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The internet’s first rationalist fiction podcast

Latest Episodes:

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 209-212 May 09, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 209-212 – The Dragon In The Stories

Tim Curry goes to SPACE!

Learn To Read, Kid, But Don’t Fall In Love

For next week — 213-216

213. The Endless Toil
214. Glass Houses
215. Post
216. Bureaucratic Melees

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 206-208 May 02, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 206-208 – Hitting The Slopes

Is That Your True Rejection?

Folding Ideas on Ludonarrative Dissonance

Three Worlds Collide – the story with the Super Happy aliens (also in audio form)

The Bayesian Conspiracy episode on The “Do This” Directives

For next week — 209-212

209. Orison
210. Push and Pull
211. Gilding the Lily
212. Spilled Ink

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 203-205 Apr 25, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 203-205 – I Got 99 Problems, and I’m All Of Them

Porcupine Tree – A Smart Kid (song)

Why You Should Trust Trust and Distrust Distrust

For next week — 206-208

206. Parallel Lines
207. An Elevated Monologue
208. On the Merits of Eternal Suffering

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 200-202 Apr 18, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 200-202 – Think Like a Dinosaur

The Prestige spoilers end at 1:18:11

The Bayesian Conspiracy episode 158 – Can Monarchy Save Us From Fascism?

For next week — 200-202

203. Where the Streets Run Red
204. Open Veins
205. A Bloody Mess

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 196-199 Apr 11, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 196-199 – Let’s Call Them… Sneezes

For next week — 200-202

200. Feeling Blue
201. The Aviary
202. Star Pupil

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 192-195 Apr 04, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 192-195 – We choose to try to sympathize with, and humanize, the Fucking Penndraigs not because it is easy, but because it is hard!

Podcasts spawned from the Discord:
2 Rash 2 Unadvised – read through of Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series
Shaping Exercises 101 – read through of Domagoj Kurmaic’s Mother of Learning serial
Uncultured Swine – read through of Ian M. Banks’ “The Culture” series
The Mind Killer – rationalist perspectives on weekly news events

For next week — 196-199

196. Notes II
197. Second Degree
198. Prurient Interest
199. Nearest and Dearest

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 188-191 decrackled Mar 31, 2022

Show notes

This is a decrackled version of the previous episode. Content is identical, but the audio has been filtered to remove the crackle. It still isn’t easy to listen to, and we apologize for that. When time permits, a fully remastered version will be released.

Thanks to David Gruwier for providing this!

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 188-191 Mar 28, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 188-191 – Totally Legal and Awesome

My Dick, by Mickey Avalon (extremely bad taste, and offensive, you’ve been warned)

For next week — 192-195

192. Cooldown
193. Coda I
194. Coda II
195. Family

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 185-187 Mar 21, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 185-187 – Hallelujah, It’s Raining Men

Eneasz’s latest story – We Shall Not All Sleep But We Shall All Be Changed is in Dark Matter Magazine Issue 008

I See Dead Kids

Seeing Like a State

For next week — 188-191

188. Common Law
189. B-Side
190. To Know One’s Onions
191. Overwhelming Violence

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

Not Everything Is A Clue – Ch 181-184 Mar 14, 2022

Show notes

Chapters 181-184 – Seeing The Sausage (…being made)

For next week — 185-187

185. Mirror Room
186. Paladin
187. Penndraig’s Rules of Order

Worth the Candle on Amazon (ebook and audio!)

Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet

Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue

Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.

You can support this podcast at our Patreon. Alexander Wales can be supported at his Patreon. We have a Discord as well.

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