Red Raccoon Radio

Jamie comes back mere hours from Origins to let us know who the big winners were from this year, as well as talks with John about management moves from Embracer and Darington Press, asmodee taking on Jamie's beloved Zombicide, and where you can pet cats and play games in Champaign.  

NITRO!!!! With only a limited amount of time, Jamie and John push the petal to the metal to deliver that same amount of content in half the time! But that doesn't mean they don't dive deep into who the game of the year award winners might be, talk more about the decline of CMON's catalog, and discuss how Origins may be making some headway into being a top tier convention!

Jamie and John talk about all the cool card games Jamie got a sneak preview of while also discussing CMON needing help, Baulder's Gate Mini's needing help, and ways that you can support a 3rd Vampire hunter D movie. 

Jamie and John talk about how people are already pulling out of Gencon and why, how Wizards could not be happier with their Final Fantasy magic set, and the Diamond Publishing drama continues. 

Jamie and John take all the new tariff news and condense it into a new segment so they can leave room for talking about Wizards's love of Final Fantasy, how Mensa passed out some awards, and how Gunpla influenced Overwatch.

John and Jamie talk with the person with purchasing power Alexis to talk about how the tariffs feel to the store

Jamie is back from vacation and him and John go over the news they missed...except that's days news because it's april 1st...

Hey Guys, life got in the way but we'll see you again in two weeks!

Jamie comes back from GAMA...and man what a ride...

Jamie and John look at Warhammer 40K news you can use (and some you can't), and then talk about how many TV shows and Movies are popping up in the geekery we all love. 

Jamie tricks John into messing up more Critical Role names as they talk about the big D&D news. 

John and Jamie talk about the latest trade show Jamie is hauling goodies from and how Diamond Distributing's bankruptcy may hurt many FLGS.

Jamie regals John with many of his travel (mis)adventures since christmas before talking about D&D coming to universal,  John tries his best to sell him on a new feature of the store, and discussing Catan's choice to change in it's 6th edition. 

John and Jamie spend their christmas cheer on making resolutions...for other people. 

If you love the click clacks, then you most likely have a set from Foam Brain Games. Andrew joins Jamie and John to talk about what makes his products so special, as well as what Elon is up to and how Warhammer on Amazon is green lit.

John and Jamie are back together again, talking about how Asmodee is looking to use their new influx of cash, Embracer not happy with LOTR, and dive a little deep into how the proposed tariffs will affect the board game industry. 

Jamie and Ariel sit down with James hut to talk about...cyberpunk and...other stuff. I don't know what they are talking about, I wasn't in this one so I'm excited to listen to it right along side you!

Brothers Sam and Ed Stockton of BA Games joins Jamie and John to talk about Marvel getting into Magic, the big winners out of the American TableTop Awards, and John finally finds a friend in Monsterpocalypse. 

Jamie and John sit down to talk about how the board game industry is still booming, what we should temper our expectations for Wizard's Store owner summit, and apparently we have some surprising new about Netflix's Magic the Gathering show. 

Joining Jamie and John today is Chris Sellers, the creator of one of our spiritual siblings, the RPG Raccoon Sky Pirates! While we talk to them about that fantastic game, how it got created, and what's they learned to create their next project Defy the Gods. While we have them, we also talk about Hasbro getting involved with the Commander Controversy and talk about Jamie's favorite cartoon coming...

Jamie and age shaming Ariel have John on as a guest to talk about how Hasbro is not going to give up on AI, we find out netflix is canning the Magic the Gathering show via Superman, and we take a bit of a deep dive into the new D&D book. 

Did you know Bloomington Normal has a rich history in board gaming? How about that ISU had a team dedicated to helping teachers create games in the 70's? Ever hear of Traveller, the first truly successful Sci fi RPG that could kill you before you even finished creating a character? Well after our amazing conversation with Marc Miller, one of the founders of the LEGENDARY Games Designers' Workshop!

Jamie and John do what white guys with a podcast do...talk about what they hate

Jamie and John are freshly back from GenCon and tell you all about the games that wow-ed them this year. 

John and Jamie sit down to talk about Wizard's new boss as well as them selling the new player's handbook early, then takes some time to appreciate Sky Team winning the Speil De Jahres.