Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday August 22nd, 2025

In this episode of the Munzee podcast, hosts Rob and Craig discuss various topics including Craig's adventures in Colorado, recent Munzee events, leaderboards, and upcoming events. They unveil the new Secret ZeeOps, engage with community feedback, and highlight the importance of content creation. The episode also covers the Garden of the Month winners, discussions around Bouncing Virtual Gardens, player requests for rewards, and concludes with a valuable tip of the week.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to the Munzee Podcast
• 3:03 Craig's Colorado Adventures
• 5:54 Weekend Events and Leaderboards
• 8:59 Upcoming Munzee Events
• 12:03 Secret ZeeOps Unveiled
• 15:02 Community Engagement and Feedback
• 18:00 Monthly Moments and Content Creation
• 20:59 Gardens of the Month and Player Recognition
• 24:01 Bouncing Virtual Gardens Discussion
• 26:52 Player Requests and Rewards
• 29:55 Tip of the Week and Episode Wrap-Up

Transcript

Craig (00:00.79)
Welcome to the official Munzee podcast.

Rob (00:02.943)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.

Craig (00:06.952)
And I'm Craig, also known as Seemyshell. I started as an avid Munzee player, now proudly part of the team.

Rob (00:12.001)
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 (00:18.894)
So sit back, relax. Today's episode we chat about, it's all a secret.

Rob (00:24.953)
the

Craig (00:37.834)
No, I know. know. Like, but you can't help sometimes but Rob being vague, especially at the moment, because you, you Rob, you're still in MHQ time. And we re we're recording this at like, it's at 8am MHQ time and it's 7am where I am here. Cause I'm still in Colorado Rob. Yes, Colorado.

Rob (00:46.23)
I know.

Rob (00:51.021)
Yeah. is it? you know what? Our like warm up chat to make sure we're both awake and alive and excited. I forgot to even ask where you were. So that's good news. So how's it going in Colorado and what are you up to?

Craig (01:02.202)
Mm. Mm.

It's really, really cool, mate. And I will say, you know, last weekend we had the, block party, geocaching block party here in Denver, Colorado. Really, really cool. I love Rob. I'm loving Colorado, man. Except for the, except for the altitude. I will say, I don't drink, I'll be honest, I don't drink enough water because I'm getting headaches almost daily. And I've noticed Rob, you know, when I go get my morning coffee,

Rob (01:24.632)
Yeah.

Rob (01:32.022)
Yeah.

Craig (01:36.258)
people out there, the locals, they get a morning coffee and then they get a cup of water with it as well. every, yeah, it happens at Dunkin Donuts. It happens at Starbucks, all that sort of place too. So yeah, they drink a lot of water here to rehydrate because of the altitude apparently. So, but yeah.

Rob (01:41.453)
Wow.

Rob (01:50.981)
And what you're saying is that you have failed the intelligence test because you choose to get headaches every day instead of just getting a cup of water like the locals are doing. okay. You're like, well, the altitude is getting me, but, you know, I'm not drinking enough water, but I do watch what the locals are doing, but. Okay. Well, at least you know. Okay. Good.

Craig (02:03.008)
You

Craig (02:11.96)
Correct. Correct. No, I, I am drinking my water. I am. I've got a big jug. I've been through three jugs of water. Like I'm talking to jugs. I'm talking to the big jugs that you get from Walmart as well. yeah, yeah, those sort of things too. But, I ran into Rob. I ran into his name is Nez Muk here in Colorado and Nez Muk. Nez Muk, was very similar to me, Rob. And that is he was a Munzey player back in the day. He gave it away cause he's focused on geocaching stuff as well.

Rob (02:24.357)
right, yeah.

Rob (02:31.597)
Okay?

Craig (02:41.954)
And he since brought it back up again. He even, he even, paid the, the Zeds to change his name, to match his geocaching name. Cause apparently they were different. like a lot of people out there. And so he's part of it. He's back part of the game again. Now he's really, really running with the game too, Rob. Like he hosted one of his first ever events a couple of weeks ago. He was talking to me about that as well, hosting the events and, and how it's a learning experience to host a Munzee event too. So we had.

Rob (02:50.882)
wow. Okay.

Rob (03:03.938)
Okay.

Craig (03:10.23)
We had a really good chat. I'm talking over an hour. We're at the base. We're at the base of Pike's Peak. Because there was a geocaching event there. So we're at the base there and we're chatting away. He saw Inside Tuesday around, you know, I showed him around good old Tuesday and Rob. More importantly, yes, he did cap my actual official staff badge too. So yeah.

