'The Last of Us' Season 2, Episode 4: The Gamer Guide | Button Mash

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ben and Daniel pass the halfway point of the second season as they visit Seattle and take on Episode 4, "Day One." After sharing their brief reviews of the episode, they discuss several significant changes to core characters and scenes from 'The Last of Us Part II' before wrapping up with some speculation about the structure of the remainder of the season (and beyond). Intro (0:00)Episode 4 breakdown and reactions (2:30)Predictions for the rest of the season (40:00)Outro (54:43) Hosts: Ben Lindbergh and Daniel ChinProducer: Devon RenaldoAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, my birdie buddies, my par-saving pals.
0:03.8	My eagle enthusiast, it's Joe House here.
0:06.2	Major season is finally upon us.
0:10.1	The Masters, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship.
0:15.3	And Fairway Rowan is here to break down all of the storylines.
0:20.3	Offer a little help on those betting cards for every
0:24.5	single major this golf season. Join me and our incomparable accomplice, our tour boots on the
0:32.6	ground, Nathan Hubbard, as we guide you from Augusta all the way to Northern Ireland, Royal Port Rush.
0:40.4	Away we go.
1:03.6	Hello and welcome into the Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom.
1:09.3	I am Ben Minberg, senior editor for the Ringer and Button Mash host, and as Joel Miller once said,
1:12.1	you go halfway across the country with someone,
1:17.5	I've gone halfway across the season with someone, more than halfway. And that someone is Ringer staff writer, Daniel. Hello, Daniel. Hello, hello. Can you believe it? We're past the
1:22.8	halfway point. I know. This is breezing by, you know. It might not be three episode dumps every week like Andor, but...
1:28.8	Yeah, I know. It's tough to keep up with all the content that's happening. Just one measly episode of a show per week. Easy. This is easy mode. I can keep up with this. But yeah, these seven episode seasons, they just sneak up on you.
1:46.4	It's like a stalker on the streets of Seattle.
1:48.0	Just don't even hear them.
1:49.6	Suddenly they're on top of you.
1:56.2	And today we are talking about the last of us, season two, episode for day one, written by Craig Mason, directed by Kate Heron.
1:58.9	So our boilerplate, spoiler warning, we will be discussing everything on the HBO show
2:05.3	through Season 2, Episode 4.
2:07.6	We won't be discussing future episodes.
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