The Carousel

A weekly podcast of friends discussing a rotating list of topics and quite often stray from the intended subject matter. Topics include video games, movies, music, and comics.

06/21/2018 – My Ex, Monica

Featuring John “MusiM” & Jake Music by MusiM: Spotify | Bandcamp | iTunes All (good?) things must come to an end, and so it is for The Carousel, at least for now.  But until then we discuss being in a robot, shooting robots, robots that think they’re people, people who drive cat-robots, a guy who is part robot who is also friends with robots, and E3, which, let’s be honest, is basically full of robots. And yes, Jake is aware Joe Dimaggio and John DiMaggio are different people…Don’t @ us. Thanks to everyone for your support the last couple years, and stay subscribed, because there’s the ever-present threat that we will re-turn… Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there (It’s not going anywhere!)!

06-23
01:35:13

06/07/2018 - Speculative Chicken Buggery

Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake, & Randy Music by MusiM: Spotify | Bandcamp | iTunes Additional numbers abound in this week's action-packed discussion of Fallout speculation, gore-humor, what we want in a sequel, and how a good MMO is hard to find. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there!

06-12
01:24:42

05/10/2018 – Enjoy Your Bleak Existence

  Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake, & Randy Music by MusiM: Spotify | Bandcamp | iTunes It’s all about the twooooooooooos this week.  We’ve also got a billion more episodes of Rick and Morty to look forward to, but who knows when those are coming out, so we discuss killing the time until then with disappointing sequels, mindless consumerism and the eventuality that someday we will all fill up a hotel room with 60 to 75 copies of our lifeless bodies.  Happy Mothers’ Day! Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there!

05-14
01:14:50

04/28/2018 – Sorry, But Your Mother’s Ashes Need To Be Dropped In Another Castle

Featuring John “MusiM” & Jake Music by MusiM: Spotify | Bandcamp | iTunes It’s a deity-packed episode as we discuss Western Gods, Northern Gods, Tech Gods, Mech Gods, and Death Gods.  The only spoiler is that nobody pulled their dick out. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there!

04-29
01:21:44

04/12/2018 – Illuminati For Kids

  Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake, & Randy Music by MusiM: Spotify | Bandcamp | iTunes We tried a new catchphrase, and it didn’t pan out… We recovered by playing “Guess The Movie John Doesn’t Remember The Title Of”, and subsequently talking about a Warcraft crossover in a Netflix series, Questionable therapist practices, A Whole Bunch Of Blasphemous Stuff: Featuring The GFYD (TM), Torture-Ghosts, and how supremely difficult it is to find anything to do in Zelda: Breath of the Wild.  God of War sounds pretty good too, eh?  We’ll let you know in 4-6 weeks! Here’s the Shovel Knight song Jake brought up.  It starts out a little slow, give it at least 20 seconds.  https://youtu.be/5-I-0yHyRic If you’d rather find it yourself on Youtube, it’s called “Hitting Close To Home”, and it’s the soundtrack for the entrance to the Tower of Fates.  We (Jake) would strongly encourage you to buy the soundtrack, if not the whole game.

04-16
01:05:13

03/29/2018 - Peyton, Eli, and Chelsea Manning

Featuring John “MusiM” & Jake Music by MusiM: Spotify | Bandcamp | iTunes This episode we’re on to James Bond actors, Wizardry-likes, space comedies, space dramedies, anime RPGs, and Jake hating something everyone loves, and coming around on something that he wasn’t really into. Oh, and here’s the piece of Shaun of the Dead we referenced where they lay out the entire plot of the movie:  https://youtu.be/l93fDmh6XKo?t=50s The Good Life Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/476090608/the-good-life Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there!

04-01
01:24:56

03/17/2018 – Everything Dies In Arizona

Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM: Spotify | Bandcamp | iTunes This episode we extensively discuss the state of Netflix, wrenchin’, A historic documentary and semi-realistic drama both based on the same thing, piracy on land and sea, games that Jake took a bullet on so you don’t have to, and the newest entry in the ever-popular genre of Victorian Era horror-drama set in the American Southwest. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there!

03-18
01:28:36

03/01/2018 – I’d Better Just Quit

  Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie”   This episode we visit Wakanda (because of course), discuss kaiju tactics, Con some nice families, kill some gnat-sees, and postulate over super-villain percussion ability. Dabu. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there!

03-04
01:25:01

02/15/2018 – Feelin A Dragonhole

  Featuring John “MusiM” & Jake Music by MusiM: Spotify | Bandcamp | iTunes Super Bowl commercials, Level-up guides, more fantasy tactics from Jake, and a hidden challenger all await you in the first half of this week’s cast!  We then proceed to discuss completely non-controversial topics that may or may not get us run off the Internet.  Enjoy! Here’s a link to the awesome title track for the Black Panther motion comic we talked about:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jogj0_8rw48  If you have an inclination to figure out how to watch that series, that’s on you. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there!

