All Episodes
Bookwarm Games — 388 episodes
Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (Canto 1-5)
After Midnight: Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Time Passes Differently - The Collectors by Philip Pullman (Bonus ep 3)
Side Quests FF Tactics: Betrayal! (Ch 2 Opening)
After Midnight School: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
A Picnic with Philip Pullman - Conversation with Gaetan Hanen
Conversation with Liz Walsh on Philip Pullman and Museums (ep 11)
Side Quests FF Tactics: Dr Schmid locks in (Ch 1)
Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (vol 8-9)
Most Things Have Happened Before - Reading the Book of Dust (Ep 10)
Professor Kozlowski Office Hours: Philip Pullman against Alan Moore
Signs in the Water and the Sky - Reading The Book of Dust (ep 9)
Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (vol 6 and sort of 7)
Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Vol 4-5)
Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Psychgeist Feedback (ep 11)
Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (vol 2-3)
Professor Kozlowski Office Hours: Alan Moore, William Blake, and the Occult
Professor Kozlowski Office Hours: Joseph Frank and the Kierkegaardian Sloek
Professor Kozlowski Office Hours: The Book of Clarence
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Essence of the Game (Ch 1 and beyond)
Night School: Tristram Shandy (vol 1)
Side Quests FF Tactics (and Clair Obscur: E33): Equip the Skill Set (ep 2)
A Far-off Feeling - Reading the Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (ep 8)
Night School: Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Side Quests FF Tactics: Exploring Ivalice and its Systems (ep 1)
Night School: Mozart, Don Giovanni
Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Conversation with Patrick Holleman (ep 10)
Peril of the Pole - Once Upon a Time in the North, by Philip Pullman
Side Quests FFVII Remake: Mechanical Hand in Hand
Night School: Byron, Don Juan (Canto 13-17)
Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Lavos and the Entity (ep 9)
Side Quests FFVII Remake Intergrade: Train Graveyard with Otto Lehto
Night School: Byron, Don Juan (Canto 9-12)
Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Sun Stone and Rainbow Shell (ep 8)
Night School: Byron, Don Juan (Cantos 6-8)
Side Quests Chrono Trigger : Time-Traveling to the Golden Age of JRPGs (ep 7)
Night School: Byron, Don Juan (Cantos 3-5)
Conversation with Moses Norton, author of The Definitive Book of SNES RPGs
Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Salvation and Resurrection (Ep 6)
Night School: Byron, Don Juan (Canto II)
The ‘Globetrotter’ Series of Maps for the Traveller - Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman
Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Conclusions, Tentatively (ep 5)
Night School: Byron, Don Juan (Canto I)
Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Sources on Dreams and Death Peak (ep 4)
Conversation with David Nixon on The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (ep 7)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (pt 3 ch 7-8, pts 4 and 5)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (Pt 3 ch 1-6)
Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Outlines at the End of Time (ep 3)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (Pt 2 Ch 8-11)
Side Quests FFIX: A presence that presides over all life and memories (Ep 19/19)
Side Quests: Chrono Trigger Prospectus
Side Quests FFVII Remake: Conversation with Otto Lehto
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (Pt 2 ch 1-7)
The Pleasure of Knowing Secrets - Reading The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (ep 6)
Side Quests FFIX: Obviously an Imperfect Lifeform (ep 18)
The Teachers' Despair - Reading The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (ep 5)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (ch 39-43)
Side Quests FFIX: Upside Down or Something (ep 17)
"Several Very Perceptive Questions" - Reading The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (ep 4)
Side Quests FF7RI: A Memento (ep 2)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (ch 38)
Side Quests FF7R Integrade: Opening Sequences, Compared
Side Quests FFIX: Terra Homing (ep 16)
Conversation with Tom Perrin on The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (ep 3)
Sanctuary: The Book of Dust/La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (ep 2)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (ch 31-37)
Side Quests FFIX: Backstabbing Bozos (ep 15)
Side Quests Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Prologue)
