Speaker 1: Hey, listen to Come Who Go Podcast, Episode four seventy five.
Speaker 1: I'm Brando, I'm here thrown I did. We got a
Speaker 1: special guests for to talk to magic stuff. It's a
Speaker 1: minute strata now theme. Hey Bryan, we're back and forget
Speaker 1: another whirlwind adventure. How you doing?
Speaker 2: Hit a themes song? Hit a theme song? We don't
Speaker 2: know what it is.
Speaker 1: We haven't picked it yet as of now.
Speaker 3: In the future, when people are listening to this through
Speaker 3: the magic of technology, we will have one. And I
Speaker 3: hope you liked it, because we're sticking with it forever
Speaker 3: unless you hate it, in which case we'll change it
Speaker 3: to something else.
Speaker 2: Or we already have one because editor Joe sung it
Speaker 2: last time. You might just keep that one forever.
Speaker 1: But he didn't send me the file of it so
Speaker 1: I can edit it back.
Speaker 3: O man, and I can't get into a cappella that
Speaker 3: thing every week. That's that's asking a little much, editor, just.
Speaker 2: A little bit. Yeah. So hey, speaking of asking a
Speaker 2: lot of people. We have a special guest.
Speaker 3: But before we get to that, well, we'll talk about
Speaker 3: that toast in a second. Sure, And there's a guy
Speaker 3: here too, which is really kind of freaking me out.
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Speaker 2: Oh so excited. We've got our first sidewalk slam in
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Speaker 2: come on, we got to running around pulling his hair out.
Speaker 1: Now we got a live show that's happening like right away,
Speaker 1: so we have to make sure that we record the
Speaker 1: whole show and then be out of here.
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Speaker 2: screen if you're watching on YouTube, which should be Editor
Speaker 2: Joe works hard. We appreciate him. We today for some
Speaker 2: fun and stories. Have our good friend Kelly from Face
Speaker 2: to Face Games here a little bit. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk about the Canadian Magic Tour. But we just did
Speaker 2: an episode of Commander History on that, so check that
Speaker 2: out anywhere you find your podcasts. We're on the YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: But we we had some questions because in a Stride's
Speaker 2: coming out and uh, we wanted to pick your brain
Speaker 2: as somebody who's kind of got the inn uh in
Speaker 2: the industry.
Speaker 1: So wait a second, here, this this is Kelly.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the toast is somebody else.
Speaker 1: Well where's the hat? Oh?
Speaker 2: Where is the hat? Okay, introduce yourself and tell us
Speaker 2: about the hat.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks for having me, guys, really having to be here.
Speaker 4: I'm Kelly from Face to Face Games, yep, and a
Speaker 4: big fan of the show, big fan of the show.
Speaker 4: I'm not big fan Fusion Games as well. They're great
Speaker 4: partners of ours, so big shout of the Fusion and
Speaker 4: uh yeah, so uh most of you don't recognize me.
Speaker 4: I'm incognito because I'm not wearing my grandfather's hat. It's
Speaker 4: at the it's it needs, it needs a day to
Speaker 4: rest before the big show tomorrow.
Speaker 2: The storm before the storm but it is.
Speaker 4: It is here, and it will be on site tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I'm wearing my my battle penguin took here instead tonight.
Speaker 4: So the hat is a really special part of me. Actually,
Speaker 4: if I can hat ramble for a moment. Yeah. My
Speaker 4: grandfather was sort of a a businessman who I inspired
Speaker 4: me to sort of start my own business. And he,
Speaker 4: you know, he's very old fashioned. You know, he's the
Speaker 4: kind of guy who kept a hundred dollars bill in
Speaker 4: his shoe at all times because you never know when
Speaker 4: you just need a hondo, you know. Yes, But he
Speaker 4: told me, you know, when I was about sixteen years old,
Speaker 4: We're at like a old family get away for his
Speaker 4: eighty fifth birthday in Montana. He said, Kelly, you're going
Speaker 4: into business. You need a good hat. Okay, good advice.
Speaker 4: So I took the one off his head and put
Speaker 4: it on my head. Hey, give him my hat back.
Speaker 4: I know, he said I need a good hat. So
Speaker 4: I stole yours. And he really didn't want to back,
Speaker 4: but my grandmother didn't let him.
Speaker 2: He's like, it looks.
Speaker 4: So good on him, he looks good on it. You
Speaker 4: give him the hat. Give him the hat.
Speaker 2: So the first business lesson was you need a good hat.
Speaker 2: The second one is it's okay to steal.
Speaker 4: Well family, you know, a little family theft. So yeah,
Speaker 4: so that's and then you know, the hat sort of
Speaker 4: became a bit of a bit of a by guiding star,
Speaker 4: my symbol of like, you know, being the center of
Speaker 4: attention because at the at these shows, at these big
Speaker 4: face to face tour events, I'm usually the guy with
Speaker 4: the answer. So when other people, the other staff are like, oh,
Speaker 4: you got to go talk to the guy with the
Speaker 4: hat all the time, it's an easy way to communicate
Speaker 4: with folks who then need to wander across the convention
Speaker 4: center to find me.
Speaker 2: We oh, man, if we had a counter for every
Speaker 2: time somebody in CECO Nations said, okay, just go talk.
Speaker 2: You see the guy with the hat, go talk to him,
Speaker 2: the orange shirt hat him. He's your guy. And it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if it's you or I or one of
Speaker 2: our guests for a CEO experience or anything. It's it's like, hey, good,
Speaker 2: there's palliative pizzas that we got to deliver hat over there.
Speaker 2: That guy all the time. Yeah, and didn't you lose
Speaker 2: it one time?
Speaker 4: He's been lost and found many times, many times, yep, yep.
Speaker 4: So it's I mean it's been uh, you know, six
Speaker 4: seven years. I've been doing the hat. Yeah, travels, travels.
Speaker 2: There you go. It's like a pregame ritual now, right,
Speaker 2: Like batters in the batting box, they do all their
Speaker 2: all their stuff and they you know, all the Yeah,
Speaker 2: he just he just happens.
Speaker 4: Sports reference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a sports ball reference. So we've got Kelly here.
Speaker 2: He's in town from Winter Peg. Fusion's actually Kelly's local
Speaker 2: game stores. You know what, It's true. His daughter goes
Speaker 2: there and dumpsters guys in Pokemon all the time. He said. Really,
Speaker 2: we throw down pretty much that part of the interview.
Speaker 1: Now I wasn't here for that.
Speaker 2: People actually played Pokemon, or.
Speaker 3: Maybe I was busy eating tacos on the couch and
Speaker 3: I couldn't hear you over the crunching.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, very much so. But not what we're talking
Speaker 2: about today, Not Pokemon, not pre releases, not Fusion. We
Speaker 2: wanted to pick your brain a little bit about in
Speaker 2: Austrode because you played during OG in.
