Best Timothy Simpson Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 186 - Chris Simpson 1:15:25

7d ago1:15:25

1:15:25

Going back to school to study World Religions just seemed like the right thing to do for Chris Simpson, the hugely talented solo artist operating under Mountain Time and formerly of the bands Mineral and later The Gloria Record. Minerals influence and impact from the late 90's cannot be overstated from their albums the Power of Failing and then End…

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Episode 185 - Gerald Dowd 1:47:55

23d ago1:47:55

1:47:55

Gerald Dowd is the rare working musician who is actually making his living directly from his drumming gigs with an extremely wide range of musicians, from Eddie Vedder to Mavis Staples to Robbie Fulks to Neko Case to Justin Roberts, not to mention fantastic players that you may not have heard or be aware of. In addition, he's a songwriter of the fi…

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Episode 184 - Blake Fleming 1:33:48

1M ago1:33:48

1:33:48

After 13 years of teaching percussion as an adjunct faculty member at a nearby college in upstate New York, Blake Fleming was unceremoniously let go, common with many colleges and shrinking enrollment that is plaguing the academic world. But the loss of this relatively low-paying gig was a blessing of sorts for Blake, a ground breaking drummer who …

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Episode 183 - Brandon Butler 1:35:45

2M ago1:35:45

1:35:45

When the highly respected label The Numero Group approached Brandon Butler, the voice and heart of KC heart throbs Boy's Life, about doing a retrospective of his influential band, his initial thought might've been there's not enough material to reissue, considering they only released 2 full lenths in their short tenure. What he hadn't considered wa…

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Timothy Dalton's James Bond: The Living Daylights & Licence to Kill (with Jason Baxter) 1:07:54

2M ago1:07:54

1:07:54

Can a star of one of film's biggest franchises get memory holed? Jason Baxter returns on a not so secret mission to revive awareness for the James Bond films starring Timothy Dalton: 1987's The Living Daylights & 1989's Licence to Kill. We dive into the influential seriousness Dalton brought to the role, banger theme songs by A-ha and Gladys Knight…

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Episode 182 - Eric Abert 1:37:21

2M ago1:37:21

1:37:21

In September of 2020, deep into a pandemic that seemingly had no end in sight, Life and Times bassist Eric Abert made a big decision to move from the place he'd called home for most of a decade, Chicago, and to move back to Collinsville IL outside of St Louis. It wasn't for nothing; in fact it was for a lot of reasons. He and his new bride wanted s…

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Episode 181 - Coley Dennis 1:26:13

3M ago1:26:13

1:26:13

Guitarist Coley Dennis is the heartbeat of his band Maserati since their inception in very early 00's and continues to be that even when they have to play live and tour without him. It would appear almost like a franchise to the uninitiated until you realize how connected this band is and has been over the years, slowly growing their Athens/ATL fan…

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Episode 180 - Timothy Showalter 1:42:07

4M ago1:42:07

1:42:07

In 2021, in full pandemic tilt, Timothy Showalter aka Strand Of Oaks, released a brilliant record in the vein of much of his stratospheric catalog called In Heaven (Dead Oceans) but decided not to tour on it, because that's what you didn't do during those heavy days; tour. Instead, he shut it all down. Stopped strumming and humming and stopped chec…

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Episode 179 - Aaron Stone 1:17:49

5M ago1:17:49

1:17:49

As the frontman, face and heartbeat of his band My Epic, singer/guitarist Aaron Stone started his rock band long before he ever imagined having and wife and now 4 year old child and would never have believed his band would still be making music. in fact they're making music on a killer label, Tooth and Nail Records, with their newest LP Loriella du…

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Episode 178 - Steve Lamos 1:19:45

6M ago1:19:45

1:19:45

U of I in Champaign / Urbana in the 90's was typical of many satelite college towns to big cities with a happening urban center, dive bars and house parties for the indie scene to procreate within. Drummer Steve Lamos' band American Football was one of the bands within that scene that made a record for Polyvinyl Records, played a few shows then bro…

