Official Munzee Podcast

Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday January 17th, 2025

• Rob Vardeman & Craig Michell • Season 3 • Episode 3

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In this episode of the Munzee Podcast, hosts Rob and Craig celebrate Craig's new role in the Munzee team and discuss recent events and upcoming community activities. They highlight the importance of events in growing the Munzee community and share insights on leaderboards and special promotions for premium members. The conversation emphasizes the excitement surrounding Munzee and the camaraderie among players.
Craig and Rob discuss various updates and features related to the Munzee app, including pricing structures, app performance, and community engagement. They address user concerns about capping greenies, upcoming events, and the introduction of special badges. The conversation also touches on the future of well wisps and enhancements to the MunzDex, providing listeners with valuable tips for maximizing their gameplay experience.

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Craig (00:01.023)
Welcome to the official Munzee Podcast.

Rob (00:03.413)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.

Craig (00:07.123)
And I'm Craig, also known as Seemyshell. I started as an avid Munzee player, now proudly part of the team.

Rob (00:14.093)
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 (00:21.102)
So sit back, relax today's episode. We'll talk more about premium specials. We'll talk more about badges. We'll talk about what else. Yes. Yes, it did. It had to, Rob. It had to.

Rob (00:25.559)
hold up. I'm just now, actually hearing in my head, your intro changed.

What? How's that? Because I I'm an avid Munzee player. This is what everyone's used to hearing you say.

Craig (00:43.67)
Yes. Yeah. No, now I have to say I started as an avid Munzey player because that's true. Now proudly part of the team Rob. I know, I know.

Rob (00:52.071)
What? Hey, everyone out there, it's time for you to celebrate as well, because listen, I am celebrating this fact. Welcome to the team. See my show. Congrats, man. Hey. Yeah.

Craig (01:04.298)
Mm hmm. No, thank you, mate. Thank you. Thank you. That that I can't, I can't what can I say in regards to what's been happening this week? Apart from that, really, apart from the fact that, you know, we went to an event last night at the Thursday night event here down in in Florida, you know, had a great time there as well. You announced me as well and.

Rob (01:23.951)
That's where the news came out. Welcome to the team. That's right. Live and in-person announcements. Those are my favorite.

Craig (01:26.666)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. Exactly. And, but not just that I'm part of the team, Rob, but I've got a, I've got a QR code of my own, my very own QR code.

Rob (01:40.613)
Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. You know, so here's the thing, you've probably been jealous of the fact that Josh geocaching vlogger has had his own code in the game for what, seven years now, this this will be seven years because I gave it to him back at Giga Woodstock. And yeah, so you're like, how am going to get one of those we've we've given you one

Craig (01:48.406)
You

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Craig (01:59.213)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (02:02.978)
You

Rob (02:06.103)
several times at the big events, you know, one of those like, I met see my shell at Munzee Madness and that kind of thing. But yeah.

Craig (02:06.656)
Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. But, but when Josh is with me, he gets a special one too. So there's no special one for me. So he had two special ones when he goes to events. So now I, I one up him, Josh, he listening cause I know he does. I'm one up him now because mine says staff, S T A F F star.

Rob (02:30.133)
Woohoo! Now, he actually might be laughing and sitting back and going, I'm so glad that mine does not say staff because it comes with privileges. However, with the privileges also become or come along the responsibilities and also the flaming arrows and not just the Trojan unicorn kind.

Craig (02:38.851)
Craig (02:48.0)
Yes.

Craig (02:53.358)
yes, this is true. This is true.

Rob (02:57.195)
But, know, you'll you'll take all of that in stride. I'm looking forward to it. The events this weekend here in Florida, you know, it'll be a celebration of you joining the team. Everyone else can be excited about that. They can get that badge and then moving forward. Everyone else out there as you travel, it can kind of become one of those like where in the world is see my show. I got to get that badge.

Craig (03:03.07)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (03:13.196)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (03:21.966)
I'm not, I'm not, I don't have the red and white stripe shirt though. So you can't say where, where, where's, where's Wally sort of, sort of style. no. What do you call it? What you've got? Where's Waldo here? Yeah, that's right. Weird, weird. But anyway, anyway, that's another rabbit hole that I've been down on a previous podcast before. but, but Rob also, I must say as well, I'm going to go from a little tangent here. might as well.

Rob (03:28.123)
Yeah, course. Yeah. Waldo, yeah. Yeah, it is.

Yeah.

Craig (03:44.354)
that, that I was looking up at that Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy. He's putting out a video every single week too. And the geocaching videos, Munzee videos, geocaching and Munzee videos to combine some weeks, you know, but, but I said this before, when did I say, I think I said it like two months ago now that you and him are in a little bit of a, subscriber race. Then I saw, I looked at it this morning, I looked at this morning.

Rob (03:44.365)
okay.

Rob (04:05.625)
Yeah, we are.

Craig (04:08.712)
Just Rob V as he's a, your YouTube name is at 227 subscribers, Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, but you only have to do it once, type it once. He's at 204. So you're both in the two hundreds now. So, you know, it's, it's, I like this race. I like this race.

Rob (04:19.259)
Rob (04:25.583)
This is what happens whenever I record a lot of videos and put out zero of them. just, you know, things things seem to grow for a bit and then they just sit there. So I have a feeling I'll have a few things to put out after this weekend. Now, if if I can just, you know, sit down, edit it, put them out, enjoy. But yeah.

Craig (04:29.428)
Mm-hmm. It stagnates.

Exactly.

Craig (04:44.814)
Yeah, exactly. And I do have, I do have, I've offered 500 Zs to the winner, whoever gets 500 followers first. So that 500 Zs may not be worth as much when you guys hit 500 compared to what it is now, but anyway, it to inflation.

Rob (04:52.507)
Yeah.

Rob (05:00.835)
Yeah, the inflation might have beat us. because who knows how many years it might take us.

Craig (05:06.606)
Exactly. Exactly. It's a hard stretch. It's a hard stretch. But anyway, Rob, let's get back to the events from last weekend in USA. had California, Missouri and Minnesota and around the world.

Rob (05:19.639)
England, Finland, Germany, and New Zealand.

Craig (05:22.542)
Really, really cool. The leaderboards over the weekend on Friday, had Finder 400, 311,000 points, Jaroslav Kas with 190,000 points and Schmitz Fam 4 with 157,000 points. On Saturday, Rob, you've got to say this name correctly.

Rob (05:37.691)
huge one to cue 17. That's right, Brenda 332,000 skin dough 257,000 inch mitts fam form. It's fam for obviously making a run on that leaderboard 239,000.

Craig (05:40.5)
you

Craig (05:54.112)
Yes. Really good to see. And Sunday we had the man himself, W Helen also known as Whelan, 263,000 points. Vatotech with 258,000 points and Tjax with 251,000 points. So they're the leaderboards. I feel that this weekend, Rob, the leaderboards are going to be bigger. They are going to be bigger because this weekend, Rob, we only have in the USA, we have five events. They're all here in Florida.

Rob (06:15.237)
Yeah.

Rob (06:22.313)
Yeah, well

Craig (06:23.79)
No one anywhere else. Why would you be anywhere else apart from Florida if you live in the U.S. and can get here? Because the temperature here is really, really nice. Super nice.

Rob (06:32.997)
Saturday is going to be beautiful and we're going to be out at a reserve animals. I'm expecting some serious things from the hosts like a real Florida display. So yeah, don't disappoint hosts.

Craig (06:36.386)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (06:43.466)
Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes. No, exactly. It's in the 70s Fahrenheit for Americans, which is just over 20 degrees Celsius for the rest of the world. Around the world speaking of which we have BC Canada, we have Norway, Holland, Germany, and Western Australia. They are over on the West Coast of Australia in Perth. We have an event over in Western Australia too. The Mach Man. He'll be there for that one too, I saw that.

Rob (07:05.563)
Nice.

Rob (07:10.49)
Woo!

