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This is Space Cats, Peace

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Turtles, the unofficial podcast or

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Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium Episode

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Three Thirty One: The Twenty

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Twenty Three Holiday Spectacular. Music

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by Ben Prunty featuring Matt

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Martin and Hunter Donald Said.

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Hey to Boy. Were

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all hi are all hop this to. I'm

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wetter than I've been in months.

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Yeah, okay. good hot and wet.

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You know that's good for Kovac

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spreading in. you've never had a

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lot of goods just going everywhere.

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Oh my. Cod communique. Bullets explain.

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I got a podcast. Is this

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weird sneer in it hidden? It's

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happening now. Yeah, so welcome to

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the Twenty Twenty Three Holiday spectacular.

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Another year, another game around the

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holidays with our friends. This

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year. It. We ended quickly as

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good and we a spicy wings all

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day anytime we scored a point we

1:16

had to eat a wing and may

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have a you tells a little bit

1:20

about why. You. Decided that that was

1:23

a good idea, well, there's just there's gotta

1:25

be a hook, and there's gotta be anger

1:27

involved in trying to. The. Holiday Spectacular properly

1:29

cancel. I'm trying to make Hunter regret doing it

1:31

and I just can't. This year I never regretted.

1:33

Yeah, we were a listener. I don't. really. Gradually

1:35

it was great. It was short and and there

1:37

was like a lightning bolt. All I cared about

1:39

was the length of time. And as long as

1:41

they can be short, I really don't Yeah, actually

1:43

still six hours. That. Cannot say

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like reads new here read: congratulations on

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winning an alternate morning hours game. Very

1:50

good idea would be here but six

1:52

hours as fast. That's really fast for

1:54

us. And yeah my first and last

1:56

game of to I ever had our

1:58

our that's crazy definitely. You're gone

2:00

out on top my retiring now. I'll never

2:03

win again. Well I mean yeah, maybe not

2:05

a minute to take five. Just.

2:07

Gimme points to get you there. The well they

2:09

went on game is I had to play the

2:11

Pokemon card. yeah I get it. Every plate opposing

2:13

not we were that you get Connor to give

2:15

you support for the throne for the rag. The

2:18

idea of hard to do such hard to do.

2:20

They. An act of a kind of home

2:22

system. That. Know. So

2:25

we should mention that this is everyone that was

2:27

involved in the holiday. secular except for com and

2:29

modern earlier house a car You want to say

2:31

some. Gonna. Yell

2:33

something. He's we

2:35

be he's asleep. so he he's faking asleep.

2:38

Actually, he's like a little toddler. Know, remember

2:40

when you were a kid he holds our

2:42

knowledge. Ariana, Ah man. I've always. Had.

2:51

No I think he says deepen but

2:53

every year we give ourselves permission to

2:55

on. To not really do an

2:58

episode the other is this is this week's episode

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of You'd if you watch the stream. Ah,

3:02

I hope you had a good time. If you

3:04

have wants to maybe go back and watts it

3:06

will be on duty that on the on your

3:09

also mom with are some dumb thumbnail. Sure that

3:11

I will too far down as fast as I

3:13

possibly can can I want some new. Yeah.

3:15

Yellow me a better view a year earlier

3:17

semi a photo preferably if it's like an

3:19

official work had shot at all. I take

3:21

one now. meet sweating over the microphone from

3:23

the wings asking what's use that? Yeah, maybe

3:26

actually you might be the only one on

3:28

the the thumbnail. Health my does the a

3:30

picture of you? Is it about it? like

3:32

we're a little big white psych over there

3:34

you go actually get like a high quality

3:36

photo? Yeah that's true. not particularly at it.

3:38

A crappy so hard right buyer. I'm used

3:40

to crap that. I mean have you seen

3:42

the fellow that you deserve. To

3:46

be clear, an hour didn't understand the

3:48

prompt i pay for a photo of

3:51

yourself. A simple you understand bit like

3:53

I don't have time to does take

3:55

photos Iberia, an Amazon like nobody's Also,

3:57

I'm not somebody that people are like.

