The QQ Cast: Answers to geek culture's most superfluous questions.

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By: Tom DuPont

Geeks sitting around, asking nerdy questions, and fabricating answers. We oft geek out about games, movies, and software development. Won't you join us, dear listener?

Quest 363 - Do any content creators know anything?
#363
Last Saturday at 2:52 AM

Tom comes uncharacteristically prepared, but Zach and Ruly refuse to stay on topic! We discuss armchair experts on YouTube, existential dread, and more existential dread. Then we end with a horror movie trailer? How fitting.


Quest 362 - How deeply do you dread AI deep research?
#362
04/26/2025

After failing to record the first half of the podcast where they talked about software Easter eggs, Tom and Raul pivot to talking about chat GPT’s new deep research feature. Is it terrifying? Yes. Will Bernadette schooled us for deleting the first half of the podcast? Yes. Will Tom recap the whole damn thing after the podcast? Yes. Spoilers? Sure, why not!


Quest 361 - Does Google invent things?
#361
04/12/2025

Post 2004 Google is less "embrace extend extinguish," and more "purchase role-dice fail." Also, M3GAN 2.0 looks 4CK'N GR8!


Quest 360 - Are you going to buy two Nintendo Switch 2s too?
#360
04/05/2025

Is Mario Kart World going to be open world? Yes! Is Donkey Kong Bananza going to be bananas? Maybe! Are tariffs going to delay the launch? Oh noooooo!


Quest 359 - What is your dead internet theory?
#359
03/29/2025

Is the internet dead? Does it matter? Do you care? Do you want more bots? Because this is how you get more bots; right, Bernadette?


Quest 358 - How do you edit a podcast?
#358
03/22/2025

What are some unprofessional tips and amateur tricks for editing a podcast? Also, do you edit your podcast before or after you do puppy yoga?


Quest 357 - What was different, but awesome?
#357
03/15/2025

Lower Decks was different, but was it awesome? Army of Darkness was awesome, but was is different? Breath of the Wild is just awesome. Full stop.


Quest 356 - Does ChatGPT dispense good life advice?
#356
02/28/2025

Tom and Zach are joined by special guest Bernadette, a 98-year-old woman from France with a doctorate in comparative psychology. Spoiler warning: SHE IS A ROBOT!!!


Quest 355 - Who would win in a fight?
#355
02/22/2025

The cast pit fictional characters against each other! Vader vs Predator! Alucard vs Alucard! Adama vs Sisko! Who will win? The answer: Raul "Extra Spicy" Torres!


Quest 354 - What's on your tier list?
#354
02/15/2025

Fries vs McNuggets, Rust vs C, Kill Bill Vol 1 vs Kill Bill Vol 2, and Johnny Cage vs Gremlins...Let's get this party started!


Quest 353 - Should we review Section 31?
#353
02/08/2025

Is Section 31 a Star Trek movie? The answer is unequivocally NO, but we watched it anyway for Zach's enjoyment (because he is a masochist).


Quest 352 - Is the algorithm censoring us?
#352
02/02/2025

We journey into the political danger zone to discuss online censorship, social media algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Is it all as dumb as it sounds? I don't know, but we're even dumber than we sound!


Quest 351 - Can we QQ review Event Horizon?
#351
01/25/2025

Special guest Ms Kori joins us to review Paul W. S. Anderson's 1997 science fiction horror classic, Event Horizon! Does it hold up? Do you need eyes to see? Is Tom going to abuse the soundboard? F this ship!


Quest 350 - How are you going to self-soothe in 2025?
#350
01/20/2025

Tom and Ruly celebrate 350 episodes by having an intimate chat about nostalgia, and what they go back to when they need to just chill the F out in 2025.


Quest 349 - What are you looking forward to in 2025?
#349
01/12/2025

The QQ Cast, including Mr. Matt, tried to bring a vision of Hope to the already dire year of 2025; but then, in true 2025 fashion, Tom deleted the whole darn podcast.


Quest 348 - Can you not tell me about 2024?
#348
01/03/2025

The QQ Cast attempts to describe 2024 without actually describing 2024! Yeah, it's another one of those stupid gameshow-esque episodes. In their defense, 2024 was stupid too.


Quest 347 - Is AI putting the holidays in Jeopardy?
#347
12/21/2024

Can we save everyone's favorite consumer-holiday-which-shall-not-be-named from our benevolent AI powered corporate overlords?


Quest 346 - Ready for a tech shakeup?
#346
12/07/2024

Intel's CEO is out? Steam OS is in? Does the QQ Cast have their facts straight? Probably not!


Quest 345 - Which character would make the best celebrity?
#345
11/27/2024

From Endor to Hoth, Ripley to Spock, they'll advertise what you want, but there's going to be a cost.


