Season 5 Retrospective: Redemption

We’re recapping Season 5 and Leverage as a whole! This is the last episode, folks! We’re talking about Redemption, War crimes, and series-long character arcs!

We also discuss the beginning at the beginning of the end, calling out the Normie Carlins, Kat’s good look, editing fairies, speaking once then starting a podcast, Leverage South Korean Remake, endings, our festival of self-indulgence, we discuss personal growth and milestones, be yourself and find better friends than Contrapoints, bushfires good, Bucardo back again, Tinder vs Bumble, Fabby reviewing Tinder experiences with 3 men, Guy Fieri good, Everyman Hybrid, Fabby feels like a snack, chill killdren, OT3 growth, his war crimes? Wack, cooking as a coping mechanism, accidental Mountain Goats references, Elm Street/Bioshock 2 parallels, hiccups, same top 3 this season, Nate Ford retire bitch, limitations in writing make for good plots, GRRM’s GRRM collection, series trivia, con-con, 96 trivia, Padme’s death was the problem with Anakin’s story arc, Human Torch Himbofication, guest messages, the invitation, friend of the us, Strangers’ Fiction Podcast, syncing the geek, Baby!

King Princess – Pussy is God
Fabby-Ann’s Twitter
Cassidy’s Twitter
Cassidy’s Patreon

77. The Long Goodbye Job

We’re watching the Long Goodbye Job, we’re talking about Reflection, Remission, and Community Theatre.

We also discuss: Fabby at the con, amazing good episode, Fabby’s twitter post (cw blood), lying to the audience but its good actually, Magneto 3some stopper, Queers-is on Infinite Earths, Cass forgot Birds of Prey, Extra Life and the science of Farts, Symbiosis (Cass meant Mitochondria), Portland self-depreciation, Shakespeare Puckcast, Parker Mastermind, Rope-skills, the Muppet Show with our very special guest stars Fabby and Cass, My Steranko, are security guards bastards?, Leverage gets bloody, Is it Salty?, Timothy Hutton good actor, a story for Jim, Sophie is direct(ing), the self-interesting of Jim Sterling (Tweener), Taylor+TheKillers, Nate as a stay-at-home husband, Sophie’s real name, Leverage is over, Fabby stans Colin Baker, Stealcast Reunion watch Librarians, selfies are serious business, “I’m Always Dick Van Dyke”, game gender, medical checks, Tara appreciation society, the highest highs and the lowest lows, Sophie and Hardison (indirect killers), She did it her way.

Recommendations:
Citizen Hank
Mini Metro
Cities: Skylines Analysis by DoNotEat01
Young Avengers (2013)
The Muppet Christmas Family Special (Poparena video)
Defunctland: The Muppets and Jim Henson

76. The Toy Job With Eric and Emily

We’re watching the Toy Job, joined by Eric and Emily, ask us about PILFs, Janus, and Christmas (Again).

We also discuss Eric the Generous, its Christmas, relationship goals: complementary Overwatch roles, generic stationary, when you get glasses, Recognising the cast, there were some chauvenists this episode, the penultimate leverage, Cassidy = little babby, all Lucys are queens, the deadly nose, this is Fabby’s house, babies are destructive, explaining the joke is good actually, the team have handled harder, Italian Mickey Mouse, the disappointing Christmas of Mrs Moon, Elliot go horny wolf, minigolf good, hey John maybe that’s kinda fucked, Christmas truths by Nate, Heartbreaking, trumpet and fatherhood expert, this is fine, the anti-scam lady, smoochin Janus, Snake Claus, Fabby-swears, we are all vixen, the forbidden Nate gift, Leatherdaddy St Nick, frolicking with cornbread, the age of the agegeek baby geek baby.

Recommendations:
What Went Weird with Ron Weasley by Quinn Curio
Kill the Boy Band She/Her/Hers EP
Given
Hyper RPG Mass Effect Adventum
And Eric’s latest Audio Log

75. The Corkscrew Job With Zack

We’re watching the Corkscrew Job, joined by Zack, we’re talking about Fermentation, OSHA, and Hitman.

We also discuss Zack’s prior appearances, adding zest, two (2) Doctor Who questions, Fabby’s prodigal wallet, awakenings, Cass go to Pride, Ass-trology, John Rogers decided to ignore the exploitation of undocumented immigrants and POC (in particular Filipinos) in the agriculture industry, Intern Parker go on Hkip, he said the thing, Wine, Wine, Wine, room to shove a cat, Journalist Fabby doxed herself, 2010 or 2011, they got Carter, radioactive Spider-Parker, “I didn’t hear anything after uteruses” or “Technical difficulties”, I love when the tower doors are opened and the winery is flushed with oxygen, it said bottle on the ebay listing, you ever fall over and just die?, honey non-accidents, the Phantom of Heilbronn, Zackaromyces, wow Fabby swore a lot this episode, shoutout to the furries, the 21st night of September, the magic ain’t online, sleep-starved delirium.