3:59

oh. Gotta take a photo that people

4:01

are just or air into to Really I'm

4:03

always excited about seeing I don't know those

4:06

nobody wants to take a photo of The

4:08

is what I'm saying I did not know

4:10

I tell me that. I think

4:12

a video of you oh though I

4:14

bet it was opened my photo library

4:16

on my phone. There be a lot

4:18

of photos of Aj Israel and restart

4:20

that Oh well that's sweet. Near.

4:23

I'm going anywhere soon. But when the

4:25

Christmas spirit then? Yes! I

4:27

feel good. You feel loved. Mocha.

4:31

Okay let's talk more about the game a

4:33

little bit may I would like to have

4:35

ah added ya feel about the hidden object

4:37

is there were however other for designing part

4:39

of secret little things which I tried to

4:41

have in joke for everybody around that word

4:43

things that have probably sort of happened on

4:45

previous on a spectacular the just things I

4:47

know this group is likely to do and

4:49

those were worth points and they didn't know

4:51

what it would be. yeah I didn't expect

4:53

you all to try to do them you

4:55

all were trying to predict them to get

4:57

the points yes with of the purpose of

4:59

them was. So. I figured

5:01

y'all would avoid scoring points. To.

5:04

Avoid the wings Know I decided there would

5:06

be points that you could not control that

5:08

I would just thrust upon you as needed.

5:10

My ideal and for both of not eating

5:12

the with the wings was no no of

5:14

real When he did go for it every

5:16

window is going to have and so far

5:18

more like ripping off the band Asia A

5:20

yeah for we got done in six hours

5:22

Instead I think if you're. If. I

5:24

could give you any feedback would be to

5:26

just do. Just.

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Do the hottest ones the whole time to

5:31

stitches make a hot only care what well

5:33

I'm I'm honored with the rapper if if

5:35

it's just really hot, horrible wings and the

5:37

whole goal is to not score points. Then.

5:40

It the game will take longer night

5:42

which is bad. Happy. But. You

5:44

would get that result of like oh, I don't want

5:46

to score in if didn't want that result. That was

5:49

just my. That was my patrick to

5:51

try to make sure that that that couldn't

5:53

happen Right by I'm brought taught tasty enough

5:55

hot sauce that. It was, you know,

5:58

only bad. A fifth of the

6:00

time? Yeah, I. I

6:02

really liked the secret objective aspect of I think

6:04

was my favorite parks. Am I feel like the

6:06

audience? Agendas? We didn't really get any good ones.

6:08

We I'm and we were going too fast. We

6:10

didn't get an agenda. Really it for agendas technically

6:12

advanced. Who chases? Yeah well that's why it's so

6:15

on. The game started. I was like. Hey,

6:17

let's try to get somebody on custodians

6:19

And then that was my do it

6:21

on placated engineer area. Three rounds and

6:23

we actually could not get to. That

6:25

the torres thing to the first point there we had

6:27

john and prevented us from wanting to do the estuary

6:30

are some edge of the i was edgy board and

6:32

to their son or Qatar which makes you not want

6:34

to go to make it the right makes you want

6:36

to go somewhere omega the north and that's true. Yeah,

6:39

well, I I wish we'd engineer that,

6:41

But also like I just feel like

6:44

in general audience agendas are tough because

6:46

we get seventy submissions and they're all

6:48

so zany that they could be game

6:51

defining agendas and it's hard to like.

6:53

Tennis. Sift through all of them and

6:55

decide like which are the ones that should

6:58

really sticks. I think next year though you

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know next year I'm going to design the

7:02

holiday spectacular. Me this was maps here to

7:04

ah them are going to switch off now

7:06

man for next year. I'm really like editor

7:09

her. When. Do I get a towel? We're

7:11

going to switch off. So one year it's Matt. One

7:13

year it's me. When you're it's Mat. When.

