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Monday Mini: Post Connnnnnn! · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and alcome to Stephane.
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Speaker 1: Never told you protection of iHeart Radio, And today we
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Speaker 1: have a bit of a lighter one for you because
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Speaker 1: we have a lot of mismatched vacations happening, actually celebrations happening,
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Speaker 1: vacations happening, all the good things, all other good things.
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Speaker 1: So you just went to Charleston, Samantha, how was that?
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Speaker 1: It was lovely. I got to explore some of the
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Speaker 1: areas that I've never gone I have, uh, my partner's
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Speaker 1: family lives that way. So we got to celebrate people's
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Speaker 1: birthday because apparently everybody's born as you said, and like August, September, October,
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Speaker 1: and all of our birthdays are around that time. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was nice. We got to celebrate together, hang out
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Speaker 1: with family and have a relaxing time. And you just
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Speaker 1: got to do a dragon Con, which is a favor
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Speaker 1: of yours. How is that? Yes, it was so fun.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, for this Monday, many we thought we'd do
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Speaker 1: a revisit because we had a happy hour about my
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Speaker 1: nerves of of going to dragon Con this year. So
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Speaker 1: this this is like a just short kind of recamp
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Speaker 1: of my experience. So for people who don't know Dragon Con.
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Speaker 1: I've talked about it a lot, but it is a
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Speaker 1: big nerd convention that started in the eighties, UM, and
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Speaker 1: it's like a real celebration of nerd um and fandom,
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Speaker 1: huge costume like watching that's my favorite part, big parade.
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Speaker 1: At its peak, it was getting like a hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty thousand people a year a year, I mean a year, yes,
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Speaker 1: because it only happens once a year. But now they
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Speaker 1: haved it because of covid um. But there's still a
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Speaker 1: lot of people of sixty tho people, So I was
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Speaker 1: very nervous about that. Uh if my voice sounds a
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Speaker 1: little off, I have taken three covide us they've all
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Speaker 1: come back negative. But it was more talking than I've
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Speaker 1: done it all all even like that make my voice
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Speaker 1: get shot because also it's loud and so that we
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Speaker 1: have to scream over people, and then trying to talk
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Speaker 1: to people is almost impossible, especially in crowds if you're
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Speaker 1: drinking and having a late night. It's a whole other
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Speaker 1: strains as well. But yeah, I know that this is
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Speaker 1: your cup of tea. In every way, this is my
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Speaker 1: personal nightmare UM and I have gone once and I
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Speaker 1: did enjoy it. I just wish I had one of
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Speaker 1: those rooms off the balcony where I could just stare
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Speaker 1: at people and drink and be in my own space.
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Speaker 1: So being there without being there, that's my favorite like
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Speaker 1: style of hanging out. Yes, I am an introvert. Yeah, now, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: it is a lot. It is overwhelming, and you and
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Speaker 1: I have talked a lot about how we've pretty much
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Speaker 1: been I've seen the term recently Covid hermits, so for us,
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Speaker 1: it's been kind of awkward and shake grounds when it
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Speaker 1: comes to like re entering and talking to people. I
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Speaker 1: feel so awkward in conversations now, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: if maybe I always did, but I've just gotten used
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Speaker 1: to it or i'd like found ways to fake it.
