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Vietnam Vault Tour: Beyond the Tournament | KeyForge Adventures in Vietnam · Archons Corner

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you? You trying to put on weight?
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. I'm just trying to build some more
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: strength that's there.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just got to dirty bulk you and then
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: just Get all the creatine in you.
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: Actually, creatine has a lot of positive benefits for your memory,
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: but we're just getting older that it's not going to
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: have the same effect.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: It's not hitting the same?
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: No, it's just old and lactic acid buildup.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: I feel the vibes, man. What's going on, everybody? I'm
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: the one, the only, the W-O-O-K-I-E Joined here by the
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: normal cast of misfits. Normal case of misfits. You guys
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: get a whole filing cabinet now. We got the PhD
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: of Key Forge, Dr. M. Sheep.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: The Minnesota dude. He's just a big ball of charisma,
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: isn't he? If Sheep was a charisma stat on a
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: D & D character, what would it be? Like four?
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: That's a really high number for him, to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: You think that's high?
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: No, I'm like a 7 or an 8. 7 or
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: an 8. I'll give you with a beer or two
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: in you, you might be a 7 or 8. But, alright,
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: let's move on to the Minnesota Deuce, Ewok Jr. Hello.
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: Hello, Key Forge community. Glad to be here.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: It's a great time. The man of many names. He
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: is Drazkor of the Draz score, formerly known as the
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Smoke Slash Choke Show. Almost did something cool and has
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: yet again been knighted with another nickname, the Draz Horse. Drazkor.
• 2:23
  Speaker 4: Where did that come from, by the way? All the
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: gifs from last time?
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you just decided to nay in the middle
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: of something.
• 2:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: And yeah, he's like, he's now the Drez horse, and
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this man just can't escape nicknames.
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: But we got some stuff to go over. We do
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: have part two. We got interrupted from part one. Of Vietnam.
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: By exciting news. What's up with that?
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: Weird how the exciting news doesn't come from Ghost Galaxy.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: It's not like in two weeks there's going to be
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: a vault tour or anything.
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you talk about that, but this weekend we have
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: the Taiwan Nationals, Canadian Nationals, and Dutch Nationals. That's all
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: happening this weekend, boys.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: Oh. I didn't even know St. Louis happened because there's
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: not a write-up for it.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, you guys.
• 3:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's a good joke, but.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: It is a good joke.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's exciting that.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Comedians get on stage and tell the same joke over
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: and over and over again for every crowd. It's called
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: a set, right? That's our joke, is that there's a set.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, what are we doing? I mean, Tennessee is
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: coming up.
• 3:49
  Speaker 5: But our audience isn't changing, so they would.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: Like a new set. You don't know that. We could
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: have a completely new audience every few weeks.
• 3:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, definitely on HMFS, they were talking like there
• 4:01
  Speaker 4: was new people listening to the cast.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: There's definitely, listen, KFO has come out and it is definitely,
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: it is strapped a rocket to this thing called Key Forge.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: Straight to the fucking moon, guys, right?
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: Did our numbers go up? Did it look?
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know. No, did I look? No, I didn't look.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't look. I will look. I mean, we have
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: the same fucking numbers almost every single week. It's so consistent,
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: it's becoming strange at this point.
• 4:35
  Speaker 4: You still have the same number of bots?
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's not that consistent. I mean, we fluctuate,
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: but it's still the same. you know, X amount to
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: X amount. And it's somewhere that there's, there's a number
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: somewhere in between 23 and 2,500. And if, you know,
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: if you throw a dart at it, you know, that'll
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: be the listens this week. I just released our KFO
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: episode just, just yesterday. So we'll see what we'll see.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: I'll come back next week. We'll see what the numbers did. If,
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: if KFO really just like, Now we're cooking with gas, right?
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: It's like we were cooking with logs over an open fire.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: Now it's propane.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, at the very least, the KFO Discord
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: has popped with some individuals who, frankly... We haven't seen
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: in a while. Correct. A number of well-known content creators.
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: Great to be able to see people excited for Keyforge again.
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: Some were better off lost forever. I don't know.
• 5:40
  Speaker 4: What?
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. That's how Wookiee is really talking there.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: But welcome back, everybody.
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: Hey. I mean, on other notes, Bad Penny Press actually
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: announced that they're closing up shop because they've become too busy,
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: which is a bummer, but they've done a phenomenal job.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: So wait a minute. Who was on Bad Penny Press?
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: Because the only one who was on Bad Penny Press
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: that I know that is moving on to other projects
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: is Dead Sync. Was G not really doing much? Does
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: his business card lie to me? He's not really a professional.
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: He just doesn't want to do that shit no more.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: He just doesn't want to do that. He's moving on to... That.
• 6:22
  Speaker 4: Doesn't make any money. And if you're a professional, you've
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: got to make money.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: You've got to make money, right. You've got to make
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: scotch money. He's transferring everything over to his stripper blog?
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: Is that what's going on?
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: So you're looking at.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to go where the numbers are.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: You're looking at Blinking Line, DeadSync, and Zock.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: Which, hey, it's great to hear Zok's still alive. I
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: didn't even know he was still around either. That's what
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: most people say about you.
• 6:52
  Speaker 5: They never see you play.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: No, just you never see me play. I'm around. I'm
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: like the shadow in the corner. I'm just waiting. I'm lurking.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: And I'm on a weekly podcast where I talk every
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: single week.
• 7:09
  Speaker 5: Well, sure, but that's only the same 642 listeners who
• 7:13
  Speaker 5: are all bots.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: I will say that from 2023 to now, so it
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: looks like January 24th was their first post, and then,
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: so they had 174 issues. Like, we appreciate that support,
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: and again, having things being able to be linked, and
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: just a A physical presence there, I appreciate it. I
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: will be sad that they're missed.
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: I will say that. Gee, link me your new stripper e-letter.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is. I don't know. Tell me where all
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: the good places are. I need to know. I'm inquiring.
• 7:59
  Speaker 5: I would say the bachelor party this weekend and there
• 8:03
  Speaker 5: will be no... No nudie clubs.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: What are you even doing with your life?
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: Church-going folk.
• 8:11
  Speaker 5: So they won't do it in public.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: They're the kind of folk that bring them into the house.
• 8:20
  Speaker 5: We don't ask questions.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: She slips on something, bangs her head on a doornail,
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden the stripper's dead. And you're like,
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: what do we do?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if we could have that kind of weekend,
• 8:29
  Speaker 5: that would be good.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Or it might be just a story. It might be
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: a story I just made up.
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: It is supposed to rain a lot up here.
• 8:38
  Speaker 5: It's just a very bad thing storyline.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: The other thing, boys. China Vault Tour happened.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: How many people showed up?
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  Speaker 2: Well, so we actually have numbers. Big shout out to
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Tonin, who was over with us in Vietnam. Did
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and give us some information. So 34 for Sealed.
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  Speaker 2: 30 for Archon and 21 for Alliance. I mean, those.
• 9:06
  Speaker 5: Aren't anything astounding numbers-wise.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: I still wonder because, you know, HFFS did the whole
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: thing with the Asthma Day rep, and he was just like, oh,
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: it's such a big thing over there, and they had
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: 30 people show up to their vault tour?
• 9:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you. Those numbers don't seem....
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: They don't seem super large, but again, this is Huang Chao.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: Is this some Xi Ping propaganda? Who's the president of
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: China right now?
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 9:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: Close enough.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: It's a guy named Yang.
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: Close enough pronunciation. Okay.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: But it's just like, none of this makes sense. I
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe there's just not a lot. There could
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: be a lot of casuals over there, too. I don't know.
• 9:50
  Speaker 5: Well, maybe their online play is very strong, and traveling
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  Speaker 5: is not Easy or affordable?
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: That could that could very well be.
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: Well, so you and I were talking with Sarah Tom
• 10:04
  Speaker 4: about this, uh, and asking about the, uh, TCO, like
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  Speaker 4: the Chinese version of the TCO server.
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: Um, And it did not sound like there was a
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: massive amount of players on it. A role-placed community? Yeah,
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: it didn't sound like they were rolling.
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: On the American one?
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Will they get their own version of KFO?
• 10:36
  Speaker 5: The English one, not the American. It's not an American thing.
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: No. It's true.
• 10:40
  Speaker 5: It's an English thing.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: So basically, theirs was a ported-over version of.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: Don't want to claim shit.
• 10:45
  Speaker 5: We ain't do it.
