MinnMax's 6th Anniversary, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Dispatch
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 150 minutes
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Haley MacLean, and Janet Garcia celebrate MinnMax's 6th anniversary by unleashing their thoughts on Pokémon Legends: Z-A from Game Freak and lamenting on how you can squint to see an awesome game somewhere in this mix. Then Kyle Hilliard joins the show to talk about Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted before we dive into a spoiler-free conversation about Double Fine's beautiful game starring a lighthouse called Keeper. Then Game Informer's Charles Harte joins the show as we unpack Dispatch from AdHoc Studio, an amazingly written successor to the Telltale formula starring Alanah Pearce from MinnMax Guest Cohort fame! For community questions this week we're joined by generous Give To The Max donor Tri Nguyen to talk about his career as a combat designer on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Marvel's Wolverine AND answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:57 - Janet Garcia's wedding
00:04:03 - Give To The Max charity stream recap
00:08:57 - Compete in Trivia Tower on Monday!
00:10:29 - Get TWO Steam codes for Wildgate
00:13:22 - Pokémon Legends: Z-A
00:42:31 - Uncommon Goods
00:44:35 - Plants vs Zombies Replanted
00:49:04 - Double Fine's Keeper
00:58:41 - Turtle Beach
01:00:35 - Sonic Racing: Crossworlds
01:06:21 - Welcome Charles Harte
01:07:46 - Dispatch
01:26:09 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/
01:27:52 - Community questions with Tri Nguyen
02:19:05 - Get A Load Of This
Kelsey’s GALOT - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054950/Starstruck_Hands_of_Time/
Haley's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaPGP5nlYUo&t=1680s
Tri's GALOT - https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/507342099205587494
Charles' GALOT - https://gameinformer.com/magazine-archive/84-siphon-filter-2
Hanson's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/retrohistories.bsky.social/post/3m3ajotosxy2u
Kyle's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/2anarkand.bsky.social/post/3lv5amctbj22e
Community GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90vqCKEEj3s
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of the MinMax Show, place about games, friends getting better. |
| 0:25.8 | My name is Ben Hansen. Thank you for being here for the big celebration of MinMax's sixth anniversary. |
| 0:31.7 | But we got other stuff to cover as well. We're joined by one Haley McLean. |
| 0:36.2 | That's right. The roar of a six-year-old. |
| 0:38.6 | That's what was going through the microphone. |
| 0:41.0 | We're joined by Kelsey Lewin. |
| 0:43.9 | I choose you. |
| 0:45.6 | We're joined by Janet Garcia. |
| 0:48.8 | Hello. |
| 0:49.4 | I couldn't think of which angle to go with, so I just... |
| 0:51.8 | Better than mine. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.5 | Better than mine. I'm sorry. I should have said, Mrs. Janet Garcia, the now married Janet Garcia. Hello. You got a ring on you? Thank you. Yeah. It's here if you go to the issue version. Look at that. He's like a creepy dude at a club. You got a ring on you. You got a ring on you? You got a ring on you? I can't see your fingers. We're going to be talking about sonic racing cross runs. Show me your hands. Yeah, good way. Welcome, everybody. Yeah, we were all in L.A. celebrating Janet's wonderful, beautiful wedding out there not too long ago. There's an episode of bonus pod all about it from the behind the scene story and all that all that fun hijinks. |
| 1:30.7 | But Jen, did you know that Kelsey is such a competitive person that when you had your little crosswords puzzle about the couple on the table, Kelsey attacked that with a ferocity that scared me. |
| 1:43.5 | It was like she was like taking the pen. I did not even sit all the way down. I like got half of my butt on the chair and was furiously filling in the crossword. Does it be no Janet's favorite movie? Does it be no? Just shrieking. I did know, but like I always kind of forget how like intense it'll be. So I was very pleased to hear that when Kelsey like came up to me like late, you know, we hung out a bunch the time after it's in both pod, you know, Universal and Margaritaville and Disney and all of that. But Kelsey being like, I felt like some of the questions weren't fair because I didn't know the answer. And I'm like, that's like so valid. I haven't talked to you enough, |
| 2:18.2 | apparently, to learn the answer to all these. And that's, no, the questions I was mad about, I wasn't actually mad, but it was like, yeah, it was like, yeah, what bakery made the cake and stuff. I'm like, I talk to Janet all the time. I know a lot about her, but I don't know what bakery later. |
| 2:31.0 | And the other layer of it being funny was like there was like a sub theme of Kelsey |
| 2:35.9 | feeling guilty about not reading the website, the wedding website like close enough. And like some of the answers. So those questions, I'm like, Kelsey, I had to tell you, but it's it's actually in the wedding website. She's just like, God, it was a whole bit. Lots of good bits came out of this, which is great. you know, you can't ask for anything better than some funky little stories from people after the fact. |
| 2:54.2 | That's what you want. And like, it's tough to convey to the bride and groom of a wedding, but like, it's tough to be like, hey, we had a lot of fun without you. Hopefully you'd see that as a compliment. You know, because you all get to be celebrities that day, but like, know that everything that was happening when you weren't there, not because you weren't there, but just the stuff you didn't see was also very |
| 3:10.7 | fun. Like, I was just killed by like, you know, when we were, uh, riding in the car to like the after |
| 3:16.3 | party and Haley had the worst, would you rather ever heard in my life. But like, it got to the point, |
| 3:22.6 | like, I was so drunk at that point. Yeah, getting to the point of like |
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