Tue, 30 December 2014
Merry late Christmas to all! This is a drastically cut down episode recorded as a SoundCloud exclusive near-four hour holiday bonus track. This episode is primarily Mike and Jay discussing games, specifically Batman: Arkham Origins and Mike's new found love for Forza Horizon 2. |
Tue, 23 December 2014
In this new episode, Mike and Jay conclude their epic discussions about gaming and fight the resulting fatigue of recording for prolonged periods of time. They also consider whether or not they are not offensive or controversial enough. Mike then tries to raise Jay's spirits by invoking Limp Bizkit and their handful of decent songs and eventually plot out the holiday themed future eps. The name of Batman is invoked and Mike reveals the level of permeation that the Burton Bat has in Mike's household.
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Tue, 16 December 2014
In this week's gaming-centric first part of a two part episode, Mike talks about his experiences with the XBOne and the new Halo: The Master Chief Collection and describes his issues with Titanfall, while raving about Nintendo's WiiU console. Jay adds to the conversation with his experiences finishing both Spec Ops: The Line and Battlefield 3, revisits a long-lost 3rd person shooter gem, SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals, and literally dusts off one of his favorite original XBox games, Namco's 2003 innovative 3rd person shooter, Kill Switch. |
Tue, 9 December 2014
In this week's episode, Mike and Jay continue their talk about the politics of Interstellar and The Hunger Games, bungle the physics of quantum physics, and then get emotionally real when relating the upsides of fatherhood (from Mike) and the loss of time and things left undone (from Jay). There's even a little room to talk about the new true crime podcast, Serial. |
Tue, 2 December 2014
In this week's episode, Mike talks about the joys of being XBOne'd, and Jay jumps into the fracas to talk about the politics in FPS games, and then the two put on their tinfoil hats to talk about the political and environmental aspects of Interstellar. SPOILERS WILL BE SPOKEN |
Tue, 25 November 2014
In this week's episode, Mike and Jay continue talking games, talk some Star Wars title news, and then investigate the clusterfuck of meta, brain-melting television tropes. And then shit gets real. This is the soon-to-be controversial, loyalty-dividing episode. This is where Mike and Jay could lose some of their loyal audience - or not. |
Tue, 18 November 2014
In this week's new episode, Mike and Jay return to their early gaming roots, reminisce about the various systems they played, and in some cases, the systems that played them. This is also the first of two split episodes, the next full episode going up next week. |
Tue, 11 November 2014
In this week's episode, Mike and Jay yet again set sail onto the sea of longwinded explorations of many topics popping into their tiny brains. |
Tue, 4 November 2014
In this week's episode, Mike and Jay discuss the benefits of both the Xbox One and an iPad Mini, as Mike is contemplating a purchase of either device. The duo also bicker about the life of iDevices, horror movies, the new Avengers 2: Age of Ultron trailer, the politics behind Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series, and Mike's hypocrisy when viewing online versions of the toy-based VHS tape adventure show and cult classic from the 80s, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. |
Tue, 28 October 2014
In this week's episode, Mike and Jay are beset on all sides by the inequities of a free sound recording application. Due to the recording app freezing mid recording, an epic discussion of The Walking Dead, Fury, and other points in between was lost. There is also a discussion of temporal imbalance, which is fitting, considering the incomplete nature of the episode. Our intrepid hosts did their best to cobble together a complete episode in the midst of technology failure. |
Tue, 21 October 2014
In this week's episode, Mike and Jay discuss the Bay of it all in the Transformers series of movies and ponder the future of the Ghostbusters film series as well. Mike and Jay also revisit Mike's proclaimed "Best Game of the Year" and a couple of other games to boot, and then breakdown the possibilities of the new season of The Walking Dead. |
Tue, 14 October 2014
In this week's episode, Mike and Jay talk about the better parts of the Survival Horror genre in film and games, as well as the world of Shadow of Mordor. And they fight a bad case of the Hill Country Sniffles. |
Tue, 7 October 2014
In this week’s episode Mike and Jay return from previously babbling incoherently as solo players, to babbling incoherently as a duo once again. In this longer than usual episode, they discuss the dangers of double dipping, the day spa origins of Trent Reznor’s newest movie score, the emotionally codependent relationship between Batman and the Joker, and Jay eats a hearty helping of crow as he discusses his fondness for The Amazing Spider Man 2.
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Tue, 30 September 2014
In this week's episode, Mike responds to Jay's solo cast. And if Mike and Jay weren't such great friends, this could begin a new "East Coast - West Coast" beef not seen since the 90s. Alas, calmer heads prevailed, opinions reinforced, and balance is restored in the Untenable Podcast universe. |
Tue, 23 September 2014
In this week’s episode, Jason contemplates the future of the podcast, laments the state of current professional sports, and earns his membership card for the Unpaid Defense Team of several film directors. This week also marks the first solo episode, as technology has struck a blow against humanity and Mike’s ability to record this week. |
Fri, 19 September 2014
This week brings The Untenable Podcast's first Bonus Episode, in which Mike and Jay discuss Kevin Smith's newest flick, Tusk. Spoilers: #WalrusYes #FullWalrus #MooseJawsYes |
Tue, 16 September 2014
In this episode, Mike and Jay discuss the intricacies of defining Rambo's masculinity, as well as discussing the legend of Bungie's Destiny, and other personal gaming histories and musings. |
Sun, 7 September 2014
In this episode, Mike and Jay are all over the place, beginning with cheap Michael Caine impersonations and surprising vocal comparisons, with various detours along the way, including unintentional racism, and ending up with a road trip down memory lane, courtesy of the Alamo Drafthouse. |
Tue, 2 September 2014
In this episode, Jay struggles with proper grammar, and Mike asks if it makes a difference when historical epics whitewash their casts. The duo also wonders which path streaming content will lead to - more importantly, if it's a path that a Replicant should follow. And, Starship Troopers, because. |
Tue, 26 August 2014
In this week's episode, Mike and Jay step on the toes of gamers and movie fans alike as they take a stand against troll-gaming, work through Jay's crippling cognitive gaming disorders, and eventually fetishize Shane Black. They also decide which Twitter Crusaders should team up with the Social Justice Warriors and the White Knights, and determine which battles should be fought and who should be destroyed on the Interwebz. |
Tue, 19 August 2014
In their second episode, Mike and Jay pay tribute to the late Robin Williams and declare Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America: Winter Soldier to be THE movie of the summer, explore the power of movie hyperbole and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie, leading to complaints about movie critics and their right to be snarky. Also, they talk about video games a little bit. |
Sun, 17 August 2014
In the pilot episode, Mike and Jay muse on the shoddy programming of future tech in the Terminator universe, verify voice recognition systems, and the untenable quality of Cthulu and Rust Cohle. |