Speaker 1: He listen to podcast episode four sixty seven. I'm brand home.
Speaker 1: Here's Ryan, and we're gonna recap Calgary now in our thing.
Speaker 2: So hey, Ryan, we're back for yet another whirlwind adventure.
Speaker 3: How you doing good? What is going down? You started?
Speaker 3: I wasn't finished aiming the DV.
Speaker 2: Well, you should aim quicker, my friend, because we got
Speaker 2: lots to do today and less time to do it
Speaker 2: in it's snowing again, and I.
Speaker 1: Have been traumatized from our trip back from Calgary.
Speaker 2: We're gonna tell you all about all of that stuff,
Speaker 2: all the thrills, the chills, the near death experiences that
Speaker 2: I slept through.
Speaker 3: You missed it. The thrills, the chills, the near spills
Speaker 3: on the highway.
Speaker 1: Yes, well I wasn't awake for those.
Speaker 2: You'll have to tell me all about them again because
Speaker 2: I slept through the whole deathifying experience.
Speaker 1: Whoa, because we're up very late.
Speaker 2: But before we get to any of those things, we
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Speaker 2: Sywalk Slam season three coming soon to YouTube.
Speaker 1: You've switched it.
Speaker 3: You just gave up on season two?
Speaker 1: Season two? Could fuck off season three?
Speaker 2: Baby, Yeah, because I figure with Christmas coming up, with
Speaker 2: you going on vacation, it's gonna be a little bit.
Speaker 2: So we're just gonna start the new season in the
Speaker 2: new studio in the new year, with all of you.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with with what I'm going to discuss with producer
Speaker 3: Gary about big thanks to producer Gary as well and
Speaker 3: in different avenue Media Network Network Network Network.
Speaker 2: Yes for giving us these delightful digs and using the
Speaker 2: little space here to make sure that I die of hype.
Speaker 3: Both. Yes, very good. We're gonna talk about microphone selection
Speaker 3: and what to do when when we're ready for CEOs
Speaker 3: So i'd Walk Slam season three, season three. Yes. So
Speaker 3: the weekend that was, Hey, Paul Man.
Speaker 2: That was Honestly, that was one of my favorite weekends
Speaker 2: I've had in a long time. I fukin needed you
Speaker 2: know what I know, don't we don't know what's wax
Speaker 2: poetic with all the fun shit that we did for
Speaker 2: the people that weren't there, but like a few minutes
Speaker 2: I think is worth.
Speaker 3: I just question, Mai sure. I would love to showcase
Speaker 3: all of the fantastic things that happened in Calgary to
Speaker 3: both relive them and thank the people that were there
Speaker 3: to make the weekend so great, but also encourage and
Speaker 3: inspire other people to organize their shit so they can
Speaker 3: get out to one of these, even if it's not
Speaker 3: one of the CCO experiences, a Canadian Championship like what.
Speaker 1: We were at, it'd be a great time.
Speaker 3: Or a Command Fest which isn't even better, or a
Speaker 3: Magic Con also good. Right, Okay, let's do a couple
Speaker 3: pieces of business and then we'll talk inspirationally inspirational. Okay,
Speaker 3: you see on the backdrop, if you're watching on YouTube.
Speaker 1: What just should be? You almost got me?
Speaker 3: I almost got it. Yeah, he was taking a drink
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Speaker 3: I gotta move my head so you can see new
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Speaker 3: magic stuff, Gary, how long is it gonna last? Best?
Speaker 1: Forward? Fast forward?
Speaker 3: Lookna get the same neck as Uncle Brando.
Speaker 1: That's right. How does that feel?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it feels good. Good, It feels good because
Speaker 3: I know I'm getting a discount on Fusion.
Speaker 1: Paying less for things you want anyway is pretty good, especially.
Speaker 3: During the holiday, right when a couple of things in
Speaker 3: my mind, a couple things, we're gonna be opening up
Speaker 3: some booster packs, either to draft or play jumpstart because
Speaker 3: of foundations. You might, but I might. You might not,
Speaker 3: but I might. We're gonna be cracking packs because open
Speaker 3: flippery during the holidays is like next fricking level. Baby.
Speaker 3: If I can pay less for those things, I will
Speaker 3: do it by using Cocio Holiday when I check out
Speaker 3: at Fusion. I'm gonna do that every single time.
Speaker 2: And if if you're watching us, or if you can
Speaker 2: just hear the inflections in our voices, paying less is
Speaker 2: so much better than.
Speaker 3: Not paying less. Yes, yep, yep, big things, big thanks
Speaker 3: to Pile of Bones, because they gave us a little
Speaker 3: flat of beer and some giveaway stuff for everybody in
Speaker 3: the house. Man, And oh there they are too, Pile
Speaker 3: of Bones. Move my head again.
Speaker 2: Remember that time you said on the first night, we're
Speaker 2: not gonna drink all this am that, and then you
Speaker 2: said that the next night, and then the next night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will tell you this, sir. I don't even
Speaker 3: know if you know, there is one pile of bones
Speaker 3: beard that didn't get drink how I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: Mark one up for team Ryan, because I was right.
Speaker 3: One singular beer didn't get drunk this weekend in all
Speaker 3: of Alberta.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And it was the one that was I don't know,
Speaker 3: behind the something in the fridge.
Speaker 2: Like you know how when you go to an airbnb,
Speaker 2: behind the weird mustard, there's the two bottle, two half
Speaker 2: full bottles of Frank's red Hot sauce, yes and mustard.
Speaker 3: Half a jar of horse radish.
Speaker 1: Like what the hell? Man, I'm sure the.
Speaker 3: Beer got knocked over in the door of the fridge
Speaker 3: behind that and somebody just thought it was another like condiment.
Speaker 3: And I was like, hey, we gotta clean out the
Speaker 3: fridge and it was already cleaned out, yeah, because it
Speaker 3: got a beer because the only thing in it was
Speaker 3: beer and leftover poutine, which I also.
Speaker 1: Ate that that's still weirds me out. Dude, Yeah, leftover
Speaker 1: poutine so strange.
Speaker 3: You know what I think? Really, it's it's not leftover poutine,
Speaker 3: it's cold leftovers. In general, people are very divided.
Speaker 1: Why would you you ate it cold? Fuck?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Wow? Leftovers up. Let us know in the comments.
Speaker 3: Are you a warm up left or over a warmer
Speaker 3: upper or not?
Speaker 1: I'm a well I like all my food to be
Speaker 1: room temperature, so like.
Speaker 2: So you would warm it up a little bit, I
Speaker 2: like leave it on the counter until it wasn't cold anymore.
Speaker 3: And to be fair, it wasn't poutine where the gravy
Speaker 3: congeals into a solid mass. It was buffalo chicken poutine
Speaker 3: with buffalo sauce blue cheese sauce for those that like
Speaker 3: blue cheese and uh and like chicken. So it was
Speaker 3: still congealed into a mass, but it wasn't. It wasn't
Speaker 3: like you know how gravy turned into like gelatine. Yes,
Speaker 3: not that it was buffalo sauce and like like cheese
Speaker 3: that got cold again, okay, which is fine. Okay, So anyways, anyways,
Speaker 3: one singular beer thanks to Pile of Bones, everybody appreciated,
Speaker 3: like the bottle openers and the koozies. We gave out
Speaker 3: as prizes for Plinko, which was off the fricking charts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the plinko was ridiculous.
Speaker 3: There was actually I'm ridiculous. My favorite ridiculous plinko story
Speaker 3: was you plink it all down. People saw last week
Speaker 3: what plinko looks like when you plink it all down
Speaker 3: and it lands in a bucket at the bottom. Some
Speaker 3: game action happened.
Speaker 1: There's two people. There's two games happened at our tables.
Speaker 2: Happened all weekend. Somebody plinkos because they bought a thing,
Speaker 2: and then something would happen that affects both games happening
Speaker 2: on the table and man man.
Speaker 3: One of the things on day one of the event
Speaker 3: was was Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 1: That's not what I thought you were gonna talk about.
Speaker 3: And the game started. The game started and it was
Speaker 3: like okay, Blanco, Wheel of Fortune, okay, and f you.
Speaker 3: Aiden was there. He was like player four in that game,
Speaker 3: didn't even get a turn, had to wheel yep, cool
Speaker 3: Blanco again, Yeah, cool Wheel of Fortune. And it was
Speaker 3: like the second person's turn. So Aiden had to wheel
Speaker 3: again yep, okay, And then somebody came up cashed in
Speaker 3: a ticket or wanted some prizes or whatever. Yep, fuck wheel.
Speaker 3: He's like, bro, we might have to change really fortune Ah,
Speaker 3: I haven't even started my turn. My grave already got
Speaker 3: twenty one cards in it, four starting hands.
Speaker 2: My favorite one was we also had reversed the turn order,
Speaker 2: and we were playing a game and old sink guy
Speaker 2: was sitting there.
Speaker 1: She's ready, He's fucking ready. He's ready to go right,
Speaker 1: he's yeah.
Speaker 3: And pretend it's my turn, passing to sink guy.
Speaker 1: My turn is gonna be so good.
Speaker 3: Reverse the turn order, it goes around, goes to this guy.
Speaker 3: Reverse the turn order, gets to my turn, reverse the
Speaker 3: turn order. He missed three turns. We did take that
Speaker 3: one off.
Speaker 2: We did take that one off because that because that
Speaker 2: exact example, because he's like, well, now I'm ten turns behind.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just lose it.
Speaker 3: Guess I'll just die. Yeah. So anyway, Planko was a
Speaker 3: great hit. We had a ton of games happened at
Speaker 3: our booth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had people at the booth all weekend, which
Speaker 2: we really If you were there, we really appreciate it,
Speaker 2: and if you weren't there, we appreciate and look forward
Speaker 2: to seeing you next time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, you know what? The biggest thing like,
Speaker 3: oh man, so many times coming over to our booth.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you get thanked as much as
Speaker 3: I do, but I get a lot of thanks for
Speaker 3: being welcoming at the booth. I'm a little bit of
Speaker 3: a social butterfly and just walk around and talk to
Speaker 3: people and meet people. And within the nation, I get
Speaker 3: made fun of for never playing magic games. Well f you, everybody,
Speaker 3: because I played games and I fucking dumpstered guys, one
Speaker 3: of which was a good old Niver was me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: dark shittiest over here. I got them fuck and I
Speaker 3: played some games. But I got lots of thanks is
Speaker 3: for having a welcoming booth that we could play games
Speaker 3: at free prizes, prize tickets, promo, reliquary towers, coozies, bottle openers, stickers.
Speaker 3: Uncle Kelly from Face to Face Games Everybody's uncle apparently
Speaker 3: gave us a swath of booster boosters for the stinky
Speaker 3: onion bag, and I was given pride is out for planko.
Speaker 3: Whenever I saw a kid, I just randomly walk around
Speaker 3: like freaking some weird Santa with an onion bag and
Speaker 3: just give prizes to kids, like kids got more packs
Speaker 3: than my no waiting, well none of that, but just
Speaker 3: so many thanks for being a like a welcoming space
Speaker 3: and a good community just within the event from strangers, right.
Speaker 1: I do get that too.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, you guys are the guys over there
Speaker 2: in the corners, like, oh yeah, yeah, stop by there,
Speaker 2: talk to your your buddy and it was fine. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: So we had a really good time. And then that's
Speaker 2: the thing that I think means the most to me
Speaker 2: is when people like come by what we've done, And
Speaker 2: in addition to that, the people who know.
Speaker 3: Us, like like like Dan and Into the ninety nine guys,
Speaker 3: they just tell us we suck and No and Tanner
Speaker 3: from Rogue's Passage. Check out those two channels because if
Speaker 3: you're into Canadian magic content and you want to meet
Speaker 3: creators when you go to face to face Opens and
Speaker 3: Tours into the nineties Rogus Passage, those are the two
Speaker 3: people on either side of us that that we're doing
Speaker 3: content and had studios and cameras and trivia and gameplay,
Speaker 3: and they they were were talking to us about the
Speaker 3: community that we've built. And I think that and I
Speaker 3: always say it when we say thank you to CECO
Speaker 3: Nation that we don't say it enough. But whenever we
Speaker 3: go to a show, we've got people coming literally from
Speaker 3: across the continent that come because that's how strong of
Speaker 3: a community that that we've I want to say we
Speaker 3: I say we like it's Brando and I, but it's
Speaker 3: we as in the collective audience who are listening. That
Speaker 3: are the people who come to the events. Who are
Speaker 3: the people in discord and on socials and whose support
Speaker 3: and and the patrons and everybody that's part of Commander cookout.
Speaker 2: Somebody missed a plane and drove eleven hours just to
Speaker 2: come to the show. Man more more than that, and
Speaker 2: some random dude they didn't know who we were, did
Speaker 2: not learn how to play magic.
Speaker 3: Listen to this. This is actually cool. Sink guy and
Speaker 3: Nutter butter Mommy his wife man. My wife nickname was
Speaker 3: a Nutther butter mommy. I'll tell you that much. They
Speaker 3: couldn't get on a plane because of passport issues, and
Speaker 3: they're they're the friend who didn't even know us, heard
Speaker 3: that we were a great community, and we said, yeah,
Speaker 3: as long as he's not like a dicker and asshole,
Speaker 3: he can come and stay at our house and as
Speaker 3: long as he's gonna fit in. And they were like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's great, and we're like, okay, he can come. We'll
Speaker 3: work out like beds and pricing and and we'll make
Speaker 3: it work, right, we'll make it work because everybody's welcome.
Speaker 3: And he fit right in. Yeah, good dude, and dude,
Speaker 3: and we didn't even know him, and it was like
Speaker 3: you're one of us now, yeah, because that's the kind
Speaker 3: of people that our community attracts. And to be able
Speaker 3: to have that and say, hey, like we played a
Speaker 3: part in building this is it was actually really special.
Speaker 1: I learned lots of neat stuff from that guy.
Speaker 2: He's like the dude that he works in like refrigeration
Speaker 2: for shipping, like stuff comes. It sounds really boring, but
Speaker 2: I learned so much like kind of neat stuff, the
Speaker 2: things you never think about, like why do I living
Speaker 2: thousands of miles from any coast? Why can I eat fish?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I know because he's the guy that refrigerates it and
Speaker 2: sends it out it's safe. I learned all about that stuff.
Speaker 2: So you can, like you meet really cool people and
Speaker 2: you learned really interesting things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, never learned where my food came from until the
Speaker 1: other day.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you don't want to know.
Speaker 1: But in this case it was good. In this yeah,
Speaker 1: in this case it was fine.
Speaker 3: When you buy real food from the real grocery store,
Speaker 3: it's important to know where it comes from, to know
Speaker 3: that it's safe, sourced ethically or properly, that it's affordable.
Speaker 3: Loll what's affordable food in Canada? Right? Am? I? Right?
Speaker 3: When you buy food that's literally just made out of salt. Yes,
Speaker 3: the salt keeps me safe.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, the salt keeps me from being hydrated the salt.
Speaker 1: The salt preserves me.
Speaker 3: The salt absolutely does not keep the toilet safe and
Speaker 3: Uncle Brando's.
Speaker 1: Oh hell no, not a chance.
Speaker 3: But it does preserve you practically a walking mummy.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, When I die, my flesh will just
Speaker 2: decay off of my organs will still remain.
Speaker 3: Yes, forever, Taxidermy Brando, give you the top hat and monocle.
Speaker 2: That's right, like Jerky, I look like the peanut guy.
Speaker 2: Put a top hat on me, and shit, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be so good.
Speaker 1: Jerky Brando.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I hope people are having as good of
Speaker 3: a time as we are talking about Calgary. But goddamn
Speaker 3: better be Remember I said that there was gonna be
Speaker 3: some podcasting business. Oh goddamn, yeah no, but this is
Speaker 3: good business or business that people will be happy to
Speaker 3: be apprized of. Okay, yes, okay, okay, okay, everybody knows.
Speaker 1: Don't let me down. Ryan.
Speaker 3: Well you're not gonna be happy, but you already know.
Speaker 3: So what everybody knows that we've got the CEEO store
Speaker 3: right Amandercoco dot com. Oh yeah, Black Black Friday's coming up.
Speaker 1: I thought Black Friday was yesterday as we're recording.
Speaker 3: I even went that's pre Black Friday.
Speaker 2: I went to the furniture store that's prey because I
Speaker 2: need a new goddamn couch. My couch is broken and
Speaker 2: things keep you know, when one thing goes wrong with
Speaker 2: it thing.
Speaker 1: Oh this is a total tangent, but yes it is.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go right back to the store and we talk
Speaker 1: of drink some coffee.
Speaker 2: But everybody has this experience, I assume where as soon
Speaker 2: as something breaks.
