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Husband MaterialWhat Does It Mean To Objectify Yourself? (with Sam Jolman)What does it mean to objectify yourself? Sam Jolman explains objectification, why and how we objectify ourselves, and what healing and repentance can look like. Sam Jolman (MA, LPC) is a trauma therapist with over twenty years of experience specializing in men’s issues and sexual trauma recovery. His writing flows out of this unique opportunity to help people know and heal their stories, and find greater sexual wholeness and aliveness. He received his master’s in counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary and was further trained in Narrative Focused Trauma Care through the Allender Center at The Seatt...2025-05-1229 min

Sounds About LightLet Him Die (Melody of Memory)The current Kingdom Hearts ends here! We're talking about the Melody of Memory cutscenes, then the trailers for Missing Link and KH4. We get to see a lovingly rendered 3D Brain! Lucky us! Missing Link will truly be Game of the Year 2023. Anyway, thanks for listening to our podcast! We'll be back when more Kingdom Hearts exists or when we feel like talking about something else first. For now, feel free to (Re)connect (Kingdom Hearts) with us via the (Missing) links below! Sam | Drew | Bluesky | Discord 2025-04-161h 24

Sounds About LightWhoops! (Dark Road Part 4)Ah jeez! Uh oh! It's the end of Dark Road, and the game started with a flash-forward to a cemetery, and that can only mean one thing: it's time for a bloodless bloodbath! If you've ever wondered why Xehanort and Eraqus seemed to be the only keyblade masters around in the Birth by Sleep times, well...! Let's all say goodbye to our dear friends. We hardly knew ye! Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2025-04-091h 44

Sounds About LightIt's Not Violent When They're Little Cartoons (Dark Road Part 3)After toggling their active quest, Xehanort and friends have apparently decided to go to Agrabah, and so has Eraqus I guess! We've got some irrelevant Jafar shenanigans to deal with and then the plot of Dark Road starts. Vidar and Baldr have been up to a lot of stuff offscreen (why does it feel like most of the plot of this game happened before the game started?) and we're going to hear about it. These mobile games sure love killing kids, huh? Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2025-04-021h 17

Sounds About LightI Need to Read an Edda (Dark Road Part 2)Things in Dark Road are starting to start to get interesting, as we (now halfway through the game) get some characterization for Xehanort's friends and a whole lot of screen time for the Magic Mirror from Snow White. We also meet a few of the upperclassmen, one of whom is a total freak. Don't forget our Z-plot: will Urd marry the Beast from Beauty and the Beast?! No, obviously not! Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2025-03-261h 20

Sounds About LightA Bunch of Losers Run Around in Wonderland (Dark Road Part 1)We're back in the chibi mines with Kingdom Hearts Union χ Dark Road, a mobile gacha game about what Xehanort and Eraqus were getting up to as teenagers when they weren't playing chess! We've got a new cast of characters with Norse mythology names, all of which will be pronounced incorrectly by us. Hermod, Bragi, Vor, Urd, and Baldr are their names. I'm spelling them out here mainly so nobody tries to have a laugh about "vore". None of these losers are especially well-defined at this point, but one thing is for sure: they do run around in Wonderland! 2025-03-191h 24

Sounds About LightMickey Mouse Microwave Hallway (Re Mind Part 3)We pushed through the Re Mind Re Hash last week, and it's all new stuff from here! Sora is exploring Scala ad Caelum and doing some evil activities Xehanort set up for him. That's nice, I think! After that, we've got some genuinely cool stuff with the Guardians of Light and especially our beloved Epic Mickey. Lastly, we're talking about the Limitcut Episode, in which Data-Sora (not that one) fights 14 extra-hard bosses, culminating in one of the weirdest twists in the series so far! Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2025-03-121h 25

Sounds About LightGarth Nomura's Heartplace (Re Mind Part 2)Remember the act 3 boss rush from Kingdom Hearts 3 that a lot of people hate for the breakneck pace at which it wraps up a dozen or so character arcs? Well, here it is again, but this time with a small handful of short new cutscenes that add almost nothing and one big weird new cutscene that also adds almost nothing but is kind of cool. If we imagine Re Mind as a trilogy, which it isn't, this is arguably its sophomore slump, which it isn't. There's a lot of "hey remember this scene? Well, moving on," this week, which...2025-03-051h 02

Sounds About LightThirteen Tall Things for Thirteen Dickheads (Re Mind Part 1)The true Kingdom Hearts 3 begins here? We're beginning our discussion of the KH3 DLC, Re Mind, with an assortment of cutscenes that we've already seen, flashbacks to conversations about things we already knew, and teenage Xehanort getting hilariously dunked on over and over. It's not bad, but it's definitely weird. After that, we Dive to the Wiki for some extremely questionable Cartoon Network character parallels! Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2025-02-191h 14

