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The FarmRPG Podcast: Episode 5 - The One Where We Ramble Too Much
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Welcome to August and the 5th episode of the podcast! After a month off from the pod, boobun and forcepath are back again with a new ep full of off topic banter and non sequiturs! Sorry for missing July, but sometimes life happens! We're happy to be back with you, shooting the... crap with you about farm RPG and all the other stuff we talked about! Hope you enjoy the ep and hope luck is in your favor for winning the swear/um jar!
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Transcript
Podcast Return and Host Introductions
00:00:01
Speaker
um are
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Speaker
This is a Lucy Goosey episode. It is a Lucy Goosey episode. Wow. We just said Lucy Goosey before the episode even started. That is true. Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Farm RPG podcast. Hey, everybody. um I don't know if you remember us because if we took a month off. but We did take a month off. Dude, it was a July to remember, but I don't want to remember it.
00:00:42
Speaker
No, it was like, it was crazy. It was crazy for both of us. We had a crazy time. um But again, if you don't remember us, I'm Bubun. Hi. Oh, hi, Bubun. My name's Forcepath. um I am someone with farm RPG. Words are hard. Yeah, words are difficult always.
00:01:04
Speaker
It is really nice to see you for the record. We have not had a chance to connect lately. I know. we haven't We haven't talked because we've both been busy with life and work and farm RPG.
Life Updates and Birthday Banter
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Speaker
Yeah, I mean, usually you and I get a chance to be homies over the course of, you know, a month, a month. But with everything going on lately, it's just ah this is my first time getting a chance to catch up to you. I know. I feel like the last time we talked was like when we brought a bunch of new staff on, which was we can talk about. Yeah, we can talk about that episode. But that was something that, you know, that's the last time I think we we spoke face to face. It's like two or three weeks ago at this point.
00:01:41
Speaker
I know. I can't believe that. Are we even friends anymore? I don't know. I don't know. it I mean, things things are, you know, things are up in the air, I guess.
00:01:52
Speaker
o We're still buds. We're just, you know, life comes at you fast. And, you know, things have been busy out here. Dude, dude it's been so busy. What's that keeping you so busy?
00:02:04
Speaker
didn't It would just work. You know, it's mostly been work and life. And, you know, I had a lot of like birthday activities over the course, like my my birthday was and my dad's birthday was. Ooh, but birthday. birthday ah Let's not talk about my birthday. Everyone yeah who's listening to this, please ah send boob on something to celebrate her birthday. Well, yours too. we are No one cares about Forest Path. I get that, but Forest Path is Horsepath does not matter. Everyone, send a boo bun a birthday present. No, don't. Do it. a birthday president It doesn't have to be valuable. No, no, I don't. I'm his elder by four days. So you have to listen to me because I am the oldest one. That is not how this works for the record. And it's not how this works. That's how this works. I'm like your oldest sister and I get to tell you what to do.
00:02:56
Speaker
And I will never, ever ever, ever listen. Yeah, I know. That's how that works, too. That's how that works. That's true. but But anyway, don't send me anything, send him things or don't send either of us anything, actually. I don't think we deserve it. Well, well that's probably true, too. It's been because we took a month off the podcast. And very sorry for that.
Home Renovations and Listener Engagement
00:03:16
Speaker
I was July which has just been, my work has picked up. My spare time has diminished greatly, um which it should come back a little bit. Now my basement is finished. Oh, good. That's going to be your office now, right? I'm going to have a new office hopefully by the time we do this podcast again. We'll be fully decorated. That'll be so much fun. I have been working so hard on it and we finally got our inspection done today. so like and and and Did you pass or did you just have to wait to hear?
00:03:47
Speaker
I passed. Yes. Oh, that's nice. So maybe next time next podcast, you'll have a different background. It's true. I can finally start decorating. Have many posters and I have a neon Kirby sign and all kinds of cool stuff. I have one too. It's above me. You can't see it. I'm not going to turn my camera around. Remember, I feel like we both we both have one now. So we're in the Kirby zone. We're both like Kirby people.
00:04:14
Speaker
We are curvy people. What does it mean to be a curvy person? Like, what's the stereotype of a round and pink? And I think I think we both we both encompass that we're both around and also paying. Yeah.
00:04:29
Speaker
yeah Oh, my word. You got me there. You got me there. Yeah, I know. I know. Well, guys, ah thanks for letting us have a little bit of a boob on Forest Path catch up time in the middle of your podcast. Right? i know How are you all doing? Yeah, tell us how you're doing. like Yeah, seriously. Shoot shoot us some comments. Catch up with us in chat. Leave a comment on the yeah yeah, send us a DM. You know, tell us about your life.
00:04:57
Speaker
Whoa, not too much. we Don't get any gritty. I don't need to know everything. Yeah. like If you want to like chat about like your favorite band or whatever, like I have been ah been all over the music genre lately.
Music Preferences and Prize Announcements
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Speaker
Yeah, I wouldn't even listen to anything good. Well, um now I feel like I'm being put on the spot a little bit. You are. I've been listening to LCD Sound System a lot lately.
00:05:24
Speaker
um Oh, there was already an um, dang it. Yeah, you gotta to watch out. It's gonna be tough. And especially since we have like not done this for a month, then Yeah, we're not on our guard anymore. We're not on our guard. We're not on our game. So off. I'm still listening to Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar because i I don't know, man, it's just it's real good. ah So that's a that's another one. the the Another band that I've been really enjoying lately is called Burn the Ballroom. Okay. um Now I have been listening to a little bit of AJJ, at least. Oh yeah, little a little AJJ.
00:06:01
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so Ginger root put out a couple of songs and they're, they're very good. There's a few songs. Yeah, no, they're very good. Yeah. Excellent. So, so it's been different for me. I switched to Apple music from Spotify. And so like, like, relearning how to like find music and the music discovery is different. So like, I've been kind of like a little stagnant musically. ah But that's okay. Right? I mean, it's hard. It's hard to keep up with it all. Yeah. Yeah. A lot out there.
00:06:32
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What out there? Speaking of ums, by the way, I wanted to just pull the ah swear jar slash on the jar winner while we're here. Oh, I love that idea. Yeah. And I'm going to go I just said an um.