Speaker 1: On a on a car, on a couch, on a whatever,
Speaker 1: when it rains a port, it just everything goes to ship.
Speaker 2: You do this week, hat Man, I had a freaking
Speaker 2: spring pop out of my couch and then all this no, well,
Speaker 2: yes it is right where I sit, so of course
Speaker 2: it's poking me in the leg all the time. And
Speaker 2: then I leaned over to like get up, and the
Speaker 2: arm like crumbled on the inside. I sat down on
Speaker 2: the inside, I sat down on the other end, I
Speaker 2: heard something inside just break, Like the couch is just
Speaker 2: slowly just.
Speaker 1: Crumbling underneath me, and I really need a new one,
Speaker 1: but it's a god.
Speaker 2: Furniture is so fucking expensive and when you buy a
Speaker 2: new one, you can't get it till January.
Speaker 3: Yep, fuck yep.
Speaker 2: So anyway, back to the CEO store Black Friday, coming
Speaker 2: up great deals just for you specifically.
Speaker 3: This is how I want to do it, though. If
Speaker 3: there's something on the CEO store that you want, just
Speaker 3: tell me that you want it, and I'll put it
Speaker 3: on sale instead of me trying to guess if you
Speaker 3: want something, I'll put it on sale and I'll tell
Speaker 3: you why. Because we have had multiple conversations over the
Speaker 3: weekend in Calgary with the style and the theme of
Speaker 3: the plinkeboard, we want to update and kind of not rebrand,
Speaker 3: but make all of the CECO merchant twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: look new and cool and exciting and interesting. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: that's gonna mean new tokens, new t shirts, hats or sweaters.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be new dice because I did sell all
Speaker 3: of the remaining CEEO Dice. Shit, I didn't take them
Speaker 3: off the way. Remind me. I have to do that
Speaker 3: because you're not getting enticed if you buy. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: and we want to update that all. But that means
Speaker 3: like my office has to get emptier or my wife
Speaker 3: will murder me. Yes, because it's all run out of
Speaker 3: my house. Oh, there you go, there we go, there
Speaker 3: we go.
Speaker 2: A me me me, me, me, me me.
Speaker 1: That's the shirt.
Speaker 2: I get more compliments on that shirt than any other
Speaker 2: thing that I own. It's like, oh, that shirt makes
Speaker 2: me just want to hurl, or that's the coolest thing
Speaker 2: I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Both are excellent reactions.
Speaker 3: Yes. The thing about going online and buying from something
Speaker 3: in Canada right now, though, is we do have a
Speaker 3: nationwide postal strike, so everything will be delayed, and that
Speaker 3: includes altered art cards. Now, everybody that has been buying
Speaker 3: from me and who commissions me or wins the Thursday
Speaker 3: alter auctions on Facebook every Thursday. Those people who aren't
Speaker 3: like raillers have been informed. But if you're listening to
Speaker 3: this or watching this, there's a postal strike. Things are
Speaker 3: going to be delayed, and then they're gonna get all
Speaker 3: the money that they want, and then they're going to
Speaker 3: open up right before Christmas, and the Christmas rush is
Speaker 3: going to be even more than it normally is for
Speaker 3: the postal service. Yep, this this holiday season, so there's
Speaker 3: going to be further delays. Now what I'm doing instead
Speaker 3: of just dropping my stuff randomly in a mailbox somewhere
Speaker 3: and just waiting for it to get picked up, I'm
Speaker 3: keeping all of it at my house so I can
Speaker 3: take it in one fell swoop and make sure it
Speaker 3: goes directly into a postal worker's hands. So I'm on
Speaker 3: top of it. But just know that there will be
Speaker 3: delays if you want to order a buyer or commission anything.
Speaker 3: That was one of the important business things that I
Speaker 3: really wanted to mention bit of a way, because people
Speaker 3: are already asking me, like, Hey, where's where's this thing?
Speaker 3: I ordered it a couple of weeks ago, and sorry,
Speaker 3: there's literally nothing I can do unless you want to
Speaker 3: order from like FedEx and nobody wants to do that.
Speaker 3: And then it's like one hundred dollars to ship like
Speaker 3: a magic carter or a T shirt. That. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: that was that Calgary. We talked a little bit about
Speaker 3: we I've got a thing here. Okay, okay. We did
Speaker 3: the thing that we've never done before at tubbed. Oh
Speaker 3: have we never hot tubbed? No, we've never hot tubbed.
Speaker 1: We made dude soup.
Speaker 3: Dude soup we did make. We were in the hot
Speaker 3: tub until it got cold. Yes, And we got the
Speaker 3: most with the mightiest picture, the picture of Keel chugging
Speaker 3: the beer in the hot tub with all the feet
Speaker 3: poking up like tentacles. Keel Thulu it might be a
Speaker 3: new nickname. And and he's like chugging a pile of
Speaker 3: bones beer like a frickin' cecial boss. He did all
Speaker 3: of the things that were that were required of him.
Speaker 3: He got into a hot tub and nobody brought even
Speaker 3: though I said, hey, bring your swim trunks, nobody did.
Speaker 3: So everybody's in their underwear, well one guy did, Uh sure,
Speaker 3: I don't. I'll take your word for it. Everybody's in
Speaker 3: their underwear. It's dark except for the ambient like green
Speaker 3: glow of the hot tub, and Keel He's like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm so sweaty. So he gets up and sits on
Speaker 3: the side sweaty dudes in a hot tub. And I say, Keil,
Speaker 3: let's get a picture. Chug you beer. So he chugs
Speaker 3: his beer. But everybody sticks their feet up at the
Speaker 3: same time, so it looks like a bunch of feet
Speaker 3: that are praying to Keel. Yeah, the mightiest of mighty
Speaker 3: c CEO Experience Pictures ever, very good. And of course
Speaker 3: Keel comes up clutch when it counts, comes up clutch
Speaker 3: when it counts. Keel. What a great nickname, Jesus Keelthulu,
Speaker 3: come blast Keel if you know you know, Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was a whole thing. He's got so many nicknames.
Speaker 1: Now yep, so wasn't even his room.
Speaker 3: No, I don't want to know. Yeah, anyway, we did
Speaker 3: this thing that we've never done before.
Speaker 1: Okay, we went.
Speaker 3: To a casino.
Speaker 1: Casino Keel Kiel Sino if you will, Yes, was he there?
Speaker 3: I don't know if he wants who he was?
Speaker 1: He was?
Speaker 3: Okay, So we go to the Hitman Bar and grill.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, and we walked in it like the kitchen
Speaker 3: closed at ten and we got there at like nine
Speaker 3: to thirty five.
Speaker 1: Oh, I felt so bad.
Speaker 3: We felt so bad.
Speaker 1: We checked it. We checked it.
Speaker 2: Just nobody thinks that were scum, because I've told this
Speaker 2: story a couple of times and people think that we're scum.
Speaker 2: So on the website they close it too. So we
Speaker 2: figured going at nine it would be fine. But they
Speaker 2: opened early because it was the Gray Cup that day.
Speaker 3: Oh is that what it was?
Speaker 2: And so they closed they opened early. Thus they closed
Speaker 2: early and we didn't know that. And then we walked
Speaker 2: in with a table of what how many of twenty
Speaker 2: two of us or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there there was a bunch of you guys that
Speaker 3: went early, and then a bunch of us came. I
Speaker 3: went with you. There was a bunch of people that
Speaker 3: went early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, early.
Speaker 2: We came second, and all the face guys came afterwards. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And we told the server Lake, look, you need to
Speaker 2: either kick us out right.
Speaker 1: Now or or give us food or we're gonna because
Speaker 1: this is gonna, this is gonna get biblical here.
Speaker 2: Now you guys can say it's all good. And they
Speaker 2: were very kind and very polite. Nobody's spitting our food.
Speaker 2: I didn't find any fucking pubes or allegedly right, Like
Speaker 2: my food was good, yours was fine, Everything was great.
Speaker 2: Thank you to the hitman Barn Grill grt on Beyonce.
Speaker 2: Check it out if you're in Calgary.
Speaker 3: Lots of lots of fat head cutouts, like those cardboard
Speaker 3: cutouts of different wrestlers.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like bred Heart's like real pants, and like
Speaker 2: his jacket was there, and all the titles.
Speaker 1: They were in a glass case.
Speaker 2: I did take a picture of it though, because I'm
Speaker 2: a big Brett Heart, a big Brett Hart fan.
Speaker 1: So it's cool to like see all those things.
