Surely it has been an uneventful month since we last spoke, with no major news stories or developments. So slow and steady was it that the anthropomorphic gecko who typically writes this newsletter...
2024-08-07 21:54:31 +0000 UTC
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What if the internet was really bad for you? What kind of wild world would that be? This episode has us talking about Kiyoshi Kurosawa's delightful Pulse, an apocalyptic vision of the era ...
2024-07-12 16:01:17 +0000 UTC
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We sit down to talk about the Elden Ring DLC in this episode of the Ranged Touch Monthly Podcast. Please note that this is roughly two hours of spoilers about Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdt...
2024-07-09 09:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Have you heard of an evil room? What about an evil hotel room? Uncle Steve cooked up a scary one in the story 1408, and John Cusack went and starred in a movie about i...
2024-07-08 14:11:22 +0000 UTC
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This is the first episode of Michael on Michael, the podcast where Michael Lutz appreciates the films of Michael Bay.
This show is only possible due to your Pat...
2024-07-04 19:05:00 +0000 UTC
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The solstice has come and gone; from here on, days grow shorter, nights longer, and Ranged Touch… why, Ranged Touch keeps making content.
We had a pretty good showing last month! MAGES AND ...
2024-07-04 18:57:23 +0000 UTC
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Once there was a guy with a gal, and then he lost his hand, so he demanded that they give him back his hand, and demons and devils were there, and Sam Raimi was too. That's the kind of story that E...
2024-06-14 14:01:43 +0000 UTC
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You ever go down deep into the sewer? You ever learn about the things beyond human comprehension, fundamentally warping you into a shape that should never have been thought by a living being, let a...
2024-06-10 20:13:26 +0000 UTC
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Folks it's here: the big hot time known as "the summer", during which the pools are sloshing and the barbecue grills are shrieking, flames hungry for meat. But what's better than listening to all t...
2024-06-05 09:00:25 +0000 UTC
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Well it's that time again. A time for questions and answers. Join CMRN, Michael, and Austin as they puzzle through the humdingers that you all have sent in. Would Earthsea be better without wizards...
2024-05-17 13:22:33 +0000 UTC
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Danni talks about his sudden heel turn on Magic: The Gathering. Creatures are discussed. Spider-Man loses out.
2024-05-16 16:33:29 +0000 UTC
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[This was supposed to come out the first Wednesday of the month, but a goblin prevented that from happening.]
Another month has passed, and therefore, another Ranged Touch newsletter crosses ...
2024-05-16 16:31:03 +0000 UTC
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It was 2003. The world is in turmoil. American power projection abroad is at a fever pitch. Lawrence Ka...
2024-05-13 10:14:57 +0000 UTC
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We watch the wild and weird Tales from Earthsea film by the storied Ghibli production facilities. It zigs. It zags. It combines a bunch of books together, and then forgets what makes them special. ...
2024-04-19 12:24:45 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes I take a time out from my busy life as an anthropomorphic lizard who lives in an underground...
2024-04-09 14:49:03 +0000 UTC
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One time I fell asleep and had a nightmare about the way that things might be in the world: black and white people in a dark boardroom thinking about some sleepy English village. Then I woke up and...
2024-04-09 14:45:08 +0000 UTC
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The massive epic puppet fantasy The Dark Crystal stands before us. Another world, another time. Listen to us chat about this core 1980s fantasy and learn why Austin doesn't have a protege....
2024-03-22 12:49:35 +0000 UTC
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You ever take a wild, ranging book about the complicated relationship that one guy from Maine has with the long shadow cast by the transformations of the post-1945 world and then turn it into a sto...
2024-03-11 13:16:13 +0000 UTC
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We've rounded out another month here at RT headquarters, which means it's time for another monthly newsletter telling you all about what we got up to in "the Short Month" of February! No need for a...
2024-03-07 14:43:53 +0000 UTC
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We talk about the Mole God and Rangers on the Coast.
Note that there's a weird buzz for a couple seconds about 20 minutes in. That's because Danni was kicking with his feet too much and hit t...
2024-03-05 03:22:45 +0000 UTC
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It seems impossible that this thing came out in 2006, but Mick Garris assembled a crack team of special weirdos for a tv movie extravaganza of Desperation. Less weird than the book, more w...
2024-02-13 21:31:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, denizens of the internet! Well, the denizens who read our Patreon newsletter, which is not even people who necessarily support us on Patreon because this is free for anyone to read? Yo...
2024-02-08 02:20:46 +0000 UTC
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You ever dance and dance and dance and have just the time of your life while all kinds of wild shit is blowing around and getting in your eyes a mere few days before millions of dollars of plastic ...
2024-01-26 14:39:41 +0000 UTC
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You ever wonder what would happen if a guy who did murders appeared on an island during the worst storm of the century? You ever think about who would get hurt if he had powerful psychic energies t...
2024-01-08 23:42:48 +0000 UTC
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What better way to ring in the new year than another issue of the Ranged Touch Monthly Newsletter? I certainly can't think of anything, because if I could, I'd probably be doing that instead of thi...
2024-01-03 15:42:31 +0000 UTC
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The crew got together to answer your questions about what the hell happened in Book of the New Sun. Discussions are had. Thoughts are thunk. Homestuck is referred to. Everything and more than you c...
2023-12-29 14:57:12 +0000 UTC
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Admit it: the first thing you think about every morning when you wake up is Halloran's beans and wheth...
2023-12-11 22:07:43 +0000 UTC
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We talk about some of the setup for the next seasons of Mages & Murderdads, ponder Willy Wonka, and discuss holiday films. Other stuff too probably.
2023-12-06 13:56:54 +0000 UTC
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As the classic song says, "It's beginning to look a lot like December" which must mean you're on course for an ALL NEW Ranged Touch monthly newsletter! What did we accomplish last month, and what e...
2023-12-06 13:53:26 +0000 UTC
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We're joined by Jason Grinblat to talk about the science fantasy postapocalyptic far future roguelike/RPG Caves of Qud. We love this damn thing, and he talks us through some of the influen...
2023-12-01 14:39:30 +0000 UTC
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