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Spring ’26 Chicago Area No Ship Math Trade Debrief · Pick Up and Deliver

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome to you pick up and deliver it the podcast
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: where I pick up my audio recorder as I step
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: off the train and deliver an episode two while I
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: walk home. I'm Brendan Riley.
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  Speaker 2: A Greetings listener.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lovely day here in suburban Chicago. I would
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: put the temperature at high forties, maybe low fifties, right
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  Speaker 1: in that butter zone where maybe you want to wear
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  Speaker 1: a hat, but when the sun's out you probably don't
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: want to wear a hat. It's a good spot to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice weather. It's a little chillier than one expects
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  Speaker 1: for mid April, but it's.
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  Speaker 2: Early April, so okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I had a lovely weekend for a number of reasons.
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  Speaker 1: We got a couple lifers when we went out birding.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not a birder, a lifer is a bird
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  Speaker 1: that you've never seen before. We saw a red throated
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  Speaker 1: loon last Saturday, and we saw a Louisiana water thrush
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Two new birds for us, very exciting, more
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  Speaker 1: apropos for this podcast. I got a bunch of new
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  Speaker 1: games too. That's because this weekend was also the semi
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  Speaker 1: annual meeting twice a year Chicago No Ship Math Trade.
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  Speaker 1: The Chicago No Ship Math Trade is organized by Mark,
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  Speaker 1: who is Panderu Express on Board game Geek. Thank you Mark,
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  Speaker 1: and it uses the standard math trade application, the online
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  Speaker 1: wish list generator, and it takes about a month. You
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  Speaker 1: submit a bunch of games, you do a bunch of trades,
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  Speaker 1: and then you go to the library and in Chinatown
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  Speaker 1: and you trade games with people. They also do this thing.
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  Speaker 2: They do the.
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  Speaker 1: What do they call it the trade auction where they
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  Speaker 1: have the option to put games that were in the
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  Speaker 1: or that you can put games into a very short
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  Speaker 1: board game geek auction and then bring those games to
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  Speaker 1: the trade as well. So I generally let myself spend
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  Speaker 1: bid up to twenty dollars on that auction as well,
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  Speaker 1: and then I sell games in it. So this time
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  Speaker 1: I sold eleven. I spent about twenty dollars and I
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: sold about eleven dollars, so I ended up paying nine
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  Speaker 1: dollars for the auction plus the cost of parking, which
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  Speaker 1: was like twenty bucks. So that is the process. So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the games. I will start with the
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  Speaker 1: games I got rid of, and what I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 1: is just buzz through the games I got rid of,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna talk a little bit about maybe I
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  Speaker 1: say one special thing about them, and then why I
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  Speaker 1: gave them up, and then I will talk about the
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  Speaker 1: games that I got and why I was interested in them.
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  Speaker 1: So start with Rolling Realms. This is Jamie Stigmayer's Roll
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  Speaker 1: and Right game. The neat thing about it is it's
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  Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of different cards that are themed
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  Speaker 1: around the stone Meyer Games games, so it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a meta game.
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  Speaker 2: And he has continued to release.
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Realms promo packs for each different game that comes out,
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  Speaker 1: so you could have a massive collection.
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  Speaker 2: I thought this was pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Fun, but we played it like twice and then there's
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  Speaker 1: been not much clamor or interest in continuing to play it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was fine, but I didn't think it
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  Speaker 1: was substantially better than stuff like Silver and Gold, and
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  Speaker 1: ultimately the novelty of the different game packs was not
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  Speaker 1: enough to keep me into it. So Rolling Realms traded
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  Speaker 1: nextcept I have Android Infiltration. This is a fun little
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  Speaker 1: push your luck game where you are trying to make
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  Speaker 1: your way up a series of cards each room in
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  Speaker 1: Fantasy flight style. Oh this is from Donald Ax Vakrino
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  Speaker 1: in Fantasy Flight style. Each room has its own little
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  Speaker 1: special powers which make.
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  Speaker 2: For interesting play.
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  Speaker 1: It's set in the Android the ne Android Netrunner universe,
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  Speaker 1: So you are or in the Android universe, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: So you are a team of ne'er do wells breaking
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  Speaker 1: into a corporate structure to steal secrets, but you're all
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  Speaker 1: kind of in it for your own nefarious goods or
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  Speaker 1: nefarious purposes, so you break in together, but then you're
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  Speaker 1: all kind of each person for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: I like this game. I thought the.
