Our Top 5 Board Games for Families + Franklin's Fortune
The Stacking Benjamins Show
Joe Saul-Sehy and Josh ‘OG’ Bannerman, CFP
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
What's your favorite game to play with family and friends? If you don't have a favorite, or if you're looking for a new game, we have good news for you. It's our annual board game episode and we talk to two great guests, Jamey Stegmaier and Shane Newell. Jamey gives us his list of favorites and Shane introduces us to his game Franklin's Fortune and we have links to all of them below so you can find a new game to play!
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| 0:00.0 | I was ahead of you. Somebody must have kicked the board? No, nobody kicked the board. You cheated. No, I didn't. You cheated. I knew you were going to cheat. You cheated out of you. Guys, guys, guys, please. Bring it down, indoor voices. Now, did you move the piece? Maybe I moved the piece by an accident. |
| 0:28.3 | Live from Joe's mom's basement, it's the stacking Benjamin's show. |
| 0:33.8 | Oh! show. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and are you headed out to join the throngs on Black Friday? |
| 0:48.1 | Good news, because of this keyboard and mouse, neither are we. |
| 0:52.1 | Instead, come down to the card table and let's spend time playing some |
| 0:56.0 | games. Here with five ideas to help you with games on fun money and economic topics, we welcome |
| 1:02.3 | the man behind Stonemeyer games, Jamie Stegmire. Jamie also will share five game ideas to play over |
| 1:09.9 | the holidays so you don't waste your money. |
| 1:12.5 | Plus, halfway through today's show, we'll chat with the creator of a game that dives into the magic of Ben Franklin's philosophies, a game called Franklin's Fortune. |
| 1:22.2 | We welcome game designer Shane Newell. That's right, it's all board games today. And now, a guy who just sunk |
| 1:30.6 | my battleship, it's Joe Saul See High. |
| 1:38.8 | Happy holiday weekend to all of you if you're in the United States or happy Friday if you're not, |
| 1:46.2 | but still almost the weekend. |
| 1:47.9 | I am Joe Sol Cee. |
| 1:49.0 | Hi, Average Joe Money on Twitter here in the basement all by myself this Friday because this is a day when our whole team has the day off except me. |
| 1:59.2 | And I'm here for one reason and that is because it's board game day while |
| 2:04.0 | the most of the world goes out shopping celebrating Black Friday the way we celebrate it in |
| 2:09.6 | the basement is we have a bunch of board games that we play so every year we made this a |
| 2:15.6 | tradition we used to have regular shows and figured out |
| 2:19.2 | that on this day, it's a great day to have a theme show. And I know that there's a lot of you that |
| 2:24.6 | wait as much for this episode as I do. Amanda, we have a very special one for you today. Not only |
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