Marissa Trarback, Matthew DiBenedetto, Matthew Sacco
226 episodes listed below
Gaming arguments with rules, tangents, and grudges.
The Crowned Heathens Podcast is a gaming panel show built around friends arguing through favorite games, awards, endings, franchises, and oddball prompts. Its best moments come when the planned topic collides with side stories, unclear rules, and instant pushback.
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The Crowned Heathens Podcast is a gaming panel show with enough format to create stakes and enough disorder to keep those stakes funny. Episodes often begin with a question, a mood check, or a half-formed segue that immediately gets challenged. From there, the panel can end up in Game Awards predictions, favorite video game endings, Canadian studios, deserted-island scenarios, mini bosses, indifferent franchises, or a very specific complaint about trading card logic. The subjects are recognizable gaming territory. The delivery is the hook. Rules get clarified while people are already playing by them. Guesses become safety guesses, categories become traps, and a single game can get named again and again until everyone has to decide whether it is a smart answer or just surrender. The show is especially good at making uncertainty entertaining. Someone half-remembers a release date, someone else argues from pure vibes, and the group keeps moving until the confusion becomes part of the segment. Nostalgia matters here, but it is not treated gently. Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, Portal, Baldur's Gate 3, Halo Reach, Tetris, Hades, Age of Mythology, Tunic, A Little To The Left, Balatro, Halo, Doom, Battlefield, and Clair Obscur Expedition 33 all appear as material for memory, taste, and disagreement. The panel also drifts into daily-life tangents: internet providers, baseball stress, concerts, moving, Facebook Marketplace, and the danger of buying too much cardboard. Those detours do not feel separate from the show. They establish the room before the next argument starts. The tone is blunt, casual, and deliberately unruly, but the energy reads as familiar rather than mean. It is a show for people who enjoy gaming conversation when it sounds lived-in, reactive, and a little overcommitted to the bit.
Made for: Best for gaming fans who enjoy conversational criticism, nostalgic arguments, awards speculation, and themed prompts more than formal reviews. It fits listeners who like panel chemistry, quick interruptions, and opinions that get tested out loud.
What sets it apart: The show turns structure into comedy: brackets, quizzes, predictions, and scenarios matter, but so do the rule disputes and side arguments they create. Its looseness makes gaming talk feel social, specific, and unpredictable.
No stupid questions here. Join Marissa, Matthew, and Sacco each week for video game discussions. From our favourite all-time video games to games we couldn't finish, we'll be discussing a variety of video games, including Playstation, Xbox, mobile, and PC games. Weekly discussions also include games we're currently playing from all genres – with several tangents for your enjoyment. After all, when there are no stupid questions, every topic is on the table. Genres you can expect we'll talk about include, but are certainly not limited to: role-playing games (RPGs & JRPGs), run-and-guns, first-person and third-person shooters, platformers, top-down games, open-world games, pu...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Gaming brackets, trivia, and sharply observed details become fuel for an easy, competitive conversation among Matt, Marissa, and Sacco.
The Crowned Heathens Podcast turns video-game opinion into a lively contest among Matt, Marissa, and Sacco. Brackets, awards predictions, and trivia give their arguments shape, while quick corrections and playful frustration keep the conversation moving.
Stardew Valley beats Mario Kart, and suddenly your imaginary vote feels urgently needed.
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A brisk awards-night guessing game with playful reversals, safety guesses, and a clean math-joke finish.
The episode keeps awards-night guessing moving at a steady clip, with Matt, Marissa, and Sacco trading picks, checking release dates, and arguing over how many safety guesses still count.
A funny, loose card-game hangout that turns hobby temptation into a running joke.
Matt, Marissa, and Satko spend the episode in a lively, funny stretch of card-game talk that moves from Blue-Eyes dragons to Pokemon Pocket, Hearthstone, and Magic.
Fable's gift systems and playful back-and-forth keep the episode lively.
The episode spends its time on how gifts work in Fable, moving from flowers and marriage to toys for children and autograph cards for random people.
A hundred episodes of game arguments, packed into one noisy bracket.
This episode turns a pile of familiar games into a bracketed argument, with Matt, Marissa, and Psycho stopping to ask for clarity as they work through the choices.
A fast, playful quiz hangout where the score is almost as contentious as the answers.
Grounded News Podcast plays the quiz format like a loose hangout, with Matt, Marissa, and Sacco trading answers, corrections, and side jokes as they move through the game categories.
The Crowned Heathens Podcast turns a Game Awards results check into a memory test for Matt, Marissa, and Sacco, starting with a running joke about walking 3,000 kilometers.
Matt, Marissa, and Satko start in full nonsense mode.
The hosts of Crown of Games Podcast introduce their discussion about favorite video game endings while sharing personal anecdotes and casual banter.
The hosts discuss their favorite video games, personal updates like moving and internet problems, and banter about a deserted island scenario.
The hosts discuss Canadian video game studios like Tunic, A Little To The Left, and Balatro, while also briefly touching on baseball and life in Toronto.
The hosts engage in humorous banter about running a half marathon before transitioning into their usual video game discussions.
The hosts discuss video games, including their favorite games, current games, and predictions for the Game of the Year Award.
The hosts discuss their current feelings about the weather and introduce the day's topic: video game franchises.
The hosts discuss video games, including a capitalism-themed cookie game, and share personal updates before transitioning to a TV show tangent.
The hosts discuss video game news, their favorite games, and tangents, starting with a lack of news about a Final Fantasy 9 remake.
The conversation circles around Fable as the clearest example of how gifts work in-game.
The hosts catch up on personal gaming victories and discuss video game topics like PlayStation 5, Nintendo, and upcoming games.
The hosts banter about sweaty games and trading card games before introducing their video game discussion podcast.
The hosts banter about timeliness and segues before starting a discussion about video games they love.
The hosts engage in casual banter about a hoodie before transitioning into video game discussions.
The hosts banter about TV awards and introduce their podcast about video games, promising no stupid questions.
The hosts discuss worst video game betrayals, starting with a story about Poland backstabbing in Civilization 5.
This is a bracket showdown built from the games the hosts have been circling for a long stretch.
The hosts banter and discuss video games, starting with a playful challenge to ruin each other's game scores.
The hosts discuss their favorite games and reflect on the year in video games, including events like the Game Awards.
The hosts discuss Dragon Age Inquisition as part of their ongoing series, with humorous banter and anticipation for the next installment.
The hosts discuss their favorite video games, current games they're playing, and plan to cover video game news, with a focus on Dragon Age.
The hosts discuss Dragon Age 2, sharing headcanons and excitement for the game.
The hosts banter and begin a multi-part discussion about the Dragon Age video game series.
It opens hot.
The hosts banter and introduce a new co-op game for the podcast episode.
The hosts discuss video games, including horror games like one with death poems, and engage in casual banter about the season.
The hosts introduce the podcast and engage in casual banter about a chair and pillow before starting their video game discussion.
The hosts discuss video games, current gaming news, and personal gaming experiences, with a humorous and casual tone.
The hosts discuss video games that deserve a sequel, with humorous banter and personal takes.
The hosts introduce a listener-suggested game called 'Guess The Achievement' where they compete to identify video game achievements in a fun, interactive segment.
A group of friends humorously discusses gaming achievements and trophies while bantering about tasks and segues in a casual podcast setting.