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Cast Interviews - Audra Stephenson: A Life Through Fandom · Fandomonium! A Fandom Comedy Game Show

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Speaker 1: Helloly Progs, Welcome back to our cast interview series. We're
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Speaker 1: getting into the meat and potatoes of these cast interviews. Now.
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Speaker 1: We've had all the lovely carrots because I'm apparently going
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Speaker 1: to continue this metaphor, We've had the delicious gravy, and
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Speaker 1: we've had the lovely pie crust. Other cast members can
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Speaker 1: assign themselves to those various roles, but now we've made
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Speaker 1: it to the meat and potatoes of the cast. Over
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Speaker 1: the next three months, it's going to be this interview
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Speaker 1: with Audra, then an interview with Jason, and then finally
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Speaker 1: apparently me. But this month is all about Audra and
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Speaker 1: it was lovely to sit down and chat with her.
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Speaker 1: We do it about bullshit every single day, but it
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Speaker 1: was nice to have this structured interview where hopefully you'll
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Speaker 1: learn a lot more about Audra, the person behind the
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Speaker 1: team captain on gate Leapers. We've both been extremely busy
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Speaker 1: recently diving into local live comedy by taking classes and
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Speaker 1: putting on shows, so a weekend morning wasn't really an
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Speaker 1: option for us in terms of a recording time. We
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Speaker 1: had to kind of slide it into the working week
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Speaker 1: after a couple of busy days so we tried to
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Speaker 1: create a relaxing vibe and in our heads we kept
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Speaker 1: telling ourselves before the conversation, this is a week end morning.
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Speaker 1: Remember we're doing this over coffee. Instead it was over
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Speaker 1: energy drinks, while neither of us had much energy, but
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Speaker 1: hopefully that reflects a weekend, you know. Just before we
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Speaker 1: get into the interview, I'd like to thank everyone who
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Speaker 1: joined us for the live stream recently our Pokemon episode
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Speaker 1: that we did live via YouTube and riverside. It was
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Speaker 1: a great test and first step into streaming, and hopefully
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Speaker 1: we'll be doing some more. I'd kind of like to
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Speaker 1: do about four a year. That would be nice, wouldn't it?
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Speaker 1: Maybe one a quarter that seems about the right amount.
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Speaker 1: So send us an email Gateleapers at gmail dot com
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Speaker 1: with ideas for future topics for live shows. Are there
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Speaker 1: any of the big fandoms from our first few seasons
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Speaker 1: that we should revisit in live show form? Let us
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Speaker 1: DM on Instagram at gate Leaper's pod or threads we
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Speaker 1: thread now because Twitter is dead. But yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: amazing to have viewers listeners vote in who one round
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Speaker 1: two of that episode, which if you miss the live stream,
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Speaker 1: next week's episode will be the audio version of that.
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Speaker 1: It won't have everything in that we did. You'll have
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Speaker 1: to join us live to see absolutely everything. It'll be
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Speaker 1: an edited down version, as gateleapers usually is. And not
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Speaker 1: only that, October is a three episode release month, so
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Speaker 1: this after the Pokemon episode, there's still two more episodes
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Speaker 1: to enjoy next month as we head into spooky season.
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Speaker 1: But that is not now. Now is Audra's cast interview
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Speaker 1: her life through fandom. So it's enough waffle from me.
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Speaker 1: Let's just play the sting and get right to it. Hey, Hi, Hi,
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Speaker 1: this we're here. This is us.
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Speaker 2: It is it's us, just just the two of us
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Speaker 2: at six pm, Just.
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Speaker 1: The two of us at six pm. Yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: This is a different one, obviously, I mean number one
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Speaker 1: for pretty much everyone else's cast interviews. I didn't already
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Speaker 1: know all the answers. Good. So while hopefully we'll make
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Speaker 1: this interesting for listeners, this one's gonna be quite boring.
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Speaker 2: I wish I could say I threw in some curveballs,
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Speaker 2: but I absolutely didn't. I absolutely did not. I think
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Speaker 2: every single thing that I mentioned today you will have
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Speaker 2: heard about. But that's fine because the listeners might not have.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that is the purpose of this. The first
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Speaker 1: cast interview we've recorded in a little bit. But it's
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Speaker 1: nice to be in these final three of the year.
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Speaker 1: The UDRA interview happening right now, the Jason interview, which
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Speaker 1: I'm sure will follow, and then there's been some rumor
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Speaker 1: of me being interviewed, but I don't know how I
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Speaker 1: feel about that.
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Speaker 2: We'll see how we feel. I would love to hear
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Speaker 2: an interview of you answering all of these questions, but
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to force you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah someone will, though.
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Speaker 2: Someone probably will, but it's not gonna be me.
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Speaker 1: And this is why I love you. Oh, I love
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Speaker 1: you too. So I think with the other cast interviews
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Speaker 1: there was this very cozy vibe to them. I think
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Speaker 1: we recorded almost all of them on weekend mornings of
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Speaker 1: a coffee It felt like friends meeting up for a
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Speaker 1: chat at a coffee house, but a very structured set
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Speaker 1: of questions that must be the same every time. This
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Speaker 1: feels different, this feels weird. I mean, we're drinking what's
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Speaker 1: it called Arizona iced tea?
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Speaker 2: Yes, so it is a tea beverage.
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Speaker 1: So it's a tea beverage. But it's at six pm
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Speaker 1: m hm, after two busy days.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I have put on a huge hoodie and sweatpants,
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Speaker 2: so I'm in the cozy vibe.
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Speaker 1: Okay, good. Well, yeah, I mean that's that's great that
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Speaker 1: you are the person being interviewed. I feel that means
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Speaker 1: you'll produce the right level of answers, the right tone,
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Speaker 1: right tone, the right vibe.
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Speaker 2: I want it to be like a hug for the
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Speaker 2: podcast listener.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so that's what these questions are, a big hug.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, Audrey, You've been the person who's appeared on
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Speaker 1: the most episodes of gate Leapers, so it's possible that
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Speaker 1: out of all of the cast members, you're the person
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Speaker 1: that people might know the most.
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Speaker 2: Would you say, I hadn't thought about that, but absolutely,
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Speaker 2: because other than me, it would be.
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Speaker 1: You your cruse.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say that you hide behind copy yep.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I will be probably the person that people
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Speaker 2: know the most. Incredible. I hope that this is a
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Speaker 2: wonderful interview and you enjoy hearing little pockets of things
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Speaker 2: you may not know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean the main features, the main highlights
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Speaker 1: that you've gotten in over the months and years of
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Speaker 1: doing gate Leapers, your sort of early band media media
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Speaker 1: that you weren't allowed to has been a regular sort
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Speaker 1: of recurring beats and joke.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, my family was quite religious throughout my entire youth,
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Speaker 2: and it felt like the whole church had these rules
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Speaker 2: about what everybody could and could not watch, and all
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Speaker 2: the other parents knew that it was a joke.
