Patrick Klepek joins in to ramble this week, hitting topics like prominent Academy Award figures John Cena and Godzilla, life after Vice Media, self-promotion on a failing social media platform, and that one repair shop out by the airport.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:38) Patrick Klepek is incredibly dependable
(00:04:07) Vice Media, not so much
(00:08:57) Whiskey and football, good for what ails you
(00:16:28) Blowing your own horn, not al...
2024-03-12 16:55:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, Brad here as your guest schedule-writer while Vinny makes his way back from the snowy slopes of Vermont. With Vinny out early in the week and a bit of other scheduling stuff later on, we’ll be pretty heavy on solo streaming this week – Alex is gearing up for his first solo run in some time as I write this – but we’ll be back to full strength in a group setting by Friday, and of course you can expect the normal slate of podcasts (Ramble-, Watch-, and original recipe) as alwa...
2024-03-11 19:33:18 +0000 UTC
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On this week's show we work our way through a movie that looms large in Alex's mind, The Crow! Does it hold up to Alex's memory? We discuss that and much more, including the incredible soundtrack, and the air of tragedy that permeates the entire production.
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(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 83: The Crow (1994)
(00:00:39) - Intro.
(00:03:43) - T...
2024-03-11 16:39:06 +0000 UTC
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Austin Walker and Jeff Bakalar are back to share stories of skiing, glitches in our life simulation, and the merits of Yoo-hoo and Big League Chew!
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(00:00:07) Intro
(00:01:19) Bakalar is off doing Vermont things
(00:04:04) What's up with hockey?
(00:05:51) Skiing vs Snowboarding
(00:17:44) Hiding from life in the woods or an airport
(00:22:36) Gotta see a guy about a thing
(00:25:44) Life's weird coincidences... or AR...
2024-03-08 15:01:32 +0000 UTC
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Games! FF7 Rebirth, Skull & Bones, Helskate, Balatro, Helldivers and more. News! The Nintendo/Yuzu settlement, Respawn's Star Wars cancellation, the Halo composer's congressional run, and a hypothetical Chrono Trigger remake (??). Also fleas! And humidity! It's a podcast!
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2024-03-07 01:40:40 +0000 UTC
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Rambled about this week: maintaining household harmony through better chore planning, movies that scarred us as kids, breaking the back of the deli-meat industrial complex, some nostalgia for the mid-aughts, and other exciting topics!
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:27) Eating before podcasts?!
(00:03:03) Grocery shopping amirite
(00:12:15) Household chores, household harmony
(00:21:05) Clear your surfaces!
(00:26:07) Coming soon, Movies Th...
2024-03-05 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Rambled about this week: maintaining household harmony through better chore planning, movies that scarred us as kids, breaking the back of the deli-meat industrial complex, some nostalgia for the mid-aughts, and other exciting topics!
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:27) Eating before podcasts?!
(00:03:03) Grocery shopping amirite
(00:12:15) Household chores, household harmony
(00:21:05) Clear your surfaces!
(00:26:07) Coming soon, Movies Th...
2024-03-05 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Our journey through '90s hero flicks kicks off in earnest this week, and we do mean earnest, as we take on Disney's gee-golly-aw-shucks adaptation of The Rocketeer!
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(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 82: The Rocketeer (1991)
(00:00:17) - Intro.
(00:03:09) - Introducing our film for the week: The Rocketeer!
(00:12:46) - When we saw The Rockete...
2024-03-04 22:41:00 +0000 UTC
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Depending on how much time we have left after Heart of Darkness on Thursday, Brad and I are hoping to get into some more PlayStation games. If there's anything you'd like to see, leave a comment below with the game and maybe we'll check it out! I don't really know the PlayStation catalog super well, so introduce me to the weird stuff.
--Vinny
2024-03-04 22:14:30 +0000 UTC
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The first of the month means a lot of things, but since the start of 2024 it has meant trying to stick to my monthly “chores” schedule. For me that means things like: Sharpening kitchen knives, mopping the floors, changing the filters on the fish tank, deep cleaning the bathrooms…etc. My wife has such fun items as cleaning the stove top and drip trays, washing the dog’s blankets, and cleaning the gasket in the laundry machine. She’s much better at hitting everything than I am. Where...