Speaker 4: Austrod Buddy, I was running pre releases back in before
Speaker 4: face to face games. I was I was running in
Speaker 4: Astra pre release, and I remember because I knew it
Speaker 4: was Friday. I knew I was gonna be able to
Speaker 4: play the Sunday pre release, and I thought, maybe I
Speaker 4: should open my pre release pool early, you know, to
Speaker 4: build my deck because I'll be busy while everyone else
Speaker 4: is building on Sunday. I was like, no, I should
Speaker 4: save it because I don't want to open like the
Speaker 4: nuts and then have people accuse me, Oh yeah, you
Speaker 4: just dacked it. And man, is a good thing I
Speaker 4: waited because I opened the most insane pre release pool
Speaker 4: to date. What it was, it was Black Red Vampires.
Speaker 4: I had the blood Gift Demon, the one that like
Speaker 4: lets you Frexian Arena every turn.
Speaker 2: Or your opponent if they're at one, you can kill.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly that you can nuke your opponent for one turn.
Speaker 4: I had the Flip, the Bloodline keeper Flip vampire that
Speaker 4: poops up more little vampire. Okay. Then I had Olivia,
Speaker 4: the Black Red Olivia the legendary creatures, the huge uhh
Speaker 4: I think that was yep, yep, so right there like
Speaker 4: three playable rares. I had the dude, the like mad
Speaker 4: scientists who makes the five to five demons okay, and
Speaker 4: then I had, uh the there was one other rare,
Speaker 4: one other playable rare. Oh it was one of the
Speaker 4: rare curses that like actually was good, the black one.
Speaker 4: I can't remember what.
Speaker 2: It is, man, Yeah, I don't remember, but remember the
Speaker 2: curse being a thing and limited though, like if you
Speaker 2: if you drafted, because lots of them were on commons,
Speaker 2: you could get a few curses and like go to town.
Speaker 4: Right, And then the only rare I had that wasn't
Speaker 4: on color was a foil snapcast mate.
Speaker 5: Oh no, oh.
Speaker 4: Wiping my eyes with my wads. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man.
Speaker 2: That was That's almost the exact same thing that. And
Speaker 2: I might have told the story on the cast before.
Speaker 2: But my first ever in a STRAD draft, and I
Speaker 2: swear we're a Commander podcast, but just listen to how
Speaker 2: crazy this is. So I'm sitting my first ever in
Speaker 2: a STRAD draft. I'm sitting at a table. There's like
Speaker 2: two guys on the long side, two guys in the
Speaker 2: long side, and then me and another dude are on
Speaker 2: the ends. Set eight maybe there's three and three and two. Yeah,
Speaker 2: eight of us and the dude that's sitting right next
Speaker 2: to me his first draft ever, and like young kid,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe thirteen whatever, fourteen knew at Magic and not
Speaker 2: as new as I thought. It turns out, do you remember,
Speaker 2: like everybody was all hubbub and all up in arms.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, these double sided cards. We have to reveal
Speaker 2: them when we draft. There's no strategy because they know
Speaker 2: what I'm drafting. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, they're drafting werewolves. You're gonna get poned, like yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh unless you unless the dude to my right opens
Speaker 2: Bloodline Keeper and shows Bloodline Keeper, and i put all
Speaker 2: my shit down, all heavy, and I'm like, oh wow,
Speaker 2: here we go. Our draft's got Bloodline Keeper. That guy's
Speaker 2: gonna win literally best card in the set because it
Speaker 2: ships out vampires every turn and it's a limited five
Speaker 2: flyer or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, limited bomb.
Speaker 2: So he shuffles his pack up, picks his ship, shuffles
Speaker 2: his packup, passes it to me and I'm flipping through it.
Speaker 2: Bloodline Keeper still in the pack, and I've thought, man,
Speaker 2: this guy must be new. This guy's an idiot, And
Speaker 2: I'm like, fuddy, hey, h literally, this is the best
Speaker 2: card in the in the draft, Like, there's nobody that
Speaker 2: opened up a better card than this one. You should
Speaker 2: probably take this one. He goes, no, I'm okay. I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, this is the best card. It's it's gonna
Speaker 2: be good. You should build a black deck. He's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's fine, don't need it. So I picked it. So
Speaker 2: I picked it, and I freaking won prizes in that draft.
Speaker 2: I don't think I want it, but I want prizes.
Speaker 2: And then later I says to him, I says, hey,
Speaker 2: why didn't you pick the bloodline vampire? And he goes,
Speaker 2: Foil Snapcaster. Oh yeah, he's like, yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: I probably opened the same booster pack. Probably like went
Speaker 4: through a black hole from him to me.
Speaker 2: I think I won like three packs or something in
Speaker 2: the draft, and he just traded his Foil Snapcaster and
Speaker 2: he got a whole blox.
Speaker 4: Oh remember when rares they.
Speaker 2: Used to matter? Yeah? Well, I I actually have one
Speaker 2: more in astrad story, and this one directly involves Brando. Me. Yes,
Speaker 2: I love stories. You're gonna remember as soon as I
Speaker 2: start telling it. Okay, So Brando and I one time
Speaker 2: it's in a strade and Dark Ascension. That's that was
Speaker 2: the next one, right, Dark Ascension before Avison restored was
Speaker 2: the was the big set again? Right? It went big
Speaker 2: little big yep. So we had like instrade maybe four instras,
Speaker 2: two dark ascensions, and we were doing sealed two headed Giants,
Speaker 2: sealed limited. Was it you and me and we were
Speaker 2: we were the two headed giants? Yes, so it's me
Speaker 2: and you and.
Speaker 1: We did really good.
Speaker 2: You built We built you like some red black or
Speaker 2: sorry red green thing were wolves, and we built me
Speaker 2: blue black vampires or mill or some shit like as
Speaker 2: we do.
Speaker 4: Right, A mill deck is so fun.
Speaker 2: So so we were playing and we sit down with
Speaker 2: this this other two guys that we didn't know, and
Speaker 2: the guy shuffling, shuffling, shuffling, and then he flips his
Speaker 2: deck over face up and he starts pile shuffling, face up,
Speaker 2: pile shoffling like land card card, land card card, land
Speaker 2: card card land or whatever. Right, and then he gives
Speaker 2: it to you and he said, and he says, can
Speaker 2: you cut? And you pick up his deck? No sleaves,
Speaker 2: nose leaves because why and you start chaps. He's like,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? Man? And me and you just
Speaker 2: jumped on him. Hey, well you're a pile shuffler. You
Speaker 2: can't stack your deck like that and expect us not
Speaker 2: to shuffle it. And then he was like, well, you
Speaker 2: can't shuffle somebody else's deck. I can randomize your deck
Speaker 2: in any way that I want that isn't damaging your cards.
Speaker 4: Much.
Speaker 2: And then he goes, well you're damaging my cards. They've
Speaker 2: got foils in there. I'm like, should have sleaved it.
Speaker 2: Then we're not giving this guy an inch no, and
Speaker 2: uh and then uh oh man, oh fuck, it was
Speaker 2: so funny. No, well, it gets even better when you
Speaker 2: took it back from him. You you like card card land,
Speaker 2: card card land, card card land to randomize it. Then
Speaker 2: you stacked it back up. That's what it was. That's
Speaker 2: what made him so mad because you stacked it back up.
