Episodes

Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Season 6, Episode 1: Mixed Martial Argument
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 2009.
The audio is a little sketchy this episode, that's my bad. I'm aware, and I'm working on it for next time. Sorry! - Jared

Monday Jan 01, 2024
Season 6, Episode 0: I’m Here, I’m Vibing
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Jan 01, 2024
A buffer episode before we start the next season. Just three friends chatting about nothing, don't expect any big ideas. (And the audio is a little sketchy, forgive me.)

Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Season 5, Episode 6: Lesbians On Ice
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Season 5, Episode 5: Our Animal Desires
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Season 5, Episode 4: How Do You Pronounce ’Hegel’?
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Friday Jun 09, 2023
Season 5, Episode 3: Jared’s Tinfoil Hat
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.

Monday Apr 17, 2023
Season 5, Episode 2: ”Otaku Culture”
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Hiroki Azuma, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
With special guest, Emma Yasui.

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.