It's time for more Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by Defining Duke co-host MrMattyPlays and storied game designer David Jaffe. We begin our lengthy chat with a topic that's grown increasingly popular in recent years: Thrifting. Matty has found great value in buying secondhand, and wonders if we've had similar experiences. Colin, meanwhile, wants to delve into our respective brand loyalties -- not the obvious ones! -- but rather some of the automatic brand purchases we make without even thinking about it, from toiletries to clothing and beyond. Dagan harkens back to his earlier days to remember some legends from his youth, stories, people, and events that are almost always heavily-fictionalized if not outright fake, yet persist over the generations. Finally, Jaffe returns to a well-worn and host-favorite topic here on Constellation, and that's UAPs. Recent Congressional hearings, a mysterious new video, and the promise of more to come leaves us with plenty to digest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greetings and salutations! Welcome back to Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by LSM executive producer Dustin Furman and coordinator Micah Moriarty. We have two food-related topics this week, and while they're not similar, we positioned them back-to-back. On the one hand, Dustin wants to talk about his move towards healthier eating, and how our respective daily diets add to or detract from our overall health. Then, Micah dishes about expiration dates, specifically with the things we eat. What is our confidence in these mysterious dates? Are we hardcore followers, or do we throw caution to the wind? Meanwhile, Dagan wants to opine about not only doing good deeds, but being on the receiving end as well, and how the reciprocity therein helps make the world go 'round. Finally, one listener compiled some interesting data about our humble podcast Constellation, and Colin goes through some of it, wondering how the show may morph and improve into the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by Punching Up's Gene Park and -- for the first time ever! -- Summon Sign's Brad Ellis. Colin begins this week off by asking everyone how they spent their holiday breaks. Did we rest? Game? Read, watch TV or a movie, or spend time with family? It turns out we did a little bit of everything. Dagan has recently become captivated with the so-called Tetris Kid, a 13 year old midwesterner who obliterated the NES port of the famous Soviet-era game. Being that we have skateboarder Dagan as a co-host, Brad wanted to discuss extreme sports, their rise into the mainstream, and which iterations we've most taken to in our lives. Finally, Gene ends the show on an appropriately down note, as we go into various examples of rejection that have befallen us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome one-and-all to yet another episode of Last Stand Media's conversational podcast, Constellation. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by Defining Duke co-host Lord Cognito and legendary game designer David Jaffe. Colin has an important question for his fellow gamers: Just what do we mean when we say 'role-playing game'? Do we need to be more specific with our classifications and definitions, or are we comfortable with Madden being an RPG? Cog wants to know how we deal with defeat and loss in life. We all feel an inner energy and competition, but how do we limit those feelings in public and learn to let go? Jaffe has rediscovered his long-dormant love of reading, and wants to share his passion with the crew. Where does reading fit into our lives? Finally, Dagan just turned 50, and as such, he's wondering about missed opportunities, specifically when it comes to those random pursuits that you just never get around to. If we could drop everything right now and learn something new, do something fun and exciting, or explore the unknown, how would we use that time? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome one-and-all to yet another episode of Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. Accompanying the Brothers Moriarty this week are Gene Park and Micah Watson of Punching Up: A Nintendo Podcast. Since we're a cast full of writers, Dagan thought he'd probe our respective approaches to the craft, where we draw inspiration, and how we came to love the written word. Micah reflects on an old internet cartoon from her high school years, Salad Fingers. What is it that we love about surrealist and absurdist humor on the internet, and what are some of our favorite examples of similar fare? As a Washington DC resident, Gene has noticed first-hand the rise in criminality in his own city, and wonders if and when we as a society will get our heads around solving our myriad criminal justice-related problems. Finally, Colin wants to chat about Elon Musk. Do you love him, hate him, or fall somewhere in between? Is he an inspiration, a menace, a distraction, or perhaps just an annoyance? Believe it or not, no one holds back in their responses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Constellation, Last Stand's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by