All Kittysneezes Podcasts

The sixth episode of Infinite Danger, plus a quick vocal warmup. Episode 6, Katie and the Whale, the lifetime fish drama episode: Cosby Mysteries. Major Briggs. Elective Mutism. Iron Deficiencies. Why we don’t know much about whales. Marineland’s Scenic Empty Field. Bjossa. Everyone knows that the captain of a ship is in charge of the ship. But did you know: people who aren’t captains of a ship ar...

What’s in a name? A lot, really. That’s why they’re so hard to come up with. Parents agonize over picking the right baby name for their children. We gave up on naming this podcast. And as authors, sometimes it’s hard to come up with a good name for your character or your imaginary monster, or your fake magical bullshit. So in this episode, a writer named Karlo Yeager Rodriguez from a podcast named...

The fifth episode of Infinite Danger brings you HUGE GAMING NEWS! Episode 5, The Contender, in which Jonah could have saved the starving third world if it weren’t for The Woman: Legit tennis bonafides. The Burger Shack. Space Command. Tarzan, Tarzan, Tarzan . Darwin’s Nightmare. Dad’s new breeding techniques. Why Jonah must overcome slave morality. The mobius strip, the universal symbol of infinit...

A lot of this podcast is about the publishing industry: breaking into it, working within it, and our frustrations with it. But some writers and artists strike out on their own. Joining us in this episode is Evan Dahm, writer and artist of 3rd Voice, Rice Boy, and other online serialized fantasy-adventure comics. Links: Rice-boy.com Evan Dahm on TopatoCo About Rite Gud : R. S. Benedict is an author...

The fourth episode of Infinite Danger, Brought to you by the city of Neom, and HRH Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Vision 2030 plan. Episode 4, Salmon Run, featuring Grant Roberts, fish detective: DaVinci’s Inquest and the 37 th Mayor of Vancouver. Donnelly Rhodes’s side project. Edible evidence. Columbo Villains. Antique auto maintenance for the visually impaired. Falling down multiple waterfalls ove...

I can show you the world. Shining, shimmering splendid. Tell me, writer, now when did you last read a worldbuilding guide? In this episode, returning champions Karlo Yeager Rodriguez and Simon McNeil join us to talk about worldbuilding. Links: “As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood” Simon’s essay that absolutely no one is mad at Image by Eric Horwitz. About Rite Gud : R. S. Benedict i...

The third episode of Infinite Danger, in which Deep Video Game Lore is discussed. Episode 3, The Wharf Rat, “The Rabies Episode:” Michele Chan and the tale of 11.5 Billion Dollars. King of the Cosmos. Boat Hobos. Delicious spaghetti sauce. Unnecessary hovercrafts. “Old Yeller Time.” Maybe if I drink all the water in this well I’m trapped in, there’ll be an escape hatch at the bottom. About Infinit...

In this episode, we’re talking to Matt Wolfbridge about his new online magazine, Typebar. We discuss how and why he put the magazine together, the grim state of internet-based publishing, and typewriters. Links: Typebar Magazine “Don’t hate me because I’m rich!” Wingspan and Post-Capitalist Forms of Competition Just my typewriter Abridged Thoughts The Blood Knife episode The Seize the Press episod...

In the second ever episode of Infinite Danger : Will waits patiently to receive his roses. ***** Episode 2, Running Free: in which they give up on ocean stuff immediately and pivot to being a western: Bacterial Kidney Disease. A shady past in early 80s South Africa. A dialogue on the ethics of documentary filmmaking. Becky, my love. “The Suplex.” ***** There’s a cinematic universe in my head, but...

We’re back from our brief sabbatical with an all-new episode to discuss the most important work of utopian–or dystopian, depending on your interpretation–fiction of the past decade: i Pony: Blueprint for a New America by libertarian presidential candidate and boot model Vermin Supreme. About Rite Gud : R. S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’...

Howdy, Matt here! As you may remember from last month’s episode, Rite Gud is taking this month off. We’ve taken out one of our book club episodes from behind the paywall to share with you all. We’re looking at the Ionesco’s Rhinoceros with Simon McNeil, recorded in August of last year. If you like this and want more, the Book Club is available for $3 patrons. . This week, Kittysneezes is also prou...

