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Book Club: Dune Messiah (pg 50–99)
2 november 2026 · 1 uur 19 min
In Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides receives a dangerous gift: Hayt, a Tleilaxu ghola of Duncan Idaho. Abu and Leo cover pages 50 to 99 of Dune Messiah and take a listener's question about why Paul couldn't simply call off the jihad. Lees meer
Scytale's visit to Farok, a retired jihad commander, turns sinister, though not before the old Fremen describes standing in a sea for the first time. In the Imperial council, Irulan tries the Voice on her husband and Paul explains to Stilgar why he cannot simply look for Tupile. The takeaways dig into Muad'Dib as a living god and the echoes of Duke Leto in his son, and the spice morsels cover face dancers and the rumor that Tleilaxu eyes enslave the people who wear them.
This episode contains NO SPOILERS beyond the books and pages covered thus far.
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Go subscribe to Spice & Dice: A Dune D&D Podcast
30 oktober 2026 · 2 min
DUNEgeon Master Noah Perito guides Abu Zafar and Leo Wiggins through original adventures inspired by Frank Herbert's stories and the Dune Encyclopedia. Lees meer
As hosts of the #1 Dune podcast Gom Jabbar, Abu and Leo have spent six years exploring every nook and cranny of the universe. Noah has developed and led campaigns across nearly 250 episodes as the host of Try Not To Die. Now they're joining forces to tell the most authentic (and fun!) tales set in their favorite fictional universe.
Unlike most actual play podcasts, Spice & Dice campaigns are short, accessible, and self-contained. So there's always an easy place to jump in, whether you're a seasoned D&D fan or you've never held a d20.
New episodes release every Thursday, starting November 5.
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Dune: Part Three Final Trailer Breakdown
29 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
The final trailer for Dune: Part Three is out, and this emergency episode breaks it down shot by shot. Abu and Leo pull apart what they see as deliberate misdirection in Denis Villeneuve's marketing and trade theories on what the trailer actually gives away. Lees meer
It opens on Paul using the Voice to break Irulan, which Abu reads as a sign that Edric's ability to block prescience will matter far more on screen than it does in Dune Messiah. A red headband spotted puts a teenage Leto II and Ghanima at Chani's desert meeting with Scytale, and a Reddit theory about two separate conspiracies, the assassination plot and the Guild's scheme to get a sandworm off Arrakis, might explain what Chani is really doing out there. Abu pushes back on the "Hello, Grandfather" alternate timeline theory, and Leo offers his own explanation for why Paul keeps Chani at arm's length.
This episode contains SPOILERS for Children of Dune.
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Announcement: Heretics Amulet
28 oktober 2026 · 23 min
Leo made a videogame! Abu and Leo chat about Heretics Amulet, a single player video game with its fair share of Dune references, available now on Steam.Check out Heretics Amulet here: Lees meer
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Book Club: Dune Messiah (pg 1-49)
26 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 32 min
Dune Messiah opens twelve years into Muad'Dib's jihad, with Emperor Paul Atreides worn down by his own visions. Abu and Leo kick off their Dune Messiah Book Club with the first 50 pages, just in time for Dune: Part Three. Lees meer
Bronso of Ix gets the first word, and the hosts fall a little in love with the historian as he needles Muad'Dib's priests. Scytale's meeting with Gaius Helen Mohiam, Princess Irulan and the Guild Steersman Edric gets read for its subtext within subtext, while Paul's late night with Chani shows a man weighing one beloved life against the agony of multitudes. With help from the Dune Encyclopedia, the hosts trace how a Landsraad revolt turned into a holy war, then close on spice morsels about the Qizarate and the Dune Tarot, plus a fruitless hunt for the meaning of Mirabhasa.
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Book Club: Sandworms of Dune (Part 2)
23 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 28 min
Abu and Leo conclude their reluctant coverage of Sandworms of Dune, the final part of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's conclusion of the Dune saga. They summarize the remainder of the book and discuss what it's all about, in the end. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, plus Hunters of Dune and all of Sandworms of Dune.
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Book Club: Sandworms of Dune (Part 1)
16 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 28 min
Abu and Leo reluctantly launch into their coverage of Sandworms of Dune, the final part of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's conclusion of the Dune saga. They summarize the first half of the book, and vent their feelings along the way. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, plus Hunters of Dune and the first half of Sandworms of Dune.
