At this point, I have to treat these podcast episodes like music album releases. They take a long time to produce for one person, and I just can't churn them out fast enough. So, consider them quarterly installments from this point forward until something changes in our collective schedules here. 😁

Anyhoo, we're back with our 50th episode! Alden and his best friend Wish join a couple of our cohorts on Discord (Jester and TiMO) to try and beat Doors for the first time. I join in as well, though I kept my expectations at rock bottom (I had never played before this episode recording).

Beyond the game, here's what's been happening with us:

• Alden had hand surgery last Wednesday on one of his fingers and won't be able to write/do anything computer related till late next week.
• He's still crushing it grade-wise in 6th grade
• We started playing Battle Cats again and now have Dark Phono. We're also farming NP to try and upgrade some of our favorite ubers to 60 w/talents.
• Alden and Wish have been playing Dungeons and Dragons every weekend for the past couple of months. Their current adventure is about to meet it's dramatic conclusion with a final battle with the 'Alchemist', a high level magician/illusionist who's been pulling all the strings in the background of their adventure so far.

Oh, and Alden's soccer team is 0-8 going into their final two games. Alden's been doing decent at goalie, but a good portion of the team is completely new to soccer and they've been getting beaten pretty bad. Still, they attend practices, have fun with each other and make the most of it.

If you'd like to join our dead chat Discord where no one seems to be around, you're more than welcome to. You never know what's going to happen there, and you get an incredibly fun free gift... a lucky day of your choosing:

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  ⁠https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W⁠

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on an upcoming podcast.

>> Leave us a review on iTunes!:  ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aldens-amazing-roblox-review/id1436553910⁠

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Thanks for checking out our podcast and mucho gracias to everyone who's been consistently listening to our shows... even if we're totally lame and don't post every month.

Hope this finds you well, and I hope you have some restful holidays coming up. See you!

Greetings from the hot state of Texas!

This release will be a short, review only episode, with the bigger one coming later in August.  This one didn’t require thirty thousand years of production, though my microphone cut out right when we started recording.  As such, you’ll see me boosting the audio in post-production and hear me hitting our stupid Yamaha sound board with a pool noodle just to get it working properly.

In the meantime, we go through reviews… kind of.  At the time of the recording, iTunes was doing its usual glitch-fest and decided to randomize all of the reviews we’ve ever gotten, all the way back to 2019!  We went with it and reflected on our time during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a few reviews we had never seen before.  Hopefully if we do this again, we won’t run into this sort of nonsense.

So, a brief upload before starting production on a rather involved 2 hour gaming session with Alden and his friend Wish (previously Romo).  Looking forward to swimming through that soup of ‘what are they talking about?’ kind of thing.

And while you’re trying to listen to me talk through a tunnel on this episode, feel free to click on the link below for some random banter about memes, fan art and a tree bot that we occasionally water from time to time:

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on an upcoming podcast.

>> Leave us a review on iTunes!:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aldens-amazing-roblox-review/id1436553910

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Thanks again to Jester's for giving us an image to post for our review episode!  I’m still waiting for you to try an AI image generator.  I think our Discord will be saturated with experiments when he does.

Thanks for listening, and we’ll see you in a few weeks.

Well hello there!

We've successfully figured out a way to release an episode shorter than six months. In involves recording the entire thing and then doing 40-60 seconds to edit it every day. The end result is an episode so overproduced and filled with sound effects that I could probably post 20+ clips on social media. Hell, I don't even remember what the beginning of the episode even sounds like at this point.

But rest assured, you're going to get plenty of Item Asylum play-by-play in this episode. Whether it's Jester rambling about everything and anything to Romo speaking thirty feet away from the microphone, we have you covered. Oh, and YouSawNothing and Tyson join with two dollar microphones crammed into their armpits as they shout over everyone during some pretty active game play.

One last thing... the sound effects you're going to hear in this episode are taken from a wide variety of games. The audio clips are also from a wide variety of movies and TV shows. As a result, I've probably put this podcast in jeopardy with the sheer amount of copyright violations I may have committed (I really don't know). But I'm sure Jester yelling 'COPYRIGHT' over and over again has cleared me of any wrong doing.

By the way, if you've been listening to this podcast for the 3+ years we've been publishing our stuff and you still haven't joined our Discord, you're doing yourself a disservice. Click on the link below for some endless (but temporary) happiness and joy:

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on an upcoming podcast.

