{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Inchworm","home_page_url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com","feed_url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/json/","description":"<p>a chapter by chapter spoiler-free podcast covering <em>Worm</em> by Wildbow</p><p><br></p><p>every Tuesday &amp; Friday wherever you can find podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Overcast, Podcast Republic, Spotify, YouTube, etc.)</p><p><br></p><p>get in touch at inchwormpodcast@gmail.com</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://parahumans.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read <em>Worm</em></a> | <a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Support Wildbow</a></p><p><a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/inchwormpodcast.bsky.social\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Inchworm Bluesky</a> | <a href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/inchwormpodcast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Inchworm Tumblr</a> | <a href=\"https://discord.gg/yjFbpTbRWm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Inchworm Discord</a></p>","icon":"https://cdn.inchwormpodcast.com/inchwormpodcast-com/production/images/channel-1db210b65f8620f05f72ca31f7324df6.jpeg","favicon":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/assets/default/favicon.png","authors":[{"name":"Jenny and Ted"}],"language":"en-us","items":[{"id":"wftO5EB38dw","title":"11.h - \"Refusing The Call\"","attachments":[{"url":"https://op3.dev/e/cdn.inchwormpodcast.com/inchwormpodcast-com/production/media/audio-940495cddca2318bfc57bdebb03e6142.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_byte":100461767,"duration_in_seconds":7673}],"url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/i/wftO5EB38dw/","content_html":"<p>Jenny and Ted discuss Infestation 11.h.</p><p><br></p><p>Episode Notes:</p><ul><li>Jenny didn’t see it coming but Ted brought receipts</li><li>Look, I know you weren’t asking, but the incest math checks out</li><li>Amy got her “resenting an unwanted burden” from her mom I guess</li><li>Intrusive romantic feelings are deeply tragic</li><li>Jenny and Ted do what Assault and Battery simply refuse to do</li><li>Amy’s fantasies and fatalism</li><li>The category of “healing” never really cohered</li><li>Bonesaw kicks Amy across a series of red lines and Amy’s like “guess it’s purge rules for me now YOLO”</li><li>Reading between the lines, Amy’s just making excuses</li><li>Ted makes a pretty bad analogy to Canary but give him a second he explains it better</li><li>Amy’s power is so dangerous to herself and others that the Protectorate really fucked up by not getting to her before Bonesaw</li><li>Victoria, sowing: Just use your fucking power on brains already! Victoria, reaping: Well this fucking sucks, I love you, what the fuck</li><li>So… would you really handle it any better than Victoria, listeners?</li><li>Ted speculates that this was really triggering for Victoria</li><li>Calling back to the “bus kiss”</li><li>At least we met a more functional lesbian first</li><li>“Evil” feelings don’t make you evil, and isn’t everybody kind of fucked up anyway?</li><li>Amy craves novelty and lacks empathy… but for pretty okay reasons!!!</li><li>What Amy can learn from Bonesaw: the power of a growth mindset</li><li>Is Amy’s power a threat to her sense of self in an existential way?</li><li>Bonesaw pushes Amy down the slippery slope and it all feels so easy</li><li>Is Amy gettable? Nah, but partly because she doesn’t believe in herself</li><li>Morality and fellowship seem completely alien to Bonesaw</li><li>Wait, how old exactly was Bonesaw when she triggered?</li><li>You can be a good scientist without being a good person</li><li>Bonesaw would not approve of this podcast’s explicit rating</li><li>Are the powers parasites? Tools? Agents?</li><li>If the who and what of powers are accidents, is there a why?</li><li>Bonesaw scoops Faultline’s thesis project</li><li>Yeah, of course all of the bio-manipulators will have major issues!</li><li>Ted reveals his pro-Bonesaw bias and Jenny pitches the best Worm adaptation yet</li><li>Did Carol leave that letter for Amy to find?</li><li>Parenting is necessarily coercive</li><li>Ted celebrates a well-constructed tragic plot</li><li>Amy’s not learning very good lessons from her no good terrible very bad day</li><li>Thinking back to Victoria in Dennis’ chapter</li><li>Is Panacea a rogue?</li><li>We might be harder on Mark if Carol wasn’t right there in comparison</li><li>Ted’s worst date</li><li>Fates worse than death</li><li>Bonesaw reminds us that the hero / villain arms race is ongoing</li><li>Hatchet Face is Michael Myers</li><li>Jenny looks in the mirror</li><li>Maybe part of Amy’s curse is that her power is too easy to use</li><li>The arachnid system</li><li>As much as Amy needs a therapist you can’t lead with that, Victoria</li><li>Predictions</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-11-infestation-stories-arcs-11/11-h/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-11-infestation-stories-arcs-11/11-h/</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow</a></li></ul><p><br></p>","content_text":"Jenny and Ted discuss Infestation 11.h.