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Happy Hour #132: Con, Sweet · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stephone
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  Speaker 1: ever told your production of iHeartRadio, and welcome to another
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  Speaker 1: edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you are joining
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  Speaker 1: us for this, if you're choosing to drink, please drink responsibly,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever you're doing, do it responsibly.
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  Speaker 2: What are you sitting on, Samantha, I.
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  Speaker 3: Am sticking to my bubbly water. It was a Costco
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  Speaker 3: a bargain currently sponsor, and it's quite tasty. It tastes
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  Speaker 3: like I'm drinking like a fruit dessert drink ish, Okay, okay, interesting?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm drinking a beer that shall go unnamed.
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  Speaker 1: But it was has a unicorn on it and a
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  Speaker 1: rainbow on it, and it was specifically for dragon Con,
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  Speaker 1: which is what we're talking about today.
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  Speaker 4: Well no, no, is it your type of your favorite beer?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, But to clarify, a friend bought me this
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  Speaker 1: and I was like this for my birthday and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, this looks like a dragon Con beer, so.
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  Speaker 2: I saved it.
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  Speaker 1: There was actually a beer that was made for dragon
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  Speaker 1: Con this year that had the Marriotte Carpet design on it.
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  Speaker 2: It was called Carpet Beer. I never got to try it. No,
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  Speaker 2: I did. I did. Oh. I only had a sip though,
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  Speaker 2: But it was good.
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  Speaker 4: Was it. They had a whole dessert too.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they did.
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  Speaker 1: So for people who are listening and you're like, what
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  Speaker 1: are you talking about? There are a couple of jokingly
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  Speaker 1: named cults of dragon Con, and one of them is
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  Speaker 1: the cult of the Marriotte Carpets. The Marriott is one
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  Speaker 1: of the host hotels. All of these things are not
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  Speaker 1: a sponsor that we're mentioning currently. And they had this really.
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  Speaker 4: Aggressive, very seventies sixties.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, carpet design, and they got rid of it a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, but everybody started to dress like
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  Speaker 1: the carpet, like you'll see a t rex, but in
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  Speaker 1: the style of the carpet, and you'll see these two
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  Speaker 1: dudes I think got sued because they did like body
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  Speaker 1: suits in the style of the carpet, and that design
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  Speaker 1: is actually copyrighted. Oh really, yes, I think it all
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  Speaker 1: got dropped and they don't care anymore, obviously because it's
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  Speaker 1: everywhere at dragon Con. But yeah, and so they did
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  Speaker 1: make a beer that was designed after that carpet, and
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  Speaker 1: now a dessert also, which I did not try.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't neither I feel like I'm missed out a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. And this carpet has become like Mandalorian thee
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  Speaker 3: like you had Mentorians dressed up in it. I think
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  Speaker 3: you had like princesses dressed up in it, uh huh
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  Speaker 3: or royalty outphas like oh, like how much money to
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  Speaker 3: get the specialty customize costumes to that carpet, because it's
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  Speaker 3: very much This carpet is loved.
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  Speaker 4: It got torn.
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  Speaker 3: Out and it got re remodeled, and people were upset.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the new carpet's so planned.
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  Speaker 3: And the hotel we're talking about. You if you've watched
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  Speaker 3: any of the Loki and several most sci fi movies
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  Speaker 3: I think are yeah, you'll you'll see this hotel design
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  Speaker 3: and it is insane. It's very very like futuristic. So
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  Speaker 3: it's it's famous. It is filmed often, but without the carpet.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the carpet is very striking. Perhaps that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons they were.
