We’re Back! Two Jackasses’ Story. Ray upgrades his Information-Phone and home entertainment unit; an exploration of Charles E. Cheese and survival horror; Critical Hit draws nearer to its Grand Opening; dealing with the Japanese “Home Center”; the fall of Shadowlaw; a trip to Tokyo Disney and the 8-4 pre-TGS shindig; disappointment at Luida’s Tavern and Artnia; fiscal practices of Japan’s well-to-do, and supercharged Fanf! This podcast is waiting for you in the hot tub.

This week, Ray begins the search for a new domicile; corrections from last week’s episode; welcome to the shitheap that is the NHK; prepping pub paint and Japan’s insistence on the fax; we love #1, and the Fan Fun theme makes a triumphant return! Vote for us in the 31st Annual Battle Creek Podcast Awards!

Take a number! This week, first impressions of the SlimeStation 4 and other game news; summer scorch winds down; Alex’s continuing visa struggle; more Japanese banking in(s)anity; #nomorewhoppers; Ray gives TMNT two shells down; too many Blade Runner references; Alex waits anxiously for GotG’s Japanese premiere; bar renovation begins and drinking with salarymen; hanging out with a NoMoWo fan at Genesis; Microsoft’s flaccid Japanese Xbox One marketing; brick and mortar nostalgia; high-tech POS equipment, and forceful Fan Fun! Don’t cry for us, we’re already dead.

Halfway to 224! T-shirt sales are through the roof!; bugging Brad’s rad dad Tad; beard trimmer rebirth; the northward-bound package; Are You Being Severed; the steady decline of the Simpsons; too cool for media; podcasts in Japan; H&S For Men Scalp EX; an evening in a Japanese love hotel; Alex in hot water; Fanf, featuring some generous donors, and the new mini-segment MAXIMUM ‘TUDE! This podcast is a work of fiction.

Our eleventy-first episode! This week, we’re happy to announce that our shirt is selling like T-cakes!; Ray expands his Super Game Boy collection; retro console maintenance; a brief history of Miracle Warriors; welcome to Abobo’s; will podcast for food; Marvel Cinematic Universe talk; dealing with shitty events; touring America with Immigrant Alex; getting back into the world of fantasy; Alex demands coupons, misunderstands groupons; donor thanks; drunk Home Alone, and enjoy our famous pre-post post-show! Get this podcast FREE with any purchase of $250 or more at participating Dollar Generals!

This podcast gives 110%! This week, the contents of quiche; Ray breaks barriers at Six Flags; Alex refuses Tokyo Disneyland; the commercialization of Square-Enix brands; Critical Hit news and visa panic; Costco from a distance; Alex wants to cosplay several times; John Grisham presents Facebook lickers, and a sartorial offer exclusive to listeners! Professional podcasters on closed course.

More of this?! This time we talk commercial props; more on corporate transparency; Nintendo Japan’s MK8 promo is rose gold bullshit; Pokemonotony; MS-DOS what 32Xn’t; taking whiners in stride; kicking back at the KKB; The Nagoya Skip; the perils of Beatlemania; the local meat market and an expensive sale in #Japan; Square-Enix been served; Zelda Muslim; donor thanks in stereo, and new videogaimz! This podcast was inspired by actual events.

Our 108th episode of destiny! This week, Dinner Food Copy; Pine SOL; sweating through your suit and summer vs. winter; Alex’s birthday haul; dispelling the myths of blood type in this week’s #Japan; Tako Talk, and insuring our bones and teeth! If you don’t listen to this podcast today, don’t bother coming in on Monday!

Lucky 107! In this outing, Table Tool Time Episode 001; trying to open a business account in this week’s #Japan; covert advertising in the face of legal pressure; enjoy the free FFXIV weekend by not playing; incredulous foreigners in Japanese advertising; Alex signs on to promote Ireland; the rules of kegs; Fanf rises like a Phoenixph; ranking our pros and cons; logo theft cont’d, and Alex abuses Ray with drop modulation! This podcast will reach the Kuiper Belt in approximately nine years.

Welcome back to the stage of history! This week, retro game shopping, price-gouging Japanese t-shirts; hauling ass through Shovel Knight; summer weddings; logo thievery; multiple viewings; Alex gets Gold Carded; this week in #Japan (or, “It can’t be helped, please understand”); bar scrubdown and nauseating discoveries, and listening in on a child prodigy! This podcast includes scenes too outrageous for theaters!

