We got to be an attendees at the launch party for something so cool and relevant, we had to grab the mic and get what we could. Here are some of the great podcasts you can listen to.

All these and much more can be found on the Alberta Podcast Network website.

Interviews In Order

Karen Unland
Seen and Heard in Edmonton
https://seenandheardyeg.com

Gregg Beever
I Have Some Notes
http://ihavesomenotes.com/

Daniel Shessel
Northern Nerdcast
http://northernnerdnetwork.com/

German Villegas
Modern Manhood
https://modernmanhood.org

Jessica And Katie
For Kicks Podcast
https://forkickspodcast.com

Nate and Adam
Loyal Company of the River Valley
https://loyalcompanyrv.wordpress.com

Matt Bowes and Erin Fraser
Bollywood is for Lovers
https://bollywoodisforlovers.tumblr.com

An impromptu episode recorded while Alan and Josh were at the Edmonton Craft Beer Festival.

They review some of the drinks they had, and the festival itself.

They also briefly bumble around.

 

For more information on the Craft Beer Festival, and upcoming Oktoberfest, visit Alberta Beer Festivals website.

We lend our support to the victims of the fire in Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo area.

 

Please donate to Red Cross if you can.

 

Red Cross
Alberta Provincial Government is matching donations up to 2 million dollars.

 

Avoid IndieGoGo and GoFundMe. Lots of scams.

 

ymmfire.ca – A resource to connect people willing to host, to people needing a place to stay.

We got to hang out with a bunch of cool people.

It all starts when our first guest sits down, Kendall, and Josh explains the REQ System for unlocking content.
Then we put Tyler in the podcast. Thats right, we did.
Hannah talks to Alan about the table set up, and brings up the Skyrim launch she was at.

Brock joins the podcast to talk about this Halo game. He’s looking forward to multiplayer, mainly Warzone. And he had to get himself the Legendary edition.

Someone, presumably without a name, joins briefly and they get a rundown on what we are about.
Diviyan makes the first announcement, then Extra Life raps about their charity and then Josh talks.

Hannah talks about a lack of good female characters, and moves on to Cortana’s looks. Alan counters with the fact, no character in game cares what she looks like.

Josh sits in for Alan, and pester’s Hannah’s fiance, Cole. Hannah looks forward to ladies fighting front lines.
And then she runs the show with Ken.

Cody and Merissa hang out with us. Cody plugs his MLP podcast, Pony Tonite.

Aron finds us. Another guy looking forward to Halo? What, eerie. And he had a Xbox eat discs :<
Hannah talks about the relationship problems being your boyfriend at Halo brings. Alan talks about Force Awakens being on Canadian Netflix first! And another loud raffle happens. Alan talks about a neat Best Buy deal with the Halo 5 controllers. Alan and Aron talk about Destiny. Alan talks about when the night started and there were a lot of shoppers in the store.

Micheal joins Alan and Aron at the table. Micheal is drawing people in Halo armour for extra life. Another raffle goes on. Alan asks what their favourite Halo moment is. Josh returns from the nether. Alan and Josh talk about fun custom game types they played at a bachelor party. Listener asks another listener about drawing on the Surface. Alan talks about the introduction of Microsoft Stores, and how people thought they were ripping off Apple.

We welcome Jen to the table! He’s interested in armour, and is willing to play the game. Jen talks about the aiming down sights, Alan says a review is not as bad as it was in the beta. Talk about ground poundin’. Carts of games and controllers roll out. Alan talks about Mike’s hardcore Halo gaming past. Eagle Claw… More Elite controller talk, the box is the carry case? 30 minute announcement for release. Elite controller give away announcement. Bunch of jerks drumroll on a table with microphones. Then, Jen wins the Elite controller!

Bye Mike! He was hurting and checked out. Also, we talked to Jen a long time. Listen to the extended cut to hear it all!
Josh tells Jen what platforms he can hear PS2J on with his Android.

Alan and Josh finally get to sit and chat with Diviyan. Neat, we can all add Div360 now.

Thank you all, and good night.

