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First Turn Tabletop Thoughts: Where three friends play board games for the first time and discuss our immediate reactions. It’s like book club … but for board games!

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
31 minutes
Episodes
100
Years Active
2022 - 2024
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Ep 170: It’s not a cult!!

Ep 170: It’s not a cult!!

It's really hard to come up with a generally family friendly joke and episode title for something like cults. So ... I'm just going to avoid it all together and tell you that this week, bP and Kiwi t…

00:26:33  |   Tue 08 Nov 2022
Ep 169: Oil and Water Don’t Mix

Ep 169: Oil and Water Don’t Mix

Unless you have an emulsifier like an egg or something, and then you can get them to combine. But that has nothing to do with this game, it's just what you get when Kiwi is going to hear it for the f…

00:26:44  |   Tue 01 Nov 2022
Ep 168: ... the most bold and daring act of the age.

Ep 168: ... the most bold and daring act of the age.

Attributed to Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, after hearing reports of Lieutenant Stephan Decatur's raid to burn the captured and grounded USS Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli in 1804.

Take a…

00:37:59  |   Tue 25 Oct 2022
Ep 167: Toot Fast Toot Furious

Ep 167: Toot Fast Toot Furious

This is either a call back reference to a previous episode coupled with a Fast & Furious title pun OORRRRR a game about farts. Either way, you should download it and listen to us this week play Mini …

00:35:17  |   Tue 18 Oct 2022
Ep 166: Kowalski, Analysis!

Ep 166: Kowalski, Analysis!

Eric and his gang of usual suspects are up to their usual hijinks and escapades. So join them this week as they play Yura Yura Penguin. Designed and self published by Yabuchi Ryoko in 2019!

Post your…

00:15:05  |   Tue 11 Oct 2022
Ep 165: Shiny and Chrome

Ep 165: Shiny and Chrome

It's Thunderdome time, so witness us as two men enter and one man leaves! Eric and Kiwi try out the two player game Radlands designed by Daniel Piechnick and published in 2021 by Roxley Games.

Post y…

00:27:42  |   Tue 04 Oct 2022
Ep 164: Hail and Well Met, Adventurers!

Ep 164: Hail and Well Met, Adventurers!

bP and Kiwi's record for losing a cooperative game is 2.5 minutes, it was a game of Pandemic. Listen this week to find out if the pair does any better at Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the R…

00:28:30  |   Tue 27 Sep 2022
Ep 163: Ground Control to Major Tom

Ep 163: Ground Control to Major Tom

Is the moon landing fake? Will we ever find out if the moon is made a cheese? Will bP win? Some of these answers you might find the answer to in this week's episode. Kait and Eric are off, so bP and …

00:27:44  |   Tue 20 Sep 2022
Ep 162: But Why a Spoon, Brother?

Ep 162: But Why a Spoon, Brother?

Because it'll hurt more ... you twit! Some classic Alan Rickman right there! This episode was supposed to be another game, but the audio was lost to the horrors of chaos, so we get a semi-deep dive e…

00:20:33  |   Tue 13 Sep 2022
Ep 161: Beep Boop Beep Whirrrrrrr

Ep 161: Beep Boop Beep Whirrrrrrr

In a magical land of non-descriptive but emotionally sentient robots, we travel around collecting ideas and electricity as robots are want to do! We're playing Transmissions by Adam West, published i…

00:30:20  |   Tue 06 Sep 2022
Ep 160: Diverging in a Maple Wood

Ep 160: Diverging in a Maple Wood

The dog days of summer are coming to an end and we are quickly approaching fall. For those living in areas with trees, they should start their turn to reds, yellows, oranges, and browns. It felt like…

00:27:37  |   Tue 30 Aug 2022
Ep 159: GenCon / CamelCon 2022 Part 2

Ep 159: GenCon / CamelCon 2022 Part 2

As the convention closed, and we rested our feet, we sat around the table and talked about our experiences at GenCon 2022 while they were still fresh in our minds. We talk about the games we played, …

00:52:39  |   Tue 23 Aug 2022
Ep 158: GenCon / CamelCon 2022 Part 1

Ep 158: GenCon / CamelCon 2022 Part 1

As the convention closed, and we rested our feet, we sat around the table and talked about our experiences at GenCon 2022 while they were still fresh in our minds. We talk about the games we played, …

00:31:17  |   Tue 16 Aug 2022
Ep 157: Hey BooBoo!

Ep 157: Hey BooBoo!

Did you know that Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the National Park Service on August 25, 1916 but that Yellowstone became the first National Park with an act signed by Ulysses S Grant on …

00:37:31  |   Tue 09 Aug 2022
Ep 156: Dog Days of Summer

Ep 156: Dog Days of Summer

Eric and Kiwi challenge real life dog walker, Kait, to become the most successful and best dog walker in the land! That's right, we're playing Dog Park by Lottie Hazell and Jack Hazell, published in …

00:31:28  |   Tue 02 Aug 2022
Ep 155: Booze Cruise

Ep 155: Booze Cruise

Kait was off and so the other three hosts decided that this we were going to kill off a relative so that we could inherit the family's abandoned distillery and bring it back to it's former glory. Thi…

00:39:16  |   Tue 26 Jul 2022
Ep 154: For Mitch Hedberg ...

Ep 154: For Mitch Hedberg ...

 "I saw a wino with a bag of grapes and I was like ... dude, you have to wait!" This week, Paxton and Kiwi provide no wine knowledge what-so-ever to bP, but they do bring some math ability and planni…

00:36:06  |   Tue 19 Jul 2022
Ep 153: Greetings, Programs!

Ep 153: Greetings, Programs!

We're in! Let the hacking begin! Zero Cool and Acid Burn are on the job this week, as we blaze through the techno-sphere jumping servers, trashing routers, causing net damage and meat damage galore! …

00:28:16  |   Tue 12 Jul 2022
Ep 152: No Capes!!

Ep 152: No Capes!!

Kait is away, so Eric, Kiwi, and bP head off to discover the "Jersey Cape" this week! We're playing Cape May from Thunderworks Games. It was designed by Eric Mosso and published in 2021.

Post your co…

00:35:18  |   Tue 05 Jul 2022
Ep 151: OFF With their HEADS!

Ep 151: OFF With their HEADS!

"Who's been painting my roses red? WHO'S BEEN PAINTING MY ROSES RED?

Who dares to taint 

With vulgar paint

The royal flower bed?

For painting my roses red

Someone will lose his head."

Eric and his in…

00:30:06  |   Tue 28 Jun 2022
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