
A Life Well Wasted
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Robert Ashley catches up with a former guest of the show, gets some layoff numbers from the current downturn in the games industry, and talks to several developers who worked on what might be the biggest flop in video...


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Hosted by Robert Ashley · leisure · EN-US
A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA Life Well Wasted is hosted by Robert Ashley. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Game Over" (4 September 2025, 65 minutes), "Memory" (12 December 2022, 60 minutes), and "Work" (20 March 2013, 65 minutes).
A Life Well Wasted publishes roughly irregularly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for A Life Well Wasted is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. A Life Well Wasted requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. A Life Well Wasted's contact route on record: verified email.
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Robert Ashley hosts A Life Well Wasted, a leisure podcast with 13 episodes published.
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A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley catches up with a former guest of the show, gets some layoff numbers from the current downturn in the games industry, and talks to several developers who worked on what might be the biggest flop in video...

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley finds out what it takes to speedrun games in a blindfold, visits a museum in Moscow dedicated to Soviet-era arcade machines, and talks to a group of friends about a childhood summer spent dreaming up a...

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley talks to a developer at a big game studio about his strange trip from blue collar work to video game work, gets a lesson in work ethic from legendary game designer John Romero, finds out what can happen...

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley returns from the mysterious deep with another musical offering that won't satisfy your desire for more episodes of A Life Well Wasted, but might hold you off for a while longer.

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley checks in with you to see how you've been. Oh, did you hear that he has a new album coming out? Want to hear it?

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley edits listener-submitted game ideas into one big, crazy game, talks to the guy who owns the rights to Tetris about his plans to save the world, gets a lecture on the future of games from a New York...

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley helps people in videogames instead of helping people in real life, meets a comedy group who spend hundreds of hours every year playing the most boring videogame ever created, talks to a guy who quit...

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley visits a cosplay enthusiast, talks to the founder of an art show about videogames, discovers the strange world of fan fiction radio plays, and profiles a self-taught computer chip designer racecar...

A Life Well Wasted
Listeners tell stories about why they play videogames.

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley wonders why he spends his free time playing videogames, asks random people on the street about it, talks to a researcher whose work attempts to harness the brain power wasted on gaming, gets to know an...

A Life Well Wasted
Pretty much the opposite of A Life Well Wasted, this is the unedited, full interview with Stanford University gaming curator Henry Lowood, as partly heard in Episode 2.

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley explores the world of collectors and archivists, visiting a massive underground collection of videogames, a vintage pinball museum, and a program at Stanford University that hopes to save the history of...

A Life Well Wasted
Robert Ashley talks to former Electronic Gaming Monthly writers and editors about their experiences at the long running magazine.
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