Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast

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Book Club: Dune Messiah (pg 100–159) Nov 09, 2026

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Alia Atreides takes center stage in Dune Messiah, resentful of her pilgrims and unsettled by the ghola Hayt. Abu and Leo cover pages 100 to 159 of Dune Messiah, with a detour into whether a Bene Gesserit can get hiccups.

Irulan visits Gaius Helen Mohiam in her cell, where the Reverend Mother reads the Dune Tarot and demands that Chani be kept from conceiving at any cost. Paul's private audience with Edric offers a rare look at a Mentat mind at work, and he later stuns Stilgar and Korba by comparing his body count to Genghis Khan and Hitler. The takeaways weigh the struggle of a lowly ghola against the burden of being a pre-born goddess, and the spice morsels explain prajna meditation and Alia's servok sparring machine before settling the difference between a Steersman and a Navigator.

This episode contains NO SPOILERS beyond the books and pages covered thus far.

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Attempt (Voices of the Jihad, Episode 1) Nov 06, 2026

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Welcome to the first episode of our Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast set in the Dune universe. DUNEgeon Master Noah Perito guides Abu Zafar and Leo Wiggins through original adventures across the Imperium, inspired by Frank Herbert's stories and the Dune Encyclopedia.

Our first campaign is called Voices of the Jihad, and takes place in the years between Dune and Dune Messiah. The Emperor's holy war has ravaged the Imperium, taken the lives of billions, destroyed worlds, and erased countless cultures. Our heroes Bruhan Marki, Volan Tosk, and Trionfi Maniaco try pull off the impossible and bring Emperor Paul Muad'dib's reign of terror to an end.

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Book Club: Dune Messiah (pg 50–99) Nov 02, 2026

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In Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides receives a dangerous gift: Hayt, a Tleilaxu ghola of Duncan Idaho. Abu and Leo cover pages 50 to 99 of Dune Messiah and take a listener's question about why Paul couldn't simply call off the jihad.

Scytale's visit to Farok, a retired jihad commander, turns sinister, though not before the old Fremen describes standing in a sea for the first time. In the Imperial council, Irulan tries the Voice on her husband and Paul explains to Stilgar why he cannot simply look for Tupile. The takeaways dig into Muad'Dib as a living god and the echoes of Duke Leto in his son, and the spice morsels cover face dancers and the rumor that Tleilaxu eyes enslave the people who wear them.

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Go subscribe to Spice & Dice: A Dune D&D Podcast Oct 30, 2026

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DUNEgeon Master Noah Perito guides Abu Zafar and Leo Wiggins through original adventures inspired by Frank Herbert's stories and the Dune Encyclopedia.

As hosts of the #1 Dune podcast Gom Jabbar, Abu and Leo have spent six years exploring every nook and cranny of the universe. Noah has developed and led campaigns across nearly 250 episodes as the host of Try Not To Die. Now they're joining forces to tell the most authentic (and fun!) tales set in their favorite fictional universe.

Unlike most actual play podcasts, Spice & Dice campaigns are short, accessible, and self-contained. So there's always an easy place to jump in, whether you're a seasoned D&D fan or you've never held a d20.

New episodes release every Thursday, starting November 5.

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Dune: Part Three Final Trailer Breakdown Oct 29, 2026

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The final trailer for Dune: Part Three is out, and this emergency episode breaks it down shot by shot. Abu and Leo pull apart what they see as deliberate misdirection in Denis Villeneuve's marketing and trade theories on what the trailer actually gives away.

It opens on Paul using the Voice to break Irulan, which Abu reads as a sign that Edric's ability to block prescience will matter far more on screen than it does in Dune Messiah. A red headband spotted puts a teenage Leto II and Ghanima at Chani's desert meeting with Scytale, and a Reddit theory about two separate conspiracies, the assassination plot and the Guild's scheme to get a sandworm off Arrakis, might explain what Chani is really doing out there. Abu pushes back on the "Hello, Grandfather" alternate timeline theory, and Leo offers his own explanation for why Paul keeps Chani at arm's length.

This episode contains SPOILERS for Children of Dune.

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Announcement: Heretics Amulet Oct 28, 2026

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Leo made a videogame! Abu and Leo chat about Heretics Amulet, a single player video game with its fair share of Dune references, available now on Steam.
Check out Heretics Amulet here:

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Book Club: Dune Messiah (pg 1-49) Oct 26, 2026

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Dune Messiah opens twelve years into Muad'Dib's jihad, with Emperor Paul Atreides worn down by his own visions. Abu and Leo kick off their Dune Messiah Book Club with the first 50 pages, just in time for Dune: Part Three.

Bronso of Ix gets the first word, and the hosts fall a little in love with the historian as he needles Muad'Dib's priests. Scytale's meeting with Gaius Helen Mohiam, Princess Irulan and the Guild Steersman Edric gets read for its subtext within subtext, while Paul's late night with Chani shows a man weighing one beloved life against the agony of multitudes. With help from the Dune Encyclopedia, the hosts trace how a Landsraad revolt turned into a holy war, then close on spice morsels about the Qizarate and the Dune Tarot, plus a fruitless hunt for the meaning of Mirabhasa.

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Book Club: Sandworms of Dune (Part 2) Oct 23, 2026

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Abu and Leo conclude their reluctant coverage of Sandworms of Dune, the final part of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's conclusion of the Dune saga. They summarize the remainder of the book and discuss what it's all about, in the end.

This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, plus Hunters of Dune and all of Sandworms of Dune.

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Book Club: Sandworms of Dune (Part 1) Oct 16, 2026

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Abu and Leo reluctantly launch into their coverage of Sandworms of Dune, the final part of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's conclusion of the Dune saga. They summarize the first half of the book, and vent their feelings along the way.

This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, plus Hunters of Dune and the first half of Sandworms of Dune.

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Irulan Corrino Oct 09, 2026

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Princess Irulan Corrino, Shaddam IV's eldest daughter and Paul's wife in name only, finally gets her own character deep dive. Abu and Leo dig into what the Dune Encyclopedia says about her life and legacy, with an eye on Florence Pugh's return to the role in Dune: Part Three.

Dune historians are brutal about Irulan's Bene Gesserit abilities, yet they also credit her as an independent thinker who never fully bought into the Sisterhood, and her near silence about her own mother hints at what the record leaves out. Her schemes in Dune Messiah get written off as "small spurts of rebellion," and the hosts make the case that her history was sanded down to fit the cult of St. Irulan the Virgin that rose a century after her death. They also run through highlights of the writings recovered in the Rakis Finds, including The Chakobsa Way, Arrakis Awakening, and a drama called Ornithopera. The episode closes on how Denis Villeneuve might move her to the center of the conspiracy.

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