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Pretending to be People

Pretending to be People

Pretending to be People is a mystery/horror role-playing podcast. Join Zach, Thomas, Luke, and Joe as they navigate a terrifying campaign filled with twists, turns, and laughs - all decided on a roll of the dice. Can the officers of the Contention Police Department unravel the mysteries suddenly plaguing their sleepy town? Will they die – or worse – in the attempt? This is an actual play utilizing the game systems of Delta Green and Pulp Cthulhu. This is Pretending to be People.

comedy improv

All Episodes

01:03:37

S2E91 - The Absence of The Lord (with Scott Dorward)

Pretending to be People ·

2026/01/31

Welcome back. Alternate titles include: As Last Words Go You're In the South Now Look At Me, I'm a Raincloud Cal-mulonimbus The Ol' Mom Spit A Horrible, Little Man Welcome to Our Family Because You Ruined It The ASMR God Bouncy Bouncy This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV

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01:08:00

S2E90 - I Think This Is All Just Your Bad Dream (with...

Pretending to be People ·

2026/01/17

Did you get got? 833, 834, 835... This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias and Ellinor DiLorenzo from The Lost Mountain Saga and The Glass Cannon Network's Androids & Aliens. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl and "What Kind of World Are

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01:32:39

Patreon Bonus // The Quiet Year: Part One, Spring and...

Pretending to be People ·

2026/01/03

This here formerly-exclusive episode is the first of two sessions we played of The Quiet Year, a collaborative map building game that we absolutely fell in love with! From the book itself... "This is a map-drawing game. Together, you play as a community rebuilding after the collapse of civilization. Your decisions will define the values and future of this community, and these decisions will get added to a map which is constantly evolving. This map blends literal cartography with symbols, creating a

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01:07:08

S2E89 - I Think I Beefed It (with Scott Dorward and...

Pretending to be People ·

2025/12/19

Time to see who listens closely. Those who do will understand. Mostly. Alternative titles include: Equality and Dads More Blood Magic Wish For War, Please Don't Sl*t-Shame My Daughter War's Back on the Menu This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias and Ellinor DiLorenzo from The Lost Mountain Saga and The Glass Cannon Network's Androids & Aliens. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners

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01:01:54

S2E88 - Why Do You Think It's Called The Equatorial...

Pretending to be People ·

2025/12/06

Alternative titles include: What About A World... She's a Beautiful Bird Diggory Was Always Wrong We're Brainstorming This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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49:33

S2E87 - The I.D.I.O.T. Feature (with Scott Dorward)

Pretending to be People ·

2025/11/22

Alternative titles include: Turns Out There's One Right God An Acceptable Compromise Everybody's Full Father Figure You Are Magic Man Mast Vajority The NASCARhole I'll Follow You Into the Dark Ionic Dirt Is Over There Aunt Crawling This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV

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57:57

S2E86 - A Million Dead Penguins (with Scott Dorward)

Pretending to be People ·

2025/11/08

One Cattle After Another would work as an episode title, but no one said it. Though I don't think that movie was out yet when we recorded this episode. This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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01:00:06

S2E85 - Beck M**** Wilder (with Scott Dorward)

Pretending to be People ·

2025/10/24

Can The Bastard stop The Dastard? Fird ord nord! This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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01:03:34

S2E84 - Bro

Pretending to be People ·

2025/10/11

The Expanded City Action News Team tours the Fred Factory. Alternate titles include: A Regret of God Horndog for Raw Footage Cryptopods Full of NFT Monkeys Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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04:24

October 2025 Announcement

Pretending to be People ·

2025/10/02

IT'S CHARITY MONTH AT 694.2 PTBP! Join the charity drive over on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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54:48

S2E83 - 6

Pretending to be People ·

2025/09/28

Shoutout to Giboticus on Discord for the episode title suggestion -- nailed it. Alternate titles include: Deep in the Beer River City Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni) The World of the Dead and the Damned Leave the Body; Take His Head Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar

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01:05:39

S2E82 - You’re a Straight Shooter, Brock

Pretending to be People ·

2025/09/13

It's dire; coming down to the wire. Will our "heroes" expire before they acquire what they desire? Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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56:11

S2E81 - He Oozes Daddy

Pretending to be People ·

2025/08/30

Algernon, Beck, Cal, Diggory, and Stevie make their way down to Daddy's. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Join the chat on Twitch. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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51:12

S2E80 - Bind the Hands at Sea

Pretending to be People ·

2025/08/16

Alternate titles include: The Truth is What Happens RACECAR Magicians are Dweebs Join the Na'vi Unless You Want Daddy to Come Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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01:21:15

Patreon Bonus // Nice Marines // The Space Marine...

Pretending to be People ·

2025/08/09

We'll be back next week with more Season Two! In the meantime, please enjoy this here formerly-exclusive episode from our Patreon feed where Zach runs Nice Marines, a one page RPG from Grant Howitt, without knowing shit about Warhammer 40K. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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58:17

S2E79 - A Town of Walt Disneys

Pretending to be People ·

2025/07/28

Alternate titles include: The Antarctic Attic Fan Before We Save the World…We’ve Gotta Save the World Snowmo(de)bile Noodles! I'm Not Like Other Homes Pull the Pube Genital Peril Were That You Were a Sewing Gun Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "My Life is Great and It's All My Fault" by Altar Girl.

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49:08

Operation: Upstream Church // Part Five (with Travis...

Pretending to be People ·

2025/07/12

Y'all want a climax? A dirty denouement? A randy resolution? Well get ready to finish. This episode features Travis McElroy from The Adventure Zone. Season Two will resume on July 25. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "Little Acts" by A People Person.

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50:23

Operation: Upstream Church // Part Four (with Travis...

Pretending to be People ·

2025/07/05

Can the team rally? Will they fight the threat? Is this the finale? Not quite yet! This episode features Travis McElroy from The Adventure Zone. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "Little Acts" by A People Person.

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01:04:28

Operation: Upstream Church // Part Three (with Travis...

Pretending to be People ·

2025/06/28

A game of sardines isn't the only thing fishy going on at The Collector's game night. This episode features Travis McElroy from The Adventure Zone. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "Little Acts" by A People Person.

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01:23:18

S2E78 - Amundsen-Scott: sYES Mobile (with Sydney...

Pretending to be People ·

2025/06/21

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? It's a race on the ice, and Hubie's an afterthought. This episode features Sydney Amanuel from The Glass Cannon Podcast. Support the show on Patreon. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Bluesky. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf the Dog played "Balance and Composure" by Ellie Schmidly.

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