http://selectbutton.net/ en http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41245 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41245 Thu May 16, 2013 8:32 pm Oh God Spiders No http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41245 There's a lot of cool new stuff happening in Dwarf Fortress and some of us have been itching to play again, so here we go. SELECTBUTTON.NET DWARF FORTRESS BLOODLINE GAME The Chronicles of Thundersilvers Are you Dwarf Enough? We're playing the most recent version with the Phoebus graphic set. The easiest way to get it set up is to just download the Lazy Newb Pack, here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 Here are the rules: 1. Play for one year, save, then hand the game off to the next person on the list. 2. Post about your experiences, with pictures and commentary. 3. No savescumming allowed. 4. When you're done, give one of the dwarves your name. 5. You must be finished with your turn and have your post uploaded within 5 days, to keep things moving and the thread interesting. 6. In your post, answer the following questions: i. In your own words, what were your greatest accomplishments as foredwarf? ii. In what areas of your job could you have shown improvement? What would you like to have done better? iii. What advice would you offer to the next foredwarf? If you do not think you can handle the time commitment and have your turn done within a week, please do not sign up! Current List: 1. Oh God Spiders No Saved Game 2. scratchmonkey 3. schnozlak 4. Lucaz 5. bza 6. Maybe YOU
SELECTBUTTON.NET DWARF FORTRESS BLOODLINE GAME
The Chronicles of Thundersilvers
Are you Dwarf Enough?

We're playing the most recent version with the Phoebus graphic set. The easiest way to get it set up is to just download the Lazy Newb Pack, here:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0

Here are the rules:

1. Play for one year, save, then hand the game off to the next person on the list.
2. Post about your experiences, with pictures and commentary.
3. No savescumming allowed.
4. When you're done, give one of the dwarves your name.
5. You must be finished with your turn and have your post uploaded within 5 days, to keep things moving and the thread interesting.
6. In your post, answer the following questions:
i. In your own words, what were your greatest accomplishments as foredwarf?
ii. In what areas of your job could you have shown improvement? What would you like to have done better?
iii. What advice would you offer to the next foredwarf?


If you do not think you can handle the time commitment and have your turn done within a week, please do not sign up!

Current List:
1. Oh God Spiders No Saved Game
2. scratchmonkey
3. schnozlak
4. Lucaz
5. bza
6. Maybe YOU

]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41176 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41176 Tue May 07, 2013 11:50 pm another coma http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41176 Stay tuned for Goku Super Saiyan 3 vs. Homer Simpson vs. God Our DOS gaming podcast. We talk about discovering games through our local BBSes, shareware, figuring out X-COM sans manual, wardialing, John Draper in my car and the infleunce of ZZT on the custom content editors that come packaged with PC games to this day. ______________________________________________________________ Select Button Podcast 61, ft. Adilegian, Apol, B coma, bleak, esc, felix, Rei, and remote ______________________________________________________________ Episode #61 Direct Link: Click Here _______________________________________________________________ If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe _______________________________________________________________ Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/

Stay tuned for Goku Super Saiyan 3 vs. Homer Simpson vs. God

Our DOS gaming podcast. We talk about discovering games through our local BBSes, shareware, figuring out X-COM sans manual, wardialing, John Draper in my car and the infleunce of ZZT on the custom content editors that come packaged with PC games to this day.
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Select Button Podcast 61, ft. Adilegian, Apol, B coma, bleak, esc, felix, Rei, and remote

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Episode #61 Direct Link: Click Here

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]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41090 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41090 Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:02 pm Rei http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=41090 Kiki Kaikai Tsukiyozoushi The Super Shinobi II Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyuushutsu Emaki Resident Evil Psychonauts Dark Souls Thank you, Jerel. ❤ ♡ ❤ Kiki Kaikai Tsukiyozoushi


The Super Shinobi II


Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyuushutsu Emaki



Resident Evil


Psychonauts


Dark Souls



Thank you, Jerel. ❤ ♡ ❤ ]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40609 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40609 Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:33 pm diplo http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40609 Hey all. Here is my first album, released through Ubiktune. Please give it a listen, and maybe spread the word a little. Any feedback's appreciated!