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  Speaker 1: Mechanism of climbing your way up the different floors was
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  Speaker 1: pretty neat, and the way that the different players interacted
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  Speaker 1: worked really well. But it was very complicated. It was
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  Speaker 1: hard to explain quickly and hard to keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: so like I learned it. I played it, and then
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  Speaker 1: when I would go back, I'd have to like relearn
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing significantly, so it didn't stay in the
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  Speaker 1: collection as much as I liked the theme, that's Android infiltration,
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  Speaker 1: except you have bees. This is a real time flower
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  Speaker 1: game where you are bees pollinating flowers. I played it once.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was fun, but nothing special. It sat
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  Speaker 1: on my shelf for two years and ready to go, so.
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  Speaker 2: Sky Team.
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  Speaker 1: This one was one of the ones I put in
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  Speaker 1: the trade thinking I would be able to get something
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  Speaker 1: good for it, and it worked. It was a higher
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  Speaker 1: value trade. I liked this game. I thought it was interesting,
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: but it is only a two player game, and I
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: only I almost only play two player games with my wife,
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  Speaker 1: and she does not want to play a game about
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  Speaker 1: flying a plane. She doesn't like flying very much, and
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  Speaker 1: so a game about trying not to crash is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: not her favorite thing. I did play it with another
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  Speaker 1: person I usually played two player games with, and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't really like it either. So even though I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was really interesting, I'm not going to keep a
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  Speaker 1: game that I'm never gonna get to play, so, especially
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  Speaker 1: if it's got trade value. So that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: interesting things like games that I if I think it's
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  Speaker 1: really good but I'm not able to play it much,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it'll go on to the trade pile because I
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  Speaker 1: think I can get something interesting in exchange, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: the thing that I get will be something I can
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  Speaker 1: play more. So that's kind of the logic that I'm
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  Speaker 1: using as I go into these trades. Next up, we
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  Speaker 1: have a game of Thrones second Edition. This is a
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  Speaker 1: game that I had got. I got a copy of
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  Speaker 1: a Game of Thrones from a friend and I donated
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  Speaker 1: that to my college board game club because I found
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  Speaker 1: another copy at Goodwill.
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  Speaker 2: The copy I found a Goodwill.
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  Speaker 1: Was in very good condition, so I kept the one
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  Speaker 1: that was in very good condition, gave the one that
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  Speaker 1: was in okay condition to my board game.
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  Speaker 2: Club at school, and then it sat there for like
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  Speaker 2: a year.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't played it because that's a big event game,
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  Speaker 1: and on the rare chance that I get to play
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  Speaker 1: a big event game of Game of Thrones, it's usually
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  Speaker 1: gonna be with Rob or other friends from Toggle, and
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  Speaker 1: there are multiple copies available in that group, including Rob's copy,
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  Speaker 1: which is decked out with cool bits. Andy has the expansion.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't really need a Game of Thrones, so
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  Speaker 1: I was happy to put it in the trade and
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  Speaker 1: I got something good for it. Next up is Cathedral.
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  Speaker 1: This is a really.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting wooden abstract game. I like it.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: There's just not much space for wooden abstract games and
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  Speaker 1: my collection again, two player games. If a game is
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  Speaker 1: primarily a two player game, that's got to be a
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  Speaker 1: game that my wife is going to want to play,
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  Speaker 1: or I have to really really like it for it
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  Speaker 1: to stay in the collection, and Cathedral did not fit
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  Speaker 1: either of those categories. It is a lovely wooden game, though,
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  Speaker 1: so I was happy to pass it on to someone
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  Speaker 1: who would play it. Furnace is a game that I
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  Speaker 1: really liked at the time that I got it. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of the games I played at gen Con and
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  Speaker 1: immediately bought it because I loved the way it treated auctions.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a really clever mechanism. You're bidding on cards,
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  Speaker 1: and if you win the card, you get the top
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  Speaker 1: of the top of the thing, and if you don't
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  Speaker 1: win the card, you get the resources of bottom. There's
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: a similar mechanism using trick taking in Brian Boru, which
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: is probably why I like Brian Boru, and I just
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  Speaker 1: realized that that parallel was there. The theme of Furnace
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  Speaker 1: is really boring though you're trading resources. It's neoze, and
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  Speaker 1: so I did not play Furnace very often. It did
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  Speaker 1: not have much attraction for the people I play games with.
