#95: The Danish Crisis
Shut Up & Sit Down
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🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of our award-winning podcast, Matt and Quinns talk about their trip to Danish board game convention Fastaval.
Games discussed include the superb Hansa Teutonica (02:56), the as-yet unannounced Deep Blue (12:02), the also-unannounced Auto (15:50), Flamme Rouge’s unnamed campaign expansion (24:05), That’s Not Lemonade (35:43) and Mid-Life Crisis (45:23).
Finally, we close with a discussion of Fastaval itself, and what makes it so magical (59:18). Is it the terrifying, viking-like cleaning crew? Is it the black tie award ceremony? Is it the unparalleled gender equality, or the world-class roleplaying games?
It's all of these things, and more. Huge thanks to the organisers for choosing us as this year's guests of honour.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the very 95th ever episode of the shut up and sit down podcast, a podcast all about board games and that's it. Honestly, that's kind of it. |
| 0:23.0 | Nothing else. My name is Quentin Smith and I am joined by Matthew Lee's. Hello, it's me, Matt |
| 0:27.3 | Lee's and board games. And you've brought board games with you. I have. In spirit. Yes. And |
| 0:33.1 | physically, we're in my house so we're surrounded by board games because I'm an incredibly messy man. |
| 0:37.7 | Working as a board game journalist is kind of like living Tetris, you know, where boxes come, they arrive. |
| 0:43.5 | You need to get rid of them because if you don't, you're going to be crushed to death. |
| 0:47.1 | Yeah, you have to line them all in one flat row and then they disappear. |
| 0:49.6 | I know. No one knows that except us. |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah. This is going to be an unusual episode of the podcast because it's all about our recollections of Festival. |
| 0:58.4 | A tabletop convention you probably haven't heard of because it is Danish. |
| 1:02.4 | The land of Denmark, the home of Hamlet, and... |
| 1:07.1 | Ham. |
| 1:08.3 | Danish ham. |
| 1:09.6 | Hamlet, I believe, is just a small ham. |
| 1:11.9 | Oh, right. |
| 1:12.5 | So it's just ham. |
| 1:13.3 | They've just got a lot of ham, a lot of bacon. |
| 1:15.8 | It's a great country. |
| 1:18.0 | There's a lot about it I really liked. |
| 1:20.0 | Our audience aren't going to realize there. |
| 1:21.3 | There was a point there when you went from being insincere to being sincere. |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah, well, that's the line. |
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