7:15

You're Cj Know that I cried when you're

7:17

on every five one year. It's that of

7:19

when I read Sean one year it's Matt

7:22

Replay. He peddled the mental babies. We Are

7:24

rules. Yeah, that's the thing is I know

7:26

the second that it's not may or may

7:28

A won't be Twilight Imperium Roadway console with

7:30

so we pretty much only play this game

7:33

because me unmet demand it and there's no

7:35

really other reason to die Was opened A

7:37

not playing this year. That's true. Next year

7:39

who knows, maybe we won't be. I often

7:41

take none of them into no other option.

7:44

A Chris, do you are saving. Be anything

7:46

to add. Ah no, not

7:48

yet. is

7:52

like i hadn't heard chris older than my

7:54

girls get chris cox yeah good well like

7:56

that like kristen schaal know sharing and to

7:58

yeah yeah that's fair that Well,

8:02

so I think we all feel pretty bad. That's

8:04

good. It doesn't help that

8:06

we're eating really spicy stuff and there's extremely

8:08

hot incandescent lights above us. Well at least

8:10

we didn't have cowboy hats to trap in

8:12

heat or anything. Oh yeah, that's true. We

8:14

also had horrible cowboy hats. We had to

8:16

dazzle cowboy hats. Yeah, that's not great. For

8:18

those of you who didn't watch the game

8:20

and needed a reason, they matched the color

8:22

of the pieces that we used. So

8:25

it was kind of fun. We also had matching glasses. That's

8:29

cool. That was part of the game. I

8:31

will say I do wish that we had

8:33

all given our support for the Thrones to

8:36

E.J. and it ended in Carolina Reaper style.

8:40

I mean, I don't actually think I

8:42

would have made it out of this

8:44

studio alive. No, probably not. We

8:46

could try it now. No. We

8:49

could actually, you know, for the podcast, just

8:51

eat a bunch of Carolina Reapers. I'm okay.

8:53

That'd make for good context. We'd chew into

8:55

the mic and then all just put the

8:58

mic down and sweat. It's kind of an

9:00

auditory-only mukbang. That's

9:03

what that's called, right? I don't know. I

9:05

think we've got to find another painful

9:07

physical activity to do that's not wings,

9:09

guys. What could

9:11

that be? Hot ones already exist, baby. Well,

9:14

no, I know. What's your hot ones, you know?

9:16

Yeah, well, I mean, part of the pain is

9:18

just the playing of Twilight Imperium. Yeah, with people

9:20

who don't, you know, want to play

9:23

or play very often. Yeah. Well,

9:25

what about, let's say that every time you score

9:27

a point, you've got to smoke something. You

9:30

don't know what it is. Oh, Matt's going to

9:32

just, like, smoke for the first time. Yeah, Matt's

9:34

going to smoke. Yeah. So we don't

9:36

say what it is and it could be all kinds of

9:38

stuff. All kinds of stuff. Tobacco, crack. This

9:45

is just one or the other. Very

9:48

expensive. It was a very

9:50

expensive holiday. Oh, dear. But

9:53

yeah, I think you're right. I think we

9:55

could do something more painful. I

9:58

like it last years in class. of the

10:00

weird microphones. Oh yeah,

10:02

I forgot about that. Somebody did not, I don't know who owned

10:05

those and who brought them. Those were mine. I

10:07

wish we'd brought them this year. I think we just

10:09

need more props. I think that is... There

10:11

doesn't less pain next year, more props. Was there

10:13

pain last year? Have you done a pain aspect

10:15

before? No. This was the first year with pain.

10:18

Next year though, wouldn't it be cool if every time you score

10:20

a point, I break one of your fingers? Yeah. Rip your finger

10:22

now. I was gonna

10:24

say, don't we just attach a car battery to

10:27

some nipple? Ooh, dog collars. Is

10:29

that what we do? We could do dog collars. Yeah, like

10:31

shot collars. Shot a kid away from next year for

10:33

sure. And that sets up a big perimeter. No,

10:36

we all have dog collars and the

10:38

chat controls them. No! Oh,

10:41

dude. No, they'll shot Connor to

10:43

death. Okay, here's the

10:45

way to elevate this idea. We have

10:47

a big... The

10:50

board is human size. Imagine

10:52

an infantry is able to be a

10:54

person, right? We're playing in a massive

10:57

space. Cars are the... And we have

10:59

cars. And we have cars. You have to drive a car.