Rob (03:16.217)
Rob (03:31.577)
Okay, good. The important piece was taken care of then. That's good.

Craig (03:33.891)
Yeah, that's right. That's right. So, so that's what I've been doing. I'm still in Colorado. I'll be here for the rest of this up until this weekend as well. I've got a lovely Rob, a lovely cabin, like log cabin stay coming up this weekend with a outdoor jacuzzi. So I'll be having jacuzzi's with the local wildlife, the bears and the, and the cougars and everything else as well. So not the cougars.

Rob (03:47.001)
Wow.

Rob (03:51.332)
hey.

Rob (03:57.145)
Hopefully not too many of any of those things, but maybe maybe you know out there in the distance you can see them. But yeah, not up close in person.

Craig (04:04.98)
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. But anyway, that's me, mate. And as I said, your voice now you're still on, you're still on, you're still on MHQ time Rob. Yeah. Yeah.

Rob (04:14.125)
I'm still here man. I'm still Texas still, you know, chilling just trying to, you know, top up my accent and you know my my tolerance for the heat, which is very low. Text Max, you know all the things that all the things that I've grown up on that when I'm not here, it's like man, that's some stuff that some stuff that is needed here.

Craig (04:18.764)
Yeah.

Craig (04:29.368)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Craig (04:36.514)
Yeah. Yeah. You never get any good text mess in England or UK or anywhere. No, no, no,

Rob (04:42.581)
No, you don't. No, don't. Kso in particular is very important and lose life. And so, yeah, when we're back, then we we get as much of that as possible. She has a Kso meter built into her at this point in time. She, you know, she needs to keep she needs to keep it topped up. That's right. But then she rides on her bike and burns it off. So it's OK.

Craig (04:48.002)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (04:57.518)
She's filling up on the queso. But exactly, it's her own fault. But I will say Rob that some great great fishing chips that we had in the UK and England are saying so, you know, yeah. no.

Rob (05:12.745)
That is true, I am told. I'm not a participant in the consumption of the local national cuisine. Yeah. I'm just not a fan of the seafood, you know?

Craig (05:22.1)
Why not? What's wrong with you? What, what, what about, okay. What about a beef Wellington then that's a beef Wellington is very English as well. Yeah.

Rob (05:29.535)
Okay, yeah, I could do that or Sunday roast. Lou enjoys that, you know, and so I go along for I go along for that. That type of thing. When it's colder outside, it's more something I'm used to. So yeah.

Craig (05:38.607)
Yep, No, that's fair enough, mate. That's fair enough. All right, enough of the chit chat and the chin wags. What's been happening this last weekend? We had events in Ohio, Rob, Iowa. Everyone, people laugh at me doing this. Ohio, Iowa, California, Missouri, Florida, South Carolina, and Minnesota, Rob, and around the world,

Rob (05:47.501)
Hehehehe

Rob (05:54.295)
Wow.

Rob (06:05.847)
in Lithuania, Netherlands, and three in Norway. They had, you know, they were halfway to a mega batch with those. Yeah, good, good attendance, actually.

Craig (06:09.475)
Yeah.

Craig (06:13.056)
Yeah. That's cool. Yep. That's really cool to see. Now the leaderboards over the weekend we had on Friday, the G C V Jocash and vlogger in first place again with 943,000 points followed by a good Munzee friend of mine. And I say good Munzee friend because I almost wake up daily to cards because of this person and that is box of wine. Thank you. Box of wine.

Rob (06:35.139)
Do you?

Craig (06:39.054)
860,000 points for second place. in third, Rob, this is my birthday twin. Got third place. Yes, my birthday twin, Denali0407 with 702,000 points. And obviously by her name, you now know my birth date. But anyway. On Saturday, Rob.

Rob (06:46.019)
So let's try it.

Rob (06:56.089)
true. Doesn't America do? Yes. On Saturday, we had ARV with 1.1 million, Ned love 1 million, and Hansen Hansen 75 888,000 Sam had a couple millionaires there. Very cool.

Craig (07:12.91)
Wow, a couple of millionaires on a Saturday. That's good to see. All right, Rob, rounding off on the weekend on Sunday, had, oh wow, again, the geocaching vlogger for a second time. So two in one weekend, 620,000 points, followed by, oh, boomerang 20 with 512,000 points, and then third place, Regal with 483,000 points. Before we move on, Rob, I've got to say this.

boomerang she reached out to me on Sunday afternoon and said I'm in first place I'm in first place I hope I stay there I said to her keep an eye on the leaderboard that's all you can do keep an eye on it and she had her eye on regal because regal was in second place unbeknownst to her Joshua the geocaching vlogger he was drove back from Kentucky I've heard he drove back Kentucky from Kentucky because he's his youngest is now in college in Kentucky and so when he got back on the Sunday Rob because Minnesota had a Munzee event there

Rob (08:00.675)
Okay.

