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POP Ep.112: Do you get to play as Jimmy Smits? (Voicemail line: 713-893-8069)

Player One Podcast

Chris Johnston

Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.5546 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2008

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

This week special guest Anthony Vaughn joins Phil and CJ to talk games, CompuServe, sushi and Back to the Future. Games discussed this week include Mirror's Edge, Left 4 Dead, Fable II, Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels, Prince of Persia, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Namco Museum Virtual Arcade, Rock Band 2, Meteos Wars, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, LEGO Batman, 1942 Join Strike and Amateur Surgeon.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 112 of the Player One podcast for Monday, December 15th, 2008.

0:24.7

I'm your host, Phil Theobald, and with me, as always, is Yuki Chan's Papa, a man I like to call Sigidy J.

0:34.5

Yo, yo, yo. Yuki Chan's Papa.

0:37.7

Yuki Chan's Papa. Yuki Chon's Papa.

0:39.7

I don't understand.

0:40.7

And that's a totally old school Capcom reference.

0:43.2

And anyone who is cool is going to get that.

0:45.7

So choke on it.

0:47.1

Okay.

0:48.3

And our special guest this week is a guy who saved my ass like about a thousand times back when I was working

0:57.0

at Backbone Entertainment. Now Foundation 9, I guess they're calling themselves this week.

1:04.0

Well, you know, Foundation 9 is one, Backbone's one of Foundation 9's company.

1:09.2

Yeah, it's very confusing to me.

1:11.9

Yes, he's a elite engineer, a premier programmer, the man who brought us Shrek and Roll, Anthony Vaughn.

1:24.1

Hello, hello, and hold the applause.

1:26.8

I can hear you all. It's fine. And I'd actually didn't save Phil's, Phil's butt because of my engineering prowess. It's actually because he talked so much crap to all the local vagrants in Oakland. I'm 6'4. He's averaging, what? He's like 5, 4 or 5 now, something like that? Like, yeah, yeah, I'm getting smaller. He's hobbit-like. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you're like 53 now, Phil. Doesn't shrinking start then or something? I don't know. Well, it's the calcium deficiencies that do it, too, yes. Yeah. You know what? Yeah. You know, that's the funny thing about Anthony is he is a pretty big guy.

2:02.6

And, you know, he started originally at Backbone, you know, about a week or so after I started

2:10.8

working there as a associate producer.

2:14.8

And it's weird because, you know, he comes in and my boss, Chris Charla, introduced me to him.

2:21.8

And it was like, oh, this is Anthony. He's going to be working on those projects that you're doing, which was a bunch of those jack specific plug-and-play TV games.

2:32.3

Right, right. Self-contained joystick things. And he introduces me to him. And, you know, Anthony is. He's this really tall guy. And he's just like this, like this big, hunky, like, you know, all like, you know. You know the kind of. In my country, it is a very distinguished to be called a hunky.

2:52.0

It's very nice.

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