In this one, Rachel and Jeff discuss the war in Ukraine, white supremacy, and how frustrating it can be to understand the news.

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Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

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Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

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Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ?

Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

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By Rachel's Book! Midsummer Night’s Dream Illustrated Handbook & Encyclopedia by R.K. Aanstad

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Twitter and COVID

Ukrainian Nazis and NATO

Venezuela

Maduro

Joanna Hausmann Jatar

Wordle

Putin

white supremacy

kicking down sand castles

Israel and Palestine

NATO vs Russia

worm persons

Twelfth Night

Sir Robert Carey mysteries

Big Squid with Justin Hamilton

Rachel and Jeff discuss Ukraine, favorite movie villains, and the sexual flowering of the Seventies.

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Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

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Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

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Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

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Shangri-La

we celebrate our alternative history

Rachel doesn't want robots to love us

Maleficent

Angelina Jolie

The Wicked WItch

Wizard of Oz

Alice in Wonderland

The Caterpillar

Baron Harkonen

Anthony Hopkins

Hannibal Lecter

Khan Noonien Singh

PF Chisholm

A Famine of Horses

homophobia

obscenity defined

The Legend of Vox Machina

sexual flowering

pornographic fiction

Fiona Apple

Fiona Hill

Putin

Ukraine

Kim Jong Un

Next thing you know, they're in France

All About You Ess

Would I Lie to You?

Quite Interesting

Stephen Frye

Sandy Toksvig

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

Starfox Adventures

Overdue Podcast

Star Trek: Discovery

The Death of the Necromancer

Martha Wells

In this episode we discuss the wrapup of the Ottawa convoy, the difference between conservatives and progressives, the silliness of NFTs, and more!

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Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

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Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

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Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

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Ottawa truckers convoy

new disease is COVID?

Illuminatus Trilogy

Robert Anton Wilson

too many conspiracies

the left is organized?

the right wants to go back, progressives want to go forward

a “nice” person wont change everything

we’re dealing with space and they’re dealing with time

NFT wallet gets raided

the Federal Reserve is an illusion

we are all Wile E Coyote

China refused to audit during the real estate crash

will crypto take us over the edge?

a different form of gambling

19th and 20th century means of dealing with money

occupiers were streaming, looking for fame

Abby Hoffman’s absurd tactics

Canada

Walter Benjamin

Image in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Henry Jenkins of MIT

Ronald Reagan

Donald Trump

weaponized bouncey houses and inflatable castles

the very worst invasion of a music festival

Queen Elizabeth touring noble castles

Game of Thrones

NFTs and crypto being pushed hard by celebrities

Matt Damon

Jimmy Fallon

Paris Hilton

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm

shows that show people at their worst

Seinfeld

Tina Fey’s meanness

Tinder

we will not discuss specific dating incidents

the addiction of swiping people

Jeff’s eggs are drying up

the old system of dinner and a movie

homelessness in Tacoma

The Tacoma Weekly

is crime really on the rise?

talking about spaces

homelessness

going back to a better time

Ronald Reagan

Sweden

changing the language

science fiction is future focused

glossary for the Twelfth Night book

comic sans is good for writing

Gamemaster’s Guide to Worldbuilding by James D’Amato

Shattered Worlds RPG: Return of the Defiler

imagine medical care

assisted reality?

light up nanobots

sex chemicals?

butterflies?

pollen!

a garden for your nanopollen

diagnostic butterflies

rest home cats

cancer sniffing dogs

healing honey!

sciatica honey

The BBC

Would I Lie To You?

The IT Crowd

Doc Martin

Sigourney Weaver

King’s Books

Star Trek Adventures RPG

Twelfth Night Illustrated Handbook & Encyclopedia

Midsummer Night’s Dream Illustrated Handbook & Encyclopedia

The Tower of Justice

In this episode, we discuss the Ottawa convoy mess, Valentine's Day (barely), conspiracies in history, and the racist English.

We are:

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

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Shattered Worlds RPG

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childhood god shit

corrupt churches

Dragonlance

food talk

honk honk convoy

Ottawa truckers

Valentine’s Day!

Black Lives Matter

Joe Rogan

Naomi Klein

Disaster Capitalism

company towns

Mel Gibson

feudalism

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

James Earl Ray

The FBI

plausible deniability

I’m Sorry, Canada

Justin Trudeau

Joe Biden

Doug Ford

Trump

January 6th

Dave Anthony

Hillary Clinton

why are the English so racist?