LSM executive producer Dustin Furman, and -- for the first time -- popular YouTuber Finn Mckenty, the Punk Rock MBA. Let's get into the topics, shall we? Knowing that Finn is a fellow music connoisseur, Colin wants to probe his mind about one of his beloved musical genres: Raprock. Does it deserve more respect? And why is it experiencing a resurgence in recent years? Keeping seasonality in mind, Dustin's topic is Christmas, something fun for children but bastardized by commerce nonetheless. As adults, do we even care anymore? Finn's keen to chat about reality TV: Its history, its long run of success stories, and how it inspired our entertainment lives. Finally, Dagan's topic is one for the ages, all about our favorite bad guys in fiction. If we had to construct a so-called Mount Rushmore of Villainy, who would adorn it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greetings! Welcome back to Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by LSM Associate Producer Ben Smith and Lockmort of Lockmort's Edits on our YouTube channel. We start today's podcast off with a basic topic that spawns a substantial back-and-forth: Shoes. Are they important to us, style and/or function? What are our favorite brands? And so on. We then veer into more serious territory, as Lockmort gives us the rundown on a gallbladder-related situation that saw him visiting the ER multiple times. Have we ever experienced any unexpected medical catastrophes? Ben wants to chat (pun intended) about so-called internet friends, the people we've met -- and perhaps only know -- online. How much of our social life is consumed by a new style of camaraderie? Finally, Colin wants to discuss a recent claim out of American company OpenAI: That something is going on behind the scenes there with its Q-Star AGI program that may threaten humanity. Or so says a Reuters report. But what does that even mean? We get into it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time for Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by Punching Up co-host Gene Park and legendary games designer David Jaffe. Our topics are many-varied on this lengthy episode, and we begin with Jaffe, who has recently started taking the mega-popular medicine Ozempic. Like many others on the drug, he likes what he's seeing so far and wants to tell the tale. From there, we go to the idea of aging out of interests, spurred on by Gene's lapse in both listening to and playing music as a hobby. Meanwhile, Dagan's curious about our first names: What we think about them, our experiences with them in life, and perhaps even some names we wish we wielded instead. Finally, Colin checks-in with the cast for their early 2024 US election thoughts. As the field takes shape, which candidates are most appealing so far? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome one-and-all to another episode of Constellation, Last Stand's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by LSM executive producer Dustin Furman and horror YouTuber Jimmy Champane. Colin starts things off in earnest with a conversation about the recent rise in antisemitism in the west. This isn't about Israel and Palestine -- that's its own thing, and it's an issue far too complex for this show -- but what isn't complicated is truly seeing people as individuals, and not as parts of evermore-subdivided groups. Changing the tone entirely, we move to Dagan. The topic? Humor. What makes us laugh? It's an easy enough question to conceptualize, and yet it's deeper than mere subject matter when it comes to the times in our lives when we laugh 'til we cry. Our guest Jimmy talks about a subject near-and-dear to all of our hearts here on this episode: Handheld gaming. Let's go through our respective histories with handhelds from Sony, Nintendo, SEGA, and beyond, and why we fell in love with lo-fi gaming. Finally, Dustin wraps things up with a food-related topic that left us hungry by episode's end. What do our daily meals look like, specifically when it comes to dinner? How do we switch things up, and what are our classic go-to selections? The answers may surprise you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gather 'round for another episode of Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. Joining the Brothers Moriarty this week is LSM's coordinator and shopkeep Micah Watson, alongside Sacred Symbols co-host Chris Ray Gun. Dagan gets us started by asking us each to pitch a new video game to the audience, and naturally delivers a delightful idea of his own as well. Micah's nail person recently moved shops, and that presents a problem: She has no idea what salon she's defected to. She's turned to internet sleuthing to solve the case. Chris wants to chat about breakups and how they present themselves in our lives. Sometimes they're our choice; other times we're blindsided by them. What memories come to mind when the topic comes up? Finally, Colin ends with something silly: The humble egg. Fresh off an 'argument' between he and Micah about how eggs should be cooked and consumed, he goes to bat for why eggs may be the best food of them all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices