The Mind of a Gamer [REMASTERED] - Gaming Podcast

Video Gamers Podcast

Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are back with special guest Jamie Madigan! Jamie is a lifelong gamer who also happens to have a PhD in Psychology (with a focus on gaming culture). This is an INCREDIBLE episode you can’t miss. From Gaming ADD to those that platinum everything, to discussing if online friendships are “real” and more. We get the insight gamers truly want to know and have a blast while doing it. It’s an episode like no other, filled with gaming knowledge and video game chat from the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf, Phelps and NorwegianGreaser, and Dettmarp Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, PeopleWonder, Bobby S. Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/h2cHKAvSmu Follow us on Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/⁠ Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠ Subscribe to us on YouTube:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast. You know,
0:17.1	gamers come in all different types and of vastly different reasons for the games they
0:20.8	play and why they love them.
0:22.7	From the hardcore competitive gamers that love a challenge to the chill, relax gamers that want nothing more than to tend their farms.
0:30.7	The psychology of gaming is a fascinating and oftenly debated subject, and that's what we're diving into on today's episode.
0:38.3	But first, some introductions are in order.
0:41.8	I am your host, Josh, and joining me, he still refuses to try Path of Exile 2.
0:48.4	And if a game involves dodge rolling, he's instantly skeptical.
0:52.7	Maybe today we'll find out why he's so weird. It's Ryan.
0:58.2	Listen, listen, we figured out last time with the sushi roll with the crabs treasure and stuff.
1:03.2	No, I'm not going there, Ryan. It's just rolls aren't for me, man. That's all it is.
1:07.5	Oh, man. And yet I know you love sushi's. Yeah.
1:11.0	Yeah, I know right.
1:12.6	And joining us, he's got an actual PhD in psychology, has been a lifelong gamer.
1:21.9	He's one of us and has made analyzing gamers both his career and passion.
1:28.0	It's the one,
1:29.3	the only,
1:30.9	Jamie Madigan.
1:32.6	Hey, guys.
1:33.9	All right.
1:34.7	Thanks for having me on.
1:35.9	Oh, man,
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