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Episode 178: We Got a Mailbag Episode!
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Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome back to another episode of the Goblin Lore Podcast! The goblins reached out to our Discord (and our Twitter) and solicited Mailbag Questions!! We have a very active and open Discord and love the oppurtinity for you all to join!
Again we would like to state that Black Lives Matter
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As promised, we keep Mental Health Links available every episode. But For general Mental Health the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has great resources for people struggling with mental health concerns as well as their families. We also want to draw attention to this article on stigma from NAMI's site.
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Transcript
Introduction and Sponsorship
00:00:29
Speaker
Hello Podwalkers and welcome back to another episode of the Goblin Lore Podcast. This is Hobbs Q, my pronouns are he, him, and I'm just going to do a little bit of an intro. So before we get handed over to our host and we kind of do our question to start out the episode, we want to make sure to thank the Grinding Coffee Company.
00:00:47
Speaker
They are an LGBT minority ran and led coffee company that supports gamers. And they've been working with us and partnering us for quite a while, I mean, since almost the beginning of the company. And they're very supportive of charity events and everything that we kind of do throughout the year, as well as you can get coffee from them and get a discount. And that gives us a little bit money back that we're able to use for
00:01:09
Speaker
We use it for shipping, for buying stickers, which is kind of help keep those, those other little expenses of things that we like to be able to do. Uh, it's just very supportive to us. So you can check out our link tree, um, to get our, our links to both as well, to the guiding grinding copy company, to original magic, um, to, we have our, I think a rote runner. I think that link is still up there. We have a discount for that. What's the keyword again, Alex, if you want a rote runner. Oh, um.
00:01:38
Speaker
I can't remember now, not on top of my head. This keeps happening to us. Yeah, I think it was Magic Planner, I believe. It's something. I'll probably look at that and I'll try to get that one because it's still the beginning of the year. People are looking for a planning system. That's one that we like.
Community and Gratitude
00:01:54
Speaker
Now that we got all that out of the way, we're going to do a question for today, which is, you know, this is a mailbag episode. So just spoiler alert, we kind of put the word out, especially to our Discord. And that was something that, you know, last week we mentioned this kind of towards the end of the episode and we wanted to make sure that we gave a shout out to our Discord. We actually went from recording last week to post in the Discord channel about doing this.
00:02:17
Speaker
The link to Discord is active and it's always in our link tree. You can come join. You don't have to belong to our Patreon. There are some tiers. You get episodes a little bit early. There's a chat only for people that are patrons, but most of it is just open and free. And I'm in a lot of Discords. Our Discord is one of the most active that I'm in, and it's active in a way that is very important to me.
00:02:43
Speaker
The main channels that I can think of that get used a ton are posting your wins, mental health, and yelling to the void. And I think that this is an example of why we like our Discord. I mean, there's other ones that do with story and games, but these ones are very unique and I think people are very open and raw there. And this has been something, people are very good about using spoiler tags to put sensitive content behind. They're just very mindful, yet very open. And Draco, Lucy, and one of our
00:03:12
Speaker
But one of the people who have been in that discord for a very, very long time, he even posted recently on Twitter about what being in this discord has meant for him as he struggled with kind of his own mental health. And we want to make sure that we're just giving a shout out for that discord because it is a place for people to land to just be able to have open and pretty frank conversations about mental health, celebrate each other's wins and really function as a goblin community, as a Warren.
00:03:40
Speaker
And most of the questions that we're pulling from today came from people that are in that Discord. So we're just wanting to let people know that is always open. Please check it out if you haven't. If you're looking for a Discord that might feel like somewhere that you can go to, especially if you're moving away from Twitter, we've been very happy with it, I would say. So question for today is, what's something that you are grateful for? And so once again, I'm Hobbs. My pronouns are he, him.
00:04:07
Speaker
And I am grateful today for my family. Just the last couple of weekends I've been able to do a lot more, whether it comes to magic or, you know, going to do some photography stuff. And that isn't possible without the community that I have from
00:04:24
Speaker
my wife and from even just my kids and having them be willing to, you know, go down for quiet time and be willing to be just well behaved in some ways so that I could step away or leave for the house for a little bit and go meet up with some magic people. So yeah, I'm grateful for my family right now.
00:04:42
Speaker
I'll pass it over to Alex. Hi, I'm out on Twitter, my pronouns are he him and, and this week, like one, one thing I'm definitely thankful for, I was just talking to Hobbs a little bit before, before the show, but I was able to just yesterday, spend the whole day hanging out with a good friend of mine who have not had a chance to see for a while.
00:05:06
Speaker
And this year, I'm trying to think when it was some point last, some point in December was the last time we saw each other. But it was just, it was really nice to just get the chance to sit down with this old friend of mine and just hang out. And we just spent the whole day kind of doing nothing. We actually went back and played some Elden Ring, a game that I haven't touched since I stopped playing it halfway through last year. Loved the game, put a lot of time into it, but it just kind of thought I was done with it. But it was a nice thing just to kind of
00:05:34
Speaker
do in the middle of us hanging out. And so just in a more general sense, I'm really thankful that I always have good friends and I get a good network, including the people on air with me right now. But just this week, I was very glad to have the chance to sit down and just spend some time with my oldest friends.
