The Friendship Factory
Welcome to the Friendship Factory! Here, join Cain, Theo, and also definitely Paddington as they confront their teenage demons and get you caught up on one of the most notorious fandoms ever born out of the internet — My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
We're Back and Busted (Season 3 Premiere)
Welcome back to the Friendship Factory! Your job rotation this week is to embark on a journey to the Crystal Empire, so join us as we let Theo out of the supply closet, and also King Sombra out of a slightly more metaphorical supply closet.
This week: Season 3 Episodes 1 & 2, "The Crystal Empire." It's good to be back.
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Daniel's Dread Tales Feed Drop — April Foal's, Part Two
Who gave Theo drugs? That's right, it was our friends over at Daniel's Dread Tales! Time for the thrilling conclusion to the adventures of our Side Six, where most of our friends went to Equestria metaphorically but one of them went literally! (It was me!)
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Daniel's Dread Tales Feed Drop — April Foal's, Part One
Hello everypony! Got another bonus episode hot and ready for y'all, this time coming directly from our friends over at Daniel's Dread Tales! Have you ever imagined what might happen if the Mane Six were worse ponies? So did we!
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Surprise! Documentary Be Upon Ye
Surprise! It's not season 3 yet, it's just Cain and Theo suffering through the 2012 Bronies documentary, but don't worry: you can suffer right along with them!
This week: Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony. Jesus Christ Mr. de Lancie why did you make the title so long
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Season 2 Postmortem
Time for the end of another season! This time, we're not only looking back at our show, we're looking forward at your excellent questions! And also answering them, of course. We're not, like, just asking them and moving on. That'd be weird.
This week: the Season 2 Postmortem. come getcha posts mortemed, everypony.
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Canterlot's 9/11 (feat. Daniel Dread Tales)
Ring-a-ding-ding, everypony! The season's almost over but, with a royal wedding around the corner, the fun's just begun: failgirl villains, overhyped empresses, and gamer logic abound in the two-parter that defined a series. Presumably. We've got nine seasons left to go.
This week: "A Canterlot Wedding." Featuring Dan, of Daniel's Dread Tales!
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A Baker Most Foul (feat. Russell)
Zounds! A cake has been devoured—and nary a suspect to be found! Fortunately, we've got our best two detectives on the case. Unfortunately, we've got only two detectives to choose from at all. Don't worry everything turns out fine.
This week: "MMMystery on the Friendship Express." Featuring Russell, of Daniel's Dread Tales!
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Cheerilee Forgets to Do Her Job
The Cutie Mark Crusaders are back, and more craven than ever! Watch as they expose everypony's innermost secrets in pursuit of fame and glory, a goal we only know will destroy them in time. It's real fucked. I'm making some of this up. Meta.
This week: "Ponyville Confidential." Seriously, Cheerilee, where the fuck were you for all this.
M.A. LARSON AMA: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2019/07/ma-larson-did-my-little-pony-ama-on.html
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Active FlutterDash Propaganda
Fluttershy is once again too moe to live as, uh-oh, Rainbow Dash needs her help to get water up to Cloudsdale! Will the shy successfully overcome her fear of flying? Will Cloudsdale get its water in time? Will Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy smooch for the first time? Yes to all of the above.
This week: "Hurricane Fluttershy." Remember: only you can stop bullying.
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Equestrian Racial Identity and You
Spike may be a dragon, but what does that even mean when he's only grown up around ponies? To find out, he'll have to leave home and come to terms with his—oh, what's that? He's just decided he's a pony now? He's forsaken his draconic identity? Well, I'm sure that'll leave Cain and Theo with no troubling implications to explore.
This week: "Dragon Quest." Time to complete the racism special trilogy (I hope).
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Ter-mare-nator 2: Rise of the Forced Puns
It's time for a shake-up! Twilight's had it too good for too long in her ivory tower—wait, haven't we done this episode before?
This week: "It's About Time." Look this one isn't a time loop, but it does have time travel and it's real good.
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Fluttershy the Alpha Male (feat. Dan "Big Challenges" Silva)
Poor Fluttershy—too moe to live, but too kawaii to die. It's time for her to learn the art of assertiveness but, unfortunately, "assertiveness" and "whoa you're just straight up being a dickhead what the fuck" are very closely related categories. Will she find out how to balance the scales? Will we be forced to pull in a special consultant to assess her fuckups? Tune in to find out!
