The Good Friends of Jackson Elias

We’re back and we’re listening again. Usually, we don’t hold with listening. Most things people try to tell us are things we’d rather not hear. Whether this is advertising, gossip, or sinister secrets about the true nature of reality, we generally find we’re happier not knowing. In this case, however, we’re listening to our listeners, which is the kind of paradox that pleases us. They also have some great suggestions for us, which is a huge improvement over the scatological or anatomically improbable suggestions people normally make to us.



Main Topic: Son of Listener Suggestions



Late last year, we used Discord and Twitter to ask our listeners what kinds of things they’d like to hear us discuss. The response was overwhelming and we now have a massive list of possible topics. Although these suggestions were exceptional, there are a good number we’d struggle to turn into complete episodes. Rather than ignore these, we’ve decided to go through the replies and see what we can address succinctly.



We started going through these suggestions in an episode a couple of months ago, but we barely scratched the surface. Here, we delve into several more topics, such as low/no-Mythos scenarios, Lovecraftian monsters, folklore, orientalism, and sex at the gaming table.



Thank you to PatrickSmatrick, Etymological Tom, Weasels10 and OrbitalAxolotl on our Discord server for the topics we discuss in this episode.



Please do let us know if you have any suggestions of your own. We are always hungry for ideas, and suggestions are a safer way of getting them than eating human brains.



Links



Things we mention in this episode include:




* True Detective



* Call of Cthulhu and non-Lovecraftian horror



* Ghosts



* Blood Brothers



* Blood Brothers II



* Into the Darkness



* Coming Full Circle



* How We Roll



* Grizzly Peaks Radio



* “The Autopsy” by Michael Shea



* Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities



* D&D



* Cults



* The Butterfly Effect (2004)



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