00:06:46
Speaker
So we're gonna go with La Dida. It's L-A-D-E-D-A. La Dida. So the the way you get that swear jar is you got a DM me and I will send you over your bounty of gold that you won. A bountiful bounty of gold. So if you wanna win next month's swear jar, and you know I'm gonna probably throw a little bit extra in this one because of our lateness on an episode Does the budget, that does the budget cover that? The budget does cover it. The budget. yeah Let's go budget. Let's go the budget. So, but if you want to win that, you gotta, ah you gotta comment on the swear jar page and let me know you want to win. And you know, you may get randomly picked. I literally just scroll through and go that one. So that's how it works. That doesn't sound particularly random. It's, it's, I wonder if we need to have, if we need to have like a, an imposition of randomness.
00:07:42
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Let me know if you think we need to. ah Feel free to leave a comment if you're uncomfortable with the randomness of Bubon's randomness. Me just picking it, scrolling and then just being like yeah there and doing it. If you have a problem with that, let me know and I will speak to our editor um and or lead producer, which I will have to get one. We have editors. I don't know if we have a lead producer. I feel like We are the combined producer of this show, potentially. but I'll speak to myself, which is the best thing. I mean, I'm already really good at talking to myself. Yeah, I do that plenty. yeah cool hey Anyways, congratulations, La Dida. Very happy for you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for leaving a comment. When in that gold, we appreciate you.
Farm RPG Updates and Gameplay Improvements
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So let's get into the RPG life.
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we've We've had some updates since our last update. I don't even remember. When did our last episode come out? Let's just, let's like take a quick peek first. It was the end of May. it was It was, no, it wasn't, it was the end of May. So we didn't have one in June and we didn't have one in July. Oh, wait, no, it was lead june it it was it was it was the end of May, early June. I was going to say, let's see, it says it was a month ago. What's the date on this? What's the date? Don't play, please.
00:09:01
Speaker
I'm telling you, man, it was early June that it came out, end of May, early June. You don't listen to me. It's a long time. It's a long time. So it's been like two months. Sorry. Yeah. So like we had like the buddy beach ball thing come out. We had bottle of rocket brawl. rocket We had the townsfolk bobbleheads. We had a lot of QOL updates. Oh, what did the bobbleheads? Yeah. Truffles came out. Wow.
00:09:27
Speaker
We updated the COC. We got new mods. oh That's the last thing we talked about. We updated the COC. That's what we talked about with Gideon. I don't remember that. I wish you would have. Yeah, then I wouldn't sound so foolish. No, no, no, you're fine. So let's say let's go back to when we updated the COC, because that that is the the update that came out, like right when we did that. And that was on June 17. So it couldn't have been the we probably recorded at the very mid June.
00:09:59
Speaker
like me So let's see. So yeah, the townsfolk bobbleheads had just come out then also in the same update. Who did the yard on those? Oh, I don't know. Some some idiot. Oh, I heard it was boo bun. It was boo bun. I love yard on those. They're so cool. I had a lot of fun doing them. So ah I really, you know, just coming up with those outfits. We didn't have any, we didn't have the canon outfits for any of our NPCs. So I had to, you know. That's true. like I mean, you got to you got to really like be a part of the the lore building, the visual lore building. The visual lore, that's what I'm here for, is visual lore. I love that. Yeah, it's a good time. I love that.
00:10:42
Speaker
Then we had the we had a couple of QL updates. One of them I really liked was doubling the honey the owl brought. Oh, yes, we made land with like a viable level. Yeah. So some level five. Yeah, some background on that is one of the things that we really want to do is we want to pinpoint some of those pain points that players feel ah when they're playing, you know, an owl is kind of really unintuitive, like,
00:11:11
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who like thinks that you get less honey by leveling your pet up more. So we just decided to make it better. um And hopefully we can do other things like that in the future. Our goal is to not make the game so unintuitive that you feel like you can't play without a guide or without someone having done a bunch of math. Math is helpful, but you know. Some people like doing math. There's a lot of people that like it, not me. But a lot of people.
00:11:39
Speaker
I mean, do I like doing math? Absolutely. Do I want to break everything down into like little minuscule chunks and cut me out of that? No. ah like Like, I leave that to the people with brains. like can I can I enjoy you a dog. I cannot do math to save my life. Oh, you know, um speaking of You know what? in Never mind. We'll talk about that later. ah We also saw the quick give perk. ah Oh, that was good. Yeah, that hit beta in June and then I went live sometime in July, I believe.
Events, Learning, and Role Changes in Farm RPG
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ah Really cool perk. It allows you to just give
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items to specific townsfolk directly from the item page, ah which is quite a bit of click reduction ah for some people. So very neat. Then we had the ah July starter pack, which had prune juice in it. I mean, everybody loves prune juice. Prune juice and that that box. but That was a you know, that was a good all the all the fireworks in it.
00:12:42
Speaker
good time. There's a lot of fireworks display, and the safety goggles, which allows you and to be a part of that bottle rocket brawl. Yeah, the first iteration of the bottle rocket brawl. That was really fun. ah Really fun to see how players did or didn't utilize it and definitely some opportunity for and my improvement. um It was really fun. I got multiple messages of like, I hit you. ha Or like, I missed you. Are you cheating? You know, like, very, ah very fun, like, not too competitive to matter, but just enough to like build a little community interaction. I loved it. I absolutely loved it. I know we didn't really get a lot of damage. I felt like I never really was fully damaged. So I feel like we'll probably work on that in the future. um Either the health regeneration was too high,
00:13:31
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Or, you know, maybe the damage per um hit was too low. low yeah It's a little bit of a tough balance, right? Because you don't want people to feel like they shouldn't be playing. But same time, like adding a little bit of stakes can help with engagement. So definitely something I think we want to revisit a little bit and tweak that to and for the health especially to be a little more me also a lot of free items given out to that event shop that item event shop you can get some pretty neat stuff including that fun belt that you can get from the shop and event shop is coming back so if you didn't spend all your tokens hands up it'll be back for the next event so for the next event that we utilize the event shop anyway i'm not going to say it's going to be for every event
00:14:19
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but Yeah, to please don't say that because then we're going to get your new comments. We'll get one star ratings on the podcast. That's true. That's okay. and they give i don't That's all right. If you want to give us a one star rating on the podcast, I feel like I'm all right with that one.