Sounds About LightData Data Daybreak Town (Union χ Part 6)It wouldn't be a Kingdom Hearts game without a totally bonkers ending, and KHUX has got that thoroughly covered! Twice the data! Twice the Brains! More flashbacks! Baby Xehanort, from the Baby Xehanort spinoff! Many characters crying, and perhaps a host as well...? And just imagine how much more emotional it would be if it didn't look like that! Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2025-01-081h 00

Sounds About LightHow He Got So Small (Union χ Part 5)Three hundred games into Kingdom Hearts, we're finally going to learn what darkness is! In this week's extremely eventful installment of KHUX, we've got some lengthy Master of Masters lore dumps... some twists... maybe some turns? "That all sounds great," you say, "but will there be gratuitous logistical discussions about who gets in which pod?" You better believe it!! Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2024-11-201h 23

Sounds About LightGET BACK IN THE POD (Union χ Part 4)Things are really starting to pop off in this weird game for phones! A boss from Chain of Memories just had an offscreen boss fight against a boss from Kingdom Hearts 1, and the winner has claimed a victory pod to travel through data to get into the real victory pod and travel through time. That's not even the main thing that happens this week. We're mostly dealing with some Capital-D Darkness and getting deep into the mechanics of when a bunch of guys become a cloud and the cloud has to become a bunch of guys. What would the...2024-11-131h 26

Sounds About LightThe Infamous and Cruel Janice Weatherly (Union χ Part 3)The Kingdom Hearts murder mystery continues! Our brainy union leaders are hard at work trying to find some answers (which is to say, Brain is looking into it) while Dennis is hard at work doing the plot of Wreck-It Ralph offscreen and will be back next week. We've got some challenging Master of Masters dialogue to discuss, and our reward is some severely bonkers Maleficent plot. Why is she here again? Don't worry, it'll all make sense! This game makes sense! Anyway, none of this matters. Here comes Janice Weatherly! Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2024-10-301h 19

Chicken Dinner :: Sports Betting ShowIt's Lilac! feat. Corbie Craig, Andy Molitor and Drew DinsickIn this episode of the "Chicken Dinner" podcast, Sam Panayotovich discusses the highly-spirited NFL MVP debate between Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson. Special guests include Corbie Craig, followed by Andy Molitor and Drew Dinsick from the "Deep Dive Podcast." SUBSCRIBE! Apple, Spotify and all other podcast platformsFOLLOW! X @chickenxdinner | IG and YT @betchickendinner 2024-10-251h 05

Sounds About LightHe's Called Brain for a Reason (Union χ Part 2)He's called Brain for a reason. Unrelated, happy 69th episode! We're back in Daybreak Town for some more KHUX. Our favorite little chibi anime boys are investigating a little chibi anime murder, while the player goes to investigate a Disney movie. We've got several uninterrupted minutes of Chirithy narration in this one. In order to understand the stakes of Kingdom Hearts Union χ, one must first understand the mechanics of the Cy-Bugs from Wreck-It Ralph. I've always said this. Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2024-10-231h 03

Sounds About LightAmnesia Plaza (KH3 Part 13)Okay, now we finished Kingdom Hearts 3! In our 13th (nice) episode about this game, we discussed the 13 (nice) secret reports and the secret cutscene. The game might be over, but it's not done throwing new story hooks at us! Who is Subject X? How do you pronounce that most ancient letter? Is Japan real? Kingdom Hearts is going in some weird directions, if you can believe it, and we're cautiously excited! Sam | Drew | Bluesky 2024-10-161h 28

Sounds About LightThe Lost Art of Funny Fingers (KH3 Part 12)We finished the dang game! More or less! In our not-final episode on Kingdom Hearts 3, we're discussing the lengthy final battle with Xehanort and the equally lengthy series of endings upon endings. We've gotten all the logistics out of the way and it's time to enjoy some emotional payoffs! More bad chess! Twists! Turns! What more could you want from a game? Journal entries to read? Those will be next week! Sam | Drew | Bluesky | Cohost 2024-10-091h 31

Sounds About LightPress Triangle to Activate MILFLover69 (KH3 Part 11)On this week's episode, Sora mostly runs around killing people. I've got his kill tally up to 22 at this point, but that number has become extremely muddled and I'm no longer sure what death even is in this universe. Anyway, moving away from that existential headache, let's get to the relevant existential headaches of the week! What is the soul? What is the identity of a man created by combining two people and ripping them back apart again and again? Can someone truly say they've chosen their fate when their fundamental nature as a being was determined from the...2024-10-021h 35