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Speaker 1: Except for mine. No, I get that. I relate to that.
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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, they can't read Harry Potter, and so
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Speaker 2: my friends from the church would all be like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I'm reading Harry Potter, and my parents just look at
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Speaker 2: me sternly.
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Speaker 1: But they weren't actually enforcing it, Like, no, not at all.
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Speaker 2: I was very much enforced on these types of things
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Speaker 2: that I could and could not consume in a way
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Speaker 2: that the religious families around me had no interest in doing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we'll see how many times that comes up
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Speaker 1: throughout throughout this and how it's affected your media consumptions
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Speaker 1: throughout your life.
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Speaker 2: I'm I think there are some things that will be
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Speaker 2: quite indicative of Yeah, of that type of person. Absolutely, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's start things off with that's your that time
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Speaker 1: where you were a child living under such strict media rules.
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Speaker 1: The same question I've asked everyone this year, what was
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Speaker 1: the first pop culture media you were obsessed with? What
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Speaker 1: was your earliest media obsession.
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Speaker 2: I have two main ones, lovely stuff that I could
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Speaker 2: think of as like huge. One I was quite young.
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Speaker 2: The movie Cutthroat Island. Okay, I watched this so many times.
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Speaker 2: We wore out the TV, the VHS, Yes of it.
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Speaker 2: My family got a ancient TV and VHS player to
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Speaker 2: put in my room. Like it couldn't always play color, Okay,
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Speaker 2: sometimes it could.
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Speaker 1: Oh right, So it was like broken, faulty, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Like heavy as all get out, ancient. But I had
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Speaker 2: watched this movie so many times I could see the
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Speaker 2: color even if even if it wasn't there, I could
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Speaker 2: see it. It is if you do not know the
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Speaker 2: premise of this film. Geena Davis is a pirate. Yes,
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Speaker 2: there are four brother three brothers, her uncles, her father
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Speaker 2: and their and her uncles who have treasure maps and
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Speaker 2: you have to put them together to find this huge treasure.
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Speaker 2: And her dad died and left her his part of
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Speaker 2: the map. But her evil uncle is coming. Oh no,
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Speaker 2: and he he's just called Dog. It's like if you
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Speaker 2: look at the reviews, it is objectively a terrible movie.
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Speaker 2: It potentially single handedly temporarily disrailed, derailed Geena Davis's career
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Speaker 2: is so poorly received.
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Speaker 1: Kind of famous box office flop.
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Speaker 2: I think, oh, yes, I was obsessed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you with the tal Get demographic.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely young girls who did not know they were bisexual.
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Speaker 2: This was really important. That one was huge for me.
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Speaker 1: So how old were you when that obsession was happening.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember ages.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how to place myself whenever I feel
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Speaker 2: really young, I'm like six years old.
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Speaker 1: So you're like, that must have happened when I.
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Speaker 2: Was six, So I'm going to say like six to twelve, okay, okay,
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Speaker 2: off and on. I was just obsessed with Cutthroat Island.
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Speaker 2: And then we get into the like twelveish region and
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Speaker 2: I found the book series Gregor The Overlander.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I up until this point I kind of hated reading. Well, okay, okay,
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Speaker 2: I thought you were quite an avid reader as a child.
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Speaker 2: I could read, yes, I could read, yes, but I
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Speaker 2: didn't do it like a ton just because there was
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Speaker 2: homework in like it was like felt like homework because
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Speaker 2: I would read slower than the other kids. When I
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Speaker 2: was asked to like write summaries of things, I couldn't
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Speaker 2: do it. Like I couldn't manage to do that. So
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Speaker 2: there was a timeframe in there where reading was homework. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I get that, And so like a proper it was
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Speaker 2: either homework or it was showing off right that.
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Speaker 1: The only two things something to benefit the mind can
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Speaker 1: possibly be. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I found Gregor the Overlander. It was a
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Speaker 2: book by Susanne Collins, okay of Hunger Games fan Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Hunger Games was the series she wrote after she wrote
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Speaker 2: Gregor the Overlander. I was a Suzanne Collins fan the
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Speaker 2: first I did it for no into her first album,
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Speaker 2: I was. I was there from the beginning. But a
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Speaker 2: boys little sister falls down the like vent in their
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Speaker 2: living room and turns out there's a whole world down there. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 2: something about the Earl of Sandwich took them all down there.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand that sounds fun. It is really fun.
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Speaker 2: There's bats so big you can ride on them, like
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Speaker 2: around cockroaches the size of ponies, so.
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Speaker 1: That you pull you all the size of cockroaches.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, there might be but it was just this really fun,
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Speaker 2: magical world. It's the first book I remember properly losing sleep.
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Speaker 1: And food over sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I would just sit there on our sofa
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Speaker 2: for like six or seven hours straight. Because these were
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Speaker 2: these were young adult children's books. It just took me
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Speaker 2: that long to read.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, as we've established.
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Speaker 2: As we've established, so I would like just be like
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Speaker 2: going through and be like, God, why do I feel
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Speaker 2: like I'm in a puke? Oh wait, I haven't eaten
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Speaker 2: anything today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, reading Gregor the Overland. I've just been reading reading
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Speaker 1: Gregor the Overlander.
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Speaker 2: I should probably have a snack. So that was something
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Speaker 2: I absolutely loved and it kind of opened up Oh. Yes,
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Speaker 2: reading can be a joyous world. It doesn't have to
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Speaker 2: be showing off, yeah, or homework.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be either of those two things.
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Speaker 1: It can just be an enjoyable pastime.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and that stuck with me. I just love reading now.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Suzanne Collins.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Suzanne Collins. Not for the reason you think.
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Speaker 2: Not for the reason you'd think of the series. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was actually pretty late on the Hunger Games train.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, fair enough. You didn't want what interested in
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Speaker 1: the follow up you with the stuff.
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Speaker 2: No, it's like I'll reread this one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh she's come out with new books, like I guess
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Speaker 2: I'll get to.
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Speaker 1: Oh lovely answer. Yeah, I knew about cut Through Island
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Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember you mentioning Gregor the Overlander before, so
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Speaker 1: there's a little surprise. Yeah. Nice score already already in
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Speaker 1: question one.
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Speaker 2: That's my quota.
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Speaker 1: Okay, moving on to the next question, thinking more about
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Speaker 1: community now, connecting fandoms with other people, with friends, with peers.
