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The Robin Seyr Podcast
Was John Nash Satoshi Nakamoto? The Connection Nobody Talks About!
Bryan Solstin: Did John Nash Create Bitcoin and the Theory of "Ideal Money"? (Nobody Talks About)Take your Self-Custody seriously and Get a Microseed:- https://microseed.ioGet the Best Bitcoin Watches ever: - Here: https://www.coinvigilante.com/?ref=robinseyrContact the CyberSecurity & Self Custody Experts from the Bitcoin Way:- 30 mins free call with my link: https://thebitcoinway.com/robinWhere to store your Bitcoin? I personally use a BitBox!- Get a 5% Discount with code "ROBIN"- & visit: https://bitbox.swiss/robinGuest's contact: https://x.com/BryanBSolstinSummaryIn this conversation, Bryan Solsten shares his insights on Bitcoin, its resilience...
2025-08-17
1h 04
LAST MEAL with Tom Nash
Bill Edgar's LAST MEAL (The Pilot)
What if you could speak from the grave? In this episode of Last Meal, I sit down with Bill Edgar, the Coffin Confessor, to talk about his extraordinary job—revealing the final wishes and secrets of the dead at their own funerals. We discuss the unexpected truths people take to the grave, the ethics of exposing secrets, and how facing mortality changes our perception of life and honesty.Bill shares his journey from being a street kid and recounts his harrowing childhood, his transformative love story, and his experiences within the 'death industry.' As...
2025-07-07
28 min
LAST MEAL with Tom Nash
Bill Edgar's LAST MEAL (The Pilot)
What if you could speak from the grave? In this episode of Last Meal, I sit down with Bill Edgar, the Coffin Confessor, to talk about his extraordinary job—revealing the final wishes and secrets of the dead at their own funerals. We discuss the unexpected truths people take to the grave, the ethics of exposing secrets, and how facing mortality changes our perception of life and honesty.Bill shares his journey from being a street kid and recounts his harrowing childhood, his transformative love story, and his experiences within the 'death industry.' As...
2025-07-07
28 min
Evidential Faith
The Fine-Tuning Argument (S1E3)
This week we discuss another popular argument for the existence of God, the Fine-Tuning Argument. Join us as we discuss the incredible precision with which the universe was created to sustain life.Below are some Bible verses and sources we have cited or mentioned in this episode. Please note that these citations may not be in order, and this list may not be exhaustive. However, we have done our best to credit any sources referenced in this episode. Thanks!Biblical References: Psalm 19:1Extra Biblical References: “DO...
2025-06-18
21 min
The Robin Seyr Podcast
Satoshi Nakamoto REVEALED! Who is the Creator of Bitcoin?
The BEST Theory on Who Satoshi Nakamoto actually is! Get the Best Bitcoin Watches ever: - Here: https://www.coinvigilante.com/?ref=robinseyr Where to store your Bitcoin? I personally use a BitBox! - Get a 5% Discount with code "ROBIN" - & visit: https://bitbox.swiss/robin Contact the CyberSecurity & Self Custody Experts from the Bitcoin Way: - 30 mins free call with my link: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/partners/robin Guest's contact: https://x.com/BryanBSolstin !!! Disclaimer: This content is for educational and/or entertainment purposes only. The views expressed by Robin Seyr and guests are their own and do...
2025-01-08
1h 08
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Where’s All My Bones Gone?
It’s time to rattle some paper in the Gaming Hut as we discuss character sheet design. After that, a deluge, as the Archaeology Hut, at the behest of beloved Patreon backer Niclas Matikainen, studies the sunken city of Rungholt. Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else features game designer and military consultant for media and gaming properties Anthony Joyce-Rivera. Finally, as suggested by estimable backer the Molten Sulfur Blog, the Eliptony Hut looks at 19th century medical educator, grave robber, arsenal keeper and sp...
2024-10-11
1h 15
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Live at Dragonmeet 2023
Our annual live episode recorded at London’s Dragonmeet finds our audience of expert questioners in a substantive mood. Accordingly, after nerdtroping WWII and the Peloponnesian war and contemplating high end snacks, we look at the unsolved problems of gaming, solo game design, troupe play and so much more. That puts 2023 in the rearview mirror for us. Enjoy the holiday you celebrate and rejoin us in the weird future of 2024. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!...
2023-12-22
44 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Live at Gen Con 2023
Ken and Robin were together once more for a live show at Gen Con, and here it is, with the mystical confluence of Elvis, Ben Franklin, and zombies, plus harissa, fancy liquor labeling, our nemeses, why Robin would never have Ken assassinated, Schrodinger’s frogs, and what the hamsters and guinea pigs are really up to. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is no...
2023-09-15
46 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
If Sauron Was an Eye of Love
For the first time since the Great Unpleasantness, not only Ken but also Robin made it to Gen Con. Picking up a tradition where it left off, we devote the episode to recapping our experience there. From the new stuff at the Pelgrane booth, from the flow of the show to the state of the industry, with maybe a note or two about Indianapolis food, we are here to report. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!
2023-08-18
1h 00
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
B-52s are Just Very Large Horses
Get your spreadsheets and notebooks out because in the Gaming Hut we’re talking bluebook-heavy games. In the Command Hut beloved Patreon backer Andrew Miller waves his saber to precipitate a discussion of the Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky, and whether it was in fact history’s last significant cavalry charge. The lucky thirteenth chapter of our Cinema Hut Science Fiction Essentials series takes us to the late 70s, starting with the lightsaber-wielding film that changed the genre forever. Finally in the Eliptony Hut we get drunk and play with...
2023-04-28
1h 11
6 Ranch Podcast
Whitewater River Expeditions, with Robin Pace
Robin Pace has spent literal years of her life on rivers. She’s been a rafting guide for the past 11 years, rowing some of the biggest whitewater out there. As a former guide myself with the same company, Robin and I had a good talk about all thing’s whitewater. We covered some basics like cooler hacks, gear preferences, and camp cooking, while also getting into it with stories of big water, injuries, and flipped boats. The adrenaline filled sensation of rowing class V rapids is something few people ever experience, but through Robin's stories and expertise, you'll get a ta...
2023-04-17
1h 01
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Truffle Bulettes
In the Gaming Hut we examine the social contract of F20, specifically whether players want the GM to move the boss fight into a room convenient to session pacing. Part eleven of our Cinema Hut science fiction essentials series takes us to the malaise of the early seventies. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken chats with Christopher Robin Negelein about his Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG. Look for it on Kickstarter. Finally beloved Patreon backer Ed Sizemore beckons us into the Eliptony Hut to learn more...
2023-04-14
1h 10
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Classic Snake Swap-Out
We begin in the Gaming Hut as beloved Patreon backer Ludovic Chabant asks for tips on porting the single-protagonist assumptions of much genre source material to the party-driven play typical to tabletop roleplaying. The Cinema Hut takes place in the shadow of a certain monolith as installment ten of our Science Fiction Cinema Essentials reaches the late 60s and early 70s. We’ve talked about sidekick campaigns before. In Ask Ken and Robin, revered backer Peter Adkison points out that we haven’t talked about running one centered around noted chrononaut Kenneth Hite.
