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It’s the Christmas 2025 episode, and true to form, we’re throwing the script straight out the window 🎄 I’m Joel, joined by Nick and Lewis, while Sam wrestles with a serious case of board-gaming winter blues. This festive, free-wheeling episode drifts from big hobby news — W. Eric Martin leaving BGG, Ark Nova climbing to #2, new expansions, reprints anxiety, and the Fox & Hounds 2026 weekend — into relaxed year-in-review ramblings covering the TV, films, books, podcasts, Video games and other pop culture that defined our year, and absolutely no plan…

Going Off Script

Search your feelings, you know it to be true…: there is no script.

News

• W. Eric Martin is leaving BGG & starting an independent board game news site (launching in Feb 2026)
• Tag Team expansion announced
• Ark Nova becomes #2 on BGG
• Is this the end of reprints?
• Fox & Hounds March ‘26 boardgaming weekend

Other Ramblings

• Some Year-in-Reviews

TV Shows, Movies, Video Games, Books & Podcasts

Lewis:

• TV:
  • Star Trek: TNG
  • Yellowstone
  • Silo
  • Marty Supreme
  • Scrubs (new series)
• Films:
  • F1: The Movie
• Books:
  • 1984
  • The Age of Diagnosis

Nick:

• TV:
  • Alien: Earth (season 1)
  • Wednesday (season 2)
  • Only Murders in the Building (season 5)
  • Inspector George Gently
  • Stranger Things (season 5 first half)
• Podcasts:
  • Cyber Hack
  • Tony Robinson’s Cunning Cast

Joel:

• TV:
  • Slow Horses
  • Peacemaker
  • Fallout (season 2)
  • Upload (season 4)
  • Severance
  • The Pitt (looking forward to it)
• Films:
  • Mission Impossible films
• Books:
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl
  • The Psychopath Inside, Professor James Fallon
  • My Parent the Peacock: Discovery and Recovery from Narcissistic Parenting
• Video games:
  • A Game About Digging A Hole
  • Supermarket Simulator
  • Roadcraft
  • Expedition 33
  • Marvel Snap. Still! 😀

Ways you can engage or contact the show

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