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Irulan Corrino
9 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
Princess Irulan Corrino, Shaddam IV's eldest daughter and Paul's wife in name only, finally gets her own character deep dive. Abu and Leo dig into what the Dune Encyclopedia says about her life and legacy, with an eye on Florence Pugh's return to the role in Dune: Part Three. Lees meer
Dune historians are brutal about Irulan's Bene Gesserit abilities, yet they also credit her as an independent thinker who never fully bought into the Sisterhood, and her near silence about her own mother hints at what the record leaves out. Her schemes in Dune Messiah get written off as "small spurts of rebellion," and the hosts make the case that her history was sanded down to fit the cult of St. Irulan the Virgin that rose a century after her death. They also run through highlights of the writings recovered in the Rakis Finds, including The Chakobsa Way, Arrakis Awakening, and a drama called Ornithopera. The episode closes on how Denis Villeneuve might move her to the center of the conspiracy.
This episode contains SPOILERS for Children of Dune.
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Greenslaves and Occupation Force: Frank Herbert Before Dune
2 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
Abu and Leo dig into "Greenslaves" and "Occupation Force," two stories Herbert wrote in the decade before Dune made him famous, to see what they reveal about the mind behind the books. Lees meer
"Greenslaves," published in Amazing in March 1965 and later expanded into the novel The Green Brain, follows a Brazilian extermination program built to wipe out every last insect, and the swarm that has learned to disguise itself to survive it. In "Occupation Force," published in Fantastic in 1955, a U.S. general readies the nukes against an alien ship parked over Washington, only for its ambassador to deliver a reveal about exactly how long humans have actually been under alien rule.
This episode contains SPOILERS for Frank Herbert's short stories Greenslaves and Occupation Force. There are NO SPOILERS for the Dune novels.
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Lost Entries: Psychology of the Sardaukar and Harkonnens
25 september 2026 · 55 min
Abu and Leo finish their Lost Entries run through Carl B. Yoke's psychology manuscripts, uncovered at the Fullerton Archives. This week they read two unpublished Dune Encyclopedia entries on the psychology of the Sardaukar and the Harkonnens. Lees meer
The Sardaukar entry centers on the Dhama ti Kama, the corps' secret training manual, which Lady Margot Fenring somehow stole for the Bene Gesserit. Its author, the Sardau shaman Kiwan Kalama, lays out a Freudian program for turning children into warriors, and it is every bit as grim as that sounds. The Harkonnen entry introduces Dr. Amertine Moritani Harkonnen, a granddaughter of Shaddam IV who married into the family after the Baron's death and made him the subject of her Study of the Dark Side.
This episode contains SPOILERS for Children of Dune.
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Book Club: Hunters of Dune (Part 2)
18 september 2026 · 2 uur 15 min
Abu and Leo finish Hunters of Dune, the first book in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's conclusion of the Dune saga. They break down the back half of the book and vent their feelings about how this is all just so wrong. Lees meer
They cover the Ithaca's stalled journey through the Scattering, Duncan Idaho's fixation on the absent Murbella, and the ghola children growing up aboard the no-ship. On Chapterhouse, Murbella's war against the Honored Matres comes to a head, including the reveal that the Honored Matres descend in part from Tleilaxu women. Uxtal's doomed attempt to resurrect a Tleilaxu master and Khrone's efforts to reawaken a young Baron Harkonnen push the ghola storylines toward their conclusions. Along the way, the mysterious old couple behind the Scattering's chaos finally comes into focus, setting up next episode's dive into Sandworms of Dune.
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, plus the entirety of Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
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Lost Entries: Psychology of the Fremen
11 september 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
An unpublished Dune Encyclopedia manuscript called Psychology of the Fremen never made it past Willis E. McNelly's editing desk, until now. Abu and Leo dig into what got cut, in part one of a two-episode dive into the Fullerton archives' unreleased psychology entries. Lees meer
Carl B. Yoke, a Kent State University professor, wrote it as one of five planned psychology profiles that also covered the Bene Gesserit, the Sardaukar, the Harkonnens, and the Imperium. Yoke's Fremen entry builds its case through an invented smuggler-poet, whose writings and observations of Fremen psychology survived in the Bene Gesserit archives on Wallach IX. From there, Abu and Leo trace a psychological system mapped almost entirely onto Carl Jung.
