Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday December 29th 2023

Craig and Rob chat all things Munzee from the Events of the past and future, to the Boxing Day Sale

We discuss the launch of a new Pouch Creature, launching the auto deploy gardens in Florida, along with our 2024 New Year Resolutions.

Rob answers a interesting Question of the week, from Buckeyecacher and we end with a couple of new tips from listeners.

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Seemyshell (00:02.236)
Welcome to the official Munzee podcast.

Rob Vardeman (00:04.666)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.

Seemyshell (00:08.692)
And I'm Craig, also known as Seemyshell, I'm here to explore the world of Munzee from within.

Rob Vardeman (00:13.47)
Each week we'll delve into Munzee's mysteries, discover treasures, and inform players from around the world just what is coming your way.

Seemyshell (00:20.48)
So sit back relax as today we chat about obviously the week that was, did you see the Boxing Day sales, hmmm there was some cheap auto deploy gardens in there as well and of course a question for Rob and ending with the tip of the week, Rob Christmas is done and dusted mate and guess what this is the last episode of this season. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (00:40.79)
Oh, well, I mean, I guess that's good news on both ends, because sometimes there's a little bit of stress that builds up, isn't there? Coming up to Christmas.

Seemyshell (00:44.69)
Yes.

Seemyshell (00:49.59)
There, there is, mate, there is, but I will say this from a Munzee player point of view, there was no stress on the app. There was no stress on the software. There was none of that sort of stuff from my point of view anyway. So I don't know what happened in the back end, but you know, from, from a player's point of view.

Rob Vardeman (00:54.178)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (01:03.37)
There's there's been it's been a time of celebrations this year, hasn't it? So, yeah, things have actually gone really well. And that's the preparation that we put in working, working it out for many hours over the last month, you know, just to make sure that everything was fine tuned so that we, the company could enjoy a bit of a break and the players could continue to play as hard as they wanted to.

Seemyshell (01:06.665)
Look at that.

Seemyshell (01:13.828)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (01:21.412)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (01:28.844)
Mm-hmm. Because I know there's some people out there that do love to go either geocaching or Munzey gaming whatever on that on the Christmas Day itself, but Rob, how was your Christmas Day, mate? I see that you're looking a little warmer mate. You're looking a little bit more red in the face. Where are you now?

Rob Vardeman (01:44.93)
Oh, yes, we've soaked in just a few rays of sunshine and it's been so nice. We are in Florida. So you and I are on the same time zone, which is unusual for us. So, yeah, the we spent Christmas Day at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom. My son is a skipper on the Jungle Cruise and they change it to the Jingle Cruise and tell cheesy holiday related jokes along the way.

Seemyshell (01:54.609)
Wow.

Seemyshell (02:03.28)
Wow.

Mm-hmm.

Um...

Hehehehehehehehe

Rob Vardeman (02:13.73)
Which is fun, so we were there with him and my parents, Lou and her boys as well. So a really good time. The weather actually on Christmas day, rainy and gray. So it was an English Christmas in Florida. Yep.

Seemyshell (02:19.998)
Nice.

Seemyshell (02:23.856)
Yeah. No. English Christmas in Florida. The question remains though, did you actually jingle all the way?

Rob Vardeman (02:34.386)
We did indeed jingle all the way. It was great.

Seemyshell (02:37.16)
You had a lot of coins in your pockets, I dare say. But, mate, I had a very relaxed Christmas, you know, just, you know, me and the direct family here in the US. So there was literally five of us, including myself for lunch. Yeah, yeah, that's all. So I did some of the cooking along with my mother-in-law. So the two of us cooked and the three of them just sat and watched television. But more importantly, I managed to watch the entirety, the entirety from start to finish for the first time ever, a Christmas story.

Rob Vardeman (02:39.726)
so many.

Rob Vardeman (02:50.259)
Wow.

Seemyshell (03:07.424)
There you go. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I've seen bits and pieces over the last few years, you know, and highlights as they say, but never from start to finish. So there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice, nice. It really was.

Rob Vardeman (03:07.746)
Oh, did you know that? That's a good one. That's a good one.

