Boardgame Mechanics

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Jason and Katie discuss board games, life, and nonsense.

Episode Date
Episode 278: Our Favorite Hidden Gem Games or There is Lots of Potty Talk In This One...Lots
Apr 06, 2024
Episode 277: Our Favorite Games of 2023 or The Boardgame Mechanics New Tagline is "Not Poopy and Pretty Okay"
Mar 23, 2024
Episode 276: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (10-1) or Katie Gets Mad At Jason For Calling Downton Abbey Stupid
Mar 03, 2024
Episode 275.5: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 5 or Next Time Jason Will Make a List...He Needs a List
Feb 23, 2024
Episode 275: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (20-11) or Jason Realizes That He Hates Martin Wallace's New Game Called Fashion Plates
Feb 20, 2024
Episode 274: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (35-21) or Katie Gets Confused About a Game and Starts Talking in Valley Girl
Feb 04, 2024
Episode 273.5: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 4 or Katie Gives Jason the Look Which Doesn’t Translate Well to an Audio Medium
Jan 09, 2024
Episode 273: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (55-36) or It is Too Late For a Subtitle
Dec 23, 2023
Episode 272: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (70-56) or All Jason Wants for Christmas is a Box of Poop with Weberson Santiago Art On It
Nov 28, 2023
Episode 271.5: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 3 or Jason Has Really Gotten This Multitasking Thing Down
Nov 20, 2023
Episode 271: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (85-71) or We Can’t Stop Coughing So This One Is Weirder Than Usual
Nov 11, 2023
Episode 270.7: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 2 or Jason Is Not Good at Pronouncing Words
Nov 03, 2023
Episode 270.5: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 1 or Jason Tries Out A New Video Software and Katie Is Not Impressed
Nov 03, 2023
Episode 270: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (100-86) or Buckle In Because Katie Now Knows Numbers AND Words
Oct 14, 2023
Episode 269.5: Jason’s Top 7 Weberson Santiago Illustrated Games or We Just Felt Like Dropping a Mini-Episode For You
Oct 08, 2023
Episode 269: Games Our Younger Selves Would Have Loved or Katie Decides to Be a Buzzkill and Make This Episode a Sad One
Oct 01, 2023
Episode 268: Gamer Burnout or Katie is Back and All is Right with the World
Sep 15, 2023
Episode 267: How Can There Still Be More Games That Every Gamer Should Own or Jason is Flying Solo for This One So Please Cut Him Some Slack
Aug 28, 2023
Episode 266: Still More Games Every Gamer Should Own or Katie the Potty Mouth Strikes Again
Aug 14, 2023
Episode 265: GenCon 2023 Preview or Jason Messes Up the Rules For the Episode and Katie Busts His Chops About It
Aug 03, 2023
Episode 264: Yet Even More Games Every Gamer Should Own or Something Happened At the End of the Episode with Our Phones and Caused Katie to Yell at Jason
Jul 15, 2023
Episode 263: Origins 2023 Post Mortem or Jason Thinks He Is in the Movie Major League and Does His Best Marty the Announcer Impersonation
Jul 01, 2023
Episode 262: Origins 2023 Preview or Maybe We Will See Steven Feld and Robert Knizia at the Con...Maybe
Jun 17, 2023
Episode 261: BGM/BGR Con Recap or Katie Falls Asleep Halfway Through Recording Listening to Jason’s Dulcet Tones
Jun 03, 2023
Episode 260: Even More Games Every Gamer Should Own or Katie Meant to Say Organic Instead of the Dirty Word That She Said While Talking About A Game
May 20, 2023
Episode 259: Games Every Gamer Should Own or Katie Forgets How English Works Because of All the Weed Coming In Through the Window
May 06, 2023
Episode 258: Our Favorite Rondel Games or Katie Wouldn’t Know a Rondel Game if She Was Swimming in Circles Through Concordia
Apr 29, 2023
Episode 257: Our Favorite Social Deduction Games or No Matter What Other People May Think Blood On the Clocktower is Not On Our List
Apr 15, 2023
Episode 256: Our Favorite Deduction Games or Katie Throws in Some Humble Brags About Being in a Sherberty Smart Kids Class
Apr 08, 2023
Episode 255: Our Favorite Deck Building Games or We Remember Our Youth When We Could Stay Up All Night and Now When 10PM Hits It is Bedtime
Mar 24, 2023
Episode 254: Our Favorite Lucky Games or It is Our Anniversary on St. Patrick’s Day and We Want Nothing More Than to Record an Episode For All of You
Mar 18, 2023
Episode 253: Our Favorite Filler Card Games or Katie Interrupts Our Regularly Scheduled Programming to Get Out Her Soapbox About Western Southern Tigris Raiders
Mar 04, 2023
Episode 252: Our Favorite Non-Card Filler Games or Jason Gets Lost in a Sea of, Well, Cs and it Takes Its Toll On Him
Feb 25, 2023
Episode 251: Our Favorite Board Game Artists or Katie’s Favorite Disney Movie is the One Where The Apples Get Eaten and Then The Beast Falls Asleep Until Getting a Kiss from The Seven Dwarves
Feb 18, 2023
Episode 250: Our Most Anticipated Expansions/Reprints of 2023 or Katie Calls Jason a Doofus and Hits Him Where No One Can See
Feb 04, 2023
Episode 249: Our Most Anticipated Games of 2023 or Jason Got Bumped on the Head (Probably By Katie) and Was Talking Nonsense