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  Speaker 1: It sat unplayed, even though I admire it, So let's
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  Speaker 1: move it on. Next up isaf Leaf is a really
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  Speaker 1: interesting game where you are playing leaf shaped tiles and
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  Speaker 1: making connections based on the number where the points of
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  Speaker 1: those tiles touch.
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  Speaker 2: I like Leaf quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: There was a sort of confusing issue where somebody else
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  Speaker 1: had a damaged box and I didn't mind a damaged box,
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  Speaker 1: and they seem really disappointed, so I traded with them,
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  Speaker 1: and I indvertently traded away my expansion as well. I
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  Speaker 1: had the expansion and I was in the box I
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  Speaker 1: traded it that away. I didn't realize I had given
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  Speaker 1: away my expansion for base Leaf, and then so when
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  Speaker 1: I put it on the trade, I said it had
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  Speaker 1: the expansion in it, and I didn't say anything about
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  Speaker 1: the damage box because I'd forgotten. So then I ended
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  Speaker 1: up offering the person I traded with another game to
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  Speaker 1: say sorry for the trade error. So a little disappointing
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  Speaker 1: to not really get my trades worth for Leaf by
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: giving away extra stuff, but I don't know if I'd
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  Speaker 1: have gotten as good a trade had I marketed it properly.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Next up is a Great Western Trail second Edition. This is
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  Speaker 1: a game I really admire, but I don't really enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: and I've had it for two and a half years
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  Speaker 1: now and.
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  Speaker 2: Never played it. So time to move it along.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a game that just has a really consistent
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  Speaker 1: rating on board game Geek, so it does yield a
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  Speaker 1: positive response from people. Next up is It's a Wonderful World.
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  Speaker 1: This one was maybe the hardest one to put on
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  Speaker 1: the trade pile because I do really like this game.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: I think that the mechanism it uses for a building
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  Speaker 1: is really interesting that when you play a card, you
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  Speaker 1: can either spend it for its resources or you can
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  Speaker 1: put it in your building zone and you can put
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  Speaker 1: resource on it to build it, and once you build it,
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  Speaker 1: it generates resources for you, and the resources generate in
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: orders to this whole thing where you like build a
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  Speaker 1: building and then it generates resources that let you build
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  Speaker 1: another building before the next round of resources, and very
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  Speaker 1: compelling way that the game works. Pretty samey after a
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  Speaker 1: few rounds, I didn't buy the I think there was
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: an expansion I did not buy that, But also it's
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: sort of futuristic themed, and when I first got it,
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: I thought there was probably room in my collection for
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: both that and Seven Wonders, But honestly, I've never played it.
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: I very rarely play it.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: I mostly play Seven Wonders and so at some point
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: it's like, why am I keeping this? You're a white
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: breasted nuthatch. Next up is La Patisserie Rococo. This one
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  Speaker 1: is definitely goes in the category of we played it.
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  Speaker 1: I could recognize it's good, we didn't enjoy it a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I might as well trade it while it's hot
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  Speaker 1: and get something really good for it instead. That was
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: kind of what that was kind of the thinking. Ten
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: Penny Parks is kind of the same boat as Furnace.
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  Speaker 1: This is the game I really liked.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: I think that the way.
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  Speaker 1: The tiles fit together is very interesting. I love the
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: art design or the graphic design of it, and the
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: art from Vincent du Trade very cool. But it just
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't getting played. And almost anytime we want to play
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: a game like that, we'll play either Barren Park or
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Patchwork or Tipperary, and so Ten Penny Parks was just languishing.
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  Speaker 1: So rather than languishing and not getting played, I'll give
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  Speaker 1: it to someone else who will play it and I
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: get to try something new.
