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Happy Hour #139: Joey Checks in about Comic Con · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: I'm welcome to Steph. I've never told you production I
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  Speaker 2: hurt radio, and today we have a very special happy
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  Speaker 2: hour because we are thrilled to be joined by friend
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  Speaker 2: of the show who I'm very jealous Samantha got to
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  Speaker 2: hang out with in person recently, Joey. Welcome, Joey.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Annie, You've got to come out to New York.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I.
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  Speaker 1: Tried to get her to come out my birthday.
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  Speaker 2: And then you were you could babysit my dog though.
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  Speaker 1: But also you did dog sit me my dog.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So both of those things happened for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but I'm not going to it. Oh I'm
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  Speaker 2: jealous though, and you you all you went to a
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  Speaker 2: Halloween we did.
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  Speaker 4: I for people who know Manhattan bars. We were gonna
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  Speaker 4: go to the Oscar Wild Bar because they had a
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  Speaker 4: Halloween thing going on and there were a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people there, as are usually is, and it just so
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  Speaker 4: happened in the bar next door also had a little
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  Speaker 4: Halloween thing going on, so we ended up going there.
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  Speaker 4: Inside it was super cute. I'm blanking on the name,
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  Speaker 4: but I definitely took a picture. So I was next
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  Speaker 4: to the Oscar Wild Bar. This is not an official endorsement,
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  Speaker 4: but it was fun.
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  Speaker 1: The Latin bar because it was definitely like we had guacamole.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not that bat always it was sort of it
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  Speaker 4: seems like it had a like very like cosmic, sort
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  Speaker 4: of astrology themed name or something. It had had a
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  Speaker 4: witchy vibe. It was very cute.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know in comparison to Oscar Wild because that
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  Speaker 1: was like a huge, like on everybody's list no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: even if you didn't go for Halloween. They were like
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  Speaker 1: just a cute bar anyway, not a cute nice bar.
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  Speaker 1: I sound like an old woman. It's just so good.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but the b went was very very nice.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Joey, I won't I won't air out
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  Speaker 1: your private life aftermath.
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  Speaker 3: Go it was good after this Okay, I just did that.
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  Speaker 1: Part and later.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds so mysterious.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's been a very eventful last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, which as part of why you're here because we
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  Speaker 2: always love having you anyway. Also, I'm sure people know this,
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  Speaker 2: but Joey is based in New York, so that's sort
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  Speaker 2: of why that happened. Yes, yes, but that means that
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  Speaker 2: you recently got to go to New York Comic Con.
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  Speaker 4: Yes I did. Yes, this was my second year i've gone.
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  Speaker 4: It was super fun. I went Saturday and Sunday, and
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  Speaker 4: it's a four day event, and I do not think
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  Speaker 4: I could handle all four days. I had a couple
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  Speaker 4: of friends that went all four days. That seemed to exhausting,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, it was. It was super fun. I went Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: I was dressed as Tim Drake aka Robin number three
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  Speaker 4: if you want to be technical, I was wearing the
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  Speaker 4: red Robin suit.
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  Speaker 3: That he has. If anybody saw me, I was, that
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  Speaker 3: was me.
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  Speaker 4: It was the whole kind of like Batfan Gotham City Crew,
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  Speaker 4: which was super fun.
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  Speaker 3: Had lots of people stop us to take photos.
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  Speaker 4: I made the mistake of not asking anybody to send
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  Speaker 4: me those photos. So again, if anybody happens to have
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  Speaker 4: a picture of me, feel free to dm me.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a few pictures that you posted a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit I did post picture.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so cute.
