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Fart Bingo & Yahtzee · The Pork Roll, Egg, And Cheese Podcast

• Herbie: Okay. Shamus: Hello, everybody, and welcome to an exciting episode of the Poor Girl Egg and Cheese Podcast. My name is Seamus. And I'm Herbie: Her big Shamus: as always, you could be anywhere in the world, but you're here with us. And for that, we thank you. Herbie: Yeah, man. Shamus: Today's episode is brought to you by the Village Handyman. Our buddy Leonard is just a local guy ready to help improve your home's needs and an affordable rate. You can reach Len at 609-784-6862 or at the Village Handyman Home. On Facebook and Instagram. Snipes Mobile Window Tinning and Paintless Dent Removal is still a sponsor. Call our buddy Paul for all your auto tinting and dent removal needs. Can reach Paul at 609-346-6552. And on his Facebook page at Snipes Mobile Window Tinning. And if you mention our show, he said he'll knock 10% off the price. Speaking of Paul, his daughter's birthday is this weekend. Yeah, so the boys from Pork Roll wanna wish Mac a very happy birthday. Happy birthday. I'm gonna try to get there, brother. I got a lot going on, but I'm gonna try to swing by there and check it out. So happy birthday. Herbie: Happy birthday. Shamus: How was your week, dude? Herbie: Magical. Shamus: I know it's been a while since we've been here, so there's been a lot going on. Yeah. So we went up to the wax carrot factory for the Chase Hutley retirement. the Wall of Fame game. Yeah. Yeah, that was good Herbie: Over at Megholms. Shamus: stuff, man. It was good to see everybody. Junkmail Steve was there. Yeah. In rare form. All fired up. Herbie: With his suggestions too, it was a matter of Shamus: absolutely. apparently he told me he's working on our theme song. He wants to do a live version of it Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: for the when we go to video. So that'll be that would be awesome if we can get that worked out. He also had some other suggestions. Yeah, yeah, we Herbie: yeah. Shamus: need sound effects and background music. So we'll get right on that, Steve. Herbie: Hey. Shamus: But Steve also wanted us to relay to all the listeners that you're still on the list. eat it. Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: real quick, just to give everybody heads up. we've had some technical difficulties. nothing with the recording stuff. my computer is really on the downhill. it's old too. And it got to the point where the software people who actually put our podcast out is just like they usually help me out when it's stuff that, but the guy was just like, dude, it's over. Pull the plug on that thing and go Yeah, so I'm probably gonna go get a new computer. Well, by the time this comes out, I'll have a new computer. Yeah. we kinda need to upgrade anyway when we go to video. We need something that you know it's not from I think mine's from like twenty fourteen. yeah. My laptop. So it's time, bro. So what we do apologize. I know it's been a while. but it's the summertime, you guys. I I we appreciate you guys listening to us, but you know, get out there and do something. Herbie: Sure. Shamus: I hope we they're not driving down the road like where next episode, man? So yeah, for Herbie: Yes. Shamus: that we apologize, but it's like I said, it's the summertime, so I'm sure there's a lot going on anyway. Herbie: Well yeah, we're doing stuff too, man. You know, we've got a lot of camping and kayaking experiences I've deal with our downtime. So and no beaver incursion, so you know, recently, which is cool, I don't know where they are, so I'm a little s a little I don't know, maybe they're regrouping their forces or something for a counter offensive. I don't know. Shamus: speaking of kayaking, just to give a shout out to all those cats in Florida. Kim our kayaking buddy and her whole family pretty much went down to Florida, Disneyland. Hope they're having a good time and safe travels on the way back. By the time they begin us, I think they have like a day or two left. Yeah. Herbie: Got to meet the Mandalorian. This is the way. Shamus: Yeah, I don't understand I I think we we talked about that before the show. I don't understand like every girl I know is like, I love the band Lurian and I was just like, Why it's a mask? Well And then I asked you, I'm like, Who the hell is under that mask? You're like, Pedro Pascal and I was like, Really? Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: You'd have thought like Antonio Umbaras during his Desperado days was under that mask the way some of these women talk about him. Well you know Herbie: Maybe he's like more like, you know, the the single dad, you know, with the cute kid. So that's like an another allure like a responsible single dad, you know, with the with the cute little baby. So that that could that could Shamus: Yeah, pretty good. Chuck that helmet all look like sloth from the Goonies. But Herbie: If there's just no way. Shamus: yeah, a big shout out to all those cats in Florida. Have a safe trip on the way back and hope you're having good time. Yeah. Speaking of I don't even know how to transition the On Facebook Marketplace the other day, I just every once in a while when I'm bored, I just kind of flick through there real quick to see if I can pick up some stuff for the show. And some lady was selling a board game that was simply labeled Fort Bingo for kids. Nice. Herbie: And I was like Shamus: What the hell? So when I looked at the cover of it, it's this bright orange box and it's got like all these cartoon animals farting on the Herbie: So I get Shamus: box. Say fart bingoes for kids. I was like, I got dude, I laugh for a good 15 minutes and I'm buying it. Herbie: Animal for it. Shamus: Don't have kids, don't care. I'm buying it. So yeah, I went and picked it up. And the the way the lady described it was hysterical too. She's listen, my kids love farts. I was like, really? She was like, yeah, she was like, but when they opened this up, they were just like, Mom, this is little bit too much. Like it's too gross. And I was just like, what? Herbie: Wow. We're in too deep, man. Shamus: So she's just so just be careful, like all the pieces you're here, and if you're kids, I was like, No, no, no. Like I I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a I Herbie: I can't wait till you open it 'cause I wanna see what pieces are involved. Shamus: said, I'm gonna give you the rundown on this. I you know, I told her we had a podcast and I was just gonna use it, you know, for like the back prop 'cause I yeah for it bingo's great. Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: So she's like, that's amazing and then she asked for the link. So hopefully she's listening too and thank you for the game. Yeah. So Herbie: Marketplace is actually a hit, dude, now because we had like another episode before it was like the pros and cons. And speaking of marketplace, I found a like a gyrocopter for sale on in Browns Mills and I kind of want it. It's like it's definitely not like a a Herbie need, but it's a Herbie kind of want. Okay. Yeah, it's just one of those. Actually there's two of them I seen on there, man. So, you know, the marketplace, you know, everyone check out your marketplace and stuff. And matter of fact, like like a listeners, just if if you see like a weird marketplace thing that that kinda caught your eye, just drop us a line. Let us know, man. Shamus: You know what forgot to do? Well, I forgot to mention all the VFW stuff. Herbie: yeah. Shamus: Well, let's see what they got going on. We'll do it real quick. Real quick rundown. the VFW post thirty twenty has a lot coming up this month. They're still taking donations for school supplies up until the fourteenth, which is I think this week. If you have some extra supplies or a couple extra bucks to spare, they're collecting notebooks, pens, pencils, paper, glue, crayons, backpacks. And anything else school related, doing one final push, so let's help them out. They also have their community day on the sixteenth. I think that's this Saturday or Sunday from one o'clock to four o'clock. It's free for everyone. They're gonna have a bounce house, face painting, games, hot dogs, and nacho bar. And their school supply giveaway will be that day. And apparently I don't know who's playing, but they have a live band. yeah. There's gonna be live music there. So Herbie: Like man. Shamus: Swing by check that out. the next creative writing class with Miss Vanessa from the Village Works is August 17th. So come out and see us. Your boy will be there. I'm there. Well, I I missed the last class. But yeah, I'm usually there. So trying to get my vocabulary and my writing skills together. they got the fifty-fifth tickets still on sale. They're still available. They're $10 each, and only a thousand tickets will be sold. And their drawing is August twenty second at three o'clock. So I guess they didn't sell all thousand yet, but it gotta be getting close. Yeah, I'm gonna probably pick some up when I go down the creative writing. They have pizza night on Friday night still. I think they're doing another music bingo night coming up. I did see that. And they just put up their first advertisement for their pig roast, which is the end of September. I believe it's the twenty si I don't quote me. I just kind of flashed through it today when I was gathering Herbie: There's a Shamus: facts for today's show. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna go start checking them out, man, a little bit. So it just sucks not living in that town anymore. Herbie: yeah, I mean so yeah, it's a little bit farther. Shamus: So Herbie: Pig roast and stuff? Shamus: I went I think big Nanny Dusk played it one year. yeah. And I went the food was amazing. It was a good time. So Herbie: Like who is Nanny Dust? that's a whole nother story too. Third Nanny Dust. Shamus: Yeah, they Well they might be done, but they were a great cover band. Yeah, they're bit of yacht rock kind of band. So, Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: yeah. All right, getting back to what we were talking about. We were talking about fart bingo for kids, and then I thought to myself, man, how board games have evolved. We've gone from like the earliest known like five thousand BC to fart bingo for kids. You know what I mean? Like So Herbie: See how humanity really progressed. Shamus: So one thing I did notice about some of these episodes is we're kind of getting away from the educational part of it and we're just kind of winging it. So I figured let me sit down and write some facts out. Okay. About board games and then we'll discuss, you know, what we did as kids, like our favorite board games and stuff like that. All right. Herbie: Okay. Shamus: Board games are thousands of years old and evolved from religious and strategic activities into the huge hobby it is today. Some of the earliest known board games came from ancient Mesopotamia. And Egypt. That was the first time I've seen that word at Mesopotamia in for a since like history class. Yeah, I don't even know where the hell those those people were at. The Royal Game of Yore dating around twenty six hundred BC is one of the oldest known board games. It's a competitive race game played with tethered dice. That game actually still exists today. it's Not it's kind of just tweaked a little bit. Yeah. But people still play that game. And I didn't get a chance to really look up what it is. I know at the VFW we just talked about, they do it's cool as hell, dude. Yeah. They get like you pay like two dollars for this horse. Right. And they hang it like on these hanger things. huh. And then you roll the di and it goes around the bar. So if there's five people in the race, like you'll roll. And if you get a two, your horse moves two. If I roll, I get a five. I mean it moves five. And you gotta yeah, the first one across the finish line to win a pot. that's what I was kinda thinking it was, but I don't know. So but apparently people still play the royal game of your. The oldest known game played is a game that was invented by the ancient a Egyptians, known as Sinet, which dates back five thousand years. It was played on a grid of thirty squares and it was A game symbolizing the passage of souls through the underworld. Herbie: What like a Ouija board, but ancient Egypt. Still Shamus: Yeah, I I was gonna say I didn't get enough time to actually research that, but that is something I'm definitely gonna look into dude. Herbie: I don't think Parker Brothers or Milton Bradley ever Shamus: Yeah, don't know if they're gonna put that out. I mean they did put a one of them put a Ouija board out. Well yeah. So Herbie: Ha ha ha. Shamus: And we'll get to that later on in the episode 'cause that that thing still freaks me out. Yeah. So And then leading up a couple more years, Greeks and Romans played various games involving boards, dice, and pieces. Dice games were very popular, but gambling was frowned upon and often regulated. Yeah. So Herbie: Our people start busting out with some cashish, man. Shamus: Hell yeah. You know what cracks me up? Like when I read stuff like this, I I have pictures in my mind and I should probably do a TV show. You know, like they're like, you know, gambling was proud of it. I could just see like three Greek dudes and like togas in the background, like, hey, roll that shit, bro. I got money on it. Craps. Herbie: By Zeus, Jesus Christ. I rolled two hairs and a and a mistopheles. Shamus: Bad me do roll shit. All right, and short shortly after that, chest was developed from an Indian India strategy game called Chaturanga. Probably around the sixth century. Herbie: That's cool. Shamus: Yeah, but I I couldn't find anything on the history of checkers. So I don't know if like that's just a spin off of that. Herbie: Is 'cause you know, you really think about if you think chess is more a strategy game, especially like that became big in the Europeans, especially like, you know, military leaders, a sto aristocracy and stuff like that for you know, it was like a like a a brain game. Shamus: absolutely. I mean that is the foundation for strategico risk shit like that. Herbie: Yeah. yeah, plus during that time everyone was actually, you know, f warring with each other, so all that strategy was like to sharpen their skills for on the battlefield, so that makes sense. Shamus: And then Batgammon also has ancient roots and was popular in the Middle East in Europe. I've never I've seen it. That's still played today. Yeah. But I've never I've never had any inclination or any desire to play it. That and Othello. So Herbie: yeah. I never played that one. But I I know like for like also the Asian countries, they also played Go and Shogi. Shamus: Go is actually another game that's actually still played today. Herbie: And it's all strategy and stuff, which is great too, because there was actually old samurais that actually used to play games with each other and they would actually anticipate and see how they would be on the battlefield. Like if they were more impulsive or if they're, you know, would attack first or they'd be more cautious. It was it was just basically like getting a feel of like of your enemy. Yes, Sansu. Yeah. And also Miyamoto Mersashi wrote the book of the five rings. Shamus: All right. Herbie: Yeah. I know some stuff too. Shamus: I was gonna say when it comes to Asia history I know you're on your game. All right, board games started becoming commercial between fifteen hundreds and the eighteen hundreds. Improvements in printing made it much easier to make cheap board games and cards. Games increasingly became household entertainment. This is where it really kind of starts taking off a little bit. In the eighteen hundreds, games such as The Mansion of Happiness and The Game of Life appeared. That really like when I read that, I like, Man, the game of life has been around that long. Yeah. So but apparently it went away for a while. Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: And then they bought it back. many games emphasize morality, education, or teaching kids good behavior. Herbie: That's cool. Shamus: Well, that's still today too. There's a l there's a lot of like educational games out there. And then Christ, over the years you had the Remember that wheel you had as a kid and you put it on the cow and you pull it, it was like the cow goes or they had the what was that? It was almost like a little keyboard thing, the spelling bee thing where then you had leap fry. Herbie: yeah. Yeah. There was all I remember when I was a kid I had speaking spell. Shamus: That's what I was talking about. Speaking spell Yes, sir. So. All right. Then in the nineteen hundreds the shit exploded. yeah. It's considered the beginning of the modern board game era. Monopoly hit big in the thirties. Scrapple appeared in the thirties as well, but became popular in the fifties. Clue and Candyland arrived in nineteen forty nine. I can't believe Clue's that old. That's crazy. Herbie: Like you know, like after like the seventies and stuff like that, like those games were around for a long time. They just like reprinted them. Like in Milton Bradley and Parker brothers actually started reprinting those games and it just kept it going really. Shamus: Well that's that seems to be the trend with these. Like they'll drop and everybody buys them and da da da but then everybody has them and then they just kinda die out. And then twenty years later they put back out and then all the kids are like, it's a new game and they just kind of or they rebrand it, like a different Herbie: yeah, definitely. Well look how many versions there is of Monopoly, dude. There's like Star Wars Monopoly, Dungeons and Dragons Monopoly. Shamus: Even McDonald's has a version where you play. It's crazy. Herbie: It coincides with like, you know, like movies, like movie merchandising and all that stuff. If you're a famous TV show, I mean there's a h goddamn happy days board game and stuff like that. You know what I mean? So it's just all about merchandising and it just took off all at that time. Shamus: yeah, I don't know how many TV shows or whatever have board games, like you said, the happy days game and stuff like that. Herbie: Kinda looks like it's like a good profit too, 'cause if you really think about it, man, like those board games were basically made out of paper. You know what I mean? They didn't really even like some of the the the the player pieces were just like cardboard cutouts and stuff. So it's basically very cheap to produce and they, you know, they could sell it for a decent price up. Shamus: Well, that's another thing. That's you know, when we talked about how they waited to re release twenty years later because they were people would start missing pieces or the game would just go wore out and they would just go buy another one. So 'cause I don't know how many games we wore out as kids. Man. In the sixties, seventies and eighties, it really exploded. Risk, mousetrap, operation, twister, battleship, hungry, hungry hippos. Herbie: yeah. Shamus: And then All those dropped in the I I can't I'm not gonna name all the years they dropped, but it was during that era, the sixties, seventies and eighties. D and D dropped in seventy four. Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: And that was one of the first tabletop role playing games that has a ridiculous file. Like that kind of rebooted itself too just recently. And if you really wanna know about the Dungeons and Dragons history and all that stuff like that, go back a couple episodes. Yeah. I think that was back in April or May. yeah. We had Tom and Christine on, two of our really good friends come in and Give us the rundown on Dungeons and Dragons, and everything you need to know is in that episode. So give it a listen. Big shout out to Tom Christine. Thanks for that. Other games that dropped during the 60s, 70s, and 80s was Connect 4, Stratego, Sorry, Trivia Pursuit, Guess Who? Scrabble, Trouble, Perfection, Kerplunk. Herbie: Exactly. Shamus: Zenga is like a newer game, but that was towards the end of the 80s. Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: Simon says, which was that round little electronic game where you had to Parcheese and Yahtzee. And I'm sure I'm missing a ton of Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: The Game of Life got a reboot in the eight because we said it came out in the eighteen hundreds and I think they said seventy eight it came back out. And I I'll never forget playing that as a kid because it looks like eight, nine, ten years old. And I I hit the card or the thing where it was like, You have your first baby and I'm like, Great. The goddamn game piece is getting more ass than I am. This dude's Herbie: Ha ha ha. Shamus: putting out kids, man, tearing it up. I'm sitting here playing this board game. Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: So and then like my sister loved horror movies. Like the I mean the shitty horror movies back in the day or any kind of horror movie. And when you're a kid, like you see like they have the old school Ouija board that was made out of somebody's skin and you're just kinda like, man, that must be crazy play. But then I I don't know if it was Parker Brothers or who the hell put it out, but somebody actually put a Ouija board out. Do you remember? Herbie: Yeah. It was like either like 'cause like Parker Brothers or Milton Bradley and all them like the main bigger companies of board games. So yeah, I remember playing with a Ouija board. I was of course I was a little like, you know, cautious of it, because I'm a little superstitious. I don't like messing with shit like Shamus: me neither. But I just like looking back on that now, I'm just like, damn, how did they I mean, our era was a little different than today. I'm like, damn, how the did they get that off? It's just a war game, but like you got three kids up in the rooms like, Will one of us die tonight? You're like Herbie: Yes. Shamus: and hear the lightning in the background You're like Herbie: It's definitely like it felt like a horror movie, man. It was like you know, for me when I was a kid, it was like, you four four white dudes and one little half blood Puerto Rican kid in there. I'm like, this is this is the script for a freaking horror movie. You know, they're gonna lose the three white boys at night and then the other two are gonna run away. It's just gonna be crazy. Shamus: Yeah, yeah, we had we asked that thing everything from are we gonna have a pop quiz tomorrow or does so and so like me or Yeah. Herbie: Yeah, yeah, that was definitely at one. Shamus: if somebody was gonna die tonight, give us the n you know, his first initial and Herbie: Well s well speaking about that, remember like by in elementary school when like the girls would actually make like that little paper folding thing? Shamus: yeah. Herbie: They'd be like, Do you w do does does she like me? And you go poop boo boo boo boo it looks like a weird little flower or something like that and there'll be like little, you know, little answers questions like over the the the black ape ball where you can ask it questions. Shamus: Magic April. Yeah. But yeah, I I just remember I think my sister got that game. And of all days Christmas. She got it for Christmas. I'm like, this is bad. Herbie: And Shamus: I'm not a big religious guy, but this can't be right. I mean, this is bad corporate. And I Herbie: Here's the Shamus: would never like I said, I'm that guy. Like I just don't feel right playing this, I ain't gonna mess with it because like you said, I'll end up opening some portal where you know, like demons come out or something like that. The guy like you do magnet fishing. I'm not doing that Cause I'm pulling up some box will open up and it's like a chunk of like radioactive material from Chernobyl. And like everybody around us all now has cancer and shit. Like I'm not just leave it where it's at. We're good. Herbie: Well that's the thing about board games though, man. Either like you have a lot of fun or it's gonna cause fights. I know Monopoly. Shamus: My brother used to no Yeah. I never really Monopoly's a huge game, obviously. It's probably one of the it's if not the most popular board game of all time behind like chess or whatever. Herbie: That makes you catch feelings. I mean there's people who are willing fight over that stuff. Shamus: Yeah, but but it's like you're gonna have to give up three or four hours of your life. Herbie: Yeah, somet hey, sometimes they're longer, man. I'm sure the listeners listeners if while you're listening, just when you when you write in, let us know if what's your longest monopoly game and if w what actually happened. Was it like a fight or was it like friendships were broken and tested? I've been guilty of like at one time I had like maybe like a dollar left and I came back and won the game. And it was like one of those ones where like I I didn't have boardwalk or park place. I had like LM Railroad and Kentucky Street or something like that. So don't let don't sli listeners, don't sleep on those two, man. You're not gonna get a lot of money, but as long as you keep getting money coming back to you, you could crawl back from defeat and win and piss everyone off. Shamus: Yeah, it's like I said, I don't think I've ever played it that long where somebody actually won the game. Cause like I said, I think the first couple like one or two