00:05:53
Speaker
again, who had not seen for a while. And I know my, he has had some stuff going on lately, and I've had some stuff going on. I've talked a little bit about, had some, just some work issues and, and things. So it was nice to finally kind of put all that away. I mean, I mean, he and I even talked about it, but it was just nice to be able to just relax and spend the time with, with him. So that's, that's my answer for that. And self-dea.
00:06:22
Speaker
Hey, I'm Taya. She, her, they, them pronouns at Taya transcends. And I'm gonna...
00:06:30
Speaker
I'm going to piggyback a bit off what Hobb said about our Discord, but I'm thankful for our listeners that actually, and the ones that participate with us especially, that answer our questions when we ask them and participate with us on Twitter and really love to have you all participating with us on this goblin adventure and hope that or would love to see more of you participate and be active in the
00:06:59
Speaker
You know with our community and yeah, just another plug for the discord. It's a great place
Mailbag Questions and Goblin Discussions
00:07:04
Speaker
to hang out So we got a lot of questions. We won't be able to unfortunately get to all of them now We'll kind of keep them for later But we were gonna start out by all of us just kind of we're gonna just do what we normally do with this Zero preparation and just start firing things at each other and well at least that's what I'm going to do
00:07:21
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We kind of talked a little bit beforehand, we were going to just kind of pick out random ones. So do either of you have a one that you feel strongly with the start us off? So in my normal fashion of cheating, when I answer questions, I have one that I have a answer, that's kind of a cheat answer that I feel good about. If we want to start there, of course, if we're gonna, yeah, we might as well.
00:07:46
Speaker
The good way to start a goblin cast is by cheating. By Alex cheating, yes. Yeah, cool. So from Cilantro Lad asks, do you have a favorite goblin in non-MTG media? And so this, I'm cheating. So my answer to this is a guy named Daniel Green, who is a YouTuber slash booktuber who talks a lot about books and things, but also sort of science fiction fantasy in general.
00:08:13
Speaker
he is very like a big part of his brand is being a goblin and he literally starts his shows by calling himself you know I am your disheveled goblin host Daniel Green like that's how he opens his show and so I'm gonna count that as a favorite goblin of mine because he has been a I just really enjoy some of the topics that he talks about he does some new stuff that is is nice to just kind of keep track of some of the the show and book stuff and just
00:08:41
Speaker
It's a hobby that I really like books in general is reading because that's his main focus, but I don't have the same sort of focus on it like some of like magic and some of the video games areas where I've got a lot more focus on it. So it's nice to find this guy who I enjoy watching who makes fun content, but who also can then give me a nice window into here's some things going on in the book world.
00:09:03
Speaker
So I'm really glad you chose this question because this is one that I actually did prepare for. And that's because, you know, there was a recent art that came out for a goblin card that is going, the new goblin bombardment art is basically, it looks like Grogu. It looks like two little Grogus sitting in their little, you know, like shell of a thing to protect themselves. And this really parallels very nicely the fact that I always say that we don't know what
00:09:31
Speaker
quote-unquote like alien race Yoda and Grogu belong to. And that's because they're goblins. I mean, it's pretty simple, like really obsessed with shiny things. You know, if we think about when we meet Yoda and Empire Strikes Back on Dagobah and he's like trying to not be like a Jedi master, but I also think that's just his personality. He's kind of like really distracted by like Luke's like flashlight and he's just like starts hitting R2-D2 with his cane over it. And I think
00:09:59
Speaker
I think that's just because he's actually, they are goblins. They just eat the slimiest things, too. Yeah, he would eat anything that was in that swamp area. I currently have, staring at me across the room, a galactic snack and Grogu toy that my parents bought for me for Christmas that is all about the different things that Grogu was eating during the show. Would that be his favorite thing?
00:10:26
Speaker
Frog ladies, sentient eggs basically? Wait, wait, that was weird. But yeah, I mean, their speech patterns were kind of like we talked about with Slobad. This was one of the things we talked about was like his intelligence level, but how the Wizards wrote his kind of speech patterns being this like kind of off-broken language. I mean, it's what we think of when we associate more with Yoda, like the syntax that is backwards with grammar.
00:10:48
Speaker
You know, I'm just saying it. Yoda and Grogu and whatever. It's a yottle. Yottle is the female one, I believe. They are all, they're goblins. And we just, we have not been told that explicitly. That'll come out when we get universes beyond Star Wars. It makes a lot of sense. It really does. I've never considered that, but I'm sold on your theory house. Good, good.
00:11:14
Speaker
Well, that was a good episode. I want to go out on top. Yeah. So, um, my favorite goblin and non, um, MTG media is gob two from reincarnated as a slime. Uh, he's, he's a lot of fun. He's kind of clueless. Um, just wants to slack off all the time, but keeps getting in trouble because of it. And, uh, I don't know, he's just really cool. And where's the nicest outfit? Uh,
00:11:44
Speaker
It's just leather combat get up and really cool goblin.
Motivations for Podcasting
00:11:50
Speaker
It took me a while to come up with an answer for this one because the first answer that came to mind was kind of a double cheat because it's not in media and it was the MTG related thing, which was the goblin character Minsar for my D&D Ravnica campaign that just wrapped up.
