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Triple Click

Writing Video Games and Andor (with Tom Bissell)

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Jason Schreier, Technology, Society & Culture, Maddy Myers, Video Games, Kirk Hamilton

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Triple Click brings on Tom Bissell, writer of video games, books, TV shows and the final three episodes of Andor season 2. They talk about how he went from reporting in Iraq to writing dialogue for Battlefield, his journey to become a writer on Andor, and what it was like to pen the conclusion to one of the most acclaimed TV shows of all time.

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0:00.0

It's like I always say, I have friends everywhere, and one of them is a really good writer.

0:12.7

Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you, and the TV shows and books, and okay, this week we have a special guest.

0:20.0

It's Tom Bisselltle who's written video games

0:22.3

and the last three episodes of season two of and door i'm mattie meyers i'm jason shryer and i'm

0:33.1

kirk hamilton and hello hello hello my friends it's been so long since we talked. It's so nice to see

0:39.8

you. There's an in joke that nobody will understand. Nobody will understand it. And it's fine.

0:44.8

We can just keep moving. You don't, you don't always get to get all the inside of us. Or we could

0:48.5

explain it by saying that, you know what? Sometimes we record episodes at a different time than we

0:54.1

normally do. And we've seen

0:55.1

each other a little more recently than usual. But you, the listener, use your imagination. You get to

1:00.2

use your imagination. You get to imagine that we're just seeing each other every single day and there's

1:05.2

hundreds of episodes you aren't hearing because we don't record them. It's just us hanging out.

1:10.5

But actually... What? What? I don't record them. It's just us hanging out. But actually...

1:11.6

What?

1:12.6

I don't know.

1:14.2

That just went totally awesome.

1:15.5

People can imagine whatever they want.

1:16.5

There actually are other episodes that you might not be hearing, dear listener.

1:20.9

And there's a way to hear them.

1:23.3

And here's what it is.

1:24.9

You would go to Maximumfund.org slash join, and you'd become a member of the MaxFund Network,

1:32.1

just like us.

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