A group of friends merge their love of board games and movies into a single podcast. Every episode we'll discuss the games we've been playing, the movies we've been watching, and a featured topic of movies, board games, or a merging of the two!
Join Jash, Kyle, Kenny, and Max for another episode of Marvel Marvels. This time on MARVEL v Marvels, we've got two movies that feel more relatable now than perhaps ever before. Her and The Avengers: Age of Ultron, movies that focus on artificial intelligence, years before they ever materialized in such a way. Which of these captures the current feeling best? Which is the better movie? —————
Kyle and Kenny are back to discuss their top 50 board games of all time! But wait- there's more! Joining them, is P-Dog, the man himself, Patrick. What chaos will he bring to the list? This is 50-41 of the Top 50 Board Games of All Time, 2026 edition! —————
Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny, as we chat about the 26 best games and movies of 2026, whether those released this year, or those we encountered for the first time this year. This is our '26 for 26' show! What are the best board games and movies you've played or seen this year? —————
Join Max, Kyle, and Doolin as we rank our 16 plays from Origins 2026! Before that, we chat food, broken ribs, ping pong, and the joys of Columbus, Ohio! Then, we get into the rankings! See where these games ended up for us! Alhambra Altera Brian BoruBurning Banners Coloretto Dune: War for Arrakis Eternal DecksEthnosFirst In Flight Let's Go To Japan Nanty Narking On Mars Randy Nash's Tumblin Dice Rumble Nation Spooktacular Zombie Princess—————
Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny as we draft, and trap, our way through the very best Summer Blockbusters of ALL TIME! Will anyone make it out scot free? Will someone cry? Only one way to find out. —————
Worker placement games are a STAPLE in board gaming. To celebrate 200 episodes, Max, Kyle, Kenny, and Doolin are drafting the best worker placement board games... with a catch. —————
Kyle and Max chat about Altera, Mandalorian and Grogu, Crash, Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie, and more! Then, we discuss our brackets. How they're going and where they're headed. —————
Reggie from Rolling_Reggie and The Board States joins Max, Kyle, and Kenny to discuss a bunch of people in desperate need of therapy! We've got Magnolia v. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in the next episode of our MARVEL v Marvels series! —————
Join Max and Kenny as we react and rebuild the 2025 BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Awards! What would we pick as our winners? https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3696572/20th-annual-golden-geek-awards-nominees-announced/page/1—————
Join Kyle and Kenny as they peruse the BGG Hotness and answer one simple question... Is it HOT? Or is it NOT?—————
May the Sixth Be With You! Join Kenny, Kyle, Doolin, and Zach Brooks (The Movie Ladder Podcast) as we discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi- and why it's great! This is one side of our The Last Jedi series, where one episode talks about why it stinks, and the other sings it's praises. Which side are you on?—————
May the Fourth Be With You! Join Max, Jash, and Austin Harrison (IV Studios) as we discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi- and why it's terrible! This is one side of our The Last Jedi series, where one episode talks about why it stinks, and the other sings it's praises. Which side are you on?—————
Always Be Culling! Culling is a part of the hobby, it's a part of collecting! But, sometimes we make mistakes, and sometimes great games get culled. Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny as we draft from a pool of our previously culled games. Who leaves with the best list? —————
What is perfection? Is perfect always good? What about the messy and imperfect? Join Max, Kenny, and Kyle as we chat about perfection in board games, and the top 10 imperfect / messy board games. —————
Baseball is BACK! Join Kyle, Kenny, and friend of the show Ish as we chat about The Natural, Little Big League, Board Games, and Hypotheticals! Nominate Board Game Box Office for the Golden Geek Awards! https://boardgamegeek.com/goldengeek—————
Ohana Movie Club is evolving, but before we get to the new era, we need to tier list and pick a winner for the past 35+ movies! All kinds of movies, all sorts of genres, some great, some terrible. Max is sick, and antagonistic, and all sorts of shenanigans occur. —————
10+ plays in as many hours! Max, Kyle, Kenny, Doolin, Jash, and Patrick got together for a board game weekend and hangout! We played Puerto Rico 1897: Special Edition, Pies, 3 Witches, Veiled Fate, Bus, Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon, and Magical Athlete! Hear Max, Doolin, and Kenny chat about these games, disgusting hypotheticals, all sorts of random things, and the movies we've been watching lately! —————
