Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday January 3rd, 2025

In this episode of the Munzee podcast, hosts Rob and Craig discuss the latest happenings in the Munzee community, including event updates, leaderboard highlights, and new features for the upcoming year. They also delve into the introduction of new Munz packs and the return of clan wars, providing insights and tips for players.
Craig and Rob discuss the return of the Golden Carrot for January, strategies for Clan Wars, and the benefits of premium membership. They also highlight the Munzee Monthly Moments video contest and share their personal goals for 2025, emphasizing community engagement and support within the Munzee game.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to the Munzee Podcast
• 1:59 Events and Leaderboards Overview
• 5:56 New Year, New Features in Munzee
• 10:10 Munz Packs and Upcoming Themes
• 14:00 Clan Wars and Special Events
• 14:23 The Return of the Golden Carrot
• 17:11 Strategies for Clan Wars
• 18:59 Premium Membership Benefits
• 21:49 Munzee Monthly Moments and Community Engagement
• 24:56 Setting Goals for 2025

Transcript

Craig (00:00.786)
Welcome to the official Munzee podcast.

Rob (00:03.114)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.

Craig (00:06.937)
And I'm Craig, also known as Seemyshell, I'm an avid Munzee player and I'm here to explore the game further.

Rob (00:11.734)
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.

Craig (00:18.43)
So sit back, relax. Today's episode, happy new year to one and all first and foremost. This episode is gonna be absolutely jam jam packed. Rob, we're gonna get a start. Now, before I start, I am in a little rest stop area. You might hear cars go past. I'll do my best though, do my best. Mate, you're not in a rest area. Where are you at the moment?

Rob (00:24.302)
Woo.

Rob (00:32.558)
Hmm. Okay.

Rob (00:38.03)
No, I'm not. I'm still in sunny Southern California and enjoying when the sun breaks through the clouds. It's been pretty weird that it's been fairly cloudy. Today is a nice sunny day. Lou and I took a break, went and I deployed a couple of Munzees actually at the old Los Angeles Zoo and recorded some videos for my other interests as well.

Craig (00:42.228)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (00:46.996)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (01:05.32)
and so as Lou, Lou's put out some fun videos on her, channel and yeah, yeah, I put an interesting one together.

Craig (01:05.51)
you-

Yeah.

Craig (01:12.242)
And, and, let's be honest as well. If you don't follow Rob, I mean, he's the president of this game we play. If you don't follow him on his other social endeavors as well. And it's a lot of it is about beer. Let's be honest, Rob or, or for you Americans beer. but that's what it's, it's about. So follow him. The links in the description as well. It's, it's, is it what you change it? Is it just Rob V? Just Rob V, just Rob V. It used to be, it used to be beer snob Rob, but you changed it to just Rob V. I like it. Yeah.

Rob (01:22.188)
Yeah.

Rob (01:31.63)
Just rub B. Yeah, that's all.

Rob (01:38.552)
You know what? I'm going to tell you real quick because it's not gone live maybe by Friday, but today I was a bear snob. What bear? oops. Beer, beer snob Rob. That's right. Nevermind. Yeah. Anyway, anyway, what all else is going on? What's going on with you? Everything good.

Craig (01:43.411)
Yeah.

What? baby! Very good, very good.

Craig (01:55.668)
Mate, I'm, I'm in Florida. Yes, I drove down all the way to Florida. I tell you now the temperature is a big, big difference. Chasing the 70, they say chasing the 70 and that's exactly what I'm doing. For the rest of the players all around the world, it's around the 22 degree mark Celsius. So just to let you know, they're going 70. What's he talking about the 70? Yeah, so I am, Rob, there's an event in Sarasota tomorrow. Yeah, in Sarasota, so I'll head over to that one.

Rob (01:59.117)
Woo!

Rob (02:07.246)
Thank

Rob (02:13.582)
Nice.

