Sean Merwin

Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Mastering Dungeons, your favorite tabletop role playing game, game design, tabletop podcast and stuff and explosions and fireworks and Teos Abadieh and Sean Merwin. Hey, Teos, what's going on?

Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Mastering Dungeons, your favorite tabletop role playing game, game design, tabletop podcast and stuff and explosions and fireworks and Teos Abadieh and Sean Merwin. Hey, Teos, what's going on?

So, I mean, we're only talking like a few hours difference, right? Yeah.

So, I mean, we're only talking like a few hours difference, right? Yeah.

Okay, so it's not far at all. Wow, that's amazing. I'm staring out at... I don't know what layer of hell is the cold, frozen one, but that's where I'm at right now. I live right on the shores of Lake Erie, and yesterday and the day before, people were walking out onto the lake, and I'm thinking they're gonna fall through, there's no doubt. Little Stygian action. Yes, yes.

Okay, so it's not far at all. Wow, that's amazing. I'm staring out at... I don't know what layer of hell is the cold, frozen one, but that's where I'm at right now. I live right on the shores of Lake Erie, and yesterday and the day before, people were walking out onto the lake, and I'm thinking they're gonna fall through, there's no doubt. Little Stygian action. Yes, yes.

It's frozen as far out as I can see because they walked out that far. And so, you know, we've got that going for us. And we've also got a lot going for us in terms of our listeners. In fact, we have so much going on in terms of our listeners that we are going to take today in our main segment to go through our listener corner because we are about 20

It's frozen as far out as I can see because they walked out that far. And so, you know, we've got that going for us. And we've also got a lot going for us in terms of our listeners. In fact, we have so much going on in terms of our listeners that we are going to take today in our main segment to go through our listener corner because we are about 20

12 messages behind and so we thought we'd uh we thought we'd take some time to catch up a lot to talk about a lot to get down to so uh that means we won't do our listener corner to start we will jump directly into news this week and oh do we have some news this week We are going to start with one of your favorite segments out there, I know, the Hasbro quarter four earnings reports. Woo.

12 messages behind and so we thought we'd uh we thought we'd take some time to catch up a lot to talk about a lot to get down to so uh that means we won't do our listener corner to start we will jump directly into news this week and oh do we have some news this week We are going to start with one of your favorite segments out there, I know, the Hasbro quarter four earnings reports. Woo.

Tell us what's in store, what was in store for Hasbro in quarter four.

Tell us what's in store, what was in store for Hasbro in quarter four.

All of the economic bad news, all of the uncertainty in the world that has come recently, let's say, we do see some decreases. So it's not that we can say, boy, I bet they wish. But I'm also betting that over a billion is probably something that they're happy with. Yeah.

All of the economic bad news, all of the uncertainty in the world that has come recently, let's say, we do see some decreases. So it's not that we can say, boy, I bet they wish. But I'm also betting that over a billion is probably something that they're happy with. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And the only thing I would say is. If if it was better.

Yeah. Yeah. And the only thing I would say is. If if it was better.

why didn't they toot their horn there that would have been a victory right that would have been telling the shareholders this is a smaller segment of our total revenue our total financial picture but look we took this chance to make these 2024 books and they they're they're starting to earn

why didn't they toot their horn there that would have been a victory right that would have been telling the shareholders this is a smaller segment of our total revenue our total financial picture but look we took this chance to make these 2024 books and they they're they're starting to earn

um now maybe it just wasn't enough maybe maybe the numbers that they were floating internally were oh we are going to probably make this and they didn't reach that but they still reach something so it's it's a good question it's a good question i mean you know if you think about like magic the gathering i don't know how many sets they have in a year i saw a list at one point quickly on a slide but it's a bunch

um now maybe it just wasn't enough maybe maybe the numbers that they were floating internally were oh we are going to probably make this and they didn't reach that but they still reach something so it's it's a good question it's a good question i mean you know if you think about like magic the gathering i don't know how many sets they have in a year i saw a list at one point quickly on a slide but it's a bunch