Sounds About LightCalvinchess (KH3 Part 10)This week, Sora doesn't visit the final world of Kingdom Hearts 3, but he does visit the Final World of Kingdom Hearts 3! It's one of those weeks. After some bad stuff happens, he opens a sleeping keyhole or he doesn't and visits a sleeping world or he doesn't. Nobody can agree on much about what's going on in this part of the game, so we'll be taking a very even-handed approach called "being confused"! One thing is for sure: Jiminy Cricket is always here when we need him the most. Sam | Drew | Bluesky | Cohost 2024-09-251h 21

Sounds About LightThe Saddest Mickey Ever Rendered (KH3 Part 9)The true Kingdom Hearts 3 begins here! We've finished the Disney worlds and we're heading to the Realm of Darkness to do story stuff. I don't want to spoil anything here, so I'll just say that we've got our first legit Crackpot Corner in a while and also Mickey Mouse looks very depressed at one point and it's funny. They also let Haley Joel Osment do sicko voice again! This is a good game! Sam | Drew | Bluesky | Cohost 2024-09-111h 05

Sounds About LightCrab Pot Corner (KH3 Part 8)We've reached the final Disney world of Kingdom Hearts 3: San Fransokyo from Big Hero 6! We both watched the movie this time and it turns out it's great! That's not what we're talking about this week though. Instead, we've got funny original Baymax antics (original antics, not original Baymax) and an evil little Riku. Hopefully Sora can figure out the analogy of Baymax to Roxas in time to save him from Baynitas or whatever! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2024-09-041h 18

Sounds About LightHow About Thirty Crabs? (KH3 Part 7)Yo ho, yo ho, the Pirates in KH3 This week, we went to the Caribbean We didn't like it, yo ho The cutscenes were boring and we were snoring Wake up, me hearties, yo ho Yo ho, yo ho, the Pirates in KH3 Luxord was there and he tried to parley For the Master's black box, yo ho Jack gave it away, Sora's notice delayed It was kind of funny, yo ho Yo ho, yo ho, the Pirates in KH3 And then it was time for the Davy Jones...2024-07-171h 30

Sounds About LightYou Can Only Do Ice? (KH3 Part 6)Frozen is a movie about a girl with ice powers losing control and freezing her kingdom in the summer. This is why it's funny that we're talking about Arendelle in July! We did it on purpose! A lot of people say this is an all-time low for the series. It's not very good, but it still has its moments in between trips up and down the mountain. They fixed Elsa's hair, at least! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2024-07-101h 14

Husband MaterialIt's Good To Be Aroused (with Sam Jolman)"There is nothing inherently wrong with an aroused man." What is arousal? Why is it good? Sam Jolman helps us reclaim the heart of masculine sexuality for the purpose of awe, play, and worshipping God. You'll learn how arousal always has a script, why evil hates arousal, and the difference between sexuality and sensuality. At the end, you'll receive a beautiful blessing from Sam. This episode is amazing!Sam Jolman (MA, LPC) is a trauma therapist with over twenty years of experience specializing in men’s issues and sexual trauma recovery. His writing flows out of this un...2024-06-1046 min

Sounds About LightNo Scare... Care! (KH3 Part 5)We're back from a short internet-problems break to talk about Monstropolis, a world in which Sora and friends walk forward through a series of hallways! Fortunately, the hallways are occupied by our favorite scary guys from our favorite scary company to keep us scary company. All things considered, it's pretty good, and someone gets comically hucked through a door! Uh oh! This episode starts with Sam talking about a leak in the ceiling, and it turns out that leak might be a much bigger problem than was apparent at the time. If you don't hear from us...2024-05-221h 17

Sounds About LightFlynn Onceler (KH3 Part 4)Welcome to Kingdom Hearts Untangled, our Tangled recap recap podcast where we recap a recap of Tangled! All things considered, it's still a pretty fun world despite very literally being "Sora, Donald, and Goofy watch a Disney movie." Even one of the least interesting villains in the series can't drag this one down! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2024-05-011h 17

Sounds About LightYou've Got an Enemy in Me (KH3 Part 3)It's a great week for Kingdom Hearts 3! We're heading to one of the best worlds in the series: Toy Box! We're missing a lot of the Toy Story toys, for reasons that will be explained/stupid, but that's okay. We've got everything we could possibly want: Woody roasting Xehanort, Rex being a gamer, Sora piloting a mech, and the army guys being slightly too real. Also, a commercial for the game that Nomura wishes he could make if he wasn't busy doing this! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2024-04-241h 14

