Operation: Game Night
Travis Smith, Jared Erickson, and Clay Gable get together to discuss the latest and greatest in board games in this weekly podcast. What's hot, what's hitting the table, featured discussions about board games and the board gaming culture, and the primary mission objective- to play more board games!
Operation: Game Night
OTF: Fishing Rods, Glass Doors, and K-Pop Demon Hunters
Let's go Over the Fence! Discussions range from wrestling history and work relationships to fishing adventures with children and critical movie reviews.
• Clayton gives a heartfelt shoutout to his former high school wrestling teammate turned coworker.
• Jared shares his day trip to Pennsylvania with his daughter Gemma, who caught her first fish and celebrated with a "Hulkamania" style victory cry
• Jared found a free $200 charcoal grill/smoker combo through a local "Buy Nothing" Facebook group
• Travis recommends Marvel's "Thunderbolts" movie for its standalone story about trauma and healing
• Travis warns against rewatching "Bring It On" (2000), as it hasn't aged well with its dated language and shallow characters
• We discuss K-Pop Demon Hunters on Netflix
• The group discusses plans to potentially livestream their board game sessions in the future
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Welcome to the Operation Game Night podcast. We are back better than ever, and we're going over the fence. I'm your host, travis Smith. Joining me, as always, are my co-hosts Clayton Gable and Jared Erickson. How you doing, boys?
Speaker 1:Fabulous. You know we're doing it.
Speaker 2:Doing it big. We're always doing it. We're going over the fence today and, clayton, as I understand it, you have some stuff that you want to talk about over the fence.
Speaker 1:I do. What's been going on? I want to talk about a very special person, a special someone, um, that has been in in need of a shout out for a long time and I've been putting it off. I want to tell you about my, my buddy, justin.
Speaker 1:All right, so this justin, we go way back, all right, when I was, uh, in high school, he was on my wrestling team. I was a sophomore, he was a senior. We were practice partners all year long, okay so, and he was. He was good, like. He was one of the tougher guys on the team and I was. I was coming to my own as a sophomore. I wasn't anything to write home about, yet you know, I had a winning record, but we would practice every day and he would beat me relentlessly and he's the type of guy that took it personally. If you know, this isn't jujitsu people. All right. That's like when the patch you on the back and talk after practice yeah, when you score a good move. If I so much has gotten escape on Justin, I would spend the next 30 minutes getting my face rubbed in the mat and just mercilessly bullied by him.
Speaker 3:What's his favorite?
Speaker 1:takedown.
Speaker 2:All of them.
Speaker 1:I think he had a pretty nasty dump to the single leg side. But anyway, all that to say, justin, he graduated. I then graduated, went off. He started cage fighting after he graduated from high school. I told you he's a mean dude. He started freaking doing UFC. One time I held the bag for him. I came home from like, the academy. I was like, yeah, I'm pretty tough, I'll go in and train with Justin a little bit. And I just held the bag for him while he kicked and I wanted to squeal Like it hurts so bad. I didn't know people could move their legs with such velocity. But all this to say, he is in Garrity Glass.
Speaker 2:He has been there for some time, all roads lead to Garrity Glass.
Speaker 1:All roads lead to Garrity Glass and he works, you know he works back the hallway and he's in charge of the commercial crews. So he's the one that I've been bugging to get to get out there and start glazing for real. And so you know he was a little offended that when he got me out last time that I just shouted out John, who was the guy I ended up going out with, and so I said hey, man, it's, it's easy for you to shluff me off on some other guy you really want to shout out. You got to take me out for yourself and be the one to deal with me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to be the one to deal with me all day. You got to deal with me in the car ride there, you got to deal with me not knowing how to use the power tools, and then you'll get your shout out because he listens. He listens to the over the fences. He's just waiting for this moment right here. And last week he took me out to a beautiful Brazilian steakhouse where we where he and I was there as well put in some beautiful sliding glass doors for a wine, cooler, nice, and it was a magical day.
