Social Distance Warriors: Recent Episodes
Tom and Rat
Recorded 3/3/2022 You must solve the riddles to pass the test. Action items: Continue wearing a mask, and get an N95 if you can. Treat yourself to a dentist appointment Make a character in a tabletop RPG
Recorded 2/3/2022 Let me tell you about Flappy Bird. Action Items: Take steps to be prepared Buy something on Bandcamp Friday
Recorded 1/19/2022 Lock me in my room with Frankenstein. Action Items: * Change up the medium * Listen to an album released in 2022.
Recorded 1/6/2022. This ain't it, Commander-In-Chief. Action Items: * Stop doing something * Don't get COVID.
Recorded 12/21/2021. We were so naive, we didn't know about the omega variant or the supercure. Action items: Set a goal Play a game
Recorded December 8, 2021, with special guest Mads Viande (http://madsvian.de/). Lot of death talk in this one. Action items: Drink a nice hot soda Buy a 2022 calendar Revisit something you did a long time ago
Recorded 11/10/2021. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Action Items: * Read a book * Seek out bargains and values
Recorded 10/20/2021. Wearing a scarf and a hat is likely to make you warmer than just wearing two hats. Action items: * Try Melatonin * Go see your Doctor. For your health! * Watch the "Doctor Who" TV show.
Recorded on October 6, 2021. The Skeleton is still going to be a big brother. Action Items: Take a nap Listen to Mission to Zyxx (https://www.missiontozyxx.space) (possibly episode 5.07 (https://www.missiontozyxx.space/season-5/2021/7/26/507-a-little-ditty-bout-jakk-and-shaian-ft-chris-grace-and-eric-gersen))
Recorded September 25, 2021 Nobody's ever said "Data Bagel" before. Action item: * Look up an organization that provides assistance or pen-pals to people in the prison system.
Recorded September 11, 2021. You don't have to explain to me who Niles is. Action items: Watch a fan video Say something nobody's ever said before
Recorded July 22, 2021. No we won't stop talking abut Homestuck things. Action item: - Read "Vinbre the Novel (https://archiveofourown.org/works/31830013)".
Recorded June 24, 2021. Rat's true nature is revealed. Action items: * Eat a berry * Break a law
Recorded June 10, 2021. What's the deal with masks? Action Items: Give a card to somebody, but make it fancy Move an item of furniture in your home to a different location
Recorded May 27, 2021. Consider this a historical curiosity. Action items: Memorize a poem Play Snowound Blood (https://deconreconstruction.itch.io/snowbound-blood)
Recorded March 20, 2021. Is any of this canonical? Action items: * If you have allergies, try taking an anti-allergy medication * If you don't have allergies, be grateful * Listen to Friends at the Table (https://friendsatthetable.net)
Recorded February 7, 2021. Traffic is the final frontier. Action Items: * Learn something about labor unions * Complete the New York Times crossword
Recorded 1/21/21. The Inauguration happened. Action items: * Do something nice for your face. * Something with a fork?
Recorded January 14, 2021. Rat pursues a new opportunity, and Tom does a podcast. Action items: Donate to a food bank, mutual aid, or other charity covering essential services that the government should be covering Watch a movie that you feel like everyone else feels like you should have seen Have a prophetic dream think about whether or not you have ever taken any creative writing courses?
Hey FYI this one was recorded more than a month ago. Action item: donate to (or promote) a food bank or a charity that provides vital services
There is no multiplayer solitaire. Action items: * Drink a hot drink that's different from the hot drink you usually drink
(Recorded 10/29/20) Hey there's an election. Action Items: * Vote! * Write a letter to your future self at futureme.org (http://futureme.org)
(Recorded October 15th) In the shadow of the Pumpkin Spice. Action Items: - Find a local Rocky Horror shadow cast.
And now: this man in pandemic has taken up a new hobby, and it's not what you'd expect! Action Items: * Listen to Neil Cicierega's Mouth Dreams and all of the Mouth albums. * Play some neopets games.
We confront the horror of sports and games. Action item: * Participate in the cultural event of Blaseball (https://blaseball.com).
A throwback to the long-gone days of early July 2020. Action item: * Let the dice decide your fate.
We talk about going back to work, and getting furloughed from work, and getting fired from work (or more specifically, the supreme cout decision about NOT getting fired from work). Action items: * Brush your teeth * Watch one of the movies on Rian Johnson's list (https://letterboxd.com/rcjohnso/list/70s-musical-extravaganza/detail/)
We consider the protests as transmission events, and contemplate the podcast as a historical document. Action items: Keep a journal
Tom puts on a one man show about a person who's doing great, and Rachel talks about police brutality. Action items: Donate to Black Lives Matter (https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019), Trans Lifeline (https://www.translifeline.org/about), or another organization like the ones listed here (https://nerdist.com/article/how-to-get-involved-take-action/). Join the #DoctorWhoBlackout (https://twitter.com/blkgirlscreate/status/1267924445483556864) event!
Hey it’s Tom. This episode of Social Distance Warriors was recorded on May 26th. That was only a day after the brutal murder of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department, and at the time of recording it wasn’t yet apparent just how much the aftermath of that murder was going to take over the public discourse. Since it’s a little bit odd to be releasing an episode right now that doesn’t discuss police violence against communities of color and black people specifically, Rachel and I wanted to let you know up front that even though it’s not discussed in this episode, we’ll be speaking more about it in an upcoming episode. For now, suffice it to say that we are angry and sad, and that Black Lives Matter. We talk about businesses opening and knitting supervillains. Action Items: * visit a cemetery.
Warning: Discussion of Hydroxychloroquine, and Homestuck and Homestuck-adjacent media. Action items: * Solve a puzzle.
We check in with a despondent correspondent, and talk about death models. Action item: * Read a book!
The semester is coming to an end but the pandemic isn't. Action items: * Travel in time and have a dance party with your alternate self. * Watch Mama Mia: Here We Go Again * Play a board game. If you live alone, play a single-player board game.
Politics, music, irony, and cooking. ACTION ITEMS: Add new illumination to your world? What are the five things you need to do every day to keep going?
Lots going on in this one: blood, masks, music, hair, and more! ACTION ITEM: * Select your Pandemic Anthem
We talk about perosnal grooming, educational Zooming, and microphone booming. ACTION ITEM: * Walk your dog. If you don't have a dog, walk an imaginary dog, or a metaphorical dog, or something else. Report back on your "dog" walk.
This one's depressing, folks! Action Items: Any ideas for in-person socializing in a safe and socially distant way?
Rachel is living in a post-Gumbo world, and Tom is starting to do a bit too well. Action Items: Complete the 2020 US Census! What is your piece of media (or whatever) that brings you joy and comfort? Have you learned anything or picked up a new habit during quarantine that you want to carry forward? Send a message to somebody that you've been meaning to reach out to
This episode has nothing to do with Tom Friendly, the character played by M. C. Gainey in Lost. It's just a thing Rachel says at some point in the episode. Action Items: * Complete the 2020 US Census! * What is your piece of media (or whatever) that brings you joy and comfort?
Action Items: What is your hand washing strategy or song? Any good pandemic books, movies, or shows?