00:12:08
Speaker
So he didn't fit either one of him, but Kaburi, if you happen to listen, Menzar was my honorable mention for this and the first thing that came to mind. That's fantastic. That is a really good cheat. Okay, I'm going to take and let's go here. Johann Hellkite said, well, let's go.
00:12:36
Speaker
What drives the motivation to do the podcast for each caster? You know what? I'm going to take this from like simple haha like goblin and our thing to something that is pretty deep and I'm going to talk so that my co-host have time to think in case they haven't because this one for me is actually pretty easy. My work can be stressful at times. I love what I do. I love working in psychology. I love being a psychologist. I love focusing on mental health, but like there's an amount of stress that comes with that and
00:13:06
Speaker
I need an escape. And the thing that for me is I still want to be, I have always wanted to find a way to like break down stigma, to be able to talk about mental health, but to do it in a context that's different than just therapy and what I have to do on kind of, or what I do on a day-to-day basis. So one of my biggest motivations for doing this podcast is I'm able to kind of share a lot of these concepts and this information
00:13:35
Speaker
and the stuff that I love and that I'm very passionate about and I want people to be open about, the cast lets me do that in a different way. And it does it in a way that means that it doesn't feel like more work. I would say that's the thing. I wouldn't want to do something that's just, I got a new camera and it could do video capability. And I had a psychologist friend that was like, wow, you could do psychology YouTube videos. And I was like, well, I could. But that feels like I would just be doing
00:14:03
Speaker
The same thing I do at work, but trying to make it friendly for a YouTube audience with this. There's no, I don't have to find an avenue. I just get to talk about magic and I get to sit and talk with people that I really enjoy having conversations with. And it just happens that we bring in a lot of these things that I would love to disseminate to a larger audience. Something that I can't do.
00:14:23
Speaker
I can only really see one person at a time. I can't send messages out there or get ideas or thoughts or these topics where we really dive deep into depression. And what does that look like? We can reach such a big audience. We'll also get to do something that I love. So for me, that's my motivation to continue doing a podcast and doing this one in particular.
00:14:46
Speaker
And I chose this one, I know it's a tough one, but I was thinking, I chose this one, Taya, partly in mind with you kind of coming on. And I know there were some other questions that were about this a little bit, but you had gotten away, you weren't really podcasting. And I think it was something that was missed. And I think that there was a motivation that either,
00:15:07
Speaker
Yeah, so I've got so much useless magic the gathering lower knowledge just bouncing around my head all the time that it has to get out somewhere and Might as well do it someplace constructive Instead of just Rangers like on the street. Yeah
00:15:27
Speaker
My friends do not want to hear any more color pie theory discussions or why slivers are the best creature type. I think they're sick of it. So this was a really good question. The motivation is mostly because I love magic and I love the community aspect of the podcast.
00:15:57
Speaker
Um, you know, it's what interested me in joining this particular podcast, especially, and I'm, um, get to talk about magic and, you know, hopefully, um, drive some positivity or, you know, just some frank discussions about like mental health topics and stuff. So really being a part of that community. And that's what's motivating to me.
00:16:24
Speaker
And for myself, following a lot of, I can echo a lot of what Hobbs and Daya were saying. For me, kind of starting the podcast.
00:16:34
Speaker
I liked the community, kind of being part of the community. Magic as a whole was kind of the first hobby, the first thing I'd sort of been into where there was this sort of greater community thing. I mean, like I've talked about, I have all these other hobbies, but most of those are really built in solitary ways. Or I guess, you know, there's a lot of
00:16:54
Speaker
communities within online gaming with video games and stuff. But that's a very different thing in Magic, at least by and large, getting back to it a little more now. But it was face-to-face stuff. And so a lot of the community was built around face-to-face interactions. And so for me, that was kind of where I started with Magic. And then I kind of realized content creation was a way to sort of
00:17:19
Speaker
be a bigger part of that community or be more present in that community. And that was because I wrote articles for a while and that's kind of why I started. But as we did the cast more, I realized, hey, I mean, it's just fun to get to hang out and chat with people I enjoy chatting with, you know, friends who are on the cast, friends who aren't on the cast,
00:17:44
Speaker
come on or new people who I've never talked to, at least new people to me, but who are just fun and fascinating and amazing people to get to come on and talk about whatever they have going on, whatever their interactions with magic are. Some cases aren't, no interactions with magic, but whatever topic we have going on.
00:18:04
Speaker
But the mental health thing has become a bigger part of it for me to the point where now doing this stuff on the cast and really trying to have these open conversations and to start pushing back against stigma and to help with that, I'm doing more of that in my personal life than I used to because now it's like, well, this is just a thing I should be doing over here too, and I'm looking for ways to do it at work. And even just in my interactions with people, I'm having
00:18:33
Speaker
is small interaction. Team meetings are one-on-ones with my supervisor. I'm much more open about my mental health and talking about my anxiety and things in ways that I have had coworkers tell me are helpful to them and that they are grateful to see someone sort of
00:18:52
Speaker
just having that. Yeah, modeling, that's a great way to say it. But so that is just become a bigger part of a like this cast. But it's also like, in this fun, cyclical way where the cast sort of kind of got me started in that way. And so it's nice to then come back to the podcast and continue that cycle. Yeah, that reciprocal nature sign is really interesting. And like, I think that
00:19:16
Speaker
We've talked a lot about the idea of intentionality, which is something that you and I discussed a lot more on the show before I ever started really bringing it into my work life, where it's been something that I highlight now in therapy for a lot of the veterans that I'm working with is intentionality. And I'm not saying it wasn't there before, but it's the intentionally mentioning intentionality, which just sounds kind of silly. But I mean, it's not me waiting for a moment to bring it in.
