A guy in a wrinkled suit rolled up to me one time and said that he had an offer for me: infiltrate a podcast and get them to appreciate New Rose Hotel. Things went bad. MicAUS got me out of Kansas City, threw my bike into a skid as they careened by in their sleek sports cars. My helmeted head bounced.
Anyway, we talk about New Rose Hotel. 2025-02-21 17:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes this show has us watching really interesting movies that are forgotten or underconsidered because of their association with King and horror. It's a classic tale of the genre gutter, you know, and the idea that just because something has a ghoulie in it then it must be lesser than a film a...
2025-02-10 15:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The official Ranged Touch podcast opens 2025 with the first official episode of the year. We talk about Valka, and that's where the podcast art from this episode comes from. We talk about a whole lot of other stuff too.
2025-01-27 03:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes we like a speech about room service. Other times we do not. Learn about the history and adventures of Johnathan Mnemonathan during this wonderful Shelved By Genre bonus episode!
Check it out in the Shelved By Genre bonusode post!
2025-01-24 13:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostOne time I went to a weird little town in Maine and they served me a hot dog with a cornbread roll. That's nothing compared to what happens in this TV show about an FBI agent who goes to a weird little town in Maine and experiences a whole damn X-Files marathon over a couple weeks. Join us as we talk about hunky men who can't feel pain, mustachioed men who smuggle, men whose emotions make food rot, men whose music drives other men man, and the one woman who has to deal with all of it.
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2025-01-13 14:05:41 +0000 UTC View Postemerging into the sunlight, coughing and hacking up clouds of dust and moths
Wow! The end of last year got kind of rough, huh? Must've blacked out for a while after writing the November newsletter, forgetting to post it, while also continuing to type up all these wild paragraphs about… podcasts and stuff? Well thankfully that means I only have to arrange my notes on all the hijinks the Ranged Touch gang has gotten up to.
So first of all: CMRN and Danni back in October r...
2025-01-08 22:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
In this special "explainer" episode, Danni and CMRN are joined by Moose (they/them; luc/luc) and Michael (he/him) [aka modality of the Modality Rule] to talk about their year-long experiment of 2024, Rangers Upon the Coast. It was a Discord-driven West Marches campaign set in Luke Gearing's 2025-01-06 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
There's not a lot to be confused by in these Herald Mage books, but there were some true questions to be answered, and by golly we did it! Enjoy the soothing tones of a holiday season Q+A episode.
Check it out in the Shelved By Genre bonusode post!
2024-12-27 16:10:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We spend the bulk of this episode talking about the session of Vast Grimm that we played. We also invent DairyCoin (not crypto).
We are releasing this today as a "holiday treat" for those of you who will be on the road this week. Be safe!
2024-12-24 17:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the third episode of Michael on Michael, the podcast where Michael Lutz appreciates the films of Michael Bay. This episode is about the 1998 film Armageddon.
This show is only possible due to your Patreon support!
Tune into future episodes on the works of Michael Bay, James Cameron, and maybe some other name-associated characters.
if you have questions you would like Michael to answer on future episodes, please leave them in the comments!
2024-12-24 15:29:21 +0000 UTC View Post
We went to PAX Unplugged, and on the final day we sat down in the Free Play area and chatted about the con overall.
Chase Carter apparently wrote about our Crokinole exploits: https://www.rascal.news/half-an-hour-was-all-it-took-to-convert-me-into-a-crokinole-pervert/
We've got one more PAX show coming (the SECRET, PAYWALL-ONLY ...
2024-12-19 03:10:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Danni and CMRN do a haul report (not a hall report) about the things they purchased at PAX and why they purchased those things. They recorded some podcasts and whatnot at PAX, and those will be coming behind the paywall over the next couple weeks. Enjoy this FREE podcast from the DEVIOUS minds behind RANGED TOUCH.
2024-12-13 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostOne time I was out in a field and a farmer was talking to the corn and the corn was whispering to the farmer and they made a baseball field and the baseball field looked at me. That's basically the plot of Field of Dreams, the most Stephen King-ass movie that was ever made by people who are not Stephen King. You're gonna like this one.
Check out the episode on the bonus episode post.
2024-12-12 05:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe're giving a holiday miracle by releasing our brand new episode on 1982's The Beastmaster one day early. Learn about Dar and the god Ar and the villain Maax. And also Kodo and Podo.
Check it out in the Shelved By Genre bonusode post!
2024-11-28 22:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The Shelved By Genre crew thought about Blade for ten seconds and then decided to record a podcast episode about it. This is not an SBG bonus episode. It's just a patreon exclusive. If you want to make sure it shows up in a podcatcher of your choice, make sure you add the Ranged Touch Monthly fee...
2024-11-27 16:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Now I know what you're thinking: it's November. Why is there a second October episode? It's because we have several of these to make up, and we're doing that.