We’re sweating our butts off! This week, No More Mondays Episode 001; bar news and the financial Hokey-Pokey; an exodus to Genesis; I think we just found Ray’s impressions of Trans4mers; Alex’s tips for drinking at the movies; Game Talk! (Mega Mans, Shovel Knight, Mario Kart 8, Dragon Quest X); the decline of shock-jock shit-heel radio; clumsily bilingual Fan Fun; the brackish pit of internet hyperbole, and we try our luck as Expendables! Trade in this podcast anywhere for $0.35 store credit!

We put the “sad” in “back in the saddle”! This week, Alex’s positive reaffirmations; Critical Filth; the burger heirarchy; adventures in Osaka featuring Daniel Feit and Matt Bloch; Ray’s adventure at TooManyGames 2014; the joy and brutality of Shovel Knight; rolling our Rs; words Alex thinks people want to hear him say; the surprising consequences of self immolation; a savory, full-bodied Fanf, and we summarize last episode’s lost content! Note: the dev team IS AWARE of the Alex glitch and a patch is forthcoming.

Surprise! We thought it lost, but that’s only half true. Apologies for the short episode this week, try not to get lost as our technical foul-up creates a mystifying web of conversation! You can best enjoy this podcast by writing your own damn description.

Broadcast live from the Empire State Building’s 102nd floor! In this week’s hot and sweaty outing, we lead with a technical gaffe; the mystery of Hydrox; the various uses of Twitter; LTTP: Twin Peaks; more Mario Kart talk and the opening of our tournament; thrilling new segment “Names of British Things”; premature Fanf, and The Balcony is Closed! Can you spot the six differences between a raving derelict and this podcast?

An intro to doofery! In this installment, the rigors of completionism; Mario Kart 8 and Koopaling anthroponymy; Dragon Quest VIII frames per second; other notable eights throughout history; fond memories of Homeland Week II; superhero movies and the new X-Mans; echoey shouting; classic voice acting revisited; disagreement over Phoenix Wright localization; mourning the blue Koopa shell; compact Fanf, and we finally become entertaining in the last 15 minutes! This podcast is proud to be featured in part VI of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s lecture series “Understanding the Multiverse”.

Finally operating at 100% capacity! In this thrilling installment, Alex skirts death in the wild; the onsen and Japan Vs. The Foreigners; The Judge Judy Prime Time Special; the Alex & Droopy pilot; bodily injury and new beginnings; what NoMoWo means to us; questions from the social media platform Twitter; renting in Japan cont’d; unnecessary roughness among “fans”; 7-11 beer-flavored alcohol; Korean krooning, and a cornucopia of Fanf! This netcast can be down-loaded for stream-back on your Diamond Rio PMP300 device at virtually any time!

Barbara Feldon presents! This week, pain-vomitting; paying for FFXI fan fiction; the first of more poignant NoMoWo Memories; exploring the Wii U; the joys of garlic; Alex reconnects with an old friend and makes a new one; even more podcast pet peeves; Ray laments the livestream, and Xtreme Fanf! This podcast will return in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Brunswick.

This week, Alex is on zero sleep; price gouging at this year’s Belgian Beer Weekend; post-workout injury; Bar Watch: Day 753; homemade limoncello; podcast pet peeves; a microcosm of imagined Fanf; The Great Atari Dig brings out muddle-brained conspiracy theorists, and marvel as Alex’s brain burns out in spectacular fashion! Hang a scrunchie on your dorm room doorknob to best enjoy this podcast undisturbed!

Huddle up to our fireplace! This week, Ray goes to hanami; shedding the schlub; fun with Japanese movie titles; post-workout snack food copy; Retronauts Stupid Episode 2; a blog revived and FFXI talk; Hearthstone and Alex’s fiery card-hate; striking a rich vein with Google Translate; Fanf, and a X in 10 revival on the horizon?! Get this podcast FREE with any L.L. Bean purchase of $25 or more!

In our ninety-sixth mistake, we perform a brief analysis of KL5; the Today Show; tax season!!; a night out with a good burger and dim bulb; Alex defends HIMYM; this week in Japanese Peace Fetishism; another return to Vana’diel?; triumphant Fanf; Saturday mornings revisited; the future of X in 10, and the dangers of getting one’s kicks from social media! This podcast is nominating itself for the Caldecott Medal.

It’s our ninety-fifth outing, and sleep is for the weak! This week, a hanami double-header; Nickelodeon’s Japanese presence; Professor Fraioli’s Caffeine 101; suiting up for fun; snack bars and missing digits; social interaction and the weight of “Inside Mode”; Perler beads and sprite art; the brief lives of fan remakes, and adequate Fanf! The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand is when this podcast carried you.

Determine inanity by rolling 9D4! This week, we mourn the loss of a 24-hour stalwart; tweeting the world by storm; two’s company, twelve’s a crowd; thwarted by financial institutions; Alex does a favor for a potential backer; Pocket Monsters Why?; that’s a (Ground) Zero, and the triumphant return of Facebook Likes! Find out more at AOL Keyword Giuseppe.

