Kim Roberts We owned the store together.

I mean, mostly the vaccines, the ordering, checking stuff and making sure the books balanced, stuff like that.

I'm Pat Roberts.

I mean, I help w and checking in, but a lot of what I do is investigating games, paints, the miniatures, all the stuff I love anyway.

And so it's not the hard part.

But games and hobbies.

It's a commu We have a lot of amazing customers who come in.

They play games, they've met people that they would not have met under other circumstance table games.

It's a chanc games, miniatures, games, just all kinds of st We always had a vision that it wouldn't jus a store.

Anyb You don't need to come here to, you know, just It's all about not being just a place to buy things, but a place to come and and develop friendship, base and talents that you might not even have ever thought you had, you know, an Place to belong.

A place A community.

He's been wanting to ope store for But when he first started, all the and he's like, you only work part time.

And I'm like, No, that's not g And I have little kids.

So I was lik Two of them actually work here.

One of them will be here thi One of them runs miniatures games on weekends, and then our olde The pictures of us when we first started.

It's funny.

Yeah, No w, not much in the aisles.

But we didn't have all these shelves.

Yeah, When we first opened we had two lit and they were short shelves an the games were front, front facing.

So and we didn And now we're constantly at a room.

So we just keep getting taller shelves.

What we found is people really want and crave, you know, they're tired of just being on the phone.

Everybody wants to have somebody that they connect with, you know, and actually have real relationships that are, you know, meaningful and, you know, your friendships.

If you're your face to face, you get the nuance.

You get, you know, all of the things that, y make you actually connect.

It's my brother's shop.

And I was really excited when he was op because it gave me a store to come that it's important for the comm It gives a lot of people a way to connect w that they may be uncomfortable doing.

So in other settings.

But when you can play over a board game it makes it it gives you a common bond.

I think a business or a an establishment like this is really important for communities and individuals be it's a place to build community and fellowship.

Everybody feels at home.

There really is something to offer for People have people that are kind of non-gamers or new to gamers and also people that are really more established gamers more heavily into it.

One of the things that I love about it is, is the welcome this to It's a safe place for anybody to come and play.

One of the things I love about this store is every I think that's really important.

And then some of the d like the breast cancer awar they do in October, the auction that they do in November.

Every October with the whole month to the patients themselves for co-pays And our customers actually make the products that we raffle off.

We've do Another one we did was Dungeons which is roleplaying games wh or have a lot of animals in the role play and that all went to local animal shelters.

We thought we can make a difference.

You know, the amount of money we earn isn't going to cure cancer at all.

But if we ca I mean, every family is hurt by it.

So if we can help, then, you know, everybody can see that you're doing something that matters.

You don't have to ever just give up.

You can always be a positi You know, it's an experience.

It's not just It's a it's a it's part of our you of bringing up the children, etc., or my friends or and none of the games are just a thing.

You know, the games are an experience that becomes I can remember all the times that I pulled it and we had a good time together, you know?

I mean, what we need in this world i small, interconnected to businesses.

I mean, the part of the is we're getting nothing but big box stores that don't care about you.

They're certainly not going to kno and they really don't Th ey just want you to buy thi And you know, that's not us.

Pat and Kim are really great about supporting the people that do stuff at their store.

So when I run Bolt Action or Agent S some of the other things I do, I know I have support from the store Ma kes all the difference in the world.

All the difference.

You can play lik in your basement, but you're not going You're running to here and grow and grow the And that's the best thing about stores and especially the brick and mortar s is the community gets to grow and we will rebuil If you haven't been to a game store in like it's a different world now.

Yeah, everybody plays games now.

It's not just old, stinky, We are in peculiar Missouri right off of I 49.

Next appeal, your sonic perfect location.

Just jump right off the highway, grab a snack and