Irrational Passions Podcast

One of Irrationality Yes, the moment you've all been waiting for. Dan Amrich of OneOfSwords.com joins us in Irrationality, only to tell us how awesome Pac-Man is, but more on that later. Listen in to this crazy show full of Activision, Irrational banter, and witty humor. To kick things off, here is the good 'ol rundown for ya: The beginning of the show goes as normal, Dan doesn't join us until segment two. With a crazy story of radioactive pills, Alex feels like he is in Fallout! Alex brings something new to the table with his gushing about Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. In segment two, we're joined by Activision Social Media Manager: Dan Amrich. Crazy News in Gaming this week, did you hear about the plot-line for Ocean's 14? This week's Talkabout is Talkin' About Trends in Gaming. We take a look at all the good, bad, and ugly, with a little help from our friend Dan! Dan shares some incredible stories as we discuss some of these trends, a must-hear! We top of the end of segment two with two special segmen

  2011 Without Pants! Yes. We're back in the new year! This time, we have so much to say, we decide to let our guests say it for us! We broadcast live on Justin.tv and let our wonderful listeners call in and tell us how they think the year of 2011 will play out! The Rundown: Alex kicks it off by asking if you want to contribute to the website, email him at alex@ippodcast.net! We have the shortest first segment known to man! We make up for the first point with an incredibly long second segment! We take a bunch of calls! Shoutouts to: Mike O'Hara, Plankfan, and Poop & Flames! Listen to our crazy predictions and tell us how wrong we shall be! Next time, our talkabout topic is Trends in Gaming! Tell us which ones you hate, and which ones you love! Also, we have special guest Dan Amrich coming on the show, so lay on some questions for him if you'd like! With that interesting cavalcade of summary, now its time to tell YOU how you can contact us! Send us emails at Alex/Evan/Scott/Aceshigh291@ippodcast.net or

Game of the Year Special Yes, its that time of the year. The time where you sit down with your friends, reflect about past endeavors, maybe share a cup of hot coco, oh and stab each other in the chest because you think you're more righter than the other. Yes, all five Irrational Hosts sit down and decide the Game of the Year for 2011. The rundown, as always: We talk about our holiday break because we're kids and still get to enjoy these kinds of subtle things Chris is back on the show! Its been a while so he reflects on how amazing he is. It has been 6 months since Irrational Passions started. We don't reflect, but we just though you should know. Scott can't come in the beginning, but he turns up after break one to lay down the Donkey Kong law. Through various categories, we agreed one quite a bit, but Action/Adventure is a bit of an iffy subject. Game of the Year is decided. Pretty easy pick if I do say so myself. We throw it out and remind you to send in your predictions for the year of 2011, and what ga

Mario Smokes a Bunch of Weed Yes, we are here! a little late, but we're still here and ready to please. Ever wanted to know the best premise for a Mario game ever? How about some crazy stuff about sexing up out site? Sit back, listen, and enjoy! Here is the rundown ladies and gents: -Alex reminds you all we aren't putting out a show for Christmas weekend! Also, next week is our first annual GOTY show, and we want your top 5s from this year! -Its a homebrew show, so just the fab force four. -Joe played a bunch of games! Plus he gives his audio review of Cross Fire 2 and maybe a free code for you guys -Alex breaks down the Persona 4 plot to get you all hyped up! -After our break, we break down the VGA announcements from forever ago! Spoiler: Alex creamed himself over ME3 -This may be the last rendition of You Can't Test the Tester! Please enjoy (don't worry, its short) -A discussion regarding Movies that have come from them there video games! -New releases are full of Violins! -Then we throw it out! Reminder

  Gamers Only Younger Let me be the first to apologize about Evan listening to Christmas carols the entire show-length. We know, he has a problem. Also, Scott Sauer from Welcome to the Goo joins us for plenty of rip-rank shenanigans. Mailbag With no emails this week, we rely on Fluffy Nuts, our favorite Australian in the whole damn world, to entertain us with nerf guns and sting-rays. Weekly Whats Up With such a boring week, what is there to share except our feelings? Eh, f*ck that. What's On Tap We've been playing so much, but what its really all about is that World of Warcraft. Oh and maybe some Persona 4, hitting up the classics this week. Tune in every week to hear about Alex's Persona 4 endurance run. Break 1 Fuckin' News The news is games are going to be announced at the spike VGAs! I should really be saying this in the past tense, 'cause it kind of already happened. You Can't Test the Tester Yeah, time to say goodbye to your favorite big asshole, and much much more in this weeks edition of YOU CAN'T T

