MOTHER, She Wrote: An EarthBound Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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MOTHER, She Wrote: An EarthBound Podcast

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Frequency: 1 episode/55d. Total Eps: 21

Set out on a sense-shattering, tear-jerking journey where psychic children brave alien invasion, magical lands, corrupt politicians, and homesickness. The beloved cult video game series, EarthBound, is brought to life in this genre-bending blend of audio drama and documentary that explores these eccentric stories like never before. Created by the award-winning team behind The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program, and hosted by adorable and insightful pizza-loving partners, Cat Blackard and Jessica Mudd, "MOTHER," She Wrote is a literal love letter to Shigesato Itoi's iconic Nintendo games.

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🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
19/08/2026
#68
🇬🇧 Great Britain - videoGames
18/08/2026
#90
🇩🇪 Germany - videoGames
16/08/2026
#91
🇬🇧 Great Britain - videoGames
06/08/2026
#81
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
26/07/2026
#80
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
25/07/2026
#43
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
23/07/2026
#88
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
22/07/2026
#59
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
15/07/2026
#86
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
11/07/2026
#74

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https://starmen.net/mother-3-20th-anniversary/home.html
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BULLETIN: Join Us For the MOTHER 3 20th Anniversary Funfest! SATURDAY 4/25

Season 1

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 • Duration 07:16

April, 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the Japanese release of MOTHER 3. 20 years and still no English release in sight! But we’re not about to let that stop us from celebrating here in Eagleland.

Join Cat and Jess SATURDAY April 25th as they kick off Starmen.net's Funfest streaming event, where personalities from across the fandom are playing through MOTHER 3, over 19 nights, with charity donations and auctions benefiting World Central Kitchen.

But wait - MOTHER 3?! We're still on EarthBound Beginnings! Jess is avoiding MOTHER 3 spoilers! What's happening! Listen in, friend - answers and more event info await.

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Coffee Break: Cat Plays Final Fantasy VI & Season Update

Season 1 · Episode 18

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 • Duration 59:02

Cat and Jess are hard at work on completing the final episodes of "MOTHER," She Wrote's epic adventure through EarthBound Beginnings!

In this Coffee Break, they share some details for what's in store and pick back up on a thread you may remember from Episode Zero: early in their relationship, Jess and Cat set out to play each other's favorite video games. Jess played Cat's favorite video game, EarthBound, and Cat started playing Jess' favorite video game: Final Fantasy VI (originally released as Final Fantasy III in the US). At long last, Cat has finally finished playing this legendary milestone in RPG video games and in this episode she shares her thoughts on the game, her experiences with it, and how its informed her perspective on the arc of RPG history.

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Dimensional Slip 2: Kody Nokolo - Breaking Fandom’s Fourth Wall

Season 1 · Episode 10

Monday, October 9, 2023 • Duration 53:15

Step into a Dimensional Slip: intermittent interludes in “MOTHER,” She Wrote’s journey - where we speak with guests from a multitude of backgrounds and delve deeper into the themes, media, and fandom that make up the tapestry of the EarthBound experience.

The story of EarthBound is two-fold: the story within games and the story of their cultural impact - how they've shaped the world around them. In this Dimensional Slip, we're examining the uncanny life of Kody Nokolo, Webmaster of the fan site Mother Forever and Director at the game design studio, NokoGodo. Theirs is a tale of how the MOTHER fandom expands and self-perpetuates across generations - while inspiring enthusiasts to create their own art, without boundaries. These games speak to their players - not just figuratively, but literally, and that's become a reciprocal dialogue.

In this episode we discuss Nokolo's investigative origins in the modern MOTHER fandom, the phenomena of "MOTHERlike" games, the power of breaking the fourth wall, and how all these concepts are in conversation with their forthcoming game, Gnomonic.

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Dimensional Slip 1: Sarah Rhea Werner - Girl in Space and Other Wrinkles in Time

Season 1 · Episode 9

Monday, August 21, 2023 • Duration 01:17:00

Welcome to Dimensional Slip, intermittent interludes in “MOTHER,” She Wrote’s journey - where we speak with guests from a multitude of backgrounds and delve deeper into the themes, media, and fandom that make up the tapestry of the EarthBound experience.