00:14:36
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, in the end, I had a lot of fun with it. I really enjoyed the event shop, ah definitely some opportunity for improvement there too, maybe a little bit stronger balancing. It's really difficult to balance the idea of free stuff with, you know, keeping it balanced. So right um certainly, certainly a cool event. One of the things that I love about farm RPG is that it's always learning, um it's trying new stuff. And then it's, you know,
00:15:04
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want to minimize the mistakes. But it's always fun to see the evolution of a learning and growing every day. Okay, thank you. So we want to be doing you want to be learning and growing every day. The problem is I've been growing outwards. Yeah, no, ah that's, ah that's a valid way to grow. Honestly, as ah another outward grower. I feel like that's valid. to Grow out if we want to grow up, you better grow out.
00:15:35
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So other stuff. Let's see.
00:15:40
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Oh, boy. ballupal yeah that was That was good. That's all the stuff there. There was a mailbox sale. That was good. Love a mailbox sale. Yeah, who doesn't love a mailbox sale? Who knows when the next one will be? Not me. I do. but Oh, you do? Okay.
00:15:58
Speaker
So in you could, I know when the next, ah what sale? No, I don't know if there's any sales happening. There will be more sales. There's gonna be sales, yes. and But it's not up to me to, or we are and we're not allowed to tell you. o That's true. We're not allowed to tell you, but um I'm not privy. I don't remember. either should just go first spra let it go You should just like use reading a little bit more.
00:16:28
Speaker
so ah Do I need to? No. but that By the way, I am really sorry, by the way, for those of you, if I sniffle today or cough, I am a little sick. You sound great. I feel like throaty and like I'm like, I don't want to sniffle. You're really peppy today. i will I will say, even if you are sniffling slightly, you are a peppy, here in the you seem like you're in a peppy mood. I like it.
00:16:56
Speaker
Just jazzed up because we haven't talked in a while probably. It's true. ah You are a very good friend of mine, so it's always nice to be back. We're buds, we're buds. Except that you've been ignoring me. That is not true. I have not been ignoring you. I've been chatting on and enough. I just am so busy. Work job. I got a new, you know, I don't know if it was, it was the last time out we had podcasts. I have a new day job, but I'm like out of training now. it's It's a lot of work. It's like so much work. I don't even want to go over it.
00:17:22
Speaker
its it It takes up a lot of my time, but that's okay. Day job, that's neither here nor there. I'm available all the time. We're glad that you're available all the time. but we're We're good, we're good. But that leads me to like the next thing that when I was very busy with all of last month, which is the staff structural changes. Oh yeah. For our 500PG staff moderation team. Absolutely, that's right. Which we were both extremely busy with that. That was like. Yeah, it was a decent amount of work.
00:17:53
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know, it was a lot of work, we really, we really had to we restructured is what I should say we did, we had a little restructuring, so that we had a group of moderators just solely focused on chat moderation, because we, our team was stretched a little bit thin.
00:18:09
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um doing all the things they like to do, which is library updates, helping to keep the game running, ah doing some day-to-day tasks. and you know We didn't really have people fully focused 100 percent on chat moderation, so we restructured the farmhand role to be strictly a chat mod.
00:18:34
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which I think has been working great. We've picked some really, really great active people in the community. ah We got some overnight folks that we didn't really have before. That adds a lot of coverage for us um because overnights were, you know, we had a lot of complaints about, you know, we had some Wild West chats. Yes, we were thin overnight. Not any longer. We've got a lot of different time zones now involved. It's it's not all Americans anymore.
00:19:03
Speaker
And, you know, if that's something you, dear listener, are interested in, just make sure that you're around and chatting in chats. You will definitely dang it. I said I'm again, I'm gonna start swearing just to like really rack it up, I guess. You said dang it. That's not swear. I know, but I'm gonna start. Anyways, valid, valid. So if that's something you're interested in, dear listener, the biggest thing that we're looking for is people that are even keeled.
00:19:32
Speaker
ah in chat. Obviously, no one's perfect. I want to suggest that anyone is. But being in chat. Oh, well, but let's not put me on. Yeah. and I said me, not you. i didn't I didn't mention you at all. Yeah, thank God for that.
00:19:49
Speaker
Um, gosh darn it. Anyways. Oh, swear jar. Yeah, that one's actually swear we've determined. But yes, if you are an even keeled, active, helpful member of the community, we may notice you and be like, Hey, do you want to be a farmyan? Be aware, we we will not put out, we're not putting out applications.
00:20:10
Speaker
we it just it's it's If we notice you being helpful, active, friendly, member of the community. Consistently. Consistently. We will reach out more than likely at some point. Yeah. so And the the new farm hands, they're all listed in the updates if you're curious who they are and maybe you had missed that. For whatever reason, we've got 10 of them right now. Either 10 or 11, I don't remember. I think it's 10. I think it's 10. Yeah.
00:20:37
Speaker
We're very, very grateful ah to have more people helping keep the chat active and feeling like a good chat. It's ah it's a tough job, but then everybody just wants to be helpful. So true. They're great. Send them trout. Trout those people trout all of them trout them up. That's also part of the structural changes. All our old farm hands got kind of grandfathered. They got grandfathered in and promote up to just great Rangers who do just about everything else, including chat moderation. So you'll still see them in chat every single day. So yeah, great team. Good team. Love those guys.
Teasers for Farm RPG's August Updates
00:21:17
Speaker
Love them all. Yeah. And then, you know, beyond that, we had more QOL stuff. So, you know, there were some new craftables, some new filters for the Raptor pen, ah some changes to the mastery.
