Episode 10: Board Games of the 90s

In Episode 10: Board Games in the 90s, Will and Lesli discuss the Board Games they loved and the Board Games they didn’t.  They discuss the feelings of 90s nostalgia and the memories of having a panic attack waiting for the Operation buzzer or Perfection to go off. Were they sore losers or board flippers? Listen and find out. You may even catch a 90s jingle or two.

Transcript

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So something that's been bothering me since last week.

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What's that?

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I referenced Janet Jackson's liner notes. Her boobies. Yes. Yeah. Because the cover is her like this, right, with her hands up. And I distinctly remember inside the liner notes, it was somebody holding. On her boobies. Right?

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Yeah.

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So, okay. I Googled it. I tried to find it.

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You

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can't find it? I cannot find it anywhere. So now I'm second guessing myself.

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Like the Mandela effect?

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Like the Mandela effect. Oh, man. Now, I remember standing outside of my elementary school. I don't even want to ask. As a child. And my friend, Chris... I distinctly remember him showing me that. I remember where I was standing outside of the kindergarten room. That's where the buses let us off. It wasn't a weird thing. You

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were like, hey, kids, look at this. But

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you couldn't find it? I couldn't find it anywhere. Turn off the safe search. Should I look

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right now?

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No. I don't want you to touch your phone. Okay. We get lost in our phones. I know.

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You're right. You're right. You're

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right. You're right. Because the only reason I say it like that is because if you do, I'm going to jump on my phone. I know. And then that's that. It's going to be a whole thing.

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And then that's more editing. More

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editing. You know, we'll be here until midnight.

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Yeah, no. I can't

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do that. So I guess gapintheninetiesatgmail.com, if you remember what

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I

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remember. There was totally boobies.

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Right. With hands on boobies.

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Okay. Thank you. Or if you can send us a picture of the liner notes. Not your boobies. Not your boobies. Again, within reason. No, seriously. If you have a picture, if you have a copy of the CD, I guess I could also just order the CD on eBay. It was like four bucks. Someone I know has the CD. Where's the fun in that? Let's track this thing down. And also, it doesn't help the whole Super Bowl... show thing. Maybe that's it. Maybe it was like, okay,

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nowhere can you find her nipple.

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Well, the thing is, like, that's 90% of what comes up, and then, like, picture of the album, like, I can't find it. Did you

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Google liner notes?

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Yeah. Well, that's what I Googled.

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Yeah.

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I didn't just Google Janet Jackson boob.

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Hands on boobs.

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Because I'm not 10 anymore.

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I would probably Google.

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Oh, I did, like, every variation. I can't even Look. Take 30 seconds. Check it out. Okay. See what you can find.

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So we have her face. More of her face.

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I saw her stomach in one picture.

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Her amazing curls. Oh, I got some armpits.

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Yeah.

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No boobies.

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Nope. I don't even want boobs. I want hands. Because that's what it was. It was hands on her boobs. That's exactly

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right. It wasn't her boobs. That's weird.

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Nothing, right? No.

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No.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So gapoftheninetiesatgmail.com.

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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I got a shirt.

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I'll take that.

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Yes.

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I'll take that.

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It's hands on boobies.

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Okay. So we can agree it existed because it was bothering me. Yes. I mean, I didn't spend like my day on it, but I spent enough time... That it distracted me from other things that I was trying to, you know, when your wife's like, what are you doing on your phone? And

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you're like, just let me just find the boobs. I'm just trying to

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Google Janet Jackson's boobs. Let me just get

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the boobs. So I'm finding lots of shirts.

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Okay. So that leads me to believe that it was a thing.

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It existed.

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Okay.

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Oh, it was a Rolling Stone cover. Wow. Was it? Oh

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man, I like very much

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remember it being in the

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liner

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notes. But it's the same headshot.

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Yes, right?

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Yeah.

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Okay, again, gapinthe90gmail.com. If you remember it being in the liner notes, let us know. You can also go on our social media, Facebook, Instagram. Threads. Leslie may have mentioned something in the past about threads or Germany.

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Whatever.

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So today, yeah, that's been bothering me. Yeah,

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well, now we know.

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But do we?

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No.

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Because I feel like that Rolling Stone thing kind of left a cliffhanger.

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Yeah, it did. And I put my phone down because I didn't want you

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to yell at me. Yeah, because, again, yeah. All right. So we'll find out.

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We'll find out.

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All right. So yeah, that really bugged me. But we'll find out. And then just, I guess, one other thing before we start. Episode 10. This is episode 10. This is

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double digits and I just wasted time.

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It's okay. We got all the time in the world. Oh my gosh. Only, this got cut off last time. Only 17% of podcasts make it past episode, make it to episode 10? I think it was past episode 10. Past episode 10.

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We're at 10. This

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is 10. This is a milestone. This

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is double digits.

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This is double digits.

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Well, I texted Rebecca the other day and I was like, listen, because she's busy. We're listening to the Scandal podcast.

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Obviously.

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Yeah. And so I was like, hey, if you are bored, listen to episode eight. I'm talking about my junior year and I'm talking about Baskin Robbins. And she was like, eight? She was like, how did that happen?

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Shouldn't have to be bored, Rebecca. Yeah.

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To listen. To listen. Yeah, well. When you're cool like that, you have other things to do. I very much get it. Yep.

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I've met a cool person or two in my day. Yeah. They are not listening. One or two. Exactly. But we do have our listeners. We

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have some solid listeners.

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Yeah. Yep. Loyal listeners.

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What did I say? 12 more states or 16 more states to go before

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we hit 50? I think it was 16 to go. Yep.

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That's a big deal.

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Well, I was really excited because I was like, oh, we have 16 states. And you were like, to go. And I was like, no, to go. That's huge because there's 50 nifty

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United

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States. 50 minus 16. Yeah. So 34. Yeah.

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Plus we got Washington, D.C. today. District

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of Columbia.

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Yeah.

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Yes, huge. Episode 10. I mean, this is just what we...

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That is exciting.

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We could only have dreamed of this.

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I'm

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proud of us.

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I am too. We had a lot of big ideas in the

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day. A lot of big ideas. I'm guessing most listeners know us. It's... This is a lot. It's a lot to stay on track, stay focused. I

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would say our attention span together is maybe a quarter

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of the average human. That goldfish on my counter is... The

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dead goldfish.

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Poor Ranger. Oh,

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Ranger.

