When I suggested to Adrian that we should once again turn our shared suffering into Capital-C Content and talk about Mass Effect: Andromeda, we had the normal boring calendar convos that come with any adult trying to interface with another adult in Late Stage Capitalism. We scheduled a record time like normal. Didn’t expect it to go for almost five hours. Boy, were our faces tired after we were done. 

(Get it? Like the meme?)

This line bothers me, rough facial animations aside because this is not a thing. It’s not a colloquialism. It’s a weird line that I don’t understand. In a dialogue-heavy video game like this, where tens of thousands of lines, not every line is a winner for sure, but I just keep thinking about it. Is it supposed to be exhausted rambling? A bad joke, referencing something Ryder says earlier in the conversation? A metaphor for masking or maybe professionalism? Does it matter what I think? Maybe it’s a good line and <my> brainface is tired. 

….Maybe now the five hour record time makes a bit more sense. There’s just a lot here to unpack. So. Enjoy the first part of our face-tiring journey.

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Talking Like a Teen podcast is a comedy and pop culture podcast in which two friends (Ashley Burgy and Adrian King) discuss the things that matter most to a pair of music snobs: the music of their formative years, videogames, and their healthy obsession with Tegan and Sara. See our links below for more details!

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
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Tegan & Sara
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Hi! Hello! So originally I was gonna write a version of the song from “We’re Back: A Dinosaur Story” but like…the vast majority of you don’t know that song or probably that movie. John Goodman sings. It’s a whole thing. But the kids today have their Dreamworks and their Disneys and before Dreamworks was riding high on money made from Shrek memes and people paying to not see that Will Smith fish face ever again, those animators worked for Amblin Entertainment making, among other things, this absolutely wild animated movie about dinosaurs and museums and bluebirds and a guy (spoilers) being EATEN ALIVE BY CROWS IN A CHILDREN’S MOVIE. The kids in the movie are wild–one is this little tough guy who sounds like an extra in the “Bing Bong” tiktok (I’ll link it below) and the other kid is just Daisy Buchanan voiced by Lisa Simpson (no, it’s the same voice actor and I just spend the entire movie waiting for her to start screaming at Bing Bong to quit it). Julia Child voices a scientist named Dr. Bleeb (I don’t know why but this last name sends literal shivers down my spine) and Jay Leno voices an alien and John Goodman as a dinosaur keeps doing this impression of a scientist who is voiced by Walter Cronkite and it’s all like…very well done but totally unhinged? Not to mention the plot of this thing which is Gwen Stefani levels of bananas and the more I talk about this more this might actually be an episode, so...forget that you read this because I might reuse these jokes. Anyway, “We’re Back: A Dinosaur Story” is a cinematic masterpiece and this episode is also a masterpiece and a celebration of two dinosaurs coming back from the dead to…um…go to the Museum of Natural History. (So sue me, the metaphor isn’t 1:1.)

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

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Tegan & Sara
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It’s End-Of-Year playlist tiiiiiiime! 

I almost just sent this, but I feel like Adrian might be mad. So. Let’s empty my brain, shall we? Right now it’s just Stardew Valley and “Yule Shoot Your Eye Out”, so…let’s do a Stardew 12 days of Christmas. I got this:

For the Feast of the Winter Star, my true love sent to me
Twelve marriage candidates
Eleven potluck soup ingredients
Ten triple espressos consumed
Nine moonlight jellies
Eight friendship hearts
Seven spicy eels while mining
Six hidden colored eggs
Five ancient fruit seeds
Four singing mermaids
Three blue chickens
Two dino eggs
And a golden pumpkin for spirit’s eve

Talking Like a Teen podcast is a comedy and pop culture podcast in which two friends (Ashley Burgy and Adrian King) discuss the things that matter most to a pair of music snobs: the music of their formative years, hockey, and their healthy obsession with Tegan and Sara. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
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Tegan & Sara
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On this episode of Talking Like A Teen, we are literally rushing back into our past to check out an episode of Adrian Has Issues from 2018, a year before this podcast would debut, to hear its proto beginnings. The kernel of this show is present here: snotty music chatter, crabbing about how the NHL is terrible and yet we love it, shit talking and general…us…ness. It’s a fun look back. But as this episode is being released around Thanksgiving, this episode did make me thankful for a few things that have changed since 2018:

• I bought a podcasting mic and no longer just shout in the general direction of my laptop

• The Blackhawks are bad now and the NHL isn’t actively using Patrick Kane’s dumb face to try to sell professional hockey.