Recommendations:
Pod of Greed Presented by Kaibacorp
How Coraline Could Have Been Creepier
Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House
A Night Out by Froey for trans gal jam
Animorphs in the Age of Trump

74. The White Rabbit Job

We’re watching the White Rabbit Job, ask us about Jefferson Airplane, Game Masters, Party Girls!

CW for those episode for manipulation, gaslighting, panic attacks, and an attempted suicide.

We discuss an attempted suicide from 1:01:15 to 1:5:15, and 1:12:13 to 1:14:50

We also discuss: Good MORNING CASSI-DY, bug news, Fabby’s good selfies, the Doctor’s big finish, live transgending, it’s an Alice in Wonderland homage (DO YOU GET IT?), Chekov’s energy drink, the team gives this guy a panic attack, DO YOU FIRETRUCKING GET IT?, take the estrogen pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes, its your line bro, straitjackets in mad-max times, Hardison is getting stretched thin, 5 hours on repeat, the gig is up, Cass “I’m Baby”, oh hello ‘the Finns’, Weird al clip, chekov’s energy drink returns, DID YOU GET IT?, trivia wants us to think that inception is relevant, this questionable bop, shapeshifting is the idea trans power, Nu-Who, the best lets steal deal, Alamo Furry Convention.

Recommendations:
Season of the Bitch
Doctor Who Book Guide

73. The Low Low Price Job With Morg

We’re watching the Low Low Price Job, joined by @HauntingtheMorg, ask us about Chain Supermarkets, Unions, and Heavy Metal Toxicty!

We had some audio errors, Cass and Fabby’s tracks are a little echoey this episode, but it will be back to normal next episode.

Cass recounts the story of Henrietta Lacks from 1:00:57 to 1:03:25, warning for discussion of consent issues and systemic racism in medicine.

We also discuss Fabby’s Meowing, Morg’s Steal Let’s Cast, Brooklyn 99 and video essays, perchance to doggy dream, self ID with scientist, pls @ us, Teasing Emily day, analytics on-air, the podcast baby, Cass might be Sabaning Fabby, Mr Gorbachev tear down the pay wall, Wall;mart suks, bad horny, this podcast recognises only the one true Wolverine (and it’s Laura), working 9-4:55, flexing science muscles, Henrietta’s Tumor, self-care is including a fact about the composition of a metal-adhering protein in your podcast, the first ever Elcor Podcast, IASIFeelingsville, Protect Martin, high-school military club, State Farm memes, Big Boss = Jango Fett, Hurley amnesty, transgendered by the Saddle Club, You know who invented unions? Wamen, that’s Britney Bitch, laconic Ned Kelly, finishing the time.is.

Recommendations:
Steven Universe: The Movie
5 Grams of Iron
Pop Arena Nick Knacks
Spindle Wheel

72. The Frame Up Job With Kat

We’re watching the Frame Up Job, joined by Kat, we’re talking about Life Painting, Parties, and Third Wheels.

We also discuss Fabby + 200% hotness, Cass asks about Kingdom Hearts for some reason, Since Kat was last on the show, everyone is a scientist, timeline democracy, #KatonCast, this episode is an Agatha Christie, desensitized to weird, DO YOU GET IT?, Dracula X-Overs, ‘Manservants’ are a rich white people thing, a Mark Shephard character, Doctor Names, She wears the strap, 1pm on the dot he looks at this nude, why wine, Nate can’t boink if crime is unsolved, Nate has indirect killed before and he will indirect kill again, Sophie’s nyudes, tiddy out cosplays, Mafia for theatre kids, Bob Barker?, vampires don’t poop, World Wide Westling, Kat’s Chris, one dollar, the O ring holds the strap to the straps.

Recommendations:
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
On a Sunbeam
GO GO Godzilla

71. The Rundown Job

We’re Watching the Rundown Job, we’re talking about Thrillers, Pork, and the Antiseptic Method.

