Heart Piece Podcast

These are trying times in America. Tensions are high, opinions and thoughts are being flung left and right, and every venture out into the World Wide Web seems to be littered with more random encounters than Lufia 1. How can we navigate this minefield of high-powered opinions without unleashing our ultimate attack? Well, you could either stock up on Holy Water (or Max Repel if that's more your speed) or you can use a little thing called Empathy.

MasterWife and MasterJoe use the concept of Back Seat Gaming to talk about the effects of empathizing with others as a means to achieve understanding and establish common ground. No one likes a backseat human. Learn to ride shotgun instead!

HEY! Is that Another MHPotW bumper?!

BONUS: NES Classic woes, Huemanatee, Link Up!
RUNTIME: 43 min

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Moving is hard. You literally uproot your entire life and transplant it into a new place. You have to find a new place to live, get used to your new boss, and make new friends. You have to re-hang all of your nerd art (UGH)! Or maybe you're move is less drastic. Perhaps you're going to college or just starting a new job. Maybe you're moving from the basement to the attic, who knows? Started at the bottom...

Getting acclimated to the "new" can be a big challenge, but as a gamer, you're better equipped to handle that challenge than you think! MasterWife and MasterJoe share what video games taught them about how to conquer strange new worlds in real life.

Say, is that an actual MHPotW bumper?? Don't forget to set the timer.

BONUS: Life's Most Stressful Things, World 2 Quiz, Link Up
RUNTIME: 36 min

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Take a look at your Friends Lists and Follower counts. Of the [insert amount here] people on those lists, how many of their first names do you know? Do you know where they are from? What do they like to do for fun? For work? Actually, do you know anything about any of them besides their gamertag or Twitter handle?
Odds are, you don't know all that much about the real people who populate your friends lists. So, how can we cure the anti-socialness of social media? Simple. By being brave enough to be social again! In this episode, MasterWife and MasterJoe discuss the idea of demystifying the mystery of avatars and getting to know the people behind them to form more meaningful relationships. Put on your bold pants, listener. This one comes with a challenge! Oh, and enjoy the copious amount of Star Fox quotes and sound bites because Star Fox Zero launches today :)
BONUS: Boost or Break, Miitomo, Voice Actor Casting?
RUNTIME: 43 min

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Greetings from MasterJoe and Dr. MasterWife! It's been quite a while but the Masters are back in #HPHQ and better than ever. Thank you all for supporting us in our absence. In fact, this entire episode is about support! Life can be pretty challenging sometimes (don't we know). You may have an important test to study for or a big assignment at work to get done. Maybe you're just trying to tackle the Dark Zone in The Division. Just like in video games, when the going gets tough, the tough bring healers! Or engineers, or spell casters, or more healers! Always more healers.

MasterWife discusses her long and arduous journey from graduate student to doctorate degree holder, and MasterJoe spouts nonsense while reacting to multiple trigger words and phrases, resulting in a few songs and some movie quotes. Prepare yourselves, HPeeps. Support is inbound!,

P.S.: Never get the airport sandwich.

BONUS: Capt
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MasterWife and MasterJoe are back from MAGFest 2016! Such an amazing festival/convention. This episode comes fresh off the ride home from the event, so we just had to recap all the amazing time we had. If there ever was a gamer family reunion, this was it. We got to meet, see, and hang out with a bunch of old and new friends, jam out to some incredible music, and of course, play a ton of games. If you weren't there this year, you definitely need to be there next year!

RUNTIME: 28 min

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What's this? Another episode of the HPP in the same week? Yup, and just in time for Valentine's Day.

In this episode, MasterWife returns from PhD land to chat with Emma and Phillip at #HPHQ about an incredibly rare specimen in the world of tabletop gaming: A two-player card game! Originally created by Emma as a Valentine's Day present for her game-designer boyfriend, Heartcatchers is an adorable game of deception and secrets which is currently in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign to be printed and shipped. Hey, we know a thing or two about Kickstarter ourselves :)

BONUS: Boost Or Break
RUNTIME: 38 min

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We have an idea for a movie. Drummer, a lady gamer, and a black guy all go to a dance contest. It's called, today's episode of the Heart Piece Podcast. Right? You're welcome. MasterJoe and MasterIce chat it up to talk about the revised theory of separation. Fun fact: It's not six degrees anymore. You're a lot closer to everyone else in the world than you think. Well, in theory at least.

MasterJoe ran into the original Mario Bros. world record holder, Steven Kleisath, and got a visit from his old buddy Krysti Pride, who had some interesting news! Grab your Notepads and your TextEdits. It's time to talk about #hplinks! And please, peeps, don't let elderly people use seesaws.

BONUS: Senior Seesaw, Circle of Gaming Life, Mario Bros.
RUNTIME: 40 min

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PUT THAT DOWN LITTLE JOHNNY! (Ahem) You know what's great about the Heart Piece Podcast? You can listen to it even while attending to your kids! After all, the gamers of the 80s are now becoming parents, and some of them are having kids of their own. MasterIce knows about the joys and struggles of parenthood firsthand and shares some perspective on what it's like to make the transition to being a parent first and gamer second. Special appearance by his two kids, plus we share the number one game parents should be playing with their kids, as told by kids.
BONUS: Caution: Snow, Boost or Break, Master Niece and Nephew
RUNTIME: 37 min

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David Hayter is out of Metal Gear Solid. Kiefer Sutherland is out of 24. And I could have sworn I left my sandwich on the counter just a minute ago! Who can you trust these days? My brother MasterIce makes his debut as the interim co-host of our podcast, sitting in for MasterWife, as we talk about backstabbers, teamwork, and which one of those concepts Ubisoft's The Division will lean towards when it launches.

We've even got some beta codes from the folks at Red Storm to give away. Trust us.

 

BONUS: Sinbad the Sailor, 8-bit Christmas, #BHPOTW, Grind & Boom
RUNTIME: 29 min

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So we learned a thing. When your bank sends you a new debit card right before you take a trip, take it with you so you can activate it, pay your podcast hosting fees, and continue to be able to upload episodes! Sorry this one is coming so late. We've been in Florida having far too much fun. All is well now.
Nevertheless, MasterWife makes her long-awaited return to the cast. We talk about a foolproof way to keep your New Year's Resolutions, our latest co-op game obsessions, the best sushi in South Florida (oh-em-gee, soo-goh-ee), our despair over a recent change at Chick-fil-A, and what's coming down the pipe for the podcast in 2016!
Also, sorry about the audio. Out of town, so we recorded this in a car.
BONUS: NYE Party, #TeamHoneyMustard, 

RUNTIME: 24 min

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