1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,840 Welcome to Meeple to Meeple uniting players around the 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,600 world, a 30 minute exploration of PJ and Gareth's four-game 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,480 experiences from across both sides of the Atlantic. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,720 Each episode, they share their thoughts and opinions on the 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,280 World of War games, including their favorite themes, games, 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:22,600 hot topics, and much, much more. Hey guys, welcome to episode 74, 7 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:29,000 a Cajun in the UK. Oh yeah, as always, I'm PJ and 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,920 today is a special episode. They're all special really. 9 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:36,800 But I'm so low today. No, Gareth, he is on the road 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:43,520 for work and I am getting ready, along with my wife Misses Cajun, 11 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,760 Gamer. We are getting ready to fly to 12 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:55,360 London, so at the time of recording we leave in less than 13 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,480 48 hours. But when you listen to this 14 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:02,800 we'll already be in London. So I thought I would talk a 15 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:08,320 little bit about my expectations and our plans for our two week 16 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:14,200 excursion through southern and central England. 17 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,680 I'm going to talk about a few of the games that we are in fact 18 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,520 taking with us on the airplane. And then I did a post where I 19 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,240 asked you, our listeners, to submit one game that you would 20 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,080 take on an international flight to keep yourself entertained. 21 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,400 So I'll close out the episode with that. 22 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,440 So thanks for listening. It's a little unusual. 23 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:41,320 It's weird. I have no one to talk to. 24 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,560 So it's just like you have to listen to me drone on for 30 25 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,200 minutes or more. For that, I apologize. 26 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,600 But yeah, so, so here we go. So like I said, a Cajun in the 27 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,720 UK. This is my first time leaving 28 00:01:54,720 --> 00:02:01,000 the country ever. My wife has travelled compared 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:08,120 to me extensively when she was in undergrad and grad school, so 30 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,600 this is her second time in England. 31 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:15,200 I think she spent like a day or less in London, but this is my 32 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,080 first time leaving the United States and it's exciting. 33 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:23,280 Most exciting of all is it's the first time that Gareth and PJ 34 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,600 will meet in real life. The meeple to meeple connection 35 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,360 will be made and we're going to record what would presumably be 36 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,760 episode 75, which is just a milestone for us. 37 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,440 We will be in the same room looking at one another the whole 38 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,560 while, so look forward to that. That should be fun. 39 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,240 So we're going to spend 4 days in London and we're going to be 40 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,600 tourists and we're going to do all the touristy things and you 41 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,480 know, the the shopping and the museums and everything like 42 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,040 that. I do say, personally, I am 43 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:03,680 looking forward to seeing both the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin 44 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:09,840 Marbles at the British Museum. Putting aside any, you know, all 45 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:15,200 your socio, anthropological and political opinions about 46 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,000 colonialism, yes, these things are bad, and I realize it, So 47 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,960 we'll, we want to speak to that. But if I want to see the Rosetta 48 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,520 Stone and the Elgin Marbles, I have to go to the British Museum 49 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,880 in London and I'm looking forward to that. 50 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:32,880 I mean, I devoted greater part of 1012 years of my life to the 51 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,000 study of ancient Greek and Roman history. 52 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:41,440 And so to to see them in person is a really, I'm really looking 53 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,520 forward to that and just experiencing London and the food 54 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,720 because man, there's so much food and it, you know, if you 55 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,720 say one thing about us Cajuns, we love to eat and I'm not 56 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,600 afraid to eat anything and it don't matter whether it's spicy 57 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:57,800 or not. I'm ready to go. 58 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,120 So I am looking forward to fish and chips. 59 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,240 Of course, a traditional English breakfast blood sausage is a new 60 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,120 one for me. I'm looking forward to that. 61 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,720 That should be kind of exciting. I feel like there's if there 62 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,960 isn't, there should be a board game where you you guess it 63 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,360 would be set collection as you would be eating all the 64 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,560 international cuisines in some sort of a market or something 65 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,519 like that. I know there's the farmers 66 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:26,160 market which is a cool little tile placement game, but yeah, 67 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,360 so it's going to be like 4 days of exploring London real life 68 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:36,160 gaming. So let's talk about the games 69 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:40,760 that we have packed, that we are bringing with us on the 70 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:42,880 airplane. Although I imagine we won't play 71 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,480 them on the way to London because we'll be sleeping. 