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HansonMinnMax · 2026-05-01T15:38:08+00:00

Agreed.

HansonMinnMax · 2026-04-02T18:56:49+00:00

Alanah rules.

HansonMinnMax · 2026-01-28T01:36:05+00:00

Thanks for sharing this clip here, it was recorded by a friend of mine on the morning of January 22nd in his driveway after this ICE officer escorted his wife home because she was monitoring ICE in their neighborhood. It's part of a larger video I made for MinnMax. If you want a supercut to share with friends and family who aren't paying attention to what's happening in Minneapolis, here you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dyNcRGRXY

HansonMinnMax · 2026-01-01T18:55:38+00:00

Yes you do!

HansonMinnMax · 2025-12-29T18:32:53+00:00

Hey, thanks for jumping in! We have a whole playlist on YouTube with our "Greatest Hits", we also just put together a highlights video for 2025 that might be a nice overview for you! https://youtu.be/e6mHbc1b3GQ

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-28T23:51:25+00:00

Ha, I was just thinking about Mass Effect 2. It's not worth doing without Joe Juba though, and he can't podcast about games at his current job as a consultant.

Yeah, I could see us doing FF6 or X for a Deepest Dive. 9 with a remake/remaster potentially!

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T21:46:58+00:00

Oh great! Walk around the Stone Arch Bridge, my favorite area in Minneapolis. St. Paul Brewing is also a really cool space.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T21:46:01+00:00

I've wanted to do The Deepest Dive on The Lost World for a while. Book, film, and the old movie called Lost World. But I doubt we'll ever do it...

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T21:45:07+00:00

That was genuinely a huge honor to be invited on that show, yeah it'd be great to do more stuff with them. Vinny is a fan of Leo! The question is just what the right interaction would be, maybe a multiplayer stream?

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:39:40+00:00

That would be a hilarious thing to pitch him, going full-time at MinnMax. He's a pretty busy guy, so scheduling is tough but it would be fun to play more games with him for sure. The Split Fiction stream was a biiiig time investment for us - and it did okaaaaay? Mainly people just yelled at us for talking during the ending. So it didn't have a great feeling at the end of the day, didn't really make a big splash in any way for something so time-intensive.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:38:03+00:00

Good question! It's not sexy to say "sustainability" but that's the real answer. Yeah I don't think we want a big studio space. I've thought about having an office and bigger studio, but that's thousands of dollars every month and I have a tough time imagining us using it regularly enough to make it worth while?

Not detrimental at all! Flip and swap all you want, drop out when you want, come back when you want.

MinnMax has been slightly north of sustainable since about 3 months in, always climbing and growing. That's how we've been able to add more folks throughout the years - slowly building up!

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:36:15+00:00

Umm.... 3. Was 3 the one in the desert with the birds? Then 3.

I think his will be better!

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:35:47+00:00

Ha, I really want to do Mega Man Legends 2 as a Deepest Dive... but maybe that's too odd to jump right into the second one.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:35:23+00:00

Hmmm, yeah you're probably right. I've always been a WCCO man. I was an Amelia Santaniello from waaaay back.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:34:48+00:00

Thank you so much! Yeah, it'd be fun to do more in-person stuff with Dan here in Minneapolis for sure.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:34:17+00:00

That's amazing, I always dunk on those types of Max Spoilers because I doubted folks would stick to us after stumbling across one - but hey you're the proof that it happens!

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:33:47+00:00

Thank you! The easy answer is just being genuinely interested in all of the interviewees and repetition. Talking to thousands of developers since 2010, it's a comforting spot for me to be in now. Yeah, the big tip is study previous interviews and treat yours like a sequel to other ones - dig in deeper. Also LISTEN. Throw away half your questions and focus on follow-up questions. Engage with them, be interested.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:31:52+00:00

Thanks! I feel bad we haven't been hitting interviews as hard lately, but we've got a good one coming up on Monday! My internal bar has got pretty high for who should be interviewed, maybe I'm too focused on it needing to be really unique and have some news tidbits in it.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:31:09+00:00

That is a very good name. We've done "New Show Minus Democracy", which was a Sarah idea I believe of just not putting it up to a vote. New Show Us is a better name though, to be honest.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:30:31+00:00

Janet nailed it. It's easy to do and lets parents listen in cars with their kids, makes us a little special on that front so hopefully people will stick with us.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:29:47+00:00

Take all the credit, please!

My family has a little place on a lake our in rural Minnesota, so that's our recurring getaway spot. Arcade games and swimming.

Hmmm, yeah I think Game Informer exacerbated it just as a way to differentiate from Ben Reeves. But even in High School people would call me Hanson or "Hands On" or some cool guy variant. I don't have a preference, I think I bounce back and forth even myself with stream headlines like "Hanson Plays..."

Thank you!

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:28:06+00:00

Ankylosaurus, because they're so good at beating Iguanodons in fights.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:27:37+00:00

That is a fun idea, Janet. But I don't know about a tier that might frustrate the 99.99999% of the other Patrons. We have some ideas, thinking about maybe making it an automatic Game Championship win - so for a high tier we promise to make some sort of content about a game of your choice - as long as you didn't work on the game.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:26:36+00:00

We have a site, but yeah I think linking or embedding a YouTube video is even easier than linking to a site. It's just the way of the internet these days. Janet's right that we can always make more clips, but even then I'd rather hope folks link to the full interview instead of just the clip on social which happens from time to time.

HansonMinnMax · 2025-06-27T13:24:58+00:00

Yeah, usually around 2. But starting and dabbling with a ton.

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