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  • Episode 067: Taco Bell is Food.
    2025/08/13

    Welcome back! This week’s episode is what I like to call a potpourri show, because we’ve got a little bit of everything. Some old games, some new games. Old movies, new movies. Nacho Fries. Mattress toppers. You know, the things you expect from a video game variety show.

    00:00 Introduction, eating

    22:59 The Fantastic Four, Point Break

    32:23 Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, Starmaker Story

    50:38 Man of Medan, EA College Football 26, Expedition 33

    01:05:21 Mafia: The Old Country

    01:23:27 Heretic/Hexen collection

    01:36:32 The Naked Gun, Together

    01:49:32 CQC (Comments, Questions, Concerns)

    Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee: https://meganmcduffee.com

    Logo and artwork by John Gholson

    Announcer: John Gholson

    Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect

    Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com


    Copyright 2024 Space Monkey Mafia Productions


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    2 時間 34 分
  • Episode 066: Don't Eat it Yet
    2025/08/06

    You’ll probably be wondering where the title of this week’s episode came from. Fortunately we had AddieXD back on for a lesson in delayed gratification. Enjoy!

    00:00 Today’s Special, time to kill all Jedi

    14:18 Julian’s new hobby(?), general ennui

    18:52 Power Chord, Steam wishlists

    27:23 Catching up with Addie

    35:58 Persona 4 Golden, Dead Take

    49:58 Final thoughts on House of Ashes, Death Stranding 2

    01:08:02 Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Alan Wake II and Remedy

    01:40:42 Cheese

    01:47:02 Game night, catching up on movies

    02:03:13 Addie’s great game round up

    02:48:12 CQC (Comments, Questions, Concerns)

    Follow Addie! Twitter: https://twitter.com/Addiemantium

    Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/addiemantium.bsky.social

    Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee: https://meganmcduffee.com

    Logo and artwork by John Gholson

    Announcer: John Gholson

    Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect

    Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com

    Copyright 2024 Space Monkey Mafia Productions

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    3 時間 13 分
  • Episode 065: Befuddled and Bamboozled
    2025/07/30

    It’s a good thing we created The Stage Select as a variety show, because somehow this episode is almost 4 hours long and we barely talked about video games. But it’s still a Fantastic episode. See what I did there?

    00:00 Introduction, Paw Patrol

    17:59 Saying goodbye to Ozzy Osborne and good riddance to Hulk Hogan

    41:01 Fancy sandwich

    48:48 House of Ashes

    01:03:23 Justin’s initial Death Stranding 2 thoughts

    01:31:59 Last Time I Saw You, Kingshot, Last War: Survival

    01:43:59 EA College Football 26

    02:02:14 Julian’s new hyperfixation

    02:19:50 Eddington

    02:44:19 Fantastic Four: First Steps

    02:53:27 Superman (spoiler discussion!)

    Watch Mike Fallek’s new documentary, The Lawn Con! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SSeu4r8uXw&t=66s


    Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee: https://meganmcduffee.com

    Logo and artwork by John Gholson

    Announcer: John Gholson

    Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect


    Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com




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    3 時間 36 分
  • Episode 064: Labubu.
    2025/07/23

    It’s one of those weird weeks where we didn’t really do much, and yet we filled three hours of a podcast. I don’t know how that happens, but there ya go.

    00:00 Justin had a weird dream, apologies for last week

    14:08 Julian has A Plan

    33:32 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4

    01:05:14 Targeting adult content on Steam could have far-reaching ramifications for gaming

    01:18:14 Celebrity Hunter, a brief bit of Death Stranding 2

    01:28:46 Superman, Killers of the Flower Moon

    01:51:55 Microsoft lays off over 9000 workers, including big cuts at Xbox

    02:31:21 CQC (Comments, Questions, Concerns)

    Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee: https://meganmcduffee.com

    Logo and artwork by John Gholson

    Announcer: John Gholson

    Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect

    Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com

    Copyright 2024 Space Monkey Mafia Productions


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    3 時間 14 分
  • Episode 063: Hey, You're That Liverwurst Guy!
    2025/07/16

    Look, I’m gonna level with you, this episode is almost 4 hours long and I’ve been in a bad headspace, so I didn’t actually edit it beyond putting the music bits where they needed to go. So I don’t remember everything we talked about, and don’t have timestamps for you. Fortunately, we have Friend of the Show John Gholson to talk about life on the red carpet, tons of video games, some movies, and more. It’s a very fun episode from what I can remember.

    Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee: https://meganmcduffee.com

    Logo and artwork by John Gholson

    Announcer: John Gholson

    Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect

    Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com

    Copyright 2024 Space Monkey Mafia Productions


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    3 時間 48 分
  • Episode 062: Garth Brooks Meets Sameko Saba
    2025/07/09

    It’s a different format show this week, as we weren’t “live” in the studio. Fear not though, as we’ve got some musings on story pacing, revisiting the 1984 Transformers comic book, deciding on the Garth Brooks of video games, and more!

    Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee: https://meganmcduffee.com

    Logo and artwork by John Gholson

    Announcer: John Gholson

    Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect

    Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com

    Copyright 2024 Space Monkey Mafia Productions


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    1 時間 42 分
  • Episode 061: Jake Paul-The Nickelback of Our Souls
    2025/07/02

    Buckle up, y’all, because this is probably the longest it takes us to get from the introduction to talking about video games, and that includes our previous podcast that ran for 11 years. If you guessed the reason for that is Mike Fallek, congratulations, you know the show too well and should go touch grass. Enjoy!

    00:00 Introduction, Boston coffee

    21:50 Mike’s heading to Scotland!

    41:04 Julian has a plan

    01:20:41 Explaining where we were last week

    01:42:12 Final Fantasy XV

    02:43:21 The Nintendo Switch 2™

    03:15:00 The Alters

    Check out Soft Lock: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soft-lock/id1815560642

    Julian was on the Onimusha Blade Warriors episode of Games

    My Mom Found. It’s not out yet, but you can find the show here: https://gamesmymomfoundpodcast.podbean.com/


    Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee: https://meganmcduffee.com

    Logo and artwork by John Gholson

    Announcer: John Gholson

    Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect

    Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com

    Copyright 2024 Space Monkey Mafia Productions


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    3 時間 36 分
  • Patreon Unlock: Cinemorons Episode 01: UHF
    2025/06/25

    Hey folks! Unfortunately, we don't have a new episode for you this week. But we hopefully have something just as good (if you aren't already a patron): the first episode of Cinemorons! This is the new Patreon show we record for Executive Producer tier patrons each month, and it's becoming one of the best things we do. In this first episode we talk about UHF, the 1989 comedy starring "Weird" Al Yankovic. We hope you enjoy, and we'll be back next week.

    And if you like this and want more, check the linktree for our Patreon and consider joining!

    Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect

    Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com




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    1 時間 22 分