Please give it a listen, and maybe spread the word a little.

Any feedback's appreciated! ]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40593 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40593 Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:03 pm another coma http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40593 Do they check for doping? This episode the assembled gang talks about speedrunning, the speedrunning community, this years Awesome Games Done Quick, glitches, Dino Crisis 2, and get to the bottom of why anyone would want to speedrun a 4 disc RPG. ______________________________________________________________ Select Button Podcast 60, ft. Apol, esc, geinou, nothingxs, Rei, and the unflappable Schwere Viper ______________________________________________________________ Episode #60 Direct Link: Click Here _______________________________________________________________ If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe _______________________________________________________________ Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/

Do they check for doping?

This episode the assembled gang talks about speedrunning, the speedrunning community, this years Awesome Games Done Quick, glitches, Dino Crisis 2, and get to the bottom of why anyone would want to speedrun a 4 disc RPG.

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Select Button Podcast 60, ft. Apol, esc, geinou, nothingxs, Rei, and the unflappable Schwere Viper

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Episode #60 Direct Link: Click Here

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If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe
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Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/
]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40269 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40269 Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:08 pm another coma http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40269 Sigh. A wonderful (and tardy) SB tradition. We talk about Ubisoft's subtle pro-life agenda, shrug's unsubtle date-life agenda, copyright law, and games that received lower scores than God Hand on ign.com. Oh and something about infants in videogames something something. _______________________________________ Select Button Podcast 59, ft. adilegian, cubalibre, diplo, felix, Lainer, Renfrew, and shrug Surprise Special Guests: bza, Some Asshole Who Yells Out Sunset Riders (aka notbov) ______________________________________________________________ Episode #59 Direct Link: Click Here _______________________________________________________________ If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe _______________________________________________________________ Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/


Sigh.

A wonderful (and tardy) SB tradition. We talk about Ubisoft's subtle pro-life agenda, shrug's unsubtle date-life agenda, copyright law, and games that received lower scores than God Hand on ign.com.

Oh and something about infants in videogames something something.
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Select Button Podcast 59, ft. adilegian, cubalibre, diplo, felix, Lainer, Renfrew, and shrug

Surprise Special Guests: bza, Some Asshole Who Yells Out Sunset Riders (aka notbov)
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Episode #59 Direct Link: Click Here

