Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday December 22nd 2023

Craig and Rob chat all things Munzee from the Events of the past and future, to the BIG magnetic weekend. 

We discuss the 2024 Mega events, Next years new 'streak' item, Flat Flashlights, Double Points weekend and some new cool Merch in the Merch store

Rob answers a interesting Question of the week, dating back from October and we end with a couple of new tips from listeners.

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Seemyshell (00:01.13)
Welcome to the official Munzee Podcast.

Rob Vardeman (00:03.674)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.

Seemyshell (00:07.942)
And I'm Craig also known as Seemyshell, I'm here to explore the world of Munzee from within.

Rob Vardeman (00:13.086)
Each week we'll delve into Munzee's mysteries, discover treasures, and inform players from around the world just what is coming your way.

Seemyshell (00:20.278)
So sit back, relax as today we chat all about obviously the week that was some Munzee clothing. Yes, some new merch, some flat flashlights. I say that three times quickly. And of course, always a question from Rob. This one dates back to October, Rob. And of course, ending with the tip of the week as well, mate. So how have you been this week?

Rob Vardeman (00:32.066)
Thank you.

Rob Vardeman (00:35.97)
Who?

Rob Vardeman (00:40.474)
Oh, I've been good. I've been good. How about you? Yeah.

Seemyshell (00:42.642)
Yeah. Oh, mate, sensation. I'll say this sensational after last weekend. Oh, so busy last weekend. I looked up in the sky, mate. And I just saw, I saw the mechs flying back and forth, back and forth, back. They were everywhere. They'll all over my Skylands. They're all over my tree houses. My, uh, what do you, that temporary virtuals that I've got out there as well. The mech bouncer thing, the pub thing, wherever you call it. See? Yeah. It's all over that as well. And of course, Rob, of course.

Rob Vardeman (01:03.986)
Alright. Oh yeah.

Seemyshell (01:12.05)
Me being me, I've got myself a little nest, right? And so I literally magnetized like the virtuals around me and I'm sitting on my couch. Just tap, cap, cap. And then I'm going to, to me, Rob, I tried to magnetize again. This is after a few magnets. Let's just say that. And it said, you can't magnetize now for nine hours. I'm like, what, what? That's how many times I did it.

Rob Vardeman (01:28.252)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (01:32.938)
Mm hmm. There's that is quite a bit. I think I think the limit is three per day, three per 24 hours. I think that goes back several years. So don't quote me on three. But I do believe that's it. Yeah, we had we had some. Yeah, some people that might have, you know, taken advantage, we'll call it in.

Seemyshell (01:41.698)
Oh.

Seemyshell (01:48.747)
Oh, yeah.

Seemyshell (01:56.178)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (02:00.418)
quite a few different ways and you know that's when we build in little fail safes and yeah so there you go so I'm sorry that we limited you but I'm really glad that you had so much fun because you're right oh my gosh bouncers were literally flying around the world

Seemyshell (02:02.337)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (02:05.698)
Exactly, exactly. No, no, that's okay.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (02:18.97)
Yeah. And, and Robert will say this. I was a little worried because of previous issues with tech and whatever else. So I'm thinking to myself, please, please do not crash. Do you not do it? And you know what? It didn't, it didn't. Everything went smoothly. Like it was like silk, mate. Like they were flying everywhere and people were pointing capping and getting points left, right and center. Here's a tip for you, Rob. Oh, not for you. It wouldn't be for you. It'd be for everyone else because, and I say it's a tip because I reached out. I was talking to Joshua, the geocaching blogger as always.

Rob Vardeman (02:28.616)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (02:39.514)
Ooh, okay.

Seemyshell (02:46.874)
And he's put like a little electric near me, right near me. And so I magnetize the electric and he says, why do you magnetize my electric more so than the other virtuals around you, Craig? I go, because it's scatters, mate. It's every time you get the electric, it scatters as other ones on the virtuals. So I'm getting extra points on the extra points. You guys, Oh, that's smart. See, there we go.

Rob Vardeman (03:07.122)
And those electric scatters are like double points on the actual virtual for both you and the host or the owner. So imagine if you deploy those virtuals and then, oh yeah, it's, it's ridiculous. Yeah. Well done. Yeah.

Seemyshell (03:09.45)
Yeah. Yes.

Seemyshell (03:16.619)
Exactly right. I know.

