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Monthly Planorama 015: August 2022

OK, now we're getting somewhere. The month of Madden is here, traditionally signaling the start of Fall and the release of games. Tune in as we plan around the new Saints Row, Cult of the Lamb, the latest Apex Legends season, Midnight Fight Express, maybe Earth Defense Force probably not but maybe, Rocket League except golf, and more!

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(00:01:30) Sea of Thieves: Season 7 [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One] on Aug 04, 202...

The Nextlander Podcast 061: Raiding Tombs and Loving It

We're getting retro this week with the Star Fox-esque Ex-Zodiac, plus Brad tumbling down the old (virtual) computer rabbit hole with 86Box. Also, the new Hitman map, more Elden Ring, rumors about the next Tomb Raider, AEW's THQ publishing deal, inside casino info, tips on winning the lottery, and more!

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(00:01:01) Anybody out there win the lotto?
(00:15:23) Show Rundown
(00:15:50) Ex-Zodiac [PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Linux] on ...

Weekly Ramblecast 060: Horatio T. Basement: The Video

(Looks like the video posts are working again! Hurray!)

Ancient hotel receipts, subterranean dampness, the lifetime sandwich bait-and-switch, long lost Giant Bomb memorabilia, questionable stage parenting, and drop ceilings are just some of the topics you'll hear rambled about on this week's show.

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00:00:08 Intro

00:01:07 The thing about basements

00:08:00 Parental responsibility when the kids want to go on stage

Weekly Ramblecast 060: Horatio T. Basement

Ancient hotel receipts, subterranean dampness, the lifetime sandwich bait-and-switch, long lost Giant Bomb memorabilia, questionable stage parenting, and drop ceilings are just some of the topics you'll hear rambled about on this week's show.

The Patreon video post form seems to be broken at the moment, but you can also access the video version of this ep here.

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Schedule for the Week of 08/01/2022

Hello August! While we wait for some games to drop this month, including Saints Row, Immortality, and Rollerdrome, I’m going to continue working through Elden Ring. That game will just eat hours like nobody’s business. Devours hours. Dev-hours… anyway. We’ve got our Patron Choice stream going on this week, along with a big old chunk of Mass Effect: Andromeda as we try to wrap it all up. Will it happen? Your guess is as good as ours… maybe even better! If we survive that, we’ll als...

The Nextlander Watchcast 005: The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Our patrons voted, and for the month of August they wanted to see us tackle some classics of the submarine genre. We're joined by noted sub expert Drew Scanlon as we kick things off with one that's been on Brad's cinematic bucket list for decades in The Hunt for Red October!

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Watchcast Schedule for August 2022

Hey, everyone! Alex here. Hope you're having yourself a good weekend. We've got our first month of the Nextlander Watchcast in the books, and we've got a full schedule ready for August. Here's all the movies and Star Trek episodes we'll be watching over the next several weeks.

August 1st: The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Our Missi...

Patron Q&A 013: July 2022

Question time is here again, and this month we covered everything from video game scandals to snare drums, the great Grimace NFT swindle, exiting loudly, childhood vacations, PlayStation mascots, Joey the Knife, Henry Rollins, and more!

The Nextlander Friday-ish Thank You: July 2022

The July thank-you stream has come at last, but this time it will fall on a... Monday. Unprecedented! Hey, Mondays are just as good as Fridays, right? ...Right? We could all use a little extra fun on a Monday, and we ask you to deem one of these choices the most funnest of all.

Also, if you have specific requests for thank-you stream ideas, or you're just disgusted by the choices we keep offering, feel free to hit us up on Discord or a PM here on Patreon and we'll consider adding them t...

The Nextlander Podcast 060: My Head Is Bubbling!

This week we finish Stray, catch up on Horizon and Elden Ring, and dominate the MultiVersus launch, sift through details about PlayStation VR 2, Grand Theft Auto 6, and yet more game delays, teach Vinny's children to gamble, think about what NOT to do with a big old air conditioner, and more!

