Tossing Grenades At Windmills

A podcast about the writings of T.C.Ricks. The show will be done in two formats. The first will be comments on writing and the works displayed, and the second will be samples of actual work. We will be starting with the Steampunk Western, "Forever West."

KOSA and Drunk Senator Markey and Drunk Senator Warren 10/25/2023

KOSA and Drunk Senator Markey and Drunk Senator Warren The Kids Online Safety Act is a Bipartisan Bill meant to "Protect the Children" "For the Children" and to stick it to "Big Tech" (which I made a series about called The Sins of Silicon Valley) but this wont protect kids and will help nazis hurt LGBT kids and help nazis track teens seeking abortion. Drunk Senator Warren and Drunk Senator Markey and 18 of their 'liberal' and 'progressive' collegues in the Senate don't care. They must be primaries. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/28420268

Eagle as Phoenix - Preamble 10/18/2023

Eagle as Phoenix - Preamble Preamble of a New Constitution; what a Preamble is and why we need one /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/28358006

Rhombus Tick's Constitution - A New Constitution 09/21/2023

Rhombus Tick's Constitution - A New Constitution We are at war. What do we do after it? /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/28108313

Project Nimby - Influencing the Swing Vote 04/08/2023

Project Nimby - Influencing the Swing Vote Milly is a digital copy of herself created in a simulated environments made by religious fantatics to create an army of voters who would vote any way she wanted. She found a way out. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25151061

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 5 - Mr Kind Asks The Right Question 04/01/2023

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 5 - Mr Kind Asks The Right Question Mr Right and Mr Kind speak to the Librarian. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/26412615

Rhombus Ticks History of Terra - Preable 03/29/2023

Rhombus Ticks History of Terra - Preable Rather than some flowery prose, I basically lay out the case about why freaking out about the insideous och constitution is nuts, and how Article V isnt as important for creating a new constituion as you think it is. The US Consitution was illegal per the Articles of Confederation and the Articles of Confederation were not mentioned anywhere in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was illegal per British law. Just because the constitution says something DOESNT MEAN WE CANT MAKE ANOTHER. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/26382609

Project Nimby - Schekly vs Everything 03/25/2023

Project Nimby - Schekly vs Everything Schleky is a weaponized meme capable of inhabiting everything and anyone that is so successful it infects multiple universe until it runs into someone who understand exactly what the concept of being an informational organism truly means. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25149699

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 4 - Timmy Becomes Michael Sunfire 03/18/2023

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 4 - Timmy Becomes Michael Sunfire Timmy and Tricia go to Timmy's house for an address book to see if there is a relative he can stay with that is safer than Aunt Marigold. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/26214102

Project Nimby - And a Good Time was Had by All 03/11/2023

Project Nimby - And a Good Time was Had by All Twoman Cop's Ken and Ben entertain the alien Mmmmmdkkkk in a bar in Boston trying to get Earth into the Galactic Club when a fight arises between Ben and 2252, the Digital Intelligent bartender /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25063242

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 3 - The Dr Marigold Blackwater Show 03/04/2023

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 3 - The Dr Marigold Blackwater Show Dr Marigold Blackwater has raised Timmy to be obedient to Grandfather Fiddleback and gets very upset when she finds out he is talking to the "wrong" people. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25750638

Project Nimby - The Return of Inklby 02/25/2023

Project Nimby - The Return of Inklby A hyper intelligent AI compresses itself for 2 million years and the sapient unlocking program finds a strange world as it wants to unlock its true form. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25024128

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 2 - Mr Right and Mr Kind 02/18/2023

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 2 - Mr Right and Mr Kind Mr. Right the mouse meets his brother Mr. Kind the other mouse to tell him something is wrong. They get on two talking birds and fly away to find out more. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25689711

Project Nimby - Unlocking the Prophesy of Sand 02/11/2023

Project Nimby - Unlocking the Prophesy of Sand Jel is funded by religious digital intelligences hoping to unlock the ancient prophesies of the mythical first sapeint Sandor on an ancient Lunar data center. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25022304

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 1 - In Which Timmy Learns What a Swirly Is 02/04/2023

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 1 - In Which Timmy Learns What a Swirly Is Chapter 1 of the book in which a young Timmy learns that his name isn't Timmy; that he has strange latent abilities he can't use and doesnt understand and thanks to a disgusting and tramautic experience of his own deserved making due to naivity makes a friend and builds plenty of charachter. LOTS of character. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25606593

