Episode 74 - Footage from The Two Vague Podcast

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Episode 74 - Footage

1 hour Posted Mar 27, 2023 at 8:42 am.

Norah is back from Arizona, and Ben decides that Norah needs a manservant.

Games Ben and Norah played: “Dragon’s Crown,” “Katamari Damacy,” and…

“It Takes Two!” What does Norah think of when she thinks of video games?

Ben is proud, Norah swears like a sailor, and THE Sacagawea

Norah’s foot age is 76, Ben thinks he has tiny feet, and “are you nuts?”

The origin of the term footage, movies, sizes, and watching the news

The Space Shuttle Challenger, Apollo 11, actually awesome, and advertising

Memorable news and the declining value of footage and video

Thought experiments and the found footage movie genre

Concert footage, The Beatles, Peter Jackson, Yoko Ono, and “Cannibal Holocaust”

A movie summary, Italian exploitation cinema, and Red Brigades terrorism

Ben shows his gullible side, DVD and Blu-Ray extras, and the watermelon

British video game designer Sam Barlow and the unique storytelling in “Aisle”

Ben’s thoughts on the 2015 game “Her Story,” written and directed by Sam Barlow

Ben played “Telling Lies,” but he wasn’t impressed and has feedback

“Immortality” from 2022 is Ben’s favorite Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid game

Norah’s final thoughts equals zero, and Ben says check out “Immortality”

Ben gets distracted with talk of pinball machines and dispenses some trivia

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This week Ben takes Norah on an adventure with a word she has no interest in, but first Norah talks about three games she tried playing while she was visiting her nephew. After the pleasantries, Norah fastens her seatbelt and prepares to be bombarded with Ben’s research. Subjects and diversions include: memories of historical news moments, “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension,” the found footage movie genre, the first found footage film, and the video game designs of Sam Barlow.

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