Gaming’s Best And Worst Bosses (with Stephen Totilo)
Kotaku Splitscreen
Kotaku
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week we're tearing into our bosses—video game bosses of course. First, we kick things off by reviewing a few boss origin stories. Then, we discuss the best and worst video game bosses in great detail. And finally, we grill our former boss (and special guest), the one and only Stephen Totilo.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to split screen, the show that tackles video games one excruciatingly specific topic at a time. |
| 0:15.2 | I am one of your hosts, Nathan Grayson, senior reporter at Kotaku, and I am joined, as always, by Ashley Parrish and Michael Fahey. |
| 0:24.7 | But also, we are joined by a very special guest, our now former boss, Stephen Totillo. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello there. |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome to our podcast, Stephen Totillo. Hello there. Welcome to our podcast, Stephen Totillo. |
| 0:41.8 | Very ironic that the only one that you're ever going to be on is the one that, you know, you don't work with us anymore. |
| 0:47.9 | Are you assuming that he might be a return guest? |
| 0:50.6 | Yeah. I've already been told I'm not coming back. Oh, no. |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah, we, this episode has already gone poorly enough that we're just, we're not going to get going again. I'm sorry. It's been awful. |
| 1:00.9 | We're having a miserable time. But yes, so we brought Stephen on in part because he is now |
| 1:06.8 | our dearly departed former boss, which makes it sound like he died. He did not die. He's still alive, but he's going to... |
| 1:13.8 | He's dead to us. He's dead to us. |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah, pretty much. |
| 1:16.4 | How dare you only run the website, or how dare you only work at Kotaku for 12 years? |
| 1:22.8 | Like, wow. |
| 1:23.5 | I guess some of us are just more committed than others. |
| 1:26.7 | Yes, Mike, how many years again? |
| 1:28.8 | 14. |
| 1:29.4 | 14. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.5 | Are you the last standing, like, of the senior people, Fahey? |
| 1:35.5 | Oh, no. |
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