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No lie Mike Pondsmith has a genuinely great radiocaster voice.

Wake up Samurai it’s time to learn your lore

I wish there was more of this. Mike hook us up with a weekly podcast set in the cyberpunk universe pleaaaaase

I like that Maximum Mike directly references the fact that Johnny is an unreliable narrator. Originally, Morgan Blackhand was the one to lead the team of mercs and the one to be left behind as the nuke went off fighting Adam Smasher on top of Saka Tower. Johnny literally wrote Morgan out of his memories.

fun fact: In the early 90s mike did a supplement for cyberpunk that layers it with world of darkness ( vampire the masquerade, werewolf apocalypse, etc.) is I always thought when he makes the vampire and the werewolf reference it's really a wink and a nod to real deep lore fans for both ips.

Yeah, my daughter has told me that I oughta have a KZfaq channel where I just read random things listeners send in. She says we could call it, "Max Mike Says Weird Shit."

I love the fact that no matter how crazy any of Maximum Mike’s theories are, literally all of them could be true due to the absolutely insanity of the cyberpunk world. Hell, there’s an independent nation *on the fucking moon* because they got a massive fucking orbital cannon. This world is wild, so there could be fucking werewolves like Mike thinks. In the tabletop, you can even get vampire fangs that release venom into your victim.

Imagine having a radio station where you get to speak about the lore you yourself created. Defo an inspiration!!

0:05 It's clear that Maximum Mike is talking about Spider Murphy here. Female? Before the DataKrash? Not known to be dead? One of the best netrunners in the world? Yeah. Spider Murphy. Especially with MM's connections in the lore. Which makes... this all the more frightening when you consider someone of Spider Murphy's credibility saying this. She knew Bartmoss. She talked with him. She's been netrunning since the beginning.. If she says the Blackwall knows Aramaic... which nothing is more frightening than something talking in a millennia-old dead language... and that there's more going on than we realize... Well... I'm inclined to believe what the character has to say.

Mikes cyberpunk universe is the perfect mix of all the best cyberpunk stories in 1 and this radio program is an example of that.

Yup, it's settled. This will be my ASMR video when I go to sleep.

Interesting that "Morro Rock Radio" is 107.3 FM since there's actually a 107.3 FM radio station out of San Luis Obispo, which is 15 minutes south so Morro Bay (the real world location where Night City is supposed to be). Love the attention to detail.

I love that Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk universe, is a self-inserted conspiracy theorist. I don't think of Maximum Mike as a conspiracy theorist though, I think of him as an outlet for the creator to deliver some deep lore to us, the players.

God Mike Pondsmith has the perfect voice for a conspiracy theorist like Maximum Mike.

It's actually plausible that you could take and grow fungi and use it as a neural network to run an AI, it's known that the way Fungi communicate is eerily similar to the way our brain works Makes sense that this is what is being used to manipulate the Peralezes

The entry about the European Space Council being killed is actually the scene we see when we first walk into Jenkins's office, at the very start of the Corpo prologue. So Mike's guesses were pretty much spot on. Arasaka did it, but it was a sloppy move by a relatively low ranking executive. One who quickly got punished or more likely killed for his efforts.

*Yikes* I had no idea Hanako was close to *80.* In addition to a lot of the Soulkiller stuff, the vampire meme makes a lot of sense. And *man* the way Mike waxes lyrical about the Blackwall is hauntingly awesome. I'd love for him to just come out with a full audiobook deep dive into it from the perspective of a character that moves its lore forward. Tentatively linking the net with Hell and Rogue AIs with demons that *might actually be possessing people via cyberpsychosis* is just.. *WOW* dude, astronomical world building if all that linking is intentional!

Spider Murphy, Rache Bartmoss, Alt Cunningham. I have a feeling they're all still in communication.

Plot twist: the biotechnica mushroom computer is just there to run Minecraft with shaders

The fact that Mike voices this dude makes this even better. This is my favorite radio station and everytime he comes on I stop and listen in first person inside my car

Cyberpunk lore is so badass ! Some of the best side story lore shit in gaming

I love how he has all these insane things that he says about the most mundane of incidents, meanwhile for the pre-war AI that runs a taxi company, he just goes "Eh, probably just forgot to maintain em'."

Can we stop to appreciate just how nice Mike's voice sounds? Like, it's genuinely relaxing to hear him talk.

This is my absolute favorite station. I love the story about the Werewolves

Love how the creator of this universe is a radio host for the obscure and macob

Mike playing as a tinfoiler while saying the actual lore he created is 10 levels of mindfuck. You dont know if you want to brush off the conspiracy theory then you remember he’s the creator of this universe.