Rob Vardeman (03:19.286)
Yeah. That's a good movie. Yeah. So there was something that happened shortly after Christmas because Santa's helper was running a bit behind but we'd hinted at or I had the you know, get your Munzee monthly moments videos in and posted somewhere like on the Munzee water cooler on Facebook to you know that maybe Santa would be delivering something special to all the good

Seemyshell (03:29.504)
Hmm.

Seemyshell (03:38.722)
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Seemyshell (03:48.403)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (03:48.45)
boys and girls that got their videos in before Christmas. Well, I don't know if you noticed, but yes, Santa did make a special delivery to all of the approved videos. It was on the 26th. So you know, he did his thing and then he was back chilling and was like, Oh, I forgot to this one special delivery after the fact. So there you go.

Seemyshell (03:51.954)
And did he?

Seemyshell (04:00.49)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (04:08.093)
Luckily, luckily he can deliver it virtually if that's the case then. So I did see this as well. And there's been a quite a few Munzee monthly moment videos come through, which is really awesome. This month itself was to, to get some sort of physical Munzee in front of some Christmas lights of sorts. So that's what it was. And it was interesting to see Rob, the amount of different types of Christmas lights, so in different countries, especially. So obviously, as we said before, USA do everything bigger than normal.

Rob Vardeman (04:24.824)
Yes.

Seemyshell (04:34.58)
And so you see a lot of USA Christmas lights, and then you see these small dark towns in Europe or whatever as well. And literally it has just one rope light going around the balcony or something. That's all it was. It's like, wow, you know? So it's amazing difference in Christmas lights. So that was really cool.

Rob Vardeman (04:34.961)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (04:47.214)
Right? You know, yeah. Yeah, the need to use electricity hasn't spread across the entire world, you know, like it has here. And I haven't done my video yet. And I continue to forget. Yeah, I know. And the thing about here in the US, I can definitely still get this video or that video done because there will be plenty of Christmas lights still up all the way until the new year. And

Seemyshell (05:01.146)
I noticed.

Seemyshell (05:11.53)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (05:15.22)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (05:16.15)
Maybe like at my parents house, even through like March or something, who knows because they, uh, they might be a little slower to take them down.

Seemyshell (05:23.352)
Exactly. But in saying that Rob, people don't understand this either. And that is with the Munzee Monthly Moments, it is a monthly video that you put out that everyone can put out and submit to, uh, to us itself as well. And, uh, you don't just get things like, you know, you get random things like these, I'll say cogs, cogs people that were cogs, um, it, you won't get them Rob because you were too late to the party, but it's not too late to put your entry in, so get your entry in for this month.

Rob Vardeman (05:41.014)
Wascox.

Rob Vardeman (05:44.752)
I know.

Seemyshell (05:48.34)
but don't forget something is coming up every single month from now on, including January as well. So get ready for the January Munzee Monthly Moments. The quickest way, the quickest way, Rob, for people to see what is required is to go onto the Munzee YouTube channel, the actual official Munzee YouTube channel. Subscribe to that channel and click the notification bell and you will get notified when that, as soon as that video pops out. So, and you'll then watch it and then you'll be the first to know what you have to do in the requirements.

Rob Vardeman (05:57.091)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (06:18.496)
There you go. Yeah. Anyway, Rob, let's get to it. The activity from last week. There wasn't that many. It was only two events, one in Germany and one in Switzerland. None in the U S look at that. Yeah. But the leaderboards were still cool. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (06:19.44)
There it is, nice and easy.

Rob Vardeman (06:30.286)
Yeah. Yeah, they were. On Friday, we had Cole Cracker 7 at one hundred and eighty eight thousand Munzee Prof at one hundred and seventy eight thousand. Just love cause at one hundred and seventy one thousand.

Seemyshell (06:44.512)
On Saturday we had laser cat at 246,000, Munzee Prof again second at 209,000 and then Whelan and Neelan gets in there for third at 205,000.

Rob Vardeman (06:57.318)
On Sunday, Schmitz Fam for 251,000, Munzee Prof rounding out the weekend with second place again, 174,000 and Jeffo43,000.

Seemyshell (07:04.56)
Ha ha

Seemyshell (07:09.6)
Munzey prof like always a bridesmaid never the bride. Look at that poor, poor bloke. But anyway, three seconds in a row. Nice work, nice work. This week coming up Rob, we have a couple of events. There's one in Florida today on Friday as we speak. There's one in Maryland, North Carolina and then Saturday Rob we have.

