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Kenny Malone

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Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

An elaborate ongoing hoax.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

We wanted to believe in the 80s and 90s.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

And look, maybe we're just grasping for logic inside this wild exploding kittens process.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

But if the core customers walking into Big Box are millennials, we could do worse than picking a theme and a name that might cut to their 80s and 90s hearts.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Okay, so here's what we in Exploding Kittens are thinking.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Erica?

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Listening back, it does sound a little like Jamie hates this idea, but her face does not say that.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

She seems unsure, not hateful.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Just, like, let me process this.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

She's a thinker.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Let me do this again.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

It's very cute.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

It's very cute.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Yes.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

In fact, Exploding Kittens had mocked up some cover art.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

So picture a vending machine and jammed inside, pressed up against the glass, is a very sweet, very cute Sasquatch.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

And if I may add one hard data point, my nephew is very into Sasquatch, Sasquatch gifts for Christmas, and I do consider him a five-year-old trendsetter.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Yeah, sure, sure, yeah.

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Okay, so on a scale of sure thing to don't call it that, where are you on sell me a Sasquatch?

Planet Money
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?

Off mic there, you can hear Kelly Vopolek from Exploding Kittens weigh in.