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r/Military•
JakeSlager

We are Jake Slager and Drew Ferrol, Duffel Blog Writers and co-founders of War Games LLC - Ask Us Anything!

NOT Satire

Hello, r/military! I'm Marine veteran Jake Slager and my cohort is Navy vet and standup comedian u/drew_ferrol. We have both been writing satire for the Duffel Blog since 2012, and Drew has even managed to fool national media outlets.

More recently, we are just 2 of the co-founders of War Games LLC, which is a company 100% owned by and dedicated to veterans and military service members. Our initial project currently has a Kickstarter to fund our first game, FUBAR Cards, which is a Cards Against Humanity-style game made entirely with military themed cards. Our initial launch for FUBAR is on Kickstarter now, and donators can get a copy of the game, among other things. We plan to go all out and make expansions, new games, perhaps even expand into other products geared towards military folk someday.

So there's a little bit about us, but I don't want to answer all your questions before you have a chance to ask! Ask us about writing, starting a company, our game, military service, personal lives... hell, Ask Us Anything.

Drew's DB profile

Jake's DB profile

Our game, if you're into that kinda thing

Note: This went up precisely 15 minutes early. Not 15 minutes before the 15 minutes, because we don't want to negatively influence the boot LTs who will go on to be the people requiring those kinds of shenanigans.

Edit 1: I just learned that 2 of our other founders decided to show up for the fun as well. Their reddit usernames (and Duffel Blog writer handles) are u/BlondsOverBaghdad and u/maxxbutthurt.

Posted Jan 30, 2016, 7:46 PM UTC · edited

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WulfmanX•

Will you be making a tactical version of the game FUBAR that is red light readable for the guys overseas? That way they can play in the back of an MRAP at night and not give their position away. If not, can you please answer why you don't care about the lives of the troops serving overseas.

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

Yes! After we are sure we're sustainable as a company we're going to make a "Deployable" version of the game. If everything goes according to plan the cards will be waterproof and resistant to wear and tear. The major downside is that it will cost more, and we want to hopefully mitigate the issues with that by cutting down on packaging and card size, but it's very high on our to-do list.

We can not promise a version that will be resistant to land mines, RPGs, or IEDs. Please avoid card contact with those entities.

Also, raucous laughter attracts ISIS, so complete an ORM sheet before you play the game in theater.

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BlondsOverBaghdad•

You forgot to tell them about the beef jerky version. It's paleo AND it attracts bears.

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

Dammit, that was supposed to be our surprise, final-hour stretch goal.

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BlondsOverBaghdad•

I might be bad about telling, but i'm also bad about asking.

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

That would be hilarious at first, but then tragic after you realized the hopelessly bent and mangled cards couldn't be made into a proper deck.

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

Roast me you little shits

http://imgur.com/woqTCyV

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Knights-of-NiDanger Zone! •

No thanks, clearly you've already had plenty of roast.

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

TKO

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Terminal_LanceNOT the creator of "Terminal Lance"•

You're fat. Go PT.

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

I have a feeling that mouth never completely closes for anything

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WulfmanX•

Looking at your picture, I can't roast you any harder than life or a mirror already has.

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

Your mother is so fat, if she doesn't make major alterations to her diet and exercise regimen, she is at serious risk for heart disease!

Edit: For real though, as someone who has seen this man in person, that picture is so hilariously unflattering. Which was probably the point, but holy shit. Hahaha

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JJMcGee83•

You are implying he looks better in person. I have seem him do stand up. This is a lie.

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

You paid to see that faggot?

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JJMcGee83•

Nah it was an open mic so it was free.

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

He's a comic too, if you saw his act you'd pay to see mine

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thanks_for_the_fishKing of the Army Peasants•

You look like Andy Samberg had sex with Seth Rogen.

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

This is the only good one so far

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thanks_for_the_fishKing of the Army Peasants•

A phrase that's never been said about your articles in DB staff meetings.

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xXK33L0Xx•

You look like you could still be active duty Air Force.

