Interview with Martzi Campos & Jesse Vigil part 1 — s4, ep.16

We chat with guests Martzi Campos and Jesse Vigil of the School of Cinematic Arts at USC, creators of The Klaxo Raidio Hour, and featured roleplayers on the Champions of the Earth.

The Shadow

Plainclothes Hippie Parents

Mystery’s Hercule Poirot

Candy Matson, detective

Sarah Elmaleh

Design Vs. Fine Art

Haunted Objects

Escape rooms re-imagined

Childhood Magic

Klaxo Radio Hour is born!

Intern: Philippa

Sponsor: KneaderTech Telemassage Harness

Interview with Martzi Campos & Jesse Vigil part 1 — s4, ep.15

We chat with guests Martzi Campos and Jesse Vigil of the School of Cinematic Arts at USC, creators of The Klaxo Raidio Hour, and featured roleplayers on the Champions of the Earth.

Pamplemousse LaCroix

Near decapitation

Martzi’s dark and mysterious backstory

Traumatizing Tales of Art School

A Tragic lack of fish oop

Design Vs. Fine Art

Dungeons and Dragons, cool again!

Dungeons and Daddies

Sibling Shoutouts

Collin Kelly

IndieCade

Psychic Bunny

Klaxo Radio Hour is born!

Intern: Philippa

Interview with Cathy Podeszwa part 2 — s4, ep.14

We chat with guest Cathy Podeszwa, “Person of the Future,” actor, dancer, netprov featured player and one of our co-creator of Thermophiles in Love with Samara Hayley Steele.

Featured Netprov: Thermophiles in Love

Internal Tupperware

Eating your friends

Darwin’s Tweets

Jane Goodall

Cat Watching Fatigue

Nielsen Dogs

White House Corona Briefings

Netprov in the Blip of Trump

Searching for a Netprov Platform

Intern: Antonio

Sponsor: Stone Head Supports of Milwaukee, WI

Interview with Cathy Podeszwa part 1 — s4, ep.13

We chat with guest Cathy Podeszwa, “Person of the Future,” actor, dancer, netprov featured player and one of our co-creator of Thermophiles in Love with Samara Hayley Steele.

Featured Netprov: Thermophiles in Love

A dance contest

Duluth theater circles

Temperature Checks

animals over people

Midwestern small mammals

Bacterial friends

The Bachelor: the Terror-Inducing Finale

Paul Reiser is God: The Blog

Gabriel Iglesias

Intern: Antonio

Interview with Ben Samuel of Bad News — s4, ep.12

We chat with Ben Samuels about improv in the fabulous game Bad News that he created with James Ryan and Adam Summerville as part of their studies at UC Santa Cruz’s games program.

In this Episode:

Mark’s new tattoo

Dating Around

Bad News

James Ryan, Adam Summerville

UC Santa Cruz Game Program

Erin Rose Glass

Slam Dance LA

A lot of Hmmms

Prom Week

Featuring:

Intern: Louis

Sponsor: Nefarious Tropes

Samara Hayley Steele & Dargan Frierson Interview part 3 – s4, ep.11

We continue our interview with our collaborators on Destination Wedding 2070, recently featured in the ACM Hypertext Climates of Change exhibition! Samara Hayley Steele, MFA, is a PhD student in Cultural Studies and a Graduate Research Fellow with the ModLab, the Humanities Game Lab at UC Davis. She previously collaborated with us and Cathy Podeszwa on Thermophiles in Love. Dargan Frierson is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and the head of the EarthGames group at the University of Washington. He also writes songs about climate science.

Netprovs in this episode:

Destination Wedding 2070

& Thermophiles in Love (created with Cathy Podeszwa) and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference.

