Bikers, Dice, And Bars Podcast

We recorded this special WWII-themed episode on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, aka Operation Overlord. In the spirit of that anniversary, we decided to focus our episode's topics around themes relating to WWII. In our Bike Talk segment, DXG and JJ take a stab at educating us on some of the historical highlights of the usage of bicycles and motorbikes in warfare. In our Game Talk segment, we discuss some WWII-related gaming options, and talk about plans for an awesome potential new house campaign. Finally, in our Bar Talk segment, we review the drinks of the evening, and tell stories of learning our favorite WWII-era beverages. Also a big thank you shout out to Brandon, our first patron on Patreon! THANKS MATE! <3 Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com. We have a Discord Channel and a Facebook Page, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! F

For this special new Character Jam, the BDaB crew tackles another of NPC's favorite games, Beyond the Wall (and other adventures). This is a classic-inspired "retroclone" style adventure game, rooted in small-village tales such as Lloyd Alexander's great Chronicles of Prydain. We have a blast making characters for this one, but beware! Many puns await within! Listen at your own peril! Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com. We have a Discord Channel and a Facebook Page, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our new low-bandwidth alternative feed site. As always: Rubber Side Down, May your Dice ever roll Crits, Always Drink Responsibly, and Remember to Tip your Bartender (and your dancers and performers)! Links of Note: Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures The Rocket City Trash Pandas Baseb

Welcome to Season 2 of the Bikers, Dice, and Bars Podcast, recorded in the drunken city of Portland, OR! The Breakfast Puppies crew is back from vacation, recording our first episode in the new studio. Did you miss us? With both Linsel and Poppy out on prior engagements, this time we're back to just the original three, doing things OG style once more. Our drink of the evening is a small assortment of straight rye whiskeys, left over from our recent adventure to The Dalles, Oregon. In our Bike Talk segment, Xander tells us about the awesomeness of Pedalpalooza and then bitches bout the World Naked Bike Ride (send your complaints and praise to DXG at breakfastpuppies dot com). In our Game Talk segment, we look back at our fun times from Wagoncon 2019, and talk about why YOU should join us there again in 2020. In our Bar Talk segment, we review a number of the fine drinking establishments out in The Dalles, to help you find the best place to wet your whistle when visiting. The final studio paneling isn't compl

We've got another special bonus episode of Bikers Dice and Bars in the feed! JJ and NPC hit up the recent Gamestorm convention here in Portland, OR, and managed to grab some great interviews with a few of the passers-by, including the director of the convention itself. Tune in for some great gaming stories, and a taste of both the Gamestorm and the upcoming Wagoncon events. And don't forget to catch us at Wagoncon next week, either! Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com. We have a Discord Channel and a Facebook Page, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our new low-bandwidth alternative feed site. As always: Rubber Side Down, May your Dice ever roll Crits, Always Drink Responsibly, and Remember to Tip your Bartender (and your dancers and performers)! Links of Note: Gamestorm HAMMERCRAWL!

Coming at you with another awesome drunken Character Jam, the Bikers Dice and Bars crew is back with our longest episode yet. This one was just too good to split into two, so sit back and enjoy an extended romp through the random hilarity of Palladium's Nightbane Role-Playing Game! We're currently halfway through a month-long content break as we move to a brand new recording studio. This episode was recorded the night before Gamestorm 2019, and due to scheduling conflicts with his duties as convention staff, Jacob couldn't make it to the session. So we made sure to have an extra special amount of fun without him, Hah! The players decided all their characters were part of a special guerilla "Free teh Aminals!" hippy group, due to their multiple collective dysfunctions. In true Nightbane style, we all made base Nightbane OCCs, and the results were quite astounding. Our next content on the feed after this one will most likely be our special Wagoncon episode. Come join us there May 3rd-5th in The Dalles, Orego

We made it through our first year! We recorded this episode as a first anniversary special. Breaking out the Red Breast 15-Year and the ever-popular Yellow Spot, we break from the usual Biking-Gaming-Drinking segment flow, and go a little free-form on this one. Highlights include: We take a look back at our favorite moments from the show in the first year. We again clink to the much-lamented passing of Tugboat Brewing. We look forward to what we're planning for Wagoncon 2019. Poppy talks a bit about the Be the Match Bone Marrow Registry. We discuss taking a break from recording in April due to both Convention Season and... Breakfast Puppies studio is moving! Getting a much-anticipated upgrade, woo! We continually try to peer pressure Xander into getting a motorcycle. We talk about ideas for a possible upcoming Patreon campaign to help pay the bills. We wax nostalgic on the last art of Mix Tape production. Thanks again, dear listeners, for encouraging us onward through a great first year of podcasting! We

