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The Main Menu Podcast

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Welcome welcome back to the Main Menu! Tune in with us to catch a group of college friends playing their favorite zombie-themed sessions of their Z&D homebrew virtual tabletop game! Be sure to catch the "Under the Table (UTT)" sessions where we let loose to talk about anything and everything. Not sure where to start? Each season is marked with an emoji and numbered. If any share the same continuity, they'll use the same emoji. We have over 16 seasons worth of content to explore with many one-shots and three-part series, so look for the emojis to start listening! Recommended ages 18+

Episodes

🎲Z&D - Ascension Part 3 of 3 (2023 Enhanced)

In the final chapter of the mini Ascension series of Z&D, our players begin to encounter the deep dark fate of the world and face the terrifying mystic horrors that could've birthed the zombie outbreak. They face a new threat as they face the final floor before landing on the roof. Will they survive to get to the helicopter evac? Or will the strengthening threats consume them just before? This series ties in with Z&D Season 5. To continue where this series left off, listen to Episode 501...

Oct 10, 20202 hr 17 min

🎲Z&D - Ascension Part 2 of 3 (2023 Enhanced)

The small zombie-killing series continues with Danny, Sam, and Bob ascending the apartment building with spooky scenes and scares in each room and around every corner. Sam continues to collect knives from each apartment to craft unique defensive and offensive weapons. Bob finds a new shotgun and tries to tape crowbars to his arms, but everyone makes fun of him for it. Danny kicks a weapon from the air into a zombie's eye socket in an amazing stroke of luck. What new challenges will they face sca...

Sep 29, 20202 hr 55 min

🎲Z&D - Ascension Part 1 of 3 (2023 Enhanced)

Welcome back to Z&D! This time the guys enter Joe's mini series with a life or death mission to reach the top of an apartment building amid an unfolding zombie apocalypse! They become trapped after a car wreck and try to find their way up for a helicopter evacuation while the whole place suffers a power outage. Zombies lurk behind each door and around every corner! Witness the first half of this mini adventure until next time for Part 2!

Sep 20, 20202 hr 32 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.10 (Finale)

In the finale of the first installment of Z&D Dead Reign, the party reaches the end of their road trip to the Latter Day Saints to seek answers about the apocalypse. Of course, there's obstacles before and during, but at least they can rest easy in some heavy questions being answered... at least until next time.

Aug 19, 20202 hr 42 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.09

On this episode of Z&D Dead Reign, the group of survivors come across a suspicious colony of European settlers that seemed to have organized a place of normality amid the zombie apocalypse. Of course, our survivors are always overwhelmingly cautious which leads to a hilarious conflict until something is resolved

Aug 19, 20202 hr 5 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.08

The players continue to modify their Jeep overnight in the autoshop, getting ready to leave in the morning for their main quest: to find the Mecca of the Mormon Organization to seek answers on how they were so prepared for the zombie outbreak. On the outskirts of a small town on the way, they encounter a WW2 era plane being shot down and witness the passengers being held hostage and kept somewhere, only to find a small farm a little ways away to investigate if the group there is held responsible...

Aug 19, 202040 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.07

After deciding to help the stranded survivors, our group figures out a way onto the abandoned island in the midst of the forgotten city as a means of escape. The group is under the influence of... something, and offer little other than assistance getting into their stolen truck in the water. The contents inside are so incredible, it seems out of this world. Our heroes part ways in some manner and cross the border to Iowa to investigate the aftermaths of a battle at an isolated retirement communi...

Aug 19, 202039 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.06

The party continues their journey to Salt Lake City to find some answers on the origins of the apocalypse. Their met with a new type of zombies which Cletus has troubles dispatching, making him swear off killing. They must find a place to stay the night amid a large city and stumble across a trapped group of survivors and debate helping them.

Aug 19, 202058 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.05

The party discovers the manly Brad Ashley’s real identity and he gives them reason to believe the source of the zombie apocalypse can be traced back to certain origins. He gives the quest to first investigate Salt Lake City and the known religious leaders there that’ve been preparing for years

Aug 19, 202056 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.04

Markus and Claymore find a way to break Brittany and Sloan of their affinity for the cult and plan an escape, but something gets left behind

Aug 19, 202051 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.03

Under the mind control of Mortimer at the First Brotherhood of Brulix, most of the party doesn't want to leave despite being unlike what they expected. Cleetus, being the only clear-headed one, plans to snap his friends into realizing they don't belong, so when out on a scavenging mission, he brings someone along for a confrontation. Someone gets shot in the leg and nearly crippled, Cleetus gets put in a cage among hundreds of zombies, countless bodies have been sewn together very strangely, and...

