Last week I sent my man Justin one of those DC Adventure Comics that had Aquaman, Plastic Man and Starman. Keep up with what people are picking in Breakup Gaming Society’s bonus swag giveaways.

Drink of the Week (2:47)
A Golden City Brewery tapminder gives you his fave flavors and colors to taste this summer from the GCB line.

Game of the Week (7:35)
With the help of my adoptive big bro Noisy Andrew of partymeeple, I finally get my teeth into Avalon Hill’s classic infantry combat game, Squad Leader.

Track of the Week (16:21)
Summer is in the air and G-Funk is on the speakers: Let’s check out “Punk Shit” by Hi-C.

No Drink of the Week this time out. But you can buy me the next round and be thanked with a copy of “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends” — plus your own Defiant Frog sticker made by my pals at Inkling Print Co.

Game of the Week (2:30)
Hear what I wrote so far as I encounter the ghosts of Dwelling, a solo journaling RPG book from Good Luck Press.

Track of the Week (20:56)
About half of New York shows up to kick your ass on “Let’s Be Specific” from Tragedy Khadafi’s Kuwait Tapes.

Don’t forget that somebody who supports the show before the end of Jan. 2025 will also get my copy of Mysterium. Details here.

Drink of the Week (1:52)
A gentle pre-Thanksgiving trot through half a bottle of Pendleton.

Game of the Week (4:20)
Snapshots of The Best Thanksgiving Week Ever, which included Vale of Eternity, Tokaido, Mouse Cheese Cat Cucumber, Saboteur and Survive! Escape from Atlantis.

Track of the Week (16:12)
The Large Professor gives us something “Funky 2 Listen 2.”

BGS salutes board game designers Marceline Leiman, J. Carmichael, and our hip hop North Star: Professor Mike Jordan.

Drink of the Week (4:33)
It takes a dark beer to break a dark mood. Notes on Bristol Brewing Company’s Winter Warlock, a stout from Goat Patch Brewing Company, and two Golden City Brewery beers — Coconut Chaos Porter and Core Sample Baltic Porter.

Game of the Week (11:13)
Deeper replays and some rethinks on Thunderbolt Apache Leader, Final Girl: Madness in the Dark, Wingspan and Star Wars: Outer Rim.

Track of the Week (29:21)
The blunt-force brilliance of Ultramagnetic MCs’ “Kool Keith Housing Things".”

This isn’t any goddamn game. (Preview Photo: PokerPhotoArchive.com)

Drink of the Week (1:59)
I tried a couple Fine and Dandies at The Hive, Trinidad’s newest spot.

Game of the Week (5:00)
My neighbor Jeremy Lanosga did not lose his appetite for risk or competition after the fall that left him partially paralyzed. He tells us how he ended up at the World Series of Poker 10 years after his accident.

Track of the Week (19:30)
”Gimme the Finga,” Black Sheep, from their debut 1991 LP.

Bonus points if you know what ATCQ line I’m referencing in the cold intro, it’s Golden Era 101.

Drink of the Week (1:37)
Bow before the Ruthless Megatron Bloody Mary.

Game of the Week (5:11)
I get super wound up talking about my favorite and least favorite things about board gaming.

Track of the Week (23:24)
”Inventor, staying on point like a splinter/Design a rhyme like Oscar de la Renta.” Nice and Smooth are in the house.

Breakup Gaming Society salutes Daybreak co-designer Matteo Menapace, who deserves an apology and an invitation back to the event from the sniveling milquetoasts who run Spiel des Jahres.

Drink of the Week (3:10)
Farmer’s Punch, as seen on Outdoor Test Kitchen. Here’s the recipe:

►Watermelon 1-inch cubes - X3
►Simple Syrup - 3/4 oz
► Vodka - 2 oz
►Campari - 1/4 oz
►Tomato juice - 1 oz Fresh Pressed
►Lime Juice - 3/4 oz Fresh
►Soda - Topper

Garnish
►Cherry Tomatoes
►Parsley
►Watermelon

Technique
1. Add watermelon and simple into a shaker and muddle
2. Add the vodka, Campari, tomato juice, lime juice, and ice to the shaker and shake until well chilled
3. Double strain into an iced glass and garnish with tomato and parsley

Game of the Week (7:14)
Overcame my loathing for Star Wars as a business and had a ball with Star Wars Outer Rim as a rollicking personal adventure. Got my copy at Pueblo’s Game Knight Games. Good shop. Give ‘em a visit.