In the first episode of Infinite Danger : Danger Bay emerges from a miasma of Steel Cables, Sigils, Hair Dye and Nominative Determinism to shed light upon the world. Also, Will ‘s podcast career reconstitutes itself. ***** Episode 1, The Sea Pup, in which the pilot episode is also a flashback episode: River Otters. Child Endangerment. Dave Coulier. Surgery. Salmon Season. Salmon Nets. Punches. Hun...

Infinite Danger is a podcast chronicling the wildly successful Canadian action TV Classic, Danger Bay. All 40-plus seasons of it. Join your host Will, as he breaks down each episode of the adventures of aquarium policeman Grant Roberts and his children Nicole and Jonah in the trillion-dollar franchise which continues to define the city of Vancouver culturally, economically, religiously, and geopol...

In this podcast, we talk a lot about transgressive art and pushing the envelope. We rail against censors and prudes. And for that reason, we’ve gotten a little bit of a reputation as shock jocks and edgelords. And we have definitely attracted some shock jocks and edgelords. But, in this episode, we’re going to talk about the limits of shock value. Joining us is the world’s greatest writer, June Ma...

We all incorporate the real world into our fiction. It’s impossible not to. Maybe we base a character on someone we love–or hate. Maybe we write a story inspired by a real life event–something that happened to us, or something we heard about in the news, or in a history book. But what are the ethics of this? Are we “stealing” other people’s experiences? Are we exploiting other people? What, if any...

Everybody loves a winner–either a hyper competent alpha male who always saves the day, or maybe a relatable underdog who beats the odds and comes out on top. But in this episode of Rite Gud, we’re paying tribute to literary losers, fuck-ups, and failures. Joining us is J.R. Bolt. About Rite Gud : R. S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Ve...

In this episode, we’re talking about physical disability. How do we portray disabilities in fiction? How should we portray them? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? James McPherson joins us to examine how disabilities are portrayed in works like Fury Road , Avatar , Game of Thrones , Evil Dead and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.   Links: Plea from a Disappointed Man   9 Ableis...

There’s a trend in contemporary SFF to soften or humanize monsters. We have nice vampires who don’t kill people, sad ghosts who don’t torment the living, succubi who don’t fuck anyone. Some people find this charming, but here at Rite Gud, we like it when monsters are monstrous. Links David Cage denies allegations of toxic workplace culture at Quantic Dream Mormon teens on TikTok are filming themse...

Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. I’m RS Benedict, and I’ll be your waiter this evening. On tonight’s menu, we’re starting off with a discussion about the lack of physicality in contemporary speculative fiction. Then we’ll move on to the entree, in which we chew on why, exactly, it’s so important to consider food in your writing. And for dessert, we will leave you with an...

The average American consumes 100,000 words a day. But what do we retain? What have we learned? We think that bigger is better, and more is better, but what about quality over quantity? Will reading more books make you smarter? Does writing more books mean you’re a better author? And what’s the difference between a binge and a feast? Here to talk about this is Lola Sebastian. Links: Lola’s YouTube...

A sense of place can ground your story, or create a mood, or give it something really unique. Unfortunately, in an era in which we are all way too online, it’s easy to neglect this, and stick our characters in a weird featureless void. So how can we escape the set design from THX-1138 ? One way is by engaging with nature. Here to talk about it is Ashely Adams. Recommended Reading: Annie Dillard “T...

While you studied writing, I studied the blade. While you were having critique sessions, I mastered the parry. While you wasted your days at writing workshops in pursuit of sentence craft I cultivated grip strength. And now that you’re trying to write an epic fantasy novel and you don’t know how to handle swordplay you have the audacity to come to me for help? Well, you’re in the right place. In t...

Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of writing advice out there that doesn’t help you write good. In fact, it helps you write pretty bad. And some of this advice is from professional, published writers. Here to join us once again for another episode about bad writing advice is Mattie Lewis. We talk about the virtues of head hopping, the pr...

There’s a long tradition in Western literature of exoticizing other cultures, particularly the East and the Global South. And recently, there’s been a major effort to undo all that–to de-exoticize the way we depict other cultures. And that’s a a step in the right direction, for sure. Stereotyping and dehumanizing people from other cultures is bad. However, many writers, especially in genre fiction...

In this episode, we talk to Jonny Pickering, founder and editor-in-chief of Seize the Press . [ Transcript here ]   About Rite Gud : Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.  Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing  Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC.  Ri...