The Zero Stars Podcast

Given the gift of hindsight we look back on the MCU and the ZSU. Thanks for listening!

Our marvelous journey reaches a middling end as the Spider Boy travels to Europe.

The Russos make the best Ant Man movie.

We love Top Gun, outer space, fighter jets, the band Heart, and friendship, but we do not love this movie.

We explore a quantum realm's worth of digressions.

You understand boy? You're about to take the full force of a star.

Rest in peace, Chadwick Boseman.

We're back to fulfill the prophesy.

We spin the tale of the Spider-Child despite massive sickness-induced holes in our memories.

Look at the ego on this one.

We watched Dr. Strange and failed to find the post-credit sequence that is almost certainly there. Apologies for the oversight, but hey, we got a good conversation out of it.

The Stars produce their longest (and possibly best) podcast ever. What a shame that you'd have to wade through all the mediocre episodes to fully understand it.

A podcast about Ant Man and two(!) video games.

The team forgets a worryingly large amount of the second Avengers movie and video games return to the podcast.

A Star Is Born plays a raccoon!

We finally watch Captain America: The One Everybody Likes.

Bob and Matt watch Rotten Tomatoes least-favorite MCU film.

We just don't know how to feel about Iron Man Three.

We try and fail to recall everything that happens in The Avengers and Matt makes a valiant effort to talk about video games.

We watch Captain America: The First Avenger and disagree about the pronunciation of "Jumanji".

While ostensibly about 2011's Thor, this is really just a meditation on Jeremy Renner's music career.

The MCU returns to greatness (or at least goodness) with Iron Man 2 and Matt experiences D&D in a whole new way. You can see images from the campaign Matt is a player in here.

We watched 2008's The Incredible Hulk. It was incredible.

We pick the biggest video game news week of the year to start watching Marvel movies. It went better than that sounds. If you want to skip ahead, discussion of Iron Man starts at 34:28.

After fifty episodes, the Stars take this opportunity to ruminate on video game journalists and podcasts they've loved and lost. They also find time to tease a format change. Get your t-shirt!

It's been a rough couple weeks with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

It's a race against time as we discuss Google's Stadia announcement and the recent release of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

We're feeling loose as we discuss the Oscars that have already happened as well as Anthem, Apex Legends, and Divinity: Original Sin II.

Hot off their first round of D&D, the Stars get excited about Apex Legends, dismiss Anthem, and talk about a new segment involving Divinity II.

Matt becomes a Scrumlord and Bob plays games without screens. Tune in for discussions of CrossCode, Resident Evil 2, Twilight Struggle, Azul, and The Ancient Chinese Game of Go.

It's a week full of regrets as the Stars discuss Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Into the Breach, and the Resident Evil 2 demo.

As 2018 draws to a close, the Stars evaluate the year in games. Matt wonders if he'll ever recapture the feelings conjured by Fallout 3. Bob gets a robot.

Matt's played a lot and loved a little. Bob's played a little and loved a lot.

A vacation from work provides the Stars a chance to play games that aren't Red Dead. There's lots to be thankful for as we discuss Diablo 3, Hitman 2, Dark Souls Remastered, and Super Mario Party.

Bob muses on the differences between story mission Red Dead and side mission Red Dead while Matt gets overwhelmed by Return of the Obra Dinn. Somehow, it all comes back to Zelda.

Guess who just got back today Them wild-eyed boys that had been away Haven't changed that much to say But man, I still think them cats are crazy

Dear Readers, We here at Zero Stars are proud to present, for the first time ever, Zero Stars Episode 0.33, the fabled 'lost episode', which was recently discovered during an inventory of Prince's vault. It has been remastered in 1080p hi-definition widescreen to provide the ultimate in picture quality, and we hope you enjoy this peek at a lost moment in ZS history.

There's basically no news, but we still have stuff to talk about because Bob played a video game. Matt's obsessing over Zelda II and Bob wants the world to know about Dead Cells.

It's the summer of Frosé, and we're big fans. Once we finish discussing frozen beverages, it's time for a loopy news hour and a light discussion of Fortnite on mobile before Matt tells Bob why he's wrong about Hollow Knight.

We come in like a wrecking ball to deliver affirmations and talk about the news of the week. Despite a remarkably lengthy news hour, we still find time to discuss All Our Asias, Dark Souls and God of War.

It's an Extremely Exciting Episode, because we're talking about E3. We journeyed to sunny Los Angeles and braved extreme heat so you could learn everything a human could possibly want to know about the games that (almost all) got pushed to 2019.

We've been away too long, but we shake off the dust and dive in to a bucket of pre-E3 news. Despite having a month to do stuff, we haven't played much, but we still manage to opine on Cinco Paus, Doom, Alto's Odyssey, and Reigns: Her Majesty.

It's a big week for news about Japanese games from the early 2000s. That gives us something to talk about that isn't God of War, but we still find plenty of time to talk about God of War. It's still really good.

There's a whole bunch of news, but it kind of doesn't matter because God of War is real, and it's spectacular.

After creating thirty episodes of this show, we decide we're into making things. While Bob hasn't had time to play anything, Matt's burrowed deep into the wilds of Far Cry 5. It's another one of those, and this is another one of these.

After two weeks of hunting monsters, the boys reconvene to discuss the ups and downs of Monster Hunter: World. Bob likes it a lot. Matt likes it a little. They both continue to be baffled by Fortnite.

We haven't played much but we've got heart and some excellent beverage recommendations. We still manage to talk about Alto's Odyssey, Super Monkey Ball, Metal Gear Survive, Celeste, and Turok on the Nintendo 64.

We begin in a state of shock and never recover in this sugary-sweet episode. Matt and Bob have developed a taste for the eighties rock, and managed to play Metal Gear Survive, Remnants of Naezith, Cinco Paus, and Mount Your Friends 3D.

We're feeling punchy on an episode that brings it all back home. Tune in for breaks, the return of the PUBG minute, the dramatic reappearance of Hollow Knight, and further conversations about the ancient Chinese game of Go.

We talk about video games, robots, AI, and laundry detergent in this episode. Matt intelligently condenses his feelings regarding Nier: Automata and XCOM 2 while Bob struggles mightily to make a single coherent point about the ancient Chinese game of Go. Tune in for one of the last missives from before the robots took over!

If you listened to every episode of this show, we've stolen a day of your life. This week, we talk about the games that have stolen days of ours. Bob's deep in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Matt's a citizen in West of Loathing, and we still find time to talk about Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy.