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 --> 00:00:09,520 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 --> 00:00:20,320 hot topics, and much, much more. Hey and Happy New Year. 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,600 Welcome to Episode 64 Reflect and Project. 8 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:28,320 These are going to be our gems of 2023. 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,600 As always, I am PJ. And I'm Gareth. 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,400 I am so happy to see you. Happy New Year, Gareth. 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,760 Happy New Year. It's been a small break across 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:37,760 Christmas. Yep. 13 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,520 But we're back and I'm looking forward to, I guess, another 14 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,840 another year's worth of talking about ball games. 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:46,440 I mean, that's what we do best, right? 16 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,760 We are going to meet up this year, which is yes, we haven't 17 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:51,560 told anybody about, but it's going to happen. 18 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,600 It's going to happen. About two and a half 2 1/2 19 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,840 months away. Yeah, yes, yes. 20 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,160 It is less than three months away that you and I will be face 21 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,560 to face in the same room. Oh my gosh. 22 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,720 Cajun Cajun Con. I love it. 23 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,840 I love it. Cajun Con in Southampton. 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,520 That's right. You heard it here. 25 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,880 I will be in England the first two weeks of April. 26 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,520 If you didn't invite DM me Instagram. 27 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,560 Gareth is point man on what we are calling Cajun Con. 28 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:31,160 I believe that's the weekend of April the 6th I believe. 29 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,880 Going to check now, it's the. Saturday, April 6th I think is 30 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,720 the target date for. It is the 6th. 31 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:40,680 There you go guys. So y'all reach. 32 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,160 Out in area, more details will drop on the socials this week. 33 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,800 And this is open to everyone in on the Isle of the UK he wants 34 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,800 to fly in and then the conic, you know you want to fly from 35 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:53,800 the US. Fly in, Just come in. 36 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:55,040 Do it. It'll be great. 37 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,720 Do it'll be great. I'm trying to get some of our 38 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,120 friends from Eastern Europe to join us, but you know, we'll see 39 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,240 how that goes. So Hampton's easy to get to. 40 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,880 Heathrow, Bristol, Gatwick, Southampton's got an airport, 41 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,600 We've got ferries from the Isle of Wight. 42 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,000 You got trains? Trains. 43 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:17,200 You got it all. So, so the structure of this 44 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,920 episode, like I said, is our gems of 2023. 45 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,280 So Gareth and I are going to talk about We're both each going 46 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:30,200 to talk about our favorite game from 2023, our favorite episode 47 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,440 of our podcast from 2023, and our favorite moment from 2023, 48 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,360 which is very that's a wide open. 49 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,080 But so it's game, episode, and moment. 50 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:46,360 Those are our gems of 2023. But before we begin, Oh no. 51 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:47,960 Oh no. What's happened? 52 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:53,520 I was listening to episode 24 of our podcast. 53 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,920 I feels like it's a year ago. Did I make some? 54 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:59,800 It was so. What sweeping statements did we 55 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,360 make about 2023? That you're now going to pick 56 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,400 on. It was January 10th, 2023, and 57 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:07,200 we were. Looking we. 58 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,960 Were looking forward and so at first you said you're not going 59 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,200 to make any predictions because you don't know what 23/20/23 has 60 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,640 in store. However, though you had three 61 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,440 games that you were looking forward to. 62 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:24,000 Oh, John, then, yeah. So the first one was Oros. 63 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:26,080 Yes, I could. Yeah. 64 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,520 Did you enjoy that? Did you get, did you get it? 65 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,720 Yes, I got it. And we played it a lot to 66 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:31,880 player. OK. 67 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,480 Your second one was Beast, which I know you got. 68 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,520 Yeah. Yeah, that's arrived and we had 69 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,640 the privilege of the expansion arrive constant early. 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,600 And then your third game was Bantam West. 71 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:49,040 Which also arrived, but we haven't got to the table I need. 72 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,880 I need like 4 solid players. So what I'm hearing is Cajun Con 73 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,040 is a great opportunity for Bantam W to hit the table. 74 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,640 I think the challenge of Cajun Con is going to be what I mean 75 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,000 when you visit what games are we going to play? 76 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,920 Because time is fixed, right? And the obsession needs to be on 77 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:09,440 that list. It does. 78 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,120 It does need to be on the list. And whatever else we've talked 79 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,360 about, I mean, Twilight Imperium, that's 12 hours gone 80 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,640 already. We are not playing Twilight 81 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,839 Imperial, OK? And then banter W is another 82 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,040 three. So it's it's But before that, 83 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,200 it's interesting that you brought up Twilight Imperium, 84 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,720 because it leads me to my last point and my final question I 85 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,000 wanted to ask you. In episode 24, you talked about 86 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,600 Twilight Imperium and you said that you were going to play 87 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,640 Twilight Imperium four times in 2023. 