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Idle Thumbs

Idle Thumbs is an independent podcast network whose podcasts span comedy, pop culture and entertainment, video games, and TV.

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00:43:54

The Cutdown 013: Assistant Editors

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/10/12

Assistant editors are essential to the trailer industry. We discuss the many things we learned on the job. What an assistant editor does, their day to day tasks, and how many varieties of tea they need to keep track of. We also discuss the trailers for 6 Underground, The Gentlemen and Free Guy. Trailers Discussed: 6 Underground, The Gentlemen, Free Guy, 1917 Featurette, Russian Ark, They Shall Not Grow Old, Boyhood, The King's Man. If you have questions or comments please send them to

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02:42:24

Three Moves Ahead Episode 480 - 1999

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/10/11

Rob, Rowan, and Sean welcome Jeff Green to discuss what might be the greatest year in gaming. Looking down the release slate for that year, it was obviously stacked with brilliant games like Alpha Centauri, Freespace 2, and Jagged Alliance 2 (to name just a few). But did people know it was special at the time? And did anyone realize how fleeting that moment would prove to be, just before Microsoft entered the console wars and began to bridge the gap between console and PC?

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01:19:02

Every Game in This City 105: Hitting the Wall

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/10/07

Locked in a bathroom, trapped in a museum, handcuffed together, and wearing clown makeup, after five full days of escaping, the team finally hits a wall at the Fifthroom in MyTOWN. Patrick LeMieux tries to hold it together while introducing our second special guest, Clarissa Lee, a research fellow at Sunway University, who had the dubious pleasure of joining us for her first (and our 30th) escape room. During the interlude, we listen in on Doug and Patrick’s personal audio diaries recorded in a food

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00:31:40

The Cutdown 012: Teaser Trailers

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/09/27

Teaser trailers are some of the most fun to edit. We discuss what we think makes an effective teaser trailer, and how they differ from full trailers which reveal more of the story. We also talk about a LOT of our favorite teasers and how they successfully tease the audience using entirely different philosophies and editing techniques. We also touch on the teasers for Tenet and Birds of Prey which the studios released exclusively in theaters, and the new Jurassic World short film which acts as a

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01:03:21

ThreeMovesAhead Episode 479 - Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/09/25

Rob, TJ, Ian Boudreau, and US Gamer editor Mike Williams discuss the very pleasant surprise that is Age of Wonders: Planetfall. From initial skepticism over the fantasy series' pivot to science fiction, the gang are slowly won over by Planetfall's novel solutions to expansion and city management, diplomacy with minor factions, and glorious tactical combat.

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01:44:15

Every Game in This City 104: Salty and Sweet

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/09/23

With the whole cast assembled, Goldie Bartlett introduces our first special guest, Teddy Dief, who helped develop Hyper Light Drifter, co-founded Glitch City, and hosts his own podcast on the Idle Thumbs Network, Playscape LA. Teddy joins the team at Nu Sentral to explore the cinematic worlds and role-playing systems of the escape rooms at Breakout Nu. Then Stephanie, Jey, Shang Lun, and Doug peel off to get sweet and salty about the blend of story and puzzle in “Materia Medica,” a Chinese

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00:41:05

The Cutdown 011: Watching For Inspiration

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/09/13

What inspires trailer editors? This time on the Cutdown we dive into the trailers for Bad Boys For Life and Joker, and talk about finding inspiration in unlikely places, and how to keep your work fresh. Trailers Discussed: Bad Boys For Life, Bad Boys II Teaser, Bad Boys II Trailer, Joker, Star Trek, Waves, Prometheus, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Blindspotting, Little Children, Madeline’s Madeline, Hard Candy, The Social Network, Alien, Dr. Strangelove If you have questions or comments please send

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01:20:04

Three Moves Ahead Episode 478 - Oxygen Not Included

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/09/12

Nicole Clark joins Rowan and Rob to talk about Klei's Oxygen Not Included and its punishing model of offworld colonizaiton.Learn how everything that can go wrong does go wrong, and how well the game communicates excruciating detail about why your colony is dying.