In this episode, Cat and Jess cross over with Sarah Rhea Werner, creator of the sci-fi audio drama, Girl in Space, and the voice actor bringing our Ana to life. We unpack the parallels between Sarah and Ana's lives and upbringing; offering deep, personal insight into a character at the heart of EarthBound Beginnings' story, and the struggle of being "brave". We also discuss all-ages science fiction and a book close to Sarah and Cat's hearts that share's many parallels with MOTHER: Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.

If you’re missing our regularly scheduled audio drama, we've got something to tide your over! Stay tuned to the end of our interview to hear the first episode of Girl in Space!

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EarthBound Beginnings - Chapter 7: The Power to Believe

Season 1 · Episode 8

Monday, August 7, 2023 • Duration 01:24:39

Meet Ana, the psychokinetic preacher's daughter whose mom was abducted by aliens. She has unusual powers, but there's more under the surface of this precocious girl than even she knows. Joining Ninten and Lloyd, they travel to the ghost town of Spookane to investigate a city-wide disappearance and rumors of a haunted piano with a tragic history. Sarah Rhea Werner, of the sci-fi audio drama Girl in Space, joins the cast as Ana and our audio drama segment EXPLODES in this double-length mid-season special. "MOTHER," She Wrote and Ninten's adventures will never be the same again.

“MOTHER,” She Wrote mixes audio drama and talk podcast to chronicle the strangest, most thought-provoking, most heart-rending video games ever made: the MOTHER series, as it's called in Japan, and EarthBound as it's called everywhere else. This first season chronicles MOTHER (1989), known as EarthBound Beginnings in English-speaking countries.

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EarthBound Beginnings - Chapter 6: Takin' the Paradise Line

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, July 24, 2023 • Duration 01:01:42

Ninten and Lloyd want to ride the rails, but there's something standing in their way that's too big for two kids to tackle... nothing that a military-grade rocket can't fix! With the trains running again, their world opens up exponentially! They dip into lands too dangerous to travel... yet... and hop the Paradise Line to Reindeer, a town ravaged by a pandemic and wealth disparity. Perhaps there are problems even our well-equipped protagonists can't solve. Never fear, dear listener - "relax for a while and watch the world go by. Just as long as we're together we'll be fine - Takin' the Paradise Line!”

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EarthBound Beginnings - Chapter 5: Don't Avoid the Lloyd

Season 1 · Episode 6

Monday, July 10, 2023 • Duration 01:03:39

Ninten's back on solid ground and in a new town. Life in the bustling burg of Merrysville is tough, but he finds a new friend in a strange place - with explosive results. In Merrysville, Shigesato Itoi's social commentary and observations of American culture are in full effect; as you explore an abandoned factory, an elementary school, and wander in and out of the lives of the town's citizens. Cat and Jess crack open the MOTHER Encyclopedia and speak to a surprising source - Talking Heads' frontman David Byrne - as they piece together all the puzzling evidence of this artful game's influences.

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EarthBound Beginnings - Chapter 4: The Nowhere Man

Season 1 · Episode 5

Monday, June 26, 2023 • Duration 56:07

Our journey through the psychedelic dreamlands of Magicant continues! On the surface, this fantastic world is (mostly) sunshine and rainbows, but there's a deep, and literal, well of sorrow underneath. Meet the sad queen in her majestic palace, the friends who'll lay their lives on the line for you, and a man who doesn't exist - as Cat and Jess unpack the Jungian mysteries of this surprisingly dark chapter of Ninten's adventures.

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EarthBound Beginnings - Chapter 3: Magicant Mystery Tour

Season 1 · Episode 4

Monday, June 12, 2023 • Duration 48:37

Flying men, swimming cats, a mysterious mimicker, and a magical castle in the clouds?! We're not in Podunk anymore.

Enter the dreamy world of Magicant. Ponder its surreal inhabitants and unusual sights with Cat and Jess as they draw connective threads between Ninten's past, this peculiar place, and beloved children's media from across the 20th century.

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EarthBound Beginnings - Chapter 2: Good & Bad Vibrations

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, May 29, 2023 • Duration 01:01:51

Poltergeists, zombies, and now ALIENS?! How much genre-fusion can one kid take?

At the apex of classic sci-fi like The Day the Earth Stood Still and heartrending musical narratives like The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars... There is... EarthBound Beginnings.

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