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Speaker 1: What was the first fandom you remember being a part of,
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Speaker 1: like making connections with other people through fandom.
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Speaker 2: This Well, I don't think this will ruffle feathers amongst
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Speaker 2: anyone who is listening to this, but amongst the wider world,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna call Christianity the first fandom that I was.
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Speaker 1: Like really big into. Okay, yeah, fair enough. I can
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Speaker 1: see how it would ruffle some feathers. I also think
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Speaker 1: it's fair to say that some aspects of sort of
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Speaker 1: modern m M contemporary Christianity have a lot in common
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Speaker 1: with fandoms because they're both very entrenched in capitalism. So
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of crossover.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, there's a lot of crossover there's like we
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Speaker 2: get together on these specific days and we talk about
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Speaker 2: this thing that we all have a special interest in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a book at that, it's.
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Speaker 2: A book at that. There's many movies plays.
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Speaker 1: You're thinking about the veggietails movies what we talk ABU.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, Oh my god, the veggietails content I have
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Speaker 2: consumed so much. They had video games, like computer PC games.
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Speaker 1: Through the Veggie Boys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the vegimin the Vegimen they had they had computer
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Speaker 2: games and I played them.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Veggietails, gate Leapers when.
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Speaker 2: Literally whenever you feel like breaking that happen.
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Speaker 1: You Okay, peek behind the screen of gate Leapers. You
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Speaker 1: have mentioned, oh, can we do Christianity at some point?
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Speaker 1: That's like a fandom. Now that you've you've gotten the
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Speaker 1: joke in in uh thank you in your heads of
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Speaker 1: you very good, very good, very droll, thank you. I've
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Speaker 1: said no because it feels a little bit disrespectful. I
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Speaker 1: think like faith is faith, yeah, and I sort of
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Speaker 1: don't want to that. There's so much fun to be
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Speaker 1: had with so many of the fandoms. However, how vegi
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Speaker 1: details could be the root.
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Speaker 2: In Veggie Tails or like if you there wasn't enough content,
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Speaker 2: one could expand it to the like Christian children's programming universe.
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Speaker 2: Sure yes, Bible Man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Bible man McGee and me McGee and maybe
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Speaker 1: these are meeting things to so many Americans.
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Speaker 2: Whoever the fuck that donut guy was?
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Speaker 1: Okay, we did. We did get the donut guy because I.
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Speaker 2: Just remember talking donut and a man who looked like
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Speaker 2: Wa Luigi. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think he dressed in purple overall.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, fair up. But you could expand it. So
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Speaker 2: there is a lot of content. I do feel pretty
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Speaker 2: justified in calling this my first fandom. There was community, Yes,
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Speaker 2: that's the key pot, right, I had. I made a
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Speaker 2: lot of my friends through that. We would get together
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Speaker 2: and do Bible studies, so we would like get together
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Speaker 2: and discuss the thing that we were fans of. At
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Speaker 2: one point in time, there was a Christian social media sure, yeah,
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Speaker 2: what was it called? It was through Acquire the Fire, okay,
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Speaker 2: which was like a conference convention, the Christian Convention, So
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Speaker 2: there's cons. I went to the cons and so it
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Speaker 2: was something through Acquire the Fire. So it was probably
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Speaker 2: like light or like flame. Yeah, I could, yeah, something
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Speaker 2: like that.
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Speaker 1: Do you send me alike on flame, I raised.
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Speaker 2: Your concern higher to the Lord. It just has like
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Speaker 2: lifting up hands gosh instead of a like. But it
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Speaker 2: I genuinely made friends with people on there and like connected, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and like discussed the Bible and other religious books. So
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Speaker 2: i'd i'd say it was definitely the first fandom that
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Speaker 2: I found community in.
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Speaker 1: No, that's completely fair, Like if that's the space in
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Speaker 1: which you sort of learned how to socialize, make connections
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Speaker 1: with people via something that isn't just yourself, yeah or
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Speaker 1: that other person. For a lot of secular kids and
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Speaker 1: for a lot of non secular kids, fandom is usually
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Speaker 1: the answer there of like a common interest, a club
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Speaker 1: you join, an activity you do, a media you share. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but it's totally fair that it can come from a
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Speaker 1: place of faith as well.
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Speaker 2: Like there's kids my age here and they have varying
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Speaker 2: levels of interest in this thing that I also have
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Speaker 2: an interest in, and so it just brings people together
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Speaker 2: in that way. Yeah. I mean I found it other
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Speaker 2: ways now, absolutely, but I will give it that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, give it the credit of community. Absolutely. Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: was gonna start making some nice, lighthearted jokes about comparing
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Speaker 1: sort of Christianity to conventions. But it's just all kind
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Speaker 1: of depressing because I was just about every joke is
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Speaker 1: just describing a mega church. Yeah, imagine if they had
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Speaker 1: merchandise stalls or meet and greets. These are things that.
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Speaker 2: Happen, gosh, the megachurches.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you talked about the cutthroat Island obsession between ages
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Speaker 1: six and twelve, Yes, but what happens post cutthroat Island?
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Speaker 1: What happens after that? What are your teen brain obsessions?
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Speaker 1: What were your teen brain obsessions? A.
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Speaker 2: I got super into Greek mythology. I think it technically
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Speaker 2: probably was also around the twelve ish Yeah, so probably
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Speaker 2: at this.
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Speaker 1: Cusp Yeah, this changing of.
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Speaker 2: The guard into the teenage years. I got super into
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Speaker 2: Greek mythology obsessively. Yeah. There's like a couple websites that were, like,
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Speaker 2: I think just made for like kids and young adults,
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Speaker 2: where they were like every all the Olympians and then
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Speaker 2: all the people directly related to the Olympians, and then
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Speaker 2: a couple pages of just like text about them and
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Speaker 2: so Wikipedia, yeah, like a proto Wikipedia just of like
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Speaker 2: the basics of Greek mythology. And I read that the
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Speaker 2: entire websites both of those websites two once.
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Speaker 1: A week for like a on the sofa until your puked.
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Speaker 1: And you were like, why am I Why do I
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Speaker 1: need to puke? Oh? Yeah, because I've been reading gods
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Speaker 1: dot com for six hours?
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Speaker 2: Okay, But I do think that one was called Greek
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Speaker 2: Mythology dot com and one was called Greek myth dot Com.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's what they were called.
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Speaker 1: Just typed it in to ask Jeeves, and I asked.
