Intertextual Experience: A Board Game Podcast
by Ryan Vodnik
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Latest episode
#48 - David Masnato: Pax @ PAX
#48 - David Masnato: Pax @ PAX
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 56 episodes
- #48 - David Masnato: Pax @ PAX · 1 h 35 min · Season 1 Episode 48From the slight burn of a slide that’s gotten too hot in the late afternoon sun to the sense of ecstasy (mixed with a slight tinge of panic) from getting a little higher on the…
- #47 - Jeff Grisenthwaite: Board Game Are(ca)na · 1 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 47As fate and coincidence would have it, designer Jeff Grisenthwaite and I had actually met and played games together once and then played games at different tables of a smaller…
- #46 - Amabel Holland: Episode of Six Video Essays · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 46Back like it never left, Intertextual Experience welcomes Amabel Holland—designer, video essayist, author, and co-owner of Hollandspiele—for its forty-sixth episode. Amabel has…
- #45 - Taylor Reiner: The Quiz 2 – Trick-Taking Romanticism – Everything’s a Sequel – You Can’t End on a Toot for Me, I’m Gonna Toot on You · 1 h 20 min · Season 1 Episode 45Taylor Reiner. The Quiz 2. Since Taylor was on the show in September 2023, he’s been busy with designing, developing, making videos, and more. We get to explore some of the…
- #44 - Tom Brewster: Board Games, Board Games, and… Chip Cat Breach · 1 h 18 min · Season 1 Episode 44Shut Up & Sit Down’s Tom Brewster joins Intertextual Experience for our 44th episode, perhaps with the show’s most adventurous format yet (so adventurous that time stamps…
- #43 - Alex Hague: Gaming Through Magenta-Colored Glasses · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 43Intertextual Experience is ecstatic to bring in the New Year with Alex Hague, the CEO of board game company CMYK. For a show that likes to explore ideas and stories through…
- Vodcast 7 - ID EST What ID EST—2025 Reflection · 32 min · Season 8 Episode 7Happy New Year! In a couple weeks, the show returns with an awesome guest. If you hang around here with me for just a little bit though, you'll get to hear about the state of the…
- #42 - Ray Billings — The Host: A Board Game Virus (or How Authenticity Will Cure Virality) · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 42Ray Billings, Digital Content Specialist for The Op, joins the show to share her expertise in all things related to marketing and creating media for board games. Don’t let my…
- #41 - Ruel Gaviola: Seventh Inning Stretch—Roll Out the Board Games · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 412025 World Series Game One Release Date Intertextual Experiences enthusiastically welcomes back the once 16th guest of the show, Ruel Gaviola. Ruel’s passion for baseball was…
- #40 - Pete Wissinger—Crit(ical Thinking Skill)s and Trick(y question)s: A Back to School Special · 1 h 27 min · Season 1 Episode 40Intertextual Experience is now over the hill with its 40th guest and is also over the moon that it’s with designer, developer, and podcaster, Pete Wissinger. Pete’s also a…
- #39 - Connie Vogelmann—Bee, Beeing, Beeen: A Cleansing Space Flight · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 39What does it mean to exist? In a world where humans are essentially replaced by bees that have evolved in their sentience and capabilities (primarily in space travel, as they…
- #38 - Mr Ben: (Mr) Ben or Nothing [Mystery Box #1] · 1 h 38 min · Season 1 Episode 38Mr 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…
- Vodcast 6 - Early Access? — Intertextual Experience: A Board Game Podcast · 52 min · Season 8 Episode 6You'll need to listen to the full episode for more details, but there's a giveaway for a new copy of Power Vacuum. I purchased two copies because I'm a weirdo (the particulars of…
- #37 - Josh Wood: Let's Go? To Wisconsin · 1 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 37Josh Wood, designer and developer at AEG, joins the show as I lead him on a tour of my great home state, Wisconsin. Despite my chaotic whims as a tour guide, Josh had some say in…
- #36 - Chad Elkins: 25th Century Games in the 21¼st Century · 1 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 36Chad Elkins, Founder and Lead Developer at 25th Century Games, joins the show for its 25th 36th episode. This episode is so piping hot that you’ll need your best stoneware mug to…
- #35 - Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher: Power Vacuum or (The Death of The Brave Little Toaster: A Space Odyssey) · 1 h 49 min · Season 1 Episode 35In the show’s 35th episode, we are super electrified to have designer Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher join us and to talk about Power Vacuum and so much more. The stories here might shock…
- Vodcast 5 - Show Noteception · 42 min · Season 8 Episode 5An episode about show notes with my shortest show note section yet. This episodes talks about the state of the show (all good and more good to come [sorry about any pause 😔], how…
- #34 - Carl Robinson—Kelp: Fun vs. Fun · 2 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 34In this interview, fun isn’t actually competing, but different types of fun and the way they interact with each other are being examined. As a little thought experiment, which…
- #33 - Candice Harris: Musical Board Game Layers with a Percussively Inclined Player · 1 h 40 min · Season 1 Episode 33A close second place option for the episode title was “Meeplekeeper’s Palace.” Also, there’s a little bit of a note in the episodes after the credits (kind of as an epilogue). In…
- #32 - Marceline Leiman: A High Tide of Indie Designs · 1 h 45 min · Season 1 Episode 32Designer Marceline Leiman joins the show for an episode that ebbs and flows in such an engaging way, much like the tides and other marvels in nature. Amongst many other games…
