109: This Journalist Lives in Nintendo’s Head Rent-Free - ft Stephen Totilo
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 154 minutes
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Hi and welcome to episode 109 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! This week we're joined by our good friend Stephen Totilo - games journalist extraordinaire! Stephen has been covering video games and Nintendo for decades and has so many insider stories. When we were at Nintendo, there were so many people on our team who were scared at the prospect of talking to Stephen and we never understood why! We dig into all of that with him today. Also in this episode, we recap all the news that came out during Mario Day and reflect on the tragic passing of the legendary Akira Toriyama. We've also been playing some other games other than Final Fantasy VII Rebirth so we tell you what we think of those. We wrap it all up with questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers.
0:00 - Kit's industry heartbreak
17:55 - Welcome Stephen Totilo!
1:19:32 - Games we are playing (Balatro, Mediterrenea Inferno, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth)
1:45:23 - News news news (Mario Day announcements, Akira Toriyama, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth sales)
2:07:35 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:46.4 | Today we are joined by a very special guest, media journalist extraordinaire, Stephen Tettillo, who somehow became the most feared journalist within Nintendo when we were there. |
| 0:52.9 | He was like totally just, everyone was scared of Stephen. Nobody wanted to talk to him. there he was like totally just everyone was scared |
| 0:55.8 | of Steven nobody wanted to talk to him but he was like the nice he's a nice guy we |
| 0:59.6 | love him but people were scared inside Nintendo maybe still are and we're gonna tell |
| 1:04.2 | you guys why in just a moment he is really one of the game journalism OGs and has |
| 1:10.2 | worked at some really amazing places and you know he started his own thing |
| 1:15.3 | and now he's just sitting on all of this kind of legacy content that he's sifting through but he's |
| 1:20.6 | also doing some great reporting on what's happening now so I think this is going to be a really |
| 1:24.5 | cool conversation yes yes absolutely I'm excited to catch up with Stephen. We love him, but yeah, he had it. Maybe he'll corner you. Great, I'm ready for it. Ask you to pepper you with questions. Go for it. I'm an open book. Ask me anything. I'll answer it. I don't have any secrets. We did a big reaction to the surprising Mario Day news. |
| 1:47.0 | The surprising thing for us though wasn't the actual news. |
| 1:51.0 | That was fine. That was pretty like, yes, we kind of saw that coming. |
| 1:55.0 | The surprising thing to us though was that Nintendo actually acknowledged Mario Day and had news come out on Mario |
| 2:02.3 | Day. You just contradicted yourself. You said it's not a big deal that there was news, |
| 2:06.4 | but the big deal was that there was news. No, the big deal was that Nintendo acknowledged |
| 2:10.2 | Mario Day. Uh huh. True. That was the shocker. We're going to be talking about that in the |
| 2:14.5 | news section ourselves, but yes. Yes. That was the shocker. We have a full reaction if you'd like to see us break it all down in detail. Shocking. Indeed. Wow. Shock. Always great on a Sunday morning. It's like 2 a.m. We're going to start a Sunday morning. I guess I gotta make a YouTube short or something. I know. I was still like in bed. |
| 2:35.6 | It's daylight savings. |
| 2:36.7 | I know. |
| 2:37.1 | I lost an hour. |
| 2:38.6 | I woke up to this nonsense. |
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