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Square Roots - THE Classic RPG Podcast

Square Roots is like a book club, but for classic RPGs! Each episode John, Matthew, Jim and Vanessa play through another chunk 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.
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THE Classic RPG Podcast, w/Jim Banks, John Brandon, Matthew Van Zandt & Vanessa

Jul 12, 2021

Jim is lost in a flower mound this week but the rest of the podcast crew is here! We're finishing Disc 3 of Mistwalker's Lost Odyssey, and it's some real Final Fantasy VI style split path fun times! We've got the children Cooke & Mack freezing to death, Seth bonding with the relectant King Tolten and reuniting with her 65 year old baby boy Sed, and Jansen and Ming starring in a 1990s love ballad music video.
Also:
- Do Not Let Your Easily Started Dog Listen to the Podcast
- Nap Queer
- Member Hit
- Toadmore, Frogmore, Stompingham
- Gongora Blood Guzzle
- GRAPPLE TANKS!
- MOMMA!

This Week: We finish Disc 3!
Next Week: We prepare to head to Grand Staff!
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This Season's Theme by Javagore

Jul 5, 2021

We're barrelling through Disc 3 like a freight train into a glacier in this catastrophic episode of Square Roots. Running at almost 50% cutscenes this chunker features that kind of Disc 3 FMV destruction we all love!
Also:
- Michael Emmerson Fan Club
- Matt Talks About A Weird JRPG For Ten Minutes
- More on the Magic Hyphen Industrial Revolution
- Matt demands an explanation of Goatse
- A slanty castle!
- Giving Matt a Burn Notice
- Kaim's Poly Relationships
- Vanessa's Small TV

This Week: We return to Uhra (as Seth)!
Next Week: We finish Disc 3!
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This Season's Theme by Javagore

Jun 28, 2021

We finish Disc 2 but still don't know for sure if Aneira is a dragon, or a bird man, or something, but we do know one thing: Gongora isn't interested in those HAMS.
Also:
- Vanessa Versus Sydnee McElroy
- Need for Speed: Hot for Soup
- Buying Items From a Crow
- Stories about shoes, deadly flowers, and sticking with your wife
- Hot Supernatural Gossip

This Week: We finish Disc 2!
Next Week: We return to Uhra!
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This Season's Theme by Javagore

Jun 21, 2021

Disc 2 of Mistwalker's Lost Odyssey has a lot going for it: there's Resident Evil mansions, bizarre magic abilities, a ton of Thousand Years of Dreams stories, a possible dragon, and of course underwear.

Also:


- Jansen's sketchiness gets to even Vanessa
- Fillibust In Me: The Many Songs of Marina
- A very beautiful lullaby that is also a tuneless dirge
- Vanessa the Sand Witch
- Johnny says Composite in a Canadian way
- Vanessa says Puma in a fascinating way

This Week: Kaim rescues the old sorceress!
Next Week: We finish Disc 2!

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This Season's Theme by Javagore

Jun 14, 2021

We start getting into the tear-filled meat of Mistwalker's Lost Odyssey in this emotional rollercoaster of a chunker. In this episode: the longest funeral in a game ever; two actually non-annoying children; and the further adventures of Prince Glitter Pony!


Also:
- That One Episode of GI Joe Where Everyone Dissolves Into Mud Puppets
- Jansen's Problematic Techniques
- Wells for Boys Energy
- Bob Sagetting the Kids
- Jamiroquai Glasses Improving Cutscenes

This Week: Kaim defeats the tentacle monster Obsidian!
Next Week: Kaim rescues the old sorceress!

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This Season's Theme by Javagore

Jun 7, 2021

Rid of the curse of Kingdom Hearts for now the gang stumble onto Mistwalker's Lost Odyssey - a cult classic JRPG that flew under the radar back in 2008 in spite of an expensive ad campaign. Is it Sakaguchi's comeback? Or annoying and full of pointless stories? We're all pretty split on this one so far!
Also:
- International Cheese Day
- A Leaky Staff
- Her Chest Lacked the Swellings of a Grown Woman
- Big Sidekick Energy
- Prince Sparkle Pony
- #FriendsReunion
This Week: Kaim goes to jail after defeating a big ol' wormy boy in Lost Odyssey!

Next Week: Kaim defeats the tentacle monster Obsidian!
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This Season's Theme by Javagore

May 31, 2021

The gang has mixed feelings over the ending of Kingdom Hearts 2 and are left with a lot of questions, like:

- Did any of this make sense?
- Why did Johnny yell at Matthew?
- Does what happened to Riku make more sense than the Marvel movies?
- Should you be pressing the Y / triangle button more? Or the X / Square? Or not?
- How do you pronounce Saix?
- And of course, the long requested: would you eat this summon?


This Week: We finish Kingdom Hearts 2, Thank God
Next Week: Kaim goes to jail after defeating a big ol' wormy boy in Lost Odyssey
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This Season's Theme by GFATMusic

May 24, 2021

Things get a little off the rails at the start of this Square Roots when an ice cream truck constantly drives past Johnny's window, causing him to lose all focus. But! We go back to your favorite Disney lands for another dose of direct to VHS sequel adventures, as well as...