Craig (07:11.042)
Yeah. Along with my other good friend too, Jinter. Jinter's over there too. there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Really cool to see. Big events, Rob. We have January 25th. We don't just have Munzequest in Sydney, Australia now. I found another one. We have one in West England, UK celebrating posh rule on January 25th. So make sure if you're in England, jump over to there, celebrate posh rule. So I didn't actually look into what he's celebrating though.

Rob (07:14.616)
cool.

Rob (07:35.621)
So well, posh posh rules Paul, he passed away a couple months ago. So yeah, so that's, that's a really cool event to go ahead and get together and celebrate him. Yeah, wow. Good luck to all those players. That's that's very nice.

Craig (07:40.402)
Oh, sorry to see that.

Craig (07:44.992)
Craig (07:50.54)
Yeah, that is very nice. And I apologize. didn't, I didn't know about that. thought, thought it might've been a birth, something like it was the previous weeks from Minnesota. So many different things.

Rob (07:55.515)
That's okay, yeah.

The word celebrate means so many different things and can be celebrated, know, lots of things, but yes, an afterlife celebration.

Craig (08:08.02)
Mm-hmm. Exactly. we also have Munzee Madison, California, six events, March 7th and 8th. I'll be there along with maybe some other freeze tag people, Rob. What do you think? Who else do you think may, may attend that one?

Rob (08:18.009)
yeah. Well, I would say most likely the California based freeze tag people. cannot confirm any other freeze tag people that may be there. Yeah, who knows? We'll see.

Craig (08:29.418)
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Not just yet, but we'll see. So get yourself there to the Munzee Madness in California. April 5th, Rob, I found another one. April 5th. There's three events, three events on the one day in West Midlands, UK. Yeah.

Rob (08:42.083)
Yeah, I'm actually excited about this one, too. This is in Wolverhampton. And guess who it is? It's our friend toxin that neither of us have ever met. Yeah. He just put these on the calendar this week. And so that's very interesting that you already found them with no no leading. You found them. They've already got 15 people. We know that that's going to grow. So yeah, those of you that are in the UK, it's time to get excited.

Craig (08:46.391)
Mm-hmm.

Yes.

Craig (08:57.725)
yeah. No, no, Yep.

Mm-hmm.

Rob (09:09.423)
toxin ran the idea by Lou and apparently, like she and I were talking about it. Tuesday or Wednesday, I think Wednesday. And, and she said that he actually has some really fun ideas for what he wants to do with this. So pretty cool. Yeah.

Craig (09:11.608)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (09:18.126)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (09:23.102)
Nice, nice. Yeah. Toxin's coming out to be a big player and just saying with all these cool ideas. I'll just say that too. So one day, one day Rob, I'll meet the man himself.

Rob (09:27.067)
Yeah.

Rob (09:32.089)
Well, I'm hoping that maybe one day I will meet him as well. And maybe that day might even be April 5th. We'll see. It's on my short list at this point. Yeah.

Craig (09:35.822)
It's on your, yeah, there you go. There you go. Maybe it's a possibility. meanwhile, May 3rd, we have Munsey in Uranus and Big Fun in Uranus. Now, Rob, I did see at the moment, the weather in Uranus isn't that good. There's snow like almost every day. So they've literally got to plow Uranus every single day, you know, for the parking lots and stuff.

Rob (09:55.482)
Wow.

Craig (10:00.422)
Anyway, after that May 24th, we have Munstock again, Rob yourself, me, the GCV will be there as well. And then June 7th and 8th is Ohio hosting the SOS events. And I may go to that one as well, Rob, the SOS events in Ohio. So maybe for that one too. yeah, yeah, yeah. And also it looks, looks like a big weekend is in the making Rob in the UK on that same weekend with five.

Rob (10:19.085)
Nice.

Rob (10:27.045)
Wow.

Craig (10:27.682)
five events in the UK. See, I find these things. I look around, Rob. see, I will look through the calendar. Yeah. Exactly.