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Speaker 2: Jeeves and he did provide, Jeeves, is the real sees
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Speaker 2: what a good butler? Such a such a good one. Alright,
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Speaker 2: He's all right, I'll agree. But I got super into that,
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Speaker 2: and I read a few books that were actually books
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Speaker 2: in a library, but I would mostly just come back
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Speaker 2: and be like, ah, yes, it's time for my weekly
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Speaker 2: sit down and read everything that Hermes has ever done.
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Speaker 1: Was this where Percy Jackson got incorporated?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely? This is where Percy Jackson came in, because I
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Speaker 2: do think technically in high school I was probably a
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Speaker 2: little bit old to be reading all the Percy Jackson
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Speaker 2: books going. In hindsight, I've gone back and.
22:07
Speaker 1: Tried to read this twelve.
22:11
Speaker 2: I only started reading for fun at h two and
22:15
Speaker 2: so I was, yeah, I was catching up, and so
22:19
Speaker 2: I was reading them a lot. So I'd read those
22:23
Speaker 2: and then all of the ancillary books as well, in
22:26
Speaker 2: the Percy Jackson lore, and.
22:28
Speaker 1: You'd be like that this Hermes isn't accurate, this original hermis.
22:33
Speaker 2: Why is he a delivery man?
22:35
Speaker 1: Why? Because he is?
22:38
Speaker 2: It's actually quite It's it's really more accurate in a
22:44
Speaker 2: really fun way that I think was really exciting to me.
22:48
Speaker 2: It was just full of easter eggs and those types
22:51
Speaker 2: of things where I was like, oh, my gosh, they
22:54
Speaker 2: know this about this person, and oh, I bet that
22:56
Speaker 2: this person is actually a daughter of a and that's
23:01
Speaker 2: why we don't know who this person is. And seeing
23:04
Speaker 2: the myths play out was really fun in that I
23:08
Speaker 2: think I know how this ends with this subplot, but
23:12
Speaker 2: as far as the main story goes, it gave the
23:16
Speaker 2: feeling of a large scale Greek myth with all the
23:20
Speaker 2: allusions to all of these things that I had loved
23:23
Speaker 2: so much but.
23:25
Speaker 1: Got to be fresh to me.
23:27
Speaker 2: So it's really fun.
23:28
Speaker 1: A good like young adult story, but mapped onto a
23:31
Speaker 1: world you'd already become obsessed with.
23:35
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I wanted to go to Camp half Blood, so.
23:40
Speaker 1: I bet just like Christian Camp. That's what you had
23:43
Speaker 1: to did.
23:43
Speaker 2: I did just have Christian Camp. Greek mythology was something
23:46
Speaker 2: my parents were iffy on letting me.
23:50
Speaker 1: Yes.
23:52
Speaker 2: I remember one time bringing up the fact that I
23:54
Speaker 2: was like, it's so wild, like reading accounts of early
23:57
Speaker 2: people following Zeus and the fervor with which they believe
24:03
Speaker 2: this is like, they believe this as much as we believe.
24:06
Speaker 1: In our God.
24:07
Speaker 2: And the response was, yeah, but ours is real. Yeah,
24:10
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, they thought that too, though
24:14
Speaker 2: they were pretty sure.
24:16
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:17
Speaker 2: So it was just a funny little thing in my
24:20
Speaker 2: youth of being like, no, I'm gonna read this.
24:24
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's that parental dilemma between like, well, it's pagan,
24:29
Speaker 1: but it's also the classics. H huh. It feels educational,
24:32
Speaker 1: it feels smart, and this is how we have a
24:34
Speaker 1: little baby Frasier. But if it's like, oh, but it's
24:40
Speaker 1: also introducing paganistic ideas or the concepts of other gods,
24:45
Speaker 1: then it's yeah, sort of dangerous to the ideology.
24:49
Speaker 2: I think by the time they found out how obsessed
24:51
Speaker 2: I was, it was too late.
24:53
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:53
Speaker 2: I think they were like, we can't there's no way
24:55
Speaker 2: we can walk this one back.
24:57
Speaker 1: Can't put that back inside the Greek vas.
25:00
Speaker 2: You can't put that back in Pandora's.
25:01
Speaker 1: But the Greek mythology experts a So did you feel
25:07
Speaker 1: like you had to know everything about Greek mythology, like
25:11
Speaker 1: every time there was like a new a hint to
25:13
Speaker 1: a new piece of information or a new story. Yeah, yeah,
25:17
Speaker 1: to consume that.
25:18
Speaker 2: Absolutely, like every piece, every little piece of anything. I
25:24
Speaker 2: was like, ooh, Hestia, she was one of the Olympians
25:28
Speaker 2: and then left because she didn't want all of this
25:32
Speaker 2: type of power. She just wanted to be cozy and hearth.
25:35
Speaker 2: This is incredible. So like the idea of like the
25:39
Speaker 2: lost God of Olympus was I was obsessed with, or
25:44
Speaker 2: the Hades and Persephone I was obsessed with the idea
25:49
Speaker 2: of because there were such differing accounts, because there were
25:54
Speaker 2: the accounts that the general story is Persephone is the
26:00
Speaker 2: daughter of Demeter. She's the goddess of spring, and she
26:03
Speaker 2: is married to Hades, the god of the underworld, and
26:07
Speaker 2: when she is down in Hades, that's why we have winter.
26:10
Speaker 2: It's because spring and flowers is under is in hell.
26:14
Speaker 1: Well, we got winter because of God.
26:17
Speaker 2: When there's a God in there in the underworld right now,
26:21
Speaker 2: and that's why we got winter.
26:25
Speaker 1: It is what it is.
26:27
Speaker 2: But there the two accounts of that story are Hades
26:30
Speaker 2: stole her, okay and like kidnapped her, et cetera. And
26:36
Speaker 2: the other one was Zeus wouldn't leave her the fuck alone,
26:40
Speaker 2: and so Hades was like, he won't find you here.
26:45
Speaker 2: Here is here is like respite, Come here, eat some
26:50
Speaker 2: of the food. He can't come here. And so one
26:54
Speaker 2: of them is the demonization of Hades. That happens a lot.
26:58
Speaker 2: And one of them is that would Gin only be
27:00
Speaker 2: really kind to give someone a safe space and then
27:04
Speaker 2: they fall in love after that, But there's a lot
27:06
Speaker 2: of accounts of them being in love and.
27:09
Speaker 1: It being good. And this was a Greek mythology lesson.
27:12
Speaker 1: In the middle of an interview, I managed to sneak
27:14
Speaker 1: that in there. Oh, literally, anytime you give me a chair,
27:17
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be about you.
27:21
Speaker 2: Fine, I love that story.
27:26
Speaker 1: That qualifies I'll leave it in. Were there any other
27:29
Speaker 1: sort of teen brain obsessions, sort of the things that
27:32
Speaker 1: people will have known you for in terms of being
27:35
Speaker 1: part of your identity.
