{"podcast":{"title":"Board Game Barrage","slug":"board-game-barrage-229290","podcast_index_feed_id":229290,"rss_url":"https://boardgamebarrage.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://boardgamebarrage.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/7/6/f/676f680167e5009088c4a68c3ddbc4f2/logo_2k.png","author":"Board Game Barrage","episode_count":363,"summary":"Join Kellen, Neilan, Mark, and Christina for a podcast about board games, the latest hotness, and how to have fun with your friends even when you're losing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T20:17:19.708655+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/board-game-barrage-229290"},"episode":{"title":"#359: Top Brass","slug":"359-top-brass","published_at":"2026-04-23T08:52:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/board-game-barrage-229290/359-top-brass","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/board-game-barrage-229290","url":"https://boardgamebarrage.libsyn.com/359-top-brass","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/boardgamebarrage/26_04_23_BoardGameBarrage_Ep_359.mp3?dest-id=655876","summary":"There are big spiky moments that happen in the meta that is the board game hobby, and the Brass: Pittsburgh crowdfunding campaign feels like one of them. It is after all, a successor to the #1 ranked game on BGG. That's something! Enough so that it sent Mark into a bit of an existential spiral, and we're here to talk him down. Before we catch a falling Wallace, we talk about Hummingbirds , Fendo , and Soothsayers . 06:59 - Hummingbirds 14:44 - Fendo 18:53 - Soothsayers 29:23 - Brass: Pittsburgh crowdfunding Get added to the BGB community map at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/map Send us topic ideas at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/topics Check out our wiki at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/wiki Join the discussion at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/discord Join our Facebook group at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/facebook Get a Board Game Barrage T-shirt at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/store","meta_description":"There are big spiky moments that happen in the meta that is the board game hobby, and the Brass: Pittsburgh crowdfunding campaign feels like one of them.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3547,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/board-game-barrage-229290/episodes/359-top-brass/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/board-game-barrage-229290/359-top-brass.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}