Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Authors Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble join Rhett from Seattle to talk about their new book, which was inspired by their D&D podcast Dragon Talk. The book highlights the ways in which people are using Dungeons & Dragons to fuel creative endeavors, explore identity, deal with addiction, and process trauma. Shelly and Greg discuss how the game has evolved and explain why it’s still so popular after 50 years, as it continues to find new players with each generation. Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble are authors of Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations about Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It, which will be available on December 5. Pre-order the book here. Shelly Mazzanoble is author of Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress: A Girl’s Guide to the Dungeons & Dragons Game. Greg Tito is an author, screenwriter, and former standup comic. Listen to the Dragon Talk podcast For more D&D, listen to Rhett’s interview with D&D Dungeon Master and game designer Chris Perkins here Rhett on IG: @rhettmiller Website: Rhettmiller.com Go see a show! Rhett’s tour dates are here Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Find Rhett's podcast #WheelsOff and other music-powered shows on @Osirispod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	We started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good car.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:22.6	Shelley Mazanoble and Greg Tito have a new book called Dragon Talk,
0:28.3	inspiring conversations about Dungeons and Dragons and the people who play it.
0:33.2	It is inspired by the interviews they've done for their Dragon Talk podcast, which is part of their jobs that they hold at Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes, you guessed it, Dungeons and Dragons.
0:50.7	I myself am a big D&D fan. I've played it since I was a little kid in the 1980s. I continue to play it to
0:58.2	this day. And I think that it is in such a great place as a pastime, as an art form, as a community.
1:10.2	That's a word that you're going to hear a lot in this conversation
1:12.4	with Shelley and Greg. The Dungeons and Dragons community is vibrant and inclusive and cool and
1:20.7	fun, and I think it's so great that they have figured out a way to make a book that's going to convey a lot of wisdom
1:30.1	under the auspices of talking about Dungeons and Dragons.
1:35.4	And that's what we do during this interview.
1:38.0	I talk about their own paths.
1:40.1	I talk about what they've learned from their work with D&D and their interviews with Dragon Talk.
1:46.8	This will be a bit of an unorthodox wheels off, as if they aren't all unorthodox.
1:53.0	But this one will break the format a little bit because there's two guests, because we're sort of
1:59.3	talking about a book of interviews rather than songs,
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