Best Plotz Podcasts (2025)

In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set out to find the Venn diagram intersection of tech and fiction—only to realize that Kim Stanley Robinson had staked his claim on the territory decades ago. With influential series on California, on the terraforming of Mars, and on human civilization as reshaped by rising tides, KSR has established a conceptual space a…

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Money Pit, Lowe Blow, First Shift, Vomit Comet, White Rap Rushmore, Campus Shooting, What Did We Learn? 2:35:36

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Hide Receiver, The Wait, Wink Different, AstroNot, Nick Kostis, Sensei Anything, Moist Flamingo 2:43:39

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Bench Warranted, Titanic Nerd, Bone Jones, Vulva Death, Promenade, Hairy Cruise, Kum Correct 2:54:16

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Mow Problems, Gargle-Bargle, Nazi Boner, Dan Fans, Lotus Grill, Dire Warning 2:52:44

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D Train, Mick's Stick, First Sports Broadcast, Cock, Pig & Goat, Document Signing, Cheese Or Font, What Did We Learn? 2:18:49

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Black Wheel, Laundry Wars, Monkey News, Glizzy McGuire, Zoltan Kaszas, Moon Poop, Staind Class 2:54:42

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9.2 Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper 49:01

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What work can genre do today? And can the genre system become more than a method of reductive containment and market segmentation—can it be a generative source of imaginative chaos? Few are as qualified to address these questions as Lauren Beukes, whose simultaneous embrace of genres from science fiction to crime to horror and refusal to abide with…

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Mindcrap, Player None, Big Mozz, Black Monday, Ed Helms, Beaver Chili, Rob's Benefit, Succulent Chinese Meal 2:52:12

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Cilantrope, Dawg Gone, Flesh Cathedral, Butt Anyway, Don Jamieson, Juggalabia, What Did We Learn? 2:57:25

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Empty Sack, Lobsternado, Photo Bum, Unsolicited Whack, Sever After, Swing Stop, Point Taken 2:56:32

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Sardine Jones, Val Kilmer Dies, Short Wiener KIngs, Bill Squire, Bagpipe Mystery, Tongue Record, Gene Simmons Calls 3:00:09

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Flush Judgment, Left For Red, Capt. Cooker, Grave Whacks, Ham Devil, Nature Calls 2:57:30

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Store Bought, Nutz Allergy, Lazy Eye, NFL GPT, Clown Down, Peecycling, DP Fun 2:55:11

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Bell To Pay, Truck Cuts, Miss Litler, Dice Game, Esprit De Corpse, Bloomin' Onion, What Did We Learn? 2:52:08

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Full Show- Thursday, 3/27 2:58:45

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2PM- Sandwich Envy, Kat Rows & Buffett Highway 56:01

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3PM- Fritz Hitler & Lady Gas 39:12

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4PM- Steve Rannazzisi & Home Alone Rob 41:43

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5PM- Fightin' Words & Spam Dabbler 41:48

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9.1 Novels are Like Elephants: Ken Liu and Rose Casey (SW) 48:25

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It’s a bit surprising to hear a writer known for building worlds that incorporate deep historical research and elaborate technological details extol the virtues of play, but Ken Liu tells critic Rose Casey and host Sarah Wasserman that if “your idea of heaven doesn’t include play, then I’m not sure it’s a heaven people want to go to.” It turns out …

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Time Bandits, Hawkumentary, Fancy Shop, Imaginears, Black Rob, Ye Olde Cedar Point and MORE 2:54:14

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Groupon Massage, Roll Hide, Wank Of America, Steve Coogan, Mr. & Mrs. Speed and MORE 2:52:16

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SOME OF THE ALAN COX SHOW- 3/24 3:02:45

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Hey Baby, Bacon Boner, Rosebud Baker, What Did We Learn? and MORE 2:05:49

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9 Trailer Writing Against the System 34:10

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We kick off Season 9: TECH by talking with our very own Aarthi Vadde, the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Hosts and co-producers Chris Holmes and Emily Hyde ask Aarthi about the role of the novel in relation to the mass writing platforms that dominate our digital lives. Aarthi is at work on a book called We the Pla…