Aug 19, 20201 hr 2 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.02

The group passes months into the outbreak settled in at the industrial park under Brad Ashley when a stranger approaches. He offers complete control of the dead and strange powers at the request of following the god Brulix. Although very suspicious, the party agrees to check it out knowing the threat they could bring and trying to get more information from the inside. Once inside, unusual "persuasive" tactics sway most of the group as they begin to see the wonder of it all, but still desiring to...

Aug 19, 202046 min

🧟‍♂️Dead Reign 1 | 6.01

Z&D Season 6: Dead Reign The veteran Doomsday Master returns to rule over a new set of characters with two female players joining the game this time around. Setting the clock back to the start of the outbreak, Ultracure, the cure-all vaccine set itself to remove all poverty from getting rid of sickness and disease of all kinds worldwide. After 95% of the population was able to partake of Ultracure's pharmaceuticals, they soon began to die off. It only took days after for them to begin to ris...

Aug 19, 20201 hr 17 min

Iron Man VR and Drunk or a Kid

The guys meet up with Bob, the Dead Reign DM, and talk about the revolutionary new VR games out reviewing and relating to Walking Dead: Sinners and Saints and the Iron Man VR demo. They also cover the Last of Us Part II leak disappointment and what it means for buyers, the sad death of Shad Gaspard (the wrestler and mocap actor for the most recent Kratos), and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 coming in September, as well as play a round of "Drunk or a Kid" from Reddit.

May 24, 20202 hr 33 min

Flash Games and Biting the Onion

Joe and Dan talk about the surprise success of the sonic movie and some of there favorite flash games and play a round of Will you bite the onion.

Mar 06, 20201 hr 13 min

The Corona Cure and r/TIFU

The Main Menu talks about the CORONA VIRUS OUTBREAK and mostly about how bad people are freaking out about it, the Walking Dead Saints & Sinners VR game getting good reviews, how VR games still aren't as advanced as we want with motion sickness, Mojo Vision manufacturing a contact lens implemented with AR technology, displaying a HUD for your real eyes, the future of driving, self driving, and fast transportation, the r/TIFU subreddit or "Today I F'd Up" is visited in a few cases to see how ...

Feb 07, 20201 hr 13 min

The BEST and WORST games of the DECADE

The trio, including our beloved Xander, reunites in 2020 to reflect back on the past decade of games we've seen come and go to talk about the top twenty best and worst, mingled also with Sony announcing they won't be at E3 again this year, their unveiling of the PS5 logo and it's just as boring as you'd suspect, the hopes and dreams of the PS5 being the virtual console to run all past Sony consoles, Nintendo announcing two new mini-consoles coming this year, Take Two Interactive suing a modder w...

Jan 15, 20201 hr 8 min

The Witcher: Rise of the Mandalorian

The podcast discusses the Game of the Year awards in length and lend their thoughts on all the category nominees and winners, a new backbutton attachment for Duelshock 4 controllers announced for January, everything we know about Resident Evil 3 so far and their thoughts and speculations and predictions for the RE: Resistance, The Witcher hitting Netflix by storm and reviving popularity for the game, SPOILERS for Star Wars Rise of Skywalker and their analysis, their thoughts on the end of season...

Dec 30, 20191 hr 18 min

Star Wars: The Return of Mace Windu??

The Main Menu talks about their recent Thanksgiving season, games they picked up including Outer Worlds, more news on the Mandalorian up to the fourth episode, news up the director of the upcoming Obi Wan series coming to Disney+, some leaks concerning a dead hero coming back from the dead in the upcoming Star Wars Rise of Skywalker, a dying man saw the movie already, an overview of Jedi Fallen Order including the best and worst parts of it, the Season One patch to Modern Warfare including a bun...

Dec 04, 20191 hr 1 min

Kojima is High and the Mandalorian

The Main Menu talks about uh... Death Stranding is weird. It's just weird. The guys have to tell you how to get high with Kojima and mocap Norman Reedus' poop, the reviews for the game being all over the place and the status of the game company, how to find good reviews for games, divisive games that you like that no one else likes, Disney+ getting countless millions already in their opening month let alone for years to come, the Mandalorian show being just as totally awesome as everyone hoped, ...

