Games, media, tangents, and reality checks.
PodQuest turns game and pop-culture catch-up into brisk, lived-in table talk. The panel moves from personal mishaps to Nintendo reveals, horror-game puzzles, comics continuity, movie picks, and the practical weirdness behind fan hype.
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PodQuest is a long-running panel conversation about games and the wider pop-culture mess around them. It has an agenda, but it rarely walks in a straight line. A recent episode can begin with gluten blame math, concert ticket sticker shock, sleep-deprived small talk, or a quick check on who is actually present, then drift into the week’s games, movies, comics, and fandom stories. That loose start is part of the texture. The show sounds like people who know each other well enough to correct, tease, stall, and restart without derailing the room. Games are the home base. Recent talk moves through Resident Evil Requiem puzzles, Pepper Grinder, Pokemon Presents, Future Games Show coverage, Min-Maxed, Aetherspire, Pokopia, and smaller curiosities like early-access co-op shooters. The panel is especially good at worrying a detail until it gives up something useful. A hidden horror-game requirement becomes a debate about clue design. A Mario Galaxy movie cameo becomes a complaint about marketing spoiling its own surprise. A Firefly animated-series headline becomes a larger suspicion about entertainment sites turning assumptions into clickable certainty. The media range is broad but still personal. RoboCop, Escape from New York, Johnny Mnemonic, The Expendables, One Piece live action, Bleach, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Venom comics, and X-Men arcs all sit comfortably beside game showcases and board game nights. PodQuest does not sell excitement as a default setting. It lets enthusiasm, annoyance, memory, and logistics fight it out in real time. That gives the show a useful friction: fan knowledge without preciousness, jokes without losing the thread, and enough practical skepticism to keep big announcements from floating away. It suits listeners who like conversational criticism, recurring panel chemistry, and pop-culture talk that can spend time on one strange mechanic because the detail is genuinely funny or genuinely irritating.
Made for: PodQuest fits listeners who already follow games and pop culture closely enough to enjoy detailed trailer talk, comics continuity, horror puzzles, remakes, showcases, and side debates. It also suits people who prefer panel banter over polished review segments.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its blend of agenda-driven structure and messy conversational trust. It can wander through jokes and personal stories, then return to a topic with sharper questions about timing, marketing, mechanics, and fan expectations.
Welcome to PodQuest! This is our weekly flagship show, since 2014, where you can join us for conversation about video games, movies, comics, television, and so much more. We discuss the big news stories when they happen, and focus on having conversations about the things we love (and not love). PodQuest releases weekly on Thursdays (Unless otherwise announced, and you can be part of the show by joining us over on Patreon.com/OneQuest where you’ll get to suggest topics and vote on things we do on the show, among other fun perks.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A spring-weather hangout that lands on RoboCop after a practical movie debate.
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PodQuest 603 starts with a backyard raccoon problem, then settles into a long Resident Evil puzzle discussion. The best stretch comes from the 115-infected clue, the toilet-and-eight hint, and the careful chain of reasoning that narrows the answer step by step.
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PodQuest 601 brings Chris, Druten, and Walnut back for a loose, bodily start, with Chris's illness steering the room through stomach trouble, rotten-egg burps, a scratchy throat, and lingering post-nasal misery.
A loose gaming docket where Pokemon chaos, emulation confusion, and a stuck dog share the agenda.
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The hosts of PodQuest discuss their pets' behavior and settling in, with brief mentions of NYCC 2025, Ironheart, and Hot Streak in the title suggesting upcoming comic and entertainment topics.
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PodQuest 623 features Chris, Druten, and Walnut discussing Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Summer Games Fest demos, concerts, and a gluten-free expo.
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The hosts discuss a personal experience with gluten contamination from restaurant food, debating responsibility between the individual and the restaurant.
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The hosts discuss recent entertainment news including the Future Games Show, Firefly animated series announcement, and One Piece Live Action season two.
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Chris is exhausted.
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