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Schedule for the Week of 04/15/2024

Hello! It’s Tax Day here in the States, and I know somebody out there has probably forgotten, so you’re welcome! I guess? This week Alex and I are about to pop things off in Cyberpunk’s Phantom Liberty DLC, so I’m very excited about our Monday stream. On Thursday, I’ve invited Abby to c...

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Patron Q&A 034: April 2024

On this month's question-and-answer sesh, Brad defends his "reading" "habits," killer ladybugs attack, we discuss that Jurassic Park debate, and talk a little business around merch, multi-streaming, YouTube comments, sponsored content, and more.

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The Nextlander Podcast 146: I'm a Fan of Clothespins!

This week we all bend bullets in Children of the Sun, Vinny parties at the Gold Saucer, Brad digs deep into the childhood archive, and we enjoy our new post-eclipse mutations. EA reassigns Motive to Battlefield (and kiboshes a Dead Space 2 remake?), Gears 6 appear to be imminent, and the 3DS and ...

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Weekly Ramblecast 148: The Ultimate D-BOX

The occasion of a total solar eclipse and a New York earthquake gets us feeling a little Biblical this week before we then consider how much worse the dinosaurs had it, plus Jurassic Park: the novel, Brad's driving renaissance, Vinny's EV interest, and plenty more.

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Weekly Ramblecast 148: The Ultimate D-BOX

The occasion of a total solar eclipse and a New York earthquake gets us feeling a little Biblical this week before we then consider how much worse the dinosaurs had it, plus Jurassic Park: the novel, Brad's driving renaissance, Vinny's EV interest, and plenty more.

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The Nextlander Watchcast 087: Beavis & Butt-Head Do America

On this week's Watchcast we kick off a month of TV-related movies with the first trip to the big screen for a beloved pair of cartoon dumbasses in Beavis & Butt-Head Do America!

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Schedule for the Week of 04/08/2024

Happy Eclipse Day here in New Jersey (and other parts, I’m told)! Brad is visiting family and taking care of some personal business, so our normal schedule will be a bit different, so lookout for some earlier times on a few streams. Monday, though, Alex and I return to Cyberpunk 2077 at roughly...

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Watchcast Schedule for the Next Few Months: Movies Based On (and in) TV Shows, and Twin Peaks Returns!

Greetings, Nextlanders! I hope you have been enjoying this short break between Twin Peaks seasons. I know many of you are anxious for us to finish the fight, so to speak, with Cooper and the gang, and we're not far off! We've got a few more weeks of movies before we kick off Twin Pea...

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The Nextlander Podcast 145: The Game That Clips Well, Ships Well

This week we all dig (lol) into the indie drilling platformer Pepper Grinder, continue catching up with FF7 Rebirth and LAD: Infinite Wealth, and do battle with American air travel. Also: Embracer and Sega divest of Gearbox and Relic (respectively), a disc-less Xbox Series X is sighted in the wil...

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Weekly Ramblecast 147: The Jan Ochoa Edition!

Jan joins us to talk about egg hunts, spinning in circles, and what's cool with the kids these days!

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Weekly Ramblecast 147: The Jan Ochoa Edition!

Jan joins us to talk about egg hunts, spinning in circles, and what's cool with the kids these days!

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(00:00:07) Intro

(00:00:35) It's Jan!

(00:01:13) PAX East and the Tiki Bar

(00:02:42) Spinning in circles a...

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Schedule for the Week of 04/01/2024

Hello and Hi! Happy April! Been a bit of a busy few weekends around the house with travel, birthdays, and holidays! Looking forward to getting some time to dig more into Final Fantasy and Dragon’s Dogma in the coming days and this weekend. I’m also waiting on some parts (a new battery) for th...

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The Nextlander Watchcast 086: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

We close out our month of '90s hero flicks with the heroes in the half shell! Join us as we dive deep into Turtlemania and ponder the strange edges of this surprisingly solid rubber suit turtle movie.

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Monthly Planorama 035: April 2024

Things are a little quiet as Q2 kicks off this month, but several indies catch our eye, Xbox rounds out its releases on PlayStation and Switch, and looking at the big list on Steam... sorry, they crossed a WHAT with a WHAT?

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Monthly Planorama 035: April 2024

Things are a little quiet as Q2 kicks off this month, but several indies catch our eye, Xbox rounds out its releases on PlayStation and Switch, and looking at the big list on Steam... sorry, they crossed a WHAT with a WHAT?

