Category Archives: Audio

What We Do When We Tell Stories (with Amanda, Julia, and Eric of Multitude)

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Today’s bonus content is a conversation that Zach and Christian had with Amanda McLoughlin, Julia Schifini, and Eric Silver of Multitude fame. We talked about the role that storytelling plays in society and how that intersects with roleplaying and self-conception.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:48 — 48.8MB)

We’re also pleased to announce that we’ll be in production for our next chapter November through early December. We’ll be announcing official release dates once we’re a little ways into post-production, but hopefully early 2019.

#ASK THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD for Bk. 2 Ch. 4

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Here’s the audio from our #AskTOAFN livestream for Book 2 Chapter 4. It’s been lightly edited for length and clarity, but you can still watch the full video stream on YouTube.

Some shout-outs and announcements:

  • Thanks to our Week 1 fundraiser on Maddy Groves, we were able to donate over $60 to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)! Thank you to everyone who bought the song!
  • You can catch our own Shannon Harris (Ren, Nia’s mom, writer) in LUKE CAGE (!!!) Season 2, now streaming on Netflix. (She’s in Episode 11)
  • Paul (Nelson) has always got content going up on THE NOTICE: Facebook | Twitter | IG
  • Catch Greg (Yllowyyn, writer) on Left Trigger Right Trigger: Podcast | YouTube
  • Most of our pirate crew performs musical improv together under the name Night Captain. Follow their Facebook page for updates on upcoming shows.

Thanks to everyone who sent in questions. See you soon!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:24 — 61.0MB)

#ASK THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD for Bk. 2 Ch. 3

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Today’s bonus content is the cleaned up audio from our last end-of-chapter livestream (along with the Chapter 3 blooper reel). You can watch the video of this conversation here.

Podcast Shout-Out’s this episode:

Chapter 4 of our tale will be released some time in the first few months of 2018. We’ll post release dates as soon as we know them. Hope to see you then! And Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you.

CONTENT NOTES below.


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Interview with Zach Valenti

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Today’s bonus content is an interview with the one and only Zach Valenti, star and co-producer of Wolf 359 (among many other things), who took on a cameo role as Merril in our last few episodes.

This conversation was originally broadcast in May as part of Zach’s ongoing “Self Care Sunday” livestream project. You can watch video of the interview here (Christian starts at right around hour 2), and subscribe to the channel at zach.live.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:42 — 36.1MB)

Release of Chapter 3 is delayed slightly, for reasons explained at the head of the episode. We will announce release dates as soon as we can, and we’re sorry for the delay!

Hit the break for a full transcript of Christian’s statement.


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#ASK THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD for Bk. 2 Ch. 2

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This episode is the audio from our latest #AskTOAFN, which we did as livestream. It’s been cleaned up a little and lightly edited. And you can always watch the original, unedited and with the video right here.

Thank you so much to everyone who wrote in with questions! We tried to at least acknowledge receipt of everything even if we didn’t answer it, so if you believe you sent in a question and you didn’t get any kind of a nod from us, let us know. If you won a book, we’ll be in touch shortly.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:09:45 — 42.2MB)

We’ll be back soon with some more cool bonus content, and we’ll announce release dates for Ch. 3 as soon as we can commit to something. See you then!

Cool stuff mentioned in this episode:

  • Not that they need our help, but the McElroys are some sweet, sweet boys.
  • Our friends are doing cool things at Join The Party.
  • We recently interviewed Tal M. Klein about his new novel THE PUNCH ESCROW.
  • Anya is playing a show in NYC with the cast of ONCE to benefit VH1’s Save The Music.
  • The Notice is Paul’s ongoing blog and documentary project.
  • Left Trigger Right Trigger is Greg’s “video game book club” podcast.