Dads After Dark Show - A Nintendo Podcast · Drew and John

#199: Re-DO'ing the Nintendo Dads

·2 hr 6 min

It opens on St. Patrick's Day. John and Drew immediately slide into holiday food talk, because apparently corned beef, cabbage, and who actually cooks what are the real opening act here. The chickpea line lands early. That joke turns into the kind of dumb, comfortable riff that tells you exactly what kind of show this is before any Nintendo talk gets serious. Mario Day comes up next. They look back at March 10 and what they wanted to say about it now that the date has already passed. Chubbies gets a mention. Monthly mayhem, Apple's reviews, and the usual stream of show updates follow, with one thing tugging the next thing along behind it. A new topic shows up too. They call it Redoing the Nintendo Dads, and the title alone gives the episode a little extra spark because it sounds half playful and half self-aware. The ad conversation takes over after that. They get into the messy reality of ad-free Patreon listening, ad reads, and the weird little contradiction of supporting a show by hearing the ads anyway. Nobody lets it stay tidy. The hosts keep batting the point back and forth until it becomes its own joke about what counts as real support. The Manscaped read is fully on theme. It is the sort of St. Patrick's Day bit where the accent wobbles, the pitch goes silly, and the joke keeps running long after it should have stopped. The episode closes with the usual reminders. Reviews, threads, Instagram, TikTok, voicemail, Discord, Patreon, Twitch, Substack, and merch all get their turn before the goodbye lands. Even the end stays a little goofy. Chickpeas and garbanzos are still hanging around in the background, which feels about right for this show.

As heard by us

A loose St. Patrick's Day hang with Mario Day, listener support talk, and a new redoing-the-Dads subtopic.

Episode 199 is a St. Patrick's Day catch-up that folds Mario Day, Chubbies, monthly mayhem, Apple's reviews, and a new subtopic about redoing the Nintendo Dads into one loose conversation.

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A St. Patrick's Day hang that turns ad reads and listener support into the joke.

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