In PART TWO OF THE ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE-FEATURE, Lindsay and Tanner celebrate 3 years of podcasting with the annual Once Upon a Time redo! We're in Camelot looking for the four treasures of Ireland, except for when we're in Wonderland. Or Halloweentown. Or Scotland. Wherever we go we're gonna find hot redheads, grey morality, and being more gay. Our friendship promo this week is @FaithFullPods! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew.com. Our theme music is by Sha...
Sep 27, 2021•48 min•Ep. 151
In PART ONE OF THE ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE-FEATURE, Tanner and Lindsay celebrate 150 episodes by redoing the ENTIRE DC Extended Universe. We're starting with The Flash...or maybe Superman? The important thing is that some origin stories are already known, so let's jump to the good stuff and actually plan out story arcs. We also discuss alternate media history, how to get on breadtube, and cheetahs. Our friendship promo this week is @LoserLikeMePod! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work c...
Sep 27, 2021•57 min•Ep. 150
It's time to steal from the rich and give to ourselves this week, as Tanner reboots the People's Choice of Knights of Prosperity, a short-lived show about robbin Mick Jagger. Except this time we're robbing a gamer (not a real one) or maybe the ghost from Beetleborgs. Tanner and Lindsay will also discuss pawning your gamer chair, being able to make things up, and the War for Late Night. Our friendship promo this week is #ChampsInTheMaking! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be...
Sep 12, 2021•37 min•Ep. 149
Remember the Magic Treehouse books? How they were cute fun edutainment? Wrong! They saw the Titanic sink! They saw Pompeii erupt! They were at THE BLITZ! And Lindsay doesn't want to lighten up her reboot of them - history, as great as it is, can get dark, so we're just aging them up a little so they can handle it. At least they get a dog boyfriend and cool selkie out of it. Tanner and her will also be discussing alternate timelines, penguins, and the Fate/Stay mobile game. Our friendship promo t...
Sep 06, 2021•52 min•Ep. 148
All Musicals are adaptations, and since this episode comes out on (the day after) Power Rangers Day, it's time for a Mighty Morphin' Musical! Tanner still cannot write musicals but they also cannot be stopped and Lindsay just has to deal. But don't worry because this particular musical is gonna have sick guitar riffs, Ashley Tisdale, and a fight with your local mascot! Our friendship promo this week is @wyldrvir! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew.com. Our ...
Aug 29, 2021•47 min•Ep. 147
Destination...Unknown! The only Agatha Christie novel to 1) never be adapted, 2) be a spy drama, and 3) get horny in a weird way. Lindsay wants to give this the full Night Manager treatment on HBO (or Amazon, or whoever gives us their MONEY). Tanner is pretty sure this is just a weird predecessor to Sky Captain. Also discussed this week are Arnold losing his accent, uttering "lesbians" in a hushed tone, and hating rocks. Our friendship promo this week is @PKMN_Millennium! Our cover art is by Ale...
Aug 22, 2021•50 min•Ep. 146
For People's Choice this month, Tanner is talking about nothing but a fat Rate Race...and maybe throwing in a bit of a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? They'll tell Lindsay how they're expanding the rocket car, bus full of Lucys, and cow-in-a-hot-air-balloon into a Rashomon-style miniseries that lets us see more character dynamics play out. Also discussed are billionaire charity donations, our first PG-13 movies, and still being mad about FIFA. Our friendship promo this week is @TSFTMpod! Our cover art is...
Aug 15, 2021•58 min•Ep. 145
This week we are joined by Annie so we can do a remake of Beauty and The Beast! No, not the cartoon. No, not the french one. No, not the live action one (though don't worry, we'll definitely roast it). She, Tanner, and Lindsay will make a very hot monster boyfriend who's very said but very beautiful (UwU). Also discussed are shipping Pooh Bear, Gamer The Beast, and Tanner definitely not losing power halfway through. Our friendship promo this week is @VideoramaP! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptc...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 144
Marvel Magaverse? More like Marvel mangle-verse, amirite? Hahaha, CB Cebulski pretended to be Japanese in order to get in with Marvel and THIS is where it started: a poorly thought-out attempt to appeal to anime-loving kids in the 2000s by doing...basically nothing different except for a few stereotypes. Lindsay would like things to be a little better, so she and Tanner spend this episode saying which mangaka they'd like to see take on which marvel characters in a more traditional format. Also f...
Jul 25, 2021•46 min•Ep. 143
The annual crossover is upon us, and this week Cassidy and Lava from Kids and their Dog are here to break a story wide open. Gravity Falls: it's a reboot! Yes, we've gone back in time and made Gravity Falls in 1989 in order to inspire Alex Hirsch in 2012! We reverse engineer character origins and what gave Alex nightmares back then. Also discussed are real Dracula, X-Files Babies, and a guy with a voice. Our friendship promo this week is @9thWorldJournal! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, an...
