RumbleFic: The Realtime Fiction Podcast

Inter-species sex scenes! Conspiracy theories! Sub-par fantasy series! And "The Tick" TV series we've been waiting for! (Thanks, Amazon Prime!) We talk about all this and more this week - and that's all before Story Time!

00:07:19 - Tito's dearth of enthusiasm for the Stormlight Archive!

00:23:55 - Lach's thoughts on Amazon's "The Tick"!

00:41:05 - Lach's story seed, a puzzle-solving techno-thriller that makes Tito uncomfortable!

01:09:26 - Recap time!

01:14:15 - Ideal medium!

Is it political? Is it a thriller? Is it dyed-ion-the-wool Australian? All of the above this week!

Also mentioned: turning Japanese, "War and Peace" (naturally), "A Serbian Film", "Happy", and "Venture Bros."!

00:12:27 - Lach talks "Happy!"

00:20:15 - More War and Peace!

00:16:04 - Tito talks "Venture Bros."!

00:31:18 - Tito's story seed!

01:02:25:04 - Recap time!

01:12:31 - Ideal medium

Another left-turn this week as Tito takes a leave of absence and Lach and Jake come at you from Hell itself! We get deep in chat (Prejudice! Abortion! Writing!), get down on Jurassic World, and get funny with a story seed for a pro-drugs comedy!

00:04:47 - Are you allowed to say bad words?

00:33:54 - Jake's writing process

00:43:11 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom sucks

00:47:53 - Lach's story seed: kids, drugs, saving the planet

00:51:25 - Time to make a story!

01:29:59 - Recap time!

It's a crossover fiction kind of week as Tito and Lach go hard and heavy into a supernatural (dare we say Lovecraftian?) Sherlock Holmes pastiche featuring intrepid travelers, a disappearing town, and gigantic insects!

00:11:48 - Ever lost your temper with a waiter?

00:21:42 - The sciencey reason people have to be right all the time.

01:00:31 - Lach's story seed - like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but Down Under!

01:24:20 - Recap

01:32:48 - Ideal Medium

This week Lach and Tito set sail, dive deep and get naughtily nautical as Tito's story seed takes them onto the deck of a gripping thriller set aboard a luxury super-yacht!

 00:01:54 - French people will LOVE this!

00:04:13 - More "War & Peace", y'all!

00:18:23 - Tito's Penance! (Kill your darlings, darling.)

00:29:42 - Tito's story seed!

00:32:05 - Time to make a story!

01:09:18 - Recap time!

It's a three's-a-party kind of ep this week, as Lach, Jake and Tito riff on Leopold the Second, natural selection, philosophy versus science, and the brilliant Netflix series "Happy"!

Then, guess what? Story time! It's Lach's turn this week, and he tables the seed of a religious allegory exploring the morality of the creator's responsibility over his creation. (Deep, yo.) Also: lots of Elon Musk jokes!

It's Lach and Tito back in the hot seat this week for inspiring introductions, Francis Ford Coppolla love-ins, and a crackling picture book full of rat-catchers, talking dogs and nightmarish Lovecraftian monstrosities!

00:03:24 - Lach's brazen adoration of the movie "Independence Day"

00:04:58 - Tito's unbashful love of the film "The Godfather"

00:36:12 - Tito's story seed

00:37:50 - Time to build a story!

01:02:20 - "We need to do the recap."

It's all Jake and Lach again as they dive into creepy kids' shows, the latest Aussie body horror flick "Upgrade", and this week's story seed (courtesy of Mr Moss): a touching, high-octane zombie apocalypse father-and-son drama!

Aren't all kids' shows creepy? - 00:00:25

Let's talk about "Upgrade" - 00:07:51

Challenge me with your story seed, Jake - 00:25:37

Time to make a story! - 00:27:51

Let's talk Ideal Medium - 00:54:58

Lach and Jake fly solo in this gloriously off-the-wall episode that touches on the importance of judicious honesty, civil rights, the new Star Wars film Solo, and dicks! Lotsa dicks!

Plus, Lach tables a heartwarming story seed concerning bigotry and same-sex marriage! Oh, you know you want it...

00:03:32 - Lach and Jake discuss Solo: A Star Wars Story

00:15:27 - Lach's Penance!

00:39:56 - Lach's  story idea!

00:47:16 - Time to build a story!

01:08:00 - Let's talk Ideal Medium

00:06:12 - Introducing Jake Connor Moss!

00:09:07 - The "Secret Hitler" board game

00:14:59 - Platypuses? Platypii? Or something else?

00:19:46 - Jake talks Judd Apatow's funny book

00:22:53 - How does Lach's fear of success manifest?

00:32:33 - Tito discusses Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

00:37:41 - Lach's Matthew McConoughey impression

00:44:49 - Jake's story seed

00:47:00 - Time to build a story!

01:03:30 - Lach gets surly!

01:42:23 - Recap time!