This week, Linnea and Brian discuss the 2-player board game called Patchwork.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Happy New Year! This week, we talk about new year's resolutions.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We publish our show every Monday morning, and this year (2023) that happens to fall on Christmas Day. Our show this week features a few of our personal favorite memories, foods, and songs about the holiday.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Boy and the Heron is a 2023 animated feature from the legendary writer and director Hayao Miyazaki, and produced by Studio Ghibli. The movies tells the story of 12-year-old Mahito who, after moving to the country to escape Tokyo during the war, enters a mysterious tower at the behest of a strange talking heron.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Author Frederick Forsyth's novella The Shepherd was published in 1975, and has been read nearly every Christmas Eve by radio host Alan Maitland on the CBC radio show As It Happens since 1979.The Shepherd tells the story of an R.A.F. fighter pilot who encounters trouble while flying over the North Sea on Christmas Eve in the 1950s. As promised on the show, you can listen to the story on the CBC website.The story was recently adapted for live action, and can be found on the Disney+ streaming service.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The music streaming service Spotify is out with their yearly summary of each user's musical tastes and highlights. The feature, called Wrapped, is very popular, and is the talk of the lunch table on the show this week.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week we review a brand new word building game called Alphabet Stoop by game designer Charlie McCarron and Pops & Bejou Games. The game is for 2-5 players ages 6+.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Marvels is a superhero film that combines the forces of Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau, and Ms. Marvel. When the powers of the three heroes become entangled, they need to learn to work as a team to defeat the villainous Dar-Benn and her Kree army.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bananagrams is a word game that feels like a cross between Boggle and Scrabble. In the game, each player takes a number of letter tiles from a central group of 144, then arranges those tiles to form any number of connected words in a crossword-like shape. Once a player uses all their starting letters, they call "peel" and each player takes an additional letter to add to their growing maze of words. This process continues until all the tiles in the center are used. Race against your opponents to use all your letters first and win the game!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is a 16 episode animated series that premiered on the Disney Channel in February 2023, and was subsequently released on Disney+.The show follows the day-to-day adventures of 13 year old Lunella Lafayette, a whip-smart girl living in New York, who discovers a mysterious portal generator under her apartment. When she activates it, a giant red tyrannosaurus steps through, and becomes her trusty pal. With the help of Lunella's friend Casey, the two become the super-hero team Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy