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It's time for another episode of the wildly popular podcast Chasing Meeples. On today's show, Chris and Angie discuss the games they played on vacation and then go back to tightening up their collection with the latest cold picks. Brace yourselves. The Meeple quiz, the hearty laughs, the insightful discussion and the banter it's all rolling your way. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's time for another episode of the wildly popular
podcast Chasing Meeples.
On today's show, chris andAngie discuss the games they
played on vacation and then goback to tightening up their

(00:27):
collection with the latest coldpicks.
Brace yourselves.
The Meeple quiz, the heartylaughs, the insightful
discussion and the banter it'sall rolling your way, starting
now.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hello everybody, this is the Chasing Meeples podcast.
I am your host, chris, and asalways, I am with my lovely
co-host.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hello, hello, it's Angie.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hey, angie, we've got another episode of the Chasing
Meeples podcast for everybody tolisten to.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
I hope it's for not just a select group of people,
not just a select group ofpeople.
It is for everybody.
No, wait, wait, you are not onour.
I want to say the SHIT word,but you're not.
Everybody can listen to this.
Yes, anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, it is for everyone, everybody, everyone,
not just a select group ofpeople.
Thank you for that.
But, of course, if you are nota subscriber to this podcast and
you don't have notificationbells on YouTube, if you listen
to it on YouTube, you aren't.
You know, one of the select fewwho know.

(01:43):
Hey everybody, future Chrishere.
I just wanted to hop in herereal quick.
It is only one minute and 45seconds into this episode.
Things are about to go off therails just a tad.
You're going to hear us talkabout some gift card promotions
and some sponsorships that donot exist.

(02:03):
These are promises that wecannot keep.
You will actually hear me saythat I'm going to struggle a
little bit keeping this in thepodcast.
I've decided to keep all ofthis into the podcast just
because it is funny and justwanted to hop in because none of
this is a thing.

(02:23):
Okay, thanks for understanding.
You aren't, you know, one ofthe select few who know when
this episode comes out.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
They will not be one of the people that will get
entered into our monthly drawingfor a $50 gift certificate for
miniature market.
That's just sad.
That's just sad.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
This is new.
This is a new development,Angie.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's a way to get listed.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
False promises.
Yes, yes, that is exactly it.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Well, let's see how many people miniature market can
try in.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
They're silly.
Yes, so if miniature market, ifyou want to sponsor us so we
can actually do this giveaway,you can contact us at
chasingmeeples at yahoocom andwe'll start this beautiful
partnership that Angie has justmonthly giveaways.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know what would be awesome, though, because we
get our one listener fromGermany, who I won't say your
name.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
We've actually have more than one.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
I know, and it's not Reiner Konitzia.
It is an awesome listener onour discord and he is on the
Allboard Gamer Chat.
Every time we go on his liveshows he is on there.
So it's a.
He is our non Reiner KonitziaGermany listener.
So if miniature market is infact willing to slide us a gift

(03:58):
certificate that we can passalong to one of our subscribers,
that would be really cool.
Yeah, so now whole all thepressures on, all the pressures
on them.
You know, hey, maybe you know,maybe game nerds would be
willing to do it.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Angie, I'm having a very hard time with this right
now because my mind is spinningLike do I edit all this stuff
out or do I keep it and actuallyhope that somebody who has
something to do with any ofthese game company or these
these companies actually listento our podcast and say you know
what we find value in these guys?

(04:35):
Let's help them out.
Again, if you want to contactus, chasingmeepleyahoocom.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't know.
There's always a chance we getthat.
One game store in Appleton.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh boardland, yeah, yeah they do online stuff.
And we drop a lot of moneythere and we drop a lot of money
at the Nasseri and Sturgeon Baya completely different company.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
They don't do online stuff.
Boardland he's got a big onlinepresence.
Well, they do, but People,people shop at boardland, you
online.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Anyway, all right.
Well, it's time for me to pop acough drop in, all right.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
What flavor is it, chris?
What flavor do you have overthere?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Vapo.
Cool it's, it's menthol.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Vapo Cool, that's cool.
Is there any sort of like?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, nostril burning menthol flavored Just what I
need right now.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I don't know that flavor sounds so good, how can I
resist?
And I get a six pack of it.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
And those of you who are concerned for my health.
I appreciate your concern, butthrough the magic of recording,
I have not been sick for a month.
Just want to let you know we'vewe're recording these in a
short time span, so, anyway, allright.
Well, what do you got?

(06:07):
What do I got?
I'm sitting here looking at ourdesk and I'm seeing things that
I don't know what they are Like.
For some reason, we've got thetracking through history rule
books sitting on the table.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
The tracking through history rule book is there
because previously, the episodethat we did, which we I changed
you remember when you keptsaying what is episode teach?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
It was going to have to do with teaching games.
So that is one that we're goingto have eventually, and so my
thought was going to be trackingthrough history, which would be
a good game to teach newbies orto even teach at a.
I was thinking my brother, Jeff, can I get somebody into gaming
?
Maybe tracking through historywould be something easy enough

(06:51):
to teach, easy enough for themto pick up.
I was even thinking a gamenight at church.
So that is why tracking throughhistory is sitting here.
Nothing is sitting here.
That okay.
Well, there's Pepto abysmalhere.
Not for me, not for me.
That was me the other day.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
I just have the giant aisle of vapor cool.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Okay, so we are not sitting in our backers, just
everybody.
Now we are not in our bathroom,it is not large enough to
podcast from, but it may havebetter acoustics.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
What are you talking about?
Would have horrible acoustics.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
No, do you remember who?
Okay, who is the multiinternational, multi platinum
recording artist who recordedhis first hit single in a
bathroom.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well, if you're referring to the docu drama,
weird Al Jankovic made accordingto that, yes, he did.
He did record.
I love Rocky Road, no mysharonah.
Oh yeah, it was my balona, mybalona.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Hey, that is it.
That is a cult classic movie Ifno one has ever already not
seen weird.
Is it weird or wired?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
weird.
Weird, I would be called wiredI don't know what to make that
wired out I really thought itwas wired.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
And so one day I think you said something and I
looked at it again go, oh no, no, that's not W I W, yeah, but
yeah, it's actually a.
It's actually an okay movie,except when the father beats the
accordion salesman to a bloodypulp.