27:37
Speaker 2: M hmm, absolutely. I think cheerleading was a huge one, sure, random. Yeah,
27:47
Speaker 2: in the same way there's camps, in the same way that,
27:51
Speaker 2: like sports, being a fan of sports is tangential to that.
27:57
Speaker 2: I would say, cheerleading, very fun, big part of my
28:02
Speaker 2: youth that people would have known me for. Also, Christian music,
28:06
Speaker 2: like rock, Christian rock scene. I was so invested.
28:13
Speaker 1: Want to shout out your favorite bands, the ones you
28:16
Speaker 1: were so into? Oh I yeah, Oh god, well I've
28:24
Speaker 1: got my next question. Were any of these uh these
28:27
Speaker 1: obsessions cringing juice?
28:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, literally every single fucking one.
28:31
Speaker 1: So I think these bands, so I did.
28:34
Speaker 2: Of course I loved Skillet, Oh yeah, of course I
28:37
Speaker 2: loved Hawk Nelson.
28:38
Speaker 1: Of course.
28:39
Speaker 2: Of course I loved Reliant k give it up. I
28:43
Speaker 2: loved House of Heroes, Praise Jesus, connecting to Greek mythology.
28:48
Speaker 2: They're like the House of hero shirt. I still have it.
28:51
Speaker 1: That you must have had that T shirt for like, yeah,
28:55
Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah.
28:57
Speaker 2: I cut the sleeves off and it's ripping under the
28:59
Speaker 2: arm and it's safety pinned together, but it's Medusa's head
29:03
Speaker 2: and it just says House of Heroes.
29:04
Speaker 1: Yeah.
29:05
Speaker 2: And so it's this connection of this type of rock
29:09
Speaker 2: that I was really into. The Christianity that was still
29:12
Speaker 2: a really big part of my life. And that Greek mythology.
29:14
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it's combined all three.
29:16
Speaker 2: We went to a music festival when I was in
29:19
Speaker 2: high school, a Christian music festival up in South Dakota,
29:24
Speaker 2: which was hours. It was probably an eighteen hour drive
29:29
Speaker 2: now twelve to eighteen somewhere in there. Sure that when
29:33
Speaker 2: I was in high school, my mom let me and
29:37
Speaker 2: my friends just go. Like there was a couple, there
29:40
Speaker 2: was a couple of the youth less it was a
29:41
Speaker 2: Christian music Like one of the youth leaders went with us.
29:45
Speaker 1: Sure, and you had a chaperone.
29:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is why she let you get Okay,
29:49
Speaker 2: but that chaperone had barely turned eighteen.
29:51
Speaker 1: Okay.
29:53
Speaker 2: She called us off school for that week, scandalous, like,
29:59
Speaker 2: just so that we could go up there and see
30:02
Speaker 2: all of the music. There was even a band at
30:05
Speaker 2: that time called I want to say Life Light No,
30:10
Speaker 2: I think that was the name of the festival. But
30:13
Speaker 2: there was a band where the lead singer was a
30:16
Speaker 2: woman who had half of her hair really light blonde
30:18
Speaker 2: and really dark brown, and so there was like the
30:21
Speaker 2: split in the middle. I did that with my hair, Yes,
30:25
Speaker 2: there was an just a time when I had half
30:27
Speaker 2: and half hair, specifically because of this front woman. Yes, nice,
30:35
Speaker 2: it gave me the idea for it. I didn't necessarily
30:38
Speaker 2: listen to them as much they were on they were
30:40
Speaker 2: like generally on playlist a style inspiration. Yeah, and so
30:45
Speaker 2: stylistically and just in my general life. I was taken
30:48
Speaker 2: a lot from this Christian music scene. Yeah, it was
30:52
Speaker 2: so fun.
30:54
Speaker 1: Yeah. The way they can all combine together like that
30:56
Speaker 1: into one on T shirt is really beautiful. I think
31:01
Speaker 1: you've painted a beautiful imagery of your your teen brain obsessions.
31:04
Speaker 1: Absolutely okay, not to be a Debbie downer. Oh and
31:09
Speaker 1: some people have used this section to to talk about
31:12
Speaker 1: some of some difficult things that they've gone through in life.
31:14
Speaker 1: But you don't have to do that if you don't
31:16
Speaker 1: want to. I probably won't. Which media text or fandom
31:22
Speaker 1: has been a source of comfort in difficult times for you?
31:26
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Lord of the Rings. Lovely stuff, the books,
31:30
Speaker 2: the films, the appendices. I'm putting this like in this space, this,
31:38
Speaker 2: I think is the best space to talk about this.
31:41
Speaker 2: I probably could have used Lord of the Rings to
31:43
Speaker 2: answer any of the other questions. Yeah, I was really
31:48
Speaker 2: into it when I was really young because they were
31:51
Speaker 2: one of the first films that we went to in theaters. Sure,
31:56
Speaker 2: and my dad was obsessed with them. He had like
31:59
Speaker 2: books and books of maps and this is like different
32:02
Speaker 2: versions of it as it got updated. Here's one that
32:06
Speaker 2: is illustrated by Alan Lee. And so Lord of the
32:10
Speaker 2: Rings has been with me all through. Yeah, always an obsession,
32:14
Speaker 2: and I think that's probably why it's the type of
32:17
Speaker 2: thing that I come back to when I'm like, life
32:20
Speaker 2: is a lot right now, I am going to listen to, like,
32:25
Speaker 2: instead of listening to anything else, I'm just going to
32:28
Speaker 2: put on Lord of the Rings audio books. Yeah, or
32:33
Speaker 2: we rewatch them every year.
32:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, we watch it every year around Thanksgiving and it
32:38
Speaker 1: acts as kind of a gateway into the colder months,
32:42
Speaker 1: quite fortunate. And it stays relatively warm in October and
32:45
Speaker 1: November here, yeah, and then like December through April is freezing. Yes,
32:52
Speaker 1: So it's just a nice entry point to relax. If
32:57
Speaker 1: the winter can be described as the difficult time, and I.
33:02
Speaker 2: Think there are a lot of benefits to the winter.
33:04
Speaker 2: You can hunker, We play a lot more video games
33:07
Speaker 2: in the winter. That's wonderful. But it is really nice
33:12
Speaker 2: before going into that time when it feels like the
33:16
Speaker 2: sun may never shine again.
33:20
Speaker 1: To have the comfort of middle age.
