712: Edmund McMillen

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Comedy Interviews, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy

4.8 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Edmund McMillen, the man responsible for some of the coolest, weirdest video games you've ever played, joins the DTFH!

You already know Edmund's games! The Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, and his upcoming release... Mewgenics! That one comes out next February, and is available for pre-order right now! Pre-Order Mewgenics wherever you like to get your video games!!

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0:00.0	Hello to you, my friends. You might be wondering, why don't I see his face right now?
0:07.0	The answer is, I'm in San Francisco and not at the studio, and I forgot to record the intro to today's very special guest, which is a travesty of justice, because today's guest is
0:23.2	responsible for some of the coolest, weirdest video games I've ever played in my life.
0:29.2	The Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, and now coming out around February, he's got a new game, Mugenics. And holy shit, after this
0:42.7	conversation, I'm just deeply impatient. I really want to play this game. And I'm not going to
0:50.6	spoil it for you. I'm going to let him explain what this game is about,
0:55.0	but it's definitely going to be maybe the biggest video game hit of all time.
1:03.0	I guarantee it.
1:05.0	It gets the trussle,
1:06.0	Ching, Ching,
1:07.0	guarantee of excellence.
1:10.0	Now, everybody, please welcome to the DTFH Edmund McMillan
1:16.9	Evan welcome back to the DTFH how are you I'm I'm busy yeah I'm good I'm good I'm overwhelmed yeah and I'm I'm busy. Yeah, you're good. I'm good.
1:27.6	I'm, I'm,
1:28.1	overwhelmed.
1:30.7	Yeah, and I'm assuming that overwhelmed feeling is coming because in, what is it,
1:35.9	February, you're releasing your next game, Mugenics.
1:40.9	Yeah, I mean, I don't, I would say it's kids mostly.
1:47.2	How many you got now?
1:48.6	How many you got?
1:49.7	Two, I've got two.
1:51.8	I got three.
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