Rob Vardeman (07:13.42)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (07:16.691)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (07:23.391)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (07:28.182)
Well, we've got Pennsylvania and Minnesota on the last day of 2023. Uh, then yes. Yeah, you go.

Seemyshell (07:34.344)
And then there's a rare, a rare event. Yes. I like this one because it's on the first of 2024. It's the first event in 2024 and it's in Cape Town, South Africa. It's rare, Rob. It's very rare that you see these events in Cape Town, South Africa. But my favorite part is, Rob, I've been there. The park in which it's in, I've actually been there. There's Munsies already there, placed there. There's virtuals placed there. There's physicals placed there as well. I did sort of replace a few of the physicals as I walk around Cape Town itself.

Rob Vardeman (07:52.503)
Hey.

Seemyshell (08:04.292)
It is a beautiful place. Cape town. Uh, if you haven't been there, look at going, cause it's not that expensive to be honest with you. But anyway, that's my rant over Cape town, South Africa on the first, first event for 2024. So there you go. I think there's two attendees at the moment. Yep.

Rob Vardeman (08:17.73)
And yeah, it is. I believe they're traveling together. They set up an event. It's going to be the first event that we've ever had in Africa as well. So kind of cool. It might be a bit tight on a schedule for anyone else to book a trip to get there just for that. But you know, yeah, it'll be a good one. So

Seemyshell (08:26.742)
Oh wow, there you go, well done.

Seemyshell (08:34.156)
hot. Yeah, possibly now. Yeah, exactly. But there's also some large events coming up in the new year as well. We're just going to breeze over these. I think one in Florida, UK, that you mentioned last week as well, and California coming up. And they're spaced over the next sort of, you know, three or four months. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (08:52.822)
Yeah, we've got some good ones. So be sure that you check calendar.munzee.com in order to see what events are going on. And you can also check to see in the app if there are any coming up that are near you because it does show by distance away from your current location in the app.

Seemyshell (09:06.941)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (09:11.4)
Yep, exactly right. Anyway, Rob developments coming up this week. So what happened this week? Some people miss this.

Rob Vardeman (09:17.438)
Well, there was a boxing day sale and well, I hope you saw it. And if you didn't, it's because you didn't read the blog. And that's actually the reason for this podcast is so that we can read the blog to those who do not like to go there. So you missed out if you're listening to this and you're like, there was a sale. Yes. So there were some discounts out there. Um, there were some things that we put back in the store, like rat laws and

Seemyshell (09:29.145)
Hehehehehehehehehehe

Seemyshell (09:38.13)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (09:43.596)
Hmm.

Rob Vardeman (09:45.046)
some of the other popular items from the year and then we also Launched a couple of new things or we added in some new types of products, I guess So that it was it was fun. But again apologies if you missed out on it too bad

Seemyshell (09:56.261)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (10:04.288)
Yeah, sorry, but not sorry, because let's be honest, read the blog yourself as well. I'll, I'll be honest, Rob. And that is a friend of mine. I won't say his name GCV. Um, but he reached out to me last week and he said, Craig, what's this? He saw something in Monday. He gets Craig. What does he come to me? Craig, what's this? I said, Josh, read the blog, read the blog. He goes, no, that's what I listened to you and Rob for. So I don't have to read it. See, so there you go. I know.

Rob Vardeman (10:22.784)
Hehehe

Rob Vardeman (10:27.439)
Is perfect man. Yep. That's our job. So

Seemyshell (10:31.368)
Yeah, I did see, I did see there's some, there's some of the old, the old bounces came back. I think there was as well. What's that? Yeah. See, I did read it.

Rob Vardeman (10:37.79)
Yeah, yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah, see, there were enough things in there that I couldn't even remember to list like, Hey, here's the stuff that happened. But yes, some of the old bouncers were back in. And there, for those people who haven't played for a long time, then it's one of those opportunities where it's like, Oh, look, here's stuff that I've never seen before. And for anyone who's been around for a lot of years, they're like, Oh, okay, not a whole lot of new stuff for me, except for this one thing.

Seemyshell (10:42.688)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (10:49.149)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (11:07.326)
We brought out the next the newest, the shiniest, let's call it pouch creature. And its name is epic call. So or at least that's how we're pronouncing it. Yeah, you're welcome.