(08:39):
I think at first couple oftimes our son watched that.
I kind of, you know, wasletting him watch it.
Yeah, one day I I'm actuallypaying attention to it.
And here here comes theaccordion salesman knocking on
the door and I see that you knowwhere.
He says he's going to have a beswimming in the full of with

(09:02):
playing his accordion and dadcomes in and smashes the
accordion over his head andsuddenly I feel complicit in the
, the destroying of that youngman's dream.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yep, so I got a quiz question for you right, oh yeah.
So, since we're on the topic ofthe, what did you call a
multinational?

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Nice it's like multi international Cordia, I don't
know.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, since we're on the subject of weird Alan movies
.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
What is the actual cult classic that he made in the
80s?
The name of that movie?
You ran a cable network.
The guy who played Kramer fromSteinfeld wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh, what was that called?

Speaker 2 (09:58):
I believe Julia Trifus was in it, Julia Louise,
whatever her name is fromSteinfeld.
I can't remember the name of itU-H-F.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
I didn't know the name of it.
That movie was great.
When you say Carl Classic,suddenly I'm thinking he wasn't
in Rocky Horror Pictures, that'swhat I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yes, that is the only cult classic there is.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, it is, that is the only one.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Did you know that that was the first actual film
role that Tim Curry had?
Well it wasn't a wonderfulacting quality so no way, that
movie was classic.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Did you see it in it?
Where did you see it?

Speaker 2 (10:44):
I never actually saw it in a theater.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
I saw it in a theater Very bizarre.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
No, that way, that was awesome.
I've always wanted to go to oneof those showings of it where
people dress up.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, everybody was throwing toast at the thing.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, for sure, I mean like yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
We got the toast.
I had no idea why we broughttoast.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
You don't understand the toast.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I didn't know why we brought toast.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I actually think I had a Rocky Horror for some
reason In my teen years.
My friends and I we were prettyinto that and we watched that
movie a lot.
Did you know that there was asequel to that called Shock
Treatment, which I actually haveon VHS somewhere?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Oh really.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yes, it follows Brad and Janet after they got out of
Rockies Okay, and they end up ina.
They end up in like this weirdtelevision network Not as good
as Rocky Horror, but still agood.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
That was an interesting night when I went to
see that.
It's like one of the firstnights I was sneaking into Green
Bay Bars.
It was Halloween yeah, it waslike Halloween weekend and they
were all dressed up in costumesand they weren't very good at
checking IDs.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
And that was probably in what the early 90s yeah,
Early 90s yeah Graduated 88.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Totally different time.
Totally different time.
So they.
But I bet you, if I go diggingin one of my boxes somewhere, I
will find my Rocky HorrorPicture Show.
Like, I don't even know what itwas.
It had a piece of toast in itand it had all the stuff that
you wouldn't use.
Oh really, when you went to myversion of it I don't know how I

(12:24):
got it oh, because I joined theRocky Horror Picture Show fan
club.
I bet you I can find all thatstuff too.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
So you have a membership number somewhere on
the internet.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I am somewhere.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
A card carrying.
Member of the.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Rocky Horror Picture Show fan club.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
You were a lonely child.
You joined that.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
And hey, and again, this podcast is for everybody.
Yes, it is.
And I just scored cool pointsin a pocket of some listeners
out there.
There is some listener outthere, pocket of listeners who
are like Chris, come on, let'sgo watch a movie.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Oh, things that you find out about people when you
start talking nonsense.
I never knew that about you.
I'm looking at you differentnow why I look at you under the
lens of red lipstick andplatform shoes.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, you can like a movie and not dress the part.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Okay, that was pretty interesting, but.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I could probably.
If you put that movie on, Icould probably recite the word,
every word, to that.
Oh yeah, I could probably dothe time warp and do all the
dances when he said, okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
What are we talking about here?
What is this podcast about?
It is about it's about boardgames.
Is there a oh gosh new quiz?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Is there a board game ?

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Is there a board game about the Rocky Horror Picture
Show?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, not one that we have.
Why are you looking at ourshelf?
Let me look around the room.
Maybe we have it on our shelfand I just don't know it.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
The funny thing is there are no game shelves around
me right now.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Right behind you, Goofball.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, but I was looking at the guitars.
We do not have it over there atall.
If there is a game and there isa publisher with a copy, they
could send it to us and we willdiscuss it on air.
I know that is something thatthere is some publisher out
there going yep, that's what Iwant.

(14:45):
I want these two bozos on airripping apart my game.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
What is wrong with us ?
What this is?
We're like what?
I don't even know what the wordis.
Are we pandering?
Pandering, is that even?

Speaker 3 (14:56):
a word.
We can't do that, let's use you.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Everybody in this, everybody in the business space,
anywhere in this, is like lookat those two people over there
just waving, look at us.
Look at us, we're chasingmeeples.
Send us stuff, we'll talk aboutit.
Send us stuff.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
I normally don't do that.
I'm just teasing, I'm justjoking, I'm like, absolutely not
that person I am.
I am not, no way.
This is awesome.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
So we talked about it in our last episode.
We talked about the season anddingy board games.
Yes, okay, so we played thatgame again in the final copy
last night and I really enjoythat game and, like I said in

(15:59):
the last episode, that we had,like when we first had the
prototype of the game not atheme, not a game, not a brain
burner by all means, it's just anice fun experience.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
And it's an experience and that's exactly
what I was thinking.
I was trying to describe itbecause it's not.
I was trying to think about howI feel when I play it and I
don't play it like you wouldmost other games.
You're playing for the thematicnature of it.
It really is how you're writingletters to your suitors, You're

(16:36):
trying to meet the fellas.
It is.
It's very thematic that way,how you're trying to get certain
people to propose to you.
And you've got this whereyou're hoping I want Lieutenant
Arthur Trollbridge Trollbridge.
Yeah, I was looking for himwhen he finally entered the game

(16:58):
and I could narrow in on him.
That's who I.
You know, it was justinteresting, you know, you
hoping that he would get invitedto the picnic so you could earn
their affection, and you knowit was just interesting.
It is, but it's the experience,and not so much because we were
doing a review of After Us,which gives you a different

(17:19):
feeling, you know, and this gamejust gives you that, just a
completely different.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, you know, and I had my sights set on Captain
George Miller.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Captain yep, captain Miller.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
It was like from from the beginning.
At the very first debut ballthat I was introduced to Captain
George Miller, I had my eyes onthat guy and I knew, I knew he
would be mine someday.
And in the last, like rightbefore the last season, Yep.