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  Speaker 4: It was super fun. That was my first time with
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  Speaker 4: that specific cosplay. So happy it all worked out, all
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  Speaker 4: came together. And then the second day I was Nico
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  Speaker 4: de Angelo from the Percy Jackson series, which was one
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  Speaker 4: of my favorite book series growing up, one of my
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  Speaker 4: favorite book series. I actually was really surprised. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: think I would get recognized as much as Neico because
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  Speaker 4: he has a little bit more of like a low
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  Speaker 4: key look. But I that was a big Percy Jackson day,
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  Speaker 4: so I think I got stopped a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It was also kind of fun because a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of people had like the orange T shirts with the
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  Speaker 4: camp at flood and I did the he wears like
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  Speaker 4: a very dark, like emo kind of look, so it
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  Speaker 4: was like I felt like there was some of the pictures,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's fun. There's like a sea of orange and
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  Speaker 4: then me in the middle. But it was super fun.
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  Speaker 3: It was a fun time, love an excuse to dress up.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the pictures that I saw. I actually was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, Joey looks just like that character. Holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: Like he looked so dead on. I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It was good. My hair was cooperating all weekend. I
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  Speaker 3: was so happy. Yeah, I and.
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  Speaker 4: And I we've talked a little bit about codsplay like
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  Speaker 4: off my but I I usually go for a combination
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  Speaker 4: of the characters that I like and the characters I
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  Speaker 4: relate to, but also the ones that look like.
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  Speaker 3: Me, because you know, it's nice.
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  Speaker 4: It's nice to get stopped to have people tell you
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  Speaker 4: that you look just like the character your cosplays really
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  Speaker 4: spot on.
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  Speaker 3: It was that on Oh thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you and I we have talked a lot
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  Speaker 2: off Mike about cosplay, and I'd be interested to hear
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  Speaker 2: from you, Joey. How long have you been cosplaying and
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  Speaker 2: what has your experience been?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I actually am pretty new. I it was
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  Speaker 4: my like pandemic copy that I picked up, and it
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  Speaker 4: was sort of like one of those things I always
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  Speaker 4: wanted to do, and I was like a kid, like
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  Speaker 4: a teenager, and I just like I never had any
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  Speaker 4: thing to do. I never really went to conventions or anything,
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  Speaker 4: so I didn't have any excuses to do it, and
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  Speaker 4: then any hour was a pandemic copy.
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  Speaker 3: I picked up doing some some social media stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's been It's been fun the last two
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  Speaker 4: years getting to go back to cons and be able
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  Speaker 4: to cosplay in public with other people. This year it
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  Speaker 4: was super fun to do to group cosplays in a row.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, I did a whole Stranger Things group with
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  Speaker 4: some people.
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  Speaker 3: I will say I'm not the biggest Stranger Things fan.
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  Speaker 4: But it was fun to just kind of you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was the same thing where we got we got
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  Speaker 4: stopped a lot.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of people taking pictures with us.
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  Speaker 4: I was Dustin by the way, if anybody, I am
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  Speaker 4: pretty short, so I was like, okay, I will be
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  Speaker 4: one of the kids. But yeah, this year, I guess
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  Speaker 4: also was some shorter characters. But yeah, it was super
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  Speaker 4: It was super fun. A friend, I just want to
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  Speaker 4: say solidarity with the SAG after a strike.
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  Speaker 3: It is messed up.
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  Speaker 4: What is happening with these big companies right now, These
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  Speaker 4: big media companies, some in particular, are acting in ways
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  Speaker 4: they're really vile and brilliant immoral in my opinion, And
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  Speaker 4: I really hope that they can.
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  Speaker 3: Come to an agreement soon and the.
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  Speaker 4: Actors that are on strike can get a fair deal,
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  Speaker 4: because that's what they deserve. These are the creators that
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  Speaker 4: are making this media that we all love so much
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  Speaker 4: that we were celebrating all weekend. So yeah, and one
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  Speaker 4: thing I will say, I was really happy to see
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people with either buttons or like signs
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  Speaker 4: that were like in support of SAG. I had my
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  Speaker 4: I have one really small WGA pin that I got,
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  Speaker 4: but I.
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  Speaker 3: Had it on my costume all weekend.
