Nerd Poker - S5E19 TEN YEAR CELEBRATION! (with surprise Gerry Duggan)

Episode Date: November 29, 2022

Nerd Poker is turning 10 years old! And Dan has something sneaky up his sleeve to surprise the rest of the cast, but you get to know before you listen. Gerry shows up, and we all sip wine and Scotch while goofing off, talking about old games, doing bits way off the rails, and generally being dumb. 

Hey everybody, I'm Brian Poussin, Comedian, writer, actor, nerd. I've been playing D&D with my friends for a long time. I decided to do a new podcast where we play Dungeons & Dragons in my very own dining room. With my wife, kid, and my noisy dogs. So meet my friends... Sarah Kev Dan

Lee Chris Now it's time for another episode of Brian Poussaint's Nerd Poker. Hey, it's Billy. Season five. Hey, everybody. I'm Brian Poussaint. You're listening to my podcast here.

It's called Nerd Poker. Yeah. And it's me and my friends, and we sit around and we play D&D. You know that. Episode 19 of season five that was uh dan laughing let's say hi to him first hey brian buddy remember when i laughed really loud during john wick 2 and you were like dan i think you have adhd no one laughs like that when they don't have ad. And I was like, yes. Yes, Brian.

Did I really? Yeah, remember when the horses started? Oh, no, I remember the laugh. The laugh was amazing. Chris? Hey, Brian, what a nice little podcast you have here. I might set and stay a while. Yeah, it's just my friends playing D&D, that's all.

Oh, cool. Are you interested in the Bible? Sarah's here. Hi, hello, it's me. Hey, Sarah. Hi, are you just skipping over that Bible question? What? Are you just skipping the Bible question?

Ken's here, everybody. Hey, Ken. For the Lord so loved. Blaine. Blaine. Blaine. Thank God. I mean, fuck. Finally, you're one of us. He has risen, right guys? God damn it. Michael Rowe, you're both.

Fuck. Hallelujah. Sam's here. Hello, saved children. Yeah. Hallelujah. Let's jump in. How are you, buddy? I'm good.

I'm very, very good. And your dog as well. Yeah, I've switched my desk back around so now you guys can check in. Wait, wait, wait. Nothing. But yeah, he's good. I love the pink tree. You got a pink Christmas tree

yeah it's about that time of year the Dolly Parton tree goes up yay Dolly get to work yeah boss let's do it Brian shall I thank some folk I wish you would

hey folk I would like to thank Patreon supporters at our top two tiers of support. And y'all, this is a very special episode. If you're getting thanked this episode, holy shit, it's the 10-year anniversary of NerdPoker. And we are thanking supporters like Consensual Cannibalism. Blah, blah, blah. Thank you, Philadelphia Collins, a.k.A. The Mustard Tiger Thank you Dad Dad Daddy-O

Thank you Sean Why do we only get Nerd Poker stuff on here? I want to shout out other great Patreons Like Escher Girls and Read It and Weep Alright, why don't you go thank them on their own goddamn part Thank you Grotch Sabat Thank you Stabby McNeedles Thank you Doom Vault read it and weep all right why don't you go thank them on their own goddamn part thank you grotch sabat thank you stabby mcneedles thank you doom vault thank you rick miller thank you brian's ravenak ravenak i don't know what that word is do y'all yeah it's the creature that

eats me in um mandalorian oh yeah but do you know how to pronounce it? I think it's Ravnik. Sweet. That sounds very Star Wars-y, Ravnik. Thank you. Sean McKinley. Thank you, Castaway Cuties Booty Cooties. Thank you, Jim. The Jim motherfucking Price. Thank you, John

M. Emmer.com. It's pronounced Emmer like emergency. Uh-oh. I still love you, Dan, And I forgive you. Thank you. Iron brush painting on Etsy for your miniature needs. Thank you. Rock arm rabbit. Thank you.

All the little people. Ha ha. Thank you. George. George. George. George. George.

George. George. George. George. George. George. George. Thank you.

The other eight fingers, not up your ass. Then you play the Charlie Brown, like Christmas music to show the loneliness of those eight fingers. Thank you. Metal Mac, the battle bard. Thank you.

Vorta spin. Thank you. Voodoo beef. Thank you. Papal syrup. thank you vortis spin thank you voodoo beef thank you papal syrup thank you wieners mcgee esquire and asshole associates llc thank you orcish torso dan said that one time to describe why bode couldn't fit down that crevice to rob a safe thank you aiden the s is silent. Jervais. Thank you, Tortilla the Hun. Or Tortilla the Hun. I know that guy. Thank you, the recent Supreme Court decision makes me nostalgic for the time Blaine killed that kid. It is that bad, folks.

Thank you, Halflit Moon of the Newport Moons. Thank you, Dildo District Manager. Thank you, Jonathan Mayer. Thank you, LV Vallis. Thank you, Sir Richard's infected hand. Who here remembers? Did you, Sir Richard's infected hand. Who here remembers? Did you forget Sir Richard's infected hand? I didn't forget, Jerry.

No. Well, that's good. I'm glad you didn't forget, Jerry. That's really special. But hey, Blaine, who are those Patreon supporters brought to us by? Patreon supporters brought to us by 912, 2 in the 7, 1 in the 11, open all night. Wide open. And my doctor said my neck, my open all night wide open and my doctor said

my neck my back my pussy and my lanta dan aww thank you blaine so uh this is uh gross first of all blaine uh but yeah this is the 10th anniversary episode so

our heroes are approaching the keep of the evil lich and as they try to ascertain how to get from this outer wall they've been traveling through ascertain ascertain you creeps so uh yes you're you're approaching but your characters are gonna just just just take a break will they take a long? We'll figure that out on episode 20. But. Ascertainus. Right now, we are going to talk about just some.