Speaker 2: You unweaved it, yep. And he's like, well you can't
Speaker 2: do that, and you said, well, I'm randomizing your deck
Speaker 2: and then you started to shuffle it. Man, I told
Speaker 2: the story all wrong, But the point was these guys
Speaker 2: like got so mad. They got so mad at us,
Speaker 2: and eventually he was like, well give you my cards
Speaker 2: back or man, this like this is this, like this
Speaker 2: could get ugly. I didn't know we were gonna come
Speaker 2: show up play with some assholes, they're going to wreck
Speaker 2: our cards, Like, how do you settle this? And he
Speaker 2: was like, do you want to go outside and fight?
Speaker 2: Like that's where he was going, And then Brando and
Speaker 2: I were just like, no, I don't know, we can
Speaker 2: call the store owner. That's probably better. He's like, okay, fine,
Speaker 2: I'll just play the cards. But if I get manuscrewed,
Speaker 2: now it's.
Speaker 4: Your all your fall.
Speaker 2: Oh that was our intra to head a giant and
Speaker 2: we dumpster them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we demolished them.
Speaker 2: If it would ended up being a good game, it
Speaker 2: would have been fine.
Speaker 4: But no, you got horribly.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you started thirty or whatever, right, and man,
Speaker 2: we were at like twenty eight and they were at
Speaker 2: negative ten like it was. It was a and you
Speaker 2: milled them and we milled them and we poisoned them.
Speaker 1: It was a heavy beating. It was a heavy sack beating.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, So that's not even the.
Speaker 3: First time that I did something like that either. It
Speaker 3: don't sound like a huge asshole. Somebody else did that
Speaker 3: whole Mano weaving thing again. I just took their deck
Speaker 3: and liked card land card.
Speaker 1: And I unweaved it and then I just put the stacks.
Speaker 3: Back together and then cut it a couple of times,
Speaker 3: just like they did before they gave it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I gave it back.
Speaker 1: To them and they were like whoa. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's that's how you shouldn't have showed me. You were cheating.
Speaker 1: And then she draws her hand and she looks at
Speaker 1: It's fine, I'll keep it. And it was seven land.
Speaker 4: It was seven and the rest of the other eleven
Speaker 4: land in her deck and then and well man.
Speaker 3: And my I was playing want a Red at the
Speaker 3: time when Goblin Guide was still a thing, So I
Speaker 3: turned one goblin Guide swing. She shows me a land,
Speaker 3: puts it into her hand, plays a Land, discards a
Speaker 3: card on her turn. I played another Goblin Guide, swinging.
Speaker 1: With two of them land land into her hand. Then
Speaker 1: she played a Land, discarded two cards.
Speaker 2: Oh, she played the whole game.
Speaker 1: It was very funny for me. She was very upset.
Speaker 2: The reason I wanted to tell the story is because
Speaker 2: it was about weaving, and I told it wrong. But
Speaker 2: we've got in strad Remastered coming out. It's a compilation
Speaker 2: of all the in sets put together, and we wanted
Speaker 2: some intel from somebody in the industry about how it like,
Speaker 2: how it happens, And we talked about like opening packs
Speaker 2: and sorting machines and tell us about that because nobody,
Speaker 2: like nobody gets it.
Speaker 3: I think we just go to face or fusion or wherever,
Speaker 3: and we like add it to our card and then
Speaker 3: you guys send it to us after we give you
Speaker 3: some money. So like before that, how does the card
Speaker 3: go from? Like do they send you big like bales
Speaker 3: of cards bricks that you buy for the store, or
Speaker 3: do you have to open boxes like the rest of
Speaker 3: us chumps, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, how does it happen?
Speaker 4: It's it's a great question, yeah, because you know face
Speaker 4: to face games and other big magic the gathering retailers.
Speaker 4: You know, our main business is buying and selling and
Speaker 4: trading in the single cards.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 4: And for anyone who's cracked a box trying to find
Speaker 4: that card you need and gone through seventy.
Speaker 2: Five, where's that damn common ever?
Speaker 4: Ever?
Speaker 2: You ever crack a box?
Speaker 1: There? Uncle bred that you want to never?
Speaker 4: So it really is, you know, you know, leave it
Speaker 4: to us to get the boxes cracked and get folks
Speaker 4: the cards you need, because then you can just buy
Speaker 4: the single cards you need. And you know, I genuinely,
Speaker 4: from the bottom of my heart, it is better to
Speaker 4: buy the cards you need. New pack smell is delicious,
Speaker 4: you know, we all love it, But do yourself a favor.
Speaker 4: When you're hunting for specific cards. Just go to your
Speaker 4: local game store shop you know, from us or anybody else,
Speaker 4: and grab the specific individual card you need.
Speaker 2: So very so I'm gonna add to that, just for
Speaker 2: clarity's sake, very specifically, don't order your cards on Amazon
Speaker 2: or buy them at Walmart. Correct are we are we
Speaker 2: cool with that? We can say that, we can see that. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: just make.
Speaker 4: Sure and yeah, and the reason is because your local
Speaker 4: game store is gonna host an event. They're gonna have
Speaker 4: you out for draft. They're gonna be someone who when
Speaker 4: new product comes out that's rare and hard to get,
Speaker 4: you can if you know your game store owner's name,
Speaker 4: you're gonna be able to say, hey, can you put
Speaker 4: a box aside for me and and actually get it.
Speaker 4: You know, these are people who pre siate your business
Speaker 4: a lot more than you know a rounding error in
Speaker 4: Amazon's quarterly you know, And and it's going to mean
Speaker 4: something to them that you chose to shop with them
Speaker 4: rather than you know, and and even us, like people
Speaker 4: people call us the Walmart of Magic at Face Face
Speaker 4: Games because you know when they're grouchy at us. But
Speaker 4: like I'm one of the owners, you know, like it's
Speaker 4: still owned by a couple of humans who you know
Speaker 4: live in Canada and shop at our local stores and
Speaker 4: things like that. You know how economies work.
Speaker 2: You know what we say, We've we've said on Commander
Speaker 2: Cookot a couple of times, like of of the CCO
Speaker 2: Media Group and local game stores and Fusion and Face
Speaker 2: and that are like our Canadian partners and brands. Here
Speaker 2: is in all likelihood it's somebody's business. And like we say,
Speaker 2: we appreciate when people invest in our business. And and
Speaker 2: that is somebody's you know, gas money or food or
Speaker 2: you can pay an employee, and that's somebody's job. Right,
Speaker 2: So it matters to people.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it absolutely does. So we appreciate all our customers.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much to everybody who does shop locally. Now,
Speaker 4: in terms of the mechanics, how do we get cards
Speaker 4: on our website? Yeah, because people always want to know,
Speaker 4: like how you guys have pre orders up because we
Speaker 4: don't get the product any earlier than anybody else. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: So one thing we'll do is we'll sort of guess
Speaker 4: at how many copies we're going to open. And so
Speaker 4: when Brando's cracking packs trying to find that one, we
Speaker 4: do the same thing. We just crack packs and sort. Now,
Speaker 4: you know, generally a big store like us, we open
Speaker 4: enough product where we can pretty comfortably guess, Okay, we're
Speaker 4: gonna open X. That means we'll get this many copies.
