Episodes

Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Season 5, Episode 1: It’s Been A While
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Season 4, Episode 7: He Got In The Robot
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.

Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Season 4, Episode 6: Stunt On Your Double
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
This recording is a little noisier than normal at parts. Apologies!
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Season 4, Episode 5: Canadian Thankful
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
A casual, breezy episode, in which we don't talk about the book at all. Instead, we ask each other questions of various cruelty and reflect on the last two years of this silly podcast.
Thanks for listening! We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next month.

Friday Sep 09, 2022
Season 4, Episode 4: I Suggest Therapy
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Season 4, Episode 3: Dong Theory
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Season 4, Episode 2: Dexterity
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Sunday May 15, 2022
Season 4, Episode 1: Religion Is Interesting To Me
Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds; Laycock, University of California Press, 2015.
With special guest Joe DeSimone.

Friday Apr 01, 2022
Season 3, Episode 2: Swamplet Johansson
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
In which we continue to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts.
With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission.
Music by Kelley Mangahas and Chris Zabriskie.

Monday Feb 28, 2022
Season 3, Episode 1: Critical Hearts, A Monster Role Story
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
In which we begin to discuss that time Critical Role played Monsterhearts.
With special guest Vi Huntsman of Collabs Without Permission.
Music by Kelley Mangahas.