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DISPATCH: Hugo Winners, Bobiverse Returns & Silo's Divisive Finale
8 september 2026 · 30 min
The 2026 Hugo Awards hand Best Novel to Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting and give Murderbot its first-ever trophy, while WorldCon finally reveals the price for the 2023 Hugo scandal: a lifetime ban for administrator Dave McCarty and lesser bans for three others. Plus, Silo closes its most divisive season yet to a critic/audience split the internet doesn't seem to agree with, and the Bobiverse's fifth book proves the series still has it. Lees meer
Stellar Dispatch drops every Tuesday. New main episodes every Friday on the Stellar feed.
Stories this week:
2026 Hugo Awards winners announced at LAcon V
WorldCon censures and bans four 2023 Chengdu Worldcon officials
Silo season 3 finale review
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) review
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Book Club: Hunters of Dune (Part 1)
4 september 2026 · 1 uur 46 min
Abu and Leo begin the book club coverage of Hunters of Dune, the first novel completing Frank Herbert's saga after his death. They walk through the first half of the book's tangled plot before turning to the continuity breaks and creative choices they think do real damage to the Dune canon. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, plus chapters 1-44 of Hunters of Dune!
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IN THIS EPISODE
Why the Ithaca crew revives gholas of Paul Atreides and Leto II Atreides while passing over Ghanima and Alia
Murbella's shaky start as Mother Commander of the merged Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres, and the power struggles taking shape at Chapter House
The Oracle of Time and a Golden Path retcon that Abu and Leo argue contradict rules Frank Herbert spent six books establishing
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Producer's Commentary: Revisiting The Road to Dune
28 augustus 2026 · 2 uur 13 min
Since we're in our #BrianHerbertEra, Abu and Leo revisit an episode from 2022 covering the history of Dune as told by Brian Herbert in his book, The Road to Dune. Lees meer
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The Hidden Jews of Dune With DZ Kalman
21 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
Frank Herbert spent five books showing how faiths merge, mutate, and drift beyond recognition. Then, in Chapterhouse: Dune, he wrote in a community of Jews who had not changed at all. Abu and Leo gather critical takes from Jewish readers and scholars, then sit down with historian DZ Kalman to ask whether representation that gets things wrong can still be worth having. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, up through Chapterhouse: Dune!
IN THIS EPISODE
Rebecca, the Rabbi, and the deal the Bene Gesserit struck with a people nobody could find
Where Kwisatz Haderach actually comes from in Jewish mysticism, and why nobody knows how Herbert found it
A theory about Beverly Herbert's death, the to-do list she left behind, and what Daniel and Marty have to do with any of it
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
DZ Kalman's essay on the Jews of Dune: jellomenorah.com
DZ Kalman's podcast, Belief in the Future: podcasts.apple.com
Michael Weingrad, Jews of Dune: jewishreviewofbooks.com
Jonathan Weidenbaum, The Holy Versus the Sacred: doi.org
Leigh Kimmel's Chapterhouse Dune review: billionlightyearbookshelf.com
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Mailbag: Ranking All Six Dune Novels and Why We Never Needed a Seventh Book
7 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 27 min
Abu and Leo close out the book club with a live listener Q&A, the first one recorded with every page of Frank Herbert's saga behind them. It's a reflective hang about how this series thinks about power, governance, and the limits of art as political commentary, and about what it feels like to reach the end of a six-year read-through. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels.
IN THIS EPISODE
Whether the Bene Gesserit's surveillance-and-no-confidence structure is Frank's ideal government, or a system he builds up only to critique through the Honored Matres
Our theories for why Abomination disappears after Children of Dune, from the inner Mohalata to Siona's descendants being immune
What Daniel and Marty really represent, and why Chapterhouse works as Frank's farewell with no seventh book needed
What the Dune Encyclopedia's contraception entry reveals about the Bene Gesserit breeding program, axolotl tanks, and their opposition to abortion
Whether Dune: Part Three can handle the jihad honestly, with Andor Season 2 held up as the gold standard for political storytelling
A live, no-holds-barred re-ranking of all six novels, with Leo putting Dune fifth and God Emperor dead last
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Lost Entries: Roj Amalkin and the Stone Burner
31 juli 2026 · 58 min
Abu and Leo return to the Lost Entries series with two Dune Encyclopedia manuscripts that never made it into print. Both were written by one of the Encyclopedia's most prolific contributors, and detail the life of Dune's Oppenheimer: a man named Roj Amalkin, who invented the deadliest weapon in the galaxy.. They read the manuscripts in full, and argue about why McNelly left them on the cutting room floor. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for Dune and Dune Messiah!