Sounds About LightSomehow, Xehanort Has Returned (KH3 Part 2)In this bistro-centric episode, we're returning to Twilight Town, the chillest town in the Realm Between, and catching up with the Other Sea Salt Trio: Hayner, Pence, and Olette! So much has happened with these three in the past [???] days or weeks or months, and Sora can truly relate to them now that he has a phone. Scrooge is also here, and he's got an Unnamed Rat in his employ! This looks like a good spot to try to say "ingredients" in Donald Duck voice! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2024-04-171h 15

Sounds About LightThe Detesters of Woody (KH3 Part 1)The third Kingdom Hearts begins here! We've finally made it to the most recent game in the series besides Dark Road and Melody of Memory and also the rest of KHUX that came out after this! Our journey begins in Olympus Coliseum, a world whose name should probably be changed at this point. There's no Coliseum in Olympus this time around, and maybe that's why it's actually pretty great for a change! After that, we're checking in with Rickey and Miku in the Realm of Darkness. Will they manage to find and rescue Aqua? We're only 45 minutes into a 12...2024-04-101h 26

Sounds About LightLarge Adult Darksides (A Fragmentary Passage)We're back from our break and entering the Unreal Era with [checks notes] Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-, not to be confused with A Fragmentary Passage from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep! -A fragmentary passage- picks up right where A Fragmentary Passage left off, with Aqua having bad times in the Realm of Darkness. Will Mickey Mouse help her times become good, or will he, instead, not? This is the one with the shirt. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2024-03-271h 36

Sounds About LightCapital-D Darkness (Union χ Part 1)The true KHUX begins here! After last week's tragedy, we could all use a bit of levity in our lives, so actually there wasn't a tragedy last week. Problem solved! This week, we'll be meeting some new friends, not meeting some new friends, and meeting some not new friends. Classic Kingdom Hearts stuff, in other words. This episode introduces a lot of questions and mysteries, but you'll have to wait patiently for answers, because after this we'll be taking a few weeks off, then following release order with the very short A Fragmentary Passage, and the much...2024-02-141h 24

Sounds About LightAced's House of Bricks (Unchained χ Part 4)Thinking about the Power Bangles too much made us both sick for a few weeks, which is a shame because now we're back to talk about the end of Unchained χ and apparently the Power Bangles are more important than ever! What is this game?! To make matters worse, the end of the world is happening. Oh, come on! Well, that's it for KHUX. We'll be back next time to start the sequel, KHUX! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2024-02-071h 28

Sounds About LightThe Dark Anniversary (Unchained χ Part 3)As we enter the second half of the first half of KHUX, we meet a new friend, Skuld, who is bringing back belts in a big way! We'll need her emotional support, because things are not great in Daybreak Town. The Foretellers are fighting, Chirithies are turning purple, and we're finding more and more that Kingdom Hearts is not afraid to kill kids as long as they're offscreen and we don't know them. We've got a new piece of light jewelry, but will it be plot-important enough to undo the darkness done by the power bangle, or was Chirithy...2024-01-151h 36

Sounds About LightHi, Chirithy. Hi, Chirithy. (Unchained χ Part 2)This week in Daybreak Town, our boy Dennis is feeling lonely. It turns out it's hard to make a lot of friends when you're not allowed(?) to talk to 80% of the people around you! Fortunately, he meets a nice(?) boy named Ephemer who breaks the rules(?) and they become fast friends. Is everything as it seems? Or is everything not as it seems? Also, make sure you pay attention we've got some plot-critical bangle shenanigans this week. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2024-01-081h 29

Sounds About LightA Game About Dennis (Unchained χ Part 1)The chronological Kingdom Hearts begins here! We're going back in time to the Age of Fairy Tales in Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ plus Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover! What does that mean? Short answer: mobile games. We're meeting a whole new cast of characters, including the guy from our podcast art, a bunch of animal-masked dweebs, and Dennis. There will be intrigue, there will be keyblades, and there will be minimal Disney worlds! Huge shoutout to damo279 for his KHUX cutscene compilations, which enabled the proliferation of worms in Sam's brain that led to this podcast's existence. Please check ou...2024-01-011h 33

Sounds About LightJust Xehanort Things (Dream Drop Distance Part 6)In the finale of Dream Drop Distance, we finally get to see an old guy wiggle his fingers again, and the game is good. Also I guess some stuff happens with Riku and Sora and character arcs or whatever. Look at his fingers go! Yahoo! After that, we're discussing our general thoughts on this weird, messy game and why it's good, then we learn about Minions. Next time, we'll be starting Kingdom Hearts χ, Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ, Kingdom Hearts Union χ, and Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover! It'll make sense, I promise! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-12-251h 35

