Deep Fought

Episode 73: Hot Potatoes

Man, we're four for four (#444). This will be the most consistent in releases we'll be all year, given our impending work duties and lives returning to normal, but hey, what a month. In this final episode of our travel sojourns, Nick calls in from Japan for one last time. We talk about how to get enthused by things again, actively trying to get out of your comfort zone, and introduce a brand new jingle. Of course, this episode's mistakes include:
Talking about ourselves OH WAIT WHAT'S NEW??
Not repeating our sponsor's theme song at the end.
Failing to include pictures of okonomiyaki.
Egregious factual inaccuracies.
Slip slop slap, and then like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send your question suggestions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 72: Yes Ma'am

Konnichiwa, hello, and welcome to a chaotic and delightful episode of the Deep Fought podcast. There must have been something in the water in both Melbourne and Osaka, because this went places. Don't want to spoil the fun, but there were some surprises along the way, so buckle up and enjoy. This episode's mistakes include:
Some audio imbalances due to using the in-built microphone in a pair of earphones. For a change.
Repeatedly hitting the wrong jingle button. We deeply regret this mistake and pledge to pay more attention to jingle accuracy going forward.
Never locating the meridians.
Egregious factual inaccuracies.
Try something new, like liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, rating us on iTunes, and sending questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 71: High Resolution

We couldn't let this thing go. Before Michael departed for Melbourne, we had a couple of drinks and had one last face to face chat to kick off the new year. We're talking resolutions, predictions, retrospection, and a few other -tions. We'll be back for more FaceTime podcasts in 2017, but in the meantime, this episode's mistakes include:
Exceeding the hour limit on episodes.
A few in-room audio hiccups due to unsteady mic.
Not inviting Michael's dad to join us.
Egregious factual inaccuracies.
Watch the fireworks, then like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send your questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 70: Christmas Miracle

Welcome back to the show after a wee travel hiatus. But we bring you a gift just in time for the holiday season - a locally produced, organic, free range podcast, with all the talk people in the same talk room. Plenty of Christmas chat today in a bit of a ramble, which also features a special reappearance by Eleanor after a long while. This episode's mistakes include:
Did not give the podcast its deserved name.
Energy trails off towards the end due to jet lag.
Overexcitement leading to overtalking each other.
Egregious factual inaccuracies.
Do some good this Christmas by liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, rating us on iTunes, and sending questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 69: Sex, Drugs, and Basic Accounting Practices

Thursday!? What is this, a Jewish holiday? For a variety of reasons, recording today felt necessary, so please enjoy today's hodgepodgecast of sporadic topic changes. It still turned out okay maybe? YOU BE THE JUDGE. This episode's mistakes include:
Whiplash from abrupt diversions into different discussion.
Joke plagiarism.
Lack of sexy music during sexy moments.
Egregious factual inaccuracies.
Be more creative, and like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 68: Live From The Doomsday Bunker

Woah. So that happened. We needed to talk about President Trump, so we called an emergency podcast and worked through our feelings live on the Facetime. This episode's mistakes include:
Hot takes by definition not yet fully developed or nuanced.
Limited funnies, oversupply of horror.
No apology for last episode's horoscopes somehow not seeing this coming.
Egregious factual inaccuracies.
Don't give up hope, and like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send us your topics on deepfought@gmail.com. Oh, and this is that image about equality vs equity.