2023-04-07
1h 01
The Leap Lifestyle Podcast
How To Approach Wedding Design with Robin Baab Olascoaga
This week on The Leap Lifestyle Podcast, I'm thrilled to welcome Wedding Planner and Designer Robin Baab Olascoaga from Los Angeles based RMBO Collective to the show. I have long admired Robin and her beautiful, unique wedding designs, and today she's sharing with us how to approach your wedding design.Some of the highlights of our conversation include:--Be original in with your wedding design! Almost every couple we work with tells us they want to create an original design, but it's very easy to fall into the trap of finding inspiration and recreating it. Robin's...
2023-03-15
36 min
Sugar Radio Show
Sugar Radio Show 375 | Robin Schulz
Follow me: Website: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulz Facebook: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzfacebook Spotify: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzspotify YouTube: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzyoutube Twitter: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulztwitter Instagram: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzinstagram 1. Pump the Noise – Block & Crown & Lissat 2. Into the Light – Matt Nash 3. You Are a God – Mark Knight, James Hurr & Cari Golden 4. Not a Test – KEELD & Frents 5. Go! – Alecs 6. We Come 2022 – Faithless 7. Rhymorator – LOVRA 8. Curious – Wiwek 9. Brainstorm – Lee Cabrera, Dean Mickoski & Rion S 10. Clap Y...
2023-03-09
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Bring Me the Incompetent Laggard File
We appear to be stuck in the Gaming Hut as beloved Patreon backer Walter Manbeck seeks tips on scenarios set in confined spaces. In the Tradecraft Hut estimable backer Dan L seeks gaming inspiration from Operation Pedro Pan, a covert effort to migrate unaccompanied teens and kids to the US from early 60s Cuba. The Cinema Hut Science Fiction Essentials series reaches the mid-1950s and some all-time classic creature features. Finally Ken’s Time Machine travels to and interferes with the early 20th century French political scandal known as the Af...
2023-03-03
1h 08
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
A Box Somewhere in Scotland
In the Gaming Hut we ask ourselves what we would pitch to Disney if they asked us to design an F20 game using their characters. Beloved Patreon backer Toonspew draws us to the Monster Hut to contemplate the prospect of evil unicorns. We take our seats in the Cinema Hut for installment five of our Science Fiction Cinema Essentials and more classics of the early 50s. Finally in the Eliptony Hut we peer into the Premonitions Bureau, a late 60s British project to record psychic predictions. Want to pose...
2023-02-24
1h 03
Sugar Radio Show
Sugar Radio Show 373 | Robin Schulz
Follow me: Website: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulz Facebook: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzfacebook Spotify: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzspotify YouTube: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzyoutube Twitter: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulztwitter Instagram: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzinstagram 1. Pump the Noise – Block & Crown & Lissat 2. Into the Light – Matt Nash 3. You Are a God – Mark Knight, James Hurr & Cari Golden 4. Not a Test – KEELD & Frents 5. Go! – Alecs 6. We Come 2022 – Faithless 7. Rhymorator – LOVRA 8. Curious – Wiwek 9. Brainstorm – Lee Cabrera, Dean Mickoski & Rion S 10. Clap Y...
2023-02-23
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
NASA is Not in the Neck Adjustment Business
The topic may be vagueness but the analysis remains sharp as the Gaming Hut looks at open questions and unsolved mysteries in RPG setting material. In Fun With Science, we look for plot hooks in the ChatGPT AI text generator, including the inevitable query about its Mythos implications from beloved Patreon backer Tom Abella. The Cinema Hut reaches part four of the Science Fiction Film Essentials series, as the genre finally hits full boil in the hopeful but paranoid early 50s. Finally, at the behest of inquiring backer Sam Rutzick, the...
2023-02-17
1h 06
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Manimal Utopia
Beloved Patreon backer Michael Gemar requests that The Business of Gaming tackle Wizards of the Coast’s latest adventures in managing the Dungeons and Dragons Open License. We thought that would be one segment. Hear it, in real time, turn into three! That leaves room for the Cinema Hut’s Science Fiction Film Essentials series to reach the sound era, and the 1930s, when the laboratory becomes a wellspring of gothic terror. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KART...
2023-02-10
1h 05
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Best Non-Answer of the 19th Century
In the Gaming Hut we look at what characters should do more often in horror: run! At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Eric Saltwell, the Word Hut seeks the real truth behind Unicode ghost kanji. In part two of our Cinema Hut Science Fiction Essentials series, we finally get to some actual movies, the precursors (and one classic) of the silent era. Finally Ken’s Time Machine fuels itself on some high-octane introductory exposition as fiendishly clever backer Philip Masters asks our. chrononaut to come up with a fresh answer to...
2023-02-03
1h 08
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
In Which Ken Is Shot
In the Gaming Hut we remember our friend and colleague Darren Watts, prolific Champions designer and former head of Hero Games. The Crime Blotter comes a little too close to home for comfort as Ken tells the story of his recent shooting. We kick off a new series in the Cinema Hut, Science Fiction Cinema Essentials. Due to the porousness of the genre we train our radium oscilloscopes on some definitions and ground rules before getting started with earliest examples. Finally another undead bloodsucker sneaks into the Eliptony Hut, this time...
2023-01-27
1h 02
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
The Copts Still Have His Head
In response to this Caity Weaver New York Times Magazine article, beloved Patreon backer Scott Wachter makes the Gaming Hut a very quiet place indeed by asking us for the scenario possibilities of anechoic chambers. Estimable backer Ray Slakinski beckons us to the Northern Ontario location of the Horror Hut to discuss the Wilno vampire. Speaking of horror, Ken and Robin Recycle Audio completes its highlights of the Horror Roleplaying Masterclass from Dragonmeet. Finally the Consulting Occultist meets erudite backer Jamie Twine in a gondola for a survey of the weird...
2023-01-20
55 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 530: More Than One Adida
Fire up your automated die rollers as the Gaming Hut goes digital to answer beloved Patreon backer Marc Kevin Hall’s request for guidance on running tabletop RPGs online. In the History Hut, unswerving backer Jeromy French unwittingly illuminates the number one rule of Canadian history by seeking the secrets behind the assassination of Ontario newspaperman and politician George Brown. Then Ken and Robin Recycle Audio with more answers from the Dragonmeet Horror Roleplaying Masterclass, also starring our boon compadre Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan. Finally pitch-traversing backer Neil Barnes revs up Ken’s Time...