(17:54):
He married me.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
But you know what, you know what was interesting?
That once again and I I pickedthose characters at random, and
once again it was Leticia versusElthea, and that was when we
play the game in Nina.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, that's who played, and that's why we had
the prototype and everythinglike that.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
And these are game cards with there, but just
randomly those two faced offhead to head.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
But I digress and we're digressing right.
Like it was cool, Like I guessthe whole point I'm trying to
make is I'm that guy.
If you have a prototype youwant me to play, I'll do it
because I want to help.
Like it's not because I justwant free stuff or cool new
things and the hotness and allthat I genuinely like there's.

(18:48):
It's not even our game.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
And watching you walk in the door and me opening up
the box.
There was pride it was verybizarre.
I had a feeling of pride forthat.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
I don't know why, but yes, I did too.
I opened that box and suddenlyI was very thrilled when it came
in the mail and I'm just like,look, look, this is the game.
This is the game that we play,the prototype of.
Look, it's fit.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
I did.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
So it's, it's a bizarre, but yeah, you know.
So I'm not saying any names,but Garfield games, if you're
listening.
Oh, sorry, I got something inmy throat.
Yeah, garfield, garfield games,if you're listening.
Shem, shem, ezra and Nehemiah Igot, oh, I got my.

(19:33):
Maybe I need another cough drop.
I keep saying names of gamecompany.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh no, I don't see.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Hey Nazi Chevy Chuck.
Oh my God, you just fell on thefloor.
Are you OK?
Are you OK?
I'm just going to sit here andwatch she's laughing.
She literally fell on the floor.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
I lost.
It was I don't know.
Shem Phillips was one thing.
And then Stan Kroganev camewhen you said Ignacy, oh my God,
all the way in Poland I knowhe's listening All the way in
Poland.
You Polish guys have to sticktogether.
Ok, forgive me, this is goingto make noise.

(20:32):
I have to.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
So, while Angie is getting her seat back in, I'm
going to I'm actually going tomute your mic, ignacy.
Yeah, she must Do.
We get you.
I Soup, soup, no, but youactually must I see.

(20:54):
What do you think?
How about you send us a game?
Oh, I know, I know, I know, Iknow, I know, I know, I know, I
know, I know, I know, I know, Iknow, I know, I know, I know, I
know, I know.
Let me know when I can unmuteyour mic.
All right, you're unmuted.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
OK, I'm back.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
That is great.
You have not like fallen out ofa chair in a long time.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
I.
There's something about Ignacythat just.
I just lost it when you saidIgnacy.
I'm not sure why.
It's not that funny, Although Ilove saying the word Ignacy.
It it's just I'm not sure why Ijust lost it.
I have.
Yeah, it's been a while since Iflew out of a chair.
It's been a while.
I'm going to have to get achair with arm rest, although if

(21:35):
I fly out of one of those thewhole chair comes tumbling over
in the desk and stuff.
So I better stay in one withoutarm rest.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, and you know the best thing about this is you
had the, the Everdell CompleteCollection box, to break your,
to break your fall, so I bet youyour fault felt really good.
It's a robust box.
It's not even damaged.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Whiz time, chris, are you ready?
I like this one.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
I'm always ready, are you okay?
You're not going to fall out ofyour seat.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Okay, I will try not to be funny for the rest of this
show.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
That's not hard.
Okay, once again, this quiz isgoing to have to do with our
games, have to do with our maintopic, and our main topic is
calling games B and C.
This is going to have to dosomething with calling games on

(22:54):
the list.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Well, okay, something on the games.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
It will be related to the games.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Am I allowed to look at the list of games?
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Question one what street name with the word would
is not a real street name in ourhometown Wildwood Court,
Redwood Lane, MeadowwoodBoulevard and Woodland Drive?

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Meadowwood Boulevard.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Oh, you got that right.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
I used to deliver pizzas in this town.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Oh, I went to Cheyenne.
I realized that.
Two points for you.
I used to run a pizzarestaurant.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
I used to run a pizza restaurant.
I know the map of this townlike the back of my hand.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Okay, I never got about this.
Let me ask you this Did theysell smoothies at that
restaurant?

Speaker 2 (23:53):
No, they didn't.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Was that restaurant a franchise?
Yes.
Okay, let's segue into numbertwo, according to franchise
chattercom, which is the topsmoothie and juice bar franchise
of 2023?
Is it One Smoothie King, two,orange Julius, three, freshie or

(24:25):
four Tropical Smoothie Cafe?

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I gotta go with the reigning champion, who's always
on the top of my list, andthat's Orange Julius.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Ding, ding, ding ding ding.
Yeah, she's kind of a give me,but.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
As a matter of fact, I used to work.
Oh, come on.
I did not yeah so you know,when I used to run that
restaurant that has the softserve with the famous curl on
the top and they have a cup withcandy in it and it's in like a
snowstorm.
Ooh, so maybe they'll give $50gift cards if you say their name

(25:03):
.
So they were actually.
It's like a parent company.
Yes, they were together.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Okay, but did they back in the day?
Did they sell Orange Juliusback then?

Speaker 2 (25:12):
That was after my time.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I thought so.
I thought so Okay, so far, Fourpoints.
You're heading there.
You're heading to Max points.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
You're getting there oh my God, oh my God.
You shouldn't just say that,because now I'm gonna like I'm
in my head now already.
Oh, I'm in my head already.
You shouldn't have said thatI'm on the road to Max points.
Oh, normally at this point I'mpouty.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
You should have had your dopamine drip.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh, you gave it to me already.
I'm dopamineing all over, okay.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
All right, let's go with.
The next question is what isthe name of the hotel in the
movie Psycho?

Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's my question.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
And I'm gonna name four hotels.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Oh come on, that's easy one Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
The Bates Motel.
Overlook Motel Kacky Palms orHotel Excelsior.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's the Bates Motel I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Sometimes you're not up with the kids, you know.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Up when the kids like all the kids these days are
watching.
Hey, let's watch that movieFrom the 1970s.
From the 1960s, 50s, whatever.
It is Alfred Hitchcock, he'sthe coolest dude ever.
You know, I'm gonna tell you astory about Alfred Hitchcock.
When I was a kid I was soafraid of that guy.

