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An unofficial podcast for fans of Twilight Imperium and other strategy board games. Each episode is a humorous analysis of mechanics and strategies for new and experienced players alike!
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Group of five guys who make podcasts. WPoddcast every saturday (in theory). The WP consists of: Blaine Williams Jacob Andersen Kristoff Kounlavong Alfred "Alfie" Marten Matt Dardano Artwork done by Dan Bartholomew: dantoons1910.deviantart.com
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If you are a Wedding Filmmaker then the Wedding Film School Show is for you. Hosted by Jason McCutchen and Jared Haskell of Stopgolove and Huxley Film, we dive into the depths of how to run a wedding filmmaking biz in the wedding industry. From gear talk, to industry interviews, to straight up mathy business topics, we cover a lot of ground. Give us a subscribe and let us know what you want hear about next!
If you’re looking to gain traction in your career or business, you’re at the right place because here, we talk about connection. Connect with the right people in the right way so you can build valuable, trust-based relationships that lead you to career success. I interview communication experts, time and focus masters, and everyday people who have stories to tell of challenges overcome, goals achieved and how their inner and outer communication and ultimately their relationships accelerated ...
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186: Victory Points and Objectives part 1
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The fact that we’ve never done an episode specifically about Objectives and Victory Points is either a huge misstep, or completely unnecessary. But here’s one anyways! This is part one where we go over all of the types of victory points, and cover our first section of objectives: Control Objectives. We talked way too much, and so this episode turne…
Matt Johnson’s mighty beard has blazed a trail across YouTube and the wedding filmmaking world for years now and now he makes his way back to Wedding Film School.By Jason McCutchen, Jared Haskell
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185: Naaz-Rokha Alliance Introduction
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With all of the recent episodes about Exploration and Relics, we were clearly building up to SOMETHING. And that something is finally here. The Naaz-Rokha Alliance are white hot right now, so we’re already overdue for introducing them. Spoiler: they’re a really good faction and you probably didn’t even need us to tell you how to do well with them. …
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Assessing Your Resources as a Creative Business | Your Business Plan SUCKS | Part 3
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Every business has to take take stock of what they are working with today and also dream for the future. In all cases it take understanding the many resources it takes to run a creative business in the wedding industry: time, money, gear, relationships, a dope portfolio. Where you land on understanding this and putting together these ingredients ca…
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184: Root - Learning the Underground Duchy
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Today we get to complete the meat of our Learning Root episodes (don’t worry, we have more planned!) by learning the Underground Duchy. A faction of order and structure, fittingly, has many detailed ways of playing. Here, we cover what we believe to be one of the safest and easiest to pick up Duchy strategies, saving some of the more complicated st…
We sit down with the founder of Wedding Film School and in many ways on of the pioneers of wedding filmmaking education on YouTube to chat on everything from creating films next to a volcano to the ONE wedding Kraig would agree to shoot. Welcome back, Kraig... If only today!By Jason McCutchen, Jared Haskell
Exploration has been sufficiently covered, but we left Relics on the table. There’s only a handful of them to cover, so to round out the episode, we’re also squeezing Legendary Planets into the discussion for today’s component episode. Stick around to make sure you hear about all 13 relics in Prophecy of Kings! 7:21 - Nomad Introduction Errata 15:5…
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"Your Business Model Sucks!" | Your Business Plan SUCKS | Part 2
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In Part 2 of our "Your Business Plan Sucks" we talk about why you need a well thought out business model. This aspect of your business plan will help you create a system of wealth creation and evaluate when you are doing things that are reaching the wrong customers or maybe just not serving a customer well. At the end of the day, a business should …
We’ve done a close look at the Nomad before, but that was back in the before-times when we were only being given a teaser of them by Dane. Now we’ve had time to sink our teeth in, and so, we can now present our Introduction to the, by far, coolest new faction in the game. They drive a Volkswagen around the galaxy while traveling through time, what …
We interview one of the pioneers of adventure elopement photography Benj Haisch to talk all things wedding, working well as a creative team (the age old photo and video wedding rivalry), learning video as photographer, and even the time Benj served dinner at a wedding because he's such a nice dude!By Jason McCutchen, Jared Haskell
It’s time to explore more Prophecy of Kings mechanics! And what better topic than Exploration? It’s the major new mechanical introduction in the expansion and has made the early game vastly different from Base game. This episode doesn’t get into Relics yet, but we discuss the four Exploration decks and what to expect from each of them. 5:20 - Fract…
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"What is a Business Plan, Anyway?" | Your Business Plan SUCKS | Part 1
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Planning, you say? Business, you say? Yeah, actually this stuff is super important and will change your life for the better. In this episode (Part 1 of a new podcast series "Your Business Plan Sucks") Jared and Jason break down what a business plan consists of and why every wedding creative needs to get out of the camera and create a strategy and a…
What a delightful change of pace the Galactic Council has granted us this month! After some delay, we finally got to spend some time talking about the Twilight Imperium novel, The Fractured Void. We aren’t necessarily literary critics, and we aren’t even experts in TI lore, but we read the book and here’s what we think! 11:55 - Root: Corvid Conspir…
