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Welcome to Meeple to Meeple 
uniting players around the 

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world, a 30 minute exploration 
of PJ and Gareth's four-game 

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experiences from across both 
sides of the Atlantic. 

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Each episode, they share their 
thoughts and opinions on the 

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World of War games, including 
their favorite themes, games, 

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hot topics, and much, much more.
Hi, and welcome to episode 75. 

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That's right, it is blurple. 
You'll learn all about that. 

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The Cajun invasion of the UK. 
As always, I am PJ. 

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And I'm Gareth. 
And we are live together all 

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right. 
He is sitting to my left right 

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now and. 
He's sitting to my right, yeah, 

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PJ and Gareth. 
I like to. 

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I'd like to tell to all of our 
listeners, Gareth is as 

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beautiful a man as he looks like
on computer, camera, camera, 

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screen. 
I look thinner on camera. 

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On camera? 
Is that how it says? 

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Can't probably say these days, 
but. 

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Anyway, I look fatter in real 
life. 

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Here we are, but you've got your
hat. 

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Yep, tell. 
Me hats have you bought on the 

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trip? 
I bought 2 flat cats in London. 

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So very British. 
Yes, Sir. 

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You look good. 
Thank you. 

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So we have been here since 
Easter Sunday, which was March 

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31st, so. 
A week. 

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Yeah, a week and a few days a. 
Few days, yeah. 

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And we are live in the Maple to 
Maple studios in Southampton, 

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England. 
Maple to Maple Studios. 

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Yeah, maybe I need to sign. 
You do? 

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Yeah, it's a beautiful day with 
a bit of a windy storm in the 

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UK, but that's cleared for blue 
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It is in fact sunny right now. 
I can confirm that it does. 

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Suns. 
On the trees share the view. 

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It's so green here. 
Thanks. 

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It's very green. 
We get a lot. 

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Of rain? 
Well, no, it's it's been raining

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for three years. 
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No, not only that, we we we just
tear down all the trees and just

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lay pavement and just, you know,
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parks, as I'm learning car 
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traffic circles, traffic. 
Circles. 

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It's a roundabout for British 
friends. 

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Yeah, so it's it's it's been 
crazy, it's been fun. 

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So we hit the, hit the 
highlights of London and then 

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now we're here in Southampton 
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Much more quieter, easier pace. 
But it's real England though. 

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It's real and I love it. 
We've done some sightseeing. 

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We did. 
We did see some. 

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Sighting went to Winchester. 
We did. 

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And a cathedral. 
Gorgeous. 

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What is it? 
1100 year old. 

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So the, the big take away for 
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interesting when we were on a 
tour at the cathedral, they they

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walked us past the cathedral, 
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And they were talking about the 
current Bishop. 

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Oh, yeah, yeah. 
Is there 98th Bishop of their 

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diocese? 
And I'm like, you know, at work,

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we're just on #9. 
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History. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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It really puts in a perspective 
how young as a nation we really 

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are. 
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Yeah, we saw. 
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was some ground in ball games. 
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A nine man, Morris, the monks 
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Carved into the into the bench. 
Yeah, bench, where they. 

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Yeah, Stone bench, which is a 
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was quite. 
Interesting. 

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And so the tour guide was saying
that, you know, you can imagine 

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in the 11th century, the monks 
were sitting there playing this 

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game, which is very foreign to 
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I was not familiar with it at 
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Actually know the rules. 
You don't know. 

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Like in my head it was like tic 
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I was thinking it was like 
Othello. 

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Yeah, yeah. 
That was the other thing like. 

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The the flip over the pebbles 
Black. 

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Yeah. 
Needs a. 

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Couple of rules. 
But she didn't go into the rules

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because I don't think she knew 
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And she didn't know she had 
gamers in the present, that's 

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true. 
We were excited and she just 

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left us hanging. 
But she was very nice. 

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And then we went to Titanic 
Museum that in the morning. 

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We did go to Titanic Museum. 
We saw a lot of great painted 

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miniatures. 
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And death. 
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let us touch the miniatures, we 
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Yeah, there was. 
There were a lot of boats. 

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Yeah, a lot of boats. 
So that was good and that was 

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good. 
We played some games. 

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We did. 
We played a lot of games. 

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First game that Gareth and I 
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Was. 
Let's go to Japan the. 

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UK Oh no. 
Japan. 

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That's so getting another spin 
off. 

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No. 
Which I played every day since 

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you've been here. 
Have you on Thursday? 

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I played it on Friday and I 
played it on Saturday. 

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Wow, Teaching it to various 
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So yeah, that's been a good 
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I'll talk about that in a minute
some. 

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More so it was you. 
It was you and Kerry and Katie 

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and I. 
Yeah, we played. 

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Let's go to Japan. 
And then we played French called

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French. 
Quarter. 

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Which is out of the the same 
series as Three Sisters in Motor

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City, correct? 
But is based on where to PJ. 

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The French Quarter in New 
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What a coincidence. 
Yeah, right. 

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Yeah. 
But I got to give you some 

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historical and cultural context 
and the places. 

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Explanation on the whole. 
Second second line, yeah. 

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It makes more sense. 
We had a much better. 

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We had a much better game 
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And you and you learn that the 
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your own personal second line. 
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the future, but you do get 
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You do. 
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You are seen as a tearaway. 
You'll sense the police station.

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And you do need a second second,
A second second line. 

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OK. 
So so if you when you're playing

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French Quarter, it's a 25th 
century games, right? 

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Yeah, that's right. 
That's a rolling right set in 

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the French Quarter, where you're
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French Quarter and you're trying
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In every location you go to, you
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One of them is dancing, and that
advances you on the Bourbon 

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Street track. 
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negatives because Bourbon Street
is dirty, There's a lots of 

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partying, is a high police 
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many people. 
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yourself into a little trouble 
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That's what happens. 
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huge point was. 
It was a multiplier. 

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Yeah, big multiplier. 
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That was fun, that. 
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pretty much it for their first 
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It was because then we went for 
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house in Southampton where we 
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There were fifteen of us. 
Of the Southampton ball game 

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crew. 
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the wait staff had like deer and
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Their eyes were just like, yeah,
this party is so massive, what 

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are we going to do? 
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And then we had we had John and 
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John from Try Win Games. 
Try win games. 

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So a lot of people arrived early
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Yes, they they rocked up. 
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Dave. 
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Heather is about to launch. 23rd
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The 23rd of April, she's going 
to launch her game Apostocracy 

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on Kickstarter, so be on a 
lookout for that and she should 

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be a guest on our show. 
That's all we get to that day. 

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So next. 
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So few weeks. 
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They hang out with us as well. 
They came on the the guided 

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tour. 
They did they. 

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They travelled from Texas, yeah,
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It was like Americans came all 
the way here to Heather's just 

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delightful and her husband's 
wonderful and. 