Craig (02:24.212)
It's only a couple of hour drive. So I'll head over that one and I'll see a few of the Floridian Munzee players over there. Eagle Dad, I'm after you, mate, I'm after you. So there we go. Meanwhile, other events, other events, Rob, in the USA is South Carolina, New York and Maryland and California as well. And around the world we have, no, that was last week. That's last week. wow. I've gone too far. See, jumped ahead as well. Anyway, the events last weekend was...

Rob (02:32.91)
Let's go.

Rob (02:42.392)
That was last weekend. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Hey, that's all right.

Craig (02:53.512)
I'm not gonna repeat it, you know where it was. It was also one in Minnesota as well and around the world we had one in Finland. Now the leaderboards Rob, over the weekend, millionaires galore, absolutely galore, but they weren't spread out. A few people hogged them. Do you wanna start with Friday? You start with Friday.

Rob (03:02.925)
Yes.

Rob (03:08.077)
Course they did. Yeah. Well, we had W. Helen leading off on Friday, 1.37 million. The Mock Man, 1.32 million. Herbie, 1.1 million. And Jaroslav Kaz, 1 million.

Craig (03:22.15)
You know people if you get over 1 million you we're going to say your name no matter what place you come including fourth place like Jaroslav Kas. Meanwhile Saturday Jaroslav Kas was in first place with 1.2 million points. Whelan on 1.1 million in second and Skindo 1 million rounds out the top three Sunday Rob.

Rob (03:29.251)
Yeah.

Rob (03:40.846)
Sunday HBRB 1.8 million, Wieland back again 1.5 million, Loesch family 1.2 million, guess what? Jaroslav Kost, one more time, 1.1 million. Look at that, over 3 million in a three day window. What?

Craig (03:52.468)
Look at that.

Craig (03:56.232)
for both Jaroslav Kas and Whelan as well, both of them. Head to head, head to head. Exactly, very, very cool. And congratulations to all those other players out there who, Rob, there's plenty of people out there who got personal best, let's be honest. So congratulations to all of you out there who got personal best. You don't necessarily have to be up there with the big guns, so to speak. And if you've seen W. Helen, he does have big guns and he shows them. Anyway, the events this weekend coming up is Arizona, Pennsylvania, Texas, and here in Florida.

Rob (03:59.307)
Yeah.

Rob (04:02.807)
Wow.

Rob (04:09.533)
yeah.

Rob (04:19.566)
Good one.

Craig (04:26.598)
It's a candy, it's a candy bar event too, Rob. Anyway, around the world we have Switzerland, Finland, Canada, is Ontario, there's Netherlands, there's two. Now, one, the two in Netherlands, Rob. I've got an email. I'm gonna skip straight to the email. So he says, first and foremost, all the best for 2025 for you, Rob, and all the listeners. This is, what's his name, Rob? FROK. FROK sent me this as well.

Rob (04:26.691)
Yeah.

Rob (04:37.568)
So.

Rob (04:50.218)
F R L K

Craig (04:53.84)
He said tomorrow, January 4th, we have our double header event with triple points for premium players. The first is at 11 a.m. It's his personal birthday event. So happy birthday to him. Attendees not only get cake by capping event pins, but they also get some real cake as well. The second one is at 2 p.m. and is from the first, from the new series about the House of Orange. Apparently they visit almost every month a site with a connection with a Dutch royal family.

Rob (05:04.119)
Happy birthday!

Craig (05:21.62)
Both events are connected with each other through the event pin routes. So you can actually walk a beautiful round trip to both, and they both get unique badges and event pins as well. He said, finally, it would be nice if the flats garden is filled. Now I looked at this garden Rob. Oh, it's a big garden. It's the biggest flats garden in the world, he says. It's 4,800 spots. There's only 442 openings currently left.

Rob (05:21.656)
Cool.

Craig (05:47.93)
And this garden is literally on the route in which you walk to do these pins. So, yeah, get some of those, if you want to deploy your flats, get your flats in that flat garden. there's still parts with openings as well. And he said, by the way, great show every single week. He enjoys it now hoping you don't skip this week. I don't have to read, I can read his email. Guess what? We're not skipping. There's no holidays. There's no vacations for you and I, Rob.

Rob (05:56.888)
Yeah.