88 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,000 Did you do that? No, hang my head in shame. 89 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,160 I'm just going to check. I think you played three. 90 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,240 No, no, definitely not that. I think we've played it once. 91 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,720 No, I know you played it twice in 2023, right? 92 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:04,400 Did we? It was, I think so. 93 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,280 I believe so. I'm looking. 94 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,400 I'm looking. I'm looking for my stats. 95 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,200 I'm pretty sure you put me under. 96 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,280 It you've put me under pressure. You know, that's why you and I 97 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:17,720 are such good friends, because I pressure you. 98 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,720 Constantly just just pad while we open up the board game Geek 99 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,000 stats. I mean board game stats app or 100 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,520 you don't own that stats app? We're, you know, it's 101 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,280 interesting. We're talking about getting 102 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:34,760 that. Yes, we played it twice. 103 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:40,120 OK, so the three games that you were looking forward to 104 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,920 receiving this year in 2020 or last year in 2023, you you've 105 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,040 got them all. If you play two of them, your 106 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,360 commitment to play Twilight Imperium 4 times, you only made 107 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,280 it 2 so. I've got to say, it's a miracle. 108 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:53,760 It's a miracle that two happened. 109 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:56,200 Yeah. But I will talk about one of 110 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,240 those games. You will. 111 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,920 You will. So you also talked about how 20 112 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,720 you and you also projected 2023 was going to be the year of 113 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,080 expansions. You talked a lot of in fact, you 114 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,120 listed a ton of expansions. Did I? 115 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,320 You did I I tried to write them all down. 116 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,680 There was an expansion to Hidden Legends. 117 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,160 Oh yeah, that's good. That's arrived. 118 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,240 The third expansion to canvas. That's all right. 119 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:23,680 That's been played a lot. These are good. 120 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:24,560 These are good. Yep. 121 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,920 And then the expansion to Wonderland War. 122 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,720 Hasn't arrived. Hasn't OK, so check. 123 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,360 Shipping shipping at the moment though. 124 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:37,800 We, as you recall, you backed Wonderland's War. 125 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,800 It was the first game you ever painted, I think in 2022 we did 126 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,680 an episode about that. So when the announcement for the 127 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:49,920 expansion came out, my wife and I backed Wonderland's War and 128 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,400 the expansion. We have them. 129 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,200 They arrived the day before Christmas Eve. 130 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,520 We have not opened the box yet. It's it's, it's sitting on the 131 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:58,760 table. It's like, ah, there's so many 132 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,920 things to get to and and we got to paint them first. 133 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,760 So you know you. You do need to. 134 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:06,600 Paint them. You got to paint them first. 135 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,280 Just just rewinding. We need to play Nemesis when 136 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,600 you're here as well and maybe you should bring the Christmas 137 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,080 hats just be because. I could put that in a pocket. 138 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:17,960 That's so. Easy. 139 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,520 Easy to bring. That is easy, yes. 140 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:22,480 Yeah. OK, we'll do that. 141 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,840 Anyway, yeah, I I mean that was a good segment. 142 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,360 I have no idea what I said. I yeah. 143 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:34,520 I talked about two games I was looking forward to in 2023, was 144 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,040 distilled from Patterson games, which I did receive and played. 145 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,600 A lot mega fan. And then Frost Haven, which did 146 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,160 arrive. Now how far did you get through? 147 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:52,000 So far we are. So last weekend we played We're 148 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,640 now at 32% complete, OK, And we unlocked a new character, so. 149 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,560 Based on that pace, we'll start another year and a half. 150 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:02,560 Oh yeah. Probably 2. 151 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,400 Probably so we can. We can reflect on the reflection 152 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,920 of your progress this time next year when you look back and say 153 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:15,280 that, so 32%, January 24, let's see what percent you are January 154 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:22,800 2525. 25 S Also a quick quick recap of just some stats. 155 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,480 We have 234 games in our collection. 156 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:35,880 We played 95.5% of our entire collection last year, right? 157 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,880 Yep. So what I realized after keeping 158 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,800 track over the past three years, if if 95% of my collection is 159 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,160 played, I'm happy. I call that a success. 