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Sep 21, 2026
Seth VargasHOST
Right.
Seth VargasHOST
Is Checkers a board game?
Michelle RubensteinHOST
Oh, no. That's a hard game.
Seth VargasHOST
Is Pick Up Sticks a board game? Where does the board start and end?
Seth VargasHOST
Right.
Seth VargasHOST
Is Checkers a board game?
Michelle RubensteinHOST
Oh, no. That's a hard game.
Seth VargasHOST
Is Pick Up Sticks a board game? Where does the board start and end? I think it needs to be a board.
Jan MinerVOICE_ACTOR
Your move, Blackie.
Jan MinerVOICE_ACTOR
Or is Checkers boring you?
Richard KollmarVOICE_ACTOR
Oh, oh, oh, excuse me, Larry.
Richard KollmarVOICE_ACTOR
I think I'll try this.
JordanHOST
We need an easier game.
JordanHOST
I'm going to get Checkers for
JaredHOST
PlayStation.
JordanHOST
Super Checkers.
JordanHOST
You ever play that? No.
JordanHOST
Checkers can be fun.
JordanHOST
You ever play Leapfrog? No.
JordanHOST
It's not fun, dude.
Jeremy SnyderHOST
Interesting.
Jeremy SnyderHOST
Checkers is not a game that I've played a lot.
Jeremy SnyderHOST
I've played, I don't know, 20 times in my life and never really devoted any serious time or thought to it.
Jeremy SnyderHOST
But I did not realize that there is a, you know, optimal move for every board situation.
Jeremy SnyderHOST
I guess that must be also kind of the case or provably the case.
Jonathan SchaefferGUEST
Yeah, in every situation, there is one or more best moves.
Jonathan SchaefferGUEST
But interestingly enough, Checkers is a microcosm of what's going on today because we built massive data sets.
Jonathan SchaefferGUEST
10 to the 14th may not be big today, but you have to remember this was in the early 1990s I started building this.
Marley GottererGUEST
It's the Taco Bell, the Taco Bell-
BenHOST
The, it's the famous Dunkin', Checkers, and I believe Taco Be- or Popeyes.
Marley GottererGUEST
Or Popeyes, yeah.
BenHOST
Yeah, yeah.
JacquesHOST
I'd kill.
HessaHOST
No. Marley, are there any fast food places that you've never eaten at? Like, what are the ones?
Marley GottererGUEST
I don't think I've had Checkers.
Marley GottererGUEST
Um-
Justin Robert YoungHOST
Will, Michael,
Justin Robert YoungHOST
Matt, DP4 Bongo, Andrew, Edwin, Sam, Andrew, Bill, Edison, Paul, Gloria Young, my mother, a dog named Checkers.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
Jerry trucker, John Berkeley, Steven and zombie duck.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
You want your name right on the show?
Craig FranklinNARRATOR
But he-
FoneNARRATOR
O son of Peleus, father mine, Take these libations pleasant to thy soul, Draughts that allure the dead.
FoneNARRATOR
Come, drink the black Pure maiden's blood wherewith the host and I Sue thee.
FoneNARRATOR
Be kindly to us.
Stevie WhiteHOST
life
JaackMaateHOST
versus checkers.
JaackMaateHOST
Checkers drafts.
JaackMaateHOST
Yeah.
JaackMaateHOST
That's the one where you hop over the ones here.
JaackMaateHOST
My
Stevie WhiteHOST
mum was addicted to it.
Stevie WhiteHOST
Checkers is skill-based.
ReggieHOST
And the father of the game is the children's recess game Duck, Duck, Goose, okay? So this is if Tutsi Fussi and Duck, Duck, Goose had a...
ReggieHOST
This is if Checkers and Tetherball had a...
ReggieHOST
I
JazzHOST
don't
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