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So, yeah, we're doing good. We're trucking. We're going to keep going. I'm excited about it. I am, too. And you know what? Before we know it, we'll be talking about episode 20.

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I know.

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Episode 50. Yes. Episode 100. Yeah, this is great. We're going to be making

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guest appearances.

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Yeah.

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Or something like that.

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We are due for a guest appearance. I know, I was thinking that. To have somebody a guest on. I was thinking that. So maybe next time we can... So for those who don't know, which is probably everybody outside of this room right now, we kind of just choose the topics during the week. Based on... based on whatever comes up. Yeah, whatever we're thinking about at that moment. So, yeah, we can start scheduling. Do you have people that

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you know want to be on it?

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No one has approached me and asked to be on it.

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Yeah.

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But I've asked people if they'd have interest, and everyone I have has been pretty interested.

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Yeah. I definitely have friends that are interested. The one that is very 90s with me, Kate, she's like, no, man, I don't even know how you do that. Really? But she's a big fan. But how do we do what? We just talk. She said it would be like stage fright.

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Yeah, I mean, I think the first one a little... The first one was a little weird. When I give the intro, if there's a third person here, it's weird for me. But beyond that, it's literally just talking. Yeah. So...

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And banging microphones.

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And banging microphones. Get it out of the way. So that being said, today we are talking about board games in the 90s.

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And we both discovered the same thing.

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Yes, we did. We'll get into that a little bit. Okay. So speaking of which, let's just get into it.

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Okay.

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Welcome to Generation Gap in the 90s, the podcast where a Gen X girl and a millennial guy dive deep into the decade that defined us. From OJ to Y2K, VHS tapes to the dawn of the DVD, we're revisiting movies, music, and events that shaped a generation, or in our case, two generations. I'm Will here with my co-host Leslie.

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Leslie.

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And as we discussed, we are going to talk about board games. Now, I want you, Leslie, to think of... A time, a simpler time. A simpler time we refer to as the 90s. Now, the board games you were playing were probably a little different than the ones I was playing because of the generation gap.

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Yes, but I don't know if they were.

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Well, something I just thought of earlier was... You probably played a lot of my games that I was playing while you were babysitting

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kids. Yes.

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Yes. Yes.

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Because I definitely have ones in my head that I played when I babysat as compared to ones I played with my friends and family.

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Okay. Yeah.

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We were a game family. Were you a game family?

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We were kids. It wasn't, like, a weekly thing. Yeah, no, no, no. But, like, yeah, definitely loved games. Yeah. And, yeah, we had our set thing of games. Yeah. And we'll get into them, obviously. I did the, you know, my favorite board games. Mm-hmm. And then I did the ones I hate.

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Oh. So... Man, I'll be able to speak on that. I don't have a list, but there's lots that I hate. That's

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all right. So... I also put the dates down that they were invented, which that's what we were discussing earlier. A lot of these were very interesting to me.

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I had no idea that there was even board games in the 1800s.

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Wasn't Nintendo started in the 1800s? What are you talking about? I believe they were a playing card company. What? If I'm not mistaken. Get out of

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here.

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If somebody wants to fact check that, that'd be great. Fact checkers in the booth, if you could hit that up. Thank you. So, yeah.

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But wait. Can I ask this first? Were you a rule follower of games? I

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was. I was a rule follower. I was also, I would say, a sore loser. Were you? That's where some of my games I despise came into play.

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Okay.

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And here's the other thing about my list. I only did board games. Me too. No card games.

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Oh, yeah,

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yeah. So you guys were a board game family?

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We were a board game family. Okay. And... I would say we played by the rules, but we would keep tempers in check. Okay. So my friend who you know very well, Jen F., her family is a board game family and they play by the rules. And it is like I... When I have to play in that family.

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I mean, I only met him once, maybe twice. I could see her brother being very intense. Oh, yeah. Was he like an umpire

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or something? Yes. He still is. I can't hear the word Fez. F-E-Z. Fez. Without thinking of him, because I was at Jen's house. I actually think it was her parents' house when we were playing Scrabble.

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I was going to say, are they the dictionary with the Scrabble? Yes.

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I love it. And her brother happened to be someplace else playing, and he called up, and all he hears, Jen, is Fez a word? And I was like, yeah, Fez is a word, and he was so angry. Oh, man.

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It's probably like a triple word score

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too. I think that's exactly what it was. You got to watch out for those. I know. I know.

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So yeah, you're... Okay, so family-wise, did you play them with your friends? Were you big on playing board games or games with your friends?

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I think I was. Stacey and I would play games a lot. Okay. Matt, not so much. Matt was on his Atari.

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I think mine, it depended on who... I was with, like, who was hanging out. I had a good friend named Kevin growing up, Kevin J. He had, like, all the best board games. All the games. Yeah, like, one came out. His family was big into board games. He's really smart, like, came from a smart family. Yeah, he had, like, all the best board games. So

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I was thinking that when I went through the board games. Like, we had a lot of board games, but the new ones that came out we would never get. Okay. And I would be a little bit jealous because I would want them.

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Well, I thought they were new until I started looking them up and was like, what the fuck? Yeah, I hear you. So, all right. To this day, I love board games. I love game nights. Same. You know, my wife and I buy games when we see them. We have our little game shelf over there. I see a few right over here. We have a box like in the basement on the shelf. Yeah. We always talk about doing game nights and you just never do.

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Because it just never happens. It just never happens. I know.

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Because it's life. Speaking of

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life.

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Look at that segue. The

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game of life. That was not even planned. Do you know it was created in 1860? I

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didn't before we started talking about... until that one time you did find out yes but that's crazy okay so was life on your list of games well life was on

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my list because I did I did enjoy and the reason why was because I loved thinking of the opportunity to have cool jobs like doctor and lawyer

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okay I remember the life commercials it seemed like a

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fun game the game of life that one

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sure No? Was that how the commercial went? I don't remember. I'm trying to think of the 90s commercial. That's the tune.

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Ask Stacey.

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How'd it go?

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In the game of life. Wow.

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I think it was too much for me.

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It was a lot of moving parts.

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No pun intended. A lot of moving parts. Do we decide we could play commercials on here? I think so. All right, because I am going to play one. Okay. So my list is in any kind of order? Same. Okay. How many games do you have?

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Well, I have 11. Oh, damn. But one of them... was just because I liked the name and I never played it, but I had a little story about it.

