The Icosahedron Podcast

This week we start with a special guest that Jose has invited: Seattle Sounders fan, California transplant and Twitter curmudgeon Mark Kastner. He tells us an epic story about the time his family won the lottery. Then Kate delves into the seedy underbelly of fan fiction, which features, oddly, your Seattle Mariners. Ian explores what it means to be lucky and finds that sometimes surviving is enough. Finally, Mike explains why you should vote for Donald Trump, and everyone kind of loses, really. Mark's lottery story: 3:14, Kate's fan fiction: 36.30, Ian's potato: 59:30, Mike's incoherent Trump endorsement: 1:16:14

Games [6:13] Mike attempts to learn how to play video games. Laugh at his incompetence! The Pitch [28:57] Ian investigates the best practices of bank, art and jewel thievery. Youthful Indiscretions [54:12] Have you ever wanted to visit a biblical theme park? Kate has, and it's not what you might expect. Sports [1:16:33] Seahawks! Mariners! Sounders! Husky hoops! We run down the week's sporting news.

1. Science Cats (Mike) 2. Two Croissants (Ian) 3. Hitler/Bread Phone (Kate and Ian) 4. Sounders Roundtable 5. Tiny Psychic (Mike) 6. Hoaxes (Kate) 7. Cockney Slang (deleted scene with James) 8. Learning Spanish (Jose)

Intro – How do you uncover a Seattle Sounders trade rumor? Youthful Indiscretions (7:03) – Ian discusses his brief baseball career History (25:04) – Kate details history's greatest hoaxes Art (52:30) – Jose uncovers the origins of graffiti in New York Film & TV (1:15:34) – Mike and the gang discuss the first season of Jessica Jones

This week: A familiar voice joins us to talk about the pros and cons of having a British accent here in the States, and takes us on a audio tour of England's various dialects. Kate examines the perils of using sarcasm on the internet and ask whether a sarcasm font might actually be useful. Plus, Jose talks about deciding to learn Spanish and Mike explores the strange history of GLOW: The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

This week: The very first Halloween episode of the Icosahedron Podcast ... WILL LITERALLY SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU.

This week, Jose discovers the world of indie board games and RPGs, Mike asks the gang about their first/best/worst concert experiences, Ian explains what it's like to live and work in Antarctica and Kate tries to decide whether we've all been duped into liking a shitty impressionist painter.

Contained herein: A discussion about the ass-blood left behind after an invasive butt procedure, Ian's breakdown of the inscrutable world of cricket, why Jose is completely and utterly wrong about the pronunciation of "GIF," Kate's continued references to Nazis and her take-down of the ridiculous Victorian couple from Port Townsend and, to end on a real upbeat note, Mike's decision to quit boozing.

This week: With several Sounders absent for the international break, Mike and the gang discuss why Americans like playoffs so much; Kate goes on a search for folk art in West Seattle; Ian ponders the authorship of Shakespeare's work; and Jose nerds out on 8-bit pop songs

This week: Jose asks us what we'd each do with $10 million, Mike shares a misadventure in the Hollywood screen trade, Ian harks back to the days of finding pornography on teh ground, & Kate gives us an audio pop quiz featuring some incredible foreign-language covers of pop songs. Plus, listener questions. We still have listeners!