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  Speaker 4: Like, maybe maybe we need to change this is not great.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but yeah, I thought for this happy hour, we
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  Speaker 1: just do a quick recap because I've been you all
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  Speaker 1: you listeners, regular listeners. Now Dragon Con, which is a
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  Speaker 1: convention a very nerdy convention that happens every Labor Day
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  Speaker 1: weekend in Atlanta. It draws thousands of people usually like
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  Speaker 1: almost one hundred thousand people, if not more. Just happened.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still I'm sore, but I feel good. I actually
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  Speaker 1: feel really good for after Dragon con vibes, I have
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  Speaker 1: a lot to catch up on. I will say that
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  Speaker 1: my fan fiction backlog, I don't even want to think
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  Speaker 1: about it. It's a lot of tabs, and you know
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  Speaker 1: I hate tabs, so you know I hate tabs. But
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  Speaker 1: it just happens. Samantha did come for a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of it. We'll talk about that in a second. And
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  Speaker 1: it was really good. It was a fun time and
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  Speaker 1: I got to hang out with your partner and his
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  Speaker 1: brother who I'd never met. I got to meet the
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend of one of my best friends who I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: met yet, and he was super cool.
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  Speaker 2: It was nice. But the Carpet of the Merry is.
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  Speaker 1: But one of many of the joking cults of Dragon Gone.
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  Speaker 1: Another is the FedEx guy. It's a long story, but
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  Speaker 1: if you have time and interest, you should look it up.
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  Speaker 1: But essentially, there was this like cardboard cut out of
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  Speaker 1: this guy and then people just put like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of googly eyes and random costume things on him, and
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  Speaker 1: then he got taken away, and then there was.
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  Speaker 4: Like why did he get taken away?
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  Speaker 1: Because it became so big people were leaving gifts for
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  Speaker 1: him and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and then got taken away.
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  Speaker 1: And then it became kind of like a shrine and
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  Speaker 1: there was somebody with like an accordion that made a
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  Speaker 1: whole song and was singing about the death of John.
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  Speaker 1: But now that's the whole thing, yes, yes, But related
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  Speaker 1: to the Marriott carpet, the Hyatt, which is another host hotel,
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  Speaker 1: got new carpet and apparently it hadn't seen big crowds yet,
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  Speaker 1: and now that it has, all of that foot traffic
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  Speaker 1: made these pots iles a blue fuzz.
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  Speaker 2: So now there's a cult of the Hiet carpet.
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  Speaker 3: Dear god, I did see tons of googly eyes on
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  Speaker 3: so many things, including statues and like guess markers that
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  Speaker 3: are not supposed to have that.
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  Speaker 4: It's like decoration.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: The Google eyes are everywhere. I mean, this is like
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite things. Conventions like this, or when
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  Speaker 1: just people nerd out so much. Even in the parade,
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  Speaker 1: there was there's always been the well, always for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, there's been the cult of Marriott Carpet, but
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  Speaker 1: now there's the cult of John in the Dragon com Parade,
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  Speaker 1: which has a huge event in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I love it. I'm so glad.
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  Speaker 1: I told told everybody the night before about that so
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  Speaker 1: they could get it when they sell the parade. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to run through some things here. As
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  Speaker 1: I suspected. I would say, Barbie was one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest costumes.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of Hey Barbie, Hey Barbie, Hey Barbie.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of Kins, and I was fortunate
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  Speaker 1: enough to accidentally witness the Kins coming together and singing
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  Speaker 1: that Kins song and it was beautiful, memorized.
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  Speaker 2: It was so good.
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  Speaker 1: You can actually find video of it on bline. It
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  Speaker 1: was excellent and I loved it. And they interviewed some
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  Speaker 1: of the people who were participating, and it made me
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  Speaker 1: feel better because they were very much like I could tell.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't the like bros who didn't get it. They
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  Speaker 1: were the bros who did get it nice.
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  Speaker 3: I think the bros who didn't get it, I'm guessing
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  Speaker 3: were the ones that would dress up shirtless. Yes, there
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of them, which is fine.
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  Speaker 4: You do you. Yeah, you exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But I think some of those bros who were shirtless
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  Speaker 2: did get it.