00:19:46
Speaker
addressing it and saying like, we need to be attentional. We need to do this. We need to be thoughtful. We need to, you know, it's like trying to bring that language in. I'm finding myself doing it a lot more than I used to. And what's funny is even though like I can't, this is one of those weird things like as a government person is also, it's just like, uh,
00:20:02
Speaker
mainly as a government person, I can't like endorse specific things. So I've had to like talk about rote runner without being like, and there's this tool that you could buy, right? Because I can't like, and here's a code to get your discount on it. But I do it has let me bring up the concept of mindful planning, because we talked about it on the show. And I have people that are struggling with, well, like, well, traditional planners don't work for me.
00:20:26
Speaker
So I now have knowledge that I gained from just doing the show and having conversations that I'm bringing back to then my actual like, my therapy life. And I think that this is another place where that discord comes into it is some of the things that we talk about there in the mental health world really helps me to feel like normalization or to bring in normalization when talking to people I work with about like, you know what, like this is a common experience. I think that that's one of the things I love about the discord is you see how much people identify with each other.
00:20:56
Speaker
Yeah. All right. I'm going to pick the next question. And it's a similar question.
Memorable Episodes and Guest Interactions
00:21:03
Speaker
Proteus Factor asks, what is your favorite or most memorable episode? Or maybe for Teo, what episode made you want to become a goblin? And for me, it's the Anthony Waters episodes. Those were kind of brutally honest episodes dealing about kind of aftermath of the traumatic incident.
00:21:27
Speaker
you know, got to talk about how that influenced his art and his life. And, you know, I that was, you know, something I remember pretty heavily, which is, you know, it's it's been a while since that episode now. But, you know, and I was scrolling through the history of episodes and that was immediately stuck out to me as like, yes, this is the one that, you know, nearly five years doing this show that I think had the biggest impact on me.
00:21:58
Speaker
Wow, that one is, yeah, that one has come up a lot in discussions I've had with people about the show. Like consistently that one comes up and that was one of the things that was wild about going to Richmond and then actually getting to sit down like next to him and talk. I think of the memorable episodes and I think it's the ones where there's been so many of them for me, you know, as you said, kind of that we are going on five years.
00:22:27
Speaker
Richmond was my opportunity to all of a sudden realize how many people I was sitting in a room with that I had sat and had pretty deep, serious conversations with and had never actually seen face to face. And I think some of the memorable ones for me have been when we've had those conversations. The Ant One I think is a standout for me too, and I'm probably going to go to it because I can tell you having recorded that episode,
00:22:54
Speaker
We did not know what direction that fully was going in. Um, Alex and I were, no, we had been talking to him for a little bit. I actually, it was funny. I had gotten in touch with him originally about artists proofs. Like that was how the whole conversation started. And I happened to mention, you know, we got on the topic of mental health and I was mentioning this podcast and he basically was like, wow, that let me check it out. I would love to come on and talk about mental health in the art world and how
00:23:20
Speaker
You know, it's one of those things that I think for a lot of fields, we talk about this, that it's something that, you know, it's just not discussed. You don't talk about your struggles within kind of your job with mental health, right? And he mentioned within the art community, it was still a pretty taboo topic. The pivot that we took, as you mentioned, kind of the survivor of a traumatic kind of life event. And, you know, I'll put notes in the notes to remind us, but he talked about the suicide of a parent.
00:23:51
Speaker
Um, like Alex and I were, I were not, we had no clue that was coming. We didn't know that about his history. We didn't know that it wasn't something that he had added in the show notes. Um, but I think it spoke to when I talked to him later, he felt comfortable and safe talking about it because of what the show has done. And so I just, that, that to me is a member one for that moment to me realized that people feel comfortable to open up sometimes, uh, with us.
00:24:22
Speaker
Yeah, that was a very powerful episode for me as well, but one that I go to a lot that was striking to me, I think, just because it was like, oh, we can kind of do a lot of things.
00:24:38
Speaker
It was fairly early, episode 34, when we looked up the number. It's an episode that, unfortunately, Hobbs was not able to make it. But Joe and I recorded with our friend Rene, who at the time was working for, I believe, the New Hampshire
00:24:55
Speaker
I can't remember which state exactly, it was Delaware, disaster planning. It was Delaware, yep. It was Delaware, okay. But I know since then, Renee is now working for FEMA, the federal level disaster preparedness organization in the US. And that was such a cool episode to me because like I said, we were talking, it was around the time of War of the Spark.
00:25:16
Speaker
It's too bad we didn't get a lot of story about that set, you know, unfortunate that there's just a big void there. But it was it was right before and we kind of knew a little bit of what was going on. And so it was fun to be to take kind of a jokey approach and be like, okay, we're gonna talk about something real in the real world. That's a very, you know, good thing to know and very serious topic.
00:25:38
Speaker
to talk about disaster relief and preparedness and all this. And then we're going to use that and pivot to talk about how should the citizens of Ravnica prepare for, you know, or deal with this zombie apocalypse, the zombie invasion from another planet.