A Philosopher's Apprentice: The Book of Dust/La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (ep 1)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (ch 21-30)
Side Quests FFIX: ... (ep 14)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (ch 11-20)
Side Quests FFIX: All signs of a nerdy philosopher (ep 13)
Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (ch 1-10)
Side Quests FFIX: Cast Away This Mask (ep 12)
Night School: Keats, Endymion Book 2-4
Side Quests: Dante and Video Game Adaptation with Alexander Schmid
Night School: Keats, Endymion Book 1
Night School: Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
Night School: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
Side Quests FFIX: Enlightened Beings Get Hitched (ep 10)
Night School: The Brothers Karamazov (4/4)
Side Quests FFIX: This light...There's no Mist here (ep 9)
Memory, Art, Identity
Side Quests FFIX: Destruction and Transformation (ep 8)
Side Quests FFIX: Square Supersoft (ep 7)
Night School: The Brothers Karamazov (Pt III)
Night School: The Brothers Karamazov (Part II)
Side Quests FFIX: "World Big Place. Many many foods" (ep 6)
Side Quests FFIX: Fairy Tale, Myth, Theater, Festival (ep 5)
Side Quests FFIX: Dali and the Surreal Wonder of Mass Production (ep 4)
Night School: Brothers Karamazov
Side Quests FFIX: Mist and Ice as Symbols of the Series (ep 3)
Persona 4: Golden - Tropes and Shadows (ep 2)
Side Quests FFIX: I want to be or not to be your canary (ep 2)
Video Game Academy: Persona 4 Golden Intro
Side Quests FFIX: Garnet's Awakening (Ep 1)
Night School: Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ultimecia's Castle and Ending (24/24)
Night School - Crime and Punishment
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 23: Fujin Talks Sense
Night School - Pale Fire
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 22: You vant to fisticuffs!?
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 21: Propagators on a Plane
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 20: Yeah, Yeah, Knight in Shining Armor
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 19: A Squall-like Game
Side Quests FFVIII - Ep 18 Download the Holy Machine
Side Quests FFVIII - Ep 17 A Game Made for Outsiders
Side Quests FFVIII - Ep 15 Agnostic Worldbuilding
Side Quests FFVIII - Ep 16 Chivalric Romance
Side Quests FFVIII - Ep 14 Travesty of a Concert
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 13: Eschatological Flavor
Side Quests FFVIII - Ep 12: Garden Factions
Side Quests FFVIII - Ep 11: Error Ratio All the Way Up
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 10: Prison Risen
Tim Summers on Video Game Music and the Mythic Quality of MOTHER/EarthBound
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 9: Quite a Studly Laguna
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 8: Procession of the Sorceress
Project Moon and Rituals of Play
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 7: Labyrinths
FFVII Archaeology Club
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 6: Sleep Conceit
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 5: Triple Triad Siren Song
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 4: Oh, the forests of Timber sure has changed
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 3: FF8 is Capitalism
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 2: Draw Me a Sheep--er, GF
Side Quests: FFVIII - Ep 1: Garden Salad Days
Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales: The Firework-Maker's Daughter
Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales: The Scarecrow and His Servant
Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales: Clockwork
Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales: From the Brothers Grimm
Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales: Intro
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Harry Potter
EarthBound and The Golden Compass, revisited
Teaching Video Games
Final Fantasy and the Once and Future King
Danganronpa 2 ch 6 (and 0) - Video Game Academy
Danganronpa 2 ch 5 - Video Game Academy
Danganronpa 2 ch 4 - Video Game Academy
Danganronpa 2 ch 1-3 - Video Game Academy
Westworld and The Divine Comedy with Alexander Schmid
Outer Space and Donuts - Danganronpa Chapter 2 - VGA Ultimate Summer School
Ultimate Summer School - Danganronpa Prologue & Chapter 1 - Video Game Academy
Red and The Green Knight
Dylan Holmes, author of A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games
Of Podcasting Paradiso: Dante and the Digital Humanities
The Boy and the Heron, or Alexander Schmid and Wesley Schantz
AI: The Somnium Files - NirvanA Initiative (part 8)
