Deep Fought

Episode 13: Unquestionably Brilliant

This ramshackle episode brought to you Coyote Ugly®, now on Blu-Ray thanks to Buena Vista Home Entertainment. This week, we discuss whether we'd rather be brilliant at one thing, or pretty good at everything. It leads to less interesting conversation than you may expect, which in itself is probably what you expected. We've tweaked our audio setup again, so hopefully it will be louder for people. This episode's mistakes include:Repeated departures of one host from the room, lending an unsettling air to the podcast.A chronic inability to actually discuss the question at hand for more than two minutes at a time.Possible background tunes.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Chase your dreams.

Episode 12: Superbugs And Superpowers

Yay, another good one. We had cups of tea again, and yet surprisingly it didn't kill the energy. Now that's progress. We talk a bit about superpowers (listener suggested) and a lot about other stuff. Send questions to deepfought@gmail.com. This episode's mistakes include:We know lots of you love to discover what audio issue we have each podcast, and are sorry to disappoint you with high quality sound this week.Wavering focus that lead to sporadic discussion of the topic at hand.Incurring the wrath of highly-trained armed soldiers.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Push through the pain.

Episode 11: The More You Know

Another week plus one day, another podcast. Late again, this time due to interstate travel and birthday recuperation, we can nevertheless assure you that this episode is much more on point than the dross we uploaded last week. It's a vaguely happy one, too, like we've turned a corner. Well, maybe not. This episode's mistakes include:Persistent bird chirping in the background due to daytime recording.The interruption of a phone call at an inopportune moment.An unsatisfactory conclusion to a recurrent promise made over three weeks.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Back in the swing of things.

Episode 10: Quiet Reflection

We've definitely plateaued, because somehow our audio quality was rough this week. Very quiet. We've tried to fix it after the fact but it's all just a bit fuzzy. Luckily it's hard to be that disappointed with it since you'll be too disappointed in the uninteresting and dull content. Apparently Michael shouldn't drink tea during the podcast. This episode's mistakes include:Fuzziness as the lesser of two audio evils, the alternative being high background whirr from correcting low recording levels. So yeah, we know, you'll have to turn up the volume a lot. Sorry.A general unfunniness and lack of energy due to sobriety.The unfulfilled promise of a celebrity appearance.Egregious factual inaccuracies.We promise to fall off the wagon next week.

Episode 9: With Apologies To Mila Kunis

And our apologies to you for being late this week. We know that the relationship between podcaster and podcastee is a sacred bond, and feel nothing but the deepest regret for letting you down. Still, it's an upbeat happy episode to counteract what some called "too depressing" last week. So, our apologies for that as well. This episode's mistakes include:A general sense of guilt about our tardiness that permeates the entire discussion.Uncomfortable silences as we contemplate our own lack of positive actions towards others.Terrible improvisational skills.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Pay it forward.

Episode 8: Death And All His Friends

We're back to our old tricks this week: depressing topics. Yes, it's an overly long, noticeably less focussed episode, even by our standards. What do you want to find out at the pearly gates? Expect many distractions and diversions. This episode's mistakes include:The encore performance of the famous mic wobble.A pathological inability to actually answer the question.Forgot to include picture of sponsored items in accompanying blog post.Egregious factual inaccuracies.That said, these are the only mistakes we ever could have made.

Episode 7: Virtual Boys

Good day, ladies and sirs, and welcome to episode seven. We have now decided to credit our guests in text form as well as on the show itself, so without further ado we disclose that our good friend Austin joined us this week. There. Acknowledged. The topic at hand was virtual reality, but as is par for the course we approached it in a muddled and confusing fashion. This episode's mistakes include:The much anticipated return of audio quality issues! We've peaked, guys. It's back down the hill from here, mostly due to microphone wobbling, table bumps and constantly changing distances from each of the three speakers.Noticeably less coherent sentence structure and thought processes due to overall tiredness and alcohol.No photographs were taken of Michael and Austin cuddling.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Try to imagine it.

Episode 6: Vindictive Billionaires

I don't want to rub it in but we almost know what we're doing now. You should feel intimidated by our professionalism. But that's not really in the spirit of this podcast, which is all about being less offensive and more positive. (With questionable success.) We'll leave that up to you to judge. This episode's mistakes include:The gentle clinking of whiskey on the rocks.Forced positivity from two generally depressed guys.Unintentionally revealing admissions.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Think happy thoughts.

Episode 5: Asteroid Preparation Club

Episode five already!? Man, it feels like just five weeks ago that we were doing episode one. In the first episode released since we officially launched, we gently plateau as we stop trying and ride it out into retirement. Many thanks to everyone that checked out our stuff this week. That was nice. Anyway, this episode's mistakes include:Audible leather couch squeaks and microphone bumps return for flavour. Other than that, we've managed to hold onto a decent audio quality now, even with the inclusion of a third guest. Man we're good. And woman. (Equality.) Trickled out ending with no satisfying conclusion.Embarrassing lack of mathematical skills from one host.Egregious factual inaccuracies.We'll take what we can get.

Episode 4: Miserable Elitists

Wow. I don't want to overhype this one but it's great and everyone should agree. We found a good topic and our sound is the best it's ever been. I even moved the computer further away so that you can't hear whirring. And you really can't, for quite a while. Boy, we're good. This episode's mistakes include:Inability to allow moments of professionalism to go by unnoticed, resulting in rampant unprofessionalism.Long periods without jokes or silliness.Occasional audio problems to remind you that we're not actually good at this.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Don't let that dissuade you though. Listening to this may almost feel worthwhile.

Episode 3: Cavemen Prostitutes

Well. Let's just call it a learning experience. Pilot episode number three sees us attempt to improve on last week, with little success. Blame the old laptop. I think we got the levels of our voices balanced correctly, so at least that's something. This episode's mistakes include:Average audio quality. The persistent whirr is really, as pretentious TV writers like to claim, another character of the show.Stilted moments arising from arguably ridiculous topic of discussion.Attempting to atone for casual racism of last podcast and then making it worse.Egregious factual inaccuracies.At this point it's starting to become a habit.

Episode 2: Immortality and Appropriate Eulogies

Phew. Glad we got that first episode out of the way. And you'll be glad too, because this episode features OCCASIONAL improvements. This is probably part two of us getting our shit together in what we shall henceforth lovingly refer to as our pilot episode triptych. This episode's mistakes include:Average audio quality. (Yes, folks, that's an official bump up from the first episode. Our levels are more balanced, and there are no creaks, but a new computer fan whirr joins the list of things to fix next week.)Too much housekeeping, including lengthy introduction and formless structure.An unfortunate amount of discussion about rapists.Egregious factual inaccuracies.Still, progress is progress.

Episode 1: One Way Ticket To Mars

Oh boy. The first episode. I get why people do pilots of shows now. We learnt so many things after this one. This episode's mistakes include:Terrible audio quality. Yeesh. Sorry. So many creaks and clinks. Nick's too loud. Ben's too quiet. We know. Sorry.Structureless meandering. We were figuring it out as we went along. Rambling intro, abrupt ending.None of the hosts ever looked at the camera.Egregious factual inaccuracies.By almost every metric, this episode should have never been released. Enjoy!