{"podcast":{"title":"Square Roots - THE Classic RPG Podcast","slug":"square-roots-the-classic-rpg-podcast-808625","podcast_index_feed_id":808625,"rss_url":"https://squareroots.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://squareroots.libsyn.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/3/1/1/0311a7573a86b04d/IMG_2353.jpg","author":"John Brandon","episode_count":560,"summary":"Square Roots is like a book club, but for classic RPGs! Each episode John, Matthew, Jim and Vanessa play through a chunkerino of one of your favorite RPGs, from Final Fantasy through Chrono Trigger. Are they experts? No. Are they qualified? Absolutely not. Are they good at RPGs? Probably not. But they're the fun kind of dumb, and that's what counts.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/square-roots-the-classic-rpg-podcast-808625"},"episode":{"title":"Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Part 4 - Boat/Unboat","slug":"paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-part-4-boat-unboat","published_at":"2025-12-22T17:43:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/square-roots-the-classic-rpg-podcast-808625/paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-part-4-boat-unboat","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/square-roots-the-classic-rpg-podcast-808625","url":"https://squareroots.libsyn.com/paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-part-4-boatunboat","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/squareroots/sr_493_mix.mp3?dest-id=366953","summary":"Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Part 4 - Boat/Unboat Square Roots - Episode 493 Quest Log: 0:30:22 Level Up: 1:29:20 The gang takes Mario a-treasure huntin' in this week's episode of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. We meet a new bomb friend, beat up a ghost skull, and get involved in more Plant People Crime Family Drama. We also meet Flavio, a rich character who has lived a whole life yet cannot achieve personhood due to the arbritrary constraints placed on him by Vanessa's narrow view of what a person should be. Also: Game awards chat and Street Fighter goss Flavio is not a person and doesn't deserve our respect Vanessa wants to see a big Peach Heavy Rain more like heavy number of showers Jim, Matt, and Vanessa listen to John get lost in his old man memories of an old Nintendo thing Matt blurs the lines between constructive and destructive criticism after he becomes the voice in all our heads Billy Ray hates Johnny Brandon This Week: Finish Chapter 5! Next Week: Finish Chapter 7! Our Patreon: http://patreon.com/squarerootspodcast Thanks to Steven Morris for his awesome theme! You can find him at: https://bsky.app/profile/stevenmorrismusic.bsky.social and https://www.youtube.com/user/morrissteven Contact Square Roots! Twitter: @squarerootspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/486022898258197/ Email: squarerootspodcast (at) gmail (dort) com","meta_description":"Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Part 4 - Boat/Unboat Square Roots - Episode 493 Quest Log: 0:30:22 Level Up: 1:29:20 The gang takes Mario a-treasure h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7009,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/square-roots-the-classic-rpg-podcast-808625/episodes/paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-part-4-boat-unboat/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/square-roots-the-classic-rpg-podcast-808625/paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-part-4-boat-unboat.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}