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Paul "The Mauler" Lazenby is back for a chat with Stevil. Our host tries to plug everything Paul is involved with (quite a lengthy list!) and the two start talking collectables right off the bat, including getting duped by false advertising. There's also some deep comic talk, like the emo make over of Lobo and all the esthetic changes happening from the printed page to the big screen or TV screen. The guys get a bit nostalgic about the picture quality of VHS and Paul says he still even owns some! Pure jealousy from Stevil on that! Stevil also gets to talk about this year's Wrestlemania and how it drew him in and made him a fan again.... only for a night. What happened? What made Stevil regret his decision? Listen in and find out! Check out Paul's book When We Were Bouncers available on Amazon right now and follow him on Twitter!

Michael and Jstebz are back with another episode of Mainly Mobile. On today's show, Michael is thoroughly engaged in Family Guy: Quest For Stuff and it's not just because of Star Trek. He's also been playing King of Maths, and swears that math is fun, but Jstebz is not having any of that.  Jstebz is still playing Danger Rabbit, but has been branching out with some new apps. She discovered she is too old for Yik Yak. Her ancient phone got an upgrade to Android Lollipop and she's cool with it.  The big news in mobile tech right now is the Apple Watch! Jstebz and Michael briefly discuss their opinions on wearable tech. Also, Meerkat released a beta app for Android, and Jstebz is excited about livestreaming. 

30 episodes of the League cast later, our friend Nate Corddry is chatting with Steve again! They are picking up where they left off, Nate was part of the successful CBS series Mom, but has now focused his time on his great new podcast Nate Corddry Presents: Reading Aloud, on the WolfPop Network.  Nate shares some great stories of his time working with Bill Murray on St. Vincent, and how that the old adage "Never Meet Your Idols" can ring true. Nate also tells us what it was like to sit at a table and hurl insults at Sandra Bullock for The Heat, and unleashing his Bostonian accent after years of trying to keep it at a minimum.  Of course, Steve and Nate get into some sports talk, as Nate was at the Superbowl this year, with Jstebz's first crush, Joe McIntyre from The New Kids on The Block and they even touch on the now historic Boston Bruins vs. Vancouver Canucks Stanley Cup Final that left our poor city in shambles. We love having Nate on the show, and hope he'll keep coming back! Nate's new podcast Reading Aloud was years in the making, and it is so fun to listen to. Check it out on Wolfpop.com  

Danger Rabbit is a mobile platformer developed by Flow Spark Studios, and we have the creator Lloyd Perry on to talk about it! After a crowdfunding mishap due to the poo-like nature of PayPal, this game is back on track and is almost ready for release! Find out how Lloyd went from an easy start to a challenging finish. Jstebz admits to a hoarding problem of sorts, though digital hoarding is at least not as bad, especially when you can use SO MANY FILTERS. Michael can finally see the Enterprise-D once again in Family Guy: The Quest For Stuff. It took Star Trek: The Next Generation for him to even look at the app. Follow Mainly Mobile on Twitter and Instagram @MainlyMobile 

As most great things tend to be, the story of the murderous misadventures of Derrick and Sally was born of a fever dream. Written by the drunken murderer himself, Michael Fenske, the webseries centres around a young man named Derrick who wakes from a post-breakup binge next to a bubbly teenager, Sally. What happens next can only be explained as ridiculously fun and fatal.Nate Kelly takes the helm this week and is joined by the Bathtub Killer crew, Ashley MacDonald, Michael Fenske, David Gattey, and from beyond the wall, in a place that is always winter but never Christmas, our lovely Rachel Taylor. The Very Clever Productions gang shares some of the funny moments on set as well as the challenges and processes of creating the webseries. Derrick and Sally have already taken home 1st place in the monthly VanChan webseries festival, here in Vancouver, and are submitting their webseries to other festivals as well. We thoroughly enjoyed the series and cannot wait for season 2. You can watch all of the episodes on their website bathtubkillers.com. 