Speaker 2: And he was there earlier in the day. I could
Speaker 2: have mad him. Again, I didn't get to, which is fine.
Speaker 3: You didn't sniff him, no, but would you have sniffed him?
Speaker 1: I probably would have like stood like kind of next
Speaker 1: to him and like.
Speaker 3: A little bit, just yea, just to see, I'll bitch.
Speaker 1: They would have been washed. They probably would have spelt
Speaker 1: like a bounce sheet, you.
Speaker 3: Think, a like leather or something.
Speaker 1: Weren't they not? The tights?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, well those would be extra stinky now
Speaker 3: they're washed. Yeah, sure, it's fine.
Speaker 2: So thirty year old sweatstain, Like, there's no way that
Speaker 2: would be healthy for the garment.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm gonna start calling you year old sway
Speaker 3: three hundred year olds. Oh, come on, come on, thousand
Speaker 3: year old. Okay. So Mac and I were sitting at
Speaker 3: the Hitman and he's like, man, I think I got
Speaker 3: to go and blow all this funny money, monopoly money
Speaker 3: because he's from He's from Merca MRCA. Yeah. So he
Speaker 3: he's got all this Canadian money. It's all these different colors.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know how to count, and he's just got
Speaker 3: like blue bills, green bills, red bills. He didn't maybe
Speaker 3: he had some brown bills. He had some brown bills
Speaker 3: when he left. I'll tell you that much. Those are hundies.
Speaker 3: So he goes and sits down at a slot and
Speaker 3: he plays a couple and I'm like, I gotta go
Speaker 3: get a drink. And the casino is like a big circle,
Speaker 3: and like I recognize the shape of the circle of
Speaker 3: the building that I'm in, and I'm like the bars
Speaker 3: in the middle, Yes, but I had to walk like
Speaker 3: two hundred and ninety degrees around the circle to find
Speaker 3: the entrance to the bar. And it's a good thing
Speaker 3: that I did, because I go up theirs and my
Speaker 3: leg hurts, right, so I lean on the bar. I
Speaker 3: leans on the bar, and I'm watching the bartender make
Speaker 3: this dude a drink. Okay, makes him a double tall
Speaker 3: Caesar with like extra pickled bean. And you know when
Speaker 3: you go to the cesu experience and water and sometimes
Speaker 3: food with one nutritional value doesn't enter your body for
Speaker 3: four days. So I'm leaning on the counter and my
Speaker 3: body told me I need a Caesar.
Speaker 1: Oh, I need a Caesar.
Speaker 2: No, I have inside information on this one, but I'll
Speaker 2: let you finish dangerous.
Speaker 3: And Recca said the same thing. That's my wife, that's
Speaker 3: the first lady of the nation, says, oh, why'd you
Speaker 3: do that? What did that cost? Caesar at the casino?
Speaker 3: And I says, no, everything was fine. I says, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get what that guy has and he got a
Speaker 3: double ed because I'm not. I'm not that extra pickled
Speaker 3: bean too, yes, and extra spicy caesar and that. So
Speaker 3: she makes me Caesar, gives me the Caesar only like
Speaker 3: six seventy five, Oh, Alberta cheap at the casino because
Speaker 3: in Alberta, yeah, not eleven six seventy five, so I
Speaker 3: pay her. I take one drink of the Caesar standing
Speaker 3: right at the bar because I got a sore leg,
Speaker 3: and I go like this, and she's like, is it
Speaker 3: no good? I'm like, no, I'm sure it's fine. I
Speaker 3: just hate Caesars. She looks, she looks at me, and
Speaker 3: she's like, huh yeah, And I'm like, I just I
Speaker 3: needed what that guy had because it looks so good,
Speaker 3: because Caesar's look good so good. Hell yeah, this is
Speaker 3: my note. Uh fuck, it's somewhere on the on the
Speaker 3: thing here. Explain to people in the Land of the
Speaker 3: Free what a Caesar is, because mac and and and
Speaker 3: a couple of people that I've met don't know what
Speaker 3: they are. And in simple terms, it's a bloody marry.
Speaker 3: It's tomato juice with vodka with worcestershire, your sister sauce
Speaker 3: and tabasco or other hot sauce with like a pickled garnish, yes, right, or.
Speaker 1: In some cases go nuts have like a.
Speaker 3: Burger yeah, yeah, a bunch of cheese. They salt the
Speaker 3: rim with celery salt. Sometimes they got like limes squeezed in.
Speaker 3: It's a bloody mary. But in Canada, We've got a
Speaker 3: thing called Mott's Clamato. That's tomato juice with clam sauce
Speaker 3: in it and extra salt, which is weird that my
Speaker 3: body wanted that during a freaking sea seal experience, more
Speaker 3: freaking salt than a potash mine. And I got this
Speaker 3: Caesar and I'm hitting it up as I'm walking all
Speaker 3: the way freaking back around to where Mac was. I
Speaker 3: get there, I take a picture of the Caesar sent
Speaker 3: to my brother Boom. Mac wins like three hundred dollars slots,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, freaking cool man, cool soap.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh no, I have all this money.
Speaker 1: I was trying to get rid of all this money.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So he's got all this money, and and I
Speaker 3: finished my Caesar, and he's playing his his initial like
Speaker 3: he got paid out in cash for his jackpot or whatever.
Speaker 3: And then he had like his initial float that he
Speaker 3: put in. So he cashes out his float and gets
Speaker 3: a ticket. He's got like one hundred and ninety bucks.
Speaker 3: He's up on that too, So he goes to a
Speaker 3: different machine. I go get another Caesar. My covers cause
Speaker 3: one course, so I come back fucking boot Mac wins
Speaker 3: another three hundred dollars and then he cashes out his ticket,
Speaker 3: cashes out his cash that he got, and I paid
Speaker 3: and we fucked off yep. And I'm like, man, you
Speaker 3: did really good. He's like, yeah, I tried to spend
Speaker 3: all my money, but I left the casino with six
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy five dollars. Like, hey, fucking pretty cool.
Speaker 2: He's gonna he's gonna trade that back into American And
Speaker 2: when he got like eight bucks, hey, he was able
Speaker 2: to buy one airport beer.
Speaker 1: Fuck.
Speaker 3: Yes, would imagine imagine him sitting at the Calgary airport.
Speaker 3: How many Calgary Airport beer he can get?
Speaker 1: Like two?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 3: So a big shout out to Mac, big shout out
Speaker 3: to Kiel, big shout out to Jared and Angelica Nutter
Speaker 3: butter Mommy for making the great cookies. Jared brought his
Speaker 3: hot sauce. He started his own hot sauce business. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I'm kicking myself in the fricking dink. I'm stepping
Speaker 3: on my own dink with high heels that I didn't
Speaker 3: get pick up from him a bottle of his green
Speaker 3: hot sauce.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you?
Speaker 3: Because it was the last one that he had, and
Speaker 3: it was at the convention where he was like where
Speaker 3: he was like showing people like his bottles and all
Speaker 3: that stuff. And when he comes up in January, so
Speaker 3: I yelled into the mic. When he comes back in
Speaker 3: January for the face to face event in Saskatoon, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna tell him he's not coming unless he's bringing me
Speaker 3: green sauce.
Speaker 1: I bet he will. I think the when he first
Speaker 1: started doing it, he brought me like a little sample
Speaker 1: of a giant It was really really, really, really really good.
Speaker 2: I don't put hot sauce on lots of things, but
Speaker 2: like you know, little little sprits on some nachos.
Speaker 3: I put hot sauce lots of stuff. I I like
Speaker 3: the lesser hot sauce to change the flavor of my
Speaker 3: food a little bit, give it like a smoky spicy flavor,
Speaker 3: like a you know, like a pepper flavor.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: I like the mega crazy hot sauce where I don't
Speaker 3: want the flavor of my food to change, but I want.
Speaker 1: It like to give me that you want to feel paid.
Speaker 3: Well, we don't need. Yeah, you know, when you like
Speaker 3: make chili or something and you want like your sauce
Speaker 3: to be a little bit spicy, make you feel like
Speaker 3: you're in Mexico or something, right, Yeah, that's what you do.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, Okay, I've got one more thing, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna do some game stuff. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: some of the fun people that we met, because I
Speaker 2: want to say Jared and kill Story too, because him
Speaker 2: and Aiden and Peter Procopp and those guys to me,
Speaker 2: Brando to an authentic Japanese restaurant. Oh, I know that you,
Speaker 2: in particular Gary probably also will be and maybe some
Speaker 2: of the members of the nation who know my eating
Speaker 2: proclivities will be very proud of me because I tried
Speaker 2: like ten new foods in one sit down.
