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Live, LARP, Love · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large nor John Collider Podcast.
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Speaker 1: The podcast that's about all the geeky things in the world,
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Speaker 1: and oh my goodness. You know I take a break
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Speaker 1: from our intro for one week and it gets horrible.
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Speaker 1: The podcast it's all about the geeky things in the
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Speaker 1: world that we love and how excited we are about them.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always is the
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Speaker 1: wonderful co host and even more wonderful friend, Jonathan Strickland.
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Speaker 2: I am full of fluon.
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Speaker 1: Fluon's that man, I rock that.
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Speaker 2: That relates to That relates to part of what we're
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Speaker 2: gonna talk about later. Also, Ariel doesn't know this, but
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Speaker 2: I'll be quizzing her anyway before we do.
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Speaker 1: Our quist fans will be happy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, well, I'm not gonna go full quizzer mode. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he only shows up on ridiculous history, but uh well,
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Speaker 2: we'll do a We're gonna do some news, which we
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Speaker 2: haven't done.
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Speaker 1: In a while.
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Speaker 2: This news is not related to TV or movie projects.
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Speaker 2: The strikes are still ongoing and we wish to continue
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Speaker 2: to respect that. So we do have some some news
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Speaker 2: about stuff what isn't movies or films starting off with
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Speaker 2: a disappointing conclusion to a Broadway show.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Once Upon a One More Time is a jux
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Speaker 1: jute juke box man.
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Speaker 2: It's a jute box musical. It's about the jutes who
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Speaker 2: came to England in the early Middle Ages.
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Speaker 1: It's based off of Britney Spears music, or built around
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Speaker 1: Britney Spears music, and it's about all of like kind
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Speaker 1: of the classic fairy tale princesses getting learning how to
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Speaker 1: live healthier lives, I guess, and more empowered lives, which
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Speaker 1: you know, seems like a great concept. I never would
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Speaker 1: have necessarily picked Britney Spears to build a jukebox musical
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Speaker 1: off of. But you know, there have been some good reviews. However,
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Speaker 1: there has not been enough of an audience.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently. Some of the more recent performances were to
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Speaker 2: half full houses. Anyone who has ever looked into what
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Speaker 2: it costs to mount and maintain a Broadway show will
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Speaker 2: know that it is not a cheap endeavor. It's incredibly expensive,
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Speaker 2: and in order to recoup the investment made by the
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Speaker 2: producers to launch a show, you need to perform really,
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Speaker 2: really well. It's one of the big reasons why Broadway
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Speaker 2: tickets are so frickin' expensive. It's because it's really expensive
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Speaker 2: to keep a show running on Broadway. You've got all
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Speaker 2: the staff, you're paying both on stage and behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes as well as in the house. You have residuals
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Speaker 2: that you have to pay for, the people who did
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Speaker 2: design on the work, you have you know, rent to
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Speaker 2: pay for the theater itself. Like, there's just a ton
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Speaker 2: of expenditures that go into keeping a show running. And
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Speaker 2: if it's if it's one of those things where you're
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Speaker 2: getting diminishing returns on the on the house size, yeah
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Speaker 2: you can. You could discount ticket prices, which would allow
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Speaker 2: more people to see the show, but it doesn't solve
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Speaker 2: the problem of bringing in enough revenue to cover the costs.
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Speaker 2: So it's not a big surprise. I will say they
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Speaker 2: they had something like I think it was like one
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty three performances or something, or that's how
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Speaker 2: many there will be when it closes. That still puts
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Speaker 2: it well ahead of tons of other shows, like more
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Speaker 2: than two hundred Broadway shows closed with fewer performances than that.
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Speaker 2: So Britney Spears's musical did a lot better than say,
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Speaker 2: oh I don't know a Broadway musical which had one
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Speaker 2: performance in nineteen seventy eight. I had fourteen previews but
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Speaker 2: only one performance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, and from what I've heard, I
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Speaker 1: haven't seen it. Honestly. I My drive to see it
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Speaker 1: is more big curiosity alone. So if it comes on
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Speaker 1: a touring show, maybe I'll consider it. What I understand
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Speaker 1: about the Broadway show is that it was a little
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Speaker 1: rough at the beginning. The costumes have changed over time.
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Speaker 1: I think they've gotten better, you know, And the performances
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Speaker 1: have started to gel over time. And that's that happens
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Speaker 1: with any show. Usually about the time, especially in like
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Speaker 1: community theater, usually by about the time that you're ending
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Speaker 1: the show, you're like, oh man, now I feel really good.
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Speaker 1: We've really gelled.
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Speaker 2: And we well. And often it will lead to things
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Speaker 2: like you'll see a remount of a show where they'll
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Speaker 2: go ahead and make changes to the show. Then too,
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Speaker 2: where the remount will be like you'll get different songs,
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Speaker 2: things will be rearranged. Sometimes different characters are assigned different
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Speaker 2: music to sing. All that kind of stuff like that
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Speaker 2: happens all the time. I mean, like shows like Wicked
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Speaker 2: underwent changes while they were in previews before they went
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Speaker 2: into full production. And that's not, like Ariel was saying,
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Speaker 2: not unusual, Like it may be that a show gets
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Speaker 2: a short run, then later on it gets retooled for
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Speaker 2: a touring group, so that maybe there's some few changes there.
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Speaker 2: Some of them might be necessary because the houses you
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Speaker 2: play aren't equipped to do all the stuff that you
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Speaker 2: would do on the Broadway stage. Beatlejuice is a great
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Speaker 2: example of that, because there's an effect in that show
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Speaker 2: that is done on Broadway that cannot be done in
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Speaker 2: a lot of houses in that it was touring in.
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Speaker 2: So that's the sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: So they've just fully changed that, like it's a lyric
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Speaker 1: in a song they fully changed too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so sad news for once upon a one
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Speaker 2: more time. Like you, Ariel, I was more like kind
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Speaker 2: of morbidly curious about this. I'm not a fan of
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Speaker 2: jukebox musicals in general, because I don't like trying to
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Speaker 2: fit already existing songs to support a story, or writing
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Speaker 2: a story around already existing songs in an effort to
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Speaker 2: make it coherent. I don't I've never like that. I
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Speaker 2: don't that the ones that are closest to ones I
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Speaker 2: would I would imagine watching are more like the biopics
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Speaker 2: where it's telling the story of the artist or band
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Speaker 2: or whatever. Those I could probably get behind. But stuff
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Speaker 2: like we Will Rock You all that kind of stuff,
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Speaker 2: I don't think I could do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not a huge fan for the same reason.
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Speaker 1: There there are some that I have kind of wanted
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Speaker 1: to watch. There was the one that was I can't now,
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Speaker 1: I can't. My my theater acquaintance, Susan Shocked was also
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Speaker 1: in the mount of this musical, and it was a
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Speaker 1: jukebox musical I want to say by the ARRHYTHMX, but
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Speaker 1: it probably wasn't a EURHYTHMX jukebox musical.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was though, hold on, sorry, everybody, either Jonathan's going
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Speaker 1: to cut this out or you're going to have to
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Speaker 1: stick through me doing this real quick.
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Speaker 2: Oh you'll be sticking. Yeah, I'm sticking. I'm sticking in
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Speaker 2: this in this very hot office. They'll be sticking with
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Speaker 2: us as you quietly google whatever it is that you're looking.
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Speaker 1: Look look at me, I'm it's head over heels.
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Speaker 2: Was the name of the musical, right, that's the Go Gos,
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Speaker 2: The Go Gos. Yeah, not that your Yeah, not the
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Speaker 2: rhythmics would have been like, listen yourhythmics. Their music is
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Speaker 2: really theatrical. I don't know that you could make a
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Speaker 2: good story out of it, but Annie Lenox and the
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Speaker 2: rhythmics music is very theatrical anyway that I could see.
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Speaker 2: Like the Go Gos, when I heard about Head over Heels,
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Speaker 2: I was like, well, that's weird. Although you know, some
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Speaker 2: of the the Go Gos have appeared as actors in
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Speaker 2: other stuff that I won't mention because you know, there's
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Speaker 2: still a strike going on. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, and like the Head Over Heels was kind of
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Speaker 1: like a like a medieval story, which appeals to me,
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Speaker 1: not that fairy tale princesses, don't. I watched some of
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Speaker 1: the numbers from Once upon a One More Time. Maybe
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Speaker 1: this is how this news article ended up in my
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Speaker 1: feed on TikTok, and they were good. The dancing was good,
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Speaker 1: the singing was mostly good. Britney Spears loses something when
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Speaker 1: somebody else takes on her song, which is interesting to me.
