#16: On the Death of Bothans

Shut Up & Sit Down

Leisure, Games

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Fwssh-pop! A new Shut Up & Sit Down podcast has dropped out of hyperspace, its hull slick with enthusiasm, and its bulbous cargo bays heaving with games. In this episode Paul and Quinns are joined by Mike, Reference Pear's personal assistant, to discuss the ludicrous architecture of Ugg-Tect, shapely card game Pairs, the somewhat astonishing Monikers, as well as a sneak preview of this week's Lewis & Clark review.

From there, the podcast slingshots along the Kessel run to arrive at a lengthy discussion of Fantasy Flight's new Star Wars RPG, answers a few of your questions, and leaves as quickly as it came, accompanied by the musical stylings of Mr. Jesse James.

But your memories... they'll last a lifetime. They'll also need to be disinfected, so please mail them to us in a self-addressed envelope.

Ugg-Tect, Pairs, Monikers, Lewis & Clark, Star Wars: Edge of the Empire

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0:00.0	3, 2, 1. Yes. That was almost efficient. That was almost efficient. I'll leave you
0:11.0	a message. You were old. Are you? I'm sorry. Everybody, hello and welcome to the
0:15.6	show up and today I'm podcasted. My name is Quentin Smith. This is Paul Dean. We are
0:18.9	joined today by... I sound a bit like a priest. Yes, you do. We are joined today by a very
0:24.8	special guest. His name is Mike. Mike Avansky. Hello, very good for you to come to England.
0:30.9	Thank you very much. You're not usually there, are you? In England. Typically. Yeah. Where my heart
0:35.6	usually? Usually in New York. In New York, right. So I'm a little background for everybody. I met Mike in
0:40.8	New York about six months before the shut up was it down, redesigned and relaunched. I happened to
0:45.2	a couple of years ago. It's no coincidence because Mike, myself and everyone on the show up is
0:50.7	it down, Anna Designer, Josh Greco, all worked together to relaunch the site. Mike, you know,
0:56.4	it's a priori more than that. You play board games, don't you Mike? I've played board games in my
1:01.3	entire life. That's... I'm so sorry because they're not always good. Are they sometimes bad?
1:06.2	No. That's typically... What was the story you told me where it was like the first night in college
1:12.9	and there were two games that were brought out and it was... Oh, God. It was flux. And what was the
1:20.3	Hanafida. And I've just finished a feature on Hanafida for Official Nintendo Magazine. This is
1:27.0	the Japanese flower playing cards, right? And they weren't very fun. Yeah, really. Yeah, no.
1:35.4	There's also some D&D minis being played. Oh, okay. Yeah. What kind of stuff? So I think this was...
1:41.2	That was a little bit... Yeah. So it was mostly the D&D minis that you would have to buy in
1:44.9	blind boxes. I think I would like this sort of magic booster packs. Yeah, I made it up.
1:49.2	It was spending like 80 or 90 dollars by a whole fat pack of them. What was this like around 2000 or
1:54.8	something? I think it was wrong. So I think it was either by first or second year back at college.
1:59.1	Because I remember these vaguely being here in the UK, but yeah. They never took off here.
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