Bob Wachtel

She paid me in drugs and a Gucci sweater that her friends had boosted from Verdera Drive.

$500 lasts like three minutes, but it's okay.

Now it's an even game.

Yeah.

If you hit, I'm dead.

Backman is not a game that you decide the strategy.

All you can do is you follow the dice's advice, you know?

You're not going to against the dice.

The game plan that you had in your mind that you want to hit, that's long gone.

That being said, maybe I hit you, actually.

But it's just a chance.

So you may lose because of the good choice, right?

But you shouldn't regret that you made that choice because that then was a good choice.

So you have to be confident.

It was basically Hugh Hefner who was responsible for Backgammon becoming a fad in the 1970s because he proposed this kind of hedonistic, sophisticated, glamorous lifestyle that involved

Lots of consumption of alcohol, some drugs, lots of sex, and anything that looked privileged and sophisticated.

I first learned to play in Toronto in 1977.

I went to discos and there were backgammon sets in discos, backgammon tables.

I played a guy there and the guy wrote me a check on a napkin.

I said, what's this?