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Happy Hour #177: A Call for Board Games · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and all of this stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told you.
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  Speaker 2: Prolecture by Hurt Radio.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to another happy hour where I ask your opinions. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: this is me asking for your recommendations because I know
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  Speaker 1: y'all got them. I love them too, So before we start,
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  Speaker 1: any of the things that we talk about are not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily sponsors. We were sponsored one time by Katan, which
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  Speaker 1: you have a lot of opinions on. But if they
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  Speaker 1: want to sponsor us again, give me a call. I
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  Speaker 1: love the additional pacts anyway. Also, if you are partaking
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  Speaker 1: in whatever is your happy hour tradition, do so responsibly. Annie,
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  Speaker 1: what'd you do with what you got there?
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  Speaker 2: Well? As mentioned in the previous happy hour, we were
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  Speaker 2: we're doing a lot of stuff at one time just
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  Speaker 2: to go on vacation. So I'm still sitting on the
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  Speaker 2: same glass of red wine a week later.
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  Speaker 1: A week later, I'm also drinking I'm alway drinking bubble
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  Speaker 1: water though that has been my thing. I remember you
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  Speaker 1: told me I think your co host a saber. She
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  Speaker 1: talked about how after she started drinking bubble water is
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  Speaker 1: hard for her to go back to regular water, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's nonsense, And now I understand
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  Speaker 1: anyway back too. So my thing is so recently, I
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  Speaker 1: you and I have talked a lot about board games.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about Wingspan, which is still one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about katan As because you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of feels about your sheep, yes, and you just want
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  Speaker 1: to be left alone with your sheep. And I've seen
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  Speaker 1: a lot of tiktoks about how we call it sheep,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess wool. It's wool. People is not the sheep.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm like as sheep, you know, like that so
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  Speaker 1: so many things. But you know, I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: have had different conversations about how much we love it,
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  Speaker 1: how many memories we have with the old games. It
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  Speaker 1: is bonding and there's so much you can do with it,
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  Speaker 1: and like a understanding that this is kind of a
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  Speaker 1: therapeutic thing, Like it really does bring out a law
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  Speaker 1: in us. It kind of teaches you about other people's personalities.
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  Speaker 1: I learned a lot about other worker people in our
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  Speaker 1: in our uh in our jobs, Like they have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of feels about games as well. Yes, some of
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  Speaker 1: the competitive them are not m HM and some.
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  Speaker 2: Are like chaos stations.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, even your friends like like what we They
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  Speaker 1: also have a lot of feelings about some of these games,
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  Speaker 1: and it's quite funny all of these things. We found
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  Speaker 1: out that a former producer of the show, Andrew, does
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  Speaker 1: not like playing bad guys in Snarrea.
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  Speaker 2: But he he not only does he not like it,
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  Speaker 2: he kind of cheats. Yeah, Like it would be one
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  Speaker 2: thing to be like, you know, hey, I just don't
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  Speaker 2: want to play this character, but instead he like sabotages yea,
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  Speaker 2: his own role.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, Like I can't do this, I can't pretend.
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  Speaker 1: Quite funny, So I think it brings out a lot
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  Speaker 1: of personalities. And so with that, I was like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I would love more games. So I really
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  Speaker 1: love Dominion. It's one of my favorites. And there is
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  Speaker 1: expansion packs upon expansion packs upon expansion I just bought
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  Speaker 1: two more. I'm really excited to add to it. So
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  Speaker 1: because you can change the stories, you can change this tactics,
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  Speaker 1: it's different, you know, deck building games that I really enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: I think my partner's family are great about board games,
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  Speaker 1: especially the siblings, and they really love like different games Katan.
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  Speaker 1: They are like the King and Queen of games like
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  Speaker 1: that Wingspan. We get really into that as well. The
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  Speaker 1: entire family loves Uno. We just found a different type
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  Speaker 1: of Uno, we called teams. Who know Teams you partner
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  Speaker 1: up with people. We haven't played that yet, but I'm interested.
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  Speaker 1: We've played games like Cockridge Poker, which was introduced by
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  Speaker 1: neighbors of us, and we're like, oh, yeah, like this
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  Speaker 1: this is interesting. We introduced you right to that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Annie's quite fun. Like you do a lot of lying
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  Speaker 1: and you start really like really looking at people's personalities.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh uh, there's a new game that my
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  Speaker 1: partner sister bought me, Hughes and C's, which is about
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  Speaker 1: color spectrum. I realized I see color differently. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: quite colored blind, but I may not see the same
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  Speaker 1: as others because what they see versus what I see
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  Speaker 1: has been very apparent. I have not done well in
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  Speaker 1: this game. Just an fyi, any I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: can do well in this game either.