times I played it, my cousins, Sherry and Michael, used to come stay with us for the summer. Mm-hmm because their dad was one of those charter fishermen kind of deals. And we take people out all the time, like way out, maybe out for like the weekends and stuff like that. Yeah. So that he would That was his job during the summer, so they would stay with us. And we would I think like one or two times we played Monopoly and I like, This is some boring. After a while I was just kinda like, This is boring, man. So Herbie: Well, if you think about it, that like I said, going back to arguing, it was you can already tell it was gonna start arguing because everyone's fighting for what piece they wanted to control because no one wanted to be the goddamn thimble or any other stupid stuff. It's like there's always like, you know, the one person definitely wanted to be the race car or the little guy on the horse. Maybe you'll settle for the little dog, but yeah, no one wants the goddamn thimble. Yeah, see that that one's like that Shamus: I always wanted the top hat, man. I was always a man about town. Herbie: was like I wanted the dude on the horse of the car. Shamus: That and there was always a fight of who's gonna be the bank. Herbie: Yeah? yeah yeah yeah. Shamus: Cheating ass bastards. Herbie: Yeah, so you know that's already like it's just a formula for everyone just like to beat the shit out of each other. Shamus: But I'll tell you what, it is actually if anything, yeah, I that's more of the game of life than the game of life is. Like it teaches your finances. Yeah. You know, teaches you to stay out of jail. Yeah. You know, don't go past go, don't collect 200 bucks. that kind of deal. Yeah. Teaches property value. Herbie: Temperament because you might just like at the end of the game just flip the whole board. That's Shamus: Yeah. Herbie: another thing too, man, because like the reason why you had to buy that, you know, they had all that money. Like you whenever you had a board game, especially Monopoly money, it would just be somewhere all over the place. Wouldn't be in the box or nothing. You'd find like Monopoly money randomly somewhere in the house. Yeah. You go to the bathroom, it's like freaking one by the toilet paper. Like, what the hell is the hell is the pink dollar doing here? Shamus: you like you said, there's so many different it's it's incredible to me 'cause another thing that came up like you go down this rabbit hole when you start researching stuff and like people who just collect monopoly board Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: Days somebody paid like for one of the first original prints. Somebody paid Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: one point seven million for it or something. But it wasn't even complete. Herbie: Mokes. Shamus: Yeah. But I mean, people collect things, man. Yeah. Herbie: I mean board board games are really huge. Like you said before, even with Tom and Christine, there are there there's actually conventions and stuff, board game conventions. Shamus: Yeah, what was the one they went to in Indianapolis? Herbie: Zolocon or something like that? I forget. It was the one in Indianapolis. Shamus: Yeah, it's the biggest board game convention and there's like seventy six thousand those a hundred thousand people there every year. Herbie: Yeah. And this is you know, a lot of them are like still based on like, you know, the Dungeons and Dragons type stuff. But yeah, that this like just Dungeons and Dragons and board games just go hand in hand. You know, yeah, they even had like what the Dark Tower and Dungeons and Dragons board game and it was like big it looks like a black castle with a with a red matte finish and had these little pewter figures and stuff. It was all electronic. There was like when the eighties the the electronic game started coming out, which was cool. Shamus: Yeah. Like I had Fireball Island, dude. Herbie: that's cool. I see that's why I like those games that actually had like moving pieces, especially like mousetrap or something like that. I always was into stuff. You know, with Shamus: I love building stuff like what was well we had Tinker Toys but we also had what was like the ro was it robotics where you could build like yeah like the dinosaur on wheels and stuff like that or Herbie: There's robotics and God. I know what you're talking about too. The director set Shamus: Erector said, Yes. Yes. my God, I forgot all about that. Herbie: I used to love play Hungry Hungry Hippos was another f you know, fun Shamus: no doubt. Herbie: freaking rock'em sock robots. Love that. Like I wasn't really like there were some cerebral games I would get into, but like I'd like more like the action like fun type board games. You know, like you like hungry hunger hippos and other ones where you could shoot stuff. But like Mousetrap was like there was so much going on with that one. You know? 'Cause a lot of the board game pieces back in the day was like a board, either cardboard pieces and maybe some chips or anything like that, but you know, candy lane operation was another fun one. I used to like playing that 'cause that was like hand hand skills and stuff. Shamus: That game used to sc not that it's scared me, but like you'd be like so concentrated like it's all of a sudden like bang you're like Herbie: Yeah, that thing was pretty goddamn loud too, man. Shamus: That's another game that has so many different versions of it too. yeah. They have like, you know, the Frankenstein Monster Guy like the Yeah, they have my god, there's some they actually did one with the Monopoly dude with the monocle Like he was laid out and you had to operate on him. that's so I mean you're taking the same game and you're just putting a different print of paper on top and making millions off it. Herbie: Yeah. Yeah. And it's probably the listeners right now are still yelling like, What about this game? What about that? Shamus: there's a ton of them dude. I mean there's so many. I was For all the wrong reasons, obviously. Like as I got older and you know, you start noticing girls and stuff and I was like, Who and somebody like, let's play Twister. I was like, But then I always Herbie: Yes. Shamus: it I'm the guy who gets a plane ticket and you see like the the smoking hot girl sitting there with her ticket and you're like, please sit next to me, please Please sit there for me Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: to see next to me, please and then you get there and she comes walking up and you're just like, Yes, yes, yes, and she keeps walking and you're like, No, no, no. And then all of a sudden I get like two and I'll never forget this as long as I live. I got two older and I'm talking like seventy Asian couple married Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: and they they spoke no English. So I was like, all right. So I get up and I couldn't explain to them And I guess it's because they were like, These are our seats. I was in the middle in between and I was like, If you wanna sit, I'm trying to explain to him, No no no, this is I don't see listen, I get it, but you guys are married. Would you like to sit with him? Should I no no this is Fuck it. Herbie: You were like right in the middle of both. Shamus: Halfway through the flight van, they both fall asleep. They're both one's on this shoulder, one's on that shoulder. They're drooling, their breath stinks, and it's just, my god, my shoulders are soaked. I was just like, God Yeah, they just came right from lunch where they eat kimchi and I'm like, my god. Herbie: Yeah, that definitely ain't a board game thing, man. That's that's just sucky luck. Shamus: No, and that's that's basically I'm always that guy. Yeah. I'm always like, yeah, okay, we'll play with the chicks. And I always end up tangled with some kid that doesn't wear deodorant. Herbie: Like Shamus: you know, his hair hasn't been washed in three days and it's like his ass is in my face and I'm just like Herbie: You didn't didn't know that the the deodorant right guard can actually go underneath your left arm too. Shamus: And I'm just kind of like, dude. So I'm that guy. Like not that I have good intentions, but every time I and I think there is like I don't we don't talk polit religion and politics on the show, but there's sometimes I'm just like, yes, and God's like, no. Herbie: I'm sorry man. But yeah, that Shamus: That's bad. Herbie: that that was you know that was another one and always like it would play