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Welcome back to "Be Calm and Relaxed with Rain and Thunder for Sleeping." This week's episode takes you to a picturesque spring meadow, where you'll be surrounded by the gentle sounds of rain. As you listen, you'll hear the soft pitter-patter of raindrops on the lush green grass, the occasional tweet of a bird, and the distant sound of a babbling brook. This peaceful and serene environment is the perfect way to unwind after a long day and ease your mind into a calm state. So get comfortable, put on your headphones, and let the gentle rain on a spring meadow help you relax and fall asleep. Whether you're dealing with stress and anxiety or just need a little extra help winding down, "Gentle Rain on a Spring Meadow" is here to help you find peace and rest.=======DISCLAIMER:This episode may be ad-supported and you can support us financially by subscribing as little as $5 a month on our Patreon page or on Apple Podcast Subscriber-Only Audio.This subscription plan comes with an ad-free weekly podcast, plus a few more extras like exclusive Podcast promos and early access to certain episodes that are not published everywhere till the following week.Check our Patreon here: http://go.thehustle.studio/patreonor in Apple Podcasts app, just click here: http://go.thehustle.studio/subscribeThank you so much for your generosity!Connect with Us:https://www.facebook.com/sleepcalminghttps://twitter.com/sleepcalminghttps://www.instagram.com/sleepcalming/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleep-calming/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This summer, in an urban state park on the westside of Helena, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has been conducting a very visible research project. One that includes colorful birds, excited biologists and the public is welcome to join in. The station is part of the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship program, which captures birds for banding and data collection. Banding allows tracking of population trends, including survival, reproductive rates and movement patterns across the country. This work has become important as a number of bird species are experiencing population declines, according to the Western Ecological Resource Center. The MAPS program provides crucial information to help biologists monitor and help species recover before it's too late. There are up to 1,200 MAPS bird banding stations nationwide. The MAPS program has operated since 1989 and collected more than 2.5 million records.  But, the banding station at Spring Meadow is unique, said Allison Begley, an avian conservation biologist with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. The program is open for the public to observe the work and then assist with the release of birds.   This podcast  is created in partnership across five newsrooms – the Billings Gazette, the Helena Independent Record, the Missoulian, the Montana Standard and the Ravalli-Republic. You can support this podcast and our efforts by subscribing. Visit any of these newspapers' websites, and click on the Become a Member button at the top of the home page. We appreciate your support of local journalism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Visualize yourself laying in an empty meadow on a spring afternoon listening to the distant rolling thunder and birds chirping. Life is GOOD! This white noise can be used for studying, focus, or relaxation. Check it out on YouTube Visit calmingpodcast.com At Calming White Noise, our goal is to help you and your loved ones sleep, meditate, study, or simply relax. One of the benefits of listening to white noise via podcast is the ability to lock your mobile device and eliminate any unwanted light. This episode is 8 consecutive hours long with no loops or interludes, allowing for a full nights sleep. If you have found value from our sounds, we kindly ask that you would rate our podcast at the top of your screen. Your positive feedback inspires us to continue bringing you our best work and we truly hope our sounds can help promote peace and positivity. We cannot thank you enough for tuning in today! Be well. Visualisez-vous allongé dans une prairie déserte un après-midi de printemps en écoutant le tonnerre lointain et le gazouillis des oiseaux. La vie est belle! Ce bruit blanc peut être utilisé pour étudier, se concentrer ou se détendre. Découvrez-le sur YouTube Visitez calmingpodcast.com Chez Calming White Noise, notre objectif est de vous aider, vous et vos proches, à dormir, méditer, étudier ou simplement vous détendre. L'un des avantages de l'écoute du bruit blanc via un podcast est la possibilité de verrouiller votre appareil mobile et d'éliminer toute lumière indésirable. Cet épisode dure 8 heures consécutives sans boucles ni intermèdes, permettant une nuit de sommeil complète. Si vous avez trouvé de la valeur à partir de nos sons, nous vous prions de noter notre podcast en haut de votre écran. Vos commentaires positifs nous incitent à continuer à vous offrir notre meilleur travail et nous espérons vraiment que nos sons pourront aider à promouvoir la paix et la positivité. Nous ne pouvons pas vous remercier assez pour l'écoute d'aujourd'hui ! Hé bien. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/calming-white-noises/support

