Hey listen. Commander Podcast, episode four thirty seven. I'm Branda. I'm here with Thrid and we're gonna regell you from Tails from Vancouver now head our theme song. Hey Ryan, We're back for yet another whirlwind adventure. How you do it? Man? Make sure you just the audio on that intro, I who will do nothing of the sort. That's why we have producer Gary Nail. He nailed it and nailed it. This is fine. Busted the little the little jumpy like audio level thing right out through the roof like
all the cartoons. It's like the when you hit the little bell, the bell thing and the little hammer that you hit, the bell goes way up in the sky yep, and then it comes back down lands perfectly. Yes, And then they don't give you a prize because you hit it too hard.
Man, sounds like my life. I didn't realize that was a thing that But they do that so that people don't just jump on it, like the little kid the little kids, you know, our kids when you win tickets and stuff, because like you could just like pick your kid up and like not not a baby, not head first or anything, but like you pick your eleven year old kid up and drop him on the right like swing. I'm like, you're hitting Max Crandell with a sock with rocks in it.
Absolutely, you're ackam Sock'm Max Crandell like you're you're King Kong and you're using a smaller King Kong to beat up an additional King Kong. Yes, that happened in the new movie. You haven't seen it yet. Also watched yesterday's show, you'll learn all about butt Boy, and then you should go watch butt Boy because that's very funny. So hey, waitit good. What is going down? A whole ton is going down? It's our extra special
bonus show for the month of May. Yes, sir May, we got some stories to tell, some people to thank, some magic to talk about, and some cool Vancouver stuff we're gonna get into. But before we do any of that stuff, you have to thank for official business Daddy's Fusion Gaming Online dot Com your source for all your gaming needs and Pile the Bones Brewing Colder, the second coolest thing to come out of Regina, as well as the beer sponsor for CCO Sidewalk Slam season two. Right, you're on YouTube
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Yeah. And if there's like a big time play, somebody's going through a picnic table, I mean, and then we'll make Producer Gary Man, do you realize how hard you would have to hit one of these to go through it? Yes? Man, I could loosen some screws. Well, that's not going through it. That's put some relief cuts in the bottom.
But we won't tell anybody it doesn't. It's not the same. That's like when people relief cut the table and they put a bunch of sawdust underneath it before they put the tablecloth down, and then when you hit it, it's like, oh, the woodstegrated under his fucking ass. No, No, that's not how it works. You've never seen would break that way before.
It's gonna be it's gonna be legit. Well, if we film it from the top down, Oh, can you imagine filming a table, break, eat on sidewalk, slam through the sidewalk, play Matt through the picnic table in slow mo from the roof camera. That'd be nobody else is doing that'll magic coverage. That's the truth. Thumb up from the that's the truth. Yeah, so big thanks Diffusion Gaming online dot com. If you don't want to put your money through the table, use c CEO saved promo code.
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things for you. And hey big thanks to Pile of Bones Brewing cole As you say, our good friend Keel, the coolest thing that comes out of Regina drinks Pile of Bones and he was totally in Vancouver. He was totally in Vancouver, So how is so sweet. I've got a thing here. I got this thing that I've been thinking about Okay, so we started CEO officially in twenty seventeen. It's like a thousand years ago in podcast years,
kind of like dog years, but true. We started the planning in twenty sixteen as a means for Uncle Brando to kind of like expand his responsibilities and experience and all the stuff at the radio station. Yep, super cool and it it kind of worked and people took notice and everybody that you work with knows you do this like successful podcast now and stuff, right, which is
cool. The downside of that is it's a lot of fricking work. And over the last I don't know, six to seven however many years, it's been no vacations for Uncle Brando, not a single one. Now you get like a week off here or there, which is like a vacation for lots of people, like when Rebecca takes time off off, like we stay at home or we go to the lake. We're not going to Disneyland or like Greece or whatever. Right, Yeah, but you didn't even really do that.
You've had a weekend off here or there for magic Fest and Stuffy and Vancouver. Was that for you? Yep? But here's the thing. Here's the thing. You went for a full week yep to Vancouver, Ye, British Columbia, Canada, long way away northern hemisphere earth is the exact place with your significant other. And you went to a magic convention yep. Not to work, Yeah, for leisure purposes. Yeah, I went to play with with people and yeah I did some like air quotes celebrity stuff. Yeah,
but that's fun and we like to do that. Yeah, I love that. It's it's not really that celebrity. Yeah, and I like I looked after the booth a little bit and I sat like three pods, but like you sold some stickers to your girlfriend. Yeah, and I totally took the money, right, But like it's it's it's good, and I had a I had a really good time. I see why people go to those all the time. Yes, they're fun, man like like a like a magic conor a magic yeah, like and what people do vacations. They're fun
to h Yes. So man, I wish I had known before I wouldn't have been doing this this whole time. I'm painting the picture that your first vacation ever after like a long time working, moving, changing relationships, all this stuff in your first kind of excursion with with Sam could be an emotional thing. And Uncle Brando's giving us the exclusive right, Yeah, emotional exclusive outpouring. Man, this is gonna be the EO podcast. I didn't even
know we were doing this. This is that's the first EEO in seven years. People. Wow, that is pretty fricking good. We're just moving through the alphabet. Hey, go a BBO, a CCO, A D d O and now an EO. Yeah, what's f F gon to be? I know what the f not googling that, not ever in a million years come up with something. Okay, So give us the loadown. You fly out on Wednesday, and you land and you stay at Rusty trump Jones's place. I sure do you get Rusty trump Jones picks us up from the airport.
Yeah, in his work truck. Yeah. He's like a mechanical automation engineer. His automation engineering. Yeah, Gary talked about it with his work is so cool. Yeah, man. And also I got to say, before I do anything else, thank you, Brad Rusty Trump Jones for lending me your house and your car and your trust and let me pet your dog and go through your closet and all your drawers and eat your food and use your dishes. I have been in every room in that man's house. There
was nothing that wasn't locked that I did not search through. And it's still something from I reorganized at least one thing in your house, and you're gonna have to guess what it is, huh. But I very much appreciate him letting me stay at his house. All those sinister things aside me, eh, didn't didn't do that, didn't do, so I really appreciate. So so first day, Brad comes to pick us up from the airport and we went and we did some shopping. Yeah, I went to uh Ages three
and up. It's a toy store that's in Vancouver. It's like Canada wide, really big deal. I went to both locations of that store. One of the coolest places I've ever been. Like when you know when you're when you're little, and you remember all the places you would go being way bigger, right, Yeah, Like, oh man, the toy store was so big, and it's like went up to the sky with all these toys.