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We Started A New Wedding Film Brand From Scratch
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Jared and Jason discuss their new brand, Merriment Films, and some of the hurdles they are facing with their brand new brand have got them thinking about many of the new wedding filmmakers and photographers starting out! We discuss what it’s like to launch a new brand and some ways you can improve your own brand identity and sales tactics with your…
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179: Root - Learning the Corvid Conspiracy
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After some quick Tournament Structure errata, we finally get to sink our teeth into the Underworld expansion talking about the Corvid Conspiracy. We’re on record saying the Lizard Cult is a bad faction, but we didn’t realize how bad it can get. The Corvids can certainly shine, but what we’ve seen from the tournament is a faction that is easy to sto…
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Thinking Outside of the Box W/ Bottlebrush Films
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We can all get into a creative rut and what better to break up your creative malaise than some Aussie’s encouragement by our buddies, Grace and Andrew, from Bottlebrush films. We talk gear, Lonely Hearts Film Club... Er... Camp, and how we can think outside the box as wedding filmmakers.By Jason McCutchen, Jared Haskell
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7 Mistakes We Made Starting Our Businesses as Wedding Filmmakers
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We have all been there. That moment when you realized "Crap. I just blew it." In this episode we dig into 7 common mistakes Jason, Jared and Bobby made as new wedding creatives with the hopes that you can avoid their misfortune and pain. We also play a little game of Wedding Filmmaker "Would You Rather?" with Bobby. It's very high brow stuff.…
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178: PoK Tournament Sign Ups and Structure 2021
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Twilight Imperium tournament season is upon us and Hunter and Matt are officially freaked out. There are clearly a lot of people vying for a spot in the upcoming Patreon tournament, so today we decided we needed to set the record straight on the structure of the tournament and give some important sign up information. This is one of those episodes t…
As part of the groundwork for truly learning about all of the new things brought to us by Prophecy of Kings, we wanted to take time to break down the new tech and talk a bit about how tech paths have changed, generally, since base game. This episode doesn’t dig into any faction tech, as we’ll do that in faction overviews, but it’s a basic look mean…
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Defining Your Unique "Look" as a Wedding Filmmaker w/ Henry Martens
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Henry Marten's is one of the preeminent voices in wedding filmmaking. From his signature color grades to his crazy camera whips all the way down to his constant tweaking and tuning of his kit, every aspect of how Henry makes films comes together to create a unique vision of what a wedding film can be. In this episode Jason, Jared, and Henry dig dee…
The galactic council took it easy on us this month. We get to relish in the casual conversations of our current favorite factions. But we took the opportunity to touch on some other topics as well, like how the meta might evolves over the next year, how War Suns might fare, and what to do about “powerful” factions. 42:50 - Titans of Ul Introduction…
In this episode we break down the four main ways you can break through that booking ceiling that's been nagging your creative biz and hit that next goal number.By Jason McCutchen, Jared Haskell
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Why 2021 is the Best Year to BECOME a Wedding Videographer
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It may not seem like it, 2021 may actually present an incredible opportunity for new wedding filmmakers to get into the market. In. this episode we break down FOUR REASONS why 2021 may be the best year ever for. new wedding videographer to get into the market. From the amazing gear at affordable prices to the booked up filmmakers dealing with 2020 …
The day of awakening is finally upon us. We have risen from the Buzzfeed slumber and come to you prepared to begin covering the factions as they stand in Prophecy of Kings. First up, we wanted to go a little easy on ourselves, so we have a Titan of Ul introduction. They’re a good faction. Maybe too good. Time will tell... Music provided by Ben Prun…
The time has finally come to say goodbye. After a year of mulling over the direction of the channel we've decided enough is enough...and by that, we mean WE'RE JOINING THE TEAM AT WEDDING FILM SCHOOL!!! It's been a great run but we're super stoked to be joining Bobby Burns and Jason Battista at Wedding Film School. What does it mean? Wedding Film S…
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174: Root - Learning the Riverfolk Company
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The Root Patreon Tournament is officially underway and officially sponsored, so what better way to celebrate than an unofficial episode about how to learn to play the Riverfolk Company? These otters are significantly more versatile than their expansion companions the Lizards, but in some ways require just as much skill to comprehend all of the tool…
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We kick off our Root tournament this weekend, which means the show is about to get crazy busy! So, we decided it was important to set the table for 2021 and go over how we plan to structure future episodes as well as the changes made to the Patreon. Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn mor…
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Why We Love and Hate Destination Weddings
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This year’s Holiday Spectacular stream took a lot out of us, and there are so many other things going on that we have a rather short episode for you. It’s a salt filled trip taking a look at what happened, and how we intend to get even next year... Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more…
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171: 100% First Annual Prophecy of Kings Faction Tier List but it’s not a tier list, it’s a Hootenanny, and it is infallible and perfect. #NailedIt