00:21:34
Speaker
like how you can see masteries, there was a new mailbox. ah Then we hit and we had August. August, we did. I cannot believe that it is August already. I know. Honestly. Time flies when you're having fun, for sure. ah But we are deep. but What if I wasn't having fun? I was busy. I know. it just Time flies when you're just occupied, I guess. Well,
00:22:02
Speaker
just so busy that you can't look away from whatever you're doing and then get sucked in into day to day. So can't can't focus on just, you know, shooting the crap with your friend on discord all day. Did you really say shooting the crap? Can you say shoot shooting the I can remember? I mean, we can but it's gonna get bland.
00:22:27
Speaker
Well, oh, well, you no I'm just, I'm just saying the words are today is ah is against the, the code of conduct. And I will happily tell you that you can say crap in chat. It's not against the code of conduct. I mean, it's not a particularly pleasant word, but it's also not a vulgar word. No, it's fine. You're allowed. You're allowed to say crap. Crap is crap is okay. ah Okay. Yay. I'm so happy about that.
00:22:53
Speaker
Yeah. That last update that we just had, there's going to be an event very soon. I do love the 16th and 20th of August. By the time this comes out, we may be in the event or the event may just be about to happen. There's no way. Our editors are crack editors. I've met this before this. Editors, I love you. Yeah, they're very good. Much love to the editors.
00:23:20
Speaker
They're number one, number one in my heart, number one in my book. so Number one. I feel hurt. You feel hurt? No hurt. Why? If the editors are number one, what does that make me like number 12? Like I just keep going down the list. Yeah, no, that's true. you it it it Like you get shuffled down for sure. You're at least number two.
00:23:45
Speaker
Listen, as ah as a self-proclaimed narcissist, this is upsetting. i I'm sorry. so Sometimes somebody's going to be ahead of you. Editor's number one. Editor's number one. really That's really it. that's like That's all the updates that have happened. There's been a lot. It doesn't feel like we've talked about a lot. I mean, it's been like 20 minutes when we were talking about it. So I guess it's quite a bit. um ah i it's always It's always interesting.
00:24:13
Speaker
You gotta really lean into the umm. Yeah, true. I should. the ah The really funny part about like the development of farm RPG and whatnot is that it never feels like we've done a lot, but we've done a lot.
Cultural Discussions and Secret Rewards
00:24:31
Speaker
oh Sometimes it just seems not very forward-looking, right? it is There's a lot on the back end that I think that we don't really get to like trot around quite as much as like say these events and stuff. yeah There's a lot of back end stuff happening at all times because I feel like I've been very active with farm refuge refugee stuff but I haven't been in chat at all. Like I got a message from I think LJ the other day like, are you all right? Are you doing? I'm like, yeah, I'm just, you know,
00:25:03
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like I'm good. I'm alive. Don't worry. I'm sorry. I haven't been in chat. I gotta to be in chat more. So. ah It's been the same for me, though. I've been. Oh, I'm so sorry. A rare yawn. Can yawning right now? What am I boring you? A little bit, but that's beside the point. um I have also like not been in chat. I've had a couple of people be like, hey, ah you haven't been around much. Yeah, that's very true.
00:25:31
Speaker
That's true. in A lot of meetings that I'm going to be on a business trip next week. Summer is tough. Summer's real hard, I find. I think it's just the summer in general. I know like a lot of the admin team has like a lot of summer stuff happening and I know back to school is happening for all of everybody with children. but That's another whole thing. Back track to school. yeah Yes. I know you're going to like Billy Madison me here.
00:25:59
Speaker
I don't have to, because you already knew. I know what you're talking about, yeah. um but Listen, that's a New Hampshire native. I'm in New Hampshire currently. so Listen, i have sand never yeah I have never met someone so proud to live in a state as you are about New Hampshire. I love New England in general. I'm a certified Mass Hole though. like I am from Massachusetts, born and bred, but I do love New Hampshire.
00:26:25
Speaker
live for your die, baby. I just thought I just got my vanity plate. Well, it hasn't come in yet. But I'm getting my vanity plate. It's my New Hampshire live for your die plate says live for your die on it. And it says lol. What? That's my plate. So if you see me on the highway, you see the Hampshire plate that says lol. What? That's me.
00:26:44
Speaker
I will never see it though, well I'm sure. I barely do that. I feel like you've just doxxed yourself and you're going to like drive down the highway. Beep, beep, beep. I need more. I already said movement.com on the back of my window. I hardly already have like branding on there. So like, honestly, you could find me. I won't tell you. Please don't. But like, I'm not hard to find. That's too funny. Yeah. and Anyway, seriously you were so proud of being from New Hampshire.
00:27:11
Speaker
I love New England. I'm a New England person. I'm a New Englander to the bone, baby. This region of the United States is the best region of the United States. I don't care what anybody has to say about it. I'm cooking up another yawn. Hold on. There we go. That was a very boring rant. I don't know if you're in the most stupid-y toilet-rizz state in the country. so Or you live there currently. so ah And you know what? Sure, whatever.
00:27:39
Speaker
It happens. That's what you do. You know what? I don't mind Ohio. I like Ohio. I've been to Cleveland and I liked it. I enjoy Cleveland. I'm going to put that out there. um That's more of the area that my wife is from, but i mean but i wish i which actually is the reason why Cleveland's all good. I'm giving you the whole you know the whole the whole state.
00:28:02
Speaker
of Ohio. You're saying Cleveland equals all of Ohio because I think people from Columbus and other cities will very much disagree. I don't care. I haven't been there before. I've only been to Cleveland. So Ohio native your experience on Cleveland and Ohio native rise up in this moment and let Buba know the greatness of this state outside of Cleveland. Tell me of you. I beg of you.
00:28:31
Speaker
I don't know about that chili though. That chili with the... I love Skyline Chili. It's so delicious. Yeah, it's like spaghetti with chili on it. Yeah, chili, man. Yeah, it's crazy. Are you not comfortable with a delicious noodle and chili combo? I don't know about that. Like fries or cheese on top of it? I don't know. Like a lot of cheese. I don't really have a spaghetti person in general. Like chili on it? I don't know.
00:28:57
Speaker
I don't think so. Yo, I know why we haven't spoken recently. Is it because of my denial of Chili Mac? Yes. Okay. All right. I get you. That's fine. Exactly that. Exactly. That's entirely fine. I get it.