I swear Mike could narrate the dictionary and it would be amazing.

Mike Pondsmith himself…legend!

Holy shit they recorded this much conspiracy radio with Mike? Why the hell am I getting the same damn story about Busan? haha

Lots of easter eggs throughout all of this from the original Cyberpunk 2020 RPG and onward. Some of the obvious bits. Morgan Blackhand was Pondsmith's "signature character" representing the Solo class in many of scenarios for the original campaign/stories. That doesn't mean played by Mike. But rather cherished by Mike for what the Best of a Solo could be when going in a certain direction. Maximum Mike was in many ways a narrative tool in the original campaign/stories as well as a "secondary" recurring NPC; much like Ripper Jack (from many of the original books) The Bozos were one of the original gangs in the RPG and had a rivalry with the Voodoo Boys (who were VASTLY different at that point) In the "first Net" many corporations, agencies, and individuals were working on AIs with varying degrees of success. The 4th Corporate War, where Silverhand falls, originally had Johnny (among others) gibbed by Smasher. As in, if I remember the description, effectively shot in half. - sidenote: By this point, Smasher was essentially an Arasaka Full Conversion Borg, custom Dragoon. What you see in EdgeRunner does NOT do him justice and in '77 by all rights, V should have fallen, easily, at the end of the main story. - Morgan eventually squares up with Smasher as Smasher effectively gives no choice to solve the one-sided rivalry and question of: Meat v Metal. Both fall (MIA) During the 4th War, Rache Bartmoss' meat is rendered moot... it is unclear if he "survived" through his own work, Alt intervention (via SoulKiller), or there is a construct (his or something else emulating him) that persists. Post Krash, AIs are destroyed, divided, consumed, and born regularly on the other side of the Black Wall. Those kids referred to with the rumored weird abilities? Survivors of the Carbon Plague and a spinoff of the "Ended" 2020 story arc in an RPG called "CyberGen". Alt, or a fragment of her, has a role to play in that too.

The in game radio is top tier, the news, the in game samurai band, and of course Maximum Mike himself

All the biotechnica sections are way too close to home right now...

You know what they say about conspiracies, every once in a while they hit on something. I wonder what of these might be a hint at something coming...

Loved the reference to Cyber Generations in there

Actually i think the werewolves are a refrence to something else. In the cyberpunk 2020 adventure book supliment “tales from the forlorn hope “there’s a adventure where you go to Eastern Europe and fight some genetically engineered werewolves.

Juuuust... one more video before I go to sleep.

Another great vid thanks.

Next time might check the East and stay around it see if I get ambushed by genetic wolves 😂

16:42 Carbon plague ( don't care, personal note)

The net and net runners reminds me of the warp and psykers from warhammer 40k, where both netrunners and psykers can become extremely powerful using their respective realms, but risk their very lives doing so

This is so IMMERSIVE, I played this while playing Cyberpunk (as my Netrunner build, hitting gonks with BLACKWALL gateway)... I need more of this.

wish there was an easy way to get this stuff to play on the radio.. seems to happen at random times on morro rock 107

I'm glad you posted this because I played the original TT game and when I heard that Pondsmith was doing voice-overs I was thrilled!

GMs going to run the new 2077 table top game coming here doing the spongebob meme. "WRITE THAT DOWN, RIGHT THAT DOWN!!"

I really enjoyed this , thank you

THANK YOU FOR CHIPPIN IN!

I loved when these bits came on the radio. Never thought to actually just look up the compilation. I'd love for this to be a whole station.

In universe equivalent of God having a podcast.

This is the ‘verse that just keeps on giving. I love that the lore is so deep they even remembered to include fucking conspiracy theories that smack of the shit we come up with in real life

What he says about the Klimt exhibit and real art being kept on Luna made me think of the Space Oddity side gig. Maybe Maximum Mike's informants really know some stuff.

Wow Mike has such a great voice for radio/podcasts

He be dropping hints and people still don't get it.

0:00 - 1:45 after that Lilith AI/ Daemon cyberpsycho encounter, the final moments of Phantom of Liberty with Songbird blackwall abilities and the fact that the author of the franchise himself is narrating this, is super plausible that "Conspiracy" theory is true, Bartmoss discovered hell and opened its doors. One of the reasons why highly supersticious gangs like the voodo boys are scared and willing to contact AI's beyond the blackwall first to get protection before it crumbles, they know whats coming. Next Cyberpunk main theme probably is going to get a lot more different and interesting, a meeting between the paranormal and the digital

Maximum Mike, Art Bell. :D oh, this is fantastic.