11:02

Okay. Sean and Matt are so good. But

11:05

we... Yes, and partners. But we...

11:08

Yes, and cars. But

11:10

within the heck's that? I've been listening to what Matt

11:12

is saying. Just jump. Yes, cars though?

11:15

What about cars? But in

11:17

certain borders between systems, there are shot

11:19

collars, or the perimeters

11:21

for shot collars, and we're all wearing

11:24

shot collars. So we're just trying to

11:26

move to certain territories, cause of shot

11:28

collardom. I like that. What if though

11:30

you were all... It's not that. What

11:32

if not that? What if you're all

11:34

hooked up intravenously to something, and you

11:37

don't know what it is? And

11:39

every time you score a point, I

11:42

attach something different to your bloodstream. A

11:45

little different thing kind of comes in.

11:48

And sometimes it's

11:50

Carolina Reaper. Yeah. Oh,

11:53

so we're getting IVs. Yeah, I'm talking

11:55

IVs. I'm talking hot

11:57

sauce. But your car's died. And

12:00

just combine it all morphine drip is what

12:02

I'm saying. I want to go back to

12:04

the cars Oh, okay, let's talk about

12:06

a car idea. What do you got? Maybe

12:08

we do it while we're driving Carpool

12:11

karaoke That

12:13

it's carpool twilight and period Carolina Reaper so

12:16

I'm gonna rip somebody else right yeah, you

12:18

really have I have an acupuncture mat at

12:20

my House whoa, and I think it's sharp.

12:22

I mean yeah that could be a good

12:25

acupuncture yeah, so You

12:28

have to roll a die for which body part

12:30

you got to put on there, okay? Cuz nothing

12:32

will happen, so it's all fine. Okay. Well, but

12:34

it will hurt though You don't

12:36

challenge the painfulness of acupuncturist Yeah,

12:40

especially when you get right like right when you get on

12:42

it. I think you just get the needles Oh, we

12:45

just do acupunct don't even eat the man get an

12:47

acupuncture is and by the end of the game We're

12:49

all just like pinhead setting

12:52

up the table I

12:56

Yeah We

13:19

have a so doesn't matter it gets like 14

13:21

viewers a year Yeah, if this

13:23

is a break is all it is It's

13:25

just a break for me and Matt and

13:27

we deserve one. Hey, how

13:29

did hey, let's talk Let's this is a little

13:31

bit of business. I guess because

13:34

it doesn't involve everybody but Had

13:37

right the year actually just how was

13:39

your year? Everybody not even just

13:41

in space cat. Are you like doing like a scale

13:44

of one to say? How was 2023? Was

13:46

it a good year? Was it it was like a weird?

13:48

We've been on a trajectory for a long time where

13:51

like the thing Everybody says and they like

13:53

have it with like us kind of like

13:55

a jokey But like snide voice is like

13:57

huh bad year like since 2016 Yeah,

14:00

everybody's joke is just like every year is

14:02

worse than the last right year was really

14:04

bad. Sure Yeah, but don't say it like

14:06

it's a joke. You know what I mean?

14:08

I had a really easy to win either

14:10

what happened? Yeah, I was in the emergency

14:13

room like five. Yeah I

14:15

had last year. I got last year December.

14:17

It was right after the holiday spectacular last

14:20

year I got diagnosed with a long COVID.

14:22

Hell yeah, and It

14:24

affected my life in a really terrible way

14:27

throughout this entire year Point

14:29

where I thought I was gonna die had a

14:31

surgery a major surgery this year and had an

14:33

organ removed and the surgeon just Aided right there

14:35

in front of me. That was pretty interesting And

14:42

then you were like, you know what I'm gonna level

14:44

audio Very

14:46

real-life stuff, but actually is this still silly

14:50

Silly, I'm okay to joke about it.