IN THIS EPISODE
How a sickly kid on Salusa Secundus grew up to invent the stone burner, and what his mother did to make sure he survived long enough to build it
The Bocca drill, the Lucifer gems it left behind, and the one illegal modification that turned a mining tool into a weapon
Why the Fedaykin hunted every stone burner out of existence
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 16)
24 juli 2026 · 1 uur 33 min
Abu and Leo complete their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 46-48. They reflect back on their journey covering every single Dune book by Frank Herbert, and look ahead to what's next. Lees meer
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Announcing Spice & Dice: A Dune D&D Podcast
17 juli 2026 · 13 min
Abu and Leo officially announce Spice & Dice, a new Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast set in the far corners of the Dune universe, with Noah Perito back in the dungeon master's chair. The show is built to welcome newcomers to D&D as much as longtime tabletop players, and this episode closes with a preview from the debut campaign. Spice & Dice targets a Q4 2026 launch, timed just ahead of Dune: Part Three. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for Dune and Dune Messiah
IN THIS EPISODE
The debut campaign, Voices of the Jihad, sends Abu and Leo's Fremen operatives after Emperor Paul Atreides himself
Meet Trionfi Maniaco, the mysterious tarot reader whose cards may or may not be interfering with Paul's prescience
Why Spice & Dice is built around short, contained campaigns instead of the 50-plus episode sprawl typical of actual play shows
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Dune: Part Three Trailer Full Analysis & Breakdown
13 juli 2026 · 1 uur 29 min
Abu and Leo break down the new Dune: Part Three trailer shot by shot, tracing what it reveals about Paul Atreides' transformation from reluctant messiah to feared emperor. They dig into the trailer's visual clues, editing misdirections, and the conspiracy forming against Paul's rule, then share their honest hopes and worries for the finished film. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for Dune and Dune: Messiah.
IN THIS EPISODE
A leaked marketing image seems to confirm exactly what the trailer's mysterious sarcophagus is hiding
Why they suspect the "Chani" in Paul's private chamber scene is actually Scytale in disguise
How Paul's bald head and new face tattoos borrow a visual signature straight from House Harkonnen
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 15)
10 juli 2026 · 1 uur 20 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 43-45. Lees meer
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Dune: Part Three Trailer Instant Reactions
9 juli 2026 · 2 min
The second trailer for Dune: Part Three just dropped and it somehow raises even more questions about the film, despite giving us new glimpses of what to expect this December. Our full breakdown will be released on all podcast feeds this weekend, but for now, here are our messy immediate reactions. Lees meer
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Relay: Pantheon Season 1, Episodes 1-4
3 juli 2026 · 53 min
Abu and Leo dig into Pantheon, the wildly underrated animated sci-fi series almost nobody watched. Across the first four episodes they wrestle with what the show has to say about mortality, capitalism, and the promises we make about new technology. It is bold, timely, occasionally rough around the edges, and exactly the kind of science fiction they want more of. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for Pantheon Season 1 and for Ken Liu's short stories "The Gods Will Not Be Chained" and "The Gods Will Not Be Slain."
IN THIS EPISODE
Why the show's "uploaded intelligence" framing lands harder than Ken Liu's original "consciousness uploading," and what Logorhythms did to David behind his family's back.
How the series fleshes out Ellen and David far beyond the page, including the breakup-after-death conversation the short stories leave out entirely.
Steven Holstrom, Julius Pope, and the case that Pantheon is really asking whether religion and science were ever separate buckets to begin with.
