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021: The One About “Bad” Games with Good Art

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 • Duration 02:05:17

From the first days in the trenches when he found the first, Ellington’s Bones spoke to him. It took him weeks to determine that the dissonant whispers nagging at the back of his mind, edging in from his periphery, were emanating from the bone of unknown origin in the mud. A rat femur. Or rabbit, perhaps.

The whispers never calmed though, not until he found more. Overlaying tones coalescing into something, though he was never quite sure what. But they spoke, he was sure of that.

He worked them and they helped him. He lived through the war because of them, and he found his livelihood too.

The Empties though, he was never quite sure if he found them or the Bones did.

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012: The One About Our Game of the Year

Thursday, December 18, 2025 • Duration 02:22:16

The track held nothing for me, no dame in a fascinator or the pound of hoof beats could pull me from this stupor. So I walked along the boardwalk, rain slicking the creaking wood. A seafood shack styled as a golden ship, a rinky dink cafe ablaze with the Big Apple's skyline, none of it drew me in.

Like a beacon in a storm, a club marquee flickered in the evening fog—it had been hours since I left the office—smoke pouring from the doorway. Names in broken bulbs announced the act, missing letters like teeth punched out. The lilt of oboes, the mournful wail of a trumpet, and the syncopated groove of a vibrakzzkt oozed out as a patron was tossed out the door.

My life was about to change that night, and all it took was some gin and an evening with Ellington and the Empties.

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011: The One About Horse Girls

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 • Duration 01:16:52

The door hadn’t opened in seven days. The foil letters—an ostentatious facade to this disheveled abode—peeled, flaking away from the reeded glass like the petals of lilies in late spring. Water dripped into a tin bucket, the slow staccato rapping out gunshots. I hammered the “U” key on the typewriter in time. No paper, no ribbon, just the rhythmic patter of a smoke-swirled, scotch-soaked soliloquy.

That last case rattled me: the empty house, the thumping…the cardboard cutout with horse ears. It was all too much for my frail mind. I needed to get away. I needed to find something to calm these frayed nerves. Something fast.

So, I threw on my trench coat, adjusted my hat, and walked into the early morning downpour. To the horse track. Surely nothing that could taint the soul happens there.

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010: The One About the Perfect Predator Game

Thursday, December 4, 2025 • Duration 01:12:17

EXTRA EXTRA: Mr. Shackleton Skellington, Magnate of the Skellington Bones Xylophones fortune found GUILTY of participating in illegal bones trade with Extraterrestrial being! Sentenced to thirty years in MAXIMUM SECURITY. Mr. Skellington alluded capture for multiple weeks, until Kzzshkt Ksshzkkkt found him holed up in a compound on "Bonedown Island." Authorities are now investigating Mr. Skellington's connection to the island.

The recipient alien species, HERETOFORE UNKNOWN, has not surfaced since Mr. Skellington's capture, though a blurry image of a towering mountain of meat with a cape of human spines has surfaced.

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009: The One About The Game Awards

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 • Duration 01:57:08

The sound of sleigh bells echoed throughout the house, punctuated by staccato thumps. Holiday cheer was all around. Tinsel hung from the mantle and lights twinkled on the tree, a rotten reminder of the happiness that should've been in this house. The thumps continued, but no one answered.

I tiptoed through the house. Past the bowling ball, the toaster, and the sharpened keys of a Skellington bone xylophone that littered the steps. I was hired for one job and that machine gun thunking sounded like my first clue.

A silhouette stood framed in the second story window, the hazy smoke of a dame's last drag hanging in the air. I looked her up and down, my eyes lingering on her...ears. Horse ears. I touched her shoulder, but it was just cardboard. I knew I was in the right place.

Another thump from the drywall. Time to find him.

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008: The One About the Boys (Minus Phil)

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 • Duration 01:30:10

Tzzzkt tzzkkktzzk "Hello?" zzkt "is—" zzzzktkkzz "—thing on?"

"Somehow, I got turned around. On the way back from the pr—" zzzkt "—I got lost in the space-time conti—" zwwwripkktt

"I'm adrift in time, like that part in my least favorite Christopher Nolan film, Inter—" zzzrookkt

"Hold on boys, I'm—"

Well howdy kiddos and kiddettes! Welcome back to the Skellington Bones Ragtime Entertainment Hour with me, your host, "Shaky" Skellington! On today's show, we have a new guest who says he flew in from a radio station in 1990!" Pause for laughter "We've got ourselves a time traveler here! Well traveler, mind telling us your name and all about them flying cars in the distant future?"

"My name is Phil and honestly I don't know what this episode is about because I'm not in it."

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007: The One About Game Spinoffs

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 • Duration 01:41:04

Hello and welcome back to KACL 780, that was “Rattlin’ Bones” by the Great Jingle Tingle Band from their 1996 promotional tour with Skellington Bones.

It’s the top of the hour so we’ll have news and weather coming up on the 8s and 10s, but I’m going to open up the lines for a few minutes if you’ve got questions for your local radio psychiatrist, you can give us a call at 555-KACL.

“Hello caller, you’re on the on, how can I help you?”

”Yeah hi “Frizendo” or whatever your name is. I thought this was supposed to be a fun podcast about video game spinoffs and somehow it’s turned into some kind of elaborate prank revolving around some 1990s sitcom.”

“Sir, you seem to have the wrong number, I had no idea what you’re talking about.”

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006: The One About Horror Games

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 • Duration 01:33:40

Hark! What doth I heareth upon the moors! 'Tis that the rattle of manacles and the xylophone timbre of thy Skellington bones?

That's right, Ghouls and Ghosts, it's our first every Halloween Episode Sponsored by Skellington Xylophones, the premier maker of bone xylophones: "It's not a 'phone if it's not bone."

This episode we dig into the spooks and the scares that get our skin a'crawlin', AND maybe the games that our weenie selves get scared by...even when you're just supposed to be having a fun puzzle-solving time. It's a haaaauntingly spooky time at the Haunted Content Mill this week and we're inviting you in...Especially you there, you tall, pale, caped honey.

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005: The One About the 2025 Home Stretch

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • Duration 01:09:39

2025 has been a banger year for games, but the show isn’t stopping! The Content Mill gets together to talk about our most anticipated games for the remainder of the year. Play along and see if you can guess what each of us is the most stoked for. It probably won’t be surprising, but it will be fun!

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