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Debate This!
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…
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Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: NieR
A good, good anime boy finds a magic talking book, and embarks on a journey to save his sister with the help of a lovable pair of colorful outcasts. Now, this…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: Bomberman
An artificial life form created to perform menial labor one day becomes sentient and embarks on a journey to free themselves from their oppression. To do so…
Debate This!Ep. 78: We Live In A Shorts-ciety
Oh boy, here come those dang investors again. They just won't STOP asking us to pitch them new mashups of old videogames. And it's like their asks are getting…
Debate This!Ep. 77: Remember To Have Your Rock Dragons Spayed Or Neutered
Like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, the mysterious Shut Up Todd Pet Store has once again opened up its doors to showcase the wondrous marvels inside. But…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: Ghost Rider
He's dangerous, he's angry, he's on fire, and he has a skull face covered in the literal fires of Christian Hell. That's right kids, it's time we (finally)…
Debate This!Ep. 76: Forged In A Ding Dang Hellfire
The suits at Discovery Ploose were so jealous that we were the only podcast talking about the Disney+ shows that they approached us to record an exclusive…
Debate This!SIDEBAR: Product Placement in Games
It's been a while since we all gathered around the pretend Zoom campfire and told some personal CUP NOODLES® IS THE PERFECT BLEND OF TASTY BROTH AND ZESTY…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: Mandalore and the Mandalorians
The writers over at the Star Wars Extended Universe had a dilemma. They needed to create an entire race of people based off of one side character in the…
Debate This!NEW FEED: The Ploose Is Loose!
The boys have been busy behind the scenes, and it's time we share with everyone what we've been working on. You may have heard about our Disney+ weekly recap…
Debate This!Ep. 75: A Fairly Balanced Pair of Bat Nipples (ft Alyse Knorr)
To all of our surprise, Todd started his own superhero advertising agency during the pandemic and just informed us that we would be "pitching to him" a PR…
Debate This!The Ploose Is Loose! WandaVision Finale
Good news everyone! Because we had such a good time recording our Disney+ MCU recap show "The Ploose Is Loose!" (and, because we've recently found out Marvel…
Debate This!Ep. 74: The Fusty and the Furious
Make sure your hair is gelled and your shorts sufficiently cargo-ed, because today's episode is taking a one-way trip to the mid-00s as we talk about Flash…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: One Piece (Pt 2)
Destiny. Fate. Dreams. Ad revenue. These unstoppable ideals are held deep in hearts of podcasters. As long as there are people who seek a self-sustaining…
Debate This!Ep. 73: Abraham Lincoln's Army of the Damned (ft. Eric Silver)
Last year, Supergiant blew the gaming world away with their near-perfect and also very thirsty roguelike, Hades. We certainly could have spent this time…
Debate This!Ep. 72: A View To A WAAHHH
There comes a time in every video game podcast's life when they are compelled to stop what they are doing and ask "Sure, this game is great. But what's Waluigi…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: One Piece (Pt 1)
Wealth. Fame. Power. The hosts at Debate This!, the King of the Podcasts, had acquired this and everything else the world had to offer. And their dying words…
Debate This!PREMIUM EP: The Ploose is Loose! WandaVision Ep 1
The past year has left us pretty starved for new MCU content, so you can imagine the release of WandaVision had all of us here so excited that we decided to…
Debate This!Ep. 71: Use Promo Code "Stygian" at Checkout
Late last night, Matt was pulling a late night at the ol' DT Exclamation Point HQ, and he did that thing in movies where he stepped out of a steamy shower and…
Debate This!Update and Season 4 Preview
Since all of the Persona soundtracks are now on Spotify, Andrew couldn't be bothered to do an episode today. So instead, Matt recorded a sneak preview of what…
Debate This!SIDEBAR: Mailbag Episode!