Ascertainus. This is going to be a really goofy episode with lots of stuff like Brian singing that song. We are just going to talk about some old school D&D stuff, some nerd poker stuff. I've prepared some questions I'm going to ask everybody, but also shit can go way off the rails because guess what? We've got a special guest who I invited to pop in. What? Who? Hello. Yay. Terry Douglas.

No way. How are you? What a genuine delight. I've missed you all. I just talked to you today and you didn't tell me you were doing this. You son of a bitch. I love getting last minute invites to 10 year old parties. We didn't forget Jerry. I poured for your 10 for our 10.

A liquid. Ohwood single malt. What's the name of it? Single cask single malt. Where's it from? Say the name again. It's a Linkwood. I don't know Linkwood. We can pretend it's Glynishmore.

Yeah, it should be. I don't know Linkwood. I think it's Speyside. I may have the region wrong. I think it's Speyside. I'm not sure of the region wrong, but this is a sherry bomb. I don't know if you can see it. Sherry goodness. Is it from a sherry cask?

Is that why? This was aged 12 years in sherry. Sweet is all of you. Cheers. Thanks for being here. Oh my gosh, are you kidding?

So 10 years, it's also, Brian, I didn't realize this, the podcast portion of this is as old as our first Marvel collaboration. We had 10 years of Deadpool last week.

Man, we were busy 10 years ago. We were busy. Yeah, the kids were self-sustaining, I guess. We could turn back to our nerdy pursuits. Yeah, man. Yeah. So 10 years from the start of Deadpool?pool yeah we were the first marvel now book uh right november 7th 2012 and then i guess we launched so what was the date of the first

it was today right so 17th no ish from nerd From Nerd Poker? What's the actual Nerd Poker anniversary, Dan? That's a great question. I do want to point out that I barely remembered it was the 10th anniversary. I have to give a shout out to the guy who runs the Nerd Poker Quotes Twitter account, who I run a game for, for hire.

His name is Benjamin Dawes. He's a very cool dude, and he was like, Dan, he was like, Dan, it's the 10-year anniversary of very cool dude and he was like dan thank you he was like dan it's the 10 year anniversary of nerd poker well you were i was like i was like huh you were with us 10 years ago you're with us i was with you six years ago per my name that i put it here but i'm googling it was it looks like it was released on november 28th 2012 which is like a little bit before this episode is going to air, I think. But the other thing to keep in mind, too, is is we played for 10 years before we started

the podcast, which is a big reason I'm hoping it'll be fun to have Jerry here. Yeah, because he remembers that era much more than I do. I just remember I remember those all day Sundays at Chris Hardwick's office. Yes. That's very insane. We didn't do too many of those, but they were fun. Yeah. A handful of those, right?

We all had chairs and a big table. Yeah, here we go. Business executives. And I don't want to leave Chris Tallman out, but which of you guys were playing Halo? There was a group of Halo people who had like a LAN party, right? Sarah was in that too. That's how I got playing D&D because I knew Sark

and Jerry, obviously. I heard about those parties. They were in the rolling hills of Griffith under the observatory. At least 16 people. Brewster's Manor. Four TVs, four TVs,

four, four, four machines on each TV. So just like every Saturday night, it's like, this is what I was doing in my 20s. We would go till sunrise. I was so jealous.

I had a couple of times, obviously, I mean, I fall asleep here, but even back then, 20 years ago, I would, I'd fall asleep here but even back then 20 years ago i would uh i'd fall asleep and then we would have the controllers would be plugged in so it would pop out of the pop out of the tv and somebody'd go posain and i'd wait it'd be 4 30 in the morning

and i'm on pageant's floor i asked pageant once i, why do you let us abuse your friendship like this? And she said, look at you. You guys are all going to be like driving drunk into trees and stuff. I'm saving your lives. And then went to bed like a mask on her face. Yeah. She's here. She would do stuff, too.

Like some nights she would have like a party sort of in one part of the house. And then it would be us and Paulul f on the patio smoking and me smoking my stuff way before it was legal uh yeah nothing had me wondering if i was on the right path more like noticing that there was like a party with like paget and some friends and maybe some suicide girls or people taking pictures and then me playing video games inside and going, maybe I should go outside. Touch some grass or they'd be doing fetish

modeling in the backyard and 20 dudes are on a video game machine instead of not even looking. Hello, I was here. You can fly. You were out watching the fetish modeling? You know, they were right outside sometimes.

Yeah, yeah. It would be rude to ignore it, I think. Yeah. What a nice place, too. That was a nice. That was a cool house. I didn't have money. No, I know.

It was a cool house. It became sort of an ongoing poker game that we wouldn't even lose money on. People would bring their own beer and food and share. And then all sorts of guests would come through. I don't recall Bob being particularly effective at Halo, but he would show up and play some games and shake his head at all of us and take off. It was fun yeah it's a weird collection of people and it is how i met a lot of the people that i still know in la and when if you trace it all the way back it's very strange to be like oh how did you meet so and so it's like

oh uh yeah we played halo you know blowing each other's heads off and playing capture the flag like while we were adults yep by the way speaking of tracing I did invite Steve Agee as well but he is busy right now doing a photo shoot so he sends his love she's picking up his film at Rite Aid wasn't there

like one of Paul's friends that does like movie reviews and then remember who now is the mayor of Hollywood over at the Anchler Richard Rushfield oh wow and then yeah Richard Rushfield we lost him but

Chimp Nugget yeah of course John Schnapp from Metalocalypse yep God he used to fucking drive me crazy, though. Like, Chip Nugget would kill me and would just say over and over, you've been killed by Chip Nugget. And I'd fuck it.