Rob (10:32.738)
Right. The calendar in the app, you know, helps us very easily. Like check that stuff out. So we know that the Netherlands is growing a big community there. So, you know, let's get those Willattens in advance so we can keep talking about your events as well and promote them.

Craig (10:43.544)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (10:48.982)
Yeah. And as we both know Rob as well, and that is people ask all the time, how do I grow my Munzee area? Having other people start playing the game is the best way to grow your area and having events is pretty much going to be the only way to solidify those friendships. you know, so you can start placing it for another, et cetera, as well, rather than, you you're a brand new player to a game and you know, you don't meet anyone. You like this game is like, okay. And then you say, then you'll fall off.

Rob (10:56.271)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (11:18.114)
But if you meet people in the beginning of the game when you're playing it, and then you meet like-minded people and then they teach you more and more and more about the game and then you get excited and you join the clan and bam, you're in. So that's the best way to do it, Rob, is events.

Rob (11:30.863)
got the perfect example of this. It's from England and this is based on a support ticket that that I was working on the other day. Pebbles and Co. Is the player name. They they've joined the app. They haven't even been playing for a month. They went to an event in South England and met a lot of players, which is a really cool thing that a new player would before they even really get into the game, like go to an event.

Craig (11:35.469)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (11:40.771)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (11:49.262)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (11:56.299)
Hmm.

Craig (12:00.717)
Yeah.

Rob (12:01.339)
The ticket is all about the fact that they learned a lot of new things and so they're asking follow-up questions through support, which is really great. So even though support is sometimes overwhelmed with all of the other things that are broken. So I made a few suggestions as far as like, hey, check out discord. I've seen that they've joined discord. We've got a couple of Munzee Facebook groups, one specifically about clan transfers and all that kind of thing. So

Craig (12:07.79)
yeah.

Craig (12:15.256)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (12:20.6)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (12:25.634)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Rob (12:30.427)
Yeah, looking forward to this player starting to grow takeoff and they have some stickers on the way as well. So I know that their area is going to start to grow and that is definitely how you get it going. And that's all based on them going to an event. And the only way that they would go to the event is if there's one on the calendar. So put them in your local area.

Craig (12:35.48)
Mm-hmm.

Nice.

Craig (12:50.99)
Yeah. Yeah. And speaking of stickers, Rob too, uh, listen up because I'm going to, I'm going to ask you some questions in regards to some follow-up questions from last week in regards to the Capuron greenies, but that's coming up very, very soon. In the meantime, Rob, we have at the moment right now, a double point weekend for everyone, but not on everything. And then triple points weekend for premium members. Now what they are double and triple points on is cards, greenies, flats, and colors, but also premium.

like the premium, the premium the gold ones, the golden carrots are now double or triple points and golden bunnies. Now, Rob, I've got a question for you. Have the existing bunnies been reproducing?

Rob (13:23.195)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (13:32.571)
Yeah, even though it's not spring, they actually have they've been multiplying like rabbits. It's very interesting. So yeah, maybe some people are starting to see more of those golden bunnies popping up on this golden periods.

Craig (13:36.11)
there we go.

Craig (13:47.03)
Yes. Exactly. And, and it's, and it's the ideal time too. It would double and triple points for the, uh, for the golden carrot. If you don't have your golden carrot out yet, get it out this weekend because you will get a double or triple points if you're a premium member for, well, you can only get it for premium. So yeah, yeah, so true. So you get triple points, your premium member, you get triple points on deploying your golden carrot as well. Um, also that just came out this week as well, Rob, um, extra 10 % extra for blast for premium members.

Rob (14:14.875)
Yeah. We appreciate you, premium members. Have you noticed that? Have you heard that? We wanted to try out some new things during the month of January. So hey, why not use premium members as our guinea pigs and test, you know, testers? So yeah, we've added 10 % to all the blasts if you're a premium member, which means instead of blasting 100

Craig (14:15.074)
So how does that work, mate? How does it work?