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  Speaker 1: I think the guys they interviewed, a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the shirt, and I was like, I this
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  Speaker 1: makes me feel better. But it was like a beautiful, beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: random nerd moment.
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  Speaker 2: Which I adore.
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  Speaker 1: I will say I mentioned I was nervous about going
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  Speaker 1: to this Star Wars family feud with our friend and colleague,
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  Speaker 1: Callie Fry.
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  Speaker 2: You did a great job, and you and.
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  Speaker 1: All of the people who were there were so supportive
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  Speaker 1: of me, and it was the sweetest thing because I
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  Speaker 1: was so nervous. I was like, at one point somebody
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  Speaker 1: who didn't even know me beforehand asked me, are you okay?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was just like silently staring at the floor.
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  Speaker 2: I was so.
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  Speaker 3: But it couldn't have been but I have been too well,
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  Speaker 3: because actually, when we were lining up to go to it,
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  Speaker 3: it was packed to the point They're like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think we're going to get in. We barely got in
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  Speaker 3: and so many people were turned away, but it was
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: like kind of be hundreds of people lining up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the fact that we got that ten minutes early and
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  Speaker 3: we looked around and we're like, wait what And the
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  Speaker 3: line was so far back, and Holly's partner was with
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  Speaker 3: us and they were like We were like, oh no,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't know this was going to be and then
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  Speaker 3: he got the VIP treatment and screwed it in. We
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  Speaker 3: none of us got the VIP treatment. But it's okay,
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  Speaker 3: we have That's true.
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  Speaker 4: We made it in.
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  Speaker 3: But I would have been nervous too, just the amount
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  Speaker 3: of people who's waiting to come watch this. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what is what's happening?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was running kind of behind and I got
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  Speaker 1: to touch on you and I got to touch from
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  Speaker 1: Holly and it was like, oh my gosh, this line
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  Speaker 1: is so long, get here right now. And I like
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  Speaker 1: one of my very silly things that I like to
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  Speaker 1: brag about is that I know how to get around
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  Speaker 1: Dragon Con. I know, like all of the little secrets
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  Speaker 1: and tips. And I wasn't entirely sure where this room was.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I knew, but then I'm getting these texts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, what if I'm wrong?
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  Speaker 2: If I do? And yeah, it was quite the long line. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I of course showed up in my full disco
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  Speaker 1: luke regalia. Uh, but I think I just having all
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  Speaker 1: of y'all there cheering me on. It was very sweet
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  Speaker 1: and I appreciated it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, at least three of the number ones
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  Speaker 3: I got, I know, proud, Did I know the real
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  Speaker 3: names I need? I will say it was partial. Everything
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  Speaker 3: was partial, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: I saw y'all over there, like jumping and cheering and
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  Speaker 1: the answers.
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  Speaker 3: I got the chopper, Yes, I got Phinnick shand even
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  Speaker 3: though I called it me.
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  Speaker 4: No win, no win character, Yes, but I will take it. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: that's the one I did. One more. I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I knew it e walks, something about walks.
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  Speaker 2: I got. I got a couple too.
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  Speaker 4: It was really good.
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  Speaker 3: There was some answers that didn't make sense because they
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: were like overlapping, and then they were giving credit to
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: things that wasn't shouldn't.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: Have gotten credit.
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  Speaker 3: We were all very confused, like Rodent was in there,
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  Speaker 3: but then like Marsupial wasn't so, Like, how are you
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  Speaker 3: gonna how are you gonn differentiate this?