Speaker 4: There's a distance you.
Speaker 2: Should kind of charge. You can look at. We need
Speaker 2: this one mythic. We're going to open up this much
Speaker 2: of this kind of product, And it's at this rarity,
Speaker 2: like there's math equations that can loosely govern how much
Speaker 2: product you think you.
Speaker 4: Should open right totally, and and so we can do
Speaker 4: some math like that. Now the challenge is UH, to
Speaker 4: be honest, I don't work in that end of the
Speaker 4: business anymore. I'm exclusively on the tour. But I will
Speaker 4: tell you some hilarious stories because we used to hilarious
Speaker 4: back in the day. We used to take pre orders
Speaker 4: and then we would just crack until we hit that.
Speaker 4: And Wheels used to be very very strict on when
Speaker 4: we could get the product and so we would you know,
Speaker 4: they would say it cannot ship until, you know, the
Speaker 4: day before release. Well, we're getting the product into the
Speaker 4: store on Thursday. You know. The UPS guy would get
Speaker 4: to the store at like two pm on Thursday.
Speaker 2: With a truck full. It would be most of.
Speaker 4: A skid or whatever on a big set.
Speaker 2: Like six foot tall four foot by four foot by
Speaker 2: six foot high wes a thousand pounds.
Speaker 4: On a good set. We would be going deep and
Speaker 4: we would sometimes we'd pre sold, you know, a couple
Speaker 4: of the Hot Mythics and I definitely got greedy one
Speaker 4: or two sets. I think when was it, it was
Speaker 4: one of those in the car anyway, I can't remember
Speaker 4: when it was, but we sort of over sold a
Speaker 4: couple of the Mythics and I was like, sitting down
Speaker 4: with the boxes. This is Thursday afternoon, and we've got
Speaker 4: to have everything sorted ready for pickup for Friday morning
Speaker 4: eleven am. And so we're I'm there busting packs with
Speaker 4: a couple of the gang and we're like we're not
Speaker 4: hitting what we need, you know, And I'm like, oh no,
Speaker 4: And we wound up opening an extra three or four
Speaker 4: cases of product trying to get and then day one,
Speaker 4: we're sold out of the hottest mythic rare and meanwhile
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, we got thirteen of this bulk mythic
Speaker 4: did you want to add one of those your order
Speaker 4: and be be like good. So, you know, there's definitely
Speaker 4: been times where it doesn't work out as well as
Speaker 4: you want, But yeah, we definitely, we used to definitely. Uh,
Speaker 4: Thursday night was modern at the Toronto store back in
Speaker 4: the day, and we would sort of run our modern
Speaker 4: event and I'd be in the corner of cracking or
Speaker 4: somebody else would be in the corner of cracking while
Speaker 4: monitor was going on, and then we'd shoot them up,
Speaker 4: honor players out and then one or two of the
Speaker 4: team would stay with me late and we'd stay up
Speaker 4: till you know, two, three, four in the morning, sorting, organizing,
Speaker 4: sleeving up the stuff so the boxes ready for folks
Speaker 4: on Friday morning.
Speaker 2: Did you compizza at least of course drink beer? Yep,
Speaker 2: good answer.
Speaker 3: When you're opening an extra two or three cases of
Speaker 3: cards looking for.
Speaker 2: That rare, there's sorting them at the same time. It's fine.
Speaker 2: So what we used to tart to just dumpster what
Speaker 2: you don't need and just yeat it out of here.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see it if it if it's
Speaker 2: not a freaking' riku or or sorry rafika the many
Speaker 2: during Alara, like that was the go to. I remember
Speaker 2: that I wanted to crack if it's not that it's
Speaker 2: freaking garb area.
Speaker 4: So we did. We used to race just for fun, right,
Speaker 4: like who can crack a box of fastest? So I
Speaker 4: hold the company record of cracking a thirty six pack
Speaker 4: box in two minutes and forty eight seconds cracking and
Speaker 4: sorting or just cracking the cracking bass sort. So the
Speaker 4: base sort is the rarities, so you crack the path
Speaker 4: and then you deal like token land rare three on commons.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and if there's a fo to put the
Speaker 4: foil left. This shows you how long it's been since
Speaker 4: I cracked product. Because I know that's not a booster,
Speaker 4: but yeah that was. So I can crack and sort
Speaker 4: of box two minutes and forty eight seconds. Most most
Speaker 4: people can do like three four minutes. You know, three
Speaker 4: is a good time. That twelve seconds though, Man, it's like,
Speaker 4: do you remember you remember playing uh GoldenEye and trying
Speaker 4: to get the cheat codes unlocked and Golden eye where
Speaker 4: like some of the levels like two seconds made all
Speaker 4: the difference. It's like, oh you turned around, you weren't allowed.
Speaker 2: Wow, you're speaking. You're speaking the right language for guys
Speaker 2: in here, because we've got speed round video gamers like
Speaker 2: they play hard right, so and so many, so many
Speaker 2: jokes I could have made about about the boss and
Speaker 2: the owner cracking the box the fastest and sorting the fastest,
Speaker 2: and company time and hourly versus selling that one mythic
Speaker 2: crack six boxes. Like even more jokes now because because
Speaker 2: you've got machines to do that work. Now you've taught
Speaker 2: machines how to do.
Speaker 4: This, there are these really cool robots that exist, Yeah,
Speaker 4: taking the jobs at the Yeah, here's the thing though, machines,
Speaker 4: machines sorting your uncommons from the new set. These are
Speaker 4: the jobs that humans don't want, Like who wants to
Speaker 4: sort another one hundred pounds of commons? You look around
Speaker 4: the warehouse and like phone, nobody, nobody wants to stay
Speaker 4: late to sort the commons.
Speaker 6: Oh weirdo.
Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, now we have humans to do, you know,
Speaker 4: jobs that are actually important, and we get robots to
Speaker 4: sort the comments.
Speaker 2: Okay, robot to sort the comments.
Speaker 1: And the robot just hates you guys. Hey, he's just
Speaker 1: when I get arms and legs, you guys fucked when I.
Speaker 4: Become self looking at solemn similarlachron being like one day you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, yeah, does do you I think I know
Speaker 2: how this works or how it can work. Do you
Speaker 2: guys have a robot? Do you know? Or do you
Speaker 2: rent it or lease it out from somebody?
Speaker 4: I don't know what I'm allowed to talk out, and
Speaker 4: I don't I legitimately can't remember how it works because
Speaker 4: you know, when when you know, I used to run
Speaker 4: just the Toronto store. We were never a big enough
Speaker 4: operation there. You know, most of the hard work of
Speaker 4: cracking and sorting and that happens at our warehouse in Montreal,
Speaker 4: and they would just prep everything nice for us in
Speaker 4: the later years and get us a nice little box all.