Rob (14:43.963)
with a regular blast you actually can get 110. So premium members can can see that but if you're a non premium member, you actually get a little notification that says hey, you could blast 110 if you were a premium member. So yeah, if you're a premium member, you don't see that message. So just to let premium members know like you're missing out on

Craig (15:01.102)
Craig (15:05.24)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (15:09.691)
some advertising if you will. So thanks for thanks for being premium so that you don't have to be advertised at with every blast. The minis are normally 50. Those are are at 55 and the micro. Now here's something interesting, okay?

Craig (15:12.291)
Yeah.

Craig (15:23.606)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, because 10 % of 20 is two and a half. You can't have two and a half cap.

Rob (15:30.979)
Yeah, so 25, you know, should be 27 and a half. That's not possible. So guess who was probably looking at this and helped to round it up to 28? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm the I'm the math teacher, you know, former and everything. So even I would have said, well, we should probably round up is kind of how it came out in my voice, probably round up.

Craig (15:36.758)
Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (15:43.502)
Mari, Mari would have said round it up. Rob round it down. Mari said round it

Craig (15:58.926)
Mm hmm. Yeah.

Rob (16:00.923)
But yeah, so we decided to do that. However, the rounding up is only necessary on one micro, three micros and five micros. So if you use two or four, there is no rounding. So just want to point that out so that no one sends in the support tickets. It is in the blog. So, you know, that's our job. Read the blog to you. So.

Craig (16:09.154)
Mm-hmm.

yeah.

Craig (16:17.118)
Yes, yes, that makes sense. So in other words, if you need two micros, then just use a mini because you're gonna get the same amount. If you use two micros, you're not gonna get, what's that, instead of 55. So just use one mini instead of two micros. That makes sense. That makes absolute perfect sense. there you go. Otherwise, use three micros and you'll get the little rounded up bit.

Rob (16:28.409)
Yes.

Rob (16:32.195)
Yeah. Yep.

Craig (16:43.852)
but you only get rounded up by the one anyway. Yeah, say so. It makes no sense, really. Anyway, speaking of which Rob, I did see something come through during the week on the water cooler and they were talking about, it comes towards, as I said, I'm always gonna be player first, Rob. I'm always gonna ask you the hard questions, even if I do already know the answers to it now. But the app has been slower for a lot of people when it comes to capping things, physical things, and also virtuals as well.

Rob (17:03.023)
Yeah, you are.

Craig (17:12.718)
There was one chat in the water cooler whereby the person put on a, uh, the timer, the booster for the, the double points for themselves as well. And they started blasting, blasting, blasting, blasting, blasting. Um, the, all the blasts, they didn't, uh, what do you call it? Render out or cap out or et cetera. And until after, after the timer has been done, but that person did blast the area and there was no more to blast within the timer. Does that person still get the points?

booster point? How does that work?

Rob (17:43.099)
Yeah. So once, once you've pushed the button, and you've accepted, like, let's say that it's the 110, for example, right now, right? So you've used one, it's 110. And you say yes to yes, I want to blast 110, then you'll see the next, the next thing that comes through is you have blasted 110. Once that comes through, that means that they've been added into a queue. And

Craig (17:51.095)
Yeah, yeah.

Craig (18:05.517)
Yeah.

Craig (18:09.304)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (18:10.171)
So the processing of that will it could take, know, five or 10 minutes. That's not a problem. Those have already been added in with a double point with the multiplier on them. So it doesn't matter if you don't get that notification or whatever until after. So as long as the blasts themselves are being sent into the system during that that booster, then you're OK.

Craig (18:15.019)
Yeah.

Craig (18:19.886)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (18:33.006)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (18:37.019)
So yeah, we've seen this question that's come up over the years. And so that is one of those that I'm confident about the fact that, you know, it does work that way. So you don't have to worry about whether they fully process or not. It's set on the back end. Yeah.

