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 Lies. I'm

joined there as ever by Quentin Smith. Hello, Matt Lies.

And over in the Canada land, it is. Hello, Matt Lies. I'm 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 board game convention. We didn't need. 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. 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.

We've got this sort of cool, Bob Ross delivery right now, Matthew, 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 fine. Well, looking back at that, 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

be able to you? It was because I knew if I said it, I would cry. So I was like, Pip can

do this and then she cried. So I feel like I pushed it under the tear. But this was from

the closing ceremony, which was just about 50 minutes of us thanking people and then,

and then moving towards tears. Whilst I occasionally played bass guitar, which was, which was a thing,

which went quite well. It was a strange, it did go quite well. I was surprised. It turns

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