GCN News Minute January 26, 2026

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We are one week removed now from the 2026 state of the nation. I hope everybody got to tune in live or listen to the recording or watch the video afterwards. A lot of information there I'm not going to go over all of it but the big things you need to know about are the 2026 live tour. Glass Cannon Live for 2026 will now be Call of Cthulhu Live. The Glass Cannon Network presents Call of Cthulhu Live. We are going to be touring the entire country with standalone scenarios that take place in the modern era. You don't have to watch one to enjoy the next. They're all standalone one shots but there might be some loose threads that connect along the way like the characters. We're going to have a different cast for every single show drawing from the wealth of personalities that we have across the entire Glass Cannon Network. Glass are on sale right now for the first seven stops. We're going to be in LA on March 23rd. LA again the next night on March 24th those are both a dynasty typewriter and both of those shows have live stream tickets available. We won't be streaming the audio to Discord for those shows. You have to buy tickets to the live stream if you want to catch it live and you can't be there in person. Then two nights later March 26th we're going to be in Portland Oregon at the Aladdin Theater, April 15th, Chicago Illinois at City Winery. The next night St. Louis Missouri City Winery in St. Louis and then we're in Dallas on May 13th at the Echo Lounge in Music Hall, St. Paul Minnesota the next night on May 14th back at the Amsterdam bar in Hall and then we're in Indianapolis for Gen Con two nights at the Athenaeum, the 30th and the 31st for more Call of Guthrie Loo live. All the tickets for all those shows are available right now at Glass Cannon Network dot com slash tour. We're releasing tickets for New Orleans at Lanna Madison and the two filly shows to close out the year very soon. Just want to note on those tickets as we always do we sell all the BIGCP packages on our website and you still need to go buy a general admission ticket from the ticket website. The reason we do that is a lot of these ticket websites if you try to buy a package from them they're going to charge you an arm and a leg for fees so we sell those separately. With the exception of the LA show you can buy that entire package that comes with a general admission ticket and the BIGCP if you want from their ticketing website. All the other BIGCP packages you need to buy separately and then buy a general admission ticket as well. We also announced the 2026 retreat is back to Glass Cannon Network retreat and we're coming back to Vegas. This is now going to be an annual event as opposed to doing two we're just going to do one big one and packages are available right now at Glass Cannon Network dot com slash retreat we're offering a badge only package this time around and we offered them before but they were mainly for locals. This is badge only and it's not going to include room and board so you can't have the food and you can't have the drinks although there'll be options to purchase drinks and those packages start at $999. I know that seems like a lot and I know the retreats aren't for everybody but let me tell you if you have the ability to come to these they are life changing experiences I cannot wait to be back for these I just never get to play games in a recreational setting it's so fun and all the personalities that came last year are all invited back and then some. So head to Glass Cannon Network dot com slash retreat there are payment plans available at checkout you can also have things you can add on like an early checkout or a late checkout or this welcome party that we're going to do on Thursday night lots of different customizable options just head to Glass Cannon Network dot com slash retreat and get your package today getting the trunk may have ended but last week they did the getting the trunk twilight specter debrief on discord and we are going to work that out and release that as bonus content this week to subscribers so stay tuned to the schedule and social media to know when that's coming out so much more was said on the state of the nation make sure you listen or watch if you want all the nitty gritty of who's going to be on each show I'm still working out some of these cast I just added somebody new to the second L.A. show that we're going to announce soon so make sure you watch that if you want even more details of all the exciting things we're going to do and I'll go into a little more detail over the next few weeks right here in the GCN news minute speaking of the GCN news minute remember the whole reason this exists is because we've found over the last 10 years of doing this that there's no easy way to disseminate all of the information about what we have going on and sometimes we have a lot going on sometimes you don't have a lot going on and even all those weeks we don't have a lot going on if you don't follow us on Instagram Facebook this that the other you're not getting that information so this exists just to make the basic information of what we have going on a little more accessible to our fans now it has come to my attention a lot of people don't love that there are ads on this well here's the great news about this if you subscribe to the glass cannon network at join the nace.com at any tier you get this every week completely ad free like everything on the GCN subscription service you get this ad free 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inviting the cast and crew that made the show along for the ride we've got writers producers composers directors and we'll of course have some actors on as well including some certain guys that played some certain pretty iconic brothers it was kind of a little bit of a left field choice in the best way possible the note from krypki was he's great we love him but we're looking for like a really intelligent decovny type with 15 seasons to explore it's going to be the road trip of several lifetimes so please join us and subscribe to super natural then and now oh please not that music that music gives me nightmares from my childhood could we get something a little bit lighter lighter music here are you a fan of true crime tv shows and what about unsolved mysteries the show that jump started all of our love of true crime i'm Ellen Marsh and i'm Joey Taranto and we host i think not a true crime comedy podcast covering some of the wildest stories from your favorite true crime campaign tv 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