UTT: "Let's Talk About Gary Busey"
The guys get together before recording to talk about Sam’s mouse training skills. They also talk about buttered sausage and Alex's electric typewriter
Episodes
The Main Menu Podcast
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
UTT Special: The Z&D Character Workshop
The guys get together for a special event as they prepare for the upcoming Anthology season dropping after our upcoming Biorift season!
🦟No Man's Land | 9.06 (Finale)
Welcome back to our lost season 9! This was the last episode left until the season came to an abrupt end, but don't worry, the story still wraps up nice and our players were gracious enough to reprise their characters one last time to record an official ending of No Man's Land. After receiving supplies from Homeless Jim and the gang, the group continues on towards a big city unwittingly coming into a battleground. Bandits attack and the party must survive and press through. They find lying nearl...
🦟No Man's Land | 9.05
Welcome back to our lost season 9! The group meets a strange and familiar trio of survivors that helps them with giving them transportation, but needs a scavenging run on their behalf first. Cast: Doomsday Master: Joe Ashe the Iguana Tamer: Sam Blake the News Reporter: Danny Axel the Whisperer: Bob Dustin the Pyro: Derek (Cheddar)
🦟No Man's Land | 9.04
Welcome back to our lost season 9! The party takes on Naomi and her child in beliefs that the kid is immune to the deadflies. Due to this, the Surge organization has recruited the group to transfer the woman and child to their headquarters in Seattle to create a vaccine. They soon discover a journey this long won't be easy. Cast: Doomsday Master: Joe Ashe the Iguana Tamer: Sam Blake the News Reporter: Danny Axel the Whisperer: Bob Dustin the Pyro: Derek (Cheddar)
🦟No Man's Land | 9.03
Welcome back to our lost season 9! On their way to the mall to follow a strange rumor, the group carries on through the abandoned city of Detroit. Upon reaching their destination, their mission evolves into a vastly different undertaking. Cast: Doomsday Master: Joe Ashe the Iguana Tamer: Sam Blake the News Reporter: Danny Axel the Whisperer: Bob Dustin the Pyro: Derek (Cheddar)
🦟No Man's Land | 9.02
Welcome back to our lost season 9! After the only previously released episode, we find our characters 15 years later settled into the Detroit Quarantine Zone. One day before their mandatory work duty, the group is faced with a strange proposition. Cast: Doomsday Master: Joe Ashe the Iguana Tamer: Sam Blake the News Reporter: Danny Axel the Whisperer: Bob Dustin the Pyro: Derek (Cheddar)
🦟No Man's Land | 9.01
Welcome back to our lost season 9! We're finally able to release what we have as a full season! Witness our characters' interesting back stories before the time jump 15 years later. Cast: Doomsday Master: Joe Ashe the Iguana Tamer: Sam Blake the News Reporter: Danny Axel the Whisperer: Bob Dustin the Pyro: Derek (Cheddar)
⚔️Sorcerer's Edge 2 | 11.08 - Battle of the Titans (finale)
Our heroes rush forth to battle seeing a titanic threat about to overcome Ardentia. A giant undead with dozens of its ghoulish comrades are pit against the party in which they must unleash all their might to stop the attack. They find themselves drawn to a strange realm after faced with harrowing news and a new adventure set before them.
⚔️Sorcerer's Edge 2 | 11.07 - The Calm Before
The group returns to the City of Ardentia to see it overtaken by the undead. They must pick up the pieces and look for survivors as the city burns. Ugg seeks out several of the city mages, Limbs runs back and forth trying to fix his crossbow of legend, Draco slays some of the undead and gets a massage, and Ezneer has suspiciously bad luck before a greater threat emerges to threaten them all.
⚔️Sorcerer's Edge 2 | 11.06 - Ye Must Capture All of Them
Along the path from the goblin cave back to Ardentia, the party seamlessly slips into the mysterious Faye Realm where a competition seems to be underway. Facing new foes, our heroes must scramble to use some of their smaller compatriots into doing battle for them as the Faye's do in order to complete a gauntlet of battles and escape with great reward.
⚔️Sorcerer's Edge 2 | 11.05 - Secrets and Spoils
Our party has defeated the loathsome goblin king and use their time wisely to gather all they can from the remaining areas of their cavern hideout, discovering hidden passages, and battling the remaining devoted servants who oppose them. Upon being satisfied with their loot our heroes exit the cave on their way back to Ardentia and come across a strange battlefield unlike anything they've ever seen.
⚔️Sorcerer’s Edge 2 | 11.04 - The Dethroning of King Griznak
In this fearsome event, the party awakens in the goblin arena to be made a spectacle for the rest of the colony of the evil little creatures. The group struggles through the waves of enemies to see an old friend and explore the cave to complete their mission and break free, coming across Madula. The gives her rescue and carries on to face the goblin king and his minions: their greatest battle yet.
⚔️Sorcerer's Edge 2 | 11.03 - From Adventurers to Headhunters
After some rest and relaxation in town after completing their first mission, the party prepares for their next one. Limbs has found a follower, Ugg has undertaken a simple night guard job for extra gold, and Ezneer plays overnight at the Brooding Mule to a mixed crowd. After Ezneer clears the air with another one in the group, the party gear up and take on their new mission, coming across an unimaginable challenge on the road before coming to the cave of the rumored goblins. What began as a simp...
⚔️Sorcerer's Edge 2 | 11.02 - Another Day's Dollar
As the second season of Sorcerer's Edge continues, the group concludes their confrontation with the bandits in their cave and the terrifying being that threaten them both. After dealing with the situation, the party finds mystic items and equipment and by use of them Ezneer meets Gromel, his inner Abyssal monster that has been communicating with him inside his head. Upon returning to base after some obstacles in the wild, our heroes turn in quests, pick a new one, and gear up for the continuatio...
