WEBVTT - Nerdy Board Games Rock #005 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.239 Welcome to How to Money. I'm Joel and I'm Matt, 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:18.440 and today we're talking about nerdy board games. That's right. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.800 Today we're talking about nerdy board games. Matt and I 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.200 like to play board games that take a long time, 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:26.400 a lot of rules. I feel like for most folks 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.520 that's the definition of a nerdy board game. They're like, 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.000 how long is this gonna take? And ours can be 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.839 up to four hours, oh my gosh, usually in the 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:36.760 two hour range. I would say an hour to two 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.080 hour range. But we feel like my sweet spot now 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.160 is like forty five minutes to an hour and a half, yes, 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.320 with you know, with the kids or just other things 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.200 that I've got I've got going on. I can't it's 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.320 hard to spend four hours playing a game. No, it's true. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.280 So I've got another set of friends that I play with. Yeah, 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.280 and you don't usually play with those dudes. You're taking 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.800 it to a whole another level. And we we game 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.320 really hard. Um, but sometimes we'll get together and and 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.360 play and play with our wives and stuff like that too. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.760 And I like to play with my wife. We play 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.959 board games, and so we want to talk all about 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.080 why we think they're important, Why we think why they're fun, 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.399 what they teach us, and how they actually end up 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.240 saving us money. So nerdy board games are actually kind 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:18.680 of one of those. It's kind of got a lot 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.959 of that yeah built in and it's one of those 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.319 small spokes in the wheel that we love. I like it. Yeah, Yeah. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.400 And so the last episode we we dove into investment 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.480 properties and said this one we decided to kind of 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.600 steer more towards something a little lighter. So if you're 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.560 not like ready to drop thirty grand on a down 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.440 payment on a rental property, that's cool. You can drop 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.720 thirty bucks on a nerdy board game and have hours 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.840 and hours and hours of fun gameplay. Yeah. Every week though, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.640 we we crack open a beer up or as and 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.440 we pour a beer so poor not poor, and Joel 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.080 has a fantastic beer for us tonight. So Matt, we 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.000 got lucky to find this one. I've only had I've 0:01:58.000 --> 0:01:59.680 had this beer one time in my life. You've never had, 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.080 ever had it. I'm super stoked. I'm really excited to 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.280 share it with you. I legitimately would consider this beer 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.240 top five beers I've ever had in my life. And 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.519 and I've definitely had upboards of beers in my life. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.560 So this one, this one is one of those crown jewels. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.960 Have you really had that? Man? Oh yeah, easy, dude, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.600 look at my untapped different beers. And by the way, 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.400 if you want to follow us on tapped, go to 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.280 poor not Poor dot com and you can you can 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.520 follow that because and I haven't logged all of them, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.799 but I know from basically what I've logged, and then 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.360 what other beers I've had that I don't log and 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.560 I don't know honestly what my count is, but I 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.320 think I don't have that. Man, Actually, I know I 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.640 don't have that many. That's that seems like a huge number. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.200 But like, so think about it. I went to the 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.639 Shelton Brothers Beer Festival and I probably tasted oh that's true, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.639 forty beers in one day, right, And there's like beer 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.240 festivals like that where it adds up, it adds up. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.560 So yeah, and I get around you drink a beer 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.840 a lot. Oh wait, So I don't even think I 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.600 said the name yet. Okay, So the name of the 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:04.160 beer we're drinking today is Wicked Weed Golden Angel. It's 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.280 a barrel aged American sour ale with Apricots. It's got 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.359 that fruited sour again. Man, that's that's a good it's 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.880 a good style. And so this beer is super hard 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:18.840 to come by. Although now that Budweiser acquired Wicked Weed, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.160 they on Black Friday put out some of these beers 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.480 in markets around the country where they where they distribute. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.920 And I was lucky enough to get my hands on 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.920 a Golden Angel from you guys up on Peachtree. Yeah. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.360 So I got the same shot with my my peeps 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.160 of peach Tree package. They they're they're super kind and 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.520 save me good beers from time to time. Treat you right, 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.440 and they do. And this one, I'm so glad they 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.120 saved it for me. I'm super pumped. So let me 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.440 open it now and we'll do. Kate and I went 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.120 up to the funcatori um up in Asheville, and I 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.720 know I've had the Red Angel and I've had Black Angel. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:53.640 I don't know which ones of those I've had. I 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.880 swear I've had one more Angel because the Angels like 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.800 a series. It's like some of their better beer. They 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:03.720 have a framboot mort which is there like a raspberry 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.640 Belgian style raspberry. I think spontaneously for mented beer. That's 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.600 super fantastic. Not surprisingly, this is pouring a beautiful golden 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.360 I'm glad it looks so good and I hope it 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:19.480 tastes that good because this bottle, it was twenty and 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.680 that's a lot. We like it beca This isn't a 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.720 huge bottle. This isn't one of those seven fifties. This 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:29.640 is I believe. So we're each getting probably roughly so 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.160 one point one point point nine ounce eight and a 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:38.279 half ounces each. They use one pound of whole fresh 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.880 apricots per gallon. That's a lot of fruit. Yeah, So 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.240 you can go online. The episode post will have the 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.000 picture up of the bottle there you can see that 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.320 and the end of the beer in the glass, so 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.120 you can take a look and Golden Angel is. Well, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.200 let's let's take a take a taste and then we'll 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.599 get into the major tasting notes after after we finished 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.680 talking about nerdy board games. Oh man, that is like 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:08.160 perfectly balanced. Oh man, it's my Is that is that annoying? 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.640 Is that? Like? My? It's my my tasting catch phrase 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.840 catch line. One of these days we're gonna put t 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.240 shirts with your face on it, and it's just saying 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:20.320 oh man, oh man, this is so well balanced between 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.279 the I mean you've got that's that's heart tartness with 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:28.120 the sweetness from the apricot. Really nice like carbonation to 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.720 it as well. Feels Yeah, it feels great in your mouth. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.840 It's not not too thick and surrupy. It's kind of 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.640 it's still bright. It's almost got like a slight champagne 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.600 like quality to this. Yeah. Absolutely, all right. We'll get 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.679 into the specifics at the very end of tasting notes 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.600 for Golden Angel from Wicked Weed. Man, thanks for going 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.800 on and Graham, now that's great. I'm glad we get 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.880 to taste beers like this. If you don't know, that's 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.279 what we do, man, poor, not poor. We're all about 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.000 pooring a good beer and a living of rich life 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.080 and drinking Golden Angel. Man, I mean that's where that 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.279 and okay, speaking of rich life, what do we do today, Matt? 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.600 That was awesome? Yeah, we uh spent some time riding around. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.600 We got loaded the girls up and went to a 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.800 local brewery. Right, it has been terrible here in Atlanta 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.920 as far as weather is concerned, and so being able 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.920 to get out in shorts and hop on the bikes 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.839 get the blood flowing or in your case, georgs, hey, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.320 you know, do we haven't pick it that we can 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.159 post on the website. I hope everyone wants to see 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.960 what is man. You know, what his face looks like 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.920 from the podcast artwork. But fine, if you you know, 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.400 you get to see my shorts, my short shorts. But 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.000 everyone else wants to know what your chicken legs look like, George. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.159 If they want to see that, that's that's fine. We 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.320 might throw that up there then, all right, maybe for 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.000 your viewing pleasure, keep checking back, check the website. I 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.159 don't care. Sometimes you just want to just throwing some 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.960 shorts on. And that's just what's at the top of 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.920 my top of the drawer. That's what I had. There's 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.040 paint all over. Those are those, I mean, they're work shorts, 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:02.360 thrilled jeans. And I cut him, trimmed him down into shorts, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.680 and now that's just what I wear sometimes in public. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.960 They look fantastic. I was proud of you boring them. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.640 And so we had a just a wonderful ride, just 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.680 a few miles each way, and Tocal Brewery gets to order. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.560 A couple of beers hang out outside in the sunlight. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.040 The girls are having a blast room, meeting neighbors that 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.800 we've never met before, seeing old friends, seeing old friends 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:27.240 as well, catching up unplanned. That is that's life. I mean, 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.560 if I could do that every every weekend, agreed, Yep, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.240 I think that's that's my idea of a perfect weekend. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.120 And so I'm so glad that we got to We 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.559 get to do that, have a lot of fun riding bikes. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.520 And our buddy got he came along with us as well. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:44.040 And he actually he's got a podcast, poem cast poem cast, 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.320 So if you are into or into lungs and how 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.560 they work function, check out his everything pulmonary related. You're 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.680 gonna want to check out poem cast. Yeah, that's something 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.000 he puts on there at at his hospital. But he's 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.320 the man, some of the guys. Yeah, inspiring. Great dude. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.880 Also shares our affinity to bikes and beer, so he 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.400 and podcasting came along. Yeah, the trifecta. So that's what 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.120 we were up to today. Uh, and feel free to 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:12.640 if you guys were not on your bikes, and he 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.920 took awesome pictures tweet us not poor Joel, not poor 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.920 Matt on Twitter and uh and let's see what you 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.040 were up to. And if you pull off George better 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.400 than Matt, feel free to tweet us those two those pictures. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.360 I want to point out to you that I mean, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.000 there's somewhat ironic George's It's not like I'm I didn't 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.000 grew up in Florida, not at all. It's totally Yeah. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.160 Any guy in Florida wearing them, that's that's straight up. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:35.960 He thinks it looks good. Yeah, oh yeah, he's all 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.199 about it. I wanted to mention to you earlier mentioned 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.280 untapped our accounts. If you get the content our contact 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.200 page on our website at poor not Poor dot com. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.439 There there there's links up there to everything we've got. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.719 We've got our page up on Facebook, We've got a 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.200 group up on Facebook, we've got our profiles on untapped, 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.199 in our Twitter accounts, on our Instagram, so everything is 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.240 up there if you're kind of wondering where where to 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.040 find us. And and by the way, we're about to 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.040 get into the subject and hey, in we're talking nerdy 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.280 board games today on the podcast. If you want some 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.680 more meaty material, the last podcast was about investment properties. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:10.360 Feel free to go check that out. And we just 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.000 posted an article too about how to save money on insurance. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.000 So there are a bunch of ideas about how I 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.200 think you can save literally hundreds of dollars a year. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.920 That you know that Geico commercial of saving fifteen minutes, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.960 Well really, I really think that reading through this thing 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.160 and using some of these strategies can easily help save 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.720 you hundreds of dollars a year on car and home insurance. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.920 So so check that check that article out if you 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.240 get a minute. That's good stuff. Actually, I just thought 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.880 of something from the brewery from even Tide. Yeah, I 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.079 was paying with cash. Oh yeah, that's weird. The only 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.199 reason I had cash in my wall is because it's right. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:44.800 I mean it's not ra after Christmas, but i still 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.280 have Christmas money from from family, and I've got a 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.280 birthday in December as well. I don't ever use cash though, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.880 I just I just never think about it. I forgot 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.839 how to even use cash because the girls like, do 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.800 you want to pay now or start a tab? I 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.560 was just like, well, I've got I've got cash. Do 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.880 I turn this into tokens to then pay you with? 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.080 I don't know. So I mean my entire life literally 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.760 literally starting in high school. I started using a credit 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:10.959 card and I, you know, I keep up with it 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.079 and pay it off. You know how I am. I'm 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.680 a nerd. Yeah, I tracked all that I want to 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.160 tell you, and you would you would be so happy. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.959 Emily and I talked about our budget right before we 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.040 came over here tonight. So yeah, we sat down and 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.079 went through heck. Yeah, man, we got the spreadsheet out. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.800 I'm very proud of you. Yeah, we're killing it. I 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.480 mean yeah, when was the last time you paid cash 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.160 for for something? Especially, I mean even beer. It almost 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.760 never happens. And but I had the same experience actually 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.920 today using cash, but only because I've been selling things 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.320 on the Facebook yard sales site. So I've been saying, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.440 like decluttering, getting rid of some things, making some extra cash, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.440 I'll pay you in cash on there usually or or 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.240 Venmo whatever, then more the cash Appum. Yeah, I much 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.240 prefer that totally. I love those things. But why do 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.600 you seem so dirty? Yeah? It kind of wet and 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.960 germs all over. I'd much rather you pay me digitally, 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.880 did you? Yeah? Did you pay for your beers with cash? 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.560 I did today because about because people have been paying 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.280 me and but again it was it is this weird 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.920 thing that I'm almost never paying and I like never 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.760 have cash in my wallet for any reason. So these 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.760 guys are probably like, what are these guys doing rolling 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.120 up with bills in their pocket pockets George and cash. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.600 These guys must be drug dealers. These guys are from 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:22.800 like the nineties. These are guys from Florida in the nineties. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.760 I think it felt different, and I know, like you 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.000 read that how you know, it feels different when you're 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.240 actually spending money. But what I liked about it was 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.520 that I didn't have to sign it. I mean, I 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.520 just gave the money and it was close enough and 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.920 I could I just walked away. Yeah, you know, yeah, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.480 it felt kind of cool being able to do that 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.320 and not like sign something the receipt. You know, it's 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.000 easier when they use like the iPad thing and they 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.880 flip it around for you to sign it with your finger. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.439 That's nice and quick. Yeah I dig that. So okay, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.880 we both used cash today randomly who knows, and it 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.920 almost never happens. Okay, So last episode we talked about 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.760 what I do for a living, right, and but we 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.040 when we need to talk about you a little bit too. Um, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:05.640 do you want to tell folks what you do for 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.200 for a nine of five? Grave Digger? Yeah, that's where 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.880 you get all that, is it? Grave Robber? Is that 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.719 what you steal all these? Oh yeah, then that'd be 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.720 that'd be a different ooculation. I can do both at 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.720 the same time though, So uh no, I work in radio. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.640 So my my boss. If you're interested in other podcasts 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.960 about money. His name is Clark Howard and he has 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:32.719 been hosting a consumer advice radio show for thirty years now, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.560 the original podcast Radio. And you can find him on 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.920 podcast too, so he's usually high up there in the 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.240 business section rankings. And uh he's also been podcasting for 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.600 twelve years, so he's been doing the podcast thing for 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.320 longer than most people have been at it. And so yeah, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.640 we're newbies here, but if you and Clark, well you 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.160 can call us news. But you're the one that's got 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.280 I mean you've been doing You've been in radio for 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.240 so I wasted ten years now, right, yet I've been 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.240 I've worked with Clark for eleven so I've been radio 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.560 up a little bit longer than that. That's awesome. And 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.520 so yeah, I love what we talk about. I love 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.040 the medium of being able to talk to people long 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.640 form and and help them too. I think that's actually 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.320 literally the coolest thing about my job is we help 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.040 people every day. Yeah, people call in, they ask questions, 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.600 They get help with their finances, with money issues, with 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.040 you know, buying a house, saving for college. I mean 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.719 all sorts of stuff, right, he feels all sorts of 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.000 questionge variety of questions. So it's really really fun to 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:33.240 get to work on that every day and get to 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:37.280 help people. And so I just inspired me. Like, you know, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.520 I've got a similar philosophy in a lot of ways 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.720 to Clark, but we also live life a lot differently. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.959 And so Matt and I love bearing talking about money, 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.520 and uh so we're gonna use this platform on poor 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.720 not poor, hopefully to do something similar and reach a 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.360 different audience. Eleven years of talking on the radio, man, 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.320 that's why everyone was wondering why Joel has that silky 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.160 smooth voice. Well that's that's why it's true. Yeah, it 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.079 just gets better. You know, as you talk more on 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.240 the radio, your voice just turns into pure gold. And 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.600 uh that's a good thing. Is that? Why might sounds 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.720 like crap? You'll get there buddy, you'll get there, you know, 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.480 whereas Evan spent in ten years not talking to people 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.559 and just looking at looking at pictures, looking at a 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.959 computer screen, have to learn how to talk again. Yep, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.720 you're you're doing great, You're doing great. Sweet. All right, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.440 let's get into the subject at hand. It's board games. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.520 We're to talk about why we love them, and the 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.880 first reason because they're fun. Yeah, instead of sitting around 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.920 and watching TV or playing games even online, just the 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.400 different video games that folks are doing. I listened to 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.200 some soccer podcasts and they all they talk about it 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.760 on the show, how they get together not in real 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.520 life but through through the different and they play each other, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.320 they play you know, in FIFA whatever, and still like, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.240 that's fun and that's great that you're actually playing against 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.320 someone else and not a computer. However, it's just not 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:58.080 the same as the true, you know, in person hanging out, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:02.560 when you're talking to somebody. There's so much nuance and 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.760 everything else that's missing from It's like it's like getting 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:10.440 a beer over Skype. Sounds terrible. Yeah, I do not 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.600 want to do that. No, I'm not into that. Yeah, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.000 board games are so much fun. I think if some 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.000 of the Like literally last year, when Emily and I 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.400 at the beginning of SEEN we were making our goals. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.640 There were kind of two goals that I had for 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.040 that year, and one was to play more disc golf 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.280 and the other was to play more board games with 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.320 my friends. Because those were just two things, I thought, well, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.520 what are the there are two of my favorite things 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.720 to do that I don't do enough of, And so 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.880 last year I didn't do as good about playing disc golf, 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.720 but I did do a better job about playing board 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.360 games one or the other. You know, a lot of 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.160 people choose I want to try to lose weight for 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.200 their new Year's resolution. You know, I'm just felt, dug, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.600 I don't need that. Instead, you're like, oh, I want 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.840 to play more Yeah, exactly what dude, that's a I 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.120 think it's a good thing as long as both of 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.600 those things for me are usually spent like time spent 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.480 with other people. So it's community. I'm that's true. Yeah, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.320 I'm literally We've never met a more extroverted person than me. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.440 So I recharged spending time with other people. And I 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.480 really love board games, really love disc golf, and so 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.720 either either way, I'm going to be hanging with people 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.320 doing something I enjoy. It's like a torpedo right in 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.600 the center of my personality. Is perfect. Yeah, it gets 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.880 to play game and socialized to hang out. Yeah, the 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.600 community so not much more fun than that. And my 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.000 wife and I we love to do to to play 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.960 nerdy board games together too. But first let's let's tell 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.640 people what we mean my nerdy board games. So we've 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.720 kind of used this phrase. We've talked about board games. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.360 We're not talking about candy Land here. I mean, maybe 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.760 you are mad. I don't know, Maybe that's the candy 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.240 Land and ladders. You know all my favorites from as 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.200 a kid growing up. Did you play games growing up? Yeah, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.600 we totally played like Sorry, oh man, I remember, Sorry, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.360 but Yatsie. My parents loved Yatze. We played a lot 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.200 of Yatzi, but they didn't have maybe they I guess 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:53.880 they did have a couple of these kind of games. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.680 But now that they've proliferated, it's a much different Yeah, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.240 it's a different ball game. Yeah, it's kind of like 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.960 the way craft Beers proliferated from what it used to be. Sorry, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.240 in Monopoly, they're still around, but now we've got these 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.040 other games, like, maybe it should we just say if 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.359 you something, yeah, it might be the easiest way. I 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.080 think the first one, the gateway drug if you were 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.879 into nerdy board games, is Settlers of Catana. Settlers of 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:18.640 Catan is the marijuana of yeah, board games. So you've 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.680 probably seen like celebrities now posting that they're playing Settlers 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.879 of Catan or something like that. It's it's gotten to 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.119 that point where everyone knows about it. It seems like 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.040 if you have no idea what Settlers of Catan is, 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.280 look it up on Vazon or whatever. Settlers Puerto Rico, 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.800 if these is a big one. The popular one d A. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.400 Gricola is kind of an old school one ticket ticket 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.600 to Ride super popular. I feel like it's a little 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.600 more classic. Has it been around longer we should? Yeah? Yeah, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.959 and Ticket Ride has been around quite a lot. It's 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.320 got I gotta I'm sure it has a wiki page, right, yeah, 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.159 oh yeah, totally dude. Yeah. So in general that this 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.320 is what we're talking about, these kind of games. I 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.919 don't even know if like Monopoly kind of counts. No, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.320 I don't think so. Risk risk is on the edge, 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.159 just on the outside edge. I would say it's close 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.359 but not quite. Well, it's definitely before that what I 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.520 would call the I'm gonna make this up. Maybe it's 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.760 a real thing, the board game revolution. Yeah, that I 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.080 feel like happened in the nineties. Yeah, of course everyone 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:20.440 knows about that. Down the hatches didn't coming in American history. Man, 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.679 it's more like world history because all these games come 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.879 from Germany, right anyway, But so that's what we're talking about. 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.680 So yeah, I would. And besides using the term nerdy 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.479 board games, the best other term I think I can 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.880 use is strategy board games. Strategy board games to board games. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:35.320 I think the reason they I'll take a long time 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.640 to play. Yeah, I think the reason something like Monopoly 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.359 and Risk don't make the cut is because they're way 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.480 too chance oriented. They're they're almost completely chance oriented. There's 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.960 some skill involved, but these ones, I guess if you're 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.399 looking at it like a pendulum, Risk is going to 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:53.719 come down on the side of it's more chance based. 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.639 And the strategy board games we're talking about, some of 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.679 them more or less, but they're gonna come always come 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.480 down on the side of it's more guild based. Right now, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.760 the decisions you make through the course of play definitely 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.520 affects if you're gonna win or not compared to you know, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.600 play Monopoly or Risk or something like that. You can 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.280 be you can play and then a seven year old 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.040 could win. Yeah. Yeah, not that seven year old is 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.679