The Midwest Scrubcast

At long last our October Fitwest winner of the dubious prize has joined us, and it's not the winner that was foretold! Thank you to Conor for joining us to talk about teeth and Deadlands and etc.

If you're a tabletop gamer, which we have to assume you probably are, check out the soon-to-be-releasing game Senjutsu, which Clint describes about 40 minutes into the episode, it's a really neat Samurai-themed concept.

It's the start of the October Fitwest Challenge, and among other things we're talking about why don't school buses have seatbelts, why aren't pies made of oranges, and what is a Kolache to you?

Like a lot of other nerds, the Scrubs are getting into Baldur's Gate 3 right now, but first we had to talk about broken feet and Lorcana and Crystal Pepsi.

This episode is definitely not an ad for Pokemon Unite. It's also not an ad for chaos the board game and Pope Joan and the worst place to go canamping.

In an episode with nothing related even to Star Wars, the Scrubs discuss Spartan racing, Starship Troopers, and Skyrim the campaign style board game. Starship Troopers is at least space themed, right?

Congratulations to Travis, randomly drawn winner of the prize of dubious value of guesting on the podcast! With Travis along for the ride, we discuss park runs, backpacking, and board games.

Timestamps: [00:00:33] Intro starts | [00:00:37] Intro derailed| [00:10:00] Intro finally concludes, Fitwest related content begins | [00:55:00] Geekway and board games

The Scrubs are fueled by free desserts, and ready to wrap up the story of the SWRPG campaign.

The Scrubs are alive, after all contracting COVID at Worlds, and after a brief reminiscence on Adepticon, we're ready to continue the tale of SWRPG.

Timestamps: [00:02:00] Worlds | [00:15:00] SWRPG

The Scrubs relate the epic adventure of their Star Wars RPG characters, and discuss some of the narrative strategies and game mechanics used by Clint to keep things entertaining and at least more on track than a Scrubcast opening.

Clint wrecked our content plan by being absent, so we're going rogue, and talking about...wire sheathing? And plausible zombies and eels. And the arrival of metal objective markers! If you want to pick up your order at World's please contact us.

The Scrubs ramble with the official winner of the Fitwest Scrub Challenge prize of dubious value. We learn about long days, bees, and trains, and get a casual European player's perspective on the new AMG changes. 

Color us Andor fans. Especially Matt. But most importantly, the date for the Midwest Scrubdown 2: The Empire Scrubs Your Back (working title) is announced!

Timestamps: [ANDOR] | [the last 7 minutes] Announcements

The Fitwest Scrub October Challenge randomly drawn winner of the prize of dubious value is announced! Also, the Scrubs disagree philosophically with SOS, and Matt shares what he's learned about the possibly no longer cannon legend of Jar Jar's father.

Timestamps: [00:02:00] Fitwest October Wrapup | [00:14:00] Actual X-Wing Talk | [00:33:00] George R Binks | [00:50:00] Announcements

The Scrubs welcome back special crew member Johnn (with 2 N's) to regale our listeners with the tales of our recent Fitwest-themed adventures. Also, Matt hates droids, and Clint's burning curiosity about Johnn is finally satisfied.

The Scrubs share some Fitwest adventures, and give positive recommendations for bidets. Stick around til at least minute 41 for the bad news about the scrub objective markers...  

The Scrubs explore their feelings on new pilots and the recently announced 2.0 Legacy errata and rules changes, worry about TTT, plug Unmatched, and plot to abolish daylight savings.  

Matt reports on his continual un-scrubby tournament performances, and we debate the merits of 2 point ships. Also, get yourselves mentally prepared for the fast approaching Fitwest Scrub October Challenge! 

Some familiar voices from the X-Wing podcasting world join the Scrubs to talk about their latest, less Star-Wars-related endeavors. We took advantage of having guests experienced in reviews to finally air all our joys and grievances about the Kenobi series!

Gencon first impressions from the Scrubs who watched it, and then we get to what Dan actually cares about, grilling Matt about how Minecraft works. 

Timestamps: [00:17:00] Gencon | [00:42:00] Games We've Been Playing | [01:23:00] Announcements

We Scrubs meant to talk about more than just this one recent Disney Star Wars series, but somehow we talked about other things and then got stuck on Boba Fett for way too long. 

Timestamps: [00:03:00] Actual X-Wing Talk Devolving Into Nonsense | [00:20:00] Games We've Been Playing | [00:40:00] Book of Boba Fett

With the excitement of the Scrubdown past and no guests to entertain us, the Scrubs have to re-remmeber how to make content. Hang on til the end if you want food talk! Before that, Matt shares the 2.5 tournament he actually enjoyed playing in, and Outer Rim is a definitively better game now.

Timestamps: [00:03:00] Windy City Trials | [00:24:00] Outer Rim Expansion | [00:46:00] Matt's 1v1 League 

Matt reports back from the first big 2.5 event, and we discuss details for the Scrubdown and for the Fitwest Scrub April Challenge!

The Scrubs get nitpicky with version 2.5

The Scrubs seek insight from our friend Goose (or Drew), who is one of the lucky few to have experienced version 2.5 tournament play in the Cherokee Open.

The Scrubs welcome Ben of the Rogue Outpost blog, who has dropped by to talk about content creation in the current era of X-Wing.

Amid the usual detours, the Scrubs are reviewing a homebrew Aces High scenario from community member Goose, and answering some excellent audience questions.

Timestamps: [00:06:30] Secret Sith! | [00:21:00] Audience Question | [00:57:00] Announcements and Nonsense

It's a milestone episode, and the Scrubs are answering all your listener questions, whether insightful or nonsense!

The infamous Bruno LaVigueur is here to give us a French Canadian perspective on the X-Wing world. Who is Joann, and how badly can some scrubs butcher the French language?

The Scrubs welcome Johnn with 2 Ns, the winner of our Fitwest Scrub October drawing! We had some things to say about X-Wing, some things to say about vegetables...and our eyes have been opened to the power of interns.

We tried to at least have fun with the bread that surrounds the the inevitable sour lunchmeat inside this episode sandwich.

Timestamps: [00:07:30] Fitwest Scrub Challenge Winners! | [00:20:00] What else can you talk about except ROAD? | [00:57:00] Annoucements and Nonsense

The Scrubs have several recent adventures to relate, both X-Wing related and not. Turns out we're not just Scrubs about X-Wing games! 

Sorry that some of this episode is newscasting, we haven't really had anything else on our minds except the AMG announcement of the end of the bid. And vegetables, I guess.

Get ready for an enthusiastic endorsement of Aces High with Wings, and an in-depth analysis of why Dan's Guri angst may finally be at an end (at least until the points change).

Timestamps: [00:02:00] Aces High...With Wings! | [00:28:00] Guri's new BFF | [00:42:00] Complaining about Roombas again | [01:00:00] Advanced Sensors