Speaker 3: We forced Uncle Brando to try new foods on Cecio experiences.
Speaker 3: It's one of the things that I like to do.
Speaker 3: If I said Uncle Brando, drink this. It has alcohol
Speaker 3: in it, it doesn't matter what. It could be cat piss,
Speaker 3: and he would drink it.
Speaker 1: Right, Like this tastes like pea. I probably won't drink
Speaker 1: more of this, but then I finish it and then
Speaker 1: just not have another.
Speaker 3: One, exactly right. And you're so adventurous in that neighborhood
Speaker 3: in that trajectory. But when it comes to food, it's
Speaker 3: taste or texture, or bad experience, or it gave me
Speaker 3: diarrhea one time or whatever it is. So over the
Speaker 3: course of your thousand year life, you've narrowed down your
Speaker 3: diet and eating habits. This is for the people at
Speaker 3: home to burgers and chicky fingies and tacos. If it's
Speaker 3: made out of salt or is dried in some way.
Speaker 1: I will eat it.
Speaker 3: Brando eats it. Yes. So when we go I say here,
Speaker 3: try this, and you go, what is it? I say,
Speaker 3: shut up, just try it, because that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3: And you do try it.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you hate it, but lots of times, lots of times,
Speaker 3: lots of times we give you things that we know
Speaker 3: that you'll like. Right, and I think of like my son,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to make him try something that I
Speaker 3: like purposely that he's got a freaking not.
Speaker 1: Like this is gross here.
Speaker 3: I want you to try it because it's going to
Speaker 3: enrich your life. It's it's like, it's good.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So you tried what did you try it? To Japanese place?
Speaker 1: Okay? So I tried duck soup duck soup. I had
Speaker 1: like boiled squid, okay, I had I don't actually know
Speaker 1: what it was. But I ordered a sushi and in
Speaker 1: the sushi was.
Speaker 2: Like there was like a crispy, yellowy greenish vegetable.
Speaker 1: Of some sort fish penis probably.
Speaker 2: I had some of that and there was like another
Speaker 2: kind of yellowy thing in there too.
Speaker 1: I ate that as well.
Speaker 2: Uh, there was I should wago beef, which I knew
Speaker 2: i'd like, but I'd never tried that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because money, I had.
Speaker 1: An oyster with a sea urchin ball on it and too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and by ball, I mean like the reproductive organs
Speaker 2: of a sea oyster.
Speaker 1: Very good. And what was the other thing? There was
Speaker 1: one other food that I tried, but there was I
Speaker 1: liked all of it. It was really really good. It
Speaker 1: was really cool.
Speaker 2: So I highly recommend if anybody has a chance to
Speaker 2: try authentic air quotes.
Speaker 1: Like Asian cuisine. It was very good. It was really really.
Speaker 3: Get You get an experience set as other It's not
Speaker 3: it's not really like eating a taco or going to
Speaker 3: a steakhouse, right, It's an other experience in that what
Speaker 3: do I do with this food? Like how do I eat? What?
Speaker 1: Is this shit?
Speaker 3: And then it's a bunch of tastes, textures, combinations of textures, tastes,
Speaker 3: colors that you don't normally put inside your body, Like
Speaker 3: when was the last time you put something orange inside
Speaker 3: your body that wasn't a fucking doriedle?
Speaker 1: Correct, that is correct? Yes, you know, And I learned
Speaker 1: a thing too. Squids are hollow.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that, like theyre when you get the
Speaker 2: little squid rings, that's a slice of squid because they're
Speaker 2: hollow in the middle because they're like little sacks that
Speaker 2: pump air through them and that's how they swim.
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
Speaker 3: They got like a new pneumatic locomotion, like spiders have
Speaker 3: hydraulic grabbers. Yes, did you know that?
Speaker 1: Yes? I did.
Speaker 3: Did you ever eat a spider?
Speaker 2: Well, probably you can eat spiders, probably by accident. One
Speaker 2: time they say like, oh, every person is eating like
Speaker 2: a hundred spiders in their lifetime.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but that's on average, that's like across all
Speaker 3: the people in the world.
Speaker 2: That's like everybody in Australia because like now you can't
Speaker 2: eat spiders that they're too big.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a whole meal. They look like freaking the
Speaker 3: guys from Alien You wake.
Speaker 1: Up and just gained forty eight pounds. God damn it. I
Speaker 1: a spider again.
Speaker 3: Just see them moving inside you like this the leguess.
Speaker 2: They'll stick it out from your from your real Oh
Speaker 2: pull it out by the leg here.
Speaker 3: Spider haters just turned the show off. Yeah, freaking gross.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really freaking Yes.
Speaker 2: We tried new things and we met new people. We
Speaker 2: talked about Into the ninety nine. I have to point
Speaker 2: this out again. We haven't had a BBO and the
Speaker 2: c C O Y t C in quite a while.
Speaker 3: Oh we got I do have the Dusk moren one.
Speaker 3: It is on my computer, ready to get done.
Speaker 1: There it is.
Speaker 2: And then I actually the boys from Into the ninety nine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: did live film.
Speaker 1: Me doing one, which was a lot of fun. I had,
Speaker 1: like the whole crew. I'm really really excited for people
Speaker 1: to see that one because like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had great time. Some people were there watching
Speaker 2: you stop by for a little bit. I was throwing
Speaker 2: cards all over the convention center and the.
Speaker 3: Guy was trying to catch booster packs that were flying down,
Speaker 3: like freaking Confediti. It was like he was playing the
Speaker 3: money game, trying to like catch all the money in
Speaker 3: the tube.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it was super fun. So I'm hoping that
Speaker 2: people get a chance to see that real soon. And
Speaker 2: it was a good time. But we do have some
Speaker 2: actual magic business. We're gonna gonna show you guys some
Speaker 2: cool shit that some people showed to us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm gonna move my coffee cup. Okay, so
Speaker 3: we if you're watching on YouTube, which you should be,
Speaker 3: which you should be, you can probably see that we've
Speaker 3: got some some new stuff on the desk here. And
Speaker 3: I wanted to highlight this because this is all Canadian
Speaker 3: stuff made by our good friend mcgil from nerd Gear Gaming. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we've got I've got the box here, but I
Speaker 3: want to actually show off.
Speaker 1: You can't only throw it around because it's a tree.
Speaker 3: I want to actually show off the dice tray and
Speaker 3: you put your commander here. It's I wish we would
Speaker 3: have had another ca set up.
Speaker 1: It's okay for the people listenerster.
Speaker 3: Gary doesn't have the top down camera on. Okay, zoom
Speaker 3: zoom on me here, and we've got we've got the
Speaker 3: dice tray that has custom printed twenties. There we go.
Speaker 3: That's good for commander down that's good. That's good custom
Speaker 3: twenties and number of times you've cast your commander like
Speaker 3: this isn't all that new and revolutionary. But it's not
Speaker 3: three D printed, which is what you normally see is
Speaker 3: the three D printed version. It's all injection molded. And
Speaker 3: my favorite part of what I'm holding right here is
Speaker 3: actually the click down life counter. It's one of the
Speaker 3: ones with the spinny thing that you set at forty
Speaker 3: and you go like click down or click.
Speaker 2: Up, just like the ones that you got in like
Speaker 2: the Commander's arsenal. Yeah, the collector boosty things and those
Speaker 2: they're kind of tough to come by and sometimes cost
Speaker 2: a lot of many.
Speaker 3: This one, Thomas, Yeah, and I have one, and you've
Speaker 3: got like a frection all will be one one yep.
Speaker 3: But they're kind of hard to come by, and I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna lie. Over time they get a little bit
Speaker 3: harder to use.
Speaker 1: Mak it gunky, because you know, we're.
Speaker 3: I wish, I wish like I'm gonna nope, Like the
Speaker 3: click on. This is so satisfying. When I was talking
Speaker 3: to people, when I was talking to people about nerd
Speaker 3: gear stuff, we had we had some display at our
Speaker 3: booth to help show it off because I really like it,
Speaker 3: because it's Canadian based product and it's very high quality.
Speaker 3: Everybody said to me two things. They said, the click
Speaker 3: on this wheel could be its own fidget, Like it's
Speaker 3: such a good click. Give it a click, Give it
Speaker 3: a click. And then Garyal, stay on me, Garyal, stay
Speaker 3: on me. But all of this comes in this package.