But it's just because you're short. This was you're well, yeah, but I was shorter then, if you can believe it, but now it's like it was his warehouse and so it was just like being in a toy store again, Like there was toys like twenty feet above my head place. Yeah,
so it was just it was amazing. And they got this really cool like museum upstairs with like all the highest of high end stuff, like it's like three thousand dollars action figures and like one of four scale Ghostbuster action figures, all dioramid out and stuff or scale not what I thought you were gonna say, like cool stuff. And then up there there's like if you can find Waldo, there's a little Waldo figure hidden somewhere and like yeah, and
they give you prize, which is like so cool. And I had so much fun doing that. And then the next day we went to Stanley Park, which is like a big famous park in Vancouver, and who went to the aquarium And here's my I know this part. If you want to hear all the fun stuff I learned about aquarium stuff, you'll have to watch. You have to tune into the your show on the Damn Media Network here on YouTube sometime this week. We're Uncle Brando gonna be on. I'll tell you
all the fun stories about that stuff, pimping out the Vancouver Aquarium. But this specifically. There are two things I'm gonna tell you right now. One here's the really cool one. Dude, they're both really cool. There's an octopus, red octopus in the Vancouver Aquarium. Can you guess that the octopus's name wrong? You can because you know, but just pretend that you don't know. Is his name Subscribe on YouTube? No, that's his middle name.
That's his middle name. His name is Brando Subscribe on YouTube. The octopus. The octopus. How cool and he's like the big celebrity together. There's even signs, like if you see a crowd around here, it's because Brando is out. He signs people's brash taunters when he comes. It's so cool. And like I saw him and it was so neat, and there was like Brando merch And we met a guy that worked for the aquarium and on the Sunday at the thing they brought he brought me a little package of
Brando cookies. There were like little octopuses they were like, which was so dope. Yeah, and the aquarium was so much fun. Here's the other thing. I learned fun facts with the brand O, You're about to become a marine biologist, just like me. Oh like George Costanzo when he pulls the golf ball the cramer hit out of the whale. That's right, Okay,
here it just check this out. The the jellyfish. We all know what the jellyfish is, right, Maybe there's a picture on the screen if you watched on YouTube, which should be Did you know that the jellyfish is older than the butthole? Did you know that, producer Gary, buttholes did not exist when jellyfish evolved on this planet. They are older than the butthole. There is a joke in there, and I don't I think about dialogue and fitting jokes in in a lot of places and even just saying fitting joke
in in the same kind of thought as a butthole. Yeah, there's something there. Well it's not a butthole, but there's something there. And I appreciate information, and you know what, here's that That wasn't even the only butthole thing that I learned. And I didn't even ask any butthole questions. Oh yeah, fish and buttholes they go hand in hand. Yeah, Like, there's so much butthole things that I learned that you'll have to listen to
the damn show to get but man, it was so much fun. I'd like the best time and a really good ice cream and it was just super cool and super chill. Everybody in Vancouver is so nice, like it's not just Brad all the time and his girlfriend Zoe were just delightful human being, so kind and so accommodating, and they took such good care of us and let us just like live Vancouver, like right, yeah, yeah, Like everybody at the Aquarium was cool and everybody that was from Vancouver that we met,
everybody from Victoria was just gum, absolute scum. And so then we did magic Fest Friday, Saturday, Sunday and an amazing time. We're gonna talk about that. Let's let's let's get into that right now because that's when we can kind of both have dialogue together. Okay, So Friday Friday you went early. Let me start the Friday You and Rusty troum Jones went early because Rusty trom Jones was brando for the weekend. Yeah, okay, he
was me and I was here. I landed Thursday and I did the recap on your show already on Friday, but I did landed went to to Rusty trom Jones's work and I did some ceo stuff and made some shorts and like got ready for like this week's show and stuff and went for lunch. Blah blah blah. Sure we go and watch the Oiler Game? Did you go somewhere dope for lunch? Yes? Could rolls sick? Okay, we didn't
watch the Oiler Game. Got totally freaking hammered. I was burping up the pulled pork nachos the next day because him and I had to get up at five yeah, to ride the train for forty fricking minutes, and I'm breathing the whole time on the train like this. I had to unbutton the top button of my pants because it was pushing on my belly and stuff. Man, And you know like when you wake up, like you wake up being oh, man, I have a headache, Like like two things are going
to clear this more sleep or or alcohol back into my bloodstream. Those are the two cures. I sat up. And the only word that I can describe what happened to me when I sat up was the insides of me sloshed into a vertical orientation, and I was like, oh no, oh no, this is either going to come out the front of me or the back of me, and neither is going to be good for any toilet in the
vicinity. No, and I got work to do because Brad and I signed on for the setup crew for the Command Fest, first time I ever did this, and I gave a little bit of a recap, like like the like the twenty minute recap that I do on command ad Populum on the perspective that it gave you or gave me, especially because I fricking so so hungover, and I was like, nope, I signed up to work. I'm doing this. I told them I was going to be here. I got
to be a leader from the front. And it doesn't matter like being a dad, right, like when you sign up for something, you're doing it. Yep, hungover or no. So we go and I'm starting to like come around, right, and I'm starting to come around at like eleven o'clock
or so, you know. We're setting up the banners and unfolding like the boxes like it's a giant crate but it folds out into the prize wall with banners and shelves and displays and all the product, all the stuff, all that trade show things, so many trade show things, like thousands of things. Oh yeah, so so many things, so much stuff. I hate stuff way more interesting than you'd think too. Like when you look at it's like, oh, it's just a bunch of carpet and drape and tables.
