Above the Board with Josh and Phil

It's never too late to celebrate Christmas! That's why we released this episode late. In this Christmas special, we'll chat about our Christmas duds, favorite Christmas movies, and Christmas songs! We also get into La Brea, Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, literary classic Lord of the Flies, Marvel Snap, Pokémon Scarlet, mysterious Cryptids, and Gotham Knights!

We can't start playing Scout until we catch up on what we're geekin on! We talk about game show design and Cook at All Costs. Josh digs into the first few episodes of Last of Us and Philip gives a year cheap gamer review of the Halo Infinite campaign. Bethesda's Hi-Fi Rush deserves to be called a surprise hit! Netflix games are great, but who has the stomach for 12 Minutes? The Rig, is it scarier than Sam Smith on SNL? Can Will Trent be the next great procedural? Shout out to Everything Everywhere All at Once for the award nods! #cookatallcosts #lastofus #haloinfinite #hifirush #12minutes #therig #willtrent

Join us as we suddenly become circus leaders! Scout is a unique card game where the order of your hand is fixed! Listen as we tell you how great our shows are in the ladder-climbing game! Special appearance of Stromboli from Pinocchio!

For our Christmas Special, we came to play games and talk about sweaters! Join us as we play through the trick-taking and drafting game, Ugly Christmas Sweaters! We'll try to use trendy yarn and perfect fits to get some sweaters for Brainy Brian, Rosemary, Cousin Ramey, Auntie JoAnn, Nola's Grandpa, and Spoon (the hairless cat)! #uglychristmassweaters #boardgames #dads #dadsplayingboardgames

Sammy, Dan M.D., and Stephanie enter the house, but what haunts them? Is it the T-Virus? New music by KoRn? So many USB Cables in the junk room? Donald Glover parodying Tyler Perry? Chihuahuas?!?! Get above the board with us and our guest Nate! We also discuss the differences between 2nd and 3rd edition.

What's Nathan Townsend Geeking On? We get into it with our friend about Andor and what is a good Star Wars show? Is She-Hulk the show we expected? How come Nate is just now playing Breath of the Wild? How cool is Skyrim VR? Is Hellraiser just Jumanji for adults? Can Josh straighten out the Halloween time-lines? Talking about all this and more before we get into the board game!

As "Shadows Flicker Like Flame" and "River Surges in Sunlight", can we work with the Dahan to scare off the invaders? Let's play Spirit Island, but every time we generate fear, will pick a phobia we created! What does it mean to be afraid of love? Fast powers: Pigeons or Doves? Is Junkyard Surge safe for consumption? Are we afraid of Hocus Pocus witches?

Back from GenCon, we got a lot to Geek On! In our GenCon games rundown we talk about Escape from the Dark Sector, Dive, Surrealist Dinner Party, Fossil, Letter Jam, Dungeon Drop, Galaxy Trucker, The Hunger, Secret Hitler, Two Rooms and A Boom, Code Names Duet (Tournament), Magic the Gather Convention Boosters, and Star Wars Villainous! We also talk about how good Bullet Train is! Phil's been watching "People of Earth" while Josh has been watching House of the Dragon. We also talk a bit about She-Hulk and other MCU-ness.

Let's play "Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure"! As braggadocios thieves, we steal treasure from an old dragon. Can we make it out alive with the loot? We play like Love and Thunder, but who is who? Also, should you be collecting all those versions of Monopoly? Is putting in an 8-hour day of gaming different than work? Let us know if you like the new format!

Trying something new starting this week! Here's the stuff we're geeking on before we start playing Clank! We're geeking on Jurassic World, Thor: Love and Thunder, Moss, Ghost of Tsushima (or sashimi?), Alex Garland's "Men", Superman American Alien, Jordan Peele's "Nope", Dawncaster the mobile deckbuilding RPG, and more!

Thanks to our guest, Luke (@ohdemshorts), we had a wild episode! We play Superfight and chat about Dr Pepper and all the alternate versions & flavors, the delights of "Everything, Everywhere All at Once", Luke's passion for collecting Game Boy Color, whether you should trust people who like "Jurassic World: Dominion", and also how "Lightyear" is "Interstellar" for kids! Superfight is a rowdy game, so we also get on tangents about where Fred Durst is now, how ethical Mario is on his quest, Avi Arad's many talents, how wild TaleSpin was, and what might be next for the MCU! Here's the fights that take place in super fight... Round 1: Cheetah with a Baby in an Exoskeleton VS Rabid Pikachu in a Scuba Suit Round 2: Winner VS Mr Rogers with a Harpoon Gun Riding on Limp Bizkit Round 3: Winner VS Mario Brothers at 10 Stories Tall Locked in a Shark Cage Round 4: Winner VS Olympic Gymnast Wearing a Skip-It with Blades on it and is a Baby Round 5: Winner VS The Doctor with Super Strength and One Tiny Baby Arm Round 6: Winner VS Senior Citizen Bowling Team Driving a Tank with Their Hands Glued to Their Hips Round 7: Winner VS The Gargoyles and when They Get Knocked Down, They Get Up Again Wearing Sharpened Stilettos Round 8: Donald Trump Who Can Control Machines Armed with a Bow with Unlimited Arrows VS The Illuminati that can Control Gravity with a Living T-Rex Head on a Stick FINAL BATTLE ROYALE: Witch Made of Sand (That is a Hypnotist) VS Billionaire Playboy Who's Bottom Half is the Pope (with Super Endurance and is 100 Stories Tall) VS Darkwing Duck with Flaming Antlers (Armed with a Chainsaw)