Sounds About LightThank the Dream Dropper (Dream Drop Distance Part 5)This episode is... nuts! We're approaching the end of Dream Drop Distance, and the mysterious villains who have been popping up throughout the game to be vague at Sora and Riku are finally going to start being specific at them instead. Sam's been working out at the Ultimania to prepare for this one, so let's put our brains together and drop into the Xehanort Experience Record! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-12-181h 51

Sounds About Lightd'Arktagnan (Dream Drop Distance Part 4)Merlin sent us away to a pocket dimension for two months to work on our Donald Duck voices, and we're back to talk about the last two Disney worlds of Dream Drop Distance: Country of the Musketeers and Symphony of Sorcery! Two unusual choices for Kingdom Hearts, and therefore two very good ones! Let's all put our heads together and see if we can continue to understand this game as it starts throwing alternate realities (maybe) and time travel (definitely) at us. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-12-111h 31

Sounds About LightI'm Being a Prankster, and I'm in Paradise (Dream Drop Distance Part 3)This week, we're getting an exciting new perspective on Pinocchio and a fairly underwhelming familiar one! I never thought I'd be disappointed to leave Monstro so quickly, but here we are! We're also entering the Spellican Arc of Dream Drop Distance with a return to TWEWY Twaverse Twown, and a B-plot about Minnie Mouse being held hostage. All in all, a pretty good week of Kingdom Hearts! We'll be taking a break for a little while but we should be back in December! As the king of the universe always says: "see ya real soon!" ...2023-10-091h 37

Sounds About LightSpontaneous Waifu Generation (Dream Drop Distance Part 2)Alright, let's get these out of the way! We're visiting the first proper Disney worlds of Dream Drop Distance: France and Computer! They're not good, but that doesn't mean we won't talk about them for two hours! If anyone without a 3DS was worried that they're missing out on some great Kingdom Hearts worlds, well, you're probably fine when it comes to these two. Also: we finally get to the bottom of Tron's stupid new name! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-10-021h 58

Sounds About LightThe Sack Is Back (Dream Drop Distance Part 1)We're entering the 2.8 Era with Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance! If you thought things were weird and confusing before, this is where it really gets weird and confusing. The true Kingdom Hearts begins here, one could say. We're trapped in a dream with the TWEWY gang. How important are they to the lore? Hopefully not at all! Sorry if we sound lost; we're not players! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-09-251h 47

Sounds About LightThe Sora Bullying Tour (Re:coded Part 4)Re:coded is ending strong(?) with a trip to Data-Castle Oblivion, where we'll be seeing, and Sora will be forgetting, a whole lot of familiar faces! Will a new Black Coat Guy successfully goad him into beating up the data illusions of his friends for no reason, or will Sora obviously not do that? That would be a pretty weird note to end on, so the game helpfully throws twenty straight minutes of "next time on Kingdom Hearts" at us! Next time: Dream Drop Distance! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-09-181h 43

Sounds About LightJiminy's Journal's Avatar Data-Riku Says This Game Makes Sense (Re:coded Part 3)On this week's installment of Re:coded, we're finding out whether it's really safe inside Riku as Sora enters the datascape within the datascape to debug his friend! This means a montage of backtracking, a lot of apologies, and a lot of apologies about apologies. Afterwards, the team will be getting to the bottom of the mystery of the journal. Well, one of them, anyway! Turns out there's a lot going on in this game, including a massive lore teaser from Maleficent who has no idea that she has no idea what's going on. Sam | Drew | Twitter...2023-09-111h 11

Sounds About LightLearn to Code, Fool (Re:coded Part 2)We're halfway through Re:coded and it's time to go on a friendship adventure! Can a data boy learn to love? Can a steamboat captain learn to hack? Kingdom Hearts says yes! We're talking about Olympus Coliseum and Agrabah this week, but really we're talking about Hollow Bastion and all the funny things that happen there. Also, Maleficent is here and she's being an evil grandma! This game was good the whole time! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-08-281h 20

Sounds About LightLingering Whale (Re:coded Part 1)Beep boop! Time for a weird game! We're watching Re:coded, AKA Kingdom Hearts Somehow Goes Even More Off the Rails! This is a game mainly about Jiminy Cricket reading poetry in his eDiary. Who's writing the poetry? Well, that's a great question, and Chip and Dale are going to help us find the answer by... uh... Look, I don't have time to explain it all here, okay? This is the game where they go into the Data World. We'll (try to) make sense of it on the podcast! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-08-211h 26

