1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,360 Hey guys, welcome to episode 154 of Maple to Maple. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:10,080 It's the 5th in my Community content creator community 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,400 series, so thanks for joining me. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,440 My guest today lives at the crossroads of social content, 5 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,960 tabletop gaming, and audio storytelling. 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,280 I'm really excited for you guys to hear this conversation. 7 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:31,800 He brings a very special wit and insight and an infectious energy 8 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,560 that I am so jealous of to everything from life reflections 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,720 to board game breakdowns. He has recently built a devoted 10 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:46,800 following by being unfiltered, curious, and deeply rooted in 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:51,520 the world of modern tabletop. Just a true, true gem in the 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,600 community. Here's the thing though. 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,520 He isn't just playing games, he talks about them. 14 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,280 He's been featured on board game podcasts such as board game Hot 15 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,840 Text, where he dives into his favorite dice mechanics. 16 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:10,000 He's also growing his own podcast ambitions, aiming to 17 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,920 bring the same warmth and authenticity to the mic that he 18 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,120 brings to the table. So today, we're going to tap 19 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,760 into those threads, his path from gamer to content creator to 20 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,600 tabletop guru of podcast magic. What inspired him to lean into 21 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,840 the podcast, the stories behind his favorite games and what's 22 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,160 next in the universe of rolling. Reggie. 23 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,560 Reggie, thanks for joining. How are you, man? 24 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:41,920 I'm doing all right. Thank you. 25 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,640 Oh, my gosh. It's like when you're when 26 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,080 you're at a your birthday party and everybody's singing Happy 27 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,520 Birthday to you and you just have to smile and like, please 28 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,120 stop saying nice things. Please stop being good to me. 29 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,600 I can't handle it. I'm doing great. 30 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,440 Thank you. So excited to be here. 31 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,560 You have picked some amazing folks, like a lot of my favorite 32 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,360 people in the hobby and some people I haven't met. 33 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:05,680 So I'm very excited to learn about them. 34 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,960 Yeah, when it happens. So. 35 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,360 By the way, Merry Christmas. As Christmas has just passed and 36 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,720 we've got the new year to look forward to, I am happy to say 37 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,600 that by the time that we've recorded this, I've decided this 38 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,800 is probably going to be the permanent direction of the 39 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,760 podcast. Early in the series I had some 40 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:32,360 amazing responses and I've had people you want to talk about 41 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,440 humbling. So humbling. 42 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:40,480 Recently I've had several people who asked to be on my show like 43 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,000 what? You know, people actually are 44 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,360 listening and y'all want to join me? 45 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,880 This is this is incredible. But enough about me. 46 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,400 Let's talk about you, Reggie. Awesome. 47 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,280 No, you are awesome. And that is great. 48 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,160 There's no better feeling like going to like a convention. 49 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,520 Someone's like, hey, Rolling Reggie, I'm like, why do you 50 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,520 know me? Like, please, here's a sticker. 51 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,320 But that feels good, yeah. That's the content creator 52 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,400 obligation. Have a sticker. 53 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,520 Got to give everyone a sticker. I mean, if you I give away one 54 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,400 or two every convention because I'm like, if you are really 55 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,720 going to go out of your way to say hello to me, you are an 56 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,840 awesome human being and I appreciate it and it warms my 57 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,080 heart. And yeah, yeah, people DMS. 58 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,240 That's the thing about our well, we'll talk about this, but just 59 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,480 yeah, everybody feels so approachable. 60 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,120 You know, it's like you're yes, people feel com feel comfortable 61 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,920 sending you a DM and saying hey, like I'd love to be on your your 62 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:34,400 show. Your show is also. 63 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,400 I feel like it's not that way in a lot of industries or 64 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,040 communities either. No, it's definitely not one 65 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,360 thing I struggle with. Yeah, you are. 66 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:49,480 Whereas I've been doing this for almost 4 years, so every week. 67 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,560 But I always think about the problem is, is that I haven't. 68 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,240 So when I'm at a convention, nobody comes up to me. 69 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,120 And we're like, oh, you're from meeble to Meeble or oh, you're 70 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,440 the Cajun gamer, which is separate from the podcast. 71 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,920 But no one, you know, no one recognizes me. 72 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,280 So I always think about having like a catch phrase if you see 73 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,240 me at Gen. Con or insert your favorite 74 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,399 convention, yeah, I'll have like a special thing to give away to 75 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:18,839 the first person, right? And maybe that's what I need to 76 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:20,440 do to get people. Shit, that's how you. 77 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,480 Do it, you rock. Yeah, I, I have stickers. 78 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:24,960 I always have stickers. You get, you got to do. 79 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,400 I have friends everywhere, you know, have a little, have a 80 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,360 little secret passcode. Yeah, it'd be great. 81 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,000 I also have one one thing at conventions, I always have 82 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,840 Colorado. Are you a fan of Colorado? 83 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,240 Do you know that game? I'm aware of the game. 84 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,160 I've never played the game. So I don't know box like this 85 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,320 big great little drafting set collection game from like 2003 86 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,840 and I love it so much and I just always have it. 87 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:50,480 It's just one of those. I brought it to my very first 88 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,720 convention and I just always have it to bring out because 89 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,560 it's just so easy to teach and play. 90 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,960 So if you ever see my convention, we can play Colorado 91 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,400 together. Colorado OK, so here's the 92 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,320 problem, and we're going to get this out of the way early in the 93 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,200 episode. Everybody knows my favorite 94 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,400 board game is Obsession, and so the one request I usually get is 95 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,000 people want to play Obsession with me. 96 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:12,040 I can't pull that out of my pocket. 97 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,640 Yeah, I'm sorry. It's too much. 98 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,880 Too many meatballs in there. It's too big. 99 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,520 Oh yeah. You know, I've actually never 100 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:22,120 seen it in real life. It's a it's hard to find it. 101 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,080 It it like it is tough to get your hand on. 102 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,600 I've I've played on board game Marina several times. 103 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,640 I think it's really cool, but I really want to. 104 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,680 I feel like I would enjoy it way more if I played it IRL with 105 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,520 with accents and yeah. Top hats and a tuxedo. 106 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:38,360 Yeah. Yeah. 107 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,720 And you got it. You got it. 108 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,200 So, Reggie, let me ask you. I've been starting this 109 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,800 conversation with this question asking to everyone, what was the 110 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,680 first board game you ever played as a kid? 111 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,720 Wow, that's a great question. I mean, if you count chess. 112 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,120 I mean, my dad taught me chess pretty young. 113 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,280 Yeah. But like I have very distinct 114 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:02,480 memories of like sorry and trouble, you know, anything that 115 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,720 you just moved around a little Popomatic are probably when I 116 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,000 was a little kid and and then another, I played all the big 117 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,400 mainstream games. I've talked about this in many 118 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,000 videos of like I loved Monopoly, I loved Clue, I loved risk. 119 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,800 Like those were the games that kind of, I thought that was all 120 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,720 board games could be. And I always thought they were 121 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,680 fine. You know, I enjoyed that. 122 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,680 But when I got older, I was like, why would I ever go back 123 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,200 to board games? Like, that's the ceiling, you 124 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,520 know, But it was fun. I always think about, I feel 125 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,160 like people do hate on Monopoly a lot. 126 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,320 And I just made a dedicated video on it like not too long 127 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,200 ago. And like, me and my mom and my 128 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,240 sisters especially, we would always have our like your Pete. 129 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,880 Like what was your piece in Monopoly? 130 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,560 You know, I think I was the top hat. 131 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,600 Actually, Speaking of top hat, I think my mom was always like the 132 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,840 iron and and my sister took the dog. 133 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,000 And it's just like, there's so many cultural touch points to 134 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,320 it. As much as we want to hate on it 135 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,680 now, like we all had some good memories. 136 00:06:57,840 --> 00:06:58,800 Yeah. Play a Monopoly. 137 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,080 It's true, but I think that those early classics are the 138 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:09,080 reason why we as gamers today in the hobby struggle with when we 139 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:13,160 meet non gamers, you know, they think they're just toys, they're 140 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,200 for kids and they don't because it's like you said, you were 141 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,000 going to grow up. Why would I play these games 142 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,720 again? Little did you know. 143 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,480 Little did we. Yeah, That's a great. 144 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,040 I mean, there's so many. I have so many aha, moments like 145 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,920 that that I'm sure we can get to in this episode here, too, where 146 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,960 I'm like, well, what board games can do this? 147 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,960 Yeah. Well, you know, we're going to 148 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,480 talk about that because that's that's my next question. 149 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,960 So first you said chess. Sorry, trouble. 150 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,440 There was no surprises there. I'm always interested in my next 151 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,520 question. OK, I get some interesting 152 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,080 answers. So what was the first board game 153 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,240 that got you into the modern game hobby? 154 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,720 OK, so you know, without giving the full history, I do like to 155 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,880 talk about the modern game. That really hit me, Yes. 156 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,880 There's two that I could answer and one that everyone knows. 157 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,200 If you watch my top ten, it's King. 158 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,800 Domino is one of my big ones. OK. 159 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,040 Yeah, was a modern game that really blew me away. 160 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,280 And I gave the whole story on on the Punch Board Cathedral 161 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,280 podcast, Ken and someone, you know, Yep, Yep, him and all 162 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,200 that. We did this and it's beautiful. 163 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,560 I really just encourage you to go listen to that actually. 164 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,400 But the thing about King Domino that blew my mind, especially 165 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,920 when we talk about these games, we just talked about Monopoly, 166 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,440 Risk, Clue, Sorry. First and foremost, it's it was 167 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,320 a board game that we were playing at a board game cafe. 168 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,120 My, my girlfriend at the time, now wife, always known as Her 169 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,240 Majesty the Queen, you know, to bring out the obsession vibes as 170 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:41,679 well. We were sitting down. 171 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,160 We were sitting down and playing at a board game cafe and they 172 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,400 said it's a game that won some German board game award. 173 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,720 And they put it down in front of us and there's no board, you 174 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,840 know? And I was like, wait, how are we 175 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,160 playing a board game with no board? 176 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,560 And like, Carcasson had been out at this point. 177 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:02,400 This is 2016 when King Domino came out. 178 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,200 So like, at this point, Carcasson's been out for 15-16 179 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,280 years, right? But I hadn't experienced it. 180 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,240 And I was like, OK, so let's see what we do. 181 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,760 Then they told me that when you draft your tiles, sometimes 182 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,720 that's going to change the turn order. 