Episodes

Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Part One of our GenCon preview coverage, this more rambling and less structured than normal conversation with fellow Theater Geek Jason was recorded on July 3, 2024. In this half of the conversation, we're discussing what we do when we show up in Indy, the food we all like to eat (hiiii-yah!), and the non-gaming events that are fun to attend. In Part two we'll be discussing all the games we want to demo and pick up but you can listen to either part in either order and be just fine.

Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
This week, we head straight into the discussion and continue on to our longest episode yet. Our regular episodes will always try and be in that 45-60 minute range and we just barely tipped over this time. But we had a great time talking about old favourites, new reinterpretations, games that caught us entirely by surprise, and even accidentally kind of putting the same game on Table, Shelf, or Trade. Hope you enjoy it!
This episode's segments:
0:00 - Intro
0:19 - What's Been on the Table
9:12 - Topic of the Week: Why Should You Return to a Game?
25:22 - Why Did I Play That?: Isle of Cats Explore and Draw
37:40 - Table, Shelf, or Trade
52:59 - Rotating Segment: Surprise Party
1:00:11 - Outro
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the intro/outro music as well as mentioning our sponsors one more time, Robin's Nerd Supplies and Eco Owl Press.

Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
We're settling in and we're back to talk more board games. This week we each brought more games to talk about than the previous episodes, we torture Scott with an abstract area control game, introduce a new rotating segment, and have a guest baby at the end. We also have deployed a new intro and outro, please give us feedback on what you think!
This episode's segments:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - What's Been on the Table
9:01 - Topic of the Week: Games Not Meeting Our Expectations
20:11 - Why Did I Play That?: Iwari
29:07 - Table, Shelf, or Trade
39:40 - Rotating Segment: HVAC
48:33 - Outro
We'd also like to thank SoulProdMusic for the new intro/outro music as well as mentioning our sponsors one more time, Robin's Nerd Supplies and Eco Owl Press.

Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
We're back and we have a wide array of games that we discuss this time around. We talk about friends that we've met in the industry, games we are excited for, and memorialize a lost designer.
This episode's segments:
0:00 - Intro
0:37 - What's Been on the Table
7:38 - Topic of the Week: Do You Have a Rating System?
22:04 - Why Did I Play That?
29:36 - Table, Shelf, or Trade
35:45 - TST Note
36:42 - Visions of the Future
46:08 - Outro

Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Our first main episode! We're stoked to get it launched and have you listen to it. This episode's segments:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - What's Been on the Table
6:00 - Topic of the Week: Collection Management
11:35 - Why Did I Play That?
20:45 - Table, Shelf, or Trade
40:03 - The Archives
50:03 - Outro

Saturday Jun 29, 2024
Saturday Jun 29, 2024
We decided to launch, and release our main episodes, on Tuesdays. So in the spirit of still providing content when we promised it. here's the first of a series that Scott and I will be embarking on. We're going to have discussions about the games that helped form us both as gamers and as people. This one was particularly close to my heart and so I hope you enjoy it! We'll see you with Episode 1 on Tuesday!

Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Our Episode 0 Supplemental content while we get ready to release the rest of the series. We had a blast talking about our top ten favourite games and hope that you enjoy coming along with us for this.

Saturday Jun 22, 2024
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
Hey hey! Welcome to the BATT Family. In this episode 0, we talk about who we are as hosts, our experience and tastes within the board gaming hobby, and our goals for the pod as a whole. We're so excited you've decided to join us!