EP278 - Adobe Holiday E-Commerce Forecast with Taylor Schreiner In Episode 277 we covered some of the early overall holiday sales forecasts, and the issues likely to impact this holiday season. In this episdoe we get the very first look at Adobe 2021 Holiday Shopping Forecast. This is a deep dive on digital shopping behaviors based on Adobe Analytics, which analyzes 1 trillion visits to retail sites and over 100 million SKUs. We break it all down with Taylor Schreiner, Director of Adobe Digital Insights. Episode 278 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday. October 14th, 2021. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this episode is being recorded on Thursday October 14 2021 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-hosts Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:38] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners we are smack in the middle of October and for all of our retail listeners you know what that means it is go time for Holiday 21 way back in episode 277 last week we talked about the supply chain challenges I like to call that Supply pain and we shared the e-commerce retail forecast from Salesforce Deloitte and beIN but there was one notable missing forecast from that list and that's one of our favorites the Adobe forecast well in this episode we're going to fix that hole in the universe we're going to fill it and Adobe is releasing their holiday forecast here on the 20th which is when we'll be releasing this podcast and we are really excited to have with us today Taylor Schreiner he is the director of Adobe Digital insights and fun fact this is adobe's fifth time on the show Welcome Back Taylor. Taylor: [1:34] Thanks God do we get a free sandwich. Scot: [1:37] Sure if we were there together we would have a sandwich but we'll we'll do a virtual high five instead how about that. Jason: [1:44] Just to warn you Scott's character is like grilled into the sandwich so some people find that. Taylor: [1:49] Oh no I'll close my eyes this could thank you Scott thank you Jason it's great to be here we'd love talking to you guys and we love listening to you guys so it's a fun conversation to have. Jason: [2:03] We are thrilled to have you Taylor and I do want to Dive Right In to your methodology and then your data but before we do real briefly remind. Um the audience what your role is at at Adobe to sort of frame frame where your perspective is coming from. Taylor: [2:20] Sure so I run a group called Adobe Digital insights it's got mentioned and we are charged with, using aggregated and anonymized adopted in data to. Help the industry retail and other Industries as well understand the major trends that we see in the data that comes through Adobe analytics or adobe Commerce or any of the other. I could get it to Commerce and experience cloud services that we have. So so our job is to tell stories to make it take all that huge area did it and tell stories that help people understand their world. Jason: [2:59] That's awesome and so there's a bunch of different components of the the Adobe marketing cloud in the do Adobe Commerce Cloud but. Sort of Marque things Adobe analytics which a long time ago too many of us that are super old was Adobe was omniture, is a is a key component of the analytics suite and Magento is a key component of the marketing cloud and so you you get to see, an awful lot of, Commerce transactions across the web via those two products and the rest of the the Adobe stack and you get to use that anonymized data to sort of formulate this holiday forecasting this case is do I have that right. Taylor: [3:41] Absolutely and I really appreciate you calling me super old. Jason: [3:44] I didn't say you called it I'm not sure I said I. Taylor: [3:47] I remember I remember the under two days I do but yes. Jason: [3:50] I'm pretty sure there's like the URL for the analytics dashboard still says all mature. Taylor: [3:54] I think sometimes it does yeah now it's absolutely right face. Jason: [3:58] And then one important distinction some of the. Holiday forecast that Scott mentioned in the intro are actually overall retail forecast and one of the things that that is unique your forecast is slightly more focused you're focused on digital Commerce do I have that right. Taylor: [4:16] That's right we have we focused exclusively on digital Commerce and we're looking what makes us unique is that we are looking across, over a trillion interactions with retailers across thousands of retailers across over a hundred million skus with a boatload of AI behind that sort of categorizing and understanding it but you know the core of it I think for your listeners is weird. The where the group is actually looking at what people are buying in what quantity and what they're actually paying for it. It's ridiculous prices we're not doing surveys were actually looking at the the behaviors that we can observe a huge scale and using that to do both the reporting in this case are forecasting of the holiday season. Jason: [4:56] Yeah and that's super exciting to me because that I frequently rail against the value of stated preference surveys in our industry and and what we're talking about today is observed preferences lies actual data and consumer behavior that you're watching. Taylor: [5:11] Absolutely and it's gonna be fascinating. Jason: [5:13] Yeah so just two other minor precursors and we'll jump in because there is so much variability out there when you say holiday what date range are you talking about. Taylor: [5:22] Good point right now we're talking about the first of November till the end of the year although arguably make it into it you know some of the stuff is starting to creep into October 2 but when we talk about numbers were talking about November 1 to December 31. Jason: [5:34] Perfect we'll come back to that but yeah I think I think the the shoulders of that season are going to be more interesting than ever and then when you say, retail. Like approximately like what is in retail to you I could go US Department of Commerce restaurants and gas stations are in there like do you guys have a standard definition of retail just to kind of frame what we're talking about. Taylor: [5:56] We generally look at a thing where the transaction the Fulfillment are fully executed online we exclude from this things like travel which is a different industry or anything where it's simply a payment system online but you know any Commerce where you're doing your shopping, your your payment and your fulfillment online generally falls into into our space so not restaurants are delivery services but but the goods that you would normally associate with with retail shopping outside of that. Jason: [6:27] Awesome and so digital grocery than would be in there. Taylor: [6:29] Yes he's a digital grocery appliances apparel all that kind of thing. Jason: [6:34] Perfect okay well I think that's enough Preamble and we've done enough teasing what's what's the Top Line are we all going to get our bonuses this year or is it going to be bleak. Taylor: [6:43] It's your our data showing a good year or days showing a year where the story is really consumers want to shop consumers wanted to go buy online but it's going to be really different year for retailers and for consumers because of the supply pain that Scott was referring to earlier they're going to see a lot more out of stock they're going to see a lot, you know a lot higher prices frankly and that's I think it'll hold us back from having a incredible year. Now just keep in mind I'm talking about a 207 billion dollar, season which you know we don't have a great aggregate retail forecast that we based off right now but that's roughly $1 and for of all of all retailgeek. As far as we can see maybe a little more than that. And it's 10 percent up from last year which you know in the long run of historical growth rates is a little bit low but we're getting off of a 33% jump the year before so if you kind of look all the way back to 2019 we're still. Accelerated from where you would have expected us to be if you've been projecting from a prepaid nemec stance so it kind of depends on where you're looking at it from. But however you look at it it's going to be a big year. Jason: [7:58] Got it so in my mind I sort of think of it traditionally year of e-commerce growth for Holiday being kind of like pre-pandemic. We were kind of running in this like 10 to 15% a year sort of range, um and all of retail would be growing at like four percent a year so then last year the pandemic forces everyone online we have this monster year 33 percent and then this year you're looking for you're looking at 10% on top of last year's monster year. Taylor: [8:27] That's right that's right still going to grow it's still good grow significantly it's still good grow you know maybe as you stay at the kind of lower bound of what we used to see but it's a real real growth rate now they'll be some differences in what grows and how it grows you can get into that but it's going to be a good year. Jason: [8:44] And one of the thing that's always funny to me is I guarantee you when the the sort of superficial press get ahold of your forecast they're all going to write the story about how e-commerce has is slowing way down. Taylor: [8:58] Right yeah nobody wants to talk about two year growth rate or you know try and digest everything that's happened over over the course of the pandemic and fine and but I know, when you step back even a little bit e-commerce has transformed over the past 20 24 months I think the bigger story is people are shopping for their groceries people are shopping for their Furniture you know folks out here in Berkeley or buying compost online, the way that people engage with e-commerce has radically transformed over the course of the pandemic and that's here to stay and that's this the basis of that growth and that you know that's the part that really has accelerated over the course of cobit so if you want to look at a particular growth rate and say it's slowing down, fair enough, but I don't think for instance you know I want to make predictions in 223 but I don't think this 10 percent growth rate in 22 is telling you that 23 is going to be slow I think it's more of a balancing act between. 2020 and 2021. Jason: [9:58] And again like this still means e-commerce is almost certainly growing faster than brick and mortar. Filming the whole industry is still growing in a very disruptive year I do want to like maybe double-click on covid just for a second because this was the big open question when we were all living through, the first half of the pandemic was sure. Everybody's turning to e-commerce people don't want to go to the stores there's health and safety issues they're all they're all these open things so not surprising that it drove more people online a big question at that time was. Is this just an acceleration of a trend and this is going to be the new normal or will those people all be desperate to go back to the store and resume and back to the mall and kind of resume their pre-pandemic. Shopping behaviors and. My read of your data says no no we're locking in all those changes that happened last year and then we're we're growing at a pretty healthy clip from there is that a fair way to be thinking about it or am I wrong headed as got usually points out. Taylor: [11:02] No in this particular case you happen to be right the that's absolutely true if you look at the aggregate growth I think it tells exactly that story that it, it is we're banking all the gains that you got through covid and there were growing on top of that, I think another stat I think really tells the story is our buy online pick up curbside. Data which you know followed that trajectory you talked about Jason, getting up there as we got into the pandemic and retailers adjusted we have a we have a set of retailers we look at the median portion of their online purchase online orders that are fulfilled curbside and that ramped right up last year with all of its fulfillment challenges ranked right up right before Christmas you about 25% we thought that's a that's a high peak right we got into April of this year and it gone right back up to 25% people are still going and pick you up curbside that's a habit that they're in their shopping online and fulfilling next to the store and we expect that to hit a whole new record frankly as we go into this year so it's a it's a habit that people have gotten into and they're not letting go of. Jason: [12:10] Wow and if this is from memory but I want to say last year you guys said that well well e-commerce grew at 33% the dopest segments are the curbside pickup segment grew way faster than that it was like a hundred and ninety-five percent. Taylor: [12:25] Yeah I don't have enough time I have like it's something like that it was it was significant and this year's going to be. Going to be crazy and you know anecdotally you know there are a number of stores where I think hey I really like this I'm not going to set foot in number of those I'll shop with them but I'm against it putting them again for a while if I don't have to this is great for me. Jason: [12:47] Yeah you know it's maybe only partly analogous but I talked to a lot of Quick Serve restaurants. And you know they have the same thing right they sold they sold meals but it was all off Prem consumption and you know the restaurants that have the biggest intrinsic Advantage were ones with drug through. And I've talked to an awful lot of restaurant tours that are like if I could wave a magic wand and make my dining room go away and have a more robust drive through. I would do it because that's the customer that that appears to be the long-term customer preference. Taylor: [13:19] Yeah I think and I think a lot of retailers who have got good real estate or obviously having to rethink how much of this is a you know distribution center and how much of this is a shopping experience and you know it's gonna be different than it was two years ago for sure. Jason: [13:34] And then I guess the one other sort of observational thing I've noted is. Yeah so you know our store is going to get people to walk back in the store to pick up those digital orders are they going to continue to pick them up at curbside and you know one who knows but one clue. Um is pre-pandemic Walmart had these in storage lockers these robotic lockers this cool Tower and all their stores. Um and they d installed all of those towers and they're now doing a national remodel with a much more robust, curbside picking lot parking lot right so it seems very clear and Walmart's case that they're saying hey the. You know this isn't just a reaction of the pandemic this is a you know a permanent infrastructure change we're making two. To make to eliminate in-store pickup and make curbside pickup more. Taylor: [14:24] I think that's right I think that is likely the trend I think you know it there's a lot. A lot of the hassle of of shopping that you're removing with shopping online and pick you up at the store is, is that last not mile I mean the last