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 14)
26 juni 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse: Dune with chapters 40 - 42. Teg launches his attack on Gammu, Odrade meets with Dama, and the battle on Junction begins and... ends? Then the takeaway digs into Extremis Progressiva and to what lengths humans can go to save their culture. Lees meer
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The Fremen Jihad
19 juni 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
Abu and Leo dig into the Fremen Jihad, the brutal 12-year war Frank Herbert left almost entirely off-page between his first two novels. Leaning on the Dune Encyclopedia to fill in that missing history, they trace how a political standoff curdled into religious conquest, then set this jihad beside the Butlerian Jihad to ask what Frank was really saying about charismatic leaders, mob fervor, and the cycles of power and violence that drive human history. Lees meer
This episode contains SPOILERS for Dune and Dune Messiah
IN THIS EPISODE
Why 300,000 Fremen obliterated a Great House's three-million-strong army at Malathon, and how the Landsraad fatally misread what Paul's rise actually meant
The Battle of Molitor, the closest thing to a united resistance, where the Bene Gesserit, Sardaukar, and Landsraad made their stand and the Fedaykin turned the tide
How the Qizarate priesthood hijacked the war into a campaign of forced conversion, and the 40 religions Paul tells Stilgar he wiped out
The Bene Gesserit conspiracy to discard their failed Kwisatz Haderach and restart the breeding program
What Scytale's nine words, "He didn't use the jihad. The jihad used him," reveal about how fast Paul lost his grip on the forces he set loose
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 13)
12 juni 2026 · 1 uur 16 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse: Dune with chapters 37 -39. Odrade says her goodbyes, the mission to Junction begins, and a beloved cyborg bus driver makes a triumphant return. Then the takeaway digs into the leveling drift, the Bene Gesserit belief that humanity always sands its outliers back down toward the average. Lees meer
This episode contains NO SPOILERS beyond the books and pages covered thus far
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IN THIS EPISODE
The convocation: Odrade tells the gathered Sisterhood she will share with Sheeana and Murbella before a meeting she does not expect to survive
Rebecca and the rabbi argue over whether the Bene Gesserit are self-deluded, while Joshua, true hero of this book, fixes the HVAC
Clairby returns, the ghola genie leaves the bottle, and the case for a cyborg bus driver as book seven's main character
The leveling drift: regression toward the mean, Frank's grudge against the IRS, and a Peloton-shaped cautionary tale
Spice morsels on the minyan, why ten adults matter to the rabbi in hiding, and the grim math of rendering bodies for potash
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The True History of the Butlerian Jihad
5 juni 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
Six years into the show, Abu and Leo finally give the most consequential event in Dune history its own episode. From Jehanne Butler's personal tragedy on Komos to the century of holy war that followed, this is the story of how humanity destroyed its thinking machines and rebuilt itself without them. Part 1 of a two-part series on the jihads of Dune. Lees meer
LIGHT SPOILERS: if you've read the first book or seen the Denis Villeneuve films, you're safe to listen.
IN THIS EPISODE
Why Frank Herbert gave the biggest event in his universe barely two paragraphs, and how the Dune Encyclopedia fills in the missing century
Jehanne Butler's path from Bene Gesserit-trained priestess to revolutionary, and the hospital tragedy on Komos that lit the fuse
The nearly bloodless coup against Richese, and the machine-run society that horrified the Komans who arrived there
How one interrogation between the Priestess Urania and an insufferable tech bro turned a planetary revolt into a galactic holy war
Butlerian Jihad or Great Revolt? Abu and Leo weigh in on what history should call it
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 12)
29 mei 2026 · 1 uur 18 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 34-36. Lees meer
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Producer’s Commentary: Revisiting the Dune Tarot
22 mei 2026 · 1 uur 19 min
Abu and Leo return to one of their earliest and most popular episodes to provide bonus commentary and analysis years later. Lees meer
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Mailbag: Chani in Part Three, Dune Theme Park, and Is There Email in Dune?