There’s some discussion of squick/gore from 28:57 to 29:24

We also discuss Catwishes (based on a real story), Cass’ group video assignment, Pub trivia, trans required watching, the manga is unfortunate, Let’s plays but TV, Pepper is the ONLY doggie in the neighbourhood, good episode*, the deepest Leverage dive, Vance is just Colonel Jessup, John Rogers advocates for war crimes, we invoke the Hydra twist then instantly go back on it, Superheroes vs just over-levelled, when an episode takes place in both season 1 and season 5, big HMMMM, completely forgot to mention that Vance shoulda been behind the bioterrorist attack to justify his little taskforces, Aldis Hodge Jordan Peele collab, there is also a Zelda, ‘well intentioned extremist’ is a strawman of any resistance efforts, Cass explains vaccines, So Good almond milk, trompo is spinny pork, Bacteria: not as complex as us, the legacy of Guillermo González Camarena, tired of war crimes, consulting your FBI agent who lives in your computer to find Fabby-Ann’s twitter,

Recommendations:
Anh’s Brush with Fame
The Farewell
Wandering Son
Praxis what you preach by ThePedanticRomantic

70. The Broken Wing Job

We’re watching the Broken Wing Job, we’re talking about Sick Days, Chicken Parm, and Coffee Shop AUs.

We’re also discussing candor, Goodwill to all trances, Rocko get iPhone, Wednesday get GF, Christianity ruining songs, Fabbayonetta, John Rogers become John Egberts, Tokyo tangent, Parker has many hands, network infighting, McElroys we but our thumbs but not at thee, Pardison is not Beauty and the geek, we prefered the war crime talk, Cass watched next episode already, Parker says ACAB, the true loyalty of weapons is to bloodshed, privacy issues, deadwifeitis, They Might be Bastards by the Mountain Goats, Fallout Boy references, Leverage is good except the parts when it isn’t, Whom reference the Doctor?, it was the C-Section and the chocolate that made me hurl, Overwatch OTP truths, (Winnie the) Poohcast, Cass doesn’t drink so her fave drink is a fruit juice, The Rockdown job, region-locked dvds, itunes reviews, Fabby rages out, a purely Metaphorical Straight man, types of cats to turn into, surprise guest appearance.

Recommendations:
Mermaid Splash! Passion Festival

69. The Real Fake Car Job

We’re watching the Real Fake Car Job, we’re talking about Mr & Mrs Smith, Mussolini, and the Mafia.

We also discuss EVO, Nice episode (the funny sex number), She-Ra S3, simple sports, Soul Caliber, Cassie’s life is boring, Matthew Lillard? Shaggy is here, Get-Out-of-jail-free Cards, a Spoilerer, grabbin pills, none of the Scooby gang is cishet, the American Gunpla, the Lost Miyazaki tapes, what are cars?, Elliot is being a shit-stirrer, this show dislikes Portland for some reason, Shaggy regret, these situations are completely different and it’s morally bankrupt to suggest that Nate who does good things is like Gabe Erickson who does bad things, these dang straight people, Hitman and Hitma’am, Hipsterson, Sophie loves being suspicious, the theme of this season is war crimes, bad joke about smuggling soda across the border, what beverages use real sugar?, the national disgrace (Cane Toads), the discography of Mr Cicierega, Werewolf games, La Gran Ratonas and Earmuffs, George Calombaris and Joe Biden retire, Age of the Shaggy, Hot Dog Water, Postcredits EVO.

Recommendations:
Boonta Vista Podcast
Progressive Podcast Australia
EVO Top 8
Waypoint watches Evangelion

68. The DB Cooper Job

We’re watching the DB Cooper Job, we’re talking about Tommy Wiseau, The Odyssey, and Christmas lists.

We also discuss Far From Home Spoilers go from 1:00 to 8:24, SHAZAM, Talos and Talos’ Wife (Soren), Cass can’t articulate that people are innocent sometimes, the team decide to help a cop instead of people this week, fun with photoshop, I Super believe in you Dan Cooper, Sophie’s type, multilingual ‘Death’, Re-enactment episode, this crime happened, DB Cooper drew Dickbutt, Fabby calls out the Lesbian, some people are cops so pobody’s nerfect, losing bikes but finding dogs, bad opdics, Pepper sees a doggy in the window, a fraught pairing, Divergent/FIOS and Leverage parallels, Dan Cooper bought the farm, the homophobic kiss, XKCD, legtail, breaking Marvel news, Tessa Thompson we stan, protect Pepper.

Recommendations:
Buzzfeed Unsolved: The Strange Disappearance of D.B. Cooper
YuMe Dreams
Girls By Beatrice Eli

67. The Gimme a K Street Job

We’re watching the Gimme a K Street Job, we’re talking about Cheerleading, Congress, and Divide & Conquer.

