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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!

Movie Mastery – Crossroads (2002) Britney Spears gets everything she’s ever wanted while her friends’ lives crumble around her. Woo! Fun road trip!

Expounded Universe 309 – Galaxy Class Ass One of the perils of recording early is I’m guaranteed to forget what the episode was. But good news, I think they met […]

Movie Mastery – Magic Mike (2012) The raw charisma and undeniable talent of Channing Tatum can only do so much to save this mostly forgettable movie

Expounded Universe 308 – Don’t Neglect the Dualities Hey hey, it’s time to meet Halla! She’s a fun archetype that was made common in West End Games Star Wars RPGs, […]

Relationship Mastery 14 James D’Amato stops by to help us answer some significant questions about where regular fucking turns into monster fucking. What’s your line in the sand?

Movie Mastery – Gleaming the Cube (1989) A totally radical skateboarding movie that has very little to do with skateboarding and a lot to do with Vietnamese crime drama

Expounded Universe 306 – Mimban Number Five You can’t get earlier Star Wars EU novels than this right here. Welcome to the “sequel in case the sequels didn’t happen” of […]

Movie Mastery – Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) A movie with an absolutely bananas concept that squanders it on mostly being about how boring, crappy dudes are good actually

Relationship Mastery 13 Jon turns up to talk about a sexy discussion card game he’s borrowing at the moment, and Jef gets ranty about how these sexy card games suck […]

Movie Mastery – Outlaw Prophet (2001) A sci-fi movie that is incomprehensibly religious and religiously incomprehensible.

Expounded Universe 305 – Jedi Twilight Wrapup Why, it’s the twilight of Jedi Twilight! And frankly? Good.

Movie Mastery – Carpool (1996) From a hotel room in Wisconsin, we drag James into our muck and watch a Tom Arnold film that is extremely Tom Arnold

Expounded Universe 304 – Don’t Call it a Comeback That ended abruptly! Sure enough we get a chapter containing both Vader and Xizor, but… eh you’ll see. Also there’s some […]

Relationship Mastery 12 Hey, we made another one! I wasn’t sure, but here it is. That means yes, it’s finally time to change the tag for questions to RM13. Will […]

Movie Mastery -Sexy Evil Genius (2013) Buffy, BSG, and Lost collide in a bar with a Baldwin and what happens is, you know, fine.