In this Episode:

Improvising

Randomly assigning characters

LARP consent mechanics

Live performance of “Science Rules”

Teaching science through games

Wet guitars

The first tiny provcast concert: “Science Rules” by Dargan

CMIP not sea myth

CanESM5

Improvising Climate Change Solutions

Data Dramatization

World Without Oil

Bunker and other trauma-themed LARP

Featuring:

Intern: Tony

Sponsor: Princeton Marine Motor Repair, Princeton, AK

Samara Hayley Steele & Dargan Frierson Interview part 2 – s4, ep.10

We continue our interview with our collaborators on Destination Wedding 2070, recently featured in the ACM Hypertext Climates of Change exhibition! Samara Hayley Steele, MFA, is a PhD student in Cultural Studies and a Graduate Research Fellow with the ModLab, the Humanities Game Lab at UC Davis. She previously collaborated with us and Cathy Podeszwa on Thermophiles in Love. Dargan Frierson is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and the head of the EarthGames group at the University of Washington. He also writes songs about climate science.

Netprovs in this episode:

Destination Wedding 2070

& Thermophiles in Love (created with Cathy Podeszwa) and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference.

In this Episode:

Larping

Smelling like Llamas

Featured Players Cathy Podeszwa & Jean Sramek

Climate Modeling and Weather Forecasting

Elaborate Gendering Ritual

Gender as a Series of Barnum Statements

Tales of a Live Improv of a Netprov

Featuring:

Intern: Tony

Sponsor: Princeton Marine Motor Repair, Princeton, AK

Samara Hayley Steele & Dargan Frierson Interview part 1 – s4, ep.9

We interview our collaborators on Destination Wedding 2070, recently featured in the ACM Hypertext Climates of Change exhibition! Samara Hayley Steele, MFA, is a PhD student in Cultural Studies and a Graduate Research Fellow with the ModLab, the Humanities Game Lab at UC Davis. She previously collaborated with us and Cathy Podeszwa on Thermophiles in Love. Dargan Frierson is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and the head of the EarthGames group at the University of Washington. He also writes songs about climate science.

Netprovs in this episode:

Destination Wedding 2070

In this Episode:

A hot dog boat

From CHAZ to CHOP

Defunding the Police

The People’s Parc & Community Memory

Horse and Boat Parking

The Salve Cabinet

UnderAcademy College

Climate Change

Featuring:

Intern: Tony

Sponsor: Princeton Marine Motor Repair, Princeton, AK

Drunken Twitterstorms & Vacation — Season 4, Ep 8

On the heels of running the Pub at the online ELO conference, Rob & Mark broadcast live from their beach vacation, reflecting on the way social media makes netprovers of us all.

Netprovs in this episode:

Reality: Being Spencer Pratt & the Susan Orlean drunken Twitstorm.

In this Episode:

Susan Orlean drunken Twitterstorm

Spike Milligan

The forthcoming Netprov Book

The Twitter Blue Checkmark Hack Attack

Ointment, Flies

Brand Name Geniuses

The Imperialism of Correct Spelling

Brian Kim Stefans at #ElOrlando

Creative Writing in Google Docs by Laura Okkema

Featuring:

Intern: Drones

Thanks to today’s Sponsor: Sarah S’more Delivery

Live from the ELOrlando Pub! — Season 4, Ep 7

Rob & Mark broadcasting LIVE from the ELOrlando Pub!

Netprovs in this episode:

The Pub is a virtual watering hole in Discord at #ELOrlandothroughout the conference. Also, Fantasy Spoils which will be live on Saturday!

In this Episode:

Eduardo Kac Swag Masks

The Electronic Literature Organization

The Limerick Diet by Talan Memmott and Scott Rettberg

Rob’s Talk, Maintaining Your Character(s) in Netprov

Rob’s Talk, Maintaining Your Character(s) in Netprov

Mark’s Talk, Coding as Reading in Digital Literature

Shoutouts to Anastasia Salter and the #ELOrlando team

Shoutouts to Johannah Rodgers, Yue-Jin Ho, Kpop Fandom World Lauren Rouse, Erik Loyer, Erin Kathleen Bahl, Dan Cox, Szymon Szul, Estaban Morales, Inge van de Ven, Holly Slocum, & more

Featuring:

Intern: Stan

Thanks to today’s Sponsor: Royal Virtual Car Wash of Kansas City.