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If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe
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Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/
]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40226 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40226 Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:44 pm misadventurous http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40226 title theme hi all it's been a couple years since i played the Mother games through, which means i'm quite overdue (i used to beat them yearly). i know dozens of people here have played Earthbound and talked it to death, so instead of making a topic on that (yet...) i'm going to play through & talk about its predecessor, the first Mother aka Earthbound Zero aka just Earthbound (NES). i figure a few people might be interested in the game but not everyone is gonna want to play a kooky old wildly unbalanced Dragon Quest clone (that is also true of Earthbound). so let me do it for you! Mother is a bit of a strange beast compared to its sequels. less openly wacky and setpiecy than Earthbound, and with a thinner, simpler story than either EB or Mother 3 -- you spend most of the game wandering freely about the game's world. there is a broad order to things but it's otherwise very Dragon Quest. if you're strong enough to do it, you can go anywhere. well, that's a pretty big "if". Mother's difficulty balancing is uneven at best, and grinding is often a necessity, so i'm playing with a version that's patched to double the experience & money that enemies give you. PROLOGUE/POLTERGEIST! like every Mother game, you start out picking out the names of your characters right off the bat. the first three are the same exact archetypes as Ness, Paula and Jeff: the cap-wearing, bat-wielding hero, the kind girl who saw him in a dream, and the nerdy boy who can't use PSI. the fourth character is a child gangster or something in this one. you'll see. no favorite thing or dog in this one, just the people and the food. and with that sparse intro, the game begins, with our hero lounging in a chair in his tiny, plain room. his day suddenly gets a lot more interesting when he steps towards his door and his lamp suddenly comes to life and attacks. it's no match for autobattle and his 10-year-old fists, though! the house shakes and rumbles as supernatural forces course through it...! the boy fights off the objects come to life in his little sisters's rooms, and the poltergeist is quieted. "For the moment..." inside the now-inert doll, he spots a music box, and it plays a strange tune. how mysterious! our mother doesn't seem to realize things have calmed yet. our dad tells us to get out and see the world. slam. i don't know if i'm comfortable with this apparently father left the basement key on the dog's collar. ingenious hiding spot, dad. wise words from the dog in the basement we find a couple of presents containing: bread, a plastic baseball bat, and our great-grandfather George's diary. these should all come in handy! (protip: bread is not just a healing comestible in this one. if you USE it, you can create a trail of breadcrumbs, and if you USE the crumbs, you'll "follow it back to its source". basically it's a teleport item.) the only enemies down here are very weak rats, who rarely attack. there are a good number of silly enemies in this game like in Earthbound, but lots of them are just angry wildlife, presumably riled up by alien activity. just like in Earthbound, your mom cooks up your favorite food to restore your stamina, and your sister Minnie can hang onto your extra stuff. (the other sister hangs out in her room for the rest of the game. i forgot to do this but you can go get some orange juice from her if you talk to her. what a nice lil' sis) AMBER ALERT Pollyanna (I Believe in You) we take our first steps down the road to ADVENTURE, and the first person we meet is a hysterical mother. HMM this sounds like a job for =PSYCHIC CHILDREN= i have always wondered if the whole poltergeist scenario is inspired by Poltergeist. this bit of dialogue reminds me of the house being totally destroyed at the end. we move on into the boring little town of Podunk, which i didn't get a lot of screens of, oh well. (look at that cute little mouse though!!) you can go to the city hall and tell the mayor if you want but there's no point if you already know what you're doing. SO I DIDN'T. instead i went to the petstore and used my haggling mastery to score this free canary! i'll spoil this a little ahead of time, not that it's a big secret: your ultimate goal in the game is to acquire 8 fragments of a song, like in Earthbound, only instead of being hidden in the dungeons, they're scattered around the world, each one in a unique form. the first, of course, is the music box in the doll; the next thing i do here is to get the second. however, you can find them in whatever order, whenever you want. hitting the START button brings up the world map. that little tiny black dot just northwest of Podunk is where i'm going. a sampling of the enemies you can find around Podunk my personal favorite is Wally, the irate farmer. the Hippy's music is the same Johnny B. Goode-inspired tune as it is in Earthbound, if you care. this is the, erm, beautiful bird sanctuary of Podunk, Canary Village. behind that white obelisk... is Laura, the lone canary, wandering by herself on the bank of the river. of course, she's sad because she's missing her canary chick, and reuniting the two earns us the next fragment of the melody. a mother, reunited with her missing child. it's almost like there's some kind of theme they're going for here this seems like a good place to stop for now. next time: lions, tigers, and zombies, oh my!
title theme

hi all

it's been a couple years since i played the Mother games through, which means i'm quite overdue (i used to beat them yearly). i know dozens of people here have played Earthbound and talked it to death, so instead of making a topic on that (yet...) i'm going to play through & talk about its predecessor, the first Mother aka Earthbound Zero aka just Earthbound (NES). i figure a few people might be interested in the game but not everyone is gonna want to play a kooky old wildly unbalanced Dragon Quest clone (that is also true of Earthbound). so let me do it for you!

Mother is a bit of a strange beast compared to its sequels. less openly wacky and setpiecy than Earthbound, and with a thinner, simpler story than either EB or Mother 3 -- you spend most of the game wandering freely about the game's world. there is a broad order to things but it's otherwise very Dragon Quest. if you're strong enough to do it, you can go anywhere.

well, that's a pretty big "if". Mother's difficulty balancing is uneven at best, and grinding is often a necessity, so i'm playing with a version that's patched to double the experience & money that enemies give you.



