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Riffing in the Abyss

Riffing in the Abyss
Author: Payton Green and Zack B.
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Following on the heels of the incredible mediocrity of their previous work "Feud Fight", Payton and Zack tackle pop culture, current affairs, life and the questions we all ponder during bouts of crippling insomnia but are too afraid to ask out loud.
27 Episodes
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In the season finale, Payton and Zack take a trip down memory lane and look ahead into the future and what it holds for this podcast and the world.
Topics include:
Does Two-Face still practice law?
Late 20s body degradation
Northern conservatives
Our hopes for the new year
A walk down memory lane
The Big Dudes Resist
The Words of the Year
Season 3 wishlist
Making animal noises
A plea to Rockstar
The origins of the mid-00s zombie craze
The Big Dudes Insist
Fair warning, this is mostly just a long Big Dudes Insist
Topics include:
The punk rock of podcasts
The different podcasts of rock and roll
Bringing back old tech
Lots of misinformation
Payton just now watched Game of Thrones
The time Payton accidentally read The Hobbit
An op-ed on summer homework
Runnin' Up Those Wuthering Heights
Deciding when to take a break
Talking about the good ol' days
A deep dive into the discography of Alvin and the Chipmunks
A good time to be a Scooby-Doo fan
The Big Dudes Insist
The origins of Surfin' Bird
Today Zack and Payton are joined by an actual podcaster. Gerald from Box Office QBs joins us to chat about some of his favorite (and least favorite) in movie and TV.
Topics include:
How to host a bad party
Morbin Time
Horrible shows you enjoy
Franchises that don't know when to end
Franchises that ended too soon
Jack Black stan club
Getting out of synch with your partner (on TV watching)
More Morbin Time
The problem with video game movies
The Big Dudes Insist
Sorry Payton is a quiet boy today, we'll try to fix that for our ones of listeners.
Topics include:
Suffering with no A/C
Going down the Rush rabbit hole
What happened to all the websites?
Nostalgia for channel surfing
The Queen of Canada
The Rock becomes the King of America at WrestleMania
Shitting on Joss Whedon
Don't look up to celebrities
Phone jails at comedy events
Celebrity jets
The Big Dudes Insist
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For the first time Payton and Zack welcome their first returning guest. Welcome back to the show, a true performer - Faith!
Topics include:
Getting rid of the hiccups
Live studio audiences
Your perfect distinctive laugh
The Big Betty White Lie
Faith's fall sound heard for the first time
The Nathan Drake scale of hiking
Faith cheats at Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Unlocking a Fred Durst memory
Faith learns what "nookie" means
4 distinct Spider-Man games in one podcast
The Big Dudes Insist
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Yet another unanticipated absence but hopefully it made your hearts grow fonder.
Topics include:
A weaksauce intro
Big Dudes, Bigger Animals
What qualifies as seafood?
BCU (Bible Cinematic Universe)
Setting up the podcast with the table of contents
Getting buried alive and coming back as a new persona
Batman's sex life
Shitting on Star Wars fans
Spoiling Fallout
The psychology of shitting
Weirdest bathrooms we've ever been in
The Big Dudes Insist sponsored by Better Help
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This week Zack and Payton welcome their most informative guest yet. Jane brings the big dudes some much needed therapy,
Topics include
Joker 2: Here We Go Again
Therapizing Elvis
TikTokers seeking mental health
What is human consciousness? (that one's not even a joke)
The Big Dudes Insist
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Payton is a quiet boy this episode. Sorry.
Topics include:
Our podcasts are doing numbers! Not this one though
Absorbing our guests' powers
Multiverse is the new zombies
It's Morbin' Time!
Goth Batman is best Batman
The Big Dudes Insist
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We have perhaps our wildest most chaotic guest of all time. Our good friend Macy who helped make Payton and Zack who they are today. It explains a lot but also...doesn't?
Topics include:
Introducing the world to "Eazy Speak"
Ye Olde Ye
Some interesting thoughts on literature
Telling our deepest darkest secrets
The wizarding world of real life
Fixing every situation with an additional horse
How to survive being shrunk
The Big Dudes Insist
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We're back for more fun. Payton's been living it up and Zack tries to live vicariously through him.