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, their version was ported over and it did actually
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: make sense because of the lag time to be able
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  Speaker 2: to use it. So again, if you have access and
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: can create something, I like that Asmodee China has gone
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: ahead and supported that with tournaments and cash play that's there.
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: I will argue that there was a little bit of
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: talk about PV having an impact on their own player
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  Speaker 2: scene as well. So with the vault coming up thinking
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: that everything was going to again, continue to be PV
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: that hurt their numbers. Um, but these numbers did surprise
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  Speaker 2: me that they were in the thirties, um, for what's
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: there 34, 30, and then 21 for Alliance. Uh, I
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: do have to give a shout out to, uh, number
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  Speaker 2: seven in Alliance. That is sheep too. It just made
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: me laugh. So I love that. Sheep too.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: Um, in the master vault account, No, that's Sheep 3.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: So for Archon, PV took 1 through 8 minus one
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: of the top 4 slots was Amber Skies. And then
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: for Alliance, there was PV except for what they called
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: 6 was GR. So again, PV taking a lot. Side events,
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: Quick Forge had 8 players. Chaos Sealed Alliance had 17
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: and adaptive had 11. Um, so those were their three seals. Um,
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: so shout out to all the winners and runner ups.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: They find that from our Connor Connor.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Which still got left here. We have Nashville. France is done, right?
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: Well, Nashville.
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: Italy is done in Italy.
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: No, it's not done.
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: No.
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: So France is done.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: Nashville and Italy, Nashville, Italy, and then KFC, right?
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: Actually, it's Italy, then Nashville, right?
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: Is Italy this weekend? Yes?
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: No, it's next week. It's the following weekend.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, so it's... Oh, okay, never mind. Yep, two weeks.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Or three weeks, technically. We have... We've got Nashville. So,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: we are all headed to Nashville. Drez Chris said he'll
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: take pictures with anybody interested, so... We're selling Draskor's pictures
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: for $ 3 a picture with Draskor.
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: And for $ 20, you can ride him like a horse now.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: Will he neigh for me?
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: He bucks. He's a bronco.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: Bucking bronco, does this cost more or less for you
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: to buck?
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: Depends on the person.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it depends. It depends.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: You're cheap.
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: I'm cheap. I'm cheap, guys. You heard that.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: You're not. Nobody is allowed to ride Ewok.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: He's like the Mexican donkeys. He's breaking down.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: He's brittle.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: Wasn't he talking about the squats he was doing before
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: he started?
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: Because he's breaking. Don't break. We can't break our Ewok.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: You just push harder. That's what you do, right?
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: But we do have Nashville coming up. All four of
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: us will be in attendance at the Nashville event. Don't forget,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: there is a huge... I don't know if it's huge.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm going to say huge, because this looks
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: like a decently sized place. Board game event going on
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: as well there for just an extra $ 10. You can
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: also enjoy that.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Tennessee. That's literally Tennessee game day.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Right. I'm going to go ahead and splurge the extra
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: 10 buckaroos and go poke around. I'm 50-50.
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: I'm just playing board game Saturday.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: You know, here's the thing. I might be with you because, like,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: I'm all about let's play sealed. Let's see how that
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: pans out. And then Saturday, we can just go poke
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: around board games.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Guys, did you look at all that's available for Tennessee
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: game days?
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: There is a lot.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Like it is a major tournament. It's similar to hoopla
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: with what we have. There's a flea market. There's gaming destinations.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: There's a math trade. There's pop-up stores. There's tournaments, multiple
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: tournaments that are there. You have events, you have the
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: buy and sell. Yeah, no, this is, this is a
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: legit convention experience. So like, yeah, it reminded me a
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: lot of hoopla and the charity is actually for children's
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: hospital in the fall. I really like the meeple, frankly,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: for the fall. So I'm a little bummed on that one.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: The doctor?
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: No, sorry, for the spring.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: My apologies. Oh, for the spring.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as a farmer. But like, I just I love
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: the meeples that are set up. And I'm excited to
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: be able for a couple bucks to be able to
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: bounce over, whether that's for merch, taking peek at games.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I did look at buying more games because that's what
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: I need to put in my luggage to fly back.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: But If... Don't forget.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Don't forget I'm driving, so... You need room.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: You did not need to say that. That was bad
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: for you, but... Is it bad for me or bad
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: for your pocketbook?
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: It's got five people. You ain't gonna have no space
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: in that car.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: No.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I'm only bringing four.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: With.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I'm only bringing four and I'm coming.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: And you're only taking three home.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm coming from New York. Don't say that on
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: a recording. Goddamn sheep.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: With board game conventions, oftentimes people will go ahead and
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: sell their board games at a pretty nice discount. I
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: put up my own games for a loss, but if
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: it goes to someone else, then it's enjoyable. So take
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: a peek. There was already a game that I had
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: spotted that I'm like, yeah, I'd totally pick that up.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: And big $ 5 spend there. So it's exciting.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Daddy Warbucks over here. Five buckaroos.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Well, but like, But what I'm trying to say is
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the cost is significantly less because you need to make
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: more space for more board games. So they have a
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: math trade. They have a play to win section. So, yes,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: if all else fails, all of us enjoy board games.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: It is an option. But we also have a great
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Key Forge event that is happening. And so I'm excited.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I would like to know what the side.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: There's also an indoor pool and coffee shop. One of
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: those things just excited sheep. We'll let you decide.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Is it a swim-up coffee shop?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: It doesn't say as such. It just says, plenty of
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: room for gaming, indoor pool, coffee shop. There is, however,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: an on-site restaurant and bar.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: So that will make lunch easier.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Actually, in regards to that, because I was actually looking
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: at Tennessee Game Days. Tennessee Game Days had... Some information,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: so it's under their tab for weekend information, and one
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: of the sections is called Eats. And so you can
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: actually see what's close by for local food. I would
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: highly recommend that anyone who is going, because it is worthwhile.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: And there are some spots that I'm like, ooh, that
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: sounds delicious.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Also, they say around their website, it says, we offer affordable, delicious,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: hot lunch on-site through the weekend. Limited number of tickets
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: are on sale at registration. We post the day's menu
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: in Discord as soon as we know it. The cool
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: spring area also has dozens of restaurant options within a
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: mile of the hotel. Check your badge QR code.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Awesome.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: So check your badge QR code. Oh man, you can
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: buy these meeples.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Wow. I didn't know they were for sale.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's a really neat experience. I just, I
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: post it because there's a lot of information. And as
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: a result of Tennessee games, like, the actual tournament and
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: the events, there is a lot of information available for
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Tennessee game days, uh, that will help give us more
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: information about what's happening. And it is Nashville. I mean,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: we're still close. So Nashville has a lot of experiences
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: by itself too.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I'm joining there.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: What?
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer. Why do we got
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: to sing happy birthday to the boy? All right, can
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you guys do without me? So just one quick.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Announcement while we're here. We're going to sing happy birthday.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: All right. I think I'm the youngest of the four
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of us, if I'm not mistaken.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's right, but I am the first one
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to have an adult. Today is Jamie's 18th birthday.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Happy birthday, Jamie.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: He is turning 18, so I am going to take
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a quick time out. Let you guys continue talking because
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: we're going to go sing Happy Birthday, okay? Sounds good.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: All righty.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: People like this are a menace to decent society. Are
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: you ready for something new and hot?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: You're in the corner.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I borrowed a deck from Mr. Perfect, our good local,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and I was very, very happy with that. I did
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: find it interesting that one of the locals in Vietnam.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Oops.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Back.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: How was the birthday? Was everything everything you dreamed? Good.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: How's the cake? What kind of cake? I don't know. Super.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Are we not recording again?
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I am just really fucking this whole thing up. Birthday
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: cake was great. No, I just had two things. We're
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: recording right now. Birthday cake was great. Jamie's now 18.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Yay.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm packing a bag for him as we speak.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: No.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: You're right. I'm not. No, sheep. Stop it. Stop it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Stop it. Stop it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: You also missed.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: That there is.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This now.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: What did I miss?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Tell me about it. You missed that we asked for
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: side events for Nashville, which still aren't there in place.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, do we have any side events for Nashville? Tobin,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: what are the side events for Nashville? Do we have any?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: No, we don't have any. And then I did a
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: quick recap, and they didn't like that in 30 seconds.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: So we are now into Archon. Sheep says he doesn't
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: like Archon at all.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: You asked if I was excited, and I said no.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: You're not excited about anything, okay?
