The Mary and Amabel Show

Podcast by Amabel Holland & Mary Holland

Episode 6: Q&A

00:01 Introduction; 00:40 Whales; 01:50 Slander and fictitious rumor; 02:50 Bee death liability; 04:25 Anxiety about similarity; 07:00 Out-of-the-blue designers; 08:40 Shields & Swords Ancients; 09:50 Mary's next game; 10:40 Monster's question; 11:25 Kaiju Table Battles logistics; 14:30 "I've been told that I'm reasonably frivolous."

01-09
15:51

Episode 5: The Best Vegetable

00:01 Introduction; 00:40 "That's not fair"; 01:40 Wild parties; 03:25 Stuff Going On; 04:35 Amabel's brain is bleeding; 06:55 Holiday game errata; 09:55 Focus and concentration problems; 10:40 Kaiju Table Battles; 11:15 Endurance; 13:00 Big depressing games; 13:45 Send Us Questions; 14:30 The best vegetable.

12-25
16:24

Episode 4: Hollandays Part One

00:01 The Guatemalan Handshake; 01:00 "Is this going in the podcast?"; 01:25 Start of our sale; 02:10 "Real" companies; 03:25 "Monster doesn't really do anything"; 05:30 Sex vacation; 06:10 Stress; 07:15 Then and now; 08:35 Collaboration; 10:25 More solo games; 11:45 Midnight and one-thirty; 12:30 The Hannibal story; 14:45 Mary sings.

11-22
16:18

Episode 3: Pteranodon Ptravel

00:01 Introduction; 01:00 Horse & Musket V released; 02:40 The 2021 H&M Redux; 06:20 Ginormopod; 09:00 Dinosaur Gauge; 12:50 Different game design priorities; 14:20 Factory sub-system in Dino Gauge; 15:50 Airlines and building incentives; 17:55 A joke that doesn't work in an audio format.

10-10
20:34

Episode 2: Bottle Episode

00:01 Introduction; 00:15 Monsterfied; 00:35 The speed limit in Montana between the years 1995 and 1998; 02:05 On the car; 02:55 Tennessee trip; 04:00 Rope safety tips; 05:20 Siege of Mantua bits; 06:05 Trunk bottles; 07:40 "I don't think I'll be able to take a bottle just yet"; 08:25 Long car trips; 10:15 "You kind of like dinosaurs a little bit"; 10:40 Too much Ohio; 11:20 Mary's license plate game; 12:40 Designing games in the car.

09-03
15:13

Episode 1: Totally Our First Episode

00:01 Introduction; 00:15 Our first episode; 00:35 We changed our names; 01:50 What Mary wanted to be; 02:10 "We should do some exposition"; 03:00 A chicken word; 04:50 Horse & Musket V; 05:35 "That's not number seventy"; 05:50 Ginormopod 2050 A.D.: Attack of the Giant Bug Monsters; 07:45 Amabel loves bugs; 08:55 "Them!"; 10:40 Kaiju Table Battles; 11:20 New directions in Amabel's work; 12:00 "This is not true"; 13:20 Dinosaur Gauge.

08-15
14:52

Mary and Tom, Episode 121

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 “This time I’m going to edit it”; 00:35 Empire at Sunrise; 04:10 Pretty Soldier Sailor Holly; 05:45 Table Battles: The Grand Alliance; 06:30 “Monster, what are you doing?”; 07:00 Wood bits; 08:00 Specialty components.

01-25
12:07

Mary and Tom, Episode 120

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Questions and answers; 00:30 Dinosaur comment; 01:00 “It doesn’t say groat”; 02:40 Sci-fi games; 03:10 Pre-1800 games; 06:20 Three cup series; 06:55 “Dear Monster”; 07:30 Shot & Shell Battle Series; 10:05 Mary’s Picket; 11:55 Choo-choo games; 12:45 How are Tom and Mary; 12:55 “We’re not even small-big yet”; 14:05 “How are they going to breathe, Mary?”; 15:00 Expansions; 18:40 Cole Wehrle; 20:10 Give Mary a t-shirt or a button; 21:30 Centered.

01-11
23:04

Mary and Tom, Episode 119

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Mary is funnier than Tom; 01:10 “We had a sale, and we wrapped it up”; 01:30 Out-of-stock updates; 03:00 Christmas; 03:50 Friesday; 04:40 Empire at Sunrise; 06:20 Charles Ex-eye; 07:00 Table Battles: The Grand Alliance; 07:15 “Better not be late February”; 07:50 Going at our own pace; 10:00 Horse & Musket; 13:40 Tom’s games have a new developer; 14:35 Announcing Westward Rails and That Others May Live; 17:00 Endurance; 18:30 “Jesus wasn’t a dinosaur”; 19:00 Send us your questions.

