Operation: Game Night
Travis Smith, Jared Erickson, and Clay Gable get together to discuss the latest and greatest in board games in this weekly podcast. What's hot, what's hitting the table, featured discussions about board games and the board gaming culture, and the primary mission objective- to play more board games!
Operation: Game Night
OTF: Clay's in his Icarus Era (Ft. Vic from Games Y Más)
The hosts of Operation Game Night welcome Vic from Games Y Más podcast to discuss their non-gaming interests, adventures, and misadventures in a special "Over the Fence" episode.
• Vic shares his love for Universal Studios and why their Platinum Pass offers better value than Disney with no blackout dates, free parking, and special perks
• Everyone agrees the new Jurassic World Rebirth film disappoints true fans of the original trilogy with its monster-like dinosaurs
• Clay and Jared recount their Pennsylvania weekend trip, including Clay's 15-foot fall from a tree while attempting to inspect his roof
• Clay proudly displays his massive new commercial Pepsi refrigerator that barely fit into his basement game room
• Travis reconnects with his academy roommate after several years and shares news about a potential move back to Colorado
• Vic promotes his podcast Games Y Más and teases an upcoming series reviewing the entire Jurassic franchise across movies, video games, and board games
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it clay. That intro just said debrief it did, didn't it?
Speaker 2:well, vick, welcome over the fence with us how's it? How is it over here?
Speaker 1:oh, man, I like I like this uh, db, I mean over the fence anyways, welcome to a very special episode of operation game night podcast, where we are going over the fence with our good friend vick from the games emos podcast.
Speaker 3:How you doing hey, how's it going guys? Thank you, you so much.
Speaker 4:Where's all the V adjectives, the V's, the lump-schwist, if you are?
Speaker 1:looking for V adjectives. You can read the graphic novel V for Vendetta.
Speaker 3:There you go. I'm feeling very victorious about this, that's right. I've listened to your guys's over the fence episodes in the past and I'm like yo. I get to be part of one whole crap oh, I get to be let's, let's hop over this fence.
Speaker 1:Let's see what we got that's right, we are going to talk about stuff that we've been doing outside of board gaming. And, uh, joining me, as always, are my two co-hosts, clay and jared. Clay, clay and Jared, how are you doing?
Speaker 2:We're doing great. We just spent a luxurious day and a half in a romantic getaway in Dallas.
Speaker 4:Pennsylvania together? How much are we going to divulge about this day and a half though?
Speaker 2:Because, there's a lot that happened as much as you want to.
Speaker 1:Really, why don't you guys think about it for a minute? Because I want to hear what Vic has been doing outside of board gaming. Vic, what have you been?
Speaker 4:doing.
Speaker 3:He's always at.
Speaker 4:Universal Studios, he's every weekend. Do you have an annual pass or something I do?
Speaker 3:I do I have, I have the top tier platinum pass that you can get at universal studios. Let me, let me, let me, let me talk to your listeners real quick that are like living in the southern california area here listen talk on game.
Speaker 3:Get us on game right now let me sell you guys as to why you should get this platinum pass. Uh, to universal studios, all right, forget disneyland. All right, disneyland, you charge like 1400 just for the lowest tier pass, where you could barely go any days. You still have to pay for parking and you have to, like, pay all the food stuff, like that. No, let's talk about universal here real quick. Okay, platinum pass? I mean, my wife and I are paying $47 a month for this pass. That's total, total, $47 a month For both of you For both of us, yeah.
Speaker 3:So if it was single $20-something and change for each of us this top tier, now, granted, we did have to put a down payment. I put a down payment of maybe like $500 or whatever. $500 is nothing compared to like a $1,300 pass that you have to pay for at Disneyland. Now, this Platinum Pass has literally no blackout dates. You can go whenever you want. There's no reservation system, so you can literally just pop in whenever you want. Parking is included. It's free, whoa. If you go after 3 o'clock, they will literally give you front of the line passes to all the rides that you want to go on. You get 15-20% off on all merchandise and all foods in the park and outside on CityWalk area. You can go check that out.