- Matt Learns the Word Cheugy
- Peter Pan is Actually Pretty Cool
- Reading things "Burger Time"
- Crackers in the Bath Tub
- Vanessa Finds Out About Other Vanessa
- Sorry Mommy!


This Week: Agrabah 2, Port Royal 2, Halloweentown 2, Pride Lands 2
Next Week: We finish Kingdom Hearts 2, Thank God

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This Season's Theme by GFATMusic

May 21, 2021

Coming hot off the heels of one of our Scare Roots Livestreams, Vanessa and Jim sit down with the star of Phantasmagoria 2 - Paul Morgan Stetler! We discuss his new YouTube project Conversations with Curtis centered around the game, why the game may be finding a new life with today's gamers and get some insider details into what it was like to bring the game to life.

Check out Conversations with Curtis at https://www.youtube.com/c/conversationswithcurtis

Conversations With Curtis Patreon https://www.patreon.com/conversationswithcurtis 

May 17, 2021

The whole Square Roots is out of sorts this week as they are obsessed with chilli dogs, and not really that interested in Sora revisiting the Disney worlds again. But that doesn't mean there's not a lot to talk about, like:

- "I Love That You Love It"
- Evil Uncle Scratch
- Fitness Deez Lutz
- She Wants That Knot
- Not Gas-X
- Auron Action Figure


This Week: Land of Dragons 2, Beast's Castle 2, Olympus 2
Next Week: Agrabah 2, Port Royal 2, Halloweentown 2, Pride Lands 2


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This Season's Theme by GFATMusic

May 10, 2021

Somehow although we only visited a handful of worlds this chunker became chockablock with crazy nonsense, including:

- Lion Hamlet
- Vanessa Gets Visited By A Socially Conservative Owl
- Congratulations Things
- Roxas's friends: Hey There, Paunch and Oolug
- Getting Norted
- Do You Like Imagine Dragons?
- Naminé-tions
- Can Sora Read?
- Cyber Bikes
- "Got it memorized?"
- Goofy's Death
- JRPG Tommy Lee


This Week: Pride Lands, Twilight Town Revisited, Space Paranoids & Hollow Bastion Battle
Next Week:  Land of Dragons 2, Beast's Castle 2, Olympus 2

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This Season's Theme by GFATMusic

May 3, 2021

This time Kingdom Hearts 2 really swings for the bleachers with nothin' but hits, from Aladdin to Little Mermaids and Pirates of the Carribbean! It's tough to reach a consensus on all this finny fun, but there's plenty to enjoy such as:
- Gilbert Gottfried's newest sponsors
- Aladdin's Whole Other Family
- Vanessa's shocking Pirates confession
- A phone call to Magical Disney Locker Supply
- Way too much singing
This Week: Atlantica, Port Royal, Halloween Town, Agrabah
Next Week: Pride Lands, Hollow Bastion Battle & Space Paranoids, Land of Dragons Part 2
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This Season's Theme by GFATMusic

Apr 26, 2021

Oh hey! Welcome to our continuing journey through Squaresoft and Disney's Kingdom Hearts 2! There's plenty of Disney nostalgia in this episode, as well as Nomura nonsense, random Organization XIII characters and also:
- Disneyfied Auron
- Old Castles Aren't Fun
- Daisy's good Ending
- I believe in BooBerry
- A Little Pete Chat


This Week: Olympus, 100 Acre Wood, Disney Castle and Timeless River
Next Week: Atlantica, Port Royal, Halloween Town, Agrabah

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This Season's Theme by GFATMusic

Apr 19, 2021

We get through our first two Disney worlds and yet this episode is surprisingly light on Disney songs. On this chunker of Squaresoft's Kingdom Hearts 2 we get Sora a couple of rad keyblades and also:
- Jim explains how drives work
- Vanessa wants to learn all the official Disney nipples
- Everyone loves Doug Airholes
- Jim's first good theory in the history of the podcast
- A very horny wardrobe
- Vanessa's new bit: you have two bears inside you

This Week: Hollow Bastion, Land of Dragons, and Beast's Castle
Next Week: Olympus, 100 Acre Wood, Disney Castle and Timeless River

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This Season's Theme by GFATMusic

Apr 12, 2021

Oh yes. We have embarked on an adventure. We're going to the Kingdom.... of Hearts! Two! This Patreon vote winner has brought a multitude of responses from each host. On this episode:
- Matt's fancy son wonders why the chairs in Organization XIII are so high
- Jim gets frustrated when we don't let him tell us what's happening
- Johnny gets confused on whether this is a Matrix or a Truman Show or a Dark City
- We reveal the true origins of Count Dooku
- Are you ready for Conservative Comedian Goofy?
- Vanessa's new bit: her Donald Duck impression!


