Shayne Smith

What's the nerdiest you can get in the kind of board game community?

In the board game community?

Nice.

In the board game community, the nerdiest you can get is simulating war games, which I also do.

So there's a game called Advanced Squad Leader.

And that's different to this history one?

That's different to this stuff.

because it's a self-contained board game with cardboard chits and the rule book is this thick and it, you know, it takes like hours and hours and hours to play and it's a simulation.

You're on the table simulating like the dissipation of smoke as your soldiers run across the street and like you've got like the actual for real city plans of Stalingrad and you're looking through the sewer trying to flank Russians, you know, or whatever you're up to.

Yeah.

Anytime I'm playing... I mean, I literally sometimes... My daughter just has... She's got to take toys into the shower or whatever.

And sometimes I'm like...

Dude, if I had a Batman in the shower, though, you know what I mean?

Like, I'm an imaginer, so I could still play.

So I love it.

Anytime I'm, like, I got a bunch of soldiers on the table, I'm, like, loving it.

I play against myself.

Really?

Yeah, that's, like, one level upgraded super nerdy.

This is the stuff, like, when I was a heathen, when I was a different type of person, I was in New York, and I went on a date.