Ben Paddon | Jump Leads season 2!
@benpaddon.net
Writer, podcaster, comedian, former world-record speedrunner, unofficial Worms historian. Jump Leads, Good Chaotic, The Game of Rassilon, Out On Her Fanny, Hot Quest, PortsCenter. Non-binary, they/them. https://linktr.ee/BenPaddon
I'm really, really proud of this one. If you like #actualplay podcasts, this is the episode for you. Fully standalone, doesn't require you to have listened to any other episodes of Jump Leads.
Meaney and Llewellyn have never been more lost...! Listen to episode 2.4, out now in your podcast feeds! audio.jumpleads.zone #audiodrama
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I'm really, really proud of this one. If you like #actualplay podcasts, this is the episode for you. Fully standalone, doesn't require you to have listened to any other episodes of Jump Leads.
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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It's our longest episode ever, but it's also the weirdest one we've ever made. Listen to "Broadswords & Buddies #57: The Finale - Part 3" in your podcasting app!
Meaney and Llewellyn have never been more lost...! Listen to episode 2.4, out now in your podcast feeds! audio.jumpleads.zone #audiodrama
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's our longest episode ever, but it's also the weirdest one we've ever made. Listen to "Broadswords & Buddies #57: The Finale - Part 3" in your podcasting app!
The A1200 - a full-size, fully functional replica of the Amiga A1200 - is finally available to preorder in the US and comes preloaded with some great games.
Amazon.com: THEA1200 : Video Games
Amazon.com: THEA1200 : Video Games
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November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The A1200 - a full-size, fully functional replica of the Amiga A1200 - is finally available to preorder in the US and comes preloaded with some great games.
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This week while recording for YouTube:
1. Popped a BRAND NEW guitar string
2. Ring light fell off its stand and broke lmao
3. Microphone stand fell apart
4. One of my monitors started cutting in and out
5. Had to buy a new external hard drive
And this is where merch orders / Patreon helps!
1. Popped a BRAND NEW guitar string
2. Ring light fell off its stand and broke lmao
3. Microphone stand fell apart
4. One of my monitors started cutting in and out
5. Had to buy a new external hard drive
And this is where merch orders / Patreon helps!
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This week while recording for YouTube:
1. Popped a BRAND NEW guitar string
2. Ring light fell off its stand and broke lmao
3. Microphone stand fell apart
4. One of my monitors started cutting in and out
5. Had to buy a new external hard drive
And this is where merch orders / Patreon helps!
1. Popped a BRAND NEW guitar string
2. Ring light fell off its stand and broke lmao
3. Microphone stand fell apart
4. One of my monitors started cutting in and out
5. Had to buy a new external hard drive
And this is where merch orders / Patreon helps!
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Go show some love to a fun, si-fi podcast audio dramedy where the two main characters jump realities into a DnD game that I got the privilege to work on!
Shout-out to my TTRPG DMs. Y'all put up with SO many shenanigans 😅
Shout-out to my TTRPG DMs. Y'all put up with SO many shenanigans 😅
Meaney and Llewellyn have never been more lost...! Listen to episode 2.4, out now in your podcast feeds! audio.jumpleads.zone #audiodrama
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Go show some love to a fun, si-fi podcast audio dramedy where the two main characters jump realities into a DnD game that I got the privilege to work on!
Shout-out to my TTRPG DMs. Y'all put up with SO many shenanigans 😅
Shout-out to my TTRPG DMs. Y'all put up with SO many shenanigans 😅
You also lose the ability to "Hey Google" calendar items or set reminders for yourself. Things that, y'know, Google Assistant used to be able to do without this bullshit.
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
You also lose the ability to "Hey Google" calendar items or set reminders for yourself. Things that, y'know, Google Assistant used to be able to do without this bullshit.
One thing you can do - and people don't believe me when I tell them this, but honest to God it helps - is leave a positive review on Apple Podcasts for… well, not just @jumpleads.zone, but ANY podcast you listen to. But especially Jump Leads. Because it helps. It really does.
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
One thing you can do - and people don't believe me when I tell them this, but honest to God it helps - is leave a positive review on Apple Podcasts for… well, not just @jumpleads.zone, but ANY podcast you listen to. But especially Jump Leads. Because it helps. It really does.
I miss when anime had short, snappy, slightly weird titles. Cowboy Bebop. That's all.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I miss when anime had short, snappy, slightly weird titles. Cowboy Bebop. That's all.
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After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
We're four episodes into @jumpleads.zone season 2 - ten episodes and one minisode into the entire thing - and you KNOW you want me to appear on your podcast to talk about it. I'm a delight! Hit me up.
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We're four episodes into @jumpleads.zone season 2 - ten episodes and one minisode into the entire thing - and you KNOW you want me to appear on your podcast to talk about it. I'm a delight! Hit me up.
My prediction: The live-action Moana is going to break $1 billion at the box office. People will complain, but they'll go see it anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My prediction: The live-action Moana is going to break $1 billion at the box office. People will complain, but they'll go see it anyway.
