ROW 88: Let's Yell About Video Game Franchises

WTF Video Games are COOKED freal freal

This week on the pod, the boys are pouring a sad one out for a fallen homie. Video Games are officially over.... Or are they? We discuss the sorry state of the industry and get SAD. We also chat: * Cole's trip to Acadia National Park * Dan's trip to Malaysia * Reagan went to tonal dissonant, genre competing concert * There are too many emo albums this year * More professional sports * HBO's Task (2025) * Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025) and Reagan needing to turn in his cinephile card * Apple's Slow Horses season 100 or something * Hulu's Alien Earth (2025) * The Long Walk (2025) * Gone Girl (2014) * Conjuring 4(2025) * Warfare (2025) * Challengers (2024) * Danny Boyle binge (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 hours, Tance)  * A spooky binge: Talk to Me (2025), Bring Her Back (2024) ,both Suspiria movies (1970-something, 2018), Nosferatu 2024, the First Omen (2024), 28 Years Later (2025) * HBO's Six feet under (is great!) * Showtime's Dexter (is terrible!) * Netfix's Wayward (is ok!) * Netflix's Monster Ed Gein (is horrendous!) And much, much more! We want to hear from you, so send us an email at RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com [RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com] RattleonWednesday@Gmail.comOr you can send us a tweet @RatonWednesdays to be featured in the next episode.

ROW 91: Is AI Bullsh*t? (Yes.... Or Is It?)

This week, the boys discuss a question no one has ever asked and no podcasts, movies, books, tv shows, computer games, youtube videos or essays, research papers, or multibillion dollar mega conglomerates have ever asked before: Is AI worth it? We give the definitive and first answer, because we are the first!    We also chat: * Dylan's new tractor farm * Fish tanking * Dylan went to a Clemson v. LSU game * Cole and Reagan's void of doing anything * Dan saw Weezer at a music fest, and presumedly other musicians  * Dan went wining with the in-laws, as well as adventuring with a backpack * HBO's Task (2025) * Netflix's Arcane * Chicken People (2016) * The Mass Effect Games  * Sports stuff * Fable, the OG Xbox game * Peacock's The Paper (2025) * The Handmaid's Tale novel * Netflix's Unknown Number: The High School Catfish  * Both Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Films * Thunderbolts (2025) * Caught Stealing (2025) * The Toxic Avenger (2025) * The Beach (2000) * Nezha (2019) and Jiang Ziya (2020) * Emily the Criminal (2022) And much, much more!  We want to hear from you, so send us an email at RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com, [RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com,] RattleonWednesday@Gmail.comOr you can send us a tweet @RatonWednesdays to be featured in the next episode.

ROW90: Our Summer Movie Wager Predictions.... In the Fall.... 6 Months Late.... After the Summer Movie Wager

We're back again from the vault, this time to discuss our Summer Movie Wager predictions: Which movies will bring it big at the US-Domestic box office? Clearly, we are far from experts, as we were all waaaaaaayyyy off, but this was such a fun experiment and we still wanted it to see the light of day (also, Dan didn't edit it until October). We also chat:  * The NFL draft, that was also 6 months ago * How it feels to be in Spring (half a year ago) * Reagan's bought more Chinese bootlego * Dan Moved  * Dan went on Vacation * Sinners (2025), the big big movie film * Andor (2023-2025), the small small movie film tv series * The Mission Impossible Movies, the big big movie films * Last Breath (2025), the small-ish movie film * Warfare (2025) * Pride And Prejudice (2005? idk, can't be bothered to look)  * The Devil We Know documentary (2018)  * The 100 Foot Wave (2022-2024) * Saltburn (2023) * The Magpie Murders (tv series) * The Rehearsal, season 2 * Succession (2018-2023) * Station Eleven (2022) And much much more! We want to hear from you, so send us an email at RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com, [RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com,] RattleonWednesday@Gmail.comOr you can send us a tweet @RatonWednesdays” to be featured in the next episode.

ROW 89: Draft US (again) Daddy Dylan

Alive from the vault, and just in time for the April NFL draft, we're posting Dylan's Draft in October. So now it's on you, listeners, to point and laugh at Dylan for how wrong he was, or applaud at how right he was. IDK Reagan writes these and doesn't understand the Draft. We also chat: * Apple TV+'s Your Friends and Neighbors,  * The Studio * Amazon's Wheel of Time * Paramount+'s Mobland * HBO's The Last of Us, Hacks season 4 * Disney+'s Daredevil born again * Hulu's Handmaid’s tale season 6 * Black Bag (2024) * Woman in the yard (2025) * death of a unicorn (2025) * good boy (2023) * will and harper (2024) * sinners (2025) * The Play Retro Podcast * Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (a book!) ... And much, much more!  We want to hear from you, so send us an email at RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com, [RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com,] o [RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com]r you can send us a tweet @RatonWednesdays to be featured in the next episode.

ROW 88: Let's Yell About Video Game Franchises

From the vault, we're back this week to tier-rank as many videogame franchise as we can. So many, in fact, that not all of us made it out alive. Probably. We also chat:  * a fuckin tornado hit Cole's house * Dylan sold his house (take that, Cole) * Reagan moved other people's stuff from one house to another (take that, Dylan) * Dan looked for a new house.... erm... apartment * Fire Force manga * Better Man (2024) * Wicked (2024) * Netflix's Adolescence * HBO's White Lotus, Last of Us, Flight of the Conchords, and The Righteous Gemstones *  Amazon's Wheel of Time season 3 * The new Hunger Game book, The Sunrise on the Reaping ... And much, much more!  We want to hear from you, so send us an email at RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com [RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com]. [RattleonWednesday@Gmail.com]Or you can send us a tweet @RatonWednesdays to be featured in the next episode