Craig and Rob chat all things Munzee from the Events of the past and future, to the MunzeeMonthlyMoment Videos
We discuss the launch of a new 2024 Bouncer (Glass Guardians) Flat Cup Scatters, and the new Ballonicorn/Balloodle
Rob answers a interesting Question of the week, from TakuXD regarding Munzee Coins, and we end with a great tip about getting new players involved in your area.
Craig and Rob chat all things Munzee from the Events of the past and future, to the MunzeeMonthlyMoment Videos
We discuss the launch of a new 2024 Bouncer (Glass Guardians) Flat Cup Scatters, and the new Ballonicorn/Balloodle
Rob answers a interesting Question of the week, from TakuXD regarding Munzee Coins, and we end with a great tip about getting new players involved in your area.
Seemyshell (00:01.13)
Welcome to the official Munzee Podcast.
Rob Vardeman (00:03.675)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.
Seemyshell (00:07.87)
And I'm Craig also known as Seemyshell, I'm an avid Munzee player and I'm here to explore this game further.
Rob Vardeman (00:13.947)
Each week we'll delve into Munzee's mysteries, divulge some secrets, and inform players from around the world just what is coming your way.
Seemyshell (00:21.526)
So sit back relax as today's episode is fully jam packed today. We chat about the week that was as always some glass guardians, new bounces and a question for Rob. And of course ending with the Munzee tip of the week. Rob, how are you buddy? Happy new year, mate. Season two is here.
Rob Vardeman (00:35.807)
Hey, hap- Happy New Year! It is indeed here and you know what? It's an exciting time.
Seemyshell (00:43.478)
Hmm. Yes, it is. It is. What did you get up to made over the over the whole New Year celebration? Did you go off with fireworks and stuff? What? Mm hmm.
Rob Vardeman (00:50.971)
Mm hmm. You know, ended with a bang, flew straight into 2024. Like literally, those are the two things that I've done at Epcot, the Magic King or at Epcot, Walt Disney World for a massive fireworks display to end 2023. And let's see nine hours later on a plane flying back to England. So
Seemyshell (01:05.037)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (01:16.579)
That's what my 2023 ended and started 2024 like. Yep. Busy.
Seemyshell (01:21.918)
Oh, there you go. It could have been, it could have been some other people would, I dare say would fly from say Sydney, for instance, to LA and therefore they, they do two firework sessions, but anyway, yeah.
Rob Vardeman (01:32.411)
Oh yeah. I mean, of just a 24 hour long New Year's Eve. Yeah. Interesting. Or I guess not 24, much, much longer because you continue to go back and forth. Yeah. Long time. Yeah. So how was yours? Yeah. How was yours?
Seemyshell (01:38.823)
Exactly, that's a long
Seemyshell (01:44.122)
Exactly right. Exactly right. But anyway, good, good. Well, just low key, you know, I'm in my 40s now, mate. So we don't do the whole fireworks thing and stuff as well. We do the cup of tea at 9pm and in bed by 10. Anyway, but more importantly, though, the Munzee monthly moments has begun for January of 2024. So did you see the we put out the video mate you saw it didn't you? Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (01:55.04)
Yeah.
Hahaha
Rob Vardeman (02:08.535)
Nice.
Rob Vardeman (02:11.835)
Yeah, I did. It looks like a good one. And for those people who don't do New Year's resolutions, like personally, that's all right. You can, you know, you've given them an idea of what they need to do for 2024 in terms of Munzee.
Seemyshell (02:15.028)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (02:19.988)
Yeah, yeah.
Seemyshell (02:26.618)
Exactly. A Munzee New Year's resolution is all you have to come up with and we're keeping it open. If you want to go in Kappa virtual, et cetera, then you're quite welcome to Kappa virtual show us how you do it, or just go and show us a physical Munzee and tell us your, uh, your new year's Munzee resolution. That's all you have to do. But we actually had a winner from last year. Did you saw the winner? Didn't you? It was Munrose. The winner was Munrose and she did exactly what we said on the podcast. She got Santa out there.
Rob Vardeman (02:48.17)
Yeah.
Seemyshell (02:53.97)
And Santa capped a Munzee and then she showed us the Christmas lights. And for that reason alone, I think personally, Rob and the fact that they were really cute together as well as a couple, I don't know if she's Mrs. Claus, but anyway, it's Monroe's. But she, he kept the Munzee, et cetera as well. And that's exactly what we asked him to do. And he dressed up a Santa and it was really cool. There was some other really good videos out there too, Rob. I will say it was, it was hard. It was so hard to look and go, ah, you know, but we try and spread the love.
Rob Vardeman (02:54.139)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (03:05.91)
Hehehe
Rob Vardeman (03:15.227)
Yeah, there were. Yeah.
Seemyshell (03:21.174)
The other new thing is happening with the Munzee monthly moments is all the runners up. So we don't pick the runners up anymore at all. The runners up is random. So it's a random draw spin. And, uh, and I'm going to, I'm going to leak some secrets now. I'm going to leak some secrets because I personally, I personally, I'm going to go live on February 1st of this year to draw those, those prizes out, draw them out live.
Rob Vardeman (03:28.25)
Hmm.
Rob Vardeman (03:36.079)
Oh, I can't wait.
Rob Vardeman (03:42.304)
Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (03:47.303)
Well, okay. Sounds like, sounds like a great deal. I mean, yeah, get, get your entries in because then you've got a chance to win. I will say I delivered prizes for the December one. Everybody got a prize for being in there for December. Those that were in before December 26th got something from Santa. Everyone from December got a little bit of a prize. Uh, they got the badge.
Seemyshell (03:49.462)
So there you go. That's going to happen. So keep an ear out.
Seemyshell (03:57.414)
Mm-hmm. Yep.
Seemyshell (04:04.735)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (04:11.277)
They did.
Rob Vardeman (04:16.787)
And then the winners and all the runners up, they got some additional prizes. So, totally worth it, in my opinion, to put together a video and this month is not difficult. Go find a Munzee, tell us your Munzee resolution for the year, come on people, join in.
Seemyshell (04:20.61)
That's really cool. Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (04:28.814)
That's exactly right. I did get a question there, Robert. And this isn't the question of the week. This is just a random question. And that is other badges still continuing in 2024 for the Munzee monthly videos. And I do believe that they are. And this came, I won't mention who it was. It was anonymous, but he just said, he, he said, I'm a badge hound. I need my badges. So he does it for the badges. So there you go.
Rob Vardeman (04:43.635)
Yes they will. Yes they will.
Rob Vardeman (04:53.279)
Oh, I know. I know who you're talking about. And he calls himself something worse than a badge hound. But yes, you are correct. Ha ha ha.
Seemyshell (05:02.311)
Anyway, Rob, let's move on. This is jam packed. The last week, the week that was, we had some events in USA. They were in Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. And of course there was a first event for 2024 happened in our first event in Africa at all, you said last week and it was in Cape town, South Africa. So there you go. That's really cool. Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (05:19.796)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (05:23.239)
Yeah. So the host of their C-BN, so CBN, also posted on the water cooler talking about the fact that they got cake. So did they get to eat it too? No. No, they have not been able to eat their cake yet. People will be able to eat their cake, let's pretend, through the Redeem store. So those who
Seemyshell (05:27.88)
Mm-hmm.
See you again.
Seemyshell (05:34.446)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Seemyshell (05:46.227)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (05:51.843)
All of the information is coming soon. Now, when this podcast plays, the information will not be out there quite yet, but it is coming very soon, and you and I might be sharing some of that information live and in person in Florida. That's what I hear.
Seemyshell (06:07.97)
Oh, there you go. People you have, you have heard it first right here. And don't, don't worry people. Don't worry this cake that we're talking about that I do believe this cake is full, full of preservatives. So it is not going to go off. It's not going to go bad. It's not going to go moldy. Okay. So you can hang on and wait to the cake until you can actually eat it and eat it deliciously too. And if you've got all this cake, cause there's some people out there, Rob, I'll be honest as some people out there around the world.
They can't get to events at all throughout the entire year. They're going to miss out on the cake. So if you've got, if you've got 20, 30, 40 pieces of cake, relish those pieces of cake and just wait, hang in there. Be patient. Something's going to come up and something's going to happen. And then you can literally devour, devour all the calories yourself. But anyway, I digress, but Rob, guess what?
Rob Vardeman (06:37.942)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (06:55.775)
You should be excited. It is produced, the cake is produced in America, so it does have plenty of preservatives, you are correct there.
Seemyshell (07:02.094)
It does. That's right. But Rob, you didn't, when we spoke about this just before we jumped on, you didn't realize that you, you actually let the cat out of the bag on November 17 in the podcast.
Rob Vardeman (07:14.347)
I must have spoken so slowly that I even forgot. So yes, it's been out there a little bit of information, a little bit of information, and then we've put just a little bit more out there this week in the blog. So stay tuned.
Seemyshell (07:24.461)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (07:31.566)
Exactly. So stay tuned for that. And also don't forget to make sure you subscribe to this podcast itself, because we, you're going to hear it here first. You're going to hear it here first. Uh, it will next week, I dare say, but anyway, we're going to move on to the leaderboards from last weekend on Friday. We had Carson himself, Buckeye, cash out one, one with almost 1 million points followed by a Jaroslaw, I never say this, but probably you say, you say, Jaroslaw has.
Rob Vardeman (07:57.203)
Yeah, Jaroslav Kos. Yeah.
Seemyshell (07:59.858)
Jaroslav Kars and Skindo in the 700k range. So well done Kars and good work, mate. Friday, very, very good. Saturday we had a few.
Rob Vardeman (08:09.119)
Yeah, Saturday we had Whalen with $1 million, Munzee Prof $960,000, and HBRB at $819,000.
Seemyshell (08:18.834)
And then on Sunday we had him again, wheeling and dealing at 1.1 million, uh, Munsey prof again at 950 K and Denali 0407 at 670 K as well. I do believe maybe those three are going to be at the Florida events. I dare be, I dare say, I dare say. Rob also got December clan wars as well. That's finished too now.
Rob Vardeman (08:37.548)
I think you are correct, yes. Yeah.
Seemyshell (08:45.098)
And I got the results from the December client. Of course, a BZ comes in first with almost 40 million points combined for the month. But that's in, that's in crash huge. Second place was sunshine state at 25 million. So almost like just over halfway compared to the first place. And third was gone rogue, almost 24 million. Now these are big hitter teams. These are big, big teams, you know, that they really are. I just wonder.
Rob Vardeman (08:45.385)
Yes.
Rob Vardeman (08:53.173)
Well.
Rob Vardeman (09:01.87)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (09:11.382)
I wonder how many in a row they've won. How many months in a row they've won. Just saying.
Rob Vardeman (09:16.063)
I would say if you went top three, you would find they spent a lot of time top three for the year 2023.
Seemyshell (09:21.674)
Mm hmm. Exactly. I'm very proud though. My team of seven, my lonely little team of seven, one me and the rest of it in Australia, we got 57th Rob, we got 57th. We've never been, we've never been that high up in the leaderboard. So yeah, yeah. That was really cool. Yeah. Really, really cool. Upcoming events this weekend, Rob, there's none in the US, but where else are they?
Rob Vardeman (09:35.044)
Hey, nice.
Rob Vardeman (09:41.278)
That's really great. Well done.
Rob Vardeman (09:47.803)
No, but we've got them in England, Netherlands, Germany, and ACT in Australia.
Seemyshell (09:53.622)
Oh yes. Good old ACT Australia, Australia's capital, believe it or not. Australian capital territory. That's what I say is to stands for. There you go. You learn more than the Munzee here, mate, but don't forget Rob, the large events coming up this in Florida, UK and California, but Rob, the Florida has now hit 50 will attends. So it looks like they're going to be a mega event. Um, but all
Rob Vardeman (09:56.631)
Hmm?
Rob Vardeman (10:01.1)
Hmm... well then.
Rob Vardeman (10:16.403)
Pow pow pow. If all of those people show up, yes, they will be a mega event. All of those people and more and more. Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (10:19.958)
They will, they will, that'll show everyone will show and more. And that's what normally happens. Cause people forget to click that will attend button. Uh, but don't forget if you're going down to Florida as well, and you're going to be there, it starts on Friday, Friday and Saturday and Sunday. But if you're going to be there one day early, they've got a pre event as well. So don't forget the pre event on the Thursday evening. Look out for that one. Now, Rob getting into it now, 10 minutes in this episode.
Rob Vardeman (10:28.694)
Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (10:44.463)
Ooh, let's go.
Seemyshell (10:45.61)
We've got to start to become, let's talk about the developments of this week. What's happening in the Munzee world this week.
Rob Vardeman (10:51.811)
Mm hmm. So let's kick it off with what we've talked about and hinted at. And there was a little picture of a little glass, you know, ornament looking thing. And so the question, you know, was what what's going to be that new monthly bouncer that takes the place of the what did we start with? Garden gnome garden flamingo last year was the garden hedge. Well, it's finally out.
Seemyshell (10:58.766)
Mm-hmm. Thank you.
Seemyshell (11:04.801)
Yeah.
