This is the episode where Cory would rather take a bullet than play a Souls game. Listen at your own risk.

Cory is back after Colton's solo episode and the first thing he does is step in gum. The show is now on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and YouTube Music, the site is rebuilt, and a special guest is booked with $10 on the whiteboard from Cory saying he doesn't show (3:36). Colton pays $420 for the Final Fantasy VII Revelation collector's edition and reports the director's biggest fear is that Vincent Valentine is too fun to put down (16:25). The new Halloween game turns out to be Dead by Daylight with the safeguards removed (21:22). Mortal Shell 2 drops and Cory announces he would rather be shot than play a Souls-like (30:17), then extends the sentence to Assassin's Creed, which he says has been the same game since the beginning (36:34). Colton brings a local story: two Caddo Parish deputies swapped wives ten years ago, got fired, lost at the Louisiana Supreme Court, and just went viral again (43:05). Cory describes the average Souls player in detail Colton promises to clip out of context (48:23). Bleach got review-bombed over the Kubo changes and Re:Zero overtook it with no intro or outro (52:57). The back half is best anime entrances and exits: Madara, Maki, Toji, Escanor, Jiraiya, Neji, and Colton calling Rengoku vs. Akaza the best fight in one of the worst shows ever made (1:06:53). Sword Art Online fell off because it rushed the manga and got stuck in the fairy world twice (1:21:56).

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0:00 Cold open

0:50 Cory is back

3:36 200 club, new site, all platforms

6:53 Restart your life: what would you do differently

9:03 Special guest tease and the $10 bet

13:01 New question, Zack's last words, and blonds

16:25 FF7 Revelation collector's edition

21:22 The Halloween game is Dead by Daylight

27:28 Buddy, Akira, and the Transformers tribute

30:17 Mortal Shell 2 and the Souls-like problem

36:34 Assassin's Creed is the same game

39:59 Teen Wolf, Kingdom Hearts, 230 hours

43:05 Two deputies swapped wives

48:23 Cory describes a Souls player

51:15 Where Assassin's Creed went wrong

52:57 Bleach got review-bombed

56:58 Re:Zero has no intro

1:00:47 What to watch after Bleach

1:03:45 Best bankai, Kyoraku, Starrk, Aizen

1:06:53 Best anime entrances

1:18:14 Rengoku vs. Akaza

1:21:56 Why Sword Art Online fell off

1:26:28 Wrap and question of the week

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There was nobody in the room to stop this one. Proceed accordingly.

Colton records EP10 alone. Cory is out, nothing is wrong, and the show keeps moving. Ten episodes in and the site is live with story submissions and a voicemail line. Then it gets personal — what it actually takes to restart your life, paying respects to Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Peter Cullen and Yayoi Kusama in one brutal week, and why he cannot make himself say the word dead. He argues you cannot be a mid artist anymore, that half-effort is the only real failure. The lane change breaks down the Good Good x Callaway driver ad, how a brief built on obsession turned into a man shoving a woman to the ground, and why the marketing math never worked at any step. Future Game Forecast takes GTA 6 and the Netflix extended look. Anime Autopsy closes it with Bleach 44 through 46, the episode that made him cry, Chad getting no respect whatsoever, and a full-volume rant at review bombers who do not even watch the show.

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We recorded this one sick, on no sleep, with no plan. Every take in here is going to age badly.

Cory opens the show alone because Colton nearly didn't make it, then Colton turns up sick anyway. The website gets announced, guest applications are still a thousand dollars cash and a hard credit check, and last week's question eats the entire episode — Cory argues Geto had a workable premise and Colton points out the man proposed genocide. The Edgerunners season two teaser starts a fight, nobody asked for the One Piece remake, and Doctor Doom versus Thor is the only thing all year that made Colton care about Marvel again. Cory explains what years of waiting for the tones does to a person and why thank you for your service is the worst thing you can say to him. Do Not Look This Up hits flock cameras, an eighteen billion dollar data center the city voted against and got anyway, and a formal request for your urine to cool it. Three Reddit stories land, one of them the worst revenge either of them has read on air, and it ends with Colton catching Cory reading his own bit off the screen.

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This is the one where the costume was the most normal thing that happened. Proceed accordingly.