Speaker 3: And this is the other thing that people said to
Speaker 3: me is this little felt purse with a leather zipper
Speaker 3: pull is like the best thing, Like everybody was saying, Man,
Speaker 3: I would travel with this thing because it feels good,
Speaker 3: it's the right size, it's high quality, and it's got
Speaker 3: the little leather embossed like nerd en g nerd gear
Speaker 3: insignia cool piece. And if that isn't enough, in in
Speaker 3: this Commander Essentials kit, you also get maybe you can
Speaker 3: switch over to brand or real quick.
Speaker 1: It's the wallet, hey, is that what this is?
Speaker 3: This is a wallet? Yeah, hold it up so the
Speaker 3: camera can see. That wallet is to hold your tokens.
Speaker 1: And your erasable tokens and made of plastic.
Speaker 3: The other the other thing that people said was these
Speaker 3: are so thick, you know how when and I'm certainly
Speaker 3: not knocking infinite tokens, right because because they're they're great
Speaker 3: and they change the game. But these are like the
Speaker 3: these are like the thickness of a credit card. They're thick.
Speaker 1: It's it come with a marker.
Speaker 3: It doesn't come with the marker, but I'm sure you
Speaker 3: could five markers. Yeah, so super cool stuff.
Speaker 1: Give me that.
Speaker 3: Now. I want to showcase all of this because it's
Speaker 3: high quality, it's Canadian. And in addition to all of
Speaker 3: this stuff they have got I can't, I can't. I
Speaker 3: got to look into that onto the TV to be
Speaker 3: able to see it. They've got the play mat Sanctuary. Now,
Speaker 3: this was a Kickstarter. It's not available for purchase yet,
Speaker 3: but it will. It comes in literally every color that
Speaker 3: the Commander Essentials Kit comes in and more. And what
Speaker 3: it does is it's a hangar for your play mats.
Speaker 3: You can see how it's got all these loops on
Speaker 3: it that are made out of this seat through plastic
Speaker 3: that you can see what your fricking playmats are instead
Speaker 3: of keeping them in a box or in a drawer.
Speaker 3: In my case, and my wife hating it because it's
Speaker 3: right where we keep all our board games and it's
Speaker 3: a disorganized mess. Whenever we try to open or close
Speaker 3: the drawer.
Speaker 2: Oh, you pull a box out and all the play
Speaker 2: mats fucking unrolled them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're like, oh my god, yes, oh my god.
Speaker 1: It All you want to do is throw them in
Speaker 1: the garbage.
Speaker 2: But but they've been signed by a bunch of people
Speaker 2: that you laugh, they're attached to a memory or whatever.
Speaker 2: You don't want to throw them away, but you don't
Speaker 2: have anyone to keep them. So I'm gonna take one
Speaker 2: of these things home. I'm gonna fill it up full
Speaker 2: of playmats, and I'm gonna hang on the back of
Speaker 2: my closet door until I move.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's mine.
Speaker 3: And the other thing too that you couldn't see is
Speaker 3: it's got these elastic stretches where because playmat tubes come
Speaker 3: in different sizes, you can stretchy fit your playmat tube
Speaker 3: into there. And it even offers a storage solution from
Speaker 3: playmat tubes. And if you don't want to hang it
Speaker 3: up on the hangar, it actually rolls up, even when
Speaker 3: it's full of playmats, it rolls up, and then it's
Speaker 3: got these things ties to tie it shut.
Speaker 1: Revolutionary.
Speaker 3: Then you can i don't know if you want to
Speaker 3: travel with it, but I don't. I don't know who
Speaker 3: wants to travel with ten playmats, but I'm sure a
Speaker 3: there is somebody who wants that.
Speaker 2: If you're somebody that travels with ten playmats, I would
Speaker 2: very much appreciate it, non judgmentally.
Speaker 1: What I say, please explain it to us in the
Speaker 1: comments below.
Speaker 3: Why do you do that? It ties up, it's wrong
Speaker 3: with you and you can maybe you're moving. Maybe you
Speaker 3: were moving like you just said, and you want to
Speaker 3: just carry all your playmats. So this is great. It
Speaker 3: was a very successful kickstarter. They're just in the process
Speaker 3: of creating the product and then getting it out to distribution.
Speaker 3: Links to nerd Gear is going to be in the
Speaker 3: comments of this show and and this little community segment
Speaker 3: because we want to feature Canadian products and really Canadian
Speaker 3: people that are out in the magic community doing stuff
Speaker 3: changing the game. Baby exactly right. And when I when
Speaker 3: I saw that that mcgil and nerd Gear was at
Speaker 3: a face to face games event in Edmonton, I was like, Hey,
Speaker 3: where have I seen that before? And then I went
Speaker 3: to their website and never because it's an innovation. Sorry,
Speaker 3: I went to that website and was like, I'll do it. Hey,
Speaker 3: wait a second, that's the play Matt Sanctuary guy. So
Speaker 3: I went to the play Mat Sanctuary kickstarter and was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's the same guy. I gotta get in touch with
Speaker 3: this guy. Didn't know he's Canadian, right, And then I
Speaker 3: was like, are you gonna be in Calgary, let's meet up.
Speaker 3: Let's let's like, I'll give you some CCO stuff. You
Speaker 3: let me have your stuff at my booth. I'll show
Speaker 3: all my people, right and like, let's build up the
Speaker 3: Canadian community like we do with face to face games.
Speaker 3: And he was all for it and totally nice and
Speaker 3: was like, hey, show this off, but let everybody know
Speaker 3: this and that. And man, I couldn't believe when I
Speaker 3: was talking to people how excited they were that that
Speaker 3: there's high quality stuff getting made like right here.
Speaker 1: And I mean lots of people use the like the
Speaker 1: Commander trays or whatever.
Speaker 2: They're not new, but these are very good and does
Speaker 2: come with the cool life clicker, and I think that
Speaker 2: it comes with the Commander dice.
Speaker 1: Which is something that not all of them do.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: So it's it's pretty cool to see something like this
Speaker 1: and all the different colors and stuff. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun.
Speaker 3: I've got this is This is the one I've got.
Speaker 3: It's like bronze, ancient bronze. And then they had like blue, teal, purple,
Speaker 3: like gray, and more colors coming all the time. I
Speaker 3: got you this one because this set here is purple
Speaker 3: and they match.
Speaker 1: I like when things match all the same color.
Speaker 3: I like that. Yeah. So come Face to Face Games
Speaker 3: Weekend in Edmonton in March. It's it's one of those
Speaker 3: one day shows that they split into like two days
Speaker 3: so they can fit in lore Cana and one Piece
Speaker 3: and all the extra stuff that they do. Now, we're
Speaker 3: gonna meet up with Miguel again and I would like
Speaker 3: to get a game in and show him what the
Speaker 3: nation's about. Maybe a fricking Milimum.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kick him right in the nuts out of
Speaker 1: the table.
Speaker 3: Writing nuts under the table. Yep. Yeah, so just mash
Speaker 3: him big. Thanks to nerd Gear Gaming. We like showing
Speaker 3: it off if and I'll throw this out there too.
Speaker 3: If you're a Canadian that has a gaming related product
Speaker 3: that you want featured on the show, hit us up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Commander Cookout at gmail dot com or Commander Cookout dot com.
Speaker 3: You can find all of our socials and contacts and
Speaker 3: stuff on the website, and we would love to feature
Speaker 3: that stuff because we want to build the nation. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: Think I met another guy there. This is not this
Speaker 1: is one of those first This is this ship we
Speaker 1: just talked about everybody.
Speaker 2: This one not for everybody, but really cool. It was
Speaker 2: like this great big card sort of machine.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dude. It was so cool.
Speaker 2: Like it scans the card and uses an online data
Speaker 2: pace to like get like what the card is, what
Speaker 2: color it is, what type of card it is, what
Speaker 2: it costs?
Speaker 1: Does it cost? Yeah, and it can like sort them
Speaker 1: all for you. And the guy was just.
Speaker 2: Standing there and I was watching the card work, and
Speaker 2: I'm talking to the guy and he's explaining all the
Speaker 2: different ways you can do it.
Speaker 1: Here's the part.
Speaker 3: And not just magic. They were sorting Pokemon. They were
Speaker 3: sorting lore Canna, any kind of card. And and I'll
Speaker 3: tell you something after this that it might even make
Speaker 3: you more impressed about this.
Speaker 2: And like a few stores have them and stuff and
Speaker 2: they like rent out time if people want to sort
Speaker 2: the collections of stuff.
