Season 8, Episode 40: The Taste of Panda (Express)

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We're talking Panda Express in this week's episode of (Not So) Live from Asteroid G. A chance visit to the fast food Chinese restaurant spurred us on to discuss what works, and what doesn't, at this chain. The answers might surprise you.

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Season 9: #1: Pigskin Showdown 2026, #2: Write Your Name in My Black Notebook, #3: Sitting for Dinner with Dr. No, #4: A Taste of Tex-Mex, Mini #1: Now We Have the Power, #5: As Alive as the Grid Needs Us to Be, Mini #2: Adventure with the Last Daughter of Krypton, #6: Bond's Gold-Plated Love, Mini #3: Super Bowl 2026 Touchback, #7: Hunting the Most Dangerous Predators, Mini #4: The Mandalorian and the Lack of Excitement, #8: Doing the Thunderballs Not Once, But Twice, #9: Stabbing Blindly, Mini #5: The War Against Netherrealm Begins, #10: They Came to the Wrong Island, #11: The (Semi) End of the Connery Era, Mini #6: Into the Super Galaxy, #12: Still Running, Mini #7: We're Doing This All Again, Apparently, #13: Rocky and Me, Mini #8: Peter Just Can't Catch a Break, #14: Living It Up in the Grindhouse Hotel, Mini #9: Pizza in the Burger Joint?, #15: The One-Off Lazenby, Mini #10: The Demon Meal at the Golden Arches, #16: Not My Mummy, Mini #11: Do You, Ken, Hadouken?, #17: Flawless Victory, Mini #12: Somewhere In the Middle of the Games, #18: Going for Blofeld One More Time..., Mini #13: The Resident (Evil) in the Cabin, #19: I Reckon that Might be the Last Mission, Mini #14: Read of the Book and Let it All Burn, #20: The Mando Mechandising Matinee, #21: The Deluxe Experiment, #22: Roger Moore's House of (Cheesy) Horrors, #23: Lost in the Endless Void, #24: Aliens Among Us, But Why Should We Care?

Season 8: #1: Pigskin Showdown 2025, #2: The Thing Escapes, #3: Stuck in the Borderlands, #4: Nintendo Directly to You, Mini #1: Surprising Bowl, #5: The Man in the Mirrors, #6: It's Sega Time, #7: The Romulus to Your Remus, #8: The Falcon and the Big Red Rage, #9: Probably the Final Mission, #10: (Nintendo) 64 Reasons Why, #11: Let Our Heart Eyes Be Yours, #12: Your Marvel Casting Doomsday, #13: Open Your Brain for Nintendo, #14: Monkey See, Monkey Drums, Mini #2: Rounding it Out, #15: Shaken, Stirred, and Corporate Owned, Mini #3: Immortals Together, #16: From the First Blood to the Last, #17: Howl at the Moon (Poorly), #18: Vampires and Blues, #19: Not Much Sandwich to this Brisket Sandwich, #20: (Brundle) Fly Me to the Moon, #21: Bring the Thunder(bolts*), #22: Hard Up for Hardee's, #23: Terminate All the Terminators, #24: Charleston’s Downtown Delectables, #25: Pirates and the Curse of the Worn Out Franchise, #26: Truth, Justice, Superman, #27: To Hunt a Predator, #28: As the Domino's Fall, #29: The Batman Cometh, #30: How (Not) To Be Fantastic (Four), #31: Let Us Help You, Marvel, Mini #4: Whither the Origin Stories?, Mini #5: The Ultimate Pizza (for the Price), #32: This Alien Earth, #33: Star Wars, an Asteroid G Special Roundtable, #34: The Golden Time with KPop Demon Hunters, Mini #6: Just a Bunch of Snyder Stans, #35: The Shows We Love to Binge, #36: A Totaly Goofy Podcast, #37: Hot (Ones) Enough For You?, Mini #7: Walking Long and Hard, #38: Our New Alien Queen, #39: Of Bloodlines and Destinations (Not So) Final, #40: The Taste of Panda (Express), #41: Do Blade Runners Have Replicant Dreams?, #42: Set that Movie Money Ablaze, Outtakes Compilation

