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All Episodes

Reading Room Ruffians — 126 episodes

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Dingbats and Dragons: The Horsefire Conspiracy (Episode 2)

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Dingbats and Dragons: The Mystery Mail of Thunder Vale (Episode 1)

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Episode 124 - Zac Might Have Been Murdered (Spoilers for Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone)

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Episode 123 - Get Your Bingo Cards Ready (Everyone In My Family has Killed Someone)

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Episode 122 - Reading Comprehension is at an All Time Low (One Star Reviews)

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Episode 121 - First Book Chat of 2026 (How is it only February?)

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Episode 120 - Don't Plug the Bots into Things (Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill SPOILERS)

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Episode 119 - We Could Use an AI Apocalypse Right Now (Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill)

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Episode 118 - Books We Are Excited About in 2026

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Episode 117 - Year In Review

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Episode 116 - Final Book Chat of 2025

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Episode 115 - Where The Flu Makes You See Ghosts (Broken Girls - Simone St. James Pt. 2)

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Episode 114 - The Broken Girls Part 1 (Simone St. James)

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Episode 113 - Squelching Through Dementia (Dementia - Tara Hanson)

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Episode 112 - Banned Books Listen at Your Own Risk

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Episode 111 - They Can't Stop Touching the Mic Stands

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Episode 110 - Mickey Meh (Mickey 7 - Edward Ashton)

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Episode 109 - Why are Some Popular Books so Meh (Mickey 7)

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Episode 108 - Interview With J.D. Goland (Blood and Silver)

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Episode 107 - Thirsting Over Old Jim Butcher (Book Chat)

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Episode 106 - Oh Lort it's Mort! (Mort - Terry Patchett)

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Episode 105 - A Taste of Death (Mort by Terry Pratchett)

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Episode 104 - An Interview with Merrilee Fisher Matheny (Swift justice: The Story of John F. Morgan and the Last Public Hanging In West Virginia)

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Episode 103 - Your Opinions are Wrong

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Episode 102 - The Sibling Pod

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Episode 100 - Time for a Beer Run with John Willems (Beer Run)

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Episode 99 - Who Knew that Jack Daniel Was So Progressive (Love and Whiskey)

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Episode 98 - Mary Mary Quite Contrary and Her Space Spiders

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Episode 97 - Hillbilly Zombies! An Interview with JD Byrne (Moore Hollow)

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Episode 96 - No Thoughts are Infiltrating our Minds (Conspiracies pt. 2)

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Episode 95 - The Squeaky Cleanest Minds Around (Conspiracies pt. 1)

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Episode 94 - Also, Don't Give Up the Whole Universe Because Some... Lady is White (The City We Became Part 2)

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Episode 93 - A Tale of...Apparently Many Cities (The City We Became)

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Episode 92 - Top 5 and Worst 5 Books of the Year (Year-End Ruffians Review)

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Episode 91 - It's Not Like Friggin' Campbell's

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Episode 90 - Hot Frosty, Cold Deep Dive

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Episode 89 - Schlorp Schlorp an Interview with Timothy Huguenin (Unknowing, I Sink)

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Episode 88 - Shark Week on the Pod

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Episode 87 - Books on the Beach...Well for Most of Us

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Episode 86 - Lord of the Flops Strikes Again! (Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut)

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Episode 85 - Turns out Video is Harder Than it Looks

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Episode 84 - Where Zac's Audio Got Deleted

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Episode 83 - Jasper Meets The Ruffians, And Survives!

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Episode 82 - Well You Can't Say We Didn't Warn You

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Episode 81 - *Terrible French Accent* "Nous Sommes Bob"

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Episode 80 - Foodies, This One Is For Us!

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Episode 79 - Hip-no-sis, Hip-nah-sis, Hype-no-sis. Hypothesis?

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Episode 78 - You Miss A Lot Jumping Into the Stairwell Early

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Episode 77 - Come On Barbie, Let's Go Crawling

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Episode 76 - The Chip Wars, Where These Ones Are Crunchy Too

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Episode 75 - Women, Evolution, and Crab Claws. They're All Related!

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Episode 74 - There's More, But There's Not

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Episode 73 - Rocks Are Pretty And They Know It

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Episode 72 - An Interview with A Grandma

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Episode 71 - Mallory's Favorite Word Today is H***

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Episode 70 - Are You Sure He's Not an Alien

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Episode 69 - Nice

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Episode 68 - The Dynamic Duo Goes to See Some Bigfoots

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Episode 67 - Become the Cube the Square Wants to Be

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Episode 66 - Where Women Are Wrongfully Committed & Men Get Their Karmic Justice

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Episode 65 - ...And There's a Centaur?

