The Board Boys Podcast

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Season 12 - Beau-nuss Episode 2: Top 5 Bar and Pub Games Jul 13, 2023

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We recently went to an event The Dealt Hand hosted at The Twisted Vine Brewery. To help support Eat Greater Des Moines. In this episode Beau keeps us on track and we talk about our favorite games to take to a bar/pub/coffee shop/Dealt Hand event - you get the picture. Beau helps host for the first time and Tim's son Remy makes a special guest spot! What games will make our lists? Come listen and find out! If you are in the Des Moines, IA area make sure to check out The Dealt Hand (https://www.thedealthand.com/) and Eat Greater Des Moines (https://www.eatgreaterdesmoines.org/)

Until next time we hope you like boardgames!

Season 12, Episode 12 - Heat: Pedal to the Metal Jul 06, 2023

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Board Boys put the balls to the walls and the rubber to the road in Heat: Pedal to the Metal by Days of Wonder. Also in this episode, a middling resolution to airline woes, thoughts on the end of King's Dilemma many years later, and a reward is offered to anyone who can name that arcade game.

0:00 Intro, The Distance - Cake

4:00 Airplane Talk: Finale

15:15 King's Dilemma: Finale

28:15 Reykholt

35:30 La Famiglia: The Great Mafia War

46:30 Illiterati

53:15 Stranger Things: Upside Down

1:00:30 Heat: Overview

1:04:00 Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n' the Tears

1:05:15 Heat: Review

1:29:45 Heat: Verdict

1:43:45 Thank You, Patrons

1:44:30 Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) - The Gap Band

Season 12 - Beau-nuss Episode 1: Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar Jul 02, 2023

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Hey everyone hope you are ready for a new Beau-nuss Episode! In this one we talk about our experience playing Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar a legacy style cooperative game from Funko Games. In this game you play over 11 total games and get to totally build your own dino theme park! What did Board Boys Rob and Beau have to think about it? Listen and find out! The second half of the episode is full of spoilers so if you want to hear all the little secrets keep on listening to the 2nd half!

Season 12, Episode 11 - Challengers! Jun 22, 2023

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Welcome to the Challenge Family in Challengers!, a game of building a sick deck of zany athletes and seeing how it fares against your opponents when none of you have any control over the order in which cards are played. Also in this episode, Spiel des Jahres contenders 2023 and a little bit of talk about GWT: Rails to the North 2nd Ed.

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey

2:00 Capture the Flag and other camp games

6:30 The King's Dilemma

14:30 Dealmaking ettiquete

19:30 Oranienburger Kanal

24:30 Cascadia

29:45 Awkward Guests

33:34 Challengers!: Overview

37:30 Wrestling promo taunting Razor Ramone and Ric Flair - Ultimate Warrior and "Macho Man" Randy Savage

38:30 Challengers!: Review

59:00 Challengers!: Verdict

1:08:30 Spiel des Jahres 2023 nominees

1:24:00 Board Boys Bump: Great Western Trail 2nd Edtion + mini review Rails to the North

1:38:30 Thank You, Patrons

1:39:15 Challenge Song - I have no idea how to really credit this- Apparently it's the theme song for Half Challenge Barcelona 2013?

Season 12, Episode 10 - Darwin's Journey Jun 08, 2023

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Time to go sailing, Christopher Cross style, in Darwin's Journey, a game that I think should have been named "Galapoly" - who will publish information on species and fossils and stuff the best, Board Boys, Darwin, or the handsome sailor, Esteban? Find out today on another episode of the world's first board game podcast except it's about flying.

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey

1:45 Standing In My Truth (the probably one time only segment): Airplane seating

17:30 Board Game discussion begins

17:45 Bamboo

19:45 Akropolis (again)

22:15 Silo (Rob talks about TV)

27:00 Darwin's Journey: Overview

29:00 Galapagos - Slawa Przybylska

30:30 Darwin's Journey: Review

1:16:15 Darwin's Journey: Verdict

1:22:00 Top 5 Luciani games

1:27:30 Board Boys Bump: Perseverance

1:32:00 Thank You, Patrons

1:32:45 Sailing- Christopher Cross

Season 12, Episode 9 - Earth May 25, 2023

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Board Boys cover seeds with crud and grow beautiful, life giving flora in Earth, a tasty lil jam by from Maxime Tardif. Also, Rob thinks Jane Lynch was on 3rd Rock from the Sun and Cam talks about his youth as a server and bartender for way too long.