Seemyshell (03:22.674)
Yeah, exactly. Thank you, my thank you. And he wonders why little, little humble brag here. He wonders why Rob Rob, guess what? I took over the GCV. Yes. I'm in front of the GCV now with points too. Um, Sarah, maybe from the Munzee Maniacs podcast. I will say, we'll see.

Rob Vardeman (03:28.84)
Hmm.

Do tell.

Oooo

Rob Vardeman (03:38.071)
Oh yeah. All right, who's next then? Who's next?

Rob Vardeman (03:43.907)
Oh don't okay yeah you oh yikes

Rob Vardeman (03:51.093)
Watch out!

Seemyshell (03:51.73)
Anyway, Rob, let's get on with this show because it's not all about me and my weekend and how much I loved it. What else was happening for yourself? What did you do over the weekend?

Rob Vardeman (04:00.094)
Well, so you know we put out the new Harry Nails POI. Yeah, so because we had so many and because it was popular and because.

Seemyshell (04:04.135)
Oh yes, yes. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (04:11.182)
We don't want people to get them and then let them sit there all the way until Monday. I actually jumped on line late Friday, during the day Saturday and Sunday and early Monday just to check and see if they were there. So I did some approving, which I'm not always in the approval queues. So yeah, I went through and I will say there were quite a few.

Seemyshell (04:29.291)
Yeah, yeah.

Rob Vardeman (04:33.278)
And there are some interesting names for hair salons or nail salons which qualify for this barbershop places.

Seemyshell (04:33.596)
Yes!

Seemyshell (04:39.757)
I know.

Seemyshell (04:43.834)
I know. I love the different nails shops, especially nails. I think more so than the, uh, but there's places, you know, like Jagged Edge is one near me. You know what I mean? Like there's always that sort of salt play on words. Um, I got one too, Rob. I'm going to, I'm going to personalize this again. I got one, uh, straight away and I deployed it back in my home, my hometown, back in the place where I feel like I, uh, I developed my Munzee passion back in casino in New South Wales, Australia. So.

Rob Vardeman (04:53.754)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (05:10.002)
Oh, wow.

Seemyshell (05:10.898)
Yeah. So I put mine back over in there as well for again, other clan mates as well. So that's pretty cool. So there was a lot that a lot actually published with it. Yeah. Yep.

Rob Vardeman (05:19.774)
Yeah, that's great. There were a lot. It's, hopefully everyone's enjoying them. I think they are, yeah.

Seemyshell (05:25.226)
Hmm. I think they are. I think that now the rule is though only one per month though. Is that correct?

Rob Vardeman (05:30.822)
I think it's... is it two every 15 days? One every 15? Okay, yeah.

Seemyshell (05:35.091)
So. Oh, two every 15 one every 15 days one every 15 days it is that's what this because I was going to get to, but it said one so one every 15 days so that's what it is so there you go that's the rules all right, make sure we move along what else you been doing apart from that.

Rob Vardeman (05:48.039)
Oh, playing with mailbox. Capping. Every day. Yeah.

Seemyshell (05:50.402)
That's fair enough. Fair enough. I like, you know, you play it with the game as well. Exactly right. But I heard a rumor, Rob. I heard a rumor. I heard that you're, you may be coming to some bit of a, bit of a bit of sunshine and a bit of warmth, a bit of, you know.

Rob Vardeman (05:54.802)
Yeah. Mmm. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (06:02.458)
Oh, I mean, the grays of the UK are, yeah, their thing. And so, yeah, we're headed over to Florida, going to hang out with family. My son, you know, works there at Disney World. He's a skipper on the world famous jungle cruise. So we'll be going and hearing him do the jingle cruise, which is special for the Christmas time. And yeah, going to hang out, soak up some sun, bring it back with us, hopefully. Yeah.

Seemyshell (06:20.622)
Ha ha ha.

Seemyshell (06:27.435)
That's really cool.

Rob Vardeman (06:31.798)
Looking forward to it.

Seemyshell (06:32.858)
If anyone else wants to know and a little bit more about that, go to Rob's YouTube channel. Rob's got his own YouTube channel called at B Snob Rob. Yes, B Snob Rob. Go to that YouTube channel and have a look. And Rob, you've got a video of you riding along with your son. And he's doing the talking in the ride. That's really cool. I love that one, mate. I love that one. And how proud you were, mate. How proud you were. Anyway, moving on to the week that was, we had events in Iowa, Maryland.