Craig (08:07.17)
There was all the cards still there. So Josh went out Sunday night and blew past poor old Boomerang 20. I shouldn't say old cause she's not, she's young. Boomerang 20. So Boomerang 20, second place is the first loser. Congratulations for that. And if you got an issue with it at all, then Frank, his name is that's a Munzee Prof. He's normally in second place all the time too. So yeah.

Rob (08:28.375)
Yeah, just check with him. He can tell you it's a comfortable place to hang out.

Craig (08:32.27)
Exactly. No, congratulations to BIMRank20, 512,000 points. That's still a good effort, Rob. Still a good effort. BIMRank20. That's all right. That's the one. Events this weekend. We've only got one on the actual weekend in Iowa. That's it in the USA. And then we've got one in Missouri on Monday as well, Around the world, mate, we have...

Rob (08:37.879)
Absolutely, boomerang20. There you go. Both of us have said the name.

Rob (08:48.729)
Okay. All right. Okay. We've got British Columbia, Canada, Germany and Spain on Monday. So yeah.

Craig (08:59.564)
Yeah. So you've got two events on Monday, Missouri and Spain on Spain, Rob on Monday. There you go. Must be someone having an event who's on vacation. Don't forget we've got big events coming up. it's a big news with these big events, Rob. September 12th to 14th is the Munzee Mania in Minnesota. But Rob, Rob, Rob, between last week and this week, there is now two more.

Rob (09:09.859)
That'd be pretty good guess, yeah.

Craig (09:27.956)
Events on the Saturday. That's right. There's now four Munzee events on the Saturday There's two. Yeah. Yeah, there's there's a big day a big day Two events one in the afternoon and one at a twilight event hosted by vado tech and All I say is because I message about a tech and I said like, you know, what's going on here? Where did these come from? He said, you know

Rob (09:34.315)
Okay. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of time that we'll be there for. Okay, good, good.

Craig (09:53.261)
Him and Tofu Girl wanted to do more and they asked permission from obviously the local team and they said, go for it, do what you like. and I mean, let's be honest, Rob, I don't think they're going to get as many attendees as what they'd will in the daytime because people burn out, it's Munzee burnout and they ran out of blasts. But, but the, the Twilight event apparently Vatotec said he's got something special for all attendees in the Twilight event.

Rob (10:10.625)
Hahaha

Rob (10:14.861)
Now, what is twilight? That's after dark, but is that midnight? Okay. I mean, I've been known to stay up until midnight, so not complaining, but like you said, you probably have a fall off of the number of people that would make it to midnight for sure, but okay, okay, sounds good. I'll be there.

Craig (10:20.266)
After dark? No, no, no, it's not midnight, it's just after dark. It's just, Twilight's just after dark, that's all.

Yeah.

Craig (10:35.382)
Yes. Exactly. None of the twi- yeah, the twilight event just a night time and apparently they're going to have all the pins out as well for the twilight event. I don't know how you're to go with the twilight walking around the dark in the twi-

Rob (10:47.469)
Well, I suppose it depends on the location because walking around a parking lot at night. Yeah, that sounds that sounds Munzee, you know, ish walking around tick filled woods at night that are found in Minnesota. You guys can have a great time. I will be hanging out wherever the cars and the short grass is. That's me.

Craig (10:56.328)
You

Craig (11:06.446)
Drinking a beer. That's fair enough. But yeah, no, so September 12th to 14th, get yourself to Minnesota for the Munzee Mania events. As I said, now there's a total of five, is that five events? Six events now. Six events, over the three days. That is huge. Meanwhile, December 7th, Rob, this one is a new one as well. December 7th in Newmarket, England. Over in your neck of the woods. No, you're not allowed to go.

Rob (11:30.637)
Okay?

Yeah.

Craig (11:34.383)
Um, there's 18, 18 attendees so far and it's growing as well. So Newmarket England, December 7th, January 16th, 18 as always Muncie Mecca, Florida. Again, that needs more attendees. Come on everyone. Have a look and start your, start your vacation, Rob vacation holidays. uh, you know, timeframe, uh, March 6th and 7th Muncie madness again in Southern California. So first and foremost, Rob, that's the done over and dusted. What's going on this week? We had, we had the

We had the secret zeops came out under the Z. There you go. So yeah, that was one of.