183 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,400 And now I might take two turns in a row and my wife took two. 184 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,800 And I was like, you know, when I was a kid, the craziest thing 185 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,880 they could do is the turn orders would go clockwise and if they 186 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,480 wanted to be wild, they'd go counter clockwise. 187 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:35,120 There was never like turn order drafting, which I have found. 188 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,080 I love, love, love and. Then. 189 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,120 And then the biggest thing was that you started learning. 190 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,880 It was a game that it started. You started playing it and 191 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,320 drafting the tiles, and then you started learning like, oh wait, 192 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,160 I am actually paying attention to what my opponent is taking in 193 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,520 front of that, like hate drafting and also just knowing 194 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,040 what's left face down. There was just a lot of things 195 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,240 that way that just kind of blew my mind. 196 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,960 With King Domino, it was just something I really, really 197 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,400 loved. But what predates King Domino 198 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,600 actually, if I'm being honest? OK, my first job out of college, 199 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,840 I'm working at a university and I have a Co worker named Emily 200 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:13,640 and she has a partner named Jeff. 201 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,800 And Jeff is he has like a vision impairment. 202 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,000 Like he's legally blind. He could barely see any. 203 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,520 He's very, very, very light visuals. 204 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:27,720 He would totally be APC video game guy if he had, you know, if 205 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,200 he did not have an impairment, right? 206 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,080 But he could play board games and he played miniature games 207 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,720 because he get the tactility of it. 208 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,240 He's able to participate in board games and enjoy it like 209 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:37,800 that, right. So I knew that about him. 210 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,760 I'd never really played a lot of board games and so I asked him. 211 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,200 I said hey I'm having a game night. 212 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,360 It's my first apt. I have like 8 people coming over 213 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,360 and he's like oh wow, that's a lot of for a game night which I 214 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,720 know now it's like once you get over 4 like you're pushing it 215 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,680 with game. So he handed me a game called 216 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:57,680 Bang the Dice game. Have you ever played this one? 217 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,600 Yes, as a point of fact, that was one of Gareth, my partner in 218 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,240 the podcast. That was one of his first games, 219 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:06,640 really. Yeah. 220 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,440 I have it right here with me bang the dice game here, we're 221 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,120 looking at it here and I have one expansion in here. 222 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,520 This is you can kind of see my corners are like beat up on this 223 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,120 for the visual watchers. You know, this is the same copy 224 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,960 I bought like immediately after that weekend and we, me and my 225 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,520 buddies, my close friends referred to as the dads we every 226 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,640 time we get together on a weekend, we will always make 227 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,880 sure we sit down and play at least one game with this just 228 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,680 for the nostalgia. And it's got a Yahtzee 229 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:38,360 mechanism. That's true. 230 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:39,920 Yahtzee is another game I loved as a kid. 231 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,040 Oh yes, Which was roll and lock is what you would know that 232 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,440 mechanism now, you know, and that is just, it's like Yahtzee 233 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,640 but battle Yahtzee, but also with Werewolf because you're 234 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:53,360 trying to figure out who's the deputies, who's the outlaws and 235 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,760 that game. And I think the thing that 236 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,520 really blew me away was a lot of people tried to get me into 237 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,040 board games before Bang the Dice game. 238 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,560 But the asymmetry was actually the thing that I was like, wait, 239 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,240 we all have special powers in a board game? 240 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,400 That really, really shocked me and I really loved that about 241 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:10,720 it. So yeah, Bang the Dice game. 242 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:14,160 Yeah, Yep, I love it. And so I'm listening to you, 243 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:15,640 Reggie. And you're just like, OK, so 244 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,280 bang the dice game king domino, right. 245 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,200 Like the list just keeps going. No, there's really something 246 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,800 magical about the asymmetry, asymmetrical nature of board 247 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:33,040 games that's so different from when we were growing up with 248 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,040 Sorry and trouble, etcetera. Exactly. 249 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,880 So tell me, here's here's the controversial question. 250 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,680 Let's get it out of the way real quickly. 251 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:43,600 What's your favorite player color? 252 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,440 That's a great. I mean, that's not controversial 253 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:47,360 at all. Yellow. 254 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,640 I've always been yellow. I play yellow every time. 255 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,160 If you want to be yellow and you're at a table with me, I 256 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,600 will most likely move your meatball accidentally. 257 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,000 You know, it's just going to happen. 258 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:58,480 Yep. So yeah, I like it. 259 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,760 I do like Gray, which is like really, which is weird, but if 260 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:06,200 I, if a player, if a game has Gray, I really do gravitators 261 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,760 that Imhotep, Babylonia, those come to mind. 262 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,360 And then like creature comforts has Gray and yellow, which is 263 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,360 like, and Pan Am and I'm like my only two colors. 264 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,560 Yeah. So yeah, yellow I, I, I feel 265 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:20,080 like it's more more popular. What what's your color? 266 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,160 You're you're purple. Nice. 267 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:23,760 I'm purple. Yeah. 268 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,000 And, and I've told that story so many times. 269 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,880 It goes back to my days at undergraduate LSU. 270 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,160 Go Tigers to go Tigers. Shadow Shack. 271 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:38,040 Yep, I bleed purple and gold. Nice. 272 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:40,520 Also Mardi Gras purple, green and gold. 273 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:41,960 So it's nice. First I'm purple. 274 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,400 My wife is usually gold, but if there's a pink, she's going to 275 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,480 be pink. So if I can't be purple, then 276 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,440 I'll be gold. But if I can't be purple and I 277 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,040 can't be gold, then I'll be green. 278 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,480 But usually you can't be green. So then I just, it just kind of 279 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:56,680 it falls apart. After, yeah, there's a tier 280 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:58,560 list. I randomly I like to be orange 281 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:01,120 if like if there's none of my colors, you know, I'll throw 282 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,200 like a random color out there. But yeah, my buddy, one of my 283 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,720 closest, but he's Joey. He's also a purple player, so 284 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,600 purple's always taken. He loves purple. 285 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,640 Yeah. I mean, you know, it's it's a 286 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,000 color of royalty. Yeah, color of the the Bayou 287 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,120 Bengals. I mean, so out here it's you dub 288 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,840 in the, you know, a lot of our a lot of people where I grew up 289 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,320 are big Husky fans. The university, which is purple, 290 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:22,800 purple, which is also purple. Yeah. 291 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:24,000 So. So that's why. 292 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,960 Yeah, so, yeah, nice. So for our international 293 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,680 audience, Reggie is talking about the University of 294 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,960 Washington. That is the state of Washington 295 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,840 in the Pacific Northwest, which you might know by another name, 296 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,400 Cascadia. Cascadia, There you go. 297 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:45,280 That's how we get board gamers to know US geography, but also 298 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,560 not to be confused with Washington, DC This is not the 299 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,680 capital. This is very, very far away. 300 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,040 I know you talked to one of my good friends, Iris Crimson board 301 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:55,360 games. Yeah. 302 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,360 And she lives in the Netherlands, and we talk all the 303 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,960 time. My board game bestie and 304 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:06,160 literally explaining to her the size of the United States and 305 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,280 driving, you know, I, I'm on, I did a video with Chaz, Chaz 306 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:10,640 Marler. He's game night picks. 307 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,400 We live in the same state and we're about 2 1/2 hour drive 308 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,400 away. And we did, you know, so it is, 309 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,280 that's just how it is. It's really funny because and I 310 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,600 promised Iris that I was going to make fun of her with you 311 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,240 talked about this because she when she was on earlier in this 312 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,280 series, she was talking, I think I was asking her about another 313 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,840 player in the Netherlands and she's like, that's a 45 minute 314 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,760 drive. That's nothing. 315 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,240 So far. Hey man. 316 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,680 And you have public transportation, right? 317 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,800 And you have bikes, no? No, no, you good. 318 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,920 Good, good, functional, clean. Yes. 319 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,040 You have nothing to complain about Europeans. 320 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,400 That's right. Yeah. 321 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,280 It's so funny. Yeah. 322 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,360 It is really interesting the the perspectives that we all bring 323 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,000 to the table. Yeah, I mean, cuz like I am, I'm 324 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,920 in the middle of Illinois and I am 3 1/2 hours from Chicago. 325 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:11,680 I mean. That's so that's crazy. 326 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:13,680 Same state and people are like, wait, what? 327 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,400 Same state. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 328 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,560 That is such an interest. Well, I will say, do you have 329 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,440 any? So are you from Louisiana? 330 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,360 I am. I am so like I am from Baton 331 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,320 Rouge, born and raised. Yeah. 332 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,040 Are there any games that like represent your region, like 333 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:30,560 where you grew up or like did you have a lot of pride in 334 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,840 because they're they're like located there? 335 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,000 You know, it's really interesting. 336 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,680 I'm I'm there's one game that I absolutely love by weird draft 337 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,440 games, and that's Big easy busking. 338 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,200 Yeah, I've played that. I've actually played that game. 339 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,000 Yeah. I will tell you that. 340 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,120 They captured the feel of going in the French Quarter, the 341 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,080 different colors, listening to the buskers on the street 342 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:55,960 corner. Or in the case of the game, you 343 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,720 actually are the buskers, Yeah, trying to get money. 344 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,160 But like, they really captured the feeling. 345 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,520 There's nothing great. Colors in that, too. 346 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,960 Like, it's very vibrant, yeah. Absolutely nothing about Baton 347 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,040 Rouge proper, but you know Baton Rouge is. 348 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,160 Isn't there a game also called French Quarter? 349 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,160 There is. There, yeah, rolling. 350 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:14,640 Right. Yeah, that's that's an 351 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,560 interesting that that's 25th century games. 352 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,240 Yeah, that's a that's an interesting game. 353 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,960 They packed a lot into a rolling right. 354 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:29,120 And while they like they got a lot of things right, they got a 355 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:30,960 lot of things wrong. Yeah. 356 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:33,400 But you know what? If you've never been in New 357 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,720 Orleans, you wouldn't know the difference. 358 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,720 So it's fine for sure. Yeah, that's trying to. 359 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,040 When I went to the England, went to England for the the England. 