Hey Poor Podcast

It’s like a series of System Shock-esque audio logs from PAX. This isn’t your usual Hey Poor Podcast. This week, we sent occasional investigative reporter and Hey Poor Podcast regular Jay Petrequin to the PAX East show floor, where he spent four days playing games until he wanted to die. His only communication with the outside world (besides, like, Twitter and Facebook and Skype and his phone and stuff) was a series of fascinating audio logs, which we have edited together into a podcast-like configuration suitable for your ears and home. Here you’ll find discussions of every game that mattered, interviews with the developers of some of the most exciting upcoming indie titles, tales of Shake Shack, and more! (This episode also features Derek McCurry,…Read More...

“It Ain’t The Sharpest Cast In The Pod” This week’s Hey Poor Podcast sees the old crew of I “Steamed Hams Inc.” Coleman, Jay “Sister Confession” Petrequin, and Nathaniel “Nico Naked Nathan” Terencio reunited for the first time in 2018. And not a moment too soon, either – from Battlefront II to Shadow of the Colossus to the never-ending parade of cool Switch ports, there’s lots of games to talk about. Plus: I Coleman can’t find anything bad to say about They Are Billions, Nathan rates the attractiveness of every single Smash Bros. character (#1 may surprise you), Jay tries to analyze the fall of the Marvel Netflix shows, and the POTUS made a half-assed attempt at regulating videogame violence. Oh, and there’s an extended discussion…Read More...

“Some people are a waste of perfectly good carbon.” This week on the Hey Poor Podcast, I “Incredibly Sick” Coleman tries unsuccessfully to hide the fact that he’s sick, Nathan “No Ding Dong Talk” Terencio misses the good ol’ days of tag team fighting games, and Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is perhaps the most disappointing HD remake of all time. Oh, also: the ESRB made it clear that it has no interest in dealing with the loot box gambling issue, and President Game Show Host thinks mass shootings are caused by unregulated access to videogames. Oh well. At least Black Panther was awesome. (Note: there’s no way we could discuss the major news of the last week without getting political, so skip the news…Read More...

The games that made us happy in a year full of sad On this week’s episode of the Hey Poor Podcast, we assemble an all-star cast of Hey Poor Player contributors to count down our official ranking of the 25 best games of the year. Host I “RUINER” Coleman is joined by Jay “Pyre” Petrequin, Nathaniel “Rakuen” Terencio, Jonathan “Uncharted: Lost Legacy” Trussler, and Dougie “Dream Daddy” Powell to discuss the games that made us laugh, the games that made us cry, the games that did something truly unique, and the tried-and-true games that just did what they did with style and excellence. Strap in, folks, because we’ve got two and a half hours of lively discussion. We’ve got a diverse list of games and…Read More...

“I love that heartwarming family special about ripping all the teeth straight out of a dude’s head.” This week on the Hey Poor Podcast, we talk about Last Jedi spoilers. Seriously. This is not a joke or a bit – we spoil the whole dang movie. Still, that’s no reason not to curl up by the fire with a glass of nog or nog substitute and listen to I “Snow Miser” Coleman and Jay “Heat Miser” Petrequin discuss why Star Wars‘ eighth episode is easily one of the best movies of the year, extol the merits of DOOM‘s Switch port (now that Bethesda’s bothered to fix some of the more glaring issues), catch up on some of the year’s best games, movies, books, and music;…Read More...

“This is why we fight, Charmander. It’s not so that we can win. It’s so that, for however brief a moment, we can inflict pain on a world that will not let us end.” On this week’s episode of the Hey Poor Podcast, an innocent discussion about Pikachu’s new found ability to speak English in Pokemon The Movie: I Choose You becomes a tale of nihilism, despair, and the fruitless belief that something good is coming. Because videogames! Join I “Detective Pikachu (English Dub)” Coleman, Nathan “Gigafarts” Terencio, and Jay “Archie Peglio” Petrequin as we dunk on Justice League, try and fail to get Neir: Automata’s garbage PC port to work, wish that Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon could be more fun than they are,…Read More...

“PARKER! Reblog pictures of the SPOIDAHMAN!” On this week’s episode of the Hey Poor Podcast, I “My Life Was A Mistake” Coleman is joined by Jay “Behold The Juice” Petrequin for an episode that gets into everything from the real-life implications of gamer-focused political campaigns to how Telltale’s Batman game managed to cause an international incident with Russia. No, seriously. It’s been a crazy week, but we still have time to talk about what makes Mario Odyssey so great, the hilariously bad DOOM portable port, the future of the Nintendo Switch, and how Thor Ragnarok‘s  Jack-Kirby-inspired comic book stylings might have made it the best Marvel film of all time. All this and more, only on the Hey Poor Podcast! Games/Films/Etc of the week: Mario…Read More...

“That was the Dark Souls of agreements, right there.” On this week’s Hey Poor Podcast, what the hell is a videogame? It’s all movie talk here, as I “Holder Of The Cursed Microphone” Coleman and Jay “Absolutely Into Vore” Petrequin discuss how Blade Runner 2049 may not be pretentious enough, why The LEGO Ninjago Movie is uncomfortably mediocre, and the bizarre fact that the Detective Pikachu movie is a thing that exists in the real world. Also: I’s still obsessed with Sonic Mania, Jay bought a whole new 3DS to play Metroid: Samus Returns, Hiveswap is pretty much exactly what you think it is, and IGN is probably up to some shady shit. Yes, again. All this and more, on the Hey Poor Podcast! Information…Read More...

“It’s the story of a Nokia cell phone, but she’s a little girl with big breasts.” This week on the Hey Poor Podcast: bad news, guys! No longer content merely with shoving it down our throats every time they re-release any of their “classic” games, Nintendo has now declared that Balloon Fight for the NES is now the only game that will ever be released on anything, ever. Despite this chilling news, I “I Thought I Was Hot Shit” Coleman, Nathan “Looks 8 But Is 100 Years Old” Terencio, and Anthony “Bootleg Mickey Mouse ” Spivey manage to squeeze two hours of podcast out of discussions of games that no longer exist. I got a Switch and still isn’t impressed, Nathan thinks you should play…Read More...

“Oh, great! A Legendary Shader of Ugly!” This week on the Hey Poor Podcast, we decide we’re through with creating quality content and decide to pitch a terrible self-insert nerd fanfiction to Steven Spielberg. Because after all, it worked for Ready Player One. Join overweight nerd protagonist I “Your ASMR” Coleman and samurai pizza deliveryman Nathan “An Average Kid Who No One Understands” Terencio as we discuss the amazingly, hilariously terrible PC port of Sonic Mania, the startling similarities between Destiny 2 and Killing Floor 2, the greatest match in competitive Super Smash Bros history, and the thrilling conclusion to Mario/Rabbids RPG Watch. Plus: a surprising amount of serious discussion about representation and racism in media, or as the cool kids are calling it, “SJW…Read More...