Hop Topic

The long anticipated, much awaited, debut episode of WHO KILLED CLAIRE?! Trey, Lindsay, Amanda, and Joe sit down for one of the most cursed episodes we've ever recorded (fitting). We start with Trey's microphone being off, which gives us some (unfortunate) Trey-less content at the very end of the episode! But stay tuned, this is only the beginning...

Tyler and Joe sit down for another two person episode. A long, long, two person episode. We ramble, we rant, and we do not shut up. We discuss (among a billion things), our favorite sentimental, disposable trinkets we have and the cruelty of memories... This episode got away from us, but in a good way.

Did you think I was joking about running out of new people? Joining us this week is Devon (seasoned podcast partner veteran) and our friend Mia. Brand new, freshie to the show. We talk about jobs we wanted as a kid and discuss our relationship with sports (primarily as kids).

Hop Topic is back to virtual (and boy does it show). Joe connects with Katie in LA for a sleepy, cross country episode. Katie is yet ANOTHER new podcaster! If you thought I was running out of people you're sorely mistaken. We discuss our ideal partner and green flags we look for in a significant other and juxtapose that with incredible dating app horror stories.

This week on another episode of Cough Topic, Meg and Wren join for the second episode but FIRST in person recording! We discuss the things we are looking forward to in 2023, our emotional schemas, and some quick topics from Meg's brain.

Two four person podcasts in a row? We can't sustain this reckless behavior. But! The podcast welcomes a newbie on the show this week, Emily (New), Joe, Cam, and Vince gather, eat some quick food and open up quick with our topics for the week. We discuss what makes us happy, our best purchase of 2022, Reddit, and things we wish we did more.

We're back in the new year with another four person (then three person) episode. Trey and Amanda join us with a brief appearance from Lindsay to discuss, our new year's resolutions, we debate a freaky friday-esque hypothetical, and discuss our Mount Rushmore of crushes (Mount Crushmore) if you will.

Andrew and Erik join us for their first in person podcast since episode 8! We discuss our Spotify Wrapped, how our kid selves would look at our adult selves, and doing things alone.

We are BACK. God I've missed podcasting. Erica and Dan join the show after a hefty break. We discuss listening to music in playlists, our formative video games, and we bring back the draft! We draft best, worst, and wildcard wedding songs.

Layal returns for her fourth episode, her second one on one show. We float through topics catching up after not seeing each other in over two years and examine where we are now since we saw each other last.

Just when you thought there couldn't be a brand new guest on the show, we continue to surprise. New to the show this week, Chris. Long time listener, first time caller. We (do our very best) to discuss our childhood sexual awakenings and our ideal vacations. We do a bad job.

Webster's dictionary defines "Linchpin" as one that serves to hold together parts or elements that exist or function as a unit. That said, two linchpins join us this week, Dan and Erica, for our first podcast after a short break. We discuss things in life we'd like to make bigger, movies we've found out of an obsession with a certain actor/actress, and things that hold up (or don't) from our past.

Cam and Vince are back for this week's episode where we discuss things that make us mad, the least purchased things in a grocery store, and the last time we cried.

Our 75th episode marks the return of the four person pod. Trey, Amanda, and Lindsay return to discuss our thoughts on kissing, our virginities, times we were bad friends, and our favorite childhood memories.

Cam and Vince join the podcast this week to discuss our personal red flags, our hottest takes, and places that give us anxiety.

Tyler and Cam return for a very different style of episode, a dry topic, a cough topic. We discuss our views on aliens, have they visited us before? We touch on cooking and recipes that we've made and the efficacy of microwaves, and we close with red flags that we actually find attractive.

Erica and Dan return to drink another of Dan's brews. We talk our favorite mountain & beach vacations, reminisce on our favorite childhood shows, and try a new, potentially recurring, segment, drafting romantic comedies.

Devon and Teresa are back after quite a while! We discuss the interworkings of the entertainment industry from all of our varied experiences with our jobs. We then transition to arguing about texting vs calling on the phone (the worst thing you can do to someone), and wrap up with a philosophical.... should you live with someone before you get married? Enjoy this quick, uncharacteristically short, episode.

Cam and Tyler join us to drink a beer Joe has been chasing for years. The Warheads sour ale. We sample 4 different flavors and wax poetic about drinks/flavors we can never have again, different candy's old and new, and our thoughts on marriage.

