Jeremy plunged off a rock face in 2004 and decided to climb green felt surfaces after that. All the way to the WSOP in 2014. (Photo: Jamie Thomson, Vegas Photo Studio)

The board game passions, biases, and peeves that make me the irascible podcaster that I am.

Mix Farmer's Punch, shake with Star Wars Outer Rim, garnish with diss track by Masta Ace.

Vale of Eternity, Wingspan, Cascadia and Cockroach Poker: Boardgaming highlights of Summer 2024.

My first Bulldog cocktail, my first Final Girl game, and then we ride out with a bunch of Brooklyn mic psychos. Giddyup.

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.

Degrading cocktails. Degraded liquors. An old love back on the game table. A newer one back on the speakers.

A cocktail booklet full of bad ideas, a solo dungeon crawl full of good ones, and a flawless DJ Quik track in review.

Crappy bourbon is upgraded. Warcraft are armed and target-bound. Prince Paul and Dan the Automator show us the filthy side of this business.

Bird Dog 7 Year Old Small Batch Bourbon, the classic card game Bohnanza, and “The Killing Fields” by Psycho Realm all earn their stripes.

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

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

Following a local bartender’s cantarito recipe then making up our own Trivial pursuit recipe

Hundreds of solo plays later, I figured out why I love Sagrada.

Not drinking that. Not playing that. Not trying to hear any of that.

Meet my first batch of Frontier Scum characters. Before they get their fool heads blowed clean off.

All these killer kids were super into learning how to play Cockroach Poker on Christmas Eve, so we taught them.

An old cocktail is resurrected, a new cocktail card game is opened, and we listen to some Whodini.

New original cocktail recipe. Fitting a memorial service into a board game day. Thoughts on billy woods’ “Heavy Water.”

Previewing a purchasing storm that left Tiny Library 1, 60 Second Cocktail, Mouse Cheese Cat Cucumber and Castle Poker on my shores.