The QQ Cast: Answers to geek culture's most superfluous questions.

Raul loves scary things. Tom does not. So when, where, and why does horror work for them? Insert jump scare here!

Some of us have PCs, others laptops. Some of us use smart watches, others the sun. All of us are addicted to our Steam Decks!

Are you tired of traffic congestion? Conduct it with AI! Are you tired of low quality 90s TV shows? Upscale them with AI! Are you tired of AI? Fix it by... going outside?

These hypocrites are all for running private Plex servers, but they are against nefarious cargo acquisition practices on the high seas? This podcast is brought to you by: Cerveza Cristal!

Dear listener, it' s time to migrate off of Google and on to Proton! Also, off of Trello and on to Obsidian! Also, off of WordPad and on to... well, anything really.

How many directors cuts does Blade Runner have? Are they all worth watching? Can Deadpool save the MCU?

Ruly and Tom don their tinfoil hats, ready their anal probes, and turn on the Fox News; because it's time to discuss the greatest alien hoaxes! Did you just hear the X-Files theme song? Also, are Sonic and Knuckles aliens?

Us pals take a break from our world to talk with our pals about the pals worlds! Speaking of things, heavily inspired by other things, do you know that Akira Kurosawa was both the first and last original filmmaker? (Reupload)

Do we have to review Zack Snyder's 2023 epic franchise launching film Rebel Moon, Part 1: Child of Fire? Yes. Why? Fine. Okay, we'll give it this: it's terribly memorable, with an emphasis on terribly. (That last sentence was typed in slow motion.)

The year of our lord 2023 was a great year for media, but is there a drought ahead? F*** it, let's just look forward to looking backward and cleaning out our backlogs! Also, Jason Statham is sexy.

While Zach continues his globetrotting adventures, Trey subs in to help Tom and Ruly cover the latest greatest most boring video game news! Also, Axel Foley is back and he looks more tired than ever!

Raul picks a topic about science fiction, for which Tom is uncharacteristically unprepared. However, with Zack MIA, Tom characteristically blames him!

In the year of our meme, 2023, we bid farewell to our favorite fedora wearing game critic whom we adored. Now, as we commit Zero Punctuation to the internet archive, we may take solace in knowing that Yahtzee shall return soon via Pateron for a Second Wind. Farewell, sweet prince.

Tom takes a break from talking about Star Trek to finally talk about the Simpsons! Ruly participates, and Zach attends. Happy (belated) Halloween, dear listener!

We review everything from Cyberpunk 2077 to Mario Kart to Outer Wilds! That's right, the QQ Cast is selling out again! Except that we aren't getting paid. We are so dumb. Go play the Outer Wilds!

Is it John Williams? It has to be John Williams! It's John Williams, right? Right? Also, Rick has a new voice.

Other nerds recreated classic spaceships in Starfield, and these nerds are going to talk about them!

Tom tests Zack and Raul's video game news knowledge by asking them riddles about the September Nintendo Direct and Sony State of Play! Do you know what's in your pockets?

Content warning, dear listener! Horrifying space deaths aside, the real terror is that we now have a soundboard. Will Tom completely and utterly abused that privilege? The answer, is yes. Insert Star Trek theme here.

Tom and Zach start reviewing Ant-Man Quantumania, and then promptly get bored and start reviewing Loki Season 1 instead.

Which games will make the cut? Baldur's Gate 3? Cyberpunk 2270? Baldur's Gate 3? Counter-Strike IV? Baldur's Gate 3?

Did you know that, in the world of Epileptic Trees, Fanon Welding is what happens when fans see Shared Universes and Stealth Sequels where there are non? Also, FLOATY ROCKS!!!

IGN calls for aid, and the QQ Cast shall answer! You will have Ruly's wit, Zack's absence, and Tom's bad puns! But in all seriousness, Donkey Kong Country is awesome.

Oppenheimer is coming out. Will it be good? Will it have half decent sound mixing? Will it be an atomic bomb at the box office? We don't discuss any of that!

Special guest and AI expert Mr. Matt joins us to discuss how soon this podcast will be made obsolete by our robot overlords! Some might say we are at the MID of our JOURNEY? Three hundred episodes, same bad puns!

What do you call it when a movie soundtrack is scored by a band? We don't know either, but we try (and fail) to talk about it while killing time before the big 300!

It's the Super Mario Bros super movie super review super show! It's going to be super?

Tom, Zack, and Raul log on to the podcast together to antagonistically talk about cooperative games! From Left 4 Dead 2 to Portal 2... Wait, they don’t talk about Portal 2? Worst podcast ever!

