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Schedule for the Week of 09/29/2025

I’m back from vacation! I sanded and stained many doors (for the basement). I delivered many packages (in Death Stranding 2). I made many bad food choices (because I’m a weak, and easily corruptible soul). Even though I’ve now sunk close to something like 70 hours into Death Stranding 2, I feel like I have a long way to...

The Nextlander Monthly Thank You: September 2025 Redux

Hey so uh, that other poll you may have heard about... that's just a, uh, a social experiment. Yeah, that's it! Or market research or something. Certainly nothing to do with us checking the wrong box in the Patreon CMS... If you'r...

The Nextlander Monthly Thank You: September 2025

Time for a lightning round! The end of the month looms, and we're all finally back together in one place and ready to stream your choice of streams this Friday, October 3 as a way of saying thanks for your enduring support. You've got just 48 hours to register your opinion, so vote early, vote oft... well, don't vote often, t...

Mike and Vinny Destroy the World - Part 15

What an episode! Some surprising victories and Mike enters into a battle that will reshape military tactics for centuries... those poor horses.

The Nextlander Podcast 216: Blame Yourself or God

Our friend Austin Walker stops by to join us for an absolutely jam-packed conversation about new and upcoming games we've been playing, including Ghost of Yotei, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, Baby Steps, Metroid Prime 4, Kirby Air Riders, and Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 for Switch. Also, pre-TGS updates on Yakuz...

Weekly Ramblecast 224: Old Kentucky Extremity

We're joined this week by none other than Night in the Woods co-creator Scott Benson, for a wide-ranging ramble about Scott's love of old cameras and old bridges, making art with timeless appeal, strategies for getting the most out of the antique shop, extreme French horror, our long national huckster tradition, and a bunch o...

Weekly Ramblecast 224: Old Kentucky Extremity

We're joined this week by none other than Night in the Woods co-creator Scott Benson, for a wide-ranging ramble about Scott's love of old cameras and old bridges, making art with timeless appeal, strategies for getting the most out of the antique shop, extreme French horror, our long national huckster tradition, and a bunch o...

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 151: Columbo: A Stitch in Crime

The Watchcast is back! And while we've got a shortened slate for September, that slate is going to be entirely populated with one of America (and the world)'s favorite detectives, Columbo! And we're kicking off our duet of Columbos with A Stitch in Crime, an early installment featuring Mr. Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy.

Schedule for the Week of 09/22/2025

We’re back, y’all! Well, Brad and I are, anyway. Vinny’s still out there enjoying his vacation, and by that I mean he’s probably staining some wood or inhaling drywall or whatever it is he does for fun. So with him absent, it’s up to the two of us to entertain you for a whole week! Whatever will we do?!?

Well,...

Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 009: Just Like Thoreau Had

The Nextlander Podcast is taking a week off, so we bring you a classic NBABP episode, in which Abby Russell and Dan Ryckert join us to talk about eating food, eating not-food, and finding peace in the Internet Age.

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(00:01:24) Intro
(00:01:47) "Don't Ask Me!"
(00:02:35) How's Metal G...

Weekly Ramblecast 223: And Local Favorites, Headboard

Vinny's making calls on his hundred-year-old phone, Alex is on the hunt for a very specific concert flier, Brad's making tactically poor vaccine decisions, and we're all generally rambling about razor blades in the walls, knowing the people who run the restaurants and movie theaters, our poster game, a random Weezer appearanc...

Weekly Ramblecast 223: And Local Favorites, Headboard

Vinny's making calls on his hundred-year-old phone, Alex is on the hunt for a very specific concert flier, Brad's making tactically poor vaccine decisions, and we're all generally rambling about razor blades in the walls, knowing the people who run the restaurants and movie theaters, our poster game, a random Weezer appearanc...

Coming Soon to the Watchcast: A Couple of Columbos!

Greetings, Nextlanders! Alex here to give you all the lowdown on where things are currently headed for the Watchcast. As you've undoubtedly noticed by now, the Watchcast has been on a little break for the last couple of weeks, bu...

Mike and Vinny Destroy the World - Part 14

While Khorne needs to go over his books, Mike's undead pirate army is engaged in an existential battle around The Donut!

Patron Q&A 051: September 2025

This month we answer your questions about ghosts vs. aliens, favorite arcade memories, the games we've been credited in, a ranking of Star Trek: TNG characters, bands we've been into lately, the meme-chasing trend in indie games, and more!