Michael and JStebz are back and talking about a variety of games and helpful hints.  Tired of your Instagram photos being reversed? Michael has a quick tip if you happen to notice this happening on your forward-facing camera shots. Just in case you were confused.  Mainly Mobile favourite, Monument Valley, was on House of Cards! We are happy for Ustwo, the developers, for this unusual arrangement. Thanks Kevin Spacey! Michael has a bit of a gripe with Hearthstone, by Blizzard. It is a collectible card game for PC, iOS, and Android. Recently, the company made a change to make the game less accessible to people, and that is disappointing. Look at Blizzard, reinforcing the 'Size Matters' idea. How rude. Just because our phone screens are smaller than 6 inches doesn't mean they are any less effective and useful. /Sad face.  Jstebz comes in with some interesting crowd-funding campaigns for new apps. Fartners is Twitter for your asshole. You can share your poo gas on your Android device, and the team is currently crowd-funding to create the iOS version of the app. Thanks, Internet. Which celebrities do you want to hear push air out their hole? Download the Android app now to enjoy the sound without the butt-steam. There is a game with bunnies also. Flow Spark Studios is crowd funding Danger Rabbit. Although we were unable to try out the Beta version of the game on iOS because we're crazy Canadians, the game looks like a lot of fun. Plus the turtles don't do anything! Ikea is releasing tables with wireless charging stations in them, and we discuss the usefulness of wireless charging. Cutting cords is the future!

There's a lot going on in the world this week, as Jstebz, Matty, Michael, and Nate come together to break it all down. We start with some exciting things happening in Vancouver. Nate is co-starring in a play called The Weir, written by Conor McPherson.  It runs along with the Vancouver Celtic Fest and each performance is in a different Irish Pub, which brings a whole new dimension of reality along with it. We move along to give our friends The Fictionals and West Coast Geeks VS Nerds some internet high-fives for their big announcements this month. The Fictionals will be performing at Fan Expo Vancouver and WCGVN have secured a great new venue for their monthly debates!  In gaming news, Michael brings us news of a game that Montreal based Ubisoft has developed that could help correct amblyopia (lazy eye) in adults and children. Jstebz is especially excited, as she was a child tortured by eye patches herself. In some sad news, we lost sci-fi legend Leonard Nimoy last week at the age of 83. The gang pays their respects to a man who meant to much to the world. LLAP.Harrison Ford escaped a fatality last week too. As this isn't his first unintentional plane landing, we ask ourselves, how many crashes does it take to make you stop flying? The guys nerd out over House of Cards, as Season 3 has just been released on Netflix, and surprisingly enough, do not offer much in the way of spoilers for Jstebz, who is always behind on TV shows. Matty makes it weird with a story out of Germany. A business is angry with drunk club-goers for peeing on their walls, and take an interesting measure to redirect the stream. Thanks for listening to another episode of The League Cast on the League of Manchildren Podcast Network. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher. 

Jstebz is leading the helm this week with Michael Lothian and Matty Dubs. We're running through some of the big news from last week. A Vancouver Island man has gone "viral" after uploading a Youtube video of himself being removed from his car with the Jaws of Life. Andrew McDonald fell asleep at the wheel and wrapped his car around a pole and decided to use what little strength and unbroken limbs he had to document his rescue and even make some jokes with the emergency crew. Are we taking our need to document our lives too far or is he just catering to the people who love to slow down and look at accidents?Good news for chronic masturbators and energy conservation enthusiasts, PornHub has created the wearable tech of your dreams, The WankBand. Matty assures us the science is sound, but wants to know how many times he can.. or.. has to take care of himself to charge his phone. Jstebz is unsure of how effective it will be for the ladies and Michael is not sold on this at all. Last week a fan-created Power Rangers film hit the net and was quickly denounced and removed thanks to Saban. The Green/White Ranger wasn't too pleased with the adult content, but as the original Power Ranger fans are all in their mid-to-late thirties, isn't it time we were allowed to see a darker, grittier take on the subject? James Van Der Beek gives the performance of a lifetime and Katie Sackhoff is bad-ass as per usual. Sure the brand is aimed at children, but c'mon. I would pay real money to see this in theatres.  Spoilers from the early days of Reality TV: Pimp My Ride wasn't as "dope" and "Ill" as Xzibit wanted you to think it was. More of the kids featured on the show have joined in on Reddit AMA's to complain that reality shows are not in fact, real. Many of the ridiculous and outlandish "pimps" done to the shittiest cars in history were removed after filming, and complaints of the show not really fixing the cars are apparently surprising people. They even tried to get a guy to break up with his girlfriend to make good TV. Duh. Matty makes it weird with his story about an attack owl in the Dutch town of Permerend. Residents are being warned to bring umbrellas outside with them and Michael teaches Matty about catch 22s. Thank for checking out another episode of the League Cast. Follow @themanchildren on Twitter and Instagram