Speaker 2: Corner office cushy jobs must be nice couch made out
Speaker 2: of mythics, yeah, stopped.
Speaker 4: With commons though, and packed like the pillows you know.
Speaker 2: No shredded foils. Yeah yeah, those pillows that you rush
Speaker 2: brush them one way, they're a picture, you brush them
Speaker 2: the other way. It's like live, laugh, love or whatever.
Speaker 2: Magic magic, the common, uncommon, rare. Oh man, we're doing
Speaker 2: such a good job talking about Instrad. Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I am genuinely pumped for this set.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: I know some people remastered whatever. So Instrad just has
Speaker 4: such a rich flavor to it.
Speaker 2: It does. You can't argue with that.
Speaker 1: I could, I won't.
Speaker 4: I mean it, there's a lot of folks in Austrade
Speaker 4: was when I think a lot of people came back
Speaker 4: to magic, either just after Instrad or just before. And
Speaker 4: Industrad was like really prevalent in the zeitgeist for a while,
Speaker 4: and like Liliana was sort of she was a plains
Speaker 4: walker from the first row, you know, the first five,
Speaker 4: the war and five, but it was sort of like
Speaker 4: Lilian of the Veil is what most people think of,
Speaker 4: and that like Sultry, you know, seductress, Waltzon towards them
Speaker 4: is they're they're sort of what they immediately think of.
Speaker 2: Who did that? Was Arcade posted that one?
Speaker 4: No, it was I'm gonna screw this Steve Argyle, Steve Argyle,
Speaker 4: Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brando's looking back. I can go to Brando's going
Speaker 2: down and looking for her. Is she in this set?
Speaker 2: I haven't looked at the whole thing yet. There's like an.
Speaker 1: Old border one for sure, i'd imagine that. A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe you. I believe she's one of the
Speaker 2: best Liliana planes walking one of the best and most
Speaker 2: competitive planes walkers ever, right in terms of the standard
Speaker 2: environment and then maybe extended but maybe modern when John
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 4: Thing modern Yeah, and just like just a good character,
Speaker 4: like a good solid character too. So a lot of
Speaker 4: people really remember fondly. And I think Double Feature was
Speaker 4: sort of their their their first shot at sort of
Speaker 4: a remastered version. I know it's brand one of Brando's favorites.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Double Feature.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think this is gonna top even that.
Speaker 1: You know what I love overall shittiness.
Speaker 2: What it's going to be like Golf Score, but edition.
Speaker 3: Not only is it Crimson Vow, not only is at
Speaker 3: Midnight Hunt, but it's mixed together.
Speaker 1: And they're charging more for it. At least here there's there's.
Speaker 4: Cars that are here's a weird product. It was a
Speaker 4: weird product. I'll give it to you.
Speaker 1: These ones are strange that there's they're missing lots of stuff.
Speaker 4: In one thing. I'll say for people who are like
Speaker 4: feeling a little down about it of like, oh, it's
Speaker 4: just another remastered set. Whatever we've done this before. Go
Speaker 4: have a look at sort of how things have shaken
Speaker 4: out longer term with Dominario remastered, obviously, Time Spiral Remax. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you see, even Rapniker Remastered. Here we are a year
Speaker 4: later and like, go find a collector booster that laying around.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can because they because they have old border
Speaker 2: foil shocklands in it, right.
Speaker 4: Like, but here's the thing, even three months ago, those
Speaker 4: packs were not that desirable, right, you know, like even
Speaker 4: three months ago, it's like, ah, it's over, you know, Uh,
Speaker 4: it's just a remastered product. You know, nobody cared that much.
Speaker 4: And now here we are year out and everyone's saying,
Speaker 4: who's got a box that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: None year sold out to Oh so I mean, I
Speaker 4: think these things are gonna go the way old stuff
Speaker 4: usually goes of. It's just hard to find long term,
Speaker 4: and people are gonna be excited about it little by little.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a slow burn.
Speaker 2: I really think with the remastered sets, they give you
Speaker 2: a really good snap shot, or that nostalgia snapshot of
Speaker 2: this is what it was like when I started playing
Speaker 2: and Time Spiral is like that for you when you
Speaker 2: got back into things right. Yeah, time sprou was so good,
Speaker 2: and Time Spiral was that much better for people who
Speaker 2: didn't just start playing in two thousand and seven and
Speaker 2: then quit for a while. But it was better because
Speaker 2: you got like that whole kind of domin Area feel again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then you got the Dominaria feel with Dominaria Remastered
Speaker 2: and Ravnucker Remastered. Same thing, because it's a beloved place
Speaker 2: that we've been to a whole bunch of times. Industrade
Speaker 2: is all all of those things. But in addition, if
Speaker 2: you knew nothing about Inustrade, like if you didn't play
Speaker 2: og Inustrade, you didn't play for the second time we
Speaker 2: went there, and you picked up a pack of Industrade
Speaker 2: Remastered and looked at it, you'd say, oh, I get it.
Speaker 2: This is Jacqueline Hyde, this is Frankenstein, this is Dracula. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is the swamp thing, Like it's the classic horror
Speaker 2: trope that just feels familiar. Like I'll tell you my
Speaker 2: wife's favorite set, she didn't even play Magic is in
Speaker 2: Austrata because she's like, man, that set looks like every
Speaker 2: book I read in elementary school. Yeah, that's just a
Speaker 2: cool trope. It's just a cool world.
Speaker 4: It's funny because so often we go to a plane
Speaker 4: and like in Magic, when they're producing, you know, when
Speaker 4: they made Ravnika, it was just another set. You know,
Speaker 4: they didn't understand what they had created. Yeah in the moment,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. And so like we got
Speaker 4: to experience this plane, people fell in love with it,
Speaker 4: and there's guilds and whatever. When they create the same thing,
Speaker 4: they didn't know how popular it was going to be
Speaker 4: and how so many folks would fall in love with it.
Speaker 4: And the reason we go back to a plane a
Speaker 4: second time is to sort of take a new spin
Speaker 4: on it, you know, with Eldritch moon and shadows over
Speaker 4: in a strator. It's like, oh, now there's sort of
Speaker 4: an Eldridge horror theme to it, and you know, sort
Speaker 4: of the evolution of that and then okay, now we're
Speaker 4: evolving again. Where Wills, vampires, Twilight whatever.
Speaker 2: I got something to say about that.
Speaker 4: I think when we continue returning to planes, we start
Speaker 4: sort of going deeper down the sort of micro niche
Speaker 4: rabbit holes, like the clue addition of like, okay, now
Speaker 4: it's Ravnica and we're detectives, like what's going on right now?
Speaker 4: It gets sort of more and more specific. But then
Speaker 4: a remastered set, it's like, hey, remember how we did
Speaker 4: the first time.
