#88: Neon Salads of Hong Kong
Shut Up & Sit Down
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🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
My goodness. We always say this, but... have we ever had so many luminary board games on one podcast?
In this episode, Matt and Quinns discuss the twin games of Cockroach Salad and Cockroach Soup, a discovery so exciting that Quinns has since hunted down all of Drei Magier's "Ugly Animals" games. The pair then move on to chatting about the wicked worldbuilding of Neon Gods, the dexterity magic of Men at Work, the small-form joy of Targi, the BEHEMOTH box that is Lisboa, and finally their game of the podcast, Blackout: Hong Kong.
We also answer a particularly tricksy question from our mailbag. If Chess had never been invented, how do we think it would be received today?
Enjoy, everybody!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the very 88th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast about |
| 0:12.1 | board games, the people who play board games, and the people who follow people who play board |
| 0:15.7 | games around parks. In a friendly way, they just want to offer them some components to |
| 0:21.3 | put into their mouths. My name is Matt Lees, I'm joined by Quentin Smith. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello, Matt Lees. I feel a rarerls is a strong word, but you're using your bedroom voice, |
| 0:30.5 | and I've just emerged from what I think could be England's most powerful shower. |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah, you have a lot of fun in that show. You're a bath man, and I'm a shower man, but |
| 0:40.0 | I've got a decent shower. We've also been dressing up as lions and turtles. It's been |
| 0:44.7 | an adventurous morning. And now I'm switching into my radio voice. It won't last. I think |
| 0:49.8 | it's just nice to intro something in a nice voice. It's like having a warm cup of tea |
| 0:56.0 | or a coffee in the morning. It's nice to just start something off with being like, hello, |
| 1:00.2 | when they listen something nice now. And it won't be. It'll be me using my normal high |
| 1:04.0 | pitch squeaky all over the place, exhilaration in about five minutes. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, I mean, I'm just loving the contrast between you using your radio voice and me realizing |
| 1:13.1 | that if I inhale through my nose, because I'm bit sniffly today, it makes a really high |
| 1:17.6 | pitch to squeak noise. So I'm just trying to like not completely undercut your professional. |
| 1:22.9 | All right, that's fair. Today we're going to be talking about board games. We've played |
| 1:26.0 | Cockroach Salad, which was just the dumbest, funniest thing we've played in the long time. |
| 1:30.6 | We've played Neon Gods, a game of cool gangs in the distant future of 2007. We've played |
| 1:35.6 | men at work at a dexterity game where men are at work and sometimes they don't work. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, and sometimes they leave the site quite rapidly, because they're worried they're |
| 1:44.2 | going to get into quite a lot of trouble or sued or killed. I played and then we're |
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