Garden of Eatin': Endives with Jess Rona

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Jess Rona (@jessronagrooming) joins the 'boys to talk dog grooming, mac and cheese, and meat-eating before continuing the Garden of Eatin': Veggie Table: The Green Gobblin' with a review of endives.

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Sources for this week's intro:

https://www.belganewsagency.eu/focus-flanders-the-success-story-of-larian-studios-founded-in-ghent-5hx3bi

https://www.gameinformer.com/interview/2019/11/07/a-knight-in-shining-armor-swen-vincke-talks-the-long-road-of-larian-studios

https://polydin.com/baldurs-gate-3/

https://www.travelawaits.com/2486363/best-waffles-in-belgium/

https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-does-endive-mean-995658

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/belgian-endive

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast.
0:06.0	Want to watch this episode?
0:08.0	Check it out on her YouTube channel at YouTube.
0:10.0	Com slash DoB's Media.
0:15.0	The Battlefield of Europe.
0:17.1	This is one of several nicknames that speaks to the complicated divided history of Belgium. Cleaved by its dual national languages of Dutch and French
0:25.4	and its dual regions of Flanders and Wallonia, Belgium lacks the clear national
0:30.2	identity of other European Union states. But today it can unite in patriotic
0:35.4	pride in its great cultural export. A video game studio founded in 1996 in the
0:40.9	town of Ghent by Sven Vinki and named for the still CEO's dog.
0:46.0	Larry and Studios would go on to create an acclaimed original franchise, Divinity,
0:50.0	peeking in 2017's Divinity Original original sin too, recognized by RPG enthusiast as exemplary of the genre.
0:56.7	And his development concluded on the second divinity original sin,
1:00.3	Dungeons and Dragons IP holder, Wizards of the Coast,
1:03.2	tapped Larian to create a canonical sequel to the beloved Balders Gate franchise,
1:07.2	which hadn't seen a mainline entry since 2001's Balders Gate expansion pack, Throne of Ball.
1:12.2	Despite Larian's pedigree, the Baldersgate Expansion Pack throne of ball.
1:13.2	Despite Larian's pedigree, the stewardship was viewed with some hesitancy by computer
1:17.2	RPG diehards, nostalgic for series creator BioWare's Infinity Engine games.
1:23.0	Then in 2020, Larian launched Baldersgate 3 in early access on Steam, and after three years
1:28.9	of public gestation in late 2023, the game was officially released to universal acclaim, heralded by many as
1:36.2	among the greatest video games ever made.
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