• I’d love to say that Kid Rock has shown any sort of growth or remorse since this, but I don’t think he has, so…I’m thankful I blocked him on twitter?

• You. Yes, you. Thanks for listening and reading these goober descriptions. <3

Talking Like a Teen podcast is a comedy and pop culture podcast in which two friends (Ashley Burgy and Adrian King) discuss the things that matter most to a pair of music snobs: the music of their formative years, hockey, and their healthy obsession with Tegan and Sara. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

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Tegan & Sara
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On this special episode of Conversing with an Adult, Ashley and Adrian come together to celebrate the most holy of TLAT holidays: N7 Day! They pulled out a Prothean relic from Adrian’s podcast “Adrian Has Issues” – an interview they did a couple of years ago with Mass Effect protagonist FemShep voice actor Jennifer Hale! Jennifer Hale talks about recording her first audiobook, making music, and the importance of voting in our current political hellscape. (Midterms are this week, so the message still stands–go vote, if you’re able.) So, respectfully, please check out the episode. This One hopes you enjoy it!

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
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https://twitter.com/ManilaKilla

Tegan & Sara
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I had like three really grandiose plans for this write up that I banged my head against for awhile before giving up and well…here we are, another one of these stream of consciousness write ups again because none of those really panned out. So, essentially, on this episode of Talking Like A Teen, we tasked ourselves with building Halloween inspired playlists that we exchanged. We analyzed them, we had some laughs, made some references, all that. It’s a good one. Better than this write up. I promise I’m not being lazy. I think I used all my brain power on the last one. (which is a masterpiece, if I may say so myself. Am I allowed to say that? Welp. I’ve already said it, so….) So, I guess in closing, this episode is great and you should listen to it, no matter how lame the write up is. But to make up for the lack of jokes, here’s a spooky edited jpeg from one of the best Treehouse of Horror bits that made me laugh:

Ashley’s Playlist

Adrian’s Playlist

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
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https://twitter.com/ManilaKilla

Tegan & Sara
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[To the tune of “Belle” from Disney’s Beauty And The Beast]

Little town, a spooky French village
Every day like the one before
Little town, full of little monsters
Waking up to say
Boo-jour! Boo-jour!
Boo-jour! Boo-jour! Boo-jour!
There goes the vampire with his tray like always
The same old bloody treats to sell
Every morning just the same
Since the morning that we came
To this grim, spine-chilling town
Grim Mourning, Ban-shee!
Grim mourning, Monsieur Goblín
Have you lost something again?
Well, I believe I have
Problem is, I, I can't remember what
Oh well, I'm sure it'll come to me
Where are you off to?
To return this book to Père WhereWolf?
It's about two zombies in fair Verona
Sounds mind-numbing
Look there she goes, that girl is eerie, no question
Ghastly and gruesome, can't you tell?
Never part of any crowd
Left her head up on some cloud
No denying she's a ghouly girl, Ban-shee
Boo-jour! Grim day! How is your family?
Boo-jour! Grim day! How is your wife?
I need six brains! That's too expensive!
There must be more than this shuddersome life!

(We’re talking about Nightmare Before Christmas. Enjoy it!)

Talking Like a Teen podcast is a comedy and pop culture podcast in which two friends (Ashley Burgy and Adrian King) discuss the things that matter most to a pair of music snobs: the music of their formative years, hockey, and their healthy obsession with Tegan and Sara. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
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Tegan & Sara
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I spent the afternoon at my friends’ kid’s birthday party and spent most of my time trying to think of what to do for this write up while no one talked to me (probably because I was staring off into space thinking about this write up. I’m sure that’s not welcoming.) The obvious “rewrite ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’ about Mass Effect” was right there, but I’ve been rewriting a lot of songs lately and I don’t want that to get stale. I saw a hilarious McDLT commercial earlier this week where Jason Alexander (yes, that one) sings and dances about how this giant container that now fills many-a landfill keeps the tomato and lettuce cold and the patty hot, and while it brought me much joy, I didn’t feel like re-writing a bonkers burger ad. I thought about sprinkling the write up with lots of 30 Rock references, but I’m like 97% sure I’ve already done that. Which left me with two options: A) Just summarize the episode and sprinkle in some dumb jokes or B) let you all glimpse into my head for an afternoon and see that I actually do take this seriously. I guess you can figure out which option I chose. Anyway. Um. My dinner just arrived (I ordered takeout because I couldn’t get groceries on account of said birthday party) so…I’m going to go eat poke and watch Top Chef. This episode is about BioWare stuff, RPGS, JRPGs and The Dark Knight Rises. I sing. Adrian does impressions. It’s a good one. Enjoy it.

