Just wanted to let you know that I'm running an auction for about 100 games/items (including a few RPGS and miniature things) from my collection on BGG.com right now.
 
Shipping costs can be saved for the locals - we can arrange pick up for those of you who live in Southern California.
 
Check it out here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/48764
 
Some featured games from the list:
Factory Fun plus the new expansion
Tricky Trek (new Essen 2009 release)

Taj Mahal (RGG/Alea)
Naval War
Essen and Strategicon exclusive Zooloretto, Power Grid and Ghost Stories expansions
huge set of Clan War
Lots of kid games (yay! They've moved on!)
A bunch of old D&D minis from the 80's

Happy Bidding!

Thanks for all the great feedback on the Essen shows. I still have a few more to release when I can get a chance (and shake the jetlag after three weeks out of the country).

At this time of year, I always appeal to listeners doing their holiday online shopping to please shop through the Amazon.com link on the top left corner of the page here. If you search for items you are going to buy on Amazon anyway, a small percentage of your purchase goes to BGB to help keep the podcast going. It is no additional cost to you but helps out here, especially now that I am getting all those Essen bills in (eek!) And it couldn't be easier - just search for your item and then go through the regular purchase process.

Thanks for supporting the show and for listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Another Essen show with some brief comments and then I dive right in on Reinhard Staupe's Havana, Nils Funkemeyer's Sherwood Forest and Michael Sohre's silly dexterity game, Cheese.

Warning - I meant to edit this show all week but never had time while I am down here in India. So, here it is, warts and all.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Finally a second show from Essen. In this one, I talk about Martyn F's TWRS (designer and game shown to the side here), Dirk Henn's Colonia and Inka & Markus Brand's Wurfel Ligretto (which I'll note since in the podcast I neglect to say the designers for this title).

This is pretty much how I think I'll do my Essen shows - a brief vignette or two and then three quick reviews of games (roughly, one I like, one I didn't particularly and then a filler or lighter game).

And if you watched the live streaming from the Boardgamegeek.com booth at Essen, you saw a lot of me! I am there for the Czech Games Edition demos, Colonia, part of the Jay Tummelson interview and at various other times. The BGG.COM booth was the place to be and I'm thrilled I got to attend the show for their debut. I hope they make it back again next year.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

More Essen shows are on the way soon. Unfortunately, limited internet access in Germany prevented me from having enough time to upload 'casts and being at the show for the first time didn't help either.

In light of the fact that Geekdo/BGG did so many cool live broadcasts on UStream and that other podcasters were on-hand, I've decided to keep my podcasts to game reviews and thoughts on the show. I did a few interviews but didn't follow the sensible advice of conducting them in quieter spots and the noise is not good - plus, there would be some overlap. So, as I spend a couple of weeks in India for work, I'll record and upload some shows to talk about the event and my attempts to play Uwe Rosenberg's new At The Gates of Loyang (the only game I brought to India) solo over the course of my trip here.

Unfortunately, the time and money involved in making the trip to Essen means that I am going to bow out of BGG.con, which is coming in less than a month's time. I am selling my BGG.con pass and although I have a friend looking in to selling it, you can feel free to e-mail me with an offer. Although some find selling the pass at a premium untoward, I was encouraged to do so by many folks. I certainly wouldn't mind something to help offset the costs of the Essen trip and the chance to bring all these podcasts to you.

Thanks again for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon. A new show will go up shortly and many more will follow in the next two weeks.

BGB is podcasting from Essen and this is the first in a group of shows. I recorded this one quickly on Wednesday night of the show and then added to it the following morning - but it was done quickly and there is no time to edit. Hope you enjoy the 10 minutes of it.

Better shows with proper analysis and discussion will follow soon.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Yes, can you believe it? Two BGBs in a week? I guess it's all those energy drinks...

No, it's that I am getting ready to head out to Essen for Spiel this year and want to clear the backlog as much as I can. I also really want to get this show out, which I think is an interesting one in the Stories of Self-Publishing series. Tasty Minstrel Games is a new kid on the block and they have two new games on the way to debut at BGG.con. Hear about that, their path to publishing, and their exciting 2010 lineup on this show.