00:25:53
Speaker
And it was just such a fun episode. A, just a fun episode to get to talk to Renee. Renee was one of the editors for the websites that I used to write for. So it was fun to get to kind of work with Renee again in Magic Content Creation in this new sort of place.
00:26:09
Speaker
But it was just fun to kind of take that whole early remit before sort of mental health kind of came became a part of it and was a nice fit for it. But we said this as we're going to talk about real world and we're going to talk about the story and kind of use them to springboard off of each other. And we still do that from time to time today to talk about other topics. But you know, some mental health has become a big.
00:26:30
Speaker
a big focus point, which is great. And some of these other things have become a little more the things that we go to more. We've kind of found a good groove for ourselves there. But early on, it was fun to find some of these other just weird things where I should when I say weird, I mean, just stuff I never would have thought of when we started this cast, when we first started making lists of topics and started trying to work out what are we even going to talk about? Never would have thought, hey, let's talk about disaster preparedness.
00:27:00
Speaker
Um, which that was just such a fun one for me. And that's, I like to point to that one a lot for just some of the stuff that we get to outside of sort of the more normal things that we are work really well with in the cast. But this is kind of a little bit off the beaten trail of what we normally do now.
00:27:21
Speaker
Alex, what's the next question for us? I should have been working on that. But I wasn't. I was busy coming up with that. I'm going to go to this question.
00:27:43
Speaker
I've read this person's name from our Discord all the time, because they're a frequent person in there, and I realize I've never said it out loud. So queer-vid-ule, you think you pronounce it that way? I think it's queer-vid-ule. Like a queer individual. Like a queer individual, yeah. Queer-vid-ule, sorry. Yes.
Life Skills and Personal Realizations
00:28:04
Speaker
The portmanteau sometimes breaks my brain with how to pronounce all of the... Anyway.
00:28:11
Speaker
So what is one piece of knowledge that you'd want everyone to have one thing that you think would benefit everyone from from learning or knowing and Because I'm getting that I'm picking this question. I'm gonna pick what I feel is a fairly open-ended but also low-hanging fruit thing I just
00:28:29
Speaker
cooking. And it doesn't have to be elaborate, ridiculous things. But I think everyone should be able to cook a couple of fairly simple things like in the US, like a grilled cheese sandwich is a really nice easy thing to be able to just if you know how to cook that, you know, you know how to heat up your pan and you kind of can fry some stuff like that is just so valuable to know. And to just be able to cook really, really basic stuff to
00:28:58
Speaker
put stuff on a pan, take stuff off the pan, eat the food. So that's cool. I'm glad you picked this one because I was going to pick this one next, but I'd rather pick a silly one. But I had an answer I wanted to say for this one. It's one of the most profound things I read in my life and has kind of shaped where I am today.
00:29:25
Speaker
If you want to be a woman, you can be. Or purposely, if you want to be a guy, you can be. The idea that cis people don't think about being the other gender, and if you're thinking about that, you might have other questions to ask yourself. If that is something that comes to mind. But the idea that people don't ask themselves constantly what it would be like to be the other gender or another gender.
00:29:51
Speaker
uh, never occurred to me, um, because I just thought that was a normal thing that people think. So if you want to be a girl, you can be. I actually conversely would like to say, think about this stuff. I always always found this to be one of those things. Like this isn't going to be my answer, but I mean, even if you are cis and consider yourself to be, it is good to examine.
00:30:15
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Why? I don't know. Like not to get too deep into it, but you, I think it's important that you've at least asked yourself these questions. Yeah. So I like it. Yeah. Um, something really personal to me. It's, uh, you know, still one of my bookmark tweets was a friend that basically just, you know, said that if you, uh, if you want to be a girl, you can be. And that's changed my life.
00:30:44
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So mine, I guess on the surface sounds easy. I mean, my piece of knowledge, this comes up on the show a lot, is the, it goes back to the do or do not, there is no try. It's that idea to do things or not do things. It's not to get stuck in this pattern of, well, I'm gonna try it, or yeah, I'll see how it works out. It's to just do it. It may not work. And if it doesn't, that's okay, because it goes along with my other piece of knowledge, because I'm cheating,
00:31:13
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tying these together, which is you can ask for help. And I think that that is, to me, out of everything that I've done in my career, that's like the biggest thing is just people being able to actually ask for help. I don't know if there's something about the fact that by the time somebody is willing to do that,
00:31:31
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they're probably already in a good position to hear what you have to say or what help a therapist might be able to offer or might suggest. But I get so many people and I do know that part of this comes with the population I work with also has an additional layer of working with veterans and predominantly male veterans of you don't ask for help. And I think that that is just that one thing that we talked about with
00:31:57
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toxic masculinity episode with looking at kind of Gideon and wow it's hilarious how often well not Gideon sorry we didn't look at Gideon for toxic masculinity that was one of the few we didn't look at Gideon for that was Jace but you know that idea that we just don't ask for help or people in general don't ask for help and it's a weakness and I think that that's something that I would like to break down so my knowledge is ask for help and do or do not because there is no try now
00:32:28
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Queer Vigil did a second part to this. So before we move on to Tay, I know your next one, I want to do this question because I love this question.
