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By now you probably already know who won the throne games!

In this our 31st episode, Kendall Duke returns to talk with me about our feelings on the Game of Thrones series finale! We also attempt to answer a number of difficult questions about our future with the franchise and about ourselves as people!

Does that sound appropriately epic?

Other topics discussed include expectations and disappointments, the exciting appeal of boring video games, Detective Pikachu and The Pokemon Life Swap™, mysterious toys from the distant past, and, of course, Disney’s John Carter.

SHOW NOTES!

I talk about this thing for a few minutes for some reason.

Corey Smithmier did the show’s closing music “Let’s Be Friends Again: The Series Theme Song”. Corey’s got a band called Strange Wave Connection and you should check them out!

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It’s our 27th episode!

This week my buddy Matt Drane is back and we talk about Super Smash Bros, Ant-Man & The Wasp, Avengers 4 (aka Endgame) rumors, Batman: The Animated Series, the return of Young Justice, the DC Universe streaming entertainment platform, a Superman video game that will probably never get made, and a bunch of other stuff. You’d honestly be better off just listening to the episode at this point.

We hope you enjoy it!

SHOW NOTES!

Please watch this tribute to Captain America in the MCU and just try to say he’s not the absolute best of the best of the best.

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Corey Smithmier did the show’s closing music “Let’s Be Friends Again: The Series Theme Song”. Corey’s got a band called Strange Wave Connection and you should check them out!

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I was planning on skipping ahead in the Gravity Falls Gossiper Classics run to share one of our old Thanksgiving episodes.. but I can’t seem to recall which ones were actually the Thanksgiving episodes.. or if there ever were, in fact, Thanksgiving episodes.

But as I was searching I saw this one and thought, “Oh man, that one is probably way more fun.”

So, in preparation for this week’s release of Ralph Wrecks the Internet (aka Wreck-It Ralph 2), let’s listen to waaay back when Euge and I first saw the original Wreck-It Ralph!

It’s a whole episode of nothing but video games, feelings, and a lot of pop music dance parties! First half: non-spoilers. Second half: spoilers ahoy!

I hope you enjoy it and have a happy Thanksgiving!

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Opening theme by Brad Breeck

Closing theme by Adam WarRock

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It’s our 26th episode!

This week we talk about the Venom movie, the Spider-Man game, and ask ourselves what we would do with “spider-powers”!

All of this plus a brief history of the Friday the 13th movie series, praise for Halloween (2018), and much more!

We hope you enjoy it!

Let us know if we got things wrong, what you would do with spider-powers, and anything else that springs to mind while listening to this episode!

SHOW NOTES!

Follow Matt on Twitter why don’t you?

Corey Smithmier did the show’s closing music “Let’s Be Friends Again: The Series Theme Song”. Corey’s got a band called Strange Wave Connection and you should check them out!

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It’s our 25th episode!

WARNING: I start this episode by saying it’s going to be another episode of Comics Rule Everything Around Me, but this turns out to not be the case, and it is instead a new episode of plain ol’ Keep It Close To Me where my buddy Matt and I talk about video games!

We talk about a lot of video games, actually. A lot are comic/superhero related, but there’s a surprise or two in there as well.

We also try to answer some deeply personal questions like “Does being bad at video games make you feel bad about yourself?”

We hope you enjoy it!

Let us know if we got things wrong, what video games you love, and anything else that springs to mind while listening to this episode!

SHOW NOTES!

Here’s an excruciating playthrough of the first level of Superman 64 and a fun video about the history of how one of the worst games of all time happened.

If you’ve never seen it, here’s the Super Mario Bros. 3 commercial I mention this episode. It really pulls off the double magic trick of making SMB3 seem both exciting and like a very big deal without showing a second of gameplay.

Superman for the Nintendo! What could go wrong?

A lot!

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Den of Geek‘s Gavin Jasper joins me to talk about Shinnok, Mortal Kombat: Live, choosing your own adventure, and video game urban legends!

Special thanks to superstar show-supporter “Dr. Magnificent” for making this episode happen!

You may have heard that we all got fired from Comics Alliance recently, so now would be a great time to check out the ol’ Patreon!

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Caroline joins me to watch Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, talk about childhood nerdiness, Independence Day, and what it was like dating me!

Check out Caroline’s blog!

Follow Caroline on Instagram to see all the pictures she takes of one of my best dog friends, Linus!

You may have heard that we all got fired from Comics Alliance last week, so now would be a great time to check out the ol’ Patreon!

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The show is on Patreon!

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Wherein Randy and I watched Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, you learn how knowledgeable Randy is of the Mortal Kombat games, you’ll discover our thoughts on Jean-Claude Van Damme, and most importantly, you’ll hear our ideas for Mortal Kombat: Annihilation – The Musical!

Once again, I must implore you: Go to randalltrang.com for easy to click on links to all of Randy’s various social media accounts, his great artwork and comics, and awesome videos of him breaking things!

Check out the first season of WMAC Masters here thanks to the wonders of YouTube!

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The show is now on Patreon!

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Here are two recent videos I did for ComicsAlliance!

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Wherein Randy and I watched Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, you get some fascinating stunt and fight insights from a real life martial arts master, and any number of other things like video games and syndicated TV shows you’ve never heard of get discussed!

Check out the first season of WMAC Masters here thanks to the wonders of YouTube!

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The show is now on Patreon!

Support KICTM to get fun rewards, behind the scenes stuff, early access to episodes, and all new shows about all kinds of things you love!

Here are two recent videos I did for ComicsAlliance!

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Follow Chris on Twitter: @thechrishaley

Follow Keep It Close To Me on Twitter: @KICTMpodcast!

Email the show with your questions, comments, concerns and whatever else at keepitclosetomepodcast@gmail.com!

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Wherein Peggy and I watched Mortal Kombat: Annihilation!

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The show is now on Patreon!

Support KICTM to get fun rewards, behind the scenes stuff, early access to episodes, and all new shows about all kinds of things you love!

Here are my two latest videos for ComicsAlliance!

Watch MK:A on Netflix.

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