Patreon Newsletter #34: August 2022! (Patreon)

From Adal:

Hachi Machi July flew by! Honestly this month was a bit of a blur and I can’t recall what all I was up to but one of the main highlights was doing the live Hey Riddle Riddle show in Chicago over the holiday weekend! It was so wonderful to see/meet a lot of you afterwards! Thank ya’ll for being so nice and for the folks who brought some amazing gifts!

I’ve mostly shifted mental gears to prepare for a busy and travel filled August. I’m heading to NYC, New Jersey and Vegas for different obligations. Please let me know if you have recs for any of these places; especially NJ as I’ve never been and only know it from the Sopranos!

Oh! I just got an Occulus Quest 2 yesterday so please let me know what games I should grab! It came with Beat Saber which I love and I plan on getting Superhot.

Here’s what I consumed in July:

TV:

• The Rehearsal - absolutely brilliant
• Dark Winds
• Big Brother Season 24
• The Challenge: USA - tried a few eps and fell off. I had heard it’s the best reality game show but I just couldn’t get into it
• Reservation Dogs season 2 - easily one of the best things on tv still. Check out season 1 if you have yet to watch!
• Better Call Saul final season pt. 2 - so so good. I think when it’s all said and done I will rank BCS above Breaking Bad
• Stranger Things season 4 pt. 2
• 101 Places to Party Before You Die - delightful. Gabrus and Adam Pally have an effortless charm to them. This show really captures that feeling of you and your friends dicking around in a new city.
• The Resort
• Harley Quinn season 3
• EVIL season 2
• What We Do In the Shadows season 4
• Street Food: USA

Movies:

• Last Night in Soho - I’m late to the game on this but it really hit me hard. I’ll have to revisit in a few months to see if it was just a fluke but I thought this was outstanding.
• Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Thor: Love and Thunder
• Gattaca - I had never seen this and Jemma found that insane so we watched together. Very much enjoyed it!
• The Purge - in July I hung out with the Big Grande dudes and they were talking about how interesting the world building is in the Purge movies and I realized I had written them off as something I didn’t need to see so based on their recommendation I decided to watch them all.
• The Purge: Anarchy
• The Purge: Election Year
• The First Purge
• The Forever Purge
• Escape From Mr. Limoncello’s Library - watched high with Erin and it was definitely a movie.
• The Dead Zone
• Chris Claremont’s X-Men documentary
• Norm McDonald: Nothing Special
• South Park: The Streaming Wars
• The Great Mouse Detective

Other Stuffs:

• Played Chinatown board game
• Played Wingspan board game - Jemma just taught it to me and now we love it!
• Played Trogdor board game
• Played the video game Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - maybe the best 4 player Switch game I’ve ever played? Really creative mechanics and heavily reliant on teamwork and communication.
• Played the video game It Takes Two - maybe the best 2 player game I’ve ever played? Jemma and I are about half-way through and I’m obsessed. So fucking fun.
• Played the video game Stray - adorable.
• Played the Switch version of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
• Started reading the book ‘How Iceland Changed The World’
• Listened to the new Arcade Fire album WE
• Listened to Pink Floyd’s- Wish You Were Here after talking to a friend about how it’s a perfect album. Revisit it if you haven’t in awhile!
• Listened finally to the new Diane Coffee - With People. My album of the year so far.
• Listened to and really enjoyed Beyonce’s - RENAISSANCE

Please let me know what you’ve been enjoying so I can check it out!

Love

Adal

7:17pm

From JPC:

Hey Riddiots -

Just have a few recommendations for y'all this month:

The Old Man on Hulu. Fun performance from Bridges/Lithgow. I was shocked that it was only 7 episodes though. 7 just seems like such a weird number for a tv show.

20 Minutes Till Dawn on Steam. Picked this one up and played it on stream for a bit. It's fun! It's very similar to Vampire Survivors except you can choose where to shoot. I heard about it on my buddy's podcast Bundle Buddies which you can listen to if you're into hot video game recs.

XCOM & XCOM2 on Steam. Never played either of these games before, although I played an XCOM board game once. Both are a ton of fun. Currently playing through the 2nd one and getting my ass handed to me. It's hard! But I picked it up on sale and the sale is over so maybe wait for the next sale if you're interested in it.

There is a new season of Blowback that you can buy for $25 and it's really good. But you can also get their first two seasons for free if you haven't listened and want to try before you buy. First season is on Iraq, 2nd season is on Cuba and the new season is on Korea.

Adal & I were on Too Scary; Didn't Watch so check the episode out now!  And then stay tuned for Emily Gonzalez on HRR in August. Also, it's such a great podcast, especially if you are like me and don't watch many scary movies.

I also finally finished season 2 of How To with John Wilson (fantastic) and I'm currently watching The Rehearsal (brilliant) so check both of those out on HBO.

Oh, and Billbuds will be pretty fun this month because Johnny and I are both picking albums that we love. His pick is Blackout by Britney Spears and mine is Heartthrob by Tegan & Sara. And our buddy Rich is joining us mid-month to talk Jimmy Buffett.

HRR Updates/News

1.  We just announced two live shows on the East Coast for this September! We'll be at the Bell House in NYC on 9/6 and at Union Stage in Washington DC on 9/7! These will be in person only; no livestream option. We hope to see some of you there! You can find tickets and all information at: heyriddleriddle.com/live

2. Our next stretch goal will be for 6666 patrons and the reward will be a new limited series tentatively titled Horror at Camp Solveaway. It's a riddle-city-esque adventure set in a summer camp where things aren't what they seem.

3. HRR has been nominated by The People's Choice Podcast Awards for Best Games & Hobbies podcast. You can vote for us, but you've gotta sign up first. If we win, we'll let it go to our heads!

4. The August Review Crew tier live-stream will be Wednesday 8/10 at 9:30pm CT. The youtube link will be posted to the patreon shortly before we begin.

5. For August we will be reviewing The Great Mouse Detective for Review Crew!

6. Adal and JPC were recent guests on the podcast Too Scary Didn’t Watch! Please check out their episode on the Christopher Walken ‘horror?’ film Dead Zone!

Love you all!

Adal, Erin & JPC