 So fast food franchise is a game that I won. I got a full web and it's basically just monopoly. This game is monopoly. You roll the dice. You move around the board. You buy stuff. But instead of buying hotels, you sort of by this weird system, put little squares of your, of your, you know, fast food franchise in this grid in the middle of the board. And if you were able to connect your grid and I was able to, I picked the ice cream, which has the most possible squares. Yup. Cause they're not, it's, it's not symmetrical. Right. It's, you know, if you choose the fancy one that pays out more, you get less squares to work with. I picked ice cream had the ice cream scream. Right. Just randomly I picked ice cream, but I had the most squares. So I was able to make a full 100% connection between all of my ice creams on the entire board with a full web. So anyone who landed on my ice cream had to give me a million dollars. And when I passed go, I got like a zillion dollars. And the only thing that separates us from monopoly is actually pretty big deal is that number one, you get eliminated fast. If you land on my ice cream, when I'm set up like that, you just die. Yeah. That's the way I describe it. Take monopoly and it's almost, and you get a, you get a ton of money. When you pass go, you've got stuff set up. And if you get a million dollars, you just win. So it's imagined monopoly ended after like 20 minutes, but it's basically the same game with a very small amount of decision making. Well, the thing is, so I would say that this is almost a deconstruction of monopoly or a game like that. But a deconstruction of monopoly would be mad magazine, the board game. Well, but what I was about to say, if you deconstruct something, this is where you're trying to lose all your money. No, but it's it's almost too close to monopoly and too true to the feelings of monopoly to it's not like Monica, where you took, you know, the magical girl's genre and I got a look at it from another angle. I should watch this. This is more like a monopoly. Look at it from this like pure distilled angle, where it'll give you a lot of the feels that monopoly would give you, but in a much more streamlined, elegant, fast failure model where it has the snowball of monopoly, but then just as the snowball crests the peak game over, it's done like in both games that I played of this, I got eliminated. I was just out. And you know what? A monopoly, you're eventually just out. Eventually, but eventually in this game, like you're eliminated. The second you can't come back anymore. Like within one more go around to the board, you're just out because you land on someone else's chicken surprise and everything's over and you just quit and it's it's oddly liberating because monopoly is a game that I do not enjoy playing. You get just trapped in monopoly because you're it's like you've already lost, but you have to keep playing because you're not eliminated, but you didn't officially lose yet. But at the same time, fast food, but monopoly at the same time. It's it's weird how it scratches a few itches around nostalgia and also like some of the gameplay. Like it scratches a few itches, but then it punches you in the dick repeatedly while it's scratching fast food franchise is just like fast food franchise. Pats you on the back. Like it's great anymore. Fine. Stop playing. Yeah. And congratulations. You won. Stop playing like faster franchise walks over and says, Hey, do you have that itch that says, Hey, maybe I should play monopoly. It scratches that itch really, really good. And then it walks away. I think the thing it's missing the monopoly has is the sort of like dog boat. Mr. Monopoly. Go to jail. It has that because it's got chicken surprise. If a chicken surprise isn't as good as like, Oh, go to jail. Do not pass go kidding chicken surprise or fast franchise. You don't have called chicken surprise and you don't have bank error in your favor. You have to click on the link and look at what this game looks like because we don't have a win. You don't win the beauty pageant. The yes. Yes, you do on those cars. Isn't it second place in beauty pageant? Yeah, but the aesthetic of this game be no railroad. Take a ride, bitch has been variously described by people I've shown it to as interesting, minimalist. What the fuck? That is horrible. Right. Well, because this is a small press game from the nineties, right? Yeah. Oh, so if you think about like, you know, the the the relative production value of like indie game, indie tabletop games today to, you know, the super professional ones, think about what an indie tabletop board game looked like in the 90s got the logo of chicken surprise is so wonderful that that is the equivalent of the top hat. It's not a battleship blowing up a top hat. I think it's on the same level. I don't maybe I'm just really into chicken surprise. I want to make a t-shirt. I'm also I'm also kind of into the, you know, monopoly dude characters. No one remembers this game. You know, I'm going to do because I've got Amazon merch. I'm gonna make the chicken surprise t-shirt is going to be that color and it's just going to be the