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Interview with Randy California, part 1 — S6, ep 1 We talk about schools of improv in Seattle with improv and podcast Master Randy California of The Cycle of Life Podcast, The Study Buddies Podcast, and his newest podcast Random Top Five. Touching upon: Reluctant Sky Diving Instructor How to Brush off Your Undergraduate Education Comedy Co-diving Improv in Seattle Invisible Seattle Jet City U Dab Groundlings Second City Acme Improv Upright Citizens Brigade Intern: Sebastopol Sponsor: Office Bed Blanket, your formal home conferencing office decor

Interview with Patrick Jagoda, part 1 — S4, ep 21 An interview with ARG-master Patrick Jagoda of Fourcast Lab from the University of Chicago. Featured ARG: Echo by Fourcast Lab Touching upon: Echo ARG Ghostbusters Minivan ARG Multiverse Quests Rabit Holes and Warrens Terrarium Remembering Jeff Watson The Thing from the Future Middle School Outreach Finding diverse audiences Intern: Manny Sponsor: Tauro’s “Special” Toffees

Interview with Patrick Jagoda, part 1 — S4, ep 21 An interview with ARG-master Patrick Jagoda of Fourcast Lab (https://fourcastlab.com/) from the University of Chicago. Featured ARG: Echo by Fourcast Lab Touching upon: Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Echo, ARG Heidi Coleman, Marc Downie, Patrick, Ben Kolak, Kristen Schilt, Ashlyn Sparrow A Labyrinth Patrick’s ELO talk Twitch Seed An ARG riot Harold Garfinkel Breaching Experiments I Love Bees The Beast This is Not a Game Jane McGonigal Intern: Manny

Introducing Moody Locales — S4, ep19 Rob and Mark introduce Moody Locales, the fall 2020 netprov Featured Netprov: Touching upon: You’re muted in perpertuity Fool’s Advocate, Esquire Yet Another Existential Threat Parking Lot of Near Misses A Cold Shoulder on the 110 Why use Reddit for Netprov? Archiving Netprovs Mark’s Mom & Son Intern: Jonas Sponsor: Porcupine Mittens

Netprov in the Age of Trump — S4, ep19 Rob and Mark discuss what it means to create netprov during the Trump Presidency. Featured Netprov: Touching upon: Blue Jimmy Kimmels Featured Player Cathy Podeszwa Yellow Journalism Teapot Dome Scandal Trustable Journalism 18th and 19th Century fake news Mark Twain on Repetition and Humor The Spectator Copyright pages The Mid-Atlantic Stage Accent Annus Horribilis Baby Trump Balloon Huizinga’s Hoy Zingers Intern: Jonas Sponsor: Porcupine Mittens

Interview with Jeremy Hight part 2 — s4, ep.18 It’s part one of our interview with writer extraordinaire, bag of hyphens, Jeremy Hight, author of many works of electronic and print literature, and nice guy to boot! Featured Netprov: Fantasy Spoils, All-Time High Touching upon: A Middle-Aged Virgin Elf The Polite Canadian Part of Jeremy Claire Donato Jeff T. Johnson A Bot that hates Jeremy’s writing Jeffrey Vallance Blinky the Vons Chicken Nimbus The Flaneur 34 North, 118 West AR Maps on the US-Mexico Border Preview of our Fall Netprov The Archives of Buckminster Fuller The Situationists’ Psychogeography Slavoj Žižek T-shirts Intern: Charlene Sponsor: Buzzword Begone

Interview with Jeremy Hight part 1 — s4, ep.17 It’s part one of our interview with writer extraordinaire, bag of hyphens, Jeremy Hight, author of many works of electronic and print literature, and nice guy to boot! Featured Netprov: Monstrous Weather Alex Mitchell’s adaptation: Monstrous Weathered Mark Marino’s adaptation: Monstrous Weather twine 34 North, 118 West Jeff Knowlton and Naomi Spellman Vanilla Sky, Abre Los Ojos (Did he say, ‘Obre’?) Cake Frosting, Unsweetened Oatmeal Teleconnected Weather The Worst Pumpkin Ever The LA Flood Project Ghosts and other hauntings Horrific Pudding Intern: Charlene Sponsor: Buzzword Begone

Interview with Martzi Campos & Jesse Vigil part 1 — s4, ep.16 We chat with guests Martzi Campos and Jesse Vigil of the School of Cinematic Arts at USC, creators of The Klaxo Raidio Hour, and featured roleplayers on the Champions of the Earth. The Shadow Plainclothes Hippie Parents Mystery’s Hercule Poirot Candy Matson, detective Sarah Elmaleh Design Vs. Fine Art Haunted Objects Escape rooms re-imagined Childhood Magic Klaxo Radio Hour is born! Intern: Philippa Sponsor: KneaderTech Telemassage Harness