And if you plan to be in Essen, I'd welcome the chance to meet up with BGB listeners! Please drop me an e-mail and let me know if you expect to be at the show. Essen Spiel experts who want to show me around are certainly welcome! ;) Heck, I'll take beer, food and travel recommendations (need to take a train from Frankfurt to Essen on Wednesday...) I have a press pass for the show and will cover it extensively in audio and probably video, too. Very excited to finally get there after longing to go for...oh...too long... 

Thanks again for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Show Notes

Boardgame Babylon is back with a great new volume of BGB's Q&A series. I'm honored to have another favorite game designer on the show and this time, it's the award-winning Jason Matthew - he of Twilight Struggle and 1960: Making of a President fame. Jason was good enough to join us for Gateway 2009 and agreed to sit down and answer some questions about his history in games, his ludography, his background and how it influences his game theme choices, and some of his design process with collaborators. I quite enjoyed his comments and I hope you will, too.

Gateway 2009 was also my first convention running the Board Games department and I'm calling it a success despite a few mishaps here and there with scheduling. But we also replaced the old library with an awesome new library of great titles, adding some terrific events, ran a qualifier for the Rio Grande Design Contest and drove a 10% increase in turnstile attendance even in this still-in-recovery economy. I'll chalk it up as a success - largely thanks to an amazing staff of volunteers who put up with me (especially the wonderful Gayle Charboneau). I'll talk more about the show in an upcoming episode and reveal more about plans for Orccon 2010, where we will be honored to have Matt Leacock as our Guest of Honor and will host a couple of truly major events that I can't wait to reveal.

Your feedback is GREATLY appreciated. Please send it to the link on the side, post here or on the BGG Guild for the podcast.

Thanks for listening to Boardgame Babylon.

After an early summer break, Boardgame Babylon returns with a session review show featuring some of the top games from our demo tables at Gamex 2009, including:

Days of Wonder's Small World designed by Phillip Keyaerts

Z-Man's Archaeology: The Card Game by Phil Harding

Asmodee's Snow Tails by Fraser and Gordon Lamont

I was a bit out of practice and so I convinced Christina to join me on the microphone since she's actually played all the games included – and she ends up getting us to also talk briefly about Friedemann Friese's Fast Flowing Forest Fellers and a game I mentioned liking before on this podcast, Antoine Bauza's Hurry'Cup.

Also mentioned during the show was the convention debut of short film "Boggle Nights". If you'd like to see this fun view into the 'world of competitive Boggle' by filmmakers Richard Castrence and Rachel Hart, check it out here. Gamers should find some good laughs in it.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

I don't have a proper theme for this show so I'm throwing it into my Q&A series even though I'm the only one asking the questions. However, I'm very happy to have one of my favorite guests back on the show – board game developer and graphic artist jim pinto (yes, he's like k.d. lang and e.e. cummings).

Longtime BGB listeners will remember the inimitable Mr. pinto as a special guest on my first Stories of Self-Publishing shows and I've been trying to get him back since. Here, we talk about game design, the industry and his work for Alderac Entertainment Group, who are entering the board game market big time. They're local heroes in Southern California (as the guys responsible for the brilliant CCG "Legend of the Five Rings") and I'm glad to see them get into the kind of games we talk about on BGB. I hope you enjoy our freewheeling chat – I sure enjoyed having it.

As I mention on the show, please feel free to follow me on Twitter (bgbabylon), link to be on Facebook or LinkedIn and please become a "Fan" of Boardgame Babylon on Facebook so I can get one of those cool unique URLs for the show.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

P.S. Yes, that sandwich is jim pinto. It was hard to interview him without getting hungry but I managed it.

Boardgame Babylon is back with a new volume of the Q&A series. This one is the Q&A session I recorded with award-winning game designer Dan Verssen at Gamex 2009. Dan was our Guest of Honor at the recent show and he was kind enough to sit down and answer some questions about his history in games, his ludography, life in the game industry, and some of his design process. I really enjoyed his comments and I hope you will, too.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Show Notes

Strategicon     Dan Verssen Games     One Small Step 

Wow - took me almost a month to recover from that silly April Fool's Day joke. But now BGB is back with a new show talking about three new/newish games.

