Hello everybody and welcome to the 58th ever episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast.

My name is Quinten Smith and I will be your Venetian guide atop this canal of games.

I'm polling us down the passage.

Check out, don't fall overboard and who's my passenger on this trip? Why it's Paul Dean.

I'm singing to you from the prow of this small gondola about how wonderful board games are

and I'm so enthused that occasionally you have to tell me to duck because I'm looking

at you and I can't see where the ship's going and there's a bridge approaching and I could

bang my head. It's a metaphor for how much I'm into the hobby. Paul, yes.

We have announced something very special this week over on the site. We have announced the first

Shut Up and Sit Down Convention and we're going to get this out of the way before we talk about

all the great games we've got coming up this episode. Shucks is its name and it really I think

the reason we're doing the convention is we came up with the name Shucks for Shut Up Expo and it

was such a good name that we had to do a convention. I think we sort of come up with the various

acronyms first and then tried to sort of retrofit some event around them. I mean, yeah, I feel like

that was what happened. You come up with a cool acronym and then you try and squeak the words in

like into that series of letters. Anyway, this will be in Vancouver in October. Paul, what can the

people expect if they attend three solid days of Shucks sing? Are you going to expect us first of

all you me Matthew also Pip and Cynthia and also a bunch of other guests that we've invited include

interesting game designers like Jonathan Ying and Isaac Vega and Alan Gerding and Jay Kormier

and other people and this sort of constant rotating live panel live event thing going on. We're

going to have loads of open tables for games which I think is like the standard thing and

the board game convention anyway, but we also want to run live events like a couple of live podcasts

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