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VT Mix Up Save the Date · Archons Corner

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Hi. This is Michael Hurley from Ghost Galaxy, and you're listening to our
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CON's corner. All right, everybody welcome. I don't even know what's going
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on. I am so out of it right now. I'm guys, but
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I'm the one, the only the wo okay, I e join here by
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the normal canst of mispence. We got Sep. Yeah, how's alliance going?
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Uh? It's great? Play three houses of the same deck. What
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what did you just say? Never mind? Never mind? Moving on.
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We got Jass, we got Jazz Carner. Hey, guys, how's it
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going? We got big z Hey, and we got Ewok. I don't
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know if he's there. Hello, key Forge Humanity. Great to be here.
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So buckets to go over. It's been a long time since we've had
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actual, literal buckets. I always say buckets and then we're like, we
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gotta stretch these this one topic out for an hour. What are we going
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to talk about today? Actual buckets, actual, actual buckets. So there's
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key Forge branded buckets coming to a store near you. There is would you
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like some? I have a cricket machine I can make. They're coming to
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a game found that you can pledge to soon. Is it is it Are
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they buckets you can put under your eyes for your tears, for all the
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money you spent. Never mind, I thought it was like to store your
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Chick fil a chicken in But I mean Chick fil a chicken sandwiches is how
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we quantify how much we spend on decks. This is all of the strange
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shell tecks. I thought that was I thought that was trash bucket level.
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Totally thought that was the trash can. But first order of business, I
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might I said, I wasn't gonna lose my tabs. What's the first thing
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I do? Lose my lose The very first thing I do is lose my
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tabs. This is the fill in the bucket. He's got a buckethead,
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is what I'm seeing. Man. So we have a new job posting for
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gig. They are looking for an event and organized play coordinator. They need
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one, which they they so desperately need. Can we get somebody like twenty
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four hours to post the article we need to post tomorrow. Maybe that person
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can put the gin cut events up. I mean they realized Jeremy can't do
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it all because of the It's because of the tiny hands. Really, but
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um, you love you Jeremy that he can only reach so far on the
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keyboards so quickly, guys, so he's gotta never mind. Um, so
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that is all Wookie sail the Wookie the rest of us love. I love
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him. I only make fun because I love I'm gonna I'll give him a
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big hunt of the next year. Jeremy's a good guy. Do we know
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if he still works there? Like, um, well, I'm assuming he's
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the one post of all this stuff, so okay, all right? And
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I know and I know that Michael Hurley posted even this morning in our discords.
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If you're not part of discord, please join us. Um that that
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they are waiting for gen con side to be able to press the acceptance of
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the events. So we're just waiting in anticipation. But it is on its
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way. I totally missed missed his post this morning then, But they're looking
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for an organized playing coordinator. Um. Going through the job listing, it's
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all the things you think an event coordinator should be. It's kind of rolled
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into one and unlike all other job postings, they actually put a salary on
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this one. All the other job postings had zero salary information, so you
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really didn't know this one. You can expect fifty thousand dollars a year annually
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adjusted upwards based on experience. Sheep, and it's not remote. Oh yeah,
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not remote. Well that's been the same thing through and through but sheep,
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when you move in to Minnesota? Never? Okay, Zee, when
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do you move in to Minnesota? It would have to be like way more
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money than this for me to move to Minnesota. I don't even know if
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I would do a froe hundred thousand? Ye would Minnesota is Minnesota? Like,
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it's not. I would move to Minnesota, but like, the money
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would have to be so much more than that. What kind of money would
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it take for you guys to move to Minnesota? Z said, over a
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hundred k? I don't. I don't. I think for a hundred case
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White might be able to continue to work remote, So you know, one
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hundred would probably be okay. Their cost of living is similar to us,
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as we were discovering earlier under it's my floor. Wow, I said,
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if they would, if they would match what I'm making now, I'd probably
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move. I would take the pay cut to work remote, like I would
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take this and work remote. This is actually a significant pack cut for me.
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Too. Um, but that is not an option. Um, so
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they want to talk to talk about this being a remote job and like it's
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traveling anyway. I don't need to be in Minnesota to do this job.
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Well you won't. You won't be in Minnesota to do this job half the
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time exactly. So like why did you have to be there? I don't
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know. Well, because it's a small company and you're not just doing this
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right, you're doing you know, you need somebody to pack all these pluges
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about the door right right, yeah, see sliging slicking bucks on the truck.
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Yeah, yeah, that'll have us to get us ages ago back and
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back in the day. Like yeah, yeah, so that they can send
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the wrong cards to the wrong um you know, personalized decks and play mats
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to the wrong person. I don't fix that. That's and and they did
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reach out right away. I think they've also done a great job overall,
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so we all make some mistakes. I think they've done a really good job.
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I don't know. All of my packages turned out very well, So
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what one of one perfect? Have you got all your pages? No,
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I've not got all my packages, all my small ones. I got three
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of the small ones already, and I still have my large one that is
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out. There was nothing personalized in the small ones where there no. But
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again, if you look at how many of these packages have been shipped out,
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we've heard of one issue. I think that's a really small percentage compared
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to how many packs have incent ounced. We've heard of one issue. People
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like to complain. If there are more, we would have heard about them.
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People like to complain. I eat this shell. Yes, and we
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all have the listeners. So people not only like to complain, they clearly
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like to hear us because they like to hear other people. They like to
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hear. I don't know if that's true boys, but it is right.
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I mean, why else are they here? Um, it's not wrong.
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But that's about it. So if you're interested, have had over to keyforging
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dot com. You can find the I believe it was called joining the Ember
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Race. Yeah, join the Amber Racing. Actually know, if I'm entirely
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like, if you are interested in like, you are really good at this.
