Every ending gets a ridiculous trial.
Finish It! follows interactive fiction books one branch at a time, treating every loop, bad choice, and strange ending as fuel. The comedy comes from Matt Yule and Chris Yule riffing through the pages until alien portals, circuses, pool crimes, and Krampus songs all become part of the same running mythology.
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Finish It! is a comedy podcast about finishing interactive fiction the hard way. Every route matters. Every dead end counts. The show follows books across weeks, returning to choices that were skipped, endings that were missed, and pages that somehow still have more trouble waiting inside them. Matt Yule and Chris Yule are the named voices in the excerpts, and their rhythm is the show’s real machinery: quick interruptions, fake-serious framing, half-sung nonsense, callbacks, and immediate suspicion toward whatever the book has just asked them to do. Recent runs show the range. National Park Monster Ranger turns alien machinery, portals, spaceships, Godzilla-adjacent breakfast mythology, and possibly helpful doctors into a rolling argument about interpretation. Skateboard Champion makes a fancy empty pool, a fast-driving Brad, and scratched tile feel like evidence in a Park City crime panic. Creep Toe Scare turns Halloween reading into a whole seasonal condition, complete with circus danger, knife-throwing choices, and candy-bag exhaustion. Even the pre-topic chatter has a way of becoming show business. A CPAP machine needs a name. The Naked Gun becomes an opener before anyone has seen it. A spilled Sprite can become an audio issue mystery. A missed Krampusnacht can still become Krampus weekend if the bit has enough momentum. Finish It! is not slick. That is part of the point. It keeps visible all the stumbles, restarts, table-checking, quiz breaks, wild cards, uncertain scheduling, and improvised sign-offs that a cleaner show would polish away. Underneath the chaos, though, there is real completionist discipline. The jokes wander, but the reading keeps returning to the map. The funniest tension is between the obsessive promise to finish every path and the show’s talent for turning any path into a detour. It is for listeners who want serialized nonsense with rules and a surprising amount of bookkeeping.
Made for: Best for comedy listeners who enjoy choose-your-own-adventure logic, recurring bits, chaotic duo banter, and long-running jokes that reward staying with a series.
What sets it apart: Many recap shows summarize plot; Finish It! grinds through the actual branching machinery until the book’s weird design becomes the joke. Its completionist structure gives the improvisation a spine.
Each week, Matt and Chris get one attempt each at an interactive fiction book until they read every single ending. Will they ever choose every adventure? Will anyone listen?! Join them on their descent into a madness of their own design.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Finish It! turns branching-book completion into sustained comedy through exacting choices, affectionate rivalry and riffs on every narrative absurdity.
Finish It! turns branching adventure books into a comic endurance test. Matt Yule and Chris Yule take their choices seriously enough to track unexplored paths, then happily interrupt the reading to dispute a character's logic or invent a better use for an item.
A knife is headed for your heart; you still have time to debate a snake's tail.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A late Krampus outing turns a mansion pool into another Park City crime-rate problem, then bows out in hymn form.
Krampusnacht reaches Finish It! a little behind schedule, with Matt's back injury nudging the holiday recording past December fifth and Park City's crime rate still increasingly increasing.
Alien suspense, Bellatro trivia, and a CPAP safety warning send Finish It down another lively detour.
Matt and Chris turn a glowing portal, an approaching alien ship, and a CPAP naming problem into one cheerfully wayward episode. Their National Park Monster Ranger adventure reaches a vast, smoothly hollowed cave, where Matt waits for the aliens and Chris's choice gets delayed by…
The alien warning grows funnier each time another portal choice creates a fresh problem.
Finish It! returns to National Park Monster Ranger with a comedy of misplaced certainty. The ranger hears a high-pitched whine, spots a ship approaching on a control panel, jumps through the portal, and lands in the middle of what appears to be an invading fleet.
A loose Finish It! moves from water-milk weirdness to fire, false leads, and a book-title anagram quiz.
Finish It! turns its late-and-early release joke into a loose, funny pass through clear-water strangeness, sudden fire, and a book-title anagram quiz.
A portal choice, a possible alien misunderstanding, and Sprite-soaked headphones keep the sci-fi absurdity lively.
Finish It! turns a portal escape into a comedy of shaky certainty, with the explorer landing among dozens, if not hundreds, of ships before choosing to return through the portal and warn Earth rather than destroy the machinery.
Matt and Chris turn a knife thrower's target board into a debate over snakes, lucky caps, and rewind buttons.
Finished It plays like a circus hazard rebuilt as a live decision machine, with Matt and Chris trying to reason their way past a knife thrower's target board through snakes, lucky caps, and whatever else might plausibly save the moment.
Tiny debates, treated with heroic seriousness.
Matt and Chris recap a previous episode of their interactive fiction game, then engage in comedic banter and a prank before starting a new adventure.
Hosts Matt and Chris recap a previous interactive fiction adventure and banter about CPAP machines and movies.
The hosts banter about Krampus and a back injury before starting their interactive fiction podcast.
Matt and Chris return to 'The Trumpet of Terror' interactive fiction book for their tenth attempt.
Matt and Chris host a special Halloween musical episode of 'Finish It!', where they sing about 'creeped up scare' and confront a self-imposed curse for cheating on last year's read.
Matt and Chris introduce R.L.
Two hosts attempt to complete an interactive fiction book, sharing humorous commentary and personal anecdotes.
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The aliens are just tourists from Glargsjus 8, and they want maps and brochures for the Grand Canyon.
Matt Yule and Chris Yule continue National Park Monster Ranger, where a ranger reaches the Grand Canyon, sees flying saucers over the canyon, and ends up on an emergency call with the president of the United States.