The Nerdologues

Jo comes face to face with an old acquaintance. Then Jo and Co run into what might be a trap -- or a rare stroke of luck -- or both. 

We're heading to the Beat Kitchen as a feature for the Chicago Podcast Festival in a couple weeks! Seems like a great time to look back on some previous festival appearances. 

Mike and Spencer 'break' into the art of making stain glass with the dice drafting game Sagrada!

Shelby Plummer first heard of Slaughterhouse-Five from an internet boyfriend. After being grounded for having an internet boyfriend, she got to actually read the book as an AP English assignment and has been a Vonnegut devotee ever since. She devoured his novels and short stories in a way she had never really engaged with reading. He made a fellow Hoosier feel less alone for thinking it was OK to want everyone to be treated well through life, to read and write about aliens, and to make dirty jokes along the way.

The second half of Andrew Bentley's farewell episode (hosted & curated by the man himself!) will make you feel stuff!

Jo, Scout, Elliot and Jee-Hyun don't think they can rest till they find a still completely functioning village of middle-aged women. But how and why they run the village is pretty strange...

Mike and Spencer bring their lanterns to the game Carcassonne, in pursuit of the highwaymen. The sexy princes of theives!

Part one of our goodbye to show favorite Andrew Bentley, curated and hosted by the man himself!

Stephanie Anderson cut her teeth as a group leader working in an acute psychiatric inpatient facility at a children's hospital. The taxing environment led her to explore improv as a way to unwind outside of work. After some experience bringing improv exercises into her work environment with patients and coworkers alike, she set off to Chicago to pursue more improv learning and teaching opportunities.

Mike and Spencer travel to not 1, not 2, but 7 ancient wonders of the world!