Rob (12:07.801)
that's the secret. Okay.

Okay, well yeah, yeah, we're definitely not finished, but, yes, this was the main secret. got you. So yeah, under the Z is a water themed playland, you know? So unfortunately, it's, you know, one of those secret Z ops, which means it's not actually a playland. There's something sinister under the water. And with the story written by Dylan that no one reads, I mean, the

Craig (12:19.458)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (12:25.676)
Hmm.

Craig (12:35.022)
you

Rob (12:40.459)
You know that there's got to be some amazing stuff based on the art, based on the icons that he, you know, hand draws, not hand, but you know that he, he, he creates every single time and everything is specific to, to that secrecy up, just based on the time that Dylan puts in everyone, just, just throwing my bone, read the words, enjoy the story, watch what the badges say on these types of things.

Craig (12:44.334)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (12:53.015)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (12:57.613)
Yeah.

Craig (13:03.254)
Yes, yes, yes.

Craig (13:09.07)
Hmm.

Rob (13:10.155)
It actually is really cool. So this one costs 1500 zed. It is only available in the app. And you find that by clicking on the secret zops button that's on the right side down toward the bottom. And then it's under the secret zops tab. It's literally like we want to keep it a secret because we hide it two clicks deep in the app. So the secrets out. But anyway, everybody joined in on that secret zop.

Craig (13:28.301)
the film.

Hahaha.

Rob (13:38.163)
It's available until September 30th until we put it back in the vault. And then, you know, it'll come back out at some point in time. But if you'd like to get that new hydro guardian, then this is the time for you to jump in and get involved. And remember, you have to click reveal mission number one or choose, you know, one of the missions. Once you open one of them, then the the missions actually get engaged and you are working through that. If you just purchase it.

Craig (13:57.23)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (14:07.415)
It will not start until you open one of those tasks. Yeah, one of the missions.

Craig (14:08.266)
Nope, when it's done.

Craig (14:12.502)
one of the missions exactly right. That's a good tip Robert, because that was the tip of the week. anyway, it's okay. It's okay. You can come off that you can now now you have from now until the end of the podcast to think of a new tip of the week for yourself. Anyway, Robert, people have asked on the water cooler as well, how much how many cogs does this hydro guardian cost to to replenish once you get it?

Rob (14:17.762)
Was it? no, again? Sorry everyone, pretend that I didn't say that. No way.

Rob (14:30.297)
Okay, okay, yeah.

Rob (14:41.975)
good news. I looked back through the notes and the answer is 18. I believe that's what we try and do for each of the secret zops so that, you know, the design is different, but the the build is the same. The value is the same. And yeah, it just gives everybody a cool new design to enjoy and then rebuild if they want.

Craig (14:45.934)
18.

Craig (14:50.093)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (14:55.725)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (15:02.99)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. No, that's really cool. And before we move on, Rob, I've got to say this, and that is have a look. We've spoken about this before. Have a look at what the story line that Dylan's going through, et cetera, and enjoy reading all the way through. And if you actually do enjoy reading it and do it all the way through, because I know Dylan doesn't listen to this podcast. He's too busy, you know, creating more stuff to play with. Send him an email. Send him an email and just...

Rob (15:30.041)
jeez

Craig (15:30.574)
Absolutely, send him an email and say thank you so much for this creation. I really enjoyed this part or this part or this part. What email can they send it to Rob? There you go.

Rob (15:39.089)
Well, they could just write a nice message in the Munzee water cooler because he does watch in there. And then that way we don't flood Dylan with too many emails because as you said, he's got his head down running the creative team, all the art, writing the stories.

Craig (15:43.614)
he does do the water cooler? okay.

Craig (15:48.862)
Yeah.

Craig (15:54.669)
This is true. This is true. This is true. See, see this. I'm open. I get emails, Rob. I get, I get, I get personal messages. get text messages. I get messages in the app. get, I get messages on my, see my shell page. I get messages on my personal Facebook messenger. Like, yeah, that's with people.

Rob (16:13.101)
Yeah, well, we'll call it your job to like interact with the people we'll call them because we call them people because they are people. But we'll call. Yeah, we'll say that your job is face the face the players and interact nicely with them. And Dylan's job is keep on just doing it.

Craig (16:22.401)
the end.

Okay, well.

Craig (16:29.9)
if that's the case.