Nov 15, 20191 hr 21 min

Never Shoot the Baby and Shotgun Reddit

The Main Menu offers options on all things nerd culture with special guest Sam to talk about the controversy surrounding the new Modern Warfare campaign, being the worst soldier ever, some problems with the multiplayer and the visuals being TOO good, some more failures from Bethesda with helmets being recalled, and introduce a new segment called Shotgun Reddit, where a myriad of Florida Man titles are read and the article is guessed, and more!

Nov 08, 20191 hr 5 min

The Worst Game for a Subscription and the Fortnite Lawsuit

The crew talks about Fortnite being sued by tons of angry soccer moms for being too addicting, the Fallout First subscription for Fallout 76 costing $100 a year to include things that should be free for all players, Modern Warfare possibly including loot boxes despite the developers specifically saying it won't, pushy GameStop employees and sales tactics, Ghost Recon Breakpoint having a terrible launch, Jedi Fallen Order insight and how it plays differently than you think, the next season of Z&a...

Oct 29, 201954 min

Winnie the Pooh, the PS5, and Joe's Less Wise

The crew is back with an almost-full-isode to talk about Joe's teeth getting ripped out by Dan and Alex, China's oppression on their people causing Blizzard-Activision to ban a tournament winner because he said "free Hong Kong," the Chinese President looks like Winnie the Pooh and he doesn't like it, some news on the PS5 as to what it will do with game downloads, the new controllers, and backwards compatibility. A couple of the guys saw the Joker and sort out their thoughts on it basically not b...

Oct 12, 201949 min

Spidey's Back and so are Ellie and Joel!

SPIDERMAN is back in the MCU! The guys are excited about this as well as the announcement of the the release date for the Last of Us Part II, share their theories about the game, the lack of factions multiplayer and more details on that, the area 51 raid that happened already and people that got arrested, and more!

Sep 29, 20191 hr 22 min

A good Call of Duty and more useless superpowers

In this episode the guys talk about how their experiences with the Modern Warfare beta, how Ghost Recon feels more like The division and more useless superpowers and more.

Sep 25, 20191 hr 6 min

Joker Insight, Comedy's Dead, and more rAITA

Dan, Joe, and Alex gather together again to talk about news on Last of Us Part 2's release date, a theory suggesting Kojima was working on Death Stranding way back before he left Konami, Nintendo Directs' news including Banjo/Kazooie's release for Smash and MORE DLC fighters being released AFTER the current fighter pass, Danny playing the new Plants vs Zombies game Alpha as well as Ghost Recon Breakpoint Beta and what that was like, getting hands on with Control and how the game feels, the Joker...

Sep 08, 20191 hr 11 min

🎲Z&D 4.08 (Finale) (2023 Enhanced)

The conclusion of Season 4 approaches as the players journey to Oakland City to oppose the new threat and confront the man behind all of the chaos, as well as find other questionable motives from someone else!

Sep 06, 20192 hr 34 minSeason 4Ep. 8

🎲Z&D 4.07 (2023 Enhanced)

The group finally emerges from T's compound, knowing his true identity and respond to an urgent call from Jeremiah back at Haven to what sounds like an all-out war. They are faced combating a new enemy inside Haven's walls and look toward a new motive and begin putting the puzzle pieces together to reveal an unexpected villain.

Sep 06, 20191 hr 5 minSeason 4Ep. 7

🎲Z&D 4.06 (2023 Enhanced)

In this installment of Z&D, the party begins unraveling the mystery of the season thus far. They encounter marauders on the road and use brand new weapons found, one of the party gets shot in the head, they meet the leader of all the local marauders: T. His true identity is a surprise and a puzzling betrayal forces the players to think everything as they know it all over again and more!

Sep 05, 20191 hr 22 minSeason 4Ep. 6

🎲Z&D 4.05 (2023 Enhanced)

The players pursue Robert, a mysterious man who tricked the group last time into thinking he had good intentions, only to find out his malicious intent and hostility towards Haven. The players get outfitted with new clothes, obtain some new armaments, and prepare for an assault on the marauder compound that Robert is known to be at. More mystery unfolds when infiltrated and the players are given more clues to pursue "T" the man behind the curtain pulling the strings to bring war on Haven.

Sep 05, 20192 hr 35 minSeason 4Ep. 5