There’s a whole season of a podcast about a season of a show we like, all ready for you to catch up on. This latest season of Lower Decks wasn’t our favorite yet, but we do like our cartoons. Check it out and tell all your friends who listen to podcasts, because just how is one supposed to market a podcast these days? None of us are famous. Far from it! Even if Wade Bowen is a semi famous country musician.
Check out Kickers of Elves on Patreon, where twice this week we try to get to the bottom of some of the current idiocy. Parents Just Don't Understand. because… Information Rumspringa? https://t.co/dKUJAXfDzPpic.twitter.com/n3mhfPbiyc
And hey look! Star Trek Content! For free! On Under the Bridge we’re covering Star Trek: Lower Decks, and realizing how it’s doing the work of television well in a way that the higher profile shows could probably learn something from. Characters that have meaningful and believable arcs? On a dumb reference cartoon?!
This season of Lower Decks is over, which means it’s time to retire “Under the Bridge.” No overdoses are expected, but then there’s always Star Trek: Discovery coming up, so who knows if we’ll get a killer dose of Trek or not.
In the final podcast of the season, we finally get the show we wanted, and realize which of us is the Boimler and who is the Mariner style “agent of chaos.”
Catch up on all the episodes this season, and be on the lookout for what’s next for Star Trek Resignation. It might not be all that long of a wait!
If you’re caught up on Lower Decks or not, it’s a great time to jump on Under the Bridge. For the first time in over five years of being in the other room from Wade, Joanie Baczewski joins to give more opinions on Star Trek from someone who doesn’t really know much about Star Trek. The episode after that also dropped this week and is pretty fun.
What the hell, man. What’s with yet another name change? Seriously. Ok, here’s the straight goss: I was getting tired of “rebranding” this and changing the name every time a new Star Trek show aired – From A Discovery Home Companion to Can’t Picardly Wait to whatever this is- and then what, change the feed back to “DiscoHome”? Sure, I could just put up a new feed, but then you’d have to find it all over again, and who wants that? Also: I’m cheap. A bold choice was made to try and settle on a single, unchanging, name for the Discovery Home/Picardly Waiting/ The Next Thing feed. Days of bickering ensued. So much thought and navel gazing happened until nothing made sense, like spelling a word over and over again until even the correct way looks ridiculous and wrong. Nerves and friendships were frayed. Nothing was resolved. Finally “Star Trek Resignation” slipped out like a wet fart, and we were simply too weak to fight for anything better. We resigned ourselves to nitpicking and criticism, and just let it happen- Hey, sounds like a Star Trek Podcast to me!
But we’re talking about Lower Decks! What does Resignation have to do with that? Another dumb name we just couldn’t resist came about, so we’re also calling our Lower Decks podcast Under the Bridge. “Are you High? But the feed is Star Trek Resignation,” you say, angrily. Don’t overthink it. Think of “Under the Bridge” like a subtitle if you have to. Resign yourself to it; like how Glen, Sean, and I resigned ourselves to talking about Star Trek; or else resign completely from these new Star Trek shows podcasts, like James and Hugh did.