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Okay.

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And I don't necessarily love these. A couple, I just have stories. Okay.

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I have, I actually have 12 now that I look on my list, but six are love. Okay. Six are hated. I

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can't wait to see if some of your hated or my hated. Yeah.

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I can't wait to see if some of my hated or your loved.

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Yeah. I can't wait to see if some of your loved are my hated. I didn't even think of that. Yeah. All

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right. Well, the game of life was not on my list at all.

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Oh, at all?

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No. Oh, okay. I didn't even... Oh, no. I

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played that a

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lot. No, I didn't even think about it. I think my aunt who lived in Vermont, she had it. So it was like we played it maybe once. No,

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I really loved making the choices.

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Okay. I couldn't even tell you how it worked. Oh, okay.

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Yeah. All right. Well, then let's stop talking about it.

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All right. What's next? Here's one you might have played when you were babysitting. Yeah. But it's one I looked up and was like, oh, crap. It gave me that very nostalgic 90s

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feeling.

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Yes. What is it? I think it was 90s Dizzy Dinosaur. Did you ever play that? I don't

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even know Dizzy Dinosaur.

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It was like you'd wind up the dinosaur and it would like go in a random pattern, like hit you in little pieces and stuff like that. Oh my

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gosh, that's so cool. It was an awesome game. Was it supposed to be like Godzilla?

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A friendly Godzilla, I guess. You realize I'm going to play all these.

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But I didn't even...

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Oh, Dizzy. It was Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur.

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Oh.

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This is one of those games, like, I don't think I ever actually played it the right way. I was... You just,

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like, seen the little dinosaur go around and

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around. Like, we'd play it, like, to a degree. It was never the actual, like, gameplay, I don't think. But, yeah, I remember having it. I remember enjoying it. I... Nope. Never played that in

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my life.

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Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur.

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Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur.

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Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur. What do you got next?

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In no particular order. This is a game I loved to play. I just played it the other day at a brewery. I can't say that word either. Right? With Jen F., who I was just talking about, and Tegan. Guess who? Oh, that's on my list. So did you know, 1972. I

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have 79 for Guess Who, and it was bought. by milton bradley and brought to the u.s in 82 oh

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well you're smarter than i am um but we were playing um

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that's wikipedia i don't know oh so

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mine was siri oh we were playing bro the kinds of type the fucking are you gonna let me talk you're asking siri kitty you know

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what's not research

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Because I was supposed to be here at 7, and he was like 6.42. And literally, he goes, what are you doing? Dude, it's never that important. It's

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all

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right. But...

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Anyway. Guess who did you play? Was it the original where there were five women and the rest were guys? So if you picked a woman... Yes! What

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is that?

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Yeah. They changed it now where it's... I think it's more like...

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Really? Because...

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I saw an Instagram video. I think it was Instagram. I don't know. I saw a social media video a while back. Was it they

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used the funny question? Yeah, yeah. So that's what we were doing. Jen was like, do you think this person prefers coffee over

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tea? That's the way to do it. Yes. It was so

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much fun.

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I also know of somebody, a friend of a friend, who got a tattoo of a guess who piece. No. They had themselves... That's

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hilarious.

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A little jealous I never thought of that. It's pretty great. Well, can I

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tell you? So, you know, we just had a retirement party on Friday. And Jen and I were saying that we wish we had thought about it sooner because we would have loved to have taken... yearbook pictures of like all past people that worked at our school and created our own guess who board. And then like who ate all of the, uh, you know, chocolates out of the chocolate box. That's right. The best part is when it was like, if the person likes to you over coffee or whatever. And Tegan and I, we were playing on the same like team, you know, cause there's two player game. And she was like, ma, he totally drinks coffee. I'm like, no, he does not. He drinks tea.

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Yeah. Great game. Um, yeah, you would pick the, the females like once and be like, it's crazy. Yeah. Why am I doing it? Cause you lose every time.

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Yep.

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Um, I think everybody has the childhood story of they guessed it on the first try. Yes. Just boom, got it. Yes,

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yes. Actually, that leads me into the next game.

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Okay, jump in it.

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I'm going to.

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Jump on it.

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Clue. So Clue is... It was a difficult game, right? Yep. And I loved playing it, and it kind of made sense to me, but it was like I got so like... I just needed to guess. Yeah. And I remember whoever I was playing with would get so mad, like, why are you saying it's Colonel Mustard in the library? Like, we didn't even talk about the library yet. But I just wanted it... You didn't even start. I wanted it done.

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Yes.

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So I would just guess.

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I agree. Clue, not even on my list. Didn't love it, didn't hate it. I just... Anything... You had to concentrate. Well, I don't know why you yell at me all the time for being hard on myself. I was never a smart person.

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Oh, well, yes,

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you were. It just wasn't my brain type.

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Yes,

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it didn't work that way. It wasn't my thought process. Yes. So clue, risk. Yes. My best friends loved risk.

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Risk, it makes me want to punch someone. Yes. To me, that's like just hand a social studies book in front of me.

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Exactly. Right? And again, it's not on my list. I don't love it. I don't hate it. It's just nothing to me. I've never... I played it one night with my friend, John and David, and they made me play. They kicked my ass. I just didn't have any interest in it.

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Clue, I really, really liked how you would have the person, the room, and the weapon all in one... that you put it in, like, the little secret file pouch. Yeah. And I always liked that. Like, oh, that's cool. It's, like, all secret in the pouch.

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So that's what made you excited.

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The pouch. Gotcha. Well, I get it.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

I get it. The Clue movie was great. I was just going to say that. I

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was just going to say that.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah, I never... Again, it just... Wasn't even on my radar. I had no interest in it. I'm more of a... I'll jump into my next one, actually. Please do. I'm more of a... When it comes to thought process and stuff, Trivial Pursuit is on my list. Loved Trivial Pursuit. You know a lot of facts. You are probably a fan.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

We should get 90s.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Is that a thing? I'm sure they must have a pack for 90s. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Because I remember my parents doing like a 60s one.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Yeah.