Jan 28, 2023
Episode 248: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (10-1) or Katie Confesses Her Undying Love of Klemenz Franz to Jason...She Even Bought a Body Pillow
Jan 20, 2023
Episode 247: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (20-11) or If Jason Sees You In Public You Don’t Have to Try and Make Conversation Because He Will Politely Ignore You So You Don’t Have To
Jan 14, 2023
Episode 246: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (30-21) or Katie Takes Away Jason’s Stefan Feld Body Pillow Because He Clearly Isn’t a REAL Fan Anymore
Jan 05, 2023
Episode 245: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (40-31) or No Witty Subtitle For This One Just a Non-Witty Boring One
Jan 02, 2023
Episode 244.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (145-135) Facebook Live Replay 12.26.22
Dec 27, 2022
Episode 244: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (50-41) or When Feld Poops In a Box It Is the Greatest Box of Poop Ever Pooped
Dec 23, 2022
Episode 243: Jason’s Favorite Games of 2022 or Someday We Will Be Back to Normal Schedules But Until Then We Will Do What We Need to Do to Bring You Talk of Games
Dec 16, 2022
Episode 242.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (157-146) Facebook Live Replay 12.11.22
Dec 12, 2022
Episode 242: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (60-51) or It Isn’t a Good Idea to Pistol Whip Friends and Family With Foam Guns
Dec 03, 2022
Episode 241.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of all Time (170-158) Facebook Live Replay 11.25.22
Nov 26, 2022
Episode 241: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (70-61) or Jason’s Pyramid Hair Makes Katie Hungry for Thanksgiving Feast
Nov 24, 2022
Episode 240.75: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (180-171) Facebook Live Replay 11.16.22
Nov 18, 2022
Episode 240.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (190-181) Facebook Live Replay 11.09.22
Nov 14, 2022
Episode 240: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (80-71) or Sometimes You Have to End An Episode With an ICP Sing Along
Nov 11, 2022
Episode 239.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (200-191) Facebook Live Replay 11.04.22
Nov 09, 2022
Episode 239: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (90-81) or Katie is Jealous of All the Time that Jason Spends Gaming Online With Our Hot Sauce Supplier
Nov 04, 2022
Episode 238: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (100-91) or Ms. Potty Mouth Shows Back Up on the Podcast to Be Hard On Jason’s Stefan Feld Pillow
Oct 27, 2022
Episode 237: Games We Passed On and Regret or Putin Is Really Bummed That He Won’t Be Able to Get the Magic Socks Expansion For One Of His Favorite Games
Oct 21, 2022
Episode 236: A Few of Our Favorite Spooky Games or Jason Says Terrible Way More Than One Person Should Say a Single Word In One Episode of a Podcast
Oct 14, 2022
Episode 235: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 11 or Jason’s Package of Scantily Clad Female Minis Was Delivered During Recording and Katie Was NOT Happy
Oct 06, 2022
Episode 234: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 10 or Katie Tells Jason to Stop Talking So Jason Makes Katie Wash the Dishes While He Plays a Game
Sep 30, 2022
Episode 233: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 9 or We Couldn’t Get the Podcast Out On Time Because We Are Still On Beach Time
Sep 23, 2022
Episode 232: Our Favorite Kids Games or Katie Plays a Game with Jason for His Birthday and Tolerates Every Second of It (and Wins)
Sep 09, 2022
Episode 231: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 8 or Katie Still Doesn’t Understand Why She Let’s Jason Talk On These Episodes
Sep 02, 2022
Episode 230: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 7 or Jason Raves About Scout Across Another Form of Media While Katie Just Keeps Yawning
Aug 26, 2022
Episode 229: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 6 or Summer Break is Over and the Kids are Back in School...Hallelujah!
Aug 19, 2022
Episode 228: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 5 or Jason Is All Alone But Somehow Still Manages To Ramble On For About Thirty Minutes
Aug 12, 2022
Episode 227: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 4 or Old Games Need Love Too!
Aug 05, 2022
Episode 226: Our GenCon Preview or Katie Decides To Put Her Kickstarter Page in Spanish To Prove How Good She Is With Words
Jul 22, 2022
Episode 225: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 3 or Jason Traveled All the Way to P.F. Chang’s to See Authentic Terracotta Warriors Protected by the Cleveland Guardians
Jul 15, 2022
Episode 224: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 2 or Jason’s Favorite Speedway is Dead to Him Since They Have Become a 7/11
Jul 08, 2022
Episode 223: What’s On the Shelf Pt. 1 or Isn’t Every Day In Canada Canada Day?
Jul 01, 2022
Episode 222: Old Faithful Games or Jason Sold All Of His Games Because the Game of All Games Was in His Presence...That is What You Do Right?
Jun 24, 2022
Episode 221: #Origins2022 Recap or Jason Broke His Budget to Back a Kickstarter and This is the Thanks He Gets?