you know a hundred feet hundred yards of going in there and getting in the inline or whatever if you can just sit with your app and check your email with some well so they put stuff in the trunk that's a lot of a lot of value add there so I would expect that to be continue to be the trend. Scot: [14:52] Bullets as I introduced I'm kind of keenly aware or following the supply chain stuff and I noticed in the front of your presentation one of the bullets is unprecedented out of stock levels if you guys can you share like you know what you think that's going to be and is there any way to put a number on that like you're numb your forecast would have been you know twice as big if it wasn't for this or you just guys are just flagging it as this adds risk to the holiday. Taylor: [15:21] It's a fair question something we think a lot about I mean it's really hard to characterize and we probably just need more more. Time with the with the day I met don't make time to think about it but time series data to really understand how out of stock. Alters people shopping behaviors whether they abandon or whether they take some to which they redirect themselves. I will tell you is that you're going into if you look at sort of 2019 isn't as the normal it was growing when people were getting more out of stock items more of stock hits over time maybe you know creeping up toward fifty or a hundred percent more even over the course of the year and the pandemic hits and people are five times more likely basically four and a half to five times more likely to get an out of stock message and that's today that's not necessarily going to Holiday where things could get more challenging. So that could go up where we see it often isn't most often is in apparel so again you know I think it's going to affect different categories differently out of socks in the Peril can be if you're looking for a particular stereo pair of sneakers or particular you know this is the 20th so what made you I was buying for my wife but something you know a vest or something right that is her birthday is on the 23rd so I want to tell her what's what I was shopping for, anyway the you know you might not get that. Scot: [16:46] Is your wife a listener. Taylor: [16:48] I really doubt it. But yeah you might get redirected to something else whereas in electronics for instance we see you know a lot of chips shortages but. But price is a bigger factor in some of that marketing and decision making and so you're able to see apparel prices creep up a little bit but a lot about a stock you see for instance Electronics prices creep up a lot from what we would have expected but that that has reduced the out-of-stock challenges that they faced. Scot: [17:24] So so it's hard to put a quantity quantify on at this point maybe you think after the holiday you guys will be able to. Taylor: [17:31] I think it'll be easy yeah I mean you know we have a clear estimate of what things might have looked like before I think after the holiday talk to us in January we can we will have a better sense of how this played out this holiday season one of the challenges that I think is out there is it's not clear yet how much out of stock consumers are really going to see this season, based on you know when retailers are running promotions how they're stocking us those promotions how they're managing their their portfolio of goods so. We'll have to see but it's something that yeah had Beyond in January we'll talk about. Scot: [18:09] Okay it's going to be more of a chess game because the retailer they have the only information about what they have and what they can expect and then matching that to the promotional calendar this year is going to be interesting and playing a little game of chicken with the consumer to because consumers should be reading about this a lot so it's going to be fascinating to watch watch how that plays out. Taylor: [18:29] Yeah I've been recommending to Consumers frankly to make two lists, say look you got one list of things where I know I want this for the holidays and you got to buy it early because you might worry about your your out-of-stock situation and then another set of goods were you think hey you know if this doesn't come through or if I don't get specifically the version of this that I want yeah if I don't get this TV but I get a different brand TV I'm okay and then those things you can really shop for on the big major sailed is but it's you know. It's going to be it's a lot of a lot of work for the retailers to figure out how this game is going to play out and frankly it's gonna be a lot of work for consumers to figure out how they're going to address it. Jason: [19:10] I guess one of the ways I think about this it's important to remember that out of stock does not automatically mean wah sales like a lot of times there's a. Customers first choice but the they'll make on the Fly substitutions are switches when they discover some things out of stock so we still capture that. That's a land it seems like all like you know all the people forecasting retail sales for this holiday are pretty robust numbers you're coming in with a pretty robust number, everyone saying we're not going to find, consumers first choice of goods so the sort of logical conclusion here is the consumers in a spending mood when I go to the store to get baby grow goo for Scott for Christmas and it's out. Um Scott's going to have to settle for some cool dune toy that I find. Taylor: [19:58] Hey didn't really cool the The Arc right and I think maybe the way to answer Scott's question directly is you know. In the face of this rapidly increasing out of stock, we're seeing at least you know up to the 5x of what we saw in 2018 we have still seen really impressive growth this year especially we're 2019 so so far whatever headwind it is is not. Super significant now I think you know the experiment that will be able to look at is if this starts to spike as we go into the holiday season if retailers have a hard time matching their inventory with with consumer demand then that might have a bigger impact in the they'll be saying we can look at more closely. Jason: [20:42] So you alluded to some of the categories and I have a feeling that. Um that both out of stocks and the impact of out of stocks could play out very differently in different categories right like if someone goes to the grocery store and we're out there out of your preferred brand of toilet paper. You're probably going to switch to another toilet paper but if there's a particular luxury fashion item or a particular toy that little Johnny is asking for for Christmas. Um you might be more inclined to hunt her harder for that product or defer that purchase and get it later or something like that right is does that make sense. Taylor: [21:16] Absolutely yeah and you know grocery out of stocks are not not at all infrequent with your particular Goods at a particular moment and then apparel is something I don't know about the rest of you but I've gotten. Pretty acclimated to the notion that I'm not necessarily going to be able to find the size and the color I'm looking for on the first try that it's quite quite possible I have to hunt around but you know there's a lot there a lot of style choices that go into that whereas I think you know if you're looking for a you know something specific as you say you know for particular. Particular toy your gift you might have to hunt them different retailers to go find it but you might be willing to do that exactly well. Jason: [21:58] So when you roll it out all that up are there any categories in your mind and end up being clear winners or losers for holiday. Taylor: [22:06] Well you know I think the it's it's a good question the the. [22:17] Clearly where we've seen growth is where we've seen the clearest growth in the holiday and in e-commerce in general has been in the things that are not holiday specifics of groceries apparel those kinds of things have really grown and we continue to see them grow so in some sense they are the Commerce winners because they've really absorbed the, I think what's going to be very successful early on are going to be these deals that get spread out around electronics and other gifts in an apparel we expect to see those went out very well I've got my eye though on non physical Goods things like downloadable games and things like that that happen the mic pop up toward the Christmas season is people who are looking to deliver something that is great experience especially for kids that isn't going to be constrained by shipping challenges and then. [23:18] I don't know where to put my bets this year because I've got my eye both on the demand that I see in a lot of things like gaming consoles that are looking great but also on you know there's a big question mark over over Supply challenges and how that will play out for them so I would be cautious in spread my bets but but electron you know the traditional gift areas are going to do really well and apparel seems to be continuing to take off very strongly in what we've seen so far. Jason: [23:48] So you the non-physical thing is super interesting ordinarily and holiday like as you get closer to the end of the year and you kind of hit shipping cut-offs and last year we talked about a lot about ship again I didn't, and you know bottleneck sit ups and FedEx and all of that you know retailers pivot to trying to sell. Intangible products pretty hard right and most notably gift cards so I imagine that with the the inventory situations this year that that's going to be more prominent than ever that you know if you can't find the, the toy you really want you know it might be an IOU you're getting, it holiday in the hopes of getting it in January or February but there is a new kind of intangible that kind of didn't exist last year and is having a little bit of moment and I have a feeling Scott's way more into it than I am but why. Does all do all of these out of stocks kind of play into the the the. In Ft kind of hate this year do you think that we could start to see some of them on the holiday wish list. Taylor: [24:52] I think I think in a few still have a ways to bleed into you know consumer experiences and consumer expectations that I see a lot of reading and not a lot of a lot of buying but if people can figure out how if retailers can figure out how to make. You're kind of cross that Chasm and figure out how to make it a real consumer experience and yeah I think there's a lot of opportunity there for that and you know and speaking of things that are not necessarily tangible and expire or unique you know we don't forecast travel into our into our data but we do look at travel and right now you know prices for. Plane tickets are about 13 percent less than they were on average in 2019 so you know depending on how. Vaccinations and mask mandates and travel restrictions all play out there may be a push if knock wood covid gets better for more experiential, experience driven options for people to give as gifts to. Scot: [25:49] One of the things that I've been really intrigued by and this is because some of the companies have gone public but this buy now pay later and I saw you called it out and I've seen a lot of the Wall Street analyst as a for my generation I look at it I'm kind of like, you know why don't I just put that on the credit card what's interesting is I've seen this whole generational thing where Millennials and gen Z years they're looking at it as they associate the credit around the item they don't like kind of having open credit and they want it to be around a specific item what what are you guys seeing as it relates to the be npl. Taylor: [26:25] We love new acronyms right be in PL no I have exactly the same experience you just got where I think exactly what you do this but we had two sources on this one is we looked at the actual data that we see flowing through our systems and we saw skyrocketing last year of buy now pay later Behavior we saw about 44 percent growth over the course of the year, weeks that slowed a little bit in percentage terms as we went through this year but you know as we get back into the holiday season I have every reason to expect that to re-accelerate, and you saw quite the distribution two of you know sources of this is some retailers got into this business a lot of financial institutions got certain play in this area so there's a lot more more options we saw those we saw the minimums for buy now pay later come down from those institutions and simultaneously we actually saw consumers spend more or put put bigger purchases on buy now pay later, and when we surveyed about it we, we saw what you were alluding to Scott this is a generational difference in the way that people manage and even think about what credit really is and was striking to me is that the top, category that folks told us that they were interested in using buy now pay later for was was clothing that they were making those kind of purchases and and Spring Meadow over time because they were, lumpy in their year and then they were spreading it out across their income without affecting their credit. [27:52] Electronics was obviously on that that set to you going to buy your television as televisions get bigger and more expensive or cheaper but bigger but what was the. [28:02] Third category that I thought was fascinating was groceries. And not again we dug under that that wasn't just people it wasn't generally people saying look I've got a week's worth of groceries and I spread the payments out over four weeks that's hard to make sense of but but more you know I'm throwing a party or having an event and I have a spike in my grocery budget no one at this I want to smooth it so it is a and then they were everyone was managing it sort of separately from this notion of having a lump of credit card debt they had a managed versus a purchase they had to think out and pay off those are two really different categories so it is it's a really different way of thinking about credit that's manifesting in buy now pay later and it seems to continue to be growing at a significant rate. Scot: [28:49] Yeah do you think. The pitch that a lot of these so that the two big companies are there's three there's a firm karna and after by and I'm sure there's more egg even like shopify's coming out with their own and what not, their pitch to retailers is it bumps up your cart size right do you think, is this going to be a factor this holiday in our is it going to bump up the ASP you think there are still too small to be a meaningful consideration. Taylor: [29:17] You know when we when you average across the enormous event that is the holiday season I don't think we're going to see average order value is our average basket, values go up significantly more noticeably are or more to the point me off trend of what we've seen in the past that said, you know I think. If these retailers are thinking about their customer base has more granularly and they're thinking well I've got a group of folks who I can actually juice where I can do sup there their basket sizes and their