The Freakin' Epic Podcast: Recent Episodes
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On today's episode I find out how hard it is to talk about crazy exes (ex's?) (nope, Google says it's exes - still looks wrong though).
Spoiler alert: stories about crazy exes end in stabbing or stalking about 90% of the time, so instead I tell my own ridiculous ex story.
Thanks to listener Skelje for the idea!
I have decided on a whim to record a podcast every day for a year. Here is day one.
Today I talked about discovering the challenge, and how disappointment is more powerful than anger.
We recently came to the stunning and tragic realization that the Freakin' Epic podcast had not interviewed a single rapper in the last year.
Well, my friend, after today you will no longer need to worry about a lack of hip hop conversation in your life! You'll be especially excited if you enjoy conversations about motivations for art, having too many aliases, and Spongebob dolphin noises.
You'll also get an Album title reveal, and the story of the traumatic event that made DES decide to finally get his drivers license .
Join us for rapper/podcaster special guests Jay Lost Prophet and Dirty DES!
We're back baby!
On today's episode, John and Zach talk about proposals; be they odd, adorable, or just plain awful.
John has also apparently never woken up to a homeless man in his apartment.
Ah the age old question: flight or invisibility. Well, the correct choice is pretty obviously telek-something because then you get flight or invisibility plus some pretty sweet extras.
Thankfully animals don't get to make hypothetical choices, because if my cats are any indication they would all choose the ability to steal my food at will and they'd get super fat and I'd probably starve to death.
Well anyway, this episode is a discussion of which animals we DON'T want to fly.
With guest host Michael Harris.
Sometimes people are naked. Mostly in the shower and at birth unless you wore jean shorts during your delivery. There are however some people who like to be nakey nakey waaaaaaay more often. Today we discuss which jobs we WOULDN'T want those people to have.
Today's show idea came from listener Stephen Harris, thanks!
Everybody loves game shows. Sure we don't admit it, sometimes even to ourselves, but every single person has stayed home sick and watched The Price is Right, or competed with a sibling or friend at Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune.
New game shows get weirder and weirder all the time, so we thought we'd get in on the action and pitch some new awesome and strange game shows we'd like to see.
Netflix, if you're listening to this, hit us up!
Everyone releases doves at their wedding, it's kind of old news now. Do you want to be in the next wave of animal-based pageantry? Or gasp perhaps even at the front of the wave? A trendsetter, you? Oh I do declare, what an absolute dream!
Well than you pretty much HAVE to listen to this episode of The Freakin' Epic Podcast!
This episode is Preview Review!
Zach finally watched Book of Eli after Nathan told him to watch it for ten years. Nate and Zach talk about the spiritual themes of the movie, violence in film, and which major director Zach has never watched.
Today's episode is What'cha Thinkin' John!
John and Zach are talking about senses. Smell, taste, touch, fashion. All of the senses! Which of our senses are abnormally strong, and how do extra strong senses effect us?
Today's episode is 'What'cha Thinkin' John!
Today John and Zach discuss how they would go about hiding in plain sight if they were vampires, werewolves, ghosts, or other mythical beasties. They also accidentally create a new line of children's toys.
Check it out, this one will be super helpful if you are a strange creature trying blend in with the rest of us weirdos!
Guess what!? Wait, you guessed that the world is secretly held on the back of a never-ending series of giant turtles? Weird. Nope, that's not it. What it is is the introduction of a brand new show; a show called 'Charitable Thoughts'!
Today Charity and Zach talk about the mysteries of the brain, including thoughts about memories popping up out of nowhere, how to trick your brain into falling asleep, and of course, how your total brain knows so much more than your consciousness.
This week's episode is 'What'cha Thinkin' John'!
John and Zach are talking about the best supporting characters in media, and Zach gets yelled at for not having seen Full Metal Alchemist.
Today's episode is Preview Review!
Nathan and Zach watched the trailer for It 2 and we have some thoughts. Thoughts like: "oh lord, why did I do this to myself" if you are Zach and hate horror movies, and "oh lord, but in a good way" if you are Nathan and enjoy that sort of filth.
