Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 010: Making it Happening

The Nextlander Podcast

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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

We're out this week, so the Nextlander Podcast will return in its normal slot next week, but for now we bring you another NBABP classic, in which Jeff Bakalar and Austin Walker join us to talk about the funny pages, technology running amok, and electronic drum kits?

CHAPTERS

(00:01:07) Intro
(00:02:31) Sah-caucus vs Sea-caucus
(00:03:21) All the good podcast memories are Beastcast related
(00:05:56) The internal politics of carving out studio spaces
(00:08:14) "I'm a human and I don't work there anymore"
(00:23:56) First Break
(00:24:05) Do we live in Cyberpunk Version 3.0?
(00:27:14) Why do giant tech companies always seem evil?
(00:31:46) The Coleco Chameleon and the Intellivision Amico
(00:32:36) Tommy Tallarico
(00:34:39) The last 10 years of the internet have been good
(00:39:01) Don't mess with whatever hope people have of a retirement
(00:41:50) Masterful transition into the funny pages
(00:47:22) Second Break
(00:47:35) How is Gary Larson?
(00:52:50) Getting deep into Heathcliff
(01:01:43) Bakalar had a comic strip?
(01:07:15) And he bought an electronic drum kit?!
(01:21:51) Wrapping up and thanks!
(01:22:14) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and happy March. We're off this week and hopefully I've done everything I want to do in Resident Evil 9 and I'm tackling my backlog of unpainted miniatures that have been collecting since I started that whole basement renovation years ago.
0:17.3	We've got another episode of Never Been a Better Podcast in place of our normal podcast. Never
0:22.4	Been a Better Podcast features a rotating crew of Austin Walker, Jeff Backelard, Dan Reichert, and
0:27.3	Abby Russell as they join me and Alex each month over on the Patreon side of things. This episode
0:33.2	originally aired in March of 2023 and features guests Austin Walker and Jeff Backelor.
0:40.6	It's also been slightly edited to include ad breaks.
0:43.5	If you want to hear more Never Been a Better podcast, you can head over to patreon.com slash
0:48.1	Nextlander, but you'll find all the episodes and more.
0:52.6	As always, thanks for listening,
0:57.9	and we'll be back with the regular Nextlander podcast next week.
1:01.6	And then it went like,
1:07.2	One, two, three, one.
1:12.3	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Never Been a Better podcast.
1:20.9	Now, a lot of people, a lot of the new folks out there might not know that there was once a podcast called The Giant Beastcast. And on that podcast, there was a crew, the tip of the spear going out there, making podcasts and happening, happening,
1:31.4	making it happening. That's the kind of language we use.
1:33.7	Making it happening? Making it happening. What fuck is that?
1:36.5	And then Alex Navarro, you were there.
1:39.1	The Giant Beastcast, making it happening.
1:43.5	Jeff Bacchlor, you were there making it happening. I remember. I think I was there. Austin Walker, you were there making it happening. The giant beast cast. Making it happening. We are here. Thanks Austin. Thanks, Jeff, for joining us. Yeah, making it happening. Yeah, they probably won't let us put giant beast cast on it.
2:02.8	Jeff, can you make that? Can you get that? No, actually, I think I can. Yeah, you can. Nobody knows who still owns that. I don't know. Does that get caught up on an adventure? No, believe me. Believe me, Alex. I know now. There's an AI making the Beastcast right now.
2:18.0	Oh, my God.
2:18.8	Is that RSS in a, like, I know now. There's an AI making the Beast cast right now. Oh, my God. Is that RSS in a storage locker in Jersey somewhere in like Queens? It's in Sycoccus. It's got a good rate. It's good. They say natives say Seekawks, by the way. Say Secaucus? They go sea caucus do they what do they do I
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