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey

1:45 Who was on 3rd Rock from the Sun?

3:00 Many, many thoughts on waiting tables

11:30 Awkward Guests

14:15 Middle Earth Quest

16:00 Star Wars: Rivals

19:45 Akropolis

26:00 Distilled

33:00 Pirates of Maracaibo

47:00 Earth: Overview

50:15 Symphony for a Spider Plant - Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (warm earth music for plants... and the people who love them)

51:30 Earth: Review

1:24:45 Earth: Verdict

1:34:00 Board Boys Bump: The Battle of Five Armies

1:38:30 Thank You, Patrons

1:41:00 Power Flower - Stevie Wonder - Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants

Season 12, Episode 8 - Atiwa May 11, 2023

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Board Boys take an educational trip to Ghana, courtesy of celebrated nonfiction author Uwe Rosenberg in Atiwa, by celebrated board game designer Uwe Rosenberg. Will they repopulate the land with a plethora of succulent fruit-bearing trees or will they eat bat?

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jaques Perrey

2:15 Atiwa: The Informational Booklet

7:00 Barrage

13:15 Ark Nova changed scoring methods

19:45 Nintendo Switch Sports- playing golf online

22:30 Quickity Pickity

27:15 Brew

29:30 Dungeons and Dragons: The Yawning Portal

38:45 Atiwa: Overview

40:45 Batty Rap- Robin Williams (Fern Gully)

41:45 Atiwa: Review

1:08:00 Atiwa: Verdict

1:14:00 Board Boys Bump: Return to Dark Tower

1:21:30 Fa Wakoma Ma Me - C.K. Mann (Ghana)

Season 12, Episode 7 - Beast Apr 27, 2023

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Board Boys kill the bad guys in Beast, baby, the brand new first release from Studio Midhall. Is it Rob's new fave hidden movement game? That would be crazy because he LOVES hidden movement games.

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey

4:00 Kabuto Sumo

14:00 Cat in the Box

23:45 Cryptid

29:00 Luxor

34:00 Karuba

38:30 Beast: Overview

41:15 I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March

42:15 Beast: Review

1:18:30 Beast: Verdict

1:26:45 Board Boys Bump: Wonderlands War

1:31:30 Thank You, Patrons

1:32:15 Hunter - Bjork

1:36:15 ???

Season 12, Episode 6 - Marrakesh Apr 13, 2023

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Board Boys are back in business, baby, and playing Stefan Feld's new joint from Queen Games, Marrakesh. Is it the best game out there that has a Stefan Feld first player marker (and postcard and challenge coin)?

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean Jacques Perrey

3:30 Shifting Stones

5:00 Escape the Dark Sector

9:00 Amsterdam

11:00 East India Companies

17:15 Nidavellir

21:15 Dice Manor

24:00 Marrakesh: Overview

31:00 Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills, and Nash

32:00 Marrakesh: Review

1:08:30 Marrakesh: Verdict

1:16:15 Top 5 Felds

1:18:30 Board Boys Bump: Ark Nova

1:23:45 Thank You, Patrons

1:24:45 Aicha - Khaled (Khaled is from Algeria, not Morocco, but they're neighbors and both speak French please lay off)

Season 12, Episode 5 - Revive Mar 30, 2023

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Board Boys are out the bunker 5000 years later for Revive (Aporta Games), a game about building a utopian society out of the rubble of ancient times by having fun with your super cool player board.

0:00 Intro, E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey

4:30 Stack'n Stuff: A Patchwork Game

5:45 Motor City

7:45 Consumption: Food and Choices

9:00 Bot Factory

12:30 Slim Goodbody, Richard Simmons

15:00 A Beaument with Mo- The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac, Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught, Beau's Lego guys

23:30 Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum

28:00 Brass: Birmingham (again)

29:30 Sidereal Confluence: Bifurcation

36:00 Revive: Overview

39:30 Everytime - Boy Pablo (Norway)