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Happy Hour #84: T'was the Night Before Con · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told your production of I Hi Radio, and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. And uh, as
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  Speaker 1: always with these segments, please and drink responsibly if you
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  Speaker 1: choose to do so. Samantha, what are you stepping on?
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  Speaker 1: I am thinking to alcoholic saltzer water. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: how good this brand is. I'm not gonna name it
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  Speaker 1: all on our episode, but it's pineapple flavor and it's
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  Speaker 1: nice and tasty during the summer weather. It sounds lovely. Well. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we are recording quite a bit right now and there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of like Star Wars stuff happening because it
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  Speaker 1: is my birthday tomorrow. Um, so I made kind of
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  Speaker 1: a French seventy five garden with what I have around,
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  Speaker 1: so like the anti version of a French seventy five. Also,
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  Speaker 1: this season finale of Only Murders in the Building was
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  Speaker 1: the last sight, so I woke up. I was really
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  Speaker 1: I was up really really late and really really early
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  Speaker 1: to watch it. So a little tired. Yes, doing the
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  Speaker 1: whole celebrations, Yeah, silly me, I thought it already played everything.
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  Speaker 1: So we do a whole thing where we beinged the
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  Speaker 1: entire thing, and we came up on the last episode.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, it's not finished. I was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't get that last episode. I think that
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  Speaker 1: was probably my fault, did you? Why is this all
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  Speaker 1: your fault? Because like usually who tells you you know,
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  Speaker 1: like how many episodes are left and how long they
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  Speaker 1: are and what they're calling and all that stuff, And
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  Speaker 1: so I only saw eight, so I thought there was
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  Speaker 1: only eight. But it turns out there or ted and
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  Speaker 1: I definitely told you when your partner this season finale
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  Speaker 1: was like two weeks ago, because that's what I thought
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  Speaker 1: it's over, and I was like, yeah, absolutely, son of
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  Speaker 1: as we hit the net last episode, like we just
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  Speaker 1: got us out there, like no, it's okay. I stayed
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  Speaker 1: up really like watching a bunch of Star Wars stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and then I woke up really early to watch have
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  Speaker 1: you watched The House of Dragons yet? The first episode? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we watched it, and then we watched all the extras
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  Speaker 1: because that's what we do. It is good, the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: We are hopeful, so I'm okay. Like I didn't love
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  Speaker 1: the ending ending, but I didn't think it was awful
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  Speaker 1: awful everybody else that I know or like, this is
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  Speaker 1: the worst ending to one of the best shows. How
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  Speaker 1: do they ruin this series? Like the level of anger
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  Speaker 1: is palpable, and um, I was like, okay, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So people still have a lot of bitterness, as we
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  Speaker 1: talked about previously to the series, So I think we
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  Speaker 1: watched the extra to see what is promised? Well, what
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  Speaker 1: what is try that again? Tried? We watched the extras
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  Speaker 1: hope to see a better take, and they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be like reassured slush today being the fans who are
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  Speaker 1: still mad, I want to be reassured that it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be better than the last one round. And because
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  Speaker 1: Martin is actually heavily involved. Apparently he has his own
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  Speaker 1: production studio called j R G R R M, which
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  Speaker 1: obviously there you go, uh the clicking right, and it's
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  Speaker 1: heavily involved, and he's one of the creators this time
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  Speaker 1: and not just and a producer. So there's a little
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  Speaker 1: more hopefulness to this route. Um. Interesting, It's interesting. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of characters in here that I know, the
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  Speaker 1: actors as comedians, so playing these serious roles and I'm like, huh,
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  Speaker 1: that throws me off. A little bit, but okay, okay, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean this is actually kind of relevant to what
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about today. I've always said I really enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: watching Game of Thrones when it was like a cultural
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  Speaker 1: moment uh uh and everybody was talking about it. I
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  Speaker 1: really loved the social aspect of that. UM So I
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  Speaker 1: was sort of going to wait and see you this one.
