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Episode 309: Favorite Cozy Games or Katie Just Wants Jason To Show the Pictures and Dance Like a Monkey

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Episode 308: #Origins2026 Preview or Katie Is the Clear Star of the Show and Always Gets Recognized

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Episode 307: Games We Want or Need to Play But Haven't or Katie Gets Her Soapbox Out Once Again to Rail On Kickstarter

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Episode 306: The Game Moving Experience or Katie REALLY Loves Jason's New Lights

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Episode 305: Our Top 50 Games of All Time (24-1) or Katie Seems To Always Think That Jason’s List is Fake News

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Episode 304.25: Jason's Top 10 Knizia Games or Sometimes Talking About These Games Makes Us Want to Wear a Bowtie

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Episode 304: Our Top 50 Games of All Time (50-25) or Not Many Podcasts Have Multiple Hair and Wardrobe Changes During a Single Episode

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Episode 303.25: Jason Talks About Tennessee Gaming Weekend with Friends

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Episode 303: Great Games for Spooky Season or Katie Joins Jason on Camera!

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Episode 302: 2025 Spiel Essen Preview or Guess Who's Back...Back Again...Katie's Back, Tell a Friend

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Episode 301: Ranking BGG Top 100 Games Into Tiers or Jason Joins The Board Game Rundown for Episode 150

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Episode 300.85: Jason Talks About the Albums that Got Him Into Music

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Episode 300.80: Jason Ranks the Stonemaier Games Catalog

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Episode 300.75: Jason Talks About Games He Would Check Out at GenCon 2025 (If He Could Go)

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Episode 300.5: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (110-101)

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Episode 300: #Origins2025 Preview or This is One of Our Favorite Times of the Year (For Gaming)

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Episode 299: Our Favorite Games of All Time (10-1) or It Only Took Us Seven Months But We Have Finished the Countdown

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Episode 298: Our Favorite Games of All Time (20-11) or Katie Reaffirms Her Love of Martin Wallace and Spoils Her Number One Game of All Time

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Episode 297: Jason's Favorite What's Your Game? Games or He Really Likes To Say the Word So Instead of Just Pausing

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Episode 296: Our Favorite Games of All Time (30-21) or Katie's Secret Is That She Is Always Angry...Sometimes

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Episode 295: Jason Rants About Second Edition Bloat or New. Is. Not. Always. Better.

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Episode 294.75: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (120-111)

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Episode 294.5: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (130-121)

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Episode 294: Our Favorite Games of All Time (40-31) or Katie is Feeling Spicy and Hating EVERYTHING That Jason Has On His List

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Episode 293.2: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (140-131)

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Episode 293: Our Favorite Games of All Time (50-41) or Jason Deserves a Pile of Points for Being a Huge Feld Fan

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Episode 292.9: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (150-141)

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Episode 292.75: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (160-151)

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Episode 292.5: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (170-161)

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Episode 292: Our Favorite Games of 2024 or Jason is Sorry for Gaslighting Katie About Not Saying the Names of Two of the Games on Her List

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Episode 291: Our Favorite Games of All Time (60-51) or We Will Do Better the Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise

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Episode 290.5: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (180-171)

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Episode 290: Our Favorite Games of All Time (70-61) or We Are Hanging Out With Disney Characters When This Episode Drops

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Episode 289.5: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (190-181)

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Episode 289: Our Favorite Games of All Time (80-71) or Katie Decided To Switch Her Pitch Up Across a Spectrum of Righteousness

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Episode 288.5: Jason's Top 100 Beyond the 100 Games of All Time (200-191)

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Episode 288: Our Favorite Games of All Time (90-81) or We Have Nothing Witty for a Subtitle

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Episode 287: Our Favorite Games of All Time (100-91) or After All These Years Katie Is Still Surprised With Jason's Mediocrity

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Episode 286: Our Favorite Games Purchased at a Con or Christmas Came Early This Year Because Katie is Back!

