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Retronauts

747: Asterix, Pt. 2

Retronauts

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

A belated return to a certain pair of violent Gauls, courtesy of Thomas Nickel, Audi Sorlie, John Linneman, and Stuart Gipp. Paf! By Toutatis!! etc.

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.6

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:06.0

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

0:09.9

Did you hear that, Joe?

0:11.5

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

0:14.3

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

0:17.1

Now you're going to be living together.

0:21.3

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances,

0:25.4

tell us too to avoid a penalty.

0:27.8

Search Tell DWP.

0:30.1

This week in Retronauts, the joke that I originally was going to do here

0:33.1

was very, very different in the original publication,

0:37.4

but I have localised it, so it's no longer

0:39.4

particularly funny, and I'm now ashamed of it, but there's nothing I can do about it. I can't redo it. I can't go back and change it.

1:30.0

I've asked and I've asked, but there's just no way to do it, unfortunately. So we're all going to have to live with it. And for the first time ever in history of retronauts, one of the opening jokes has not landed. So I apologize for that. I'm Stuart Jip, and rather than do any long, lengthy preamble, you know what this is.

1:30.0

It's part two of asterix, as it says so. I apologize for that. I'm Stuart Jip, and rather than do any long, lengthy preamble, you know what this is.

1:35.3

It's part two of asterix, as it says so on the front of the page or the app or whatever you're using to listen to this.

1:40.9

You know what's going on here. So we might as well introduce everyone. So I think if we go in alphabetical order by first name again. Who's with us today?

1:50.3

I'm Audie Surley from Limit to Run Games and Digital Foundry, and I love Asterix.

1:55.7

And it's me, John Linneman, coming off of playing World War Battle Heroes, Field Army's Call of Prison Duty simulator.

1:58.3

And so everything Asterisix will feel like gold.

2:02.7

Can't wait to talk about it.

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