Activision

Nerd of Mouth

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Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Holden and Jake discuss the history behind video game corporate overlords Activision. Get your first month of treatment for free at http://keeps.com/wizard This episode was brought to you by our Patreon supporters! Support us today and unlock weekly bonus content - no microtransactions ever, we promise. Nowhere Land, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up, everyone? I am Ben Kissel, and I'm with Marcus Parks.
0:04.5	Hi, Ben. We're going to talk to you a little bit about Abe Blinkett's Top Hat. It's the political show that Marcus and I do. It's a lot of fun. If you want to get up to date on the weekly news of politics, check out the show. You know, I think you'll like it. I think you like it. We're reasonable. We're reasonable people. We're fine people.
0:00.8	We're fine people.
0:02.0	So that's good.
0:03.2	So check it out because there is a lot to unpack.
0:05.6	And hopefully it helps you get through your week. So hail yourselves, everyone. Thanks for listening. Hey, everybody, it's me, it's holding to you now, and I'm the
0:48.1	holding, and I'm singing to you now, and I'm the creepy sing-song wizard.
0:53.6	Hey, Holden, listen, I'm from corporate corporate and we've gotten a lot of test data. The markets in East Asia as well as Europe is not responding well to the song wizard. But you said I could just, you said I could come here and do my thing. When you bought me up, you said I could just come here and do my thing. And originally you said song wizard and now you're trying to make me be some other kind of wizard on some other team. I'm going to need you to sell micro raps. Now, it's different from traditional raps and that they only last five seconds, but they cost five glimmer dollars. Now, glimmer dollars is a new unit of currency that we're introducing because of the micro markets that happened within the 12 to 15 demographic. Okay. So if you can just get working on micro reps and don't worry about it, it's going to be fine. Also, if you cross me, I will kill your family. I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted by all the cocaine that just keeps billowing out of your pockets. Oh, no, this is Ritalin that I stole from a hospital that I've grounded to a
1:45.3	It's actually technically a microfine powder.
1:47.8	And as you can see, I'm not snorting it.
1:49.4	The natural dust just enters my lungs and allows me to see through time and space.
1:53.8	You know what?
1:54.7	I think this guy's evil.
1:58.3	And there goes your mother.
2:00.3	Cross me again. and Papa's next.
2:02.1	Welcome everybody to the evil podcast.
2:04.9	We should be doing this on Halloween, Jake.
2:07.4	This is the scariest podcast we've ever done.
2:11.2	That's right.
2:11.6	Today we're talking about the gigantic, the monolithic nightmare corporation that is Activision.
2:19.2	It's not even EA. This isn't even EA.
2:21.6	EA should also get a...
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