Drummer of the LVP and Union Fool, Thomas Raker leads Joe, Steve, and returning guest Vincent Camarista (Easy Tigress) through a one-shot Dungeons & Dragons session.

Thomas discusses how collaborative storytelling through D&D enriches his life.

He swears he isn't a dungeon master, but we don't believe him.

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Art by Zach Schweikert

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Production, music, editing, and mixing by Joe Wasserman

Collin McClutchy is a talented person. He produces records for Sword and Dagger Audio in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to crafting soundtracks for multiple seasons of My First Dungeon, Collin creates “synth music for sworn swords and sorcerers” as BE/HOLD. Somehow Collin also finds time to be an avid reader of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative fiction.

How does reading speculative fiction inform one’s own artistic and professional path?

Collin McClutchy aka Sword and Dagger Audio aka BE/HOLD aka in contrast

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Listen to Harlan Ellison's Narration of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"

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Behind The Bastards - Part One: The Zizians: How a Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult

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Vincent Camarista is a compassionate, thoughtful person who also happens to be the lead guitarist of the LVP. Before that, before binging episodes of Attack on Titan and Bocchi the Rock, he began his personal musical project, Easy Tigress.

How does pursuing your own creative project, on your own terms, fuel a life worth living?

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Brazilian twins Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá created Joe’s favorite comic ever, Daytripper. They call it “an honest meditation on mortality.”

How can a comic about death make a person want to live more and better?

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Joe and Steve explore how making the podcast fills their cups. They discuss what could be better, what's been working, and where they might go from here.

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In the midst of recording The blink-Files previously this year, Joe and Steve got tickets to see Mark Hoppus and Dan Ozzi on their book tour for Mark's memoir, Fahrenheit-182.

On this episode they revisit some opinions from their original deep dive and reflect on Mark's excellent book and how it speaks to them.

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"We did it, Joe: we listened to Bruce Springsteen's entire* discography!" - Steve, probably.

*Dude put out an EP literally on the day we recorded this episode.

No, we're not doing another one on it.

We conclude our Bruce Springsteen miniseries with conversation about his last(?) E Street Band album, Letter to You and his...singular R&B covers album, Only the Strong Survive.

Does Steve love The Boss the same way? Can Joe admit that he likes Bruce Springsteen?

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Joe and Steve make their way through the tumultuous discography of Bruce Springsteen in the 2010s.

Is Wrecking Ball that destructive?

Does High Hopes live up to its expectations?

And on Western Stars, Bruce asks the question no one asked: What would it sound like if a man from New Jersey wrote a western?

You should go watch The Lorax.

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