Episode 47: The Most Beautiful Bee in Uranus (ft. David Flamm)

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Once Sonic heralded in the 1990s with his cool-guy, take-no-shit attitude, game companies across the world were racing to find the next raddest platforming mascot. And boy were there a lot more misses than hits. With the help of David Flamm from Left Trigger Right Trigger, we rifle through some of the best of those misses and attempt to breathe new life in these needlessly horny misfits.

Check out Dave's work with Left Trigger Right Trigger, a biweekly video games book club. You can also listen to the entire back-catalogue of Fullmetal Bazinga, an improv sci-fi dramedy based on the final season of The Big Bang Theory.

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FLAVOR TEXT: The Witcher

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It was bound to happen. As soon as someone uttered "...place of power, gotta be" on this show, it was destined that we would one day be uploading an episode where Andrew "ummm actually"s everyone through each of the books in The Witcher series. Well that day has finally arrived! And with the release of the fantastic Netflix adaptation, we decided to focus this episode on the first two books, which are actually a collection of several short stories that set up this universe. We're taking you through each of the short stories found in "The Last Wish" and "Sword of Destiny," and then comparing how those stories are represented in the Netflix show. Toss a coin, nerds...it's time.

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Links to the bomb-ass "Toss a Coin" remixes that we used in this episode:

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Episode 46: Just a Couple of Smashboys Pumping Out Smash Mouth

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Coming at you HOT here in 2020, we here at Debate This! are the only ones brave enough to discuss the toughest questions life throws at us. Who are we? Why are we here? How does Southwest actually determine who gets priority seating? But there's one question that has plagued humanity for centuries...which of the Tetris pieces is the best Tetris piece? One of those questions definitely gets answered today, and also the other 55 minutes are mostly incoherent but relevant to the plot we swear.

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Update and Season 3 Preview

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Kyle found a "like new" set of plastic drums on Facebook Marketplace so we're taking this week off to workshop our new Debate This! Rock Band rock band. And since we'll be knee-deep in practicing Green Grass and High Tides, we wanted to give you all a quick update and preview into some of the new stuff you can expect from the show in 2020. Thanks for listening, nerds!

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Episode 45: Three Inches Is All You Need

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It's the Annual Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Season! And what better way to celebrate than to shower each other with more unnecessary and very non-recyclable plastic goods? For our second year, the Debate This! boys are gathering around the Winter Solstice Plant and are bringing more of the most ridiculous gaming peripherals. Ever want to play driving games with an iPod click wheel? How about a Rock Band controller that looks like Paul McCartney's guitar and costs about the same as Paul McCartney's guitar but is still just a Rock Band controller? And you KNOW you want to play your third-person shooters with a seemingly-real plastic chainsaw!

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DLC EPISODE: Forborgurf and the Office Drones Do a Dungeon

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Earlier this year, we birthed an office-based MMORPG from our terrible mind-holes, complete with stereotypical office jobs mapped onto traditional RPG roles. And since it's now a legal requirement that every registered podcast in 2019 record a D&D session, allow us to present to you an office-based D&D campaign. Who wants boring old swords and magic when you can fight your enemies with timelines and bureaucratic red tape?!

Be sure to check out the original episode where we created these good, good RPG characters.

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Episode 44: A Rear Without a Santa Claus

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Following the announcement that Sakurai and his team are releasing more DLC characters for Smash Ultimate in 2020, everyone out there has been speculating who they think the next additions will be. We could certainly do that for you, but it takes a much bolder team of content creators to instead tell you who they think will NOT be the next DLC characters in Smash Ultimate. And God help us if they make fighters out of Longhorn from 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker, Bad Mr Frosty from ClayFighter, and Gooigi, an obvious pervert.

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Episode 43: Betrayal is the Free Space

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During this year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo, we polled the crowd with a very important question: Which classic arcade game deserves a gritty modern-day RPG? The top 3 of the 4 choices we polled during the weekend are all in play, so it's totally not our fault that now you won't be able to stop thinking about breeding giant ostriches and hunting Q-Bert: The World Eater.

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FLAVOR TEXT: Marvel Secret Wars

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Do you think the people at Marvel back in the 80s would ever have thought that their one-off concept of "make everyone fight each other on an alien planet" would go on to be the single most important thing to happen in the Marvel universe? And that this one storyline would be the thing that retconned, redefined, and completely undid multiple series more than 15 years in the making? This week's FLAVOR TEXT is giving you the entire Secret Wars saga, a notorious storyline that started as a flimsy excuse to sell more toys to being the actual most ambitious crossover event in Marvel history.

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Episode 42: Why is Muk So Horny? (ft Will Grant)

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The release of Pokemon Sword and Shield is just days away. And, instead of adding to the controversy, we are doing what we usually do and avoid confrontation altogether. So instead, we decided to mash up the worlds of the WWE together with Pokemon to give you the all-new Professional Pokemon Wresting League. Ground Rules: No Legendaries and no Fighting Types.

Special thanks to our guest, Will Grant, for joining in this Pokemon smack down! Will is one-half of Blasting Off Again, a Pokemon anime watch-along podcast by The Upford Network. Check them out at upfordnetwork.com.

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he King's walkout: Part 1 and Part 2

The Duke's walkout: Part 1 and Part 2

Goldmuck's walkout: Link

Clefairy's walkout: Link

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