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Yeah, we had a good time. 
We was Katie and I established a

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relationship with Heather 
through play testing 

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apostocracy. 
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and I'm like, great, let's do 
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I lost in Southampton, yeah, but
everybody else was from the 

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Southampton crew, Yep. 
So that was that was the that 

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was Thursday. 
You have a vibrant gaming 

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community here in Southampton. 
Yeah, I think maybe we don't 

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always appreciate how how lucky 
we are. 

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Because. 
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I mean, we all met through, 
mostly through Instagram, 

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stroke, COVID times and then, 
yeah, I guess, yeah, we meet all

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the time, Yeah. 
And then other people come out, 

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hang out too, you know, They 
come away all the way across 

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that water. 
That's how you do. 

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It we didn't need a boat, did 
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No, we did not need a boat. 
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Were going to hurry a boat and 
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That would well that might still
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Might still be the desperation, 
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Meeple to meeple cruise. 
And that got us to Saturday, 

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Cajun. 
Cajun Cajun Con. 

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Which? 
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I think it's about 20. 
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which I think it was expecting 
about 18. 

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So at one point I'm like, oh, 
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boat? 
But it was like, yeah, that's an

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interesting story. 
So early on when you in the 

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planning of this, you were 
giving us a head count and my 

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wife had crocheted. 
Oh yeah, these coasters in the 

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shape of maples. 
They're very popular. 

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Yeah, I think. 
You could put them on Etsy. 

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You could. 
You could. 

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In fact, I saw someone in when 
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I. 
Think you've already seen one of

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us put it on Etsy? 
Oh, no, I didn't. 

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No, I did not see that. 
I guess she could have crocheted

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her signature into one of them 
and made it really valuable. 

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But of course she made a blue 
one exclusively for you because 

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you play blue. 
And so she handed them out and 

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the plan originally was to give 
everyone their own. 

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But then the number kept 
growing. 

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People bought friends, Gareth. 
Yeah, they. 

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Weren't. 
Welcome. 

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So eventually it's like it's, 
it's bought Dave. 

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Yep. 
And it was like 1 per one per 

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couple at that point, right? 
Yeah, but there I saw them being

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used. 
They're on the tables. 

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Everyone had them on the tables 
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I had my which is great. 
My cider. 

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Because the the hall we were in,
they didn't have coasters on the

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table and you didn't want the 
condensation to mess up the 

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board games. 
So yeah, they were good. 

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And I got some Nemesis, Skype, 
Christmas, Christmas scarves and

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hats, which I'll need to now 
find an excuse to bring Nemesis 

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to table. 
So thank you, Katie, for those 

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gifts and the very handmade dice
tray that Katie's dad has made. 

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Yes. 
So thank you very much for 

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those. 
I think you really enjoyed the 

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style. 
It's a good noise. 

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It's a good, solid, Yes dice 
roll. 

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When we were playing French 
Quarter, because it's a rolling 

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right, there were a lot of dice 
to roll and it made a good sound

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and it gets that it's that wood.
My my father-in-law knows 

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everything about like cherry 
wood and oak. 

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You know all the different, the 
the, the, the characterizations 

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and the nature of all these 
woods. 

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And so it's like, if you want to
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this? 
He knows which wood to use. 

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He's got a good knocking. 
Sounds. 

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Yes, after, but maybe a minute. 
I'll grab it and we can even 

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make a a rendition. 
That's a good idea. 

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I find dice, so I have to cut it
and edit in. 

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So what were your What were your
gaming highlights? 

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So. 
Who did you hang out with? 

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I I hanged. 
Oh, I hanged. 

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I hanged. 
Yes, I hanged. 

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I hung out with a lot of people.
So it's really interesting. 

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We were what? 
It was 10:30 in the morning till

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10 in the evening was the time 
of the official Cajun Con. 

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And I socialized so much going 
back to French Quarter where one

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of the icons is socializing. 
Oh, and then let's let's go to 

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Japan. 
You could socialize. 

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I did not get in as many games 
yesterday on Cajun Con as I 

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expected, but the first one was 
a game I played once before and 

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that is Terror Scape. 
Yeah, I saw that. 

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By Ice makes games 'cause he 
looked really, really so it is a

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it's a horror themed. 
It's it's one versus all. 

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You've got this huge divider. 
Massive theater of this Yeah 

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house. 
So it's like a it's a Manor 

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house or a plantation home, 
whatever. 

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And one person is playing the 
killer and the other three 

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players cooperatively are 
playing together as the 

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survivor. 
So the the interesting thing in 

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this game is there are 
scenarios. 

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So whoever the one player is, 
they could be the serial killer,

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they could be the ninja, they 
could be ghost, they could be 

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the butcher, the monster. 
So there's a lot of 

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replayability and then there's 
like 10 or 12 survivors that you

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can choose from. 
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combinations. 
So we're running around the 

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mansion, there's a map on our 
side of the board with our 

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minis. 
We have a miniature for the for 

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the monster on the other side of
the board. 

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For the one player who's the 
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he can't see where any of us 
are. 

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So when we move, sometimes we 
make noise. 

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And this is similar to Nemesis. 
You'll have a noise token you 

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put down. 
So we get one action and we have

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a list of what they are. 
You particularly take one, so we

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take our actions. 
When we're done, we draw two 

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cards from the clue deck. 
We're looking for six keys and a

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map, so. 
You're working together. 

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We're all working together and 
then when we're done, we have to

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tell the opposing player, the 
monster player, if we made noise

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and what rooms we made them in, 
OK, because he has access to 

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that information and that's it. 
But he can hear us talking to 

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each other. 
He's just tracking and. 

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He could see us moving as we 
reach to move our pieces. 

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He could be like, I just saw PJ 
and it looks like, oh, there's a

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lot of. 
Wiggling over here, I'm really. 

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Wiggling. 
There's a lot of fake, you know,

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you know, And then you try not 
to communicate. 

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So you try to do this. 
Yeah. 

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And. 
And while we're making these 

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humming noises, we're pointing 
at what we want to do. 

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Right. 
Because you don't want to give 

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him anything. 
Yeah. 

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And so we, we came out 
victorious. 

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It was Dan from board games, 
Weymouth, Dan and Paige. 

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I got to visit. 
I got to visit with them because

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they picked us up at the hotel 
and took us to Cajun Con, so we 

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had some time to socialize 
beforehand. 

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So I was able to dive into a 
game with Dan and Dan had 

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already said he was bringing 
terror scape and I knew I wanted

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to play that again. 
It's worthy it. 

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Has an inbuilt that inbuilt 
dice. 

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Dice There's a dice tower built 
into the Manor that's runs 

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across the. 2 1/2 foot by 8 
inches isn't it? 

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It's big. 
It's a big bit of kick. 

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It's it's beautiful. 
It's it's amazing. 

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And so that is Terror. 
Scape by Ice makes Games. 

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Is that is that, was that a 
Kickstarter? 

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I think it was, yeah. 
I've not heard of it until I've 

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never even seen it. 
I was like, wow, this. 

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Is neither. 
Neither had I neither had I. 

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So check it out. 
Yeah. 

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And I've not met Peyton Dan 
before. 

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Yeah. 
So that was a pleasure. 