Speaker 3:To add a little bit of icing on the cake for all my horror fans out there, they are throwing one free ticket to Halloween Horror Nights so you can go whenever you want. That is the Platinum Pass, that top tier, the most top tiers you can get of all. If you want to go to Disneyland and get the top tiers, you're paying almost two grand for that. Parking is still not included. Parking is like $15 or something like that.
Speaker 1:And they black you out. And they black out. The mouse has to get his hunk of flesh, yeah.
Speaker 3:Mr Mouse needs his payment and rent is due. Universal's like come on over, have a good time over here.
Speaker 1:Can we get the hot scoop On the new parks that have opened up Within Universal?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so In California the park is really small. The new parks that have opened up within universal, yeah, so, so at well, in California, southern California, where I'm from, um, there the park is really small. Um, it's a very small park. You know. They're just building the. They're just finishing up the ride, the fast and furious, uh, or drift rides, the roller coaster first roller coaster that they have there. That's not like the mummy. Um, that goes underneath the stairs. It's pretty crazy wild.
Speaker 3:I love coasters, but I get sick, you know, I get motion sickness, so I can't really do them as much. Uh, but I love the like, the way they're it's designed. Um, it's almost done. Next year it'll be done, but you can see it being constructed. It's really cool. Um, they just had a uh like a couple months ago, a fan fest. Uh, like, first ever, one of the best events I've ever been into my entire life, that's been theme park wise. Uh, they had great things. Like, they had the back to the future like, uh, like an event there where you get to walk on the lot and you get to be where the clock tower was, where they did.
Speaker 3:they had actors walking around reenacting the scenes of the movies. You got to see the final scene on the clock tower. They projected it and then, when the clock tower struck a certain time, the lightning struck it. You see these fireworks just fly out of the clock tower. Oh my gosh, it was beautiful, it was great, amazing. So kudos to you guys there. But if we're going to like, east Coast, florida just opened up Epic Universe, first ever park. It's a first ever park to um I mean in in a while. That's from ground up, you know, literally from the built it straight up. Um universal is literally coming for disney's throat trying to take over the theme parks and um are they gonna open up one in uh, abu dhabi as well?
Speaker 4:I just heard dis Disney's opening up a freaking park in the freaking Middle East. They're trying, they're trying.
Speaker 3:They're scrambling. They're scrambling because you know Universal's making moves. I mean they just announced one in Europe. I mean in the UK they're making one on Universal there, yep, they're opening up one in Texas.
Speaker 4:It's like an all-kid theme park. You know, universal isn't you, doesn't universal. Do they own the harry potter? Uh, theme parks and stuff.
Speaker 3:Uh, yeah, they have the licensing for that too as well so I have that that's where hogwarts land is, or whatever. And yeah, yeah, they yep, and in the new epic universe park opened up another harry pot Potter themed area too as well, so everyone's raving about it. So, yeah, that's why you see us there every week.
Speaker 4:I was just going to say I remember when I was a kid I grew up still in California as well we went to Universal Studios a bunch. I just remember it being kind of scary when we went to like there's some kind of Jaws. I don't even remember what it was, Something with Jaws.
Speaker 3:They do yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay, yeah, with like a hundred people getting Pulled by a tractor or something like that, and then the shark comes out.
Speaker 3:It's funny. You say that because they're celebrating the 70th anniversary of Jaws 50th. Yeah, sorry, 50th anniversary of Jaws 50th. Yeah, sorry, 50th anniversary of Jaws. And so they're doing this whole summer movie extravaganza stuff at the park. And, yeah, they're celebrating Jaws. They have like some cool theming you can take a photo of like the actual, like animatronic that they have hung by Waterworld. But yeah, jaws is still there, jaws is still there, god's still there and still fighting to this day, still still freaks me out to this day. When it pops out I'm like, oh jeez, I keep forgetting about this thing. But yeah, I mean I've been going to universal a lot because it's like my literally my second home.