He would just sit there and snipe everybody. He sniped from the hills in between where the flags were. And Richard would just sit there inside with the flag. sit there uh inside yeah with inside with the flag so i just talked about this because i just did um an interview uh our our buddy joe manganola is doing or manganello is doing um the dnd official 50th anniversary and it's a documentary and uh he had me do an interview recently and uh we talked about you know how i got into it and everybody knows my my history but how this show came about like he goes how did you find people in la to play and i said well we were doing you know this uh these land parties and it was cafe 101 and it was you me and sark and i feel like i feel like you had maybe mentioned it to sark before or did we just drop it like you and i you and i were itching to

get a game going we had both been talking about it i know and we had maybe even asked a couple other people like if they would be in right isn't Isn't that right, Jerry? Am I remembering it right? I remember that distinctly. It was Cafe 101. It was an afternoon. No, it was in the morning. It was after a game. It was really early.

Oh, we drove after the game. Yeah. Yeah. It was like five or six in the morning or something. One of us bought Sark's breakfast or whatever it was. And then it was kind of like ghostbusters like like come on we can do this like you know like and selling him on it and then him agreeing to do it and then sort of going holy shit you know we're we're doing this now and right and he was

like determined to do it his way he was gonna find because at the time it wasn't easy to find six second edition, you know, guides or players manuals. So like you could find, I think third was out at that point, or that was pre fourth, right? Yeah. Yeah. And we, we were saying, yeah,

do what you got to do. We gave him money and he went on eBay and didn't he find, he wasn't a, it wasn't a D and D game, but didn't he find his own book? Well, that was top secret. Yeah.

Yeah. He told the story on the podcast way back in the day, but yeah, like he, he found a book that had his pencil writing in the cover that he got on ebay he bought from canada he bought his own and i was like set that shit on fire that was on the uh the roof of uh kristen batterby's apartment do you remember that we were out uh dave anthony was there yeah i think that's the night i met sark and he told us the story

about finding his old character sheets and the thing he bought. Wow. And then we started playing within, I don't know, within a month of that or a couple of months. Yeah. It came together pretty fast and it just kept going and all the wives were cool with it for some reason.

For some reason. Get us out of the house. Yeah. I just wondered because like like i started opening for brian in like 2006 or something and he would tell me about these games but i lived in chicago till 2013 so like when did this stop did this keep going like i want to i want to say my recollection of this, and everyone's mileage may vary. The game kind of blew apart a little bit when the kids started to show up. Everyone started to show up.

Yeah, yeah. Babies getting married. Well, the first three of us, it was me, Patton, and Jerry all at once. Yeah. Yeah. There was something in the water in Comic-Con 2008, and we all came out. Oh, no, you get pregnant for Comic-Con water? Yeah, no, our kids were born within a couple of months apart.

Yeah, they're all. You know, Patton, Alice, and Declan, they were born 24 hours apart at Cedars. And so it was an easy sort of way to go, hey, we need some time off from the game. And by the way, people at Cedars that took the baby class that we took fucking hated us. Yeah, that's true. Because think about it. It was me, Jerry Patton. Also, Dave Anthony.

Yeah, he was his kid. A real pick me up. Yeah. His kid was born at the same time. Yeah, his kid was born at the same time. So us four assholes and our wives, I'm moms, our wives going fucking shh, like everything. Like my phone went off and we would giggle and we like somebody dropped a baby, like the fake baby and shit. I took that class at Cedars-Toot in the class about like where she's showing you to be how to really you have to very gently put clothes on a baby because they're very fragile. She was like, you need to hold the head. She lifted the baby up and popped the head right off and it clattered straight down the aisle.

Everyone screamed and it was horrifying. So, you know, it could have been the instructor. Like a David Cedera story. Yeah. I feel like it's a common trope that don't hire, you know, don't hire women because they're just going to get pregnant. And it was you guys who derailed everything with all those babies. Right. All at once. 100%. Blue of the game.

They turned out pretty good, though. Well, yeah. Well, those were long nights. Like, we would go to Sark's house around 6 o'clock and stay till 2 in the morning, right? Am I remembering that right?

It wouldn't be two-hour games. It would be six or eight-hour games. We would stop and get food. We would get whiskey. Patton would bring 20 fucking muffins and shit yeah yeah or cupcakes now four man cupcakes something i wondered about too because patten has this infamous photo that went viral a bunch of years ago where like he's in his dnd club in junior high and he's like

clutching a second edition book with all these other little kids around him who are super nerdy like when did you guys actually start and what was that like because i know when i got to play with you guys one of the main reasons i was stoked other than you guys being very funny comedy folks is because like finding a good group is so difficult there's so many people who like they're like yeah come join our game and then they're just the meanest people or the weirdest people are just not your vibe you know well it's funny you mentioned that because that was my experience in high school like i didn't really start playing until later with with my friends because earlier when i tried to get into the game i don't know whether we just didn't click or whether you know um they didn't

like me or what have you but i almost got along better with the football players than I did the D&D folks. So funny. I didn't stay there. Same exact story. Same fucking story. You tell yours, Ken? It was the same thing.