Chaos erupts on our 70th and first ever four person podcast. Joe hosts Trey and Lindsays sophomore episode as we welcome a newcomer and first ever fourth on the show, Amanda. We have four topics to discuss this week starting with our first experiences with weed, how to know when you're ready to get married, asking the question: is it okay if the girl makes more money in a relationship, and finally who should pay for the first date? It's a long one with the most editing I've ever done. Enjoy, or try to.

It's episode 69 ya'll! (nice). This week we have Matt and Dan back to discuss hobbies we'd pursue if money wasn't an issue, medical enhancements or altercations we'd make to ourselves, and our dream minimum wage, government, and dream jobs if money wasn't an issue. A very moneyless episode!

The first remote episode in almost a year, Andrew and Erik are back for our 2022 resolutions, our opinions on Spider-Man: No Way Home, and our thoughts on some Spongebob conspiracy theories.

After quite the hiatus we are back and just the same as ever. Dan and Erica join me again to discuss our favorite and worst movies of 2021, and we discuss habits we look to break in 2022 (including taking hiatuses).

Dan and Erica are back this week for the start of Dark Beer season (the best time of year). Dan brewed us another six pack that we crack open to discuss more dating app stories, things that are popular that we hate, and conspiracies that we actually believe.

We have two brand new faces (voices) on this episode! Trey and Lindsay join the podcast for another relationship centered discussion. We discuss dating in the world of vaccinations, how texting/instant messaging has impacted relationships, and just how much of your social media your significant other is entitled to.

We're back! (For now), Dan and Erica come back for our first episode in quite a while. Joe's birthday was this week so we discuss some of our favorite birthday stories, things we mastered as kids but can no longer do, and we argue a lot over open relationships. It's a joy to be back.

Dan and Joe welcome podcast newbie Erica to the show. This week, we discuss music from our childhood, our favorite poverty meals, and our drinking firsts.

This week we have our longest intro ever. We're joined by a new trio of old guests, Tyler & Cam. This week we brainstorm ideas for new podcasts we'd each like to make (in theory), the most useless jobs on the planet, and Tyler phones a friend for his topic.

Nigel and Tyler are back for their multiple of 5 episode in episode 60. We discuss our own personal codes and what we consider "illegal" behaviors for ourselves, horror and things we fear, and go through all the topics that we discussed over the last 60 episodes.

Devon and Marie are back this week to discuss Aliens! Our personal vendettas with certain companies/places, and as is tradition we discuss our personalities in one form or another. This time, another, we talk through our results of the Myer-Briggs personality test to see what Es, Ns, Fs, or Js, we are (spoiler).

A new trio of seasoned guests join us this week. Jason and Matt have both been on the show before but never together. We throw the format out and just talk (and realize why we had a format to begin with). We talk black holes, movies everyone but Joe has seen, what the next pirate will be, and Matt gives a quick update on the Blaseball cinematic universe.

Kelsey and Evan are back for their three-peat! We talk about the love hate relationships we have with cats, gathering motivation to exercise and institute healthy habits in 2021, and our plans for travel once we are safely vaccinated.

This week on Hot Topic, I mean "Hop" Topic, we partake in a blatant rip off of a popular internet series. Dan and Sam join me to eat spicy wings and play Truth or Dab, the admittedly not great game, filled with progressively hotter wings and even more lukewarm questions. Will we make it through all ten wings?

Cam and Vince come back to revisit the movies we promised we'd watch last episode. Joe gives his take on The Notebook, while Vince talks through Your Name, we discuss what takes a movie from good to great and what we look for in a perfect movie. Then we transition to playing video games with groups of friends instead of alone, what we look for in an MMO, and games that are just made better with more people.

This week Erik and Andrew are back for our second podcast of the year and our first major historical event of the year... yeah... we discuss the failed insurrection on Capitol Hill (12:00), Twitter (& others) banning Trump from their platforms (46:55), and finally, to settle down and bring some levity, we talk about Wonder Woman and the future of DC movies/TV shows and shows/movies that we're binging now (1:12:50).

After a long holiday break we are back to ring in a new year! Aly joins us on todays episode to talk about the new year and just about everything else. We focus on the idea of replacing resolutions with "themes" and what we hope to make 2021 about!