purchases by offering that I think that probably is true and, you know as with these kind of generational shifts it may make a difference in the longer term as you change consumer buying habits it may open up a door for that generation is incomes increase and time goes by so I think probably more of a long-term play when it comes to aggregate average order values but for specific audiences for specific customer bases I think it did make a difference. Jason: [30:18] Yeah it's going to be interesting you know there's a payment method that historically has been really popular holiday that you know. Rich people that listen to e-commerce podcast don't tend to think about but it's layaway. And I like one of the interesting Trends you know Walmart which does a very robust delay way business retired their layaway this year in favor of a buy now pay later service. Taylor: [30:44] Yeah I remember the I remember the Layla way shelves. Toys R Us when I was a kid and just sitting them seeing all these items sit there waiting for people to pay for them but if you can get the same effect. And both for the consumer on their credit and for the retailer in terms of getting paid then it's certainly more enticing for the customer to actually get the item rather than wait for it. Jason: [31:10] I know for sure I do like to sad things there was kind of a fun tradition because of away away some very kind people would often go into a retail store. And pay everyone's layaway. And it was kind of this like secret Santa thing and you know it would happen every year there would be lots of these cool stories so I worry we're going to miss out on that which you know probably isn't. Isn't hugely meaningful but it said to me but the other thing that worries me a little bit about holiday I do think like based on your growth forecast like this is going to be a bunch of consumers first experience with these buy now pay later services, and I would still say there's a lot of consumer confusion because like I look at the landscape of these services. And the spectrum is very broad there are you know some kind of thinly veiled payday loan operators that are you know charging like huge interest and late fees and all these things on one end and then there's there's some like. Really generous programs that are very popular in here that don't charge interest in don't have late fees and you know is sort of a. Very low cost and so it. I'm not sure consumers are going to be Savvy enough to differentiate all of those for this holiday I know Target in particular is offering two different buy now pay later options and. Consumers are going to have to learn how to shop for those vendors now. Taylor: [32:35] I think that's absolutely right Jason it's very hard you know it's sort of an unstructured product that can have a lot of different attributes and it's not like a credit card where you we serve reduced it to something like credit limit and interest rate right with some with some bells and whistles and it's also not, it's not even something that consumers know how to frame necessarily like I certainly didn't when I got into the space what is this what are these payments mean what is the penalty if I miss the payment you know what are my other options how are we going to communicate how you get paid what information do you need has if at my credit score it's a lot to think about and it's going to you know thinking has a lot of costs especially when consumers are shopping this quickly so you know I think we'll have a reckoning Reckoning but a moment to pause and. Reflect on how this all evolved we get to the holiday season it will see some things shake out I would imagine. Jason: [33:31] Next well let's pivot to something near and dear to my heart the we alluded to up top the shape of holiday so there's two. Parts of this that are super interesting to me, ordinarily when we talk about holiday we're laser focused on these five days at the end of November the turkey fiber that I think you guys caught the Cyber five. Taylor: [33:53] Yeah they're my wake up at 3 a.m. 5 so I have I hold them in a different regard but they are. You know the story that you know when we would talk to you guys before for the pandemic would always be you know hey this the the season is growing but these big days are growing faster retailers are concentrated you're competing and concentrating their deals on those days and we're seeing retail consumers follow suit and they're expecting those deals on those days that really flipped around last year we had a massive growth last year about 30 odd percent 33 percent for the season. [34:27] But the individual days were growing in the low 20s there are growing about 10% slower then the season as a whole and we expect that again this year we expect the season to grow at about 10% expect the big days to grow about five-ish percent. To be clear they're going to break records I mean we're going to have an 11 plus billion dollar a day on Cyber Monday we're gonna you know Black Friday is going to going to inch up close to 10 billion Thanksgiving is going to be you know over five it'll, level that we used to call Young used to be Black Friday of numbers it's going to be massive but both because, retailers are spreading out the deals for supply and fulfillment reasons and because consumers have really shifted what it mean what e-commerce means in other words they've established sort of water level of shopping for things that are not holiday and promotionally driven, those percentages are harder to move than they used to be so yeah it's going to be they're going to be big days they're gonna be huge that last hour before the end of Cyber Monday we're going to see $12,000,000 move through the system in a minute so, every minute so it's going to be big but it's going to be a different pattern especially the thing from the Retailer's perspective than we've seen in the past. Jason: [35:40] Interesting and do you have a feel for like how much it like I think you hit on the 2 reasons for it like one is the lot of large numbers there already huge. Huge numbers and and you know frankly in some cases quite you just can't squeeze more Goods through the. The funnels on those days and then the other one is changing consumer patterns and and just you know more General e-commerce consumption on every other day of the month and all those other things like it, I'm assuming it's a blend of both of those but but is is this year more prominent that people are going to be holiday shopping on other days or you think we've just. Taylor: [36:18] Yeah it's hard it's a hard call I think what's unusual about this year's really the retailer side I mean you could imagine a world where with fewer Supply constraints where retailers are more willing to put big sales on those big days and compete for eyeballs and four dollars so maybe a maybe there's a new normal where that changes but what I don't think is changing is that consumers are now permanently going to be in a state where Ecommerce is more and more available to them where you know be their home. Certainly their phone is is increasingly an easy place to go shopping and so all this concentration on these days is going to make less and less sense to them in terms of shopping behaviors if you go back out you know the origin of these days is really about sitting outside a big box and and can't be out and trying to get deals because you had to go in person but if you don't, if you if you if it's less and less the case that you actually have to go get things then it becomes easier and easier to spread out your purchases over time and if you're always shopping online you're not, you know just sort of the complete opposite of what you know going going to the office for Cyber Monday to go shopping which is what some of us used to do then you know you're much more open to these deals and opportunities that that retailers can offer you throughout the season so that part's not going away. Jason: [37:40] That's a great point so so then let's let's zoom out a little bit you guys are counting holiday is November 1 through December 31st a lot of retailers would, include January in there, holiday season again a lot of you know gift cards and returns and people you know come in with that return and they buy more stuff so January normally is a good month, and then this year the deals. Started in October right like Amazon Started Black Friday deals on October 4th time to get started on October 10th I think. Sort of boosted because of the supply chain concerns retailers are fighting really hard to start holiday shopping in October, and because all the stuff we really want is stuck on a boat off the coast of Long Beach we might not get it until January or February so with all of that supply chain squishiness. Like is there like what you know. Taylor: [38:39] What do we see. Jason: [38:40] Holiday in November and December but is it even a like the rate of growth is even bigger if you were to kind of you know redefine holiday as a October through February. Taylor: [38:51] Yeah I mean the way that shows up in our data is that we see a we so far I've seen a very strong October, we've seen very strong October in terms of overall e-commerce growth not not on par with you know the big holiday months but it's you know we're looking at you know roughly that ten percent year-over-year a little bit more for October so it's a good sign. [39:17] The what we're also seeing though is we're keeping a close eye on prices and as I said we're see we see. Data at the transaction level and it gives us a particularly unique view into into prices and we're going into your September are digital price index which is the of the basket of goods that we see purchased online through retail was up 3.3% over last year less than the CPI was up last month but still really significantly and for context up until the pandemic we had never seen digital inflation it always be always in prices going down on part about 5% order of about five percent so people are going into this season with higher prices there will be some discounts but we in October but I don't think they're going to make a dent in that inflation yet. And frankly from what we've seen historically over the other holidays of this year we expect to go in with higher prices for goods in general and we expect discounts to be, significant but a little bit shallower than they were at their last year their deepest point so consumers may be paying significantly more, this year on a Black Friday for a particular item than they were they would have been last year on that same date when you add all that up. Scot: [40:35] Nursing the so I know we're up against time so a little lightning around here it wouldn't be a Jason and Scot show if we didn't talk about Amazon any any tea leaves on Amazon. Taylor: [40:47] So we are we assiduously avoid commenting on particular retailers for a number of reasons but everybody's going to have a big year I would imagine this year. Scot: [40:56] My theory is if the supply chain matters Amazon Amazon Walmart and maybe Target are so dialed in on that but it was some a bit of an advantage and could hurt the small guy this year but we'll see how that plays out. Taylor: [41:11] What do you think the large versus small is a good good framing of that, you know bigger retailers in and out of stock in a world without of stocks have more options to to offer and complete a sale and then small retailers who may see their carts more likely to be abandoned I think that's a significant factor. Jason: [41:31] Okay so then the next lightning one is you talked a little bit about inflation you talked a little bit about like discounting not having to be quite as deep. How does that all washout in terms of profitability I do do retailers make more money on fewer sales this year or does do all these supply chain costs eat it up and, and it's you know thin margins. Taylor: [41:51] Yeah well so I think margin management is going to be a whole different game and retailers of already had to think a lot about that this year that you know the top line is going to be bigger per item so you're going to get more Revenue but I don't see that really being driven by some kind of margin maximization Behavior it seems to be largely driven by increasing increasing costs of goods and so you know I don't see a real Gap step open it up between increasing costs and and increasing Revenue to create a giant chunk of margin there. Scot: [42:28] How about anything on device Trends any news kind of done to be a bit of an old story that you know the smartphone is overtaking the desktop. Taylor: [42:37] There is a little bit of news it's kind of fascinating so we that's that's it if you looked at the share of Revenue that was doing through smartphones from 2014 till even into the pandemic you could have basically drawn a straight line I mean it was a it was a sort of, Early College regression experiment that we've been super easy for First Years to do that's changed a little bit smartphones are still gaining cheer don't get me wrong they're still growing faster than desktop in terms of the revenue is coming through them. Ever so slightly more slowly than than they used to and it may be an indicator that, in America at least we may be headed toward an equilibrium to looks more like a sort of 50/50 World between desktop and phones which is obviously really different than some other parts of the world where that it may be 80/20 or 90/10. [43:33] Right yeah I got two expense that so I can you know make it part of our part of our. Jason: [43:38] If we get our new app tops in time then we're all shopping on our laptops otherwise we're all shopping on our floor. Taylor: [43:42] Exactly. Jason: [43:45] But it wasn't a or we could talk all day I know you're in super high demand this this time of year and and you know quite frankly not in demand at all the rest of the year so I'm sure we'll talk again when. When you're less popular, but this was awesome we really appreciate your time as always if folks want to continue the conversation or have questions you can hit us up on, on the Twitter or the Facebook page, and as always if you got value out of this show we sure would appreciate it if you'd go on to iTunes and give us that five star Christmas review. Taylor: [44:19] That's what I'm going to do Jason. Scot: [44:21] Awesome we push it if that's aren't your gift to us and it's digital so we don't have to worry about Supply pain if I think in past years you guys have set up kind of a cool holiday news Hub is that something you're going to do this year and we're world where will we find them. Taylor: [44:37] It will be there I need to get you the URL we can put the URL in a link to this if you guys are watching this online I will make sure you guys have it before we got there but yes there will it'll be there. Scot: [44:47] All right we really appreciate the time. Taylor: [44:50] Right thank you guys I really appreciate Scott real patient appreciate Jason happy to do this anytime. Jason: [44:56] We appreciate you Taylor and until next time happy commercing!