The Nextlander Podcast 215: A Frogger Is One Who Frogs

Silksong has happened, it's out, and of course we discuss it this week, along with Cronos: The New Dawn, Adventure of Samsara, the return of the new Acclaim, that third Wolfenstein game we still hope to play one day, Nintendo Direct predictions, the video game mega-anniversary of September 9th, some surprising facts about the...

Weekly Ramblecast 222: Vinny's 1992 Arcadeapalooza

A couple of very special knuckleheads come to Fortnite this week, Vinny is taking his phone technology back to the 1930s, the wrong people are trying to live forever, MTV has nearly ceased to exist, and plenty more on this week's ramble.

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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:19) The Beavis &...

Weekly Ramblecast 222: Vinny's 1992 Arcadeapalooza

A couple of very special knuckleheads come to Fortnite this week, Vinny is taking his phone technology back to the 1930s, the wrong people are trying to live forever, MTV has nearly ceased to exist, and plenty more on this week's ramble.

CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:19) The Beavis &...

Schedule for the Week of 09/08/2025

I can’t believe we’re already a week into September! I hope Silksong is meeting everyone’s expectations out there. I’ve been enjoying it though it was me looking at controllers with the best d-pads out there. Too many missed down and attack moves not registering correctly and CLEARLY it’s not my fault! I jumped into...

Monthly Planorama 052: September 2025

How did September get so stacked with games? Beyond the Silksong hype, there's Borderlands 4, Cronos, Dying Light: The Beast, Ratatan, Jump Space, LEGO Voyagers, Silent Hill f, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and a whole pile of other interesting stuff for us to plan our way through this month.

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Monthly Planorama 052: September 2025

How did September get so stacked with games? Beyond the Silksong hype, there's Borderlands 4, Cronos, Dying Light: The Beast, Ratatan, Jump Space, LEGO Voyagers, Silent Hill f, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and a whole pile of other interesting stuff for us to plan our way through this month.

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The Nextlander Podcast 214: Bubsy Is a Draft Dodger

This week we get into a young man's first Mass Effect, Brad's tumble back down the Death Stranding 2 hole, Vinny finishing Shinobi, Alex making stern faces at Madden, a portable PlayStation 6 (??), Take-Two's nearly closed deal to pick up Perfect Dark, Saudi Arabia's new ownership stake in Evo, grandfathers who love Bubsy, ol...

Weekly Ramblecast 221: The Two-Week Garbage List

We're coming in hot this week with a podcast straight off the griddle, in which Alex prepares for two weeks of debased bachelorhood, Vinny cracks into the AFI top 100 films, Brad unearths a Civil War relic, we talk way too much about podcast chapters, and more!

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Weekly Ramblecast 221: The Two-Week Garbage List

We're coming in hot this week with a podcast straight off the griddle, in which Alex prepares for two weeks of debased bachelorhood, Vinny cracks into the AFI top 100 films, Brad unearths a Civil War relic, we talk way too much about podcast chapters, and more!

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(00:00:00) Start of show 2025-09-02 23:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 150: Star Trek: Bread and Circuses and Assignment: Earth

The finale of Star Trek Summer is upon us, and before we send the crew of the Enterprise on their merry way, we've got a final pair of adventures to get through! First up, yet another old-human-society-on-an-alien-planet-thing in Bread and Circuses, then we meet Assignment: Earth's Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln, two crazy ki...

Schedule for the Week of 09/01/2025

We’re in the first week of September and I say “hooray!” We’ll be off for the Labor Day holiday here in the States so no live streams on Monday, but Alex will be back streaming on Tuesday at some point in the early afternoon! I’ll be traveling on Tuesday so no streams for me, but I should be back in time to record o...

Never Been a Better Podcast 039: No Apologies at the Laundromat!

Jeff Bakalar and Abby Russell are here and frankly we learn a lot about what people think is normal when it comes to laundry!

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(00:00:06) Intro

(00:02:26) Look, the weather is actually weird now!

(00:02:46) The long road to accomplishing our basement and EV dreams

(00:1...

Mike and Vinny Destroy the World - Part 13

It's amazing how the fortunes of demons and pirates can change during the course of an episode! I guess that's why they call it Chaos!

The Nextlander Podcast 213: The Garbage-to-Gold Ratio

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is our top game this week, plus one of us gets an up-close look at Bubsy 4D, the Hollow Knight Silksong release date fallout, Forza Horizon might be headed to Japan, Atari now owns Child of Eden and Grow Home, some highly important games are coming to the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection, and more. 2025-08-27 23:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post