Magic Lore and Character Insights
00:32:36
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It's same question, but for your favorite Magic the Gathering character and slash card or card, I like this because what Queer Vigil is asking us to do is to answer as the character. What would the character answer as? And after having us
00:32:52
Speaker
been doing these the the dnd for therapy groups that we've been doing for the last going on two and a half years at the va this is probably my favorite thing is we do a transition question at the start of every group to kind of help people get into their character um to try to answer as if their character would answer and to kind of you know
00:33:14
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play up this this this you know they talk about like the dual relationship between your character and you when it comes to role-playing uh you know a lot of that comes down to like well what information do you have that your character doesn't but i think there's an interesting interplay when you're trying to work with people on learning to separate themselves is that sometimes practicing things as a character or giving information as a character can be a a very powerful way to work on stuff that you might be struggling with yourself
00:33:40
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So with that said, I really liked that queer vigil kind of gave us this two parter. And I'm going to start us off by saying that Mike, the same question for knowledge is for squee. And so Alex, sorry for some more story, if you want to close your ears and hum for a couple of seconds. Because unfortunately, this is very, very relevant and hard for me to miss or skip over. But it's that you have choices.
00:34:04
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So in the most recent story, Squee ended up in the situation where he got to make a decision about his own life. He didn't just keep coming back. Basically, he also made his own decision, which I think is, to me, that point of like, explore what your options are, be flexible in your thinking, because Squee was basically presented with the choice to either, you know,
00:34:31
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go back and be completed and just return to that lifestyle. But sorry, go back. The completion basically be undone and continue to live immortally. Or he could choose to finally die. And he negotiated for the middle ground. And he went for, well, can I make this situation where I get to come back, I'm alive,
00:34:56
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with my immortality gone that I get one more life, a true goblin life. Um, because he, he basically discusses a lot of what he's missed out on in some ways with knowing that he couldn't die. And so I think that just that I did that we have choices. I think that's the knowledge that squee would want you all to have Alex. You can now unplug your ears and stop humming loudly. All right. I'll go in case Alex takes a minute to come back, but I'm going to.
00:35:25
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I'm going to cheat here as well. And I'm going to use a line written by our friend Bivli Vore Ork, which is from Jaya. And Chandra asks about fitting in and realizing you're different. And Jaya's advice is just figure out where you want to be and burn yourself a hole to match.
00:35:55
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Find your own path. Don't expect to fit in. Don't try to fit in. Do what you're going to do and make your own way. And I definitely think that's how Jaya would answer that question. Provide some advice to anybody who is looking for it.
00:36:19
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That's a good one. I don't know that I have a great answer for this, so I have kind of a jokey answer and a second answer that isn't really jokey, but is a good flavor text. It isn't a character that there's a lot of story for, but it's a piece of flavor text I come back to more than any other, so I feel.
00:36:41
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Maybe together, the two of them will account for one real answer. So the joking answer that came to mind while I was trying to think through characters real quick, and a quick like, what is one important piece of knowledge that share with their own? Honestly, it actually dovetails pretty nicely because it was Chandra. And it was probably something to do with most things are combustible if you try hard enough.
00:37:01
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which I think fits the goblin spirit. Also fits some situations that the characters might be finding themselves in right now. But the other one I have is the flavor text from Lyra Dawnbringer from Dominaria, which is simply, you are not alone, you never were.
Goblin Humor and Hypothetical Scenarios
00:37:24
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I come back to that a lot. That line has stuck with me.
00:37:30
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So I think that's a good one to share. I know we're picking all the queer vigils, but I wanted to ask their question, their silly question after a couple of really good serious ones.
00:37:49
Speaker
Um, this is a, the take on the classic, you're stuck on a plane. What planes Walker, um, do you get to rescue you? Question is you're stuck on a plane, which goblin would pilot it and how would you fare? Uh, I'm going to go with musics of the egg magnets because I trust that one, she knows machines and would have the best idea how to pilot and two, she actually values her life enough that she wouldn't just crash the plane for funsies. Uh,
00:38:20
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So I think I want a well-seasoned and qualified goblin to pilot this plane if I'm going to be stuck on it. That's a good answer to that question.
00:38:34
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Alex, you got one or you want me to jump in? Yo, if you have an answer, go and I'll figure one out by then. So I'm actually taking the whole crew that is aboard the Goblin Balloon Brigade because their flavor text is simply, the enemy is getting too close, quick, inflate the toad, and they're on a hot air balloon, which is actually a toad. And so I just think that they'd be really good at flying.
00:39:00
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I think there are a very good crew who knows what they're doing if they're telling you to inflate the toad. Yeah, that was a really good answer. I don't know, I guess for hoping to survive, I guess the next best option I have that I can find hastily is maybe breaches. I don't know that breaches would have any real experience flying a plane, but would certainly
00:39:28
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Having been a pirate on Ixalan, has some experience navigating to some degree. So maybe not good at flying the plane, but possibly good as a second in the cockpit, trying to figure out how to get this thing to not crash somewhere. To not crash. Well, or to crash in the least amount of damage possible, if that's your goal. If that's your goal. It was Taya's goal. Yes. I would like to survive this flight.
00:39:58
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Yeah, so who else we think it really do ready? They're ready. Yeah, slow bad.
