Oct 9, 2026 · 2 hr · 13 segments
This month the boys talk about their kids going back to school and all the drama and shenanigans that come with it. But before that, they must catch-up on some geekery and have some sterling…
Ryan MurphyHostI am going to start, because you mentioned our dear friend Shatterproof, who gave you all this, this hot goss.
Well, I can't stay too mad at him because he also gave me, uh, Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is a, uh, very popular book series, uh, by Matt Dinniman, and it's just grown and grown and grown in popularity.
People have been talking about it for a while.
I'm sure that everybody who listens to this is like, "Uh-huh, we know.
We've all listened to it, Crafton." Well, or read it, for that matter.
Um, so I've listened to now the first book of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Carl, and I'm about, oh, close to halfway through the second, the second book.
And for those of you who may be living under a rock and do not know what this is, this is a, a type of book n- now known as a, a lit PG, lit RPG, or something like that.
Um, and it's essentially a, a, a type of fantasy book that leans heavily into the gameplay mechanics of something like a video games or a Dungeons and Dragons.
Like, often the characters in the book are in a game, and there are rules to that game, and they have to abide by the rules.
And I'm just, we're just gonna spoil the, the very high-level concept of the book, which is just that aliens have come to Earth.
All humans, if they want to survive, they have to get in the dungeon.
And, uh, and then that dungeon becomes this game that they televise for aliens across the galaxy, um, in the same way that we would watch reality shows and stuff.
So it merges all the kind of, uh, all the, the, the, the RPG-ness of a, of a game like, I don't know, Baldur's Gate or something or Dungeons and Dragons, uh, with the, the spectacle sh- um, gamesmanship of something like The Running Man or The Hunger Games or, you know, uh, even just, like as I mentioned, reality TV.
So these two do flavors of ice cream together.
Much heavier on the RPG side, but there's all these elements.
At the end, it's a fantasy book about this guy and his cat who get trapped in this crazy dungeon, a- and g- a- as they go down floors, they fight bosses and all the stuff you do in video games.
Um, so, so yeah, um, this, this has been kinda like a snowball that's rolled down the mountain and gotten bigger and bigger and bigger.
More and more people are discovering it.
Um, it's been talked about ad nauseam on podcasts.
And one of the reasons that it's so popular is the audiobook treatment of it, uh, which is hosted by this guy, I think Jeff.
What, what's his name, the, the narrator? Here, I'm, I'm gonna pull it up while I-
I am going to start, because you mentioned our dear friend Shatterproof, who gave you all this, this hot goss.
Well, I can't stay too mad at him because he also gave me, uh, Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is a, uh, very popular book series, uh, by Matt Dinniman, and it's just grown and grown and grown in popularity.
People have been talking about it for a while.
I'm sure that everybody who listens to this is like, "Uh-huh, we know.
We've all listened to it, Crafton." Well, or read it, for that matter.
Um, so I've listened to now the first book of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Carl, and I'm about, oh, close to halfway through the second, the second book.
And for those of you who may be living under a rock and do not know what this is, this is a, a type of book n- now known as a, a lit PG, lit RPG, or something like that.
Um, and it's essentially a, a, a type of fantasy book that leans heavily into the gameplay mechanics of something like a video games or a Dungeons and Dragons.
Like, often the characters in the book are in a game, and there are rules to that game, and they have to abide by the rules.
And I'm just, we're just gonna spoil the, the very high-level concept of the book, which is just that aliens have come to Earth.
All humans, if they want to survive, they have to get in the dungeon.
And, uh, and then that dungeon becomes this game that they televise for aliens across the galaxy, um, in the same way that we would watch reality shows and stuff.
So it merges all the kind of, uh, all the, the, the, the RPG-ness of a, of a game like, I don't know, Baldur's Gate or something or Dungeons and Dragons, uh, with the, the spectacle sh- um, gamesmanship of something like The Running Man or The Hunger Games or, you know, uh, even just, like as I mentioned, reality TV.
So these two do flavors of ice cream together.
Much heavier on the RPG side, but there's all these elements.
At the end, it's a fantasy book about this guy and his cat who get trapped in this crazy dungeon, a- and g- a- as they go down floors, they fight bosses and all the stuff you do in video games.
Um, so, so yeah, um, this, this has been kinda like a snowball that's rolled down the mountain and gotten bigger and bigger and bigger.
More and more people are discovering it.
Um, it's been talked about ad nauseam on podcasts.
And one of the reasons that it's so popular is the audiobook treatment of it, uh, which is hosted by this guy, I think Jeff.
What, what's his name, the, the narrator? Here, I'm, I'm gonna pull it up while I-
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