360 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,600 When I went to England for the first time, I met Gareth and he 361 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,800 pulled out French Quarter and we played it. 362 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,640 I had to explain to him what a second line is. 363 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:51,600 OK. Which is. 364 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:57,600 So a second line is a funeral procession that's usually led by 365 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,280 a rambunctious jazz orchestra, Yes. 366 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,200 Yes, right, I have seen. These particularly, particularly 367 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,560 all right because you you see it on TV all the time to be honest 368 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,720 it's mostly amongst the African American and Caribbean 369 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,280 communities yeah in. It's more of a celebration of 370 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,920 life you know it is, than like a depressing funeral. 371 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,920 Yep, you do see. Second lines in like after 372 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:26,320 weddings, like you'll have a, you'll have a jazz band lead the 373 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:31,320 the wedding party and all their guests from the church to the 374 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:32,840 reception hall. Yeah. 375 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:33,800 Wherever. Yeah, it's going to be. 376 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,040 Yeah. So you see that the other 377 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:41,120 concept of the second line our our Mexican neighbors with Dia 378 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:45,720 de Los Muertos and another good, another good board game is 379 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,920 Potsuara, which captures that really well. 380 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,040 Ofrenda's coming out here soon, too. 381 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,600 That looks beautiful. About Dia Los Muertos, Yeah. 382 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,040 So. So there's always the procession 383 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,880 to the grave sites during the Day of the Dead. 384 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,640 And when the procession passes you, the spectators follow 385 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,680 behind. They follow the procession to 386 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,160 the gravesite. Those spectators, they are the 387 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,800 second line. That's why we call it a second 388 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:16,800 line. That's awesome, yeah. 389 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:18,400 So. That's really cool. 390 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,000 That's see now we're getting some nice Louise here and 391 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,880 history in here. I, I will tell you when I when I 392 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,600 was asking the question about the region is there is nothing 393 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,960 that will make me buy a game faster than it being Pacific 394 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,880 Northwest team, which we have been spoiled. 395 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,000 We have a glut of them right now. 396 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,760 I will say there's a lot of true great designers out here to Beth 397 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,880 Sobel, you know, like artists that are from here. 398 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:45,000 Yep, I very very much love love the PNW theming too, so that's 399 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:45,680 great. Love that. 400 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,360 I really want there to be a Mardi Gras board game. 401 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,200 Yeah, why? I can't believe there isn't 1. 402 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:54,560 So I I can tell you what mechanics it would incorporate, 403 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,760 but I'm not a board game designer. 404 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,960 You would you would think after as many designers that as 405 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:03,200 designs I'm friends with, that I've spoken to, I listen to them 406 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,920 talk about their design story, you think I could design a board 407 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:07,080 game? But yeah. 408 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,520 I'm really, I'm really good at talking about board games, not 409 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:16,360 designing. Yeah, those who can't talk about 410 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:19,200 it. Of course, those who can't pod, 411 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:20,440 Yeah. Exactly. 412 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,680 No, you got it right. That's good. 413 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,360 That is why you're joining the podcast community. 414 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:26,680 Yeah, yourself. Right. 415 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,840 Hey, so let me ask you, in all the laundry list of games we've 416 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,560 just gone through, do you have a favorite board game mechanic 417 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,760 that you just you're in? That's, that's a great question. 418 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,440 I think the easy answer for me would be like tableau building. 419 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,600 Like I love building a tableau. You know, I, I think if I'm 420 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,120 being truthful because you, you asked me what, what got me into 421 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:53,120 the modern board game earlier. But you know, when I was 422 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:56,000 thinking about this, like, how did I get into the hobby as a 423 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,720 gamer, I couldn't help but think I have to go back to TCGS. 424 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,280 And I think like I discovered Yu-gi-oh when I was like 11 or 425 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,960 12 and just know, you know, there was, there's an era, you 426 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,680 know, it, uh, in a home in the church, a God fearing home, 427 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,920 there was number Yu-gi-oh, no Pokémon. 428 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,440 They were Japanese demons. You know, there is a tradition, 429 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,280 there's a trading card game out there called Redemption that is 430 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,680 literally like biblical card games. 431 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:29,680 And I had all these cards and no one in my, no one in my friend 432 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,720 group would play with me. So I had to play my mom and just 433 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,360 like cast pillar of salt on her all the time. 434 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,680 You know, it's like Noah's Ark cards and stuff. 435 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,960 But Yu-gi-oh was like the worst culprit because the back of the 436 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,640 card, you know, it sends you to the shadow realm or whatever. 437 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,040 But you know, but by the time I got 1112, it's anime, it's 438 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,200 everybody's doing. Like I loved Yu-gi-oh and the 439 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,440 card, looking back on it now, the cards are tiny. 440 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,080 They're, they're like Japanese size. 441 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,280 They're not the size of a Magic card. 442 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,600 And there's so much text on them. 443 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,640 And The thing is, it really is a tableau building. 444 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,480 Trading card games are tableau building, engine building games. 445 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,840 You know, it's like you're getting a lot of cards out, 446 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,000 you're triggering off of other cards. 447 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,280 And that is the games that I gravitate towards. 448 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,560 But my top five games are all card games, you know, very much 449 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,840 card based. I, I really do love engine 450 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,360 building, tableau building, I would say my like, not my 451 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:23,560 favorite, but one that I've been just every game I've played in 452 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,440 this genre I've been really liking lately is auction and 453 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,000 bidding also. So I want to give auction and 454 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,400 bidding a shout out. I've been really. 455 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,560 Enjoying that too. Yeah. 456 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,160 So Reggie and I are going to take you on a journey across all 457 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,840 mechanics and all board games. Yes, we will name the entire 458 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,360 oeuvre of board games. Yes, by the time. 459 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,120 Every single one. The whole board game geek 460 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:44,880 mechanism catalog. Yep. 461 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,280 So now I got now comes this is evolved. 462 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:56,720 If you guys remember 1111 weeks ago I had I had bands on bands 463 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,400 and she helped me launch the series. 464 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,400 Since then, this question has evolved and many of you have 465 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,040 heard this question. It is A2 parter. 466 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:09,640 It's a 2 parter because I love you and have compassion for you 467 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,080 and I realize that the first part is difficult. 468 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,680 Do you have a favorite board game of all time? 469 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,560 Yes. If not, OK, great. 470 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,960 And I want to hear about it because I also want to hear the 471 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,200 second part. Do you have a favorite board 472 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,880 game right now that's hitting your table constantly? 473 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,640 That's great that I love. I do enjoy both of those. 474 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,400 I have great friends, but my. Favorite. 475 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,160 Be on a lookout for that. My favorite board game is 476 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,240 Wingspan and I think people, you know, people within the hobby 477 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,900 can have love worms band more. I've got the dragon on the 478 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:44,680 T-shirt here. Fin span came out this year as 479 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,240 well at the very beginning of this year. 480 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,080 But wingspan for me is my favorite podium. 481 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:52,280 And I I think if I were to, it's going to be tough for me to do a 482 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,440 top 10s in the future because I just don't see a game 483 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,840 supplanting it because it has so much emotional and sentiment 484 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,320 like it, it really dove me into the hobby. 485 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,280 I love birds. Like that's a big thing. 486 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,520 Like I got into two hobbies around the pandemic, seriously, 487 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,600 and that was bird watching and board games. 488 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,880 And then and then I discover a game that is literally both of 489 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,920 those things together. And it has three expansions. 490 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,440 And so Wingspan is my favorite game. 491 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,000 It is, it is, you know, sold 2 million copies. 492 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,680 It's very popular. It's like saying you like 493 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,400 Superman, which you know, is kind of tough, but it is it just 494 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,920 is my my favorite board game. Nice wingspan. 495 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,680 I don't think we've talked about Wingspan in since the beginning 496 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,200 of the series. Oh, great. 497 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,280 Yeah, it hasn't. It hasn't come up. 498 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,880 Solid game. It's a strong game. 499 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,760 Yeah. I don't have anything to say, 500 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,000 good or bad about him. It's it's like liking Superman. 501 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,760 You're you're it. Is it is it really? 502 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,520 And that's what's so funny is like, you know, I like Batman, I 503 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,480 like Iron Man, I don't like Cap or Superman. 504 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,680 But but wingspan for me, you know, it just evokes so many 505 00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,960 feelings. And I think when I really sit 506 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:03,920 down and think about my favorite games, a lot of it comes down to 507 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:08,440 just I like that every single time I play, I'm going to have a 508 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,840 different combination of things in front of me, you know? 509 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,920 And that I think that's what what you might call BDE games, 510 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,360 big deck energy games. Do they have a lot of cards, you 511 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:23,280 know, and that's what TCGS do. It's like, I can make 100 deck, 512 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,560 commander deck for Magic the Gathering and it's going to play 513 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,760 so different every single time I play. 514 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:34,760 So I really do enjoy that a lot. And, and by the way, commander's 515 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,560 the only way to play Magic. Yeah, of course it is. 516 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,720 Yeah. OK. 517 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,360 If if it's the only way my wife will play Magic, then, you know, 518 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:43,000 for. Yeah. 519 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,440 That's the way to go. Wow, I I even have a bird themed 520 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,360 commander deck after Bloomberg came out. 521 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,880 And then there's a lot of the Lord of the Rings eagles are in 522 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:53,640 there. It's really fun. 523 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,040 It's actually a solid deck. So my wife has my wife has a 524 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,320 cat's only great commander deck. We got to get some birds 525 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,320 together. That's just going to be I could 526 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,880 just sit here. I could sit here and commentate 527 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,240 while you play and that'd be great. 528 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,080 So Reggie. Reggie just tapped 1 green mana 529 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,600 and two blue to play his. I don't know, whatever. 530 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,200 I don't know what the birds are. Yeah, that's like Esther versus 531 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,280 Tweety, the match off. What about a board game today? 532 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,600 That's like hitting your table a lot right now. 533 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,800 Oh, man, this is so this is a tough question that I feel like 534 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:27,680 this is tougher. Yeah. 535 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:33,400 Because OK, so I'm between 2:00, I'm going to go. 536 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,320 And I've talked about both of these. 