It’s a new year, and we’re kicking it off with an all Irish pod! With Mark celebrating his birthday, and Jack researching what players haven’t yet been signed by Chelsea, it was on Garrett and Dave to step into the breach and begin our new season: 00:00:40 - Intros, GOTY Fallout 00:07:10 - Dave wrestles with the Criminal Mind. 00:20:55 - How bad is Velma? Very. 00:38:00 -The Last of Us E1 & 2 00:48:12 -Garrett hears the Voice in the Machine 00:52:33 -Dave is playing anything but current games 01:06:15 -Garrett’s Fire Emblem Engage thoughts 01:12:18 -Final Fantasy VII? Pretty good 01:17:10 -Everyone got fired 01:30:32 -More Far Cry is coming 01:36:00 -Justin Roiland out at Squanch Games/Adult Swim. Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney The Grap Up- a once in a while pro wrestling podcast with Mark and Bryan Rose

w/ Sean McGee (don't @ him) NB: We had real audio issues with this one, I did my best to salvage but thought it was better to have some pod than no pod - Jack 00:30 Intro, Sean McGee and fitness in your 30s 06:45 Jay Briscoe tribute 15:10 Sean McGee's GOTY 2022 Performance Review 50:00 Last of Us TV show and streaming companies 63:24 Avatar: The Way of Water 71:20 Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 78:40 Bryan Adams and Sean McGee's most hated songs 82:50 Jack's been playing old Championship Manager games and sport games now 91:30 Lil Gator Game 97:10 God of War (2005) 110:00 Ghost Song 117:55 Crusader Kings III 126:45 Croc Series 129:40 Sean McGee's Twitter odyssey 137:15 Another day... Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney The Grap Up- a once in a while pro wrestling podcast with Mark and Bryan Rose

Bryan Rose and Mark Robinson are joined by Fightful's Joel Pearl as they discuss their end-of-year awards based on the Wrestling Observer Awards, including the rest of the B Awards and all of the A Awards, like the match of the year and wrestler of the year.

Bryan, Mark, and special guest Joel Pearl (@JoelPearl) of Fightful share their potential Wrestling Observer Awards ballots, first focusing on most of the B Awards. Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney The Grap Up- a once-in-a-while pro wrestling podcast with Mark and Bryan Rose

2022... completed it mate. But this year wasn't the only thing we completed, there were lots of excellent video as usual! Welcome to our extensive GOTY breakdown which we're joined for, as always, by Barry Murphy (@TheBarryLad on Twitter, twitch.tv/Barrylad). This is part 4 of 4 (we did say extensive!) and we cover the following topics below: 00:55 Game of the Year! Shortlist - Elden Ring Splatoon 3 SiFu Vampire Survivors Immortality Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Norco Live A Live Signalis Citizen Sleeper Neon White Tinykin Marvel Snap Return to Monkey Island Nobody Saves The World Olli Olli World Kirby and the Forgotten Land Tunic God of War Ragnarok Windjammers 2 Rumbleverse Rollerdome Powerwash Simulator Pokémon Legends Arceus Card Shark Stray Two Point Campus Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney

2022... completed it mate. But this year wasn't the only thing we completed, there were lots of excellent video as usual! Welcome to our extensive GOTY breakdown which we're joined for, as always, by Barry Murphy (@TheBarryLad on Twitter, twitch.tv/Barrylad). This is part 3 of 4 (we did say extensive!) and we cover the following topics below: 00:55 Ham Sandwich Award for most average game 34:45 Best Game of not 2022 (remake/remaster/DLC) 92:00 Best Multiplayer 131:10 Goodest Boi (best animal in a game) Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney

2022... completed it mate. But this year wasn't the only thing we completed, there were lots of excellent video as usual! Welcome to our extensive GOTY breakdown which we're joined for, as always, by Barry Murphy (@TheBarryLad on Twitter, twitch.tv/Barrylad). This is part 2 of 4 (we did say extensive!) and we cover the following topics below: 00:55 Best Looking Game 48:30 Best Story 123:20 Best Music Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney

2022... completed it mate. But this year wasn't the only thing we completed, there were lots of excellent video as usual! Welcome to our extensive GOTY breakdown which we're joined for, as always, by Barry Murphy (@TheBarryLad on Twitter, twitch.tv/Barrylad). This is part 1 of 4 (we did say extensive!) and we cover the following topics below: 00:55 Intro and games we missed in 2022 10:00 Rules of Engagement - elimination of Pitchford award 12:35 Disappointment of the Year - introduction of the wheel 88:35 Character of the Year 148:00 Gaming Moment of the Year Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney The Grap Up- a once-in-a-while pro wrestling podcast with Mark and Bryan Rose

Merry Christmas, folks! Thank you for another year of listening to Link to the Cast. We're wrapping up our Game of the Year recordings, which will be ready from Jan 1st. In the meantime, we have a Christmas special as we are delighted to be joined by Peter Willington @xeroxeroxero to talk about our favourite average games of all time. We discuss how we got to 7/10 as the apex of average in review scoring, Suda 51, the influence of the sandbox genre, Dave Mirra, Robot Wars, Syberia, Walking simulators, and much more! Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney The Grap Up- a once-in-a-while pro wrestling podcast with Mark and Bryan Rose Many thanks to Aaron Good @tbone_doog for our intro theme.

00:30 Gearing up for Game of the Year 10:45 The Menu 18:20 Ronaldo O Fenomeno 23:40 Home Alone 2 35:00 High on Life 43:30 Wind Waker 20th Anniversary 48:40 PS5 Witcher 3 53:20 God of War Ragnarok 58:25 Geoguesser 71:50 Steam Deck emulation fun 78:20 Dave's weird quiz segment with a twist ending! Like, listen, share and subscribe, we appreciate any love from you fine people. We are available on most podcast platforms, just search ‘Link to The Cast’. linktr.ee/linktothecast If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast.wordpress.com / [email protected] @linktothecast on Twitter The lads are: ► @thedaytodave ► @lithiumproject ► @jacklayzell ► @garrettkidney The Grap Up- a once in a while pro wrestling podcast with Mark and Bryan Rose Many thanks to Aaron Good @tbone_doog for our intro theme.