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This week, we talk a bit of New Year's before getting deep into the ongoing government lockout, Lauren Hill’s legacy, Takz explains a bit of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Funk Flex vs. Dame Dash and more! Follow our 2018 Wrap Up playlist!

For the last show of the year, we’re joined by Ra Low from MOWU’s Frame by Frame podcast. We recap our Christmas gifts as well as get into some rare movie talk this week. Drama in the smash community, our favorite moments of the year and more in this episode!

Merry Christmas!!! This week, we talk the holiday spirit and abuse the movie announcer voice. We check in with Capcom Cup correspondent: HamBam for some insight on the premier event and his opinion on the future of Street Fighter! We also check in with Potent of Pressure Music Group and get some voice acting gold. Soulja Boy with more knock-off gear, more Fortnite lawsuits and is Kodak Black underrated? All that and more this week.

This week, an observation on Detroit gang using paintballs to solve their issues sparks an interesting topic of debate. Soulja Boy drops new knock off consoles, The Game Awards comes with a ton of announcements, Jacquees may be delusional about the "King of R&B" and more!

This week, we each give our top 5 albums for the year, SouljaBoy's new "console", Game Awards speculation as well as Bethesda's mishap with customer info. Plus - Smash Ultimate, new music releases and Byron debuts a new song "Space Odyssey" and sparks an interesting conversation about relationships.

This week, we talk the advent of genetically edited babies, what Ninja possibly entering the arena of competitive fighting games means for eSports, JID's DiCaprio 2 and who the hitmakers are for NY hip-hop. All that and more, enjoy!

For this year's Thanksgiving episode, we sit down with the esteemed VND (Vid Not Dave) to speculate what we are eating for Thanksgiving, a deep dive on the effects of the contact in the NFL and some speculation as to why Sony doesn't want to do E3 next year. We finish with a mix by VND made exclusively for our listeners.

Josh Sanders joins us this week to debut some music from his latest project "Chozen Thoughts" releasing Black Friday. We finally get to the bottom of the McRib's relevance in our culture and send our condolences to the late Stan Lee. We also talk Nintendo's recent lawsuit for $12 million against rom sites, Microsoft's X018 conference, Ryan Reynolds as Detective Pikachu and much more!

This week's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/officialfutureperfect/playlist/7p5sd8NiIO0smYwORL7WMw?si=G5x8ibXeRDaQiffBpxA3Vw

This week, LDER joins the fray for another exciting episode. We send our condolences to the victims to the mass shooting in California this week as well as speculate why Amazon would want to purchase Lyft. The crew also takes a swing at the Diablo Immortal debacle as well as Fortnite's efforts to collaborate with the NFL, Walmart embracing eSports and Microsoft's XO18 conference before talking LDER's debut EP "Klexos"

This week's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/officialfutureperfect/playlist/0oWVo4uwUqjDMkmLKPMEap?si=8_51DjhASIeTaVZs8cV10w