It's hindsight 20/20 baby, where we re-review the games we covered on the show two years ago. What has held up, and what hasn't? What still gets played, and which games have been forgotten in the mass of other good games since then. Hope that you enjoy!

It's hindsight 20/20 baby, where we re-review the games we covered on the show two years ago. What has held up, and what hasn't? What still gets played, and which games have been forgotten in the mass of other good games since then. Hope that you enjoy!

Rejoining Chris today is one of the original guests we ever had on the show, Spencer Williams of The Lighten Up Initiative, formerly from the Married With Board Games Podcast. Happy to have him back on to discuss the new project he's working on,  what we mean by lightening up, and also what we've been doing amid lockdown to keep light. Check out the Lighten Up Initiative for more reviews and humor videos.

We begin a series where we will dive into a designer or team of designers and discuss a little about each of them, what makes them unique, hallmarks of their design, and why they are popular. We begin with one of the most ubiquitous designers out there in the hobby scene, Mr. Bean, also known as Uwe Rosenberg. We're joined by our excellent friends Rob, Cam, and Josh from The Board Boys Podcast! We're crossposting this episode with them today, so you'll hear a slightly different theme song. Enjoy!

Episode 165, one of our Patreon supporters and friends Sam Hillier, the consulting philosopher joiins us.  What does consulting philosopher mean? He both consults, AND is a philosopher! Shocking, I know. He wanted to discuss our favorite tableau building games, and so we discuss some great ones and ended up accidentally making each other's wishlists longer. Oops. Hope you enjoy!

The one, the only Ruel Gaviola joins us today. Ruel is a media personality in the gaming hobby whose credits go far and wide, including Geek and Sundry and I Slay the Dragon, as well as podcasting and live-streaming. He's also a member of the committee for the American Table Top Awards, so we're here to talk about what the awards are, some of the winners, and more about him as a gamer too. Hope you enjoy. Or else!

We were joined this episode by Stephen Buonocore, president of Stronghold Games and de facto spokesperson for Indie Game Studios. We have him on to talk about his involvement as president of a successful game studio, roll and write games, and some great things he's doing to stay connected to the community during the ongoing shutdowns.

February of 2020 was a fantastic month for gaming because it features our favorite convention, Dice Tower West. It's convenient that our home grown convention has grown into a nice size convention with plenty of days of gaming. Plus, we also talk about some of the other games we played this last month. Hope you're all staying safe out there, and hope our episodes are a nice distraction from everything else going on in the world right now.

It's been two years since we first got to try two pretty big games, Dinosaur Island and Brass Birmingham. How do they stack up now?  Worth giving a listen probably!

We're joined by a member of Chris' famed Wednesday Game Group, Karlo Arciaga. On top of being boring in real life as a physical therapist, he also is the primary board game teacher in the group, so we talk about trying to be a good quality teacher including the study, preparation, and execution of a good teach!