160 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:52,080 I'm on 21, so I feel successful. Yeah, well, I mean, you're just 161 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,440 successful every day, so you know. 162 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,440 I definitely It's our it was our worst game game playing year for 163 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,320 quite a few years. Yeah, you had a busy. 164 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,320 Mostly the back end of the year, October, November. 165 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,680 You had a busy. You had a busy year to be. 166 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:11,080 Usually those months are our spike because it gets darker, 167 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,320 but I I commend you for your 95% or whatever it was a thank. 168 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:17,920 You thanks. We did better the year before. 169 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,480 So we ticked down slightly. I think we did 96 point 170 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,720 something in 22, we did 95 in 23. 171 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,000 So we'll see. Hopefully we can keep it up in 172 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:29,920 the New year. So I'm. 173 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,520 Sure you will. That's a recap of our opening of 174 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,720 2023, and now we're going to get to our gems, right? 175 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,720 I love this gems. This is brilliant, right? 176 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,560 This was great. I mean, so inspirational. 177 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:43,720 We figured this out like 5 minutes before we recorded. 178 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,320 To be genius it. Peaks the. 179 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,600 Entire year. So who's going to doing the 180 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,880 first game? You're going to go first, you're 181 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,640 you're going to go first your favorite game that you played in 182 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,480 2023? It's a tough one. 183 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,720 Weirdly, the games that I said I'm looking forward to aren't in 184 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:07,280 this list. So notable highlights. 185 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,480 We have thoroughly enjoyed the back end of the airplane. 186 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,520 Ticket to Ride. I haven't chose the legacy. 187 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,640 I haven't chosen that one. We finished it today. 188 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,080 Don't tell me because we haven't finished it yet, but if anyone's 189 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,880 thinking about we're on the fence or on the track about that 190 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:27,440 one, go and grab it. We've played quite a lot of 191 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:33,160 small games this year, so like Town 66, Project L sneaks in. 192 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:36,680 But the one game that we played the most out of a more 193 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:38,600 heavyweight was Darwin's Journey. 194 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:43,760 I love that game. I have taught it to many people. 195 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:48,600 It's I think you've now you've now received your copy or you've 196 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,120 got got it for Christmas. And we've played it. 197 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,680 We've played it once so far. So. 198 00:10:53,840 --> 00:11:00,480 So it's a mixture of what? Worker placement, action 199 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,280 selection, trying to build out your crew. 200 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:11,240 It's just a mixture of different mechanics, two sides of the 201 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,520 board. You start with the simple 202 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,240 version, but if I'm honest, I think the full game is on the 203 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,200 other side with the Firelands Firelands expansion map. 204 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,280 It's just delicious and. So good. 205 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,840 Yeah, just so many things to consider. 206 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,640 You've got the classic worker placement of I needed to go 207 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,440 there, but somebody else has got there before you. 208 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,080 Trying to explore the islands, discover the different species, 209 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:41,320 get them to the museum. Absolutely fantastic. 210 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,960 And there's been my game of the year in terms of what I have 211 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,080 enjoyed. So I'm going to, I'm going to 212 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,440 catch you on this at the end of so January of 25. 213 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,080 I'm be like, so Darwin's journey, yeah. 214 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,280 Still be there. It's it's. 215 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,440 We've even talked about playing it this Friday. 216 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:04,160 Just gone. But the city of Silver has 217 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:12,560 sneaked in to Kutnahora. If that's pronounced right now, 218 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,400 I'm making another prediction. I'm hoping that's one of my 219 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,000 games of the year for 25. Let's write that down. 220 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,760 I don't know, but we play three times in a week and that is 221 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,880 pretty rare for a medium sized game, so. 222 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,400 So do me a favour, do me a favour real quick. 223 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,800 I want you on air right now to pitch to my wife Why we need to 224 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,840 get Kunihora. Oh, it it is the smoothest. 225 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,880 The mechanics are beautifully, beautifully meshed together. 226 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,640 The production is wonderful. It's got these two decks of 227 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,360 cards with little sliders which some people have found 228 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:51,560 challenging. So guess what? 229 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,720 Czech Games Republic bought an app that is just as good. 230 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:57,760 I prefer the maths and adding it up. 231 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,640 The the boards and the components have this opulent 232 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:10,720 lush gold and silver colour palette and it plays really well 233 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:15,800 at 2-3 and we've now played it at 4:00 so we played it, that's 234 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:21,000 good, 234 player counts and I love it and every time I played 235 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,320 it I've learned a little bit more. 236 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,320 So if you haven't seen that game, it came out at S and 237 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:28,680 that's one of my favorite games for this year. 238 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:35,400 Let's see what I say January 25. So we were in Cincinnati. 