zach to sleep? Tune in and find out, dear listener!
We go back to where it all began: The release of the Matrix! Also, Wild Wild South Park Witch, the Big Phantom Spy Who Shagged Me Story 2!
It's 2020 Part 3, and Netflix has added 82 new things in the month of January! Do we care? The answer may surprise you, but probably not. No. The answer is no.
We review another year of quarantine by covering the best and worst movies, shows, and games that released in 2021! What about books and music? Ain't no one got time for those!
Cancelled after only one season, was it a good space western or the best space western? Maybe!
Tom and Zach get nerdy and talk about software development workflows. That's right, it's an even nerdier episode than usual.
Tom and Zach discuss the "definitive" editions of GTA, KotoR, L4D, AoE, and even more acronyms!
Will Raul finish the Witcher? Is Lightyear a prequel? Does Bebop have new Yoko Kanno music? Yes!
The answer is nothing, but we do talk about both, and then watch the Cowboy Bebop Lost Sessions trailer...for science!
A fire hose of geeky news headlines from Nintendo, Facebook, Amazon, and... the Space Force?
A fire hose of geeky news headlines from Star Trek Day, PlayStation Day, and Matrix 4 de Septiembre Day!
Ruly takes the night off while Tom and Zach prepare to go hiking in Alaska... they are so excited, they can bearly stand the wait!
A fire hose of geeky headlines from Netflix Geeked Week, to Ninendo Switch OLED vs Valve Steam Deck fight night!
Star Wars is only the fifth highest grossing franchise of all time. No. No. That's not true. That's impossible! Search Wikipedia, you know it to be true! No! No!
Special guest Mr. Trey joins the cast as we share our controversial favorites that differ from the popular opinion... it's hot takes, the podcast episode!
New Metroid, New Mario, New Advance Wars, New Pokemon, New Zelda, Santa Claus is real, he's in our booth, and he's give out free candy. Nintendo! We out.
Akumajo Densetsu, known as Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse in the West, is one of the best damn (pun intended) platformers ever made! Trevor whips it good (pun intended)! Alucard does not suck (pun intended)! Sypha Belnades is a holy bad ass (pun intended)! Grant Danasty's daggers are nasty (pun intended)! ...Tom just really wanted to talk about this game; so you, dear listener, can just listen and suffer along with Zach and Raul (pun intended).
The one adult was out of the room, so Tom and Zach just started talking about Star Trek...again...for over an hour...AGAIN.
Mortal Kombat! Fight! Test your might! Excellent! Kano, Liu Kang, Raiden, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sonya Blade! Mortal Kombat!
Ruly can't stop reading The Walking Dead, Tom wishes he could not get hyped about JRPGs, and Zach is still hung up on TV that ended in... 2009? Get over it, man!
We review a bunch of things that only one of us watched. From 1982 to 2021, we are so random!
Tom won't shut up about Aliens, Raul is still disappointed by Steven King, and Zach just loves all them little hobbit films.
Can anything top the disappointment of the hype that was The Phantom Menace? Maybe Spore. Certainly not The Purge.
Was Fry's owned by the late great Philip J. Fry? No, it was not. Will you remember the Alamo Drafthouse? We certainly will.
Raul takes a break from dealing with ice and snow to watch YouTube trailers with Zach and Tom; it's a Bromance Direct for February 2021!
Tom and Zach quote a little Star Trek, mention Farscape, quote a lot of Picard, discuss Gattaca, and then quote a little more Star Trek.
Star Wars started streaming, Walking Dead told a tale, Castlevania went anime, and a Nintendo fit…in your pocket?
Is Boba Tea Fett awesome? Yes. Is the Razor Crest finally gone? Probably. Did we need more CGI characters? No, we did not.
The QQ Cast brings in the new year by going back to talk about last year's biggest blockbuster, There and Back Again: A Palindrome's Tale, by Christopher Nolan!
Michelle Pfeiffer, great Catwoman or greatest Catwoman? Was Chrono Cross too radical of a dream? Perhaps the most important question we have ever asked: Is Gizmo the original Baby Yoda?
Finally, 2020 is coming to a long overdue end! Before we go, let’s do a quick recap of FUN things from this year: Cyberpunk 2077, Among Us, Age of Calamity... is anyone else sensing a theme here?
A fire-hose of Disney intellectual property headlines; including NINE Star Wars shows, TWO Star Wars movies, ZERO Star Wars books, and I-DO-NOT-CARE how many Marvel multimedia multiverses!
Is baby Yoda still do cute? Yes. Is the Razor Crest still getting taken apart every other episode? Yes. Do they still fly now? Yes, they still fly now!