in the basement. Every once in a while maybe up in the living room or something like that, because that thing was actually you need to do it on Shamus: You needed space You needed space and you needed a carpet. Herbie: Yeah, but you need it you need yeah, definitely carpet dude, 'cause if you didn't have anything underneath like a if you did on the kitchen floor, dude, no, you're sleeping all over the place, dude. Yeah, you're breaking a leg. But what other Shamus: Yep. So Herbie: game what other game do they have on there? Do they have more stuff with the list or anything? Shamus: there's a ton of stuff on there. It's like I said, we were talking before the show about perf I'm like, what the hell is perfection? Yeah. And I was like, as soon as you mentioned it, described it, I was like, my god, I remember that as a kid. Perfection was the game, it was like a giant plastic box and on top, yeah, it had to cut out figures. Yeah. Shapes and stuff. And there was a timer up on the right hand corner. So you would turn the timer and you start putting the shapes in. If you I think you had a minute to do it. Herbie: You'd like push the the thing and you had to put the pieces in there. Yeah, it would just like flip it all out the yeah. Yeah man Shamus: Push yeah, push the mat and if you didn't get it done in time it would it would send pieces all over the place. And you end up losing half of They go into the refrigerator or the couch or a cat would walk by and grab one and take off. So and then they had super perfection. I do remember that one. Herbie: Yeah, the big yeah, that was like the bigger plastic pieces and stuff, man. You actually had to put like one block with like extra like two it would like one block would consist of two pieces and but like different colors and you had to s put together. man. Yeah, it was it was tense, man. Shamus: Yeah, I was gonna say some of those games, like I said, operation That's actually a recent game that I I find pretty funny too. Yeah. I love like watching parents do it. yeah. And then like their teen like the young teenage kids are all like, Ooh, we got mom. She got Herbie: You know, there's like a lot of games like that that y there's also like the adult the theme type games, you know, like almost like the drinking games. Shamus: I mean that's a whole different it's like I said, I was actually going through some stuff in the house and I found this game. It's c actually called Drinkopoly. It's like Monopoly, but it's a drinking game. yeah. Yeah. Because you know, I have poker and all that But I mean like phase five is a great game. It's a card game. Yeah. Uno. well, it's like I said, phase five is a spin off of Uno. It's kinda the same thing, but it's a different Uno is Wards against humanity is a monster of a game, dude. Herbie: I mean and it it's like that one's funny and fun, but Uno can be a fun game, but you can actually make some enemies out of that because someone hits you with a skip at a draw four. Ho ho ho And be Shamus: Or reverse and leave you hanging. Herbie: like, let's get ready to rumble. Shamus: Well, phase five's like that too. I don't know if you ever played it. No. It's kinda along the same lines of Uno, but you have to put combinations together. Like in order to clear phase one, you have to have like three twos. So, but there's also skips and reverses or change cards. So like you can have three twos, but you have to go out. I think you get like eight cards. Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: So, and I forget how you go out, but like if you only have like Like you have to wait 'til your turn comes around. You can't just go out. You have to draw a card in. Yeah. And if somebody goes, switch cards with the person next Yeah, they Herbie: scum. Shamus: they give you like an eight, so now you gotta wait for another two and you start pile Herbie: Especially when you got two cards especially for Uno do you got two cards left and everyone can see you, man. And every once in a while you always get like that one like that couple where like the girlfriend would be like, Don't give me the job for it. Like, shut up bitch, give me the jard for it. Shamus: Everybody sees that person with the two cards and they just start panicking. They're I gotta get rid of points. Yep. I gotta start dropping. Rummies like that too. Yeah. Herbie: Yep. Then like the other canned and shit. Shamus: What's that? Rummy? Rummy's the same way. Five hundred rummy. People see that one card like and they look at their pile. They look at it like shit. Yep. I got fifteen points now and I'm holding nine thousand. I gotta we gotta start dumping. Herbie: Yeah, but that's like another part of like the board games that's either fun or they would actually test the threads of friendship. Shamus: no doubt. Well my house there was a lot of trash talking too. yeah. man, me and my brother used to talk some trash. I don't Herbie: Yeah, I mean there's gotta be, you know. There had to be Shamus: know how you play you talk trash playing parcheese. I was like, Herbie: Where there's a will, there's a way. Shamus: bitch, you can't roll like that. What's up? Herbie: Yeah, sometimes too, like some of the other games. Like I remember Boggle. I liked Boggle because I was I was good with like words and stuff like that. So when like it's What the hell was Boggle? It was like a it was a box, right? And it had all the is like all these little little like dice with with letters on them. So you shake it up and then you put it down and then like whatever you see in there you can like if you can make Shamus: Yeah to make words out of it? Herbie: And they had like the little the sand timer and stuff like that. Shamus: Yeah, me and my I we would talk trash playing Scrabble. Yeah. And then come up with words that weren't never to probably said once in my in that house in North Philly and never been said again. And we would just come up with words that my brother's like, what the hell is Nimlap off? I'm like, it's a verb. Herbie: Yeah. See that yeah, that was another thing too, man. Like it's it's a frickin' bird. He says it all the time Shamus: I was like, the crackhead down the street said that sh when I was coming home from school the other day. He's like, yeah, I was what's up? Herbie: He was chewing on some Twizzlers. Shamus: That's why we left North Philly, North East Valley. Herbie: Yeah, but also Pictionary too, man. You'd be like, you know, after after that you'd be like frickin' I can't it was a horse, but like this does not look like a goddamn horse's scumbag. Like that one person that could not draw and it was just looks like it like a third grader with like, I don't know, a blind third grader with a broken hand drew it. And you're like, dude, you're twenty three. You can't draw a frickin' horse. Shamus: I don't think I've ever played that I you watch like movies like when Harry Met Sally or like them, you know, those kind of movies where you see people playing that game and I was just kinda and like you said, you're like, what the hell and like when you're watching a movie for the first time, you're like, what the hell are they drawing? Like what the and like it's a horse and you're like, how is that? So to me that was always like a rich what's the word I was in the eighties. Yuppie. It was like a yuppie type game. Herbie: I was a yuppie type game. It was also like a couples type game because everyone would break off in like in their significant others and like you know, of course you had to beat everybody else. But that Shamus: no doubt. Herbie: and charades too, 'cause if man, if you couldn't even do charades right, that would just test your int intelligence, man. Shamus: Thank God I that's one thing I've never done is date the super competitive because I've had some friends that their their dates, wives or whatever just be like, no, no, no, no, and just like, we're gonna win no matter what. I'm like, okay, Al Davis, calm down. Yeah, Herbie: Just win, baby. Shamus: just wait. it's like, dude, you okay, we concede, you got it. Yeah. So and they're they're also the same people that we'd be at a party kicking in. I like to socialize at a party. I hate getting stuck like even beer pong and stuff like that. I like walking around and you know, being free, be able to get up and just walk away whenever. Yeah. And there there's always my one buddy's wife's always like, let's play a game. And grabs her phone and does that word game shit on her head and I'm just kinda like, she'll turn the