PROLOGUE/POLTERGEIST!


like every Mother game, you start out picking out the names of your characters right off the bat. the first three are the same exact archetypes as Ness, Paula and Jeff: the cap-wearing, bat-wielding hero, the kind girl who saw him in a dream, and the nerdy boy who can't use PSI. the fourth character is a child gangster or something in this one. you'll see.



no favorite thing or dog in this one, just the people and the food.



and with that sparse intro, the game begins, with our hero lounging in a chair in his tiny, plain room.



his day suddenly gets a lot more interesting when he steps towards his door and his lamp suddenly comes to life and attacks. it's no match for autobattle and his 10-year-old fists, though!



the house shakes and rumbles as supernatural forces course through it...!



the boy fights off the objects come to life in his little sisters's rooms, and the poltergeist is quieted. "For the moment..."



inside the now-inert doll, he spots a music box, and it plays a strange tune. how mysterious!



our mother doesn't seem to realize things have calmed yet.



our dad tells us to get out and see the world.



slam.



i don't know if i'm comfortable with this



apparently father left the basement key on the dog's collar. ingenious hiding spot, dad.



wise words from the dog



in the basement we find a couple of presents containing: bread, a plastic baseball bat, and our great-grandfather George's diary. these should all come in handy!

(protip: bread is not just a healing comestible in this one. if you USE it, you can create a trail of breadcrumbs, and if you USE the crumbs, you'll "follow it back to its source". basically it's a teleport item.)

the only enemies down here are very weak rats, who rarely attack. there are a good number of silly enemies in this game like in Earthbound, but lots of them are just angry wildlife, presumably riled up by alien activity.



just like in Earthbound, your mom cooks up your favorite food to restore your stamina, and your sister Minnie can hang onto your extra stuff.

(the other sister hangs out in her room for the rest of the game. i forgot to do this but you can go get some orange juice from her if you talk to her. what a nice lil' sis)

AMBER ALERT
Pollyanna (I Believe in You)

we take our first steps down the road to ADVENTURE, and the first person we meet is a hysterical mother. HMM




this sounds like a job for =PSYCHIC CHILDREN=



i have always wondered if the whole poltergeist scenario is inspired by Poltergeist. this bit of dialogue reminds me of the house being totally destroyed at the end.



we move on into the boring little town of Podunk, which i didn't get a lot of screens of, oh well. (look at that cute little mouse though!!) you can go to the city hall and tell the mayor if you want but there's no point if you already know what you're doing. SO I DIDN'T.



instead i went to the petstore and used my haggling mastery to score this free canary!

i'll spoil this a little ahead of time, not that it's a big secret: your ultimate goal in the game is to acquire 8 fragments of a song, like in Earthbound, only instead of being hidden in the dungeons, they're scattered around the world, each one in a unique form. the first, of course, is the music box in the doll; the next thing i do here is to get the second. however, you can find them in whatever order, whenever you want.





hitting the START button brings up the world map. that little tiny black dot just northwest of Podunk is where i'm going.



a sampling of the enemies you can find around Podunk

my personal favorite is Wally, the irate farmer.
the Hippy's music is the same Johnny B. Goode-inspired tune as it is in Earthbound, if you care.



this is the, erm, beautiful bird sanctuary of Podunk, Canary Village. behind that white obelisk...



is Laura, the lone canary, wandering by herself on the bank of the river.



of course, she's sad because she's missing her canary chick, and reuniting the two earns us the next fragment of the melody.

a mother, reunited with her missing child. it's almost like there's some kind of theme they're going for here

this seems like a good place to stop for now. next time: lions, tigers, and zombies, oh my!

]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40110 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40110 Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:33 pm another coma http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=40110 This podcast is actually a large scaling sprite. This episode forum superfriends Renfrew, glitch, and Schwere Viper swap stories about their arcade experiences over the years. Glitch talks about the arcade that's inside of the building where she works, Schwere Viper recalls with frightening accuracy the machines available at his childhood arcade near a laundromat that closed in 1995, and, should you ever find yourself awake in Haneda Airport after a blackout, Renfrew provides easy to understand turn-by-turn directions to Japan's h0ttest UFO catchers. Bonus: learn about the untimely fate of Renfrew's super-sweet Soul Calibur poster. _______________________________________ Select Button Podcast 58, ft. glitch, Renfrew, and Schwere Viper ______________________________________________________________ Episode #58 Direct Link: Click Here _______________________________________________________________ If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe _______________________________________________________________ Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/

This podcast is actually a large scaling sprite.