Season 7: #1: Pigskin Showdown 2024, #2: It's be Prepared, #3: Old, But Not Out, #4: The Streaming Proposition, #5: Now I Have Some Paint Cans, #6: Just Add More Aliens, #7: Shouldn't You Know?, Mini #07-01: A Run for the Border, #8: Legacies Never Die, #9: Now You're Playing with Power, #10: The OJ Power Hour, Mini #07-02: The Apes Await, #11: It's That Girl, #12: From the Future Beyond, #13: Men (and Woman) in Tights, #14: Take the Sequel Pill, #15: Traveling in Mode 7, #16: Tokyo is Trembling, #17: The Clown Prince, #18: Monochromatic Mastery, Mini #07-03: Bring Out Your Claws, #19: True Crime, No Punishment, #20: Living the High Life, #21: Election Aftermath, #22: Singing Bye, Bye, Bye

Season 6: #1: The Asteroid G Awards 2023, #2: We Battle for Sparta!, #3: An Investigative Reporter of Some Repute, #4: Frankenstein Saves the Universe, #5: His Red Right Hand, #6: Big Mistake, #7: Mind Over Materia, #8: Take It to the Max, #9: Dinosaur Fever, #10: The Ballad of Bowser, #11: Link, Come and Find Me, #12: Feeling Marvelous, #13: The Wizarding World of Reboots, #14: Make Me Scream, Make Me Laugh, #15: No Longer Fit to Print, #16: The Shape in the Night, #17: Will the Next 007 Please Stand Up?, #18: Who Wears the Mask?, #19: Back Through Hyrule Once More, #20: Your Friend to the End, #21: Titanic Disasters, #22: The Thrill of the Kill, #23: The Wonder of the Mushroom Kingdom, #24: Who's Behind the Mask, #25: Second Verse, Better Than the First, #26: He Sees You When You're Sleeping, #27: Toys to Life, #28: Shambling Towards You, #29: Ruining a Universe, #30: Street Racing Spies, #31: Tiny Merciless Monsters, #32: The Stories We Didn't Need, #33: Son of the Dragon, #34: The Spoopy Season, #35: It Came from the Dark Tower, #36: Battle Beyond the Stars (Trek)

Season 5: #1: All Your Spider-mans Are Belong to Us, #2: Who Will Win the Game of Yawns, #3: Of Things That Get Stranger and Stranger, #4: The Hunter and the Hunted, #5: In Brightest Day..., #6: The Rise of Homelander, #7: Disney's Other Animation Studio, #8: Off Like a Shot, #9: The Marvelous Marvels that Marvel, #10: The Original Five-Year Mission, #11: That Annoying Family Next Door, Interview: ADR, Season 5 Outtakes, Part 1, #12: The Warner Discovery Implosion, #13: Too Creepy but Not Kooky Enough, #14: Big and Green and On the Scene, #15: J.K. Rowling's TERF War, #16: All In All You're Just Another Ring in the War, #17: Let's Take a Moment to Look At..., #18: Fight the Empire!, #19: Who Is the Mightiest Thor?, #20: Country Road, Take Me Home, Season 5 Outtakes, Part 2

Season 4: Love it or Hate It: Mulan, Love it or Hate It: Wonder Woman '84, Nerd News: Zack Snyder's Id, Reboot Pitches: Asteroid G's Justice League, Watch Party: Disney's Hercules, Nerd News: An Adult in the White House, Watch Party: Clerks Animated, Season 4 Outtakes, Part 1, Love it or Hate It: Aladdin 2019, Reboot Pitches: Predator, Watch Party: Clerks Pilot, Reboot Pitches: Disney Princesses, Nerd News: Witcher Switcher Watcher Woo, Watch Party: Mortal Kombat!, Nerd News: TSR Fail, Watch Party: Replicas, Overview: Jack Ryan, Watch Party: Invincible, Season 1, Celebrity Profile: Chris Pratt, Nerd News: Suns Out Gunns Out, Overview: Saved by the M.A.S.H., Reboot: Doctor Who, Where Are You?, Celebrity Profile: Peter Dinklage, Nerd News: The Wheel Spins Round Again, Celebrity Profile: Tom Holland, Season 4 Outtakes, Part 2, Reboot: Enter the Stargate, Celebrity Profile: Hayley Atwell, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Casting Call 1980s, Nerd News: Black Widow Wins, Reboot: Movies to Games, Nerd News: The TRUTH Is Out There, Celebrity Profile: Breckin Meyer, Reboot: Rebooting Into the Mainframe, Overview: Boldly Going Back, Watch Party: Total Recall, The Thin Man Casting Call, Nerd News: Spider-man Conquers All, Watch Party: The Witcher... of Time, Interview: Will Bloodworth II, Overview: Castlevania, Season 4 Outtakes, Part 3, Overview: Super Mario Series

