Brandon Kirkman

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 60: Lizard Lunch

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 60: Lizard Lunch

Greetings, dear listener! Our heroes are reunited after their hunt for Brother Will’s treasure, and it’s time for lunch! After noticing a mysterious food truck in the parking lot of NPC Inc’s warehouse, The Green Team figures out their strange ordering system and sits down for some delicious tacos slathered in a potent sauce to discuss what to do about the rumors being supposedly spread by Dimetra. Then it’s back to business as usual, Quinn wanders off to look at birds, Matt makes a discovery, June looks for a shower. When Dimetra discovers the identity of the culprit, will the party be too lost in the sauce to help??

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 59: Celestial Conflict

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 59: Celestial Conflict

Greetings, dear listeners! Matt and June are on a treasure hunt! Can they survive the heat and darkness to find the treasure of Brother Will, and also complete a side quest to cool down the warehouse for Bill Bonetusk? And while they’re away, will Quinn and Dimetra stay out of trouble (and the supply closet?) or will trouble find them in the form of strange rumors going around the office, spread by one of the Green Team?

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 58: John Rainbow: First Blood

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 58: John Rainbow: First Blood

Greetings, dear listeners! Another Wednesday begins for our heroes as they wake to a heat advisory from their favorite unhinged public radio DJ, John Rainbow. Can our heroes beat the heat and start another day at NPC Inc, or will they be pushed to the edge and discover that no amount of charitable donations to public radio can slake their thirst for vengeance? Find out as a new day dawns, complete with evil forms, ominous new coworkers, and a call to find a long lost treasure, somewhere deep in the warehouse! You’re listening to WCPR, home of hot hits and hostage crises!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 57: Meat, Pray, Love

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 57: Meat, Pray, Love

Greetings, dear listeners! The dudes of NPC Inc are hangin’ out! Join Matt, Bill, Sean, Ray and Durzek as they head to the Firepit Bowl-o-Rama to face off with a trio of challenges: Food, Drink, and Bowling. Can these fellas take a break from the stress of modern life to enjoy a game and a drink with some new friends, or will we quickly lose interest in what they’re doing and start to follow the story of a beleaguered bartender and his cigar-loving friend? Why not both? Grab some meat off Sal Manderberg’s grill and fill a glass with three kinds of scotch, let’s roll!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 56: Speaking Dramatically

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 56: Speaking Dramatically

Greetings, dear listeners! Dimetra is in trrrrrooouble! As Mr. Lowe and Quinn remind her of the company’s very obvious attendance policy, Matt and June head to the hot, smokey office of Sean Burns, hoping to find some clarity on the recent employee survey and to continue to explore Matt’s well-established hatred of surveys. Get ready for a miraculous save via high-two and to hear our cast pull off a dizzying combo of movie, music and gaming references that would make Tony Hawk’s head explode.

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 55: Coin Toss

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 55: Coin Toss

Greetings, dear listeners! Whew, there’s a lot going on with the poor Green Team! June’s escaped Mama’s Records Department, Quinn’s gone survey-mad, Matt’s sore from answering questions, and Dimetra and Alan are trapped by the Lunch Bunch! Sure would complicate things if these disparate threads came together in a big warehouse brawl! And guess what? That’s exactly what happens! Tune in as worker turns on worker turns on Lunch Eater turns on team mate! Also tune in for a discussion of Steve Urkel’s many war crimes.

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 54: The Benefits of Soda

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 54: The Benefits of Soda

Greetings, dear listeners! Our heroes have finished lunch and resumed their tasks on a Tuesday afternoon. While most of The Green Team tries to make it work with Dimetra split between two teams, June submits to her punishment from Mama Storybrook. Can June survive her time in the dreaded records room? Will Dimetra be able to find a fashionable accessory for her dinner party with the Bloodskulls? And what happens when you leave an enthusiastic surveyor alone with an unwitting participant? Grab a soda, light a smoke, and tune in, adventure is a drug, and we’re your dealer, baby!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 53: Engage-Mint

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 53: Engage-Mint

Greetings, dear listeners! Our heroes’ strange Tuesday continues, but at least they get a chance to relax and consider their pasts and futures over lunch. Will some food and drink clear their minds and help them figure out what happened during the blur of the previous week? Or will they sink deeper into their new tasks, getting lost in supply room clean-ups, bowling plans, and survey distribution? Perhaps the advice of an older worker might come in handy, but everyone knows she hates being disrupted during lunch. Actually, she might just hate everything, all the time...

Thirst for Adventure Live: Gnomeo Mustn’t Die

Thirst for Adventure Live: Gnomeo Mustn’t Die

Greetings, listeners! Here’s another edition of our live show series Thirst For Adventure! In this adventure, four heroes have to help a hopelessly-romantic gnome who’s looking for love in all the wrong places! Like, really dangerous places. With the help of a god of chaos (and temporarily love) the heroes head to meet Gnomeo’s date, and hopefully not a terrible fate! Oooo, I love to rhyme! Get ready for an exciting and adorable adventure filled with passion, bloodshed, a magic goose, big boyfriends and one very cute squirrel.