In Episode 52, of Cards and Cubes, we are bringing you a recording from our event at SaltCON End of Summer 2021! We have a combined run through our Top 3 Games We Haven't Played from the SaltCON Library and related topics with fellow podcasters from The Innkeeper's Table. Games mentioned include Myrmes, Echidna Shuffle, Uwe Rosenberg's Tile Laying Trilogy (Indian Summer, Cottage Garden, Spring Meadow), Bora Bora, Aquasphere, Hacienda, After The Empire, Paleo, MicroMacro: Crime City, the Unlock series, The Search for Planet X, and the Tiny Epic series.

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‘A spring meadow and an old oak tree' A meditation that gives you answers and vigour and takes you through a flowery meadow to an oak tree. No.1 in Season 4. This meditation sends us on the breeze to an oak tree and reminds us that we what we give out we receive. I never know where spirit are going to take us and this morning's journey starts with a light pair of shoes and a meadow of flowers. I hope you enjoy it and that this meditation brings you peace, healing and self-realisation.

Stewart Davis fills in this week, and starts it off with a chat about Spring Meadow Resources - who are they, what do they do in our community, and how can you help them in their mission?

Remember Mike Lizotte?? Mike the Seedman joins us for a few tips on fall panting, why we need to order now, and a few tips on having a beautiful meadow in 2021. Let's not just think about bulbs...but considering a future meadow as well! Check out American Meadows by clicking here I ask that you continue to follow me... Https://www.cottageinthecourt.com...Instagram and Twitter: @cottageincourt...Facebook: CottageInTheCourt, and sometimes on Medium: Cottage In The Court If you live in the DMV and want to know what's happening locally and in our gardens, follow the collaborative podcast by two garden communicators, Peggy Riccio and Teresa Speight. Two garden fanatics talking about real gardening as it occurs right in our own yards!! Check out Gardens 'n Plants Podcast If you would like to stay in the know, please subscribe to Apple Podcasts. In the meantime...garden, Teri, Cottage In The Court #gardencomm

In this latest episode, the 1st episode in the "Summer of Uwe", we discuss the Puzzle Trilogy game Spring Meadow. It's a light polyomino laying game in which you are trying to maximize your score while hiking in a meadow and defrosting the ground.

This is the audio taken from my Top 10 Polyomino games list which can be found here: https://youtu.be/LSOFUbOMcnw This podcast was created due to the help of the numerous Patreon supporters of the channel. If you appreciate the option of listening to my vlogs in podcast form, please consider directly supporting their creation by going to Patreon.com/JonGetsGames. Episode Timestamps: What is a polyomino? - 0:45 List methodology - 1:23 10. Queenz: To bee or not to bee? - 2:11 9. Miyabi - 3:33 8. Realm of Sand - 5:27 7. NMBR 9 - 7:26 6. Spring Meadow - 9:41 5. Patchwork - 12:03 4. Bärenpark - 14:15 3. Cartographers - 17:42 2. A Feast for Odin - 21:02 1. Isle of Cats - 24:51

Hello friends and welcome to The Five By. Your favorite source of quick-fire board game reviews, a proud member of The Inside Voices Network (https://www.insidevoicesnetwork.com/), and now on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/FiveByGames)! 00:00 Ruel - Introduction 00:35 Meeple Lady - Silver & Gold (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/270673/silver-gold) (Episode 64 (http://FiveByGames.com/64)) 05:30 Christy - Insider (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206051/insider) 10:30 Ruel - Star Realms: Frontiers (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/230253/star-realms-frontiers) (Episode 7 (http://FiveByGames.com/7)) 15:09 Mike - Spring Meadow (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/253684/spring-meadow) (Episode 40 (http://FiveByGames.com/40) & Episode 53 (http://FiveByGames.com/53)) 20:42 Mason - Ka-Ching! (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2968/ka-ching) (Episode 12 (http://FiveByGames.com/12)) 26:13 Luke - Outro 26:46 Network Bumper Inside Voices Network (https://www.insidevoicesnetwork.com/)

We're back! The world is crazy so we're here to talk about what's truly important: Uwe Rosenberg games. We're focusing on a beautiful trilogy of seasons and tiles; Spring Meadow [2:17], Cottage Garden [15:51], and Indian Summer [25:12]. Which is best? Is it possible to choose? @notplayingtowin on Instagram and Twitter notplayingtowin@gmail.com Be Inspired by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode starts with a discussion on a children’s game with a dark storyline, Vampires of the Night (2:27). The duo then discuss light party game One Key (9:10) and another polyomino Uwe, Spring Meadow (20:13). Maggie discusses finally playing Paladins of the West Kingdom (30:59) and Billy revisits an old favourite Castles of Mad King Ludwig (47:27).

In Spring Meadow, the first delicate flowers of spring herald the end of the harsh winter while the sun shines longer every day, pushing back the snow. Carefully plan your route hiking route, watching out for the marmot burrows. Only the most prepared will prove themselves and earn edelweiss pins while the others are awarded a picnic of tears. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/makeshiftmeeples/support

During this week's episode: 1.) The Pegs discuss their recent game plays including Ragusa, Point Salad, The Shipwreck Arcana, and the Funkoverse Strategy Game. 2.) All the Pegs review the action programming bone fest, Dead Man's Cabal; and 3.) Look back at Gunkimono, Expancity, and Spring Meadow. Click here for the game play photo and show notes. NOTE: Game discussion start at 30:00. To access the direct downloan, click here. Certian of the aforementioned reviews derive from a copy of the reviewed game which was provided by the publisher, free of charge. time stamps