Craig (16:35.854)
If that's the case then, if you actually are enjoying the storyline and everything as well, send me a message. Send me a message on anything at all and then I will forward those appropriately towards Dylan as well. So he can still get the feedback directly. So go through me, any of my sources in which you can find me.

Rob (16:42.77)
yeah.

Rob (16:48.515)
There you go.

Rob (16:55.57)
I like that idea a lot and I'm sure Dylan will too.

Craig (16:57.742)
There you go. Yeah, I I see I'm a man of the people. I'm a man of the people, Rob. Man of the people. Meanwhile, speaking of the man of the people, Rob, and that is the September Munzee Monthly Moments videos. only halfway through the month. Oh, actually almost halfway through, over halfway through the month, I should say. This month's theme, it's a bit light on the actual people putting some stuff in. Don't forget, everyone who puts in a valid video.

Rob (17:00.769)
You tried. You tried really hard. Thank you. Yeah.

Rob (17:14.009)
Mmm. Yeah.

Craig (17:24.728)
gets a card and a badge at minimum. And when I say to you, if you're listening and I'm talking directly to you, Rob has not seen or I don't go through Rob anymore in regards to what I give out for prizes. How many prizes I give out, what I give out, Rob doesn't have a clue and I don't need permission anymore because I'm proud. Because, because.

Rob (17:40.345)
yeah, that's true. No clue.

Rob (17:47.449)
It sounds like I should have a clue though, based on this.

Craig (17:51.564)
because I'm now proudly part of the team. So there's the callback.

Rob (17:54.864)
That is true. Yeah. OK, maybe I need to put one eye on this at the end of the month or something. No, I don't. Yeah, I don't mind you. You be nice. Be nice to everyone who does the work, you know, to to get some of that that content out there. We love it. And I'm happy for you to keep choosing how much they get. It sounds like it's pretty valuable. I like it.

Craig (17:59.343)
You don't have enough eyes to put your one on me as well, mate. So that's too busy. Too busy. I am. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (18:14.19)
I like it. And for this month as well, Robert, it's a mural theme. So all you have to do is cap or deploy a physical Munzee. And sometimes, Rob, you don't even really have to cap the Munzee. Just we know what Munzee stickers look like, right? So if you're there, show me your mural. So show me your be proud of your house or your area, where you live, where you've seen. Show me the mural and then show me the Munzee sticker itself. You don't actually have to physically show your phone capping them. Like I get it. We all know we've been there.

If you wanna go out of your way and do something spectacular, then obviously you got more of a chance to get selected as a finalist. How it works now, Rob, again, I didn't even go through you for this. How it works now is that I will select three or four finalists as such, and then I will put those finalists in a Munzee video that's published at midday on the first of every month. And which point in time you'll see all their videos because I re-record them.

and put them on and so you'll see all the videos together. You'll see their names. You'll see, you know, all that sort of stuff. You'll then hear me say what's for next month. You then go into the post on YouTube that's posted at exactly the same time and it is a poll post. So you can actually then vote for your favorite out of the three or four and then you got 24 hours to vote. So if you, there's no more live Rob. So people don't, you know, don't miss it. And so yes.

Rob (19:35.353)
I mean, that's a lot of thought put into that and everyone else, you know, just just get a video together, get yourself out there, have an opportunity to win cool stuff. And I hear that everyone gets something no matter how amazing their video is.

Craig (19:38.433)
Yeah, yeah.

Craig (19:43.02)
Yes. Yeah.

Craig (19:50.703)
any every valid, every valid video gets something wrong because otherwise, yeah, because you know what some people are like. But in saying that the fun part is as well, is it's not just the top four players themselves. give out sometimes I'll give out one or two like players that really go out of their way almost every single month, for instance, you know what mean? And I don't want other players to sort of have a chance of winning. And so I'll give them sort of, you know, a bit of, you know, look, this is a

Rob (19:55.378)
that's a good point.

huh.

Craig (20:20.544)
a good video that's really good and I'll give them some extra prizes and stuff as well, but they're not in the finalists. And then even if your video is literally just there's the mural, there's the monzie bye, and you say your name because that's part of the valid, being valid. And that's all it is. Then you still go into the wheel of names, Rob. And the wheel of names is a random spinner, randomizers. can pick five, six, seven people depending on how many I get as a.

Rob (20:35.577)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (20:40.345)
I mean.

Craig (20:48.044)
as an entry fee and then they get prizes, extra prizes as well on top of that.

