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First Turn Tabletop Thoughts: Where three friends play board games for the first time and discuss our immediate reactions. It’s like book club … but for board games!
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Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
It's really hard to come up with a generally family friendly joke and episode title for something like cults. So ... I'm just going to avoid it all together and tell you that this week, bP and Kiwi try to find out who the best cult leader is in CULTivate, designed by Austin Foss, Jenna Radtke, and Jake Sells and published in 2021 by Pops and Bejou Games!
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Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Unless you have an emulsifier like an egg or something, and then you can get them to combine. But that has nothing to do with this game, it's just what you get when Kiwi is going to hear it for the first time when it publishes just like all the other fans out there! This week, Kait and Eric and maybe others (who knows) are play The Spill by Andy Kim and published by Smirk & Dagger Games in 2022.
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Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Attributed to Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, after hearing reports of Lieutenant Stephan Decatur's raid to burn the captured and grounded USS Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli in 1804.
Take a historian and a Marine and have them play a game together based on a historical event that involves Marines and what do you get? Lots of history. Welcome to our a weekly history podcast where we occasionally play games. We even put more history into the episode description!
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Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
This is either a call back reference to a previous episode coupled with a Fast & Furious title pun OORRRRR a game about farts. Either way, you should download it and listen to us this week play Mini Express published in 2021 by Moaideas Games and designed by Mark Gerrits.
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Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Eric and his gang of usual suspects are up to their usual hijinks and escapades. So join them this week as they play Yura Yura Penguin. Designed and self published by Yabuchi Ryoko in 2019!
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Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
It's Thunderdome time, so witness us as two men enter and one man leaves! Eric and Kiwi try out the two player game Radlands designed by Daniel Piechnick and published in 2021 by Roxley Games.
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Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
bP and Kiwi's record for losing a cooperative game is 2.5 minutes, it was a game of Pandemic. Listen this week to find out if the pair does any better at Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords. There won't be any spoilers in this game designed by Mike Selinker and published in 2013 by Paizo Publishing.
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Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Is the moon landing fake? Will we ever find out if the moon is made a cheese? Will bP win? Some of these answers you might find the answer to in this week's episode. Kait and Eric are off, so bP and Kiwi come together to play Moon Base by Naotaka Shimamoto, published in 2019 by itten Games.
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Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Because it'll hurt more ... you twit! Some classic Alan Rickman right there! This episode was supposed to be another game, but the audio was lost to the horrors of chaos, so we get a semi-deep dive episode with Kait and Eric playing The Adventures of Robin Hood, published in 2021 by KOSMOS and designed by Michael Menzel.
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Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
In a magical land of non-descriptive but emotionally sentient robots, we travel around collecting ideas and electricity as robots are want to do! We're playing Transmissions by Adam West, published in 2022 by CrossCut Games!
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