537 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,080 That's why I was trying to come up with something maybe I 538 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,280 haven't touched on lately, but I I gotta this is a game that like 539 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:44,040 I haven't been smitten by a game in in a long time. 540 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,640 That's a good feeling. Yeah, it was just like when when 541 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,880 you're a game where you're learning the rules and this is 542 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,320 the cool thing about being so well versed in the hobby is when 543 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,920 you're learning the rules and someone's teacher, you're like, 544 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,560 I'm going to love this, You know, I love being able to like 545 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,880 read a rule book and be like, oh, this is my kind of game, you 546 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,760 know, or it's not. But that game is a Stefan Feld, 547 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,120 my second Stefan Feld ever. I I love Castles of Burgundy 548 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,280 rolling Reggie. The second one is Carpe Diem. 549 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,880 Have you have you played Carpe Diem? 550 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,120 I have not. OK. 551 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,320 It has. A very similar depot kind of to 552 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,720 castles of Burgundy, but it's it's more like a Rondelle. 553 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,200 It's it's very easy drafting thing. 554 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,360 You're taking these tiles. They make these buildings we're 555 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:34,040 kind of like Roman patricians or something like that. 556 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,320 And you build these tiles and a lot of the buildings are a size 557 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,480 of two and when you cap, you know, the half of the building 558 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,840 with the other half of the building, it triggers an effect, 559 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,400 you know, very Stefan Feld, you know, you get all these 560 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,400 different things. But there's also like like this 561 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,120 prestige track, excuse me? And on the prestige track, the 562 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:56,240 person who's on top or furthest is going to be a first player, 563 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:57,840 also straight out of Castle Burgundy. 564 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,320 But my favorite thing is it's got every single time you play, 565 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,920 it's got all these random scoring cards that come out in a 566 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,560 random order and they each have a half a semi circle on either 567 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,320 side. And at the end of each round, I 568 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,480 think it's 4 rounds, who get to take whoever's in first player 569 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,760 turn order gets to take their disc and puts it between any 2 570 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,040 cards. And they get to score those two 571 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,240 specific conditions, you know, And so then they score those two 572 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,720 conditions and then that location is blocked for the rest 573 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,040 of the game. So that might be, you know, 3 574 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,960 grapes and how many yellow buildings do you have? 575 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,480 And I have both those things a lot. 576 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,920 But now I can never get those two again the next three rounds, 577 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,680 and neither can anyone else. But I can get, you know, any 578 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,840 other side. It's really, really clever. 579 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,000 I wish more games did that. That one little scoring 580 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,040 mechanism is so clever. It's like 40 minutes completely 581 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,200 language independent, which I'm finding I like a lot more too. 582 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,400 I love cards, obviously, but games that are just like boom 583 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,120 symbols, great Carpe diem. That's been one I I've blinged 584 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,120 it out a lot by the way, too. I play I play with ironclays 585 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,320 instead of the victory point cards. 586 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,720 That's a big important thing. It comes with these like tiny 587 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,680 cards that just are are just not it and and I and I learned it on 588 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,040 Ironclay. So that's the problem. 589 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:20,040 Then I bought these cinch bags, like silky velvety bags to pull 590 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,680 the tiles out of because sure it didn't come with those. 591 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,840 There's no. My wife, because she crafts a 592 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,600 lot. She's so quilts, she 593 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,000 needlepoints, she crochets, she makes all those bags for us for 594 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,320 games. You know what my wife is an 595 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,240 amazing crochet IST or whatever you want to call it. 596 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,200 I should have her make some bags. 597 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:44,200 You should crochet, crochet, crochet, crochet in. 598 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,600 OK, so it's all right. So it's funny that we're talking 599 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,800 about this because I'm going to talk about someone who is a 600 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:55,720 crafter, who's a mistress of cosplay and yet she works for 601 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,960 Queen Games. So guys, if you guys go back to 602 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,160 episode 145, she's the second in the series. 603 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,920 Is Rachel Mullen awesome? She works for Queen games. 604 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,040 That's awesome. And so, you know, Stefan Feld 605 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,120 is, I mean, he's. Always got the city collection. 606 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,960 Yeah. He's got so much there, yeah. 607 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,960 So she and I, after we were done recording, she's going to try to 608 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:22,360 help me, help connect me with Stefan and get him on the show 609 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,840 in 2026 because that would be cool. 610 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,960 I'd like to be in this room. I'll be silent. 611 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,560 My mic can be off. I'll just listen. 612 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,680 I just want to be there live, you know, to talk to. 613 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,240 It it's in the live audience. I want to shout out crafting 614 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,560 though. I have I've always felt myself 615 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,200 as just not artistic. You know, I, I never played an 616 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,440 instrument, but since board gaming, you know, I do a little 617 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,400 print and play, you know, I like to do, I like to laminate like 618 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,360 player aids and stuff. I do, I, I do a lot of different 619 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,080 things crafting wise that I think I never would have done 620 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,040 without this hobby. You know, and I, I'm, I'm like 621 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,760 on the precipice of becoming a miniature painter and I just 622 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,680 can't afford another hobby because that's a hobby within a 623 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,840 hobby. It is. 624 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,640 It is. But there's a lot of overlap. 625 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,360 There's a Venn diagram of like crafting and board games that I 626 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,440 think is bigger than people might give credit for. 627 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,400 I've got Nemesis Retaliation that's unpainted. 628 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:25,360 I've got Legends Academy finally came in and it's partially 629 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,440 painted. We've got Ether fields by Awaken 630 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,680 Realms that is unpainted because these campaign games, because my 631 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,680 wife's the primary. What has happened is my wife and 632 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,680 I were doing painting together. Yeah. 633 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,240 And then we realized that I don't have the pages for it, so 634 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,360 she's relegating me to priming and lacquering at the end. 635 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,520 Oh man, you're just a prime like machine. 636 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,320 Yeah, right. Look, I can prime Mini. 637 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,920 It's like nobody. Nobody. 638 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,720 'S business. If you're gonna, if you're gonna 639 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,320 play a campaign game with us, she's gonna have everything 640 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,520 painted beforehand. Awesome. 641 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,560 Because what she loves is you're playing Frost Haven or Bloom 642 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,560 Haven, and you retire your character and you open up the 643 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,480 miniature box. She wants that mini to be 644 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:07,720 painted. Yeah. 645 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,360 And you get the joy of watching you go. 646 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:11,800 Whoa. Yeah. 647 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,560 Yeah, cuz so you're you love it. You're a two player like you and 648 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,040 your wife play mostly together, right? 649 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:24,160 Almost exclusively we've got a we've got a local group here 650 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,520 that comes. So we're in the middle of a 651 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,320 Frost Haven campaign. We play awesome a bunch of other 652 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,840 games as well, but we're the we're the couple where so two 653 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:37,120 things are guaranteed to happen. One is if we're talking to a 654 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,720 vendor, publisher, designer, etcetera. 655 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:41,640 My wife's going to ask the first question. 656 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,840 How does it play it too? Yeah, great question. 657 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,960 If you say there's a dummy third player, she's going to turn 658 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,040 around and walk away from you. I also am not a big fan of the 659 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,240 dummy third player, I have to admit. 660 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,400 Yeah. Yeah, just it's it's not good. 661 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,480 So we love, we love two players. The second thing that will 662 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,240 happen. This has been a this has been a 663 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,760 frustration for me for some time now. 664 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,680 When we go to big conventions. It is unfortunate not to be a 665 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,440 downer, but I like to be realistic. 666 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,120 Let's keep this conversation there. 667 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,440 We're still victims of systemic sexism. 668 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,360 Mm hmm. In this industry. 669 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:20,600 And if we go up to a vendor at a convention and that person looks 670 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:26,520 at me like if my wife asks about tell your new game and they talk 671 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,720 to me the whole time. Yeah, let me talk to the real 672 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,400 gamer, is what they're thinking subconsciously, Yeah. 673 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,720 Yeah. And, and to be honest, I kind of 674 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,120 clock out. Yeah. 675 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,840 I get more angry than she does now because as a woman, she's 676 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,600 used to that, unfortunately. And I just kind of, I walk away 677 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,960 or I pretend like I'm looking at something else. 678 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,200 And those are the two things that happen. 679 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,760 She's gonna ask that question and that will inevitably happen. 680 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,720 And it's just. That's such an interesting thing 681 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,840 that it's it is still pervasive and I and I was going to talk 682 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,080 about solo gaming here. So I'll I'll lead into that and 683 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,160 say, but I want to address what you said. 684 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,520 That's interesting. Like my wife is the most 685 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,719 gracious, lovely person when it comes to my hobby. 686 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,280 Like this is not her hobby. She just played more games with 687 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,320 me than according to my BG stats. 688 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,960 She's played more games with me than Eddie, what even my closest 689 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,600 buddies, and she's never going to say I'm excited to play a 690 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,840 game tonight, right, which is why my biggest reason why I 691 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,639 think I am a solo gamer also. But because of that, I think, 692 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,880 and all my buddies who are video game guys, which is what I came 693 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,000 from the video game world. You know, I, I think of men, you 694 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,199 know, so I know when I started in this hobby, I was ready to 695 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,159 like explain games and be like, Oh, here's what you can do on 696 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:43,679 your turn and all this thing to women. 697 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,199 And then I'm like, I start going to conventions and I start 698 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:49,360 hanging out with women who are gamers that are way, way more 699 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,159 intense gamers than I am and have way, way higher tastes, you 700 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:55,760 know, so it's just like you learn really quickly if you're 701 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,560 actually paying attention that it's like that dynamic. 702 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,120 But but you know, you have to be, you have to be aware. 703 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:05,120 But but like I said, my wife is, you know, we will play weeknight 704 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,840 games. She loves a sea salt and paper. 705 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,680 That is what she's in the mood for. 706 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,480 And she's always in the mood to play a game that she knows, you 707 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,400 know, and I am, I get that, yes. And, and I unfortunately, I'm 708 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,000 just like, I'm an addict. I want, I would rather play 10 709 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,960 new games than a game I love 10 times. 710 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,040 Like it is just how my brain works. 711 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,000 Like I like discovery. I like the potential of learning 712 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,240 a new mechanism. That is where my and my wife's 713 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,400 the opposite. So that being said, sometimes 714 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,680 it's just like Wednesday night and I'm just like, I want a 715 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,600 crunchy complex experience and my wife is not up for that. 716 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,400 And I don't want to subject and torment her to that. 717 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:47,360 And so that is where, you know, I sit down and I play a wingspan 718 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,040 solo against the Otima, which is a very, very good Otima or a 719 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,440 Marvel champions against the villain deck. 720 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,760 You know, those are the type of games that I think I really get 721 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,040 satisfaction out of solo. And that's the biggest reason 722 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,400 that there's there's more nights where I want to play games than 723 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,040 my partner in my player 2 in the house does. 724 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,320 So that's fair. I end up, you know, that's how I 725 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,120 kind of like relented on solo games. 726 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,920 And now I've kind of gone, gone in the deep end there. 727 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,400 Yeah, I get that. So that means that when you meet 728 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,000 somebody at a convention, the first question you ask is how 729 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,960 does it play at solo? Well, and that's the thing, if 730 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,400 I'm buying a new game, I do actually take that into 731 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,640 consideration. You know, if I so Speaking of 732 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,480 Stone Meyer games, you know, I think they do a great job with 733 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,480 the Ottomas. They just came out with a trick 734 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,320 taking game called Origin Story. It's a trick taking engine 735 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:43,120 building tableau building game that superhero themed, which I'm 736 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,600 also a big I love Cape Cape stuff, as the Internet calls it. 737 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,400 I mean I'm censoring Cape stuff and it's the worms band artist 738 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,640 who she does this like amazing watercolory. 739 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,040 I don't know if you have seen the origin story stuff and I was 740 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,120 like about a lot of trick takers are three to five, three to six. 741 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,800 And I'm like it has a solo mode. Whoa. 742 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,720 And I'm like, how does that work? 743 00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:08,280 You know, but I was able to, I was willing to buy that sight 744 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,200 unseen for very cheap, $20 if you're a Stone Meyer champion, 745 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,280 by the way, we're not, we're not, we're not, we're not 746 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,480 sponsored. We're not, we're not chilling 747 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,360 for them. But I'm just there are no but we 748 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,320 are looking for sponsors both regions of. 749 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,640 Course we'll take them, yes, but my point is I am more willing to 750 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,560 buy a game sight unseen if it is solo mode. 751 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,720 That that's my big thing is like, I got it. 752 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,880 Yep, if it's two only if 2 is the minimum and I can't even 753 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,800 learn it on my own. Like I like even just learning 754 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,040 games of solo mode because she also doesn't want me checking 755 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,840 the rule book in the middle of the teach, you know? 756 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:44,240 I have to know it really well to present it to her so that she's 757 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,240 not like that. That's wasted time. 758 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:49,560 That's not efficient and that's how that's how it gets there. 759 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,560 So. I am fortunate in that I married 760 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:59,320 a woman who is both 1000 times smarter than me and same is all 761 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,960 about the rules and the rule book. 762 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,960 So I'm the, I'm the. I'm the tabletop Princess. 763 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:05,960 Yeah, yeah. Like a passenger Princess. 764 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,560 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 765 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,240 I'm just want to show up and play the game. 766 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,320 She reads the rules. She boy if I even think about 767 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,440 picking up the rule book to check a rule. 768 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,440 Wow, yeah, that we are the complete. 769 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,360 Opposite, you know, roles in our households. 770 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,560 That's crazy. That's it happens. 771 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,440 But this is what I love about the community. 772 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,520 This is what I love. It's awesome. 773 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,000 So because I want to get to your thoughts on the community. 774 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:37,760 Yeah, talk to me about your transition from becoming just a 775 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:41,600 casual gamer to being an intentional content creator. 776 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,520 Great question. Yeah, I, I, I really, I was 777 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,440 listening to one of your episodes about something like 778 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,720 how in the it's one of those weird things you said the same 779 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:50,440 thing. I was like, how did I even like, 780 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,840 why did I start? But I will go back to just like 781 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,280 I was always a video game guy like that was it that I think 782 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,080 that's the biggest reason that board games were off my radar 783 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,000 that I didn't become a board gamer earlier is that it just 784 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,480 didn't hit me with enough stimulus at the time of like PC 785 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,600 gaming like I was. I went from Game Boy to GameCube 786 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,880 to Xbox 360 competitive games and then PC like about 2013 on 787 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,160 I've been a PC Gamer. I still play PC games with my 788 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,920 buddies. So I started streaming video 789 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,200 games actually. And so I started on Twitch under 790 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,840 the moniker Chrono, which is it comes from a League of Legends 791 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:27,960 reference, actually is what it is. 792 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,440 And so I played video games and in COVID era, I was, I was like 793 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,800 working from home on my computer all day. 794 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,720 And then I would stream, you know, for three or four hours at 795 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:39,640 night, like I was on a screen so much. 796 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,160 So I, I think that kind of helped me go towards board 797 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,400 games. But in that same era when I 798 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,640 wanted to make an Instagram account, which I think was like, 799 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,480 I wrote this down here, June 2022, I made an Instagram 800 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,120 account and I did not. Have the For the record, I have 801 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,760 the same date because I I checked. 802 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:57,960 You went and looked. OK, Great. 803 00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,320 Thank you. You went and saw my first one. 804 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,520 Yeah, of course you're thorough. You would have done. 805 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:02,600 You would have done your research. 806 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,600 Like this guy knows his stuff. This is 150 plus episodes here 807 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,600 peeps. But funnily enough, with your 808 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,600 meeple to meeple too, I was like, the one thing I don't want 809 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,240 to name myself after is a meeple because at the time I want to 810 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:16,640 give a shout out to Foster the meeple. 811 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,920 They were like the biggest YouTube channel that was on my 812 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,320 feed and I was watching them like all the time and Jeff and 813 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,440 Jamie. And so I was like, you know, I 814 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,640 should just do a different. I was like, should I be punny? 815 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,080 But also with Chrono, like people when, when people would 816 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,400 say my name Reggie, like it was so weird to them. 817 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,280 Like people could not see me as anything but Chrono. 818 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,800 Like when you stream under a moniker, you know, like that's 819 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,880 your name, you know, it was like a stage. 820 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,760 And so I wanted to put my real name in it. 821 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,120 So rolling was like rolling dice. 822 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,400 And that's where that came from. I like it though. 823 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,160 Yeah, I like it. I like it too. 824 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,760 I I think it's, it's people think people mix it up with 825 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,600 rolling with Reggie a lot. I think there's a couple people 826 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,520 who do rolling with so and so, but just rolling Reggie. 827 00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,320 That was Instagram, and I just started posting pictures of 828 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,520 games I was playing. You know, I got to that. 829 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,520 You know, I had a couple games and then I you bang the dice 830 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,680 games in there, King Domino's in there, Sushi Go. 831 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,800 You know, my shelf was like, it was one shelf in the linen 832 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,400 closet of our town home. And my wife was like, this is 833 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:15,720 too much. You need to stop. 834 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,400 Now. I have an entire room like 835 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,720 little. Yeah, talk about little. 836 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:22,920 Did she know? Like I had one shelf and that 837 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,640 was like, what are you doing? You think this is too big of a 838 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,520 connection? So you were a streamer before 839 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,680 you were a tabletop gamer? Yeah. 840 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,880 So it was, yeah. It was a natural fit for you. 841 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,160 Yeah, Yeah. And I don't know why, I truly 842 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:38,240 don't know why I started Instagram. 843 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,720 I just was like, I just wanted to share the board game. 844 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,760 And so I started doing it. And then I have to give a big 845 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,600 shout out to, you probably know them, our families plays, our 846 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,480 family plays games, games Nick and Starla. 847 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,840 And they invited me to do some videos for their channel while I 848 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:59,480 was just an Instagram account. And that was a huge impetus to 849 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,240 get me confident behind an iPhone camera. 850 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:05,000 It was just just on an iPhone, like I wasn't doing anything 851 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,360 special. And so, yeah, my first YouTube 852 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,800 channel or video came out in January 2023. 853 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,640 So I've actually only really this is go. 854 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,440 We're going on three years here now that I have been making 855 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,480 YouTube content. But yeah, that that was kind of 856 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,560 the story went from like Twitch video games to making an 857 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:25,160 Instagram to making videos. So what's your favorite or your 858 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,560 preferred platform that you like to create content right now? 859 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,200 I still think YouTube is my favorite platform. 860 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,640 Yeah, I just enjoy the process of making a video. 861 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,240 I have a trillion ideas, you know, I have so many ideas that 862 00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:41,440 show. Yeah. 863 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,840 But just no time to make them all and I consume and The thing 864 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,560 is YouTube is, is my biggest, you know, consumption as well. 865 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,240 You're like, I don't even have Instagram on my phone anymore. 866 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:54,480 Like I just check it on my browser because it's just just a 867 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,320 time sink. You know, if I'm going to do 868 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,480 something on my phone, it's usually watching YouTube or just 869 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:01,720 just looking at my BG stats collection. 870 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,520 You know, we all we all we all know that I get my screen time. 871 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:09,240 It's like it's like messages YouTube BG stats most like how 872 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:11,400 in the world are you spending two hours a week on BG? 873 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,400 But I do, and I think that's why because I watched Youtubers 874 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:16,720 first. You know, I love sure. 875 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,280 And like shout out to all you can board. 876 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:20,880 Those guys haven't made videos in a lot. 877 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,480 They've been they they're on like a long hiatus. 878 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,200 I love them. They the 2 Canadian they made, 879 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:29,200 they basically shaped my taste. I think a lot of my like family 880 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,560 weight, medium weight tastes come from them and actual all 881 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:34,880 British one who you've probably watched too. 882 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,360 Very funny, big YouTube too. He's solo also, which I think 883 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,120 having a partner, which we've talked about with your podcast, 884 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,640 you know, it's it's more fun and I will tell you like the lat. 885 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,640 The other, the third platform I have now is podcast, which you 886 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:54,080 already mentioned board States and jazz and I have just been 887 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:57,640 doing this because we're on opposite sides of the country. 888 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,480 You know, PGI, we're talking about this before because it's 889 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,280 like we it's tough, you know, you got to plan time zones, you 890 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,680 gotta, you know, being on a platform like this, you know, 891 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,400 it's you got to have rapport and and so, but we've been really 892 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,920 enjoying it because it's just more long form. 893 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,000 You know, you can, as you are all witnessing right now with 894 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,280 your ears, you can yeah, for extended periods of time. 895 00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:21,680 So. Boy, I've. 896 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:26,720 Been really, yes, yeah, yeah. So I do like podcasts too. 897 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:33,160 The time zones is I don't know that people people realize it's 898 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,040 really funny. So when we first approached the 899 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,680 podcast and decided that this is what we were going to do, right? 