It's bracket season, baby! March Madness is well underway, so this time Max, Kyle, and Kenny are doing our "Mid-major" bracket! MAJOR games that we think are kinda mid! See which moves on to be the ultimate Mid-major as we work our way through 32 games using the patent pending h**l cards, and silly prompts for each matchup. Join the Discord and let us know your biggest "mid-major" hot take! —————
Join Max, Kyle, Kenny, and Doolin of the Tablenauts crew as we figure out our collective top 50 movies of ALL time in a fun structure we stole from Board Game Barrage! How is our list? Before that, Kyle gives us a Survivor themed board game auction. —————
Join the Tablenauts team and special guest Grace Leeder (The Tastemakers, Crying Laughing, RHAP, Parade) as we chat about 3 of the 10 Oscar Academy Award Best Picture Nominees! Max, Kyle, Kenny, and Grace are here to give our thoughts on Sentimental Value, Hamnet, and The Secret Agent! Which of these is most worthy of a best picture nominee? —————https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crying-laughing/id1643941016https://parade.com/author/grace-leederhttps://letterboxd.com/goforgrace/https://robhasawebsite.com/shows/rhap-we-know-scripted-tv/the-tastemakers/—————
Yeah, I'd solo that! Join Max, Kenny, and Kyle for a special board game bracket! This time, we're talking solo games in a bit of an unhinged bracket format. Which game will be crowned the very best solo board game? —————
Join the Tablenauts team and special guest Zach Brooks (Movie Ladder Podcast) as we chat about 3 of the 10 Oscar Academy Award Best Picture Nominees! Max, Kyle, Kenny, and Zach are here to give our thoughts on Train Dreams, Marty Supreme, and Frankenstein! Which of these is most worthy of a best picture nominee? —————The Movie Ladder Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1slYU04U2OxnAGexsy28VH—————
Join the Tablenauts team as we chat about 4 of the 10 Oscar Academy Award Best Picture Nominees! Max, Doolin, Kyle, and Kenny are here to give our thoughts on One Battle After Another, Sinners, Bugonia, and F!1! —————
What are the best games, movies, and... records? to start a collection with- but there's a twist! Not only are we limited to 2020 and beyond (well, kiiiinda), but there's potential for picks to be null and void when our remote guests submit their own selections. Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny, as we chat about the best games, movies, and records of 2020 and beyond! —————
~18 plays in as many hours! Max, Kyle, Kenny, Doolin, and Ish got together for a board game convention weekend at River City Con-- well... kinda. With an impending snow storm and no real need for convention spaces, we cut the con short and hammered out an all day game day to play as many things as we could! Marvel Zombies, trick taking games, baby games, Cthulhu: Dark Providence, and more! —————
Today we're getting hypothetical! Rather than the usual one question we pose a week, this episode is all hypothetical questions! Join Max, Kenny, and Kyle as we ask the important questions like, baseball or robert pattinson, and the age old "would you stick all the Catan pieces ---------------" well, you get the point. —————
Join Max, Kyle, Kenny, and Doolin as we give each other resolutions for 2026- games to play and movies to watch. Can we complete the challenge throughout the year or will we fall short of success? What's a game and movie you want to resolve yourself to watching and playing in 2026? —————
On this episode we're drafting the best board games and movies of 2016! Deserted Island, shitpost reviews, small boxes, and more! Join Max, Kyle, Kenny, and Doolin as we make our way through 2016 drafting and discussing the best, and occasionally the worst, of the respective year. —————
Join Max, Kenny, and sometimes Kyle to discuss our Top 10 of 2025! What, exactly? Anything! Games, movies, experiences, hobbies, and more. Join the Discord to chat with us and let us know YOUR top 10 of 2025! —————
Join Max, Kyle, Doolin, and Kenny as we book an overnight stay at the Overlook Hotel. We dive into Stanley Kubrik's The Shining before detouring to Room 237 and closing out the episode with a sequel many years in the making, Doctor Sleep. Join the Discord to chat with us, and our community, even more! —————
Join Max, Kyle, Doolin, and Kenny as we continue with a Tablenauts / Board Game Box Office tradition- gift giving! Who will be crowned 2026's best gift giver? Join the Discord to chat with us, and our community, even more! —————
Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny as we discuss our 2025 gift guide! Kenny took a pool of games suggested by other content creators and made a totally normal board game gift guide bracket for Kyle and I to work through! What do you think about who got what game? Join the Discord to chat with us, and our community, even more! —————
Join Max, Kenny, Kyle, and Reggie to discuss our latest MARVEL v Marvels, Guardians of the Galaxy vs. Boogie Nights. What thematic tie ins can we find, and, more importantly, which movie will be crowned champion of our MARVEL Marvels? Join the Discord to chat with us, and our community, even more! —————