00:29:13
Speaker
so oh she time Oh, we should come up with a with a secret password. We need to come up with one. It's just us this time. We're not doing an interview this round. We figured we'd let you guys catch up with us and have a little have a little, you know, i just ya but am exhausting I think I'm just very tired. red bull Let's go. I'm not drinking a Red Bull pound a Red Bull pound a Red Bull.
00:29:42
Speaker
yeah Stop playing with your Tamagotchi, dog. I have to. I got to play with the Tamagotchi. I picked up a Tamagotchi. Seriously, she has been obsessed with Tamagotchi for like the last two months. It's true. And it's been longer than that. It's been my entire life. But like they're a new one came out mid July and I've been like,
00:29:59
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really just keeping it alive. Literally, for those of you that aren't able to see, there is a Tamagotchi in her hand right now. There is here. i want to right know Now you're going to mess with the focus again. The focus is going to be off again. That's OK. See, this is my Tamagotchi. He's a freak. And then he just had a baby and that's his baby. And eventually this Tamagotchi, this little guy will leave and leave abandon the baby behind. And now I'm out of focus. So it's going to have to like figure me out again.
00:30:26
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tell me and it's coming it's coming it's coming we're gonna why i'm just gonna why did you do this there here here look i'm back oh easy easy i got it it's fine i'm back in focus now yes tamagotchi it's it's a big thing it's coming up in a big way tamagotchis they're back baby finger guns
00:30:50
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but we Okay, so I'm thinking the password today should be a little more meaningless than average. okay well And I'm going to vote for the onomatopoeia meow. Oh, just meow? Just meow. I feel like two meows. Give me two. Two meows. Do you want a space in it or no? No, no space. Meow meows with no space. Probably one of every single fish.
00:31:19
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No, we cannot do that. Why? The Lord of Balance has spoken and says no. That's not that bad. One of every fish, come on. That's a lot. That is a lot of silver for someone just starting out. Yeah, they're not going to listen to this. Yeah, they might. Okay. Well. The Lord of Balance is striking down your suggestion. How about a couple hundred fish bones?
00:31:44
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500 fish bones. We kind of like one or two things personally crazy. We've been off for two months ah Okay, that's use that's worthless it's 500 fish bones How about a hundred fish bones All right a hundred fish bones i'll take right deal is this with the space or without a space without a space meow meow no space mi meow Reward, fish, bones. There you go. 100. Now, my favorite part about adding these passwords is i I immediately activate them so I don't forget. And then the whole chat goes wild. Guys, there's a new password added. Guys, do we know what the new password is yet? Who just got the new password? So spoilers are going to be so pissed for like three days until then. Guys, what's the new password? Do we think the new password is the podcast related? and yeah and they It's going to be.
00:32:44
Speaker
Look at me, there I got my fish bones. Thank you. All right, I'm gonna watch spoilers chat right now. So I you we will know as soon as someone notices. first time Does anyone does anyone know what the new password is?
00:32:59
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and We're going to see it soon. I'm sure in the next at least 20 minutes somebody's going to say something. It's crazy. i I'm telling you what, one of the things I love about this community, but is also something that I find very intimidating is how passionate the player base is about the game. Like they notice things faster than I would have ever expected.
00:33:19
Speaker
Like on a continual basis, like we can add new items to the game and within like five minutes, everyone's like, Hey, did you see the 55 new items that we added? And you it's just, it's insane. I don't know how they keep up so fast because sometimes he adds stuff and like, I have a head, I have advanced knowledge that's coming and I don't even know what's in the game yet. Like I drew the item and I don't even know. it' serious is It's wild. And it's one of the things that we love about the community is how passionate everyone is about it. And we were so grateful for that.
00:33:49
Speaker
Honestly, also, Kat, you are trying to eat electrical tape right now and I don't understand you. don' Stop, stop her. Could we please not do that? Thank you. End her life. I won't end her life, but she does get to make a cameo on. Oh, kitty cameo. Kitty cameo right here.
00:34:08
Speaker
Hello Kittyish. Getting the pets. See, I can't pick my dog up. She would be very angry. I picked her up. She would growl and try to bite me. Kitty is currently clawing me because she's not a fan of having her electrical tape snack ruined. But yeah, during her night here, she really was enjoying those micro plastics.
00:34:31
Speaker
Yeah. So I put tape on top of my monitor, um because they like to like, put their paws on my monitor and it like tilts it and stuff.
Personal Game Progress and New Decks
00:34:39
Speaker
So I put it ah like I tried to use double sided tape because cats don't like stickiness. And my cats were like, why would I care about that? I'll just eat it. And I'm like, how do you like, how do you deal with this level of recklessness and like nonchalant not caring about the obstacles I have put in your place? Like it is tried tinfoil. I think they don't like tinfoil too.
00:35:00
Speaker
I don't want tin foil on top of my computer. like Why not? They don't protect it from the aliens. Wow, that's a really good point. Yeah. Listen, the truth is out there.
00:35:15
Speaker
What just happened? I don't know. We're just getting we're getting we're getting awoken to the to the truth that, you know, aliens exist. Oh, man. And you need to protect your computer. So is this is this officially tea time now? Are we just like think we should do we and transition the segment into tea time?
00:35:37
Speaker
What are you working on? That's always like the first question of tea time is what are you working on in Farm RPG right now? Well, I'm going to be totally real with you. I haven't had a lot of time to work on stuff lately. um When I have been on Farm RPG, I put quite a bit of effort into passing a few quests and it really drained my resources.
00:35:58
Speaker
and I'm not finished yet i've been like slowly rebuilding those of most of my time has been focused on a couple new ideas that we have for farm. So like if i have to choose between actually playing or working on some of these concepts i.
00:36:15
Speaker
honestly, most of the time, elect to work on dev stuff. That's the thing I find about the dev side of things. Sometimes the active play portion that gets sidelined into actually working on the game instead of working in the game. Do you know what I mean? It's not a valid excuse, but it is an excuse. It is an excuse. It's an excuse that I will always use. I haven't really needed to be super ah What have I been working on? I don't even know what I've been working on. Hey, what have you been working on? I don't know. I haven't worked on anything. Have you finished the essay yet? No. God, no. I don't even have enough. I have three trillion silver, and I'm on the one where I need five trillion silver. Wow, spoilers.
