The Threshing Floor

Episode 83: Back in Production

On this return from hiatus episode, we go over recent community news including results from the recent TJC Memorial Tournaments that happened in Michigan and Texas. There's also details on the current running deck building contest over at Land of Redemption, and we provide some very early information on the FIFTH annual Christmas Card Swap!
 
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Episode 82: Fresh off Nationals

On this episode of the podcast, Jake and I share about our Nationals experience and what that was like for each of us. We also have a spicy new Seasonal Promo spoiler to go over before jumping into a loaded Mailbag. Thanks for listening!
 
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Sounds of Nationals 24: Day One

Short inteviews and sound clips from day one of Nationals. Enjoy!

Episode 81: The Man Behind the Game

On this episode, we reveal our suprise guest that we have been hinting at for weeks as the owner and creator of Redemption joins us to talk about how the game got started and how it has progressed through the years. 
 
There was plans to include some conversation with Jake reviewing recent spoilers and talk about our expectations for Nationals, but unfotunately the audio we recorded was substandard so we are not releasing that. I considered holding off on sharing the interview with Rob until I could frame a better complete episode around it, but didn't want to withhold it from you all. 
 
Rob did reach out after we recorded to ask me to clarify a couple of things he touched on. Please see below from Rob:
 
Thank you for putting this together.  I wish to clarify two things I said yesterday that may not be clearly understood.
 
First, I have no desire to misrepresent or be unfair to Angel Studios.  They are doing many good things.  My statement that the Chosen and Angel Studio have parted ways is based on this video by Dallas Jenkins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2jsFfYPcmk&t=801s
 
In other words, the video presents Dallas Jenkin’s position.  Angel Studios likely has a different perspective.
 
Second, I touched on Scattergories so briefly that listeners may get the idea that I created Scattergories.  The creator of Scattergories is Gunther Degen.  The company I was working for back in the late 80’s is Cactus Services, Inc.  I was one of three people at Cactus. I was the junior member of the team (being only 24) when we licensed Scattergories to Milton Bradely (now part of Hasbro).  I was Mr. Degen’s agent until 1999 when I left Cactus Services, Inc. to focus full time on Cactus Game Design.
 
In 2018 Cactus Services and Gunther Degen asked to come back as agent to represent Scattergories.  I have been under contract with Cactus to do this since 2018.
 
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Episode 80: Jayden the Wise?

On this week's loaded episode, Jayden Alstad fills in for Agur and helps us bring you the most recent news and tournament results as we provide our final Power Rankings update prior to Nationals. We also feature Flooded Red's Midwest Regional Tournament winning deck in our Deck of the Week before answering your questions with the Community Mailbag. 
 
Deck of the Week available here.

Episode 79: Tyler the Creator

This week's episode features an extended "Agur the Creator" segment with special guest Tyler Stevens who is the lead set designer for the game. We pick his brain on design philosophy and review some of his favorite cards he has created before wrapping up with designing (in theory) a new Agur card for the modern game. In addition to this, we have a ton of tournament results to go over which shook up our Power Rankings. 
 
**We did experience some issues with our recording that made its way into the final edit as there was no way to completely work around it. The issue may be from our setup for Jake or could be an issue with our recording platform as they just added a ton of features that may have created some bugs. What you will hear is degraded audio in small clips (1-2 seconds usually) when Jake speaks. Longer sections of audio are clear, but you will get the degraded audio from time to time. 
 
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Episode 78: Off the Rails

This loaded episode of The Threshing Floor features a ton of open discussions sprinkled throughout the segmented content. We’ve got Nationals news, tournament results and updated Power Rankings along with a lesser played theme featured in our Deck of the Week, presented by Your Turn Games. We also had some great questions for this week’s community mailbag, so we can’t wait to share those with you as well. 
 
 
Zerubbabel’s Temple Youtube by Josh Potratz
 
 
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Episode 77: A Perfect Hymn

This week's loaded episode starts with selecting the winners of our giveaway with Your Turn Games before turning to the recent news from around the community and then reviewing some brand new spoilers from the upcoming set, Israel's Inheritance. After that, we go over a ton of tournament results that helped shape our updated Power Rankings. We also have the return of our segments that debuted on the last episode, including the Deck of the Week featuring special guest Jared Strauss (aka Hymn) to discuss the deck he piloted to the top of Lackey Grand Prix 15. 
 
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Episode 76: Welcome to the New Era of the Podcast

Its finally here! This week's episode will unveil all of the changes that we have been working on in the background since our last recording. Just about everything has been thoughtfully considered, retouched and/or refined to present the podcast in a brand new light as we rebrand a little bit. We've got the debut of our brand new co-host, Agur the Wise aka Jake Antonetz along with a bunch of new segments to bring you a more engaging podcast experience. This episode is also where we make a major announcement for the future of the podcast that we think you all will LOVE. I know we are pretty stoked about it. Thanks for listening and welcome to the "All New" Threshing Floor Podcast!
 
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Episode 75: Brad's Earley Hiatus

On this week's episode we give you the results for several high profile tournaments that took place since our last recording, and we crown a new #1 on our Power Rankings. After that, we hang out with a couple of Redemption Elders as John Earley and Tyler Stevens join the podcast to help us rank lost souls. 
 
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