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Speaker 1: There are certain times where people are really dancing their
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Speaker 1: hearts out, and for some reason, maybe because it's just
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Speaker 1: not post produced as much because you're watching a live performance,
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Speaker 1: it falls flat in a couple of places, figuratively and literally.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I couldn't tell or follow a story from
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Speaker 1: those musical numbers that I was able to see, exception
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Speaker 1: of Toxic, which the evil stepmother sings appropriate and she's
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Speaker 1: got a great voice. It's very different from Britney and
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Speaker 1: at the end she just rips it. It's brilliant, But
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Speaker 1: the middle of the song, I there's something about it
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Speaker 1: that just I'm like, this feels like they're not singing
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Speaker 1: it right. And so maybe that's part of why not
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Speaker 1: enough people have seen it. Maybe it's a rising COVID,
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's everybody has the same response as us, which
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Speaker 1: is really a Britney Spears based musical.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's the people who maybe it's the people who
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Speaker 2: would most want to see the show can't afford to
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Speaker 2: see the show, because, like I said, that's very it's
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Speaker 2: an ongoing problem with Broadway where like a lot of
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Speaker 2: Broadway shows and we've talked about this before too, end
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Speaker 2: up having to toe a line where they appeal to older,
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Speaker 2: often more women than men, audiences, and so like there's this,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's this perception that there's a lack of
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Speaker 2: risk in a lot of Broadway productions. But part of
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Speaker 2: that is again because it's very expensive to mount a
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Speaker 2: Broadway production. So part of the beast is that you're
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Speaker 2: trying to attract the audiences who can afford to go
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Speaker 2: to Broadway and who do frequently go to Broadway, which
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Speaker 2: means a lot of the shows end up appealing to
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Speaker 2: the same demographic. And when you stray away from that,
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Speaker 2: the danger you have is that you don't attract the
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Speaker 2: people who can actually afford to see your show.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you do. You have companies that will
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Speaker 1: get you discounted seats because they basically poach the box
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Speaker 1: off poaches the wrong word. They are legitimate com but
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Speaker 1: like some of them are not. Some of them are
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Speaker 1: where right before show they'll be like, oh, these tickets
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Speaker 1: are not sold, let's get them cheap to people.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so like and and a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: including New York locals, do that because if you want
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Speaker 1: to go see Broadway shows, again, it's very expensive and
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Speaker 1: sometimes you can get a a one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: dollars seat for seventy dollars. If it looks like it's
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Speaker 1: not going to be sold.
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Speaker 2: You know, you can go to the like the tickets booth,
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Speaker 2: either in the Lincoln Center or at Times Square, and
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Speaker 2: they often will have seats for decent and sometimes really
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Speaker 2: truly significant discounts where you can you can start to
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Speaker 2: see shows like That's probably the only way I would
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Speaker 2: go see Gutenberg the Musical, because even though I love
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Speaker 2: that show, the tickets when I was looking were so expensive,
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is a two person show. It's
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Speaker 2: a two person show. There are no costumes really except
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Speaker 2: for truck her hats. Yeah. Yeah, there's prop costumes. There's
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Speaker 2: trucker hats that have names on them, but that's like,
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Speaker 2: there's no like elaborate costumes. There's no sets, like it's
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Speaker 2: it's almost like it's a black box theater style show.
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Speaker 2: And that's when I saw that. I was just like,
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Speaker 2: I don't know that I can justify spending like three
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Speaker 2: hundred bucks for a seat.
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Speaker 1: You're partially paying for the names in that, I would
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Speaker 1: guess because it's Josh Gadd and Andrew Reynolds.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's true, were.
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Speaker 1: The titular characters in the original camon of Book of Mormon. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and then Josh Gadd is in a lot of television movies.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, our audience doesn't get to hear where
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Speaker 2: the enthusiasm carried Ariel away there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, I told it.
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Speaker 2: I did the same thing. I said, the name of
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Speaker 2: a musical that's also the name of a movie. But
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Speaker 2: I think I kind of get away with it because
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Speaker 2: it's the name of the musical I was talking about.
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Speaker 1: We'll just be more careful the rest of this episode
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Speaker 1: in future episodes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have another Broadway story. This one's really cool.
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Speaker 2: It is it's already happened now, but it was that Hadestown.
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Speaker 2: The Broadway Musical created a special performance of the show
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Speaker 2: that was an autism friendly performance where they took the
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Speaker 2: show and they examined the things that are most likely
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Speaker 2: to be sort of sensory overload issues and they toned
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Speaker 2: all that down, and they also offered safe spaces for
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Speaker 2: people who are autistic or somewhere along the autism spectrum,
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing where they could go and sort
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Speaker 2: of recollect themselves before coming back in. And I just
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Speaker 2: think this is a great idea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too. And the safe spaces were also
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Speaker 1: staffed so if you needed help, you could get it.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a great idea, you know, we just
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Speaker 1: talked about how Broadway is not always very accessible to
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Speaker 1: many people, and I like that, at least on this level,
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Speaker 1: they're really trying to make the arts enjoyable to all.
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Speaker 1: I know that other like there are venues in Atlanta
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Speaker 1: that do autism kind of targeted performances, and I just
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Speaker 1: love that it's becoming more of a thing me too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I anything that makes theater more accessible is something
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Speaker 2: I like to see, and for it to be something
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Speaker 2: all the way up to Broadway a place where you
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Speaker 2: associate theater with at least some level of spectacle, right
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Speaker 2: like it again and shows like like Gutenberg the Musical,
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Speaker 2: there's not really spectacle on that scale. The performances have
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Speaker 2: to be spectacular because that shows very hard to do
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Speaker 2: with just do people. But it's but it's not like
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Speaker 2: it's not like, you know, big flashing lights and all
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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But yeah, it's great to see
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Speaker 2: that extend all the way there. I'm sure you know.
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Speaker 2: I have a feeling that the fact that we're seeing
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Speaker 2: more and more shows and break things like TikTok, like
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Speaker 2: not all of them do, but some of them have,
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Speaker 2: I think that that means that there's been a wider
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Speaker 2: awareness of some of these shows that you normally wouldn't get, Like,
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Speaker 2: there are eras of Broadway shows where I can't like.
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Speaker 2: While I was looking at the list of shows that
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Speaker 2: had closed after only a few performances, there were so
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Speaker 2: many that I never even heard of, including ones that
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Speaker 2: were adaptations of other works into musicals And I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I didn't know they even made a musical about that,
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Speaker 2: and like, you know, and something like Alan Minkin was
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Speaker 2: part of it. I'm like, what Mincoln, Like, I know,
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Speaker 2: I know a ton of his work I didn't know.
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Speaker 2: So like, I think that TikTok has broadened people's awareness
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Speaker 2: of the shows, and that, in turn has been a
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Speaker 2: lot of these shows who have recognized that their fan
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Speaker 2: base includes people who might have trouble sitting through a
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Speaker 2: normal production, like a typical production of the show, and
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Speaker 2: I like that they're making the adjustments so that those
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Speaker 2: folks can come in and joy theater.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, speaking of enjoying things, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna take it away, Ariel, because this is this
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Speaker 2: is getting into stuff that I just don't have any connection.
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Speaker 1: To, Okay, I mean Dungeons and Dragons.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that part I do have connection to Okay.
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Speaker 1: So Matthew Lillard, who's an actor from.
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Speaker 2: Lots of Stuff that you can't talk about.
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Speaker 1: Yes, is also Dungeons and Dragons fan the game and
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Speaker 1: has decided to make h He's a co founder of
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Speaker 1: the company. Oh gosh, I just lost it. Find familiar spirits,
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Speaker 1: which I think is great because you can have familiars
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Speaker 1: in Dungeons and Dragons, you can familiar in their spirits
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Speaker 1: usually that you summon, and then you know, spirits are alcohol.
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Speaker 1: He's he's they're making a quest and a whiskey called quests,
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Speaker 1: and and I think that's cute. That's really all I
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Speaker 1: have to say. I just if you like the alcohols
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Speaker 1: and you like whiskey. I like whiskey. It's one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite spirits, you know, and you like Dungeons and Dragons.
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Speaker 1: This is a fun one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Says that each bottle of alcohol will have a
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Speaker 2: different name attached to it. So there's the Paladin, the Rogue,
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Speaker 2: the warlock, and the dragon.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and paladins. For pre orders starting October fourth, and
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Speaker 1: it launches in November. They have this thing where it's
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Speaker 1: set the scene and you can like adjust your soundscape
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Speaker 1: and then roll a dice and listen to like a
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Speaker 1: storm raging and minstrel's playing in a firepit crackling and
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Speaker 1: mirth and merriment, orcs fighting and bar keep toiling toiling,
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Speaker 1: bar keep toiling? What it's a thing?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like a lot of barkeeps do
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Speaker 2: feel they toil quite a lot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you go to the quest End Whiskey website,
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Speaker 1: all you can do is put your email into get
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Speaker 1: Notified and look look at the ticker and then play
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Speaker 1: with this soundscaping. But yeah, I'm this is going on
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Speaker 1: my list of geeky alcohols to try.
