Podcast 9-1: Squirtle for Secretary of Defense

With presidential candidates reciting lyrics from Pokémon: The Movie 2000, gaming just may have reached critical mass. To celebrate this achievement, the crew offers impressions of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Worms: Crazy Golf, SD Gundam: Capsule Fighters Online, 3rd Birthday, and a new Android tablet. Before we offer our usual does of gaming trivia and answers to reader questions, we welcome returning guest Ryan Phillips, who discusses Cave Story 3D as well as upcoming Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten DLC.

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Opening Theme: Skyrim courtesy of Harry Partridge.

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Robert Allen

Since being a toddler, Robert Allen has been immersed in video games, anime, and tokusatsu. Currently, his days are spent teaching at two southern California colleges. But his evenings and weekends are filled with STGs, RPGs, and action titles and well at writing for Tech-Gaming since 2007.

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        1. Hey thanks so much! Honestly, the thought of casting cheered me up, but I didnt want everyone to hear me all weepy and sad. Figured I’d save you all from the torture of that. I’ll be back next week, rejuvinated and ready to go. Thanks again! 🙂

          1. If Sean, Deagle, and Blue’s poop jokes don’t get you to laugh there is some serious trouble! 😉

  1. With Herman Cain groping tendencies, he’s a pretty bad Pokemon spokesperson. Whose next Pedobear?

    1. I know you guys have tech in the title, but that seemed more about Blue’s trip to Wal-mart (or wherever) and less about the device itself.

      1. I just listened to the tablet segment and a sizable chunk of what I talked about got edited out. Off the top of my head, I remember talking about how the tablet changed speakers when switching from portrait to landscape mode, Minecraft: Pocket Edition, and Techno Kitten Adventure for Android.

          1. I guess I need to have an egg timer on-hand whenever I start talking about anything. More than three minutes? YOU’RE GONNA BURN THE EGG!!!;)

    1. Los Angeles Times’s John Horn and Claudia Eller guessed that Avatar cost million for the production, plus marketing costs, so about $340-360 million by most estimates. It’s made 2.7 billion.

      MW3 with marketing is going to be under the $100 million mark. It made 400 million in it’s first 2.4 hours and looks to clear 2.5 by the end of the year.

      Analysis: MW3 was a quarter of a billion dollars cheaper to make and will be just as financially successful as Avatar. Acti stock to go up slightly, held back by WoW’s 7-10% subscription drop. Expect others to take interest in a proven moneymaker.

  2. And Pikachu for VP!

    Bow it is that someone who run a chain of pizza stores can run for president? Who is next, a Starbucks barista?

  3. And Pikachu for VP!

    Bow it is that someone who run a chain of pizza stores can run for president? Who is next, a Starbucks barista?

  4. An all Pokemon cabinet!

    Machop will chop taxes!
    Geodude is rock-hard on crime!
    Sunflora has some bring environmental ideas!

  5. I think my favorite part of the show was NOLA and Deagle’s worms talk. You guys should try to overlap on games more.

  6. Man, I can’t believe I missed D&D talk. I love D&D, – well, when it’s more story based instead of dungeon crawling. I’m also about to start a Fall of Darkness campaign with some ppl. I’m a kindred of the East 🙂 (if anyone knows the game)

  7. More Elite talk next show. Oh, and I agree about the NIS guy. Have him on again. Maybe for the full show.

    1. This week’s show was sponsored by Big Lots, huh? I liked the way you guys were extra lively this week.

      1. You should have heard the pre-show banter. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the best audio happens either before the show or after the show. Sean told a couple of stories that had Robert and I cracking up.

        We really need to do an off-topic episode sometime.

    2. If I wasn’t afraid I’d give my grandmother a heart attack, I’d so get that, prank her with it, and upload the video to YouTube. She’d freak if she saw that thing walking down her hallway! LOL!

  8. Pretty good one this week. Great interview, trivia segment. Tablet talk wasn’t so hot. RC tarantulas talk was awesome though, Blue.

    1. I really do need to get that RC tarantula…you know…for review purposes. >_>…<_<… ^_^

      I'll do better next time. 🙂

      1. I checked and asked at my local Biglots, they never heard of a RC tarantula. Can you take a pic, Blue?

  9. Sean, I saw your plug for Hubig’s pies. What’s the best New Orleans food that we are missing?

    1. Crawfish. God I miss crawfish.
      I went to the Long Beach Crawfish Festival earlier this year, and my girlfriend took me to a restaurant with “New Orleans Style Crawfish” for my birthday, but they’re boils were both really really bland. The restaurant also served it with “Cajun Andouille” that was actually just polish sausage. I was not amused.

  10. Crawfish. God I miss crawfish.
    I went to the Long Beach Crawfish Festival earlier this year, and my girlfriend took me to a restaurant with “New Orleans Style Crawfish” for my birthday, but they’re boils were both really really bland. The restaurant also served it with “Cajun Andouille” that was actually just polish sausage. I was not amused.

    1. Wrong “their”; I guess no one is perfect! 😉

      My question- did you tell the GF the food wasn’t that good, or do you try not to be a Debbie Downer?

      I was treated to a really boring slab of Kobi beef (which I’m almost certain wasn’t from Hyogo) and I had to keep my trap shut for fear of ‘ruining everything’. Oh, women.

  11. Great show. Bring back Samurage, though. Her additions and reactions are really missed this week.

  12. Desert, I hope you explain how Modern Warfare 3 went from a fake shooting gallery, to an A- game.

  13. The tablet discussion was succesful enough to get tablet ads it seems. I hope Blue gets a cut of it.

  14. How come your podcast doesn’t have a catchier title than the T-G Podcast? Do you have a favorite podcast title? I know Sean mentioned he liked Losing the Sheen.

    1. BTW- Are you guys going to review Saints Row: The Third? Your man in Japan Cheapy will be in the game.

  15. Tech-Gaming’s Thanksgiving:

    1) Catch Turkey Monster Hunter style.
    2) Have Deagle harvest cranberries ala Harvest Moon
    3) Blue will create his favorite Sailor Moon yams, while Sage preps the turkey.
    3) Stuffing? PUT IT IN!

      1. Before dumping the poopsock, don’t forget to add the ingredients to the pumpkin pie mix! Mmmgood!

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