The Dice Tower, episode 573, Grandcon or The Grandest Con.

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Thank you for your support. This episode is sponsored by US Aopoli. Share laughter and make memories. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and

especially the people who play them. In today's show, Mandy and I are at Grand Con in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

We'll chat about what we've played and what we've done and maybe share a few surprises.

I'm Eric Sommerer.

And I'm Mandy Hutchinson. Mandy it is so great to be sitting next to you in person. I just I realized as you know we've done a few live

shows together where we've gotten to be on the same episode and we've done

one remotely together but I realize I never get to sit next to you when we when we do

one of these shows I finally got to at one of our panels which we'll get to

it a little bit but it's unusual to get to actually sit next to each other and do a show.

And absolutely and I always wondered does it change the dynamic a little bit because now we're actually seeing each other.

I mean we still see each other but it's a different vibe so I don't know.

Sure I always enjoy the ones where we get to do a live in-person show because we're you know we're all over North America

and and you know we have to sort of communicate via Skype via audio just

listening to each other and getting used to each other's cadences as we

record these episodes but to actually get to see everybody nodding and and get the

visual cues and everything it is a lot more fun and I actually like this style of episode.

Hello everybody welcome.

We're in Grand Rapids.

It is Sunday morning of Grand Con and I kind of like this style of episode where we get to sort of decompress.

We've been in convention mode for the past several days and now we can sort of relax and

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