2023-01-13
1h 02
Small Changes Big Shifts
Reflection & Lessons to Take Forward Into 2023 with Dr. Michelle Robin
"You can't run from your passion or your purpose, it will try to find you." - Dr. Michelle Robin Dr. Michelle Robin gives listeners a special treat today – a solo episode that celebrates the beginning of her 10th season of the podcast. She will share the story behind how the podcast was born, but more importantly, what has propelled her to continue making episodes all these years later. She will also highlight the most memorable conversations and moments she's had with guests over the years. If you are seeking guidance on to remain true to yourself, and gr...
2023-01-08
38 min
Small Changes Big Shifts
Reflection & Lessons to Take Forward Into 2023 with Dr. Michelle Robin
"You can't run from your passion or your purpose, it will try to find you." - Dr. Michelle Robin Dr. Michelle Robin gives listeners a special treat today – a solo episode that celebrates the beginning of her 10th season of the podcast. She will share the story behind how the podcast was born, but more importantly, what has propelled her to continue making episodes all these years later. She will also highlight the most memorable conversations and moments she's had with guests over the years. If you are seeking guidance on to remain true to yourself, and gr...
2023-01-08
38 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
More Cryptids Than It Can Consume Domestically
We start by whittling some polyhedrals in the Gaming Hut, as beloved Patreon backer Derrick Yates asks us to sketch out an Appalachian cryptid campaign. In The Business of Gaming we discuss another reason the books you’re waiting for are late, the great freelancer / creator crash-out of 2022. Then another long dormant segment returns, as Ken and Robin Recycle Audio from the Dragonmeet Horror Roleplaying Masterclass. Finally alien ears perk up in the Eliptony Hut as we profile UFO gadfly Gray Barker. Want to pose a question to the sh...
2023-01-06
1h 11
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Neptune Reveal Party
In the Gaming Hut we look at scenario text as a place to put GM advice. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Bret Kramer the History Hut hosts the tale of German-born eventual doctor Gottfried Knoche, who in the late 19th century took his penchant for mummification innovation to Venezuela. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken chats with Heather O’Neill, designer of Meeple Party and Schrödinger’s Cats. Finally, our hero revs up Ken’s Time Machine to assist the Antemnates against Romulus, the first k...
2022-12-02
1h 11
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Let’s Just Dump It in the West
In the Gaming Hut we mull a peculiar property of RPGs as narrative, the expectation that a scenario will set up more plot elements than it actually pays off. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Jurie Horneman, the Cartography Hut gets out a map to look at the 50 square mile legal loophole known as Yellowstone’s Zone of Death. Then the Tradecraft Hut delves into recent headlines suggesting that the Chinese government has set up clandestine police stations throughout the world, including three of them in Robin’s Toronto stomping grounds. Fi...
2022-11-25
1h 02
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Pre-Rex
As noted wearers of colorful shirts, we are uniquely qualified to enter a Hawaiian edition of the Gaming Hut. There we respond to the call of beloved Patreon backer Kristian Groenseth, who wants to us to fit Magnum P.I. into Trail of Cthulhu. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks with J-M and Trish deFoggi about projects incluuuuding 13th Age books and their Dark Owl publishing company. With the remarkably preserved fossil of the nodosaur Borealopelta back in the news, estimable backer Ross Ireland wants to know whether...
2022-11-11
1h 03
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Everything Weak and Flimsy
The Gaming Hut as always uses Skynet for your benefit, providing ways to use AI art at your roleplaying table. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks to two someones: Katarzyna “Kate” Kuczynska and Marcin “Martin” Kuczynski of Game Machinery, publisher of the Defiant Roleplaying Game. In the Horror Hut we look at character likeability in the genre of terror and monstrosity. Finally the Eliptony Hut tunes into stony vibrations as beloved Patreon backer Shon Richards asks us to weigh in on the geomantic claims of wacky NYC mayo...
2022-10-21
1h 06
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Kinda Goopy
The first annual Robin and Valerie International Film Festival has come to an end, and just like TIFF before it, that means Robin has a list of movies to recommend to you in the Cinema Hut. The twist: this time you can find and watch them right away. Then in The Business of Gaming we look at sudden tsunami of AI art, and the potential and pitfalls of using generated illustrations in gaming products. Finally Ken’s Time Machine has some tsar-kicking to do as our hero introduces some late edits into Poland’s Jan...
2022-10-07
1h 13
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Live from Gen Con 2022
Rob Heinsoo and Gareth-Ryder Hanrahan step in for a sadly absent Robin as the annual live episode from Gen Con returns from the slumber of Pandemicland. They join Ken for a robust discussion of talking animals in the War of the First Coalition, Malort, why The King in Yellow gets restaged all the time, dealing with player absence in our chaotic times, steak rareness, guest stars at the gaming table, and the Ferris Wheel made of Ararat timbers. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support...
2022-09-23
51 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Tiptoe Away from His Flailing Proboscis
The Gaming Hut exists in all dimensions as beloved Patreon backer Jacob Boersma asks how to giving Evelyn Wang’s multiversal powers from Everything Everywhere All at Once to player characters. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks to Cody Swendrowski, developer for the Foundry virtual tabletop platform, who tells how its community focus distinguishes it from its competitors, and of his forays into streaming and podcasting. Discerning backer Eric (Speaker in Digressions) buys a ticket to the Horror Hut to ask how to apply the cool conceit of Pr...
2022-09-09
59 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
I Just Wanted to Say Astrosome
Foul sorcerers flee the Gaming Hut as beloved Patreon backer Jesse Lowe asks for the best Earth-based setting for swords and sorcery—the Hellenistic Era excepted, of course. In Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, designer Gwen Marshall joins Ken to discuss the thinking behind such acclaimed projects as the ENnie-winning Ancestry & Culture and S5E: Superheroic Roleplaying. The Monster Hut gets philosophical for a look at egregores in mythology and gaming. Finally the Consulting Occultist lets love into his heart for a profile of songwriter, polemicist and free lo...
2022-08-26
1h 00
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 510: The Worst Chocolate, The Worst Cake
Normally a post-Gen Con debrief takes up an entire episode. But since only one of us was there, Ken gives Robin the lowdown in a double-header Travel Advisory segment. In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Mikey Hamm wants to emulate genres in which death is threatened but never actually happens. We conclude with Ken’s Time Machine, as our hero considers which figure of the Old West he would most like to save from untimely death, and what changes to the timestream his intervention would wreak. Want to pose a qu...
2022-08-19
48 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Charismatic Megafauna of Food
In the Gaming Hut we demonstrate how to dovetail player-created character hooks into your scenario, as Ken proposes a Freaking Weird Moment for his This is Normal Now character and Robin weaves it into a trio of mystery premises. The Culture Hut uncovers a Dreamhound of Chicago, 30s surrealist painter Gertrude Abercrombie. Then we duck into the Food Hut to make a list of defunct food products we might just use Ken’s Time Machine to stock up on. Our final stop takes us to the Eliptony Hut, as we review th...
2022-08-12
1h 05
Before You Were Born
Fast Facts: Nixon Resigns, Jesse Owen Shines and T-Rex Finds - The Vault
From the Vault (2017) - This week on Fast Facts, we go from the 8 - 12 August, including: 8 August 1974 - Nixon Resigns as President 8 August 1988 - Straight Outta Compton Released 9 August 1934 - Jesse Owens Wins Gold 11 August 2014 - Robin William passes away 12 August 1990 - T-Rex Skeleton Discovered Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harry.and.nash/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NashandHarry/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN2VmreRCK0zWPiQnI8AEJQ Make sure to like and subscribe!
2022-08-08
05 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
KARTAS A-Z
On August 2, 2012, the first installment of Ken and Robin Talks About Stuff debuted to a waiting gaming world. For our recent 500th episode celebration, we held the traditional Lightning Round. For this extra special anniversary, we take a look back at the show, its topics and its origins with an A to Z of KARTAS. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and...
2022-08-05
1h 09
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
His Bonaparte Eyes
The Gaming Hut floats further from land than it ever has as beloved Patreon backer Alden Strock seeks the tabletop uses of Point Nemo, the planet’s literal middle of nowhere. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks to author Ben Riggs about his history of TSR, Slaying the Dragon, now orderable from MacMillan. The Food Hut hops on a train to check out the oldest chain restaurant in America, along with the rest of the food and hospitality empire that was the Fred Harvey Company. Finally es...
2022-07-22
1h 09
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
LIGHTNING ROUND!!!
We don’t believe it, you don’t believe it, but it’s true all the same. Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff has reached that milestone of milestones, Episode 500. Which means, thanks to the perspicacious queries of our beloved Patreon backers, it is once again time for… LIGHTNING ROUND!!! Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running. Also check out the...
2022-06-10
1h 12
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
The Easily Discouraged Ones
In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Bill Durfy asks us to provide advice for budding professional GMs. The Tradecraft Hut looks at John Stonehouse, a British MP who spied for the Czechs and wound up ineptly faking his own death. In Ask Ken and Robin stylish backer Joe Webb asks Robin if his head exploded when the Met Gala paid homage to the era of the King in Yellow. Finally in the Eliptony Hut mysterious markings in the Sahara have discerning backer Michael Gemar wondering what lies behind the flimsy...
2022-06-03
59 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Stormy Petrels of Crime
In the Gaming Hut, we look at the elements that ought to go into an introductory scenario. Beloved Patreon backer Todd W. Olson has not left the building, but has rather entered the Culture Hut, as he asks how Elvis Presley’s 1968 Comeback Special might reverberate in Fall of DELTA GREEN. In Ask Ken and Robin, esteemed backer Neil Barnes wonders what kind of superhero universe might be shifted into existence by the dread machinations of the King in Yellow. Finally a Mother Jones piece by Rene Ebersole inspires an Eliptony Hu...
2022-04-08
1h 04
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
They Left the Irony Bridge Intact
In the Gaming Hut we lay out goals the GM should set for convention games and other one-shots. The Command Hut looks at an invasion of a smaller power by a larger one that has somewhat fallen down the memory hole: the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. Beloved Patreon backers such as Gabriel Rossman demanded that we address the escape of evil fox spirit Tamomo-n0-mae from the rock that imprisons her, occasioning a segment we call Ripped From the Headlines. Finally the Consulting Occultist examines the esoteric influence on, and of, Swami...
2022-04-01
1h 06
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 489: Ideally a Themologue
In the Gaming Hut we look at that most elusive of GM skills: knowing when to shut up. The smell of ancient newsprint pervades the Horror Hut as beloved Patreon backer Jamie Twine seeks the connection between the King and Yellow and his contemporary, early newspaper comics character the Yellow Kid. Finally, the imminence of the Academy Awards ceremony means it’s time for our annual tradition, our Cinema Hut roundup of our favorite films of 2021. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with yo...
2022-03-25
00 min
The Trail Went Cold
The Trail Went Cold - Episode 261 - Gracie Nash & John Davis Jr.
December 26, 1983. Austin, Texas. After leaving her workplace, 39-year old Gracie Nash vanishes without a trace and her abandoned car is soon discovered with a large amount of blood inside. Just over one month later, Gracie’s brother, 43-year old John Davis Jr., is fatally shot outside his residence. Suspicion falls upon a woman named Naomi Easley, who had launched a campaign of harassment and violence against the victims’ brother, Melvin Davis, after a tumultuous break-up. Even though Naomi eventually goes to prison for another murder, no evidence links her to Gracie’s disappearance or John’s death. On this week’s e...
2022-01-26
37 min
The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt
Lettuce Garden, Or Not.
Send us a textDee and Carol talk about flower seed sources, the year of the salad greens, beneficial insects and more on this week's episode.A few helpful links!Dee's blog post of indoor bloomsFlower Seed Sources:Floret’s List of Flower Seed Companies. A sweet pea seed source, Ardelia FarmDiane’s Flower Seeds Eden Brothers: heirloom and open-pollinated seeds. Renee’s Garden SeedsNan Ondra’s Seeds National Garden Bureau declares it's the Year of the Sa...
2022-01-19
40 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Romance and Blasphemy
Hey look it’s another all-request episode! Beloved Patreon backer Kieron Gillen opens the Gaming Hut, which we hope isn’t a portal into a hellish otherrealm, to ask how designers screen out their skill as GMs during in-house playtests. Erudite backer Bruce Miller infiltrates the Book Hut to ask about Richard Marsh’s The Beetle, a horror novel that for twenty years out-sold Dracula. In Ask Ken and Robin, estimable backer Martin Rundkvist asks how Robin, and by extension Ken, goes about choosing projects. Finally sagacious backer Paul Dougla...
2021-12-10
1h 07
Sugar Radio Show
Sugar Radio Show 310 | Robin Schulz
Follow me: Website: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulz Facebook: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzfacebook Spotify: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzspotify YouTube: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzyoutube Twitter: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulztwitter Instagram: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzinstagram 1. Changes – Faul & Wad Ad & PNAU 2. Just Feels Tight – FISHER 3. Rooftops – Matt Nash & Leo Stannard 4. Not Over Yet – Tom Staar 5. Watch The Sunrise (Avicii Bootleg) – Axwell Feat. Steve Edwards (COTW) 6. Wanyama – Bolier & Robby East 7. Pondicherry – DJ Snake & Malaa 8. Pepas (Robin Schulz Remix) – Farruko & Robin Schulz
2021-12-09
1h 00
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Running Away from a Bush
An all-request episode kicks off with a Gaming Hut question from beloved backer Tom Abella, who wants to know if, when playtesting, there is such a thing as too good a GM. Estimable backer Elias Helfer climbs all the way to the summit of the Tradecraft Hut to seek knowledge of Hassan-i Sabbah. In Ask Ken and Robin, sagacious backer Michael David Jr. seeks guidance on a Mutant City Blues / Yellow King mash-up. Finally, sleek and wily backer Ross Ireland inquires after a staple of the Eliptony Hut we’ve never qu...
