We're doing our first book club of 2025 and are ready for some love and flirty letters! We read 2019's 'This Is How You Lose the Time War’ by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Conversation starts around 24:20. Before then, we check in on what we’ve been Playing, watching, and thinking about lately.

Playing:

Tchia (PS5)

Coffee Talk 2: Butterfly & Hibiscus (PS5)

FFVII Rebirth (PS5)

Watching:

Severance Season 2 (Apple TV+)

Deep Space Discounts (DeepBlueInk)

Dungeons & Drag Queens Season 2 (Dropout)

Thinking About:

Rosie Tucker

Ethel Cain

Quick, Relevant Sentences

Switch 2

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It’s 2025! And that means our 2024 Backlog Challenge is officially over. Listen in to hear what and how we did! Conversation starts around 25:50. Before then, we check in on what we’ve been reading, watching, and thinking about lately.

Reading:

‘My Best Friend’s Exorcism’ by Grady Hendrix

‘The Invisible Kingdom’ by Meghan O’Rourke

Watching:

Severance (Apple TV+)

Silo (Apple TV+)

Man on the Inside (Netflix)

Thinking About:

Movies & Going to Theaters!

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It’s a book club episode! And this December, we’re picking up where we left off last December, because this month we read Rough Pages by Lev A. C. Rosen, the third book in Rosen’s Evander Mills mystery series. But before we return to 1950s San Francisco, we talk about what we’ve been playing, watching, and thinking about lately!

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The end of 2024 is just around the corner, which means it's time to highlight some of our favorite books, video games, and other media from this past year. But of course, before we do that, we check in on some things we've been playing, reading, and thinking about.

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We read the queer zombie novel "The Z Word" by Lindsay King-Miller! Conversation around this campy, yet thought-provoking story starts around 31:50. Before all that we check in on what we've been playing, watching, and thinking about lately .

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Food is good we want to talk about it! To help us do that, we came up with three video-game-food-related questions. Main course starts around 24:00. Before then, we check in on some things we've been reading, watching, and thinking about!

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Halloween is coming up, so Doug picked a novella he heard was scary... but it was mostly really gross! A flesh-eating mermaid, a gentle plague doctors, and a suspicious town with tons of children but only three adults. Discussion begins at ~19:00. Of course, before we get bloody, we check in on the stuff we've been playing, watching, and thinking about.

Playing:

• Gravity Rush (PSP)
• Final Fantasy VII (Switch)
• Berry People (Steam)

Watching:

• The Wild Robot (in theaters)
• A Different Man (in theaters)
• The Substance (in theaters)

Thinking About:

• Non-horror Halloween movies

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It's our 100th episode, and Vicki's back to celebrate with us! And what better way to celebrate 100 episodes—and with Vicki specifically!—than to talk about Platinum trophies and achieving that deeply satisfying 100%. And of course, before we get into all that, we check in on some things we've been reading, watching, listening to, and thinking about!

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Afraid of AI taking over? Maybe don't read this book? Or do to prepare! We read 'Robopocalypse' by Daniel H. Wilson. Discussion begins ~18:00. Before that, we check in on some things we've been playing and watching.

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Very short video games are very nice. This episode, we talk about cool games that are less than 5 hours! Discussion starts around 27:10. Before we get into it, we check in on things we've been reading, watching, and thinking about!

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