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Episode 285: Games That Regained Their Shine or As an Apology That It Has Been Over a Month Since the Last Episode Jason Decided to Drop a Mini Episode

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Episode 284: GenCon 2024 Preview or Even Though This One Is Short Katie Still Could Barely Stay Awake

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Episode 283: Our Favorite Around the World Games or In the Caribbean of the Mediterranean All White Castles Look the Same

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Episode 282: #origins2024 Post Mortem or Never Mind the Patriotic Sound Assault That You May Hear In the Background It is Just Our Friend Cabanga

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Episode 281: #origins2024 Preview or Jason Can't Wait to See His Sensei Mr. Diaz at the Con for Some Game Recommendations

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Episode 280: Our Favorite Summer Themed Games or Katie Had No Business Recording This One Because She Was Basically Asleep

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Episode 279: Games with Unique Themes or Katie Can't Stop Admiring Jason's Cubicle Poop

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Episode 278.5: Five Reasons Why We Didn't Win A Golden Geek Award with The Board Game Rundown

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Episode 278: Our Favorite Hidden Gem Games or There is Lots of Potty Talk In This One...Lots

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Episode 277: Our Favorite Games of 2023 or The Boardgame Mechanics New Tagline is "Not Poopy and Pretty Okay"

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Episode 276: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (10-1) or Katie Gets Mad At Jason For Calling Downton Abbey Stupid

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Episode 275.5: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 5 or Next Time Jason Will Make a List...He Needs a List

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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

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Episode 274: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (35-21) or Katie Gets Confused About a Game and Starts Talking in Valley Girl

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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

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Episode 273: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (55-36) or It is Too Late For a Subtitle

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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

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Episode 271.5: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 3 or Jason Has Really Gotten This Multitasking Thing Down

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Episode 271: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (85-71) or We Can’t Stop Coughing So This One Is Weirder Than Usual

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Episode 270.7: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 2 or Jason Is Not Good at Pronouncing Words

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Episode 270.5: The 100 Outside the Top 100 pt. 1 or Jason Tries Out A New Video Software and Katie Is Not Impressed

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Episode 270: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (100-86) or Buckle In Because Katie Now Knows Numbers AND Words

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Episode 269.5: Jason’s Top 7 Weberson Santiago Illustrated Games or We Just Felt Like Dropping a Mini-Episode For You

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Episode 269: Games Our Younger Selves Would Have Loved or Katie Decides to Be a Buzzkill and Make This Episode a Sad One

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Episode 268: Gamer Burnout or Katie is Back and All is Right with the World

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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

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Episode 266: Still More Games Every Gamer Should Own or Katie the Potty Mouth Strikes Again

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Episode 265: GenCon 2023 Preview or Jason Messes Up the Rules For the Episode and Katie Busts His Chops About It

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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

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Episode 263: Origins 2023 Post Mortem or Jason Thinks He Is in the Movie Major League and Does His Best Marty the Announcer Impersonation

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Episode 262: Origins 2023 Preview or Maybe We Will See Steven Feld and Robert Knizia at the Con...Maybe

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Episode 261: BGM/BGR Con Recap or Katie Falls Asleep Halfway Through Recording Listening to Jason’s Dulcet Tones

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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

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Episode 259: Games Every Gamer Should Own or Katie Forgets How English Works Because of All the Weed Coming In Through the Window

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Episode 258: Our Favorite Rondel Games or Katie Wouldn’t Know a Rondel Game if She Was Swimming in Circles Through Concordia

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Episode 257: Our Favorite Social Deduction Games or No Matter What Other People May Think Blood On the Clocktower is Not On Our List

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Episode 256: Our Favorite Deduction Games or Katie Throws in Some Humble Brags About Being in a Sherberty Smart Kids Class

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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

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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

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Episode 253: Our Favorite Filler Card Games or Katie Interrupts Our Regularly Scheduled Programming to Get Out Her Soapbox About Western Southern Tigris Raiders

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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

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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

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Episode 250: Our Most Anticipated Expansions/Reprints of 2023 or Katie Calls Jason a Doofus and Hits Him Where No One Can See

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Episode 249: Our Most Anticipated Games of 2023 or Jason Got Bumped on the Head (Probably By Katie) and Was Talking Nonsense

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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

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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

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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

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Episode 245: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (40-31) or No Witty Subtitle For This One Just a Non-Witty Boring One

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Episode 244.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (145-135) Facebook Live Replay 12.26.22

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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

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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

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Episode 242.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (157-146) Facebook Live Replay 12.11.22

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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

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Episode 241.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of all Time (170-158) Facebook Live Replay 11.25.22

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Episode 241: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (70-61) or Jason’s Pyramid Hair Makes Katie Hungry for Thanksgiving Feast

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Episode 240.75: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (180-171) Facebook Live Replay 11.16.22

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Episode 240.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (190-181) Facebook Live Replay 11.09.22

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Episode 240: Our Top 100 Games of All Time (80-71) or Sometimes You Have to End An Episode With an ICP Sing Along

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Episode 239.5: Jason and Katie’s Favorite Games of All Time (200-191) Facebook Live Replay 11.04.22

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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

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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