Episode 1: "Pilot" - Meet the Crew

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:00:00 -0400

The first episode of Fact or Fiction is all introductions. Neal Sacks and Chris Roy lay out who the Squee's House of Pizza crew is, how a group of friends playing Premodern turned into a registered crew, and where the name came from. If you've seen S.H.O.P. near the top of the Crew Clash League standings and wondered who these people actually are, this is the background before the deck talk starts in later episodes.

Chris walks through the founding members and how the crew came together, then gets into the name origin: Granite Goblins was the early idea, then Squee's House of Pizza won out, tying together Squee, Goblin Nabob, the New England "House of Pizza" convention, and Squee's cameo on the original Fact or Fiction art. The back half is a roster rundown of who plays what across the crew: Replenish, Stiflenought, Terrageddon, Psychatog, Sligh, Oath Ponza, Stasis, and a red-green Fires-nostalgia Survival build. Along the way there's the mystery pizza box charity raffle, how the Crew Clash League got started, and why the group decided to make a podcast in the first place.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:16 Welcome to Episode One
01:16 How the Crew Came Together
02:16 Getting Pulled Into Premodern
06:16 Forming a Crew and the CCL
19:16 From Granite Goblins to Squee's House
25:16 Roster and Deck Specialists
40:16 Why Start a Podcast
45:16 Where the Show Name Comes From

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Crew members mentioned: Neal Sacks (host), Chris Roy (host), Brian Siu, JP Phelan, Sam White, Carlos Pearman, Andreas Damaskos, William Damaskos, Scott Wassmer

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