It's not just that. There's lots of stuff that's yeah, and banners and product, so much product, like cases and crates of pre cons and sleeves and boosters and like, I don't know if you know how heavy a tote or a rubber made fricking big thing is that's full of booster packs, like one hundred percent stuffed full of dense bricks of booster packs. I know how heavy that is. And I know how heavy one of those is when it's just full of the wrappers of booster Yes, after we have cracked them all
for open flippy. Yeah, buddy. So I'm hitting my stride around eleven. Pizza shows up at about noon, and Brad's like, oh man, I gotta go. I don't think I can have pizza. So we're we're fighting, we're fighting, and we finish around two thirty, and who shows up. Me and Brad are sitting at the table just looking at the floor, defeated. Uncle Brand like, oh no, no, I gotta be like, I'm gotta tell them about my day. He's gonna say like, hey, man, what's going on. I'm like, oh fuck, shut
shut up, Branda, That's what's happened. So we set up our little area. We had like kind of a half booth with tables to play at, and then cecal Nation starts rolling in. You were there, like listeners of the show. Once the doors opened were like, hey, we want to battle some creators. You guys are playing in a sealed and then and then Jared Confardi shows up, Aaron and Amy and Tyler T. Coats editor
Tea Coats shows up. Slap Chop was there. Slap Chop Yeah, he was the next day with keel and and Brad is there, and you're there, and and there's like a bunch of Brad's friends. Oh yeah, man, just like an entire CeAl Nation. There was people that like showed up that like had our kickstarter playing at from years ago and T shirts and guys that were like, hey, we're from Victoria, we want to buy some like new Merchant stuff that was them a false sense of security, so we
don't know that there's scum. Oh yeah, well one guy worked for the coast guards, so he's probably okay, No, he's probably not. Probably he's probably like but he probably sinks boats. He's a pirate. Oh, he probably sinks boats so he can save people get the credit for it. It's like price fixing. You're right, it's like, yeah, I'm gonna mind last pod ash so it costs more. Yeah, I'm gonna charge whatever I want for these secret layers because excitement. Yeah, I'm gonna sink your
boats. I can save you. Look like a hero exactly. That's some victorious ship right there. I know, I see you. I so fantastic. So we did. We did games, we did merch, we did you played in a thunder Junction sealed. Oh I got so bamboozle. You got, you got all of the all of the boozles. Man, Everyone's like, oh, it's the Commander Cookout Tailgate sealed event. This is gonna be so dope. Like, man, I'm gonna draft me a commander deck and I'm just gonna be miserable and lose. The one game that you play
when you do Commander sealed right, and it's gonna be fun. You're gonna get gun cards, you're gonna drink some beer after No, it's a full whole day sealed event, three rounds of junction. Fuck me, man, Oh yeah, I got nothing. I open nothing. I just got beat to death. Man, I know I won one game. I won one game. One game. I thought you I want one. Deck was so sucky. Oh my deck was terrible. And it was and it was every black card and every white card I opened was in that deck because the rest
of it was ship and I wasn't going to three colors. I've played sealed before. I'm not doing that ship. Did you at least have a good time? I did. I met lots of I met lots of people who listened to the show, which was really cool, and a bunch of people
who I think will listen to the show, which is even cooler. And everybody was like really like kind to me, because like I'm obviously not good, I'm road for you, And they all thought I had good cards in my deck too, because I got no slives, just raw raw dog and shuffling. Oh yeah, I don't give a ship. I didn't even bring my own and didn't open my bag. I'm like, fuck this, this
is terrible. And as soon as the event was over, just through the deck in the garden, as soon as it was over, the one rare that was in it and all fuck that day, right in the trash. But so that was my entire Friday actually, but well Friday we went out to Steamworks with the whole crew. Man that was like super fun. Sam was like, man, that was so fun, Like I'm excited to hang
out with your friends more. After that, yeah, like we had so much fun, like this great, big, kind of touristy bar in gas Town in Vancouver, and the food was delicious and the drinks were plentiful and we were out cucumber beers. Everybody Steamworks cucumber beers had I had at least five over the weekend. What is it with Vancouver and the bars closing it one? What is I don't know. We left. We'll talk about the
after party in a minute, Like what is that. We had to take a traditional cab home, like like not an uber, not like a ride share, not a lyft, no like hail it down whistling on the street showing some leg tax cab on East Hastings, bro Holy dude, And it was like we had a few drinks and buy a few I mean, like yeah, you know what I mean, Yeah I do. And it was like the little meter was ticking up and ticking up. It was like a sixty four dollars cab ride, which I mean, maybe that's not lots,
but no, that's lots more than an uber would have been. That's quite a bit. Yeah, that's that's several dogs. Anyways, And I thought that was not the end of Friday. That was nothing because the reason that I could show up and be all chip or what's up your focks? Because on Thursday night, when we did not go out to watch the other's game with you guys, because we were all we went to the wreck Room, which is like an adult not an adult like adult, but like an arcade
meant for adult human beings with a bar like a bar. Yeah yeah, and we played trivia from like the outside of the thing. It was like just regular pop culture trivia and we shut it down like we played video games all night until he won when the bar closed. Oh that's cool, man. We had fun and then would have liked that spot. Oh yeah, dude, Gary, Gary would have had super lots of fun. And then we just like went home and I had, like, wait, I watched
a movie that was probably shitty. You were waiting for the whole CEO to come to Brad's house. You brought like I bought beer for everybody, so like you and Keel and everybody was in a common like I bought enough beer for like everybody for one night. Yeah right, and nobody came, so I had to drink. I had to drink all that beer. I didn't even get through it all. I drank something after well, yeah, you and I left the rest for Brad for helping me, for like letting us
live there. Man. It was man so relaxed, and I watched Terminator and then I went to the tournament one or two just one number one two was impossible to find on streaming here in Canada less you pay for it. Yeah, oh dang, well, because it's the best one Sam. I'd never seen them before, so I'm like, hell, yeah, I will watch Terminator your friend anymore? Well yeah, not Terminator, right, okay, okay, oh yeah, what's some cool stuff. We watched Prey and
we watched Terminator and we watched that kind man. Pray is real good. If you haven't seen Pray, it's it's it takes place a long time ago, right like old days. Yeah, it's like like as tech old days, like thirteen hundred years ago, right like right, it's in North America with like the Aboriginal people and like it's right when the settlers show up, like oh like like like fifteen hundreds yes, like yeah, five hundred years.
So it's there, and I don't I don't think it was like necessary for the story, but like it was a pretty intense scene when they show up, but like it was a it's a great movie. Oh cool, Pray is really good. I might I'm maybe watch absolutely worth a watch if you like predator movies. It's very good. Okay, So Saturday, Saturday, Saturday Big Day all the time, and I had the New Merch all laid out. We got stupid neither of us are wearing a New Merch T
shirt. Yah, I don't. I don't know, but editor Joe can find it on the website because it's all live. We've got the new T shirts, the glitchy three color. Lots of people like that shit, that's a cool shirt. The shirts cool photographed, so cool because it looks so vibrant and in pictures, like you can most definitely tell that you're looking at the com under cookout logo, but it's also like what am I looking at? But it's it's yeah, it's like an optical illusion almost when you look
at it. We got the matching stickers to that. We got the new hats that match the hat I'm wearing. But instead of the instead of the as tech kind of logo print print on here, it's camel because the previous cameo hats everybody liked so much. So got some of those left, got the new stickers, right, and uh it was it was great. I got the new pins. Everybody loved those. Yeah, it was a cool.
Man. Did you see the opening video some dude likes he bought a cec opin and it came like in the envelope you send it in right, Yeah, And he posted like an opening video of him like getting his treasure. Oh and so like he gets the pin, it's like, hey, I got this from Ceco And once he bust out huge butcher knife to open them and to open the envelope with oh man, I was I'm touched to
my heart and soul. That was so fun. That, of course, is a reference to Brando's box openings on the Commander Cooko media group YouTube page. Yes, yeah, yeah, check those out, man, the brand is very good. Saturday, how many games you play? How many games you play over the weekend? You said it on the pre show, right, sixteen. I played sixteen games over the course of That's a lot of games, man, Lots I played four. We were working pretty much working.
Yeah, I was working sitting players. You were you and you were me at the same time. Yeah, both of us sitting players in pods. And I love doing that because I love schmoozing and meeting people and talking to Now that we've been to enough face to face games events, whether they're the like the one day Saskatoons or Regina's or the three day command Fest or the championship weekends, of which we're going to talk about in a second, we've gotten to know Kelly, the the event manager. Yeah, good guy,
good dude, and like drinking with that guy. A bunch of the on demand and registration judges and people like all of their regular people, like have a job like Scott is like the re tail booth manager for the show. That guy's dope. Patrick is like one of the on demand main guys that like takes money and launches people into commander pods. But they need a judge or somebody sure to go and take people out to tables and sit them down. And that for this event was me. That was my job.