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Speaker 1: But now I feel like, oh my gosh, you're being
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Speaker 1: so awkward to ad. What do I do when? Then
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Speaker 1: I continue to be awkward. But that's the best part
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Speaker 1: of Dragon con either a you get to act a
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Speaker 1: character or be everybody's awkward, and it's an amazing conversation
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Speaker 1: where everyone is a little awkward, acknowledge it, enjoy it,
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Speaker 1: and move on. Hopefully. That's actually I wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: about that because I mentioned before that in some ways
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Speaker 1: when I'm in cosplay, when I'm in costume, it's easier
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Speaker 1: for me to talk to people because I can kind
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Speaker 1: of pretend like, oh, I'm this person, and for me,
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Speaker 1: it was much easier than I usually have experienced talking
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Speaker 1: to people. Um, when I was in costume, and a
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Speaker 1: part of that was did go as Disco Luke Skywalker. Oh,
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Speaker 1: before we go further, please get a descriptor of this outfit. Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: I cannot recommend enough. Look it up. I think I
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Speaker 1: started the cult of Disco Luke Skywalker because so many people,
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Speaker 1: Like I was telling Samanthe, I would say at least
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Speaker 1: fifty to seventy people stopped me to take pictures of
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Speaker 1: all ages. It was great, Like kids came up to
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Speaker 1: me and um, I would think only four knew what
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Speaker 1: the costume actually was. And one guy got kind of
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Speaker 1: mad at me because I was like, do you know
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Speaker 1: what this is? And he was like, oh, I knew
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Speaker 1: what this. I saw this before you were born. I
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Speaker 1: was like, okay, but well, so Disco Luke Skywalker. Look
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Speaker 1: it up. But it is an obscure German TV talk
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Speaker 1: show reference where poor Mark Cambell didn't know the internet
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Speaker 1: was going to exist. It was the night, I think,
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Speaker 1: and he wore like the most gold disco outfit. He
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Speaker 1: called it like ab a reject outfit and gold boots,
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Speaker 1: gold gloves, gold makeup, and a gold helmet with this
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Speaker 1: like sun bejeweled gold son on the front. And then
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Speaker 1: these beautiful striking gold fans on either side, which is
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Speaker 1: not I thought they were wings. They might be supposed
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Speaker 1: to be wings. They act as fans, and let me
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Speaker 1: tell you, moving around in them was a little jercky.
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Speaker 1: I got a wide berth though, because people had to
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Speaker 1: give me some space. That's one way to get it. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: This costume brought a lot of joy two people, including me,
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Speaker 1: so I think it made it easier to talk to people.
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Speaker 1: I made a lot of new friends, including this guy
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Speaker 1: dressed as the Corinthian from Sandman, who I had a
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Speaker 1: nightmare about last night. But he wasn't creepy, but he
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Speaker 1: looked exctly like him. Yeah, I'm a little nerve, sir,
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Speaker 1: I know, I know exactly. And he was definitely a
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Speaker 1: big fan. And I loved how people became like, do
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Speaker 1: you know what this costume is? And so they would
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Speaker 1: spread the word and they would read the words I feel.
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Speaker 1: I really the thing is Mark Campbell doesn't like the outfit,
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Speaker 1: so I'm sure he's unhappy with me. Like somewhere he
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Speaker 1: was like tossing and turning, like I feel a disturbance
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Speaker 1: in the force. Um, and there's the gold Disco. Look.
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Speaker 1: There's a part of me that wants to tweet at him, like, look,
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Speaker 1: I nailed it in this costume. Bought so much story
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Speaker 1: to people with the side by side comparison. But there's
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Speaker 1: another part of me that's like he might actually really
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Speaker 1: not like I mean, it has to be. It is,
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Speaker 1: it's out there, the internet sees it. Just embrace it.
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Speaker 1: He seems like one of those that just embraces it.
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Speaker 1: And since then, I'm sure he's had a lot worse costuming.
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Speaker 1: I've seen his characters in the flash just saying burn,
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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. It was very, very fun,
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Speaker 1: and then I like made it my mission to find
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Speaker 1: a Darth Vader. But they would, they couldn't. They didn't
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Speaker 1: recognize me. So eventually I went up to one and
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Speaker 1: I was like, Dad, it's me. I'm going through a
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Speaker 1: disco phase. And we got a good picture together. That's amazing.
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Speaker 1: I love that you would do that. Did he respond appropriately?
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Speaker 1: He did the most in character, which I couldn't tell
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Speaker 1: if you meant for it to be in character. So
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Speaker 1: I like, it's amazing. Also, Kodos, did that dude or person? Rather?
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Speaker 1: I love it, and I think we will have to
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Speaker 1: have a picture posted on our site. Yeah, we will
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Speaker 1: have it by the release of this so you can
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Speaker 1: marvel this gold splendor, which we did get pictures. She
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Speaker 1: just kept texting me. It's a hit. Everybody loves it.