·         Giants by Fabrice Besson (Asmodee/Matagot)

·         Playing Gods by Benjamin Radford (BallsOut Entertainment)

·         Roll Through The Ages by Matt Leacock (FRED Distribution)

I also announce the lucky winners of the BGB contest for cool Michael Schacht stuff from Orccon 2009. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone that sent in an entry. This was the most popular contest yet for BGB and it's inspired me to do another one soon.

I'm back from GAMA (where I didn't record any shows) but I do have some good material for a couple more shows, one archive show that should see the light of day soon and even - finally - a "Favorite Games of 2009" show with one of my favorite BGB occasional contributors joining me on the mic.

Thanks again for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Boardgame Babylon returns with a new episode in the In Depth series. We've covered Power Grid, Ra, Agricola and Caylus. Add to that list one of the most elegant designs in game history: Rock-Paper-Scissors. Join me and RPS strategist Rob Pirone for a discussion of the game's mechanics, strategy, and many variants. Rob promises to teach you how to win every game of RPS you'll ever play.

A word of warning: I recorded this over Skype and it would appear that there is some bug through the VOIP that makes it sound like I am breathing heavily whenever I am not speaking. It's clearly not me using a sub-standard microphone for this one podcast but an actual bug in Skype. They apologize for the excess noise.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Okay, here's a show that I recorded before Orccon 2009 talking about three fine new games from recent days:

*  Ghost Stories

*  Wasabi

*  Gem Dealer

Also, be sure to send in your entry for our exclusive Michael Schacht contest. You can win one of the following:

*  A copy of the Strategicon exclusive Zooloretto expansion, "King K."
*  A signed copy of the Spielbox Zooloretto expansion.

Send in your entries ASAP - we'll take them through the weekend (until March 22). The contest is available to everyone WORLDWIDE.

And for more information on Orccon, Gamex or Gateway, please visit: www.strategicon.net

Thanks again for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

...Sheylon

As promised, here is the Q&A session I recorded with Michael Schacht at Orccon 2009. We sat down and let the audience ask Michael questions about his history in games, his ludography, hits and misses, and some of his process. I hope you enjoy his interesting commentary.

Be sure to listen for the way to send in an entry for our exclusive Michael Schacht contest. You can win one of the following:

1. A copy of the Strategicon exclusive Zooloretto expansion, "King K."
2. A signed copy of the Spielbox Zooloretto expansion.

Send in your entries today. We'll take them until March 21th (something I conveniently forgot to mention during the recording...) and then pick a winner.

Thanks again for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Orccon 2009 is at a close and I missed a chance to do much blogging on Sunday due to a heavy demo schedule. I showed Hogwarts House Cup Challenge, Heads of State, Middle Kingdom (x2), Supernova, Municipium, Draco Mundis, The Club, and Roll Through The Ages. Luckily, Devi Hughes was nice enough to demo Titan for me. This left me no time for gaming and less time for blogging.

However, I'm editing the Michael Schacht Q&A for posting shortly and should be giving away a copy of the exclusive Strategicon Zooloretto expansion (entitled "King K.") to one lucky listener. Watch for the show later this week. I have material for at least one additional show, if not two (plus one show I recorded last week but didn't get a chance to edit).

The convention was a lot of fun, very crowded and I got a very warm reception to all games I showed. I guess it was all the advertising I did but all but one demo went off and they were nearly all packed to the point of turning people away. I did a few extras to get in some of the folks who really wanted to learn the games (notably: Municipium, Hogwarts House Cup Challenge and Roll Through The Ages). I'm exhausted for the work week now but at least I had dozens of folks that appreciated the chance to learn games instead of reading the rules themselves and it was fun to see so many of them come back with the games they had just learned in hand, having purchased it in the dealer room. That's a nice feeling - knowing I helped introduce them to something they will enjoy.

Thanks for downloading and - in this case - reading Boardgame Babylon.

