Ranged Touch

Shelved By Genre: New Rose Hotel (1998)

A guy in a wrinkled suit rolled up to me one time and said that he had an offer ...

Just King Things Bonusode: Cell (2016)

January 2025

The official Ranged Touch podcast opens 2025 with the first official episode of the year. We talk about Valka, and that's where the podcast art from this episode comes from. We talk about a whole l...

Shelved By Genre: Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Sometimes we like a speech about room service. Other times we do not. Learn about the hist...

Just King Things Bonusode: Haven Season 1 (2010)

One time I went to a weird little town in Maine and they served me a hot dog with a cornbread roll. That's nothing compared to what happens in this TV show about an FBI agent who goes to a weird li...

January 2025 Newsletter

emerging into the sunlight, coughing and hacking up clouds of dust and moths

Wow! The end of last year got kind of rough, huh? Must've blacked out for a while after writing the Novem...

Rangers Upon The Coast Explained

In this special "explainer" episode, Danni and CMRN are joined by Moose (they/them; luc/luc) and Michael (he/him) [aka modality of the Modality Rule] to talk about their year-long experiment of 202...

Shelved By Genre: The Last Herald Mage Q+A

There's not a lot to be confused by in these Herald Mage books, but there were some true questions to be answered, and by golly we did it! Enjoy the soothing tones of a holiday season Q+A episode.<...

Final PAX Unplugged Reactions

We spend the bulk of this episode talking about the session of Vast Grimm that we played. We also invent DairyCoin (not crypto).

We are releasing this today as a "holiday treat" for those of ...

Michael on Michael - Armageddon (1998)

This is the third episode of Michael on Michael, the podcast where Michael Lutz appreciates the films of Michael Bay. This episode is about the 1998 film Armageddon.

This sh...

Live From the Floor of PAX Unplugged 2024

We went to PAX Unplugged, and on the final day we sat down in the Free Play area and chatted about the con overall.

Chase Carter apparently wrote about our Crokinole exp...

PAX Unplugged 2024 Haul Report

Danni and CMRN do a haul report (not a hall report) about the things they purchased at PAX and why they purchased those things. They recorded some podcasts and whatnot at PAX, and those will be com...

Just King Things Bonusode: Field of Dreams (1989)

One time I was out in a field and a farmer was talking to the corn and the corn was whispering to the farmer and they made a baseball field and the baseball field looked at me. That's basically the...

Shelved By Genre: The Beastmaster (1982)

We're giving a holiday miracle by releasing our brand new episode on 1982's The Beastmaster one day early. Learn about Dar and the god Ar and the villain Maax. And also Kodo and Podo.

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Bonus Bonus: Blade (1998)

The Shelved By Genre crew thought about Blade for ten seconds and then decided to record a podcast episode about it. T...

October 2024 #2

Now I know what you're thinking: it's November. Why is there a second October episode? It's because we have several of these to make up, and we're doing that.

We will also be doing some vide...

Shelved By Genre Bonusode: Ladyhawke (1985)

Return with us to the fantastical realm of the 1980s to learn about how one snarky guy who ...

Just King Things Bonusode: Salem's Lot (2004)

You ever go to sleep in your little beddy-by village and then wake up and the bad guy from Blade Runner has paired up with Donald Sutherland to do a 1-2 punch super knockout on New England...

Shelved By Genre Bonusode: The Last Unicorn (1982)

We talk about the 1982 Rankin and Bass film The Last Unicorn. Music is heard, wizards are laug...

October 2024 Newsletter

The chill air and falling leaves inaugurate this most terrible time of the year, the horrible month of Halloween, aka "Witch Christmas" and forerunner to no other notable days we might dread. More ...

October 2024

CMRN later realized what bothered him about it, which is that it reminds him of "weightloss journey." There will be a bonus episode later this month!

The Little Hope LP is now out from behind...

Michael on Michael - The Rock (1996)

This is the second episode of Michael on Michael, the podcast where Michael Lutz appreciates the films of Michael Bay. This episode is about the 1996 film The Rock.

This sho...

September 2024 Newsletter

A picturesque sunrise over a hillside farm. Grieg's "Morning Mood" on the soundtrack. Next to a proud red barn a metal-finned windmill squeaks lazily in the golden breeze. Amid the branches of a st...

Just King Things Bonusode: The Dark Tower (2017)

Patrick Klepek joins us to talk about one of his favorite films.

Wait, hold on, I'm getting a report that he does not like the movie. It's a wild romp through many worlds. There is a kind of ...

Shelved By Genre Bonusode: Junji Ito Q+A

We answer your most burning questions about Junji Ito and how we approach him. Plus, there are three fantastical stories that might change your life, or at least teach you some lore.

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September 2024

Danni and CMRN talk about their new passion: painting little things. Then they do a quick dip into Danni's experience playing the DLC like the rest of us.

And yes, they will be at PAX Unplugg...

Bonus Bonus: The Animatrix (2003)

The Shelved By Genre crew thought about The Animatrix for ten seconds and then decided to record a podcast episode about it. This is not an SBG bonus episode. It's just a patreon exclusive. If you ...

Just Cooking Things Zine

Months ago, we threatened to create a zine of all of the finest recipes and cookings that we could ima...

Just King Things Bonusode: Quicksilver Highway (2007)

Hands are weird. We all know it. What if there was a story about how weird they were, and also scary? That would really get the goosebumps rolling. Only now, while typing this, have I realized that...

Shelved By Genre Bonusode: Uzumaki (2000)

You ever get someone to adapt an exalted manga into cinema? You ever task someone with that? What about getting surprised? That ever happen to you. Higuchinsky knows about all of this stuff, and so...