239 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,600 OH, we went to the Capstone Games store. 240 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,280 Yeah, they had. They had a copy along with the 241 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,120 metal coins. I got the coins. 242 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,320 So we thought about getting it, but we were like, you know, 243 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,920 let's try and get more capstone games, games, capstone game 244 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,800 store. So we did that, but then we were 245 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,840 at our local game store here in Springfield. 246 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:57,840 My wife had it. She goes, do you want it? 247 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,400 And I'm like do you or you know, she doesn't know. 248 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,720 She doesn't really heard. Like she hears me talk about it. 249 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,800 So it's like, you know now when she listens to episode Kutna 250 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,440 Pura Pura if you. If you don't collect it, 251 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,600 obviously when you visit, we can add that to the games list. 252 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,760 We better start compiling a game selection, Yeah, separately. 253 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:18,920 So I should probably get to my game. 254 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:20,640 Yeah, What was your game of the year? 255 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,600 So we just talked about it. It was it's consistent from 256 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,000 January, episode 24 was distilled. 257 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,680 As you said, I'm a big fan. Still yet to play this game? 258 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:36,600 It is so good, Craig needs to teach. 259 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,400 It teach me, yeah. Every time we see it, we're like 260 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,320 we play it, then we go now let's not play it because it just 261 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,480 annoys PJ. Yeah, it does. 262 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,680 It does. It does annoy me. 263 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,240 So tell us, tell us about distilled. 264 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,280 Distilled is great. It is a resource management 265 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,440 market. There's a market phase and then 266 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,520 there's a distilling phase. The distilling phase is what 267 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,400 makes this game shine above all other games. 268 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,760 So you get to the market and you there are some ingredients that 269 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,760 are free, some you have to pay for, some are upgrades to 270 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,160 distillery, whatnot. But when you get to the distill 271 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:16,000 phase, you take all the ingredients out of your pantry 272 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:23,080 and you add in alcohol cards and then you shuffle them, and this 273 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:29,240 represents the actual process of distilling the alcohol. 274 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,000 So you're shuffling. You then take the bottom card 275 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,880 and the top card because you cannot. 276 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,400 Part of the distilling process, you can't use because it's the 277 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,520 dregs at the bottom of the the container. 278 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,640 And then the top you skim off so you don't use the top and the 279 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,120 bottom of the actual physical liquid when you're distilling. 280 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,760 So you remove. Yeah, this is amazing, clever. 281 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,440 It's really clever. And then you take the rest, and 282 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,080 based on those ingredients, it determines whether or not you 283 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:07,160 have made rum or whiskey or vodka or whatever it is you're 284 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,720 trying to to distill. Some of them require aging. 285 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:16,840 They require bottles or barrels, wood barrels, steel barrels. 286 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,920 So you have to distill them. And the longer they distill, 287 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,600 they get more flavor cards, which equate to more victory 288 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,000 points when you finally go to sell them later in the game. 289 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,240 I mean, I'm not a big whiskey fan. 290 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,880 I enjoy whiskey. I'm I'm not much of A, I'm not 291 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,400 much of A consumer of alcohol in general. 292 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,680 But this game is so beautiful. It is so magnificent. 293 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,880 And then Patterson's going to do another game next year that I'm 294 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:49,240 really looking forward to. So you know, that's distilled. 295 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,640 You need to play this game as soon as possible. 296 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,560 Could you make into some very terrible drinking game that 297 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,360 every time some if you had a rack of bottles like vodkas and 298 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:02,120 every time somebody makes a drink you have to do a shop? 299 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,960 You could do that. In fact, there's a little set 300 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,440 collection. You can collect bottles. 301 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:12,640 So after you sell them your unique bottles, you keep off to 302 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:14,800 the side. And the more you have, the more 303 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,240 victory points at the end of the game. 304 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,560 Because that's one of the things you can purchase in the market 305 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:24,079 is better barrels, better bottles, better ingredients, 306 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:25,520 better pizza. Papa John's? 307 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:29,000 No, sorry. You could basically, if he's 308 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,400 somehow get Craig and Becky, we can you can teach me that 309 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,320 occasion and I'll bring the alcohol there. 