2021-11-20
1h 09
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Running Away from a Bush
An all-request episode kicks off with a Gaming Hut question from beloved backer Tom Abella, who wants to know if, when playtesting, there is such a thing as too good a GM. Estimable backer Elias Helfer climbs all the way to the summit of the Tradecraft Hut to seek knowledge of Hassan-i Sabbah. In Ask Ken and Robin, sagacious backer Michael David Jr. seeks guidance on a Mutant City Blues / Yellow King mash-up. Finally, sleek and wily backer Ross Ireland inquires after a staple of the Eliptony Hut we’ve never qu...
2021-11-19
1h 09
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Snailteaser
The Gaming Hut axes of RPG design series turns toward setting for its next opposition, Canon vs. Open. Ken is back from the Chicago Film Festival to report on his findings in the Cinema Hut. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Tristan Zimmerman of the Molten Sulfur Blog talks up his game, Shanty Hunter, on Kickstarter from November 2nd. Finally we rev up Ken’s Time Machine to tackle, possibly once again, a perennial question: what does the world look like if Franz Ferdinand escapes assassination? Wa...
2021-11-05
1h 05
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Weird Mushroom Things and a Swirl Over There
Our Gaming Hut look at the axes of roleplaying game design continues with the previously teased Ease versus Mastery. In Ask Ken and Robin beloved Patreon backer Joe Webb takes the bait and requests the previously teased adventures of T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves. The Culture Hut looks at the changing moods of SF illustration from the 30s to today. Finally estimable Patreon backer P. O’Neil seeks the Consulting Occultist’s files on a Theosophist retirement community in Ojai, California. Want to pose a question to the show...
2021-10-22
1h 13
The Author's Corner
Episode #32: Market Your Genius: Nikki Nash Shares How to Monetize Your Unique Skills and Passions
How do you monetize and market your genius? How do you start a business off of your skills and passion? In this episode, Robin Colucci talks to Nikki Nash, founder of Market Your Genius as she shares her twin passions of marketing and branding. Nikki discusses how important marketing is to your brand and why books are a great marketing tool to promote monetizing your skills and passion. Tune in to learn more marketing lessons from Nikki and Robin.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Jo...
2021-10-21
50 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Can We Make It Blow Up?
Our Gaming Hut series on axes of roleplaying design continues with Robin’s handling cost opposition, Harmonica versus Violin. In the Architecture Hut, beloved Patreon backer Anders Gabrielsson seeks the truth about Chicago’s Midway Gardens. Robin picks up a foreshadowed Cinema Hut thread on the changing face of international film, from access to style. Finally estimable Patreon backer Ben Vincent wants to know what Ken’s Time Machine might have had to do with a report of a WWII Japanese A-bomb test in Korea. Want to pose a questi...
2021-10-15
1h 10
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Sour Joe
If it’s September, it must be, uh, Gen Con? Ken kicks off with a Travel Advisory on how the in-person side of the event went. Speaking of unusual versions of long running events, Robin opens up the Cinema Hut to provide highlights of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and to make a stunning announcement. Our Gaming Hut series on principles and axes of tabletop design looks at Applicability, and whatever the positive opposite of that turns out to be. Finally, in Ask Ken and Robin, beloved supporter Charles Cool...
2021-10-01
56 min
Nomad Podcast
Robin Parry - A Hope in Hell? [Revisited] (N256)
Every month we produce a podcast for our supporters called Nomad Revisited. In each episode Tim Nash and Nick Thorley enter the Nomad archive and chose an episode from the last 12 years, and spend an hour or so reflecting on how their faith has evolved since then. It’s an exercise in self forgiveness and compassion, as they are often confronted with terrible interview technique, poor audio quality and very earnest, evangelical theology! This month we thought we’d put one of these episode on Nomad’s main feed, as a free taster. It’s a 2014 conversation with the author o...
2021-09-10
1h 40
Because I'm Right The Podcast
PYOPod 8/12 #DennisSchroder #Olympic #Robin #LGBTQ #Prostitute #QuentinTarantino #Oohh&Aahh #Rodent
PYOPod 8/12 #DennisSchroder #Olympic #Robin #LGBTQ #Prostitute #QuentinTarantino #Oohh&Aahh #Rodent Share this podcast and leave your comments, we are interested in what you think whether you agree or not Subscribe to us on YouTube @ https://youtube.com/phuckyouropinion Follow us on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/pyopod Follow us on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/bigdonstudd?s=09 Follow us on Instagram @ www.instagram.com/pyopod Follow us on Twitch @ https://www.twitch.tv/dgnvizhen Music by XXXNATHYNEORA - HEARTBROKEN IN THE HILLS
2021-08-14
2h 05
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 435: Unreliable Satanists
Sidle up to the Gaming Hut as we provide tips on bringing your player characters into historical events. In Ask Ken and Robin, beloved Patreon backer Dennis Harlow asks us to add detail and credibility to something Anton LaVey made up. Specifically that King in Yellow author Robert W. Chambers discovered the actual play while engaged in espionage. A massive pile up of Horror Essentials awaits us as we enter the early 80s in the Cinema Hut. How far can we get in one segment? Finally enigmatic Patreon backer Bt taps...
2021-03-05
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 434: Fight the Mimes
Beloved Patreon backer Michael Curtis dons a Nehru jacket and John Lennon glasses to duck into the Gaming Hut for tips on running occult investigation in Swingin’ London. In part 9 of the Cinema Hut Horror Essentials series, we reach the late 70s, and the rise of the horror auteurs. Ripped from the Headlines gives us a break from incessant day-trading as we turn the Gamestop stock story into a scenario hook for The Yellow King RPG’s This is Normal Now sequence. Finally esteemed Patreon backer Gerald Sears seeks the aid of K...
2021-02-26
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 433: Leave Out a Syllable For Elijah
The Gaming Hut nestles next to an apothecary and a retailer of used armor pieces as we suggest techniques to populate buildings for a city sourcebook. Fright film enters the psychic hangover of the Watergate era in the latest installment of the Cinema Hut’s horror essentials series. You wouldn’t think that familiarity with paranormal lore would provide insight into the charlatanry of speed reading, but that’s because you haven’t yet thought about it in the Eliptony Hut. For full details, see Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Spe...
2021-02-19
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 432: Smart Shark Money
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Jacob Ansari seeks tips on introducing complex settings to the players. Part 8 of our Cinema Hut horror essentials series sees the genre take an apocalyptic turn amid the turmoil of the late 60s and early 70s. Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes arise from following bad instructions. In the Food Hut we look at wrong cooking tips we learned about through bitter experience. When it comes to an Eliptony Hut story, the Tsarichina Hole has it all: prophetic dreams, ancient treasure, revolutionary heroes, UFOs...
