Podcastle – Shut Up & Sit Down

Podcastle – Shut Up & Sit Down episodes:

• 12.21.2017

  Podcast #70: Trading Shady Trees

  Who's feeling cosy? In this final, festive podcast of 2017 Matt and Quinns tuck themselves beneath the Christmas tree before cutting it down for victory points. That was an oblique reference to the first game the pair discuss, the noble Photosynthesis....

  
• 12.09.2017

  Podcast #69: An Erotic Scottish Village

  Oh my goodness! Apologies if anyone was looking for a board game, we seem to have them all here. In this 69th instalment of the SU&SD; podcast Paul chats about Charterstone and explains Ex Libris. Matt is fascinated by Fabled Fruit, Fast Forward: Fortress...

  
• 11.10.2017

  Podcast #67: Spanish Tiles and Surprise Rats

  Sixty six podcasts. Can you imagine such a thing? Try and picture sixty six podcasts lying jumbled-up in a big pile. You can't, can you? Well, today we've made things even stranger by releasing the 67th SU&SD; podcast, a spoooOOOoooky Halloween special in...

  
• 10.27.2017

  Podcast #66: The Post-SHUX Yingisode

  Our 66th ever podcast has been removed, hot & crispy, from the aging oven of our minds! In this instalment Matt, Paul and Quinns try and unpick all of the games they played at SHUX 2017. That means chat about Shifty...

  
• 09.13.2017

  Podcast #65: Every Dog Has His Donner

  Drop everything! Our 65th ever podcast is live, Paul is talking about A Dog's Life and Quinns is on about something called Yummy Yummy Pancake. These are the releases you've been waiting for, right? ...No? Not to worry. We've also got...

  
• 08.16.2017

  Podcast #64: Dolphins Are People Too

  Buckle up, everybody! The 64th ever Shut Up & Sit Down podcast is here, and it's something of a round the world special. It's Quinns and Paul in the driver's seat once again as they discuss their journey Between Two Cities with the new...

  
• 07.14.2017

  Podcast #63: A Bag of Glass and Cheese

  You know what doesn't get enough kudos? Bags. Big ones, small ones, soft ones, leathery ones. Where would we be without bags? Walking home from the shops, clutching cucumbers to our chest with onions in our armpits, that's where. Our 63rd podcast is...

  
• 07.02.2017

  Podcast #62: Bruises in Bruges

  OH MY GOODNESS our 62nd podcast ever is here! This episode is all about older games, so why not join Paul, Matt and Quinns as they creep across the board game scene like a pack of daring botanists through primeval jungle, jealously cataloguing...

  
• 06.16.2017

  Podcast #61: Lazer Pizza from Mars

  Who's hungry? The 61st ever SU&SD; podcast is here, and it's an uncomplicated buffet of board games. Do you like it when we talk about board games? Then this is the podcast for you! You can start by letting Matt, Pip...

  
• 06.16.2017

  Podcast #60: The Godfather’s Animal Champion

  You told us the three games that you were most excited about at the UK Games Expo, and we listened. Now it's time for you to listen as Matt, Pip and Quinns discuss their early impressions of all three: The Godfather:...

  
• 06.01.2017

  Podcast #59: The Ghost of BoardGameGeek’s Top 100

  In this shellshocked edition of the SU&SD; podcast, Matt, Paul and Quinns crawl out from their writing-trenches to discuss the mammoth feature we published this week: SU&SD; Take On The BoardGameGeek Top 100. As a postscript, they discuss the dozens...

  
• 05.12.2017

  Podcast #58: A Field of Marbles

  Here's a question for you. What contains Fields of Arle, Spoils of War, Conflict of Heroes and Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs? That's right! The answer is "A fistfight over an archaeological dig site in Northern Germany." But another valid answer would be the...

  
• 04.28.2017

  Podcast #57: A Purple Boss, A Spicy Path

  Quickly, man the battlements! The podcastle is under attack from deadly waves of silence. Secure the chat parapets, and brace the gates of opinion! In episode 57 of our award-winning podcast Quinns offers thoughts on I'm the Boss!, the first Sid...

  
• 04.14.2017

  Podcast #56: Three Tough Guys and a Yamatai

  The stakes have never been higher! In this, the one and only 56th episode of the SU&SD; podcast, renowned street warriors Matt, Paul and Quinns take a break from their usual areas of discussion (inner-city brawls, knife fights, how to stare...

  
• 03.23.2017

  Podcast #55: Teenage Monstrous Roman Soldiers

  You guys love podcasts! We literally know how to do them! With episode #55 of the SU&SD; podcast we're committing to getting these bad babies out twice a month. If you like what you hear please do share it among...

  
• 03.08.2017

  Podcast #54: In A Bedroom With A Nasty Lich

  In this temporarily-educated instalment of the SU&SD; podcast, Matt, Pip and Paul gathered at a hotel during the 2017 Game Developer's Conference. Their mission? To discuss the hot questions of the day. Should liches be banned? Are humans secretly terrible at games? Why...

  
• 02.18.2017

  Podcast #53: Matt and Quinns go to the Past!

