Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 009: Just Like Thoreau Had

The Nextlander Podcast

Hobbies, Leisure

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Nextlander Podcast is taking a week off, so we bring you a classic NBABP episode, in which Abby Russell and Dan Ryckert join us to talk about eating food, eating not-food, and finding peace in the Internet Age.

CHAPTERS

(00:01:24) Intro
(00:01:47) "Don't Ask Me!"
(00:02:35) How's Metal Gear Solid doing?
(00:03:41) What's going on with new space-themed Lego?
(00:04:27) Dan's the secret leaker
(00:05:14) God of War secrets revealed
(00:06:24) Video games made into shows and movies
(00:07:44) Does getting ripped make you less fun?
(00:10:32) "I could eat a tennis ball"
(00:10:52) Cooking with Dan
(00:15:23) Tales from the Microwave
(00:19:04) I actually looked this up and it seems like your skin just burns and you die.
(00:21:48) First Break
(00:21:58) Favorite YouTuber
(00:26:17) Dan's unplugging
(00:34:52) Any vacation plans for Abby?
(00:35:23) Can Alex find peace in wilderness?
(00:38:03) Second Break
(00:38:16) Getting in your own head
(00:42:41) Pottery Updates
(00:46:43) Dan is getting into electronics and console modding!
(00:48:01) How is the speed running going?
(00:55:07) Dan's fancy smart-bed
(00:57:58) Wrapping up

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and happy September.
0:04.0	We're off this weekend.
0:05.9	Well, when we scheduled this one back in July, the timing was such that it would give
0:10.1	me a chance to move back into my newly renovated basement.
0:14.3	It's so close.
0:15.9	It's going to be close, but I think I'm going to miss the end of that construction by a weekish,
0:19.7	even with the padding out we did of an extra two weeks.
0:23.6	Ah.
0:24.7	Well, look, less time moving and probably more time playing Silk Song.
0:29.5	But we've got another episode of Never Been a Better Podcast in place of our normal podcast.
0:35.2	Never Been a Better Podcasts features a rotating crew of Austin Walker, Jeff Backelard, Dan Reichert,
0:40.9	and Abby Russell as they join me and Alex each month over on the Patreon side of things.
0:46.9	This episode originally aired in February of 2023 and features guest Abby Russell and Dan Reichert.
0:55.7	It's also been slightly edited to include ad breaks.
0:59.1	If you want to hear more, never been a better podcast, you can head over to patreon.com slash
1:04.2	Nextlander.
1:05.3	Well, you'll find all the episodes and more.
1:08.9	As always, thanks for listening.
1:10.8	And we'll be back with the regular Nextlander podcast next week.
1:17.7	And then it went like a one, two, three, four.
1:25.3	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Never Been a Better podcast.
1:32.1	I think I got it that time.
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