286: Technically Canadian

This edition of Random Pursuit brings two newcomers and is something of a family affair! Hosts Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Amelia Fleishman, Dani Colman, Glenn Fleishman, Kathy Campbell, and Sarah Murphy.

Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. This is a special episode of the show, recorded live at LACon V! As such, the audio quality is a little variable, but the fun and frivolity are still easily heard, as is the growing contempt the contestants have for the host and his punishing questions. Hosts Dan Moren and Jason Snell with Auston Habershaw, Catherynne M. Valente, John Coxon, Nikhil Prabala, Sandra Rosner, and Trish Matson.

From the Relay St. Jude fundraising campaign comes this game where three familiar Incomparable voices with a bit of televised game show history compete in a game of answers and questions! Host Dan Cassino with Dan Moren, Glenn Fleishman, and Jason Snell.

For the second time this year, we bring together some lovely, generous Kickstarter backers who helped make Uncanny Magazine Year 12 happen! The cards bring us scandals, numbers, and lots of fun! Hosts Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Ben Ostermeier, Glenn Fleishman, Laura Majerus, Peter Jones, and Timothy Reed.

Trivia, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Random Pursuit. Its 90-minute mission: to explore Star Trek Trivial Pursuit, to seek out new answers to new questions, to boldly go where no podcast has gone before! (And where no podcast should probably go again.) Hosts Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Cicero Holmes, David J. Loehr, Heather Berberet, Jason Snell, Moisés Chiullán, and Scott McNulty.

In this edition of Random Pursuit there’s a lot of guessing, many colours, and quite a bit of self-doxxing. Most importantly, a good time is had by all! Hosts Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Jay Miller, Jesse Reid, Lex Friedman, Monty Ashley, and Scott Ensign.

Once again, we bring together some lovely, generous Kickstarter backers who helped make Uncanny Magazine Year 12 happen! Will the cards be kind to a first-timer? Will there be lots of sports and too much math? As always, it’s up to the luck of the dice! Hosts Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Dan Moren, David Matthewman, Fred Paffhausen, and Seb Pollard.

In the return of the choose-your-edition edition of Random Pursuit, we bring back the same players with their same chosen editions, but this time we make sure they get more questions from their chosen edition. This is helpful…to some players… Hosts Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Dan Moren, Jason Snell, Kirsten Goruk, Monty Ashley, and Shelly Brisbin.

Your favorite (and perhaps only) podcast game show about making connections to various words returns, with a battle between the Pacific Northwest and Big Oil Country(ies)! Nobody stare directly at Glenn’s mind. What are names, but words that are attached to people? These words mean something, somehow, but it will take a lot of time and effort to figure it out. Puzzle written by Lex Friedman. Thanks a lot, Lex. Host Jason Snell with Glenn Fleishman, Kathy Campbell, Shelly Brisbin, and Annette Wierstra.

It’s the 50th edition of Random Pursuit! Erika was too lazy to do anything that took extra work, so this is basically a regular episode. But we do have a new player — who even tried to study! Plus, it’s mostly Canadians — and all players who live in Commonwealth nations, so maybe we can call this a slightly belated Canada Day episode? Hosts Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky with Annette Wierstra, Ben Rice McCarthy, Jesse Reid, Sandra Wong, and Sarah Murphy.