ScrubMode

By Julio Adan Villanueva

We're ScrubMode, a podcast about gaming, monsters and the intersection there of. Join us bi-weekly as we talk about monsters "real" and imagined, and poke fun at the goofier aspects of the paranormal ... more

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June 14, 2024Gargoyles and Ghosts
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This week we have some paranormal hot goss for you (at least at time of recording). Then we're talking about gargoyles and their weird path from hyper-local french dragon to DnD monster. We also talk about ghosts. Are these spooks really universal? Also the oldest haunted house story ever recorded, and it's weird connection to Red Lobster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle_(monster)

https://ascholarlyskater.com/2013/12/02/la-gargouille-the-evil-dragon-gargoyle-of-rouen/

https://lainhart.medium.com/legend-of-the-gargoyle-5c30e063a37f

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Gargoyle

https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20211253

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70288/pg70288-images.html

https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12476/shakespeare-in-the-bush

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/725072?turn_away=true
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59min
May 31, 2024 We Finally Watch the DND Movie
The three of us finally talk about the DnD movie, and what we thought about it.

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1h 8min
May 17, 2024 SMOKE VALLEY
In this special episode we play-test a TTRPG system made by Julio. Thanks to Jesse Sanders for making our music.
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1h 17min
May 03, 2024 Flumphs and Such
We have a jam packed episode ready for you. We talk about the new and unsurprising government report on UFOs before jumping to Flumphs, either the best or worst monster in DnD depending on how cool you are. We pair them with some of the dumbest but most beloved cryptids ever to spookily creep across the screen of a dusty old CRT TV: Rods and Fresno Nightcrawlers. Then we try to talk about Fomorians in DnD and Irish Myth before we pour one out for Dragon Ball Mangaka Akira Toriyama. Plus, Gundam, 2003 condensed down to its purest form, and is your cat's butthole haunted?!
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1h 3min
April 19, 2024 [Insert Sponsor Here] Sponsor Us!
Talking about Julio's interests leads us down some bummer rabbit holes, plus talking about fast food!

Thanks to Jesse Sanders for making our music, @jseonthebeat

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1h 5min
April 05, 2024"IRL" Super-Soldiers with Tim Baksh
We're joined again by Tim Baksh to talk about something really unhinged: "real life" super soldiers. Thrill as we discuss claims of outer space heroism, alien alliances, Reptoid fighter pilot school, space Infidelity, and several plot points clearly borrowed from popular sci-fi franchises!

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Sources
https://www.wired.com/2012/01/obama-mars/

https://evelorgen.com/

https://evelorgen.com/wp/news/whistleblower-randy-cramer-tells-about-secret-military-operations-on-mars/

https://formspal.com/surfingtheapocalypse/

https://spacecapn.com/pendragon/

https://books.google.com/books?id=z7YSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7eky8/pentagon-scientists-discuss-cybernetic-super-soldiers-that-feel-nothing-while-killing-in-dystopian-presentation?utm_source=vicenewstwitter

https://sm4csi.home.xs4all.nl/nwo/MindControl/project_superman.htm

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/04/09/richardson-police-arrest-man-for-murder-of-college-acquaintance/
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1h 11min
March 22, 2024Dragon Turtles and Elementals
Today we talk about dragon turtles, various sea monsters pretending to be islands and elementals. Yes, all elementals. Then we dip into the elemental theory of alchemy, and we promise, it makes just as much sense as anything else in alchemy! We also discuss Disney movies, pig milk, and plague king Johnny Boss/Ianibeg.
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Sources
https://archive.org/details/fourtreatisesoft00para/page/n17/mode/2up

https://abookofcreatures.com/2019/08/16/aspidochelone/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidochelone

Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, book 9, ch. 4 (Latin)

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667228/ (the original document!)

https://www.getty.edu/education/kids_families/do_at_home/artscoops/sea_creature.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element

Treatises of Theophrastus von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 213–254. ISBN 0-8018-5523-3.

Seeber, Edward D. (1944). "Sylphs and Other Elemental Beings in French Literature since Le Comte de Gabalis (1670)". PMLA. 59 (1): 71–83. doi:10.2307/458845. JSTOR 458845. S2CID 163381869.

https://www.scribd.com/document/662798793/A-Book-on-Nymphs-Sylphs-Pygmies-and-Salamanders-and-on-the-Other-Spirits-Paracelsus-Henry-E-Sigerist

Early Galeb Duhr art, our beloved.
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1h 8min
December 25, 2023 A Very ScrubMode Christmas
In this special holiday episode we're playing the game! Julio's tabletop system! We are joined by Lardonova! Follow him on twitch!
https://www.twitch.tv/lardonova
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52min
December 15, 2023Ettins and Empyreans
Today the trio is talking Ettins and Empyreans! It's a ride

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Sources
https://mauikayakadventures.com/maui/legends-of-maui/

https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/27619/maui-and-his-grandfather

https://www.tourmaui.com/blog/maui-demigod/

https://sacred-texts.com/pac/maui/maui08.htm

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ettin

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ettenmoors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Ettin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderdell

https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/magellan-strait/patgonian-giants.html

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-giants-of-patagonia/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/kap-dwa/

And of course, the 5th ed Monster Manual
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1h 5min
December 01, 2023 Julio and Ryan Talk Video Game Design
It's just Julio and Ryan in this one, and they're talking everything video games.
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1h 4min

FAQs about ScrubMode:

How many episodes does ScrubMode have?

The podcast currently has 101 episodes available.