Rob Vardeman (06:41.63)
Mmm.

Rob Vardeman (06:52.85)
Yeah, it's fun.

Very. Yeah, very proud.

Seemyshell (07:01.906)
Missouri, Florida had a couple, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and around the world, Rob, we had.

Rob Vardeman (07:06.774)
The UK, we had Victoria and Queensland down in Australia, Finland, British Columbia, Canada, and Germany.

Seemyshell (07:14.85)
and the leaderboards over the weekend. Now these, these did not surprise me. On Friday, we had Herbie at 486,000 points, Munzee Proof at 455, Redmond at 452, my clan, Rob, my clan mate, she's gonna love this. Her name is Hildes, H-I-L-D-Z, Hildes. She loves hearing her name. She got 42nd, Rob, you know why? Cause she got, she was at 40th, and I said to her, there's no badge for 40th, there's a badge for 42nd.

Rob Vardeman (07:30.05)
Oh, yeah. Okay.

Yeah.

Seemyshell (07:43.598)
Boom, she pulled back to 42nd and she got the 42nd badge. There you go. After listening to the last week's podcast, that's pretty cool. Exactly.

Rob Vardeman (07:49.994)
the meaning of life. Excellent. Well done, Hildes. Well done. On Saturday, yeah, on Saturday we had Ajita with just over a million, 1.05, close for second and third with Whelan and Munzee Prof, both just over that million mark as well.

Seemyshell (07:54.654)
And Saturday, what do we have Saturday? Yeah.

Seemyshell (08:09.654)
So we had millionaires on Saturday. Guess what? We had millionaires on Sunday as well. And the man himself, Whelan was dealing, I'll say that much at almost 1.1 million. Munsproof again at 1.05 million. And the name you hear a lot on this podcast, Jaroslav Kass rounding out the top three, Rob. So there you go. The current events upcoming this weekend, only a couple, Rob, only a couple.

Rob Vardeman (08:11.522)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (08:33.31)
Yeah, just a couple. We've got them for Germany and Switzerland. So, gonna be quiet. Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (08:38.994)
Yeah, that's it. So Germany on Friday and Switzerland on Sunday. That's it. But again, we have to mention the very first possible mega for 2024 coming up in from January 11 to 14 events in obviously the new area of Lake Nona in Orlando, Florida here are saying this all the time. There's almost 40 attendees. Now we need 10 more Rob. We need 10 more to get it. So let's get some more people to this awesome event. What do you think?

Rob Vardeman (08:54.537)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (09:01.79)
Well, I think that it's going to happen because I don't know if you've ever noticed, but in the US, they don't necessarily always mark their will attend, but they do show up. So if you see 39 will attend, then it should be over 50. As opposed to here in the UK, where if it says 39, there will be somewhere between 37 and 42 people. Like, everyone marks will attend. They very much want that to happen.

Seemyshell (09:11.593)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (09:25.863)
Hahaha

Rob Vardeman (09:30.346)
So speaking of the UK, we're seeing a lot more events that are being added to that same weekend, the 12th through the 14th of January. And that's because we put out the fact that the double points weekend is going to be happening that weekend. So on one of those days, I think it's the 13th, is when the south coast of the UK, they have events that they move around through a lot of different cities.

Seemyshell (09:30.506)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (09:59.15)
and they ranged anywhere from 40 to 70 attendees last year. So that event is going to be taking place before the Saturday morning event in Florida. So the question is, will the Florida event on Thursday or Friday hit over 50 to become the first 2024 mega event, or is it gonna fall to the UK? There's a couple of other ones on that day already that are across Europe.

Seemyshell (10:13.432)
Oh!

Seemyshell (10:27.183)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (10:28.551)
So yeah, it's going to be a race to see who gets the first mega event.

Seemyshell (10:32.59)
first mega. Wow. That's really cool. That's a battle, a battle of the countries. I like it. I like it. But I'll say this because I'm actually attending the Florida one along with yourself and other people like the GCV as well. If you're thinking if you're ever in the UK or Germany or any other places, etc, and you want to come to Florida, now's the time to do so. So because I'm going to this I want to be part of the first mega. I don't want the mega to be on the UK. But if it is good luck to the UK, that's all I'll say.