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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (with Jason Baxter) 1:22:28

6M ago1:22:28

1:22:28

May the 4th be with you! With Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary, Jason Baxter returns to defend one of the most openly hated movies in cinema history. We go deep on epic scenes like the podrace (non-war action!) and Duel of the Fates, the whole point of a plot centered around political points l…

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Episode 177 - Chris Enriquez 1:14:11

7M ago1:14:11

1:14:11

Somewhere in the late 00's, drummer Chris Enriquez felt the familiar and invetible societal pull of many artists to finally "get a real job" after over a decade with his bands On The Might Of Princes, Long Island hardcore/emo heros, and Gracer after Princes disbanded. He left it behind and began working as a brand rep for PBR at a time when that br…

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The Postman (with Brennon Poynor - Live at Treefort Fest) 45:43

7M ago45:43

45:43

Much like this episode's titular charachter, the podcast trekked across the Pacific Northwest to deliver a live episode of the podcast from Treefort Fest in Boise. Brennon Poynor joins the show to take up arms for Kevin Costner's 1997 post-apocalyptic Western, The Postman. We dive into the film's cautionary epic scope, Waterworld backlash, Will Pat…

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Episode 176 - Conan Neutron 1:27:49

7M ago1:27:49

1:27:49

There was a point maybe 10 years ago give or take, in which bandleader, frontman, guitarist, singer songwriter, podcaster and outsized personality Conan Neutron had a reckoning or awakening of sorts in regards to his bands and the dynamic within, which had taken a not-good turn. The Conan Neutron of today reflects on those regrets and missed opport…

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Blackhat (with Jason Baxter) 1:01:31

8M ago1:01:31

1:01:31

I know this might be hard to believe, but Thor battling against people manipulating the soy futures market from behind a keyboard didn't get butts in theatrical seats back in 2015. That's right, another episode about a hacking movie! This time known Michael Mann stan Jason Baxter returns to defend the director's action cyber thriller starring Chris…

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Episode 175 - AC Paterra 1:22:09

8M ago1:22:09

1:22:09

Deep into the pandemic, drummer AC Paterra and his musical partner in Zombi, bassist-keyboardist Steve Moore also went deep; deep into the sounds and songs that created who they have become today as a pillar of Relapse Records, a label often associated with noisy artists. However the songs that moved AC and Steve over these covid days were the yach…

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La La Land (with Nic Sommerfeld and Sean Owens) 1:48:09

8M ago1:48:09

1:48:09

It's Oscars week and Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are both up for big awards (and should win) for Poor Things and Barbie. But we're not here to talk about those movies. Instead Nic and Sean come on to tear apart the duo's 2016 Oscar-winning Damien Chazzelle romantic musical, La La Land. We go deep into how their dazzling chemistry stands in for actu…

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Episode 174 - Tristan Shone 1:20:11

8M ago1:20:11

1:20:11

Putting a band together for a younger Tristan Shone 20 years ago was not as easy as he thought it might be, so he used his knowledge of mechanical engineering and sense of tenacious autonomy to create his own instruments that would allow him to make live music on his own; Music without the use of traditional instruments like guitars and drums and b…

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Episode 173 - Tim Kasher - Live at Fitzgerald's 1:11:34

9M ago1:11:34

1:11:34

Singer/songwriter/frontman Tim Kasher has been such a prolic maker of music over the past 25+ years with his bands Cursive and The Good Life and his solo records as his vehicles and conduits of creativity, so busy in fact that he has released a new album almost every year since 2000. Tim traveled from Los Angles to Chicago on Wednesday January 31st…

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Episode 172 - Jordan Zadorozny Pt Deux 1:19:48

10M ago1:19:48

1:19:48

Multi-instrumentalist/producer/mixer Jordan Zadorozny created his one man band Blinker the Star in the mid 90's and made a huge splash with his 2nd album August Everywhere with Ken Andrews (Failure) behind the mixer. 28 years and 12 full length albums later JZ has released Animal Math (self-released), a highly enjoyable, forward-leaning and ambitio…

