Shownotes
Hello and welcome everyone!
It's the year 2022 and Tom has decided to revive the eldritch grandmother of MTG podcasts and regain his geriatric throne as host of Monday Night Magic.
Monday Night Magic is a weekly podcast predominantly about the uber-CCG called Magic: The Gathering. I am casual player, now father with multiple offspring, and my passion is discussing weekly MTG news, current fun decks / cards and a dash of off-topic discussion of B-movies or weird animal trivia.
To help me bring you the news for this short intro episode, Brent joins me as a fellow dad gamer. We talk about our return to playing on MTGO, MTG NFT's, Secret Lairs everywhere and more!
And, don't miss the discussion about the fun mysteries of deep sea Angler fish.
Have fun and join us next week!
Tom - @psgreader
Brent
Transcripts
00:00.00
tomgustafson
All right hello and welcome. Everyone to a podcast about match of the gathering called Monday Night magic it's been a long time. My name is Tom I hosted this podcast potentially before so you were born I might be listening to this podcast. That's great over 10 years.
00:00.00
Brent
All right hook it.
00:19.57
tomgustafson
Um, but to join me to bring you this kind of rebirth kind of this renewal of Monday night magic is Brandt who's joining me again. This is the new world virtually and that we are not recording using gizmo which is how we used to record the original Monday night magic Fifteen years ago
00:37.26
Brent
Ah, that was a that was a long long long time ago.
00:41.10
tomgustafson
Or Pamela which he had to use to record Skype calls and was very persnickety about working very well. Yeah I'd say yes, probably at least Craig kind of tells you when it's going to you know s h I t the bed.
00:48.75
Brent
Was is Pamela worse than Craig. Okay.
00:59.71
tomgustafson
Pamela would just do it and leave you a note like you didn't knowes till the morning sort of thing and also work in the background. We have our well we're not sure the exact level could be biological could be electroanical intelligence. We're not sure. We also have vincent who is helping us do constant. And never ceasing fact checking since I just kind of say what I think so Brandt. This can be short. We're just kind of reintroducing everybody. We've been chatting honestly for about an hour before we even did this. We're gonna be talking about magic but do you maybe want to kind of tell a bit about yourself and kind of what. Brings you to play magic and what you like to do in the game.
01:39.50
Brent
I guess ah I've been playing magic since way back before a lot of people that listen to this podcast were born back in 94 ah and then ah my ah younger brother in in his infinite wisdom.
01:49.50
tomgustafson
Yeah, soundboards let me.
01:58.20
Brent
Ah, decided to burn all of my carts. So I stopped playing magic yeah, we got in a fight and so he did the logical thing of a 15 year old mind and burned my carts but he was smart enough the way I had him set up in the my little collection box. He took out all the nice things like you know, dual lands in those.
01:59.50
tomgustafson
Burn them.
02:16.41
Brent
And sold them to his friends which they weren't nearly the prices that they are now and then when I told my mom no he sold them and then when I went to my mom said he burned my cards and I said this is how much my cards are worth he just paid me the cash back for it because he actually sold them for more than they were worth to his friends and.
02:19.61
tomgustafson
Was it for weed did he sell it for drug money. Oh okay.
02:34.75
tomgustafson
Okay, that that's just sociopathic at that point that's that's premeditated.
02:36.22
Brent
d for a few years and then in:03:00.55
tomgustafson
Can make you sad every moment of the day if you want to I get the but we won again. This will be a short endm but I won't even get into the whole Mtg dao the whole person thought that they could just randomly like make Nf teas of intellectual property which it was just phenomenal to read like.
03:10.83
Brent
Oh.
03:19.90
Brent
Yeah, definitely some entitlement there.
03:20.59
tomgustafson
Whats yeah, can't do that worth the hell. But I thought then though I read that letter that apparently came from the Wizard's lawyer I I thought they were much more diplomatic than I would have thought they would be with that like maybe you shouldn't do this. It's probably a bad idea to do this like prison.
03:37.91
Brent
Yeah.
03:39.61
tomgustafson
Prison time bad and then all yeah that we won't get into everybody gets a favorite magic artist and then your dreams get crushed and dashed on a regular consistent basis because like artists all all of us are human enzymes have weird moral.