So I got the promos and the prize ticks and say, hey, welcome, here's the play of the game. The CEO approved gold sticker for the funnest play of the game. Oh, man, I got the funniest one. And they say, well, what do we do with it? Right? And I think that's your story. I say, the funnest, funniest, coolest, biggest moment, Like you're gonna know when it happens, You're gonna know what the play of the game is. This sticker goes to that
person an example. So I'm sitting and this is man, I learned so much shit from this game. Let me tell you all the things I learned from this. Okay, it's like this game you played, the third or fourth game I played on Saturday. This is where I learned that everybody Vancouver's piece of crap. Okay, and This isn't me saying everybody from Vancouver's a piece of crap. This is what this girl told me. Do you mean Victoria Victoria Victoria, Kayla. She sits down and she says, I'm from
Vancouver on a piece of crap. That's the first thing she said, Victoria Victoria, Victoria Victoria. Thank you gotcha. I played Pox in this deck. Like that's how bad it is? That's fine? Oh shit. So it's like she said, yeah, when I when you get off the boat or airplane, when you move to Victoria and you're a magic player, the first thing they do is give you a turgrid and a Pox Talks Talks row and say here go go okay, that's just how you do for the magic
players out there, which Camragary Middle one. For the magic players out there, play those cards. They're fine, expectation management and just declare that this is the kind of game that I would like to play. Do you have something that can match it? And this is what this lady and absolutely I am. And she was so much fun to play with. But like there you go, we just bounced off it like mine, you're a piece of shit. I told you. I told you that an hour ago. I'm
garbage. I'm garbage, but it was so fun. She taught me a new way to decide who goes first. Oh yeah, check this CCEO exclusive tech. And she thinks I forgot this. And she's watching right now and Sol's her buddy and they're like, oh my god, she is actually doing it. So everybody takes a D six, all four players and at the same time you roll. Then whoever gets the highest number goes first. But if you have the highest number and like you're matched, he doesn't count.
It's neat, super fun. It takes away last time. If you have doubles, they're just and you're the highest, that doesn't count. There out, don't even con that's just like rolling into D six way better though, what if what if it's not the highest and it's doubles, because then you're not the highest. Okay, that's super fun, super dope. So here's the play of the game. From that game, you have the ce CEO sticker. So girl across from me keeps what she says is a suboptimal hand.
She's playing Gwen Gwen the prostitute whatever her name is, the from like legends. I'm sure. Yeah, Gwendolin de Corsi. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's the one. Everybody knows what we're talking about. So she's like, man, I gotta I'm gonna keep this greasy hand to this, just like real greedy hand. Sure, how bad can it be? So she goes turn one land go. Everybody plays to turn one, and then she goes turn to draw discard. Go. I're like ooh, that's ooh,
that's hard. So on turn five she goes draw discard. Go, oh, I got you there, because he thought she was gonna do something. So turn six comes around and she finally goes, does she have nothing on the battlefield so far? Oh, just one land? She goes tap land. So we gave with this, we give it the sticker, because nothing's gonna be better than that is player player two getting her second land on the board on turn six. And I had already tried to win the game
like three times with Obeca at that point, like it was. It was outrageous. It was outrageous. It was two versus one because player four just was not even there. That's right, Yes, that's right, Yes, that's right. It was. It was very cool and very fun, and it was just one of the many examples of like fun games that I also that Obeca deck that I built, I was missing, like I think it was ten cards, maybe eleven. So I didn't want to proxy anything because
it's an official event. Yeah, so I just took things out of my binders that cost the same manna cost and put them in instead. And did you play them or did you pretend that they were No? No, I just played that whatever that card. Holy shit, that deck's good. And it's good because you get so many upkeeps right, oh my god, the deck on it a few weeks ago, link up in the corner or just
find it on our challenge. It we understated in that deck so much like that did, like the hold the multiple upkeeps or triggers on your upkeep, the monarch, I got the courts, I got the like play your opponent's stuff. I milled a guy Ryan. Oh yeah, I milled a guy d I drew his whole deck and then you know what I did. I played all the cards from it for free and then and I got to keep
them for that turn because he didn't die until he drew a card. Yeah, until you drew cards, babies, So like I killed players two and three with all of his ship. Yeah, and then I said go and then he drew and died. I got you one better. I got you one better. That deck is so strong. I played a couple games this weekend, really I did. Oh shit, I was working, right.
Everybody's bucking me about never playing, but I was working this weekend. But I did manage to get a couple of games in on Friday and Saturday that you were really into one because Saturday we were all leaving to go for supper and you were like, you know what, Brando, I'm gonna stay here and I'm gonna play. I'm gonna find my own way home because I'm to finished play this game. You were really into that one. You know what.
I'll talk about that one first, because part of what I was doing there was seating players and schmoozing and kind of making the event feel like it had like a little bit of a flare to it, right, Not just a judge you have fun, right, yeah, but like talk and interact and giving out prize tickets and promos and giving him the Brando siel a bunch of fucks. Yeah, exactly. And one of the one of the things that they needed from me is certain events like a two headed giant event.
Oh my god. Yeah, well it's best of one in commander, right, so you played one round? One guy was like no. There was one team that was like, hey, we don't have an opponent. So we paid our whatever thirty bucks each or whatever it was, and we're not gonna play anybody. Do we get a refund? And Face to Face Games doesn't want to give refunds. No, they're not in the business a given refunds, right, And then one guy shows up and says, hey, I want to play to at a giant, but I don't have a partner.
Here's my thirty bucks. Face to Face Games wants to take that money. Yeah, but they can't if the guy doesn't have a partner. So they called their good friend ryanover and said, hey, do you want to play? And I'm like sure. This guy seems like an upstanding gentleman. I find out that he's playing the erza that gives you the cor instruct and gives them all manus, Oh my god, And I'm like, ooh,
this guy's a bad guy, and he's gonna be my partner. I'm gonna play my bad guy Deck my suron deck and we're going to be the bad guys, and we sit down against these two awesome dudes that were front like locals, and we just started getting into it like back and forth, Big
Slugs plus one Counters tramp or Life games. So it's like the game went for over two in some hours, and everybody's trying to leave to go to supper because because you guys are all going to the marina or wherever, yeah, to get seafood, and and the dude that I was my partner, said, I got a supper date at seven to two bounce, but I'm close, so if it goes a little bit over, it's fine. So everybody's coming over and being like Ryan, like we gotta go, Like,
we gotta go. You can't walk there, it's gonna be too expensive to cab there by yourself. I'm like, you know what, guys, we're in the middle of this game and it looks like it's it's gonna go soon. I'll either find my way over with the last person, or I'll hit up the other guys that aren't going for dinner, like keel And and Sink Guy and Jock Slap Slap Chop Chop Slop. At that dinner, we changed his name to slap Chop because Brad was sitting there like flop flip flop slap
chop slip slip slap chop, I think. And his girlfriend Zoe had just met us first time right at that dinner table, and she's looking at Brad like he's got a fucking other head growing out of his shoulder, going, what the hell are you talking about? This guy? His name's Josh, Yeah, so we call it that's his name, Yes, yes, Josh Okay, slap chop jock, slap job slap jock. There you go.
