It's Wednesday, June 3rd, and you're listening to The Secret Cup Ball Gaming Podcast.

Today, the founders review Alchemists, and look back at what's he building in there,

and discuss Forex and Civilization Board Games.

And now please welcome the Secret Caball Founders.

Hello and welcome to episode 89 of the Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast.

My name is Jamie.

Tony here.

Hello, folks, Brian.

Hey, this is Chris.

And this is Steve.

All right.

So before we start the show proper, I have to deliver some terrible news to you, Kabbalists.

The last discussion topic that we recorded today, which was a role-playing

discussion about tropes and cliche plots and adventures and campaigns, we had a great time doing the

discussion. It was a lot of fun. We told a lot of fun stories and talked about how we figured out

how to sort of manipulate these tropes to make them new and different things in the past. We had a ton of fun recording it, but one of the tracks got screwed up somehow.

Chris's whole track got completely wiped out, and we just couldn't use the discussion topic

because of it, because his track was sort of bleeding over to mind.

We talked back and forth with Chris a lot during it.

And I tried my damnedest to edit that thing. So I essentially edit Chris out of the discussion.

It just wouldn't work. So the show is a half an hour shorter than normal. And listen, this pains me deep into my heart because we get the show out like clockwork

every Wednesday and we try really hard to make sure that it's the greatest show ever. And this show

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