72 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:53,040 It is a overnight flight, but we packed Love Letter obviously for 73 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,840 its size. And we did pack Next Station 74 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:59,840 London, because what's more appropriate than playing Next 75 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:05,160 Station London in your hotel room or at a cafe in London? 76 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,640 So we did do that. Of course we only brought like a 77 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,040 few sheets. We didn't take the whole thing, 78 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,960 but we've got enough of those. We also use cartographer color 79 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,680 pencils instead of the color pencils that come with Next 80 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,680 Station London, because they're smaller and more compact. 81 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,960 So we were able to fit those in a single box. 82 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,360 The other thing we're taking with us is Rolling Realms. 83 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,720 Now as you know, if you have a copy of Rolling Realms or have 84 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,440 played Rolling Realms before, there's multiple player decks, 85 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,000 right? And all the decks are the same 86 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,160 so that you can play. And then the two dice and the 87 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,400 dry erase markers, so 2 dry erase markers, 2 complete decks 88 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,560 of the Realms and the dice, and that's all we need. 89 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,280 So we don't have to take the whole, the whole packet. 90 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,160 And if somebody wants to play Rolling Realms in real life 91 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,800 while we're in England, well, we have our decks, we're ready to 92 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,640 go and we have all the promos, we have everything that's come 93 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,040 out, all the realms. So we're ready to do that. 94 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:09,200 So that's Rolling Realms, Love Letter and Next Station London 95 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,560 are our three games that we're taking with us with the hopes of 96 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:18,080 playing on the airplane, with the hopes of playing in the 97 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:23,680 hotel room, you know, at night or or maybe a breakfast or in 98 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,760 the pub or something like that. There's a lot of other games and 99 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,120 we'll talk about them that you've recommended. 100 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,800 There's so many options we could have taken but obviously when we 101 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:38,120 want to pack light because we are in London, well we are in 102 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,160 England for two weeks and we're going to be in London for four 103 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:43,760 days. Then we're going to go down to 104 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,440 Southampton for three days where we will meet up with Gareth and 105 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:52,480 his wife and daughter and hang out and play some games in his 106 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:57,240 game room and have dinner with the Southampton gaming group 107 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:02,760 that Thursday night and then on Saturday April 6th. 108 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:07,640 So if you live anywheres in southern England, and in my 109 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:13,480 opinion as Americans, driving 3 hours is easy peasy, you should 110 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,400 all come to Southampton. We will be hosting Cajun Con. 111 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,840 I think there's 25 or 30 people that have committed that are 112 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,160 going to be there. It's a little one day gaming 113 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,240 convention, Bring your own food, bring your own booze and we're 114 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,240 just going to, we're going to game all day. 115 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:37,080 There have been talks of there out of an Obsession tournament. 116 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:44,760 There were talks of maybe playing Feudum or Nemesis, tons 117 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,280 of other things as well. Just bring your games and come 118 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:49,480 play. They're gonna they're gonna do a 119 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,000 bring and buy, so that'll be interesting. 120 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 So maybe I'll buy a second hand game from somebody to take back 121 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:56,720 home. Who knows? 122 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,480 That'll be fun. There are a few of you. 123 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,240 Few of you I know are not able to make it. 124 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,760 And I'm really disappointed and sad, 'cause I was looking 125 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,080 forward to meeting so many of you. 126 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,200 I'm still looking forward to meeting all of you anyway, so 127 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,800 that's fine. But yeah, so that's Southampton. 128 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,160 So that's Cajun Con, April 6th, that's a Saturday. 129 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,680 So if you're listening, come to Southampton. 130 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,440 Think about it, even for the day. 131 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,560 Take the train down from Oxford or Nottingham or, you know, 132 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,559 drive. Drive down from Bristol. 133 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,240 Take the train from Manchester or Leeds. 134 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,799 Come spend the day with us. Let's play games, let's hang 135 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:44,280 out. It's going to be fun. 136 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,160 It's going to be great. It's going to be, it's going to 137 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,160 be fantastic. I can't wait, can't wait to 138 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,280 just, you know, dive in gaming. And I don't know if we're we're 139 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:56,400 going to record Episode 75 from Cajun Con or whether we're going 140 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,280 to do that on the day before or the day after. 