Dan Ayoub

Yeah, that was it.

I would have been like 14 or 15 at the time.

So this would have been like 82, 83, something like that.

There was this real-life incident of this college student.

He had some kind of thing and went missing, and I can't remember if he actually had gone missing or what.

But everyone kind of glommed onto it, right?

That like, oh, D&D was this thing that was going to make people go crazy.

and the satanic panic of the era.

And I think even when you got out of that blast zone, there was still this notion of like, oh yeah, this is this weird game that people shouldn't be doing.

entirely right because now this kind of makes it cool and makes it neat and people are kind of seeing what it is and i mean and the irony of that is it just made you want to fucking play it more right like you're a 14 or 15 year old and your elders are telling you no this is bad don't do it like you are literally just dumping kerosene on my desire to play this game