In the season finale, Payton and Zack take a trip down memory lane and look ahead into the future and what it holds for this podcast and the world.

Topics include:

• Does Two-Face still practice law?
• Late 20s body degradation
• Northern conservatives
• Our hopes for the new year
• A walk down memory lane
• The Big Dudes Resist
• The Words of the Year
• Season 3 wishlist
• Making animal noises
• A plea to Rockstar
• The origins of the mid-00s zombie craze
• The Big Dudes Insist

Fair warning, this is mostly just a long Big Dudes Insist

Topics include:

• The punk rock of podcasts
• The different podcasts of rock and roll
• Bringing back old tech
• Lots of misinformation
• Payton just now watched Game of Thrones
• The time Payton accidentally read The Hobbit
• An op-ed on summer homework
• Runnin' Up Those Wuthering Heights
• Deciding when to take a break
• Talking about the good ol' days
• A deep dive into the discography of Alvin and the Chipmunks
• A good time to be a Scooby-Doo fan
• The Big Dudes Insist
• The origins of Surfin' Bird

Today Zack and Payton are joined by an actual podcaster. Gerald from Box Office QBs joins us to chat about some of his favorite (and least favorite) in movie and TV.

Topics include:

• How to host a bad party
• Morbin Time
• Horrible shows you enjoy
• Franchises that don't know when to end
• Franchises that ended too soon
• Jack Black stan club
• Getting out of synch with your partner (on TV watching)
• More Morbin Time
• The problem with video game movies
• The Big Dudes Insist

Sorry Payton is a quiet boy today, we'll try to fix that for our ones of listeners.

Topics include:

• Suffering with no A/C
• Going down the Rush rabbit hole
• What happened to all the websites?
• Nostalgia for channel surfing
• The Queen of Canada
• The Rock becomes the King of America at WrestleMania
• Shitting on Joss Whedon
• Don't look up to celebrities
• Phone jails at comedy events
• Celebrity jets
• The Big Dudes Insist

Find out more at https://riffing-in-the-abyss.pinecast.co

For the first time Payton and Zack welcome their first returning guest. Welcome back to the show, a true performer - Faith!

Topics include:

• Getting rid of the hiccups
• Live studio audiences
• Your perfect distinctive laugh
• The Big Betty White Lie
• Faith's fall sound heard for the first time
• The Nathan Drake scale of hiking
• Faith cheats at Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
• Unlocking a Fred Durst memory
• Faith learns what "nookie" means
• 4 distinct Spider-Man games in one podcast
• The Big Dudes Insist

Find out more at https://riffing-in-the-abyss.pinecast.co

Yet another unanticipated absence but hopefully it made your hearts grow fonder.

Topics include:

• A weaksauce intro
• Big Dudes, Bigger Animals
• What qualifies as seafood?
• BCU (Bible Cinematic Universe)
• Setting up the podcast with the table of contents
• Getting buried alive and coming back as a new persona
• Batman's sex life
• Shitting on Star Wars fans
• Spoiling Fallout
• The psychology of shitting
• Weirdest bathrooms we've ever been in
• The Big Dudes Insist sponsored by Better Help

Find out more at https://riffing-in-the-abyss.pinecast.co

This week Zack and Payton welcome their most informative guest yet. Jane brings the big dudes some much needed therapy,

Topics include

• Joker 2: Here We Go Again
• Therapizing Elvis
• TikTokers seeking mental health
• What is human consciousness? (that one's not even a joke)
• The Big Dudes Insist

Find out more at https://riffing-in-the-abyss.pinecast.co

Payton is a quiet boy this episode. Sorry.

Topics include:

• Our podcasts are doing numbers! Not this one though
• Absorbing our guests' powers
• Multiverse is the new zombies
• It's Morbin' Time!
• Goth Batman is best Batman
• The Big Dudes Insist

Find out more at https://riffing-in-the-abyss.pinecast.co