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Speaker 2: I wait, I can't wait to hear about anebriated D
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Speaker 2: and D sessions.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, I do have a lot
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Speaker 1: of my friends who I played D and D with.
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Speaker 1: About half of my friends who I play D and
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Speaker 1: D with drink, but not to any large extent. I fun,
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Speaker 1: fun little side story when my husband and I were
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Speaker 1: paying for our wedding venue and they're like, you have
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Speaker 1: to prey pay, you have to pre pay this many
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Speaker 1: drinks for the bar, and we're like, our guests will
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Speaker 1: not drink that much, and like they eventually I think
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Speaker 1: can like conceded that if if they they they're like,
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Speaker 1: they're definitely going to drink that much, but if not,
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Speaker 1: you'll get a refund. And we got a huge refund
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Speaker 1: because like only ten people got drinks at our wedding.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I famously do not partake, so I
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Speaker 2: was not one of the drinkers at that particular event.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of D and D, are you still enjoying
18:11
Speaker 1: balder Skate three?
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Speaker 2: I've taken a break from it only because I don't.
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Speaker 2: I dove into it so deeply that I was worried
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Speaker 2: I was going to burn myself out, So I'm taking
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a break before I go back in. Also,
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Speaker 2: I was getting frustrated because I think, well, one, my
18:28
Speaker 2: party makeup was not ideal, Like I had characters in
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Speaker 2: my party because I liked the characters, not because they
18:37
Speaker 2: they complimented each other really well. And so I was
18:41
Speaker 2: getting that in mass effect. I was getting my patuity
18:44
Speaker 2: handed to me on a regular basis by enemies that
18:48
Speaker 2: I did not think we're going to be that tough,
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Speaker 2: but turned out to be extremely tough. And it also
18:56
Speaker 2: doesn't help that I chose Barred as my prime character's
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Speaker 2: class and I was running with a cleric who I like,
19:06
Speaker 2: but the cleric is a like some clerics are decent fighters,
19:10
Speaker 2: this cleric is not. And so I was like, I
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Speaker 2: gotta switch this person out. I gotta get a different
19:15
Speaker 2: I gotta get a fighter in here. And I also
19:19
Speaker 2: realized that when I backtracked, because I was, you know,
19:21
Speaker 2: pretty far into the game. When I backtracked, I encountered
19:24
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of areas in the very first like
19:27
Speaker 2: section of map of the map that you open up
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Speaker 2: that I just didn't see when I was going through
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Speaker 2: the first time. And I'm like, ah, man, there's all
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Speaker 2: these other quests that I didn't even touch. I should
19:38
Speaker 2: do these so I can build up my characters a
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Speaker 2: little bit more, get them a couple more skills, so
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Speaker 2: that I'm not struggling so much. So that's kind of
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Speaker 2: where I'm at now. But the reason you bring it
19:51
Speaker 2: up is because you came across some videos from Amelia Tyler,
19:56
Speaker 2: the voice actor who does the narrator voice in Bulder's Gate.
20:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've released multiple videos of her outtakes as narrator.
20:10
Speaker 1: They're really really funny, yes, And some of them are
20:14
Speaker 1: in such a narrative way that I'm like, did they
20:16
Speaker 1: purposefully plan these or was she just like sleep deprived
20:21
Speaker 1: and bonkers in the recording studio, whether at home or
20:26
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that this was recorded in a sound studio
20:28
Speaker 1: and not.
20:29
Speaker 2: It sounds like it sounds like a sound studio because
20:33
Speaker 2: it's a very very clean audio and there's like no
20:38
Speaker 2: extraneous noise or anything, and it's it's also the other
20:43
Speaker 2: thing that I think is funny is that when she
20:46
Speaker 2: messes up, which you know that this is all these
20:49
Speaker 2: are just bloopers. It's just the mess ups, so you
20:51
Speaker 2: don't get to hear any of the stuff that she
20:53
Speaker 2: got right. It's just like and this is this is
20:56
Speaker 2: the actress herself who has released these videos on her
21:00
Speaker 2: YouTube channel, because I would in checked it, but uh,
21:05
Speaker 2: like when when she messes up, she stays like in
21:08
Speaker 2: the world of D and D and a lot of
21:10
Speaker 2: these where she'll make references to other D and D stuff,
21:13
Speaker 2: which makes me wonder like, oh, did she just did
21:15
Speaker 2: she pick up on all this just because she had
21:18
Speaker 2: to do so many voiceover lines that are you know,
21:22
Speaker 2: related to dungeons and dragons or is she also like
21:26
Speaker 2: schooled in D and D outside of her work as
21:29
Speaker 2: a voice actor. I don't know the answer to that.
21:31
Speaker 2: But the point where she said she said I'm a bard,
21:35
Speaker 2: I seduced the door. I laughed so hard.
21:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know it's interesting you you are curious
21:43
Speaker 1: about that. I was curious about that for the voice
21:45
Speaker 1: actress for Lazelle Lazel, because she was on TikTok doing
21:55
Speaker 1: doing words in that characters. Uh racial language? Is that
22:02
Speaker 1: the way you say it?
22:04
Speaker 2: Yankee?
22:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, get Yankees, but it's a new version of dann Yankees.
22:14
Speaker 1: But yeah, so she was also doing fun stuff with that.
22:18
Speaker 1: I don't know if it didn't look like it was
22:20
Speaker 1: a paid promotion, it looks like she might have just
22:22
Speaker 1: been doing that on her own fund. So yeah, I
22:23
Speaker 1: do wonder how many of these voice actors are also
22:26
Speaker 1: fans of the content.
22:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's either way, whether they're fans or not. The
22:34
Speaker 2: bloopers are a ton of fun to listen to, so
22:38
Speaker 2: you should definitely check those out. They do. They do
22:41
Speaker 2: include swears, and you should know that Amelia Tyler is
22:45
Speaker 2: English and as such, she swears with a level of
22:51
Speaker 2: sophistication and frequency that is probably not appropriate for younger ears.
22:57
Speaker 1: Yes, for those people who are too late to google
23:00
Speaker 1: these things, but not too wazy to go to our website,
23:04
Speaker 1: which I'm guessing is a very small portion of people.
23:06
Speaker 1: They will be in our show notes. I've only got
23:09
Speaker 1: one in our current notes, but I'll add both of
23:11
Speaker 1: them or all of them or whatnot. Yeah, we're going
23:16
Speaker 1: to continue on the video games line. So this is
23:20
Speaker 1: not something that I can necessarily take advantage of because
23:23
Speaker 1: I don't have a record player. But one of my
23:25
Speaker 1: favorite games and also a separate game that Jonathan really likes,
23:29
Speaker 1: are both issuing their soundtracks on vinyl, and I think
23:33
Speaker 1: that's pretty dang cool.
23:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you must be a big fan of Bastion, oh.
23:37
Speaker 1: Man that I love Bastion and I love the soundtrack,
23:41
Speaker 1: like to the point where I've tried to get my
23:42
Speaker 1: band to cover some of the songs from it.
23:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're releasing a double LP album and that's going
23:50
Speaker 2: to be forty two dollars in ninety nine cents. And
23:53
Speaker 2: then the other one is Hades, which is the game
23:55
Speaker 2: that I really really liked, like it a lot, also
23:58
Speaker 2: has a great gat a soundtrack. That one's a four
24:03
Speaker 2: LP set and is at a whopping eighty nine dollars
24:06
Speaker 2: ninety nine cents. You get a lot of artwork too,
24:09
Speaker 2: so it's not just like the albums, you get art
24:11
Speaker 2: as well. That's pretty pretty hefty price for soundtracks, but
24:18
Speaker 2: for collectors, I'm sure that'll be something that they would
24:21
Speaker 2: be really into and interested in. As much as I
24:25
Speaker 2: like the soundtrack the Haites, I do have a turntable
24:28
Speaker 2: so I can listen to records, I just don't know
24:31
Speaker 2: if I can bring myself to pull the trigger on
24:33
Speaker 2: an eighty dollars purchase for a soundtrack. Yeah, and that's
24:37
Speaker 2: more than I paid for the game.
24:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, another game is incredibly expensive. I'm gonna have to check.
24:44
Speaker 1: I haven't played Hades yet, and maybe I should. I haven't.
24:47
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten into a whole lot of road lights.
24:49
Speaker 1: I guess maybe Bastian is no Bastian's a storyline, but
24:53
Speaker 1: anyhow it is. I'm sure I'll like the Haiti soundtrack
24:57
Speaker 1: because it's the same people who did the Bastian soundtrack.