Season 3: Nerd News: Coronavirus, Watch Party: Evolution (2001), Reboot Pitches: Murder, She Wrote, Overview: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview: WillBloodworth, Watch Party: Clue (1985), Nerd News: Coronavirus II, Interview: MoistMogwai, Overview: Watchmen, Reboot Pitches: Terminator, Overview: Rhythm Games, Nerd News: Protests and Coronavirus, Watch Party: Stripes (1981), Season 3 Outtakes, Part 1, Nerd News: Coronavirus IV, Love it or Hate It: Batman v Superman, Overview: Battlestar Galactica, Reboot Pitches: Alien & Aliens, Overview: Community, Watch Party: Supernatural, Nerd News: Politics and the DNC, Reboot Pitches: The Last Airbender, Nerd News: Wakanda Forever, Love it or Hate It: Hamilton, Watch Party: The Old Guard, Overview: The Good Place, Reboot Pitches: Knight Rider, Love it or Hate It: Alien 3, Nerd News: The Death Knell of Theaters, Love it or Hate It: Back to the Future 2, Interview: MsMetroid, Reboot Pitches: Universal Monsters, Overview: The Wire, Nerd News: Election 2020, Season 3 Outtakes, Part 2, Reboot Pitches: Escape from New York, Watch Party: National Treasure, Overview: The Karate Kid, Reboot Pitches: Holiday Films, Overview: The Boys, Reboot Pitches: The Goonies, Interview: Trinton, Overview: Politics and Apocalypse, Nerd News: Post-Inauguration Bliss, 2021 Asteroid G Awards, Season 3 Outtakes, Part 3

Season 2: #26: Spider-man Ep II, #27: Stranger Things, #28: Netflix, Outtake Banquet!, #29: Game of Thrones, #30: Doctor Who, #31: Musicals, #32: Aliens vs. Predator, Outtake Blowout!, #33: Princess Bride, #34: Planet of the Apes, #35: X-Men, #36: Batman, Outtake Soiree!, #37: Space Westerns, #38: Fairy Tales, #39: Z-Grade Superheroes, #40: Sitcoms, Outtake Social!, #41: Holidays, #42: Die Hard, #43: MCU B-List, #44: Disney Princesses, Outtake Diversion!, #45: Star Wars Ep III, #46: Ghostbusters II, #47: Hunger Games, #48: TMNT, #49: Conspiracy Theories, #50: Twitch, Outtakepalooza!, Interview: Greggly_puff, Interview: Guda632

Season 1: #1: Star Trek, #2: Star Wars, #3: The Legend of Zelda, #4: Mission: Impossible, Outtake Party!, #5: DCEU vs. MCU, #6: Jurassic Park, #7: Mega Man, #8: Metroid, #9: Square-Enix, #10: Spider-Man, #11: Borderlands, #12: Giant Mechs, #13: The Terminator, Outtake Fiesta!, #14: Bioware, #15: Shooters (and ID Software), #16: Blizzard Entertainment, #17: Ghostbusters, Outtake Shindig!, #18: Captain Marvel, #19: Fast Food, #20: Back to the Future, #21: Kevin Smith, Outtake Hootenanny!, #22: Star Wars Ep II, #23: X-Men, #24: Westerns, #25: Joss Wheddon, Outtake Gala!, Interview: Sawneyrath11, Interview: Caleb, Interview: Thilenios, Interview: Tyerenex

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