600 men embarked on a voyage, and only 1 came home. Froo and Murph channel their theater kid energy into Epic: The Musical a pop-opera retelling of The Odyssey that got really, really, really big...on TikTok. They go saga by saga so Murph can to flex his classics knowledge while Froo shakes their fist at the clouds all in the pursuit of determining if violence is good or not.

TIMESTAMPS

00:48 - What is Epic?

10:34 - What is The Odyssey?

13:53 - Spoiler Free Thoughts

24:35 - The Troy Saga

38:48 - The Cyclops Saga

44:04 - The Ocean Saga

47:49 - The Circe Saga

55:36 - The Underworld Saga

57:25 - The Thunder Saga

1:07:04 - The Wisdom Saga

1:20:54 - The Vengeance Saga

1:29:29 - The Itchaca Saga

1:41:39 - Overall Thoughts

1:43:00 - Three Video Games, A Stage Show, A Prequel, and A Movie

2:04:00 - Closing Thoughts

In our first proper Minisode of Season 2 Murph elaborates on his journeys south, which invariably leads to a discussion about failed Peanuts characters. For Show & Tell Froo will bring the smiles and Murph shares his favorite Reddit post of 2025.

The Podcast that refuses to die is back with a new format. In Season 2 we're skipping right to the main topic (or in this cause topics). Murph was away at the South Pole looking for Santa and needs to be caught up on the culture of the internet going in to 2026. It's up to Froo to bring our lad up to speed and tell him what he missed.

Timestamps

00:50 - Season 2 Starts Now!

04:20 - Words of the Year

10:43 - Pantone Color of the Year

13:58 - Heated Rivalry

22:05 - Wicked For Good Press Tour

24:07 - New Dolls from Mattel

31:38 - Alysa Liu lights up the Olympics

34:28 - The Belfast K-Pop is Forever Concert

45:10 - Punch the Monkey

50:43 - Love Island: AI Fruit Slop Edition

57:05 - Chappell Roan Nukes and Infant

1:10:20 - Final Thoughts & Advice

Blood the trade, dear listeners! In this episode Murph leads Froo down a tuna-scented rabbit hole of internet madness. This five year tale spreads from the Mommy Blogs of Get Off My Internets, the Blog Wars of Serge and Monica, Cambridge huckster Caroline Calloway, and even some famous pies from Kutchie’s Key West Cafe. No cap cap cap cap cap cap, and certainly No foretold!

If that is not enough, we get an update on Etsy darling Cowboy Wormie, and Murph gets the definitive answer on if he would have survived a school shooting.

Credit to Chilluminati Podcast for initial research into this mystery: https://open.spotify.com/show/71Dnx4yKkQ0TfPWWu3swYP?si=5495df897dab45f4

TIMESTAMPS

1:23---The Decompress: Cowboy Wormie goes viral; Review of the Oregon Ape Caves; Murph recommends Youtubers

17:56---Show & Tell: "Would you survive a school shooting?" Quiz; Cats by Amblin Entertainment

35:33---Main Topic: r/LVSS

• 35:40--What Kind of Internet Mystery Is This?
• 39:44--Caroline Calloway: The Gatsby of Cambridge
• 46:00--PersonalHedgehog
• 56:00--5 Years Prior, on GOMI
• 1:19:49--The Ballad of Bill and Shannon
• 1:30:15--Something Smells Fishy
• 1:39:36--ENILORAC Spelled Backwards Is...
• 1:50:49--The LVSS Anthology
• 2:05:58--Meet-up at the 7/11
• 2:12:50--"Greetings, From the Architect"

We're gonna level with you listener: The Main Topic for this episode is a 2 hour breakdown of each historical American Girl doll. There is no spin or twist. Froo and Murph read the wiki entry for all 23 American Girl dolls and give them a letter grade. Interesting questions will be asked, such as "Is it okay to claim an indigenous tribe as American?" or "Do the 1990s count as historic?" but it's still a frank discussion of American Girl Dolls.

Outside of that lengthy Main Topic, Froo listens to the latest Smokey Robinson Album, we explore the earliest writings of one of the most prolific American writers, and Murph shares big news about his future doings.

TIMESTAMPS

1:55-The Decompress: Murph has a new job; Murph navigates the American Health Industry; Froo takes an interest in local sports; Froo gets stung for the first time

15:00-Show & Tell: Smokey Robinson's Gasms; Kitty Kitty Jungle Kittens

29:00-Wildcard: Murph's Elementary School Writings

45:38-Main Topic: Ranking the Historical American Girl Dolls

Gel your hair and crank that Nelly Fertado, cause Froo and Murph are taking the wayback machine to nearly two decades prior to talk about E3 2006 as presented by G4 TV (as presented by Mountain Dew and Scion). Back when Olivia Munn was just the winner of a reality show, when the price of the PS3 was still unknown, and when Reggie Fils-Aime was the biggest rizzcake on the block. Our hosts will get to the bottom of the question: Was this really a better time for gamers?

To excavate this time of booth babes and JRPG bashing, our hosts bring on their first ever guest: Brogan Chattin from the Daydreamcast! He'll vent about parasocial Disney fans, gaslight us about Norwegian comedians, and wax poetic about the implicit shame of the Gamer™.