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It is a time-honored tradition around these parts to wrap up the year with a Faction Tier List. But the whole game just changed and there’s no way any of our thoughts are going to be any good in a year, so we decided to get a little loose with this year’s tier list. So, we present the 100% First Annual Prophecy of Kings Faction Tier List but it’s n…
This is a weird one, brought to you by our Galactic Council patrons! It’s the return of the infamous Flagship Tournament, where all of the flagships fight in head to head matches with arbitrary complicated rules! Who will be crowned the greatest flagship of them all? Jokes on you, we rigged it! Anyways, this episode is also available in video form …
Tournament Season is officially on the horizon, and to get things moving, we have business to attend to! This episode covers everything you need to know to get signed up for the upcoming Root tournament as well as loads of information about the 2021 SCPT Twilight Imperium Patreon Tournament. We talk new draft rules, the new time limit rules, and a …
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168: Fireside Chats with Dane Beltrami
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Prophecy of Kings has officially released and to commemorate it, Alec sat down for another Fireside Chat, this time with Dane Beltrami himself! Dane is no stranger to the show, but this is a wonderful casual interview that dives a bit deeper into game development and Dane's insights on the game we all know and love.…
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167: Prophecy of Kings and the Future
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It’s bookkeeping day! We’ve got some upcoming tournaments that we wanted to talk about. But that’s not all! With copies of Prophecy of Kings officially out in the wild, we wanted to talk about what we anticipate as players and and as content creators in the Twilight Imperium scene. We talk show goals as well as personal goals for a post-expansion e…
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166: 100% Definitive Official Base Game SCPT Power Ranking List_Final_FinalFINAL_v3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.xlsx
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It feels like forever since we let this show get weird, y’know? Well, today is a weird one. Copies of Prophecy of Kings are shipping to many people this week, which means it’s time to put the final nail in base game’s coffin by assigning every faction a rank! We’re done with subjective tier lists, it’s time to give you the meat you’ve always craved…
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165: Root - Learning the Lizard Cult
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With all that messy Twilight Imperium business behind us, we can return to the real work. And it is WORK. This week, we have a guide for “the worst faction” in Root, The Lizard Cult. Despite their setbacks, they’re incredibly fun, and hopefully we can help you unlock their potential. Just give us a chance! 12:07 - Abilities 15:24 - Setup 22:39 - Bi…
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164: Farewell TI4 Base Game with Dane Beltrami
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As part of our 24 hour Extra Life livestream, we recorded this episode LIVE with surprise guest Dane Beltrami. It has a looser structure than you might be used to, but we say goodbye to things we will and won’t miss from a TI4 that lacks Prophecy of Kings, and talk a bit about the things we’re most excited for. The audio is a little bit rough in th…
It’s the last time that finishing the 17th of a thing will mean we are done with that project. It’s been a project over a year in the making, but today marks the end of our base game faction Strategy Guides. And to wrap things up, we have a faction that required some time. And if we hadn’t had an expansion so closely on the horizon, we may have let…
Be careful. Two chill bros chill out hard in this eppy, and totally wax spiritual, man. They get straight up lifted and...this is Matt, and I haven't really done any drugs and don't know what I'm doing. Anyways, here's a great chat between Alec and TgWelch. Please enjoy it. 8:45 - Hacan Commander: Gila the Silvertongue…
It’s spooky season, and that means we get to talk about one of the spookiest factions out there: the Nekro Virus. What once was seen as aggressive, bloodthirsty killing machines are now a deal-oriented accountant wearing brass knuckles. Nekro is a good faction, but only if you dig a bit into the math and strategy that lies under the surface. So let…
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160: Ghosts of Creuss Strategy Guide
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We’re nearing the end of these base game Strategy Guides. Five years after the release of 3rd Edition, FFG released the Shards of the Throne expansion and included three new factions. Among those was what would quickly become one of the most beloved factions of the entire game, the Ghosts of Creuss. The Ghosts are so cool and interesting, they are …
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159: Embers of Muaat Strategy Guide
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Do you even understand what this episode cost? Hunter has gone back into the oven to further explore the strategies of the Embers of Muaat, and he’s a harder, colder man because of it. He may be forever changed, but at least we’ll finally know whether Red Tech or Blue Tech is better. You have to listen to this one, because it physically hurt Hunter…
This month the Galactic Council foisted upon us a episode so daunting, we had to enlist help from our own private Rules Judge, Milty! Milty is known in the community as the master of all rules, and there is no better person to host our newest game show: Rules Quiz Extravaganza! 1:35:26 - Explore: Expedition and Sardakk N'orr Mech: Valkyrie Exoskele…
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157: Root - Learning the Vagabond - Base Game
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I hope you enjoy your outdoor cooking with lots of SALT. Today, we delve into our only remaining base game Root faction, the Vagabond. Much maligned by the rest of the forest creatures, the Vagabond is power, requires focus from the rest of the table to stop, and...honestly can sometimes not be that fun to play as. It is an uphill meta-battle, and …
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156: Yin Brotherhood Strategy Guide
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It’s not 2018 anymore, and that means we get to like the Yin and talk about them in a serious context. This might legitimately be Matt’s best faction, and hopefully that translates to some somewhat decent strategic insights. You be the judge! And stick around for the final Yin Brotherhood Prophecy of Kings spoiler! 4:53 - Overview 24:43 - Tech Path…