One Broke Actress185. Actor & TikTok Star Drew Talbert on Advice for Actors on the Internet, Finding Success, and the SAG Influencer ContractIn this week's episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Drew Talbert, the creator behind the popular TikTok account @drew_talbert. I met him during a panel at the Groundlings and he has so much to share with you all. We talked about his journey as an actor and how he stumbled upon success with his hilarious characters that live within his restaurant, Bistro Huddy. Inspired by his years working as a waiter, Drew's skits continuously go viral for his hilarious and real portrayal of the hospitality business. He also gets into the importance of community and connection in content...2023-08-1757 min

Sounds About LightSora Porter Bridges (Birth by Sleep Part 11)Okay, this time for real - we have finished Birth by Sleep! In our final installment, we're discussing the secret ending Blank Points and the playable secret episode A Fragmentary Passage (not to be confused with etc. etc.) We've got some Cool Terra to enjoy, some sad-hopeful Aqua, and basically no Ventus. There's even a special cameo from Roxas, Axel, and some girl we don't remember! Also we completely forgot to talk about the secret bosses. We'll do it next episode! Re:coded, here we come! Let's get weird! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-08-141h 31

Sounds About LightHuh! Heh Hah! Huh! Heh Hah! (Birth by Sleep Part 10)It took her entire route, but Aqua's story is finally getting interesting! This week, we're wrapping up Aqua Time with a trip to the Keyblade Graveyard, then starting Aqua Time 2 with a trip to Radiant Garden and uhhhh maybe somewhere else. Hopefully somewhere good! Next week, we're finishing Birth by Sleep for real for real with Aqua Time 3, also known as A Fragmentary Passage, not to be confused with the Kingdom Hearts game called A Fragmentary Passage! Great! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-08-071h 21

Sounds About LightProstrate Yourself for Minnie Mouse (Birth by Sleep Part 9)We've been wondering what Aqua's character is, and the game has kindly provided us with some answers! It turns out, first and foremost, she's a bootlicker! Oh, okay! Let's watch in horror as Aqua takes a tour of four Disney worlds and intensely respects anyone and everyone who orders her around in them. Is this really what her game is about? Xehanort, can you please give her something else to do? Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-07-311h 19

Sounds About LightLove Kisses Again (Birth by Sleep Part 8)We're entering the endgame of Birth by Sleep, which in this case means we're entering the beginninggame of Aqua's story! As is tradition, it starts with a whole lot of Disney nothing! She's going on a tour of the worlds, learning about love or something? She just likes to watch people kiss. At least there's some good action to keep us entertained... or there would have been if the Fairy Godmother hadn't intervened to teach Aqua that murder is bad! Ugh!! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-07-211h 25

Sounds About LightExtreme Extreme Reiki (Birth by Sleep Part 7)Two boys down! That's what happens in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, thanks to Xehanort's machinations. In our third and final Terra Time, we're taking a quick trip to Neverland to fight the final boss, and then everything gets very bad for Terra very fast. What happened between him and Eraqus after Ventus got hucked? What was he up to at the top of that mountain with Xehanort? Nothing good, it turns out! Hopefully Aqua will have a better time than the others! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-07-141h 13

Sounds About LightAn Impetuous Little Man (Birth by Sleep Part 6)Terra's story is flying by like a Keyblade hoverbike chasing a race car-shaped Unversed on a racetrack! We've got a few Disney worlds to get through this week, but what we're really here for is our funny guy Braig. Have you ever wondered what happened to his eye, or what else happened to his eye? You'll find out about one of them this week! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-07-071h 19

Sounds About LightCreatures So Base (Birth by Sleep Part 5)Oh, gosh. Well, it looks like it's time to meet our favorite little quiet boy man, Terra. He may not have passed his Mark of Mastery exam, but what he lacks in control over his inner darkness, he makes up for in lack of control over his inner darkness! The Disney villains are gonna have a field day with this guy. Somebody, please, for the love of Mickey, help this Keyblade himbo. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-06-301h 11

Sounds About LightLeave the Popsicle With Me (Birth by Sleep Part 4)I hope you're sleepy for birth (????) because it's time to wrap up Ventus's story already! We'll miss this sweet little mouse disguised as a boy, but we've got two more friends to get to know over the next few weeks. For now, let's enjoy this thrilling conclusion featuring some extreme sicko Xehanort Reports, a Braig cameo, and the story of from whence Vanitas was riven. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-06-231h 31

