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New year, same inconsistent drops, but we still here! On this episode, we discuss our sorrows for the desexification of the Green M&M. The liberals have gone too far sadly, and now even our M&Ms aren’t safe. When you think about it, our predictions from the last episode are are already coming true. Solo Dolo, aka Gabe, has a fulfilling announcement for us early on, you’ll be moved. We also binged all 4 Matrix’s (2 is the best). Thanks for your support!
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WE’RE BAAAAAAAACK for our first episode of the new year! Thanks to Byron and Kamala, Omicron strain (indica) is still putting up Jordan numbers. To be safe, we’re going to stay virtual the next few episodes. We got a great episode for y’all to kick off 2022. Solo becomes a war criminal, Fish finally watched the OG Star Wars Trilogies (SPOILER WARNING) and Farouk is still built entirely differently. We hope you enjoy and thanks for staying with us!
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We’re back for our last episode of the year!! 2021 has been pretty much like 2020 due to the fact that the writers of South Park are still scripting all of this. Despite the negativity, we hope you can find the time to laugh through it all with us on The Solo Fish Podcast! We capped off our year finale with having a very special guest and friend on with us, Danaka! She’s a legend among legends and advocates for anti imperialist and anti-war agendas through the platform she is a part of, CODEPINK! Thank you for all your support through this year. Happy holidays, happy New Year, and we’ll see you all in 2022!
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—> @wifeoftoast
If you want to read more about CODEPINK and find out how you can get involved check out the links below!
—> Twitter: @codepink
—> Website: https://www.codepink.org/
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This episode comes just in time for the holidays! We suggest you settle all your beefs with every family member BEFORE your next gathering. It still will suck, but at least tensions will be lower. Fish and Farouk went twosies on this one. Traditionally, they run a game for these kinds of episodes, however this time they did something different. In honor of the Michigan Wolverines spectacular season, we view the Big Ten Championship Game (Mich vs Iowa) Live! Thanks for your support!
First off, this is definitely not Fish writing this. Dune was cheeks and we get deep into why. Gabe ruins our frogs hair of a chance of ever sponsored and we get taken back to the 70s after listening to the new Silk Sonic project (S/0 Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars). Also want to S/0 the entire Muslim community for getting Mr Chalamet, Major W. Thanks for your support!
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The Solo Fish Podcast is back with a new episode, and just in time for Thanksgiving/Holiday festivities for the weekend. If you despise your family to the core, then let this be your 40 minute comedic escape. This episode is even for the people who don't despise their family too. Even if you have no family, you can still enjoy! Thank you for your continued support.
We’re spoiling y’all with back to back weeks of Solo Fish Podcast content, we know you’re crying tears of joy. Gabe couldn’t make this episode (he’s good), so Farouk and Fish hit a twosies. Last twosies, Farouk and Fish hit a live Chess match. This time, Farouk and Fish battle it out live over MarioKart Double Dash. We fangirl over Code Geass, squirt the Squid Games, and piss off Batman all while battling on Rainbow Road. Thank you for your support!
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We’re excited to bring you our first episode of the spooky season! We’ve got another great one for y’all, not only do you get to learn what we’re best at cooking, but you also learn Boron AND Uranium recipes (as side dishes). Fish considers an Only Fans, we also discover Farouk has never fell or dropped their phone even once. Place your bets on which month they will drop their phone or fall and if you guess correctly within a year of this episode release, you’ll get a special surprise from the team (email: thesolofishpodcast@gmail.com). Thank you for your continued support!
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We’ve got another episode full of boolery, foolery, stupidity, and even some titties. You don’t want to miss this one! Farouk has a surprise for us, we also discover we’re cold at singing, and we discuss how to land a six figure job at the Zoo. We got something for everyone here. Thank you for listening and your support!
We did it y’all, we finally we got a sponsorship and it’s street certified. Sadly, crack was the only thing that gave us a shot at sponsorship, so hopefully we don’t mess this up too bad. Thank you for joining us for another Solo Fish episode! We’re full squad and full stupid, so you know this is going to be a great one (well, they all are). We got Muppets, Donda vs CLB, crapping on the 3D Era, and much more boolery. Sit back and enjoy!
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We are back and sounding better than ever (Shoutout to @Farouk for the new intro music)! On today's episode the crew dives into the two episode finale of Rick and Morty Season 5 and talk discuss the highlights of the season. Then they jump into the new rumors swirling on the MCU's highly anticipated Doctor Strange & the Multiverse of Madness and it's possible X-Men connection. Then finally they break down the latest Marvel offering in Shang Chi (Spoilers its awesome)! Time codes are below and thanks for listening!
01:31 - What we've been watching/reading/playing 08:30 - Rick and Morty Season 5 Finale 21:50 - Doctor Strange 2's possible X-Men connections 38:00 - Shang Chi review and thoughts
Thank you for joining us for our 26th Episode! We’re back on our virtual flow, ‘cause covid just keeps gaining more power with every Greek letter it claims. Thankfully, we could still do what we do best, talking about absolutely nothing while simultaneously talking about everything. We take a deep dive into what it truly means to be a journalist, make spot on predictions on when and how the planet will enter its flop era (a.k.a. explode), we even have a way you can win a prize, courtesy of Fish just for listening. Find out more and give us a listen!
Whew! That No Way Home trailer was everything we ever wanted! We break all our favorite moments, who we saw, and who else we think might show up (Lots of Tobey and Andrew). Then we give our thoughts on the first two episodes of the latest Disney+ Marvel series What If...? (It's sick), and end it off with our thoughts on the DCEU's latest, James Gunn's highly anticipated The Suicide Squad! Spoilers ahead!
With Gabe still out at the International Space Station, we were left with no choice, but to go twosies for this episode. Fish and Farouk dive in head first into talking about absolutely whatever they want. Since it's just us two, we add a lil twist and run a LIVE chess match just up the stakes (I don't know what stakes are on the line doing an unsponsored podcast but whatever). We're a fourth of the way to triple digits, thank y'all for being here all the way!
You're favorite nerds are back to break down all the goodness that's dropped in the past month! To start we catch up what we've been watching/reading and oh is it JUICY! Next we get into The Green Knight and its safe to say there were mixed feelings across the board! We then get into the latest MCU factory film Black Widow and SPOILERS its the exact movie you thought it would be. Lastly we get into the sweet sweet goodness that was the Loki season finale including that BIG cameo! Timecodes for spoilers below!
01:01 - What we've been watching/reading 12:17 - The Green Knight SPOILERS 28:04 - Black Widow SPOILERS 41:05 - Loki Finale SPOILERS
If our last episode was our Jordan episode then this one is our Kobe one! (R.I.P. to the Black Mamba). We had to go hard for this one. Our favorite eccentric personality, Solo Dolo will be out this episode, but if you've been with us this long then you'll recognize a familiar voice in his place. From bashing on billionaires colonizing space, giving the inside scoop of where DONDA is, dropping elite Bible knowledge, and even helping our listeners find love, we do it all. Thank you for your continued support!
You know we had to go hard for our Jordan episode! Thank you for supporting us through 23 unfiltered premium episodes. On this episode, we decide which is the ultimate Aves of the Linnaean taxonomy and roast TF out of pigeons. In honor of Tyler's latest album drop, Call Me If You Get Lost, we breakdown his strange obsession for white boys all these years. Finally we couldn't not mention the cap decision by the Olympics to ban track star Sha'Carri Richardson from running in this year's coming Games for smoking marijuana. Last time anyone checked, weed hasn't made anyone faster... or transform them into an olympic caliber athlete for that matter... Anyway, listen to our latest episode and hear us do what we do best, talk.
We're back and better than ever for our fourth episode! The crew starts with the most important question of the past news cycle, "Does Batman eat pussy?" and greater implications this has for the DC Universe, then we catch you up on the biggest E3 News, break down the first episode of Rick and Morty season 5, and what we think of Loki so far! Time codes below!
