Jeff Kornberg has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to play board games, and not one of those rules has ever been true. ๐บ THE DRAGON'S TOMB is eight years of completely straight-faced tutorials with entirely invented rules โ and the man making them spent his day job building ๐ฌ CONDร NAST's biggest YouTube series, with over 800 million views on videos he personally produced.
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๐๏ธ IN THIS EPISODE:
๐ A Greyhound bus review so uneventful it killed the opening question
๐๏ธ He gave away TINY TOWNS โ all 375 pieces, one winner per piece, mailed in flat envelopes
๐ฒ ROCK PAPER SCISSORS DELUXE: Beth Sobel art, Chip Theory lore, and a real Rodney Smith how-to-play
๐ค The $2,000 AI sex doll review โ 357,000 views, his biggest video in eight years
๐ช He reviewed a board game table nobody ever sent him. Then the "scam" table turned up.
๐ง He invented a fake game, asked 300+ creators what they'd charge for a good review, and kept every answer
๐ฑ "Hey, this is Mr B" โ the text that flew him to Greenville
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๐ LINKS
๐บ The Dragon's Tomb
โถ https://www.youtube.com/@TheDragonsTomb
๐ The Dragon's Tomb on Patreon
โถ https://www.patreon.com/TheDragonsTomb
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๐ง TOO LONG TO WATCH? THIS IS NOW A PODCAST!
๐ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-board-game-secret-show/id6785378165
๐ข Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033GRnTDINaxqcoJksaCl4
๐ต Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/01414914-23bd-4f4c-a29f-50daa231f364
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โฑ๏ธ CHAPTERS
00:00 - Cold open
00:50 - Who is Jeff Kornberg?
02:35 - Gen Con: Whisperwood, and a suitcase that stayed small
06:58 - What Dragon's Tomb actually is โ fake rules, played straight
08:48 - The Tiny Towns giveaway: 375 winners, one piece each
10:21 - 'You ran a Kickstarter'
12:38 - Rock Paper Scissors Deluxe โ Beth Sobel art, Chip Theory lore
16:27 - Reverse pranking: the companies who never check the channel
18:18 - Do publishers mind? The PAX Unplugged fake-rules event
19:49 - Never breaking โ the deadpan, and four takes a line
20:57 - The $2,000 AI sex doll
23:53 - Did YouTube demonetize it?
26:32 - The tutorial he refunded
31:51 - Kinson Key sweeps the Dice Tower Awards
34:56 - They want the footage โ and they won't pay for it
42:03 - Reviewing a board game table that didn't exist
44:31 - The 'scam' table nobody else got sent
45:45 - The fake game, and 300 creators asked to sell out
51:34 - A $3 campaign for the experience of crowdfunding
56:49 - The day job: Condรฉ Nast, and 800 million views
1:00:57 - Fuse, Google's $2M, and learning what makes people click
1:06:28 - The AI lemonade stand: ChatGPT vs Claude
1:08:14 - 'Hey, this is Mr B' โ the text out of nowhere
1:11:12 - Greenville: D&D, Catan and poker night
1:16:29 - 'I could save you so much time and money.' He didn't care.
1:19:21 - The best celebrity he ever worked with: Weird Al
1:23:10 - The Pandasaurus wrestling match, and the pizza guy
1:25:03 - Filming Jackie Chan
1:27:23 - Thanks, and a PAX Unplugged plan
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