900 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,360 What I have experienced is people are like just do a 901 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,200 podcast or people are like, you should just do a podcast. 902 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,960 I hear that all the time. I'm like, you don't just wake up 903 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,680 and do this. This is not like it's not. 904 00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,520 We talked about this has come up so much throughout the series. 905 00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:58,560 Content creation. Yeah, right, is hard work. 906 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,720 Thing is hard work. And if you're going to have a 907 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:06,080 global audience and your guests are all over the world, you want 908 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,400 to talk about. So you're lucky because your 909 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,680 partner on your on your podcast is in New Jersey. 910 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,680 So there's a three hour time difference. 911 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,520 There will always be a three hour time difference. 912 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,840 I have no idea what's going to be the time difference from 913 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,440 day-to-day and week to week. When I'm recording, am I talking 914 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,960 to Australia? Am I talking to? 915 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,800 Yeah, that's you. You're 2 hours behind me. 916 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,560 Where am I going to be this week? 917 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,960 Right. So my wife is always like, when 918 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,920 are you recording? Don't know, you know, I mean, 919 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,520 that's more work. That is true. 920 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,360 I didn't even think about that. Like I I think that's one thing 921 00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,040 about bringing on guests like you are doing, you are doing a 922 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,720 lot more pre emptive work to bring those guests on than jazz 923 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:52,560 and I are. It's like we can meet at like 924 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,840 we're meeting usually at like 6:00 my time. 925 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,600 So it's 9:00 PM for him and it's not too bad. 926 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,840 But I'll I'll say talking about tick tock and Instagram, like 927 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,920 you were saying, just content creation, like saying what's my 928 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,280 favorite? Instagram is my least favorite. 929 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,600 If you go to my Instagram, like there's not that many posts on 930 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,400 there. I I like to post on my story. 931 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,120 I like to tell people what I'm playing day-to-day. 932 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:18,440 But like making reels and making TikTok for me is exhausting. 933 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,440 Like it is that attention to detail on a phone or doing it on 934 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,840 an iPad or whatever. Whereas like doing a long form 935 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,200 podcast or doing a long form YouTube channel like editing 936 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:33,080 that I find more relaxing, less, less stressful that that is 937 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:33,720 interesting. Yeah. 938 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:38,680 It is less stressful, but I think it takes up more time. 939 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:39,880 Yeah, of. Course, yeah. 940 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,640 Because you have to listen to, you basically have to listen to 941 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:49,120 the entire episode unfiltered so that you can catch everything, 942 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:49,720 right? Yeah. 943 00:46:49,720 --> 00:46:52,800 You don't. You don't want to rely solely on 944 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,480 the automation. Plus trying to find that really 945 00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,800 sweet sound bite for that Reggie. 946 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,440 What was that really cool thing that Reggie said? 947 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,760 Yeah. Where was that? 948 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,840 Because I'm not sitting here taking notes, going at at 51 at. 949 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,720 51 minutes, he said, yeah. And there's nothing worse than 950 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:10,880 your own voice. Like I, I hate listening. 951 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,360 I hate listening back to it. Like that's one thing maybe that 952 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,480 the Instagram or like if you're because like there's some great 953 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,560 people out there who are making like beautiful reels that are 954 00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,080 like beautiful. Thinking of the number of shots 955 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,200 that you have to do to do this look blows my mind, yeah. 956 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:31,120 Yeah, let's let's shout out Dana from Better Mood Board Games. 957 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,520 I want it to be that That is who I was thinking in my head was 958 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,440 Dana. I'm just saying that out loud. 959 00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,200 OK, I knew who you were talking about. 960 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,520 That's why I'm referencing. When I when I think about the 961 00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:45,680 best reels and the most beautiful images and 962 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:50,560 cinematography on Instagram right now, hands down, I'm going 963 00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,800 to say it. It's Dana from Better Mood Board 964 00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:54,920 Games. There isn't anyone that comes 965 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,560 close and she does it all using her phone. 966 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,880 IPhone yeah crazy and I just when I see what just knowing 967 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,720 what it would take to do that I'm just like you're you're 968 00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:08,200 better than me. I can't I just can't do it. 969 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,000 I can't do it. That's. 970 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,720 Awesome. And I've been promising it. 971 00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:15,280 Dana will be on in the new year. Awesome. 972 00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:18,120 You know, it's really funny because she's like 3 1/2 hours 973 00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,120 north of me and just trying to trying to get, you know, just 974 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,520 the holidays. It's it's been a tumultuous 975 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,600 year. I'm ready for 2025 to be over. 976 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,080 Yeah, yeah. At least it's not 45 minutes, 977 00:48:31,240 --> 00:48:33,600 you know, in Netherlands, you know what I mean? 978 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,120 Right. That would be tight, so. 979 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,480 If if you could hop on a train and nether that would be 980 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,360 different, way harder right? That's so hard. 981 00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:44,080 It's. So hard there with the free 982 00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,040 health. Iris, 45 minutes is just so 983 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,920 long. You know, if Reggie packed up 984 00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,840 his family and I packed up mine and we moved to the Netherlands, 985 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:58,640 we never see you because we live 45 minutes. 986 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,520 But by the way, we love you. Iris Yes, that is why we that is 987 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,920 why we do that. So let me ask you, I want to ask 988 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:09,720 you about the community. Cool. 989 00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:14,000 What is it? What is it that you think the 990 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,800 community does really well, that you're so proud to be a part of 991 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,040 it? Yeah, I think we kind of 992 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,240 mentioned it earlier, but like the approachability, like people 993 00:49:23,240 --> 00:49:25,400 are truly so nice. And so, you know, I came from 994 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:29,480 Twitch video games and like I would, you know, you'd you raid 995 00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,120 somebody on Twitch, you know, and you try to get into their 996 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,440 video game thing and it's just they'd be like cool, awesome 997 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,800 things. But it's like, it just felt so 998 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,880 transactional, you know? And I feel like I can message 999 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,440 somebody's story that we follow. We don't know each other. 1000 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,880 We live literally across the world, and we can start having a 1001 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,280 conversation. I think the common language of 1002 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,640 board games, for whatever reason, maybe because it's 1003 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,360 niche, it's more niche, It's smaller. 1004 00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,160 The common language, it there's just, it's better. 1005 00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,080 Yeah. And I also think we do 1006 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,560 conventions really well. I think. 1007 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,120 I mean, I went to Twitchcon in like 2019 or something like that 1008 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,480 and it was, you know, I had fun, but like nothing compares to 1009 00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,800 like my, I go to Dice Tower W typically every year in Vegas 1010 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,560 and it's a smaller con like relative to the big boys, but 1011 00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,880 you know, 3 to 4000 people and there's enough of a hall to 1012 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:21,720 check out. But also you just sit down and 1013 00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:24,040 play with so many people you know. 1014 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,840 You know, yeah, people, people talk about, they talk about the 1015 00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,640 big boys, right? They talk about Gen. 1016 00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,360 Con, they talk about S and Spiel, they talk about UKGE. 1017 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,480 Here's the one thing about those big conventions, you know what 1018 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,320 most of them don't have Is that open gaming. 1019 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,240 Gaming or or just there's no tables available if it if there 1020 00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:44,600 is one, yeah. I have. 1021 00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:49,400 I have one criticism of Gen. Con, and I guess I'm vocalizing 1022 00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,000 it for the first time. Great. 1023 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,240 Having having gone to Gen. Con since 2017. 1024 00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:56,720 Wow. I have one complaint. 1025 00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,000 Gen. Con touts itself as the four, 1026 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,320 the best four days in gaming. I don't believe that that is 1027 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,560 true at all. I believe. 1028 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,000 He said it here first, people. Yeah. 1029 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,280 He said it. Yeah, it was true. 1030 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,000 It's not true anymore. It is the best four days in the 1031 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,280 gaming industry. That's interesting. 1032 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:20,200 That's a distinct. That's a distinct difference 1033 00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:24,440 though. I don't get much gaming done at 1034 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:24,920 Gen. Con. 1035 00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:29,160 Yeah, but I can go to Origins and there's open gaming with a 1036 00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,880 beautiful games library and it is right adjacent to the vendor 1037 00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,760 hall because it's all there. And either food carts were 1038 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,920 amazing this year or food trucks or whatever was that was that 1039 00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,000 the food trucks origins the. Food trucks are a Gen. 1040 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,120 Con. OK. 1041 00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:43,760 That's Gen. Con. 1042 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:45,320 OK. And the food trucks were amazing 1043 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:45,800 at Gen. Con. 1044 00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:48,440 OK, I mean, Gen. Con's a bigger beats. 1045 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,400 To give them credit, yeah. To give them credit, right. 1046 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:54,720 I just I want to gain for me, and This is why I do the 1047 00:51:54,720 --> 00:51:56,560 podcast. This is how the series came 1048 00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,360 about. It's all about nurturing 1049 00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,840 community. It's all about overcoming my 1050 00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:04,040 personal failings. Yeah, which I talked about in my 1051 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,000 announcement, little 4 minute video back in October. 1052 00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,000 It's about sitting down across the table and having a shared 1053 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,120 experience with Reggie. Yeah right. 1054 00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:17,240 Seeing you in the flesh. That's just, that's real. 1055 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,120 I want that. I don't want a hug. 1056 00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,200 And oh, you got a meeting? Yeah. 1057 00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,960 Now there is a business. I understand there's a business 1058 00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,320 behind all this, so I don't take any. 1059 00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,040 That's why I say Gen. Con might be the first best four 1060 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:35,120 days in the industry, but it's not the best four days in gaming 1061 00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:36,840 anymore. That's interesting. 1062 00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,520 I origin, just to put it out there, I probably origins will 1063 00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,560 be the convention I go to next year instead. 1064 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,800 Good, because I will be there. OK Oh, that's awesome. 1065 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,320 OK, so we'll have to make sure we touch about this I and I'll 1066 00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,040 you know what I'll give a big announcement here. 1067 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:56,600 You I hopefully have told my community by the time that this 1068 00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,880 episode drops. Yeah, but my lovely wife the 1069 00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:04,000 queen is like due in January with a baby girl, our first 1070 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:04,640 child. Yes. 1071 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,240 And so my normal conventions, which again starts. 1072 00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:09,440 First of all, we're so excited. This is going to be amazing. 1073 00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:13,040 I can't believe we got a player 3 coming in the house. 1074 00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:16,080 Player 3 at the beginning of 2026. 1075 00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,360 How amazing is that? It's gonna Yeah, like I'm so 1076 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:23,400 excited and petrified, but also I go to Orca Con usually in 1077 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,120 January. I go to die * W is in March and 1078 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:27,720 like none of that's going to happen. 