Bonus Credit 36 - Herpes Is Real

The best panel in podcasting effortlessly breezes between the topics of recent beverages, toilet repair, bad movies, television shows of a range of quality, cartridges, rough guesses at the prevalence of herpes amongst gamers, Lionel Messi, and how a seemingly infinite number of barks can exist within such tiny dogs.

A SMALL DESCRIPTION OF EPISODES PULLED FROM:

• (Ep. 295) Pre-show. Tim and Special Guest Patrick Miller discuss energy drinks and novelty beverages. Frank could have used comic books on the floor of the Video Game History Foundation offices for speedrun strats. Jaffe tells you which episodes of Insert Credit Show are the good ones.
• (Ep. 296) Extended break. Tim shares some details about his toilet. Special guest merritt k reveals the name of Jeff Foxworthy’s Cards Against Humanity-like card game. Ohio is cool.
• Third World War cover
• (Ep. 297) Pre-show. Jaffe encourages the rest of the panel to appear on video. Brandon had to go outside and sit down for half an hour after the last episode, and wants to talk about a few dumb movies (Streets of Fire and Metro). Frank says he’s slept on Jaffe’s pillow, and found a post on the Atari Age forum asking if anyone has found the lost or obscure game Herpes from 1983. Tim lays out exactly how close to midnight we are, in terms of advertising MLS Soccer. CEC just feels like such a weird broken hacky system to me, I’ve never gotten it to fully work exactly the way I want.
• (Ep. 297) Extended break. Brandon has some interesting facts about particular PC Engine HuCards and other types of cartridges. Dog talk! Tim’s fingers encounter a hunger for paper, and wishes he could have video game manuals on his MiSTer. Dads have no conception of how linear storytelling works. TV shows discussed: Better Call Saul, Silo, OJ: Made In America, The Dropout, and Dark Winds.
• (Ep. 298) Extended break. Jaffe, Frank, Brandon and Special Guest Lucy James discuss United States vs. non-United States measurement systems.