The Talk Shoppe

Welcome Back Everybody, Talk Shoppe favorites, inside Talk Shoppe, the Great Monster Train Conflict, Sam offers an olive branch, Disco Elysium is excellent, Shite House Ep 1: The "Only One TikTok" Incident, Tom takes a whiz, snowblowers are not optional, the dumpster code, Sam picks a fight with a Little Caesar's manager, PlayStation's Game Pass equivalent may be coming this year, Sam ducks a wager on Halo, Cory red-pills Sam on racing games, Tom plays Yakuza for the first time, Ready or Not, Tom doesn't get the RimWorld hype, Tetris Effect, old school devs are super interesting, Sam's "Ship of Theseus" quandry, Sam watched PIG, we spoil everything, The "little" Mailman, no Crust in the Wind this week, what did we learn today?

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Welcome Back Everybody!

'Tis the season for a Megasode and boy howdy did we deliver this year. I hope you're ready for an episode weighing it at 7 full hours long. If you space it out right, you could listen to this until the next Megasode drops (unless we all commit a ritual suicide together before that happens).

If you are new to Megasodes, welcome to hell! We spend far too long talking about the best of the best in a given year. From movies to TV to video games to music to disappointments, we cover it all in a blur of non sequitur, rabbit trails, and dinosaur discussions. 

If you're really only interested in one topic, here's a handy list of time codes:

00:12:00 - Music 01:31:21 - Movies 03:11:12 - TV 05:07:32 - Video Games 06:06:58 - Disappointments

Wanna cut to the chase? https://thetalkshoppe.com/?p=172

Welcome Back Everybody, turkey talk, Thanksgiving, the podcast as a record of our lives, PSA: DoorDash/Uber Eats have fake restaurants, Mr. Beast is insufferable, AT&T using spam call tactics to sell Tom DirectTV, Tom has a stroke, Cory could fight a dog, Tom's wolf encounter, people on fire in movies, people commenting "I want to see this" on movie trailers, JFK Jr.'s second coming, Elvis fakes his own death, QAnon is just another cult (for schizos), Call of Duty: Vanguard thoughts, Battlefield 2042 chatter, gamer expectations, Cyberpunk 2077: Revisited, the GTA Definitive Collection launch, returning to Returnal, Crust in the Wind - Limp Bizkit Edition, Tom goes to some AEW shows, monster trucks are rad, Tom went to see Chvrches, Cowboy Bebop (live action) is not good, Sam likes Hellbound, lightning round: Midnight Mass & Warhammer 40k Mini painting, what did we learn today?

Welcome back everybody, it's all about the fundamentals, from molestation to Metroid, the Travis Scott conspiracy theory, rules of moshing, Randy Blythe killed a dude, Survivor talk, Dexter is back, Tom's Smart TV is spying on him, some (boring) chatter about Windows 11, the Political Compass Test, "so yeah, you're gay" video, the sh*t talking era of video gaming, Dead by Daylight is actually gay, cartoons are SEXY, Mr. Meaty was a fever dream of a show, Lola Bunny, a "spirited" discussion about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Call of Duty Vanguard, Battlefield 2042, Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, talkin' bout gambling, another Battlefield discussion, Crust in the Wind - Seether edition, what did we learn today?, kissing and making up, stay hard America!

"So yeah, you're gay": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdvIOT2Dts

Welcome back everybody! It's a very spooky episode, Cory is a whore for pumpkin spice, products for men, making up horror stories, spoooooky tales, horror talk, Sam tells a genuinely scary story, Crust in the Wind - Silverstein Edition, pop punk talk, a bizarre interruption, Cory on getting old, Metroid Dread is RAD, games we're looking forward to, Warhammer talk, when someone tells you that there will be food somewhere, what did we learn today?

We're all tired, Cory messed up his sleep schedule for the DOTA 2 International, Welcome Back Everybody, clicking is hard, minority report hand gesture UIs, Mission Impossible delayed, the new Bond movie, Cory watched Squid Game, congratulations Papa Jak, Tom's fight at a sushi restaurant story, people are going crazy, Tom's crazy/high person story, medical specialization, Jism the Movie, chatter about lame horror movies, the Dobson-ing Revisited, the Twitch hack, Tik Tok couple update, streaming isn't really for us, poop transplants, poop donors, Sam gasses out a gym, Cory is a Kwik Trip regular, how to make a "tasteful" zombie holocaust movie, talkin' Dick (Moby Dick that is), luck and success, Walking Dead is STILL going, Crust in the Wind - Shinedown Edition, a slight aside to bash Maroon 5, talking Warhammer 40K, what did we learn today?

A discussion on the finer points of racial slurs and Ambien, Welcome Back Everybody, the Talk Shoppe AI, blowing up a school bus if it cured cancer, stopping a runaway school bus with kids laying on the street, interruptions that should have been cut, Deathloop discussion II, Metal Gear Solid 3 remake/remaster rumors, MGS4 poop pants man and the family lineage, Death Stranding: The Director's Cut, Sam's tik tok famous acquaintance, a discussion on creativity and motivation and ego, newspaper comics have circled back to being hilarious again, general newspaper rant, Crust in the Wind - Static-X Edition, Cory and Tom see Lamb of God and Megadeth, seeing Ghost again soon (in a stadium), talkin' 'bout shows and stuff, Squid Game, turns out North Korea is real bad, Sam gets his booster shot, physical copies of games and greatest hits, Far Cry 6, no UFO disclosure in 2021 (at least not from the government), Snow Days may be dying, the Mario movie, what did we learn today?

Welcome back everybody, the NVidia Leak, Sony and Microsoft, thoughts on Japanese vs. American culture, China limiting time spent on video games for kids, yay or nay - NVidia leak edition, the Metallica Black List, Low's HEY WHAT release show, Crust in the Wind?, Cory's hospital audit story, hospital labor shortage woes, Sam's tongue depressor story, Sam's in the doghouse, Deathloop chatter, Sam wants an Xbox, PlayStation Showcase, open world games are not usually good, what did we learn today?

Welcome back everybody, time goes by too fast, school was almost entirely pointless, chocolate milk in bags and other school milk talk, upside downright thick, fast food is embarrassing, stranger interactions cut to the quick, telling stories, your parents were people too, Sam sees Paw Patrol: were our predictions correct?, making our parents suffer through kids movies, Psychonauts 2 is magnificent, PlayStation dropped the ball in 2021, the Ghost of Tsushima expansion is quite good, a look at new releases for the rest of the year, discussing Afghanistan and the War on Terror, college degrees and employer tests, it's been a good year for music, talkin' bout the Killers, we miss live shows, Bob Ross doc, Crust in the Wind - David Lynch Edition, comments on critics and media, Biden nodding off, Havana Syndrome, what did we learn today?