Join us in this trip to the past, to talk about the games coverage that sucked ass.

Whoa, where does the time go?

Murph and Froo come back from hiatus to talk about the vague and nebulous topic of "Art depicting childhood characters as adults." What if Max Goof grew up to be a lumbersexual? What then? Have you even considered that he might?

Also on the docket of ideas is Murph's Job-Hunting Hell, Andrew Llyod Webber's School of Rock (With Friends), and The Annual Sanrio Popularity Poll.

Would you believe Episode 20 was originally much squirrellier?

2024 was just too jam packed with mess for us to contain to a clean runtime, so cuts had to be made for the sake of appearing mostly professional and respectful of our listeners' time.

For those that want to hear all the half-and-half induced trauma dumping and memes from the main topic you've come to the right place.

Before the horrors of 2025 take total precedent, Murph and Froo want to confront the horrors (and small joys) of 2024. Murph breaks down his favorite memes and posts of the year, while Froo elaborates on the various "messes" that fueled the discourse slop pile.

In the Decompress we have an update on Murph watching Professional Wrestling, and Froo let's us know Buffalo Bill is coming.

You better watch out, You better watch out!

For this Bad Idea, Froo and Murph stare directly at the Lumistella Star and it's corporate spawn, The Elf on the Shelf. Began in 2005 as one family sharing their holiday tradition of Santa's government-issued snitches, Elfing has seen a boom in the social media age that has led to an expansion of the brand and way, way too much lore to support it.

Also in the kringle sack is historical precedent of German folktales, discussing gentrification with hot sauces, and what it means to be a Bingleholic

Froo and Murph celebrate their 2 year podiversary by taking a look into the books of Booktok. Ostensibly, Booktok is just a tag on TikTok for talking about literature, but has increasingly grown associated with a particular genre of books and book discourse. Froo does her level best to de-mystify the tag, talk about some of the heavy-hitters, and opens the discussion to why we can't seem to let women have their kinks.

Also in the episode we discuss horror icons (for better or worse) Junji Ito and Russ McKamey alongside a brief snippet of Froo and Murph playing Five Nights at Freddy's.

As clinically as it can be put: In 2012 there was an intense fandom surrounding The Once-ler from the animated Lorax movie from Illumination Entertainment. The Once-ler was played by Andy from The Office.

Froo and Murph try to make heads and tails of this bizzarre fandom that went as quickly as it came, a perfect storm of Tumblr Sexyman, Hotboy Villain, and...and...self-shipping? If you didn't know before, the details contained within may prove shocking.

And if none of that isn't your cup of tea this episode will also contain impressions of the D23 announcements (RIP Muppet Theater), attempts to explain Baki The Grapper, and Vtubing Kpop Boyz.

What if you could live forever? What if you were in the vast emptiness of space with only two other people to talk to? What if football, but with tornados?

Froo and Murph examine such questions through 17776 a work of high-concept sci-fi multimedia fiction published innocuously to a totally normal sports blogging website in the year 2017. It's a comedy, it's an existential horror, it's a refutation of Protestant work-ethic.

Hut hut hike listeners, this one goes places.

In this Bad Idea we're gonna take you to the past to talk about The Sims 2 machinima's that were sub-quality. Now that Roosterteeth has officially shut the doors (and their content is made increasingly scarce by Warner Bros.) we decided this was the ideal time for Froo to wax nostalgic about one of the first media conglomerates born of the internet. Murph doesn't wax nostalgic at all, he only watched Red vs Blue.

Froo and Murph float down the chocolate river to Glasgow, Scottland to unpack the generated Willy Wonka pop-up event allegedly* written wholly by AI by a grifter to extract the glaswegian people of their hard earned pounds.

Come for the full reading of the script, stay for the trial of Jojo Siwa.

*It was, absolutely, without question.

Froo and Murph take the Wayback Machine to a time that was four years ago, but feels like six months ago, to talk about the 2020 underground webcomic Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins.

What began as a daily comic with one joke slowly turned into a statement on sexuality, copyright law, and how Amazon workers deserve bathroom breaks. There's also some slow-burn psychological horror, because COVID lockdown did strange things to all of us.

It's an episode you'll have to tell the fellas at work about.

The Etsy episode was already long, but would you believe it was even longer?

Froo and Murph just couldn't resist looking at each sellers' store page and riffing on additional products (as well as a dip into the Elf on a Shelf official website).

This minisode is just the Main Topic section of the Etsy: The Price is Right, but leaving in those tangents, equating up to an additional 90 minutes of goofs and content.

Froo and Murph put on their appraising caps to dive into the internet's foremost crafts market known as Etsy. It's a battle of wits as they play a game of The Price is Right and see who is too thrifty, and who is wise to the ways of the internet grift.

Play along at home with the TPIABI: Etsy: The Price is Right: The Home Game!

With supreme lateness, Froo and Murph join together to talk about the 2023 animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. It's been a long time coming to finally get a faithful adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic.

...That's what this is...right?

Episode contains spoilers for the entire show.

Froo and Murph do a review of six prominent cartoon pilots that premiered directly to YouTube including Bee & Puppycat, Long Gone Gulch, The Amazing Digital Circus, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, and Lackadaisy.