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Never Been a Better Podcast 42: Riding That Snake

Jeff Bakalar and Abby Russell are back to share their experiences with mechanical keyboards, home ownership, and surviving the holidays!

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Nextlander's Extra Life 2025 Part 02

The second part of the archive Alex's Extra Life 2025 Drum Marathon!

You can still donate at tinyurl.com/nextralife2025...

Nextlander's Extra Life 2025 Part 01

The first part of the archive Alex's Extra Life 2025 Drum Marathon is (hopefully) here!

You can still donate at tinyurl...

The Nextlander Podcast 225: Don't Trust the Fox Mask

Brad and Vinny produce the rare duos podcast this week with deep(er) dives into Silent Hill f and Hollow Knight: Silksong, a look at The Séance of Blake Manor, the new Vampire Survivors quasi-sequ...

Weekly Ramblecast 233: Mark Morrison Hates Belarus

After 12 straight hours of drumming and streaming, this podcast was always going to be a big debrief on Extra Life, so we get into all kinds of subjects like the technical production issues, Alex's...

Weekly Ramblecast 233: Mark Morrison Hates Belarus

After 12 straight hours of drumming and streaming, this podcast was always going to be a big debrief on Extra Life, so we get into all kinds of subjects like the technical production issues, Alex's...

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 160: Action Jackson (1988)

Turkey Month is nearly at an end, but before we head out for the holiday break, we've got one more fully barbecued turkey for all of you in the bombasically stupid Action Jackson! Join us as we mar...

Schedule for the Week of 11/24/2025

First off, huge thanks to everyone that joined us and everyone that donated for Extra Life during Alex’s 12 Hours of Drumming! Also, big shoutout to Alex for not only drumming, but putting togeth...

Patron Q&A 053: November 2025

The year's getting colder but the questions are heating up! This month we field Qs about places we'd like to (or couldn't) visit, what makes a good burrito (and where to get one), our old reviews t...

Mike and Vinny Destroy the World - Part 19

Vinny and Khorne try to deal with a rat problem while Mike's homeland is under attack!

The Nextlander Podcast 224: Thirty-Year-Old Video Games

This week we dig into hot, brand-new video games like Metal Gear Solid and Nier: Automata, plus Lumines Arise's multiplayer, the ending chapters of Dispatch, Sektori, whatever's going on with Ubiso...

Weekly Ramblecast 232: We Used to Like Things

This week's ramble ranges all over the place, from Extra Life prep to Vinny's battle with customer service, a missing engagement ring, health insurance talk, the ups and downs of living with trees,...

Weekly Ramblecast 232: We Used to Like Things

This week's ramble ranges all over the place, from Extra Life prep to Vinny's battle with customer service, a missing engagement ring, health insurance talk, the ups and downs of living with trees,...

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 159: The One (2001)

Our Turkey month continues unabated! And this week we're visited by several of 125 possible Jet Lis in the profoundly silly 2001 action flick The One! Join us as we talk about Jet Li's various wigs...

Schedule for the Week of 11/17/2025

It’s hard to believe we’re already this deep into November! I feel like I have a lot of stuff that needs to be accomplished that has been mentally sitting with a tag that reads “I’ll take c...

The Nextlander Podcast 223: Interesting Flavor Profile

This is it: the final Death Stranding 2 spoilercast. Lumines Arise is also out, and that game is an extreme banger. Valve crashes back into the hardware market with a new Steam Machine, VR headset,...

Weekly Ramblecast 231: Jake, the Snake

This week we say goodbye to an honorary member of Nextlander, talk about the (legal) trials and tribulations of living next to other people, and get into a straight up showdown between different US...

Weekly Ramblecast 231: Jake, the Snake

This week we say goodbye to an honorary member of Nextlander, talk about the (legal) trials and tribulations of living next to other people, and get into a straight up showdown between different US...

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 158: Doomsday (2008)

It's Doomsday Day on the Watchcast, a day that our own Vinny Caravella has hoped and prayed for ever since we launched this podcast. So join us as we go through Vinny's all-time favorite movie, try...

Schedule for the Week of 11/10/2025

Over at the house this weekend it was a lot of yard work and fixing a dishwasher. You know, the two things everyone thinks of in Autumn! I’ve been playing Dispatch and then my son wanted to play ...

Monthly Planorama 054: November 2025

After a banner September and October, big releases mercifully slow down a little in November, but there's still plenty to fill the gaps in between catching up, like Lumines Arise, Kirby Air Riders,...

Monthly Planorama 054: November 2025

After a banner September and October, big releases mercifully slow down a little in November, but there's still plenty to fill the gaps in between catching up, like Lumines Arise, Kirby Air Riders,...

Mike and Vinny Destroy the World - Part 18

Mike and his pirate crew take on a personal quest of vengeance while Vinny and Khorne prepare for a Skaven war!

The Nextlander Podcast 222: The Simpsons Theme (non-union re-record)

This week, the wild social dynamics of ARC Raiders, The Simpsons get Brad back into Fortnite, Vinny finishes Death Stranding 2 and starts Dispatch, the Switch 2 is still selling like hotcakes, Sony...

Weekly Ramblecast 230: Dracula With the Serial Numbers Filed Off

This week, we discuss a post-Halloween report from the mean streets of suburban New Jersey, some of Stephen King's goofiest haunted objects, Brad's final horror movie recap of the year, a Sinners m...

Weekly Ramblecast 230: Dracula With the Serial Numbers Filed Off

This week, we discuss a post-Halloween report from the mean streets of suburban New Jersey, some of Stephen King's goofiest haunted objects, Brad's final horror movie recap of the year, a Sinners m...

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 157: Ghosts of Mars (2001)

We're kicking off our third annual Turkey Month with a very bad sci-fi action movie by a person who usually makes pretty enjoyable sci-fi action movies, John Carpenter! Ghosts of Mars is the first ...

Schedule for the Week of 11/03/2025

It’s very Fall out here in New Jersey and that is very much my favorite season. What’s not my favorite season is shopping for health care season and my heart goes out to everyone else out there...

Watchcast Schedule for November 2025: Action Turkeys

Greetings, Watchcasters! If you caught this past week's show, you probably already know that we've got some very stupid action movies on tap for our annual turkey month, but if you haven't had a ch...

Never Been a Better Podcast 41: King Nanner

Dan Ryckert and Abby Russell join us to talk about Halloween, adventures in cocktails, and the ups and downs of pet ownership!

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