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Weekly Ramblecast 059: Everybody's Business: The Video

On this week's ramble we mull over good and bad business names, introduce Vinny to Groverhaus, discuss the establishing of detente with spiders, weigh the merits of corporate tattooing and free sandwiches, compare bar-tipping strategies, and more!

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00:00:07 Intro

00:00:39 Paging Dr. Matt Rorie?

00:01:15 August will always be the hot month in my heart

00:02:51 I do send Alex links to AC units frequently

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Weekly Ramblecast 059: Everybody's Business

On this week's ramble we mull over good and bad business names, introduce Vinny to Groverhaus, discuss the establishing of detente with spiders, weigh the merits of corporate tattooing and free sandwiches, compare bar-tipping strategies, and more!

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(00:00:39) Paging Dr. Matt Rorie?
(00:01:15) August will always be the hot month in my heart
(00:02:51) I do send Alex links to AC units frequently
(00:07:14) No Body's Business or E...

Schedule for the Week of 07/25/2022

I did it, I’m back on that Elden Ring. I’ve wandered the world and am ready to report back my findings. We’ll be chatting about it on the podcast this week, along with some other games that are both new and old. If you missed our initial boot up of that Star Trek 25th Anniversary game, well, good news! We’re jumping back in, so join the crew and get ready to watch us make terrible decisions with deadly consequences. We’ll be continuing our adventures in space later in the week with ...

The Nextlander Watchcast 004: Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before and The Naked Time

It's time to return to our Star Trek watching ways to check out the wildly dramatic pilot episode Where No Man Has Gone Before, and the just plain wild episode (and Vinny's current favorite) The Naked Time!

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Nextlander Watchcast August Movie Poll!

Greetings, Nextlanders! It's your good friend and movie curator Alex, and I'm here to ask you--the viewer!--which movies you'd like us to watch for the month of August. There are FIVE, count 'em, FIVE Mondays in August, which means that we'll be doing two Star Trek episodes, and three movie episodes. Since we had a few different ideas for what those movies could be, we've decided to let our Mission Control and Mysterious Benefactor patrons vote for what they'd like to see us, uh, see! Here ar...

The Nextlander Podcast 059: Professional Cat Owners

Abby Russell is here to fill in for our dear Bradley on his day off, and chat with us about games like Stray, As Dusk Falls, and of course, the latest Sims 4 expansion!

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Weekly Ramblecast 058: Gas, Grass, or NAS: The Video

This week's episode is pretty much all about mass retail and mass storage. Whether you're looking for a pool float shaped like a weed leaf, or trying to improve your dollars-per-terabyte ratio, this one's for you!

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00:00:07 Intro

00:00:30 Only the Hot(test) Topics

00:08:16 Spencer Gifts

00:10:46 A trip to memory mall

00:14:42 Outlet malls

00:15:42 Marshalls is everywhere?

00:17:38 First day of school...

Weekly Ramblecast 058: Gas, Grass, or NAS

This week's episode is pretty much all about mass retail and mass storage. Whether you're looking for a pool float shaped like a weed leaf, or trying to improve your dollars-per-terabyte ratio, this one's for you!

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(00:00:07) Intro
(00:00:30) Only the Hot(test) Topics
(00:08:16) Spencer Gifts
(00:10:47) A trip to memory mall
(00:14:43) Outlet malls
(00:15:43) Marshalls is everywhere?
(00:17:39) First day of school fashion time!
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Schedule for the Week of 07/18/2022

Do you like cats? Do you like making bad choices and ruining lives? Do you like merch?! Well, if you answered yes to any of those questions we’ve got you covered this week. We’ll be talking about Stray and As Dusk Falls this week on the podcast, and we’ve got our first batch of merch ready to go! Come watch some early As Dusk Falls on Monday to see what it’s all about. I’m kind of into what it’s doing so far. We’ll also be returning to both Mass Effect: Andromeda and Gabriel Kni...

Merch Discount for Mission Control and Mysterious Benefactor Patrons!

Hello! This is a very special post for our Mission Control and Mysterious Benefactor patrons to get their discount link to the official Nextlander merch store! Click here to get your discount! 