>> Leave us a review on iTunes!:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aldens-amazing-roblox-review/id1436553910

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And this episode, we're featuring Jester's artwork for our podcast! Thank you very much for creating it for us. You really do have a talent for art. Keep at it please. 😁👍

Oh, and if you're interested in submitting your own avatar/logo for the show, stop by the Discord and bedazzle us with your amazing applications of art.

Thanks for listening! See you next time.

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PS - Our apologies to Tyson for not allowing him to sign off. I didn't realize we had forgotten him in our haste to wrap up the show. We'll give him a proper signoff the next time he joins us.

Well, well well... it only took six months to get this episode done! At this rate, we should hit 100 episodes by the time Alden is 24 years old. That or I can make a million dollars and start doing this full time. Or get an entire production team to make it happen. Maybe both?

Anyway... in this episode, we get into Silent Library, STARR tests that are currently happening for reading, math and science (which Alden is rather stressed about), essays about trampoline safety and substitute teachers, teaching Alden to pursue his interests and the end of Battle Cats (yep, Alden's done with it). Then, we meet up with Romo and play a few rounds of Flee the Facility! Apparently, I can't find a computer to hack to save my life (literally).

We're still active on Discord whenever Alden isn't completely immersed on his Switch with the newest Mario Rabbids. If you  If you want to take a peek, you know what to do:

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on our podcast.

>> Leave us a review on iTunes!:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aldens-amazing-roblox-review/id1436553910

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Also, thanks to Oli Down Under for the new logo! We'll be rotating these out as fans of the show produce their own artwork for it. If you're interested in putting in your latest Midjourney creation or hand drawn masterpiece, stop by the Discord and share with us.

As always, thanks for listening to the show and we hope you are doing well. 👍

I guess we're at a 'once a month' pace of sending these out, which is fine.  With Alden's school in full-swing, there may be time to do additional episodes... but no promises.  My terrible track record speaks for itself. 😁

In this episode, we talk about Alden's friend who seems to be going a bit nuts, Battle Cats seeding, our new dog and finally, a third venture into everyone's favorite game... Tower Defense Simulator with all the new updates, graphics and frustrating nerfing that the developers seem to be doing with every tower unit they scrutinize.  Special thanks to Tyson for joining and playing with us for another episode!

Finally, we've been popping into the Discord every so often.  Yes, there are the usual postings of 'dead chat' and non-activity, but dems da breaks.  It usually consists of Alden asking if anyone is on voice chat to get a game going, and that's it.  I started a Battle Cats channel and have been posting some custom game videos there.  If you want to take a peek, you know what to do:

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on our podcast.

>> Leave us a review on iTunes!:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aldens-amazing-roblox-review/id1436553910

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We'll see you in a month or so.  Hopefully sooner than 30 days.  Post interesting (but child friendly) memes in the Discord to remind me to publish.  It helps. 😁

Oh, and by the way... a nice little 'Heya Hiya!' to Oli Down Under.  Thanks for listening to our show every so often.  Hope you are doing well. :)

Well it's been a LONG time hasn't it? :D

The explanation is simple.  Alden was simply enjoying his summer break and I was busy making sure he was enjoying summer break.  We did actually record two other episodes but I haven't had any time to produce them (see the above about being with Alden on summer break).  So, there are more coming.  But for now, know that we're back and we'll be releasing more episodes in the near future. 

And I know we haven't been hanging out in the Discord as much, but apparently the time zones for Australia and Dallas are not compatible with one another.  That and we only seem to be able to come on at 8:00 pm at night to game for 30 minutes.  But hey, at least we message back.

Speaking of which, why not pop by our Discord for five minutes and never come back to it again?  It's fun! 😁👍

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on our podcast.

>> Leave us a review on iTunes!:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aldens-amazing-roblox-review/id1436553910

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Thanks for being patient with us during our 16 billion year hiatus.  Hope you enjoy the episode, and we'll see you in the next millennia!

Hi all!

I was really thinking about publishing this episode a couple of years from now, given how long you've had to wait for this one.  But good news!  It's coming out today, and future episodes will be only featuring some aspect of what we do (reviews, daily updates, game reviews, etc.).  I won't try to lump them into the same episode anymore, since this one took me NINE CUMULATIVE DAYS to edit and a whole month to find time to work on it.  I think I'm done with mega-episodes like this. 😁

As this was recorded in February when Alden was sick with a cold (not COVID-19, thank goodness), we talked about all the birthday parties he had been going to, top 10 facts about Victoria, Australia, his new found powers of being a Discord admin and a bit of Battle Cats updates here and there (since Alden wanted to keep it short... 😅)

We also went through Pet Simulator X, a game that Alden and I played quite a bit of a couple of years ago.  A lot has been updated in the game (for better and for worse) and we explore it all.  Well, I talk a lot about it and Alden does all the playing.  You know... the usual way we do things.