00:40:07
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I think slow bed now, not now, but slow bed. We don't, we don't know. Maybe, you know, there isn't, I think he's still quite capable at landing a plane. You just might not want to be on the plane with him. I just would be concerned where the plane would land at that. Then other options where I was, I just rejected out of hand. It's like Togo. No, thank you.
00:40:36
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Come on, Alex, the plane may be Togo's best invention since the rock. Probably the greatest rock he's ever come up with and the final weapon he invented. Right. Yeah, I mean, going back to Squeak, I don't want him flying it.
00:40:53
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You know, he's good. We, you know, we know for sure he's good as a gunner, but as a pilot, I don't think I trust him. Yeah, I don't know. He spent enough time for the weather light. He had to pick up something. He's always consistently underestimated. Yeah, I don't think Hannah liked sharing, though, who wouldn't have had experience necessarily, but might have a set of skills that would be surprisingly useful in the situation is geeky, cheeky, maybe.
00:41:27
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I don't know. Maybe two kiki-jikis could figure something else. Maybe two kiki-jikis.
00:41:37
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Well, if we're going to stick with something like a little, I'm going to go with, uh, Ryan Sullivan's answer just kind of cracked me up. I'm going to first go with the second half, uh, uh, because it was like a two part one to this, which is goblins driven by impulse. So wanting to know if one gobo dropping her pick sacks and mauling another in the middle of a work shift, just because the mood struck would incite an orgy.
00:42:02
Speaker
You know this is fully a question, I just love the imagery. It says, think of the howling among timber wolves in Zootopia. So if any of you have kids and have had to watch Zootopia as many times as I have, it's basically this idea that wolves hear each other howling, they're not able to not. But I like that this is kind of like, I like it's got, the question is would one cause this? Whereas this is not, this is just a statement. I'm pretty sure Ryan just wanted us to have to read something about goblin sexuality.
00:42:30
Speaker
Now, to be fair, the other question was, are there any forms of shared intimacy or is a goblin sexuality defined just by impulse? And the second crude half of that would be, and they're just as likely to hump a rock as a mate. So I would be interested from that to kind of say, well, what does intimacy look like within the goblin world? I think it depends on the plane and the type of goblins you have. Okay.
00:42:58
Speaker
Um, Mercadia, that's going to be, everything's going to be super formal. Like, you know, you need, you need the parents permission to date and you can't, you know, do anything without following all the laws and regulations where on, uh, Ixalan, it's just going to be one big party and they're pretty much plundering and, um,
00:43:25
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plundering and partying all the time. So I think that's just going to be part of it. They're not going to, they're not going to make for life on Ixalan. They're just going to, they're going to have fun and do whatever they want at the time. So now Mercadia has those rules and regulations. Do you think goblins there are still following them though? The goblins are in charge in Mercadia. Like they're larger and smarter, but I mean, they're still,
00:43:49
Speaker
Yeah. And that's, and I get some of the driven by impulse thing is some of it is a goblin thing. Some of it is a, you know, red, but there's a lot of things that sort of fall within red. Like, you know, you have also Oh, oh, my goodness. Now I write a social don't shoulders parents are not a red. You have and there there is
00:44:15
Speaker
I mean, as part of that red is, I think they're rebelling against order, which fits red in the color pie. Some of that is, you know, emotionality, but that isn't necessarily impulse. There's, there's a lot. And ironically, impulse is a blue card. I was just going to make the same comment. Yeah. It's just, it's, it's a, it's a whole thing. I think it probably would be more, more cultural and plain, um, dependent like, like, like Taylor was saying.
00:44:46
Speaker
I think that's a great answer. I'm just trying to think. Yeah, like. Amongst goblins, impulses still tends to be. A primary driving factor, I would. Yeah, I think like Dominarian goblins are very impulsive. Yeah. Where if you go to you go to planes which have more structure, the goblins tend to get a little bit more structure to like goblins on Ravnica very greatly depending on the.
00:45:12
Speaker
guilt they're in, but that's more of their behavior. I don't think it's going to necessarily affect their breeding processes. Obviously, the Rakdos have their own idea of what a good time is.
00:45:28
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You know, it's not gonna that that's gonna be more from being in the Rakdos not because you're a goblin it's gonna be This this fits it with the with like the the plane dependent being the Lorwyn shadow more kind of you know That's where we really get a much better concept of the goblins is like communal Warren based beings that you know, probably are gonna be a little bit more selective about breeding or at least well, I mean it's not gonna just be impulsive like they are forming family units a lot more and
00:45:58
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. I really like the idea of it being plane dependent because we've seen just how different goblins could be. Yeah. And then you've got all the space goblin, space family goblinsons, obviously a family of some kind out in whatever amusement space, whatever space exists outside of the specific amusement park and wherever the folks, the guests who are going there are from.
00:46:27
Speaker
Yeah, wherever that takes place. It's just, yeah. Yeah. Whatever. No longer. Metaphysical questions open in that that set. Yeah. OK, I think we had time for one or two more. I think you're up next, Hobbs. Didn't I just do that sexuality thing? Yeah, you did. That was your question. Sorry. It's OK. Yeah, the one who's I'm losing track here.
