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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Meet some more members of my podcasting family, Justin & Carter, during my intro, in which various drinking injuries are reckoned with.

Drink of the Week (4:48)
A guy who talks about board games so much shouldn’t be so averse to reading instructions, so here is Attempt #2 at Axe and the Oak’s Spicy Moonshine Margarita

Game of the Week (8:27)
A paean to A Couple of Drakes’ Dead Belt: A Solo RPG for Space Cowboys

Track of the Week (17:22)
I was indecisive, so I let my little sister pick a track, and she picked The Roots.

Twitter Poem by Jade (22:52)
I keep telling her she’s a genius, but I don’t think she believes me.

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Herein:

• Dropped in an ad for Fuck My Work Life (@fmwlpod), which was so compelling that I told my boss to eat my ass

• I try my hand at making the Spicy Moonshine Margarita, a recipe using Axe and the Oak’s Pikes Peak Hill Shine instead of tequila

• Game of the Week: unearthing the insane narrative system I built to keep me glued to Neuroshima Hex for more than 10,000 plays

• I highlight just three things that make “Now That Whodini’s Inside the Joint” a monster good time

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50th Episode. If a piece of crap like me can do it, so can you.

• Showing some love for @DecayinWtb, the most recent addition to my irreplaceable podcast family

• I drink some Suerte Añejo tequila, which is very good

• Game of the Week: notes from my early experiences with @GreyGnomeGames’ charming solo dungeon crawler, Tin Helm

• @avoidthehanoid and I give none-too-rehearsed love to Pete Rock’s remix of Public Enemy’s “Shut Em Down”

• 50 EPISODES BITCHES

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Ooookay, lot going on here:

• Promo for my new fave podcast discovery, @thecultworthy, who is a nice person and doesn’t deserve to be juxtaposed with the horseshit that follows

• Widow Jane bourbon review. Bourbon is excellent. Review segment is…*rubs temples slowly*

• Cap’n Cato and I talk about what makes Z-Man Games’ Merchants & Marauders such a rollicking, hateful good time

• We go back to Run-D.M.C.’s King of Rock LP and highlight the gem, “Darryl and Joe (Krush Groove 3)

• I read my original poem, “Flaptoast”

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Brendan Costello of the excellent @UnChefed podcast adroitly manages my volatile tangents.

He also walks us through how to make the Moneygun Hot Toddy, I bend his ear about a card game set during the Battle of Hastings, and he displays his excellent hip hop palate by adding People Under the Stairs to our Track of the Week list.

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I say goodbye to my ex-wife and my post-divorce romance, both with a heavy heart.

When all else fails, I paint miniatures to pass the terrible hours and, at the end, Kardinal Offishal is there to give a lift.

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Dow Jones, the man who made our theme music, comes through and tells us a story about being on tour with Digital Underground in Colorado.

The JK divines the vortex of despair hiding inside Plaid Hat Games’ Battlelands.

Corzo Reposado is grabbed at random and enjoyed at length.

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Benjamin Schmauss, who contributed designs to the wild-looking Stationfall heist game, describes how his group in London played two simultaneous games of The Resistance: Avalon while drinking.

Rum is discussed.

I play an old Kool G. Rap song.

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The Colonel heads to Denver, where Max Vitesse pours us his fave cocktail and NFTBag joins in for a round of Dominion, the daddy-of-em-all deckbuilding game.

We touch upon various Moms and celebrate the perfection of “Brother Czarquis.”

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