You can play Pet Simulator X right here:  https://web.roblox.com/games/6284583030/EVENT-Pet-Simulator-X

Special thanks to LuvsMinecraft for joining us on this episode and giving his perspective.  I also have a special easter egg for him at the end of the show that I'm not sure he'll like or not like... but we're going to find out! 😎

Finally, be sure to come find us on our Discord channel.  One of us is always hanging out, and who knows... you might just game with us on our next podcast! 👾.

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on our podcast  You can also check out Spotify for a weekly survey, or leave a voice mail here on Anchor.  We can't respond to them directly, but we will include them in future podcasts.

>> Leave us a review on iTunes!:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aldens-amazing-roblox-review/id1436553910

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We hope this episode finds you stellar and magnificent.  Know that there are people who care about you and appreciate what you do.
Please take care of yourself, and we'll see you next time.  Adios! 👋

Hi everyone! 👋

Well, I tried.  I know a lot of you are wanting episodes every week, but there's always something stopping that from happening.  Whether it's Spring Break or yours truly going haywire with all the production sound effects and features in every episode, there's always a culprit.  We'll get the hang of it sooner or later. 😁

For now, Alden and I try out the endless number generator known as 'Clicker Simulator' in this episode.  We're joined by two of our friends on our Discord (Tyson and Sunstripe) as we continually hatch eggs and generate 1.45e16 clicks per second with our atomic event pets that resemble microwaves and portable furnaces.  If you're completely confused, you'll have to either play the game or listen to the episode for it to make sense. 🤪

You can play Clicker Simulator right here:  https://web.roblox.com/games/7560156054/Clicker-Simulator

We also revisit our Battle Cats lineup, since we go three weeks per update.  It seems we completely forget all the progress we make and have to look at the game to figure it out.  In fact, we're waaaaay beyond what this episode details and will probably spend a good portion of Episode 44 going over things like Heavenly Tower, the old Merc Storia collab and the 100+ leadership flags we now have.  All the same, we'll get you up to speed on things.

Finally, we cover things like Tongue in Cheek ice cream flavors, what it would be like if Alden took over a Target Store, and all of your lovely, lovely reviews... even if we can't read them properly.

Be sure to come find us on our Discord channel.  One of us is always hanging out, and who knows... you might just game with us on our next podcast! 👾

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on our podcast  You can also check out Spotify for a weekly survey, or leave a voice mail here on Anchor.  We can't respond to them directly, but we will include them in future podcasts.

>> Leave us a review on iTunes!:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aldens-amazing-roblox-review/id1436553910

We hope this episode finds you happy and healthy.  Know that you are loved and appreciated, and please take care of yourself.  Bye! 👋

Heya hiya hello-hah!

This episode is really two podcasts in one.  The first part talks about our recent trip to Universal Studios and what we thought of all the rides.  The second part talks about our featured game, Roblox NPC's are becoming smart! (recommended by Tyson_Something (Thanks! 😁)) and how we were digging the interactions we had with Carl.

The whole thing has more sound bites, music overlays, transitions and weird, off-the-wall inserts than any previous episode, clocking in at a whopping 74 minutes.  I think I definitely overproduced it a bit.  Well, maybe a lot.  Maybe a whole lot.  Maybe I completely nerded out and spent a whole week on it.  Definitely possible. 🤪

Anyhoo, we do our usual coverage of Battle Cats, reviews on Apple Podcasts, and all your emails from the previous month (big thank you's to Tyson and Shannon for writing in).  We even talked about our first Discord member named Sunstripe (who has the only real Australian accent that we know of).  He also podcasts like we do, and you can find his content over on Spotify.  Check it out when you have some time... especially if you like the Warrior Cats novel series by Erin Hunter. 👍

>> Sunstripe's Warrior Cats Podcast:  https://open.spotify.com/show/12Ss4BIq3WBe7FZcTuj2Q3?si=8R8GDQrwS3eTXwvVrRLGhA


Finally, if you're interested in playing one of the most unique, strange and entertaining Roblox games we've come across in a while, check out the game we're reviewing on this episode.  It was created by @GroovyDominoes52, and you can find it here:

>> ROBLOX NPC's are becoming smart!:  https://web.roblox.com/games/6813414321/ROBLOX-NPCs-are-becoming-smart-51ST-ENDING

Be sure to check out our Discord and come join us and the three other brave souls who decided to see if our channel was actually worth paying attention to (it is, but you'll have to see for yourself 🤪).

