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Press Pause Radio
by Press Pause Radio
Here's the thing, we trying to distance ourselves away from any other other podcast you may hear about or listen to, We range on a multitude of topics from current present standing & what-nots going on in the video game industry to many different retrospectives that has may our once scoffed upon "juvenile" entertainment, into respected media platform among music and movies. So kick back and listen, feel free to message us with any Ideas you may have for the show, or just plain message us.
Episodes
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PPR 173
You know, it wasn’t that long ago (almost a full year ago, really) that we were talking about the advent of generative AI and the stupid bullshit it was churning out — its own slop—and it’s truly wild how much this endemic has escalated in our daily lives. Folks aren’t even pretending to cart out...
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PPR 172
It’s really easy to fall into this rut with Video Games right now. Every podcast episode this year has brought in this frivolous bout of yoga where we try not to take y’all TOO deep into Bummertown™, lest we risk forever remaining within its shitty doom-dome and get gypsy-cursed to forever scroll...
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PPR 171
Many of us here at Press Pause Radio are old enough to remember edgy video game marketing that threw around slogans like, “Gameplay so REAL that it HURTS,” and, like, I think we’ve arrived at a point where maybe we should pump the brakes on raising the bar for realism and sim-like mechanics in...
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PPR 170
How’s everyone holding up? You know, with uhhh, all the recent news pouring in from Sony regarding their upcoming departure from physical media and Microsoft’s uhhh, well, departure from reality after slaughtering over 1,600 jobs, with more to cut on the way, in the same week they shared the goal...
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PPR 169
It’s funny how we all used to talk about the summer being the perfect reason to catch up on our backlogs, with the notable drought of marquee game releases until the winter season, when publishers and developers arguably carpet-bomb the quarter with hundreds of game releases aimed at competing…
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PPR 168
Like the twisted version of Santa Claus that he is, once a year, Geoff Keighley comes out of his mousehole to host a grand event in Los Angeles that lets developers and publishers show off their up-and-coming games to the public via a broadcast presentation he calls the Summer Game Fest. So, it’s...
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PPR 167
One more run right?—Just one more go at it, and this time, things will be different. That’s the allure of the Roguelike genre of video games. It isn’t just one thing to jam through a level filled with beasties and hazards, you also have to improvise your approach with whatever power-ups or...
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PPR 166
The mind sure is a funny thing—one second, you can find yourself tripping over the gradually increasing existential crisis of modern-day living in 2026, and the next, you’ll find yourself thinking about dumb ways to make peeing for a dog way more fun than it should have any right to be! On this...
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PPR 165
Certain logos instill a sense of wonder and comfort the instant they shimmer onto the screens of our games. The branding of something like the Konami bacon strips or neon-styled letters of SEGA getting shouted out through the speakers invokes a fuzzy feeling of what’s to come. One logo, in...
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House Show: The Return
Wow, sorry about the wait! What was it, four years or so? I don't think we missed much though, wrestling still be wrestling. After a long hiatus, Georgie and Toast got to watching an AEW PPV together and thought it'd be the appropriate time to talk about the graps once again. Revolution 2026 was...
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PPR 164
It’s crazy how glued we are to our phones right? Maybe we should just treat phones the way the cast of Breaking Bad treats them, and just snap them in half every time we’re done with them! Either that, or mean mug the SHIT out of Jimmy Fallon, either plan is equally cathartic and acceptable.…
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PPR 163
HEY! LISTEN! Maybe don’t do that? Oh, you mean you want to figure it out on your own? Naaahhh, let’s pace you through an extensive explanation instead. Tutorialization in Video Games has always been a contentious topic that dates back way before yellow paint, and it was mouthy fairy in 1998 that...
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PPR Presents The Golden Zonkies: Class of 2025
Now that 2025 has finished swirling its nasty self into the shower drain of time, we’re ready to jump into the "Düo-Dusé" fresh! (yeah, George is still calling it that) and begin our annual “Game of the Year” feature for 2025, the Golden Zonkies! We’re not going to lie—the selection was vast this...
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PPR 162
As we all leave the holiday behind and officially ring in 2026, or whatever the hell George was calling it (we think it was the "Düo-Dusé"). We thought it would be neat to look at the holiday season under a lens, and think about the “comfort games” that come with the season. Think about all of…
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PPR 161
Grifters everywhere, all the grifters the eye can see—usually surrounded by an extra set of fingers or image diffusion to give their position away! We all miss the “halcyon” (and mind you, there are some heavyweight lifting behind those air-quotes) days of 2020 when the only bull-shitters trying…
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PPR 160
Are beards still neat? We wonder, mainly because we’re older and less hip—plus we noticed the significant lack of facial hair upon the plastic grimace of Labubus, so shit’s been tripping us up to say the least. Or maybe it’s all of these heavy-hitter video game releases that are stacking up in...