141 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:03,640 I'm not sure after that. My wife and I are going to take 142 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,440 the train up to Bath and we're going to spend 2 days there. 143 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,400 I'm looking forward to that because I'm really excited to 144 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,680 see the Roman Baths, an intact Roman site. 145 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:19,040 Like I said before, I dedicated so much of my life to studying 146 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,040 ancient Roman history to see a Roman bath. 147 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,000 Yes, it may not be the bath where Julius Caesar or Cicero 148 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,880 visited, but Roman citizens bathed in these springs and that 149 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,800 to me is is significant. I'm I'm really interested in 150 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,000 looking forward to that as well. So there's the Jane Austen 151 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,520 Center. We'll go to the Royal Crescent 152 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,400 few other things in Bath. So it should be fun right? 153 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,160 And it's supposed to be a a beautiful city right? 154 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,640 Like there's the there's that annual there's an annual 155 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:58,480 competition for the most beautiful city in England and 156 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,840 Bath sits out of the contest because they were winning it 157 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,200 consistently every year. I I don't remember all the 158 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,440 details, but our British listeners will know exactly what 159 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,560 I'm talking about and yeah, so I'm looking forward to that. 160 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:13,280 That should be pretty fun. After that, we're going to take 161 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,240 the we'll take the train, short train ride over to Oxford, where 162 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,120 we will meet up with Craig and Becky. 163 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:24,200 That's get into games and misses, get into games and we'll 164 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,320 be they're going to take us back to their house. 165 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,320 We're going to stay with them for a few days. 166 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,520 They're going to put us up. That's going to be fun. 167 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,920 And then games with Beanie and my Shelf life. 168 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,200 Brad and Susie will come up because they won't make Cajun 169 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,360 gone. They're on vacation, but they're 170 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,080 going to come up to Daventry and we're all going to get together 171 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,840 in game for a fun day. That'll be interesting. 172 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,520 That should be fun. I'm looking forward to 173 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,280 chocolates and strawberries and waffles. 174 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,280 Oh my. Along with all the war games, 175 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:01,760 all the board games in the Get Into the Games on Air Studios. 176 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,880 I'm looking forward to that. That should be exciting. 177 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,880 Hopefully, hopefully we'll get in a game of distilled. 178 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,920 Craig and I have been wanting to play that for a while. 179 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:19,360 If you listened to I think it was episode three, it was two or 180 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,480 three of Get Into Games on Air where Becky and Craig talked 181 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,280 about their top ten. Distilled made both their top 182 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,480 ten lists. My wife and I love distilled, so 183 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:31,840 hopefully we'll get to play Distilled. 184 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,960 What else? Planet Unknown hit their top 10, 185 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,240 so we're looking forward to playing that. 186 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:42,080 We're still waiting for our copy to arrive. 187 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,080 We backed it some time ago. We were late pledgers, so we're 188 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,360 waiting for our copy of Planet Unknown, and hopefully we'll get 189 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,760 to play that with Craig and Becky. 190 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:56,360 That'll be a lot of fun, I'm sure. 191 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:02,160 I'm sure if you've watched, if you watched last week's episode, 192 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,320 watched, if you listened to last week's episode of Get Into Games 193 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:10,360 on Air, you heard Becky and Craig talk about their new 194 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:15,320 obsession and that is Star Wars Unlimited, where I think they 195 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,200 did a live unboxing of an entire box of packs of cards. 196 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:25,920 Craig, I expect the bedroom to be wallpapered with Star Wars 197 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,440 Unlimited cards. I expect that project to be done 198 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,160 before I get here. That's been a joke between Craig 199 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:33,560 and I was like you have so many cards. 200 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,120 You have so many duplicates. You could just wallpaper a whole 201 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,600 wall, one accent wall of the bedroom would be fine. 202 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:40,600 Thank you. You know. 203 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,800 But I'm. There may be a game of that too. 204 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:44,680 I feel like they're going to they're going to want to play 205 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,640 that so. And who can blame them, right. 