  Irrational Distractions with Tennis Balls We have one of our best shows ever with special guests Glenn Burges and Geoff Chorney from Interactive Distractions. They're loud, crewed, and most of all Irrational, so sit back, relax, and enjoy. Mailbag We start off with the usually mailbag, which quickly escalates as the why Halo roolz and why CoD sucks. Plus don't forget: Joe is "The Sexy One". Weekly Whats Up Happy cut-off Glenn day! Oh, and don't forget to pee off your balcony into a cup or something. What's On Tap So, the universal agreement is that Gran Turismo 5 sucks, and everything else but Halo can go suck it. Don't forget to sponsor Glenn and Geoff in their MLG league! (Except not really) Break 1 Fuckin' News On this week's edition of the news, Halo may be coming back in tippity-top shape, and yes, we mean the REALY Hay-loez. Also, Dead Nation doesn't support voice chat, and thus it sucks. Don't forget to buy MvC3! You Can't Test The Tester Alex drones through episodes 4 and 5 of "The Tester" and begi

  Jungle Fever With almost the entire normal crew out this week, Alex and Joe surround themselves with guests! Robby, or robby1051, and Andrew, AKA ZeAce, join them in a fantastical adventure of sexual inuendo and video game talk! Don't forget the Jungle Fever! Mailbag Nothing. Apparently we cannot answer questions this week, but don't forget: the mailbag email is mailbag@ippodcast.net! Whats Up/What We've Been Playing Alex has a very interesting story to tell you guys, and it has to do with his profound hatred of cats! Also, there are plenty of games to talk about this week! Rock Band 3, Enslaved, and other awesomeness. Break 1 [Big shoutout to InDisTravis for singing this diddy!] Fuckin' News Not much to say here accept JUNGLE FEVER. We all have jungle fever, especially Robby. And there is just one special thing you can take from this segment: "Jungle Fever: For What Other Kind of People?" Review: Dead Nation Alex has a break down about Dead Nation, wanna hear the score? Go check out his review on the webs

20th Birthdays Come With- DRINK! Yes, its our big 2-0 and we are super excited! Chris joins the team but Scott sits out because he has other commitments! We wanna celebrate with style so we go all out LIVE and with a mixer! Mailbag We have plenty of emails this week, even from our #1 Superfan Mister_Nep and the infamous Geoff Chorney. Weekly Whats-Up Aces got a tattoo, Chris ran some shit, and Evan loves Jesus. What's On Tap This week, with embargoes gone, Alex breaks down Dead Nation, Aces talks about tired nights playing BLOPS, and Chris relives the Assassin's Creed. Evan on the other hand...well, BLOPS. BREAK 1 Fuckin News Little Big Planet mini-games, CIA, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 news! That's all we care about, MvC3. That is all. You Can't Test the Tester Alex recaps episode 3 of the Tester, and people seem to care less and less. With crowns being misplaced, and jerkoffs, named 'Big Fizzeek', what in the world are we Irrational Bastards to do? Pop-Corn Discussion Time to toss around a few different dis

  Zombies, Rants, and Covert Operations   So we're back with a vengeance, and this time AcesHigh actually showed up! With so much Black Ops and so little time, I don't even know how we kept this under three hours.   Mailbag: With so much mail, even one from Fluffy, how are we to take it?! We love it, that's how! Thanks so much guys for the support! Weekly-Whats-Up: Aces loved InDisFest, so listen in for some incredible stories. What We've Been Playing: Yeah, its time. Time to talk about Black Ops. But before we delve into that, Scotty gives off some impressions of Super Meat Boy and then Me and him break into the Killzone 3 Beta discussion. BREAK TIME! Fuckin News: News like armed-robberies, millions of Wiis sold, and Black Ops sales numbers don't come by so often, so sit back, grab some ice-cole lemonade, and enjoy. You Can't Test the Test: A segment in which Alex flies solo, but describes episode 1 and 2 of the tester in "explicit" detail. Bash of the Week: Alex gives a big EFF YOU to the haters and Scotty