Remember when all your favorite TV sitcoms used to do that thing where instead of actual plot or content they would just play clips from older, better…
Debate This!Ep. 70: Muscle Confusion by Thrustmaster
Aww dang is it Christmas already?? Well, we WOULD have gone shopping but we've all been sitting on this Disney investor call since Thanksgiving waiting for…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: Les Misérables
It's a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Girl gets rescued from an orphanage by an ex-con who is being mercilessly hunted across the decades by a…
Debate This!Ep. 69: Mr. Toad's Uncomfortably Horny Journey
Well, we did it. We made it to the sex number. And what other way is there to celebrate than to make some perfectly wholesome games super horny? Come along…
Debate This!Ep. 68: The Sarah Michelle Gellar of Prehistorical Despots
Last month, we asked the question "Which superhero would be a terrible roommate?" So, it stands to reason that it's worth playing in that opposing headspace by…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: League of Legends
You know when you get that big ol' 1,200+ calorie burrito bowl from Chipotle and you see all the different colorful ingredient layers? And then you just mash…
Debate This!Ep. 67: Swipe Right for Frost Mages (ft Eiya)
You know how when you wistfully watch people play World of Warcraft, and silently wish to yourself that you could just somehow find the nerve to join the…
Debate This!DLC EPISODE: Scoobert Doolittle and the Curse of the Gourd Lord (ft Zak Schneider)
The 5th Tuesday is now! As a bonus Halloween surprise, Kyle led the gang through a spooky, ooky one-off D&D adventure! Sir Frederick and his gang of spunky…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: Studio Ghibli
The Spooktacular Express decided to give us a break from the madness and dropped us off in the idyllic Japanese countryside to talk about the whimsical world…
Debate This!Ep. 66: Pumpkin-Spiced Ghost Rider
If you look out of your window, fellow spooky passengers, you'll find a desolate wasteland ruled by mobs of zombies. Fun! Before we disembark, make sure to…
Debate This!SIDEBAR: Video Game Creepypastas Vol. 4 LIVE(ish)!
Our tradition of collating the greatest in internet-sourced amateur horror fiction about video games continues in our very first live episode! And, of course…
Debate This!Ep. 65: All Quiet On the Western Face
The Spooktacular Express is back for its third annual spooooopy voyage! Come in and find your seat, get your ticket punched, and then don the complimentary VR…
Debate This!Ep. 64: 99 Bottles of My Cat's Amoxicillin On the Wall
Well good morning and a fine how-do-you-do folks! Have the regular aches and pains of daily Wild West-era life got ya down? Looking for a cure for that small…
Debate This!Ep. 63: Mr. Sinister's Second-Hand Lobotomy
Has anyone ever stopped to think about how X-Men is basically just The Real World But With Explosions? Yes, the ever-evolving war between Human and Mutant is…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: The Sandman
In November of 1988, DC Comics published the first issue of The Sandman, a revival of a shortly-run series in the 70s of the same name--originally inked by…
Debate This!Ep. 62: The Sovereign Nation of Bob-Omb Battlefield
Mario's world might look like it's all hyper-saturated sunshine and rainbows, but under that candy-coated exterior lie some real sinister themes. Like, while…
Debate This!Ep. 61: Pirate Ships Don't Have Feet (ft. SMJ)
It was the final days of The Summer of '93. Whitney Houston was topping the charts and the world was absolutely enamored with early-gen CG dinosaurs. Mighty…
Debate This!SIDEBAR: The Real Rhino Was the Friends We Made Along the Way
And here is where we'd talk about the newest MCU movies...if we had one! Today's superhero movie discussion is taking a 180, and so instead of talking about…
Debate This!Ep. 60: My Thirteen Dads
There's nothing quite like being a parent. Teaching your child the ways of the world, watching them grow, and passing down a condensed shard of pure magic that…
Debate This!FLAVORtown TEXT: Guy Fieri
He's the Sultan of Spice, the Tycoon of Taste, The Crowned-King of Condiments. This week, Debate This! is driving a brightly colored convertible on a one-way…
Debate This!Ep. 59: Big Mr. I's Spooky Investment Portfolio
