In this one, Rachel and Jeff talk about editing their work, Christmas, Jeff's mom's birthday, and more!

We are:

Drill down in the details!

intellectual spell slots

The Editing Brain

Tamara Ann Alba

Robin Hoffman

Books That Burn

different ways of speaking

consistency

Do I Want That I in There?

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Not Cool, Will

Why You Gotta Be That Way, William?

Shattered Worlds RPG

No posts about current productions

The Bic Lighter

color roulette

Jeff’s ear news

Christmas tree update

The Biggest, Best Time of the Year™

Mom’s birthday

emotional gristle

weird therapy session

unsanitary weed practice

saying goodbye to Columbo

carpet and paint through the decades

30 Rock and bigotry

Bakineers

Doctor Who: Flux

In this one, Rachel and Jeff cover Rachel's tree-eating cat, defunct podcasts, character actors in Columbo, and more!

We are:

Christmas trees!

Rachel’s tree-eating cat

begging for free trees

a strange but very sweet kitty

standing and blood pressure

Rachel’s chronic fatigue improves by lying down

bibliographies

finishing projects

the curse and blessing of podcasting

defunct pods

King Me!

Liar City

Dan Gagliardi @dantendo64

Actually Autistic

Twelfth Night Podcast

The Turnaround

Jesse Thorn

the McElroy brothers

Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

Good Idea

Sinister Parent Company

Columbo report

character actors in Hollywood

Thanksgiving report

new clothes for our dungeonpunk world

symbiotic viral wings

a kiss that gives you wings

normies get mad when they see creatives doing their own thing

Evil of the Daleks

don’t get covid, people

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In this one, Jeff and Rachel discuss Thanksgiving, Columbo, magic in Elizabethan England, and more!

We are:

Talking Thanksgiving

A statement on the Puritans

freedom of religion

outlawing holidays

Fuck You, Listener!

what we’re grateful for

Jeff’s caffeine withdrawal

freaking out

crying at Doctor Who

Peter Forshaw

Lauren Kassel

Jonathan Sade

intellectual manliness

hard science and soft science

astrology and the weather

Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London

Simon Foreman’s Fuck Diary

hedgehog bracelets

Shattered Worlds starship combat

customizable nanobot lichen

a sublunar world

Columbo’s blue nightie of doom

the unlikelihood of a cop who cares who did it

Bob Landry

Warren Beatty

Jacque “Jack” C. West’

Cop fairy tales

Steven Spielberg

“Murder By the Book”

Bride of Frankenstein

Rachel played the Wicked Witch

Voyenture Time

Star Trek: Voyager

Adventure Time

Doctor Who: Verity!

Doctor Who: Flux

Star Trek: Discovery

Critical Role

green bean casserole

dinner rolls

In this one, Rachel and Jeff discuss getting angry at work, rhetoric, and the problems of history. Oh, and Columbo!

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

Drill down in the details:

the tribe of not understanding things

bugs falling out of pants

getting angry at work

feeling guilty for getting angry

anger is an important and useful emotion

the fear of being angry

the skill of arguing

Grandpa, master of deflection

rhetoric

the invention process

spotting logical fallacies

Marie Curie

Harriet Tubman

Shirley Chisholm

indigenous people and the colonizer narrative

the first magnet school in California

we called them by their first names

hunky math teacher

ivory tower eggheads

a flat earth society situation

zip code snobbery

gameifying rhetoric

Columbo

Terry Pratchett

In Our Time BBC goes way back

Mary Beard Roman Historian

In this one, Rachel and Jeff talk bad Shakespeare analysis, Original Practice exposed as a fiction, a strange poem by Jeff, 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

Drill down in the details:

men and women can both be terrible

complete hooey!

Original Practice mentor to pupil

English boarding schools preserved tradition

Latin and rhetoric

Rachel is told about libraries

J Store

Libgen

The Wolflorde and the Tortoise

Rachel’s Encyclopedia

wanting it to be really, really good

“I don’t want somebody to judge me the way that I’d judge them”

Columbo

David Lynch’s Dune

Knives Out - It’s the Coen Brothers

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

In this one, Rachel and Jeff discuss dating in the apocalypse, Elizabethan orgasms, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and more!

