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If you were a young reader, like me. Or a faithful PBS kid, like me. You'll be familiar with the charm and whimsy of Reading Rainbow. It was one of my absolute favorite shows growing up. I was an avid and annoying reader, I spent long hours at the library when I could and always brought home at bag full of books from every trip. Nearly thirty years later and I can still sing the whole theme song, because that's the kind of memory trap our tiny brains create with music. Reading Rainbow has seen a bit of a revival on the internet in the past few years thanks to LeVar's efforts and the generosity of people on KickStarter. Although as adults, simplicity outweighs much of it's charm. Though I find the books read by LeVar and the children each episode to still be quite a lovely experience. Enter, then, LeVar's more recent foray into the world of stories and reading with his own titular podcast: LeVar Burton Reads. Each week, LeVar hand picks a short story to read al...

Aside from Critical Role, The Adventure Zone is the one actual play D&D series I've been able to get into. Maybe I enjoyed it so much from the beginning because I was already a huge fan of the McElroys. I enjoy Griffin & Justin's work at Polygon and I've been listening to the three of them on MBMBAM for a long time now. They started sort of at the right place, right time for me. I'd been watching Tabletop on Geek & Sundry for a couple seasons, I'd started getting into Critical Role and looking into story-like podcasts that were something other than Welcome to Nightvale. And then the McEl-bros started The Adventure Zone. And as I mentioned in yesterday's post... they just sort of started.  There was no long lengthy introduction to their characters, there was no overly detailed explanation of anything. Griffin just started narrating and they just ran with it. As much as I love Critical Role (and that's a lot) something about the tight time ...

A little while back I discovered the podcast, Good Christian Fun . According to their website: Good Christian Fun is a podcast delving into the strange upside-down world of Christian pop culture. Hosts Kevin T. Porter and Caroline Ely are your tour guides through the weird and hilarious world of faith-based entertainment. GCF is a show for skeptics and believers alike, all are welcome.  Don’t worry, we won’t make you go to church ;)  Let's have some good Christian fun! Typically, I tend to stay away from all things church-based, but I'm also a bit of a masochist, so I thought it might be worth a try, given their description. Plus, while I didn't listen to the Gilmore Guys podcast Kevin Porter previously hosted, I never heard anything but good things about it. Cue: Me laughing out loud at work, dying at the memories this podcast has dredged up that I would've previously been loathe to relive. Instead, Kevin and Caroline do hold up their end of the bargain. Wha...