Speaker 3:Uh, for those that are, watching viewers I've got the drastic park hat on favorite movie ever, best movie ever. So I mean, uh, on the in the uhing of Universal, I went to go see Rebirth, universal, jurassic World Rebirth.
Speaker 1:What did we?
Speaker 3:think Next question.
Speaker 2:Well, hey, on our last Over the Fence, the episode that just came out. A couple days ago we actually had talked to Travis about his opinions on going to see Jurassic Park or World Rebirth have you seen it, travis?
Speaker 1:I saw it. It was the first movie that I have seen in theaters in a very long time and it was not worth going to see in theaters.
Speaker 3:My man, my man, let's go.
Speaker 4:It sounded like he threw up in the middle of it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not a Jurassic World movie anymore. It should be called Monster World.
Speaker 1:at this point, they need to make the pivot and just start making Pokemon movies Like, hey, we reverse engineered dinosaur DNA, yeah, and now we're making your own personal dinosaur monsters and you can fight them and battle them. And then they take away a Pokemon esque type Yep.
Speaker 3:There you go, cause I yeah, this is not my dinosaurs, it's just hashtag, not my dinosaurs Has's just hashtag, not my dinosaurs Hashtag, not my Jurassic Park.
Speaker 3:It was, it's, yeah, it's. My gripes is, I went in that movie with all expectations and it didn't mean even the low expectations that it gets to pass. I don't want to. I was right. I was literally right about this movie and I mean, look, it's entertaining for kids. I mean kids will enjoy it. It's fun if they're not into the lore of drastic park.
Speaker 3:But when you've grown up watching the original uh and you saw lost world and then drastic park 3, I mean that's your, that's that's. You're setting the standard up high. And then you get, you know, drastic world. And then you get fallen kingdom and you get domin and you're just getting punched and punched in the face constantly of these dinosaurs. And then you come out with Rebirth where they're like we're going back to our roots, we're going to go back to the island, we're going to go do this. And then you go and you're like, okay, just maybe there's like that 0.001% chance that this could be revived the series and pants, that this could be, revive the series. And you go in and you walk out and you're just like.
Speaker 4:You know what?
Speaker 3:I should have just pirated this movie I should, I should have just not bothered. Like there I'm to the point where you're like like universal, like just please, stop, just stop, just stop making these movies like that, like focus your attention on fast and furious, like focus on those, like just stop, just stop on Jurassic World.
Speaker 1:People were begging Hammond to stop bringing back the dinosaurs, and now we are all begging Universal to stop bringing back Jurassic Park. Yeah, please, please, stop bringing them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, please. Okay, we've learned your lesson, you know.
Speaker 1:We've gone too far.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we've gone way too far when the last, final dinosaur looks like the rancor from star wars with luke. I was like what is this? This looks like a xenomorph from alien.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is not a dinosaur, I'm done it's a further step in the wrong direction, from like the dominus rex that was like it just had some cool abilities and stuff, right, right just ugly.
Speaker 3:This thing had like little mini arms sticking out of his chest with bigger arms coming out. It had a big bolt. Are you serious? Yes, we're not joking, this is a.
Speaker 4:D-Rex, it's more like a.
Speaker 3:D-No, d-no. This is stop. That's my little rant on Jurassic World. Re know, rebirth, it was not great. I'm gonna probably go see superman next week, so I'm hoping that nice can cleanse my palate and make me wash away the the imagery of these dinosaur cgi monsters I had to see, and not to mention the acting of these characters that you know. The family in this movie was not necessary. Why are we watching this part? I can rant on it, I don't want to take up too much time. That's my universal spiel, I guess.
Speaker 2:I'll let this movie defer.
Speaker 3:you Go get a universal pass still. Go celebrate the old stuff. Exactly, go ahead.
Speaker 4:Are you still wearing the Jurassic Park hat? It wasn't that bad to the point where you wanted to get rid of the hat. The old stuff is still there.
Speaker 3:I'm still cleaning on to the past. I'm cleaning on to the past more and hanging on to the original park, just like you could say in Jurassic World, where one of the characters was like that last park was legit, that first park was legit and we're going to stick with that. So for me there's only three movies. It's Jurassic Park 1 through 3, and then that's it. I don't acknowledge the rest at all.
