Gaming talk with dry familiar friction.
Dud & Dan follows Dan May and Dudley May through video games, tabletop detours, gaming news, and whatever joke refuses to die. The rhythm is casual and familiarly argumentative, with Mario speculation, PAX disappointment, Game Pass updates, and tired parent energy all sharing the table.
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Dud & Dan is a gaming podcast built around accumulated familiarity. Dan May and Dudley May have the timing of people who can turn a small correction into a whole bit and still find their way back to the games. Episodes often begin with exhaustion, family logistics, timing problems, or a joke about how little preparation survived the week. Then the show settles into what was played, what was not played, and what news is worth bothering with. Super Mario 64 can lead to a careful complaint about coin draw distance. Prey can become the entry point to talking about Bethesda and Game Pass. Satisfactory inspires factory-planning details, coupon systems, walls, nodes, and the strange satisfaction of feeding unwanted resources into a machine. Board games and tabletop sessions sit comfortably beside video game talk. So do PAX memories, Star Wars jokes, Pokemon curry speculation, and arguments about hypothetical merchandise that would probably sell to almost no one. The appeal is not slick authority. It is the opposite: two recurring voices making a weekly record of their hobby life, complete with tired starts, deadpan corrections, and affectionate annoyance. The humor is blunt but not mean. The pacing can be rambling, yet the ramble is the point. News arrives as something to react to, mourn, mock, or reluctantly acknowledge. Personal life leaks into the edges through toddler fatigue, game nights, grocery lists, and recording-time regret. That gives the show a lived-in quality similar to hanging around after a game session while everyone is too tired to leave. Its later episodes also carry a reflective note as the pair mark 300 total episodes, including bonus PAX installments, and decide to end the weekly schedule. The goodbye is understated, a little awkward, and fittingly sincere. Dud & Dan suits listeners who want gaming conversation with personality scuffs left in, where the joke may matter as much as the headline and the week-in-games segment can wander anywhere.
Made for: For gaming fans who enjoy casual, personality-led discussion of video games, tabletop play, gaming news, and convention culture. It especially suits listeners who prefer familiar banter and tangents over tightly produced analysis.
What sets it apart: Dud & Dan stands out through its long-haul rapport and willingness to leave the messy parts in: tired openings, running corrections, odd jokes, and genuine reflection after hundreds of episodes. The gaming coverage feels rooted in ordinary play habits rather than industry performance.
A weekly podcast where twin gamers, Dan May and Dudley May, with lousy hearing and questionable intellect talk about what they are playing and discuss gaming related news. Video games, board games, tabletop, and role playing games, there is nothing off limits for Dud & Dan. New episodes every Monday.
Mario needs glasses, and you get Dan and Dudley litigating who really owns the microphone.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Dudley and Dan end their weekly run with old jokes, uncertain hopes and a wistful goodbye.
Dudley and Dan use their 300th episode, counting eight bonus episodes, to announce the end of their weekly run. After almost six years, they want to do other things. They say they talked it over at lunch, then keep interrupting and correcting each other as they explain it.
Clock-change grumbling gives way to conveyor belts, the Awesome Sink and what to do with spare materials.
Dan and Dudley start with a sleepy Sunday and the nuisance of daylight saving time. Dan has had plenty of coffee; Dudley says the clock change has thrown off his day. They entertain the idea of setting the clocks back every six months until everyone is living on a night schedule.
Game Informer's editors review new releases and debrief hands-on previews from events like Summer Game Fest.
Dan and Dudley say episode 292 plus eight PAX bonus episodes brings Dud & Dan to 300 total episodes and almost six years.
Dan and Dudley use Super Mario Sunshine's 2002 setting and Mario's courtroom sentence to frame a comic discussion of the game's unusual premise.
Dud & Dan's Episode 290, "An Acquired Taste," moves from Radlin's ketchup-and-waffle routine to Halloween costumes and trick-or-treating.
Dudley and Dan open with family arguments about handwriting, kindergarten separation, and Dudley’s high heart-rate readings of 160 to 179.
Twin gamers Dud and Dan discuss their recent gaming experiences and gaming news, starting with Dan's tiredness and his playthrough of Prey.
Twin gamers Dud and Dan chat about their week, including a toddler's birthday party, and prepare to discuss what they've been playing and gaming news.
Dan and Dudley open Dud & Dan episode 263 with daylight saving time gripes and the usual coffee-fueled morning pace.
Twin gamers Dud and Dan discuss their gaming experiences and news, starting with a late-night recording session.