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Kenny Malone

👤 Speaker
1215 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

And until we talked to Jamie, it had not occurred to me there was something else special about Sell Me a Sasquatch.

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

Because unlike the theme that was funny mascots or the one where cats had jobs or whatever...

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

There was something about Sell Me a Sasquatch I hadn't quite been able to put my finger on.

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

Ah, yes, that was it.

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

Sell Me a Sasquatch was hitting me right in the old X-Files.

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

Sell Me a Sasquatch, a game where you spend an evening with family and mysterious creatures.

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

That was surgical nostalgia, right to my elder millennial heart, to Sunday evening with dad safely watching spooky X-Files stories.

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

Is Bigfoot real?

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.