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Supply if you were interested and this sounds fun to you and you've never
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done this before, plenties do not apply for this, my dear, Please
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do or else I'll be talking about I mean, just just just remember who
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who who you're going up against. Sheep's Sheep's moderately undefeated when it comes about
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when it comes to bitchen. So just saying, and I can only fight
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so long, guys, please at least give me something because there's four of
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us and only one only one jar and I don't think Sydney is coming over
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anytime soon, so um you know, so yeah, so I don't know
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who that would be that would take this number, but yes, if you
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are very with it, very organized, know lots of people in community,
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know how to move things around, are like, you know, have a
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good business, then yes, please apply. If it does not apply to
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you, do here's the problem with what they were in fifty k a year,
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Like that's not I don't know, like if you're going to find somebody
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with those qualifications at fifty grand a year, well then hey, if nobody
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applies, maybe they'll make it remote and increase the money. It does based
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on experience, so maybe you can. Maybe there's wiggle room they might increase
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the money. I don't think they won't make it remote, Like there's such
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a small company and they need hands on support there, like somebody's got to
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turn that crank to make the printer work. Right, So there's actually a
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treadmill. You don't see on the videos that treadmill's powering the printer. They
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just take turns. Guys, there are there are people who actually believe this.
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So a little bit that is not true. Nobody actually believes the things
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we say. I can't wait to hear it, like, oh, where's
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the tread Whether it was like in the like A show, it was like,
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oh, where's the tread mill? Our kind's quarter the desk? Um,
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all right, well, yes, that's the job posting. If you
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feel like you're qualified and can prove it, apply it and you'll actually be
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interviewing with Z. Oh no, he's gonna be and then I could talk
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or I don't know. That's about it, all right. Next, change
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your calendars, Um, the I forgot what the original date was. It
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was July, yeah, fourteenth through the sixteenth, which was supposed to be
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a vault tour in Roseville, Minnesota, has been changed to August eighteenth through
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the twentieth in Roseville, Minnesota. I'm gonna let z and I will say
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before Ze gets in. This news was just announced today on the eighteen,
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so they did post yesterday for the job and today this update on the eighteenth,
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which was just in time for our recording. So Ze, what do
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you think about this news. I don't understand exactly how this could happen.
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Like we've run events here on this show, the four of us. Drizz
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was not with us at the time, but like we checked with the event.
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We talked to the hotels, like at some point there were some dates
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that we did not choose to go to because they conflicted with things going on.
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Um I don't know the exact wording, but I think that ended up
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being a like scheduling conflict with some huge event that would have been easily I
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think able to figure out that was going on there that just wasn't checked.
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It was a kid Dania going on out live. But at the time we
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booked our of it that was that booked, and they booked like the hall
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across from us later, So that was kind of weird. Yes, that
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was an amusing thing, but in the end, like, I don't know
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how many people this truly affected, but like one is not that far away,
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so I do know from our discord today several people were affected and I
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know one of them doesn't want to book the next flight because of the change.
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So in my case, like I booked for me and my buddy Noble
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from the discords like my brother, Um, it costs us a total of
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like two hundred dollars to change our flight, which we did do because we
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still plan on going it. And on top of that, which is not
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really a flight thing because the date now falls while I'm back on contact as
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far as school, I'm like, that's going to be two more off days.
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But in my case, I can still go to this. Had I
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not been able to make this eighteenth like that would have cost both of us
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four hundred dollars. Like that money would have just been gone. So like,
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I'm not sure who all was affected that. I know one of the
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people in chat so that they can no longer go and they had a flight,
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So no clue how that affected that person. I know another person on
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team says can make this new date, but doesn't trust in the system enough
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to change the date because he doesn't know, Like, I think it was
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a lot of matter of trust for that. You even posted on Facebook somewhere.
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Another person on my team like posted something I'm not I don't know where
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I was. Actually he's in the audience where at least he was. X
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Ray had posted on Facebook about like how this affects so many things. I
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mean, like this does this does affect a lot of things. I know
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when we did this, we like did the work too, like because we
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had experienced a lot of different things because we'd all, like many of us
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on the show, had gone to a bunch of vaults and we had experienced
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the good and bad and going to them. So he's put a lot of
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time in making sure stuff like that didn't happen because we didn't want to have
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any kind of liability issues. Um, I'm not saying GG is liable for
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any like funds or whatever, because like when it comes down to what they
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are not, Um, it's just very very frustrating on like my side of
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things, having everything having sets and ready and the plans made and all the
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summer stuff from my lens. I am sure other people were, I know
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drafts you weren't consider going to the original ones, so this date might actually
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be a good change for you. But like cheap JR. I think y'all
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were like doing your best to make make it before how does this affect y'all,
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not everybody at once. The com difference to me because it's driving distance
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for us. So this is the one we didn't spend any money on.
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Yet it does still stink because I did put in PTL, which I can
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change, but so glad we didn't book rooms. And that's basically where we're
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blessed right now, is that it was a tough turnaround. So I like
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that we have a little bit more spacing. Hopefully it'll help some more individuals
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to be able to come out however well, and I am blessed in that
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I'm within drive distance. If I had a flight, it would be a
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much larger problem. The issue that I have here is that this is right
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before school starts, so I actually just got my contract. I need to
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be able to check when our contract is an effect. It is possible that
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this will be the Sunday right before I start, and if so, then
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I would still be able to make it well because I'll go in early.
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I'll go in at the beginning of the month in August, and I'll start
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putting everything together. But once my contracted day start, and I do believe
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it is going to be the twenty first. Then I don't have a choice.
