Holiday Pod #2: Gaming and Politics Went Hand-in-Hand in 2017

Waypoint Radio

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4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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One of the big reasons Waypoint exists was to create a space where it was not only accepted to talk about games and politics, but encouraged. That we stumbled into a year where politics dominated every conversation, sometimes to the point of exhaustion, only underscored our point. To take a closer look at the intersection of gaming and politics in 2017, Austin, Rob, Danielle, and Patrick gathered around their microphones.

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0:00.0	And that's yet another win for the team under this ambitious team principle.
0:06.0	Create history in F1 Manager 23 by leading your officially licensed Formula 1 team of choice to glory.
0:13.0	Or rewrite it with race replay putting you the hot seat of the biggest incidents and challenges of the 2023 season.
0:21.0	F1 Manager 23 coming soon to PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
0:30.0	Welcome to day two of our holiday podcasts here at Waypoint.
0:55.0	Today joining me, I think this is probably the same crew as yesterday.
0:59.0	We're in the middle of recording these recording them out of order.
1:02.0	So who even knows Danielle Riendo is here.
1:05.0	Hi hello.
1:06.0	Rob Zachney.
1:08.0	Here with the wrecking crew.
1:10.0	That video hasn't aired yet.
1:13.0	The whole thing is wrecking crew.
1:15.0	Oh wait, maybe that will be today.
1:16.0	Today's Tuesday.
1:17.0	Yeah, yeah, that'll actually be.
1:18.0	Yep, not haunt good.
1:19.0	If you don't know what Rob Zach was going to watch our video of us playing some XCOM 2 featuring the wrecking crew.
1:24.0	Also featuring also featuring a Russian who believes he's a steam punk.
1:29.0	Hey, and if anyone has a good suggestion for like a douchebaggy steam punky name for an alien hunter that sounds like gears and valves.
1:39.0	Then let us know because we need we need some help.
1:44.0	We do need some help also joining us.
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