Draft Mechanic Episode #102: Variants: Uwe Rosenberg’s Puzzle Trilogy Today we’re taking a look at not one, not two but three polyomino-based games from Uwe Rosenberg as we compare his Puzzle Trilogy: Cottage Garden, Indian Summer and Spring Meadow! Plus, we’ve got a few recent plays from years past - Reef stacks big chunky coral, Lotus grows beautiful flowers, and Scoville has the hottest pepper meeples this side of the Carolina Reaper. Enjoy all that plus more in today’s episode! 01:00 Show Intro, News & Updates 04:39 Games News: Mystic Vale app, Cities: Skylines 08:46 Kickstarter Updates 11:03 Kickstarter: Fickle 13:44 Kickstarter: Remarkable Shops & their Wares 16:37 Recent Plays: Reef 22:16 Recent Plays: Lotus 29:55 Recent Plays: Scoville 38:00 Grey Fox Games Sponsorship Spot 38:48 Variants: Uwe Rosenberg’s Puzzle Trilogy 41:18 Variants: Cottage Garden overview 48:17 Variants: Indian Summer overview 57:21 Variants: Spring Meadow overview 68:08 Variants Discussion 86:23 On Tap: Those Three Games 93:02 Beer Segment: Homebrew Legalization 97:24 Final Round: What Makes a Game App Great? 110:25 Outro We hope you enjoyed today's episode! Send us some feedback at draftmechanic@gmail.com and visit us on the web at draftmechanic.net! Pick up one of three designs for a Draft Mechanic T-Shirt today! Join our Draft Mechanic Slack Channel, or our BGG Guild (#2470)! We’re also on Twitter and Instagram - follow us at @draftmechanic! Also, Like us on Facebook! Draft Mechanic is a proud member of Punchboard Media, where we all bring something to the table. Check out our diverse group of audio, video and written board game content creators! Draft Mechanic is sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Check out their website for information on all their great games, and sign up for the newsletter for updates direct to your inbox! Our theme and bump music is from the album “Superpower of Choice” by the Liberation Jumpsuit - thanks to the band for their help! Come listen to the full album on our website! Thanks for listening! Please game responsibly and we’ll see you back here again soon for another round! http://www.draftmechanic.net/show-notes/2019/102puzzle

Czasem bywa tak, że w domu psuje się dużo rzeczy naraz i to na dodatek w spektakularny sposób. Ale nic to, udało mi się zdążyć, żeby dzisiejszy odcinek faktycznie pojawił się na stronie jeszcze dziś. A w nim trzy niezbyt duży gry. Z czego dwie, całkiem znanego autora. Zapraszamy do słuchania.

Great shrubs: So many shrubs, so little time. I’m kidding, sort of, but I think shrubs are a gardener’s best investment, and were the topic of conversation with long-time plant hunter and plant breeder Tim Wood, of wholesale Spring Meadow... Read More ›

No Openers or Closers this time, as we have so many games from the event to discuss! Games discussed: Spring Meadow, Bärenpark, Gingerbread House, Trade on the Tigris, Age of Civilization, PitchCar, Weird Things Humans Search For, The Brady Bunch Party Game, Onitama, Sakura, Indigo, Blue Lagoon, The Arabian Pots, LYNGK, Yellow & Yangtze, Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra, Treasure Island, Northern Pacific, Micropolis, Voodoo Prince, Ticket to Ride: New York, Pantone: The Game, Tower of Madness, Dune, KeyForge, Poker, Exxtra, Passing Through Petra, Carpe Diem, Streaming, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Trendy, The Mind, First Contact, Star Trek Panic, 1st & Roll Geeklist: Post-BGGcon 2018     (Gregarius)   Ryan Wheeler (Ryan Wheeler)   Just about every year, my friend & frequent podcast guest Greg Pettit joins me to talk about BGGcon. In recent years I've enjoyed the event with him, but I missed 2018. However, another friend, Ryan Wheeler, does that job this year. Greg, Ryan, and I met around 15 years ago when we all lived nearby and played regularly in our little group, the Santa Clarita Boardgamers. Of those three, I'm the only one still in Santa Clarita, California. Greg's in Texas, and Ryan's in South Dakota. While it's too bad I couldn't join them this year, I'm so happy that BGGcon is around to draw old gamer friends together like a magnet. Greg & Ryan gave me their combined list of games played at BGGcon, and then gave each game a 1-5 star rating. That's sort of like half of a BGG rating, but really it's a measure of the eagerness for playing the games again, as well as a reflection of the experience at the time. Know what I mean? It's enthusiasm, as much as it's a measure of artistic/entertainment merit according to some "standardized" scale. Think of it this way--it's easier to enthusiastically give a game 5 stars and be excited to play again, even if you're not yet sure the game is a "10." Whatever the stars are, the real value in the podcast is listening to these guys describe the games and their experiences with them. They played most of them together, though you'll also hear when they split up & tried different things. Along the way you'll also hear about some happenings at BGGcon that aren't strictly boardgaming--stuff like the puzzle hunt, virtual flea market, and bazaar. (No BBQ commentary this time, but I trust they enjoyed Texas' contribution to fine dining. I know I would've.) -Mark

In Episode 23 of the Out of the Dust board game podcast, Bryce brings Ticket to Ride: Europe out of the dust, a contributor dusts off Armada 3, Bryce discusses more Secret Santa etiquette, reviews both Spring Meadow and the obscure Battle of LITS, and reveals the #4 game on his Top 5 Food Games list.0:23 - Introduction1:43 - Out of the Dust: Ticket to Ride Europe2:45 - Out off the Dust: Armada 34:34 - Reaction Segment: Secret Santa Etiquette Continued7:05 - What I Have Been Playing: Spring Meadow10:04 - Obscure Bryce Game: Battle of LITS12:24 - Top 5 Food Games: #414:55 - Contact Info

Welcome to Episode 30 of All The Bits, wherein we get so predictable as Michelle pew pew pew's a Feld (Carpe Diem) and Uwe (Spring Meadow), while Shaun gets his creativity on with Spy Club and Untold: Adventures Awaits.The duo then discuss themes that turn you off the most in the BGG thread spotlight. Don't forget the fondaling bit as Rescue Polar Bears and Tidal Blades are discussed. Finally, in the next up bit, Euros and Kickstarters are gazed upon. All this, and all the usual question asking, game guessing, and general whackiness in Episode 30 of All The Bits! * A big thank you to our show sponser, Board Game Bliss (www.boardgamebliss.com). A store where you can find an amazing selection of games from around the world! Bringing joy to you and your love ones!* Visit our brand new website: www.allthebitspod.com Like us and follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/allthebitspod/ Tweet us: @allthebitspod Follow us on Instagram: @allthebitspod Email us: allthebitspodcast@gmail.com Leave us an itunes review: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-bits-board-game-podcast/id1254767438?mt=2 Time Stamps 3.26 – Ask Me Anything bit Michelle: This or that? Shaun: What do you look for in a FLGS? 12.47 - Guess the Game bit 21.22 - Drive By bit Michelle: Carpe Diem, Spring Meadow Shaun: Spy Club, Untold: Adventures Await 58.39 - BGG Thread Spotlight: Themes that turn you off most in a game https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2075665/themes-turn-you-most-game 72.26 - All The Bits bit Shaun: Rescue Polar Bears Michelle: Tidal Blades 77.0 - Next Up Bit

Essen Spiel 2018 is this week! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:02:02] Top 10 Most Anticipated Games►►► Teotihuacan, Underwater Cities, Carpe Diem, Coimbra, Between 2 Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Gugong, Key Flow, Blackout: Hong Kong, Forum Trajanum, Pandemic Fall of Rome •••[00:18:10] 85 More Games!!!►►► Jungli-La, Wok Star, Big Dig, Moorea, Cosmic Factor, Okavango, Great City of Rome, Sengal-senggol Gang Damai, Honga, Ruthless, Legendary Encounters X-Files, Dicium, Catalyst, Now Boarding, Claim Kingdoms, Hardback, Deckscape, Skylands, Pandemic 10th Anniversary Edition, Fugitive, Chronicles of Frost, Fog of Love, Spring Meadow, Tribes, Paper Tales, Sunflower Valley, Factory Funner, Tales of Glory, Roll for Adventure, Scorpius Freighter, Fine Sand, Roll to the Top, Carson City Card Game, Tramways Engineers Workbook, Rolling Ranch, Forgotten City, Stone Age Jubilee Edition, Hokkaido, Gingerbread House, Crisis at Steamfall, The Boldest, Walking in Burano, Smartphone Inc, Cerbria Card Game, Steamrollers, Thief's Fortune, Spy Club, Passing Through Petra, Shadows: Amsterdam, Futuropia, Discovery: Era of Voyage, Manitoba, Scarabya, Kanban 2nd Edition, Reef, Arraial, Valparaiso, Planet, A4 Quest, Fertility, Realm of Sand, Orbis, Captains of the Gulf, Firenze, Fuji, Robin Hood and the Merry Men, Magnastorm, Escape Tales, CO2: Second Chance, Railroad Ink, Solenia, Blue Lagoon, Prehistory, Brass Birmingham & Lancashire, Holding On, Treasure Island, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Dice Settlers, The River, Reykholt, Newton, Chronicles of Crime, Everdell, Detective: Modern Crime, Architects of the West Kingdom •••[01:33:10] Expansions for 35 games►►► Santa Maria, Field of Green, Kitchen Rush, Tramways, Welcome To, Space Race, Paper Tales, Chronicles of Crime, Factory Funner, Roll to the Top, Altiplano, Great Western Trail, The Networks, This War of Mine, First Class, Fog of Love, Legend of Andor, Dixit, Agricola, Caverna, Isle of Skye, Dice Town, Reef, Chronicles of Frost, Lost Expedition, Tybor the Builder, Concordia, Merlin, Skylands, Keyflower, El Dorado, K2, Clank, 7 Wonders, Forum Trajanum •••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo •••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

