Shock and Autism
Two friends, Dillon and Daniel, embark on a journey to share their friendship and make sense of a world that doesn't make sense to them. Get ready for fierce debate, snarky quips, and wholesome affirmation. Get ready for Shock and Autism.
Episodes
100 episodes
101: Our Top Ten Trains (and Train Adjacent Iconography and Phenomena)!
AUTISTIC PEOPLE LIKE TRAINS, OK! That's why on this episode of Shock And Autism, Dillon and Daniel rank their top 10 trains and train-adjacent iconography & phenomena. How many actual trains can they possibly know the name of? Once they run...
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100: The Great Dino Debate (100th Episode Special)
For the 100TH EPISODE of Shock And Autism, Dillon & Daniel attemp to answer the age old question: what is the greatest dinosaur! First, they discuss what they learned about dinosaurs on Curiosity Stream. Then, they review & examin...
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099: Does "Team America: World Police" Hold Up?
It's America's birthday which means it's also Daniel's birthday! In honor of one of those aforementione things, Dillon & Daniel discuss whether or not Team America: World Police (the puppet movie by the South Park guys) holds up and, ...
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098: Movies with Gay *Vibes*
To close out Pride Month, Dillon and Daniel discuss movies that have gay *vibes* or energy or whateverthehell. Is the movie intentionally homoerotic? It counts. Unintentionally homoerotic? DEFINITELY counts. Campy nonsense? Yep! Allegory for th...
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097: Are The Mamma Mia Movies GOOD, actually? (A Treatise On The Intersection Of Homophobia And Toxic Masculinity & Also Other Stuff)
So the Mamma Mia Movies are just the worst, right? WRONG! They're campy & girly, definitely a "girls, gays, and theys" type of energy, but that doesn't necessarily make something bad. The Nostalgia Critic definitely thought the 1st one was ...
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096: Queer Music Icons (Featuring Comrade Ivan)
On this week's episode, Dillon and Daniel share some of their favorite LGBT artists. They are joined some ways in by Comrade Ivan, who knows cooler music than them & who lends his greater expertise to highlight how various artist's gender/s...
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095: Top Ten LGBTQ+ Pokemon!
In honor of Pride Month, Dillon and Daniel rank the top 10 LGBTQ+ Pokemon. Their lists have rainbow Pokemon, FABULOUS Pokemon, Pokemon that are weird little guys, and Pokemon that go through incredible transformations; metaphors for days. Enjoy...
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094: Doing Door-to-door Sales Is Hard & Other Life Lessons (feat. The REAL LIFE Manbun Michael, AKA Nick)
Y'all remember The Legend of Manbun Michael? (Episode 86 if you don't) Well, on this episode Dillon and Daniel are joined in studio by the real life inspiration for Manbun Michael, aka their friend Nick. Nick and Daniel met doing door-to-door s...
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093: We Need To Talk About Ezra Miller & Jonathan Majors
For week 4 of Celebrity Month, Dillon and Daniel discuss Ezra Miller and Jonathan Majors: what they've each been accused of, whether or not their alleged crimes are comparable, any double standards that might be at play, and ultimately whether ...
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092: Nic Cage and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
For episode 3 of celebrity month, Dillon and Daniel attempt to figure out why it is & how it came to be that Nic Cage occupies his particular status in film & pop culture. They then discuss/review The Unbearable Weight of Massive Ta...
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091: Everybody Hates Chris (Pratt... And other Chris-Related Activities + A Little GotG3)
For the second episode of celebrity week, Dillon and Daniel have each given the other a list of celebrity Chrises (Chris'? Chris's? we didn't know how to plural the name) for them to rank for least to most hate-able. Where does the ever controv...
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090: Baby J and The Redemption(?) of John Mulaney
In this episode, Dillon and Daniel review (?) Baby J (John Mulaney's new special), contrast it with previous routines (including the earlier versions of it that they saw live last year), & evaluate whether or not this redeems him or "uncanc...
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089: The Dungeons and Dragons Movie Is Everything You'd Want
In this episode, Dillon and Daniel review the new Dungeons & Dragons movie with help from Dillon's friend and true D&D expert, PC. Is it faithful to the source material? Is it even possible to BE faithful to the source material given th...
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088: Top 10 reasons why Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door ROCKS!
In this episode, Dillon and Daniel unpack what exactly makes Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door great. They decided to do it as a top 10 list because the algorithm loves top 10 lists. They decided to do it kind of like Family Feud (they each t...
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087: Video Game Adaptations
In this episode, Dillon & Daniel, in light of the success of the Mario Bros movie & kind of success of Sonic, discuss: what video games they would/wouldn't like to see adaptations for, why, and what said adaptations might look like. How...
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086: The Legend of Manbun Michael
On this week's episode, Dillon & Daniel bring you a tale of a legendary cowboy of the old west: Manbun Michael. Manbun Michael must save the town & rescue his girlfriend; can he do it? Also, The Dread God Nyarlathotep is involved, enjoy...
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085: Sonic the Hedgehog Lore (April Fool's Day 2023)
On this special episode, Dillon & Daniel do a totally 100% serious deep dive into Sonic The Hedgehog, with help from their friend & Sonic expert Jacob, aka VGAfanatic (follow him on Deviantart, Instagram, Twitter, etc).Jacob's Y...
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084: Awesomely Bad Movie Pitches 2: The Second One
On this week's episode, Dillon and Daniel come up with more awesomely bad movie pitches. As you can (maybe) see from the promotional art, one of the ideas is a crossover between Pixar's Cars & The Fast and Furious movies & another is Za...
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083: Is Scarlet/Violet a Great Pokemon Game?
This week Dillon and Daniel discussed Pokemon Scarlet/Violet with the help of special guest host Katie (that's right, a lady) & this time THE RECORDING PROGRAM DIDN'T CRASH! This episode was supposed to be the first of the month but technic...
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082: March Madness! (But For The Word Of The Day)
In honor of March Madness (a concept that Dillon definitely totally knew about & wasn't at all confused by), Dillon & Daniel put their own spin on the concept by having a tournament to determine what the ultimate Word of the Day is. The...
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081: POW! Batman Villlain Quiz!
Holy autism, Batman! On this week's episode it is Daniel on the receiving end of a dubiously fair quiz for once as Dillon has him trying to guess which of these Batman villains is the real one. Can Daniel prove that he is at least competent reg...
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080: Terrible Podcast Ideas Ep. IV: Age of Ultron
On this week's episode, Dillon’s computer crashed! We kid, that happened BEFORE this week's episode & subsequently deleted an entire episode recorded with a special guest host. Pinch hitting due to technical difficulties is the 4th installm...
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079: What Went Wrong With Westworld (And Why Was It Good in the First Place)?
In this episode Dillon and Daniel talk about everyone's favorite robot show, Westworld, and it's many, many, MANY themes and characters. What made this show's first season so great? When and why did it fall off? Was there a way to salvage all t...
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