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In the grand tradition of half-assed podcast gamification, the Nicks are shaking up the formula this week. Instead of talking about a media property only one of them half-remembers through the haze of a Brisk Iced Tea sugar crash in the late twenty aughts, they're talking about a media property neither of them know anything about. How? They're reading the wiki! Wiki Warrior (n.) - a person who is exhaustively familiar with a media property or cultural phenomenon not through direct experience but exclusively through cultural osmosis deliberately sought using sources intended for reference by people already familiar with the source material.  The Nicks have only ten minutes to browse the fan wiki page for a media property neither of them are familiar with. Then, they must explain that media property to one another as completely as possible using only what they've gleaned along the way.  This time around, the Nicks will be educating themselves on the newest Disney Channel smash hit, The Owl House! Many thanks to the fine folks over at The Owl House Wiki, https://theowlhouse.fandom.com/wiki/The_Owl_House_Wiki, and at all fan wikis!  Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

Today, it's a trip back to one of the most performatively rage-inducing media properties of our elementary school years. And also its sequel. And its bad sequel. And the meta-mockumentary TV series starring Olivia Rodrigo. In retrospect, is it as lame as we thought it was when we were eight? Well, now we understand: it's not an actual musical, it's a pastiche of musicals! And with that slightly intellectual vocabulary choice reinforcing a protective shield of irony, we can finally enjoy the catchy songs and cheesy romance that we always wanted to enjoy but couldn't because of identity policing imposed upon us by the gender binary and arbitrary ideals of social conformity which the movie itself actively criticizes! That's how that works, right? Also, this was supposed to be a Romeo and Juliet thing? This week, the Nicks get their heads in the game to talk some High School Musical! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

Happy belated Mario Day, paisanos! Today, the Nicks wrap up their first two-parter episode by definitively, objectively, unimpeachably, for all time and all people, don't-want-to-hear-any-guff-from-the-peanut-gallery-about-it-ly, ranking all of the 3D Mario games. There are debates, there are relitigations, there's second guessing and hemming and hawing, there's an overcomplicated and inconsistent bracket system and an entirely separate overcomplicated and inconsistent scoring system, and there are several confessions that at least one of them hardly knows what the hell he's talking about in the first place. But when all the dust has settled, they're proud to say that they came out with an official Nostalgia Blinded ranked list, which is, once again, also now your list, because it's objectively correct. Or maybe Mario Odyssey... you know what, nevermind, actually. For your reference, the list is... You sure you want to read it? It's a spoiler for the episode...  Here it comes... 7. Super Mario 3D Land  6. Super Mario Galaxy  5. Super Mario 3D World 4. Super Mario Sunshine 3. Super Mario Galaxy 2 2. Super Mario Odyssey 1. Super Mario 64 Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) and check out their NEW ALBUM, Hey There Stranger! AVALIABLE NOW! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

We hope you don't feel cheated out there at home, but let's face facts: we weren't going to do every 3D Mario game as a separate episode of this podcast. So instead, we're putting them all in one! And these Mario games? Well they're a bit like beta fish, or possibly males aged 18-35 who enjoy NFL regulation football and Natural Light. Leave them in the same small space for long enough, and things are bound to get rough.  This episode, we're introducing our contenders: Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario 3D Land, Super Mario 3D World, and Super Mario Odyssey, in that order! Next week, we'll pit them against one another to see which 3D Mario game earns the right to ascend, becoming a 4D Mario game that's only playable by, like, ghosts and dodecahedrons or whatever. Don't miss it! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

Listen everyone, the Nicks are having a bad, bad day. I'd say it's about time that they get their way. So they're steamrolling whatever they see, on their way to talk about Despicable Me.  That's right, it's the...classic? film franchise that spawned a nationwide carpet bombing of culturally ubiquitous cartoon character pablum, the fallout of which we're still dealing with to this day. The question is: is there something behind all the billboards and Facebook aunt viral marketing? What does this movie offer artistically, on it's own terms, with its own narrative, themes, and characters? That is to say, characters that aren't the... well, you know.  Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

It's going to be pretty hard to top this week's two topics in terms of pure nostalgia, but for completely different reasons. In one corner, we have an absolutely timeless classic that was completely formative to Nick's childhood and that other Nick came to appreciate later in life, and in the other corner we have an extremely flawed but ambitious and moderately charming cultural artifact that other Nick couldn't even bring himself to finish and that the first Nick barreled through only to realize afterward that it was sort of crappy. Well, at the very least, you'll get to hear from the two of them in a more innocent time, when The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was an unassailable instant classic and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was just old news, unappreciated for its true merit. This week, it's a Zelda double feature! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