206 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,840 That's a that's a huge investment, but definitely 207 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,640 looking forward to staying with them and playing with them and 208 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:57,040 enjoying their their village where they live and just 209 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:03,680 experiencing for two days, 2 1/2 days a little bit of their life 210 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:06,400 and they're sharing it with us and that's that's going to be 211 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,080 really exciting. And we say this all the time. 212 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,320 You hear this constantly. It's the beauty of our 213 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:17,400 community, right, is that we share not only a hobby, but we 214 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,400 share our lives with one another and I'm really looking forward 215 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,160 to that. I think more than more than all 216 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,760 the tourist stuff, that's really what I'm looking forward to. 217 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:33,040 I had someone just the other day ask me what I was most looking 218 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,240 forward to in England before we go. 219 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,560 And I mean, naturally I said, yeah, I'm really looking forward 220 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:41,880 to seeing the Elgin Marbles, but above that, I'm really looking 221 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:47,360 forward to seeing and visiting all of our board game friends, 222 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,440 meeting them, meeting you all for the first time. 223 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,080 I think it's going to be the most exciting part for me. 224 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,000 I'll try to maintain my composure, but yeah, I'm really 225 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,560 looking forward to that. So yeah, and then after that 226 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,240 we'll head down. I think we're going to go to 227 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,960 Oxford for a day or somewheres. Outside of Oxford, there's a 228 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,760 French Manor house Craig and Becky have agreed to take us to 229 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,840 as part of the the National Trust. 230 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,120 So that'll be fun. Maybe get in a game of obsession 231 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,160 outside of a Manor home. That'll be fun too. 232 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:28,320 And then we fly home on the 12th and I think because that's 233 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,360 that's a trip where we leave Heathrow middle of the day. 234 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:38,600 But we get back to Springfield, IL 6:30 in the evening. 235 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,120 So I'll want to stay awake to avoid the jet lag as much as 236 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,560 possible. We've got love letter, we've got 237 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,720 rolling realms. We've got next station London to 238 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,200 keep us occupied. Although I'm really looking 239 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,640 forward to playing next station London in London be really cool. 240 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:00,040 I don't know, but in the tube, if there's like a cafe somewhere 241 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,040 is really like right next to a station. 242 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,040 I would love to play next Station London while in a 243 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,480 station in London that just that would be really cool. 244 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:12,360 I love all those little meta, you know, meta moments that we 245 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,760 create for ourselves and I think that would be super exciting as 246 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,200 well. So yeah, that'll be great. 247 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,880 Look, it's it's just, it's it's really amazing. 248 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:27,640 I'm still surprised I'm leaving the country guys for the first 249 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,720 time. It's, you know, it's a little 250 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,760 overwhelming as it approaches. But like I said, by the time 251 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,880 y'all are listening to this, I'm going to be gallivanting the 252 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,520 streets of London, passing a good time and showing the 253 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,280 British how Cajuns do it. Because we'd like to do it right 254 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,880 to all of our friends in England that we will be visiting. 255 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,240 You know, if you open up your kitchen, I can cook for you and 256 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,000 we then we'll pass a good time. That's that. 257 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,200 I would look forward to sharing some of my culinary heritage 258 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,200 with you as well as playing board games because that's what 259 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,240 I'm all about. I want to cook for you and I 260 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,240 want to play games with you. That's, those are my love 261 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,400 languages, right? Let me cook for you and let me 262 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,480 play games with you. That is like the end all be all 263 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,360 of what I would love to experience and share with all of 264 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:15,960 you. So. 265 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:17,880 And I'm going to get to do that with Gareth. 266 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,440 Oh my God, that's going to be amazing. 267 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:25,800 I can't wait, can't wait. So that being said, I'm going to 268 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:33,760 get to the end of this episode. It's kind of weird to prattle on 269 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,920 when you're by yourself and there's no one to to feed off of 270 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,880 here. So this episode may be a little 271 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,920 bit shorter than what you're accustomed to, and I apologize 272 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:48,080 for that, but so I I took down some notes. 273 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,760 This is from all the responses I got on Instagram. 274 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:58,680 I had posted an image of Tower Bridge in London and I asked the 275 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:03,520 question what would what one game would you take with you on 276 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:08,560 an on an international flight? I should have been based on the 277 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,040 responses, I should have been a little bit more specific. 278 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,400 These were games meant to be played on the airplane and of 279 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,760 course with a partner, because I'll have my wife with me to 280 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,400 keep us entertained on the flight. 