Jun 17, 2022
Episode 220: Jason’s Favorite Odd End Game Mechanisms or Sometimes We Say We Aren’t Having an Episode and We Drop One For You As a Surprise
Jun 10, 2022
Episode 219: #Origins2022 Preview or Katie Has Been Preparing to Be the Septima By Practicing Making Potions the Past Few Weeks
Jun 03, 2022
Episode 218: The Emperor and Loki Sat at The Kids Table in Druid City Staring at the Pandasaurus Wearing a Plaid Hat or Katie Calls Jason a Simpleton
May 27, 2022
Episode 217: Lookout Mayfair or This Bleepity Bleep Bleep Bleeping Bleep Bleep is Bleep Bleep Bleepity Bleepin’ Bleep
May 20, 2022
Episode 216: Ride ‘em Cowboy…From Space or Do You Remember Playing Games With Katie At One Time or Another...Don’t Worry Katie Doesn’t Either
May 12, 2022
Episode 215: Wondering About Arcane or Sometimes Jason Needs to Hail a Death Cab to Make Some Kintsugi
May 05, 2022
Episode 214: Spiele, Eggert Spiele or All Katie Has Ever Wanted In Life Is To Be The Pope
Apr 29, 2022
Episode 213: Renegades of Pretty Okay or Jason Doesn’t Know When The Gold Rush Happened And Has Become a Fanboy of the Publisher That Shall Not Be Named
Apr 22, 2022
Episode 212: The Old Grey Fox and the Hound or Adam West’s Batman Visits Jason To Teach Him the Ways of Deduction and Logic
Apr 15, 2022
Episode 211: Our Favorite AEG Games or Katie Was So Stressed Out About This Episode That She Was Dreaming About Her Teeth Falling Out
Apr 07, 2022
Episode 210: Toss a Coin to the Tasty Minstrel or Sometimes It Is Hard Coming Up With A Witty Subtitle So We Aren’t Going to Do It This Week
Apr 01, 2022
Episode 209: Happy Days of Wonder or After Taking a Week Off Katie is Feeling Sassier Than Ever
Mar 25, 2022
Episode 208: Long Live the Queen...Games or If You Made It All The Way To the End of This Episode You Are a #TrueFan
Mar 10, 2022
Episode 207: Like a Rolling Stone-Maier or Michael Jackson Decides to Stop By and Sing Us A Section of Heal the World
Mar 04, 2022
Episode 206: Our Favorite Games With a Follow Mechanism or A Wise Podcast Once Told Me That Booty Is Never Free, Never!
Feb 24, 2022
Episode 205: #theriveted Top 10 Games of All Time or Middle School Kids are Really Exhausting...Nothing To Do With the Podcast Just Wanted to Reiterate
Feb 18, 2022
Episode 204: Planes, Trains and Automobiles or Klemens Franz Pays Pennies to Get Advertising Time On Our Pretty Okay Podcast...Pennies
Feb 10, 2022
Episode 203: Boats, Boats, Boats! or Jason Wields the Power of Mjolnir When It Comes To Comments On the Channel
Feb 03, 2022
Episode 202: Our Favorite Games About Animals or Katie Goes to Cascadia to Avoid Sharing Her Jeopardy Winnings With Jason
Jan 27, 2022
Episode 201: Our Most Anticipated Games of 2022 or Jason Remembers the Time When He Was So Close to Making it to the X-Games...On Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
Jan 13, 2022
Episode 200: Our Favorite Games of 2021 or Can You Believe That This Podcast Has Been Filled With Mediocrity for Four Years and 200 Episodes?
Jan 07, 2022
Episode 199: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (10-1) or I Think We Are Going to Need a Bigger Big Box
Dec 31, 2021
Episode 198: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (20-11) or Merry Christmas to All and the Grinch Says He Can’t Wait Until This is All Over
Dec 23, 2021
Episode 197: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (30-21) or We Were Planning On Talking About Some Games Played but Technology Had Different Ideas
Dec 17, 2021
Episode 196: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (40-31) or Sometimes You Just Have to Shank Somebody in an Alley...Just Sometimes
Dec 10, 2021
Episode 195: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (50-41) or What Day Is It...Camel Up Day!
Dec 02, 2021
Episode 194: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (60-51) or If Scrooge Was a Real Person He Would Be Jason
Nov 25, 2021
Episode 193: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (70-61) or Sometimes You Eat the Loomiary and Sometimes the Loomiary Eats You
Nov 18, 2021
Episode 192: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (80-71) or Katie Drops the F Bomb on a Previous Take That Would Have Elevated Us from Mediocre to Legendary
Nov 04, 2021
Episode 191: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (90-81) or It Was Agatha All Along...Really She Had the Best Garden...Honest
Oct 29, 2021
Episode 190: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (100-91) or Jason Fell Asleep While Making His List So Everything He Says Should Just Be Ignored
Oct 22, 2021
Episode 189: Our Favorite ”Spooky” Games or Jason Is Trying To Make the Podcast Retro Chic Just Like His Old Wardrobe From Back In the Day
Oct 14, 2021
Episode 188: Our Origins Recap or John Williams Called and Said That Since We Are Such Big Jurassic Park Fans That We Can Borrow His Theme Song for This Week‘s Intro
Oct 07, 2021
Episode 187: Harvesting a Good Board Game or Jason and Katie Go to One Alice Cooper Concert and Think That They Can Design a Game
Sep 30, 2021
