Random Assault

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, Mitch gets over his coulrophobia and talks about the new It remake. Matt and Mitch discuss the selection of offerings on the Switch, and that demo for Project Octopath Traveller. And Matt re-kindles his love for edgy 90's Fox animated shows by recounting his experiences with the Sam and Max cartoon. Also: anime! Of course! SEGMENT 1: - Farm stories - It - Jewish pedophile cartoon on Netflix - Chopping Mall - Filthy neighbors - Final Fantasy VII SEGMENT 2: - Project Octopath Traveler - Bravely Default - Switch games - Blade Runner - Edgy 90's cartoons - Fulfilling Kickstarter pledges - Children's shows SEGMENT 3: - Rurouni Kenshin - Fullmetal Alchemist - Gal*Gun - Sam and Max - Full-length movies in 10-minute chunks on YouTube

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 274: Skill Fetish. Enjoy!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, we ring in 9/11 by bringing on long-time listener Jay, who talks with us about weed, how Destiny sucks, webtoons, and how some conventions are getting too big for their own good. It's an episode so great, Kate left early! SEGMENT 1: - The PewDiePie thing - Gauntlet: Slayer Edition - The Great YouTube Demonitization Passover - Happy 9/11 - "Videogame Culture Needs to Stop Fetishizing Skill" - Writers are bulls**t - The Humble Hunie Sakura Bundle - South Park - LEGO Batman SEGMENT 2: - Black Mirror still sucks - Journalism is/always was a joke - Rustic Americana theme park - Jayson's carpool job - Lots of Jojo - Good moments in kids cartoons - Rippin' on games - Rippin' on bongs - Destiny is a bad game - Adult cartoons - The Dark Souls of everything - My Hero Academia - YouTubers SEGMENT 3: - The Mama Luigi Collab - Funny webtoons - Nintendo stopped sucking - Sonic Mania - Newgrounds animators - Reddit and Memey - Fans ruin everything - Cons getting too big - Podcasts

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 273: Chimp Style. Enjoy!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, Matt sells out. Hard. But, we also get to talk about cool Italian horror movies, big Kickstarter failures, the finale of Twin Peaks, and all-girl reboots of classic tales. SEGMENT 1: - Matt bought a Switch - Puyo Puyo Tetris - Miiverse is dead - Nugs vs Fries - Sonic Mania - Loot Vault takes forever to ship things SEGMENT 2: - Phenomena/Creepers/Clock Tower/Clock Tower/Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within - Impromptu speedrun charity thing - Final Fantasy VII - Azure Striker Gunvolt - Kickstarter follies - YouTube's new layout - New Shovel Knight amiibo - Twin Peaks finale SEGMENT 3: - Junji Ito's Cat Diary - Egypt lady Stret Fightur - Lady of the Flies - Classic literature - Rogue One

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 272: Me, An Intellectual. Enjoy!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, the gang talks all about the Switch and its nonexistant virtual console, delicious weeb treats from Japan, and how the current generation of adults are being mass-marketed to as children. It's disgusting. And so is this show. SEGMENT 1: - The eclipse - Sonic Mania - Dan Harmon's Game On starring Arin Hanson - In the Mouth of Madness - Blaster Master Zero - Switch Virtual Console - Mega Man Battle Network SEGMENT 2: - Matt's bourgeois cat - Fixing an NES - Original boxes - Batman Harley Quinn - Star Trek - Kate dies - Weeb treats SEGMENT 3: - Social justice class - King of the Hill - Our comedy dream teams - Mitch ruins the bit - Our favorite parts of things - Loot Crate garbage - The Skeleton War - Adults are infantalized

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 271: Cume Fumes. Enjoy!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, the gang discusses old media formats during the first segment, until listener Sol joins us for the first time in almost 200 episodes to discuss stand-up comedy, how Google is monitoring your speech for hate, and how our podcast has ascended to true blackhood. SEGMENT 1: - Memory card kerfuffles - Greatest Hits/Platinum Hits - Bad box art - Old VCR/TV snafus - Beyond the Gates - Video rental stores - Fatal Frame - Games that don't hold up SEGMENT 2: - Black people fighting - Stand-up comedy - Kim Jong-Un - Phoenix Wright - Waluigi with a Gun - Fanfiction - Perspective API - Random Assault is 100% black - Cume fumes - Dume - Wolfenstein 2 - Pearl is attractive SEGMENT 3: - Sol's Steam Game Corner - State capitals - We say n-words - Awkward Games Done Quick - Community Service - ASMR - Kate is autistic