Interview with Martzi Campos & Jesse Vigil part 1 — s4, ep.15 We chat with guests Martzi Campos and Jesse Vigil of the School of Cinematic Arts at USC, creators of The Klaxo Raidio Hour, and featured roleplayers on the Champions of the Earth. Pamplemousse LaCroix Near decapitation Martzi’s dark and mysterious backstory Traumatizing Tales of Art School A Tragic lack of fish oop Design Vs. Fine Art Dungeons and Dragons, cool again! Dungeons and Daddies Sibling Shoutouts Collin Kelly IndieCade Psychic Bunny Klaxo Radio Hour is born! Intern: Philippa

Interview with Cathy Podeszwa part 2 — s4, ep.14 We chat with guest Cathy Podeszwa, “Person of the Future,” actor, dancer, netprov featured player and one of our co-creator of Thermophiles in Love with Samara Hayley Steele. Featured Netprov: Thermophiles in Love Internal Tupperware Eating your friends Darwin’s Tweets Jane Goodall Cat Watching Fatigue Nielsen Dogs White House Corona Briefings Netprov in the Blip of Trump Searching for a Netprov Platform Intern: Antonio Sponsor: Stone Head Supports of Milwaukee, WI

Live from the ELOrlando Pub! — Season 4, Ep 7 Rob & Mark broadcasting LIVE from the ELOrlando Pub! Netprovs in this episode: The Pub is a virtual watering hole in Discord at #ELOrlandothroughout the conference. Also, Fantasy Spoils which will be live on Saturday! In this Episode: Eduardo Kac Swag Masks The Electronic Literature Organization The Limerick Diet by Talan Memmott and Scott Rettberg Rob’s Talk, Maintaining Your Character(s) in Netprov Rob’s Talk, Maintaining Your Character(s) in Netprov Mark’s Talk, Coding as Reading in Digital Literature Shoutouts to Anastasia Salter and the #ELOrlando team Shoutouts to Johannah Rodgers, Yue-Jin Ho, Kpop Fandom World Lauren Rouse, Erik Loyer, Erin Kathleen Bahl, Dan Cox, Szymon Szul, Estaban Morales, Inge van de Ven, Holly Slocum, & more Featuring: Intern: Stan Thanks to today’s Sponsor: Royal Virtual Car Wash of Kansas City.

How to Skip Sessions at Academic Conferences– Season 4, Ep 6 Rob & Mark discuss the fine art of getting more out of conferences by ditching sessions. Netprovs in this episode: The Pub will serve up fun on Discord at #ELOrlandothroughout the conference. In this Episode: Top Gun: Netprov Edition The Electronic Literature Organization David Perry Jacob Garbe and Arron Reed The Ice-bound Concordance Featuring: Intern: Stan Thanks to today’s Sponsor: Royal Virtual Car Wash of Kansas City.

The Music of Netprov – Season 4: episode 5 Rob and Mark reflect on the role of music in netprov, teaching, and creative life. Netprovs in this episode: Fantasy Spoils will have a live Camplaign at ELOrlando, Saturday, July 18th, 1pm EDT/10am PDT In this Episode: Fantasy Spoils netprov Traffic in the online commute The Chicken Shack Playing Music in Class We found the Season 3 tapes! Featuring: Intern: Reggie Producer: Joanne Fabriks Merch: Four legs and a wing special Thanks to today’s Sponsor: Kölner Molkerei und Wirtschaftsprognose Gesellschaft

Publishing WTF We Want – Season 4: episode 4 Guests Katie Robison & Dan Dissinger, hosts of Writing Remix Podcast, chat about indie publishing. In this Episode: Fantasy Spoils netprov Self-Publishing Writing Remix Podcast Downburst of the Winstorm Series Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Monkey Puzzle Ted Jones Ann Waldman Featuring: Intern: Jody Merch: The Self-Indulgence Whistle Thanks to today’s Sponsor: Writing Remix Podcast Guest Bios: Katie Robison is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD in English at the University of Minnesota, where she worked on fourteenth-century dream poetry and its reflection of psychosomatic approaches to health in the late Middle Ages. She is also a writer of speculative fiction and co-host of the feminist literary podcast, Witches in Britches. Daniel Dissinger is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. He earned his PhD and MA from Saint John’s University as well as an MFA from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Dan’s dissertation examined the early, pre-On the Road novels of Jack Kerouac and the reflective writing properties of the “Duluoz Legend.” Dan’s poetry has been published in a variety of journals, and his first chapbook, tracing the shape…, was published by Shadow Mountain Press in 2012.

Netproving in Unsettling Times – Season 4: episode 3 Rob and Mark reflect on doing netprov when the world is on fire. Netprovs in this episode: In this Episode: Fantasy Spoils netprov Creating during a week of terrible news Self Care John Gardner, The Art of the Fiction Tai-Chi Chi-Tea The Dart Board incident Featuring: Intern: Natasha Merch: one used dartboard Thanks to today’s Sponsor: Polly’s Premier Plumbing of Encino, California

Welcome to our podcast and an episode we are totally not going to release. I’m just seeing how this system works. In this episode: Fantasy Spoils netprov with shoutout to Lyle Skains Speidishow Quarantine Mark’s addiction to Carrots