With Paper Mario: The Origami King coming out later this week, we pulled in our team of expert RPG architects to help build the game's first (and best) DLC. It…
Debate This!SIDEBAR: Ultra-Intergalatic Cyber Fencer Musashi 2: Battle
You know that one game you played as a kid that no one has heard of and if you tried to describe it, it would just sound like a fever dream? We all have those…
Debate This!Ep. 58: Real-Time Orphan-Ground Strategy (ft Zak Schneider)
Every villain is the hero of their own story. This week, we're flipping the script to place some of the most classic video game villains in the protagonist's…
Debate This!Ep. 57: Bouncing Around at the Speed of Time
Oooh boy here we go talking about the DC Universe again. We're attempting to being more thunder to this permanant-second-place franchise of characters by…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: Overwatch
Follow along the episode with our Overwatch image gallery. Even if you've never played Overwatch, you've most definitely heard of it. You've watched it played…
Debate This!Ep. 56: Concentric Penguin Nipples
This week has been especially tough on the country, but also eye-opening for some of us who haven't had to deal with the effects of systemic racism. We've…
Debate This!Ep. 55: Let the Ka-Bodies Hit the Floor
With the whole world being stuck at home for whatever reason and sports just, like, not happening, we decided to go some good for once and bring you three of…
Debate This!SIDEBAR: My Favorite Man-Bear
Greetings, comrade! The State has granted us the pleasure of introducing you to the Winter Guard, Mother Russia's very own team of superheroes. Yes, you may…
Debate This!Ep. 54: The Fourth Dimension is Fear
Games like Mario Kart and Action Girlz Racing go zoom, zoom, zoom, and that makes our hearts go boom, boom, boom. This week has us turning beloved franchises…
Debate This!Patreon Announcement!
To access our premium content feed, check out our brand new Patreon page. Anyone who supports us for $5 a month will have instant access to the latest…
Debate This!Ep. 53: Yippie Ki Yay Mother Bucket
It's 3pm on Sunday afternoon, so you know what that means! It's time to watch one of the Lawrence brothers get superpowers and then use them to throw an…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: Animorphs
It's 1996. You wake up, rip off your Space Jam bed sheets and get ready for school while Power Rangers plays in the background. Normally, this is a drag but…
Debate This!Ep. 52: Everything Changed After the Chili Wars
Too often we've witnessed countless whirlwind romances take flight atop the Empire State Building and have watched too many supervillains blow up the Golden…
Debate This!Ep. 51: The Myst Was Inside of Us the Whole Time (ft. Nathan Norman Brandt and Kam Konek)
Get ready to get Fully Immersed. If there is one thing that we love to do here at DT! HQ, it's reboot old shit that nobody asked for. And so it stands to…
Debate This!SIDEBAR: David Harbour Is My Real Dad
The MCU's Phase 4 is still shrouded in mystery as we stare down the proverbial barrel of major releases of the standalone Black Widow movie and Disney Plus's…
Debate This!Ep. 50: Tony The Jet The Hawk's Xtreme Gear Giveaway
Wow, Episode 50, huh? Here we are...a little bit older, a little bit collectively balder, and most likely a lot closer to death! So what better way to…
Debate This!Ep. 49: Quadrifolium of Love
With DC's Birds of Prey And Then Harley Quinn Is Here Too hitting the Box Office this month with the sound of a thousand missed opportunities, we thought it…
Debate This!SIDEBAR: I'm Here to Talk to You About the Smash Bros Initiative
Three grown men spent Valentine's Day together watching a children's movie about Sonic the Hedgehog, and now we're going to talk about it. But here's the thing…
Debate This!Ep. 48: Don't Worry, the Radioactive Jeans are Non GMO (ft. Randy Hardenbrook)
With the decline in cable TV viewers (and a few notorious legal "uh-ohs") comes the inevitable decline of the glory and majesty that is the television…
Debate This!Ep. 47: The Most Beautiful Bee in Uranus (ft David Flamm)
Once Sonic heralded in the 1990s with his cool-guy, take-no-shit attitude, game companies across the world were racing to find the next raddest platforming…
Debate This!FLAVOR TEXT: The Witcher (Pt. 1)
SPOILER ALERT: This episode will spoil the story and ending to the first season of Netflix's The Witcher. But if you haven't played the CDPR games yet, don't…