Party of One Podcast

Justin C. Key is a speculative fiction and horror author whose new book, The Hospital At The End Of The World, is available in stores now. It's a murder mystery set in the last human-run hospital in a world overrun by a seemingly (but not quite) perfect AI algorithm overseen by a sinister corporation. Talk about an unfortunately timely premise. We sat down to play Tether , a two-player journal...

BONUS EPISODE! In honor of Tacklebox winning a Judge's Spotlight award at the ENnies, please enjoy our latest Party of One Says Go Birds live recording, and join us 7/11 when we sit down with Dan and Marty from Breaking Mayberry for a game of Characters Welcome! Emma is host of Unnatural Selection on the Moonshot Podcast Network, about film adaptations of books, the weird choices Hollywood mak...

Johnny is a professional athlete, professional nerd, and ambassador for all things D&D and tabletop RPGs. You can catch him right now on the Almost Friday TV D&D series on YouTube, running the cast through their first-ever Dungeons & Dragons game. We sat down for an indulgent celebration of all things trope-y tabletop fantasy in a game of Elf With a 10-page Backstory, in which over-the...

Andrew is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but he is also the host of some of my favorite podcasts, including ARGonauts , The Podcast Mines , and Mild Manor'd . We're also sitting down THIS WEEKEND (at the release of this episode) at Moonshot.mov for MOONTROPOLIS, a three-day charity stream raising money for Advocates for Trans Equality We sat down to play The Long Shift by...

Sarah is a Hugo Award Winning and Bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, essays, comics, and more. Their 2025 novel Spread Me , a darkly seductive tale of an otherworldly intruder at an arctic research station, was named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by Vulture, and their new book, Make Me Better , just dropped in stores this week. We sat down to play We Did Start the Fir...

Jadzia is a three-time guest on the show(!), as well as the creator of the smash-hit graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star , and its brand-new sequel, Galaxy: As the World Falls Down . We sit down to talk superhero comics, "Go Birds," and more as we tell a Galaxy fanfiction story using a bespoke Powered by the Apocalypse system! JADZIA AXELROD: https://www.twitter.com/planetx GALAXY: AS...

Isabel is a speculative fiction writer and podcast host ( Wow If True ), whose debut novel, Sublimation , a story of Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border, hits stores on June 2, 2026. We dig deep into the well of metafiction in a game of superhero vs. author in a game of Death of the Author by Blinking Birch Games. ISABEL J. KIM: https://w...

John is a prolific comics writer and artist, and the creator of Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, and Solver. We sat down to play Not a Tabloid, an interview game about an overworked, underqualified tabloid writer trying to guess why they're interviewing their peculiar suspect. It goes places. JOHN ALLISON: https://scarygoround.com/index.html NOT A TABLOID: https://psychhound.itch.io/...

Jax is a freelance game designer, writer, sensitivity reader, editor, and one of the organizers of NotACon: Revenge of the Con! , a three-day summit of games, feelings, and hot-tubbing happening in Millerstown, PA from October 22-25, 2026 (which I'll be attending as a special guest!). We sat down live at Unity Java in Philadelphia, PA, for a weird, intimate, horrific but beautiful game of Insa...

Tom Harrison is one of the brain geniuses behind Anime Sickos , my actual favorite podcast in the world. The show is a dissection of the four pillars of modern misery (Anime, Gaming, Posting, and Jobs), and is honestly everything you could possibly want in a podcast. It's funny, insightful, occasionally righteously angry, and genuinely makes me want to make podcasts. We sat down to play Don&#3...

Ellen is an actor, writer, visual artist, baseball analyst, and lifelong fan of the Philadelphia Phillies (whom I am watching on TV right now... it's good to be back). You can catch them right now in The Housemaid , as a regular contributor to MLB Network's " Off Base ," on a number of award-winning festival features, and on their baseball media podcast Take Me In To Ballgame. We t...

Lachlan is an actor who you can see right now in Y2K , Chucky , The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , and more. We knew we wanted to explore some weird, messy horror, so I couldn't think of a better game than 1978: The Night They Came Home by World Champ Game Co. It's Halloween night. Time for a showdown between survivor and killer. LACHLAN WATSON: https://www.instagram.com/lachrwatson/ 197...

Pat is one of the hosts of Fool of a Took , a Lord of the Rings podcast taking the books one chapter at a time. He is also, coincidentally, one of my oldest and dearest friends. Naturally, we got deep in the Tolkien sauce in a game of Ring Goons, an Tunnel Goons hack about traversing Middle-Earth on grand and epic quests. Recorded live at Unity Java in Philadelphia, PA! FOOL OF A TOOK: https://www...

Jeffrey is a director, audio artist, and sound designer with Audacious Machine Creative , creators of such incredible podcasts as Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery , World Gone Wrong , and their newest show, The Harbingers . We sat down to explore a cursed monument and witness the death of a group of explorers in Chiron's Doom by Nick Bate. AUDACIOUS MACHINE CREATIVE: https://www.audaciousma...

Shenuque is a Queer Sri Lankan actor, writer, comedian, and co-owner of Many Sided Media . You can catch them on tour right now for their new stand-up special Wait, What's Sri Lanka?, as well as on the new Perils & Princesses season of My First Dungeon . We sat down to play Starlight Riders by friend of the show Cesar Capacle, a card-based RPG of heists in outer space. A group of galactic...

Brian is one of the minds behind Many Sided Media , an award-winning podcast production company that specializes in improvised storytelling and immersive audio fiction. You can hear him as the GM on My First Dungeon , especially on its current Perils & Princesses season, as well as one of the interviewers on Talk of the Table . We sat down to play Into the Odd , a rules-light, flavour-heavy ro...

Luke is a podcaster and Twitch streamer who hosts Fortnite Talk Show , in which he jumps into random Fortnite channels and chats with his fellow players like a talk show. He also hosts the show STORES , a podcast about the universal experience of going to stores. We sat down for a science-fantasy adventure in Troika! , a science-fantasy roleplaying game where you and your cosmopolitan group of fel...

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,...

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). LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION: http...

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 superhe...

Hey Party People! A little holiday treat for you: A feed drop of one of my favorite shows, about a topic that is extremely important to me: Comic books. Enjoy this episode of Comic Sans, and then check out the show wherever you get your podcasts! --- Earlier today, the R.S.S. Comic Sans returned safely to Earth after its slingshot voyage around the sun, making Yan and Nat the first — and last — po...

Moonlight On Roseville Beach  is a game of 70s queer disco horror, in which residents of the queerest little town on Rose Island get wrapped up in the increasingly arcane and disturbing mysteries happening just past the edges of perception. The game's designer, Richard Ruane , joined me live at Unity Java - Umbria  to meet the island's newest resident, and discover what nightmares were wai...

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. FRANKIE KEVICH: https://www.fra...

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 c...

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the podcast, Jeff sat down with friend of the show Audrey (from Alone At the Table ) to answer YOUR listener questions... and to shit-talk the movie Twisters. Just a little. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands