For many years now, Russ and Craig have had many wide-ranging conversations with folks from all over the gaming world.

This is one of those conversations.

D6G, the lost chapter.

Hey, welcome back. Craig, what are you eating?

What is it?

I don't want to tell you. Is that some new secret dunk thing? I didn't know. I snuck in a cookie. Remember when draconans used to have cookies? They don't make cookies anymore. No, and I'm I'm Jones in for a cookie. And so I snuck in a couple cookies. You got to go to Subway for that. Yeah. No, no, I, these are from Panera.

These are damn fine cookies. I can't eat any sweets today. Too much stuff left over from Easter. I'm still living the Easter high for sweets. So I'm just going to have a coffee here. Yeah, you know, those of you who have been tracking Russ's weight issue, I've got to say that it was funny yesterday. the man had not had enough calories,

so he was hunting for ice cream.

I was.

Very intriguing. Very intriguing with the new rocks. Very small, very small ice cream, though. Yeah, a very small little taste of ice cream. But he was adamant. The man was not going to go leave them all without ice cream. It's spring. I needed a cherry dip, okay? That's just how it is.

And, man, was that an appetizing color red?

So, Dan, it was good to catch you here at Dunkin' Donuts. You know, how you doing? What are you having, Dan? What are you having? I'm good. I got a peep crawler here. Peep, what? Are those ones? A little. Frawler with a peep on top for Easter?

Yeah.

Now, okay, this is a thing.

Some people like their peeps, okay, this is a thing.

Some people like their peeps, like fresh out of the packaging soft. And some people like to let them air dry a little bit so they get it's crunchy on the outside. Now, that's Karen. Which do you prefer, Dan? Crunchy or soft peeps? Well, here at Dunkin' Donuts, we only have the second option. so I actually don't really like peeps.

So basically you bought this just to rip the peeps head off and throw it in the trash, basically. Yeah, that's the fun part. I also have an IBC for some inexplicable. Ah, see, now you got me. I want an IBC, Dan. Snuck an IBC in. That's the best root beer. If you're not familiar with IBC root beer, just go buy one and find the awesome. That is IBC.

All right, but we're not here's the best root beer. If you're not familiar with IBC root beer, just go buy one and find the awesome. That is IBC. All right. But we're not here to talk about root beer or peeps. Oh, no, forget it. I'm out of here. We got Dan here under false. Right. So since we got Dan here, as most of you probably know, Dan Yarrington, as we like to say, the hardest working man in the board game industry, is a little proud owner of both Myriad games and is intimately involved in a little company called Game Salute. And Dan, I was looking at this webpage on the gamesloop.com site. I just had to, I wanted to ask you about this. So there's this, you know, this concept of the life and times of a board game. And it's kind of cool. So you kind of walk folks through, like what the process is to get a board game from, you know, someone's bright idea. They woke up the middle of the night in a cold, so I go, oh my God, I had the perfect game to a box on a store shelf. So I would be kind of fun if you can walk us through this whole thing and kind of what each of the stages are, what they're like and where some of the challenges are for each stage. What do you think? Why, I'd be happy to, Russ. That'd be awesome. And if you'd like to follow along at home, you can go to gameslute.com slash progress. Yes. To begin your interactive D6G experience.

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