Rob (06:08.334)
You

Rob (06:12.216)
That's true. F R L K two things. Happy birthday and flattery will get you everywhere on this podcast.

Craig (06:15.56)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (06:19.916)
Exactly, Meanwhile, quickly, big events, January 16th and 19th, Florida, that's getting big, Rob. That's got 42. Let's get it over the 50. Let's get it there's five events for Munzey Mecca. You and I are gonna be there, so, you know, get yourselves down, I'm telling you, Rob, people out there, if you're getting cold, wherever you are, Minnesota, fly down. It is beautiful weather down here. Absolutely got you, you don't need your jeans, you need shorts down here.

Rob (06:26.595)
Yes.

Craig (06:45.734)
Let alone Long Johns like I've seen Josh in before recently as well. Munzee Madness in California has been locked in Rob March 8th and 9th. The events have gone live. All of them have gone live now as well. May 3rd is Munzee in Uranus and Big Fun in Uranus and that's what we're gonna have. May 24th is Munstock. June 7th and 8th is in Ohio for SOS. And yeah, so they're the big events. If you got one, let me know and we'll talk from there. Meanwhile, Rob, let's get on to this show because we're seven minutes in. There's lots to talk about.

2025 massive, massive year. As always with Munzee, let's be honest, because you always come out with these new things. First and foremost, Rob, we had this year, we had the glass guard, or last year, sorry, we had the glass guardians. What do we have this year?

Rob (07:29.506)
Well, happy new year, everyone. And with a new year comes a new streak bouncer. And this time we came up with this idea and then we kicked around quite a few names, you know, because that's what we do. And we always have to try and munsify things because, well, that's what we do. We change things and we munsify the names. So this one is muns shrooms. You know, we kicked around fun guys with a Z on the end. We kicked around quite.

Craig (07:58.356)
you

Rob (07:59.018)
quite a few different types of things because they're mushrooms. And so these mushrooms, they're actually pretty cool. Andy did a great job on the art. Dylan came up with the theming behind everything and just basically a cooking type idea. So it kind of almost ties in with events because events have all been based around cakes and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. So it's like we're a very hungry crew or something. So yeah, these came out on January 1st.

Craig (08:14.259)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (08:19.636)
Cake and food. Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (08:28.489)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (08:28.494)
It works the same as all of our previous streak bouncers, which everyone knows are the Garden Hedge, the Gnome, the Flamingo, and the Glass Guardian from last year. The thing that's going to be a little bit different this year is that there are no reseller variants, are there? Because, yeah, yeah, so we don't have resellers anymore, so no reseller variant. The number is going to stay the same to collect eight in order to keep a permanent one that will be on the map in 2026.

Craig (08:37.075)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (08:42.996)
there's four. That's right. That's right.

Craig (08:52.136)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (08:56.66)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (08:56.99)
But there's also another small change here. Because of how we do them and when you get that final streak, you know, skin, if you don't have a permanent one, then you really don't ever get to put that final skin on display. Yeah, yeah. So we've decided for the first time after four years of doing this,

Craig (09:06.073)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Craig (09:14.677)
I did see that, yes, yes.

Craig (09:23.293)
you

Rob (09:23.502)
that we're gonna switch it up and we're not going to pull them off the map on January 1st, we're gonna pull them off the map on February 1st. So they will go through January 31st, 2026. yeah, yeah. So it's going to be, you basically, if you buy right now, you have 13 months worth of bouncing from this very first munchroom. Yeah. So.

Craig (09:34.676)
2026. yeah. Yep. Yep.

Craig (09:45.972)
Yes, yeah, exactly. So I'm gonna say this to everyone, get yourself one ASAP. As you said, Rob, you do need eight, there's only 12 to collect, you can collect 12. So don't leave it though until like near the last minute to collect them. So collect them all now. And I'll say this, if everyone buys them all now and they're gonna literally scatter around the entire map, Rob, there's not gonna be mushroom for anything else, just saying. So, ah, there you go.