2024-03-04 19:33:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Been a while since I've done one of these, but with Twin Peaks on ice for a little bit, we're back to doing movies over on the ol' Watchcast, and as such it's time for me to tell you what we've got coming up in the month of March.
And what we're going to be doing is pivoting off of the movie choices Brad and Vinny made to round out February. Hot on the heels of 2024-03-01 17:13:44 +0000 UTC
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YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8WyTg-1gYQ
[The WWE parts had to be edited or the entire video is blocked. Madness]
[EDIT 2023-03-12: WWE lifted the block so I've restored the link back to the original YT video]
Dragon's Dogma II looms large as we approach the end of Q1, but other surprising contenders for our time emerge this month, like Pepper Grinder (indie Dig Dug with a grappli...
2024-03-01 15:20:33 +0000 UTC
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Dragon's Dogma II looms large as we approach the end of Q1, but other surprising contenders for our time emerge this month, like Pepper Grinder (indie Dig Dug with a grappling hook), Millennia (a Paradox 4x), Lightyear Frontier (space farming with mechs?), and more. Listen in as we plan about all this stuff!
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:01:22) Our games of March!
(00:01:35) Horizon Forbidden West [PC (Microsoft Windows)] on Mar 21, 2024
(00:03:23) Hi-Fi ...
2024-03-01 15:20:20 +0000 UTC
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Brad has played an astonishing amount of Final Fantasy this week, and it's time to talk for like an hour about Remake, Rebirth, Crisis Core, and a bunch of other stuff. Plus: updates on Pacific Drive, Balatro, Infinite Wealth's Animal Crossing thing, PlayStation layoffs and the closure of London Studio, and more.
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2024-02-29 01:59:57 +0000 UTC
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Look, we're in kind of a golden age of fantastic multiplayer games, and it just happens that we really want to play more of all the ones we've been streaming lately. So this month's thank-you stream might be the truest choice we've presented so far, since you've seen us play all of these and thus have a good idea of which one you'd most like to see more of (and we'll seek out the appropriate guests for the four-player ones). Vote and let us know!
- The work of spreading liberty to t...
2024-02-27 20:41:34 +0000 UTC
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This week's ramble covers subjects such as: the satisfaction of installing your own gutters, how to politely dump your contractor, what to do when your new cat arrives with some friends, organizing your PC build parts, and the sheer terror of streaming without realizing it.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:14) Gotta be careful with those stream buttons!
(00:05:02) Zeke brought some friends with him
(00:09:43) DRUM PAD DOWN
(00:12:57) Time for a...
2024-02-27 20:22:47 +0000 UTC
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This week's ramble covers subjects such as: the satisfaction of installing your own gutters, how to politely dump your contractor, what to do when your new cat arrives with some friends, organizing your PC build parts, and the sheer terror of streaming without realizing it.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:14) Gotta be careful with those stream buttons!
(00:05:02) Zeke brought some friends with him
(00:09:43) DRUM PAD DOWN
(00:12:57) Time for a...
2024-02-27 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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We're closing out February with a Vinny pick, and one of the most delightfully weird and gross hero movies of the '90s in Sam Raimi's not-quite-a-Batman, Darkman!
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(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 81: Darkman (1990)
(00:00:19) - Intro.
(00:09:03) - Getting into Darkman's production, and the cast.
(00:20:40) - The direct-to-video sequel...
2024-02-26 22:54:38 +0000 UTC
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With a good, productive weekend the gutters are installed on the garage. Now, I’m running out of additional projects I can use to stall me from the bigger decisions I have to make before I move my whole office there. You can hear me go into it on this week’s Ramblecast! On Monday, Alex and I are hopefully wrapping up the cliffhanger of story stuff we left dangling last time in Cyberpunk 2077. On Thursday, I was thinking of checking out that CD-I inspired Arzette game, though I also was in...
2024-02-26 19:51:28 +0000 UTC
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On this month's live Q&A, your questions prompted us to talk about we'd do with our power if we ruled the world, some stuff about our video metrics and workflow, how we might approach voice acting offers, Alien knock-offs, superior french fries, and other stuff!