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Speaker 1: I explained to so many people. I'm like, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: need pictures, and she finally sent me some pictures and
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Speaker 1: in these pictures she is doing the poses from the memes,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, she is loving this moment. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I was. That's what one of my friends, one of
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Speaker 1: our friends who was hanging out with with me, was like,
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Speaker 1: you look so incandescently happy, and I was like, I
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Speaker 1: feel it. I was so happy. Did you feel like
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Speaker 1: when you were enjoying this time that you were safe
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Speaker 1: and you're having a great time. Was there any kerfuffle
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Speaker 1: during these times or was it just like, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: is joy? For most part, it was in a way
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Speaker 1: that it hasn't been in previous years actually kind of
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Speaker 1: joy and I think part of that is I've missed it,
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Speaker 1: and part of it was it was smaller. Even though
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Speaker 1: it was still crowded, it was half the size that
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Speaker 1: it can get to, and so I think everyone who
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Speaker 1: was there I was feeling it. Certainly. The first day
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Speaker 1: I struggled with as we talked about like the code,
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Speaker 1: thinking about COVID, but also just like our Georgia gun
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Speaker 1: laws are not great. The hotel has a particular policy
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Speaker 1: you're not allowed to have weapons inside, but that doesn't
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Speaker 1: stop people. So it took me a while to kind
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Speaker 1: of like ease off of that, but once I did,
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Speaker 1: it was so joyous. Um. They was one guy Um
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Speaker 1: who came up to me, I think it was the
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Speaker 1: final night, and we had a very strange conversation where
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Speaker 1: he was like, I'm sorry. I feel like I have
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Speaker 1: to tell you that I took a picture of your
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Speaker 1: ass because it looks really good, but I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to disrespect you. I've got a sister and a mom,
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Speaker 1: and I know I'm all about women's right. I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to tell you and I was like, thank you.
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Speaker 1: What is he doing with this picture? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why, Like he couldn't just take the
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Speaker 1: whole picture like what I think he I didn't. I
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Speaker 1: was kind of like, more, you know, go for sir.
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Speaker 1: I didn't ask. I'm a nice guy. It could be
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Speaker 1: that was the only thing that I personally like, maybe
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Speaker 1: stuff was going on in my orbit and I didn't realize.
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Speaker 1: I just thought that was kind of like, yes, I
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Speaker 1: don't approve, but it was kind of funny because he
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Speaker 1: wasn't trying to. It didn't feel like a flirting thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to believe you because
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Speaker 1: you don't gauge that well. As we have discovered, I
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Speaker 1: don't send there we should uh perspective. Right, You're right,
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Speaker 1: that wasn't the vibe I got, But I did know
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Speaker 1: what that was like that in itself. Yeah, it's true,
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Speaker 1: but it's true. Oh, speaking of I did, I told Samantha. So,
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Speaker 1: Dragon Con has a thing called the Walk of Fame
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Speaker 1: where you can go and meet celebrities and usually you
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Speaker 1: have to pay money to get an autograph for a picture,
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Speaker 1: and I just like to walk through and see who's there.
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Speaker 1: And so we went down around seven pm on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: which is like right before it closes. And I saw
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Speaker 1: Guiermo from What We Do in the Shadows. But then
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Speaker 1: I saw my two crushes who I was like, maybe
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Speaker 1: i'll see them Michael Shanks, who played Daniel Jackson from
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Speaker 1: Star Gate is g Win and Drew Fuller from Charmed,
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Speaker 1: and he gave eye contact and liked my costume. That
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Speaker 1: was a win right there. It was a felt like
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Speaker 1: a wind. I gave like a back and then walked
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Speaker 1: away very smooth. I like it. You gotta do the
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Speaker 1: the casual nod and then be cool and don't look back,
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Speaker 1: just keep walking. You got to be cool in your disco.
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Speaker 1: Obviously you're gonna be bright, gold, ye better, cool, yes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was great. I felt like, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, it made me happy. How many people came
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Speaker 1: up to me so happy, and especially like it's just
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Speaker 1: young children who were thrilled at whatever was going on here.
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Speaker 1: I feel like you should have done a performance of swords.
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Speaker 1: I should have if I had found like a good
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Speaker 1: Darth Vader. That one was great. But when I took
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Speaker 1: the picture, worth was fantastic. But like an interaction, I
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Speaker 1: think I could have really it would have been cool.
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Speaker 1: I guess very cool, Mary, dragon Con cool, which is
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Speaker 1: actually very cool. Well, we know this, that's the place
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Speaker 1: to be. Yeah, so I know that that's kind of
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Speaker 1: one of the big events. Are you excited about next
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Speaker 1: year you're going to play on that or how are
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Speaker 1: you just like trying to rest from the excitement. I
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Speaker 1: am excited. The thing about dragon Con is you it
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Speaker 1: really behooves you to plan it early because it saves
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Speaker 1: you a lot of money. Um. So I've already got
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Speaker 1: my past room next year. Uh the hotel room situation,
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Speaker 1: So I do get a hotel room. I'm that level
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Speaker 1: of nerd about it that is like so hard to get. Um.
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Speaker 1: And that happens in October, So we'll see if I
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Speaker 1: get one. This year. I did get one my favorite
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Speaker 1: hotel on the fourth floor, so I could do that
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Speaker 1: thing that you were talking about where you can just
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Speaker 1: like look down and see all the costumes. And it
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Speaker 1: was awesome. It's the first time that's ever happened for me. Um.
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Speaker 1: Because the wait the dragon Con hotel game is so bad,
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Speaker 1: Like you can wait thirty minutes to an hour and
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Speaker 1: an elevator. Yes, so it's nice to have a low
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Speaker 1: level room it's like probably one of the only instances
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Speaker 1: where people are like, please give me a room on
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Speaker 1: a little wer level. Right, Yeah. I didn't remember the
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Speaker 1: one time I went in, like the one time we
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Speaker 1: were like, oh my god, this elevator so quick, there's
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Speaker 1: no one in here. We were on the wrong one.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Um I do. I did want to say, so.
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Speaker 1: I always like kind of guess what it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: the biggest costume. This year, it was definitely stranger things,
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Speaker 1: especially like the hell Fire Club shirts because that's pretty
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Speaker 1: easy to do. Um, the boys. I would say it
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Speaker 1: was pretty big. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, especially like Starlight.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't Usually there's one that's like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: everybody did this one. This year, there wasn't one like that.
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Speaker 1: They were I would say those were the two biggest factions.
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Speaker 1: But I kind of liked that it was much more
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Speaker 1: diverse range of costumes that I saw, so that was cool.
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Speaker 1: I did get I don't know if I mentioned this before,
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Speaker 1: but there's this like Late Night or a Gamy, and
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Speaker 1: I've been trying to go for years. I didn't go,
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Speaker 1: but a friend of mine did and she showed me
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Speaker 1: her or a Gamy Penis, and I was very happy
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Speaker 1: about it. It's late night for reasons, man, Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that that was a thing. That's exciting.
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Speaker 1: I'm actually surprised that people were there a lot more
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Speaker 1: like because with all the Marvel series that have that
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Speaker 1: has happened, was there not a lot of that? There
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Speaker 1: actually wasn't. There was, but not. It wasn't like like
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Speaker 1: when Loki came out, the lokey Loki variants were the
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Speaker 1: big You were like, well, they're everywhere, So it was
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Speaker 1: much more like spread out among properties. I did see
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Speaker 1: an amazing she Hulk, like yeah, yeah, there was a
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Speaker 1: lot of really really good Star Wars stuff, but again
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Speaker 1: it was really spread out so it wasn't like one
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Speaker 1: particular costume. I did see not one, not two, but
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Speaker 1: three amazing the Mummy cast costumes, like all of the
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Speaker 1: characters so good. That's amazing, and I love that. Uh
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Speaker 1: was there not everything everywhere all at once? People there were.
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Speaker 1: I thought that some one reckon Tweek character. I saw
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Speaker 1: three three Racca coon eyes, and I saw three Joe
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Speaker 1: Boto packs like the everything everywhere, the Bagel, the white
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Speaker 1: costume she has with the bagel um but I didn't
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Speaker 1: see as much as of those, but I heard. I
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Speaker 1: heard there was a meet up of them and there
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Speaker 1: were a bunch of them, so I must have just
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Speaker 1: like missed it. I did see a I filmed it
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Speaker 1: and it was a two minute long inflatable t rix
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Speaker 1: of course. Oh my god, it was beautiful. I was like,
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Speaker 1: it's still going. I would look away to have a conversation,
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Speaker 1: look back, it was still going. I saw that the
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Speaker 1: Draassic Park characters were there. I did see a lot
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Speaker 1: of what we do in the Shadows. Yes, characters. There
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Speaker 1: was an amazing Lazo with the Cursed hat. It was
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Speaker 1: so good. I saw him many times. I loved him.
