2 Asians 1 Board

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   Today's episode was requested by one of our listeners, and thats a review of Speakeasy by Vital Lacerda and to revisit our previous rankings with the new game in there!  We don't want to disappoint so this episode we cover a fulsome review of Speakeasy and re-rank all 10 big box Lacerda games! Other games covered on today's episode include SETI expansion Space Agencies, Spirit Island, and Bomb Busters!   As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   Happy New year!  Today's episode is a Christmas gaming catchup episode!   As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   It's after the World's biggest board game convention, Essen 2025, and we got a lot to catch-up on!   As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   We have decided to drop the seasons and just number episodes as we go! So this is episode 31.  It's been a very busy summer, so we spend this episode catching up!   As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone!  This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 14.  Ryo is BACK! So be ready for lots more gaming and regular episodes moving forward.  Today we do some catching up again after move, and discuss INSERTS!   As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone!  This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 13.  Today we catch up on lots of games played as well as go over Ryo's new life changing decision....to buy a board game table!   As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone!  This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 12.  Today we talk about the YUGE elephant in the room.....TARIFFS.   It's topical, it's important, it's potentially horrible for the board gaming industry.  While we try to focus on more cheerful topics, this is too important and everywhere right now to ignore!   As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone!  This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 11.  Today we talk about the unboxing experience.  Why is it so amazing? why are unboxing videos so popular? As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone!  This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 10.  Today we talk about game length.  How long should a game be? is there a perfect length? when is a game too long? As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone and HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2025!  This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 9.  We get back to regular programming today, with an super interesting topic that is CORE to board gaming:  strategy vs luck in board games.  What do we mean by luck? is it good or bad for games? We delve into this in part 2! As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!  This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 8.  We go over what gaming has been going down over the Christmas break, and also touch on some gaming things we are looking forward to in 2025! As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 7.  It's been 1 year since we started the podcast, and we wrap up this first big year of gaming!  It has been so great to put out content for our followers and listeners, we really really appreciate everyone listening! As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Happy holidays from Ryo and myself!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 6.  Ryo has been away in Asia for the past month, and we finally managed to arrange our schedules to have a big trans-planetary catch-up! As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 5.  With Ryo heading to Japan, things have been quite busy over here, but Darren's had plenty of time to play lots of games, so this episode is a simple catch-up on games played! As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 4. We have a special guest for this episode, Ryo's wife Camilla!  We will be talking all about an important topic in board gaming - Analysis Paralysis!  As our resident AP-expert, Camilla will be giving us some personal insights into this "paralyzing" aspect of playing complicated board games.  It's a super great episode so be sure to listen! As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 3. We talk about Virtual Gaming, playing board games online! This is something that has really exploded during the pandemic and become a major part of the hobby.  We discuss the history of it, the major online platforms, and pros and cons of enjoying your hobby online!  Enjoy!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This is Season 2 Episode 2. We talk about something that is super key to enjoyment of the hobby:  player count!  What games work best at what player counts? Is there a "BEST" player count?  Enjoy!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This episode is the premier of Season 2, and it's a monster episode!  We talk a lot about recent games played, and take a deep dive into Kickstarter and crowdfunding.  Enjoy!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This episode is the final episode of Season 1, and we do a quick Season 1 wrap-up!   This episode is a bit of a monster, since we have our first big game review to talk about! Enjoy and see you VERY soon for Season 2!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This episode is the final installment of 4 parts, focused on our favourite game designer, Vital Lacerda!  Today we will wrap up the series by going through our personal rankings his 9 big games!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This episode is the third of 4 parts, focused on our favourite game designer, Vital Lacerda!  We split his big box games into 4 batches, and today we'll be  going through his next three games: Kanban EV, Weather Machine, and Inventions: Evolution of Ideas!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This episode is the second of 4 parts, focused on our favourite game designer, Vital Lacerda!  We split his big box games into 4 batches, and today we'll be  going through his next three games: Lisboa, Escape Plan, and On Mars!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com   This episode is the first of 4 parts, focused on our favourite game designer, Vital Lacerda!  We split his big box games into 4 batches, and today we'll be introducing him as a designer and going through his first three games: Vinhos, CO2, and The Gallerist!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com On today's episode, we talk all about selling your games back to the masses!  Why would you do that? How best to do it, resources for selling games, and everything else!  Be a part of your local board game economy!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com On today's episode, we talk all about playing board games WITH kids (not board games FOR kids).  We talk about how to get your kids into gaming, what age to start at, and some recommendations for games!  There's no reason why the whole family can't enjoy this amazing hobby!   Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com On today's episode, we talk all about our favourite type of game, HEAVY games.  We talk about why we love these kinds of games so much, how to get into them, and some of our favourite ones!     Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe!   On today's episode, we talk all about that website at the centre of all board game-dom:  boardgamegeek.com.  BGG is the internet mecca for the board game hobby, it is the google of board games, it is the wikipedia of board games, all rolled into one massive website.     Instagram: 2asians1board Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  We really appreciate all our listeners and followers!  Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe!   On today's episode, we dive into one of the funnest and most addictive aspects of the board game hobby - COLLECTING!  We'll talk about why one would collect card board so obsessively.....and what are some of the advantages and disadvantages and barriers!   Instagram: 2asians1board Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  On today's episode, we dive into a super important topic that will ensure your longevity in this amazing hobby!  What are some of the factors that might stop you or someone else from entering, enjoying, and staying in the hobby?  This is what we'll be discussing: the Enemies of Board Gaming.   Instagram: 2asians1board Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  On today's episode, we dive into maybe one of the most interesting aspects of board games - THEMES!  We talk all about themes, how themes might integrate into mechanics, and the themes we love and hate.   Instagram: 2asians1board Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  This is actually the first episode we recorded after Christmas, so we present to you our 2023 holiday wrap-up!  We also talk about our plans for 2024.   Instagram: 2asians1board Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  In this episode we talk all about board game mechanics, which ones we love and hate and generally about how board games work!   If you like what you hear, please feel free to follow, subscribe and leave us comments and questions and reviews!  Instagram: 2asians1board Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast!  This is our second episode and it seemed a great time to talk about why YOU should be into board gaming!  We go over some of the pros and cons of the hobby and things we like and dislike.  If you like what you hear, please feel free to follow, subscribe and leave us comments and questions and reviews!  Instagram: 2asians1board Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!

Welcome everyone to our new bi-weekly board game podcast!  This is our pilot episode where we introduce ourselves, our backgrounds in the board gaming hobby, and our hopes and dreams for the podcast!  If you like what you hear, please feel free to follow and subscribe and leave us comments and questions and reviews! Comments and reviews really help more people find us! Instagram: 2asians1board Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!