Earthbound: The Podcast Against Giygas!

Garrett McMahon
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An unofficial retelling of the 1994 Super Nintendo video game Earthbound: The War Against Giygas.  Time-traveling aliens, deadly robots, scary monsters! It’s going to take the strongest warriors to stop them from taking over the world… and we got four kids. It's the wildest, wackiest, and stinkiest podcast around... It's the Podcast Against Giygas!  ROCKIN!!!

  1. In Which Our Hero Listens to a Melody

    5D AGO

    In Which Our Hero Listens to a Melody

    It’s only a few miles to the last sanctuary, our thermoses are full of hot cocoa, our backpacks are full of donuts, it’s ten degrees Fahrenheit outside and we’re not even wearing jackets. Hit it! The Chosen Four make the trek to Stonehenge, where the elusive last melody waits for Ness to record in his Soundstone. But if you think they’re getting at it without tangling with a fearsome guardian, meeting an odd companion, and learning a thing or two about the world they live in first, well… have you even been listening to this podcast all this time?!  Will Ness and his friends devise a winning strategy against the dynamo of destruction itself, the Electro-Specter? Will they discover the secrets of the Stonehenge monument’s long (and I do mean loooong) existence? And will Ness finally hear the complete melody of the Soundstone at long last? Find out on this week’s episode of… The Podcast Against Giygas! ROCKIN!!! “I’ll talk about my adventure, and you can tell me about all your mistakes!”

    37 min
  2. In Which Our Hero Has a Sleepover at Jeff’s House

    12/29/2025

    In Which Our Hero Has a Sleepover at Jeff’s House

    Alright kiddos, take a break, you earned it! “I’ll talk about my adventure, and you can tell me about all your mistakes!”

    30 min
  3. In Which Our Hero Has a Sleepover at Prince Poo's House

    12/22/2025

    In Which Our Hero Has a Sleepover at Prince Poo's House

    The third Sanctuary is in the bag, now on to the fourth! …except, well, there’s a big, and frankly kind of silly, obstacle hopelessly in their way. While the Chosen Four are stranded in Winters and Jeff works tirelessly on an invention to clear the path forward, Prince Poo takes it upon himself to whisk Ness away to his homeland, the misty mountain kingdom of Dalaam. There, the Prince has big things to share with his companion, about his home, his quest, and his ultimate destiny. Will Ness keep his footing on the weird and wonderful Pink Cloud of Dalaam? Will he emerge victorious when locked with Prince Poo in a knock-down drag out… baseball game? Or how about a silly-face contest? And… WILL Ness and Prince Poo finally, FINALLY become best friends?! Find out on this week’s episode of… The Podcast Against Giygas! ROCKIN!! “I’ll talk about my adventure, and you can tell me about all your mistakes!”

    31 min
  4. In Which Our Hero Sees His Dad Again

    12/15/2025

    In Which Our Hero Sees His Dad Again

    It was a heck of a fight between Ness and Prince Poo versus the Carbon Dog, and Ness more than earned his right to visit the Fire Spring. While Ness is occupied with the Third Sanctuary (FINALLY!!), the others of the Chosen Four open up to each other. Maybe now they’ll understand just what is going on with Paula and her visions, anyway, and just why is Prince Poo like that, anyway… and, by the way, where has ugh, PORKY been all this time?  Will Ness come down from the fiery mountain a better, stronger boy? Will they be ready for whatever followed them down the hole in the floor to the Lost Underworld? And will Jeff be able to get the photographer man to snap a cool pic of the Chosen Four with actual real-life dinos, thereby making the single greatest scientific discovery of their time? Find out on this week’s episode of… The Podcast Against Giygas! ROCKIN!! “I’ll talk about my adventure, and you can tell me about all your mistakes!”

    32 min
  5. In Which Our Hero is Forged in a Spring of Fire

    12/08/2025

    In Which Our Hero is Forged in a Spring of Fire

    The Lost Underworld, where dinosaurs roam the earth! There’s no time for a picture, though, Ness and his friends have a third Sanctuary to get to. Oh yeah, been a while since we’ve been to one of those, huh?  Well, this Sanctuary is a little different from what the Chosen Four have been used to up till now. Ness must traverse the inside of a live volcano, an impossibly hot and hostile uphill trek toward the mysterious Fire Spring. There, he must face his most dangerous foe yet... And yeah, I know I keep saying that for every episode, but trust me on this one, the Guardian of the Fire Spring is not messing around! Worse still, Ness has to choose only one companion to accompany him! All that, and with no ice powers to speak of whatsoever?! Oh dear… Ness is really gonna have to earn that melody for the Soundstone this time! Will Ness make it to the top of the Fire Spring? Will Ness have wisdom enough to make the right choice among his dear friends to join him? And will he muster the courage to face the ferocious Carbon Dog, in whatever form it may take… and if need be, alone?! Find out on this week’s episode of… The Podcast Against Giygas! ROCKIN!!! “I’ll talk about my adventure, and you can tell me about all your mistakes!”