See, it's funny every time. So anyway, I'm going out for dinner with them because I stuck around to play this game because I thought it was gonna end. Then it went back and forth for like another hour and we had a freaking losing oh and then come on, all of the guys were like, First of all, like my partner was like, dude, thanks,
I wouldn't even played if he didn't come over and play. And then the dudes beside us were like, yeah, me too, me too, And it was like such a great game, and I gave them all CEO stickers and extra promos, and they won like hundreds of prize tickets from us, and then they came to the booth or whatever after and we just like chatted until the rest of the CIO crew was like done their game and we had like a wonderful evening. To get is just like random people that you
meet at a magic event that I kind of got suckered into. But then it was fun because I got to play one of my favorite decks and I got to be the bad guys, and my favorite thing is saying like it's looking good for the bad guys. When we were starting to win, we got them down to like nineteen and we were at thirty six or something and they had this big guy and I had a removal spell. Then I get busted with a windfall. With my removal, we took like thirty but then
we gained a bunch of life back. But then they got a blood a Butt Chief ascension online that'll do it, and I'm like, ah shit. Way back on turn three, I was like, man, that's going to be the card that's going to get me. And then lo and behold he gets that. Of course he does the mill Jase that zero's to mill ten and then he gets his blood Chief ascension online. We're at like thirty six or something, thirty two and he goes a forty two. He goes million
for ten, you lose two for each one that hits your graveyard. Take twenty, Take twenty, and then we'd go to twenty two. But as both the is it's target player. Okay, yeah, So we go to twenty two and I'm like, okay, I've gotten out and I've got some blockers, and like, I can big brain this out. This is gonna
work. And then I go to cast an expell for zero so I can exile cards from my graveyard to flashback it instead of paying X, and he goes, if a card goes to your graveyard, you go to twenty and then on my upkeep, I'm gonna or during my turn, I'm gonna milliar. You're gonna die exactly. I'm like, fuck, I can't do that, Okay, how can I play cards so I can block to give myself another draw and survive at two life on our turn, hopefully drawing into removal.
So we big brain it out and we're like, okay, we can live. And me and my partner, we can live and then they take their turn. He goes drop whatever. All my guys have trample b shit because I just had like orc armies and little like goblins like a goblin crater maker and just stuff to absorb blocks. Right. So we ended up losing and it was a fantastic game. And then me and Keel went and paid seventy eight dollars to have a beer and chicken wings fucking downtown Vancouver after a
Canucks game. Oh goodness, she's pretty busy on there, yeah she was. Yeah yeah, and a bridal party too, And man, that bridal party was making more noise on at one table than the entire rest of the bar. Yeah, good on them, Yeah, man, good for those. I hope that she has a lovely wedding and their marriage is marriage. Drake, you're getting married? No, Drake got married fuck like three weeks ago. Yes, congratulations to you and your wife. I can't believe it
took us this long to say something about that buckhole got married too. What Yeah, fuck you man for not telling Uncle Brando's Yeah, yes, yeahs. It's wedding season. Man, everyod's getting married. Man, that's dope. I'm really happy with that he's getting married. Yeah, very very much. So. So well, you were having that great game. Actually, I have a sort of similar story. So we've been to Vancouver before and
we have had well, yeah, we went to Van before. Oh yeah, yeah, man, I thought there's another uncle brand who gets a birthday present story just I have no idea, no that. So we went to Vancouver before and a few times we've been to Calgary and there are people that travel from Vancouver to go to Calgary and then they play in Vancouver also, and I've seen them around like I just noticed them because you see faces.
I actually got to play games with them, yes this weekend and A it turns out they listened to the show, and b it turns out they're fucking dope because they listened to the show obviously. And I had so much fun as the getting to meet these people. I'm like, man, I've seen this guy a bunch of times, like the Mystical human, Like I see that guy all the time. Man, super cool Humans was like Dreadlock guy. I played with him a couple of Yeah, there was a couple of
like trans girls that just unreal. They were so much fun. Eden and I don't know. I can't remember the names either. Sorry. Brad knows them though, and so much like such cool people and I just man,
like everybody I met in Vancouver was totally dope. I got to play with the like, I love and hate playing with this dude because like, he'll have the win in his hand and he'll just like let the game play out and then when it when it gets that final thing everybody's swinging for the win, he'll just win, which he was a little anticlimactic once you've seen it a few times. But it doesn't it doesn't stop other people from having their
gameplay right exactly. And because he doesn't do it in it like oh still had all these ways right, he does it and that he want everybody to have fun. He doesn't like, oh I just drawed, I just drew this and I can do it right. And but the dude's totally cool. I love playing Chase with him. Yeah, man like that. How is Plaane Chase? And you haven't Plaine chased? And you haven't chased some planes? And oh we got blown out so hard? What was it? Hey?
You know what? I want to talk about the after party, but I want to hear about your favorite gameplay experience. My favorite game. My best game was with uh Kayla and her friend from Victoria who is a huge, huge fan of the show, who I feel so bad. I can't remember your name right now, dude, I'm so sorry. It's not your fault. He doesn't remember anybody, how it is. I committed because she said that I wouldn't, so I was like, yeah, fuck you, I won't. Rolled it on my arm, read it every hour on the
hour until right now. Yes, it's still not damn. And there was another I think it was Brad actually was playing that game too, and it was just such a like good game. We're all like all of our decks were evenly matched, We're all having fun. Everything was going good. The culture of the game was like Primo and we had the I played the Clone correctly where it's like here's the Clone and like, what are you talk? What are you targeting? I'm not. I'm not telling you because I don't
have to. So bodies like, kay, I'm going to kill the thing I think you're gonna target, which is totally what I was gonna target. By the way, You're totally gonna win that game. And then so he kills it. So I come back in and I'm like, I target a sneak attack even though I didn't need it. But it's like the Enchantment, I can get probably the most powerful card on the board at the time. Absolutely not Yeah, it was the Throne that be killed. That was the
last remaining moment, so we get that in there. And I remember sitting there thinking I had had two cards in my hand, and I can play this one or this one, and if I play this one, I think I can do it now. But if I play this one, I feel like I will probably win later, like if this doesn't work, I will win. So I played the first one and immediately I realized, Fuck,
that doesn't work the way with on it. Oh no, And like you could see it all through other people's faces, like Brando, that card doesn't work the way you think that was at all. God damn it. Like I could have went from like, yeah, I win to that beats to just ship instead of winning, I get last, and that feeling with all these people who are like really good and playing really tight magic. But that's the funnest way to win or lose. And I felt the misplay as the
card touched the table. God damn it. Fuck And that was exactly it. Like that play was what you put your hand on the barbecue but left it there and that's what made me lose and made her win and fuck damn it did. But everybody laugh. Oh yeah, it was so good. And at the end of the game we're all talking like it traced right back Brando. You should have you should have did that. I know, I know, I know I was thinking about it, but I didn't. I
love that shit. I love making big mistakes and everybody like learns and has fun and they all dunk on before it. It was so dope. Yeah, so much fun. Yeah, I got I got exact seed by Amy once I got dead with the Bad Guy Deck. Played a couple others, but the single game that I won was against Rusty trom Jones and he's playing o' hair acconel does extra non combat damage and like burn Deck, like like
group's lug, everybody's ticking down. He had o hair Axonil gives you like he had a soul fioric vortex, but instead of two, we were going up to four. Yeah, everybody taken four during their turn. He was taken two, so we were like dinking him to make all the life totals at the table go down, down down. We're playing against two Brad's friends that are like good players and headitive players, and we're all going down, going down, going down. It was one of them, George, I
got a story to tell a little good guy, George Man. I got a story about that man. He is a saint. No it wasn't George, but he ended up trying to kill Brad with something. And it was like, hey, if you tap that many man, because Brad had a MANI flare out every time you tap a man and you take two damage take four. It was take take fourth overhel action only take four. It was take four and he's like, yeah, X kill you and I'm like what, No, that'll kill you and he's like fuck, oh okay, well
I guess I die. He was gonna take these backs and he was like, but I'm gonna kill Brad, so we will both die. And then it was me and one guy laughed or Brad. Brad went to like one
or something, and on Brad's turn he died. And then the guy to my right was was at four and then on whatever he went to two and I'm like, somebody's got tricks, Like I have to just instant speed dink myself down to six or four or something to get as much land and resources as I can eke out before people die, because somebody's gonna have a trick. Ye, somebody's gonna have a trick. So I do that. Play my turn, I did everything good, and I was telling Brad like,
I think that this is one of those rare games. It was short enough that I really thought that I made optimal, good, thoughtful plays. Sure, and it really didn't feel like I made any misplays or mistakes. Now, did I one hundred percent optimize? Probably? Not? Were their mistakes or like probably, but I couldn't identify any of them, which makes me feel good. And all of the life totals were going down, and I ended the game at six, Brad died at one by his own card.