Episode 186: Our GenCon Recap or Jason Really Shows His Curmudgeon Side In This One All Because of One Amazing Door Sign
Sep 23, 2021
Episode 185: Obligatory GenCon Episode or Jason Got a Surprise Game and Katie Really Wants the Culprit to Fess Up
Sep 16, 2021
Episode 184: Our Favorite ”Mystery” Games or We Decided to Do Physical Labor on Labor Day...That Was Dumb
Sep 09, 2021
Episode 183: Games We Want to Play But Haven‘t or Sometimes on a Board Game Podcast We Get Distracted and Start Talking About One of Our Favorite Restaurants
Sep 03, 2021
Episode 182: Our Least Favorite Game Mechanisms or Katie Really REALLY Loves Pogs No Matter What She Says
Aug 27, 2021
Episode 181: Our Favorite Game Mechanisms or Sometimes You Just Have to Call A Buddy and Bring A Friend to #theriveted
Aug 20, 2021
Episode 180: Our Favorite Re-Run Games or Jason Loves the Rocky Movies Because Arnold Schwarzenegger Was Amazing in Die Hard
Aug 06, 2021
Episode 179: Games With Great Table Presence or If You Mess With the Bull You Get Katie's Boring Unboxing Horns
Jul 30, 2021
Episode 178: Our Favorite Auction/Bidding Games or Katie Decides that She Really REALLY Loves Hollywood Blockbuster (She Just Doesn't Know it Yet)
Jul 15, 2021
Episode 177: How To Combat FOMO or Katie Really Loves it When New People Join #theriveted
Jul 09, 2021
Episode 176: Building a New Collection with $100 or Katie Finds A New iTunes Review and Immediately Gets Some Dust In Her Eyes and They Start Watering
Jul 02, 2021
Episode 175: Building a Tiny House Game Collection or Our Cat Really Wanted to be a Part of this Episode So She Distracted Katie at the End
Jun 24, 2021
Episode 174: How To Get Your Non-Gaming Spouse Into Board Games or Katie Gets Way Up High on Her Soapbox to Throw Jason Under the Bus
Jun 18, 2021
Episode 173: Our Favorite Games About Bands or Music or Katie Does Yet Another Humble Brag About How Good She Is At Games
Jun 11, 2021
Episode 172: Favorite Games to Play at Five Players or Katie Lets the Cat Out of the Bag About Jason's Snoring Interfering With Her Dreams
Jun 04, 2021
Episode 171: Our Favorite Suitcase Savvy Games or Katie Dreams of a Career in Voice Acting or SportsBall Commentating
May 27, 2021
Episode 170: Our Favorite Games About Plants or For Some Reason Jason Doesn't Ever Care About Theme But When It Comes To Dune He Has Feelings...Lots of Feelings
May 20, 2021
Episode 169: Our Favorite Brain Burner Games or Jason Forgets That He Is Recording a Podcast and Shows Katie His Bedroom Board Game Eyes
May 13, 2021
Episode 168: Our Favorite Tile Laying Games or Katie Is Struggling to Shut Off the Patronization and Condescension In This One
May 06, 2021
Episode 167: If We HAD To Play a Space Game or Jason Finds Out That Katie Is an Evil Genius When It Comes to Playing Games or Dan From Board Game Rundown Is Wrong
Apr 29, 2021
Episode 166: Unpopular Opinions in Board Gaming or We Just Want to Apologize Ahead of Time for This One and Want You To Know That We Really Are Nice People...Honest
Apr 22, 2021
Episode 165: Our Favorite Pushing Cubes Around the Old World Games or Sometimes When We Run Out of Ideas We Get Topics Like This
Apr 15, 2021
Episode 164: Our Favorite Out Guessing Your Opponent Games or Katie is Going to Start an MC Just Because She Wants to Call Jason "Old Man"
Apr 08, 2021
Episode 163: Games That Grew On Us Like a Fungus or Canadians Have to Be So Nice Because They Channel All Their Rage Into Their Geese
Apr 01, 2021
Episode 162: Our Favorite Trick-Taking Games or Do You Even Board Game Bro?
Mar 25, 2021
Episode 161: Our Favorite Love Themed Games or There is Probably Some Uncomfortable Discussion in This One That Should Have Been Edited Out But We Are Just Pretty Okay
Mar 18, 2021
Episode 160: Our Perfect Game Night or Katie Wouldn’t Let Jason Steal Cinnamon Bears from Ollie’s Like She Steals Topics From Other Podcasts
Mar 12, 2021
Episode 159: We Design Our Dream Game or You Get a Track and You Get a Track and You Get Monkeys In Space!
Mar 05, 2021
Episode 158: Mechanics Rundown Con or Jason Reminds Katie That He Wears the Pants in the Family
Feb 26, 2021
Episode 157: Best Board Games On a Budget or This Podcast is No Longer Family Friendly as Katie Can't Stop Saying Bewbs
Feb 19, 2021
Episode 156: Ugly Games That We Love or Marty Wallace is All That Katie Wants for Valentine's Day
Feb 12, 2021
Episode 155: Our Favorite Negotiation Games or We Ran Out of Ideas So We "Borrowed" A Topic from The Board Game Rundown
Feb 05, 2021
Episode 154: Our Anticipated Games of 2021 or Jason Gets the Vaudeville Hook While Playing Carnegie Hall
Jan 28, 2021
Episode 153: Our Favorite Blind Bag/Draw Games or This May Be the Episode That Sinks The Boardgame Mechanics Podcast and it is All Thanks to Andrew Carnegie
Jan 22, 2021
Episode 152: Our Favorite Push Your Luck Games or Katie Likes the Podcast Better When Jason Doesn't Say Anything (or Try to Speak German)
Jan 15, 2021
Episode 151: Our Top Games of 2020 or Katie Makes Fun of the Way Jason Picks a Shirt from the Dresser Because She Lost at a Game