It's getting late here on Saturday night at Orccon. I'm heading home tomorrow afternoon but before then, I'm getting some games in tonight and some demos tomorrow morning. This evening, I had another shot at Diamonds Club – a Rudiger Dorn tactical shopping game that I thought was just-okay at BGG.con. I'm not sure I've changed my opinion but I liked it a bit more the second go-round with everyone knowing the rules. We had to abort the game due to some tournaments, including my participation in a Der Elefant im Porzellanladen event. Okay, okay – it's Bull in the China Shop in the U.S. but I truly hate that version (a note I shared with M.S.) because the original German version was so lovely. I was horribly targeted because I'd played the game a few times and it gave my friend Paul (who was quiet about his one play of it at Essen a few years back) a chance to sneak in and win on the strength of one huge 40 point scoring round.

After this, I bolted over for Michael Schacht's other major new release, The Golden City. This one is a building game with various bonuses available from building from the ports on four sides of an island (each with different kinds of territory) through the fields and into the city for big bonuses. There are scoring opportunities every turn depending on where you place your shops and also which goods you have acquired. Players build by acquiring territory cards and if someone takes the pair you like, you can pay to grab it instead (and back and forth). Nice game and one that plays in about forty-five minutes.

I'm happy to say it is sunny and gorgeous here today. I promised Michael the 'sun-kissed hills' described in his game California and today, despite forecasts of storms, we get to make good on that. Not that we got out of the hotel at all…

The day started with some good demos. Supernova was enjoyed by some folks, even though the game didn't end up working particularly for me. Then the Roll Through The Ages madness! I demonstrated the game three times in a row because there were so many people lined up to play it. The excitement over the game was palpable – nearly every person said they wanted to buy it (notably – one very slow game was played where all four players kept the game going slowly by focusing solely on infrastructure – had two naysayers). I also managed to get in a Ticket to Ride Dice Game expansion demo for five that left two very excited players that thought the Dice expansion improved the game. Although I cannot agree with that assessment, I do like the Dice expansion quite a bit – particularly with boards we play less frequently (like Switzerland and Europe).

The Michael Schacht Q&A session was enjoyable. We had plenty of good questions and once I give the recording a polish, it will be up. I'm also doing a follow-up with Michael as well but as we finished up, we encountered the squad from MyNerdGirl.com. Apparently this is a social networking-style site and I'm hoping to post our brief conversation with their two representatives along with a second podcast with some additional questions I had for Michael that didn't get into the Q&A – hopefully including a preview of Zooloretto Exotic, Valdora and The Golden City.

The most amazing part of the day – the raucous response to Antoine Bauza's Hurry'Cup. We had a full complement of six for this party-style race game and a great time was had by all. This is a race game from Asmodee that has a personal speed element (i.e., you grab pawns to find out how quickly you will move). One player actually left the table mid-game to run to the dealer room to buy it because he'd noticed that there were not a lot of them available. I think I got a few action shots from the insane diving for the good pawn each. We had a nice crowd, too, and lots of interest for another demo tomorrow.

Right now, I'm running a demo of Andrew Parks' Hogwarts House Cup Challenge for a bunch of Harry Potter-mad folks. There are quite a few people here and I think a second game will be starting just after this one. This was meant to be my last demo of the day but if the players are there, I guess I'm teaching it again. The game is a family adventure game where you wander the grounds of Hogwarts in search of points for the Gryffindor house. Your encounters add to the glory of Gryffindor but also that of your own character – so although the House wins, there is an individual winner, too.

Got a chance at my first new Michael Schacht game of the convention tonight. We'd made an appointment to play Valdora at 8:30 and were joined by another convention attendees. Valdora ("Golden Valley" or something like that in German) is an enjoyable pick-up-and-deliver style game with gorgeous components and a clever selection mechanic that is like turning the pages of a book to find the item you are seeking. I'll talk more about it in a podcast but I enjoyed Valdora and not just because I beat M.S. at his own game. ;)

I also taught Roll Through The Ages to a few groups of enthusiastic folks – Matt Leacock's (of Pandemic fame) latest has a lot of fans here and I just hope the retailers in the dealer room listened and brought enough to sell. All four people at the last game were swearing they would get one tomorrow morning (Saturday, when the dealer room opens). I also showed Ghost Stories with great success – although the players did not win. For me, Ghost Stories remains just as much fun when you lose as when you win. The nice thing is that it is easy to vary the difficulty with some tweaks like giving the players more life tokens or playing with the haunted space numbers a bit.

