Big Game Adaptations, 'Borderlands 4,' and 'Silksong' Revisited | Button Mash

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Ben, Steve Ahlman, and Matt James enter the vault to round up recent news on game adaptations (including 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,' big-screen 'Call of Duty,' and live-action TV series 'Tomb Raider') and share their spoiler-free reviews of Gearbox's 'Borderlands' comeback, 'Borderlands 4.' They close by delivering their final verdicts on the difficulty and quality of 'Hollow Knight: Silksong.' Intro (0:00)'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' and adaptation news (5:37)'Borderlands 4' reactions (23:23)'Hollow Knight: Silksong' follow-up (57:39)Outro (1:15:54) Host: Ben LindberghGuests: Steve Ahlman and Matt JamesProducer: Devon RenaldoAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.0	here today with two lovely guests who are now embarrassed to be talking to me. First, the ringer's
1:02.9	deputy art director handsome Matt James. Hi, Matt. Hey, Matt. Hey, Ben.
1:08.7	I'm covering. I came in how recovering. I made it awkward.
1:13.6	Now it's a mutual masturbation session.
1:17.1	Okay.
1:18.5	That didn't help.
1:19.8	No.
1:20.0	Anyway.
1:22.3	We need to pod at 8 a.m. more.
1:25.6	It's later for me.
1:26.7	I'm on Eastern Time, so that's not my excuse. I don't have one.
1:29.9	Couldn't decide whether to go with handsome Matt or Matt Trap for your intro.
1:34.8	Win either way, but I don't have a Borderlands-inspired nickname for our second guest, but he is a junior mint and a midnight boy.
1:43.5	Steve, oh, man.
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