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Radmars Podcast
by Team Radmars
Team Radmars is a group of friends that join together Voltron style every couple months to create games in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare Game Jam. Andrew Mindler, Brendon Trombley, Trevor Williams, and Andrew Ford from the team have decided to spend their Sunday’s getting together to talk about things on various topics that pique their interest. Covering anything from playing the latest video games to discussing a daring engineless plane landing in Canada.
Episodes
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#118: Holiday Special 5: Hot Frosty Watchalong
Tis the season... kind of! It's time for our belated holiday episode where we do another watchalong of an unhinged Netflix Christmas movie together. This time it's the bafflingly titled Hot Frosty, which I will not elaborate upon because this is a ride best experienced blind. Queue it up on…
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#117: Champagne Supergnoma
The Radboys have reconvened for yet another Ludum Dare game jam! This time we welcome long-missed Porter and new member Devin to the brainstorming session for our game, where we put our heads together and astral project to a mystical idea zone full of gnomes, locusts, tardigrades, pearled hats…
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#116: Holiday Special 4: The Christmas Chronicles 2 Watchalong
It's that wonderful time of the year once again! This time we're doing a watchalong of The Christmas Chronicles 2, a whimsical holiday romp featuring bad boy elves, the Kurt Russellest Santa Claus ever conceived, and a level of violence and mind control that is probably too high for what is...
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#115: A Very Sophisticated Tent
The Radmars Podcast awakens from its eternal slumber and welcomes back the prodigal son Andy, who returns with a horrific tale of hospital horrors. Content warning: descriptions of blood, surgery and many other terrifying health issues. Hey! Check this out: No Man's Sky (Switch and PS5) Across…
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#114: From Bullet Hell to Meat Heaven
We successfully Ludum Dared once again! We birthed a beautiful meat baby called Meat Rancher 2199, and this is our postmortem where we talk about how the jam went, with hopefully fewer Javascript complaints this time around. If you haven't played it yet, go play it already dang it!!!...
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#113: The Truffle Canopy and Everywhere Inbetwixt
It's Ludum Dare time once again! Listen as we brainstorm and harvest all sorts of bizarre game ideas out of our brainmeat, also featuring the elusive lost Radmars member Eugene! Then play our new game: https://radmars.itch.io/ Hey! Check this out: Deep Rock Galactic Kerbal Space Program La Mulana...
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#112: Holiday Special 3: The Princess Switch 3 Watch-Along
It's the most special time of year yet again - time for our annual holiday movie watchalong where we dive head first back into the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe (NCCU). This time our movie experiment is The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, a Christmas movie that turns out to be a...
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#111: Fanic Son
The Rad boys jump through a big ring and teleport themselves straight into a discussion of the new Sonic movies! Spoilers abound, but everyone on the planet has seen them already of course. Also everyone on the mushroom planet. Hey! Check this out: Adventure Time The Lost Metal (Brandon Sanderson...
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#110: Star Wars: Monopoly Edition
The Dry Crew gathers at the table to talk about modern board games! Prepare for complicated mechanics and crunchy rules, crunchy snacks optional. Hey! Check these board games out: Star Wars: Rebellion Concept Paperback
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#109: Mandatory Horse Breeding
The Randboys generate a new episode to talk about randomizers, aka mods that randomize game progression, from Link to the Past to Elden Ring. Thankfully this episode is in go mode from the beginning, what a lucky break! Hey! Check this out: Julia (HBOMax) The Invisible Man (2020 film) Breath of…
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#108: Maybe Someday, Little Program
We successfully made the game we said we were gonna make! And in this episode we talk about how we made it! But mostly it's a lot of complaining about Javascript. If you haven't played 360° MICROSCOPE yet you have to now, it's the law. https://radmars.itch.io/360-degree-microscope Hey! Check this...