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I actually can't take I actually can't take those days anymore. Um,
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they block off and they're not allowing anyone to take until actually we go to
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Dallas. So Dallas is the first. Um, technically it's the Monday after,
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but I'm going to be putting in for that Friday and we'll have to
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see. So this is this is going to be a very very tight,
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tight tight time frame for me. Um. I believe right now I'm gonna
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be able to make it, but it's very possible this change means that I
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won't be able to you won't be able to make the second date? Correct,
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Okay, Um that starts a week after, Like that starts a week
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after my contract, which again we talked about fanaticism and rational logic. So
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I've got both boxes checked. So I will be there. I will just
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lose two days, so you will be there drooling at the mouth in the
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corner. But picture this, zea. They actually won't allow us to take
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any of those days off. You can't take sick days, no like you,
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And so that's where it becomes really really tricky. Spot. You can
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take this sick day, but as soon as it's two. Then you have
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to have doctor's notice and what's there? And it's easy to get a mental
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illness note these days, like you need to relieve anxiety and stress, you
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do so by you know, taking your sick days, you can get a
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ton of doctors right that if you need this is this is just not a
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doctor here, doctor she could you help? Like my degree is actually in
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psychology. So I'm closed. Um, but no, I know people you
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need that letter. I know it's just but it's just they will boom thirty
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minutes, you'll be good. And I know some people are that that's just
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not me ethnically at all. Um, can I do my complaining now?
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You may every day? Fuck hey, hey, I will put my dollar
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in a swear jar. How did you go from one child's birthday to another
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child's birthday? Birthdays? I know, literally, I mean it's Livy's birthday
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is not to the twenty fourth, but that's like a Wednesday, twenty third.
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I'm sorry, that's a Wednesday, and so we're doing it the weekend
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before and I'm like, how do we go from one child's birthday to another
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child's birthday? So I have been a deep discussion with the old lady right
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now, possibly moving that dait or or because it's Minnesota. I kinda I
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had this idea, and everyone in the check and tell me what a terrible
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idea it is. Um, terrible. We can we can have the we
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can have to damn cheap. We can have their birthdays in Minnesota's just bring
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there. There is that thing called the Mall of America. That is that
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uh Minnesota. It's not too far away from Roosevelt, if my memory serves
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I'm not one hundred percent. I can't remember. It's been a long time
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since I went to the last time I went to the Mall of America,
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I was in Minnesota on work and I don't remember how far it was away
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from it. But either way, Um, yeah, so I mean,
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bummer for a lot of it. Um obviously, I'm guessing you know,
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I just got a message. You know, they they're admitting their mistake.
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It was a booboo. Um should have done better due diligence before announcing the
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dates, which I mean, this is a a live you know, live
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type of thing. Possibly, Um, you know, it's it's one of
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those things where what kind of I don't know what kind of experienced crew were
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working with and a weird story that also coordinated with the job opening. Saul,
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maybe that had something. I wonder if they're connecting, they're like,
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oh my gosh, we have to get somebody who's jobs I'm not making.
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I'm not making. There is a lot of work. Oh I did it,
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like I was off the summer. We did live like because I'm a
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teacher. I I know I logged in at least two to three hundred hours
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doing that that summer. Like that's just what I did every day. Well,
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and I can't imagine trying to do it when like we were able to
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go in meet with the event's staff that was there, so the hotel staff
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going ahead and talk to him about spacing, see the actual space, realize
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the first space that we saw that was within our budget really was not going
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to do us well. Um, you know, and we had just looked
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at maps online. So had I done that to start and that's where we
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stood, I think we would have had problems for Alive. So we ended
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up having to book the larger room with additional fee. But that's part of
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being on the floor with your feet, they're able to see in the walk
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and go yes, this is better for us, or this isn't. Um.
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I guess the only good news for me is that there wasn't a ton
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of time from when it was announced to now. UM. I think if
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they had waited even longer, it would have been a much, much larger
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problem. It doesn't send a great signal to all of these new backers who
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are getting woe um that hey, we're sup organized. The new backers that
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are getting who are not no no, no last rays of the world.
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It's Jason in the world and Z's and shapes of strass chords, It's you,
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it's me. But this has been what what's what's these word for it?
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Irrational dedication but baticism show up. Irrational logic is what made the HS
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thirty six hundred dollars on a deck. Right. But but but here,
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here's where I have an issue Wookie on this. We actually need all those
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new people and those people who are returning to the game. That's who we
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want to show up. That is the longevity of this game. That we
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need them to show up. We want them to have a phenomenal time and
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be excited and tell all their friends so that we can build our community if
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that doesn't happen, all of us who are fanatics are playing, and that
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group's lends and slend, it goes smaller and smaller, and then it's odd.
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But this it also has to be for the company. If if we
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don't pulling in new players, remember that's their business, then it becomes not
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responsible for them to produce the game. So I disagree about that statement.
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Yes, we want all our phenex will be there, but we need to
23:02
make sure that we're having a very safe fun environment. Frankly, Keyborch has
23:07
done that for the longest time. That's part of why I'm still here with
23:11
the community. But we need to build that up and we also need to
23:14
communicate from the start. So it happened, it's over. Um, it's
23:18
a total bomber. Um. It's kind of a flag for people getting back
23:22
in or game stores. But we're going to have to move on. I
23:26
think that if we look at what was stated, um, Ghost Galaxy worked
23:30
with hotels in each location to offer a special rate for those looking for a
23:33
place to stay. Um, that's what it seemed to be was a venue
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conflict. Did I get that right? It's many hotels, it's an international
23:48
soccer tournament. Now my next question, which a note no one will be
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able to answer, um, at least not here. How they hell the
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minis so to get an international soccer tournament, all the places you could go
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play soccer, Minnesota got the international soccer tournament, Well they had nothing going
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on. So yeah, it's it's like, I mean, there's nothing else.
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There's nothing else to do. So you could have gone to plain Cournia,
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you could have gone to Texas, you could have gone to Florida,
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you could have gone to so many other states that aren't Minnesota. Texas is
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not the place to because you know, Minnesota is known for its great soccer
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hooligans. Well, I'm trying to see because I remember when I was little.
