Your Aleatoric Reality

Heath Lambert runs a movie theater and knows a lot about film. He is the host of That's So Random: A Random Movie Podcast. Heath chooses films at random to discuss on his show. We give him the random interview treatment, and then pick a movie we can all talk about on *his* show. That's right, this is a PODCAST CROSSOVER EVENT! Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Your intrepid hosts play a game of Munchkin Fu (by Steve Jackson Games) with special guest Ninja Nate Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

In which your intrepid hosts review a random restaurant by ordering random menu items. They say if you update the description, YouTube will pull from the feed again, but I'll believe it when I see it. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Part two of our conversation with Ninja Nate, co-creator of the seminal work Morton's List, which coined the term "random reality." In this episode we try his latest game, Stranger Tales. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Our intrepid randomists give the shuffled interview treatment to Ninja Nate, co-creator of Morton's List, the game that introduced Misha to dice life. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon play Morton's List with game co-creator Twilight Lord Ninja Nate. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon play Danni Little's tarot-inspired therapeutic self-care game. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon interview one of America's most popular game designers, Andy Looney of Looney Labs. Andy Looney is the creator of Fluxx, Pyramids, Chrononauts, Loonacy, and many others. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Damon recaps his experiences at Origins game convention and we interview Donn Stroud, founder of Psychoda Press and author of Ruination Pilgrimage, a medieval horror themed RPG. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon discuss applications of randomness and pseudorandomness in comedy, with a detour into the world of avant garde art movements. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Welcome to Season 2! Damon and Misha spend the whole episode discussing what they might talk about on this episode. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Your intrepid hosts discuss ways to defeat the traditions of chess; Misha bookends the season with another Q&A for Damon. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

In which Damon discusses the process of designing, casting, and finishing custom dice. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon "borrow," or "perform a tribute to" (but definitely don't "steal") the format of one of their favorite podcasts, Behind the Bastards. And if Robert Evans wants to come on the show and accuse us of being bastards, we'll be happy to have him! Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Damon outlines the various ways, both standard and innovative, that random number generation is used by video game makers. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon try to determine whether one of them is a murderous robot, and whether they would even know if they were robots.  Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

We discuss the Oblique Strategies deck, a collection of prompts created by producer and ambient music pioneer Brian Eno. The Oblique Strategies deck is our first example of a formal creativity tool which uses an element of randomness. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon spend the show arguing or something. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon discuss randomness in music, sometimes known as aleatoric music. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon discuss when, why, and how to end season one, mention some games, and (mostly) respect Andy Looney of Looney Labs. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

We interview a drunk guy who is known for interviewing drunk people. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon finally roll to play a game on the show. Fun for us? Definitely! Fun for you? You tell us: [email protected]. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon discuss Morton's List, which is nominally a game, but acts more as a gateway to aleatoric adventures and the random reality lifestyle.  Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

We finally convinced someone to be a guest on the show. Tom Mast, Ph.D. is a former neuroscience professor who is currently in med school to be a podiatrist. Find out what kind of time manipulation superpowers he would prefer. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon discuss divination, i.e. using randomness to seek information about the future. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha and Damon discuss gambling, one of the earliest forms of using randomness to determine real-life consequences. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

Misha enumerates the Tenets of the Secret Masters of Random and Damon discusses being improvisational as a dungeon master. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

After a different take on the news, Misha and Damon roll for a topic show, and the topic they get is the 1971 novel that inspired a generation of chancers, The Dice Man.  Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

In which we roll for Q&A for the second time in a row, but this time Damon asks Misha the questions. Alternate titles considered for this installment include "Double or Muffin," "Twice as Random," and "Episode 2." Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

We rolled for the title of this episode, from the following table: 1. The (Random) Birth of a Podcast 2. I've got a pocket full of dice 3. Inception 4. Ready to make up a podcast 5. What Does Aleatoric Mean? 6. In which we roll for the title of this show In this episode, Misha and Damon roll for the title of the show, randomly generate a theme song, and answer literally random quesions. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.

To introduce our podcast about randomness, we took a bunch of clips from the first few episodes and shuffled them. It may not be the best trailer, but it's a clear case of "show, don't tell." This podcast will explore the use of randomness in real-life decisionmaking, problem-solving, and creativity. Send your comments and listener challenge reports to [email protected]. Use our free random tools at https://yar.quest/tools.