24:59
Speaker 1: That's why they're both vinyl releases, Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett. Yeah,
25:05
Speaker 1: it's I'm excited for this just because again, the music
25:08
Speaker 1: is really good. The price points high, but the music
25:11
Speaker 1: is really good. And I am always happy when it
25:14
Speaker 1: comes up in my playlist.
25:15
Speaker 2: Away yeah, like delighted and like. And I don't want
25:20
Speaker 2: to come across as saying it's not going to be
25:22
Speaker 2: worth the money you pay for it. It's just hard
25:24
Speaker 2: for me to get past the hurdle of I only
25:27
Speaker 2: paid like twenty bucks for the game, which has all
25:30
Speaker 2: the music, and it already I just don't I can't
25:32
Speaker 2: play it on a turntable. But if you are someone
25:35
Speaker 2: who likes to collect stuff and if vinyl like really
25:39
Speaker 2: is your thing, then I totally get it. Like, it's
25:42
Speaker 2: no shade on anybody who goes after that. It's just
25:44
Speaker 2: my own mental block that I have to get past.
25:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And yet we're still not done with video
25:52
Speaker 1: game news. So people who are I knew how I
26:00
Speaker 1: was going to start the sentence, and then my brain
26:03
Speaker 1: and mouth stopped communicating with each other.
26:07
Speaker 2: Well, there's a there's a video game company called BioWare.
26:10
Speaker 2: They are known for some really big titles, including things
26:13
Speaker 2: like the aforementioned Mass Effect. They also, like way back
26:17
Speaker 2: in the day, did Star Wars Nights of the Old Republic.
26:20
Speaker 2: They've done tons of different titles, and now some fans
26:24
Speaker 2: of those various franchises are a bit worried because some
26:28
Speaker 2: of them are some of those latest you know, titles
26:30
Speaker 2: in the franchise are under development right now. But the
26:33
Speaker 2: company also has just had a restructuring and laid off
26:37
Speaker 2: a bunch of people, including senior members of the team,
26:41
Speaker 2: people who were instrumental in establishing these franchises in the
26:45
Speaker 2: first place. So it's got a lot of people worried
26:48
Speaker 2: that the company itself could be in trouble, or if
26:51
Speaker 2: the company it is okay, that the titles could be
26:55
Speaker 2: in trouble.
26:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because they were supposed to. People were expecting
27:01
Speaker 1: them to talk about both Dragon Age Streadwolf and the
27:04
Speaker 1: new Mass Effect game whatever it is at EA play Live,
27:07
Speaker 1: and that's not happening. Byware has announced it that they
27:12
Speaker 1: won't be giving any updates on those, and I you know, honestly,
27:19
Speaker 1: if it's just a matter of we needed to restructure
27:21
Speaker 1: and we're still working on these and they're not at
27:24
Speaker 1: a point where we can announce them, but we're still
27:25
Speaker 1: working on them, I'm fine with that. Too many games
27:29
Speaker 1: get released before they should.
27:32
Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, when you're when you're looking at like the
27:35
Speaker 2: games released, it's going to be one hundred and thirty
27:39
Speaker 2: three gigs to download and then you're going to have
27:41
Speaker 2: a twenty seven gig patch. Like that's that's tough.
27:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, and one of those games, you know, so like
27:48
Speaker 1: Cyberpunk was one of the games that released that just
27:51
Speaker 1: was notorious for being black horrible upon release, and then
27:56
Speaker 1: Mass Effect and Drameda, which was after the trilogy all like,
28:00
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it fine, even with the bugs, but yeah,
28:03
Speaker 1: some people found it near unplayable, So I guess another
28:08
Speaker 1: part of it is they did outsource Star Wars Old
28:11
Speaker 1: Republic to Broadswords Studio in twenty twenty two, so you know,
28:15
Speaker 1: that's I can understand how someone could see all of
28:19
Speaker 1: these different things and be a little worried. I've got
28:23
Speaker 1: too much to worry about in my life to put
28:25
Speaker 1: worry towards this. I hope that I like some of
28:27
Speaker 1: their games, and I hope that they continue to put
28:30
Speaker 1: out awesome games, and until they do, I will just
28:33
Speaker 1: live my life.
28:34
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I'm mostly hoping that the folks who
28:37
Speaker 2: are laid off are able to land somewhere and get
28:40
Speaker 2: a gig with another studio. Like we're talking about people
28:43
Speaker 2: who who have had a very long history in game development,
28:47
Speaker 2: game writing, that kind of stuff, and they are responsible
28:51
Speaker 2: for some of the more like compelling narratives in video games.
28:57
Speaker 2: It would be a shame if their talents were not
29:00
Speaker 2: put to you somewhere else. So hopefully they all find
29:03
Speaker 2: gainful employment elsewhere.
29:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, the being in the game industry is hard work.
29:10
Speaker 1: It sounds like a lot of fun, I'm sure it is,
29:11
Speaker 1: but it's a lot of hard work. One of my
29:13
Speaker 1: friends is pitching their game at a games conference this
29:18
Speaker 1: week and it's yeah, exhausting. Awesome, but exhausting. Okay, last
29:27
Speaker 1: little bit of news. This is just weird to me.
29:32
Speaker 1: There are people who are pretending to be geek Squad,
29:34
Speaker 1: like Best Buys troubleshooting team, geek Squad as a scam
29:40
Speaker 1: to get your personal information. I guess be careful of that.
29:43
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they're not like camping out in Best Buy
29:45
Speaker 1: stores or coming to your house. I'm assuming that they're
29:48
Speaker 1: calling you or emailing you.
29:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, They're sending like texts and email. This is so.
29:52
Speaker 2: This is called social engineering. It is like when you
29:56
Speaker 2: think of hackers, like often the vision that comes to
29:59
Speaker 2: mind is some person in a hoodie sitting in a
30:02
Speaker 2: dark room, their faces lit up by a screen and
30:05
Speaker 2: they're just tappity tabby tappy typing away. But that's not
30:08
Speaker 2: really how a lot of hackers work. A lot of
30:09
Speaker 2: hackers work through social engineering, which is convincing someone to
30:14
Speaker 2: hand over access to something that you want, typically by
30:17
Speaker 2: tricking them. So in this case, posing as a troubleshooter
30:21
Speaker 2: who is saying, hey, you need to give me access
30:24
Speaker 2: to your machine because it turns out you've got this
30:27
Speaker 2: inactive subscription and if you don't do this soon, you're
30:31
Speaker 2: going to get charged, you know, hundreds of dollars, so
30:34
Speaker 2: we want to make sure that we take care of that.
30:36
Speaker 2: None of that makes any sense, but if you create
30:39
Speaker 2: that sense of urgency and that sense that someone's going
30:42
Speaker 2: to get hit financially if they don't act very quickly,
30:45
Speaker 2: it can often be a motivator, and that's why a
30:48
Speaker 2: lot of people fall for these kind of scams. So
30:51
Speaker 2: it's not like this is in particular a new approach.
30:54
Speaker 2: In fact, it's not even new for scammers to use
30:58
Speaker 2: geek squad as they're way of trying to get in.
31:01
Speaker 2: But it is good to be on the alert so
31:03
Speaker 2: that if you get a message like an unsolicited message
31:07
Speaker 2: from geek Squad and you're like, I don't even remember
31:11
Speaker 2: having anything that's covered by this, Then there's a very
31:15
Speaker 2: very very good chance that that's just scam artists trying
31:19
Speaker 2: to target you because maybe your information came up in
31:22
Speaker 2: some data breach or something and they're just going through
31:25
Speaker 2: the database one name at a time, because it doesn't
31:27
Speaker 2: take many hits for it to be a success, right, Like,
31:30
Speaker 2: that's the really tragic thing is they can have lots
31:34
Speaker 2: and lots of misses, but they just get a few
31:36
Speaker 2: hits that can be enough to pay for the whole scam.
31:39
Speaker 2: So just be on the lookout.
31:42
Speaker 1: And I assume most of our listeners would be savvy
31:44
Speaker 1: about that kind of a thing, but yeah, yep, you
31:47
Speaker 1: never know when you're just not going to be in
31:49
Speaker 1: the right mind to catch it.
31:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's the news, And we got a little
31:54
Speaker 2: bit time left, so we're going to do something fun
31:57
Speaker 2: where I'm going to interview Ariel. We had talked about
32:00
Speaker 2: doing this before, about one of us interviewing the other
32:03
Speaker 2: about different stuff. We've kind of done it a little
32:04
Speaker 2: bit in the past, and this time I wanted to
32:07
Speaker 2: talk to Ariel about live action role playing LARPing, I
32:13
Speaker 2: do my best. So I had mentioned earlier just this
32:18
Speaker 2: is just a fun little bit. I had mentioned earlier
32:21
Speaker 2: that I was full of flune. Flun is a reference
32:25
Speaker 2: to the world of LARPing. Ariel, can you give a
32:28
Speaker 2: kind of explanation of what flun means?