A fire hose of geeky headlines from the completely typical, standard and not at all important, memorable, or stressful month of November 2020.
Special guest Trey joins the cast to reminisce about candy, Halloween costumes, flight simulators, horror movies, and flight simulators? ...also, congratulations Ruly!
What have we been geeking out on? Flight simulators, James Bond podcasts, and water pipes in the attic, oh my!
A fire hose of geeky headlines from the PS5 price reveal, Xbox Series price reveal, and multiple Nintendo directs!
A fire hose of geeky headlines from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Direct!
Zach is AFK, so Tom and Raul try to find fun things about which they disagree! Can they fail at that too?
Lower Decks gets nostalgic for TNG, Deep Space Nine thinks TOS was awesome, and Voyager brings Captain Sulu his tea!
The QQ Cast finally gets back to what they are best at: rambling unintelligibly about software development? Oh boy. Open your pull requests, docker up, and brace yourself a long completely unoptimized set of test runs!
Does plot matter in the Umbrella Academy? Are The Boys shenanigans fun shenanigans? Who watches the Watchmen? No, we do not discuss the DC-TV-EU-Arrow-Verse-Thing-A-Mabob!
Did great cinematography grant Lord of the Rings unnaturally long life? Do soldiers wearing bandanas date Aliens more than it's technology? Could Event Horizon bomb just as hard today as it did 20 years go? The answer is YES!
Steam is putting games on sale again! Zach wants to program JavaScript, Ruly focuses on horror games, and Tom's mic sounds terrible...is the world returning to normal? (Spoilers: No, f*** no it is not.)
There are over 500 hours of Star Trek, and you gotta star somewhere. Resistance is futile.
The Snyder cut is finally becoming a reality, but will it preserve continuity? We don't care, but it's as good an excuse as any to discuss Star Trek again, Star Wars again, Alien again, and Superman Returns. Do you remember Superman Returns? We don't!
Charge up your mini disc player, dust off your zip drive, and get ready to look up most of the story content in the instruction manual. Oh, and don't forget about those lovely DRM checks! Please tell us which character is printed on page 47 to continue…
There is a new Paper Mario on the way, but do you remember the first Mario RPG? What do Paper Mario, Alien, Jumanji, Fallout, and Final Fantasy all have in common? NOTHING! ...oh, but Star Wars hasn't changed at all.
It took decades, but we finally got to officially play untranslated Nintendo games, go trucking in post apocalyptic Australia, and even have a rematch with the armies of darkness!
Gotta review fast! So we stop and analyze a thirteen part series of Simpsons jokes about the boy who cried wolf? ...because, shut up! Also, Jim Carey is great.
Social distancing is in full effect, but we are fortunate enough to still have full time jobs; so how are we spending our nights, weekends and work from home coffee breaks? Are we staying in our houses? Mostly! Are we watching popular Netflix documentaries about feline monarchs? No! Are we playing Metroidvania games? Hell yes! Are we crossing all the animals? Yeh-his!
You open your closet and dust off and old box. Inside is the pride and joy of your childhood, an old Nintendo game console. You want to play some retro games and revel their nostalgia, but all you have is a crappy composite cable! How can you play the Marios? Will it be fuzzy? Will there be input lag? What do you do?
Here, under protest, is a podcast where Tom and Ruly listen to blooper reels from 40 year old produce commercials... and make cheese for you.
The hosts of the QQ cast can't be bothered to watch the same movies or shows, so instead they micro QQ review all of your favorite nerdy shlock in a single episode!
Ruly is looking forward to horror movies...Zach is looking forward to 77 games, or maybe just one 77 game...and Tom is looking forward to nothing, NOTHING I TELLS YA! Did we mention that we won't be discussing politics? NOTHING! And Denis Villeneuve's Dune.
First Spoiler: There is no Banjo Kazooie on this list. Second Spoiler: Donkey Kong Country is not even in the top 200. Third and Final Spoiler: It's Rare to forget about these classics!
The QQ Cast finishes reviewing The Mandalorian, Season 1. We particularly liked the episodes written and directed by film legend Akira Kurosawa. We also liked the one by the that guy who played that vampire in that movie before he worked for that conglomerate that owns Star Wars, you know the one.
We bring in the new decade with lists of top lists of video games lists! Who are aggregating these lists? Top men. Minus Zach.
The dead speak! The QQ CAST has watched a momentous movie, a story of SKYWALKER RISING by the sinister director JJ ABRAMS. Dear listener should dispatch their fears, because THEY, our corporate overloads, WILL NOT DISNEY PLUS US.
