Like What I Like

Hold on to your devilishly fashionable hats folks, cause this is a big one! We recap and fawn over the first 15 issues of IDW's Jem And The Holograms and Mark stomps around a bit and sighs about the bizarre and often utterly terrible video game antics of Candice Debébé's Incredibly Trick Lifestyle! Show notes (from when it was originally published):  - This one ran a bit too long! So long, in fact, that we maxed out our file limit for the month and had to lower the quality a tad, so apologies for the slight landline-like tinge to the audio! - Jem #16 doesn't come out today. I think it's due next week now, but I'm not entirely sure. - The Steam Sale is indeed tomorrow, why not pick up Candice Debébé and Antichamber at quite possibly reduced prices! - Writing show notes is a lot more fun than I expected it to be. I think I'm going to do this more often.Our theme music is by Abru aka colonthree, used with permission: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

Our point episodes are companion pieces to our regular episodes, so if you've not heard them yet you should definitely go listen to Episodes 7 & 8.In this lovely point episode, we casually promote our favourite podcast apps for your smartphone despite not being sponsored by either and then go on to recommend you a nice variety of our favourite other shows to check out while you're waiting for a new episode from us. Following that, we do the usual Quiz At The End which is actually at the end this time! Exciting stuff today, friends.Those podcast recommendations in full: CoolGames Inc (Editors note: this recommendation was made well before allegation's of Nick's creepy wrongdoings came up.)Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men My Brother, My Brother and Me The Adventure Zone The Parapod (Editor's Note - since ended, but still good to go back to.)The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show DestrUKtoid (Editor's Note - since died. was replaced with the Let's Play Video Games Podcast but that too has died. :( rip)Totally Repri

In this surprisingly anger-fuelled episode of Like What I Like, Lain HATES Sonic Adventure 2. I mean, seriously hates it. With a passion. Vocally. Very vocally. I mean, like, wow. Oh also the Beef and Dairy Network Podcast is mentioned too. Somewhere, amongst the red sea of anger.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

In the latest of our now monthly Marvellous Moviesodes, we watch Thor, which isn't a good movie, but it's definitely better than last month's Howard The Duck. Also, Lain just wants to sleep, and Mark really shouldn't be allowed to try impersonating Stan Lee.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

In this week's episode, Mark talks enthusiastically about Japanese Synthpop group Yellow Magic Orchestra, whilst Lain is mildly annoyed by Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim comics. We also diverge along barely related tangents including Jet Set Radio music, 90s video game voice acting and the legacy of Zero Wing, Plus, a special guest appearance by the computerised Google voice from Mark's phone!Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

Our half-episodes are companion pieces to our regular episodes, so if you've not heard them yet you should definitely go listen to Episodes 5 & 6.In this rather chaotic episode somebody cheats at The Quiz At The End, we make a poor attempt at describing what's so good at Undertale without spoilers, and Mark bursts into song multiple times.Music by Abru/colonthreehttps://soundcloud.com/colonthree

This week, we gently discuss the Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman book "Good Omens" before getting swiftly distracted by the various roles that the actors for the Radio 4 dramatisation have been in. Afterward Mark gets somehow surprised that Lain is uncultured despite already being warned so and Lain proceeds to squee quietly to herself about how adorable BB-8 is. Oh, and we talk about Monster Factory too. For quite a while. You're welcome.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

We took a break from the usual minisodes to watch a Marvel movie! Unfortunately we let our audience choose the movie for us, and so we ended up watching the 1986 Howard The Duck movie, a film which failed so badly that George Lucas had to sell his CGI company to Steve Jobs. THANKS, AUDIENCE.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

We're slightly late, with a slightly longer than expected episode. These two factors may be loosely connected. Still, it's not like any of you are frantically refreshing your pod-catcher feeds at 2:30am. I hope. This week Mark watched Studio Ghibli's (still not sure on the pronunciation, but at the moment I think it's something like 'Jibb'ry') The Cat Returns, whilst Lain enjoyed the classic BBC News parody series The Day Today so much she progressed straight onto one of Chris Morris's other comedy series, Jam.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

