You're a night watchmen at the Smithsonian. You spend your time in between rounds by watching season 2 of Togetherness. You dread finishing each episode as you know you are moving closer to the end. It's about time to make your rounds again. Everything seems business as usual until you get to That Room. You hate going in there. Even though the entire building is lit with minimal lighting this late, it seems darker in here. Colder too. You do the cursive glance you always do, enough to make out any shapes that shouldn't belong but not too much that you have to actually focus on any particular object. But this time you do. You have to. Something is off. A case in the center of the room is lit in a peculiar way. There's a violet glow. You're not sure if it's actually there or if you're imagining it, but you wouldn't be doing your job if you didn't check it out. You make your way to the case and the contents within start to form out of the darkness. A harpoon tip. A whale oil lamp. An assortment of doubloons.  And a pipe. A scrimshaw pipe. You have forgotten why you even came over to the cabinet but now you can't look away. Something about the etchings in the pipe is familiar. No, not something. Someone. Someone you've been watching on your laptop all night. Startled, you move your head away from the case, only to see the same face in the reflection of the glass. Mark Duplass. \\

Things Discussed:
Room 104 (https://www.hbo.com/room-104)
Apple Arcade
Nintendo Online
Gato Roboto (https://www.gatoroboto.com/)
Heave Ho (https://www.heavehogame.com/) \\

Required Reading:
Aaron: Togetherness
Andrew: Over the Garden Wall \\

Huge thanks to friend-of-the-show Dillon Lee for doing our new intro sound. You can check out his music at https://deel.bandcamp.com/.

You can find the t-shirts for our other podcast, The Bargain Bin, here: https://teespring.com/stores/badgamespod

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at acrossthelakeshow@gmail.com. Lastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

17: M*rk Dupl*ss

After a long hiatus, your heroes return to talk about all the things you love to hear us talk about, like the VitaCoco piss-in-a-bottle thing and the films of Stuart Gordon. We also rank 5 different root beers in a blind taste test. What is this show about? It's good to be back.

16: The One With All The Root Beer

We interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast feed to bring you something new. Join hosts Andrew, PJ, and Aaron as they wade through video games forgotten to time to see if they deserve to be remembered. Welcome to The Bargain Bin: A Bad Videogame Podcast.

If you like what you hear, come on over to https://soundcloud.com/thebargainbin or bit.ly/videojames to subscribe to the show. Or search "The Bargain Bin" in whatever podcatcher you use.

Thank you to @RoccoW for the theme music.

The Bargain Bin 1: Duke Nukem Forever

You're in a theatre. Looking in your hands you find a bucket of popcorn you don't remember paying for. No one around you seems to be missing their movie-going concessions. The trailers start and you see a woman. Her cell begins to ring. Face white, she frantically searches for the source. Before she can silence its tone, she's gutted by the psychopath you paid admission to see. Did you turn your cell phone off? Realizing your hands are full of ill-gotten snacks, you come to a haunting conclusion: You must eat all of this popcorn before death come ringing for you. \\

Things Discussed:
The Haunting of Hill House: https://www.netflix.com/title/80189221 |
Halloween (1979): https://imdb.to/2ABKxQa |
Halloween (2018): https://imdb.to/2yEu6Rb \\

Required Reading:
Aaron: The Descent (2005):  https://imdb.to/2PyGNHv |
Andrew: Train to Busan (2016): https://imdb.to/2Sxj7SD \\

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at acrossthelakeshow (at) gmail (dot) com. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. \\

Special thanks this week to friend of the show Deel for doing the spooky version of our theme this month. Find his music here: bit.ly/2CUmLkK.
And as usual thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art: twitter.com/georgemager?s=09.
And thank you to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme: captiveportalmusic.com/.

15: The REAL Halloween Special

In this extra long special episode, the boys play Who's on First, except with who played Elsa from Frozen, Aaron hosts the podcast by himself for a bit, and Andrew survived a haunted mansion and all he got was this lousy t-shirt. Due to technical issues, this episode is two separate recording spliced together so brace yourself for some nonlinear storytelling.  (We missed you). \\

Things Discussed:
Pulse (2006): https://imdb.to/2Ct7xSQ |
Frozen (2013): https://imdb.to/2R0Xs3A  |
Frozen (2010): https://imdb.to/2q1R9S0 |
Spiders Responsible for Creepy Nursery Rhyme: https://bit.ly/2QCIHV5 |
Carrie (1976): https://imdb.to/2EuovD3 |
@dasharez0ne: https://bit.ly/2ypfvth |
Bowling |
Wii Bowling 100-Pin Challenge secret: 
https://bit.ly/2RWa6SG |
Shudder |
Sadako Vs. Kayako (2016): https://imdb.to/2CShlXw |
House of the Devil (2009): https://imdb.to/2CqfXum |
Let the Right One In (2008): https://imdb.to/2QVzkPM |
Let Me In (2010): https://imdb.to/2CStVGh |
Andrew cancels his Broadway HD subscription |
Winchester Mystery House \\

Required Reading:
Aaron: The collective works of Stephen King |
Andrew: Too Many Cooks / Don't Hug Me I'm Scared \\

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at acrossthelakeshow (at) gmail (dot) com. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

Special thanks this week to friend of the show Deel for doing the spooky version of our theme this month. Find his music here: https://bit.ly/2CUmLkK.
And as usual thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art: https://twitter.com/georgemager?s=09.
 And thank you to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme: https://captiveportalmusic.com/.