Speaker 1:The franchise might be dying, but life finds a way, Finds a way. There it is Jared. What have you been up to besides board gaming? Talk to me about your venture north.
Speaker 4:Well, it started right after work. It just ran as quick as I could up to Pennsylvania. It's been a long while since I've been up there. The last time I was over in Pennsylvania, in Clay's neck of the woods, was for've been up there. The last time I was over in pennsylvania, in clay's neck of the woods was for his sister's wedding, actually, which was like 2014. Dang yeah, oh wow was that no, no, no no, that's your wedding, yeah, when was hers was?
Speaker 4:yeah, um, but anyways, it's been a while. But uh, don't worry, they still have the same delicious food up there. We went to get, uh, some donuts. Uh, we went to an amish market. It was amazing. Um, alice, uh, clay's sister is incredible, uh, and they have this awesome like huge open field next to their house, and so jemma was just going wild with the kids. She was back back in her natural habitat where, you know, like open area where she can just like not be told. No, you know, because she's right now we're at a hotel, uh, that's why I'm coming to you live from my car, because they're inside and bedtime is going from last report Not so well, not so well. So, but, everything's going.
Speaker 4:Everything went really well this weekend, except for when the ladies they took off for an extra little adventure and Clay and Jared decided to do a roof inspection. And and clay, should I hand it over to you for the rest of the story, or?
Speaker 2:well, okay, here's what happened. Um, I have this deck on the side of my house.
Speaker 4:Well, also clay bought a new house so he wants to get around and crawl on his house, see, what's up?
Speaker 2:yeah, um, but yeah, there you can. You actually can see the deck out here. See through my window window, see that tree right there. It comes right up in the middle of the deck. I have ladders. I own ladders. They're at my house. They just weren't convenient at the moment, and so I thought I could get up on that tree and then just scamper over to the roof and take a look at what's going on in my gutters. First, try. I climbed up on the railing, jumped and grabbed the tree to try and climb. It Fell down.
Speaker 3:That was fine.
Speaker 2:Jared said you know what, I'm your wingman, I got your back, let me hoist you up there, so he makes a platform for me. I climb, you know, 10 to 15 feet up this tree, to the point where it's like a couple feet between the tree and the roof and I was going to just take a quick little hop over to the roof, just a quick little jaunt, if you will.
Speaker 4:But it turns out that we're not 21 anymore and that space, quickly, it got a little bit further than what we thought it was.
Speaker 2:So I crouched. I got in my crouching jump position and the tree gave way a little bit under the weight of me, and so it mistimed my jump. I missed the roof and plummet 15 feet to the deck where all three of our children are sitting under me, oh, to be potentially maimed forever by me landing on them. Somehow I land on my side right in the middle of these kids and didn't hit any. I kind of hit Mason a little bit, but he's okay.
Speaker 4:Everyone walked away.
Speaker 2:I bashed my head off the ground. Yeah, I don't know. I got up and it was one of those things where I was falling and I kept thinking I got to hit the ground soon and it just kept going. I was like, oh my God, I'm really high, this is going to hurt. Like this is all going through my head as I'm falling down from this like 15-foot roof and I hit my head bangs against the deck. Jared's over me. He's checking on me, like are you okay? I'm like there's no way I can be okay. I just fell from a roof and I'm 34.
Speaker 2:Like I can't possibly be okay, so I get up in the adrenaline's pumping. I'm just thinking like, okay, I'm going to look at my arm, it's going to be twisted off, my leg's going to be twisted, my head has to be gashing blood because I knew that. Bounced off the deck, nothing. I mean, my wrist hurts a little bit and my ankle a little bit, but somehow.
Speaker 4:How's your forearm? It looks a little bruised up. Can you guys see that? Oh, it's a little bruised up.