Jan 08, 2021
Episode 150: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (10 - 1) or Jason Tries to Pronounce Italian Names While Katie Hides The Crayons From Our Kids Because They Are the "Fancy" Crayons
Jan 01, 2021
Episode 149: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (20 - 11) or Katie Doesn't Know What Penultimate Means or What Color American Money Is
Dec 18, 2020
Episode 148: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (30 - 21) or Jason Can't Seem to Say Newton and Katie Jumps On Board the Hype Train
Dec 10, 2020
Episode 147: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (40 - 31) or Jason Went All the Way to P.F. Chang's to Get Katie Hair Dye and to See the Terracotta Warriors and Wicked Clowns
Dec 04, 2020
Episode 146: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (50 - 41) or Jason Thinks He Knows About Canada and Katie Thinks She Knows About Publishers
Nov 26, 2020
Episode 145: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (60 - 51) or We Have Survived Covid-19 and Are Willing to Pass Out Some Antibodies
Nov 20, 2020
Episode 144: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (70 - 61) or Katie Tries to Become the New BGM Marlboro Man
Nov 06, 2020
Episode 143: The Spooky Halloween Episode or Jason Wishes He Was As Cool As Post Malone
Oct 30, 2020
Episode 142: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (80 - 71) or Jason's Word of the Week Is Ditto
Oct 23, 2020
Episode 141: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (90 - 81) or Katie Auditions For Oingo Boingo With A Rendition of Dead Man's Party
Oct 15, 2020
Episode 140: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (100 - 91) or It's Jason's Party and He'll Be a Martyr If He Wants To
Oct 08, 2020
Episode 139: Games Based On Our Passions (Music and Literature) or Elton John Loves to Play Games on Sunday After a Night of Pinball
Oct 01, 2020
Episode 138: Our Favorite Mass Market Games or Captain Kirk Thinks Jason is the Best at Playing Catch Phrase
Sep 24, 2020
Episode 137: Games We Were Surprised By Featuring Tim of Board Game Rundown or Jason Puts Uncle Vital Out To Pasture With Nothing But His Evil Gryphon to Keep Him Company
Sep 11, 2020
Episode 136: The Best Japanese Themed Games or Jason Doesn't Know Where Taiwan Is and Katie Can't Stop Talking About How Pretty Everything Is
Sep 04, 2020
Episode 135: Our Favorite Pick Up and Deliver Games or Jason Struggles With Seeing Theme Even When Katie Explicitly Tells Him What the Theme Is
Aug 28, 2020
Episode 134: Best Large Table (Table Hog) Games or Wouldn't It Be Great to Hear Gene Simmons From Kiss Sing The Canadian National Anthem in French?
Aug 21, 2020
Episode 133: Best Tiny Table (Small Footprint) Games or Katie Really Wants a D&D Trapper Keeper For Her Birthday
Aug 14, 2020
Episode 132: BGG Games Rated 1,000-2,000 We Enjoy or Jason Really Wants to Get the Recording Done So He Can Watch the Movie Gaslight
Aug 07, 2020
Episode 131: BGG Games Rated 2,000-3,000 We Enjoy or Katie Loves Watching Animal Documentaries So Much That She Tries Co-opt the Podcast To Talk About Them
Jul 31, 2020
Episode 130.5: BGM Is on Vacay or Katie Thinks That This Is The Best Episode Ever
Jul 24, 2020
Episode 130: Our Favorite Game Components-ish or Katie is Definitely the Pretty Okayest Host On the Podcast No Question About It
Jul 17, 2020
Episode 129: Our Favorite Rondel Games or Katie Plugged in Her Microphone This Week but It Still Sounds Like She Didn't...After 129 Episodes We Should Have This Figured Out...Pretty Okay
Jul 10, 2020
Episode 128: Favorite Engine Builder Games or Katie Forgets to Plug In Her Microphone and Decides to Sing a Little Ditty
Jul 03, 2020
Episode 127: Tips For Teaching Games or Motorcycles, Fireworks and a Kid on the Stairs. Oh My!
Jun 26, 2020
Episode 126: Game Day Pet Peeves (The Karen Episode) or Katie Reminisces About Being Able to Sleep At Night
Jun 19, 2020
Episode 125: Games That Have Aged Gracefully or Katie Makes Fun of Jason For Not Knowing How to Win at Clue
Jun 12, 2020
Episode 124: Games We Love but Never Win or Katie and Jason Argue Over Who is a Karen and Who is a Boomer
Jun 05, 2020
Episode 123: Our Favorite Filler Games or Katie Uses Her Artistic Ability to Make Her Own Scumdog GWAR Outfit
May 29, 2020
Episode 122: BGM Essential Games Part 2 or Sometimes Jason Just Wants To Wear What He Wants Without Everybody Treating Him Like a Piece of Meat
May 22, 2020
Episode 121: BGM Essential Games Part 1 or If Kenny Rogers Had a Favorite Game It Would Be Gambler
May 15, 2020
Episode 120: Our Favorite Paolo Mori Games or Katie Thinks Philip duBarry Would Make a Great Sixth Member of a Boy Band
May 08, 2020
Episode 119: Second Chance Games or Katie Had a Bad Experience with a Board Game About Dogs and Now We Call Her Left Ear
May 01, 2020
Episode 118: Top 10 Bruno Cathala Games or Jason Is All Alone...There Is No One There Beside Him
Apr 24, 2020
Episode 117: How To Seduce People Into Gaming or Jason's Brother Clyde, Father Clyde and Grandfather Clyde Love This Podcast!
Apr 17, 2020
Episode 116: Games to Gift During a Quarantine or Jason Was Scarred Playing Six Player Magic the Gathering and Katie Just Doesn't Care
Apr 10, 2020
Episode 115: Games That Are Silly But We Enjoy Anyway or You Can Take the Boy Out of the Juggalo But You Can't Take the Juggalo Out of the Boy
Apr 03, 2020
Episode 114: Games to Play Remotely or All Katie Wants During the Apocalypse Is Some Orange Slices From Speedway
Mar 27, 2020
Episode 113: Games To Play During a Quarantine or Jason's Virility Sometimes Oppresses Katie (That Doesn't Make Any Sense But The Episode Will Shed Some Light)
Mar 20, 2020
Episode 112: Board Game Upgrades (Pimping Up) or Katie and Jason Have a Dispute About Who is the Most Feminist Star Trek Captain (Kirk Obviously)
Mar 14, 2020
Episode 111: Games We Ended Up Liking or Jason and Katie Pulled Themselves Away from Love Is Blind To Record This Episode
Mar 06, 2020
Episode 110: Gaming Turn Offs or Jason Gets Katie All Fired Up About Something...He Can't Even Remember What The Big Deal Was
Feb 28, 2020
Episode 109: Gaming Turn Ons or Katie Mistakes the Podcast for her Part Time Job at 1-900-Barry White
Feb 21, 2020
Episode 108: Games Katie Likes that Jason is Meh About or Katie Tells the Entire World About Jason's Secret Tattoo on His Butt Cheek
Feb 14, 2020
Episode 107: Games Jason Likes That Katie Abhors or If We Keep It Up We Are Going to Have Three Hour Long Episodes In the Not Too Distant Future
Feb 07, 2020
Episode 106: Games We Only Want to Play at Two Players or Katie Talks About D&D and Jason Falls Asleep
Jan 31, 2020
Episode 105: Our Favorite Two Player Games or After a Long Weekend With the Kids Katie Has Lost the Will To Be Zany
Jan 24, 2020
Episode 104: Our Favorite Party Games or The King of Party Games Gets to Talk About His Favorite Subject Because Katie Told Him To
Jan 17, 2020
Episode 103: Our Top Gateway Games or Katie Joins as Co-Host and Promptly Gets Fired by Jason for Her Potty Mouth
Jan 10, 2020
Episode 102: Our Favorite Games of 2019 or Sometimes You Have to Have 30 Minute Episodes When You Can't Stop Coughing
Jan 03, 2020
Episode 101: Our Obligatory End of a Decade Show or Knowing when Christmas falls is hard, especially on Kickstarter.
Dec 27, 2019
Episode 100: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (10 to 1) or Fairy Queen and Fickle Are Two Very Different Games...Sorry Pokorny!
Dec 20, 2019
Episode 99: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (20 to 11) or Baby Yoda Loves Electric Cars!
Dec 13, 2019
Episode 98: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (30-21) or Subtitles Are Hard to Come Up With at 1 AM
Dec 06, 2019
Episode 97: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (40 to 31) or A Steamy Vacation is only 3 and a half hours of heartstrings away.
Nov 28, 2019
Episode 96: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (50 to 41) or Marty Wallace Is a Real George Harrison Showing His Swanky Steve and Berry's Jeans to Uncle Vital
Nov 22, 2019
Episode 95: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (60 to 51) or The Weirdest One Yet
Nov 15, 2019
Episode 94: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (70 to 61) or This Episode Brought To You By PlutoTV and Wes Anderson...Unknowingly Of Course!
Nov 08, 2019
Episode 93: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (80 to 71) or A Light(switch) In the Attic
Nov 01, 2019
Episode 92: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (90 to 81) or Joel Has the Memory of a 70 Year Old But Doesn't Look a Day Over 69
Oct 25, 2019
Episode 91: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (100 to 91) or Who is That Jon Woe Dude Anyway?
Oct 18, 2019
Episode 90: The BGM Christmas Buying List or 13 Year Old Joel Would Have Been a Huge Fan of the Internet
Oct 11, 2019
Episode 89: Godspeed Designers Interview - Hill and Hargrave or Kevin McCallister should buy a copy of Bunny Kingdom
Oct 04, 2019
Episode 88: Games We Will Not Play Again or Joel Offers a Sacrifice of Risk Legacy at the Feet of the Mud Monster in Philadelphia
Sep 27, 2019
Episode 87: Essen Preview or Joel's mic makes him sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher.
Sep 20, 2019
Episode 86: Because You Know It's All About Those Games, Those Games and Some News or Happy Birthday to Fan Zero and Sorry That This Episode is So Long
Sep 13, 2019
Episode 85: Games Only We Seem To Champion or The Rise of Death Row Cardboard
Sep 06, 2019
Episode 84: A Look Back at Our Favorite Games of 2018 Part 2 or Joel Declares His Undying Love for A Member of #theriveted
Aug 30, 2019
Episode 83: A Look Back at Our Favorite Games of 2018 Part 1 or How to Podcast on Nighttime Cold Medicine
Aug 23, 2019
Episode 82: The Guys Give Some Advice No One Asked For or It Finally Happened...This Thing Has Become A Cash Grab
Aug 16, 2019
Episode 81: Joel Recaps GenCon or Jason is on this Episode but Still Isn't Able To Talk From All of the Coughing
Aug 09, 2019
Episode 80: Disappointing Games or Joel and Katie Ramble On FOREVER to try to Ensure that there is Enough of the Episode to Listen to For Your Entire Trip to GenCon (No Matter Your Starting Point)
Aug 02, 2019
Episode 79: Joel and Jason talk Gencon, or Jason Waits is a PR Managers Worst Nightmare.
Jul 26, 2019
Episode 78: Interview with Mr. Werewolf, Ted Alspach or Jason and Joel Grovel at the Feet of Keymaster Games to Forgive Them for Breaking the Rules
Jul 19, 2019
Episode 77: BGMCon Express Recap, or Jason Reignites the Protective Order Against The Boys
Jul 12, 2019
Episode 76: Games We Endorse for Outside Play or Everyone has a Podcast but Ours is the Most Mediocre.
Jul 05, 2019
Episode 75: An Interview with Stephen Buonocore of Stronghold Games or Joel Mistakes the Interview for a Job Interview and Accepts a Job as Coffee Boy at Stronghold Headquarters
Jun 28, 2019
BGM Interview with Wesley Woodbury (Legends of Novus)
Jun 24, 2019
Episode 74: #Origins2019 Recap or Katie Killed Joel and Takes Over Co-Hosting Duty and Becomes the Nastiest Boy of All of Us
Jun 21, 2019
Episode 73: Obligatory #Origins2019 Preview or Joel Reminisces About the Time That He Posed to Become the First Meeple
Jun 12, 2019
Episode 72: Games That Stay on The Shelf Due to Set-Up Complexity or Joel Gets High With Vince Gill on the Spirit Island of Dr. Lucky
Jun 07, 2019
Episode 71: Games A Co-Host Is Wrong About or Welcome to Pickle Ballers the Podcast all about Pickle Ball which Happens to Be Joel's Favorite Past-time
May 31, 2019
Episode 70: Our Favorite Game Box Covers or What If Carpenter Ants Stole Joel's Keys to His BMW and Listened To Our Podcast for 70 Straight Hours?
May 24, 2019
Episode 69: The Definitive List of the Best Games of 2009 or Jason Finally Declares His Love For Minis While Joel Pleads for Intros
May 17, 2019
Episode 68: Our Favorite Publishers or Jason is Scolded During a Blue Jackets Moment of Silence in the Middle of a Board Gaming Podcast
May 10, 2019
Episode 67: Board Game Trade and Purchase Deals or Jason Is a Real Game Trading Rude Boy
May 03, 2019
Episode 66: Games Played and Some News or Would You Trade Sheep For Wood...We've Got Your Wood Right Here
Apr 26, 2019
Episode 65: Our Favorite Games Based On An Intellectual Property or We Get Called Up to The Big Leagues and Our Agent Aurora Burbank Partners with Notorious RBG to Get A Super Special Intro Lined Up
Apr 19, 2019
Episode 64: Discussion of the Golden Geek Awards or Joel and Jason Have a Root Fetish and This Episode Should be Marked as Explicit
Apr 12, 2019
Episode 63: Games That Have Lost Their Shine Over Additional Plays or The Nastyboys Eat Dairy and Count All of Their F-Bombs On Mac Gerdt's Abacuses
Apr 05, 2019
Episode 62: BGM Con V Post Game Show or Katie is the Don and All Joel and Jason Can Hope for is to be Vito.
Mar 29, 2019
Episode 61: Our Top 3 Favorite Uwe Games or Sometimes Sasquatch Likes to Wear Dolphin Slippers
Mar 22, 2019
Episode 60: Games We Shouldn't Like But We Do or Maybe Joel and Jason Would Play More Miniatures Games If The Minis Were Versions of Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash (Because MLP Is Awesome!)
Mar 15, 2019
Episode 59: Industry Trends That Could Go Away and We Wouldn't Miss Them or For Complaints About This Episode Please Email TomVasel@Dicetower.com
Mar 08, 2019
Episode 58: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (10 - 1) or Maybe We Should Start Up Jacket Talk Once Again?
Mar 01, 2019
Episode 57: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (20-11) or Uwe May Have Designed the Best Game Ever When He Designed Bohnanza
Feb 22, 2019
Episode 56: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (30-21) or Marty Wallace Really Doesn't Know How to Spell Australia
Feb 15, 2019
Episode 55: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (40-31) or Someone Forgot to Bring Out the Zany On This One
Feb 08, 2019
Episode 54: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (50-41) or Jason and Joel Get Distracted By BGG Recommendations
Feb 01, 2019
Episode 53: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (60-51) or Jason Is Haunted By His Newfound Stardom
Jan 25, 2019
Episode 52: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (70-61) or Do We Really Need Hands to Record a Podcast About Great Oregon Trail?
Jan 18, 2019
Episode 51: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (80 thru 71) or Gugong, Gugong, Gugong, KeyForge, Gugong
Jan 11, 2019
Episode 50: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (90 thru 81) or Zaniness Brought To You by Mr. Pokorny (Thanks A Lot)!
Jan 04, 2019
Episode 93 - Top 100 Games of All Time Part 3 (80-71) Or A Light(switch) in the Attic
Jan 01, 2019
Episode 49: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (100 thru 91) or Joel Phones It In, Literally, While Playing In Some Water in December
Dec 28, 2018
Episode 48: Top Ten Games of 2018 Part 2 or Sometimes We Get On A Tangent and Talk About #CancelSouthPark
Dec 21, 2018
Episode 47: Top Ten Games of 2018 Part 1 or Dinosaur Watch Has Now Ended...On To Gugong!
Dec 14, 2018
Episode 46: #theriveted Top 10 Games of All Time or Joel Serenades Jason About the Latest on Dinosaur Island Watch
Dec 07, 2018
Episode 45: Shelf Eye Candy or Jason Thinks That He Is Still A Juggalo...Someone Get Him A Faygo!
Nov 30, 2018
Episode 44: Our Favorite, New To Us Games of 2018 Part 2 or Excitement, Adventure, Our Podcast Is Still Rocking a Moniker of Decent
Nov 23, 2018
Episode 43: Our Favorite, New To Us Games of 2018 Part 1 or Adventure, Excitement, Our Podcast Craves Not These Things Because We Are Just Pretty OK.
Nov 16, 2018
Episode 42: BGM Con 4 Recap or Joel Really Isn’t Drunk He Just Had A Lot Of NyQuil
Nov 09, 2018
Episode 41: The Top Ten Games of Essen (per BGG Hotness) or Squeezing into an Airplane Seat is Like Trying to Fit Both the Expansions for Champions of Midgard in the Base Game Box
Nov 02, 2018
Episode 40: An Interview with Plaid Hat Games or Mistakes Were Made and Joel Is Now Merely Just a Prince
Oct 26, 2018
Episode 39: A Very Swanky Interview or The Archduke of Cardboard Has to Use the Block Button on Vital Lacerda
Oct 19, 2018
Episode 38: Shame, Boatloads of Shame, Day After Day, or Rising 5 Rises to Top of the Wanted List
Oct 12, 2018
Episode 37: Our Top Five Worker Placement Games or Jason Worked His Way Through Early Adulthood As A Callboy
Oct 05, 2018
Episode 36: We answer your questions, or "Alright, lets do it again, this time from the top."