14:52

I also got diagnosed with crippling anxiety.

14:54

So that's pretty good crippling. That's a

14:56

medical word I

14:58

went to the doctor and I was like, hey here

15:00

are all my symptoms and I've been googling them and

15:02

it says I have Lou Gehrig's Slowly,

15:14

you know, yeah all thing in

15:16

the world. So that's good. That is good. So

15:19

anyways, I'm here now. I'm feeling okay That's

15:22

good. It's great. So hopefully 2024 is a little

15:24

bit better. I don't want to eat any more

15:26

Halloween You look great. You look great. No more

15:28

major 55

15:31

pounds 55 burgers How

15:40

was your year how was your year Connor was

15:42

your year Connor very good Okay, Connor might actually

15:45

be asleep now. Yeah, and

15:47

also I do think Connor did have a very good year I

15:49

think I could talk about Connors ear Connor

15:52

was around, you know a lot just you know

15:54

out in the world, you know out and about

15:57

I did do a lot this hundred a lot this year I'm

16:00

afraid do you just sleep on the couch? I

16:02

just want to say for the record because I

16:04

feel like the holiday spectacular people don't get enough

16:06

of this Uh-huh Connor is actually really cool. Yeah,

16:09

and What

16:11

are your two favorite things about honor? Yeah, you're right my

16:13

favorite things about Connor. Yeah, top two Let's

16:16

go around the room. I love Connor's like

16:19

Bad boy smile, you know that like kind of

16:21

like smirky smile That that

16:23

Connor's got I love that anytime Connor's doing

16:25

that I dig it and also I like

16:27

I like I Like

16:30

how I can never predict what Connor's gonna say about

16:32

a movie ever. It's just

16:34

never impossible to anticipate

16:36

where it's like I feel like even probably people

16:38

that listen to the show that hear me have

16:41

opinions probably can perfectly predict exactly how I'm gonna

16:43

respond to whatever, you know, and I'm fine with

16:45

that like I'm in my lane or whatever But

16:47

I never know what Connor's gonna think about anything

16:49

and it's fun To listen to someone

16:52

talk about something where you have no idea what their

16:54

direction they're about to go. Mm-hmm. And that's great How

16:57

was your year Hunter my year? Yeah well

17:01

Maybe this is a joint question for Sean Hunter as

17:03

roommates. How was the year as roommates? Oh, we're

17:06

roommates Um, I think

17:08

we did great. I think we did better

17:10

this year than we did last year roommate wise Why

17:13

do you think what I feel like last

17:15

year? I would well, okay Just from

17:17

my own perspective last year I was just kind

17:19

of freaked out by being in New York City

17:21

for like maybe the first half of the year

17:24

I was you know, I was coming off like a

17:26

very weird time and New

17:29

York is overwhelming. It's also loud Somewhat

17:31

obnoxious I would even say it can

17:34

be and I did not deal with that well

17:37

and I felt like I didn't really

17:39

do a lot that first year

17:41

and it's only It's

17:44

only in 2023 that I actually have things that

17:46

I can say that I really dig about New

17:48

York Which is sad for me now

17:50

going into the next year, but that's for next year.