Speaker 2:That was my desperate attempt to grab the roof on the way down. But yeah, I mean it was high Jared, right, like I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 4:Next time we learned a valuable lesson. We definitely needed to have a plan. I didn't understand, we didn't. Yeah, it was my fault, I was in the enabler.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh. There was like the enabler. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:There was no substances involved either. No alcohol. We were just trying to do our thing and bad decisions were made. Learn from us on Operation Game Night Listen everybody.
Speaker 1:Use a ladder. Everybody in their 30s treats life like they're in their 20s until they have the injury. And clay just barely missed the injury the other day.
Speaker 2:I don't know how I honestly, like I woke up and I'm not kidding you like I actually woke up in the middle of night last night and I thought to myself, like did I die? And this, I'm like just in an afterlife, where I'm just like because. I'm like there's no way I could have lived I. I felt like I hit the deck so hard. I was like there's no way. I'm okay and yeah here.
Speaker 4:I am the most hilarious thing was like his boys were like what if this happened? And what if this happened? One of his boys was like, yeah, what if your? What? And what if this happened? One of his boys was like, yeah, what if your? What if your balls got hit and you ripped? They ripped off out of all things stuff. They're always thinking about you, clay, wow.
Speaker 4:But, it's definitely unforgettable weekend, but we did squeeze in a couple games. We played Hot Streak. It was a lot of fun. It was a blast Mom coming out of nowhere Winning some big races Mom was, she was top notch. But no, it was a great weekend.
Speaker 3:You played games after the fall, or was this before the fall? This was before Life. After the fall, or is this before the fall?
Speaker 4:This is before.
Speaker 2:Life after the fall.
Speaker 3:After the fall he's like all right, let's run a game real quick. It's like you're good, let's keep playing.
Speaker 2:Mary's been trying to convince me. I have a concussion for the past day. She keeps like you should go to the doctor. You should go to the doctor. She's like your pupils aren't the same size. I'm like they're pretty much the same size, like it's not oh, dear, yeah, they're close enough to the same size. Yeah, they're not that far off Like oh my.
Speaker 4:God. Well, now that you're a veteran, just go to the VA, right? Yeah, might as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they'll take care of me, but you know was a great weekend. Uh, thanks for being there for me, jared.
Speaker 4:Sorry, I almost killed your daughter by falling falling on her angels were there and I I appreciate god for looking out for us and you so yeah, I mean, there was no reason that should have went that way.
Speaker 2:I literally like fell over power lines too, like somehow just missed the power lines that were going into my house.
Speaker 4:The service connection Yep, yep yeah.
Speaker 2:It just had to go.
Speaker 4:I was telling Clay in our line of work Now that Clay's a civil engineer in our line of work people die from like four foot falls. So, yes, jumping from a 15 foot tree, just imagine like a flash of light out of Clay's window right now of a body just falling down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what happened about 24 hours ago yesterday he leapt off the tree as Icarus on his paper and wax wings and the sun melted them and he floated to the earth, melted them too close to the earth I want to end jared and i's like joint over the fence here on kind of a happy note, please.
Speaker 2:Um, I did, we've been. You know we got a pretty sweet basement now. We got the game room set up, got tvs, couches. You know everything's ready to go. We've just been on the lookout for, you know, like a beer fridge for downstairs, you know just something to store drinks in, had the mini fridge down there. So I've been on facebook marketplace and you know, looking at you know, your run-of-the-mill fridges, and then I saw somebody selling an industrial pepsi fridge, like one you'd see in a grocery store, like sliding doors and what, and I thought it was like like a reasonable size. This thing is massive. This guy brought it to my house and we almost broke my house trying to get it in with like three people. But it's in there now. Jared helped me set it up and it is um and it's massive. You can put so many drinks in it. It looks ridiculous it lights up.
Speaker 1:It says pepsi like I have this now in my basement, but uh, I'm pretty excited about it was it jared, was it three phase, or was it like just normal? Oh, no, no it.