01-04
20:25

Mary and Tom, Episode 118

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Sale aftermath; 00:35 “Hey, where’s my stuff?”; 01:05 “That’s a lot of work”; 02:40 Handling the stress better this year; 03:10 Delayed orders for Boom & Zoom and Wars of Marcus Aurelius; 04:50 Good triples and bad triples; 06:00 “You knew this when you married me”; 07:10 Out of stock games; 09:15 “This is pretty easy”; 11:30 “Why are you so anti-dinosaur?”

12-14
12:22

Mary and Tom, Episode 117

00:01 Programming note; 00:40 Introduction; 00:50 New computers; 01:40 Mary is noiseless; 02:05 Hectic weekend; 03:05 The sale; 04:40 Dual Gauge; 06:00 New bits order; 07:40 Photoshop; 09:10 Emails.

12-07
11:34

Mary And Tom, Episode 116

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Dinosaurs; 00:40 Squiglets; 02:55 Claws got in trouble a lot; 04:50 Hollandays Sale starts November 23; 05:25 Dual Gauge; 07:10 Comparing Dual Gauge and Soo Line; 08:15 Ratboy.

11-18
16:25

Mary And Tom, Episode 115

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 The Vote released; 00:30 "We sold a few billion"; 01:00 Sale coming November 23; 01:10 Tom has a bad idea; 01:40 Eye candy; 01:55 Wood bits; 03:00 Tom looks like her sister; 03:40 Technical difficulties; 04:05 Huge card order; 04:40 Mary is very talented; 05:05 "Tom forgot how to shave"; 07:10 Tim Taylor.

11-10
11:29

Mary And Tom, Episode 114

00:01 Introduction; 00:15 New Releases; 01:00 Our mustard years; 03:50 Cards and cash-flow; 04:20 Flooding in the basement; 08:00 Bagging wood bits; 08:40 The Vote sample game video; 11:00 Editing styles.

10-26
12:54

Mary And Tom, Episode 113

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 We have returned; 00:20 White Eagle Defiant released; 01:00 Adventures; 01:40 Four squirrels, plus a chipmunk; 02:40 Lefty; 03:50 "Everybody should play Dino TB"; 04:55 Dino TB expansion; 05:40 Holly the Hollandspiele spokesdinosaur; 06:40 Tiny baby ships; 10:40 Ugly, unhappy fish; 11:30 Mary's dad's boat; 12:20 Mary's dad's car; 12:55 "I'm taller than you are".

09-14
14:04

Mary And Tom, Episode 112

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Stilicho released; 01:25 Four years of our nonsense; 05:20 Charles S. Roberts nominees; 05:50 White Eagle Defiant; 06:45 Iberian Gauge licensed by Capstone; 07:50 Following directors; 09:50 Dual Gauge; 11:00 Dinosaur Gauge.

08-17
13:06

Mary And Tom, Episode 111

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Mary rescues caterpillars; 01:40 Holes; 03:45 Upcoming releases; 04:50 Christmas sales; 05:20 Mary's mom's shop; 06:00 Fast food jobs; 08:35 The Saga of Mary's Frosty; 09:20 Gift cards for Appleby's; 10:05 Grand opening; 12:20 Buffets; 13:35 Garbage City; 15:10 "Get out of my driveway".

08-03
16:44

Mary And Tom, Episode 110

00:00 Introduction; 00:15 Horse & Musket plans; 01:00 Final, final, final rewrite of the core rulebook; 01:35 Yes, we are actually going to call it "Because Mary Demanded It"; 02:30 Releases for 2019; 03:10 Tom's radar; 03:25 Dinosaur-themed 18xx; 04:50 Systems versus standalones; 07:25 Long deferred projects; 08:35 It is not shtick; 09:05 Playtesting; 09:30 Hobbies and distractions; 09:50 Character assassination; 10:25 Pontifacts; 11:30 Travis, get with it; 11:55 Tabletop Simulator and Vassal; 12:30 Double oven adventures; 13:25 Movies; 14:30 Hardest games to dino-ify; 15:05 "What all people would have done"; 15:45 Europe; 16:40 Games for three-plus; 17:00 Nicaea; 19:20 "That's not what it says".

07-21
19:53

Mary And Tom, Episode 109

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "Stay out of our house, guy from Police Academy"; 00:45 Business strategy; 01:35 "Between now and the heat death of the universe"; 03:20 "You just want more dinosaurs"; 05:05 Stilicho, Last of the Romans; 06:35 The door; 07:50 "Moses wore a bowtie"; 08:30 Call for questions.

07-13
10:14

Mary And Tom Episode 108

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "You love me so much, you gave me twice as many ovens"; 00:25 "That's the one that cracked you up?"; 01:30 The old oven; 04:05 We're frugal people; 06:10 "Stop that"; 07:00 Totally okay if you buy some games from us; 08:15 The Field of the Cloth of Gold; 10:00 Flexibility; 11:50 "Buy a second one, she will not mind".

06-30
12:07

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