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  Speaker 4: That it was fun and yeah, but one I think
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  Speaker 4: one of my couple of complaints I have, and I
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  Speaker 4: think I was telling you guys before this started. I
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  Speaker 4: understand why the event did not prioritize this because they
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  Speaker 4: don't have any monetary like motivation to do this, but
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  Speaker 4: I do kind of wish that, like the event itself
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  Speaker 4: put out some sort of statement or was a little
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  Speaker 4: bit clearer about what exactly the strike guidelines were for
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  Speaker 4: cosplayers and for people that wanted to just sort of
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  Speaker 4: like talk about the events they were going to.
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  Speaker 3: I went to a panel.
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  Speaker 4: That was really great that I would love to talk about,
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  Speaker 4: but it is about production that is currently or a
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  Speaker 4: company that is currently struck, so I'm gonna kind of
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  Speaker 4: avoid talking about that. But yeah, that being said, again,
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  Speaker 4: I understand that, like the convention, they don't have any
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  Speaker 4: economic motivation to really clarify that, but from a moral standpoint,
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  Speaker 4: it would have been nice also then just sort of
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  Speaker 4: used it as an excuse for me, Like I picked
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  Speaker 4: the specific costume I did for my character the first
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  Speaker 4: day because it's something that's primarily like from the comics
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  Speaker 4: and not really on screen yet, and then my character
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday it was the same thing. Obviously, like the
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  Speaker 4: Percy Jackson Show is going to be coming out soon,
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  Speaker 4: but Nico's a character that is probably not gonna be
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  Speaker 4: in the first season, probably gonna wait a little bit
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  Speaker 4: till he's there.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I had a couple of other friends that did Percy Jackson
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  Speaker 4: related ones that were like, I'm gonna stick specifically to
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  Speaker 4: like the book descriptions. The characters just sort of make
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  Speaker 4: that a little bit, just kind of clarify that a bit.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was I think overall, you know the
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  Speaker 4: people that were there.
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  Speaker 3: There was the fourth for the strike.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I again, both characters I liked here, both
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  Speaker 4: characters that were really important to me personally, which was
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  Speaker 4: super fun. Saturday, I was, yeah, I was gonna mist
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  Speaker 4: him Drake, Robin, Red Robin, whatever you.
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  Speaker 3: Want to call him. DC keeps changing it.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't know anything about DC, he's the Robin
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  Speaker 4: that they just recently in the past couple of years
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  Speaker 4: made openly bisexual and has a boyfriend, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is super cool.
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  Speaker 4: And I did get to meet the writer who wrote
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  Speaker 4: that arc and she was super sweet, and we had
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  Speaker 4: a really nice conversation about the character.
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  Speaker 3: And this is one of the things that I love
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  Speaker 3: about these things.
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  Speaker 4: It's like you get to talk to a lot of
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  Speaker 4: these writers and creators that are working with these characters
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  Speaker 4: that so many of us love, and this character in particular,
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  Speaker 4: like has gone through so many iterations, and it's cool
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  Speaker 4: to hear that, like these writers have the same sort
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  Speaker 4: of love for these characters that we do. Again, she
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  Speaker 4: was super sweet. We like talked about some of our
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  Speaker 4: like head candids for the character, and it was just
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  Speaker 4: like it was fun to hear that. I'm super sad
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  Speaker 4: that that series ended up getting canceled last year, but
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  Speaker 4: it was great. I got a signed copy of one
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  Speaker 4: of my favorite one of the comics from her that
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  Speaker 4: has two of my favorite characters on the cover, so
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  Speaker 4: super fun. And then also she did say that she
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  Speaker 4: loved my cosplay, which was a great ego trip for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Actually, yet, back to the pictures thing.
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  Speaker 4: So, and I know, Annie, you talked about this when
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  Speaker 4: you were talking about Dragon Con.
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  Speaker 3: These things are obviously they are huge.
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  Speaker 4: I think this one there was I saw an article
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  Speaker 4: that said two hundred thousand people at least.