17:52

This is a this year conversation Yeah, we'll keep it

17:54

to this year. Yeah. How did you feel? Uh,

17:57

I Don't really remember a lot

17:59

of the beginning of this year like how

18:01

did this year start so I remember

18:04

so I my year started

18:08

and I did I tried to do a stream

18:11

where I played like every Dreamcast game and I

18:13

streamed for like almost 24 hours I remember it

18:15

was really dumb I got to like the H's

18:17

yeah and it was like well that's this is

18:20

it there's been there were some gyms in there

18:22

there was some some fun times than that I

18:24

still have all that recorded and I think about

18:26

editing at some time but so it

18:29

was just a lot it was a great

18:31

year for us sitting in the

18:33

living room and having good combos that's

18:35

true a little long mm-hmm long

18:38

long night intentional conversation just do one

18:41

right now then we are

18:43

doing one just keep we'll get really intentional about it

18:45

you know we are being intentional yeah we'll get there

18:48

yeah don't you get don't force it

18:51

mmm strike

18:54

that strike the question

18:56

and strike any laughter that no

18:58

no I'd like to keep my laughter and I

19:01

was okay keep you days laughter but no context

19:03

after for no reason got it

19:05

laughter please no editor laughter for no

19:07

reason please I wish I knew the

19:09

address of the Empire State Building

19:11

that would be funny really funny or

19:13

it's happy you think that do you

19:15

think the Statue of Liberty has an

19:17

address well can

19:20

you then something in the mail to the Statue

19:22

of Liberty would you need to I feel like

19:24

you maybe would are

19:26

you sure yeah who's there a big

19:29

lady's there big

19:31

lady's there yeah she's holding up the well there's

19:33

people that weren't there and they might need stuff

19:35

shipped to them to the

19:37

Statue of Liberty you

19:49

space cats p-circles is still proudly sponsored

19:51

by leader games and as 2023 comes

19:55

to a close leader games just wanted to

19:57

wish everyone a happy end of year and

19:59

thank Let's

22:00

get docked. If we can, yeah, I'd like to get

22:02

swatted a few times. Let's get docked. I

22:05

wanna know how Chris's year's been. Yeah,

22:07

Chris, how's your year been, bud? Tell

22:09

us. Oh, can't complain, Sean. I

22:15

think he laughed too hard. I

22:18

wasn't expecting him to say Sean. Like

22:21

cutting back to the news. We're

22:25

covering the Olympics. Sean, it's the

22:27

weather. Oh, man.

22:29

Was that it? We did 20

22:31

minutes? You said how your year was, Matt. Yeah,

22:34

Matt. It was great. Do you want to elaborate

22:36

on that? I

22:39

was in my house the whole time and pretty

22:41

soon I'm not gonna be in that house anymore.

22:44

That's cool. I got fun news. Not sharing it

22:46

yet, but I got... None of your business was

22:48

here. Stupid business. None of your business. I'm also

22:50

never gonna have to go in that house. Yeah,

22:52

me neither. I'm not going in that house. No

22:55

one's going back in my house every year. The

22:57

yard was too big. Can we

22:59

say that? I have a dog. It was

23:01

too downhill. It was just kind of big. I would

23:03

just be out here and be like, this yard is

23:05

big. People

23:07

love big yards, right? I need to mow it, you know?

23:11

No, there's not a criticism. I

23:13

want to mow the big yard. I want

23:15

to mow the big yard. Oh, you're saying you like

23:17

mowing the big yard. Yeah, that's podcast and loan time

23:19

for Matt. But it's just like sometimes

23:21

I would go out there and be like, if it

23:24

was smaller, it would be cuter. And

23:27

it's like I want it to be like a little Kawaii yard.

23:30

No, no. Oh, weird. That

23:32

was super weird. Sorry, what was Kisa that against?

23:34

A Kawaii yard. I just wanted to say it. And in

23:36

a green bedazzled cowboy hat, no less. Yeah, that really worked

23:38

for me. I want it to be little. The

23:41

most cowboy bee buffing I've ever seen. Yeah,

23:44

this is the most cowboy bee buff thing of all

23:46

time. Well, that's good. And I'm glad that

23:48

you spent all your year inside. The

23:50

whole year inside, never went outside well. You did do a trip. You

23:53

went to London. London. That was last

23:55

year. Good job. Good job. You

23:58

were close. You were close. It

24:00

was like a year ago? Yeah, that was October

24:02

20th. You only missed it by one though. Oh,

24:04

Jesus. I do remember that too

24:06

when you were gone. Yeah, you should do

24:08

another one of those. Yeah, you should leave. Sounds

24:10

like now I get to go to London once

24:12

a year. Yeah, hey. Hey,

24:16

good shot over here. You should.

