Hello, and welcome to the debut podcast for Bear Punch Media, Massively Affected, where I, Josh Silverman, bring on a guest and ask them a not-so-simple question: Why Mass Effect?

On this brand new weekly retrospective show, I’ll be talking to a new guest each week about their personal experiences with Mass Effect, whether it be the trilogy, Andromeda, the comics, books, that one animated movie, fanfiction, or anything else in the universe of Mass Effect. This is a show is made to be listened to by people new to the franchise and those who have been here since the beginning, and yes, most every episode will have spoilers.

Season One will feature:

• Matt Storm, host of Reignite, Screen Snarks, and more
• Sylvi Needham, my Constantly Calibrating co-founder
• Aiden Swank, a luminous being of love and affection
• Trevor Starkey, founder of That Nerdy Site
• Stephanie Brunea, an amazing artist, streamer, voice actor and more
• Justin Stanley, my Bear Punch Media co-founder
• Kelsie Mhoon, game industry writer and narrative designer
• Kenneth Shepard, news writer for Fanbyte & host of Normandy FM
• Eric Van Allen, senior news reporter for Destructoid & co-host of Normandy FM
• Greg Haynes, Lead Games User Researcher for AbleGamers
• Kate Sanchez, editor in chief of But Why Tho & host of But Why Tho and Did you Have To podcasts.

The entire first season of Massively Affected will be featured on But Why Tho’s website at ButWhyThoPodcast.com starting Tuesday, May 11 with TWO episodes dropping, and then one episode releasing weekly through July 13.