This episode forum superfriends Renfrew, glitch, and Schwere Viper swap stories about their arcade experiences over the years. Glitch talks about the arcade that's inside of the building where she works, Schwere Viper recalls with frightening accuracy the machines available at his childhood arcade near a laundromat that closed in 1995, and, should you ever find yourself awake in Haneda Airport after a blackout, Renfrew provides easy to understand turn-by-turn directions to Japan's h0ttest UFO catchers.

Bonus: learn about the untimely fate of Renfrew's super-sweet Soul Calibur poster.
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Select Button Podcast 58, ft. glitch, Renfrew, and Schwere Viper
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Episode #58 Direct Link: Click Here

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If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe
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Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/
]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=39805 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=39805 Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:22 am another coma http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=39805 "I believe ghosts are like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily." This episode I interview fellow sb.net forum members and Tales of Games co-founders bort and chef boyardee. We talk about the development of Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden and its impending sequel, The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa for like a whole 49 minutes. The Barkley 2 Kickstarter can be found here! And then, since your appetite for such things is insatiable, Side B of this episode is an in-depth discussion about SaGa creator Akitoshi Kawazu's body of work. For this part... well let's just say that you might wanna buckle up, because once these '"Bad Boys of Gaming"' get started there is pretty much no turning back. _______________________________________ Select Button Podcast 57, ft. B coma, bleak, bort, bza, and c. boyardee ______________________________________________________________ Episode #57 Direct Link: Click Here _______________________________________________________________ If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe _______________________________________________________________ Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/


"I believe ghosts are like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily."

This episode I interview fellow sb.net forum members and Tales of Games co-founders bort and chef boyardee. We talk about the development of Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden and its impending sequel, The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa for like a whole 49 minutes. The Barkley 2 Kickstarter can be found here!

And then, since your appetite for such things is insatiable, Side B of this episode is an in-depth discussion about SaGa creator Akitoshi Kawazu's body of work. For this part... well let's just say that you might wanna buckle up, because once these '"Bad Boys of Gaming"' get started there is pretty much no turning back.
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Select Button Podcast 57, ft. B coma, bleak, bort, bza, and c. boyardee
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Episode #57 Direct Link: Click Here

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If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe
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Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/
]]> http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=39739 http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=39739 Thu Dec 13, 2012 1:06 am another coma http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=39739 "bleak is dead" This episode is about that one game you like that no one else seems to like. Oh. You really don't like it? FINE. Listen to hear us gush about games no one cares about anymore: Stonekeep, G-Police, Future Cop LAPD, Ground Zero Texas, Jet Moto 2, Kid Chameleon, SaGa Frontier, Captain Skyhawk, Burt Reynold's Gator for the Nintendo Entertainment System and CRIME KILLER. Also, bleak dies tragically! _______________________________________ Select Button Podcast 56, ft. B coma, bleak, cubalibre, felix, and Oh God Spiders No ______________________________________________________________ Episode #56 Direct Link: Click Here _______________________________________________________________ If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe _______________________________________________________________ Check out the RSS feed at our libsyn blog at http://selectbutton.libsyn.com/


"bleak is dead"

This episode is about that one game you like that no one else seems to like.

Oh. You really don't like it?

FINE.

Listen to hear us gush about games no one cares about anymore: Stonekeep, G-Police, Future Cop LAPD, Ground Zero Texas, Jet Moto 2, Kid Chameleon, SaGa Frontier, Captain Skyhawk, Burt Reynold's Gator for the Nintendo Entertainment System and CRIME KILLER.

Also, bleak dies tragically!
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Select Button Podcast 56, ft. B coma, bleak, cubalibre, felix, and Oh God Spiders No

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Episode #56 Direct Link: Click Here

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If you use iTunes, follow this link to subscribe
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