{"id":280,"date":"2013-05-10T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T07:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenandrobin.wpengine.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:09:11","slug":"episode-38-driving-bananas-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/episode-38-driving-bananas-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 38: Driving Bananas Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kenandrobin.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/kartas\/images\/d8_colour.png\" align=\"left\" \/>We start with a visit to the <strong>Gaming Hut<\/strong> to discuss the play utility of illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>Food Hut<\/strong> we explore the legends and lore of packaged goods, including the secret origins of Cool Whip, the Twinkie, and Gatorade.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad Kinch <strong>Asks Ken and Robin<\/strong> how one guides a playtester to greatness. Michael Cule adds a supplemental: have we ever regretted not implementing a piece of playtester advice?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <strong>Ken\u2019s Time Machine<\/strong> takes us to the intractable yet little mythologized tragedy that was the Trail of Tears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpg.drivethrustuff.com\/index.php?src=kenrobintalk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/files\/drivethrurpg-logo-redesignd.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9700\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-280-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20038.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20038.mp3\">https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20038.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 038.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?powerpress_pinw=280-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20038.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20038.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start with a visit to the Gaming Hut to discuss the play utility of illustrations. In the Food Hut we explore the legends and lore of packaged goods, including the secret origins of Cool Whip, the Twinkie, and Gatorade. Conrad Kinch Asks Ken and Robin how one guides a playtester to greatness. Michael Cule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,26,10,11],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ask-ken-and-robin","tag-food-hut","tag-gaming-hut","tag-kens-time-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}