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Well, there you go.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Draz went ahead and borrowed a deck, and I also
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: borrowed a deck.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: To be fair, I'm not excited. I don't have anything
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: for Archon. What am I excited to be about for Archon?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: You'll win again, and you can feel more and more
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: justified in your hating of PV.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: What if I say that PV doesn't win?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: PV is going to win.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: PV doesn't win our hearts.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Well, What if PV doesn't win Nashville?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Well, then the.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Lights over and PV's average set.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: No, I think there are individual decks that can go
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: ahead and beat it. I just think that PV consistently
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: will beat out and win. But there are individual decks
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: that can win against PV at a high rate. Anyway.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Hold on.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: No, no, no. Name them. Name what?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Let's name them after we go ahead and see what's here.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I don't want to steal any.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: No, Colin is bluff.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, you can go ahead and see that
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Olympio consistently places top eight across there. It has not won,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to tell you there are some decks
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: that have. You can see that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, Frog did great against PV at one event,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: and then I didn't see any PV, and I got
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: knocked out 0-2.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: So, you know, like.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: But that's the other issue. You can see that Donatas, again,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: can play very, very well against it. There are individual
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: decks that will play very well. The problem is, are
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: you playing just to beat PV? Then you have a
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: tendency to lose to Amber Skies against Tock, against some
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: other things that are present. And they don't necessarily show
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: up in the final slots, but they are showing up
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: pretty high. They might miss that cut for the 4-2 slot. Anyway, Archon.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm unmuting myself because I am going to have some.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: They're opening gifts behind me. If you're not playing to
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: beat PV, you're not playing to win. Period. End of story.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: The problem is then there are individual decks that can
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: go ahead and have.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: A better matchup. Yeah, but those decks are also not
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: going to win.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Well, if you can consistently beat PV, you just need
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to see PV.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: But nothing's consistently winning against PV. Olympio can beat upper
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: middle grade PV. But then when it comes to top eight,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: it flounders. Name me another deck that is doing well
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: against PV.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: You just saw the top four game in China that
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: went ahead and was Amber Skies also. Do you know
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: what that deck consists of?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I don't see it, but the problem is once we
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: go overseas, meta's different.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Not really anymore.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Ah, really?
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: It's all PV.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: So, I am looking... Alright, so I just pulled up
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: this deck on the Drezscore.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Tanugi Fat Tang Toy, which is pronounced perfectly. I promise.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Well done.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Thank you. Can you do that in your
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: heart voice? So we got some Double Arise with Double
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Vapor Amps, Double Dust Amps, uh, at a try hard
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: to loop around, uh, infinity strap to take out your
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: dust dams. If you need to, where was the second arise?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I only saw one.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: There's my look at the right deck top cut Vietnam.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Oh shit. This is 2025.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: So, so this one just has, honestly, it's a 97
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: SAS disc Geistoid Skyborne. Um, What was really interesting, while
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Draz is pulling it up, is it is triple junk restoration.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: But it's the amount of pips that are in here.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: So a single rise is what's in this deck.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: All right, and you should go ahead and pronounce it, Ewok.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you'll get it perfectly right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: There were 29 enhancements here in this deck. So only
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: 13 printed Amber, 22 creatures. Um, but like double black Tempest,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: double against all flags, triple Boston cream, double bucks, Bastian,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: like that does not really jump out, but triple junk restoration. Um,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the arise is there. I actually, I did not put
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: it in for how to say it. I think this
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: deck actually struggles with C, um, but, Because the first
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: slot for C is Universal Welcome and then Infinity Strop.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Those are not necessarily things that I'm looking for, but
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: if it can consistently... I'm always looking for Infinity Strops.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: That card's real good.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: That card is good, but if you're looking... It does
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: not have a traditional board wipe, and when you see
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Universal Welcome as basically your top creature removal card that
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: It's something, but it's not going to be what I am.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: It's not. Yay, I'm super excited for Universal Welcome. So
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: take control of any creature in the center of your
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: opponent's battle line. Out of a 7.5 in DOK, that's
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: your 1.75. No, no, no, not at all.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: No.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: And it does have clipped wings. It does have Infinity Strop,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: but outside of the Infinity Strop, it's got a Gift
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: of Amber. Then it's Maleficorn and Wellstring. This is not
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: a heavy creature control. It is not a deck that
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: is a ton of pips. It has some movement at
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: 15 for efficiency, but it was an interesting deck to
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: see that it made top four. Again, Geistroid with triple
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: junk is definitely something.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Sometimes you look at a deck and you ask why,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: and then you find out it was just a whole
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: lot of good luck got it there.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Well, and that does happen. who do you play against?
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: What's your run? What happens? That can be something, but
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: it was interesting to me. There, I know PV has
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: some issues with consistent board presence. So if, you know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: talk and if Amber Skies can go ahead and spit
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: out creatures, PV is typically a little bit slower. It
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: can have some issues, but That's what we're seeing. I
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I guess it just depends because if you're going with, oh,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to spit out creatures to beat PV, now
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you've got to worry about somebody bringing a Trunks and
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: what's the other one I'm thinking of?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Cryptic Collapse.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Cryptic Collapse. Thank you. That's actually the other one I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: was looking for.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Trunks Creed and Cryptic Collapse are the two that
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: you would expect to be able to see. But again,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: if you don't run into PV, if you run into
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: PV that doesn't have those, if the car just is
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: late in the deck, it happens.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe I bring Nathan. Old school 89 worlds collide.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: But play a deck that you have fun with and
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: that you enjoy and that causes some issues. I guess
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: this is appropriate for... The problem.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: With that is I'm going to bring a.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Watch him call it back. And nobody wants to see those.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Whatchamacallit? Disruption? No, I'm going to bring them.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Foreign language?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: No, actually Nathan is a foreign language deck. I'm going
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: to bring a Dark Heart of the Forest. Oh.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Not impressed.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: You don't have to be impressed. It's not there to impress, Dr.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Sheep.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: There is so much artifact control right now.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: That is a problem. There's a lot of artifact control. PV,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know why they're like, yeah, let's just put
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: a bunch of... I don't know why PV was the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: artifact control set. It's actually the.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: Artifact stealing set. Man doesn't take artifacts.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: It steals, it has Amber control, and Logos just spits
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: out creatures.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It can have my Dark Heart. That's cool. You can
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: have that now.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: That's not a creature.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: It's still doing its thing.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: So for you guys, did you go ahead? Draz, we
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: played for Alliance. Yes. How did your tournament go for Archon? Now,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: you're borrowing a deck. Game one, what's happening?
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: I don't remember anymore. I mean, it's been a long time.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I don't specifically remember the game.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Man, Vietnam was like three weeks ago.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Longer than that. Was it longer than that? Yeah, it's
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: been over a month at this point. Yeah, it's been
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: over a month. My bad. But, no, I played, I borrowed.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: One of X-Ray's decks. Grizzle.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Bless you. It was what?
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Grizzle. Bataar. The Grey. Oh, gosh. The Grey. Bahara. Bahara. Bahara. Bahara. Bahara. Bahara.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Bahara.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Bahara.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Bahara.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's my new nickname. So, um, probably not.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: It's the other pronounce.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: So, um, so this thing's pretty cool. Um, yeah, it's,
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: I don't, I don't know that it's amazing, but it's
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: got some good stuff. It's got the Delta P it's
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: got the atrocity. It's got enough D and, um, in
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Dis to cause opponent's problems. The Carry-In run, double Banish,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: double Doom. Got your Parasite Arachnoid Shrug for your Prophecies, Shaeful,
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: so it's got a lot of just annoying stuff in Dis.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Doesn't have the Cryptid Collapse ring, unfortunately, but it's got
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: some annoying stuff. It's got the Exotic Pivot with the
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: double reiteration, so you can put not-logo stuff on the bottom.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: You got your Foreseer, Candle Unit, ZXY Researcher to archive
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: your Exotic Pivot, Reassembly Required for messing with your opponent's
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: archives if necessary. And then it's got a Sarian House,
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: which is definitely non-traditional for PV. It's got a 2-low,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: double Sedentary Nap. It's got a Legacy Senator Shrips with
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: a Scutum. Nice. And then double Spendthrift. So, It can
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: do some things, right? It's got an early bird for
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: its good prophecy. Looms into Wisdom's not bad. But... The...