310 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,720 You go then. Because someone's driving home. 311 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,560 I feel like, I feel like the one thing when you're playing 312 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,040 distilled, you should be drinking whiskey. 313 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,680 And if I if, if I can, if I can, I will. 314 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,000 I'm usually the driver, so I'm not. 315 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,520 You haven't got a car in the UK? Says no I don't. 316 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,360 So I just don't drink whiskey. But that's a whole story from my 317 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:01,280 child. From my childhood, my teenage No 318 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,480 worries, no worries. So that's distilled is my game. 319 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,480 So those are our games, right? So that's Darwin's journey and 320 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,600 distilled 2023. Those are our games. 321 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,520 Now we're going to move on to our favorite episode. 322 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,800 Episode Episode first. You're going to go first. 323 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,960 So we go through quite a few episodes. 324 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:31,000 In 2023, there were some notable guests. 325 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,040 Obviously, we can't forget Craig get into games. 326 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,240 Don't forget he's just gone live with his first podcasts. 327 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,840 Get the games on air. Episode one went live yesterday 328 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,320 or over the weekend, whatever the days is. 329 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:45,920 Check that out. We had Adam from Table dot 330 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:47,160 vibes. He had some fun with those guys 331 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:48,560 talking about Halloween and Christmas. 332 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,080 We had Carl with Kelp, is that right? 333 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:56,520 Yes, Carl Kelp. That's right. 334 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,840 Carl 2K. And then, but my my favorite 335 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:07,280 episode was having Dan Halligan from Obsession on the show 336 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:12,040 talking about the Kickstarter that went live however many 337 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:13,920 moons ago that was Now feels like forever. 338 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:15,760 I know, but it was only three months. 339 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:17,600 It was. Only three months it was, which 340 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,120 was the character's expansion. If you haven't listened, it is 341 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,520 one of the most popular episodes we've done. 342 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,760 Huge response to it. It was episode 57 and obsession 343 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:32,640 with obsession for the Board Game, an interview with Dan 344 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,840 Halligan. At that point there was a couple 345 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,120 of secrets. Not secrets, but early reveals 346 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:41,160 he gave us, which was an absolute privilege to hear 347 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,560 about. He's just an awesome guy, just 348 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,320 shared the passion of obsession with us. 349 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:51,080 And has anyone's been listening to his show for the last 50-60 350 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,320 episodes? Knows that we've talked about 351 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,160 this game no end. So having Dan on the show was an 352 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,760 absolute highlight of the year. And one day maybe I'll get to 353 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:04,280 pay Obsession with Dan. But for now, yeah, it's just a 354 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,040 dream. So you can play with him. 355 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,440 On BG online. Yeah, I don't know. 356 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,600 It's not the same. Thing not the same. 357 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,040 And we need to catch him before he moves to Utah, which is, you 358 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,520 know, that's a long way to the West from where we are. 359 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,440 So because he's because he's getting ready to move, he's 360 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,120 moving, yeah. It's right isn't he's moving to 361 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:27,440 Utah? Pretty soon, so, OK, He was kind 362 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:28,920 enough to let us know that, so yeah. 363 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,040 So that was my favorite episode. How about you, PJ? 364 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:34,680 It was A. Good episode. 365 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,360 It's in my top two. To be fair. 366 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,080 And like you said, we did have some great guests. 367 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,880 Let's not forget that we had Dennis Ordinary Board Gamer on. 368 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:53,680 Good point, early in the year. We we also had our dear friend, 369 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:59,760 my adopted little sister Gosia, wingspan girl from Poland. 370 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,600 She was on so first her world premiere as it were. 371 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:10,680 My favorite episode had to be was the episode with Matt and 372 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,960 Zara from Mazzaza Games when they talked about their 373 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,280 Kickstarter, their game on Kickstarter, Kavango. 374 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,520 It was my #2, and I wasn't sure which of us has had obsession. 375 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,160 We came out good because that was a cracking episode. 376 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:32,080 The beauty of that was the conversation was just it was so 377 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,160 incredible because yes, we talked about their board game 378 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,360 that they were working on and everything that went through it. 379 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:42,520 But we had this amazing conversation just about, you 380 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,680 know, climate change and conservation and all the 381 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,000 elements that are in this board game. 382 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,280 But we all as members of the human race deal with and that I 383 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:59,680 could listen to. Matins are for hours and I just. 384 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:01,640 Love them, I mean, I think we finished recording and then 385 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,120 carried on talking to them for another. 