33:22
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's just a wonderful place where you can see, Oh,
33:27
Speaker 2: they're toiling to do the right thing, and then the
33:30
Speaker 2: sun will shine out the clearer and it's just really
33:33
Speaker 2: beautiful going into that season. The color schemes a lot
33:37
Speaker 2: in a lot of it are very fall winter, which
33:40
Speaker 2: feels so cozy. I'm so excited for the extension of this.
33:48
Speaker 2: I love cozy gaming as well. Tales of the Shire,
33:52
Speaker 2: so a cozy, cozy game set in the Shire. I
33:57
Speaker 2: think it's just I'm being fed, yeah, and being fed.
34:02
Speaker 1: Cozy core Middle Earth core cozy times.
34:07
Speaker 2: Yes, abssolutely, And so I think it will continue to
34:13
Speaker 2: be that for me as it has been.
34:15
Speaker 1: Yeah. And last year we had Chris and Jen and
34:20
Speaker 1: Jason over and did a full Lord of the Rings
34:23
Speaker 1: day where we watched all three extended edition films in
34:27
Speaker 1: one day.
34:28
Speaker 2: Yes, and we fed them along with along with the.
34:33
Speaker 1: Films, Yeah, a lot of similar dishes that happen at
34:36
Speaker 1: similar times, similar snacks at similar times. There's a the
34:41
Speaker 1: Clauser you get to mordor the bigger drought. There is
34:43
Speaker 1: a food for whatever reason. It's whatever reason, lambas bread
34:47
Speaker 1: and more lampus bread.
34:48
Speaker 2: But you know it's fine, and our friends love us.
34:53
Speaker 2: But even that is connects back to the idea of
34:56
Speaker 2: comfort and difficult times. Is also friendship. Yes, Lord of
35:00
Speaker 2: the Rings has helped.
35:01
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings teaches that. Yeah, it teaches that.
35:04
Speaker 1: And good book.
35:05
Speaker 2: Yes, honestly, that might be the only alternative my family
35:09
Speaker 2: is okay with. Yeah, is if I decide, you know what,
35:14
Speaker 2: I don't really follow the Bible anymore, but gosh darn it,
35:17
Speaker 2: I follow Lord of the Rings. That's my new religion, Tolkienism. Tolkienism, Wait,
35:25
Speaker 2: sounds too much like tom As soon as it came
35:28
Speaker 2: out of my mouth, I was like, I don't like
35:30
Speaker 2: how that feels.
35:31
Speaker 1: All right, let's just move on. Okay, Thinking back to
35:35
Speaker 1: community once more, but the present day, What is your
35:39
Speaker 1: current favorite fandom or community to be a part of
35:43
Speaker 1: in the year of Our Lord twenty twenty four.
35:46
Speaker 2: I am still currently mostly an observer in this community.
35:54
Speaker 2: But fiber arts, Oh yeah, I at least I think
36:00
Speaker 2: if you would have asked me two months ago, it
36:02
Speaker 2: could have been even a different answer. But right, now
36:06
Speaker 2: we're moving into fall, we're moving into winter. I have
36:12
Speaker 2: seen like this reinvigoration of fiber arts within me. I
36:18
Speaker 2: I've been doing hand exercises. I have kind of weak
36:21
Speaker 2: joints in my hands. That's made some fiber arts stuff
36:24
Speaker 2: a little difficult. But finding people on the internet who
36:30
Speaker 2: have similar issues, and oh, I do these exercises and
36:33
Speaker 2: it turns out this is what helped helped me be
36:37
Speaker 2: able to crochet for longer, or getting the knitting machine
36:41
Speaker 2: and being able to pull it out and look at
36:43
Speaker 2: community videos like the comments under videos, or I'm in
36:48
Speaker 2: a couple of discords nice for like machine knitters, like
36:53
Speaker 2: as a resource for my LK. One point fifty is
36:57
Speaker 2: having some issues. Does anybody know how to change the
37:01
Speaker 2: sponge bar? And you're gonna get about forty responses. Yeah,
37:07
Speaker 2: just from this from this community.
37:10
Speaker 1: You've got to ring out your sponge bar.
37:11
Speaker 2: Gotta ring out that sponge bar if you want the
37:14
Speaker 2: if you want the hooks to stay in place. Yeah.
37:18
Speaker 2: But seeing that has been wonderful. I've recently looked at
37:23
Speaker 2: a couple knitting patterns and been inspired to try to
37:28
Speaker 2: adapt them for the knitting machine. Cool and I've looked
37:32
Speaker 2: at it, and I'm like, I think this could work.
37:34
Speaker 2: If this can work, maybe I could participate in knit alongs,
37:38
Speaker 2: like in community. And so it's something that I've recently
37:44
Speaker 2: reinvigorated to a depth of enjoyment I haven't previously been
37:48
Speaker 2: able to reach.
37:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that.
37:51
Speaker 2: And maybe it's because of the intentionality that I've had
37:55
Speaker 2: to put behind it.
37:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, to build the strength in your hands. Yeah, and so.
38:01
Speaker 2: I've had to find some accommodations. I've had to figure
38:03
Speaker 2: out new things within this space, and it's it's been
38:07
Speaker 2: really exciting.
38:08
Speaker 1: That's good. That's great.
38:10
Speaker 2: So be prepared to see hats and maybe sweaters. Definitely socks.
38:17
Speaker 1: But what about the status of hats.
38:19
Speaker 2: Oh, definitely hats. Definitely hats. Definitely socks. We'll see if
38:23
Speaker 2: the sweaters work.
38:25
Speaker 1: Good stuff. They will they will they will work. They
38:28
Speaker 1: will work. You've made sweaters before.
38:29
Speaker 2: I've made sweaters before, and I'll do it again.
38:33
Speaker 1: And obviously shout out our resident fiber artists. Follow Jen
38:38
Speaker 1: at half double Docent on Insta.
38:40
Speaker 2: Absolutely, she is a constant source of inspiration.
38:45
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get negative again. Yeah, I don't like
38:48
Speaker 1: to be well, I like to be negative. Sometimes if
38:50
Speaker 1: it's negative for the sake of humor, I'll be negative.
38:54
Speaker 1: But let's let's be a little negative, and I'll ask
38:58
Speaker 1: what fantom or community are you can over being a
39:01
Speaker 1: part of but you can't quite quit? Or which frandom
39:05
Speaker 1: have you quit because it just got too toxic?
39:10
Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a big hitter.
39:13
Speaker 2: I think most of the fandoms that I'm no longer
39:17
Speaker 2: like a massive part of there was a gradual off rand.
39:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, the natural ebb and flow of being into things
39:27
Speaker 1: throughout your life. Yes.
