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Grumpy Old Geeks

29: Coin Ops & Sweat Shops

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Mike Vinikour joins GOG this week for a fascinating talk about the dirty underbelly of how video games are really made and interesting career paths. Audio gets wonky for a few minutes at the end but it fixes fast so power through! Please visit http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/29 for the show notes for this episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Happy Old Geeks, two old thoughts, like a microphone, and the internet, let's go wrong.

0:18.5

Happy Old Geeks, episode 29, this week with a special guest and a studio audience.

0:26.1

And the late start, and we're all on the booze again, apparently.

0:28.8

Hell yeah, dude, I drove from Pennsylvania to Chicago today. I'm allowed to have a beer or six.

0:34.8

Oh, fuck, it's finally like five o'clock here, so I've already had a beer and a half, maybe two.

0:39.3

Oh, and also, I don't know if you follow Grumpy Old Geeks on, on, say, Facebook or Twitter,

0:44.8

you would have saw on the photo of the Jameson banana that I've been working on.

0:51.2

And I took a little taste today, not gonna lie.

0:53.8

Is it ready? Is it good to go?

0:55.4

No, it needs to sit for another day or two, but it's already beautiful.

0:58.9

This is going to be an amazing thing.

1:01.6

Or the death of you, one of the two.

1:03.4

Or the death of me. I'm just going to have to make sure that I only make it like once every six months.

1:08.8

So that's going to become a seasonal drink, because it's going to make you very seasoned very quick.

1:15.2

So I, since I said I was driving to Chicago today, so I am coming to you live from combustion

1:21.6

manner, home of Mike Vinicore and the punk rock vault and game mecca.

1:28.8

I'm very excited about this.

1:30.8

How was your drive, Jason? Is everything good? I'm fucking jealous that you're in Chicago.

1:35.8

Amazing.

1:37.6

Well, I'm not actually in Chicago. I'm in the suburbs, so that doesn't really count.

1:41.5

Wow, close enough.

1:42.7

So the drive is boring as shit, man. Have you ever driven across Ohio and Indiana?

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