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And so, we wind down another year here at the Sockscast with the grand finale of our 2022 Games of the Year celebration, covering entries 5 through 1 and of course that entire silo full of your wonderful listener lists! We'll catch you all again sometime after the new year!

Here it is! The one lots of you have been waiting for! The Sockscast Gmae of the Year extravaganza returns once more for another healthy celebration of the best in gaming and today we're gonna be tackling our entries 10 through 6...and OH MY GOD SO MANY LISTENER LISTS HELP US WE ARE DROWNI---

The year in music is over and what a year it was! We talked about so many incredible albums this year on We Like Bad Music Only, and now it's time to see if any of them actually make the grade here at the end of things! Today we tackle our picks 10-6 AND we have some listener lists to get through!

The year in music is over and what a year it was! We talked about so many incredible albums this year on We Like Bad Music Only, and now it's time to see if any of them actually make the grade here at the end of things! Today we tackle our picks 10-6 AND we have some listener lists to get through!

It's our last regularly scheduled Sockcast of the year, and we're taking you out in style with John's exciting Baldur's Gate adventures, Polly's fascination with aging and increasingly irrelevent performance arts, and Rhete's insatiable desire to DEVOUR!

If you ever thought to yourself, "Gosh, I sure would like to listen to a 2 hour podcast that is about 75% comprised of discussion about Falcom's Trails series," well we've got the episode for you! But Polly also discusses The Good Place in this episode too, if you wanna find out how that went!

Just because summer's starting to lazily wind down over here in WLBMOland doesn't mean that the party don't keep goin'? Your pals Taylor, Polly, and Psychic Heist are back with another grip of good tunes for your earholes!

Autumn begins to descend upon your pals at the Sockscast and we're gonna do the only thing we know how to do! Talk into microphones about all the dumb things we've been up to! Rhete put the cap on Xenoblade Chronicles Episode 3, John's latest AliceSoft adventure also comes to a close, and Polly finds out that there truly is no return from eighty-six.

As promised, the We Like Bad Music Only crew finally gets around to talking about Coheed and Cambria's latest entry in their ongoing space opera, Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind. In this episode we're joined by special guest and fellow Coheed nerd, DrDoobie!

And the heat rolls on here on the Sockscast's site of the world, but we're here with some refreshing new conversation with Rhete's hot new Xenoblade adventures, John digging through his big ol bag of SNES tapes, and Polly serving up a hot cup of meh!

The first half of the year is over and now we're ready to dive head-first into the second half of the year to find the best that Planet Music has to offer!

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On this very special spoilercast edition of the Sockscast, Polly is joined by AFlatCap, Nert, and Twintail_Nami, for an extensive deep-dive into River Crow Studio's psychological thriller visual novel Corpse Factory. Are you prepared to explore all the secrets sealed within Corpse Girl's sarcophagus?

Beat the heat with your pals at We Like Bad Music Only, with Taylor, Psychic Heist, and Polly delivering the coolest and most refreshing releases that dropped in June!

Kept you waiting, huh? Don't worry, your Sockscast Pals are all back up in your grill and in this episode we've got Rhete reaching the end of another chapter of the Trails saga, Polly's playing with corpses and invading dreams again, and John's relationship with witches is getting, well...a little bumpy.

May comes stormin' in with a hot new slate of fantastic musical offerings for your pals at the Album Listening Club to parse out and we definitely got some bangers for ya this time around!

Why not turn off the worries of the world for a little bit and have a nice little three-hour chill with your pals at the Sockscast? This episode's packed to the gills (because it's a fish!) with John's big adventure game...adventures, Rhete's glorious return to the troubled land of Erebonia, and Polly's crystal ball materializing things of the future.

Real life gets in the way sometimes, but that doesn't mean that yer pals Taylor, Polly, and Psychic "Dad Vibes" Heist won't still make time to go over their notable music releases for the month of April!

It feels like we've finally left the world's longest winter behind us and your Sockspals are feeling quite a bit more energized this episode! This time around, John's gone waaaay down the CRPG hole a few decades, Rhete's rogueish legacy may have hit a snag or two along the way, and Polly's hoping to make sure the future remains connected.

The year's getting into full-swing music-wise and March was quite the heavy haul of really good tunes to be checked out, and your pals at We Like Bad Music Only are gonna break it all down for ya!

It's Chocolate Bunny day here in America Podcast Land and we're filling your holiday basket full of some of the best podcast conversation around! In this episode, Polly's building a giant robot, Rhete's Elden Ring journey sees its conclusion, and John's Torment will be laid bare for all to see!

