Hey everyone, I'm Mallory Rubin and I am thrilled to tell you that House of

R has a new podcast feed. Joanna Robinson and I will now be with you twice a

week with more of the deep dives you've come to know and love on the

ringerers. In addition to exploring all of your favorite

nerd culture new releases, we'll have nostalgic revisitations, height

meters, polyfame inductions, tropes courses, drafts, and more. All bad babies

are welcome as we dive into Star Wars, Marvel, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings,

and beyond. Follow the new House of R feed on Spotify or wherever you get your

podcast.

Hello and welcome into the ringerverse, your Nexus podcast feed for all things

fandom, including of course video game fandom, which is where we come in,

because you're listening to Button Mesh. I'm Ben Lindbergh, a senior editor for

the ringer, and I'm joined by my co-host and constant podcast companion. My

like talking to not just because she'll let me store random crap in her

inventory, so I won't be weighed down during my trek across the stars. Jessica

Clemens, hello Jessica. Yes, it's my purse. I just carry everything for you. I'm

everyone's mom. Hi, so happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Yeah, you don't

have to thank me. Thanks for having me. We're equals in this endeavor, but that

does make me think. I mean, a purse would be equally capable, I think, of

containing the vast amounts of stuff that I lug around in Starfield with no

discernible place to put it other than my ship's hold or my suit or something.

Where does it all go? That's the eternal question of video games. Is it not? Where

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