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  Speaker 1: I did see. It was like the largest premiere on
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  Speaker 1: HBO I think had like ten million viewers and it
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  Speaker 1: twitters premiere. But it was really really funny getting vague
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  Speaker 1: text for my friends who were watching it because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to spoil me, and I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out the context and what they were talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I heard there was a queer a queer relationship that
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  Speaker 1: costs the drama. Yeah, this is the first one that
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that I had a legitimate It was I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to say it if you don't know, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: like a different look on take on it. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at that, um which I said that to my
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  Speaker 1: partner and I was like, hey, yeah, the usual and
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  Speaker 1: and he had to think back on the relationships. He
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, you're right, it's the first of this,
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  Speaker 1: and he was just like, oh, you're right, and like
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  Speaker 1: you um, so it's interesting. I think I think it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fun. The iron thrown is different and I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that as well. You know, they spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, a lot of money. Well, I've been think
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  Speaker 1: yeah this recently because we just keep seeing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of news items about how like Netflix is in turmoil
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  Speaker 1: and HBO Max is in turmoil and the streaming wars.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, but how much did you spend on Stranger Things?
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  Speaker 1: How much did you spend on this show? And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, I said, you're a text. Uh. There was
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  Speaker 1: a brief snippet of the new trailer for the last
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  Speaker 1: spracheo Max, which, by the way, Nick Offerman's in it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize this. I thought at first it was
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  Speaker 1: advertising a different show, and then I watched another trailer
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, he's actually in. Is he
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  Speaker 1: the brother? Is he the brother? No? No, he's well
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  Speaker 1: I guess it depends on how you define the creepy dude.
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  Speaker 1: But no, no, he's the he's the guy. He's a
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  Speaker 1: guy in that town like go to um early on
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  Speaker 1: in the first one, when they need like a car.
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  Speaker 1: They need a battery or something. Uh. And his town
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  Speaker 1: is all booby trapped and he and Ellie really don't
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  Speaker 1: get along. Um, and he has like a relationship with
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  Speaker 1: that guy who who killed himself and left that note.
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering a page of howscal is going to
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  Speaker 1: do the exit, and he did and it was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And then they were just quoting lines for the game.
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  Speaker 1: I was just, oh, my gosh, so excited. Right, so
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  Speaker 1: we are doing an episode where I'm just gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about my precon nerves, I guess, or or what I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling going into dragon Con, which is coming up. And
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  Speaker 1: in fact, I believe this is comes out. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be September one, and that's the first d of dragon Con.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I mean I'm pretty nervous, I guess, because
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  Speaker 1: I you know, like like in a regular year, I'd
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  Speaker 1: be nervous, but in this year, we've got COVID, we've
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  Speaker 1: got monkey bark because we've got polio, so there's all
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  Speaker 1: of that and it's just not going to be the same,
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  Speaker 1: which is it shouldn't be, but it does make me sad.
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  Speaker 1: I have somebody who's coming for the first time this time,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not gonna be the same for them. They
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  Speaker 1: do have mass requirements, lower attendance, but it's still like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not used to being around that much people anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And then my cosplay, I have put off a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, so my Disco Luke cosplay is coming along.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna look great. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna give me my Mark Campell tweet, but then I
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  Speaker 1: found out he really doesn't like that cost. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: who knows, but I'm gonna do it anyway because I
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  Speaker 1: love it, and it's too bad it will never go away. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then I have my um cool Stan Luke, which
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  Speaker 1: is my Winter Soldier Luke Skywalker and mash up. That
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  Speaker 1: one needs a lot more work and I only have
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  Speaker 1: one more weekend to do it. So that's a little
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  Speaker 1: nerve wracking. And that is obviously because of Sebastian stand
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  Speaker 1: looks like Mark Hamill and I didn't realize it, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently I have a type. But I'm nervous about that too,
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  Speaker 1: just because I've gained a lot of weight during the
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  Speaker 1: pandemic and I know I hate that I think that,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think that, and so that's making me
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  Speaker 1: a little nervous. I'm afraid like the costume will rip
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  Speaker 1: or something. You never You've got to test these things out.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to put them through strenuous conditions. And then
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  Speaker 1: just like having I friends, Dragon Con is very tiring. Um,
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  Speaker 1: conventions in general are very tired, at least for me.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to be the well rested person at
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  Speaker 1: a convention, but there's gonna be a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: in kind of a small space, so that's always all stressful.
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  Speaker 1: Just transporting everything is so stressful, So I'm nervous about that,
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  Speaker 1: like just getting there, I'm getting back and all the
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  Speaker 1: work you have to do to cover that that period
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  Speaker 1: so we don't miss anything. And then I know we
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  Speaker 1: talked about this in our recent book club on Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Geek. I love I've had like transformed of experiences
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  Speaker 1: at dragon Con. I've met people, I have a group
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  Speaker 1: of convention friends. But there is still, as we've talked about,
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  Speaker 1: being a woman at a convention like this can be
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  Speaker 1: a little a little scary. Um. I hate that I
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  Speaker 1: have to do this, but I'm always for people in
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  Speaker 1: the group. We have to have our accountability by to use.
