Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Friday, December nineteenth, six days
Speaker 1: to Christmas, but legit, you probably only got five days
Speaker 1: to really get it together. And boy, do we have
Speaker 1: a gift today for you that will work and that
Speaker 1: will get there on time. With that, Welcome to this
Speaker 1: episode of Amy and TJ. This is one I think
Speaker 1: I enjoy it more when it's not in use.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense, yes, because it looks nice, gorgeous
Speaker 2: where you can actually display this gift, which is, by
Speaker 2: the way, our final gift. We had three straight weeks
Speaker 2: Monday through Friday where we have so you can go
Speaker 2: back and look if you want to look at the
Speaker 2: other gift ideas we had. I can't guarantee those are
Speaker 2: all going to be available by Christmas Day, but it's
Speaker 2: worth a shot.
Speaker 3: But we know this one is.
Speaker 1: And it is really well reviewed. What we have for
Speaker 1: you today, folks, it is board games, classic board games
Speaker 1: with a twist. It is called the Vintage Bookshelf Board
Speaker 1: Game Collection and the simplest way to put it. From
Speaker 1: this company, It's a company called WS Game Company, and
Speaker 1: they design upscale, collectible editions of the world's most iconic games,
Speaker 1: capturing their heritage while transforming them into decor pieces meant
Speaker 1: to be displayed and enjoyed for generations. That is the
Speaker 1: official way to put it. But when you look at it,
Speaker 1: roll if they look like leather bound legal books that
Speaker 1: would go on any diction excuse me, any shelf, book shelf,
Speaker 1: and anywhere.
Speaker 3: They're really well done.
Speaker 2: They're nice, large and thick, so it looks like you've
Speaker 2: got these beautiful bound books meant for a beautiful library,
Speaker 2: which we just so happened to luckily have. Our podcasting
Speaker 2: room is actually a library transformed into a podcast room,
Speaker 2: so we have them sitting on one of our shelves
Speaker 2: and they look like they're beautifully designed and nice pops
Speaker 2: of color. You know, it's always nice on a bookshelf
Speaker 2: to have a pop of color.
Speaker 3: And please provide that.
Speaker 1: The prettiest thing we have on our shelf right now. Seriously,
Speaker 1: and folks, you will be seeing these in the background
Speaker 1: of our shot you stand by. There's going to be
Speaker 1: some video components coming with this podcast soon, but this
Speaker 1: will be on the shelf for sure because it looks good.
Speaker 1: The Vintage Bookshelf Board Game Collection they call a beautifully
Speaker 1: designed trio of classic board games. The one we have
Speaker 1: at least Battleship, Checkers, and Backgammon, and then Trivial Pursuit.
Speaker 1: Each house in an elegant, fabric wrapped book box that
Speaker 1: looks just as good on your shelf as it does
Speaker 1: on game night. Which of those I knew family members
Speaker 1: and whatnot that had Backgammon, but I never really played it.
Speaker 1: But what about you on these games? Did you play them?
Speaker 2: So? I never played Backgammon, but Battleship with my brother
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, Checkers all the time, and Trivial Pursuit.
Speaker 2: We were obsessed with that as a family. I would
Speaker 2: go over to my grandmother's house actually with cousins, aunts, uncles,
Speaker 2: and we would go crazy for Trivial Pursuit.
Speaker 1: And they call these a combination of nostalgia and modern
Speaker 1: craftsmanship and they are really cool. Look and now the
Speaker 1: one we have is a three game set that included
Speaker 1: Battleship and then Checkers and Backgammon were together in one
Speaker 1: and then Trivial Pursuit was in another. They also do ropes, Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Yah,
Speaker 1: see go for candy, lamp jinga, Guess who trouble.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, those were all the games of my childhood.
Speaker 1: So you can get all these games, folks, and everybody
Speaker 1: has a game, it's usually a closet. And then the
Speaker 1: top of that closet you throw your board games right
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 2: Gets all messy and the tops of the board game
Speaker 2: get all destroyed for whatever reason, they get crushed and
Speaker 2: from all the use of.
Speaker 3: Pulling them out.
Speaker 2: So this is a very cool way to house and
Speaker 2: display your games. Of those games, I think Monopoly probably
Speaker 2: was the most iconic in my house. My brother and
Speaker 2: I would have weeks long games. But Scrabble, I mean
Speaker 2: clue trouble when you'd pop that little pop pop remember can.
Speaker 3: I loved that.
Speaker 1: I like Candyland Connect four. Monopoly took too much time.
Speaker 3: I'm playing weeks long games.
