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This week, we sat down to talk about Battletech. Our buddy, Fang, sent us a Bottleneck box with full rules, mechs, fiction, and more. Check it out, and let us know if you’ve ever played Mech Warrior, Battletech, or any other miniature war game.

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Happy Thanksgiving, all. We hope you’re well. We are a day (and a night) late due to the holiday, but we’re here all the same. This week, we were unable to review our original two films, Dutch & The Crucible, because Dutch is impossible to find. Instead, we watched Street Trash and Monsters Inc.
Don’t worry, it’s totally the same thing.

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Hey, all you fantastic human-type people! Life is pretty wild right now, so you should take a break and listen to a podcast. Luckily, that’s what this is! Rachel and Nate did some reading this episode and got together to talk about the books! Plus, there’s ranting in this episode, too!

In case the title didn’t give it away, we read Cycle of the Were...

In this episode, we sit down with our buddy Chris to chat about the 2014 movie What We Do in the Shadows, as well as the FX show.
What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 New Zealand mockumentary horror comedy film written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi and the first installment in the What We Do in the Shadows franchise. The film also stars Clement and Waititi, along with Jonathan Brugh, Ben Fransham,...

We are back with another film review episode. This week, we did something a little different: We reviewed three Halloween movies to celebrate the upcoming holiday.

First, we watched the original Friday the 13th and the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake.

Next, we watched A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven. Freddy Kruger, a monster from the world of dreams, exacts his revenge on the children ...

In this episode, we visited some of the generally accepted “best food spots” of Chicago. We discuss our favorites and our least favorites, what we would eat again, and which foods we think don’t quite live up to the hype.

This episode is not a commentary on who does these particular foods best. We only chose places that many people would agree are near the top of the list in their category.
We visited (at...

Welcome back to the show! This week, we force each other to watch musicals! First, we sat down to watch one of Rachel’s favorite productions, Hamilton. After much crying, we chewed up the Trey Parker and Matt Stone movie, Cannibal! the Musical.

”Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. It tells the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.”

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This week, we decided to get all dairy up in this podcast by eating a bunch of different yogurts and giving you our opinions about them. Are we qualified to judge these yogurts? Yes, because the internet makes us fit. There’s minimal eating sound on the mic, so don’t worry too much about being ASMR’ed to death.

We ate: Yoplait strawberry kiwi, Liberte strawberry, Oui Vanilla, Wallaby vanilla, Wunder Vanilla, ...

We are back! Just an FYI for you five folks who listen, we will be putting out new episodes every other Thursday. Since we've settled, we are getting back to the serious business.
Anyways, this week we talk about the Nolan film, Interstellar. Also, we chat about Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

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Hello all! We’re back with our post-move podcast; the first recording in our new space. We talk about some of the pains of moving across states during a pandemic, what our new place is like, and ideas for the future of our podcast.

As we become settled over the next few weeks, we will be putting out a new schedule for episode releases - not just for Playing Hooky, but for Nerd Words (and new projects) as well. T...

Welcome back to another episode of the Playing Hooky Podcast! We know we're a bit behind on this episode, and there's a good reason for that. We'll explain that and some other things in this episode.

As you can tell, this episode focuses on our travels and impending relocation to Chicago from Indianapolis. It's been a very trying and chaotic year, so we try to let it hang out and have some fun this episode.
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We’re back with another episode! Finally. Sheesh. This episode, we watched This is Spinal Tap, the 1984* mockumentary is about the fictional English heavy metal band Spinal Tap, and stars by Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer.

In an effort to remain consistent with our premise, we then watched the equally ridiculous documentary, A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica, which chro...

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Hello everyone. We hope you are all doing well and staying safe in these trying times. This episode, we did something a little different. We started on the right path, with Rachel bringing “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” to the table for review. In late March, this new documentary series came out, and we just couldn’t avoid talking about it. Of course, we’re referring to “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” av...

Hello all! Well, a lot has happened in the two weeks since our last episode. Things are a bit off-kilter right now, for sure. In this episode, we talk a little bit about our “hooky” and what we’re playing while we are stuck inside. We also do some sharing and reviewing as well… which is kinda the point of the podcast.

This week, we review “O Brother, Where Art Thou,” a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produ...

In this episode, we review the 1981 animated anthology Sc-Fi Fantasy film, Heavy Metal. Heavy Metal was directed by Gerald Potterton, produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, and starring the voices of John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Harold Ramis.

We also review Spirited Away, a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

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