Ruby May Valentine joins Nick and Paul to talk all things Minecraft, the ridiculously popular and ever-replayable game of crafting and creepers. Ruby takes us through getting started with a fresh Minecraft "seed," the game's basics, cool stuff like redstone engineering, and eventually turns Nick into a convert.

--- Recorded July 22, 2021 // Hosts: Paul Boye and Nick Schaefer // Guest: Ruby Valentine (YouTube: Ruby Valentine) // Music: Pete Scalzitti (http://brontosor.us/) & Mixkit // Produced with Zencastr and Audacity

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Snakes on planes, snakes on trains, snakes on podcasts...who's going to do something about all these snakes?!

Tanner Harvey could. The professor and doctoral candidate joins Nick and Paul to talk about venom, deceptive zoo gift store plushies, and letting a snake chew on your hand for 15 minutes for a YouTube video (which we do not recommend).

--- Recorded June 14, 2021 // Hosts: Paul Boye and Nick Schaefer // Guest: Tanner Harvey // Music: Pete Scalzitti (http://brontosor.us/) & Mixkit // Produced with Zencastr and Audacity

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You remember books, right? Those hardcover or paperback collections of pages with words on them. No doubt you've read one or two in your time on this lovely planet. Well, Nick and Paul's guest on today's episode has probably read closer to one or two thousand works of literature — books, poems, you know it — and has a particular penchant for the American-produced corner of the bookshelf.

Trevor Strunk of the No Cartridge podcast joins the show to tell us how America's published works help tell its story even through fiction, the best ways to stay on top of contemporary lit, and lament bad Amazon book reviews.

--- Recorded May 16, 2021 // Hosts: Paul Boye and Nick Schaefer // Guest: Trevor Strunk (No Cartridge) // Music: Pete Scalzitti (http://brontosor.us/) & Mixkit // Produced with Zencastr and Audacity

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