Rob (10:09.198)
Nice one. Nice one. Nice one. I love it. Growing, growing in the dark. That's what these things were all about. They, you can only buy one every 28 days. So yes, you do need to plan ahead. a question that we both know is going to pop up by the time this goes live. will there be any bonus ones, available?

Craig (10:13.982)
See, see, I am a fun guy too.

Craig (10:25.224)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (10:34.791)
Yes.

Rob (10:35.532)
the only bonus one that I can see possibly happening would be the birthday one. So one that comes out in January, in January, one that comes out in July for the birthday month.

Craig (10:44.648)
In July, yeah. That's only a possibility though, you're not saying that's definite, that's only a possibility. When I said before, there's 12, you gotta collect eight out of the 12 and get yourself from, get the mail now. And Rob, use Cuppa Z. Now I've got a video as well on my YouTube channel, how I use Cuppa Z to make sure I can see exactly, not just the date, but the exact time that I can purchase another one. Exactly 28 days to the second that I can purchase another one.

Rob (10:49.644)
Yep. Correct.

Craig (11:12.732)
I've been in discussions with Sam previously about this a few months back and yes, we've got the got it. He got it rolling straight away and bam, there it is. So yeah, there's a way you can actually see exactly when you can actually purchase your next one. 28 days to the second. So good work from Sam. Anyway, Rob, also there's new muns packs available this year as well. What's the muns pack?

Rob (11:29.048)
Well, very good.

Rob (11:35.278)
Yes. So the, new muns pack theme is actually going to kick off in February. Uh, so, um, so we do have something fun that's coming. We didn't want to overwhelm January 1st with, um, munchrooms and this other new thing that's coming. Um, but it's going to be a special type of bouncer, uh, that's going to be available in the muns packs. It will not happen until February 1st. So for those of you who are like, wait, I didn't get that. No February 1st.

Craig (11:41.268)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (11:49.3)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (12:00.03)
So, yep, there you go.

Rob (12:04.534)
so we do have, brand new cards and these cards are all about being a bookworm this year. So we kind of have a yearly theme around the cards associated with MUNS packs. And then, there's also one unique item. the past couple of years, it's been a different type of Zodiac, the Celtic Zodiac, the Norse Zodiac. yes, we could write, we could keep going through all the Zodiacs. There are plenty more out there as you can imagine.

Craig (12:23.696)
Mm-hmm. Yep. The Westerns, I think, the whole lot, yeah.

Rob (12:33.23)
However, we decided let's let's spin it in a different direction again. Years ago, we had temporary bouncers. It's actually the little cute animals, you know, that have been coming out in clan wars. Those were special limited edition basically bouncers that came through the lens pack. Yeah. So, so we're going back in that direction. It's going to be it's going to be a fun time. We're looking forward to it.

Craig (12:41.118)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (12:44.564)
yes, yes, yes, yes.

Craig (12:51.326)
fences.

Craig (12:59.686)
Really, really cool. Yes. And so am I. And don't forget as well, and that is a lot of people ask, I don't see the cards in the redeem store. You know how you can redeem for stamps? Well, that's because you need the actual card. You need to have purchased that card in order to be able to redeem it later on. You can't just redeem it for stamps later on when Rob changes out the different card techniques. Now, Rob, how often do you change out the redeem store cards? Exactly.

Rob (13:24.202)
Not as often as I should, do I?

Craig (13:27.548)
Exactly. I think that was more of a hint than a question, but anyway...

Rob (13:30.798)
I read directly into that. saw through the question to the heart of what was really being asked. I do have a task that's set up for myself to do that at the beginning and in the middle of every month. That doesn't mean that I actually get it done. I don't think I did in the middle of December, but all the Christmas cards should be gone or leaving by the time everyone's listening to this. Early January, I mean, my mom doesn't take her Christmas tree down until March. So, you know, what are you gonna do?

Craig (13:41.114)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (13:58.196)
she's one of those. She's one of those. Not the whole boxing day. It's coming down thing. So you don't call it boxing day here in America, I've noticed, but anyway, that's a different story. Exactly. All right, Rob. Next up we have, let's talk about the clan wars. There's new clan wars are out for January. And I saw first and foremost, the golden carrot has returned.

