Ranged Touch

Hello! Ranged Touch is a podcast network touching on various aspects of popular culture. A selection of currently running shows is below, and everything we do and have done (including a completed Actual Play series and a longform series on the webcomic Homestuck) can be found at rangedtouch.com

Here are some books you can use to learn about Middle Earth. www.instagram.com/reel/De5DqPM...

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”Morgoth tricked me!” @rangedtouch.bsky.social

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Middle-Earth goes nuts as SBG's new episode on The Silmarillion introduces vampires and werewolves (enough to populate a whole island), princesses locked in treehouses making ropes out of hair, and evil recurring side characters and their talking dog from heaven: rangedtouch.com/2026/10/23/t...

I reviewed House of Leaves. www.instagram.com/reel/DevHb_F...

(seeing any number of Noldor pursuing me in my flight with the Silmarils) well well well if it isn't the sons of Fingerbang

gecko pillow fight!!!!!

We had a light hosting hiccup, but it's all fixed now!

oh heck yes

ON OUR PATREON is a new JUST KING THINGS Bonus Episode, where we talk about all of the prequel-sequel IT: WELCOME TO DERRY, a smorgasbord of fan service, surprisingly good ideas, some bad ideas, and also some of the weirdest ideas you could put in a show like this: www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

The new episode of JUST KING THINGS considers Stephen King's 2018 novella ELEVATION, which is about a guy floating into the sky and exploding, plus some other stuff. rangedtouch.com/2026/10/12/e...

It's time for more Ancient Elf History on SHELVED BY GENRE, as we continue the Silmarillion and learn more about its bizarre process of editorial assembly: rangedtouch.com/2026/10/09/t...

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"My opinion of God has never been lower," "Christopher Tolkien is Morgoth," and "Dragons are boats" are each, in their own way, the most each of our hosts have ever cooked

It's time for more Ancient Elf History on SHELVED BY GENRE, as we continue the Silmarillion and learn more about its bizarre process of editorial assembly: rangedtouch.com/2026/10/09/t...

hobbits just call it shire sauce

Come learn about our weapon histories with this week's SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Ep on the 1986 classic HIGHLANDER: www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

Come learn about our weapon histories with this week's SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Ep on the 1986 classic HIGHLANDER: www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

You'll have a BALL with latest GAME STUDIES STUDY Buddies as Carlin Wing takes us from the early modern tennis court to the modern FIFA release schedule with BOUNCE: BALLS, WALLS, AND BODIES IN GAMES AND PLAY. rangedtouch.com/2026/09/30/9...

We've got an episode on Colson Whitehead's HARLEM SHUFFLE up on the Patreon for FREE in order to improve your Tuesday! Join @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @kearse.bsky.social as they chat about the first book (and come back for the next two eps on the next two books!) www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

We've got an episode on Colson Whitehead's HARLEM SHUFFLE up on the Patreon for FREE in order to improve your Tuesday! Join @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @kearse.bsky.social as they chat about the first book (and come back for the next two eps on the next two books!) www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

ME BEFORE LORD OF THE YEAR: where the hell is my arkenstone! ME AFTER LORD OF THE YEAR: well yes obviously John 10:16 is about faeries. Oh my god hold on my arkenstone is missing again

Anti-hobbits are normally busy with adventures but this one is content to sit on his sky extrusion and be rude to passers-by

On a cube in the sky there died an Anti-Hobbit.

“Are orcs just elves who fuck?” and other such discussion topics

in honor of the arrival of elf-lore, please enjoy this photo of @ckunzelman.bsky.social hover-handing galadriel, the lady of lórien, princess of the Ñoldor

Lamps! Trees! Spiders! In the new SHELVED BY GENRE we continue to read THE SILMARILLION, learning so so so so so much about Elves while still engaging in our patented style of lighthearted but thoughtful engagement with the fundamental questions of a text. rangedtouch.com/2026/09/25/t...

Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.

*after being assailed by the wailing phantoms of forgotten kings* I'm going to wish for world peace 😊

early in this episode cameron and michael tell the most cameron and michael stories about whether they had a boogeyman growing up

THE OUTSIDER is an HBO limited series based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, and now on the JUST KING THINGS bonus episode feed, you can hear us talk about how good it is even if Paddy Considine cannot really do a Southern accent. www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

On your podcast feed today, the new JUST KING THINGS is here to cover the further surprise of adventures of Holly Gibney, as she helps a bunch of cops track down an evil shapeshifter in 2018's THE OUTSIDER. rangedtouch.com/2026/09/14/t...

It's time to learn about the Powers of the World and how they came into being with SHELVED BY GENRE, as we begin THE SILMARILLION and right off the bat we've got some questions about what is up with this Elf Pantheon. rangedtouch.com/2026/09/11/t...

For Patreon supporters, SHELVED BY GENRE has a new Bonus Episode about 2003's RETURN OF THE KING, an unwieldy half-baked mess that won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. But hey, why not! www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

(seeing any number of Noldor pursuing me in my flight with the Silmarils) well well well if it isn't the sons of Fingerbang

For Patreon supporters, SHELVED BY GENRE has a new Bonus Episode about 2003's RETURN OF THE KING, an unwieldy half-baked mess that won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. But hey, why not! www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES finished off August with our 97th episode, this one discussing structuralism and genre with Peter McDonald's RUN AND JUMP: THE MEANING OF THE 2D PLATFORMER. rangedtouch.com/2026/08/31/9...

this is so important it needed its own clip actually

SHELVED BY GENRE closes out LORD OF THE RINGS by reading the APPENDICES! I hope you like LORE! And CALENDARS! And jokes about THE SHINING, which weirdly enough has a lot of Tolkien influence going on it turns out! rangedtouch.com/2026/08/28/t...

The Robber Time: @ckunzelman.bsky.social on Joanna Russ in the Archives

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“What if I SQUISHED an alien with my big boot?” @rangedtouch.bsky.social