Ho-lee Heck-balls, folks, we unexpectedly got a wee bit tanked on this episode, thanks first to over-strong pours of a mixed drink we'd never had before, and then doubly again due to DXG's surprise addition of some soon-to-be-gone-forever Bridgeport beers. It's a bit of a wild ride! We had a lot of fun with this one, and despite some meandering along tangents at times, it was a joyous occasion, and we hope you enjoy listening. In our Bike Talk segment, we talk about a number of big rides coming up this month and the following, as the PNW thaw sets in and a lot of us roll out bikes back out of the garage. In our Game Talk segment, we take a deeper look at what you can expect from the upcoming Gamestorm convention here in Portland, OR. In our Bar Talk segment, we discuss the great rash of recent brewery closures here in Portland and the surrounding area, and lament the loss of some of our favorites. Finally, Xander and Linsel chime in with some additional commentary on two-player gaming, from our previous epis

It's time for a very special Valentine's Day episode of Bikers, Dice, and Bars! Linsel and Doctor Xander Gerrymander couldn't join us for this one due to prior romantic commitments, and it's a damn shame too, as Poppy surprised the rest of us with a bottle of Yellow Spot Irish Whiskey! In our Bike Talk segment, we go over the reasons, methods, and precautions for/when riding "two-up" on your two-wheeled vehicle of choice. In our Game Talk segment, we discuss various tabletop and video games that can be excellent for a night of intimate two-player gaming enjoyment. In our Bar Talk segment, Poppy leads us on a discussion of what features make for a romantic bar: Ambiance, Bathrooms, and some other things I've already forgotten. We close out by reading our newest iTunes review from The Screg! Thanks for the kind words, Screg! Also a big shout out to our friends in the Mandalorians Riding Club, who are soon kicking off their 2019 season with a big event. Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagra

Time for another Character Jam! We haven't done one of these in a while, so we're excited to be back on the jam. This time around, following up on our previous Fallout-themed episode, we're taking a drunken crack at making characters for the new-ish "Umerican Survival Guide" RPG, from Shield of Faith Studios. It's pure gonzo post-apocalyptic mayhem in the style of Thundarr and Korgoth, with some awesomely gruesome references to modern tropes. Enjoy! Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com. We have a Discord Channel and a Facebook Page, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our new low-bandwidth alternative feed site. As always: Rubber Side Down, May your Dice ever roll Crits, Always Drink Responsibly, and Remember to Tip your Bartender (and your dancers and performers)! Links of Note: The U

Welcome back to the show, good friends! For our 22nd episode, we're taking you on a trip through the WASTELAND! All the while, we're drinking what we felt like were "last minute appropriate" wasteland drinks, the kind of which you might find in your journeys out there in the Boston Commonwealth... In our Bike Talk segment, we discuss, compare, and contrast the pros and cons of Motorcycles vs Bicycles as transportation options in a post-apocalyptic world. In our Game Talk segment, we all wax memorial on our own history with the popular Fallout franchise of post-apocalyptic video games, including NPC's favorite Brotherhood of Steel (haters gonna hate!). In our Bar Talk segment. we attempt our first ever Bar Review, kicking things off with a location central to the Commonwealth, but known to patrons all across the globe. Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com. We have a Discord Chann

Kicking off the new year right, we're back for episode 21 of the podcast! We invited our good friend The Mad Marquis to join us as a special guest as we look ahead to all the biker-y, gamer-y, and drink-y plans we have for the coming year. Afterword, the Marquis gives us insight into the Portland Oregon Burlesque performance scene, and his history of involvement with it. All the while, (some of) our hosts enjoy Jacob's overly-strong take on a classic Spanish Coffee. Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com. We have a Discord Channel and a Facebook Page, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our new low-bandwidth alternative feed site. As always: Rubber Side Down, May your Dice ever roll Crits, Always Drink Responsibly, and Remember to Tip your Bartender! Links of Note: WTF Bikes Iron Harvest

Hot damn, we made it twenty episodes! This time we're celebrating with what is probably the beer most commonly brought to every house party in Portland, Full Sail Brewing Company's "Session" lager! In our Bike Talk segment, we talk about the "ghost bike" phenomenon, and go over some unexpectedly interesting stats on cyclist deaths over the recent years. In our Game Talk segment, we talk about how to keep your game going and your group together through the schedule-destroying times of the late holiday season. In our Bar Talk segment, we talk about bar fights - how to avoid them and how to survive them. Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com. We have a Discord Channel and a Facebook Page, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our new low-bandwidth alternative feed site. As always: Rubber Side D

This time we have two special guests in the studio, Andre and Alma of the local klesmer-gypsy-punk band Chervona! Our drink of the evening is Bak’s Bison Grass Vodka (aka Żubrówka), a new experience that I (NPC) quite enjoyed - this may even become my new go-to for vodka drinking! In our Bike Talk segment we check in on Xander's daily frosty commute, and then tell stories of Chervona's bike-religious drummer. In our Game Talk segment, we kinda forget about games and just tell cat stories. In our Bar Talk segment, we talk about how to survive those holiday parties that you really don't want to be at. We close out with more discussion of Chervona, and some details of awesome events that are coming up soon! To be totally frank, we drift pretty heavily away from our original topics in this one, but we had so much fun talking with Andre and Alma that we didn't really care. They were a delight to have on the show, and we hope to have them back on in the future! Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Ins