    29 min
  6. In Which Our Hero Goes Underground

    12/01/2025

    In Which Our Hero Goes Underground

    Prince Poo got a right trouncing and now he’s more or less on Ness’s side for good. And not a moment too soon, because Ness is going to need all the help he can get for the next leg of his adventure! After so many setbacks and delays, the Chosen Four finally head to the Great Pyramid in the desert of Scaraba, wherein lies the way to the ever-elusive Third Sanctuary. From there, it’s just a matter of figuring out the mysterious riddle of the Sphinx. And then solving a good old-fashioned dungeon puzzle or two, or five. And, oh yeah, doing it all before ugh, PORKY!!! can throw a wrench into the whole thing.  Will it be Porky who blinks first in the standoff that ensues, or the Chosen Four? Will the ancient brain-teasers of the Great Pyramid be enough against boy-genius Jeff, now fully out of the Summers slump and finally “in his idiom”? And what secrets await them beneath the grand edifice, in… the Lost Underworld? Find out on this week’s episode of… The Podcast Against Giygas! ROCKIN!!! “I’ll talk about my adventure, and you can tell me about all your mistakes!”

    31 min
  7. In Which Our Hero Gets Into a Fight

    11/24/2025

    In Which Our Hero Gets Into a Fight

    The fourth member of the Chosen Four has arrived at long last! …too bad that fourth member happens to be Prince Poo, of all people. Still miffed at his recent role of servitude, he can’t help but make life a complete drag around Ness, Paula, and Jeff. He acts like such a jerk to the others that it’s bound to all come to a head, where Ness will indeed get into a fight. And while he and his friends encounter a horrible sea monster with razor-sharp fangs and fiery breath, that’s not even close to the hardest fight he’s up against aboard the sea captain’s ship! Will the newly-united Chosen Four survive when the gigantic, ferocious, and almighty kraken attacks? Will Ness’s Gutsy Bat be enough to withstand the blows of an ancient and deadly sword? And if not, then where in the world will he find a power in himself to stand up to his most fearsome foe yet… Prince Poo himself!  Find out on this week’s episode of… The Podcast Against Giygas! ROCKIN!!! “I’ll talk about my adventure, and you can tell me about all your mistakes!”

    21 min
  8. In Which Our Hero Makes a New Friend, From the Mountain Kingdom of Dalaam

    11/17/2025

    In Which Our Hero Makes a New Friend, From the Mountain Kingdom of Dalaam

    Far away in the misty mountain kingdom of Dalaam, the young emperor-to-be Puyi, the very same mysterious boy who had been popping in and out of Ness’s adventure, finally readies himself to properly join the Chosen Four. First, he must complete the great and harrowing trial of Mu, in which he must embrace pure emptiness itself. Then, after accepting the grand treasure of the Dalaamese people, the ancient and powerful Sword of Kings, he must walk across the sky, thousands of miles away in mere seconds, and take his place as ah… not the leader of the Chosen Four. No no, he must rather bend the knee and offer his sword in the eternal service of Ness. For a boy as haughty and powerful as Prince Puyi… that, shouldn’t be a problem, right…? Will the young prince successfully master nothingness itself? Will Ness and his friends finish the Rockin’ sandcastle in Summers before the Prince snaps them out of their eternal summer? And will uh… will he… do you think he’s still mad about… well, he’ll get over it, right? Find out on this week’s episode of… The Podcast Against Giygas! ROCKIN!!! “I’ll talk about my adventure, and you can tell me about all your mistakes!”

    39 min
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An unofficial retelling of the 1994 Super Nintendo video game Earthbound: The War Against Giygas.  Time-traveling aliens, deadly robots, scary monsters! It’s going to take the strongest warriors to stop them from taking over the world… and we got four kids. It's the wildest, wackiest, and stinkiest podcast around... It's the Podcast Against Giygas!  ROCKIN!!!

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