281 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:26,599 There were a lot of, there were a lot of conditions, there were 282 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:30,040 a lot of maybes or so. So maybe I should have been a 283 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,920 little bit more clear, and that's on me, and I accept that. 284 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,440 But I want to go through some of these, so make sure you're 285 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,720 listening because your name should pop up. 286 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:45,320 If I missed anyone, I apologize, but I tried to get everybody's 287 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:46,960 response. Some of you put multiple 288 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,040 responses so I may not get to all of them. 289 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:55,320 But yeah, so John from Try Win Games, our good friend who we 290 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,440 will meet at Cajun Con. He recommended Tokyo Highway. 291 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,360 I'd love to see how I play Tokyo Highway. 292 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,360 Just a little bit of turbulence will make all the little roads 293 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:10,880 and wooden cars fall off. That would be just tragic and 294 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:15,600 lose pieces. But I appreciate the suggestion, 295 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:23,320 Erlena at Mostly Solo, our friend in the Netherlands, 296 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,680 Rotterdam, I think. I think you're from Rotterdam, 297 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,160 and I know that you're going to correct me when you listen to 298 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:36,120 this, when you listen to this episode, you suggested Nummsters 299 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,200 where it because it takes up no space and you play with your 300 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,200 hands and so you can play that on the airplane. 301 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,280 So I'm going to have to check in, check, check that out. 302 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,040 That'll be kind of exciting. Good to know. 303 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,080 And I appreciate that. You understood the assignment, 304 00:18:55,120 --> 00:19:02,360 right, Sam at Sam Jeremy 87, he suggested Fleet the dice game. 305 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,280 I don't have that game, but I would be a good candidate to 306 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,360 play with the Traybacks down on an airplane for sure. 307 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:14,840 So thank you for that. Sam our our good friend Alex at 308 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:19,280 Pink Maple, who unfortunately will not be making Cajun Con. 309 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,200 It just didn't work out. She suggested my city roll and 310 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:23,800 build. You know, it's interesting. 311 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:28,720 So we talked about, you know, because we're in the middle of 312 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,680 another campaign of my city, Roland building. 313 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,040 Like we could, we could easily just tear the sheets that we 314 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,480 need and the two dice we could do that we could fit it in into 315 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,640 our luggage. So we may, I don't know, but 316 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,000 it's a good that's a good choice. 317 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,680 By the way, that's a great game. Y'all should. 318 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:49,520 It's better than my city. Like the actual board game 319 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,920 itself, the Roland build is awesome. 320 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,120 And if your friends have a copy, you can go through Zoom or 321 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,520 Discord or any video conferencing and play it with 322 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,360 one another. That's a lot of fun. 323 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,840 We, Katie and I, both played it with Craig and Becky over 324 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,840 Discord, through video conferencing, played the whole 325 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,560 thing. We had a lot of fun. 326 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,600 That was that was a really great game. 327 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,120 So, Alex, thank you so much. Be safe. 328 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:20,680 And I'm sorry you won't make it to Cajun Con, our dear friend 329 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:26,480 Anna Anna Leyless, 19. From Brazil, she suggested sea 330 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,800 salt and paper. An excellent choice. 331 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,480 It is compact, it is easy to play. 332 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:37,400 It doesn't take up much space, so an airplane tray back would 333 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,680 be excellent. Someone else also suggested it 334 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,360 and said you'd be flying over sea and salt. 335 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:47,040 So that's kind of a kind of meta. 336 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:48,840 I like that. I like that a lot. 337 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,920 So that's a great one. So Anna thank you so much for 338 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:55,800 that. Our dear friend Adri at Wanderer 339 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,000 meeple she suggested welcome to. She did say you know well it 340 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,440 kind of depends on space. It depends on theme and what 341 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,800 you're interested in playing and she's absolutely right on all 342 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,600 accounts but welcome to is a good option. 343 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,160 We thought about welcome to but the way we'd have to pack it 344 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,600 we'd fold the we'd have to fold the sheets in half and we didn't 345 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:17,920 want to have a crease running through it. 346 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,720 We opted out of Welcome to, but I know that our friends in 347 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,880 England have welcome to and it may hit one of the tables at 348 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,440 Cajun Con. And I sure hope it does because 349 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,040 it accommodates a lot of players so everyone could play this one 350 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:32,360 game and that would be a lot of fun. 351 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:39,560 So thank you for that. Vanessa at Miss in Pieces, our 352 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,640 dear friend from well outside of Venice, Italy. 