Speaker 1:I don't I still don't understand how things ever get done in this world. We just showed up there with these huge pieces of glass and like these big boxes of parts and pieces, and he's like, looking at him for the first time ever, seeing these things, he's like, yeah, what you're going to do is you got to put this little rolly wheel here and that rolly wheel there, and then we got to drill this thing in the ceiling here, then we got to put these glides down here and, before you know it, in like a few hours I mean, mind you, it takes me a few hours at home to hang a picture on the wall if I need to, like, use a stud finder or something, and in a few hours we had these like three huge, like 10 foot tall glass pieces.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hanging in the in the in the freaking entryway to this wine cooler and I. I just wanted to make sure that I gave him his proper due on this show. Justin, thank you for taking me out, thank you for making me tougher when I was just a little baby boy, uh, in high school wrestling. Thank you for listening to our show, even though it's of little interest to you. Really, I mean, I'm I'm glad, I'm glad you turned it on. I hope this doesn't end your listening listening now that you've gotten your shout out.
Speaker 3:Well, if Justin is actually listening, if he wants to come on in a guest appearance, we can kick Clay off and then the engineers can really grind on about glass. I mean really, he sounds like he knows way more about doing things than I do, so I would just like to pick his brain about doing things. All I know how to do is just, like you know, write like what to do. Yeah, how to do it, like make sure you have this type of window. I don't know how to put it in, but make sure you do it, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, he does it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he does it all and he's making sure that yeah, he's making sure that I don't show up at Gary glass and look like a weenie by just sitting in my office all day. He's letting me get out there and get my hands somewhat dirty. I mean, I still have very limited utility apart from just picking things up and putting them where they're supposed to go. But it was fun to watch him work. That saw, and I'll tell you what it was. It was a good day. We ended it with a nice little trip to Shake Shack and I I look forward to our next outing. So, justin, keep listening, because this isn't the end for you. He did say he would like to come on and he wants to. He gave us Because this isn't the end for you. He did say he would like to come on and he said we need to start live streaming games.
Speaker 2:He said nobody wants to hear you nerds talk about board games Violently agree, he said they want to see you play board games.
Speaker 3:Violently agree. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm talking about so that's what I needed to get off my chest this week and get on the freaking books so that when justin hits play this week, this is what he gets to hear that's right.
Speaker 2:I love that you you prefaced all of this shout out with like this guy used to kick my ass and he's like really strong and tough very scared of him. Yeah, making a shout out under duress.
Speaker 1:I mean he, I get he didn't just kick my butt in a in a professional setting on the wrestling mat, like before practice.
Speaker 3:He would fish, hook me around the wrestling mat and just like drag me around and he didn't, don't say anything that hr might need to.
Speaker 1:You know, hr already knows this oh no, he all but gives me wedgies every time he comes by my office and hr is a couple offices down. I'm like lisa, what are you gonna do about this? Was lisa on the wrestling team too? No, oh, but they know justin has way more utility there than me, so they're really turning a blind eye to it. So anyway, I think, I'm safe now. I think I'm safe now.
Speaker 2:Okay, well done yeah, that's my over the fence well, thank you, justin, for turning clay into the man that we know and love. Yeah, wow, uh, jared, what do you got going on?
Speaker 3:well, I did an old cannonball run up to, to your boy clayton up there yesterday. I think he let you in on it because I'm notoriously late for our podcast, so the two boys up top they always talk before I get here and then chaotically, jared joins the podcast. But I did get to see little clayton and the family and we caught a fish. Jemma caught the fish. About this big, she absolutely lost her crap. Uh did like a hulk hulkamania, like yeah, she was freaking out. Um. So obviously I had to go buy my own little fishing rod for her because she thought it was the coolest thing ever. She thinks clay is like walks on water. And so we like drove up when she woke up.
Speaker 3:We were supposed to go with Cole and his family, but they got sick. So we were going to carpool all the way up there, have fun all day, and then carpool back down, but they got sick. We were gonna carpool all the way up there, have fun all day and then carpool back down, but they got sick. So we just did a solo mission. But as soon as jemma woke up, had breakfast, drove up there and then spent the whole day up there in dallas town. So I actually got to see garrity glass. We drove by it. Yeah, on.
Speaker 2:On the way outside.
Speaker 1:He probably went outside.