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: It's solid. It's solid. It's not amazing. I think I
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: ended up going three and three. I just missed four
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: and two. And... I played alright. I felt like the
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: games that I won, I felt in control. At least
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: one or two of the games I lost, I felt
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: like I just couldn't do things that I needed to do.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Does not have artifact control. That is one thing that
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: is missing. I did okay. Not as well as Sealed
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: or even Alliance, I guess.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: How about you, Buck?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I continued my trajectory in that I traveled all
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: the way across the world. And my first game was
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: against Sydney, local. And so that was that was wonderful
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: and sad because. I don't know, I know there was
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: a high amount of international people at the vault, so
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I can't really complain against that, but. knowing that I
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: played you round one for Alliance. And then I played
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: her round one for our con. It just was, I
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: was hoping to play other people, nothing against you guys,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: but you're traveling a distance and, um, I can play
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: her at locals and I can play you when we
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: go to our vaults. Um, it is what it is.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: We had also played this matchup before at our store and, uh,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: she's played against this deck. So she brought Shaw universe,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Bill Hardane, um, sweet, sweet, sweet deck actually has quite
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: a bit going on for it. Um, that had cryptic collapse,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Delta P it had double. Oh, you shouldn't have. And
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: that's just the dis, uh, cloud of Genesis, crystalline harvest,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: double loss in the woods, invigorating shower. And then you
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: have the sorry. And with defense initiative, paleo gene society, governance, Slovenia,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: double scoot them, uh, Marcella, pluvia, screedio, like, it can
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: spit out a big board. It's got quite a bit
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: of speed there and 16 printed Amber. Um, but the
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: short answer is I'm looking for cryptic and cryptic never
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: came out. Um, so that's why I say like cryptic,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: if it just doesn't show up that that's there. And my,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: my deck that I was playing with swordsman and swordsman
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: just wants to spit out logos creatures. So I literally
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: had a boat ton of logos creatures. So yes, I
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: got lucky in that it did not come up, but
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: we played it before. Um, I, that swordsman has beaten
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Shaw before and it did it again. Um, but you
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: feel bad because essentially if you lose round one, um,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: you're in a really, really tough spot unless you went
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: out the rest of the time, uh, the less rest
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: of the rounds and your opponent also has a very
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: high standing. Um, so that was round one. It is
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: what it is. Um, we come into round two and
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: actually faced off against serotonin and for a Anything that
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: I had in game one, I did not have it.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Serotonin's deck literally just straight up obliterated me. It had
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: creature control. It had amber control. It had every response,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: and I could not do anything against it. I think
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I finished with zero keys. I'm not even joking. I
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: don't know what the amber was. It was not. It
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: was not good. And then you start questioning life.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, that deck, that is the one
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: that when I was searching around online, I found that deck.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: So I was playing that, and I was like, this
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: deck is amazing. And I made an offer, and he
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: was like, I'm going to play in Vietnam. You would
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: have to offer me an outrageous amount of money for
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: me to give up this deck. So I was like, well, yes.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Not so it's good good deck it is a very
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: very very very good deck there's no question about it
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: it ends up taking second uh teaser there but uh
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: so congrats on being able to go out and qualify
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: for worlds um that again deck was very very very
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: good um we then get a lunch break uh we
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: actually got more than a half an hour on this
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: one i think draz that was you and i that
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: went upstairs Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: We rushed up to, uh, to get some eats real fast.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: So which was super convenient.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: And what did she, did you eat with us that day?
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: I can't remember.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: No, I went.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, two and napped.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, two nap.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Go. Nice. I will say the food was delicious. I
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: really enjoyed it, but I was questioning cause I'm now
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: one in one and I'm like, uh, now, now you're
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: in kind of a predicament. Uh, Rounds three, this close
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Delpha I played, I ended up going ahead and winning.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Round four was Omegon.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I won.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: And then round five, round five stood out to me
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: because I played Captain Gale and Captain Gale was on
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Pastor Ass. So well-known deck. And I'm like, oh man.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: And I know I just need to literally, outrace it,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: which is kind of an odd statement, but it needs
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: to be a very, very quick set of you need
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: to run and you're going to need to run fast.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: And so that is what I did. I got lucky
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: in that my opening hand was odd for Swordsman. I
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: actually had a lateral shift in my opening hands, which
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: is in my disc set. And he, I want to
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: say he was going first and he made a choice
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: to keep his whole hand. And Even though I wasn't
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: at a huge lean into one house or another, I
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: decided to keep it. And I actually went disc, got
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: rid of a couple of cards for San Amber. And
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: I think I put down a life ward and I
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: lateral shifted and I ended up going ahead and taking his, uh,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: winds of death. Now, the Winds of Death had no
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: impact for the board, but what it did is it
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: put it in the discard pile. And so that gave
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: me a little bit. Now, on Pastor S, there's two
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Winds of Death in there. So his next turn, he
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: ended up going ahead and needing to, he basically did
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Mars in order to archive it and to protect it
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: in the future. And I want to say he actually
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: sent it back into his deck. So he's got two left,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: but my response was to drop a massive board of logos.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: And that is, I'm now going to go ahead and
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: reap out with logos and continue to do more things.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: And I think that's, what's really dangerous about PV is PV.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: What PV offers at the common slot, like digitalia after reap,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: draw a card for each of digitalia is logos neighbors.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: And we get an enhance off of it. So literally
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: if you put logos next to it, you're, Gaining an
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Amber and drawing two cards to continue to cycle more,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: it was brutal. And so I ended up with a
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: big board. At one point, I ended up going in
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Mercurial Wormhole into my... I want to say that was
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Dis or Untamed that I could see, and it just
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: produced more. I had two keys, and I basically pushed
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: for the third. And I apologize, CatsGale, because I know
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: I put in way too much time thinking about... the
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: choice there. And I think I pushed out for like
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: 20 some Amber, which really wasn't impactful. I was trying
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: to get to a card, but he's like, I can't
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: stop you. I don't have an OTK. So at that
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: point in pastor, pastor did not have, um, the untamed.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: What is it? The artifacts. NEPC. He did not have
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: the NEPC out. So he couldn't OTK me.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Um, but.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I, even though it was, it was a very, um,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: large range for the game. I felt that pastor could
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: literally go at any point in time and it can win. Um,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: and having played that deck before that, that was just
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: a scary matchup for me. So feeling much better after
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: a couple of wins under me. And then we went
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: into round six and at four and one, I felt
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: pretty comfortable that if I lost round six, I would
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: still probably make it. I did end up going out
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: and winning. So I was five one and I did
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: make top eight. Um, So, yeah, that was actually really
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: exciting to be able to do. So I will say
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: that I completely messed up and this is a mission.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Ox Sabine, boys and girls, what does Ox Sabine do?
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Or sorry, Ox Sabine.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: After you use a creature, all your guys get tapped down.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: It's all the guys in the same house.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Each enemy creature gains after fight after reap exhaust, each
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: friendly creature that shares a house with this creature. Um,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a foreign language and that should have been
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: V Vietnamese. Um, I should have taken more time to
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: look at the after fight after reap. I apparently was
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: not thinking. So that one was on me and you
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: can see kind of the response of, haha, I got you.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: And so that put me a little bit on tilt
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: to be honest. And, uh, because my one reap went ahead,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, I'll just fight this afterwards. Nope.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: That was on me for messing that up, because I
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: was going to fight it, but I did not fight
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: it first. I reaped, and then lost the other six
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: creatures that were logos. So I basically time-walked myself, and
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: then on the next turn, he dropped down....
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: What was the.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: He put Taunt on it and went ahead and warded it.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Now I actually have a problem. So I get to
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: time walk myself again as I deal with the ward.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: And then on the third turn, I did go ahead
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: and have my removal. And so I was able to
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: remove it. But don't do that. That's my strategy because
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: that game, instead of being... pretty wide disparity turned out
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: to be a lot closer than it needed to, because
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I did not read oxygen on after reap after fight.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: So I will forever remember this card and it will
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: haunt me, but, uh, I finished five, one, put me
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: in a good spot and we went into a top eight. Um,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: and then I have more, more frustration, uh, in my
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: top eight game. I felt pretty comfortable with what was there.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: I was actually facing a Ducilis that was brought into PV.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: Which is cool. That's not a thing you normally see.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: No, it was actually really cool, and it ended up
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: being there. DeHunt was playing it. I felt that I
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: had literally the worst draw on Swordsman. Swordsman typically has
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: the game wrapped up by turn 5. If it is
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: not pushing for the third key at that point or
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: turn six, it's really not in a good spot. And
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: it's essentially just a PV rush deck. And on turn two,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I pushed for my first key and he dropped Dusilis.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: So at that point he had played three cards and
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Mike Dusilis is there. That's his main large scaling Amber control.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: That's a problem, but I should be able to kill
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: it afterwards. The problem was he had Dusilis and Exile,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: so he literally had two halves of the giant and
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Exile in hand on turn two when I went ahead
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: and popped. So he took all my amber, dropped it
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: over to me, and then had some amber. Two turns later,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: he was actually able to bounce it back with bubbles
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: to the top of his deck, taking all of my amber, so...