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  Speaker 1: I said, Marsupial And then there were two Marsupials on
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  Speaker 1: there and they're like it's too vague, and I was like.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, it exactly. I was upset for you, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, but it was really nice. I'm glad. I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad I did it. I had a good time, and
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  Speaker 2: I felt actually, I felt better about myself. Afterwards. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, I do know some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and then I wanted to do an update because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like last year I talked in my post
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  Speaker 1: drag and con mortem as you might call, I talked
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  Speaker 1: about boundaries and I was saying like, I'm gonna really
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  Speaker 1: need to work on this, and the issue was last
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  Speaker 1: year that I kept going to eat food when I
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  Speaker 1: was not hungry, and that did not happen this year,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like I made some strides. I still
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  Speaker 1: have some work to do, but I really feel like
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, this is what I
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  Speaker 1: want to do, and you go do what you want
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  Speaker 1: to do, and unless they were like please go with
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  Speaker 1: me because it was really important, then I just Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I want. And so that was really
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  Speaker 1: nice to kind of settle into that. There's definitely still
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  Speaker 1: some work that I could do, but it was really
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I did make It's like, because this
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  Speaker 1: happens every year, I can see some progress from the
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 3: The first day we got there, the way it was
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  Speaker 3: set up, we didn't eat before we got there, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I think I was texting you.
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  Speaker 4: We hadn't we were going to meet up little later.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm very hungry, gonna be nice, nice to
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  Speaker 3: be around, so we're gonna have five foods quickly.
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  Speaker 4: And then old friend Katie was like, yep, we do it.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, okay, we need food asa.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing about that though, is I appreciate that too.
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  Speaker 1: But also that was before the family feud, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, no, I need food too. And I didn't
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  Speaker 1: drink as much as I normally would on that first
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: night because I was like, no, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: do this thing like it was nice. These things that
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: sound very very basic but for me are kind of
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  Speaker 1: a pis.
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  Speaker 3: Well. Also, this place is chaos. Yeah, when we say
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  Speaker 3: it's chaos, I understand that my point of view, everything
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  Speaker 3: is chaos. As the introvert I am, but like literally
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to hear, and you know, you have hearing problems,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm at this point so like overwhelmed that I
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  Speaker 3: can't understand what's going on, Like it's constant, over the
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  Speaker 3: top visuals everywhere, like you're seeing so much that you
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  Speaker 3: can't hear. That's that level on top of the fact
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  Speaker 3: that everybody's trying to get organized or get to somewhere
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  Speaker 3: or find somebody, or get to something, show off something.
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  Speaker 3: People are wearing gigantic costumes, including Annie, which I got
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  Speaker 3: hit by a fan quite often standing next to Annie,
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  Speaker 3: which is so hilarious. I held onto the lightsaber quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit, so you just like held on to other things.
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  Speaker 3: At some point, I'm like, I'm gonna have to sit down,
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  Speaker 3: and I just sat on the floor of the entryway,
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  Speaker 3: not the entryway, but like one of the standing lobbies,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, And I was.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I'm sitting down.
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  Speaker 3: So I looked like a rat in a cage literally,
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  Speaker 3: like peering through the glass.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to figure out what's going on. But that was
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  Speaker 4: delightful to me.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, like it's it's a lot so trying to
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  Speaker 3: get together to meet people, to make plans, and to
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  Speaker 3: go to the same location to do an activity which
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  Speaker 3: includes food, which like if you wanted coffee you had
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: to stand in life for an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of the places like if you want a drink,
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  Speaker 3: You're paying forty dollars for a drink, Like it is chaos,
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  Speaker 3: And then jo, how do you think it to like
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  Speaker 3: your hotel, which we thanks to Annie and her over
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  Speaker 3: preparedness for all things possible situationship, we got a hotel room,
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  Speaker 3: but it was on the fiftieth floor and try to
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  Speaker 3: get to there. It's kind of a thing. And apparently
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  Speaker 3: one of the elevators were like malfunctioning to the point
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  Speaker 3: that somebody talked about how it dropped two or three floors.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what, no, yeah, no, So like all
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  Speaker 3: of these things sound like it's not a big deal,
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  Speaker 3: but you add this type of chaos, it is so
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  Speaker 3: overwhelming and so easy to like lose everything and have
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  Speaker 3: the worst time or have like such an upsetting time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I always want people to have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to get better at recognizing because I've
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  Speaker 1: not always been the best at being like, oh, somebody
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  Speaker 1: needs food or oh somebody to rest, so somebody needs this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get much better about being like, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to do what I'm doing, right, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to do what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's The best part is like establishing that at
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  Speaker 3: the very beginning, and we knew that coming in, so
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  Speaker 3: we had our little crew and we were like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: where are you or you're doing this. We'll meet up
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  Speaker 3: with you later because we're doing this and then coming
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  Speaker 3: back together and like that's perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: It does have like a pressure in terms of when
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  Speaker 1: I'm showing people around, I want them to have a
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  Speaker 1: really good time, but I'm trying to also get better
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  Speaker 1: about that about like being like, you know, I'm showing them,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they don't If they don't like this, they can
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  Speaker 1: tell me, or if they want to do something else,
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  Speaker 1: I give options. I'm like, Okay, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: do this or this or this, this is what I like,
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  Speaker 1: might not be what you like.
