Episode 24 – 2019 Year in Review

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Welcome to Episode 24 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they take a look back at 2019. We discuss our favorite moments of the year - games, podcasting, family, and more. Then we take a look forward to 2020 and what we are excited for in the new year.
As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or post a review on iTunes or your podcast platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. Please subscribe if you want new episodes when they are available.
0:00 - Intro and Brew Talk
3:05 - What we’ve been playing
14:02 - A Musical Interlude
14:50 - MAIN TOPIC - 2019 Year In Review
45:32 - 2020 Look Forward

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Episode 41 – How much Luck is too much Luck? 41:17

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Episode 38 – 2020 Pub Top 5s 1:02:07

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Microbrew 15 – Ranking Engine Recommendations 38:52

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Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, Just Bryan, and Shuck as they go through the current top 25 games on the Board Game Ranking Engine to see what game they should try next. If you have used the Ranking Engine then you have voted for this list. If you want to see the current rankings head on over to https://rankingengine.pubmeeple.com/rankings to see them! As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal.…

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Episode 35 – Long Term Shifts 58:50

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Welcome to Episode 35 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Shuck, Just Bryan and Proper Brian as they talk about games they have changed their minds about. Maybe its a game that has grown on us or one that we have slowly discovered aren't as great as we once thought. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please share it with someone else or leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. Time - Topic 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 5:53 - What We've Been Playing 18:50 - MAIN TOPIC - Long Term Shifts…

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Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, Just Bryan, and Shuck as they talk about some upcoming games that they are excited to play. We are putting out the call for listener questions! If you have a question you'd like us to answer on the podcast please email it to pubmeeple@gmail.com. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal.…

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Episode 34: What’s So Great About Multiplayer Solitaire Games? 46:01

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Episode 33 – Being a Board Game Concierge 1:02:39

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Welcome to Episode 33 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, and Proper Brian as they invite Hannah and Scott Garbacz on the podcast to talk about being a good board game concierge. Whether you are introducing a new game to players or introducing new players to games, if you like board games, you know how important a task that is. Hannah and Scott have put a lot of thought into how to do this well to ensure a fun game right now and many fun game nights in the future. TIME - TOPIC: 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 7:36 - What We've Been Playing 11:06 - Being a Board Game Concierge 14:57 - Dealing with Differing Tastes 20:01 - Picking Games 25:58 - Teaching Games 31:28 - Good Teachers Lose 36:11 - The Long Con 38:30 - Curating your Collection 48:21 - Listener Question: Rescuing a Game Night…

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Microbrew 12 – Tellstones: Kings Gambit Review 19:03

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Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan as they review the new Riot Games release Tellstones: Kings Gambit - a quick-playing bluffing game with perfect information.

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Episode 32 – Play This Not That – Part 2 57:20

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Microbrew 11 – Components 30:01

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Episode 31 – Play This, Not That – Part 1 1:03:23

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Welcome to Episode 31 of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Just Bryan, Shuck, Gary, and Proper Brian as they talk about games to play instead of some older classics or mass market games. There are times to play games like Jenga or Hearts but if the opportunity arises to play something more on the hobby side of things, what do you suggest? We take each classic game and offer hobby game suggestions that match the feel or mechanisms of the classic. TIME - TOPIC: 0:00 - Intro/Brew Talk 4:23 - What we’ve been playing 15:40 - MAIN TOPIC - Play this, not that 17:30 - Hearts/Spades 19:43 - Jenga 25:35 - Pictionary 29:24 - Stratego 32:50 - Operation 35:26 - Battleship 39:50 - Guess Who 42:58 - Backgammon 45:55 - Rummy 48:48 - Chess/Checkers 54:03 - Life 56:42 - Monopoly…

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Microbrew 10 – Gaming Flops 27:46

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Welcome to a Microbrew entry of the Pub Meeple Podcast! Join Shuck, Gary, Proper Brian, and Just Bryan as they talk through the Pub's top 5 bluffing and deduction games. As always, thanks so much for listening. If you like our show please leave a review on iTunes or your platform of choice. There are lots of other ways to support us including a small contribution via Paypal. If you want new episodes whenever they drop, subscribe below.…

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