Craig (18:40.3)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (18:52.202)
Right. Because the processing, that's not part of the player fault or experience. So if you've got 10 seconds left on your booster and you press another, like even if it's just 25 or 28 at the moment, you press the 28. And as long as it comes through by you click yes, within that 10 seconds, whatever you got left, then you'll get the double or triple points for that.

as well, whatever the booster might be. there, that's good to know the Rob. That's really good to know. So very cool. all right. So other questions came through from last week. Now, Rob, now we're going to talk about capping your own greenies. Now these questions came through. and I liked these questions. I think I asked this question of you last week as well. And that is this number one, are they here to stay? Is capping your own greenies a thing that people are going to be doing? Cause I'll say this. Some people said,

I am not going to build out my area if this is only for January. So I'm not going to do it. You know, so people have said that before, whereas other people said, I don't care if it is a reason to say other people go, I hope it to say, I'm going to say Rob 99 % of people want this to stay. Yeah. Yeah.

Rob (19:52.592)
Wow.

Rob (20:03.545)
Wow, that sounds like a lot of people. The when the vocal people are saying, yes, we love this, we'd love for it to stay. That is pretty encouraging to the team. And, you know, we we definitely lean toward that as well. It almost sounds like a challenge for people to say, well, I'm not going to build out my area unless I know that this is going to stay premium.

Craig (20:12.268)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (20:30.363)
users being able to cap their own greenies is I can't say with 100 % at this moment in time. However, I would say kind of like with yours about 99 % chance that okay, fine, sure. Yes, it's gonna stay. We're gonna do that. Because because this is a big deal. This is going well. And here's the other part. It's January, like

Craig (20:47.726)
there we go. Yeah.

Craig (20:58.272)
Yeah.

Rob (20:59.119)
I've been notified that the weather in some parts of the world is quite cold. And I've had personal messages come to me saying, I can't get out and cap greenies to show you, my greenies to show you that I like this. But believe me when I say, this is a really great thing. This is very helpful to, you know, premium members.

Craig (21:02.83)
the

Craig (21:20.973)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (21:23.791)
So I like premium members and I would like to make premium members happy. I truly want to do that as many times as I possibly can. I want to build in that value. If this is valuable to premium players, I'm on board. Let's do it. Mari was already on board, obviously. So yeah, let's do it. Let's keep it.

Craig (21:37.166)
Yep. Awesome. Awesome. But Rob, he's the, he's the devil in me now coming out. I'm going to say this to everyone. Cause I said it last week as well in regards to cheating. Now it is cheating. If you deploy a, what do call it? A greeny. Anything, but if you deploy anything, but especially at the moment, if you deploy a greeny, cap the greeny and then archive it and try and do it again, that is cheating. You can't do that at the same time.

Rob (21:44.809)
great.

Rob (21:49.563)
Rob (21:57.079)
Anything?

Rob (22:05.529)
It's a really bad idea. Like, why?

Craig (22:07.522)
There's something though, there's something built in, there's something built in about a seven day thing too, Rob. Like what's that about? See, so yeah.

Rob (22:12.239)
Yeah, it blocks the map. does all kinds of things. You can only you can only get around the rules so many times.

Craig (22:17.642)
It's, it's not worth it. is really people. say people, I'm going to say people this time, cause that's rude, but I will say it because I'm talking to the people I'm talking to the other cheaters out there. Don't try and do it. It's not worth it. You know, do it for what it is. that is build out your local walking areas and your walking tracks. know Nancy deadliest caches up in Buffalo, New York. She's the one who's been traipsing through knee high waste high snow.

Rob (22:22.064)
Whoops.

Craig (22:41.816)
building out her area now because this is happening. So Nancy, a big shout out to you. know she loves, loves, loves this idea. Like Rob, seriously, her heart pounded, when she heard about this too. So, and there you go, Nancy, that's for you by Rob's voice right now. This may be saying, well, 99 % chance it's staying. So there we go. Rob, I'm going to tease out one more thing too, because now I'm part of the team. I can to a certain degree, to a certain degree. I know.

Rob (22:51.195)
That's cool.

Rob (23:05.729)
that's really annoying. I'm supposed to do that.

