{"id":2360,"date":"2020-12-04T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:10:10","slug":"episode-424-reverse-darwinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/episode-424-reverse-darwinism\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 424: Reverse Darwinism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Banner-424.jpg\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>In the <strong>Gaming Hut<\/strong> we discuss a key difference between RPG settings and the real world: imaginary politics has a lot more smart people in it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Beloved Patreon backer Andrew Miller lures us into an especially osseous <strong>Archaeology Hut<\/strong> to contemplate the mammoth bone temple of Kostenki.<\/p>\r\n<p>In <strong>Ask Ken and Robin<\/strong>, esteemed backer Craig Maloney doesn\u2019t want us to forget the Motor City as he demands the hidden Mythos secrets of Detroit.<\/p>\r\n<p>Then in <strong>Ken\u2019s Time Machine<\/strong> we check out the timeline where the First Sino-Japanese War never happened.<\/p>\r\n<p>Want to pose a question to the show? 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Use the voucher code DIAGRAM2020 to get 15% off at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pelgranepress.com\/shop\/Default.asp\">Pelgrane Store<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/site.pelgranepress.com\/\/nas\/content\/live\/pelgranepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cover_draft_350.png\" width=\"224\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The treasures of Askfageln can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/browse\/pub\/8767\/Askfageln\">DriveThruRPG<\/a>. Get all issues of FENIX since 2013 available in special English editions. Score metric oodles of Ken Hite gaming goodness, along with equally stellar pieces by Graeme Davis and Pete Nash. Warning: in English, not in Swedish. In English, not Swedish. While you&#8217;re at it, grab <em>DICE<\/em> and <em>Freeway Warrior<\/em>!<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/browse\/pub\/8767\/Askfageln\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Askfageln.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<p>Suit up, agents of Delta Green. Your battle to save humanity from unnatural horrors is going beyond the Beltway. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/294687\/Delta-Green-The-Labyrinth?affiliate_id=48458\">Delta Green: The Labyrinth<\/a><\/em> is now shipping to a secure dead drop near you. Written by Delta Green co-creator John Scott Tynes, this all-new collection of organizations dives deep into the fissures of America in the new millennium.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Labyrinth.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p><!-- \/wp:separator --><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8845\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2360-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken-And-Robin-Talk-About-Stuff-Episode-424.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken-And-Robin-Talk-About-Stuff-Episode-424.mp3\">https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken-And-Robin-Talk-About-Stuff-Episode-424.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken-And-Robin-Talk-About-Stuff-Episode-424.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2360-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken-And-Robin-Talk-About-Stuff-Episode-424.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ken-And-Robin-Talk-About-Stuff-Episode-424.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Gaming Hut we discuss a key difference between RPG settings and the real world: imaginary politics has a lot more smart people in it. Beloved Patreon backer Andrew Miller lures us into an especially osseous Archaeology Hut to contemplate the mammoth bone temple of Kostenki. In Ask Ken and Robin, esteemed backer Craig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[641,13,10,11],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-archaeology-hut","tag-ask-ken-and-robin","tag-gaming-hut","tag-kens-time-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}