Speaker 4:No, it's just a normal plug in. But it's, this thing's massive, but we, we can't keep it. A couple of things I mean yeah, it's, it's easily five feet wide. It's higher underneath of it, it's, it's humming, ok, but yeah, he's, he's set up, he's set up for life. I'll tell you that fun fridge, unlimited fun yeah, the fun won't stop there's no for sure yeah
Speaker 4:I told him we got to get this like the vinyl that says pepsi that goes across the top. We got to get a custom one made like yeah ogn the gable, you know gable fun fridge or just go straight for ogn. It's a tax write-off at that point. That's right.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying there it is yep, yep, yep, yep uh, we also need to invest in some neon signs for yes, so you can.
Speaker 2:Now that I have my basement, I am all in, yeah.
Speaker 4:Speaking of investing in neon signs, I think we might need to do that for the one year anniversary, especially to spruce up my back, the back of my recording space because I'm moving in tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no more of this.
Speaker 4:You know me camping out in parking lots. You know I don't remember. Where did I record last week? I can't even remember.
Speaker 2:You were in the hotel.
Speaker 4:I was in the hotel. Yeah, I was inside the hotel. Now I'm outside the hotel Every week. I'm getting a little bit closer to my domicile, so I'll be there.
Speaker 2:Travis, what's up in Alabama?
Speaker 1:Well, it's been real warm. But I had a chance to catch up with my academy roommate yesterday. Oh, I have not seen this cat in. Like it's been probably three, four, five years. It's been a long time. But he was, he, over from japan and uh, he's kind of doing a you know world tour of the us, visiting all sorts of family and friends and stuff. And uh, his wife went to law school around here and so she organized like a reunion with, like her 10 close friends and so they all gathered at this at this bar and we met up with them for breakfast in the morning and then we saw them again at the bar later on, had some fun, got to hang out with them a little bit, reach out to your buddies and say hi and reconnect with old friends, because it's great, we had a good time. Other than that, I claimed the nastiest diaper blowout of my career today. That was an event Congrats. It was just an entity. It just kept spreading to new services. We were just trying to contain the biohazard man.
Speaker 1:Change up the diet or anything like that, or what oh, she's just eating like crazy man, like has not met a food that she will not eat, and it's just housing food like we would not believe, like entire, like multiple jars of food at a time, and she's not even 10 months old. So she's housing all this food and it's gotta go somewhere.
Speaker 2:She's gotta grow into that travis and rachel frame. All right, she's gonna.
Speaker 1:She's gonna be a, a tall, little lady she is gonna be a tall little lady like like, almost as tall as jemma, and she's 10 months old. It's crazy man.
Speaker 4:Gemma went ahead and hit a plateau and just started growing her width. She stopped the height and now she's just getting girthy.
Speaker 3:She needs it, though I'm all about it.
Speaker 4:Dude, she's a bowling ball. She just straight runs. Oh my gosh, you would not about it. Dude, she's a bowling ball. She just straight, just runs. Oh my gosh, yeah, you would not believe it. So we build tanks around here.
Speaker 1:That's right, we sure do, nice. It's been pretty boring around here just kind of settling in. When does school start? We have our first day tomorrow, kind of like a little intro stuff.
Speaker 2:And I was. Don't forget to tell them, you are a big nerd board gamer. I was going to do a follow-up.
Speaker 1:I was going to do a follow-up because we were doing introductions in the flight meetings or whatever, and I chickened out and I did not say I was a board gamer. Two people later, two people later, the guy's like me and my wife are huge board gamers. We have a big collection and we play all the time and all stuff. So afterwards I made a point, I walked up to him and I said, hey, I'm a big board gamer too. And he's like, yeah, we have a big collection, like we like playing all the time. If you don't mind me asking, how many games do you have? He's like we have like 20 games. Dang, that's cute. I'm not trying to shame anybody, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, collection shaming man.
Speaker 1:I said yeah, I have a big collection. We should meet up and play games.
Speaker 4:I'll show you mine if you show me yours, that's right.
Speaker 1:That's a good lead right there.
Speaker 2:Travis.
