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Movie Mastery – The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) RZA’s love letter to kung fu movies that mostly suffers by having RZA in it.

Expounded Universe 334 – Murder Most Phow Ji Yeah we’re really hung up on this one weird moral call this book is also seemingly very hung up on, but hey […]

System Mastery 337 – Double Cross Big old anime RPG, and actually from Japan for once! Vaguely superhero but realistically sorta shonen, let’s talk about Double Cross. Announcement Mastery! Help […]

Movie Mastery – The Spirit (2008) A comic book adaptation that fundamentally doesn’t understand its source material or even what makes a movie good.

Expounded Universe 333 – The Sisters of Perpetual Convenience Look I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation for these highly convenient space nuns, but you see for yourself if it […]

System Mastery 335 – Tide Breaker Finally, everyone’s favorite thing, a universal OSR system! And in such a straightforward and simple 36 pages! Announcement Mastery! Help us support friends of […]

Movie Mastery – Cat City (1986) A Hungarian cartoon about cat gangsters that is so much better than we ever assumed it would be.

Expounded Universe 332 – Bleyd and the Vampires Who woulda guessed these two guys who wrote all the horniest Star Wars stuff we’ve dealt with, working together, would produce something […]

System Mastery 335 – Tide Breaker It’s a rules light game! By which of course we mean it has like several hundred rules, but none of them are especially heavy. […]

Movie Mastery – The Rocketeer (1991) For a movie that spent 8 years in development hell, they sure did put out one of the best pulp adventure films around.

Expounded Universe 331 – Set Us Up The Bahm Gilyad It took until chapter 4 of the book to do a “This dude is horny for this lady for way […]

System Mastery 334 – Delta Green Well, at least now people can’t keep asking us to talk about it!

Relationship Mastery 20 Not a lot of questions this time, that’s okay. We found other stuff to talk about, and we also brought Jon with us.

Movie Mastery – Last Action Hero (1993) The meta-commentary on action movies that can’t quite decide if it’s a parody or a love letter to the genre.

Expounded Universe 330 – Extraneous Ass New book time! Time to get into some clone wars era stuff as we visit the planet Drongar (uh oh that oughta raise some […]

System Mastery 333 – Marvel Heroic Roleplaying LIVE Recorded live at GenCon 2026, this episode sounds like fuzzy butt because we didn’t have a way to test the house equipment. […]

System Mastery 332 – 13th Age Well, I guess it’s better than 5e. How’s the 2nd edition of this? Obviously we’re taking them in order. Sound off in the comments […]

Movie Mastery – Boris and Natasha (1992) The Rocky and Bullwinkle spinoff movie 30 years later that has none of the charm or humor of the original show

Expounded Universe 329 – Ruins Wrap Up Okay yeah here we go, all done. Questions answered, new book announced! Gonna be taking the next week off. Oh, by the way, […]

System Mastery 331 – Blood and Vigilance Shoot, we accidentally made a supplement episode. I thought this was a core book! Oh well, it’s basically a superhero patch to be […]

Movie Mastery – Our Drawings (2023) An incomprehensible mess of low grade animation that barely has a plot and constantly changes what its own premise is

Expounded Universe 328 – Podcasts are Weakness Leaving the Body The grand finale and … it all goes exactly how we’ve been saying it would. Painfully so. I guess that’s […]

System Mastery 330 – Justice League Unlimited Preview We’ve been pretty clear in our Marvel fanboy natures, especially when it comes to comics (we’re pretty equal opportunity with films and […]

Movie Mastery – Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) A classic of the bad movie genre that only got made because someone had a mechanical dinosaur available for a month

Expounded Universe 327 – Sacrificial Sacrifice Finally some goddamn aliens. Also, a discourse on the nature of X-files episode endings.