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  Speaker 3: You're right and overall be an adult like yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I understand this is overwhelming and you want
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  Speaker 3: people to help you. I'm that person. So either you're
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: going to go with the flow of that person or
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  Speaker 3: you're going to make decisions on your own. Everyone should
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  Speaker 3: like that's the only options that should be available.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And I think it's I feel sort of
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  Speaker 1: like the you know, Wise and Dragon con attent. You
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  Speaker 1: were like here, here's I can give you all of
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  Speaker 1: the information about how to find stuff. Here's what I think.
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  Speaker 1: But you're, yeah, you got to do your own thing. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: I think you did.
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  Speaker 4: A good job with that.
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  Speaker 3: So it says my partner and his brother. They said
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  Speaker 3: that they had a great time and they felt like
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  Speaker 3: they owed you so much because you were hosting so well.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, no, she just didn't what she
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  Speaker 3: wanted to do. It invited you along.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's what I wanted for all of y'all pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was really lovely.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I did get several more people, by several, I mean
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: about ten who recognized disco luke love It specifically new.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I think some of them I think they were from
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: well last year.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Maybe some of them were like, it's this person you're trending.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Oh I am. Yes.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I did have a guy who specifically not only knew
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: what it was, but was like, tell me how you
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: made it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I want to make it. I was going into all
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the details.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, are you going to have a rifle.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going to have a rival be better than me too.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: He did look like Mark Hamill.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I also noticed that this year there was more men
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: dressing gender bending dressing as women.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: There was a whole crew that was doing Elea from
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Return of the which I saw. I'm like, that makes
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: me happy.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's becoming more of a It already
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: was a queer space, but it's becoming queerer. And that
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: was one of the few ribbons I got fix in
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: part to your partner and his brother chaotic queer. So
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: at dragon Con they hand out these ribbons and it's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: sort of this I don't know, kind of scavenger hunt
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: esque thing, earn the ribbon esque thing, and I've never
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: got one. I've gone to dragon Con for at least
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: twelve years now and I've never got one. This is
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the first time. And it said chaotic Queer, and I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: was like, this feels appropriate.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I heard this. I did have a group.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: There's a group of people dressed as the prisoners from
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and Or and they were going around saying like this
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: is the only way, this is the only way. And
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: one of them pointed at me and was like, join
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the resistance loop and I.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: That's the happiest I've been.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: You know, you know I love it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, I love getting the text to the many times
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: that you were recognized.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I know I has to tell submit that I love
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it so good.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I only went for a couple of days and I
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I'm good, y'all have fun.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: It's a lot. When I say it's a lot, like
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: A lot, it's a lot.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: The constant noise because it's also a loud with like
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: thousands of people, and then they put club music on
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: top of it. Yeah, that echoes the entire sixty seventy
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: floor building.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Yes up, yeah, which is the nice part of Some
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: people always kind of laugh at me because I live
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta and they're like, why do you get the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: hotel room? And the nice part of the hotel room
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: is that you can just kind of retreat for a minute.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And that's where we did all of.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Our beat There's so much. I didn't get one that
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: was very sad. I can make you one, Okay.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: We did a lot of beating listeners. It was really fun.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I'm not a part of this week.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Me and my.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Friends who were staying in the room, we had a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: lot of beads and we made a lot of braces.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And it was really fun.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And they were like, I didn't realize you'd get this
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: intense about beating, and I was like, I.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Love a craft.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Way.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: You said that, I.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Was really, I was really, You've heard my like when