32:32
Speaker 1: Basically means excitement for like this specific thing you're about
32:36
Speaker 1: to do.
32:39
Speaker 2: There you go, Okay, well, I'm going to now quiz
32:42
Speaker 2: you on some supposed some supposed larp terms. Now, first
32:47
Speaker 2: of all, we should say not all LARPs use all
32:51
Speaker 2: the terminology. It's not universal. And just because Ariel may
32:56
Speaker 2: or may not have encountered a word that, there's no
32:58
Speaker 2: judgment here. It's just kind of I'm trying to see
33:02
Speaker 2: if the list I found is at all representative.
33:07
Speaker 1: Cool, because like I've played a few different LARPs, but
33:11
Speaker 1: especially like in the past for minillion years, it's mainly
33:15
Speaker 1: been with one larp company. So we'll see how much
33:18
Speaker 1: I remember from my old olden days.
33:21
Speaker 2: Okay, do you know what it means within LARPs to
33:27
Speaker 2: go smogging? Woo?
33:35
Speaker 1: You know what? I feel like? That sounds familiar to me,
33:38
Speaker 1: but I don't know. And as soon as you tell
33:39
Speaker 1: me I'll probably would be like, oh, shoot, yes, that's it.
33:42
Speaker 2: Well, according to this word press blog boast that I'm
33:47
Speaker 2: pulling this from, it means to share LARP war stories. Oh,
33:52
Speaker 2: when you're engaged in smogging, you're talking about your war
33:56
Speaker 2: stories from various LARPs. Okay, how about this? Do you
34:00
Speaker 2: know what lit form is? One word lit form?
34:07
Speaker 1: If you're any of my larp friends or game designer friends,
34:10
Speaker 1: please don't judge me. I've only had one cup of
34:12
Speaker 1: coffee today.
34:13
Speaker 2: Well and again again, these terms may not be universal.
34:16
Speaker 2: This is what I think is interesting is sometimes you
34:18
Speaker 2: come across these resources where it's supposed to be like
34:21
Speaker 2: a you know, like a kind of a definitive glossary
34:26
Speaker 2: of terms, and then you find out, oh, no, this
34:28
Speaker 2: is just really relevant to one specific group.
34:32
Speaker 1: And it might be it might be more broad. I
34:38
Speaker 1: definitely got into rules more once I stopped, Once the
34:42
Speaker 1: breadth of LARPs that I played got narrowed down, I
34:46
Speaker 1: became more into the rule system of that one game,
34:49
Speaker 1: that one company which has changed. The different games have
34:53
Speaker 1: different rules. But no, again, it's another one of the
34:56
Speaker 1: ones that I'm like, that sounds super familiar and I
34:59
Speaker 1: should know.
35:00
Speaker 2: So again, According to this definitive resource, lit form references
35:07
Speaker 2: a style of LARP characterized by long form pre written
35:11
Speaker 2: character sheets and often other long form written materials, such
35:15
Speaker 2: as descriptions of various elements of the setting.
35:19
Speaker 1: So pregenerating characters.
35:21
Speaker 2: Basically, I think it's I think it's more like people
35:24
Speaker 2: who have gone overboard, like or like the whole game
35:29
Speaker 2: is for people who go overboard on like creating character
35:32
Speaker 2: backgrounds and motivations and things. This always see I'm not
35:35
Speaker 2: a LARPer, but this makes me think of certain people
35:40
Speaker 2: that Ariel and I have worked with at the George
35:42
Speaker 2: Renaissance Festival, because we were all encouraged to come up
35:45
Speaker 2: with backgrounds for our characters and motivations and what makes
35:49
Speaker 2: them tick. Some people took that idea and ran with
35:54
Speaker 2: it so far that we haven't seen them since.
35:58
Speaker 1: I mean, like, okay, so here's the thing. My very
36:01
Speaker 1: first LARP character. I was brought in to LARPing when
36:04
Speaker 1: I was like eighteen nineteen or something like that, and
36:07
Speaker 1: I went to a festival and there are a bunch
36:10
Speaker 1: of LARPs like doing like little half days, not even
36:12
Speaker 1: a full one day, but like a little half days.
36:14
Speaker 1: And I joined the larp I was gonna play, and
36:16
Speaker 1: I played another one, but my characters were not fleshed out.
36:19
Speaker 1: They were not fleshed out, they weren't well thought through.
36:21
Speaker 1: So I just kind of randomly chose some stuff and
36:24
Speaker 1: came up with less than a paragraph of background. My
36:28
Speaker 1: most recent LARP character in the game that only has
36:31
Speaker 1: I think like two maybe two and a half games left,
36:34
Speaker 1: maybe three games left that I'm playing, she's got like
36:38
Speaker 1: five or six pages of character history that I developed before,
36:42
Speaker 1: like submitting the character for approval to plot, to make
36:45
Speaker 1: sure she fit within the world and that it was
36:46
Speaker 1: a story that they were interested in telling, you know,
36:50
Speaker 1: and then when you get to and then like we
36:53
Speaker 1: give in this particular game I play now and some others,
36:56
Speaker 1: we give basically like feedback, So we do like an
36:58
Speaker 1: event summary for our our personal experience and our characters experience,
37:02
Speaker 1: so they know what we liked, what we didn't like,
37:04
Speaker 1: what we encountered, how we're viewing the story they put
37:07
Speaker 1: out there, because a lot of times we miss it.
37:09
Speaker 1: And I know people who end up with like twelve
37:11
Speaker 1: pages of event summary. Sometimes I do, because like you're
37:16
Speaker 1: putting in all your character thoughts and all your personal
37:18
Speaker 1: thoughts and going through not only the plot things that
37:21
Speaker 1: you encountered, but the interpersonal things that you encountered. And
37:24
Speaker 1: then when you are on plot and you're writing up
37:26
Speaker 1: summaries for people to go play the NPCs, a lot
37:28
Speaker 1: of times you will give them, especially if it's an
37:31
Speaker 1: important NPC, several pages of write up so that they
37:36
Speaker 1: understand their character's viewpoint on the different things that are
37:38
Speaker 1: happening in the world to support the story that the
37:41
Speaker 1: plot wants to tell. So that I hadn't heard it
37:44
Speaker 1: called litform necessarily, or if I had, I had forgotten,
37:47
Speaker 1: but it is a very real thing.
37:50
Speaker 2: Well how about this this we'll find out if this
37:54
Speaker 2: term actually expands beyond this person's own list. Again, this
37:58
Speaker 2: is no reflection on you, Ariel. Do you know what
38:01
Speaker 2: might be? Do you know what a hook is in LARPing?
38:05
Speaker 1: Yes, it's when you send like an NPC or a
38:08
Speaker 1: PROP or something out. Really usually it's an NPC because
38:13
Speaker 1: you've got a module, which is like a small quest,
38:17
Speaker 1: like when you're playing World of Warcraft and you go
38:20
Speaker 1: meet the NPC and they're like, go do this thing
38:22
Speaker 1: and bring it back to me. A lot of times
38:25
Speaker 1: to you've got the overall plot in the game, and
38:27
Speaker 1: then you've got like little adventures that happen that have
38:30
Speaker 1: like small groups of people that get pulled to do it, like,
38:32
Speaker 1: oh no, my farm is being attacked by wolves. I
38:35
Speaker 1: need five people to help these wolves kill these ten
38:38
Speaker 1: wolves or whatever. Right, So the hook is the person
38:41
Speaker 1: who gets sent out to get those players to go
38:45
Speaker 1: on the adventure.
38:46
Speaker 2: Very very well done. The definition given here is an
38:51
Speaker 2: NPC whose job it is to deliver information to the
38:53
Speaker 2: PCs with the intent of them following up on the
38:56
Speaker 2: information by taking some form of action, which is exactly
39:00
Speaker 2: what you said. Okay, how at Yeah, but you had
39:04
Speaker 2: to you had to walk through it like you're being
39:06
Speaker 2: you're being uh by these questions. Okay, how about the
39:11
Speaker 2: term boffer?
39:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, boffer means that you hit each other with plumbing
39:17
Speaker 1: supplies wrapped in open cell or soft foam or latex weapons.
39:21
Speaker 2: There you go. It's a it's a type of larp
39:24
Speaker 2: where combat is live meeting what players actually tap each
39:27
Speaker 2: other with padded weapons and or strike one another with
39:30
Speaker 2: with projectiles which one go ahead, Oh, I was gonna say.
39:35
Speaker 2: It just makes me think of I remember watching a
39:37
Speaker 2: larp I wasn't part of it. But I just remember
39:39
Speaker 2: watching a larp where someone had especially little like handkerchiefs
39:44
Speaker 2: filled with corn starch that they were throwing it just
39:47
Speaker 2: yet like lightning bolt, lightning bolt light Just that's the
39:51
Speaker 2: vision I always get what I think of larp. It
39:54
Speaker 2: makes me laugh so much.