353 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,440 She will not be a Cajun Con, but she will be on vacation in 354 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:52,480 Berlin, Germany. So do you have a great trip to 355 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,560 Berlin? She had a lot of suggestions and 356 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,800 I and I love her for this. She suggested Penny Dreadfuls. 357 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:03,440 She suggested next station London, which is an excellent 358 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:04,840 choice because we're taking it with us. 359 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:09,720 She also suggested get on board. Well, we'll be on board a plane 360 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,000 and we'll be on board trains too. 361 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:17,200 So that's a that's a really great thematic option to take on 362 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,960 a plane as well. So Vanessa, thank you and have a 363 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,400 great trip. Our wonderful, wonderful, sweet 364 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:33,720 friend Nate at N Miller 39 on Instagram, he suggested he 365 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:39,200 suggested Stool Pigeon. And for those of you who know 366 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,600 and have listened to the episode when Nate was on, Nate is the 367 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:47,120 designer of Stool Pigeon and he admits to being very biased. 368 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,920 But that's his game. Game fits. 369 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,400 That would be a great option. It would work really well on an 370 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,760 airplane. So Stool Pigeons a great option 371 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,920 if you're thinking about travelling internationally and 372 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,200 you need a game to take with you on the plane. 373 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,400 It's a Stool pigeon and Nate, we will accept your bias. 374 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,560 We all have them and we love you all the more. 375 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:14,040 So thank you so much for that. Now we get into, let's see, So 376 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:19,200 Steven at Nashville board game guy who I had the pleasure of 377 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:24,800 meeting and playing several games with played amazing game 378 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,960 of terror scape with him while we were in Nashville at 379 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:33,080 Tennessee game days he suggested the Star Wars deck building game 380 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,200 which I think would work. It's a two player game. 381 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,120 Cards don't usually take up a lot of space. 382 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,560 I don't know about the market in between. 383 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,360 I mean because we are sitting it side by side, but I mean it, it 384 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:45,720 could work. I don't have a copy of Star Wars 385 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,240 deck building game but certainly it is a good option. 386 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,480 And so Steven thank you for the suggestion. 387 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:58,280 Thanks for listening and thank you so much for hosting me in 388 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,080 your home when we were in Nashville. 389 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:06,280 So I appreciate that Sergio at Board Gaming Animals he 390 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:11,120 suggested I love him for it. Gloom Haven Buttons and Bugs, 391 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:15,320 which just recently came out. The solo Gloom Haven campaign 392 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,840 unfortunately, I don't know. I could let, I could let Katie 393 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,200 play that and I could just watch or like run the monsters or 394 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,800 something. That would be kind of fun. 395 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,320 But yeah. And then Hadrian's Wall was the 396 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,040 other suggestion. Little too many pieces but again 397 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,440 it's a good option. That's a solid game. 398 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,880 We love it. I have a 100% win rating with 399 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,480 Hadrian's Wall so I'm really excited about that. 400 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:48,720 And then our our dear friend Cassie at Spooky Meatballs lives 401 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,360 just outside of Liverpool. Apparently there's going to be a 402 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,560 train strike on the day that she's supposed to come down to 403 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,080 Cajun Con. I'm hoping it works out. 404 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,400 Cassie, if you're listening, I hope you figure the train 405 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,560 situation out 'cause I can't wait to meet you and play French 406 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,840 Quarter and talk about New Orleans with you. 407 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,680 She also suggested sea salt and paper while on a plane. 408 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,120 And again, it's a great option. It's a great option. 409 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:27,400 I saved the best for last. These two have both been on our 410 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,920 show multiple times and clearly did not understand the 411 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,320 assignment whatsoever, and I think their suggestions are more 412 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,600 about a reflection of them than it is about the question at 413 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,360 hand. First up is Adam at Tabletop 414 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:45,920 Vibes. Adam is my one of my Rose Bros 415 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:51,440 Adam had to I or I got to experience. 416 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,840 We both experienced a 5 1/2 car ride. 417 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,440 Two and another one coming back from Nashville. 418 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,080 There's very little that we don't know about one another at 419 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,120 this point. But my rose bro, Adam, he 420 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:10,280 suggested Wonderland Wars. Wonderland Wars is great. 421 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,000 I love playing it. It's amazing. 