Hosts Andrew and Alex chat about Death Stranding's Episode 4: Unger and Episode 5: Mama. After a quick journey to seemingly another dimension, we learn about Mama and why she can’t leave her own lab building. The engineer behind most of your gadgets has plenty to unveil and the cast of the story continues to grow. Compare your experiences, opinions and expectations for what's next. We bet you can’t wait to find out more about Deadman and the predicament we find ourselves in with our BB.

Stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss Death Stranding's Episodes 6 and 7.

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• (00:00:01) - God of War: Ragnarok, Valhalla DLC Review
• (00:03:08) - Death Stranding: Episode 4 & 5
• (00:07:43) - Black Mirror: The Multiverse
• (00:09:39) - Episode 5: Go to Mama's Place
• (00:10:15) - Death Stranding: Episode 3 Review
• (00:12:32) - How to Survive A Supercell Storm
• (00:17:50) - How to get from South Knot to Lake Knot
• (00:22:20) - chiral crystals on the floating carrier
• (00:23:46) - How To Die In 'Eve'
• (00:28:39) - Antimatter Bomb pickup
• (00:34:50) - How to get to the weather station from the mountain
• (00:39:57) - Stranger Things 2
• (00:42:17) - Cut the Umbilical Cord Of The BT Baby
• (00:45:57) - I Ate A Demigorgon Lion

Hosts Andrew and Alex wrap up Death Stranding's Episode 3: Fragile and wonder what’s to come. Fragile finally shares her side of the story after another harrowing close call and side quest deliveries take over the mind. Compare your experiences, opinions and expectations for what's next. After the finale of Episode 3, the plot only thickens with the mysterious place we end up to start off Episode 4.

Stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss Death Stranding's Episodes 4 and 5.

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• (00:00:01) - The Gaming Backlog Book Club
• (00:00:17) - Death Stranding: Remote Play in 4K
• (00:01:57) - Order Fetch quests in
• (00:04:10) - How to Deliver the Hourglass in '
• (00:05:34) - Deliver Chiral Hourglass
• (00:09:16) - How to transport a corpse in a body bag
• (00:11:21) - "That's the girl he loves!"
• (00:16:58) - Private Room Cutscenes
• (00:18:59) - Bts on Mules
• (00:22:48) - D&D: How to Complete an Episode 3
• (00:27:49) - Conan O'Brien in an Otter Hat
• (00:29:40) - The Sticky Gun
• (00:33:28) - Higgs Undercover Delivery a Nuclear Device
• (00:36:47) - How To Save The City In The Dark
• (00:39:19) - Higgs The Walking Dead Ending Explained
• (00:42:38) - Porter vs Firefighter in '
• (00:44:37) - Porter Trophies
• (00:46:31) - Floating Carrier Sledding
• (00:48:22) - E3 Tips for Hyrule
• (00:51:25) - D&D: Secret to Faster Stamina Recovery
• (00:51:54) - Death Stranding: Episode 4 Review

Hosts Alex and Andrew explore the land beyond Lake Knot City after crossing the crater lake while discussing their adventures so far in the first main missions of Death Stranding's Episode 3: Fragile. Compare your experiences, opinions and expectations for what's next. Everything is expected to start heating up from here. Mysteries abound in this unique sci-fi world and we can't wait to continue. Let's find out what awaits.

Stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss the final third of Death Stranding's Episode 3 and where Fragile's chapter of the journey leaves us before we move on to Episodes 4 and 5.

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• (00:00:02) - Death Stranding 2
• (00:00:54) - Death Stranding 2: Episode 2
• (00:02:38) - Post-Order: 9 Orders For The First Half
• (00:03:55) - The Last Battle of Lake Knot City
• (00:04:14) - Blender 2: Fragile Explained
• (00:06:43) - How to Survive On The Uca
• (00:09:56) - Blazeman 2
• (00:14:16) - John Wick vs
• (00:17:18) - How to survive on a mule
• (00:20:48) - Pizzas For Like in '
• (00:24:07) - Riding a Trike in
• (00:28:54) - Star Trek: The Chiral Network
• (00:29:48) - The Auto-Deliver Bot
• (00:32:17) - Riding a trike through the rain
• (00:37:10) - How to get to her safe house in
• (00:41:55) - How to get your safe house stuff out of the locker
• (00:43:36) - How To Deliver cargo to Timefall in '
• (00:46:59) - Death Stranding 2.3 Easter Eggs
• (00:50:24) - Conan O'Brien As A Hologram
• (00:51:52) - Farmstead Episode 3
• (00:55:29) - Challenging the Chiral Maze
• (00:55:53) - Breath of the Wild: Ending Fragile's Chapter

Join Andres and Alex as they discover more about the current stakes of the world of Death Stranding in Episode 2: Amelie. Compare your notes with their thoughts, opinions and analyses. Death Stranding only gets more unique than other video games from this point and everything in Episode 2 expands on that principle and then some. Will we learn more about what BTs are or what exactly is going on with Sam's BB? Let's find out.

Stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss the first two thirds of Death Stranding's Episode 3 and what Fragile has in store for Sam Porter Bridges.

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Alex and Andrew jump into the beginning of Death Stranding, discuss their thoughts, opinions and analyses of the Prologue and Episode 1 of the story, subtitled Porter and Bridget respectively. Death Stranding is a game that quickly sets up plenty of unique lore and introduces many key concepts and characters, but it will only accelerate from here. The intro was short but has us intrigued to learn more and theorizing plenty of ideas.

Stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss Death Stranding's Episode 2 and wherever it takes us.

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Hosts Andrew and Alex invite users to join the "book club" style conversation group The Gaming Backlog "Book Club", where one video game from an extensive backlog will be chosen to play through as a group, with everyone advancing to a prespecified chapter breakpoint or section each week, meeting up to discuss anything and everything related to the game up until that point, and chatting about expectations for the next week's chapter. The first video game of The Gaming Backlog "Book Club" podcast is Death Stranding by Kojima Productions. Death Stranding 2 will release on June 26, 2025, so there is no better moment to pull this game out of your backlog.

Before diving into Death Stranding, the hosts introduce themselves, walk through some of their favorite video games of all time, what they're playing now and their most anticipated new game releases. Join Alex and Andrew in starting Death Stranding this week and stay tuned for next week's episode to discuss Death Stranding's opening moments.

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