OUT NOW! Dan Friesen of @knowledgefight.bsky.social joins again! The game Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest is widely considered an improvement on its predecessor. Will the novelization, for some reason subtitled Rescue on Crocodile Isle, pull off a similar coup? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! Dan Friesen of @knowledgefight.bsky.social joins to kick off our video game season (and 2026!) with the novelization of Donkey Kong Country. The game is light on narrative, so the book has to invent almost as much as it adapts. How does it fare? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! This re-release of our episode on Friday the 13th: Road Trip has a NEW GAME! Jump to the last 20 minutes to check it out. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

As 2026 dawns, so will our season of video game novelizations! Featuring @ethanalter.bsky.social, @kradec.bsky.social, @philathans.bsky.social, @adamvole.com, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social, @thelastmachine.bsky.social, @dodgyboffin.com, @rockmarooned.bsky.social, @alexwolinetz.com, and more!

OUT NOW! We return to Hannah's picks with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Hannah loves this imperfect movie for showcasing Robin Hood's true strength: a joyful and generous heart. Whatever December 25th means to you, we hope your day is touched by the spirit of Robin Hood. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

This game was insane and I had a great time

OUT NOW! @patrickhwillems.bsky.social, @markstay.bsky.social, @dodgyboffin.com, and @mr-e-motion.bsky.social join to play Andrew Overbye's new original multi-path Indiana Jones adventure. Maybe our most unhinged episode yet? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45 Play the game for yourself: tinyurl.com/4x64tcyj

OUT NOW! Gavin Zalinger joins to discuss Star Trek: Generations. We are not using the Nexus to time travel and redo past episodes, but rather covering the second of two separate books. This is the senior novelization, in the style commonly known as old adult fiction. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! This re-release of our episode on Friday the 13th: The Carnival has a NEW GAME! Jump to the last 20 minutes to check it out. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! We consider Kristoffer Sundet our unofficial video game correspondent, so naturally we had him on to discuss the novelization of the film adaptation of a game he hasn't played and claims not to understand (though he's still got us beat on that front). Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Questions for Andrew? Questions for Hannah? Questions for Andrew and Hannah? Submit them here to be answered on the year-end ranking episode! www.patreon.com/posts/143609...

You love Larry Cohen, so you MUST listen to @thelastmachine.bsky.social's interview with @jfkenney.bsky.social, editor of Cohen's newly published memoirs and an unreleased Cohen screenplay! Joined by Andrew Overbye of @authorizedpod.bsky.social on THE PINK SMOKE! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST We talk Larry Cohen with @jfkenney.bsky.social, editor of the director's newly published memoirs and HEADHUNTER, an unreleased Cohen screenplay. Joined by Andrew Overbye of @authorizedpod.bsky.social! m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820/ep-161-i-killed-bette-davis-by-larry-cohen

I cooked a whole meal for this podcast episode please listen

The Larry Cohen love can no longer be shoehorned into Authorized and is spilling into other podcasts. Listen to Andrew on the Pink Smoke podcast!

OUT NOW! @thelastmachine.bsky.social joins to discuss Speed Zone, theoretically a third entry in the Cannonball Run series. Can three SCTV alumni save a film with no story or jokes? Why do we keep doing this? We think it had something to do with something called Carquake? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

It's Slow Maude Sunday! In addition to his prolific work in genre fiction, Alan Dean Foster is also an avid wildlife tourist. He has faced down lions and tigers and sharks, but none of those creatures had read his books. Find out if his Maude manuscript will finally send Hannah over the edge!

The Authorized podcast had me back for Friendsgiving. Last year it was the ALIEN cookbook, this year it was one of A24’s. Come for our opinions about this cookbook, stay for sourdough care tips and one of the hosts eating an entire spoonful of Marmite

OUT NOW! @patrickhwillems.bsky.social and @dodgyboffin.com join again to celebrate Thanksgiving with a tertiary tome for the taste buds, this time @a24movies.bsky.social's Scrounging: A Cookbook. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! @mr-e-motion.bsky.social joins to discuss Death Race 2. We kinda like it, they don't. They are also our social media czar, meaning they write these posts! So why are they being referred to in third person? Who is the first person perspective? Do words mean things? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Apparently sometimes books can get adapted into movies?

It's Slow Maude Sunday! Maude's historic two-parter tackled abortion in November of 1972, preceding Roe v. Wade by two months and likely fueling some wildly uncomfortable Thanksgivings. Help us read its unpublished novelization! www.patreon.com/c/authorized...