Track of the Week (25:00)
Highlights from Masta Ace’s coruscating 2001 diss track, “Acknowledge."

Drink of the Week (2:27)
Michelob Ultra. I can explain.

Games of the Season in Review (4:17)
• Vale of Eternity
• Wingspan
• Cascadia
• Cockroach Poker

Track of the Week (23:46)
”Trick Dice,” eLZhi & Oh No. A muscular 2023 artistic victory lap from a Detroit legend.

Drink of the Week (2:12)
I crushed most of a fifth of Milagro Reposado and called my friend who worked in a foundry in Saginaw, MI in the ‘70s. It was educational. He let me record it.

Game of the Week (11:09)
Our winner—and entertaining runners-up—from our Boardgames and Debauchery story contest. Hear all the stories.

Track of the Week (21:55)
DJ Magic Mike (the Orlando production/turntable monster, not the movie) shows us the pure joy of what happens when Miami Bass meets house in 1988.

Drink of the Week (1:42)
My summer officially began when I tried my first Bulldog at The Market Bar.

Game of the Week (4:33)
Final Girl: Madness in the Dark thrilled and demoralized me.

Track of the Week (21:55)
We’re full of tequila and we’re going to light the place up with ILL Bill, Mr. Hyde, Gortex and Necro.

Drink of the Week (2:18)
Pairing Larceny Bourbon with Avery Brewing Co.’s Stampede Colorado Gold Lager.

Game of the Week (7:10)
Will Dustrunner — the second game I’ve acquired from Grey Gnome Games’ Tin Series — steal any table time from Tin Helm? Let’s find out.

Track of the Week (14:49)
”Practice,” by J-Live, from DJ Jazzy Jeff’s The Return of the Magnificent.

Drink of the Week (2:35)
It’s the Battle of the $28 American Whiskies as two decrepit Southerners square off in a death match to win my praise.

Game of the Week (7:21)
Win a copy of fellow Trinidadian Dustin Hyman’s Gutter Punks and Breakup Gaming Society’s “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends” in our new story contest. The hitch? You gotta tell us about a debauch that happened to include board games.

Track of the Week (13:02)
Skits on hip hop albums became a contagion by the ‘90s. But here are two I like from Ghostface Killah and Slum Village.

Still giving away weird old comics to friends who support the show. Christopher picked a copy of Spanner’s Galaxy from the DC six-issue series. See the details and what others picked out lately.

Drink of the Week (2:02)
Fritz Godard arrives in Starkville; we get gills-deep in some White Rascal (yes), Leinenkugel Berry Weiss (no) and Michter’s US★1 Kentucky Straight Rye (yes). Chickens are smoked. Final Girls are cooked.

Game of the Week (6:30)
Got on Board Game Arena for the first time ever, playing Faraway with Dave from Dude! Take Your Turn and Race for the Galaxy with Noisy Andrew of partymeeple.

Track of the Week (15:17)
Up out of your chairs for the hip-hop energy that informs Blapps Posse’s “Beat Dat’s Hype.”

I persist in my attempts to teach you how to party.

Drink of the Week (2:35)
The Fetid Haze, built around Pikes Peak Hill Shine and one of the five recipes in Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends.

Game of the Week (8:53)
Staring back into the charred and radioactive eye sockets of Wasteland Express Delivery Service. I still love her.

Track of the Week (13:12)
Focusing on Tha God Fahim’s and Black Thought’s inspired verses from “Pravda,” a drumless posse track from Your Old Droog.

Be the death of the party with “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends,” a booklet with four original shots and one cocktail recipe, all poured on the show.

Drink of the Week (1:45)
Had to drink home remedy tea because I got real sick the same week the cocktail booklet came back from the printer. I blame you.