Seemyshell (11:16.555)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (11:21.159)
And you'll notice there's a little bit of a difference. It doesn't have the word garden in it. So this one's gonna be a little bit different. So this one is a glass guardian. What do you think? Yeah.
Seemyshell (11:25.245)
No.
Seemyshell (11:31.254)
Oh, I like them. They look very attractive. They do. They look very, very attractive. They got their get glistening from the glass itself as well. So these glass guardians, they're pretty much exactly the same idea and concept, I do believe as the previous monthly bounces we're talking about. So you have to buy one, eight of them, you got to have eight of them by the end of the year in order to have one full time from then on. You got to keep up your monthly streak in order to
Rob Vardeman (11:38.91)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (11:59.742)
to get those skins that you can swap out afterwards as well. So that's all you have to do. So you do the exact same as you did last year and you get the points for it and you get them through. I did say, I did think about this as well. Rob, tell me from a, this isn't on the notes, tell me from a insider's point of view though, because at this time of the year, every time it happens, and that is, I lose 12, say for instance, 12 of my hedges and I get one permanent one.
Rob Vardeman (12:27.275)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (12:27.278)
Does that mean that there's less actual bouncers out in the world now? Yeah. Of course.
Rob Vardeman (12:30.567)
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Thousands less bouncers in the world. So everyone's going to notice that it's going to impact things like your tree houses, your skylands, your magnets in general. The speed may slow down a bit on those. But but there's, you know, there's always more things in the works that coming soon, not ready for this week's blog, but coming soon.
Seemyshell (12:43.003)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (12:46.978)
Hmm?
Seemyshell (12:52.102)
Exactly.
Rob Vardeman (12:58.571)
the, uh, that you do earn all of these skins, you know, each month. Um, so the, the question I suppose might be, you know, what, what do you think comes next for the glass guardians question for you there and commu and topic for the water cooler and various other on discord, like what's next.
Seemyshell (13:18.241)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (13:20.991)
That's the question. We do actually already have a plan, but that's what I'm not. I'm not fishing for like, hey, everybody tell us, please. What's the next blast Guardian? We do have a plan. Yeah.
Seemyshell (13:21.655)
Yeah.
Seemyshell (13:26.818)
ideas.
Seemyshell (13:30.85)
So you, you asking for the next glass gutting or you asking for the next year's actual bounce? No, no, that's too far away. That's way too far away.
Rob Vardeman (13:33.531)
Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no. We're we're definitely not on year yet. We are definitely on what which one are we going to reveal February for people to earn? What do you think?
Seemyshell (13:45.098)
Well, this, this month, this month is a, uh, is a, is a dragon, isn't it? A drag and then they are guardians. They technically they are glass guardians. So, yeah, geez. What, what else can be a guardian of sorts? I'm going to say maybe, maybe this is again, this is my point, my opinion. And you just chuck this on me. It's not in the show notes. Um, I have no idea. I'm going to say either a wasp or a bee. Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (13:49.047)
true dragon.
Rob Vardeman (14:02.675)
Yep. Yeah, you have no idea. This is totally a guess. Just curious.
Rob Vardeman (14:11.223)
Oh, now that's interesting. They?
Seemyshell (14:13.546)
That's just my interpretation. That's my idea. Either, either, either not maybe even not on February, but sometime during this year, it'll be like a wasp or a bee. Cause you got to have a guardian from the air, Rob. So you got a dragon is gutting from the land. You got to have a gutting from air. You got to have a gutting from water for instance, as well. You know, this is just my thoughts and ideas. Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (14:20.159)
Okay.
Rob Vardeman (14:31.587)
I know, I know, and I love to get answers like this because it really does go, oh, your thoughts, are they similar or are they different than mine? And that's why we have a good team who builds all this stuff because we all compile different directions of thoughts. Hey man, that's really cool. All right, players, you let us know.
Seemyshell (14:41.533)
Yeah.
Seemyshell (14:45.003)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (14:48.95)
That is really cool. So don't forget guys, get your glass, got it. And now they are available in the store, the freeze tag store itself. Uh, for the month of January, I think they're $12 and they go down a dollar every single month, but you can only buy one every 28 days. So every 28th day you can then buy a new one, but you see, you can't buy two in one month or whatever, sort of from there. But Rob question then, if it was at 28 days, if I buy one, say on the 20th of January, do I have to then wait until like the 20th of February before I can buy my second?
Or can I buy my second on the 1st of February? There's a question.