Cory turns up in a full Spider-Man bodysuit and refuses to take it off for eighty-nine minutes. Last week's question gets answered and it goes somewhere neither of them planned — Cory on grace and still grieving a friend seven years later, Colton on the night he turned 18 and cried on a hill in Flagstaff convinced he was already behind. Then Cory reviews Spider-Man Brand New Day and sells it so hard Colton almost folds. The full D23 rundown runs from Kingdom Hearts IV to an X-Men cast that spoiled itself months ago. Do Not Look This Up hits the Disney adult who spent ten years cornering Peter Pan actors and the Barksdale bubble that keeps the rain carving around Shreveport. The back half is phones — dating apps as a science experiment, Atomic Habits undone in seven months, and the phone as the toxic ex who says I'm back, you thought you got rid of me.

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You were warned. Welcome, Listeners.

Colton and Cory open on cult recruitment numbers and a plan to rent Alcatraz for the membership, then spend twenty minutes casting the movie of their own lives and cannot produce the name Harrison Ford between them. Cory reports what 2026 has taught him so far, which is eight hot dogs in a day and a new title. Spider-Man takes the all-time opening weekend record and Colton reads the numbers to settle it. A horror review lands a score, Alien Isolation 2 gets a stream commitment nobody asked for, and Do Not Look This Up finds a school that almost hired an AI teacher before checking what else the manufacturer builds. The back half is an hour on aura — real and anime — including the one question they would ask Kubo about the Visored and a gym idea that started in a barber's chair.

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Listen at your own risk. You already know that by now.

Colton and Cory come back to a new set, a new lamp, and Cory formally opening cult recruitment with the island and deity already picked. Tom Cruise gets ruled unfit to save the world at five foot six, Nolan's Odyssey numbers come in absurd, and Cory confesses to outvoting a friend into Twilight over Skyfall fourteen years ago and texts him live to confirm he's still furious. The horror games debate lasts ninety seconds of cross-examination, the Zodiac case gets closed on Arthur Leigh Allen, and Colton corrects the Dustin Poirier record from last episode. Do Not Look This Up finds a woman whose husband has been running a popular cat roleplay account for three years, and Cory hands down the kennel ruling. Colton closes by venting that Neuromancer is the hardest book he has ever read.

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Welcome, Listeners. Even though we told you not to listen, here you are.

Cory opens with a work story about a patient who came back to life after being pronounced dead, and Colton immediately smells a lawsuit. The IHOP bag-of-chips heist resurfaces because Colton's memory is permanently stuck in 2016, and somehow that leads to hitchhiker risk assessment and roadside serial killer spotting. Do Not Look This Up covers the fireman-arsonist phenomenon and a Pentagon-to-ancient-aliens rabbit hole. Colton pulls the curtain back on manufactured music-industry personas, the two give a sincere shout to Louisiana's Dustin Poirier, and the gaming block watches Sony march toward a diskless future while burying the $1,100 Steam Machine. Anime Autopsy double-features the Backrooms movie and Bleach on the big screen, and The Big Three-DOM ends in a tie that ends the show.

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Welcome, Listeners. Even though we told you not to listen, here you are.

The Do Not Listen Show is back after a year and some change, with a new set, two hosts, and a topic list that's been collecting dust since 2023. Cory catches up on paramedic school and his wrestling application, then his fire chief calls mid-record, and he just leaves. Colton recaps a year on the road, pours one out for Caylon, and admits he pulled his own teeth as a kid for the Pokémon movie. The anime block covers the Bleach movie, JJK's ending, and how long a series should actually run before Colton refuses to acknowledge Dragon Ball. Do Not Look This Up digs into the leaked Peter Thiel society and its build-a-cult agenda. Then it gets personal — the compound dream, a dad check-in, and the tattoo that's looked like a merman suplex for eleven years.

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New year, same lack of judgment.

The crew comes back from the holiday break with resolutions nobody will keep and stories nobody should tell. Caylon has a mom situation that somehow becomes everyone's problem, the AI dating bot conversation goes exactly where you think it does, and tattoo choices get judged with zero mercy. Airbnb horror stories round it out because apparently nobody in this room can go on vacation without something going wrong.

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If you're still here, that's on you.

Colton, Cory, and Caylon are back and somehow less prepared than the first time. Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 gets the full treatment, Caylon finally picks up Cyberpunk 2077 two years late and has opinions about it, and the three of them attempt a Dandadan pre-review despite knowing almost nothing. The rest is tangents nobody asked for and nobody tried to stop.

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You weren't warned. Nobody was. This is where it starts.

Colton, Cory, and Caylon kick the doors open with the show nobody asked for. Three best friends argue over the Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia endings with the confidence of people who may not have finished either series, fight about which anime deserve the new Big Three crown, and throw out game predictions with almost no chance of aging well. Somewhere in the middle, patriotic mariachi bands come up and nobody can explain why.

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