Nintendo Dads Podcast

The format is simple and it has held for well over five hundred episodes. Marty opens with the number and the calendar date, says who is on the show tonight, and cues Jesse for the intro song. The song is a rap about the crew, and one week it turned out Tim had performed it himself, which the panel found funnier than the audience probably did. Now listeners get a say: whichever genre gets shouted most in the live chat becomes the next intro. Country was suggested. So was Beatles. Someone else was picturing a Sinatra crooner take. After that the news rundown starts. Recent weeks have covered Nintendo's variable pricing, Switch 2 editions and whether the upgrade justifies the cost, Nintendo Treehouse and whether it actually helps, Pokemon Presents on Pokemon Day, Indie World, and a Super Mario Galaxy movie doing very well in theaters. There is also the doom cycle. Every so often the internet declares Nintendo finished, and this crew has been around long enough to treat each new obituary as a scheduled event rather than news. One episode built an entire bit out of the difference between corporate doom, the video game, and the movie with Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Some weeks there is no news at all and they simply pick a game to talk about, as when a whole episode went to Tomodachi Life. The show is recorded live with chat running on Twitch and YouTube, so reactions arrive in real time and occasionally redirect the conversation. Attendance varies. Justin spent stretches on a family trip to Japan, leaving a smaller table and a package of Japanese Nintendo merchandise to look forward to. One episode was just two of them, after waiting fifteen extra minutes for a third. Nobody pretends otherwise on air. The between-news material is what gives the show its texture: a cheap new headset that revealed bass in the intro nobody had heard before, a pop-up storm loud enough to derail a cold open, a week that somehow felt both long and short, which sent the table into Star Trek and Doctor Who territory. The weekly news segment is credited to Patreon supporters. Anyone expecting a tight, produced gaming news brief will find something looser. This is closer to a standing appointment among friends, where the Nintendo news is the reason to meet and the rest is why they keep meeting. Fans of the console since the NES era, now with their own kids playing, will recognize the register immediately.