15 mei 2026 · 1 uur 23 min
Abu and Leo pause their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune to share your emails and answer your burning questions about the book and wider Dune universe. Lees meer
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Scytale the Face Dancer
8 mei 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
Abu and Leo profile Scytale, the face dancer at the heart of the conspiracy in Dune Messiah, and come away with a newfound respect for the Tleilaxu's finest operative. From his engineered birth to his death at Paul's hand (and the strange afterlife of his name), this is the full story of the best face dancer who ever lived. Plus: Theory Corner on Robert Pattinson's take in Dune: Part Three. Lees meer
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IN THIS EPISODE
Scytale's birth name, his surprisingly famous parents, and what the Dune Encyclopedia reveals about his selective breeding
The Nicodemus affair, the mysterious mission that earned Scytale an honor almost no face dancer ever receives
Why the stone burner was a betrayal of the Tleilaxu and Bene Gesserit, and how it nearly killed Scytale by accident
The staggering physical feat of holding the Lichna disguise for seven months in captivity
Theory Corner: Pattinson's look, whether every trailer shot of Scytale is a disguise, and how Villeneuve might film face dancing
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 11)
1 mei 2026 · 1 uur 33 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 31-33. They break down the single most disturbing chapter in the entire Dune Saga, and question Frank Herbert's decision to write it. Lees meer
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Producer’s Commentary: Revisiting the Incredible Life of Ibrahim Vaughn Holtzman
24 april 2026 · 1 uur 30 min
Abu and Leo return to one of their earliest and most popular episodes to provide bonus commentary and analysis years later. Lees meer
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TEASER: How Children of Men Predicted 2027
22 april 2026 · 5 min
Abu and Leo are hard at work on their ambitious new sci-fi podcast and magazine project, codename Re-Analog. Here is the teaser for the prototype episode they've created covering one of the best science fiction films of all time. Lees meer
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 10)
17 april 2026 · 1 uur 42 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 28-30. Lees meer
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Lost Entries: Origins of the Atreides/Harkonnen Feud
10 april 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
Abu and Leo bring you another unpublished manuscript from the Fullerton Archives. This one explores this central conflict at the heart of the first book: the Atreides/Harkonnen feud. Lees meer
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 9)
3 april 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 25-27. Lees meer
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A Comprehensive Analysis of the Dune: Part Three Trailer
24 maart 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
Abu and Leo break down the new teaser trailer for Dune: Part Three and speculate about what we'll see in Denis Villeneuve's upcoming blockbuster film. Lees meer
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 8)
20 maart 2026 · 1 uur 32 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 22-24. Lees meer
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Instant Reaction: Dune Part Three Teaser Trailer
18 maart 2026 · 12 min
We're working on our in-depth analysis of the trailer, but in the meantime, enjoy this call between Abu and Leo as they absolutely geek out over the new trailer! Apologies about the rough audio, this was recorded last-minute from the airport.
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 7)
6 maart 2026 · 1 uur 35 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 19-21. Lees meer
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Producer's Commentary: Revisiting Planet Ecaz
27 februari 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
Abu and Leo return to a fan favorite, Planet Ecaz, rediscovering long forgotten jokes and raving about microorganisms. Lees meer
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 6)
20 februari 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 16-18. They explore the stagnation inherent in laws and regulations and the Bene Gesserit's radical new form of democracy. Lees meer
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Planet Gamont: Dune's Planet of Pleasure
13 februari 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
Abu and Leo take you on an all-expense paid trip to the planet of pleasure, Planet Gamont for a sensual Gom Jabbar Valentine's Day special. Lees meer
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Mailbag: Tolkien vs Herbert, Jewish Amtal, and Is Dune Actually Fantasy?
6 februari 2026 · 1 uur 52 min
Abu and Leo respond to your questions about Dune: Chapterhouse and the wider Dune universe. Lees meer
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Producer’s Commentary: Revisiting Our First Episode
30 januari 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
Abu and Leo listen to the first episode of Gom Jabbar, reminiscing about how the show started and appreciating how far they've come. Lees meer
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 5)
23 januari 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 13-15. They explore how the Bene Gesserit system of education differs from the Honored Matre, and they ways Frank Herbert's own views on the public education system bled into the narrative. Lees meer
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State of the Imperium 2026 and Our Secret New Project
16 januari 2026 · 48 min
Abu and Leo continue with their radical transparency and spill the beans on how Gom Jabbar is made. They break down everything from download numbers to how much money they make, and tease an exciting new project in 2026 and beyond. Lees meer
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Book Club: Chapterhouse Dune (Part 4)
9 januari 2026 · 1 uur 31 min
Abu and Leo continue their read-through of Chapterhouse Dune by diving deep into chapters 10-12. They explore the outward reactionary force of the Honored Matres compared with the inward introspective patterns of the Bene Gesserit, and how both orders can learn from each other. Lees meer
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