Speaker 1:it was a good lead so we're off to a strong start and, um, we got our last shipment of our goods, not our last nice our unaccompanied baggage showed up. Not nice. Half of it was moldy. Oh it was. Yeah. We start unwrapping packages and stuff like some of the cardboard is still wet as they're pulling it out of the crate and we start cutting into things and there's just mold everywhere. That was a huge bummer.
Speaker 2:That didn't happen to your games, did it?
Speaker 1:Not the games.
Speaker 2:Mold anything but the games.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah, take my mattress, but not the games.
Speaker 4:Family heirlooms or whatever.
Speaker 3:Who cares the kids? My mattress, but not the games.
Speaker 1:family heirlooms or whatever, who cares? Uh, but some of the podcast equipment, like I now have a microphone, I got my fancy mic back and I'm all excited to use this no boom mic, because that was in a different box that got moldy, so we're just still pieces together. I just use the I. That was also in that box, though that little tripod so more to come our mold saga. But uh, is that the samson, that the samson?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah, samsonite, love those, love those mics, yeah um, final news is, tentatively, you know, air Force shenanigans permitting we will be headed back to Colorado. Whoa. So I'll believe it when I have orders in hand. But tentatively, they released the director of operations list and I'm going to go work at Peterson. So I'm excited about that. No, way I'm going to go work in the SPOC excited about that.
Speaker 2:No way I'm going to go work in the Spock Dang man. You need space tips.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I might get some space tips from you Are you going to go back and live in that same house, or what?
Speaker 1:I'm trying to find one that's closer to Petri's honestly Moonlight at Petri's baby, that's right. Yeah, I need my side hustle at Petri's. Baby, that's right. Yeah, I need my Side hustle at Petri's, and yeah, but we're excited to go back to Colorado.
Speaker 2:We'll just, we're not going to hold our breath until we Get some orders because, you know, crazy things have happened so I think Scott and Brittany are really close to Petri's and they might be moving out of their Rental about when you Are going there, so perfect, so you might want to check with them, but I think they're probably due to move in the next year, but I'm gonna have dinner with scott tomorrow, so I'll put in a good, I'll put in a good word for you hit him up.
Speaker 1:Hit him up, I will okay. Well, nice, uh, vick, tell people once again where people can find you on the internet. I know this has been kind of a short conversation. No, it's been good. We love hearing from you, we love interacting with you. We've done some joint podcasts in the past and we're so happy to have you on. Tell people where they can find you on the internet. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3:This is awesome. I was like, ooh, I get to be part of this. This is was awesome. I was like, oh, I get to be part of this. It was awesome, I was soaking it all in. That was great. Good, I didn't even want to talk. I was like, let me just be, let me just be a fly on the wall, listen to you guys, I'm all good.
Speaker 3:But thanks for allowing me to share my uh universal brand um first of all, yeah, thanks you guys so much for, uh, yeah, let me be part of this is awesome. Um, I was literally, uh, waiting for your text, tra, until you let give me the go of, like we're good for Sunday, and I was like, all right, let's go, let's run it. I want to do it and so very excited that we got to do this and give these guys a follow. If you're listening to this out there, if my voice is reaching you from wherever you're listening to Spotify, youtube, wherever you guys are listening to operation game night, give these guys a follow, if you haven't already. Um, if you have, you know. Thank you so much for supporting them. They are awesome. They're great. I love listening to their content. They're great stuff. They're over the fence stuff. I got to be part of. It is amazing. So you know, I can't imagine you listeners out there that get to enjoy this on a weekly basis. I got to live it so. So I'm better than you guys. I'm just joking. Give them a follow. When you're done listening to them, you can give us a follow here.
Speaker 3:I'm the host of Gamesymas, a podcast that's dedicated to all things video games, board games and pop culture. We love talking about all things. Board games, we love doing little segments of. You know, we have a top shelf yard sale segment where we decide if you're worthy to be on your top shelf or need to be hit. The hit the yard sale section, uh, we do some cool.
