Hi! I started listening to the podcast recently, and this is the first one I really felt compelled to respond to.
First, I'd like to compliment you all on your wide variety of analogies. I'm certainly one of those people who will take analogies way too far, but the warning up front really helped.
I had not actually heard most of what you guys said before. That being said, I had also never heard of Gaming as storytelling per-se, but as Cooperative Storytelling (as defined by my friend).
That was one of the best representations of gaming I had heard, so I stuck with it.
My personal favorite representation of Gaming is "Playing Pretend...
with rules...
"
I've also really enjoyed a couple of other 'casts, like Words you Don't Say while Gaming, and the hilarious Love and Sex Episode...
(the love and sex episode has become a surprisingly popular inside joke among my circle of friends)
I look forward to listening to the most recent podcast later tonight.