Come down into the podcast sewers and listen, we have a balloons!
Do you ever have a day where you're not thinking about much of anything? Well, today John and Zach are not thinking about geese. Nope, not a single discussion of geese, gooses, or anything from family anatidae. Not a single thing that John would find offensive is said in regards to the demons of the park.
That said, the guys do talk about all kinds of things! Things like cooks who have extreme reactions to good food, how Zach's dreams are wrong, and certainly not geese.
Warning - here be spoilers
Have you seen Endgame? Yes, yes you have. So far it's made over a billion dollars worldwide and it's only been out for a few days. Well, we have thoughts.
Today Nathan and Zach discuss the character arcs for the six original Avengers, how this movie made even Thor: The Dark World worthwhile, and what's next for the MCU.
Ok, ok, ok, are there actually 17 movie mashup ideas? Nope, but are they amazing? Yep. Or nope. Honestly it's all so darn subjective that it's almost as if we're being 'TOTALLY UNOBJECTIVE', which is exactly what we're doing since that's the name of the segment.
This week Chris and Zach pull out their blender to mix and match up some great theoretical movies ya'll!
Oh look! What's that? Why... I think it might be... yes, it is... It's another episode of "What'cha Thinkin' John?'!
On this episode, John and Zach talk about the highly entertaining world of My Hero Academia, and what kinds of characters they would create if they could write themselves into the show!
Today's episode is a whole new segment! Yup, it looks like it's an episode of "Better Than You Think".
Aaron and Zach talk about some of the things that have gone right while we were all busy looking at the things that have gone wrong, and like any good news people they have a cameo by a heartwarming dog story.
Look, up in the airwaves! It's a nerd! It's a mic! No, it's 'What'cha Thinkin' John! Yes, yes it is, in fact, it's the segment of the show where we ask the all important question of life. Questions like: What is the most useless superpower?
Today John and Zach get deep into the idea that nearly everything can be useful if you're creative enough, but eventually they come up with a superpower that they can't make awesome. Listen to find out what it is!
Today's episode is all about the world's greatest hobby... being "Totally Unobjective'!
Aw yissss! It's part 2 of the much hyped and ballyhooed celebration of the world's finest criminal masterminds who just happen to live outside of the great(ly wierd) state of Florida.
Wanna know how I got this podcast? My father was...a talker. And a friend. And one night he goes off talkier than usual. Mommy gets the microphone to defend herself. He likes that. Several. Bits. So - me watching - he takes the microphone to her, laughing while he does it! Turns to me, and he says, "Why so silent, son?" Comes at me with the microphone... "Why so silent?" He sticks the mic in my mouth... "Let's put a smile on that face!" And... why so silent?
Today's episode is Preview Review! As you may have guessed (given your ability to read the title of the episode, you magnificent literate, you) this weeks episode is all about the new WB movie The Joker. Nathan and Zach are talkin' about it ya'll!
Today's episode is 'What'cha Thinkin' John'!
You know what? Someone had to say it. Mudbloods should be, and are better at wizarding than purebloods. Here's a whole bunch of reasons why.
This episode is Mostly Unexplainable! A new show where the #1 Freakin' Epic! expert on cryptids, ooparts, and other strange phenomena tells us all about the parts of the world that go bump in the night.
Today Michael and Zach talk about all things China and Tibet, including giant salamanders that aren't even cryptids because they're so well documented, and mysterious ancient metal pipes running into the middle of a mountain!
Once, in ages past, there was a podcast segment. This is that podcast segment. (Yup, there was just the one, and yes, this is it. I mean, how lucky are you? To just accidentally stumble across THE podcast segment from ages past? I mean, do you even have any idea what the odds of that are? They've got to be AT LEAST one in three.) This legendary podcast segment was know as "What'cha Thinkin' John?', and it was glorious. Just so good you guys.
On this episode, John and Zach ask themselves the question: what kind of movie monster would they create? Eventually they get sidetracked into a conversation about a world where every time you die you get resurrected, but each time you lose a human function such as fear, shame, or ability to eat ice cream sandwiches. (Ok, I made that last one up.)
Listen to it ya'll!