To those listening for the first time: Do yourself a favour and ignore these early episodes initially. They're not edited too well and are a little quiet sometimes. I recommend starting out from our later episodes such as The Mighty Boosh. These ones are 100% not representative of the show and are basically here for archival purposes.Our half-episodes are companion pieces to our regular episodes, so if you've not heard it yet you should definitely go listen to Episode 4.In this very special sleep-deprived episode we quiz each other on last week's topics (Surfing Samurai Robots, Welcome to Night Vale), discuss Doctor Who and Guitar Hero, and actively run out of steam and enthusiasm in real time for your listening enjoyment. Or lack thereof.Music by Abru/colonthree https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

To those listening for the first time: Do yourself a favour and ignore these early episodes initially. They're not edited too well and are a little quiet sometimes. I recommend starting out from our later episodes such as The Mighty Boosh. These ones are 100% not representative of the show and are basically here for archival purposes.We're back! Both of us and everything! This week, Lain made her way through the meandering first 18 episodes of cult podcast Welcome To Night Vale whilst Mark was left annoyed and frustrated after reading Mel Gilden's Surfing Samurai Robots.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

To those listening for the first time: Do yourself a favour and ignore these early episodes initially. They're not edited too well, are a little quiet sometimes and frankly I'm still pretty embarressed by these ones. I recommend starting out from our later episodes such as The Mighty Boosh. These ones are 100% not representative of the show and are basically here for archival purposes.In which we finally realise that calling something a 'Mistake' when it's actual content just confuses people, we quiz each other on Gaki No Tsukai and The Secret of Monkey Island, somebody's phone rings and we discuss Ms. Marvel and Patsy Walker, AKA: Hellcat!. Music by Abru/colonthree:https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

To those listening for the first time: Do yourself a favour and ignore these early episodes initially. They're not edited too well, are a little quiet sometimes and frankly I'm still pretty embarressed by these ones. I recommend starting out from our later episodes such as The Mighty Boosh. These ones are 100% not representative of the show and are basically here for archival purposes.This week, we celebrate our first complete disapproval of a challenge; that is to say, Mark despised Gaki no Tsukai. A lot. After touching upon that, we then go on to deeply discuss The Secret of Monkey Island and how generally pretty good it is.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

To those listening for the first time: Do yourself a favour and ignore these early episodes initially. They're not edited too well, are a little quiet sometimes and frankly I'm still pretty embarressed by these ones. I recommend starting out from our later episodes such as The Mighty Boosh. These ones are 100% not representative of the show and are basically here for archival purposes.[CW - More scatological content due to more Gero talk. Yay.] Mistake time yet again! We kick things off with The Quiz At The End before relaxing a bit, talking about old video games getting new sequels and finally going over the things we've been doing after recording the second main episode. And by that I mean Lain talks about the comics she's read for roughly half an hour. Lain also mumbles a lot this episode. And eats an ice lolly during the the beginning. Sorry about that.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

To those listening for the first time: Do yourself a favour and ignore these early episodes initially. They're not edited too well, are a little quiet sometimes and frankly I'm still pretty embarressed by these ones. I recommend starting out from our later episodes such as The Mighty Boosh. These ones are 100% not representative of the show and are basically here for archival purposes.[Content Warning - The band we discuss in this episode covers some of their more disgusting and gross work! It's also very much NSFW as a result. YOU ARE WARNED!] This week, we discuss a Japanese music project that's known for its serious lack of self-decency or sense and then proceed to completely nerd out over how good Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is. Seriously. Go read it. It's so good.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

To those listening for the first time: Do yourself a favour and ignore these early episodes initially. They're not edited too well, are a little quiet sometimes and frankly I'm still pretty embarrassed by these ones. I recommend starting out from our later episodes such as The Mighty Boosh. These ones are 100% not representative of the show and are basically here for archival purposes. Oh, and this one is especially pretty bad. In our first entirely optional sub-episode, we quiz each other about last week's topics, Lain gets rather over-excited, and our veneer of professionalism collapses pretty much immediately. But not in that order. Also, in advance; we're very sorry.Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree

To those listening for the first time: Do yourself a favour and ignore these early episodes initially. They're not edited too well, are a little quiet sometimes and frankly I'm still pretty embarressed by these ones. I recommend starting out from our later episodes such as The Mighty Boosh. These ones are 100% not representative of the show and are basically here for archival purposes.Lain watches a dystopian comedy film by the animator from Monty Python while Mark gets to "enjoy" a ridiculous anime which is never quite sure where it's going. Are they any good? Did Mark secretly love this anime deep down in his heart? And is Buttle — I mean Tuttle really that much of a common error?Music by Abru/colonthree: https://soundcloud.com/colonthree