140: Making Sense of Nintendo’s Wild News Week with Jason Schreier
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 135 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Thank you to Better Help for sponsoring this episode. Visit http://www.BetterHelp.com/KitAndKrysta for 10% off your first month
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Hello and welcome to episode 140 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast. We're joined by special guest, Jason Schreier today to talk all about his book - Play Nice The Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment AND we're reacting to all the weird and zany Nintendo news. From the mysterious Nintendo Switch Online playtest to the Pokemon Teraleak to Alarmo. Weird things are happening all around us! We also talk about games we're playing and wrap it all up with some great questions from our Patreon subscribers.
0:00 - Welcome Jason!
8:18 - Let's talk about Jason's book
1:13:08 - News (Pokemon Teraleak, Nintendo Switch Online playtest, Alarmo, Antonblast delay)
1:33:12 - Games we're playing
1:47:08 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
Check out Play Nice: The Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment here: https://a.co/d/28tb34Y
Patreon shout-outs!
- All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
- Ben Eichorn, MaruMayhem, Eigenverse, KissMyFlapjack, Mike Chin, Roy Eschke, Switchingitup_, vgmlife, Link The Hero of Winds, Angela Bycroft and her pig Molly, Thomas O’Rourke, Kyle LeBoeuf, Roberto Nieves, Fredrik Ulf Konradsson, Andrew Youhas, Chilly, Simon, krashuri, Master Discord, Ash, Ajay Kundlas, Fortygig
Follow Us!
https://www.patreon.com/kitandkrysta
https://twitter.com/kitandkrysta
https://www.tiktok.com/@kitandkrysta
https://www.instagram.com/kitandkrysta/
http://www.facebook.com/kitandkrysta/
-Kit & Krysta
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Today, very exciting day today we have Jason Shrier in the studio with us to talk about his new book about Blizzard. |
| 0:17.0 | All the gossip about Blizzard. It's in here. |
| 0:21.1 | We read this book and we're going to talk to Jason about it. |
| 0:23.6 | We also want to talk to him about all the goings-on. |
| 0:26.3 | In the very strange last week of news in Nintendo, we've got this gigantic game freak. |
| 0:33.7 | The Gigga League. |
| 0:34.4 | Data breach. |
| 0:35.2 | Yes. |
| 0:35.9 | We have Alamo. |
| 0:37.3 | We don't know what Jason thinks of Alamo. And then also this bizarro NSO online test that's got everybody wondering what it's about. We're going to get Jason's thoughts about this. Yeah. It's going to be fun to dig into some of the weird happenings in the industry with Jason himself, the newsbreaker himself. He's going to be coming in in just a few minutes. Yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | You know, Jason was one of our, like, day one when we were making a list of, like, guests that we would like to have on the podcast. Yes. And we've been talking to him about this for a long time. He said, guys, I'm writing a book, and, you know, I'm going to be doing a tour, so if you can just wait a little bit longer, Yeah, it's perfect. |
| 1:10.0 | We can hopefully swing it where I can come by your studio and he'll be here in mere minutes. |
| 1:14.0 | So that is fun to actually make that a reality. I love to have someone here in person. It's always fun for a live guest to be here for the entire episode as well, so we can just like get into all the stuff and just have a fun fun conversation exactly |
| 1:28.5 | it's going to be great uh before jason comes in though alarmo speaking of yeah we had a big week |
| 1:34.5 | with alarmo ourselves we did last week if you luck lady luck was on our side weirdly with alarmo because |
| 1:41.7 | well some people did point out we were lamenting the slow news week in the podcast last week, and I think we got our wish. I think so. Be careful what you asked for it because you're going to get Alarmo. You're going to get, yes. You're going to get woken up by a coin sound. So if you have not seen yet, we have a full reaction to Alarmo on our channel as well as an unboxing set up and |
| 2:04.9 | sleep test sleep test with me sleeping you were sleeping in the studio so soundly before |
| 2:09.6 | being woken by Alarmo yeah we got so lucky because one of our amazing community members |
| 2:17.0 | just happened to be in New York when |
| 2:19.0 | Alarmo was announced and popped over to the Nintendo store, bought the Alarmo, he lives |
| 2:25.6 | in the Bay Area, came back to the Bay Area the next day and hand delivered the Alamo to |
| 2:32.0 | us to unbox. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Kit & Krysta Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Kit & Krysta Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.