Seemyshell (11:07.425)
I saw it.

Seemyshell (11:14.372)
Mm hmm. It is. Yeah. Thank you for pronouncing that. Thank you for pronouncing. Ebacol, the new pouch creature, he or she is golden in color, like really bright and shiny and golden in color. And Rob, I got one, mate. I got one. Of course I had to get one straight away. As soon as they come out, I looked at them and went, Oh, I've got to get one of these as well. That's what happens with Munzee. This is what happens. Um, so that's really cool. That's awesome. But there's other things that came out as well. Now, if

Rob Vardeman (11:33.153)
Yeah?

Rob Vardeman (11:36.876)
Oh yeah.

Seemyshell (11:43.668)
People cannot make it to Florida for instance. They can't go to Florida, Robin, in January, but they wanna be part of it. They really wanna be part of it. You know, oh, how do I, I don't know how to deploy properly, I make sure I get cap ons. You did something as well. You put in some gardens. So, I'm gonna go ahead and do that.

Rob Vardeman (11:59.402)
Yes, we Yeah, we've taken a page from the Space Coast Geostore book, I suppose. Yeah, Dale and I have worked things out over the years where, you know, he's he likes to put together the auto deploy gardens, and he'll launch those and they'll be all over the world. So the way that they work through the Space Coast Geostore you purchase a pin

Seemyshell (12:07.216)
Yes, Dailin' Bob.

Seemyshell (12:20.926)
Mm.

Rob Vardeman (12:26.518)
And then Dale is the one who actually goes through pushes the button and auto deploys it. Well, in our store, we have the magical ability of deploying it quicker so that I don't have to get the list and then push the button for each of them later on. So yeah, so, so we've got a little bit of an advantage there. But all that you do is you go in and you choose. So we have virtuals that are discounted.

Seemyshell (12:30.752)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (12:40.285)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (12:51.236)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (12:52.762)
We've got special gardens that are set up for the Z crew members. And so those are even discounted a little bit more. So we've got virtuals. There's a flat layer and there are temporary virtuals as well. So each of those at a discounted price so that because what's happening is you don't get to choose the location for your pin. Like we've already created the garden.

Seemyshell (13:02.185)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (13:08.672)
That's really cool.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (13:19.283)
Mm.

Rob Vardeman (13:21.758)
And so you're just picking a pin. What what I thought was fun, or unique about this one, because we haven't really done this before, is there was an one virtual garden, POI. So there was one of those in the system. So it was added in on the virtual list. So there was a random chance across the board of anyone who purchased the virtual

Seemyshell (13:31.102)
Hmm.

Seemyshell (13:39.504)
Oh yes, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (13:49.402)
might actually get that virtual garden POI pin. So that person, yeah, so that person is going to get more points over time, because that's going to be capped over and over and over again. You know, I mean, 50 plus event attendees, but then anyone who's local or continues to travel through the they can get that all the time. So yeah, just a little different.

Seemyshell (13:49.599)
Yep.

Seemyshell (13:53.456)
Oh, that's a good way to do it.

Seemyshell (13:59.304)
Hmm. Yeah.

Seemyshell (14:04.125)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (14:07.754)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (14:13.648)
Yeah. And I say, I love the idea of these auto deploy gardens and, and between yourself and Dale as well, who worked out how to do them, I think it's fantastic idea, especially because some people, especially new to Munzee and I was one of these as well then, and I was a little bit sort of like, Oh, should I do this with the gardens and it's a, there's a lot to try and deploy in a garden, getting the coordinates correct. So you're not, you know, missing out or you're getting the colors correct. You're getting everything correct.

Rob Vardeman (14:41.643)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (14:42.428)
You know, and sometimes it can be overwhelming and a bit too much. Whereas you guys, you take all that out and you just go, you know, here's the pin and it's a discounted price. You just, you just pay for it and it's going to be deployed for you on your behalf. But, uh, as we said before, these gardens themselves, they're actually around the events or nearby the events in, uh, in Florida in January. So they're going to be capped. They're going to be capped quite heavily too.

