Hello everybody and welcome to Shut Up and Sit Down the Podcast, a podcast all about

board games, card games, role playing games, table games, the spirit of play, mind games,

games you, uh, that I played by monkeys, uh, let's not lose the thread, it's too early.

My name is Quentin Smith and I am joined on the digital telephone by Paul Dean.

How's it going Paul?

I like the spirit of play we've not said that before.

Uh, yeah well we do spend a lot of time just wondering what play is like, uh, like sort

of petrol station philosophers, um, with no training.

Oh my god, I forgot you have a philosophy degree, don't you?

Yes, although it's only a bachelor's and like I think if I learn anything during that

time, it was there is so much philosophy that I now know about two percent of it.

It's like when you use, you, you're a lingo and you learn like the word for horse and

it's like you are one percent fluent in French.

Why it's that classic thing.

It isn't it that when you start learning something one of the first things that happens

is you realize how little you know.

Yeah, yeah.

Whether, like I started, uh, listening to like jazz and exploring jazz recently and I

tell you what Paul, there is so much jazz.

Sorry, I got overcome by the spirit of jazz there as I was talking about jazz.

Well, there you are, you're now fluent in one percent of jazz.

It's ridiculous because there will be people out there who will have spent their whole

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