Thank you for joining us for this bonus episode of Paired! We hope you enjoy this outing into the very real world. Paired will be back this fall!

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This week's guests are the cast of Rude Tales of Magic. Rude Tales of Magic is a biweekly D&D podcast featuring artists, writers, and comedians from Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Marvel Comics, and more as they fight and fumble their way across the madcap, and exceedingly rude, fantasy wasteland of Cordelia.

Cast includes: 

Tim Platt - Tim is a comedian, actor, and musician out of Brooklyn, NY. His stand up is a mix of characters, jokes, puppetry, and music. In 2019 he was selected as one of Comedy Central’s Up Next Variety Comedians at Clusterfest as well as a Kickstarter 2019 Creator-In-Residence. Along with being a cast member in the hit actual play podcast Rude Tales of Magic, Tim has written and performed music for Sesame Street, Comedy Central, The Story Pirates while also having appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and Masterclass with Steve Martin.

Carly Monardo - Carly is an artist and performer living in Brooklyn, NY. She has over a decade of experience (despite being incredibly youthful) and has worked behind the scenes on such animated favorites as The Venture Bros., Steven Universe, and Blaze and the Monster Machines. She is the illustrator of the New York Times Bestseller, Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things. She also designed the Bird Team and illustrated the show opening for Adult Swim’s Birdgirl. Reader, she is married to Chris!

Christopher Hastings - Christopher Hastings is a comics writer best known for creating The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, co-creating The Unbelievable Gwenpool, and adapting the NYT bestselling graphic novel, Five Nights at Freddys: The Twisted Ones. Christopher also voices Frederick de Bonesby for the narrative play podcast Rude Tales of Magic

Ali Fisher - Ali is an editor and performer from the Seattle area, currently living in Brooklyn. She's been studying and performing comedy in New York since 2011 and she reads like it's her job because it is! She works at Tor Books where she’s edited New York Times and USA Today bestselling fiction and nonfiction. She primarily edits science fiction, fantasy, horror, and humor.

Branson Reese - Branson Reese is a Los Angeles based comedian and artist originally from the Washngton DC area. He is the DM for Rude Tales of Magic, creator of the award winning webcomic Swan Boy, and the author of Hell Was Full, currently available from Oni Press. He's a tall drink of water, easy on the eyes, and will never give up on the Baltimore Orioles.

Joe Lepore - Joe is a comedian, writer, and director living in beautiful Brooklyn, New York. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, then came to New York for college and never left. When not recording cool podcasts, Joe can be seen performing with his sketch team The Nitro Girls every Friday at the Magnet Theater, and at comedy festivals all over the US & Canada.
 

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Creator/Writer/Producer/'Patient' - Liz Anderson

Editor/Composer - MJ

Cover Art - Adrian Theuma

Theme Music - Arne Parrot

Dr. Toretto - Sarah Shockey

Nurse - Stephen Kropa

Stephen Kropa is an actor, writer, and comedian living in Los Angeles. A journeyman of the TTRPG Podcast world he has appeared on countless programs such as NeoSum, AutoNomic, and multiple episodes of the OneShot Podcast Network.  He can currently be heard on the audio drama Blake Skye: Private Eye. For updates and to find out more please follow him on Twitter @KropaCabana. 

Thank you for listening to Paired Season Three! 

Make sure to leave us a review if you're enjoying the show - it really does help other listeners discover Paired!

Creator/Writer/Producer/'Pairy' - Liz Anderson

Editor/Composer - MJ

Cover Art - Adrian Theuma

Theme Music - Arne Parrot

Kelly - Jenn de la Vega

Jenn de la Vega is a community-oriented caterer based in Brooklyn, NY. She authored and styled Showdown: Comfort Food, Chili & BBQ (Page Street/MacMillan) and serves as editor at large of Put A Egg On It. Jenn has built a unique culinary practice mashing up experiential with visual art and food through residencies at TASTE Cooking (Penguin-Random House), Babycastles Gallery, and Kickstarter. Her kaleidoscopic recipes appear on Food52, Thrillist, Yummly, and Wine Enthusiast. Currently, she is developing Nicole Taylor's upcoming Watermelon & Red Birds (Simon & Schuster) and voices Vivian Lakewood on the Shadowrun podcast Fun City.

This week's episode is brought to you by Fun City:

Fun City is a fully sound designed and scored, narrative-driven actual play TTRPG podcast set in a futuristic New York City, where magic is real and the rent is still too damn high. The audience accompanies smooth talker Luxe, ork-jock Lash, mysterious retired boxer with a robot arm TK and everyone’s favorite water-witch elf aunt Vivian as they contract with the criminal underground and corporate overlords of NYC in 2101. 

The team navigates The Brooklyn Archipelago, Rebuilt Manhattan and the moral grey area they occupy as longtime friends and flat-mates working as professional criminals, catering to multiple bosses whose aims are sometimes mutually exclusive, all while trying to maintain their principles in a world where those are often readily sold to the highest bidder.

Listen to Fun City wherever you get your podcasts and join the crew on their Patreon.