Episode 77: Final Girls, Bulldogs and Brooklyn Cowboys
My first Bulldog cocktail, my first Final Girl game, and then we ride out with a bunch of Brooklyn mic psychos. Giddyup.
Episode 76: Dustrunner vs. Tin Helm
Will Dustrunner steal any table time from Tin Helm? Will somebody bring me more Stampede lager? Will I ever figure out why my output levels died on export despite not having changed a single setting in years, on a Track of the Week segment in which I highlight a J-Live/Jazzy Jeff track that focuses on the importance of craft? It’s goddamn embarrassing.
Episode 74: Wasteland Express Delivery Service Revisited
Degrading cocktails. Degraded liquors. An old love back on the game table. A newer one back on the speakers.
Episode 73: Pocket Book Adventures Hits the Target
A cocktail booklet full of bad ideas, a solo dungeon crawl full of good ones, and a flawless DJ Quik track in review.
Episode 72: Handsome Boy Close-Support Air Squadron School
Crappy bourbon is upgraded. Warcraft are armed and target-bound. Prince Paul and Dan the Automator show us the filthy side of this business.
Episode 71: Bird Dog, Bohnanza and Street Platoons
Bird Dog 7 Year Old Small Batch Bourbon, the classic card game Bohnanza, and “The Killing Fields” by Psycho Realm all earn their stripes.
Episode 70: Various Ass-Whippings, On and Off the Game Table
Reveling in the success of home-infused cinnamon whiskey, recounting board games with Pops, and five reasons why Heavy D’s “Don’t Curse” is a holy artifact to me
Episode 69: Drinking Bourbon, Building Decks and Catching Wreck
Reflecting on two bottles of Yellowstone Bourbon, surprising Dominion losses, and Track 39 of our “50 Deep Cuts” list: “Da Whole Kit and Kaboodle” by Mad Kap
Episode 67: I Drink Cantaritos and I Know Stuff
Following a local bartender’s cantarito recipe then making up our own Trivial pursuit recipe
Episode 65: Reflections on Hundreds of Sagrada Solo Plays
Hundreds of solo plays later, I figured out why I love Sagrada.
Episode 64: Bullshit I’m Not Doing Anymore
Not drinking that. Not playing that. Not trying to hear any of that.
Episode 63: My Three Scum
Meet my first batch of Frontier Scum characters. Before they get their fool heads blowed clean off.
Episode 62: A Christmas Boardgaming Miracle for a Drunken, Bitter Man
All these killer kids were super into learning how to play Cockroach Poker on Christmas Eve, so we taught them.
Episode 59: Vintage Cocktail, New Card Game, Vintage Beat
An old cocktail is resurrected, a new cocktail card game is opened, and we listen to some Whodini.
Episode 57: I’m Tired Please Tell Me What to Drink and Play
New original cocktail recipe. Fitting a memorial service into a board game day. Thoughts on billy woods’ “Heavy Water.”
Episode 56: Small-Game Avalanche Warning
Previewing a purchasing storm that left Tiny Library 1, 60 Second Cocktail, Mouse Cheese Cat Cucumber and Castle Poker on my shores.
Episode 55: Our First Test Play of Cytress, a Cyberpunk Board Game
Friendly locals help me navigate the treacherous caste system and complex terrain of Cytress.
Episode 53: Climbing the Stratus with Sean Lee, Creator of Cytress
Talking with the creator of Cytress, a richly imagined cyberpunk board game.
Episode 52: We’re Not Going to Space McDonald’s, We Have Despair at Home
Repeated injuries will not dissuade me from looking for space junk in a solo RPG.
Episode 51: That Time I Turned Neuroshima Hex into an RPG
A moonshine margarita is made and considered. I reflect on how I fell down a rabbit hole by making my own quasi-RPG out of the combat game, Neuroshima Hex. And Whodini’s inside the joint.