Banter Banter

The time of year comes around again when one must consider; can the hosts of Banter come up with another excuse for them to talk about Scott Pilgrim vs the World again?  Well get your disappointment wheels a turning because we're here again and this time we're dunkin' on Scott.  While his journey is prolonged and quirky, he's still the salt of the earth.  I mean scum of the earth. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/@miracleofsound This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

On the centennial publication, Mike, Manny & Aaron take a deep dive into the past of Banter Banter to dig up some of their audience questions and point them at themselves.  Maybe by looking back at the previous 99, they can learn something about themselves to carry into the future. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T... Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo... This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

This week, the Banter Boys take another trip to the Trailer Park and set eyes on the new D&D movie 'Honor Among Thieves'. Aaron gets nostalgic about his early tabletop gaming days and checks in with Manny and Mike about the different products from D&D they interacted with in their earlier days. Mike replaces all the toilet paper he pick-pocketed from Aaron before reality attacks via Hasbro's fresh sound. Bust out your own Drow Samurai and slice into the latest episode from Banter Banter. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfoxYTlCPFfglckBLrjpsA This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins Email: banterbantercast@gmail.com Twitter : @Banter_Cast Facebook: @BanterBanterCast

Forget the trappings of old.  Nostalgia comes in as a substitute for creative substance.  Less and less original content is presented to us as crossovers, but in exchange, we give up any of the trappings that would give a context of reason for it to happen.  Join Mike and Manny as they try untangle this mess. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T... Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo... This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

The Banter Banter Boys decide to drive two cars into the Trailer Park and leave donuts for everyone to see. Instead of spending time at the corner of Nostalgia and Reality, we watched the Thank You for Smoking trailer and take a peek at product marketing in movies and video games. Sometimes the product placement does the trick and hooks you. While driving home to our corner, we swerve back to the Trailer Park because of the unabashed marketing in the movie poster for 'Foodfight!'. Thank You for Smoking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df32RijORLo Foodfight!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uROQ9nplxIY Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfoxYTlCPFfglckBLrjpsA This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins Email: banterbantercast@gmail.com Twitter : @Banter_Cast Facebook: @BanterBanterCast

The banter gents talk about the influence of media in our world views.  Is our choice in media indicative of the values we hold, or are we at the whimms of what shows, films, books, and games we partake in? Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T... Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo... This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

Banter Banter has a booger to pick with you. And maybe add it to your booger collection to increase its value! What creates the value of collectibles? Is it all a corporate trick to cause fake rarity, or has the commercial brainwashing finally taken hold? Mike tries to appraise the value of this podcast while Aaron recants a tale of having FOMO for rare console only to fall for a scam. Beanie Babies make another appearance with the Banter Boys at the corner of Nostalgia and Reality as Mike remembers the craze and the high prices. Unfold your lawn chair and take join us for yet another installment on this journey. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfoxYTlCPFfglckBLrjpsA This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins Email: banterbantercast@gmail.com Twitter : @Banter_Cast Facebook: @BanterBanterCast

Getting into the thick of collection culture, our hoarders in chief, Aaron, Mike and Manny get to talking.  Both stuff they're into and things they aren't, everything is on the table, ready to be graded and marked up as a one-of-a-kind limited edition. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T... Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo... This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

Aaron gets patched back into this episode and downloads some updates to remember talking about speed runs. Mike ties speed running to the Rubik's Cube and seeks knowledge about other physical types of speed runs that are not video game related. Manny mentions Cup Stacking, in both solo and team competitions as another niche physical speed run where there is a league to help confirm/validate time records. While the Banter Boys enter a blindfolded podcast recording speed run for this episode, they ponder if cooking competitions are just variants of a speed run. Fill out your request form and submit it to be on the front page of the largest 'world record' collection while you sit at the corner of Nostalgia and Reality with Banter Banter this week. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfoxYTlCPFfglckBLrjpsA This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins Email: banterbanterca

The hosts of Banter Banter try their hand at running through the obstacles of their podcast, giving their thoughts on the precursors of speed running and its place in the landscape of hobbies. From high scores to doing tricks to spaz out Mario Kart, we race to come up with a call on this craft. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T...  Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo...  This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