This cut is available only on our site.
Next time, we will ask for some quieter music…
Its the full(ish) recording, here are time stamps:
0:00:00 – Intro/Alan alone.
0:01:22 – Cosplayers arrive.
0:03:21 – Josh pops in, briefly.
0:05:15 – Alan accepts his fate, gives commentary on Microsoft Store.
0:07:44 – Description of the party atmosphere, Josh jumps in.
0:09:03 – First guest sits down, Kendall, and Josh explains the REQ System for unlocking content.
0:12:20 – Hannah wanders in.
0:13:15 – Tyler gets a shout out for being there.
0:13:43 – Alan and Hannah talk about past midnight launches.
0:17:22 – Alan talks to someone who doesn’t want to be on the podcast, doesn’t want to be, but talks over our microphone anyways.
0:19:00 – Hannah talks about gamer girls.
0:22:04 – Hannah and Alan sell the podcast to a walker-by.
0:23:45 – Alan encourages and Hannah eggs someone to sit down.
0:23:50 – Brock joins the podcast to talk about this Halo game.
0:26:35 – Mike wanders to the podcast booth.
0:30:25 – They get someone to sit down! Alan and Hannah talk about PS2J a bit.
0:32:45 – Diviyan makes the first announcement! .
0:34:16 – Chris from Extra Life makes their announcement.
0:35:12 – Josh butchers their announcement X_X His joke falls flaaaaaaaaat.
0:37:16 – Hannah updates her woman tally.
0:37:40 – Hannah talks about her hate on Cortana, and talks about women in gaming.
0:40:40 – Alan wins the Cortana argument (In my opinion – Josh)
0:46:32 – Hannah tries to start a Star Wars conversation.
0:47:32 – Alan and Hanna talk to indecisive people that cross our path.
0:49:21 – Josh jumps in for Alan, so he can get his raffle on.
0:51:15 – Hannah is excited to see women fight on the front line.
0:52:00 – First raffle give away.
0:53:02 – Ken and Hannah run the mic.
0:55:24 – Hannah talks about Pokemon at her work.
0:56:35 – Actual hosts, Alan and Josh show up.
0:57:37 – Cody and Merissa join the podcast.
0:58:55 – Another giveaway is done.
1:03:04 – Josh leaves to do a raffle.
1:05:55 – Josh calls out the number for the raffle.
1:06:44 – Cody plugs his own podcast, a MLP Podcast called Pony Tonite.
1:08:20 – Hannah reappears.
1:09:45 – We get Aron to sit down with us, sad about the loss of split screen.
1:15:20 – Hannah talks about the relationship problems being your boyfriend at Halo brings.
1:22:21 – Alan talks about Force Awakens being on Canadian Netflix first! And another loud raffle happens.
1:23:45 – Alan talks about a neat Best Buy deal with the Halo 5 controllers.
1:24:40 – Alan and Aron talk about Destiny.
1:30:40 – Alan talks about when the night started and there were a lot of shoppers in the store.
1:32:00 – Micheal joins Alan and Aron at the table.
1:33:20 – Micheal is drawing people in Halo armour for extra life.
1:37:18 – Another raffle goes on.
1:38:30 – Alan asks what their favourite Halo moment is.
1:40:24 – Josh returns from the nether.
1:41:43 – Alan and Josh talk about fun custom game types they played at a bachelor party.
1:49:39 – Listener asks another listener about drawing on the Surface.
1:53:05 – Alan talks about the introduction of Microsoft Stores, and how people thought they were ripping off Apple.
1:55:10 – The Instagram contest is announced! We didn’t win :<
2:03:03 – The first recording end, and we have a slight loss.
2:07:04 – 2nd Mic started working again.
2:07:26 – Josh talks about his favourite edit that Alan did on an episode of Earth Defence Force.
2:09:09 – Hannah talks about people with PS2J Show pins on, that she sees on Instagram.
2:10:56 – Hannah talks about an awkward social interaction with someone at the party.
2:12:33 – Kendal comes back and tells us about Halo 5. He got to play a bit.
2:14:02 – Little Miss Muffet has stolen a tuffet and on record, admitted it.
2:15:15 – There is a bit of talk about the Elite controller.
2:16:33 – We welcome Jen to the table! He’s interested in armour, and is willing to play the game.