AI: The Somnium Files - NirvanA Initiative (part 7)
AI: The Somnium Files - NirvanA Initiative (part 6)
AI: The Somnium Files - NirvanA Initiative (part 5)
AI: The Somnium Files - NirvanA Initiative (part 4)
AI: The Somnium Files - NirvanA Initiative (part 3)
AI: The Somnium Files - NirvanA Initiative (part 2)
AI: The Somnium Files - NirvanA Initiative (part 1)
Justice Questions, Questions of Meaning - Alyse Knorr on Poetry and Teaching
Enchantment in His Dark Materials: Conversation with MG Prezioso
Shadow Particles with Evan Minto of Ani-Gamers / EarthBound Beginnings and Dragon Quest with Signum
Conflicting Pirate Agendas: Assassin's Creed 4
The Menu Requires a Loading Screen: Assassin's Creed 3
You Buy Rome: AC Brotherhood & Revelations
Drop the Loot: Assassin's Creed 2
Lamb Dad, Lion Dad: Introducing The Thoughtful Dad Podcast
Surprise! It's a Lecture: Assassin's Creed Retrospective
Geez, you're persistent - Ch 8: All Things... MOTHER 3 (8/8)
I Make Sparkly: Ch 7 The Seven Needles (cont.) - MOTHER 3 (7/8)
Ch 6: Sunflower Fields & Ch 7: The [First Four] Needles - MOTHER 3 (6/8)
Forlorn Junk Heap: Ch 5 Tower of Thunder - MOTHER 3 (5/8)
Trust in Destiny: Ch 4 Club Titiboo - MOTHER 3 (4/8)
In this psychic dojo: Psychonauts - Intro/Basic Braining
If I say dance, you dance! Ch 3: The Mysterious Peddler - MOTHER 3 (3/8)
My humble little [favorite food] patch: Ch 2 Thief Adventure - MOTHER 3 (2/8)
Rougher! Tougher! Badder! Prologue and Ch 1 - MOTHER 3 (pt 1 of 8)
Powers worthy of a lowly insect: MOTHER / EarthBound Beginnings (8/8)
What is Itoi's fascination with monkeys? MOTHER / EarthBound Beginnings (7/8)
All work and no play: MOTHER / EarthBound Beginnings (6/8)
Have you seen the woman with a big belly? MOTHER / EarthBound Beginnings (5/8)
The Custodial Arts: MOTHER / EarthBound Beginnings (4/8)
Are you a forgotten man, too? MOTHER / EarthBound Beginnings (3/8)
Starman Zookeeper: MOTHER / EarthBound Beginnings (2/8)
Itoi's Rural America: MOTHER / EarthBound Beginnings (pt 1 of 8)
Gamecool 78: Her own key to the garden
Final Fantasy VI and VII Comparison
Reekwind and Side Quests - Planescape: Torment pt 4
The Smoldering Corpse (Planescape: Torment 3)
You're my wiki tabs - Stardew Valley
Into the Hive - Planescape: Torment 2
Planes, drains, and ominous spiels - Planescape: Torment (pt 1)
Gamecool 77: The Word Alone
It's Cuckoo Clock over Don Quixote, 2 to 1
Back to Video Game Academy
Gamecool 75: A Taste--A Memory--A Landslide
The Hell's Kitchen Sink (Deus Ex 3)
Gamecool 74: A Melancholy Light
Are you sure you pressed the right button? (Deus Ex: Revision 2 of ??)
A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world (Deus Ex pt 1)
Gamecool 73: You meant the very opposite
The Sadness of Plagiarism, the Joys of Deus Ex
Human Sheepification Project (World's End Club 4 of 4)
Video Game Academy: Camping (World's End Club 3 of 4)
Video Game Academy: Ganbari Go-getters (World's End Club 2 of 4)
Video Game Academy: World's End Club Round 1 (of 4)
My list of things to analyze later (NieR: Automata 12/12)
It reads "soul box" (NieR: Automata 11)
The Light of Hope (NieR: Automata 10)
Corruption Potential Critical (NieR: Automata 9S)
Such Intense Curiosity (NieR: Automata 8.22474487139…)
But why are we eating this plant matter? (NieR: Automata 8)
Dostoevsky and Spring Break
The Core of Humanity (NieR: Automata 7)
A Concept Like Loyalty (NieR: Automata 6)
Video Game Academ-ay Ay Ay! - AI: The Somnium Files
Where does the wind blow from? (NieR: Automata 5/20)
Must...become...more...beautiful (NieR: Automata 4/20)
This Cannot Continue (NieR: Automata 3/20)
Video Game Academy - None of the machines in this area are hostile (NieR: Automata 2/20)
Video Game Academy - Emotions are Prohibited (NieR: Automata 1 of 20)
Gamecool 72: No Elsewhere
Video Game Academy: Majora's Mask, by Gabe Durham
Video Game Academy: Visual Novels
Gamecool 71: A Supurb Piece of Acting
Video Game Academy: Yells at Kids in Yard (Year in Review)
Gamecool 70: In memoriam - Millicent Lenz, Antonia Syson, William Gray
Gamecool 69: To Tell About the World She Knew
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Beneath the Surface (The Hex 7/7)
Lionel Wants This (The Hex 6/7)
Artifact Heist (The Hex 5/7)
Hologram Concierge (The Hex 4/7)
A Gift Kraken (The Hex 3 of 7)
Hot Strawberry Pie (The Hex 2 of 7)
In a Forgotten Corner of the Video Game Universe (The Hex, part 1 of 7)
Video Game Academy: Run With the Speed of a Thousand (Pony Island 3 of 3)
Video Game Academy: Passwords (Pony Island 2 of 3)
Video Game Academy: Fix Start Menu (Pony Island 1 of 3)
Gamecool 68: Not a Rule You Can Break
Gamecool 67: Did You See Any Death?