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And I hated because I didn't know the answers and they knew them all. My parents had the original. Or what was it? Like Baby Boomer or something.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

The Boomer Edition. Yeah. Yes. Boomer Edition. That's right. And then they had the Genius Edition, Genius whatever. And then we had the original, which was, I didn't realize it was 1981. So that came out pretty late. Oh, so

SPEAKER_02 25:14

I

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was only like. Five. 32. In

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dog

SPEAKER_00 25:20

ears. Yeah, 81. When I was a little older than 81, because I wasn't born yet, they came out with the Disney edition or whatever. We had that one. I love trivia. I love, like, bar trivia. I love random knowledge, random facts. Yeah, so I love Trivial Pursuit. What was crazy, I feel like, again, everybody had somebody they knew, whether it was a family member... Like, for me, it was our neighbor. She was one of those people who, like, had this insane knowledge of, like, just random, like, deep fucking, like, every category except for sports. I don't think she knew sports. But, like, TV shows. All of it. You know, art, history, all, like, the random stuff. And you're, like, everyone's looking at each other. And she's, like, spouting out these answers.

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Yeah.

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I feel like everybody knows one of those people who just knows very much

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stuff. My mom, Joe Hyphen. She was very good at Trivial Pursuit. Does she want to come over for

SPEAKER_00 26:19

a game

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night? She would. But you know what? Joe Hyphen would know art. Didn't you pick a category?

SPEAKER_00 26:28

So yeah, you would roll the dice. Yeah, I guess we're not really explaining the games

SPEAKER_02 26:34

anymore.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

It's okay. You would land on a block, a spot, and then it would... You could go in either direction. So you'd be like, oh, do I want purple, which is sports, or do I want pink, which is history? Gotcha. I don't remember the colors. And then so you'd go with whatever, and then you would answer one of that from that category on whatever card. I was going to say, because history

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would be like brown. I

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think history was brown. Yeah. Or science was brown. And I would

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think pink would be like arts and leisure.

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I don't even.

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But you know what I mean? Yeah. There's a color for everything.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Green was probably science or something.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

Exactly. It's like chicken every year. Go. Go. All right. My next game. We can keep it together.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

So, yeah. Trivial Pursuit. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

Okay, so you probably have this one. Operation.

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Operation is on my do not like list.

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Operation. You're the doctor, got the patient on the run. Operation. No?

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Yeah. It scared me. It scared me as a child.

SPEAKER_02 27:46

It didn't scare me. 1965.

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It made me want to

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put my fist... through a wall

SPEAKER_00 27:53

I could see that

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because I would like I'd want to get the little freaking wishbone out

SPEAKER_00 27:58

yeah

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and you'd hit it

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so our commercial was operation operation oh really yeah it was different

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not

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operation no yeah that's why I said I was like water on the knee operation something oh really yeah Interesting.

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Remember the rubber band?

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I don't. I played that game in New Jersey at my grandparents' house when I spent a week with them. I hated it. It's ironic that I electrocuted myself today. Yeah, that is.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

That is.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

That is why I hate it. I think it just scared me. I didn't like the idea of it.

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See, like you would do and get scared and I would do and get pissed. Understandable. And I'd want to like flip

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it. Yeah. Flip it good. Operation. Yeah, good one. 1965. They have all kinds of Operation, though. Different

SPEAKER_02 29:01

people. Yeah, I think I saw a Shrek one.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Yeah, that makes sense. We should have gotten one of these games to play.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

I know.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Let's get Operation.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

I'll pick it up.

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I was going to say I have it, but I don't anymore. What's

SPEAKER_00 29:15

next? I'll do another one from my like list. Chutes and Ladders was a big one of mine when I was little.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

So I didn't put that one down because it was almost like a given.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:27

I really enjoyed Chutes and Ladders.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

I guess it was Snakes and Ladders originally. Used to be, yeah. 1943 it was created. And I feel

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like every single time we played it, my mother would say, you know this used to be called Snakes and Ladders.

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Yeah.

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It was a great game. It was a great

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game. Game of chance.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

I like that you could be launched ahead or

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launched... You weren't good at it. You weren't bad at it. Exactly. You just played it. Game of luck. Yeah, good game. And do you equate that with...

SPEAKER_00 29:55

Candyland?

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Yeah. No. Then why'd you just fucking say

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it? Because I knew... So... You can go fuck yourself.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

You totally just said

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it. Do you want to know why? Because I just started playing Candyland with my kid, and I was like, I thought it was going to be the same... Pretty much the same game, and I was really excited. I was like, this is bullshit. Yeah,

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but you put them together. I'm not saying they're the same game. Yeah,

SPEAKER_00 30:21

I guess. Oh, yeah, I guess. Yeah. I don't like Candyland. I thought I would like it more. It's for three-year-olds. I don't know what I was expecting. I don't know. When you get the

SPEAKER_02 30:33

double jelly bean, it's a good

SPEAKER_00 30:35

day. Well, there's only two spots to jump ahead of. As opposed to, and none of them drop you back. Oh, wait, do they? Oh, yeah, they can drop you back. Yeah, I guess I don't mind. No, forget it. You already told us. Yeah, fuck that game. And I got to pretend to lose. Oh, I know it. I know it. And I'm not that dad where I'm like, no, he can't lose. Yeah. Every time we play, I end up so, like, for some reason, I end up just launching ahead. Light years ahead. You get those candy cards, and you end up, and I'm like, crap, I can't do that because I'm going to win. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

And then he's, like, just not going to want to play.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

Well, that's the thing. I

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know.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

And then he wins. He's not a dick about it yet, so that's good. He'll get there.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

So I will say next. I'm going to say probably I feel about this game kind of like how you did with Operation because it would hunger hip up.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

It was so loud. Yeah. Do you know they have like a huge one now that you sit on? Like at the arcade? At the arcade, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:43

Oh, really? Dave and Buster's has it. I love at school, the kids play a game in phys ed where it's like they... Oh,

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with the basket and they move each other or whatever? Yes,

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and one rolls them by the feet on the slider thing. Yes. I always loved that. That's awesome. But it was just so loud. Yeah. And the... I always felt like I had some strategy, like, wait,

SPEAKER_00 32:13

go. Yeah, I was definitely trying to catch them, not just the one kid just mashing it.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

Yeah, and I think it was just so loud.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

I don't think it worked. So I will relate another game to that, and this is probably my favorite of my favorite games, Crossfire. Okay. Oh my gosh. You'll get caught up in

SPEAKER_02 32:36

the crossfire. So it's funny you said that. Because I was watching commercials and one of them said, everyone knows Crossfire from the 90s. And if you didn't play it, you just pretended you did because you wanted to be cool. I never played it. I never played

SPEAKER_00 32:59

it. They went hard for that commercial. Yeah. It actually wasn't that fun of a game. No? No,

SPEAKER_02 33:05

it was cool. It kind of seemed like

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Beyblade. That's actually, I don't know what a Beyblade is, but that's kind of what I thought.

