504: Untold: Chess Mates
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Just when we thought the biggest drama around the chess world was reserved for a 1980s British mega-musical about US/Soviet Cold War relations, along comes a bunch of tech bros at Chess.com to steal the crown. Apparently winning at chess online can lead to some big earnings, and rumors and allegations of cheating start to fly after a young upstart player starts dominate on the site. And don't even get us started on the anal beads, Fam....
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say I love games? I love games. But no one's having any fun. But I also really, really believe that games, like, when I mean games, I mean like board games. Sure, same. Of course. Board games should be played fairly. And anyone who's not playing a board game fairly should go right to prison. What happened? We're going to find out. No, I thought like you had a bad night last night. No, no, no, I'm going to keep that to myself. |
| 0:23.8 | It's not my household, but it is my family, but I'm going to leave it there. Okay. Wow. Real hot take. Hi, Jeline Pesavali. Hello, Patrick Hines. Fam, join us over on the YouTube. We have almost 425,000 subscribers. That's insane. It has happened very, very fast. Our videos are getting almost 100,000 views, fam. It is wild. It is really fun. Go check it out. What's the... Oh, Patreon. Yeah. Tell them. |
| 0:56.7 | We have a Patreon where we do a lot of things. |
| 1:10.8 | We have ad-free versions of these episodes. We also do the series things. We're doing that, Trust Me. The false profit dock on Netflix currently. And we also do like after-party. Sometimes we send you stuff in the mail. We have a lot of different tiers. I just recorded a whole after party with you about the Gilgo Beach serial killer because I was sort of like didn't know what really went down there. |
| 1:13.6 | So I watched that NBC. from tears. I just recorded a whole after party with you about the Gilgo Beach serial killer. |
| 1:29.0 | Because I was sort of like, didn't know what really went down there. So I watched that NBC doc. It's not a recap, but it's where I got all my information from. So if you are interested in that one, that's at the $7 after party tier. We're doing amazing things at the $20 tier as well. We did the America's Next Top Model recap just for the hero. We just did that Dateline episode, The Ruse. |
| 1:29.4 | Yes. That like 30 minute Dateline episode. |
| 1:31.0 | That was jam-packed. the $20 here as well. We did the America's Next Top Model recap just for the Hero Bells. We just did that Dateline episode, The Ruse. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes. |
| 1:29.5 | That like 30-minute dateline episode. That was jam-packed. Yep. And our June Pride mailing for the Hero Bells is absolutely the best one we've ever done. Yeah. We also have Drag Bingo from time to time. We do. Four times a year. You know? Girl, what are we talking about today? |
| 1:42.5 | This is on Netflix. |
| 1:43.3 | This is from the untold series, |
| 1:44.7 | Malice at the Palace. |
| 1:45.4 | You may remember. |
| 1:46.1 | Mal at the Palis. |
| 1:46.5 | My favorite quote. This one is called Chessmates. It's about a bunch of people who are kind of miserable. My entire life and career has been destroyed and I'll have to live with the fact that every conversation to have about chess will eventually discuss anal beads. Cheating has been happening in chess for hundreds of years. |
| 2:04.6 | I felt that I was not playing in human. |
| 2:07.6 | He's entered a level of paranoia that is not like sane. |
| 2:10.6 | We had Magnus Carlson, the greatest of all time. |
| 2:12.6 | I've been the best player in the world for 13 years. |
| 2:15.6 | I only know when I sit down at the board, I am better than healthy God. |
| 2:21.8 | The young, talented American with an insane amount of self-confidence. |
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