We will also be doing some video stuff at PAX Unplugged, so we hope you're ready for that!
2024-11-03 21:21:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Return with us to the fantastical realm of the 1980s to learn about how one snarky guy who talks to the Lord gets to hang out with a witcher. This episode has thrills and chills, and there's also an honest evaluation of the films of Richard Donner. Come listen to us talk about Ladyhawke!
You ever go to sleep in your little beddy-by village and then wake up and the bad guy from Blade Runner has paired up with Donald Sutherland to do a 1-2 punch super knockout on New England? You ever flash back to that experience on your seeming deathbed in Unidentified City after you tackled a Catholic Priest out a window? No? Then you must not be Ben Mears from the 2004 TNT two-part miniseries of Salem's Lot.
Check out the episode on 2024-10-14 14:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk about the 1982 Rankin and Bass film The Last Unicorn. Music is heard, wizards are laughed at, and voices are done. Is a unicorn a horse? Who can say?
Check it out in the Shelved By Genre bonusode post!
2024-10-04 16:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The chill air and falling leaves inaugurate this most terrible time of the year, the horrible month of Halloween, aka "Witch Christmas" and forerunner to no other notable days we might dread. More on that later, because boy howdy, is Ranged Touch still at it!
For our Patreon treat last month, 2024-10-03 19:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
CMRN later realized what bothered him about it, which is that it reminds him of "weightloss journey." There will be a bonus episode later this month!
The Little Hope LP is now out from behind the paywall, so please send it around: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVcfOocLDkUxRFDfLE60GDDtcp46wRqbT
2024-10-03 19:43:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the second episode of Michael on Michael, the podcast where Michael Lutz appreciates the films of Michael Bay. This episode is about the 1996 film The Rock.
This show is only possible due to your Patreon support!
Tune into future episodes on the works of Michael Bay, James Cameron, and maybe some other name-associated characters.
if you have questions you would like Michael to answer on future episodes, please leave them in the comments!
2024-09-21 15:56:23 +0000 UTC View PostA picturesque sunrise over a hillside farm. Grieg's "Morning Mood" on the soundtrack. Next to a proud red barn a metal-finned windmill squeaks lazily in the golden breeze. Amid the branches of a stout oaktree, a bird's nest. In it, a series of scrawny, near-featherless baby robins turn their beaks to the air and begin squawking out their hunger for PODCASTS, a desire immediately sated as Mama Bird drops a bundled print edition of this very newsletter in their midst and the little birds go hog...
2024-09-21 15:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostPatrick Klepek joins us to talk about one of his favorite films.
Wait, hold on, I'm getting a report that he does not like the movie. It's a wild romp through many worlds. There is a kind of futurepast peasantry who make some of the worst decisions a person can. The most iconic moment of gunslinger history plays out in a little wash out in a ditch somewhere. Magicks are used. Overall, the movie is bad. But we all have a good time talking about it.
Check out the episode on 2024-09-09 21:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We answer your most burning questions about Junji Ito and how we approach him. Plus, there are three fantastical stories that might change your life, or at least teach you some lore.
Check it out in the Shelved By Genre bonusode post!
2024-09-06 13:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Danni and CMRN talk about their new passion: painting little things. Then they do a quick dip into Danni's experience playing the DLC like the rest of us.
And yes, they will be at PAX Unplugged.
2024-09-02 14:50:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The Shelved By Genre crew thought about The Animatrix for ten seconds and then decided to record a podcast episode about it. This is not an SBG bonus episode. It's just a patreon exclusive. If you want to make sure it shows up in a podcatcher of your choice, make sure you add the Ranged Touch Monthly feed to your podcatcher.
There will be additional, random B...
2024-08-23 14:27:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Months ago, we threatened to create a zine of all of the finest recipes and cookings that we could imagine taking place in a Stephen Kinglike universe. Now, for the first time, the Just King Things podcast has created a cooking extravaganza that only the most hardened horror fans will be able to understand. We give to you: Just Cooking Things.
It is attached to this post. We ask you to please ...
2024-08-12 22:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostHands are weird. We all know it. What if there was a story about how weird they were, and also scary? That would really get the goosebumps rolling. Only now, while typing this, have I realized that both of the stories in Quicksilver Highway are about body parts. What's up with that? Anyway, Mick Garris serves one that we're a little unsure about in the bonusode for Just King Things this month. It's almost like Aaron Quicksilver delivered it...from hell.
Check out the episode on 2024-08-12 12:56:28 +0000 UTC View Post
You ever get someone to adapt an exalted manga into cinema? You ever task someone with that? What about getting surprised? That ever happen to you. Higuchinsky knows about all of this stuff, and some of it takes place in the film adaptation of Uzumaki. Some of us had a good time with it, and some of us didn't.
Check it out in the Shelved By Genre bonusode post!
2024-08-09 12:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post