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Movie Mastery – Last Action Hero (1993) The meta-commentary on action movies that can’t quite decide if it’s a parody or a love letter to the genre.

Expounded Universe 330 – Extraneous Ass New book time! Time to get into some clone wars era stuff as we visit the planet Drongar (uh oh that oughta raise some […]

System Mastery 333 – Marvel Heroic Roleplaying LIVE Recorded live at GenCon 2026, this episode sounds like fuzzy butt because we didn’t have a way to test the house equipment. […]

Movie Mastery – Boris and Natasha (1992) The Rocky and Bullwinkle spinoff movie 30 years later that has none of the charm or humor of the original show

Expounded Universe 329 – Ruins Wrap Up Okay yeah here we go, all done. Questions answered, new book announced! Gonna be taking the next week off. Oh, by the way, […]

Movie Mastery – Our Drawings (2023) An incomprehensible mess of low grade animation that barely has a plot and constantly changes what its own premise is

Expounded Universe 328 – Podcasts are Weakness Leaving the Body The grand finale and … it all goes exactly how we’ve been saying it would. Painfully so. I guess that’s […]

System Mastery 330 – Justice League Unlimited Preview We’ve been pretty clear in our Marvel fanboy natures, especially when it comes to comics (we’re pretty equal opportunity with films and […]

Movie Mastery – Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) A classic of the bad movie genre that only got made because someone had a mechanical dinosaur available for a month

Expounded Universe 327 – Sacrificial Sacrifice Finally some goddamn aliens. Also, a discourse on the nature of X-files episode endings.

Expounded Universe 326 – Raisin’ The James Shit seems to have begun to pop off in a big way. There’s bodies and soldiers and earthquakes and all kinds of shit!

Movie Mastery – Bloodrunners (2017) Prohibition era vampires running bootleg blood using a speakeasy as a cover is a great idea but unfortunately this movie was made for None Dollars […]

Relationship Mastery 19 Sorry about the delay, we seem to be plagued by death in the family recently. Also I have no idea what’s in here. I hope it’s funny!

Movie Mastery – Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong (2013) A crossover movie that is entirely coasting on the title and the knowledge that some people will watch literally anything to […]

Expounded Universe 325 – Mulder Most Foul Oh no! An important character has come to an unfortunate end! Also military men are willing to shoot cats.

Movie Mastery – Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984) Pia Zadora briefly falls in love with an alien musician in this sci-fi/musical/comedy B-movie mash-up that feels like if Troma had […]

Expounded Universe 324 – Jakes Meridian We are getting sloppy, Jakes isn’t even in this episode!

System Mastery 326 – Ryuutama Okay at this point I think it’s starting to get obvious that the two of us are down with the cozy games. This one is […]

System Mastery 325 – Root RPG Sure it’s PBTA but really we want to talk about the rare-ish process by which specifically board games become specifically RPGs. Plus these animals […]

Movie Mastery – Push (2009) A film that feels like an RPG with a bunch of psychics fighting a secret government agency.

Expounded Universe 323 – Aliens in America Our heroes (and a hidden villain perhaps?) begin their trek into the mysterious jungle, meanwhile a new super soldier enters the fray, and […]

Expounded Universe 322 – Spring Break Scully Our heroes hit Cancun as we start killing off side characters.

Movie Mastery – Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) Journey back to the forest moon of Endor, where magic is real, the Force isn’t a thing, and the 12 […]

Movie Mastery – Alpha and Omega (2010) An animated movie about wolf romance that has some weird ideas about what being an Omega wolf means (no not like that you […]

Expounded Universe 321 – Dinosaur Teeth Background extras abound as our heroes mostly just faff around checking in with the lone gunmen and collect NPCs they’ll need for later.

Movie Mastery – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) A feature that mashes up samurai films, mafia movies, and hip hop into something you are either going to […]

Expounded Universe 320 – Funky Yellow Patina Well, if you let Jon off the leash, you get X thing that isn’t Star Wars, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised […]

Movie Mastery – Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976) A diver with a magic amulet that gives him a psychic connection to sharks must battle against Florida’s most cacklingly stupid […]

Expounded Universe 319 – Splinter of the Mind’s Eye Wrap Up Okay, we rerecorded this one, something went all screwy with the original recording. Don’t worry, the only thing Jef […]

Movie Mastery – Slappy and the Stinkers (1998) The unholy combination of The Little Rascals and Free Willy brought to by the same studio behind The Pest.

Movie Mastery – Drum (1976) The sequel to Mandingo that has nothing to do with that movie and everything to do with being terrible.

Expounded Universe 318 – Vader’s Big White Balls We arrive once more upon the closing of a narrative, as our heroes do basically everything this book was supposed to be […]

Relationship Mastery 18 Last month, we each took horrible little sex toys and went our separate ways, vowing to return with reports. This episode contains those reports.

Relationship Mastery 17 It’s not necessarily a crossover, but we have a few toys we ordered after appearing on an episode of Allo & Ace (a bonus podcast over at […]

Movie Mastery – The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (2000) Based on the book by L. Frank Baum, this animated movie shows the true story of Santa being raised […]

Expounded Universe 317 – Luke Just Blue Himself The penultimate chapter? Really? Okay I guess. Anyway Vader turns up but honestly doesn’t really do much of anything. There’s a war […]

Movie Mastery – Remote (1993) Home Alone meets Toys if those movies had no budget, or talent, or ideas

Expounded Universe 316 – Coway or the Highway Hey Halla’s Back!  But dang, I already used that obvious title.  Oh well.  Let’s see what these furry dudes are all about.

Movie Mastery – Message From Space (1978) A Star Wars knock-off from Japan that is bad but not in a fun, campy way but a boring, 70’s way.

Expounded Universe 315 – A Pleasant Dong Let’s not sugarcoat it, this whole chapter is Luke and Leia walking through a cave tunnel. Yes they get in a shocking fight […]

Relationship Mastery 16 In this one we discuss what’s been up lately. Claire has a lot to say about her kink writing assignments! We answer questions!

Expounded Universe 314 – Now I Know Leenix’s Voice Jon’s on vacation, and Claire wants to make Jef listen to AP, so here we go, two episodes of the podcast […]

Movie Mastery – Fright Night (1985) We look at the original Fright Night, a classic 80’s horror movie where everyone is kind of a goober and there’s a vampire named […]

Expounded Universe 313 – Matriculated at Chode Everyone runs from a pre-exogorth exogorth. It’s sorta neat how often big white snakes turn up in Star Wars. Someone should do something […]

Movie Mastery – Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005) The last one of these movies to actually have Doug Bradley as Pinhead and the first starring role for Henry Cavill. Also, an absolute […]

Expounded Universe 312 – Halla Back, Girl Whoa, stuff happens! This book hasn’t been bad but it certainly has felt like it needs to get on with things, and here […]

Movie Mastery – Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003) Jamie Kennedy does a movie where, get this, a white guy acts like a stereotype of a black gangster. Oh ho ho. How […]

Expounded Universe 311 – Yuzzem? I Hardly Know ‘Em Whoa, stuff happens! This book hasn’t been bad but it certainly has felt like it needs to get on with things, […]

Movie Mastery – Guyver: Dark Hero (1994) A lower budget sequel to the American live action movie based on the Japanese manga that tries to be more dark and gritty […]

Relationship Mastery 15 Lots and lots of sexy stuff to see at Dragoncon definitely worth talking about! Questions from you! Claire’s starting a new career path!