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Speaker 1: He was perfect. Yeah, I did see that. I'm guessing
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Speaker 1: she was going to be full of Ring of Power
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Speaker 1: and the Game of Thrones or House of Dragons rather.
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Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think that's a really good prediction.
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Speaker 1: I did see I saw some House of Dragon, but
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Speaker 1: I haven't watched the show yet, so it was sort
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Speaker 1: of people pointing it out to me. But I saw
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Speaker 1: quite a few. But it was The costumes were amazing.
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Speaker 1: That's my favorite part. There were so many, just so
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Speaker 1: creative costumes. I loved it. It's a talent for sure.
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Speaker 1: It is, It absolutely is. And then justin closing, we've
16:32
Speaker 1: been reading these books in our book club lately about
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Speaker 1: like finding friends and nerd um and like in Queen
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Speaker 1: of Geek, like specifically at a convention, and I was
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Speaker 1: very very lucky that I met I ran into a
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Speaker 1: bunch of like my really close friends and then some
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Speaker 1: friends I haven't seen in a while. And then I
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Speaker 1: made new friends as well, uh, which I love. I love.
16:53
Speaker 1: I I have this crew of like convention friends that
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Speaker 1: we meet every year. And and UH shout out to
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Speaker 1: to bow Brown because I went to this puppetry festival
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Speaker 1: right before the pandemic shut everything down. He's in charge.
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Speaker 1: He's the director of the puppetry check And I tried
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Speaker 1: to find him last year and I couldn't because we
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Speaker 1: were really close friends. We hit it off really well
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Speaker 1: at this uh festival, but I found him this time.
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Speaker 1: Disco Lukea is hard to me, so I've got to
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Speaker 1: say it was like being a walking disco of all
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Speaker 1: people would be like there she is, there it is,
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Speaker 1: which is a good costume to have, But yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: I had a really really good time. It kind of
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Speaker 1: gave me hope and and like, oh I can. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. There was a part of me that was
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Speaker 1: like it's never gonna be the same, and it probably won't,
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Speaker 1: but it was still really fun and really joyous. And
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Speaker 1: I actually I was telling Samantha, I did a pretty
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Speaker 1: good job this year of like I didn't get hungover,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't feel as terrible as I usually do
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Speaker 1: the day after of just like exhaustion. My feet hurt
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Speaker 1: because the shoes will comfortable or not made for standing
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Speaker 1: in for like six hours, which is what I was doing.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I'm definitely gonna do it next year,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to hand out business cards of the
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Speaker 1: costume and I are friend Lauren over on saver friend
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Speaker 1: and co workers. She said I should put a QR
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Speaker 1: code so they can just like scan it and find
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Speaker 1: the video of Disco Luke. It would be amazing, Yes,
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Speaker 1: because I think I think it's a keeper. I think
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Speaker 1: it was a I think it was a solid choice.
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Speaker 1: There was no one else I will tell you that
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Speaker 1: you did good. You did good. Somebody told me like
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Speaker 1: I thought I'd seen the most obscure costume, but you
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Speaker 1: win you better? Yes, yes, yes, well thanks for letting
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Speaker 1: me just s geek out about it. H it was
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Speaker 1: It's awesome for me. Yes, I loved it. I loved it.
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Speaker 1: Next year, Samantha, maybe we'll have a panel. Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: they don't want me. I'm not nerd enough that you
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Speaker 1: just interviewed me in my disco looke outfit. I would that. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I think it would be great. I think it'd be great. Well,
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Speaker 1: we'll we'll keep an eye on that. But in the meantime,
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Speaker 1: it's always listeners. If you have any fun convention experiences,
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Speaker 1: if you happen to be at dragon Conn or see
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Speaker 1: anything from dragon Con, maybe you even ran into me.
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Speaker 1: Who knows, Please please reach out and contact us. Our
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