  Like the plot of every time-travel movie ever, Matt and Quinns have officially gone too far into the past and may never be the same again. In this unusually raunchy edition of the acclaimed SU&SD; podcast the pair discuss/complain about some...

  
• 02.01.2017

  Podcast #52: A Deception, a Dove and a Dungeon

  Get your pod-plates ready! We're serving up another steaming hot pot of chat. Matt, Paul and Quinns discuss deck-building burgle box that is Clank!, they return once again to the irritatingly more-ish Black Stories, Quinns chats a bit about Deception: Murder in...

  
• 12.22.2016

  Podcast #51: The Pearple’s Choice Awards

  We don't want to tell you how to live your life but you might want to put on a tie or a string of pearls or BOTH before listening to this very classy podcast. The results of the inaugral Pearple's Choice Awards...

  
• 12.15.2016

  Podcast #50: Our Top 5 Games of 2016!

  Hold onto your listicles, Paul and Quinns are celebrating the 50th ever Shut Up & Sit Down podcast (by recording a podcast (they are unimaginative)) and we want you to join us! In this tawdry tornado of numerology the site's aged founders discuss Spyfall...

  
• 11.16.2016

  Podcast #49: A Dream Home and an Ill Moon

  In what's surely our most mathematically pleasing podcast ever, today Paul and Quinns discuss 6 games (2 of which they'd recommend) before answering 4 emails and examining 2 folk games. What's next in this sequence? Why, your enjoyment of course! Games discussed in...

  
• 10.19.2016

  Podcast #48: Complaining in the Crystal Maze

  Like a domestic Sisyphus, Paul and Quinns continue on their quest to play all of the things! Quick, listen to this podcast before their boulder of relevancy rolls back down the side of Mount Internet. This month games discussed include Pax Pamir!...

  
• 09.21.2016

  Podcast #47: Struggling in a Vast Aquarium

  Like a Jaguar (the car) or a jaguar (the cat), our 47th ever podcast is an absolute classic. Paul and Quinns discuss board games ranging from Vast: The Crystal Caverns, to Twilight Struggle, to Aquarium and The Dragon & Flagon. They answer reader...

  
• 08.24.2016

  Podcast #46: One Miniature Vlaada

  Oh dear! After a metaphorical explosion of our recording equipment at Gen Con '16, this is all we could salvage from our two live shows. Please don your protective masks and take turns passing the blasted husk around. The first 30 minutes of...

  
• 08.02.2016

  Podcast #45: A Nebulous Boneyard

  Oh god, it's too much. Asmodee has announced a new edition of Citadels - the first game SU&SD; ever reviewed - and Quinns has a hangover that's lasted all day. Is our end near?! Not yet, it's not. In this episode Quinns proves...

  
• 07.13.2016

  Podcast #44: Mausoleums of Birmingham

  Hot diggity and a lack of dignity! It's the second podcast we recorded live at the 2016 UK Games Expo. This time we offer definitive feels on Spiel des Jahres-nominted games Karuba and Imhotep, as well as chatting about Beyond Baker Street, Yeti, Coup: Rebellion...

  
• 06.29.2016

  Podcast #43: Deciding Where The Bullets Go

  Long and spicy like a hot dog, the 43rd EVER SU&SD; podcast is HERE! Quickly, consume the whole thing before it starts disintegrating and leaking board game mustard into your lap. In this cast Matt, Paul, Pip and Quinns met up with...

  
• 06.15.2016

  Podcast #42: Fairytale in North Korea

  Strap on your jackboots! It's time for a veritable military parade of a podcast, impressive and pacy but nonetheless going on for slightly too long. Games covered include A Feast to Die For, Quadropolis, Fairy Tale, Pandemic: Contagion and Dear Leader, as well as...

  
• 06.01.2016

  Podcast #41: Misery, farkles and Soren Johnson

  Psst! Down here! Climb into this cramped cave of chat with us. There's room for one more person. In what could well be our most feature-filled podcast ever, Matt, Paul and Quinns discuss Torchbearer, Merchant of Venus, Dragon Farkle, The Red Dragon...

  
• 04.20.2016

  Podcast #40: Reiner Knizia’s Relationship Simulator

  Matt, Paul and Quinns have met once again to create a board gaming Voltron! Albeit one with three hearts and no brain. Games discussed in this prestigious 40th episode include And Then We Held Hands, Ra,Through the Ages, FUSE and A...

  
• 03.23.2016

  Podcast #39: Dancin’, Brawlin’ and Burglin’

  Paul, Matt and guest star Jonathan Ying come to us LIVE from GDC 2016 discuss the hottest new board games! And by “hottest” we mean “weirdest” (and by “new” we mean “old”). Designer Tim Fowers stopped by our lounge to...

  
• 02.17.2016

  Podcast #38: 504 Ways to Eat Paper

  Welcome back to the podcastle! Not to be outdone after listener Alex Cannon contributed a jingle for last episode, Matt's made yet another jingle. Ready your body! Lube up your ears. It's got a harmony. You've been warned. As for games,...