386 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,960 We did. 45 minutes. We did Episode 52. 52A 387 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,640 Conservation Conversation. Right. 388 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,040 Yeah, that's. One of the best titles we've 389 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,880 done this year. I think it really is. 390 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,960 Gavango Ball game completely agree. 391 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,800 PJ is a cracking episode. So good. 392 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,600 I've had the privilege to play that game. 393 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,400 We have a copy here, so not only was the conversation great, but 394 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,560 the game is also a. So we have to add that to Cajun 395 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,920 Con because I have not played. Another one, a list. 396 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,280 Yep, so everyone who's listening to this episode, I hope y'all 397 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,040 are keeping a list of all the games that have to be played a 398 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,920 Cajun Con. You know, we're going to get 399 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,680 through like two of these and two, or there'll be 5 new games 400 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,320 that we've not talked about that have appeared. 401 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,760 Because I'm going to. I'm going to run my mouth city. 402 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,360 Of silver be just a flash in the pan for January. 403 00:22:55,520 --> 00:23:00,120 OK, so last but certainly not least is the M and gems. 404 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:06,960 And that is your favorite moment moment 2023. 405 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:08,720 And this could be this is open, it doesn't. 406 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,720 You know, I think we're both game related, but. 407 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:17,520 Yeah, mine's game related now. I thought about, I mean UK Games 408 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,960 Expo. We've been to some really nice 409 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,920 smaller cons this year. I think we had the one back in 410 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,600 January that Jenny or February Jenny arranged and there was 411 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,560 Nick's birthday shenanigans Scoot con. 412 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,920 But the one, the most recent fun the gaming experience is 413 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,720 whenever I get a chance to play Twilight Imperium. 414 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,200 So we played twice this year with the same nearly the same 415 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:44,040 Group One We had one one man down in December, but we got 416 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,560 together with the South Anson Gang two weeks ago, the week 417 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,800 between Christmas and New Year. We rolled up at 1:00, set the 418 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,160 game up in half an hour and then we wrapped up about, I think 419 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:01,520 it's about 10/10/30. And I can see now it felt like I 420 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,600 sat there for an hour. Someone looks at me and says to 421 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,920 me, oh, it must be the worst thing ever, but just a group of 422 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,360 people and but just the game flows. 423 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:16,840 It's so quick, but it's not quick because it's like 10 424 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:23,040 hours, but because every action you take, nearly everyone else 425 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,720 could do something. You're never really sat there 426 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,640 doing nothing. You're always talking, You're 427 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,720 negotiating, you're scheming. We end up having the boards 428 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,640 divide into two. There was the Rainbow team, 429 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:41,840 which was me, Diz and Gareth on 2/3 of the board and it was 430 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:46,600 Chris and George. The team Orange that turned into 431 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:51,200 some basic 2 factions and it didn't matter what they were. 432 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,240 They were allies. And we mean this. 433 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,920 We we we were very kind to each other. 434 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,880 There was no PDS disruptions this year. 435 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,320 Remember PDS and. There's none of that. 436 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:05,720 We were friends, we sat in peace and we took out the other side 437 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:13,240 and and I'm going to check the scores on the doors, so this one 438 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,120 with 10 first of 10310. Win. 439 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,480 George and Gareth with a respectable 8 at me. 440 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,720 The other Gareth at 7:00 with Chris 7. 441 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,640 That was it. It's just those moments that it 442 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,400 it just flies. It's a treat to play because you 443 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,040 don't get a chance to play those games very often. 444 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,400 I don't know why I ever thought I'd get four games in. 445 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,440 I mean, I I'd love to. That's one 1/4. 446 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,200 It requires a lot of people to clear Diaries out and other 447 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,160 partners and friends and family and babysitters to people. 448 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,760 Correct me if I'm wrong, that is a minimum three player game, 449 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,240 right? Yeah, I I haven't traded it. 450 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,120 I've been We've only played it 6:00 and 5:00. 451 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,200 We've thought about getting the expansion that moves it to 8:00, 452 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,480 but that then sounds like it's going to be a whole day. 453 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:08,520 But yeah, just one of those epic games that I love to play. 454 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,800 And Twilight Imperium. I love it. 455 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,520 I'll bring, I'll bring, I'll bring it to the Cajun Con and we 456 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,040 can just pretend that we played it. 457 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,840 Yeah, we could pretend. Bring Twilight Inscription. 