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 52: Ones on a Tuesday

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 52: Ones on a Tuesday

Greetings, dear listeners! Our heroes have awoken to a brand new day, but not in the week they expected! What will they learn about what they did last week? Was everything super chill and there’s not rebellion forming, pissed off middle managers, social obligations and a terrifyingly boring employee engagement survey waiting for them at NPC Inc.? Or are all those things definitely waiting for them, plus some other problems I didn’t list?? It’s the second option! If I insinuate there might be a problem for our heroes, there usually is, I’m such a scamp!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 51: Master & Commander: The Far Side of Monday

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 51: Master & Commander: The Far Side of Monday

Greetings, dear listeners! The Green Team is back, right where we left them in the heart of the sinister Elder Brain Symposium. If I remember correctly, everything was going great, right? Hahaha, just kidding. Dimetra and Daniel were in the clutches of the Shell Corp., Quinn was off with the Mad Doctor of Corporate Cohesion, and Matt and June were wrapped up in team building exercises with Bernard, who remains very hard to read! Whew, that’s a lot. I’ll let you discover the rest of the story in this thrilling episode, with an ending that will change the Green Team’s week forever (or at least a week).

Welcome Back, Green Team! (A recap & discussion minisode)

Welcome Back, Green Team! (A recap & discussion minisode)

Greetings, dear listener! The Green Team is (almost) back! Before we resume our tale of work and friendship, DM Hobert and the cast sit down to talk about the story so far, the characters, the NPCs, and all our beloved big bads. Tune in to reconnect with our story, I wonder what's going to happen next??

Halloween Interlude: The Deer King

Halloween Interlude: The Deer King

Happy Halloween, Deer Listeners! See what I did there? Well, you’ll get it after you listen to this very spooky Halloween episode! In this thrilling installment of our annual Call of Cthulhu game, four ne’er-do-wells venture forth to check out a really fun renaissance faire! But is the Crystal Faire hiding a dark secret? What roams the woods around the park, and why does it seem like a part of the show, but also so terrifying real? Give into fantasy and follow the Path of Crooked Bones in this haunting tale from Spooky Chicago, 1975!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 50: GoldenEye (1989)

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 50: GoldenEye (1989)

The Green Team is scattered across the vastness of the Elder Brain Symposium! Separated from each other, they face the difficult decision of “continue with the escape plan” vs “see what these people are up to over here.” Guess which one most of them pick? As Dimetra and the newly statuesque Daniel try to exit the way they entered, June and Matt join some of the inner circle of Bernard’s Shield Society for some puzzles and memory games. Meanwhile, Quinn takes a trip to the secret lab of Dr. Orwing, who wants to teach them a new game…

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 49: Nerfect Pobodies

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 49: Nerfect Pobodies

It’s a Monday, somewhere in the depths of the Shell Corporation and our heroes are about to share their secrets with Mr. Holder in exchange for some mid-level blended scotch, dear listeners! Can they trust the menacing executive with their secrets? Eh, they’ll figure that out later! For now, it’s time to infiltrate the symposium and find Daniel amongst the tables of team building villains. Pour some whiskey in your mug and tune in for big reveals, annoying co-workers, and baby-girl energy.

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 48: Inside the Shell

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 48: Inside the Shell

Greetings, dear listeners! Our heroes are taking the stairs, accompanied by new party member Bernard Holder. Can our heroes trust the sinister business guru to lead them into the symposium to find Dimetra’s brother? What secrets is Bernard keeping from them as they descend into the depths? The true mission of H & H Business Solutions? The location of a super-bland break room? His favorite band and album? Find out in this exciting, pigeon-filled descent into Shell Corp!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 46, Skeptical Spectators

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 46, Skeptical Spectators

Greetings, dear listeners! Our heroes are ready to help The Crushed Skulls impress the Fey Wilde crowd at the Genie Bottle. Can they help a rowdy punk band impress a synth pop audience, or will Fang and the boys be unable to win over these skeptical spectators? Get ready to dance, dodge pyrotechnics, and remember how basses work in this thrilling installment. Don’t forget to stretch for a punk show, folks!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 47, Shell Games

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 47, Shell Games

Happy Weekend, dear listener! I hope you had a good Saturday and Sunday, I know our heroes did! Fresh off their success at The Genie Bottle, the Green Team grows in power, reconnecting with loved ones and facing off against sports rivals. Will the boost of confidence give them the tools (and weapons and armor) they need for the Elder Brain Symposium? Find out as our heroes head to the Host Building to see what’s going on at Shell Corp. And what happens when a malevolent force of management suddenly wants to help?

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 45: Impossible Uncle

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 45: Impossible Uncle

Greetings, listeners! The Green Team is spread across the Genie’s Bottle bar like spilled chips on a green room craft services table! Quinn and Dimetra make their way to the dance floor to generate some buzz for their co-workers’ band while June wanders the mirrored hall/bathroom. Meanwhile, Uncle and Wife locate Barry the Flirt to retrieve their lost names. Can the team whip up the crowd’s enthusiasm for punk music at a pop show? Will Uncle be able to solve Barry’s fiendish boyfriend riddle? Find out in this exciting episode!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 44: “Monday Problems for Friday People”

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 44: “Monday Problems for Friday People”

Greetings, listener! Our heroes have been reluctantly crowned Team of the Week, but that’s a problem for another day! For now they just need to make some cat-themed headwear and make their way to The Genie Bottle, a venue that promises a night of music, drinks, and hopefully some answers. Can our heroes locate Barry the Flirt inside the surprisingly spacious, black-light-lit bar? Wait, who is that at the bar? She looks familiar!