This week: "Putting Your Hoof Down." Featuring Dan "Big Challenges" Silva!
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She Cranky on My Doodle Til I Donkey
fuck you I'm not writing a description this episode doesn't deserve it except to say that Cain came up with the title
This week: "A Friend in Deed." eat shit Pinkie Pie
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The Girls, the Gays, and Big Mac
Time again for the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and can you guess what they're looking for a cutie mark in this week? That's right—heteronormativity!
This week: "Hearts and Hooves Day." Send some sweets to the lesbian in your life today.
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The Woke Indiana Jones Reboot
Ever read a book so good you wanted to steal it? Sure, we all do, but nopony's doing it harder than Rainbow Dash, incidentally giving us a troublingly true-to-life insight into pony healthcare along the way.
This week: "Read It and Weep." I'm gonna be so real, there's a lot we had to cut out of this one
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The Gang Doesn't Learn Shit (feat. Marn & Izze)
Uh-oh! Capitalists come for Sweet Apple Acres! Can Applejack fend off the pernicious practices of the devious Flim Flam brothers? Only if she improves on her dogshit business logistics!
This week: "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000." Featuring special guests, and actual alleged con artists, Marn and Izze!
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Putting the 'Horse' in 'Discourse'
Applejack fucks up a rodeo or something but who gives a shit, this was the episode where a fan favorite showed up and oh my God can this show be normal for five minutes if it's not race it's disability fuck's sake
This week: "The Last Roundup." You can never escape the #derpygate.
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Mrs. Cake Got Creamed
When Mr. and Mrs. Cake need a babysitter on short notice, who's the only pony they can rely upon? Not Pinkie, that's for fucking sure, but unfortunately fate has denied them any alternative. Will Pinkie Pie be able to wrangle up tiny Pound and Pumpkin? Or will she crumble under the weight of her responsibilities? The latter would be fully valid, given that diaper changes have to be done orally in this universe.
This week: "Baby Cakes." I don't think Cain will approve this week's title... but I also don't think they'll check.....
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Zapping for Apples
Hi-diddly-ho, everypony! Welcome back to the factory, where we've got fantasy fruit and equine dementia on the docket! And, somehow, it turns out, the second setting loredrop episode in a row? This show never stops surprising me.
This week: "Family Appreciation Day." Listen I'm so mad zap apples aren't real I'd fuck those things up so fast
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The Fourth of Yule-y (feat. The Alexandrites)
Happy holidays, compadres! Over here, we're celebrating lame holidays like Christmas and Festivus, but you know what they celebrate over in Equestria? That's right, the founding of their nation! Which was super chill and not weird and definitely didn't appropriate Native American cultural terms for a pun.
This week: "Hearth's Warming Eve." Thank God we've got Oak of the Alexandrites guesting for this one, huh?
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The Secrets of My Dracopsychophysiology
Happy birthday to our favorite little dragon, Spikey Wikey! What's he getting this year? Robbed! And also puberty! Yeah we got another fucked one gang!!
This week: "Secret of My Excess." If you thought My Little Pony wasn't weird enough about dragons, you ain't seen nothin yet
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The Talented Ms. Rarity
To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves- and Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) leads. When Dickie's father asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful expatriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own.
This week: "Sweet and Elite" and listen I can only write so many of these things and it's not like you people...
Ain't Miss Behaving
Oh no, a crisis in Ponyville! Several crises, in fact! A statistically unlikely number of them! Will Rainbow Dash be able to save the day, or will she be forced to learn a lesson about friendship and arrogance? That's it those are the only two choices
This week: "The Mysterious Mare Do Well." And may your mare do well, too.
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yes I am prouder of that title than I am of anything I've ever done in my life let me write for the next generation of MLP
This week: "May the Best Pet Win!" And don't worry: it will. It will.
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Oh boy, time for another hot dose of the Cutie Mark Crusaders! I sure hope one of them doesn't end up with an inscrutable illness that turns her French, almost as much as I hope we don't ever see the racist caricature again!
What's that? We have both? Well, at least we have special guest Ash to help us out, and maybe break our brains with a wild fanfic reference to boot!