It was just everybody was so shitty and clicky about the whole thing and really strict about rules and just fucking relaxed, guys. Yeah, the guy that ran it at my school junior high um my mom i i didn't know he ran it but like he was like my nemesis at at a church camp and uh sunday school and all this so like i couldn't stand this kid and then i walked in the door and he couldn't stand me either and there i am with my brand new you know uh player's manual my mom had bought me at the bookstore and i was ready to play and uh he goes not you posain and i'm just like i turned around like didn't even didn't even make

it into the room i just went nah fucking flipped to you and walked outside with my new book and didn't play until like 10 years later when I was back at home living with my mom. And I worked at Tower Records with this dude named Rick. And he was like, do you play D&D? Do you play Palladiums? Do you play any of these other games? And I said, nah nah but I'd love to and he goes let's go play palladium me and Tony and you and we would just play he would DM and

this other dude I worked with Tony at the record store and it would just be two of us playing and he's Rick's playing hella weights and we just got high with his parents and uh we would like sit on the floor in his room and like with candles and make it make it as metal as we could it also sounds romantic with all those candles i know right love blooming tallman when did you first play um i think around the same time as everybody like late 70s i was in wisconsin so i think i was playing like first edition i kind of remember like dungeons and dragons becoming advanced dungeons and dragons but i never even saw second edition like i see those covers in those books and i'm like oh those look beautiful second edition was great that was when the game started making sense to me yeah i was just you know i was sort of what you guys were describing before i would play with my friends all of whom were like the neighborhood

kids and you know i remember a lot of like oh i hope we don't have to do uh saving throws because i don't understand how if they're like, you had to roll high for attacks, but you had to roll low for other, you know, like the, the dice hadn't been streamlined yet. And so I remember a lot of that being hard to wrap my head. You know,

we had that problem all the way up to 2018 or so. So, uh, and we still have problems, but the, the high and low shit we were, I think, I think I accidentally included Faco in the first season of post

earwolf nerd poker. So, uh, uh, no uh no i didn't really but i had plenty of mistakes if you listen the first season of our post-earwolf there's moments where i'm like yeah and then you just just just roll the dice and yeah that sounds good like there's a lot of just like uh esoteric dungeon mastering happening. But that's what makes it fun. I will say, too, the commitment over the course of the game, everyone's commitment to their characters was what really kept me around. It wasn't just that we were all friends. I genuinely think that you guys were some of the best role players.

And the commitment to, you know, playing stupid thing, everyone kind of daring to be stupid. It made it so much fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Jerry, what did you play before paladins and naked Druids? So I don't know if you remember everybody. There was a cleric. I told, I told Sark that I wanted to do something weird, and I rolled up a detective named... I remember that detective.

Yeah. Wait, is he the one who touched something and then was immediately electrocuted and died? I think he maybe was. There was like a sword, and you just went like, I grab it, and it's like you take 1000 points of damage Is that what we did like police academy when we were all recruits?

That was after Wait you roleplayed police academy? No we were all recruits We were all like first level guys trying to become cops I was experimenting with like a kind of a monster of the week type thing where it's like we were always That sounds fun though It was really really cool He was experimenting with like a kind of a monster of the week type thing where it's like we were always on each, you know.

That sounds fun though. It's really, really cool. Also reminded me we should get Bobcat to play with us. And this was before the TV or before the podcast. This is just at Stark's house. The thing that I loved about Jerry playing the detective character was he had a notebook and he kept these really extensive notes and he would Columbo every scene. And now I have a few more questions about. But then the next day. I found that book, Blaine. had a notebook and he kept these really expensive notes and he would Columbo every scene. And now I have a few more questions about, but then the next day, yeah, it would just be like, oh, this is every has everything in that we need to know to not get killed

or wait. Do you know where the book is right now? Jerry, is it in your house? It's I'm at an office. It is the house, but I do. I'll I can shoot a picture of it. It's the front page it's this red spiral notebook it says the case book of mitsuki mitsuki knocks and so he was like

a ranger uh i believe he was a ranger class and he had a super high constitution so my recollection of when i just reached for the sword without checking for traps or doing anything was I was like, well, I have a 19 constitution. He goes, yeah, that doesn't help you. You took 10,000 points of lightning damage. And I was like, OK, you don't have to be a dick about it. I'll just turn in an air pursuit. We can get on with the game. And I'll be thinking about.

Do you think it was like it might have been a different. You know who it was? I think the I think the one that grabbed the thing was was my barbarian i sort of rolled a proto-conan tor was his name i think that would make sense and he had a legendarily bad um charisma and i was like let's not make him ugly let's just say that he is like like like oj OJ has bad charisma. If he comes in, you know, like if he pops into the zoom, you go, I might have to bounce.

It's that level of, of, of, of bad charisma. Those, those are so fun though, to the, the peaks and valleys of those stat bonuses and then committing to that

stuff. I, I can't remember. bonuses and then committing to that stuff i i can't remember i think mitsuki nox died when i rode a paladin down um a hole there was like that i heard somebody or no that's that was how sir sir richard died yeah yeah you died you and chris got lost right yeah that's what that's what happened and chris rode me down like ace and Gary because I was a paladin. I heard a cry for help. And Sark was like, I don't know.

It looks really deep. We were dropping rocks off. You don't hear anything. And then we went down there and we had a side game. And it took a couple of weeks, right? It took a couple of weeks to play out because we were just like emaciated and dying and there were giant spiders. It was very, very Sark. I'm getting all my characters confused, but Nox was really cool.

And Nox had the coolest, like, they were really cool, like loot. Did you say what class he was? I think he was a ranger, but I know he was, he had weird stats because he was a detective but there weren't as many options then to to do weird yeah now like all the editions is uh classes have been brought back but there were a lot of editions where they would just leave some classes out because he would let us fuck around that too like he let me play a monk one of the first times we went out that's what jackie was uh a pickle loving monk and again to time stamp this for people the photos i have of this time and a couple of very short videos were taken on my palm trio oh wow that's right oh man

do you remember do you remember the game what was the uh the deck of cards or the deck of many things? Deck of many things. Wayne has many from that era. Oh, yeah. This was Fing, and Fing was my first level cop figure, and he had a really bad charisma, so Sark let me play a drow. So people didn't want anything to do with him because he had a really bad charisma so sark let me play a drow so people didn't want anything to do with him because he had a horrible he was a horrible drow but that was cool because uh we stopped that campaign i think the kids happened right when this thing right when we

graduated from cop school and we all became like second level or something and then all the children came yeah yeah that's exactly right i dropped a couple of pictures into um the chat um oh you were sending me a virus so i didn't open them oh they're tiffs uh they're just uh they're they're weird tiffs but jerry i uh opened your pictures and found them to be beautiful and not at all viruses i don't think you have weird tips no i found them to be very artistic nudes thank you um one of them is uh the table at uh at earwolf way back in the day that all that everybody would sign and stuff yeah yeah so the signatures are there and then uh that i believe that's sir richard character sheet with my 20 strength and stupid charisma. I downloaded those. So maybe we'll share those with.

