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All Year I Dream About Gaming Conventions — 226 episodes
Episode 226: Don't Sleepwalk through Gen Con 2026
Episode 225: All the Flavors of Event Tickets at Gen Con 2026
Episode 224: Eating Like a King at Gen Con 2026
Episode 223: The Gen Con 2026 Travel Episode
Episode 222: Packing for Gen Con 2026
Episode 221: In Memoriam
Episode 220: A Fair Review of Origins 2026
Episode 219: Even More Exhibit Hall Interviews from Our 2026 Travels
Episode 218: More Exhibit Hall Interviews from the Origins Exhibitor Hall, Part 2
Episode 217: Exhibit Hall Interviews from the Origins Exhibitor Hall, Part 1
Episode 216: An App-etizer for Origins 2026
Episode 215: GET ON IT with your 2026 Gen Con Badge
Episode 214: Creators and Organizers at Origins 2026
Episode 213: Getting Unpublished at Origins Game Fair 2026
Episode 212: The Tournament of Pieces at Origins 2026
Episode 211: Conventions We Attended In March, April, and May
Episode 210: Conventions We Attended In January and February
Episode 209: Going Once, Going Twice with Alex Kammer
Episode 208: GET ON IT for your Gamehole Con Badge
Episode 207: Prepare to Jack into the Neon Future at Origins 2026
Episode 206: What Did You Get In Your Wishlistmas Stocking?
Episode 205: Cruise Con Redux, with a JoCo Twist
Episode 204: Highlights for the Gen Con Event Catalog
Episode 203: Your Wish List for Gen Con 2026
Episode 202: Yoshi Directs Gaming at Balticon!
Episode 201: Convention Calendar from May Day to Labor Day
Episode 200: UK Games Expo with Richard and Tony
Episode 199: Exhibit Hall Interviews from Our Early 2026 Travels
Episode 198: Oh What an Event The Gamehole Can Be
Episode 197: Our Th-re(e)viewisode of Gary Con, Awesome Con, and Adepticon
Episode 196: Light Clerical Work with Wes from Ecclesicon
Episode 195: DIE Valiantly with Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
Episode 194: Our Adepticon Preview
Episode 193: GET ON IT (Gamehole Con 2026)
Episode 192: A Positive Previewsode of Gary Con 2026
Episode 191: New Games at Gary Con and Adepticon
Episode 190: Getting the Hotel Room of your Dreams for Gen Con 2026
Episode 189: Gen Con Lottery Days Woes
Episode 188: Prep for Gary Con Like a Celebrity
Episode 187: Previewing an Event-full Origins 2026
Episode 186: Gen Con Badges and Housing Lottery
Episode 185: Conventioning from Labor Day into the New Year
Episode 184: Our Time at PAGE 3
Episode 183: Munchkin Gets a Second Edition
Episode 182: Special Guests and Creators at PAGE 3
Episode 181: Gen Con Event Submissions in 2026
Episode 180: Previewing PAGE 3
Episode 179: A Dessert Course of Interviews (BGG Con)
Episode 178: A Feast of RPG Interviews (PAX Unplugged)
Episode 177: An Appetizer of Expo Hall Interviews (PAX Unplugged)
Episode 176: Nerd Xmas in December (Gen Con)
Episode 175: Spreading our Wings to BGG Con 2025
Episode 174: Hot Stove Convention Round Up
Episode 173: Line Dancing at PAX Unplugged 2025
Episode 172: Gen Con 2025 Live Recording
Episode 171: Walk, Don't Run, to PAX Unplugged 2025
Episode 170: Gen Con VIG Program and Origins 2026 Reminders
Episode 169: Creators and Designers at PAX Unplugged
Episode 168: PAX Unplugged is a Marathon, Not a Race
Episode 167: Get Ready for PAX Unplugged in November
Episode 166: Interviews from Gamehole Con 2025
Episode 165: Autumnal Evaluation of Gamehole Con
Episode 164: Turn the PAGE in Philly This January
Episode 163: Sneaking a Peak at Gamehole Con 2025
Episode 162: Four Days of Peace and Love with John Kovalic
Episode 161: For Those Who Want to Exhibit at Gen Con 2026
Episode 160: Live Recording from Origins 50
Episode 159: POC Industry Dinner with Ethan and Lyla at Gamehole
Episode 158: Preparing to Delve the Gamehole
Episode 157: Badge Deadline for Final 3 Con 2026
Episode 156: A Summer Filled with Conventions
Episode 155: Autumn Convention Round Up!