00:37:05
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, come on. That one's that one's in there. I also need lima beans for that. And I have not even I'm gonna wait till I have the silver to get the lima beans. I still have 900 lima beans or so. Maybe less actually, maybe more like
00:37:28
Speaker
I wish I could do an evil laugh. Every time someone's like lima beans, it just fills me. It's your fault. Yes, you get you get powered by everybody's. It fills me. Complete matter, sadist. Just wanting to destroy us all. Or at least your stamina supplies. That's true. That's true. I don't think honestly, I don't think you could at this point for me. I have so much. I have so much stamp. It's not even funny.
00:37:57
Speaker
o Challenge accepted. I'm sure you can try. You can try, but you you will you won't. You know what? you know The worm used to take a lot of my stamina. How much of i have I banked right now? Let's go see. I just think we could make a reward that brings a bunny that would really force you to use your stamina. Oh, yeah. If you brought a bunny into the game, that reminds me.
00:38:24
Speaker
Speaking of things, bringing bunnies into them and then be having to then work on something. the seen This is off-kilter from Farm RPG entirely, but you've sparked my thoughts. Have you seen this new Magic magic the Gathering pack? This new set? Oh, the new set? The new set? Or whatever it's called? Oh, I haven't. Why?
00:38:49
Speaker
It's like red wall animals. It's all like, it's not from red wall, but it's like red wall animals. It's like mice and bunnies and foxes and... Badgers? like birds I don't know if there's badgers, I have no idea. Maybe? Badgers have to go to Salamandastron. And it's not bunnies, it's hares, first of all. These are bunnies. I'm telling you they're bunnies. It's not actually Redwall, I don't know if they had the license. Okay, because I'm a lifelong Redwall fan, okay? they Like, i i've been but i bought I had to buy one of these commander decks because it's a bunny deck.
00:39:23
Speaker
I had to buy it. I had to not, I just not like spend $50 and buy this deck. It's literally so cute. There's so many cute cars. I haven't played Magic the Gathering since Kamagawa. Oh wow. I don't know what the commanders are. I don't know what a commander deck is. You don't know what a commander deck is. No, I played a Kamagawa. That was what, 2006? 2005? I don't know. That was so long ago. Yo guys, the moon is old.
00:39:52
Speaker
I'm old. That's true. I am old, but I had to buy magic cards because and i now I want it. Now I want that because so look big funny family one the deck is really, it's like a, it's like from what I saw on the cards, it's like a,
00:40:11
Speaker
spawn deck, like, you know, you get your little swarming guys it swarms with bunnies like you make tokens, which I that's what I played in Colorado. I played a snake deck that was a swarm deck. So this bunny commander deck coming in the mail, my friends brought it over. I was trying to avoid it. Because as soon as I saw it, I knew I was gonna have to buy it. I was like, if I if I look at this, I'm gonna have to spend money. i So see this is gonna sound like really morbid. But perhaps I just have to wonder, like,
00:40:43
Speaker
How will someone who has to go through your stuff someday be like the buddy head, the curbies, the random magic, the gathering set from 2024, like it is going to be such an eclectic grouping of items. And I'm not even naming or doxing like ah some of the other stuff I know you collect. like I have so much stuff. It is vast.
00:41:08
Speaker
I know. And here's the thing, I'm gonna have a really great estate sale when I die. There's gonna be such a good estate sale when I pass away that, you know. Okay, counter, counter argument to your estate sale. Yes. Will to me all of your Kirby stuff? Will to you at all? You're gonna listen, we are the same. First of all, I can hear your Tamagotchi again.
00:41:32
Speaker
You heard nothing. I have to to clean up the poop. i Anyway, we're the same age. Okay. okay if i got you Will it to my daughter? Okay. I will will it to your daughter. You know what? Right. Legally binding. it's A podcast is legally binding as far as I am. This is binding. This is like, you know, we're shaking on it. yeah I haven't said I'm going to do it yet, but I'll see what I can do. All right. Perfect.
00:41:59
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see what we can do. At least I'll will her a part of it. Just because reminds me, I had a pre order for like a giant Kirby. Where the heck is that? I was supposed to come like last week. Don't look it up. Now you're in the middle of a podcast. That's true. I can't look that up.
00:42:18
Speaker
thick gaze if If that gives you any idea of how casually we take this sometimes. Yeah, this is a very casual. This is just us chatting. If we had a guest, it would be a lot, maybe be a lot stricter with the rules, but it's just us. We wanted to adjust us episode. And it's just, it's hard to schedule sometimes with the third. Getting a third in here is a difficult scheduling.
00:42:42
Speaker
Yeah, we're all kind of busy. I don't know whose fault that is. We, you know, I wonder if we should just, um i we could like go into like chat and just be like, hey, send us some questions and we'll answer some questions real quick on the podcast. Yeah, we could. We could just say, hey, what do you want to hear us talk about on the podcast right now? I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. Which chat should I do it in?
00:43:09
Speaker
on either global or spoilers. I think that's the only two. I'm gonna do an help chat. I'm gonna do an help chat. You've been in help chat lately, haven't you? Yeah, I have.
Weekend Plans and Community Interaction
00:43:20
Speaker
Hey, guys, we're in the middle of podcast stuff. Do you have any questions you would want answered or topics we should talk about limited time offer?
00:43:41
Speaker
Heart ball. Heart ball? Yeah, I'm doing a heart all on this one. Oh, heart all. I thought you said heart ball. I was like, what does a heart ball mean?
00:43:55
Speaker
So now becomes a time where we vamp until we see a question worth answering, right? Hmm. Okay. And you are just staring at your stupid Tamagotchi. No, um horse apples.
00:44:09
Speaker
what Yeah, horse apples. Oh, horse apples. I was like, what apples? Horse apples. Listen, they're very cute. They're just dancing around on the screen right now. Oh, man.
