[Content note: General discussion about decomposition, digestion, hallucinogens, and toxicity. We talk about spiders from 12:46 to 13:30.] This week, Charlie and Amias are joined by Rae to talk about fungi. In this episode: mushroom obelisks, reindeer piss, flowers that smell like corpses and look like dicks, and the Destroying Angel. For an article about the flower nicknamed "misshapen phallus," click here. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her other music on Bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on Twitter at @SpIn_Podcast or Tumblr at SpinPodcast.tumblr.com, or email us at SpinPodcast@gmail.com.

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We Welcome Our Fungal Overlords

This week, Kat joins Charlie and Amias to talk about rocks! In this episode: poison Gatorade, dirt flavored ice cream, various feldspars, and a ball pit of tumbled stones. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her other music on Bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on Twitter at @SpIn_Podcast or Tumblr at SpinPodcast.tumblr.com, or email us at SpinPodcast@gmail.com.

Gneiss

This week, Amias and Charlie discuss the development of Remedy Entertainment through their last decade of games. In this episode: ethereal talking pyramids who call you on the phone, Mads Mikkelsen's dick, cool and unsettling time noises, and Jesse Faden's two girlfriends. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her other music on Bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on Twitter at @SpIn_Podcast or Tumblr at SpinPodcast.tumblr.com, or email us at SpinPodcast@gmail.com.

Control, Part 2: Dynamite

Content note: This episode includes non-graphic discussion of death by gun. This week, Amias and Charlie discuss the architecture of Remedy Entertainment's 2019 game Control. In this episode: Remedy characters who cuff their jeans, whether the Oldest House is a boomer, leaving a government lockdown to go to the beach, and horror in losing control of a space. Watch the Polygon video we reference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n7ylXPueYE Read the Rem Koolhaas essay Amias quotes: https://politicshyperwall.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/koolhaas-rem-bigness-1994.pdf Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her other music on Bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on Twitter at @SpIn_Podcast or Tumblr at SpinPodcast.tumblr.com, or email us at SpinPodcast@gmail.com.

Control, Part 1: Supernatural Janitor

This week, Amias talks Charlie's (and your) ear off about typewriters and printing. In this episode: accidental cuneiform preservation, the Gutenberg bible, those darn millenial aesthetic posts, and a really sharp knife. Check out the keyboards Amias wants to buy at Gboards. He also recommends following @foone on Twitter for plenty of niche technology posts. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her other music on Bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on Twitter at @SpIn_Podcast or Tumblr at SpinPodcast.tumblr.com, or email us at SpinPodcast@gmail.com.

Function Over Form

Mir, Charlie, and Amias continue talking about the intersection of science fiction and horror tropes. (This episode makes sense on its own, but the last episode probably has useful context.) In this episode: the third ending of Clue, Jack Nicholson's eyebrows, goopy vs. cerebral horror, even more Pacific Rim, being a monsterfucker, and what it means to be human. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her other music on Bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on Twitter at @SpIn_Podcast or Tumblr at SpinPodcast.tumblr.com, or email us at SpinPodcast@gmail.com.

The Sci-Fi Horror Hour

This week, Mir joins Amias and Charlie to talk about how Pacific Rim Uprising could have been a better movie. In this episode: Jake "Man Pain" Pentecost, the smallest of smooches, putting some blood in the drones, extremely convoluted plans for worldwide extinction, and atom-loving atoms. The fanfiction mentioned in this episode is "Bottle Rocket Principle" and can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/980882 Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her latest work on Bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on Twitter at @SpIn_Podcast or Tumblr at spinpodcast.tumblr.com, or email us at spinpodcast@gmail.com.

Pacific Rim 2: Kaiju Boogaloo

Charlie gets drunk and tells Amias all about his current hyperfixation, the web serial "Antlers, Colorado". In this epiode: sexy demons, death of the author, scraping sounds (discussion of), and the logistics of fucking a ghost. Sorry, Marn. Read Antlers at antlerscolorado.com. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her latest work on Bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on Twitter at @SpIn_Podcast or Tumblr at spinpodcast.tumblr.com, or email us at spinpodcast@gmail.com.

