It’s the return of Careers, a fun and popular board game from the 1950s! Will anyone choose to become a uranium prospector? Who will get wrecked at sea? And how many opportunities are too many opportunities?

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Mikah Sargent, Kathy Campbell and Sebastian Runnings

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This time on Random Pursuit, we learn who’s a loss leader, whose gut is death, and who you should toss your questions to.

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Dan Moren, Heather Berberet, Jay Miller, Kathy Campbell and Mikah Sargent

Show Notes & Links

Dan Moren - The Armageddon Protocol

Heather Berberet - Free the Squee

Jay Miller - Conduit, Clockwise

Kathy Campbell - Conduit, The Unicorn Sidekick

Mikah Sargent - chihuahua.coffee

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Friendly Competition is back! Will this be the episode where Silent Carl finally finds the winners podium? Or will Silent Carl fail to find favor with the host (who is also Silent Carl)?

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Lex Friedman and Dan Moren with Glenn Fleishman, Jean MacDonald, Shelly Brisbin and Tony Sindelar

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It’s Random Pursuit time again! In this edition: Star Treks, children’s golfing habits, a first-time player, very few ghost points, and more!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Antony Johnston, Brian Warren, Shelly Brisbin, Scott Ensign and Sarah Murphy

Show Notes & Links

Everyone - Relay St. Jude’s Campaign

Antony Johnston - Dogsitter Detective series

Brian Warren - Sorkin’ In It

Shelly Brisbin - iOS Access For All

Scott Ensign - Programmatic I/O

Sarah Murphy - is It Camp?

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It’s the ninth edition of Mind Meld, where contestants try to match each other’s answers while simultaneously going off the rails. Will there be sports? Yes, and nobody seems happy about it.

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Tony Sindelar and Kathy Campbell with Jason Snell, Moisés Chiullán, Brian Hamilton, Glenn Fleishman and Annette Wierstra

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It’s the 37th (consecutive) edition of Random Pursuit, and it’s also time for our annual Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter crossover! Join us as our wonderful donors try to guess answers to questions mostly about things that happened in different countries than theirs.

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Seb Pollard, Lynne M. Thomas, Fred Paffhausen and Thomas Wouters

Show Notes & Links

Fred Paffhausen - Vote dot org

Seb Pollard - Relay St. Jude’s Campaign

Lynne M Thomas - Uncanny Magazine

Thomas Wouters - Python programming language

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It’s a special edition of Random Pursuit! This week, your host and scorekeeper join in on the fun, trying to answer questions from two editions of Trivial Pursuit sold only in Canada! How many Canada-specific questions will they get?

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Annette Wierstra and Kirsten Goruk

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Two first-timers, a second-timer, a third-timer, and an old pro walk into a game show. It’s not a joke, it’s the 35th edition of Random Pursuit! And we put a new-to-Erika edition of Trivial Pursuit, the 25th Anniversary Edition, thoroughly through its paces. Thank you Listener Matthew!

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Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Annette Wierstra, Erik Stadnik, Kyle Anderson, Nick Scott and Tony Sindelar

Show Notes & Links

Listener Matthew - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Annette Wierstra - Agents of SMOOCH

Erik Stadnik - Doctor Who: The Writers Room, So Much Stuff To Sing

Kyle Anderson - The Nerdist: Laser Focused, Doctor Who: The Writers Room

Tony Sindelar - Total Party Kill, A Complicated Profession Tony’s Puzzles at givetonymoney.fun

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You wait around for years for another Trivial Retreat, and then two come along pretty much at once! See how our players adapt this time to coming up with questions to Trivial Pursuit answers, and whether or not they’ll fall prey to a Ponzi scheme.

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Jason Snell with Monty Ashley, Erika Ensign, Glenn Fleishman, Tony Sindelar and Kelly Guimont

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What happens when three Disney parks fans try to pull the wool over the Incomparable’s Disney parks expert’s eyes? And no, Disney Lore isn’t one of David’s distant relatives…

David J. Loehr with Deborah Stanish, Kelly Guimont and Monty Ashley

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It’s the third instalment of Trivial Retreat, the game where we play the original Genus edition of Trivial Pursuit backward, where players must invent or guess the questions and categories based entirely on what’s on the back of the card. Points are awarded partly on guessing the right questions, but let’s face it, they’re really doled out by how much (or how little) players annoy the host…

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Jason Snell with Antony Johnston, David J. Loehr, Shelly Brisbin and Brian Warren

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