Rob Vardeman (14:51.511)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (15:05.646)
they Yes, for players who you know, put these out before January 10, let's say you are looking at a lot of caps. I mean, some of them that are already out. Cole Cracker seven, who we talked about earlier. She is local in the area. She's sort of the main host of the Munzee Mecca events and kind of running

Seemyshell (15:13.32)
Mm.

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah.

Seemyshell (15:23.606)
Hehehehehehe yes!

Seemyshell (15:30.625)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (15:32.194)
the proceedings and making sure that everyone all of the event locations, you know, are ready and reserved and that kind of stuff. She's been making her way around the gardens already. So what will happen there is if you've got a flat or a virtual that bouncers might land on, you may see her name pop up on your cap on points list over time multiple times because

Seemyshell (15:38.323)
Yep.

Seemyshell (15:42.464)
hahahaha

Seemyshell (15:50.622)
Of course.

Seemyshell (15:54.353)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (15:57.822)
She chases she, um, she chases bouncers a lot. And the areas that we chose have like some of her tree houses and some of her Skylands. So it's, you'll definitely see a good return on your, uh, on the number of points that you, um, that you see there from the purchase. Yeah.

Seemyshell (15:59.036)
Yes, she does.

Seemyshell (16:06.181)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (16:15.636)
Definitely. And, and you can't forget, you know, I don't think it's been announced as yet, but it's a gray, great, great possibility. There'll be double points on a virtuals flats and also it was now. So there you go. So you're going to get double points on that weekend as well. Wow, Rob, there's going to be points flying everywhere that weekend, especially with these gardens out. So don't forget guys. And all these listed itself is in the.

Rob Vardeman (16:27.386)
Oh, I think it was announced.

Rob Vardeman (16:33.59)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

Seemyshell (16:42.3)
In the Munzee store. So just go to the Munzee store and there's obviously links in the description of this podcast as well. But head to the Munzee store and you will find it, look for gardens and you'll find these pop up, um, and go from there. And you said before that there's even special ones. What do you call it? You curi QZ. I can't even never pronounce it. Right. Cruises. So if you're a cruise, no Z crew, that's the one that's backwards.

Rob Vardeman (16:59.646)
Oh, cruising. Yeah. Oh, no. Sorry. It's a Z crew. There we go. Backward. Yeah.

Seemyshell (17:06.628)
If you're a Z crew member, so those ones who've been playing a little bit longer and qualify for it, you get even bigger discounts from there because there's gardens just for Z crew members only. So there you go. Really cool. Get into that, get into that, get into that. But there is a double points weekend coming up this weekend.

Rob Vardeman (17:17.406)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (17:24.511)
Yes, there is.

Seemyshell (17:25.328)
As we speak right now, there's double demerits, double points. That's my police officer speaking, see? Because there is double demerit points in Australia right now as well. So beware of that. Yes, it's holiday weekends. Double points this weekend as well from today. What are they for, Rob?

Rob Vardeman (17:29.986)
Hahaha

Rob Vardeman (17:34.222)
Ooh, yikes. Oh my.

Rob Vardeman (17:41.418)
Yes, so that's for the mailbox owners. So those of you who've participated in that during the month of December, you've got double points on cards, tempverts, greenies, rums, and all the bouncers. Whoa. I mean, that's a lot. Yeah.

Seemyshell (17:54.703)
Oh.

Seemyshell (17:57.8)
What? You get double points on bounces? That's a lot. Some of the bounces are worth 500 points, Rob. So you're telling me you're going to give out a thousand points for one bouncer? Wow.

Rob Vardeman (18:06.394)
I believe so. I think that there's isn't there one bouncer that gives a thousand points on deploy. I feel like there is.

Seemyshell (18:14.184)
See, I'm not, if there is, I haven't, I don't recognize it.

Rob Vardeman (18:17.443)
mechanic cake maybe or cyborg Santa or I feel like there's one of the mechs at the very top of the list. The one of the high cog ones that gives you a lot of points. So

Seemyshell (18:21.416)
Oh, so you get, you get 2000 points.

Seemyshell (18:27.944)
Hmm. So you, if that's the case, it doesn't, that on deploy as well with double points. So you get 2000 points on that one. If that's what you're saying.

