Read this Sunday Game Night email a bit more nasal than usual

[Note: Last names have been redacted from the original emails]

From: Nathan
To: Game Friends

From WBEZ Seattle it’s This Friday Email, I’m Nathan B       .

If you ask most Americans about the last board game they played, you tend to get a lot of the same answers.

[Audio takes on a distinct recorded-in-public quality.]

“Uh… Monopoly?”

[Child speaking] “Candy Land.”

“… Clue, I guess.”

[Back in the studio now. Audio is notably crisper.]

For a lot of people that is the whole range of games they are aware of. But as you might expect, when you talk to enthusiasts you get very different answers. This week we bring you stories from inside this world—we talk to the people who keep track of upcoming board game releases and argue about their merits, who organize and host board game events week after week, Sunday at 5pm. Stay with us.

Act One. Fun Is A Four Letter Word. If you’re like me, you expect that the whole point of playing board games is to have fun, right? Well it turns out that in some corners of the internet, that would be a controversial statement.

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It’s This Friday Email, I’m Nathan B       . Each week on our program of course we choose a theme and bring you an overwrought email on that theme. This week: Sunday Game Night.

We’ve arrived at Act Two. Nacho Problem. What happens when one man tries to elevate a lowbrow snack food—a food so simple that, according to Wikipedia, you can make it with two ingredients in the microwave—and how this quest starts to affect other parts of his life in unexpected ways.

[…]

Well our program was produced today by me. Production help from Ira Glass. Our website, sundaygamenight.email. Thanks as always to our co-founder, Kaitlin M       , who is trying out this new fad diet which, I have to say, I could really get behind.

[Out of context audio plays.]
“As long as it’s made with tortilla chips and melted cheese, it’s fine.”

I’m Nathan B       . Back next week with more stories of This Friday Email.

From: Morgan
To: Game Friends

Long time listener, first time caller. Love the show. I heard recently that sometimes people bring carrots and broccoli to game nights instead of nachos. And that there’s always beer. I won’t be able to check out my local game night this week, but it sounds like a hoppin good time.