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 &amp; 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."

Episode 6: Q&A

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.

Episode 5: The Best Vegetable

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.

Episode 4: Hollandays Part One

00:01 Introduction; 01:00 Horse &amp; Musket V released; 02:40 The 2021 H&amp;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.

Episode 3: Pteranodon Ptravel

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.

Episode 2: Bottle 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 &amp; 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.

Episode 1: Totally Our First Episode

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.

Mary and Tom, Episode 121

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 &amp; 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.

Mary and Tom, Episode 120

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 &amp; 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.

Mary and Tom, Episode 119

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 &amp; 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?”

Mary and Tom, Episode 118

Podcast by Amabel Holland &amp; Mary Holland

Great way to get updates from an indie publisher. More publishers should do this. Thanks for uploading the old episodes!

Informative & Fun

Not your usual gaming podcast !      A very relaxing listen.

The best gaming podcast you had never listened to..

The Mary and Amabel Show

00:01 Introduction; 00:06 Weeklyish; 00:47 Special Surprise Guest Host the amazing Claws; 00:56 Lost Provinces; 02:00 Traditional hex-and-counter games; 03:15 Tom is excited about everything; 04:00 Long tails and short windows; 04:55 Upticks; 06:05 Drivers of sales; 07:20 Increased interest in Tom's weirdness; 09:20 Not another dinosaur episode Mary; 09:35 We have the best fans; 10:50 Upgrades sale ends July 31; 11:40 Canvas maps.

Mary And Tom, Episode 52

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Sale update; 00:40 Table Battles bits saga, continued; 03:20 We're fans of the United States Postal Service; 04:40 Mary ordered the snow; 05:35 The snow plow's vendetta against our driveway; 07:45 They don't plow in Detroit; 09:30 Supply Lines of the American Revolution: The Southern Strategy.

Mary And Tom Episode 34

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Top Secret Tabletop RPG; 01:00 "Why did you do this to us?"; 02:00 Mary enjoys breaking things; 02:15 Mary chooses a real-world profession; 03:30 Black pajamas all around; 04:00 Hudson Hawk; 06:20 Monster is also a big sci-fi fan; 07:10 2d6 roll probabilities and target numbers; 09:10 Werewolves who smoke; 09:40 But Mary; 10:05 Publishing science fiction games; 10:04 Announcing Fred Manzo's Escape From Hades; 12:20 Hood's Last Gamble; 12:25 Great Heathen Army.

Mary And Tom, Episode 42

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Two year anniversary; 00:25 Then and now; 00:50 "Generally, you're not annoying"; 01:05 Finding our niche; 02:30 Mary's psychotic powers; 03:15 Mary's the one with the numbers; 04:25 The old podcasts are back up; 06:40 Ten or eleven hours; 06:55 Gulp-gulp-gulp; 07:15 The hotness; 08:15 Northern Pacific; 09:05 California wildfires; 11:30 This Guilty Land; 14:30 Thank you.

Mary And Tom, Episode 53

00:01 Introduction; 00:08 Lost Provinces released; 00:35 A joke that didn't land; 01:45 John Candy; 02:45 Upgrades available until July 31; 03:45 Dinosaurs; 05:30 A dark place; 05:45 Trains in New England; 06:20 The Soo Line; 06:45 Dinosaurs; 07:00 Don Pteranodon; 07:30 Poor fish; 08:25 Dinosaurs; 08:45 Sold out showings; 09:50 Speaking of dinosaurs; 10:10 Sam Neil's Vineyard; 11:00 Watching all sixteen Andy Hardy movies; 11:20 Dinosaurs.

Mary And Tom, Episode 51

00:00 Introduction; 00:45 Ukrainian Crisis &amp; The Little War; 02:05 Unhappy Mail Lady; 03:25 German vs. Domestic Wood Bits; 05:20 Romans with Zero Noses; 06:54 Reasonably Smart and Cool on Average; 07:45 Horse &amp; Musket; 09:22 Tom Can't Pronounce Jalapeno; 10:45 Pricing and Marketability for Obscure Battles; 14:15 Tom Gets Into Trouble.

