Off Week Odds and Ends 4 - The Channel Update Edition

Hey hey BATT Family! Welcome to the final Odds and Ends episode of Season 1! You read that right. We're going to be giving a lot more detail a the beginning of the episode, but basically we're going to be taking a small break. The first few minutes of the episode cover this, but if you want to have a quick bite to read, here you go:

Through the month of August you'll still be getting new episodes (24 and 25), new reviews, everything you're used to. This is all content that we recorded prior to Gen Con and will be coming out on normal scheduling. We are, however, going mostly dark in September. This is to let us get more played, get some new content in the can without having to worry about anything, and making sure we're ready to go on all of our new ideas. You'll still get a couple of things (we have a Kickstarter we'll be supporting as well as the final episode of The Games That Made Us) to make sure you don't lose the feed, but the sheer amount of stuff we've been releasing like we have will slow to a trickle. 

On Tuesday October 7th, we'll be returning with "Season Two"! We've got some really cool plans set in place. First, Jason is now just a full time host with us. There may be the occasional episode without one of the three of us due to life getting in the way, but we expect fully to be a trio moving forward. He's been great on the show and he's helped us out enormously over the past few months with a variety of things. It just feels right to have him on. Next, we're going to be releasing a new subseries we're calling the "Expansion Packs". These are mostly going to be the off-week, non-review content where we'll be covering singular topics. The Mechanic's Shop may end up in here, New Player Journeys, as well as a super cool segment we're calling "Extra Roles." Extra Roles is going to be us having board gaming industry figures, from publishers, designers, and artists, to social media managers or playtest leads, or similar from our favourite companies coming on. This is a way for us to continue to be friends with the board gaming industry and just get more love for them out there. We've already had some really cool people say that they'd like to be on the show and we've been scheduling like mad. Our first episode of the season, Episode 26, will not only feature Jason but a designer/publisher that I'm VERY excited to have on. Some really cool stuff coming down that pipeline. You can also expect the first appearances of "Dusting Off" and some more segments in the Roleplaying Legends series to keep things spicy. 

Be sure to keep tuned into us until that point, but remember! Tuesday October 7th is the date for the new season!

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode is marked explicit because of the swearing in the blooper reel. If nothing else, you can see how tough it can be for us to maintain perfect professionalism while recording. It's honestly a lot less that it was in prior O&Es but because we try and maintain a clean rating overall, it's still worth putting the label on. 

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This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:00:38 - Channel Update

00:04:35 - Post-Jamey Tariff Intro

00:05:11 - Post-Jamey Tariff Comments

00:07:04 - Scott the Tanner Intro

00:07:27 - The Story of Scott the Tanner 

00:08:44 - Win, Lose, or Banana Intro

00:09:07 - The Story of Win, Lose or Banana

00:10:14 - Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions Intro

00:10:34 - Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions 

00:15:36 - Top 10 Games We Like to Teach Honorable Mentions Intro

00:16:04 - Top 10 Games We Like to Teach Honorable Mentions 

00:28:10 - Top 10 Best Games We Will Never Play Again Honorable Mentions Intro

00:28:52 - Top 10 Best Games We Will Never Play Again Honorable Mentions 

00:42:34 - Outro

00:43:13 - Blooper Reel

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Notes!

1) It's always a surprise to me when assembling all of this stuff, of how much it I don't think even works in these episodes. There are a surprising amount of bits that just don't even make the cut here. Hopefully you enjoy this episode, it was fun to go through all the scraps and see what was left to dust off and trim up for you all to hear. 

2) In the segment about the Top 10 of 2025 Honorable Mentions, I said that I had already stated my number 12. If you don't remember what it was, then you'll just have to go listen to that episode again!

3) Tuesday! October 7th! Season Two! WOO WOO WOO!

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