Episode 154: Live from the Exhibit Hall at Gen Con 2025
Episode 153: Constructing Your Convention Calendar
Episode 152: The Second Annual GOTCs
Episode 151: Total Drama Island, Gen Con Style
Episode 150: Everything But the Games at Gen Con
Episode 149: The Games of Gen Con 2025
Episode 148: Gen Con 2026?!?
Episode 147: Saying Goodbye to Gen Con 2025
Episode 146: First Impressions of Two Days of Gen Con
Episode 145: Feeling Presidential on Gen Con Eve
Episode 144: Previewing the Spectacle of Gen Con
Episode 143: Previewing the Games, Events, and Exhibitors for Gen Con 2025
Episode 142: Content Creators at Gen Con 2025
Episode 141: Maurice Broaddus and the Gen Con Writer's Symposium
Episode 140: Storing Your Valuables at Gen Con
Episode 139: Gen Con Trinket Trade
Episode 138: The Man Who Wrote the Book on Gen Con
Episode 137: The Importance of Being Well Rested (with Kevin Kulp)
Episode 136: Getting Around Gen Con Spaces
Episode 135: There's Only One Way to Eat at Gen Con
Episode 134: Jetsetting to Gen Con
Episode 133: Time to Pack Your Bags for Gen Con
Episode 132: Spending Our Second Anniversary with Alex Kammer
Episode 131: Origins is about the Meeples
Episode 130: Origins Exhibit Hall Interviews, Part 3
Episode 129: Origins Exhibit Hall Interviews, Part 2
Episode 128: Origins Exhibit Hall Interviews, Part 1
Episode 127: Call of Ctholumbhus
Episode 126: Live Auction and Consignment Shops at Gen Con and Origins
Episode 125: Getting Ready for Origins 50
Episode 124: Bringing Your Kids to Conventions
Episode 123: It's Never Too Early to Get Ready for Gen Con
Episode 122: Giving Blood at Gaming Conventions
Episode 121: Gen Con on the Cheap
Episode 120: Two Guarantees in Life—Convention Attendance and Taxes
Episode 119: Matt from Lurking Fears
Episode 118: The Biggest Gen Con Event Catalog Ever
Episode 117: All About Cruise Cons
Episode 116: May We Interest You in Some Conventions through Labor Day?
Episode 115: Convention Recruiting
Episode 114: Adepticon *and* Awesome Con?
Episode 113: Origins is Coming
Episode 112: The Impeccable Vibes of Gary Con
Episode 111: Tag Teaming Old School Interviews
Episode 110: Celebrating a Life Well Played by the Sixth Great Lake
Episode 109: Digging the Perfect Gamehole
Episode 108: The Podcast that Became a Convention
Episode 107: Man Plans, WOTC Laughs
Episode 106: Gen Con Housing Slaughter-y
Episode 105: The Gen Con Housing Lottery, As It Happened
Episode 104: Convening for Shadowdark in All the Dark Places—An Interview with Kelsey Dionne (Part 3 of 3)
Episode 103: Are You Still Afraid of the Shadowdark? An Interview with Kelsey Dionne (Part 2 of 3)
Episode 102: Are You Afraid of the Shadowdark? An Interview with Kelsey Dionne (Part 1 of 3)
Episode 101: Gen Con Housing Lottery Reminder!
Episode 100: Our Most Special Guest, Peter Adkison
Episode 99: Preview for the Crown Jewel of the Gygax Convention Industrial Complex
Episode 98: Simon Says It's Time to Buy a Badge
Episode 97: The Siren Song at Conventions
Episode 96: Event Submissions for Gen Con 2025
Episode 95: A Second Helping of PAX Unplugged Interviews
Episode 94: A First Course of PAX Unplugged 2024 Interviews
Episode 93: The Slow March to New Gaming Conventions
Episode 92: Plugging into PAX Unplugged 2024
Episode 91: One Line to Rule Them All
Episode 90: Giving Thanks for Conventions
Episode 89: Laboring Our Way Through Fall Convention Season
Episode 88: Our Very Important Guest, Mike Boozer
Episode 87: Madison WI's Interviewhole
Episode 86 - The Whole Gamehole Experience
Episode 85: Live Recording from Gen Con 2024
Episode 84: The Isthmus of Gamehole Con
Episode 83: Gen Con 2024 Exhibit Hall Interviews, Part 2
Episode 82: Gen Con 2024 Exhibit Hall Interviews, Part 1
Episode 81: Early Bird Specials with Origins and Super MAG Fest
Episode 80 - The Earliest Line for PAX Unplugged
Episode 79 – The Madison Sized Hole Where Games Go
Episode 78: Ketchup on Recent Gaming Conventions
Episode 77: Quad Con Man
Episode 76: Fall into Gaming Conventions!