Rob (14:00.012)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No.

Yeah. True.

Rob (14:19.982)
Welcome back Golden Carrot!

Craig (14:21.652)
That's not Rob. Rob, I'm going to say this. A lot of people are happier with those cute bouncing things than the golden carrot. So why the golden carrot back? I don't know.

Rob (14:32.472)
What? Okay, wait, so let's try. Let's try. Golden carrot. That's what I should have said. You're right. You know what? How much do I enjoy things being exactly the same and the expectations of people being we're going to have a bouncer every single month from here until the end of time. Absolutely not. So, yeah.

Craig (14:36.596)
Exactly.

Craig (14:47.796)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (14:57.634)
The golden carrot returned for the month of January. It's a new year. It's time to start over with some really cool new stuff. no, new stuff, different bouncers. They'll come back in February. Don't worry everyone. I know. I know it's not everyone's favorite game piece. It's a physical, totally get it. That was not even making fun of any different voices. That's my voice. yeah, I totally get it. And, yeah, that's just what I decided to do this month because it's what I felt like doing.

Craig (15:08.148)
Don't worry, it's okay.

Craig (15:14.537)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (15:18.258)
That's your voice, exactly.

Craig (15:26.948)
And if you don't know either, reason for it, the reason behind it is the golden carrot is only available to premium members. it allows premium members only to get them up to those higher levels in Clan Wars. If you're not a premium member, then you can't actually get up those high levels and get the higher rewards. So that's technically the reason behind it. Now I have had a couple, one person in particular reach out to me, and they said to me,

Rob (15:47.02)
Yeah.

Rob (15:50.99)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (15:52.838)
I don't really have a car. I don't drive around too much. Literally she walks around her whole block area and she's got quite a large block, et cetera. And all her physical posts and all that are all taken up already with physicals. So what can she do? Now my, tell me if I'm wrong, Rob, but this is what I said to her back. I said, have you got other golden carrots out there from previous clan wars? She said, yes, I have. I've got five or six. I said, why don't you go then to one of those five or six.

Archive that golden carrot and place the new one over the sticker that you're not doing it Is that okay if they can do that Rob? That's not you know hurting anyone. That's not that's not illegal That's not you know, that's okay if they do that, isn't it?

Rob (16:30.286)
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, your local map is your local map. if you, you know, you have walked as far as you plan on walking and you don't want to turn left and go one more block and build it out. Cool. Yeah, no problem. Totally get it. Choose one, archive it. Just remember the rules associated with archiving, which is that that spot is held for seven days. So if you do this on January 27th, you are going to be.

Craig (16:35.892)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:43.464)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:57.651)
You won't.

Rob (16:58.774)
out of luck and you will have to walk further. That's it. So archive, archive early and perhaps right now while you're listening to this and then put a new one out there. Yep. That's a good suggestion.

Craig (17:01.841)
Yeah.

Yes.

Exactly.

Craig (17:11.356)
Yes, there we go. And I would, my, my, suggestion was to archive a golden carrot and replace it with a golden carrot. Don't archive the greenies or things that, cause they really, the only thing bounces on a golden carrot is the golden bunnies and they're few and far between. I'll be honest with you as well. I've only got, I think I've got two in my entire Munzee career. So they are few and far between those golden bunnies. But anyway,

Rob (17:18.35)
Hmph.

Rob (17:33.052)
Yikes.

Maybe I should put more out.

Craig (17:38.866)
That would be nice, especially in January when all the glass guardians are gone off the map. saying. So someone else running after something else. And it may inspire people to put their golden carrots out earlier too. saying. So, look at that. We come up with ideas doing this show. I like it too. like it too. All right. The other thing we have to mention as well, and that is the clan pack.

Rob (17:44.746)
Mmm.

Rob (17:48.302)
Good idea.

Rob (17:52.522)
Mm-hmm. Good call.

I like it. I like it.