>> Join the AARR Discord and get a lucky day for FREE!:  https://discord.gg/fTHrhg758W

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on our podcast  You can also check out Spotify for a weekly survey, or leave a voice mail here on Anchor.  We can't respond to them directly, but we will include them in future podcasts.

We hope this episode finds you happy and healthy.  Know that you are loved and appreciated, and take care of yourself.  Bye! 👋

Hey there!  How are ya? 😁

We're getting ready for our family vacation in February and I REALLY needed to get this done and out the door before that happened.  That's because I'm usually running around at the last minute getting things I forgot to pack (ponchos, extra masks, etc.) and producing a podcast would be at the very bottom of the 'to-do' list.

Anyhoo, this episode gets into my 52nd birthday celebration a couple of weeks ago, which Super Uber Rare cats would make good names for kids, and Alden's basketball teammates and what I think of them as their coach.  We also get into the never-ending saga that is COVID-19 and how we had to get tested... AGAIN.  Seriously, this pandemic is exposing how incredibly dumb humans are with taking pro-active measures and thinking about the bigger picture... which I'll be contemplating as I'm double masked on a flight to Florida next week.

Oh, and we review Tower Blitz too. 🤪 In a nutshell, you should stop playing Tower Defense Simulator and give this game a try... especially if you like sniper towers with FULL AUTO capabilities. 😎

And finally, we have a Discord!  We're experimenting with it, but you can join by following this link.  
>> Join the AARR Discord

Hope you're doing well, and thanks as always for checking our podcast and giving us a listen. :)

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If you're interested in Tower Blitz for Roblox, you can go here: https://web.roblox.com/games/4739557376/Tower-Blitz

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on the air.  You can also check out Spotify for a weekly survey, or leave a voice mail here on Anchor.  We can't respond to them directly, but we will include them in future podcasts.

Here's the rundown of all the audio samples we had in this episode.  Be advised that some of these include naughty language bits and should be avoided if you're not allowed to listen to that ****.  😅

• Twist and Crawl - By English Beat
• All Mixed Up - By 311
• *Rep Grows Bigga - By Gang Starr (NSFW)
• The Militia (Instrumental) - By Gang Starr
• Simon Says (instrumental) - Pharoahe Monch
• Fanfare - Final Fantasy VII Music Extended - By Squaresoft
• Quake 2 Soundtrack: Operation Overlord - By Sonic Mayhem
• Without Me (Instrumental) - Eminem

See you next time! 👍

Hi everyone!

I've been really busy around the house and haven't had time to record with Alden.  He's been exploring some new games (Tower Blitz being one of them) and waiting for me to wrap up my biz before starting another episode up.

In the meantime, here's an episode from a few weeks ago when Alden's friend Srihan came over to spend the day at our house.  We start off with a Q&A session where I asked both of them various questions about random stuff (ex: who would win between the Hindu Gods vs Greek Gods, top 5 toys you could get for free, who would you like to punch in the face without repercussions, etc.).  It was a lot of fun to listen to. 😁

We later found out that Srihan couldn't play any video games while he was visiting (which both Alden and I thought was horrendously stupid).  So, he agreed to do a play by play while Alden and I tried to get caught up with our stamp collection and golden flag conquest in Super Mario 3D World.  Srihan made the most of it, we were partially successful and enjoyed the whole session.

So apologies for the delay... it's my fault again.  Unless I start up something like Patreon and quit my job and do these full time, I'll just continue to release them when time allows (and Alden keeps pestering me about getting one together).

Hope this episode finds you happy, healthy and staying clear of COVID-19 (though it's damn hard with Omicron... our next door neighbors' entire family was exposed to it during the holidays).

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If you're interested in Super Mario 3D World, you can go here:
https://supermario3dworld.nintendo.com/

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Feel free to give us a review on iTunes or email us your game suggestions and/or Roblox stories at alden (at) aldengaming.com.  We'll take time to read them on the air.  You can also check out Spotify for a weekly survey, or leave a voice mail here on Anchor.  We can't respond to them directly, but we will include them in future podcasts.

And if you're interested in picking up a good book, here's what Alden's been reading these days:

• Daughter of the Deep - By Rick O'Riordan
• Amari and the Night Brothers - By B. B. Alston
• Middle School:  My Brother is a Big Fat Liar - By James Patterson

See you next time, and thanks for listening!