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Chris Banotai joins me again! We talk about our shared appreciation for the early Assassin Creed games.

Andrew returns to talk about his passion known as Cryptids! His journey of walking into the hobby of it and how it is a fun shared experience with all walks of life.

My friend Elena returns! We talk about our love of the Owl House and cross representation for so many people. HOOT HOOT!

This shit really happened 😩🥴I was adjacently in the news while trying to fly from Chicago to New Delhi. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/us/air-india-flight-chicago-rags-bags-clog-hnk#:~:text=An%20Air%20India%20flight%20from,bags%2C%20according%20to%20the%20airline.

Second part of going to Japan!

I went to Japan! things are switched up this episode with my buddy Andrew interviewing me.

Kyodai @seancarron2008 returns to talk about his favorite Yakuza game--Yakuza1 Kiwami. We discuss how it build's the series subsequent games and grows #Kiryu's character. Additionally we speak on how well the antagonist #Nishki is written. Majima even has his own story to wrap up a few loose ends. Don't sleep on this beautiful soap opera game. https://open.spotify.com/episode/48dDkBC0qVbED5ENfIDjO4?si=33cd9251bfa14906 #majimaforever #yakuza1 #kiwami

My kyodai Sean and I talk about a game close to our hearts (and since the early days of this podcast lmao)-- Yakuza. In particular we talk about the series' prequel game Yakuza 0.

My friend who I call "Riker" comes by and talks about his passion for BoardGames. Specifically why he likes them and how they have completely changed in the past 10 years. BoardGameGeek https://boardgamegeek.com/ No Rolls Barred https://norollsbarred.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UQPZe-8v4_UP1uxi4Mv6A His Top 5 games FOR beginning players (mentioned on the episode): Cockroach Skull Azul Cascadia Camel-Up His personal top 10 games: Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/321608/hegemony-lead-your-class-victory Wonderland’s War https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/227935/wonderlands-war Bohnanza https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza Wingspan https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266192/wingspan Terrorscape https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371433/terrorscape 7 Wonders Duel https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/173346/7-wonders-duel Skull https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/92415/skull The Estates https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/249381/estates Cosmic Encounter https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39463/cosmic-encounter Klask https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/165722/klask

Lance comes back! We pay homage to the late Akira Toriyama and share our fond memories of Dragon Ball (and subsequent series). Correction my dad was a MONTH older than him....which is even spookier....

My history major buddy Patrick joins me! We talk about a legendary anime called Fist of the North Star and it's lasting effects on anime today. Basically imagine if Bruce Lee was trained in an assassination art of exploding people while wandering the desert. Here is the link in terms of sales beating other big names like "Cars"== https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/money-finance/the-25-highest-grossing-media-franchises-of-all-time/ All of the FOTNS video games: https://youtu.be/GP7ifmMdZkI?si=eRw2EN1nAXu4QzGm You Wa Shock: https://youtu.be/JKk6hHU0iUs?si=oetNJwFhy7J3DPMa

Sammi and Elena return to talk about The Legend of Korra and why it is so underrated and worth a watch.

Every had a friend and wanted to ask them a question about their race but didn't wanna get canceled? Or beat the f**k up? For Black and Indian we got ya covered LMAO

My wonderful friends Sammie and Elena come over and talk about why we love Avatar the Last Airbender!

On this episode I'm joined by Maddie a good friend of mine. They work with a company that uses AI and were willing to come on and answer some burning questions we all have about it. They don't like Tears of the Kingdom but greatly do love Kirby and King Boo. There was a lot of distracting traffic going on at the time, please forgive that.