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E3 2014: The Long Drive to Los Angeles

Listen in as Jeff, Alex, Greg, and Beef make their way from Norcal to Socal.

Beef O'Brady in his natural environment: The truck stop.
Beef O'Brady in his natural environment: The truck stop.

Saturday was a day of reflection as we made our way from our homes up in San Francisco down to Los Angeles for E3 2014. Naturally, we streamed audio the entire way. Here's an archive of said audio courtesy of my Soundcloud account. I actually wanted to run the audio in one of our podcast feeds but the MP3 files that Mixlr spit out to me were corrupt and I don't have any more time to import them raw and fiddle with them, E3 is about to happen. So instead I'm using the power of the internet and embeddable audio players to bring the "magic" to you.

Thanks to Alex, Greg Kasavin, and Danny O'Dwyer for taking the trip down with me.

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Now E3 as officially started!

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I look forward to the stream on the way back. If there is one. I would assume it would be all the same people.

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If you want to listen to this whilst watching the Mixlr chat, then check this out:

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PUSHA

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Teletext is still a thing in Romania :D

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@automatontribe: The United States is huge, many states are as large as many European nations. Driving from one end of North Carolina to the other north to south takes 2 hours 150 'ish miles, east to west around 8 hours or around 490 miles. That's why it took Vinny that long to drive cross country.

It would have been bigger if we tried harder to take Canada from the British during The Revolution. Damn Canadians fought back! Weird!

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Thank you sir!! Have fun at E3:)

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rap today is complete shit and wtf was that noise after that dam horrible rap song ???

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Danny is the greatest. <3

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Beef O'Brady doin' what he does best. Loitering outside women's bathrooms.

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I think Greg managed to be wrong about just about every single date he mentioned during that drive... It was kinda amazing... In a kinda frustrating way but definitely interesting... He should just learn to assume he doesn't know when things happened and should really look up everything before talking about anything chronologically.

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Jeff man you're a beast, still entertaining us when you're off the clock. Love your mixlr shows, thanks so much.

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God damn impossible to listen through this. Soundcloud decides to skip to the end, won't let me fast forward, skips to the second file etc. :(

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Holy shit, I think I died a little inside from that shitty song at the start.

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Oh man I need that Phantasy Star tone Jeff's got on his phone.

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I listened to this live while playing WOW and it was so much fun, I think Jeff needs to write a book one day.

I would pay actual money for Jeff's autobiography. I want to believe that it would be called Straight Outta Petaluma.

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Soooooo, is Danny officially a Bombardier yet?

On a site of personalities he,a) has one, b) meshes well with the group (@jeff in particular) and c) is interested/knowledgable in an area of games that the others maybe are not.

And I guess d) everyone here seems to want him to be.

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Danny O'Beefy can you please join the Bombcrew!

GO SLIGO ROVERS BTW YEAH IRISH THINGS

But please, you're a breath of Vinny-positive-type-energy-air and.. it'd be awesome.

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@vinny_says: Not sure if it's better to do this before E3 or after. Probably before but it's more funny afterwards I guess seeing how wrong people are.

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@synekal said:

Soooooo, is Danny officially a Bombardier yet?

On a site of personalities he,a) has one, b) meshes well with the group (@jeff in particular) and c) is interested/knowledgable in an area of games that the others maybe are not.

And I guess d) everyone here seems to want him to be.

Danny did a Twitch Q&A stream last night. He said he's not joining Giant Bomb. So time to give up the dream & just be grateful that there's someone as cool as Danny making interesting shit at Gamespot.

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@onemanx: dey moo dah doe dey moo dah doe

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I managed to put these on my ipod by changing the file type from mp3 to mp4.

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@forkboy: I must have missed that one. Ahh well...

It's great that Gamespot has a personality like him, but unfortunately Gamespot isn't my cup-of-tea and I rarely seek anything out on it.

I'll just learn to be happy with him just dropping in on GB streams. Which is actually quite a bit.

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@synekal said:

@forkboy: I must have missed that one. Ahh well...

It's great that Gamespot has a personality like him, but unfortunately Gamespot isn't my cup-of-tea and I rarely seek anything out on it.

I'll just learn to be happy with him just dropping in on GB streams. Which is actually quite a bit.

At the least you should totally go out of your way to watch The Point every Friday

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Whoa.... That's how Drew started? Lucky coincidence for everybody.

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When I donwload the mp3 files, they play fine on vlc, but theres something wrong because my mp3 player wont play them, the wont convert and when run trough mp3 checker theyre noted to be broken. Any chance of gettimg these re-uploaded after e3?

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This made for some great background dialog while I worked. Hope to see more of these posted up on the site, @Jeff!

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dat intro doe.