If you have even a quarter as much fun listening to this as I had recording it, you’re in for a very good time.

OUT NOW! @fodderfigure.bsky.social joins to discuss The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #3: The Copenhagen Affair. Our thirst for uncles knows no bounds, and Sarah devoted a whole chapter of her first book to her special interest in the series, so we’ve got a lot to discuss! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! This re-release of our episode on Friday the 13th: Jason's Curse has a NEW GAME! Jump to the last 20 minutes to check it out. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Any questions for Andrew and/or Hannah? Submit them here for the yearly ranking episode! www.patreon.com/posts/143609...

NEW PATREON TIER: "Slow Maude" is $20 a month and will exist for the length of one pregnancy. If it raises $2,000, we will go to the Hayden Library in Arizona to read Alan Dean Foster's unpublished novelization of Maude's two-part abortion episode. Join now! www.patreon.com/c/authorized...

OUT NOW! @jupinwhm.bsky.social from We Hate Movies joins again to discuss Star Trek: Generations. Will his hatred of movies extend to this one? No! He likes it and so do we! Will our goodwill toward this story extend to a literary adaptation aimed at kids and/or teens? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Love to see it! Hope you enjoy Vinge like we do

I've been waiting for this!

I *am*, in fact, an expert on all things manly and avuncular, and this podcast was a blast. Loved being able to gab on at great length about my love of Napoleon and Illya.

OUT NOW! @morganrichter.bsky.social joins to discuss a tertiary tome, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #2: The Doomsday Affair. In addition to being a novelist, Morgan is an expert on all things manly and avuncular, so she's full of valuable insights. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! @thelastmachine.bsky.social joins as we continue our quest to watch everything even tangentially related to Carquake (aka Cannonball), whether it has been novelized or not. Will diminished expectations benefit the sequel to a movie we mostly didn't love? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! @rockmarooned.bsky.social actually DEFENDS Halloween Kills. How passionately? How compellingly? Do the rest of us find more to enjoy in the adaptation by frequent contemporary novelizer (and Authorized guest) Tim Waggoner? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Big week for me, a Star Trek enthusiast. Stoked to talk GENERATIONS with our buds at @authorizedpod.bsky.social for an upcoming ep, as well as recording next month’s edition of our @whmpodcast.bsky.social Star Trek chat show, THE NEXUS! What feature will we cover? The answer is still… undiscovered.

OUT NOW! We discuss Death Race (2008). Is it as good as Death Race 2000 (1975)? No! Is it fun to talk about why? Of course! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

OUT NOW! @mattbors.bsky.social joins to discuss the novelization of The Toxic Avenger (2025). How will one Toxie adapter respond to the work of another? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Very much enjoyed my mention at the end of the latest @authorizedpod.bsky.social — and yes, I do love trees. But not in that way. 😳🌲

The perfect woman doesn't exis-

you can love a character and still admit when they're wrong. we love Shadow but we can acknowledge his flaws (he has none) and we can hold him accountable for his wrongdoings (he has never done anything wrong in his life) and call him out on his actions (which are always correct)

Yeah, last Halloween! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

This was a BLAST. @hsblechman.bsky.social and Overbye talk the philosophy underlying Hannah's #1 movie. It's a good day to listen.

Video game novelizations season is already being recorded. This is in it :)

I'm back on @authorizedpod.bsky.social talking about Phillip Rock's pretty excellent adaptation of Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. It's the @hsblechman.bsky.social season, for which all of you punks should feel lucky. open.spotify.com/episode/66ZzK0… artwork by Tony Stella

The thing about John Jakes is, this book is probably deeply profound.

OUT NOW! @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social joins to discuss K.J. Anderson's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! Overbye makes him and Hannah explain nine different monster continuities. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Ooooo! @authorizedpod.bsky.social is covering the Ladyhawke novelization in their newest episode! I’ve wanted to read this one for YEARSSSSSSSSS Can’t wait to check it out.

New Episode! Zoomed Out: SFF Novelizations (@authorizedpod.bsky.social), with Andrew and Hannah from Authorized! hugospodcast.com/podcast/zoom...

OUT NOW! Natalie Garret joins to discuss the Tertiary Tome Superman: Welcome to Metropolis, as well as the new movie! Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Outstanding episode. And Bilge pulling out Raoul Walsh playing John Wilkes Booth in BIRTH OF A NATION was high five-worthy. Wondering if Hannah would have accepted Jason Schwartzman.