Noel Fielding

The Mighty Boosh

blackface

Beyonce

The IT Crowd

The Father Brown Mysteries

Tamara Ann Alba

Clint Eastwood

How We Remain by Harry Turtledove

Reply Guys

Jeff and Rachel talk Ottawa truckers, the etymology of "In Like Flynn", how low the Democrats' bar has become, and more!

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Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

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Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

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Rachel’s older than Tron

Ottawa truckers

what are legitimate protest tactics?

don’t persecute the working person

Portland is used to a**holes

racial angle on protest

who can walk through

changing podcast hosts

Cliven Bundy

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Black Lives Matter crackdowns

who do the cops protect?

tons of wood

John McCain a sociopath?

There Is No…God?

hypocritical Democrats

How Low Is the Bar, Democrats?

Spotify gets weird

Rachel doesn’t like Marc Maron

Jesse Thorn

Eddie Murphy schools David Letterman

Another Classic Jeff Richardson Rant™

Maddow’s Slow Slide Into *sigh*

From Smartest Person to Biggest Liar

Jeff goes on a beeping spree

Jeff’s coworkers stick it to management

Jeff, the Worst Spy

President Duddy and the Delivery Service

Rachel’s Birthday!

Rachel eulogizes her grandma

Hillary Clinton

six seconds of silence

A Freudian Gulp

A Cough of Loss

Jeff’s dad was supportive, but…

Who Am I Making Things For?

I Guess We’ve Done Enough Damage Today

Critical Role

Vox Machina

Wizards of the Coast

Forgotten Realms

This Is Not Rational

Nerd Poker

Dan Telfer

Talking Heads

What We Do In the Shadows

Matt Mercer

The Best Two Listeners On the Planet™

You Two Are Great

Darling Buds of May

IT Crowd

Slings and Arrows

Larkin

Why redo the perfect show?

Great British Bake-Off

Tim Power’s Expiration Date

In this episode, Jeff chats with special guests Andrew and Ben of the hit podcast, Voyenture Time! We discuss mitochondria, religion in media, cross-species animal sex, and more!

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Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

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Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

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Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

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Jeff’s medical business

Party horns

Rachel’s new book comes out

Jeff’s book is with the editor

editing is 90 percent of writing

John Swartzwelder

the meatpocalypse

more pics of steamy meat

Ben’s grandma’s birthday

how to talk to Andrew

what is Voyenture Time?

Andrew vamps

Mister Rogers and Jeff have catheters

Dad’s flipflops

outside shoes?

Virginia is all swamp

Tacoma’s toxic dirt

what is dirt?

Andrew ruins everything

your heart is a strip of folded muscle

bodies are amazing

mitochondrial DNA is original sin

Chloroplast!

Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary

what it takes to make Voyenture Time coherent

Star Trek: Voyager

Before and After

Kes’s reverse aging

the Ocampan genome is super powerful

Robert Heinlein’s incest kink

cross-species animal sex

Zeus hooked up with animals

greek gods as early Avengers

religious conquest and syncretism

Crypto Christian stuff

Quakers are pretty chill

why don’t tv shows do more with religion?

the most problematic Voyager episode

the narrow range of acceptable religious stories

Towing Jehovah by James Morrow

Star Trek: Discovery

Adventure Time

Priest Princess

Steven Universe

Weird Fiction

SCP

BMO

How the Voyenture Time crew met

My Brother, My Brother, and Me

Destiny 2

MBMBAMbinos Podcasters Facebook group

hurricanes and earthquakes

pee clean enough for Mountain Dew

gingerbread Mountain Dew?

Jake the Dog throwing a snowball at Neelix

Andrew’s friend fiction

erotic DMV, post office

Maya Angelou

Georgia O’Keefe’s vagina flowers

is podcasting journalism?

Andrew’s budding children

William Riker becomes two dudes

what’s Data packing down there?

Dana’s multipurpose jobby

Future’s End, Parts 1 & 2

Sarah Silverman

Ed Begley, Jr.

Elon Musk

chayst or chast?

