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Just King Things Bonusode: Sewer Special 2025

It's just what you've been waiting for: we answer YOUR questions from this past year in the Sewer Special for 2025. What is a creature? Who is a creature? Why is a creature!? Questions like this and other questions totally unlike these questions will be addressed, considered, and spoken about at length in this VERY LONG episode where we slurp from YOUR sewer.

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Shelved By Genre Bonusode: Swamp Thing (1982)

Austin and CMRN recorded this one impossibly early, and so Michael isn't there to stop them from doing what they want. They're special, and they want to talk about Swamp Thing. They want to talk about how the scientist comes in blastin! The movie is good.

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Michael on Michael - Bad Boys 2 (2003)

This is the fifth episode of Michael on Michael, the podcast where Michael Lutz appreciates the films of Michael Bay. This episode is about the 2003 film Bad Boys 2.

This show is only possible due to your Patreon support!

Tune into future episodes on the works of Michael Bay, James Cameron, and maybe some other name-associated characters.

if you have questions you would like Michael to answer on future episodes, please leave them in the comments!

Just King Things Bonusode: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

This month we're going back to the old times, the real old times, the time when prison was the best thing that could happen to you but also the worst most evil thing that could happen to you and both of those things were true. A time of noble folks and silly men with slicked back hair trying to just work the line. We watched this TNT classic.

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Shelved By Genre Bonusode: V For Vendetta (2005)

Remember, remember the fifth of November, the line that CMRN forgot was even in the comic book. This information and more is found in this wondrous, most violent, most delightful podcast about the comic book film that rules above all other comic book films. A vociferous, vengeful, volatile vestment of whatever the hell ever you want it to be. We talk about the V for Vendetta film.

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Just King Things Bonusode: 11/22/63 Miniseries (2016)

We're going way back yonder again, but not so far back yonder that people have to remember how to be farmers. Instead, this time, we have to go back to when food and drink tasted good. Before the world moved on. Or whatever. Hey, is this morally objectionable guy going to save JFK or not? I mean damn.

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Shelved By Genre Bonusode: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

You ever have an experience where you're rocketing down the road and fly off into the woods and then have to get revenge on doctors many years later through various Saw traps? That happened to Dr. Phibes. Maybe the Saw movies should have been called Phibes. You ever think about that? This movie is great.

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Just King Things Bonusode: 1922 (2017)

Way back yonder, when good bad boys knew how to be farmers, there was a guy. His name was Tom Jane, and he learned an accent harder than anyone ever has. He had a dastardly relationship with a series of rats and holes in his roof. This movie is pretty good, and it has all the hallmarks of a Good King Adaptation! Praise be!

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Shelved By Genre Bonusode: Postapocalypse Q+A

We got out of our bunkers (and into your car?) to answer questions about what happens after the end of the world. We do NOT talk about rock and roll music. We do talk about a Tomei matchup to end all Tomei matchups, and we ponder the genre questions.

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July 2025

Danni and CMRN sat down to talk about the wide world of games.

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Just King Things Bonusode: Under the Dome S1 (2013)

Big Jim Rennie's thinkin' about the dome, and you should be too, because we're all trapped under the dome together. And we've got secrets. This is somehow both one of the best and worst adaptations we have seen on this show, and neither of us really know what to do about that. The one thing we do know is this: Junior's bad. Learn more on 2025-07-14 20:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Shelved By Genre Bonusode: Escape from New York (1981)

We wandered over to the grand ole New York City to see what was happening in the postapocalypse, and wouldn't you know it: there's hunks there! And there's also creatures that come right outta the ground and get ya. In this month's episode on Escape From New York, we learn a little bit about the power of friendship and also how important it is to read the mine map cor...

June 2025 Newsletter

[note: Michael wrote this newsletter two weeks ago and CMRN forgot to post it, so here it is in a time capsule to remind you what we were up to last month!]

We're a few days into a new month, which MUST mean it is time for the Ranged Touch monthly newsletter! Tip back your hat and sit a spell while I get to work rounding up all the mischievous little podcasts we've unleashed upon the plains of the internet this past May.

The Monthly saw CMRN and Danni returning to Adepticon once m...

June 2025

Just a heads up that Danni's audio in this one is pretty bad. We tried to clean it up as best we could, but there were some recording issues that we only caught after the fact. That doesn't stop this from being nearly two hours of rip-roaring conversation about war games, TTRPGs, and what it means to own a 3D printer and hit yourself with the toxic chemicals on accident.

You can see Tine Fielding's ...

Shelved By Genre Bonusode: The Road Warrior (1981)

We took a little trip out to the postapocalypse to see what we could learn and all we came back with are some style tips. Be careful where you're standing if you're wearing assless chaps. If you're wearing a helmet, you need the accompanying medals for your chest. The biggest the hair, the more likely you are to live in a hole in the ground. Anyway, we watched The Road Warrior.