Rob (20:53.379)
this this sounds like an amazing thing and those special players, the content creator bonus. I mean, you know, hey, that seems doesn't it seems fair whether that player considers themselves a content creator or not. I mean, you know that that's really what they're doing if they're doing this every single month. And then, you know, well, it sometimes accidentally start to grow a little fan base of supporters who watch your stuff all the time because you're putting out

Craig (20:59.424)
Yeah. Yeah. Content creative. I like that. That sounds better. Yeah.

Craig (21:10.893)
That's right.

Yeah.

Craig (21:19.406)
Exactly.

Rob (21:22.925)
great content. And then we start talking about you like, we learn, you know, with his events channel, and then we talk about the geocaching vlogger. And what if we start talking about you, Eagle dad and see you? Well, you know, I mean, maybe maybe he's not the like, let's get this sweet content. But I know there are some people he puts his in every month.

Craig (21:23.465)
More content exactly.

Craig (21:29.003)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (21:35.255)
Yes. No, he, I will say he does. puts his in everyone. Even if it is in the very last hour of the month, he puts it in every month. I watch you Gary. I watch you mate. I know your tips. I know your tricks, but anyway, but one of the other big content creators out there for Munzee as well is of course Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy. I got asked on the weekend why.

Rob (21:47.811)
Yeah

Rob (21:53.497)
It's great.

Rob (22:01.209)
That is true.

Craig (22:03.724)
We call him Minnesota boy three times and I just said it's the first time I said it. I said it three times out of habit and it just stuck sticks from there. So it is what it is. All right, Rob, we're moving on now. I listened to last week, the Munzee Maniacs podcast had a new episode out. It just dropped before, or yeah, just dropped before we recorded last week. So we didn't get a chance to listen to it. I listened to it and it was a good little episode, Rob. I actually really enjoyed it. The main reason why I enjoyed it is that PJ didn't really complain much.

Rob (22:26.915)
That's

Rob (22:31.134)
so everyone needs to give it a listen then.

Craig (22:34.442)
Yeah, absolutely. Everyone needs to give the Munzee Maniacs podcast. Listen again, Rob links, all these are in the description. Absolutely. So that's not a problem there. Rob, we've had a question as well regarding the BVGs and this is my, I had this question to this question come up in my head, but I already knew the answer to it. And that was some people have kept all these, the bouncing virtual gardens, right?

Rob (22:41.113)
Perfect.

Craig (22:56.302)
And so they read it in another event and the bounce, the same bouncing virtual garden comes to their event again. And normally because you've capitaled the pins, you only see the POI. And so you kept the POI and you go, I've already capitaled this one, but there was one or two, I do believe, bouncing virtual gardens out there that all of a sudden had one pin in it from Rob.

Rob (23:19.903)
yeah. man. I'm sitting here looking, looking at you like, because I saw this in the notes, we didn't talk about it. And I thought, what, what does this even mean? I get it. So someone in one of those early gardens from July from a birthday event, deleted their account. And so there was a hole in the garden and you know, I've got to make a quick choice on well,

Craig (23:20.758)
Yeah.

Craig (23:31.011)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (23:38.25)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Craig (23:44.945)
okay.

Rob (23:49.623)
we've got to get that redeployed or else people are not going to be able to get the badge. So when Sam found it, we just chatted real quick. And you know, mean, if if I got to, if I got to fill a spot in the garden, then it's very difficult to choose who to give that pin to, obviously, if there are two, I might give the second one to you. But if there's one, you know, whoops, I did the work, I get the I get the pin, you know, it's easy.

Craig (23:51.362)
Mmm. Yeah.

Craig (24:01.378)
Yeah.

Craig (24:11.318)
Yeah, that's fair enough. That's fair enough. And I knew when I first saw it, I that's what would have happened. And then someone else actually saw it as well, but not for the Bouncing Virtual Gardens, but also in a lot of other gardens too. So that person who's deleted their account had Munsies in a lot of different types of gardens throughout the world. And so they've all come back up now on Cuppa Z for one pin missing, one pin missing, one pin missing.

Rob (24:18.99)
Yeah.

Rob (24:35.041)
Yeah, so there was one the specific one for this was a brand new account, like the account had only been open for like a week. So probably not that person that left holes across the world. But honestly, I don't know who the other could have been. There hasn't been any strange activity from our side. So yeah, just

Craig (24:39.534)
Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (24:51.096)
Hmm. But no, no, no, no, not at all. Not at all. It does, it does happen. And that's the way it happens. Sometimes, you know, people sort of go out of the game and so they'll delete and if they delete their, if they don't delete their account, if they just stop playing, then their pins will last on the map for a lot longer until they become inactive slash dormant. And, and then they will be taken out. Well, I like this idea too. I've got to be quick because with timeframe, but

Rob (25:07.193)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (25:12.277)
inactive.