⚔️Sorcerer's Edge 2 | 11.01 - Newcomers of the Guild
Welcome to the return of the beloved Sorcerer's Edge series! Meet Ugg, the charming orc with extreme battle tactics. Meet Ezneer the Bard, the Tiefling with inner voices and outer ballads. Meet Limbs, the man with a mysterious revenge vendetta. Meet Draco, the last of the Dragonborn. Together they meet in the Adventurer's Guild, meet new people with developed stories of their own, and embark on their first mission after gearing up and battling bandits along the way.
⚔️Sorcerer's Edge Side Quest: The Grand Heist of the Starfire Opal
Welcome back to Sorcerer's Edge, the ongoing medieval realm of dragons and magic! For The Main Menu Podcast's 5 Year Anniversary, our main crew gathers once again along with old and new voices to complete the largest roster of players we've ever had. Meet Chronos the Chronarch cyborg, Ezneer the bard, Ugg the Horny Orc, Timhorton the Angelic being, Kane the self-conflicted Orc, Limbs the weapon seeker, and Draco the "last" Dragonborn. The large crew gathers for a grand heist at the hand of The B...
UTT: "He Looks Submissive and Breedable"
The guys talk more about upcoming seasons and sessions of Z&D, about characters, and about old seasons too!
UTT: "What Was He Fixing to do With That Monkey?"
The group talks about the last episode's Pokemon battle, memes, the upcoming Chasm Inferno season, and a new idea for a thrilling episode coming up where we're all old disabled people in a nursing home!
UTT: "Making Cottage Cheese on the Toilet"
We take a little while to get ready and discuss jalapeno mac'n'cheese, schoolyard mud butts, wiping your butt without a stall door etiquette, the upcoming Z&D season including Star Wars, and Sam's new fighting game he's making
UTT Special: Biorift System Test
Cheddar and Sam test with Joe mastering his new system of "Biorift" an upcoming season set in the retro future with magic, guns, and augmented abilities. A strange woman approaches our characters and buys them weapons only to be attacked by terrifying monsters. Right after, the duo is confronted by a mysterious robed figure flanked with a group of skilled bandits. Witness the wacky power of magic and skilled marksmanship that is the foundation for Biorift!
UTT: "The 'Ugg'ly Duckling"
The guys talk about how well the second season of Sorcerer's Edge is going and how the new "After Hours" chat in their Discord has added a cool new facet to the game, letting them add things in between episodes for their characters.
UTT: "Dick Cheney Wasn't a President"
We get ready for the night be reminiscing about the Opal Heist a few weeks ago, and how well it came out in post edit, as well as Sam explaining his own troubles and fun his first time editing with it. We mention motorcycles and their experiences with them, and Japanese imported trucks. We have fun poking fun at Sam for mentioning possibly running up a "political" Z&D season, and some day with enough listeners, performing live with you joining in on the conversation!
UTT: "I Do Accept Bribes"
We love our Z&D characters! We take our time to set up our characters for our highly-anticipated second season of Sorcerer's Edge... and we do it all in and out of character!
UTT Special: Sorcerer's Edge Battle Test
Hear a few of the guys test the newly updated system for Sorcerer's Edge. Get a taste for a few of the upcoming characters Ezneer the Bard and Limbs the Crossbowman and a little story of how they got into a battle in an arena with a fearsome foe.
UTT: "Shrek RTX On"
Start behind the scenes with Joe and Dan's back stories colliding for the upcoming Sorcerer's Edge 1-Shot and Season 2. They play around with AI art to generate Dan's strangely handsome orc character "Ug". They briefly discuss characters for the upcoming Star Wars season and the hype is real. Mister Master arrives late to the party.
🛹Z&D Mall Rats Day 3 of 3 - "Try to Forget"
In the finale of their 3 day journey of survival, the rowdy group of teens must only seek to escape the mall to make it out alive. The group confronts a crazy man claiming a wild prophecy predicting the entire zombie apocalypse. Upon their attempted exit they face a strangely familiar threat worse than anything ever before, followed by something dreadfully even worse. Will DJ Stone, Sven, Zelda, and Lionel/Retton make it out together alive? Can at least one of them achieve a triumphant escape, o...
🛹Z&D Mall Rats Day 2 of 3 - "Running Up That Death Toll"
Sven the pothead, Zelda the "warrior princess", DJ Stone the up and coming rapper, and Lionel/Retton the football hero, awaken their second day amid a growing zombie outbreak while trapped inside the Milwaukee Mall armed with nothing but what they've managed to find and their wits. The teens must continue to secure their location while dealing with emerging threats and a mysterious military group. As always, the group fights with a barrage of hilarious endeavors using any and all unconventional ...
🛹Z&D Mall Rats Day 1 of 3 - "Take on the Apocalypse"
Welcome to Z&D Mall Rats Edition! Its 1988 and our small band of misfits find themselves at the local mall in Milwaukee when catastrophe strikes outside the walls. Quickly our teenage characters must find their bearings and divide friend from foe as they're now stuck in the mall for the next three days. Make sure to listen to "Day 0" to hear the origins of our characters and immerse into the 1980s.
🛹Z&D Mall Rats Day 0 - "I Should've Just Ran"
Travel back to the 1980s as we introduce our characters for the epic trilogy ahead. Sven and DJ Stone come across Zelda being bullied in an alleyway and choose to intervene. Upon heading to Sven's house to patch up Zelda from the fight, they encounter a strange threat in which their wit and luck must come in handy for them to survive. The group meets Sven's friend Lionel/Retton and seek safety. To end their adventure, the group heads to the Milwaukee Mall to unwind for a totally normal day ahead...