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  Speaker 3: Were there which is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Personally, I'm somebody I really thrive in chaos and like crowds,
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  Speaker 4: so that was great for me. I know, I definitely
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  Speaker 4: had a couple of friends that needed to like step
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  Speaker 4: out for a sec. But we were getting stopped constantly
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  Speaker 4: to get pictures taken or like we would stop and
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  Speaker 4: do some group photos and people would just keep coming
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  Speaker 4: up and being like can I take a picture with
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  Speaker 4: you guys, which again I'd love because I love the attention,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm happy to take pictures with people.
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  Speaker 3: But that was super fun.
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  Speaker 4: I think another thing I really love about these is
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  Speaker 4: just seeing everybody so excited to talk about like media
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  Speaker 4: that they just feel passionate about and things that they love.
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  Speaker 4: And it's so cool to see how creative people are.
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  Speaker 4: With the costumes. There were so many, so many, so
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  Speaker 4: many cool costumes I saw. I yeah, again, I was
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  Speaker 4: sort of in I was in a very giddy, bubbly
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  Speaker 4: headspace walking around and.
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  Speaker 3: It was just go like like I love your costume.
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  Speaker 3: Just so many people, which was super fun.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, what was the best costume you saw? Or top three?
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  Speaker 4: There were a lot, so there was We did go
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  Speaker 4: to this. Leading up to that, there was a DC
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  Speaker 4: meet up thing that happened. They usually do like a
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  Speaker 4: DC one, a Marvel one, like Star Wars one kind
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  Speaker 4: of thing. There was a big one with all the
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  Speaker 4: DC cos players and I went to that was super fun.
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  Speaker 4: There was some we did like the big group photo,
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  Speaker 4: and then there was like smaller one. There was like
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  Speaker 4: a Gotham City one. There was a Young Justice one
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  Speaker 4: that was in all that. But there was somebody who
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  Speaker 4: is mister Freeze and he had like the full like
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  Speaker 4: looked like the animated show look and he had this
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  Speaker 4: like smoke thing, like smoke creator thing on his head
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  Speaker 4: that was super sick.
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  Speaker 3: I did get a picture of him.
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  Speaker 4: You can't totally tell just like how cool the whole
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  Speaker 4: mechanism was in the photo, but it was. It was
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  Speaker 4: super cool. Again, people are so talented and so creative.
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  Speaker 4: It it is so fun that event too. There was a
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  Speaker 4: Batman cosplayer that proposed to his partner who was dressed
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  Speaker 4: as Catwoman.
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  Speaker 3: That was super adorable. They were super cute. It was
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  Speaker 3: also fun because like, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't know, it's like like it's I'm a I'm a
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  Speaker 4: very like extroverted person too, so I always make friends
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  Speaker 4: with these things. Like I was in the back with
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of other like Robin and other various Batman
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  Speaker 4: Children characters, and we were all like.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's our mom and dad. But it
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  Speaker 3: was super cute. It was super fun.
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  Speaker 4: I definitely had a little bit of like DC blinders
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  Speaker 4: on the first day, so I was I had my
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  Speaker 4: eyes out for all the other DC cosblayers. But there were,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a lot of Barbie's too, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: really cool Barbie takes on different things.
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  Speaker 3: Like there was like a Barbie Mandalorian. I did see.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't see this in person, but I saw on
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  Speaker 4: an Instagram somebody did a Britney Spears Mandalorian that I'm
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  Speaker 4: obsessed with.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, there were a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot of Mandalorians, a lot of like different takes on Mandalorians.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of the.
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  Speaker 4: It was her like red sequin like Gemstones.
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  Speaker 3: Look it was that, but it was like the helmet
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  Speaker 3: was all red Gemstones. It was it looked it was
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  Speaker 3: super cool.
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  Speaker 4: Again, I thought that one on Instagram, so it's it's
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  Speaker 4: somewhere out there in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then Sunday again, I don't really want to go
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  Speaker 4: into it. I did go to the Percy Jackson panel.
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  Speaker 4: I just because of the sag after strike. I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to talk a ton about that, but I think
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  Speaker 4: because of it, there just was like a lot of
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  Speaker 4: Percy Jackson related cosplayers that day, which was fun to
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  Speaker 4: just see like all the Orange shirts everywhere and that
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  Speaker 4: that's a series that like was really impactful for me
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  Speaker 4: growing up, and I know a lot of other people
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  Speaker 4: like around my age.