14: Tony's Paranormal Construction

Aaron interrogates Andrew about his new pets, through which they discover the star studded cast of G-Force 2(?!). Andrew talks a lot about the new Spider-Man game.

Things Discussed:
Andrew's new children |
G-Force (2009) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436339/) |
G-Force 2 (2019)  (http://ideas.wikia.com/wiki/G-Force_2) |
Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) |
Various Spider-Man games |
Holedown (https://holedown.com/) \\

Required Reading:
Aaron: Teens of Denial by Car Seat Headrest. |
Andrew: Paper Girls. \\

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at acrossthelakeshow@gmail.com. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

As always, thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art (https://twitter.com/georgemager?s=09) and thanks to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme (https://captiveportalmusic.com/).

13: spiderman hot coffee mod how

Longing. Rusted. Poopaye. Dawn. Gooba. Nine. Bum bum. Homecoming. Banana. Good morning, Soldier. You are ready to comply. Your targets are the hosts of the podcast Across the Lake. Aaron was last seen at an IKEA, browsing the store and praising it's cleanly capitalist design. Andrew has been home alone for the weekend, watching The Twilight Zone and listening to the Burger King Official Roleplaying Podcast. Actually, removing them from their pitiful existence would be a mercy we will not allow. Disregard. \\

Things Discussed:
Dynamic ad insertion and digitally-inserted ads: https://www.slashfilm.com/wtf-zookeeper-advertising-inserted-how-met-mother-reruns/ |
Aaron has a follow up to the previous IKEA discussion |
Tragedy Girls (2017): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3859272/ |
Burger King Official Role-Playing Podcast: https://t.co/jMAaAQcVgQ |
Burger King's Black Burger: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/08/why-black-whopper-turns-your-poop-green/73623596/ |
The Nasty Patty: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/101/745/c39 |
Bundyville: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville |
The Twilight Zone: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/ |
The Intruder (1962): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055019/ |
Justified: (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489428/) \\

Required Reading:
Aaron: Visiting your local library. |
Andrew: Becoming an expert on where you live. \\

Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at acrossthelakeshow@gmail.com and check out our shiny new YouTube channel: bit.ly/2MtAMdL. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

As always, thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art (https://twitter.com/georgemager?s=09) and thanks to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme (https://captiveportalmusic.com/).

12: All Feds are Cops

11: Michael Chiclets by Aaron Hillsamer & Andrew Darling

11: Michael Chiclets

After a long, impromptu break, Aaron wrestles with the realization that even our heroes die, Andrew wonders if Nintendo is deliberately holding your nostalgia hostage, and both boys can't get enough Queer Eye (who can?). //

Things Discussed:
The Death of Luigi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV2T3B9yixw |
Nintendo of America on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2ncbcM9 |
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: https://bit.ly/2nB4dwc |
Nintendo's disinterest in preserving video game history: https://bit.ly/2KWykYr & https://bit.ly/2LvDMWs 
Flappy Bird: https://bit.ly/2P6wmbe |
Queer Eye on Netflix: https://bit.ly/2JwT9J2 |
Holedown: A delightful spectacle of bouncing: https://bit.ly/2nAo66z |
Dark Tourist on Netflix: https://bit.ly/2KGaK21 //

Required Reading:
Aaron: Succession (2018): This is a new drama series on HBO that follows a very rich, very horrible family as they constantly screw each other over and ruin lives in the process. Also, it’s funny! |
Andrew: Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009): Andrew has been playing a lot of stealth games lately, and it’s making him reflect fondly upon one of the best stealth games of all time. It’s a fun game and a great way to get into Batman AND stealth games. //

Email us your questions, concerns, and SOE expertise! acrossthelakeshow@gmail.com and check out our shiny new YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2MtAMdL. Lastly, but not leastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //

As always, thank you to George Mager for doing our wonderful show art: tinyurl.com/y9tkceno and thanks to Captive Portal for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme: tinyurl.com/yamtgc6k.