Rob Vardeman (10:36.354)
Mm-hmm.

Indeed.

Rob Vardeman (10:43.183)
Mm-hmm. Yes.

Seemyshell (11:02.414)
Hahaha!

Rob Vardeman (11:03.074)
Yes, yes exactly. You know, so the other thing that we've got, and I wanted to kind of look out just a touch further because it already is toward the end of December, we need to kind of look further out so in March, we've got Munzee Madness 13 that's happening in Southern California, and it's March 8th and 9th. And they are hoping to get to that mega status as well to get 50 plus attendees.

Seemyshell (11:07.775)
Hmm?

Seemyshell (11:11.414)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (11:18.591)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (11:26.305)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (11:32.002)
They have done that successfully for nearly all of the 13 years that they've been doing this. They have had an event every single year that Munzee has been in existence. It's always that first ish weekend of March. So yeah, we'll see if they can see if they can hit mega status as well. So

Seemyshell (11:35.628)
Nice.

Seemyshell (11:39.307)
Wow.

Seemyshell (11:43.298)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (11:46.612)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (11:53.442)
That's the one we went to this year Rob. I saw you there this year as well. Exactly. That's a really nice location down there I mean you fly into LA, you know, and it's not too bad So yeah So get yourself or look at getting yourself to Munzee madness 13 in Southern California March 8th and 9th at this At this stage at this point in time. That's good. That's good. Rob. Thank you for the future. Good work, mate What is coming up now as we speak? We're gonna move on now on to the what's happening this week? What's happening with Munzee this week? Tell me

Rob Vardeman (11:55.135)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (12:13.494)
Sure. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (12:22.238)
Well, I've got a question for you. You know how you say that whenever I talk slow, there's something special coming out that I might be saying. Well, let's pretend that I'm talking slow, but I don't have time to do that right now. Did you notice that there was a leaked image of next year's streak related item? It happened this week. Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (12:24.767)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (12:42.347)
Hang on, hang on, hang on. If I recall correctly, cause I do look at a lot of Munzee things, including the Munzee blog. I saw something on the blog, Rob. Is that what you're referring to? Something that was on the blog?

Rob Vardeman (12:52.126)
Hmm. It was on the blog and we're talking about what comes next in the line of the garden gnome, the garden flamingo, the garden hedge. Yeah, so we blog about the final garden hedge and it also included information about the permanent garden hedge that you can own in 2024 and you get a permanent one deployed on your account. If you own eight this year.

Seemyshell (12:57.458)
Oh

Seemyshell (13:02.462)
Yep. Yeah. Wow.

Seemyshell (13:09.25)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (13:21.01)
All of the skins that you earn this year are going to be available for you to use on use on that 2024 permanent one. So that's, that's what the blog said. That's most of what the blog said. However, there was that one important new piece of information. So.

Seemyshell (13:21.143)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (13:29.857)
Oh, yeah.

Seemyshell (13:33.419)
Mmm. Yeah.

Seemyshell (13:40.126)
that wasn't actually said though on the blog. There was no words about this on the blog though, was there? I didn't see any words about this on the blog. So no words. There's the hint, no words.

Rob Vardeman (13:42.146)
Mm, no words. I know. So it's okay if you don't like reading the blog, just go look at it. Just go look at it.

Seemyshell (13:52.522)
You don't have to just go look at it. Yeah. Cause let's be honest, Rob at the old age saying is a picture tells a thousand words. Like, Oh, that cat. Exactly. Meanwhile, Rob, you said something about this weekend as well. We're having some flat scatters. What, which, which flats are we talking about this time?

Rob Vardeman (13:59.828)
Oh, now you got it. Boom. All right, go check it. That's it.

Rob Vardeman (14:11.622)
Yes. So the flat flashlight, which is Tamara's item, right? So that's her object. Yeah. So the flat flashlight, like you said, say that fast. Scatter event is going on right now and it ends Christmas Eve. So that is the 24th midnight rolling into the 25th. So yeah, get those flat flashlights out on the map. If they're not on or if they are on the map, go cap them.

Seemyshell (14:16.814)
Oh, that's Tamara's one. Yes, yeah, yeah.

Seemyshell (14:28.29)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (14:32.654)
Mm-hmm. That's really cool.

Rob Vardeman (14:40.258)
There are the scatters as usual with flat scatter events. There's a discount in the store. There's also badges that are associated with those things. So get to chasing.

