This is the Talking Dead, a podcast dedicated to the AMC TV show The Walking Dead. Hello everyone my name is Chris and my name is Jason and this is the Talking Dead Number 394 recorded on Tuesday

September the 25th 2018. Welcome to the program Jason. Well thank you Chris

welcome to the program yourself. Thank you. It's good to be here. We are of course here to talk about the second to last episode of season four of Fear The Walking Dead. But there's something I want to address just before we get to that if that's okay.

That's fine with me, man.

Because there was some news this week that I thought it would be worth mentioning.

We don't do a lot of news coverage when we're actually in the middle of a

season just because we tend to focus on the show. But some news came out earlier this week or

maybe the end of last week that Tell Tale Games is

shutting down. Oh like just the whole thing. Well telltale games has

already shut down I should probably say.

The whole thing, like not just you're shutting down games and anything, but the whole company itself is folding and they're selling off assets.

Basically they're gone. They put out an announcement that 250 employees in one day

laid off and the company essentially at this point virtually no longer exists.

According to the original statement they kept on about 25 to finish off a single project,

but as of this time telltale games is pretty much

no more which came as a pretty big shock to everybody yeah those 25 people that are

left to work on that project, nobody has incentive to finish it.

Like, who's going to actually do work?

Why would you do work?

When they're going to do not fire you at the end of it?

Well, that's right. I don't know. I don't know what's going on with that. I don't even know what project that is, but it's not a great situation. Apparently all 250 of those people were essentially terminated, no severance, just gone.

There's a class action lawsuit starting up, you know, around that right now, but, but really it's pretty nuts to think that all those people that have been

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