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: The Director's Cut! The Director's Cut, the best version of Worms, the very best, believe me. They only made 5,000 copies, if you can believe that. It's the 30th anniversary this year, 30 years, 30 Worms. Worm years."
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: there's this pop star they call The Saddest Girl In Sweden, can you believe that? She's named *lips pursed* TOOOO-VEY LOO. They're saying she writes all the songs, they're very good songs, can you believe she hasn't won a grammy? those grammys are rigged
DONALD TRUMP FOVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: There's this character, they're called heroes in the game, can you believe that? Not characters but heroes. I like that. Anyways there's this hero, H-E-R-O, named Kiriko and they're saying she's unfair. She's got a cleanse, can you believe that? Unbelie...
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: The Director's Cut! The Director's Cut, the best version of Worms, the very best, believe me. They only made 5,000 copies, if you can believe that. It's the 30th anniversary this year, 30 years, 30 Worms. Worm years."
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This was a big high-concept swing and I absolutely loved it. Really well-realised. You should be listening to this show!
Meaney and Llewellyn have never been more lost...! Listen to episode 2.4, out now in your podcast feeds! audio.jumpleads.zone #audiodrama
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This was a big high-concept swing and I absolutely loved it. Really well-realised. You should be listening to this show!
Fun fact: When I wrote this episode, I thought it would be the easiest edit. I was wrong!
Meaney and Llewellyn have never been more lost...! Listen to episode 2.4, out now in your podcast feeds! audio.jumpleads.zone #audiodrama
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Fun fact: When I wrote this episode, I thought it would be the easiest edit. I was wrong!
Join @cricketvoice.bsky.social, @rogercraigsmith.bsky.social, Ryan Bartley and Cristina M. Medina for a very different episode of @jumpleads.zone.
This one was so much fun to record, and a real bugger to edit!
This one was so much fun to record, and a real bugger to edit!
Meaney and Llewellyn have never been more lost...! Listen to episode 2.4, out now in your podcast feeds! audio.jumpleads.zone #audiodrama
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Join @cricketvoice.bsky.social, @rogercraigsmith.bsky.social, Ryan Bartley and Cristina M. Medina for a very different episode of @jumpleads.zone.
This one was so much fun to record, and a real bugger to edit!
This one was so much fun to record, and a real bugger to edit!
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Daisy!
More Nintendo queens on my patreon and more to come soon!
More Nintendo queens on my patreon and more to come soon!
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Daisy!
More Nintendo queens on my patreon and more to come soon!
More Nintendo queens on my patreon and more to come soon!
Every year people talk about WHAMageddon earlier and earlier, while I sit over here wondering why you'd willingly attempt to deprive yourself of the best Christmas song ever written.
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Every year people talk about WHAMageddon earlier and earlier, while I sit over here wondering why you'd willingly attempt to deprive yourself of the best Christmas song ever written.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.
Remembering us is not enough.
Remembering us is not enough.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later.
Remembering us is not enough.
Remembering us is not enough.
The quickest way to upset and/or enrage an American is to tell them that their dog kind of sucks.
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The quickest way to upset and/or enrage an American is to tell them that their dog kind of sucks.
At the Alamo Drafthouse waiting to see a deviled egg? I may have misunderstood what the tickets were for.
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
At the Alamo Drafthouse waiting to see a deviled egg? I may have misunderstood what the tickets were for.
Hey! If you're following me and we're friends but I'm not following you back yet, let me know! I promise it's not malicious, I'm just stupid.
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hey! If you're following me and we're friends but I'm not following you back yet, let me know! I promise it's not malicious, I'm just stupid.
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a) this fucking sucks, wtf Apple?
b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?
b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
a) this fucking sucks, wtf Apple?
b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?
b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?
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reminder: i am currently in crushing debt due to not being paid/employed for a year and a half (and losing all of my belongings in a flood my insurance refused to cover)
i am going to have to file bankruptcy AND empty my 401K to stay afloat if i don’t find work soon. anything at all helps
i am going to have to file bankruptcy AND empty my 401K to stay afloat if i don’t find work soon. anything at all helps
Vidal Dax
i am a succubus what feeds off the sadness of men
bento.me
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
reminder: i am currently in crushing debt due to not being paid/employed for a year and a half (and losing all of my belongings in a flood my insurance refused to cover)
i am going to have to file bankruptcy AND empty my 401K to stay afloat if i don’t find work soon. anything at all helps
i am going to have to file bankruptcy AND empty my 401K to stay afloat if i don’t find work soon. anything at all helps
A reminder that the episode dropping this week is very different from the norm. It might not even look like a Jump Leads episode in your podcast feed! But I promise it is. Trust me.
Patreon supporters can now listen to episode 2.4, but EVERYONE can listen to the cold open! Want a sneak peek at this week's episode? Head on over!
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November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A reminder that the episode dropping this week is very different from the norm. It might not even look like a Jump Leads episode in your podcast feed! But I promise it is. Trust me.