{"id":405,"date":"2013-10-04T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T08:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenandrobin.wpengine.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:09:13","slug":"episode-59-thwarted-by-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/episode-59-thwarted-by-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 59: Thwarted by Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 25px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kenandrobin.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/kartas\/images\/clock_colour.png\" align=\"left\" \/>Gather your Hegelian war band around the speakers to listen to our opening <strong>Gaming Hut<\/strong> segment, in which we look at ways to transform groups of murder hoboes into ensemble procedural casts.<\/p>\n<p>We open a historical case file in the <strong>Tradecraft Hut<\/strong>, looking at the role spy novelist William Le Queux, abetted by the Daily Mail, played in whipping up espionage fever in the nineteen-oughts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Among My Many Hats<\/strong> prompts Robin to share his preparatory thinking on the new edition of<em> Feng Shui<\/em> he&#8217;ll be working on, in partnership with Atlas Games and Atomic Overmind.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we dust off <strong>Ken&#8217;s Time Machine<\/strong> and send him off to extend by at least a generation the golden age that was Periclean Athens.<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to appreciate the support of episode sponsor and Eliptonic essayist Matthew Rossi. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;field-author=Matthew%20Rossi&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;search-alias=digital-text&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;tag=rodla-20\">Check out his Kindle-ready books<\/a> <em>Things That Never Were, Bottled Demon,<\/em> and <em>At last, Atlantis<\/em> at Amazon!<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2795\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-405-1\" 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%20059.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20059.mp3\">https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20059.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 059.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?powerpress_pinw=405-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%20059.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20059.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gather your Hegelian war band around the speakers to listen to our opening Gaming Hut segment, in which we look at ways to transform groups of murder hoboes into ensemble procedural casts. 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