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The Nextlander Podcast 144: You Sparkled My Darkle!

Viiiiideo games on the show this week include Dragon's Dogma II, Princess Peach: Showtime, Open Roads, and the Stellar Blade demo, plus we talk about Phil Spencer's comments on an Xbox handheld and third-party stores on the Xbox, Larian moving on from D&D, a possible open-world Resident Evil,...

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The Nextlander Friday Thank You: March 2024

Patrons of a voting capacity! Spring has fully sprung at this point, and with flowers in bloom and pollen in the air, it's once again time to run a stream where we both thank you for your support and also let you choose what it is we're going to stream this Friday. Not sure where I was going with...

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Weekly Ramblecast 146: The Steel Battallion Room

Vinny and Alex are back from PAX and ready to talk about what it's like going to a convention in 2024, the joys of riding the train there, and getting everyone in a giant room to clap in unison, plus X-Men nostalgia, the joy of talking to Frank Welker, and more.

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Weekly Ramblecast 146: The Steel Battallion Room

Vinny and Alex are back from PAX and ready to talk about what it's like going to a convention in 2024, the joys of riding the train there, and getting everyone in a giant room to clap in unison, plus X-Men nostalgia, the joy of talking to Frank Welker, and more.

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The Nextlander Watchcast 085: Batman (1989)

On this week's Watchcast we tackle the mother of all comic book blockbusters in Tim Burton's Batman! Join us as we talk Nicholson's Joker, the Keat-dawg, cool gadgets, and all that sweet, sweet merchandise.

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Schedule for the Week of 03/25/2024

Alex and I got back from Boston and PAX East yesterday and while the trip was awesome, I’m always a mess until I have at least a day to decompress from travel, even for short weekend trips. The show itself was a lot of fun. It was great to gather around friends, fans, and familiar faces during ...

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Never Been a Better Beastcast!

Join Vinny Caravella, Jeff Bakalar, Dan Ryckert, Abby Russell, and Alex Navarro for a live Beastcast Reunion panel at PAX East 2024!

There's no video version of the panel, but below are some of the images shown during the panel.


Alex's New Additions

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The Nextlander Podcast 143: Jean-Luc Godard's Dragon's Dogma II

We get our pawn on in Dragon's Dogma II this week and check out the new Outcast, even as we dutifully continue plowing through FF7 Rebirth and LAD: Infinite Wealth, plus we cover the latest on PlayStation 5 Pro, the state of PSVR 2, the new Marvel 1943 from Amy Hennig and team, international stan...

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Weekly Ramblecast 145: Castlevania Letterman Jacket

Vinny took his kids on a weekend video game odyssey that gave us plenty to ramble about this week, along with the glory days of rotoscoping your own lightsabers, bath and shower prefs, novel ways to hurt yourself, and more.

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Weekly Ramblecast 145: Castlevania Letterman Jacket

Vinny took his kids on a weekend video game odyssey that gave us plenty to ramble about this week, along with the glory days of rotoscoping your own lightsabers, bath and shower prefs, novel ways to hurt yourself, and more.

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The Nextlander Watchcast 084: The Phantom (1996)

We continue to push through our current spate of '90s hero flicks, and this week we attempt to sate a deep need for more Billy Zane in our lives with the 1996 comic strip adaptation The Phantom! Did we enjoy watching him Slam Evil? Not so much, but we did have fun talking about it!

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Schedule for the Week of 03/18/2024

This weekend I asked my son and daughter to put together a list of games they would like to see or check out. Whether it’s something I’ve mentioned, their friends talked about, or they had just seen we compiled a fairly decent working list of games. While we didn’t get to everything, we had...

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Patron Q&A 033: March 2024

If you've ever wanted to hear us field questions about eating tiny people or getting each other's faces tattooed on ourselves, boy have you come to the right Q&A!

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The Nextlander Podcast 142: Private First Class Lance Bean

We're awash in new games this week, with Mars After Midnight, Contra: Operation Galuga, WWE 2K24, and more joining old favs like FF7 Rebirth. Also: the tragic loss of Akira Toriyama, the harassment campaign around Sweet Baby Inc., the mystery of the flying space bugs, and more.

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Weekly Ramblecast 144: Godzilla 358/2 Days

Patrick Klepek joins in to ramble this week, hitting topics like prominent Academy Award figures John Cena and Godzilla, life after Vice Media, self-promotion on a failing social media platform, and that one repair shop out by the airport.

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