2023 Year-End Review

Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

It’s 2024! Happy New Year! 2023 was a fantastic year for us as a show and as people! We’ve gathered here to discuss all of our favorite parts of it! Movies! Music! Games! Podcasts! Everything that we loved from this year. Everything that made our lives better this year. And, of course, we discuss each of our top five Campfire episodes from the year and talk about our experience researching each of them. We had a great time breaking the year down. Enjoy!

Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling is created for adult audiences only. The content and discussion in this show will necessarily engage with various accounts that include violence, anxiety, fear, and occasional body horror. Much of it will be emotionally and intellectually challenging to engage with. We will flag especially graphic or intense content so as to never put you in an uninformed or unprepared position. We will do our best to make this a space where we can engage bravely, empathetically, and thoughtfully with difficult content every week.

This week’s episode includes descriptions/sound related the following sensitive subjects.

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TOPS!

Movies

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2906216/

The Killer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136617/

The Holdovers

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14849194/

Killers of the Flower Moon

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537002/

Asteroid City

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14230388/

Super Mario Bros.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6718170/

Strays

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15153532/

No One Will Save You

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14509110/

The Pope’s Exorcist

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13375076/

The Exorcist: Believer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12921446/

Evil Dead Rise

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13345606/

Talk to Me

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10638522/

Albums

Tyler Childers – Rustin’ In The Rain

https://open.spotify.com/album/7rSObXhKazzmeZFHuGX1mx?si=Y3kXycv2REuzwB_exeNk-Q

Colter Wall – Little Songs

https://open.spotify.com/album/4l1JW9aV2fmAxnH9TeeK82?si=YW6NExfXQYCkyhoglehlKg

Shipwreck Karpathos – Being Human

https://open.spotify.com/album/0IwXO9lbW6GXN0iHH2r8AM?si=uclUItf1TJWb9o7Alo4GUg

Nolan Taylor – Life & Love

https://open.spotify.com/album/6kHaj9UYr9j0WB3XgtvZkO?si=Xje8Yb4ARpelXGcHJQ-I6Q

Jason Isbell – Weathervanes

https://open.spotify.com/album/2gL0IM5SYhCxJebPaKdDkx?si=cgjZHxH5QMmLY6uGr-OejQ

Owl City – Coco Moon

https://open.spotify.com/album/6ZKh1FlIKBeDJYVSuvF2LM?si=pF_832XBRBGfOuFwOtUpcA

Paper Planes – Losing Streak

https://open.spotify.com/album/43EyO2vtEM7Zhthq08TQTt?si=VTtg66BIQZmWI1Tkwe2UkQ

408 – Generational

https://open.spotify.com/album/0KjcU59seFJaLu75xJJgBv?si=qHCiEg4hS8a0myTm6sRULw

Firewoodisland – As Long As I Go

https://open.spotify.com/album/30pns5zQfLTyW64o1K4wbm?si=QCct4vFJQNO41RYuM3gxAg

Knucklepuck – Losing What We Love

https://open.spotify.com/album/71Zbf3k0m4bM7GySIh2erI?si=0WQZicvcTm2ymcUc-bdq0g

Games

Fortnite

https://www.fortnite.com/?lang=en-US

Dredge

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/DREDGE/

Lies of P

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627720/Lies_of_P/

Octopath Traveler II

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1971650/OCTOPATH_TRAVELER_II/

Coral Island

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1158160/Coral_Island/

Lorcana

https://www.disneylorcana.com/en-US

Greyhill Incident

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1905020/Greyhill_Incident/

Resident Evil 4: Remake

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2050650/Resident_Evil_4/

Hogwarts Legacy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/990080/Hogwarts_Legacy/

Spider-Man 2

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/marvels-spider-man-2/

Zelda: Tales of the Kingdom

https://zelda.nintendo.com/tears-of-the-kingdom/

Podcasts

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

https://open.spotify.com/show/3ImqTb6CcfZINTgByeAThh?si=e70c9b8eb2944557

Some Place Under Neith

https://open.spotify.com/show/7CpYtkWmYGM9HGxfFaGRDj?si=9f947ac95b0c468a

Dateline

https://open.spotify.com/show/3MGn724Y6BOSQzfmk3TyuY?si=f9c5b2b865f84e85

The Lore You Know

https://open.spotify.com/show/4ia7fZzgYnGFrCDfgIz90O?si=33e23b929f5044a6

Detectives Don’t Sleep

https://open.spotify.com/show/5m6eis9cWSFWPJ3Rnmp9cv?si=fb8b788d6b9649aa

Tower 4

https://open.spotify.com/show/4YChJfyufByaRzekQVKNGG?si=b0f94d28d5564fa1

Bridgewater

https://open.spotify.com/show/7aTEmK0Vvwa5L4ZKBsmPyJ?si=432996c1d1b24fef

National Parks After Dark

https://open.spotify.com/show/5AenIJ6TA3JjWkqacYEBWL?si=63d2e92d425c49e0

Smartless

https://open.spotify.com/show/0Yzd0g8NYmn27k2HFNplv7?si=bd7dd110c5ff4afd

Pod Meets World

https://open.spotify.com/show/11BA5Y1PBaleEjJAFAP8MG?si=3c1b704daa244b82

Abroad in Japan

https://open.spotify.com/show/1dbguTBIriCwhJXlxTITFe?si=365f70c570a24fa9

Check Out Our Friends!

Karly Latham

https://linktr.ee/Thevillagetarotwitch

BeneBenPlayin

https://www.youtube.com/@benebenplayin

Mothmen 1966

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1755030/Mothmen_1966/

Bigfoot

https://www.bigfootplay.com/

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