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 270: It's Worse When It's Happening To You. Enjoy!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, MissesBun joins us again to swear in Pope Matt (they swear popes in, right?), discuss a few documentaries, break the real, hard truth that Crash Bandicoot sucks, and define the eras of Random Assault. Also, don't forget: OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast is the greatest video game ever made. SEGMENT 1: - Matt is the pope - Hearing your own voice - Hellblade - Obscure Sonic games - Unrealistic sex scenes - Shin Godzilla - Lovecraft - The Strain SEGMENT 2: - The Doomsday Clock - Something Something of the Apes - Internet drama - Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine - Viva Amiga - Atomic Blonde - Mitch-isms - Dieting - Gluten - Dollar Beard Club SEGMENT 3: - Switch games - OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast is the greatest video game ever made - Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed is better than Mario Kart - Jokes losing their edge - Crash Bandicoot sucks - The Eras of Random Assault - The Cum Era: 12 - The Good Era: 106-233 - The Edgelord 420 Weed Era: 240-present - The Er

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 269: Ready Player FUN. Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: THIS EPISODE WAS DONE AS A VIDEO-BASED LIVESTREAM. IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS EPISODE ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL. This week on the Random Assault Podcast, Kate whips out the ol' Dreamcast to take us back to the late 90's/early 2000's with Crazy Taxi and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. David from It Came From the Internet also joins us to discuss the referential trainwreck that is Ready Player One, complete with live reading of specific exerpts by Mitch.

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 268: Clown Climax Under the Big Top. Enjoy!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, listener Brooks joins us once again to talk all about theme parks in Pennsylvania, how No Man's Sky still sucks, the time-destroying hole that is super sentai, and we also get Kate to be so bored that she joins the Discord. Also, we call Matt live on the show, because he's not here. He's in New York City, kissing his father on the mouth. SEGMENT 1: - Gay dads - Owning a PS4 makes you gay - No Man's Sky - Edgy bands - Terrible porn ads - Early Access games - Paying for online - Streaming plans - Saints Row vs GTA SEGMENT 2: - Dogs taking sad, saggy poos - REPO! The Genetic Opera - Rocky Horror Picture Show - Roblox Porn - Pennsylvania theme parks - Kate joins the Discord - Tattoos SEGMENT 3: - Wrestling - Power Rangers - Wolf job - Anal play - Laughing while cumming - Japanese candy

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, long-time listener Jake joins us to talk about farm food, game collecting, and the perils of the N64 controller's terrible analog stick! No show notes this time, sorry!

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 266: Megaladan the Hot Dog Man. Enjoy!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, listener Megaladan leaves the YouTube comment section to join us in discussion about electro-swing bands, record players, Baby Driver, and how to act gay in public with your brother. SEGMENT 1: - Chris-Chan - Netflix's Castlevania - Big Gay Ice Cream - Awkward romantic (?) stories - Tyler the Creator is gay? SEGMENT 2: - Caravan Palace - Titanfall - Reality TV - It - Drunken gaming - Pearl and Marina - Episodes (the show) - Dubstep is alive and well - Work stories - The decline of retail - Vinyl records - LEGO SEGMENT 3: - Baby Driver - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Star Wars - Little Witch Academia

This is a bonus aftershow, recorded after Episode 265: Creative Theft is Our Daily Bread. Enjoy!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, Bob from AmazingNerds.de joins us to talk about the ridiculous censorship games get in Germany, females in the army, how production values make a worse product, and the wonderful world of horror movies and games! SEGMENT 1: - Amazon is buying Whole Foods - YouTube as a hobby vs YouTube as a career - SJW's are pedophiles - Weird Texas republican officials - Is Germany great or does it suck? - Recruitment and female soldiers SEGMENT 2: - E3 - Defective consoles - Negativity in the gaming community - Hype on day 1 of console release - Turok - German censorship - Weird guns in FPS games - Fan theories ruining good games - Fans of games shouldn't make movies of said games - Production values take the heart out of stuff - "Some games aren't" - Horror games SEGMENT 3: - Peter Jackson - Guillermo del Toro - Horror movie series deteriorating over time - TrollHunters - Beatrix Potter - Old cartoons we haven't mentioned - German dubs - SNES Mini - N64 games