01:36 - Is Batman going down on Catwoman? 05:38 - E3 35:26 - Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1 42:43 - Loki Episodes 1-3
We say this every time, but this time we truly do mean it when we say we got a GREAT episode for y'all!!! We kick off the episode with back-to-back surprises, one I know y'all will be particularly excited about, because it's been a long time coming. Besides the surprises for y'all, we handle business as usual talking about whatever the hell we want. This episode, we do a quick recap of all the new music projects that have dropped in the past few weeks (Migos, Pierre, Polo G, etc.). We also pay homage to Kentaro Miura's Berserk in light of his passing, R.I.P. Also, just in case you all didn't know, we here on the Solo Fish Podcast are all buff and we finally share our secrets to our gainz. Thanks for your support!
Hello and welcome back for the third episode of the Pop Culture Roundtable! This week we share what we've been reading/watching/playing to pass the time/ Then we get into all of that Spider Man news and leaks (don't worry no spoilers), preview Disney+'s upcoming Loki, and give our thoughts on My Hero Academia season 5 so far! Check the time codes below and thanks for listening!
01:00 - What we've been watching: Jojo's Bizzare Adventures 06:18 - Bo Burnham's Inside 11:09 - Cyberpunk or CyberJunk? 12:27 - Aaron Taylor Johnson is Kraven the Hunter 24:22 - Sonyverse and MCU collab? 29:05 No Way Home plot and cast leaks (No Spoilers) 42:40 - Loki thoughts and predictions 53:47 - My Hero Academia Season 5 so far (Spoilers)
We have no choice but to dedicate our 21st episode to 21 Savage. So if you're listening, this one goes out to you. We also want to thank our supporters for joining us for another episode of The Solo Fish Podcast! We've got another great episode for you all where we continue to talk about anything we want. First off, shout out the living legend himself, Taika Waititi. He's the only one who we're ok with saying "my life is a movie." We also touch on the controversy surrounding Kwame Brown and how it all somewhat relates to the trope of successful black men tearing down other successful black men. Finally, we end with settling the age old question of who is the worst dad in all of Shonen .We hope you all enjoy!
We're back for episode 2! Sorry for the delay, that sweet sweet Vaccine took us out last week and we had to delay, but no worries! The gang is back and vaxxxed for a thrilling new episode breaking down the latest and greatest news and reviews from the nerdy pop culture sphere including the recent Warner/Discovery deal and what that means for the DC Universe going forward, Eternals trailer and the future of Marvel, and reviews of Yasuke and The Bad Batch so far! Timecodes for spoilers below!!
02:31 - Discovery buys Warner Media from AT&T 22:25 - Disney is trying to buy DC comics?!?! 30:55 - Eternals trailer and the future of the MCU 48:46 - Yasuke SPOILERS 01:02:25 - The Bad Batch SPOILERS
Wow, we're 1/5 of the way there to triple digit episode numbers... someday! Thanks to everyone who has been with us on the ride so far! First off, we just want to say our support goes out to Palestine and every civilian being affected by the unrest on both sides. We couldn't ignore what's been going on in this episode, but we do have some lighter topics we cover too. Bill Gates is a single man again and we're all thirsting for Mr. Mircrosoft himself. In addition to figuring out how to become a Gates, we also plan for the impending Gorilla revolution in which they'll lead themselves and the other animals around the world to show who really is the ultimate primate. We also have a huge surprise on this episode and it's something that we've never done before. We hope you enjoy!
Episode 19 is here and it's brand new! I guess every episode we drop would be brand new, so that's redundant but regardless, we hope you all enjoy! We decided to get every vaccine and follow in Farouk's footsteps, we also revisit our conversation after finally seeing the God tier, cinematic master piece that is Godzilla vs. Kong. Finally we couldn't not talk about the recent news for our very own favorite football team, the Chicago Bears and their clutch selection of top draft pick Justin Fields. Thanks for all your continued support!
