Kenny Malone
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And until we talked to Jamie, it had not occurred to me there was something else special about Sell Me a Sasquatch.
Because unlike the theme that was funny mascots or the one where cats had jobs or whatever...
There was something about Sell Me a Sasquatch I hadn't quite been able to put my finger on.
Sell Me a Sasquatch was hitting me right in the old X-Files.
Sell Me a Sasquatch, a game where you spend an evening with family and mysterious creatures.
That was surgical nostalgia, right to my elder millennial heart, to Sunday evening with dad safely watching spooky X-Files stories.
An elaborate ongoing hoax.
We wanted to believe in the 80s and 90s.
And look, maybe we're just grasping for logic inside this wild exploding kittens process.
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.
Okay, so here's what we in Exploding Kittens are thinking.
Listening back, it does sound a little like Jamie hates this idea, but her face does not say that.
She seems unsure, not hateful.
Just, like, let me process this.