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A Special Presentation 334: Captain N the Game Master [3 of 3]
A Special Presentation 333: Captain N the Game Master [2 of 3]
A Special Presentation 332: Captain N the Game Master [1 of 3]
Midnight Pals: Dad Zone
Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the dead zone
King: it's about this all-american guy named johnny smith who's always telling corny jokes and just all round being a lovable goofball
King: in fact you might say
King: that he's in
King: the DAD zone
King: haha get it?
King: the DAD zone?
Barker: i don't get it
King: oh King: oh well see because he makes dad jokes and
Poe: don't start this, you absolutely do get i...
Midnight Pals: White Pines
Gemma Amor: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of white pines
Amor: now fair warning, this story does involve a lot of geometry
Lovecraft: [sweats]
Amor: but don't worry
Amor: it's Euclidian
Lovecraft: oh thank god
Lovecraft: i was worried for a second there!
Amor: it's about a woman who has four fingers and she goes to a mysterious island where there's this recurring symbol of a triangle with four dots
Amor: wait a second
Am...
Midnight Pals: On a Boat
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i jussst wanted to sstop by to asssure you
Rowling: that i did NOT invite jeffrey epssstein to the world premiere of the monsterss of pottermania sstage sshow extravaganza ssupersshow sspectacular live from the acropolisss in sstereo where available
Rowling: i know there'ss rumorss i invited epssstein to the world premiere of harry potter and the magical bean
King: it was deathly hallows
Rowling:
Rowling: wass it?
Rowling: ssor...
Midnight Pals: Return
King: boy those Epstein emails
King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate
Neil Gaiman: hello everyone
Gaiman: i'm back
Barker: oh boy
Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time
Neil Gaiman: it's me neil gaiman, imagineer and dreamweaver
Gaiman: have you ever considered
Gaiman: the incredible power of story?
Gaiman: but perhaps even more powerful are the stories that we don't tell
Gaiman: anyway here's my NDA
Neil Ga...
2026-02-03 23:09:39 +0000 UTC View PostMidnight Pals: Silent Hill
Christophe Gans: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the return to silent hill
Gans: yup that's right
Gans: there's a new silent hill movie
Gans: you might not have heard bc the studio is mysteriously not promoting it at all
Gans: probably because its so good
Gans: now i hear all you silent hill fans saying "but christophe, will it be like the game?"
Gans: yes it will
Gans: exactly like the game
Gans: slavishly devoted ...
A Special Presentation 330: The Ruben Awards [2 of 2]
In theory, we were supposed to talk about the Rube Goldberg-penned 1930 film "Soup to Nuts," but we got distracted and instead went through the entire history of the Ruben Award. The important takeaway is that, for a podcast ostensibly dedicated to comic strips, we know remarkably little about comic strips. Mike gets really made about Rhymes with Orange in this episode. 2026-02-02 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Midnight Pals: Sex Crimes
[sex crime island]
Jeffrey Epstein: the thinng abut a trans womanis that its= a byootiful lad y/ wit booboohoogoobass ( . ) ( . )
Name redacted Extremely Respected Evolutionary Biologist: of course, of course
Epstein: butt al so Epstein: it has a hoohadoodypoo <=====3
Epstein: butt the bbest thi ng abut a trns woman// iss
Epstein: yoo can doo a sex crime to it...^/
Name redacted Billionaire Elitist: i like that part too
Epstein: andd a trns man//
Epstein: ...
Midnight Pals: Elon's Offer
King: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the
Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] heeeeeey stephano king!
Musk: i gotta greata business proposition for you
Musk: how you lika ta maka some real money
Musk: i gotta opening atta grok
Musk: but you gotta be a real epic to get it
Musk: see, we gotta da problem witta da grok
Musk: it no maka stories no good
Musk: so we need hira a writer to fix them
King: grok can't write?
Musk: yeah...