Spring has sprung and that doesn't have anything at all to do with the fact that we got you a whole new episode of the Sockscast! This time around Rhete's Elden Ring journey continues, the stars have aligned for John and Rhete's Review of Revue Starlight extravaganza, and Polly's selections for this episode can only be deemed as truly "Defintiive."

February of 2022 has come and gone and you know what that means! Your pals Taylor, Psychic Heist, and Polly in the very special We Like Bad Music Only treehouse have the Top Picks For You for the month!

We got ourselves an absolutely packed episode this time around with John making sure that Final Fantasy IX gets the send off it so rightly deserves, Rhete making absolutely sure he's not Maidenless, and Polly's running from the amazing sound of the killing hordes!

No need to feel lonely on Valentine's Day! Your pals at the Sockscast are here to fill your heart with nothing but the warmest of affections! Up first, we discover some hard truths about Final Fantasy IX, Rhete's diving even deeper into the Erebonian crisis, Polly's stricken by beautiful art, and John's goin' to the movies!

Your pals at the Sockscast may be stuck inside freezin' through the winter, but that doesn't mean we didn't have time to get up to some good good content. Polly took a trip back to Fairune in search of fantasy walls, John arrived fresh-faced and ready for good times on Rokkenjima Island, and Rhete's virtual experiences are making him feel more badass than ever.

Welcome to 2022, the year after the last seven years of the last two years! Your Sockscast pals are back with a glut of things they've been up to in order to keep your ears nice and warm through all these cold fronts! Up first, Rhete's Revue review will leave you reviewing your own feelings, Polly's rejoined Monika's literature club after having second thoughts, and John may be the Bluest Revolver we know.

And we close out our annual Socks celebrations with the 2021 Game of the Year finale! There's not a whole lot to say here folks. All of our and your games are so awesome we needed almost four hours to talk about them all!

It's cream of the crop time! The absolute best music had to offer in 2021 is here on display as Taylor, Psychic Heist, and Polly wrap their lists from 5 to 1 as well as an exciting listener-contributed AUDIO list!

We made it and we're glad to see that you made it too! It's time for day one of The Sockscast's Top 10 Games of 2021! Today we'll be going over our own entries 10 through 6 as well as shoveling ourselves out of the first great big pile of listener lists that arrived on our doorstep!

2021 was an astonishingly exciting and eclectic year for music. It was a year where every Friday was a new land of opportunities, and your pals at the Album Listening Club have put the culmination of all that together in podcast form! Today, Polly, Taylor, and Psychic Heist count down their top 10 albums with entries 10 through 6 and dive into a couple of listener lists as well!

2021 was an astonishingly exciting and eclectic year for music. It was a year where every Friday was a new land of opportunities, and your pals at the Album Listening Club have put the culmination of all that together in podcast form! Today, Polly, Taylor, and Psychic Heist count down their top 10 albums with entries 10 through 6 and dive into a couple of listener lists as well!

And we arrive at our final regularly scheduled Sockscast of 2021 before our end of the year festivities begin on December 21st! We close the year out with Rhete's final thoughts on Japanese Cartoon Capital-R Romance, John's devotion to his many, many wives, and Polly's recent acceptance into the Fight With Your Big Ol Brain Army.

The SnS Album Listening Club makes a special return visit to your podcast headspace! Proof that there's plenty to still be thankful for! This episode, the ALC welcomes a new member to the table, Psychic Heist, who brings a huge love and knowledge of music with him! And we're gonna use all that expertise to review the new Limp Bizkit offering Still Sucks! This is how you utilize your talent pool, folks.

Did you know it's Game of the Year season? Well, you'll find out right at the start of his hot new episode of The World's Favorite and Only Podcast about Videogames! Once things get rollin', John lets us know if Konosuba can keep up the steam for its last three volumes, Rhete's school idol days are well and truly never-ending, and Polly's caught between a rock and two love interests.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, ALL OF YA SCARIES! Celebrate the scaring season with your Sockscast pals as we...well...just kinda do what we always do! But more spooky! Probably! In this thrilling episode John's light novel obsession may be out of control at this point, Rhete's a squid now, and find out how things went for Polly and John at the Bad End Theater! There's also another BIG OL Metroid love fest at the end of this one, so you have been warned!

Ring in autumn with your Sockscast pals! In this episode, the next leg of John's Xeno journey comes to a close, Polly's up to some comedic stealth shenanigans, and Rhete's still not gonna do anything but watch a bunch of anime! There's also some Metroid Prime discussion near the end of the episode, but nothing spoilery, but we give you a chance to bail once you get there if you still wanna stay blind.

