GWJ Conference Call Episode 1029

Gamers With Jobs - Conference Call

Gamers With Jobs

Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.5 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Amanda, Daryl, and Beto are joined by Ben Chicka, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy and Religion, Curry College to talk about his curriculum and the subject of death in games.

Games: EA Sports FC26, UFC 6, Subnautica 2 Early Access, Dosa Divas, and Virtue and a Sledgehammer demo.

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0:00.0	This is the Gamer's with Jobs conference call for Wednesday, July 1st, 2026.
0:27.5	Happy Canada today to my Canadian fellows out there and all of our listeners joining us on the show.
0:29.9	Today we've got Beto O'Burn.
0:30.8	Hello and welcome.
0:34.4	Hi, it is so good to be back.
0:40.8	I have been away for quite a while, so I'm thrilled to be back to, and I have emerged from the depths of my base that I am building and avoiding giant, large, scary
0:49.2	things in the deep waters. And so, yeah, excited to be here. And and also joining us we've got darrell lathen
0:57.3	welcome oh thank you um i'm breaking training to uh be here today uh i'm hoping uh there is no talk
1:05.8	of food because all i want to eat as a burger. But hey, training comes first.
1:11.9	Embrace the grind, baby.
1:13.3	Embrace the grind.
1:15.5	And now you've planted the seed, the sesame seed, and I'm hungry too.
1:20.1	I am so excited to say that joining us, we've got Ben Cheek, a senior lecture of philosophy
1:26.4	and religion at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. Thank you so much for joining us. We're here to talk about a heavier subject, which is death in games. Thank you for joining us for that conversation. Thanks for having me back. I'm always excited to join this podcast. So excited to be here.
1:44.2	So because of that heavier subject, we're going to be touching on that in the topic of
1:50.1	the show. Before we get into that, though, we're going to start with something a little bit
1:55.1	more topical, which is games that we're playing right now. It's, like I mentioned, Canada Day. In Canada right now,
2:04.2	especially in Vancouver, where I'm local to, the World Cup is in full effect. There is football
2:12.7	mania, soccer mania, however you want to call it. there's a sense of excitement around the game of soccer.
2:20.6	And it's so fortunate that Ben, you're here to talk about games because you've been playing FC 26,
2:28.3	which formerly known as FIFA. I have one question. What does the FC stand for? Football club.
2:51.6	Football club. Okay. Okay. I have one question. What does the FC stand for? Football club. Okay. Okay. I had an idea that the F was football. I'm so out of my element here. So please somebody, somebody talk about football. I say it so confidently as somebody that doesn't really follow the sport, like obviously football club. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I. I, I, I, I, I, I, my relationship to soccer slash football is like my relationship
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