Episode 107: Who's your Commander? Meet Gregory Sablan

What this episode covers

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome back to the Goblin Lore Podcast! Today Hobbes sat down with one of the newest members of the Commander Advisory Group (CAG) to discuss this new role. This is Gregory Sablan [https://twitter.com/GregorySablan] who is Active Duty Military. We discuss everything from the representation of the military in Magic, to his new role, to the altering of Magic Cards (check out the site he runs on FB [https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=sablan%20mtg%20alters]). We are excited to start this discussion about service members (and veterans) who play magic and how that voice is being heard by the CAG and RC!     Again we would like to state that Black Lives Matter [https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/] (with a link to where you can offer support both monetary and not).   We also are proud to have partnered with Grinding Coffee Co [https://twitter.com/grindincoffeeco] a black, LGBT+ affiliated and owned, coffee business that is aimed at providing coffee to gamers. You can read more about their mission here [https://grindingcoffee.co/pages/about-us]. You can use our partner code [https://grindingcoffee.co/?ref=GOBLINLOREPODCA] for discounted coffee! ____________________________________________ As promised, we plan to keep these Mental Health Links available moving forward too. For general Mental Health the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) [https://nami.org/Home] has great resources for people struggling with mental health concerns as well as their families. We also want to draw attention to this article [https://www.nami.org/blogs/nami-blog/october-2017/9-ways-to-fight-mental-health-stigma] on stigma from NAMI's site. If you're thinking about suicide or just need someone to talk to right now, you can get support from any of the resources below. * National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:  [https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/]1-800-273-TALK (8255) * Veteran's can Press 1 at anytime to be taken to the Veteran's Line * Crisis Text Line:  [https://www.crisistextline.org/]Text HOME to 741-741 * International suicide hotlines [http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html]: A comprehensive resource list for people outside the US. * IMAlive [https://www.imalive.org/]: Click Chat Now to access a live online network of volunteers through instant messaging. * TrevorLifeline, TrevorChat, and TrevorText (LGBTQ+ crisis support) [https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help-now/]: 1-866-488-7386, or text "Trevor" to 1-202-304-1200 * Trans Lifeline [https://www.translifeline.org/] (US): (877) 565-8860 ____________________________________________ You can find the hosts on Twitter: Hobbes Q. at @HobbesQ [https://twitter.com/HobbesQ], and Alex Newman at @Mel_Chronicler [https://twitter.com/Mel_Chronicler]. Send questions, comments, thoughts, hopes, and dreams to @GoblinLorePod [https://twitter.com/GoblinLorePod] on Twitter or [email protected]. Opening and closing music by Wintergatan (@wintergatan [https://twitter.com/wintergatan]). Logo art by Steven Raffael (@SteveRaffle [https://twitter.com/SteveRaffle]). Goblin Lore is proud to be presented by Hipsters of the Coast, and a part of their growing Vorthos content – as well as Magic content of all kinds. Check them out at hipstersofthecoast.com [https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/].