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- 🇳🇴NO · Books#3410K to 30K
- 🇵🇭PH · Books#813K to 10K
- 🇳🇿NZ · Books#187500 to 3K
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6.8K to 22K🎙 ~2x weekly·394 episodes·Last published 5d ago - Monthly Reach
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14K to 43K🇳🇴70%🇵🇭23%🇳🇿7% - Active Followers
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#534 - No Noox, Just Boox
May 22, 2026
Unknown duration
#533 – Octavia Butler's Ghost
May 8, 2026
43m 58s
#532 - Chekhov's Dead Body
Apr 23, 2026
44m 19s
#531 - Interesting Nacho
Apr 9, 2026
53m 55s
#530 – You’re Pulling My Noodle
Mar 12, 2026
39m 06s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/22/26 |  #534 - No Noox, Just Boox | Jan has taken over the show and is exhibiting the personality of the AI from Dungeon Crawler Carl. Veronica hates awards. Tom puts the butt before the horse in deference to Veronica's theory of good things happening. And we don't wrap up Slow Gods, but we still have non-spoilery thoughts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 |  #533 – Octavia Butler's Ghost✨ | Hugo votingOctavia Butler+4 | — | Slow Gods | — | Hugo votingOctavia Butler+5 | — | 43m 58s | |
| 4/23/26 |  #532 - Chekhov's Dead Body✨ | literaturebook discussion+4 | — | The Raven Scholar | — | ChekhovHugo+5 | — | 44m 19s | |
| 4/9/26 |  #531 - Interesting Nacho✨ | Veronica's injuryCadbury eggs+4 | — | Cadbury eggsThe Raven Scholar+1 | — | VeronicaTom Merritt+5 | — | 53m 55s | |
| 3/12/26 |  #530 – You’re Pulling My Noodle✨ | March tournamentnoodle review+2 | — | Automatic Noodle | — | March tournamentnoodle review+3 | — | 39m 06s | |
| 2/27/26 |  #529 - Fuzzy Edges✨ | March Madness tournamentgenre definition+3 | — | Someplace to Be Flying | — | March Madnessgenres+3 | — | 58m 02s | |
| 2/12/26 |  #528 - Dazed and Crowfused✨ | book tournamentreading challenges+3 | — | March book tournament | — | book tournamentnominations+4 | — | 40m 01s | |
| 1/29/26 |  #527 - I'm Starting to Worry This Book Isn't Sci-Fi✨ | sci-fibook discussion+3 | Andrew Heaton | I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom | — | sci-fibook+5 | — | 55m 10s | |
| 1/15/26 |  #526 - Halfway Happy✨ | conventionsawards+3 | — | LACon VPhilip K. Dick Award+1 | — | LACon VPhilip K. Dick Award+3 | — | 52m 31s | |
| 12/19/25 |  S&L Podcast - #525 - The Beans That Wouldn't Burn✨ | beanschili+3 | — | Mark Lawrence’s book | — | beanschili+3 | — | 47m 37s | |
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| 12/5/25 |  #524 - 4 Stars: Clean, Not Cozy!✨ | mysteryhotel+3 | — | The Floating Hotel | — | Floating Hotelmurder+3 | — | 48m 55s | |
| 11/21/25 |  #523 - Ship Happens✨ | space cruise shipFloating Hotel+3 | — | — | — | space cruise shipFloating Hotel+3 | — | 33m 09s | |
| 11/7/25 |  #522 - Punchin' Shrimp and Grits | Robert Jackson Bennett deserves more kudos. We clarify it's a tapas bar, not a topless bar. And our thoughts on the new book, Floating Hotel, and the wrap-up of Interview with the Vampire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/10/25 |  #521 - The Portions Are Too Big! | We revel in the Lammy Awards, follow the tale of root beer, and discuss our first, or most recent, impressions of Interview with the Vampire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/25/25 |  #520 - Alternate Batman | Tom reports from the Matt Dinniman book event in LA, we kick off our Interview with the Vampire read, and share our last spoilery thoughts on The Hexologists and why we think the writing doorway is the strongest one for this book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/11/25 |  #519 - No Stomach for Old Salad | #519 - No Stomach for Old Salad by Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/5/25 |  #518 - Hugo Bump Yourself | #518 - Hugo Bump Yourself by Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/15/25 |  #517 - She Who Became Herstory | We get a history listen and revisit accents. And the clean blade battle is confirmed for WorldCon 2029. Plus our non-spoilery first impressions of She Who Became the Sun. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/3/25 |  #516 - I Know What You Did Last Book Briefing | Why taste in books is like taste in food. Plus, our final thoughts on Joe Abercrombie's The Devils. And the Ruth-Veronica feud heats up. Also, Tom likes fish sticks. Literally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/17/25 |  #515 - The Details in the Devils | We cast The Devils, try to apologize to Ruth, and recall other food-related romantasy. Plus, Veronica has a shameful tequila revelation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/4/25 |  #514 - The Rebirths of Wesley Chu | Wesley Chu joins us to talk about The Lives of Tao and Jan is back, so we have loads of news including Locus Award Winners and the British Fantasy Society shortlist. Plus Tom sings. We're all sorry about that. Also, we almost named this episode The Lives of Wesley Chu until we realized we had already done that in 2014. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/25 |  #513 - A Civil War-burton | Everything is out of context. But we do have interesting thoughts about The Lives of Tao and lots of congrats for the winners and nominees of the Nebulas and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/25 |  #512 - Deep Dish is SciPie | We speculate on how James Cameron will make The Devils and whether Frankenstein will be too scary for Veronica. And we further kick off The Lives of Tao. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/28/25 |  #511 - Throw Me in the Corpse Hole | We discuss the return of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files and Frank Herbert’s posthumous SFWA Infinity Award, Audible’s AI narration plans and Amazon’s cancellation of The Wheel of Time—while nominating hamburg steak and vegan enchiladas and sharing listener stories from Matt Dinniman’s event. We round out the show with in-depth discussions of The Lives of Tao and Mickey 7. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/10/25 |  #510 - A New Theseus | From Hugo admins resigning over AI panel vetting to the latest award winners and a fresh Murderbot clip—to set the stage for our book club pick. Then we dig into Mickey 7’s Ship of Theseus dilemma, sharing listener takes (yes, even foot‑fetishting AIs) and the questions that keep us up at night. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
5 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
5 placements across 3 markets.