Episode 75: The First Annual GOTCs
Episode 74: Gen Con Drama, 2024 Edition
Episode 73: One Step Beyond the Convention
Episode 72: The Great Midwestern Spectacle of Gaming
Episode 71: We Wish You a Merry Dragon Con
Episode 70: Gen Con 2025
Episode 69: Elf Connin' Ain't Cheatin'
Episode 68: Consciousness Streaming from the Oceanaire
Episode 67: Lights Out, Guerrilla Podcasting
Episode 66: Exclusively Yours (Precapisode 3)
Episode 65: You Will Like Food From a Truck, or a Restaurant With Any Luck (Precapisode 2)
Episode 64: The Spectacle of Gaming (Precapisode 1)
Episode 63: Pinning Our Hopes on Looking Cool
Episode 62: Pickup Gaming at Gen Con Indy!
Episode 61 - And the Award for Best Award Show Goes To...
Episode 60: Gen Con Events with Marian McBrine
Episode 59: Session Zero Hero David Havelka
Episode 58: Generic Tickets, Specific Fun!
Episode 57: Spilling Sleepytime Tea with Kevin Kulp
Episode 56: Spadework for the Convention Center
Episode 55: How to Nosh at Gen Con 2024
Episode 54: Circumnavigating the World of Gen Con by Vehicle
Episode 53: Matryoshka Packing for Gen Con
Episode 52: It's Our Anniversary!
Episode 51: Origins 2024 Recap
Episode 50: Origins Interviews, Round 2!
Episode 49: Origins Interviews, Round 1!
Episode 48: Live from Origins Game Fair
Episode 47: The Origins Precap
Episode 46 **HOT TAKE** Wizards Returns to Gen Con
Episode 45: Isaac Vega of the Rose Gauntlet Foundation
Episode 44 - What is a Dragon Con?
Episode 43 - Gen Con Live Auction
Episode 42: First Thoughts on the Exhibit Hall
Episode 41: Wishing for a Better Wish List
Episode 40 - Alec and the Fans of Gen Con Facebook Group
Episode 39: Dreamers, We're Going to Origins
Episode 38 - The Importance of Your Gen Con Wish List
Episode 37: First Impressions of the Gen Con Catalog
Episode 36: Your Hosts at Gen Con 2024
Episode 35: Spring into Convention Attendance!
Episode 34: Five Conventions, One Month
Episode 33: Geekway to the West with Mattie
Episode 32: The Undeath of the Scootershare Industry
Episode 31: The Scoop on Kobold Con (May 10-12)
Episode 30: Live from Gameface Con
Episode 29: Gen Con Game Submissions
Episode 28: The Wake for the Gen Con Lottery
Episode 27: Gen Con Hotel Lottery Massacre
Episode 26: The Man Writing the Book on Gen Con
Episode 25: Cold Weather Con Season Heating Up
Episode 24: The Housing Lottery
Episode 23: Upcoming Convention Round Up
Episode 22: PAX Unplugged Recap and International Conventioning
Episode 21: Lorcana Litigation
D 20th Episode, Naturally: Gen Con 2024 Very Slowly Approaches!
Episode 19: Back in the Saddle Again
Episode 18 — Dragon Con with Baka
Episode 17: Gen Con 2023 Recap, Part 2
Episode 16: Gen Con 2023 Recap, Part 1
Episode 15: Sunday Evening Coming Down
Episode 14: Lorcana Debacle
Episode 13: The Eye of the Storm
Episode 12: Late Breaking Gen Con Indy Updates Part 2!
Episode 11: Late Breaking Gen Con Indy Updates Part 1!
Episode 10: Proper Sleep for Gaming Conventiongoers!
Episode 9: Measure Twice, Pack Once
Episode 8: Gen Con Indy Anticipation, Expected Highlights, and Overall Enthusiasm! Part One?!
Episode 7: Attending Gen Con Indy: Logistical Advice!
Episode 6: Food and Drink at Gaming Conventions!
Episode 5: The Actual Convention! Gen Con Indy, Here You Come!
Episode 4: Settling in at Gen Con Indy!
Episode 3: Getting Around Gen Con Indy!
Episode 2: Preparing for a Gaming Convention!
Episode 1: What This Is About and Tips for Gen Con Indy!