Speaker 1: That's so neat, right, Well, I talked to the fucking
Speaker 1: guy machine.
Speaker 2: Very expensive. But here's the thing that I suggested to
Speaker 2: him that he said he might do. But maybe he
Speaker 2: was just humoring me.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Because at the end, after you go through all fourteen
Speaker 2: of the little piles that you can make is a
Speaker 2: little shoot and all the chaff oh no, comes out
Speaker 2: to shoot at the end.
Speaker 3: And I was like, dude, three D printed garbage can.
Speaker 2: If you just had a garbage can with a little
Speaker 2: fire in it and all of the trash just came
Speaker 2: on the end and went in the fire.
Speaker 1: That would be the YouTube video and history. Yes, but
Speaker 1: but man, that was that was cool too, just to
Speaker 1: see like this dude like invented this.
Speaker 2: Machine that I would Ooh, I want one so bad,
Speaker 2: but they are a little out of reach for ye boy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but if somebody locally had one, I would definitely pay
Speaker 2: them some money to use it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool. I got one more thing, but I
Speaker 3: want producer Gary to tell us what we're at for time. Okay, time,
Speaker 3: let's talk a little bit about the actual Face to
Speaker 3: Face Tour Weekend Regional Championship Calgary event and venue. Okay,
Speaker 3: because I've talked a little bit on like commander had
Speaker 3: populum about the behind the scenes and the the interesting
Speaker 3: things that you see and do as a part of
Speaker 3: being as being part of the team. Yeah, right, and
Speaker 3: you had your first experience at that this time, I
Speaker 3: worked the booth and so we yet chairs exactly. We
Speaker 3: rolled in on Thursday because and you can attest it
Speaker 3: took like dozens of people literally all day from nine
Speaker 3: till after six pm to set up the show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and everybody thanks the judges all the time. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: don't thank the event staff and the people that do
Speaker 3: literally the heavy lifting, chairs, tablecloths, totes, product merchandising. The
Speaker 3: prize wall was a job for like a team of
Speaker 3: six people. Hey, we got to get all the product
Speaker 3: out of all the bins and get all the bins right,
Speaker 3: let's make it look good. But this time there was
Speaker 3: a new challenge because there was Lorcana one piece Star
Speaker 3: Wars Star Wars product on the wall. And of course
Speaker 3: the retail the retail booth is one thing where they
Speaker 3: sell stuff for money, and then the prize wall, where
Speaker 3: you take your prize tickets and cash them in for
Speaker 3: pretend play money is another thing. And of course the
Speaker 3: business side of it, says Hey, these things should be
Speaker 3: front and center because they're new, or they're profitable, or
Speaker 3: they sell the most of right, So we got to
Speaker 3: get a little bit of that intel, and.
Speaker 1: Then we have to make it look nice, to draw
Speaker 1: people's eyes to the ship that you.
Speaker 3: Want to make it look good? And and did you
Speaker 3: have a good time?
Speaker 1: I did. I had lots of fun.
Speaker 3: I had a ton of I have fun every time
Speaker 3: that I do it. I've done it a few times now.
Speaker 3: And man, were you surprised at all all of the stuff?
Speaker 3: I think, like all of the when you open a
Speaker 3: tote and it's like, oh, this tote is full of
Speaker 3: just collector booster cases.
Speaker 2: I was surprised at how many booster boxes we had
Speaker 2: at the beginning, because like, I cracked, I'll bet you
Speaker 2: nine cases, nine cases cases of.
Speaker 1: Boxes, and then when we left, I repacked two. I
Speaker 1: was very surprised by that. I didn't I didn't realize
Speaker 1: how much how people ball out of control. One dude
Speaker 1: came up with prize ticks.
Speaker 2: You all take that collector box and I'll take that
Speaker 2: booster box, and I was like, this isn't the retail wall,
Speaker 2: my guy, And he just whips out this fat stack of.
Speaker 3: Count all these he's got like five thousand tickets, and
Speaker 3: I forget.
Speaker 1: Who's the Who's the dude that works at the Prize Wall?
Speaker 2: He was he didn't smile very much, and he kept
Speaker 2: giving me this, He keeps giving me this look like scrip.
Speaker 1: It was just god damn it, Brando. Every time he
Speaker 1: looked at Me's like, goddamnit, Brando was. I'm like, because
Speaker 1: I don't count like everybody else.
Speaker 3: There's yeah, there's a guy named Chris Taller guy. Uh,
Speaker 3: there's a guy named Patrick, my good friend Patrick, and
Speaker 3: they they normally do the business in the Prize Wall
Speaker 3: and great dud, oh yeah, great. Everybody that you work with,
Speaker 3: it's like they don't pick people when when you when
Speaker 3: you work in events and when you work in I'm
Speaker 3: gonna call it like hospitality, but I'll take it a
Speaker 3: step further and call it gaming hospitality. You're there to
Speaker 3: service people that are there to have a good time.
Speaker 3: Why is everybody in Las Vegas like really nice to
Speaker 3: you because they're drunk, because they're good at being nice,
Speaker 3: because they work in gaming hospitality. I'm here to have
Speaker 3: a good time and spend freaking money to have a
Speaker 3: good time. That's why we're nice, right right, And everybody
Speaker 3: that I've ever worked with at face to face or
Speaker 3: when I go to the other vendors at the show,
Speaker 3: like Fusion is there of course and Mtgy Stronghold a
Speaker 3: house of cards and say, hey guys, you need any chairs?
Speaker 3: Where do these curtains go? Where do you want your tables?
Speaker 3: Do you have your own tablecloths?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this and that and oh hey big thanks? Or
Speaker 3: hey can you take these toats? We don't need them.
Speaker 3: Everybody's so nice. And the funny thing about it is
Speaker 3: they all have their own so much stuff. I can
Speaker 3: never get over it.
Speaker 1: Did you see the thirty thousand dollars Mickey Mouse card? Who?
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 3: Magic? The gathering it?
Speaker 2: I don't I stand ignorant. So if anybody out there
Speaker 2: I saw in one of the cases is a Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 1: It's like gold, but not actual gold gold, get foil
Speaker 1: the guy, let me touch it. It's not made of gold.
Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse card for twenty ninety nine dollars and ninety
Speaker 2: nine sick. Anybody knows why that costs so much?
Speaker 1: Please tell us.
Speaker 3: I remember when Lorecana came out and it was all
Speaker 3: the it was all the thing for all the Magic
Speaker 3: people that were like, hey, let's do this LORCNA thing
Speaker 3: and we'll get in early and will become the next
Speaker 3: command zone. But for Lorcana and that came out as
Speaker 3: part of like the first Championship thing, and there was
Speaker 3: only of course limited number because you could only get
Speaker 3: one if you win like the first regional championship or
Speaker 3: whatever like like Magic. There's a reason that's that it's expensive.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that there is. It's just who know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That was that was plus Mickey us Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: So that was that was set up and that was
Speaker 3: the event, the takedown. Takedown You thought the setup was
Speaker 3: lots of work. Take down way more fucking work because
Speaker 3: you got to figure out how all the ship like
Speaker 3: goes back into the bags that it was in.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, that's not what they told me. They just
Speaker 2: told me, listen, this is stuff. This is the actual
Speaker 2: instruction that I was given. Kay Brown, do you see
Speaker 2: that stuff?
Speaker 1: Yes? See these boxes? Yes? Eh? Eh? And I said yes, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: And that's what I did.
Speaker 3: Okay, it is good, super cool, yeah, super cool.
Speaker 1: That's what they told me.
Speaker 2: They realized Brando's simple instructions, tell him do things, Brando,
Speaker 2: go pick chair, put over there.
Speaker 1: Yes, will do. And then I acquired a crew of
Speaker 1: dudes that helped me and it worked good.
Speaker 2: Big shout out to Aiden, who found the grossest thing
Speaker 2: at the whole con when he picked up a folding
Speaker 2: chair with a shit stain on it.
Speaker 3: Boom, butt crack stamp boom. Like I'm touching my face
Speaker 3: as I'm saying this, and i feel like I'm getting pink.
Speaker 1: Eye both butt cheeks with a shit stain in the middle. Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow, here's a public service announcement.
Speaker 2: Okay, wipe your ass, wipe your ass, and don't shit
Speaker 2: yourself in public, and don't do that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take it one half step farther. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'll show you I don't like doing the audio only
Speaker 3: listeners of disservice. Okay, So you're gonna describe what I'm
Speaker 3: doing and I'm gonna like exaggerate it while I'm doing it. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So he's moving away from the mike, he's standing up,
Speaker 2: he's flattening his pants out.
