Mission To Zyxx - Announcement: Live Listen #2 and Hear Me Out!

Episode Date: April 22, 2020

Listen to the brand-new episode of Hear Me Out, featuring Shane O'Connell, here:https://hearmeoutpodcast.wordpress.comAnd don't forget to join us on April 24th at 4PM Eastern for our second Live Listen, where we'll be listening to episode 104, joined by the Grower Mind himself, JR Wilson!

Hey everybody, it's Alden Ford here. And Mujan Zafagari. And we are here as ourselves, as our regular selves. This is what Mujan's voice actually sounds like. I play Barji and other various sentients, but this is my true human voice. So take me as I am. This is my real voice. As you may know, this is one of our off weeks in this new biweekly schedule we've got set up. We hope that you out there are staying safe in these crazy times. We are trying to stay sane and safe as well. We're recording a bunch of new episodes. We've done what? Three episodes now?

Yeah. It's pretty good. Three episodes from the not sponsor, but Zoom, a wonderful company. Yeah. You're not allowed to say not allowed to say their name on air unless they're a sponsor no one's hacked into our zoom yet we're very grateful for that nobody's bombed us nope although us saying it out loud right now oh shit probably will bring it to fruition that's how things work password from now on shit okay you have any cool

spoilers for uh the the episodes we've recorded remotely so far? You guys ready to be spoiled? This is the spoiler section of this off podcast. Cool, yeah. Okay, I'll give you a couple spoilers. Next episode,

which is coming out next week, think about sisters. Oh, yeah. Think about them. The episode after that, think about germs. Think about? When you say after that. Think about germs. Think about? When you say think about, does that mean that's what the episode is about?

Or that's what you should do to get into the headspace of the episode? Get into the headspace. Get ready. When you put on the headphones onto your head, you'll be ready to listen and consume. You know what I mean? And then we have a return. And then we also have a house. That's good.

So we got... Mujan, don't give it all away. People won't even listen if they know this much. Sister Jerm return house. That's the next four episodes. Great. And we've got a new one coming out next Wednesday. Next week, yeah.

And for this week, we have some exciting stuff to announce that is not canon Zix related, but it is Zix adjacent. Yes. Is that good? Well, there's definitely some Zix content in addition to Zix adjacent content. Yes. Okay. That's good. Yeah. And Zix inspired content. Cool. It's like three levels of Zix. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fear not zix inspired content cool it's like three levels of zix yeah yeah uh yeah fear not zix uh fans we've got some uh stuff coming up in the next week that you're going to be um i hope that you

will enjoy um well uh we i'm sad we're not releasing an episode uh this week but we we are uh doing something sort of uh exciting for me anyway um and something uh that maybe is more exciting for the rest of our listeners um the the thing that's more exciting probably for those of you at home um our live listen that we did on episode 101 a couple weeks ago was so much fun mujan you were there in the comments section, which was great. I trolled the chat. You sort of lurked, which was perfect. I had a great time. We met a bunch of cool people.

We answered a bunch of fun questions. We did, I don't know, for those of you who do not follow us on social, someone suggested that we set up a March Madness style bracket for all of Winston's walk-on characters, which we are doing as we speak we actually did one uh it's a bunch of great characters uh remaining characters are finiford

j ryan i mean largely a favorite i think but there's some dark horses here of all the fan arts of tertiary characters there's the most yes for finiford yeah i would inspire so many people there's the destroyed miner also still in the running. The hand of the governor of Milch, which is a classic. Stone Cold classic character. The Grand Kula of Flurp.

Surprising, because I thought it would be the Kulada. The Kulada was beat by the Kek Swarm in the first round, unfortunately. All right. Some of those early, very difficult decisions were made by our fans.

Rolfus Tittle versus Lexamore Pwinch and Little Bill, who is terminally ill, versus Sammo. So, I mean, guys, lots of excitement left in this bracket. As the wink to the Sammo, I'm a big Sammo fan over here. Yeah, of course.

