Hello and welcome to the very 96th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast all about board games, board games and the people who love them.

I'm Matt Lees joined by

Quentin Smith. Hello, Matt Lees. Hello, Quentin Smith. I'm so excited to talk about board

games. It's been a while. I can tell. I can tell both that it's been a while and you're excited.

I will not be dismissed, Matthew. No, I'm not dismissing you. You're like a, you're a parent looking down at their kid who's excited to

talk about Minecraft or whatever. No, no, no. I'm, I'm with you. It's, it's Fortnite now. They've

changed it. It used to be Minecraft now. It's Fortnite. We are in my domain of games. You can see

the games spread around the room. Like, it's like that Cave of Wonders from Agrabah,

fictional land that it definitely is not Arabia in

Aladdin. I'm doing Aladdin chat. It's a podcast about board games and Disney's Aladdin.

Ooh, I was going to say, when's the next Disney board game? But then I remembered that Disney's

villainous exists and it's all right.

It's absolutely fine.

You know what's better than fine?

The games we're going to be talking about today.

Hopefully.

We're going to be talking about Res Arcana, the new tableau building game where you're

going to turn magic into other kinds of magic.

We're going to be talking about dice thrown, a game of rolling dice and doing damage, which

frankly is the kind of classic design we don't get to talk about enough in this modern era

board games.

We're gonna be talking about the insider, a hidden role game where everybody's working,

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