Mary And Tom, Episode 1 (repost)

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Dinosaur-free Christmas special; 00:55 "Is celebration the word?"; 01:15 Small people punching everybody; 01:55 "I was a weird kid"; 02:20 Birthday knife fight; 03:15 "Has my sister been arrested?"; 03:50 Busting up a poker game; 04:30 Babies are hideous and ugly; 05:00 Our nephew, Volkswagen Russell; 06:00 Westphalia; 07:00 Mary saves the day a lot; 07:30 RIW Hobbies and their old U of M sale; 08:35 The other Agricola; 09:10 Destructive and constructive play; 12:30 Westphalia's victory conditions; 13:25 Hundreds of normal games.

Mary And Tom Episode 65

00:01 Introduction; 00:06 It's been very hot; 00:30 Mystery of the Missing AC Unit; 01:00 Effects of heat on productivity; 02:13 Mary says something gross; 02:50 The summer with no AC in the car; 03:31 RIP, Mary's car, 2001-2016; 04:04 Meet-cute; 04:35 Working at a library; 06:10 No reading in the library; 06:58 On being a manager; 08:40 Comparing development to management; 09:08 Mary is super-cool; 09:34 Tom gets mushy; 09:50 Remembering Tom and Mary's first date.

Mary And Tom, Episode 18 (repost)

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Hollandays Sale update; 01:20 "Out of stock"; 01:50 Cold hands and feet; 02:15 Tom's terrible back; 03:00 Mary runs over Tom's foot with the car (twice); 03:20 Dinosaur-toed; 03:50 "The first of many games with dinosaurs"; 04:00 "I want a serious, non-dinosaur answer"; 04:55 Mary moves the pillow; 06:40 Dual Gauge does not have dinosaurs; 07:20 Preview of Dual Gauge; 09:10 "Why will we get songs with it"; 09:35 "Are they as good as Supertramp"; 12:05 Air Supply; 13:35 Journey.

Mary And Tom, Episode 93

00:01 Introduction; 00:06 Announcing Wars of Marcus Aurelius; 00:18 Claws says hello; 00:19 Decision space in solitaire games; 01:13 Reasons to say yes; 02:57 Thirteen-hundred cards is still too many cards; 04:30 Trying to shuffle eight-hundred cards; 06:07 Marcus Aurelius cover; 06:28 First draft cover for Seven Pines; 07:34 Optimates et Populares display sheets; 09:43 Here you can start hearing what we assume is either a wasp building a nest or a some kind of swamp mammal in the background for the next two minutes; 10:44 Seven Pines release date.

Mary And Tom, Episode 19 (repost)

00:01 Introduction; 00:10 We were at the vet a lot; 01:10 Horse &amp; Musket Annual no. 1 released; 01:30 "Hiya Monster"; 01:40 Horse &amp; Matchlock; 02:05 Dinosaurs with horses and muskets; 02:30 With It or On It; 02:55 Bugs; 03:50 Things that eat mice; 04:20 Tom is wrong about skunks, they do eat rodents; 04:40 Adventures in movie theaters; 06:35 Mary has a terrifying flashback; 07:05 Children cackling like maniacs; 07:45 Tom has warmed up to koalas; 08:20 Devil Facial Tumor Disease; 09:40 Wolverines on vacation; 10:25 Canvas map sale coming in May; 12:50 The Noble Order of Clawsewitz.

Mary And Tom, Episode 77

00:01 Big garlic; 00:35 Introduction; 00:50 Alleged day off; 01:55 The video game Doom; 02:55 AAUW book sales; 04:50 Adults only portion of the podcast; 06:30 Mark Herman's Ribbit; 07:25 Fun fact about frogs; 07:40 Michigan J. Frog is a jerk, but not a reptile; 08:15 The Soo Line segment; 11:15 Michigan Roads; 12:25 Michigan roads; 14:50 Laziness as a motivator.

Mary And Tom, Episode 55

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Cards of Marcus Aurelius; 01:40 Longform Videos; 04:00 We just paid our taxes; 04:50 Porch steps; 06:00 The Mary and Tom and Tom's Grandma Show; 07:05 Sopa de Ajo; 09:35 Salty leeks; 10:25 Supply Lines Update.