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  Speaker 3: It was like really really foundational for a lot of us.
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  Speaker 4: So it was sort of cool to have that thing
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  Speaker 4: that we could all like, we all had in common,
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  Speaker 4: we all could bond over. And I even like I
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  Speaker 4: have friends that weren't at Comic Con that messaged me.
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  Speaker 3: And we're like, oh my god, your Nego.
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  Speaker 4: Like it was just it's cool to have that sort
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  Speaker 4: of like communal like generational piece of literature that we
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  Speaker 4: all we all really love.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, and that that one too.
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  Speaker 4: There were some cool I saw some cool Talia cosplays.
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  Speaker 4: Know your Percy Jackson characters. There was a Rachel who
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  Speaker 4: had a prophecy book and super fun. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just overall had a really great time.
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  Speaker 4: I think this year, I don't know some all big
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  Speaker 4: about this year was just like had it was really fun.
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  Speaker 4: What I tend to do so Saturday, but originally we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna go to a panel early in the morning. We
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  Speaker 4: ended up missing it, me and the friends that I
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  Speaker 4: was with, just because we laughed a little bit later.
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  Speaker 4: But honestly, I think that kind of I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: I took us some of the stress off. Like we
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: spent a lot of the day just kind of like
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: wandering around and people watching and again, like I really
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: love going to like see all the artists and the
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: writers and artists. Alley is always really cool. I think
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: that's the thing about Hans that I really like. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not really somebody that I like going to meet celebrities.
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  Speaker 4: That's not my thing. I get it if that's your thing,
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  Speaker 4: but I not something I'm interested in. But it was
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  Speaker 4: fun to just like be surrounded by art and people
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  Speaker 4: being creative and all these cool stories and getting to
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  Speaker 4: meet other people that are enthusiastic about this, like art
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  Speaker 4: that I also love and these stories that I also love.
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  Speaker 1: You need to come to a dragon con, I got
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  Speaker 1: hang with me. What was the So was Barbie the
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  Speaker 1: number one theme of costumes? Because this is anything of
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  Speaker 1: trying to predict, Yeah, I so, I.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, there was a lot of Barbie. There wasn't as
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  Speaker 3: much as I thought.
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  Speaker 4: Again, I think that first day I did kind of
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  Speaker 4: have the like DC blinders on that I was sort
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  Speaker 4: of looking for other people to take pictures with.
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  Speaker 3: But I didn't see a ton of Barbie. I did.
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  Speaker 4: I had a friend that did the whole like cowgirl
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: roller skates get up. It was on roller skates all day.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Wow somehow that Yeah, No, I could not do that,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: but that was really cool. Yeah, there wasn't as much
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: there was. There was kind of a lot of variety
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: this time. I think there wasn't really like a main
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: There were a lot of Mandos. There was a whole
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: train of Mandos that cut off one of my route
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: that was with a huge group trying to walk around
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: and we got cut off by this whole train of
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Mando's that was trying to go through.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: There was also I think Annie you mentioned this with
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Dragon Con, there was a little Ken meet up.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I saw them all singing or.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Saw I might be a little This might not be
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: the most popular opinion. Personally, I think the whole Ken
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: things getting a little old. The movie was about Barbie.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: It seems a little weird. We're focusing so much about Ken.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: The whole movie is about Barbie. Anyways, it was cute though.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: It was very very cute, fun couple cosplays.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: I always love seeing the couples too. They're adorable. Uh oh.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Actually another one of my favorites I did meet the
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: DC day that I did there was a poka ut
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Man from Suicide Squad and the Condiment King and.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: They were adorable.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I love the like obscure, corny villains that people will do,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: like the full cosplays of that is so fun.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was super cute.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I mean that's what I love about these things too,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: is when you go and you just see people so
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: passionate about these things or they are so creative about
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the costumes. Are the puns they make with the costumes,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: which I love just nerding out. And I do think
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: dragon Con is much more. I feel like if my
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: experience going to Comic Con versus Dragon Con Comic Con,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: it makes sense to me that there's much more. Oh,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: this day, this panel is happening, there's gonna be a
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: lot more people dresses that panel. Dragon Con is not
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: like that as so much. It is still but not
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: to the same degree. But also it is fun for
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: me because I've gone through like several stages of cosplay,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and now when I first started, like no one knew
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: who I was but like two people, and I was
