This week, the boys make apologies for the lack of episodes recently.  Actually, episodes were recorded, but due to life and work stuff they just didn't get up!  So here's one episode for today - recorded almost two weeks ago - and there will be another on Monday, when we'll hopefully get back on schedule!

Listen, what happened in this episode? I dunno!  It was a while ago. James probably shit talked the Martian a bit (even though he enjoyed it) and Brandon probably said he didn't do much. They watched some TV and talked about it, and then they talked about some comics.  Heck, they even decided on a title for the episode, which has clearly been forgotten.

Yes, we still ask for a sponsorship.

This week (or last week, sorry! technical troubles caused a late upload), the boys catch up and discuss the first episode of the new PBS food show, I'll Have What Phil's Having, and how its host's openness and lack of familiarity with a foreign culture presents a great learning opportunity.  They also have one of their (self-described) best comics discussion sections to date, and James talks about his troubles with hard sci-fi in advance of seeing The Martian.

There's also a lot of baseball talk.  Listen, it's the playoffs. You understand.

This week, the boys convene for a proper episode after taking the previous week "off" to do a panel on indigenous representation in media [Ed. Note: check the previous episode's show notes to find out more!] and instead of sitting around, giving themselves diabetes and watching television, they went out to give themselves heart disease while watching a movie!  They went off to watch the Signature Edition rerelease of The Iron Giant, and then came back to talk about it and a bunch of comics from the previous week.

You may have noticed that last week there was no episode!  It's because on the normal podcast recording night, the boys were at Variant Edition's Indigenous Representation in Media panel!  Brandon, as one of the owners, was the host and emcee for the panel, while James was a panelist with Richard Van Camp, Patti Laboucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings!  It was a great experience, and in lieu of having an episode, we'd like to point you towards the full audio podcast of the panel over at Yegs & Bacon:

http://variantedmonton.com/2015/09/30/yegs-bacon-episode-022-indigenous-representation-in-pop-culture/

There will be a regular episode of the podcast tomorrow, but until then, give a listen to this!