SPEAKER_02 33:14

Yeah?

SPEAKER_00 33:14

I kind of figured Beyblade is something like Crossfire from, you know what I mean? Where

SPEAKER_02 33:18

they're like little pieces and they're like spun and they knock.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

Yeah, there was one that looked like a little saw blade almost. Yes. On like a ball bearing, and then there was a triangle on a ball bearing. Okay. Or like on a wheel, yeah, on a ball bearing where it's going any direction.

UNKNOWN 33:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

And then you would take these little smaller ball bearings, put them in this little gun, and just like shoot it. By shoot it, I mean like... Oh, yeah. Yeah, just like sprung them out.

SPEAKER_02 33:41

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

And you would try to get the two shapes, the saw blade and the triangle, into the other person's side.

SPEAKER_02 33:49

Oh, by hitting the little ball bearings against

SPEAKER_00 33:52

it. Yeah, so you would like, you'd grab them as you played and like drop them into the top of the gun. It got hit in the

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crossfire.

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You'll get caught up in the... Crossfire. Oh, okay. But yeah, the commercial made everybody want it. My friend Kevin, again, that was like...

SPEAKER_02 34:08

Yeah.

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He had that game. So Kevin was a game fan. Yeah, they had the game... But yeah, they had like every game and a lot of video games too. Yeah. Well, I

SPEAKER_02 34:17

never

SPEAKER_00 34:17

played it. But the... Oh, it was... Yeah, it was good. It's a good one. Good game. Good game. I mean, also, I was 10 when it came out. When it was big, like...

SPEAKER_02 34:29

So that's

SPEAKER_00 34:30

the perfect age. Yeah, I was the one who was geared towards. Something I did learn for our listeners, it was invented in 1971, Crossfire, which blew my mind of all these. I was like, holy crap. 94 is when Milton Bradley edition came out, and that's when they dropped that banger on us and brought the commercial, and everybody

SPEAKER_02 34:51

was like, we need

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it.

UNKNOWN 34:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:53

Okay,

SPEAKER_00 34:54

okay. It looked a lot more fast-paced than it was. I'll put it that

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way. Oh, gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 34:58

But it was a fun game. I would play it today.

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Yeah.

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It's good enough.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

Well, I mean, it sounds kind of cool. I'd like to give it a shot.

SPEAKER_00 35:09

Fun intended. All right, what's your next one?

SPEAKER_02 35:14

All right, so this was not a board game. I mean, it was a board. It had a board. It would scare the shit out of me. And my mom wouldn't let me own it.

SPEAKER_00 35:25

Can I say what I think it is?

SPEAKER_02 35:26

Yeah.

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Perfection?

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No. Oh, no? But that, to me, is an anxiety attack in a

SPEAKER_00 35:32

bucket. Well, that's on my hate list. Oh, my God. Because fuck that game.

SPEAKER_02 35:35

Fuck that game.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

They should have just called it fucking- Why

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not just-

SPEAKER_00 35:40

Be a bomb squad technician. That's

SPEAKER_02 35:43

awful.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

Hated that game.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

I would be like, no! Yes.

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It had that stupid time where it was like. Yes. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

Yes. And then you would like try so, and like I would freeze.

SPEAKER_00 35:55

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

No, it wasn't that. Oh, fuck that game. No, my mom didn't let me have this game because I was a good Catholic girl and she didn't want me summoning demons. It was a Ouija board? It was a Ouija board. Oh, yeah. But it was at every sleepover. In the 90s. Yeah. And that is how I became really good friends with Brett. Of course. What did we call her?

SPEAKER_00 36:25

Two bag Brett? Two skins Brett. Two skins. Double skins Brett. Double

SPEAKER_02 36:30

skins. Double skins Brett. So we were at a sleepover. Somebody

SPEAKER_00 36:35

broke up at the Ouija board. You ended up skinning a fucking cat with her.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

Opposite. We were so fucking scared that we hid behind the couch. And in our goodie bags...

SPEAKER_00 36:47

Goodie bags at a sleepover? Yeah. What the... In the fucking suburbia?

SPEAKER_02 36:52

Exactly. In the colonial house. And we had a little tiny keyboard. And we sat and we played with those because we were petrified. And we were like... I don't want to summon the demons.

SPEAKER_00 37:04

No. No, I wasn't allowed to play Ouija either.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

For good reason, I guess. Have you ever seen the video of the dad who's downstairs, his daughter's having a sleepover and he's hitting the breaker? No. He's turning the power on. Oh my gosh, that's so funny. Every time he flips the breaker, you can hear them all scream.

SPEAKER_02 37:19

Meanwhile, that's something Brett's dad would have done. Oh my gosh, that's so funny. But it was like, it freaked me out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Because like, It always moves so smoothly. And

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everybody had the story of, like, they weren't touching it.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

Yes. I swear

SPEAKER_00 37:37

I wasn't touching it. Somebody was touching

SPEAKER_02 37:38

it. I know. Light as a feather, stiff as a board. Did boys do that?

UNKNOWN 37:51

No. Oh, my God.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

No. And Ouija's old, right? That came out back... Way back.

SPEAKER_02 37:56

Probably like Salem, which... I was just going to say, like, created in Salem, Massachusetts. Exactly. All

SPEAKER_00 38:02

right. Yeah, no, Ouija's not for me.

SPEAKER_02 38:05

So that was just a story. I didn't... I don't... Maybe I did have it. I don't know. But my mom didn't want me to have it.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

I'll tell you that much. Understandable. I'll tell you that much. I think my cousin had it, and it was like, stay away from it. Yeah, don't do that. Did you have... There were two games that were kind of like the same. They came in the same box, the same company. So I have written down Ants in the Pants. Do you remember that game? And Cooties? Oh, and Cooties.