We also discuss big sneezing hours, the combiner combiner, Dr Mario World, making our way through the Orange Groves, Uni-environmentalist Depression, good episode, weird plot format, the cheerleader movie, Robin Williams voice ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’, new podcast, Dance Academy, imitating America, charger bit, Nate isn’t doing much this episode, Parker’s alienation from a mainstream adolescence is resonant, Parker’s torture subplot, Cheerleading Sport, Smash cut to congress shooting down a bill to protect young girls, Wetting the throat break, Sophie goes on a Zelda quest, JJ Legrange tries to take Do Nate from us, what is congress?, both sides-ism (BSE is a big deal), Sophie joins the Leverage war crimes club, Parker sees the air vent on the ceiling, Pep Talks, dealing with overstimulation, who is John Cornish?, I’ll explain later, Community Funko Pops, Britta the straw-feminist.

Recommendations:
DGR Mario Maker
Neon Genesis Evangelion feels Explicitly Queer thanks to this trans voice actor

66. The French Connection Job

We’re watching the French Connection Job, ask us about Truffles, Community Theatre, and Molecular Gastronomy.

We also discuss a great week, Shadowbringers solo, Fabby-Ann’s first Pride, Glitter and Axes, pills that make girls pee a lot, hair-passing, let’s go watch Spiderverse, Cass solves a murder, Shawshank Redemption and humanisation of Prisoners, ‘Celebrity’ chef guests, Don’t trust John Rogers or Cops, Eliot’s unfortune backstory, Hardison is a total jerk this episode, tipping and taxes, Pepper is the only dog, the only good Randy (maybe), Is This Racist?, projecting, I can’t believe I forgot what spreader bars were called, food is life, Hardison being childish, when Parker loves her job she never works a day in her life, gold leaf doesn’t change physical taste but commodity fetishism is extremely yucky, Alec Hestonson, Pepper is a rowdy boyo, why doesn’t Parker like Jazz?, Eliot murderman, Palmer and Snead are good, we’ve never played Stardew Valley, the rapping door, Cass is always Dick Van Dyke, Noble Gases, how to get Fabby-Ann to watch something: invoke One Day at a Time, one George Washington.

Recommendations:
Mr Iglesias
Summer Depression by Girl in Red

65. The First Contact Job

We’re watching the First Contact Job, we’re talking about Sci-Fi, Cyphers, and Mr Musk.

We discuss depression and suicide from 27:00 to 28:12

We also discuss dour moods, good news, ladies like strong teeth, pokefusions, Live Astrology, Hercules, Skatune Network, Good Gwenpoole Ebooks, Sin-Sister Six comic, Gay wrath wedding, Parker is mean, substitute podcaster, completionists, this episode is ableism cordial concentrate, Eliot is a war criminal, DNC debate part 1, Bleach, they don’t love the characters, for a second it’s good, Nate doesn’t remember it’s never about the money, the client sells his design to weapons manufacturers, Fermi and Drake, how to ruin a con with 1 bad alias, Charlie Xavier’s Angels, the Bad John Job, an Alien goes out for lunch, Michi Pro the Great Space War Vol 10, we refuse to let all things be bad, lots of trivia, Cass added trivia to IMDB, Marvins, Yeet me up Scotty, Elon’s Extraterrestrial Ejection, Non, how we conned a podcast network into thinking we were a good podcast, Epsilina watches Charlie’s Angels, Lucy Liu is great.

Recommendations:
Mental Health in Video Games: The Good and the Bad
How Brooklyn Nine-Nine makes a joke and Riley J. Dennis’ YT Channel
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend by Girl in Red

64. The Blue Line Job

We’re watching The Blue Line Job, we’re talking about Enforcers, Concussions, and Turtles that are Russians.

We also discuss TMNT 2003, cooking/food talk from 2:10 to 8:55, Slow cooking is good, Double Indian beef and Aloo Gobi, the Surviving Culinarian, Monk vs Gold, Gun House vs the Dogbot, Podcast Law, Randy Pitchford should be in jail right next to Bryan Cogman, full contact sports are fucked up y’all, John Rogers handles something okay but pretends that this is an individual problem instead of a systemic issue, Dr Karma Houdini, shout-out to Danny Marko, Mick Foley, “Women be knowing things?”, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Parker and Hardison do a sneaky, what is good internet?, we go off on a big tangent, Calcifer coaster, Horny Scared, My Neighbour Del Totoro, Fabby Ann reacts to the One Piece Rap, Vlad good, Nate likes hockey, a fanciful turn of phrase, S&M&M, Elliot renounces the Leverage team, disparagement of nice character scenes for being “Fanfiction-y”, Loving your characters, Grey’s Hammer lifting contest, Petunia Evans joins the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in Oleander, Nate and Sophie casual intimacy, Hockey =/= Christmas, as the Zamboni goes, changing the culture of sports, door foley, the eight Ranger, early recording next week, Special Kiss, at the end of the episode…

Recommendations:
Sleepless Domain
Girls by Girl in Red
The Disney Brain

Season 4 Retrospective: Consequences

We’re recapping season 4! We talk about Consequences, bookends, and everything else from this season!