Yoooo yer Sockscast pals are back and we're gonna get you all caught up on the various shenanigans we've been up to for the last month. Rhete's either still in the midst of or is now recovering from Anime Salvo 2021 Part 2, John just can't stop getting pulled into alternate worlds, and Polly's finally gone full on virtual.

Your Sockscast dreams have finally come true, it's The Rhete Episode! He took a two-week vacation and binged every single bit of anime he possibly could, and we're gonna hear about a lot of 'em! John also indulged in some more western animated tomfoolery. We cap the episode off with an impromptu Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time spoilercast, but don't worry, we give you a chance to bail if you're looking to stay blind to that!

Welcome to a new era of the podcast! Right up at the top, our good pal Taylor welcomes you with our new podcast intro theme, "It's The Only Podcast," so huge thanks for that and we hope you enjoy too! Once the show gets-a-rollin', John's gonna take us on a lovely trip through Itch World, where all the good small games live, Rhete's Yakuza Quest wraps up with a critical hit, and Polly's diving into the blood and guts of the newest Mortal Kombat flick!

It's the BIG ASS WELCOME BACK episode of the podcast and we are just chock full to the brim with nothing but that good stuff. John's on a shmup binge to end all shmup binges, Rhete's Crossbell adventures reach a staggering and mind-blowing climax, and Polly's death marching to the end of the world.

The Sockscast will be going on a 4-8 week hiatus! This is the short announcement about that!

If ya need yourself something comfy and cozy to relax to, I'm sure this jam-packed episode of The Sockscast has you covered in one way or another. John's waited 358/2 Days to finally be able to talk about Kingdom Hearts again, Rhete's adventures in Crossbell are gettin' mighty spicy, and Polly's making contracts with demons and that's probably okay...we think...

The Sockscast is ready to get all back up in them earholes with another episode full of absolute bangers you won't wanna miss. Rhete's hopefully going to realize his dream of seeing his favorite idol perform at the Budokan, John's recently acquired bounty hunter's license is coming in handy, and Polly's having nightmares about how good everything's she's bringing to the show is! On top of that, FreezingInferno joins us for an in-depth Fate discussion literally everyone's been waiting for!

We're off to the races with another finger lickin' good episode of your favorite hear no evil, see no evil, talkin' no bullshit podcast. In this episode, John's going full dumpster dive, Polly's brought nothing but bangers, and Rhete needs us to help deconstruct the idea of horse girls and the world they live in.

We're joined this episode by Nert, a fellow streamer and all around rad duder and he's gonna learn us about some time looping werewolf and be our best buddy! Also this episode, John has rediscovered his Devil May Cool, Rhete holds a public execution for John, and Polly has NO time for any dang videogames, only cartoons!

Another fresh hot serving of Sockscast for your special pretty and very important face comin' right up! In this bursting with spring energy edition, John's keeping things Simpe and Clean, Polly's once again doused herself in blood, and Rhete's putting a cap on Operation: Northern Cross.

This episode starts off with quite the banger of a discussion. You're just gonna have to trust me on this one. Once things have calmed down and we're recovered however, John's gonna catch your heart with a little bit of Precure, Rhete's on a mission to find out of war ever truly changes, and Polly's experiences in witchcraft may have ended up a bit uneven. After all that, Rhete and John have a completely non-spoilery discusson about OMORI starting at 1:44:43 lasting through the remainder of the show. Again, there's no spoilers, but in case you still wanna go in completely blind, we got you covered.

If you're looking for an episode of the show that's packed full of JRPG goodness, look no further because we got a lot of Ys IX up front as well as John Thyer's Very Own Xenogears Spoilercast (from 41:07 - 1:33:45 if you're looking to stay blind to that game.) From there, Polly's going to hack the planet, and Rhete's on the receiving end of Bowser's Fury.

We have jam packed this three hours with as much as we possibly can. It's just bursting with the seams with John's back from his vacation in Duckburg and he's got some interesting stories for us, Rhete's letting his inner monster out, and Polly's got some more ninja'ing to do, but first she'll have to pry herself away from her Alchemy Pot.

Holy wow, do we have a chonker of an episode this time around, so get yourself comfy and enjoy our tales of heroism... By which I mean playing videogames. This episode, Rhete's got some bunny ears and dodging bullets, John's Rance saga continues finding the stupidest of highs, and Polly just can't get enough of hunting for items that facilitate progression toward the next area. Also, cloacas.