Yeah, share them. And some of these ones I threw in my book to sort of my autobiographical tumble through Los Angeles. That'll be out next year. Oh, yeah. Jerry, you should tell people about that. It's a photo book that I did a Kickstarter for, and I'll have extra copies to give you all as gifts. But the, uh, it turned out really, um, I think pretty, pretty good for only being me,

which is a bad sign. You know, usually I'm, I'm having artists, uh, you know, come in and tell the story that I'm telling. So I only had the photographs really and whatever I wanted to write. And I think it turned out neat. The designer who did Matt Oswalt's photo book helped me. I really... It'll be a nice

hardcover. I like Matt Oswalt. I've seen a lot of your pictures. I mean, you take great pictures, dude. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Jerry, you should do some nudes sometime. Well, there are some Stan Lee photos that we can't really tell. Oh, his personal assistant left the house for a minute and things got steamy. Jerry.

Excelsior. He was great. Yeah. He was very loving. But he got done dirty at the end there by some fucked up people. Oh, God, I know. I know. Jerry, to cheer me up, you sent me a thing.

Is that something you can plug yet? I was having a down and out. Oh, well, this is so stupid. Talking about daring to be stupid. We couldn't talk ourselves out of it once we had this stupid idea but scott koblish and i uh the very important collaborator from mine and brian's deadpool we did a story that we wanted to call king dong but the name would not clear so why it's called the ginormous cock jew because a dildo company beat us, but it's just about like, you know, it's,

we're playing with all the tropes of the monster, you know, this big giant monster comes out of the sea and everyone screams and then it turns around and people are like, Ooh, maybe we're going to dodge this bullet. And then it roars out its ass and takes big giant shit. It's a monster with physical needs and so we do we do as many jokes as we can and then we get out and it ends with uh i won't tell you but it's so funny jerry it's very stupid but it's very funny i hope it's great we do the it's we do like a naked sauna

fight between a robot and a and a giant monster like the eastern promises sauna fight you know it's it's fucking stupid you like i'm disney will fire me from ever working with them again but the fun thing is that it's kind of a thing that you'd only make when you're kind of run out of fucks and you just are like I'm going to put this up on my sub stack and so that's where it is it's at my sub stack I'm glad you laughed if you guys all want copies please let me

know I'll give you a horrible what yeah the funniest quote was Zeb Wells said I thought I was done hiding comics under the bed. I was wrong. And I was like, I'm putting that on the cover.

It's going on the cover. Nice. Brian, I also enjoyed War on Weed, which you coincidentally also handed me to cheer me up. Yeah. Comic books from you nerds. Cocktube makes war on we look like war and peace man you were doing some highbrow shit with our fucking dumb ass 420 book

compared to cock you oh that's so funny yeah it's a lot of fun now i wanted to uh i prepared a few questions just in case. But if I'm trying to pick and choose my favorites because this is just fun to fuck around and not actually ask questions. But in the old Earwolf days, you guys talked a whole lot about Vin Diesel. Have you thought about ideal guests for just playing D&D with? Now, Jerry, I know you don't get to play with us more than once a year or so these days, because, you know, Disney. But who do you wish you could play with? Because I know I have a whole list

if connections were not a problem, I would just reach out to. I mean, I thought we were always kidding about Vin, but maybe we weren't. If he ever wanted to show up, we vaguely were threatened with him. People were like, oh, I know he has a game.

And I'm like, we have a game, you know, like we're going to challenge him to a fight or something. And it was always like, can we, you know, get rolling some guest stars? I don't know. I think Joe was probably the one that I'd go, oh, that'd be a fun one to do someday. But honestly, I just, you know,

anytime I get a chance to guest role with you guys i'm very happy so sting i want to get sting that'll end it you can play for a long time i cooled on the fin thing because i just think you know our show is so what it is and i think, he's the kind of guy who might not enjoy what we do. And then some other like D and D live stream got him in like 2015. And then like he started harassing the rock about fast and furious movies. And it just sort of became this whole other thing. Yeah.

It wasn't that entertaining a player. We've had some great, we had Joe Manganiello. We've had some Joe is a fantastic Joe Manganiello. We've had some... Yeah, Joe is fantastic. Yeah, Joe's a giant nerd, too. He also asked me if I would like to do an interview for the official Dungeons & Dragons documentary.

So if you don't see me in it, it's because I am not as famous as Brian. Ooh. Harrison Ford. Let's get Harrison Ford to do it. It'd be great. Yeah, let's... How about Chewbac Yeah, let's have Chewbacca. I'd love Chewbacca. Cranky the whole time.

I would love to get any just like Star Wars actor. We've talked about Mark Hamill maybe doing it. I would love to just find people who are Star Wars-y. Just for no other reason to torture Sarah, but I would love to get some. You can't play those cards anymore. Famous cards. That's right.

