Ep. 209: Explaining the Strike and a Facelift for E-sports

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion talk to prolific video game voice actress Jennifer Hale about the ongoing voice actors strike (2:24), the unique challenges of voicing video games (8:07), and infiltrating a formerly male-oriented field (21:54). Then, they bring on Nate Nanzer, Blizzard Entertainment's global director of Overwatch e-sports, to discuss how the company is trying to fuse its popular e-sport with the infrastructure of traditional sports in the forthcoming Overwatch League (25:45). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Bill Simmons.
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0:48.8	Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented Channel 33's Gaming Podcast.
0:53.1	My name is Ben Lemberg and I'm a staff writer for TheRinger.com.
0:56.1	Join as always by my fellow writer for TheRinger, Jason Konsepcion.
1:00.1	Hello Jason.
1:01.1	Hello Ben, we're still doing it.
1:02.1	We're still managing to put out a podcast somehow.
1:05.1	Yeah, in fact, there are not enough weeks for the podcast that we wanted to.
1:09.1	I'm like scouring the schedule.
1:11.1	Can we fit into there?
1:13.1	We were originally going to take Thanksgiving week off because it's going to be a short
1:17.1	week for the site, but now we're not because we have too much to talk about.
1:20.1	We're just trying to cram in podcasts anywhere we can because there are too many
1:24.1	games to get to and too many people to talk to.
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