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Episode 64 - Uh-Oh! We Had to Bleep Our Guest

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Episode 63 - Up Where They Walk, Up Where They Run, Up Where They Scream At The Top Of Their Lungs

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Episode 62 - Appalachian Rage

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Episode 61 - This One Has Murder!

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Episode 60 - Breaking Spines and Burning Snowflakes with Chaise!

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Episode 59 - Podcast Roadtrip! Well, A Virtual One, Anyway.

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Bonus Minicon Episode

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Episode 58 - The Mallory Rom-Com Hour

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Episode 57 - Recorded This Podcast Just For Shat

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Episode 56 - Appalackin': A JD Vance Diss Track

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Episode 55 - Mandela Effect: The Musical

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Episode 54 - **** it Donut!

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Episode 53 - Why Can't They Just Let the Kids Read the Books

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Episode 52 - One Year In! Here There Be Monsters

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Episode 51 - T.A. Spencer Returns

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Episode 50-Goaty McGoatface and Bleatwood Mac

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Episode 49 - When the Culture is Too Big For You, Call On Sky Daddy And Earth Mommy...

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Episode 48 - A Book Chat Where Ariel and Mallory Do Not Have Twelve Books to Discuss

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Episode 47 - Beep Beep Beep Beep

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Episode 46 - Cat Behavior in the Ocean

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Episode 45 - The Ruffians Tried Dat: A Crossover

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Episode 44 - Sneaking Into Your Minds and Stealing Your Dreams

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Episode 43 - Hello Again From 2024 Cause You Forgot Who We Were

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Episode 42-Unraveling the Braid, This Is How You Lose the Time War Part 2

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Episode 41 - "You're a Splash of Science Fiction!" And Other Terms of Endearment

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Episode 40 - NYE Special

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Episode 39-Jack Balls: A Christmas Tradition!!

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Episode 38 - The Outtakes Could Be Their Own Episode, Y'all

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Episode 37 - Trolligation & Lake Ladies Tossing Out Hammers

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Episode 36-Letters from Santa, Scrooges that Fall in Love, and Betrayal of the Familial Kind

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Episode 35 - You Can't Take The Appalachia Outta You

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Episode 34 - Of Course it Gets Weird and Gross When Zac is Gone.

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Episode 33 - Nightmares Before Christmas, Complete With Some Gross Sound Effects!

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Episode 32 - Danny Phantom and the Hobgoblins

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Episode 31-Beam Us Up Scotty!

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Episode 30 - Hits, Misses, and Kiko Singing Backup, Again

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Episode 29-The Only Good Podcast

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Episode 28 - Oh the Chubeejubees!!! (Chew-bee-jew-bees)

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Episode 27 - Sir Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes..... In Footnotes..... In Footnotes.....

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Episode 26 - No Sir, You Are a Witch!

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Episode 25 - The Surprise Ending

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Episode 24 - What Goes on in Ariel's Mind???

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Episode 23 - We Have No Strings to Hold Us Down

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Episode 22 - Kiko Has Some Words

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Episode 21 - 100 Bigfoot Nights, With a Surprising Lack of Bigfoot Smut

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Episode 20 - Someone Call a Doctor, Mallory Had a Smut Month

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Episode 19 - Out of My Mind Runs Right Over Our Hearts

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Episode 18 - Pay No Attention To Our Shady Machinations

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Episode 17 - Muh-Muh-Muh-Myyy Nimona!

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Episode 16 - Ghosts Are Real... Unless You're Zac

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Episode 15 - Ghostie Stories to Tell in the Dark... I Mean Podcast

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Episode 14-Irrational Fears and Forgotten Patients

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Episode 13 - No Book Bans, Just Book Fans

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Episode 12 - Ohhh, So That's Why You Have a Pen Name.

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Episode 11-Virginia Hall: The Baddest Woman That Ever Lived

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Episode 10-The Smooch of Lies

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Episode 9 - Only the Briefest Book Descriptions

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Episode 8 - Would You Rather: Aliens Edition!

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Episode 7 - Yo Ariel, I'm Gonna Merc You Real Quick.

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Episode 6 - Scythe Faraday=Zaddy???

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Episode 5 - Where Some Books are Just a Waste of Time

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Episode 4 - Nailed It!!!

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Episode 3 - The Trees Have "Thoughts"

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Episode 2 - A Man Called Ove, or Oovuh, or Something

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Episode 1 - Once upon a time there was a podcast