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Prince with Kyle Olson and Pete Wright
Episode 100
Here’s a fun fact about Prince Rogers Nelson: that wasn’t a stage name. Prince was his actual, legal, on-the-birth-certificate first name. Once you a…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Sensual Creatures: Vampires, Frilly Shirts, and Interview with a Vampire with Jonny Lee Jr.
Episode 99
Vampires, as a concept, should not work. They are dead. They are allergic to weather. Their entire dating strategy is "what if I bit you." And yet — …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Shoot Again! Talking Pinball with Clark Hill
Episode 97
Pinball looks like two buttons and a ball. It is not two buttons and a ball. It is a 300-pound machine with layered rules, competitive leagues, wrist…
5 months ago
The Truth is RIGHT HERE: X-Files with Chelsea Stardust
Episode 98
The X-Files is, technically, a show about two FBI agents investigating extraterrestrial activity, government conspiracy, and the unexplained — which …
5 months, 1 week ago
Watch Me Fly… Serenity with Krissy Lenz
Episode 96
Here is a fact about Firefly, which is to say the beloved Joss Whedon space western that aired on Fox in 2002: the network, in its infinite wisdom, d…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
No Time To Play… Ender’s Game with Erica Cochran
Episode 95
Mandy Kaplan has been handed a Hugo-winning, Nebula-winning, Mormon-authored military sci-fi classic about a six-year-old being psychologically tortu…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
One For The Kids: Battle Royale with Jimmy Aquino
Episode 94
Mandy Kaplan has thoughts about 42 Japanese ninth-graders being forced to murder each other on a deserted island, and honestly, who among us doesn't?…
6 months ago
Moon Prism Power, Make Me a Gorgeous Podcaster: Sailor Moon with Jonny Lee Jr.
Episode 93
Sailor Moon was a cartoon made for five-year-old Japanese girls. It aired in America at 6 AM, required an eight-year-old Jonny Lee Jr. to set his ala…
6 months, 1 week ago
From Basement Nerds to Amazon Prime: The Improbable (and Inevitable) Rise of Vox Machina with Hem Brewster
Episode 92
What do you get when you take eight adult friends — all professional voice actors — who've been playing a home D&D game for years and decide, on a la…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Movie Friends Michelle Rubinstein and Seth Vargas on the Strange Legacy of Ed Wood
Episode 91
Here is a fun fact about the worst movie ever made: it was declared the worst movie ever made by people who hadn’t seen it. In 1980, the Medved broth…
6 months, 3 weeks ago