2024-02-23 03:14:26 +0000 UTC
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This week we discuss at great length: our strategically tactically strategic Helldivers play, like four different versions of Final Fantasy VII, the full release of Balatro, Enshrouded, the newest details on multiplatform Xbox games (and maybe a new Xbox?!), the rules and requirements for eating a whole pizza, and a bunch more!
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2024-02-22 00:58:23 +0000 UTC
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It's new cat day in the Navarro house, and after we get through the kitten onboarding process, we get derailed by the advent of working AI video and its many implications for most of this week's episode.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:23) Kitten onboarding materials available from HR
(00:07:39) The AI video nightmare is upon us
(00:14:12) Now we need AI to identify other AI
(00:25:06) The text web is almost useless now
(00:2...
2024-02-20 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It's new cat day in the Navarro house, and after we get through the kitten onboarding process, we get derailed by the advent of working AI video and its many implications for most of this week's episode.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:23) Kitten onboarding materials available from HR
(00:07:39) The AI video nightmare is upon us
(00:14:12) Now we need AI to identify other AI
(00:25:06) The text web is almost useless now
(00:29:48) Let's jus...
2024-02-20 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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I finished the demo for Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, at least the demo as it stands now, and that just led me to watching recaps of Remake and Crisis Core. I think I’m pretty caught up on what I should and should not understand… There’s a lot I think we’re NOT supposed to understand. I’m excited to jump back into Cyberpunk on Monday, Pacific Drive on Thursday, and (possibly) Helldivers 2 on Friday! An exciting week! Brad will also be streaming on Thursday, so keep an eye out for that. ...
2024-02-19 19:51:17 +0000 UTC
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To round out the month of February, Brad and Vinny have each picked a film they most wanted to revisit for the podcast, and Brad's pick is the colorfully outsized comic strip adaptation Dick Tracy! Join us as we discuss Tommy Guns, Pacino's scenery chewing habits, and Warren Beatty's extracurricular activities wearing the trademark hat and coat.
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(00:00:00) - The...
2024-02-19 19:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Dan Ryckert and Abby Russell join us to dive into our most hated movies, the ones that will get us in trouble, and the ones we didn't even know existed!
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(00:00:07) Intro
(00:00:38) Dan's going to ship wrestling lingo with his waifu
(00:10:42) Abby, how are you doing?
(00:14:18) Competitive Puzzles. Competitive Everything.
(00:17:04) We all love Casey and Tenet here, right?
(00:19:10) The movie you really hate
(00:25:...
2024-02-16 15:38:28 +0000 UTC
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Helldivers 2 is so good that it was tough not to stop this podcast and go play more of it, but we also managed to talk about demos for FF7 Rebirth and some Steam Next Fest fare like Balatro and Normal Fishing, Disney's $1.5 billion deal with Epic, the future of both PlayStation and Xbox, and more!
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2024-02-15 02:03:51 +0000 UTC
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It's the day after another Super Bowl, and this year we mostly talk about the actual football?! But there's also plenty of rambling about overindulging on snacks, streakers, data collection in broadcast TV, and why you should always, always wear your gloves.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:51) The Super Bowl has inflicted itself upon us again
(00:07:25) Broadcast TV ain't what it used to be
(00:14:15) That game got pretty wild, huh
(00:20:36) ...
2024-02-13 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It's the day after another Super Bowl, and this year we mostly talk about the actual football?! But there's also plenty of rambling about overindulging on snacks, streakers, data collection in broadcast TV, and why you should always, always wear your gloves.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:51) The Super Bowl has inflicted itself upon us again
(00:07:25) Broadcast TV ain't what it used to be
(00:14:15) That game got pretty wild, huh
(00:20:36) ...
2024-02-13 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
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This is it, folks. We have arrived at the Black Lodge, and the finale of Twin Peaks' second season. It's been a hell of a journey up to this point, but please do join us one more time as we gather under the sycamores and piece together the wild events of the original series' final two episodes.
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(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 79: Twin Peaks: Miss T...
2024-02-12 22:29:24 +0000 UTC
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