Jeff Bakalar and Abby Russell are back to share their experiences with mechanical keyboards, home ownership, and surviving the holidays!
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:00:43) Abby has some big news!
(00:01:04) Let's talk about these fancy keyboards
(00:14:24) Abby's (hopefully?) new house!
(00:17:42) The Ultimate DIY projects
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2025-11-28 16:29:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe second part of the archive Alex's Extra Life 2025 Drum Marathon!
You can still donate at tinyurl.com/nextralife2025
Part 02 is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144478681
The first part of the archive Alex's Extra Life 2025 Drum Marathon is (hopefully) here!
You can still donate at tinyurl.com/nextralife2025
Part 02 is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144478495
Brad and Vinny produce the rare duos podcast this week with deep(er) dives into Silent Hill f and Hollow Knight: Silksong, a look at The Séance of Blake Manor, the new Vampire Survivors quasi-sequel, Valve's comments on Steam Machine pricing/Linux anti-cheat/Half-Life 3, the passing of Udo Kier, Thanksgiving turkey (and other fowl) strategies, our annual recitation of Final Fantasy character n...
2025-11-26 22:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post
After 12 straight hours of drumming and streaming, this podcast was always going to be a big debrief on Extra Life, so we get into all kinds of subjects like the technical production issues, Alex's drum setup, the state of Clone Hero and charting your own songs, accidentally rate-limiting yourself, the DMCA's war on sick children, and more.
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2025-11-25 19:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post
After 12 straight hours of drumming and streaming, this podcast was always going to be a big debrief on Extra Life, so we get into all kinds of subjects like the technical production issues, Alex's drum setup, the state of Clone Hero and charting your own songs, accidentally rate-limiting yourself, the DMCA's war on sick children, and more.
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(00:00:00) Start...
2025-11-25 19:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Turkey Month is nearly at an end, but before we head out for the holiday break, we've got one more fully barbecued turkey for all of you in the bombasically stupid Action Jackson! Join us as we marvel at Carl Weathers' glistening physique, Craig T. Nelson's inexplicable martial arts prowess, and the cavalcade of delightfully awful one-liners issued before someone explodes.
First off, huge thanks to everyone that joined us and everyone that donated for Extra Life during Alex’s 12 Hours of Drumming! Also, big shoutout to Alex for not only drumming, but putting together a killer setlist, it’s a lot of work. What we’re doing with the official archive is still TBD, but I believe a kind soul has already uploaded a version to the Internet Archive if you want to se...
2025-11-24 20:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The year's getting colder but the questions are heating up! This month we field Qs about places we'd like to (or couldn't) visit, what makes a good burrito (and where to get one), our old reviews that we look back on fondly (or not), our current feelings on owning arcade machines, EA properties that belong with other studios, and an impromptu deep dive on home electronics design.
2025-11-21 00:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Vinny and Khorne try to deal with a rat problem while Mike's homeland is under attack!
2025-11-20 19:17:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we dig into hot, brand-new video games like Metal Gear Solid and Nier: Automata, plus Lumines Arise's multiplayer, the ending chapters of Dispatch, Sektori, whatever's going on with Ubisoft, the loss of "Burger" Becky Heineman, Megabonk's stand-up Game Awards move, a "will it come out in 2026" quiz, and more!
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2025-11-20 02:42:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's ramble ranges all over the place, from Extra Life prep to Vinny's battle with customer service, a missing engagement ring, health insurance talk, the ups and downs of living with trees, a Game Awards nom guessing game, and plenty of other stuff!
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:30) Someone has a b-day!
(00:02:33) Customer loyalty, a rarity<...
This week's ramble ranges all over the place, from Extra Life prep to Vinny's battle with customer service, a missing engagement ring, health insurance talk, the ups and downs of living with trees, a Game Awards nom guessing game, and plenty of other stuff!
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:30) Someone has a b-day!
(00:02:33) Customer loyalty, a rarity<...
Our Turkey month continues unabated! And this week we're visited by several of 125 possible Jet Lis in the profoundly silly 2001 action flick The One! Join us as we talk about Jet Li's various wigs, the finer points of nu-metal, and the tragedy of Jason Statham's American accent.
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2025-11-17 23:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s hard to believe we’re already this deep into November! I feel like I have a lot of stuff that needs to be accomplished that has been mentally sitting with a tag that reads “I’ll take care of it in November, that’s forever away…” and now has all come due!
Speaking of coming due, I’m writing this close to when we’re going to start streaming so I’d better get moving....