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PPR 159
Everything’s an Ad nowadays (#notanAd) and the constant outpour of late-stage capitalism getting pumped out through our screens and on our pages has objectively reached a point of Ad nauseam (sorry, we just couldn’t resist.) In all seriousness, though, if there’s one form of entertainment that’s...
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PPR 158
Look!—is it a bird? A plane? No! it’s the latest episode of Press Pause Radio! In the shadow of the Man of Steel’s newest film, George, Andrew, and Sean get swept up in all of the hype of a new Superman movie, and the possible family ties between David Corenswet and Christopher McDonald, along…
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PPR 157
It’s finally here! At the top of what was arguably the most chaotic week for video games in 2025, the Nintendo Switch 2 is available now, and we’re going to spend this whole episode talking about our first impressions of it. The roundtable of chairs for the show this go-around features George,...
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PPR 156
New recording platform, who dis’? Yeah, we’re all a bit excited over some of the new tech we have to produce the show, and we’re all trying to do everything we can to enjoy it while it’s still fresh and shiny in this latest episode of Press Pause Radio. This session is much more casual than the...
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PPR 155
After nearly ten years with everyone’s favorite console/handheld hybrid, Nintendo is FINALLY gracing the world with a grand-scale presentation of the Switch successor, the Nintendo Switch 2. So, what better way to hype ourselves up for the big N’s upcoming hardware than to fantasize a bunch of…
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PPR Presents The Golden Zonkies: Class of 2024
Well, we should have guessed that it wouldn’t be a Golden Zonkies episode without a troubled production to delay the release! Some traditions really do die hard! Anyway—our sincerest apologies for the delay, the Golden Zonkie class of 2024 is officially here! Unfortunately, 2024 saw more of the...
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PPR 154
New year, same tardy nonsense—we recorded a few weeks ago, but life and technical issues got in the way of the production process, and for that, we sincerely apologize to y’all. Before we get into the Golden Zonkies’ class of 2024, however, we wanted to have an old-school “PPR-ass PPR” round…
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PPR 153
Life has been pretty hectic for all of us, and even when we have in some time to play some games in between the bustle and hustle of day-to-day life, it’s been a little harder to find time in the day to talk about what we’ve been playing amongst ourselves… So for that, we’re really sorry about…
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PPR 152
As real as Bobby Braddock’s melodic soliloquy "Time Marches On" gets, we are now on the other side of another digital sunset as Microsoft closes down the Xbox 360 Marketplace. The term "sunset" may not be the right choice here, though with all of Microsoft’s confusing cross-pollination between…
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PPR 151
It’s raining diss tracks y’all, and ain’t nobody safe from the rhyming raids of character assault up in this BEE-yotch that we call LYFE… Alright, that’s enough cringe—with all of the harrowing news we’ve seen out of 2024, we’ve decided to try our hand at some levity with a brainstorm-fueled...
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PPR 150
Hey everyone, apologies for sitting on the production of the episode for as long as we did—a combination of schedule changes within our daily routines coupled with the rare moments of poop-socking that were granted for us to dump giant loads into new releases with near endless maws of content...
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PPR Presents The Golden Zonkies: Class Of 2023
Not to get too sidetracked but did y’all know that American Dad has aired for 13 seasons now? Shit’s kind of wild when you think about it. Anyway, better late than ever, here’s our annual Golden Zonkey Podcast special for the year 2023! We were able to fit a bunch of new games into our lineup…
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PPR 149
There’s one thing to lose a job (it still sucks, there’s no denying that) but it’s a whole other level of despair when you lose a dream job—something you’re proud to call a career. In the year 2023 alone, there has been a reported 6,000 layoffs in the Games Industry since October of this year…
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PPR 148
A tale as old as time, with a verse that has no clever rhyme—George really hates everything about flying. Miserable flights aside though, PPR’s Bearded Beast is back from the Nihon, and regales us with stories of his travels, the sights who he took in, and the retro games he stumbled upon in his…
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PPR 147
It sure has been a while now hasn’t it? Well, we made sure to make it count with this new episode as we brought along John Unterseher from Super RPG Friends to round out this week’s table of chuckleheads! In an effort to talk shop on all of the recent announcements that took place while also…
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PPR 145
CANADA INVENTED FOOTBALL! That’s just one of the many things you’ll learn in this new episode of Press Pause Radio—aside from the fact that George also got a Vasectomy, that’s a thing too we guess. We keep it pretty casual off the heels of the Golden Zonkies and just talk about the latest stuff...
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PPR Presents The Golden Zonkies: Class Of 2022
Now that we’ve torn all of the pages off of our 2022 Bluey licensed Calendars, we’ve jumped ahead into a whole new January filled with work, fatigue, and the occasional video game or two set the vibe to 2023 with. While we’ve definitely had some negative things to say about the last couple of...
