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Tommy and Adam talk to "Escape Room in a Box" creators Juliana Patel and Ariel Rubin about creating a successful Kickstarter campaign. They offer a lot of helpful advice to anyone who has ever wanted to crowdfund a game (or other project).

John and Dan reveal secrets about their place in the world.

Bonus content is available here, but only for listeners who are kind enough to support us. Everyone else should just feel guilty.

Dan and Keith blow through some news so we can get to the main course:

An ACTUAL movie review! Not only a review, but a review of "Mercy Black" - the newest Blumhouse production on Netflix! NOT ONLY A REVIEW BUT ALSO AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR!!!!! This is the stuff dreams are made of! Listen to Keith and Owen chat about the flick in a spoilery, and non-spoilery way!

Guest: Owen Egerton, the most attractive ginger on the planet.

Co-host: Dan Richardson

RubyMotion, soon to be DragonRuby, empowers developers to write cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and OS X in Ruby. Lori Olson joined Brittany on the show to discuss the evolution of the framework, her mobile development courses and her (potentially) controversial opinions of Javascript.

DISCUSSED: What we talk about when we talk about optimism; the power of "Act as Though"; on edibles; a YouTube recommendation, then more YouTube recommendations; how even do we tell YouTube what we never want to see again? HOW?!; the difficulty of sensible algorithms; the fascinating concept of "pareidolia"; Professor Shoelaces's extensive metatags; your hosts answer a listener's question about when to go physical versus when to go digital.

Horace shares more thoughts on Apple Card and Services, and touches on a surprising staple of 1980s Romanian television.

Jeff and Christian welcome Andrea Rene from What's Good Games and Kinda Funny back to the show to discuss what might be next for Assassin's Creed, Labo VR actually being good, and the expose on Bioware and the development of Anthem.

The Playlist: CONTROL, Journey to the Savage Planet, Trover Saves the Universe, Dangerous Driving, Yoshi’s Crafted World, Risk of Rain 2

VR Talk: Stormland, BeatSaber Oculus Quest, Borderlands 2 VR with AIM controller

Tommy and Adam discuss Apple's broad diversification coming out of their latest event, public shaming of people who treat the environment poorly, and the EU's decision to pass Article 11 and 13 (now 17).

Sorry for the delay - Keith and Dan were in a sugar coma!

This week we talk about movie news while eating candy from the top 25 sellers of American candy! Then at the end of the show - we eat 15 mystery Japanese KitKat's!

News included: 'Joker' movie poster tease, Mark Hamill's news casting and TONS of Endgame speculations.

Co-host: Dan Richardson

DISCUSSED: Merlin is back on his old cans; Dan is pivoting to video; Cash stepped in paint, and kids are terrible storytellers; a book recommendation; a case for the Oxford comma, please and thank you; Dan starts asking for help with his new iMac; gross nickel–and-diming by Apple; praise for Southwest Airlines; Dan (finally) gets to finish asking for help with his new iMac; a cool new open source Mac video app; the Mac laptop keyboard problems ain't going away; Dan really likes Final Cut; Merlin fights with UPS, both on principle and as a game; Merlin thinks Dan's egg cooker rules.