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#107: Terror of the Circular Trough
Hey, remember how Radmars is actually a game dev group? No? Well I don't blame you, but now you have no excuse because we made another game! We participated in the Ludum Dare 51 game jam, and this episode is our Friday night brainstorming session before we started work. Come hear how the…
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#106: The Robot Centipede
The Rad Neural Net jumps back into the horse ocean to discuss the latest developments in AI image generation and the inevitable takeover of the machines. I'm sure I made a joke in the description of the last AI episode about how an AI could do it better, so let's try it. GPT-3, continue this...
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#105: Fruit Fly Fist
The Dry Crew dusts off some fossils and history books to investigate the history of animal domestication, from dogs and cats to livestock and even foxes. Whether the particular segment of humanity represented by the hosts of this podcast is domesticated, however, remains to be seen. Hey! Check…
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#104: Nuclear Nails
The Rad crew dons their protective gear to chat about manmade unnatural disasters, including "peaceful" uses of nuclear weapons, drilling-induced mud volcanoes, and intentionally introducing invasive species. Humanity continues to carry on its tradition of being excellent stewards of the planet....
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#103: Tetris@Home
This week a Brendonless configuration of the Rad Infiltration Team huddles up to discuss hacking and lockpicking minigames. This is an expert-level lock so you'll probably be breaking about 5-10 picks in order to access this episode. Hey! Check this out: Westworld (season 1, on HBOMax) Sandman...
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#102: The Beefaturgist
The Rad crew gathers this week to discuss accessibility, in video games and beyond. The verdict reached on whether to put accessibility features in your games: "just do it ya dingus" Hey! Check this out: No Man's Sky: Endurance Jazz Emu (https://www.youtube.com/c/JazzEmu) Red Letter Media Star…
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#101: Chowdafest '22
The Dry Crew returns to crack open a couple cold ones and chat about hostile design in architecture & games and also how to keep those pesky humans from slurping up our yummy nuclear waste 10,000 years from now. How dare they try to find valuable things. (Mild Elden Ring spoilers from 21:15 to...
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#100: A Meme That Makes You Feel Good
We made it to episode 100! And on this auspicious occasion we talk about the recent trend of movies-as-family-therapy, in particular Turning Red, Encanto and Everything Everywhere All at Once. (spoiler warning for those movies of course) Step into our office and have a seat, won't you? Hey! Check...
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#99: All the Sides are Jar Jar
The Dry Crew returns and jumps into hyperdrive to talk about ASMR (again) and Star Wars (again)! Still definitely not sexual and not too many JJ/Palpatine complaints this time, we promise. Hey! Check this out: The Wire (HBOMax) This is EVE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0) TrekWatch...
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#98: I'm Sure We'll Find Nothing Terrifying in Space
This week the Radmars Astronomical Division peers into the night sky to discuss infrared astronomy, the James Webb Space Telescope, Lagrange points, and the general mystery of space. Be careful though - if you gaze into an eldritch black hole, the eldritch black hole gazes also into you... Hey!...
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#97: The Darkshape Initiative
The Rad team upgrades their cyberbrains to talk about EVE Online drama and transhumanism, all the way from current tech like cochlear implants and bionic vision to futuristic brain modification and replacing various parts of your body with shark heads. It's what all the cool kids are doing...
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#96: Swoleness from the Muscle Dimension
On this thematic episode of the Various Superheroes That Andy's Son Likes podcast, we talk about Power Rangers, its badass theme song, and how musical motifs work in superhero movies and other works. Just imagine that cool Avengers theme right now. Pretty good right? Hey! Check this out: Oolong…
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#95: The Wizard Singularity
In this expansive episode we jump on the horse again and ride into a discussion of open world games and emergent gameplay. What emerges, you may ask? Horses. Of courses. Hey! Check this out: Better Call Saul Severance Set (card game & https://www.setgame.com/welcome) suckerpinch aka Tom 7...
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#94: Impromptu Alien Honeymoon
We once again open the Rad-Files to investigate alien abductions and other spooky encounters, including those of Betty & Barney Hill, Travis Walton, the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter and some guy on Reddit. The truth is out there... it's just that the truth mostly consists of people getting...
