Ennui Talk

Matthew Winter and Kieren Collison come together to discuss things and also complain about them. They talk about the hot summer weather, AIDS medication, TikTok, Make America Great Again, Elliot Rodger, Matt’s car troubles, “the tennis ladies” at McDonalds, Alex Jones, Chinese comedian Paul Ru, Aunty Donna, working at McDonalds, doing character voices, and Filthy Frank.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to discuss their trip to Wollongong to collab with the legend himself, Kalab Templeman. They talk about coffee, milk and sugar for a while, before discussing their trip to Wollongong, if they could live in that city, where they think they’ll end up living, the difficulty of driving in cities, meeting and creating their documentary with Kalab Templeman, why they both have to wear glasses, Ben having Grill’d for the first time, Mexicans, and politics.

Matthew Winter and Chris Hodge come together for another Ennui’s Google Home Experiment special. They discuss Judaism and Jehovah’s Witnesses, the supermarketing outlet Aldi, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the commentary community on YouTube, the H3 game, Adam Sandler’s new standup special, colour television, and Chris’ VR system.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together for, in the first episode of the self-proclaimed fourth season, a Let’s Talk Ennui special. They discuss Osama Bin Laden, the death of Stan Lee, the next season of Marty’s Internet Show, the current plan for the podcast and Ennui Talk Extra, their documentary on Kalab Templeman, the future of Marty’s Mailbag (or Marty’s PO Box), and going hard on the Discord and Reddit.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to celebrate Halloween in the Ennui Halloween Spooktacular. They discuss Ben’s vaping habits, scary movies they’ve seen including The Nun, Halloween and The Grudge, horror video games and VR games, and of course, Riley Reid.

In a exclusive preview of the Ennui Plus Gold exclusive talk show Ennui Writer’s Room, Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together in Ennui HQ for a discussion about conventions and festivals. They discuss their big plan go to RTX Sydney in 2019 to build their audience and film a Marty’s Internet Show episode, the other conventions they want to go to including PAX Australia, Oz Comic-Con and Supanova, and what type of short films they would make to enter in film festivals.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together for another edition of Ennui’s Google Home Experiment. They discuss their local postcodes, the Steve Jobs autobiography that Matt is reading, Apple and Android phones, Matt getting triggered by NBA 2K17, video games “promoting violence”, Ben thinking pro wrestling is lame, their local cinema being shut down and renovated, and all the types of “pubs and clubs” in Australia.

Matthew “The Sexual Intellectual” Winter and Chris “Gangnam Style” Hodge come together to discuss hitting wombats and kangaroos with their cars, nudie girl magazines, Omegle stories, girls looking much older than they are, PC culture and people being offended, words Chris won’t say, rap music, Chris knowing the Gangnam Style dance, Matt’s great nicknames for himself, Chris getting married, and their shitty furniture. We also talk about mugs for like 30 seconds.

Matthew Winter lets Kieren Collison host an Ennui Loves TV special, but does it very badly. In this episode, they discuss getting a shoutout on Instagram, the relevancy of the topics they discuss, when Arrested Development and Community were revived, some of the shows they’ve been watching, how South Park has done crude humor well, and writing Marty’s Internet Show.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to tell their various stories with customers at their respective jobs. They discuss dealing with angry customers, not having stock, being called “autistic”, spoiled kids trashing the store, not being able to give a refund, missing items in McDonalds orders, and people hating self-serve.

Matthew Winter and Chris Hodge come together to rehash a number of subjects that they’ve covered in past episodes of the podcast. They discuss hating reality TV, missing high school, mainstream music, tax returns, soggy biscuit, the value of video games, Jerry Seinfeld, 9/11 memes, Dan Schneider and many other topics they’ve already discussed.

Matthew Winter and Kieren Collison come together as discuss the two Larry Clark films Kids and Ken Park, the allegations against Kevin Spacey and his new film Billionaire Boys Club, Kieren’s favourite movie Back to the Future II, when Matt met Hulk Hogan, classic animated reality TV show Drawn Together, and watching your dad’s dirty DVDs.

Matthew Winter and Jack Petersen come together as Jack plays Matt’s therapist as he whines about his problems and insecurities. They discuss Matt being in a stressful mood from filming problems and his stagnant company, his insecurities about putting too much pressure on the Ennui Crew, other creators who have been pressured on YouTube, using meditation to help with stress, and Jack’s insecurities and fears.

Matthew Winter and Kieren Collison come together to...flip a coin to decide their topic, and school shootings and conspiracy wins. They discuss the Columbine school shooting and some of the conspiracies around it, the Bowling for Columbine documentary by Michael Moore, and the Government conspiracies about the Sandy Hook shooting.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to talk about the official launch of Ennui Plus on Patreon. They discuss their Plus, Gold and Elite tiers of their Patreon, the current and future rewards they will receive, what they will get at certain patronage milestones, and the future projects when Ennui Plus on Patreon grows.

Matthew Winter and Chris Hodge come together to discuss how Chris believes vitamins and minerals are all placeboes, explaining what they do to old people, their near car accidents in the past month, the concept of reality TV, Matt’s favourite reality show Love Island and Bachelor in Paradise, singing reality shows like The Voice, renovation reality shows like Flip or Flop, and what an Ennui reality show would like.

Matthew Winter and Jack Peterson come together to talk all things anime in an Ennui Fan Service special. The two discuss favourite animes like Daily Lives of High School Boys and Yuri on Ice, the objectively best animes like Attack on Titan and Your Name, popular animes like Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z, bad anime live-action adaptations like Death Note, and if Ennui made an anime.

Matthew Winter and Ben Davis come together to reflect on their high school days. The two discuss Ben originally wanting to be a history teacher, Matt getting suspended for hitting a kid, Ben getting a card for “throwing rocks”, putting kids in their place, schoolyard fights, and the difference between private school and public school.

Matthew Winter and Chris Hodge come together to discuss near death experiences in their lives, what makes someone a racist, if they’d rather sit on a cake and eat a dick or sit on a dick or eat a cake, if getting your dick sucked is gay, and Chris’ bike accident.

Matthew Winter talks with the new member of the Ennui crew, Kieren Collison. They discuss their first real conversation being on the podcast, being interested in school shootings, Kieren’s role in Ennui on camera and behind the scenes, his role in Marty’s Internet Show, and both of them liking Degrassi.