Hello and welcome to the very shut up and sit down podcast. The podcast is all about

board games, board games, board games and the people who love board games. I'm joined

today by someone who does love board games. It's Ava Fox for. Hi, I still love board games

even after all this time. Yeah, I asked you last week and you did and you still do now

what gives? Yeah, it's kind of weird that you ask for that every week really. Considering

like the relationship we've got here in the world that we're doing, like, I don't know,

I would warn you. I would tell you. I think I would tell you if I

stop not board game. You've got to check in. Yeah. You've got to tap people in the

shoulder and then go, do you hate this? Do you hate what we're doing? You know, it's

important to ask. And yeah, this week we've got a bit of an exciting

Redux for you in the fact that we recorded a podcast at Paxon Plug last year. Didn't

come together in terms of a podcast. So now we are coming back at it once more in a kind

of weird Redux when we're going to talk about some of the games that we talked about

during that show in probably a different way. And that's cool. And that's fine. And

it means if you were at the show, you got a really exclusive early prototype edition

of that podcast. Yeah. Or certainly this is like a director's car, except you only get

the deleted scenes. Yeah. It's going to have quite a different energy. That podcast was

recorded in front of about 500, 600 people. And we were rambly and trying to explain

abstract games and doing it not terribly well. Whereas today we'll be rambly and not

doing a terribly good job. But I'm reclining on a sofa rather than excitedly waving

around in front of hundreds of people. Oh, I'm jealous. I'm in an office chair and

you've got a bloody sofa. I'm using someone else's podcast studio and it's designed for

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