458 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:23,920 We can we can play that. We can play. 459 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,960 We can add that. We can add that to the list. 460 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,040 You're listening and you're going to come to Cajun Con. 461 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,720 While on Inscription, add it to the list. 462 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,480 I do need numbers. I need to work out how big, How 463 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,000 big. I've I've got three things 464 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,840 written down. I've written Twilight, Etherium, 465 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,440 Twilight, Imperium, and Swelling. 466 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:45,160 Oh, Nemesis, Nemesis all in. All in. 467 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:49,360 Six players with Santa hats. We've we backed the new 468 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:50,800 retaliation. Yep. 469 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,840 Yep, we're going to. Get that? 470 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,880 OK, so my moment from 2023 and Oh my God, there's so many of 471 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,920 them. OK, so here's the one thing. 472 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,840 All the moments when I was thinking about the one thing 473 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,800 they all have in common is it's the people, right? 474 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,200 It's it's members of the gaming community right there was it was 475 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,560 going to geek way right And meeting up with Heather Dixon 476 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,880 who is working out Apostocracy getting to play that with her 477 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,480 again. There was there was interviewing 478 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,400 Zach Koontz with with his game. He was. 479 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,480 We featured him when I was recording where you and I 480 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,720 learned about recording on location and the challenges 481 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,200 thereof. Then there was meeting everyone 482 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:41,480 at there was meeting the treasure Belle, Michelle, my, my 483 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,600 lovely, another adopted little sister up in Canada who we I 484 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,920 worked with wise wizard games at Origins, that's right. 485 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,720 And then Gen. Con where I met so many people. 486 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,760 Three episodes? Yeah, download. 487 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,720 Episodes. Three episodes. 488 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,200 And I'm not going to try to list everybody because there was just 489 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,960 so many of you and I don't want to offend, but for me the 490 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:07,160 highlight moment was in September when our good friend 491 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,960 Diz the Twilight. Period. 492 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:11,080 The winner? Twilight. 493 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:14,520 Period. Free, who flew from England to 494 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,960 the United States and stayed with us for a week. 495 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:20,120 Just to play games. Just to play games, you know, We 496 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:22,720 showed her around a little bit, but we got to play a lot, I 497 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,920 think 11 games over the course of like 4 evenings after Katie 498 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:33,160 and I got home from work. That was just a treat, you know, 499 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:38,160 to to have a friend from overseas stay with us and to 500 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,800 talking to and getting the game, playing dinosaur world with her, 501 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,320 because that was like how that was where she and I wasn't. 502 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,280 It. She and I connected separately 503 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,160 from you, independently from you over dinosaur world and then I 504 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,640 learned that she was in your group and you know, everything 505 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,920 just kind of snow up. That was a really great moment. 506 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,560 I look forward to more of those moments where my friends from 507 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,000 England come to visit and stay with me. 508 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,000 Anybody wants to hang out with PJ? 509 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,400 Don't figure out I need to know your names. 510 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,640 Message me. Put a message anywhere. 511 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,600 Yep. I just remembered we forgot one 512 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,960 person who did a really good show for us, John Triwing Games. 513 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,800 Yes. Essence Special. 514 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,000 Are people on the ground? Thank. 515 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:24,800 You on the ground? Yep. 516 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:25,440 Yeah. I think. 517 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,560 I mean those episodes with UK Games Expo and we had all the 518 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,840 contributors there. We had two contributors from 519 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,280 Gen. Con or See John connected to 520 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,640 vocals and sound bites from Essen. 521 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,640 Those were good episodes. We'll be doing more they. 522 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,920 Really were. I keep hearing consistently that 523 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,160 those are some of the favorite episodes from our listeners, 524 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,880 just as you know and I get it, I love it. 525 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,760 If you remember, I think it was when you and I first met and I 526 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,880 went live with you on Meatball Monday 20/21, I think that was. 527 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:04,080 Whenever that was. I talked about the the vision I 528 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,640 had of being ambassadors at gaming conventions and I think 529 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:13,280 this year we did a pretty good job of that, you know, trying to 530 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,200 do that. I'd like to see more. 531 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,000 I wish I could have gone to PAX U or gotten someone to do some 532 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,800 sound bites and recording at PAX UI. 533 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,800 Love the idea of a meeple on the ground so that we can go to 534 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,760 every convention, even when we can't go to every convention. 