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: My six amber that I would have gone ahead and
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: forged that key with is now his. And I could
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: not draw. So I get to my key one. I
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: get to key two. And when he was at... I
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: knew it was on the top of his deck because
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: he had bubble-stitched. I have the lateral shift in hands
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: and I will say I love lateral shift, but this
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: is the only time that it actually came to bite
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: me in the butt. I knew that he had dribble. Correct.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: That is exactly it is that he had gotten to six.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I knew that he had do Sillis that he just drew,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: but lateral shift literally says, play, look at your opponent's hand,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: play a card from that hand as if it were yours. Now, frankly,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: I had to see if he had any Amber control there.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I'm fine.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: I did not have Amber control at that point. But
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: the other thing is, is he really doesn't have anything
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: outside of the Dusilis that I was typically worried about
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: anything major. So I really just, I want to, I
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: want to take one, I want to take one half
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: of it. I don't even care, but the problem is
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: I can't play one half. So if I take a card,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: which is.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: Half of Dusilis, this goes back to where it came from.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: It goes back to where it came from, which is
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: his hand. So it literally did nothing in this spot.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: Um, which, which I think is the weird, like the
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: rules around gigantics are so weird.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Like they are.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I think that rule is perfectly fine to be honest,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: but well, but.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Why, so why can you not play it? But they can,
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: I guess, because it's as if it was in your hand.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: So like, Because they don't need to.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: Make gigantics any worse than they already are.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: That is true.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Like, I.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Don't know.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: It's super weird.
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: Because you can't exhume a gigantic either. You can't wild
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: wormhole a gigantic, even if you have the other half
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: in your hand. And honestly, there's lots of weird stuff
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: It is weird, but I am all for you should
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: be able to exhume it. You should be able to
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: go ahead and wild wormhole it. gigantics just are not
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: that broken that i'm concerned about it it made it
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: it made me laugh because we talk i talk about
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: gigantics as they really have no impact and this one
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: actually did have an impact on the game and shut
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: me down because i did not have a ton of
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: removal that was left i had no way to really
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: get rid of it it captured and i couldn't surprise.
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: Me for it to get so deep with how much
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: purging crap there is in this game.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: So what was really, really, really interesting was I was
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: expecting to see Trunks Creed and Cryptic Collapse. And I
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: did see Cryptic, but not because Sydney did not end
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: up pulling it by the time I had finished the game.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: I did not see Trunks Creed at all in my
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: decks that I played against. But what I did see
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: was a ton, literally a ton of of dinos. I
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: saw dinos, warded dinos, big boards.
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: I told you guys all the time that dinos are
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: good in PvE and you guys don't want to jump
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: on board with me.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, I did play dinos in PvE.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: It was interesting how much did you guys see large
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: boards with dinos as well?
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: No.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: No, okay.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, my board is not that large with
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: Dinos with that X-Rays deck, but it's more doing interesting stuff,
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: bringing the sea than it is a big board.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: It's only got.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: Well, three playable creatures. It's got one of those stupid
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: hidden agents, so that's not playable.
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: Getting murdered by Josh Allen.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Murdered. I will say that I did not have a
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: ton of C, and so with Big Rush deck, I
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: was impressed that I was able to still fight through
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: the dinos. People talk about, oh, you must go ahead
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: and have all of the C and the creature removal.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: The other option, and I can state this, just be faster.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: If you can get through the game faster, that really matters.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: In game six, to actually get in, I won off
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: of Bufo. So there are double Bufos in the deck
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: that I was playing. And I'm a horrible person because
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: the final game, I actually won with Bufo under Ask
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Again Later. With the errata, I had zero ways to
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: take him off of check. but I could get to
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: check and had Bufo there. He had to be able
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: to guess and he did not guess right. Yeah.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: Coin flips deciding games.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Well, it was higher than a coin flip because.
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: Because your guy had too much logos in it.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Well, so yes, technically, if we look at it, what
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: I had done actually in that game was is that
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: the board was out, so there was a chunk of logos,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: but it was fairly even. But what I did is
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I blew things up and I cycled my deck. So
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: literally everything was as close to fresh as new to
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: give me the best odds for ask again. And then
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: it pushes it closer to that 66%. You only have
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: 33% to get it.
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but.
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: Tons of random effects deciding games.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: So, but that, that got me.
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: Does it end to your opponent's game or did it
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: mean nothing?
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Did you go Mr. Abato for anybody else or just me?
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: Those two, which means for all our listeners, because you're
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: the one recording.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: So, so yeah, I mean, we get the, I get,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: we got the idea, right?
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, the idea is there, but it, it, I
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: got very lucky with the win off of Bufo in
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: round six. I got very unlucky with what I drew
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: in the top eight match. I would have gone ahead
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: and faced Riku in the top four. And I was
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: just really happy to go ahead and be able to
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: represent and to make top eight. I think top eight
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: with the Archon field, all the international, like that was
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: a very impressive field.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: So I was very happy.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: And we got to go out and guys, we did
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: go out on Sunday night, um, closed up shop and
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: we went to some hot pods. So.
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: Waiting in line for Hot Pot.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: Waiting in line for Hot Pot forever. Yeah, so it
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: was a ton of fun. It definitely was a little
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: bit of a reminder for me of, like, why when
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: we go to vaults, I will tell people where I'm going,
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: but I'm like, we're not all going to, like, try
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: to wait and go together, and if we end up
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: at different tables, that's cool. There was a very long wait. Understandably,
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: because we showed up with, like, 40 people. Yeah.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Um, but, uh, we sat in tables of what?
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: Eight, six to eight.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Something like that. So, so it was a good time.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: Like we, so I ended up sitting with, um, uh,
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: some Vietnamese friends, some us friends and my family. So, uh,
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: JJ and Barry from, uh, from us side, uh, And,
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: you know, any time you're sitting with JJ, when weird
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: foods involved, it's going to be a good time.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: So the yeah, no, we had a good time chatting.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: It was, you know, it was good hot pot.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Did the did the food just keep coming for you guys?
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Like I sat with sheep and Ben. We also had
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: some French friends and some Vietnamese friends. It was an
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: absolutely amazing time. But the food just continued to come
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: and come and come. And I loved it.
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: And more and more. Yeah, we kept pushing more buttons.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I am well aware of this.
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: IsFat kept pushing more buttons.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: There's no complaints from the noodles that were hand-danced for us.
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: The noodles were good. Yeah.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: From.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: We went ahead. I got to try pig brain for
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: the first time and duck blood. And just like there
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: was random normal stuff as well. But like the locals
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: were so generous with like, nope, hold. Because at this point,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: I still had really no idea how to hold my utensil. So, yes,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: I was really struggling, but everyone was very patient and
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: But they would like, hey, you must hold the beef
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: in here for 10 seconds, swirl around, and then use
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: the chopsticks. You're going to pull this out or wrap
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: it around like this. A highlight, sheep got hit in
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: the eye. That was amazing.
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, with the spicy broth. It burned. Oh, it burned.
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: I had to go rinse my eye for several minutes.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: This is why.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: It's a highlight because only sheep could get hot broth
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: in his eyes, man. Only sheep.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: If any one of you would ever be injured in
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: a foreign country, my blood pressure would spike.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: So it turns out Vietnam is the country you want
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: to be injured in, right? Dylan shows up with a
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: broken foot and goes... You get.
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: A fix for like $ 1. 76. Yeah.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: I think they said they paid like or something or
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: other for, uh, like doctor, like independent doctor's time, like
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: full doctor's time, the, the cast, the crutches, like a
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: meeting with door to door.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: And there was no insurance. So realize that no insurance,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: you get essentially checked for x-ray. You go ahead and
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: meet with a doctor. You have a physical therapist, you
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: get fitted, all of that. for even under 500 is crazy.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Like I was just in urgent care with my youngest
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: last week. And I guarantee I spent more than that.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: And I have insurance. Like no question about it.
