America in the

America in the 1970s.

The idealism of the 1960s were beaten away by war and lost idealism.

On the charts, David Bowie, Queen, and the Doobie brothers were shattering expectations,

while the discos filled with bright-eyed young minds looking to just devolve into decadence.

Young America.

The Watergate scandal shattered our confidence in our country.

It was a time of transformation, a time of change, a time of sensual pleasure.

Meanwhile in Wisconsin, a time of sensual pleasure.

Meanwhile in Wisconsin, a bunch of nerds were playing with little soldier men.

And those fucking nerds would transform culture as we know it.

I mean, to be fair, you can't not be a nerd with the last name Guy Gax.

All right.

Hi, my name's Gary Gygax.

And I would like to take you on four dates, three of which will be at the library.

Let me tell you about my complicated relationship with Jehovah's Witness.

This is Wizard and the Bruiser.

I am the Wizard, Jake Young.

And I am the bruiser, Holden-McNeely, so don't cross me or you'll get a ba-b-b-b-b-b-beat-down. This episode, we're talking about Dungeons and Dragons. Dungeons and Dragons, Jake. I'm actually in the middle of a game right now. I'm playing with Brian Miller over at Colin Schumer, who's an amazing dungeon master, or game master, as we call them.

And it's honestly, and it got a big uptick in a Stranger Things. It's becoming part of the culture. I think it's really resurging. I'm getting a lot of people saying, hey, you know what? I think I would like to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons, which is like the craziest shit to me. I think Stranger Things definitely helped

that with the Gorgon.

But

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