OSPod Episode 140: Sonic Movies, Arch Madness, and Blue's Triumphant Return!

“The only thing that jumped to my mind was Thanatos. No, no! He's not even in Hades 2! Wild choice.”

Blue is back from the Suez Canal—not Panama, as Red mistakenly thought—and the full OSPod cast is together again for the first time in a month. The episode covers three major threads: the success of Arch Madness (a bracket showdown video), the question of why the Sonic movies work against all odds, and a lightning round Q&A. Along the way, the conversation drifts into tier lists, pet ownership, and how to eat a croissant.

Arch Madness and the Joy of Sorting Things

March brought Arch Madness, a bracket-style video where viewers voted on their favorite arches from around the world. Blue was surprised by how well it worked. “I like the fact that in this new kind of bracket showdown thing we got going on, the audience immediately jumped down my throat because the thing that I picked as the winner should on paper have been disqualified,” he said. The winning arch turned out to be a North Korean dictatorship propaganda piece—the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang—which prompted a wave of backpedaling from Discord users who had voted for it. “I didn't realize it was a communist dictator propaganda piece,” Blue recalled them saying. “I thought it was just cool and squarish.”