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The SML Podcast

Listen to some idiots and maybe some guests talk about video games, news, and more! We feature developer interviews, reviews, baller ass music, and so much more!

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1070: The JoeKadian

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2025/08/23

Download Episode 1070 – We’ve got Grant “Stemage” Henry back on the show and he brings The Arkadian with him, so let’s chat!The show kicks off with Jacob Garner, Bri Galgano, and Aki on hand to welcome Grant “Stemage” Henry back to the show once again and this time he brought Jon “The Arkadian” O'neal with him! They chat about how Grant met his son only five years ago and they are BFFs to this day, playing many shows together including the

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1069: Shantae Nightmares

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2025/08/20

Download Episode 1069 – It’s a pack of reviews with the usual gang of misfits, so let’s get the talkers talking! Nice.The show kicks off with Pernell Vaughan, Chris Taylor, Andy Sperry, and Aki hanging out to chat about our weeks. We chat about our fun little prank on Jacob last episode, how awesome it is to watch Bit Brigade live and whether or not they use pre-recorded videos of the speedruns (they don’t!), plus we get a viewer redemption on Twitch where we can’t

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1068: Finding Jacob

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2025/08/17

Download Episode 1068 – We got a batch of news, a chuck of reviews, and a late Jacob. You know the drill, let’s rock.The show kicks off with Bri Galgano and Aki on hand to chat about the news of the week like the news that Microsoft is taking baby steps towards Xbox Marketplace spam, an awesome PlayStation Plus Game Catalog update for August, and the teases of a HALO 3 ODST crossover with Helldivers. A year and a half ago, “Just four games.” Today, working together on a

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1067: Ball Squad Reborn

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2025/08/14

Download Episode 1067 – I think we need a new theme song for Ball Squad. We need to include Bri in the song now. Grant, get to work.The show kicks off with Grant Henry on hand for some BALL SQUAD action along with Bri Galgano as we welcome the one and only Mel Kirk of Zen Studios back to the show for his SEVENTH visit! We chat about the changes Zen has been going through with a future that looks super bright, teases at future Pinball FX table ideas, and Bri has tons of questions about table

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1066: Hobbitses

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2025/08/10

Download Episode 1066 – Nintendo had an Indie World Spotlight this week and Jacob missed the news, so let’s start this segmented show!The show kicks off with Bri Galgano and Aki on hand to discuss all of the news of the week. The Nintendo Indie World Spotlight revealed a ton of new releases coming to Switch & Switch 2 including the surprise launches of UFO 50, Is This Seat Taken?, and Tiny Bookshop. We also tackle the latest additions and departures for Xbox Game Pass, ANOTHER Xbox

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1065: More People Than...

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2025/08/07

Download Episode 1065 – We have a whole bunch of people on this episode chatting about one of our most stacked lineups ever, so let’s go!The show kicks off with co-hosts, regular guests, and new guests alike! Chris Taylor, Andy Sperry and Aki are all hanging out. Grant “Stemage” Henry, Tim Ekkebus, and Horror Acolyte all join as well! Then to top it off, Big Adam Chase brings along BenTarkus, Huey, and the undercover M* P for a review as well. That’s ELEVEN people on

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1064: NeverDirect

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2025/08/02

Download Episode 1064 – It’s a huge batch of news AND we’ve got Pernell joining us, so let’s get this party started!The show kicks off with Bri Galgano, Jacob Garner, Pernell Vaughan, and Aki all on hand to chat about the news of the week including all the reveals from the Nintendo Partner Direct and the THQ Nordic presentation! New Katamari, Octopath Traveler 0, new Darksiders, and tons more! We also talk about the Switch 1 getting a price bump, the PS Plus lineup for

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1063: Bahthickle

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2025/07/31

Download Episode 1063 – We’ve got a big group of folks ready to chat on this one, so let’s get this one started!The show kicks off with Chris Taylor, Andy Sperry, Bri Galgano, Aki, and Horror Acolyte all hanging out to chat about our weekends. From Horror going to a Magic The Gathering tourney and winning, to Aki once again spending a weekend gaming and building Gunpla, it all here and mostly expected. Bri did a lot of packing for her upcoming move, Andy did a whole bunch of gaming

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1062: SuikML

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2025/07/26

Download Episode 1062 – I think I’m starting to have too much fun making the show images for these episodes. One day I’ll learn more than Paint 3D.The show kicks off with Jacob Garner, Bri Galgano, Aki, and Horror Acolyte all on hand to chat about a whole bunch of news from the past week. We tackle the sad passing of Julian Lefay as well as the sales of the Switch 2, Forza Horizon 5 on PS5, and Final Fantasy XVI on Xbox. Microsoft changed their minds on $80 games and killed their

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1061: Hotties

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2025/07/23

Download Episode 1061 – Welcome to the Hot Sauce discussion episode of the Sampling Molten Lava podcast. Yeah. That happens.The show kicks off with Chris Taylor, Pernell Vaughan, and Aki on hand to initially discuss what we did this past weekend, but Pernell mentions he went to a hot sauce convention in Chicago and things just go off the rails and I think I’m going to drop the money to make Aki taste the hottest hot sauce around right now during a show. We also talk about fruit and