Game of the Week (6:13)
See what I found on the first few maps of Pocket Book Adventures, a solo dungeoncrawler from Grumpy Spider Games.

Track of the Week (13:12)
The flawless studio instincts and lethal pen of DJ Quik.

Celebrating the end of the holidays, a.k.a. America’s Triple Crown of Suicidal Ideation.

Drink of the Week (2:48)
Does an arbol chile, a stick of cinnamon, and several days of solitary confinement do the same magic for Jim Beam that it did for Tin Cup Whiskey? Let’s find out.

Game of the Week (5:33)
Chronicling my ongoing attempts to learn Thunderbolt Apache Leader, the solo wargaming classic from Dan Verssen Games.

Track of the Week (11:00)
I am a male model. Not a male prostitute. (Modeling just sucks.) They made me take off my top.

After I happily reported all the Mr. Beast cookie displays had been pulled from the Trinidad Safeway, they put one back out. I’m so pissed.

Drink of the Week (2:35)
Zero complaints from me or my pals upon knocking a big dent in a fifth of Bird Dog’s 7 Year Old Small Batch Bourbon.

Game of the Week (5:37)
Bohnanza, the bean farming game, still hits the sweet spot for pace, thinkiness and sociability. Broke it out with a few pals at Frontier Geeks on Main St.

Track of the Week (9:40)
I saw one bad set by them in the ‘90s. It wasn’t their fault. I thought they were bad. They were, in fact, good. Let’s revisit “The Killing Fields” by Psycho

Hogs will be cranked in celebration of a heroic Colorado Congressman.

Drink of the Week (3:28)
I used Tin Cup as a base for infusing my own l’il jar of cinnamon whiskey. I’m never going back to off-the-shelf cinnamon whiskey and neither should you.

Game of the Week (7:07)
Remembering board games with my intense Pappy, beginning with Stratego as a boy and ending with Splendor as a man.

Track of the Week (12:22)
Five reasons why Heavy D’s “Don’t Curse” — feat. Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Kool G Rap, Grand Puba, Big Daddy Kane and Q-Tip — is, for me, the apotheosis of the Golden Era.

My friends at Trap Queen(TM) tease their new product, Flav-R-Stompt Fish Dinners.

Drink of the Week (3:27)
I drank two bottles of Yellowstone Bourbon this summer and I loved them.

Game of the Week (7:56)
Ever had a casual game group where one player practices it on their downtime and shows up at your table in beast mode? That’s what happened with our lunchtime Dominion group.

Track of the Week (17:42)
We’re focusing on Track 39 of “50 Hip Hop Golden-Era Deep Cuts You Simply Must Experience”: Mad Kap’s “Da Whole Kit and Kaboodle.”

I got in trouble with my sponsor, Trap Queen(TM) Crab Remainders, for omitting their theme song, so this week I sang it for them.

Drink of the Week (3:13)
I’m on a little dryout, but we’ll have lots of things to say about Yellowstone Bourbon next episode.

Game of the Week (5:15)
The story so far of Achille Kickx, the character I made for the GM-less Sworn by Ghostlight TTRPG — and a few thoughts on the charms and challenges of this subgenre.

Track of the Week (22:15)
I finally got to a place where I could do a little eulogy for Trugoy the Dove. “Change in Speak” from De La’s first album is the work at hand.

We’d like to thank our latest sponsor: Trap Queen(TM) Crab Remainders.

Drink of the Week (3:14)
China down at the Market Bar on Commercial St. put me up on game with her Cantarito recipe. I remember only fragments of the rest.

Game of the Week (6:21)
Playing a stripped-down version of Trivial Pursuit by phone with Augustus Crimes in the wee, bleary hours.

Track of the Week (10:04)
Discussing the powerhouse “Do It Up” from Erick Sermon’s solo 1993 slab, No Pressure.

Drink of the Week (3:45)
Chilled Stoli w/lime and Chocolate Cake Shots

Game of the Week/Tracks of the Week (7:37)
Bumpers and listener call-ins from our first sloppy playthrough of Bannerless Games’ VOID 1680 AM. (You can find all 12 songs from our four sets here.6

Hey, there are still “thank you” gifties available as part of my June fundraising drive.