Jul 18, 2021•52 min•Ep. 142
It appears we have both touched this podcast at the same time! Then let us begin a reboot of Xiaolin Showdown! No, not Chronicles. Nobody wants Chronicles. Instead we're headed to the CW, with longer episodes, shorter seasons, more character growth, and Jermaine! Everyone loves Jermaine. Tanner and Lindsay will also discuss emo hotness, a catboy army, and saying "oh" in italics. Our friendship promo this week is @CKTCast! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew....
Jul 11, 2021•51 min•Ep. 141
This week we managed to scoop Jake Mason again, right in the middle of his post-dose fever, but he was happy to show up with some ideas about a Zelda cartoon that tries to take advantage of the fact that there's like...a timeline? Timelines? Some manner of time soup. He's gonna tell Tanner and Lindsay about Twilight Princess being good, Zelda doing things, and how Link is Mabel Pines. Also discussed are getting arrested by chickens, IGN trailers, and watching Mario on Yahoo in 2006. Our friendsh...
Jul 04, 2021•56 min•Ep. 140
Comic Book Heroes and Tokusatsu heroes are already so similar, so when Lindsay decided to make a Catwoman TV show she decided to add some flair by mixing the genres together! Now Selina has a magic necklace that let's her and the other Sirens transform into a classic henshin heroines! Tanner will learn about Selina having too many backstories, the overlap between this and Cybersix, and Batman saying he won't do that. Also discussed are mummification, camp, and the Joker's boner. Our friendship p...
Jun 27, 2021•51 min•Ep. 139
This week Tanner is rebooting the story of a man named Brady and his lovely lady - or is it fella? It'll definitely get called "The Gay-dy Bunch" when it airs. Them and Lindsay are going to give personalities to the various kids, throw in some butch lesbians, and turn the disappeared husband into a supervillain ex-wife. Also discussed are syncing our college schedules, putting Diana Agron in a Lea Michele wig, and dogs made out of rectangles. Our friendship promo this week is @PodVsMachine! Our ...
Jun 20, 2021•46 min•Ep. 138
"Them Duke boys are at it again, leading the police on a wild goose chase and distracting them from an ongoing protest!" With these words, friend of the show Cassidy has inspired Lindsay to reboot the Dukes of Hazzard into the most leftist, anti-cop show we can! It's a short one because Tanner doesn't know much, but we do discuss topics like the importance of rural Leftism, renaming the Charger, and a hidden gay village. Our friendship promo this week is @RNGGCast! Our cover art is by Alex aka @...
Jun 13, 2021•41 min•Ep. 137
Welcome back to the podcast where tonight's top story is Sports Night! An Aaron Sorkin sitcom that Tanner can't stop thinking about partly due to the way they wove social issues into sports without needing you to actually like sports, and partly due to a friendship between male leads that became incredibly homoerotic. They'll explain to Lindsay how they'll twist the original plotlines towards this romance while at the same time getting rid of Sorkin's centrism, condescension to women and queers,...
Jun 06, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 136
This episode belongs in a museum! But a lot of artifacts don't, which is one thing Indiana Jones will be learning this week when Lindsay creates the fourth movie that we should've had, rather than the Mutt we got. There's a daughter-figure, a cult based on a lot of BS, and most importantly THEMES. On this trip she and Tanner will also discuss Lady Dimitrescu, ancient aliens, and being valid in the eyes of the hat. Our friendship promo this week is @LostTreasurePod! Our cover art is by Alex aka @...
May 30, 2021•49 min•Ep. 135
Kingdom Hearts! It's a lot of things, but it's never been an MMO! Or a kart racer, but we'll get to that. In the meantime Tanner is brainstorming ideas for what Kingdom Hearts: Master's Memory Oratorio could look like while Lindsay gently holds their hand and asks them what the hell is going on. Also discussed are bad Donald impressions, phone games killing your battery, and becoming furries to save on rigging time. Our friendship promo this week is @KHAFE! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, ...
May 23, 2021•46 min•Ep. 134
This People's Choice Episode is the same as the last one, except not. Dark Shadows was the first supernatural soap opera, but after it was cancelled in...oh wait. It's still going via Big Finish? Well ignore that, Lindsay's starting from the top and making her own horror podcast for it! It's going to have all the Paudio Drama staples and also Laura Dern as a large bird! Tanner's along for the ride as they discuss Duke Devlin, not needing Satan, and ruining your polycule by being a messy bitch. O...
May 16, 2021•51 min•Ep. 133
This week we wrap up guest-a-palooza with Jenny, who's decided that there's a very good way to fill in some of the gaps in the MCU's storyline: comics. Y'know, those things that the movies are based on? She's going to give them the Star Wars treatment by finding canonical places to fit them in and hopefully give comics themselves a better way to succeed in the world. Along the way Jenny will make Hulk the new Bill Nye, Tanner will invent Blizzard's brother Flurry, and Lindsay really wants a Made...