Welcome to Episode 30 of All The Bits, wherein we get so predictable as Michelle pew pew pew's a Feld (Carpe Diem) and Uwe (Spring Meadow), while Shaun gets his creativity on with Spy Club and Untold: Adventures Awaits.The duo then discuss themes that turn you off the most in the BGG thread spotlight. Don't forget the fondaling bit as Rescue Polar Bears and Tidal Blades are discussed. Finally, in the next up bit, Euros and Kickstarters are gazed upon. All this, and all the usual question asking, game guessing, and general whackiness in Episode 30 of All The Bits! A big thank you to our show sponser, Board Game Bliss (www.boardgamebliss.com). A store where you can find an amazing selection of games from around the world! Bringing joy to you and your love ones!* Visit our brand new website: www.allthebitspod.com Like us and follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/allthebitspod/ Tweet us: @allthebitspod Follow us on Instagram: @allthebitspod Email us: allthebitspodcast@gmail.com Leave us an itunes review: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-bits-board-game-podcast/id1254767438?mt=2 Time Stamps 3.26 – Ask Me Anything bit Michelle: This or that? Shaun: What do you look for in a FLGS? 12.47 - Guess the Game bit 21.22 - Drive By bit Michelle: Carpe Diem, Spring Meadow Shaun: Spy Club, Untold: Adventures Await 58.39 - BGG Thread Spotlight: Themes that turn you off most in a game https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2075665/themes-turn-you-most-game 72.26 - All The Bits bit Shaun: Rescue Polar Bears Michelle: Tidal Blades 77.0 - Next Up Bit

Shelley and I have fun with the third game in Uwe Rosenberg's Tetris-piece trilogy from Stronghold Games Spring Meadow by Uwe Rosenberg from Stronghold Games and then dive into BGG's Essen Preview list for a look at what's piquing our interest from publishers A-L. Must Haves: Carpe Diem - Got a chance to play this and we review it on Ep. 643 3X8 - Amigo card game that I already got through amazon.de BiberClan - Amigo card game Karate Tomate - Another Amigo card game! Lifestyle - cards, dice & tokens from Amigo (already got it) One Week Ultimate Werewolf - Played once, look forward to more! Ultimate Werewolf Legacy - Seen it, but haven't played. Gorgeous! Newton - Great buzz/Tzolkin designers Underwater Cities - Vladimir Suchy, designer of Pulsar, etc. Altiplano: The Traveler - Expansion for one of our favorites from 2017 Manitoba - More dlp goodness Valparaiso - Designer of Altiplano Dixit 10th Anniversary - New Cards!!!!  

!! JETZT IN FIXER BITRATE - Sollte auf allen Playern laufen !! Diesmal tauchen wir in die Puzzle Trilogie von Uwe Rosenberg ein und spielen die Spiele "Cottage Garden", "Indian Summer" und "Spring Meadow". Und in der Gespielt Sektion gibt es auch ein paar Geheimtipps!

Recorded in War Room Studios - Albuquerque, NM : 8/28/18 This episode brought to you by Inside Up Games, Tasty Minstrel Games, Arcane Wonders & Meeple Realty. The lovely Jordan - Board Game Bella - joins us to discuss some of the things she was most impressed by at #GenCon18, including Sovereign Skies from Deep Water Games We are excited to present our Board Game Expansion Review segment - Featuring Kingdomino: Age of Giants, Terraforming Mars: Prelude, Clank! Expeditions: Gold & Silk as well as Sagrada: 5 & 6 Player Expansion. We close out the episode with our Ignacy Trzewiczek Interview and talk about Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. Coupon Code: Save 10% on your purchases with Meeple Realty by using the coupon code: bb18   Episode Timeline: 00:00:46 - Intro / Banter 00:21:00 - TNT: Then - Featuring Scythe & Summit: The Board Game 00:37:50 - TNT: Now 01:15:17 - Slice & Dice Board Game Pizzeria 01:26:30 - TNT: Tomorrow - Featuring The Ancient World (2nd Edition) 01:33:53 - Board Game Review - Kingdomino: Age of Giants 01:49:10 - Board Game Expansion Review: Sagrada 5 & 6 Player Expansion 02:03:07 - Board Game Expansion Review: Clank! Expeditions: Gold & Silk Review 02:09:50 - Board Game Expansion Review: Terraforming Mars: Prelude Review 02:29:23 - Feature Segment: Ignacy Trzewiczek Interview   Game Timestamps: Amigo Games - 00:45:50 Ancient World (2nd Edition) - 01:26:40 Bunny Kingdom - 01:16:40 Clack - 00:51:15 Clank: Gold & Silk - 02:03:07 Deja Vu - 00:56:00 Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game - 02:39:30 Fruit Punch - 00:48:35 Kingdomino: Age of Giants - 01:36:55 Las Vegas - 01:07:19 Sagrada: 5 & 6 Player Expansion - 01:49:10 Scythe - 00:21:35 Scythe: Rise of Fenris - 00:25:55 Sovereign Skies - 00:39:35 Spring Meadow - 00:58:50 Summit: The Board Game - 00:29:15 Terraforming Mars: Prelude - 02:09:50

http://traffic.libsyn.com/bluepegpinkpeg/BPPP_Ep_129_Tile_Laying_mixdown.output.mp3 During this weeks episode: 1) The Pegs have an announcement and discuss their recent gameplays including Orbis, War Chest, Ice Cool 2, and more; 2) All the Pegs review a suite of tile laying games including Gunkimono, Spring Meadow, and Expancity; and 3) Revisit Ex Libris. Click here for game play photos and show […]

A Gencon Quickie! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:30] Top 10 To Get►►► Chimera Station, Tiny Epic Defenders 2nd Edition, Welcome To, Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road, Warsaw: City of Ruins, Carson City: The Card Game, Detective, Coimbra, Merlin, Forbidden Sky •••[00:14:25] 60 More Games to Check Out►►► Legendary Encounters: X-Files, Woodlands, Dragon Master, Amun Re: The Card Game, Jungli-La, Import/Export, Fantastiqa Rival Realms, Mesozooic, Catalyst, Professor Treasure's Secret Sky Castle, Wok Star 3rd Edition, Railways of the World, Race to the New Found Land, Kaosmos, Multiuniversum, Fortune City, Kick-Ass: The Board Game, Deckscape: Heist in Venice, Talisman: Legendary Tales, Shadows: Amsterdam, Mercado, Lucky's Misadventures, Superhot: The Card Game, Maiden's Quest, Now Boarding, Gearworks, Hardback, Railroad Rivals, The Big Score, Luxor, Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops, Sailing Toward Osiris, Rising 5, Scarbya, Railroad Ink, The Game, Kitchen Rush, Lost Cities: Rivals, Carthago, Speakeasy Blues, Minerva, Steamrollers, Tiny Epic Zombies, Spring Meadow, Paper Tales, Blue Lagoon, Carson City: Big Box, Newton, EXIT: (new titles), Altiplano, Gizmos, Rise of Queensdale, Everdell, The Mind, Reef, Century: Eastern Wonders, Brass, Reckoners, Root, Palm Island •••[01:11:27] Expansions to Get►►► Big Score: Crack the Safe, Sailing Toward Osiris: Governors & Envoys, Mottainai: Wutai Moutnain, Mystic Vale: Twilight Garden, Paper Tales: Beyond the Gates, Near & Far: Amber Mines, The Captain is Dead: Lockdown, Clank! The Mummy's Curse, Roll Player: Monsters & Minions, Kingdominio: Age of Giants, Clank! In! Space! Apocalypse!, Scythe: Rise of Fenris •••Help Rahdo run @ https://patreon.com/rahdo •••Send your questions to questions@rahdo.com

Aflevering 47 "Uitbreidingen" van Het Ludieke Gezelschap, dé Nederlandse bordspel podcast. Het begint een beetje off-topic met een bezoek aan de tandarts en het bos, maar daarna komen de bordspellen uiteraard weer uitgebreid aan bod. Dit keer gooien we o.a. het thema uitbreidingen in de groep. 00:00 Intro / 00:36 Welkom (Bitterballen & Teken) / 07:00 Gespeeld: The Worldcup Game (Games for the World), Meeple Circus (Matagot), Clank! In! Space! (Renegade Games), Decrypto (Asmodee), Imaginarium (Bombyx), Isle of Skye: Journeyman (Lookout) / 32:22 Danse Macabre / 32:44 Thema: Uitbreidingen / 61:20 Een vraag voor allemaal: Duurste Spel (n.a.v. Near and Far) / 69:58 Spellennieuws met o.a Colt Express, Spring Meadow, Mercado, Targi, Cacao / 81:30 Afsluiting / 82:37 Outro / 83:01 Bloopers Meer details op onze Facebook pagina: https://www.facebook.com/HetLudiekeGezelschap Reageren? Mail ons op hetludiekegezelschap@gmail.com