Craig (18:03.572)
If you haven't seen that there is a clan pack available for $15 in the store, and that may help you with your clan requirements, just to make sure that, yeah, have a look at the clan requirements, have a look at what you and your clan have agreed to do as a clan, as a group together and what you need from there. So, and don't forget as well, always, always lean or lean or talk or message, conversation is the key with your clan members to help each other with clan wars.

Rob (18:19.052)
Good.

Craig (18:29.672)
You know, if you need the jewels, for instance, Rob, no, I need the jewels and I'm not going to be going anywhere. I've kept all the jewels in my area. So I put a jewel out for my clan member. They put a jewel out for me. All of a sudden we're getting double the jewel points. We're getting the deploy jewel points. We're getting the capping jewel points and we're getting cap on jewel points. So, you know, you can help each other that way. There's more than one way to skin a golden bunny. All right, Rob, the other thing we have is triple points as well for premium members from January 3rd to 5th.

Rob (18:53.902)
I don't know.

Craig (18:59.748)
as well so that's part of the premium rewards. Any more hints Rob from last week in regards to what else is coming for premium members of this for January?

Rob (19:07.288)
What else is coming? Yes, what else is coming is more premium rewards. So this will not be the only premium only bonus points and that kind of thing multiplier for the month. We have some fun things that are going to happen for premium members only. I'm not able today still to tell you all the details for everything else. However, there are also going to be a couple of new tools.

Craig (19:12.552)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (19:21.396)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (19:30.516)
Craig (19:36.399)
Rob (19:37.006)
for premium members. Yeah, here's what we're thinking. We're thinking that it might be cool to do a few really new, unique type of things that are helpful. because premium players support the game so much, let's do it with the premium members only. Let's do it sort of, if you will, like an open beta test, all right? So start something in January.

Craig (19:40.815)
Rob (20:05.174)
run it through the rest of January and into February. That's gonna come, the one specific thing that I'm thinking of is gonna happen before the end of the month. You and I might be together in order to experiment with this new tool or this new piece, gameplay, a new type of gameplay, middle of January, you got quiet, it's time for me to get quiet now too.

Craig (20:26.804)
I will say this and that is I've seen after last week's episode, Rob, when I put it out there that PJ, that's right, PJ from the Munzey Maniacs podcast, he put it out there that, I don't like triple points on things. Rob, it's unvary that PJ can really just quieten up a little bit because everyone else loves the triple points. So PJ, yeah, I told everyone who didn't like it to message you personally. So I'm not sure if they did or didn't, but anyway.

Rob (20:50.35)
Well, let's do it.

Craig (20:56.808)
There you have it. looking forward to, again, if you're not a premium member, then get yourself premium membership for this month, especially because there you've got plenty of rewards coming for you. Meanwhile, Rob, the last thing I have to talk about is the Munzee Monthly Moments videos for January. It is back again for January. If you didn't see, or if you didn't know, because I just went to a, I went to an event last weekend.

Rob (21:12.077)
No, you don't.

Craig (21:19.982)
And Rob, a couple of people did their Munzee Monthly Moments for December last weekend at the event that I was at too, which is really cool. And yes, and hello to everyone who attended that event that I went to in South Carolina. South Carolina, I had to go through Georgia, now I'm in Florida. Look at that. Two weekends in a row. I'm attending two Munzee events in three states away from each other. So anyway, I'm on the move. I'm on the move. But yes, anyway, the Munzee Monthly Moments video. What you need to do for January, and that is you can cap

Rob (21:27.47)
Perfect.

Rob (21:33.666)
Yeah. Wow.

Craig (21:49.012)
and deploy any type you like, whether it be physical or virtual, whichever way you want to do it, cap or deploy. And all you have to do is either A, explain your news resolution or even better, maybe your Munzee goal for 2025. What is your Munzee goal? Rob, I'm actually asking you now, what do you have as a goal for 2025? What's your Munzee goal?

Rob (22:11.47)
Put me on the spot for that one. Let's see. Honestly, I was sitting there complete blank mind just listening to you trying to even think of a video that I would do and it's cap any

Craig (22:23.472)
Maybe, maybe, maybe to have something, maybe to have something roll out that doesn't have to be reworked after it comes out. that's, there's a stab for you. You want one of the, you want one that's actually attainable, don't you Rob?

