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You want comedy, and you don't have time to dick around. Introducing The Fallout Lounge, the scripted comedy sketch show that's in and out of your brain in minutes, leaving it refreshed and sparkling clean. It's not a podcast–it's a podsnack™! Created by a guy who wrote hundreds of funny radio commercials and then got fired.
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Hosted by Ben Van der Velde and Barry McStay

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An encyclopaedia of heroic failure Join Ben Van der Velde, Barry McStay and their guests as they brandish their wooden spoons of destiny and celebrate the losers, heroic failures and spectacular mis-steps that pockmark human endeavour. If you ever want to feel better about your progress in life, take a listen and enjoy a lovely schadenfreude bubble bath. Music by Max Perryment (www.maxperryment.co.uk) Donate to us via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward
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Themes and Memes is a different kind of movie review. It is a podcast that delves deep into the dark side of Hollywood films including subjects such as culture creation, state sponsorship, propaganda, predictive programming, occult symbolism and deep subtext. Be sure to listen and subscribe to the feed.
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EconPop is the show that sifts through the haystack of popular culture to find the needle of economics within... and then stabs you with it! Hosted by comedian Andrew Heaton, with economist Steven Horwitz and professor of literature Paul Cantor. From EconStories.tv. Also available at http://youtube.com/econstories in shorter form with moving pictures!
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The Afterword Podcast is the mutant brainchild of the people who inhabit theafterword.co.uk community blog - a lifeboat launched from the wreckage of The Word Magazine blog - RIP. IMPORTANT LEGAL INFORMATION The opinions and views expressed in The afterword Podcast are solely those of the individuals involved and DO NOT represent those of theafterword.co.uk, the site owners or moderators, it's media and advertising partners or the website provider. Listener discretion is advised.
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The Authority is a show that candidly discusses issues affecting popular culture, sports and politics. The show will discuss, deliberate and debate current events effecting these categories of focus and see how they intersect with the issue of race. The show will talk about all types of issues: gender, class, etc, but the show will have an inclination to highlight topics that deal with the issue of race. Because the host of the show, Dr. Sanford Richmond, believes there has never been an iss ...
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Jonathan Eig is an award-winning author and journalist whose books include Ali: A Life and Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. His new book is King: A Life. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jonathan emphasizes the real and complex Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as opposed to the man who has been made into a secular saint, what it was like…
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Loosen your collars and lick your lips, it's getting hot in here as we flirt with the World's Worst Romantic Hero. Making up a very saucy threesome with Barry and Ben on the show this week is comedian, actor and viral sensation Rosie Holt who bats her eyes at one of the biggest names in poetry. Meanwhile, Barry introduces the team to Mr Mills and M…
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This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-126-mark-jacob-explains-how-americas-mainstream-news-media-surrendered-to-donald-trump-and-the-republican-fascist-movement Mark Jacob is a media critic and a former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at t…
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"For we're two jolly good fellows!" Indeed, both Barry and Ben's birthday's fall in the month of May, so for this month's bonus episode, Barry presents a goody-bag full of weird and wonderful birthday facts. There is "the birthday problem", the Canadian tradition of nose-greasing and the reason why everyone in Korea is about to de-age. Follow us on…
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This week's episode is wide ranging and inspired by how seemingly pointless the reviews are for Tears of the Kingdom, both positive and negative. Between reviewers often pumping out inane, sometimes bought and paid for reviews, and review bombing - do things like meta critic even matter anymore? Do critics matter in general, anymore? The big questi…
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It's a cosy Barry and Ben episode this week, as we host one of our intermittent "best of the worst" looks back (look-backs?) at the topics from 5 past episodes and flip our outlook from negative to positive. This week we take in episodes 96 to 100 and try to pin down the World's Best Material, God, Vending Machine, Empire and Century. There are cam…
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We've talked about story before, and how in the past story was seldom important to a game - often an after thought. We've changed our opinion on that over time, especially in recent years as games have become more story driven and cinematic. But does gaming have auteurs? As games become more and more like films, will we see more game directors emer…
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In honor of Star Wars and the 40th anniversary of Return of the Jedi, friend of the podcast and fellow traveler Mr. Bill is the special guest on this eclectic episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Chauncey DeVega and Mr. Bill reflect on their four-decade-long relationship with all things Star Wars and how they feel as men of a certain vintage about …
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New data suggests that the $70 price tag for next gen games has actually hurt overall sales and could lead to decreased profits for everyone. So, are games worth the money? Is the market too saturated or capped? When games like Redfall or Jedi Survivor are being released in a rough state - are AAA games a gamble for the first couple months?…
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Come cat-burglars, cutpurses and conmen, as we assess the World's Worst Criminal this week. We are joined by comedian and author Caimh McDonnell who takes us on a hilarious tour of Florida Man's worst and best efforts. There is also a good dose of stolen hearts, lemon juice and gentlemen thieves to be found in this line-up. Follow us on Twitter: @w…
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We're getting stamped in this month's Third Foot bonus episode, as Ben takes a recent experience at Border Control and turns it into a recording all about Passports. There are wandering moose, pharoahs in transit and an ingenious forger who goes straight into the Hall of Fame alongisde other, presumablty faked, old masters. Follow us on Twitter: @w…