Mike and Manny chat about finished products that was released back before the internet and post internet, and how patches are easier to provide constant updates and upgrades. Has the ability to release games without cleaning most of the bugs and glitches and just patch the game after release created a bad environment for the gaming community or the gaming industry? Do gamers see a benefit in helping correct these bugs and glitches? While waiting for the code updates to Aaron's processing UI, Manny and Mike mention some games from the pre-internet times that somehow got greenlit and were disasterous failures. Maybe if those games could have gotten patched like they can now, those games might have succeeded, or maybe they would have died before release. So come sit at the corner of Reality and Nostalgia with the Banter Banter Boys and imagine what could have been saved by a patch and what could have been great if it wasn't rushed to market with a fist full of glitches. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Soun

What happens when publishers get too obsessed with making changes to previously released media, it isn't always pretty.  Our hosts are quick to point this out and bring up some thoughts on just what was wrong with these releases and whether  its worth keeping your old media. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T... Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo... This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

While sitting at the corner of Reality and Nostalgia, the Banter Boys check out many things that culminated in the gamer term 'Bethesda Broken'. Manny gives a light skim of some games that were released by this company which caused them to earn the negative moniker for a bad game and/or a bad game release.  As a bit of a gaming outsider, Mike wonders how the gaming industry as a whole has started releasing games with the expectation of using the consumers to help debug a game and if this will ever turn itself back to the times pre-internet that allows updates to be pushed out to update the game. After all the negative talk about things going on with gaming companies, Manny and Mike take a little peek at some companies trying to buck the standards for the work week and improving the work environment.  Grab a Mai Tai, put on your leisure suit, and relax to one more episode. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://ww

The host of Banter Banter take time to sift through some of the examples of franchise that took a turn for the worst.  From films like The Fast & the Furious, James Bond and Resident Evil; to RE's games and publishers like Bethesda and CD Projekt Red; we slog through a lot of stinkers for the sake of some quality entertainment. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T... Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo... This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

Join Mike as Arron and Manny run him through some of their favorite talking points about the Blue Blur, namely when did it go wrong.  All the while, Mike gets some prickly questions answered.  Going from the Master System, 32X, Sega CD, Dreamcast and beyond, the Banter-ers will talk about Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Robotnik's highs and lows. Alleging Game Theory Episode about Sonic'speed: https://youtu.be/ze_uxxFJTvE Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T... Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo... This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

Let loose the juice with the Banter-ers as they examine the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film.  Is this depiction of the Blue Blur worth him making him come out on theaters? Help them find the soul in this souless cash in. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8T... Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfo... This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins

This week Banter Banter sits down at the corner of Reality and Nostalgia with trends and their afterlife. Mike kicks off this episode by taking the Ghostbusters: Afterlife teaser down to the Trailer Park. Calling upon Rmember Berries, the three hosts weave through the discussion of this teaser trailer and into the resurrection of trends. Mike asks Aaron and Manny which trends they want to come back, and which ones can crawl into a hole and vanish. What kinds of Rmember Berries have made you wind up disappointed with the end product? Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfoxYTlCPFfglckBLrjpsA This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins Email: banterbantercast@gmail.com Twitter : @Banter_Cast Facebook: @BanterBanterCast

Like the hula hoop and the pet rock, things fall out of style all the time, but like a current meme, you can always count on Banter to go on about it endlessly.  Whether looking to get a boomerang or make funny bold font images, Banter Banter is into fads past and present.  Can Mike explain his way out of this one? Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfoxYTlCPFfglckBLrjpsA This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins Email: banterbantercast@gmail.com

After getting into gift refund money season, the hosts of Banter Banter start buying up all the memes. Aaron, Manny, and Mike peel open a light conversation about memes. From the historical creation of, the current definition of, and the popularization of memes across the internet. With every time the Banter Boys get together, you will get a handful of tangent dragons including buffalos, Sean Connery, and Myspace. Join us once again for a nice chat at the corner of nostalgia and reality. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfoxYTlCPFfglckBLrjpsA This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins Email: banterbantercast@gmail.com Twitter : @Banter_Cast Facebook: @BanterBanterCast

The Banter podders work on getting up to date with some of the new internet lingo.  From talking about terms that no one in their right mind would use now, to the hip new words everyone is using in the web 4-ums. Intro/Outro: 'Friends' by Miracle of Sound 'Friends' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-8TDe5s-E Miracle of Sound - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSfoxYTlCPFfglckBLrjpsA This season's cover art is by Bobbins & Goblins - @Bobbin_Goblins Email: banterbantercast@gmail.com