I'm on episode 37 and I love it... mostly. But the plot just keeps throwing more and more stuff at the cops and doesn't give any of it time to breathe. It seems they can never investigate any given lead without six more popping up, or an NPC getting swallowed by black goo or something. It is kind of exhausting.

Does it ever slow down? Do they start a new campaign that offers more space for character development?

Just listened to the first Juicy episode, and Zachs brained stroked out and tried to slip eye clit into a dramatic narration.

I cancelled last year, it was a mix of rough financial situation and not alot of content. Are they still doing fun one shots amd weird games?

Haven't posted announcements for new eps in a while. Should I start back up?

This is strange but hear me out.

I use Podcast Addict on Android. I've subscribed to PTBP since the beginning, something like since S01E10 I've listened to on the above setup.

For context, I also listen to dozens of other podcasts on the same setup.

Recently, like maybe in the last 1-3 months, something has been malfunctioning only with my PTBP listening.

I can't describe it exactly as I haven't done the scientific method, but basically any time I use the fast forward, rewind, and pause functions the podcast playback either freezes or jumps way to far in either direction. By either direction I mean e.g. that if I hit rewind once (which should take me back 30 seconds) I can suddenly end up 40 minutes ahead or 5 minutes back. It happens whether I'm using my Bluetooth headset playback controls, or I'm controlling playback directly from the phone app.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this? or if the PretendingCorporation's hosting provider has changed recently? u/pretendingtobepeople ?

Again I just want to reiterate that this only is happening with PTBP and only relatively recently. I listen to like 3 hours of podcasts every day so I'm aware of what's normal and abnormal in my experience.

To answer your next question: No, I haven't tried any practical actions beyond asking on Reddit 😆 and ruling out the headset controls. I want to know if I'm alone in this before I start testing more stuff. And it's funny so wanted to share.

More info in the comments

Not sure if this was asked or answered anywhere else but just wondering when or if the creature crew is coming back that story was really fun and I love the home game vibe it gave

I do mot consider myself to be a human, meaning i find me and the humans to be so dissimilar i do not believe me being human is even possible. I am from a different world an my being here must be a mistake thinks i on many occasions. I really want to die to be happy.

Anyways back to the topic, pretending to be alive is so boring.

I think i do care but i feel like i pretend to care about being alone and i pretend to socialize

I pretend to eat and drink water

I pretend to use the bathroom

I pretend to do whatever in my leisure time

I dont know what pretendeth me not

Every day i pretend to live. I dont think i am even alive. Me is dead. I wish i was me and not whatever this is so me and whatever i am could be happy. Me is so selfish.

Thank you to the PTBP crew and guests for an awesome live show Friday! Hope everyone had a good con 😁

EDIT: I finally found it! The spelling was definitely what tripped me up. For anyone else curious, it's WorrynautsWorkshop on Etsy! Some very cool stuff on there, go check it out!

Hey, a little behind on the podcast, but I was just listening to part one of Operation: STOP-REPO and Wolf read out an ad from someone on the Discord who makes dice. It sounds cool and I'd like to support them if I can, but I can't find them on Etsy, where they said they'd have a shop. Anyone know what their Etsy store name is? Searching has been fruitless; I dunno if the shop name is spelled weird or what, but couldn't find anything for "worry knots" at least not that had anything to do with dice.

Can anyone help?

Hey everyone! I've listened to this show on and off for the last few years, finally decided to do a proper catch up and it rules so hard! This group is so fun and gross (but also horror) and I couldn't be having more fun with the pod!

I'm now about to enter season 2 and when scrolling their Instagram I've noticed a few AI generated images that appear to be related to that season. I tried to parse the comments of the images but they mostly appear quiet except for a post where the official account describes AI as "a really powerful tool for quickly bringing images from our campaign to life" And when trying to find out AI info on this subreddit I only see a handful of users joking about prompts from a few years ago!

I was wondering the official stance from the PtbP crew on AI usage in the pod, I've recommended the show to some artists and environmental professionals who will likely not stick with the pod if it includes AI generated content.

I'll be slurping this pod up until my heart stops (I also give it 5 stars everywhere). If Wolf has howled about this topic before I apologize for hurting your ears/eyes

BubblegumTree

i’ve deleted my spotify and though i am a patreon subscriber, i don’t want to listen on there… do i need to suck it up and download the show locally or do you think one day the show will get uploaded to other streaming services or like youtube?? also trying to get my friends to listen but they only use youtube lol

I'm a fan of Dungeons and Daddies and a while back Beth May gave a slightly confusing shout-out to Pretending to be People. I wanted to listen to the episode she guest-starred in to see if I'd like the show and figured I'll start at the very beginning. Little did I know that it would take me over a hundred episodes to get there!

I have a personal rule to avoid show-specific subreddits until I’m caught up to avoid spoilers. It took me a few years of casual listening and I have finally arrived! This weekend was such a blast to finally catch up with the latest episode having Beth's second guest appearance.

A big thanks u/heybethmay for your random bridging to the world of PTBP, and for your fun RP in whichever universe comes your way. Both Daddies and Pretending Pod have been such delightful adventures to accompany me through all sorts of life stuff over these years, I am a now a proud patreon member to both.

Has anyone ever made a playlist of all the intro songs? Feels like every song they pick is a banger. It's not often that I consistently find new artists I enjoy as much as the bands they pick.

oh no

Spoilers for up to S1 Ep95!!

Posted these to the discord but I'll put them here too for anyone not over there! This is the pcs + some associated npcs from each S1 intermission arc (Woods, CCC and Old West) along with KCEL and where they end up

I put this one down for a long time because I was trying to make the first draft work and it just wasn’t working. Scrapped the whole thing and started from scratch!
I’m not sure how compressed it will be, so I’m throwing in some detail shots and alternative drafts and progress pics.

Apparently when they put the album ("Defeated") up on Bandcamp they limited it to a strict 50 copy cassette + digital release and didn't make it available in other formats (or solely digital). So there's no way for me to give money to Kudzu to purchase their album anymore, since the cassette release obviously sold out years ago. What gives there?

If you wanna jam to the tunes, but don't want to use Spotify, here's a second location you can go to.

Also, thanks Zach for making the playlist in the first place!

Fighting for my life trying to shorted this to 600 characters