Episode 101: Digital Media that Keeps Us Coming Back

Published: May 14, 2021, 5 a.m.

This week, Andi and\xa0Lise\xa0talk about their current\xa0fave\xa0podcasts and other digital media that keeps them engaged and gets them through these times.\xa0

Lise:\xa0

YouTube channel\xa0Punished Props Academy, which is a how-to on awesome\xa0cosplay\xa0with Bill and Brittany Doran.\xa0

Podcast\xa0Tenfold More Wicked, on Exactly Right Network. Historic true crime hosted by author and journalist Kate Winkler Dawson.\xa0

Dungeons and Dragons podcast\xa0Critical Role,\xa0which features voice actors and epic campaigns. Available as streaming video, on YouTube, and as a podcast. And so much more.\xa0

Join the Party, a collaborative storytelling and role-playing podcast, also D&D-related.\xa0

Andi:\xa0

Still a faithful listener of\xa0My Favorite Murder\xa0on the Exactly Right Network a true crime comedy podcast that has become an amazing community. (Lez\xa0Geek Out!\xa0covered MFM in show #45)\xa0

In The Thick, a podcast on the\xa0Futuro\xa0Media Network about \u201cpolitics, race and culture from a POC perspective.\u201d Hosted by\xa0Andi\u2019s\xa0all-time\xa0fave\xa0journalist Maria Hinojosa and fellow journalist Julio Ricardo Varela.\xa0

Making Gay History, a podcast that features interviews and oral histories with people who have been involved with LGBTQ history/LGBTQ civil rights history.\xa0

TransLash\xa0podcast,\xa0Futuro\xa0Media Network. Hosted by journalist\xa0Imara\xa0Jones, the podcast\xa0deals with news, politics, culture, and stories about and by trans and\xa0nonbinary\xa0folx.\xa0

Shout-outs:\xa0Lise\xa0has been playing a board game called\xa0Eldritch Horror\xa0based on the fiction of Lovecraft and inspired by board game\xa0Arkham\xa0Horror. Complicated but instructions are easy to parse and it\u2019s\xa0hella\xa0fun.\xa0Andi has been watching Acorn TV and really enjoys\xa0My Life Is Murder, an Australian crime drama starring LUCY LAWLESS as a retired cop who ends up consulting on investigations. Did she\xa0mention LUCY LAWLESS. Great characters, great dialogue, good stories.\xa0