03:48.35
Brent
Oh oh.
03:58.72
Brent
Some of us might have bought that secret layer and thought it was great.
03:58.95
tomgustafson
Flaws we'll say. Yeah, and then apparently ah Johnny Magic who who I didn't really worked for a hedge fund is now trying to separate wizards from or wizards from hasbro so they can what they called him an activist hedge fund which I had never heard that term before.
04:21.91
Brent
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:22.54
tomgustafson
That's another just we could bring it up in more detail but that was just another bizarre story about how they're going to keep magic alive by I guess I don't know getting people on the board of hasbro. It's It's just weird so strange.
04:38.67
Brent
See yeah, that's ah that seems like that's an and I I don't know how that would actually play out. It seems like there's a lot of ah people who think that that on Twitter who are like hey this would be great I don't think they really understand exactly how that's works like the board is Goingnna suddenly make they're gonna bring back tournaments. They're go do ah probably not.
04:57.33
tomgustafson
I Guess for me like my one pie in the sky dream for that is like so and I mean we're being capitalistic to the end or this this hedge fund which I'm assuming what they they want to you know, get companies that are undervalued, not necessarily you know, cheap and undervalued and then extract value from them and then.
04:58.17
Brent
I Don't think so.
05:16.54
tomgustafson
So I was reading some tweets where people had kind of dug into some of the history of the companies this hedge fund had worked with typically would sell them within about a year you know, hopefully for a big profit. So if you know if I'm hedge fund man I've got I've got woodzs of the coast now and be like I want to make lots of money I have to say this whole reserve list thing. Makes zero sense to me if I'm desire if I want to sell cards for money. Reserveless goes out the window. Secondary market gets destroyed but they just flooded out and like here you go you can you don't have to buy do masters black lotusees anymore. We're gonna get you brand new lotuses spend as you want. Moxes duels I don't care anymore it it looks pretty cool I mentioned and and I know this is dual. Masters has a long history and I'd have to reread again about kind of how the game even works as I to read's confusing. Ah but that they've had lots of magic.
05:57.16
Brent
You're gonna you're gonna purchase some dual masters just to get that black lotus.
06:13.16
tomgustafson
References or like basically direct card not ripoffs because it's it's legal but basically using the same mechanics in that game which I thought was just fascinating.
06:13.68
Brent
Yes, this.
06:19.40
Brent
But wasn't that it was Kajudo here in the states correct and there was it. Oh okay, it I thought I just failed. Yeah.
06:26.84
tomgustafson
Dual masters there and I guess I don't I feel like I don't remember much about what happened to the one here obviously didn't didn't thrive a reserveless lawsuit is brought by ah Vincent and I guess there is I don't.
06:36.00
Brent
Oh with.
06:43.16
tomgustafson
I Guess I am not a lawyer So I'm curious like what would be the I Guess a legal basis for you know this is a privately owned company. Um, oh this is oh dual messing at the same time. So I I feel like hedge fund company that could do whatever they want but they probably will respect reserveless but it seems like they has to be a pretty tempting.
06:52.79
Brent
Ah, okay.
06:58.40
Brent
Yeah.
07:02.47
tomgustafson
like a million we made like $:07:20.55
Brent
Imagine if they did it like the ah bat member back with the originals end to car with the treasures that they could put in there and then every pack they had something new but they slid those in there man if they they think they're selling cards Now oh that would.
07:21.28
tomgustafson
Minute.
07:26.27
tomgustafson
Just just every pack has did you get 1 too I did yeah.
07:35.78
tomgustafson
That that was pretty cool like you can of hearing the the organic stories like the prove release people like there was like a like a manic germos a like a chaos or you know something really certain like there was like 1 of these in the pack. Everybody's like well you're all liars and clearly they came out that this was probably true.
07:38.88
Brent
That was.
07:52.80
Brent
True.
07:54.62
tomgustafson
And seeing that evolve over a day was fun. I don't know I think hedge funds are gonna take whatever chances they can get to to make that million dollars because ah because ah as we're time before the show is I love be movies but close to that love of b movies is old Disney Channel Original movies so me and ah me and my dar we watched jungle to jungle. Ah, yesterday, do you remember that one with Tim Allen where he's like the hedge fund like sells futures but his wife left him to be a doctor in like the the Amazon and they never told him about his son so he goes to get her of his divorce papers. He wants to marry it like a supermodel and she's like oh hey we have a son.