Speaker 2: And there was a famous There was a famous episode
Speaker 2: where I had to get my mom involved because Eric
Speaker 2: almost always won, and in this rare occasion, I was
Speaker 2: clearly creaming him. There was no way he was going
Speaker 2: to be able to catch up. And so he looked
Speaker 2: at me. When he had that realization, flipped the board.
Speaker 2: The board flipped it and I burst into tears, and
Speaker 2: so I had to have my mom come down and
Speaker 2: declare he goes you didn't win because the game wasn't finished.
Speaker 2: That's what he was saying to me. My mom had
Speaker 2: to come downstairs and say Amy officially won.
Speaker 3: That was the only way I cal him down.
Speaker 1: It's like peeling an onion with his family of yours.
Speaker 1: All that reads for Eric, for you, for mom. It
Speaker 1: all makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2: A true story, and it's so funny you think about
Speaker 2: your childhood, what you remember.
Speaker 3: That is such a specific traumatic memory for me. But
Speaker 3: I still love Monopoly.
Speaker 1: Oh there it is again, folks, whatever you like. If
Speaker 1: you want to seriously to stock your your game collection,
Speaker 1: your board game collection, this is the first place I
Speaker 1: would send you. I love it now, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: There are I will speak at least on the checkers
Speaker 1: and backgammon. The board at least is folds into four pieces.
Speaker 1: You have to unfold it, so that could be a
Speaker 1: little annoyed. Don't know how long it will last. It
Speaker 1: seemed like after so much use that might But other
Speaker 1: than that that you should absolutely you know. How often
Speaker 1: do you play a board game anyway?
Speaker 3: Hardly?
Speaker 2: Ever, Now I think the truth is Sadly, I do
Speaker 2: think this is sad because we have phones. In fact,
Speaker 2: analys was coming back from a group party she was
Speaker 2: at the other night. She's like, I have the best
Speaker 2: game for us to play when we're all together at Christmas.
Speaker 2: But it involves being on your phone. She even said that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: first question, is it on your phone? I phone for
Speaker 2: this because they want to do it all the time.
Speaker 2: What's the one they always have to connect?
Speaker 3: Yes, I forgot what it's called. But everyone likes it.
Speaker 2: So now that's obviously what kids these days do.
Speaker 3: But it is fun to pull out a board game.
Speaker 1: But so to that point, we don't do it often.
Speaker 1: No body. We pokest on your play board game once
Speaker 1: a week. So that means they need to be stored somewhere.
Speaker 1: And if you have them in such a package, that
Speaker 1: can be stored anywhere. And it's beautiful, and I promise
Speaker 1: you if you leave this out, there will be more
Speaker 1: board game playing.
Speaker 2: That's a really good point, because you forget what you
Speaker 2: have in the closet on the top shelf. I actually
Speaker 2: we bought a bunch of board games a year or
Speaker 2: two ago. We were going to bring them with us
Speaker 2: when we went on like an airbnb house. We forgot
Speaker 2: them because they were out of sight, out of mind.
Speaker 2: And so you don't think about playing them. You just think, Okay,
Speaker 2: what's on Netflix tonight or some you don't consider doing
Speaker 2: that because you don't see them this way. They're they're
Speaker 2: fresh in your mind because they're in your face.
Speaker 3: They're displayed.
Speaker 1: And I have and I'm going to show this to
Speaker 1: you Rod and let you react to it as we're
Speaker 1: sitting here. But the ones we have, we have red,
Speaker 1: purple and is that gray? Are the colors of our ya,
Speaker 1: red purple us. But they all those other games and
Speaker 1: look at how it comes up.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, god, so pretty. So they have a
Speaker 2: whole set and it literally is a rainbow. It goes
Speaker 2: from red to pink, to peach to yellow to like gorgeous.
Speaker 3: Shades of blue and green. Yeah, this is so pretty
Speaker 3: when you buy them all together like that. Wow, how
Speaker 3: much does that cost?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to get into that. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I will tell you. I'm not to a point where
Speaker 1: I think it's too much yet. But the games, let
Speaker 1: me get back here. The reviews. I had a hard
Speaker 1: time finding reviews initially, but I was able to track
Speaker 1: them down ropes and the reviews, I will have you know,
Speaker 1: there was not they're not many, but of the reviews,
Speaker 1: there was not a single one that's a one star
Speaker 1: or a two star. Only forty six that were on
Speaker 1: the Amazon websites, so not a lot. But they all
Speaker 1: say the exact same thing about this game. They all
Speaker 1: love it. Everybody loves them.
Speaker 3: No regrets from purchasers.
