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Jason, Kirk, and Maddy bring on veteran game designer Edmund McMillen (Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy) to talk about his latest game, Mewgenics, which was first announced in 2012 (!) and is out this week. They talk about the long development cycle, why McMillen parted ways with his Team Meat partner Tommy Refenes, breeding cats, and much much more.
One More Thing:
Kirk: Cairn
Maddy: Code 3 (2025)
Jason: The Chair Company (HBO)

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk dive into Dragon Quest, one of the biggest video game franchises in Japan. What's special about it? What makes it so popular? And what's the deal with this week's release, Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined?
One More Thing:
Kirk: Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple)
Maddy: Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator
Jason: How I Met Your Mother
LINKS:
“I Am Jack Bauer” - Japanese 24 Advertisement
“Dragon Quest Theme” by Koichi Sugiyama, from DQ7 Reimagined (2026) and recorded by the Tokyo Strings Orchestra, 1986
“Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is the best way into Dragon Quest” by Michael McWhertor, Polygon

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Kirk, Maddy, and Jason talk about mods in video games: the history of the form, their favorite mods, and how cool it is that video games can be altered, expanded, and changed by players in all sorts of ways, from DOOM to Skyrim to explicit sex scenes in The Sims.
One More Thing:
Kirk: The Fireman (Joe Hill)
Maddy: Platonic
Jason: TR-49
LINKS:
Maddy’s Mothership article about people who mod games

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Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about what's been going on in the film and television business over the last few years: why Hollywood is in a scary spot, how covid affected it all, the parallels with the video-game industry, and of course, the big old AI question mark.
One More Thing:
Kirk: Rhythm Doctor
Maddy: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Jason: Circe (Madeline Miller)
LINKS:
STRONG SONGS LIVE!! Saturday, July 11, at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland, OR. Buy tickets here
Gunpoint & Tactical Breach Wizards dev Tom Francis’s advice for running a sustainable indie studio
Maya Hawke talking about Netflix’s lack of transparency on Search Engine
Chris Hayes’s book The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became The World’s Most Endangered Resource
Excerpts from the Rhythm Doctor OST - “All The Times” by fizzd with lyrics by Winston Lee

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk open up the mailbag to answer your burning questions about all sorts of things, from the gambling epidemic to our favorite funny bugs. And the burningest question of all: What do you do when your dog hates your Switch 2?
One More Thing:
Kirk: Skate Story
Maddy: Mothership
Jason: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
LINKS:
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Drew Gooden’s video about online gambling
Jason’s Bloomberg column on the misreported GTA VI rumors
Kirk’s newsletter about podcasting’s pivot to video
“Coastal” by Blood Cultures from the Skate Story OST

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