From episode two of Mainly Mobile, we bring back Greg Johnson, creator of Laser Larry! We catch up with Greg and discuss how the last couple months have been since his decision to publish his game on both iOS and Android devices. Greg shares his journey of switching to Unity 3D for programming his game from the ground up, with the advantages of doing so, and some of the challenges. With this new decision, we get an updated road map for production, and look forward to playing this game on Android devices! If you have an iOS device, check out the free alpha build of Laser LArry on the app store: http://itunes.com/apps/laserlarry Let him know what you think @LaserLarryGame, or laserlarrygame.com  

Get your phones out, Mainly Mobile is back with a brand new episode. Now that I have an iOS device, I am excited to be able to balance out the podcast to cover both Android and iOS games and apps! Hurray! I have completed FRAMED (iOS only), and it is a great-looking and clever game from 2014 by Loveshack Entertainment, located in Australia. The comic-book visuals and control with a noir feel was a unique combination that made it stand out and pull me in. Also from Australia, Halfbrick Studios created a game in 2010 called Fruit Ninja for multiple platforms, including both iOS and Android, and I finally understand the mass appeal of the game. Hitman GO is a cool take on the Hitman series for Android and iOS by Ubisoft Montréal released in 2014. They take the assassin and put him on a diorama that looks like a board game, where you solve puzzles in a turn-based fashion. Type:Rider is a game from France released in 2013 from a confusing studio/producer combination that hopefully someone can figure out. The game is a work of art that teaches you the history of written language. For the PC crowd, I recommend checking out Mini Metro by New Zealand company Dinosaur Polo Club. The game is about building simple transit systems in various cities with a simple drag-and-drop control scheme. Jstebz has been playing a lot of Skyward by Ketchapp which is has a nice Monument Valley look to it, Linken which is a connect-the-dots puzzle game made by LevelInd, and Bamba, a game in which you must keep your little Frenchman upon his hipster unicycle, developed by Simon Ducroquet. We also checked out Heads Up! A trivia game app made by Ellen Degeneres herself. Who knew she was a secret game dev. Jstebz is on the lookout for more trivia or party games that can be played on one or more devices (Android AND iOS) for game nights with a group of people. Let us know if you have any suggestions!Follow Mainly Mobile on Twitter and Instagram and let us know what you're playing on your phone or tablet.

In this brand-new episode of the League Cast, The Stevil Dead has a one on one with producer, director and writer Kyle James Patrick. Steve and Kyle met on the set of a locally filmed TV show and became friends immediately. He showed Steve the ropes of being a production assistant and how to avoid letting it crush your very human soul. Kyle, the director of the web series Nightwing Prodigal, shares stories of work created, dreams fulfilled, and said dreams being abruptly crushed by Hollywood execs. He explains the production process of his feature "Not For The Saving" and the memories of post production and distribution hell. We revel in the influences of legendary minds such as Stanley Kubrick and Nicolas Winding Refn. Kyle is currently working locally on a new Ridley Scott Amazon Prime series and we hope we will see the return of anthology horror television shows. I may also coax him to create his own podcast project. Tweet me @thestevildead or post below so I can use it to give him incentive!

