{"podcast":{"title":"Mythic Mind Games","slug":"mythic-mind-games-7349259","podcast_index_feed_id":7349259,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6633890/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games--6633890","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3588227e4cbf4812925340010110d1e7.jpg","author":"Andrew Snyder","episode_count":55,"summary":"Pursuing wisdom through primary and secondary worlds. Mythic Mind Games is a conversation about video games as secondary worlds. We look at story, design, and the moral imagination of play: what games train us to love, fear, hope for, and become. This is not a review show and not a strategy guide. Episodes sit with particular games and ask what they are doing to the soul. Grief, home, identity, freedom, and wonder show up here as often as bosses and endings. Hosted by Andrew Snyder, Ph.D., alongside friends from the Fellowship. Listen on your own, then continue the discussion at mythicmindfellowship.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-28T20:20:56.896254+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259"},"episode":{"title":"44 - Chrono Trigger: Time Travel, Lavos, and Childlike Wonder","slug":"44-chrono-trigger-time-travel-lavos-and-childlike-wonder","published_at":"2026-04-10T13:51:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259/44-chrono-trigger-time-travel-lavos-and-childlike-wonder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44-chrono-trigger-time-travel-lavos-and-childlike-wonder--71223675","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71223675/mux_media_audio_extraction_30fe48c7_5fad_4d7d_8583_1f6405d944d3.mp3","summary":"Watch the video: https://youtu.be/FZ0OQjWFkb4 Chrono Trigger is the SNES all-star package: Toriyama's designs, Mitsuda's melodies, and a time-travel story that still hits with childlike wonder. The Fellowship talks bouncing through eras to find when time went wrong, facing Lavos, and a cast of frog, robot, princess, and Magus that makes the adventure stick. In this Mythic Mind Games conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder and guests (including Michael Kane) read the game as art that works on all fronts: music you still hum, a silent hero's sacrifice and return, and the rare sense that a JRPG can stage wonder without losing dramatic force. Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.c... Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies #MythicMind #MythicMindGames #ChronoTrigger #Lavos #TimeTravel #SNES #JRPG #Mitsuda #Toriyama #Philosophy","meta_description":"Watch the video: https://youtu.be/FZ0OQjWFkb4 Chrono Trigger is the SNES all-star package: Toriyama's designs, Mitsuda's melodies, and a time-travel story…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3553,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mythic-mind-games-7349259/episodes/44-chrono-trigger-time-travel-lavos-and-childlike-wonder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-games-7349259/44-chrono-trigger-time-travel-lavos-and-childlike-wonder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}