Drink of the Week (2:49)
The simple charms of the Banquet Beer and Dulce Vida tequila.

Game of the Week (6:06)
I’ve now played Sagrada in solo mode hundreds of times. Here’s why I like it.

Track of the Week (10:29)
The Lord Finesse tracks will continue until morale improves

Outro (13:51)
In review: Watch my short Sagrada solo video and give me some money.

I don’t need to be in your pockets every month: Hit me off once and I’ll send you Breakup Gaming Society’s cocktail booklet and your own adorable Defiant Frog sticker. Check it out, it’s easy.

Drink of the Week (3:14)
Infused some Ketel One with medium-roast coffee beans and subbed Frangelico for Kahlua in a deluxe White Russian variation that got me ‘60s housewife drunk.

Game of the Week (6:21)
Can Stalingrad be fun in winter? Yes, if you don’t think about it too much and enjoy David Thompson’s outstanding first entry in Dan Verssen Games’ popular Valiant Defense series.

Track of the Week (16:27)
Lots of rap acts stuck a house track on one of their albums in the late ‘80s, but “Club Scene” by Special Ed (feat. Kazaam) is a little more high-effort.

At the racetrack, God Complex Bacon Breakfast Toaster surprises everyone with a strong finish at the rail.

Drink of the Week (2:14)
A perfectly fine cinnamon whiskey that I’m not buying again.

Game of the Week (7:17)
Bullshit I’m not playing anymore: Cards Against Humanity, Uno, Talisman, Mysterium.

Track of the Week (14:41)
I simply cannot get through “Auditorium” by Mos Def feat. Slick Rick. Instead, we will focus on my favorite track from Slick Rick’s The Art of Storytelling.

Outro (20:42): A Bunch of Other Shit I’m Not Doing Anymore
Mother’s Day. Flying. Major consumer banks. This is all a bunch of bullshit designed to make me go nuts.

It’s my show, I can fart on the cold intro if I want.

Drink of the Week (3:23)
Riding out the last of the cold months by pairing a rotating cast of stouts — Guinness, Murphy’s, Dragon’s Milk — with a Jim Beam Devil’s Cut back.

Game of the Week (6:54)
Meet a hot-tempered former undertaker with wooden teeth, a wayward ranch hand who knows a lot about brandy and a belligerent carcass trapper with more bullet scars than brains — my first three Frontier Scum characters.

Track of the Week (21:29)
Professor Mike down at KABF in Little Rock got me thinking about remixes and mashups that, for me, fired the original LP track.

Reunited with a lost buddy over the holidays in kind of a bleak hotel. We’re joined for a game of Cockroach Poker by a bunch of kids in the lobby. Later in the episode: rock with me to a Lord Finesse track and then a reading of a poem by Layla Benitez-James.

Take a look here to see some of the vintage ‘80s comic books I’ve already shared with friends who support the show.

Drink of the Week (1:58)
Try my hack for enjoying Lagunitas Brewing Co.’s Tiki Fusion Hazy IPA — a slightly mellowed wad of two 4-mg. pieces of cinnamon nicotine gum. It works.

Game of the Week (4:06)
The year is Rome. The challenge? Build a thriving slice of Roman colonial life with one hand and defend it with the other. The setting? Wherever you have time to sit down, stop being a jerk, and play a game.

Track of the Week (16:13)
I trace how the monster drum break in Georgie Fame’s “Music Talk” was the bread crumb trail that connected my early ‘90s hip hop binge with other listening.

I made a D&D resource for GMs that lets you insert one of 26 fun rappers into your dungeon scenario thingy: Download it free here.

Drink of the Week (2:36)
Take a whiff of this Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select and the surprising depth of character on the shelves at Frontier Geeks in Trinidad, Colorado.

Game of the Week (7:31)
Got down and dirty on a space station with Escape the Dark Sector (review on the blog, also). I also loved Scout, an engaging card-shedding game that keeps landing on the table. Hear about both.

Track of the Week (13:14)
”Act Up” by Ill Breed, from the D&D Project’s assemblage of vaunted NY underground heavyweights.