20
Jan
2026
480 – Hardcore Ecologist with Emily Hartford

480 – Hardcore Ecologist with Emily Hartford

Emily is one of the creators of Metra: A Climate Revolution With Songs, an original musical fiction podcast about how we change the world. The podcast weaves ancient myth, transformative magic, and memorable music to tell the story of a dangerous climate future, and the fight for the world we deserve.

In that same vein, we sat down to play Hardcore Ecologist, a game of wandering the weird Wastes, Wilderness and Ruins of the future world, making an inventory of the new life that has developed here in the centuries after a massive climate change cataclysm, surveying for specimens.

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15
Jan
2026

479 – MERGER with John Rogers (Creator, Leverage, The Librarians, Jackie Chan Adventures)

John is the creator of Leverage and Leverage: Redemption, as well as The Librarians, Jackie Chan Adventures and more. We sat down to play MERGER, a solo RPG about trying to survive in a world of living predatory corporations (which, in addition to being an apt way to describe living in 2026, is literal in this case–massive, soul-consuming eldritch horrors given flesh).

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11
Jan
2026

478 – Zoetrope with Myq Kaplan

Myq is a standup comedian of over 20 years, who has appeared on the Tonight Show, Conan, Letterman, James Corden, Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, and America’s Got Talent. He’s also the host of Broccoli and Ice Cream and The Faucet, and his latest special, Rini, developed with his partner of over a decade, is available on YouTube right now.

We sat down to build a superhero world and celebrate our mutual love of comic books and big ideas in a game of Zoetrope, a superhero worldbuilding game about creating a comic book universe.

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18
Nov
2025

477 – Songs and Sagas with Frankie Kevich (Voice Actor, Silent Hill F)

Frankie is an actor and voice actor whose work you can hear right now as one of the main characters in Silent Hill F, as well as in the upcoming film The VelociPastor 2. We sat down to tell a post-apocalyptic fantasy horror adventure in Songs and Sagas, an axes & runes RPG about exploring the world after Ragnarok and carving out a home in the desolate wastes.

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18
Nov
2025

476 – Dead Belt with Ty

Ty is the host of Side Character Quest, a 2-player actual play podcast in which every adventure follows the unique story of a single character in a larger, interconnected fantasy world.

We sat down to play Dead Belt, an RPG of space cowboys digging into derelict spaceships. Can our heroes collect their payload and get home safely before the terrors of space kill them before they can cash their check?

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06
Nov
2025

475 – Time to Drop with Emma Shannon

Emma is host of Unnatural Selection on the Moonshot Podcast Network, about film adaptations of books, the weird choices Hollywood makes, and what actually constitutes a “good” adaptation. He’s also a cast member on Interstitial Infinity (an Actual Play podcast about troubled pop culture teens on the Infinity Train) and Dead Teen House Party, a rewatch podcast of MTV’s Scream series.

We geared up, gathered our crew, and pulled the job of the century in fellow Moonshot podcast bestie Marn Lastname’s Time to Drop, a time loop heist game about a group of thieves forced to pull off the same job again… and again… and again… and again… and again… and again…

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06
Nov
2025

474 – The Time We Have with Elliot Davis

Elliot is the designer of some of my favorite games, including Project ECCO, which we played on the 400th episode of the show. We sat down for a truly heartbreaking game of The Time We Have, a TTRPG about two brothers on opposite sides of a door, staring down the inevitable amidst a zombie apocalypse.

CW: Grief, trauma, familial terminal illness, body horror

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27
Oct
2025

473 – The Cryptid Show with Mike Schubert

Mike is a longtime podcaster, and host of the show The Newest Olympian, which seeks to answer the question, “Has society been sleeping on the Percy Jackson series?”. His new show, Professional Talkers, is a comedic advice podcast all about navigating life’s awkward conversations with Sequoia Simone.

We wanted to talk about working in audio, and coming to the artform of podcasting, and so we sat down for a delightful game of The Cryptid Show, a two-player conversational RPG about a call-in radio show host answering a caller’s questions about their recent supernatural experience. It was a DELIGHT.

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