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Now this was many many many years ago for Blaine, but I'm curious
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if that's where it is because Blaine actually is a massive, massive, massive
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tournament that we would go to, and yeah, people would come from all
24:52
around the world. But it is a full, solid week long tournament where
24:56
you're just playing and playing. So I'll do a little research while we're looking
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here, um to see what's actually close by. I just when I when
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I think Minnesota, the first thing that comes to mind is an international soccer
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tournament. Well, just because you don't know what's going on doesn't mean anything.
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Yeah, so what's what's immediately popping up is Yeah, it's Target USA
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cop UM oh and targets based out of Minnesota. That would make sense.
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Yeah, the the largest use soccer tournaments in North America. You know there
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is a solution to this problem. Okay, I are an event organizer.
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We well there's that or anyone out just show up like on the original date,
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be like I'm here for my Vault Tour. Yeah, and I just
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start, man before I can see that happening. Because as I watch read
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it and the Facebook and some of the questions I see answered or asked,
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Yeah, just so so basic questions because you can tell people do not know
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how to go to keyforging dot com and read the changes in the news.
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It's amazing. Okay, further research does show it's Blaine. So it is
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actually the tournaments that Yes, that was the one of three premier tournaments.
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There was another one that was in Dallas Dale's Cup that we had gone to
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many. I mean, I'm old now, but Blaine is definitely it.
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This This is a week long experience and yeah, twelve hundred plus teams,
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you'd be It's a really really cool experience for anyone who is a soccer fanatic
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or has kids. All right, enough of the part two and time change.
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Let's move in. Well, you didn't get my whole plan party part
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part got it? Part two is to bring a sleeping bag and just right
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now, yep, oh yeah, yeah, we put we have a ctp
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uh airbnb is house, right, and I'll just crash there right yea at
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the awkward question. We can make this work. We don't need those thicke
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at hotels. So are you? So I guess, I guess. I
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guess here's my question, and I'll change away from away from airbnbing ctp's house.
27:34
I mean, I'm don't get me wrong, but he kicked us out
27:38
of the game center, so I can't imagine the Airbnb is gonna go much
27:45
better. No sleep in the game center, that's all I'm gonna Yeah,
27:48
yes, get on one of those tables, those things in there. Yeah,
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one one person on top of the table, one person below. I
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mean, it's the middle of July. We can set up a poor noble
28:00
shower in the back. Yeah, everybody takes turns. I mean, we
28:03
could make this work. We can make this work. So cheep, you
28:08
got a camper we can pull all right, we're good, Yeah, I
28:15
can. I can provide the keg. We're good with it. A grill,
28:18
right, we'll just grow up some Oh man, this is tailgating.
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Yeah, Like, I don't know why we're having such a hard time with
28:25
this. I think so, Mike, if I remember correctly, across the
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street's a big plot of glu of grass. I got like, I got
28:33
a ten man ten. Yeah, we can we actually, we could do
28:37
this. We could make this happen. Yeah. Yeah, there's a like
28:40
a little hill that's on the way to the hotel. Yeah, just put
28:44
up stakes. So my question, my question is, are you guys happier
28:48
knowing that there's very limited um hotel space because again you have twelve hundred teams
28:56
and picture a team of even twenty players, so least coming out. Yes,
29:00
hotels in the Greater Vicinity are just going to be they're going to be
29:04
gone. So are you happier knowing that they're moving it so that people who
29:10
are coming in would have access to a hotel or would you just have rather
29:14
kept the original date a week after and it would have really been frustrating to
29:19
even get a hotel. I don't know how frustrating it would. See,
29:23
here's the deal, right, because it was so close together. I think
29:26
the people from Philly and that, like that greater surrounding area is just a
29:30
little wit, you know, and like, well we got one, so
29:33
I'm not coming to this one. So I don't know how many we're gonna
29:37
show up to the game center. Like, so that's my biggest question right
29:41
off the beast. How many people are actually you know, how many people
29:45
are impacting by is it sent five? Yeah? Right? So? And
29:48
then even what June fourteenth? What is it going to be? Now it's
29:55
not one of it. It was July fourteenth through sixteenth. It is now
29:59
a US eighteen through twentieth. And just here where weather for Wisconsin and UM
30:04
and Minnesota we will actually have hots decent too, whether it'll finally be I
30:11
mean when you say hot were we're able to be outside during this time?
30:15
It's warm, bass we're talking all the bad things that come in August Mosquitos.
30:22
No, you're talking August here, but I'm saying July, like that's
30:25
it actually is warm enough to be playing outside soccer and feel very comfortable with
30:29
it. It can get very, very hot, but it also is going
30:32
to be a lot better than down south, where guys I can say seventy
30:36
seven dollars a night the Avid Hostel Roseville or one hundred and five dollars a
30:42
night at the Country End. There must just not you're finding it. I
30:47
don't know Double Trees twenty three, Fairfield ninety seven. I don't know how
30:56
many of these rooms they have because they always tell you, you know,
31:00
only one left at this price. It's like, yeah, you can remember
31:03
my dollar and charge me more, right, So who knows? Who knows?
31:07
Right? See? And I will say in our ic lave chat was
31:11
Random's like, wasn't planning and doing Minnesota originally, But the new dates make
31:15
it more enticing. So there you go. You know, if they can
31:18
get more individuals because it's a little further out, maybe I understand what you're
31:23
saying, like, oh, well, it's putting it further out, so
31:26
it's gonna be available to more individuals. But how many individuals did you just
31:30
piss off? Yeah? I feel for folks that already booked their tech like
31:33
who's like, just put it on my credit card. No, I can
31:38
definitely see it. I mean I think that it's it does not cast a
31:42
good light for showing up, but we'll have to see how things continue to
31:48
progress. I'm still happy. We have three vaults that are announced right now.
