Molehill Mountain Podcast

No matter how bad you mess up in life, you will never mess up THIS badly. 0:00 – YouTube only recommends new videos from my favorite creators after I’ve already watched them. That’s dumb. YouTube is dumb and should feel bad. 2:58 – Behold! The dumbest political mailer I’ve ever seen! 7:17 – 352 hours ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 413 – The Worst Political Mailer’ »

Movies, games… little else! 0:00 – Wo Long, Wukong, Wuchang, and Woochi 3:38 – Gameplay footage of Jurassic Park Survival is apparently 65 million years in the making 7:22 – Capcom showed us all the positive things people said about their controlled demo of Pragmata. Were there any less-than-positive impressions? Surely not, you trust the ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 412 – Non-Marketer Has Opinions On Marketing’ »

Dino butts! 0:00 – I owe South Bay Drive-In an apology 10:08 – Butts or dinos? Why not both? 34:02 – Monster Hunter Wilds’ DLC is way overpriced If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 411 – Butts and Dinosaurs’ »

Unfortunately, it changes nothing. No timestamps this week as I spend the entire episode bemoaning generative AI. Don’t worry, it’s very therapeutic! For me. If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 410 – I Was Wrong!’ »

Overestimating GTA VI sales for fun and profit! 0:00 – Horse girls and ads in Spanish. It’s like the algorithm doesn’t even know me! 24:00 – Despite what venture capital would have you believe, GTA VI is NOT going to sell 85 million copies in two months 49:42 – Video game anthology Secret Level has ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 409 – VC GTA BS’ »

Monster Hunter. Because no living thing will stand in the way of fashion! 0:00 – Some musings about Superman 23:35 – Astro Bot adds Square Enix bots! And Susan Yōtei. 28:45 – Ghost of Yōtei looks pretty neat! 35:24 – I’m still having fun with Monster Hunter Wilds! If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 408 – A Tube Top to Kill For’ »

I watched some movies this week. 0:00 – I hit 12k subscribers! 8 years after hitting 11,332 subscribers! Which itself took six years! 13:16 – Madisynn should be in every Marvel project! 20:15 – I paused The Day the Earth Blew Up twice to clean my bathroom! 37:07 – K-Pop Demon Hunters is pretty darn ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 407 – Couch Potato’ »

So I read the Clown In a Cornfield books… 0:00 – Raging bigot is also bad at geography 5:52 – How many squirrels is a concerning number of squirrels? 10:32 – I drove a rental for the past few days 28:38 – YouTube is recommending exclusively Dead Meat’s Kill Count videos 38:46 – Donkey Kong ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 406 – Best Frendo’ »

Game previews galore but sadly not terribly much that’s calling to me. 0:00 – The new Predator animated anthology is pretty cool! 7:28 – Catch Me at the Ballpark! is a charming anime so far! 13:05 – The Switch 2, like its predecessor, is a great platform to play worse versions of old games 27:25 ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 405 – Mostly Only Positive’ »

Maybe they should try plot armor! 0:00 – YouTube continues making everything worse 4:32 – Games are more expensive these days; the total cost simply isn’t the entirety of the initial purchase price 33:18 – Storm Trooper armor offers no protection 43:04 – I can’t get into Kowloon Generic Romance because the protagonist is inexplicably ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 404 – Storm Trooper Armor Is Fashion Over Function’ »

This podcast has nothing to do with the fact that I haven’t had a burger in years. 0:00 – Sometimes, movie trailers are good! 12:25 – Can we crack the code of the inexplicable popularity of Gemma from Monster Hunter Wilds? 26:38 – I watched Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines on a whim and it’s ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 402 – Little Ado About Everything’ »

Still super annoying though. 0:00 – I accidentally ripped off my dentist 2:54 – Incredibly, YouTube manages to make its platform worse 8:10 – For next year’s Oscars, the academy members will have to actually watch all the films in a category to vote 15:36 – TV shows. Do I prefer all episodes released at ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 401 – The Least of YouTube’s Problems’ »

To celebrate the landmark achievement of reaching an arbitrary but no less round and impressively large episode number, and certainly not due to simple, serendipitous happenstance, we’re spending this week’s episode talking shop with YouTube musician extraordinaire, RafScrap and her producer/collaborator Gezeus! Check out their channels: RafScrap – https://www.youtube.com/@RafScrap Gezeus Quiryst – https://www.youtube.com/@GezeusQuiryst If you ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 400 – RafScraptacular!’ »

Nintendo Switch 2. I have thoughts. 0:00 – Monster Hunter is like Jell-o. There’s always room for more. Unless you’re full. Or just don’t like it in the first place. 28:14 – Nintendo’s expensive new console has expensive new games! If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 399 – Nintendo Direct Into My Veins’ »

It’s not the solution, it’s the journey. 0:00 – Yahoo can’t design a website, YouTube can’t stop ad blocking software, and Facebook doesn’t care about it’s own Community Guidelines 9:42 – I thought Marvel’s five hour live stream revealing the cast of Avengers: Doomsday was kinda dumb… but it grew on me 13:40 – Nintendo ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 398 – Rube Goldberg Solutions’ »

Daredevil, Monster Hunter Wilds, and not much else. 0:00 – There’s this movie where a samurai fights off 400 dudes in one 77-minute unbroken cut! I could only sit through 17 minutes 11:58 – Daredevil is off to a good start but the third episode didn’t really work for me 38:40 – Technical issues aside, ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 397 – Daredevil Ep3 Didn’t Do It For Me’ »

Watch where you’re not looking, jerk! 0:00 – There comes a time in every adult’s life where you must poop in an envelop and send it through the post 8:11 – Monster Hunter Wilds is a lot of fun but yikes are there some issues with the visual presentation 1:06:24 – Sometimes, ogling attractive people ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 396 – Caught Not Ogling’ »

Free marketing! 0:00 – “10 Things You Need to Know” videos are mostly just reading publisher-provided fact sheets. Darn shame that YouTube has engineered its platform in a way that forces creators who make videos for a living to pad their output with this fluff, as clever and well-made as some of it can be. ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 395 – 10 Things to Know Before You Podcast!’ »

The best part of Valentine’s Day is the subsequent sale on candy! 0:00 – I couldn’t find any Valentine’s Day candy so I bought a giant Valentine’s Day cookie 13:00 – Yahoo Mail’s redesign is objectively worse 26:30 – Capcom’s marketing blitz for Monster Hunter Wilds isn’t always presenting the game in the best light ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 394 – Valentine’s Candy Sale!’ »

PSN is back up which means I can spend more time in the Monster Hunter Wilds character creator. 0:00 – The PSN was down for a day and Sony is being unnervingly quite about it 19:00 – The early hours of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team are a bit dull 37:21 – Sing is a ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 393 – I’m Sure It Was Nothing’ »