Demons Don't Have Rights

Please note that this episode involves some references to fanfiction which include vore and pedophilia. At no point is there explicit discussion of these subjects but we'd rather be safe than sorry and warn you about the presence of this content.  A new podcast hosted by Charlie and Mir where we get drunk and talk about our special interests. Join us for the second half of this two-parter as we talk with our good friend Beef, aka Kuiper, about Professor Layton. In this episode: Layton’s boner for robots, Waluigi’s five ass-cheeks, Mir's introduction to vore and other disgusting fanfiction, and Rasputin’s penis.  Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her latest work on bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on twitter at spin_podcast or tumblr at spinpodcast.tumblr.com or email us at spinpodcast@gmail.com.

Zooted PART II: The Zootening

A new podcast hosted by Charlie and Mir where we get drunk and talk about our special interests. Join us for the first half of this two-parter as we talk with Elora (Rylin) and Kuiper (Beef) about about the Zero Escape series and share our Gay Autism Experiences. In this episode: fields/threads/bonds, more about time travel, some heavy stuff about professional autism diagnosis, and a ghost story. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her latest work on bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com.  Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on twitter at spin_podcast or tumblr at spinpodcast.tumblr.com. Email us at spinpodcast@gmail.com.

Zooted PART I

A new podcast hosted by Charlie and Mir where we get drunk and talk about our special interests. We're joined by Amias, Charlie's FIANCE who's MOVED IN WITH US SINCE WE LAST RECORDED, and we're taking this time to let y'all know that we can be really pretentious when we want to be. In this episode: Poems That Slap, typewriters, fandom histories both published and personal, and color theory. Hey, we warned you going in. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her latest work on bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on twitter at spin_podcast or tumblr at spinpodcast.tumblr.com. Email us at spinpodcast@gmail.com.

The Pretentious Episode™

The unedited remaining chunk of Dicks Out For Dionysus to announce our return to recording after a month long break.

Dicks Out For Dionysus BONUS MATERIAL

A new podcast hosted by Charlie and Mir where we get drunk and talk about our special interests. We’re joined by Charles “Hedgie” (@ehcanadianhedgehog on tumblr or @hedgiecanadia on twitter) to talk about the Greek pantheon of gods and some modern worship. In this episode: libations, satyrs, the god of gender, and an unusual period of silence from Charlie courtesy of the elderberry wine he drank this week. Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her latest work on bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com.  Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on twitter @spin_podcast or tumblr @spinpodcast. Email us as spinpodcast@gmail.com.  A note about this episode: we have another half an hours of material that happened after the point we cut off and we think we’re going to release it as a mini, unedited episode.

Dicks Out For Dionysus

A new podcast hosted by Charlie and Mir where we get drunk and talk about our special interests. Join us for the second half of this two-parter as we talk with Kat (@katMadsanity on twitter) about The Silmarillion. In this episode: sappy love stories, doom, Sauron the furry, and Clive Staples Lewis.  Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her latest work on bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on twitter at spin_podcast or tumblr @spinpodcast. Email us at spinpodcast@gmail.com.

Prometheus Fix-It Fic PART II

A new podcast hosted by Charlie and Mir where we get drunk and talk about our special interests. Join us for the first half of this two-parter as we talk with Kat (@katMadsanity on twitter) about The Silmarillion. In this episode: the Bible of the LoTR universe, Jirt, fractal hollow earth theories, and kinks involving spiders.  Featuring music by Elora Driver. Check out her latest work on bandcamp at aqua-girl.bandcamp.com. Want to talk about your special interest or hyperfixation on the show? Visit us on twitter at spin_podcast or tumblr @spinpodcast. Email us at spinpodcast@gmail.com.

Prometheus Fix-It Fic PART I

SPIN is a comedy/enthusiast podcast where the hosts and/or their guests get drunk and try to explain or talk about their special interests. "Special Interests," or "Hyperfixations," are intense interests experienced by many neurodivergent people, especially autistic and ADHD folks, and many of us love to talk about them! This podcast is by neurodivergent people and for neurodivergent people. Check us out on Twitter @SpIn_Podcast or on Tumblr @spinpodcast for more info.

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