"Kid's Say the Darndest Things"-vibes when we have our daughters (Sadie and Lucy) join us to bring you a Father's Day special episode!  We team up as Moon Knight, Daredevil, Electra, and Howard the Duck as the "Afternoon Hooligans" when we play "Marvel United!" The girls talk about some of their favorite games, Mario Odyssey and Animal Crossing. We also talk about the new "Chip N Dale" movie which is why Lucy sings the theme song constantly! After the kids run off to play Josh and Philip talk in detail about Dr Strange! Also, Josh tips Philip off to a show called "Outer Range." The kids all get a good laugh from the real name of friend of the show, thidrekrpogo (https://www.youtube.com/thidrekrpogo).

This episode we play Radlands, the dueling card game of the apocalypse! Which of course gets us chatting about what fuels our geek hearts! We discuss Morbius and coin the term "twilightian" while pondering the nature of the Marvel Multiverse. We talk about the Lost City and pitch a Channing Tatum and John Cena movie. Severance is good, but is it as good as John Woo's Ben Affleck flick, Paycheck? We wonder about the oddities of the Sonic universe while discussing the new film. Slumber and Ghost Rider are some new comics we discuss. Lego Star Wars really stands out before we get talking about the first two episodes of Moon Knight. Then you can hear us tasting Pepsi Nitro before we say goodbye.

In this episode we unlock our inner bird-enthusiast and play Wingspan! Which makes us think of a show about other animal enthusiasts, "Joe vs Carol". We also talk about the film version of "Uncharted" and what this means for Tom Holland's hotness. We let you know if Elden Ring is worth the hype and let you in on the comic series, "The 6th Gun". We share some old man stories before discussing "The Dropout" and "Triangle Strategy". Then we bring it home with our detailed review of "The Batman", but detour before we get home by talking about the Obi Wan trailer and dry heats.

This time we get into the re-release of the classic dungeon crawler, HeroQuest! Phil takes on the role of Zargon to defeat Josh's rag-tag band of heroes and we wonder about the complications of orc romance. Also there's a special guest appearance from Phil's dog, Spot! We also get into talking about Josh's latest indie-game dabblings, Conan comics and the great writer Kurt Busiek, the wild fun of Dying Light 2, the absurd fun of Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, Sifu's martial art dynasties, our hype for Moonknight gets us ranking Marvel shows, our final thoughts on Boba Fett and Josh's final thoughts on Peacemaker! What a show! We laughed, we lived, we killed a gargoyle. Thanks for listening!

On this episode we play the hit co-op game, Pandemic! It's more fun than living through one! So fun we had our first audience member chime into the chat! We also gab about the difference between a Euro and Ameritrash board game, wonder what's up with hibachis, get excited or what was the upcoming winter olympics, discuss the first half of peacemaker, keep it classy with bourbon and brandy, hype Saturday Morning All Star Hits, consider the trailer of Halo, give first thoughts on Pokemon Legends, and discover a shared love of musicals when reviewing Tick Tick Boom.

A little Christmas update and thoughts on parenting before we get above the board of "Plunder: A Pirate's Life"! We'll chat about "Spider-man: No Way Home", the virtue of spoilers, an in-depth review of "Metroid: Dread", remembrances of Battletech, Netflix original "Archive 81", and our feelings about the first three episodes of Boba Fett. Oh, and naturally, we'll talk about Pirates of the Carribbean, Hook, and the type of pirates we'd be!

We're back with another self-service pump to fuel your geek heart where we play Crash Octopus, the Super Flicking Game! We'll discuss how ghosts haunt castles, Dexter's return, Marvel's Hit Monkey, how the sausage is made when it comes to using microphones, pool-wear, how to describe a theme song (stay tuned to the end!), "yeah"-alternatives and affirmatives, La Brea's time tummy-aches, Loop Hero and the nature of liches, and an infinite amount of Halo-talk!

This time we play Marvel Villainous (including the Mischief & Malice expansion) while we talk about what fuels our geek hearts! We discuss the latest Halo, how to watch Hawkeye, review our Thanksgivings, how good Spider-Man No Way Home can be, the spookiness-level of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Encanto's example of how movies can make us cry, and more!

We play "Back to the Future: Dice through Time", the cooperative board game of fixing the time line heavily featuring punching Biff Tannen in the face! We discuss movies like "Dune" and "The Harder They Fall." We talk about shows like "Ted Lasso." We also provide you an on-ramp to how much we dislike "La Brea." We end up chatting about "Daybreak" and "Planet of the Apes" and all sorts of other fun stuff too!