Cody and Jon drop the pretense of having something important to say about life or about video games, so they just improvise comedy for a while. Listen to this episode and expect hilarity, plus a little bit of “edutainment” as Jon delves into the world of hardcore versus casual board game culture.

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Show Notes:

• Jon brings up Harambe McHarambeface, and Cody crushes his dreams by pointing out that the story is fake and stupid
• What do you drink after you get home from the gym? Cody and Jon discuss why the answer probably should not be “cookie dough”
• Cody rages because sports seasons are happening, and explains that sports seasons are dumb
  • Welcome to Dumb
• In an unexpected twist of fate, Cody introduced himself to one of his neighbors, which Jon then both admits is a big deal and then berates Cody because he says it isn’t a big deal, mostly because Jon’s a jerk and can’t make up his mind
• “Sorry, what were you saying? I was busy drinking water because my life is so interesting.”
• Life Stuff
  • Jon visited Chicago and didn’t even tell Cody he was in town, because he has no heart and they aren’t real friends
  • Jon goes into painstaking detail about how board games are printed, then reviews both the first and second edition of A Study in Emerald, a board game based on the award-winning short story of the same name by Neil Gaiman
  • Jon also explains the concept behind a board game called Codenames, which Cody actually owns and now really wants to play
  • Cody then tells a ridiculous story about how he both literally and figuratively found gold while digging through a neighbor’s discarded goods over Labor Day weekend
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• Podcast theme song intro/outro credit: ‘Subterranean Kamikaze‘ by Sixto Sounds,zircon, via OverClocked ReMix (http://ocremix.org)
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