Tomorrow, we show off Valley Games' Supernova and Titan, FRED's Gem Dealer and Roll Through The Ages, NECA/Quixotic's Hogwarts House Challenge, Z-Man's Middle Kingdom and Heads of State, and many more. But I'm really looking forward to the Q&A session with Michael Schacht. There isn't much time to send in questions but if you do, I'll try to get them in. I'll probably do a follow-up show with him as well to ask all my questions that do not get in during the Q&A so even if you send them after 1 PM PST today, I might have time to ask him.

If I can get the darn pictures off my camera or Blackjack, I'll upload some soon.

Playtesting will be a top draw this weekend. Not only do I expect to play in many of Michael Schacht's playtesting events but I've just run into jim pinto (yes, he's like k.d. lang) from Alderac Entertainment. He the man in charge of their board gaming department and he has some interesting new titles that he's offered to show me. At least one seems to be up my alley so I'm looking forward to giving them a look later this evening.

I've just finished teaching Municipium (myu-nih-KIP-ee-um – unless you like church Latin) to some excited players. We had about four additional folks listening in and I think the next demo will likely fill again. I'm fond of this middle-weight Knizia (okay, maybe light-middle) and the art has really grown on me.

Orccon 2009 is here (or at least I'm here)! Michael Schacht has arrived and I've had a few moments to speak with him. He's a charming, pleasant fellow and we're looking forward to spending the weekend playing his new games and revisiting many older ones. He has a nice stack of the Zooloretto Strategicon Exclusive that the convention will be handing out to those who attend Schacht events (including our Q&A session Saturday at 1 PM).

In fact – if you have any questions for us to ask Michael Schacht in the Q&A session tomorrow, drop me an e-mail at sheylon AT gmail DOT com (or click the Connect link to the left) and I'll try to get your question in. Send them in soon!

Tonight, I'm doing demonstrations of Valley Games' Municipium, FRED Distribution's Roll Through The Ages, and Asmodee's Ghost Stories.

I wanted to make sure you are all aware of this exciting news from Strategicon! Considering the great deals Virgin America, Southwest and Jet Blue are offering to L.A. right now, you've got few excuses not to join us. What? Just because of Valentine's Day? Sell it as a romantic getaway to glamorous L.A.! ;)

Strategicon's Orccon 2009 is welcoming award-winning game designer Michael Schacht as Guest of Honor for their annual convention held at the LAX Radisson from February 13-16.

Mr. Schacht is set to US debut of three major new releases at the convention. "Zooloretto Exotic" is a new expansion for the Spiel Des Jahres-winning family game of the same name. "The Golden City" is a major new Kosmos release and "Valdora" is the latest new board game from Abacusspiele due out at the Nuremberg toy fair this year. All three will be available for exclusive play at Orccon along with some games Mr. Schacht will bring for play-testing at the event.

In addition, Mr. Schacht has provided an exclusive Zooloretto game tile for Orccon 2009 that will be available to Strategicon attendees this year. Strategicon also runs Gamex 2009 on Memorial Day Weekend and Gateway 2009 on Labor Day Weekend. The tile will also be used in a big combined Zooloretto/Aquaretto tournament also held at the convention.

Orccon 2009 regularly plays host to approximately fifteen-hundred gamers from around the world. Board game tournaments offer dealer dollar prizes and have no individual event cost. Come join in the fun in sunny Southern California this Presidents' Day Weekend. For more information on Orccon 2009, please visit: www.strategicon.net.

The new year is upon us but it's always fun to look back at the games we've played over the previous year. As I was editing some older podcasts, I thought I might record a quick review of my most frequently played games in 2008. And then, well, I ended up with a 40 minute podcast here. So, here it is...largely unedited in the interest of getting it out the door.

In case you aren't familiar with the term "Five and Dimes" in reference to plays of board games, the mighty game reviewer Mike Siggins coined the term years ago to refer to games played five or ten times in the course of a year. These days, the terrific blogger/gamer/family games expert Mark Jackson (aka "Fluff Daddy") tracks this information and doesn't a series of reports to show which games are getting the most play and how it compares to past years. You can watch for the details on Mark's blog here.

Boardgame Babylon will be back with a session review show soon with details on some exciting newer releases including Ghost Stories, Municipium, Le Havre, and Hurry'Cup.