Rob Vardeman (15:19.612)
You can buy it actually if you bought it on the 1st of January, you can buy again on the 29th of January. And then, yeah, yep, the code resets at the end of 28 days, like literally down to the second. So
Seemyshell (15:27.126)
So it's exactly 28 days. Okay.
Seemyshell (15:36.274)
Yeah. So you're, so I'm right then in saying if I, if I wait until the 20th of January, for instance, I can't buy the next one until the 20th of Feb round figures. Oh, there you go. There you go. Very good. Very good. Or what else have you got for us? That's the glass guardians. What's next? What's next?
Rob Vardeman (15:41.502)
Hmm.
Rob Vardeman (15:44.623)
Right. It is that.
Rob Vardeman (15:52.551)
Let's see this what we've got going on right now that launched earlier this week is the flat cup scatters. It's going to end Sunday night image queue time like rolling into Monday morning. So those flat cups are out there and this works the same as all the other scatter events that we've done. I believe this is the first time that we've done the flat cup scatters.
Seemyshell (15:56.171)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (16:02.698)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (16:12.343)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (16:16.534)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (16:17.423)
So the flat cup, don't forget is in honor of Sam, like Sam, you know, of Cuppa Z fame, now part of our team. So he gets a flat object. And so, yeah, so these are scattering different cups of coffee. All right. So that's what scattering. So you need to capture one for a badge. And then there's also a badge for capturing 25. There are no additional badges beyond that.
Seemyshell (16:21.3)
Yes.
Seemyshell (16:24.742)
Yep.
Seemyshell (16:34.799)
Oh.
Seemyshell (16:38.734)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (16:44.478)
So is that, thanks for letting us know, but is that, is that, that you're, you're talking about the capturing the scatters, not the actual cups. So if you can't capture the cups, but not the scatters, you don't get any badges. You capture the cups and then the scatters. That's when you get the badges. But Rob, I was just thinking of this when I looked at the show notes as well. If you want to do like, if you want to do this, cause they're virtuals, the flats are virtuals everyone, so you know, you have to get, you don't, you have to be in a certain radius and cap it virtually. But Rob, if you want, if you want something physical.
Rob Vardeman (16:47.808)
Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (16:51.479)
The scatters. Correct.
Seemyshell (17:14.21)
physical in
Rob Vardeman (17:25.195)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (17:30.25)
Absolutely.
Rob Vardeman (17:40.134)
Mm-hmm. It.
Seemyshell (17:43.198)
As well as your cup and as you cap there on the freeze tag store. So there you go.
Rob Vardeman (17:47.507)
Hey, it is a great design. Well done on that. And good promotion there. Yeah, check them out. And there are actually more things in the store. It's all been added properly now because I know that we did talk about it previously. I haven't put things in the store for a long time, so I hadn't pushed all the buttons in the correct order. All the things are there. They're in a merchandise collection, so you can search for merchandise.
Seemyshell (17:49.63)
Yeah.
Seemyshell (18:00.011)
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Seemyshell (18:09.025)
I'm sorry.
Seemyshell (18:15.747)
Perfect.
Rob Vardeman (18:16.819)
Uh, also I believe clothing would get you there as well or apparel apparel. Yeah.
Seemyshell (18:19.438)
clothings there. There's caps in there apparel. Yeah. Caps in there. There's even, we call them in Australia. We call them a bum bag in Americans call them fanny packs. It's a good size one as well. And when I looked at that, Rob, I thought to myself straight away, it's actually called the real muns pack. So there you go. Ooh, very clever of me. Um, but what I thought about when I saw that as well, I thought straight away, I'm going to put all my new generic stickers and all my physical stickers, et cetera in that pack and therefore have that with me in the car for whenever I go out, it's always in one spot.
Rob Vardeman (18:26.779)
Mm-hmm. Thank you, back again.
Rob Vardeman (18:35.591)
Hey, well done.
Seemyshell (18:48.67)
It's not in a zip lock bag or whatever. It's actually in it's dedicated Muns pouch, Muns pack. So there you go.
Rob Vardeman (18:54.203)
not just in the pocket of your jeans so that when you take them off you put them in the washer and then you lose all those generics like I have done several times. Yeah, it's a good idea.
Seemyshell (19:02.722)
Exactly. And then you spend hours like trying to peel them off the inside of the washing machine because they've stuck to the inside. But anyway, I'll definitely be getting out my, my flat cups. Don't worry about that. I'll be getting the 25 scatters and I can get the second and last badge for that one as well. So 25, the last one. So after that, you can just relax, you still cap, but just relax. What else is happening, Rob? What else is happening in regards to the events? Cause we had the cakes.