Stephen Scarlata, producer of Jodorowsky's Dune, joins Steve, Michael and Demigod Rob to talk about what has been hailed as one of the best documentaries in 2014. As a child of the 80s, Stephen was intrigued by science fiction films, and when he came across David Lynch's Dune, he couldn't get enough. After watching Santa Sangre, his love for Alejandro Jodorowsky grew into an obsession. After meeting Frank Pavish in film school, and creating N.Y.H.C, the film that had never been finished, but often imitated seemed like the next best subject for a documentary. After receiving Jodorowsky's blessing the pieces began to fall into place. Interviews with H.R. Giger, Nicolas Winding Refn, Richard Stanley and Michel Seydoux quickly came together and along with the giant book of Dune storyboards, Stephen's film grew into something amazing. Stephen shares with us his experiences creating the film, and discovering all the ways Jodorowsky's eccentric visions have touched the science fiction films to come. 

We start off the episode with a little independent studio action when we talk to Riley McDougall from String Theory Entertainment about their project Maestros of the Anthymn. Riley is no stranger to our show, as we had talked to him about an earlier version of the game, simply titled ‘The Anthymn,’ on the League's first  gaming podcast Gamers Under the Stairs. We are excited for the new direction of the game, which you can help on Kickstarter.  Thanks to the League, we are now a multi-platform mobile gaming show. We have wanted to talk about the huge market on iOS for a long time and now we finally can! To start it off, we're talking about a game we have been looking forward to for a while, called FRAMED. What's Michael been playing? He's still playing Shadow Blade by Crescent Moon Games.  Mi-Clos Studio has been kind enough to give Mainly Mobile a sneak peek at their upcoming game update Out There: Omega Edition, due later this year. Check it out, the free graphical upgrades look amazing. If you buy the game now, at the current price, you get the upgrade for free when it comes out. That is great news! Jstebz, our producer today, has finished The Room 2! This sequel by Fireproof Games improves upon the original with new puzzles and story that transport you to a creepy lair of dark magic and curiosity. She also has a good point to make about keeping your Amazon App Store app on your phone!Follow Mainly Mobile on Twitter and Instagram: @mainlymobile

This week on a very serious episode of The League Cast, Jstebz, Stevil, Rob, and Michael are focused on a dangerous habit that touches all of us, distracted driving.In 2013, Werner Herzog was asked to create a Texting and Driving PSA as part of the 'It Can Wait' campaign spearheaded by AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless. The 30 minute documentary, From One Second to the Next, centres around four stories told by the families and drivers involved in the incedents. This documentary hit close to home for all of us, as Herzog used emotion rather than graphic imagery to hit the point home.  Herzog told NPR "It's a deep raw emotion — the kind of deep wounds that are in those who were victims of accidents and also in those who were the perpetrators. Their life has changed and they are suffering forever. They have this sense of guilt that pervades every single action, every single day, every single dream and nightmare.”  Ultimately, it is up to us to keep each other safe by being attentive as we maneuver through our day-to-day lives. The four of us pledge to do our duty and put our phones down to ensure that we are giving the world around us the attention it deserves, and we urge you to do the same.  You can find From One Second to the Next on Netflix and Youtube. 

Recorded before Christmas, Michael Lothian returns with a new episode of Mainly Mobile. This week, Michael follows up on a few points from the previous episode after remembering he totally did get the 'D' in 1995 for the Panasonic 3DO, that had been rented by a friend. The survival-horror game told the story of a Doctor turning into a vampire. Moving on, Michael is still very pleased with the Google Play Rewards, however he's found a slight issue that makes using your credit a bit frustrating, he and Steve wish that there was a way to gift games, as you can do with music on iTunes. Seriously, App Stores, make gifting Apps a thing. Monument Valley has become the "Game of the moment" for Michael, as it is a beautiful puzzle game, with art reminiscent of M.C. Escher. Michael attended the Full Indie Meetup in Vancouver and met over 200 people in the independent game industry. he met some inspiring creators, as well as heard from a few presenters on what they were working on. Two of the groups were from Vancouver Film School, showing their projects ‘Recollection’ for PC and ‘Pose Perfect’ for iOS and Android (they are student games, download them for free!). The last presentation was a surprise, as my Team Geordi teammate from tomorrow's West Coast Geeks vs Nerds debate took the stage to present his company project Kaiju-A-Go-Go. Thanks for listening to Mainly Mobile, Follow us on Twitter: @MichaelLothian @MainlyMobile 