(26:34):
It would always start off withhim sitting in a chair and that
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,boom, boom, boom, boom and he
would turn yeah, he would gohello there good evening.
And I was so afraid of him.
And there was actually this iskind of embarrassing to say, but

(26:56):
there was like a water spot onmy parents' ceiling and they
have like much like in the housethat we have those stupid
ceilings, that Drop down to ohthe.
Like we have these stupidslanted ceilings and there was
like a water spot on there, likethey had a leak in the roof and

(27:18):
at night, you know when you'rea kid and things like your eyes
play trick with you and you seethat that water spot Would turn
into Alfred Hitchcock, wouldturn into Alfred Hitchcock and
all night I would see him liketurning in his chair.
Good evening, I'm just like.
I'm just like, oh my.

(27:43):
God.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Oh my God, this time we could see what you look like
when you do that, when I do theAlfred Hitchcock.
You spin and go.
Good evening.
Oh my gosh, that's funny.
I'm thinking I did make thesemore difficult enough, but okay,
that's okay.
Hey, it's okay, you are.
You are at.
You are at six points.
So what did I say?

(28:04):
There's 12 points of acts Two,four, six, eight, 10.
There's 14 points to this gameand you're at six, so you're
doing okay.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
And when I, after I, get max points, I'm going to ask
you a question about this quiz.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Okay, okay, I'm going to list.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Oh no, I see it now.
I see the connection.
Okay, okay, I see theconnection.
I'm like, and how the heck isthe Bates Motel related to any
of these games on this list?
And then I saw the bloody in.
All right, figured it out.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
I'm going to list you four names of soapoppers and
you're going to have to tell mewhich is the actual name of a
soap.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Okay, Now, I grew up watching soapoppers with my mom,
so hit me.
I am very confident that I gotthis one.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
The Valley of the Bold.
The Bold and Busty.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Oh, that would be a good one.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
The Bold and Beautiful, or Bold Sunshine.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
And I'm supposed to say which is the one.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Which is the actual?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
What's the Bold and the Beautiful?
That is one I did not watch.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
I thought that's the one you did watch.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
No, it was Days of Our Lives.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
I thought you watched the Bold and Beautiful.
Days of Our Lives GeneralHospital.
Okay.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
And I hate.
I hate medical dramas like LikeER.
Everybody watched ER.
Okay, I never really got intoit, because those shows like in
house, all those they freak meout because the person goes in
saying that they can't like whenthey stick their tongue out it

(29:58):
goes to the left.
So I'll go and look in themirror like three times to make
sure that from the start of thatepisode in between every
commercial break my tongue Ididn't catch whatever weird
disease they have, like whenthat dude, when that dude got
brain cancer On ER like the bigmain doctor.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
The guy who was in the revenge of the nerd.
Yeah, I swear to God, I it wasin my head.
So bad Like that was it?
Like there was that one scenewhere he goes and looks in the
mirror and he's all sweaty andhe tries to stick his tongue out
and every time he's like histongue out it come out and he,
yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
I remember that.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
I was like oh my God, so I swear.
For like a month afterwards Iwas sticking my tongue out in
the mirror to make sure I didn'thave brain cancer.
Oh my God.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
That's not funny.
I must stop looking, but Iremember that scene.
There's not a lot of scenesthat I really remember from them
, but that one I think it'sgoing to stick out in
everybody's mind.
That's so hot.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Only two things I remember about ER.
Is that and I think was ER theone where the helicopter crashed
, or was that grades gray'sanatomy?
There was, like this bighelicopter crash.
One of the main characters diedin the helicopter.
Is that gray's anatomy?
That was.
I think that was gray's anatomy.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Was it?
I'm not sure.
All right, are you ready?

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Meeple chasers.
If you know the answer to thatquestion, while you're waiting
for your $50 gift card From aundisclosed location because we
don't want to get sued formaking false promises, email us
at chasingmeeplescom with theanswer to that question.

(31:35):
Otherwise, angie will pay youfive bucks, if I'm wrong.
Just kidding.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
A bonfire is a part of which school tradition
Homecoming from senior skip dayor graduation.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, usually a bonfire is part of homecoming,
and that is my final answer.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Okay, you are correct , you are correct.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
And followed by toilet paper.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Some paper wrestling.
I have my notes backwards.
You're doing good, Chris.
You're doing good.
You're doing good.
So the 10 points this could bethe best you've ever done.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
A little bonfire right there.
Oh my gosh, you're going downthe list.
Okay, so the next question.
Got it All right?

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Did I really do that?

Speaker 2 (32:42):
The next question is going to.
The answer is going to be DrRobotnik.
No, Okay.
I just forget, I throw another,the villain, in sponge and in
sponge the villain in Sonic thehedgehog is a doctor Schmagognik
B, dr Robotnik, c, nick derevictor or D Weed a pick up.

(33:07):
What did we to pick a?
Come from the Meeple quiz thatyou've ever done.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
I'm going to change words from the rules.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I forgot that one and I forget.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
That was awesome and I'm going to say instead of
place a worker, weed a pick up.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
That was awesome.
That was awesome, that wasawesome.
That was awesome.
That was amazing.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Possibly.
I didn't want to get sued byNick Murphy.
Okay, otherwise I would havepicked one word and not every
gardening word that I know, nick.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Murphy, if you're listening to this podcast.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
What do you have soup ?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Leave us a comment.
What do you have sued Angie, ifI used your quiz?

Speaker 3 (34:07):
This game is broken.
Oh my gosh.
We replaced the words withBanana.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Banana, banana, banana.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Banana, banana, banana, banana, banana.
Banana.
B hubgie and I found out if ithad been mom.
She asked, it's me and threepeople you wrote those tree

(34:42):
words visual wedding redesums asbirthdayardı, doubleforward
Season ending, secret warrantyproducts, octobreiser, actress
and you know in general thereare some evidences that make a
viu Kind of Completely uns goingfrom Central Brewing, coon Rock

(35:04):
Cream Ale from Lake LouisBrewing, Spotted Cow from
Nuclearis Brewing, and I did notmake up these names, really
names of beers in Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
I go.
Is that it?
I go with what I know, and Iknow that Spotted Cow is it the
best beer on that list.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Okay, you got it right.
See, I think I made this tooeasy.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
I am not a big drinker, but oh, does that stuff
go down so good.
It is so smooth.
If anybody has had a chance tocome to Wisconsin and try
Spotted Cow, pick it up, give ita shot and Nuclearis if you're
listening chasing meeples atyahoocom is how you can connect

(35:52):
with us.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
All right, this is it , chris.
Last question you are at 12 outof 14 points.
You've never been this close tomax points before, and this is
not an easy one.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Hold on, hold on.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
That's kind of appropriate almost for this.
Okay, I heard it.
Tell me when you're ready.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
I'm ready, I am focused, I'm laser focused on
you.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
This one is not an easy one.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Oh geez, okay, Laser focused.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Okay, which creature is not from the game Campy
Creatures, the base game ofCampy Creatures?
The Swarm Creature, the Blob,the Mummy or Frankenstein oh,

(36:55):
whoa yeah not my, I was thinkingCryptid Cafe or Horrified.
Yep Nope Campy Creature.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
The base, the base characters.
Yeah, there's expansions.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, I don't think we have the expansion.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
We just have the base .