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: Nextcept, we have Scapegoat.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: This is a social deduction game that's pretty interesting. There's
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: a gimmick where one person is gonna be the scapegoat.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Everybody has to agree and vote for that one person,
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  Speaker 1: and if you are the one person, you can escape
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: by going to the cops. But if somebody goes to
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: the cops in error when they aren't the scapegoat, then
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: everyone loses. So there's this interesting thing where you feel
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: persecuted and you go to the cops and you've made
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: everyone lose the game. I thought it was interesting, but
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: it was not a game I could get played very often,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: and it ended up just being one of those ones
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: where I don't play that many social deduction games, and
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: I already have a stable of ones that I think
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: are really good, so I'm not gonna not gonna play them.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: I said, we have the final Flick Tier. This is
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: a flicking game where you are flicking dice that are
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: ships and attacking other players with the dice. This is
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  Speaker 1: from designer Gave Barrett. The art on the cover is Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Comes with a really good pair of neoprene mats and
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  Speaker 1: lots of cool dice and cards. I thought it was
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: really fun. We played it once or twice, but my
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: family does not seem to like flicking games, so it
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: languished and I let it go. Next up, we have
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings The Duel. This is an interesting
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: game from Cosmos where you one person is playing Gandalf,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: the other person is playing the ball rog and they're
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: fighting on the bridge. It's our really good two player
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: card prediction game where you're trying to spot what the
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: other person's doing. I thought it was neat, but it
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: wouldn't get that much play, and frankly, if I'm gonna
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: play a game like that.
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  Speaker 2: I should play Strife. So off it goes.
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  Speaker 1: And finally Clue Conspiracy I thought did not like, so
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: I let that go. So those are the sixteen games
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: I got rid of in the math trade. Here are
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: the fifteen games that I acquired. I'm gonna talk a
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: little bit less about each of these because I haven't
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: played them, but i'll tell you the thing that attracted
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: me to them, and I'm gonna try to avoid saying
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: and I've heard it's good, because most of these I've
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: either heard they were good or they looked intriguing in
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  Speaker 1: some way. So I'm gonna try to demonstrate the intriguing part.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Why did I put them down as a game i'd
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: be interested in having either by buying cheaply in an
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: auction or by trading one of my games for them.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: I don't recall which game traded for which game, so
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: we're just gonna be in the dark about that as
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: we listen. First up is Horrified Greek Monsters. I like
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: the Horrified system, and I've always wanted to try the
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: other Horrified games, but I don't know that I like
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: it enough to buy it. That's the other thing I'm
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: not going to keep saying. I don't know if I
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: like it enough to buy it, but I'm interested in trade.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: That's why I traded for it, so I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: say it. I like the theory, the idea of the
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Greek monsters as the villains. It's a fun alternate world.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: I'm more interested in it than the American cryptids, for example,
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  Speaker 1: So keen.
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  Speaker 2: To try that.
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  Speaker 1: Next tip, we have Bury Me in the Rift. This
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: is a very simple or a lightweight solo game with
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: cool art that I got in the auction for a dollar.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I think Horseless Carriage. This is a I guess I
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: thought this looked like an interesting Splotter game that seemed
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: a little less mean than some of the other ones.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: It was the newest one.
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  Speaker 1: It's very highly rated and I haven't played a spottery
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: game on the table. I didn't want to play food
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Chain Magnate. The theme is interesting, but the gameplay that
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I've read about just seems horrifying and the Great Zimbabwe
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: I hate the way it looks, so I'm also not
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: a big fan of playing a game of that theme
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: designed by a couple of Germans, so horseless carriage, I
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: thought I'd give a try Istanbul the Dice Game. I
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: mostly picked this because Istanbul is very highly rated. The
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Dice Game is rated well, and one of the social
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: media board game folks that I follow she really really.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Likes all things Istanbul.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: She has talked about Istanbul the Dice Game being a
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: really nice little filler. So we got that and I'm
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: excited to get the feel for it. I've already played
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: it once and I did enjoy it. Next tip, we
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: have Mystery Rummery Mystery Rummy Jack the Ripper. I've always
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: been fascinated by this school of game. There are a
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: bunch of different Mystery Rummy games. This is the first
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: in a series from designer Mike Elliott, who's best known
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: for the Thunderstone Quest deck building game, but I think
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: many other games as well, and so keen to try it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan of the Jack the Ripper theme,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: but it does seem to be the theme except we
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: have Fayo. This is an excellent example of a game
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I heard about one mechanism and I really want to
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: see how it works. Fayom is a game about ancient
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Egypt where you are I don't know, doing area controller
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: building stuff. But there seems to be this mechanism with
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the cards where you discard the cards in the order
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: and then later you pick them back up out of
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: your discard pile, and so the order you play them
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: in becomes really important because you get them back in
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: your hand in reverse order of the order you played them.
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  Speaker 1: That seems to be the big deal with the game.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: The art is sort of classic Freedman Freeze art style.
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  Speaker 1: It's sort of green and not super evolved.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Looking at it looks like a much older game than it.
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  Speaker 1: Is, but I'm excited to try. It's also new and
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: shrink Tranquility is the next one. That is a tiny
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: box all play game where you are cooperatively sailing a
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: ship on the ocean and trying to avoid it. Looks
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  Speaker 1: from the cover at least getting eaten by a tentacle monster.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's cooperative puzzle game that looks fun.
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  Speaker 1: No Ma Hollow is a lightweight set collection game with
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: interesting tile placement elements and really good teaming. It's going
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: to be an excellent game to play. I can't wait
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to try it. Tayo Tiwacan City of the Gods is
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: probably the highest rated game that I got. This is
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  Speaker 1: one I've wanted to play for a while. I played
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  Speaker 1: it once or twice on board game Arena or Yukata
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  Speaker 1: and it was just too much to try to track
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  Speaker 1: in my brain asynchronously. So getting to play it on
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  Speaker 1: the real table looks very excited. I think this will
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: be probably the I think it's a simone Lucciani design.
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll be the one that'll stick. I'm very
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: excited for this too. TiO Khan City of the Gods
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  Speaker 1: Seasons is an out of print game that I've played
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  Speaker 1: a few times and I can recognize has kind of
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Resarkhana levels of replayability and combo building. I'm very excited
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: to get this to the table and get to play
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  Speaker 1: it some, and then I will probably return to the
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  Speaker 1: online form and try it a bunch there, so that's seasons.
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  Speaker 1: If you're interested in giving it a try, send me
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: an invite on board game Marina Warhammer Quest the Adventure
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  Speaker 1: Card Game. Honestly, I put my dollar in or five
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: dollars in for the auction for this one, thinking it
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: was Pathfinder Quest or Pathfinder the Adventurer Card Game. But
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I'm still excited for it. It looks neat and my
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: son and I will probably enjoy going through the adventures
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  Speaker 1: of it. I thought it would be a slightly bigger
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  Speaker 1: box of cards than it is. It might be a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: relatively limited play, but I paid a relatively limited.
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  Speaker 2: Amount of money for it, so no harm, no foul.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Reign of Dragonists is a trick taking game, or it's
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a ladder climbing game. You can find my review of
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: it in an earlier episode of the podcast. I will
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: link it in the show notes. I played it at
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  Speaker 1: gen Con last year with listener Krishni John kenos Hey.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: John and I enjoyed it moderately. I didn't quite enjoy
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it enough to buy it at the full fifteen bucks
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: from Grandpa Backs Games, but I did enjoy it enough
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: that when it came up in the auction on this event.
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  Speaker 1: I snapped it up so excited to play that again
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and have another easy to access card game in my quiver.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I don't have a quiver, but you know what I mean.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I picked up Volka, which is a I don't know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a card battler of some sort. There was a free
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: table and it was new and shrink and I looked.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: It's not highly rated, but I thought it the art,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: at least is cool. I've seen the owner of the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: game company Terrible Games on TikTok, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'd try. It didn't cost me anything.
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  Speaker 1: Her story is a game about being a biographer or
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: a history writer, writing history about powerful women. I'll be
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: interested to see. I've seen a number of people talk
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: about this game being really good, and I hope it is.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I absolutely hope it is. It worries me that it
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: feels a little forward in It feels like an educational game,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: like a game specifically designed to teach you about a
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: particular history moment, which I salute the desire to do that,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: but I really want the game to be good as well,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and sometimes when you go educational topic first, the game suffers.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm a little leery, but it looked like a
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: good trade.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And so I hopped on that one. And finally Starship Captains.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: This is the CGE game that's sort.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Of like.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: A Star Trek type story, looks pretty fun, great art.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: It reminds me of the art from Space Base, so
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the artist is the same. It's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: got a kind of cartoony look a little bit like
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Star Trek. Below decks as well, and I think it
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: will be an interesting engine builder.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: The Secret Cabal gave.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: It a middling to middling positive review, and so I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: thought I would give it a try when I had
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to get it for free or in trade.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: So that brings me to the end of my review
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of Out with the some games, In with some others.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully you are excited to hear about those in the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: way that I am excited to play them. I'm keen
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: to give them a try. You know how they are. Well,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I've just arrived home and I'm about to head in,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: so I want to say, what games have you acquired lately?
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• 21:52
  Speaker 1: let us know what you think and share your thoughts
• 21:54
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