One of the heaviest hitters of the Fifth Generation of video game consoles, the Sony Playstation (AKA PS1) rocketed onto store shelves in 1995, signifying the true end of the 16bit era. Cartridges and passwords were OUT, game discs and memory cards were IN and the world was about to be WOWED by 3-D environments, 24 channels of sound and some very charming (if crunchy) polygons!
For this episode, we welcome our delightful friend and Retroid Paloma Serena (@thepalomafiles on Insta) to shout out some of our favorite Playstation 1 games! Some of these are bonafied classics of the gaming landscape, while others are simply not talked about enough. As usual, we're aiming to fix that!
#crashbandicoot #residentevil #spyrothedragon #valkyrieprofile #vagrantstory #playstation1 #ps1 #psone #sonyplaystation
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There will be no monkeying around this time as we welcome back New York Times Best Selling Author, Thomas Sniegoski (author of "Grim Death and Bill The Electrocuted Criminal"), and Jeannine Acheson (co-author of "Soul Taker" and "Nira: A Constance Evermore Story").
For their third appearance on the show, the dynamic writing duo is here to chat all about ancient forces of chaos and control, as well as their brand new graphic novel NOTHING CAN STOP THE APE!
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With the added power of Raina Madison (from the Spooky Picture Show) this musclebound episode is armed with a whole lot of fanfare for THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!!
With power swords in hand, we take some big swings at ten of our favorite MOTU characters. That's five heroes and five villains, and it all starts with He-Man and Skeletor! This journey will take us through every corner of Eternia, including the cartoons, movies, comics and of course... the toys!
NYAA!!
#hemanandthemastersoftheuniverse #HeMan #mastersoftheuniverse #SheRa #Skeletor
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The work of K. H. Vaughan has appeared in numerous volumes of the New England Horror Writers’ WICKED series, issues of Old Moon Quarterly and many other fine anthologies! And tonight he returns to THE BRIG to talk all about his fantastic new grief horror short story collection "This Is The Table Where We Wash Our Dead" and the return of the International Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia, NecronomiCon!
NecronomiCon returns to Providence, RI August 13-16, 2026. Learn more here!
And Pre-Order your copy of "This Is The Table Where We Wash Our Dead" by K. H. Vaughan from your local book seller or click here to support our favorite!
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In case you've been living under a tumbleweed... the incomparable Kasey Lansdale happens to be an author, an audio book narrator, a singer/songwriter, and the head editor at Pandi Press! What's more, she's found the time to return for a second round in THE BRIG to talk up her debut crime novel FIRST CHANCE!
In this episode, Kasey lets us in on growing up with a famous dad, why she chose to leave the world of the supernatural behind for her first novel, and what it's like to record narration for your own book. All that, more and plenty of laughs in between.
Pre-Order your copy of "First Chance" by Kasey Lansdale from your local book seller or click here to support our favorite!
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The sound of the ice cream truck can make us feel like a kid again. When you were young and the summer heat was beating down, what sorts of frozen treats did you enjoy?
In this episode, we got popsicles, ice lollies, creamsicles, ice cream characters with gumball eyes and so much more! So grab some money from mom, step right up and pick out your favorite frozen treat!
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This week, down in the digital darkness we call THE BRIG, we have a prolific Boston based writer, director and sometimes star of such critically acclaimed shorts as Looker, Cup of Tea and the three films in the ever expanding Vitalus Universe.
The films in this near future universe ("Subscribed", "The Rewind" and the upcoming "Proxy") warn of the potential dangers of emerging technologies that truly feel 100% POSSIBLE given our current real world trajectory. These are stories that raise uncomfortable moral quandaries while pointing out very believable ways that progress could go horribly horribly wrong.
On this episode, Diana shares a ton of stories from her career as an indie filmmaker, hellbent on making uncompromising art with a message.
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Nursery Rhymes are short, often musical poems for small children that most of us have known our whole lives. And while characters like Mother Goose, Humpty Dumpty and three sight-challenged mice are instantly recognizable, how often have you thought about what these seemingly innocent children's rhymes are talking about?
For this episode, we welcome back the delightful Taryn Barber (from Amalga-Mania and Acid Kitty) to chat about the strange and sometimes sinister stories that lie just under the surface of 8 classic Nursery Rhymes!
Check out Acid Kitty website for handmade artisan soaps, sugar scrubs and more!
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A dino-sized COUCH BRO-OP, where 8-bit Alchemy and Parasite Steve dive into the field to unearth the 5 classic #JurassicPark games for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis!
It doesn't matter if you choose Grant or the Raptor, either way we're covering the game play, fun factor and every species of dinosaur for the following games!
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Hold onto your butts because we got dino super fan and world class CLEVER GIRL Kristin Dearborn in the backseat for this T-Rex-sized presentation! There are three Jurassic Park movies and four Jurassic Worlds, but somehow we manage to cover them all.
Raptors, spitters, sick triceratops and a slew of wonder-inducing longboys... we got them all. Spotlighting our favorite scenes, actors and pretty much every dinosaur in between from this titanic special effects laden mega franchise!
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