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PPR 144
Instead of going all of those clichéd “Remember when you could drink water from the Garden Hose” sayings, we’re just going to stick with something way less hacky, and far more direct—everything is WAY too fucking expensive right now… ESPECIALLY Video Games, like, who fucking needs to spend $100…
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PPR 143
Hey all—it’s certainly…been a while since we released an episode, and for that we truly apologize. The Press Pause Radio staff has been contending with a “Life comes at you fast” sort of deal the last two months and well, we went on an unplanned hiatus. The good news is that we’re back, and not...
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PPR 142
Right before Geoff Keighly kicked off his Summer Throat Stroke™, we all scrambled to gather some of our thoughts on what we’ve been playing while we can because unlike the droughts we’ve seen in the years before 2022, we’re in for a flood of titles dropping onto shelves this summer. Setting aside...
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House Show: That's Not Ciclope!
So we've been away for a bit, sorry about that everyone. But just like George's favorite wrestler Dean Malenko in that match against Jericho, we have returned! This is a catch-up episode where we just try to touch base on everything that has happened over the last several months, including Cody...
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PPR 141
Even though some Video Games that are so good that you just want to play them over and over again, you can’t help but wish for them to get some tinkering under the hood to supe’ them up with the times. Luckily, there are plenty of titles getting new life again for the High Definition screen and a...
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PPR 140
It’s pretty wild to see how many Video Game properties have been adapted for viewing over playing the last year or so. As James Marsden and Company ride the Box Office Success of “Rachel Adventure” (or Sonic The Hedgehog 2 for you Layman’s out there) we here at Press Pause Radio have been getting...
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PPR 139
Now more than ever, Online Multiplayer has established itself into a bonafide standard in the Modern Gaming Climate with dedicated servers that operate on a scale that gets bigger by the year, making the term “Massive” a bit redundant in the process. Even as you read this, there are thousands of...
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PPR 138
Technical issues be damned because Press Pause Radio is stronger than any defective update or worn-out Graphics Card broken that’s crappy enough to try and stop us this late in the GAME. This week, we decided to keep it chill, and catch everyone up with what we’ve been playing since our Golden...
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House Show: Debuthausen
As of this recording, pretty much all of the wrestling internet has seen Danhausen's debut in AEW and those fans that have followed his career are through the roof! However, there may be some (Toast included) that may need a Cliff Notes version of his milestones up to this point. We discuss what...
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PPR Presents The Golden Zonkies: Class Of 2021
We’ve wrapped up the second year of the Pterodactyl, Panini, Pizza Party, or whatever the hell else you prefer to call it and are now slugging into the Junior Year of Covid-19: Omicron Edition. It’s been another tough year for everyone, and the cast of Press Pause Radio is far from excluded to…
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PPR 137
Happy December Y'all! Hopefully you enjoyed whatever you could out of Colonizer Day and all of the proceeding sales that came afterward. We spent our time toiling away so that we can prepare for some end of the year coverage before we get into the GOTY Season of the year with the Golden Zonkies!…
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House Show: We're Proud Of You
We are about a week removed from the biggest AEW event of the year, and it's still all good vibes and happy feelings over here! George and Toast speak about the results of Full Gear, the payoff of two years of storytelling and what it means for the landscape of wrestling going forward. We...
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PPR 136
Sweet Baby Ray’s be damned because not even its thick and zesty power could mask the insect-like veneer of Jesse Esienberg’s most villainous character role. As the dust settles over Facebook’s transition to a Buzzword, there have been a certifiable crap-load of games to that we’ve been playing…
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House Show: Become The Wind
We have returned with a new episode of House Show, with a new flow and new direction moving forward. This episode we take a look at the career and influence of the "Murder Grandpa" himself, Minoru Suzuki. With a career spanning over thirty years and an impact on not only wrestling but mixed…
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PPR 135
Y’all remember that scene from Grosse Pointe Blank where the Convenience store Clerk plays an Arcade port of Doom II throughout the film despite the fact that there is no such thing as a Doom II Arcade—isn’t it weird just how bad Hollywood is with Video games? Like forget Video Game Adaptions for…
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House Show: CM Punk Return, All Out Predictions and NWA Weekend
CM Punk made his long awaited return to wrestling recently, and the build up to AEW All Out could not be more anticipated. There has also been plenty of wrestling lately, such as the NWA Empower event and a major title change at NWA 73. George and Toast discuss this plus the new wrestling drama...
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Here's the thing, we trying to distance ourselves away from any other other podcast you may hear about or listen to, We range on a multitude of topics from current present standing & what-nots going on in the video game industry to many different retrospectives that has may our once scoffed upon "juvenile" entertainment, into respected media platform among music and movies. So kick back and listen, feel free to message us with any Ideas you may have for the show, or just plain message us.
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