Reunited with a lost buddy over the holidays in kind of a bleak hotel. We’re joined for a game of Cockroach Poker by a bunch of kids in the lobby. Later in the episode: rock with me to a Lord Finesse track and then a reading of a poem by Layla Benitez-James.

Don’t try to give yourself a Zoroastrian funeral before you’ve thought everything out. Trust me.

Drink of the Week (3:44)
Shook up a few glasses of mezcal with an orange/clove mixer. It turned out pretty good.

Game of the Week (8:30)
If tabletop roleplaying games hinge on imagination, then you should be able to imagine yourself playing something besides D&D, such as Frontier Scum.

Track of the Week (14:25)
P!

Outro: Starkville Wildlife Report (20:48)
I don’t like being ogled by mountain lions while peeing. My property. My rules.

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Things get spicy when one of the ladies from the HOA makes the mistake of getting involved in the Boomer condo orgy scene.

Drink of the Week (3:12)
Bud Light Cheladas. I can drink these walking right down the middle of the road where I live and nobody cares.

Game of the Week (5:26)
I decided that Richard Garfield’s King of Tokyo monster dicebrawling game needed a stronger emphasis on just killing.

Track of the Week (10:22)
Come back to 1998 with me, when mobile phones were still marginally useful and on the right night, you might get to dance to the La Funk Mob remix of Bomb the Bass’ “Bug Powder Dust” feat. Justin Warfield.”

Outro: The Fable of the Frog and the Scorpion (16:57)
I remixed the tale a bit.

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We welcome a new sponsor: KRALM.

Drink of the Week (2:41)
The Bull Shot: if it was good enough for Malcom McDowell, it’s good enough for you.

Game of the Week (4:37)
Nathan Lund of Chubby Behemoth graciously helps me dip a toe into Party Meeple’s 60 Second Cocktail game.

Track of the Week (8:16)
Professor Mike of KABF 88.3 FM’s “The Old School New School Need To Learn Though Show” tells us a cool story about the first 12” he ever bought.

Outro: Thoughts on Abusive D&D Supercouples (17:34)
I guess now that D&D’s a massive industry, that means it’s a career beacon for more sociopaths.

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An ad for Brendan Costello of @UnChefed, the man who started it all.

Drink of the Week (5:16)
Looking back at four drinks invented for this show that will fuck up your life.

Game of the Week (8:43)
Listen to the mission notes from the latest four of my hair-raising missions in A Couple of Drakes’ magnificent solo RPG, Dead Belt.

Track of the Week (18:30)
Nervous' Undaground Ol' Skool Hip Hop Sessions saved my goddamn life and they might save yours.

Outro: On Self Dates and Poetry Discovered Therein (22:58)
I ate three apps — one a gazpacho-like soup served in a porcelain lampshade — and discovered a beguiling poem, which I read for you.

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A promo appears: give a listen to my pals at Talking SMAC (the nerd one, not the sports one).

Drink of the Week (6:15)
We unveil a Breakup Gaming Society cocktail original — Inoculation Against Predictability — created in tribute to Tzeentch and designed by my stromie, Skrrt Vonnegut.

Game(s) of the Week (12:07)
A sad thing brought us together, but I did get to see my cousins and play:
• The Crew (moar!)
• Libertalia (yes!)
• Mysterium Jr. (who cares)

Track of the Week (22:25)
”It’s like somebody got a malicious AI to take a picture of one of Jackson Pollock’s bad dreams,” and other things that happen when dj serv1 gets to pick Track of the Week.

It freaked me out at first, but now I can’t stop listening to it.

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Wipe off your feet and kick it up with @familiarwilsons, a podcsting couple that you’ll like knowing.

Drink of the Week (4:46)
The short version is that Noble Oak (Double Oak Bourbon) is very good.

Game(s) of the Week (5:45)
I just got a gang of small games in the mail from @fightinabox, @Long_Tail_Games, and @partymeeple — let’s take a look!

Track of the Week (15:12)
I got the title wrong because I was too faded, but the Ol Dirty Bastard track remains propulsive and wild nonetheless.

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Meet Sugar Coated Murder, another swell member of my podcasting family.

Drink of the Week (2:40)
Left Hand Milk Stout with Jim Beam Devil’s Cut back, neat.

Game of the Week (5:45)
Two episodes back, we interviewed Sean Lee, creator of Cytress.

Now we try to play it.

Track of the Week (15:12)
Public Enemy thrills this old guy by including surviving Beasties and Run-D.M.C. members for a redux of “Public Enemy #1”

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“Thank you, I will check it out,” and other lies.

Drink of the Week (2:43)
Trying to hear what my mouth is telling me about Corralejo Extra Añejo tequila.

Game of the Week (5:28)
Before he left this earth, a friend of mine on Twitter launched a massive retro JRPG on Steam called The Great War of Jorth. May you fight long and well.

Track of the Week (11:16)
Blown out of my chair by my late discovery of Allfrumtha 1’s “County Jail.”

Rest in Poetry (15:08)
”Three Elegiac Poems,” Wendell Berry

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A bleak look at the near future of AI and an intro to @OfftopiaCult, which is not a cult, but rather another member of my podcasting family.

Drink of the Week (4:19)
You got me, Tincup American Whiskey. Your merchandising strategy beat me. Publicly taking my L.

Game of the Week (5:38)
We get futuristic and crunchy with Sean Lee, the bright and passionate creator of Cytress, an innovative upcoming board game about managing your destiny horizontally, vertically and strategically in a vicious cyberpunk future.

Track of the Week (25:31)
You’ve somehow managed a semblance of living up until now without Breeze’s “T.Y.S.O.N.” — but that’s all about to change.

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