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Thumb Cramps

A Beginners Guide to Thumb Cramps (A Normal Video Game Review Podcast)

Thumb Cramps

Sanspants Radio

Comedy, Video Games, Leisure

4.9566 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Hey, welcome to Thumb Cramps, a normal video game review podcast hosted by Joel Duscher and Jackson Baly (Gamers). Like all normal podcasts, it has come to their attention that people have been crying out for an introduction to the podcast that is easy to listen to; so here it is, A Beginners Guide To Thumb Cramps.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Sans Pants Network.

0:07.0

All right, so today we're going to be tasting ham.

0:10.0

You're listening to Thumbcamps.

0:13.0

A shishish show for those whose thumbs are cracr cramping.

0:19.0

Hey everyone and welcome to a special episode of thumb cramps, a video game review

0:25.0

podcast for everyone whose thumbs are cramping.

0:27.5

I'm your host to Joel Dusha.

0:29.0

And I'm your host, Jackson Bailey.

0:30.5

Now, we've been doing this for over eight years.

0:32.9

And over that time, some elements of the podcast have become, some people are saying,

0:37.1

unintelligible.

0:38.1

Or unintelligible.

0:39.3

So we thought it would be useful to give you a quick rundown of the important elements of an episode of thumb cramps.

0:45.9

A beginner's guide to thumb cramps.

0:48.3

A thumb cramps primer.

0:53.7

Oh my God. Beginning with the reviews.

1:03.3

This is the part of the show where me and you, Jackson, and often a guest.

1:08.0

It's usually two of us and a guest.

1:09.9

In the early days, we did have a third co-host, but he died. He died. And that's sad. That's very sad. But we're joined by a guest and each of us review a game. Exactly. Now, and this is what makes Slum Cramm special. That review of the game is done with what we call a thumbs score. Yes. Now, it's very, the, the, sort of the different thumb scores are crucial to the thumb cramps formula. Obviously, five thumbs is the most thumbs you could possibly give. So, yeah, if you are a new listener to thumb cramps, and this, like, old people are probably listening to this, too. I mean, old listeners, not the elderly. The elderly love thumb cramps. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:44.4

I remember Mario.

1:46.2

I remember games.

1:48.2

So, yeah, every game is given a score out of five thumbs.

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