Bookwarm Games (Trailer)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (20/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (19/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (18/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (17/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (16/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (15/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (14/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (13/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (12/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (11/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (10/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (9/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (8/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (7/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (6/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (5/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (4/20)
Video Game Academy: FFVI (3/20)
Video Game Academy: Final Fantasy VI (2/20)
Video Game Academy: Final Fantasy VI (1 of 20)
Video Game Academy: Little Inferno (3 of 3)
Video Game Academy: Little Inferno (2 of 3)
Video Game Academy: Little Inferno (1 of 3)
Gamecool 66: Memory and Wakefulness
Gamecool 65: Un-bearlike Deeds
Gamecool 64: Lyratic Resolution
Gamecool 63: Conversation with Kris Swank
Bookwarm 61: Conversation with Jason on Xenogears and beyond
Gamecool 62: Conversation with Kat Sas
Gamecool 61: Imprinted
Gamecool 60: Too Strong a Weapon
Gamecool 59: Look for the Tempter
Bookwarm 60: Conversation with AC on Xenogears and Episodes I-VI
Bookwarm 59: Conversation with Patrick Holleman
Bookwarm 58: Run to the End of the World
Bookwarm 57: 'The Ultimate Work of Art'
Bookwarm 56: The Wave Existence
Bookwarm 55: A Woman's Prerogative
Bookwarm 54: Conversation with Chris and Eric of Retrograde Amnesia
Bookwarm 53: That Very Warmth
Bookwarm 52: Both Truth and Fiction
Gamecool 58: Conversation with Leanna on BBC/HBO His Dark Materials
Gamecool 57: The Only Good Thing
Gamecool 56: A Novel Answer
Bookwarm 51: Conversation with Moses Norton, The Well-Red Mage, on Theology and Games
Gamecool 55: Exploring The Secret Commonwealth, with Gabriel Schenk
Bookwarm 50: The Best Way to Calm the Heart
Gamecool 54: The Night is Full of Angels
Gamecool 53: A Question of Balance
Bookwarm 49: Really Truly?
Gamecool 52: Conversation with Guillermo Lariguet
Gamecool 51: He hasn't got Æsahættr
Gamecool 50: YOU NEED TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS
Gamecool 49: Conversation with Faith Acker
Gamecool 48: Counting the Stones in the Wall
Bookwarm 48: Under the Same Blue Sky
Gamecool 47: What I Know Is
Bookwarm 47: Conversation with Jason on Xenogears as Simulacrum
Gamecool 46: Conversation with Gabriel Schenk on Pullman's Oxfords
Bookwarm 46: Terribly Lonely...and Familiar
Gamecool 45: The Heart of Everything
Bookwarm 45: Conversation with AC on Xenogears' first half
Gamecool 44: The Knife is Yours By Right
Bookwarm 44: Men have Courage! And have Appetites!
Gamecool 43: A Little Wiser
Bookwarm 43: A Place to Belong
Gamecool 42: Conversation with Naomi Wood
Bookwarm 42: Kid...It's Good to Have Guts
Gamecool 41: A Blessing or a Curse
Bookwarm 41: A Conversation with Jason
Gamecool 40: The Usual Mixture of Efficiency and Chaos
Bookwarm 40 (XG 7): The Room of Sophia
Gamecool 39: Conversation with Jason King
Bookwarm 39 (XG 6): The Secret of Strength
Gamecool 38: As if it were a pinball machine...