2021-02-12
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 431: Working for Bigfoot
Keep that Abingdon Island giant tortoise under a blanket as beloved Patreon backer Kevin L. Nault beckons us into the Gaming Hut to work animal trafficking into RPG scenarios. Part 6 of our Cinema Hut horror essentials series continues the 60s gothic resurgence, and we assure you this segment wouldn’t hurt a fly. Plangent notes ring through the Culture Hut as esteemed Patreon backer Ethan “Mr. E” Schoonover seeks the terrifying reality behind composer Erik Satie’s Vexations. Finally the Holy Roman Empire once again rears its head as perceptive Patreon backer P...
2021-02-05
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 430: Look What’s Happened to Consensus Reality
Classic occult conspiracy meets eldritch espionage when beloved Patreon backer Daniel Fidelman pokes his head into the Gaming Hut, asking how to incorporate Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier’s The Morning of the Magicians into THE FALL OF DELTA GREEN. Our Cinema Hut Horror Essentials series hits a turning point in screen shock history, as the 60s beckon, bringing with them a return to the gothic. In Ask Ken and Robin, esteemed Patreon backer Josh Borlase asks us to name our favorite Old Ones. Hope the runners-up aren’t jealous! Finally, Ken’...
2021-01-29
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 429: It Will Make a Lovely Allegory
In a co-production between the Mythology Hut and the T-Shirt Justification Hut, a particularly mournful example of the species inspires us to find ways to put the phoenix in your games. Then put the phoenix on yourself, or around your morning coffee, by saying Oh No, Not This Again at the Ken and Robin merch store. Beloved Patreon backer Jeff Kahrs bids us into the Book Hut to discuss the legacy of John le Carré. Part four of our Cinema Hut horror essential series brings us to the 50s, heyday of science horror.
2021-01-22
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 428: Only a Modernist Horse
In the Gaming Hut we return to that perennial, not at all distracting topic of the red herring, as beloved Patreon backer Kevin Greenlee asks how to work player-generated herrings into the drama. Then we take Interstate 71 to the Architecture Hut, where esteemed Patreon backer Tom Abella wants to know what the deal is with the old Public Library of Cincinnati. Cinema Hut Horror Essentials continues with the early 40s, over which the shadow of Val Lewton looms large. Finally the Consulting Occultist dons his paisley smoking jacket for an inquiry...
2021-01-15
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 427: Poor Bactrian Saps
We’re back for another year, starting in the Gaming Hut, where beloved Patreon backer Nicola Wilson wants to know how to incorporate the relatively high cost of clothes and food in the Middle Ages into an investigative game. In the Tradecraft Hut we examine the mid-2000s Pentagon-sponsored first-person shooter Iraqi Hero, and the use Dracula made of it. The second installment of the Cinema Hut’s Horror Essentials series tackles that most fertile of eras for the genre, the early 30s. Finally Ken’s Time Machine creates a timeline where...
2021-01-08
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 426: Licensed Mumming
In our last episode of 2020 we lurch, masked and tipsy, into the Kringle Hut, to fashion a horror scenario around the Newfoundland tradition of mummering. Beloved Patreon backer Noel Warford convenes a session of Ask Ken and Robin to inquire into the cosmology of his Hellenistika project. In the Cinema Hut we kick off a series exploring Horror movie essentials. We’re going chronologically so let’s start with the silent era and see how far 15 minutes will take us. Finally the Eliptony Hut whisks us to Brazil in the 60s for...
2020-12-18
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 425: Pork Chop of the Truth
In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Jacob Boersma asks how, with conspiracies theories going mainstream, we should create them for our horror games. In Ripped from the Headlines, backer Gray St. Quintin asks for the real story behind Carpathian tree poaching. We talk for a while and then get abruptly canceled in the Television Hut, as we look at the impact of streaming on TV structure. Finally the Consulting Occultist reviews the case files from the 1968 robbery of Israel Regardie’s Los Angeles library. Want to pose a qu...
2020-12-11
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 424: Reverse Darwinism
In the Gaming Hut we discuss a key difference between RPG settings and the real world: imaginary politics has a lot more smart people in it. Beloved Patreon backer Andrew Miller lures us into an especially osseous Archaeology Hut to contemplate the mammoth bone temple of Kostenki. In Ask Ken and Robin, esteemed backer Craig Maloney doesn’t want us to forget the Motor City as he demands the hidden Mythos secrets of Detroit. Then in Ken’s Time Machine we check out the timeline where the First Sino-Japanese War never happ...
2020-12-04
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 423: The Mysterious G
In the Gaming Hut, Lisa Steele and Neil Fortier ask how to adjust Robin’s police procedural superhero game, Mutant City Blues, in the wake of the George Floyd murder. George III’s topographical collection has gone online, prompting a Cartography Hut focused on one of its treasures—a very RPG-looking map of the fort and barracks at Mount Pleasant, Maryland. Beloved Patreon backer Jesse Lowe calls for a Culture Hut field trip to the Maryhill Museum, founded by Queen Marie of Romania and Yellow King Roleplaying Game historical figure Loie Fuller. Fina...
2020-11-27
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 421: The Lawful Evil Parade [Corrected]
In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer David Sowa asks us how to incorporate machine politics into an F20 game. Ken beckons us into the Cinema Hut to discuss his discoveries at this year’s virtual edition of the Chicago Film Festival. Ask Ken and Robin features a request from flinty Patreon backer to find the gaming fun in a field of abandoned President heads. Finally we use Ken’s Time Machine to see what the world looks like if an attempted hit on the Shah of Iran in 1949 went off as p...
2020-11-13
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 413: Live from Gen Con Online
Convention season has gone into hibernation, but that didn’t stop us from doing a live episode at Gen Con Online. The Nerdtrope deck served up a duplicate, but that didn’t stop us from sticking in a ringer. Robin’s Internet was spotty, but that didn’t stop Ken from vamping in his absence. Robin’s mic had to be closer to his humming desktop than a normal episode, but that didn’t stop heroic audio editor Rob Borges from saving the technical day! Join us in not stopping the show as we all dream of a return to...
2020-09-18
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 408: Not That My Players Would Do Anything Like That
In lieu of our usual Gen Con wrap, we reach for an all-request episode. Beloved Patreon backer Lauberfen meets us in the Gaming Hut to ask how to incorporate TPKs and character death into the narrative. Inquiring Patreon backer Nikolaj picks up on a past cue from Robin to ask for a Crime Blotter rounding up the more colorful incidents of RCMP misconduct. Reflective Patreon backer Corey Pierno seeks the Consulting Occultist’s wisdom on crystals and their history as supernatural objects. Finally awesomely helmeted Patreon backer Walter Manbeck as...
2020-08-14
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 403: Someone Thought to Give It Beer
In the Gaming Hut we look at villain plans, and why they have to make sense in investigative games. The Food Hut goes to the drive-thru for a double-double as beloved Patreon backers Tim Maness and Jean Bauer ask for an explanation of the mythic role the Tim Hortons donut chain plays in the Canadian psyche. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio with a nerdtrope of the 100 Years War and pod people from our YouTube episode of Ken and Robin Live. Finally the Eliptony Hut reveals, at the behest of stalwart Patreon...