SPEAKER_02 38:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

And Don't Break the Ice. And Don't Spill the Beans. Yeah, they were all the same company, like same box. Yes. Oh my God, that's so funny. My kid has cooties, the game. I love cooties. The game. Well, we don't play cootie. He just puts them, he loves putting them together. He just put them together, yeah. Don't break the ice. Don't break the ice. The

SPEAKER_02 38:52

girls and I played that a lot.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

Yeah. He likes to just beat the shit out of them. Yeah. Just break them all. Yeah,

SPEAKER_03 39:01

yeah,

SPEAKER_00 39:02

yeah. But yeah, great game. It's like a penguin now. Remember it was like a guy sitting?

SPEAKER_02 39:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:07

Now it's like a penguin. I guess they didn't

SPEAKER_02 39:09

want to unalive him.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

Yeah. But

SPEAKER_02 39:11

they'll unalive

SPEAKER_00 39:12

the penguin? Well, penguins swim in

SPEAKER_02 39:14

that water.

SPEAKER_00 39:17

Oh, you're right. Okay. Nobody can see you roll your eyes at me. Oh, my God. Let's see how we can make Leslie a victim this fucking week. Yeah, but ants in my pants. It's in the pants. I think so. Yeah, it was like a pair of plastic pants and you'd have these plastic... Ants. Ants. I guess we're more like grasshoppers. Yeah, I guess. You'd like... You'd hit the back of them, they'd jump, and you would just try to get them in the pants. And

SPEAKER_02 39:44

didn't the guy have big pants and suspenders?

SPEAKER_00 39:47

So the one I had, there was no character. It was just the pants with the suspenders. So the suspenders would always get in your way, which was annoying. I did read that there were later versions or other versions where it had a character. Technically, that game isn't a board game because there's no board.

SPEAKER_02 40:06

Yeah, but I would... Categorize it in there.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

Right. Released in 1969 originally. 1986, it was purchased by Hasbro. I probably got it in like 1991. Actually, I specifically remember getting it from my grim parents for Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

Oh, really? Yeah. What else you got? All right, so... Oh, I hope they're on my hate list. So, okay, so

SPEAKER_00 40:31

this... That's all I got left, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 40:33

Okay, so I have some that have a couple stories. I may mention them, I may not. But I will tell you my game that I loved. And I still love this game. And that's why I wouldn't read you my text earlier from Kate, because it was her favorite game, too. Okay. And she said she's going to bring it to Rehoboth, and I really hope she does. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

That is on my hate list.

SPEAKER_02 40:59

I pretty much thought it was going to be.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:04

Okay, but why?

SPEAKER_00 41:05

Because you could... People could knock you. It wasn't just you're playing versus.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

You could take somebody out.

SPEAKER_02 41:13

Yeah,

SPEAKER_00 41:14

you could. And you could drop them back. And that's what bothered me. It wasn't just like who's doing the best and who's getting the furthest. It was like not only that, but like I can land on you and send you back. You always had to be on the lookout.

SPEAKER_02 41:26

So my big thing I liked about it was there was– you had two things, right? So you had, you had to get the pieces out of the circle. You had like four pieces. You had to get out of the circle, but then each of those pieces had to get to the end.

SPEAKER_03 41:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:43

And so some people would like play their one piece the whole time.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

Yeah. Or some people would like bring them all

SPEAKER_02 41:49

out. I would do the all out thing because I was like, no, because same

SPEAKER_00 41:55

with trouble. Yes. You're right. Same thing.

SPEAKER_02 41:58

How's Sorry different from Trouble?

SPEAKER_00 42:01

I don't think it really is. I'm pretty sure it's the same game. It's just Trouble has

SPEAKER_02 42:04

the popper dice.

SPEAKER_00 42:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

Which is genius because you won't lose it.

SPEAKER_00 42:09

Yeah, it's fun getting into trouble. Pop-o-matic trouble. What was Sorry? Cards? Or dice?

SPEAKER_02 42:18

Dice. And just the pieces with the little nub on the end. Wide

SPEAKER_00 42:25

bottom.

UNKNOWN 42:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

Baby got back.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

I was just thinking of a joke.

SPEAKER_02 42:31

Oh, my God. Oh, man.

SPEAKER_00 42:32

Yeah. No, sorry. Sorry it was a game I played a lot. Yeah. And actually, you could see it was on my like list originally. I do

SPEAKER_02 42:39

have it.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

But I moved it because I was really thinking about it. And I was like, no, I used to get so... Again, I was a sore loser.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

As a kid.

SPEAKER_02 42:49

You know what? You probably right in between me and you... More sore losers came about.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:01

For me, it was like if you lost, you fucking lost.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

I was a sensitive kid.

SPEAKER_02 43:05

I was a sensitive kid. It was almost like I felt guilty winning games. That hurts my feelings. That's exactly right.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:17

I was a really sensitive kid. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

Yeah, it's... Yeah, I don't know why I became a sore loser. It was just the games, though. Sports, I had no problem losing.

SPEAKER_02 43:30

That's really funny.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

Just games. I'd get so

SPEAKER_02 43:32

mad. I wouldn't be a sore loser. It was almost like I was relieved because then I didn't have to feel guilty that I won the game. Yeah. That's typical.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

Yeah. Maybe mention that next week in your session. I will. I will. I just want to win. Sorry. Just once. I just want to win friends. I

SPEAKER_02 43:58

just want to win the game of life.

SPEAKER_00 44:03

Oh, yeah. Sorry. It was a game. Yeah. Another one I hated. Well, I'm just going to. This is a throwaway, but I mentioned it in another episode. But Mousetrap.

SPEAKER_02 44:14

Yes. Never worry. Well, I didn't even put it down because we had talked about

SPEAKER_00 44:18

it. I jotted it down. Came out in 1963. Yeah. That's crazy. That is crazy. A lot of these games are like so old that I just never, I don't know. It's crazy how old they are. Anyway, so I'll say Battleship. I fucking hate Battleship.

SPEAKER_02 44:35

Really? I liked Battleship. Yeah? I did. I did. What I did not like was Electronic

SPEAKER_00 44:46

Battleship. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That noise would

SPEAKER_02 44:49

annoy me. Oh my gosh, Stacey, do you remember this? Some of our pegs had teeth marks.

SPEAKER_00 44:58

Because of the nerves? I think so. I'm a bad person. I'm a bad guesser. I feel like you'd kind of guess which direction the ship was going. Yes, but then did you use your

SPEAKER_02 45:17

strategies? See, so that's why Gen, Gen is a phenomenal game. She teaches her students like, okay, here's some different strategies instead of just like, did you just willy-nilly, no pun intended, just give a coordinate?