Raul wisely puts his children to bed while Tom and Zach stay up rambling about operating systems. Yes, it is exactly as boring as it sounds!

On this very special episode, we celebrate 10 YEARS of the QQ Cast! It's an army of special guests vs ChatGPT in a QQ Jeopardy showdown! Won't you celebrate with us, dear listener?

Happy Star Wars (a registered trademark) of the Lucas Film (a limited liability company) Day from our benevolent corporate overlords at the Mus Musculus (incorporated)!

Are you tired of nostalgia? Us too! So let's reboot some nostalgic TV shows!

Villains. Not monsters. Not economic systems. Not anti-heroes... well maybe the song...

Do you have Game Pass? Do you also not use it? Here are the best games that you are not playing!

Do you love bad video games? Did you play Jaws? Scribblenauts? Galactic Imperium? If so, I'm sorry. Let's reopen old wounds, together!

Tom and Ruly take a trip down memory lane and try to convince each other to watch films that are not Mad Max: Fury Road.

What are not just bad movies, but horrendously terrible wrecks of movies that you can't look away from?

Tom and Ruly are supposed to talk about movies, but instead they spend half the time debate the difference between iconic and epic!

Toss a coin to your Gaben, oh Steam sale of plenty! Toss a coin to your Gaben, a friend of humanity! ...also, can we (pun intended) kick start a HBO Mario Kart series where Grogu plays Lakitu?

Did you know that the Power Ranges teamed up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? We should do a stream of us just reacting to that episode...

The QQ Cast is back with another listicle! New year, same lame content!

This daring space mission could be your finest - or it could be your last!

Spoilers: because he's James Cameron! The QQ Cast discuss Mr. Cameron's ENTIRE filmography, and then talk about AI for some reason.

Spoiler: It was the late, great, Kevin Conroy; but what about the live action bat men? Who are you voting for at the game awards? Does Mario sound Italian? We answer all... well, some... okay fine, none of these questions!

Tom and Ruly read Reddit, shake their fists, and yell at clouds like old men! Also, they watched Black Panther 2!

Spoiler: Ready Player One is not number one of the list! Ruly goes on vacation, Tom and Zach fail to answer their own question, and the John Wick 4 trailer looks great!

A QQ Special Presentation: The Quest 279 Special: What do Call of Duty, Metroid, and Donkey Kong all have in common? It's gonna be special!

Ruly is on a boat! Zach and Tom review Sandman, The Orville, Dr. Strange, and then stop mid podcast to buy Steam Deck Docks. Also, NASA rammed a satellite into an asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour… because science!

The cast try to talk about new toys that bring them joy, but instead lament their hair turning hoary, Oh boy, oh boy.

Shows and games and movie trailers, oh my! We literally just sit around and watch YouTube on the podcast, and it is almost as boring as it sounds!

Tom, Zach, and Ruly all finally watched the same movie! Now they are role playing Predators, Indians, and Frenchmen! *Clicking Intensifies*

Tom and Ruly slack off and watch YouTube... for the entire podcast? Worst. Content. Ever.

Listening late into the twilight, dear listener? Join us, the oracles of podcasting, and we will be your wakers as we mask the ages by making a legendary link between breaths into an ocarina of worlds past!

It's a QQ Review speed round spectacular! Minions! Fifth Element! Event Horizon? The Black Phone! Thor! Also, giant space telescopes!

We talk about the Steam Deck! Raul's crashed a few times. And Tom's battery might be bad. But otherwise we really like it! Also, it's pizza time!

Someone murdered Harlow Thrombey. Only you can find out who did it.

The QQ Cast takes an evening to discuss the very serious subject of mental health. Warning: this episode gets real.

Did you know that it's actually really hard to calculate a box office bomb? What was the real budget? What was the marketing budget? Did all countries report gross accurately? Did you adjust for inflation?

Raul took the night off, so Tom and Zach talk about Star Trek! ...again? YES!

What has been seen cannot be unseen, but can it be soothed? The QQ cast share the internet content they use to try and clear their minds!

The QQ Cast hates three hour movies like The Batman... but not Hateful Eight.... or Lord of the Rings... or Endgame... but specifically The Batman!

Ruly reminisces about the Playstation, Tom rambles about FPGA cores, and Zach is a little Spanish flea, a podcast star he thought he'd be...

Did you like and subscribe? Well did you click the button? No, not that button; the other button. Why did you click there? No, go back. No, not that far back!

The Valve Steam. Not a steam valve. Or a steam punk. Or a Steam Deck. Oh, wait, no, yes, that last one!

Tom and Zach take a break from dark depressing reality to dress up and play pirates. No, not the Sid Meier game.

