Our humble adventurers run from their troubles, only to find themselves alone in the forest with nothing but a walkie-talkie in their pockets and a conspiracy on their hands.

Episode Breakdown:

• In today’s episode, we answer the question: What’s the dumbest thing you’ve spent money on? (Link and Link) (00:02:46)

• We Introduce Firewatch (Steam) - the story, the characters, the gameplay. (00:14:19)

• We discuss our experience with the game and share our general thoughts. (00:20:19)

• We then discuss our interpretation of the meaning of the game and we compare Henry, the protagonist, with the other characters. (00:36:38)

• We mention the 'alternate endings' to the story and we talk about our opinions of the ending. (00:40:19)

• We dig a bit deeper into Delilah's character and her side of the story. (00:47:59)

• We talk about the location in which the story takes place, the Shoshone national forest and whether we think we could enjoy taking a job like this. (00:59:01)

• We summarize our thoughts about the game. (01:08:00)

• We then take a vote and see whether Firewatch belongs in our CQEG or not! (01:09:45)

• We close the episode by introducing the subject of our next episode - U2’s War (Allmusic). (01:18:54)

• We have a quick message to the listener about the Givewell Organization. This message will be added at the end of each of our future episodes. (01:25:52)

• Today’s promo is for the Cold Callers Comedy podcast (@coldcallers), check it out! (01:27:43)

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This episode’s intro bit features our good friend, the very talented Cassie from the Happy Hour Gets Weird podcast (@HHGetsWeird), as Delilah, alongside our very own Baryo, as himself.

Cover art by Azeecreations .

‘Celebration’ theme by Alexander Nakarada ( www.serpentsoundstudios.com ).

The episode was recorded on Oct. 23rd, and originally released on Nov. 15th, 2020.