SPEAKER_00 45:36

No,

SPEAKER_02 45:37

man.

SPEAKER_00 45:38

No, and that's the thing. I did use strategy. I'd go one direction and the other direction and whatnot, but I felt like the other person always... outwitted me or outguessed me. Did you

SPEAKER_02 45:50

ever do things like sometimes I would put boats right next to each other?

SPEAKER_00 45:54

Yeah, yeah. Because then you would think,

SPEAKER_02 45:56

yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:57

All right, what else

SPEAKER_02 45:58

you got? So this one, I liked the idea of it, but I wasn't very good at it because I was young. Mastermind.

SPEAKER_00 46:09

What was Mastermind?

SPEAKER_02 46:12

Mastermind, it was like, it's almost like Wordle. Do you play Wordle? I play Wordle every day. So you would put your pegs into some kind of sequence, like let's say red, blue, blue, green, yellow. And so then the person would try to guess what your pattern was, and then you would put pegs saying if it was in the right spot or if... I do have that color, but it's in the wrong spot.

SPEAKER_00 46:45

Oh, that sounds like something I would either love or hate.

SPEAKER_02 46:48

That's exactly right. Like, probably, that's definitely one of the games you should probably pay attention to the good for this age.

SPEAKER_00 46:56

Yeah. Gotcha. You

SPEAKER_02 46:58

know what I mean? Because, like, I wanted to be good at it, but I wasn't really that good at it. But I loved the idea of the game.

SPEAKER_00 47:07

I was recently thinking about, like, high school math and, like, doing, do you remember math proofs?

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Yeah.

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And I hated them. I had such a hard time because I didn't pay attention. I couldn't pay attention. Welcome to my

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world.

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Now I think about what they actually were. I think it's something I would love as an adult. Can I

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tell you how much I

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learned being a teacher? I believe it.

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So many things where I was like, oh.

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Yeah. I'm so mad at my 15-year-old self because I'm like, dude. That was actually fun. You could have enjoyed that, like putting the pieces together. Yes, exactly. But instead, you just didn't pay attention because you felt awkward in your own body.

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Yep.

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Stop crying, Will. Never. Yeah, man, if I could go back and do it again, I would have been a rock star. Oh, so funny. By rock star, I mean good student. Yeah. Yeah. So my last hate game, though, is Monopoly. I hate Monopoly. Oh, gosh. I didn't even put

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it on. Did you ever in your life?

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Finishing

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a Monopoly? Nope. Me neither. Hate it.

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Hate everything about it.

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Yeah. And there are some rules, though. I forget when, but I was looking at the rules and... It seems like if you play the rules to a T, it would end a lot faster.

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There's that one rule that if you land on one of your uncle's spaces, he gets to touch the inside of your thigh. Did you guys? No?

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No. My uncles were more like, if you land on my space, you have to go get me another beer. I'm going to make a phone call.

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Yeah.

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Oh, God, I can't stand it. Inside of the thigh. Oh, man. No. No. Do you want me to take you somewhere?

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Please. Drop me off at a fire

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station? Do you need

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a wooden nickel? That was funny to me. What a nickel.

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Oh, shit. So when I was going through the lists, there was this one game. It was called Crackers in My Bed. Oh,

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I remember that

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game. Do you? Do you have a picture of it? No, I don't. Look it up, though.

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No, I think my sister had that one. And Pizza Party, I feel like. Oh, I heard of that one,

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but I had never heard of Crackers in My Bed, but it made me laugh because when I met.

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Because you thought of my wife?

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Eating crackers in her bed?

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Because she sleeps with a cracker in her bed.

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Because you're white. No, yeah, that's the gist of it. That's awesome. No, my husband, actually, when we first met in college, whenever he saw a hot girl, he'd be like, I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers. He used to make me laugh.

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Was he like 78 when you did it? Exactly.

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It was like we'd be there and you'd see some hot girl. I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

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Oh, man. That just unlocked a memory. Yeah? Yeah. I think my sister had this one.

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I've never even heard of it before today. So you know what? So then I finally looked up what came out in the 90s, like what was created in the 90s. And the one... that I talked about a lot, I do remember Dream Phone. And I was not allowed to get it. No? No. And it's not that I wasn't allowed to. It was more like, no, you know it's not going to be good. It's

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funny you mentioned Dream Phone because I really thought like Maud Mandis would be on your

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list. Yep. I put the two together in

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my head. So I figured that would be on your list. Yeah.

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No, but I didn't play that. That was funny. I think I would enjoy that game. Who sings that, Jack Black? Right? Yeah.

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That's so funny. So good.

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So maybe I should look up. I bet you if you look up 90s commercial and I look up 80s commercial, 80s Operation commercial.

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I just remember, water on the knee, operation! Have you ever played Don't Wake Daddy?

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Yeah.

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It's actually a fun game. It

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is a

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fun game. See? So... Leslie and I both just showed each other the commercials for Operation from our generation. And I think it very much sums up the generation gap. Like I got a little

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bit angry that you didn't know Operation. Yeah. You're the doctor, got the patient on the

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run. But I think it's like mine was such a, I think mine said 94. Yeah. Which apparently was a big year for games from what I'm seeing. I don't

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know. I was a senior in high school. That's true.

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Well, and that's why I said I really feel like you probably babysat some kids who were playing the games that I was playing. Yes.

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The one I was waiting for you to say, Hi Ho Cheerio. Do you remember that one? It has the little cherries in the trees.

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I was picturing cherries, and I can't figure out why.

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And I remember playing that while I was babysitting. And I was thinking, I was like, oh, I bet you Will has that on his list.

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I don't. Oh, yeah.

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Cheerio

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or Cheerio? Cheerio.

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Yeah.

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What? eBay. Vintage 1999. Oh,

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my God.

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That hurts me.

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That's

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insane. Vintage 1999. Vintage. That game's from the 1900s.

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Exactly.

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Oh, my goodness. But it was also around in 92, there's a version. So it was, yeah, it was around when I was, I feel like this was in one of my classrooms, but we never played it when I was younger. Wait, which one? Like, I feel, Hi-Ho Cheerio, I feel like that was, like, one of the games on the shelves in the classroom. Yeah.

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I love that we have our own

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Operation commercial.

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Yeah.

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That's

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nice. It is really cool. It really separates us.

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Apparition.