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: Now this is America where you spend the first 10
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: grand at least in a year on your insurance. And
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: then it doesn't do anything until you spent five or
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: six grand with the hospital. Then after you spent 16,
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: finally your insurance kicks in. Fantastic. My kid got to
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: do urgent care this year, too, and we're out his
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: full deductible.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: $ 3, 800 or whatever it is.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: I will say before Hot Pot, I had bounced away
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: from you guys because I had commissioned some artwork of
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: my family from a local artist, which was super cool.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: But I went and picked that up and then run back.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: And what was so neat was this.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: They had the local soccer match on. So everyone's in
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: the center square area. These like screens are just big jumbotrons,
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: but at like lower level and they had five sets
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: of them. So they put up the screens during just
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: absolutely amazing. I was talking to my wife on the
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: way in and Vietnam had scored against Malaysia and literally
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: it just, it went crazy. It was such a neat experience.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: And I mean, you look at it and you're like, okay,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Outside of Vietnam and Malaysia, who else was watching that game?
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: As a soccer fan, I would not have known about
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: that even over in the States. But yet it was
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: so important to the local culture there. It made my
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: night to be able to walk there and then to
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: have amazing food, have great camaraderie. And I left absolutely
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: stuffed beyond belief. And I was pleasantly happy. I got
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: to try things that I would have probably not tried
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: outside of the comfort of the group that we were with.
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: This dinner was in the building that the Avengers headquarter is,
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: that they use for the Avengers headquarter.
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right. It did look like Stark Tower.
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: That's because it's the same building they used for Stark Tower.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, because it's what she said.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Is it real? It was Stark Tower.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: I did not realize it was actually the building. I
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: thought it was.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: Maybe it was.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm watching Thursday Night Football and the Bills are
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: absolutely laying the wood to the Lions.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: This is almost ridiculous.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: But continue.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that we're very exciting for you and you
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: want to check out.
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's something different.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: It is called multitasking, sir.
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, we're at the Texco Financial Tower. It has a
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: strong resemblance, but they're not actually using that building.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: I will say i was bummed that we did not
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: get it up to go ahead and look on the
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: viewing layer like that was on my bucket list but
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: as we went up they're like no closed because the
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: time was listed but they had shut down the last
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: section of view what 15 20 minutes before we were
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: there so yeah that is back and did it later
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: It was okay. Did you do it at night, though?
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: No.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: I thought it would be really neat at night to
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: just look out and see the lights and the city
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: and everything. I was very, very happy. Did we do
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: anything else? I didn't have anything else that we did
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: that night because I think we got set to go
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: out to Donang the next night or the next morning.
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: I know Mike and I, after dinner, we just went back.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: I think I tried to ping people and no one
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: was there. So I just walked around.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah. What did we do? I'm looking at the pictures now.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, we were there, we were there a good
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: long time. I think it was very late. Yeah. I
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: feel like it was one of these things. Cause we
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: did have, we had to get the airport in the morning.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: So I think it was one of these things where
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: I took my family back to the hotel and I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: was like, well, maybe I'll go out. And then by
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: the time, you know, you get the most situated and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: all that. And I might, I might've been tired at
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: that point.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Well, we, yeah, we left shape. I know we left
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: after 10 40. So it was late. We went out
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: the next morning.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: Wait, didn't we get ice cream, actually?
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: No, ice cream was.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: Was it the gelato? Yeah, gelato was actually... We got
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: gelato twice.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: Gelato was.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: We got ice cream at the dinner place. That's where
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: we had the sweet corn ice cream. Yeah.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: Didn't we get, like, durian ice cream? Somebody got durian
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: ice cream? When I say someone, I think I mean JJ.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: No, that was during the trip. And that was JJ.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: And that was at the Old Town?
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: That night.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Does JJ enjoy just like beating himself up?
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: JJ likes all the stinkiest stuff.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. All right. Now I know there was a
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: lot post trip. What were some of the highlights for
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: you guys? Just very, very quick.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: I don't want to go ahead.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: The food, the food, the people, uh, I know it
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: was an odd piece, but sheep just going out and
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: running in the morning and seeing like the people kind
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: of doing their like literally food was out on the street.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: Exercise was out on the street. Just people were living life,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: just kind of on the streets. And then it would
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: kind of clear out during the day. I also have
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: to shout out not tonight. One of my favorite moments
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: was those silly coconut boats.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: The coconut boats were fun.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, there was so much fun. And I'm just, I'm
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: thankful to her because she let, she agreed that we
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: needed to do the spinny. So yeah, Just go look
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: up Coconut Boats. There's a couple videos on it online,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: but we got that bad boy spinning, and it was
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: a blast. It was amazing.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: I really liked when there was a few meals.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: Although you really do get sick of Gangnam Style.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, they were playing Gangnam Style on loop, which was interesting.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: I was like, you're going to be Korean? But sure.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: That's like right next door.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: Americans like it.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go. Americans like it. The whole world
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: likes it. This is the first video to hit a
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: billion views on YouTube, right? I think. I think that's right.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: Or I made that up. But what I didn't make
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: up was.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: So our.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Flight got to.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: Uh, Danong, like way before most of the other times
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: we were leaving about the same time, their flight was
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: delayed so much. So we were, I'm like, we're going.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: So we just went to this noodle place, Nudo. Uh, uh,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: that was amazing.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: Uh, I, the best food I think I had the
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: whole time.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: It was delicious. It was so good. The, uh, And
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: we got the, you know, the young coconuts to drink
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: out of, which, you know, then JJ tore up at
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: the table. So you get the coconut meat. But that
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: chef was a had one like I'm going to get
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: the name wrong, like top chef Vietnam or something, whatever the,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: you know, some food channel, Vietnam, something or other. And
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: it was it was delicious. So I was, uh, that
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: was really good. I had a cool coffee place. That
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: was awesome.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, again, it had all the trees and there
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: was water and misting and like, we did go back
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: there at the very, very end, but man, that was
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: a neat experience. I think even for the big city,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: how much greenery there was, was just impressive. Um, for
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: those of us who weren't on that flight, um, yeah.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: for those of us who weren't on the flight, uh,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: we made the best of a really rough situation and
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: that our flight was delayed. So we had a meal
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: and then we started as good key forgers do. We
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: started playing key forge. So we play key forge. We've also, uh,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: not tonight had to up, which is a little card game, uh,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: that we got a chance to be able to play.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: And so that's what you do. If you're with key forgers, um,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: play key forge more and more and more key forge,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: which was pretty neat. Um, Outside of that, I will
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: say I really, really enjoyed going parasailing. So we went
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: to the mountains and beach one day and that was
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: that was a bucket list item. And just to see
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: the tall skyscrapers that were kind of in the background
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: with the mountains as well coming back. I, it's very
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: abnormal for me. I almost always read everything for fine
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: prints and I understand exactly what I'm doing. And here,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: here I took a photo of it because it was comical. One,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: the sheets that she signed were different from the sheets
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: that I signed. And they were in Vietnamese and I
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: could not read it. And Google Translate was not working
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: for it. So you signed and you moved on with life,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: but it was a wonderful, wonderful experience. And I did
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: not die. So all is good.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: That's good.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: He did look like a dead fish in the air.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: That's what you're supposed to do as you take off.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: They tell you to run to take off. What are
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: you supposed to do? You're just supposed to like jump
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: up and down? No, it's hanging. You're basically in a harness.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: And so you just kind of take it and let
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: it let. Yeah, you're a dead fish, but you're letting
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: it go ahead and coast you around and you're just floating.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that was cool. I would have liked. More
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: time up in the hills. That was rough.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we did. The spot we went was cool.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: The old gatehouse was cool.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 5: When we went up to.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: The mountains where it was raining.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: Whatever it was. We got to wander through the trees
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 5: and some of us made it halfway up the mountain.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: A few people made it all the way to the top,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: but everybody was kind of worried about time.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 6: There just was not a lot of time there.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: There was a lot that Riku and Bamboo had actually
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: planned for us to do. There wasn't a ton of downtime.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: Which is really nice, but yes, you missed out on
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: some downtime.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was definitely... Yeah, you know, like any group
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: on a tour, there was some let's move, let's go, go, go.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: But we saw lots of cool stuff. We did keep
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: stopping everywhere we went for all the fresh fruit made
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: into fruit juice, and that was awesome. Just the number
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: of coconuts and the number of passion fruit juices. You'd
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: get fresh squeezed passion fruit juice, like a 16-ounce cup
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: for like basically a buck 50 effectively. That'd be like,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: that'd be like 1199 in the U S for, for that.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: Like it was, uh, um, for that much, it was, uh,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: it was awesome. And the fresh pressed, uh, sugar cane
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: juice that, that came up to like 80 cents. Uh,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: it was, uh, it was so good. And we stopped
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: at so many places and just, Oh yeah, give me
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: this juice. Give me that juice. It was, it was awesome.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: I'm dashing my, my chin as I'm drooling here. Passion fruit.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: I miss it. I miss it. It was so delicious.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: The other thing that I missed is that my ghosting
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: experience for pottery village. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: It was amazing.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we got to make pottery, which was fun. We
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: walked around like a little museum situation. Oh, so there
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 4: was this group of school children, like kindergarten age school children.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: And they, what, you think they were older?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: No, no, they were definitely, yeah, because Barry and I
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: are both, we're both in elementary schools. They were definitely
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: little kids. If they were not first or second graders, like,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: They look smaller than my kids. So I'm guessing they
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: were kindergarten or yeah. Kindergarten or first graders.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: So they see us, right. And you know, these giant
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: foreigners and, uh, it's meant and I are pretty tall.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: And so they were like, take a picture. So the
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: teachers made us, made us, they're like, would you take
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: a picture with our school children? So, so yeah, there's
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: pictures of us with all these little children. We're like
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: kneeling down, still towering over them. And, uh, you know,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: we've got a bunch of kids here making the victory
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: sign with us at night. Uh, some of the kids
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: shoving fingers in their mouths. No one's picking their ear. Uh,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: this one's just staring at the camera. It's pretty cute.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: It's pretty good.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: That's normal little kids, man. That is so normal for
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: any school. They're also brutally honest too, which was really,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: really rough. But I will say what we went to
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: the night market. I am an, I'm a medium here
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: in the States. I was an extra large over in Vietnam. Yeah,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: size is a little different depending on where you are.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, I almost forgot. Except for Wookie, right?
