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Thumb Cramps

Pragmata and ERLIK: The Ninth Branch

Thumb Cramps

Sanspants Radio

Comedy, Video Games, Leisure

4.9566 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

This week on Thumb Cramps, oh boy it’s a Normal One, as the hosts are left alone for a special host-only episode as they wrap up April by looking at Pragmata for the Nintendo Switch 2, ERLIK: The Ninth Branch for the PC and celebrate the success of ALT GAMES 2026. Sometimes having no friends makes the boys even more normal in this very normal video game podcast.


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Parts of this episode were recorded and produced on Wurundjeri land, we respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, pay our respect to their Elders past and present, and recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.


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0:00.0

You're listening to the Sans Pants Network.

0:07.0

Like it possibly, you're wrong.

0:08.4

This April, it's April 2.

0:11.4

April.

0:12.6

It's the month where we play and review video games.

0:17.5

You're listening to Thumb Cranx.

0:20.5

A show for those whose thumbs are cracr cramping.

0:27.2

What's up gamers?

0:29.0

And welcome to this week's episode of Thumbcrams, a video game review podcast for everyone

0:33.6

whose thumbs are cramping.

0:35.2

I'm Joel.

0:35.8

I'm Jackson.

0:36.5

And We're gamers.

0:54.6

And we never forget the listener where game is possibly the gamers or the only gamers in this world. Oh, yeah. Now, you might be saying normally hang the frick on. Usually there's a guest. Normally they introduce someone. But they're being respectful today. Yeah, exactly. They haven't interrupted our intro because we haven't introduced them yet. How kind of our sweet guest.

0:56.4

Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Oh. Hold on a tick. It's, there's no one here. There's no one. It's just a two man today. We're doing a two man. We're doing a two man. They're doing a two men. The Tooman show. It's the Toombin show today.

1:10.4

It's the Tooman show today.

1:11.9

And people are saying, oh, but you know so many people. Yeah, don't you have friends? And we go, not after Sydney. Not after the Sydney live show and all the games. We are trapped on an island because all of our bridges are burned. They go, oh, this is the show? Oh, this is thumb cramps? Yock.

1:29.7

Alternatively, we were in Sydney for when we'd usually record thumb cramps and then we realized,

1:35.8

oh, no, we need an episode of thumb cramps and all of our friends were busy and you're hearing

1:39.5

this about eight hours after we recorded it. But good news, we're caught up. You know how this month's been weird listeners? Like, oh, just give you a chance to answer? Yeah. So, uh, yeah, the back, like, we're up to date now. Everything's normal once again. By the start of next month, you'll be saying to yourself, you'll be saying to your grandma, hey, dump grams is normal again. Oh, they'll be like...

2:00.9

It'll be like...

2:01.0

It'll be Mother's Day for you.

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