{"podcast":{"title":"Intertextual Experience: A Board Game Podcast","slug":"intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735","podcast_index_feed_id":6581735,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/intertextualcardboardexperience/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/intertextualcardboardexperience","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/intertextualcardboardexperience/20250826_120804_613ff1ec181b292761cc663b4ab849f5.jpg","author":"Ryan Vodnik","episode_count":56,"summary":"A primarily interview-based podcast grounded in the board game hobby. By exploring the connections between board games and other mediums, Intertextual Experience is looking to tap into some links that may not have been considered much previously. Through interesting guests, audience feedback, and general revision, there is an experiential element of this channel to grow and change in unique ways. By keeping the door open to various forms of entertainment, the myriad of possibilities and combinations to consider and discuss is limitless. In addition to always trying to create cleverly constructed episodes and questions for the guests, another goal is to continually answer the question \"why this podcast?\" Those ideas serve as the pulse of this show, and I'm excited to keep trying to answer (and then re-answer) that question.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T20:21:50.167780+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735"},"episode":{"title":"#31 - Cole Wehrle: \"The Cole Visitation\"","slug":"31-cole-wehrle-the-cole-visitation","published_at":"2025-01-13T08:51:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735/31-cole-wehrle-the-cole-visitation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/intertextualcardboardexperience/1844697","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/225115/1844697/intertextualcardboardexperience/2025_01_13_08_49_14_b843e1c3-55bd-4752-ba6f-9da6db49d68c.mp3","summary":"Intertextual Cardboard Experience is excited to start the new year in atypical fashion, and it couldn’t be more exciting. Cole Wehrle, Creative Director at Leder Games and Co-Founder of Wehrlegig Games, joins the show, and I had the bright idea of having us not talk about board games… In all seriousness, we do talk directly about board games a handful-ish times, but, for the most part, those thoughts are scattered between some deep and personal insights that Cole shares about a couple of other things: reading (specifically Pynchon) and running. Through Cole’s reflections on these topics, approaching a text where it’s trying to meet you, and other ideas that Cole elaborates a lot more eloquently than I could put here, beautiful intersections in these hobbies are highlighted, demonstrating how those intersections translate into lifestyle choices and creative approaches. Wehrlegig Games Leder Games Cole on Bluesky Introduction (0:00) A little bit of context behind the idea of the episode and a formative gaming memory. “Beyond the Board Game” (10:00) This section explores Cole’s experiences and thoughts reading Gravity’s Rainbow (amongst other related topics). “What does running mean to you?” (58:26) Short answer: a lot (for both of us). But Cole shares a powerful account of his running history here, and we just chat about running for a bit. Wrap-up Questions (1:26:00) A text on Cole’s mind and what work you should be on the lookout for. Random note: Listening back to this episode, I noticed that I said some iteration/tense of \"(insert person here) tried to do (insert something here)\" a couple of times, and I say that with no negative connotation. It's meant to be something where I'm trying to acknowledge authorial intent, not saying that whoever tried to do something didn…","meta_description":"Intertextual Cardboard Experience is excited to start the new year in atypical fashion, and it couldn’t be more exciting. Cole Wehrle, Creative Director a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5764,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735/episodes/31-cole-wehrle-the-cole-visitation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735/31-cole-wehrle-the-cole-visitation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}