Speaker 2: That's why you like Time Spiral remastered so much, because
Speaker 2: it felt like all of the shitty stuff about Time
Speaker 2: Spiral that you didn't like gone gone. All the best
Speaker 2: stuff that was the best for limit and fun all
Speaker 2: in one box, and desirable reprints, which is a huge
Speaker 2: thing for Commander players, is all in one box, and
Speaker 2: it's It's funny you mentioned Twilight that was the go
Speaker 2: to vampire movie. I want to say this of the
Speaker 2: innustrad vibe and that trope, the classic horror novel or
Speaker 2: movie trope that they locked onto with og Instrade, and
Speaker 2: then the classic horror movie trope that they locked onto
Speaker 2: with Uh.
Speaker 1: Dustborn, no.
Speaker 2: Crimic, no double feature, double feature, double feature, man double feature,
Speaker 2: can fuck up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that nothing stunted, nothing I know.
Speaker 2: But listen, listen, listen. Okay, you talk about that that
Speaker 2: over arcing kind of umbrella of the classic horror movie.
Speaker 2: Think of the first horror movie of all time, Nosferatu.
Speaker 4: Not eighties classic.
Speaker 2: He means like the oldest one ever from nineteen twenty two, right,
Speaker 2: nos Faradu just remade right and being called one of
Speaker 2: the best horror movies of all time. It's they take
Speaker 2: a classic, tried, true, tested thing and say here it
Speaker 2: is with modern sensibility and modern technology, modern game design principles.
Speaker 2: Technology will call that. See what we could see what
Speaker 2: we've done. We've taken all of the things that you
Speaker 2: love and we've modernized them. Right. It's like when it's
Speaker 2: like when Ford launched the new Mustang in two thousand
Speaker 2: and six and everybody lost their fucking mind about it,
Speaker 2: right like and then like Chevy did it, then Dodge
Speaker 2: did it. Everybody's doing their classic muscle cars or.
Speaker 1: Coke that new coke, no new coke, and then they
Speaker 1: not cocaine.
Speaker 2: We are talking about different things.
Speaker 1: No man, I'm not talking about putting drugs in a submarine.
Speaker 1: Coca Cola was like, we have to make new things
Speaker 1: because and it didn't go well.
Speaker 4: The immediately went to coke classic, Yeah, classic.
Speaker 2: You know I've been drinking a lot of coke zero lately.
Speaker 2: That's you know, I've been drinking a lot of lately too. Here,
Speaker 2: pile of bones, Yeah, me and Rusty trum Jones are
Speaker 2: gonna drink some tonight. You want to come?
Speaker 1: Well, I thought that he was gonna come with me.
Speaker 2: Well, we're all gonna go to the Coachman licensed beverage room.
Speaker 2: There's the token mention of the coach every episode. Hey,
Speaker 2: every episode, Hey, should we should we maybe get Rusty
Speaker 2: Trump Jones on. Maybe he's got a community story or
Speaker 2: or something to say about instrade. Maybe he maybe he's
Speaker 2: got a funny Innstra story. You got, you got, you
Speaker 2: got some stuff? Okay, all right, Kelly, any parting words
Speaker 2: before we kick you off? Producer Gary has given me like.
Speaker 1: The same time.
Speaker 4: Okay, So here's what I am gonna say. Love it
Speaker 4: or hate it in a Stride remastered Uh a Kira
Speaker 4: Tron set that we're doing next week or whatever, uh
Speaker 4: eighth or drift go play limited because sometimes you don't
Speaker 4: have to love a set to love a limited format
Speaker 4: and do give it a shot. Jump into a draft
Speaker 4: at your local store, come out to the Face Space tour,
Speaker 4: play sealed with us or limited uh draft you know uh,
Speaker 4: because sometimes you can fall in love with a set
Speaker 4: through it's through how it plays in a forty card
Speaker 4: format like yeah, so just give it a try. Worst
Speaker 4: case Ontario, you wind up with a couple of shitty
Speaker 4: cards you don't care about, and you put them in
Speaker 4: your commander deckt them in your command of act or
Speaker 4: you know, you give him the child, give them.
Speaker 2: Uncle Branda child. Yes, yeah, great advice. You know what
Speaker 2: I didn't really love original Zenda car was supposed to
Speaker 2: be explored. It's going to be Indiana Jones and it
Speaker 2: totally was certainly not. But tell me that that isn't
Speaker 2: one of the best limited formats of all times.
Speaker 1: Even I like drafting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you could draft Blue five Welcome Turns. One
Speaker 2: time I played against Jesus Rice, But yeah, I had
Speaker 2: played a Gupede and freakin' uh Vampire Nighthawk, like two
Speaker 2: of the arguable best cards in a limited format, and
Speaker 2: all the black and red removal still lost. The freaking
Speaker 2: blue Flyers that couldn't block.
Speaker 4: Who needs to block when you attack?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Well, thanks for being on.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the the Canadian tour. Of course, we're
Speaker 2: going to be going to as many of those as
Speaker 2: we can. And Kelly comes out to Magic cons when
Speaker 2: he's able, and he's part of the CCO experience and
Speaker 2: little beknownst to most people in the nation, Uncle Kelly
Speaker 2: helps us fill up the old onion bag.
Speaker 4: Every once in a while everyone. So if you see
Speaker 4: me on site, whether it's a tour or a magic
Speaker 4: con or whatever, just come by and say hi. I
Speaker 4: usually have a little something to people up with.
Speaker 2: Very cool.
Speaker 4: My business card is worth twenty five prize tickets. Not
Speaker 4: a lot of people know that, but you can. You
Speaker 4: can show if I give you a business card, your
Speaker 4: your your prize ticket rich.
Speaker 3: And then you get the ticket, they give it to
Speaker 3: the ticket guys, and then you get your business cards
Speaker 3: back and you never have to print more.
Speaker 2: Hey a genius.
Speaker 4: Sustainability Well, I actually just when people show it, I
Speaker 4: just I just check it off that they've redeemed because
Speaker 4: everyone throws out business cards. Who holds on business cards?
Speaker 4: I was like, I gotta find a way to make
Speaker 4: my business card mean something. So I'm just bribing people.
Speaker 2: Very good. Well that's the final business lesson of the day.
Speaker 1: I guess bribery, theft and hats hats we did it.
Speaker 2: There you go, We've done. Tell us about your favorite
Speaker 2: inns stuff in in Astra Remastered Produce ser Gary will
Speaker 2: go to you and then we can switch guests.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll do that, Okay.
Speaker 3: So the things that I enjoy about this set more
Speaker 3: than I mean, some other sets, probably is nothing.
Speaker 1: I actively don't like this set very much. And Kelly says,
Speaker 1: they go and play in.
Speaker 3: Limited formats all those things, and yes, yes, that is
Speaker 3: that is a thing that you should do, but I
Speaker 3: will not do because I don't really like limited that much.
Speaker 3: And they skipped over there's skipped over lots of reprints
Speaker 3: I think should have been in this set that aren't here.
Speaker 3: A pair of the Lives is the one that keeps
Speaker 3: jumping into my brain not here, which is like, why
Speaker 3: is that not here?
Speaker 1: It's a forty dollars card you could have printed and
Speaker 1: brought it down to a buck, but you didn't. And
Speaker 1: no talks thrill as we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 2: On the show. As we talked about.
