Podcast #80: Until The Sheep Goes "Berp"

Shut Up & Sit Down

Leisure, Games

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Oho, this episode of the award-winning Shut Up & Sit Down podcast has more scoops than sweet shop, and is just as sweet.

We found out that learning geography CAN be fun in the tense game of Destination X. We learned that Lowlands is the best Uwe Rosenberg game since A Feast for Odin, and it isn't even designed by Uwe Rosenberg. We learned that the amazing-looking Starship Samurai is, perhaps, not as good as we were hoping. And we learned that Quantified - an upcoming game you've definitely never heard of - is a thought-provoking co-op game about surveillance and big data.

We also found out that the vikings that hang around outside the UK Games Expo are not to be trifled with, as Matt narrowly escapes being skewered by an actual spear. Finally, we implemented the OMEGA PROTOCOL: A quick-fire round of questions that were tweeted to us by the audience, right then and there. Huge thanks to everybody who came down and contributed to the veritable cyclone of questions that followed.

Destination X, Lowlands, Starship Samurai, Quantified, Lifeform

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0:00.0	Is everybody in now? Yes. Are the doors sealed? They are. Release the fun. Welcome everybody.
0:18.4	Welcome everybody to the 80th ever we're now octogenarians. 80th shut up and sit down
0:26.8	and podcast this podcast coming live from the Birmingham NEC UK Games Expo board game festival.
0:33.8	I need to inhale. It is a podcast all about two men next to me. One of them is Matthew
0:41.2	Lee's the other one is Quentin Smith. I'm pulled in. Hi. That was good. We'll keep these ones.
0:49.2	Better than yesterday. This is a podcast all about board games,
0:52.1	card games, role playing games, all the games that you can play this weekend at the UK Games Expo.
0:57.4	Also, I heard it's also about Vikings. You know what? Tell me about some Vikings because I need to
1:04.2	know about this. I got a text message from Mac because people who haven't been to the UK Games Expo
1:09.2	might not know that there is a small Iron Age society that sets up outside the Expo halls.
1:14.1	I've seen them on their phones in their tents. Unlike Viking Tinder.
1:21.1	Back in the day you had to be like, down shops do you want any flint?
1:25.9	And then they wouldn't reply and you'd be like, come on, I'm going to get eaten by something.
1:29.7	That was some like real observation or comedy. No, I liked it. It was like,
1:35.2	it was an actual joke which is like, I'm glad somebody liked it.
1:39.0	Yeah, so I went down to ask like sort of what this stuff was about and it turns out that we
1:43.8	talked to a sort of family of Vikings, a daddy Viking and mommy Viking.
1:47.8	Hey, teachers to fight young. I saw people. The boy had an axe.
1:51.3	It was like basically God of War. So the thing that happened is they told me that
1:56.1	they do this basically every weekend and actually you guys might not know. There are tents out there.
1:59.8	They sleep in those tents. They cook meals at the actual campfire. They try and eat
2:05.1	some like someone who's never been camping. It's like this flimsy thing and they sleep in it.
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