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NovaiusKISS Army•

Didn't think anybody actually ASPIRED to replace Drew Carey.

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

  1. Why are T-girls the best, and what is your best personal memory of being with a T-girl?

  2. This question is for Drew - Why do you look like a child molester? Has anyone ever beat the shit out of you based on your appearance?

  3. What would you call Arnold Schwarzenegger if he was black?

  4. Favorite strain of Marijuana?

  5. Describe what happens when Trump becomes president

  6. Power bottom or power top?

  7. favorite national chain food

  8. would you rather be flattened by a steamroller or dropped into an industrial meat grinder?

  9. Have you ever Cinnabun'd aka jack off into your sleeping bag and roll around in it

  10. Nastiest thing you've seen a barracks bunny do?

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

This is all you got? This is like watching a hall of fame athlete try and play one more year even though they're clearly not up to it anymore. More sad than anything else.

Fuck reddit auto lists. Power bottom

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

http://i.imgur.com/qIxTphx.png

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

Hey you found the picture I used for my roast!

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WulfmanX•

Settle this debate. In a sexual Eiffel Tower, where one guy is on either side of a woman (bent over or on her knees if a bed is in play) and one of them has a dick in her pussy and the other has a dick in her mouth, when you move your hands up to touch to form the tip of the tower, do you merely high five, to you keep palms pressed together to share a moment, or do you interlock fingers?

I say interlock fingers because it helps provide support to the overall structure. If the guy behind her is just hammering away, there could be some balance issues there. Discuss.

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

Structural integrity is key.

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

More important is setting proper rhythm. If the girl's getting fucked with a dick in her mouth she's going to be gagging every thrust and could damage her esophagus

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BlondsOverBaghdad•

a gentleman would be be spotting her. It's important to keep the back straight and the core tight. If you arch up into cat pose or down into dolphin, you might hurt the lower back.

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BircherUnited States Navy•

Have either of you ever been to a Turkish bath house? If yes, tell me about your experience.

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

I can honestly say I have not. The closest thing I have is stories of a Japanese bath house. There was much use of the word "skinship" involved, which both excited and scared me.

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maxxbutthurt•

Makes sense a Navy guy would be the first to ask that.....

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

Navy guys are how you earned that name, sorry about being so rough

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

Does dick taste better in the Navy or as a shitty comedian?

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Rhaekar•

both?

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

I'm going to have to plead the fifth on this one

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

http://i.imgur.com/VvHmq0O.gif

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Kcb1986United States Air Force•

Hey Jake and Drew, where do you come up with the shit to write about? Do you feel like the media pretty much does it for you or do you have to be really creative?

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BlondsOverBaghdad•

I'm still in, so life is usually the best inspiration. I used to get so irritated at things around the army. Duffel Blog completely changed the lens for me. Now I'm all like, "OMG, this is going to be so great when I write it for DB." I get excited about stupid shit because it's fuel for the Duffel Blog fire.

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

Most of it comes from the DB writers getting together in our super secret online hangout and shooting the shit. We keep up on military news, even the guys who are civvies again (myself included), so we talk about it and see how we can make fun of things. The realest answer I've got is, the fucking military leadership and other relevant governing bodies tend to make it so ridiculously easy for us. Often times we see something happen in real news that would've been hilarious in a DB article but we can't write it because real life beat us to the punch.

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Kcb1986United States Air Force•

So what's y'all's reaction when you see the online communities say "fucking duffl....oh, nvm, its the Washington Post."

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BlondsOverBaghdad•

I get excited, because it means our audience just grew by one. DB is getting big enough that it's getting harder to do that. Even now, you'll see one comment from someone thinking it's real, followed by eleventy people chomping at the bit to tell them it's satire.

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Knights-of-NiMODDanger Zone! •

True story, We actually had to set up a rule on this subreddit to automatically tag all links from duffleblog.com as "satire" due to the fact that people were getting worked up over the articles.

