{"id":64,"date":"2012-08-30T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenandrobin.wpengine.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:09:04","slug":"episode-4-purely-medicinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/episode-4-purely-medicinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 4: Purely Medicinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 25px 25px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/kenandrobin.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/kartas\/images\/d8_colour.png\">Stuff talked about on this week\u2019s episode include:<\/p>\n<p>The debut of our segment <strong>That Thing I Always Say<\/strong>, in which we catch you up on Ken and Robin fundaments. We start with Ken\u2019s contention that no invented setting is as interesting as the real world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ask Ken and Robin<\/strong> invites us to contemplate the mental plutonium of a tag-team follow-up to Robin\u2019s <em>The Armitage Files<\/em>. While we can\u2019t quite whip that rabbit out of our hats, we do talk about an eerily similar project, the still-percolating <em>Dracula Dossier<\/em> for <em>Night\u2019s Black Agents<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Because Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Ken\u2019s collaborator on that project,\u00a0 just happened to be <del>imprisoned in Ken\u2019s library lair<\/del> staying at Ken\u2019s place as we recorded, we put him in the spotlight for our first segment of <strong>Ken or Robin Talk To Someone Else<\/strong>. We chat about his ENnie-nominated <em>Ashen Stars<\/em> scenario collection, <em>Dead Rock Seven<\/em>, and its <em>Night\u2019s Black Agents<\/em> counterpart, <em>The Zalozhniy Quartet<\/em>. Find Armitage, Dead Rock, Night\u2019s Black Agents, and Zalozhniy at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelgranepress.com\/shop\/\">Pelgrane Press Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then we withdraw to the <strong>Gaming Hut<\/strong> to talk about creating interesting, playable female characters for freeforms and convention tabletop sessions.<\/p>\n<p>We wrap by taking another spin in <strong>Ken\u2019s Time Machine<\/strong>, in which his efforts to retroactively fix the US health care system take him to a steamer on the Congo, to quaff a quinine-laden beverage with a bumptious ex-president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7940\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-64-1\" 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_08152012.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff_08152012.mp3\">https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff_08152012.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_08152012.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?powerpress_pinw=64-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_08152012.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff_08152012.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuff talked about on this week\u2019s episode include: The debut of our segment That Thing I Always Say, in which we catch you up on Ken and Robin fundaments. 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