You've seen Star Wars. She's opened the door to Star Wars what's your favorite Star Wars Sarah? my favorite Star War? yeah it's that first one you know that Star War the main one? Andor is very very good as we were talking about Andor I just watched Rogue One so that I can watch Andor

now but yeah buddy I think the thing about inviting people by the way to play like i think part of what was fun is because it was like people who some of us already knew each other and then you know what i mean and then it's it's it's less about even who's good at the game or who's played before because sometimes i feel like i've had i've had friends i'm like oh you should come play and and they hate it. They're like paralyzed when you get in the game. It just

doesn't click or whatever. They're just like, this isn't fun for me. And then there's other people who you would think, oh, that person's not going to really get how this works or what they're doing. And then they just come alive. Like Dave Anthony. Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. He's the crankiest guy I've ever met, but

he had a blast playing. You never know who it's going to be, I think. He was so catty, same thing. Yeah, he's the crankiest guy I've ever met, but he had a blast playing. You never know who it's going to be, I think. He was so catty, but all of a sudden he's like, okay, I checked the corners. I'm up against it. Like, he was in it. It was funny. And my wife, I knew my wife would have fun because she makes fun of it, but also she loves games. So, like, if you have any sort of gaming bug in you you'll dig this game that reminds me i

have to i have to run a game for uh for rhodes and ducklin sometime soon yeah yeah that's right he um he had a blast so yeah the the next generation literally the the kids so um started a game whenever your nerds are ready i believe they're the future ish yeah i'm torn on that yeah i'll have to adopt someone you can adopt me my my kids love to play dnd for a while then they discovered k-pop and no more so yeah now they play k-pop i'd watch a show where uh ken raises jerry like would it be a fun like double decker like loft with a cool like spinny ladder and shit spiral checker that's the that's the best case scenario the worst case is where we're vans butt to butt down by a river or something la la's la's a wasteland now no water that's the

just following you on your big wheel in the park just because you said about the butt i'm in Oh my gosh. The, uh, yeah, the, you know, the, I, I remember laughing so hard,

uh, at so many of these, uh, adventures before it was a podcast during a podcast. I have no idea what it would, what the user experience with the listener experiences. It like, it must work because here we are 10 years in if i if i may because i first moved to la right around the time you guys were started the podcast and i worked on

at midnight with blaine and blaine you might remember you know i would come up to you at tapings and just be like dude i can't believe sark turned you all into rats. Holy shit. How many episodes are you ahead? And it was so fun to listen to because you guys were like, you know, maybe what the second ever D&D podcast after like Acquisitions Incorporated and the Penny Arcade guys ran that. But like what was fun was you guys had fun had fun playing there wasn't this like gatekeeping vibe there wasn't this feeling that like which was my big problem when i tried to play in high

school like oh these are not just nerds but like they're nerds who think they're cooler than me yeah i was a nerd who was not cooler than anybody i was like this nerd who had like severe social issues and would try and play with other nerds and the nerds would be like, you can't do that. But you guys would have a lot of fun doing dumb jokes. I think that's because we all had that same experience. Jerry, Brian, you, me, and we all were like shunned by the other D&D nerds for some fucking reason. I don't know.

Who, by the way, Sarah was one of those people. But I was going to say i recruited from from my friends when i played i played in high school and i played in college and had different experiences who did you i mean i feel like you don't talk about your pre-nerd poker group days more than a lot of well because i was i was right out of college i mean i had just graduated a couple maybe a year or two before when we started playing so I had been I had played with the group in college um that those games got very fucked up because people were um people were really fucked up like that's when I was like it's really difficult to continue a

campaign when someone is like I there's shrooms and then it's like okay now the game is over for people are getting like too drunk. What was it like in high school and stuff? Yeah, high school was fun. I just played with my friends. Like I said, I would invite, we had an almost, I probably all, I had like all my female friends would play with us. And then I would play with another group of guys sometimes. So, and when we started playing for, with Sark, I brought my own second,

I mean, I had my original second edition book you didn't have to get me one off of ebay because i still because i've been using it the whole time so didn't you didn't you play with your parents too yeah i mean i started playing when i was like with like my mom's boyfriend so you know so i've been playing the whole time did any of any of your old friends from those games still play now or not so much like do they have their own games no i mean like some i don't think so i don't think so sometimes people were like you know i've had someone like reach out to me on like instagram or something to be like i can't believe you're still still you seem well yeah there's there was like are you playing professionally what the fuck is going on or like 95 to 2015 it was weird to

still play right like there were yeah it was a very it play right like there were like 20 years it was a select group in like the 90s of people who were it was not what it is now there was like a huge new york times article about not just like dnd but like dnd podcast like it's like it's a thing now so everybody plays that was weird how you guys were like the second dnd podcast and now there's so many of them i actually did a uh like a punk rock comedy festival in gainesville florida and someone came up to me a very nice super nice guy but he thought i was with like the dungeon daddy's podcast for a second and i was like wait what is the dungeon there's so many there's like a whole dnd podcast section now you guys you know

really you were ahead of your time. Great. Look at us now. We're in exactly the same place. Let's take a look at that clip. I wasn't looking. Never edited it. Never scripted it. Never edited it. That's what we're known for. No editing.

And released it to you. Much like the monster in Jerry's new comic book. Yes, that's right. It's artisanally sourced local Dungeons and Dragons. Completely organic. Direct. Yeah, and Sam knows when to cut if I say...

No! And remind me who's a Nazi? There it is. So I'm'm gonna send you king dong and please share it with gino i think he'd laugh too sure that's gonna happen yeah open this link that says king dong you just

want sarah to be like hey for you king dong listen it's between sarah and her husband if she wants to introduce king dong to their person that's love no it's a k and her husband if she wants to introduce King Dong to their personal relationship. That's love. No, it's a kaiju battle in a sauna.

No, come back. I have something special for you. Please accept this. The gift. Who's it from? It's from Jerry. Why didn't he send it to me directly? I don't know. He wanted to go between. Jerry wanted me to clear this first before I send it to you.

Just so it's not weird. Jerry's trying to airdrop everyone at King Dong. Well, that's very thoughtful of him. It's just like the virus that you tried to send in the chat. I mean, that's the best part is King Dong's not even the virus. You got a Trojan horse with an innocuous name. And then, oh, what's the best part is King Dong's not even the virus. You got a Trojan horse with an innocuous name. And then, oh, what's this? The story about, oh, the little butterfly. Let me, and then.