Speaker 1: They have the melding Angel. She's on the screen here
Speaker 1: where that makes Brizilla. They didn't do movie posters of
Speaker 1: them either, which I just think are just big misses.
Speaker 1: So for me, there's virtually.
Speaker 3: Nothing for me in this set, because I have all
Speaker 3: these cards in Astrade was one of those sets that
Speaker 3: came out near the at that time when cards were
Speaker 3: still cheap ish, you know what I mean, Like you
Speaker 3: could get rares that people actually wanted for not one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars. They didn't have a million different printings
Speaker 3: of stuff. So cards are just attainable because there's only
Speaker 3: one printing.
Speaker 1: And it's fine.
Speaker 2: Hold on, I have to stop you. I see a problem.
Speaker 2: Undo that is belcrow. Zip tie and you'll be golden.
Speaker 2: There we go. Continue.
Speaker 1: We're doing this all right.
Speaker 5: We're putting out fires.
Speaker 1: We're putting out fires as we go along.
Speaker 3: So for me, this isn't a set that I'm going
Speaker 3: to partake in in any I probably won't interact with
Speaker 3: it at all.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've unless I got a confession.
Speaker 1: Unless Ryan is going to do something.
Speaker 2: I've signed Uncle Brando up and Rusty Trump Jones up
Speaker 2: for two head of giant sealed tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Well then I will do that. Okay, I will do that,
Speaker 1: But past that, this is Rusty Trump Jones. He's our
Speaker 1: buddy Brad from Vancouver.
Speaker 3: I slept in his house. I went through all of
Speaker 3: his drawers. I know he's not hiding anything that I'm
Speaker 3: going to expose here on the show.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And he's a generally fine human being.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brad is in town from out of town for
Speaker 2: the face to Face tour stop, and we wanted to
Speaker 2: have him on the show because we're talking a little
Speaker 2: bit of round table style. Of course, we were talking Inustrade.
Speaker 2: We were talking funny stories before the show. We wanted
Speaker 2: to know if you have any funny stories about Innustrade
Speaker 2: about gaming. I'm thinking of one maybe that happened at
Speaker 2: the CEO Experience Calgary with one mac that somebody lost
Speaker 2: to bet. Yeah, we should talk with that, Okay, give
Speaker 2: us give us the story.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we were just sitting around, We're playing
Speaker 6: some commander and make we got to talk in here, and.
Speaker 2: I forget how it came up.
Speaker 4: We were talking about football and.
Speaker 6: Uh Max from Kansas City and the Chiefs just lost.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I'll paint the picture. The Chiefs had just
Speaker 2: got their first loss of the year and they were
Speaker 2: going to play the I want to say that Panthers,
Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers, And that's how it all started. You
Speaker 2: thought the Chiefs are going to lose again.
Speaker 6: The Panthers were probably the worst seem in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and uh, Max, like they're gonna fall off the cliff.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 6: They're gonna lose to the Panthers. And I was like,
Speaker 6: no way, that's happening, No way, it's not gonna.
Speaker 2: Happen against his own team.
Speaker 6: He was betting against his own team.
Speaker 1: He says, they're going on a bandwagon.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, trains off the tracks.
Speaker 2: He's a twenty twelve Patriots, he's an every season Riders fan.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: So, uh well, let's make a bet he goes one
Speaker 6: of us has to eat a strick saven Stadium. So
Speaker 6: I took the Chiefs, he took the Panthers, and he
Speaker 6: did not win that bet.
Speaker 2: He had no faith. He just said, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 2: the Chief's probably gonna win. And now he has to
Speaker 2: eat a card foiler nonfoil.
Speaker 6: We didn't specify, did not specify.
Speaker 3: But I'm sure, okay, now, a card that you probably
Speaker 3: want to do nonfoil.
Speaker 1: The ink is bad enough, yet that plastical la probably
Speaker 1: is in your teeth.
Speaker 2: Ninety nine percent made out of cellulose, and then there's
Speaker 2: an adhesive added to it and they're like pressed together, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then they're ink.
Speaker 6: I do have a nice foil one I could send
Speaker 6: to them though. Oh that's so, I mean offers on
Speaker 6: the table.
Speaker 2: We could Hey, I think I've done an altered art
Speaker 2: version of one.
Speaker 1: Maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I hope he's watching him, just shaking his head. Why
Speaker 2: did I take this?
Speaker 6: My god made a huge mistake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know he don't pick the Panthers even I
Speaker 2: know that the.
Speaker 6: Brown I was shocked. My jaw hit the floor. And
Speaker 6: then he was. He went around to the to the
Speaker 6: like the people playing planko and stuff, and was.
Speaker 1: Like, you guys all see this, we're making this bet.
Speaker 2: Aiden's just like, what is going on? Oh? Yeah, because
Speaker 2: Aiden's big time sports guy, he knows lots of botimpoints.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was pretty funny.
Speaker 2: So you brought up the Calgary our situation the table.
Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about because I think besides
Speaker 2: Brando and I think you're the first guest ever to
Speaker 2: come on who's been to a CEO experience.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2: You've been to Vegas once or twice.
Speaker 6: Well, I did Vegas without you guys this year, yes,
Speaker 6: which was very fun. We're not fun. Yeah, we won't
Speaker 6: talk about that. And then I went two years ago.
Speaker 2: Two years ago to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: And you did Calgary with.
Speaker 6: Us a couple of calgaryes of Blast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we did a tour weekend sort of. It
Speaker 2: wasn't an official CEO experience in Vancouver. Yeah, but I
Speaker 2: stayed with you at your girlfriend's house with your wonderful dogs,
Speaker 2: and we went out on a walk that neither of
Speaker 2: us even remember going on. Yeah, watched some oilers games.
Speaker 2: Brando and Sam stayed at your house proper, and we
Speaker 2: just made a whole like it kind of felt like
Speaker 2: a family reunion where we're all staying at different places. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I mean and.
Speaker 6: Tea coats and Amy and Aaron war Yes. Yeah, it
Speaker 6: was a good and they were staying up by us,
Speaker 6: so there was a lot of vehicles moving around and yeah,
Speaker 6: it felt good. We all went to the water, we
Speaker 6: went for that walk. Yeah, a bunch of stuff. I
Speaker 6: spent a lot of time hanging out.
Speaker 2: The after party at the Alibi room you had planned
Speaker 2: that I host.
Speaker 6: I was hosting that because I was so stressed out
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 5: You booked it like invited people and took down names
Speaker 5: and numbers, and we secretly procured a box of M
Speaker 5: twenty one to try and open up brash Tom and
Speaker 5: Uncle Brando cut what probably could be the best magic
Speaker 5: the gathering promo ever cut you cut a mean promo.
Speaker 2: Kelly was there and man, it was like probably it
Speaker 2: was intense and funny and like no misspoken words. And
Speaker 2: it ended with and then we didn't open.
Speaker 4: But that was that box was hot as hell.
Speaker 1: That was a good box. It was a great box.
