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DEC 8, 2025

Bonus – We Saved This Vessel Once & Section 31 Pitch Session

<img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.nerdandtie.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/casualtreks-site-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" />Welcome to an emergency bonus episode! Miles is off, but the fortnightly schedule continues. Charlie’s played a solo roleplaying game based on Star Trek. No, not the official one, but “We Saved This Vessel Once.” After that, there’s the unhinged pitches from our Section 31 episode, which includes Sean Corse of Famicom Dojo, and Celeste Startwin of Stormwood & Associates! 01:16 – Solo Actual Play 07:38 – Section 31 Pitch Session Pedant’s Corner and Pluggable: Reanna Reid-Lobatto’s got a GoFundMe (not a Just Giving like I said in the episode… although I don’t remember if that’s a thing or not). If you can, please help the Reid-Lobattos deal with the expense of her surgery: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-reannas-breast-reconstruction-recovery. We Saved this Vessel Once can be found here: <a href="https://citykey.itch.io/we-saved-this-vessel-once">https://citykey.itch.io/we-saved-this-vessel-once</a> [ <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/casual-trek/episodes/We-Saved-This-Vessel-Once--Section-31-Pitch-Session-e3bui4f">Additional Show Notes</a> ] Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read <a href="http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com">Miles’s blog</a> or <a href="http://www.fakedtales.com">Charlie’s blog</a>. [ <a href="https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek">Support this show on Ko-fi</a> ] Subscribe to this Podcast: <div class="pp-ssb-widget pp-ssb-widget-classic pp-ssb-widget-include"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casual-trek/id1637941191" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-itunes" title="Subscribe on Apple Podcasts">Apple Podcasts</a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/22vInew8Qxo5K26tNUUHJZ" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-spotify" title="Subscribe on Spotify">Spotify</a><a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/ad3d8238/podcast/rss" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-android" title="Subscribe on Android">Android</a><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/ad3d8238/podcast/rss" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-rss" title="Subscribe via RSS">RSS</a></div>The post <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com/2025/12/08/bonus-we-saved-this-vessel-once-section-31-pitch-session/">Bonus – We Saved This Vessel Once & Section 31 Pitch Session</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com">Nerd & Tie Network</a>.

55 MIN

NOV 29, 2025

89. What Makes Wicca Wicca?

<img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.nerdandtie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/bsfwc-card89nt-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" /><iframe title="What Makes Wicca Wicca? | BS-Free Witchcraft" width="800" height="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y2hvQbor8NM?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> One of the biggest things I think a lot of older witches take for granted is that people understand what makes Wicca, well, Wicca. While <a href="https://www.bsfreewitchcraft.com/2018/10/06/episode-3-the-history-of-wicca/">we’ve discussed the history</a> before, and last month talked about <a href="https://www.bsfreewitchcraft.com/2025/10/25/88-wicca-bad-featuring-thumper-forge/">the weird anti-Wicca backlash</a>, I think there are a lot of misconceptions about how this incredibly diverse religion is practiced. Frankly, just the fact that it is largely an orthopraxic religion and not an orthodoxic one is a concept a lot of folks raised in predominantly Christian frameworks struggle with. So let’s talk about it. (I know this is two months in a row talking about Wicca, but I think this is important) <blockquote>Pre-order Trae’s new Novel Buried Memories – out December 15th! ISBN: 9798349560958 eBook: <a href="https://a.co/d/hcY9pds">Pre-order on Kindle</a> / <a href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/buried-memories-22">Pre-order on Kobo</a> Paperback: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Memories-Graves-Trae-Dorn/dp/B0FRW2F2LP/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">Amazon Pre-order</a> / <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/buried-memories-trae-dorn/1148333050?ean=9798349560958">B&N Pre-order</a> Also <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com/books/trae-dorn/">check out the rest of Trae’s Books</a> and <a href="https://www.trhonline.com/">visit Trae’s website</a>.</blockquote> (And, of course, don’t forget this show is part of the <a href="http://www.nerdandtie.com/">Nerd & Tie Network</a>, and funded by listeners like you via <a href="http://www.patreon.com/traegorn">Patreon</a>. Consider joining our <a href="http://www.nerdandtie.com/discord">Discord</a> or our <a href="https://nerdandtie.social/">forums</a>!) Music: “The Man With One Eye,” “So I Said It, “Untitled Nonsense” (Trae Dorn) / Random Loops (Apple Music Library)The post <a href="https://www.bsfreewitchcraft.com/?p=1086">89. What Makes Wicca Wicca?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com">Nerd & Tie Network</a>.

38 MIN

NOV 25, 2025

97. Non-Roman Calendars

<img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.nerdandtie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/askamedievalist-card-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />When is Hanukkah this year? When is Lupercalia, or Easter, or Midsummer’s Eve? When is your birthday? Figuring out when big events happen is incredibly important, and humans have been doing it for a long time. But while we can see some similarities in the process of calendar evolution, many civilizations had very different ways of conceptualizing and measuring time. Join Em and Dr. Jesse for a discussion of non-Roman calendars! [ <a href="http://askamedievalist.com/2025/11/24/episode-97-non-roman-calendars/">Full Show Notes</a> ] <div class="pp-ssb-widget pp-ssb-widget-classic pp-ssb-widget-include"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-a-medievalist/id1508373741?mt=2&ls=1" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-itunes" title="Subscribe on Apple Podcasts">Apple Podcasts</a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6c2Oq8xdBlaF8LsavR2AsM" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-spotify" title="Subscribe on Spotify">Spotify</a><a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/askamedievalist.com/feed/podcast/" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-android" title="Subscribe on Android">Android</a><a href="http://askamedievalist.com/feed/podcast/" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-rss" title="Subscribe via RSS">RSS</a></div>The post <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com/2025/11/24/97-non-roman-calendars/">97. Non-Roman Calendars</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com">Nerd & Tie Network</a>.