Seemyshell (14:47.956)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (14:59.797)
Mm hmm.

Rob Vardeman (15:00.474)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (15:18.878)
Hey, she will and the badge on this one is really unique as well. So this one is a literary based badge with her with a flashlight and definitely throws her back to younger years when she might have read a book like this one. So that's all I've got to say about that.

Seemyshell (15:24.092)
Hmm?

Seemyshell (15:30.222)
Oh.

Seemyshell (15:38.63)
Oh, fair enough. Do you think, do you think Rob, and this isn't on the show notes and you love it when I say this, um, do you think there's anything to do with maybe some sort of special badges that's not going to be sort of, uh, advertised like your hidden badges in regards to this one?

Rob Vardeman (15:43.755)
Uh huh.

Rob Vardeman (15:53.382)
Oh, in regards to this one, honestly, I just gave you all the information that I remember. So not trying to hide anything. Honestly, can't remember the answer to that question.

Seemyshell (15:58.221)
Yeah. There you go.

Seemyshell (16:07.098)
Well, after last weekend, Robin, you said to me, you said, Craig, you, you adamant, you said, Craig, don't go out there and try and cap a hundred, a hundred bounces this weekend because there's no extra special badge. I did. I capped over a hundred and guess what? You were right. There was no special badges.

Rob Vardeman (16:13.55)
Oh, right.

Rob Vardeman (16:20.899)
Hey, you were having a good time and I would say that's what matters more than if we give you a badge for a thousand. I guess you missed that one. Sorry. Oh, yeah. Oh, a blast. Yes.

Seemyshell (16:28.282)
Exactly right. I had a blast. Let's just say that now also this weekend, Rob, we have double points weekend for mailbox owners and they're on greenies, cards, temporary virtuals, mysteries, and evolutions Rob as well.

Rob Vardeman (16:44.658)
Yes, we've got all of those things going on. A lot of points up for grabs. So everybody get out there and well deploy them if you can't get out there. But look for those things. So I got a question for you. How is your clan doing this month? And specifically, are they benefiting from some of these double point weekends because the categories were split up?

Seemyshell (16:50.925)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (16:56.706)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (17:00.61)
Oh.

Rob Vardeman (17:12.705)
quite differently this time in Clan Wars. So has that made it a bit easier to reach some of those higher goals that people might've been concerned about early on?

Seemyshell (17:14.507)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (17:23.454)
Well, I will say this, not all of my clan have the mailbox and there's a, there's a good, there's good reason for it as well. And that is man, the U S dollar at the moment is really quite harsh against the Australian dollar. So they're like, they're like, dude, you know how much that costs us to get that mailbox in Australia? I'm like, well, it's got a, it's got a fair distance to travel, but anyway.

Rob Vardeman (17:26.8)
Okay.

Rob Vardeman (17:34.75)
Yeah, I know.

Rob Vardeman (17:40.156)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (17:43.927)
Yeah, that's what it is.

Seemyshell (17:45.142)
But apart from that, though, they have done really well. Like my whole team has done really well at the moment, Rob. I'm just looking right now as the scores on the leaderboard with 31st on the leaderboard. And we've only got a team of seven, as I said before, team of seven, but you can tell the teams that the teams, the members that do have the animal box because they do jump up there itself as well. So, and my good friend Hills, who we spoke about earlier as well, she's been battling it out with me, Rob, for the top, for the top spot. I know she's been like literally

Rob Vardeman (17:54.662)
Ooh, nice.

Rob Vardeman (18:05.323)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (18:10.481)
Oh.

Seemyshell (18:13.822)
Give me punches, you know, left, right and center about trying to get the top spot. We've been, you know, dog tagging all the way up. So that's really cool. That's really cool. So yes, that's how my team's been going, mate. That's how my team's been going. What else has been what else is going to be happening this weekend or up now what's new in Munzee now as well.

Rob Vardeman (18:19.15)
Wow. Well, that's good.

Rob Vardeman (18:24.578)
Very good.

Rob Vardeman (18:31.174)
Well, you see, you thought that was the only question that I was going to be asking you, I'm sure. However, with this isn't even to the question of the week, and we're just question, question. So, um, behind the scenes, I have continued to find out that you've got all kinds of crazy skills that I knew some but I didn't know all.