Rob Vardeman (19:09.052)
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Rob Vardeman (19:21.035)
There you go. Yes.
Seemyshell (19:31.222)
This year, we've got these cakey things this year. We spoke about that earlier. What's happening for the last year's people?
Rob Vardeman (19:37.319)
So last year we had the same sort of setup where you know there were monthly events and so you had perfect attendees and also perfect hosts. So if you hosted an event for 12 months, all 12 months, not just 12 different events, but one event each month. And then the same thing for attendees, if you attended one of the monthly events all 12 months, then we have
Seemyshell (19:54.478)
Mm.
Rob Vardeman (20:06.591)
delivered to you your bouncer. So this is a permanent bouncer that people get and we'll call it, you know, free for the host. They paid for all the events all year long for the attendees they attended. So you've got those things. So there's a balloonicorn. All right. A balloonicorn for the perfect host and a balloodle.
Seemyshell (20:28.379)
Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (20:31.923)
for the perfect attendees, right. So those two things are balloons. They're balloon animals. All right. So one thing that that's happening here is the hosts and the attendees, they got one bouncer. One. The hosts have the balloonicorn design, but they have the option of switching, of converting to the balloodle. However,
Seemyshell (20:33.483)
Oh.
Very clever.
Seemyshell (20:49.78)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (21:00.895)
the perfect attendees only have that one design. They only have the bloodle. So in other words, perfect hosts, you've got a little advantage there, right? You've got a choice. And yeah, so in the blog, there's a couple of little words for now, dot dot. So just gonna lay that out there as this is what's happening for now with these items and the fact that
Seemyshell (21:01.069)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (21:04.984)
wrong.
Seemyshell (21:09.674)
You got a choice. Yeah.
Seemyshell (21:17.966)
Mm-hmm.
for now.
Seemyshell (21:24.974)
for now. Okay.
Rob Vardeman (21:30.591)
The fact that it's a skin, officially, the balloodle, and the balloona corn, maybe give somebody, some people, some things to think about. Carry on. Yeah.
Seemyshell (21:31.947)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (21:35.333)
Oh.
Seemyshell (21:42.998)
Wow. Jeez. I will say, I will say, cause I did have, have looked at the show notes from you gave me some show notes and now am I allowed to discuss in terms of the point system of them on, oh, I can, because if I was a hosting an event every month, last month, and I get the choice telling you right now, I'm getting the balloon of corn, I am not going to get the blue for the simple reason is balloon a coin deploy points is 500, the capture points is two 50 and cap on points is 300 as opposed to the balloon.
Rob Vardeman (21:49.559)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (21:54.023)
Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure
Seemyshell (22:12.906)
is 250 for deploy 200 for capture and one 50 for cap on. So it's almost double the points to actually have the balloonicorn. And that's your, that's your giveaway. You'll, you'll give back to those hosts that did all the work, did all the hard work, paid all that extra money as well in order to host the events last, uh, last year. So guys, if you're an event host, don't even think about it. Keep your balloonicorn. That's what I'd be doing, but you do have the choice. If you, if you like a blue, more than a balloonicorn.
Rob Vardeman (22:36.868)
You.
Rob Vardeman (22:41.363)
Yep, you found it. Well done. That's exactly what was hidden in there. Well done.
Seemyshell (22:46.65)
Oh, did I just release it? Oh, there you go. There you go. And the people see people that read the blog, like, you know, the GCV himself, he likes to listen to our voices for some reason, as opposed to reading the blogs himself. So anyway, uh, Rob moving on though, I did see some of the, obviously on the water cooler first this morning when I woke up with some pumpkins now are starting to be puffed out left, right and center because they deployed them straight away. And.
Rob Vardeman (22:48.751)
Mmm, nope, it's in there. You're right. That's called reading the blog. Well done.
Rob Vardeman (23:02.399)
Hehehe
Seemyshell (23:16.014)
et cetera, et cetera. They've, they've alluded, have alluded. No, evolved, evolved. I can't even speak. They've evolved now into these, into these other pump from the actual pumpkin seeds. Can you get, the question was though, can you get more from the store? Answers? Yes, you can. They're in the evolutions. Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (23:19.533)
Evolved? Yeah. Ha ha ha.
Rob Vardeman (23:30.875)
Yeah. Yeah, they are. They're available in the store. Now, if you already own some, don't forget that you can use your evolution reset credits and you can keep your pumpkins growing all year long. So once it evolves all the way into that bouncer, which is a temporary bouncer because it goes away after a certain number of captures, once it evolves, you have the ability to hit the Evo reset button so that it starts back over at stage one.