And then Brad's friend Cameron, I thought he was gonna like get me because I was at six and he was at two, and he plays something on his turn and I'm like, I'm gonna responding and cast this instant and I had a gutter snipe and play and got it and I won the game. Sick. And then after that, for the rest of the weekend, didn't win one single game, so I had a really good one and then all the rest suck. And and those guys, all those players, all those
guys are dope, although no they must suck. A magic beat them. I have one big beat story that I got to play nor in one time. Let's let's do the big beat story and then let's talk about the after party. I played Norn the Werry one time. Yeah, all weekend famous deck and it was against my again, my Victoria homies. And I can't remember the girl's name, but the hooker lady commander not her. The commander
was the prostitute. The player is not the prostitute. And Gwendolyn the course and man, when when Norrin goes like all the way to eleven, it is the most amazing feeling because the deck shouldn't be as stout as it is, but holy shit, that's the one. And it was just like every is like, I'll take an extra turn and find the thing. It's like, no you won't have a stragglehold, well, I'll play this to remove your stuff. No you won't. I have a I have a possibility storm.
Yeah, yeah, and like I played through a painful quandary with a possibility storms, like every spell you play you discard a card or take fucking eight, and like I was using that to burn my opponents to the ground because they're trying so hard to stop all the stupid Oh dude. And then at the end it's like you swing in and it's like this could be lethal or not. This is this is the thing that some people don't like about chaos decks, right, Like it's lethal unless like I can block it to
not die. But like, what do you flip off your tally, Brando And they're like land land like fine enchantment, I go, or oh they fuck you, Brando. This game is over. That's it. We all laughed and it was perfect. It was so good. That was my biggest beat story and went to one of the things one then we'll talk about the after party, Brad's friend George. Yeah, I want to talk about this guy because this guy is the guy in the magic the gathering community that I
think we need a little bit more of. And he was playing a game I thought we were gonna tell the bounce against him against some people that I'm not gonna say what need less of That's not what I'm saying, Austin. But and he knows what he did. He knows what he fucking did.
We're they're all playing in the Commander Grand Melee. If you've never played in one of these events, it's where you get like twenty five or thirty people and you all play in one giant ddH giant pod and you can attack left or right now one person, and you can only interact with the people to your immediate left and your immediate right on your turn. So what people will do is they build their dead X to kill you on your upkeep. Okay, that's why I say, Austin, I know you were doing this because
we talked about it. So and and I'm like combo players, right, and it's just greasy ass combo. And so like, you go up and you pay your like thirty or forty buck yeah, a not insignificant number of dollars, and you sit down and there's always one or two or three guys that are playing this dirty, stinking, fucking rotten combo. Yeah that just kills the whole table and ruins it for everybody. Yep. And two guys
at once we're going off. Oh no, we're going off. And they're just the guys just wanting like the ducks the shooting gallery, right yeah, And here's fucking George. They're all wearing cowboy hats, cowboy hats, and he's wearing he's he's a blue mate and he's got all this countermatch and George walks in. He's like, I'm the blue made all this man outs in and he's and he's fucking counter and spells. He's shooting guns all up in
the air. He stops fucking one combo player, but the other guy had a bunch of combo was like countering counters on counters, and like it took him till he had no cards left and no life and all of his lands tapp and he sacked all of his to try and save everybody, butcking Sell. He was wide open out there. He was trying to save this forty dollars commander game for everybody. People are fucking rage scooping in response to the
stack because it's so brutal. Yes, and then he he didn't make it in the end, but man, he went down swinging, and you gotta respect that. You gotta respect that, Yes, I got you. Gotta respect you just going right past me calling a spatoon a pastuon. Yeah, I'll make fun of you for that later. Okay, good, Yes, okay, So I would love to do a piece of content with you on
me or by myself. Screw, I don't I could do it. I've been grand meles because I would love to include that at the next face to face and and Kelly, the event manager, face to face says, okay, hey, we got some complaints and people scooping because not only because of the combo player, but because people trying to stop the combo player and there and others saying I paid forty dollars, I got one turn then the game
ended. Yeah. There was actually somebody came by me when we were playing a game and said, yeah, I paid forty dollars, I played one car. Yeah, so hear this out, hear this out? Face to face was like, well, maybe next time we'll make it pre cons only, so there's no combo decks then, and and with pre cons of the same or similar vintage, they'll kind of be the same time twenty twenty four Commander decks. Yeah, then all the maudi ho ho ho onest fucking way.