Speaker 3:We just started a new segment called let's talk about it, where we literally review tacos and talk about random topics. You know, um, our last one we did. We got to talk about some board game lingo. So if you're listening to this and we've thrown out some board game lingo so you guys have not understood, check out our rep. So we explain. You know what an area control game is or what 4x gaming is, so we get to explain a little bit of that to people that don't know what that is. Um, so, yeah, we talk about things and then you figure, if you like my rant on universal, we talk about a lot of that stuff too as well. Some pop culture. We talk about some movies and stuff. Uh, I'll give your listeners a little spoiler um, our little uh sneak peek that we're starting a new mini series, um, where I'm going to be diving into the jurassic franchise oh, yes, so I'm gonna be talking about every single movie individually, per episode and
Speaker 3:diving deep into it what I like and then not stopping at the movies. We're now gonna go also video games. We got a lot of drastic video games to talk about, and then board games as well. We got some drastic games, some drastic themed games as well, looking at dinosaur island and dinosaur world, um, and all these fun, fun, theme dinosaur themed games that we're going to talk. So a little mini series to come and uh, so stay tuned for that for you guys. So you guys heard it first here, you guys heard it first.
Speaker 3:See that we're gonna be, oh so I, yes, I do have a.
Speaker 4:I do have a save round, that's a military term for you, vick. I actually was told something this week about you, uh, from my buddy, cole, who lives near us. He shared our podcast. Then when, when we came onto your show, when, where we talked about uh, uh, castles of Burgundy with one of his coworkers, a military coworker, and he straight up was pissed that we gave it the yard sale. So just know, just know that we're still, we're still creating ripples throughout time with your podcast.
Speaker 4:So please get on there to uh gamesy moss and give his podcast a listen, because there's some controversy on there. All right, you're gonna hear some stuff that's gonna get your blood boiling, but it's entertaining. All right, it's a good time all for content, all for content.
Speaker 3:It makes just great television.
Speaker 4:You know, yeah, cole was like he showed up and he's like I can't, I cannot understand how they they yard sold that game. Like do they not understand what that game is it's like? And he was like dead ass, like straight face. Like he was, so you better watch your back actually.
Speaker 3:I know right, I'm building haters already. All right, you know you've, you know you've made it when you have haters already, that's right yep yep, you've already been at the top big. Yeah, exactly, I apologize for nothing, that rubric we tried our best and we couldn't? We failed to to the task so that's right, there it is.
Speaker 1:He has high standards.
Speaker 3:Yep, exactly, oh, man, jeez. Okay, I'm worried about the next couple of games I'm going to be talking about. Make sure you don't do we do it justice here. But yeah, going back to games, so you can find us all on all socials the X, facebook, tiktok, instagram, youtube, spotify, iheartradio, wherever you guys. So if you guys want to give us a follow at GamesInMossPod, at GamesInMossPod, and, yeah, let us know, leave us a comment below.
Speaker 3:We love chatting with all our commenters, our viewers. We've had a lot of people hit up our DMs and talking about certain games, leaving comments on our reels and stuff, and it's been fun. It's been a blast getting to know the board game community. I mean, I was fortunate and honored and blessed to meet the Operation Game Night crew through the mutual chat, that big board game chat there. So I mean it's been an honor to meet everyone. And, yeah, get to know more people and bring in more of the nerd familia, get the nerd familia growing more. I love it. You guys are part of the nerd fam, the nerd fam and, um, yeah, so if you guys want to give us a follow, but first follow these guys, you guys got that's the rule. If you're gonna follow us.
Speaker 3:You gotta follow operation game night, if you haven't already so, so I don't allow anyone not following me to the operation game night. You're denied like if, like, if I see a new follower on my, like my channels, I'm gonna be like are you following them? You got to stop, you got to go, because that's a prerequisite that I require for my audience. You guys got to follow up person game night first and then we'll go from there. I think we lost Jared.
Speaker 1:We lost him. But yeah, we're going back over the fence and I have been Travis, he has been Clay, he has been Clay. He has been the one and only Vic of games he Moss. We lost Jared already. If you're going to climb some trees or get on a roof, use a ladder. Please be safe out there. We'll see you next week for operation game night. Get you guys. Thank you.
