About this episode

The episode features discussions on various games and movies, along with numerous tangents.

Welcome back! It’s been about 2 months since we got to talk about what we’ve been up to, so this is a jam-packed episode full of games, movies, and weird tangents. So many weird tangents. 00:00 Introduction, door to door salesmen 16:24 Remembering James Van Der Beek 24:17 The new focus for The Stage Select 32:52 Octopath Traveller 0 59:30 Quartet 01:21:09 Electric snow shovels, final thoughts on Unbeatable 01:45:48 198X, Resident Evil VII: Biohazard 02:15:19 Silent Hill f (FULL SPOILERS!) 02:40:40 Return to Silent Hill (FULL SPOILERS!) 03:09:01 The search for Richard Harden, Private Detective 03:14:57 Justin’s mega movie roundup (The Menu, Witchboard, One Battle After Another, Black Phone 2, Bone Tomahawk, The Running Man 2025, Drop, Children of the Corn, The Amityville Horror, Roofman, The Substance, The Naked Gun 2025) Theme song and interstitial music by Megan McDuffee: https://meganmcduffee.com Logo and artwork by John Gholson Announcer: John Gholson Join our Discord, learn about how you can support the show, and more: https://linktr.ee/TheStageSelect Email: thestageselectpod@gmail.com

Topics covered

• video games
• movies
• tangents
• Silent Hill
• game reviews
• film roundup

Keywords

• Fortress Maxing
• video games
• Silent Hill
• Resident Evil
• Octopath Traveller
• movie roundup
• James Van Der Beek

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