chicken surprise logo blown up front and center and that's it. Do it. I'm going to make that shirt on Amazon just so I can buy myself a copy of it. Shit talking is happening. I don't think you understand how quickly I can make a t-shirt. Remember that listener who made that ugly fan out of us that I'm for whatever reason, like really obsessed with? I don't know which ugly fan I've done. The one that's like stylized, random, stimpy looking versions of our faces. Maybe. There's Dave and Joel one too. I made a poll in the Patreon of, Hey, if I made this Geeknice t-shirt, would you buy it? And the resounding answer was what the fuck rim? Everyone is already giving us money. They definitely want the t-shirt. No, they don't want the t-shirt because they they hate the t-shirt. Emily looks at the design. She's like, no, no, but it wasn't there a shirt where we were playing. We were dig dug. Why don't we make that shirt? Oh, I don't remember that one. Find me that one. I'll make that t-shirt. Someone made a fan art of us like a million years. I don't have nine, 10 years ago. We were dig dug. Find it for me and I'll make it because I can I don't think it was high res enough to make it. Well, I could get someone to draw it. I don't think the colors are good enough either. Yeah, but I could get someone to redo it just in the concept. But Scott, I can make 250 t-shirts and just sell them on Amazon. If you want to buy a t-shirt with dig dug, but it's me, I'm making the chicken surprise shirt. And then I'm going to email. Oh, is this Tom Lehman? Who made this game? It was. I think it was Tom Lehman. Lehman brother. No. Yeah, Tom Lehman. So I'll email and be like, yo, I made a chicken surprise shirt. Do you want any money from it? Like, can I, can I be the official distributor of chicken surprise t-shirts as forgiveness instead of permission? Well, I'll make one because I just want to buy it for myself. I have to put it in the marketplace, order it for myself on Amazon. And then I could just take it down. But I want to go to and be like, look, can I make like one t-shirt for each of the franchises in this and be the official t-shirt franchisee of fast food franchise merchandise 50 50 profits. Let's go. Because I really like ice cream scream is also a really good logo. It's just like this minimalist guy yelling in an ice cream cone. But it's also like the graphic design is like really minimal and weird. But at the same time, it's kind of beautiful because you look at this map and you like this born, you're like, what the fuck? But then you realize that it's actually a surprisingly accurate map of the United States in a grid. Sure. And it is. And it actually works out that way. Sure. But I mean, I don't want to really get into the mechanics, because we're kind of just talking about our impressions of these games. But fast food franchise is worth playing. Just get some people who are on your same wavelength. Find a copy of this game somehow. Good luck. Find Chris Reimer at any convention. If you live in Pennsylvania, just track this dude down, knock on his door and be like, yo, rim said I could play fast food franchise with you guys. I think this might be useful game. If you have a family that refuses to play a real game, you couldn't even get into play ticket to ride. But it's but it's but you can get into play Monopoly and that way you can play this and that's the compromises they'll play it and it won't take forever. This is both simpler and more complicated than Monopoly though. It's hard to someone who refuses to play ticket to ride but will play Monopoly could possibly be convinced to play this instead. But they might be scared away by the weird abstractness of it. It would be an improvement. But I think this is a good game to get like high rollers Scott like people like us or like Jared Sorensen or Chris Reimer and do a live stream. Let's play of this game like all in. I think this is mostly a game of luck. And it's gamble on this game and it would be a lot more interesting than gambling on other games that people know. Here's what we do. We play the game and we all put up money and we do a live stream play the game with real money. But the lot the YouTube live stream we do a separate thing where it's basically salty bet and everyone is betting on which one of us is going to win. It's not exciting. Salty bet works because you can get a lot of bets on a lot of fights real quick. If this be one long game like 20 minutes no one wants to bet on that the kind of person who would be fascinated by this game is the kind of person who'd be all in on that. You're getting two people. Anyway seriously if you if you care about game design at all if you're into this stuff if you're into tabletop I'm not saying this is a good game. I am saying you should play it once and just see what's going on in there because I enjoyed my time with this game. You can just read the board game. You can see what's going on. I don't think you can. I think you need to play it once and experience it. You're never going to find a copy so doesn't matter. And I guarantee at Pax Prime you're going to see me wearing a chicken surprise t-shirt.