31:52
Um, then we're gonna kind of go from there, hopefully hopefully.
31:59
No, you know they say, and we know they're current dates correct,
32:02
and that is current. Um, there's no soccer tournament going on that weekend?
32:07
Is there? Maybe in town? That weekend is August? So we're
32:15
getting in a pre season who knows. Nobody knows. So either way,
32:22
let's move into why you should attend the vault tour. We kind of got
32:25
the schedule and what are you did? You did you go into the vaults?
32:31
Are calling? Because we did get information about each of the vaults.
32:36
That's what I'm going into right now. Not my first rodeo. Um,
32:45
what day? What day is it today? Uh, it's Wednesday. It's
32:50
the first day of my I feel fine, Yeah, go ahead, rodeo.
32:54
Um, well I've been doing this for three years. A big deal.
32:58
Oh okay, So anyways, Roseville, Minnesota. This is pretty much
33:02
all of them from what I gathered. You guys can stop me if you
33:06
see one that took a left turn or whatever. But it looks like each
33:08
of these events is going to cost you seventy five big ones. Anybody else
33:15
like that number? We just spent money to change our flights. Seventy five
33:19
seems like small ones. Well, seventy five, yes, but what do
33:25
you get for now? Are you going? Didn't we started one hundred for
33:30
live? Yeah? I don't know. I think I was put to work
33:37
immediately. Seventy five is cheap compared to what this isn't a convention, This
33:46
is other things that take place in hotels over multiple days. How about that?
33:52
I think that is still cheaper than the callings, and that is just
33:55
a calling, not a convention. That's what you go to for those.
34:00
And I think just saying like, I don't know, that seemed like a
34:05
lot to me. I think what's all included in this, seventy five is
34:07
a very good deal. Well, let's uh, let's go into it.
34:13
The Vault tours are going to be structured as such, Friday at three pm.
34:19
Well, this is just Friday at three pm. Sealed Alliance Tournament boo
34:24
A Lion bo Saturday ten am Key for our Kind tournament. Yay. Also,
34:31
can we go back? It's sealed like you can boo all you want
34:36
cheap, but you're getting decks. She's the old man who barks it.
34:42
I actually think it might change. I would love to see, I would
34:47
We don't. It wasn't posted on here, but we know, yeah fair
34:57
all right? Pressing along the Saturday ye also at the same time, as
35:04
we already knew, Alliance Key Forge Alliance Tournament Saturday second Member Consolation Tournament.
35:15
I'm assuming that we'll go on throughout the day. Obviously as people start dropping
35:19
out, you know, as soon as Ze Gooeszo two and then has to
35:22
play something different, he'll go a second number. Sunday ten am Top eight
35:27
finals both Alliance and ar Con all day's various side events, so path to
35:32
the World Championship. Participating in the World Championship will be no easy task.
35:37
Our kids must show their strength and great against the competition to earn an invitation
35:42
to participate. Winners in the Archive and Alliance tournaments will be offered a buy
35:46
at the World Championships and chance to compete for a fifty thousand dollars prize pool.
35:52
That's new word we should talk about it is yes, okay, Oh
36:00
you're talking about the buy a world as opposed to buy to the next round.
36:04
Well, no, Like prior to this, we we're under the impression
36:07
that coming first or second in either of these things got you in. Invite
36:13
two worlds. That's a big difference, right, Like that assumes that there
36:21
are not only other pass the worlds, that there might be a lot more
36:25
paths the worlds that are not known to us at this time. Because if
36:30
you're winning to get a buy, there's got to be other ways to get
36:34
in, unless or something show up. I'm with you, drast I think
36:39
it's going to be that you show up and those who won get to buy.
36:44
That's what it looks like. I think right now, Worlds is going
36:46
to be a show up at whoever comes comes and you're all owed in.
36:50
But if you won one of these events, you'll get to buy. That's
36:52
what I'm assuming. Twenty twenty I would be a drastic turn from like I
36:57
mean, CTP got on the stage and talked about he wanted to be like
37:00
a more elite. I don't know, none of that has happened, So
37:08
who knows. Let's say he also got into a stage and start in February.
37:12
We're going to have store championships well in Whoa in January, and things
37:16
have obviously changed and evolved as we've gone through. So I mean, could
37:22
it be a type of shirt because Ghost Galaxy is sponsoring cash prices. Second,
37:32
it's it's bad when the bad speller is noticing the spelling mistakes. But
37:36
you know here we are. It's a spelling air caught by the Wookie.
37:40
It's never been We're somewhere. Um. But you can learn more about the
37:47
key Forge tournament formats here. UM. I'll try to put notes or links
37:52
to all these in the description down below if you want to read more on
37:55
these. But the prizes. Ghost Galaxy is sponsor in cash prices prizes for
38:01
the main arkind and Alliance tournament at each Vault Tour. The final eight contestants
38:07
in each tournament our kind of alliance will compete for the following prizes. First
38:10
place, we'll walk away with three grand, second, we'll walk away with
38:14
one third, and fourth we'll be walking with five hundred dollars. So sheep,
38:20
you win, you can get a lot of that money for you still
38:23
won't have your money back. Yeah, I mean you'll you'll be close.
38:28
I'll have my money back. Oh I got it, got it. Yeah.
38:35
Cash prizing winners will be required to fill out a requirement payment and tax
38:38
forms. Oh well, I guess that's a kind of a thing that happens.
38:44
Yeah, so make sure you're so you're three thousand, will I will
38:47
become fifteen hundred ish um. The prize money will be wired or sent by
38:52
check player's choice to the winners of a few days after the conclusion of the
39:00
tournament. So I'm guessing paypalor check. I don't know who does checks anymore,
39:05
but you know, here we are, maybe they can cash ap you
39:07
sealed. Tournament. Second member and side event prizes may vary event by event.