You're physically attached to him uh sometimes so uh it makes sense um yeah that's just one of the many ridiculous things I hope comes out of the live listens um and thank you if you joined us last time uh on that that was super funny and also thank you if you remembered any of those characters thank you so much yeah if you were able to make like educated decisions on each of those characters thank you so much yeah if you were able to make like educated decisions on each of those characters then wow that's a as far as you would say that's a real fan that's a real fan yeah good good good very nice we are doing another live listen um same time same place youtube.com slash mission to zix um come join us for our second episode we're not

going to go in order we're going to jump around around so that we can get some of our favorite episodes throughout the whole run of the show. This week, we'll be listening to episode 104, Assimilation is Futile. And joining us at the live listen will be the grower mind himself, J.R. Wilson. Yeah. It'll be happening Friday the 24th at 4 p.m. Eastern. 4 p.m. Eastern. And finally, we have one more announcement, which I'm a little bit embarrassed by, honestly, but I'm very excited about at the same time. One of the early

collaborations between the Mission to Zix crew was a podcast that I did between 2012 and 2014 with Winston Knoll, and it was a music podcast called Hear Me Out. We learned a lot. We talked a lot of shit. We said a lot of boneheaded things that I really regret, and my terrible music tastes were laid bare. We have decided in this crazy time, now that we've moved the show to biweekly, to release five bonus episodes of the show, one with each of the core cast members of mission six and we've started

with uh shane o'connell our sound designer as our special guest on the first new hear me out episode in uh i guess six years now um and so that uh episode is live right now for all of you hear me out heads out there on our website which is still a wordpress website hear me out podcast at wordpress.com uh the link is in the show notes for this episode on the feed right now so you can just click through the to that we'll also post it on our social media and on mission to zix.space for those of you who don't know which is statistically almost everyone on the planet uh hear me out is a show where Winston and I each bring in a song that is terrible, that we love anyway, and our guest brings in a song as well.

So over the course of the episode, the three of us talk about our reasons for liking the song in spite of the world's harsh judgment against it. And it's a great time. We all make fun of each other and ourselves and uh music uh do you have a song picked for your episode i do i don't want to spoil it though even you love spoilers that's your whole thing okay fine uh sister germ house in return that doesn't that seems it's a song that can't be right it's a popular terrible song a song about but a great podcast yeah okay all right uh i'm gonna puzzle on that one a little bit i guess and in the It's a popular, terrible song. A song about sisters. But a great podcast. Yeah. Okay.

All right. I'm going to puzzle on that one a little bit, I guess. And in the upcoming weeks, we'll definitely have even more content. Maybe I have a surprise podcast I've never released to the world. Oh, great. Can I spoil it? I don't. Can I spoil it? Your podcast?

Okay, sure. It's going to be about two germs who are sisters who return to their childhood home. Yeah. And they start a podcast in a petri dish. Called This American Life. Wow. Cool. Well, thank you so much again for listening, guys.

I hope everyone out there is staying safe in these surreal and terrifying times. Uh-oh. Zoom bomb. You guys should be giving away your house. Oh, no. Oh, no. God damn it. Shane.

Zoom bomb. Get out of here. What are you guys up to? I don't know man we gotta go We're just leaving While I have you here Alden I was gonna maybe ask you to maybe not post my episode Really?

That year old show I feel like I don't have a good voice And I don't want to hear it Well I hate to tell you this We are releasing what you're saying right now On the main feed uh tomorrow morning oh crap yeah sorry so i think people want to hear you though i think that's i think the people want to see the the the veil lifted all right zoom bomb out see you guys uh shane o'connell ladies and gentlemen well this was fun Mujan thank you for being here

of course Alden thank you for being here thank you oh you're very welcome yeah we will see you next week with the episode 409 and thank you for listening remember to rate subscribe