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I feel like we have, we should do an episode where it's the same product, different commercials.

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Ooh, yes.

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I think that'd be really good.

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Yes.

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Yeah, we'll have to, I mean, that's going to take a little bit of communication, research. So that's it. That's the list of games. That is

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episode

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10. Episode 10.

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I'm

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excited. We did board games. As I say in every episode, it was a little all over the place.

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No, it's just us.

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Yeah. I hope you enjoyed it. Those were our lists. If you have games that you think of that weren't on the list, shoot us an email.

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Let us know. Or if you were like waiting, like, oh, I can't wait till they talk about this game and we didn't even mention it.

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Yeah. If you think of any games we didn't mention or... Remember them differently than we remembered. Let us know. Either way, I hope you enjoyed the episode. It was a trip down memory lane, as they all are.

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Mm-hmm.

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And the memory lane of the greatest decade to exist. I have...

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Oops, sorry. I got PTSD because you flipped a board game over. Oh. Sent the pieces flying. Many of times.

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Matt. Monopoly.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Game ain't over till the board is flipped. Yeah. Do you have any shout outs you'd like to give? I have a couple of local things. Please tell. For our local listeners. You

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can start.

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I can start, okay. Anybody in the Hudson Valley area or Dutchess County more specifically, but Hudson Valley area? Wappingers Falls, I went to a place called Retro Bites

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the other day. Oh, that's right.

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I texted you about it.

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Yes, and I thought it was like a tchotchke store.

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Yeah, it's a little like restaurant spot.

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That's

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cool.

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Was the food

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retro themed? The food's like, it's like, Burgers. I was just

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going to say you eat

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like a

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burger.

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Yeah, it's like burgers, chicken sandwiches, like bar food kind of thing. It's not a bar, but it's like that kind of food. They have a halal menu, which is cool. They have like milkshakes, stuff like that. It's a pretty cool place. The food was solid. But what makes it retro? So they have... At each table you sit at, you can play video games. You can either sit there and eat. My wife and I were getting food to take out, but we were still messing with the video games. And I'll post them on our site. We can post them on Instagram or whatever. On IG. I hope they don't mind. But you can play video games while you sit there and eat or while you're waiting for your food. They were very encouraging to just play the games while you're waiting. That's pretty cool.

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You didn't need quarters?

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No, it's all free to play. And when I say they have... every video game. Do

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they have Mrs. Pac-Man? I

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didn't look for it. Oh,

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asshole.

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The first thing I did, there was a game at the Duchess Mall that I...

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Used

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to play. It was like some spy game. And I played it because it was only a quarter when everything else went up to 50 cents. Got it. They had it. They had that game. They had NBA Jam. Did they have Qbert? Fucking probably, Leslie. Willard, you're telling me they have games. Every game. Every game. I just named two. I would put money that they did. I didn't specifically look for those games. Then you don't know. I don't know.

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They have Frogger?

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They have Frogger. Yep, they had Frogger. It was so good. Frogger was great. I played it for 45 minutes.

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There was not Frogger.

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I didn't look for Frogger.

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I hate you. I hate everything about you. They

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had... I

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don't care what they

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had. Contra. Contra was on there. I

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don't even

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know what that is. I don't know what that is. Well, because you're naming fucking Atari games because you're old. Oh,

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they weren't Atari games?

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They probably had Atari games. I didn't look that deep, but they really did. It was like... It was, like, yeah, just amazing, all the games they had. Wow. And they're free to play while you eat or while you wait. So if you're in the area, Wappager Falls, it's called Retro Bites, very worth checking out. And, again, the food was solid. And– The young lady who helped my wife and I was very nice, which goes a long way with me. So go check them out. Oh, yeah, definitely. Go support them. Go see what they're about. Cool. I was a big fan. I'll go

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check out and see if they have Qbert or Frogger or Mrs.

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Pac-Man. Please do, and report back so that we know that you actually checked out.

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Okay, I will.

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And the goal, and I'll promote this, is... We're trying to make it to 90s night. Yes. Ben Morrow Winery. Ben Morrow Winery. So Ben Morrow Winery and Vineyard in Marlborough. It is the

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oldest vineyard in America. Is it really? That's what it says. It must be true. I've been there. The winery also holds New York Farm winery license number one. No way. That's

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insane. That's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. So on June 20th, Ben Mara Winery is having 90s night. So from 630 to 930, there's going to be live music. by Run for Cover. Pretty exciting there. They're going to have wine, pizza, and charcuterie. But yeah, we're going to try to make it out there to just check it out. Anything 90s, we're all about it. That's pretty cool. So yeah, if we can get out there. It

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says plenty of seating to chill out. I like it. Come join us. Yes. Brick oven pizzas.

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We'll be rubbing elbows. Is that what they say? I don't know. That sounds gross. Rubbing something. Uh... Yeah.

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Run for cover.

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Have

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you

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heard of them? I have not, but I'm excited to check them out. Yeah, we'll make it a point to be there. Let's rent

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a bus.

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Oh, man. Can we do a Generation Gap bus?

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Yes.

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That'd be awesome. But yeah, other than that, I would actually like to just give a shout out. To my friends, the band I play with. Yes. We're called Emergency Exit Only. One day I'll listen. One day. One day. And

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live.

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Yeah. So John, Alyssa, Sarah, Vin. Hi. Is

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that the baby?

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Vin? Who's the baby? He's the young gun. Very talented. Very talented. Very smart guy. They all are. They have a baby. Oh, oh, I thought you meant Vin because he's like 26.

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Oh.

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But yeah, awesome people. Cool. When we get some stuff up and going around these parts, I will plug us. Cool. But in the meantime, just wanted to say hi to them.

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Hi.

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So what do you got, anybody?

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I was laying low this week. Wow. I had a lot going on.

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Yeah. The 90s news segment, I think, is going to take a little bit of a break. I think that's fine. Because I can't find any 90s news. Yeah,

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no.

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You know, because it's really just, it's becoming to the point where it's, like I said, I said jokingly, but it's true. It's either people who are dying or... And nine

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times out of ten, if they died, I don't know about it. That's true. All right. Don't be a dick.

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Don't be a dick. Have a great week. And they say if you fall down nine times, get up ten. Right?

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Yep.

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So keep getting up.

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Do it.

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While not being a dick.

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Do not be a dick. Please.

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Until next time. It's been real.

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Bye.

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Bye. Bye.