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Looks like Sony has lost and the Activision Microsoft deal is all but done. So, what are the possibilities? Yeah, okay, sure. We know they are going to mostly pump out COD year in and year out til they get their ROI. BUT what if they didn't? What if those ten studios they are getting brought back old IP or made some new stuff? Let's just imagine!…
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Jason Van Tatenhove is former national media director of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers. Mr. Tatenhove testified about the escalating dangers of right-wing radicalization and neofascism before the House Jan. 6 Committee. His new book is The Perils of Extremism: How I Left the Oath Keepers and Why We Should be Concerned about a Future…
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Nintendo had its Indie World Direct this morning and presentations like this are always good windows into where the Indie world is going. We believe there's two types of indie devs - chargers and chasers. Chargers are the guys who seem to be in the right place, at the right time with an idea lots of people wanted and they didn't even know it. This …
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*Buy tickets to Barry's upcoming play Breeding here: https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/breeding* There's only three certainties in life: death, taxes and the irresistible trundle of the neverending stream of podcasts. We bring you two of the dreaded horsemen this week, as nominated by our Patreon donor Peter Schaub and there was only ever one e…
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So, E3 is truly and wholly dead this time, right? With nothing on deck to replace it, and no one left to save it. Plus RE4R was fantastic, but maybe some changes took away more than they added. Add to that: Lily Gao is being harassed by the worst of the RE community over her performance. This week is a round up of mini topics because it seems like …
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*Buy tickets to Barry's upcoming play Breeding here: https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/breeding* Shhhh! Silence please in the library, lest we set the demon librarian on you! Tiptoeing around the shelves with us is children's author Ben Davis who takes us spelunking under Paris. Meanwhile Ben finds a library with no books in it and Barry takes …
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Nate Powell is a graphic novelist and musician. He is also the first cartoonist to win the National Book Award. Nate Powell has also won four Eisner Awards. His work includes Ozark horror tale Come Again, civil rights icon John Lewis' March trilogy and its follow-up Run, comics essay About Face, and graphic novels Two Dead, Any Empire, and Swallow …
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Community driven creative development is always a big win! If only because it means the industry is seeing what people actually want, but also because it increases the longevity of a game when you have a community that can, and is, building new content for it. We saw this with Counterstrike, Far Cry, Crysis, and even the birth of the Battle Royale …
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Buy tickets to Barry's upcoming play 'Breeding' here: https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/breeding It's Third Foot time and this one is suggested by Patreon donor Maxwell Lindsay, who found a very Worst Foot figure in the shape of American entrepreneur Timothy Dexter. Learn how he became incredibly wealthy almost by accident, how he dodged his ri…
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Joined by the king of internet triviality and special Patreon guest judge John Robinson, Ben and Barry head down to the local disco in search of the world's worst pop star. Amongst the one-hit wonders and chart-bottoming no-hopers we uncover sinister goings-on in 60s suburban America, a man who torpedoed his career in favour of obscure French poetr…
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Sorry for the delay this week - I was sick and sounded awful! This week we have decided to slaughter a sacred cow. We're going after beloved villains. A good villain should be a solid foil to your hero and they don't always have to be memorable for the game or story to be good. That being said, sometimes in the course of trying to make a villain me…
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“V” formerly known as Eve Ensler is an author, Tony Award-winner, playwright and activist. Her award-winning play The Vagina Monologues ran for more than 10 years and has been performed in more than 140 countries. “V”s new book is Reckoning. “V” warns that the United States is sick with a type of pathological amnesia that facilitates evil and cruel…
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Elizabeth Dickinson: We exist within this history of how gender works in the United States and around the world. And in the United States, there really was a time that males were attorneys and lawyers and females were support staff. Elizabeth Dickinson: We exist within this history of how gender works in the United States and around the world. And …
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The Yoshi P commentary really stirred the hornets nest. The early 2000's were the wild west of the digital age. Other, more poetic, writers have said that before, and sometimes it's the only way to explain it. People from all over the world were just starting to interact with each other via online gaming, forums, or even Myspace (tm). Add to that: …
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Oh come all ye faithful nerds! Gather around the bespoke baize table, polish your D20s, power up the Commodore 64 and bring your finest rules lawyers, for this episode is our World's Worst Games Night. Recorded in front of a live audience at London's VAULT Festival on 19th February 2023, we are joined by returning guests Ellie Gibson and Johnny Chi…
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I have a few friends who really love VR. The conversation usually goes in circles, beginning and ending with "how to make VR worth it". Today, former Nintendo USA CEO Reggie Fils-Amie tweeted an infographic from statista showing projections that VR will remain niche in the coming years. His commentary was " Until there is a 'must play' experience, …
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Nicholas Dawidoff is a journalist and author whose books include The Fly Swatter, In the Country of Country, and The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. His new book is The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City, which is about gun violence and life chances in New Haven, Connecticut. New Haven …
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