Seemyshell (18:37.506)
Ha ha

Seemyshell (18:41.976)
I know.

Seemyshell (18:45.97)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (18:56.842)
And so I just kind of ask you random questions. You know, I'll shoot you a message and it always starts with so. And it's got like 14 O's on it and the dot dot. And you usually know, oh, here comes some sort of a question. So I hit you up after seeing a few things that you posted that you were sharing with me and just said, would it be interesting to you? And anyway, to maybe help us out with another creative project.

Seemyshell (19:05.191)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (19:11.074)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (19:26.218)
by putting together some clothing and some drinkware and some all kinds of items that we might be able to offer in the Munzee store. So care to share any of what has been happening from your side?

Seemyshell (19:33.288)
Yeah

Seemyshell (19:37.726)
Ha ha

Seemyshell (19:41.716)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (19:45.306)
Well, well, from my side of things, Rob, and yes, it is true. Yes, you did reach out to me and always people he does. He messaged me so and it's, it's so Rob, because you say that you say what you type. And I read your text messages, mate. And I'll read them in your, your accent, your voice, but anyway, um, I digress the, uh, this, this thing, it's new merge.

Rob Vardeman (19:54.617)
Hahaha

Rob Vardeman (20:04.524)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (20:09.93)
new merchant, the store, and it's going to be in the store now live as we speak. So you can go to the store, have a look at the new merchant self as well. I've done a couple of hoodies. Now I have reached out to a few actual real players, real people who would buy this stuff as well and ask them different questions. What do you want to see? What would you like, et cetera? And so they've got back to me and got some feedback backward as well, which is really helpful because I've got things like this new caps in there as well. Um, there's new, there's a new beanie if it's too cold for you, for instance, as well, there's hoodies now, but there's hoodies, Rob.

but they're not just normal pullover hoodies. There's zip up hoodies as well. So you can, some people will say, oh no, I like the zip up better than that pullover. You know, that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah. There's some new mugs and there's a new mug in there. There's two, actually two new mugs that I really, really like. One is for Sam, purely for Sam. And it's, and I've made it cuppa before the Z. So there you go. That's for you Sam, mate. That's just for you buddy. Cuppa before the Z. There's one in there that goes back to this year.

Rob Vardeman (20:46.134)
I do too.

Rob Vardeman (20:52.901)
Yeah

Rob Vardeman (21:00.182)
Ha!

Rob Vardeman (21:04.376)
Love it.

Seemyshell (21:08.342)
When you came out with the daft vitamin and the, the Lou, what was that? I can't even think of the Lou Vic, Meg, but the princess Lou, princess Lou, princess Lu are that's right. That's a daft bottom princess Lua. And of course the Rover as well. So going back to those sort of days, the mug it says is, uh, is let what is all may the mech be with you saying. And it's on a nice black glossy mug too. So that's in there as well, but Rob, I went a little bit further.

Rob Vardeman (21:11.284)
Oh.

Rob Vardeman (21:15.706)
Um, Princess Lu, uh, yeah. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (21:23.682)
Come on.

Rob Vardeman (21:30.171)
Ah, nice.

Oh my

Rob Vardeman (21:37.515)
What?

Seemyshell (21:38.046)
I went a little bit deeper as well. I know, I know, I know. I put some stickers in there. If you want some random stickers, you know, that sort of stuff, if you want to stick around your walls and doors and whatnot as well. There is, I put a Sherpa blanket in there, Rob. A Sherpa blanket that you can put over your legs, et cetera. Either you lay on the lounge or if you're in the car, that sort of thing as well. But what I like the most, and I think a lot of people may use this to some degree, is I've got an event flag.

Rob Vardeman (21:51.583)
Oh yeah?

Seemyshell (22:04.15)
developed in there as well. So it's an actual real flag made of real flag material like the, and you can hang it up if you're in the, uh, what do you call it? The, at the park or whatever else, where you're the pavilions, yeah. Where you actually host your events. You can hang that up. So everyone knows, ah, there's the Munzee event over there and random muggle people will call them that can come up and go, Oh, what's this Munzee thing you're talking about here? So yeah, Rob, I've even placed in the corner, a little spot where people can actually literally pin.

Rob Vardeman (22:12.686)
Villions? Yeah, yeah. Yeah

Rob Vardeman (22:26.806)
That's perfect.