08:19.95
Brent
No Jungle to jungle.
08:37.20
tomgustafson
Don't remember his name even from yesterday which just sucks the movie. Ah basically great white hope sort of a thing going on but there he brings him back to New York from the from the jungle and hilarity ensues you know, sort of fish out of water story. Yeah Mimi seeo.
08:49.91
Brent
Is this the Mimi Siku Cromwell Mimi Siu there you go. So.
08:55.99
tomgustafson
Yes, thank you? Yeah and then just yeah, go figure. We genius oh there's so many good Disney channel original movies like from the 80 s and I have to give Disney plus credit because jungle to jungle from I think the early 90 s so this is early Tim Allen they clearly did not. The day basically just dumped the vhs tape because it clearly is not it. It looks to be maybe 4 Adp tops on that like you know med school apartment. We got the we had the combo ten inch tv with the vhs player built into it on top of the fridge because that's how much room you had and I had like a handful of tapes that I would just. Shoving there to watch while making dinner.
09:36.13
Brent
Ah, yeah, I've not seen Jungle to Jungle I'll I'll have to offer remind my children and see if I can punish I mean watch that with them.
09:43.64
tomgustafson
Oh I Love making him watch these always they the everyones So the really again one that most of they just they really don't like very much It's like Nope this one was a treasure when I was a child so you shall enjoy it too.
09:49.91
Brent
Yeah, yeah.
09:57.43
tomgustafson
So Disney plus has to be 1 of the best value use that I can think of right now for me personally for what would I get out of it.
10:01.80
Brent
Yeah I do enjoy Disney plus with the kit.
10:10.17
tomgustafson
I'm try think of what other Oh yeah, and also kind of before to again, we're just in general we'll talk about magic news on this show kind of things that we're enjoying that we're playing will'll bring up fun facts like helping one of the kids with a biology project I did not realize um, ah Platypus platipi.
10:25.61
Brent
Yeah, yeah.
10:27.87
tomgustafson
A platypus. Ah I think I knew that it was the one Egg-lang Mammal I think I remember that fact, the one fact I didn't know but is also the only mammal that has venom like it's like the claw right? like on like the back leg I was just like what a weird I mean just a just have the eggs then the the look and then venom.
10:34.59
Brent
Yeah, has venom in their back on their back or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this yeah.
10:47.29
tomgustafson
And a man was just bizarre and and then I scarred him emotionally for the rest of their lives I think last night so I was just like well since we're talkingbo weird animalss you have you girls heard about the mystery above the male anglerish and they're like the male and like anglerfish and like I show him a picture I think most people.
10:58.32
Brent
Oh no.
11:05.42
tomgustafson
Kind of recognize it. It's a very classic deep sea animal with like glassy eyes big Spiky Maw little light that hangs out and it's like those are all female. Yeah, and literally for years people like we're just not catching them like we're all the boys we're the boy Angler fish.
11:08.42
Brent
That's the female. Yeah, that's yep, female.
11:17.34
Brent
Oh.
11:22.10
tomgustafson
Why all these girls have these weird little lumpies on them like little tentacle things. Oh that's the the degraded like Zombie husk of the boys is basically they and apparently the male englishers don't even have like a digestive tract like they they can only live for so long basically until they let's connect to a female.
11:23.32
Brent
Ah.
11:41.68
tomgustafson
Also I'm not sure how the mating part I'm not sure where go how what goes where when they do this because they're tiny little things and then they basically die and like get absorbed by the it's like man nature is weird sometimes.
11:45.30
Brent
Um, yeah, attach. Yeah, it is that is yeah, don't they just I thought they just attach on and just basically meld it like meld into the feet which that's when we see those anglengr fish where.
11:59.73
tomgustafson
Basically meld into them.
12:04.65
Brent
That's a female and then you look, you're like what's that weird looking that's kind of ah like a horrible fin or so yeah, what's that like sticking off that's that's the male.
12:08.00
tomgustafson
It's not a tail like it's kind of like sticking off the side there I would like to see like the the the female Angler like you know prostitute where there's like just covered with them. You know, just like 600 little little appends be like that. 1 ne's really that one's popular.
