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This episode features a lot of colon sass, a chance of tetanus, ding dong ditch, some sneaking around, many distractions, and so much gambling.
Dragon Heist I, Part 3
Host Tony Sindelar with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Steve Lutz, and Tiff Arment.
Edited by Erika Ensign.
Zut alors! Ross Cleaver returns to discuss the totally historically accurate Asterix and Cleopatra (Astérix et Cléopâtre) by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (serialized starting in 1963).
Host John McCoy with Ross Cleaver.
Listener Griffin wonders what you could put on pasta that would arguably make it a sauce. John probably considers this sacrilege, but here we are.
Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell.
Our survey of award-nominated novels rolls on with “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” “When We Were Real,” and “Sour Cherry.” Not gonna lie: we’re struggling with the reading a bit this year. But at least one of these novels threw us a lifeline.
2026 Awards Book Club, part 2
Host Jason Snell with Scott McNulty, Erika Ensign, Aleen Simms, Heather Berberet, and Paul Weimer.
Time for another Soviet mission to the moon, but this one runs into some surprising trouble. Valya just wants to make Tania happy, but a trip to Moscow for a concert ends up complicating matters. And Irina discovers how awkward it is to meet some of her subjects in real life—but hey, you live in Star City, so it can’t be that much of a coincidence, can it?
Hosts Dan Moren and Jason Snell.
The Manoeuvres! A team of paramilitary men in weird hats train to overthrow an unspecified government, but what does this have to do with Magnum? Maybe it’s related to the shocking fact that Higgins has been sacked! Jason disapproves of Magnum’s dad wardrobe. Higgins is on a flag. And we consider going to Magnum Day in Detroit in August.
Hosts Jason Snell, Philip Michaels, and David J. Loehr.
Just… no, season six.
This episode features a job offer from a bearded fop, party introductions, a search for a missing person, a second bar, more beards, some purple shopping, and a midnight stroll.
Dragon Heist I, Part 2
Host Tony Sindelar with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign, Steve Lutz, and Tiff Arment.
Edited by Erika Ensign.
If you’re doing it right the world is shades of gray. In this episode of Biff we’re off to a universe where Nick Cage is The Spider, a hard-boiled detective and washed out ex-super-hero. His latest case goes sideways and things escalate quickly as he finds himself stuck in a web of someone else’s making.
Hosts Dan Moren, John Moltz, and Guy English.
Listeners Mark and Matt wants to know if everything on a screen is a video game. Jason ponders the idea that a PDF printout of a crossword puzzle could be a video game. John says that he is being silly and he should take these questions more seriously.
Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell.
Live from the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago, Illinois as part of FunnyCon, it’s a new adventure with Paul Citron.
In the snowy, windswept plateau city of Tabularasa, Paul Citron runs into Elsa, an old flame from his radio days in Paris…and her husband, a freedom fighter named Lagonda. There are letters of transit, there’s a cafe with a casino, there’s a parrot who’s not quite an ex…and double and triple crosses galore.
Note: the audio comes from the live video which will be available soon. It is what it is, alas.
Shocked, shocked to find gamboling here...
Host David J. Loehr.
With Marsha Harman, Tom McGrath, Austin Tichenor, and the foley artistry of Ele Matelan
Featuring some music:
As Time Goes By, performed on the zither by Andy Gosseling
The Third Man Theme, performed by the Rat City Brass
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