Speaker 1: Eighty nine percent were five stars.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's huge. That might be the highest five
Speaker 2: star percentage in any of our gifts.
Speaker 1: Seeing it's a small sample, the only about fifty people
Speaker 1: that chimed in. I'm not gonna go and read the review.
Speaker 1: Just their titles, great quality and conversation piece. I need
Speaker 1: them all. Wow, love these our favorites. Beautiful to look at,
Speaker 1: worth it just yes, great, you get the idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we talked about this earlier.
Speaker 2: I have always been of the belief you have to
Speaker 2: be really passionate and moved in one way or the
Speaker 2: other to take the time to write a review. And
Speaker 2: usually people get moved when they're angry or there's a problem,
Speaker 2: when there's something they don't like and they want to
Speaker 2: warn other people from buy it. So to have that
Speaker 2: high of a percentage of people who felt compelled to
Speaker 2: go on too Amazon and write a positive review.
Speaker 3: I think speaks volumes.
Speaker 1: And I will mention we're gonna get into the price
Speaker 1: here in a second, but you can get an individual one,
Speaker 1: just one game. They do them in sets of three,
Speaker 1: and you can buy the entire twenty two game set
Speaker 1: if you want, if you have a bookshelf in places
Speaker 1: to put it, So stay here. We'll get into how
Speaker 1: much this thing cost, when you can get it, and
Speaker 1: where you can get it. Stay here.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone, as we wrap up. See what I
Speaker 2: did there, We wrap up our holiday gift guide. I
Speaker 2: just did that for you because I know how much
Speaker 2: you love my puns. We are a gift number fifteen,
Speaker 2: and we might have saved the best for last at
Speaker 2: this point, especially when it comes to the reviews and
Speaker 2: how we feel about these gifts because we are using
Speaker 2: them even though we're not playing the games. We haven't
Speaker 2: played a game yet, but we have been looking at
Speaker 2: these gorgeous bookshelf vintage board games. They have packaged them
Speaker 2: so well, and it invites you to play in a
Speaker 2: way that it just doesn't when you have them stored
Speaker 2: messily on the top of your closet or a drawer.
Speaker 1: Do we store it in the case like this, so
Speaker 1: it looks like as an individual, it looks like a thick,
Speaker 1: almost legal book. It's gorgeous, but it comes in this
Speaker 1: what do you call this, it's tasting a box a
Speaker 1: little Yeah, it's a book.
Speaker 3: Box, a bookcasing.
Speaker 1: Maybe a bookcasing, yeah, that you can slide it into.
Speaker 1: How do you store it? Do you do it this way?
Speaker 3: Or do you do you could? Or turn it around?
Speaker 3: Let me see what that like.
Speaker 2: Even doing it like that, even you have options. You
Speaker 2: can you can actually turn it around in the box
Speaker 2: and it still looks gorgeous, or you can take it
Speaker 2: out of the box altogether and just have it stored
Speaker 2: like a regular library book.
Speaker 1: I would almost recommend this with schools, like this is
Speaker 1: a way to storm in classrooms that you can still
Speaker 1: pull them out and you can put them all in
Speaker 1: one comepack thing and maybe pieces aren't going towhere. I
Speaker 1: absolutely do love this gift. I wasn't sure what exactly
Speaker 1: it was when we first got it, but once we
Speaker 1: research and looked into it, now it's the one we have.
Speaker 1: The set of three costs a pretty pitty I guess right, one.
Speaker 3: Hundred and forty bucks it's not cheap.
Speaker 1: It's not cheap. I would absolutely say it's worth it.
Speaker 1: You can do it individually, and they're forty seven bucks,
Speaker 1: so you get a little bit of a discount if
Speaker 1: you do it that way. The whole set of twenty
Speaker 1: two is like six hundred and fifty bucks. Is that
Speaker 1: what you were just saying?
Speaker 3: Yeah, six hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to get them all again, that sounds
Speaker 1: like that. One is a collection of fifteen excuse me,
Speaker 1: you would get fifteen books for six hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: So give's your idea. But I don't think it's out
Speaker 1: of reach. Yes, if you want to go buy Candyland
Speaker 1: or Connect four, it'll cost you fifteen dollars. Maybe if
Speaker 1: you go to Target whatever that is. Yes, this is
Speaker 1: more expensive. This is a better version given how we
Speaker 1: use board games.
Speaker 2: I agree, And you know, like I appreciate what one
Speaker 2: of the reviewers said that it was a conversation piece.