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

Awesome. We knew we had something good on our hands when people started adding (btw this is real not Duffel Blog) to their links

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

Seconded. I'm a little sad that we can't quite troll as hard as we used to, but we still regularly get lots of comments from people who just don't realize it's satire. Even though it's funny and not strictly "fake news."

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

It's not so much the media as it is the DoD. For me and most of our other writers it's just stupid shit that happened and we add 20% exaggeration. We try and stick to topics that everyone will understand so everyone will relate.

Every once in a while the media will completely misrepresent something and throw use a softball though

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ZigmuraKorean People's Army•

What is your favorite kind of lube?

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

The blood of my enemies, closely followed by the tears of the innocent. I've noticed a bit of chaffing with the latter though, so I'm waiting for an oil-based version.

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BlondsOverBaghdad•

CLP. Is there any other kind?

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

Lube is for the weak

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[deleted]•

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thanks_for_the_fishKing of the Army Peasants•

What story are you most proud of having written that fooled the media?

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

As a whole we don't fool the media much anymore. Personally, the only one that fooled the news that I wrote was the Ballots Delivered Late article, that got a lot of response and fooled some celebs. That made it onto the news and I thought I was going to end up famous, which didn't happen.

Still I don't think it was my or the Duffel Blog's best in terms of overall humor

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

I'll bite. What was your best one, nerd?

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

For me, it wasn't so much fooling the "media" as it was some gaming subreddits, but it was the article about using Starcraft 2 as training for officers. I can't believe people read the entire thing and didn't understand it was a joke. But I don't necessarily consider that my best article, either.

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Terminal_LanceNOT the creator of "Terminal Lance"•

In r/acecombat, someone actually linked the article about the F-35 losing against the Red Baron's plane as proof why the F-35 sucks.

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

I don't think any of us knew that. It makes me laughter

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

I laughter every time

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TickleTheGeneralUnited States Air Force•

The article for those who haven't seen it.

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Knights-of-NiDanger Zone! •

Which one out of the two of you would win in a fist fight?

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

He has the height and reach advantage, but I fight dirty. Tough call.

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

As long as you have better cardiorespiratory endurance than an Armadillo you will be ok

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

Ok

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

Obviously u/Drew_Ferrol can't go longer than a round so you just need to get him tired

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NovaiusKISS Army•

We still talking about fighting?

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WrittenatworkUnited States Army•

When you two cuddle, who's the big spoon?

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

I call big spoon!

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WrittenatworkUnited States Army•

Who is your favorite Duffel Blog author and why is it Sgt B?

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BlondsOverBaghdad•

When I applied to duffel blog, I had to write a touching essay about my favorite article and why. I wrote about Maxx Butthurt.

I don't think he knows that, and I'll never tell him, because I'm scared of him.

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Drew_FerrolJROTC•

Sgt B's a dick, bailing on his friends like a douche

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WrittenatworkUnited States Army•

Collaborates with a stranger on the internet. "Friends."

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

Burns so sick you gotta mix Nyquil with Neosporin.

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JJMcGee83•

Does it hurt? Does it really really hurt?

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

It's bad, it's bad, it's bad!

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BrianFlakesUnited States Marine Corps•

If you are nominated in 2016, what will you give me to get my vote?

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

The ability to do as you please without me getting all up in your grill about shit. Boom. Election won.

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BrianFlakesUnited States Marine Corps•

I would also like a wall built along our northern border. Just the other day I was sitting in my villa in Sumas and sure as hell I spot one a them lazy sum'bitch Canadians scamperin right over the border like it ain't even there. Probably after our free socialized healthcare if ya ask me

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Bikesandkittens•

Do you have any comment on the new duffel bag being issued at basic training?

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evenmorelike•

Are you looking for any Canadian correspondents?

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JakeSlagerOPDuffel Blog Word Person•

I'm not sure, but I think we actually have a Canadian contributor. Of course, I'm not in charge of who gets chosen to be a contrib, so I can't help you there.

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Rouge_RaptorVote for Trump 2016•

No.

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