39:30
Speaker 2: The hard pivot that I think a lot of people
39:32
Speaker 2: will understand is Harry Potter. Ah, Yes, it's it's the
39:37
Speaker 2: hard pivot that I think a lot of people will
39:38
Speaker 2: understand that I have some conflict over. When I was
39:45
Speaker 2: Harry Potter was something that I wasn't allowed to even touch.
39:50
Speaker 2: Like if my friends had a Harry Potter book and
39:53
Speaker 2: they accidentally dropped it and I was seen picking it
39:56
Speaker 2: up and giving it to them, If.
39:58
Speaker 1: You were seen being a good neighbor, that would be
40:00
Speaker 1: a bad thing there.
40:02
Speaker 2: I felt that there was great risk, and so when
40:07
Speaker 2: I was finding who I was separate from religion, I
40:12
Speaker 2: read them all. I watched them all. I really delved
40:16
Speaker 2: into that as like I'm separating myself and I'm making
40:22
Speaker 2: this choice that I couldn't in my childhood. Now.
40:26
Speaker 1: JK.
40:26
Speaker 2: Rowling, Well, she probably always was a turf.
40:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we didn't have the word for it back
40:31
Speaker 1: then though, And I.
40:35
Speaker 2: Was just learning how to be a good person to
40:41
Speaker 2: my fellow man in the way that I now see
40:45
Speaker 2: being a good person, and so realizing what has happened there.
40:52
Speaker 2: We have the books in physical form, and I reread
40:56
Speaker 2: them in that physical form. But I'm not going to
40:59
Speaker 2: buy I'm like, I'm not I'm not going to as
41:03
Speaker 2: much as I would love the game, the Harry Potter game,
41:07
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna buy it.
41:09
Speaker 1: Oh, Hogwarts Legacy or the New Quidditch Yes, the Hogwarts.
41:13
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, as much as I would love Hogwarts Legacy,
41:16
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna buy it. Sure, And so it's been
41:19
Speaker 2: kind of an intentional line.
41:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you don't want to line the pockets of
41:26
Speaker 1: well I suppose to. Like they always say, it's a
41:29
Speaker 1: free market, isn't it. It's a free market capitalism. So
41:32
Speaker 1: you're choosing to vote with your wallet and just be like, well,
41:36
Speaker 1: that person has enough money and is doing enough bad
41:38
Speaker 1: things with that money.
41:40
Speaker 2: Yep, and they don't. They don't need mine, and I
41:45
Speaker 2: I can engage with the story with the versions.
41:49
Speaker 1: I already have. Yeah, the original thing that isn't just ancillary. Well,
41:54
Speaker 1: if you know, if I call a lot of the
41:57
Speaker 1: Wizarding World things an ancillary cash grab, that really under
42:00
Speaker 1: does about ninety percent of the content that we cover
42:02
Speaker 1: here at gate Leaper, because most things are just spinoffs
42:07
Speaker 1: of spinoffs of spinoffs.
42:08
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's not the part I'm critiquing. H answer,
42:11
Speaker 2: cash crabs.
42:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not her main crime. No, that's not the crime.
42:16
Speaker 1: Might literally be a crime now, like we'll fight, we'll
42:19
Speaker 1: find out as cases developed. But be so funny if
42:22
Speaker 1: she faces legal action for things. JK. Rowling, I'm not
42:25
Speaker 1: scared of saying her name. Okay, we've made it through
42:29
Speaker 1: these questions. We've made it through most of these questions. Yeah,
42:32
Speaker 1: there's just there's just one left, and it's looking to
42:35
Speaker 1: the future. So we've covered your life through fandom, such
42:38
Speaker 1: as the name of this series. But now we're going
42:41
Speaker 1: to look to the future the future order. Yes, whether
42:45
Speaker 1: that's Villain era, more Villain era, or some kind of
42:49
Speaker 1: new era. That scientists haven't even conceived of yet.
42:52
Speaker 2: Gosh, I will send a copy of the scientific journal
42:56
Speaker 2: I get published in whenever I discover that new era.
42:59
Speaker 1: Beyond villain lovely stuff, Yes, beyond villain, Yes, dark villain,
43:04
Speaker 1: dark villain.
43:05
Speaker 2: Uh, string villain, string villain, quantum villain.
43:09
Speaker 1: Quantum villain. What's a fantom or media property that you
43:13
Speaker 1: want to get into but you haven't had the chance
43:16
Speaker 1: to yet. It could be financial barriers, could be time barriers.
43:22
Speaker 1: It could be gatekeeping based barriers. This one.
43:26
Speaker 2: If you would have asked me a couple months ago
43:29
Speaker 2: as well, uh huh, I would have not been as
43:32
Speaker 2: close to engaging in this fandom as I currently am.
43:36
Speaker 1: Okay, PC gaming, pc gaming.
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Speaker 2: We did the PC gaming episode and I knew nothing
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Speaker 2: about PC gaming. If you have listened to the episode
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Speaker 2: you can confirm. But it's a space that I have loved.
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Speaker 2: When I first started playing video games on console because
43:59
Speaker 2: that was my first other than Nancy Drew, that was
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Speaker 2: kind of my first type of game play was a
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Speaker 2: huge screen that's in a living room, and so because
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Speaker 2: it's on the TV in the living room, any mistake
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Speaker 2: I made felt so big and so public, even though
44:21
Speaker 2: it's just you. It's on the TV, and so the
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Speaker 2: coding is like, oh gosh, I've failed and everyone saw it.
44:27
Speaker 2: There's only two people here, yeah, and cats, and the
44:31
Speaker 2: cats honestly they are more judgmental than either of us. Yeah,
44:35
Speaker 2: so that's a fair shot. But I loved doing handheld
44:42
Speaker 2: so we got the switch light. Yes, playing video games
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Speaker 2: on that helped me kind of see this as personal enjoyment.
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Speaker 2: But PC gaming still remained elusive. It felt like if
44:55
Speaker 2: you were doing PC gaming, you had to do it properly,
44:58
Speaker 2: and there was a lot of rules and a lot
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Speaker 2: of expertise, and you were supposed to buy all the
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Speaker 2: pieces and then sometimes you broke them and if you
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Speaker 2: didn't have enough money to risk breaking it, then oh no,
45:08
Speaker 2: yeah you shouldn't be.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It just felt like there was a financial and technical
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Speaker 2: and gate keepy barrier.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Prior prior to.