00:46:56
Speaker
Um, I think that's me then. Yeah. So I'm going to go with, with Ryan Sainio's and hope that I come up with a good answer halfway through. I just think it's a fun question. Um, in a, you know, hypothetical world with a magic TV show or a magic TV show is created as an anthology series. What are some stories, um, that you'd like to see as season long arcs?
Magic TV Show Ideas
00:47:19
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Um, and I'm trying to think.
00:47:23
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There's some really interesting advocacy. We've got major, major story arcs that have happened in a lot of Magic's histories. They've kind of been trying to tell different stories, but I think something that could be really interesting that might fit as a good season at some point might be
00:47:43
Speaker
like creation of the guild pact something along those lines or maybe something oh yeah before the creation of the guild pact some anarchy about before the creation of the guild pact that'd be pretty awesome yeah and like how did Ravnica become Ravnica sort of thing well and i would love and i don't think there is an actual explanation for it but i would love to see them come up with an explanation for the Nephilim from the original Ravnica set
00:48:08
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or block, which were kind of created as just random filler cards. Yeah, like, fortunately would be better as legendary creatures. But at the time, legendary was a more limiting thing because commander didn't exist. So it's like, ironically, they made them not legendary. So people could run four of them and hope that they would get more play and
00:48:29
Speaker
history has shown that that didn't work. But a wild world to introduce us for color creatures and then not really have a story associated. And that might be something that come I don't know that you start there because people don't care if people are coming to it who don't know anything about Ravnica, that's not going to help. But if you have some sort of Ravnica storylines somewhere along the way, that could be a fun sort of like spin off. It's funny, though, is because
00:48:58
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The Nephilim themselves are like the very definition of a legendary creature. They're the ancient sleeping beings that threaten to come back and wreck the plane. But they're not mechanically legendary. Yeah. And for the first time doing something for color and magic. I know we're getting a little kind of deep in the weeds, but I like this answer, Alex. The formation of the guild plaque.
00:49:25
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Season-long arc, so who knows maybe this is more than one then the Nephilim do come in later like yeah Yeah, I mean and I can't remember the I know there's a there there isn't literally zero But there's not a lot of story there But from what I recall my my idea or my impression of it was that the Nephilim were kind of part of the wild world of Ravnica itself before the guild pack sort of built the guilds and the city and
00:49:51
Speaker
And so that was kind of the existed in sort of the wilds before that. But I don't know that the two overlapped or met at all. Maybe the Nephilim predated it far enough that they didn't actually have any interaction. So my answer for this one is the fall of the Thrawn. I think that would make a really good, you know, high, you know, really good, you know, special effects, sci-fi series and
00:50:22
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You know, you get the birth of the Phryxians, you get all this high level magic.
00:50:29
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Magitek warfare, essentially. Yeah, they really don't understand what magic is. They know that they can make these power stones and then later these soul bombs, but don't actually have any idea of how it works. Yeah. In Dominaria, at least, the Thrawn predate the understanding of mana having colors. Yes. Like that's, I thought that was so cool when I read that book a few years ago.
00:50:57
Speaker
Yeah, so I would like to see that the fall of the throne. Okay, sweet. Mine's pretty easy. It's because it's the biggest cliffhanger that we've had in magic of all time, which is we had these two Ravnica sets that set up this idea that there was going to be a giant war on Ravnica over like the sparks like bullets trying to ascend to godhood. We don't even know where he is because we ended up just getting this like just we moved on like nothing happened. So
00:51:26
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That would be mine is that we'd actually have a war of the let's call it of the spark because I think that would be a kind of a cool concept. Are you sure it would be a war though? Would it be more of a battle? No. I mean, that's the thing, right? Like if we're going to do a season long arc, you wouldn't have this over in like five days, right? Like this would take at least a whole season. Like are you sure it wouldn't take like 16 hours total? Like
00:51:51
Speaker
It seems like a more realistic timeframe for a war of the spark. It's actually like the magic's version of 24 where each episode encompasses one hour of the war of the spark. Yeah. Nice. So yeah, that would be mine. There were a few directions I thought you were going as you started answering, but that was a good one, Bob.
00:52:14
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Well, because the other the other half would be just a like season. I picture in something that it's just like a season in the meditation realm. See, that's where I thought you were going second. The first thing I thought you were going was to talk about the guild list. Oh, yeah. And and then I was like, I understand that that is significant to us. But to call it the greatest cliffhanger was a bit of an embellishment. And then you kept going. I was like, Oh, no, he's going somewhere else like this. Yeah.
00:52:42
Speaker
I don't know, but you bring that up, and I wouldn't mind seeing a Soprano series starring Cranko. See? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. That is exactly what we need to take back the besmirching of Cranko's name. Yep. Hobbs, you and I were throwing out things, and then here it comes with the right answer. Right. It's pretty good.
00:53:10
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Well, we're at like 53 minutes. I mean, we've got some more that we could do, but I think that this was a great mailbag episode. Alex and I, the last time we tried to do this, we didn't really get very many responses. And I think it just speaks to the activity that we've seen on our Discord and just even, we got a couple of answers from Twitter and some questions. But I would say that we put this out and our Discord channel really jumped to the opportunity. And getting to do a mailbag now that
00:53:40
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Taya is here, I think it's just, it was a great use of this week's episode, so.
00:53:46
Speaker
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00:54:13
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00:54:42
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00:55:10
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