Sep 28, 2018
Episode 35: Our Numbers 10 Thru 6 Favorite Worker Placement Games or We Were Going To Answer Your Questions But We Got So Scared That The Computer Didn't Export Files Correctly
Sep 21, 2018
Ep 34: Does Vinhos Make it in the Hall, or Who Loves Dogs of War? We Do!
Sep 14, 2018
Episode 33: News, Games and Our Favorite Publishers or All Jason Wants for His Birthday is to Break 100 Listens On Day One and for Great Western Trail to Be a Gateway Game
Sep 07, 2018
Ep 32: Older Games New to us That We Love or We Find Out Joel's Dad was in Fact a Cold War Era Spy
Aug 31, 2018
Episode 31: News, Things We Played and Gimmicks in Games or The Sexy Boys of Board Gaming That Get Caught Up in Nostalgia
Aug 24, 2018
Episode 30: News, Games We Played and Best of 2018 (So Far) or Petra Means Rock That is Covered In Caffeinated Fountain Drink Goodness
Aug 17, 2018
Episode 29: News, Games Played and Our Favorite Artwork or Philip duBarry Signs Kingdom Death Monster and Joel's Dad Loves Snapchat
Aug 10, 2018
Episode 28: To GenCon or Can't, That is the Question or Joel Barks Like a Dog at the Site of Blood On the Clocktower
Aug 03, 2018
Episode 27: Interview with Zack Edwards of Historical Conquest where he talks his current Kickstarter or Joel Somehow Keeps from Burning the Podcast to the Ground While Jason Takes a Week Off
Jul 27, 2018
Episode 26: News, Games Played and Small Games That Pack a Punch or Does Johnny Gilmour Like Pink Floyd and Watch Hockey?
Jul 20, 2018
Episode 25: News, Games Played and Favorite Light(ish) Games or Jason Loves Mtn Dew Vape Juice
Jul 13, 2018
Episode 24: Jason Takes the Driver's Seat To Make a Best Of Out Of the Least Worst Of The Boardgame Mechanics First 23 Episodes
Jul 06, 2018
Episode 23: Games, News and Catan Wrench Rating or Joel Gets Outbidded in the state of Indianapolis
Jun 28, 2018
Episode 22: #Origins2018 Postmortem and Filker Tom Spends Time with The Avengers At Hot Chicken Takeover
Jun 22, 2018
Episode 21: #Origins2018 Recap or Matt and Joel Meet Someone That Really Likes Juice or Zeus
Jun 15, 2018
Episode 20: Games from 2016 that are Still Legit or Joel Seems to Forget What Show He is On For a Few Moments
Jun 08, 2018
Episode 19: News, Games and #Origins18 Preview or Ameritrash, Ameritrash Where For Art Thou Ameritrash?
Jun 01, 2018
Episode 18: Our Favorite Games with a Ranking Lower (Higher Number) Than 1000 On BGG or We Travel Down The Dark Path That Is Joel's Mind
May 25, 2018
Episode 17: Top 6 Card ONLY Games or We Disagree with the Spiel Nominees So We Are Going To Take Our Wrenches and Make Our Own Awards
May 18, 2018
Episode 16: The Legend of Design, Vital Lacerda or For Some Reason Jason Thought It Was a Good Idea to Sing Taylor Swift
May 11, 2018
Episode 15: Pokorny, Mr. Pokorny or Jason Doesn't Play Dungeon Crawlers Because Caves Have Feelings too!
May 04, 2018
Episode 14: Interview with Alex Herrity (Poser designer) or Joel's Dad Wears a Snapback and Spends Retirement on the Farm
Apr 27, 2018
Episode 13: Interview with Jamey Stegmaier or Sometimes Even Donald X Hates Kingdom Builder
Apr 20, 2018
Episode 12: News and the Games of BGMcon 3 or The Fig Leaves of Unflappability
Apr 13, 2018
BGM Interview with Matt Quock (The Primary)
Apr 11, 2018
Episode 11: More Games We Missed in the BGG Top 20 or A Romantic Getaway on Dinosaur Island
Apr 06, 2018
Episode 10: Games We Missed in the BGG Top 20 or #convincethemechanics to play some games.
Mar 30, 2018
Episode 9: News, Games Played and Philip duBarry or What It Is Like to Hear Joel be a Fanboy
Mar 23, 2018
Episode 8: Games We Both Own or How Publishers Keep Taking All of Our Money
Mar 16, 2018
BGM Interview with Adam Rehberg (Swordcrafters)
Mar 14, 2018
Episode 7: Joel writes checks the podcast can't cash. Or How Did Jason get drug into this? Also News and What we played.
Mar 09, 2018
Episode 6: Coveted Games of a Cohost
Mar 02, 2018
Episode 5: News and the games of BGMcon 2.
Feb 21, 2018
Episode 4: Top 6 Favorite Designers (and a bum mic)
Feb 16, 2018
Episode 3: Top Six Games Named After People/Places
Feb 02, 2018
Episode 2: The Obligatory Gateway Games Episode
Jan 17, 2018
Episode 1: Our Favorite Games of 2017
Jan 04, 2018