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I am sure we're going to see 
more of those guys. 

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You met a lot of new people, 
didn't you? 

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A lot, a lot of folks came in 
specifically for this that well,

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what that don't normally come to
South Hampton. 

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So that was good. 
We got some new and they're only

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an hour away. 
So yeah, I mean, that is 

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literally Southampton. 
So what about you? 

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What was the first game you 
played Cage of Khan? 

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So we so we had Cassie stay 
here. 

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So we played some games before 
we got to Cajun Khan. 

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Oh yeah, but they were just 
Finners. 

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But we did get a Gaming of 
Enchanted Plumes, which is all 

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about the feathers of a Peacock,
which. 

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Was a Peacock. 
Highly recommend just a card 

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drafting playing game trying to 
make the best scoring plume or 

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plumes of a Peacock. 
I like it. 

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That was good. 
And we played Isle of Cat to 

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explore and draw because why 
would you set up the full game 

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when you could just open a pack 
of cards in 10 minutes? 

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That was that. 
And then we got to Cajun Con and

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played Enchanted Plumes again. 
So that cheated. 

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But the first proper game we 
played was Kunihora. 

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Yeah, I know. 
Only a few episodes ago, Episode

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73 or 72. 
I think it was 73. 

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We did an entire episode. 
Juan Kunihora. 

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Got teach that to Paige Dizz 
from the Salamence group and her

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friend Dave, who'd never played 
before either. 

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So, epic game. 
Was that was that your first 

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time playing in a four player? 
No, no it. 

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Was yeah, I think 3 is a sweet 
spot still. 

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Three is a sweet spot. 
But it was really close, with 

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five, five points separating us.
But Paige got a win. 

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She did she. 
Did and you know, I think, you 

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know, I think she said it's not 
the sort of game that she'd 

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normally play. 
Decided just to focus on the 

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mining and kicked kicked ass. 
So that was really good. 

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But so that was a bit of a beast
of the game and I find that that

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cons generally you don't get 
many of those games out because 

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everyone's moving around. 
Do you want to play more games? 

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As many as sure as possible. 
So sounds a good couple of 

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hours, though I think we need 
break for some food. 

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So. 
There was a little break. 

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Everyone brings their part of 
the the lunch, so everyone ate 

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bits and bobs. 
So after we played Terror Scape 

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I, I just started bouncing from 
table to table and visiting with

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people while while they were 
waiting for their turn. 

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Yeah, there's so many people 
there and I'm meeting them all, 

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most of them for the first time 
and trying to get in FaceTime. 

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But I got the pleasure to what 
we both did, got the pleasure of

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meeting Matt and Zara Mazza 
games. 

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That was. 
Just some of the most lovely 

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people. 
Oh gosh, was so great, just to 

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visit with them and visit with 
them a lot. 

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And they were like, they really 
wanted to teach us Kavango 

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because they brought with. 
The like the final. 

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With the final final pre 
production something. 

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Yeah. 
And and we did that. 

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We did that five player. 
So it was one of the IT was the 

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only game you and I played 
together at Cajun Con. 

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If I. 
Remember it felt it felt fit in 

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that that was the game that we 
got in right and I jumped in 

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just to do about to start. 
Writers were about to start 

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because Matt was going to play, 
yeah, and Zara were going to 

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play. 
It felt. 

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I'm glad. 
I'm glad you stepped. 

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In we should have played that 
game together. 

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That was good, we'll say. 
It's got the new new art, new 

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art, the new secret objectives. 
New secret objectives got. 

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The player boards that now have 
the tuck in mechanic, so if you 

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do when you tuck your cards away
so they're all beautifully lined

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up like. 
I beautifully. 

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Lined. 
Or you can play on the other 

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side like the original, and they
can just, you know, be put on. 

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And then they just sit on the 
mat. 

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They're not tucked into place. 
So a gust of wind or you tap the

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table or whatever, the cards can
slide. 

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And I had. 
I had the one the most. 

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Everything just fell into place.
So I've never filled the entire 

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board apart from I think 1 space
you did so an awesome time EV 

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one. 
I think everyone built all of 

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the developments every we'd 
filled up completely the. 

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Climate change projection. 
Climate change, Yeah, 

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projection. 
I think everyone scores all the 

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animals. 
And I think we we did play it 

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with like kind of the was it the
beginner settings. 

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We did, yeah. 
We went back and forth between 

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that we. 
Should probably have gone for 

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medium or even hard with no 
money as we're seasoned gamers. 

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I agree. 
So I would suggest that you go 

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back and listen to episode 52. 
Episode 52. 

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I was. 
I was going through our list of 

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episodes. 
That is when we had Matt and 

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Zara on. 
That was back in September of 

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last year, and they talked about
Cavango. 

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Before they launched, yeah. 
And I can tell you that game is 

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fantastic. 
I got to play with my wife and 

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with Gareth. 
Come on. 

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And Cassie. 
And Cassie and Zara, Yeah. 

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And then Zara stepped out and 
Matt took over. 

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Yeah. 
So, you know, I'm happy to say I

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lost to the designers of the 
game. 

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I'll have to say that I beat the
designers of the game. 

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You did. 
You got a special card. 

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That says Congrats on getting 
the high score ever the scene. 

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Lots of Zara. 
Look at that. 

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Look at that. 
I've set the record at Cajun 

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Con. 
But I'm going to get the real 

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win. 
You got a box. 

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Because I'm going to get the box
and I'm going to get Matt and 

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Zara stay at my house for a week
when they're in the States, so 

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you can have your little card 
with the. 

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Yeah, we'll always be there. 
Yeah, whatever school was, let's

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put it down, 232. 
Oh my gosh. 

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Yeah. 
And I was down what, near the 

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bottom at 171? 
Yeah, I think it's still a 

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pretty respectable score. 
That's what you said, yeah. 

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Yeah, I mean the average winning
score is 170 on the app. 

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We have. 
Wow. 

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So like normally you would have.
Won that it was one above 

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average. 
The cards did come in. 

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It was they. 
They really did. 

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They just, yeah, it just worked 
mostly. 

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Well, I had AI had, I had, I had
a private goal of looking for 

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migratory, the migratory 
keyword. 

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And they weren't, they weren't 
coming. 

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And so I just started like, I'm 
going to play these animals 

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because I love these animals. 
Why not? 

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Yeah, you know, so I kind of did
my own thing. 

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But that was Cavango. 
That was an amazing experience. 

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And played really well at 5. 
We've played it at two. 

441
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Yeah, there's hardly any 
downtime apart from a little bit

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of admin when your recent cards 
out, right? 

443
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,120
Yeah, if you haven't backed it. 
Is there a late pledge on this? 

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I don't. 
Know you know that's a good 

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question I. 
Have to find out? 

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We'll put that in the chat. 
We'll put that in the in the 

447
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comments. 
We'll let you know. 

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If not, I think it's fulfilling 
across the summer, so look out 

449
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for it. 
The guys are going to be Essen. 