The Nextlander Merch Store Is Now Live!

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Greetings, Nextlanders!

Boy, it's been a wild last several weeks, hasn't it? If you'll indulge me on a brief walk down memory lane, perhaps you recall back in late May when we announced a whole host of new things going on around here at Nextlander. So far we've launched just about all those things, including The Nextlander Watchcast and Never Been...

The Nextlander Watchcast 003: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

The aliens have arrived, and so has The Nextlander Watchcast! Join Alex, Brad, and Vinny as they experience Steven Spielberg's extraterrestrial extravaganza and ponder the big questions about life, space, and what ever became of Roy Neary's poor family.

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The Nextlander Podcast 058: zach pls

It's a news-y kind of week as we ponder a single-player Apex Legends game, 2022 video game release dates, Peter Weller's totally-still-serviceable Robocop, and E3's future under ReedPop. Also, games such as Matchpoint: Tennis Championships, Cuphead, Horizon, Last Call BBS, and Vampire Survivors, plus two whole emails, one of which features the son of Mel Blanc!

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Weekly Ramblecast 057: Welcome to Fudfacts! The Video

This week we marvel at all that is (via the output of the James Webb telescope), wonder if Vinny's hamburger brain is OK, reminisce about the amateur boxing career of Hurricane Navarro, experience the long overdue streaming service schism, and more!

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00:00:07 Intro

00:01:41 A story of BBQ and space-time

00:06:53 Do they have your number?

00:09:57 Oh yes, they have your number

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Weekly Ramblecast 057: Welcome to Fudfacts!

This week we marvel at all that is (via the output of the James Webb telescope), wonder if Vinny's hamburger brain is OK, reminisce about the amateur boxing career of Hurricane Navarro, experience the long overdue streaming service schism, and more!

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(00:00:07) Intro
(00:01:41) A story of BBQ and space-time
(00:06:54) Do they have your number?
(00:09:58) Oh yes, they have your number
(00:13:16) A Humdinger of a journey
(00:18:19) Fud... Fact...

Monthly Planorama 014: July 2022: The Video

Somehow we're halfway through the year already, but hopefully not halfway through the games yet. July sees a few notable releases like Stray, Forza Horizon 5's Hot Wheels DLC, As Dusk Falls, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3, plus we think about Bill & Ted a lot, get ready to Socialize, and look forward to what games of August and September there are to look forward to!

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Monthly Planorama 014: July 2022

Somehow we're halfway through the year already, but hopefully not halfway through the games yet. July sees a few notable releases like Stray, Forza Horizon 5's Hot Wheels DLC, As Dusk Falls, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3, plus we think about Bill & Ted a lot, get ready to Socialize, and look forward to what games of August and September there are to look forward to!

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Schedule for the Week of 07/11/2022

We’ve got everyone back and we’re ready to go starting with some Alex-y Quest and this month’s Planorama. We’ve also got The Watchcast heading to an RSS feed near you, so look out for that. Currently JAWS is out there for everyone and Star Trek is hitting some of the Patreon tiers this week. Speaking of Star Trek, we’ll be playing some on Thursday with Star Trek: 25th Anniversary on the PC. Abby returns this Friday to continue Gabriel Knight 2 and of course there’s always The Ramb...

The Nextlander Watchcast 002: Star Trek: The Man Trap and Charlie X

It's time for the Nextlander gang to begin their five year (if they're lucky) journey into their first series rewatch in Star Trek: The Original Series. We kick things off with a pair of episodes about lonely beings with terrifying powers.

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Never Been a Better Podcast 002: Balls Deep in the Space Elevator

We're joined by Abby Russell and Jeff Bakalar to talk all sorts of vehicles, space elevators, and the current status of Moonstruck.

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00:00:07 Intro

00:01:43 Introducing the folks (though some info might already be out of date)

00:03:07 Closets

00:05:50 Bakalar shares most of a story

00:07:53 Getting around LA and health insurance

00:11:02 Motorcycles versus cars

00:13:40 This place doesn't SEEM like the safes...