39:55
Speaker 1: Yes, there's this thing where if you watch a lart
39:58
Speaker 1: being played, it's very different from being involved in it
40:01
Speaker 1: because you aren't immersed in the story. You aren't your
40:04
Speaker 1: character is not about to get injured or die or
40:06
Speaker 1: whatever you know, or save somebody. You're just watching these
40:09
Speaker 1: other people from outside their imagination use their imagination. So
40:13
Speaker 1: it definitely looks super dorky from the outside. Sometimes it
40:17
Speaker 1: looks super dorky from the inside. But if you find
40:19
Speaker 1: a really good game that you like, really jive with
40:21
Speaker 1: the story and the other players, you forget all that.
40:24
Speaker 1: That being said, yes, when you do like certain spells
40:27
Speaker 1: or things like that, you do throw packets because you know,
40:32
Speaker 1: I fight with a sword, so I can have a
40:34
Speaker 1: latex weapon that's basically like a NERF weapon or Boffer arrows,
40:40
Speaker 1: which are arrows of foam on the tips that don't
40:42
Speaker 1: hurt when they hit you. Or you know, in the
40:44
Speaker 1: case of my current game, modded out nerf guns that
40:47
Speaker 1: are painted to look like old wild West guns but
40:50
Speaker 1: usually have like a stronger pull and look really cool.
40:53
Speaker 1: I'll post some in our show notes. You know, with spells,
41:00
Speaker 1: the only way that you can tell that someone has
41:02
Speaker 1: actually hit you with the spell is if you get
41:03
Speaker 1: hit with something. And so that's why you use the packets,
41:06
Speaker 1: because if I just pointed, you can say you didn't
41:07
Speaker 1: point at me, and large sanorious for people who don't
41:11
Speaker 1: notice that someone has targeted them or don't want to
41:14
Speaker 1: accept it.
41:15
Speaker 2: Well, it gets it gets to like that thing where
41:17
Speaker 2: kids would be playing, you know, like like guns, like
41:21
Speaker 2: gun style pretend games when they be out, Like I
41:24
Speaker 2: think about when I was a kid running around and
41:27
Speaker 2: we'd be playing like we're all in a big shootout,
41:30
Speaker 2: and it just comes down to the I got you, No,
41:32
Speaker 2: you did it, you missed like that kind of like
41:34
Speaker 2: if you don't have some method of actually creating a
41:38
Speaker 2: harmless impact, then you know, it comes down to the
41:44
Speaker 2: honor system, and some people are more honorable than others.
41:49
Speaker 1: Yes, and so cornstarch was used in packets so that
41:53
Speaker 1: it would kind of leave like a light a white
41:55
Speaker 1: mark on you that would wash out of your clothing
41:57
Speaker 1: so you could see that you got hit. However, sometimes
42:01
Speaker 1: weather happens when you're at a larp.
42:03
Speaker 2: And maybe you have a non Newtonian liquid inside of
42:06
Speaker 2: your inside of your spell.
42:07
Speaker 1: It's basically getting hit with rocks. Yes, so bird seed
42:12
Speaker 1: is much better to use. Other types of LARPs that
42:15
Speaker 1: don't use boffer are like salon LARPs. Well, they'll they'll
42:17
Speaker 1: use like rock, paper scissors, or role play or flipping
42:20
Speaker 1: a coin or something like that.
42:22
Speaker 2: Gotcha. Okay, this last one, I don't know if you've
42:26
Speaker 2: ever heard it in connection with LARPing, but I know
42:29
Speaker 2: you know the term because I know it's a familiar
42:32
Speaker 2: one with another activity you have done. What is a
42:37
Speaker 2: dead dog.
42:39
Speaker 1: My guess, is a plot line that is finished but
42:45
Speaker 1: the players don't want to give it up.
42:48
Speaker 2: No dead dog. Dead dog is when you all.
42:51
Speaker 1: An after party. Yes, okay, yeah, I don't know. We
42:58
Speaker 1: just call it a post game stake and booze up.
43:01
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, well, and like a Dragon con, there would
43:04
Speaker 2: be like the dead Dog party after which the staff
43:07
Speaker 2: would attend after the convention's over. It's for all the
43:10
Speaker 2: staff who have been working so hard to make the
43:14
Speaker 2: event happen, and then they just kind of get together
43:17
Speaker 2: and allow their bodies to deconstruct while they they have
43:23
Speaker 2: conversations until they're so tired they have to go home.
43:26
Speaker 2: So but yeah, in this case, they this person says
43:30
Speaker 2: a gathering for a meal at a restaurant following a
43:32
Speaker 2: LARP or a LARP convention, during which players and staff
43:35
Speaker 2: commonly discuss the event. I think they actually do mention
43:39
Speaker 2: that this term is common in the New England theater community,
43:42
Speaker 2: which may mean that this particular person is also located
43:45
Speaker 2: in New England, which again could explain why there are
43:51
Speaker 2: some terms that are not that common down here in
43:55
Speaker 2: the Southeast. And in fact, to be fair to the
43:58
Speaker 2: author of this piece, she actually does say LARP terminology
44:04
Speaker 2: is far from universal and lots of different communities use
44:06
Speaker 2: these terms to mean slightly or very different things, So
44:09
Speaker 2: I want to be fair to her as well. She
44:11
Speaker 2: wasn't trying to pass this off as the definitive glossary
44:15
Speaker 2: for LARP terminology.
44:17
Speaker 1: Yeah. The one that I thought that you were going
44:19
Speaker 1: to ask about that you didn't is turtling, which is
44:23
Speaker 1: I guess it might be specific to only certain LARPs.
44:27
Speaker 1: If you have a shield and you hide behind it
44:30
Speaker 1: so that no and a combat so that no legal
44:35
Speaker 1: targets are visible, and the only place that someone can
44:38
Speaker 1: hit you is an illegal target like the head. That's
44:42
Speaker 1: usually no, because it's unfair if you've got a shield
44:44
Speaker 1: big enough that you can just hide behind anoint only
44:46
Speaker 1: put your head out, and people aren't allowed to like
44:48
Speaker 1: flank you and go around you because it's not necessarily safe,
44:51
Speaker 1: and they aren't allowed to like charge you because it's
44:54
Speaker 1: not necessarily safe. You know, that tends to be poor sportsmanship.
45:00
Speaker 2: So yeah, well that makes me think of someone I
45:04
Speaker 2: used to watch fight in the SCA the Society of
45:07
Speaker 2: Creative Anachronism, which makes me think that maybe we do
45:10
Speaker 2: a future one of these where you can ask me
45:12
Speaker 2: questions about the SCA uh and all of my answers
45:16
Speaker 2: will be thirty years out of date because I've been
45:18
Speaker 2: out of it for so long, but I will at
45:21
Speaker 2: least be able to talk about what it was like
45:22
Speaker 2: when I was a teenager and the participating actively in
45:26
Speaker 2: the sea. That's that was what my kind of scratching
45:30
Speaker 2: my itch before I got involved with the Renaissance Festival.
45:33
Speaker 2: It's also how I knew some of the Renaissance Festival
45:37
Speaker 2: dances before I actually joined fair But okay, well, let's
45:42
Speaker 2: I want to ask you just a couple of questions
45:44
Speaker 2: that are specific to you. No longer the quiz part
45:46
Speaker 2: is over, okay, And that is like, so, how did
45:50
Speaker 2: you get into LARPing? Like what was your first larp
45:52
Speaker 2: and how did you how did you join.
45:56
Speaker 1: My Oh gosh, my first larp was so like I said,
46:01
Speaker 1: I went to Uh. I went to like a little
46:04
Speaker 1: LARP convention with some local and alarps. One of the
46:08
Speaker 1: actors in Hamlet with me was a LARPer and he
46:12
Speaker 1: was like, I think you'd enjoy doing this. Hey, let
46:15
Speaker 1: me I'll accompany you to a LARP or I'll take
46:18
Speaker 1: you out to a LARP that I play, right, and
46:22
Speaker 1: because I think you'd really enjoy it. And he was right,
46:24
Speaker 1: And I'm super glad that he did, because I've I've
46:28
Speaker 1: had some of my LARP friends for half my life essentially,
46:34
Speaker 1: and UH, and I've been playing and telling stories with
46:39
Speaker 1: these people for half my life. It's really kind of
46:41
Speaker 1: phenomenal when you think about it, you know, you're a
46:43
Speaker 1: similar friend. And so before we went to the actual game,
46:51
Speaker 1: we went to this convention and there was a game
46:53
Speaker 1: called with the with the company that I still larp
46:57
Speaker 1: with that has gone through some name changes. I think
47:02
Speaker 1: at the time the game was called Kingsgate, and it
47:05
Speaker 1: was kind of like like a European kind of fantasy larp.