450
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They will be there too and they 
will be at PAX Unplugged, OK, in

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December in Philadelphia. 
So that's when they're going to 

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be coming to the states. 
So, So for our Americans, y'all 

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look out for that. 
Yeah, definitely. 

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Mazazza will be at PAX. 
What else do we play? 

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I played, I played. 
I didn't play. 

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Many new to me games, no. 
In fact, only played only played

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one. 
Really. 

458
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,000
What did you end up teaching? 
A lot of games? 

459
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,720
I played Jamaica, which is a 
really old. 

460
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,200
Game I saw you were playing 
that. 

461
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,360
I've never played Jamaica and I 
was like, oh, but I was in the 

462
00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:41,960
middle of something. 
Yeah, and played it with one, I 

463
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,040
think Max, what's the Max 
playing? 

464
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,600
Cam, I think played with six. 
Yeah, played with six, which is 

465
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,880
just, it's like from 2007, as I 
learned from Jenny, he's played 

466
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:54,920
it with her kids a lot. 
It's a boat racing game around 

467
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,200
this island looking to grab 
treasure. 

468
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,760
You have a a deck of cards, you 
draw three, play one, and 

469
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,640
there's a morning action, 
afternoon action, and either 

470
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,040
you're trying to find food, 
you're trying to get gold, get 

471
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,560
your cannons for battling, and 
just survive by getting around 

472
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,960
the island. 
But every space you have to pay 

473
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,800
coinage, you have to pay 
different amounts of food. 

474
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,000
If you can't, you go back a 
space and you have to pay that 

475
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,200
space. 
You can't pay that space. 

476
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:26,040
You have to go back again. 
So I think Gareth ended up just 

477
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,480
following us around the islands 
because the very first move we 

478
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,280
went forward and went pretty 
much back to the start and just 

479
00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:34,200
tagged behind us. 
But yeah, it's a lot of fun. 

480
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,600
It's lightweight. 
I mean, it's nothing but as a 

481
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,640
group of six at a con, it's that
kind of game that it's not 

482
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:45,080
complicated. 
You get on with and being an 

483
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,080
older game, I'm glad I've ticked
it off my list. 

484
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,600
Well, you played, you played a 
comic game. 

485
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,400
I did, But so Speaking of boats,
I just quickly want to talk 

486
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,760
about a game that I thought 
looked amazing. 

487
00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,320
Neither of us got a chance to 
play, and that's plunder. 

488
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,720
I don't know if you saw them 
playing it, Carrie. 

489
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,360
Oh, you do have a copy. 
That game is incredible. 

490
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:09,160
You're like pirates and you, so 
you have the hull of a ship and 

491
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:14,760
you can enhance it, right, with 
sails and tags for crew members 

492
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,880
and cannons, and you're sailing 
around. 

493
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,720
I think at one point I walked up
to visit with everyone playing. 

494
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,200
And your wife, Carrie, she had 
just played a card where 

495
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,760
everyone had to give her all 
their gold. 

496
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,640
Just here, give it to me. 
Boom. 

497
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,280
I'm like. 
Wow, there's there's a few, 

498
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,960
yeah. 
I mean it's, I've got nothing 

499
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,160
new. 
Mechanic wise, it's a bit no, 

500
00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:37,640
but it's a bit, yeah, it is 
beautiful component wise, Yeah. 

501
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,120
It's a little bit of Catan 
because you're kind of 

502
00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,680
collecting cards and trading. 
Is that right? 

503
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:49,000
It's a bit of dice rolling, so 
mechanically it's nothing new, 

504
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,880
but production wise. 
It had a beautiful presence. 

505
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,000
It looks great and that's what 
stood out to me, but. 

506
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,400
It is that kind of. 
I think if you've got new gamers

507
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,520
or family and friends over, it's
got so many mechanics they'll be

508
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,200
used to. 
I'm sure it's just a good 

509
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,240
family. 
So it's accessible. 

510
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,160
It's an accessible game that's a
little bit more advanced than 

511
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,720
Bhutan, but it's similar enough 
that you'd be familiar. 

512
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:09,760
With but it has got awesome. 
Bats. 

513
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,280
Yeah. 
No, it really does. 

514
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,480
So that is going to be the 
meeble to meeble. 

515
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,200
Cajun Con. 
Honorable Mention plumbing. 

516
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,160
It's a great one to mention. 
Right, it was. 

517
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:22,040
It was really cool. 
Following Kavango, there was in 

518
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,320
the chat group ahead of Cajun 
Con. 

519
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,640
There were requests, many 
requests for Here We Go, an 

520
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,320
Obsession tournament. 
Tournament, Yeah. 

521
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,280
Who won, by the way? 
Well, I don't think we finished.

522
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,120
We didn't. 
We didn't quite finish the 

523
00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:39,400
tournament. 
Running out of time. 

524
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,360
So essentially what happened was
we had two games of obsession 

525
00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:45,080
going on simultaneously. 
Players. 

526
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,560
As well. 
No one of them. 

527
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,440
Ours was six player. 
Oh, you played with the 

528
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:51,960
expansion? 
We played upstairs. 

529
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,320
Downstairs. 
Exactly. 

530
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,320
That's the only way to play I. 
Know, but that takes time with 

531
00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:58,080
six. 
That's why you didn't finish. 

532
00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,520
No, we finished our game, I 
thought. 

533
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,520
Somebody we. 
Didn't finish the tournament. 

534
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,280
So three games played wasn't 
there. 

535
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,960
There was, I'm thinking. 
We got two simultaneous that 

536
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,320
didn't finish and the third game
didn't finish. 

537
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,800
My wife, Katie won. 
Obsession. 

538
00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:15,160
She won. 
She. 

539
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,720
So she won our round. 
First round. 

540
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,440
I don't know who won the other 
game. 

541
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,200
That page page one. 
So we need to, we need to get 

542
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,240
the schools. 
Then we'll know whether who the 

543
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,040
true Obsession champion is. 
So I hope Dan. 

544
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,240
I know that Dan won a game of 
spots that he played and I hope 

545
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,720
he won another game. 
Otherwise, Paige beat him two 

546
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,440
to. 1. 
Yeah. 

547
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,120
So there was a lot of obsession 
going on. 

548
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,000
I did not do a British accent. 
Didn't you? 

549
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,320
I did not. 
This was very upset with me. 

550
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,800
Yeah. 
You promised. 

551
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,160
We did not. 
We did not dress up, you know, 

552
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,760
undressed up. 
That was disappointing. 

553
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,440
That's very British though. 
I mean, we have good ideas, but.

554
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:53,680
No, I know. 
Oh no. 

555
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:54,520
I'm not really dressing. 
Up. 

556
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,720
Yeah, yeah, but that's OK. 
But so we played Obsession, and 

557
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,360
I don't think we need to say 
anything about it, because you 

558
00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:00,680
and I have talked about 
obsession. 

559
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,080
No, I think the table I taught 
they was only only Cassie had 

560
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,760
played before. 
OK, so we got a whole group of 

561
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,040
newcomers, so we. 
We got them set up and it was we

562
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,280
only played five, so I didn't 
put the expansion in. 

