Hello and welcome to the very 66th episode ever of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast,

the podcast that's all about board games and the humans who love them.

I'm Matt Lees. I'm joined there as ever by Quentin Smith.

Hello, Matt Lees.

And over in the Canada land, it is... Hello, Matt Lees, I'm Paul Dean. Hello, Matt Lees. And over in the Canada land, it is...

Hello, Matt Lees, and Paul Dean.

Hello, Paul Dean.

We've just been over in Canada land,

and we went out for a big event called Shucks,

which was the shut up and sit down,

a board game convention.

We did indeed.

And it was great.

And we did live shows and panels.

Unfortunately, though, I gave some very bad advice to the entire team before our first live podcast and made the audio entirely unusable.

I was like, no, no, no, you need to be right next to these microphones.

It turns out we didn't and we shouldn't have been.

So now we're just going to talk a little bit about the convention and talk about some of the games that we talked about in that long forgotten podcast. You've got this sort of cool Bob Ross delivery right now, Matthew, as if

what, as if Shucks wasn't like the single most stressful event. Oh boy. Well, it wasn't that stressful

for us, was it? Yeah, almost. It's fine. Looking back in the now, we can, well, well, it's fine. That's not from stress. That's happiness, right?

Yes. But the funny thing about Pip crying and then, like, joking after the final closing ceremony, like, oh, I can't believe I cried on stage.

Is that the only reason I threw over to her and said, Pip, how did this convention feel to you?

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