39:15
I that's where I hope to see the biggest gains over what we saw
39:17
at KFCUM the second Amber and whatever the hell is going on for Sunday for
39:22
the people that are not playing, because there's only going to be very few
39:25
people playing on Sunday, Like what You'll have sixteen I'll actually be hosted by
39:30
Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour. That's Sunday. So like when we ran live and
39:37
when they did, like the old Vaults, there was always like a pretty
39:40
fun organized event on Sunday that like most everyone else was doing. Um,
39:47
So I hope they do announce at some point something fun that's going on Sunday.
39:52
Teams back. Yeah, Like we did the team event on Sunday while
39:57
we were finishing the finals for sort of Bible um, and people love that,
40:01
Like they had a really good time with that. Draft. You got
40:05
to be on the winning team, um for the team event, oh in
40:09
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Like so I doesn't have to be like
40:14
a team of it like we had, but like that is a good spot
40:17
I think for a really fun event that can engage the community no matter what
40:22
you showed up to play as like maybe some kind of other sealed event there
40:27
that like finishes inside the same window. Um. But I am eager to
40:32
see what that ends up looking like. Like I said, I personally hope
40:37
teams makes a comeback. Teams was always the fun format. There was never
40:43
really any issues about anybody ever having like an issue finding a team or couldn't
40:46
play that team or whatever, So it was always something that was pretty good.
40:52
It's a ton of fun, you know, just being able to you
40:54
know, it's your your kind of your quote unquote your your best effective case
40:59
scenario in best of three in key Forge where all three games are happy at
41:02
the same time. Yep. So yeah, and like back in the day,
41:06
we mix it up with them the three styles. Like yeah, but
41:10
I mean you don't even need to do that to have a team a bit.
41:14
You could actually just all be playing ARCon and you can still have fun
41:15
as a team, like it doesn't have that. You can have an Alliance
41:20
game going on. You can have an ARCon game going on, and I
41:27
don't see the Seal Alliance. I guess you could do that. I don't
41:30
know, you can figure something out. It would be fine. Yeah,
41:34
but there are options like that was a really really fun thing to do on
41:37
Sunday after you've gotten like, you know, demoralize from the previous one a
41:40
couple of days, your wounds, have fun with your team. Right.
41:46
Um, So I'm not shoot you messaged me in saying that they're sealed was
41:52
included in this I don't where did I missay s Alliance tournament? Yeah,
42:01
okay, so it's a sil alliance that's seventy five dollars cover your three decks.
42:07
I don't know where you saw that. It says it includes all activity
42:12
thing. Yeah, I think it does, okay. I think the entry
42:17
fee is covering the Friday event and the main event, and then anything outside
42:22
of that would be actually okay. But it is weirdly worded though I didn't
42:27
we didn't read this part earlier. When you went over it, it was
42:30
this is the field thing we're talking about that's on Friday will consist of multiple
42:35
small, double elimination brackets to welcome players to the weekend event. The winner
42:40
of each bracket received a pridet Like how big do you think the small brackets
42:45
are? Like eight? Probably probably m that's weird, yeah, right,
42:52
like it's not actually a full event, right, like that's what we have
42:55
in our local stores. Theory. Yeah, that sounds like odds right,
43:00
Like yeah, well, and you guys did see the big star asterisk next
43:07
to that Friday Sealed Alliance. Sealed Alliance Tournament does not feature cash prizes.
43:10
Cash prizes are simply for you, and I'm totally fine with that. But
43:14
I think I know that there have been some discussion on Facebook and face stocks
43:19
about basically having Sealed be one of those ways two worlds or you know that
43:27
is not necessarily not the case, correct, But I think that can be
43:30
put to rest now is that it's not sealed is fun, but you're looking
43:35
at people are going to have to choose between arc on our Alliance on Saturday,
43:38
so there is a distinct line that you're taking one or the other.
43:43
Both will have access for eight seats on the Vaultur Finals on Sunday, and
43:49
the Sealed Alliance is on Friday, So there isn't even a sealed option.
43:52
It's just sealed Alliance that's there on Friday. But assuming what we read about
43:57
world isn't a typo, we don't know how you get to worlds right now.
44:01
We all we know is how you get a buye to Worlds by plane,
44:05
train or automobile. Is my bringing my sleeping bag and just gonna sleep
44:08
there. Yeah, I'm done. H this could be an adventure. I
44:15
do appreciate the fifty thousand dollars prize pool has not gonna hat and changed.
44:21
Um, so that's that's well. But I mean they're wove that so they
44:27
can pay the O peepers. There you go. I don't think that's gonna
44:35
change. I mean it's fun. I'm also very like much like Sheep.
44:42
The more I think about cash prizing, the more I'm like, h,
44:45
I could do it right. I don't know. I mean it's that weird
44:51
scenario where like cash is cool, but like do I really need the cash?
44:55
You know what I mean? Like I could, I would be going
45:00
we were going without any cash, So I don't know. I just it
45:05
was interesting. It's still kind of one of that odd spot. But one
45:10
theory, we want it to attract people to the game. Now will I
45:15
don't know, that's the next question, because we've had plenty of games that
45:19
have like been like huge cash prizes that they no longer exist. Increase the
45:25
attendance of this kind of event because if people think that there's a chance that
45:30
they could make top foura and pay for their ticket, they might go whereas
45:36
they might not have without that chance being there at all. So it's gonna
45:38
be good for like a year, and when they realize they can't compete,
45:44
they'll be like they there's a chance, guys, there's always a chance.
45:47
Come come give it your best shot, a chance of what you're getting ruffle
45:53
stopped. It's key for it. You can high roll twelve times in a
45:57
row. Let's go, Yeah, drive better, a better, cheat harder.
46:04
I mean, uh yeah, hopefully we do not attract those that that
46:09
would suck. Actum it may and may not happen. Who knows, I
46:15
mean, um so I don't. That's still a big question mark for me.
