Best Jef Aldrich Podcasts (2025)

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307 - Micro Game Roundup 2 1:16:51

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6d ago1:16:51

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Let's lay out what we're discussing here this week. It's three games (in four books) comprising Clever Girl, #Flirt Squad, and Anyone Can Wear The Mask. We love checking in on micro games from time to time, they're a refreshing change from the elderly tomes we normally peruse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Movie Mastery - Gleaming the Cube (1989) 1:08:41

12d ago1:08:41

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A totally radical skateboarding movie that has very little to do with skateboarding and a lot to do with Vietnamese crime drama Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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306 - Mimban Number Five 47:19

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You can't get earlier Star Wars EU novels than this right here. Welcome to the "sequel in case the sequels didn't happen" of Star Wars, where the force was still mysterious and Luke didn't know who his sister was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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306 - The Expanse 1:19:53

20d ago1:19:53

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More TV sci-fi! More TV sci-fi! Actually wait, hold on, this one is based on the books. No TV in here, which is probably for the best, because you guessed it, neither of us watched the show. Is this relatively modern relatively hard sci-fi space game fun? Well let's find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Movie Mastery - Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) 1:08:16

27d ago1:08:16

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A movie with an absolutely bananas concept that squanders it on mostly being about how boring, crappy dudes are good actually Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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305 - Time Lord 1:26:32

1M ago1:26:32

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Who loves Doctor Who? Specifically and exclusively any Doctor Who made before 1991? Not us it turns out, though this game is pretty fun! It's got some neat design ideas and good advice and writing, and also a lot of information about old Doctors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Movie Mastery - Outlaw Prophet (2001) 1:19:53

1M ago1:19:53

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A sci-fi movie that is incomprehensibly religious and religiously incomprehensible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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305 - Jedi Twilight Wrap Up 1:07:11

1M ago1:07:11

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Why, it's the twilight of Jedi Twilight! And frankly? Good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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304 - Runequest (1984) 1:14:42

2M ago1:14:42

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This is one of the venerable old giants of the fantasy gaming industry. Avalon Hill producing Chaosium's Runequest. Couldn't be more classic. But how does it read 40 years later? Let's all find out together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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Movie Mastery - Carpool (1996) 1:18:13

2M ago1:18:13

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From a hotel room in Wisconsin, we drag James into our muck and watch a Tom Arnold film that is extremely Tom Arnold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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304 - Don't Call it a Comeback 58:59

2M ago58:59

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That ended abruptly! Sure enough we get a chapter containing both Vader and Xizor, but... eh you'll see. Also there's some robots and some big-ish reveals, I suppose! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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303 - Superhero 2044 1:12:26

2M ago1:12:26

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By all account, this is the first ever superhero RPG, but don't let that fool you, it contains virtually nothing you'd recognize as a superhero game. In fact, it's wild what it contains. You'll see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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302 - Capers 1:16:10

3M ago1:16:10

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Okay the rumors that we like every supers game are scurrilous, devious, and increasingly accurate. This is Capers, and it's a supers game set in a slightly less socially shitty 1920s, which is a neat thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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Movie Mastery - Sexy Evil Genius (2013) 1:21:42

3M ago1:21:42

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Buffy, BSG, and Lost collide in a bar with a Baldwin and what happens is, you know, fine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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303 - All I Need Is A Miracle 56:23

3M ago56:23

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Vader packs up and rides to join the party, Jax and company fight some crazy robots, and Xizor meets Nick Rostu, surely that's fantasic, right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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301 - The Arcanum 1:06:31

3M ago1:06:31

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Hi folks, let's start up another 300 of these, what do you say? This one is about The Arcanum, an early 80s game that sure seems similar for some reasons (the same reasons they always do? Probably!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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Movie Mastery - Battlefield Earth (2000) 1:20:53

3M ago1:20:53

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It's taken a while but we finally have gotten to the movie that every bad movie podcast has to talk about eventually. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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302 - Here Comes a Special Droid 1:03:23

3M ago1:03:23

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Honestly, I-5 isn't even super important here, we just think it's so funny how he keeps having a module for exactly what the group needs every time. Really, this is the "Xizor Makes His Move" set of chapters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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300 - Palladium Fantasy 1:39:44

4M ago1:39:44

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Well that certainly was 300 times we did a thing, I tell you what! Let's take a little victory lap by cracking open a cask we've been saving for a special occasion, a feisty little 1983 vintage called Palladium Fantasy that definitely isn't just dust and vinegar by this point, right? Right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho…

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Movie Mastery - The Astrologer (1976) 1:09:59

4M ago1:09:59

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Another Astrologer? That's right, it's the other movie from 1975 with this name and probably the one we were supposed to watch initially. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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301 - A Special Pinch 57:46

4M ago57:46

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Man is I-5 ever useful. But who's also a protocol droid with a weird gun hand that everyone wants to know about? I bet you all forgot about Bug Eyes, who is theoretically the MacGuffin of this production, and who JUST TURNED UP. Yeah! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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299 - Bleeding Heart 1:01:15

4M ago1:01:15

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We're hard at work on our giant pile of weird old box sets, and that means it's time for Bleeding Heart, a game that Jon assures me is loosely based on something called the Corman Poe film era of the mid-sixties, and he's a total horror nerd so I gotta go with him on this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Movie Mastery - The Astrologer (1975) 1:06:55

4M ago1:06:55

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We might have ended up watching the wrong The Astrologer from 1975 since there are two bad movies of that name from that year. This one is 90% dialogue! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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300 - Slut Plate Summer 59:53

4M ago59:53

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Well dang, this was episode 300? Then I guess we shall podcast in the shade. In today's episode Jax and the gang escape some droid police (DROID POLICE, BEEP BEEP BEEP) on flying Segways, while Rhinann whines and Nick Rostu... also kinda whines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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298 - Wild West 1:13:13

4M ago1:13:13

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I really hope you're enjoying this string of very old games, we're doing our best to get back into them quickly (ever since I found one of my old box sets fully eaten by bugs and had to fumigate). In this case, it's a game about real old timey cowboys! Like Boot Hill but not TSR! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Jef Aldrich Podcasts

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Movie Mastery

Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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System Mastery

Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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Expounded Universe

Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

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307 - Micro Game Roundup 2 1:16:51

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Movie Mastery - Gleaming the Cube (1989) 1:08:41

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306 - Mimban Number Five 47:19

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306 - The Expanse 1:19:53

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Movie Mastery - Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (2014) 1:08:16

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305 - Time Lord 1:26:32

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Movie Mastery - Outlaw Prophet (2001) 1:19:53

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305 - Jedi Twilight Wrap Up 1:07:11

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304 - Runequest (1984) 1:14:42

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Movie Mastery - Carpool (1996) 1:18:13

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304 - Don't Call it a Comeback 58:59

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303 - Superhero 2044 1:12:26

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302 - Capers 1:16:10

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Movie Mastery - Sexy Evil Genius (2013) 1:21:42

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303 - All I Need Is A Miracle 56:23

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301 - The Arcanum 1:06:31

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Movie Mastery - Battlefield Earth (2000) 1:20:53

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302 - Here Comes a Special Droid 1:03:23

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300 - Palladium Fantasy 1:39:44

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Movie Mastery - The Astrologer (1976) 1:09:59

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301 - A Special Pinch 57:46

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299 - Bleeding Heart 1:01:15

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Movie Mastery - The Astrologer (1975) 1:06:55

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300 - Slut Plate Summer 59:53

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298 - Wild West 1:13:13