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I'm doing a puzzle and I have that voice that's
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: very specific where it's like you don't.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Go there, she does, she talks to it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's quite fast.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I was doing that with the beads. Yeah, it was
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: an intense beating.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: You did a like your friends did a whole stay
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: in the hotel day for that. Yeah, they jumped in
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: a little too strongly on the first day break.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: They certainly did. But the beads were there, they were
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: healing there.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I did also want to say I saw a lot
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: of horror this year, a lot more horror than I normally.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: This nun is a real big Favorite's a nun.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: And then ghost Face from Scream, Like at one point
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I looked behind me on the escalator and he was
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: right behind me.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I was like, don't panic any It's gonna be okay.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Mike Myers with a bush. Ye had a whole wall.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: It was cool.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: He had a GoPro in it too, so you could
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: see grocore people's reactions.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, and then I guess I wanted to also briefly mention,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Like from the time I started going to the time now,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I think there has been a lot of growth in
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: terms of respecting, Like it's not cool to just take
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a picture with someone anymore.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: You ask and you wait and see if they say okay.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: So I feel like there's been a lot of progress
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: in that. I do feel like it's gotten even more diverse,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: which I talked about recently.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: But this year I was like, oh, yeah, this.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there still are Like the first year I went,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I got these a lot of old dudes hitting on me.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: That happened to be a couple times this year still,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: but they were fine, like ultimately innocuous when I was
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: like not interested, but that definitely still happened. And then
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I hate that I even have to think about this,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: but I do.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Every year. I'm just every event like this, I'm so
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: afraid of gun violence. Every year, I'm like, this might
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: be it, this might be it. And when we do.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: These episodes where I'm so excited about it, there's a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: part of me in my mind like, well, people listen
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to this later and be like she didn't know what
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: was coming, or like all of those things nothing happens.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: But there was a part where we were in the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: hotel and all these alarms were going off and we
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: were all kind of ignoring them, and I was like this,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know which I hate. I hate, but unfortunately
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that's sort of where we live. But yeah, ultimately it
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: was really good and I feel I feel happy about it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I feel settled with myself. I'm sore, but I feel settled.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I'm waiting to see who gets COVID, if anybody in
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: our group.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: We are talking like everybody's taking tests. Yeah, I was
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: taking tests. Yeah, first person, I said, who gets COVID,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I'll send them some fun.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Oh well, then I hope it's me. No talking.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Well if I get fun, but no, I don't want COVID,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: but I will be surprised if none of us got it. Also,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the world we live in. Yeah, it was nice. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: had a good time and I'm glad I got to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: see you and I appreciate your support.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I had fun.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Thank you for hosting and taking everybody about. It is
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: a stressful job, but you did one good job.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I felt like I'm a bit of a pro now
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I really are. Yes, we'll see. I already got my
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: badges for next year.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: So did you really?
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Are you doing there?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: No?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I do it the day I get back.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, because I don't want to forget before
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the price goes up.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: So I always do it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: But if anybody happened to see me. Occasionally some of
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: you will reach out and I'm like, oh, should I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: come up?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you had
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a good time too. Cheers, cheers, and yeah, if you
• 25:35
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• 25:38
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• 25:41
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• 25:43
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• 26:03
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• 26:06
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• 26:11
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• 26:13
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