We also discuss the worst season, LL Cool J redux, nonspecific season theming, this season is too long, she forgot what she was about to say for a full minute, this season and cheap jokes, is Nate an Alcoholic? John Rogers doesn’t care, fuck that ‘depression makes great artists’ bullshit, we say “it’s bad” a bunch, explain the joke to us John, Frankie blacks out (not actually), we discuss the bad show (Leverage not Game of Thrones), (but also Game of Thrones), John Rogers looks good compared to David Benioff and Dan Weiss, spelling correction came later, Elliot has friends this season, Parker and Elliot are 2009 era AMVs, Aldis Hodge continues to be fantastic,
“I have become angry youtuber yelling, destroyer of content”, top/bottom 3 episodes this season, Scott Steiner redux, good finale, the roast of Nate, Leverage is often Racist, thank you listeners, Danny Devito impressions, season finales as series finales, the Donut Button, long episode, Game of Thrones is a bad show, Lena Headey hates Bronn’s actor because they had a bad breakup.

Recommendations:
Minecraft
Dust Wardens by Nora Blake

61. The Radio Job

We’re watching the Radio Job, we’re talking about Inventions, Doctor Who, and Die Hard.

We also discuss cold, Sausages as inuendo, Girlpool, all we wanna do is see Fabby turn in to a giant woman, Bill Nighy the secret Pokeman actor, Hardison can see all your porn, Nate Googles ‘boob’, Cass got to the yawn at 19 minutes in while editing and yawned, they kinda torture Hardison, ‘Dad’, this episode is weird about Parker’s neurodivergency, we get a Die Hard, Uncle Scam, this isn’t the first time Eliot has tied three men to a pipe, “Acceptable Losses” said the cop (a bastard), Sophie uses racism, big Leverage problems, Sophie escapes with pregonate, ominous medic, Alec Mcallister, they reference Doctor Who did you catch it?, anyone can die, “Oh this fuck”, Fabby being a DWEU nerd, we get side-tracked listing things the government should nationalise, guillotines are in the public domain, right?, Armadillo Run, the Wargames but it’s the Podcastgames, you gotta have Seven, Baba is Doctor, Doctor Bingo, companions post-credits scene, Ace’s furry girlfriend.

Recommendations:
Detective Pikachu
Sailor Sundays

60. The Gold Job

We’re watching the Gold Job, we’re talking about Games Design, Treasure Hunts, and… Gladys?!

We also discuss fake geek boys, Plant Clippings, FFXIV update, Waypoint charity livestream, good episode (Mainly), good Parker fashions, Hardison goes on strike, Hardison runs a con, Hardison watches Totally Spies, Hardison uses Twine, Mr Rogers are you good?, Hardison go on ARGonauts, “Subaltern”, Parker wuvs donuts, Tommy Madsen said “All Women are Queens.”, this episode is a bit sus about Chinese people, environmental storytelling, too invested, fake CGI water, how is Hardison familiar to them?, Nate is a Gamer, Ghost Facers, Gladys and her wife Smart House play Diner Duo, Austin Walker Pride and Prejudice Fanfic, video killed the sing along, Pepper doesn’t like the rain.

Recommendations:
Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled
72 Hour Waypoint Charity Livestream
Be Good and Rewatch it

59. The Lonely Hearts Job

We’re watching the Lonely Hearts Job, we’re talking about The Bachelor(ette), Alcohol Tasting, and Charity Auctions.

We also discuss meow meow meow meow, dogsitting, acceptable boy Harry Potter fanfics, AAAB, Cactuar get, RWBY problems, the duck was my squeaky chair, bird twitter poll, who is Anya from Buffy?, the libertarian episode, Rich Man Long Name IV, the boys are scared of emotions, Nia Jax entrance theme, the premise is sus, the writers think Parker doesn’t know about sex, Black Widow, Patty Jenkins and Cate Shorthand, Parker is tall, we miss the beach-beach, Eliot/Hardison = all ship dynamics, Parker’s great outfits, Nate and Jimmy bonding time, the team didn’t think this con through, Eliot is a good bro for his bros, oh THAT Anya from Buffy, Flossing to get the hip new cool audiences, we’re doing the thing, what happens in Nacho Libre?

Recommendations:
4th Curtis - Chicken
Exodus
The Healing Magic of Caldo De Pollo
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow