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Culture Capital is a trading card game and performance project about the Canadian performing arts economy, including dance, theater, live art and sometimes opera. We go to specific regions of Canada and create region specific versions of the game. And for each regional version, we combine public data about which companies and artists are receiving money from the government to make their art, with perspectives from artists in that region about how art is being, the value of art is being produced and determined within their regional context. Tonight's game pits two versions of the game against each other, the Vancouver version and the Toronto version. So this particular project was started when the arts economy wasn't working particularly well for some of its members. And since we are also wondering what the return to normal might look like, we're here to remind you. If you want to learn more about the game and the Culture Capital project, go to culturecapital.cards. There you can also request a deck of your own. We are still building versions of the game across Canada, so keep in contact, reach out if you want to be interviewed for your original version and look out for tournaments in your area post vaccine. But that's not why you're here. You want to know who we're going to e-transfer $500 Canadian, a sweet art money to. So let's begin. Welcome to Culture Capital, the trading card game. A game where the line between culture and capital has disappeared. Today's match is presented in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons. Funding for the cash prize has been generously provided by Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council. Tonight's match, Danny Feco versus Luc Rees. British Columbia versus Ontario. Players, please contribute grant funding to the government pool and shuffle your decks in preparation for the match. Danny and Luc, do you have any words you'd like to exchange before the match? I mean, West Coast, West Coast. Good game. Oh, yeah, that's a good game. No, no, it's gonna be fun. Each player begins with 20 communities. This will be a match to zero and the winner will receive $500 a sweet art money to our spectators. Place your bets now and feel free to cheer and heckle on your platform of choice. The match is about to begin. Break a leg. Have a good show. Match start. Everybody ready? We are going to begin by deciding who is going to begin. So as is tradition for culture capital, person who goes first is the person who pays the most taxes in real life. I've been made aware that neither of you have collected SERB from the Canadian government. Lucky you all. And, or I don't know actually if that's luck. Yeah, I don't know. You had employment. So can both of you tell me which of you paid the most taxes this past? Did you look it up? Sorry? Did you look it up? I did look it up. Yeah, I got my number. I've paid $3,300 in taxes. Oh, you paid more taxes than I did. Yeah, I paid a lot. Yeah, well done, sir. Which means that Luke Reese will be beginning tonight's game. So at this point, both of you are to draw seven cards from your deck into your hand. And please do so now. And if you do not have a company, you may use the Mulligan rule, whereby you will put your entire deck back into your, or entire hand back into your deck, shuffle and draw seven more cards. If you do have a company, you cannot use this rule and you must play with what you have. Would you like to use the Mulligan rule? No, I'm good. Cool. Then it is your concept phase and you can play companies and only companies at this stage. Okay, so concept phase here. I've got company near and dear to my heart, factory theater. Right off the bat. What's up factory. They specialize in Canadian political and their grand potential of five. So there we go. And they have a show on right now with Natasha Mooma called acts of faith. They believe it's a David Yee show. They opened. Oh, they opened a week and a bit ago, I think they opened on the 19th. I haven't checked it out yet. This is actually a reminder for me to do that. Is that the only company that you have? That is the only company coming out right now. Yeah. Cool. So which means that you're now into your very first application phase. Time to roll for a grant. So what does factory need to get in order to get a grant? At least a five from one to five. One, two, three, four, five. Come on factory. Give me that sweet, sweet grant money. Three. Okay, sweet. Factory gets a grant. Well done over there. You need to play a project. Do you have a project that you can play on the table? I do. What project is factory going to start? Factory is going to produce war, conflict and family. A new show by Hannah Moskovich. It's dramatic and diaspora. Have a look there. It's worth four when it's up and running two in development. Three when it's closed. So it needs two grants, which means right now it's in development. So war conflict and family right now getting some work done at factory. Matt McGeige is probably going to town on it. Yeah, lots left for Matt McGeige who just welcomed in a second child. I feel like this year as well. So congrats to them and good health to the family. Matt, so what that means right now is that you've got your project in development. You cannot play anything more and you're going to move into your first strategic planning phase where you can play your gray cards and you also always have available to you your instant orange cards. Right. I'm losing you a bit there, Milton. So I had accidentally mixed up the... Oh, there Milton is. He caught up. I was just saying I'm owning up to the fact that I had mixed up your arms. So I switched that around and we're all good together. Oh, you mixed our arms up. Yeah, that's what it was. So exactly what we were talking about before, which was funny. I know those like flip books when you're little. I'm watching it here and it's like as it's dragging across. Anyways, we're in strategic planning right off. Okay, and I'm not going to do anything just yet. I feel like Factory just wants to get this show up right now. We're not going to do a lot of strategic planning. We want to really see how this spares with the audience first. No traps, no nothing. Which means that, Danny, it is your turn for your first concept phase and because it's your first turn, you can discard cards that are in your hand first and then pick up from the deck. You might also want to, I don't know how good Luke's eyesight is, but sometimes your cards are tilting a little bit towards... Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, it's good but not that good. No, I can't even see them in front of me. Okay, well, I'm going to discard a card up until my... I graveyard up there, I'm going to pick one more up. Aha, okay, so that's seven. So I do have a company. I've got Theater Replacements. A little theater company. They're multicultural and experimental. They need four. That's the only company I have. So I'm going to roll to see if they get any grants. They also just opened a show. They did a show last week. They did Betahilly's Little Volcano. Team, roll to four. NBD gets a grant. So, you know what? And I'm going to do a show to play that only needs one grant. So I'm going to play that immediately. This is Project Muhammad. A futuristic passion play about the hidden spaceship under Jerusalem meant to bring us to the promised land somewhere else in the universe. I can has and want it right now. How much is it worth when it's open? It's worth a hefty two points and none of the keywords line up. But you know what? Here we are. We're going to go for it. So we are now going to be in our first production phase competition. Here we go. We're going to be playing Project Muhammad and War... Was it War Family and Conflict? War Conflict and Family. It's always some mixture of those three themes. For that particular artist. So what is going to happen right now is, Danny, you get to lead this competition by playing any yellow strategy cards that raise the value of your show or subtract the value of Luke's. Yeah, so I'm just going to go ahead and play this instant strategy card, which is Nice Privates, which takes my points up by one to a three. Starting off slow here. So I'm just going to... My three is going to go against your two. What does it do, sorry? It's a... It targets projects increases in GP by one level. No wrong. You probably don't want to play that right now because... I can't. Ignore wrong card. So my two... I don't have anything else to up this with. So which means that you have a two and Luke, you have a what? I have a two. Which means that it's two versus two, which means we're going to defer over to Luke and Luke gets to respond. Do you have any strategies that you want to play because it looks like Danny has possibly made a blunder? If that is the case, then yeah, I'm definitely going to play something. She could have been bluffing though. She could have been bluffing, which would be hella tactics. I'm going to say that maybe she's not bluffing, but hopefully I don't eat those words. I mean, she's had a bit of this already. I'm going to play Convenience. Turns out the CBC goes to live performance. They're going to pick up our show and put it on TV. We invited Amanda Parris out to the workshop since we're in development. And it's a it's a plus 10. Oh man. Oh geez. This is intense. Okay. So you've got a 12 and Danny, you've got a two. That's a 10 point difference right out at the beginning here. Do you have anything, Danny? Yeah, I do. Yeah. The thing is with the CBC, they don't love an all white cast. So that's going to be minus six for you. So our current score is two for Danny and six for Luke. Luke, you get a chance to respond. How, even though you've got an all white cast in your war family and conflict CBC still wants to produce us, but people won't watch it. That's not a surprise. That's not a surprise. I won't watch it, but they'll still produce it. Wait, does the CBC survive on white people? Is that what you're saying? I mean, when I, yeah, yeah, I was going to go somewhere, but I'm not going to go there just yet. We just, I don't know. Too soon. Okay. I know. So we'll get, we'll start talking more about who took. This is who. You got plenty of time. Okay. So it's back to me. And you know what? I'm, I'm, I'm cool with this. I'm going to, I'm going to end it there. So this is a six, a six point difference. And I'm happy with that. That is a four point difference. Oh, sorry. Ford. That's man. 20, 20, 20, 20, 24. Okay. So I'm just going to do some tidying. Yes, please do some tidying and then move into your strategic plan. Okay. So theater replacement has a project limit of two. So I'm just going to tuck that under there to remind me, I'm just going to go back, see you later all white cast. Um, I have no strategy to play. So that's my turn over to you. Luke, you can discard anything that's in your hand and then pick up back to seven. Yeah, I'm just going to go, I'm not going to discard anything, but I'm going to pick up three cards to get me back to seven in my hand. Okay. Right. Let's, no more companies to come out here, but we're going to roll for a grant. Oh, I don't think we are though. What's happening? Cause we've got this instant strategy card that your target company factory cannot receive grants for a round. Why is that? Um, you paid someone else to write your job, your grant, and they did a terrible job. So sorry, but I shouldn't have cheaped out. I know you're gonna get out. I'd like to, I'll take it seriously cause you just signed up for the fight. I'm gonna make it real quick because you don't sign up for real money. Get in jant or write it. You know, hard lessons. We learned Danny that card lasts for one round? Is that correct? Yes. Yeah. We'll remember it. So, I've got to go factory factor. Can't roll this turn. Uh, So now I'm going to move into my strategic planning phase where I'm just going to call up Hannah and say, hey, we're going to have to wait another season to actually put up this show. We're just going to continue to be in development. Yeah, yeah, that's what's happening right now. Hey, you know that show is going to happen? We're just going to be in development. Let's go ahead and I'm not going to trap right here. Should I put it here? That's where you should put it. There it goes. There it is. And nothing else you want to do? First, I want to remember what I just put down. Okay, cool. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Wicked. Great. Back to Vancouver. Over here. Okay. So I'm going to get rid of one card. I've got two in my hands. I'm picking up another five. Two, three, four. Five. All right. You did fraud? No. Oh, sorry. I was looking at my own hand and I thought it was yours. It was Milton. It was not just me. Milton did that. I picked up this other sweet company called Badri Opera. Oh, cool. Disciplinary. Their keywords are experimental and political. I need to roll a three to get them any sweet, sweet money. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and roll for Badri Opera. I'll need a three. I'll need a three. You get it. Do you have a replacement? I need a four. I'm going to go for them. Guys, I got a two. Okay. So the roll game is strong. So I only have one project, Badri Opera is like writing grants, but they're kind of, you know, they're thinking about things. But the replacement knows for sure that they want to somehow do this maybe Toronto show haircuts by oxygenarians. I don't really know how I got into this deck. That show has been everywhere. It's traveled. It's a new set of octogenarians. I think every time it's every time they can't travel, especially not now. The CBC is probably supporting this one. They've been cutting hair for longer than you've been alive. A performance, a dance, they'll talk your ear off. It's, it needs three grants. It's going to be in development for a little while. And in development, it's out of four. Once it opens, it'll be at an eight. It's experimental and immersive. So there is a keyword match. Just what, what is that? What's the boost? There's like a plus one plus two. What's the plus two? It's a plus two. Okay. So it'll be 10 when it's open. Is that right? And it's, and it's six right now then. Yeah. Yeah. Everything you're saying is correct friends. Okay. So there's nothing else I can do. You got to give that money back for a battery if you're not going to. I do. Yeah. I don't like it. It's not nice saying you buy the money. No. You don't like it. It's the right thing to do. It is the right thing to do. I don't care for anything. I mean, what you could have done is made up a whole bunch of other expenses for a show and. I should have. Spent it anywhere. Got to learn how to pad that budget. I'm going to move into strategic planning. Shall I? Yes, you may. Okay. I'm just going to lay this trap over here. Okay. It's ready. It's ready for you, Luke. Okay. Yeah, I see it. And it's right there. Just for you. That's all I got. Which means we're back to Toronto. Okay. So I have this card and then pick up. I'm going to pick up one, one card. Because I'm at six. So I need to get to seven here. Seems to have cards he wants to hold on to. Interesting. Interesting. I mean, yeah, I'm all right. I don't want to give it. I thought about wearing a mask during this so that I could like have a poker face. Like a poker face kind of thing. Like, you know, people like sunglasses and like the caps. Can we just take a real quick moment to appreciate that the back of the cards match your sweet fraction? You know what? I was thinking about that like 10 seconds earlier. But I didn't want to be the one to say it. I didn't want to be the one to bring it up. No, I got you. I see you. Like literally you're all I'm looking at. Thanks, Danny. No, I see you. It's good. Good. Also, Christopher Ross on Facebook says that if you don't win tomorrow, he's going to make fun of you. Luke. Yeah. Chris is there as a part of the workshop. And I told him about this. I told him about the game and he's going to order a deck too. You may have already placed the order. Oh, he did. It's super fun. Oh, yeah. If you're watching, you can too. You can play too. So I now have seven cards in my hand. It is my turn. There are no companies that I can put down. But I am going to, I know, but I'm going to roll for, for grants here for back. I can now, right? You can. You can. You've got it. You fired the previous grant writer intern. Yeah. And this time I got Aaron Jan. It's a crazy thing how so many young people put into those positions because they're not necessarily as good. I've been, I've like started new jobs and been asked to write their final reports for shows that I wasn't around for. It's very confusing. I got a four. You got four. Yeah, I was like, I just bring it up. Oh, nice. So got my grant here for war conflict and family. That means we open. Open. We open. So we're a four right now. None of the keywords match. And, uh, and Danny haircuts right now is that a, is that a six, right? That's a four and Bellman plus two boost. That's right. Okay. So loop. Hmm. You can lead this competition or you can defer to Danny. Uh, I am going to leave the competition because right now I'm down to, um, Plastic Toronto always got to get in there first. Yeah. I got nothing but love for the West Coast. I was like buying books from tight online yesterday. I missed Toronto so much. Um, okay. So I am going to, I'm just going to, I'm going to even it out right now. Uh, with a plus two here, a random blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a blogger, a random blogger, uh, saw my show and they said it was memorable. And that, that my friends is a quote I go to social media with and I did and, uh, target project is plus two. So now we're, we're six apiece here, we're six apiece. Okay. A random person thinks your shows memorable. Uh, random blogger, not just a random person Patrick, they have an online blog. I feel like everyone gets recognition for it. share their feelings with other people. Danny, you are tied now. If you do not play anything, both of these projects will collapse into oblivion. But you have a trap. You've got other options available to you. What do you want to do? You know what? The thing with being an experimental company is that you use projectors. And that makes your show innovative. So that's a plus two. So I'm now on your haircuts by Octogenarian's show, by the way. It's like, yeah, it's old people. It's not an actual haircut. You just get a haircut projected onto you. It's safer. It's safer. It's it's a COVID haircut. There's no haircut. Exactly. You're screened a haircut. There's a digital strategy grant. We've adapted it. We've digitally adapted it. So, so now it's now you're up to now. I'm up to that's right. Yeah, I'm at eight. You're at eight. Luke's at six. Luke, how do you want to respond? I'm going to respond with a plug for video can. What's video can? Oh, what's that cool sound thing? You watch our archival video documentation of works by other artists in Canada to refine your understanding of your art's aesthetic context. Your newfound understanding has an impact. Video can dots. Hey, target project gets plus two. So then we're talking. Yeah, so video can, I mean, do you want to talk about video can Milton and what's going on or anybody? I don't know. Patrick, how about you? Well, I mean, I guess we should just say that video can.ca is something that anyone who's watching should check out where you can see works by other artists in Canada and learn and sort of gather a broader understanding of what's going on in the community of performing arts landscape. It is run by myself and Milton, as well as a wonderful team of researchers right now where we are studying what can and can't be done with video documentation in Canada. There are a lot of regulations and rules that we are studying in order to kind of make these materials more available to people as an artistic and scientific resource. We just actually had a wonderful conversation with the New York Public Library's Theater on Film and Tape Archive where they taught us a whole bunch of stuff about how they began and what their sort of struggles and achievements have been so yeah, check it out. This is a conversation for later. The Paley Center? Do you know what the Paley Center? No, what's the Paley Center? Oh my gosh, it's this incredible place in New York very like unassuming and it's five floors and they have, it's a TV archive, but you can go in and watch anything starting back like every Olympics from night so I went in and I watched the very first Sesame Street, I watched Super Bowl commercials from 2000, like some Olympic opening and then I think like the last episode of Friends because I was spending my time wisely and something from the Dean Market show. It was so cool, check it out. Well, the Theater on Film and Tape in New York operates the same way and so they collect or they actually produce documentation for all the theaters on Broadway and they have a huge budget to be able to do this and they record 50 to 60. They produce the documentations themselves. They produce the documentations themselves because they have a special agreement with the unions. That's what we need, we need that. Sounds like a sector innovation grant to me friends. It is possibly the next phase of Videocan, but right now Videocan is collecting documentation that is already being shot by artists and to create a depository because we do not have that in Canada and we think that the artistic conversation that even the project that we are currently participating in right now in its own way is trying to sort of build upon that, build that discourse between artists in different areas and Videocan is very much a sister project actually to culture capital. And if you're an artist working in the performing arts, well Milton disappeared, which we should say is if you're an artist performing in the performing arts, you can submit your own video documentation to Videocan. You just need permission from everyone involved. Contribute your work to Videocan. You can find it all. You're struggling with your internet there, bud. Well, I have two computers running. One of them is doing great. The other one's not. All that's to say is check it out in the chat. There's a whole bunch of really great stuff on Videocan, including some really awesome commentaries that we're going to be hosting. It's a lie. It's just really cutting through here. So I'm pretty sure we're still in this here. I can demand against Luke's eight. Yeah, yeah. So we're tied now, eight eight. We're tied. Yeah. So I'm just going to go ahead to my trap. There it is. So slick. It's minus six. It turns out that one of your board members works for Big Oil. It's minus six. So you're down to a two now. He's down to a two. And Danny, you're at a six. You're at an eight. I'm at an eight. So there's a six point difference. Luke, how do you want to respond? We're going to go, we're not done yet. Oh, no. So many ends. Now magazines reviewer loved your show and gave it all the ends they could. You're selling out houses every, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I said that like I was going to say another N and then I didn't. Target project plus six. We're tied again. Back to eight to eight. Danny, how are you going to respond? Luke's show is open and being loved apparently by in Toronto. So many ends. We used the video archival to like refine ourselves. What was the first one? A random blogger likes it. Which I believe someone was asking if it was from Mooney on Theatre, which let's presume it was. Though that's actually not random enough. They're not random enough. They're not random. I can't, I'm out. That's it. That's all I got. Which means we're at a tie, which means unfortunately the people, the people have not chosen, the people have been unable to make an informed decision. And both of these shows are going to close now because people are fickle like this. And which means that your strategies are going to go to the graveyard, your project is going to go to the graveyard. If your company has its project limit, it is also going to go to the graveyard. Deep cut. No communities will be exchanged between either player. See a later theatre replacement. It's been a good run. Okay, so Factory Theatre is exhausted one of its three projects and I've put it underneath here. Yes. And it's the end of your turn, Luke. And just to do planning for you. Sweet. I'm not going to do anything. Okay. Which means Danny, back to you. Oh, I thought that was the right move. I'm going to discard a card and I'm going to pick up. Oh, yeah. I'm going to pick up another five, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Okay. Oh, interesting. Okay. Okay. Okay. I got a new company. I don't know if you guys have heard of them. It's a company called Hong Kong Exile. I have heard. They're pretty cool. They're interdisciplinary. diaspora and tech are their keywords. I got a roll of two for them. So let's see how I go. Battery, I'm going to roll for battery opera first, which is a three. Rolled six. No monies. No monies. They probably hired your old grant writer. It probably did. They're trying to get work elsewhere now. There's left Toronto. They left Toronto. They heard, they heard best coast, west coast, and they got it. Or rather, whoever their employer was was like, don't ever hire this person. That's why our city is here. That's the bleak version. I'm rolling it, trying to get a two for Hong Kong Exile. I got a three, which is kind of like a two, but it's not. That's, I just got like a highly recommended basically. Yeah. So I'm not going to play any shows because I can't. And I'm not going to play and I'm not going to do any strategic planning. It's the end of my turn. Which means that we're going back to you, Luke, for your concept phase. Here we go. I got to pick up three cards. Deep breaths. Count to three. Count to three. You should have seen in the dentist chair earlier. So for those who didn't come on, I was, I had to go to the dentist. I have wisdom teeth coming on. I'm not going to go into it, but I had to sit in the chair and they had to do work on my gums and stuff because there's falling. And I was breathing so heavily. And they had two people that are holding it open and trying to move my tongue out of the way. This is a great visual. I hope people are eating. It's been a minute since I've been to the dentist, clearly. And anyways, I had to pick up three cards. One, two, three. All right. Okay. Man, what was I shuffling? Okay. Here we go. We are going to roll for a grant for factory. And no other companies are going to come hang out with me. Apparently they're all at the bottom of my deck. So factory, I'm relying on you right now. One to a five. What do you need to get? One to a five. I'm feeling alive. Oh, barely gets a five. Oh, yeah, he does. Take your money. So on this, with this grant, what are you going to make, Luke? With this grant, okay, I'm going to play a show. I mean, it doesn't really, it doesn't sound like a factory show, but they, but they are located near King West. And this is based on the bro culture of King West. This is human Jenga inspired by the bro culture of King West. This performance is a dance piece with verbatim text about incredible pull out game. Again, I know Nina won't program this, but maybe, maybe like a board members, like son wrote it. And, and the board was like, you have to produce my son's show. It's in King West. You're near King West. So do it. So they've got a human Jenga is athletic, which is not a keyword for a factory at all. It's worth a six when it's open, three in development, right? Yeah, athletic shows, mostly people are just sitting on stage, not moving. I mean, what, they have, they have some broader theater that I've seen. They have some pretty nice sets, though, that I feel like are hard for actors to navigate sometimes. And I feel like the actors have to be athletic, although the focus of the piece is an athletic. And that is the end of that thought. Great. So you've got a human Jenga on the table. It is in development. It needs a couple more grants. You know, they're clearly diversifying their portfolio. You're into your strategic planning because you can't actually do anything in a production phase. What do you want to do? No, I can't do that. But in strategic planning, I can. Here's a question, though. I can only play one one trap at a time. You can only play one trap at a time. If you want to get rid of that trap, you can, but you have to burn it to replace it. Yeah. Well, I won't do that, but I will. I mean, because the trap in his hand, I know, listen, listen, sometimes I get things away. No, it's good. I don't know what it is. I never played the Ontario. I don't know. And, okay. So I'm going to, I am going to go to communities directly with a gray strategy card. Okay. What are you going to do? It's lack of accessibility. Even though you don't have a show going on right now, just, I guess, your general, the theater, which theater company do you have at Hong Kong exile? Hong Kong exile. Yeah. So they forgot to do outreach to the deaf and hard of hearing community target communities minus two, minus two, which this would be a moment where we could ask a particular individual from Hong Kong exile whether they had forgotten to do that. But he's busy fixing the layout of the street. He's doing some stuff. He's doing some stuff. So what we're going to do is we're going to make sure that Milton brings a score down by two for Danny. And we will go over to Danny, though, and play your concept phase Danny. Five, 14. Thank you. Great. It's so great. Um, wait, does Milton, do you have any response? Are you back yet? No, he's not back yet. He was and I was gone. I'm going to burn two cards. I've got four in my hand. So I'm going to pick up another three. Three. There's three. I did get another company and I got Teatro Le Césium. Oh, wow. Is that a six probability right there? Is that what I think? It's a five. Oh, five. I got five. It's Jean-Pablic and Poetic. So, you know, 13 years of French. Can you hear it? I don't know. I mean, it's better than me. So I can hear that. So I'll roll for Teatro Le Césium first. So I need a five for them. I roll a one. I feel like I wasted that one. But you know, there it is. You're going to need that one later, maybe. I'm going to need that one later. Um, so Hong Kong Exile, I need a two. What'd you get? Oh, you got a two. You're getting grants. I'm getting money. You're companies. You're more importantly, you feed your companies. Battery opera, I need a three. No way. I got a three. I got a three. Okay, so here we go. Let's sign some shows. Oh, goodness gracious. I guess this makes sense. So Teatro Le Césium is going to take this show. I am becoming, I am become Big Daddy, a one-on-one performance on the internet that assembles your data live as you watch the show and use as machine learning until it can perform your digital self. It's like weirdly apropos right now. Yeah. So we're all watching that show right now. It's called like either Facebook, Google or Instagram. Yeah, it's called whatever you guys are using to stream. That's worth a five in development. There's no keyword love there. Hong Kong Exile is going to... Hopefully it's a show that does outreach to the deaf community. Yeah. It's called... No, it's Borscht VR. Borscht VR. So it would, but it's definitely not for the visually impaired. A virtual reality experience where you eat borscht with a stranger, but someone is watching. So a lot going on there. So there is a keyword alignment of tech in development. This is worth two plus three for the tech alignment. And then sort of confusingly, you know, battery operator saw Hong Kong Exile do a show like this one time and was like, we're going to make our own version. They're doing eight the game. Which is, which actually has been performed in factory theater. I was, I know I was there. You want to just send that over here? A motivational keynote speech about a failed business person, the housing market and creative potential. So that's going into development. That's worth three in development. Plus we've got a keyword alignment of experimental, which is a plus two. So that's a five right now. So just to recap, you've got three shows. You've got eight the game. You've got Borscht VR. And the first one you've got is... I am become Big Daddy. I am become Big Daddy. Thank you. Yeah. So they all need more grants. So I can't do anything else. I don't have any strategy to play. So that's my turn. Great. Which means that we're back over to you, Luke, where you are staring down a fairly, you know, well stacked opposition. Yeah. But you look confident. So what are you going to do? You know, he's still... Do I look confident? Yeah, but look at, look, this is, look at the communities you have. But Tim, what communities did I do? Yeah. Things can change. You have a, you have an in development wall. And I have... It's the Rockies. Okay. So I get there. That's the Rockies right there. Yeah. Hopefully, hopefully the workshops aren't Rocky. Oh, I'm so glad I got that one. No, if you do the BAMP. Sorry. I just wanted to... Don't, don't let it die. I just wanted to keep the Rockies. You just couldn't elk yourself. That's it. No one gets extra community points for puns because... You get extra community points. This entire game is built upon Milton and my puns. Okay. So I have five cards in my hand. I'm not discarding any of them. I'm going to pick up two and pray to God that one of them is a company. Maybe even both of them. Maybe even both of them are companies. Yeah. Dream big, Luke. Dream big. Mm-hmm. Uh-oh. Okay. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. One company is joining the party. Dance makers making some dance. They do experimental and abstract works. I've rented out that space so many times coming up as an indie producer. You know, it was a nice size studio space for what the price was. And did many workshops there. And seen many workshops there. This is the one that had the brick wall? Yes. Yes. This is the one with the brick wall at the back. So there's also a particular aesthetic you can get at Dance Makers if you want to have that exposed brick feel. Which I know just like some theater artists in Toronto just love. That old like distillery exposed brick. Yeah. And no blocks. Like they get, you know, they take all of the curtains out. Just take them down. Take the blacks down. All I want to see is oh, that sounds terrible. I regretted it immediately. Get rid of all the blacks. Came out of my mouth and I was like, nope. Can't even tell. No, no, no. I, I, I still have to, you couldn't elke it. I still have to train my, my third retrain. I know, I know. I'm saying that and I'm black. Like it's, this is what you would learn. I remember like literally in theater school, like learning those are the blacks and their hunt. And I was like, okay, this is what I'm learning. Wow. Okay. So anyways, Dance Makers would be great. It would be great to have projects. But you need some money. So let's see. Yeah. Get some money. All right. Just stretch it out. Get ready. Stretch it out here for the roll. This. Okay. Okay. All right. We're going to roll for grants for factory first. Need a, need one to five. Anything one through five here. There we go. And I rolled a six. Fuck. Great. So now we're going to roll for Dance Makers and Dance Makers needs one to four. So I'm probably going to roll five. I believe in you. It's going to be great. A two. I got a two. Yeah, you did. Wow. Rolled the shit out of that die. I have rolled the shit out of that die. Cool. One grant with Dance Makers. And okay here. We're going to play the decisions for real. We're going to play if a genia and the furries. Tell me more. What happens when a fetish for Greek tragedy gets mounted by a fetish for mascots? If a genia and the furries. There it is. It's queer and traditional. I love it. And it's so none of the none of the keywords match up. That's surprising to me. Dance Makers. There are so many keywords. It's really hard to match them. So there were three in development. They're actually they're the same as as Human Jenga. So three in development, six went open. No boosts on that. But they're going to hang out there. They're going to hang out there in development. Which means that you are now in the strategic planning phase. What do you have that you would like to do? Do you want to play anything gray? Anything orange? Switch a trap? I'm going to play nothing at all during this strategic planning phase. And that will be the end of my turn. I feel a little bit better now that I have a couple shows in development here to at least give me something. Give you a sense of purpose, you could say. A sense of purpose. In your artistic practice. Yeah, just factory and dance makers hanging out doing work with exposed brick. All right, Danny. Okay, so I've got three cards on my hand. And what are you what are you going to do? I'm going to hold on to that. I'm going to pick up another four cards. So there's one. Oh, two, four. Okay. Interesting. Okay. Okay. I'm going to roll for some grants here. Okay. Who are you rolling for? I'm going to go. Tetris has the M first. I'm going to need a five. Oh, I got a six. So that's annoying. I'm going to go Hong Kong exile for which I needed two. One or two. One or two. About a four. Four. I'm feeling a little bit about any of this. I'm going to go for battery opera for which I need a three. Nailed it. Oh, you got it. There you go. Got a three. So that means that eight the game is now open. And it must compete with something. It must compete. So it's worth, it's worth a six plus a boost of two. Oh, okay. So it's an eight. If I'm not mistaken, you on your board have a two or three and a three in development. Is that right? No. I just have a three and a three. You a three and a three because war, conflict and family. They fought too much. That's fine. Okay. Okay. So I'm going eight against three. You're either against human Jenga or if Janiah and the furries. And the furries. I would love to see that if Janiah show. I think that would be a real recommend. I have a lot of questions about it, but yeah. Okay. I'm at an eight. I'm up against a three. I'm going to, I'm just going to chill. I'm going to see what Luke does. Okay. Eight, but wait, who are you? If Janiah or? Which one? Which one? Who are you coming at? The bros or the furries. Yeah, right? I don't know like the pullout or the fetish. I don't know what to go against. Let's go against, let's go against the furries. The furries. Okay. Dance makers and the furries. That is an eight to a three. Luke, how are you going to respond? I am going to respond. Oh, my cards are upside down. I'm going to respond. So you're an eight. That's right. Five point difference. It is five point difference, which would bring us even if my math is correct. Yeah, we tie up here. If that's where I want to be right now. I am going to just go crazy right now. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So crazy right now because this also feels like it matches. So I also want to be true to this. An all queer cast for if Janiah and the furries. Plus eight. So I'm at an 11 now and I'm also going to play my trap with that. Which is we're not talking. An important artistic director has cut your company out of their inner circle. Being ostracized prevents you from focusing on your work and it shows. Target project. It's very sad. We're not talking. You're too caught up in it, Danny. Which means that that's a minus six. Is that right? It's a minus six. Yeah, it's a minus six. Danny's down to two. Luke is up to eight. We've got a nine point difference. He's up to 11. I'm at 11. You're at 11. Yes, so there's a nine point difference, right? Yeah, okay, okay, okay. I see you. So I'm going to add some inspiration here. Very good. Which is my show is inspired by performance you saw in Berlin. Oh, no way. Yeah, cool. So that's going to go up plus four. So now I'm at six, six to 11. Yeah, and the thing is not in our space, Luke. Whoa, hold on, hold on, hold on. Slow down, slow down here because Danny, you are on the offense. You can only play one strategy in response. I've revealed my cards. Okay, I can only play one strategy. And you have played a card so you cannot retake that card that you've played back. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Which means that you currently have added six. So you're at an eight and Luke is at an 11. Yeah, I see where this is going. Okay. I don't like it, but I'm okay with it. There might have been another order that you wanted to play those cards in. Luke, unfortunately, well, unfortunately for Danny, it's your turn, Luke. How do you want to respond to the difference of three points? We're going to leave this difference just the way it is. Yeah, that's a smart call, Luke. Which is a three point exchange from Vancouver to Toronto. Which means 20, 20, 27. Oh man, okay. 27 to 11. Battery Opera has a two project limit. So I'm just going to check that inspiration is going away. Grants are going away. I was nervous. I am sad. Yes, that's unfortunate, Danny. That's okay. It's, you know, it's just the way that it crumbles. So you've played a trap now? You've played a trap. I've played a trap. My strategic planning is done. Okay. Which means that Luke, it is your concept phase to discard and pick up. Okay. I have one, two, three, four cards in my hand. We're going to need to pick up three. Here we go. I just, I need... He's sitting there so stressed as though he's not 16 points in the lead. I mean, what do you think about that, Danny? It's not a slaughter, I feel. I am just, I know, I've watched enough of these to know that like things can turn. And so I've not, at no point in my feeling comfortable at all. You're probably actually one of the more, the more literate in having watched so many of these films. And it shows, by the way, he's beating me so badly. Oh my God. It was going to happen. It was going to happen. It was the moment that Luke said, you see my charge cable? It's helping keep my phone in place. That was the moment I knew we had a problem. All right. It probably has enough charge for the rest of it. So I'm going to go ahead and unplug it. It wasn't, it wasn't fully keeping it in place. So I think there's still a, there's still a sweet spot here. I just watched it again on the live feed and it's very funny. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So back to your turn. Whenever we take a break, I'll fix it again. Yeah. I just, I laughed in my foot. It hit the cable. We saw it. The cable was here the whole time. It was a good setup. Dramatically, it's placed that cable in the screen. You know something's going to happen. Is it, it's my turn. I just picked up cards. Okay. It's all true. Those are all true things. Um, so here's what we're going to do. We're going to, we're going to get some, we're going to get some grants that's going here. Okay. Okay. Let's roll. Let's, I feel a bit about this. Okay. Let's get, let's get both factory and the furries up and running here. Hopefully first we're going to go for factory theater. Rolling for factory first. Okay. Great. I got a four. Nice. Well done. There we go. I mean, human Jenga is open. We're all in here. And, uh, so for, for, uh, if a genai and the furries, dance makers here and you go, and I got a two. There we go. We're open. Which means that We're hanging out. Oh. All right. So we've got two shows that are open, which means you're going to go one at a time saying which of your, which of your companies and projects is going to compete with which of Danny's companies and projects first. And then depending on your come of that, you'll play your second one. So who are you going to lead the first round of this competition with Luke? I mean, they're both worth six. We're going to lead with, uh, with furries here. Okay. Okay. And, and Danny, could you please remind me what you've got? I'd love to. Yeah. So I've got Borscht VR, which is a two plus a three. So a five. And I thought I am become big daddy, which is a five. So they're both five right now. Both five. Yeah. Um, let's go at another company's. So Hong Kong exile has a project limit of one and is nothing burned yet. And then it says him has a project limit of three. And this is its first project. Okay. We're going at we're going at Hong Kong first. Yeah. Sounds right. Okay. Okay. Who's coming for me? So it says six. So furries is coming for you. Furries is coming for me. It's a six to a five right now. That's right. And, um, what's what are the, what are the keywords for that project? For the, for Borscht VR experimental and tech. Okay. Um, I'm going to leave it at this for now. Six to five. Danny. Yeah. Five serving six. How are you going to respond? Oh, five serving six. You are on defense. Yeah. Yeah. It's just a little, just a little one. I'm going to go ahead and play this for you. It's the land acknowledgement. It was a blunder. You could not accurately pronounce squamish. So it's a minus four for you. So you're down to a two. Two serving five. Luke, how do you respond? Two serving five. Real quick. What are the, the key words on the other project? One that I'm not attacking. Critique and tech. Okay. So I have two and you have six. Is that what's happening? That's two. I have five. Five. Five, five, five. Two serving five. Three little communities. I mean, it'll just mean we get to play longer, really. I'm going to leave it. Which means that three points are coming from Toronto to Vancouver. The current score is 20, 24. Exactly that. It is still, however, Luke's competition and production phase. So we are moving on with human Jenga. The bros are eager to pull out and they are going to compete against Borscht VR or, what's the other show, Danny? It's I Am Become Big Daddy. Or they can go against either one or I Am Become Big Daddy. They can go against either one, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to go up against Borscht right now. Which means that you have again a six, is that correct? And Danny, you've got a five. So same thing again. Six serving five. You're not going to lead though, Luke? No. Okay, Danny, how are you going to respond? Five serving six. Just going to go gentle. You know, just a little jury duty. Little jury duty. Yeah, so. Is that how you got your notepad? Do you want me to show off my notepad? Well, I just wondered how someone maybe got a notepad. Can't have a council for the arts. Arts, notepad. I don't know. I got it in kind. It's in, they don't, I think get a grant. I just got in kind stationery support. That's nice. Yeah, so nice. Jury duty. You now have arts jury experience. This comes in handy when articulating your current project. That's a plus two. So, so let's just take care of seven. Just seven against six. Six, six serving seven. Luke, how are you going to respond? I'm going to go with train wreck here. No, okay, okay. Your performer got their bike tire stuck in the streetcar tracks. They're in the hospital. I hope they're okay. And you have to hire someone else to stand in. But the show just isn't what it used to be. Target project loses eight. Okay. Which means it's negative one to six. That's cool. Seven point difference. Only the positive integers are going to count. But Danny, what are you going to do? I'm just kind of, I got a digital strategy fund. Oh, damn. So that's plus 10. Which means I'm going to facilitate digital literacy and digital intelligence in this country with my VR board show. The project will benefit from your financial security over the next two years. So I think that takes me up to a nine. A nine to an eight. When's an appropriate time for me to play it? I could technically play a trap now as well, couldn't I? Yes, you may. You can play a trap. App on the same turn. Not in our space. Yeah, there it is. Good combo, good combo, good combo. There it is. So your artistic director just received some sexual assault allegations, which is minus 10. Which means it is a nine to a minus two situation here for you, Luke. What are you going to do? Right back at you. Not in our space. No! Your artistic director received sexual assault allegations. No! That just means that it really is a nation-wide evidence. It's a problem. It's a big problem. It's a big credible hope. It's everywhere. Everyone's pointing, it's like a Spider-Man meme, or both pointing our fingers at the other person. No, it's everywhere. Spider-Man. It was, I have to say, it was a fascinating thing as we've talked to so many, we've talked to hundreds and hundreds of people making this game, and it comes up in absolutely every single region. Like it is a fascinating, the things that, the same shared, sort of the things that are the same in all the regions that we've gone to really do stand out. But you are both currently in the negatives right now. It is negative one for Danny, and negative two for Luke. So if this is the case, then both of these shows are going to die. No points will be exchanged, and communities will, companies will take a hit against their project limits. But Danny, you're still in this, or are you? No, I got nothing else. That means it's it. And everything I said is now going to happen. So you've both lost your projects. Your companies take a hit. If your project, if your companies have exceeded their project limit, that is the end of that company. See you later, Hong Kong XL. In the evening. Whoa. Sorry, buddies. And, and Luke, it is still your turn. And that's right. Moving to strategic planning. Danny, that really could have been, that could have been your time. That would have, that was a real opportunity there to switch it around. Yeah, that, the pain is real. This is the tough, this is the tough thing. Okay, so factory has had two of the three projects, still has one more left in it. Thank you factory theater for being here with me through this entire thing. Okay, so here I am, here I am, and I am going to set a trap for my strategic planning phase. And then that's everything I'm going to do that phase. And I'm going to mute myself and eat a cookie while Danny starts her turn. Enjoy your cookie. I'm sending, I'm burning a card. I've got one in my hand. So I'm picking up six and six. Okay, so I didn't pick up any new companies. But I did pick up a partner, which is the push festival. Pretty powerful, a bit controversial. It's going to go help out battery opera, which now takes, yeah, that takes battery operas rolling or grant power up to a six now. And great. Okay, so I'm going to roll for battery opera first. Okay. Slash push, so I'll need a six. Got a four, finally roll properly. Says the M I'm going to roll for, which I need a five for. And I got a two. Well done. Thank you so much. So what this means is I am become big daddy is still in development because it's going to need three grams. Okay. But I am going to play a project. Battery opera is going to make, battery opera just keeps on seeing other companies do shows and then wants to do them. And it's a theater replacement do sex in Tokyo. Ironically, which I also did in factory. So weird. Yeah, it's true. It's true life. It's just a reflection of which spaces in Toronto people from Vancouver have more of a relationship with. Yeah, that is very true. An exciting so sex in Tokyo is an exciting view into the life and everyday tropes surrounding Japanese culture. This show tells the multilayered story of Tokyo's famous apartments and explodes troops. So that's it needs to grant. So it's still in development. There is no, there are no keywords that match up. So it's at a three right now. Okay. And so nothing's open. So we're not in a competition. We're moving to opening phase. Yeah, strategic planning. So I'm going to play this strategy of intersectionality just like my sports teams. So I get four more target communities. 56, 7, 18. Yeah. For those watching that is referenced to the fact that Danny loves all sports teams or many sports teams. Many, many of the sports teams. And I'm just going to lay this trap right here. Just it's just going to chill out. Wicked. It's ready. And now I'm going to mute and eat a snack while Luke goes. Is that an egg? All right. Luke, it is up to you. Great. I've unmuted. I ate two cookies. I'm happy to report. Get that, get that bud sugar up for a long day. Have some water. And I have four cards in my hand, which means I'm going to pick up three. Here we go. One, sing. Sing. Two, sing. I thought, I thought Milton left. So I find he's still here. He's calling it from the stream. Oh, Milton's okay. Milton's back. All right. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Yo, another theater company is joining the party. What's going on? What's going on? Very happy to welcome Native Earth performing arts to the scene. Of course, Nipah doing some great work here in Toronto as one of the leading Indigenous theater companies. One of the leading ones in Canada and definitely the leading one, if I can say that in Toronto. I mean, I guess that's just, that's my opinion for what I've seen. And I got lots of love for Keith, lots of love for Isaac over there. Sometimes they see Isaac. Well, not sometimes. In the olden days before COVID, I would see Isaac Thomas around the area because he lives in my hood and I would see him jogging. I guess you could still jog now. I guess I'm not spending enough time outside of my apartment to see Isaac jog by. That's what's happening. Native Earth is there. Really so happy, so happy to have them on board. And what's going to happen here? Are you rolling for money or you've got something else up your sleeve? That is the question I am asking myself. And I'm going to roll for money. I'm going to roll for money for all three. Should roll some money out here. All right, so factory theater. Let's go. Okay, got a two. Wicked. There we go. Money for factory. Dance makers. What's up? What's up? I need to get at least a four and I roll a six. All right. Native Earth performing arts dance makers going to take this one up. So going back to NEPA here, I need at least a five and I roll a one. Could have used that last time. That's okay. I'd rather the money go to NEPA right now. Rather than money go to NEPA. Okay, so we got two grants here. Which means I can get some projects out. Doing they thing. Doing they thing. So we're going to put, oh nice. I like this pairing. I do like this pairing. I've had this before when I was playing against I think either, I think maybe my sister. Not that that is relevant information at all for you. This show factory is going to get working on a dog hunt. A gun, a laughing dog, and a bunch of dogs get pulled together in this necessary but troubling violent political satire. Dog hunt. Doug spelt D-O-U-G. And because it's political, factory gets a plus one. So in development, it's worth a four there and it's funny. I remember when the pandemic started and Doug Ford was actively closing things and like sounding like a human being and people were like, what? It was confusing. It was so strange and now it all makes sense again. Hasn't it gone back to the rhetoric? Like that's the Dougie I know what he's talking about, about how like, you know, closing things is ruining lives. And just when I was, when I was, when I was, but like killing people is actually ruining lives in my opinion. And then when we, when we crossed the border back into Ontario from this road trip, I saw the big Ontario open for business sign and I rolled my eyes so far back. It was a good thing I wasn't driving because I would have gone into a car accident. Are masks mandatory over there? In most places. Being enforced at all. You've got another grant on the table, Luke. Oh, yes, I do. Okay. Scratching my head here, but Nipah is going to do head scratcher. Here we go. That's why I was saying scratching my head. It's a show called head scratcher, past sentence on scalpers and scalp collectors in this one-on-one morality play set in the Toronto Self Detention Center. Participatory and trauma. There we go. Needs two grants. So it's in development right now. Worth a three in development. There's no matching topic cards there. And possibly an interesting parent in terms of. It is. The annual incarceration rates in Canada. And the kind of commentary we can spin on that. Head scratcher. So both are in development, which means that we're moving into strategic planning and skipping production phase. You got any strategies to anything you want to lay down for the future? No. Nope. Which means Danny. It's all about the art over there. All about the art, not doing any planning. It's COVID. Like we can't plan for anything anyway. No. And I've got three cards in my hand. So I'm going to pick up four. We're good. Uh-huh. One more. Okay, there it is. I didn't get any companies. That's fine. I did get this instant strategy card that I'm going to play right now. Which is that I got a sugar person. So my target company requires one less grant in order to open any project. And that's going to be Teatra Says Yem. Which means that I am become Big Daddy at 10 is open. That title. Every time you say that title. I know, doesn't get old. And I'm going to roll for battery opera slash push to get another grant. I need a six. I wonder if I'll get it. Got a three. So I did it. So now Sex in Tokyo is also open. So I've got a six and a 10 on the table. And what do you have left? Will you remind me please? Do I have me? No, what's going on? You? I have a four. What does Toronto have? I have a four with Duccon right now in development. And I have a three with head scratcher right now in development. Okay. So I think I am become Big Daddy is going to go to head scratcher. Okay. Ten serving three. Is that right? Ten serving three. Okay. Danny, do you want to lead that? By adding anything to I am become Big Daddy. You're going to respond. You're down by seven. Just deep breath. I'm all about the deep breath. Danny and I were talking earlier. We're both so competitive that it's like really tense. Like I don't smile. Really intense. Laughing. I'm trying to have a good time. But I am terrified. Very scared. Either like I'd have a nap today. I, you know. What a nap? I did. I got a pregame nap. Oh, fuck. When did you get ready? I'm down by seven, Luke. What are you going to do? Okay. I am going to do. Sinking. I'm there's no shot clock in this game. I'm going to do nothing. I'm going to do nothing. Okay. Which means that seven points are going to take a flight from Toronto to. Twenty twenty. Twenty twenty. Twenty eighty. Twenty five. Very good. Like I'd love you and I don't want to hurt you. But that felt really good. I got it. Sorry, Nipah. I'm sorry, Nipah. All right. So yes, it is 17 to 25, but it's actually still Danny's deduction. It is. You've closed I'm Big Daddy and your new show that is open Sex in Tokyo is here to. So I'm going to go up against Doug Hunt, which is out of four, I believe. I'm at a six. So I'm going to go ahead and just add this strategy of professional development. What is it? Which is plus sex. I got funding to learn more about the arts economy. Now you're producing skills are top notch. So it takes me up to a 12. 12 to four. 12 to four. And what are the buzzwords on yours? Multiculture on the company or on the show? On the show, please. Multicultural and diaspora. You don't want to take that out. I mean, we're on defense, Luke. This music reminds me a bit of the show because the pre-show music for Sex in Tokyo was just a recording of a lot of vibrators very loudly in the factory theater for a very long time, which we had to put up very loud because it's hard to record them and hard to hear them. But you know, just so you know, I'm going to play my track. Paper cuts. You couldn't fold all your programs in time for opening night. It looks unprofessional. And if you were traditional, you would have lost eight. But you're not all of the projects losing four minus four. So it doesn't, it doesn't put me on top, but it brings me closer. Now we know why you keep asking for the keywords. Now you know, I kept asking for the keywords every time. So I was just like, can I hold off until there is a traditional project? Which means that Danny, you are at an eight. Luke is at a four serving four. How do you want to respond? So if I decide a quick question, if I decide to do nothing and he does something, can I can I respond or no? If you decide to do nothing right now, it's done. I mean, that's goodbye. We're done. We're done. Which means that for more 2029 go to Vancouver. A professional. Oh, sorry, sorry. And that's that's it for factory two. And that is the end. Oh, it was a good run though. It was a good run. It was a great one. So sex in Tokyo is has gone to bed. And I've got a trap, but I will play a strategy card. What are you going to play strong here? I'm going to play I like who I like, which is a fellow artist points out that you only ever hire your friends. Larger community questions this minus two target 12 11. See, this is when we were when we were flipped like 20 minutes ago. And you're like, don't you feel confident? And I was like, absolutely not. That's called foreshadowing that cable foreshadowing. Everything I'm doing tonight foreshadowing. I do not feel confident right now either. Knock on wood. I don't want to foreshadow. I mean, what's going to happen? Nobody knows. So, Luke, you've lost two points. Yeah, yeah. I was there for that fact. Hiring only your friends. I mean, it's a very contentious. It's a very contentious thing. I think a lot of a lot of your cronyism. Is that what is cronyism? Nepotism, I guess in so many ways, especially for the smaller independent crowd. Like, can we actually feasibly have public open editions for absolutely everything we do and job calls and things like that? Like, I think it's a really definitely larger theater companies. I think might should deserve to have a mandate for that. But who did that affect? I mean, affected one of Luke's companies. So that's the end of Danny's turn and Luke, it's back over to you to dig yourself out of this 18-point deficit. Luke, would a little World Series score update make you feel better? I was going to call for a bathroom break in which You're going to call for a bathroom break? Well, we're halfway through the time it usually takes. Yeah, I feel like we're a long way from the end of this. What are you talking about? No, I've been I've been guzzling this and my bladder is full. So I need to go to me. I mean, I want it to be fair. I wouldn't be able to focus. Yeah, I would love to be able to go have an intermission bathroom break here. And then when I get back, I'll also finally crack open this because that's where I'm at in this competition. If you have a chance, Luke, also some of your friends are concerned about how your dentist appointment went about it on the Facebook chat. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'll talk about that. If I get back, okay, I need to go to the bathroom first. And then we can talk about dentists as we play the game. While they do that, Milton and I, we're going to talk about some technical things and give everyone on the other side of this an insight into the complexities of running this thing. So your computer, Milton, is losing more power than it can charge. Is that correct? It's true. That is correct. I don't even know if I'm frozen right now, but I'm going to go. Oh, now you are. No, I am. Anyway, if this stops, I don't know if someone else in the house is streaming. I'm connected with Ethernet on my streaming computer, which is fine, but there's other computer. In fact, maybe now is a good opportunity to bring out my third computer. I'll be right back. Why don't we just all leave so that people can just watch in empty frames, because that's funny. I'm going to do that too. It's my turn. Yeah, Luke's starting his turn. Are we back? We are back. We are back. Great, Luke with a new costume, a new fresh suit. I think it's time for you to pick up. It is. I have to pick up cards. Decide what to do. Picking up cards as Fred Van Vleet betting on myself. Let's go. Okay. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I'm set now. Remind me what you have down there, Danny. Both of yours, they're closed, right? They're not in development. They're actually closed. They're both closed. Sex in Tokyo when it's closed is four and there's no boosts. And I am becoming Big Daddy when it's closed is six and there's no boosts. All right. Let's get rolling for grants here. We're going to start with dance makers. Three, get a grant so you can see that I'm not lying to good people. Nipah, let's go, let's go, let's go. Get a one. There it is. Get a grant. Okay. Nipah is this show. They're really excited to get in development here. It's the Toronto Purchase. A performance unpacking the legacy of the Mississaugas of the credit 1787 surrendering of the land to the British crown. Indigenous is a key word. We know Nipah matches up that adds plus one. So in development, it is a four plus one puts us out of five in development. And then with dance makers. Oh, this is this is this is my my hand like the way it's been shuffled is very strange to me. And anyways, here comes the bald sopranos. An absurd dinner party in little Italy takes a turn for the worse when the fire chief shows up with guns and a backstory. Dance makers is really diversifying or like maybe wants to consider their mission. They're doing some strange stuff. And they actually need one grant. So they are going to be open. Add it to all again. It's got a phone call again. I have it on I have it on do not disturb. I mean, it's a great headshot. I yeah, my buddy see the ticket. Okay, there we go. How come I still have a phone call and do not dessert? That's that's illegal. Did they phone twice? Isn't that how it works? Yeah, actually they did. It was the same person who phoned the first time. They really want to know how your dental work is. Which means that the bald sopranos is open and it's competing against one of Danny's two closed shows. Now if you target a closed show, it has the ability to reopen. So you're damn right. It does. Which one are you targeting? Is it sex in Tokyo or is it I am become big daddy? Um, no takes the backsies, eh? Yeah, I'm so mad about this. Aaron Jan is watching right now yelling at his computer screen. If he is watching. So what's what's the lowest one? Give me the lowest one. Sex in Tokyo. And that's a When it's if so it's a four right now and if I roll an odd to open it, it'll be a six. Great. So I'm at a two. Two of four right now, but you've been targeted Danny. You can roll to reopen. Roll to reopen. Okay, so I need an odd number. I rolled a three. So it's open. It's at a six. It's at a six. Luke, you are leading a competition now two to six. What do you want to do? As I sit here and sip my beer, I am doing nothing. Okay, Danny, which means a six serving two. You're up by four. You can add, subtract, call it as it is. I mean, I know it's the question of like, do we want to play more? Or do we just want to call it right now? Oh my God. Table talk, table talk. Can you wait? You can finish me right now? Oh my God. I think it might, I can't take the chance. I'm so sorry. What are you at again? I'm at a six. Yo, Danny, I have nothing. I have nothing. Okay, well, just in case, paradox plus six, which is my project has been panned by the critics, but deemed intellectually rich by the arts community. So that takes me up to a 12. Which makes it you 12. He's a two, which means that there is a 10 point difference right now between the two of you. And are you deferring over to Luke now? Yeah, yeah, that's, that's it. That's all I'm going to do. Which means that Luke, it's your turn to respond. You're down by 10 points in this competition. Oh no, Freddy. Do you have anything that you can do? I didn't lie to you. I have nothing. I can't, I can't do anything. I see, I couldn't, I didn't know if it was table talk. Okay. Which means that you have a one and... 10, 9, 30, 7, 30, 4, 30, 2, 30, 9. That decision was a terrible decision. Paradox going away. And it means that that show is closed again, Danny. That game went back to bed. That's the end of DanceMakers, Luke. It is your strategic planning phase. I'm, uh, I'm good. Which means that Danny, you are entering into an offensive phase with two shows closed, able to reopen. Okay, so I just burned a card. I'm going to pick up another five. Okay. Three, four, five. Okay. I got another company. No, Luke, Luke, it's not over. Remember the shot. Remember Kauai's shot. Anything's possible. I remember Kauai's shot. Do you remember when they were tied? They were tied for that moment, Danny. Okay, Patrick, look, do my best to talk here. Okay. Anything's possible. Um, I got the biting school. I love the biting school. They're interdisciplinary. They're visceral and poetic. They need a one. Um, so let's see if I could open anything up. So I need odds to reopen Sex and Tokyo. I rolled a one. So that's open. Oh gosh, the biting school. I need a one to get a grant for them. I got a four, nothing. And I am become Big Daddy. I need to roll an odd to reopen that. And I got a two, so it's not open. So I've only got Sex and Tokyo going. Um, which is a six. Is that am I correct? Which is a six. Yeah. And Luke Luke's got a four or five. I'm a five. Five. This is a head scratcher. Am I right? It's just the Toronto Purchase. Oh, Toronto Purchase. I'm sorry. Toronto Purchase. Toronto Purchase. And if I recall correctly, you've got nothing in your hand. And it doesn't look like you. Cue the red. Cue the red. Cue the red. Cue the red. Damn it. So I'm just going to go six against five. Six against five. Luke, do you have absolutely nothing that you could do to respond? I have absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing that I could do to respond. We just made a joke about how this game was going to last forever and we jinxed it. I know we did. At least Milton's computer is going to be okay. And that is the end. Zero two. That really destroyed me. I'm so excited. The team has been reduced to zero. I was so sorry. Game. This is going to haunt me in my dreams. I'm sorry, man. This is literally the first game I've ever won. Congratulations. I've never won this game before. Cuing our epic music again. I knew it was done when you had a nap. When you told me you had a nap today. I mean. That is so the opposite of my day. I'm deep. I know. I'm sorry. I genuinely feel bad. You won. You won. No, no, no, no, no. You won. I feel bad. Cheers, though. Good game. That was a great game. Congratulations to both of you. Cheers. A well-spoken, well-competed. But Danny, it's you. You are the winner of this game and the champion of the third and final Culture Capital Online match that we are hosting this year. In the spirit of many of Canada's most established art prizes, we've asked you to select a protege who will receive $150 of prize money from this match. Would you be willing to segue us into that part of the show and tell us who it is that you've chosen, why you've chosen them, and then give them a phone call and let them know. Sure. So I wonder if she's going to answer. I'll just take my phone down while we do this, hey? Yeah. Let me just leave this meeting here up here. So I've named Sophie Brissard as my protege. She doesn't know that. Sophie's been working with me at Fascinator for, we just had our three-year anniversary. We both really love using the word meow. But I couldn't do my job without her. She's brilliant. She's an incredible dancer. She's an incredible choreographer. And that is definitely where I hope that this money goes as towards her craft. But she's also just fantastic brain and incredible mind. And I'm blessed that she works with me. So I'm going to call her right now. That's wonderful. Give her a call. Okay. Let's see if she answers. I believe she was in the chat on Facebook at some point. So let's do it. Oh, damn. I'm nervous about her answering. Can you hear it? We can. Should I just leave a message if she doesn't answer it? Yes. Yeah. Okay. If I'm a betting man, she's going to... Hello? Luke, I don't think you're going to win your baseball. Hi, Sophie. This is not my... It's Danny. It's not my night. Do you guys want to say hi to her? Hi, Sophie. Hi, Sophie. Hi, Sophie. Sophie, I just won Culture Capital and I'm naming you my protege, which means you just won some real Canadian arts money. $250. Is that right? That's right. Yeah. So, you know, call me back if you want. But also you're probably hanging out with your adorable cat, Saskia. And I'll talk to you soon. Okay, bye. There we go. That's great. Maybe we'll get interrupted. I'll leave that on just in case. Yeah, just in case. That's the neck. That's another time that you've made a bet and it hasn't gone your way. Oh, I feel good about the baseball game, to be fair. I feel good about that bet. But now that I've said that out loud, they're going to lose. It's too bad. We segueing towards the end of... I mean, we can totally unspin this thing and let it devolve into us just hanging out and talking about all kinds of things related to... This is the earliest one that's finished. Like, this has been the quickest one. It is. It's the shortest. It's the shortest one it's been. Is it? Yep. It's true. The previous ones were over two and a half hours outrageous. The longest games that we've ever had, actually. Guys, I feel like I'm really torn. My dramaturgy, it was like, do I let this go on longer and keep being interesting? But my competitive spirit, I couldn't fight it. It was not a chance I could take. I'm so sorry. All my, like, instant cards at the bottom of my deck, it's fine. I wondered if there was no instance coming out of your deck. And really, I mean, I'm glad, Danny, that you didn't postpone it. I would have called you on it as a kind of reneging, because what this is really about is sort of putting performances that have these kinds of shapes into theatrical or performance spaces. Sorry. It's important that they can end whenever they need to end. That I do. It's so, I, so just a little observation. And maybe I just am so used to the Vancouver deck. No, but I just think it's interesting that the Vancouver keywords, I find that other cities have like so many more keywords, or a wider, I feel like they have a wider range of keywords than the Vancouver deck, but maybe I'm wrong. That's not true. It's only that you have a very particular deck of the Vancouver decks, Danny. Okay, okay, okay. So your deck might be tailored to more specific keywords, but across all four of the starter decks, and I'm glad, now my video is working properly, that, yeah, that there are, there's quite a widespread, we would say Vancouver had NBC more, largely has more keywords than other places. Yeah. Oh, interesting. Okay. The way that companies self-describe often find more, or define themselves more heavily, fall upon identitarian lines than a lot of other regions. For example, in Alberta, where you'll have an abundance of company to identify as dramatic or sort of Canadian, like no one, very few people, one of the Alberta decks, right? I've been training against Alberta. Right. And Alberta has beaten me every time. Alberta is a good deck. Alberta is a good deck. Doesn't Alberta won every time that they've played? They have. They did win the first two. Okay. And what did you learn against Luke? Alberta. Yeah. It's a tough deck to beat. Yeah. It's all the Canadian traditional, it's all the oil money. It's all the oil money. Yeah. Speaking of money, we should just say right now, a little smattering of thank yous overall for this project because we wouldn't have been able to do it without a number of individuals or a number of organizations and institutions. Two of them are the ones who gave us money and the others are people who have given us a little bit of money and also support. And so the first two are the VC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. We have been very, very lucky to receive support from Boca de Lupo for the very initial residency of this project in 2018. The Edmonton Arts Council, especially Grace Law, Azimuth Theatre and the Chinook series in Edmonton where we did our first public in-person tournament when people still did that in February of this past year. High Performance Radio in Laurel Green where we tested some stuff out in Calgary, The Darling Foundry in Montreal, Summerworks in Toronto who we still have a wonderful ongoing relationship with and hopefully there was a future for the Toronto version of the game there one day. And a huge, huge thank you to the real sort of institution we couldn't have done tonight without, which is HowlRound. So thank you. Thank you so much to them. And we should say the reason why there have been so many Alberta decks that the players have been practicing against is because through Chinook series we were able to do the first ever tournament and it's through those tournaments that we actually print all those cards and there were 125 I think decks that were printed. Yeah. And so, and they were all sold or distributed. You had really the last ones that we had to give away or give out. And so if you do, if you are interested in finding a deck or purchasing one, you can certainly add your name to our website of when we can print more in the future. We certainly will, but we need a certain mass of people to do so, which is a little bit hard during COVID times. But again, we are talking to our partners to see if that's possible. Speaking of the future, we currently have no more scheduled matches at the moment, but we did just put in another grant to do some more matches. And redemption matches. And possibly redemption matches. When Survivor brings back the people who are like, honest woman. We could do best two out of three. We'll see how that goes, but we'll certainly let our players know. Many of who are in the chat, so thank you again for being here. I also want to say... It's the chat. I know there's been a lot of chat and lots of support for both of you. Why can't I find it? It's all on Facebook. You'll see it. I just want to say, feel free to contact the Canada Council to share your enthusiasm for the project if you'd like. That's certainly not how the system works, but you know that... If you leave their address, it's on this piece of paper right here. And of course, we would like to give a moment to our two players for tonight, Luke and Danny, to just plug anything you have going on right now. Let us know what you're doing. You're both fantastic people, so let us know what's up. Luke, you go. Yeah, I just... I have to... Wait, there we go. Sorry, I had to mute... I had the two open and I had to mute the other one because I was hearing double. I wanted to see the chat. I'm working on a workshop right now of a solo show with Theater Pass Mariah as a part of their buzz program. Theater Pass Mariah, a company that was not in my deck, not like I would have drawn it if it was. And we're working this week pending tooth things. Yeah, wisdom tooth coming in and I need to get those taken out soon times. But if it all goes well with my teeth, then I'll be streaming a workshop presentation of this piece called Building Relationships with the World, which is kind of an epic title. And that'll be happening Saturday, October 31st, so Halloween 2 p.m. And if you go on Theater Pass Mariah's website and go to Buzz, you'll be able to click on a picture of me that is red and blue and get tickets to watch the workshop. So that's the big thing to me right now. I'm also hosting a poetry's showcase for the International Festival of Authors on Friday night. So the night before my workshop presentation. Lots going on this week. And they're all over Zoom or online platforms, is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, all online. We'll share those in our chat. Yeah, that's great. Thanks, Lou. I can't wait to see them. What's going on for me? I, you know, I work with a variety of artists. So it's more about what's going on with them. And the Chop Theater is doing Pathetic Fallacy at Rumble. They're going to be doing that show, which is an incredible show born out of the wonderfully intricate and dedicated and rigorous mind of Anita Richand. It's a show about the weather and it doesn't ever tour with anybody. So it happens in front of green screen. It's really beautiful. I don't know if there's going to be digital stuff. I think there might be. But I guess what else is going on for me? I, this hasn't really been, this is the first basis of getting formally announced. I am working alongside Michael Yamamoto and Marcus Yusef to help produce the rally at the Push Festival, which is, yeah. The rally is a series of conversations and artist talks and events. Acknowledging what happened. Thinking about how to rebuild for the future and thinking about where we are right now. And so there'll be some, yeah, it'll mainly be happening in January, but we're really starting our work with it now. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. And I teach. I teach online. I get to teach tomorrow night. Milton spoke to my class last week. So I get to teach creative entrepreneurship, which is super fun. That's what's going on for me. That's great. Well, thank you to both of you. I think as a sort of final wrap up, we should let everyone know who's still watching this. That again, you can follow the culturecapital.cards project on Instagram, Facebook, and nowhere else. Because we don't use our forms of social media at culturecapital.cards. I think this is good night. And then we'll leave the stream running for another five minutes or so, or a million years or something else. One last thank you also to Ipra Lung, who has been running our social media and being very active in the chat. Thank you to everyone who's turned out for all the matches, to all the people who have wonderfully shared words of encouragement, worryment, and whatever other emotions that came up. Yeah, Eric just said wolf at one point. I think that's when I lost. W-O-O-F, just wolf. Thanks, Jan. These conversations will continue formally, informally, but thank you so much for joining in with it tonight. And we look forward to doing this all again sometime soon. But other than that, Danny, Luke, thank you so much for being fantastic. Thank you for coming in and playing with us. And on that, we'll be active in the chat for a little bit more, but otherwise everyone have a great night and we'll see you soon. Thanks, guys. Thanks for inviting us. Thanks for playing, Luke. Thank you. Thank you. It was so fun. Good night, everyone.