563
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,480
So what? 
What was interesting in our 

564
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,120
table Matins Zara played as a 
team because we didn't have 

565
00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:21,760
enough players. 
So we had seven players but we 

566
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,760
didn't have enough houses. 
So and Matins are wanted 

567
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,680
desperately to learn obsession. 
So we taught them that's. 

568
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:29,800
Right. 
I turned up at one point and I 

569
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,880
was trying to help them play 
hands, but I had to go and play 

570
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,480
my other turn, so I left George 
in charge. 

571
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,440
And then Dan was at our table 
and he was playing it for the 

572
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:41,400
first game as well. 
So we introduced obsession to a 

573
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,080
lot of. 
New people. 

574
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,040
Yeah, it was good. 
Yeah, I. 

575
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,080
Think that's accepting? 
Actually, once you get, once 

576
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,280
you've got people who have at 
least two or three turns, yeah, 

577
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,440
people got it because it's not 
complicated, but it is no in 

578
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,680
those chains and it's the 
satisfaction of managing the 

579
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,760
deck. 
When when Matt and Zara said 

580
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,920
look at the hands, I was like, 
man, you've got like you've got 

581
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,560
like 1520 cards here. 
Like I was trying to find the 

582
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,560
pattern. 
They had all these unwanted 

583
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,000
gaps. 
But all the Americans? 

584
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:05,280
Yeah, they did. 
They did. 

585
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,600
It didn't help that the American
was sitting across from them. 

586
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,920
But if you want to hear more 
about Obsession, go to episode 

587
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,200
57. 
Where we chat with Dan. 

588
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,960
We chat with Dan Halligan, the 
designer, the inventor, the 

589
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:25,240
creator of Obsession, a world 
that you and I it's dear to our 

590
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,160
hearts. 
Now if Dan had a turned up 

591
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,000
occasion con, that would have 
been a coup, wouldn't it? 

592
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,840
Oh. 
Imagine that Kavango with 

593
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,480
Matanzani followed by obsession 
with Dan. 

594
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,920
And then Heather and Heather's, 
I guess. 

595
00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:41,000
So Heather's game, Apostocracy. 
She had someone playing it. 

596
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,080
We've talked about it is set in 
the Victorian period, whereas 

597
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,480
obsessions more kind of late 
Victorian, early Edwardian. 

598
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,840
So those are two complementary 
games. 

599
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,120
The goal is to find a third 
game, either a game set in the 

600
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,320
Regency period that you would 
start your day with, or 

601
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,640
something set in the early 20th 
century. 

602
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,360
Rococo's too early, and that's 
France. 

603
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,840
Yeah, I know, but I'm trying to 
find. 

604
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:09,760
I know what you're saying. 
It's. 

605
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,960
Historical. 
So you play Apostocracy, you 

606
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,160
play Obsession. 
We need a third game to have a 

607
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:22,760
trio for a beautiful day. 
So there is a possible game set 

608
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,720
in the Regency period connected 
to Jane Austen, and it's there's

609
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,920
a little card game called Marry 
Mr. Darcy. 

610
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,480
I don't like it, so I don't have
a lot to say about it, but I've 

611
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,840
played it and I'm not really a 
big fan. 

612
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,880
That's because I'm not a big fan
of Jane Austen and her 

613
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,880
literature. 
Not that the game is bad. 

614
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,040
He went to Winter Cathedral and 
he saw. 

615
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,560
I saw the I did see the the 
grave stone. 

616
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,920
Where she died. 
The gravestone of Jane Austen 

617
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,520
and the house where she died. 
You know, we're going to, we're 

618
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,440
going to see where she lived for
six years in Bath. 

619
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:58,560
Oh. 
Yeah. 

620
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,320
Because we're leaving 
Southampton and. 

621
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,520
Heading you're heading north. 
We're heading, yes, we're going 

622
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:03,000
to go north. 
It's. 

623
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,640
Already N is it just it's up. 
I mean, you know, north, it's an

624
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,280
hour. 
It's North by Southampton 

625
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,080
standards, which is. 
Pretty much, pretty much, pretty

626
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,320
much in terms of distance. 
What I have learned is that the 

627
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,480
nation of England is roughly the
size of the state of Illinois 

628
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,160
for our American friends, right?
It's a long way to drive if you 

629
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,200
have to leave. 
It is if you're going extreme NS

630
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,480
like you know. 
Like an hour away. 

631
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:31,720
Yeah, that is not So what did 
you play next after The 

632
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,480
Obsession I? 
I taught Let's go to Japan. 

633
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,280
You taught it which? 
Is the third three times each 

634
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:41,720
day I've taught let's go to 
Japan because it, I mean it 

635
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,200
looks beautiful. 
The production is is off the 

636
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,000
roof, but it in essence it is 
just a card game. 

637
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,880
But it teaches really well. 
Everyone always has a good time.

638
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,960
And the best part is telling the
story. 

639
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,960
At the end of the trip you had. 
Yes. 

640
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:03,560
And yesterday I played with 
George and Lizzie and Jenny and 

641
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,120
number of times when we end up 
in the same place at the same 

642
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,720
time without knowing about it. 
Oh, right. 

643
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,000
George, I'm here, I'm here 
Wednesday afternoon, I'm at 

644
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,280
Wednesday afternoon. 
We're both hanging out in some 

645
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,640
garden. 
And then it turned out Jenny and

646
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,160
Lizzie end up at a cat cafe on a
Thursday morning and it's like, 

647
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,520
this is like beautiful. 
So you kind of goes, there's 

648
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,320
moments of just telling the 
story of your of what has been I

649
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,120
guess planning a trip to Japan. 
But Yep, there has to be a 

650
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,440
version playing a trip to to the
uki mean it's it's just it's 

651
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,240
just going to. 
Happen that was just going to 

652
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,760
happen. 
I could probably write the 

653
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,920
content for that after my 2 
weeks. 

654
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,080
Here at least the southern part.
Right of it. 

655
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,240
Yes, I could. 
Yeah. 

656
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:40,880
Play. 
Jamaica. 

657
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,360
And then we were just filling. 
Sometimes we played hidden 

658
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,040
Leaders. 
Oh yeah, which is next to me 

659
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,480
here, which is about a couple of
years old now. 

660
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,760
It's a few years. 
Old you got, you got. 

661
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,000
You pick a side by giving a 
cards and then you need to 

662
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:03,280
manipulate your tableau or your 
yeah table to end up with the 

663
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,200
winnings, the winning sides. 
But you can't see everyone 

664
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,840
else's cards so you don't know 
who else is on your same team as

665
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,680
you. 
Not team, but he's also looking 

666
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,640
to win. 
So he played that actually like 

667
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:17,840
a 30 minute game, but then we 
finished at the venue. 

668
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,920
I finished the game with 9 tiles
panic because in about 5 minutes

669
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:25,240
we had to start backing up and 
then that was that was the end 

670
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,920
of there. 
And then we played some game. 