Mary And Tom Episode 44

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Canvas map sale; 00:20 Special guest star Monster; 01:00 Monster's ultrasound; 01:50 Shaved belly; 02:40 A joke which didn't land; 03:25 Origins; 05:05 WBC; 06:05 Rent paid in worms; 06:30 The robin's nest; 07:35 No chainsaw for Tom; 08:05 The Legend of Stumpy; 09:55 With It Or On It Without Dinosaurs; 10:25 A change in our release schedule.

Mary And Tom, Episode 78

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "No one would pay for this show"; 00:25 Siege of Izmail; 01:10 Videos; 01:35 Birdus interruptus; 02:40 Tactile and personable; 03:30 "There are running gags and then there are running gags"; 03:50 Incendiary political commentary; 04:45 Who's a Good Boye; 05:05 "Good news, Mary: they are dead"; 05:20 Podcast sponsor Ford Motor Company; 06:00 Stories about Mary's dad; 07:55 Horse and Dinosaur; 08:35 A lot of squished horses; 09:40 A completely inaccurate representation of the plot of Leprechaun in Space.

Mary And Tom, Episode 82

00:01 Introduction; 00:15 Didn't go to Origins; 00:35 Lots of little sneezes; 02:10 With It Or On It sales; 02:55 Trouble working on the next medieval game; 03:15 Those poor horses; 05:10 "That was a big sneeze"; 05:40 Siege of Izmail; 06:20 ZOC and mandatory combat in Izmail; 07:30 Introductory wargames: Lost Provinces; 08:50 Shields &amp; Swords II series; 10:15 Brave Little Belgium; 11:00 Learning Empire of the Sun; 11:30 That one game; 11:55 EotS South Pacific scenario.

Mary And Tom, Episode 81

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 Monster is not super-happy; 02:10 Attempted jailbreak; 03:20 Grown-up fun-time stuff; 04:30 "Just tell her it's purple"; 05:20 With It Or On It; 06:25 Red Rose figurines; 07:05 Proxy miniatures for D&amp;D 07:45 J.D. was bad at Sweden; 08:15 Testing Westphalia; 08:45 First round problems; 09:30 "Gabe, our friend Gabe"; 10:00 "That other person"; 10:55 "They all think they're doomed"; 11:25 Sample games/turns; 12:20 "You always shoot down all of my dinosaur ideas".

Mary And Tom, Episode 79

00:01 Introduction; 00:05 "Start talking"; 00:10 With It Or On It release eminent; 00:25 "I assume they have a house"; 01:35 Smell-o-vision; 02:20 The internet; 02:35 On the phone; 03:20 A couple words in Tom's defense; 06:05 Claws and Doc; 09:40 Very zippy; 09:45 Origins; 10:30 Glasses.

Mary And Tom, Episode 80

00:01 Introduction; 00:08 It's cold in here; 00:30 Cataloguing videos of all NASCAR races from 1994 to 2005; 01:20 Why not let Mary design the dinosaur games; 02:10 What is your favorite dinosaur and why is it a triceratops; 02:50 "You want all dinosaurs to die?"; 03:20 Dinosaur Table Battles; 04:05 Hollandays Sale; 04:35 Canvas maps list for the sale; 05:30 Larger map for Horse &amp; Musket; 05:45 Multiplayer games; 06:50 "You ignore most of what I say"; 08:25 Shrink wrap; 08:45 Space travel is horrifying; 09:25 Back to shrink wrap; 10:00 Negotiation games; 10:45 Don't play Catan with Big Mike; 11:45 Sharing in the victory.

Mary And Tom, Episode 90

00:01 Is it on; 00:05 Introduction; 00:10 What are we talking about?; 00:25 2018 releases; 01:40 The Heights of Alma; 02:30 Hi, mayonnaise, how's it going; 02:40 An inventory of the things on the table; 03:20 Light bulbs; 04:30 Band-aids; 05:30 A sense of loss; 06:00 Tomato sauce hides the blood; 06:35 Brave Little Belgium; 06:45 Widows and orphans; 08:45 Tom attempts to make a request; 09:15 Countermix follies; 09:45 Tom makes a request; 10:40 That's closer to a yes than a no is; 10:55 The Devil's Details; 11:30 A whole stack of books; 12:00 Discworld; 12:20 Tom did well this Christmas; 13:00 Tom didn't do well our first Christmas; 14:20 Not big gift people; 14:40 Mary voids a warranty.

Mary And Tom, Episode 66

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