10: Super Smash Bros. Dreams Collection

The guys took a week off and are back! It feels like that phrase appears a lot, but alas, here we are. A lot of time is spent talking about horses in Breath of the Wild, but somehow, even more time is spent talking about IKEA. Podcasts, huh? //

Things Discussed:
Inexplicably, An Extremely Goofy Movie  (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208185/) |
IKEA, IKEA Meatballs: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/world/europe/ikea-recalls-its-meatballs-horse-meat-is-detected.html, (This wan't talked about but Aaron thought it was worth sharing) a Song about IKEA by that guy that did the Portal song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUPu_ipbVB0, and this bench that Andrew likes from IKEA: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S69162599/ |
Breath of the Wild |
This website of Goth names that Andrew loves: https://blackrose.co.uk/blog/the-ultimate-a-z-of-gothic-names/ //

Require Reading:
Aaron: What We Do in the Shadows (2014) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/) |
Andrew: Breaking Bad (2008) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) //

Special thanks to this Bandcamp page(?) for the perfect How To Train Your Dragon Instructional Video music heard in this episode: https://underwaterinstrumental.bandcamp.com/track/underwater-instrumental //

You can contact us at acrossthelakeshow@gmail.com or on Twitter here: https://tinyurl.com/thelakepod. We also have a Discord where you can chat with us and read and watch the stuff that we're into each week @ https://discord.gg/GCec3Ga //

As always, thank you to George Mager (https://tinyurl.com/y9tkceno) for doing our wonderful show art. And thanks to Captive Portal (https://tinyurl.com/yamtgc6k) to for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme.

9: Big Horse

This week the boys makes the yearly sacrifice: ignoring their loved ones and responsibilities, to consume the Electronic Entertainment Expo's offerings. Was it worth it? Is it ever? Tune in to find out. //

Things Discussed:

E3 |
Jump Force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U50iYupwBE |
Bethesda's Press Conference: https://kotaku.com/everything-bethesda-showed-at-e3-2018-1826716886 |
Fallout 76: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9FGaan35s0 |
Sony's Press Conference: https://kotaku.com/everything-sony-showed-at-e3-2018-1826747576 |
The Last of Us Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btmN-bWwv0A |
Nintendo's Press Conference: https://kotaku.com/everything-nintendo-showed-at-e3-2018-1826765939 |
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHRwMmwbFnA //

Required Reading:

Aaron: The Last of Us (2013). |
Andrew: The Last of Us soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla. //

You can contact us at acrossthelakeshow@gmail.com or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/thelakepod. We also have a Discord where you can chat with us and read and watch the stuff that were into each week @ https://discord.gg/TGuCRw. //

As always, thank you to George Mager (twitter.com/georgemager?s=09) for doing our wonderful show art. And thanks to Captive Portal (https://captiveportalmusic.com) for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme.

8: Pac-Sun

We're back! A lot has changed in the last month. Andrew moved. Everything broke. But it's all good now. We can finally deliver that mediocre content you all crave. This week the fellas wonder what would a Legend of Zelda dating show look like? Also, Watchmen's still kickin, huh? And they recommend a music podcast. And they recommend a music podcast. And they recommend a music podcast.

Discussed:
Nintendo Switch Online: everything we know: https://bit.ly/2HvbCF3
Damon Lindelof's letter: https://bit.ly/2sPGZVv





Required Reading:
Everything is a Remix: https://bit.ly/2bcrbUR
Sample Study: https://bit.ly/2JEoPAt
Dissect: https://bit.ly/2t34Pvp
Song Exploder: https://bit.ly/1dji163

7: Bret Michaels: The Link Of Love

Aaron had computer troubles this week, so instead of your regularly scheduled program, we go back in time. The Big Sick has just come out, Aaron is watching GLOW, apparently, and Andrew isn't sure if he's in the right universe. //

Things Discussed: 
The Matrix |
Wild Wild West |
John Wick |
Hancock |
GLOW |
Maron |
Sounds Dangerous |
Star Tours //

Required Reading: [Hasn't been invented yet] //

And for the first time, again, thank you to George Mager (https://tinyurl.com/y9tkceno) for doing our wonderful show art. And thanks to Captive Portal (captiveportalmusic.com) for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme.

6: The Matrix Rap That Never Was

It's a special sleepy episode. It could be ASMR if Andrew wasn't yelling the whole time. The boys stayed up way to late and try to talk about Nintendo's cardboard and Infinity War while maintaining coherent thought. Try. Listen to this one at 2 in the morning after watching a 3 hour movie with too many characters for an enhanced experience. //

Things Discussed:
Nintendo Labo |
Nirvana the Band the Show |
Avengers: Infinity War //

No Required Reading this week :) //

As always, thank you to George Mager (twitter.com/georgemager?s=09) for doing our wonderful show art. And thanks to Captive Portal (captiveportalmusic.com) for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme.

5: Captain American Chopper

Make sure to listen to this episode with headphones on, or the ear monsters will getcha! Aaron and Andrew discuss the recently released horror film A Quiet Place, which, naturally, devolves in to a discussion about the quality of the Tremors films. Andrew also talks shit about the new Han Solo while assuring everyone that he's not an Angry Star Wars Fan.  //

Things Discussed:

Campo Santo's mischievous blog post: http://blog.camposanto.com/post/173170027579/campo-santo-news |
A Quiet Place: https://tinyurl.com/y952phqf |
Solo: A Star Wars Story: https://tinyurl.com/ydastpo2 
Nintendo Labo announcement: This Sunday, the 29th, Andrew will be streaming his first impressions of the Labo at noon EST. Follow him ( https://tinyurl.com/y9x8t8xd) to get a reminder of when he goes live //

Required Reading:

Aaron:  Southeastern (2013) by Jason Isbell. Aaron’s idea of “country music, but good.” It’s full of beautiful songs and great stories. Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y88tnz76 |
Andrew: The commentary tracks from the 2007 DVD release of Star Wars featuring Ben Burtt. Highlights can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/y7kdcrxk //

As always, thank you to George Mager (https://twitter.com/georgemager?s=09) for doing our wonderful show art. And thanks to Captive Portal (https://captiveportalmusic.com) for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme.

4: Good Dad, Quiet Dad

This week, the boys do a little spooky radio theatre to kick things off. Then talk about their adventures in the post apocalyptic worlds of Breath of the Wild (where Aaron is chased by bees) and Mad Max (where Andrew is doing some chasing of his own). Stick around and we might actually thank our listeners this time. //

Things Discussed: 
Flight 180 by Jeffrey Riddick: https://tinyurl.com/oy2ytdo | 
Breath of the Wild |
Mad Max (2015): https://tinyurl.com/ovwmak6 |
Andrew rides eternal, shiny and chrome: https://clips.twitch.tv/ShyThirstyRadishMVGame |
Kéké Flipnote on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kekeflipnote | 
Detective Pikachu: https://tinyurl.com/y9oxzhpq | 
The Spider-Man trailer from E3 2017: https://tinyurl.com/y7tqjct5 //

Required Reading: 
Aaron: Advanced Wars (2001) - One of Aaron’s favorite Game Boy Advance games which he didn’t explain very well, so here’s a video that does a better job: https://tinyurl.com/ycnv5u5p |
Andrew: Nirvana the Band the Show (https://tinyurl.com/y8sr52dg) //

As always, thank you to George Mager (https://twitter.com/georgemager?s=09) for doing our wonderful show art. And thanks to Captive Portal (captiveportalmusic.com) for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme.

3: Enough About Reggie's Lips

It's a vacation recap episode of Across the Lake. In our second episode, we talk shit about the cities we visited over the last few weeks. Aaron's car is destroyed for the sake of knowledge and Andrew eats at a Very Good Taco Bell.

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Required Reading:

Aaron: Atlanta

Andrew: Idle Thumbs (https://www.idlethumbs.net/)

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Things Discussed:

Joan Cornella comic: https://twitter.com/sirjoancornella/status/979968490600775680?s=09

Ozark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)

Twin Peaks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_(restaurant_chain)

Pacifica Taco Bell: http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-best-taco-bell-pacifica-california-2017-6

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As always, thank you to George Mager (https://twitter.com/georgemager) for doing our wonderful show art. And thanks to Captive Portal (https://captiveportalmusic.com/) for letting us use their dope track as our intro theme.

2: Anyway, Whatever, Fuck It

Two friends. Separated by the second largest body of fresh water in North America. But not even that will stop them from asking stupid bullshit like: Did your mom write Black Sabbath's Iron Man? What is the dark connection between Buffalo Wild Wings and Sport(s)Clips? And, oh, shit, we actually just talked about the Buffalo Wild Wings thing for like 40 minutes. //

Things discussed:

Black Sabbath's Iron Man lyrics, featuring a legendary internet comment: https://tinyurl.com/y7hkcfbh |
Every Frame a Painting: https://tinyurl.com/mf3hw7e |
The Nerdwriter1 video that Andrew has been watching on loop: https://tinyurl.com/yd54g4eb |
Rowan Atkinson's Laughing Matters: https://tinyurl.com/y82s45f5 |
Ace Venture Hallway Scene: https://tinyurl.com/mbxuyfh |
Macklemore Cut His "Hitler Youth" Haircut And Now People Are Thanking Him: https://tinyurl.com/y7xntkmu //

Required Reading:

Aaron: The collective works of Paul Thomas Anderson |
Andrew: A Series of Fortunate Events book series //

**Despite visiting SportClips, Andrew is NOT a white supremacist. //

Huge thanks to George Mager (https://twitter.com/georgemager) for our wonderful album art. And also thank to Captive Portal (https://captiveportalmusic.com/) for letting us use their dope track for our intro music.

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