Speaker 2: So people come into your home where they see your
Speaker 2: shelves and they say what are these and you start
Speaker 2: talking about something fun. You're not talking about politics or gossip.
Speaker 2: You're actually having a fun, nostalgic conversation. About the childhood
Speaker 2: games that brought you joy that can continue to do
Speaker 2: so in adulthood.
Speaker 3: And I did the math.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you get the set of fifteen,
Speaker 2: that makes the books forty three dollars a piece, so
Speaker 2: you do get a little bit of a savings buying
Speaker 2: it in bulk Bsickly.
Speaker 1: When you see them, there is no way you think
Speaker 1: it's a board game. This is done well. Rats whoever
Speaker 1: this is. WS is the name of the company, but
Speaker 1: it is done so well. You can get these on
Speaker 1: Amazon also. The company WS is what it's called WS
Speaker 1: Game Company, WS Game Company. They do have a website.
Speaker 1: You can get it through Amazon as well. I checked ropes.
Speaker 1: We could get this delivered to us through Amazon today.
Speaker 1: That's remarkable that was availability. Certainly could get it tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But I put in my parents address as well, and
Speaker 1: sure not, they could get it to them in the
Speaker 1: next couple of days. So it sounds like no matter
Speaker 1: where you are, you can still get this by Christmas.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: And I think especially for people who are at a
Speaker 2: certain age like our generation, these are the board games
Speaker 2: of our childhood. So it would speak a lot to
Speaker 2: folks who are of a certain age, because we just
Speaker 2: I don't know how excited our kids would be about
Speaker 2: getting a trivial pursuit. But in that packaging, I think, yes, well,
Speaker 2: adult children now who have apartments to decorate, they might
Speaker 2: really appreciate this. But I would, genuinely, Babe, I would
Speaker 2: like to play revial Pursuit this weekend with the kids.
Speaker 3: I think it would be so much fun.
Speaker 2: We haven't sat down, and actually, I know you're not
Speaker 2: a huge board game person, but.
Speaker 3: Maybe you would participate.
Speaker 1: No, Look, it's it's the college football playoff this week,
Speaker 1: and I think you're asking a lot of your mate folks.
Speaker 1: Clearly we're excited about this one. We appreciate and hope.
Speaker 1: I think maybe some people bought some of these things
Speaker 1: to that's true.
Speaker 2: Yes, there were some cautionary gifts or just with an
Speaker 2: asterisk maybe next to it, but they were all great
Speaker 2: gifts thanks to our iHeart producers who picked these all
Speaker 2: out for us to try out and give to you.
Speaker 2: We've told you throughout the all the episodes we didn't
Speaker 2: get paid by any of these companies. We were lucky
Speaker 2: enough to receive these gifts so we actually get to
Speaker 2: keep them and use them so that is part of
Speaker 2: the tradeoff I guess of reviewing this, But we gave
Speaker 2: our honest opinions about what we thought about these gifts,
Speaker 2: from how they look, how they feel, how they're used,
Speaker 2: to the price point themselves, but also just the reviews
Speaker 2: I think are so helpful.
Speaker 1: I think we were. I think we almost endorsed every
Speaker 1: single item to a certain degree. We gave some caution
Speaker 1: every tales and something you had actually used, and gave
Speaker 1: your warnings and your experience. And that's fine, and it's
Speaker 1: okay for everybody. But fifteen gifts, what was your favorite?
Speaker 1: Do you remember?
Speaker 2: I think of the ones we received, I think the
Speaker 2: Marshall speaker might be the best gift of them all.
Speaker 3: It's going to get used every day.
Speaker 1: How many have we bought for the kids?
Speaker 3: Well, we bought.
Speaker 2: We bought the toothbrushes for the kids because I did
Speaker 2: like that toothbrush a lot.
Speaker 3: And brick, the charging brick, the charging brick.
Speaker 1: So we actually got things off our own list.
Speaker 2: We went out and got items for our kids based
Speaker 2: on these gifts we were given to try out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the best thing. Your voice got low.
Speaker 1: We're in here. We got kids in the house. And
Speaker 1: sleep in the next room were whispering about their gifts.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so funny.
Speaker 2: You just automatically you do, don't, Yeah, you don't even
Speaker 2: I didn't even realize what I was doing.
Speaker 1: Well, folks, wherever you may be, and however your Christmas
Speaker 1: shopping is going, hopefully these could possibly possibly have helped
Speaker 1: you out. But we appreciate you coming along with us
Speaker 1: on this Christmas journey as well. But for now I
Speaker 1: am T. J. Holmes On behalf of my dear Amy Robot.
Speaker 1: We will talk to Yelson