Bookwarm 38 (XG 5): A Reason to Fight
Gamecool 37: Do What We Like, All Right
Bookwarm 37: Conversation with A. C. of the Xeno- Study Guide
Gamecool 36: Conversation with Tony Watkins
Bookwarm 36 (XG 3): A Problem of the Heart
Gamecool 35: The Name of Her Destiny
Bookwarm 35 (Xenogears 2): Things Almost Forgotten
Gamecool 34: All his games were going to come true
Bookwarm 34 (Xenogears 1): The Beginning and the End
Gamecool 33: Concluding Q&A on The Golden Compass
Gamecool 32: Forms Among the Dust
Gamecool 31: Beyond Sleep and Waking
Gamecool 30: A Prisoner Acting Like a King
Gamecool 29: Conversation with Leanna of HDM Fandom
Gamecool 28: A Ritual Faithfully Followed
Gamecool 27: True, Every Word
Gamecool 26: We Can't Read the Darkness
Gamecool 25: Conversation with Maggie Parke
Gamecool 24: We Are Strong
Gamecool 23: As a Compass Needle is Drawn to the Pole
Gamecool 22: Conversation with Lauren Shohet
Gamecool 21: ENTRY STRICTLY FORBIDDEN
Gamecool 20: Nice Place. Nice Peoples.
Gamecool 19: Conversation with Marek Oziewicz
Gamecool 18: Do You Want To See Proof?
Gamecool 17: Like Riding the Bear
Gamecool 16: Conversation with Kevin Hensler
Gamecool 15: Difficult Critters
Gamecool 14: What Question Would You Ask?
Gamecool 13: Conversation with Mark Vernon
Gamecool 12: You Oughter Stayed Below
Gamecool 11: The Work You Have to Do
Gamecool 10: Don't Leave Anything Out
Gamecool 9: Conversation with Gabriel Schenk
Gamecool 8: Into that Dark Maze
Gamecool 7: In Your Own Home
Gamecool 6: Conversation with Verlyn Flieger
Gamecool 5: The Smell of Glamour
Gamecool 4: Let's Play Kids and Gobblers!
Gamecool 3: Conversation with Sparrow Alden
Gamecool 2: A Picture of the Aurora
Gamecool 1: Lyra and her Daemon
Bookwarm 33: PSI Farewell
Bookwarm 32: Smiles and Tears
Bookwarm 31: Your Spirit Will Go with the Robot
Bookwarm 29: Conversation with Ryan O'Connor
Bookwarm 30: Magicanterbury Tales
Bookwarm 25: Conversation with Patrick Ward
Bookwarm 28: Fire Spring and the Full Sound Stone
Bookwarm 27: Not All Who Wander are Lost Underworld
Bookwarm 26: To Tenda Village, pt 2
Bookwarm 24: To Tenda Village pt 1
Bookwarm 23: Walking with Dungeon Man
Bookwarm 22: Kraken Open the Pyramid
Bookwarm 21: Conversation with Eddie and Michele Schantz
Bookwarm 20: Museums, Revisited
Bookwarm 19: The Place of Mu
Bookwarm 18: Reading Summers
Bookwarm 17: Conversation with Alexander Schmid
Bookwarm 16: Bigger Inside Than Out
Bookwarm 15: The Bulldozer and the Bridge
Bookwarm 13: Conversation with Steven Abel
Bookwarm 14: I wish you luck...
Bookwarm 12: I have no something
Bookwarm 11: Best Friend
Bookwarm 10: Zombies and Ghosts
Bookwarm 9: Conversation with Stephanie Bell
Bookwarm 8: The Runaway Five
Bookwarm 7: The Pursuit of Happiness
Bookwarm 6: Paula, the Polestar
Bookwarm 5: Conversation with Ben Kozlowski
Bookwarm 4: The Mighty Onett Police Force
Bookwarm 3: My Haunting Melody
Bookwarm 2: Your Sanctuary
Bookwarm Games 1: Welcome To EarthBound