#292 - The Natural Special
Shut Up & Sit Down
Shut Up & Sit Down
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this Edenic episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom strip down to their bare cheeks to chat about games wot are all about “Outside, like birds and that”.
First up is Nature; a game that takes 2014’s Evolution and 2020’s Oceans, and hydraulically compacts them into one biodegradable box. Not just one box, mind, but a whole ecosystem of modules and traits that’ll get your neighbourhood zoologist all hot under the collar.
That’s then followed by a slice of Perch - a surprisingly lethal “pigeon control game” in which you stack birds atop a vicious fountain. I’d imagine it’s what those pesky sky rats would be doing with their spare time too, if they weren’t so busy defecating
Finally we hitch a ride on the great grey car of the savanna in Tembo - an elephant road trip that’s way more cruel than it has any right to be. Tom’s taken great pains to crack this one open, and feast on all the delicious game-goo contained therein.
Have a great week, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:46 - Nature
16:58 - Perch
24:41 - TEMBO: Survival on the Savanna
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the very 292nd episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast about board games, board games and the people who love board games. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm joined as ever by Matt. |
| 0:21.1 | Hello. And today it's the nature special. |
| 0:25.1 | A la la la la. I'm a butterfly floating through the field of opportunities and dreams. I am |
| 0:32.0 | completely nude. And all of the crops have been removed from this field churned up and mulched |
| 0:37.3 | up into lovely |
| 0:38.3 | board games. |
| 0:39.4 | Ooh. |
| 0:39.8 | Which means there's no leaves or fronds for which Tom can hide behind and hide his little |
| 0:45.3 | board gamer genitals. |
| 0:46.8 | This is a podcast all about board games. |
| 0:49.4 | Why do they have to be little? |
| 0:50.4 | That's a good question. |
| 0:52.1 | Ask your doctor. |
| 0:55.9 | This is a podcast about board games and we're going to talk about three of them on this podcast. |
| 1:00.6 | All of which are slightly related to nature. |
| 1:04.0 | To nature to the concept of being outdoors in the sun and the sky with the birds and the |
| 1:08.9 | trees. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, like animals and stuff. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, but we're playing them all inside. |
| 1:13.0 | Yes. |
| 1:13.4 | In our nice, heated homes. |
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