2 Asians 1 Board
2 Asians 1 Board is a board gaming podcast! We are Darren and Ryo, a couple of Asian guys who love playing board games! We talk about all aspects of the board gaming hobby other than reviews. There’s plenty of outlets out there for board game reviews, but if you enjoy in depth discussions about aspects of the hobby, from mechanics, to reasons to play or not, then this is your place!
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Monday Nov 24, 2025
Monday Nov 24, 2025
Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
It's after the World's biggest board game convention, Essen 2025, and we got a lot to catch-up on!
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Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Friday Sep 05, 2025
Friday Sep 05, 2025
Welcome back everyone to our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
We have decided to drop the seasons and just number episodes as we go! So this is episode 31. It's been a very busy summer, so we spend this episode catching up!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
Welcome back everyone! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 14. Ryo is BACK! So be ready for lots more gaming and regular episodes moving forward. Today we do some catching up again after move, and discuss INSERTS!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Monday May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
Welcome back everyone! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 13. Today we catch up on lots of games played as well as go over Ryo's new life changing decision....to buy a board game table!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Welcome back everyone! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 12. Today we talk about the YUGE elephant in the room.....TARIFFS. It's topical, it's important, it's potentially horrible for the board gaming industry. While we try to focus on more cheerful topics, this is too important and everywhere right now to ignore!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Welcome back everyone! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 11. Today we talk about the unboxing experience. Why is it so amazing? why are unboxing videos so popular?
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Welcome back everyone! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 10. Today we talk about game length. How long should a game be? is there a perfect length? when is a game too long?
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Welcome back everyone and HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2025! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 9. We get back to regular programming today, with an super interesting topic that is CORE to board gaming: strategy vs luck in board games. What do we mean by luck? is it good or bad for games? We delve into this in part 2!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Welcome back everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025! This is Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 8. We go over what gaming has been going down over the Christmas break, and also touch on some gaming things we are looking forward to in 2025!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of our bi-weekly board game podcast! We really appreciate all our listeners and followers! Please feel free to leave us comments or reviews and follow and subscribe! You are super welcome to suggest to us any topics you want us to talk about on the cast!
Follow us on instagram at 2Asians1Board, or email us at 2Asians1Board@gmail.com
This is Season 2 Episode 7. It's been 1 year since we started the podcast, and we wrap up this first big year of gaming! It has been so great to put out content for our followers and listeners, we really really appreciate everyone listening!
As always, thank you for following and listening, consider subscribing and leaving us a review!
Happy holidays from Ryo and myself!
Music: Iskarelyn, find him on Spotify!
Welcome to the podcast! Our cast focuses on many different aspects of the board game hobby. We range in topics from aspects of building games like themes and mechanics, all the way through to distribution, Kickstarter, and more. We want to give our listeners a thoughtful, thorough, fun and insightful show about a wide variety of topics to do with this wonderful hobby!