77 MIN

NOV 24, 2025

87. Flesh Katamari

<img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.nerdandtie.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/casualtreks-site-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />We’re still concerned with the Delta Quadrant as this episode of Casual Trek covers episodes from Modern Trek’s animated series concerning the Voyager, the Delta Quadrant and all those assorted antics. First up is the Prodigy Season One mid-season two-parter ‘A Moral Star’ where Dal and the Protostar gang plan to actually do a Starfleet with a little bit of heist antics as they try to break out the prisoners of their old home and then in Lower Decks’s ‘Twovix’ as Boimler grapples with the possibility of promotion, the crew of the Cerritos discover that when there’s an outbreak of Tuvixes, Janeway was 100% right! Episodes Discussed – PRD: A Moral Star (06:36) and LDS: Twovix (35:35) Talking points: Dan Dare (SPACE HYPER HERO), Hades II, the dark history of the Mushroom Kingdom, more of the Dark History of Charlie’s time with Dave’s, the one time the Holodeck safeties breaking was a good thing, Janeway is definitely cottagecore, 80s cartoons were great nostalgia, but modern cartoons do have some superior moments, Mantzoukis in Taskmaster has coloured our heroes opinion of Jakim Pog, many many references to Katamari Damacy, Janeway was right killing Tuvix, does Riker regret not having sex with his transporter clone? we make Tuvix a verb, an Americano is a Tuvix of Espresso and Water, what happens when coffee reaches Warp 10? Miles sings two seperate theme tunes. PEDANTS CORNER: The TOS episode Miles refers to is ‘Is There In Truth No Beauty.’ Miles and his wife DO have the Katamari Damacy soundtrack on vinyl, important to know. [ <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/casual-trek/episodes/Flesh-Katamari-e3bc8m3">Additional Show Notes</a> ] Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read <a href="http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com">Miles’s blog</a> or <a href="http://www.fakedtales.com">Charlie’s blog</a>. [ <a href="https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek">Support this show on Ko-fi</a> ] Subscribe to this Podcast: <div class="pp-ssb-widget pp-ssb-widget-classic pp-ssb-widget-include"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casual-trek/id1637941191" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-itunes" title="Subscribe on Apple Podcasts">Apple Podcasts</a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/22vInew8Qxo5K26tNUUHJZ" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-spotify" title="Subscribe on Spotify">Spotify</a><a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/ad3d8238/podcast/rss" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-android" title="Subscribe on Android">Android</a><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/ad3d8238/podcast/rss" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-rss" title="Subscribe via RSS">RSS</a></div>The post <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com/2025/11/24/87-flesh-katamari/">87. Flesh Katamari</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com">Nerd & Tie Network</a>.

66 MIN

NOV 10, 2025

86. Star Trek Khan: Lost… In Space

<img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.nerdandtie.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/casualtreks-site-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />It’s time for a podcast about a podcast! Yes, we’re talking about Star Trek: Khan, the official Star Trek podcast. What happened between Space Seed and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Dr Rosalind Lear wants to know and brings some familiar faces to Ceti Alpha V to dig up some old recordings. Does she want to humanize this space tyrant or exonerate Kirk for his actions? Flashbacks, being stranded in a hostile wilderness, Naveen Andrews… Is this Lost? Kind of. At least, it’s enough for Charlie and Miles to talk about Lost a lot, as well as serialized fiction and the plot of the first three episodes of Star Trek: Khan. 01:41 What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying: 11:33 What is Star Trek: KHAAAAAN!? 26:45 Kind of a recap Talking points include: Lost in Space, Journey into Space, Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charles Dickens, freelancer rates in RPGs, Tales of the City, serialized prose, we should not be so impressed that we finished a book (Miles) and a video game (Charlie), Hades, fiction podcasts, Welcome to Night Vale, Silt Verses, Wolf 359 (non-Star Trek), Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe, Lost, Alan Sepinwall “The Revolution was Televised”, Mo Ryan “Burn It Down”, Spaceballs, Khan quoting Milton (always), manifest destiny, Alien: Earth, what kind of 90’s nerd Khan would have been. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek. [ <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/casual-trek/episodes/Star-Trek-Khan-Lost----In-Space-e3al56s">Additional Show Notes</a> ] Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read <a href="http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com">Miles’s blog</a> or <a href="http://www.fakedtales.com">Charlie’s blog</a>. [ <a href="https://ko-fi.com/casualtrek">Support this show on Ko-fi</a> ] Subscribe to this Podcast: <div class="pp-ssb-widget pp-ssb-widget-classic pp-ssb-widget-include"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casual-trek/id1637941191" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-itunes" title="Subscribe on Apple Podcasts">Apple Podcasts</a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/22vInew8Qxo5K26tNUUHJZ" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-spotify" title="Subscribe on Spotify">Spotify</a><a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/ad3d8238/podcast/rss" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-android" title="Subscribe on Android">Android</a><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/ad3d8238/podcast/rss" class="pp-ssb-btn-sq horizontal pp-ssb-rss" title="Subscribe via RSS">RSS</a></div>The post <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com/2025/11/10/86-star-trek-khan-lost-in-space/">86. Star Trek Khan: Lost… In Space</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.nerdandtie.com">Nerd & Tie Network</a>.

56 MIN

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