We had Ben Worley in the studio this week to play the mind-numbing "Hi-Ho! Cherry-O! Klaire done messed up.  She got a game made for 3 players for our 4 person podcast this week. I only say this so you understand why she isn't diving into deep gameplay conversation this week.Topic highlights: wedding photography, love, dating, liking instagrams on accident, single dads, team klaire, team klaire: please, tarantula killing for love, what makes a weirdo, where the alone girls go, everything Ben Worley.  Team Klaire shirts coming soon...Notable plays:  Ben pulling 4 cherries at once. Wow.

It took us twenty episodes to do it, but we finally had an episode of BOARD where we actually focused on the board game -and we picked the perfect game for it.  This week we played the 1988 classic "heartthrob" - a game where "all girls who like boys" get to pick which stalker they dance with, date, and go steady with.  We were also joined by our friend Seth Worley to take on this bizarre dating game.  Seth is a very talented director who has created fantastic internet short films such as "plot device", "spy vs. guy", "new old", and many more.This episode is the first video episode as well. If you aren't watching the youtube video version of this episode, you are missing out on some of the fun.  Click here to watch a video of the episode: http://youtu.be/oBLaH0W0dcACheck in next monday to listen to our next episode with Ben Worley!

Despite how long we do this, we have yet to get the hang of picking games that we can both play while having podcast talk.  This week we played the least entertaining/most educational childrens game: Lemonade Stand.  A game that involves loans, interests, and no laughter.  Fortunately we had a great guest with us, and had fun despite that.Topic Highlights: Conspiracy theories, designer clothes, how to get married in 6 months, political facebook posts, selling iguanas, being thrown out of a figurative car, breaking on the interstate, banjos, male nipples, hot tubs, super villains, Dallas wilson.Notable plays: None. There were no notable plays.

At the request of one of you listeners, we decided to try out the game Love Letter this week. Can't say it went perfectly, but a good game nonetheless.  If you feel like we stopped playing the game early on, you are 100% correct.  Now we know: you can't court a princess and record a podcast at the same time.Topic Highlights: that surfer that almost got killed by a shark, gift etiquette, licking the spoon, the sexual matrix, the state with the hottest girls, the abdominal snowman, the abominable snowman, mein kampf, mycroft, mein crompf?, everything that is Joey, purgatory, the life and times of Cammie York.Notable plays; Cammie stopped Andrew from giving his love letter to the sulking princess in the very first turn. Very impressive stuff.If you haven't had a chance to check out the commercial Cammie is in, you should do that right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LddkRM55tc4

You've heard us talk about him everyone week. Now you finally get to hear him talk about himself: this week we sat down with Jay Griffith.  We played a preschool game that was a bit over our heads: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.Topic Highlights: how to decline an offer to be in a wedding, how many people is too many for a wedding party, how to not love a bride, americans with Japanese ancestry who say the F word while teaching a class (yikes), male lesbians, where to put a wedding ring, drugs, stand offish hippies, the life of Jay Griffith.Notable plays: Klaire let the pigeon drive her bus several times. crazy.

Guys! He's a single dad, he works 2 jobs, he has 4 restless kids, and HE JUST WANTS TO SLEEP.  This week we sat down with Grayson Proctor from Vinyl Thief and played "Don't Wake Daddy".Topic highlights: Don't Wake Daddy - the origin story, robot love, staying motivated, FRIENDS, how to watch a tv show with a SO, geographic tattoos, falling in lust, getting cut off, picking up chicks in line for divorce, the most eloquent CL post ever, mini nukes, cardboard cutout of John Candy, sneezes, dragons, and the life and trials of Grayson Proctor.Notable plays: when our knocked out our hardworking, restless daddy and had a feast of junk food.Be on the lookout for Vinyl Thief's new single coming out next week, and don't miss their show August 8th at the Mercy Lounge!

We had so much fun having a guest hang out with us, we decided to invite another one in this week; We brought Matt Wright into the studio with us to play Kerplunk!For those of you have never played Kerplunk! (which I would imagine is most), it's a game where you push thin sticks into a plastic cylinder and then fill that cylinder up with marbles (balanced on the sticks in the cylinder), then you take turns pulling sticks -which slowly makes the marbles fall. The person with the least amount of marbles at the end wins.  Does that make sense? Does anyone read these? Does anyone who reads these care?Topic Highlights: Lesbian Miley Cyrus, how to show love, DVD PLAYERS, HBO go, stealing vs borrowing, shared accounts, ambiguous morality, pay it forward, mcdonalds drive thru, god of capitalism, biting people, bonnaroo, the highlighter, the convertible, the boogeyman, opposable thumbs, and the life of Matt Wright.Check out Matt's album "Adam's Son" on itunes because it's great and we'll like you more if you do.Notable plays: when Joey lost his marbles.

It finally happened: the phantom Jeff Venable proved his existence by coming into the studio and playing surprise slides with us.Topic Highlights: conspiracy theories, coffee breathe, how to talk to somebody, when you hate your SO's movie taste, 8th grade graduations, glass hearts, corrupt everybody, gender neutral Sam, wrestling, sandwiches, halloween, reversible sponges, and the life of Jeff Venable.Notable Plays: That time the landscape of the game shifted to the point of driving the characters to madness? That and Klaire and Jeff's tag team adventure to the finish line.

This week we were joined by Andrew's little sister Emma as we played his childhood favorite (Don't Break the Ice)Topic highlights: Jurassic world, jelly beans, selling houses,  leftovers, cheap workout plans, getting motivated, good looking toes, how close is to close to a friends SO, michael caine's magical cane, moon boots, bark to the future, and twisted jiblets.Notable plays: Andrew getting jelly beans twice in a row. What a goof!

We played sorry last week, so we thought it would be fitting to play Sorry's uncreative little brother this time: Trouble.Topic Highlights: how we all are doing, when it's okay for santa to light up, buffet dates, being spit on, knowing your humanly limitations, how to eat alone, dad bods, tripping and tripping, politely rejecting people, killer moms, kissing girls, sentient beings, spaghetti monsters.Notable plays: Andrew was close to home and Joey troubled him...is that what it's called? troubling someone? Anyways. It was nuts.