46:20
Maybe we can get clarification on that. I don't know if that the
46:22
sealed is included in all that, and it doesn't say what the sealed is
46:25
if it's two decks sealed, the liance, three decks sealed, alliance box
46:30
sealed, liiants, oh my box this case, we're moving back today.
46:38
Here's your twelve decks making alliance. You have five minutes to put together your
46:44
alliance deck and go. I'm gonna tell you. If they're giving me three
46:50
equidut with prospect, let's go. If they're giving me a box and I'm
46:53
only paying seventy five, Hey, this is a great deal. Guys.
46:57
Not happening. Yeah, no, it's not happening. As much as I
47:01
wanted to happen. I don't think I could will that into existence, sou
47:07
And that's pretty much it for the events, is it not. I mean,
47:10
I didn't see any drastic changes in any of that. UM. There
47:15
is changes in format if you look at the different um, if you look
47:21
at the different vault tours, but like it pretty much stats the same thing.
47:23
It's just written out differently. Like if you look at Philly, it
47:27
just says this will consist of multiple small Oh that's the one you read.
47:30
I'm like, we're you're reading this one, the multiple smaller double illigamination brackets
47:34
to welcome players the event. The winning bracket will receive a prize and it's
47:38
a hug from Michael Hurley. Oh, I'm just kidding. I don't know
47:45
what the prizes are. Maybe I should go into the other one too,
47:47
then, because I only looked at Philly and Roosevelt, I wonder what this
47:53
one looks much like Roseville or this one looked much like Philly. So I
47:58
still don't see where it says I'm getting decks with my entry fee. Um,
48:04
But hopefully you're right. I still want that. It's still fine,
48:08
it's still not a bad deal. So my question here too is I read
48:12
this little this little nugget down at the bottom from the venue tickets, because
48:15
you'll have to get a venue ticket, and it says, in addition to
48:17
the venue tickets. Now, I have an idea of what this is,
48:21
but I'm not one hundred percent. Player registration to either the Arkon or Alliance
48:24
Prize tournaments will require a vault tour key from their key forage Master account?
48:34
Is that your key to get down a fire? Basically, we don't click,
48:38
don't don't click on the link it goes to and oops, this page
48:42
cannot be found. Yeah, that's that was my next thing, because I
48:45
click the link and it doesn't take me anywhere. So hey, that's a
48:49
work in progress. But it is seventy five dollars for the venue fee,
48:54
and then there is a vault tour key. We don't know what that is
48:59
at this point in time. One hundred dollars, I mean no, I
49:06
do not think this to be true, but it is an unknown amount.
49:08
It is an unknown amount. Finally found out what all those keys were for
49:14
in the Master vault. Those are gone, right, they took away.
49:22
I guess I would also be curious does this vault tour key allow us to
49:25
use it at each of the vaults? Do we have to purchase a second
49:29
one or a third one for each new vault we go to usually buy them
49:34
and you get a random color and you can't actually enter the event until you
49:37
get all three colors. All three colors, you must get all three keys.
49:42
Yeah there, Yeah. I was interpreting this as like it's just a
49:47
unique identifier in the app. I don't know that, but that was my
49:51
interpretation, and that was mine too, was that you need to have your
49:54
little you know, your little QR card so they could I, you know,
49:58
forgure out who you were. But at the same I assume that to
50:01
be true too for real. Yeah, And so we learn more about that
50:07
next week. I think hopefully it says it says, then you fee a
50:10
seventy five dollars and will gain entry to the event and side events. Yeah,
50:15
and the side events listed. You're able to play in the side events?
50:19
Yes, no, no, no, no, but look it has
50:22
a coal in and then it lists all your bullet points. The first bullet
50:24
point is Friday Sealed Alliance tournament. Second Saturday Key or arc on tournament.
50:30
Are you suggesting that you're allowed to register but you still have to buy your
50:34
own decks? Correct? I do not think that it's always been No,
50:39
it's not. Yes, it is just how the Vault Tour was before it
50:46
was. When it was a sealed event, your entry fee paid for your
50:51
decks, correct, but any other side of events you needed to pay for
50:57
out of pocket. I am seeing and sealed Alliance tournament on Friday as more
51:02
of a side event. But that's what JR. Just said. When you
51:07
fee is seventy five dollars per person, will gain entry to the event and
51:10
side events. The only side event listed is the Alliance sealed it says.
51:15
It says right at the bottom, all day various side events. You know,
51:21
there's a sentence after that. It says literally, when you fee is
51:25
seventy five dollars and will gain entry to the event and side events. There's
51:30
only one side of vent lists. You will gain entry to them. That
51:34
doesn't mean you will get the product required to play them. I can actually
51:42
yeah, I can actually hear it on both sides. What's interesting is the
51:45
bullet point for the last one is all days various side events. So under
51:49
the pretense I was looking at a little carrot too, and it's a side
51:52
events may vary at each Vault Tour location. Yeah, they're going to do
51:57
additional side events as well, but just believe me when I say I'm pretty
52:02
sure you're getting your decks for your sealed tournament. But you are right.
52:07
It does not anywhere distinctly say you get them. But because because if I
52:14
pay the seventy five dollars, right, because there's gonna be a lot of
52:16
people who fly in Friday night, Yeah, and they'll give you your decks
52:20
when you show up. I want to say, well I get will you
52:22
still, Hey, here's your three decks. It's probably gonna be like a
52:25
goodie bag kind of situation. It's like, here's your bag. It's got
52:29
three decks for that sealed event if you want to go play in it.
52:31
And if you don't, well that's fine too, because it's not a cash
52:36
event. The prizes are whatever. Like I said, I just I didn't
52:40
know. You guys said it included it, But it does not like one
52:44
hundred percent, say your day, your sealed your sealed decks are included in
52:50
your event feast. No, and yeah, we don't know. I assume
52:55
based on all the tour events include but I can see, I can see
53:01
where you're coming from. Lookie, just saying who knows that? Screw us?
