Welcome to Pod Against the Machine, the only Actual Play podcast that specifically mentions its opposition to the machine in the title. We’re a ragtag group of five creating an epic story while playing through the Iron Gods Pathfinder First Edition adventure path from Paizo publishing. It’s like Dungeons and Dragons, complete with wizards, monsters, and skeletons...but with an added bonus of evil robots and horrifying aliens, all tied together with our (hopefully) funny banter, interesting characters, and edge-of-your-seat action.
Episodes
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
So, that's a thing that happened. At least we've come away with a new friend.
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Background music and sound effects:
Weeping Forest
The Hollywood Edge
The Desert Awaits
Tabletop Audio
Small Marketplace
Sword Coast Soundscapes
https://swordcoastsoundscapes.bandcamp.com/
Quiet Theme #5 (Looped)
Andrew Sitkov
Fantasy Dramatic and Peaceful Music Pack
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Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
So, this kindly old man we met in the derelict spaceship is just confused, or...?
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Background music and sound effects:
Huge Space Ship Interior Ambience
The Hollywood Edge
Awakenings
Tabletop Audio
Catoptricon
Zak
Metadata Waveforms
Vocals by Network Against the Machine (and Howard Dean)
Lyrics and Arrangement by Sam
Instrumental: Piano Against the Machine by A Dead Friend, based on "Theme Against the Machine" by Zak
Sticker Stars
Lyrics by Izzy
Vocals, Composition, and Instrumentals by Isabelle O.
You Had Fun
Lyrics, Arrangement, and Instrumentals by Sam
(Loosely) based on You'll Be Back by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton
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Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Part of our party is reunited, and it feels okay. I mean, it kind of feels bad.
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Background music and sound effects:
Awakenings, and Forest Day (Ambience Only)
Tabletop Audio
Why?
Vocals by Gero
Lyrics by Gero and Isabelle O.
Composition and Instrumentals by Isabelle O.
Something Good
Vocals, Lyrics, Composition, and Instrumentals by Jeff
A True Son of Numeria
Vocals and Lyrics by Gero
Instrumental: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" by Gilbert and Sullivan
Why? (Alternate version)
Vocals by Isabelle O.
Lyrics by Gero and Isabelle O.
Composition and Instrumentals by Isabelle O.
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Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Welcome to Episode 200 of Pod Against the Machine! We finally did the thing! Enjoy a pile of original songs as part of an original adventure. And don't say we didn't warn you.
Now, join the Very Capable (Seven?) as they journey into this weird hole in the ground...this "Hollow Garden."
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Background music and sound effects:
Huge Space Ship Interior Ambience
The Hollywood Edge
Awakenings, Cavern of Lost Souls, River Town, and Forest Day (Ambience Only)
Tabletop Audio
Piano Against the Machine
Instrumental: A Dead Friend
Based on Theme Against the Machine by Zak
My Hollow Garden
Lyrics, Vocals, and Arrangement by Sam
Instrumental: Little Polka Dot by The Fly Guy 5
https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/NUKRs8Iqrs/
Second Chance
Vocals by A Dead Friend
Lyrics and Arrangement by Sam and A Dead Friend
Instrumental: Sempiternal by Abilify
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176652/
Build Don't Break
Vocals by Sam and Gero
Lyrics and Arrangement by Sam
Inspired by "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley
Everything Has Its Season
Vocals, Lyrics and Arrangement by Sam
Instrumental: Yearning by Neil Moret and Dave Stamper
https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-32683/
What We Build (From Broken Things)
Vocals, Lyrics, and Arrangement by Zak
Instrumental: Drifting, Dreaming by Alstyne, Schmidt, Gillespie, Curtis
You Could Have Been Me
Vocals by Sam and Zak
Lyrics and Arrangement by Sam
Instrumental: Lunar Horizon S2 by Baldistix
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/395873/lunar-horizon-s2-85bpm-free-85bpm-hip-hop-synth-loop
Dancehall Drum Loop by SAVYELDANDY
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/152091/dancehall-drum-loop-97bpm-dancehall-drum-loop
Army of Three
Lyrics, Vocals, and Arrangement by Sam
Instrumental: Drift by Snelkku
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/254061/
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Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
*Slaps roof* This baby can fit so much down time.
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Background music and sound effects:
Weeping Forest
The Hollywood Edge
https://hollywoodedge.com
Forest Day, Ambience Only, Quiet Cove (Music Only), Medieval Battle, River Town, and Generation Ship
Tabletop Audio
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Wednesday May 07, 2025
Wednesday May 07, 2025
A time for homecomings and goo nommings.
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Background music and sound effects:
Roaming One by Alexander Nakarada
(www.creatorchords.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Quiet Cove (Music Only), Arcane Clockworks, and The Undercroft
Tabletop Audio
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Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
Alternate titles include:
Numeria Still Sucks
The Platonic Mid-Thigh
You Can Fit These In Your Legs
It Is, Sadly, Capitalism
The Hatular Region
So Many Regions in This One
Smorgasbeet
Deep Dish Beetza
And of course,
The One Where Sam Tried To Podcast With Covid
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Background music and sound effects:
Definitely Our Town, and Port Town
Original music by Marllon Silva (xDeviruchi)
https://www.youtube.com/xdeviruchi
Cavern of Lost Souls, and Forest Day, Ambience Only
Tabletop Audio
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Listen. Your first mistake was bringing your bones. Your second mistake was being evil.
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Background music and sound effects:
Lament
Music licensed from http://www.purple-planet.com/
Torus
Zak
River Town, Medieval Market, and Forest: Day
Tabletop Audio
Cavernous Deep Cave Ambience with Light Rhythmic Elements
The Hollywood Edge
https://hollywoodedge.com
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Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Straight from the goop, it's the beginning of that weird liminal time between books.
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Background music and sound effects:
Music: Yesteryears (DECISION) by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/244-yesteryears-decision
Torus, and Outriders
Zak
River Town, Medieval Market, and Forest: Day
Tabletop Audio
Cavernous Deep Cave Ambience with Light Rhythmic Elements
The Hollywood Edge
https://hollywoodedge.com
Email us at PodAgainsttheMachine@gmail.com
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Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
I need to go see a robot about a tablet.
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Background music and sound effects:
Light Rider On Titan by Tim Kulig
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8653-light-rider-on-titan
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Forest: Night, Forest: Day (Ambience Only), and Alien Machine Shop
Tabletop Audio
Deep Slow Pulsing Breathing Drone
The Hollywood Edge
Good Morning
Edvard Grieg
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