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  Speaker 2: No. I got a very rare type of color blindness,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't think I would do well.
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  Speaker 1: But like, I just I want more games like that.
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  Speaker 1: Like I've been looking up different times of games, so
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  Speaker 1: I just purchased it. Turns out my partner's sister because
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  Speaker 1: we are on the same wavelength. It's quite funny, like
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  Speaker 1: we've been bringing them puzzles because we want to do
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  Speaker 1: more activities together and all that. She and I bought
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  Speaker 1: the same buzzle. I was like son of a Biscuit
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  Speaker 1: and it came the same day, which was hysterical.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: So I just ordered and have received a ticket to Ride,
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  Speaker 1: which I've played one time and I really enjoyed it
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  Speaker 1: once you get it, like you really get into it.
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  Speaker 1: And she just sent us a text. I said, I
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  Speaker 1: just purchased this game. Don't don't and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I already did, so it's quite we are quite hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: But with that, there's so many other games that I want.
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  Speaker 1: I would love like anything that you can build upon
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  Speaker 1: just sit around and like I think like one to
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  Speaker 1: two hours, but one hour would be really good. The
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  Speaker 1: better sometimes that that goes long, like the menuon can
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  Speaker 1: go long if you want to Arkham Horror I think
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  Speaker 1: I've played before. I did not like that one, but
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  Speaker 1: it says it's women designed. I didn't know that, did
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  Speaker 1: you know that? No, I'm gonna have to go back.
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  Speaker 1: I might be wrong. I so one of the things.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I would also love it if it was
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  Speaker 1: women developed, women designed, you know, I think that really
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  Speaker 1: as to adds to it as well. And I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure I saw that on the list. Annie, the same
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  Speaker 1: creator who did Wingspan, did Tussy Mussy. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: this game?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: So apparently it's like Victorian flower game. And I'm very
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  Speaker 1: intrigued by this. So if anybody has because these these
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  Speaker 1: are expensive. Yeah, I've discovered board games, especially elaborate pretty
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  Speaker 1: board games, are expensive, so I would like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: things that people could tell me if it's worth the buy.
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  Speaker 1: So if any of y'all have ever tried Tussy Mussy. So,
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  Speaker 1: according to of course, board game Geek, they describe it
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  Speaker 1: as this exiglified the Victorian custom of assigning meaning to
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  Speaker 1: the flower that friends and lovers exchange. Inspired by the
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  Speaker 1: ideals of elegance and discretion, these books were carefully made
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  Speaker 1: to convey subtle messages to the recipients. Now you choose
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  Speaker 1: the right flowers to make a winning Tussy Mussy of
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  Speaker 1: your own. So it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I think I have heard of that.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, have you heard of this? Okay, okay, okay, So
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  Speaker 1: I need I need someone's opinion. Is this worth a buy?
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  Speaker 1: Is this something that I feel like it is a
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  Speaker 1: good game against Elizabeth Hargrave as a designer, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe she's the same one that did Wingspan, So obviously
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  Speaker 1: the artwork's gonna be gorgeous and I want more of
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  Speaker 1: that and flowers. There's also one called the dog Part.
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  Speaker 2: I think our listener recommended that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think that since I got one like
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  Speaker 1: that seems like one I should be buying as well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have so many games for our game night
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  Speaker 1: that I haven't hosted it in a long time. I
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  Speaker 1: missed those. You know.
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing is both I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: new games, but all of mine are horror based, including
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  Speaker 2: I have the Last of Us game and Final Girl Games,
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  Speaker 2: which a listener.
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  Speaker 1: Wrote in Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But the second thing that's really funny is every time
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  Speaker 2: we have a game night, everyone wants to play Werewolf
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  Speaker 2: because we have too many people we play like else,
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  Speaker 2: so we always are like, here are these fifteen choices?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, basically, we do stations.
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  Speaker 2: We tried it.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I remember we did it one time,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, because we played. I think we played the
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  Speaker 1: Minion with someone.
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  Speaker 2: I think one time the whole it wasn't just a
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  Speaker 2: because we had our kind of secret crew game night.
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  Speaker 2: One time the whole office came in or most of
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  Speaker 2: the office, and then we did have stations.
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  Speaker 1: But when we would do it with our crew, right.
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  Speaker 2: It was almost always were.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had to order that bunny game.
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  Speaker 2: Dix it, dix dix it. One time we did the
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  Speaker 2: stained Glass board game. That was fun, but I really
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  Speaker 2: played it the one time.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you and I we still haven't finished. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we really need to. We need to get together on
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  Speaker 1: that one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the pandemic that like grows, not just the
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  Speaker 2: straight the original yes.
