Just King Things Bonusode - The Dark Tower: Beginnings
Have you ever wanted to know what kind of sandwich Roland ate on his way to the barony of Mejis in the earliest parts of his life? That might...
2023-11-14 03:35:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Ranged Touch posts
Shelved By Genre Bonusode - Monster Manual '77
We talk the big talk about the ole Monster Manual. We've had plenty of chatter about Gene's Monster Manual, but what about the original guidebook to all the kooky kreatures of Middle Earaauuhh I mean Dungeons & Dragons?
Listen to t...
2023-11-05 03:42:25 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 2023
Danni and CMRN talk about many things: Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield, potatoes. They discuss when "potato time" is. UItimately, they resolve some of the greatest questions of human life, and what more can you ask from the Ranged Touch Podcast. <...
2023-11-01 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 2023 Newsletter
The time of spirits draws to a close. Pumpkins carved with moldering faces rot on porchsteps. Like an ancient VHS on rewind, mummies walk backward into their sarcophagi. Bats turn into draculas who then also walk backward into their coffins. Frank...
2023-11-01 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 2023 (Recorded for July 2023)
It has been hard getting these shows out! We're back on schedule for monthly production, though, and are getting some things automated and ready to make it happen. We recorded this many months ago. We're back! We're back! If you won the board game...
2023-10-15 19:39:17 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - 2023 Sewer Special
Continuing with our standing with the striking actors, who very politely asked us not to talk about movies until the AMPTP makes a deal, we're doing a massive Q+A episode this month. That's right: a whole year's worth of questions that you have be...
2023-10-09 13:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostShelved By Genre Bonusode - Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths
The band sits down to jam about everyone's favorite interesting writer with (some) terrible ideas, Borges. We rank our favorite stories from the collection, someone reveals a secret, and somehow they find themselves along the way. Or some version ...
2023-10-06 11:55:42 +0000 UTC View PostShelved By Genre Bonusode - The Incal
The crew sits down to talk about John Difool and his mystical science fiction adventures. They read all of The Incal, created by Jodorowsky and Moebius. ...
2023-09-08 13:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - The Green Mile (1999)
We've got the Darabont double whammy. From the highest highs of The Mist to the lowest lows of The Green Mile, we've got all the stuff you want to hear about the making of this movie and the absolute abysmal experience of watchin...
2023-08-14 13:35:12 +0000 UTC View PostShelved By Genre Bonusode - Questions and Answers
UPDATE: Apologies, just had to delete and re-post the new episode to fix an encoding error that was introduced on export. Should be good now, sorry to reset your progress on the marathon ep.
We walk through dusty hallways grim and dim to lea...
2023-08-11 12:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostShelved By Genre Bonusode - Conan the Barbarian (1982)
We delve into John Milius's sword and sorcery tale. Do we learn the answer to the riddle of steel? Do we actually know what is best in life? We asked Da...
2023-07-14 14:09:06 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - Carrie (1976)
Sissy Spacek stars in this high school nightmare where a young girl is bullied by literally everyone in town, including a small child. This movie is great, and we have a great time watching it in this month's Just King Things bonusode.
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2023-07-10 15:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostJune 2023
The Ranged Touch Podcast production schedule has been beefed up, but we're back with an episode we recorded two months ago. We talk fences, King Charles, and Danni summarizes the episode.
2023-06-21 21:14:51 +0000 UTC View PostShelved By Genre Bonusodes
Hello! Here you can find the Shelved By Genre bonus episodes! Thanks so much for supporting us and listening to these episodes. Here is the
Hello! Here you can find the Shelved By Genre bonus episodes! Thanks so much for supporting us and li...
2023-06-16 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - The Mist (2007)
In this month's bonus episode, we're joined by horror author Michael Wehunt to talk about Frank Darabont's 2007 creature feature The Mist. Marcia Gay Harden bullies some townsfolk and Tom Jane makes some hard choices. Is the black and whi...
2023-06-12 14:17:17 +0000 UTC View PostShelved By Genre Released!
We've got a new show! It's called Shelved By Genre, and it is an analysis of genre literature. CMRN and Michael are joined by Austin Walker to talk about...
2023-06-09 13:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostMarch 2023
Danni wants to talk Unmatched, but we talk about something else briefly instead. Deep lore on this month's episode.
2023-03-29 23:05:40 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - Gerald's Game (2017)
In this month's bonus episode, we talk about Mike Flanagan's Netflix adaptation of the supposedly-unadaptable Gerald's Game. Gita Jackson joins us to puzzle through the aesthetic choices and praise the strangeness of the film. We also mou...
2023-03-13 15:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - Needful Things (1993)
In this month's bonus episode, we talk about the 1993 Needful Things film. Starring Ed Harris and a special someone from last month's bonusode, we learn about the DEVIOUS Leland Gaunt and his NIGHTMARISH chest of toys.
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2023-02-13 13:54:46 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - Salem's Lot (1979)
In this month's bonus episode, we talk about Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot adaptation, which (at the time) was the most expensive miniseries ever made for television. We ride up and down the rocky road of a tv show made by a guy who did not u...
2023-01-09 17:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 2022
Simone joins us to talk about the great year that was. Please note that Danni absolutely annihilated his audio and so this was made from a "backup" OBS file. It mostly sounds fine. Be kind in the final days of this year.
Here's the video of ...
2022-12-24 16:43:07 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - The Langoliers (1995)
Nick Wiger joins us to talk about the miniseries from the 90s that everyone sort of remembers: The Langoliers! It's sort of a locked-room story, sort of a Twilight Zone episode, and every part of it feels stranger than the last. ...
2022-12-13 03:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 2022
In the Ranged Touch podcast this month, we talk about some video games and also Magic: The Gathering.
2022-11-29 02:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - The Stand (2020)
We made a promise many bonusodes ago that Kirk Hamilton should / would return to the show and talk about 2020's The Stand. Today, that promise is fulfilled. Join us as we talk music, laugh about life, and wonder what was going through the...
2022-11-14 14:38:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lair of the White Worm
We talk about The Lair of the White Worm from 1988.
Check out the IMDB content warnings before listening.
October 2022
We talk about a bunch of whatever, and Danni manages to bring up Unmatched.
2022-10-26 02:40:28 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 2022 Newsletter
The Summer of Classics concluded, and now it's Fall, yall. That means scary stuff and 'scrows and all sorts of other horrifying things like winter damage to the pipes u...
2022-10-26 02:40:22 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - The Dark Half (1993)
George Romero is Stephen King's evil twin, and he once sat down to faithfully adapt The Dark Half into a rip-roaring horror romp that moves in and out from slasher to creepy bird flick with a powerful deftness. We watched this 1993 film s...
2022-10-10 13:37:55 +0000 UTC View PostJust King Things Bonusode - The Tommyknockers (1993)
On television, they once asked the question about who was knocking at the knocking at the knocking at the door. It was The Tommyknockers, of course, and so we watched the ill-fated 1993 miniseries. Despite some really great performances, it is an ...
2022-09-12 13:54:43 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 2022 Newsletter
The Summer of Classics continues. We've learned a lot. A lot about the classics.
Game Studies Study Buddies has released an episode on a germinal text of early game studies, Dovey and Kennedy's Game Cultures, and I feel confident th...
2022-09-07 02:10:46 +0000 UTC View Post