What if board game weren’t actually games?

Welcome back to Pull My Leg — the podcast where we investigate the questions nobody asked yet somehow make them worse.

This week, we’re diving into the world of board games — those wholesome little boxes that showed up at family gatherings, long car rides, and nights where someone inevitably flipped the table and stormed off.

But what if they weren’t created for fun?

What if they were designed to shape how we think?

Think about it:

• Monopoly teaches us that the rich get richer while everyone else slowly goes bankrupt

• Candy Land trains kids to follow instructions without asking questions

• Risk prepares you for global domination or at least surviving Thanksgiving dinner

Coincidence? Or were board games the earliest tools of psychological conditioning?

In this episode, we break down the hidden agendas behind the games we grew up with, explore completely made-up conspiracy theories, and ask the question no one was brave enough to ask:

Who really created these games and why?

Because somewhere out there…there’s a person who invented Chutes and Ladders…and they’ve been quietly manipulating our emotions for over a century.

Let’s roll the dice and learn more.

Today on Pull My Leg, we sit down with Harry Woller — self-described buffet historian, wannabe competitive eater, and lifelong student of abundance.

By day, Harry is a Logistics Operations Analyst optimizing large-scale systems. By night (and weekends and holidays), he optimizes shrimp placement, carving station flow, and soft-serve structural integrity at buffets across America.

With an estimated 400–600 all-you-can-eat establishments under his belt (and waistband), Harry argues that buffets aren’t just restaurants — they’re social experiments. They test patience. Hygiene. Strategy. Elastic.

We talk about:

• The psychology of the buffet line

• Why crispy General Tso’s chicken is non-negotiable

• The engineering marvel of the carving station

• Whether buffet dining is about hunger or victory

Is a buffet chaos? Or is it freedom? Is it indulgence? Or logistics?

Grab a plate. Pace yourself. And remember — abundance is a mindset.

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Technology in America was supposed to make life easier. Buttons instead of levers. Convenience instead of effort. A future where everything just works.

And yet… here we are.Grown adults yelling at remotes. Restarting routers. Asking Alexa one question and getting three unrelated opinions.

On today’s episode of Pull My Leg, there’s no guest—just Mark and Miles, sitting down to have a calm, intelligent, deeply reasonable conversation about one of the biggest issues dominating our news cycle: Technology.

We look at real research about productivity, burnout, and attention…Then we examine research that absolutely exists about WiFi acting out of spite and Alexa listening more closely when couples whisper.

We’re not experts. We’re victims.

Topics include:

• Password fatigue and wizard-level requirements

• Printers, ink prices, and spiritual warfare

• Smart devices that aren’t that smart

• Phones, autocorrect betrayals, and other stuff

Pull My Leg.

Technology in America.

Nothing is taken seriously.

Everything feels personal.