2020-07-10
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 402: NBIMBY
Beloved Patreon backer Bob Grider invites us into the Gaming Hut to discuss top-down vs bottom-up design. Discerning Patreon backer Allen Wilkins invokes his Ask Ken and Robin powers to request a mash-up of Night’s Black Agents and The Prisoner. The History Hut looks at Saskatchewan-born strongman Édouard Beaupré, aka Beaupré the Giant, and his excellent reasons for haunting Montreal. (Before you write in, Robin misspeaks at one point, referring to tuberculosis as “eradicated” instead of “brought under control.”) Finally esteemed Patreon backer Wayne Rossi steps into the Archaeology Hut to ask Ken to...
2020-07-03
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 395: Uninterested in Not Attacking
In the Gaming Hut we fulfill a Tell Me More Request from beloved Patreon backer Bryan, who wants us to wring gaming ideas from the most recent version of The Invisible Man. Ask Ken and Robin finds estimable Patreon backer Scot Ryder asking if Robin would decrease the number of abilities in Ashen Stars, given the direction found in The Yellow King Roleplaying Game. Finally we bask in the last Ken’s Bookshelf for the foreseeable future, as Ken looks back with fond and dewy eyes at the volumes snapped up during his Du...
2020-05-15
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 393: Sonia Plus Melted Cheese
In the Gaming Hut we help beloved Patreon backer Jamie Twine as he seeks to adapt scenarios written for standard GUMSHOE to the QuickShock version of the system found in The Yellow King Roleplaying Game. The Tradecraft Hut conducts an investigation into spying charges laid against a Major General of Ukraine’s security service. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, we celebrate the release of an open gaming license for Robin’s game HeroQuest, now rechristened QuestWorlds, by dropping a previously recorded chat with Chaosium’s Ian Cooper. Finall...
2020-05-01
00 min
Sugar Radio Show
Sugar Radio Show 226 | Robin Schulz
"May contain explicit lyrics" Follow me: Website: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulz Facebook: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzfacebook Spotify: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzspotify YouTube: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzyoutube Twitter: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulztwitter Instagram: https://www.hive.co/l/robinschulzinstagram 1. Adore Me – EDX 2. Hold On – Matt Nash 3. Lifetime – Zonderling & Josh Cumbee Feat. Damon Sharpe 4. Why Can´t You See – Lucas & Steve 5. Keeping It – Daijo 6. Outta My Head – New World Sound Feat. J2 & Sara Phillips 7. Carry On – Kygo & Rita Ora ...
2020-04-30
59 min
BossBizTalk
Robin Nash
Robin Nash has become a household name in the Phoenix Valley with over 15 years in the radio biz. Her ties in the community, music and passions keeps her busy, but while she's self-quarantining, she has picked up baking and cooking and posting her delicious dishes on Instagram! We are so excited Robin made some time to chat with us and share her thoughts on Covid-19. You can catch Robin on air on 97.5FM or 103.9FM in Phoenix... or online at https://hot975phoenix.com/. Check out her latest recipes and interview with Kelly Clarkson on Instagram @Hot975PHX.
2020-04-20
29 min
The Market Your Genius Podcast
A Convo with Robin Joy Meyers - Fear Strategist, Author, and Molecular Geneticist
Reprogram Your Mind & Transform Your Fear. That's what this episode is all about. In a 2015 Psychology Today published an article entitled "7 Things You Need to Know About Fear" by Theo Tsaousides Ph.D. Click here to read the article. #1 on the list is that fear is healthy. In this episode, I chat with Author, TedX Speaker, and Fear Strategist Robin Joy Meyers about how to leverage fear. Robin uniquely combines her background as a scientist, her life experiences, and her work with clients to help people use...
2020-04-14
41 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 387 – Yell Down Into the Hollers
In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Peter McAveney asks how to set up a Night’s Black Agents game as if it is, at first, some other less vampire-infested game. The Tradecraft Hut goes to 50s Canada, a tale of a KGB mole turned double agent and the corrupt RCMP officer who gave him up to his Soviet masters. For more, see Donald G. Mahar’s Shattered Illusions: KGB Cold War Espionage in Canada. Ask Ken and Robin features a query from discerning Patreon backer Louis Sylvester about the process behind Robin’s Yell...
2020-03-20
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 384: Number One Nightmare
Look out for dirigibles as the Gaming Hut looks at the process of selecting your tech level when building an alternate timeline. The Aftermath sequence of The King in Yellow Roleplaying Game serves as our case in point. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Somebody Else, we chat with game designer and writer Sarah Saltiel. Beloved Patreon backer Andrew Miller wants to know Ken’s thoughts on emergent continuity in Ask Ken and Robin. The Consulting Occultist continues our series of arcane profiles from Belle Epoque Paris with a look at...
2020-02-28
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 381: Anthropodermic Wallet
They tried to suppress it. They tried to contain it. They left it for months on a loading dock in Estonia. But now The Yellow King Roleplaying Game has made its final crack in reality by heading to retail. We celebrate with an all-Yellow King edition of Robin’s ambitious new game. In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Ken Ringwald obligingly asks how it tackles the age-old problem of time as a resource in RPGs. The History Hut peels back the covers on the Skin Affair, a gruesome scandal that rocked Belle Ep...
2020-02-07
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 377: Everyone Believes in Horse Theft
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Tom Shaw asks us to even the odds when strong PCs fight weak opponents. A gruesome find in the History Hut prompts estimable backer Polydamas to seek guidance on portraying the Sandby Borg Massacre in a game. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Robin chats with Fil Baldowski, mastermind of the of All Rolled Up empire. Finally, in Fun With Science, profound Patreon backer Wayne Shaw wants to know the true significance of the gigantic metal deposit buried beneath the moon’s...
2020-01-10
00 min
Small Changes Big Shifts
Ep. 231 - Dr. Troy Nash
With a positive attitude, we have the ability to change the world and defy the odds. That is the core belief of our Small Changes Big Shifts podcast guest today, Dr. Troy Nash. Dr. Troy Nash is an innovator, pioneer, and maverick leader who blazed a path as a successful real estate entrepreneur, public speaker, and global humanitarian. He cares about the world and the people in it. Join your host, Dr. Michelle, and Dr. Troy as they discuss: His background growing up in a single-family home with no father in an...
2020-01-05
30 min
Small Changes Big Shifts
Ep. 231 - Dr. Troy Nash
With a positive attitude, we have the ability to change the world and defy the odds. That is the core belief of our Small Changes Big Shifts podcast guest today, Dr. Troy Nash. Dr. Troy Nash is an innovator, pioneer, and maverick leader who blazed a path as a successful real estate entrepreneur, public speaker, and global humanitarian. He cares about the world and the people in it. Join your host, Dr. Michelle, and Dr. Troy as they discuss: His background growing up in a single-family home with no father in an...
