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The best of The HotSpot (2006) -- 8 hours of HotSpot goodness

Some of you may recall a recap/highlights episode we did for the debut year of The HotSpot (2005). In case you missed out, the Giant Bomb thread is here, and the download can be found here. We're back for the year of 2006 now! Except where as the 2005 episode was 2.5 hours long, this one is over eight hours long. That's a big podcast, and it's more than enough Rich/Bob/Jeff/Carrie/Alex/Brad goodness to satisfy. Because of the length it's been split into two episodes.

Part 1 - Part 2

Visit our home page, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook. Hit up some kind of rush on our RSS feed.

Here's some other best-ofs that may be relevant to your interests:

Timestamps (Part One)
0:01:30 - Show start
0:07:00 - Issues: Duke Nukem Forever, the Gizmondo, and the word "gamer"
0:43:30 - Issues: GameStop, Command and Conquer 3, and Halo 3
1:11:00 - Issues: Kurt Schilling, Baseball, Starforce DRM, and movies
1:57:30 - Issues: Female gamer clans, video game petitions, and video game violence
2:44:30 - Issues: Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo; the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii launch

Timestamps (Part Two)
0:00:30 - Clips and other short topics
2:16:00 - Listener emails
2:54:30 - Listener phone calls
4:04:00 - Show end

Please enjoy! Now, a Metallica song:

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Zanzibar I loved TACS so I'm totally going to town on this whole RSS. This is totally awesome thank you very much.

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@mikecardii said:
" Zanzibar I loved TACS so I'm totally going to town on this whole RSS. This is totally awesome thank you very much. "
I'm glad you're enjoying the shows! Thanks for listening. :)
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@ZanzibarBreeze said:
" @mikecardii said:
" Zanzibar I loved TACS so I'm totally going to town on this whole RSS. This is totally awesome thank you very much. "
I'm glad you're enjoying the shows! Thanks for listening. :) "
 
If you want pre-2004 episodes of Loveline to throw up on the feed I have a whole mess of them, so we could find some way for me to get them to you.
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@mikecardii said:
" If you want pre-2004 episodes of Loveline to throw up on the feed I have a whole mess of them, so we could find some way for me to get them to you. "
It's funny that you say that, because I'm going through January 2001 of Loveline right now. We'll probably start releasing those too. Thanks for the offer; I've got many of the episodes, and the Loveline archive can help out with any I'm missing, but it's good to know that there are people with archives out there. I'll let you know if I need any help.
 
Actually, the only thing worrying me right now is that I'm still missing two episodes from 2007 of The Adam Carolla Show, and I can't find them anywhere. I've been emailing like crazy trying to track them down, but so far no dice. It is only two episodes, but unfortunately they had good guests. Oh well.
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@ZanzibarBreeze said:
" @mikecardii said:
" If you want pre-2004 episodes of Loveline to throw up on the feed I have a whole mess of them, so we could find some way for me to get them to you. "
It's funny that you say that, because I'm going through January 2001 of Loveline right now. We'll probably start releasing those too. Thanks for the offer; I've got many of the episodes, and the Loveline archive can help out with any I'm missing, but it's good to know that there are people with archives out there. I'll let you know if I need any help.  Actually, the only thing worrying me right now is that I'm still missing two episodes from 2007 of The Adam Carolla Show, and I can't find them anywhere. I've been emailing like crazy trying to track them down, but so far no dice. It is only two episodes, but unfortunately they had good guests. Oh well. "
What are the dates on the eps? I'll see what I can dig up.
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@mikecardii said:

" What are the dates on the eps? I'll see what I can dig up. "

 3-27-2007 and 12-13-2007. None of the online archives have them, bizarrely. I found filesharing links to them on Mediafire and Rapidshare, but both are dead.
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@ZanzibarBreeze said:
" @mikecardii said:

" What are the dates on the eps? I'll see what I can dig up. "

 3-27-2007 and 12-13-2007. None of the online archives have them, bizarrely. I found filesharing links to them on Mediafire and Rapidshare, but both are dead. "
Got them downloading now.
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Done check your PMs

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Oh man, I remember the 2005 one and only just saw this. Thanks a lot man. Hopefully this includes Mancannons, and the Jack Thompson Bully thing.

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Their talk about Duke Nukem Forever reminds me of all the talk now for Episode 3

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Thanks for bumping this, I almost missed it.

This is God's work you're doing here, son.

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@psylah said:

Thanks for bumping this, I almost missed it.

This is God's work you're doing here, son.

Thank you! Check out our other episodes at our blog and our upcoming episodes here.

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There's nothing I enjoy more than a bunch of hot young games press exploding all over each other.

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Jeebus... I'm going to listen to this entire thing, aren't I?

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I find it crazy that in this they talk about patents about Kinect and Playstation Move that describe how they function exactly. The guys new all the details about the sony and microsoft motion control stuff back in 2006.

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Just figured out how to change the ID tags on these to make them show as podcasts on my iPhone. Biggest benefit is that I am constantly hitting the "30 seconds back" button to re-listen to something insanely hilarious that has me crying because I'm laughing so hard. Usually in the middle of driving.

I've probably made a horrible mistake.

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@ZanzibarBreeze: Im having trouble getting this to download. Any help would be great
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@Sackmanjones said:

@ZanzibarBreeze: Im having trouble getting this to download. Any help would be great

The download links have changed; use the ones on this post here. I'll edit this thread's OP accordingly. Thanks for pointing that out.

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@ZanzibarBreeze: Im sorry this sounds like an incredibly dumb question, but how exactly do I download it? When I click on where it says download here it just starts playing the podcast. Again, I realize its a dumb question but thanks for the help
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@Sackmanjones said:

@ZanzibarBreeze: Im sorry this sounds like an incredibly dumb question, but how exactly do I download it? When I click on where it says download here it just starts playing the podcast. Again, I realize its a dumb question but thanks for the help

We get this question all the time; don't worry about it. Right click on the link and select "Save Link As" (it could be something like "Save Target As" on your browser). Then save it somewhere on your PC to download it.

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@ZanzibarBreeze: Problem solved, appreciate it, cant wait to listen!
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Amazing work!

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@W0lfbl1tzers said:

@TurboMan said:
" ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuck ....I have to listen to it all... "
I never listened to the hotspot but I will do this.

FUUCKkkkkkkk I have listen to it all growing up and now I have to listen to it again while playing halo 1 :o

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@shway said:

@W0lfbl1tzers said:

@TurboMan said:
" ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuck ....I have to listen to it all... "
I never listened to the hotspot but I will do this.

FUUCKkkkkkkk I have listen to it all growing up and now I have to listen to it again while playing halo 1 :o

Listening to this again is folding my world in on itself!! AHHHHHH!

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Can't believe I listened to the whole thing. Kudos for actually making it!!! There were so many moments of me going "ohhh yeah, this!" It was literally a best of. You picked so many key great moments and so many obscure great moments too.

Listening to this has reminded me how good The Hotspot was...I think I like it more than the Bombcast. Granted I just listened to a best of, but structure and tone though...

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flying to pax east from portland, OR tomorrow. this will cover the whole flight. thanks bro.