Let's Play MODERN ART

## ★ ADAM'S CHALKBOARD ★

**Let's Play MODERN ART** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*A lot happened in a short space of time.*"
―Laurie
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "art is anything you can get away with".
* Who will be *putting up their Doris Dukes* and who will be *under the hammer*?
* It's the Holly and the Gavel episode. *Witness the legend being born*. If you look hard, you'll see she's already eyeing it with Adam's first bang and from then we're sunk.
* Is it hard to get to Draughts from the US? sure, but harder from Milton Keynes.
* The gas leak in the studio is getting worse, judging by the early hysteria. Or maybe there's a residue on the cards, judging by the later hysteria.
* Holly doesn't know how auction gavels really work. Or more likely, Holly doesn't care how auction gavels really work. It's not even the eating of the gavel, it's the delightful checking to see if anyone is looking, before she does it. She's very slightly confused between auctioneers and babies
* Carley's life and game coaching career isn't particularly getting off the ground. Maybe Sullivan just isn't the right first client.
* Someone jostled the Pompidou and the money disappeared. And then the Guggenheim. And then the Pompidou again.
* Sullivan: "Carley, you simply must stop".
* Holly's made an excellent bid, or possibly a fucking dumbass bid. Carley's made an insane bid - what's the point of even playing? Carley's overwhelmed.
* *NRB can take a potentially dry thinky auctioning game and turn it into something where Carley is crying and nobody else can breathe for laughing*.
* And then we get one of those moments which make this cast and this content pure joy: that got a bit intense, let's reset the room. Lovely people. Happy happy.
* SingalongaNRB: 'we're good at board games". Bo Burnham. "All gavels are moist" Bryan Adams.
* Adam's struggling on manfully, to cover the actual boardgame bits, while the chaos swirls around him. We have voices, we have gavels, we have giggles, we have Carley's muppet voice, we have Laurie whose brain is hurting.
* DAD OF THE DAY: Every week a new dad and some good dadvice.
* Laurie: "You're telling me that the person who plays Blood on the Clocktower with a sociopathic detachment from her emotions is also this person? Is it Freaky Fucking Friday?"
* These auctions may not be completely fair.
* Sullivan: "This may just be my favourite episode of Board Game Club".
* Carley: "It's like you let it get close to hurt me".
* The number 56 is a magical, mystical number.
* Being dismissed as a threat like you're not even in the room is a comforting ego boost.
* Not even John Major wants his birthday parties at Sullivan's gallery - and he's boring.
* Laurie has an angry gallery for an angry man.
* There are no *obvious* cowboy themes in this game, but then there's no accounting for individual association.
* We get a "Fuck you, Holly Musgrave!"
* Under some circumstances, apparently "you have no hope" could be seen to be reassuring.

## Scores

* Adam $184
* Carley $273
* Holly $393
* Laurie $475
* Sullivan $560

## Talking Heads

Talking heads are available in this episode. Timestamps were put together by Peter on the Patreon Discord.

* 0:12:16 - Carley isn't really back seat gaming
* 0:13:28 - Laurie is backing ginger
* 0:16:37 - Carley is welcome to back seat game Holly
* 0:18:14 - Adam doesn't know how they've managed to turn this game into chaos
* 0:22:04 - Why is this game so tense, Carley?
* 0:26:22 - Laurie is confused
* 0:30:26 - Holly confuses auctioneers and babies
* 0:40:43 - Holly and the magical, mystical number 56
* 0:43:15 - Adam has overextended
* 0:46:19 - Sullivan's art gallery has no actual art
* 0:51:57 - Holly can justify everything
* 0:58:40 - Laurie's gallery is a rage room
* 1:08:41 - Why does Carley feel like a cowboy?
* 1:13:26 - Adam does too
* 1:27:15 - Adam made bad decisions
* 1:30:25 - Sullivan can't believe he won

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* Chalkboard update - and we're watching the calendar nervously now.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.