671
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,120
What did you ask? 
Do you play before? 

672
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,160
We I played one last game at the
venue, so before that before 

673
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:38,640
that So this So Cajun Con was 
like the 7th or 8th day in 

674
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,040
England. 
Yeah, OK, since we originally 

675
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,440
arrived and I had finally fish 
and chips. 

676
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,720
Oh yeah, you, didn't you? 
I mean, there's a big portion. 

677
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,400
Right. 
I think the portions would just 

678
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,520
make Americans stop and be like 
that's too much, really. 

679
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,400
Well, that is a. 
That's saying something. 

680
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,840
That was a lot of chips. 
A lot of chips. 

681
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,240
Yeah, I think, I think those 
portions in there are designed 

682
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,800
for a family, so like. 
We're like a family of two. 

683
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,840
Family of four and then people 
were buying one for themselves. 

684
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,920
Yeah, because nobody warned it. 
Right, Because we we haven't 

685
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,240
been there for a long time. 
When you watch travel shows in 

686
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,840
America, whether on Netflix, 
whether PBS, what, whatever, 

687
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,560
you're watching, right? 
You know, and they all go to 

688
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,960
London, they go to England, they
get, they get fish and chips. 

689
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,640
It's wrapped in like newspaper 
and it's like a piece of fish 

690
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,520
and some chips and it's one 
person. 

691
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:29,440
It's. 
And that's what I was 

692
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,760
envisioning. 
So my wife and I each got one 

693
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,480
and we're like, this is going to
feed 8. 

694
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,560
Yeah. 
But everyone else in the 

695
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,160
building did the same thing, so 
clearly I was not, you know? 

696
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,360
Well, Lizzie came back. 
She goes, I've got chips and 

697
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,400
she's taken her butt. 
A plateful. 

698
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,960
And there was another whole bag.
And I was. 

699
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,760
Like whole bag. 
So anyway, I fed myself so. 

700
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,080
We ate and then I don't know 
what happened to the waste, but 

701
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,200
it may have made it in the trash
bin. 

702
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,480
But, and then our our good 
friend meeting him for the first

703
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:03,000
time coming down from the bath 
area is Reese. 

704
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,400
Hey Reese, that is at Robat 
Games. 

705
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,440
He and I had been chatting. 
He's been a long time listener 

706
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,000
of the show and a big fan. 
And so he and I've been chatting

707
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,560
a lot for like over a year. 
We finally got to meet and he 

708
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:22,320
taught us Age of Comics. 
Like him and SAT and what you 

709
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,840
guys pay for 5 minutes. 
That is a solid game. 

710
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,400
Yeah, medium weight. 
Yeah, yeah, but it is. 

711
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,800
Oh, what did, how did how did 
Katie describe it this morning 

712
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,960
over breakfast? 
It is a perfect. 

713
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,360
That's not the word she used, 
but she used a really good word 

714
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,400
because she's smarter than me 
and picks better words. 

715
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,159
But she was talking about how it
is is a fantastic quintessential

716
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,320
worker placement game. 
And the theme? 

717
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,360
It's so rich. 
Yeah, it was good. 

718
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,360
From what I could see, 
everything was just. 

719
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,040
Like tied together. 
Yeah, I think they're talking a 

720
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,360
bit about ink. 
Yeah, you developing like better

721
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,760
ink colours, developing ideas. 
You have writers and artists. 

722
00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:05,360
It's just really incredible. 
You're you're a publisher of a 

723
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:06,880
comic book at a comic book 
house. 

724
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,640
Did you finish? 
We did not. 

725
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,360
We were one round shy, one round
shy. 

726
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,640
That's because the end of the 
day we had to pack up so. 

727
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,680
Yeah, it's 2.56. 
Not a bad guess. 

728
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,640
Really, really good game. 
Let's play. 3. 

729
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:20,840
Thank you Reese for teaching. 
Us. 

730
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:25,200
He's a good teacher as well. 
He's amazing, I mean. 

731
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,720
And B&C&D? 
Yeah, I've never had a game that

732
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:34,400
was taught so seamless and 
structured and just beautiful. 

733
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,600
The other thing I like about it,
not only was this, this 

734
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,360
quintessential worker placement,
it had a Lacerta esque feel like

735
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,600
you need to do action A before 
you can even achieve action B. 

736
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,000
So there were actions that need 
action economy, I believe. 

737
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,320
Yes, you have to do this. 
They were step by step actions 

738
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,160
that needed to be done, and it 
was just a beautiful dance of 

739
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,160
publishing illustrated works, 
yeah. 

740
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,520
There's no it wasn't tied to any
comic. 

741
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:06,440
There's. 
Nothing. 

742
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:11,400
No, it's tied to the golden age 
of comics in Manhattan in New 

743
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,240
New York, like the 1930s. 
You definitely got that. 

744
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,920
It had that pulp. 
It's more more pulp novel than 

745
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,320
than comic books, the way we 
think about. 

746
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,400
The recognizable, but it will 
look like, Yeah, yeah, old 

747
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:25,400
school. 
Comic. 

748
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:26,800
Beautiful. 
Beautiful, right? 

749
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,080
Those components. 
Lovely. 

750
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,200
Those. 
So those are the mastery what 

751
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,960
what I showed you the heavy 
metal banners were the 

752
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:40,120
masteries. 
So there's six genres, science 

753
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:46,360
fiction, westerns, romance, 
horror, etcetera. 

754
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:52,600
And so when you've published the
most comics in that genre, you 

755
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,240
get that master tag, which gives
you one more fan, which makes 

756
00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:00,760
your comics in that genre more 
valuable, therefore more points 

757
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,280
at the end of the game. 
And there were just these 

758
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,360
beautiful metal, totally 
unnecessary in terms of game 

759
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,800
kit. 
I don't think I've seen 

760
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,200
completely things like that 
before. 

761
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,000
I don't. 
Know what material they're made 

762
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,720
of? 
But it was metal but. 

763
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,040
They It was metal. 
It was not computer. 

764
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,080
It was definitely not computer. 
Yes, something like that. 

765
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,840
So, but that was the last game 
of at the venue. 

766
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,120
Yeah, then we headed back to 
where everyone seemed to be 

767
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,240
staying. 
Yes, apart from Matt and Zara. 

768
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,200
Yes. 
And we played. 

769
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,280
We had 11 people. 
We had 11 people at around the 

770
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,480
table. 
And you introduced this game. 

771
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,680
I never heard of it. 
Is it we whimsical. 

772
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,360
Is that cinema? 
The full title. 

773
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,200
Oh, here we. 
Go game about we whimsical 

774
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:53,760
creatures and trying to identify
them after someone makes noises.

775
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,400
I'm sorry, that's the title. 
Of the game, in case you missed 

776
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,480
it, a game about we whimsical 
creatures and trying to identify

777
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,760
them after somebody makes 
noises. 

778
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,320
So that's a full title. 
And that and that is the 

779
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,280
description of the. 
Game, that is, That is. 

