A ping-pong game of thoughts on EarthBound: courage, wisdom, friendship, travel and time-travel. We also touch on FF Tactics, myth and history, and archaeology-love

With Ness in Magicant and the Sea of Eden where he beats his Nightmare and hears his own voice, with Jung on dreams and the shadow

A talk with my friend Pat about Where the Wild Things Are and rites of passage, the limits of EarthBound and FF8, and what country music has to do with The American Patrick Corporation

We get the final note and hear the whole melody, with some amateur musicology and some Alcibiades I

Falling down, distance, abyss, Aristophanes' Frogs and the big Talking Rock

From the Library to the Lost Underworld, with glances at Stages on Life's Way, Casey at the Bat, and Sirens of Titan

Through Deep Darkness and Stonehenge, meeting the one outgoing Tenda, rescuing friends and strangers, loving your enemies, with an excerpt from Conrad's luminous Heart of Darkness

The embodiment of the total work of art, and its drawbacks

Defeating the Kraken, visiting Scaraba, and dancing in front of the Sphinx, we descend voluntarily to recover the Hawk Eye, quoting from Peterson's Maps of Meaning, about which more can be found on The History of Western Thought page on facebook

Visiting brother Elliot last week made me think I'd better have Mom and Dad on the show! I caught them before dinnertime to discuss Sunday board games, passing the baton, and World Cup predictions. (Please bear with the audio crashing around the midway point.)