Rob (22:29.486)
Craig. As if I would ever make that a goal. That's just ridiculous. That's a goal.

Hey, yeah, you know, because, man, well, I'm going to need more AI. that's what I'm going to need more AI to take over all the things so that all of our human touches that cause the tiniest of little issues, a number that's wrong at 12 instead of a 23, for example, because it just happens and pulling out of the hair that's left. But at the same time, like we chat, any who.

Craig (22:49.768)
home.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (23:01.819)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (23:10.764)
You know how goes. So yeah, a Munzee goal of coming closer to 100 % successful zero issue rollouts. Yeah, that would be excellent. You know, I'm gonna spend 2025 looking for ways to not have just a premium appreciation month, but to add some value to, you know, hopefully see more people.

Craig (23:11.74)
Yeah, yeah.

Craig (23:18.868)
roll that right roll that right 100 roll it

Craig (23:31.71)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (23:37.186)
coming in and supporting the game through premium. It's just, it's something that helps us out and hopefully the things that we do for players help there. I, yeah, I can't say like, I'm gonna get to more events because I actually don't know that for a fact or even make that a goal because I used to go to a lot more events than I do now. So yeah, I think really my goal for the last couple of months has been get to 2025.

Craig (23:45.747)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (23:52.884)
Mmm.

Craig (23:57.428)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (24:06.016)
And so while we record, we're not quite there yet. So I'm just going to say when this podcast goes live that I enjoyed the first few days and I hope the rest of the year is as smooth as no, I can't say that that's going to jinx it and something's going to go wrong. let's just get ready to have some fun with mushrooms and, and see what grows from that. Hey, there you go.

Craig (24:09.299)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (24:18.996)
Hehehehehe

Craig (24:25.983)
Exactly. Oh, look at you. Look at you. Well, my goal, I'm only going to say part of my goal for my Munzey goal. My Munzey goal would be Rob, that I have a couple of people in mind that I need to sort of just, you know, get ahead of, so to speak. So we'll see how that rolls out. We'll see how that rolls out. So yes, yes, yes. Look in the mirror, Rob, for one of them anyway. Exactly.

Rob (24:44.276)
right. People who listen. man, I was going to say people who listen to this, see if it's you and watch out. Now it's me.

Craig (24:55.924)
Exactly, exactly. There's a couple on there, Rob. I don't know if I'm gonna actually get it done, because I'm getting myself for the whole year, you know? And I am trying again to get to a lot of events if I can make a lot of events too. that is another goal, just make a lot of events. Started off the year quite nicely, so to speak, with one, you tomorrow. So the first event for me is on January 4th. So I like it, I like it. And not being in an area where by...

Rob (25:04.13)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (25:21.998)
creature.

Craig (25:23.228)
You know, so you look at places like Minnesota, for instance, Florida is the other place. These, these people down here, they have a really good Munzee community and they host events quite regularly, monthly, if not bi-weekly that they host. so, you know, you know where they are because you're always placing cards for them. And you think to yourself, do you know, I wouldn't, I would like to actually host one in my area and see if I can get, you know, Munzee community together. If you do want to host events as well, reach out to Lou.

Reach out to louise at munzee.com is her direct email address and just say to her, or you can actually start the process, if you will, and go from there. Now it is a bit of a process to go through these events. These events aren't, if you're a geocacher, it's different to hosting a geocaching event. Very, very different, very, very different indeed. And I learned all my hosting requirements, et cetera, mostly from the man himself, Dale.

from Dale and Barb and Space Coast. And then he helped me out with several of my beginning hosting of Munzee events. And they are difficult to a certain degree or not difficult. You have to learn things. You have to know how to put things out. What helps as well, because I was with W. Helen a few times when he was putting out stuff as well. He is one of the, again, a great host, Munzee host.