music off and shit. I'm like Herbie: Yeah like that. Shamus: I what what time is it? Well yeah. Herbie: You're like. Shamus: It's seven thirty. This shit just started at seven. Herbie: And the food's not even ready yet either. God damn it. Shamus: Yeah. Herbie: Well sometimes with those games too, you get like the dippy-doos and you're just like you really look at some of these people like Jesus Christ. I hope they didn't remember learn how to breathe because they're they're just really that much of a dippy-doo. Shamus: no doubt. No doubt. One thing I did love and I'm gonna miss it this year because I'm changing schools and I'm gonna go work at a high school. I don't wanna say where I'm gonna be, but it's definitely a high school. when I worked in Tabernacle last year at the elementary 'cause I worked middle school and elementary. It's two different buildings. I had to walk across the street, check on both buildings, man. They had like the big Connect four thing and the and in the reset I want to say rec yard. They a lot of in the reset and then they had the tic-tac-toe with the the beam bag there and dude I used to go out there and I'm like, who wants a piece of a man? And like all the kids are like, you wanna play Mr. Buttcrack? And I was like, let's play Connect Four. And they're like, right. Herbie: Yeah, those things are cool, man, that they actually make those now. You know, like they're huge, but it's just like a lot of fun. Shamus: They haven't at the Evergreens, the ice cream joint where I've been spending my summer with my fat ass. But there's always kids playing them. I'm like, get wolf. Get up in there, bro. Play you for a Sunday, bitch. Herbie: Yeah. Well it can transfer like especially with the summertime. You know, everyone's having summer parties. You can have like you know other like not just regular games like that, but you can also have like, you know, frickin' cornhole, frickin' corn shoes, Shamus: Yeah. Herbie: yeah, can jam, all that stuff, man. Shamus: I have a four foot Jenga tower. A buddy of mine bought it. I was like, gave it to me for I bear it. I was like, so you bought me a box of four by four timber. Yeah. And he was like, it's a Jenga game, man. So like when you stack it, it's actually four foot. Yeah. I'm like, dude, somebody's gonna get killed playing this when this thing falls. Herbie: Yeah, but they also do drinking Jenga too, where can actually put things on like, you know Shamus: I played that. It's awesome. It's a lot of fun. It is absolutely awesome. And I'll tell you where I played it. I played it at, my God, what's the name of the place? It's Frankfurt Hall in Philadelphia. Uh-huh. It's like an outside German beer garden thing. It's it's almost like and I hate to say this. It's almost like old Texas Stadium. Yeah. Where there's like kind of a roof, but it's not. There's an opening. So when you walk in, there's four walls around it. It's an old factory where they kind of hollowed out the roof. When you walk in, it's it's almost like you're in a baseball field, like with the like the aisle that goes around for your but then you walk into the middle, it's all open. They got fire pits, picnic stuff. Herbie: Able to Shamus: And along the walls they have like little dudes and windows. So you can go get a beer there, you can get a hot dog there, you get a schnitzel. So when you sit Herbie: yeah. Shamus: at the we were sitting at the picnic table and somebody was just like, Let's play this I'm like, it's Shenga. I'm like, Why I'm thinking to myself, me being me, I'm like, people write all over this you scumbags. And I'm like, no, it's a game. Like people write different yeah. So like if you pull a piece, yeah, if you pull a piece, you can like you know, take a shot or you know, pass this to pass this drink to a buddy of yours, make them drink. Yeah, that's like Herbie: Call. Shamus: man, this is pretty wild. Yeah. So but we ain't got enough ink to write on the pieces. Yeah, I those pieces are golly, those things are big as hell. you'll be able to read that while you're walking up on it. Herbie: Well th those drinking games are always fun. Like another one that I love like drinking game wise. I mean it's not technically a drinking game, but left, right, center. I love that game. Shamus: Yeah, apparently that's spreading like wow. That music bingo, like we talked about with the VFW, that's not the first place I've heard it. I've heard it like nine times this summer. Aunt does it. yeah. what's the other not PJ Williams? I forget the name of the other place up the road. Like all these places are starting to do music bingo. And then somebody else mentioned it I was talking to, and I was like, what the hell is it? Like, I don't even know how to play it. Herbie: Bingo well, yeah, I don't really know about music, Bingo. I mean I play it, but you know, like last couple of things of I went to Bingo and and won some stuff, man. There's a lot of money to be made there, so I could see why the Yeah, 'cause I Shamus: I bought tickets for that that one we're going to. Herbie: when you know, when we go there, you're gonna see a lot of memos and pawpaws there with like crock pots and it's they're they're in it to win it, dude. They're there. I mean Yeah. Shamus: those those ki those cats are competitive. If you some youngin' walking up in there walking with their money, somebody might get a cane to the back of the head. Herbie: yeah, they're Damn right, man. We're like one of those little electric scooters gonna get run over by your ankles and rolled in the parking line. Bashed in the head with a thing, a a crock pot soup ladle. Shamus: Like that Seinfeld episode where the chase is on, we're all in our scooter. Herbie: yeah, man. Those things yo, not for nothing. Those things move pretty goddamn fast, man. no doubt. Yeah, they do. I every time I go into shop ride or something like that, I see those electric carts here. I'm like contemplating like, let me take that for a spin, man. Shamus: Well, before I get into music bingo, I gotta figure out this fart bingo thing. Herbie: Yeah, we d yeah, we gotta look at that stuff, dude. But even like left right center, I brought that and can jam to Japan. And not knowing, you know, my dumbass, like Japan has like a thing against gambling. So there's Pachenko where it's like that it's almost like slot machines, but instead of winning money, you win ball bearings, and those ball bearings you can redeem for prizes and stuff. Okay. So when we brought left right center over there, we're playing it in now is that game? Shamus: Board game. Herbie: No, it's just it's a dice game. It's just yeah, it's just basically just dice, dude. That's it. Dice and money. That's it. And it's a lot of it it moves fast and it's a lot of fun. 'Cause I've I've done it, I've done it at the Moose Lodge. I've I I just you could bring that anywhere, man. As long as people got money, it's just like it's a it's an attention grabber and it's unfortunately it is one of those types of parties where if you're at a house party and people start doing that, man, a a large majority of the people will gravitate to that table and start playing Shamus: No doubt. Herbie: left, right, center, man. But when I went to Japan, you know, they're not really, you know, they can't really do too much gambling. But when we played, of course, we used like the coins. So there's like, you know, a hundred yen is like a buck. Then after a while, man, my boy Yamada and Watado san and all them were getting into it and they were busting out like not just the coins, man. They're busting out them paper yen too, bro. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is getting too rich real quick, man. Calm down. It was cool. And you know, I showed them what is it, beer pong. showed him can jam. I was actually able to pack that in my suitcase and just like dismantle it and bring it in. So I had it I was up in Nagano, up in the mountains playing can jam with my boys. Nice. It was cool. Shamus: Nice. So if you had to let's do a top five of our favorite board games of all time. I guess I'll go first. Herbie: Yeah, go first, man. See what you got. Shamus: well I'm gonna go with and like you said earlier, they kind of electron like it went to electric in the eighties. Uhhuh. And it was kind of a pain in the ass 'cause you had to put each coordinate in, but Battleship. And then they had electronic battleship where if you sunk somebody's thing, the screen would light up like red by So Herbie: Yeah, definitely dude. They even have drinking battleship too, dude, which is great. Shamus: Drinking Battleship. They also had the the travel game. Yeah. Like they had Connect 4 travel and all that stuff like that. But Battleship was always one of my favorite. Herbie: Yeah, I I forget but it was and they also had like, you know, like the placemat could be like, you you'd like a maze or whatever the hell. Shamus: What was the one with the pegs? Herbie: Those are cool, man. And you know what else I miss at the diners, man? The little the little radios at the at the at the little Shamus: Yeah. Herbie: jukebox, man, that's that's freaking cool. Shamus: Mm. Yeah, everybody's got it on their phone now. Herbie: Yeah, man. Well getting back to like the games, like for me, one of my favorite ones that was a replay value for me with my buddies was a game called Fortress America. Shamus: Now that came up when I was doing research. What is that? Herbie: Fortress America is is is another board game where it's basically you can have like f up to five people playing. So it's like basically the map of the United States and one person can be American, you have like your military forces. It's almost like any type of military strategy this game. Yeah. And that you'd have like, you know, soldiers, tanks, but a lot of them are like hover tanks, like helicopters. military personnel carriers, stuff like that. But you also had like it was almost like Red Dawn really, 'cause you had like one side would be like the Latin coalition so it'd be like you know Mexico side would there would be like that color team would come up. There'd be like the Asian alliance. So you'd have like that from like the West Coast coming from attacking the United States. And then you'd have like the communist socialists and all that stuff like in the red it would be like a red army. So it was just basically you had like three separate players that would actually would try to take take America and America had, you know, you Shamus: Yeah to fight them off. Herbie: Yeah, but they also had the frickin' like laser thing, like the satellite laser stuff they had a lot of fun with. It was fun, but it was all like a rolling dice game, but that was just basically it was for us, it was a difficult like rule game. So of course like a lot of these games, not everybody really s paid you know, stayed with the rules. They made up their stuff as they went along, but it it was that one was was definitely a lot of fun. And that one was like kind of similar to like I said, Risk and a game called Shogun. Which I really liked too. Shamus: Another game I liked was Stratego. That's cool. Yeah, that was kind of like the English army kind of thing where I think it was based off of World War One. Yeah. We had like spies and bombarders and just infantry and stuff like that. It's kinda like chess. Yeah. But you know, on it same kind of board game and all that stuff like that. different pieces take different pieces. So yeah, I always kinda liked that game too, just because it was geared towards soldiers and war and that kind of deal. Yeah. To me that was more enticing than just chess. Herbie: yeah. Shamus: Which I I did learn how to play eventually, but I suck at it. Herbie: Well for me, I like I would say another fun one for me was Clue. Shamus: Yeah, I have clue on my list too, man. I was always always Herbie: That was fun. An old Maida, because I I just grew up with my older cousins that had those types of games. So like Old Maida used to like looking at it because like they would have like the cards and like the old maid itself, I mean, she just looked creepy. 'Cause like a lot of the art the art for like a lot of these old boar games, they were a little it was Shamus: no doubt. No doubt. Herbie: like it creeped me out a little bit, but Clue was actually another fun one 'cause you'd be like, I was it was Professor Plum who did it in the study with the candlestick. Shamus: Yeah, I was always in like I always just kinda stared at the person and when they put it in the confidential file, yeah, that little manella envelope and they put it in the thing and I'm just kinda like, all right, who the f who is it? And then we're Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: we start, you know, when you start playing the stuff and then you think you got it, and then the guy was like, Nope. And you're like quit bullshit. Anybody quit bullshitting They're Herbie: You're a liar. Shamus: like, No, dude, it's not I'm like, Come on. Herbie: You're cheating. Shamus: I said, Well, I'm done because I have no idea who it is Herbie: And I'm out. Shamus: So yeah, my next one is NFL Strategy. yeah, Herbie: yeah, you mentioned that before. Shamus: I did mention it. it wasn't again a lot of people get it mixed up with that electronic like in the seventies you had that big magnet board and you put the players on there and you hit the button like and they all just kind of like vibrated around and stuff. I I Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: just actually sold one to a guy, the last yard sale I had here. Yeah, it was from the seventies and it had it was Pittsburgh and Dallas 'cause that's when they both played the super it was from seventy eight. I'm like just get rid of it by Herbie: Worth money. Shamus: I don't care. But NFL Strategy was a game where they actually handed you plays from a playbook, but they were on cards, like long cards. Right. And they were actually NFL plays. So you would get an offensive book and then you get a defensive book. and then like when you punt it, you just switched. You just hand your defensive stuff over to the next guy. And then I would pick a play and somebody on the defense would pick like if I was playing you, you'd pick your defense play and I'd go, Okay, put it down. And before you put it down, you would go, I'm gonna run this play. Yeah. So you put it down, your defense would overlap it, and then there would be like these numbers where you could see and then there was this thing on the side where you kinda hit it up and down and it just wherever it stopped. I g if run was red, it would say, Okay, you gained five yards. Yeah. So you'd move your thing five yards and it yeah, it was it was all 'cause you actually had to know like NFL strategy. Like you had to know different formations, offensive I'd learned so much as a kid playing that game just about ball Herbie: Go. Shamus: that when I first started playing, you know, little league football and like the first play they ever called was like a thirty two dive. And everybody just looked at the coach and I was just like That's going through the, you know, that's the third back, which is our halfback going through the two hole. Yeah. Which is right. Is it left or right side coach? And he would just like look at me like, where did you come from? And I was like, I play NFL Strategy. Yeah. Herbie: Go behind the fat kid. Shamus: So I mean a lot of kids didn't actually pick up on stuff because like Tech Mobile and all that stuff. Madden wasn't big yet. yeah, I was Herbie: It's Shamus: all Yeah, but NFL Strategy was like the board game Madden. Like you learned a lot playing that game. So yeah, me and my brother will play that for hours. So give me another one, Herb. Herbie: Do. Probably say Mousetrap, because Mousetrap had just had so many gadgets on it and stuff, dude. I just thought that was cool. Shamus: Yeah, that was my sister loved that game. And you could do it you could play that by yourself. Herbie: Yeah. And I I never had that game just like my cousins had and I saw it on the commercials all the time. So I was like, that one's cool 'cause it just had so many moving parts to that board game. You know what I mean? As opposed to like some of the other ones just like cardboard, cardboard pieces, maybe a little spinning dial or whatever. And I'm like, all right, yeah, I mean that's cool. But the mousetrap Shamus: Yeah, like that big tower with the cage that used to come down and shit. Herbie: I was like, that's cool. Shamus: So I'm gonna go with and it's kind of an old school one. My dad used to call a Pollard game. Parch easy, Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: man. I'd love playing Parche Easy. Yeah. You ever play that? It's Herbie: I I know. Shamus: kinda you have you have four pieces in a room. Uh-huh. And you have to go around the board. Uh-huh. And get all your pieces back into a different room. But like people, if they jump you, you have to go back to the