Surely it has been an uneventful month since we last spoke, with no major news stories or developments. So slow and steady was it that the anthropomorphic gecko who typically writes this newsletter fell asleep for a whole week (this is what anthropomorphic geckos consider 'summer vacation') and w...
2024-08-07 21:54:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhat if the internet was really bad for you? What kind of wild world would that be? This episode has us talking about Kiyoshi Kurosawa's delightful Pulse, an apocalyptic vision of the era to come. Also there's a little ghost boy.
We sit down to talk about the Elden Ring DLC in this episode of the Ranged Touch Monthly Podcast. Please note that this is roughly two hours of spoilers about Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.
2024-07-09 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHave you heard of an evil room? What about an evil hotel room? Uncle Steve cooked up a scary one in the story 1408, and John Cusack went and starred in a movie about it. You're getting the classic Bonusode experience here: one of us watched the theatrical cut, and th...
2024-07-08 14:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first episode of Michael on Michael, the podcast where Michael Lutz appreciates the films of Michael Bay.
This show is only possible due to your Patreon support!
Tune into future episodes on the works of Michael Bay, James Cameron, and maybe...
2024-07-04 19:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe solstice has come and gone; from here on, days grow shorter, nights longer, and Ranged Touch… why, Ranged Touch keeps making content.
We had a pretty good showing last month! MAGES AND MURDERDADS saw the s...
2024-07-04 18:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostOnce there was a guy with a gal, and then he lost his hand, so he demanded that they give him back his hand, and demons and devils were there, and Sam Raimi was too. That's the kind of story that Evil Dead 2 has, and we're ready to chat with you about it.
You ever go down deep into the sewer? You ever learn about the things beyond human comprehension, fundamentally warping you into a shape that should never have been thought by a living being, let alone experienced as flesh by a sentient creature? You ever eat a delicious hotdog?
Anyone who ...
2024-06-10 20:13:26 +0000 UTC View PostFolks it's here: the big hot time known as "the summer", during which the pools are sloshing and the barbecue grills are shrieking, flames hungry for meat. But what's better than listening to all that? LISTENING TO SOME DANG PODCASTS, THAT'S WHAT.
May saw CMRN and Danni continued their Bald...
2024-06-05 09:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostWell it's that time again. A time for questions and answers. Join CMRN, Michael, and Austin as they puzzle through the humdingers that you all have sent in. Would Earthsea be better without wizards? What is low fantasy? Sundry other things.
Danni talks about his sudden heel turn on Magic: The Gathering. Creatures are discussed. Spider-Man loses out.
2024-05-16 16:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post[This was supposed to come out the first Wednesday of the month, but a goblin prevented that from happening.]
Another month has passed, and therefore, another Ranged Touch newsletter crosses your threshold. Let's get right down to it and figure out what the hell was going on for the past fo...
2024-05-16 16:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It was 2003. The world is in turmoil. American power projection abroad is at a fever pitch. Lawrence Kasdan directs a William Goldman script, releasing Dreamcatcher onto an unknowing audience. Like the <...
2024-05-13 10:14:57 +0000 UTC View PostWe watch the wild and weird Tales from Earthsea film by the storied Ghibli production facilities. It zigs. It zags. It combines a bunch of books together, and then forgets what makes them special. They let Willem Dafoe whisper a lot, and someone needs to get the hell outta here and go back to SVU...
2024-04-19 12:24:45 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes I take a time out from my busy life as an anthropomorphic lizard who lives in an underground bunker in the quasi-future where I operate computers that somehow let you listen to podcasts an...
2024-04-09 14:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostOne time I fell asleep and had a nightmare about the way that things might be in the world: black and white people in a dark boardroom thinking about some sleepy English village. Then I woke up and realized it was real! Or it wasn't real, but it happened in a movie. We watched the horror classic,...
2024-04-09 14:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe massive epic puppet fantasy The Dark Crystal stands before us. Another world, another time. Listen to us chat about this core 1980s fantasy and learn why Austin doesn't have a protege.
2024-03-22 12:49:35 +0000 UTC View PostYou ever take a wild, ranging book about the complicated relationship that one guy from Maine has with the long shadow cast by the transformations of the post-1945 world and then turn it into a story about a kid and his beloved weirdo Anthony Hopkins? If you didn't, then you can hear us talk abou...
2024-03-11 13:16:13 +0000 UTC View PostWe've rounded out another month here at RT headquarters, which means it's time for another monthly newsletter telling you all about what we got up to in "the Short Month" of February! No need for all this hemming and hawing, let's get right to it.
First of all, Danni and CMRN stepped up to ...
2024-03-07 14:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk about the Mole God and Rangers on the Coast.
Note that there's a weird buzz for a couple seconds about 20 minutes in. That's because Danni was kicking with his feet too much and hit the microphone cable. Or something.
2024-03-05 03:22:45 +0000 UTC View PostIt seems impossible that this thing came out in 2006, but Mick Garris assembled a crack team of special weirdos for a tv movie extravaganza of Desperation. Less weird than the book, more weird than anything else on tv, you can hear us talk about it on 2024-02-13 21:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again, denizens of the internet! Well, the denizens who read our Patreon newsletter, which is not even people who necessarily support us on Patreon because this is free for anyone to read? You might not even listen to our shows at all. Maybe this is the first time you've even heard anything...
2024-02-08 02:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostYou ever dance and dance and dance and have just the time of your life while all kinds of wild shit is blowing around and getting in your eyes a mere few days before millions of dollars of plastic is burned to dust in one of the most toxic events in film history? No? Well maybe it is time for you...
2024-01-26 14:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostYou ever wonder what would happen if a guy who did murders appeared on an island during the worst storm of the century? You ever think about who would get hurt if he had powerful psychic energies that zinged and zonked all of the most sinful people? You think about that stuff? Do you? Why? <...
2024-01-08 23:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhat better way to ring in the new year than another issue of the Ranged Touch Monthly Newsletter? I certainly can't think of anything, because if I could, I'd probably be doing that instead of this!
2023 was a big year for us, as our audience grew, and we concluded old shows while also beg...
2024-01-03 15:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe crew got together to answer your questions about what the hell happened in Book of the New Sun. Discussions are had. Thoughts are thunk. Homestuck is referred to. Everything and more than you could imagine.
Listen to the new Shelved By Genre bonusode by 2023-12-29 14:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Admit it: the first thing you think about every morning when you wake up is Halloran's beans and whether or not he had time to make them one more damn time before the Overlook caught up to him. Theresa ...
2023-12-11 22:07:43 +0000 UTC View PostWe talk about some of the setup for the next seasons of Mages & Murderdads, ponder Willy Wonka, and discuss holiday films. Other stuff too probably.
2023-12-06 13:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostAs the classic song says, "It's beginning to look a lot like December" which must mean you're on course for an ALL NEW Ranged Touch monthly newsletter! What did we accomplish last month, and what exciting surprises are in store for the future? Well sit your butt down in this jolly sleigh and emba...
2023-12-06 13:53:26 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by Jason Grinblat to talk about the science fantasy postapocalyptic far future roguelike/RPG Caves of Qud. We love this damn thing, and he talks us through some of the influences of the game and lays down some ideas about how to make games in that space. It's Wolfe season he...
2023-12-01 14:39:30 +0000 UTC View Post