53:08
I'm out. I'm not saying that, but being a budget conscious person,
53:15
not the fanatical credit card slinging person that the rest of y'all are.
53:20
Um that, Why do you assume I put everything on a credit card okay,
53:25
or debit card or I don't know what you paid, so degrading,
53:30
like I'm in my blood, that is fanatical. I just there by,
53:42
Luke, there is a deck with the name stayed as Ai d Comma on
53:49
Clean Plantation Runaway. Yeah that's what I said too, because band names maybe
54:00
a thing again, guys, how much is new algorithm? Yeah? Oh
54:06
this is a woe deck. Yeah yeah, boom. Actually it's on chain
54:10
deck, so hey, maybe on chain they chain the hanging algorithm. More.
54:20
More of my idea is coming to fruition. You can just send it
54:22
to my papercut a big deal. I can't handle it. Just sad the
54:30
key for us after Dark Baybay, here we go. All right, Let's
54:36
see, we got the event block, we got the hotel block, we
54:38
did the prize etcenter, we did the event schedule. What else we got
54:42
for this week? Gentlemen? Anything? I think we went off to.
54:46
The hotel blocks are live, So if you are go any of these things,
54:52
go ahead, and get your hotel block. It's going to run out.
54:57
Um, we've just spent all the time talking about the tickets, so
55:00
again, if you're going purchase the tickets, I don't think there's any chance
55:04
that's going to run out of tickets, so there's no hurry there. But
55:07
they are there, assuming they you know, don't change the dates. Go
55:13
ahead and buy those so that they don't run out. Specifically the hotel block
55:19
because that's the one you actually run a little bit more risk of them not
55:21
being enough once they're done. So yeah, make sure you do that as
55:27
the heads up, and then yes, constantly be refreshing gen Con because we
55:30
need to purchase those two. There is a chance gen Con could run out
55:37
of the actual event because it's only so big, So as soon as that
55:42
is up, our server will blast that out. Already told people we would
55:45
do that. So make sure you are booking all of your event ticket stuff
55:52
so that you can play in the events once you get there and you get
55:54
your matching red, yellow, blue digital like Vault Tour. Key thing just
56:00
getting well and especially for gen Kin, I want to hear when the events
56:05
are aware. I'm placing Keyborg is my top priority. But there are other
56:08
things that I want to see. Gen Kin's you know, a large Actually
56:15
there's more than that. I also play board games, and so it is
56:17
a space to be able to go into the convention hall and to play all
56:21
their games. But KeyForge is my priority, and right now I'm trying to
56:25
be able to balance that. Even with some of the older games I play,
56:29
they run events that don't happen anywhere else. Um So, I'm holding
56:32
off, but it is it's producing a little bit of anxiety. I will
56:37
say I would like to see those dates, and I know that's something on
56:38
gen Kin side, but as the individual on the outside, I can't do
56:44
anything about that. And other companies have their events in and there they're filling
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up all right. Um with that being side, I think that's going to
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wrap it up for this week. Make sure you go check out me and
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draftscard and I posted it to the discord if you all missed it. We
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did the U six member interview for Reddit with dead Sink, so go check
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that bad boy out if you haven't checked it out already. Make sure you
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check out our patreon. You can go over there get your access to the
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z scoring system. Um So, he doesn't go crazy, he still has
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things to do and uh what else? Lots of chatter in the Patreon discord
57:25
recently, right, yeah so your decks? Yeah yeah, so yeah,
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let's talk about a real shore second, like if you want, Like,
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there's no way to get a sascore for your woe deck, but there is
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a Z score system that is showing surprising results. Um, lots of people
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started to look at the stuff. I think a lot of people are pleasantly
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surprised at what's going on there. If you want to be a part of
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that, you do have to join our patreon. I have no idea how
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to do that, but look, you could tell you yes, dot com
57:55
forward slash our cotton's corner. Yeah see, that's that complicated. And at
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some point you will get access to Earth. Yes, one dollar a month,
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one dollar a month, you get access to that. And a whole
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bunch of me and Me and Z just did the a Patroon episode today.
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We talked about the evolution of the meta and where it has gone, finish
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and where's going, Where it's going we'll be next. Yes, lots of
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fun stuff coming up. And as the Z score continues to evolve, you
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could be ahead of the game, and because you can't look that up on
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SaaS. Yeah, all right, will that being's that I think we're gonna
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get out of here. It's time. I'm gonna go back to vacation and
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doing things right, and I'm gonna finish with boys and girls. We are
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close to that three millionth deck. I'd love to see a contest and prize
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out there, so someone We're getting close. And I know as soon as
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woe is up in that Master vault, man, we're going to skyrocket above
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it. But I'd love to see something fun in that manner. So great
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idea does vault, I'll give you credit there as that was the idea.
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By the time goal was released, we were able to scan it into the
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Master vault. That changed too, you cannot currently scan. It'll happen soon.
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It will happen soon. But I again, people are holding off,
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people are getting decks. Someone looking in our own local has actually reached out
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and wants to come out on Tuesday. We're looking at having six there,
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buddy, six three children and us no it well it includes you right now,
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but it does not include any of the children. So yeah, six
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adults would be great. And I think that's what's exciting for what was.
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There's some some traction starting to gains. We want to keep riding this into
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success and build those communities. Guys. The thirtieth is my next open day.
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That's not this upcoming week. That's next week, I believe may yep,
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yep, yep, yep, that would be the next one. So
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all right, we'll be at five. We'll be at five for a little
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furlist a week because you know, I got stuff and things to do,
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so all right with that big side, we'll see y'all next week. Happy
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forged and everyone, May the Forge be with you.