Rob Vardeman (18:34.154)
Yes. Cap cap on and deploys. Yeah, so a reminder to everyone This is your final chance to you know bump your score up the leaderboard because don't forget Not only is there that daily leaderboard? There's the monthly leaderboard online and in the app that you can see but there is the yearly leaderboard so if you're you know, maybe you set yourself a goal of

Seemyshell (18:40.049)
Jeez.

Rob Vardeman (19:01.534)
I want to be in the top 100 for the year. Well, your, your time is running out, honestly. So, uh, this could be your chance if you've got the mailbox and the double points. Good luck.

Seemyshell (19:03.89)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (19:07.537)
Yep.

Seemyshell (19:11.488)
And and their extra badges to robot taken as well for the yearly as opposed to daily Look, I'm making you think now. I can even see the cogs are turning literally You don't know oh

Rob Vardeman (19:17.934)
Hmm. You know, um, there's not an automatic badge for that. I don't think but I feel like a few times over the years when we've remembered or thought about it after the fact, we have indeed given out like, you know, hey, you won the year, basically that kind of thing because that is that is an achievement.

Seemyshell (19:32.288)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (19:40.006)
Yeah, yeah.

Rob Vardeman (19:45.378)
And everyone out there in the world is not always going to be able to be the number one or the even in the top 100 overall leaderboard, but yearly monthly, those kinds of things, people have an opportunity to, to make it into those even if you're new, you know, you can do that.

Seemyshell (19:45.638)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (19:52.869)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (20:00.273)
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Well just to let you know Rob, as of well, Wednesday just gone, which is today as we speak, you heard these four people, which are the top four for the year. You've heard them almost every single week on this podcast. Munzee Prof is number one at the moment. Colecracker Seven is number two. Whelan and Dealan is number three and Jaroslav Kass is number four. So there you go. That's for the year.

Rob Vardeman (20:08.875)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (20:27.69)
What? That's, that's so surprising. Oh, those four names were what first, second, third on Friday. They were second and third on Saturday. They were second. It was only second for Munzee Prof on Sunday. So yeah, it's almost like they play hard all year long. How interesting. Yeah.

Seemyshell (20:27.988)
funny that say funny that they get a mention every week, every week.

Seemyshell (20:45.443)
That's funny, that.

Seemyshell (20:54.532)
I know, I know. I love it. So Rob, it's almost a new year now. Are you doing anything special for new years? Uh, you self and, and Lou.

Rob Vardeman (21:04.258)
So we are imagine this we're still gonna be here in Florida, spending the entire time here. And so right now we're still trying to work out the final plan, but I have a feeling that it's going to be Disney related. So yeah, part of that's going to come down to my son's work schedule because he is working New Year's Eve for sure. And, you know, just where we where we land because we've got

Seemyshell (21:07.144)
Mmm? Mmm!

Seemyshell (21:12.351)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (21:21.691)
Of course.

Seemyshell (21:26.772)
Mm-hmm.

Yep, yep.

Rob Vardeman (21:33.674)
lose two boys. So we won't be landing in any bar establishments and yeah, that kind of thing. So in the past, we've had nice little celebrations at home, but yeah, we'll all be up until midnight.

Seemyshell (21:35.538)
Yeah, that's true.

Big raves. Yeah.

Seemyshell (21:46.772)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (21:50.948)
See, and, and the real, I feel sorry for if I'm not sure the age of lose boys, but the age of, you know, people in general, say for instance, they're from the UK and they're 18 years of age. So normally they, it's like, this is my first year. I can actually go out and party and drink, but now you fly them to Florida. Oh no, I still not allowed to cause I'm not 21. Oh, there you go. Still got a couple of years left. That still got a couple of years left.

Rob Vardeman (22:11.07)
Yeah, yep. Yep. They're they're 15 and 13. So they still have a couple of years no matter what yeah Yeah

Seemyshell (22:18.612)
But Rob, do you have any New Year's resolutions then in regards to Munzee for 2024?

Rob Vardeman (22:26.079)
Oh, the resolution has just been to get to 2024 at the moment. That that one continues to change. For me for me in terms of Munzee 2024, we I know that as a company, we've got, you know, some, some big plans. And, and honestly, some of those plans we made up last year, a year ago, we set some goals, we set some targets, we set some, some things in motion.

Seemyshell (22:29.905)
This is fair enough. That's fair enough.

Seemyshell (22:49.172)
Hmm.