If you are interested in my Origins experience....you'll have to wait until next episode. This one is a bit shorter as it was recorded not long after 105. But Collin and Cindy don't fail us with a couple of new reviews, plus we have not 1 but 2 game shows for you in this episode!NewsNo more Unrivaled Tournament https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40570/oomba-shuts-down-unrivaled-tournament-series Box set announced for new version of Warhammer Age of Sigmar https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40567/gw-jump-starts-warhammer-age-sigmar-edition Two new D&D adventures announced! https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40554/wotc-reveals-two-new-d-d-waterdeep-volumes Spring Meadow announced https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40545/creator-agricola-completes-puzzle-game-trilogy Upcoming releases from Blue Orange Games https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40537/new-gen-con-releases-bruno-cathala-ludovic-maublanc-reiner-knizia This podcast is an Obsessive Comics Disorder production - visit ocdcast.com for more great videos and podcasts. Join our BGG Guild! boardsandswords.com/guildEmail us your comments and questions at feedback@boardsandswords.com. You can find the show on twitter @Boardsandswords, or on facebook at facebook.com/ocdcast. Personally I'm @ChrisTheProf on Twitter & Instagram Collin is @colcakes196 on Twitter & Instagram. Cindy is cindypastorius on Instagram. This podcast is also a part of the Dice Tower Network. For other great board gaming shows, check out dicetowernetwork.com. Also, thanks to CoolStuffInc for sponsoring the network - check out coolstuffinc.com for some great deals on games.Thank you for listening to the show. Until next time, remember that every gamer has a story…..what's yours?

If you are interested in my Origins experience....you'll have to wait until next episode. This one is a bit shorter as it was recorded not long after 105. But Collin and Cindy don't fail us with a couple of new reviews, plus we have not 1 but 2 game shows for you in this episode!NewsNo more Unrivaled Tournament https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40570/oomba-shuts-down-unrivaled-tournament-series Box set announced for new version of Warhammer Age of Sigmar https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40567/gw-jump-starts-warhammer-age-sigmar-edition Two new D&D adventures announced! https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40554/wotc-reveals-two-new-d-d-waterdeep-volumes Spring Meadow announced https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40545/creator-agricola-completes-puzzle-game-trilogy Upcoming releases from Blue Orange Games https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/40537/new-gen-con-releases-bruno-cathala-ludovic-maublanc-reiner-knizia This podcast is an Obsessive Comics Disorder production - visit ocdcast.com for more great videos and podcasts. Join our BGG Guild! boardsandswords.com/guildEmail us your comments and questions at feedback@boardsandswords.com. You can find the show on twitter @Boardsandswords, or on facebook at facebook.com/ocdcast. Personally I'm @ChrisTheProf on Twitter & Instagram Collin is @colcakes196 on Twitter & Instagram. Cindy is cindypastorius on Instagram. This podcast is also a part of the Dice Tower Network. For other great board gaming shows, check out dicetowernetwork.com. Also, thanks to CoolStuffInc for sponsoring the network - check out coolstuffinc.com for some great deals on games.Thank you for listening to the show. Until next time, remember that every gamer has a story…..what's yours?

Convention season has started!  Anthony and Chris kick off the season of many cons with their rundown of the games they are most looking forward to seeing this summer. Is the list complete? Probably not, but we're excited for every game on it.  Before we kick things off, make sure to enter our World Cup of Sci Fi Games contest, ending on June 9th. You can find more information here.  2018 World Cup of Science Fiction Board Games Contest To start the episode, we ask our question of the week and listeners share how many plays they will give a game before they feel they have made their mind up about it.  For Acquisition Disorders this week, Anthony looks at the final game in Uwe Rosenberg's puzzle trilogy, Spring Meadow, and Chris looks at the new Vast game, The Mysterious Manor.  At the table, we're reviewing Dragon Castle, the new tile placement game from CMON and Argent: The Consortium, the second edition of which just shipped from Level 99 Games.  Finally, we have our big run down of 16 games we're excited to see this summer at the cons we'll be attending.  If you haven’t yet, be sure to connect with us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/boardgamersanonymous), Twitter (http://twitter.com/bgapodcast), and on our website (www.boardgamersanonymous.com). You can support the show as well by donating on Patreon (www.patreon.com/bga), or using our Amazon affiliate link.

You can have too much of a good thing, which is why Mark always tries to interrupt Walker before he can finish a single sentence. Of course, "too much" is a highly subjective idea, whether applied to game length or pie. This week Keyflower is discussed, which is not too long but can feel too short--except if it were not too short it would be too long. Clear enough. Games Played Last Week:-Star Wars: Imperial Assault 3m25s (Justin Kemppainen, Corey Konieczka, & Jonathan Ying, Fantasy Flight, 2014)-Lords of Vegas 5m31s (James Ernest & Mike Silenker, Mayfair, 2010)-Sagrada 6m41s (Adrian Adamescu & Daryl Andrews, Floodgate Games, 2017)-Thunderbolt Apache Leader 8m12s (Dan Verssen, DVG, 2012)-Ginkgopolis 9m57s (Xavier Georges, Pearl Games, 2012)-Ora et Labora 11m46s (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2011)-Dungeon Alliance 15m11s (Andrew Parks, Quixotic Games, 2018)-Spheres of Influence 20m33s (Josh Lamont, Little Nuke Games, 2016)News (and why it doesn't matter)-Jetpack Joyride 24m45s-Spring Meadow 25m22s-Contest Results! 25m55s-Mark on The Long View (again) 26m36sFeature Game: Keyflower 27m57s (Sebastian Bleasdale & Richard Breese, R&D Games, 2012)Topic: Games that Are Too Long 51m45s

You can have too much of a good thing, which is why Mark always tries to interrupt Walker before he can finish a single sentence. Of course, "too much" is a highly subjective idea, whether applied to game length or pie. This week Keyflower is discussed, which is not too long but can feel too short--except if it were not too short it would be too long. Clear enough. Games Played Last Week:-Star Wars: Imperial Assault 3m25s (Justin Kemppainen, Corey Konieczka, & Jonathan Ying, Fantasy Flight, 2014)-Lords of Vegas 5m31s (James Ernest & Mike Silenker, Mayfair, 2010)-Sagrada 6m41s (Adrian Adamescu & Daryl Andrews, Floodgate Games, 2017)-Thunderbolt Apache Leader 8m12s (Dan Verssen, DVG, 2012)-Ginkgopolis 9m57s (Xavier Georges, Pearl Games, 2012)-Ora et Labora 11m46s (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2011)-Dungeon Alliance 15m11s (Andrew Parks, Quixotic Games, 2018)-Spheres of Influence 20m33s (Josh Lamont, Little Nuke Games, 2016)News (and why it doesn't matter)-Jetpack Joyride 24m45s-Spring Meadow 25m22s-Contest Results! 25m55s-Mark on The Long View (again) 26m36sFeature Game: Keyflower 27m57s (Sebastian Bleasdale & Richard Breese, R&D Games, 2012)Topic: Games that Are Too Long 51m45s

And thus begins our 4th year of podcasting! SHOW NOTES: •••[00:01:00] Games of Interest►►► Homesteaders: New Beginnings, Key Flow, 5 Minute Dungeon: Curses! Foiled Again!, Escape Tales: The Awakening, Lost Cities: Rivals, Spring Meadow •••[00:09:22] Top10 Board Game Boards Part I Revisit •••[00:31:11] Game Q&A►►► New table in the future? Zombie running? Youtube ads? Yahtzee killers? Co-op conversion to solo? RTT music selection process? Feudum? Bad rules ever ruin the game? Giving 0's on BGG? What 3 games sum up modern boardgaming? Modern videogaming? Pandemic or Agricola: which game to design an expansion for? Perfect euro length? More finding theme in dry soulless euros? What gateway would make the best Legacy game? Game of the month segment? How to best learn from the rules? Boardgame burnout from RRT? Do we care who wins? •••[01:17:35] Personal Q&A►►► Vlogs? Celebrity chef faves? Ever been to Boston? What about Rahdo meetups? Sushi love? What movie have we watched the most? Why New Zealand? What about Australia? Not much of a reader? How does my on-air personality different from off air? Rahdo vs Jen: best driver? Best sense of humor? Jen's maiden name? Rahdo vs Jen: how often do we fight? Could Jen handle Handmaid's Tale? How're we feeling about the move so far? Fave movies: western? horror? gangster? comedy? Marvel universe? 3 new TV series to recommend? Carebear names?