beginning. Right. If you hit a certain spot, you have to go back to the beginning. And it's almost like like you said, it's one of those games that build pressure because like you'll like one piece with five. And if you need five to get in the room, you can roll 12 and you can't move. You gotta get the exact number. So yeah, it was and it was I said, my dad said it was from like he was like, I played this when I was a kid. And I was Holy shit, man, you played this in 1890. That's And of course it was ground it. You think that's funny? So yeah, I used to love that game too. So Herbie: Probably they for me I would also say operation. I know we mentioned that one before, but that was just always like a fun grab one that just a physical like hand-eye coordination. This is just fun to Shamus: Then you always have somebody my brother used to do this shit all the time. He'd be like, I'll bet you I bet you a lounge you can't pull that shit without hitting the s like, all right, motherfucker. Herbie: Yeah I was gonna say which is Shamus: So like I I'd started pulling it and as I got to the top he would just like blow my ear or burp and blow up my face. I'm like, Herbie: All right, well let me ask you this. For operation what what what part do you think that was like the hardest to get out? Shamus: I can't remember. I s it had to be like that leg bone, like that skinny ass leg bone. Yeah, Herbie: It pretty hard man, and that frickin' heart too. Like Shamus: I was gonna say the heart was pretty tough too. But I don't I mean, were they doing heart transplants? Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: Like, what the But yeah, I remember me and my brother betting on that. yeah, they're I bet you I bet you a lounge, you can't get that out. That is I'm like, all right. And blow my face. I'm like, Herbie: You'd be like, no pressure. Shamus: I'll tell you what, after playing with him, I probably could have been a surgeon, man, because he would do everything for that buck seventy-five we were making a week. Herbie: Dude, it's almost like trying to diffuse a bomb or something. Shamus: Yeah, I'd call my mom in, she'd come in with a rag and just like dab the sweat off my face. Herbie: And you're holding on to your wrist with your one hand like you try to guide your hand and shit? Yeah. Shamus: Meanwhile my brothers got the golf war and like Herbie: Yeah, that thing with yeah, that that that game like yeah, it it it's real man. And there's a lot of decent parts on there too, man. I think I still have one. Shamus: No, no doubt. We should get one of those games, man. Get drunk and play. I don't I did find the NFL strategy game we were talking about. I do have Fart Bingo. Yeah. So but like yeah, like old school game like that, definitely. that could be a great drinking dream, dude. We could figure something out. hell yeah. Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: Hell yeah, man. Herbie: Frickin' also the ankle bone that had the rubber band for it for the operation game was a pain in the ass to do, man. 'Cause it was being connected. Yeah, and Shamus: my god, yeah. You had to reconnect it. Yeah, it was like a ligament or something. Herbie: then like the horse was a pain in the ass. Mm. Like the Charlie horse, that thing was a pain in the ass. And some of the other ones weren't too bad, but it was just like you really, really, really, really had to frickin', you know Learn how to defuse a bomb in order to like not set that thing off, man. Shamus: Like I said, I my honorable mention's probably gonna be trouble. The bubble thing in the middle with the pop little thing. And I like I said, I like Twister if the girls if the girls were playing Twister, I liked that game, but it was for all the wrong reasons. But like I said, I always ended up with the the stinky kid down the street's butt in my face or his armpit and my god, it's bad. Herbie: Actually another honorable mention for me, I had one that was a Godzilla game and it was like like one of those turn based type type deals. So you'd you'd have like a bunch of different colored starships and you know, your your your team or whatever was a different color one and you place it on the board and what you do is like it had like a little spinning dial on it so like see how many clicks you would go around. So if you rolled a five, you had to click it five times and like, you know, every time you clicked it, where Godzilla was hiding in the meteor, you had you're like, you know, you crash the ships there and then like when it it it was always like a different timing where the you know Godzilla would pop out real quick, almost like a jack in a box, but he'd grab your ship. It was cool. I used to love that game. Shamus: What was the game and before we go, because we gotta wrap this up? Like I said, in the eighties it really kind of took off electronical going, what was the one where actually when you opened the box there was a game show host? And it was like welcome to dot dot dot. Herbie: my god. Shamus: It might have been late eighties, early nineties. What the hell was that? my god. Herbie: To game shows? Because I remember like some of the other ones, they usually do like, you know, like the trivial pursuit games were always a lot of fun for me too. but also they had like those video ones. You like you it was a board game, but you pop in a video and watch it. You know what I mean? Almost like a Shamus: I remember that. Yeah. no this one was actually like my god. here it is. It's called Mr. Game Show. Herbie: Really? Shamus: You don't remember that, dude? Herbie: W Yes. that was like the other thing too where like what was the one where like it was like that mouth one? It was like a dude's mouth and you're like a dentist and would like go around Shamus: Yeah, you had to pull yeah, you had to pull the teeth and if you pulled the wrong tooth it would shut on you. Herbie: Those are th those games like that are fun too, 'cause it like to test like your manual dexterity and just like just chop around stuff. Mr. Shamus: Yeah, Mr. Game Show. I forgot about that. My neighbor had that. Herbie: Game Show. Jeez. So of course Hungry Hunger Hippos. That was a lot of fun. Shamus: Yeah, Hungry Hungry Hippos is really good. And like I said, I'm gonna miss playing Connect Four and Tic Tac Till in the Yard with the the kids at the elementary school. Herbie: They they got those things out now, man. We'll probably get some for the backyard. Shamus: no doubt. Anything else you want to add to this before we wrap it up? Herbie: No, just like listeners, I'm I'm I'm sure like you hopefully you brought up some little nostalgic memories of like, you know, when it rained the that rainy day where you're in there with your friends playing board games or just like a family board game night or like, you know, our friends that go out to do the the comic cons and the board game cons and everything. I hope that brings a lot of fun because I know there's a lot of people out there that like to play it. you know, write us in. Let us know, you know, what we missed or what games did you like or what were fun like game memories, like game nights, or even like the ones that we said where, you know, somebody had to flip the damn game board to all the pieces fell all over the place. So let us know about those little stories so we can reply to them. And yes, thanks for listening, man. Shamus: Yeah. And member to like, rate, and subscribe. Yeah, definitely. we do apologize for missing the last week. we did I did everything I could to get it done. It just technology wise, I just didn't have the horses to do it, Captain. So, but it's like I said, we we're gonna probably get back on schedule. quick update on the video thing. All pieces will be in place this week. The studio will be up and running. We're gonna start hooking cameras up and start doing some dry runs. So I'm gonna say we're getting we're we're knocking on the door now. Yeah, we had a couple setbacks. who knew epoxy took so long to cure? But Herbie: Yeah. Shamus: Who knew? Yeah, but like I said, when you guys see it, I hope you guys will like it. It's gonna be I think it's gonna be quite impressive. Herbie: Yeah, I'm gonna be I'm I'm excited. Shamus: All right. Like I said, like, rate, and subscribe. And as always, thanks for being here. If anybody's interested in a game of fart bingo for kids, give me a shout at Team Porkroll two five at Gmail. You guys have a good night, and we will see you on Monday. Herbie: Good night, everybody.