Rob Vardeman (22:54.25)
in order to really grow the game and take things to a whole another level. And so I think that what we're going to see is what happens in real life sometimes, which is rolling over those goals to say, OK, we got we got a lot accomplished, but there are still some places that we need to we need to grow. We need to put a little more work in. So.

Seemyshell (22:54.484)
Yep.

Rob Vardeman (23:22.51)
I wish that I could share a picture and, and tell you a little bit more. But this is not a slow talking moment. This is the time for me to just say it's out there. It's coming soon. We're gonna make it happen. In terms of personal, guess what I actually am going to, you know, I never do make resolutions is such a tricky thing. But, but we've bought some gym equipment.

Seemyshell (23:37.04)
It's funny. It's what?

Seemyshell (23:46.208)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (23:51.365)
Oh.

Rob Vardeman (23:51.554)
for the house. And loose boys are kind of both interested in like, all right, let's, you know, let's start getting, let's start doing something. And because of the sports that they're in, they would like to be able to, you know, get pumped up. And, and, and whether they actually do that or not doesn't really matter, but just some fitness and some activity, Lou rides your bike all the time, obviously, I don't as much so

Seemyshell (23:56.402)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (24:00.402)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (24:06.519)
Hehe

Seemyshell (24:11.37)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (24:15.216)
Yeah, yeah.

Rob Vardeman (24:18.238)
a little something to get both of us fit in like working on muscle and some of that kind of stuff. So that's a little resolution I suppose that I can put out there for me on the personal side. Yeah. So.

Seemyshell (24:27.331)
Oh.

Seemyshell (24:31.308)
Yeah. But I will say this, Rob, I was just listening to you then speak and people are going to, this is, you don't have to answer this at all. Okay. This is not in the, this is not in the show notes at all. People, this is just again, me listening to Rob Christmas is what we do. We listen to Rob intently. Now I will say this and that, yes, I can confer Rob did say these words. He said that Munzee is, is going to a whole new level. That I don't know if it's true or not. And he's not going to confirm or deny.

Rob Vardeman (24:56.702)
Mmm. Yeah. Oh my.

Seemyshell (25:00.212)
but you know, we've got the virtuals, we've got the flats, we've got the cards. So I'm not sure, I'm speculating here. I'm just a player, I'm just a player, so.

Rob Vardeman (25:06.796)
Mm.

Rob Vardeman (25:10.766)
Speculation is very fun and you might even give me ideas from your speculation. So all of you in the water cooler start speculating. I will look at your ideas. We have a meeting coming up. You never know what might actually jump to the top of our to-do list. Very good. How about you? What's going on with you for resolutions? Do you do them? Okay. Good.

Seemyshell (25:13.66)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (25:18.38)
Ha ha ha!

Seemyshell (25:24.812)
There you go. Meanwhile, Rob, well, I'm gonna do a Rob. I'm gonna do a Rob. I'm gonna start talking slowly because my new year's Munzee resolution is to continue my streak, both capping and deploying as well, and also capping the POIs on a daily basis. So that's my resolution. People out there, if you're listening to this, start thinking.

start thinking about your resolution and you may wanna think about heavily because they may wanna do a video about it in 2024. Anyway, let's move. See, I did a Rob, I tried my hardest. I really slowed down my speech and everything. I did, I did. We've gotta move on, Rob. It's 26 minutes already. Let's move on to the Munzee question of the week. And this is a very important question as well from Buckeye Kasha Carson himself. He asked Rob,

Rob Vardeman (26:02.482)
Oh, that sounded like a hint.

Rob Vardeman (26:09.09)
Slowed down. It was very good. Yeah.

Seemyshell (26:22.76)
Will we ever get badges for physical deploys in other states or countries? Hmm.

Rob Vardeman (26:28.37)
Ooh, you know what? I've never heard that question before. Okay, maybe that's not true. Because I never like to say never. Well, okay, maybe. But I will say that physical deploys badges for them all that kind of stuff, a list of tracking. Well, that's not on a short list of things that are coming up in 2024. Yeah, it's also not on the long list for 2024.

Seemyshell (26:39.244)
Hmm?

