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The Wordy Pair Podcast, 100 episodes.

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1

Gods, Traditions, and Camel Mathematicians! Pratchett's Pyramids!

2

Supes or Salads? Talkin' 'Bout Superman 2025!

3

Staring Side-Eyed at Yosuke's Strange World!

4

Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo!

5

Enjoying Some Pratchett! Talkin' 'Bout Equal Rites!

6

In-Depth on the Seven of Hearts!

7

Arsène Lupin's Greatest Escape!

8

Crazy Train: A Look at Yokohama Station SF!

9

When Writing Advice Goes Wrong!

10

One Last Bite at the Fricassee! Some Buried Caesar, Part 2 of 2

11

A Bovine Mystery Masterpiece! Some Buried Caesar, Part 1 of 2

12

Trigun Stampede Is an Abyssal Monstrosity (part 3 of 3)

13

Trigun Stampede Is a Nightmarish Sham! (part 2 of 3)

14

Trigun Stampede Is a Horrifying Travesty (Part 1 of 3!)

15

Off on a (Vol)Comet! Talkin' 'bout a little-known Jules Verne book!

16

Smart Scripts and Soul Pain! The Wordy Pair Talks "Yes, Minister" Season 1!

17

The Cimmerian Comics Are a Crazy Ride!

18

A Pixie Land Preview! Justin's Upcoming Book!

19

What Indie Writers Can Learn from the VShojo IMPLOSION

20

Vampire Hunter D: Conclusion of the North Sea!

21

Ranting about Mediocrity: Murderbots v. Replicants

22

Layered, Absurd Comedy: Talkin' Bout Nichijou, episode 1!

23

Third Person Omniscient and Other Old People Tricks!

24

Making Fun of Awful Sci-Fi: Solaris!

25

Questin' with the Vampire Lords! Novella Review

26

Talkin' Bout Star Trek (the original series)

27

C-c-c-Combobreaker! Weird Format Writing: Fighting Games?!

28

Are you Being Sieved? Separating a Classic Sitcom from a Horrible Remake!

29

Beautiful Animation, Bizarre Writing! Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust!

30

Mysterious D and the Journey to the North Sea!

31

Pursuit of the Five-Star Review! Review and Author Perspective

32

Find Time and Use It to Write! | Tips, Thoughts, and Perspectives

33

A Dollar Short and A Day Late! Two Weird, Silly Stories!

34

Bizarre, Fun Sci-Fi! The Rackon!

35

Skynet Fails 2.0! Grok, the Obsessive

36

Skynet Fails 1.0! Justin's Adventures with Grok!

37

Cow Launched -or- Attention to Detail!

38

Japanese Folklore Fun! -or- Uzumé: Our New Favorite Deity

39

Analog Horror, Fast Food, and First World Problems

40

Works in Progress and General Techniques!

41

Adventures in Roundworld! -or- "Throat Shenanigans"

42

The Derangement of the Phantom of the Opera!

43

Massacre of Mankind! No, Not the Policy, the Book!

44

Pulp Sci-Fi Classics! The Lensman Series!

45

Comfortable Writing Environments... and... a Weird Technical Digression?

46

Subtle, Lush Worldbuilding in Rayman!

47

Judging Your Own Work: Is It Ready?

48

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Bait and Switch!

49

Attack of the Stupid Space Pizza!

50

Adaptations: Pros, Cons, and Tradeoffs!

51

Hot Tamales and Bad Orc Lore!

52

Impostor Psychos!

53

Pulp Mashup, Old and New! The Sinister Shadow Faces Doc Savage!

54

The Fruits of a Rotten Orchard! Debunking Bad Writing "Tips!"

55

How to Handle Falling Action and Endings

56

Jabbering about Pratchett and Printing

57

Getting Feisty with Magician: Apprentice!

58

Anchors Away?!

59

Alien: Blandulus

60

Hacking to the Gate!

61

Talkin' 'Bout Turnabouts!

62

Someone Failed the Turing Test!

63

Don't Get Caught by These Hang-Ups!

64

The Wordy Pair Against: Ripping Out the Living Souls from Books

65

Flipping into Magazines!

66

Separating Authors from Their Works

67

Slayers Adaptation Under the Microscope: Book Versus Show!

68

Threefer Madness! Three Wolfe Novellas in One Book!

69

Saul Panzer Can Fly. The Wordy Pair Covers Rex Stout's Fer-de-Lance!

70

Doctor Who and Disney Too!

71

The Hilarious Fantasy Hijinks of Slayers!

72

Reading Is Fundalicious!

73

Howling into the Dead Internet!

74

Mining the Mountains of Madness!

75

Breathe Deep... and Redraft!

76

Talkin' 'bout Our Writing Again!

77

Glancing at Grimms' Fairy Tales!

78

Sacred Cows, Self-Imposed Rules, and... Dead Dogs?

79

Indie Publishing Pointers

80

Dracula Definitely Doesn't Suck

81

The Writer's Toolbox

82

The Audiobook Question

83

The Obscure Novel Behind MacGyver?

84

Lovin' Some Lovecraft!

85

Adventures in Print-on-Demand!

86

Show, Don't Tell in Godzilla Minus One

87

Horror and Action Writing in Alien and Aliens!

88

Writing Tips from Proto-Ghibli!

89

Writing Hard versus Soft Magic!

90

Translation and Localization! How and Why to Keep an Eye on Them!

91

Musical Inspiration and Writing Action!

92

The Joy of Pippi Longstocking

93

Talkin' 'Bout Our Works, Cheap Covers, and More!

94

Structures, Outlines, and Physical Media!

95

Dealing with Distractions and Punching It Up!

96

Laughing through Larry Correia's Author Tier List!

97

Intriguing Influences and a Truckload of Tangents!

98

Prompts and Publishing

99

Themes and Inspiration

100

Worldbuilding and Review of The Last Theorem