\n\n\n\n\nEpisode Notes:\n\n * Jenny didn’t see it coming but Ted brought receipts\n * Look, I know you weren’t asking, but the incest math checks out\n * Amy got her “resenting an unwanted burden” from her mom I guess\n * Intrusive romantic feelings are deeply tragic\n * Jenny and Ted do what Assault and Battery simply refuse to do\n * Amy’s fantasies and fatalism\n * The category of “healing” never really cohered\n * Bonesaw kicks Amy across a series of red lines and Amy’s like “guess it’s\n   purge rules for me now YOLO”\n * Reading between the lines, Amy’s just making excuses\n * Ted makes a pretty bad analogy to Canary but give him a second he explains it\n   better\n * Amy’s power is so dangerous to herself and others that the Protectorate\n   really fucked up by not getting to her before Bonesaw\n * Victoria, sowing: Just use your fucking power on brains already! Victoria,\n   reaping: Well this fucking sucks, I love you, what the fuck\n * So… would you really handle it any better than Victoria, listeners?\n * Ted speculates that this was really triggering for Victoria\n * Calling back to the “bus kiss”\n * At least we met a more functional lesbian first\n * “Evil” feelings don’t make you evil, and isn’t everybody kind of fucked up\n   anyway?\n * Amy craves novelty and lacks empathy… but for pretty okay reasons!!!\n * What Amy can learn from Bonesaw: the power of a growth mindset\n * Is Amy’s power a threat to her sense of self in an existential way?\n * Bonesaw pushes Amy down the slippery slope and it all feels so easy\n * Is Amy gettable? Nah, but partly because she doesn’t believe in herself\n * Morality and fellowship seem completely alien to Bonesaw\n * Wait, how old exactly was Bonesaw when she triggered?\n * You can be a good scientist without being a good person\n * Bonesaw would not approve of this podcast’s explicit rating\n * Are the powers parasites? Tools? Agents?\n * If the who and what of powers are accidents, is there a why?\n * Bonesaw scoops Faultline’s thesis project\n * Yeah, of course all of the bio-manipulators will have major issues!\n * Ted reveals his pro-Bonesaw bias and Jenny pitches the best Worm adaptation\n   yet\n * Did Carol leave that letter for Amy to find?\n * Parenting is necessarily coercive\n * Ted celebrates a well-constructed tragic plot\n * Amy’s not learning very good lessons from her no good terrible very bad day\n * Thinking back to Victoria in Dennis’ chapter\n * Is Panacea a rogue?\n * We might be harder on Mark if Carol wasn’t right there in comparison\n * Ted’s worst date\n * Fates worse than death\n * Bonesaw reminds us that the hero / villain arms race is ongoing\n * Hatchet Face is Michael Myers\n * Jenny looks in the mirror\n * Maybe part of Amy’s curse is that her power is too easy to use\n * The arachnid system\n * As much as Amy needs a therapist you can’t lead with that, Victoria\n * Predictions\n\n\n\n\nLinks:\n\n * https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-11-infestation-stories-arcs-11/11-h/\n * https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow\n\n\n","image":"https://cdn.inchwormpodcast.com/inchwormpodcast-com/production/images/item-d1994fd9644a184296fa6973089a6637.jpeg","date_published":"2026-04-28T11:56:00.000Z","_microfeed":{"is_audio":true,"is_document":false,"is_external_url":false,"is_video":false,"is_image":false,"web_url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/i/11h-refusing-the-call-wftO5EB38dw/","json_url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/i/wftO5EB38dw/json/","rss_url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/i/wftO5EB38dw/rss/","guid":"wftO5EB38dw","status":"published","duration_hhmmss":"02:07:53","itunes:title":"11.h - \"Refusing The Call\"","itunes:episodeType":"full","itunes:season":1,"itunes:episode":120,"itunes:explicit":true,"date_published_short":"Tue Apr 28 2026","date_published_ms":1777377360000}}],"_microfeed":{"microfeed_version":"0.1.5","base_url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com","categories":[{"name":"Arts","categories":[{"name":"Books"}]}],"subscribe_methods":[{"name":"RSS","type":"rss","url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/rss/","image":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/assets/brands/subscribe/rss.png","enabled":true,"editable":false,"id":"cttxXlJLyLL"},{"name":"JSON","type":"json","url":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/json/","image":"https://inchwormpodcast.com/assets/brands/subscribe/json.png","enabled":true,"editable":false,"id":"uJCxSnjiSpT"}],"description_text":"a chapter by chapter spoiler-free podcast covering Worm by Wildbow\n\n\n\n\nevery Tuesday & Friday wherever you can find podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Podcast\nAddict, Overcast, Podcast Republic, Spotify, YouTube, etc.)\n\n\n\n\nget in touch at inchwormpodcast@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\nRead Worm | Support Wildbow\n\nInchworm Bluesky | Inchworm Tumblr | Inchworm Discord","itunes:explicit":true,"itunes:title":"Inchworm","copyright":"©2025","itunes:type":"serial","itunes:email":"inchwormpodcast@gmail.com","items_sort_order":"newest_first"}}