We’re united in ninety-three! Ray finds unexpected joy at GDC; Alex bombs his money away; the search for more money; take the Intel challenge!; cross-genre missteps; remakes du jour; questions from Twitter, and Fanf me in the face! This podcast will leave the light on for you.

The terrible ninety-twos! This week, carelessness at Safeway; car talk; St. Fraioli’s Day x2; the ungifted program; Japan’s peace fetish; reconnecting with an old non-flame; hired and unhired; bugs for lunch, and some terse Fanf! This podcast is out on the street when it hits eighteen.

Ninety-one ways to leave your lover! In this thrill-packed installment, Ray gets a car; Alex loses and finds his wallet; recovering funds from Wally Weasel; backing out of deals in Japan; awkward dealings with neighbors; Bravely Maxed Out; condemnation of the Internet Nerd Announcer; a special surprise Overnerd; Fanf, and unexpected snack food copy! Ass, gas, or grass; nobody rides this podcast for free.

It’s the go-go 90s! This week, the boys discuss No More Whoppers Bingo; SCROLL 11; more tales of bar apprenticeship; Home Alone’s scar on our psyche; the Olympics?! Kind of?!; Vanilla Ice; Al’s new “game;” seven-story bookstores; Sephiroth; some wonderful new FANF, and and a new round of Twitter questions! This podcast won’t have dishonest cops on this force.

It’s our 89th anniversary! Celebrate with such topics as soundproofing blankets; Alex OTC; Twitter questions (our favorite foods, games, consoles, comedians, podcasts; fear of fun; love; Valentine’s gifts; corporate sponsorship; guest spots; Vito software), and Fan Fun is back on top! Don’t tell this podcast what it can’t do.

We’re in for some serious shit! In this episode of we talk about pop singer marriage; Norbit; Alex is watching LOST for some reason; talk of at least one Super Bowl commercial and then that’s it we swear; Fallout?!; Alex continues the bar search, with a primer on the Japanese “snack bar,” and in FANF, we learn that subscriptions save off the cover price. This podcast did NOT sign up for these Russian bride emails, I don’t know WHAT you’re talking about.

Fresh from Vault 87! This week in… iOS games?!; Alex(’s apartment) blacks out; letters to faceless corporations; lying in court; meet hot tank singles in your area!; seminary seminar; first person pronouns plus alpha; Alex Inc. in Business License World; Fanf, and the boys are mired in stress! Try this podcast with a HOT-N-READY Crazy Combo!

We didn't have a chance to record a proper episode this week, so Alex sat down with childhood friend Brad in a Hilton hotel room to discuss the most disgusting issue of SkyMall ever, pee-floors, and video game/food association! Ray will be back next week with more snack food copy probably!!

Don’t eighty-six us yet! Al and Ray return from the holiday break with news from Alex’s winter vacation, including the Polar Vortex and its effect on his flights; the latest NMW meetup; presents; mustache games; plane reunions (that’s reunions *on* a plane), and a concussion! Plus, talk of RPGs; Phoenix WRONG; and a Christmas bounty of donations! You’re all great. This podcast is up to code.

85 alive!!! Ray and Alex discuss spelling mistakes; Alex running into some Italians; fried pasta sticks and sealing the deal; limoncello; Kindle bucks; a new variation of movie game; funny voices; No More Tankmen; Colin Farrell; and we close it out when Alex field tests his custom written pub quiz. See you in 2014! This podcast is the oldest castle in Japan.

The ’84 NoMoWo Skylark bursts out of the gate with news on a new kind of chip; Alex explains more about his recent emotional pain; bad Dragon Quest ports; lashing out at McDonald’s; MMO crossovers (and mo’ money); pub quizzes; a new name for the bar, and the Gipper. This podcast needs like two cups of coffee just to feel emotions in the morning, am I right?

In 1983, the hosts of history’s greatest podcast were born: Chris Hemsworth and Hikaru Utada. This week, Alex continues the bar search; further adventures in drinkin’ and stinkin’; POS for iOS; discussion of Thanksgiving happenings and a laser show wedding; Alex contributes to his boss’s book; birthday bash bursar and the belligerent buccaneer; Genesis transitions to its new home, and the miracle of raw egg! This podcast is nature’s candy.

In the 82nd precinct, the stakes are higher than ever. Two of its finest take things into their own hands, but first they have a podcast talking about Alex’s continued coughing; Mystery Science Theater (again!!); the Xbox One; snowy mishaps; Cork bashing; Montana/Mantegna; trial version weddings; daddin’ it up in da club; and Alex’s latest open mic session is a hit! In the face! This podcast… this podcast, man.