1079 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:31,800 I have made the agreement with a newborn is like maybe by June 1080 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,360 I'll be able to go to Origins. That's probably going to be my 1081 00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,120 only convention of the year, you know. 1082 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:39,360 But anyway, that just there you go, there's an announcement, the 1083 00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,520 meeple to people, meeple to meeple people know that there'll 1084 00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,240 be a little little rolling. Reggie, that's exciting in the 1085 00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:46,560 hub. Yeah. 1086 00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,160 But board games do three things for me. 1087 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:53,600 And so I wanted to address that like and, and so engage my brain 1088 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,960 and I think and stimulate it in such a way that I just not much 1089 00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,000 else has done for me in my adult life. 1090 00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,720 It's an excuse to socialize. I think that's a big thing. 1091 00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:05,160 It's like, Hey, let's cut, let's have a game night. 1092 00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,560 And it's like, I can, we can open up a bottle of wine, I can 1093 00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:10,000 make some dinner and then it's least we, we're not just sitting 1094 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,720 around yap and we can at least do something while we're while 1095 00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:15,120 we're hanging out. And also it's an analog 1096 00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,400 activity. And for me, increasingly all I 1097 00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,800 want to do is like get, like I said, not down deleting social 1098 00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,080 media apps on my phone. Like I want to get off of my 1099 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:25,720 phone. Like it's just something that 1100 00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:27,280 I'm doing. I'm on it too much. 1101 00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,880 So those three are big and I I just can't help but agree with 1102 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,200 you. I love that. 1103 00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,600 I love that. That was a really succinct 1104 00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:39,560 description of not only what the community does well, but why it 1105 00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,440 why it brings it to you. I love it. 1106 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,160 Let me ask you about the flip side. 1107 00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,560 Yeah. What does the community just it 1108 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,080 needs to work on? Yeah. 1109 00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:52,200 I have one big one which you kind of touched on with the 1110 00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,600 industry part and I would and I was trying to look up what it 1111 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:58,240 what the term is called. It's called choice overload or, 1112 00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:02,480 or, or another term for it in psychology, analysis paralysis, 1113 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:07,320 actually in real life. But like there's so many games 1114 00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,880 and there's so many posts like this is if we're talking about 1115 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,080 the content creator side and also the community side. 1116 00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:15,560 Like there's just so much hype. There's the hotness, there's so 1117 00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,920 many kickstarters like, and at the same time, there's these 1118 00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,800 amazing gem games, you know, that have been tried and true 1119 00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,040 from 2011, you know, that are amazing, right? 1120 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,880 And, and I can't pretend like I'm not a high priest in the 1121 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:33,360 cult of the new because I am also, but at the end of the day, 1122 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,160 like half the hobby is like shopping and storing your games, 1123 00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:39,920 you know, more than it is actually playing the games. 1124 00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:44,120 And like, I keep a really lean collection As for a board gamer, 1125 00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:48,280 But when I tell my normal people they're like 200 games, like you 1126 00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:52,080 are a, you're a psychopath, you know, and, and I think your idea 1127 00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:55,640 of playing backlogs that you mentioned a long time ago now is 1128 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,720 so genius. And that like, we need to start 1129 00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,800 an LLC like back the backlog boys. 1130 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,480 You know, we're going to come in coveted player game. 1131 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,440 But Bonds was right because she was like, you have to also be 1132 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,400 willing to teach it, you know, and if you're not the rules guy, 1133 00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,720 like so we got to, we got to figure that part. 1134 00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,040 Out it is true. You know who else is going to 1135 00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,320 join that group? And that's Lincoln Hot. 1136 00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,280 We from BGG. Everything. 1137 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,520 Yeah. Yeah, we talked about this. 1138 00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:25,640 I, I shared with him the whole concept of the board game 1139 00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:29,360 backlog and how we play all of our games once a minimum, once a 1140 00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,920 year. And yeah, 300 for us seems to be 1141 00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:36,120 the sweet spot. Yep, you know, good for you. 1142 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,640 So you're you have 300 games and you're getting them all played 1143 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:40,840 at least once a year. Yeah, so. 1144 00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,280 Crazy. Yeah, we're at least we're at 1145 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:50,280 like 94.2%, yeah, which means we got to be hurrying because we 1146 00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:51,800 got like 2 days left in the year, yeah. 1147 00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,160 Yeah, yeah, for sure. But we're close. 1148 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:58,400 Yeah. Last year we played it 100% was 1149 00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,200 the first time, but we're usually in the upper 90s. 1150 00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,120 It also helps you to know what games you need to just sell. 1151 00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:06,960 Of course, and I think that's a great and that's a great. 1152 00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,400 I go back and look. I mean, that's why I love I made 1153 00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,720 a video on like why I use BG stats and that was one big thing 1154 00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:15,120 is like I love be able to look at and see like when's the last 1155 00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:16,760 time I played this game? Oh, I haven't played this since 1156 00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,840 2023. Like can I justify keeping this 1157 00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,240 in my collection? Like is it sentimental or or 1158 00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,800 what? So, yeah, that that's big. 1159 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,520 The only other thing I would say, you know, I think we talked 1160 00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,600 about, you know, women and diversity, I do think is a big a 1161 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:32,680 big factor that we can we can be more welcoming. 1162 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,640 That's always a given. I think we should be more. 1163 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,080 But one thing about the welcoming side that I really try 1164 00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,520 to combat is people. And this is something that's in 1165 00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,480 a lot of hobbies. You know, it's happened in golf, 1166 00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,160 it happens in billiards, probably. 1167 00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,520 I don't know. But people forget what it's like 1168 00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,520 to be a beginner. You know, it's that they call it 1169 00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,280 like a the curse of knowledge or the curse of expertise. 1170 00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,520 You know, you have that math professor that's trying to teach 1171 00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,920 Algebra 1, you know, and they can't do it because they, they 1172 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,280 just can't even imagine what it's like to not remember. 1173 00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,120 And so with board games, I think it's really pronounced. 1174 00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,000 And one sentence I've been really trying not to say is it's 1175 00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,280 super simple. Like I when I'm teaching like 1176 00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,040 it's super simple because then as soon as you say that, people 1177 00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,560 feel dumb because you're and, and my, and we're going to bring 1178 00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,320 up Wingspan again, but like infamous clip. 1179 00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:22,440 Do you know what I'm about to say? 1180 00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:26,920 The infamous clip, Mandy Patinkin, you know who played in 1181 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,200 Inga Montoya, his son is teaching him and his wife 1182 00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,120 Wingspan. They're reading the rules and 1183 00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:35,080 they are laughing with hysterics. 1184 00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,080 There you go. Because because it's so complex 1185 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:42,040 to them and any board gamer would say Wingspan is a gateway 1186 00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:45,080 game. And I think that's one thing 1187 00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:49,120 that I made a video on being the absolute beginners guide to 1188 00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,640 board games. Like, I just think there's a lot 1189 00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:55,600 that you now have subconsciously on the on the under the iceberg 1190 00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,440 that you're not realizing when you say it's a trick taking game 1191 00:58:58,440 --> 00:58:59,760 or you say it's a deck building game. 1192 00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:04,280 You automatically know half the rules as a as a veteran board 1193 00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,360 gamer, you know, and so then you're like, this is so easy. 1194 00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,040 Like, why are you confused? You know, like that's a baby 1195 00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,200 game or that's a gateway get like the the snobbery of veteran 1196 00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,000 hood. I think is something I that that 1197 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,520 get that grinds my gear since you since you gave me a 1198 00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,920 platform, you know? That that is, that is fair. 1199 00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,720 We dedicated an episode. I really wish I could tell you 1200 00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:27,160 which one it is. We talked about how do you talk 1201 00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:31,400 to non gamers about our hobby without losing board game lingo. 1202 00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,560 It was a great conversation guys. 1203 00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:35,880 Go back and check that out. Yeah, I gotta find that myself. 1204 00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:40,800 I will tell you that it's before episode 100, so it's audio only 1205 00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:43,240 because it was. That was back in the day. 1206 00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:46,960 Speaking of, back in the day you referred to yourself as the High 1207 00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:50,320 Priest of the Cult of the New just a moment ago, which I love, 1208 00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:51,760 by the way. I stole that. 1209 00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,400 I stole that from Big Pasti. You got to give Big Pasti his 1210 00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:54,840 credit. Yeah. 1211 00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:58,800 On YouTube, yeah. I am, I'm the hierophant of the 1212 00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:01,200 classics. Beautiful. 1213 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,520 So it's the opposite, right? Love it. 1214 01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:07,120 What when? When this whole concept of 1215 01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,720 community, this whole concept of this series came about. 1216 01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:16,960 We were talking about back then tariffs on China, 140% what's 1217 01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:21,600 going to happen, the cult of the new that our content is 1218 01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,440 completely dependent upon, right? 1219 01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,560 It's like, and yet you hear people talk about it all the 1220 01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:31,600 time, but we don't play Catan anymore and we don't play name 1221 01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:34,680 name the classic right that we don't we don't get to play. 1222 01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,560 And I want to see those games hit your table. 1223 01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:42,160 My challenge to the community is that you pull out Alhambra, you 1224 01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:46,120 pull out aka Romana, you pull out Twilight Struggle, right? 1225 01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:47,840 Play that with your spouse, right? 1226 01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:52,360 Let's let's they're on your shelf for a reason. 1227 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:57,440 You fell in love with them. That love did not disappear. 1228 01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:03,680 It just got buried by the new. And 100% and they build, I mean 1229 01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,520 they're building on the like shoulders of giants a lot of 1230 01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:10,640 times too. You know, I am, I am very much 1231 01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,080 getting to the point like Carpe Diem is only like 6 or 7 years 1232 01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:17,160 old. But I've really been trying to 1233 01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:21,240 get into these old school games. There's a Guild on board Game 1234 01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:25,720 Geek called the OGS which stands which is old school German 1235 01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:26,760 style. Do you know this one? 1236 01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,480 I know them. Yeah, and like every game on 1237 01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:34,520 this list I love. And it's like I'm finding that a 1238 01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,920 lot of game, again, this is this now. 1239 01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,080 Now we're talking about problems of the industry where I'm just 1240 01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,240 agreeing with you here. Something I find is that every 1241 01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,240 game that comes out, a lot of the games that come out are 1242 01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:50,160 adding complexity for the sake of complexity, you know, And I 1243 01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:52,800 think a game that has streamlined rules, I mean, my 1244 01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:58,480 ideal game is like a medium weight 45 minute per player game 1245 01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:03,640 like that is perfect for me. And so I I just think sometimes 1246 01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,840 with all the more complexity and if it's got an hour long set up 1247 01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:10,720 like I am out, you know, so I think those older games like 1248 01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:13,640 they it's old because it's good. It's the test of time. 1249 01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:17,360 Are you prepared? Because this is real talk now, 1250 01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,200 right? Please understand this is coming 1251 01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,240 from someone who does not have a child so I do not understand 1252 01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:28,400 what fatherhood is like. Are you prepared for how much 1253 01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:32,160 that's going to change in the new year when your child 1254 01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:33,600 arrives? No. 1255 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:35,680 Yeah. OK, no, Alex. 1256 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,800 OK, no, I'm not mentally prepared. 