This week: "The Cutie Pox." Mrs. Rogers will you ever be stopped
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If a Sisterhood Wore Traveling Pants Would They Wear Them Like This or Like This
Gamers, with apologies to Cain, it's time for another episode with their least favorite pony. Can Rarity and Sweetie Belle overcome their struggles to learn the true meaning of sisterhood? How much dirty is enough dirty? Who the FUCK is Hondo Flanks? Stay tuned to find out!
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Hey ponies, quick question: is it possible to bully the monarch of a country? This week, we find out, along with special guest Jory, the only Jory! Join us as we watch Luna, princess of Equestria, and her spooky redemption tour.
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It's time for a shake-up! Twilight's had it too good for too long in her ivory tower, getting to write all those letters to Celestia herself. It's about time we took the power back, because we should be getting to write those letters to Celestia, too.
This week: "Lesson Zero." Twilight will pay for her sins.
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Holy fucking shit, we're alive! And not just alive, but still watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the alternative.
In any case: opening the season strong, we're here talking about "The Return of Harmony," aka the debut of the fandom's most memetic antagonist. Will we survive the rampant 2011 Tumblr villain energy? God I hope we don't
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It's been a ride, but we're not done yet! Before Theo and Cain can call it a season wrap, it's time to answer some questions once and for all: what were the best episodes of season one? The worst? What surprised us about this return to a shared pony obsession?
And, most important of all—what are Cain's real feelings about the objectively best pony?
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Finished already? Not quite—but, for the final episodes of season one, who else could we have on but OG brony Dan (not that one) of Daniel's Dread Tales! Join us as we go over the implicitly fucked-up nature of "Party of One" and the explicitly fucked-up nature of "Best Night Ever."
Don't forget your invitation! Parties!
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Back to the regular release schedule, which means this week we've got our normal two episodes: starting with "The Cutie Mark Chronicles," which suggests that Spike was brought into Twilight's life as a child slave, and "Owl's Well That Ends Well," which fully confirms it!
This isn't a bit! Spike's entire paradigm of existence is in servitude to the Equestrian royal hierarchy and if I have to realize that, so do fucking you!
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What's this? An off-week episode? Yes, "Over a Barrel" fried our pretty little brains so hard that the usual duo episode had to be split up, but have no fear: we still have plenty to say about "A Bird in the Hoof." Mostly variations on "what the fuck, Fluttershy?"
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sigh. okay yeah it's time for the buffalo one.
Featuring special guest Dr. Vasilije Mesarović!
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Not green like that! Green as in "Green Isn't Your Color," which guest Dan "Big Challenges" Silva has been lovely enough to stop in for this week! In fact, you could say he's put in a dogged amount of effort, which is fitting given that our other episode is "A Dog and Pony Show." Oh, we have fun here. Please don't report us to OSHA.
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When Cain’s not podcasting, they’re putting their talents to use as an interdisciplinary arti...Episode 9 - Theo Wanted to Make a ‘Deus Vult’ Joke but We Killed Him
Welcome back to the grind, you pasty fucks! This week, we've got a Cutie Mark Crusader double feature on the assembly line, starting with a Fluttershy torture session in "Stare Master" and ending with an everypony torture session in "The Show Stoppers." We come no closer to dispelling the dystopian mythology of cutie marks, and will forever observe the process in stultified horror. Enjoy!
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gonna keep it fat and real with you, chiefs: the first episode this week is like if God's Not Dead was about Pinkie Pie and we aren't sure how to handle it. also: Sonic Rainboom!
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When Cain’s not podcasting, they’re putting their talents to use as an interdisciplinary artist. They’re responsible for the diligent transcription work of this podcast, and can be found on Bluesky and Tumblr. When Padd’s not po...Episode 7 - The Punning of the Leaves
Wake the fuck up, it's time for friendship! This week at the factory, Paddington heads out on sabbatical just in time to miss out on the homoerotic tensions of "Fall Weather Friends," while Theo sits his ass down and listens to Cain go off on "Suited for Success."
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Another busy week at the Friendship Factory! This week, our gang escapes the icy clutches of what is objectively the worst season in "Winter Wrap Up," and question the dystopian logistics of Equestria's talent assignment system in "Call of the Cutie."
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Welcome back to the Friendship Factory! This week, our trio must carry the weight of their sins and walk through the zebra-striped minefield that is "Bridle Gossip." They also talk about "Swarm of the Century," but let's be real: you're here for the racism special.
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