02-19
01:28:32

02/01/2018 - Game Jam: Origins

  Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com We start up the cast talking about how damn expensive electric heat is, Jake spends a little time talking about his successful Hearthstone Dungeon Run campaign, John spends a little more time talking about his time at his first game jam, and Jake spends an inordinately long amount of time talking about a game that he finally got into a decade too late. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord (channel link at our twitter) and hang out with us there!

02-05
01:25:35

01/18/2018 – Devilman Cryberry Crunch

Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com This episode we discuss: Flaming steaks, robot buddies, tiny Damons, blood orgies, terrible menus, A Game That Will Probably Turn You Off (TM), the poetry of The Book of the Dead, John’s addiction to pianos, skeleton football, and the Final Fantasy WoW Arena. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there!

01-22
01:21:54

01/04/2018: Zelda On My Mind

Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee”, Randy  “Splooie” & Josh “LateElf” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com This episode the gang and special guest Josh discuss: Graduating from the Alchademy, Heavy-handed allegories, Phone horror, First-person ragdolling, and The beauty (and terror) of portable open worlds. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there! (Check our twitter for a link)

01-08
01:25:42

12/16/2017: Favorites of 2017 - Part 2

 Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com This cast we set aside a Saturday afternoon to discuss our justification for continuing to live to see 2018!  The first cast is our Movies and TV discussion, and our video games list will go up separately. We'll be back on Jan. 4th 2018 - see you then! Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there!

12-21
01:19:53

12/16/2017: Favorites of 2017 - Part 1

Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com This cast we set aside a Saturday afternoon to discuss our justification for continuing to live to see 2018!  The first cast is our Movies and TV discussion, and our video games list will go up separately. We’ll be back on Jan. 4th 2018 – see you then! Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there!

12-21
01:34:49

12/04/2017: Just Your Regular Street Samurai

Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com This episode we discuss: A return to bordered lands, Celts in Nordic country, Emergent apple-picking, getting decked, hockey goonery, and how the Internet is arguing for additional anti-consumer practices in order to fix the current anti-consumer practices. (Note: Our “revenue” numbers in the EA discussion at the end of the show appear to actually be net revenue, not gross, however none of us are business analyst professionals so please check it out for yourself.) Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there!

12-12
01:37:44

11/20/2017 – Nobody Wants a Sheldon

Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com This episode Jake reads a comic for once, Randy tags up on Thor-talk, Justice is beLeaguered, fools get Punished, Zombies become commuters, Dolls get paid SAG minimum, dungeons get explored, and we wrap it up by discussing the surprising Thanksgiving release desert. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there! Due to technical issues, the backup recording was used.

11-25
01:23:53

11/11/2017 - I'm not in Love with Anything

  Featuring John “MusiM”, & Jake Music by MusiM.  Buy it at musim.bandcamp.com This episode we discuss Strangerer Things, The Viking Apocalypse, The Movie That Couldn’t, Dinobots’ poor residential choices, killin Gnat-sees, and open-world robo-fishing, Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there (if the code doesn’t work, tweet us and we’ll post a new one)! Here’s a link to the Wolfenstein: The New Colossus end credits (audio only – no spoilers for the game) if you want to experience the 8 and a half minutes of ‘song’:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRQ4fyw5zzM

11-12
01:32:33

10/26/2017 – I Like It ‘Cause I’m Stupid

  Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com This episode we discuss Gore Porn, dead wives, child superheroes, a $350 game of solitaire, artful dodgers, when series slow down, some exciting DLC, Randy’s sense of humor, and the new wave of lootboxes. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there!

10-30
01:32:04

10/12/2017 – The Punchable Gosling

Featuring John “MusiM”, & Jake Music by MusiM.  Buy it at musim.bandcamp.com This episode we did a lot of stuff!  We ran blades, cupped heads, wested worlds, preyed, gift…ed? footed balls, read…stuff, and beheld the evil within us all.  I kinda lost the thread there in the middle… Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there!

10-15
01:23:52

2017/09/28 – Game Name: Console Edition

  Featuring John “MusiM”, Jake “TheOtherJZee” & Randy  “Splooie” Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com This episode we discuss the loot shooter de rigueur, John’s ever growing pile of isometric fantasy games, British spy movies, old Nintendo games, a mostly-overlooked indie game, and then we rush through the “free” games and releases to make sure we have time to discuss the newest shady DLC that WB is slingin’. Find us @CarouselPodcast , email us at CarouselPodcast at gmail.com with questions, topics or comments, or just join our Discord and hang out with us there!

10-01
01:26:42

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