535 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,320 You know I'm trying. To find out when the episode was 536 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:33,680 There you are. I found you. 537 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:39,320 There I am. It was the 1st of November 2021. 538 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,360 These were days when I wasn't so obviously I was a lot of free 539 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,840 time. The episode was 2 hours and 40 540 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,840 minutes. You can find that on Instagram 541 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:55,600 on my video highlights. Wow, 2 hours 40. 542 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,480 I wonder what we spoke about. So we talked about everything. 543 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,720 You weren't quite prepared for me. 544 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,880 We talked about it's it's in the description. 545 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,040 We talked about Louisiana cooking and board games. 546 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,000 Ball games and relationships. Flood and fire. 547 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,840 Damages to game risk. Yep. 548 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,560 Find someone to teach PJS. Only unplayed. 549 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,040 Oh, that was some Star Trek game, wasn't? 550 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,080 It that was Star Trek Fleet Captains New. 551 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,320 Ideas. Instagram shows and content so. 552 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,680 We we finally figured out how to play Fleet Captains. 553 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,280 We played it. It's terrible. 554 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:29,360 We sold it. We. 555 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:33,320 Sold it convention ambassadors P JS pre gencom gathering of 556 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,520 friends and then we talked about. 557 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,280 Oh, that's right. People who you'd like to visit 558 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:44,960 which was me, Board dads, Titan spring game, Titan Games, which 559 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,520 is the place in the year. Professor Meg Carly, who's now 560 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,400 moved to the UK, is that one's. She's in Nottingham, Nottingham. 561 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,520 Nottingham Boarding School with Brandy, Brandy, board game 562 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,440 librarian, Marathon Meeples and the marriage, Marriage talk. 563 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,080 Man, that's a long time ago. But you notice how we talked 564 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,720 about board gaming conventions, ambassadors, We did. 565 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,680 The pre Gen. Con group was to get y'all from 566 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,560 England to come stay here. In the house. 567 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:12,360 Has it worked? Has it? 568 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,400 Now you come over, you stay here for like one or two days, and 569 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,880 then we all drive together to Indianapolis for Gen. 570 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,440 Con because it's so close. So we need to. 571 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:27,800 We'll need to plan and bring the kit to do a live podcast 572 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,200 recording at Cajun Con, Cajun Con Live. 573 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,560 So I'm prepared to do that. I've got the kit. 574 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:36,800 I'll just bring my laptop. Just easy. 575 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:42,520 I've got a couple of pieces. And we do sound bites and we can 576 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:47,080 have that as episode or we can have post Cajun, Cajun Con. 577 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,000 You're going to bring the food with you. 578 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,560 You're going to cook the food up for us all. 579 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,640 Well, you know if y'all can. Provide a kitchen, yeah. 580 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,480 You find me a kitchen, I'm a I'm a cook for you. 581 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,240 Yeah. Yep. 582 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,640 So. So, yeah. 583 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,280 For those of you in England, that is April 6th on a Saturday 584 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,320 in 20. 20/20/24. That's so looking forward to 585 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,200 2024. We're looking forward to my 586 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,800 visit anyway, That's pretty much it. 587 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:14,600 That's the highlight. Of the year. 588 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,200 I mean, it's, I think, what happens if the world. 589 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,480 Ends. Like when we meet those things, 590 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,760 you know, like, I can't do certain things because the 591 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,480 world's just going to end. Like, I can't watch the Grease 592 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,720 the film because I've ever watched it. 593 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,200 That's the end. That's my view in life. 594 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,080 OK, OK. Maybe when we meet there'll be 595 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:33,000 this and then we're. Going to play Nemesis, We're 596 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,000 going to play Nemesis at twilight. 597 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,480 Imperium. We're not playing Twilight 598 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,760 Imperium for inscription is. What I meant to say we'll play 599 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,120 Twilight in scripture. We can do that, Gareth. 600 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:46,360 Thank you. This has been a great episode. 601 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,200 I've really enjoyed it, but welcome. 602 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,000 Back to 2020? Yeah. 603 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,760 Back to broadcast 20/20/14. Yep. 604 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:59,840 Everyone have a great new year. I can say for myself I want 605 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:04,800 nothing but joy and happiness for all of you and as many games 606 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,080 as you. Keep on gaming. 607 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:08,239 Yep. OK. 608 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,159 Thanks everyone for listening. Thanks everyone. 609 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,520 For listening, please subscribe. And as always, we'd love to hear 610 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,159 your thoughts and ideas, so make sure to leave those in the 611 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:21,320 comments. 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