Episode 67: Election Schmelection

Hello lovelies, and welcome back to the show, just in time for this week's democrapocalypse. This episode consists of some generalised election thoughts with a bit of questionable moralising, as well as a truckload of your Favourite Podcast Segments™. This episode's mistakes include:
Some sketchy audio due to beard scratching on mic and sniffles (guess who).Putting off Science News for another week.Forgetting the name of comedy legend Larry the Cable Guy.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Make your vote count, by liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, rating us on iTunes, and sending questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 66: Zero Hour

Yo yo yo, it's podding time, and we're talking the apocalypse. This one has an interesting arc to it, with a whole heap of silliness to start, leading into a whole heap of seriousness, from which we effortlessly transition to a fun-filled finale. It's a ride. This episode's mistakes include:
Never putting the finishing touches on our survival plans.Expecting people to explore Advance Care Directives with us after all that nonsense.Not acknowledging this week's sponsor, Purina, making all our animal references appear coincidental.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Find Purina® Fancy Feast at all leading supermarkets, and then like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 65: Cheque Please

Hello once again, and apologies for our lax episode delivery. To our credit, we did attempt to record two weeks ago, but it was shit so we stopped. You're welcome. As you know by now, we only deliver quality product, week after week. Anyway, this episode's mistakes include:
Too much time spent discussing the topic instead of waffling off on tangents.Intelligent discussion across of variety of interesting and thematically connected topics.A light-hearted and fun look at some deep philosophical questions of mortality.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Find your utopia, by liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, rating us on iTunes, and sending topic suggestions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 64: Swear On Your Life

So, being totally upfront about this, there was some alcohol involved in tonight's recording. It means that we drifted across several topics in a haphazard fashion. You love it. This episode's mistakes include:
The gentle tinkling of ice in glass beneath the conversation.The choppy editing around frustrating connection drops.The lack of sponsorship despite high quality marketable content.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Get thranched, then like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send your questions and topics to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 63: Almost Famous

Hello hello hello, and welcome to another episode of Deep Fought, the world's only internet-based podcast. This week, we try to work out what kind of celebrities we'd be (no no, you're too kind, but we mean outside of the podcast realm). We also talk about goat meat, cheese, films, and Michael genuinely impresses with a mentalism trick. This episode's mistakes include:
Surprisingly fewer edits required than Nick implied there would be.Surprisingly decent audio quality for most of the episode.Surprisingly uninteresting mistakes in this bullet list.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Get in on the ground floor, and like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send your questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 62: Firm Beliefs

Another midweek podcast. What have we become? Too popular and social on weekends, I guess. Today Michael brought a topic to the table - the contrasting calcification of political beliefs between the left and right - and it almost lasted a full episode, so let's all give him a nice pat on the head. This episode's mistakes include:
An unconscionably low level of hand washing and general hygiene.A tendency to not keep track of and return to important topics for rebuttal and conclusions, and not just in the normal way.A general aural sense that one side of the conversation was recorded through a mattress.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Change your mind, and like us on Facebook, find us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 61: Deep Waters

Well, forewarning, this one got a little heavy in the middle. Thankfully, it's bookended by some grade A hijinks, and possibly even some shenanigans. This episode's mistakes include:
The audible consumption of strudel at the start of the episode.Serious subject matter that doesn't lend itself to much humour for a while.Forgetting to thank this week's sponsor, Nanna Pat's Rat Poison™. Nanna Pat's Rat Poison™: For When You Have Too Many Rats.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Sow the seeds of doubt on our Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, and by emailing questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 60: Guys' Choice

Greetings, and welcome back to a bombastic, sixtiversary edition of the podcast. It's been a pleasure to have you along for the ride, and while we didn't get our celebratory suits out again for the record, we did manage to make it special for reasons that will become clear early on. This episode's mistakes include:
Interesting audio challenges associated with this particular setup after forgetting how it was done.Didn't thank our sponsor, George Clooney's Science News Presents: Spike TV's Guys' Choice Awards 2016.Going too long, necessitating some seamless, invisible edits by our crack production team.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Question what the world has come to, by liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, rating us on iTunes, and sending your suggestions and questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 59: Just Not Feeling It

Hey hey hey, and welcome back to an eclectic audio experience on this beautiful winter's eve. Today's topics include numbers and if they exist (briefly), the New York Times' relationship quiz, and some deep emotions. We're all over the place. This episode's mistakes include:
Wasting a good twelve minutes on a topic we couldn't say anything interesting about (don't worry, I edited it out).Recording one side of the audio in a crowded vegetable market.Forgetting to include the jingle.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Say hi to your mum for me, and like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, like us on iTunes, and send your questions to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 58: Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong

Hey baby. What's up? Look, Michael wanted me to put this up straight away and so if I'm totally honest I'm still kinda intoxicated. This may have had a detrimental effect on the podcast quality. This episode's mistakes include:
Uploading while under the influence, and thus not expending the same "quality" "control" as per usual.Lots of Radiohead talk, lots of dating talk (?).Look, sometimes writing these things is harder than you'd think.Egregious factual inaccuracies.
You can find the links to Facebook, Twitter, and iTunes right there, plus send questions and spaghetti recipes to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 57: The (Late Night) Environment

Just saying it up front, this episode was hard work to edit so I'd appreciate a little appreciation. In this wide-ranging episode, we talk global warming and what we're actually doing to stop it, as well as politics, late night TV hosts and the evolution of cattle. This episode's mistakes include:
Trusting Skype to have a decent connection and audio quality, necessitating a mid-show swap to FaceTime.Insulting our only fans, the Spanish spambots that liked our Facebook post.Not having our special celebrity guest join in on the actual discussion... or did he?Egregious factual inaccuracies.Do what you can, and send Michael pasta topping suggestions via deepfought@gmail.com, Facebook, Twitter, or in an iTunes review.

Episode 56: Prove It

Kia ora, and welcome to an ungodly examination of our potential atheist biases. Yes, in that respect it's classic Deep Fought, but this time we might actually have fulfilled our ostensive goals of philosophical debate, which is definitely not classic Deep Fought. So, making progress then. This episode's mistakes include:
Occasional, uncharacteristic meanness from Nick for reasons not fully understood by either party.Part of it could be tiredness, but is that really a fair excuse? You can't get away with murder because you were tired. You should have just seen it in yourself and taken steps to prevent further unconscionable action.I guess a small part of me enjoys feeling a degree of superiority over Michael because he's now experiencing some of the isolation and ostracisation I felt upon first moving to New Zealand. Not merely an 'I was right' sentiment, but a small but legitimately vindictive desire to emphasise to him some of the distance that he innocently and non-vindictively demonstrated to me upon my departure. Isn't that awful? To allow myself to reciprocate hurt with hurt?Egregious factual inaccuracies.Try to make it better by liking us or messaging us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, rating us on iTunes, and sending your assorted thoughts to deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 55: Inside Job

Something about this seems fishy. Two podcasts in two weeks? What are they getting at? What I'm getting at is that this week's topic is conspiracy theories and the corporate fat cats on Wall Street who don't want you to hear about them because their diversified portfolios DEPEND on the average joe six pack middle America Christian single parents not knowing that THEY'RE the ones taking the bibles out of our hotel rooms in YET ANOTHER WAR ON CHRISTMAS. This episode's mistakes include:
Not registering that domain name before putting the episode up.Unfortunately stumbling into decent audio quality that undercuts Nick's insistence that Michael improve his setup.Creating a tagline for the show after fifty-five episodes that should have been obvious on day one.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Trust us with your secrets by submitting them on Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, and at deepfought@gmail.com.

Episode 54: Forgive Us

Sorry, who is this? Yes, it's been a long, long while, but there is a new episode of Deep Fought here for you, ready to download. Five months after the last one, but who's counting. Michael's back from overseas, moved to a new city, broken his computer, and Nick's working on a new TV show. But we made the time to catch up and talk about forgiveness, which seems rather apt. This episode's mistakes include:
Dodgy audio because Michael's computer is broken and we had to record a FaceTime call to his iPhone.Whiplash subject changes as is to be expected.Offensive irreligiosity on this, the holiest of Sundays.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Thanks for your patience, and please like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, rate us on iTunes, and send your questions to deepfought@gmail.com.