1257 01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:44,520 I I already feel so time poor, to be honest, but it's one of 1258 01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,480 those things where I'm like, I just just by the age of five. 1259 01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:49,280 A shout out to board game blitz. Again. 1260 01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:51,800 We were talking about talking about podcasting and everything. 1261 01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:53,680 They do a great like 30 minute episode. 1262 01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:57,040 But Andy, she's got two sons and she always talks about all the 1263 01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:00,000 games that they play and like teaching them games earlier and 1264 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,480 just like modifying rules and stuff. 1265 01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:06,160 So I'm very excited about that. My wife is like trying to tamper 1266 01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:07,680 my expectations. They're like, she's not going to 1267 01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:09,680 be playing a big euro at two years old, Reginald. 1268 01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:13,240 No, no, she's definitely not. So I think what's going to 1269 01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:17,680 happen here is based on my understanding, and I would send 1270 01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:23,360 you back to, I think it's Episode 127, OK with Susie from 1271 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,800 Games with Beanie. We talk about bringing your 1272 01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:31,440 family to game conventions and the strategies of being able to 1273 01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:37,080 the go to the board game as a content creator, but managing 1274 01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:41,440 your parental duties and ensuring that your kids are 1275 01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,920 having a good time as well. Now you've got a few years 1276 01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,600 before that I understand. I got some time and what people 1277 01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:51,080 tell me who are parents is like newborns, you know, they kind of 1278 01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:54,640 just sit around a lot, you know, So there's time to, if you're a 1279 01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:57,440 solo gamer, like that's a good time to get some stuff in. 1280 01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,480 And it's also not putting on headphones, like I'm, I'm being 1281 01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,200 attentive. I can hear her, right. 1282 01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,080 And also, again, this is all in theory. 1283 01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:05,840 This is all theoretical, you know, in practice. 1284 01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:06,840 We'll see. We'll see. 1285 01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,040 What happens? But you know, you've got it, 1286 01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:12,000 you're going to do well. So getting to the end here, I 1287 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,160 want to ask you, I've got two more real kind of questions I 1288 01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,600 want to ask. First of all is when you got 1289 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,600 into, when you pivoted your content creation from video 1290 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,720 games to board games. And I think you've mentioned 1291 01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:28,200 them, but who really inspired you the most? 1292 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:29,480 Got it. OK. 1293 01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:31,320 I'm sorry. I'm going to shout them out 1294 01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:32,600 again. Yeah, Thank you. 1295 01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:36,720 Yeah, definitely have to give our family plays games a big 1296 01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:38,880 shout out. You know, their their OFPG 1297 01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:43,440 Voices team was inspiring, even though I was on it, because 1298 01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:46,480 there were just so many people from so many different walks of 1299 01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,560 life. And it was just all about, like, 1300 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:52,720 showing how diverse the amount of the gaming community actually 1301 01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:54,480 is. You know, more than what you 1302 01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,800 might think of when you say, imagine a board gamer in your 1303 01:04:57,800 --> 01:04:59,360 head. So they're great I got to give 1304 01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,160 them because they really inspired me to like make videos 1305 01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:05,080 because I had to make some for their channel first. 1306 01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,520 I got all you can board if you guys are listening to this. 1307 01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,960 I think one of them had a kid, which was a big reason why they 1308 01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,360 stopped making content. So I'm like, I hope hope that's 1309 01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,440 not me deadline, but who knows. But but they did so many great 1310 01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:16,720 videos. I thought they just were so 1311 01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:20,000 awesome on YouTube and, and my personal favorite YouTube is 1312 01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:24,000 actual LOL, who is a British guy and he makes these just 1313 01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:28,000 incredible videos that are just so well produced and he's got an 1314 01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,920 editor now and everything. But I was watching them really 1315 01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,680 those three, I was watching really early on and that kind of 1316 01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:38,600 was like inspiration for that. But I will also say as just a 1317 01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:41,600 content creator tip, which again, I still don't really view 1318 01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,600 myself as a content creator, but because I consume so much 1319 01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:49,760 content is that, you know, I, I watch video game people, I watch 1320 01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:53,040 like sports channels, I watch booktubers, you know, I watch 1321 01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:55,640 these people in different fields and I get, you know, you can 1322 01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:58,800 learn from anybody, you know, and I think that's a big thing 1323 01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,080 that I've learned when it comes to making videos is that I, I've 1324 01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:05,160 taken complete, I do a board game tag in the middle of the 1325 01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:06,120 year. It's like one of my most 1326 01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,040 successful videos. Every year I tag a bunch of 1327 01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:10,840 people, the mid year board game tag every year in about June. 1328 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:12,920 And I took that strictly from a booktuber. 1329 01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:15,600 You know, that was someone who the booktube community did that 1330 01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,960 and so I don't know what we are BG tube, Maple tube, I don't 1331 01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:21,880 know what our what the YouTube give you to do. 1332 01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:23,240 That's a. Great question. 1333 01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:24,880 I'm not really. I don't know. 1334 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:29,200 My last question to you is what advice do you have to someone 1335 01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,560 who approaches you is like, hey, Reggie, I'm thinking about 1336 01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,760 really getting intentional about my content for my board games. 1337 01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:36,160 Wow. Yeah. 1338 01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,480 Definitely learn from anybody. Like consume a lot of content. 1339 01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:42,360 Of course, it's like they always say, like good directors have to 1340 01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:45,200 watch a lot of movies, you know, and I, I do think that like good 1341 01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:46,560 authors have to read a lot of books. 1342 01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:50,280 You do have to consume a lot to actually, I do think there's a 1343 01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:53,760 lot of people out there and I sometimes get my feelings hurt 1344 01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,320 because I'm like, I'm watching all my friends out there, you 1345 01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,320 know, and I'm commenting and I do those things and sometimes 1346 01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:01,880 I'm like, where are my big content creative friends that 1347 01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,480 I'm watching their videos? But it's not, again, it's not 1348 01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:07,080 transactional, but sometimes I'm like, what what what's what's 1349 01:07:07,080 --> 01:07:11,160 going on with that? But what I will say is numbers. 1350 01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:13,800 I think the biggest thing is like, you just, and this goes 1351 01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,560 for anything like my football coach used to say, like the most 1352 01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:21,520 insignificant score in football is at halftime. 1353 01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:24,760 You know, like you should not be looking at the scoreboard to 1354 01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:27,440 influence how you do things. So what I'm saying is you 1355 01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:29,000 shouldn't be looking at the subscriber count. 1356 01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:31,440 You shouldn't be looking at your followers, how many views that 1357 01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:34,000 thing got. Like yes, you can use analytics 1358 01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,880 to like inform what videos are doing well or what posts are 1359 01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:39,200 doing well. If it's reels or tik Toks or 1360 01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:40,680 whatever, what podcasts are doing well. 1361 01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:43,640 Like maybe I need to do a better title or do something, try 1362 01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:44,520 something. If it's a lot of 1363 01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:46,800 experimentation. It's a lot of trial and error. 1364 01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:50,440 And I just noticed my friends who focus on the numbers too 1365 01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:53,800 much, it's just, it's just so hard on your mental. 1366 01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:57,360 Like it's just such a negative loop where I'm just like, it's 1367 01:07:57,720 --> 01:07:59,400 OK. And I can tell them all the 1368 01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:01,320 time, like, why do you care so much about it? 1369 01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:03,960 But they just do, you know, And I, and it's so hard for me. 1370 01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:08,400 I'm, you know, I see this as a hobby and so like taking it too 1371 01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:10,600 seriously. If you do have a day job, if you 1372 01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:14,240 are paying your bills to as a caveat is is a lot, but then 1373 01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:18,240 same in that same vein, content output is like just do it when 1374 01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:22,319 you have the capacity. Let let's shout out my my board 1375 01:08:22,319 --> 01:08:25,800 game bestie, Iris Crimson board games started a channel like a 1376 01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:30,120 year after me has like 100 more videos than I have on my channel 1377 01:08:30,359 --> 01:08:32,520 and and she's just doing great and she has more subscribers. 1378 01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:35,520 She does great and I think that's awesome for I just I have 1379 01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:38,279 less videos because I just sometimes I'm in a spurt of 1380 01:08:38,279 --> 01:08:39,840 making. I'm making a video a week and 1381 01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:42,359 sometimes I haven't made a video for two months and it's just 1382 01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:44,319 depends on what's going on with life. 1383 01:08:44,399 --> 01:08:46,319 So I think that's that's the big thing like when you have 1384 01:08:46,319 --> 01:08:49,080 capacity and just really don't care about the numbers too much 1385 01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:51,399 because it just this is not good for your mental health. 1386 01:08:51,399 --> 01:08:53,439 There's no way. Well said. 1387 01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:58,640 Well said, Reggie. Thank you so very much. 1388 01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:01,800 This was just, this was a treat for me. 1389 01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:03,160 It was treat for me. Thank you. 1390 01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:06,720 Thank you for all these amazing people you're bringing off to on 1391 01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:08,399 your platform. Like thank you, keep. 1392 01:09:08,399 --> 01:09:10,560 I love this. I love this idea, like giving 1393 01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:13,080 people a space to talk and also keeps it fresh for you. 1394 01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:14,399 But like, it is more work for you. 1395 01:09:14,399 --> 01:09:17,960 So I want you listeners to know he is doing way more work than 1396 01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:20,720 we are doing to bring you this lovely content. 1397 01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:24,479 So yeah, I really appreciate it. Yeah, so Reggie, remind everyone 1398 01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:27,240 where they can find you if they want to reach out to you or 1399 01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:30,720 collaborate or anything. As I always say, I am found at 1400 01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:34,279 Rolling dot Reggie all over the interwebs, but primarily 1401 01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:37,560 YouTube, Instagram, Blue Sky not X. 1402 01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:42,359 And I'm also on a lovely podcast on all platforms with my buddy 1403 01:09:42,359 --> 01:09:47,960 Jazz called Bored States BOARD States with the best logo in the 1404 01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:50,479 biz designed by Ken and it's very cool. 1405 01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:54,279 So Bored States Pod is where I would direct any new people to 1406 01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,840 check us out right now. Excellent, guys. 1407 01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,160 Don't forget to hit the like and subscribe. 1408 01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:01,720 I know we just talked about that the numbers don't matter, but 1409 01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:04,880 I'm doing all this hard work. Still help, still give some 1410 01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:06,840 dopamine. I need feels good. 1411 01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:10,920 I need a little bit. I also need to know if this is 1412 01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:13,120 gonna be the thing for the future. 1413 01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:16,920 I need to see that you're watching so you know and 1414 01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:18,680 comment. I will comment. 1415 01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,240 I give them some new questions, give them some fun questions to 1416 01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:22,480 ask. Like that's great. 1417 01:10:22,480 --> 01:10:24,360 Like get, get some, get some ideas out there. 1418 01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:25,600 There's going to be a lot of That's great. 1419 01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:29,000 Podcaster, how about that? My God, I'm my God. 1420 01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,040 I'm old. That's great. 1421 01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,360 It's a great reference. But as always, guys, remember, 1422 01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:38,440 be kind to each other. Let's play more games, those 1423 01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:38,920 Vamos.