Speaker 3:He always works. He was probably in there. Yeah, justin was probably in there, yeah, so, um, it's beautiful actually. The windows were great, the pristine the windows were great. But had a blast up there and on the way home. Last night we got home at like I think just around 10 o'clock. Gemma like woke up right when we got home and she's like so fun, the boys. So she was obviously just dreaming about having so much fun up there in pennsylvania. So I mean, if garrity glass has, you know, a spot on the on the payroll for, like you know, good time guy, I I can't do much.
Speaker 1:No I mean, they're looking for. They're looking for an estimator right now, so if you think you can, you know, jump into the estimating I know how much a two by four costs, that's aboutack open.
Speaker 2:The R as means.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you can order from ConEar or YKK, you can figure it out maybe.
Speaker 3:I once upon a time had a class that we played around with E4 clicks. That's right, I'll figure it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll put your name in the hat. Okay, sweet.
Speaker 3:By the time I get out of the military ai will take over anyway.
Speaker 2:So that's true too. Uh, you're gonna show up and they're gonna be like all right, estimate this thing, and you're gonna multiply it by like three times the cost, because you're used to government contracts and they're like that's right, that's not what we got here.
Speaker 3:That's wrong. You're horrible at this. I'm like well, it worked when I was in the military. I don't know what you're talking about. Can I ask?
Speaker 2:a question Jared, a hundred percent, yeah, what type of fishing rod did you buy, lil' Gemma?
Speaker 3:Oh, it's a no-brainer. What was it, Clay? It's a.
Speaker 1:Shakespeare. 15-inch Spider-Man.
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 3:A little button.
Speaker 2:press release for the casting yeah, oh man, it was a spider-man.
Speaker 2:that was the most important um aspect of the yeah, spider-man, so excellent, those are good actually. Like, uh, I had a co-worker. I was gonna go fishing after work when I was in wyoming and one of my co-workers is like, oh, I want to come fishing with you. And I'm like I mean, yeah, you can come. I don't have, I only have one pole. And he's like, oh, don't worry, I'll run to the BX, the store on base, and he also bought a Spider-Man push-button release and he's a grown man and he caught a fish, so they work.
Speaker 3:They work. Hey, they still hold a worm on the end of the hook. And what do you need? That's right. So she, and she keeps talking about fish today too, so I think she's hooked.
Speaker 1:She's a fishing woman.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she's a big time.
Speaker 1:Travis, you should have seen her. I mean, I can't even describe to you how loud she yelled about this. I mean, jared, you know how loud Jared is, I think Gemma might rival him. And she made that war cry about fishing. And then some people that were just minding their own business, that were on the bench a ways away, she had to go over and tell them I caught a fish, nice. And they're like oh, that's good for you. And she's like I'm Gememma, that's my dog juno she starts making friends.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she's, I wonder where she gets that from yeah she's eerily like. Just like me, looks just like adri, acts just like me.
Speaker 1:So it's a scary combo.
Speaker 3:Awesome it's bad but I was oh sorry, can I, can I do? I have time for one more, just one. Yes, so I think I've already mentioned on the podcast this buy nothing group I'm part of. Yes, have I mentioned that where?
Speaker 3:they just on facebook, they just throw stuff. Today I got a 200 uh charcoal grill this thing is awesome smoker combo left on the side of the road. Someone just posted a photo of it. First come, first serve. Jumped in my jeep, boom, snagged me a grill because, uh, trav was there when I was uh having negative space in my u-haul and I was just giving away things because there was no room in my truck. One One of the things I had to give away was my charcoal grill. Boom, jeez. What goes around comes around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like you never even lost it.
Speaker 3:I got an upgrade. It's actually an upgrade.
Speaker 2:Cosmic balance. The cosmic balance is still hanging on my thread Things are absolutely looking up for me, nice.
Speaker 3:Sorry, I yield back my time, travis. What, what do you got going on? Hit us with your over the fence uh, so I watched.