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
https://soundcloud.com/manilakilla
https://www.facebook.com/manilakilla
https://twitter.com/ManilaKilla

Tegan & Sara
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(DISCLAIMER: This is not an endorsement of an actual currency, crypto or otherwise. In fact, quite the opposite, as money is stupid and only real because we as a society pretend it has value. The following, at its core, is me taking a joke made on this episode too far, as per usual. This is the second half of the Minivan Rock episode. Link to the list is below. Enjoy the madness.) 

[To the tune of “Click, Click Boom” by Saliva]

C'mon, c'mon!
C'mon, c'mon!

All those Saturdays when bros go out and play
Yo, I was up in my room, I was on the blockchain
Wasn't faded, not jaded, just a lad
With a mouse and a screen and virtual financial cravings

All this, I seek, I find
I push my hard drive to the line
Make it, take it, right click it
Until my token’s overrated!

Click, click, coin!
I'm coming down for your bitcoin, bro this ain’t no tangible note
Click, click, coin!
I'm mining down for that new style and you know it's Centralised
Click, click, coin!
Digital money movement, touring 'round the nation
Leaving the boys in devastation (HODL!)

(We’re talking about this article: https://www.billboard.com/media/lists/minivan-rock-50-greatest-songs-9364720/ )

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
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https://www.facebook.com/manilakilla
https://twitter.com/ManilaKilla

Tegan & Sara
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https://www.facebook.com/TeganandSara
https://twitter.com/teganandsara

[To the tune of “The Stonecutters Song” from The Simpsons]

Who has no eyes, nose or mouth?
Who wears Vans when they lumber about?
They do, They do
Who stands six Nerf Blasters Tall?
Who manifested Gritty’s downfall?
They do, They do
Who unleashes play in you?
Who shoots darts from their sea-doo ?
They do, They do
Who wants you to touch some grass?
Who wields a gun with maximum sass?
They do, They do!

(In between our Murph worship, we also talk about this article: https://www.billboard.com/media/lists/minivan-rock-50-greatest-songs-9364720/) 

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
https://soundcloud.com/manilakilla
https://www.facebook.com/manilakilla
https://twitter.com/ManilaKilla

Tegan & Sara
https://soundcloud.com/teganandsara
http://www.teganandsara.com
https://www.facebook.com/TeganandSara
https://twitter.com/teganandsara

On this episode of Talking Like A Teen, unlike previous ones, this one is about…nothing. Like a Seinfield episode, I guess? Only with less New York references. If you ever wondered what a casual non-podcast conversation between the two of us sounds like, here it is, in its mildly edited glory. It’s two elder millennials having a couple of adult beverages, decompressing from the bowels of living in this late-stage capitalist hellscape by talking about stuff like concerts, Beach House, and greasy Chinese food. So….yeah. Sorry. Not all of the episodes are as easy to sum up as the ones about Power Rangers movies, amirite? But it’s still a good time, promise. I should make another Seinfield reference to tie this bad boy up. Um….something something puffy shirt. There. Nailed it.

Talking Like A Teen is a comedy and pop culture podcast in which two friends (Ashley Burgy & Adrian King) discuss the things that matter most to a pair of music snobs: the music of their formative years, hockey, and their healthy obsession with Tegan and Sara. We’d love to chat music, sports, or other pop culture mayhem on social media--see our links below for more details!

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INTRO/OUTRO SONG: » TEGAN & SARA - WALKING WITH A GHOST (MANILA KILLA REMIX)

Credits: Manila Killa
https://soundcloud.com/manilakilla
https://www.facebook.com/manilakilla
https://twitter.com/ManilaKilla

Tegan & Sara
https://soundcloud.com/teganandsara
http://www.teganandsara.com
https://www.facebook.com/TeganandSara
https://twitter.com/teganandsara