Yeah, but you're not going to get one of those for forty dollars, like a forty dollars entry, right, So true that what we were talking about at lunch and Beers and chicken Wings was something like this. And I would love to have a Commander cookout event like this. I think it would be so fun. Okay, there's okay, let's say the number twenty Okay, twenty people, okay, one game of Commander attack left or right, one seat right, Okay, but it's two players's turns at the same
time. That's how the mainly works. That's not how this this one worked. One person, two people at the same time. That's they're supposed to work. You take every for every five players, there's one turn, right it continue. Okay. If you are going to combo, your loop of combo can only loop three times on every one of your turns, so your
loop counter starts over when your turn begins. So I could do my loop once on my turn, once on that guy's turn, once over there, and you would not loop all times on your turn because if it's your turn and the person who's else's turn, it is if over the course of the game one person gets caught by the other person, then that person who gets caught automatically loses, which encourages fast turns, fast play, not comboing on your own turn or not looping on your own turn, but it also encourages
everybody to just go go go, go, go go go go got you, So there has to be like a one minute cool down period. If you say, like land Soul, Ring Goat, you have a one minute buffer, and all it takes is one of these like a phone to track
almost like a like a game timer, like like a chess clock. Yeah, I think that that would be so fun, And you could introduce some kooky CEO exclusive rules, like you have to open up a booster pack and play one like you have the booster tutor before you get caught, right, and you have to booster tutor when like somebody is one, one or two turns away from you, so you just like pick the first card that you see that's your color, or like you can introduce a rule that says everybody
gets their commanders right now, right if you already have your commander card from your hand onto the battlefield. Like there's so many Battle Royal exclusive rules that make it just a chaos slugfest and it's so fun. That could be cool. And the way that Face to Face did it at this one with combos in it was not fun by the sounds of it. Yeah, it just wasn't ideal. And I think that one was it. I think it was
somebody I was playing with. I can't recall if it was, but somebody said, like what they should do is have it so you can do the combo and win. But like, once you kill the two people next to you, you have to take whatever's comboing and remove it from the game. Yeah, exile it, or you can't do it again until your next term. You just know you can't do it again. You have to take the
card and it's gone from the game. Ah. And that was the solution that we kind of came up with, just because I saw lots of like there was the one salty girl that said she played one thing, but then there was a few other people that came by, and nobody had a good thing to say about that. And that's too bad because it sounds like a
lot of fun. And I hate that that one. I hope that that one instance didn't poison people from and that's I think the problem with games is one instance, like your first impression is your best impression, even if it's a bad first impression, it's the best one you're ever gonna make. Right, So let's go to something. Let's go to one more little piece of negative. Okay, because we have a little bit of an announcement to make and we left it. We left it like till fifty minutes into the show
to give people like a good fud. We do. We owe it to CCIO Nation to make sure that they're making life plans accordingly. Can't we just lie? I wish we could, and uh, we we could, but we don't have to. And I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. So here's the thing. Some people I wish I could lie face. Some people found out in Vancouver that Brando and I will not be attending Magic
Con Las Vegas plus sucks down with the Nation topple the statues. Fuck yeah, So we're not going to be going to Vegas because I have been asked to be in our good friend Alexi's wedding party and we have been playing and Brando's coming to and if we weren't in the wedding party. We would still not go to Vegas to go to his wedding for the records, Yes,
for the record, because because we're good friends. The way the flight schedules work and spending time the day after, like one of your grooms may and your best friends, we would be there for less than one day and then we'd have to come home. Yeah, it's just not worth it. I did actually, I did actually look into going for the Saturday Sunday. I actually did look into doing that, like, and I could just do whatever.
But I didn't realize this. I found out this morning as we're recording that there's a what is it, a Chief a Chiefs and Raiders game. Yeah, so, like, flights are just ridiculous and I couldn't. I just can't make it work. But I wanted to, but I couldn't. This is why we don't have to lie about it being okay and a good time. I still want to lie. I'm gonna throw in one lie before the end of this pitch. Okay, I see if I can identify it. Okay, Okay, We've had people and this is why CECO nation is
great. Okay, and we don't have to lie. We've had people already say if you need help planning, or if you want to have a CEO house CCO experience, I will help plan. I will book a house, I will do the merch, I will find the stuff, I'll give out the stuff. We'll plan beer shurpas, we'll have cooking buffet pro chefs, we'll plan drivers. So there still will be a CEO experience, it will just be not your good friend Ryan and uncle Brando planning it and booking the
house. Further, do that, oh shit, to make it as easy and seamless for CECO nation and attendees as I can. I said to the few people who volunteered to help, If you book a spot and get all the confirmations and do all the event planning, run the payments through the CEO website so anybody can pay with PayPal or credit card or online debit, whatever you want to make it easy and seamless for those people. And I can forward the house renter and expense person all of the money to pay them back.
Oh dope. So I will facilitate the COCO experience in whatever way I can to make it easy for anybody who wants to go, because I know that already, have plane tickets, event vouch or like convention passes, hotels booked. I know people are already going, and I don't want them to go under the pretense that it's gonna be a CCO experience and I'm gonna be a part of it because We're not going. But man, it still is going to be a thing. Now, onto the good news, Onto the
better news. Did you identify the lie that I said there? Life sucks? Yeah, life does. Life is great, Life is life is fantastic. Life is good. If you're in the nation, that's sure to see what I did there. Everybody's still gonna have a great time even if we're not there. You won't have to wrangle me on Fremont Street where I'm like, man, where I'm too drunk to get back into a bar on Fremont Street. Holy shrinding with people, Producer Gary. Have you ever heard of
somebody being too drunk to be let into a Las Vegas bar? Your boy? I was, I got triple tequila sunrises. I was talking to strangers, like what do I do? I was talking a strangers that weren't even there. I was trying to get advice. That was that the thing where we came back to the house with all the Denny's menus on the walls of the art. Remember, and I just like sat down on my bed and I laid down, didn't even move, didn't even take my shoes off.