Quest 344 - Can you spot the fake TV show facts?
#344
11/16/2024

ChatGPT generates TV show facts, but one of them is wrong? Can we "well actually" out robot overlords?


Quest 343 - Should we review Fallout?
#343
11/09/2024

The games are a prime of example of excellence. The show is a prime example of excellence. Prime rib is a prime example of delicious. Join us as we review Fallout Prime, and keep that coffee hot!


Quest 342 - What did you buy on Prime Day 24?
#342
10/13/2024

Tom and Raul start my talking about nothing, then they talk about Prime Day, so really they never stop talking about nothing!


Quest 341 - You call that S Tier Horror?
#341
10/09/2024

Special guest Kori joins us to tier rank horror movies! Raul thinks these movies are too normie. Tom thinks these movies need more Star Trek. Terrifying, isn't it?


Quest 340 - Where do you shop online?
#340
09/30/2024

Don't trust users with zero reviews. Bring a friend. Only accept cash. And that's just for Etsy.


Quest 339 - Who are the best pair of side characters?
#339
09/28/2024

Less Batman and Robin, more Pumba and Timon. Less Kirk and Spock, more R2-D2 and C-3PO. Also, Ruly is getting a drone!


Quest 338 - Who wrote that Sci-Fi episode?
#338
09/14/2024

From Trek to Galactica, from DCF to JMS, from Sci-Fi to Syfy, one thing is always true: Rod Serling is awesome! Also, Tom Hardy is funny.


Quest 337 - Are these fun true facts truely fun?
#337
09/07/2024

Why did Thomas Jefferson serve macaroni and cheese at State dinners? Which is the least safe seat on an airplane? Why does Count Von Count like to count? Is the Minecraft movie teaser trailer really that bad?


Quest 336 - What's in your fantasy home lab draft?
#336
09/01/2024

I like my storage prefixed like my space programs: with NAS. I like my Pi like my PopTarts: Raspberry flavored. I like my CPU threads like my personal trainer: Ripped.


Quest 335 - Who is your favorite Tech CEO?
#335
08/03/2024

Is Logitech logical? Is the Metaverse meta? Is cryptocurrency cryptographically secure? It doesn't matter so long as number go up and to the right!


Quest 334 - You call that an outage?
#334
07/29/2024

There was giant computer outage, but who was responsible? Crowd flare? Cloud strike? Crowd strife? Cloud Strife: Stop meteors. Drive PlayStation sales.


Quest 333 - Which Xenomorph is your favorite?
#333
07/19/2024

In preparation for Alien Romulus, we discuss the franchise containing our now favorite Disney princess! GET AWAY FROM HER YOU... witch?


Quest 332 - How much Balatro have you played?
#332
07/14/2024

These Balatrones have put more than 600 hours into Balatro, and they're going to bleat about it! Does that make you want to ballare with excitement, or throw blateae with distain?


Quest 331 - What is Nintendo Direct Jeopardy GPT?
#331
06/22/2024

Will this be the last Nintendo Direct for the Switch? Did Samus just scan a pirate? Is Zelda gonna have to flip a table? Can an AI finally teach Tom the rules of Jeopardy?


Quest 330 - Who enjoys crossing genres?
#330
06/09/2024

What movies do you recommend to viewers who enjoy fantasy and westerns? What about science fiction and oatmeal cookies?


Quest 329 - Are you guilty of enjoying breakfast?
#329
06/01/2024

On this historic day we do everything right and yet are still found guilty on 34 counts of enjoying a perfect breakfast! Oh hush, dear listener!


Quest 328 - What's in your YouTube?
#328
05/26/2024

Ruly and Tom form a support group to discuss their dirty dirty YouTube fetishes. Zach wisely sits this one out, but only because his terribly expensive computer died minutes before the cast. Is there a moral to these stories? Meh!


Quest 327 - What ending stuck the landing?
#327
05/19/2024

Trey drops to discuss great endings to movies, books, and games! Be warned, some spoilers beyond this point!


Quest 326 - Will you miss Lower Decks?
#326
05/12/2024

Ruly misses out as Zack and Tom commiserate over the cancellation of Star Trek: Lower Decks; and by commiserate, I mean recap every single episode in Season 4. Set course for excitement, maximum warp!


Quest 326 - Will you miss Lower Decks?
#326
05/12/2024

Ruly misses out as Zack and Tom commiserate over the cancellation of Star Trek: Lower Decks; and by commiserate, I mean recap every single episode in Season 4. Set course for excitement, maximum warp!


Quest 325 - How many roguelikes are in your Steam library?
#325
04/27/2024

Whenever developers fuse card games with roguelikes, Tom is there to give them money! Also, Zach shoots chess pieces?