422 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,400 It doesn't. It's not gonna. 423 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,480 Where am I supposed to play it out on the airplane? 424 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,480 I'm not really sure. We'll probably we could play it 425 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,840 at Cajun Con. I know Gareth has it and it's 426 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,960 the first game that Gareth ever painted. 427 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,720 He uses the he used the armor arm, army painter fast paints, 428 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,120 so he painted the minis. So that could be fun. 429 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,560 I would. I mean that would be awesome. 430 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,880 I would love to get in like A5 player Wonderland Wars with 431 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,200 Gareth. That would be great. 432 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:40,600 Thank you for the recommendation. 433 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:47,520 Adam and I cannot wait for the Rose Bros to unite once again. 434 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:52,040 It's going to be epic. And then finally, is Craig at 435 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:56,520 Get Into Games, Our lovely, lovely friend Craig, who 436 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,080 suggested Nemesis when who made this suggest, like, how am I 437 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,160 supposed to play Nemesis on an airplane? 438 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:05,320 And his response was just put it on the floor in the aisle. 439 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,560 Yeah, because everyone's going to be OK with that. 440 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,400 Well, I guess if they're asleep, we could do that maybe. 441 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,240 I don't think Katie's going to go for it. 442 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,200 Oh, well, thank you, Craig, for that. 443 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,520 So that is all of your suggestions. 444 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,400 Oh, I missed one. I just realized that's at gaming 445 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,680 wife suggested Hive, and we thought about Hive. 446 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,760 Great game to transport, Go to a pub on the airplane. 447 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:43,480 Yeah, we thought about it. So great option. 448 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,760 Thank you so much for that recommendation as well. 449 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,680 So thanks guys for participating in this. 450 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,120 I appreciate it. You gave me a little bit of 451 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,840 material to kind of talk about. If you're flying 452 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,800 internationally, then here is a whole list of games that our 453 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,320 good friends from the community recommend that you take with you 454 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,240 when you're on an international flight. 455 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,920 If anyone posted after I recorded this, I apologize and I 456 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,320 missed. You know that I still love you 457 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,240 very much and you're not forgotten in my hearts and my 458 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,320 thoughts. But yeah, so I'm looking forward 459 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,600 to this is this is going to be a great two weeks. 460 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,960 It should be fine. It's going to be, I mean, one of 461 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:27,400 the highlights of my life recording Episode 75 in England 462 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:32,920 in the same room as Gareth is just going to be phenomenal. 463 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,240 I I don't have words and it's going to be awesome and I can't 464 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,200 wait. So I look forward to that and 465 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,920 I've almost made it to 30 minutes. 466 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,200 Wow, you guys. You guys are beautiful to listen 467 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,520 to me prattle on about my upcoming trip and not trying to 468 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,920 instill FOMO at all, but then participating too and making 469 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,400 gaming recommendations for my wife and I on the airplane. 470 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,400 I got to say I feel loved and I feel appreciated. 471 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:07,520 And I am just so grateful to you all as this Cajun from Cajun 472 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,960 from southern Louisiana is going to go to the United Kingdom and 473 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,120 hopefully not upset anybody. I tell you what, you know what 474 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,120 would be really cool is if I could get in the Buckingham 475 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,920 Palace and cook for the king. That would be really cool. 476 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,640 Cook him up a nice, nice pot of gumbo. 477 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,720 You know, he can he can enjoy a meal and just relax. 478 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:29,840 He ain't gonna give him a mission. 479 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,120 I can imagine that. But that would be that would be 480 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,680 a lot of fun. Anyway, thank you guys for 481 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:39,160 listening. As always, I remain the Cajun 482 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,880 gamer, Your dear friend PJ Gareth, I can't wait to see you. 483 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,920 I can't wait to game with you. More importantly, we're going to 484 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,240 record Episode 75 together in the same room. 485 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,920 That's going to be so awesome and I can't wait for all of you 486 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,800 to listen in. So thank you for all of your 487 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,000 thoughts, thank you for all your prayers, thank you for all your 488 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:06,800 recommendations and remember, as always, to game on. 489 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,040 Thanks everyone for listening. Please subscribe. 490 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,920 And as always, we'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas, so make 491 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,840 sure to leave those in the comments. 492 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,000 And don't forget, you can also chat with us both on Instagram 493 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,680 at meeple to Meeple.