00:44:24
Speaker
So other than other than, you know, working on stuff in farm RPG, anything you're excited about right now, anything in your life that's exciting? oh No, not right now. Wow. It's been so busy. Interesting answer. You know what I'm excited for is I have a weekend where I have nothing happening this weekend. kind food Isn't that such a great feeling?
00:44:45
Speaker
It's nice. I haven't had it in a while, right? Nothing going on. some And I had friends that I was supposed to do on Friday and they canceled, which I it's great. I'd love to have tomorrow off. I have I have no thing to do this week. I have a haircut. But that's it. I have a haircut on Saturday. And that's the only thing I have to do. Why? Your hair is fine. No, you see, it's it's not a haircut. It's like a you see the roots. I have to go every six weeks.
00:45:13
Speaker
That seems like you should just grow your hair out. It's regimented. I want i want you to grow your hair out. I haven't had long hair since I was a middle school dog. Guys, can we put together ah a a change dot.org list of Buban getting her hair changed? No, that won't happen. I don't care how many signatures you get. It's not changing.
00:45:37
Speaker
We got one question here. Mycaneo, I should never would have thought that I'm gonna have to try to pronounce these names. We all know it is legendary within staff how bad I pronounce names for the record. That's true. It is 100% legendary that I get every name wrong. Like it is, you know, considering I was an English major, it's kind of embarrassing. but What can we get from the Tapper RPG? So for those of you who maybe haven't had a chance, there's a library page ah called Tapper RPG. So if you haven't seen it before, go ahead and look it up. Very cool little mini game that FireStream made a very long time ago. As for the rewards, I can't tell you because it hasn't been beaten. It's almost impossible to beat. There was math done by yours truly and others.
00:46:28
Speaker
that it is impossible to beat before the heat death of the universe. If you can get level 99 as well as the secret skill level 99, you would be a legend. Take a screenshot. Send it to me. I would be impressed. So there is no reward as far as I know. Maybe Firestream will change it someday.
00:46:51
Speaker
I mean, there's you've been like hinting that there's a lot of crazy stuff that happens in there. i I would be curious to know personally, I have it's a lot of work. I have I lost all my progress because the other day I had to, you know, restart something on my computer and it just was like bye bye. It's gone now.
00:47:14
Speaker
So it left. Nacho says, can you answer the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize problems? But forward all the answers to me first for review. The answer to your question is maybe. Anyways, Farmer Herman I. Hilden says, can you please request the artwork department rework the graphics for mushroom paste and black powder?
00:47:39
Speaker
So that would be a fire screen question. I would be happy to redraw them. but that would have to come down from the big man. I just do what I'm told. So if you are unhappy with any of those you know item changes that I've done lately, take it up with the boss as I'm happy with my work and he's happy with my work. So if you don't like that honey, you can let him know. You don't need to let me know. I don't i don't care. I like it.
00:48:05
Speaker
Uh, they also say, um, the honey looks good to them. So congratulations. Someone likes they sell that. Yeah, they did go into health chat. Wow. I love them. I I'm a, I'm a big fan of farmer Herman. I Hilton Hilton. Thank you farmer. Thank you farmer.
00:48:24
Speaker
So Gilman asks, how do you put an elephant in your fridge? I believe the answer to that question is first you open the fridge. um I don't know much after that, though. I haven't really practiced. Rathalama says, how is the mining timeline coming? Mining is a great question. ah The plan is to have it in into beta by the end of the year, if possible. We've really run into a lot of snags with development of mining.
00:48:53
Speaker
ah due to accessibility specifically, but also we've really been working on the core infrastructure of Farm RPG. ah The earlier earlier this year was a real wake-up call for the team um on some of the things that we needed to do to ensure that people continually had good play experiences because no one really is going to care about mining if the game is unplayable. So it's still slated, still working on it, um got lots of cool concepts and ideas coming. So thank you for asking. Thank you for your interest. We are still working on it. FireStream is very passionate about it.
00:49:32
Speaker
Well, thank you. Brath and Lama also asked maybe any teasers about PSA follow-up quests. ah Great, great question. ah Most of the people listening to this podcast have no idea what that is. ah What I can tell you is maybe, I don't know, if I told you, then you'd know. So, you know, there's that. ah Egg says, does Buba and Sillyu custom avatars? And if so, can I have an egg?
00:50:01
Speaker
I do. We have so many eggs, though. oh But I do still do them. i am I haven't done one in a minute. And I'm working through staff one new staff ones. I haven't had time.
00:50:13
Speaker
um you know, if you send me something pretty easy, I might be able to do it real quick. Anything like an animal of any kind usually takes precedent because I have fun drawing those. And since I do all the avatars for freezels, just for freebies, just because I love the community, I tend to like to do the ones that are fun for me before I do the ones that are not fun. So if you come in and ask me for like,
00:50:40
Speaker
something crazy probably won't get done to be honest. But if you say I want a cute little puppy dog, you got it. I can do that. So so a hopefully that answers your question. If you do want a custom chat avatar, Buba and still does do them. But She is very backlogged and works on them at her leisure slash priority. So there you go with that one. a Clem Jolie Chose. What in the world? How do you guys come up with these names? I'm not dissing this. This is not me saying your name is bad. I'm just like, holy moly. yeah so pretty interesting one um How am I feeling?
Creative Processes and Future Involvement
00:51:23
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Oh, thanks. i I am very, very much having a great day.
00:51:28
Speaker
It has been a really challenging couple of months for me. um There's been a lot of turmoil in my life, ah but the last The last couple of weeks have been a real turnaround, which has been very helpful. um I actually want to at some point do and have a conversation on this podcast about mental health, which is something I personally struggle with. I'm sure people that know me would know that. ah So in general, I'm doing really good. I've had a great day. Farm RPG um is wonderful. ah We have an amazing team. We have an amazing community.
00:52:03
Speaker
We have a great dev team that's really passionate. It's just a shame that we can't honestly do it more. I just wish that I could do this all the time. ah But my unfortunate day job, not a day wo it's It's tough. It's a tough one. ah You know what? um I also want to throw that over to you. How are you feeling in general with the Farm RPG team, with the community, however you want to answer it?
