{"id":3234945,"date":"2015-04-08T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3234945"},"modified":"2016-03-24T02:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T05:18:28","slug":"the-lunchbox-interview-julian-christie-international-tabletop-games-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-julian-christie-international-tabletop-games-day","title":{"rendered":"The Lunchbox Interview: Julian Christie (International TableTop Games Day)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3234946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-julian-christie-international-tabletop-games-day\/attachment\/lunchbox-tabletopgamesday\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay.png\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay-800x800.png\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3234946\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay-300x300.png\" alt=\"LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay-800x800.png 800w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It seems like the entire world is getting interested in games these days.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a <em>great<\/em> thing!<\/p>\n<p>With high-profile geeks like <a title=\"Home of the Burrito.\" href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.net\/\">Wil Wheaton<\/a> supporting and inspiring board game playing, people are realizing that getting your friends together around the kitchen table to play a board game is not just for geeks &#8212; and it&#8217;s tonnes of fun!<\/p>\n<p>My guest today is <strong>Julian Christie<\/strong>, a well-established game player and co-head organizer of <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/382712021904745\/\">the local gaming convention <strong>Enbicon<\/strong><\/span> that made its annual celebration earlier this year. We talk a bit about the success of that event &#8212; and the second edition of the event coming later this year! &#8212; but he&#8217;s also here to talk about the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/tabletopday.com\"><strong>International TableTop Game Day<\/strong><\/span> events happening around the world, and right here in Fredericton at the <a title=\"Join your friends for a game night on the town!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unpluggedgamescafe.com\/\"><strong>Unplugged Board Games Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Music today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I got a little stir-crazy with four days off in a row, and <a title=\"Home of the Stone.\" href=\"http:\/\/carletonstone.com\/\"><strong>Carleton Stone<\/strong><\/a> seems to understand, as they tells us about their experience <em>Climbing Up The Walls<\/em> from the album <strong>Draws Blood<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>And the <a title=\"Is there really a bucket? Go there to find out!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonbucketorkestra.com\/\"><strong>Lemon Bucket Orkestra<\/strong><\/a> gives us some great dancing music in the song <em>presca?anka<\/em> from <strong>moorka<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6167\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6167','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3234945-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Christie, co-head organizer of Enbicon, joins me to talk about the upcoming International TableTop Game Day on April 11, with special events at Unplugged. Music today by Carleton Stone and Lemon Bucket Orkestra.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6168\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6168','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3234945-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20150407%20-%20Interview%20-%20Julian%20Christie%20-%20International%20TableTop%20Game%20Day.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><p><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-julian-christie-international-tabletop-games-day\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3234946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2875,2205,1890,269,656,2876],"class_list":["post-3234945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-board-games","tag-celebration","tag-games","tag-geek","tag-tabletop","tag-unplugged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-TableTopGamesDay.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240113,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234945\/revisions\/3240113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3234946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}