Craig (25:21.43)
If they become dormant and the Munzee itself is taken out, so like it's a plain virtual and the Munzee is taken out of off the game board, so to speak, that's not deleted. That virtual goes into their inventory. So when they start playing again, all of a sudden they've got all these Munzees in their inventory back compared to what they were before, which I think is a great idea because, you know, they didn't delete the account, they just stopped playing, you know, so.

Rob (25:36.131)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (25:46.925)
Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (25:47.746)
They're not going to have to start all over again, so to speak. They just have to redeploy what they have back in their inventory. I like that idea, Rob. Good stuff. Good stuff.

Rob (25:53.389)
We have players who've done that over time, know? One or two who actually consciously stopped playing for years just to get their stuff undepoiD to put it in new places. That's pretty tough. Yeah, you use the word I think too, yeah.

Craig (26:01.486)
Hmm.

Wow, that's crazy. That's crazy. I know. But anyway, Rob, speaking of gardens, we've also had the Gardens of the Month winners for August come through. Congratulations to Cap, Jack's Crew and Sky Fox. There's two gardens there, the Scores Garden, Rob, and the Olympics Garden. Now, these are obviously the...

the players out there who create the gardens. But Rob, as we all know, if you've got a one Munzee in a garden that wins Garden of the Month, you get that actual badge as well for Garden of the Month because you help participate too from there. I know, I know. So well done to Cap Jack's crew and Sky Fox for your two. And also we've still got October, November, December, all those months coming up.

Rob (26:40.822)
Isn't it amazing? Yep.

Craig (26:52.492)
Get your gardens on Cuppa Z, get the tag phrase done so we can have a look at all through all the ones and go and pick from there. Meanwhile, Rob, I had a question as well that the GOTM banners at the bottom of players profiles, are they still being given out to the actual garden creators or not? No. A title.

Rob (27:13.279)
No, so that's a title and we stopped giving the title out probably five years ago. So yes, there are people who you can see have it, but the trouble is that we actually, for a couple of months or maybe longer, we're giving that title by accident to all the people who deployed. So there's a lot of us, because I'm one of them who've never created a garden that won that had the G O T So

Craig (27:19.0)
No.

Yeah.

Craig (27:28.119)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (27:31.854)
Craig (27:37.421)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (27:41.354)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Rob (27:42.899)
what would make sense in the grand scheme of things is that we remove the GO TM from everyone. And then we go back through every single blog that has a GO TM winner, and we give it only to those people. That sounds time consuming, and not necessary at this point in time. So instead, no one gets it moving forward until we do make that move. Yeah.

Craig (27:54.511)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (28:03.79)
No, that's fair enough. That makes sense, makes sense too. So, or one more secret. We got one more thing here. says, you've got a secret and then it's got Rob next to it. What's that? What's that one about?

Rob (28:13.573)
I don't know if something else might be in the cards to bounce into the store soon. Beyond what we've already hinted at and I've actually said, but yeah, just, you know, coming soon. Got a couple of things. Have fun.

Craig (28:24.852)
fair enough. Fair enough. Another, see, you love your little tidbits, Rob. You love your little, just your little spice, a little spicy. So, all right, Rob, moving on to the question of week. And this one comes from Jersey Boy on my profile. And the Jersey Boy, I'm saying he because Jersey Boy the name, he says, can there be more nomads?

Rob (28:33.111)
Yeah, just one or two. That's all.

Rob (28:49.838)
that's a good question. Can there be absolutely? Will there be? I have absolutely no idea. It would make sense. And there are probably are a couple of types that we could add something to. But yeah, the the nomads are something that we came up with a really long time ago just to celebrate the different types of munchies and just have something that is free. Munzee owned bouncer.

Craig (28:55.884)
you

Craig (29:01.998)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (29:10.382)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (29:14.967)
You know, the bounces around there are very few of them. think maybe there are 20 of each type, something like that. So they're very rare. This is one of those tasks that is a round to it task. You know, when we get round to it, then we'll, you know, put one out. Yeah.

Craig (29:15.211)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (29:24.813)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (29:29.612)
Yeah. It's, it's, it's on, it's on the cards, but it's, it's down the list is what you're saying, Rob. There you go. There you go. Jersey boy. I hope that helps, mate. we've got a Munzee request to the week, Rob too. This one come from Steve Crabble on the Munzee water cooler on Facebook. And he asked, can we get a different reward for completing the seven day secret Z Ops? So at the moment, if you don't realize, then if you do the secret Z Ops daily Z Ops, then you get a reward.