Speaker 1: Pretend I'm sitting down in magic He's gonna sit down
Speaker 1: in a magic chair. Gonna do. Hey, side you, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is how a normal person sits down. He sits
Speaker 1: down like you or I. That's what there it is.
Speaker 1: But in chair bag, No, that's not what.
Speaker 3: No, no, this is what you should do.
Speaker 2: Okay, hands up, pull your pants up and then you
Speaker 2: sit that way your ass doesn't.
Speaker 1: Touch the chair and then ye can people see this?
Speaker 1: It's your shirt.
Speaker 2: It's your shirt. You cover the back of your butt
Speaker 2: with your shirt. That way, your butt crack isn't sticking out.
Speaker 1: Flawless.
Speaker 3: Okay, So when you sit down, hold your pants up,
Speaker 3: and then because they're gonna go down some amount, regardless
Speaker 3: of your body shape or your pants style, they will
Speaker 3: go down a little bit. Pull your shirt down over
Speaker 3: over your pants.
Speaker 1: That's why I wear triple XL shirts.
Speaker 3: Bone as points. If you wear a belt, hey, CCEO belts,
Speaker 3: maybe we should do that. You know, not a lot
Speaker 3: of butt cracks in the nation.
Speaker 1: I need a new belt, if that's fair. And you
Speaker 1: know what it is, disintegrated.
Speaker 3: I don't care if guys but cracks. It doesn't bother me,
Speaker 3: It doesn't bug me. But but I don't want to
Speaker 3: see crap stays on the chair.
Speaker 1: It bugs me.
Speaker 2: When I see literal shit on a chair right now
Speaker 2: that I'm the person that's going to pick up the chair.
Speaker 1: Now, I care if there's on it. Okay, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, guys.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: We're better than this.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: We're better than this.
Speaker 3: You know what I think. I think over the years,
Speaker 3: we've had a lot of kind of rhetoric about being
Speaker 3: better and and being a better let's face it, a
Speaker 3: better stereotype still of gamer. Right, Let's let's appreciate each
Speaker 3: other more. Let's support each other more in whatever capacity
Speaker 3: we need it. Let's let's raise the level of gaming
Speaker 3: and events and and like products that we buy and sell.
Speaker 3: Let's treat ourselves better as well, right, And I think
Speaker 3: we've come a long way, even in the seven or
Speaker 3: eight years we've done CCO. I don't see very or
Speaker 3: I don't see with my nose, I don't smell very
Speaker 3: many stinky gamers anymore. And I think that that stereotype
Speaker 3: got bad enough that like even the sweatiest of mouth
Speaker 3: breather wised.
Speaker 1: Up to it, right, brush their teeth, yeah, pittick, that's great.
Speaker 3: I think the next frontier. I think the next frontier
Speaker 3: is the butt crack. I hope, so God, I want
Speaker 3: that to be a sound bite so bad. The next
Speaker 3: frontier is the butt Cracklets let's work on that tear.
Speaker 1: Yes we should.
Speaker 3: Let's work on butt crack the final front Let's work.
Speaker 1: Let's do that as a team.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Should we talk about an actual magic thing, real fast.
Speaker 3: Team, but crack team? But yes, yes we should.
Speaker 1: Interesting conversation I had with a couple of guys. You
Speaker 1: gave me a pack to give away, yea.
Speaker 2: And I walked around and I tried to find like
Speaker 2: the most kind of un busy at that point commander
Speaker 2: dudes that could possibly find.
Speaker 1: So I give them a sticker in this pack and
Speaker 1: then open it with them and shoot the shit.
Speaker 2: And while we're shooting the shit, we were talking about
Speaker 2: how Magic Foundations didn't have any commit with it. That's
Speaker 2: a very very large diversion from what they normally would do.
Speaker 2: Do you think going forward that there should be more
Speaker 2: products that do not have commander decks with them. I
Speaker 2: think yes, I think that there should be in some
Speaker 2: cases like Foundations, because it doesn't need them. It's got
Speaker 2: enough stuff to bring in. And in the case of
Speaker 2: Assassin's Creed, there's a Commander deck there that you can
Speaker 2: collect yourself like a build a figure, so cool, don't
Speaker 2: need them?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 3: I think yes, and not to detract from giving Commander
Speaker 3: players things that they want. Pre cons are things that
Speaker 3: Commander players would want, right absolutely, But I think it
Speaker 3: would be better to utilize resources within Watsei to give
Speaker 3: us other things that we would also want, or things
Speaker 3: that other players might also want.
Speaker 2: I saw the Starter Collection and the Beginner Box, both
Speaker 2: open in Calgary and in Saskatoon. Now those are great products,
Speaker 2: as we said before in the review. Now I've seen
Speaker 2: them in real life, great products. I would much rather
Speaker 2: have those in this situation than a Commander deck.
Speaker 3: And those I think are probably better to get new
Speaker 3: players in. Like Mike that drove Sink Guy and not
Speaker 3: our Bottle Mummy.
Speaker 1: Up round trip of twenty two hours baby.
Speaker 3: He him and I and Mac we played Jumpstart great
Speaker 3: great for learning. Did he also play Commander yes?
Speaker 1: Oh man, very complicated deck?
Speaker 3: Is that conduce him to learning?
Speaker 1: He was playing Jared. We've done a tech on it
Speaker 1: on the show.
Speaker 2: His Roco Goblins Combo deck yep Roco Goblin Combo deck
Speaker 2: not good if you don't know how to do.
Speaker 3: So, less pre con, Yes, because I think it'll serve
Speaker 3: us other products, other niches within magic yep, whether and
Speaker 3: and I'm maybe maybe I'm not talking like the straight
Speaker 3: to modern like oh, this is the modern deck that
Speaker 3: you play, because those products are never are never really
Speaker 3: that successful. But start bundles, maybe different kinds of box
Speaker 3: sets that that are like the Commander's Arsenal that are
Speaker 3: now very collectible, right but at the time not crazy
Speaker 3: hard to get, like a from the Vault thing, not
Speaker 3: limited time really like a secret Lairy you only have
Speaker 3: a couple of days and still yeah, still give the community,
Speaker 3: the player base, something that they that they want and
Speaker 3: appreciate and can learn from and use and eventually fricking
Speaker 3: trade like the Click down Life Wheels and the Commander's Arsenal,
Speaker 3: the Foil Special Foiling Calia and Reliquary Tower and Azusa.
Speaker 3: Those are like hot cards now, yeah man, yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 3: less pre cons that'd be cool because it opens up
Speaker 3: space secret layers. Final thing, final thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is a Rhyan star.
Speaker 2: Ryn's gonna tell you a story about the greatest secret
Speaker 2: layer ever opened in the history of secret layers.
Speaker 1: You sent me a picture of it the storm one.
Speaker 2: Tell him the story, right, tell him about the storm
Speaker 2: Marvel Comics secret Layer that was opened in Calgary.
Speaker 3: So I sees it. I sees the picture of Oh no,
Speaker 3: it wasn't in Calgary. Yeah, sorry, I sees a picture
Speaker 3: of guy gets secret layer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lip, I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: That rips the thing opens the top flap and then
Speaker 3: he sees his card peeking out, folded over the inside
Speaker 3: flap folded over, and nay, not one card. All the
Speaker 3: cards hold it over, peeking out, giving them a little,
Speaker 3: giving him the giving him the secret layer.
Speaker 1: Saluteay, Secy, there it is.
Speaker 3: I'm in here folded over.
Speaker 1: Poor guy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, poor guy, you know what you almost want
Speaker 3: if you could feel I would encourage everybody to feel
Speaker 3: their secret layers, like really feel them out to see
Speaker 3: if that happens. Because if you've got a folded one
Speaker 3: and leave it sealed, I bet you you could sell
Speaker 3: it for more. Fuck that a gamer. Yeah, there's there's
Speaker 3: some men maxing that ship.
Speaker 1: There's an MTG financer for you right there.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: That time you found a bug on a card in
Speaker 1: a booth, Oh god, and.
Speaker 3: It was on a playable card. It was on a
Speaker 3: Bolus's citadel bug dead bug printed onto the card. So
Speaker 3: that's my final thought of the MTG finance. Uh, thank
Speaker 3: the business daddies, thank the Patreon supporters, and the CCO nationalized.
Speaker 3: One more time. Let's get the hell out of here,
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