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1060: Toitulls

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2025/07/19

Download Episode 1060 – Guess who is late this episode and you can win nothing! Did you guess Jacob? Of course we all did!The show kicks off with Bri Galgano and Aki waiting for Jacob to eventually show up. Which he does. Pretty quick into the show, but we waited like 10 minutes to start without him. So YEAH. We cover the news of the week including the latest Xbox Game Pass additions and departures, Forza Horizon 5 sales on PlayStation, Square Enix news, a Jackbox delay, and of course

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1059: Fantasies

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2025/07/16

Download Episode 1059 – We’ve got a batch of reviews to tackle and a little conversation about Final Fantasy as well, so let’s start!The show kicks off with Pernell Vaughan, Chris Taylor, and Aki on hand to hang out and chat about our weeks and some Final Fantasy. From the amazingness that is Final Fantasy VI, to the fact that Final Fantasy VI is the best in the series. We also discuss that Final Fantasy VI has the best music, characters, themes, and everything else. It’s a

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1058: Hamster of the Skies

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2025/07/12

Download Episode 1058 – There’s a whole ton of news and reviews to take care of this episode, so let’s not waste any time!The show kicks off with Jacob Garner, Bri Galgano, and Aki on hand to chat all about the news of the week including the latest PS Plus Game Catalog additions, Ghost of Yōtei limited consoles, DOOM’s new SNES release with RUMBLE, STALKER 2 coming to PS5, Fallout rumors, a Need for Speed shutdown, new Astro Bot levels and cameo bots, and tons more! Plus a

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1057: Good News, Bad News

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2025/07/05

Download Episode 1057 – Man, this country absolutely sucks right now, doesn’t it? It’s filled with doom, gloom, and hatred….except for…..The show kicks off with Bri Galgano, Jacob Garner, and Aki to chat about awfulness. But before then, Bri reveals some massive life changing news that will have her traveling to Wisconsin! Check the GoFundMe below to give her a hand on starting her new life! We also talk ONCE AGAIN about layoffs at friggin’ Microsoft. This is stupid. The

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1056: Alone With Cards

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2025/07/02

Download Episode 1056 – We’ve got our friend Ryan Niemiller joining the show once again to chat about games, wrasslin, and solitaire!The show kicks off with Pernell Vaughan, Chris Taylor, and Aki on hand to welcome stand up comedian and solitaire aficionado Ryan Niemiller back to the show to hang out and chat! We chat about our weeks which saw Aki playing games, like always, Chris having a show and playing games, Pernell going to Too Many games and playing games and talking about games,

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1055: Jacoboy

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2025/06/29

Download Episode 1055 – News & reviews are the plans for this episode and plans changed like, right before recording, so who knows!The show kicks off with Bri Galgano and Aki on hand to welcome Doc “Ian” Havok to the show to chat about the fact that Jacob isn’t there and then the big news topics of the week! Rumors aplenty about more potential Xbox layoffs, the end of Hytale from Hypixel, Super Mario Strikers joining the GameCube Online lineup, Little Nightmares III AND

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1054: VHS Collectors

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2025/06/25

Download Episode 1054 – It’s another batch of reviews and some banter with the crew, so let’s get started!The show kicks off with Pernell Vaughan, Chris Taylor, and Aki on hand to welcome Grant “Stemage” Henry back to the show to hang out and chat with us! We chat about our weeks and Grant gets to talk about his time with the Switch 2! We also chat about cutting down on physical collector’s editions and we also talk about physical movies we’ve bought. And

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1053: No Mistakes

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2025/06/21

Download Episode 1053 – News and reviews are on the schedule for this episode, so let’s get to the show!The show kicks off with Jacob Garner and Bri Galgano on hand to wonder where Aki is for a chance. She was playing a game on Steam. Of course she was. At least Jacob wasn’t late? We discuss the news of the week like the Nintendo Switch 2 bannings to those dumb enough to use a MIG Cart on their system, new Xbox console plans, Xbox Game Pass additions and departures, news reveals,

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1052: Nightmarebumps

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2025/06/18

Download Episode 1052 – It’s an episode chock full of nightmares with reviews, a broken statue, and music to fit the theme!The show kicks off with Chris Taylor, Pernell Vaughan, and Aki all on hand to chat about our non-nightmarish weekends. Aki played a whole bunch of Lies of P and pretty much nothing else, Pernell won a Mario Party tournament and bought some board games to add to his massive collection, Chris played a whole bunch of Mario Kart World on his Switch 2, and I watched

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The SML Podcast - Episode 1051: Hug Your Pets

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2025/06/14

Download Episode 1051 – We’ve got an awesome chat about the game Copycat as well as news and reviews, so let’s get started!The show kicks off with Bri Galgano, Jacob Garner, and Aki on hand to welcome Samantha Cable and Kostia Liakhov of Spoonful of Wonder to the show to talk all about their emotional cat adventure Copycat, out now on Xbox Series X|S & PS5! We chat about the origins of the game, the journey that Sam & Kostia took on their way to publishing a game, our own

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