Debate This!
Comedy
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If Kirby swallowed a boss from Metal Gear Solid, what absolutely bonkers power would he obtain? Which of the X-Men would be the biggest bummer of a roommate? Is King Bob-Omb's rule officially recognized by the Mushroom Kingdom or is Bob-Omb Battlefield a sovereign nation? Debate This! asks the kind of bold and heroic questions about your favorite video games and comics that no other podcast would dare ask. Although, it's probably because other people have better things to do than argue which color of Yoshi is the best color of Yoshi.In this show, no one is right, but someone is definitely wrong.
Episodes
- DLC EPISODE: Slopify This!
A bonus episode approaches! Work, travel, and life have gotten in the way of episode production, so we're blessing the DT! Main Feed with the post-show from Ep. 191: Consequences of Whimsymaxxing. Sit back, relax, and listen to a rousing d…
- Avenge This: Daredevil Born Again S2
With Marvel having slown down a bit in the past year or so, it's honestly been nice to not have to feel like we are constantly running towards the next thing. So, take a breath along with Matt and Todd as they reflect on Season 2 of Darede…
- Ep. 191: Consequences of Whimsymaxxing
Six whole years ago, in February of 2020, James Marsden, Jim Carrey and Sonic the Hedgehog sparked an idea in our heads. With box office hits like Sonic and Detective Pikachu, a Super Smash Bros. Cinematic Universe felt inevitable. Well, a…
- FLAVOR TEXT: No Man's Sky
Space. The final Frontier. For centuries, man has looked up at the sky and wondered what exists out there beyond the reaches of our imagination. And in 2013, a hero-turned-villian-turned-back-to-hero named Sean Murray dared to answer that…
- Ep. 190: The Book of Elijah Wood
Modern games like Kirby and the Forgotten Lands and Pokemon Pokopia have put a new twist on post-apocalyptic media. These games combine the bleak realities at the end of the world with cute, cozy gameplay and aesthetics. What inspired this…
- DLC EPISODE: Fellowship This! Ep. 1 - The Fellowship of the Ring
March has five Tuesdays so we're blessing the DT! Main Feed with a bonus episode! Our latest premium show is called Fellowship This! AKA One Does Not Simply Record a LOTR Watchalong Podcast: There And Pod Again: An Unexpected Recording . T…
- Ep. 189: Dash Air, Time Share
The worst part about spring in the Midwest isn't the rain, it's the occasional 75-and-sunny day that sneaks in between the gray, rainy ones. Well after we received a healthy dose of vitamin D, we couldn't shake the idea of a summer vacatio…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Witchblade
Living weapons, dark mysticism, and scantily clad protagonists! All that and more are crammed into the subject of this week's Flavor Text: Witchblade. It was one of the top selling comic books of the 90s and early 2000s and it spawned a Bu…
- Ep. 188: All Tanked Up
Sharks, entering the Tank today are three scrappy entrepreneurs. They're each seeking an investment with the hope of bringing their new products to market. Now these aren't just any products. These business owners found the best items vide…
- Ep. 187: Trouble in Your Third Place
Society is collapsing all around us and 4 out of 5 dentists say it's because people don't have "Third Places" anymore. Everyone has home, the "First Place." Everyone has work, the "Second Place." But so few of us have the mythic "Third Pla…
- FLAVOR TEXT: The Horus Heresy
It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. But, how did we get here? Was the deified head of the Imperium of Man always a rotting corpse sitting atop…
- Ep. 186: All Vegetables Go To Jail
If you like to talk to tomatoes, if a squash can make you smile, if you like to waltz with potatoes, then I hope you're ready to learn about tax evasion. That's right everyone, we're doing Veggie Tales! But the execs at DT!HQ have asked th…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Undertale & Deltarune
Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: HUMANS and MONSTERS. One day, war broke out between the two races. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell...or so the opening crawl of…
- Ep. 185: Seize the Means of Pokéduction
When a podcast records its ninth season premiere, it begins to ponder its relevance. Are people still listening? Are there any debates left to be had? Have we done all the bits there are to do? When these questions begin to plague a podcas…
- Season 9 Trailer
Here's a trailer for Debate This! Season 9 and what we have on the calendar for this year. See everyone? It's a trailer! You can start here! You don't have to go back and listen to episode 1. Please don't go back and listen to episode 1. H…
- Ep. 184: Frost Per Mille (LIVE! at Tekko Pittsburgh)
