Klavans On The Culture Ep. 4 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Is The Story Any Good?

The Andrew Klavan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Andrew Klavan’s declaration that video games don’t have good stories lit up the internet, and now his son Spencer is here to provide a counterpoint to that hot take. Their debate will focus on Expedition 33 and whether or not its story lives up to the quality of its gameplay. - - - DailyWire+: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://dailywire.com/subscribe 📲 Download the free Daily Wire app today on iPhone, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Samsung, and more. 📗 Read my short story "Jesus, the Movie" at the New English Review: https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/jesus-the-movie 📕 My latest novel "After That, The Dark" is available here: https://dwplus.shop/AfterThatTheDark 📙 My Edgar nominated non-fiction book "The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness" is available here: https://dwplus.shop/KingdomofCain 📘 My memoir "The Great Good Thing" is available here: https://a.co/d/0icnKMrX 📔 "The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus" is available here: https://a.co/d/0bo2G3Tr 📚 Save the Klavan by shopping my merch here: https://dwplus.shop/AndrewKlavanMerch - - - Socials: YouTube — https://youtube.com/@andrewklavan Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/aklavan Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/theandrewklavan X — https://twitter.com/andrewklavan - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.0	Bloomberg follows the money,
0:04.8	whether it's the funds fueling AI
0:06.4	or crypto's trillion dollar swings.
0:08.9	There's a money side to every story.
0:11.4	Get the money side of the story.
0:13.5	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:20.4	Attention all passengers.
0:22.7	The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four minutes from platform six.
0:29.0	Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath.
0:36.4	Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.
0:40.3	Trains on Uber.
0:42.1	So Braid is a work of genius, but the story itself is still that stupid
0:48.5	scenario story.
0:50.1	Girl gets captured by dragon, guy goes after and gets it.
0:53.2	And so having the video game structure, that simple story, which as you say is a mythic story,
0:58.4	it's a mythic story, becomes bigger in our imaginations without our really having to say,
1:03.0	well, then this happened and that happened.
1:04.4	Because if you follow the plot, the actual plot of Expedition 33, it's pretty stupid.
1:35.1	Okay. Well, let's bracket that for a second, because I definitely disagree with that. I'm All right, welcome back.
1:35.4	Hello.
1:37.5	Nice to see you again.
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