As my eyelids begin to droop after a night of fruitless searching, I find myself here. Let me try to lay this out in an orderly fashion...
Surely, someone around these parts can help me find an old episode of Gamespot's The Hotspot in which Jeff goofs on the idea of some poor idiot leaving their Xbox 360 in a glass-enclosed entertainment cabinet.
I recall these bits... "But I wanted to play... Joanna Dark... 15 minutes... overheating!" Something about Jeff's delivery really cracked me up. I recall listening on my PSP and being pretty embarrassed about my outburst cutting through the silence of my high school writing class.
Now, Perfect Dark Zero came out at launch, which puts this episode after 11/22/05. Thinking back to that class, I know I must have been listening sometime between Fall '06 and Summer '07, although that doesn't mean it wasn't an old episode that I was just getting around to hearing. I imagine Jeff's joke was related to the 360's Red Ring of Death, and my digging confirms that the first big influx of returned consoles occurred sometime in August '06.
I've already located an archive of episodes that must contain what I'm looking for, but I only have so much free time that I can spend scrubbing through 5 second chunks. My ears are fatigued, although hearing the old Hotspot crew is an awesome blast from the past. I suppose I'm just trying to recapture a moment in time that brought a huge, dumb smile to my face. I know it's a long shot, but maybe somebody can point me in the right direction.
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