
96: The Shi Rule
Recorded May 17, 2026 As we continue to seek the truth in all things and the inane details within everything, Ryan attempts to bring us the least educational of educational games. He has brought together old "favorite" c

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Hosted by Nate Rudd and Ryan Smith · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 96 episodes
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Everyone has things they are passionate about; things we want our friends to try and experience. So we've convinced each other to try different things. We talk about these experiences to see if we can just get one more person to join us on our hill to die on.
Nate Rudd and Ryan Smith hosts My Hill To Die On, a arts show with 96 episodes published.

Recorded May 17, 2026 As we continue to seek the truth in all things and the inane details within everything, Ryan attempts to bring us the least educational of educational games. He has brought together old "favorite" c

Recorded April 19, 2026 A one way trip to save all mankind… I'd trust that to a middle school science teacher, but did he submit plans for the sub? This week Nate and Ryan talk about teachers, healing, and fighting the e

Recorded March 28, 2026 Spies in space! This week Nate talks about the world baseball classic and hurting himself skiing… again. Ryan talks about a game in which he fights a sentient refrigerator. Then after both of them

Recorded February 25, 2026 Let the music take control! This week, Nate and Ryan talk about running, difficult games, and music with rocks in. Then for the main media, they address taking advantage of artists, leopards wi

Recorded January 25, 2026 This week, Nate thinks back on his break, and Ryan dreads upcoming bureaucracy. Then, Ryan takes a moment to show true humility regarding his pick for 2025 Game of the Year. Afterwards, they bot

Recorded December 14, 2025 Sometimes it seems necessary to hide in another era just to get time off. This week, cross country season came and went and Nate thinks back on how it was. Then, both Ryan and Nate address the

Recorded July 27, 2025 What if it was the Earth… but different? This week, Nate and Ryan discuss new TVs, water parks, and alternate earth stories. That discussion culminates in The Calculating Stars, a book by Mary Robi

Recorded April 27, 2025 This week Nate and Ryan decided to play another game. So Ryan, perhaps foolishly, surveyed a number of listeners, coworkers, students, and whoever else he could corner, and he asked them the impor

Recorded June 15, 2025 This week Nate and Ryan address how the end of the school year went and Ryan talks about his arguably early pick for game of the year. Following another Kiwi drink and salted caramel Kit-Kats, they

Recorded March 30, 2025 This week Nate and Ryan talk about Mickey 17 and their feelings about the changes from the book. Then, Nate talks about a ski trip and Ryan talks about making pants out of dragons. After a KitKat

Recorded February 9, 2025 This week Nate and Ryan are continuing to think about the logistical and moral implications of cloning. So in keeping with that important discussion, they begin with Pinocchio and Disco Zoo. Aft

Recorded December 1, 2024 This week, Nate talks about a cross country event (surprise, surprise) which he hosted and it may have grown a bit larger than he originally expected. After that, Nate and Ryan talk about things

Recorded September 1, 2024 This week, Nate went to yet another amusement park- one not so dilapidated this time. Then, Ryan talks about a game that seems to have been designed for the venn diagram that is his entire pers

Recorded June 28, 2024 This week, Nate brings the perfect trifecta of "Nate topics" to discuss: He bought (yet another) Synology, expresses his concerns over Cross country event planning, and also talks about a new, old

Recorded April 7, 2024 On this episode, Nate and Ryan have invited their friends Keith, Nash, Scott, and Shi to once again abuse the English language (and Ryan's self-esteem) in a game of words and definitions that is de

Recorded March 31, 2024 And we're back! After a (not so) short hiatus, Nate and Ryan resume their antics with a discussion of what makes a game, bread point inflation, and musical theatre. Then after judging Flan KitKats

Recorded February 12, 2024 It's the end of the world as we know it. Or at least the end of the Stillness. This week Nate and Ryan reach the conclusion of the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. In the lead up to their

Recorded January 7, 2024 Goals, clubs, and the undead! This week Nate and Ryan talk about their new year, new goals (and themes) including the difficulty of normal bedtimes. Then, they discuss informal groups and clubs w

Recorded November 12, 2023 Time and tide wait for no one. And so, another year has passed. As is their tradition, Nate and Ryan look back on everything that has happened in the past year and remember their favorite thing

Recorded October 1, 2023 This week Nate and Ryan talk about summer, events, and robots. Nate went on a trip to Okinawa and got a new Synology. Meanwhile, Ryan went to Tokyo Game Show and got sick on a mountain. Then, the
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