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Speaker 2: Our PC gaming episode, yes, like it was. The games
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Speaker 2: we talked about were fun, the guests were really inviting
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Speaker 2: into this world, even for me who knew nothing. And
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Speaker 2: so now there will We are in the process of
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Speaker 2: acquiring a PC from Aaron of bfyt W.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the wonderful Aaron Randolph Yes of bfyt W and
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Speaker 1: the gate Leapers Cast Yes is selling as a piece
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Speaker 1: eight Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And so he's just been so kind of like, oh,
45:58
Speaker 2: we want to do this and this and this, Oh,
46:00
Speaker 2: then this one should do great for you, and just
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Speaker 2: being very kind and explaining things of I don't necessarily
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Speaker 2: know what that means. Oh, well that means us. So
46:10
Speaker 2: it's just been a good community that I don't even
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Speaker 2: have the PC yet. Yeah, And I'm so excited to
46:18
Speaker 2: delve into this world, and I think it's going to
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Speaker 2: be really helpful for me exploring new games I may
46:24
Speaker 2: not have otherwise tried because it's it's in the office,
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Speaker 2: Like how much more private could this?
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Speaker 1: Yeah be?
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Speaker 2: Like it's on the personal computer. This is my personal exploration.
46:38
Speaker 1: Is ah.
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Speaker 2: So I'll get some I'll get some cozy games, some
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Speaker 2: indie cozy games. I'll get some spooky games maybe for
46:46
Speaker 2: spooky season. For spooky season. I don't normally like anything spooky,
46:51
Speaker 2: but tis the season.
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Speaker 1: Tis the season? Ding dong merrily on ah, how dare
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Speaker 1: you No? I loved the answer to this question because
47:03
Speaker 1: I think I could be wrong, but most of the people,
47:06
Speaker 1: it's it's been something that oh one day, I'll get
47:10
Speaker 1: into this, but there are no current active plans, whereas
47:12
Speaker 1: this is in the pro I mean, Aaron literally has
47:16
Speaker 1: just messaged me the quote while I've been recording this podcast.
47:19
Speaker 1: So it's happening. So it's it's happening. And so by
47:24
Speaker 1: the time we sort of next check in, I don't know,
47:26
Speaker 1: one of our fandom flashback Patreon episodes or something like that,
47:31
Speaker 1: you'll have You'll have dived into gaming.
47:35
Speaker 2: I'll have played some games on the PC. I'll look
47:39
Speaker 2: at what a how do you do a how do
47:41
Speaker 2: you get a mode?
47:43
Speaker 1: How do you get a mod? Indeed, how do you
47:46
Speaker 1: do that?
47:47
Speaker 2: I'll probably play all the games vanilla first for a
47:52
Speaker 2: long time, yeah.
47:55
Speaker 1: And then get onto mod's then then mod everything to shit.
47:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. Honestly, it might just be Star Valley. That might
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Speaker 2: be the only thing that gets mods. Oh fantastic, I'm excited.
48:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's gonna be so good. You're going to
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Speaker 1: get into PC gaming, into the world of mods. Stream.
48:19
Speaker 1: Oh my god, if you do a gate leaper stream,
48:21
Speaker 1: that'd be amazing.
48:22
Speaker 2: My god, I would love it. Our live show was
48:24
Speaker 2: so much fun, uh huh that I was like, do
48:28
Speaker 2: I want to stream I think I think you should.
48:31
Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you going to do this? Oh
48:33
Speaker 2: my god, am I going to do this? Tell Aaron
48:35
Speaker 2: we need a bigger computer.
48:36
Speaker 1: Now. I love that you're going to achieve the final
48:40
Speaker 1: question already by the time, not by the time people
48:44
Speaker 1: are listening to this, but pretty soon after.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll thread about it.
48:51
Speaker 1: We're threaders now. Yeah, it's like Twitter was in like
48:54
Speaker 1: twenty ten. It's great. Okay, we do a little thing
48:59
Speaker 1: at the end of the interviews that sort of undermines
49:02
Speaker 1: the entire last hour of chat. And that's where I
49:07
Speaker 1: ask to hear your light through fandom in a simple
49:10
Speaker 1: little flow chart. If you could sum up one thing
49:13
Speaker 1: from your childhood, one thing from your teens, one thing
49:16
Speaker 1: from your twenties, and one thing for now and put
49:20
Speaker 1: it in in a flow chart, what would you say
49:24
Speaker 1: were your obsessions? What would you say were your fandom obsessions?
49:30
Speaker 2: If I were doing this, I will have a serious answer.
49:33
Speaker 2: But obviously I could say Lord of the Rings into
49:37
Speaker 2: Lord of the Ring, into Lord of the Rings into
49:40
Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings video.
49:41
Speaker 1: Games, and that would be valid.
49:43
Speaker 2: And that would be valid. But I think it would
49:46
Speaker 2: probably be more accurate to say Gregor the Overlander, into Christianity,
49:53
Speaker 2: into Christian music, Okay, into Lord of the Rings, into PC.
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Speaker 1: Gaming Okay, now even choosing something that.
50:02
Speaker 2: I'm oh, oh shit, I forgot crochet. Oh god, this
50:08
Speaker 2: is a shambles. No.
50:10
Speaker 1: I like it because you've, in true order fashion, you've
50:13
Speaker 1: hacked the format, because you understand the mind of the
50:17
Speaker 1: person in charge of the format. So what you've done
50:21
Speaker 1: there is I think the purpose of the question is
50:23
Speaker 1: to try and get you to narrow everything you talked
50:26
Speaker 1: about down to one. But you just listed most of them.
50:29
Speaker 2: Yes, honestly, it could have all of them, could have
50:33
Speaker 2: been it could have been Lord of the Rings, Lord
50:37
Speaker 2: of the Rings, Lord of the Rings, Lord of.
50:38
Speaker 1: The Rings, Lord of the Ring. You know, let's just
50:39
Speaker 1: say that's the answer.
50:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, honestly, Yeah, that's it.
50:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's that's probably it.
50:46
Speaker 2: Samwise Gamgee is the real hero here.
50:48
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah, in this essay.
50:50
Speaker 2: In this essay, that's it. That's the point.
50:53
Speaker 1: That's it, and that's it. That's the interview. Yeah, thanks
50:56
Speaker 1: for thanks for.
50:57
Speaker 2: Doing this, Uldra, thanks for interviewing me.
50:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure everyone will have loved hearing all about
51:02
Speaker 1: your life through fandom. That's the name of the series.
51:10
Speaker 1: There we Go. That was Audra's life through fandom. I
51:13
Speaker 1: hope you learned a few more things about our resident captain. Obviously,
51:18
Speaker 1: I think Ordra's very interesting, but now hopefully you do too.
51:21
Speaker 1: Unless you already previously held that belief and this podcast
51:25
Speaker 1: has done something to derail that, then ignore the last hour.
51:28
Speaker 1: But thanks for joining us. Do you follow us on
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51:39
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52:04
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