780
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,200
That is description of the game 
with the other title. 

781
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:16,840
It's packing cards. 
Bez is the designer and you lay 

782
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:21,560
out five number cards. 
Lots of illustrations by Bez and

783
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,680
people draw a card secretly. 
They look at the number that 

784
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,360
represents that creature. 
And it's a number like 1:00 to 

785
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,960
5:00. 
One to five there was you can't 

786
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,120
make it more complicated with 
more. 

787
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,880
And then people sit there and 
make a silly noise and we all 

788
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,640
had to go each. 
I think everyone had to go each,

789
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,960
so a few people. 
There were some abstentions. 

790
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,160
You know, it's not, not for 
everybody. 

791
00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:46,800
And there were some new 
creatures and some new sounds 

792
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:47,920
that we've never witnessed 
before. 

793
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,400
Well, the reality is that these 
are, these are drawings, these 

794
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:55,720
are original drawings by Bez. 
And so they're not, well, 

795
00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:59,400
they're based on real animals, 
creatures and people. 

796
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,240
In fact, we found one that looks
like me. 

797
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,000
I was about to say there was one
that looked like you, I mean. 

798
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,760
With like 4 legs and this really
weird ear. 

799
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,880
With a cap it would have. 
Been with a cap, it would have 

800
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,640
been me. 
In fact, I think I held up the 

801
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,240
card and made the. 
Face That was on it, yeah. 

802
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,200
So thankfully no one drew that 
and. 

803
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,720
Mocked me make the noise of a. 
But yeah, you. 

804
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:24,720
So you've got to make you have 
to imagine when it's your turn, 

805
00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:27,280
you have to imagine. 
You have to make the noise that 

806
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:34,400
you think this whimsical 
creature sounds like. 

807
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,080
Yeah, and you've got, like, lots
of teeth, lots of eyes. 

808
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,720
I'm just, I'm, I'm distracted by
the fact that you're doodling. 

809
00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:43,120
And what I love about that is 
that when we're normally 

810
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,880
recording when I'm back home in 
the US, yeah, I doodle like just

811
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,400
like, so it means that we're 
both doodling. 

812
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,240
It's just a see it. 
It's like, wait. 

813
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,160
It's just a concentration. 
Yeah, which is perfect for We 

814
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,520
whimsical or we a game about we 
whimsical. 

815
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,760
There's other games in the 
series, but they're like a 

816
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,320
fiver. 
It's a pack of cards you package

817
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,000
in his literature. 
It's a zip lock bag and. 

818
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,920
Check out UK Games Expo and Bezi
Stand. 

819
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:15,440
She's always in red, Everyone is
on red on the stands and it's so

820
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:16,880
creative. 
Is it Bez it? 

821
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:20,960
Is it Bez Games? 
Or Bez Yeah, Bez Games on 

822
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,840
Instagram. 
I think it's Bez Games on 

823
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,480
Instagram. 
I did, yeah, I did tag. 

824
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,960
So check out my stories. 
That's Bez right? 

825
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,880
Bez. 
OK Bez Bez. 

826
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,240
Games. 
I'm sure it's Bez Games. 

827
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:32,600
All right, so check that. 
Out. 

828
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:34,840
But yeah, those are really 
creative, silly games. 

829
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,200
And then the last game we played
was a team game because it was a

830
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:40,760
lot of us. 
There was wavelength. 

831
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,120
Was wavelength. 
Which Which was fun. 

832
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:48,360
It was just a guessing game. 
There's a card that says 

833
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,560
something easy, something hard, 
and then you spin the dial. 

834
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,760
Who is going to give the clue 
and see where this, I guess 

835
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,720
scoring zone is? 
Yes, and they have to give a 

836
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:04,200
clue that leads their team to 
position the dull that's now 

837
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:09,200
hidden to where that score was. 
And there were some pretty good 

838
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,040
clues. 
There were some. 

839
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,800
Really good, Like. 
Like literally one. 

840
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,680
No error on the on the mark. 
On both teams, yeah. 

841
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,680
The game was tight. 
I think it was like it was the. 

842
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,800
One point. 
At the end of the game, it was 

843
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,200
6/6 and the tiebreaker. 
I failed. 

844
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,360
But you know, we're going to, 
we're going to tie this back to 

845
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,000
the very beginning of this 
episode. 

846
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,520
OK, 'cause I know our listeners 
are wondering, right? 

847
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,680
That's good. 
So this is how it happened. 

848
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,520
Where did the word blurple come 
from? 

849
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,240
So you and I were on the same 
team and you were like, you're 

850
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:43,360
the A-Team. 
No? 

851
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,240
At first, you called us the. 
A-Team. 

852
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,560
Oh, they were the A-Team. 
We're. 

853
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,520
We're not the VA team. 
And then you said we're the blue

854
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,800
team and I was like, no, we're 
the purple team. 

855
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,160
And then we both look at each 
other and said simultaneously 

856
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,320
blurple. 
And so we decided that the title

857
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,680
of this episode is blurple 
because. 

858
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:03,320
It's a team game. 
Team game. 

859
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:09,000
Yeah, so the so the beauty of a 
Cajun invasion, unlike unlike a 

860
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,640
military invasion, there's not 
going to be an occupation or 

861
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,880
anything. 
It's more like, it's more like a

862
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,760
cooperative. 
And then you leave again. 

863
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,080
Right. 
I don't know if there's, you 

864
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,960
know, guerrilla warfare. 
Guerrilla warfare, Right, So. 

865
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,560
So where you going next? 
We're heading to Bath in. 

866
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,640
We are going to visit the Roman 
Baths ancient Roman site. 

867
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,520
Looking forward to that. 
It's good, I know. 

868
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:34,960
Probably. 
People are wondering. 

869
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,360
I did cry when I saw the Algin 
Marvels. 

870
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,400
Oh, it's. 
Cute, isn't it? 

871
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,400
Well, I don't know that it's 
cute, but. 

872
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:42,760
I did. 
It's good. 

873
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,120
It just it really brought there.
There were a lot of emotions I 

874
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,760
was not prepared for in London 
as a whole. 

875
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,400
Like I had some really powerful 
connections to things, but I 

876
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,160
didn't know I was going to have 
and but. 

877
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,120
That one was particularly 
particularly. 

878
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,240
Yes, I was looking forward to it
and so I'm equally looking 

879
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:02,480
forward to the Roman bath 
because again, I dedicated so 

880
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,200
much time studying. 
You'll like it. 

881
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,080
I think I will. 
The museum itself is is really 

882
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:08,400
well. 
Done. 

883
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:12,880
And we will finally go to a 
board game cafe. 

884
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,240
We did not go to any in London. 
We saw board games in 

885
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:19,040
bookstores, which is not 
uncommon in the United States. 

886
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:24,120
We picked up a board game in or 
a card game in London. 

887
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,800
We bought Mind the Gap. 
So for my American friends that 

888
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,680
is the equivalent of Watch Your 
Step, and honestly I would. 