Radian Just Got Irrational So we start off the show strong with Alex, Evan, Scott and Chris! No AcesHigh today because he is off busy in Georgia in INDISFEST (The Deuce)!!! With Aces gone, Chris steps up to the plate, trying to fill the big shoes! Mailbag We take on an email from our esteemed and most favorite Plankfan who wants to know what is up with these Klondike bars! Weekly Whats-Up Chris is a track star, Alex regains the love of a PS3, and Evan enjoys men who are blue, preferably in a group-like form. What's On Tap When we talk about what we've been playing, Alex and Chris are oh-so-iffy on Fable Trés, Scotty refuses to talk about Killzone 3 Beta, and Evan... well let's just say Evan tries to talk about Undead Nightmares, but just ends up spoiling Red Dead Redemption, and then I have to bleep it out. Goddammit Evan. Break #1 We come back form the break strong with our interview with Luke from Radiangames! Please go check out is games on Xbox Live Indie Marketplace! Fuckin News With news like Indie Ma

We have no AcesHigh this week, but we do have Mr. David S. Gallant is here to fill the o-so-big shoes.Plus we have a brand spanking new website and a new format we're testing! Get to it!MailbagSo Plankfan and Valiek would like to now about games of years and ice cream flavours? Boy do we have nutty answers.Weekly Whats-UpWe love to talk about ourselves all the time so that's what we do. By the way, nobody likes essays up in here.What We've Been Playin'Alex breaks down the fallouts, the fluids, and the Alan Wakes. David tells us about his game of the year. Scotty Raps some Rhymes about Alundra, and Evan breaks down in his Jungle he calls Wonderland.STOP! (Hammer Time)Its the Mother Effin' News!PSPhone, Killzone 3 WILL be awesome, and betas are for friends and family.Free For All VersusTime to duke it out! Who WOULD win, left paddle, or tarzan? FIND OUT!BREAK! (Again)Whatcha Wanna WantWe need a pooper-scooper for all this crap! Oh, and don't forget your DSi Fleshlight! Uh, flashlight... Yeah...OutroTime to say

Episode 16! Guest host: Primebuster from Downtoforit X!Unfortunately, about halfway through the show, some serious static broke in, and it takes its sweet time going away. It begins during AcesHigh's review of Halo Reach and stops around 02:14:35We are so sorry the static came in! Just skip ahead if you do not want to deal with it, but I have to say, everything in between is absolute gold! News:Plenty of cancellations and shut-downs going on this week.Prime will tell you too, press the touch screen to hadoken!What We've Been Playing:Alan Wake, Super Meat Boy, Medal of Honor, Street Fighter and Earthworm Jim HD!How much more could you want?!BreakTimeDiscussion!We all sit down and reflect on all the fun we had during extralife. With so many games played and so many memories made, we can't wait 'til next year!Shoutout to all who tuned in and donated! YOU ARE AWESOME!Review Time!As Alex thanks Team Meat for their review code and splooges over Super Meat Boy, AcesHigh breaks it down with Halo Reach!Check out both

So we took some time out of every hour of our gaming to record a little something.   Very unique episode, no editing, just a bunch of separate recordings stringed together. Stay tuned for your regularly scheduled podcast coming at you this Friday!

[B]News: [/B] Not only are toy race cars taking too many batteries, but DotA 2 is coming?!   The apocalypse? I think yes.   [B]What We've Been Playing: [/B] With ExtraLife just around the corner, Alex holds off talking about MoH, Enslaved, and NBA Jam.   Aces throws down some knowledge about the Dead Rising Twos.   [B]BreakTime [/B] [B]Watcha Wanna Want: [/B] Why does Evan mute himself halfway through? Why does Alex not really like Sonic? IS Vanquish going to be amazing?! Find out NOW.   [U]Mailbag[/U]:    Nothing. (I know, I was surprised too!)   [I]Outro[/I]   Short show, I know, but its time to go!   Email us at:   alex@ippodcast.net   evan@ippodcast.net   scott@ippodcast.net   AcesHigh291@ippodcast.net   general questions to mailbag@ippodcast.net   Follow us at:   @ALFighter27   @Stickerglue   @wuttehchuz   @AcesHigh291   @IrrationalPod   Call us and leave us a voicemail at:   (404) 590-1337 (Totally leet)   Rate and Review us on iTunes and buy our iPhone app to support us!   Check the website! That's ht

Just Alex, produce extrordinair here, telling you that unfortunately episode 14 is lost forever.I bring you up to speed on what we discussed on the now-deceased episode, and remind you about extra life and our contest!    Contest entries go to mailbag@ippodcast.net!