Topics include:
Good Bills vs. Naughty Williams
Ingesting Seinfeld season 4
The Sonic kick
Finish That Crush 40 Lyric
Zack's VR Adventure
"Netflix is Booty Trash Garbage Shit"
Be on your fucking toes for Big Dudes Insist
Confusing the white men of Hollywood
The ethics of cannibalism
What is a Krabby Patty?
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This episode we have on Daniel a real pal and friend who helps walk us through Rockadoodle, D-COMs, and other various good times. Also didn't realize this episode was late, whoops!
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We're finally back for the long-awaited, thought-to-be-dead season 2. And there are lots of changes. Some we haven't even decided on yet.
Topics include:
Heads Up, 7 Up
Osmosis Jones (the series)
Teacher appreciation
A misplaced Big Dudes Insist
New changes for season 2
The Big Dudes Investigate
Creating a Beatles-proof podcast
The meaning behind the name "Tiny Big Dude"
The last man on Tumblr
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Payton and Zack are back and half-medicated! Topics include:
Welcome to the pre-riff
Jerk off songs
Good, niche comedy that takes an understanding of the discography of The Police
Classic horror films
"Here's This Weird Thing That Happened in History that I Don't Think a Lot of People Know About So I'm Going to Tell You About It"
Banned 9/11 songs
Imagine There's No Pizza
A loving tribute to Herman Cain
Workplace coffee
Payton's Big Move
A loving tribute to Shrek 4D
Our favorite dinosaurs
The Laura Dern Cinematic Universe
A Laura Dern-free version of The Big Dudes Insist
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When you don't have a guest, you can always count on brotherly love. This week we welcome Zack's brother Seth to the show!
Topics include:
Fuck, Marry, Kill condiments
The Comedy Central Roast of Zack's Roommate
Southern Delicacies and Kitchen Crimes
Mud fossils
Cryptid-currency
Mothman's ass and the eating thereof
Our favorite conspiracies and cults
A deep dive into the Cars universe
The Big Dudes Insist
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We're making podcast history - but not for all podcasts, just for our podcast. Our first episode we also streamed live on Twitch. So please excuse a couple of only visual-only gags.
Topics include:
Zack's love of piss
The horrifying truth of the Tooth Fairy
Payton's tooth-eating dog
Filing police reports
The Season of Spooky
The Venn Diagram of Technology
A Horrible Thing When Me was Child
Making friendship bracelets with your wife
Meal prep and the Sunday Scaries
The Big Dudes Insist
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This week we are joined by the unstoppable creative force known as "Nick" topics include:
Dungeons and/or Dragons
Creativity
Productivity
Mental Illness (again)
Drugs
Reality TV
Chris Pratt as Mario
Sexy live streams
Jerking off into the vacuum of space
The Big Dudes Insist!
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It turns out we put out our best content when we're depressed. Here we go...
Topics include:
"Depression and Anxiety" by the Pixies
We suck at video games now
Rock concerts in pandemic times
The lore of Coheed and Cambria
Spider-Man: Welcome to the Abyss
Disney abductions
The Big Dudes Insist (with a brand new theme song!)
Zack forgets time zones
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We've got a blast from the past for you guys this week. Our good friend and former host of Feud Fight Zach Denmark! If you're a fan of that show, you'll enjoy this. If not, good luck!
Topics include:
What Zack's ashamed of on the internet
Sonic the Hedgehog's human feet
The new new COVID variant
How has the vaccine changed you?
Anti-maskers are insane in the membrane
War on Terror-based media
The Big Dudes Insist
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This episode is full of promise but will it have delivery? Probably not.
Topics include:
Foreshadowing
A weird thing Payton saw on Twitter
The dreaded social media comments section
Regretting our decision
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Repelling Zack with a cross
The Boreanaz Cinematic Universe
Fuckin' billionaires, man
How suck the world is
The Memers Party
Big Dudes Insist
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This week we welcome Tristin, our first guest who actually prepared. Good thing? Bad thing? You be the judge!
Topics include:
"My Momma" jokes
Figuring out our audience
The origins of drive thrus
Egg facts
Honestly most of the show is egg facts
The big dudes insist
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