Sounds About LightThe Keeeeyblade (Birth by Sleep Part 3)The true Kingdom Hearts begins here, as we approach the end of our time with Ventus. If you know Birth by Sleep, you've been waiting for it: it's the first mention of the infamous χ-blade! It's a real ordeal to talk about in an audio format, so we're sorry if it's an ordeal to listen to! Besides that, Ventus is meeting an experiment eventually known as Stitch, and (some of) the Lost Boys. Also Donald and Goofy are here! What a game! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-06-161h 24

Sounds About LightMe Likey Little Mickey (Birth by Sleep Part 2)These games haven't been about friendship enough, so this week we're entering the Ventus Loneliness Arc! He and his friends got in a single confusing fight, so now he has to rethink his entire life. Maybe he'll find some new friends in Radiant Garden or Olympus Coliseum? Definitely not in Disney Town. There's only one guy there who's looking for friends, and we can all agree he'd be better off dead. (For his own sake!) Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-06-091h 27

Sounds About LightMy Son Is Also Named Xehanort (Birth by Sleep Part 1)The true Kingdom Hearts begins here! We're jumping back in time to meet some new (old) friends in Birth by Sleep! This game has three playable characters and we'll be starting with Ventus, a certified Sweet Little Boy who looks exactly like Roxas for some reason. We'll also be meeting Eraqus and Xehanort, who -- wait, we already met a Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts 2? Hm. Well, it's probably just a coincidence. It's a very common name these days! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-05-262h 04

Sounds About LightWhat's Going On? Kingdom Hearts (KH2 Final Mix Part 13.5)Okay, this time for real, we actually finished Kingdom Hearts 2! We've got a lot of Xemnas to deal with, across five or six phases of boss battle. We've got some smiles, some grimaces, some laughs, some tears, and there's even a Tron part! This game really has it all. What a journey! A lot of it was even good! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-05-191h 31

Sounds About LightThat Makes Sense (KH2 Final Mix Part 13)Disclaimer: you are going to hear us talk for about an hour and a half about Kingdom Hearts 2 and how this is the last time we're ever going to talk about Kingdom Hearts 2. Well, we're wrong. This week, we're talking about the first half of Sora's time in The World That Never Was! It turns out we really underestimated just how much stuff would happen in the last hour or so of the game, so please enjoy our second-to-last discussion of Kingdom Hearts 2! Xemnas is barely even in it! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-05-121h 32

Sounds About LightBeans for the Computer (KH2 Final Mix Part 12)We've made it through the boring Disney world revisits, and our reward is a very good Disney world revisit! We're saying goodbye to our friend Tron, who we love very much. He may have his silly limits, but this is one computer we'd never let starve. After that, we're off to Twilight Town, and after that, we're off to Twilight Town! We've also got some final emotional sendoffs for Axel and Roxas. Too bad we're already all cried out from Tron! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-05-051h 28

Sounds About LightHow Soon Can We Kill Sora? (KH2 Final Mix Part 11)We're fast approaching the end of Kingdom Hearts 2, and for some reason that means we've got three more kind of not very good Disney worlds to slog through! They're not terrible, at least. We've got confusing Luxord antics in Port Royal, Jack Skellington learns the meaning of Christmas again(?), and Simba gets bullied into success. Cool, cool, cool, great, great, great. The true Kingdom Hearts begins next week! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-04-281h 20

Sounds About LightYou Are Fleetwood Jperiod (KH2 Final Mix Part 10)The past few weeks of Kingdom Hearts 2 have been really good, so it's time to ease off the gas pedal for some relatively boring Disney worlds! That's just how this game has to work, it turns out. We're revisiting Beast's Castle, Land of Dragons, Olympus Coliseum, and we even threw in Agrabah because there was so little going on otherwise. Will next week be better? Maybe. Will the week after that be better? Yes. Ohhhh yes. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-04-211h 20

Sounds About LightThe Chamber of Email (KH2 Final Mix Part 9)Last week, we got one big Mickey meme and this week we've got another! That's right, we've finally arrived at "they'll pay for this", and if you don't know what that is then I won't spoil the surprise. It's another great week of KH2, and this time we're talking about the Battle of 1,000 Heartless! If that sounds like an exhausting number of heartless to fight, don't worry - we also get a relaxing break where Xemnas walks down some stairs for a while. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-04-141h 34

Sounds About LightJim the Wise vs. Ansem the Nasty Idiot (KH2 Final Mix Part 8)The rumors are true! Kingdom Hearts 2 has a story! This week, we head back to Twilight Town in search of Kairi, and Hollow Bastion in search of Computer. We meet Tron from Tron, our brains hurt at the thought of Ansem doing corporate espionage at ENCOM, and Mickey Mouse says his big meme at us. What an episode! This game should be like this more often! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-04-071h 32

