Mentioned 8 times on 1 show. Most recently heard 11/08/2026.
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“Like, never got out of shape. He's the man. He's the man. And he's so cool. He was, he, you know, he plays chess at a really high level. I play chess. You play chess too? I play chess. Are you good? I'm out of 1400. I'm out of 1350 to 1420 ELO. Is that good?”
“I started playing after COVID, during COVID, when Queen's Gambit came out. I used to think chess was like, oh, that's a gay, that's a gay thing. This is like so stupid. Play checkers like a man. What? Play checkers like a man is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Yeah, and then I realized really quick, I was like, oh, this is some high-level shit.”
“George was playing James McCann. James McCann is a hilarious comedian from Australia. And James is very smart and really good chess player. And George and him were going to war in the green room of the mothership. And we were all like, oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah, they had board.”
“Yeah. Oh, man. Guys play at the mothership all the time. Brian Simpson and Tony Hinchcliffe play all the time. Okay. Yeah, they get serious about chess. Challenge accepted. Yeah, man. I don't play, but I'm scared. I'm scared to play. Yeah. Yeah. It's addicting. That's the problem. It's because then you want to know the openings.”
“There's just so many. There's so many moves. It's so complex. There's so much going on. There's so many steps in advance you're playing. It's cool. Yeah. It's cool. And it's something you can play forever, too.”
“didn't have a board. And so this kid and this old dude were sitting there playing chess in their head and they would call out the moves and they had the whole board mapped. I was fascinated. I was like, this is crazy.”
“winning. I'm like, you guys are just playing an invisible board. This is crazy. Yeah, that's next level. That was my first introduction to chess. I was like, this is nuts, man. You want to try the silver? Sure. I'll try it. I still have some of this left, though. It's water now. Yeah. I know it is.”
“Catan, but the problem is Catan, it's like dice roll, and, you know, if you get unlucky, you don't really win. There's, like, games where, you know, there's a skill ceiling where, you know, the best player always wins, which is – chess is a perfect example of that. But then it gets to the point of, like, well, if you want to be really great at that, it's who spends the most time doing it.”