Rob (29:35.308)
Indeed.

Craig (29:55.884)
You do seven of those themselves and you get the seven day reward, which is always going to be five cogs. Rob, before you answer this, I will say, I did read the actual comments as those comments are both back and forward. Anna says that she agrees with him. this other person said, I liked the cogs. David said, I'm happy with the cogs because you can choose your own mech rewards you see from there. So, but when you think about it, Rob,

Rob (30:19.309)
Yeah.

Craig (30:21.761)
I do believe Steve, he's a kind of a newish sort of player. So he wouldn't have that many mechs under his belt in order to spend the cogs on. So if you're a new player and you literally, you've just got the, the spider bot, that's it. Then, then you feel, you may feel like, you know, all I get is five cogs and I can only do a spider bot. So Rob, what's what's your opinion on getting different awards for the seven day completion?

Rob (30:46.041)
Well, here's my thought. This sounds like a Goldilocks type of reward where, you know, it's just about right because you've got some people who are like, no, I want something different. Well, no, I like how it goes right now. And originally we set it up so that everyone got a spider bot for completing this. So at this point in time for us to have given everyone, you know, and that's because there was only one mech. was the spider bot. That was it.

Craig (30:56.108)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (31:06.465)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (31:12.585)
Yeah, that's it. That was it.

Rob (31:14.013)
And so yeah, now that we have so many, you know, we feel like the best way to do it is just to give everybody the five cogs and let them choose. So that's what we're going to continue to do. But thank you for the question or the request.

Craig (31:21.74)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. There we go. Yeah. That's good. That's good. I love the, I love the chat back and forward between people too. It was actually a really good, talk back and forward. And of course, Rob, you just said it when it goes to the original, the full story. If you want to the full story from the original part with the spider bot, go and have a look at the water cooler. Have a look at that particular post and you'll have a guess, Rob, who gave out the full story and no, it wasn't Ryan. It was.

Rob (31:51.009)
Wow, I was totally gonna say Ryan rookie but no, I don't know

Craig (31:53.351)
No, no, It was the head of the Munzee water cooler. So yes. Yeah. So there you go. Have a look at that and you'll see the full, full tip from there. Rob, we're to end it with the tip of the week from Rob. Ready? What's the tip of the week, Rob?

Rob (31:59.092)
was it? Okay, Gene.

Rob (32:07.725)
All right, so just in case everyone out there has never messed with the follow feature, you do have a follow feature on the app where you can hold down, you know, the center button. If you hold that button down for like three seconds, it turns red. And then if you're moving, then it follows you. So, you know, you can, if you're driving or a passenger or whatever, use the follow feature and it just kind of keeps the map centered and then you tap and cap as you go. So just

Craig (32:17.464)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (32:22.271)
yeah.

Craig (32:37.23)
Oh, at you coming up with a really, that's actually a high quality tip over the week, you know? I know, I know, every now and then. And Rob, before we ended up as well, I will say that we are getting awfully close to 100 episodes, Rob. Awfully close to 100 episodes. We might have to do something for our 100th episode. I'm not sure what yet, let's see. We might have to do something. And as I said before, with the Munzee, Munzee water cooler, the Munzee Maniacs podcast,

Rob (32:37.849)
You know, something.

Rob (32:42.529)
What can I say? Every now and then.

Rob (32:52.927)
wow.

Rob (32:58.851)
Blats. Yeah.

Craig (33:07.212)
Sorry, PJ, Kevin, Sarah. The official podcast has now got more episodes out in the airwaves of what the Muncie Maniacs do.

Rob (33:12.364)
that's what happens with every single week for this many weeks in a row, you know, and yeah, it's it's part of part of what we do where these guys, you know, I have definitely other things in life to do as well.

Craig (33:18.742)
Yeah, that's right. In a row, Rob, in a row.

Craig (33:30.4)
Absolutely, absolutely. And we've got a lot of information every single week. Let's be honest too. So speaking of which, Rob, that ends another official Munzee podcast.

Rob (33:33.656)
We do.

Rob (33:38.211)
Thanks for joining us on this Munzee adventure.

Craig (33:40.408)
Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favourite podcasting app and join us next week for another informative episode.

Rob (33:45.614)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game, it's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Craig (33:50.254)
So keep scanning, keep discovering, keep that Munzey spirit live up. One, two, three. Secret Zeal.

Rob (33:54.475)
Munzeon!

It's a secret.