JJ Abrams seems to think that everything is better when we yell! Tom is so angry! Zach is so emotional! Raul just can't believe we are making him listen to Star Trek clips again... LOUD NOISES!

The years is 2022, and Hollywood has found a way to cheat death. Why is Tom so upset by this? Will Nintendo Direct news put Raul and Zach to sleep? Tune in and find out, dear listener!

We go back to where it all began: The release of the Matrix! Also, Wild Wild South Park Witch, the Big Phantom Spy Who Shagged Me Story 2!

The year was 2021, and the game begins after the world has ended.

It's 2020 Part 3, and Netflix has added 82 new things in the month of January! Do we care? The answer may surprise you, but probably not. No. The answer is no.

We review another year of quarantine by covering the best and worst movies, shows, and games that released in 2021! What about books and music? Ain't no one got time for those!

Cancelled after only one season, was it a good space western or the best space western? Maybe!

Tom and Zach get nerdy and talk about software development workflows. That's right, it's an even nerdier episode than usual.

Tom and Zach discuss the "definitive" editions of GTA, KotoR, L4D, AoE, and even more acronyms!

Will Raul finish the Witcher? Is Lightyear a prequel? Does Bebop have new Yoko Kanno music? Yes!

The answer is nothing, but we do talk about both, and then watch the Cowboy Bebop Lost Sessions trailer...for science!

A fire hose of geeky news headlines from Nintendo, Facebook, Amazon, and... the Space Force?

A fire hose of geeky news headlines from Star Trek Day, PlayStation Day, and Matrix 4 de Septiembre Day!

Ruly takes the night off while Tom and Zach prepare to go hiking in Alaska... they are so excited, they can bearly stand the wait!

A fire hose of geeky headlines from Netflix Geeked Week, to Ninendo Switch OLED vs Valve Steam Deck fight night!

Star Wars is only the fifth highest grossing franchise of all time. No. No. That's not true. That's impossible! Search Wikipedia, you know it to be true! No! No!

Special guest Mr. Trey joins the cast as we share our controversial favorites that differ from the popular opinion... it's hot takes, the podcast episode!

New Metroid, New Mario, New Advance Wars, New Pokemon, New Zelda, Santa Claus is real, he's in our booth, and he's give out free candy. Nintendo! We out.

Great ending, or greatest ending? Oh HELL YES!

Akumajo Densetsu, known as Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse in the West, is one of the best damn (pun intended) platformers ever made! Trevor whips it good (pun intended)! Alucard does not suck (pun intended)! Sypha Belnades is a holy bad ass (pun intended)! Grant Danasty's daggers are nasty (pun intended)! ...Tom just really wanted to talk about this game; so you, dear listener, can just listen and suffer along with Zach and Raul (pun intended).

Are you ready to go back to movie theaters? Disney certainly is, but Ruly's not!

The one adult was out of the room, so Tom and Zach just started talking about Star Trek...again...for over an hour...AGAIN.

Mortal Kombat! Fight! Test your might! Excellent! Kano, Liu Kang, Raiden, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sonya Blade! Mortal Kombat!

Ruly can't stop reading The Walking Dead, Tom wishes he could not get hyped about JRPGs, and Zach is still hung up on TV that ended in... 2009? Get over it, man!

We review a bunch of things that only one of us watched. From 1982 to 2021, we are so random!

Tom won't shut up about Aliens, Raul is still disappointed by Steven King, and Zach just loves all them little hobbit films.

Can anything top the disappointment of the hype that was The Phantom Menace? Maybe Spore. Certainly not The Purge.

Was Fry's owned by the late great Philip J. Fry? No, it was not. Will you remember the Alamo Drafthouse? We certainly will.

Raul takes a break from dealing with ice and snow to watch YouTube trailers with Zach and Tom; it's a Bromance Direct for February 2021!

Tom and Zach quote a little Star Trek, mention Farscape, quote a lot of Picard, discuss Gattaca, and then quote a little more Star Trek.

Star Wars started streaming, Walking Dead told a tale, Castlevania went anime, and a Nintendo fit...in your pocket?

Is Boba Tea Fett awesome? Yes. Is the Razor Crest finally gone? Probably. Did we need more CGI characters? No, we did not.

The QQ Cast brings in the new year by going back to talk about last year's biggest blockbuster, There and Back Again: A Palindrome's Tale, by Christopher Nolan!

Michelle Pfeiffer, great Catwoman or greatest Catwoman? Was Chrono Cross too radical of a dream? Perhaps the most important question we have ever asked: Is Gizmo the original Baby Yoda?