Rambled about this week: the Pope, runaway histamine response, Jason Statham's one movie, Phil Tippett's Mad God, increasingly onerous travel requirements in the US, the return of Naked Gun, and ma...
2025-04-22 19:37:37 +0000 UTC
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On this week's Watchcast Brad's documentary pick is up to bat, and he's selected Jurassic Punk, a movie that both chronicles the early days of computer generated special effects at ILM, and serves ...
2025-04-21 21:44:09 +0000 UTC
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I did it. I reached “credits” in Blue Prince. The real Blue Prince starts here? Not sure I currently have the drive to continue plugging away it, but maybe I need more time. I’ll definitely b...
2025-04-21 19:15:11 +0000 UTC
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Mike is fighting for survival while Vinny is trying to collect the skulls of his, increasing number, of enemies!
2025-04-21 16:00:36 +0000 UTC
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This week, Blue Prince has snared a couple of us (sort of), another couple of us can't seem to stop playing AC Shadows, and... Gradius III makes a surprise appearance? In the news, the BDS Xbox boy...
2025-04-17 00:58:35 +0000 UTC
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We're roaring back from our time off this week with a deep dive on Bill Murray, introducing the kids to Groundhog Day, the importance of dispensing A.1. sauce to young minds, Princess Mononoke at t...
2025-04-15 20:12:16 +0000 UTC
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We're roaring back from our time off this week with a deep dive on Bill Murray, introducing the kids to Groundhog Day, the importance of dispensing A.1. sauce to young minds, Princess Mononoke at t...
2025-04-15 20:11:56 +0000 UTC
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It's time to kick off our month of documentaries, and leading us off is one of Alex's favorite slice of life stories in cinema, American Movie! Join us as we talk through Mark and his motley film c...
2025-04-14 21:52:14 +0000 UTC
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We’re back!
We’re spinning the gears back up this week after returning from our week off! You can hear us chat about our doings and goings-on during our time away on this week’s Ramblec...
2025-04-14 18:49:56 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, Nextlanders! Gonna keep this one brief as technically I'm still on vacation, and it is ILLEGAL for someone in my position to be producing anything that resembles content while maintainin...
2025-04-10 16:31:24 +0000 UTC
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While we're out this week, we bring you another blast from the Never Been a Better past, all the way back in December 2022, when Abby Russell and Jeff Bakalar joined us to share tales of holiday mi...
2025-04-09 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Our good friend Steve Lin drops by this week to bring his prodigious knowledge of classic gaming to bear, telling us about his involvement in the Video Game History Foundation and its sprawling arc...
2025-04-08 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Our good friend Steve Lin drops by this week to bring his prodigious knowledge of classic gaming to bear, telling us about his involvement in the Video Game History Foundation and its sprawling arc...
2025-04-08 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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It's time for us to collect skulls, gather blood, and maybe a few other random body parts, you know... for reasons.
2025-04-07 15:30:21 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to April! There's plenty to plan about in the coming month, including South of Midnight, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur, Monaco 2, a new Fatal Fury (!!), Xbox ports to PlayStation, PlayStation p...
2025-04-03 16:01:05 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to April! There's plenty to plan about in the coming month, including South of Midnight, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur, Monaco 2, a new Fatal Fury (!!), Xbox ports to PlayStation, PlayStation p...
2025-04-03 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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It happened: They took the wraps off the Switch 2 (for real this time). Will Smith joins us to break down the price, hardware specs and features, backwards compatibility, and launch-ish games like ...
2025-04-02 22:52:02 +0000 UTC
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With Alex on vacation, Brad and Vinny get deep into the television weeds with spoiler-filled discussions of Station Eleven and both seasons of Severance, plus some spoiler-free discussion of Shogun...
2025-04-01 18:01:00 +0000 UTC
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With Alex on vacation, Brad and Vinny get deep into the television weeds with spoiler-filled discussions of Station Eleven and both seasons of Severance, plus some spoiler-free discussion of Shogun...
2025-04-01 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to April and welcome to finally knowing the details about the Switch 2, at least that’s the hope given that there’s a dedicated Nintendo Direct about it this week. We’ll be talking ov...
2025-03-31 19:05:07 +0000 UTC
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Abby Russell and Jeff Bakalar join us to talk about our morning hours, tiers of junk food, and of course, wet meat.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:07) Intro
(00:02:07) Alex's Beatles Rock Band...
2025-03-28 15:54:56 +0000 UTC
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We've got one week left before the big Switch 2 reveal, so hop in the ding-dong hole for one last round of rumors and speculation, plus plenty of other chatter about Atomfall, more AC: Shadows and ...
2025-03-26 23:29:45 +0000 UTC
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It's here! The moment you've all been waiting for: the end of March! What comes next? Well, I regret to inform you that it'll be... another month. And then another one after that. But before we beg...
2025-03-25 21:50:19 +0000 UTC
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This week, Assassin's Creed Shadows has gotten Brad to start in on Shogun, Vinny's digging into the used record shop, a Giant Bomb cutting-room-floor archival effort is underway, and we all get a l...
2025-03-25 21:02:48 +0000 UTC
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This week, Assassin's Creed Shadows has gotten Brad to start in on Shogun, Vinny's digging into the used record shop, a Giant Bomb cutting-room-floor archival effort is underway, and we all get a l...
2025-03-25 21:00:10 +0000 UTC
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We round out our month of weird dystopian cities with the darkest dystopian city of them all: the one literally called Dark City. Join us as we try to find the way to Shell Beach, and along the way...
2025-03-24 23:21:24 +0000 UTC
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I’ve been really enjoying some video games! Between Avowed and Assassin’s Creed Shadows I’ve been eager to get back in front of the screen whenever I get some free time. I’m curious how fol...
2025-03-24 18:48:38 +0000 UTC
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We're back and it's time to embrace the fashion aspects of destroying the world, like what should we put on our Cape of Skulls?
2025-03-24 18:30:17 +0000 UTC
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We talk for like an hour about Assassin's Creed Shadows this week, plus 33 Immortals, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (big week for 33 around here), Keita Takahashi's To a T, a $500 Switch 2, Xbox's ga...
2025-03-20 00:24:03 +0000 UTC
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We rambled about everything under the sun this week, from Roman history to Kurosawa to multiple Buffetts, Vinny's home flour-milling, Brad's new (old) CRT, Alex's love of yacht rock, and a bunch of...
2025-03-18 18:01:01 +0000 UTC
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