This week, Nick dives into some of his favorite slice of life webcomics, and honestly it explains a troubling amount about his whole schtick. From professionally published illustrations to glorified stick figures drawn in MS Paint, from the basic template of 20-somethings in a coffee shop to epic sci-fi fantasy worlds observed on a quotidian scale, and from horny gremlins to horny gremlins to... devastating and realistically-written drama, these comics truly have it all, and sometimes much less than that. But also sometimes more? It's internet content, so literary inconsistency is frankly a secondary concern to supporting the Patreon.  We go into a lot of visual detail about comics in this episode of our audio-only podcast (oops) so if you want to follow along with what we're discussing, you can head to the links below! All of these comics come highly recommended, so be sure to support these amazing creators! https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1 https://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-chaser-1 https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1 https://www.octopuspie.com/2007-05-14/001-pea-wiggle/ https://boom-press.com/media_files/GiantDays_01_PREVIEW.pdf Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

It's the crossover event of the previous decade: two entitled pre-teens with a dangerous excess of personal power are tasked with solving the problems they themselves consistently create in half an hour or less, minus commercial breaks. The only difference is that one does it with science and the other with magic. Oh, and also one of them is rendered in some of the worst-aging early 2000s CGI you've ever seen and the other is a cross-section of Butch Hartman's prime animation work, before he became a Youtuber and started charging three figures for commissions. That's right, we're talking Jimmy Neutron and Fairly Odd Parents, two of Nickelodeon's heaviest hitters... but apparently they're not heavy enough to get into Nick All Star Brawl, so who's to say? Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

It's a brave new world of Nostalgia Blinded, everyone: today it's not a TV show, video game, film, book, or song, but instead an outmoded and discontinued piece of consumer electronics hardware. Listen... we'll be the first to admit that we occasionally suffer a dearth of compelling commentary about the main episode topic, and we're certainly not going to be diving into the audio processor specs of Nick's iPod Nano, so expect some tangents, from old emails to misbegotten bids for YouTube let's play fame to the wonderful works of one Mr. Weird Al Yankovik. Really, it's crazy how many parts of our lives these tiny pieces of plastic touched. Almost like the wide variety of songs they could hold... which was like, 40. This week, the Nicks plug in to talk some iPod Nano! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

That's right folks: this week the Nicks are diving into the YouTube comedy stylings of one very special team, from Dragon Ball Z Abridged to crazy popular one-offs to gameplay and podcasts and beyond. When these shows were as formative as they were to these two Nicks, it's pretty hard to talk about them without just quoting it verbatim... which is why the Nicks might just need to do a little bit of abridging themselves. Fire up those video editors and keep an eye on the lip flaps, because this week the Nicks are talking Team Four Star! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

We hope you're ready for another trip to the local library manga shelf today, folks, because we've got a twofer for ya today. It's an unlikely pair of manga that had a big influence on Nick's fictional universe, as well as on the Shonen battle and isekai genre respectively. Join the Nicks as they battle to become the Shaman King, and then are transported into the wonderful world of MAR! Or is it MARE? MEUR? Who's to say? Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity

From that one commercial where the two boys and their teacher were trash talking each other in baseball hand signs, to a campaign mode with absolutely ZERO supernatural occurrences, Mario Super Sluggers captured our imaginations. Then promptly lost them when we realized that the game was just baseball. Thankfully, it recognized this and never actually forces you to play through 9 innings of baseball. It instead forces you to play through a Monkey Island-esque point and click adventure campaign to unlock all the deepest of deep cut characters. But I mean, come on, don't you want to play as Baby Daisy? Or Tiny Kong? Or Pink Pianta? Yeah, I thought so. This week, the Nicks step up to the podcast plate and talk about Mario Super Sluggers! Follow Andy Huber (@yafroglog on Instagram) for amazing art stuff! Follow Nick and the Leg-Heavy Boys (@nickandthelegheavyboys on Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok) for amazing music stuff! If you’re looking for anti-racism sources and have the means to help out both Black Lives Matter and the AAPI community, you can find them at these links! https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter https://linktr.ee/aapisolidarity