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The Nextlander Podcast

Smooth Jimmy's Pod of the Week

4/2/20262 hr 28 min

Brad's on the mend this week, so Giant Bomb's in-house counsel Jeff Bakalar is filling the rotating chair this week as we discuss PAX East, recent video game releases, and the gambling industry's ongoing contribution to the degeneration of society.

CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) | NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) | Intro
(00:01:29) | Welcome back Jeff Bakalar
(00:09:54) | What a fun PAX East this year
(00:15:13) | Oh, you want to buy some...

Clips

Kids and betting apps
How they sugarcoat betting
Your face is the product
“My 10-year-old knew spreads”
“Let’s have fun with lawsuits”
“I could almost do that”
PS5 price hikes bombshell
Short-term win, long-term loss?
Get out while you can
Friends and family policy

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Vinny Caravella· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another Nexlander podcast. Alex Navarro.

  2. Alex Navarro· Host0:16

    Yeah.

  3. Vinny Caravella· Host0:17

    Brad Shoemaker is out. He talked about it on the RambleCast, but he's having a, a touch of the surgery today.

  4. Alex Navarro· Host0:23

    Uh-huh.

  5. Vinny Caravella· Host0:24

    Or yesterday. Yeah, he's, um- Yeah, just a little, a little nip of the neck surgery, you know? That's right.

  6. Alex Navarro· Host0:29

    Like just a little, just a little taste of it.

  7. Vinny Caravella· Host0:30

    Uh, joining us here is, uh, Jeff Bakalar. Thank you very much.

  8. Jeff Bakalar· Guest0:34

    Hello, friends.

  9. Vinny Caravella· Host0:36

    Hi.

  10. Jeff Bakalar· Guest0:36

    How are you? Thanks for having me. What's shaking?

  11. Vinny Caravella· Host0:38

    What's shaking? So, uh, Brad, uh, just so people know, he's, uh, he's having a similar surgery to what I had, and many, many others have had. He's having a... It sou- I think it sounds worse than it is, though it's pretty, it's pretty intense. S- a fusion. It's two- Wow ... two vertebrae fuse, the disc removed. I think he's having actually multiple vertebrae fused.

  12. Alex Navarro· Host0:55

    It, it used to be a much more intense surgery- Yeah ... than I think it is these days, where it can be done in a relatively quick amount of time, uh, versus, you know... But the recovery is still no joke.

  13. Vinny Caravella· Host1:05

    Yeah, yeah.

  14. Jeff Bakalar· Guest1:06

    Man.

  15. Vinny Caravella· Host1:06

    So we wish him the best. I, I messaged him yesterday. I hope he is recovering well, uh, today, but he'll be out for this, and you can hear more about it again on the RambleCast, where he talks about it. I'm not gonna speak for the man, you know?

  16. Alex Navarro· Host1:18

    But don't worry.

  17. Vinny Caravella· Host1:18

    That's right.

  18. Alex Navarro· Host1:19

    We've surgically repaired this podcast to ensure we still have a third host, Jeff Bakalar.

  19. Jeff Bakalar· Guest1:23

    Hey.

  20. Vinny Caravella· Host1:23

    That's right. In the rotating seats.

  21. Jeff Bakalar· Guest1:26

    Once again.

  22. Alex Navarro· Host1:27

    He's been- It's, uh- ... fused to the rotating seat.

  23. Vinny Caravella· Host1:29

    Oh,

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