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Episode 171 - Jay Ryan 1:32:33

10M ago1:32:33

1:32:33

Artist and musician Jay Ryan remembers the moment that he began to create the animal-based characters that inhabit his hand-printed concert and event posters that have become ubiquitous in the rock world; he was just out of college at U of I in Champaign and was bogging down and unable to finish a painting because of undiagnosed ADHD, so he began t…

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Episode 170 - AE Holiday Wrap-Up Of 2023!! 25:49

11M ago25:49

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Episode 170 of Third Gear Scratch, in which our hero, Alien Epilepsy waxes and wanes about this year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty Three. It's been a year of triumphs and struggles which has seen AE release his first and only solo record 'Everything' (Spartan) and tour on it, create a new record with his band Shiner, their 6th, tour with his…

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The Simpsons: Seasons 9-13 (with Spike Friedman and Jason Baxter) 1:01:09

11M ago1:01:09

1:01:09

Everything's coming up podcast! While The Simpsons is an American animated TV institution, the ultra-long running season usually only gets praised for it's early-to-mid '90s seasons. For this episode, Spike Friedman and Jason Baxter swing into Springfield and defend the show's late '90s/early '00s tween years. We deep dive into conversations about …

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Episode 169 - Eugene S Robinson 1:01:21

11M ago1:01:21

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Being a body-builder and MMA fighter, Eugene S Robinson was a bit of an anomoly as the charismatic front man for the band he founded OXBOW, and before that in Whipping Boy, a more traditional punk rock outfit in the early 80's. It's in his new book, A Walk Across Dirty Waters and Straight Into Murderer's Row: A Memoir (Feral House) that we learn ho…

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Episode 168 - Rob Zabrecky 1:31:48

12M ago1:31:48

1:31:48

In 1993, Rob Zabrecky was certain he'd seen his future and that future was as a rockstar and frontman for local LA rockers Possum Dixon, his band that had just been signed to Interscope Records for a 3 record deal. But life is complicated. Indeed they had, by all accounts, a pretty great career as an "alternative" band with big tours and big produc…

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Episode 167 - Greg Suran Revisited (orig Aug 9, 2019) 1:45:43

1y ago1:45:43

1:45:43

This is a pre-pandemic revisit to a previous episode from Aug 9, 2019 in which touring and session guitarist Greg Suran visited the TGS studios to talk about his globe-trotting experiences playing in his own Chicago-based band Cupcakes and BlueManGroup before joining The B-52's in which he still enjoys frequent gigs. He later joined Sunny Day Real …

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Episode 166 - Tony Higbee 1:35:11

1y ago1:35:11

1:35:11

The 18 year old version of a now grown Tony Higbee would surely be pinching himself for who he shares stages with these days. As a highschool rocker from tiny Monmouth IL, he was a bass player and had evolved into a serviceable chording guitarist in college. It wasn't until he began writing songs in Atlanta with his band Simple Sick Device in the e…

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Episode 165 - Jeffrey Babko 1:35:49

1y ago1:35:49

1:35:49

When this episode was recorded, the writers and actors strikes were both still going strong with no end in sight, so resident keyboardist for the Jimmy Kimmell Show, Jeff Babko, was able to find time in his normally very busy schedule to rap with me. In fact, the Kimmell show is just a piece of his crowded schedule, which includes being the touring…

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Episode 164 - Ryan Patterson 1:27:27

1y ago1:27:27

1:27:27

When heavier-than-anything Louisville band Coliseum began to sense their time together was coming to a close around 2015, band leader and seed-writer Ryan Patterson started to get some glimpses of his next move but was struggling to find his voice within that sylistic change. It was a move from guitar-bass-drums based pummeling into synth-synth-bas…

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Episode 163 - Salvation's Jason Sipe and Victor Riley 1:07:31

1y ago1:07:31

1:07:31

Jason Sipe and Victor Riley of Chicago's own Salvation make a particularly powerful and vicious form of music that many might assume descends from grunge music of the 90's. On the surface perhaps, but this mighty trio, with the help of Mr Mike Lust, a prodigious producer (Urge Overkill, William Elliot Whitmore, everybody in Chicago) and two-time TG…