Welcome to the first episode of the Pop Culture Roundtable!!! We'll be sitting down every other week to break down the latest news, movies and episodes of everything in the nerdy pop culture sphere (MCU, DCEU, Star Wars, Anime, Video Games, and more!). In this episode we discuss the possibility and potential of a Last of Us 3 game, a possible Mandalorian game (#GroguHive), what we expect from The Bad Batch, as well as breakdown the final episodes of Falcon and The Winter Soldier and Invinvible! Look at the timecode below to avoid spoilers, and thanks for listening!!!
Timecodes: 01:28 - Neil Druckman confirms an outline for The Last of Us 3 exists 10:24 - A Mandalorian video game is in development 17:00 - The Bad Batch have a snake in their boots? 28:22 - Falcon and the Winter Solider was ... pretty good 47:16 - Invincible is the greatest show ever made already (ok not really but its GAS)
First off, R.I.P. TO THE LEGEND DMX. His recent passing is so unfortunate, however his legacy will live on forever. On a lighter note, we've got another brand new episode of The Solo Fish Podcast! We've got a great installment to the series for you all. Farouk has volunteered to take every vaccine that's available just to see what happens, we also talk about the recent upsurge in interest that artists have had in NFTs, lastly, we revisit an old topic involving the recent passing of Prince Philip. Thank you for your continued support!
WELCOME BACK for another THICC and juicy episode of The Solo Fish Podcast! Who knew Tom Hanks had a son? Not only that, but a racist one. Forrest Gump is going to hit a little differently now. We also address the ongoing controversy surrounding Lil Nas X's video for "Montero" A.K.A. "Call Me By Your Name." For our final and most important topic, we answer one of the most important questions humankind has ever been faced with... Godzilla or King Kong, who would win 1v1? Thank you for your support!
If you can't already tell by the episode title alone, then we'll just start by saying we've got quite the episode for you all. The Royal Family has been in the spotlight for some recent controversy surrounding some tea spilled by Megan Markle about some behind the scenes things going on from within. We also reflect on some controversial topics that have been on our minds, one surrounding a recent Grammy performance involving rapper Lil Baby and Tamika Mallory, the other involving the tragic shooting at an Atlanta spa that left eight dead. The attack is speculated to be targeted, as six of the victims were Asian. To lighten the mood, we try to predict who Saweetie's next boo will be after her and Quavo of the Migos call it quits. Thank you for your support!
In the wake of the recent increase of violence against Asians, we've included a link with helpful resources on how to donate to different causes within Asian communities: https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a35885105/stop-asian-hate-aapi-donate/
Welcome back to THE SOLO FISH PODCAST! 2021 is off to a wild start but who could've guessed that Dr. Seuss would be the latest person to get cancelled? We discuss what this post-mortem cancelling means for us moving forward before taking a deep dive into the complex science of lying (inspired by SZA). Finally we reflect on the recent outrage over the new design for Lola Bunny in Space Jam 2. Thanks as always for your continued support!
Right off the bat, we just want to shout out the people in the southern states dealing with the damage resulting from the snow storms that swept all across America. We know it's been brutal for you all, but just know we're hoping you can pull through and that you can get all the support you need. Also, a huge shout out to the people who are putting their lives at risk helping those in need.
The first part of our episode is dedicated to those still struggling from the snow storm's aftermath, the next part covers the new film Judas and the Black Messiah, (WARNING: HUMONGOUS SPOILERS - if you plan on watching the movie, but still wanna listen, skip from 18:50 - 1:02:05), and finally Mario makes a special guest appearance for our final topic. Thank you all as always for your continued support!
Remember when we said we wouldn't take any more hiatuses? Well we meant longer than 2 months... cause we're back with a brand new installment of The Solo Fish Podcast! Don't worry, we'll let you know what happened and where we've been right off the bat. We also decided to talk about the Redditers who beat the Hedge Funders at their own game and end with one of the most important questions you'll ever have to think about. Thanks as always for your continued support!
Well, we were only six days into 2021 before things became a hot mess. Unless you've had no internet, live in isolation, or are striving to be a hermit, we're sure that you are well aware of what happened in the Capitol on January 6th. In this episode we reflect on the riot and discuss the ramifications of what is arguably the most impactful events in recent American history.