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#93: An Ancient Pie, Filled with Despair
The Radtarnished boys venture to the Lands Between to talk about none other than Elden Ring! As if you haven't heard about it enough already. Be wary of mild spoilers but joy ahead Hey! Check this out: FTL @chadthebirdtok on TikTok Georgia Dow - Therapist Reacts...
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#92: Reverse Magnetism
In this chilling episode the Paranormal Rad Investigation Team delves into the unknown and investigates spooky and mysterious places, such as the Winchester house, Coral Castles, Death Valley, Mt. Everest, a haunted lab in England haunted, and of course Mel's Hole. Don't throw your dog in the…
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#91: The AllCrabSpark
In the hotly anticipated sequel to episode 13 ("Fact! All human beings are Crab shaped!") the Radscience team investigates the evolutionary phenomenon of carcinization, where nature just likes to make things into crabs for some reason. Are we all going to become crabs someday? Well yes, but...
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#90: 20 Televisions and a Bowl of Egg
The team rises from their collective grave to discuss the game Project Zomboid and also how zombies just keep sticking around in pop culture forever. It's like they just won't stay dead! Ha, ha, ha, hajruighruhgrghrffffff Hey! Check this out: Told in Stone (YouTube channel:...
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#89: Relegated to the BBQ (Bad Boy Queue)
The rad gentlemen, minus a vomiting Andy, log on to discuss game controllers, credit scores, matchmaking and how ratings systems dehumanize us. Fun! If we could give you a 5-star listener rating we would though. Hey! Check this out: It Takes Two 200 Players Simulate Civilization on Minecraft…
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#88: Turns Out the Answer was Fighting
The Radteam jacks into the simulation to talk about Encanto, kayfabe, and the Matrix Resurrections. The verdict: it sure was a movie. Hey! Check this out: Surface Pressure (from Encanto) Maniac (Netflix) Don't Look Up (Netflix) Enes Yilmazer...
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#87: Toxic-Resin-Filled Gem
Replicas of the team are printed on Mars to discuss 3D Printing. Also check out Andy's Etsy store! Even though it's all sold out as of this writing! Hey! Check this out: Ranking of Kings (Anime) Skott (musical artist) Keeping a grocery store lobster as a pet...
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#86: Wario, Waluigi, and Wacebo Effect
This week the team pops sugar pills together to decide the effects they have on us as we talk about placebos. Hey! Check this out: Dayquil (yep.) Minecraft (Caves & Cliffs updates) Atomic Robo (comic) The Expanse (season 6, on Amazon Prime) Wheel of Time (Amazon Prime)
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#85: Graveyard Orbit World Tour
The Radboys ring in the new year with strange satellites and seasonal content in games. Tis the season for games. Always. Hey! Check this out: Genshin Impact Christmas cookies. Yes. Comixology Twelve Tones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4niz8TfY794)
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#84: Beautiful Bunnyboys
The Rad team groups up and goes on a raid to discuss story and player interaction in MMOs. Why yes, the latest FFXIV expansion had just come out when this was recorded, why do you ask? Hey! Check this out: Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Arcane OST Fear Street Trilogy (Netflix) Between Two Ferns…
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#83: Jeff Spaceos
This week the gang prances along rooftops to discuss Santa Claus. Hey! Check This Out! - The Christmas Chronicles (Netflix) - The Beauty of Bezier Curves (Freya Holmer - Youtube) - Deadly Games AKA Dial Code Santa Claus AKA 3615 code Père Noël - Wireless Charging Logitech Gaming Mouse
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#82: Teriyaki Balboa
The team scuttles together to discuss personal projects that they've had in the backs of their minds for a while. Check This Out! -Arcane -Agricola -Terraforming Mars -Silksonic -Eschatos (Steam)
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#81: Holiday Special 2: The Princess Switch Watch-Along
It's that magical time of year again - the time where we all watch a stupid Christmas movie together on Netflix and dunk on it endlessly. This time it's 2018's The Princess Switch starring Vanessa Hudgens. Fire up your Netflix machine and join us in the vaguely European land of Belgravia for a...