889
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,200
I much prefer, you know when 
you're in the tube, it's like 

890
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:39,160
you've reached Westminster 
Station, Mind the Gap. 

891
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,920
And I'm like, I love. 
That don't fall down, that 

892
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,640
right. 
And so we got to we picked that 

893
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,640
game up, but we haven't played 
it yet. 

894
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,120
But we're going to try to go to 
Thirsty Meatball. 

895
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:51,320
Oh yeah. 
Oh, it's good. 

896
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:53,520
Yeah. 
Yeah, yeah, Our good friend 

897
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:58,400
Danielle Reynolds, the designer 
of her story at Token Gamer on 

898
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,880
Instagram. 
She was in Bath last year. 

899
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,640
She said you got to go to the 
Thirsty meatball. 

900
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,360
Yeah, so. 
They're also one of my go to 

901
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,640
places to buy games online. 
Is that right? 

902
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,120
Yeah. 
OK, but they are. 

903
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,200
So what do you need me to pick 
up for you while I'm there? 

904
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,600
Not much. 
But they are on a on a Friday. 

905
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,880
They've normally got this rich 
releases and they often have a 

906
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,200
sprinkling of like Kickstarter 
things sometimes. 

907
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,000
Oh. 
And they're very reasonably 

908
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,360
priced for what is AI Guess a 
cafe. 

909
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,440
Their online pricing is really 
on the money. 

910
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:30,920
Thanks. 
So. 

911
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,000
Yeah, no. 
So yeah, they enjoy the Oxys. 

912
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,880
One in Oxford, there's one in 
Bath and others, but they're 

913
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,520
both excellent game vacations 
and then you're going to go 

914
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,680
visit. 
And then I'm going to Daventry 

915
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,880
and then we will be staying. 
Daventry, what a place to go. 

916
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,800
Oh yeah. 
You know, there's some really 

917
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,320
important people. 
In the epicenter of important 

918
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,160
people. 
The epicenter of important. 

919
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,400
People, if you're into blood on 
the clocks out, which I know, 

920
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,120
you're a huge fan. 
Oh yes, huge fans, Absolutely. 

921
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,480
But we will be staying with 
Craig and Becky. 

922
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,800
Get Into Games and misses Get 
into Games the host and Co host 

923
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:10,800
of Get Into Games on Air on Air,
a podcast that usually airs. 

924
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,600
A day. 
Before us. 

925
00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:15,560
So yeah, give them a listen. 
Yeah, definitely give a. 

926
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,280
Listen, you know I might. 
I don't know. 

927
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,800
You could do a podcast. 
There we could do a podcast if 

928
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,120
you time. 
I know because it's about. 

929
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,280
No, because it's going to go 
out. 

930
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,880
You got next week, yeah. 
I don't know how their timings 

931
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:26,520
are. 
I don't know. 

932
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,400
I don't know what Craig's plan 
is, but we're going to be there 

933
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:35,920
and then Brad and Susie, so my 
My Shelf Life and Beanie are 

934
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,960
going to come and join us so 
that we can play games. 

935
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,480
Yeah, because I think they were 
on holiday, weren't able to make

936
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,200
Cajun Con, but so they're going 
to make it up and down because 

937
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,800
that's going to be fun. 
It's going to be a good time. 

938
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:50,000
Hopefully we'll get to go up to 
Dice Box Cafe, where I think 

939
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000
Craig has been working. 
Oh yeah, of course it is. 

940
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,240
Yeah, so that would be fun. 
And then you head home on. 

941
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,680
Friday. 
What day is it today? 

942
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,360
Sunday. 
So today is Sunday. 

943
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,520
Well, if you're listening to 
this, it's Tuesday, but right 

944
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,960
now it's Sunday while we're 
recording this. 

945
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,760
Then you're and then when do you
go out to work? 

946
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:12,720
Yeah, I'm on Monday. 
Monday. 

947
00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:15,160
Yeah. 
Well, you know what? 

948
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,080
When? 
We have a longer rest. 

949
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,520
When we've done recording, why 
don't you tell my boss? 

950
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:19,480
I'll tell you. 
Boss. 

951
00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:20,920
She's. 
She's over there in the living 

952
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:22,200
room. 
You can tell her about it 

953
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,880
afterwards. 
Yeah, I think she may have some 

954
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:24,960
more time. 
Off need to rest. 

955
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:26,400
I do need to rest. 
Yeah. 

956
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:29,480
I don't know. 
I think she needs the rest, 

957
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,160
right? 
Yeah. 

958
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,800
I I can't remember if I 
mentioned it last week. 

959
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,640
In case I didn't on Thursday 
when we arrived in Southampton 

960
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,880
and we had dinner with everybody
at the Indian restaurant, it was

961
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,520
Katie and I's 15th wedding. 
That's why you're here it. 

962
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,840
Is why we're here. 
It's why we chose this time of 

963
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,800
year. 
It was to celebrate our 15th 

964
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,200
anniversary, so. 
Congratulations. 

965
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:53,920
Thank you, patient. 
Doesn't you think we? 

966
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:55,440
Discovered. 
No, absolutely. 

967
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,680
Absolutely. 
I I I got the better end of the 

968
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,200
deal. 
I'm the lucky 1. 

969
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,560
So yeah. 
Have you worked out with your 

970
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:05,960
first game you're going to play 
when you get home? 

971
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:07,840
No. 
We. 

972
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:08,280
We. 
We. 

973
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,400
There's so much craving for. 
No, there's so much England 

974
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,640
ahead of us still. 
You forgot about your Frost 

975
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,960
Haven campaign. 
I haven't forgotten about it 

976
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,600
because So Cajun Con yesterday 
would have been our normal cross

977
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:22,680
haven day. 
So you had to. 

978
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:24,640
Fix. 
So for David and Eric and 

979
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:30,160
Vincent back home, thank you for
your thank you for your patience

980
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,160
and letting us come to England. 
That's all right now. 

981
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,760
It's been a pleasure. 
Yeah. 

982
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,360
I guess we'll do this at once a 
year. 

983
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,600
We we should we should do this. 
It's a. 

984
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,480
Bit costly but. 
Yeah, no, but now you got to 

985
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:42,800
kind. 
Of meet me, Yeah, that's a good 

986
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,200
point to come to you via the 
Austin Grand Prix. 

987
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,880
Via the Austin Grand Prix. 
Yeah, it might not be this year,

988
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,040
might be next year. 
OK, it's a nice Grand Prix, so 

989
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:54,200
we should wave at the camera. 
Hi everyone. 

990
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,560
And thanks for listening 
everyone. 

991
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,640
And thanks for visiting the UK. 
Thanks for joining. 

992
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:03,040
Me next 5-5 days left, five days
left, five. 

993
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,240
Safe travels. 
Thank you. 

994
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,120
And going out in Bath. 
Yeah. 

995
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:13,240
Dude, dude checking out. 
Thanks everyone for listening. 

996
00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:16,000
Thanks guys. 
Thanks everyone for listening. 

997
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,680
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998
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:22,320
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999
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,440
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1000
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