Seemyshell (22:32.57)
pin up their little badge, their QR code badge for the event. So, so there you go. There you go.

Rob Vardeman (22:35.65)
giving people all the ideas While designing it now I will say if you're not careful you're gonna end up with even more projects from me when you Go putting stuff like this together because I have seen a few of those designs before we're launching it But but my this is amazing and you did something that we don't always do which is you reached out to players in Advance that was very wise

Seemyshell (22:56.58)
Hahaha

Seemyshell (23:02.483)
That's right. Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (23:02.934)
Thanks for doing that on behalf of the people that you ask and all the rest of us.

Seemyshell (23:09.406)
There's only one thing and this is this is now coming from a player because I'm not part of Munzee and that is I'm only worried about is the quality of material from this particular store but Munzee itself and anyone else doesn't have any control over that because it's true this particular store itself. So I dare say though they have got high ratings. You know that I did have a look at the ratings and I only use the ones with higher ratings and higher.

Rob Vardeman (23:12.907)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (23:24.853)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (23:28.15)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (23:34.222)
What do you call it? Thread count, wherever it's called. So I did use only those ones. So the higher quality ones. So you may pay a little bit more in premium, but it's hopefully crossing fingers. It's a higher quality product. So, so there you go.

Rob Vardeman (23:35.488)
Right.

Rob Vardeman (23:43.914)
We have used this store for many years. We have put out a lot of different products. We have not put out many products at all through this specific store for the last year, which is why I came knocking with the sew. So yeah, thank you for doing that. I will say, if anyone is looking for last minute Christmas items, order now for Christmas of 2024, because it's too late for Christmas of 2023.

Seemyshell (23:49.023)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (23:59.009)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (24:10.614)
Mm hmm. Yeah. Exactly.

Rob Vardeman (24:13.29)
The items will not make it by Christmas no matter what. So please don't order them thinking that they will. It's not possible.

Seemyshell (24:17.642)
No.

Seemyshell (24:21.266)
And there's more, there's more coming through the store itself as well. But I'll say this Rob, I'm going to put this out there. Contact me. If you want something that's Munzee related and you have a great Munzee idea, message me, see my shell on any of your social media is where you can reach out to me, message me and say, Craig, I want this from your store and guess what Rob, I'll get it out there for him. How's that? I can't, I can't be any more than that. I'm the, I'm a player's player. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (24:26.387)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (24:40.054)
Hey, I like it.

That's very accommodating of you. I like it.

Seemyshell (24:47.966)
Speaking of reaching out to me, Rob, let's move on now with the Munzee questions of the week. This one comes from Noisette. I'm going to say is that, would you pronounce it? Noisette? Yeah. Noisette. She says, Rob, back on October 16th, she gives us a date. Munzee headquarters made an announcement regarding a Google map test and improvements. Is there any update on this news and subject? Yeah. She dates you. That's great.

Rob Vardeman (24:56.742)
I would, yeah.

Rob Vardeman (25:12.118)
mean to date me, put a date on it might as well middle named me as well. Let's see. So calling me on the carpet, I appreciate it. We have been in beta testing since October. We have been pulling data from all of that the entire time. What we have found is that there are some fixes that are needed because it isn't as simple as let's just

Seemyshell (25:19.062)
Yeah

Rob Vardeman (25:38.754)
drag in Google Maps, drop it there, and boom, it's all working. There are some things that we've still gotta fix. So we're doing that, we're working with those testers. We had some possibilities of getting things out the door before Christmas, however, we try not to do that because we are not going to be working in the office much, if any, over the Christmas break, and we do not want the app to break. So.

Seemyshell (25:46.338)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (26:08.542)
we're holding until January. We have quite a few things to push out. I do not know what the order will be, but I do know that the maps are on the way soon-ish.

Seemyshell (26:09.505)
This is true.

Seemyshell (26:20.374)
Mm hmm. Soon, but no actual dates into mine. So there you go. No, is it, they haven't forgotten about it. It is still running. It is still in the, in the process, but, uh, yeah, very, very good, uh, very good response from very good response. She also, she's also got a question for me, Rob. Did you see that? Yeah. It's okay. Oh yeah.

Rob Vardeman (26:31.071)
Hey, thank you.

Oh, I did. Go on. Here, let me ask you. Here's a question for you, Craig. Where does the name C-My-Shall come from?

