#95: The Danish Crisis
Shut Up & Sit Down
Shut Up & Sit Down
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 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. |
| 0:17.8 | A podcast all about board games and that's it. |
| 0:21.6 | Honestly that's kind of it. |
| 0:23.2 | My name is Quentin Smith and I am joined by Matthew Lee's. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello, it's me Matt Lee's and board games. |
| 0:29.5 | You brought board games with you. |
| 0:31.2 | I have. |
| 0:31.7 | In spirit. |
| 0:32.4 | Yes. |
| 0:32.9 | And physically we're in my house so we're surrounded by board games because I'm an incredibly |
| 0:36.9 | messy man. |
| 0:37.9 | Working as a board game journalist is kind of like living tetris, you know, where boxes |
| 0:41.8 | come, they arrive, you need to get rid of them because if you don't, you're going to |
| 0:46.2 | be crushed to death. |
| 0:47.2 | 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. |
| 0:52.1 | This is going to be an unusual episode of the podcast because it's all about our recollections |
| 0:56.4 | of festival. |
| 0:58.6 | Table top convention you probably haven't heard of because it is Danish. |
| 1:02.1 | Mm. |
| 1:02.7 | The land of Denmark, the home of Hamlet and Ham. |
| 1:07.5 | Danish Ham. |
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