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#80: Cotton Candy Spider Cinematic Universe
This illicit episode is all about piracy, of video games and beyond. You wouldn't download a podcast! Nevermind, you totally would. Please do download this podcast. Hey! Check this out: Diablo 2 Resurrected Hearthstone: Mercenaries Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years...
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#79: Quantum Poop Smell
This week the team outruns giant sand worms to discuss the 2021 Denis Villeneuve movie Dune! Hey! Check this out: -Night Tempo (Band) -The Great British Baking Show - Season 9 (Netflix Show) -Bicycle Shops -Reaper by Will Wight (Cradle Book Series) -The Fremen Mirage (blog articles)…
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#78: The Sexy Quark
The Dry Crew subteam of the Radgroup convenes to discuss the scale of the universe, from the Planck length to galaxy superclusters. We're very qualified for this, you see. Hey! Check this out: Denver, Colorado. It's a pretty cool place apparently. PBS Spacetime: Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?...
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#77: I only like Pizza Hut pizza
The team is patched into the episode to discuss patches but really mostly talks about Guilty Gear. Hey! Check this out: Disco Elysium Jang Bricks The Fightgame Glossary Website : https://glossary.infil.net/
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#76: Mode 6 Babbbyyyy
The topic du jour... retro games and the technology that shaped them! Remember Sound Blaster? Radmars remembers. Hey! Check this out: The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A1Aj1_EF9Y) Capcom Arcade Aspect Ratio (CPS1 and CPS2)...
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#75: iPhones in Space
It's the last gasp of spooky season in 2021 so we talk about horror movies a bunch! Also Dune. Arrakis. Desert planet... Hey! Check this out: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Alien Swarm Lucifer (Netflix) Killer Klowns from Outer Space
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#74: Bajilliton QTE
This time on the RadPod - video game bosses! There are so many kinds of them it made a long episode! Wow! Great! Hey! Check this out: Mega64: Shadow of the Colossus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqd9GiaJUos) Element TD 2 (Steam) Bailey's Apple Pie Great British Baking Show (new season on...
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#73: Wendigeese
The team throws down what they're working on to come together and discuss how you know when a project is actually 'done'. Hey! Check this out! - The Incredibles (Pixar Movie) - Art and Fear (Book) - Nomic (Board Game) - Deltarune (Video Game)
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#72: Wet 'n Wild Wednesday
The Radboys kick off the spookiest season of the year with ghost stories! Also rats. Beware of rats. Hey! Check this out: Mythic Quest (Apple TV) Doom Eternal CHUP (that's ketchup) Mystics in Bali (1981 film)
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#71: Brandon Trombone
This week the team orbits around the sun collectively siphoning the energy off of it while discussing Dyson Spheres and other random space stuff. Hey! Check this out: Claire Saffitz's Babkallah Recipe (from Dessert Person) Showing off our Cool Stuff to Other Dimensions...
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#70: The Dirty Dangler
Hoo boy. This episode is a doozy. For some reason we decided to talk about the most horrific and bizarre mating habits and lifecycles of the animal kingdom, including those of anglerfish, bedbugs, wasps, octopuses, ducks, eels, and wasps again. Warning: this episode is very gross and cursed. Hey!...
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#69: Nice!
The team is replicated so they can discuss sequels! Hey! Check this out! Smarter Every Day re: Carburetors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVfvRhWbj8) Spa Water 2: Demon's Water aka the Dark Souls of Drinks (water w/ cucumber & strawberry) Dyson Sphere Program (Steam) Psychonauts (Steam, etc.)...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Team Radmars is a group of friends that join together Voltron style every couple months to create games in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare Game Jam. Andrew Mindler, Brendon Trombley, Trevor Williams, and Andrew Ford from the team have decided to spend their Sunday’s getting together to talk about things on various topics that pique their interest. Covering anything from playing the latest video games to discussing a daring engineless plane landing in Canada.
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