This Week: We get Sora's new outfit!
Next Week: Hollow Bastion, Land of Dragons, and Beast's Castle

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This Season's Theme by GFATMusic

Apr 5, 2021

Gird up your Mommy Milkers and Daddy Doinkers because it's time for some of us to finish Final Fantasy 8! This episode has everything you've ever wanted in a finalé episode, including:
- More GF ranking!
- Shumi Hand Talk!
- Only Vanessa understanding the ending!
- Junctionning yourself onto... SlutZone!
- Maybe the best Final Fantasy last dungeon ever?


This Week: We finish the game!
Next Week: We do some nonsense in Yensid's tower in KH2, don't ask me

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Apr 4, 2021
We sit down with Writer/Director Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, The Comey Rule, The Hunger Games), to discuss his film Shattered Glass, ethics in journalism, and his upcoming series on the January 6th attacks on the US Capitol.
 
VIDYA GAMEZ

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Mar 29, 2021

Holy heck! Square Roots is FIVE whole years old! We debate whether half a decade is a long time as well as other hot topics like:
- Vanessa doesn't want to be in a certain Posse
- The Crisp Bowl Spire
- Rinoa's little flux problem, a blurby wurble thing
- Lunatic Pandora, Matt's Favourite Papa Roach Album
- Final Fantasy's Longest Running Will They / Won't They


This Week: We finish Disc 3!
Next Week: We finish the game!

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Mar 22, 2021

Okay, this is an incredible episode.
Why? Because of the following talking points:


- A Kramer Versus Kramer Scenario
- A Difficult Cidtuation
- Ruby Dragon: A XXX Porn Parody
- Terrible Sephiroth
- Would You Put Your Penix in the Phoenix?

This Week: We reach the Lunar Gate as Squall!
Next Week: We finish Disc 3!

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Mar 15, 2021

YEAH! We're only on Disc 2 and yet it's already Disc 3 crazy. This episode: we discuss Mortal Monday and the declaration of release dates; the world's most obvious Alan Tudyk pun; we list out the greatest sax hits for Irvine to play; Quistis mimes the flute; Squall makes PA announcements about hotdogs and his feelings; we meet the Garden Babies and SO MUCH MORE.
This Week: We finish Disc 2!


Next Week: We reach the Lunar Gate as Squall
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Mar 8, 2021

We all have a game
That we hide away forever
Then we take it out and play ourselves
When everything is wrong
Some are Seifer some are Squall
Some are Selphie and some are Quistis
They're the cast of this chunker
But we love to play them all!
Well, we all get impaled
But we disregard the danger
When you try to assassinate the sorceress
Sometimes you go to jail
Why were you so surprised
That you didn't kill the Squallster
Did you really think the game would end
When we're on disc number 2?


This Week: We reach Fisherman's Horizon!
Next Week: We finish Disc 2!

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Mar 1, 2021

Vanessa gets lost in her role as the Sorceress Edea in this jam-packed episode of Square Roots. Not only do we discuss all sorts of kinds of tap dances, we also look at Rinoa's comfortable sweater, get involved in another caper, meet some big beefy bull boys, realize Irvine looks like a male stripper-slash-magician, and cast a 1990s dream version of Final Fantasy 8 for which we are cancelled.
This Week: We finish Disc 1!
Next Week: We reach Fisherman's Horizon!
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Feb 22, 2021

Have the tables turned on Final Fantasy 8? Is everyone loving it all of a sudden? What the hell? One word: TRAINS. On this episode of Square Roots: we visit the hot dog room, Vanessa wants feathery soft chocobo cuddles and fluffly flappy moogle cuddles, Laguna Loire is the first real protagonist of the game, Johnny breaks the game, a three-person locker is ordered, and Jim body shames Muncher.


This Week: We get to Galbadia Garden!
Next Week: We finish Disc 1!

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Feb 15, 2021

Oh boy. The JRPG you either love, hate, or have another opinion on - Square's Final Fantasy VIII. Topics covered today: L'il Baby I Don't know; this game is about reading in a serious way; identifying a real Lisa Kudrow; thicc, thicc Quistis; cargo jorts; sometimes Squall has a 4K face; and Vanessa's greatest mashup ever: Truly, Madly, Crazy.


This Week: We save Rinoa (??) after she meets the best looking guy at the dance!
Next Week: We get to Galbadia Garden!

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Feb 8, 2021

Mass Effect 2 COMPLETE. How many hosts crossed the finish line? Did everyone side with the Alliance or The Illustrated Man? Why were the Reapers building a Baby Terminator? What's up with all the useful people being loaded onto the Magic School Bus? Did Johnny get to romance Morinth? Who lived and who died on the suicide mission? So many questions!


This Week: We finish Mass Effect 2!
Next Week: We save Rinoa after she meets the best looking guy at the dance!

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Thanks to Ro Panuganti and Lord Bif for letting us use their cover of Mass Effect 2's Suicide Mission:
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Check out Lord Bif's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAe-WMrDelXvw9ik2MpwBHQ
And the video for this track is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJzkQQFbPN8

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