Speaker 2 (37:11):
So who is not?
That's fine, I didn't see it.
Who is not?

Speaker 3 (37:18):
And here thing is same again.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
That game once or twice Same again.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Here it is Swarm Creature the Blob, the Mummy,
the Frankenstein, max pointsChris the Blob.
I so wanted you to get thisright.

(37:48):
It's.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Frankenstein.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
It's Frankenstein.
I literally was cheering foryou.
I was literally inside cheeringfor you.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
What was my final score?
Angie?

Speaker 3 (38:05):
12 out of 14.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
I'll take it no-transcript.

(38:53):
Minor interruptions, but it wasno big deal.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Oh gosh, yeah, Okay, we're going to talk about things
that we did.
We played a couple games.
We played Wingspan with ourAsia Ocean expansion.
We played Fox in the Forest,which we haven't played in a
long time.
We play Honeybuzz and we playYeruzalum and no Dominion.
This was the first time you gotto play that game.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
I feel like we also played a couple more.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
I don't know, I can't remember we played the fire
campfire.
Oh, tinder, box Tinder.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Tinder blocks.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
That was just a really love play in that, oh, by
the campfire.
Yeah, it's so cool.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
That was just a filler, though, so, but yes, you
hit.
You hit the big, the big mainones that we played.
Yeah, and that was the firsttime I had a chance to play
Yeruzalum.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
And what did you think?

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Really enjoyed it, I think without I think without
knowing a lot about what thegame.
I mean.
I knew the basics of what thegame was.
I watched videos about it.
I understood that the point ofthe game was to get you know

(40:11):
closest to Jesus during the lastsupper and that and the
Sanhedrin track being kind oflike your round marker.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
So I understood the basics but I didn't realize
there was like there was cardplaying, almost Because you have
to.
You know you draw your yeah,deck building, you had to draw
your cards and you know you'reyou're playing cards.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
That collection.
Yeah, you're playing cards toessentially build a tableau and
when you match the locations,there are different locations
and when you combine a specific,they're not not all of them,
because some, some are themarket, so they're not all

(41:12):
locations.
But yes, you're trying to comeup with three different
combinations that correspond tothe disciples, and then you can
place that one at the at thetable and get some bonus points
off of there.
No, no, you're.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I was, I was no, I was daydreaming while you're
talking.
I didn't listen to, I didn'thear a word you said.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Oh, I love it when you do that.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
I love you.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
I love you too.
I was thinking about our how Iwas going to edit this podcast.
I'm sorry, I wandered, I mindwandered.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Okay.
Oh my God, edit the podcast.
I haven't finished.
I know that sounds likesomething I would do.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
So would you want to repeat what you said?

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I said that the icons on the cards that you need to
collect a specific set of threeof them and those you turn into
a certain disciple and then youcan take them, place them at the
last supper and try to gainpoints based on where your

(42:20):
followers are placed.
So there are a lot of littlethings, movements going on and
definitely the multiplayer.
The two player and solo playdifferent.
I enjoy that game.
I've only played it solo, sothis is the first time I
actually played the two playergame.
It plays very close to the sologame, but I enjoyed it.

(42:48):
I was hoping you would enjoy itas well.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
And I did Good.
You know, like most Euro games,when you have them, when you
look at a picture of it or yousee it set up on the table, they
look intimidating Like oh gosh,there's going to be so many
moving parts and it's going tobe a brain burner game, didn't?

(43:14):
It had that appearance to methat it would be a brain burner,
but when it was all said anddone, the mechanics of the game
are very simple.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
It was smooth yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, there is their strategy, for sure, and it
wasn't hard to learn.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
I'm glad you say that .

Speaker 2 (43:39):
It was probably harder to put all the stickers
on the pieces.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Yeah, the fish are components, but I have a good
game.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
I'm glad you decided to bring it along.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Well, I knew we'd have time to finally play it.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Yeah, what else did we play?

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Well, we played wingspan.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
We don't need to talk about that.
We enjoy that game.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
We enjoy that.
We haven't played Fox and theForce in a long time.
We got to play that.
I enjoy that.
I am not a trick taking gameperson.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
I like trick taking.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
But I enjoy that game .
That was, I think, really thefirst trick taking game I've
ever played.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Yeah, I think it was, and you don't really understand
the concept when we first gotit.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
No, no, I mean, I tried playing Sheepside when I
was young and I didn'tunderstand it.
But playing multiplayer Iprobably would get more confused
.
I'm OK to player, but if I wasplaying multiplayer there is
something about your secretpartner that always kind of
confused me.
So I could play a two player.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
I could never figure out how to play Sheepside, but
to me Sheepside was a game thatwas.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
An old person game.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
No, was created at a deer camp after somebody lost a
bunch of the cards and they justdecided to make up game like
rules.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Yeah, I don't know.
The secret partner thing alwaysthrew me off.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Yeah Well, you get that in a lot of trick taking
games like in spades.
Do you have a partner?

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Yeah, but you don't know who they are.
Right, I'm a partner and I knowwho they are.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Yeah that's true.
That doesn't make sense.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
That's it.
I know my dad.
Somehow we ended up partner.
He's like you have to do thisin vain, but I didn't know
you're my partner.
How do I know?
I was supposed to play thatcard Right.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Again, deer camp yeah .

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Say no more.
Too many spotted cows Say nomore.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Yeah, so Box in the Forest it is.
It's a unique trick taking gametoo.
So they have what would Wellthey have.
They have what's called adecree card, which is kind of
like the Trump suit, right, andeach card most of the cards have
a special ability when you playthem.