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Dating in the Apocalypse

repopulating the species

Apocalyptic Dating Fantasy Simulator™

bawdy definitions

cramming in butt jokes

withered dewlaps

naughty tailors

consensual adventures

Elizabethan orgasms

England melts its old gold

two reasons why the wealthy don’t care

wealthy people’s wack beliefs

forkin Bezos

What We Do In the Shadows

the eggshell incident

we create a punk world

The Ultimate RPG Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide by James D’Amato

the dangerous luxury is a custom worldview

troublesome smell situations

the machine is trying to please you

craftpunk

Gods and Influencers

Fahrenheit 451

Doctor Who

what’s all the fuss about Brad Pitt?

Entrapment

Married With Children Syndrome

Little House on the Prairie

Anne of Green Gables

Darling Buds of May

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Doctor Ruth documentary

In this one, Rachel and Jeff discuss Shakespearean dirty talk, the shooting death of a Hollywood DP, bullying in the workplace, and more!

We are:

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on twitter

Rachel Aanstad

Listen to our other shows:

Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

Actually Autistic

Everything is Awesome

Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

Drill down in the details:

Rachel has an argument on Facebook

shooting on a movie set

someone is to blame

can a group learn anything?

creative movie folks don't know when they'll work next

discussion of post apocalyptic survival

even nice people will exploit the weak and meek

people are desperate to have someone to step on

bullying in the workplace

the immune system of society

bees are dicks, flowers are pussies

nightwalkers are sex workers

con is a pun on c***

going medieval

Pippi Longstocking

Overdue Podcast

Don Quixote

What We Do in the Shadows

In this one, Rachel and Jeff tackle academia, Original Practice Shakespeare, smug Facebook mods, and more!

We are:

The definition of noob

Rachel was told she was too skinny before and now…

Early modern theatre

original practice

old time actors did rehearse!

smug superiority

academia and status

Shakespeare didn’t go to college

Elizabethan fairies

New fighters

Rachel’s novel

the dance macabre

electrified corpse

Antonio’s pirate ship

Shakespeare’s subconscious

Jewish people don’t lie for small stakes

Better Off Ted

nice bitchy villains

Jeff reads from his second novel, The Serpent’s Kiss

In this one, we discuss fashion in Elizabethan parliament, trash on academia, celebrate queer kids reclaiming Shakespeare, and more!

We are:

Jeff Richardson

@eljefetacoma on twitter

Rachel Aanstad

Shattered Worlds RPG

The War for the Tower

Actually Autistic

Everything is Awesome

Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

Drill down in the details!

Natural fools v allowed fools

rule of threes in comedy

fiction writing

Elliot Kalan of Flophouse

synaptic pruning

literary references covering up weak writing

Academia is bullshit

introduction of theory into academia

exponentially expanded the bullshit

1st class that analyzed plays through theory

Elizabethan paintings

bardolatry

midsummer nights dream? so overdone

queer kids claiming Shakespeare

Welsh fairy tales

green as leeks

Aristophones

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe

Moliere

Linnaeus made racism worse

tragedies were big money

Plutarch

Chaucer

J Store

Jeff’s close to end on book

Rachel’s encyclopedia is coming along

Jose Candido, Jeff’s friend

Jeff’s DND game: http://twitch.tv/wilstartwithme

Mod Toadie, fantasy character

Ken Jennings says something stupid

William Shatner in the penis rocket

In this episode Rachel and Jeff discuss Shakespeare, academia, Aristophanes, and more!

Jeff Richardson on Facebook

@eljefetacoma on twitter

Check out our website: http://awesomepod.squarespace.com

Listen to our other shows!

Shattered Worlds RPG

and check out the livestream: twitch.tv/shatteredsworldsrpg

The War for the Tower

Twelfth Night Podcast by Rose City Shakespeare

and coming eventually...

Electric Bard

Villain V Villain

Drill down into the details!

rule of threes in comedy

fiction writing

Elliot Kalan of Flophouse

synaptic pruning

literary references covering up weak writing

Academia is bullshit

introduction of theory into academia

exponentially expanded the bullshit

1st class that analyzed plays through theory

Elizabethan paintings

bardolatry

midsummer nights dream? so overdone

queer kids claiming Shakespeare

Welsh fairy tales

green as leeks

Aristophones

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe

Moliere

Linnaeus made racism worse

tragedies were big money

Plutarch

Chaucer

J Store

Jeff’s close to end on book

Rachel’s encyclopedia is coming along

Jose Candido, Jeff’s friend

Jeff’s DND game: http://twitch.tv/wilstartwithme

Mod Toadie, fantasy character

Ken Jennings says something stupid

William Shatner in the penis rocket