Speaker 2:well, one, football is back. Oh uh, college football's back. Great games this weekend I watched tons of football and it was great to just relax and do a whole lot of nothing and watch football. Then, after football was concluded and before you know, other games started on. Later in the evening, I put on, uh, the new Thunderbolts movie on Disney plus. Okay, I, I really wanted to see it. When I came out in theaters I heard great things about it. Uh, but our opportunity to go in person to the theater has been very limited as of late for the past year, and so I got a chance to watch it and it it's good. It's very, it's very good. I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2:Marvel has these like two kind of types of movies now where there's like their core pillars that are going to be the like tie into the overarching franchise, and then they have those like kind of standalone ones that maybe loosely tie in but they stand by themselves. This is kind of a standalone one that they then try and tie in later on. But, yeah, this is going to be one of their like big tenants of the Marvel cinematic universe going forward. It's not exactly a happy story. It's all about like dealing with trauma and depression and like how we as people deal with it and they as superheroes deal with their trauma. Uh, but yeah, I thought it was really good. I think it'll be interesting to see how they tie it in going forward. I don't know, have either of you seen Thunderbolts?
Speaker 1:No, but I was flicking past it on Disney Plus the other day. I remember hearing about this coming out, but then I literally heard nothing about it after. I never heard a single person say I saw Thunderbolts and it was good, so it looked good to me. When I saw thebolts and it was good, so I it looked good to me, like when I saw the previews and stuff. And then yeah, you know I'm, I just go with whatever the crowd says. If somebody tells me to do something, I'm like, yep, I'll do that thing. And so all I need is one person to tell me this is the direction to go. And I'm moving out travis, I'm watching it.
Speaker 2:So it sounds like you're watching thunderbolt. Yeah, yeah, it was good. A lot of people's concern with the MCU is like, oh, I have to watch this show and I have to watch this thing and I have to be all caught up to see this. This is one of those instances where they're pulling from so many different threads in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that you might not catch all of it, but you at least know these people were once bad guys that are now good guys. If you go in thinking like this is marvel's version of the suicide squad or something uh, that's kind of what this is and you'll understand what's going on then they have trauma. So then they have trauma that they're trying to deal with. So, okay, yeah, yeah, very good. Lots of good football games. And then last night we were kind of cooked from watching so much football. We were tired. Uh, and Rachel wanted something easy to watch of our great nation, a movie that has upheld American culture for two decades, plus the 2000 cinematic masterpiece bring it on starring Kirsten Dunst?
Speaker 2:And was it Naomi, not Naomi Campbell? Oh, yes, oh, yes, god, yeah, and man, that movie is so bad, it's so bad.
Speaker 1:I remember that girl coming in and doing like flips in the audition room or whatever and that's like the one scene I remember. It was like me and girls are just like looking at her like whatever. And then she does all the flips and they're like oh, I guess you're the real deal.
Speaker 2:You're a gymnast, not a cheerleader.
Speaker 1:It's so bad.
Speaker 2:And they say some things in that movie that would never fly, like lots of derogatory terms that they throw around loosely as it is the early 2000s, and none of the characters are likable. Loosely as it is the early two thousands yes, and it's, and none of the characters are likable. The writers like just phone one in. I don't know who wrote that movie. I should probably look it up, but it's terrible. It's so bad, man, it's so bad.
Speaker 1:I want to remember it the way I remember it, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I, like people, quoted that movie forever. Yeah, like, oh, yeah, the like, the cheers and the chance and the different things that they say, like they stuck around for a decade plus at least and then they kind of faded into obscurity. But man, that movie is just you. You watch the whole thing. Oh yeah, we watched the whole thing.
Speaker 1:Keep it in your mind, palace, sitting on the shelf where it belongs, and don't ever go back and watch it because, I feel like I watched it a lot and I was gonna blame it on my sister, but I don't even think she had anything to do with it. I think I watched it on my own accord, I thought. I think I liked it there must be some poros in the atmosphere, you know yes, that's, that's what it is oh, all right, I gotta look this up.
Speaker 2:Hold on I to figure out who wrote this thing, because it's not Naomi Campbell, I'm stupid. It's Gabrielle Union. Okay, I was kind of researching and I found out that Gabrielle Union, that was like her breakout role. Like she launched into stardom based on the five lines that she has in that movie, into stardom based on the five lines that she has in that movie. They don't give her anything to do besides be the bad person, the antagonist of the film, and they don't give her anything to do. And then she's still launched into stardom based on that movie. So anyways, yeah, don't go watch, bring it On and maybe go watch Thunderbolts instead. It's better use of your time.