Sounds About LightTurtle Week (KH2 Final Mix Part 7)We're coming up on some big plot moments, but we've got three more Disney worlds to get out of the way first! Fortunately, these ones are pretty fun if entirely inconsequential! This week we visit the Pride Lands, 100 Acre Wood, and Atlantica. Goofy turns into two different turtles, and that's something! Ursula is up to her old tricks again, like being alive, so Sora better practice his sniper skills! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-03-311h 24

Sounds About LightLeave a Gem, Take a Gem, Die (KH2 Final Mix Part 6)This week, we visited an action-packed THREE worlds, because the episode wouldn't have been an episode with just the first two. We've got Port Royal, Agrabah, and Halloween Town on our plate today, and it's a good thing that dessert is there waiting for us at the end of this incredibly bland meal! We barely talked about the first two. We were mostly busy talking about Donald Duck's Treasure Madness. Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-03-241h 11

Talking Average FitnessEP 21 - Drew ZaroThe one where Kev and Sam interview Drew Zaro - veteran, CrossFit Gymnastics staff, and Financial Advisor - about the merits of the small, unsexy stuff that really moves the needle in fitness (physically and financially).2023-03-2355 min

Sounds About LightAn Extremely Geefy Wife (KH2 Final Mix Part 5)This week is our saddest episode yet, as we witness the endless humiliation of Pete. Why does this guy work for Maleficent? Why doesn't he use his literal time travel portal to his own benefit? Some men are just born to hench, it seems. Meanwhile, Hades comes up with his most nefarious plan yet: opening his own arena to compete with the Coliseum. Sora, you can't let him get away with this! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-03-171h 36

Sounds About LightDonald Duck With His Hot and Blue Guitar! (KH2 Final Mix Part 4)We sure did have a great time seeing Sora and friends again last week, but now it's time to get into the silly stuff. We're visiting Beast's Castle and the Land of Dragons this week, one of which is kind of an okay world! Pull up a chair and grab some popcorn and watch Sora get beat up twice in one week! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-03-101h 24

The Drew Hahn ShowTDHS #122: Sam NessSend us a textRecorded at Gibson Community Music Hall in Appleton; Sam Ness sat down for an interview to talk about his musical journey thus far in his young life. From his roots in Wisconsin, to time overseas living pretty much homeless and honing in his sound. Sam has since returned back to the states, hunkered down in the Northwoods of Wisconsin during the pandemic releasing the album 'The Cabin' and has now followed that up with his recent album release 'City Lights & Smoke'. Sam fleshes out a few of his songs and his inspirations. 2023-03-0755 min

Sounds About LightThe Sounds About Light "Well," (KH2 Final Mix Part 3)Ah, it's great to be back! We've finished our sad times with Roxas and, appropriately, are moving on as if none of it ever happened. Sora, Donald, and Goofy are back, baby! It's Kingdom Hearts 2 again! We've got old places to go and new people to meet. We've got Secret Ansem Reports to read! It's like putting on an old pair of giant clown shoes! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-03-031h 21

Sounds About LightGot It Recorded? (358/2 Days Part 4)Uh oh, it's time to be sad! We're wrapping up our discussion of 358/2 Days, and a lot of things happen, very few of them good. On the bright side, next week we get to go back to Kingdom Hearts 2! Donald and Goofy are there! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-02-241h 09

Sounds About LightA Mirror Like a Broken Sponge (358/2 Days Part 3)We've had it too easy for too long. This is the part where 358/2 Days starts to get messy! Xion(?) is having weird glitchy memories(??) or maybe Roxas is(???) or something else is happening. We think we kind of get it, maybe. Plus, the biggest mystery of all is introduced: what is Axel wearing under his coat? Cool pants, or an adult diaper? There are no other possibilities! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-02-101h 42

Sounds About LightWhen a Heart Leaves a Body, Stuff Happens (358/2 Days Part 2)We're halfway through 358/2 Days and the plot is beginning to thicken! Just who is Xion and where did she come from? What are Saïx and Axel up to? Would Demyx be able to cry if you took his sitar away? Is Sora enjoying his nap?! Also, Drew offers up a crackpot corner that expands Sam's brain instantly! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-02-031h 20

Sounds About LightThe Ice Cream on the Desk (358/2 Days Part 1)Hey, we said we'd be back in January, and here we are! We weren't lying! Last time we finished the prologue of KH2, and now we're jumping back in time to see what Roxas was up to for the past 358 days (/2). If you like hearing us say "ice cream", "clock tower", and a dozen dorky names with X's in them, you're going to love these next few episodes! Sam | Drew | Twitter | Cohost 2023-01-271h 25