Hello everybody and welcome to an episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast that I dare say, I might say, I shall say, is going to be a touch more combative than the norm.

My name is Quinton Smith.

I'm on a podcast about board games.

Joining me is Tom Brewster.

Tom, are you on a podcast about board games?

I am thoroughly strapped into a podcast all about board games.

Now, you didn't know this, but I realized very soon after the last board game night where we played the two games we're going to be discussing on this podcast,

namely Crescent Moon, a war game set in the Islamic Golden Age, and Bear Raid, economic game set in the...

What's the opposite of a golden age?

The hellscape of now in which you trade stocks and shares.

And Tom, I think we disagree on both of these games.

Oh my goodness. It's a war. It's a full on punch up. It's a battle for the ages.

It's going to be like a boxing match. Two men will enter and two men will leave, but some of them

will be one or both of them will be more bruised than the, but some of them will be, one or both of them will

be more bruised than the other. One of them will wake up a little bit sore, or maybe even

both of them. And the other one will wake up thinking, I really got the better of my opponent.

And the other one will think, I'm gonna spring back better next time, more ferocious than ever.

We should have, we should have like betting odds on this podcast.

At the top of the pod, you know, you can bet who's gonna be the slam dunk winner.

This is just, this is a really unhealthy way of approaching conversation, isn't it really?

Well, you know, it's deeply unhealthy, and it's like us trying to bring a bit of

Twitter's energy into the Shut up and His Down podcast, which nobody wants.

...