Welcome to So I Was Told, the anti-podcast podcast where culture meets candor. Join us as we dive into social politics, mental health, and the messy realities of deconstructing harmful social constructs. From lighthearted banter to tackling the heavy stuff, we keep it real, raw, and refreshingly unfiltered.
Expect a bit of chaos, the occasional NSFW topic, and some colorful language along the way. Whether we're dissecting societal norms or just calling out the nonsense, this is your space for honest conversations and unapologetic truths.
Tune in, get uncomfortable, and maybe learn a thing or two! You might even laugh along the way.
#63 From Smash Bros to the Death of Movies (Pt. 2)
This wasn’t supposed to go here, but it did.
What starts as a continuation of our Smash Bros conversation turns into something bigger: what actually makes a movie hit, why original films feel rare now, and how we’ve drifted away from the experience of watching something together.
We talk about the kind of characters that don’t belong in Smash, the line between fun crossovers and complete nonsense, and how quickly things fall apart when IP becomes more important than intention. But somewhere along the way, the conversation shifts into AI, Hollywood’s obsession with familiarity, and into the question no one seems to be asking:
Do we even remember what movies are supposed to feel like?
This episode is less of a Part 2 and more of a pivot. A realization. A reminder that when you strip away the spectacle, what people actually crave isn’t bigger franchises or smarter tech, it’s something human. Something shared. Something you can’t replicate alone on your couch.
7 Apr 2026
#62 They’re Making a Smash Bros Movie…Right? Pt.1
What started as a joke turned into a very real question: if Nintendo is actually building toward a Smash Bros-style movie…do we trust them to pull it off?
In this episode, we spiral through the idea of a Nintendo cinematic universe, making our own fancasts, and breaking down what makes these characters actually work. From Fox and Falco to Ganondorf and beyond, we start building our own version of a Smash Bros movie… because if it’s going to happen, it might as well be done right.
But underneath the jokes is a bigger conversation: what happens when something we grew up with gets handed off to mass-market storytelling? Does it evolve, or does it lose what made it special in the first place?
This is Part 1 of a two-part episode where we question, critique, and lowkey rewrite the future of Nintendo on the big screen.
19 Mar 2026
#61 New Girl and the Last Era of Sitcoms
What starts as a conversation about the show, New Girl turns into a reflection on the kind of TV culture we grew up with, what it meant to wait for a new episode every week, and why so much media now feels disposable the second we finish it. We talk about sitcoms as time capsules, the slow death of shared cultural viewing, and how streaming, overstimulation, and algorithm-driven entertainment have changed the way we connect to stories.
Also: dopamine, nostalgia, burnout, books, gaming, attention spans, money stress, and the weird intimacy of putting a mic in front of two people who are usually much more normal when nobody’s recording.
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