Seemyshell (23:36.94)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (23:42.673)
Oh.
Seemyshell (23:46.495)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (23:56.223)
That also gives people an opportunity to capture it again if they missed it the first time at any stage.
Seemyshell (23:59.393)
Mm-hmm.
see. And again, I'm not sure if you guys, you know, this is a forethought or just a happy, happy stance. And that is all the all the hedges have gone away. Most of the hedges have gone away except for the obviously permanent ones now. But now these have come out to you see, so that people don't worry about like losing your this not as many caps. There's not as many bounces. There's not as many bounces for everyone, not just yourself, but for everyone. We're all in this together as a team. So you know, if I'm only getting you know, four bounces now on my
Rob Vardeman (24:24.083)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Seemyshell (24:32.382)
Skyland. So bit, you know, Joe blow down the road, John, I get in four on his as well. So it's either way, but the pumpkins have now come in and so they're starting to pump up, so to speak, ha ha, the amount of, so that's right. There you go. All right, Rob, moving on now we're 24 minutes in for the Munzee question of the week. Are you ready? This one's this one. This one. I like this one. This one is from a TACU XD on discord. He asks, are there any plans to release any new
Rob Vardeman (24:42.739)
Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (24:51.967)
Yes, I'm ready.
Seemyshell (25:00.846)
coins as I think it would be cool to have new designs such as POIs or flat cups. Yes.
Rob Vardeman (25:06.327)
Wow, that is an interesting one. Do you know how many years it's been since we released a new coin? Because. Yeah.
Seemyshell (25:12.886)
I don't know how many years, but I have discovered a couple myself. But yeah, the coins have just gone on the wayside. So he's asking if coins are coming back.
Rob Vardeman (25:21.039)
Indeed. It's a good question. Sounds like a newer player question because older players saw them go away and saw them get discounted in order to try and pass these coins on to the players. It was a program that we ran for a while and we stepped away from it just because of, well, focus on lots and lots of other areas. I've got a guy.
Seemyshell (25:28.395)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (25:38.623)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (25:50.087)
His name is Dale. He is an experienced coin maker. And so I think that if we heard from enough people, like we would love to have new coins designs, then we might reach out to our friend Dale and see if he could help us out there. Because is it possible? Yes. Is it likely at this point in time? No. If we hear from enough people, it becomes more likely. So there you go.
Seemyshell (26:01.559)
Hmm.
Seemyshell (26:12.652)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (26:16.018)
Oh, there you go. So if you guys, if you want actual coins themselves, like these, these discovery, we're not gonna call them trackable coins, but you know, they're discoverable coins. Yeah. Discoverable coins, like you do in other playing games, then reach out, reach out on and make your voice heard on the water cooler. I, you know, message, message the couple of the team members, if you like, or whatever else as well. There you go.
Rob Vardeman (26:26.495)
Basically, yeah.
Rob Vardeman (26:32.896)
Hmm?
Rob Vardeman (26:37.899)
Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (26:41.983)
Or just message you, just message you.
Seemyshell (26:43.978)
No, don't just message me. Message me there, Rob. Rob, here's a segue. Message me though, if you want to ask Rob a question for the question of the week, or you can message me for the tip of the week as well. And you can submit them via personal message on Facebook, Instagram, Discord, or on the official Munzee app. I've got a couple from there too, so that's pretty cool. Rob, we're gonna get in now to the tip of the week. Now this one here is from a young player, I dare say.
And that is he's, he's asking how can we get more players in my area? Like he's the only player in his area. How can he get more players in his area? Now I did little search, did a little research and stuff from here. Number one for me would be word of mouth. Tell your family, tell your friends and make sure they rob, make sure they cap your referral code so you can get the extra points when they keep playing from there. Mm hmm. What do you think? What else do you think Rob? What's your, what do you think you'd be your second one?
Rob Vardeman (27:31.199)
Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah.
Well, there's a lot of ways that you can do it. And this is helpful to all players because everyone would love to have more people in their area. So posting on social media, doing things that make it appear fun, because if you're posting about like boring stuff or if you're just posting pictures of every lamp post, like that's not going to get people to be super excited about it. However, talking about the different types of bouncers, those kinds of things, things that are fun about it.
Seemyshell (27:40.549)
Mm.
Hmm. Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (27:52.718)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (27:59.274)
Yeah.