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Just King Things Bonusode: The Monkey (2025)

The Monkey is a meditation on the power of monkeys that assail Adam Scott. It is a prime source for thinking about weird stuff in the world. I, for one, do not think the monkey is real. Anyway we watched The Monkey and we had a lot of stuff to say about it. Learn more on the bonus episode post.

Shelved By Genre: The Sprawl Trilogy Q+A

What the heck is up with those mirrorshades? What happened back in the 1980s? These are some of the questions no one asked us in this action-packed, nearly-three-hour Q+A episode. Join us to talk through all kinds of weird stuff that came out of The Sprawl trilogy, and we give some hints about the things that are coming up. These are secret hints. You'll never figure it out.

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May 2025 Newsletter

The summer winds are on their way, and blew this newsletter a little late into the month, but that doesn't mean it's too late to learn about all the stuff we did in April. To get things started right, MICHAEL ON MICHAEL returned for an episode on the sentimental blockbuster PEARL HARBOR, the firs...

May 2025

We go through the "haul" from Adepticon 2025 and have our final reflections on the experience. It was not called Armies on Parade. We'll be talking about 3D printing in the next episode?!

Just King Things Bonusode: Bag of Bones (2011)

The Bag of Bones tv movie, directed by Mick Garris, is not good -- to this we can all agree. It is precisely how it is bad, and the quality of that badness, that distinguishes it from all other adaptations, and indeed, all other forms of visual media auditory and not.

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Shelved By Genre Bonusode: Sneakers (1992)

We learned about how to do a hack in the truly underrated 1992 film Sneakers. Sure, in this episode we get into a severe disagreement about how good a different movie is. And sure, also, since I am writing this I get to assert that Austin is wrong. But Sneakers is great, and we agree that this hacker heist film has "got the stuff" in a way that basically no movie made about the year 2008 does. Movies!

Free: Interview with totally_not_panicking

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CMRN sat down with Sun Rot creator and miniature artist Matt (totally_not_panicking) to talk about it all: art practice in the miniature space, kitbashing as a creative practice, and what the hell...

Just King Things Bonusode: Firestarter (2022)

The biggest strongest dad vs the biggest strongest villain who also, I guess, could be a dad. Moms? They're not allowed. It's the Kingiverse, after all. The Firestarter remake is a truly weird product. I thought it was good. Michael did not. Learn more on the bonus episode post.

Live from Adepticon

We went to Adepticon 2025 and this is what we recorded while we were there. We've got a postmortem AND a really cool interview also coming up!

Michael on Michael - Pearl Harbor (2001)

This is the fourth episode of Michael on Michael, the podcast where Michael Lutz appreciates the films of Michael Bay. This episode is about the 2001 film Pearl Harbor.

This show is only possible due to your Patreon support!

Tune into future episodes on the works of Michael Bay, James Cameron, and maybe some other name-associated characters.

if you have questions ...

March 2025 - Danni Presents...MINMAX on Caves of Qud

Danni has assembled the "dark web trio" to talk about Caves of Qud and the crunchiest number nonsense that no one else in the Ranged Touchiverse will ever engage with. Mary, Michael, and Moose spend...what the hell...five hours talking about the IGF-winning Caves of Qud and all the crunchiest number shit you have ever heard. I guess they go through all of the mutations in the game or something? I had nothing to do with this, but it is so audacious that I am maki...

Shelved By Genre: Strange Days (1995)

I got addicted to wirehead shit one time and the only thing I wanted to do was experience what it was like to be Ronnie on the zipline. It was a dark six months of my life. Thankfully there's a movie from 1995 that fully explores the dark recesses of the human experience and what it would be like to push the real world away...and let the virtual reign....

March 2025 Newsletter

A full and eventful February has come to a close at Ranged Touch, which means it's time for the newsletter roundup for all our various shenanigans! Coming near the end, CMRN and Danni dropped the monthly pod as usual, discussing their adventures in miniatures, among other things. Tabletop g...

Just King Things Bonusode: Lisey's Story (2021)

There is a special thing that happens sometimes in the world. Two people fall in love. One of those people is clearly from England, but he's doing a terrible accent, and he also has a secret world of pain that he's hiding from his wife. He has a long boy, too, and it's not as scary as the book. We watched every episode of the Apple TV+ show Lisey's Story so tha...

February 2025

The Ranged Touch podcast continues through 2025 with a series of Updates of miniature-based activities and then a longform discussion of our experimental Mothership playthrough, which supplies this month's podcast art. We talk about a whole lot of other stuff too.