2025-11-17 20:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is it: the final Death Stranding 2 spoilercast. Lumines Arise is also out, and that game is an extreme banger. Valve crashes back into the hardware market with a new Steam Machine, VR headset, and controller. Grand Theft Auto VI gets yet another delay. We even hear from someone who's had both the McDonald's Pizza and the Street Fighter burgers. Real action-packed week on the ol' N...
2025-11-13 00:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we say goodbye to an honorary member of Nextlander, talk about the (legal) trials and tribulations of living next to other people, and get into a straight up showdown between different US states (with apologies to our fine listeners in the Dakotas).
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:48) Hoodie gang
(00:04:33) RIP to Jake, the snake
(00:12:0...
This week we say goodbye to an honorary member of Nextlander, talk about the (legal) trials and tribulations of living next to other people, and get into a straight up showdown between different US states (with apologies to our fine listeners in the Dakotas).
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:48) Hoodie gang
(00:04:33) RIP to Jake, the snake
(00:12:0...
It's Doomsday Day on the Watchcast, a day that our own Vinny Caravella has hoped and prayed for ever since we launched this podcast. So join us as we go through Vinny's all-time favorite movie, trying to make sense of its frenetic editing and nonsensical plot, or at least as much sense as it deserves.
2025-11-10 23:39:23 +0000 UTC
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Over at the house this weekend it was a lot of yard work and fixing a dishwasher. You know, the two things everyone thinks of in Autumn! I’ve been playing Dispatch and then my son wanted to play Dispatch and it was definitely one of those “eh, you guys can watch/play this probably-not-age-appropriate game…” which certainly caught me some glares from my wife when the kids hit certain sce...
2025-11-10 20:20:12 +0000 UTC View Post
After a banner September and October, big releases mercifully slow down a little in November, but there's still plenty to fill the gaps in between catching up, like Lumines Arise, Kirby Air Riders, remasters of Outlaws and R-Type Delta, a ton of interesting indies, and more. Join our planning session about all of it!
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(00:00:06) Intro<...
2025-11-06 18:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
After a banner September and October, big releases mercifully slow down a little in November, but there's still plenty to fill the gaps in between catching up, like Lumines Arise, Kirby Air Riders, remasters of Outlaws and R-Type Delta, a ton of interesting indies, and more. Join our planning session about all of it!
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:01:19) 1000xResi...
Mike and his pirate crew take on a personal quest of vengeance while Vinny and Khorne prepare for a Skaven war!
2025-11-06 17:12:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, the wild social dynamics of ARC Raiders, The Simpsons get Brad back into Fortnite, Vinny finishes Death Stranding 2 and starts Dispatch, the Switch 2 is still selling like hotcakes, Sony might allow cross-buying PS5 and PC games, and we find out what happened to Rockstar's Agent. It's a video game podcast!
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2025-11-06 01:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we discuss a post-Halloween report from the mean streets of suburban New Jersey, some of Stephen King's goofiest haunted objects, Brad's final horror movie recap of the year, a Sinners mini-Watchcast, and more!
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:28) Alex is 44??
(00:04:02) The NJ Halloween report
(00:13:33) Bribing the teacher (with candy b...
This week, we discuss a post-Halloween report from the mean streets of suburban New Jersey, some of Stephen King's goofiest haunted objects, Brad's final horror movie recap of the year, a Sinners mini-Watchcast, and more!
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:28) Alex is 44??
(00:04:02) The NJ Halloween report
(00:13:33) Bribing the teacher (with candy b...
We're kicking off our third annual Turkey Month with a very bad sci-fi action movie by a person who usually makes pretty enjoyable sci-fi action movies, John Carpenter! Ghosts of Mars is the first movie on this month's roster of dumbass action flicks, and boy howdy, is this one both dumb and ass.
It’s very Fall out here in New Jersey and that is very much my favorite season. What’s not my favorite season is shopping for health care season and my heart goes out to everyone else out there trying to navigate that poop storm in the U.S. right now. Ugh.
Let’s move on and talk about the exciting things going on this week, though they still include some horrors, just not necessaril...
2025-11-03 20:03:29 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, Watchcasters! If you caught this past week's show, you probably already know that we've got some very stupid action movies on tap for our annual turkey month, but if you haven't had a chance to listen yet, guess what? We're doing some very stupid action movies for this year's turkey month.
Why stupid action movies? Because, to be frank, I'm not sure I have the mental capacity ...
2025-10-31 20:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan Ryckert and Abby Russell join us to talk about Halloween, adventures in cocktails, and the ups and downs of pet ownership!
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:01:26) Dan's lovely, evening cocktail
(00:07:48) Freeing yourself from the burden of packaging
(00:10:57) Checking in with Abby
(00:11:51) Cats and Dogs and Cats and Cats getting to kno...
2025-10-31 19:36:51 +0000 UTC View Post