Episode 86: Hear Me Now, You Warrior Lords

Original air date: February 6, 2019

Episode overview

The hosts compare the Game Corner sting with Elastica, then discuss Wargroove, the Resident Evil 2 remake, Steam trading cards, and Monster Rancher Advance 2 before explicitly closing the segment. Under the spoken Random Bone News variant, the hosts watch and discuss an attributed local-news report about remains believed to be a woman’s grandmother found in a basement freezer. After a Jordache Basics sponsor-video detour, the hosts watch most of the 1986 Cleveland Browns fantasy production Masters of the Gridiron and react to its football warriors, Tiny Tim villain, fantasy combat, music, and Super Bowl-ring story. Nested inside Video Showcase, Bingo repeatedly scores Masters of the Gridiron, rising from 2.5 out of 100 to a final 86 after its fantasy-football story wins him over. Ian debuts a branching voicemail adventure that casts listeners as him at the gym and asks them to choose between finishing the workout or meeting a mysterious stranger at a waffle-and-ice-cream shop.

Segments

• **Game Corner** — 0:23:35 · citation pending — The hosts compare the Game Corner sting with Elastica, then discuss Wargroove, the Resident Evil 2 remake, Steam trading cards, and Monster Rancher Advance 2 before explicitly closing the segment.
• **Bone News** — 0:46:03 · citation pending — Under the spoken Random Bone News variant, the hosts watch and discuss an attributed local-news report about remains believed to be a woman’s grandmother found in a basement freezer.
• **Video Showcase** — 0:51:17 · citation pending — After a Jordache Basics sponsor-video detour, the hosts watch most of the 1986 Cleveland Browns fantasy production Masters of the Gridiron and react to its football warriors, Tiny Tim villain, fantasy combat, music, and Super Bowl-ring story.
• **Bingo Pleased-O-Meter** — 0:56:40 · citation pending — Nested inside Video Showcase, Bingo repeatedly scores Masters of the Gridiron, rising from 2.5 out of 100 to a final 86 after its fantasy-football story wins him over.
• **Ian Hinden’s Pick Your Own Adventure Voicemail** — 1:28:13 · citation pending — Ian debuts a branching voicemail adventure that casts listeners as him at the gym and asks them to choose between finishing the workout or meeting a mysterious stranger at a waffle-and-ice-cream shop.

Verified episode facts

• **Dog song retirement**: Bingo announces that the Dog Song is being retired to the ‘bark hive’ and deletes it from his phone; this is an episode-production statement, not a formal segment occurrence.
• **Game corner outcomes**: Bingo rates Wargroove 70 halos, calls Resident Evil 2 too hard and scary while planning another try, and finds Monster Rancher Advance 2 strange but fascinating; no overall game winner or prize is declared.
• **Bone news qualification**: The hosts react to a local-news report about remains in a freezer; death, identity, telephone speech and benefit-fraud ideas remain attributed media claims rather than independently verified episode facts or phone events.
• **Episode-title phrase**: Tiny Tim’s repeated line ‘Hear me now, you warrior lords’ in Masters of the Gridiron supplies the official episode-title phrase.
• **Video showcase rating**: Bingo gives Masters of the Gridiron a final Pleased-O-Meter score of 86 out of 100; the rating is a nested review mechanic, not a contest winner or prize.
• **Ian adventure outcome**: Ian’s debut adventure asks listeners to choose Episode 87 to remain at the gym or Episode 112 to meet the mysterious texter; Episode 86 resolves neither branch and declares no winner or prize.