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And now, please welcome the Secret Cup Ball Founders.

And now, Kobolos and welcome to episode 339 of the Secret Cup Ball Gaming Podcast.

This is Jamie. Tony here. Hello, Podcast. This is Jamie.

Tony here.

Hello, hello.

This is Don.

And this is Steve.

We are, when you hear this one day away from going to Totalcon, and I'm completely

jazzed about it.

Chris is not here with us today, but he's going to be there.

Jamie's going to be there. Jamie's going to be

there. I'm going to be meeting Kabbalis and teaching some games just having a hell of a good time. I'm very interested because it's 40 years old and I've never been to this thing. Yeah, total con. It's called Total Confusion. That's the full name. It's in Marlborough, Massachusetts. They asked us to come up there and be special guests of the con.

It's a very small little con,. They asked us to come up there and be special guests

of the con. It's a very small little con, but it's been going for 40 years. And man,

there isn't a whole lot to look forward to in the first little, the first quarter of the year,

right? Like, there's never really any, you know, cool conventions or cool, like, trips to go on and stuff. This is the wintertime. It's depressing. Well, TOTCON came along, and, man, I am just fired up to go up there and teach some cabala some games and drink some beers and have a good time for the weekend. Is it going to be cold in Massachusetts? Man, it's cold everywhere on the East Coast right now. It's crazy. Yeah, Tony, if you want to do anything outside of your house here on the East Coast, you're going to be cold. Don't. That's right. Yeah, it's a bit of a hike for us. We decided we're going to drive up so we can take some games and stuff along. So it's going to be about six hours roughly to get up to Massachusetts. Our buddy Matt Evans, formerly of the YouTube channel board game replay, he lives up that way. He's going to come down and hang with us for the weekend. Oh, cool. We definitely got a Total Khan channel in the Discord that's going crazy. There's a ton of Kabbalis in there, including our good buddy Joe Daly, who's going to be at the con this year. Yeah. One word, no spaces? That's right. I'm very excited because, you know, it's time for a break and just to chill out, play some games for the weekend, have some nice food, meet some cabal. It's going to be great. Yeah, and they offers us to teach whatever games we sort of wanted to, and I made sure to pick a couple games that could be taught and played within two hours. And I think Chris chose what, advanced civilization or something like that? He chose something that's definitely going to take more in two hours. No, no, he picked Orleans and Last will to relatively short hour and a half type games. Although Don

you're not take more in two hours. No, no, he picked Orleans and Last Will, two relatively short hour and a half type games.

Although Don, you chose to pick Cryptid, which is a game that can be started, played, and won in seven minutes if you're Don.

So you're going to play that game 17 times in the two-hour span and beat them every single time.

And they're all going to leave in misery.

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