Bambi.exe. It's real sad when King Dong's mom got killed by that hunter. Oh, no. That is. All my Dong's gone. Origin stories. Oh, my God god there's only three of them that is true now i i'm very lucky i get to uh now write role-playing games for a living and work with a bunch of ips i just adapted uh or helped adapt the dragon prince uh the netflix show if you guys like you guys also much like me played a bunch of tabletop role-playing games back in the day i know i played a lot of like

rifts and vampire the masquerade but uh like what do you guys wish you saw more of in that whole world like is there is there any game where when you think about the dice and the sheets of paper and the pencils that you were like oh that would be cool if someone would finally do that i i really loved uh chill i played that back in the day and it was chill i don't know that it's a horror-based uh rpg uh and uh it's all like you know you come up with a monster and and uh you know it's like dnd but horror i didn't have a monster and, you know, it's like D&D, but horror. I didn't have a lot of board games, really. I'm very board game curious, though.

Oh. You should play The Thing sometime. That's fun. I know. I have The Thing game. We have to play it, Jerry. It's so fun. Jerry, guess what?

I've never played it. Blaine's The Thing. Blaine is The Thing. Oh, I could have guessed that. Didn't want to say anything but yeah chris what were you about to say jaws is no fun jaws jaws the board game eats the whole ass mr tallman you were about to say something uh when i was a kid besides dnd i liked playing a lot of superhero role-playing ones there was champions and villains and vigilantes and that was always

i mean it's not too dissimilar from dnd just you know i wish i had played more of that and i would love to get a game of even though i've never played i'd love to get a superhero dnd game going it's uh i miss our star wars games too that chris oh my god the star wars he runs such a fun game yeah we can do that again absolutely non-dnd non D&D ones I've ever played I'm just like a ride or die D&D bitch since like the early days I literally never played another

it's very intense my relationship I have a loyalty that cannot be questioned yeah mostly D&D and then a little bit of Palladiums and a little bit of GURPS oh yeah GURPS is a generic role playing one yeah you could GURPS was like a yeah. I played some GURPS. Generic role-playing one. GURPS was like a system you could adapt to other stuff. I did like that.

You know that Netflix show Altered Carbon? I played a version of GURPS that was kind of like that where you would be born into these cybernetic bodies. Oh, wow. I played a lot of Traveler when I was in high school. When I wasn't playing D&D,

I would run these Traveler campaigns with my friends. What's Traveler? Is that sci-fi? Yeah, it's hard sci-fi. It's really good. It gets a little mathy for some people, I think. And it's all military-based and very, very scientific. But it was always really cool.

It was a great universe and lots of fun. I would love to play one of those, but it's an entirely new kind of system people would have to learn. I wish there was some sort of like GURPS interlink where I could sort of, the way Chris did the Star Wars thing is to adapt that universe to Dungeons and Dragons and just use those rules. That was what I would do when I was in high school. Anytime I was intrigued by

Battlestar Galactica or whatever, I could convert that into some sort of rough D&D thing and bring it into a campaign. Anyway, Traveler was fun. Hard to find stuff. I think that's the holdback for all other games is that it's like, can I just learn one

set of rules yeah and then we can be doctor who yeah whatever wait I can be doctor who sure that'd be great doctor who was in my network yeah give me a couple of fucking screwdrivers I'll fuck some

shit up have you guys ever played tales from the Loop? Have you heard about this? It got adapted into an Amazon miniseries, but it's this game that's supposed to be very... It's kind of like if Stranger Things had more sci-fi robots

and stuff. It's supposed to be good. But I heard good things. Mike Drucker, guest of the podcast has uh told me it's amazing just curious just curious great mike is great i trust mike i played a lot of shadow run too you guys ever play that or the name's familiar shadow run it was this it's a cyberpunk game where it's tries to bring fantasy elements in it's like oh 2000 something and like all of a sudden trolls and elves and dwarves like come back to earth they like re-emerge but everybody's

can like use their hacking powers to get into cyberpunk shit it's fun nice got adapted into a bunch of video games it's a great time maybe somebody will make a king dong board game it's called candy land rights i'll adapt sure uncle wiggly but they they did sex up the candy land like people yeah like sugar like if you look at them they're all same with clue the current clue them, they're all... Same with Clue. The current Clue drawings, the Sugar Plum Fairy looks like an influencer on the...

Gotta appeal to that Zoomer generation. Not Sugar Plum, whatever the Candy Fairy is. I don't know what her name is. Clue Thirst Trap Edition. It does. It just makes everybody look hot. Colonel Mustard. There was one where Colonel Mustard was hot on the back. I was like, this is dumb. I saw like a Monopoly David Bowie edition. like there was one where like Colonel Mustard was hot on the back. This is dumb.

I saw like a Monopoly David Bowie edition. There's one thing if you think about David Bowie, it's that he'd want to bankrupt someone. I'd say the most erotic game I played in a while is the new Kerplunk. There is a game I tell you the most erotic game I played in a while is the new Kerplunk. Yeah. I'm telling you.

There is a game I saw. Oh my God, I saw it at Joanne's Fabric, don't ask. And it's a game I can't... But it's a toilet and a thing pops up and you have to catch a plastic turd that pops

up out of the toilet. No, that's like every kid's game now is like, throw the shit. Like, dunk the turd. Turd catcher. That reminds me, is there a board game yet where like a rat comes out of a toilet? That would be a great one.

