Episodes
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The Campfire Chats last episode of 2021 before our new season launches in March 2022.
Casey of DFAT joins me to talk about Anthology Horror series from across multiple media types for the spooky season.
Enjoy!
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Rocco from DFATs own Critical Mass joins me to talk about some bad Canadians entering American politics. We discuss how collectivism will save us and we end with a high note to Canaga and the great Red Green.
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Joaquin for the amazing DFAT Entertainment podcast Insensitive Culture joins me to shoot the shit.
Insensitive Culture can be found here or here.
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The Book: Appleseed: A Novel https://www.mattbell.com/appleseed
By: Matt Bell https://www.mattbell.com/
Continuing the video book review series with Appleseed: A Novel by Matt Bell. Enjoy! If you would like to read my review you can find it here: https://www.netgalley.com/book/209464/review/220403
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My co-host from the Bull and Moose Tavern Podcast stops by the campfire to discuss more conspiracy theories and some announcements about the Bull and Moose Tavern Podcast.
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Megs Calleja joins me to discuss her book Acorns and Roots. Support your local books store!
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Off the Pages Travel
The Book
Questland
Carrie Vaughn
Taking a stab at doing video for The Campfire Chats Podcast. Today is a review of Carrie Vaughn's Questland. Read My full review below:
I recently finished reading Questland by Carrie Vaughn. Questland is a book that is not afraid to ask how Moby Dick and Pokemon are symbolic of rampant capitalism. This amazingly fun book will be released on June 22, 2021. Questland comes from the same love of geek culture that books such as Ready Player One do, the main difference being the world of Questland is not nearly as dark, very real and not so mixed up in complicated geek culture references it becomes overwhelming at times.
At the heart of the book is a D&D adventure brought to life by the amazing advances of technology. This conflicts very well with people trying to “live” the medieval life having to interact with modern day mercenaries on a mission to retake an Island which has been lost. We follow Dr Addie Cox, a literature professor who is brought in on a mission to retake the Island of Mirabilis, a live D&D game island, not un-similar to Westworld. The only reason Addie is brought in is her ex-boyfriend, Dom, may be at the heart of the island's take over, and the rich Elon Musk like financier wants his property back. Addie has to team with a group of former soldiers now mercenaries while dodging deady puzzles and traps, and absorbing the mystifying world of Mirabilis. Mirabilis has it all, from unicorns,to dragons, to self-sufficient villages, to complex puzzles, it truly is a larper's dream world.
One of the things I loved about this book was how easy it was to read. Most nights I didn't want to put the book down. Not only was it fun and engaging but it was downright addicting. At the end of the book I knew I wanted more. All I can hope is that Carrie Vaughn is not done with Dr Addie Cox's Story and that we will get more in this world in the future.
With that said I want to get into my spoilery fun review of this book. So if it wasn't clear from the sentence before: Spoilers Ahead!
I cannot say enough about the character of Dr Addie Cox. She was so well written and that is in part because she was extremely flawed, but in a normal human way. To start out she had a very compelling and sadly modern backstory. She was the survivor of a school shooting in her teenage years, a shooting that took the lives of her bestfriend and boyfriend. Both of which died in front of her before the shooter took their own life. This has left her with trauma which shapes who she is. I enjoyed this backstory as it is all to real in our modern world to have people who survive mass shootings but it is not something that has been explored very much in pop culture, the only other example I can think of is American Horror Story which actually tried to humanize the shooter by having a haunted house be a source for his shooting. This is one of the few pieces of media I have encountered w
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Alec Wankel joins me to talk about his business Top Shelf Creamery, a Rochester based ice cream company that makes high quality ice cream with infused spirits.
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Chris joins me to discuss the alt rights adoption of pop culture as a means to bring in new members. Then in the second half we talk about meditation.
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Pat joins me on the pod again to discuss being a new father, Matt Gaetz, 21 Lessons for the 21st Centry and more.
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The epic DFAT enterntainment team up continues in part 2 of our Synder Cut convo. Here we talk about the events that happened which caused both the Whedon Cut and Synder Cut to exist.
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Bob Proehl joins me to discuss Books Dust Covers, Comics & Wanda Vision, the internet Archive and his own books A Hundred Thousand Worlds, The Nobody People and The Somebody People. Links to his works can be found on his website.
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Join me around the campfire for my audio review of the Amazon orginal Utopia.
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Only me today, quick book review of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2015) by Yuval Noah Harari
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Another day of technical issues, computer crashed mid pod. We worked around it and Colin joined me to talk about Assassins Creed, Gamestop Stock and Ancient Civilizations.
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Bob of Gutsy Media Podcast joins me to talk about the directors cuts we would love to see. Also we talk over Marilyn Monroe's death.
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Chris Walk of Dont Forget a Towel to talk about the post election conflict in American culture and more.
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Laura joins me again for a conversation that starts with TV before veering way off course.
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Casey joins me to talk all things cartoons. Check out Casey's newest kickstarter for his comic Pursuit of Plastic.
Forgive me we has some audio issues in this one.
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Aaron joins me t the campfire to spitball different conspiracy theories, some completely made up.
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