  
• 01.13.2016

  Podcast #37: The Fun Stick Game

  Matt, Quinns and Paul return for 2016! New games discussed include Billionaire Banshee, Flick 'em Up and Marrying Mr. Darcy. Old games discussed include Tikal andPictomania. Million year-old games discussed include The Fun Stick Game. Most importantly of all, our jingle...

  
• 12.02.2015

  Podcast #36: Art vs. Knives

  Hey kids! It's the SU&SD; podcast, the perfect background noise when polishing, sharpening or simply admiring a knife. Paul's back from BoardGameGeek Con with stories to tell! Quinns joins him for a discussion of the pleasing heft of The Gallerist, the...

  
• 11.12.2015

  Podcast #35: Rebellion in an Airport

  Oh god. Sit down. The new podcast is out, and we've peaked. We'll never have a lineup like this again. Last week we enjoyed exclusive access to scalding-hot 2016 Fantasy Flight epic Star Wars: Rebellion, and on this podcast we want...

  
• 10.23.2015

  Podcast #34: The Great Antarctic Experiment

  In what could be our most exciting reader mail ever, Quinns has helped a marine biologist pick some board games to take to the above Antarctic research station for 18 months. Tune in next year to hear how those games...

  
• 09.16.2015

  Podcast #33: Paints, Knocks and Christian Petersen

  Market research tells us that the median SU&SD; reader is, at a given moment, most likely to be thatching their mead hall. How boring! You'd best pop our 33rd ever podcast on in the background. Matt and Quinns are desperate to...

  
• 09.02.2015

  Podcast #32: Gas, Quiche and King Eric Lang

  My god! 32 podcasts in and we're finally approaching "professional". Paul, Matt and Quinns discuss the bold new Game of Thrones card game and think back on classic lie-athon Battlestar Galactica, before clearing the floor for an interview with veteran designer...

  
• 08.07.2015

  Podcast #31: Return of the Gen-Cast

  (This podcast is also available as a video.) Last year team SU&SD hustled 300 people into a dingy Gen Con annex to record a live podcast. It was incredible. So this year we did it again! After a shaky start...

  
• 07.09.2015

  Podcast #30: An Opera of Toys

  You ever eat Nerd Rope? Just an endlessly long, glutinous tongue, speckled with sour little gobbets? That’s basically the 30th ever SU&SD podcast. On this lengthy journey of no less than one hour and one minute, we discuss the absence...

  
• 06.03.2015

  Podcast #29: Nightmares at the Hilton

  Now Quinns is back from the UK Games Expo, we slid a microphone under the door of the con-tamination chamber to record a new podcast! Paul’s got questions about the sublime Welcome to the Dungeon, the prototype of Vlaada’s Codenames...

  
• 04.30.2015

  Podcast #28: Imperial Smog

  Sometimes Team SU&SD can be compared to a marching band, except instead of playing musical instruments we make awful mistakes, and instead of moving forward we stay in the same place forever. Not today, though! Today, in podcast #28, we...

  
• 04.08.2015

  Podcast #27: Japanese Ghost Welfare

  STOP! This is the police. You’re under arrest for being in possession of 27th Shut up & Sit Down podcast. I’m afraid it’s very illegal indeed. First there was that scaremongering at the beginning about ghosts in Mysterium. Then they...

  
• 03.25.2015

  Podcast #26: Mostly Books and Wookies

  Matt, Quinns and Paul re-unite in a stuffy room to discuss all the marvellous games they’ve seen on their travels around North America, the forgotten continent. We get off to a civilized start with Bring Your Own Book and the...

  
• 03.25.2015

  Brendan’s Rooky Errors: A Story of Chess

  In a special feature on this ancient pastime, Brendan discovers everything he was taught about chess to be wrong and goes on a quest to learn it properly. A written transcript is available here.

  
• 03.07.2015

  Paul’s Greatest Gaming Memory

  Paul: Here’s the story of how I bunked off school to play a board game and how that board game changed my life. Saying that immediately makes me excited to tell it. A written transcript, with pictures, is available here.

  
• 02.05.2015

  Podcast #25: Stop! Let’s Banana

  First things first, huge thanks to Vitaliy Zavadskyy for gifting our podcast with some magical intro and outro themes. The UK finally has a second radio show to be proud of after the BBC World Service. In this episode Paul’s...

  
• 01.14.2015

  Podcast #24: On Poor Quality Property

  Oho! What's this? Board gaming's most excitable hour of chatter is back, as Matt and Quinns discuss everything they played and saw over the New Year, including a visit to London's first board game cafe. After that, this one's all...

  
• 12.05.2014

  Quinns’ Favourite Drinking Games

  Quinns spent his youth as a “Keeper of Drinking Games”. Whenever him and his friends were boozing as kids, in those empty kitchens or under trees, he’d lay the games out. He wants to share a few with the world...

  
• 11.13.2014

  Podcast #23: The Christmas CarolCast

  For our 23rd podcast Paul and Quinns discuss board games past, present and future. That sounds more hifalutin than it probably is. We begin by discussing the consenting tentacle sex of Consentacle, and how our next live podcast will be...