Catch Sarah's toilet rat. I did love a board game when I was a kid called Past Lives and yeah it was really fun and at the end you get assigned based on like your point score you get assigned to like what your past life was and

they range in you know from good to very not good and like the worst one you could get was you were the rat that started the the black plague not just a rat with the plague but was you were the rat that started the black plague. Not just a rat with the plague but like you were the rat who originally started the

plague. Extra. Extra guilt. Rat guilt. That would be funny if you could role play the rat's extreme guilt over all the human lives. I think the point is he had none and that's why he was a terrible person. Oh he was a total sociopath. You're reincarnated as one was a real prick sarah what was the what was the best version

of uh that reincarnation you know i was just trying to remember and i'm like why can't i remember any of the i think mother teresa was definitely in there but i can't remember i do remember that in the middle was a name that i had not heard i mean i was like a kid it was fatty arbuckle was like one of the and then when i grew up no but then i learned like then he's he's the history of what actually happened there is really messed up so it's terrible like it was it was like a very weird thing to be in a kids game or whatever first of all i wanted to ask you guys because we were talking about like joe manganello um no joe manganello has this like crazy dnd dungeon room right like where he is he has a dungeon room yes i've i've been in his dungeon no there there's all these custom tables and like dnd dice trays and shit if you could if you could customize your home to be a game room what would

you guys do i'd have deckard's apartment from blade runner yeah very low light with the you know uh square glasses frank lloyd right you know uh uh walls and yeah the square glasses not like this bullshit fucking circular glass vaporwave neon lighting outside on the 97th floor some blood in there stacks of paper artisanal dripping

and some sushi that's what my wife called me cold fish I would like a room just big enough for a fancy table. That would be great. Yeah, I'd just like to have... That's a good thing now, by the way. It's the houses that are doing it. Instead of theaters, they're putting in, like, game

rooms and D&D rooms and stuff. A friend of mine has a neighbor that has a big dungeon in his house. Wow. All the old sex dungeons are being converted to gaming dungeons. We definitely need a new name. People can't keep talking about their dungeons. I feel like there needs to be. I don't know.

I'm grateful that we can talk about sex dungeons more openly because of Dungeons & Dragons. Why don't we just call them the wet room? How about bringing me in the wet room? Yeah, yeah. Let's all meet in the wet room for a little dnd well speaking of uh speaking of wet room we are approaching the end of the hour and our good friend sam keifer has been hanging

out with us the whole time i would love jerry to hear if there's anything else you want to plug we'll all talk plugs and stuff but sam what do you think even happened on this 10th anniversary celebration episode of Nerd Poker? Guys, I'm going to trade you my usual recap for a small story that I've been very excited to tell you guys. I was in New York last week and I met up with a first off. Thank you, Sarah. But while I was out there for work, a friend of mine met up named McKinley. She'd never been to New York. So I spent a good amount of the time doing here's very cool stuff that you actually want to see mixed in with a healthy amount of like, here's your official touristy. Here's Times Square.

Here's all the stuff you've seen from movies. So we're just working our way down Manhattan looking at you. There's the Seinfeld restaurant and whatever. So we get done. We're having drinks as we go. By the time we get down to the bottom in the financial district, I am drunk. And I sent you guys a picture in the group chat, but we're leaving. There's a cocktail bar she wanted to go to called the Dead Rabbit. That's like a cool, cool person cocktail bar. And we're leaving. We walk up a couple blocks and there's a huge metal phallic statue. And forgetting she doesn't listen, I go, we made it to the dildo district. And I laugh, I laugh really, really hard. And she laughs. Uh, and we go to another bar and about an hour later we're drinking and I forget she's, you know, she's never been to New

York and the whole time she's been, you know, taking calls, catching up with friends back from LA and we're at the bar and, uh, I hear her behind me. She goes, Hey, I have to take this. And once one of our friends from LA and I hear her go good, no I hear her behind me. She goes, hey, I have to take this. And it's one of our friends from LA, and I hear her go, good. No, things are going good. Yeah, we went to Dead Rabbit. Oh, it was great. Well, I guess now, I guess we're in the dildo district? And I realized that she had forgotten to explain it from the show,

and I didn't correct her at all. I went, that's right. And then, so that's where- Blaine, if you were looking for any legitimacy to your jokes Blaine that you finally made it yeah so that's where we are so no isn't every part of Brooklyn the dildo did yeah

Jerry thank you so much for coming by hey thank you so much what a delight I miss you guys next time let's throw some dice at each other and uh i miss you and i love you all i hope you uh i guess when you're listening to this i hope you had a great thanksgiving or you avoided the people you wanted to avoid on thanksgiving but because it's in our future i'll say uh i it's it's so good to see you guys i hope i can see you out on a patio sometime soon

as one of several people who takes a peek at the social media for nerd poker people do not forget you Jerry it's very nice to hear even 10 years on that's what I wanted to do leave a bruise and leave a horribly horribly

brutalized D&D corpse filled with swords. And then surf that corpse floating through the cave. That's right. It's so good to see you guys. Happy anniversary. No, you did it. You pulled on my King Dong.

Thank you. I was looking forward to pulling on your King Dong. Ryan, do you want to plug anything? Nah. Well, in the tradition of Naz, I will just say thank you, everybody, for joining us. It's been fun to fuck around on the main Nerd Poker regular episode feed.

And everyone who has supported the show over the years and let me, the most newcomer person in this Zoom call, be made to feel legitimate. Thank you so much. My day job is literally thanks to Brian inviting me to take over Sarah's character and get it killed. So thank you, everybody. Yeah, of course.

Thanks, you guys. Oh, Blaine, what's going to happen in the next 10 years? Oh, did someone say 10 year? Hey, Dr. Uwe Joke. Thanks for listening to another episode of Nerd Poker. You can follow us at patreon.com slash nerd poker, and you get bonus episodes from there. nerd poker and you get bonus episodes from there. And you can also send us anything at P.O.

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