2025 has been the year of the LIVE! show at DT!HQ, so we're capping off the season with one more. Back in July, we braved the muggy streets of downtown Pittsburgh, PA and had our largest crowd yet at Tekko! With large crowds comes large re…
- Ep. 183: Overwatch 3
DONATE TO FEED AMERICA HERE: https://teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants/Debate-This After seven non-denominational winter gift exchanges, we here at DT!HQ decided to change things up. We've gifted each other so many ridiculous video…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Modern Esports
DONATE TO FEED AMERICA HERE: https://teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/PodcastersFightHunger Esports may seem like a wild, new phenomenon, but the story of competitive gaming starts in 1972. Sure, they weren't filling arenas or handing out…
- Ep. 182: Two in the Pink, One in the Think
DONATE TO FEED AMERICA HERE: https://teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/PodcastersFightHunger There's so much pleasure in the simple. The joy that comes from simple, arcade beat 'em up games is unmatched by the AAA gaming experience. Also,…
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Podcasters Fight Hunger
We here at DT!HQ are beyond stoked to team up with our friends across the internet to help fight hunger! We're working with other podcasters, streamers and content creators to raise money for Feeding America. 47 million Americans are facin…
- Ep. 181: Holding Space for Big Ed
There's just so much content! Not only is there more content than any one person could ever consume, but the glut of content has also made it difficult for any one property to make a cultural splash. Back in the 2000s, a single TV show or…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Guilty Gear
This month's FLAVOR TEXT has everything: A giant, fighting robot, time travel, parallel universes, That Man and Bad Guy, and a boy bolted to a flying bed who haunts your dreams. All this and more can be yours for the low, low price of list…
- Ep. 180: Ranked Trauma
We're careening towards the Holiday Season which brings quality time spent with family you may or may not love. Well, do you know the quickest way to improve time spent with family you may or may not love? With traditional table games you…
- Ep. 179: Smells Like Bear Spirit
It's week 3 of the Spooktacular Express and this is, without a doubt, the scariest episode we've ever done. Put on your helmets, tune in and drop out as we take you to the realm of your VR nightmares. To make things even spookier, we've en…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Ultima
The year was 1979 and a scrappy little 16 year old named Richard Garriott started coding his friends' latest Dungeons & Dragons campaign into an Apple II. This is the small domino that fell over to eventually result in millions of players…
- Ep. 178: Sigourney Halloweaver
*Insert train whistle here* Did the Spooktacular Express sneak up on you? Because it snuck up on us! We blinked in January and suddenly it became Spooky Season. Even though we got caught on our heels, we're still confident that we can pull…
- Ep. 177: Woke 'Em if You Got 'Em
We came here to record a podcast and chew bubblegum, and we're all out of bubblegum. That's why we're recording a podcast about one of the edgiest super soldiers of the 90s and 2000s, Duke Nukem. But the execs at DT!HQ don't want us to rem…
- Ep. 176: It's Like Multilevel Marketing (LIVE at SFGE Atlanta)
Earlier this season, we did a real-life live show in a real-life arcade. Well this week we're doing another real-life live show in real-life Atlanta! They didn't have an arcade, so we brought the games with us. Turn your dollars into quart…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Warrior Cats
In the early 2000s, publishers everywhere were looking for their slice of the YA literature pie. Some folks were writing about magical schools, others were writing about dragons, but 9(ish) people were coming together to write something di…
- Ep. 175: Nerf Condiment King
It's been a big summer for fans of Detective Comics. James Gunn and his 2025 Superman movie has restarted the DC Comics cinematic universe and it's really good this time, we promise! Well, the execs over at Warner Bros. reached out to the…
- FEED DROP: Avenge This! Superman
Today we live up to our promise. Today, we talk about a DC movie! Superman (2025) is the movie of the summer and it may just be the movie of our hearts. We've given you more than a month to watch David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan fall i…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Teen Titans
When there's a mid-00's cartoon to review, you know who to call. From their studio they can see it all! DebateThis! GO! Join this team as we look at another iconic team in this Teen Titans FLAVOR TEXT, as we go through the cartoon that fea…
- Ep. 175: Weezer? I Barely Know Her!