Rob (26:18.253)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (26:42.94)
And when he puts the pins out as well, he has two phones. He has one phone for the, under the event account and one phone is his own personal phone. So he doesn't get them mixed up at all. You say, so when he's posting it out, he'll put the pin out. even things like, you know, if you want to put, if you've got no proximity for the physical pins for the event, you must, you must put out your, your personal ones. If you're to put a personal one out, you must put it out first before you put out the event pin, because if you put out the event pin, it'll block your personal one. So.

Things like that, he taught me. And so that's what he uses and that's what he does. And, and, and W Helen, he, does a really good thing as well. When he rewards his, his people that attend these events, he gets the prize wheels. He loves the prize wheels. And so he'll go out and actually put out physical prize wheels almost, you know, along the same route as the, as the pins and then go in and put the pins out knowing that everyone who caps a prize wheel, he gets a prize for because he's the deployer too. So, you know, Hey,

Rob (27:25.643)
Alright.

Rob (27:39.768)
Yeah, he knows what he's doing.

Craig (27:42.452)
You can't mess with the number one player in the world, can you? He's doing something right to be number one player in the world, just saying. So there you go. All right, Rob, what else have you got for us? Anything else? Look at this. We've got some time up our sleeves. got like two minutes up our sleeves. Anything else you got to, anything else? Cause I don't have a question for you. The question of week. I think the question of week was the, was the golden carrot stuff. Why the golden carrot come out? But we answered that.

Rob (27:57.016)
I know.

Yeah.

Craig (28:07.628)
So no other questions came through Rob and no requests came through as well. Do you have a tip? Do you have a tip of the week? Because we didn't even put a tip of the week in show notes today. What tip do you have for 2025 for people out there?

Rob (28:19.882)
I say, you know, jump into that Munzee Monthly Moments, video, contest, you know, I mean, yeah, there are prizes for people who win. but it's, it's also something that you get something free. get, you know, no matter what, everyone gets a card. so if you're looking for cards, that's a way to get it. there, there are so many ways that, if you don't have people playing around you, that you can get into the Munzee community.

Craig (28:25.36)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (28:39.304)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (28:48.46)
And that is one way. If you start putting videos out, other people will watch those videos. So, you you don't even have to put your face on there. If people go to Cup of Z and they watch these videos, you can see how others do it. It's very simple. And anyone who's got a phone that plays Munzee, you can do it from that phone for sure.

Craig (29:01.671)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (29:07.052)
Exactly. And if you need a hand, Rob, as well, reach out to me. I'm happy to help anyone who wants to help and wants to put out a Munzee Monthly Moments video. Yeah, you get a free badge as well. Every single month is a free badge for you badge hounds out there. And Rob, the way I host it now as well is that I pick the probably, you know, the top three or four that I like personally. I think when I do my live on the first of every month, that midday Munzee HQ time, that's exactly what I do it every single month. Then whoever views

Rob (29:21.357)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (29:36.626)
can actually vote for who they think should win. That winner then obviously gets a good prize pack. And then the first runners up, the other ones that didn't win, then I give them a bit of a prize pack, but then Rob as well. Everyone else who submits, I put in on the wheel of names and I draw out another four, five, six, sometimes seven players, depends on how many you allowed me to select. I'll draw them out randomly. So even if your video is literally just, you know,

Rob (29:59.091)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Craig (30:07.408)
crinkle, you know, the wavy and shaky and you don't, it's just, long as it meets the requirements, that's all you need. And you've got a possibility and a chance to win some good prizes too. So that's that's a good tip, Robert, good tip of the week. So thank you for that. I appreciate that. Exactly. Exactly. Guess what, Rob now this ends another official Munzee podcast.

Rob (30:11.814)
yeah.

Rob (30:21.902)
Here you go, 2025, let's do this.

Rob (30:28.866)
Thanks for joining us on this Munzee adventure.

Craig (30:31.112)
Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favourite podcast gap and join us next week for another informative episode.

Rob (30:36.778)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game. It's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Craig (30:41.32)
So keep scanning, keep discovering, keep that Munzey spirit alive. One, two, three, Munzroom on. Munzroom on, Munzroom on.

Rob (30:45.708)
Happy New Year, Munchroom On!

2025.