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: Because, so.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: So one thing that happened on, I think it was
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: Sunday morning, was Sydney shows up for breakfast and she's
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: wearing a pink AC team jersey. Is it yours? I
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: don't want to know. That's interesting. And she turns around
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: and it says Draskor. And I'm like, wait a second.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: This is the child's large that you had purchased me
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: from the adult large that I had ordered for the
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: pink jerseys. And so she was wearing that. And so
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: we have a couple pictures of that.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Did you not see that when she top aided, she
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: was still wearing that?
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: I thought, didn't she throw her.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Nope, nope. She's wearing the AC.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: You're just rocking that? Okay.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: It was great.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: I thought maybe she had put it on over and
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: then took it off. I don't know.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: So technically, Jurassic Core top aided. Is that what I'm hearing?
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: There you go. We'll go with that.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: We're going with the name on the back of the jersey?
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: All right. I'll throw these in the chat for everybody
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: listening here.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess we've already gone past this, but
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: for top aid, shout out to Emperor Riku and Sartonin, who...
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: Riku won, and then Serotonin was runner-up, so both qualified
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: for Archon and for Worlds. Top four, while you're doing that,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: Deong and Isfet top fouring. Isfet on Amber Skies, and
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: then Liquid Squash, Omegang, myself, and Willy all on PV.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: Liquid Squash was on GR, so actually at Vietnam, we
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: had Amber Skies and GR represented, which was pretty cool.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Outside of that, Old Town was pretty crazy to be
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: able to see. And I will say, Sheep, I missed
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: you for one thing. I made another. I was making decisions.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: There were a number of games of Key Forge just
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: played at night. People were hanging out in the pool.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: But one night, made a choice to drive in Vietnam
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: on a moped.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: And leave me.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: I did not know you were coming. I would have waited.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: We probably would have actually taken the safe route, and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: knowing it rained later, that would have been a much
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: safer decision. But I can now say I've driven in Vietnam.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: So you guys come down, and it's you and Squash,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: and wasn't it Elimek? Is that right?
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah so so i'm just hanging out like um
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: like sitting not in the pool but next to the
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: pool and you guys like oh we're going we're going
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: to town going drinking i'm like that sounds amazing and
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: uh Then you guys hop on your bikes and zip off.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 5: That doesn't include me.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 4: And then I asked the guys in the pool. They're like,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 4: we're in the pool. We don't want to go. Sheep,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: you had your son. I was like, all right. And
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: I could have gone upstairs and tried to nudge my
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: wife into going, which she might have done. She was
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: still awake. She was upstairs. But then they were like, hey,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 4: we're going to crack some Geotag Vietnam decks and play
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: the M26 sealed. And I was like, well, I'll just
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: do that. So I ended up doing that. a little
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: bit wish I had I had tons of fun so
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: you know it's like one of these things where it's
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: like you want to do everything so it wasn't like
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: a bad time or anything like that but you know
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: a little bit I was like oh I wish I
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: had gone out there was a couple spots in Hoi
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 4: An that I would have liked to have checked out
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 4: from a bar situation but you know we saw tons
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 4: of cool stuff and ate tons of good food in
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: Hoi An and Da Nang so I can't.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: Really complain Well, I'll say the first.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 4: Tell us what happened on your motorbike adventure.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: So on the motorbike adventure, following ISFET as we're going through.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: And unlike America, where we have a stop sign or
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: a yield sign or a stoplight, for the most part
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: in Vietnam, if you're going faster, you just go around
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: the person. And if you're turning right, you turn right.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: If you're turning left, you just turn left. and kind
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: of decide to go through. But the most terrifying thing
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: is that if you're going to go through an intersection,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: you just honk your horn as you're going through. Overall,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: it's not terrible because the speed limit, like the actual
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: speed that mopeds are going is slower. But we get there.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: I'm happy that we made it safe. I had squash
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: on the back. Isven and Ellie Mack had gone before.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: They were right in front of us. We went to
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: Heart of Darkness in Da Nang. Now, we had done
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: Heart of Darkness back in Ho Chi Minh. And Heart
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: of Darkness was really, really good. So I was pumped
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: and excited.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a very different experience than Da Nang.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: They're like, ah, yeah, we're out of all the beer.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: You can try these two. And I just wanted to see.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: The beer that we had had, Sheep, at the very
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: end that was actually really, really good, which has won
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: all the awards, that was what was on. I'm like,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: all right, I'll just take a pint of that. And
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: I got it. It tasted literally nothing like what we had.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't even know how that was
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: considered the same beer. So we finish. And then we
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: were going to go over by... Squash had found a
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: really cool Drazgor bar. And that's where he took us to.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: So we wandered over. Um, we're by all the Vietnamese police, like, okay, uh,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: just keep walking. And we walk in this little alley
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: and then up a set of stairs. And it was
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: just a really neat, chill, really cool bar. Um, so
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: we had a great time there. Um, I did after
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: the second one, because I was driving, I went with
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: a mocktail. Um, so I, I had one. And then
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: there was a shot. And so I'm like, no, no, no,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: I got to drive. We got to get back. And
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: so it was a wonderful experience. I would definitely go
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: back to that bar by itself. So really, really neat.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: And like the owner talked to us afterwards on the
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: way out. But on the way back, we now have
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: to drive in the dark and it starts to rain.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: And so that was an experience. I'm happy that I drove...