47:12
Speaker 1: I played essentially a French elf edeshane elf called Paulette d'avriere.
47:17
Speaker 1: She was the daughter of some jewelers, and so I
47:20
Speaker 1: wore like super glue jewels to my face in my
47:23
Speaker 1: chest and I didn't really have a good grasp on
47:26
Speaker 1: the game, and so I like I made this character
47:32
Speaker 1: who ended up getting into a lot of the trouble
47:34
Speaker 1: and by the end of the game, like the game
47:37
Speaker 1: had a couple of campaign arcs that lasted years. But
47:40
Speaker 1: at the end of that game, like the definitive end
47:42
Speaker 1: of Kingsgate and Kingsgate too, I had my character was
47:49
Speaker 1: married and then she also was like bonded with the
47:54
Speaker 1: King of the Fairies separately and had to like house
47:58
Speaker 1: his power in her body to get through an apocalypse,
48:01
Speaker 1: which meant that I had could like throw some really
48:03
Speaker 1: powerful spells for a while. So that was fun. And
48:07
Speaker 1: she was also an actor, so we had an in
48:09
Speaker 1: game acting troop called the Gilded Lilies, and we tried
48:12
Speaker 1: to do like some Comedia del rtape, but none of
48:14
Speaker 1: us were classically trained in it, so it.
48:16
Speaker 2: Becomes like the rude mechanicals of a Yeah.
48:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were basically the rude mechanicals.
48:23
Speaker 2: I love it.
48:24
Speaker 1: So we had we had done some like Midsummer Night Dreams.
48:27
Speaker 1: Some uh some uh Rosenkranz and gilden Stern are dead.
48:34
Speaker 1: We did some original stuff. We did an episode of
48:39
Speaker 1: a medieval property that Rowan Atkinson was kind of the
48:42
Speaker 1: head of.
48:43
Speaker 2: Oh I gotcha, I know what one, the one the
48:45
Speaker 2: one about the dark Snake.
48:48
Speaker 1: Yes, that that and the particular story was kind of
48:51
Speaker 1: a Twelfth Night ish sort of a story, and so
48:55
Speaker 1: we did that and it was a lot of fun.
48:57
Speaker 1: The other game that I was playing at the time
48:59
Speaker 1: was wild Lands, which was a derivative game of wild
49:03
Speaker 1: Land South. There was some other Wildlands, like an offshoot
49:07
Speaker 1: of Nero, which is a big LARPing entity. There's many
49:12
Speaker 1: neuro chapters all over the States, maybe outside the States.
49:16
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't played Nearro forever. I was
49:18
Speaker 1: briefly on plot for them. But wild Lands was the
49:21
Speaker 1: other one, and I played a little fire Elf and
49:23
Speaker 1: the two. The two game systems were vastly different, and
49:26
Speaker 1: I hardly understood one of them went off of like
49:30
Speaker 1: hit points, and so like you had spells that you
49:32
Speaker 1: could use, and you had armor you could wear, but
49:34
Speaker 1: ultimately you had like twenty nine hit points, and once
49:37
Speaker 1: you got hit twenty nine times or for twenty nine
49:39
Speaker 1: points of damage, you were down. And that took a
49:41
Speaker 1: lot of math, and it was very hard for me,
49:43
Speaker 1: not because I was bad at math, but because you're
49:45
Speaker 1: you're trying to remember point values to everything and then.
49:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, while you're also like actively in a situation, right,
49:53
Speaker 2: Like I've only ever participated in a LARP once. It
50:00
Speaker 2: was an extension of a science fiction convention, and I
50:05
Speaker 2: was essentially in pcing. So the game master was telling
50:10
Speaker 2: us what to do. Really, all he was telling us is,
50:12
Speaker 2: here's how much your hits do in damage. So this
50:16
Speaker 2: is the number you yell as you're attacking, because that
50:19
Speaker 2: indicates how many hit points. If you make contact, the
50:23
Speaker 2: person will go down. And it was only in retrospect
50:26
Speaker 2: that I realized this was a very very bad game master,
50:31
Speaker 2: like a very bad game master, because like he had
50:34
Speaker 2: the attitude of let's kill these guys. You're going to
50:36
Speaker 2: hit for twelve points of damage or something like that,
50:38
Speaker 2: and we're just like, well, we're just doing what we're
50:40
Speaker 2: told to do. But it came across as a game
50:43
Speaker 2: master who had a kind of a power trip. And
50:47
Speaker 2: that can happen on in LARPs, it can happen in
50:49
Speaker 2: paper and pencil campaigns. It is the worst. Don't be
50:53
Speaker 2: that person.
50:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kingskate is a hit location. There's still a little
50:57
Speaker 1: bit of math if you've got like armor or toughness
50:59
Speaker 1: or something like that, or like protective shields, but it's
51:03
Speaker 1: a lot less and it's generally like if you're not
51:06
Speaker 1: wearing armor on an arm and you get hitt in
51:08
Speaker 1: an arm, you can't use that arm anymore. If you
51:10
Speaker 1: gain the leg, that leg is injured. If you can't
51:13
Speaker 1: get hit in three limbs, you're unconscious because you're losing
51:16
Speaker 1: too much blood.
51:16
Speaker 2: So see seeing how I'm bad at doing like maths
51:19
Speaker 2: super like super in the moment while a lot of
51:21
Speaker 2: stuff is happening. I think my character in that game
51:24
Speaker 2: would be known as Nolan the Naked Gnome, and he
51:27
Speaker 2: doesn't have any armor, and if you hit him he
51:30
Speaker 2: just knows that part is gone. Now.
51:32
Speaker 1: In my game Calamity that I'm playing right now, which
51:34
Speaker 1: is Horror Western alternate history kind of a thing, I
51:39
Speaker 1: have toughness. I have two points of toughness, and that
51:41
Speaker 1: can get renewed. But I can get hit twice before
51:43
Speaker 1: I have to take damage.
51:44
Speaker 2: That's so easy, way easier having to having to say like, oh,
51:49
Speaker 2: I need to subtract this amount from the amount they're
51:51
Speaker 2: saying or whatever it may be.
51:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, but when I do my volunteer monster time, if
51:55
Speaker 1: they give me too many stats, I'm like, cool, cool,
51:56
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to remember it. In worst case
51:58
Speaker 1: I get hit three times and then I fall down. Yeah,
52:02
Speaker 1: but yeah, like it is. It is hard because sometimes
52:04
Speaker 1: you have players who just do not take their hits,
52:07
Speaker 1: and you can't stat a fight to be challenging because
52:12
Speaker 1: they aren't playing fairly. And then sometimes there really is
52:16
Speaker 1: like the temptation to send something out to kind of
52:19
Speaker 1: teach them the lesson, but it is bad. It's bad
52:21
Speaker 1: sportsmanship again.
52:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, ultimately, what you're trying to do is
52:26
Speaker 2: the same thing you're trying to do with a pen
52:28
Speaker 2: and pencil RPG, which is well, I shouldn't be so
52:32
Speaker 2: universal what a lot of RPGs are trying to do,
52:35
Speaker 2: which is to tell a story. Not all RPGs are
52:38
Speaker 2: like that. Some RPG sessions are more about like people
52:42
Speaker 2: are more excited about the you know, testing their character
52:45
Speaker 2: against stuff, Like they're not really thinking about story as
52:48
Speaker 2: so much as can my character accomplish this the statistical task. Like,
52:55
Speaker 2: you know, we've the difference between rule playing and role playing,
52:58
Speaker 2: and it's not that one is necessarily better than the other,
53:01
Speaker 2: but if you have people who are on different pages,
53:04
Speaker 2: that can be a real that can be a challenge
53:07
Speaker 2: to work through. Where you know, if you've got a
53:09
Speaker 2: group of people who really want to tell a story,
53:12
Speaker 2: or another group of people who are just like I
53:14
Speaker 2: want to mend max my character to make them as
53:17
Speaker 2: powerful as I possibly can so I can defeat any
53:20
Speaker 2: situation that's in front of me. There can be a
53:24
Speaker 2: problem there, and it can unless it's very carefully addressed,
53:29
Speaker 2: it can really ruin a game.
53:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, and storytelling is part of the
53:35
Speaker 1: reason that I have stayed with the same LARP group
53:38
Speaker 1: for so long. There are lots of phenomenal LARPs, and
53:40
Speaker 1: there are LARPs for all kinds of different people who
53:42
Speaker 1: like different kinds of stories and gameplay. And this is
53:46
Speaker 1: not to say that the LARP group that I do
53:48
Speaker 1: stuff with is better than other LARP groups. I have
53:50
Speaker 1: lots of friends who from that Lark group who play
53:52
Speaker 1: other LARPs with other companies. It's just a lot of
53:59
Speaker 1: the people in the game system that I've been playing,
54:01
Speaker 1: we've been playing forever. We super comfortable with each other.