This week on a new episode of Mainly Mobile, Michael realizes that the Amazon App store isn't always a bargain, and admits that after speaking to Greg Johnson last episode, he has become addicted to Jetpack Joyride.  A brand new Tony Hawk game has been announced for mobile and for consoles, although the previously announced Tony Hawk's Shred Session seems to be put on hold indefinitely. What can we expect from this franchise in 2015?  Finally, we get to go into the Humble Bundle. It is an amazing way to get games you could either not afford, or would not normally buy and discover new ones! From mobile games, to PC games, and even books and comics. This website does amazing work for charity while allowing gamers to get new games on the cheap. Win/Win.   Be sure to follow us on twitter, @MainlyMobile and @MichaelLothian

This week on Mainly Mobile, Michael is joined by Greg Johnson, creator of Laser Larry, a fun little shooter game for iOS. Greg shares the story of how Laser Larry came to be after leaving the corporate world and spending 6 months in Thailand, a dream was born and Laser Larry came into existence. We get a look into how the creative process for this game works and his relationship with designers and musicians involved with the project.  We really enjoyed playing the game ourselves and we're looking forward to seeing this game grow. Find out more at laserlarrygame.com.Michael is then joined by Steve to talk about Scribblenauts Unmasked and the conversation heads south, fast. The Omega Edition of Out There is coming, and will be free to all current purchasers of the game and then the guys nerd out over their update to Android 5.0. 

Welcome to the first episode of the yet-to-be-officially-named Manchild Sports Radio show with your host Nate Kelly! The Stevil Dead joins him this week for some NHL news.   First up, how awful are the Edmonton Oilers really? On a seven year slide to the bottom of the league, what is needed to bring this organization back to the powerhouse it once was many years ago? Are the fans right to deride their team as brutally as they did?   Nate then tackles the story of deplorable parenting at it's worst as Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson is in the poor house after his parents bled him dry at the bank. Yes, there is a Beiber's parents comparison, because it's so obvious.   We end this cast with a heartfelt tribute to Pat Quinn and a message of condolence to his family. He's was a giant among men to us here in Vancouver, as well as our country. He will be missed.

Michael Lothian returns with a brand new gaming segment called Mainly Mobile.  After finally upgrading to a Nexus 5, Michael has immersed himself into mobile games and apps and has found a love for the technology and the content.  This week, Michael is really excited for the Game of Thrones 'Iron from Ice' game to be released on all Android and iOS, as well as Xbox and PlayStation.  This week's recommendation is 'Out There' by Mi-Clos Studio in France. With a really neat premise of being lost in space, you must find your way home and visit other worlds to gain rescources.  If you're looking for a way to add really small amounts of money to your Google Wallet, Michael suggests you check out Google Opinion Rewards for Android. Sign up and answer short surveys for money, and then get your favourite apps for free.    Let us know what you think in the comments below! What mobile games are you excited about right now?   

Nerd rage is prominent as Stevil and Rob Lobster are not too pleased with what liberties Fox and Sony are taking with beloved Marvel characters. Are we really expected to swallow the fact that Doctor doom is being refocused from a Latverian Dictator to a anti-social computer hacker and blogger? And even worse, Peter Parker's Aunt May is going to fight crime? We love Sally Field, but we cringe at the thought of her donning her spandex and handing out ass-kickings instead of mom-hugs and life lessons. We do try and heal the wounds and make it all better with some news on the upcoming Convergence event DC Comics has instore for fans when they move shop from New York to sunny Burbank, California. See, it's not all bad.