Howdy efromdc,
That is totally possible. We have a pretty good tutorial on working with that function: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/working-with-tribe_get_events/
You could just copy last example and remove the ‘tag’ line. Does that work?
For future reference, our forum software is a bit strange in that “bumping” topics can have the opposite effect. We basically have two different counters on the backend, one which shows the last time a topic received a respond, and another show when the last staff response was if there is one. By default they are sorted by the last comment, so we actually manually search for topics that have been bumped. It is a bit of a pain, and means that sometimes they get answered second purely by accident.
Hopefully this response was timely enough. We do strive for a 24hour response time, which means topics from Monday morning like yours might get answered Tue morning..
Let me know if that info helped you with tribe_get_events. Cheers!
– Brook