{"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":"#38 - Mr Ben: (Mr) Ben or Nothing [Mystery Box #1]","slug":"38-mr-ben-mr-ben-or-nothing-mystery-box-1","published_at":"2025-08-13T09:50:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735/38-mr-ben-mr-ben-or-nothing-mystery-box-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/intertextualcardboardexperience/2164364","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/225115/2164364/intertextualcardboardexperience/2025_08_13_05_26_35_dec37e05-235d-4648-981e-99b63e119609.mp3","summary":"Mr Ben, a creator with many hats, joins the show to talk about his online store, travel-games.co.uk and the different sides of the hobby travel-games is entering by way of design, publication, localization, mystery boxes that expose people to a variety of games coming out of the Tokyo Game Market, and much more. Instead of blathering on, I’ll leave you with this great quote of Mr Ben’s in the episode: “He’s not harmful; he just drives you a little bit mad, which I think is quite nice, so I made a little story about that, which I’m going to put in the box, I think.” Travel-games is linked above, but here it is again ! Information about Best of Neapolitan on Trickster's Table . Mr Ben's Design Page Introduction (0:00) How Mr Ben’s board gaming background led to travel-games.co.uk travel-books.games.movies.adaptations (11:06) Opening the mystery box. Intertextuality at its finest. What Mr Ben is reading as well as some book adaptations that work on the screen and cardboard. Rotating Poultry (25:49) Mr Ben’s design process and a whole bunch of awesome games to look forward to! ”The Underdog” (45:26) This title really doesn’t have that much to do with the section? But it’s a Spoon song. I guess I can BOAST that I make really ridiculous chapter titles. Or that I eat a lot of Neapolitan. Or both. 8-bits and bobs (1:12:46) Handhelds and retro gaming. Wrap-up Questions (1:25:32) Some texts on Mr Ben’s mind as well as even more to look out for from him! [As it's about one in the morning, I'm realizing the \"games mentioned Google Doc\" is incomplete. That will be uploaded some time during the day of 8/13] ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you like this show, liking it on whatever platform you listen to and writing a review would mean so much! Fur…","meta_description":"Mr Ben, a creator with many hats, joins the show to talk about his online store, travel-games.co.uk and the different sides of the hobby travel-games is e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5890,"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/38-mr-ben-mr-ben-or-nothing-mystery-box-1/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-6581735/38-mr-ben-mr-ben-or-nothing-mystery-box-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}