(45:58):
So, for example, if you playlike a one and I can't remember
what the animal is, but if youplay that card and lose the
trick, you get to lead the likethe next hand, right, and I
think that that's pretty cool.
That makes the game cool.
We do also own Fox in theForest duet, which is a like

(46:19):
cooperative.
Well, it's a very rare gameLike.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Fox in the Forest.
This could be multiple.
Fox in the Forest is a twoplayer.
It's a two player trick.
The other, the Fox, and duet iscooperative.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
The other one is not.
So Fox in the Forest is notco-op.
Fox in the Forest duet is co-op.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
In case we should have played it more.
We only played it once.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Yeah, we did.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
I don't know.
There was something about thetrack that I didn't like.
Yep, the whole going throughthe forest thing I didn't care
for.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
So and that was a nice little, nice little game to
play after we got back from along day of Was it water park go
carts and sightseeing at thehouse on the rock.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Oh, it could have been after the house on the rock
.
That was a long day.
Yeah, that was a long day.
It was like four hours ofwalking.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yeah, it was cool.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
And then we played Honey Buzz.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
I like.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Honey Buzz is a good game.
It's a good Euro game.
It's it's fun.
I like it and who won?
I think you won that one.
I did yeah.
Who won Winxban?

Speaker 2 (47:22):
I think you did.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Okay, you know what I do like Honey Buzz.
I think it's a fun game.
It's got a cute theme on aessentially you know it's an
economy game, but I enjoy.
You always win that game.
I think you always you'd haveto look at your app.
I think you've always won thatgame.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Yeah, probably Well, I'll let you think that.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
I don't know Okay.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
So that was our vacation Well needed vacation.
Those are the games that weplayed.
As usual, we stopped atLabyrinth games, you did.
We talk about it in the lastepisode.
You did mention that the Lorcanyeah, but we didn't talk about
what you found there.
I don't think we did not.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
I did find a game that was.
It was not really my grail game, but it was.
It's something that I've seen,I've heard a lot about, and it
was one of those games that Icontinuously passed up, always
thinking another time I'll grabit another time.
It's there, it'll always bethere, and that was Grand
Austria Hotel.

(48:34):
So I am thrilled.
I grabbed it and I hung onto itdearly.
And then I grabbed theexpansion, because expansion is
supposed to be really good andthat is the one way to play the
solo game.
You need the expansion to playthe solo.
So I grabbed them both and hungonto them tightly as you were

(48:57):
questioning the guy about Lorcan.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
And you.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
What, what else did I do?

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Well, you bought a game.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
I did.
I brought Grand Mastery Hotel.
I just told everybody that.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
I'm aware of that, Brandon.
I know you're listening.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
If you're not, you should be.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
I want to let you know that ISS Vanguard is still
at the game store.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
I literally took a picture that said you're not
going to get this game.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Well, it was at Labyrinth Games, but I'm talking
about the one in Manitouac.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Oh my gosh, you went in there and passed it by,
because that's where you got theLarkana deck from Wee what.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (50:02):
hiding.
Are you hiding it?
Are you hiding?
It for me, are you sure?

Speaker 2 (50:07):
I was about to say, it's still in the window,
getting faded by the sun.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
I completely forgot about that.
When you said you walked inthere and bought the Larkana
deck, it didn't even cross mymind until right now that that
faded copy could have been inthe trunk of your Jeep.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
You took the groceries out today.
Would it be in the trunk of theJeep?
Was it in the trunk of the Jeep?

Speaker 3 (50:33):
It could be about a spare tire.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
It would not fit where the spare tire is.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
There's a spot.
Anyone fits too big.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
It's a massive box.
No, it would not fit where thespare tire is.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
All I'm trying to say is Brandon, she bought a game
and we were talking aboutcalling games, and during your
life, I don't know what thisepisode is about is it During
your live stream about calling.
She's giving me grief forwanting to buy a game that I
didn't buy, Because what youdidn't hear coming out of her

(51:14):
mouth versus what she was typing, we don't have room for that
game.
We have enough games the way itis.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
She comes home with a grand Austrian hotel, just
saying.
Just saying, I think I shouldgo buy a game.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
That doesn't mean you can.
It doesn't mean you get to buya game.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
You're right.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
You're right Because of course I'm going to say you
bought Larkana and you will saythat's a card game, that's not a
board game, that doesn't count.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Oh, you know me really well.
Ladies and gentlemen, we arehere for.

(52:14):
Colomania 2.
The games on our shelf from Ball the way through C.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
No, we have more C, I just cut it off.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Not all the way through C, part of the way
through C.
If you remember, in our lastcall episode I said I wanted to
call a game and Angie becameuncapped, uncapped Steam.

(52:50):
It was crazy.
I'm going to promise that Iwill not purposely pick a game
to call Just to get under herskin.
I really just want to flythrough this list.
I don't think we need toanalyze it unless it gets
interesting.

(53:10):
So, angie, why don't you kickoff the list?
The first game on our list isBackwoods, it's a call.
Yeah, I don't want to give toomuch about it, but it's a call
for me.
It was a game I kickstarted.
It was from a first timepublisher.
He self published it.
It looked really cool.

(53:31):
It was kind of that survivalistrubber thing.
But it just didn't do it for me.
So that is a call.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
All right, that was an easy one.
Next one, the Toku.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
You know what I don't want to call it.
I want to keep it because Iactually want to play it.
I have issues with that game,though.
I really do.
I haven't played it.
I have issues with that gameand maybe I'm just stupid, but I
cannot figure out how to playit.
There are no good videos on howto play it and the rule book is

(54:10):
horrible, at least in my,opinion.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
The board is beautiful but busy.
It's difficult to actually seewhere places are when you're
supposed to even set up theboard.
So, yeah, there aren't a lot ofreally good how to play videos
or even setting up and stuff.
There's some play throughvideos, but not tutorial videos.

(54:36):
All right, blend off.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
That's a call.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
You think so I do.
It's not a bad game.
I mean, it's not really much ofa game, but it was kind of fun.
You have to have a lot ofpeople to play it.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Blend off Thunderworks games.
It's a quick little party game.
The object is is you have thesecards where you have to make
orders, and you have to.
Is it roll dice?