New:Its tons of news!First of all, AcesHigh291 has joined our crew, and look out Zvarri on episode 14!We got 3DS news out the wazzu!What We've Been Playing:Quite a mixed bag games/other things on this list.Aces has quite the bone for you dino lovers.Alex talks about the XBL preview program.BreakDiscussion Time:Are games really cost effective? Any solutions for this growing problem?Bash of the Week:Got a GameCrush?BreakWhatcha Wanna Want:We have a plethora of new releases! Holy crapoly! Plank Party!Contest Reminder:Send you ideas for Samus Aran to lose her powers. The more ridiculous, the more hilarious the better. Can be simple, or really-thef**k crazy-ass complicated. Send you entries to mailbag@ippodcast.net with ‘Contest’ in the subject line by October 16th.OutroTime to go already? Its only been 3 hours!!!Email us at:alex@ippodcast.netevan@ippodcast.netscott@ippodcast.netgeneral questions to mailbag@ippodcast.netFollow us at:@ALFighter27@Stickerglue@wuttehchuz@AcesHigh291@IrrationalPodCall us and leave us

Hello again! Its our longest show! (the last 20 minutes is just extra though!)   [B]News[/B]:   We cover the latest and greatest as always:   Plenty of 3DS rumors are about   Marvel vs Capcom 3 news is abundant   We take a few minutes to tell you what we think will happen next week with the 3DS       [B]What We've Been Playing: [/B] We have quite the spectrum the cover this week!   Scott breaks into the SC2 compaign   Evan talks about Halo online (shout out to AcesHigh291)   Alex played a bunch of demos, one really freaked him out.       Break       [B]Backlog Game of the Week: [/B] Scott was a good boy and actually participated this week!   Scott breaks apart Demon's Souls and tells you why is sofa king great!       [B]Review[/B]: Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep   Alex loves his Kingdom Hearts and talks out his ass about how much he loves this game.       Break 2       [B]Whatcha Wanna Want [/B] New releases galore! Eat up that DeathSpank, Blade Kitten, and Dead Rising 2!       [B]Mailbag[/B]   Holy CR

ITS THE BIG LIVE LIVE SHOW! An unplanned but still LiveShow we did on ustream, here is the mp3 for your listening pleasure!   Our first segment is news (as always) and boy did we have a crap-ton of news! Tokyo Game Show started this week, and we're breaking down the top stories for your enjoyment!   Next up is what we've been playing! Get into that Reach, Starcraft, and Birth by Sleep!   New segment next! Backlog game of he week, where we go into our backlog and pick a different game every week, in the hopes of finishing one every month or so! Not much to talk about this week, but we'll come in strong next week!   Break #1!!   We're back with the Get Hype! segment. We create a new game in a series, or a new one in general, give it a name, genre, mechanics, and try and get you hyped for it!   Discussion time!! Playstion One: A retrospective. Alex and Scott break down some of their favorite PSone games and the best and worst moments they had with it!   Break #2   What do YOU wanna want? Find out here!   A littl

Its Episode Ten! Hope you didn't like our podcast before, because we just hit our peak! it's just gonna get worse from here! [Just so you know, Rebel has some bad static for the first 2 minutes or so, but he doesn't say much so it shouldn't be too bad a problem. Really sorry though guys!] We have been hyping it to the 'umpth degree and here they are! AcesHigh291 (Joseph) and Rebelj12a (Matt) are here to entertain! They join the regularly irrational and passionate crew of Alex, Evan, and Scott and they go bonkers!   We hope you like Guile's theme, because you're going to be hearing it quite a lot!   We break into the show with the F***in' news! First order of business is: Its Aces' Birthday! He turns 19! Everybody: YATZI!   We cover the latest in news, plus don't forget, its your favorite time of the month: NPD Numbers! Holy chiz does Madden sell copies! After news, we go into what's up and what we've been playing! Everybody has some demo's to talk about, Evan is playing the same old shit, and Aces is totally

The crew is so exhausted, but we still deliver on our news and love of gaming!   We open up a little lackluster, and inform you of an exciting show next week! AcesHigh & Rebelj12a from VGEvo are crashing the Irrational Passions Podcast next week!   The news is going good! Some sad Xbox news, games and special editions galore!   When we think about what we've been playing, we think SCHOOL, cause we're still in it.   BREAK   After our first break, we take some time to give you a Metroid Other M mini review, finally Scott lays down the smack with his BlazBlue Continuum Shift review, and Alex wrote up a nice 'ol Arc Rise Fantasia review. Find out what we though of these games!   Were bumping to the discussion topic of "Will Games Ever Be Mainstream??" to next week, tune in and listen! It'll be one hell of a show!   BREAK 2.0   After break 2.0, we tell you watcha wanna-want, and you say ANY WAY YOU WANT IT, THAT'S THE WAY I NEED IT!   With all that other stuff, we remind you contest entries are due on the tent