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  Speaker 1: The ongoing like yes, which we are in October.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, and you just got to make it
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  Speaker 2: to the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: And we're so close. We got to get there. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there was another game that I did see, and I
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  Speaker 1: have a feeling you will know about it, Eldridge or
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  Speaker 1: do you have this? Do you have you played it?
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  Speaker 1: I have it.
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  Speaker 2: I have not played it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I'm interested in this because it looks similar
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  Speaker 1: to Again Dominion, but I think it's more close to
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  Speaker 1: Arkham Horror, which would make sense. So I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure that out. I'm trying to figure some more games
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  Speaker 1: like that because I do enjoy it. I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't want games like my not believe, because I will
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  Speaker 1: get angry. We already had the history, did you know
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  Speaker 1: that can Did we talk about candy Land being created
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  Speaker 1: by a woman.
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  Speaker 2: No, but I did look that up for some reason
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  Speaker 2: related to our job. I think it was when I
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  Speaker 2: was trying to find board games created by women.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which I was, which I'm not surprised by, but
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  Speaker 1: surprised by, Like I'm like, oh, yeah, the fairy tale
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  Speaker 1: aspect of it all, Like it does feel a very
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  Speaker 1: mother I think that was a mother energy. They would
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  Speaker 1: trying to create games for their kids. So I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense, and I loved it. I cheated a
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  Speaker 1: lot with candy Land. I cheated too.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know it was a lot, but I did cheat.
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  Speaker 1: I did cheat.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, I cheated it and lost it anyway, so.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to like get anything other than if you steal
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  Speaker 1: the money, like plus you still because of the way
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  Speaker 1: you layd it doesn't matter anyway. So there's another game
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  Speaker 1: of Verdant, which I was interested in someone could tell
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  Speaker 1: me about this, Molly Johnson. I believe maybe one of
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  Speaker 1: the designers is one of the designers in the game,
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  Speaker 1: And it seemed interesting because it's also very pretty, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I love it good if it's pretty or detailed, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of into it. And then there's another game
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  Speaker 1: called Quirkle that has popped up on the list, designed
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  Speaker 1: by Susan McKinley Ross, And I'm interested because apparently like
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  Speaker 1: people who are like, this is a good therapy game.
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  Speaker 1: Actually all these things that helps you like go through
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  Speaker 1: these ideals and learn easy lessons and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, maybe it'll be interesting. So there's are
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  Speaker 1: some thoughts I do have, y'all let me know again.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, like one of our one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite games is Dominion, but I also love setting up
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  Speaker 1: the cards to see what we can do. My partner
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  Speaker 1: is really great at continuous plays, that long card play
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  Speaker 1: where I will eventually want to yell at him because
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  Speaker 1: it's like six cards later, sixteen cards later, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: fight you, just kidding. But they're like, these are really
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  Speaker 1: good games where you can kind of taunt each other
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  Speaker 1: and all these things, and even like when you and
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  Speaker 1: I were talking about earlier, it was like dungeons and dragons, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a really great healthy way of like
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  Speaker 1: exploring ideas some of your works, and you've talked about
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  Speaker 1: how it's really helped you and trauma work and such.
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  Speaker 1: But we I just want something that is less time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I once again, I do think even though you
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  Speaker 2: gave two examples of all kind of horror game, I
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  Speaker 2: do think it's funny how many of yours are like
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  Speaker 2: nice and very pretty. And I'm like, let's play.
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  Speaker 1: Girl Flowers a dog Park.
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  Speaker 2: What if we had the last the most board game?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm mutually interested in playing that because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna play the video game. That's too much, but I
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  Speaker 1: might play the board game. It's unless it has dog
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  Speaker 1: deaths and then you're not gonna fight. But all that is, say, listeners,
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  Speaker 1: I need good recommendations. Have you played any of these games?
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  Speaker 1: Would you say this is worth a BUYE? This is
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  Speaker 1: not worth a BUYE? I got Okay, I'm gonna buy
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  Speaker 1: the dog Park because it has been recommended to us.
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  Speaker 1: If you have other recommendations yet, now I need it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I want it family games that are not
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  Speaker 1: this is not that can't be childish because I don't
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  Speaker 1: mind that, but something like not necessarily candy Land. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we want something a little more in depth but has
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  Speaker 1: like a good family feel would love that as well.
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  Speaker 1: So give me recommendations. I need them, yes, uh.
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  Speaker 2: And clearly you have influence does already because I bought
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  Speaker 2: those games, those Final Girl Games at suggestions from listeners.
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  Speaker 2: So please, we are asking. You are our only hope.
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  Speaker 2: If you are, you can email your suggestions to us
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