Don't forget that Orccon 2009 is coming up February 13-16 with Special Guest Michael Schacht. I can't say enough - don't you want to come to Southern California in mid-February to play games? Considering the great price war going on right now with the airlines, it should be fairly cheap to come visit us (check out the deals on Travelocity and Expedia) and get away from freezing temperatures. Hey - it was 85 degrees here today - I considered taking the kids to the beach. Sorry, didn't mean to rub it in... ;) Find out more information on www.strategicon.net and if you are coming out, drop me an e-mail so we can get together and play a game at the convention.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon.

Just under the wire, here is the final Boardgame Babylon for 2008. It's been a slower year at the podcast due to work, family and other issues but I look forward to a firmer schedule in 2009 - if possibly a pretty relaxed pace. You can expect a couple more shows in January as I clean out the archives a bit including an interview with Greg Lam of Pair-A-Dice Games and the now mythic Games Workshop Games of the 80's Rectangular Table Discussion. I'm mentioning them both here because that way I can be shamed into finally releasing them...

But for now, here is BGB v60 - a series of interviews I conducted at BGG.con last month. I apologize for the sound quality on the interviews. I hadn't intended to podcast at the show but I ended up doing so anyway with the recorder on my Blackjack and now I know - we won't be using that again (the iRiver died some time ago...)

Anyway, the show includes interviews with the folks from Asmodee, Your Move Games, Bucephalus Games, and Ape Games (plus a bonus chat with Kevin G. Nunn of "duck duck GO!" fame) - plus some noteworthy news I share about the very special, very cool guest we have joining us here in Los Angeles for Orccon 2009. You'll want to check flight prices when you hear about who is joining us here in Southern California for the big show. As noted on the show, a second BGG.con show with some locals chatting about the convention will be coming soon. When Aldie gets around to releasing the fun show he recorded with Jason Matthews, Tom Lehmann and Derk, you can hear me asking more than my fair share of questions, too. ;)

Also, listen in to hear about the BGG.con coins that have been launched here and around the world. Keep those coins moving and you can check out where they have been right here. You may be able to get in on the fun even if you didn't attend BGG.con.

Thanks for downloading and listening to Boardgame Babylon. Happy New Year!

The holidays are upon us here at Boardgame Babylon. It's Christmas Eve and although we've spent the night wooping it up with Rock Band (and hoping that Santa brings "Rock Band 2"), I've also been editing podcasts while others had their turn - although I took the mike for a setlist that included Screaming Trees' "Nearly Lost You", Oasis' Don't Look Back in Anger" and the newly downloaded Billy Squier carol, "Christmas Is A Time To Say I Love You" (which is one of my Top 10 Favorite Christmas Carols).

Sadly, the Last Minute Stocking Stuffer show was scrapped at the last minute when I had to do some work this week when I was supposed to be on vacation. I only had so much time before Xmas and that had to win out. But I'll replace it with a session review show for sure. I hope to release two BGG.con shows shortly in addition to at least one session review show.

Listen to the next Boardgame Babylon for some exciting news about the upcoming Orccon convention. We have a special guest coming in from Germany that might interest you. There are even more reasons to visit Sunny Southern California in February now.

We've got the Christmas music playing and we're about to play a little Mystery Rummy (likely Rue Morgue since we're tired and I can almost play that one in my sleep) while we wait for Santa. Those of us at Boardgame Babylon wish all listeners a very happy holiday season filled with joy, games, and good times!

...ERB

The Holidays are taking their usual toll on my podcast output. Sorry about that but I do love to make merry this time of the year (when work and other things aren't taking my time). However, I expect about three more podcasts to come out soon. My annual Last Minute Stocking Stuffer show may not come out in the form I expected - it might end up as a regular session report since I've found a dearth of stock-sized winners lately.

However, there is at least one BGG.Con report coming and two Session Review shows talking about some exciting titles from Essen and just after. Patience is appreciated!

Also appreciated are the nice folks using our affiliate links for Amazon and MeeplePeople. You buy things for the same amount if you went to their site but if you click from here, I get a tiny cut. So, thanks to those that have contributed to the show with your shopping dollars.