You know what this world doesn't have enough of? Dive bar cover bands! Nothing can bring a group together like cheap beer, limp nachos, and 5 sweaty guys doing their best Journey impression. So, in the spirit of bringing the world together…
- DLC EPISODE: DCOMstructed Rankings Supercut
DCOMstructed is the name of our Premium Patreon show where we consume and digest Disney Channel Original Movies as guys in our 30s. This month, we released our 25th movie review. Through 25 episodes we have created a DCOM Power Ranking lis…
- FEED DROP: Avenge This! Ironheart
We've got a full stack of hosts this week as the gang gets back together triumphantly to talk about Marvel TV's latest and greatest entry, Ironheart! Because it kind of came and went and got buried under the Supermans and Fantastics 4 of t…
- FLAVOR TEXT: The Legend of Zelda
It's dangerous to go alone--take this incredibly convoluted timeline that attempts to wrap together several independent stories into one shared universe! That's right kids, 8 years in the making it's finally time for a FLAVOR TEXT about th…
- Ep. 173: The Foggy Fjords of Florida
Cities. According to Google, there's approximately 35,000 of them in the United States. Well, we here at DT!HQ believe that, of these approximately 35,000 cities, not nearly enough of them have their own superhero! That's why we're putting…
- Ep. 172: The J Stands For Job (LIVE! at ANIMATE! Columbus)
After seven long years, DT!HQ finally landed at home in Columbus for a LIVE episode! The kind folks from ANIMATE! Columbus invited us to perform our humble podcast in their Social Club. Well we kicked down the door of that Social Club to a…
- Ep. 171: Nintendouroboros
Every year, around the holiday season, we gather at DT!HQ for a gift exchange of the wildest video game peripherals we can find. Well we're still six months out from that, but we just got a new Nintendo console and the nerds are already ra…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Leisure Suit Larry
The year was 1981 and the world of video games was about to get HORNY, but probably not the kind of horny you expect. Through the early '80s and mid '90s, one video game series was injecting both passion and stank into computers everywhere…
- Ep. 170: March of the Chive Guys
Long time listeners of DT! should be well aware that we here at DT!HQ, we love a TV Docuseries. Be it cults, special interests, or shocking moments in history, a show made to shock and educate is a show made for us. That's why the execs at…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Final Fantasy (Pt 2)
And so, the Warriors of Light continued their long journey through a crystal tower, a series of unnecessary self-sacrifices, and the literal end of the world to end up here: Staring down the barrel of the story of Final Fantasy 7. Join us…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Final Fantasy (Pt 1)
Long ago, it was prophesized that four heroes would arrive to save the world from the encroaching darkness. It's said these Warriors of Light would repel the forces of darkness and finally bring peace to the world. Don't worry, we're here…
- Ep. 169: Blastin' Makes Me Feel Good
Five years and 100 episodes later, we've hit episode (1)69 again! As we did before, today we're turning video games into dating sims. You may be asking, "But why?" And we would be answering, "We don't know." Todd is taking us to the one pl…
- Ep. 168: Photos 4 Freaks
Photography is an every-person hobby! Anyone out there can grab a camera, hop in an autonomous vehicle, fill their backpack with apples and smoke bombs, and go take pictures of flora and fauna! Of course, I'm talking about 1999's smash hit…
- FEED DROP: Avenge This! Daredevil: Born Again
Matt and Todd are here to talk about the new Marvel Television production centered around Matt Murdock, a.k.a. Daredevil. No, not She-Hulk! We're chatting through Daredevil: Born Again, how it blends into the exisiting Daredevil media and…
- Ep. 167: Sweepies for the Peepies
The year is 2006 and Nintendo just announced a new console with a revolutionary controller design. The year is 2012 and Nintendo just announced a new console with a revolutionary controller design. The year is 2017 and Nintendo just announ…
- FLAVOR TEXT: Severance
"Who are you?" This question is both the opening line and the core question behind today's FLAVOR TEXT topic, Severance. Join us as we pick apart the corporate dystopian series produced by Ben Stiller and starring Adam Scott. Follow along…
- Ep. 166: What If We Added Consequences?
Have you ever heard of the 'Nemesis System?' No? That's not surprising! The 'Nemesis System' is a patented game mechanic that was only included in two games in the mid 2010s. Despite the mechanic only existing for about 50 hours of gamepla…
- Ep. 165: Save the Pet Store, Save the World
Pets. They're the best part of living! We love them, we care for them, they eat us out of house and home. Some people love cats. Some people love dogs. Some people love greasy cephalopods on fire. Some people love dinosaurs that spit light…