54:04
Speaker 1: There's a high level of trust. And there are new
54:06
Speaker 1: people who come in, but because there's already this high
54:09
Speaker 1: level of trust in storytelling built in there, it's phenomenal like.
54:14
Speaker 1: And then a lot of them are artists, and so
54:18
Speaker 1: they really are focused on that storytelling aspect and making
54:21
Speaker 1: props real and cool and creating immersive experiences and sets.
54:26
Speaker 1: At the Calamity at the Western Larp, I play, the
54:29
Speaker 1: entire mess hall of the group camp we use is
54:31
Speaker 1: transformed into a saloon with like a bar and whiskey bottles.
54:36
Speaker 1: Even though you can't drink alcohol in site, they're filled
54:38
Speaker 1: with iced tea, and then like a player piano and
54:41
Speaker 1: we change out all the light bulbs for Edison bulbs,
54:43
Speaker 1: and it's like just the amount of effort people put
54:46
Speaker 1: in to create this collaborative world is really it's really fantastic.
54:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's really cool. I love the thought of LARPs.
54:57
Speaker 2: I don't know how well I would do in one.
55:01
Speaker 2: I thought about the Calamity one, like when that was
55:04
Speaker 2: first just being talked about as a concept, I was
55:07
Speaker 2: really interested. I even talked to Ariel about a character
55:09
Speaker 2: concept I had who was essentially a snake oil salesman
55:13
Speaker 2: type of character who's kind of sort of sort of rogueish,
55:18
Speaker 2: you know, more like a you know, kind of a
55:19
Speaker 2: fast talker type, not necessarily the best person to have
55:23
Speaker 2: in a fight, And I thought that would be really
55:26
Speaker 2: interesting to play. But I never really pursued it beyond
55:29
Speaker 2: just some ideas. I mean, apart from the fact that
55:33
Speaker 2: I do have a cowboy hat and boots here that
55:36
Speaker 2: I've never gotten a chance to really break in.
55:39
Speaker 1: You know, there are two more games if you want
55:41
Speaker 1: to NPC, but a.
55:43
Speaker 2: Little late now, I mean a little late in the
55:45
Speaker 2: game for the snake oil salesman to show up.
55:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I will say. Like it's also there are
55:51
Speaker 1: LARPs that are a lot of younger people, and you know,
55:54
Speaker 1: as a person who started LARPing as a younger person.
55:59
Speaker 1: There's so much energy and excitement and exuberance and like
56:02
Speaker 1: creativity that happens there. And then you know, like Calamity is,
56:05
Speaker 1: there are young people in it, but a lot of
56:07
Speaker 1: us have been playing for over ten years, some of
56:11
Speaker 1: them over twenty, and so like they've gotten to a
56:14
Speaker 1: point where like, I'm gonna go to bed at a
56:17
Speaker 1: semi reasonable time and.
56:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna be staying
56:23
Speaker 2: up till two in the morning singing songs of my homeland.
56:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I still do, some people do, but
56:30
Speaker 1: you know, there's a little bit more temperance there. There's
56:33
Speaker 1: also and there's still stuff that happens. Like one of
56:35
Speaker 1: the plot people for Canilamity loves cabin raids, and so
56:40
Speaker 1: when she plays a game, if you cabin Raiders, she'll
56:42
Speaker 1: be super super happy. And that happens usually like three
56:44
Speaker 1: or four in the morning with the diehards who are
56:46
Speaker 1: willing to stay up that late and then sleep in
56:48
Speaker 1: a little bit later instead of getting up for breakfast.
56:51
Speaker 1: But you know, also like an occasional hell grinder kind
56:55
Speaker 1: of a battle is okay, But I'm fine if that
56:57
Speaker 1: happens once every two years, and I don't have a
57:00
Speaker 1: four hour field battle every event.
57:03
Speaker 2: You know, especially when you are playing in a state
57:06
Speaker 2: where the current temperature is in the upper nineties and
57:09
Speaker 2: humidity is almost one hundred percent.
57:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we I have played. There was an Eclipse game,
57:18
Speaker 1: which is another game in this system that you said
57:21
Speaker 1: it's like a futuristic sci fi game. We've used Andromeda
57:24
Speaker 1: as like a storytelling tool where people can pilot a
57:27
Speaker 1: spaceship because it's an outer space kind of a thing
57:31
Speaker 1: with aliens, and it's really cool and it's really fun.
57:34
Speaker 1: And there was one game that we played where temperatures
57:37
Speaker 1: got up to like.
57:39
Speaker 2: One hundred and five yikes.
57:42
Speaker 1: It was miserable and we all tell like war stories
57:47
Speaker 1: about this.
57:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, I tembature. It can be hard to even get
57:51
Speaker 2: some sleep because most of the time you're at some campgrounds,
57:54
Speaker 2: maybe you're in a cabin, but it's almost never like
57:59
Speaker 2: anything that even has a fan in it, let alone. Yeah,
58:02
Speaker 2: any control.
58:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were in cabins. The tavern had some level
58:07
Speaker 1: sometimes has some level of like AC. Usually they have
58:10
Speaker 1: heat for the winter time, because I've also larped in snow.
58:13
Speaker 1: Most of them don't have great AC units. Or at
58:16
Speaker 1: least if they do, they don't have like good insulation
58:20
Speaker 1: to keep it into the building. Cabins don't have AC.
58:22
Speaker 1: They might have a ceiling fan. They do have electricity
58:24
Speaker 1: usually though.
58:25
Speaker 2: So you can bring a box fan or something you
58:27
Speaker 2: can you.
58:28
Speaker 1: Can bring a box fan. I know some people who
58:30
Speaker 1: kind of tarp off windows and bring a like an
58:32
Speaker 1: AC unit in some of the bigger buildings if they've
58:34
Speaker 1: been placed in one of the bigger buildings, But that
58:38
Speaker 1: doesn't always work, you know. And yeah, so it can
58:43
Speaker 1: get pretty hot. We again, being a more seasoned LARP group,
58:47
Speaker 1: try not to larp during the hottest or the coldest months.
58:51
Speaker 1: Cold is usually easier.
58:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's usually like a month and a half.
58:54
Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, yeah, all right, Well.
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Speaker 2: I mean there's obviously tons of other questions I could
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Speaker 2: ask you, and maybe we'll follow this up in a
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Speaker 2: future episode where I'll dive more into details about things
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Speaker 2: like favorite moments and LARPs, things that were particularly funny
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Speaker 2: or really like gripping or emotional, all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 2: I would love to dive into that more, but we're
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Speaker 2: right up at an hour now, so rather than drag
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Speaker 2: this out any longer, you've got other stuff you got
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Speaker 2: to do. I think it's the time for us to
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Speaker 2: conclude our story.
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Speaker 1: Sure, as we conclude, I just want to say thank
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Speaker 1: you to everybody who's written us, all the people who
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Speaker 1: who have given us mashup ideas or have said, hey,
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Speaker 1: we miss your mashups. We hear you, we love you.
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Speaker 1: As soon as we can talk about strict and work,
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Speaker 1: we'll get back to it. But thank you for encouraging
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Speaker 1: us to do that. It is helpful to know that
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Speaker 1: that's something you like. If there is anything else that
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Speaker 1: you like that you wish that we'd bring back, something
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Speaker 1: you wish we'd stop, Jonathan, how can they write us?
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Speaker 2: Well, you can go outside if it's not too hot,
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Speaker 2: and if it's not too cold, and if it's not
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Speaker 2: currently pouring down rain or hailing, if it's any of
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Speaker 2: those things, stay inside. Whatever you're wondering isn't important enough
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Speaker 2: to be answered. It's more important you stay safe. But
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Speaker 2: if it's nice outside, go on outside, find a nice tree,
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Speaker 2: sit down at the base of it, Sit there and
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Speaker 2: ponder the thing you want to communicate to me or
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Speaker 2: ask me until you just sort of nod off, and
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Speaker 2: when you wake up you'll be in the land of
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Speaker 2: the Fay. Do not accept any presence from anyone who
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Speaker 2: offers them. Do not trust anything that anyone tells you.
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Speaker 2: You will quest with the Fay for what feels like
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Speaker 2: five earth years, but then turn at the end of
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Speaker 2: your quest, once you have found an iron horseshoe which
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Speaker 2: will protect you against all Faye magic. You will come
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Speaker 2: across the she and you will defeat eat the Shee
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Speaker 2: and return to the mortal realm. And they're under the tree.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna find a note that says I stop by,
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Speaker 2: but you weren't here.
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Speaker 1: Here's your answer, and if you are smart enough not
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Speaker 1: to mess with the fairies, I almost dropped an exploitive there.
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