Seemyshell (28:07.352)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (28:07.719)
on social media, also through videos. What? Like the Munzee Monthly Memories. Hey, come on people. These are good ideas. Do it.
Seemyshell (28:11.714)
Mm-hmm. There you go.
Seemyshell (28:17.466)
I did, this is not on the show notes Rob, but I did get a message from a random person on one of my Munzee videos. Do not take photos of QR codes because it could be a spamware and everything else as well for cyber security, blah, blah. I had to explain to this person, when you're in the app itself, the Munzee app, and you scan a QR code that's not a Munzee, that is a scannable code, whatever, that's not a Munzee.
It just comes up with this is not a Munzee and nothing happens to your phone. Nothing happens to your social media. Nothing happens to technology. Your phone doesn't explode in your hand. Jesus people. Robots.
Rob Vardeman (28:47.447)
Mm-hmm.
Rob Vardeman (28:54.809)
Hmm, almost like the police officer that founded this company 13 years ago thought of that. How weird.
Seemyshell (29:02.435)
funny that there you go. There you go. Uh, Rob, the other thing I would say, if you want more players in your area is to maybe organize your own Munzee event, you know, creating events in parks, et cetera. It also, it allows you to have the people random muggles or one of a better word, people who don't know about Munzee walking past them. What are you guys doing? You got your phones out and you've got these little flaggy things as you're walking around, what, what are they? And then you can actually cause a discussion from there. Um, or.
Or I will say this, you can coexist. I like this one. I actually like this one coexist. I coexist, but not with, uh, not with events. My co-exist by word of mouth and by social media. And so what I mean by that is when I started getting back into Munzee big time, you know, back in, you know, April of last year, April of the year before now, wow, it's been that long. Um,
Rob Vardeman (29:34.256)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Seemyshell (29:51.806)
A lot of my geocaching friends reached out to me and go, what are you playing that? I played that back in the day, five years ago. It's crap. It's yeah, you just, you know, the stickers are missing and blah, blah. They said, no, I got no, no. It's changed. Yeah. Everything has changed. So if you have a discussion with your, we're going to say, you know, location based game friends, if you have a discussion with them saying, this is Munzee, this is what I've been getting into now, and this is the reasons why I like it now, you know, you can cap your Skylands daily, your POI is that sort of thing. Um.
Rob Vardeman (30:03.915)
Mm-hmm.
Seemyshell (30:21.142)
You can't do that with other location based games, but anyway, the ear, have that, have that discussion with your, with your social gaming friends as well. So that's, that's my idea too. I like that.
Rob Vardeman (30:31.987)
I will say on the event piece, having signage is the best way to make sure that people who are nearby just in the park having signage really, really makes a difference. I've seen it firsthand. So many times people come over going, Hey, what's Munzee? Or if they can read it from far enough away, they just research it themselves. It's a good way to do it. So yeah.
Seemyshell (30:37.837)
Okay.
Seemyshell (30:44.633)
Mmm.
Seemyshell (30:53.382)
Yeah. Rob, before you move on, if they want signage, guess what? Go to your store. There's an actual, a physical sign in the store as well with a Munzee, a Munzee event as I still want to. I'm picking up my dropping down.
Rob Vardeman (31:07.019)
Yeah, there is well done. Nice one. Um, I will tell you like, yeah, remember, the way that things work for one person doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to work the same for everyone. So, so keep in mind how your community is. And you know, make sure that you adapt to that. It is going to take you lots of time and lots of effort and it don't give up. Don't give up.
Seemyshell (31:18.727)
Mm-hmm. Of course.
Seemyshell (31:33.47)
Mm-hmm. No. Yeah.
Rob Vardeman (31:35.103)
That's the main thing you keep going. And, uh, and as they say in that one movie, uh, if you build it, they will come. So deploy, deploy. Absolutely.
Seemyshell (31:44.721)
If you deploy it they will cap. Alright Rob, so guess what, this ends the first episode of the new season for the official Munzee Podcast.
Rob Vardeman (31:53.595)
Well, thanks for joining us on this Munzee adventure.
Seemyshell (31:56.826)
And don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favourite podcasting app. And join us next week for another informative episode.
Rob Vardeman (32:03.535)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game, it's a worldwide community of mobile game players.
Seemyshell (32:08.642)
So keep scanning, keep discovering, and keep the Munzee spirit alive. One, two, three, Rob. Munzee on! So close.
Rob Vardeman (32:13.651)
Monzy on! Oh, I think I... No? Ah.