The Board Retreat podcast

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Games "The Field Game of Tag" and its variant Everybody's It Ro Sham Bo / Rock-Paper-Scissors Scotland Yard Mysterium Battlestar Galactica Pandemic Sushi Go The game of Poker and floppin' Chess and Perfect Information Games (Please note that chess is, indeed, the first example at the top of the page.) Space Alert Arabian Nights Space Team Three of those games were published in 2008, how strange! Mesopotamian Gaming: "Watch the world's oldest board game, the Royal Game of Ur, being played" on boingboing.net For reference, I brought up Moby Dick and Don Quixote as a joke that failed to land. Here is the history of the stranger/town dichotomy thing - it's a quote that is often misattributed. Also, we have discovered that when you google the title of literary classics, google auto-adds "movie" to the end of your query. How notable! Hero's Journey! We especially talked about the Call to Adventure, which in modern writing pedagogy is often called the Inciting Incident. Thanks! Portland Institute for Contemporary Art BodyVox Theme Music by Gary Grundei And to you! Thanks!…

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Episode 4 - the Recommitment 56:52

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Show Notes: Apologies that Paul is a little quiet at times, it is the consequence of our computer crashing just prior to beginning the recording. Media The Campaigns of Alexander the Great by Arian SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Watership Down by Richard Adams Stranger Things, a TV show on Netflix created by the Duffer Brothers Madeline Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , aka THE ONE WITH THE SPOILER Ancient Board Games Roman Games Tafl, or The Viking Game OOPS! Not Egyptian, but rather Mesopotamian! I regret the error. "Watch the world's oldest board game, the Royal Game of Ur, being played" on boingboing.net Modern Board Games Space Alert by Vlaada Chvátil I reference Monopoly again, but to be honest, who cares? Thanks! Theme Music by Gary Grundei Portland Institute for Contemporary Art BodyVox…

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Episode 3 - the Commitment 1:38:12

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Explicit content is only for very occasional, semi-accidental cursing. Notes The bridge paradox from Kant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg Harry Potter as a Sacred Text website: http://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/ The Hugenots and the general idea of Hospitality as a cultural thang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality#Ancient_Greece, and also the first teaser for Harry Potter as a Sacred Text. Definition of Chthonic: Adjective. Concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld. Articles I feel like I will bring up this article on Puerto Rico as a way into the collapse game again: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-coping.html Polar Bear Project: https://projects.oregonlive.com/projectnora/1-3/series Books Xenophon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Thousand Watership Down by Richard Adams Redwall books as a counterpoint to Watership Down, by Brian Jacques Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson Campaigns of Alexander the Great by Arian We name drop Agatha Christie novels like the Poirot series, specifically Murder on the Orient Express Games Scotland Yard Mysterium Complicated Board Game the Card Game (the game that's all about setting it up) Illuminati Fluxx Munchkin…

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Episode 2 - the Cert 1:26:03

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Explicit content is only for very occasional, semi-accidental cursing.

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Episode 1 - the Veil 56:12

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Explicit content is only for very occasional, semi-accidental cursing. We thought the podcast was named something different at first, but then discovered otherwise, but the nature of the podcast means we can't re-record episodes.

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The Very Short Introduction 0:37

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