36: Geoff Keighley on Becoming the Center of the Gaming Universe
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Hi and welcome to a very special episode of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Not only is it our biggest episode ever, but this week we have Geoff Keighley on the show to talk all about The Game Awards and how he become such an important part of the gaming industry. We also tell a fun shared Nintendo story about the time Koji Kondo performed at the very first Game Awards way back in 2014. It's really fun to share a storytime with you from not only our perspective as insiders but also Geoff's! We continue with our SHOCK-tober goodness this week with a fun candy ranking Never A Minute segment but then we have to get down to some serious business in our news section. Unfortunately, there have been some not so positive news stories around Bayonetta 3 and G4 shutting down (AGAIN!) that we talk in depth about in our news section. This is a loooooong episode so settle on in and let's get to it.
0:00 - Yes, this episode is over 2.5 hours long. Woo!
11:43 - Let's talk to Geoff Keighley about The Game Awards
1:05:11 - Never A Minute - Definitive Halloween Candy Tier List
1:21:39 - Games we are playing
1:42:03 - Bayonetta Voice Actor drama, G4 Shutting down (News news news)
2:03:32 - Questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Kitt and Krista podcast, episode 36. |
| 0:13.7 | We're more than halfway done with Shocktober. Wow. |
| 0:16.8 | Whoa, it's been shocking for sure. |
| 0:20.8 | We have a very special guest on this week's episode, the one and only Jeff Keeley, |
| 0:27.7 | industry icon. |
| 0:30.5 | Jeff was kind enough to come onto the show and hang out with us for a bit and talk all about the Game Awards, |
| 0:36.7 | which is coming up very quickly |
| 0:38.2 | and we of course have to share some behind the scenes stories of we all worked on the game awards |
| 0:44.4 | together and uh yeah this is this is gone way back to 2014 you were there as with all these things |
| 0:52.3 | well we were both there. We were both there. |
| 0:54.6 | The first game awards in 2014. |
| 0:57.2 | A big performance by Koji Kondo with, believe or not, Imagine Dragons. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes. |
| 1:02.3 | And that is quite the story to tell. |
| 1:04.2 | So Jeff is going to hang around and tell us a little bit about that from his perspective. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.5 | So fun to hear it from Jeff's perspective. |
| 1:13.0 | And it's fun to do a Nintendo story time this way where we have like another person come on |
| 1:17.6 | and tell a story that we were all part of when we worked together at Nintendo. |
| 1:22.7 | This is kind of something we might be trying out with more and more guests in the future. |
| 1:26.0 | Because a lot of these people have worked with Nintendo. So it is fun, especially for things where we were, |
| 1:31.9 | both sides were involved. It's like, let's piece this story together. The puzzle is very |
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