Épisodes

  • #285 - Second Servings
    Nov 9 2025

    On this subsequent episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are returning to a couple of the games they were excited about in the Essen Special, as well as covering one that was missed from the billing!


    Excuse the occasional odd buzzing on this one - we tried to scrub it as much as possible but there's only so much you can do to heal a dodgy microphone before you start making Matt sound like a blender.


    Have a great weekend, everybody!


    Timestamps:

    02:33 - Winning Ticket

    15:41 - Feya’s Swamp

    37:04 - Sanctuary

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    51 min
  • Our Top 22 Games of Essen 2025!
    Nov 7 2025

    On this FULL CAPS CHUNKY episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are talking about all of the games they played at Essen 2025!


    This is an audio-only reupload of the video we just put out on the main channel - so if you’d like to enjoy a physical tier list alongside these wobbly words? Then that’s where it is, and will be, forever and ever.


    Excuse the mildly iffy audio on this one!


    Have a great weekend, everybody!


    Timestamps:

    01:00 - Chemical Overload

    07:50 - Collect!

    12:45 - Tolleno

    19:05 - A Carnivore Did It!

    21:40 - Echoes of Time

    23:55 - Pyradice

    29:07 - Tax The Rich

    32:09 - 3 Witches

    37:53 - Agent Avenue

    43:33 - Recall

    46:59 - Feya’s Swamp

    54:43 - Wie Die Karnikel

    58:20 - Milch Mit Abführmittel

    1:03:34 - Big Shot

    1:08:07 - Night Soil

    1:11:24 - The White Castle: Duel

    1:16:58 - National Economy

    1:21:05 - Railway Boom

    1:23:38 - Pulitzer

    1:30:28 - Sanctuary

    1:34:29 - River Rats

    1:39:32 - Ghost Lift

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    1 h et 44 min
  • #284 - Exponential Cards
    Nov 1 2025

    On this flexibly numerical episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are, you guessed it, talking once again about games with CARDS, BOARDS, and DICE! In exactly that order - each game picking up a new component like a hungry Katamari.

    First up is Duel for Cardia - a perplexing little two-player dueller that lets you hop back in time to un-win your opponent - swiftly followed by 20 Strong, a solo-only game of clobbering a wolf. Or escaping a dream! Or becoming an alien. It’s a modular game system, you see.

    Finally, we’re chatting about Vantage - an open-world board game that’s one of 2025’s biggest! And Tom’s feeling all confused about it…

    Have a great weekend, everyone!

    Timestamps:

    02:12 - Duel for Cardia

    11:23 - 20 Strong

    25:37 - Vantage

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    44 min
  • #283 - The Grumpy to Cosy Pipeline
    Oct 10 2025

    Usually the moniker of ‘Cosy Game’ is a snug portent of mild-mannered fun - a thoroughly whelming box that’s pleasant enough, but doesn’t tickle us for more than a couple plays. But this week on the podcast? Matt and Tom are chatting about a whole bunch of cosy games that surprised them, with a bit more pep than might have been expected…

    We’re talking Frogs and Rabbits and Crows in ‘A Wild Venture’, Trains and Cars and Passengers in ‘Railroad Tiles’, and Lakes and Lakes and Lakes and LAKES in Cascadia…. Alpine Lakes!

    Have a great weekend, everyone!

    Timestamps:
    02:54 - A Wild Venture
    16:20 - Railroad Tiles
    27:43 - Cascadia: Alpine Lakes

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    44 min
  • #282 - Two Player Town (Population Two)
    Sep 11 2025

    This week on the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’re talking two players! Tag Team is a head-to-head brawler, and Suna Valo is exactly the same, but for farms! Finally, Matt waxes lyrical about General Orders’ Samurai Sequel: ‘Sengoku Jidai’ - and, within it, has perhaps found a game that’s too small for even our perma-shrunk noggins.

    Have a great weekend, everyone!

    Timestamps:

    02:44 - Tag Team

    15:09 - Suna Valo

    23:54 - General Orders: Sengoku Jidai

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    35 min
  • #281 - Tom’s Game Gauntlet II: The Return of ‘Game Gauntlet’
    Aug 29 2025

    It’s just little old Tom this week on the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, and he’s taking you through a bunch of odds and ends that might otherwise slip through the metaphorical cracks of the metaphorical floorboards. They wouldn’t fit through the real floorboards. That’d be silly. And we don’t do silly, here.

    Let us know what you think of these episodes! They’re a little unusual, but quite fun to make in a pinch!


    Timestamps:

    02:21 - Joraku

    07:33 - Calimala

    12:35 - Tofu Shifu

    16:52 - March of the Ants

    23:34 - Beaver House

    26:24 - Naishi

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    33 min
  • #280 - The Firefighters of the Rainforest
    Aug 1 2025

    Three kinds of wood, all alike in dignity. Except one of them is on fire, and one of them has a lot of toothy rodents in it. I’m really straining to find some way of making a kind of beaver ratatouille joke, but it’s not coming naturally. ‘Beavertouille, he only does Dams this time?’. I don’t know. Get out of my restaurant.

    Timestamps:

    01:52 - Hutan: Life in the Rainforest
    12:50 - Flash Point: Legacy of Flame
    32:27 - Timber Town

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    44 min
  • #279 - The Very Timely PAX East Episode
    Jul 18 2025

    PAX East! Truly the highlight of everyone’s July!

    For whatever reason, it’s taken us absolutely ages to get round to covering the board games that we played at PAX East - but better late than never! This is especially true in this pod right here, where we’ve got three hot servings of board game to ladle directly into the laps of our ravenous listenership. We’ve got a starter and dessert made of space - with Galileo Galilei and Moon Colony Bloodbath protecting a gooey fantasy center all made of Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship!

    Have a great weekend, everybody!

    Timestamps:

    03:18 - Galileo Galilei

    18:16 - Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

    31:18 - Moon Colony Bloodbath

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    48 min