Speaker 1:Copy that.
Speaker 2:That's all I got.
Speaker 3:So we are where I live. We are like hitting the 25th anniversary of Remember the Titans, and where I live is pretty dang close to the high school. That that is like written after okay. So there's all these like flyers and um advertisement for like it's the 25th anniversary of this amazing like event like the film, not the actual integration of the high school of uh alexandria high school, but it's very interesting that I live so close to that event. But another great uh film from the early 2000s I hope you should re-watch that one.
Speaker 3:Maybe that one does hold up.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I might have to re-watch that one I really hope so yeah, better, because man that that re-watch was rough, um, there's so many good films from that era, like why? I don't know, I don't, I'm just, it was just a poor choice to watch that movie, but anyways, that's all I got, uh are they doing a good choice?
Speaker 3:yeah, I was gonna say have you seen k-pop demon hunters?
Speaker 2:so good oh, clayton, have you seen K-pop Demon Hunters. So good, clayton, have you watched it?
Speaker 1:We're going to watch it tonight. I've heard too much about it. I go with the flow.
Speaker 3:I'm halfway through it, clay, not way all the way through. Hasn't even started. I'm halfway, travis, you're all the way through. Oh, I saw it.
Speaker 2:And you're a believer. Everybody was taking a nap in the house and I'm like everyone's talking about this movie. I'm putting it on, I can watch it in privacy Halfway through. Rachel wakes up from her nap and she's like what are you watching? I'm like it's K-pop Demon Hunter. She's like you're watching a K-pop movie, but it's good. It's pretty good. It's music is catchy, the storyline is good, the characters are funny, like yeah, it's a, it's a great watch.
Speaker 3:I've already added some of the songs to my spotify, like, yeah, and I am cranking them and I feel like I'm back in korea. I'm, you know, at in the, in the bar. I'm having a great time. It's, yeah, it's, it's hitting.
Speaker 2:So what do you think about? Uh, maybe a sequel where they get drafted into the Korean military for their two years. That's what happened to. Bts right Like they like took a hiatus because, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:They have to serve their time. Everyone does you know. Yeah, that's crazy. They have to serve their time. Everyone does you know. It's two years, right, two years of mandatory service. Yep, um, there was one guy that was on my base that worked um in like the sister unit, okay, that worked with me, who was like the poster child and for all of the republic of korea air force guys. Oh, and they're like, he's so beautiful, can't you tell? And I'm like, oh, I mean, yeah, he does look like he's a pretty good looking dude. And then I realized he wore makeup, like lots of makeup, and like eye shadow, and like I was like, yeah, he takes his appearance very seriously. So I don't think he was a K-pop star, but like they take their appearance very seriously. They want to make sure they look good. Um, you know they, they don't. They don't worry too much about, you know, being prissy or need to have man hands or whatever. They want to look good. They want to have a good time. Uh, I don't know, did you get any hot makeup tips?
Speaker 3:no, no, they probably. They probably said your uh worried, uh, forehead lines need some work, botox or something yeah, yeah, I need to put a squid on there or something, just put the suckers on my forehead or something I don't know interesting I thought you're about to say that one of the members of bts was like in your no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:That would have been insane yeah, those guys can't go anywhere. I bet anywhere in korea no they probably can't. Anyways, this has been a good conversation. Everybody thanks for going over the fence of course.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, let's do it, let's do this more often, let's do this more often, and maybe we'll record some live gaming.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Find some time to do that.
Speaker 3:As long as it's before 7.30, according to Clayton.
Speaker 1:I said I'll start at 7.30.
Speaker 3:You'll start. I'll start at 7.30. For gaming start at 7.30, maybe end at 8?.
Speaker 1:I'll end. I will end anything at 8 30 okay, okay, okay, let it be known.
Speaker 2:It's been said here, all right well, first game we're gonna play a three hour board game, yeah and we need to start at 5 30 if my math is correct.
Speaker 1:All right, sounds good.
Speaker 2:all right, let's go back into base. We're returning back over the fence I I have been Travis, he has been Clay, he has been Jared and we are. Thank you.