The Walt Disney Company presents a Marvel Entertainment Director Written Star Wars Story: Lone Mandalorian and Yoda Cub, now streaming on All Disney Premium Max Access Plus Red
Elon unveil's an indestructible Cybertruck with broken windows, Kojima releases the worlds greatest walking simulator, and Value still can't count to three.
We finally come up with a good topic, and the fumble through it like amatures! Did you know that Super Mario Bros was influential? Did you know that this episode ends on a cliffhanger? Spoilers!
We watch trailers about Picard going to the disco...IN THE FUTURE! Jonathan Frakes can come too. And Jerry Ryan. But not Alex Kurtzman.
A second fire hose of geeky headlines from September 2019 about Apple, Nintendo and so much more! ...okay, fine, that's all of it. Are you happy now? Good.
The future. The distant future. The year 2019, the distant future. In the future, there are no more geodesic domes. Except the new one in Chernobyl, but that one is a safe confinement dome. So in the future, there is still new safe confinement dome…singular.
It's all guns, knives and dogs as Morpheus and Neo reunite to save the city from an Iron Chef gone rogue!
A fire hose of geeky headlines from the September Nintendo Direct and Apple whatever-it's-called announcement thinger!
How do programmers actually type? Do they drink lots of caffeinated drinks? Do they automatically approve 40+ file code reviews? Yes, yes, and duh!
Disney is doing more Marvel stuff. Is anything else happening? No? Any stuff that we care about? Still no? Or any comic book stuff? Definitely no? Well, okay then.
Google's old motto was "Don't be evil." Their new motto is "Do the right thing." What they really mean is "Do the right thing, for us!"
Do you have hobbies? Well, you should! Will you stick with them? Well, we sure don't! So are you better than us? Well, I sure hope so!
Think Geek is closing their online storefront to open a brick and mortar store called Game Stop...WHAT YEAR IS IT???
A firehose of geeky, mostly Nintendo related, news headlines from E3 2019! Zelda! Link! Marin! Kaepora Gaebora! Wind fish?
What exactly is a shower thought? Can you only have it in the shower? Can you have one in the park? Let's find out! This Rated-G podcast is brought to you by, Reddit. Reddit, where you go when you don't have a podcast topic.
Wait, wait...there is going to be an The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactic game? And we didn't talk about it in this episode? Because it was announced after we recorded? DAMN YOU, LINEAR TIME!
A charismatic evil genius, Sean Connery, discovers a way to harness the weather and utilize it as a weapon against London and the world at large; the posh and droll combo of secret agents Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman are on the case!
What is the best first entry to the worst series? Video Games? Movies? Etc! Also, how do you pronounce niche?
Disney streaming premiers with "House of Mouse IX: Rise of a Totalitarian Regime" ...and I, for one, welcome our new varment overlords!
What have we been geeking out on? 3D Printers, and Pi Holes, and True Detectives, oh my!
You are hiking in Snake Canyon when you find yourself lost in the strange, dimly lit Cave of Time. Gradually you can make out two passageways. One curves downward to the right; the other leads upward to the left. It occurs to you that the one leading down may go to the past and the one leading up may go to the future. Which way will you choose?
A firehose of geeky news headlines for Q4 2018!
Headlines* Marriott Hacking Exposes 500 Million Guests * The Captain Marvel Trailer * Into the Spiderverse Trailer * The PlayStation Classic Isn’t Selling Well * Tesla Captures the Luxury Car Market
Music* The Wind Waker - Pajarito Paisa
The short answer, is yes. The long answer, is also yes. I am shocked, shocked I tell you! ...okay, not that shocked.
Previously, on UFO 54-40: We were given a tiki idol and befriended a vagina monster, but ultimately wound up in two times at the same place! What could possibly go wrong this time?
We reminisce about our favorite cancelled Google products, because we're glassholes. Please don't forget to plus one our podcast on Google Plus, generate some buzz on Google Buzz, and catch us on Google Wave!
Previously, on UFO 54-40: We got abducted from a supersonic jet, and made friends with Pirate Captain Kim Lee! What aliens will we meet this time? Can we out smart the U-TY Masters again? How do we escape?
The QQ Cast goes back and reviews all the things that they missed out on in the past year!
Will AR ever be a thing? Can Telsa meet their quotas? Is Elon really going to take us to Mars? We don't know!
You're aboard a supersonic jet, high above the Atlantic. Suddenly a huge, gleaming white cylinder shoots out of the clouds. The next thing you know you are inside the galactic ship Rakma-captured by the all-powerful U-TY Masters! How do you escape?