May 09, 2021•47 min•Ep. 132
This week, our guest Crest is taking to Avalon High! A novel-turned-DCOM, Crest thinks it has more story to tell in the form of a comic book - or maybe another few DCOMS of our own. Tanner and Lindsay back him up by bringing in fun facts about Arthurian lore, like the various Round Table OCs and a spooky forest of no return. Along the way we'll talk about Disney Channel sitcoms, a new cryptid, and an abundance of Elaines. Our friendship promo this week is @AJWhiteAuthor, who's debut novel Hell F...
May 02, 2021•36 min•Ep. 131
NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, Harley's audio isn't the best quality. It's listenable, but you might have to pay attention to it a little more than usual. This is a NIIRYF exclusive! Harley is sharing with us his ideas for a Blue Bloods tv show (not the Tom Selleck one), ideas that he's also officially submitted to author Melissa de la Cruz - but y'all get to hear it here first! Lindsay and Tanner are rapt with attention as Harley explains what's on the wi-fi in Hell, vampire cotillion, an...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 130
This week we're rebooting everyone's favourite collection of war criminals! Bryan and August are rebooting Metal Gear Solid, with a few twists (mostly related to the women characters and not writing them so bizarrely). Tanner and Lindsay are just along for the ride as they regale us with tales of ludo-narrative dissonance, a big motherfucker with a gattling gun, and fist-fighting shirtless atop a superweapon. Our friendship promo this week is @SuperIdolsRPG! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew,...
Apr 18, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 129
Breathe in, breathe out, but don't be too loud because Passions is on the telly! Tanner read like 5 wikipedia pages and they've become almost as unhinged as the show. Lindsay is getting wine drunk while Tanner tells her about the bird statues, clones, and imagine spots they're putting in this thicc miniseries reimagining. Also we just read the wikipedia pages because they're bonkers. Our friendship promo this week is @NotAScratchCast! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be fou...
Apr 11, 2021•53 min•Ep. 128
It's Bad Wizard Time. JD and Alex from Sorted are here to burn Harry Potter down and build it back up again, and Tanner and Lindsay are rapt as they pick apart every single problem with this franchise - all to show that there's still some good ideas in there despite the problems of the text and the author (WHOO BOY THE AUTHOR!). So join us compile many fixes like no more fatshaming, more diverse viewpoints, animating the series, actually thinking about worldbuilding, being red/green colourblind,...
Mar 28, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 127
Beware the Ides of March! Lindsay's taking us to history class as she explains the ins and outs of the Roman Empire - or at least the years from Caesar to Nero. HBO did Rome dirty and she wants to finish it not with 2, not with 5, but with 8 seasons of historical debate that eventually devolves into a dark sitcom. Tanner's only here for Cawiguwa though. Also discussed is Caesar bottoming, the Parthians gatekeeping China, and day-for-night budgets. Our friendship promo this week is @IdealRemake O...
Mar 14, 2021•55 min•Ep. 126
This week, Tanner is taking their favourite teen comedy Easy A and turning it into a musical! A tall order considering they don't actually know anything about making music, but at least there's one song that they can put in that they don't even have to write. What's more important is focusing on the movie's lessons about minding your own business about others' sexual proclivities. Also discussed with Lindsay are the importance of teen hangs, being the school Peloton, and the Borgias. Our friends...
Mar 07, 2021•51 min•Ep. 125
We've dialed up your address to send you this episode from across the galaxy! Lindsay is rebooting Stargate with a simple concept: what if it was all declassified today, and how would things play out? She and Tanner play around with the bureaucracy and mundanity of this and the show in general before coming upon an idea involving a mysterious force chasing people to Earth and a split narrative between now and the future. Also discussed are orientalism with ancient aliens, aliens in mom jeans, an...
Feb 28, 2021•50 min•Ep. 124
This episode begins many aeons ago...back when Hercules was Disney's hottest mythological-gospel-sports movie. The best part was the music, so why not give the Muses their own time to shine? Tanner thinks there's an origin story in there that can be cobbled together from other various and sundry Greek myths - look, it's not like they can do worse than the original movie, right? Together with Lindsay they'll also sing about becoming president, car salesman voices, and being bad at geography. Okay...
Feb 21, 2021•42 min•Ep. 123
This episode contains some brief but serious discussions on both the trauma of coming out and dealing with relatives who have Alzheimers. Listener discretion is advised. This week we're joined by yet another special guest as Laina draws Lindsay and Tanner into a world of Pure Illusion...It's a reboot of Flip Flappers! Truly this simultaneously bonkers and heartfelt anime is already pretty strong, but by adjusting the pacing and removing the pervy robot, Laina is positive she can make something a...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 122
