{"id":3785,"date":"2025-06-27T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2025-06-27T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:14:40","slug":"episode-655-you-think-too-much-about-pole-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/episode-655-you-think-too-much-about-pole-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 655: You Think Too Much About Pole Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Banner-655.png\" \/> <meta content=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Banner-655.png\" property=\"og:image\" \/><\/p>\n<p> As assigned by an anonymous beloved Patreon backer,<strong> <\/strong>the <strong>Gaming Hut<\/strong> ponders a university urban fantasy campaign where the syllabuses matter as much as the sylphs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ken-spacer.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>History Hut <\/strong>retreats to the high ground to meet estimable backer Robert Wolfe\u2019s request for the esoteric and gaming ramifications of Dayton\u2019s Great Flood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Robin-Spacer.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>Cinema Hut <\/strong>Fantasy Film Essentials series continues in the late 30s and rounds the corner into the 40s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ken-spacer.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally backer and sponsor John Kovalic asks the <strong>Consulting Occultist <\/strong>about 1960s blues rock musician Graham Bond, who considered himself the son of Aleister Crowley and feuded with rival magicians.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Robin-Spacer.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/kenandrobin\">support for the KARTAS Patreon<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ken-spacer.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/robindlaws\/list\/ken-and-robin-mention-films\/\">now up and running<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Robin-Spacer.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/1167780-ken-and-robin-talk-about-stuff-bookshelf\">Goodreads list<\/a> of books mentioned on the show.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ken-spacer.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Snag Ken and Robin merchandise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teepublic.com\/user\/kenrobin\">at TeePublic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Robin-Spacer.png\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Stop gazing lovingly at that seed catalogue and start pre-ordering <a href=\"https:\/\/atlas-games.com\/vicious\">Vicious Gardens<\/a> from Atlas Games. This contemporary, distinctive, choice driven card game combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest plants, and sabotage others in a cut-throat competition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Vicious-Gardens.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in <a href=\"https:\/\/pelgranepress.com\/product\/the-borellus-connection\/\">The Borellus Connection<\/a>, Pelgrane Press\u2019 new <em>Fall of DELTA Green<\/em> mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Borellus.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Get caught in the spiral with <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.arcdream.com\/collections\/role-playing-games\/products\/delta-green-gods-hunt-hardback?ref=delta-green.com\">God&#8217;s Teeth<\/a><em><\/em>, a new set of pulse-pounding Delta Green scenarios dripping with the once and future corruption of a nation swirling into cruelty and spite. From a government panopticon to alien worms to an app-driven mass shooter, your agents have nothing to fear but every screaming headline. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.arcdream.com\/collections\/role-playing-games\/products\/delta-green-gods-hunt-hardback?ref=delta-green.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gods-Hunt.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Play spies, skirmishers, and saboteurs in the battle for the future of the Thirteen Colonies in Flagbearer Games\u2019 thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated 5E compatible roleplaying game<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsandcannons.com\/\">Nations and Cannons<\/a><\/em>. Jump into the early actions of the war with the new campaign guide<em> The American Crisis<\/em>, available as a PDF or for print pre-order.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TheAmericanCrisis.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4902\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3785-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/kartas.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/KARTAS655.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kartas.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/KARTAS655.mp3\">https:\/\/kartas.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/KARTAS655.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/kartas.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/KARTAS655.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?powerpress_pinw=3785-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/kartas.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/KARTAS655.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"KARTAS655.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As assigned by an anonymous beloved Patreon backer, the Gaming Hut ponders a university urban fantasy campaign where the syllabuses matter as much as the sylphs. The History Hut retreats to the high ground to meet estimable backer Robert Wolfe\u2019s request for the esoteric and gaming ramifications of Dayton\u2019s Great Flood. Our Cinema Hut Fantasy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,6,10,19],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-cinema-hut","tag-consulting-occultist","tag-gaming-hut","tag-history-hut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","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=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}