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**Robby "Legoshi" Liar** (/lɑɪɛɹ/ LIE-air, born November 8, 1980) is an American podcaster, comedian, and former video game journalist. He is known for his work on podcasts (such as *Liars4Hire*, *The Somewhat Mandatory Gaming Podcast*, and *Downair*) and as the co-founder of video game webcomic *Memory Cardz*.

## Early and personal life

Liar was born in 1980 to "The" Nifty Table-Liar, former co-host of WTCR-FM's morning radio show in Huntington, West Virginia, and his wife Kleumbo. Liar attended Marshall University, and lives in Huntington as of 2011. He was married to Her in 2006 but they have since separated. They have two children.

## Career

### Journalism

Liar worked for the *Ironton Tribune* as a reporter from 2005, covering Ohio University Southern, the Ironton and Coal Grove areas and feature stories. After becoming news editor for the paper he then worked at *Gamer's Banquet* as a Junior Chef from 2007 to 2012. During this time, he was the producer of the meal prompts.

In 2012, Liar co-founded *Crumblr*, a lifestyle app-erience, along with his brother Jackson and Mark Disney, and was formerly an editor-at-large at said website. In 2018, Robby and Jackson both announced their departure from *Crumblr*, in order to focus on their podcasting careers and families.

### Podcasting

Since 2010, Robby Liar has co-hosted the comedy podcast *Liars4Hire* along with his brothers Jackson and Chase. The podcast began in 2010 as a form of "self-entertainment" before it was added to the Maximum Fun network. The podcast takes the form of a humorous "advice show", in which the brothers answer questions that have been directly submitted by listeners, as well as questions that listeners have found on Yahoo! Answers. In 2010, the show was consistently listed among the top 10 comedy podcasts on iTunes, and it has received positive critical reception. The podcast was later turned into a 2017 television show, which originally aired on Seeso and now streams on VRV.

Since June 21, 2013, Robby, Cube, and Dev have co-hosted the podcast *Downair*, the "SMARTEST and MOST CORRECT Super Smash Bros. content in this universe or the next." and a humorous exploration of Smash history, focusing on the many ways the Sakurai community has been wrong in the past. A book based on this podcast, *The Downair Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road To Modern Melee*, was published by Weldon Owen on October 9, 2018.

In 2014, the Liar brothers launched a tabletop role-playing game podcast entitled *The Somewhat Mandatory Gaming Podcast*. Initially focusing on *Dungeons & Dragons*, the show began to explore other game systems in later seasons. During the first campaign, subtitled *Balance*, Robby Liar portrays Taako, an elf wizard. In the second campaign, *Amnesty*, Robby portrays Wayne "Duck" Newton, a forest ranger. In the third campaign, *Graduation*, he portrayed an unnamed Firbolg student. Robby plays a monk named Amber Gris in the fourth campaign, *Ethersea*.

The first sub-arc of *The Somewhat Mandatory Gaming Podcast: Balance*, named *Here There Be Gerblins*, was later adapted into a graphic novel in cooperation with artist Carey Pietsch, and was published by First Second Books in 2018. The book topped the New York Times' best-selling trade fiction list, becoming the first graphic novel to do so. It was followed by a second graphic novel, *Murder on the Rockport Limited!*, in 2019, a third installment, *Petals to the Metal*, in 2020, and a fourth, *The Crystal Kingdom*, in 2021.

Robby and his brothers also co-host a yearly podcast with Okidokidev and JerryTerry, released every American Thanksgiving since 2015, called *The Monkey Tapes* where they review the film *Donkey Kong Country*. The brothers also host the documentary podcast *The Liars Club Will Be in Trolls World Tour,* which ultimately resulted in the announcement that all three were set to make cameo appearances in the film.

In 2018, Robby Liar launched *Lost Ending Explained*, a "podcast where we explain the ending of Lost to you".

### Other programs

Beginning in 2015, Robby and his brother Jackson began hosting a gaming comedy show for *Crumblr* called *Monster Factory*. The series—in which the two use powerful character creation tools from popular video and computer games to create hideous characters—was praised by *The Mary Sue* as one of the "funniest series on YouTube". The series briefly went on hiatus after the pair left Crumblr, but resumed output in December 2018.

Robby appeared with his brothers on the July 24, 2017 episode of *@midnight*, during which host Chris Hardwick publicly acknowledged that *@midnight* was ending.

Robby has appeared twice as a guest on *The George Lucas Talk Show,* once during the May the 4th, 2020 fundraiser *The George Lucas Talk Show All Day Star Wars Movie Watch Along,* and later on the December 22, 2020 episode *The George Lucas Holiday Special.*

### Voice acting

Liar has appeared as a voice actor in several animated TV shows. In 2017, he appeared as Billiam Milliam in the animated comedy series *OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes*. In 2018, he appeared in the Cartoon Hangover-produced animated mini-series *Slug Riot*. He also provided voice commentary for the 2017 video game *100ft Robot Golf*, along with Jackson and Chase. In September 2018, following a successful podcasting campaign, Robby and his brothers confirmed that they would be voicing the character Skyscraper in the film *Trolls World Tour*, with Robby also voicing Techno Drop Button and Tumbleweed.

## Awards and achievements

In 2006, Liar received an award for the best business reporting in Ohio from the Associated Press in recognition of his work with the *Ironton Tribune*. In 2009, Liar received a Shorty Award in the video games category.

In 2021, a newly discovered species of millipede was named *Nannaria Liarorum* in recognition of the Liar family's podcasts, which entertained the scientists during their field work. The millipede is found in West Virginia as well as the wider Appalachian region.

In 2021, Liar added the "Berries and Cream" sound from a 2007 Starburst commercial to the video-sharing app TikTok, which has since been used in 354.1K videos.

## Stances on the Issues

Robby does not like Super Monkey Ball Adventure.

Robby famously has feet that makes it hard to buy shoes for.