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  Speaker 1: You have to check in at certain times you have
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  Speaker 1: to watch their drinks, like just always in the back
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  Speaker 1: of your head, knowing this could go from a really
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  Speaker 1: fun experience to a really not fun experience. And there's
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  Speaker 1: this risk that we have to keep in mind as women. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean it's a given you'll probably be harassed
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  Speaker 1: by somebody. Uh. And I've had many experiences where I
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  Speaker 1: want people to go and have fun and I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hover too much. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm concerned. I'm worried, especially if there's like alcohol involved. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it is a it is a concern,
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  Speaker 1: and especially yeah, like you know, unfortunately the first time
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  Speaker 1: you came, the texting is not always great, uh shall
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  Speaker 1: we say, because a lot of people the networks get overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: Your batteries might die. Um. But also just for me,
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  Speaker 1: like I usually have to because of the costume I'm wearing,
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  Speaker 1: my phone is in my boot or something, it's not
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  Speaker 1: my hand, and so I just don't check it as often.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I forget about it sometimes because there's so
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  Speaker 1: much other stuff going on. I don't take any pictures. Um. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of one of my great regrets. I have
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  Speaker 1: no good pictures of my cosplay, um, which you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm planning on fixing. I want to do a whole
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  Speaker 1: photo shoot. I think it's gonna be good. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: you might not you know, you might text a friend
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  Speaker 1: kind of worried, like where are you as everything okay,
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  Speaker 1: they don't text back forever, and you don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: that's because of one of those reasons are because something
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  Speaker 1: has gone wrong, and so that's that's a little frightening.
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  Speaker 1: I will say I've been very fortunate. I usually go
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  Speaker 1: with a big group of friends and most of them
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  Speaker 1: are women, and we do look out for each other
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  Speaker 1: and we check in out each other. They've definitely prevented
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  Speaker 1: me from I was just being an innocent soul. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize what this guy was asking me, and they're like, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you do not need to go with that guy, and
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  Speaker 1: and it's it makes me sad that it has to
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  Speaker 1: be that way, but I'm happy that we are so
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  Speaker 1: so looking out. And I remember once, um, this young girl,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think she was underage, but she was drinking. Um,
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  Speaker 1: she was pretty drunk, and I just there was no
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  Speaker 1: doubt in my mind. I'm gonna make sure she's gonna
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  Speaker 1: she's fine. I got her some food, I got her
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  Speaker 1: some water. I made sure she got where she needed
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  Speaker 1: to go. And it wasn't a thing I was annoyed about.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like, I don't want her to have
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  Speaker 1: a bad experience. I don't want this to become a
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  Speaker 1: memory that should have been a fun thing and it
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  Speaker 1: becomes a very negative thing. So that's super important to me,
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  Speaker 1: and it really is beautiful. I hate there are all
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  Speaker 1: these negative aspects and all these risks. And I was
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  Speaker 1: there that one year where the this guy people through
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  Speaker 1: these really heavy chairs from the twelfth floor and I
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  Speaker 1: was out on the smoking terrace and that's where they threw.
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  Speaker 1: Then I like raised my Captain America shield and uh
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  Speaker 1: kind of deflected it. I mean it wasn't coming straight
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  Speaker 1: at me, so I would have been fine, but I
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  Speaker 1: kind of the shield that somebody ended up in the
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  Speaker 1: hospital and it's things like that. I'm like, why this
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  Speaker 1: ruin everything? Well, I'm excited. I'm nervous, but excited. I
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  Speaker 1: did get as sparkly like glitter masks, gold glitter masks,
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  Speaker 1: So that's cool. Maybe I'll have some pictures and I'll
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  Speaker 1: share them. Hopefully it's gonna be a good time for
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  Speaker 1: all of us. Um, hopefully don't get co food. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna do a revisit on the other end,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully it is a happy by visit. I've said
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  Speaker 1: hopefully a lot, but that's what I'm for in the meantime. Cheers,
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  Speaker 1: cheers and listeners. Oh please, if you've been to any conventions,
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  Speaker 1: if you have any cosplay you want to share that
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