I just sat on my bed, laid down, went to sleep. Yeah, woke up in the morning, sat up, grabbed a beer out of the fridge. Yeah. Body just hurt. Okay, I've got one on. This is this is the tits, this is legit. Okay. So I've been saying to people, telling them tell Vegas. A couple people that I knew were helping plan or interested in coming or saying, hey, I can't come because the Chiefs are coming. That kind of stuff, right man, The Chiefs are my favorite NFL football team. Maybe go to the game
in Vegas. Can't thanks for what it looks. Yeah, So Championship weekend Calgary? What coming up November? I want to say fifteen to seventeen. Sure that is a three day command fest type experience. Okay, that at least I will be going at because I already told face to face that I'll be working it again with them, set up or tear down and eating people for games. Bro obviously I'll be there. Obviously, Uncle Brando's gonna be there. Is your cousin Jess gonna be there? Yes? Sure, absolutely,
Gary can come. Also, Alexi and and f you Aiden said that they'd come to the next face to face that they got to drive to. Okay, I'm willing to bet that the coolest guy for ginas sketchwe might come. Oh shit, I'm willing to bet Smitty, f you, Laura f You, Jesse, all of their fans maybe, and a bunch of other CEO locals, Calgary people, Edmonton people, BC people. I'm willing to bet that all of those people are gonna come. I'm even willing to bet
that there will be some international nationalites. I never said that at this Let's call it a modified CEO experience in Calgary. So that's mid November weekend after my anniversary. Okay, so I'm in the clear. Oh yeah, baby, I'm in the clear. Oh So, Vegas isn't gonna be a thing for us personally, but Calgary will be. And you know how much we like going to Calgary. It's it's quite a bit. They have my favorite bar in the whole world in Calgary, and I'll bet you we go to
it, whether Ryan likes it or not. Yeah, probably more than once. If yeah, if I can find that that parking grads. It's got three dollars parking all night. Oh hell yeah, dude, and Alex will drive because he doesn't drink. Oh yeah, So that's what I wanted to say about that. That's gonna be fun and you're welcome. I guess, yes, you're welcome. Finally, that final thing of the day, we got about five minutes after the party. Yeah, I know that. Okay,
that's the thing. That's the final thing. Alibi room, Holy Sham Jones books this room. We got the whole basement, private bartender. We walks in whole basement. He knows everybody. Everybody's buying drinks for everybody. Everybody's talking about c CEO stuff and magic conon and the next one and how much fun they had. Oh man, and doesn't guy bust out? Oh you tell them, tell them, because you cut the maddest You cut the
maddest wrestling promo. That was like probably the best promo I ever heard you cut, and and it was so intense, like guys were getting like you could tell visibly that guys were like doing the shoulder thing and like getting pumped. It was like hair standing up on arms because you were like top of your lungs cutting a promo for Collector Collector Box of M twenty one. Baby, it was I gotta tick my coat off. I'm sweating. It was
beautiful. It was the perfect open flippy box because it was like not too not super expensive. Yeah, there were mad hits in it. I had. There was the possibility of like everybody in the bar finishes their entire drink, toil extended out, brash hunter. All of the ingredients were there. And not only was it a lot of fun, not only was it probably one of the better CEO open Flippy dot Drinki games we've ever played. Fantastic environment. Yeah, with a bunch of our best national people who don't even
know how to play the game are there. They're all into it. Everybody's having a great time. Yeah, and sink guy didn't get demolished on the box. No he didn't. He he did well. He is like he took a team friendly contract for sure, right, Like this guy is a pro at open Flippy Guy makes a double short gin and Tonic with like a line in it and he cracks a freaking full art alternate art foil, grim Tutor boom and the face to face games guys and me were like eating a
whole like a whole table of chicken wings and appetizers. And we see that and it's like, whoa, after I finished my full drink off of a promo Garrick's freakin' sack leader or something. No, it was the there's the Garrick thing that's common. Yes, showcase, Yes, empty text box empty not not not no rules text, not no flavor text, empty text box twice, same pack. Drank my full drink two times, so sink guy, he gets this, he gets this freaking grim tutor foil alternate art,
and I show the face guys. They're like, oh, yeah, it's an eighty dollars thing that like paid for the whole first round open flippy Yeah easy, right, he goes, He goes, Dude, I bought the box. I just got this double short. I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna take a big gulp. Good. Okay, fine, you paid for the box. We'll be lenient on the rules. Yeah, freaking cheater, Yeah, coward, we go, we go, we go. I open up the Garrick's freaking sack, dumb ass, and finish my whole drink.
Put my shit down all heavy like this sinkuy flips over full art, alternate art grim Tutor, same car, same printing, same pack. He's like drink ismall drink man, and everybody's like what like jumping up in like belly bumping and high like high fives. Oh yeah, it was. It was incredible. Like Brad said that he had like called the guy at the Alibi was like, dude, like, I'm sorry we were so drunk. I'm sorry we were so loud. I'm sorry we were so much. The
guy's like, dude, listen, your bartender got tipped super well. Yeah, she got to sign a card. She had a great time. Everybody had fun. You guys can come back anytime. We had Lord of the Rings collecting boosting and I said that I got pounded. I said, I turned sixty five dollars into nothing. Well he turned sixty five dollars into like fifteen dollars. No, No, I didn't. They did. Here's what I did, though, Okay, what you do? I got it a
Jumpstart exclusive card in wide screen format the extended Art. Okay, that I needed for my collection that I could not find anywhere else. Okay, that cracked it out of a booster pack that would have cost sixty five dollars. Got it with ticks fifty card. Keil had a collector pack. He opened it. He was going around getting all CC nation to sign it. Yeah,
I signed a I signed a ringos South. It's one of the most misunderstood chapters in the Fellowship because people don't know about borm or that well. And he's like, I'm gonna go back and read that to night. I'm like, yeah, sure you are. And he's like to the bartender, this nice young lady, super great, Can you sign my card? She looks at me and I'm like, yeah, you just sign your name on it. It's the thing that we all do. It's like nerd stuff.
And you wanted to put you wanted to put your phone number on it's your name. Yeah, was so funny. Can you put your name on this card for me? Oh? Sure, sure thing, honey, No, that's so sweet. Thanks. Can I get your phone number? Two? Nah? Keel's not like that. He wouldn't do that. After party, so fun big thanks to Rusty trum Jones, The booking that because we have a gay old time. And when we woke up in the morning, Sam was like, man, like I had a great time, and you guys
are so dope mad. I should have said I wanted to leave, like an hour before I actually wanted to leave, because I said I wanted to go when I wanted to go, And then you and Ryan and Brad said goodbye to everybody until it was just you and Ryan and Brad in the bar. It was it was so good, it was so amazing, So thank you. That's how we do it. Man, That's it. Can I tell one more story? Sure? This is real quick. So I'm in the airplane on the way home. This is on Wednesday, after the corn
I'm in the plane and I'm listening to these they're obviously magic nerds. They're talking about magic nerds, and they're sitting right in front of me on the airplane and they're talking about like, yeah, so I was talking to I'm not going to say the name because yeah, because it'll come up later. I was talking to so and so about this these new old drawsi's and they start saying all the things that the person said about all draws. You know, I was sitting there thinking, man, I said that to a guy
today. That's fun. And then in front of these three guys, there's two more guys and they turn around. Yeah, I was talking to so and so too, and we were like the stuff fases. It took me the whole flight home to realize they were talking about fucking me. There were five guys telling stories on an airplane about stuff that I had said to them and things that they'd seen me do on the internet. And I'm like sitting behind him the whole time, like shall I say something like should I pop
my head through the seat and go what up your fucks? Or should I just like hang out and stick your hand through the seat with a CEEO sticker and just jiggle it till somebody right. He's like, oh, should stick your hand through the seat, just giving the middle thing. But no, I just sat. I just sat and I was like, man, this is I feel famous in a moment. This is how famous people feel.
All the time. It was so cool, like people were talking about things I said to them and experienced that with me as a human being man in a good way on the way home. So if you as are listening, you must know who you are, because I sure don't, sure don't, but man, it was so fucking cool here in the gut, and we'll put the bowl on it. We'll put the creditor Joe. I'm gonna put my arms behind my back and lean back right after I say. That was
the Vancouver recap. Yeah, man, that was Uncle Brando's emotionally exclusive Outpouring EEO podcast. There it is final thought of the day, and thank Fusion. You can see the screen and the promo code if you're watching on YouTube. Check out Fusion Gaming our business daddies, thank you very much for being here. Check out the uh dufferent Avenue Media Media Network right here on YouTube. If you want to hear any of the post Magic Con stories that I
have, I do have several. I did go to a nude beach. I'm not going to tell you anything past that. You have to listen to Tanna Cheeks have to listen to damn. If you want to hear some of the stories. Sure did give me one of these things I'm not talking to. With it in my eyes, well hold it. I want to squeeze until it's warm and googy. I can put it in my mouth don't google that. But thank you very much to Damn, thank you very much to Fusion, and thank you, thank you all for listening, and we're going
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