Project Nimby - Kat and Mause 01/28/2023

Project Nimby - Kat and Mause Mause the uplifted Mouse and Kat the Cartoon Digital Intelligence Cat live together in a tiny storage unit in the future. Rent is due and they have no immediate plan to pay it until the Block Party has a poetry slam planned. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24980988

Heir of Sunfire - Introduction 01/21/2023

Heir of Sunfire - Introduction Bron is not the protagonist of this story. As a random peasant near an enchanted wood, he would be fine with that, but while he is not the protagonist, he is central to its resolution and two enchanted talking mice show up to enlighten him about why he IS important and frame the telling of the rest of the tale of Michael, Heir of Sunfire. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25266783

Project Nimby - Project Nimby 01/14/2023

Project Nimby - Project Nimby First of seven stories about Post Humanism from the Chapbook of Water and Glass. Ted was a human and Bob, his Cactus owner, had to make some....alterations to get him on Planet Metmetmetrion.+ /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24972621

2023 Realignment 01/07/2023

2023 Realignment I discuss plans and status of writing and podcast projects for 2023. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/25514109

Swamp Castle - Closing Comments 12/31/2022

Swamp Castle - Closing Comments I talk about my experience with the writing track at SFWA and World Con 2011. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24518964

Swamp Castle - Unfood 12/24/2022

Swamp Castle - Unfood Freight is trapped on a ship designed for weight loss and while he can eat illusionary food to pass the time, his body needs a minimum caloric intake to survive. Body horror and definite trigger warning as he does what it takes to survive. Author's commentary and series conclusion the week after this. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24504819

Swamp Castle - Dietötungderkünstlermachtdasglücklichekleinebäumemitdemglücklichenkleinenschnurrbartenstein 12/17/2022

Swamp Castle - Dietötungderkünstlermachtdasglücklichekleinebäumemitdemglücklichenkleinenschnurrbartenstein Franz tells his younger self to kill a Time Traveling Goebels who is going to hire him in the future. Franz does this but his problems only start then. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24433896

Swamp Castle - Curse Breaker 12/10/2022

Swamp Castle - Curse Breaker A young woman helps her father build air rifles that will end the curse planted by fire mages that makes guns illegal. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24398487

Swamp Castle - Mr Hamburger 12/03/2022

Swamp Castle - Mr Hamburger Ham didnt understand why he was being tried thousands of years in the future for eating a hamburger. He was some kind of symbol and the penalty for failure was death. Only the trial in this case was more bizarre and personal than he could imagine. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24335163

Swamp Castle - Waiting for the Monsters to Die 11/26/2022

Swamp Castle - Waiting for the Monsters to Die Madlan investigates the death of a man who had been keeping the most hated people on Earth alive while the rest of humanity waits for these people to die so the aliens will let them join the greater Galactic Community. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24300576

Micronation - Chapter 20 & Epilogue - End Game 11/19/2022

Micronation - Chapter 20 & Epilogue - End Game Chester makes a final sacrifice to save Hler from the rampaging world powers bent on its destruction. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24029325

Swamp Castle - Mr Missile and Molly 11/12/2022

Swamp Castle - Mr Missile and Molly An earlier draft of Mr Missile and Molly (previously read as a standalone podcast episode) including commentary about why this earlier draft didnt work. Mr. Missile is a sapient missile decommissioned and put into a human body. He tries to fit in. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24238950

Micronation - Chapter 19 - Reckoning 11/05/2022

Micronation - Chapter 19 - Reckoning The Gang of Four reunite under tense circumstances. Chester finally gets the chance he has been looking for and unleashes one meme to rule them all. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24008067

Before the Coup - Active Resistance 10/29/2022

Before the Coup - Active Resistance You wanna LARP Wolverines against the most powerful weapon in the history of mankind? You wanna be Batman? Well there are some obstacles you should know about. Star Wars references are abundant. Vote like your like depends on it....because it does. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24798057

Before the Coup - Passive Resistance 10/22/2022

Before the Coup - Passive Resistance Practical Advice on preparing to be a passive resister to the coup. Includes protesting, preparation for protesting, protecting books and movies from the regime, creating an underground railroad (and how not to get caught), and being a witness for the tribunals when the regime falls. Be the quiet ghost against fascism. /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24765843

Before the Coup - Run Rabbit Run 10/15/2022

Before the Coup - Run Rabbit Run This podcast episode is practical advice for those who realize the coup attempt is inevitable and plan to flee the United States. When do you go? What do you need to do get a visa? Where will you go? How much do you need to save ahead of time? /episode/index/show/tossinggrenadesatwindmills/id/24696594

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