Seemyshell (26:44.431)
So much like easier question than yours, Rob, I'll tell you now. Well, if those people who don't know my first name is Craig. My last name is Michelle, like the girl's name. I know tough name for a bloke. But so this happened from when I was in high school. They had the my initial is C and then they had the dot or full stop period, whatever you want to call it. And then the last name is Michelle. So it's C Michelle is my abbreviated name. So I then went on just terms as in C Michelle.

Rob Vardeman (26:45.652)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Vardeman (27:11.754)
Hey, nice and easy.

Seemyshell (27:12.566)
So see my show. Yeah, there you go. So that's how it works. Easy, easy. See, there you go. So thank you, noise that thank you for reaching out. And as always, you can reach out to for Rob's, um, a question for Rob or a tip of the week via my Facebook, Instagram, discord, wherever you want to find me. You can reach out and message me on that way. Rob, I've even got messages now on the official Munzee app, which is really cool. Yes. Yeah. You reach out to me on them on the app. I'm happy with that too. So Munzee tip of the week, Rob, if this one here, the first one.

Rob Vardeman (27:32.118)
Hey.

Seemyshell (27:40.734)
is from Monte Ciders on the water cooler on the water cooler. This one, again, I got it off the water cooler scene. It's about filters with these new POIs that have come in has been released. It's good time to remind people to update their filters, Rob. So if you have filters for POIs only go back in that filter and then you have to actually activate the new POI that's there. So that's a really good tip, Rob. I thought, I thought I'm gonna grab that from the water cooler. What do you think of that tip?

Rob Vardeman (27:42.727)
Okay.

Rob Vardeman (27:54.198)
Hmm.

Rob Vardeman (28:07.222)
Correct. I think that's a great tip because we do not have machine learning in the app. So the app doesn't go, oh, there's a new POI. Let's drop that into something that you have labeled POI. It doesn't know that. So yes, you do have to update all of your different filters, including just hitting like, show all like that one will now add. Yeah. So there you go.

Seemyshell (28:14.32)
No.

Seemyshell (28:21.066)
Yep. No.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (28:29.815)
Yeah.

Exactly right exactly right and one more as well. This is more of a feedback than anything else. This is from toffee 1878 hopefully that's not when he was born This one was actually on the Munzee app itself He said to me when introducing new players Craig make sure you get them to scan your referral code so far Toffee himself has got $25 from the Munzee store. Guess what Rob? He bought himself some magnets for the magnetic weekend He got 75,000 points in one day and he was a happy chappy. So there you go just

Rob Vardeman (28:35.412)
Mmm.

Rob Vardeman (28:39.978)
Thanks for watching.

Seemyshell (29:01.486)
from purely showing your referral code when you talk about Munzee to new players. That's really cool. Thank you so much, Topi.

Rob Vardeman (29:05.638)
Introducing new players. Introducing new players. You get points. You've talked about that before. But yeah, that's a great extension of that to say that he got actual physical rewards for that. So that's cool.

Seemyshell (29:12.343)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (29:15.757)
Yeah.

Physical reward as in like, you know, $25 gift store from the Munzee store. That's really cool. So so there you go, Rob There you go all done and done and does it by the way, my Merry Christmas for Monday just saying Merry Christmas, and I hope you have a great new year, but we'll I'll speak to you before the new year Don't worry about that, right and this ends another official Munzee podcast

Rob Vardeman (29:27.903)
Hey, Merry Christmas. Yeah, it's coming up.

Rob Vardeman (29:35.007)
Yeah.

Rob Vardeman (29:39.67)
Thanks for joining us on this Munzee adventure.

Seemyshell (29:43.994)
And don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcasting app. And join us again for another next week for another night. See, I'm doing this again, Rob, every single time I can't get the last word out. Thanks again for another week and another exciting episode.

Rob Vardeman (29:51.999)
Hehehe

Rob Vardeman (29:59.078)
And remember... And remember, Munzee is more than a game. It's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Seemyshell (30:00.79)
See I messed you up. This is staying in.

Seemyshell (30:11.235)
So it keeps getting, keep discovering, keep the Munzee spirit alive. Let's see if we get this together. One, two, three Munzee on. Oh yeah, that too. Merry Christmas.

Rob Vardeman (30:15.474)
Merry Christmas! Oh, mon zian. Hahaha! See ya!

Rob Vardeman (30:23.862)
There you go.