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Episode 162 - Ryan Raddatz 1:35:09

1y ago1:35:09

1:35:09

Writer / actor Ryan Raddatz has spent the last 20 years in LA carving out a career in TV and film, first briefly as an actor, before realizing that writing was his true calling. He spent years writing on show for CBS like the recent reboot of The Odd Couple and The Neighborhood with Cedric The Entertainer and dozens more that may or may not ever ge…

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Episode 161 - Niko Wenner 1:24:29

1+ y ago1:24:29

1:24:29

Guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Niko Wenner has been seeing life through a very different lens since the pre and post pandemic years brought him loss and big gains; his father died and went through a job change and saw some very tough times. But it also brought him a newborn child, his daughter, now almost 3 and has changed how he sees the worl…

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Episode 160 - Jason Gagovski 1:29:47

1+ y ago1:29:47

1:29:47

In it's infancy, drummer Jason Gagovski's band Sweet Cobra, was always a 4 piece unit; a giant, crushing, throbbing and roaring missive of urgent importance. The move from 4 to 3 piece however was not their decision, as Matt Arluck had cancer that ultimately took his life, leaving them at a loss for a moment until deciding to move forward as a trio…

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Episode 159 - Laurent Schroeder-Lebec 1:18:31

1+ y ago1:18:31

1:18:31

Laurent Schroeder-Lebec's love of heavy, ground-breaking, earth-shaking music is well established by his band Pelican and their diverse discography over the past 20 years. But somewhere around 2012 LSL began to feel the tug of a different calling; starting a family and supporting that family to the best of his ability, and that included becoming be…

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Episode 158 - Jim Hanke 1:08:44

1+ y ago1:08:44

1:08:44

When Vinyl Emergency podcaster Jim Hanke was in school at UW Milwaukee with a double major in Communications and Journalism, he probably never dreamed that one of his future endeavors would be an answer to a question on the famous game show Jeopary. But that's what happened with Biscuits and Jam, a podcast he was producing for Southern Living Magaz…

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The Dark Knight Returns ＞ Watchmen (with Jason Baxter) 56:46

1+ y ago56:46

56:46

After a Marvel diversion, we dive deep into actual DC comics (our first comic book ep!). 1986 saw the release of two monumental genre-defining works: Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. While both are considered classics, Watchmen is granted more respect and is even considered one of the greatest novels of all time by many top-tier publications. …

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Episode 157 - Travis Talbert 1:13:11

1+ y ago1:13:11

1:13:11

Travis Talbert has made the music biz his living, or maybe it's the music that made him do it. He's a touring and session pedal steel player and guitarist for other touring artists like Arlo McKinley but has also busied himself with his band Frontier Folk Nebraska and now more recently with his solo music as Mavis Guitar. He's been releasing music …

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MCU’s Spider-Man Trilogy (with Jason Baxter) 1:25:16

1+ y ago1:25:16

1:25:16

Happy Across the Spider-Verse Day! To celebrate, here's the second installment of Jason Baxter and I taking turns taking shots at cinematic Spider-Man trilogies. This time Jason traps the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man films in his web and sucks their blood dry. We discuss the lack of ties to Spidey's comic origins, why the character works …

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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy 1:15:46

1+ y ago1:15:46

1:15:46

Your friendly neighborhood podcast swings in to talk about Spider-Man before the release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. But we're being villainous. Over the next two episodes, Jason Baxter and I will take turns taking shots at the beloved Spider-Man film franchises. First up, I lay out my problems with the Sam Raimi-directed 2000s trilogy.…

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Episode 156 - Chris Neville 1:02:11

1+ y ago1:02:11

1:02:11

Chris Neville is a busy man; As the core member and founder of Tributosaurus, a collection of session killers from Chicago that regularly honor a certain artist or band with sold-out highly perfected tribute concerts featuring almost granular details of that artists recordings (i.e. 6 people to play a proper Rush concert), as a composer for a huge …