Craig (23:09.054)
I know, I know. Well, I'm going to ask this quick. I'll ask the question and then you can tease it. How does that sound? Cause I know, I know the answers to this question that sometimes that is this. Rob, with all the events coming out now as well and people getting the cake and the cake staying, you said that last year as well. asked her that in the cake staying for this year. think it's a great idea. Are there more things coming out that you can redeem for cake?

Rob (23:30.467)
No. No, just kidding. You're like, wait a second. I've heard opposite of that. You know what, everyone, of course. Why? You know, we we want we want everyone to have a good time. And the conversation I'm just throw some honest out there instead of the tease, just like the conversation is really more about should we keep a few things to like

Craig (23:33.165)
You shocked me then!

Craig (23:42.382)
Hmm.

Craig (23:52.333)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (23:59.651)
you could only get this one particular balloon animal, you know, from cake during this one year, and then come up with more for the future and all of that remembering that 2024 was the year of the dragon. We did a lot of dragon themed things and that that's based on the Lunar New Year, right? So that is the Lunar New Year changes at the end of this month.

Craig (24:05.624)
Craig (24:09.986)
Yeah.

Craig (24:17.709)
Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Yes.

Craig (24:29.282)
does too.

Rob (24:30.457)
Yeah, that's all I have to say about that.

Craig (24:32.776)
so what? that is a good tease, Rob. You tease me then too. Look at that. I was, was waiting. I was being quiet then too for a while. But anyway, all right, Rob, we're going to move on now. He just dropped it. I'm just going to end it there. I'm not going to cause I did sign the NDA as well. we're to move on now to the special badges out there for the badge hounds. Now, if you're in Munzee, what do call it? Florida at the moment for the Meccans, make sure you do come and see Rob and myself.

Rob (24:35.045)
Hey, nailed it, nailed it. And they just dropped it.

Rob (24:49.339)
Yeah.

Craig (25:00.918)
We have meet Rob, meet SMS. Rob previously in some events, these have been attached, attached to the actual, what do call it? The event pins or the event event badge. this, this, this time this weekend, they're not, you and I have said, no, we want to talk to more people. If you want my badge, you got to meet me in person rather than capping something sitting on a table. So you've got to see Rob and see myself to get those a meet Rob and meet SMS. But one more Rob.

Rob (25:10.905)
Yeah, yeah, the badge, the event badge here.

Craig (25:30.434)
There's one more extra special badge that I tweaked that before at the beginning of the episode. And that is that meet SMS as part of the team. That's me. That's my special badge, staff badge. Yes, I do have it in my hot little hands. I picked it up yesterday from the printing guy, but anyway, so come and see me and you'll get that one as well. the badge hounds out there, the number one badge handy out there. Guess what Rob? He's already got it. I made sure I made sure he was number one.

Rob (25:48.015)
Nice.

Rob (25:57.179)
Well, isn't that nice? Number one badge man gets the number one cap on yours. I like it. That's good.

Craig (26:00.086)
Yeah, I like Gary. I love Gary. He's a nice guy. So.

Craig (26:07.418)
Exactly. Exactly. Which leads now Robin to the question of the week, talking about badges as well. And this is from Old Man Trouble on Discord. He says, good day mate. Question for the podcast if it fits. Would one be wrong to assume that in brackets, eventually some badge line will come out for the well wisps.

Rob (26:26.427)
I don't think it's ever a bad thing to assume. mean, you know, honestly, I guess it is in life, isn't it? But because of what it does to you, but and me. But I would never hold out or sorry, I would never give up holding out hope that there would be a badge line for the well with because

Craig (26:31.438)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (26:45.912)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (26:49.933)
you know, with with our distraction technique of hey, everyone at the Wells, you can use your stars to put those whittles back out on the map. Not everyone has jumped, you know, knee deep into the Whittle Pool. And so we are still seeing the well with going out and there are people who enjoy that. And I mean, we ran that program for quite a few months. So of course, we're always going to look for ways to encourage people to do all the different things within the app. So

Craig (26:58.402)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (27:07.202)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (27:18.574)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (27:19.867)
Is it okay to, you know, hope that one day? Yeah, of course, because that's we haven't even put all the different well with out there, right? Yeah, we're

Craig (27:27.522)
I going to say this, can be a plethora of different world was just like in different colors and different designs and different styles, know, different, no.