After exchanging pleasantries, the boys revisit an infamous NES game from decades past; the mystery of key money and a look at corporate cattiness; the ten-minute wedding and a soiled robe; Game Genie as catharsis; lexical musings; the world’s worst (best?) room service; discussing games with our Japanese friends; Ray’s uneventful but stable life; episode fiving; Fan Fun goes on sabbatical, and we wind things down with a good old-fashioned technical malfunction! You must delete this podcast 24 hours after downloading if you do not own an original copy.

Eighty is greaty, eh! Those dang ol’ Whoppers boys get in a big talk on just what Japan’s problem is (though more intelligently than that sounds); the hot new features of the PlayStation… 3; the Mystery Science Theater Movie Blu-ray; and a Fan Fun packed tight with donations and delightful names. And amazingly, some email! This podcast is all that and a bag of walnuts.

Shakedown, NoMoWo 79! This week, Alex and the hat we love to hate; spooky stories to tell in the dark; Halloween barhopping; preempting drama in Astoltia; premature Fan Fun, and the thrilling conclusion to Slimed! Pain is just this podcast leaving the body.

Seventy-eight, schmevety-scheight! This episode is fulla goodness, from talk of pizza loops, bar groups, cocaine scoops, and GarageBand loops. And because Alex didn't read the book this week, we play our movie game in its stead. This podcast wants to know what love is. Oh. Thank you.

So close to the jackpot! Alex's voice "talents" finally pay off at pub quiz; Ray attends a live show to bid bon voyage to Cinematic Titanic; coping with The Great Transportation Strike; proofreading to save the environment; out of con-texts; how to lock yourself into a pizza loop; Ray scoops up a 2DS; a total lack of interest in dissecting games as art; the Japanese reluctance to choose; Book Club covers rhythms and race in the Nickverse, and Fan Fun gets pushed back to next week! If you've got time to lean, you've got time to listen to this podcast.

We're on the driver's side. In this edition, we dive into the sea of topics and pull out things such as Ray's recent trip to Portland and how to pronounce "NeGcon;" Alex is introduced to wedding-crazed young women; Al's Top 5 Microaggressions, and in the first part of our new Book Club on the Nickelodeon book "Slimed!," we discuss… the things in the book. Join us! This podcast expects at least a fifty.

The 75 cent Whopper is back! This week, the boys feel a bit under the weather; Alex is late to the altar; Ray prepares for his Portland adventure; a barbecue at work?!; Nagoya continues to swelter; an important announcement that will leave you shaken!; Meth-ia Roundup; Improv Nowhere; Alex craves validation from the audience, and grab your library card because NoMoWo Book Club is back! We remember when this podcast used to be all orange groves.

74 is not an easy number for puns! Los Whoppers Hermanos talk about having colds; wedding follies; stubborn CEOs; Alex gets a little loopy; the police are called; Evangelion Tres Tres Tres!; Alex's late night joke packet; amazing dreams; and some funny fan! I mean fun! Fan fun! This podcast is the best a man can get.

73 NMW LFP! This week we delve into Alex's mixology; Vita v. Vita and other game talk; M.O.U.R.N.I.N.G. T.H.E. J.R.P.G.; Alex returns to Astoltia; the particulars of Brazilian pop music; one last(?) look at FFXIV and Alex's troubles with the modern game; fully-rounded Fan Fun, and the balcony is manic! This podcast used to play bass for The Scorpions.

On a bicycle built for seventy-two, we talk about Alex's priestly marathon (not Jason Priestley); twin pizza; the Ray commute; a bar related revelation or two; Alex falls head first into a rant about Final Fantasy XIV and why he may not like modern games in general, and Ray tries to stay awake. This podcast is brought to you by Hormel's "Hams Alive" on Broadway.

In 71 AD, the first Fraioli set forth from Rome to bunk over at Baron von Barnholt's stronghold. This week, employment! Alex braves a packed house at Genesis; gearing up for the six-wedding onslaught; waiting in bulk at Costco; Ray steps down to make way for a celebrity host; the FFXIV clusterfuck; the return of Facebook Likes, and another look at Japanese corporate orthodoxy! Keep your friends close, and this podcast closer.

Seventy leagues under the sea, this episode is buried in a gold chest. Inside, chat about Mo Rocca; Alex spoiling the movie The Host and lauding Pacific Rim; video game New Yorker cartoons; the first of billions of stories about Alex in Final Fantasy XIV; and Fan Fun returns! This podcast gets really awkward and fidgety when around other podcasts.

We're just in a constant state of sorry, aren't we? Come back for a full episode next week! Legacy listeners will receive one month FREE.