2020-01-05
30 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 376: Landlord Reform
Pull up a comfy chair and get your fireballs back in the Gaming Hut as we look at the timing of resource refreshing. In the Tradecraft Hut we peer into the espionage activities of William Playfair, now better known as the inventor of the pie chart, not to mention most of your other favorite charts. Ask Ken and Robin features a request from beloved Patreon backer Lars to consider updates to Earthdawn. Then Phil Masters, estimable Patreon backer who this time gets a whole question to himself, asks if our hero...
2020-01-03
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 374: All Books are Tax Deductible
Freshly home and invigorated, or perhaps exhaugorated, by our annual trip to Dragonmeet in London, we issue a Travel Advisory for the William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain. Rocketed by the power of recording technology back to the day before Gen Con, Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else finds us in conversation with Colby Elliott, silky-voiced creator and narrator of RPG audiobooks, including a little number you might know as Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering. Experienced listeners are already bracing themselves for what comes next: another bumper edition of Ken’s Bo...
2019-12-13
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 372: We Welcome All People with Mithril
Join us not midway through but at the top of the podcast as the Gaming Hut finds ways to introduce a new player to a long-running series. In the Television Hut beloved Patreon backer Jeromy French asks Robin to expound on the problems of the series finale. Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else features an interview Robin conducted at the Kraken, with Pedro Ziviani, whose new Chaosium story card game The Red Thread of Fate will begin its Kickstarter campaign on Jan 19th. Then we get quiet, very very...
2019-11-29
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 363: Movie! Movie! Movie!
Beloved Patreon backer Timothy Daly meets us in the Gaming Hut to ask why D&D remains the most popular roleplaying game. Speaking of D&D, Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, specifically Jim Zub, about the Young Adventurers’ Guide series of D&D kids’ books. Finally the Cinema Hut hosts its annual look back at the top and most gamer-worthy titles Robin saw at the Toronto International Film Festival. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KART...
2019-09-27
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 359: Stith Thompson Entries All Over It
The Gaming Hut shows up with its usual punctuality as Patreon backer Ken Ringwald asks to hear about time as a resource in RPGs. It’s dark out. He has a full tank of gas. He’s wearing sunglasses. Patreon backer Chris Camfield drives his 1974 Ford Monaco sedan to Ask Ken and Robin about the occult significance of the Blues Brothers. And yes, Ken knows it was Martinez de Pasqually who sojourned in Saint-Domingue, not the other founder of Martinism, Saint-Martin. This was a test of your gnosis. In K...
2019-08-30
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 354: It Ain’t That Non-Euclidean
An all request episode kicks off with a co-production between the Gaming Hut teams and our Tell Me More benefit for Patreon backers. Backers Mike Marlow and Kevin J. Maroney, seeing the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff capsule review of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ graphic novel DIE, want to hear more. This expands into a wider discussion of how RPGs are depicted in fiction. Backer Steve Sick beckons us into a mossy southern version of the History Hut, asking what we can do with legendary Louisiana governor Huey Long. In Ask Ken an...
2019-07-26
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 349: Bad Odds in a Balloon
In the Gaming Hut Patreon backer Ethan Schoonover asks us to explain the bespoke game terms we use, from F20 to GMC. Mikko Airaksinen puts a chill in the History Hut with his request for the esoteric scoop behind the Swedish North Pole Expedition of 1897. Our epic spate of Ken and Robin Recycle Audio excerpts from Carcosa Con concludes with a look at Robin’s build-out of the Chambers mythos into The Yellow King Roleplaying Game. Finally backer Chris Kalley, seconded by Jay Tea, asks the Consulting Occultist to blow the lid off magical Buenos Aires. Want to pose a qu...
2019-06-21
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 347: We’ve Warren Commissioned Your Witch Problem
Patreon backer Ross Ireland pulls a fast one on us in the Gaming Hut, asking how to pitch campaigns with switcheroo premises to players. Via the Tell Me More Feature of Ken and Robin Consume Media, backer Kevin Maroney opens the Mythology Hut for more on Ronald Hutton’s scholarly survey, The Witch. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio continues our panel replay from Carcosa Con, this week looking at the process by which Lovecraft and his successors turned Robert W. Chambers’ King in Yellow tales into a mythos. Then, per multiple Tell...
2019-06-07
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 346: Everybody’s Limbs are Still On
In the Gaming Hut, Patreon backer Hyperlexic asks Robin to elucidate the core pleasures of RuneQuest. The History Hut finds us obeying the commands of backer Antti Elomaa to get to the bottom of Britain’s 1939 pet massacre. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio with segments from our Robert W. Chambers and King in Yellow Mythos panels at Carcosa Con. Finally in the Eliptony Hut we look at the bio-energetic theories of renegade Russian crank scientist Lev Gumilyov. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question as...
2019-05-31
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 345: Go Talk to Some Other Trees
We enter the Gaming Hut pursued by powerful patrons as backer Remi Permann seeks help importing 13th Age icons to other games. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken chats with Nathan Paoletta, designer of such games The World Wide Wrestling RPG, Annalise, and his latest, the Poe-inspired Imp of the Perverse, now on preorder. Then Ken and Robin Recycle Audio with the second part of our Robert W. Chambers panel from Carcosa Con, this time focusing on his story “The Repairer of Reputations.” Finally we put Ken’s Time...
2019-05-24
00 min
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Episode 340: Jar Cats
In another imperious edition of That Thing I Always Say, Robin says, “Envision this in play.” Ask Ken and Robin finds Patreon backer Kevin Roy seeking the scoop on remote control inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. Backer Martijn Waegemakers meets us in the Mythology Hut to ponder the diminishing returns of Robin Hood adaptations. Backer Dan O’Hanlon summons Ken’s Time Machine to peer into the reality where ecstasy replaced LSD as the iconic sixties drug. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking ac...
2019-04-19
00 min
Milling About
Milling About with Judy Collins
Most people know the legend of Judy Collins - the blue-eyed beauty - who inspired Suite Judy Blue Eyes by Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash. In this candid chat with host Robin Milling, Judy talks about the stories that have shaped her musical history. Judy tells Robin about her on-going musical collaboration with Stills and their singing union on the CD Stills & Collins. After all these years, they are performing live together enriched even more by their friendship. She talks about what it's like to have songs written about her and the ones she discovered along the way like...
2018-10-26
35 min
Milling About
Milling About with Graham Nash
Graham Nash joins host Robin Milling to talk about his new solo album, 'This Path Tonight.' At 74 years old it's been quite the journey for Nash who celebrates several milestones including his 60th year in the business making music, leaving his home in Hawaii for New York City, and finding love again with Amy Grantham after separating from his wife of 38 years. He tells Robin the story of how they met and how she has become his personal photographer, contributing the solo photos you see here. Graham candidly talks about how the songs on his new CD are his...
2016-04-15
20 min