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: upset by that. And then everyone knew who I was,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: and the it's like, Okay, this is great. And now
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I feel like I've got a fun costume where only
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: some people know who I am, but they love it,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: and it feels like a different type of like like,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: oh my god.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: I feel that so much because both days again I
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: was I saw a bunch of Robbins. I didn't see
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: anybody doing the specific costume that I did, and I
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: was like the fact that I was like, hey, I'm
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: getting recognized and be there's nobody else with this specific costume.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, I did good. I did a
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: great job. I the same with Nico, like I saw too.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I was actually a little surprised because he again like
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: not the most like out there costumed to do, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: he is a pretty popular character.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: But I saw two other Negos.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: It was you know, but again, I I it was
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: fun to be stopped by people, and especially I got
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: to take pictures with so many different persis.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: And I mean because.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: So many people were Persian and about that was like
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I was the Nico cous player that was running around
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: and doing I'm sure I'm on a bunch of people's instagrams.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I've been checking the tags to try and see if
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: anybody's posted.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I've seen a couple where I'm in the group shot somewhere,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: and that's always fun too.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: It's, you know, like a little moment to be a celebrity.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Not really, but yeah, and.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Again trying to say within the talking about the Percy
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Jackson books in particular, trying to stay in the strike guidelines.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: But for me, I had a couple of moments, so
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Nico was like both characters. Actually, I caused play this
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: weekend Nico.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Again, I talked about Percy Ja.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I grew up with the Percy Jackson books, like they
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: were my favorite books when I was a kid.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Nico is my favorite character.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: If you don't know the series, he is mild spoilers.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: He's the son of Hades. He's got a whole little
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: angsty thing going on. I was a very angsty child,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: so I identified with that. But also later on they
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: do this other series with the characters, and in the
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: second series, which was coming out when I was in
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: high school. His character comes out as gay, and that
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: was the first time that I remember reading like a
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: mainstream series that I already really liked where one of
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: the characters was confirmed to be queer, was confirmed to
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: be gay. And then that also just like that book
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: came out when I was fifteen, which also happened to
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: be the year that, like I was starting to realize
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: that I wasn't straight.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: So I always talked about like Nico as.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: A character that was just really important to me growing
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: up and like coming to terms with my identity. He's
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: still one of my favorite characters, still will be. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: again because it was like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, like
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: it wasn't. There's still not to say that there's like great,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: amazing queer representation and everything now, but like.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: There really wasn't. Like there was like Glee, and that
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: was it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Like that was the only other thing I could of
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: remember with like a queer character before, like, and I'm
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: sure there was out there, I'm sure, but like with
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: the really mainstream stuff, like that was the character that
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I think really was really important, really foundational and pivotal
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: for me and also for my understanding of how queer
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: characters could be included in like these sort of like
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: fantasy sci fi books that were like about other things,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: they weren't just like romance novels. Yeah, and so he's
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: still like a really important character in me. So there
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: was definitely a couple of moments I like looked in
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: the mirror and I was like, oh my God, like
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: this my like ten year old self was like freaking
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: out because he's my favorite character.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: And then like he's also been so important to me, like.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Personally, Tim Drake's also another character like I really have.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I really got more into DC like later in life,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: but you know, I grew up with like teen Titans
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: and stuff. And yes, I know that it's not Tim
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Drake that is a Grace and that's different Robin. But
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: I think just the whole thing where and I have
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: my criticisms of DC and how they kind of have
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: dealt with their queer characters and how they've done those storylines,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: but at the same time, I think making one of
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: their Robins or bisexual day whatever was like really important
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: and really impactful. And I don't know, there's like a
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: little thing where I was just like I feel so
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: happy that I can play like I can causeplay these
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: two characters this weekend that both like a have been