It's time to get Tot. Al. Y. UNOBJECTIVE ya'll!
That's right, it's list time, and more specifically, part 1 of a list that ISN'T about the legendary and elusive* Florida Man.
This list is all about making sure that the rest of the dumb people in America have a fighting chance at getting their worst (best?) moments noticed by the rest of us.
So without further ado, here is the podcast!
(Assuming that you hit play exactly as we said that. If not, feel free to imagine us cheering you on whenever you do, in fact, start up this shizzle.)
*Not actually elusive in any way shape or form
Well, well, well, what have we here? It... It looks suspiciously like an episode of What'cha Thinkin' John?!
This episode is all about Pokémon, and what you would do with them.
Spoiler Alert
One of the ideas may be Thanos themed.
Well this is 'Totally Unobjective'... by which we mean... literally exactly what it sounds like, because Chris and Zach are about to make some lists ya'll!
Today's episode is all about superheroes and their super dope busting of theoretical rhymes. You'll never believe who number 3 is!
(Did that work? I've been told that people love that kind of article name. No? Well than you definitely WILL believe who number 3 is than!)
Today is all about asking the eternal question: 'Whatcha Thinkin' John?' In this episode John is thinking about being reborn in a different world with any abilities and as any species!
John and Zach discuss becoming a hive mind, the benefits of being a were-cheetah, and the ever-present lure of digital hording.
This episode is 'Preview Review', a segment where Nathan (2.0) and Zach watch movie trailers and nerd out!
In today's episode Nathan and Zach watch the trailer for the new X-Men movie. We talk about the full trailer looking much better than the teasers, Sophie Turners's chances of becoming an A-list star, and whether Friends is one of the TV shows with simultaneously great and terrible writing.
This episode is 'Totally Unobjective'. A show where Chris and Zach give completely biased top 5 lists based on nothing but their wildly biased notions of reality!
This week Chris and Zach insult each other for your pleasure, like gladiators of yore, but without all of the actual fighting, and blood, and sandal wearing.
(It's entirely possible that Chris was secretly wearing sandals during the recording of this episode. He's tricky like that.)
This episode is 'Whatcha' Thinkin' John?'
In this episode John and Zach try to have a silly frivolous conversation about gaining the powers of a god, but they get derailed into all sorts of nonsense about theology and philosophy. Don't worry though, we promise this won't happen again!
This episode we actually get around to live action Disney remakes!
Zach and Nathan finally talk about Disney remakes. In this episode we discuss if Disney Plus will be the new straight-to-DVD, Dumbo being a Tim Burton joint, and how the Emperor's New Groove will never get a live action remake.
In this episode Zach and Nathan react to the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer!
The guys talk about K.A.R.E.N. as a plot device to facilitate internal dialog, Jake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio, and why the Marvel shows on Netflix are being canceled.
This is the episode where we almost talk about Spider-Man but never quite do.
Instead, Zach watches the trailer for the new Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu and he and Nathan talk about first reactions, Psyduck looking like Howard the Duck, and how many pushups Nathan can do.
This episode is Avengers-o-rama!
Zach and Nathan talk about clues for the future of the franchise hidden in the contract statuses of the actors, Kevin Feige's trailer sneakiness, and the theory that in future movies the Avengers could team up with Thanos to take on Galactus.
The episode today is one of those 'Colorado Comedy Casts' you've been hearing so much about, and it even stars stand-up and improv comedian Eric Zeis!
He and Zach talk about haunted houses, playing crazy characters on MTV dating shows, and how important venue set up is to comedy.
This episode is a 'Colorado Comedy Cast' joint with stand-up comedian and rapper Griff Coldiron!
Griff and Zach talk about craft beers and Mariner Dogs, Muppet tattoos, and the difficulties of writing topical jokes.
This episode is 'Colorado Comedy Cast'. A show where we talk to local Colorado Comedians about their lives in comedy. Comedian Aaron Owens is on the pod today!
Aaron and Zach discuss so many things you guys, just so many things. Things like doing comedy in nursing homes, how laughter and applause is like a drug, and even child mortality rates (for some reason).