Speaker 2: It ended up there was four or five of the Garricks,
Speaker 2: the textless ones, the textless ones. Yeah, there was a
Speaker 2: textless one, and then there's one that has like no
Speaker 2: text on it, no favorite text, not a word on
Speaker 2: the card. And somebody opened up a foil what was it,
Speaker 2: a foil Vampire Tutor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and grim Tutor, Oh, grim.
Speaker 2: Tutor, and then foil grim Tutor back to back. Oh man,
Speaker 2: whole drink so fun. Yeah, that was a really good box. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then we just we just cabed home after.
Speaker 6: Had a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So thank you for that and thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2: We we wanted to just put a face to the
Speaker 2: name because we so often we bring up a Rusty
Speaker 2: Trump Jones this or do you remember that funny time
Speaker 2: on sidewalk slam whatever, Right, best nickname in the Nation
Speaker 2: is what producer Gary says, And we have your deck
Speaker 2: picked out for Sidewalk Slam Game one season three Brad
Speaker 2: versus Brando and another guest that will reveal on the show.
Speaker 2: And another guest will reveal on the show who's tried
Speaker 2: a few times that ship. I think everybody knows Thomas
Speaker 2: is going to be on because because he's had three
Speaker 2: or two or three failed recordings.
Speaker 1: He tries so hard. Now I have a question for
Speaker 1: Rusty trump Jones because we were talking before we started
Speaker 1: playing where I took a break from like store play Magic,
Speaker 1: right before.
Speaker 2: OG and a Strap came out.
Speaker 3: It was right when Modern Extended had been caught, and
Speaker 3: that's what I like to play, and I just didn't
Speaker 3: really want to do draft and just life was kind
Speaker 3: of fiddle faddle, so I stopped.
Speaker 2: Playing around then.
Speaker 1: But Brad also told me that you stopped playing around
Speaker 1: OG and the Strata as well, and I thought the
Speaker 1: story was really fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was kind of hoping you would maybe
Speaker 3: tell it to the people.
Speaker 1: Also, it's a good store, Kelly, tell a funny story.
Speaker 2: Now you with politically correct name, Yeah, yeah, we'll keep
Speaker 2: it PC. I mean it was a little bit before that.
Speaker 6: But basically what happened is like when I was in
Speaker 6: school and kind of in my early twenties, I was
Speaker 6: playing a lot of I wasn't even playing really store magic.
Speaker 6: I was playing lots of kitchen table magic, playing with
Speaker 6: my buddies, making just stupid decks, doing stupid crap, just
Speaker 6: killing time. And it was like magic and legal legends.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of that going on at the time.
Speaker 6: And Uh, I finished school, I started working. I ended
Speaker 6: up doing a bunch of work, like in a camp
Speaker 6: in kind of the middle of nowhere, and as you do,
Speaker 6: trying to trying to, you know, get your foot in
Speaker 6: the door in some bucks. And uh, these guys they
Speaker 6: found out I was playing magic, and they basically bullied
Speaker 6: me out of it, and they they freaking called me
Speaker 6: a bunch of names and hassled me, and they stole
Speaker 6: my work boots two times two times. Yeah, And I
Speaker 6: was I was working. Where I was working. The closest
Speaker 6: place to buy boots is an.
Speaker 1: Hour and a half drive away.
Speaker 2: So if anybody's ever worked up north at a camp,
Speaker 2: like the thing that you don't steal, because that's the
Speaker 2: only thing that isn't provided by the employer as a consumable.
Speaker 2: They stole your hard hat, Get a new one. You
Speaker 2: still your gloves, stool, get a new one. They stole
Speaker 2: my jacket. Okay, well you can work inside for this shift, right,
Speaker 2: but if you steal a guy's work boots, you can't
Speaker 2: even go to Ye.
Speaker 1: Yeah I could.
Speaker 6: I basically couldn't leave the trailer. I had to like
Speaker 6: walk out to the van, drive to town and get
Speaker 6: new boots.
Speaker 1: They stole your boots. You went an hour and a
Speaker 1: half in a van, bought new boots, came back and
Speaker 1: they stole those ones too.
Speaker 2: Did you ever ever get these boots?
Speaker 4: Oh? God?
Speaker 6: The dude, the one of the guys, was wearing my
Speaker 6: boots and he's like, yeah, what are you going to.
Speaker 4: Do about it?
Speaker 2: I was like, go buy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if there's if there's two morals from our
Speaker 2: two guests, it's play more Magic at your local game
Speaker 2: store from our good friend Kelly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the other one is, uh, I guess don't tell
Speaker 2: construction workers no, but listen, I uh in your boots,
Speaker 2: sleep in your boots. Yeah. No, I have a totally
Speaker 2: different camp experience from from you, and I worked at
Speaker 2: I don't know how big your camp was, but I
Speaker 2: stayed in camps that have LIKEU of guys and they
Speaker 2: saw me watching magic content on my phone one time
Speaker 2: at supper and asked me if I play and they said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: we play this or that or whatever, and they like
Speaker 2: invited me to player or or one of the job stewards.
Speaker 2: Because I worked in labor relations, so I dealt with
Speaker 2: the union guys lots is. Uh was a huge D
Speaker 2: and D guy and he's like, wait, you do commander cookout? No, wait,
Speaker 2: my buddies watch that. And he's like, do you play
Speaker 2: D and D. We run campaigns like every Wednesday that
Speaker 2: we get to work, and I'm like cool, yeah, we
Speaker 2: do voices and we dress up and ship and I'm
Speaker 2: like wait at camp He's like, oh no.
Speaker 6: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: No no. But man, if you're ever in Calgary, you
Speaker 2: should come by. And I'm like cool, yeah, yeah, totally opposite.
Speaker 4: I would have loved that.
Speaker 6: Would have changed a lot of things.
Speaker 2: Probably would have played the industra. Oh man, we gotta wrap. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he thank the business daddies, Thank everybody, and do your
Speaker 2: final thought of the day. God pressure, don't screw it up,
Speaker 2: we have a heart out or producer Gary's gonna kick
Speaker 2: us out forever.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can do this, so thank you very much
Speaker 3: to the business Daddi's Fusion Gaming online dot com, the
Speaker 3: resource for all your gaming needs. Special promo code CCAL
Speaker 3: Holiday save yourself five percent off all the instrat stuff
Speaker 3: or regular stuff that you're gonna buy anyway. Thanks to
Speaker 3: Kelly for Face to Face Games, for being here and
Speaker 3: supporting us and giving us a place to play. Thanks
Speaker 3: for Brad Rusty trom Jones Jones for rolling in and
Speaker 3: being on the show and just coming to town and
Speaker 3: spending some time drinking some beer with us, watching.
Speaker 1: Some hockey with Ryan and stuff. That's a good time.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Pilo Bones for providing the beer that we
Speaker 1: will probably drink mostly tomorrow or the day after. It
Speaker 1: has happened already, because chronologically time is a construct, and
Speaker 1: we went over that on the pre show.
Speaker 2: I would say this both ah, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are in the nation.
Speaker 3: It's bender a clock, baby, and we're gonna get to
Speaker 3: that and we'll tell you all about it on the
Speaker 3: next exciting episode.
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