2026 is near and we are creating a new challenge! The 20x5 is concluding and now we're looking ahead to a board game bracket. Max, Doolin, Kenny, and Patrick choose 8 games each to compete in a board game bracket, ala march madness! Which games will move on, which games will fall. Cinderella stories? Only one way to find out! Listen to today's episode to see which games make the bracket! Join the Discord to chat with us, and our community, even more! —————
2026 is upon us and the end of our 2025 board game challenge is fast approaching! Join Max, Doolin, Kenny, and Patrick as we discuss our progress in the 20x5 challenge! Hear what we've liked, disliked, our progress, and so much more. Join the Discord to chat with us, and our community, even more! —————
Join newlyweds Kyle & Max as they face other newlyweds Amber and Kenny in a horror themed Newlywed game! Who knows who best? Beyond that, we chat about some of 2025's best and worst with special guest, Amber!Join the Discord to chat with us, and our community, even more! —————
We watch a lot of movies BUT we also play a lot of board games! Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny as we chat about the board games we've been playing in the month of October! From Magical Athlete and Hot Streak to Anachrony and our 20x5 challenge, come here what we think of these games! Join the Discord to chat with us, and our community, even more! —————
From blood soaked gymnasium's to rain soaked villages, join Max, Kenny, Kyle, and Doolin as we dive in and review Carrie (1976) & The Wailing (2016). —————
Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak is gothic through and through-- but, is it horror, and is it any good? Or what about Exhuma, a movie about excavating graves and feng shui? Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny as we discuss these two picks for horror month! —————
Is Cthulhu: Death May Die one of the greatest horror board games of all time? Join Max, Kenny, and Kyle, as we do a deep dive review on Cthulhu: Death May Die! Before that, Kyle tries to embarrass us with basketball teams and X-Men. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/253344/cthulhu-death-may-dieJoin the Discord and let us know if you liked this full review! —————
Max, Kyle, and Kenny are joined by founder and producer of The Secret Cabal podcast, Jamie Keagy! For this special spooky episode Jamie hand selected 2025's Weapons and 1982's Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Before that, we toss a couple hypotheticals and interview questions Jamie's way! —————
The BGBO crew tries out TV! Join Kyle, Kenny, Max, and special guest Maki as we discuss Alien: Earth! Before that, we talk about the board games we've been playing, and our preferred death in the Alien Cinematic Universe. —————
Many people write thoughtful and insightful reviews. The others post on Letterboxd. Join us for a Letterboxd shitpost review game with Jamie from Foster The Meeple! https://www.youtube.com/c/fosterthemeeple—————
What board games have we been playing? Kyle, Kenny, Max, & Doolin get together to discuss theboard games we've been playing lately! Nemesis: Retaliation, Forestry, Honors End, Terrorscape Season 2, and Inferno! What worked, what didn't, and more importantly, who killed Kenny? —————
How well do we know ourselves? Kenny pits Kyle, Doolin, and Max against each other in a trivia battle of our favorite things! What's on the line? A new movie pick for spooky month. Can Kyle finally get a win?—————
It's a Chris Evans special! Join Max, Kyle, and Jash for our reviews and discussions of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer! We talk physical media, The Last Jedi, Wonkapiercer, and much more! —————
Keep, Cull, Kill? Board games, movies, and quarter sized sheet pans! Max, Kyle, and Kenny are back with another episode of Keep Cull Kill where we play a game with some stakes! Winner picks another horror movie for us to watch in the month of October. Listen and play along! —————
What have been the best board games of 2025 so far? We discuss our top 3 board games, most disappointing, and most anticipated of 2025. Join the Discord and let us know what YOURS are! —————
Movies, Games, and Snacks- OH MY! Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny as we draft a double* feature of board games, movies, and snacks in this HORRIFYING episode. We've each trapped a number of selections and whoever survives the episode gets to pick a movie for our fellow hosts to watch during Horror month. Who will be our Jamie Lee Curtis? *Well, sorta. —————
Is Thor: The Dark World the WORST Marvel movie? Does it stand a chance against cult classic Ichi The Killer? Join Max, Kyle, and Kenny as we discuss and review Ichi The Killer & Thor: The Dark World before deciding which movie moves on in our MARVEL Marvels series.—————
Join Max, Kyle, Kenny, and Doolin as we play a Kenny creation! Kenny made a game with our friends by asking them to rank 4 things- games, movies, Disney rides, all sorts of things! Then, it's up to us to see if we can get the rankings right... there's a twist too. shhhhhhh—————
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