Rob (27:36.483)
Yeah, we haven't forgotten about the well with they're still there. There's more of them to come. We just changed focus.

Craig (27:43.17)
They, now, now, now being involved in the team, can now tease this as well a little bit. And that is that what the well wisps are part of a story. and that story has just begun. So, the wells and the well wisps are part of the story. That story has just begun. So keep an eye out for what's up next in regards to that. Rob, we've got a Munzee request of the week. This one's from the water cooler. And I kind of like this request as well, to be honest with you. And that is this.

Rob (27:55.48)
Hey!

Rob (28:02.053)
nice.

Craig (28:09.418)
Is it possible that the Muns Dex, you know the Muns Dex on the actual app itself? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can that show the point value of each Munsy when you click on it rather than just, it just shows you at the moment, like how many you've kept, you know, that sort of stuff. It doesn't show you the point value of each Munsy when you click on it. Is that possible to add that?

Rob (28:13.211)
I'm familiar.

Rob (28:27.461)
Is there a is there a tag Sam button on this podcast? I need a I need I need an audio button that I can push and go ask Sam, ask Sam, ask Sam or cup of tea to the rescue cup of tea to the rescue because a lot of the a lot of the information that we have in the MUNS decks is directly from cup of tea. And if it's not directly from cup of tea, it is directly from the fingertips of Sam.

Craig (28:29.838)
I think you just did it then by saying the word Sam.

Craig (28:43.179)
you

Craig (28:50.741)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (28:56.373)
I honestly, I do know that there are quite a few expansion features that we've got planned for the muns decks. as we've talked about on previous podcasts, there are bigger fish to fry at the moment. And, one of those is capping speed. So we are working with speed on the actual speed of the app. but yes, the answer to this is yes, it is possible for us to put a lot more information.

Craig (29:02.583)
Okay.

Craig (29:08.792)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (29:13.101)
Yes.

Rob (29:24.688)
when you click on those things. So that is in the coming soon pile. So thank you for that request granted.

Craig (29:29.164)
Very cool. Very cool. Very, very cool. I love it when you grant the requests from like straight off the bat. like that. Meanwhile, this then comes to our Munzee tip of the week. And I thought about this tip of the week, Robert. It's, it's, it's a tip of the week for this week and this week only. Well, not really, but still get out there and take advantage of the 10 % extra blast this weekend, especially on the triple point types. Now, how you do that is to be sure to use the filter for cards, flats, and colors only before you blast Rob.

you go and choose the blast button. Then don't touch the blast yet, don't blast away yet. Because up the top it says, use map filters. Make sure that toggle is switched on so you're not blasting crossbows for 20 points. So you don't waste a blast on crossbows. So make sure again, filter cards, flats, colors only. Before you blast, up the top, use map filters is toggled on. So that's a good tip of the week there, Rob.

Rob (30:26.272)
I like it. It's good, especially here in Florida.

Craig (30:27.702)
Yes. Yes. Yes, especially in Florida because of that Gator garden, the Gator garden. So I know.

Rob (30:34.021)
Wow. Those of you who got a spot in the Gator Garden, I hope you see many, many points this weekend. You should.

Craig (30:39.584)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely should. So anyway, Rob, that ends now an official Munzee podcast.

Rob (30:45.029)
Thanks for joining the team, see my shell. And to those of you out there, thanks for joining us on this Munzee adventure.

Craig (30:51.828)
Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favourite podcasting app and join us next week for another informative episode.

Rob (30:57.227)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game, it's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Craig (31:01.72)
So keep scanning, keep discovering, keep the Munzey spirit live on 1, 2, 3 blast away. see, I'm still for gameplay.

Rob (31:06.383)
Welcome to the team.

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