EXOLORE

Astrophysicist/folklorist Moiya McTier explores fictional worlds by building them with a panel of expert guests, interviewing professional worldbuilders, or reviewing the merits of worlds that have already been built. You'll learn, you'll laugh, and you'll gain an appreciation for how special our planet really is.

🗣️Canada Moist Talkers: The World of Matriarchal Squid

Squids squirt warm water at each other when they want to be nice, which is like being a friendly Moist Talker. Also, the world in the episode is covered in ice, just like Canada!

🌞Hellmouth Sunbeams: The World of Dancing Seals

This world that has extremely intense summers where steam burns aren’t uncommon. Plus, the seals who live there have lots of camaraderie, just like the Sunbeam players.

🍗Mexico City Wild Wings: Crazy Delicious Review

Wild Wings players and the current lawsuit they have against Blaseball would certainly fall under the purview of the food gods.

HORSE

A basketball podcast about everything except the wins and loses. We’re talking Twitter beefs, hilarious moments from history and why the sport is so fun and strange… just like Blaseball.

🦀Baltimore Crabs: The Jackson Pollock of the NBA

We praise the return of Baltimore-native Carmelo Anthony returning the league and talk about why the NBA is a better place with him in it.

🚤Miami Dalé: Manu Ginobili, Vampire Hunter

Miami Heat legend Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union have to be on our list of the best NBA player relationships. Dalé means love!!!!

🐅Hades Tigers: What is This, Paper?! (w/ Ted Alexandro)

The HORSE boys talk about the time the A/C went out in the San Antonio Spurs’ arena, which basically made it as hot as Hades. LeBron couldn’t handle the heat!

JOIN THE PARTY

An accessible, great-sounding D&D podcast with queer teen assassins, punchy robots, talking gargoyles, rabbit butlers, heroes with many siblings, interviews, talk-back episodes and more!

🕵️‍♂️Houston Spies: Goat Party

If you're going to do a heist of the Met Gala, you better have your spy intel. This is extra important if you're a bunch of rollicking goats heisting the Met Gala.

🥧Philly Pies: Join Forces I

Our current campaign is set in Lake Town City, a metropolis of the future... and powered heroes and villains. And like the classic Philly Pie, LTC is known for their Mountain Lobster Pie, a white pizza pie covered in crawdads!

🌮Unlimited Tacos: Wedding Party I

We finished our high fantasy campaign, so there’s plenty of time to catch up! There is an incredible amount of eating in this adventuring story. Some might say unlimited bagels.

MEDDLING ADULTS

Each week, two guests go head-to-head in a contest of solving children’s mysteries from classics like Encyclopedia Brown, Scooby Doo, and Nancy Drew, and the prize money goes to charity.

🔥Chicago Firefighters: The Stare of the Stoner Dog w/ Paul Bae & Kelly Schubert

In this episode we solve Nancy Drew mysteries. Nancy Drew is from Illinois. Chicago is in Illinois. You are from Chicago. You will like this episode.

📱New York Millennials: The Mystery of the Undying Love for EDM w/ Helen Zaltzman & Martin

One of the mysteries in this episode deals with someone having their laptop stolen, which we know for a Millennial is the most heinous crime of all. We will punish them at Battin' Island by covering them in avocado and feathers!

✨Yellowstone Magic: Scooby Doo and Stonehenge’s Running Track w/ Hal Lublin & Gabriel Urbina

It’s pretty well-known that Stonehenge is basically just a poor, English knockoff of Yellowstone. Mystery Inc. solves a crime at this vastly inferior grouping of large rocks.

NEXT STOP

A 21st century audio sitcom about three friends in the big city—Cam, Allie, and Samuel Clemens—getting through the end of their 20s together. Think Friends, but with better jokes and no gay panic!

🥩Dallas Steaks: The One With the Proposals

if you want to get to into the meat of NEXT STOP (get it!!!!! MEAT!!!!), you gotta start at episode one.

🏝️Hawaii Fridays: The Gang Throws a Birthday

If you want to throw a birthday party, don't do it at Cubanos Sliders, a shuffleboard bar themed around 1950s Havana. Do it at Hawaii Fridays, my new favorite bar.

Potterless

A 26-year-old man reads Harry Potter for the first time. Wrong predictions, British vocabulary confusion, and hilarity ensues.

🌹Boston Flowers: The Tales of Beedle the Bard w/ Chris Rankin

Live from Boston with Chris Rankin, the actor who played Percy in the Harry Potter films! We cover the wizard equivalent of “children’s fairytales,” which are the most bizarre and terrifying additions to the HP canon.

👞Charleston Shoe Thieves: Deathly Hallows (Ch. 27-28) w/ Kristen DiMercurio

Did you know that Voldemort walks around barefoot at all times? Maybe he wouldn’t have been defeated by a teen if he stole some shoes for himself.

💋San Francisco Lovers: Order of the Phoenix (Ch. 25-27) w/ Eric Silver

Harry and Cho Chang go on a date to the most romantic place all of Hogwarts. Cho talks about her ex and Harry just blows it, proving they could’ve used some advice from you Lovers.

Spirits

A boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore through a queer and feminist lens. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures.

👐Breckenridge Jazz Hands: Music and Ghosts (with Erica Waters)

Music! Spooky Things! Murder ballads! That feels very Jazzhand-y.

🍬Kansas City Breath Mints: Yuki-Onna

Nothing's more refreshing than the legit icy breath of a Japanese yokai!

🎸Seattle Garages: Your Urban Legends IV

We follow up on the ghosts and rivalries of Old Spaghetti Warehouse and Spaghetti Factories, the pasta places most likely found in the Pacific Northwest.