I love this. I run the table top rpg Cyberpunk Red. It's set in 2045 and this lore matches up with a few of my homebrew ideas. Lol.

The amount of plot available is quite something XD we can expect lots of nice night city storie in the future :3

I love this! I am also very relaxed now.🤔

I love the cheeky little nod to the Not well known game of cyber generation in here too, also written by Pondsmith another alt time line hwee the carbon plague as it were was -much- more prolic and -all- the Adults were gone. Good stuff, little goofy but a fun romp.

danka chumz... got tired ov sitting in an ally listening to the same 3 songs and hopeing for a new story update on the news.

I wonder if this friend Maximum Mike is talking about is, in fact, Spider Murphy?

Mike: *My source is that I made it the fuck up.*

This isn’t even part of the dystopia. That’s just a thing America has. Basically every city and the surrounding area has at least one political conspiracy radio station. Usually a few more. It’s actually kind of impressive just how omnipresent they are.

The talk about cyberpychosis and the black wall leak makes me think of Maine before that thing happened.

Every bit of corporate exploitation makes me understand a little more why Johnny nuked Night City

Mike pondsmirh needs to start a podcast

I can listen to Mike talk lore all day

Fun fact Johnny silverhand is shown to be able to speak Japanese in cyberpunk red Yet another detail of lore lost to cdpr getting a star actor to replace Johnny silverhand mid production

I love the game, I love mike's game, I like the anime, jesus christ dude ... I like everything that has to do with this universe. No preference. It's all amazing.

I always wanted a gig where you interview with Maximum Mike and do just as he asks "Johnny, if you're still out there, why don't you tell us what happened?"

I had never heard mike pond smith before this and I was genuinely surprised to learn it wasn’t a VA

Brilliant ❣️👍

16:45 to 19:00 is literally Lucy's life story.

I only know of Cyberpunk because of 2077 and so much of this was something I just took for granted. Why are the hacks called daemons? I don’t know. Maybe they just wanted a cool name? Then this videos just like, “maybe they’re actual fucking demons.” Oh. So many things I just genuinely did not think about.

this is what i listen to at night to help me sleep lol. this is my ASMR

The lore of this world just blows me away. Did pondsmitb write it all?

Why am I just now hearing this?! I'd love for this to be intercut with ads, and music used in 2077, but that's just me

I had no idea Mike pondsmith did the voice for this station but it makes sense. He's a great radio host tbh...

Mike definitely listened to Art Bell back when he was around. Miss him.

It sounds like listening to a mid 90s episode of Art Bell and i love it!

this guy sounds eerily like Boxing Legends TV's narrator

" the black wall sings in aramaic" NGE halleulujah apocalypse vibes intensify

I could listen to hours of this

Mike Pondsmith... best radio voice of all table top game designers.

Mike: I'm protected. They're never going to lay a hand on me. Would be hilarious if they tied this into the story about a corp hiring us to take Max Mike down, only to reveal he's actually Morgan Blackhand, which is one of Mike Pondsmith's player characters.

I was listening to this in game and realised that one of the conspiracies he references is involving Corpo V's intro

Funny we have a rock named Morro rock in my town of Morro bay

17:48 Pretty cool easter egg of the CyberGeneration source book.

this guy, three dog and mister new vegas having a conversation would be legendary

14:50 Well we know those listeners are wrong about Bartmoss at least. 37:33 Mike's right. Whoever in Marketing managed that is a certified genius.

Max Motherfuckin Mike tells it how it is maaaaan

I was sort of hoping for someone like Lazarus

man this reminds me of listening to Art Bell on the AM as a kid

I wonder if when someone buys a boat & disappears after the first payment & stops paying if the yacht company hires a detective/bounty hunter pirate person to track them down to resume payment.

12:50 .... Huh ... Based Mike

I would love a dip into Shadowrun territory

I really wish that someone would make something like this but under this premise. Zombie apocalypse survivor starts a late night radio show; just telling stories and talking late into the night, not even sure if anyone can hear him - but still he talks. He keeps going because he hopes that his voice helps some survivors not feel quite so lonely, and it gives him something to live for. With that mid-2000s radio sound, just someone to keep you company through the dark and dangerous nights. Alan Wake almost has something like this but I haven't quite found something to scratch that itch! I love listening to this as I fall asleep though. I also put on a thunderstorm/rain loop to really give it a nice atmospheric feeling as I go to sleep.

Wish I had a regular paranormal/conspiracy podcast like this in real life

I thought this was Rick hunter at first

Saburo using a ‘Sarcophagus’ to stay alive is deff a nod to Stargate SG1. Has to be.