Seemyshell (26:46.505)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (26:57.066)
we've got we've got a list. And if you go back a couple of years, maybe a few more than a couple, you'll find like we always used to have themes and one of them was expect the unexpected. The answer of yes to this question in 2024 would be very unexpected. So that's all I've got to say about that right now. And thanks for the question, I suppose. Next.

Seemyshell (27:24.272)
And move on, he says, there you go. Take from that what you will. Thank you very much. A buckwild cash. And don't forget anyone else out there who wants to submit your question for Rob or a tip of the week, you can message me on Facebook, Instagram, or on discord as well. Now let's move on to the Munzee tip of the week. This one itself is from me, this one, because I'm a social guy. I like to, I like my friends, whether they be friends to just to see where they are. So I can actually, you know, deploy for them all friends out there, like PJ.

Rob Vardeman (27:26.647)
Ha ha!

Rob Vardeman (27:53.591)
Thanks for watching.

Seemyshell (27:53.712)
Who I want to keep an eye on and try and catch in the points anyway either one you can actually add your friend So how do you add your friends from your friends list first of all open your app top right of you is your profile pick Click on that scroll down to social click on friends bottom of the screen is add friend type in their name now You can click on their name to make sure it's the right one first But you got to go back and then click on the plus symbol to the left of their name and then they are automatically

on your friends list. But Rob tell them how they can do that on the website as well.

Rob Vardeman (28:28.222)
That's right. And thankfully this time you've added and have both the app and the website. So I don't have to go, Oh, did you know that you can do it on the website? Tip number two. So on the website in the top right, where you've got your profile pick, you can there, just click on friends. And then you scroll down to the bottom and add the friends. You type in their name, you click add. So it's actually pretty simple online. But again, this is in the social section because friends, social, there you go.

Seemyshell (28:33.132)
I know. Ha ha ha.

Seemyshell (28:48.096)
Pretty simple, yeah.

Seemyshell (28:52.7)
Yeah. Friends were social. Exactly. And I will say this, you, you pointed out that, you know, I did put the website as well, um, as well as the app, uh, going back to that episode, guys, if you haven't listened to that episode, I can't even remember which one it was, but, uh, it was where I w I was telling people how to, uh, do the, the map link, the web link for the map and Rob put out there and said, Oh, Craig, did you know you can do this from the app itself as well? And told us about that. Rob, I got three different messages from three different people.

Rob Vardeman (29:05.922)
Uh-uh.

Seemyshell (29:22.6)
went live and said, Oh my goodness, I didn't know that either. So thank you very much. So there you go. People listen to the tips, Rob. So they're, they're very clever. Exactly. Right. Don't forget guys, if you have a tip of the week or a question, please reach out because they are, we don't know. In other words, I don't have any left on the list. Just saying exactly right. Exactly. Right. Rob, before we end mate, happy new year to you and to the lovely Lou as well. And all the Munzee team.

Rob Vardeman (29:28.558)
And that's what we're here for. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (29:39.33)
right. They help everyone help everyone come on.

Seemyshell (29:49.292)
And, uh, and from, uh, on behalf of all the players all around the world, we thank you and we thank the entire team for what you do for this wonderful game that we do play and we all do love. So thank you very much, mate. We do appreciate you.

Rob Vardeman (30:00.446)
On behalf of the team and myself and Lou, thank you and thanks to all the players for being patient with us this year in 2023. We've all made it and happy new year to everyone. Let's have a great 2024. So thank you.

Seemyshell (30:15.556)
And I think it's going to be so Rob, this ends another official Munzee podcast for the season. Don't forget to subscribe. And this is important, Rob. People who haven't subscribed, rate, you got to rate this app. You got to write on your app itself, write this podcast and put a review on there as well. And let us know that this is your favorite podcasting podcast. I can't even say it right.

Rob Vardeman (30:21.687)
Oh, thanks for joining us on this Munzee adventure.

Seemyshell (30:40.924)
Meanwhile, I'm gonna end this right now, so join us again for another week for another exciting episode. Oh my word.

Rob Vardeman (30:46.978)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game, it's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Seemyshell (30:52.892)
So keep scanning, keep discovering and keep that Munzey spirit alive. Ready Rob? 1, 2, 3, Happy New Year! Oh.

Rob Vardeman (30:59.126)
Monthly on! Oh yeah, Happy New Year! Nice one! See ya!