2:18:38 – Jen talks about the aiming down sights, Alan says a review is not as bad as it was in the beta.
2:19:53 – Talk about ground poundin’.
2:20:14 – Carts of games and controllers roll out.
2:21:38 – Alan talks about Mike’s hardcore Halo gaming past. Eagle Claw…
2:22:15 – More Elite controller talk, the box is the carry case?
2:23:29 – 30 minute announcement for release.
2:23:51 – Elite controller give away announcement.
2:24:06 – Bunch of jerks drumroll on a table with microphones.
2:24:30 – Jen wins the Elite controller!
2:25:16 – And Jen doesn’t even own a XBone.
2:28:10 – Hannah swore. Oh my gosh.
2:29:25 – Jen is liking Arrow, and Hannah talks about Black Canary and Injustice.
2:30:24 – Jen talks about a crazy Deadspace / Batman mashup to cosplay
2:32:11 – Hannah describes the mashup suit
2:33:03 – Josh bring up the embroidered polo’s he got Alan, with PS2J logo and his PS2J avatar.
2:33:52 – Jen has Alan describe the Elite controller while its still in the box.
2:35:41 – Hannah checks out of the party.
2:36:30 – Josh sheds light on a very controversial subject in the PS2J community.
2:37:02 – Jen has an interesting thought, what if Halo were a RPG.
2:37:53 – Josh asks what everyone’s favourite Halo weapons are.
2:38:34 – Jen calls each of us Spartan (Last Name) with HILARIOUS results.
2:39:44 – Kendall asks what our favourite Halo was.
2:41:04 – All of the Microsoft employees are getting their photo with the Spartans.
2:41:25 – Alan is REALLY selling the Elite controller.
2:42:09 – Jun tells his strange story about his experience with Halo.
2:43:58 – Josh shows off his Mr. Meeseeks impression
2:44:13 – Kendall talks about his time at the midnight launch.
2:45:36 – Josh says how its been a positive experience working with the Microsoft Store.
2:46:41 – Josh talks about the prizes Mike saw them give away for the Chief Collection party.
2:47:00 – Alan admits this is the best release party he has been to.
2:47:48 – Kendall tells us about the Sunset Overdrive launch party he went to.
2:48:23 – Josh regales everyone with the tale of how he got his Kinect.
2:49:10 – Jen lets us know about the TCEG Con debacle.
2:50:33 – We elude to mugging Jen for his controller with a button.
2:51:39 – Jen does a shout out to Brandon Stoner who is now Hanz Stoner? Courtesy of Chewbacca?
2:52:18 – Diviyan thanks everyone for coming.
2:53:13 – Jen and Alan describe everyone lining up.
2:54:12 – Jen pushes my (Josh) quality of editing with requests. Ugh…
2:55:33 – Alan talks about his fear of opening something new in public.
2:56:56 – Alan tells Jen about the custom paint jobs Josh has done in the past.
2:59:10 – Jen learns about the unfortunate truth of 40K constantly updating.
3:01:58 – Alan is skeptical of the scale of other launches compared to this Halo 5 launch.
3:03:28 – Alan makes edit requests, which I may not have done.
3:04:21 – Mike shows up to the table.
3:05:39 – Fun Fact: I listened at normal speed :’<
3:06:38 – Team Locke vs Team Chief
3:08:47 – Halo 5 conspiracy CRACKED!
3:14:34 – Ignore this part, just our company account.
3:14:56 – Next Midnight Launch spoiler?!
3:20:07 – Diviyan takes care of us.
3:24:14 – Josh finally gets on the right side of the microphone. Then starts to show off some painting.
3:30:29 – Bye Mike! He sleepy.
3:31:57 – Graham makes it back and shares what he took pictures of earlier this evening.
3:32:59 – Josh goofs around with the plasma pistol and helmet.
3:34:25 – Alan has to go to the bathroom quick, Josh sits in…
3:35:55 – Graham asks a great question, to the wrong person.
3:38:03 – Jen feels he brought something to the podcast.
3:38:22 – Josh tells Jen how his sister kept Alan busy at the table.
3:40:21 – Josh tells Jen what platforms he can hear PS2J on with his Android.
3:41:17 – Alan and Josh finally get to sit and chat with Diviyan.
3:44:29 – Neat, we can all add Div360 now.
3:46:41 – Thank you all, and good night.
If you listen the whole thing. Wow. Great job.