Star Trek: The Next Generation

B’elanna Torres talkin nasty with Chakotay

scifi mostly tells you what’s happening now

the death of the author

in art there’s no success or failure

Adventure Time is really good at editing

Yellowjackets

Forza Horizon 5

drivingfast.net

X-Men

One Piece

Hellboy

Mike Mignola

The Silent Sea

The Terror

Jared Harris

Voyenture Time, LLC

mobile tattoo artists

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Handbook and Encyclopedia

a salacious turn of phrase

Nate and Allison are great

We talk about capitalism, cults, weird elderly creeps in charge, civil war, charisma, cave raves, Christianity, and more!

We are:

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

Listen to our other shows:

Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

Actually Autistic

Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ?

Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

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Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Mars

Biden’s Low Bar

They Obviously Don’t Care

D.C.’s Weird Drugs

When Does a Civil War Begin?

I’m Always Talkin About Cults

powerful people ascribing supernatural abilities to unearned power

Donald J Trump, Never Good at Anything

An Uncurious A**hole

Some People Dig Evil

Impressed By the Big Man

We Work

Capitalism Needs Cults

Charisma As a Weapon

The Right To Be Recognized

It’s the Matrix Cave Rave

A Mental Flashmob

It’s a Love Chain

Brain Is Really Cookin

The People With the Most Clout

Demons Were Aliens

God Is Fake But the Force Is Real

A Big Turbo Boost of Love

They Also Have Wings!

We Are the Fatted Calfs

Join Our Ant Raft, Baby

In this episode, we talk about Rachel's new book, wealthy peoples' superstitions, sounds in the Middle Ages, and more!

We are:

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

Listen to our other shows:

Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

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Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ?

Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

Intro and Outro: "Detectives" by The Glass Notes ©️2012, under license

Midsummer Night’s Dream Illustrated Handbook & Encyclopedia by R.K. Aanstad

we go through it

Doc Martin

Steven Universe

Adventure Time

Washing dishes

Cadphile

Harlan Coben

Safe

Gone For Good

The Expanse

The Great British Baking Show

The LeBlanc Mysteries

What matters vacation?

Aleister Crowley

Jimmy Page

That Shakespeare Life

Wadi Wachtel

Show business and women

everybody was singing back in the day

spinning thread

stone chiseling

so many birds

vermin everywhere

Briar Rose

Only Begotten Daughter

In this episode, we talk about Don’t Look Up, Omicron, and Rachel’s wonderful news!

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Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma

Rachel Aanstad

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Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

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Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

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Adam McKay

The Big Short

Don’t Look Up

real estate woes in the housing crisis

Cassandra and the fall of Troy

the trap of confirmation bias

economists getting together

Rachel poops on her dad’s solution

humans beings tend toward corruption

So Many Sachsers

Obama’s heel turn

Adam McKay kept rewriting the script due to the pandemic

“the CDC recommends” tweets

allistics more into assurance of community, autistics more into self preservation

being super into things seen as a status claim

not many autistics are vaccine deniers?

we’re surrounded by nincompoops

why are parents sending their kids back to school?

Cate Blanchett

Leonardo DiCaprio

Network

Matrix Resurrections

Rachel’s book is coming out!

Rachel needs ricotta

Jeff faces character death

maybe Jeff should pretend he made it

Song of Ice and Fire

Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

Doc Martin

Craig Ferguson

Saving Grace

Northern Exposure

In this episode, Rachel and Jeff tackle homophobia in 70's TV, MTV's Remote Control, nanoswarms that share your genetic information with friends, and more!

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fake meat food experiment

christmas traditions

Cameron’s birthday

baking

the gift of saying nah

omicron and long covid

possible political fallout

30 Rock

Anthropological investigations

Baking Impossible

Rockford Files

homophobia on TV

masculinity in Elizabethan times

the risk of displaying femininity

going back to discover the media that shaped you

Nakanee Monique

MTV’s Remote Control

Collin Quinn

Pauly Shore

remote controls for everything

Nick at Nite

Leave It to Beaver

Twilight Zone

Defender of the Crown

Nobunaga’s Ambition

NES

Nintendo 64

Gamecube

Ha! channel

Comedy Central

dungeonpunk fashion

something that hovers over your head

real and virtual

it’s like a nanoswarm

genetic history

pictures of the clan

its mandatory!

a part of their swarm goes to your swarm

the benefit of wearing old clothes

having to deal with the giantcorp

Monopolies, whoop-de-doo