It’s the long awaited “Whiskey with Matt Buckley” bonus episode! Back in September, NPC, Poppy, Dr. Gerrymander, and Just Jacob sat down at 4K Ranch for a special curated tour of Matt’s stunning Irish Whiskey collection (after a fun day of eating, exploring, and shooting). Matt is one of the co-founders of the amazing Wagoncon gaming convention here in the Columbia Gorge, and as part of this episode we dig a bit deeper into the roots of the con, and what lies in its future. Matt then educates the crew about the wonders and history of The Water of Life, all the while plying them with a series of incredible distilled spirits. We hear how someone with a severe allergy to alcohol ends up having a collection of the finest product of Ireland. Also in this episode: the crew show off their appreciation for the beverage by sounding like they are auditioning as phone sex operators! Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrym

Welcome back to the show, folks. This episode is all about promoting Accessibility in our favorite hobbies! Poppy (your favorite local Wannabe Wine Snob) brings our drinks of the evening, which are both the White and Red Winemaker's Cut wines from Copa di Vino, a winemaker we've mentioned before in previous episodes. In our Bike segment, we talk about a variety of options available to make motorbiking and bicycling more accessible to those with physical discomfort, limitations, and disabilities. We carry that subject forward into our Gaming segment, discussing a variety of approaches that modern game-makers have taken to make their games more accessible. And again in our Bars segment, we keep the conversation going, discussing how accessibility can inform your approach to getting a good drink in town, as well as the choices you make when working behind the bar. The real irony of this episode is the fact that NPC fell down the stairs and suffered a massive ankle sprain just hours before he was set to edit the

It's spoooOOOoOoOoOOOooky time on Bikers, Dice, and Bars! We decided to be cliche and do our first ever Halloween-themed episode, accompanying our talk with a variety of pumpkin beers from the great Pacific Northwest. In our Bike Talk segment, we talk about how to effectively ride on Halloween, including costume ideas, costume no-nos, and other tips. In our game talk, we talk about techniques for effectively instilling true fear in horror-based video games. In our Bar Talk segment, we share stories of working the industry on Halloween, among other bits of drunken tangential ramblings. Finally, we close out with Jacob's recent "pumpkin carving" stories. Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com! We have a Discord Channel, Facebook Page, and Google Plus Community, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! As always: Rubber Side Down, May your Dice ever roll Crit

For our sixteenth main-program episode, we're jamming on a fairly massive variety of Oktoberfest-styled beers, about half of which are from the Oregon area and the other half from Germany. In our first segment, Just Jacob guides us through a discussion about safety tips for riding in the coming rain season here in the Pacific Northwest. In our Game Talk segment, NPC tells us about Virtual Tabletops (VTTs), including how they work, what you need, and some of the major options. Finally, in our Bar Talk segment, Poppy educates us on what Oktoberfest is and we all comment on the various drinks we've been imbibing throughout the recording. Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com! We have a Discord Channel, Facebook Page, and Google Plus Community, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! As always: Rubber Side Down, May your Dice ever roll Crits, Always Drink Re

We're back with another Character Jam episode! In each of these episodes, we record ourselves drunkenly attempting to make characters for a new role-playing game. This time we're tackling one of my all-time favorite games, "The Nightmares Underneath" by Johnstone Metzger. It's yet another "retro" style of game - we apparently do a lot of these because they're pretty simple to go through as a bunch of drunks. Enjoy! Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com! We have a Discord Channel, Facebook Page, and Google Plus Community, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! As always: Rubber Side Down, May your Dice ever roll Crits, Always Drink Responsibly, and Remember to Tip your Bartender! Links of Note: The Nightmares Underneath, by Johnstone Metzger The Nameless Grimoire Dungeon Full of Monsters Mom & Pop Wine Shop TNU Character Generator Credits: Hos

Yes, in this episode, we finally complain about E-Scooters, hooray! Once again we've brought Linsel along, more or less upgrading his prestige class to "Regular Host" on our show. Our drinks of the evening are a couple of delicious varieties of Linsel's own "Switchel" recipe, brought to us in mason jars and mixed at the table with Louisiana's own Bayou Rum. In our first segment, we talk about the concept of "the last mile" in traveling, and then relentlessly bitch about e-scooters. In our second segment, we discuss the "Last Turn" of board and video games, debating which games do them well, and which ones totally screw them up. In our third segment, we discuss the sanctity of "Last Call" at your favorite bar, and how not to fuck it up. We close with a short tale about Xander's recent trip to his new favorite bar in the nation. Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com! We have a Disco

This episode is all about "That Guy" we all know and hate (and have likely been at one point ourselves), and how not to be That Guy. Be it riding like an asshole, being a crappy sport at the gaming table, or failing to compose yourself properly at a bar, we talk about many of the variants of That Guy in our mutual hobbies, and how to step back from the precipice when you find yourself about to become him. Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com! We have a Discord Channel, Facebook Page, and Google Plus Community, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! As always: Rubber Side Down, May your Dice ever roll Crits, Always Drink Responsibly, and Remember to Tip your Bartender! Credits: Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob, Linsel Greene, Poppy Beaujolais Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske Drink of the Evening: Pabst Blue Ribbon, Lindemans Framboise, Sev