24:19

Big shot for the London town. I

24:22

told my dad about all this. He's like, you gotta get

24:25

a passport. I was like, I don't have one. I was

24:27

like, I don't know if I actually need one. Why do

24:29

you wait? Why would you? Because

24:31

I'm going to London every year. Okay.

24:35

You'll need a passport for that. Do

24:37

you guys know? This

24:39

is something just so you know, you do have to

24:41

have your passport for like six months or like three

24:43

months or something. Yeah. If you

24:45

want to go anywhere, you gotta get one. You

24:48

should get one. I have to get one, but

24:50

I, my passport got stolen and I haven't gotten

24:52

it replaced and I got stolen before the

24:54

pandemic. Where did it get stolen? It

24:57

was in a backpack of mine that got

24:59

stolen. Yeah. Yeah. You can't

25:01

leave backpacks anywhere. No, it was, it was all on

25:04

me. I just had, I'd spaced on it and there

25:06

you go. Smash and grab. You

25:08

got smash and grab. Did we say

25:10

anything about Twilight Imperium this year? No, but

25:12

okay. We did. Oh, this year in

25:15

Twilight Imperium, who won the tournament? Who won

25:17

the tournament this year? It

25:19

was DeSuga. DeSuga won

25:21

the tournament. Right. Congratulations to DeSuga.

25:23

I want to go night and night for

25:26

a bit. Wait, did Mantis win? No.

25:29

Mantis did not win the tournament. Mantis

25:31

won. Mantis did not win the tournament.

25:33

Mantis won. Okay, Mantis. Mantis. Okay,

25:36

Mantis. Mantis. Hey,

25:38

Mantis. Hey, Mantis. Mantis, how

25:40

was your year? How are you feeling?

25:42

How do you feel? Hunter said confidently that you had a

25:45

good year. Yeah. That was Connor, everybody. Connor.

25:47

Best year. Best year.

25:50

Yeah. All right. Mantis

25:53

won the tournament. It's

25:55

funny that when we do

25:58

this with y'all, like when We're

26:00

not recording. There's so much

26:02

crosstalk just between us as

26:04

people and that we turn these

26:06

microphones on. I should have made everybody hold a

26:08

microphone in their hand all day is the trick.

26:10

Yeah. Holiday spectacular. I've also never been on a podcast

26:12

before so I don't know what to

26:15

do at all. Oh, I think you're doing great.

26:17

Yeah, it's not a good thing to do. It's

26:19

actually a lot easier than people think. Am I

26:21

holding my hands right? Oh yeah. In

26:24

fact, what you're doing right there, real

26:26

good. Happier and with your mouth open. Please.

26:29

Perfect. Inspirational. This feels good.

26:32

I think that it's good synergy

26:34

or no, not synergy, good

26:37

symmetry that

26:41

we had our first holiday spectacular ended

26:43

with Connor misunderstanding a

26:45

card and accidentally giving the win to

26:47

another player. And that where we've gotten

26:49

to over the years of playing and

26:51

Connor has improved and understood

26:54

Twilight Imperium better and better that now

26:56

we're at a point where Connor can give

26:58

another player the win. On purpose and

27:00

not having to do with the misunderstanding. And

27:03

that's Connor pissing on

27:06

the floor. Do you

27:08

guys have any listeners that have that thing where if

27:10

they hear like food or like

27:13

yeah, we probably do. Well,

27:16

I mean, we literally ate wings all day. So

27:18

we, I mean, we've kind of already committed that

27:20

then. Yeah. Let's put a warning for food and

27:22

drink or whatever it's called. It means actually

27:24

the tricks are all this is supposed to be an episode.

27:26

I don't really have to edit very much. And you all

27:28

have made this one. I really got to add. Oh, that's

27:30

true. Look at all those marks. I've only docs just like

27:32

four times. That's not bad. Yeah.

27:35

The Statue of Liberty doesn't

27:37

have an ad, but I

27:39

do and it's I

27:41

love you all. Bye. Bye. Been

27:50

holding that one. I know we can't end it.

28:05

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28:08

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28:10

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28:12

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28:20

Magnifica, Bellum Laureosum.