Speaker 3 (55:06):
No, you just grab the ingredients on the side of the
table.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Something like that.
Yeah, it's a call for me.
Yeah, keeper for you, I'massuming.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
No, I'll call it.
I don't have any passion aboutit, but the next one I do.
Blue Moon City.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
It's a keeper.
I enjoy it.
I might take some markers to itand change the color palette.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
Yeah, I mean, that's really the only problem with it,
but they're a little bit of acolor palette thing, like the
gray and brown, all kind of kindof blend together.
The next one, the bloody in.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Well, that's a keeper .

Speaker 3 (55:44):
You think so?
Yeah, I was thinking aboutcoloring that one.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
That's a keeper for me.
I really enjoy that game.
I actually hate that we don'tplay it as much.
I mean, there was a point intime where we played it a lot.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
We did, we did play it a lot.
Yep, all right.
What's the next one on all this, chris?
What is it?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
What's called the boldest.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
It is.
What is it about?

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Robots.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Is it a good game?

Speaker 2 (56:09):
I don't know, haven't played it yet.
I'd like to play it.
I hear good things about it.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
I'm thinking we should call it Okay.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
I'm not going to fight over it, I'm thinking dead
purchase.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Oh, come on, I wanted something out of this.
I wanted some reaction.
Oh brother, okay.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Listen, it's a material thing.
Oh, I'm not going to get hungup over material thing.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Oh my gosh, I want to call 51st States.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
We are already.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
We are getting the ultimate edition.
Why.
Why?
Because you don't getpassionate over things, okay.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
All right Okay.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
That one's going to write that on here.
Whatever, 51st States you heardit here 51st States is going
away.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
I'm not going to play into your scheme of trying to
get under skin.
If you first state ultimateedition is not getting called as
as subpenter.
The emperor of cobra used tosay this I command.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Your geekness is shining through.
I brought you.
The next one on the list isbonfire by Stefan Fowlde.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
You know I went through so much to get that game
for you.
I don't know about you, but Iwas disappointed when I played
it, so for me it's a call.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
It can go.
It's not one I would fight for.
I didn't enjoy my play of it,but it's nothing that I would.
You know we're coming down toit.
We need to thin our shelves.
Yeah, if my Stefan Fowlde games, that would be one that I would
fight over.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
That you would not fight over.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
If you know, one of my Fowlde games are going.
That would be okay for me ifthat one went.
So what is next your favoritegame?
I'm not really sure how topronounce this one.
There's one of two ways.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
It's botanic.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
It's botanic, not botnic.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
No, it's botanic, and that I command.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Now you command.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Like subpenter.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
So tell me about why you don't like I can't win it.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
I'm no good at it.
The game is not a good call.
I've played it before and we'veactually covered it before in a
podcast.
I just suck at it.
I'm not good at the game,Therefore, for that reason I
would call it, but I know youlike it.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
I do like it.
I like it, but if you're notgoing to play it with me, oh, I
would play it.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Oh, I just wouldn't like it.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
That never happens with us.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
I win, and then that might change it.
But that is a puzzle that mymind cannot crack.
I just cannot figure out how toget a, how to play that game,
how to be good at that game.
So it's a call for me.
But if it stays, it stays.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
You can put it in the maybe pile, I'm going to put in
the maybe pile For the maybebaby Brew Keep.
Oh, this one I'll call.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Why.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
We don't play it that much.
I don't know there's issues Ihave with it.
There's something about theplacement on the cards that
bothers me.
I don't know and I don't knowif it's.
There is something almost likean area control.
I'm with those cards and I hatearea control.

(01:00:01):
Yes, so you know, when you loseyou don't have a lot of spaces
and you only have so many dicethat suddenly there's things you
want to do you want to getpotions, you want to do, you
know you need to get resourcesand suddenly you place a die on
a card that you want and justtake somebody else to, you know,
to trump your dice Essentially,or put one extra dice there in

(01:00:25):
your, your toast.
I don't like that and it's not.
There's like not a lot of areato fight over, so I don't like
the area control aspect of it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
I will concede it can go.
I don't need to fight over thegame.
I just it would be a key for me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Brew crafters.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
That's a key.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Yeah, I like the game Campy creatures Call.
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Especially since I didn't get max points.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
I don't even want to call it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
I just want to trash it.
Trash that game.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Can this?

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
you know that is kind of a tough one for me because
for such a simple game it'senjoyable, but I would call I'm
going to give you two reasonsand not to call Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
It is completely unique.
There's nothing else like it.
My second reason is it doesn'ttake up shelf space because it
can hang on the wall.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
You can hang it on the wall.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Okay, we'll keep it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
My sister really enjoyed playing it.
I, I, it's so different.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
There's nothing else that comes close to it.
So I think it's just sointeresting and we can have.
I enjoy it.
It's not one that you play allthe time.
We have the expansion for it,but it's not take up or shelf
space, it's on a wall.
So, kaper Europe.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
I wanted to like that game.
I wanted to like that game somuch.
We saw that that was one ofthose games that got under my
skin.
We saw it on a shelf at board.
Landia didn't pick it up andthen we never saw it again.
I don't even recall how we gotit.

(01:02:23):
I think we saw it at the Noshring.
We picked up the Nosh.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
No, you had it ordered.
You ordered it because, don'tyou remember, keymaster came in
and it had that packing tapethat literally said paper on it.
Oh yeah, that's right.
That was really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
That's right.
I ordered it from Keymaster,that's right.
But I wanted to like that gameso much but at the end of the
day, I don't enjoy it as much asI wanted to Like.
That makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Well, that makes sense perfectly.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
It would be a call for me.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Okay, this is a big one here.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Yeah, so we have three different carcassones on
this list.
We do Carcassone, carcassonewinter edition, in Hunters and
Gathers.
I don't want to call any ofthem because it's carcassone.
I love carcassone.
It's a chill game.
When I think about a game, thatit's snowing in Wisconsin in

(01:03:17):
the middle of winter and I justwant to have a cozy morning with
a cup of coffee, I put on andplay carcassone with Angie
that's a chill game.
If there were out of the three.
If I had to choose one to call,I would probably call Hull

(01:03:38):
Hunters and Gatherers and Iwould keep Winter Edition, even
though it doesn't have theGingerbread man expansion
Anybody out there that holds agingerbread?
So anybody with thatgingerbread?
No, I'm just kidding, Chasingme okay, but I would keep all

(01:03:58):
the carcassones.
I'm actually looking forward totrying.
I would like to try the.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
Carcassone, the co-op one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
With the ghosts?