00:52:29
Speaker
Listen, i love I love working on the game with you and the rest of the dev team. like Honestly, great group of people, the best group of people, to be honest. Everybody is so nice and very accommodating and very chill and lets me be very creatively free to basically do kind of whatever I want with the ideas that are given to me, which I love.
00:52:57
Speaker
So when he says, hey, I need, I need this to, I need a box for the month. Can you maybe like it look like a Lunchable? I go, yes, that sounds really fun. Thank you. I will do that. Have a great time just doing whatever I want on that Lunchable.
00:53:15
Speaker
And just, it's great. I love it. I love the team. I love the game. I love this game as in general, dude, for real. My three year, my three year stars coming up at the end of the month. I love that. I know. It's that crazy. Like crazy. Oh, when did I join? It was like the 20 August 21st. So here's just a, here's a thing about that whole week, August 21st, 2021. I got my dog on the 25th. I picked her up from the breeder on the 25th.
00:53:46
Speaker
And then you download the most addictive phone game that you i can download this game first. I picked this up. I, I got this on the 21st, got my dog on the 25th, and then I got married on September 4th. Okay. How did I not know that you've only been married for three years? Uh, because I've been with Vinny forever. i was We, we had plans to get married in 2020. Uh, and then, uh, it was 2020 or September of 2020. So.
00:54:14
Speaker
That didn't happen because oh we basically just canceled it and moved it out of here. So it should technically be four years at this point, but it's three. Funny story about being married for the wrong amount of time. Can we bring a sidebar to a funny story that I can tell myself? Yes. So when you get married, um you are supposed to go like go tell people that you got married. like And by people, I mean like the state and whatnot. You kind of like have to let them know that. and And my wife and I, we just never got around to changing her last name. It just wasn't like that important to us. yeah okay um like No big deal, like whatever. like We're married. Why does our names have to be the same? We're so modern.
00:55:01
Speaker
um Eventually, we were like, Yeah, we should probably do it. It would make things a lot easier when it comes to bills and taxes and whatnot, like just having the same name, like shortens a bunch of stuff. So my wife goes to the um my wife goes to the DMV is like, Hey, I want to change my name. And they're like, ah Why? and they like Well, I'm married to this person. They're like, ah No, you're not. And it turns out do the paperwork.
00:55:27
Speaker
It turns out we did the paperwork. the person the The person who officiated the wedding forgot to send that paperwork in. Oh my God. After how long? How long was it until you know knew? Five years. Oh my God. That's hilarious. So a lot of our friends have specifically always teased us about how we've been married five years less than we've actually been. Yeah.
00:55:54
Speaker
Uh, and then we've actually been married. So that was just, uh, we ended up calling the efficient and the efficient was like, the efficient had like retired. Um, but they kept such good notes that they found the paperwork and sent it in.
00:56:10
Speaker
Oh, wow. they did They couldn't backdate it. and They did. They did. They backdated our marriage. It was wild. ah That's crazy. One of the weirdest stories. My cats are so upset that the door is closed right now. So I apologize if anyone hears that. They're like, dog, seriously, I want to sleep on top of your computer. ah Let me in right now. Okay.
00:56:32
Speaker
okay We have some, there's more questions in there. I see that. um Ask who my favorite character from the film Incanto is and why. I've never seen the entirety of Incanto. Oh, come on. That's so good. That's the Magic House one, right? Yeah, that's the Magic House one. Yeah, I've seen like bits and pieces. I don't remember anybody's name, but I like that movie.
00:56:58
Speaker
So Gilman says, time for a more serious question. Will there be a pet for mining related items? um Great question. The answer to that question is yes. It's very, very likely. Thank you for asking. Egg says, can we submit April Fool's ideas?
00:57:15
Speaker
but for next year. And if so, where feel free to type them in the podcast comments. And if we think they're funny, we might think about them. That's about as far as I'm gonna promise. We're not gonna promise us anything on that because we have so many April Fool's ideas just on the admin team. And we love to get through all of the but like, you can try but I I don't know. we we may We may be stacked with with crazy ideas for April Fool's because we're just a bunch of jokers, technically. We are all very much jokers. It's sometimes tough to to reel us in, right? So that we're being serious. It's true. We really like to have a really have a laugh and a gaffe and a goofy, funny time all the time. I kind of want to do this again. So I noticed that we're running up on 60 minutes, which is probably... Yeah, it's probably good.
00:58:08
Speaker
But I think next time we should announce that we're going to ask for questions in chat. And I think this was really fun. I loved just taking some questions um and answering them. We can leave them to Tea Time. Like, hey, we're going to be Tea Timing at this hour. If you want to ask questions live answered on the podcast, join us. So we we can go for that next time. We could open up. I've talked about wanting to do like a staff Q and&A i in trivia, but maybe we'll just like open trivia up and say, hey, like, post your questions and then... Oh, we just changed it to podcast queues or something. Yeah, exactly. not for people We can do a whole podcast of that maybe. Who knows? Let's see. Let's see what frisky we're feeling this month. Maybe we'll we'll do a bonus app.
00:58:51
Speaker
Ooh, you know, we could do a bonus episode, but it's gotta be- We may deserve a bonus episode. If you guys really wanna bonus up, get in our DMs and let us know that you really wanna bonus up. And not just Boo Buns DMs, because if you just get Boo Buns DMs, I'm gonna say I didn't get any messages, so I think this is all false advertising. Yes, he gets sad. He gets very sad when I hit him to get any, so you should message him too.
00:59:10
Speaker
yeah and know I get a lot of the messages and he's like, I don't get any messages. um it theory It's okay. Send him a message. i'm I am an approachable person, but he is to message him. I'm scary. so That's me. I'm your mom. I'm scary. Hey, thanks for listening to our podcast today, guys. Thank you, guys. A lot of rambling, but it was a good time. Yeah. It was just us talking and shooting the crap. We'll do some. Gosh.
00:59:40
Speaker
I'm so mad at you right now. I had to. We will definitely do this again soon. It is and a pleasure to talk to all of you guys. Thanks for listening to our podcast. We love you. We love you. Good good evening. And good night. Okay, whatever.