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: the moped. Um, but I don't know if I would
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: go back. I think I would just probably grab a,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: a grab and grab a grab and have a quick ride.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: But I love to say that I've done it once
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: and it was, it was, it was a memorable experience
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: that I will never in my life forget. So that
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: was cool.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: The, um, the one thing I did, I zipped that
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: next morning. I, hustled over into town early in the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 4: morning because that was the last night we were heading
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 4: back to Richmond the next morning but I had ordered
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: speaking of things are cheap I had ordered prescription sunglasses
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: and you can get high quality prescription glasses and sunglasses
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 4: with name brand frames and whatnot for super cheap. Cause
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: like the factories are there, like you can get like
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: Oakley's for without insurance under a hundred dollars.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 4: And, uh, and so I was like, I'm gonna score
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 4: myself some sunglasses. I thought about getting some prescript, like
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: my regular prescription glasses, but I was like, ah, you know,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Like, I feel like lower risk for,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: for getting, uh, prescription sunglasses. Well, so I had to
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 4: run back from town that morning, pick them up and
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 4: they're like, awesome. I was like, damn, I should have,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: I should have got also regular glasses, um, and, uh,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 4: under a hundred bucks for, for these things. And, uh, they,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 4: they're like, they're great. And, uh, and then I, uh, um,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 4: ended up taking a grab back but i walked through
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: some of the more local area and it was really
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 4: interesting to as we moved away from the villa that
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 4: we got which was a super awesome place by the
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 4: way that so thank you riku and bamboo for for
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 4: finding that spot it was awesome um and this sort
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: of went through like the local area so like the
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 4: price of coffee was like effectively like you know 230
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: two dollars and 30 cents like right next to the
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 4: villa and then i went to like the local area
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 4: it's like suddenly coffee's like 80 cents and then slowly
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: ticks back up uh all the way back up to
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: like you know getting closer to three dollars by the
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: time we get into super touristy but um uh you
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 4: know so i had to stop and get coffee at
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: multiple places along the way because uh Apparently all I
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 4: do in Vietnam is drink coffee everywhere I go, drink
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 4: fruit juice, have amazing seafood. By the way, I think
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: I had the best shrimp I've ever had in my
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 4: life in Vietnam. Normally I don't think of shrimp as
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 4: amazing seafood, but it was so good. It was so good.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: But it was big.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Delicious.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 4: I'm getting hungry. I'm salivating just talking about this stuff.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 4: The trip was amazing. All the places we went were awesome.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: The durian adventures were awesome. Thank you, JJ. JJ kept
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 4: taking us through different iterations of finding durian. If you
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 4: don't know what a durian is, it's this Don't.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: It's a disgusting fruit that smells like feet and cheese.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. And day-old chicken.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: That I can't attest to.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: I get body odor.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: It's pretty bad. In fact, at the hotel where we
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: stayed initially, we had to sign that we would not
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: smoke in the room, and we would not bring durian
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: into the room. So those are the two things we
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 4: had to attest to. So, but, like, the first place
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 4: we had it was... It was.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 5: The Cocoa Cafe thing?
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was not great. It's never great. It's durian.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: What are you.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, the second place it was smothered in, like,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: coconut milk. So it was, like, kind of sweet.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 5: That's the first place I experienced it.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 4: Well, that was the second one. Like, JJ had already...
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 4: gotten it from somewhere else and we tried it, but
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: it was, I don't think it was quite as fresh.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 4: It was pretty rough. I thought it smelled pretty bad.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: The taste was like masked. Uh, the coconut thing was
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 4: a little better. Like you smelt it, but then like
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 4: when you tasted it, it was like, there's so much
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 4: sweetness from the coconut milk. It, it masked it a
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 4: little bit. But then, uh, when, uh, finally, when we
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 4: went to that night market, the other dragon bridge in Danone, uh, Uh,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 4: he got it like fresh, like cut up on the
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: street by like a, a street vendor. And, uh, we
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 4: tried it there and it was actually not bad.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 5: It was not bad. And everybody plastic gloves to wear
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 5: while you eat it.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: Well, not only did they give, well, not only did
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: you give plastic gloves, but as you guys were leaving,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: you were trying to put the plastic gloves like in
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: the trash and, And the local vendors where you're dropping
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: off is like, nope, not here. And they're trying to
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: point you away. You can't even leave the plastic gloves
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: with them. Nope, that stinks too much. Take it away.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: Not here.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 4: Go buy those other vendors over there.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: You got that from this vendor?
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 4: Not here.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: Do not bring that here.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 4: Cheap?
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: I think your favorite had to be the massages.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: Massage pilers are are like bars in Wisconsin. Every third
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: door is a massage parlor. But then you got to
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: read the code, right? Because if it says spa, it
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: probably actually offers massage. And if it's in red and
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 5: says massage or VIP, it's probably a brothel.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 5: At least, you know, that's the guidance we were given.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: Well, there was definitely some nights where we went down
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: these side streets and explored these little alley situations, and
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: then we're kind of swarmed by these women. It's like, yeah. Alright.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: See what's going on here.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 5: They took us to Old City, which was like a
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 5: nicer version of the giant market that we'd already seen
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 5: in Ho Chi Minh City. similar to the night market
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 5: too just nicer right because it's all independent buildings and
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 5: there's definitely more upscale stuff at old city but at
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: the same time like i don't know mike and i
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 5: were not there to buy physical things so it wasn't
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: that interesting to us and it was hot i mean
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: it's like proper hot all the time so we're just
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 5: like like The first decent looking massage place we walked by, like,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 5: let's just go there. And it's like hour long foot
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 5: leg massages. And they're like $ 20 a piece. Sitting in
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 5: the AC, giving you drinks, giving you snacks. It was
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 5: very nice. The massages are very, very affordable.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: How are the hookers?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know. X-Ray didn't come.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: Damn it. You guys really dropped the ball on this one.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: I had my 13-year-old with me.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: This was a total X-Ray. We could have gotten the
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: ins if you guys just would have brought X-Ray.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 5: We didn't. We were all well-behaved individuals.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: Man, that's who we should have convinced to come.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: He, like, He likes just looking. I don't know.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: If there is any booby clubs.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there is, right?
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 4: It's just not.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 5: Something many of us were looking for.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 4: Really, I.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 5: Enjoyed the trip. I didn't like the seafood as much
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 5: as you guys did.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, so good, dude.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 5: I don't really like seafood.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know what you ate on the trip
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 4: then because.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 6: Believe me, there were a few stops where I was like,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 6: this is disappointing.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 5: Because some of that seafood smelled like it would make
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: me vomit. So I'm sure it would have.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: The only seafood thing that... was good and not amazing
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 4: was so like when they were, we went to the
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: villa and they were, um, like grilling all the food
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: and they were like, Oh, this area is like not cooked.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 4: This area is cooked, whatever. First of all, that confused
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 4: some folks. Very, uh, yeah. Uh, it was confusing. So
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 4: to be fair to Barry. So, uh, but, um, the
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 4: oysters were there. We're like, oh, they're oysters. And we
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: like start grabbing them. They're like, what are you doing? Like,
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 4: you can't eat these. They're not cooked yet. We're like,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 4: you're going to cook the oysters. And it was definitely
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: like the, you know, Riku, the other Vietnamese, they were
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 4: like looking at us like we were crazy. They were like, yeah, yeah.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 4: Like I agree. You don't cook these. Yeah. You don't
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 4: cook these in the U S generally. They're like, you
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 4: will get sick. It was like, well, all right, I'll
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: put it back then. If that's, if that's, If that's
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: what you think, I'm going to trust you.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 5: No, I've tried a bunch of the seafood, and some
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: of it was okay, but it was just not... Like
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 5: I said, I'm seafood sensitive, so I don't engage in
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: a lot of it. And there was... so much of
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 5: the rotten sea bugs being served everywhere.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, we are at the hour and 30 mark. What,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: what we got left to say about Vietnam? It's been
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: too long.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 5: But I went, I went on the GLP one shot.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 5: So like my ability to consume quantities of stuff is
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: really low. So like Drasker is talking about this, like
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 5: every 50 feet, he's getting new coffee. And I'm at
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 5: this point right now where I'm like, I drink one
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 5: coffee in the morning. I have like, seven bites of
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 5: something for lunch, and similar for dinner, and then I'm
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: so full I can't do it. So it's just like
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 5: all this stuff, I'm like, I want to try it,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 5: but I can't.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: Sounds like you picked the wrong time to go on
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: the shot, unfortunately.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, right?
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: We enjoyed it all for him.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 5: That was not the awesome thing to be on while
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 5: touring a place where the food is often very good
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 5: and very affordable, and the coffee was really, really good.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I'll say finally, just thank you, Riku and Bamboo,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: for inviting all of us and encouraging us to come
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 4: and then taking us around. And it was just such
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 4: an amazing experience that I will remember forever. It was awesome.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 4: It was really, really cool. Thank you. You guys are awesome.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 4: uh let me know anytime you want to slum it
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: in philadelphia uh i'll take you around show you some
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: cracked bells you know all that i.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: I second it from the space that we were at
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: to the flight to just being with all the forge
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: players it was an amazing experience it was well organized
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: and run And I'm also shout out to the help
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: from future self group and specifically Sydney without access to
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: be able to win one of the competitions. I don't
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: know if I would have been able to go. So
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: it was definitely a trip of a lifetime and I
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: thank you for it.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 4: Alrighty.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: And with that being said, we will see everybody next week.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 4: Everybody.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: Jesus. May the forge be with you. He's a Lord
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: and savior.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: He is really, I were, Oh boy. More nicknames in
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: next week.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: Just look good, look good, break bad, laugh loud, crash fast.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 5: Hold tight, don't ask, I'm fine, I'm cracked
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: Look good, break bad, laugh loud, crash fast.