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Episode 155 - Tim Rutili 1:14:43

1+ y ago1:14:43

1:14:43

Tim Rutili is not only from the influential and highly regarded art folk skronk rock band Califone, he in fact is that band. Certainly not to say he's not the only person who makes Califone Califone, indeed that band is more like a collective, often made of 15 humans or more for any given record, and it continues to involve many of the same talente…

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Episode 154 - Gabe Larson 1:16:48

1+ y ago1:16:48

1:16:48

Gabe Larson was actually closer to his maternal grandfather than his paternal grandfather, Waldemar or Wally, the one he named his band after and most likely the man from whom he inherited a bit of his sadness and ennui. And it's this general bout with depression that plays a central role on his new album called Ruthless (Self-Released), an expansv…

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The Ten (with Alyson McManus) 59:12

1+ y ago59:12

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This podcast is not a goof! Alyson McManus returns to the pod to smite those who spoke hearsay against David Wain's 2007 star-studded but little-seen 10 Commandments anthology comedy film, The Ten. We dive into the over-the-top absurdity, in-joke quotes, Winona Ryder lusting after a literal dummy, Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions, the true meaning…

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Episode 153 - Jerry A Lang 1:07:47

1+ y ago1:07:47

1:07:47

The idea to rerelease a remixed version of The Badge, a notoriously anti-cop song, from Jerry A Lang's highly influential punkrock band Poison Idea's 3rd album Feel The Darkness (Vinyl Solutions/American Leather) was not exactly his. In this chat it becomes clear how a current Portland police officer approached him and the idea was hatched. In the …

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Batman & Robin (with Kurtis Mayo of Skating Polly - Live from Treefort Fest) 45:31

1+ y ago45:31

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Holy live pod episode, Batman! Kurtis from Skating Polly emerges from the Batcave to defend the loathed 1997 Joel Schumacher superhero blockbuster Batman & Robin. In this condensed episode recorded in front of an actual audience at Treefort Fest, we dive into the film's pricey production design, Batsuits with nipples, how many ice puns a human can …

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Episode 152 - Sarah and Mario Quintero 1:10:51

1+ y ago1:10:51

1:10:51

Both Sarah and Mario Quintero of the post-everything band Spotlights have been guests on TGS previously, but never at the same time. It is clear that regardless of the music that they make together, beautifully crushing songs that push sonic boundaries with every release, these two are best friends and would be together even without this music. The…

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Episode 151 - Santi Garcia 1:19:31

1+ y ago1:19:31

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Producer Santi Garcia was just 12 years old when he approached the radio station in his town with an idea: his own radio show playing new music he loved. His exuberance and love of music led him to recording bands who came to him wanting to be recorded. He borrowed the only 4 track recorder in the small town north of Barcelona called St Feliu De Gu…

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Across the Universe (with Naomi from Itchy Kitty) 2:04:59

1+ y ago2:04:59

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Before we both head to Treefort Festival, Naomi from Itchy Kitty comes in through my bathroom window to defend the honor of Julie Taymor's 2007 romantic '60s Beatles jukebox musical Across the Universe. We dive deeper than a Yellow Submarine into the movie's controversial variations on Beatles songs, how damn hot most of the cast is, ambitious visu…

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Episode 150 - Pete Stahl 1:28:47

1+ y ago1:28:47

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DC punk icon Pete Stahl and his guitarist brother Franz were heavily influenced by their father who was in the biz in the 60's as a band manager. Pete has ridden his simple and profound love of music through a long life of traveling the globe not only as a musician with his band. the godfathers of the DC Dischord scene, Scream (featuring former mem…

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The Last of Us (Video Game) 1:38:52

1+ y ago1:38:52

1:38:52

With the first season of HBO's The Last of Us coming to a close, I decided to turn my attention to the source material - the universally acclaimed 2013 PlayStation 3 video game. While this may get me torn apart quicker than a Clicker - I make the counterintuitive case that it's not actually a great game. The Last of Us lover James Battaglia returns…

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