Dr. Megan Connell on D&D Helping People

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🗓️ 14 July 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Professional psychologist and gamer Dr. Megan Connell (@MeganPsyD) spoke to Shelly and Greg back in April about what it's like to run D&D for young people and the benefits of roleplaying games for players with social challenges. Your hosts can barely hold it together before introducing Lore You Should Know w/ Chris Perkins on Born Again Monsters in D&D, who just keep coming back despite how much damage you deal. Here's a guide to when each segment on the podcast begins: 00:00: Intro with Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito 12:25: Lore You Should Know with Chris Perkins 30:00: Interview with Dr. Megan Connell 01:19:50: Outro with Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito

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0:00.0	Hey, ladies and gentlemen, okay. But I can't look at you now. No.
0:14.0	Welcome to Dragon Talk, everybody.
0:17.0	Gosh, that was, what was, that was like a gnome?
0:22.8	Um, let's be gnomes.
0:25.2	We're never getting out of here.
0:30.0	Welcome to Dragon Talk.
0:45.0	I'm Greg Tito and I'm joined by Shelly Masinupa who won't stop laughing.
0:51.0	She's okay. She'll be back in just a second. There you are. Hello. Are you
0:55.7	Shelley? Yes, I am. It's good to see you again. You see the tears coming
0:59.4	you have real tears. I'm like seriously crying. From laughing is from laughing yes so much fun I love
1:06.5	dragon talk everything we do on this podcast is all about blowing out the speakers for all of you people who are listening back at home.
1:16.0	Right. And turn the volume down now.
1:19.0	All the Dungeons and Dragons play that you get from... Now I'm just talking it's going to get loud up in here right it is going to be
1:26.7	allowed up in here right especially in this conversation with someone who is a way
1:31.7	more professional person that we are for sure
1:34.1	Dr. Megan Connell yes that's what we talked to her about was how can we stop
1:39.2	our laughing when we're trying to do intro of Dragon Talk talk. She was trying to provide therapy for us.
1:44.0	It did not work.
1:45.0	Did not.
1:46.0	No. So she did talk about some awesome fun things that she's using
1:50.0	Judge Dragons for.
1:51.0	Where therapy is in fact working. It's true yes with D and D
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