The Two Vague Podcast
The Two Vague Podcast
Ben Cheknis
Episode 13 - Adaptation
1 hour 16 minutes Posted Sep 16, 2021 at 2:35 pm.
Ben and Eric introduce this week’s word… “adaptation”
Clapping for syllables and “What is an Easter egg?”
Nerd credit and sports nerds
Eric’s thoughts on his meaning of the word adaptation
Eric and his father’s fascination with mountain climbers
Ben’s first remote control story and a weird question about biological adaptation
Ben opens up about his social anxiety in very large groups and his strategy
The movie Adaptation is old enough to drink so… spoilers or whatever
The definition of the word pastiche and Ben knows two types of orchids
Police Squad
Movies that were made in to video games; Eric loved Activision’s Spiderman 2
“Proto Incredible Spider Hulk Type” and the Punisher game
The Red Dead Redemption “boomerang bug”
Spiderman, Batman Arkham Asylum and Insomniac’s games
Eric absolutely loves Tolkien’s Middle Earth universe and games
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
Eric mentions the ET Atari 2600 game and Ben can’t pronounce Alamogordo
Norah’s gamertag
Lucky Wander Boy by D.B.Weiss
Ben compares video game adaptations to cover songs
Ben blames George R R Martin
Video game adaptations coming to Netflix
Eric and Ben’s thoughts on remastered games
Arcade Games made from movie properties
Ben and Eric signing off
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Show notes
Fan of the show, Eric is in the “studio” this week with Ben and the “pod-cats”.  They are champing at the bit to talk about the word “adaptation” (even the cats), but first they answer a question about “Easter eggs”.  The conversation goes to some interesting places before getting to video games and what is recognized as the worst movie to video game adaptation so far.  Ben comes up with Norah’s PERFECT gamertag and Eric talks about his “Middle Earth” obsession.