Patreon Bonus // The Quiet Year: Part One, Spring and Summer // Well and With Wet Balls
Release Date: 01/03/2026
S2E91 - The Absence of The Lord (with Scott Dorward)
Pretending to be People
Welcome back. Alternate titles include: As Last Words Go You’re In the South Now Look At Me, I’m a Raincloud Cal-mulonimbus The Ol’ Mom Spit A Horrible, Little Man Welcome to Our Family Because You Ruined It The ASMR God Bouncy Bouncy This episode features from . Support the show on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "" by .
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S2E90 - I Think This Is All Just Your Bad Dream (with Scott Dorward and Ellinor DiLorenzo)
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Did you get got? 833, 834, 835... This episode features from and from and The Glass Cannon Network's . Support the show on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played by and "" by .
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Patreon Bonus // The Quiet Year: Part One, Spring and Summer // Well and With Wet Balls
Pretending to be People
This here formerly-exclusive episode is the first of two sessions we played of The Quiet Year, a collaborative map building game that we absolutely fell in love with! From the book itself... "This is a map-drawing game. Together, you play as a community rebuilding after the collapse of civilization. Your decisions will define the values and future of this community, and these decisions will get added to a map which is constantly evolving. This map blends literal cartography with symbols, creating a rich visual record of land and people. Players collaborate to steer the fate of the...
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S2E89 - I Think I Beefed It (with Scott Dorward and Ellinor DiLorenzo)
Pretending to be People
Time to see who listens closely. Those who do will understand. Mostly. Alternative titles include: Equality and Dads More Blood Magic Wish For War, Please Don’t Sl*t-Shame My Daughter War’s Back on the Menu This episode features from and from and The Glass Cannon Network's . Support the show on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played by .
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S2E88 - Why Do You Think It's Called The Equatorial (with Scott Dorward)
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Alternative titles include: What About A World... She's a Beautiful Bird Diggory Was Always Wrong We're Brainstorming This episode features from . Support the show on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played by .
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S2E87 - The I.D.I.O.T. Feature (with Scott Dorward)
Pretending to be People
Alternative titles include: Turns Out There’s One Right God An Acceptable Compromise Everybody’s Full Father Figure You Are Magic Man Mast Vajority The NASCARhole I’ll Follow You Into the Dark Ionic Dirt Is Over There Aunt Crawling This episode features from . Support the show on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played by .
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S2E86 - A Million Dead Penguins (with Scott Dorward)
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One Cattle After Another would work as an episode title, but no one said it. Though I don't think that movie was out yet when we recorded this episode. This episode features from . Support the show on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played by .
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S2E85 - Beck M**** Wilder (with Scott Dorward)
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Can The Bastard stop The Dastard? Fird ord nord! This episode features from . Support the show on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played by .
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S2E84 - Bro
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The Expanded City Action News Team tours the Fred Factory. Alternate titles include: A Regret of God Horndog for Raw Footage Cryptopods Full of NFT Monkeys Support the show on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played by .
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October 2025 Announcement
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IT'S CHARITY MONTH AT 694.2 PTBP! Join the charity drive over on . Buy some merch at the . Follow along on . Find other listeners on and . Join the chat on . Wolf the Dog played by .
info_outlineThis here formerly-exclusive episode is the first of two sessions we played of The Quiet Year, a collaborative map building game that we absolutely fell in love with!
From the book itself... "This is a map-drawing game. Together, you play as a community rebuilding after the collapse of civilization. Your decisions will define the values and future of this community, and these decisions will get added to a map which is constantly evolving. This map blends literal cartography with symbols, creating a rich visual record of land and people. Players collaborate to steer the fate of the community, while also introducing problems and tensions along the way."
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Soundtrack by WAAAVV.
Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.