Welcome back to App Stories.

Today's episode is brought to you by Capacities.io. I'm John Forge's. And with me is none

other than wait for it, Brendan Bigley. Hey,

Brendan. Hello. Hello, everybody. So happy to be here. Thank you for having me.

Thank you. Thank you. We are giving Federico the day off. He is not going to be with us today.

But we have Brendan continuing our... Yeah, Federico vacation, more like...

It is, it is.

He's off today.

And this is kind of our continuation of interviews with hosts of other shows on the

MacStory's family of podcast because Brendan is my co-host with Federico on NPC,

which is Next Portable Console, all about the games we take with us.

And I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed doing NPC since we started, Brendan, because it's just a little off from everything else that Federico and I do.

And it's nice to sit down and chat with you every couple of weeks about video game handhelds. Yeah. Oh yeah. Totally mutual feeling. I could tell from listening

to unwind specifically that you guys were like bursting at the seams to talk about this stuff

more. And I know, you know, in our initial conversations, even just like before we were talking about

doing NPC, but just, you know, mutually like hopping on calls and hanging out. You were like, I get the sense that you're feeling the same way. Because every once in a while on into the Ather, I would bring up a handheld that I was using, you know, and just like really run with it. Turn it into a whole solo segment. And Stephen just has to sit there, be like, uh-huh, yes, honey.

That sounds great.

Sure, sure, yeah.

You know, it's funny because that really is the backstory for us.

Like Federico and I had literally talked for years about doing something with video games.

And it probably goes back, at least as far as like 2018, 2019. And then,

you know, the whole pandemic thing, kind of put every new projects on ice for a while. And

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