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: on their own just really important characters to me and
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: really important characters to like a lot of people, and
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: then also were then later confirmed to be queer, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I don't know that that just felt really like nice
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: and healing for me personally, So I really love that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: It was fun.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is fun. I had somebody ask me once,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: he was like, you're so shy. I don't understand why
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you do this, And I was like, I actually feel.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Better like this than I do and like my normal so.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, no, I feel like it's it's always
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: so interesting because I feel like there is such a
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: like range of people and personalities that do this. Again,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: I'm a very extroverted person, like I I'm always out
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: talking to people, but it is like I was there
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: with some friends that are like much more introverted, much
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: more shy, and it's just cool to have, like, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: it's a fun thing we all share and we all
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: like it's you know, I think this time too, I
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: was pleasantly surprised with how like I think just overall
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: respectful people were And again that was just my experience.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I'm sure other things might have happened that I wasn't
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: aware of that Usually, like with these big events, stuff happens,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: but also not that it should be normalized, like you know,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: people should be respectful and all of that. But also
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: I think like I did not have a negative interaction
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: with anybody, which was that was great. I felt really
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: happy with that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm glad to see that. You know, this was
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: a joyful space.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: This was a happy, creative, joyful space, and everybody is
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: just sort of allowed to nerd out, you know, be themselves,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: be these It is cool to see, Like I think
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: seeing the characters that people picked to cosplay like says
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: so much about people, which again I talked about my
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: whole thing about like why I picked the characters I did,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: But it is so cool, Like everybody I talked to
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: like that, how it was like, yeah, this character, this
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: character is really important to me, Like had such a
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: cool story with like why that character, why that piece
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: of media is really important to them?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: And I just think that's really beautiful.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah it is.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: We talk about that a lot on here because I'm like,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I feel that people dismiss the power that these fictional
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: characters have and the stories have for you moving through
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: your life and dealing with things. Yeah, exactly, Yes, well,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming on, Joey.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Of course, you for sharing your amazing time.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah, anytime.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, we need to have an exchange where any need
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to comic con and Joey you come to Dragon Con.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Yes, that'll That'll give me an excuse come out to
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Atlanta too. I've also been meaning to come on to Atlanta.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a time.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a time.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Kind of time. No one knows.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: That for the roll of the dice. Now, it's a
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: good time. It's a good time. Well, uh yeah, we
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: we will always love having you. You're welcome back anytime.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I know there's talks of you maybe coming back soon
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: for fictional character. Yes, but in the meantime, where can
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the listeners find you?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can find me at Pat not Pratt. That
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: is p A T T and O T p r
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: A t T. My last name is Pat not Pratt.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: That's on Instagram on Twitter. I'm not on Twitter a
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: lot anymore, but you find me there. I just I
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: did post some of my comic on pictures. If you
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: want to see the costumes I'm talking about. Then again,
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: this is a long shot, but if anybody happens to
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: have a picture of me from ether of those days,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: please DM me, please let me know.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I I would love to see how those turned out.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: My problem is I always try to do that and
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: no one knows what my costume is. If they took picture,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: like they're like, I know this girl in this gold outfit,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know, so I can't start so great.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: It is an iconic outfit, though, I you know what
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: the people that know, they know.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Oh god, that is an iconic look. We love it.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Oh my god. That was me Last year I.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Was wicking from Gung Avengers and I had a couple
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: of people ask me if I was Doctor Strange and
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I was like.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: No, one.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Costume. I love Doctor Strange. Like, I thank you, that's.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Not it's always weird. You're like, should I correct them? Probably?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Thanks again for coming on. Yes, And if you have
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: those pics, send them to Joey And if you would
• 28:11
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• 28:14
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• 28:17
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• 28:25
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• 28:29
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