We have two new faces (voices?) on the podcast this week! Somehow I keep convincing new people to be around me, it's crazy really. Cam and Vince join us this week to drink some winter beer and talk about horror movies/old movies (13:40), something we bought that completely changed our lives (40:18), and finally the COVID-19 Vaccine (1:10:56).

Layal comes back this week for a one-on-one episode full of non-sequitors, and jumping through so many topics we couldn't even list them here. Suffice to say, we talk about relationships, what we're willing to put up with in a relationship, how we fight in a relationship, and ... just a lot of stuff about relationships.

We made it to FIFTY episodes! Absolutely insane. This week we're joined by the most regular cast, Dan and Sam to try some of Dan's home brewed beer and discuss some random topics. On this special episode, we discuss hobbies we picked up in quarantine that we plan on keeping afterward (14:30), TV shows we'd like to bring back (50:35), and we run through our Spotify 2020 Wrapped (1:09:13).

Two guests (who've never done episode together) return for this week's episode. Sam joins us, alongside Dave, making his first appearance in over a year. We talk about tipping points that made us quit our jobs (15:15), our favorite dinosaurs (52:00), and our favorite conspiracy theories (1:02:00).

The roommates are back! Devon and Teresa join us this week on the podcast in a return to form. This week we discuss Devon's turn around on Tik Tok (11:03), Teresa's latest obsession with the classic game Guitar Hero (27:49), and the worst places we've ever been stuck (56:06). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

Andrew and Erik return for an election week wrap-up podcast. We promise we'll get back to our traditional format with severely less politics, but for now, we don't really have any topics. This episode was recorded on Saturday November 7th, hours after news media had called the election for Joe Biden. A lot of this episode is our reactions and thoughts on the election week. Next week we will return to topics! Comedy! And dumb stories. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

The United States had an election this week. Maybe you've heard of it. That's right, this is a politics episode. @ItsPaulWarren from the "Let's Unpack That" podcast joins Joe on the podcast this week to discuss the election and talk about where the Republican party goes from here in a post-Trump world (24:10) and consequently, where the Democratic party will go from here after this election (54:15). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

We're back! (Sorry about that break). We took a quick two week break but we are back for Halloween. Joe visited his friend Devon over the last weekend and sat down with her and her roommate Teresa to talk all things spooky. We discuss our best and worst Halloween costumes (10:13), our favorite Halloween stories (29:30), and our childhood Halloween traditions (55:00). We hope to not have another break like that (unannounced) for a while! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

Erik and Andrew come back and join Joe for this week's episode. We discuss creative projects we're either working on or proud of (17:38), working out with video games and talk through some new games we're playing (49:15), and discuss the idea of a four day work week and what we'd do with more time in our lives (1:19:01). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

We have two new faces (voices?) on this week's episode. Meg and Wren join Joe this week to discuss our favorite Fall/Halloween activities (15:31), our favorite character tropes in TV and movies (37:46), and our favorite TV shows we can watch over and over again (1:01:52). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

Matt is back for another one-on-one episode (we promise we'll be back to the more traditional three person model next week). This week we discuss what kind of travelers we are and how we approach vacationing (15:15), we take a brief aside from this topic to talk about coffee (31:09) and but come back and wrap the topic up (40:22). We close the show talking about Covid (as is customary) and how it has affected our plans for 2020 (56:17). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

We're back on the one-on-one podcast format (we've tested this a lot). Matt from our very first episode (and some others) comes back to catch up with Joe after 6 months of isolation. We catch up and talk through the moments we finally realized we were old (11:40) and what our dream side hustles are (35:56). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

This week Hop Topic tries something new. We do our very first one-on-one episode. Joe catches up with his friend Aly to discuss... just about a million tangents. The topics for this one are too numerous to put in words, but we do go through a lot from the book "The Game of Desire" by Shan Boodram. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

Dan and Jason come back this week to catch up on the shows we've been binging lately (7:40), dive into the idea of government overreach (keeping it light) (36:45), and settled down with discussing the best and worst fantasy worlds to live in (1:11:10). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support

Devon and Marie are back for this week's... semi different episode of Hop Topic. Joe decides to drink any entire bottle of prosecco using his new Manmosa glass while we discuss our most embarrassing childhood stories (10:50), our thoughts on whether or not soul mates really exist (44:44 ), and our thoughts on first dates, and tips to survive them (1:00:49). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hop-topic/support