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
yes, I'm glad I hear you say that, because I don't
want to get rid of any of them.
Okay, I think Hunters andGatherers is different enough
from the base one to justifykeeping it, and Winter Edition.
After I went through what Iwent through on eBay and paid
way no, I don't know if it wasway too much, because it was

(01:04:27):
such it was out of print it was.
I had to get it from somewhereacross the pond somewhere and I
actually did my first eBaybidding instead of buy.
Now I actually was bidding onit.
It's a very tense.
I'm like at work at nightraising my bid.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
You got the bid you got.
I don't know how to put it, butI stopped doing the bidding on
eBay.
There were so many times whereI just got it in my head I will
win this and I will keep biddingand bidding.
And I was just watching you dothat and I was like Angie, I was
over that when eBay firststarted, still had my dial-up

(01:05:13):
modem watching like Dragon Lancebooks or something silly like
that.
That's how I got like firstedition of all the Dragon Lance
books.
Oh boy, it was like, ooh, lookat this one and it's signed.
Bid, You've been open.

(01:05:33):
No, I haven't.
Type type, type, You're now thebidder.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
You're top bidder.
Yes, yes, five seconds later,oh good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
And it usually happens like the last 30 seconds
, last minute of the auction.
You just watch it and you'relike oh gosh.
So I felt bad that you paid somuch for that game.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
but in the long run Actually, in retrospect, that
was the much I paid for gameback then.
Have I paid more now?

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
Yes, For sure you have.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
But when we talk.
So listeners out there, if youhave not had a chance to ever
check out I've named, droppedthem a couple of times in this
Brandon and his all aboard gamerchannel, brandon, and his wife
Lexi on YouTube.
You should check them out.
They are awesome.
They're good people.
We've talked about them before.

(01:06:31):
On Thursday they have this livestream and there was a topic
that he had about culling aswell, and he said that one.
It resonated with me a lot.
I don't normally I've been moreactive lately in the chat, but
normally I just listened and youwere the active one, but you've

(01:06:51):
been busy usually on theThursday nights when he's been
out and whatever, and thatdiscussion really was resonating
with me, so I participated.
But the one thing that he saidthat stuck out into my mind was
return on investment, and Inever really thought of that

(01:07:12):
when it came to buying a boardgame.
And it's crazy because I'mtelling my leadership team at
work I will buy this, you know,atrial hoist system for you or I
will.
You know, I will try to get thefunding for this, but what I
need from you is your ROI Right.

(01:07:34):
So if I spend the money on thisatrial hoist system.
What's your efficiency boost?
How much more?
You know?
When are we going to pay thecompany back the money?
When is the company gets moneyback?
And when he said that in gameslike, okay, I never thought of
it that way.
So the more you play the game,the more you get a return on

(01:07:56):
your investment.
And Carcassonne, I think all ofthem, except maybe hundreds of
gathers we didn't really playthat in that much They've paid
for themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, time and time again, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
So that is my feeling on that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
All right, thank you.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
All right.
Well, this was a very quickrundown of the bees through
partialcy.
Angie, do you want to do aquick recap?

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
We are calling backwards, we are calling blend
off, we are calling the boldest.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
We are calling bonfire, we're going to call
botnic, we're going to call brew, we're going to call campy
creatures, we will call caperEurope.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
And what's on our maybe list.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
We don't have any, we'll call botnic.
That was our, maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Oh, you are going to call it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
Call botnic yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Wow yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
There's no maybes.
There's no maybe baby.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
I'm going to give you a.
I'm going to ask you one quickquestion.
If you could keep one, wouldyou keep botanic or acropolis?

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
We're keeping acropolis.
We're keeping acropolis.
There is no doubt about it.
We are keeping acropolis.
We can play it without thestupid yellow variation.
We could stick with the basicyellow scarring conditions.
I once we start piling on ayellow variance scoring
conditions.
It just got to be kind of outof there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
Don't I always win that game too?

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
I think I won once the first time and I think since
then you've won, but I enjoythe game.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
No, I don't, I was just asking.
Okay, I had to give this, thecrowd, something to listen to.
Everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
I had no idea you were going that way.
I thought it was literallygoing to be.
If there's one of these, youcould keep.
That was it.
And look at my list screen.
Would it be this?
Would it be?

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Well, would you keep?
Would you keep bonfire overbotanic or botanic over bonfire?

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
I would keep bonfire.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Just because it's a failed game.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
There's more game to it, for botanic is just kind of
this real little abstract game.
Bonfire there's more game too.
I guess I lean towards that.
But we have other big gameslike that.
For as much time as we get topull these big ones off the

(01:10:48):
shelf was it going to take along time?
It doesn't pay to have onesthat are just going to sit
Return on your investment.
See, that's it.
I feel bad when we're cullinggames and it took an investment
to get when it was a difficultto find game and stuff like that
.
That I feel just like I have ahard time almost getting rid of

(01:11:12):
games because of that.
Sure, and on that note, that'swhat we call.
That's what we call.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
All right, angie.
Well, I believe, I believe thateverybody has heard us.
I keep wanting to say the wordhander, but I guess it's more
like beg, beg, beg for attentionfrom some sort of sponsor.
So if anybody feels sorry forus chasing people's at Yahoocom,

(01:12:03):
reach out to us.
You never know, we might have awonderful, wonderful
partnership.
And if not, that's OK too.
We're just going to keep doingus, we're going to keep doing
our thing, and we're just havingfun with it.
Yeah, we're just having funwe're going to.
we're going to keep gettingbetter and sooner or later we're

(01:12:26):
going to be beating sponsorsoff with a stick.
Oh yeah, baby steps Right.
First we got to get somesubscribers.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
We need to get people to listen to the.
Find somebody that enjoyslistening to it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Maybe a review, some sort of positive review.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
We did have somebody.
Yes, we did.
We did have somebody onBrandon's last.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Ken Albert.
Yeah, yeah he's enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
Yeah, I like to hear that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
That makes us feel super good.
So, ken, if you're listening,thank you from the bottom of our
hearts for listening.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
And we've got a couple of listeners off of that
subscribers, so that's.
That was very cool.
All the people on his channelare really cool, oh yeah they
are great.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
They are definitely our kind of people.
All right, Angie, we've gotsome burgers to make.
We do I've got to eat somesupper, I've got to get up early
.
You've all heard me say thisbefore, so everybody, till next
time.
Keep chasing those people, keepchasing those people, keep

(01:14:13):
chasing those people, keepchasing those people.
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