We're back for the new year with the eleventh installment of The Solo Fish Podcast! Farouk starts our first episode of the year by keeping a promise to our listeners with a follow-up on vaccine concerns from our last episode. In addition to the info sesh, we try to figure out what happened with the infamous Cyberpunk 2077, honor the legend himself MF DOOM, and rattle off the artists we're anticipating projects from the most this year.
Thank you all for your support and we hope you all stick around for years to come!
WE DOUBLE DIGITS NOWWWWWW! Today we decided to focus on the recent talk of Stimulus Check 2 dropping (zero features), Chance The Rapper's recent fallout with his manager, and we decide if the vaccine is legit or not.
Thank you to everyone that has stuck with us through all the ups and downs, random posting schedules, and hiatuses. Whether you're a returning fan or a new listener we appreciate you and we'll see you all in the new year!
We're currently nine deep in this and you're still here and we love you. Your favorite personalities are back for the NINTH installment of The Solo Fish Podcast. Solo Dolo and Fish hash it out with your one and only host Farouk, and our fact checker Timon makes sure we're not spewing nonsense (besides what Solo says, but we can't help that). Today we decided to touch on HBO's big announcement of releasing movies in theatres right alongside their streaming platform, the crazy legal battle with G Herbo and Casanova, and touch briefly on Spotify's big end of the year Wrapped special.
Thank you for your continued support!
EPISODE EIGHT IS HERE, LEGGOOOOOO!!!! We hope you're all staying safe and had a great Thanksgiving/holiday/doing nothing/whatever you do every fourth Thursday of November. With COVID still COVIDing harder than ever, we thought it'd be interesting to discuss the future of live music and how artists will continue to adapt. From there, we declare the best social media platform and explore how Mark Zuckerberg continues to completely fumble the bag with Instagram. Finally, in light of the recent situation with R&B singer Jeremih, we decided to dive into our society's strange fascination with knowing every celebrity's personal business. Thanks for your continued support!
Welcome to the seventh installment of The Solo Fish Podcast! We promise to stop talking about politics but come on, we can't not talk about T****s L. After taking some time to reflect on the outcome of the election we mixed it up a little and decided to not talk about politics (American politics at least). Our favorite moderator, Timon, took the time to inform us of what's currently happening in Tanzania in regards to voter suppression and how eerily similar our election could have turned out, we lighten the mood a bit and dive into the rat race that is the streaming wars, and finally we end with the most important topic of all....the rising popularity of anime in mainstream media. A big thanks to everyone who's still showing support and we hope you all enjoy!
Only nine months later and we're back with the SIXTH installment of The Solo Fish Podcast! We promise our posting schedule will start making sense. Anyway, with such a long hiatus and with all that's happened from January up until current day October 2020, we decided to kind of tie everything into an episode regarding the current election. We focused on voting, America's division and how we think the outcome of the election might play out with either candidate winning. Thank you for your support for the ones that are still there with us!
We're back with another episode of The Solo Fish podcast! This weeks episode is a bit more somber and reflective as we delve into topics such as Mac Miller's Circles, dealing with the pressures of your early 20s, and things from the past decade which have left a mark on us.
EPISODE FOUR IS HERE TO KICK OFF THE NEW YEAR!!! There's a surprise in the first few seconds of this episode that rhymes with Simone... Sorry for the wait but the SoloFish Podcast is back. This episode we dive deep into the Noname situation about black performance in predominantly white spaces, Lizzo and the mob mentality concept of hate for artists, and examine Drake's "Teenage Fever." Thanks for supporting us!
Episode Three is finally here (unlike Timon)! Thank you for being patient and we hope you enjoy.
The second episode of The Solo Fish Podcast with your favorite personalities Fish and Gabe along with moderator and host Farouk. Our fact checker Timon is currently in L.A. for a special program but he's here in spirit and will be back in December. Thank you for your support!
The first installment to the podcast series with your favorite personalities, Solo Dolo and Fish. Welcome to the Solo Fish Podcast hosted by Farouk and moderated by Timon Lyander. Thank you for your support!