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01:35:12

Every Game in This City 103: Games for Tall People

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/09/09

Laura E. Hall hosts day three where we meet our final team member, Chad Toprak, and talk about global games from Melbourne to Malaysia. Afterwards Patrick joins Laura and Chad to chat about what happens when you lock ten people in “The Tomb of Life and Death,” an asymmetric, architectural escape room. Then the team gets physical with the cramped crawls in Mission-Q and creepy dolls at Lost in KL, two of the most intense escape room parlors we’ve ever encountered yet.

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00:24:17

Something True 2.8: Odyssée

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/09/03

Something True 2.8: Odyssée by Idle Thumbs

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01:05:34

The Cutdown 010: Motion Graphics

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/30

Motion graphics can give a trailer a unique look and feel which defines the marketing of a movie. We discuss everything from The Blob to The Da Vinci Code, what graphics add to the trailer process, and talk about a number of our favorite examples. We also speak to professional motion graphics artist Hal Forsstrom about where the industry is going and how to break in. Trailers Discussed: Morgan, Bombshell, Marriage Story (What I Love About Nicole), Marriage Story (What I Love About Charlie), Man of

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01:43:27

Three Moves Ahead 477: Fire Emblem Three Houses

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/29

Rowan, Fraser, and Rob are joined by Kotaku's Gita Jackson to discuss their tenure as teachers at Garreg Mach Monastery. The gang talk about the really thougthful politics and characterizations that define Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Aside from that, is it a good tactics game? And finally, the gang gets into some serious spoilers about the game's shocking reveal midway through.

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00:21:45

Something True 2.7: Christian & Christopher

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/27

Something True 2.7: Christian & Christopher by Idle Thumbs

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01:08:46

Every Game in This City 102: The Mummy Industry is...

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/26

On our second day, Douglas Wilson introduces new team members Laura E. Hall and Jey Biddulph before comparing and contrasting their work at Meridian Adventure Co. in Portland with Alex and Shang Lun’s Earthrise One at PlayReactive in Melbourne. After that, things fall apart when we go to Ecurve, where Goldie, Stephanie, Shang Lun and Amani do a walkthrough of M&M'S® The Big Escape, a candy-coated room at Amaze Escape. Finally, the episode ends with vestigial puzzles, broken props, and the mysterious

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01:01:13

Three Moves Ahead 476: Gerykon Postscript - Pericles

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/23

Rob, Troy, and Bruce get together to discuss Mark Herman's epic wargame of the Peloponnesian Wars, Pericles. How does it capture the sweep of a vast historical subject that was only sometimes decided through military conquest?

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00:15:31

Something True 2.6: L'Arme X

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/20

Something True 2.6: L'Arme X by Idle Thumbs

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00:29:35

The Cutdown 009: Gemini Man and International Trailers

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/16

Gemini Man's trailer and its international counterpart are subtilely different; we discuss why we think those distinctions were made along with the practical and very specific cultural considerations which need to be made when editing trailers for international markets. For more about international trailers watch Ric's LACPUG talk! Trailers Discussed: Gemini Man Trailer 1, Gemini Man Trailer 2, Gemini Man International Trailer, Central Intelligence, The Matrix Revolutions International Trailer,

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00:21:11

Something True 2.5: The Trip to Telegraph Creek

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/13

Something True 2.5: The Trip to Telegraph Creek by Idle Thumbs

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01:19:34

Every Game in This City 101: A Chocolate Milk Heist

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/12

Let the games begin! Lee Shang Lun leads our first full episode where we meet the team, talk about the origins of the podcast, and tease out some possibilities for playing well. During a short interlude, Alexandra, Laura, and Doug introduce the ins and outs of escape rooms before the group debriefs about their first day playing together at the Escape Room franchise in Berjaya Times Square—a parlor where we sped through art galleries, split up in haunted houses, and tried to steal some chocolate

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00:13:27

Something True 2.4: Okaasan

Idle Thumbs ·

2019/08/06

Something True 2.4: Okaasan by Idle Thumbs

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