12:25.14
Brent
Ah, oh.
12:25.64
tomgustafson
That that's gonna be stuck in my head all day now as the the the prostut angleularfish and then for next episode we'll talk about my personal favorite animal in the world which is there's my alarm which is the naked Mole Rat which is what my for. We'll talk about that one. Oh I will.
12:36.57
Brent
There you go? Oh so you can watch Kim possible then Disney plus to get caught up on that too there you go.
12:44.85
tomgustafson
That was when that was one of my biggest excitements we went to Disney World a few years ago to animal kingdom and they have a naked mole rat colony they can go like see and everyone's just like everybody just runs by because they're like the ugliest animal in the world. Every picture looks like a penis I mean they all look like like a well.
12:49.92
Brent
Ah, old. Oh yeah, yeah, there. Yeah,, they're atrocious looking. They're horrible looking.
13:02.94
tomgustafson
Circumcised versus unircumcised paintingning up the mole Rat They all look like penises and what we did find out is they all have like this grotesque like little hairs coming off of them. Those are called Sympathy hairs. They call them sympathy hairs I don't know why but they're called Sympathy hairs.
13:15.16
Brent
Sympathy hairs all right? Well I believe I know what I'll be looking up tonight. So is that is that going to be a don't Google this is that what we should. You're gonna ah.
13:20.99
tomgustafson
Now look up some of the hairs and I know I thought well I guess I I googled this specifically with mole rats that that one is user your discretion I'll say his advise but yes, ah. Again, we're goingnna be planning to bring you some kind of magic news random stuff every week. It's fun to be back it to a long time. Ah thank you Brent for joining me and hopefully um, you know, no pressure. But we'll try to have you join us as much as humanly possible. It's great. It's because I kind of wanted to be sort of a dad cast to anyways because that's where I'm at in life. So. It's nice to have another magic dad. Um, who would get excited about things like Angler for stories and Vincent usually would kind of help us here as well. Vincent doesn't get Disney plus again vince you probably have to be over the age of 40 and starting to worry about your prostate health to really fully value Disney plus.
13:57.18
Brent
This shift space.
14:14.98
tomgustafson
You know, ah you're get to the edges like do I start put Meimusil in my in my like my alcoholic beverages at this point.
14:20.77
Brent
Wasn't that the joke about the super bowl halftime if you if you recognize these artists at the super bowl this year you're due for your colonoscopy. Ah.
14:24.90
tomgustafson
Oh yeah, you pride you for Colon Askcopy yep very true even though Snoop do he is some of the comedy stuff he done is just hilarious him voicing over animal videos that I've seen where is it maybe Jimmy Kimmel himmer where he does it but the.
14:33.25
Brent
Oh yes, yeah Plazanet animal or whatever or animal plazaidd or yeah.
14:40.10
tomgustafson
Yeah, and po am yeah and I think it's animal present. Oh man, those are RoRo has pretty pretty good. It's pretty pretty close to the honey badger stuff. So i's like great enjoy. But yeah, we'll be joined. This was just kind of where kind of get back in the groove the alarm heard as me have to go pick up kids. But.
14:48.50
Brent
Are yes, yeah, he's good. Well.
14:58.57
tomgustafson
Again, we'll probably be recording on Wednesdays it's called Monday Night magic just don't think about it but we bring it back. It should be appearing hopefully on all the major types places for getting podcasts like Spotify and Apple and Itunes. And yeah I'm excited to be back because it's fun to podcast and fun to play magic again.
15:15.47
Brent
Good hear your voice again Tom it's always good. Thank you? Yes there? Yeah, ah.
15:18.53
tomgustafson
You as well brent you as well and to see and to see you like in real per this I've never seen Brett before and seeing his very cool office area is kind of fun to see and yeah, we'll be back soon and we'll see if this auto audio balancing works this this will be amazing if it does it for me. So normally.
15:28.24
Brent
Pastty. Yeah, yeah.
15:34.23
Brent
Perfect.
15:38.14
tomgustafson
Um, get this is about 15 minute episode I'm guessing future ones will probably be a little bit locker just for repair talk to you later.
15:41.50
Brent
Awesome! All right? Thanks bye.
