Gilmore Ball Z is Moving!

TL;DR – Our new website is https://gilmore-ball-z.pinecast.co/. Due to a backend issue, WordPress is no longer viable for us, so we’re moving to PineCast! If you follow us on any of the major podcast services, nothing will change (hopefully)! If you follow this RSS feed manually, you’ll need to follow our new feed at https://pinecast.com/feed/gilmore-ball-z. You can also tip us now.

So we’ve had an eventful day! We discovered that all the major podcast services had suddenly lost a good half of the first season of our show. Upon digging deeper, we discovered that WordPress limits its RSS feed capability to only 150 episodes, and since we’ve crossed that number, every new episode we release will drop an episode off the feed. Obviously we don’t want this, because we want new fans to be able to start from the beginning and old fans to be able to go back and listen to it from the start if they want.

Fixing this within WordPress would require a business plan, which costs $25 a month. That’s a lot for a podcast we don’t make any money on. So we’ve decided to migrate to Pinecast, a service that will also add a lot of functionality that makes the process easier on our end and is only $10 a month.

We’re happy to pay that hosting fee, but if you want to help us out with hosting costs, we aren’t going to say no. Pinecast also includes a “Tip Jar” function over at https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gilmore-ball-z where you can kick us a few bucks if you want to help. We’re not going to aggressively market for that, because we feel like the Gohan and Rory Fund is more important, but the option is there if you’re interested.

Jackson Gobbles Up Screentime! Onslaught of a (Technically) True Story!

Despite big Buu developments and the wackiest hijinks the Pallidinos could throw at us, Grant and Paige still struggle to find anything to say about episodes of Dragon Ball and Gilmore Girls that couldn’t find their pacing.

Gohan and Rory Fund Announcement

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Born From Contrivance – Another April Fight!

Gohan and Rory Fund donor and friend of the show James G joined us to talk about Buu’s growth, revel in some (fictional) hospitalization, and negotiate the nuances of one of Gilmore Girls’ least popular plot points.

If you listened to this and said “dang, I want to guest host,” all it takes is a donation to any of the charities in the Gohan and Rory Fund. Details are here: https://gilmoreballz.wordpress.com/gohan-and-rorys-bookclub-fund/

The Partying On Continues? Super Drunk Toast is Achieved!

Paige starts to come around on Buu, but not on Gotenks, and Gilmore Girls hones in on a single event, and it makes Zack almost likable.

Mrs. Kim and her mother’s conversation translation: https://oy-with-the-poodles-already-blog.tumblr.com/post/3388618734/grandmother-%ED%97%89-%EB%B6%88%EC%83%81%EC%9D%B4-%EA%B9%A8%EC%A1%8C%EB%8B%A4-oops-the-buddha-statue

Birth of Horrified Hosts. Their Names are Paige and Grant

Content warning: This week, both Gilmore Girls and Dragon Ball Z do a very bad job of handling sensitive subjects. For Gilmore Girls, it’s stalking, gas-lighting, and escaping bad relationships. For Dragon Ball Z, it’s sexual harassment. We talk about it a lot in the episode, so if either of those are especially sensitive for you, please be advised.

Normally we’d talk about things like the first appearance of Gotenks, or Zack and Mrs. Kim writing a “hit” song together so he could marry Lane. Those are both bonkers. Unfortunately the episode pulled a weird left turn by having Goku offer every woman he knows up to get groped by a stranger, and Gilmore Girls dipped its toe in bad relationship dynamics it wasn’t equipped to handle. So we talk about that a lot, while hoping the shows get back into their comfort zones next week.

Bridesmaids Located! Intensive Cheating in the World of the Drunk!

Gohan and Rory Fund donor MST3James joined us to talk about the some of Goku and Gohan’s best bonding and some of Rory and Logan’s messiest drama. Meanwhile, Zack puts his hat in the ring for worst relationship choice on the show (stiff competition), Buu makes the world’s worst milk, and Leslie Odom Jr. stops by Gilmore Girls on his way to bigger and better things.

If you listened to this and said “dang, I want to guest host,” all it takes is a donation to any of the charities in the Gohan and Rory Fund. We’ve still got a season. Details are here: https://gilmoreballz.wordpress.com/gohan-and-rorys-bookclub-fund/